skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I have chosen not to give them my data by not using their service

But they still get your data by stalking you in every app that embeds their SDK and by conning your less privacy-savvy friends into sharing their contacts list (with you in it) with them.

I can keep going for a long time - I don't think there's actually any limit as to how far this cancerous company will go as far as violating the world's privacy. If it's technically possible, Facebook will do it, regardless of laws, morals, etc.
> so if that one is off, you should be unaffected.

Problem is that you can't turn it off.
This seems a bit silly in the modern world. Yeah, geographical proximity mattered 200 years ago, but these days most senior business people travel about the country constantly. I bet they are more often not in their office than in.

Second, lobbyists are in Washington all the time anyway. Amazon can spend their money influencing politics from anywhere.

Keeping powers geographically separated doesn't mean much in the era of video conferencing and air travel.
In the more superficial of my peers, just maintaining an appearance of someone that isn't wasteful is an accomplishment. They live incredibly wasteful lives, but especially on the west coast, it's very hip to appear like you care about the environment and aren't being wasteful.

Then if you throw some sociopathy into the mix, there's an even greater sense of accomplishment in knowing what you're doing is actually increasing the waste by pointlessly packaging up the food destined for the landfill because you'll never actually eat it. Inconveniencing the staff to package your leftovers on top of it is just gravy.
>Personally, sharing good news across Facebook/Instagram and receiving acknowledgements has been a very satisfying experience for me.

This is precisely the problem. They’re using that little dopamine hit to lure you into accepting the other awful things that make up 90% of what they do. Facebook is a drug dealer, and the most powerful one to ever exist at that. They sell dependence as empowerment. Dehumanization as connection. Social media is a cancer on the human soul.
Presumably, the author of that would be happy with Jsonnet, which isn't JSON.
Learn sales/marketing theory, do mock sales calls, do live sales calls, reflect on what went well and what went poorly on the calls. Keep improving through more repetitions.

Reading books and mock calls do help but nothing replaces the actual act of having real conversations with real prospects and asking for the sale.
...because they were already public.

it's clever to cite the headline knowing most people won't read it though.
Anyone know what keyboard he’s talking about here? An omnichord? That’s all I can think of, but it doesn’t have an actual string...

“RDJ: I’ve got one Japanese keyboard, Suzuki, which has got some Japanese tunings built in and a little string on one end that you can plucK”
I'm all for targeting rapists and murders, but the negative reaction is when it targets everyone, just in case they're a rapist or a murderer or a dissident. Everyone's a criminal if the police can look at you hard enough.
> China has a different culture and different laws that we do not control.

That's true, but it's also not that simple. That different culture is not uniform, and those laws may be illegitimate from many perspectives.

> Companies have two choices: play by the rules or don’t play at all.

The two choices company should have is play by moral rules or not play at all.
Proper 13 was California’s biggest mistake.
The article quotes kant talking about freedom from authority not absurd domination; it's a tiny categorical difference but large in intention. We all like to be free from absurd authority. Trust is a very sensitive topic for human beings.
As an app developer, what worries me if the third party tools we use do unintended tracking. For example, we use Firebase for tracking crashes and knowing which versions of our apps are being used. We’ve also recently started using them for push notification handling for Android streamlining reasons. In one of the apps I’ve worked on we need location permissions to do geofencing but it’s all local, on device stuff. On the same app we’ve also recently added support for adding/removing calendar events. Again, it’s feature we added that’s local-only and theres’s no data transmission associated with that feature. The only tracking we do is our own home-grown solution that we don’t share externally.

With all that in mind, I’m curious how much of that data does Firebase, aka Google, share with all the rest of its services. Does enabling location tracking suddenly causes Firebase to report location data without our knowledge? Does enabling calendar access suddenly cause Firebase to read the calendar data on its own and report that, too? I’m not at all accusing Firebase of doing anything without knowledge and maybe it may be a “good citizen” with regards to how it manages and accesses (or doesn’t, even if it can) private data but I’m confident that that’s not the case with every third party tracker.
So following your logic the solution to knife crime would be to tell everyone to wear armor instead of putting the criminals in jail?

> Newspapers, however, aren't really supposed to "attack" things

I would consider it an attack if they were publishing lies. But I don't see any lies here - Facebook has dug their own grave and is now rightfully getting what they deserve.
I agree that they will keep finding loopholes, but I'm afraid the idea of privacy has been blown wide open. Someone else will fill the gap if Facebook is stopped. This is precisely why I am so nervous about facial recognition and all biometrics: once the field exists, it does not matter how much it is regulated. Government does not have the ability to stop it. Some one will circumvent it.
That's the problem. Many low skilled employees aren't in a position to walk away from an employment offer.

Do you think that there should be any limit on the duration and scope of non-compete clauses?
I think what you're experiencing is actually very atypical.
I had that experience with Minecraft around 2012.
Wikileaks has leaked plenty of Russian material. It hasn't stopped the McCarthyism, obviously. The red scare must go on.

He was critical of some news stories about the Panama papers pushed by USAID. He did not criticize the leaks directly.
35 stories is not even that tall for buildings in Guangzhou: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_G...
Robots Could Set the Tone for Social Interactions
This post greatly underestimates China. And China is already a world power.

Its economic dynamism distinguishes it from Russia. Its size and military independence make it different from Japan.

A more apt comparison might be merged Korea multiplied by 15.

That is a force that cannot be dismissed.
Then don't turn it on. It's completely optional.
You still are now attempting to deceive a government official. Also, you are assuming that the technician assigned to you wouldn't be able to figure this out.

Also, sweating you out in holding is probably more effective than you realize.
The thing is that this system hasn't been used to "target everyone," at least not based on any reporting that I've seen. Yes, a lot of people are allowing Google to capture their location. And yes, law enforcement is able to correlate that with other evidence, like DNA evidence, to narrow down the list of possible suspects. But it hasn't been used to, for example, catch everyone who has been speeding in an area. Being able to find the small number of people in an area who were present when a crime was committed, and correlating that with other information to gain a high probability estimate of the true criminal, is the opposite of dystopian.
When/if Facebook is stopped it will be because of these issues like privacy violations and the damage they're doing to society by promoting crap content or getting people addicted to scrolling endlessly for such crap.

Whoever replaces it will have to not repeat those mistakes in order to survive.
Exactly, which is why I'd be more interested in concrete commonalities of slippery slopes that were actually realized, and not just a general "history has plenty of slippery slopes".
Sure, you don't have to be. Turn the feature off. But convicting a criminal based on evidence they left when they turned it on? What's wrong with that?
Wouldn't it have been more fun to talk to them on the phone about that stuff?
It's not about survival. These companies are making billions to satisfy the unquenchable thirst for profit of their investors.
There are three certain things:

Death

Taxes

Tracking
I posted this because I think one of the scariest things about AI and computers is how they will affect our perception of reality. Some one commented the other day about having to realize they were not playing Grand Theft Auto when driving. The concerns around virtual reality are real. Infants think "alexa" is a person. Google Duplex is trying to con people into believing that which is not human is.

How can we live in a society where we do not know what is real? I will be constantly suspicious of whether something is real or a robot; would you not?
>
Months after his release, Mr. Molina was having trouble getting back on his feet. After being arrested at work, a Macy’s warehouse, he lost his job. His car was impounded for investigation and then repossessed.

/Facepalm

But before I go further on the social commentary, can we confirm that the arrest at work was the reason he lost his job, the week of being in jail being the reason he lost his job, performance due to the arrest being the reason?
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If you already have a PC running 24x7, you don't need a separate device to run pi-hole.
XML has comments.

XML can be programmable. You can make <If> and <Loop> constructs if you so desired while being trivially parse-able.

XML can be arbitrarily strongly typed.

JSON really was a step backwards in many ways. I think the main reason JSON took over was that it looks nicer and is easier to type by hand (as if everyone doesn't have editor macros for XML).
I feel like JSON is a decent format for storing human-readable configuration data.

The use of brackets means if something is broken, you'll know explicitly because your IDE will throw a fit. Formats that are white-space dependent can have subtle errors that aren't easily recognizable on first glance.

The 2 problems with JSON are multiline string support and comment support, but JSON5 solves both of those problems. Sure JSON5 isn't JSON, but YAML isn't JSON either. No matter what you're going to need a library to parse a config file, so why not stick to something based on a widely used data-storage format?
> The heat is an extreme example of the general climate-change trend in the state

No it's not.
It's an example of a whether phenomenon.
I do have to be. Data is collected and retained not just by Google but by phone network operators, ISPs, and government agencies:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_retention

How do I turn that off?
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I should have been more clear: the point here isn't to guess intentions, it's to examine the actual results of the project and its reasons for being (e.g distrust in religious authority which Russell situates in the formation of Protestantism) and to identify the same ideology in thinking today. Tracing the relationship between myth and enlightenment is done in the same way we trace the relationship between the Ancient Greek epics and their philosophy, or the Protestant work ethic and capitalism.
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> DevOps is all about consistency and readability
As opposed to any other field of programming?

Again, what weird single-approach programming language are we comparing Perl5 with?
Ask HN: Why is there an internal email in the source of the NYTimes?
While trying to read an article linked on the front page (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/10/well/move/sitting-for-more-than-13-hours-a-day-may-sabotage-the-benefits-of-exercise.html), I encountered a paywall. I just took a quick look at the source to see if I could still read the article. I immediately saw a comment that was an internal e-mail from an editor about upcoming stories. Why would this be there? Is it a common thing?

Screenshot of the e-mail: https://i.vgy.me/k4yCVz.png

Edit: After looking some more, it appears the e-mail is in the source of every NYTimes page right now.
The etymology seems to be the same, but I've also heard people classify Deftones as "shoegaze", which makes zero sense to me.
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Why not jq, then?
> Part of the reason I think STEM is horseshit is that it is so broadly defined as to be without meaning.

And then we add in the Arts for "STEAM" and the cycle is complete.
I was pleased to see the discretion being used so far in the cases presented in this article.

But thats only because the warrants werent sealed by the judge, the state law allowed for public knowledge, the detectives were willing to talk with media, and those available warrants happened to use discretion that is more agreeable so far.

So lets not get this confused with something good. All these people know it is a questionable tool and that as soon as they or anyone else in the public sector uses this more broadly then it is going to mess up their ability to use the tool at all.
As Jeremy Wolfe said in his Introduction to Psychology lectures on MIT OCW: There's two things to know about Freud - he's wrong and he's dead.

The same goes for Marx and Nietzsche.
Since someone is probably going to mention it:

Yes, iOS has a superficially similar feature called Significant Locations [1].

No, it doesn't work anything like Sensorvault. Significant Locations are collected and stored locally on the device. They are only used to provide relevant suggestions to the user of the device (e.g, to suggest Maps destinations based on where the user frequently travels), not for advertising or analytics.

[1]: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207056
I'm not a biologist but I believe the pressures should be equalized inside and out.

The problem humans have with pressure is mostly related to humans being filled with gasses. Contrary to popular belief, humans don't explode when exposed to a vacuum. The fleshy bits hold together just fine, but trying to hold your breath would rupture your lungs, forcing you to exhale, which causes you to asphyxiate.

There have been a few cases where isolated body parts were depressurized, which caused painful swelling but no permanent damage. I think it's likely that swelling occurred because the rest of the body was still pressurized, in effect squeezing the body out into the unpressurized portion of the suit. This is similar to one of the failure modes of old style diving bell helmets where depressurization of the helmet could force a diver's body into the helmet.
That is just entirely false.

Electrical engineers, mechanical engineers, and chemical engineers have quite different courseloads. Even within electrical engineering, semiconductor physics, radio frequency electronics, electromotion, and power systems are all completely different from computer architecture and one another. That's without delving into specialties in each.
Portion control means serving yourself less, but failing that, it means stopping when you're full, not continuing to eat what you've served yourself in the name of preventing food waste. Once you start doing that, you reinforce the behavior of serving yourself too much and eventually begin to crave more food than you should be eating. Portion control is unrelated to how much food you make, assuming you have a refrigerator and don't think yourself too good for leftovers...
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We're talking about Google's feature here. You have my sympathy with respect to phones. I don't have a solution for you.
>"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."

That cannot be IEEE's response. It makes no sense. The market decides the rate, not the employers nor employees. If no employer wants to pay what you think you're worth, you're not worth that. Having said that, the market rate does give you some indication as to what the wider supply and demand looks like.
As a comment to that article references: it’s certainly a great story, but it makes it seem that this is the catalogue of the library, when in fact it is one of 16 volumes, 14 of which are already known.

The referenced page at The Arnamagnæan Institute stays:

“There were 16 volumes of indices in all; 14 of these are in the Biblioteca Colombina in Seville, where what remains of Colón’s library is kept. The other two were presumed missing — but now it seems that one of them wound up in the collection of Árni Magnússon.“ [1]

It’s great that this was found (and one is still missing) but perhaps not quite as profound as the article would lead one to believe.

[1] https://manuscript.ku.dk/news/a-new-discovery-in-the-arnamag...
Thanks for sharing; definitely a prolific artist!
Looks like it was posted in 2016 and updated in 2019.
It's not like it's a button you can press to "turn it off". Google's smartphone which dominates the market and has billions of users is funded by a company whose whole business model is tracking + targeting users using the data they provide.

Rooting and install another Android OS is no easy task for a normie and comes with it's own maintenance baggage. And even then you have to install Google's proprietary software to even use the App Store.

A phone without the app store is a no-go for 99% of people.

The solution is allow the customers the option to "turn it on" (especially after they pay $300-900 for a phone) rather than being omnipresent.
I’m talking China, not the USA. A big slab of a tall building is something that was done in the 60s but is hardly done anymore. Tall and skinny works much better in balancing residential space with a couple of elevators and a staircase.
The problem is that people don't get healthcare. Price is just the rationalization for denying it.
"The country's top codebreakers too seemed flummoxed until Sievey's son Stirling recalled how his dad would get the children to fill an outer row with random symbols, while Sievey would insert real code into the inner row."

Is it really that hard to fool some of the worlds top code breakers, simply by including some random digits?

So a code where every {x} symbol is random, and suddenly you've got an uncrackable code? Surely it cant be that simple?
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You can be a "STEM graduate" but if you insist on trying to get a job doing basic scientific research, you're probably not going to find interesting well paid work. If you do an engineering degree and get a job building mining equipment, you're going to do fine. The job market doesn't care about your aspirations, it cares about how useful your skills are in solving a company's problems.
Yeah, it's too bad that online game companies don't realize this and deliberately pair up the same "pool" of people together to create the sort of atmosphere where this can occur.
Congratulations :)

When I installed the emacs on MacOS by the step at https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/download.html#macos
(`brew install emacs --with-cocoa`). I got an `Error: invalid options: --with-cocoa`

Finally, I found the solution here: https://emacs.stackexchange.com/a/47774/13172.

Now, I want to know who can modify this command at the official site.

PS:
Homebrew 2.1.0
Homebrew/homebrew-core (git revision 024e26; last commit 2019-04-13)
Homebrew/homebrew-cask (git revision 20182; last commit 2019-04-13)
"Many of the founders would have hated the idea of a megacorporation in such close proximity to Congress and the White House..."

How on earth can the author claim to know what the founders would have thought? I can't think of anything left in writing that would suggest such a thing.

Seems like the author is just pulling stuff out of..... let's say 'the air'.
NASA/USAF put (whole) dogs in a vacuum: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/196600...

The paper is pretty short read.

They reference another study that was conducted with primates, but I'm not able to find it at this moment.

Here's the part about primates: "After decompression to approximately 1 mm. Hg absolute, the squirrel monkeys appeared to lose consciousness sooner than the dogs. As with dogs, they had both tonic and clonic seizures shortly after unconsciousness and this progressed to flaccid paralysis. Subcutaneous emphysema and swelling occurred, but was not as marked. During and following recompression to ground level, the monkeys recovered similarly but seemed to exhibit staggering and disorientation for a longer period. Two monkeys died as a result of these low pressure exposures, while no dogs died from exposures that were less than 120 seconds. [...]"

It's under "Observations made on small primates" on page 7.
"Fork aware" is "thread aware". Hint: see the "pthread" substring in the identifier "pthread_atfork".

Note that this is necessary only because of the broken threading model that was retrofitted into Unix.

How it should work is that fork should clone the threads also. If a process with 17 threads forks, then the child has 17 threads. The thread IDs should be internal, so that all the pthread_t values in the parent space make sense in the child space and refer to the corresponding threads.

It's not fork's fault that the hacky thread design broke it. Fork is supposed to make a faithful replica of a process; of course if that principle is ignored in a major way (like, oops, where are the parent's threads?) then things are less than copacetic.

Threads also break the concept of a current working directory. If one thread makes a relative path access and another calls chdir, the result is a race condition.

Threads also break signals quite substantially; the integration of signal handling with threads is a mess.

Threads are not inherently a good thing to have; they are idiotic, in fact. Fork provides a disciplined form of threading that eliminates problems from the mutation of shared state, and provides fault isolation. It's much better to use forked processes instead of threads. Shared memory can be used for direct data structure access. With fork, you can create a shared anonymous mmap. This is then cloned into child processes as shared memory at the same virtual address.
I think codes of conduct become relevant somewhere between 100 and 1,000 people, organizationally.

Around the point you’re transitioning to more political structuring because simpler mechanisms break down.
That’s still roughly top 10% of incomes, no?
FWIW I have made many friends in Destiny 2 and I have plans to meet some of them in person.

Many games do not foster this, but I think destiny does.
> The headquarters of Google in Manhattan.

More quality New York-centrism from The New York Times :P
> So lets not get this confused with something good.

If I understand your argument, you're saying that, yes, this tool has been used justly so far, but it's still not good, because those using it would have behaved unjustly if there were no consequences for just behavior?

I don't really think this argument flies. There are so many other things that have this property and are widely considered to be good things.
The article seems to contradict your statement:

"Location History is not on by default. Google prompts users to enable it when they are setting up certain services — traffic alerts in Google Maps, for example, or group images tied to location in Google Photos.'
You can include that part in the rent and set it as “annual costs” for the buying scenario.