skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So many reports that you didn't bother linking to one? I'm sorry, but this seems heinously misinformed given that our debt/equity ratio keeps growing.
$500k eb-5 is through regional centers. You can do $1M without regional centers.
> Progressive web apps may soon free you from Google Play and the iOS App Store

We went to Google Play and the iOS App Store because we don't like web apps, progressive or not.
Can they bypass MFA?
And that is fine by me. Using my behavioral data to train an underfitting model is very different from actually storing my behavioral data. Sure, the word 'underfitting' does the heavy lifting in my previous sentence. But I don't think that overfitting is even feasible at this scale. Google does not train models that just memorize the habits of 3 billion people. Such a model would be useless.
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Helmets, hell think face masks people buy at the store to protect themselves from the lawn while cutting it. I tried one, felt like I was suffocating.

full face helmets can at times have the same effect if you bundle up to well during winter but I would be loathe to give it up
Property tax payment dispersals are handled by bank, which is the rule and not exception in Chicago.

And I promise you, assessments here have gone up orders of magnitude more than 2%. In some parts of the city it's gone up by 30%[1]

Point taken about an anecdotal experience affecting national spending.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-met-cook-county-prope...
https://github.com/docker-library/official-images/pull/5516

The official image was also affected, too, it appears.
Second link is broken, and the first is about a different thing (triggering an ad based on a competitor's trademark).

Pretending to be a competitor clearly violates trademark law. But I somewhat suspect these fraudsters aren't that concerned with trademark law.
There are literally hundreds of Minecraft clones. It created a genre.
There is Minecraft for raspberry pi edition which comes free with the standard raspbian desktop image. My daughter loves it. It ties in with the education stuff in that it has a python API. For the rest it is more limited compared to normal Minecraft.
Isn't the annualized average return rate ~9% for the S&P 500? If you had money in the game for years a 20-ish% correction is not really a big loss.
In Ukrainian. See graphic at page 235 (Thyroid cancer level growth since tragedy).

http://irbis-nbuv.gov.ua/cgi-bin/irbis_nbuv/cgiirbis_64.exe?...

My brothers were unable to escape. Younger brother had problems with thyroid, but survived. (I had problems with thyroid too, but at much smaller scale). Older brother had brain surgery about two months ago, but it's unknown is it helped or not yet.
elite here just connotes "elite military force" kind of idea
My mail carrier can't read my mail because I'm in the US and there are laws against it. There are certainly mail carriers in the world that can and do read mail.

The answer here is privacy laws and auditability.
I think it's less about building a productive China, and more about maintaining power for those in charge, but they could also honestly believe that the masses need to be controlled in order to have a productive China.
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So when do you check out? Dementia can insidiously can take years to develop, and by the time you're far enough along to need it to end you're already potentially too far along to know it. Losing your mental faculties is losing the ability to make objective decisions like that.
Doesn't matter if you're a Chinese user on an iPhone:

>Fast forward to today: China Telecom, a government owned telco, is taking over the iCloud data from Guizhou-Cloud Big Data. This essentially means that a state-owned firm now has access to all the iCloud data China-based users store, such as photos, notes, emails, and text messages.

https://mashable.com/article/china-government-apple-icloud-d...
Why are people downvoting your comment here? You are 100% correct. Apple also made significant contributions to the development of USB-C and have the best implementation of USB-C with Thunderbolt 3 in their products bar none.

Yes, the iPhone still ships with Lightning connectors. But Lightning was revolutionary in a world full of phenomenally shitty Micro-USB connectors. It's really not a big deal, and Apple will move to USB-C for sure eventually.
I don't understand why no one mentions SailfishOS. It's an alternative that is available right now.

Sure, it's not up to the level of Android and iOS in most respects, but it takes effort to get something like this going. Also from the users. Like Linux 20 years ago.

Developing for it is not a nightmare either.

And it's running Linux so there's advantages as well.

I used it as my daily driver years ago and I've been using it as my daily driver again since six months or so.
Convenience seems to be the only value of things in the real world, so bad even that people en masse are prepared to submit to slavery to get it.

I suggest that the FOSS community now finally starts building something convenient for themselfs instead of making things hard and massochist.
Key word is "permissions", right? Meaning apps that don't wish to scare users with permissions will adopt the new API, but existing filesystem access should continue to function. Otherwise this would be crippling to some users and apps and I doubt it would go over well.
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If you're coming from the same device or IP address/range, that's enough of a link.

An anecdote: I stayed with relatives for a few days one time, and my two-year-old niece really liked one particular music video on YouTube, so it got played on their TV box 3-4 times during my visit. Not on my laptop, but I used said laptop on their wifi (not logged into Google products, as I never am). When I got home, YouTube highly recommended that video to me after I watched an unrelated video, when there was no other reason to recommend it (I didn't know the artist, almost never watch music videos, and it wasn't anything all that popular).
Maybe they encrypt with rot13. Compression should work on such a "ciphertext"...
It's not just about numbers, but also about income disparity. Upper class incomes are increasing faster than the lower and middle class. The upper class is also the only one who see any real income growth from 2000 - 2016, hinting at the underlying issues that the middle class faces. Jobs existing, but they no longer provide real wage growth or advancement opportunities they once did.

In general, a wide gulf is forming between the upper and lower classes with the middle class being more aligned with the lower class as opposed to the upper class. If allowed to continue, this will essentially destroy the middle class in the long term, as they will eventually merge into either brackets.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/09/06/the-america...
Reminds me of this other Nature paper which appeared to have many duplicated figures [0], caught by public review. The paper was later retracted [1]. Academic reviewers have a lot of responsibility and reviewers are often stretched thin. There are lots of open challenges when it comes to academic publishing, especially at top conferences/journals whose reputations add a lot of clout to the works they publish. At the other end of the spectrum, there are a plethora of low-standards conferences that publish what amounts to noise (which this MIT project amusingly calls out [2]).

One positive trend (in computer science, at least) is the increased push for reproducibility and artifact reviews [3] which raises the bar for publications.

[0]: https://twitter.com/GaetanBurgio/status/1053948520535707648

[1]: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-0967-z

[2]: https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/archive/scigen/

[3]: https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/artifact-review-ba...
I hate to be that person, but I'm going to need some citations for that. After searching for 'intragenerational financial mobility' it seems that the US is awful at it.

So, citations for your claims?
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Missed opportunity or a contribution to where we are now?

I don’t reckon any of them failed, they succeeded in an unexpected way.
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>This makes zero sense. Choices matter.

Not in models that don't contain them.

>We use pseudorandom number generators precisely because it is impossible to have true randomness within a deterministic system.

"Nondeterminism" and "true randomness" can be modeled in deterministic systems. Your ability to deterministically construct those notions in your own brain is a weak proof of that. If I say "elephant", and you imagine an elephant, then you've modeled an elephant. You have not created an elephant, I'm not claiming you will, and I'm not claiming that you will get true randomness from a deterministic machine. I'm saying you can model it, and thus reason about it.

>I think you're alluding to some sort of multiverse theory.

I am not. I am alluding to parallelism being a computational feature which usefully serves as a model of nondeterministic processes.

I'm not talking about choices, meaningless or otherwise, I'm talking about modeling the concept that is invoked by your use of the word "nondeterminism." (Though you can also model nondeterministic choices as parallel thunks.)

My point is that for every nondeterministic function, there exists a deterministic function which will produce exactly the same outputs. Thus one cannot argue that nondeterminism offers any additional capabilities (beyond computational efficiency.) This is effectively the same as saying that every parallel computation can be executed sequentially, or that every strict computation can be computed lazily.
> They just tend to have much better graphics these days

You can't improve on perfection.
I look at it this way: What is your threat model?

What do you stand to lose if:

* Google shuts down tomorrow?

* Google turns into a malicious conspirator tomorrow?

* Google's databases are compromised by a separate malicious party tomorrow?

Each of these can have different outcomes for your data. Do you wish to mitigate, avoid, or accept that risk?

Likewise, what do you stand to gain from using Google services? AKA, do you get substance out of their services in exchange for the information you're giving them?

Everyone can have different answers to these questions. If you choose not to use Google services, more power to you. I simply encourage everyone to think about their threat model critically, and make an educated decision - rather than hopping on a bandwagon.
My question was rhetorical. The problem I’m trying to highlight is how the F is it ok for a terminal to be spying on you, and what kind of justification do they have for collecting this data (it’s not like there’s much useful info to collect here - it’s a terminal with very few features).
I wonder if someone can explain to me why I should be upset about Google collecting my data. I would pay money for Google to continue collecting my data and improving its predictive model of my behavior, in order to better address my needs as they arise. They're getting better and better at this over time. It has improved my quality of life.
Probably half of people on disability should be counted as unemployed.
If only this technology could actually educate people, instead of being used as a crutch. This is what Google wants, to have you so dependent on their technology that living life without them is nearly impossible without them.
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The review includes 35 experimental studies with control groups. See table 3: "Experimental Personality Change Effect Size Estimates Comparing Treatment to Control".
Actualy the lower class has expanded by a few percentage points (it's not constant) due to the vast immigration of low skill workers from Latin America, while the middle class has (as you noted) been persistently moving up for decades (leading to the upper classes gaining a few percentage points).

You can see this represented over the last ~40 years based on the demographics of each bracket. All one has to do is look at the Fed's current household reports on race when it comes to wealth and income, which lays all of this out in a clear manner. White and Asian households have heavily moved up out of the middle class, while Hispanic and Black households now dominate the bottom 50% of households on income and wealth. As recently as 1980, the US was only 6% Hispanic demographically. By 2000 that had doubled to 12%, and was at 16% in the 2010 census.

Further to this point, the White demographic is now contracting. It's primarily the Hispanic demographic where population growth is occurring, and mostly via immigration.

The big middle class question for the next 20 or 30 years, is whether the huge influx of people from Latin America into the US will be able to move up over time through education and skill acquisition, and whether Black households will similarly gain.
Any decentralized information system will suffer tragedy of the commons as bad actors exploit it's usefulness (imagine the SEO garbage), or have the vacuum of power filled by a few centralized players.

Before you say, "Bitcoin did it!", just look at the block size debacle or the fact that it's mostly controlled by a handful of Chinese miners.
Wish I could search for an exact phrase. I'm getting non-relevant results.
> Mortgage lenders are reporting similar strains. According to Knight Black's latest Mortgage Monitor, a typical first quarter sees the national delinquency rate decline by 15 percent as borrowers use tax refund proceeds to catch up on their household finances. The first three months of 2019, however, marked the smallest drop in delinquency rates since 2009.

Zoom out:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DRSFRMT100S

There's a nearly unbroken downward trend back to 2010.

Also, it would be nice if the article reported the Q1 2019 drop. The Fed data doesn't appear to show an unusually high drop during any quarter.
>"eat a diet and time your eating in a way that promotes healthy hormone balance and use of fat as energy" is a silver bullet

If it promises you to lose weight without limiting your calorie intake (e.g. have your weight loss cake and eat it too), then yes.

>but "use our magic equations based on state of the art info from 1958 to calculate your daily food needs and all your food and exercise as numbers and if your equation balances you'll lose weight" isn't

The laws of thermodynamics don't change because we don't have good formulas to calculate the exact amount of calories a person has a basic metabolic rate just based on their weight and height...

Calories still matter, and you should still limit your intake -- whether you do it approximately by "state of the art info from 1958" or with modern medical tests and expensive equipment. Or you know, just with eating less that you normally do, even without counting calories (if you ate 1 steak per day, and you change it to 1/2 a steak, you're eating half as much calories, even if you don't know how many exactly). Skipping BS deserts will cut even more...

No great science required, millions of people have lost way by just eating less...
SMEs don’t have enough money for effective lobbying. Most laws are constructed in a way that satisfies lobbyists, since they are the ones providing money to politicians. Those are overwhelmingly big rich corps. The most successful politicians are those who can implement what lobbyists want and frame it in a way that makes general populace consider it to be positive.
Did you know that financing for the lower class can be as expensive as 25% of their monthly budget. Simply borrowing money has an average APR on payday loans of 400%.

People choose these loans because:

1) the simple dollar costs mask the actual APR due to relatively complex calculations.
2) the effective APR of multiple $40 overdrafts is actually higher cost than a 400% payday loan.

Long story short, these people are acting rationally in an irrational system.

Fortunately, I am a former Credit Karma employee and am working on a solution at:

https://www.piggycreditcard.com

Please sign up and earn 5% on your checking account.

How can I do this? By arbitraging the risk-adjusted loan probability across a portfolio of 28% APR alternative loans to those in need.

Think of it like socially conscious lending and open source banking.
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And yet in cities that are transit-oriented it doesn't happen.
In fact, just weight yourself each day, and unless you weight less than the day before, eat very little. Repeat, and you'll shed weight (the so-called "graph/grid paper diet").

https://kottke.org/09/07/the-steve-ward-diet
This is how I started my dev story!
This has also been my experience, uBlock origin improved performance on many websites (and also clues me into how many unnecessary connections by analytics and tracking servers are made by so many sites). It is mind boggling to see sometimes 250+ blocked requests on the badge for a news article.
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Please share these tools for testing old safari, last time I checked I couldn't find any
The "Innovator's Dilemma" basically. Sun threw gasoline on the fire by giving everything away, but it would have happened anyway.
> Umm Multiple apple services collect data on your usage like Google does. They don't use this data for Ads Personalization but they do have the data.

Provide a source. Apple is pretty transparent in its iCloud security overview[1] and iOS Privacy Whitepaper[2].

[1]: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303

[2]: https://www.apple.com/business/site/docs/iOS_Security_Guide....
Here is one reason: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10852055 (TL;DR - default signal behaviour is different for PID 1).

[Edit - fix link]
Nazi Germany had concentration camps as early as 1933 (Dachau) and nobody did anything either until they started invasions and a war.

Most genocides have happened as the world watches and says "oh wow that's terrible we should do something" and then do nothing. This is simply how humans behave on an international scale. There is nothing 'amazing' about it.
For me, a timely discussion. Early this year I signed up for GSuite, copied stuff over from the free gmail account I have had for about 15 years, decided Cloud Search, etc. made the privacy hit worthwhile.

Well, I got fed up this week because release of new GSuite services lags the free offerings, and sometimes just aren't released. I lived with switching between free and paid accounts depending on what I was doing (made OK by using Firefox containers).

So, I switched my ProtonMail account to a paid for account, applied my custom domain, and flipped back to using Apple's Calendar, Siri, Maps, etc.

Literally Google lost a tiny bit of my business because their paid for product in some ways was worse than the free offerings.

I can see myself going back to Google paid services in the future but they have to up their game.
Shaft drive bicycles had their heyday in the 19th century when chains were unreliable.
Off-topic but related to the source... I just finished reading Dark Pools, by Scott Patterson, and immediately recognized josh.com as being Josh Levine’s website. He’s portrayed in a very positive light by the book, and he seems like the kind of person who would rather avoid attention from it, but I do want to recommend the book as one of my absolute favorites.

It seems his old site about The Island ECN is archived at http://josh.com/oldindex.htm

Check it out if you have the slightest interest in electronic and high frequency trading!
> Google collects so much absurd amount of data - that all the Proton-mail, DuckduckGo, Wire/Signal, Firefox (loaded with adblocking and tracking plugins) apps in the world can't keep you totally from it as long as you're on Android. You disable things, you opt out of stuff and it just keeps on collecting anyways.

Do you really intend this statement in regards to pure AOSP/LineageOS (ie microg)?

Yes Android will always be a product of a surveillance company, rather than being focused on user-centric security. But I would think that microg should be enough to deprivilege Google's backdoors, and generally avoiding stuff from the Play (Yalp) store should shield you from the bulk of OS-facilitated commercial surveillance. If you have information to the contrary, please share!

Obviously given the choice I'd rather run an OS not designed by a surveillance company, but it's awfully hard to find a pocket-sized computer that can. I look forward to PostmarketOS, but I don't think we're anywhere close there.
I don't think I'd be totally sold on actually making diagrams this way than with, say, Dia or draw.io, but I'm now wondering if there could be converters from those programs' native formats to the ASCII format described for Svgbob with a view to using it as an interchange format that can also be quickly converted/previewed using the actual Svgbob converter. That would be spiffy.
Linux has an HR department now - and big corporate managers driving its technology goals.

I guarantee you 99% of the people on this forum will jump all over me in defense of both. Trannies, init systems, whatever layer of technology Wayland is these days, Pulseaudio, The Eternal Presence of Chrome... You and you - and you there! You kept picking corporate choices.

I don't need another job.
I've seen something like this with speech.

- I have some accent when speaking english but not much.
- Some colleagues from my home town have much stronger accents.

When they speak some words in weird ways I find that american colleagues just understand and move on.

When I speak a word in a weird way they'll either laugh, bc it is funny, or just be confused.

I think its because they are paying more attention to my colleagues with stronger accents because they know they have to.

But with me they'll be more relaxed and get caught off guard when I pronounce words wrong.
For reference, I disagree with this logic as well.

Another way of stating my point is that instead of artificially pegging things 'to the unit of currency' they might instead be pegged as fractions of a "minimum wage", as the econ101 curves will predict a given percentage of a base individuals budget goes to X, and if raising their budget then the cost of X follows that raise.

If yesterday W made 2 times minimum wage, X 5 times, Y 10 times, and Z 100 times, then the minimum wage is multiplied by 2: maybe next year or shortly after... W now makes about 1 times minimum wage, X about 2.5, Y about 5, and Z about 100. Z, BTW, makes money by renting things out instead of directly working for someone else.
If people couldn’t be unethical at scale then Facebook wouldn’t exist at all and yet it does, so I’m sure the same would be possible at Google.
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$800 for a Segway Ninebot ES4??? You could upgrade to a Bird for only $600 more. /s

Of course I wouldn't spend that kind of money for either a scooter or whatever the hell the Ninebot wants to call itself.
Some people don't want to lose "weight", but "fat" (often specifically "subcutaneous fat", often from some specific body area).

If you're already very fit and lean, but have some stubborn fat around the "love handle" area or elsewhere, "eat less" doesn't cut it any more. Sure you can reduce that area, but not completely, and while the rest of you turns into an ugly skeleton.