skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have the utmost hatred for these organizations. And the people that run them. They need to be fined out of existence. Their executives need to be jailed.

I don't think our society will face meaningful change unless there are physical consequences (read: jail) to doing terrible-human-being stuff like this. The executives will just go off with their cushy $20M severance paychecks and exploit some other group of people in a slightly different way.
Coincidently this week the podcast "Decrypted" featured an episode that details how difficult it is to compete on the Amazon platform, especially against Amazon itself. [0]

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/2019-04-22/as-amazon-ge...
But think of the ter'rists, aliens and children!! /s

Seriously though, it's probably a good thing overall and I can't believe how much data has been collected for dubious security value and exponential risk of abuse.
> Occasional disparaging comments from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) personnel suggested that Ramos’s advocacy had landed her on their radar, and then, on January 10, 2019, in the midst of the government shutdown, her pass was revoked without explanation.

> Around the same time, Al Otro Lado’s other codirectors, Erika Pinheiro and Nora Philips, were also harassed while attempting to cross the border. On January 29, Pinheiro was detained for two hours at the Tijuana crossing and then refused entry into Mexico; during the ordeal, she was denied access to attorneys seeking to advocate on her behalf.

> Mexican authorities detained Phillips at the Guadalajara airport two days later, where she had flown with her husband and their seven-year-old daughter. Mexican officials informed Phillips that there was an alert on her passport and held her for more than nine hours, during which she was denied food and water. The ordeal concluded with her being put on a flight back to the United States.
Python feels way too cumbersome for day to day use, unless you do a lot of data crunching.

There are bash/python hybrids like [0], but good luck getting them on some legacy production server that still runs distro from 8 years ago, or more modern but isolated server, or... There are (were?) also some language quirks that I can't remember because it's been a while since I last tried xonsh.

[0] https://xon.sh

(EDIT: changed URL from an outdated one.)
[part 2]

> The mechanisms by which something changes state can be determined by science.

How do you know that? Couldn't there be mechanisms by which something changes state that can not be determined by science? How do you know there aren't?

And in the particular case: How did you determine that the mechanism by which the universe changes state can not be determined by science?

> There isn't a fundamental difference between those two statements. I used the word "universe" as a catch-all. You could substitute "universe" for just about anything else, if not all things, physical.

So, electrons are non-physical after all, then? I assume you agree that the electric field is physical? The potential to change the electric field is not observable, but it exists, therefore, it is non-physical? (I am paraphrasing, obviously, but I think that is roughly your argument applied to electrons?)

Also, it seems problematic that you are refering to "physical" here, in what for all intents and purposes is an attempt to define the distinction between the physical and the non-physical. And that doesn't seem to me to be a mere accident, but rather a symptom of the fact that you seem to build your argument on our current understanding of physics--when, really, the question is: What justifies our current understanding of physics? It is true that the electron is considered part of the physical world by physicists. But why is that? And what does that even mean? When you start with physics from a position where the existence of electrons has not been established yet, what were the steps to get from there to here?

> Yes... I explicitly stated this, albeit in different terms.

Well, possibly. But then, I asked for things that you would expect to be convincing. Stating that what you said isn't convincing still doesn't really make things convincing, does it?

> Absolutely not.

Exactly. So, why would you expect the same reason to be convincing when you use it?
Like you say, no one cares. It’s not a problem that’s in your face that you’re always seeing. It’s an abstract thing that people chose to ignore or are entirely ignorant of — to FBs benefit.
It's interesting how textualism/originalism vs the constitution as a "living document" plays out. Of course a conservative interpretation of the constitution might say "the right to bear arms includes rocket launchers" where a liberal one might say "the founders could not have imagined such a weapon". In the same way, one could say "if you don't want to be tracked, don't carry a tracking device on you at all times", where a more liberal interpretation might be "the framers could not have imagined such an ubiquitous and useful device, and it's not reasonable to have to sacrifice modern convenience to maintain the privacy we thought we were guaranteed".

And depending on the issue at stake, a more liberal or more conservative view might give you greater rights.
Books are about the only thing I still buy at amazon. It probably started with a purchase I made that kept delaying shipping, but the price was like 20% better than anywhere else and I didn’t need it anytime soon. After a couple months and like 6delays I canceled the order and decided to start buying from bestbuy and Walmart. (Also Barnes&noble locally but their website is bad and their app is even worse.)

Oh the other thing that definitely turned me off is searching for something like a hoodie and getting a page full of results that each give ranges of prices from $10-$50 and the only one for $10 is an xxs in dingy white and everything else is $50. (Just made that example up)
Or with neural lace some time sooner...
So.... why is a German financial regulator probing a British newspaper? That seems extremely fishy, if FT was wrong then Wirecard should have brought a civil suit for defamation.
Its a lot easier on a small team. Security isn't a stable state.
I see this has sparked a decent amount of discussion, and that's always good.

However, you've made an assumption that is, at least partially, incorrect.

I would not mind meeting potential offspring, for a short contact later in life personally, but I'd want no part in upbringing or any other negative legal implications- like claims to my estate, which should go to the people I've laid out in my will. This is why, for example, many people who do donate choose to do so anonymously.

We (being my wife and I) just don't think we'd make good parents because we don't like children, and children should be raised in loving households by parents who want them, and who are willing to dedicate a portion of their lives to raising children. Adoption is also an option, but also, quite often, very difficult. So I don't judge people who go with sperm or egg donation instead.

I see nothing morally wrong with helping a couple that are struggling with infertility to bring a child into the world, with the hope that it would be a kind and loving home. (And one would assume that a couple that has to go to the lengths of tissue donation for fertility, would do so)

However we're also both privacy conscious, and care about the privacy of our extended family members. A child raised in another environment may not be, and as stated in the article (and as we've seen in other recent articles about FamilyTreeDNA etc.) This would compromise the privacy of our entire family. Hell, the child's (non/semi bio) parents could do this at birth.

Some kind of restriction on testing on this case seems to me like an reasonable middle ground.

Sorry for lack of citations re: other articles, am on mobile, however articles about the topic are easy to find with a web search.
Start by getting your A1C measured, which many/most doctors do as part of an annual checkup for adults.
I think the privacy crowd drawn to Brave couldn't care less what the (current) digital advertising industry wants.

Anyone who's been involved in the current ad-tech industry knows it's a total tire fire of fraud, technical incompetence and deep hostility to end-users.

Brave's model is very interesting and also a threat to the current ad-tech cesspool, so there should be no surprise to see attempts to misinform people about the model.

Brave doesn't replace ads with other ads.

Brave is a browser first, with an economic layer that will support all sorts of opt-in economic activity in a privacy-respecting way.

The tokens have a market price of more than zero.

Advertisers already include brands like Vimeo and Vice, and many within the ad industry appreciate the model Brave is attempting.

Using on-device machine learning to deliver relevant ads, while at the same time protecting privacy by not sending that data over the wire is a rather brilliant idea.

It certainly remains to be seen what advertisers are convinced to trial this approach, but predictions based on a very wonky understanding of the Brave model aren't particularly interesting.
I'm a bit concerned that the comments here are so credulous. "Inflammation" has been part of the woo-woo arsenal of certain corners of the health and wellness community for at least a couple of decades, and which I wouldn't be surprised if it supplies a not-insignificant number of the anti-vax adherents. It's that specious.
Heyoya – Voice Comments Platform
TSMC Steps Through 7, 6, 5, Moore
I'm looking forward to the day that a technology like this is safe or simple enough for widespread commercial use. I would be concerned about the safety of brain surgery, but lots of people get lasik which uses lasers to cut your eyes, which in my head is much scarier. Hopefully someday this could be a fairly routine procedure.
Logs tend to be ephemeral with limited retention.
I've held off on buying a Tesla because I don't know for sure if the company will be around in several years and I worry about maintenance. News like this obviously doesn't help, but it makes me wonder when is a "good" time to buy a Tesla where it seems like a safer bet?
I get the feeling that a lot of rough diamonds may be smuggled out this very way.
You might be thinking of Fomenko's New Chronology, presented in a series of books that were popular in Russia in the 1990s. It sounds very far-fetched:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Chronology_(Fomenko)
If they dont make it public to everyone they shouldnt plainly make it public to the government. In an age of identity theft and smarter high tech criminals this sort of data should be on lockdown and under scrutiny for access.
"Low power" or "slow CPU" has nothing to do with it. When you have a bottleneck (GTK, X11/Wayland, video drivers) that is 100x more significant than the binding language (Python), switching languages will only buy you 1% speedup at best. I'm not saying to go forth unplanned. I'm saying that using C over Python in this case is a waste of time.
Tesla Posts Big Quarterly Loss as Its Electric-Car Sales Lag
> eat a ton [sic] of [...]

... anything, and see you in hospital, surely?
Regardless, Brave is a pretty great browser. It increases battery life on my machine by an hour or two compared to Chrome by blocking all those ads.
> Baking a transactional layer into the browser allows

...for them to siphon money from dumb investors cuz bl0ckcha1n!%$@$.

Downvote me all you want, it won't make it not true.
There's a lot of negativity here about brave. But the fact is that the web desperately needs a new financial model, and as far as I can tell brave is a lot further along on that than any other project.

Would anyone like to argue that the present web financial model is fine? Or would anyone like to point to someone else who has an alternative that would be workable and is anywhere near usable?

And let met add one more point. Any workable alternative is not going to be perfect, so the fact one is not is not, at least alone, a reason to not use it.

But again, let me ask all the brave critiques, what is your alternative? And by that I mean that can be used by your average user, not something only a techy can make work.
you can't get funding for these sorts of things unless you show medical context first. It may change- billionaires funding brain scanning companies are an exmaple, but even then they tend to work with quadriplegics.

If you cure a quadriplegic, then getting approval for the general public tends to be easy (it's an easy sell) but the other way around... not so much.
Remember Flooz?
am one of those people!

depends a lot on the commentary, though - i probably don't care about your feelings (sorry) or descriptive prose. on the other hand, when i'm looking up a recipe from another culture, i really value commentary on the background or history of the dish.
I find these kind of bait-and-switches to be really tasteless. Company X is created originally with the sole purpose of blocking ads and privacy trackers - and then decides to monetize using some kind of "good" ad. (I'm looking at you, AdBlock Plus.)
It was removed because MagSafe was quite literally the #1 source of hardware failure on those machines. It was worth it when it prevented the machine itself from taking a fatal tumble, but with power ports available on both sides of the laptop (as well as increased battery life), MagSafe is no longer worth it.

If you're really intent on it, Griffin sells a MagSafe USB-C adapter - https://griffintechnology.com/breaksafe-magnetic-usb-c-power...
NB: A single flight would have a Captain and a First Officer. Therefore, this is about two Captains on two different flights.

Should have been obvious to me on headline reading, wasn't, alarm ensued.
Eich founded Mozilla and invented Javascript. He's done far more to promote free expression than to hamper it.
In 2008-2010 companies had the chance to harvest millions of emails and other personal data. The opportunity is not likely to come back this easily.

Shutting down these options, even if it is the right things to do for the users, is effectively increasing the barriers of entry and reducing the growing speed of new companies. The result is that those companies will maintain a dominant position on the market.
You think it’s ‘Fine’ that amazon didn’t honor their agreement about how they handle data relating to the always on microphones in people’s homes?

If the don’t honor agreements about handling data it means means they can’t be trusted with that data.
Our DevOps guy and I spent an afternoon dealing with this. Turns out the AWS Management Console makes it stupidly easy to accidentally overwrite permissions.
> This new generation is on by default and doesn't let you opt out.

I imagine that it would be possible to cover the camera when you're using the cooler.

My plan is to avoid buying anything from these things in the first place (there's always another store), but if/when the day comes when that is impossible, my backup plan is to cover the camera.

I also really hate the idea of replacing the glass with a display. If that happens, I'll have to stand there with the door open while I decide.
Cool. I'll do that next time. Its a bit late for this topic, since it has so much more momentum than the other topics now.
Hang out with teenagers, or even 20 somethings, for just a little while, and you'll see that privacy means nothing to them. The youngest kids are a little better, sticking to Snapchat over Facebook and Instagram (because the messages are "temporary"). But for example, when a friend of mine got into college, she posted on Facebook, "just got checked in!" along with a picture of her school ID, her room key, and the form with the room number. I told her that someone could easily get into her room with that one photo, but she didn't care.
Neuro Data Without Borders
I'm taking classical piano lessons currently, and I have much the same reaction. I don't love all the strict rules imposed by western music, but I do love the notation and theory, because it generalized in interesting ways across tunings and notation.

Just like I learned C (for example) before imagining my own languages, or how I've learned many libraries before writing my own, I also appreciate the structure of classical notation for what it is.
> The Level 1 Lab book is a bound A4 notebook

I would add that it should be acid-free paper, very strong binding (sewed+glued) and have graph paper. The acid-free paper can give notebook 20+ year life span, strong binding is important as you may frequently force notebook open with heavy objects, and finally graph paper style allows you to draw complex diagrams easily. Here's notebook I've liked: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B071NWSB7P
I don't think that applies here. I'm specifically not saying that producing data makes it public. Rather I'm saying allowing a third party to resell your data with impunity necessarily obviates your ability to control the dissemination. If you've given control of your data to a third party, you have no control. Full stop.
No, the height increase is only by a factor of 12/7, which is about an extra 71%. Compensating for this, there is a width reduction caused by the loss of accidentals. There is also no need to waste space on unused octaves, so there might not be any height increase at all for some pieces of music.

Trivial transposition is a highly desirable property.
I’m not sure it’s possible to filter out third party.
I admit I still sometimes have a momentary question when I go to hit Esc of "did I really hit it?" and yet I have unfailingly hit Esc 100% of the time I try. It helps that the TouchBar feels different than the computer body around it, so I can reliably tell that I hit the TouchBar, and the Esc hit area is so large that I'm simply not going to miss it.
Russian liturgical music is not Byzantine chant. Yes, traditions like Znamenny can ultimately be traced back to Byzantine music, but along the way they evolved into something different. Later, Western polyphonic singing that had nothing to do with the Byzantine tradition was imported, and that informed the work of many prominent 19th-century and early 20th century Russian composers of sacred works.

That is why in the Orthodox Christian world, people perceive such a distinct difference between the liturgical singing of e.g. Greece, Albania, or Romania, and the singing of e.g. Ukraine or Russia.
My understanding is they’ve been taking money “on behalf of creators” who never signed up and pocketing it. That’s reason enough for me to not use the product. Sounds like it could be construed as fraud. Eich got pretty defensive on Twitter and this whole thing came up here before too [2].

[1] https://www.theblockcrypto.com/2018/12/24/brave-browser-is-c...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18736759
Similar experience here. I had residual pain from a neck fusion and doc put me on those 800mg ibuprofen horse pills + PT. It seemed to help at first but then plateaued and didn't seem to help much. After I had been on ibuprofen for months I noticed that small cuts on my hands (typical for my line of work) were slow to heal.

One day I went to a lecture on brain research by some top neurologist at Stanford. As an aside about the difficulty of maintaining double-blind standard in actual experiments, she mentioned that she once worked on research involving NSAIDs. To mark the mice for tracking they punched coded holes in their ears but found they could tell which mice were getting NSAIDs because the holes would not heal for the treated mice whereas in untreated mice the holes would heal. I tossed the horse pills that night when I got back from the lecture and the cuts on my hands started healing normally again.
Ask HN: Why All the Hate for NPM?
Every time NPM (node package manager) gets mentioned people are quick to point out flaws:

- Large dependency trees

- 100's of Mb of code for hello world react projects

These seem like superficial problems, from what I can tell the system encourages:

- Software reuse (maybe too much)

- Bundling source with the package
(good for verification)

- Easy to contribute to the ecosystem

- Fast resolution of modules

Do people just hate NPM because it's JavaScript?
Donald Trump complained to Twitter CEO about losing followers
That’s a neat idea. Could be a YC startup idea. A subscription service that gives you access to all the paywall content let’s say 10/month for 50 articles and you don’t even click a button just read. Rather than seperate paywalls, ads etc.
But they certainly are gathering personally identifiable information, namely your face. I don't know the details of the GDPR, but doesn't it cover data collection as well as use?
Various associated github repos at: https://github.com/NeurodataWithoutBorders/
There's https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/

and

https://english.stackexchange.com/

I'm not entirely sure what would be on a literature GitHub.
The Word Curry Came from a Colonial Misunderstanding
The Moon and Mars are two separate goals for the foreseeable future. It'll be at least a lifetime before we can launch Mars-bound payloads from the Moon as reliably or cheaply as we can from Earth.

Making one dependent on the other is bad for both. If you hobble a Moon mission with Mars exploration requirements, then that's resources wasted that could go directly to Lunar exploration. If you hobble a Mars program with a dependency on a Moon base, then you ensure that you'll die before seeing a human on Mars.
IIRC it's generally a bad practice if your HTTP responses reveal what your tech stack looks like. Not great for security.
Technically, every part with the same SKU in an inventory system should be able to be intermingled.

The problem is that the "SKU" concept is set up for selling things like drug stores selling bottles of Coca Cola, where hundreds of different franchised bottling plants will produce the same product under license, and so all have the right to slap the same SKU on the result, and it's kind of irrelevant to the consumer what licensed manufacturer produced the bottle.

While this is a common case for consumer products purchased in physical stores, it isn't at-all common for products purchased online. Apple doesn't license the manufacture of iPhones to anybody; thus, nobody but Apple should be considered a valid input for the iPhone-SKU bin in the warehouse.

Ideally, if you, as an Amazon seller, were to print the "Apple iPhone X US-version 64GB Black" UPC code on a box and send that box in to the Amazon warehouse, you should probably immediately get charged with mail fraud. Or maybe trademark infringement. (In fact, I can't see any reason why you couldn't literally trademark your own products' UPC codes, if you don't want anyone else using them.)
I don't get the impression. I get the impression that they're thinking that they can boost sales.
The entirety of the online ad business is a pyramid scheme. You would be surprised how much of the industry relies on arbitrage.
> 2) Using that email access to "inadvertently" upload the information of their email contacts.[1]

If they wanted to show proper contrition, they'd not only delete that information from their systems, they'd also remove all links in the social graphs that can be in any way a result of that information. They'd also take 100% of their revenue that was even slightly influenced/generated by the inappropriately gather data and send it out to the users whose data was copied without permission.

Also they should probably put together a legal team who will be ready to start handling the $150,000 per copied item that they didn't have the right to copy. :lol
They can't just pay BAT directly out to an address and bypass KYC by not providing an exchange?

Would seem a really stupid move...
That's not what this is. I believe Brave has always had this model in mind. Or for quite some time at least.