skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And even worse, Facebook asks your friends about your personal details. Things like "What high school did John attend." If for some crazy reason you haven't put every single detail about yourself on your profile.
this exactly. we need to change the system so prices are up front and something you can look up on the internet just like restaurant menus
I don't think porn habits or old photos are the primary problem. The primary privacy problem of the 21st century is a powerful group of people, be it government, Big $X, or even just a mob discovering you have Wrong Beliefs, even if you didn't put those beliefs out expecting them to go public, or even if they were expressed in your own home.

Compared to the budding nightmare I see coming from that direction, merely losing your nudes, while a more acute problem, will have nothing on the chronic changes that's going to bring.
I think it is important to note that while it doesn't really matter in what city Amazon is located, it's metaphorical "move into Washington" in terms of politics is the problem.

Crony capitalism is cancer. Why did we not realize that if we increase the power given to government, someone will abuse it? People have suspected it could be a malicious politician, but it has instead become corporatists that buy their competition out of business to secure monopolies and prevent competition. The more authority we cede, the more it can be abused.

I think the best possibility is to move more regulation to state and local governments and to relegate the feds to constitutionally specified powers. Local governments can be easier to buy, but it is my belief that such an impact would be offset by 1. the common man's greater control in how his local government is run (one vote in 100 one-hundred-thousand is much greater than one in three-hundred-million). It is also much harder to catch one-hundred small fish than one whale.
Agreed - really folks, it's not going to be the end of the world if you use JSON for your configuration. Or XML. Or comma delimited text files. As long as you agree to it and you have it documented somewhere, I promise your codebase won't suddenly set on fire because of it.

Now, if you add programmability to your configuration files... that is asking for someone to abuse it and turn a simple configuration file into an abomination. I've definitely seen that happen.
I think its been this way for a while? At least since the Great Recession imo. I have friends who have amazing credentials (talking like compsci and physics phds from places like caltech and cmu) and very few of them are employed in their field. Some of them didn’t even do anything and are basically NEETs who play video games all day.

It’s pretty clear the actual value and potential of these degrees aren’t being honestly advertised. The “STEM” hype as mentioned here certainly doesn’t help the situation. It is a lot of time and money and effort thrown away for a lot of people and it’s heartbreaking.
The way I think of it is that there's too much personality in this technology.
As an aside, the building with the largest floor space is also found in China, the "New Century Global Center".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJwc4fL_rpo
Location history was both surprisingly good and surprisingly bad in the past, but the last few times I looked it was less impressive.

On the good side it used to be remarkably accurate at identifying and tracking stops along with routes I had driven. At the same time it would have occasional astonishing jumps such as the 15 minutes I once spent in South Korea during the middle of the day.

At some point they appeared to dumb it down pretty radically and it would no longer even recognize that I had been at a location even when I had been there for hours.

These days I use a separate unfortunately discontinued app for tracking location and uploading to my own cloud storage a few times a day.

I've given up on Google not being evil, but it might be nice if they could avoid being so freaking creepy.
"I implemented ad blocking and privacy measure in my home network and then undid my efforts by installing commercial spyware inside my network"
> So go ahead. No one is stopping you.

There's some sort of open border policy between the US and China?

Seems like a lot of effort simply to live somewhere with reasonable housing policies.
Note that neither teaching nor parenting are remotely lucrative. The opposite, in fact - my understanding is that much of the income gap is not from managerial discrimination (though that is a factor too, of course) but because of time women spend away from employment to have and support children. I agree that it’s arguably the most important social role but our economic system is upside-down in its valuation of it.

Stay at home dads do not receive the support and admiration mothers do.

Yes! Patriarchy harms us all.
I don't know where you live in Canada, but that's not entirely true. There are long waits for some procedures (far longer than medically indicated) and a significant number of people cannot access primary care because of the shortage of GPs (especially in rural areas). I would still, 100%, rather live in Canada than the US but your comment (intentionally or not) completely glosses over the waiting lists for some medical specialties.
I met my spouse on Facebook, and we use it for her business, so really it's the catalyst for all of my joy. I also live really far away from my family, and it's an indispensable tool for me and the newer generations that are moving farther and farther away from home to connect with their loved ones. I've also found out about concerts, gatherings, sporting events, that I never would have gone to in all likelihood had I not been on Facebook.
Pretty sure stripe built skycfg for this very purpose, but it uses starlark for the language, which is quite a lot nicer IMHO.
So if someone steals your phone, they can "place" you at a crime scene. Or even if they get physical access long enough to clone the SIM. People already do that to clone phones, to get free calls.
Not what I meant to come across as saying. Increased self control can help us all, and it can especially help poor people get out of debt and poverty.
If they want jobs as a developer there are plenty. If they see NEETs that just play video games all day it's probably their own lifestyle choices that are at fault
It was the dominant musicwriting business model from the sheet-music era until about 1962.
Good points, although just a matter of time. The DC area functions as regional support for basically all large tech companies.

The article makes it seem like an absurdity to the founding fathers to imagine such a large multi-national corporation being there. But they certainly could imagine this, the revolutionary war was a fight against the British East India Company inextricably tied to Britain until the entity dropped stewardship of these colonies out of budgetary concerns. Masquaraded as a decisive victory to support its new national identity, it was clear that corporate control of the government would not be the stance of the new American government.

Yes then the largest public company in the world moving there does theeaten this. But at the same time, that ship has long sailed and this just reminds everyone.
You're completely correct, but I think it's worth using as a spark for a conversation on Amazon's more metaphorical political move into Washington. That is the concern.
Facebook spent $22.6m to keep Mark Zuckerberg safe last year
One trope on this site that seems to always come up in this discussion is the presumption that if it's good for law enforcement it's a bad thing. But IMO that's not really how it works. Things are often good or bad depending on how they are used. If this is being used to target dissidents, that's bad. If this is being used to catch rapists and murderers, that's good, provided that their rights aren't being violated.
The difference between science and engineering (education-wise) is that an engineering degree is strictly defined with regards to subjects learned, with little choice of electives by the student: everybody is learning the same thing.

With science (and most other degrees) the student can pick and choose their topics.
Official json5 site does mention using .json5 extension to be obvious but I bet people will just use .json which will be confusing if the file is passed to another party and they get parse error until they realize it's json5. I think the only downside to json5 is that they inherited the name json instead of coming up with a different name.
For many Americans, their single largest issue at the moment is whatever their choice of conservative talk radio host told them to hate today.
It's easy enough to get Turing complete config files with LISP

shivers
Upvotes or likes per-se aren't a bad idea, they can be used to reward what the community defines as good behaviour and filter out bad content (clickbait, etc). It seems to work pretty well on HN or Reddit for example.

The problem arises when there is no longer a clear definition of what should warrant a like, so the number looses its utility as a quality metric, and from there everything breaks loose especially if the automated curation uses the likes counter as a signal.

> Incentives are necessary for retaining users

Facebook didn't have likes in the beginning and it didn't prevent them from growing. Maybe the incentive should be quality, relevant content and meaningful conversations with your friends?
Not everything is about San Francisco, even if HN wants to think otherwise. Plenty of other cities have historic buildings with their own value, Chicago bungalows are an example. They represent a point in time and are still viable structures for today’s families.

Places like Cinque Terra, Istanbul and Cartagena are popular specifically because they have been preserved and are not just remains.
So they have an idea how awesome it is, but you don't think they think it's awesome enough?

you have to solve all of them using only 4 inputs (lower booster, and 3 lateral boosters), they are more amazed.

I thought they used those grid wings on launch, too.
I've long used Adguard rather than a browser-extension blocker. Android is a shitshow without some kind of system-wide ad/tracker blocking, which drew my attention to Adguard. I liked it so installed it everywhere.
Something that I came across the other day really put people's opinion of the world and everything into context. I had been searching for something, and came across a forum thread from 2010.

Everyone on that thread was convinced that the end of the world was months or years away (Keep in mind this was just after the 2008 fiscal crisis and this was an economic related forum)...

They all were talking about these facts and posting statistics and everything that "proved" these certain countries were on the brink of failure..

Those events did not come to pass.

That's when I realized pretty much everyone is entirely full of shit, and ultimately life itself is your own attitude towards things.

Negativity and opinion are psychological virii.
For anyone else reading this, the Amazon Echo (Dot) power supplies are among the best I've tested.

I'd also recommend a USB tester like the RuiDeng UM24, especially if you use a lot of SBCs or USB powered devices.
I agree with everything you said but will add that a young relative showed me how he played Xbox online and rather than teaming up with regulars he added friends with anyone he had a good game with. After that the online indications helped connect them in any game and over time certain friendships stuck. I’ve started doing this as well and it’s different but still feels like it has a similar result.
As a physicist it's easier to get into the tech field than as a life scientist. Just saying.
This is one of the reasons I've switched to Apple, turned off all my location services, use various VPNs, and often leave my phone at home (or use my secondary work device).

Its astonishing what companies and law enforcement can do. For instance, people are concerned with some of Trump's laws/actions already. Why would we want to give him or anyone in such a position the ability to sweep up whole populations based on being near an event. It goes beyond that obviously, Google can predict movement and predict interests, even what you'll say at this point.

Eventually, law enforcement will be issuing a warrant on the model which predicts/represents you as well.
If you’re a professional you get paid to make these decisions. You don’t need a blog to do it for you.
I like how “a lot less” is the new standard, compared to “at all”
Okay, the anti-Facebook sentiment (particularly by the New York Times) has gotten ridiculous. "They're stealing your joy"? Seriously? I understand they're not perfect and that they sell data. Because I understand this, I have chosen not to give them my data by not using their service. I get everyone has a bias, but the NYT isn't even trying to conceal it at this point.

For what it's worth, my family has connected with members we didn't know existed who lived in foreign countries. My family immigrated from many different places, but people were left behind and it's great to meet and know them. Facebook isn't "evil", it just did what was best for Facebook (though arguably not in the long term due to the backlash).

I wouldn't be surprised if Facebook sued for defamation, and they might actually have a good case against the New York Times. NYT has broken relevant information about Facebook, and that shouldn't count, but this is beyond the pale. To be clear, I don't know that they would or should win, but they would at least have a good case and that it might be worth hearing in court.

Though with all that said, I had to make a burner a few months ago for an organization that was using a Facebook group for announcements. They repeatedly banned my account for "suspicious activity", even though all I did was occasionally read what was posted. They wanted a photo ID to provide I was really me, which of course I couldn't provide as I wasn't the name with which I signed up. I tried three different accounts, and they did this to every one after two to three days. Why should I have to sign up as my real name? Does Facebook really think a bad actor would hesitate to fake an ID? I may not like what the NYT is doing, but boy is Facebook making itself hard to defend.
and even that distinction gets slippery.

My degrees are all in engineering, and we had plenty of coursework opportunities to specialize even in undergrad. We had a departmental bias towards one end of the spectrum for the discipline, but plenty of my cohort broke the mold and did their own thing fairly easily. We were also very heavily research-focused, so the other easy divide between engineering and science ('applications' vs 'basic research') isn't nearly as clean-cut as you might think.
The thing I find sad about this is that Blackstone's Formulation[0] has been part of American common law for a long time (innocent until proven guilty). It was influential to founders like Franklin and Adams. It is clearly something we need to defend. Law isn't perfect, and we need to decide when it breaks down which mode of failure it has. Blackstone would say that it should fail that guilty people go free as opposed to failing and having innocent people have that freedom stripped from them (on the principle that freedom is such a valuable thing).

[0] "it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer" (Franklin's rephrasing)
I do have experience with how hard marketing is, but big companies copying small companies' work is not the only application of IP laws. Big companies can copy other big companies' work, and small companies can copy big companies' work. Besides, many small guys — independent developers, three-person teams — don't even have the resources to patent their stuff. Which means patent laws disproportionately benefit big companies.
If you were the one who downvoted me then it's a shame because we agree.

Firstly, I am an anarchist. I don't vote for anyone. Secondly, anyone, be they politician or just voter, who is trying to enact these thoroughly horrific laws and policies is just flat out telling us how to live our lives while processing it.

I have not had a lease in 3 years. I can't afford anything. So that's where I'm coming from.
Microsoft discloses security breach that impacted some Outlook accounts
Portion control means making and serving smaller portions. Not throwing out half the food on your plate.
Strange move, i think Amazon might be making a play again with the political sphere now.

This is purely a play between Amazon and the political caste. They will definitely not fight amazon in DC, and Amazon might gain all kinds of leverage with this one.
I oppose it for small events. You don't have a code of conduct for a party or a gathering of friends. It's just assumed that if you're not a positive influence in the group you're probably not getting invited to the next gathering.

To me, it just feels too impersonal. Everyone is different, and most people like to be treated differently in some ways. People communicate this through facial expressions and body language.

It just feels more organic without too many formal rules.
As i recall at the time, even IEEE's response was "there is no shortage and certainly no skills gap; employers just won't pay you what you're worth and people won't work for peanuts."
> If you don’t like Facebook, don’t use it.

I don't use it. It doesn't prevent them from using me anyway though. They're happy asking my friends for their contacts list (so they can get my phone number) and setting cookies through their "Like" buttons embedded everywhere without ever asking for my permission.

The only way to stop that company is to kill it, and these "ridiculous" pieces might very well be the only solution (technical people have been sounding the alarm for ages and nothing happened, so maybe something will happen when a mainstream publication decides to attack them).
Almost every flight school does initial training in single-engine, piston-powered airplanes with fixed landing gear. Even pilots who eventually fly planes as different from a Cessna 152 as a multi-engine, turbine-powered jet liner with retractable gear and other controls like spoilers that training aircraft lack.
The NeTV board by Bunnie Huang is intended for use cases like this:

https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=5308

It would sit between your set-top box and your TV, analysing the incoming HDMI signal, changing things in the video stream, and then outputting the new signal to the TV.
Someone spends a shit ton of time explaining a new and complex concept.

Top comment is someone else ripping it apart. Yep. Welcome to Hacker News.

Can we please try to spend a week not using the following terms:

A few things, a few issues, actually..., I agree but, or anything else that makes you feel superior by shitting on someone else
Thanks for giving the submitted article a shitty and completely irrelevant title
You are right that this is a very American perspective. Maybe we could learn something from societies that have been around much longer and tend to care more about their past.

==It wouldn't be the best option but the sites that have survived a hundred of years didn't survive because some legal mandate dictated it. It's because they were buildings built to last.==

Or they have historical value specifically because they were built to last. Obviously, we wouldn’t know that unless we allow them to last.
So use an ad blocker. It's about thirty seconds to set up, and very user-friendly. Even with the default lists, they do a great job.

The reason I take issue is the word you used above: "attack". I think its use is telling. The New York Times has broken newsworthy information that was against Facebook, which I think is their job and a good thing to do. Newspapers, however, aren't really supposed to "attack" things. This is part of the reason there is such distrust in the media; many news publications are indeed attacking various things and not even trying to hide it.
Rooted Android + AdAway = problem mostly solved.

Never buy a phone you don't have root access to.
OK you can write a handrolled loop almost perfectly. /Why/ are you writing ten years worth of loops - something a computer can do for you?
As someone else said below, treating STEM as one category is absurb and lumps together way too many different majors and careers (that have drastically varying levels of attractiveness and compensation growth).

Majors like biology and chemistry have fairly terrible prospects with just a BS degree, but CS and the engineering majors are still quite good. Physics and math are more iffy, but if you know what you're doing and pick up some employable skills on the side, then those majors will at least get you into interviews for good jobs.

There's also the question of what "not enough jobs" means. There are definitely struggling CS majors, but I think that a statement about there not being enough jobs needs to be looked at in a relative way - that is, one needs to consider what the alternative options are and whether those alternatives have better prospects. Many careers have been on the decline, and it's difficult to really identify career paths that are significantly better than computer science / software engineering (at least, at the undergraduate level). Even if we compared careers that required graduate school, the only paths that one could plausibly argue are significantly better than tech are medicine, law, and business (in my opinion). Those three careers all come with their own serious tradeoffs and downsides.

If anyone has information on what career paths are significantly better than CS / engineering, I'd be interested to hear your opinion. Right now, I'm unfortunately not seeing significantly better alternatives.
Jinja is a text templating language. A valid ninja template may not produce valid JSON/YAML/etc. Sometimes you need more power than a config language gives you, specifically when you want reuse. Helm uses something like jinja, but the template files are often complex and messy (and they are looking into supporting Lua to deal with these problems). CloudFormation built function semantics on top of JSON/YAML twice: once in the form of templates and again in the form of its intrinsic functions. Skycfg uses the starlark language to output YAML, and this is the best approach since it has the right semantics and uses a familiar language (starlark is stripped down Python).
Yup, my intuition is along those lines as well. Are politicians going to block the massive money that comes along with this like they did in NY?

And can you imagine the leverage you get with the big topics like breaking amazon up if it means all the DC officials and gov employees will lose this precious boon?

AOC finally won the war on this one. Government just showed it was powerful enough to bend Amazon's will.
I don't want to be under constant surveillance. I don't want to be monitored all day, every day. I don't want to be tagged, tracked, and catalogued like an animal.

It doesn't suit me.
All you really want to know is at the very end of the article

> “The reason we need those specific Compaq laptops is that they run a bespoke CA card which installs into them,” a fellow from MSO told me. “The CA card is an interface between the laptop software (which is DOS based) and the car.”

> He added: “We are currently working on a new interface which will be compatible with modern laptops as they old Compaqs are getting less and less reliable and harder to find.”
Xanadu Basics – Visible Connection (2018) [video]
Comedian dies on stage after joking about death
My ex was once declared deceased in her company's payroll system. They immediately canceled her health insurance, and it took weeks to get it all sorted out... apparently the interface for the employee database doesn't allow for mistakes (or undead employees, I guess). I'm suddenly grateful that it didn't leak further than that. What a nightmare
I take it Death wasn't very amused by the joke.