skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> if you jump from the beginning to the end it reads like "I get it: our online privacy is important" and then you give N reasons why it's not.

I don't believe I was listing reasons why privacy is not important. I was simply noting a benefit that has come from Google's data collection: increased heuristics to combat malicious online activity. I believe this is a valid thing to consider.

Regarding your list of evil deeds Google has done, lets refer to the definition of 'evil'. According to Merriam-Webster (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/evil), I believe we're focusing on the 'morally reprehensible' aspect of Google's actions.

> they lock people out of their online lives

I have seen reports of folks being locked out of their Google accounts because Google marked them as 'suspicious', which ultimately locks them out of logging into many other sites that they choose to link their Google account with. I agree that this is a valid concern. If this is an intentional act by Google, I would say this is morally reprehensible. Is it intentional though? And how quickly does Google typically fix these lock-outs? (I genuinely don't know).

> out victims to their stalkers

> manipulate people into handing over their data with dark patterns

I'm not sure what context you're referring to with these two.

> subvert or take over web standards

Google has contributed to many web standards. However I have not seen them 'subvert' or 'take over' any existing standard. Is there an example of this?

> conspire to keep employee salaries low

I don't have salary reports for Google employees in front of me. I will not pretend to know the business logic for their payroll dept. I think the only folks who can accurately answer this are actual Google employees.

> sometimes serve malware through their ads

Through Google-owned ad companies? I have not seen an example of this. Malvertising is a real concern, but I have not seen this in the wild on a Google/Alphabet-owned website or on a site that serves ads directly from AdSense.

> crush competition by illegally promoting their properties on search

Yes, I have seen what you are talking about here. Is this illegal though? And is it crushing competition? If I search for 'duckduckgo' or 'bing' on Google.com, I get results for those websites.

> illegally prevent Android suppliers to use Android as they wish

Again, would love examples. AFAIK, phone manufacturers are free to alter AOSP however they wish. Again, what is the illegal part?

> They've been found guilty in a court of law multiple times on both sides of the ocean.

Guilty of what, and are those things morally reprehensible?

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To make my point clear, I completely agree that Google has a lot of power in their data collection, and it is something we should be concerned about. The reason why I'm replying is because I am genuinely curious about a lot of these points. Lets not romanticize the problem. Provide hard facts. That is the only way things change.
> the side effect disclaimers I think most people will get desensitized to it.

A bit unrelated, but this is entirely intentional on the part of the drug makers. Closely pay attention to the next drug commercial you see. During the part where they're listing the (usually severe) side effects, all you'll see on screen are happy people on sunny days doing active things. They're using a bit of psychology to trick you into marginalizing the side effects.

It'll be interesting to see how they treat drug prices, but I'm glad we're at least heading down the right path.
> Fructose is low GI, and most of it is converted to glucose in the gut, anyway.

The first half of this sentence (fructose is low GI) is factually correct. The second half (most fructose is converted to glucose in the gut) is factually incorrect. The entire sentence and comment oversimplify sugar metabolism. tl;dr: control your fructose intake.

First, nitpicky corrections: about half of ingested fructose is converted to glucose, not most of it, and this occurs in the liver, not the gut (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3649104/).

Second, and more importantly: GI is a woefully inadequate measure of the healthfulness of a food. the glycemic index (GI) of a food is indexed to a standard amount of carbohydrate mass (usually 50 g) from that food. GI captures the impact on blood glucose per gram of carbohydrate, but it certainly misses crucial aspects of sugar metabolism. For example, carrots have a high GI (above 70), but that's not a reason to stop eating carrots. You'd need to eat a huge amount of carrots to spike your blood sugar. Glycemic load is a more useful metric (https://www.diabetesselfmanagement.com/blog/glycemic-index-a...), but even that is beside the point when it comes to fructose and its deleterious health effects.

Fructose, being fructose and not glucose, of course has a low glycemic index, since GI is defined based on blood glucose.

Dr. Robert Lustig (UCSF pediatric endocrinologist) has devoted years of effort to communicating the disproportionate damage that fructose causes to human metabolism. In brief, fructose is processed along different metabolic paths than glucose, and is better than glucose at making people fat, diabetic, and metabolically unhealthy (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4592517/)

A top-level summary from 2013: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/21/fructo...

A very detailed lecture (video and transcript): https://robertlustig.com/fructose2/
Some people might just be built differently.

Take me, for example. Ever since I was a teen I have fasted until midday most days (for lack of time) and it significantly affects my cognition. I start feeling irritable at about 10am and unable to concentrate because of feelings of hunger, stomach grumbling, and slight shakiness.

I am a teacher now, and I can tell how my cognition is doing every morning depending on my performance in the classroom. I find that I often mumble and screw up my grammar while lecturing if I haven't had breakfast. I am not calm, but I would not say I feel "energized." I am clearly anxious. My anxiety gradually increases until I have lunch. Then I feel calm and with the ability to think.

It might be genetic. My grandmother was known to be unable to function without breakfast. My mother was the same way.
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We've banned this account. If you'd like to post according to guidelines you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I think they are talking about GDPR, but GDPR actually hurts smaller European companies more than it hurts big tech.
Well Terminal at least.
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Used pandoc for a couple presentations recently and while it's clear the experience will be wonderful eventually, it's still a bit buggy. There is no widescreen template included with Pandoc and attempts to use other templates caused me to encounter https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/5402 . The resulting .pptx files won't open in Keynote, either, but luckily they did open in Google Slides, which then let me download a visually-identical .pptx that opens everywhere. Point is, slide support in Pandoc is still somewhat new and people should not go in expecting a trouble-free experience at this point.
> In a way it will be survival of the fittest for trees.

What if the "fittest" trees end up being the ugliest or most allergy-triggering?

My point is if its run by humans, it probably won't really be survival of the "fittest".
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Seeing the size of the chrome on the old IE versions, particularly version 3 where they upgraded to the large buttons with help text, made me think about how nice it was to have the relatively plain content on the web at that time. The information density was high enough that the small space for the actual document was still enough for a decent experience. Even with those low screen resolutions, the amount of content on the screen was probably similar to that of many websites today with all their bloat.
Interesting but I wonder about the volume of submissions they will receive. Since the outcome is very vague in terms of potential business: "Ideas that meet the evaluation criteria of this call - in consultation with the proposers of the ideas - will be considered for the preparation of technology development activity proposals."

If you are in this line of work, I think people would rather spend their time to respond to an RFP.
Actually no, you're not. It's easier and more efficient to filter out pollution at a power plant than in each car.
All you really have to do is look at the current e-Tron and iPace efficiency numbers-- the Model X, which is a heavier vehicle with a smaller battery, goes farther.
> Crazy fintech innovation idea: how about just actually serving the customer's interests?

Most retail banking "customers" are more akin to a Facebook user. They're nothing more than an input that can be packaged up and sold to the real customer.
Should be flagged as a porn site
> C++ code is full of use after free problems.

Once upon a time, this statement may have been true, but it isn't any more. ASAN and Valgrind are widely available, and runtime test suites are much more prevalent than they used to be.
Weakrefs require “careful programming” i.e. knowing which ref must be a weakref.

By “cheating” I don’t mean “unsafe” but all kinds of pointers that aren’t just unique or borrowed such as different reference-counted pointers, the existence and use of which demonstrates that ownership+borrowing isn’t a complete memory-management technique. You need reference counting, therefore you need GC or careful programming.

Hopefully we discover some technology that makes these needs go away, but not so far AFAIK.
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I stopped using PayPal after they froze 600k on the Minecraft devs account nearly putting company out of business - you can't imagine the worse advertisement for your service
Actually, 11 is now in Beta. If you create a new instance it is listed as an option.
I could build a disaster-response version of my wish page https://wishpage.tv/places
People could place a request (or a wish) on the map, that request is public and visible. People at the location can pick up a request (e.g. to make a video or to fly a drone over a volcano). Other people can up-vote requests and even attach money to them (rewards for fulfillment).
> Linux on Chromebook laptops is not a dual-boot operation. You're running both operating systems simultaneously. That means, for example, you can do things like clicking on a document file via the Chrome OS file manager and open it with LibreOffice -- without even starting a Linux session.

Disappointed they agent just really good Linux laptops where we can wipe chromeOS off of.
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Just about any processor, Stripe included, stipulates they can withdraw from your account. And what if their systems are hacked, disclosing your account and routing numbers to an ill-intentioned third party?

You probably want this as a generic fail safe for any account that you disclose the account an routing number to an outside entity.
I'm not sure of the right path for monetization, but I am guessing, all the same, that their neglect of the OS X edition of Docker has hindered it. A decent number of Docker users are developing locally on OS X, even if they use another platform upstream. I doubt the "bugs and misfeatures being ignored for years on end" thing is making them particularly eager to just throw money at the company.
Blockchain != PoW. There are plenty of blockchains without the problems you described (like IBM's Hyperledger).
There's no evidence that rich are leaving CA in droves. If you like to show off your fancy stuff, there's more people to show it to in CA than TX. Mansions are for ego, not for practical use. If anything, the middle-class is shrinking because housing costs are so high. The homeless come for the weather, so CA is becoming rich or poor, and less middle.
You could buy a Threadripper-based desktop. Laptops aren't really built for CPU-heavy functions.
>most scientific discourse nowadays

I don't think it's right to call what you're describing "scientific discourse," it's more like "popular discourse."

>scientific thinking is difficult and not for everyone

There's no difference between scientific thinking and careful thinking. In fact the main strength of science is that anyone can eventually reproduce the conclusions, it's just that some people would take longer than others. If it was a priesthood of oracles who could, alone, speak to nature then you couldn't reasonably expect the non-oracles to believe any of it.
Even if 9 in 10 software engineers don't care, you only need one whistleblower.
Antimatter acts like regular matter in classic double-slit experiment
I've done this as well and I second it. I did a 5 day fast and treated myself to a massive breakfast on the 5th day. It was glorious and really reminded myself of not needing so much junk. I fast whenever I feel myself slipping. It's an amazing tool!

For these longer fasts, I just drink water and electrolytes.

If I ever get fat, I would fast my way to success honestly. If you do it right it seems healthy!
Ease of use for a very non-technical user.
Why not just... run linux... instead of running linux in a VM on Chrome OS?

(Or if you like having separate VMs for separate stuff, support Qubes?)

This is cool and a step in the right direction but I'd still prefer to Just Run Linux
Browsing through the screenshots of each version on this site, I was struck by how good the IE logo looked from the version 4 installer. I realized why when I got to version 10, released some 15 years later. The flat "modern" update to the logo is identical to the one from IE4, just with a lighter font weight.
This breaks the security benefits of Chromebooks. One of the advantages of Chromebooks is that hackers can't persuade naive users to download and run binaries.

Previously a company could issue Chromebooks to all employees and know that employees can't run arbitrary binaries on their Chromebooks.
Singapore passes new law to police fake news despite concerns
I've seen a few e-golf's charging on the streets in the past few weeks in Berlin. I assume these are pre-production models. Looks like a normal Golf aside from the charging port.

From my understanding, this is a big step for VW. However, short term, they will likely have range and production capacity issues, just like Tesla did not exactly hit the ground running. I would not be surprised if this is merely a stop gap solution until they get cheaper/better models out. Short term, Tesla could really make VW hurt by ramping up production and dropping price and competing with both their ICE and non ICE offerings.
keep in mind that the "official" docker images are "offical" in the sense of docker inc marking them as official, not in the sense of "the upstream provides these". This is the repo for the Dockerfiles https://github.com/docker-library/postgres and it begins with:

> This is the Git repo of the Docker "Official Image" for postgres (not to be confused with any official postgres image provided by postgres upstream)
All Chromebooks and Chrometops are already Linux laptops. You can install Crouton (easy chroot) and have an Ubuntu or whatever your favorite distro is in <15 minutes.
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Now I suppose we'll all need to get used to this "new" original version; not sure which one is best.
Are they really naming it after the MP3 tag format?
It also provides the strange incentive to optimize for glossy powerpoint presentation that communicates our core values to parents. Organizations which never had to have a marketing department finds themselves struggling without one.
I wished I had followed Joe's career closer while he was alive.

I first encountered Joe in this video - a wonderfully funny account of modern computing (from 2014)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKXe3HUG2l4
I'm not sure you know many accountants if you think they don't like drilling deep.
No, Rust is conflating memory safery and multithreading safety.

JVM state-of-the-art GC guarantees multithreaded memory safety.

AFAIK many wait-free data structures are pretty much impossible without a GC.
What's the difference between a high end Chromebook and, say, a MacBook Air? The latter of which is used by some (though certainly not most) technical professionals.
The DMCA had the safe harbor provisions, which the GP claimed were added in response to a court case. It's that court case that I'm interested in learning more about, because it sounds like the logic used in that case mirrors my own thoughts on the issue and I'm curious to see if that is the case.
I believe you're describing https://privacy.com/

Lets you generate new debit card numbers with hard limits on the amount the card can spend. I really like them for tracking repeating payments.
If the lifetime can be expressed with a state machine then it needn't be garbage collected so long as the language is sufficiently expressive.

Reference counting isn't garbage collection, as most people consider it. There is no need to sweep or otherwise traverse memory to discover objects that are not referenced.

Claiming that ref counting is gc is a bit like claiming malloc/free is gc.
Does not break security because of how Google implemented. It is also why MS has copied for WSL 2.
>Chrome OS has a full verified boot chain, starting from the BIOS, like a smartphone. You cannot tamper with Chrome OS or access user data without password even with physical access to the device. [emphasis added]

Ooooh interesting, I'd love to read more about this.

Does this logic apply to iOS as well? (Can't evil maid an iPhone due to verified BIOS?) What about macOS?
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Bridges and civil structures are permitted, with plans (and fees) filed with government offices. That's how licensing is enforced.

Imagine for a moment, a world in which every git commit requires a permit from the county planner.

Also: You will not get agreement on what the GAAP practices of software are. This industry isn't that mature.
That policy is solely for disputes.

So it only applies to chargebacks of transactions you've previously authorized, not for fraudulent unauthorized charges.

If I took an Uber (or attempted to take an Uber) and I had a dispute with them about payment = attempt to work it out with Uber first.

If I didn't take an Uber at all = contact bank.
As a US citizen, I was under the impression that I have to use my US passport when entering the US. Is that not the case everywhere?
A bank that suspected money laundering or suspicious activity would be expected to behave in exactly the same way. Any regulated entity would.
Security for one.
I switched over completely from Gmail earlier this year. Everything works the way I need it to, the only thing I wish I had was a "Block" button to get rid of spammers or companies that don't respect the unsubscribe button. I also don't understand why I have to 2FA every time I log in on my home computer. I wish it stayed logged in.

These are minor grievances, though. The interface is smooth and mail delivery thus far has been completely reliable.
> But in the modern US, while we still have outlets of that type, there is a very strong belief that they shouldn't count as "news", and that they are less legitimate than "neutral" journalism.

At least one of those outlets, in a court of law, by it's creator/owner/founder at the time, admitted that it was "entertainment" and not "news", but rather a channel that called itself "news" in name only, that its main purpose was orthogonal to its stated purpose.

This small tidbit of information is often forgotten about, because it is inconvenient to the narrative.

That doesn't mean that other outlets aren't doing the same, or have elements of it - but only one that we know of has admitted it under oath. That counts for something.

It also doesn't help that this "news" organization also has (or had, until its sale) a side actual entertainment arm that allowed it to hide behind. It was a curious "sleight of hand", all the more shadowy considering that the owner of the channel was not a citizen of the United States, and so not only could push his own views, but views that may be in direct contradiction to the values of our country.

Unfortunately, there are no laws against this - and I am honestly not sure there should be, for that matter.
>In Physics, it is almost impossible not to make use of History timelines for the sake of understanding the evolution of ideas. But that's that.

History is treated as an interesting pastime, there are a lot of physicists who enjoy it but understanding the "evolution of ideas" is not useful for work.
> I'm wondering what my quality of life would be relative to the US

What's your quality of life currently in U.S.?
"The original implication was that a group behind the scenes of large organizations was coordinating them—not that journalists might communicate and share ideas."

When complaining this is impossible or unlikely, you might want to google the term "Journo-list". It is a thing that is known to have happened, and the idea that one exists again today does not require too much suspension of disbelief, especially since much the same symptoms that made people suspect it at the time are fully visible in the news again. They were absolutely coordinating on stories and doing all the bad things that independent journolists aren't supposed to be doing.
Question for PG happy users.

How do you manage failover and replication? At my previous job this was done by a consultant. Is this doable on a self hosted setup?

Thank you in advance.
It kinda bugs me that people say "SQL Server" to mean "Microsoft SQL Server". I mean, there are other sql servers.
I am one. I've managed teams of them. And I've worked at a big 4 accounting firm.

Accountants look for evidence that supports management's claims. They do not ask "why."
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This happens a lot of time for tax evasion (not avoidance) purposes but people don't realize that if they leave CA/NY after negotiations to sell stock have begun,
they are still subject to tax on the sale in their original home states.
True. There's sort of a divide in this thread over two questions that are interesting in completely different ways. One is how deep a game MTG is in practice, and the other is whether it is an algorithmically solvable game (no). My take-away, other than it being really cool that it's Turing-Complete, is that any bot will need to accept that not all infinities it could get stuck in are even detectable and resort to heuristics at a certain point.
$7500 per core, but only $15,000 for two cores sounds like a sweet deal though.
Security. Linux and Android will still be sandboxed.
If you run the script described in this post[1] you can display the colors that your terminal is configured to use. Just because you've overridden foreground and background doesn't mean you've altered the other colors xterm uses by default.

[1] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=51818&p=1
And like most "security reasons" they just take away control from the user and give it to whoever implements that security.

Security against whom, i wonder. The narrative says, against malicious actors, but way more often than not, it ends up being security against the computer's owner.
Small disk space which converts to cheap hardware. It uses the cloud as a drive.
This is BS. It matters very much to me as a customer of a financial services provider what sort of company I am keeping.

For example, I don't want my bank to provide services to organised crime because I both feel that would be morally wrong and I think it'd open the bank's staff to influences that aren't in the best interests of other customers.

Also, your argument isn't with PayPal; it's with the entire FS industry.
> As they say internally: “we don’t make money by letting people have it back”.

I'm gonna need a source for that.