skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair point, I haven't browsed the web without an ad blocker for years. Hopefully, ad networks don't have much of a profile on me. I'd like to keep it that way. I feel that keeping a permanent profile on my interests without my consent is wrong, and I take measures against anyone easily building such a profile on me.

Wouldn't a good compromise be to deliver ads that are relevant to the content I'm viewing, instead of ads tailored to my profile? Search ads, for example, are quite fine in my book, as long as they match my immediate search history instead of a personal profile secretly built over a long time.
This is an excellent point, thank you for putting it that way. I can't correct my post now, but this point is something I will definitely emphasise in any future system where I'm told audit is a requirement but I doubt that my technical work will actually deliver the effect intended because the "business process" part won't get done.
I've been using Firefox since around 2003 or 2004 - whenever I bought my first MacBook Pro. Firefox was way better than Safari. If I ever do need something that would "require" Chrome, such as a Chrome app, I use Chromium rather than Chrome, since I run only free/libre software on my Libreboot laptop.
You are aware that SMS is "best effort" as well? SMS is in no way guaranteed to be delivered in anything approaching an urget timeframe.
Happened to me with Bloodborne. Just couldn't beat a boss after 15-20 tries. Came back next weekend and got em on the second.
depends on nytimes KPIs :D
maybe just growing click rates on the article
I think it would need to intrinsically commit another crime in the course of operation.

Like some sort of horrific machine which obtains shape information by head crushing and then stating if the now crushed head was recognized. Needless to say there is no reason to do that.
This is indeed an issue with many still using spiral bound notebooks ;)

I always thought video is great for this. Check out iBiology's "Techniques" channel. It's a great way to disseminate good practices with complicated biotech equipment. But even the concept of a daily "vlog" with a scientist dictating notes to a webcam. That could then be automatically transcribed, indexed, and made searchable.

https://www.youtube.com/user/iBioEducation/videos
Work harder or the communists will win
There is a gravity wave project that wants to detect gravity waves though satellites. Probably a similar idea. I think the name is “LISA”.
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I read the first few and skimmed the rest. Yes plastics are a problem, the same way that smog in cities (mostly solved in developed nations) and CFCs were problems. None of them present an existential crisis to humanity. Sure we might spend a fraction of a percentage of global wealth dealing with the trade-offs of spewing plastic everywhere but we'll be fine in the long run.
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I agree with you but like others have said, they want a date they can sell to and in the end it will be your fault.

It isn't just software that goes double, look at most custom building projects or government contracts. Most everything takes twice as long and costs twice as much.

I read something once that has stuck with me. "We can never give more than a vague guess because we are literally building something that doesn't exist and has never been built before."

* I do find it annoying that the sales teams generally drive this. I wonder how they would feel about a response of "We'll get you an estimate of when it will be available as soon as you get us an estimate of when this feature will generate the $1M of revenue to cover the costs of building it. Also, please give us a list of customers that are likely to buy it and your expected contract date so we can track it along with development."
Hitchhikers Guide was one of the first PC games I ever got. I had no idea it was a “text adventure.” Nor did I understand it was based on a book.

My dad got it for me used from The Computer Club in downtown Lake Oswego, Oregon. I picked it out largely due to the green guy on the front of the box.

I remember being delighted by all the weird stuff it came with, including a small packet of fuzz, and other artifacts from the story. I didn’t know why they were in the box but it was weird and that appealed to me.

Even though I was raised by Nintendo games like RC Pro AM, I spent many hours trying to figure out how to advance in HG. Often starting over from scratch.

Eventually, I got the book, read it and attempted the game again, and though the context made it more fun, I think I still got stuck somewhere around where you put the Babel fish in your ear.
I like to mess with people. "It's 80% done so there's only 80% left to go". "Now' it's 90% done so there's only 90% left to go" etc. Of course my current project is rather higher stakes than usual, so I'm being a little bit more sober than I normally would be. However I am emphasising the need for communication with other stakeholders and identifying and trying to rectify where they are bottlenecks pdq.
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Any identity on any service can (now) be linked

No need to integrate Keybase or any service for this. You just can use any place on the web as a hub and post "I am news.ycombinator.com/user?id=rakoo, I am reddit.com/user/rakoo" there. And from the others you link back to the hub. Say github is your hub then you post "I am github.com/rakoo" on HN and Reddit. This would be user readable and machine readable. And any 3rd party service like Keybase could read it. No need for the social media sites to apply at Keybase and integrate it.
It actually is a problem with them because when someone asks "Does it really take that long?", they're implying that it shouldn't. Of course, in reality, they have no idea either and if they're asking you how long it should take, they should accept your answer, not try to weasel out less time.

But are they ever going to admit that they have no idea and accept your estimate on face without playing BS mind games? Probably not. But for some reason that doesn't stop them from trying.

I've never seen someone try and do this with a home contractor.
Financial progress - where progress is often change for change's sake - at all cost.

Cheaper wins, more profitable wins, regardless of whether good or not. Frequently when we already knew it's not (leaded petrol, radium on watch dials etc). Far more quickly since the changes of the 1980s - deregulation, privatisation, and so forth. If it wasn't deregulated enough, move it out of sight and offshore it somewhere with weaker standards.

So I would tend to say we sacrificed the future for an extra 0.5c on the dollar.
Shareholder pain will be slightly lower dividend or stock price. Employee pain will be unemployment. And I think that is what drives most of these low level fines. Regulators recognize the company wouldn't suffer in the short term from large fines.
“Condemned to live among wonders, taking them for granted”
That's easy. Guess a number. Add some units. Double it. Double it again. Then double it again. Add a zero. Done.
Loose interpretation of your translation: We want you to sacrifice your personal life to make Alibaba's dream come true. If you don't want to, that's fine, there's plenty of people on the street who will.

That's fine, I don't want to work at a place like that. I work hard, really fucking hard. I'm good at what I do. I've made a name for myself because I work hard to be the best I can be at what I do. I give back every time I can. I mentor. I send the elevator back down as often as I can. If a company doesn't come looking for me because of the reputation of commitment I've spent the last 35 years pouring my blood, sweat and tears into building, I don't want to work for them.

You can have your people on the street and treat them as slaves and you'll get the quality of work out of them you can expect out of a sweatshop. I will go somewhere that my contribution is valued.
Yep. Most people don't even seem to admit to themselves that they're doing a lot of harmful activities.

A lot of people like to say they're worried about the environment, but very few change their life in significant ways to help it.
> we photographed and documented literally every square centimeter of the spire and roof space.

Are all those photos available somewhere?
I'm a math professor at a US state university. I once asked one of my older colleagues whether our students had gotten better or worse over the years.

About the same, he said.
And I mean "If it works for modern devs too, so?"
Wait, are you making sure that credit is given correctly? Is it just because Arnold Robbins is a woman? Why the sexism?
Yeah; I suspect the core of the problem is that too many software developers fancy themselves business analysts while too many business analysts start to cower in fear whenever you suggest they check something in to GitHub.
> If you are in one group stop pretending the other doesn’t exist. (Also more generally applicable life advice)

I'd argue your friend would be better off not being tracked and just Googling bass guitars whenever he feels the need.

Let's not pretend ads provide any benefit to humans, they manipulate us psychologically with the intent to part us from our hard earned money. In addition, they often drain our batteries at extreme rates and can contain malware and or lead to outright scams.

Your counterpoint to this is you know a guy who likes to see new bass guitars?
judging from the blog comment it seems that it's functional
> Any measurements, case studies, or collective data from people suffering from any sort of disease related to plastic pollution?

Plasticizers are endocrine disruptors. Sperms counts have been decreasing world-wide for decades (if you're male, your sperm count is almost certainly significantly lower than your father's), and epidemiologists believe plastics in the environment are the cause.[0]

[0] https://www.gq.com/story/sperm-count-zero
This seems strange to me.

If we're going as far as to advocate cycling tracking IDs each month, that means that at each switch, we've lost our "relevant" ads until we rebuild them up. So why not go full on no tracking IDs?

With Apple pushing privacy as being the factor that separates them from their peers, I don't see why they wouldn't have privacy on by default in this area. Apple Ads are gone now, right? So no skin in the game?
Can anyone offer some context on “parapsychology” in general? Is there any credible results on this stuff that happened within the last decade? Etc.
Does AI have a dirty mind, too?
You didn't do that then. If you had been accelerating at the same speed as the person in front of you, and started at the exact same time as them, you would never have bumped into them.

If they didn't move, then obviously it's retarded to jsut start driving.

My point is when the car in front of you _does_ start moving, you need to move too, at the same speed/acceleration. Not wait.
If you're in the US, federal dollars overwhelmingly go to Medicare and Social Security; the United States is a health insurance and HR benefits provider that happens to have an army.
Each side of the airplane has a set of sensors. The ones on the left (while sitting on the plate) are named Captain <sensor_name> and the ones on the right are named First-Officer (F/O) <sensor_name>. The MCAS software would switch from Captain AoA vane to F/O AoA vane between flights. The location where the pilots are sitting doesn’t affect how the airplane is flying itself. The person flying the plane can be sitting on either of the two seats, but the most senior pilot usually sits on the left.
It doesn't take advantage in the way you say because you get paid along the same lines. If you bet an accumulator with 2 selections at evens, you get paid at 3/1. (4.0 decimal odds) so that is "fair".

It's profitable for bookies because they have a house edge, and that edge is increased the more subsequent bets you make. The house has more edge with an accumulator than a single bet.

People like to do accumulators because it's more meaningful to win large amounts occassionally than more regularly win less meaningful amounts.

So it's a "trick" to simply increase gambling.

If you had to pick out 8 evens shots in sequence and intended to roll over your bet each time it would have the same effect / outcome, but starting with a pound by the last bet you're effectively placing a 128 quid bet on an evens money.

It's not that the player thinks that they have a better chance of winning than 1/256 it's that it effectively forces them to gamble a lot larger amount in the situations where only 7 out of 8 of their picks come in.

And that's before considering the edge. If we consider that these are probably events that happen more like only 45% of the time (at best) then instead of a 255/1 shot we're looking at 600/1 shot.
Looking at the code, it seems doable to make sense of it, one instruction at a time. For example this:

"Would you like to restart the game from the beginning, restore a saved
game position, or end this session of the game?|
(Type RESTART, RESTORE, or QUIT):|
>">
<READ ,P-INBUF ,P-LEXV>
<SET WRD <GET ,P-LEXV 1>>
<COND (<EQUAL? .WRD ,W?RESTART>
<RESTART>
<TELL "Failed." CR>)
(<EQUAL? .WRD ,W?RESTORE>
<COND (<RESTORE>
<TELL "Ok." CR>)
(T
<TELL "Failed." CR>)>)
(<EQUAL? .WRD ,W?QUIT ,W?Q>
<QUIT>)>>>

- Read user input, and put result in WRD

- Switch statement on WRD

- Case RESTART: Write Failed and restart

- Case RESTORE: Write Ok and continue

- Case QUIT: Write Failed and exit
Is there a law in California specifically prohibiting colluding with other employers? If there isn't, then you can't make the case they should have known they were breaking it.
> The second category would be the reserve of such projects as physics simulations and render farms.

or smoothly scrolling, 60fps rendered canvas apps in browsers. I think there can't be an apartheid between untrusted and trusted, because developers would push the user to make their software trusted to get the max performance (and the users would just agree).
You've shifted responsibility from the large scale producers of industrial waste to the individual consumer. Consumers do bear some responsibility for the current state of things, but the slow rogue AIs we've built called "corporations" bear the brunt of the responsibility. Trying to convince individuals to stop using single-use plastic bags is a losing battle. Creating a regulatory environment that makes the manufacturing and distribution of single use plastic bags difficult could actually help.
It depends which settings you use. If you turn politeness all the way down, then the people in the blocked lane will force themselves into an unblocked lane.
This is perfectly understandable, given US hostility to Russia.
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You could say the same thing about Muslims and terror attacks. Using your logic, I could point to them and terrorist actions committed by those who identify as Islamist and use it to justify acts against innocent Muslims pushing those innocents to extremist factions within Islam.

You don't help the issue by justifying ostracisation and bullying of those who are unable to seek female/male attention, it only pushes them to the extremes and extreme acts are what they commit in response.
Their numbers are probably only going to increase now anyway, so no need to breed them.
> the same way that smog in cities (mostly solved in developed nations) and CFCs were problems.

"were" ?

Unless you live in the country side it _is_ an immediate problem to your health and a time bomb for the planet.

https://www.who.int/airpollution/en/

> mostly solved in developed nations

That's exactly the type of thinking that will destroy us. It's always China, or Russia, or developing countries, or your neighbours, or the damn democrats/republicans. Nobody wants to take responsibility. Let's continue to act like 8 years old while our home is slowly burning.
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Tesla's Summon mode has very low torque limits, it will barely make it up a slightly slanted driveway.
And developer sense of humor about code quality remains the same...

https://github.com/historicalsource/zork/blob/70d16c9c817bc1...
The US Constitution places very strict limitations on what kind of laws are allowed to enforce those “shared beliefs”.

I think this is a net positive. I believe when people advocate for expanding the scope of what beliefs and behaviors government can enforce, they lack the imagination to wonder what could happen if you find your beliefs in the minority one day.
When you're Google, a city is a limited scale.
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How will any individual's actions counteract the approval of a single fracking or tar sand site? Or the choice by a supermarket to package everything in plastic, and continue to add to this in 2019? Or any other multi-national?

Starbucks straw-free solution was a plastic lid that uses more plastic than the straw.

Family made major changes, but it feels increasingly pointless, and increasingly like spiting ourselves for no reason. Every shop brings home more plastic, used in ever more profligate ways, and mostly impossible to avoid. What was the point changing?
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You have a good point, but I do wonder if we might not be able to have both-- something that is both grandiose & inspiring and also beneficial in a practical way. I think of the Roman aqueducts as an example, or even the Large Hadron Collider as a modern example, or some of the worlds largest sky scrapers as a more visible example.

And as I think about it, it's not like the costs to build the Notre Dame cathedral were completely taken out of the economy, they would have gone to pay workers and suppliers that added to the economy, so I suppose I should temper my views with such thoughts.
I don't see it here, but Bureaucracy[1] was also really great. The whole premise of the game was that you are trying to change your address with your bank after a move. It's never that easy...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureaucracy_(video_game)
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A society doesn’t have to be perfectly honest, but being able to trust one another, especially in minor interactions, is a massive economic benefit. Societies with lower levels of trust waste significant resources compared to those with higher levels of trust, and it shows in the product. Unfortunately, once the trust starts to decrease, it can be almost impossible to reverse course again.
I think that is the tragedy that the article covers. Described as a scenario where the engineering has ended up squeezed into the business analysis and there isn't good communication between there are the development which are seen as implementers.

This doesn't feel familiar to me but I've tended to always work in legacy systems where the opposite problem (no BA at all) is a more familiar problem.
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> Eat smaller amounts, more frequently.

Wrong. That spikes insulin unnecessarily. See The Obesity Code (Fung).

> The trick to weight loss is doing a variety of exercises that make you breathe heavy but not pushing your body too hard

What in the world? Got any scientific reference for that one?
> A corporation ... is a collection of incentives, with men inside directed or manipulated by those incentives ... "Finding more moral men" is not a plan.

I couldn't agree more, and that analysis applies to all systems of human interaction, not just corporations. I wish people would use that framework to understand everything, specifically government.
There's a point where shortcuts are appropriate, and there's a point where the shortcuts actually cost you time.

You can spend ten weeks messing around with "quick fixes" when it'd take two weeks to redesign the unstable or broken part.

Too much of engineering is obsessed with "get the thing out there and we'll fix it in version two".
I'm a cyclist.
I live in New York City.

I gave it up because after getting hit 3 times and the driver drove off, including an MTA Bus that ran me over from behind and an NYPD officer that refused to take a police report for it, I decided that it's not worth it.
Yeah the other sense is "legally sufficient for a standard like official government identification". Now it is just testimonial science - not bad enough to be automatically thrown out for attempting to use as evidence.
> Always remember that 50% of drivers are below average intelligence.

Well...technically not in this case, no.

It's usually misleading to use the median instead of arithmetic mean for measuring averages in population, because you can wind up with situations where, say, 90% of people are "above average."

That being said, IQ is specifically calibrated to follow a normal distribution. Ordinarily that would mean you're correct, and we can just call the arithmetic mean and median the same thing.

However! The normal distribution of IQ - average 100, standard deviation 15 - includes the bottom percentiles of the population who are severely mentally impaired. These people aren't usually drivers. It follows that when you're driving, the population of drivers around you will actually skew higher in percentile. In fact, it's probably more likely that the modal driver has intelligence equal to or greater than average.

Personally, I think safe driving, polite driving and technically skilled driving are all orthogonal with respect to each other and to overall intelligence. After a very serious accident years ago, I became the kind of person who will only drive at or below the speed limit. But I know several people at least as - and probably much more - intelligent than me who drive "erratically", to put it nicely. I don't think raw intelligence captures enough information to really dictate behavior here.
> It includes lots of meat which is also a great source or protein.

It's also a great source of causing cancer, per the World Health Organization. [0]

0. https://www.cancer.org/latest-news/world-health-organization...
I think that they are trying to make the point that there are no laws regulating the use of facial recognition.

My experience is that most Americans think their privacy is protected; that deploying facial recognition software on them would be illegal. It's not. They're stating it so to overcome the public misconception.
There's a risk we miss the point point in this discussion (as every time the topic comes up). Even here on HN there are those who don't mind or even actively want "personalised" ads. We'd assume the community here is aware of the wider risks of surveillance or "social manipulation platforms".

The real issue is choice. I personally choose privacy over personalisation. I also understand that businesses need revenue - so I pay for e.g. email rather than using an ad-supported service.

My issue is that I can't choose privacy. I've taken reasonable steps to make it difficult for Google, Facebook at al (ad blockers, pihole, etc.). But I'm realistic to know it's an up hill struggle. I've never had a Facebook account (nor instagram/whatsapp) but I know I'll exist as a shadow profile.

Whether ads are good or bad; whether they're personalised or not, and if so how, isn't the fundamental issue. I've no issue with those that do want personalisation (assuming they understand the consequences obviously). The issue is that I can't choose. And everything G/FB/etc are doing is focused on building ever more walled gardens, so it becomes ever more difficult to exist outside them.
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