skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Ethics are irrelevant here.

First, ethics are not irrelevant. You may argue that ethics has been satisfied in a case, but that doesn't make it irrelevant.

> There's nothing unethical about ads. If you don't want to view ads in exchange for the content then you can pay for it or visit a different site.

I have two issues with this line of reasoning. First, it assumes that the issue is with the ads themselves, rather than the stalking being done. Second, it assumes that the content can be paid for (not always the case) and that other sites do not perform similar stalking of the users.
To All of You Who Moved Abroad – The Deeper Struggles of Living Far Away
Esports Pro Sues Gaming Organization over “Oppressive” Contract
The full story is actually (I think) more interesting than the headline suggests.

Really what we have here are two methods of calculating the age of the universe that disagree. And we are getting to a stage where the disagreement (or "tension") is fairly statistically significant (3 or 4 sigma if I remember correctly). But, if LambdaCDM is the correct model for the universe these two methods should give the same age and so the fact that they are different implies that there is more to the universe (new physics!) than LambdaCDM. This is very exciting (and imo much more exciting than a 10% change of the age of the universe)!

Of course, both sets of measurements are fantastically hard to make and so there is a chance that this disagreement is just a result of a systematic that hasn't been properly understood/controlled for... But people are starting to think this might be real.

Here's a readable summary of what's going on: https://astrobites.org/2016/08/22/the-trouble-with-h0/
A healthy capitalism is expressed by G K Chesterton, and is an argument against liberal capitalism,which even Thatcher did not support:

“Too much capitalism does not mean too many capitalists, but too few capitalists.”

Like anything, capitalism must be humanised with restraint and constraint, the application of intelligent regulations and actively fighting the private monopolist (Hayek, The Road to Serfdom). For example, to avoid race-to-the-bottom competition by mandating certain features as non-optional. Or for safety. Obvious stuff really. And not burdensome regulations to please a Media campaign or emotional blackmail from the Left.

Liberal capitalism, totally free market capitalism, ends with monopolies as beast eats beast. It's what Marx criticised though he made no distinction between capitalism and capitalism.

And this is what has happened, with monopolies so large that their power to blackmail and bribe is undermining government, threatening free speech and disenfranchising.
I have not had the opportunity to work with Google Glass - but I recall finding this article one of the best one on the subject the first time around (the last third or so deal with design issues like focal plane, hud etc) :

https://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/profiles/steve-mann-my-a...

Ed: as far as I can tell Google glass 2 fixes none of these, while ms holo lens appear to be more in line with many of the points made.
Likewise, looks in line with my experience at Google as well.
> Isn't that true though?

Not in the real world.

1. Like in any organization, the boss exploits the workers he doesn't like more than those he likes. Who he likes might be based a random factor like sense of humor/gender than ability.

2. People rarely drop out of phd programs (single digit percentage at most in my experience) because they don't want to fail. So, in actuality, the drop out rate difference exploitative advisors and good ones is too small to be significant.

3. Somewhat contrary to point 1., passionate students are usually better than uninspired students, and so passionate students usually have more leverage than the uninspired. They can switch advisors or schools - making the advisor look bad. In my experience the exploited ones are usually those who are in the bottom half of ability.

4. Its very difficult for advisors to "fire" a student usually. It reflects badly on them, and they usually have to go through a painful review process with the university to explain why the student was asked to leave. Therefore, advisors will usually treat horribly the students they don't like so they leave on their own accord.
I can't imagine this is more likely to actually delete the data on their end than just deleting your whole account.

However, I am really interested in learning more about Selenium so I'm curious to look at your project.
I remember there are arguments that motherhood is seen as unpaid work. I wonder if there is a connection here with that. There seems to be a stronger shift in the past ten years or so where mothers are increasingly called out on being a "bad mother". Is there some relation there with the cultural attitudes on exploiting passion?
These numbers are lower than I expected; if you have even a single competing offer from another respected tech company, the numbers are much much higher.

Also, once you stack the annual refreshers and a little bit of stock growth over a year or two, you could be making close what your L+1 peers are making as per the chart. This chart is a reasonable indicator of maybe the numbers on your offer letter but usually this increases substantially over time.

Source: I'm a Google employee.
> If you decide to browse the web without uBlock Origin or if you decide to use Android, you know what you're being exposed to.

This is just clearly and verifiably false for the vast majority of users who browse the internet.
Duh they get away with everything. Include politicians in the category.
Their default home screen has news by default if you choose their "informational" style. Which includes advertisements as part of Microsoft News.
> It's a recipe for disaster when shelter becomes an investment opportunity rather than a basic human need.

Why would this being an 'investment' interfere with its pricing anymore than if everyone had lived in these homes as shelter? You don't magically have the privilege of selling 'investments' for more than you bought it. Not trying to be facetious... just genuinely curious? If people are willing to pay that price, then that is the price it would have been, whether or not it was bought for investment or living, right?
I was (too subtly) making the point that perhaps it's the location and not kids-as-trophies per se. Possibly your experience in the 3rd richest zip code in the nation isn't generalizable to the rest of the world?
They're irrelevant because they're subjective. Feel whatever way you want but you don't have to participate if you don't want to.
I wonder how those numbers have changed now that the stock has lost 20% of its value.
Why? The candidates optimize to win the electoral college, not the popular vote. You have no idea what the results would have been if the goal was to win the popular vote.
Hmm, my mistake I stopped reading after I saw he said something false. Guess I should read the whole thing instead of dismissing something after I see a false statement.
GraphQL Resolver Arguments as Diff Lists
As stated in other comments, the part of an open-plan house that has rooms has the rooms where privacy and quiet are valuable. The part that is not divided is the social space. When engineers say they like open offices, I assume they prefer to be able to socialize (consult) with their nearby peers more than they prefer to have quiet. Those who prefer private offices prefer quiet and no interruptions. So all of this is consistent between homes and offices.
They're not joking. They're essentially reflowing the PCB connections.

It _is_ only a temporary fix, though.
> Occupational licensing only serves to raise barriers to entry and crowd out competition without raising quality. To put my opinion bluntly, Bernie Madoff had a license.

Almost every country in the world established at one point or another some kind of licensing for various professions. I think the barrier of "this is all bullshit" is a bit higher than one bad apple for something found to be a good idea by so many people.
Do you have some supporting arguments for your position?
Sorry, but your brain stays with the body when you pass on

Maybe you only get to bring your kindness
When you go to the library and check out a book, do they ask for money instead of PII?

A business is free to choose their compensation model. Your choice is to not engage if you don't want it, not to demand it for free regardless.
I think that giving unflattering nicknames to powerful entities is a long-standing tradition, and a valid act of protest and free expression. Of course it won't convince an opponent, and it may backfire as a rhetorical device, but I empathise with people wanting to use it.

Moreover, the term "System D" is somewhat synonymous with the term "black market", which Wikipedia defines as a: "series of transactions that has some aspect of illegality or is characterized by some form of noncompliant behavior with an institutional set of rules."

That is a surprisingly good analogy for how systemd acts on a machine, but there is another analogy to a similarly worded term: "Substance D", from the novel "A Scanner Darkly". In the novel, it is described as an addictive psychoactive drug, also known as "Slow Death". Credit for that comparison goes to this foundational criticism of systemd:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/8/12/459
I'm so glad Facebook wasn't around when I was a teenager...
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I hope this helps
Most of these numbers seem to lifted off of what employees are promised on their offer letter so I doubt the appreciation is already baked in.
And no money to do it. Did you see the results of their last attempted funding raise?

Once again acting like something likely far fetched is right around the corner, because Elon said so. When the money for nothing dries up, we will see what these businesses look like.
Yeah - it's amazing how poorly the history of the end of the war in the Pacific has been told. The lesson is fairly different once you learn the reality.

Also, a fantastic link that you shared!
#1 on Product Hunt in July 2018, but still in beta?

Also, I’d rather know up front if a project is unsupported on mobile, not after trying to login
systemd errs on the safe side and thus it tries really hard to shut things down safely vs just yanking the plug. The timeouts are easily configurable if that's a problem for you, but I'd argue that if services hang too often for you, there's an underlying problem with your system somewhere, (i.e. your mounts or such, I'd consult journald for dependency cycles).
this might not be quite what you're looking for, but the Calling Bullshit site/course [0] is pretty great. It's not about reading body language, but instead about finding issues in arguments as laid out in the media, scientific literate, and elsewhere. Really, really excellent examples, including some very recent ones.

[0] https://www.callingbullshit.org/
They are not dependent on stock appreciation (unlike most startup offers, who during the negotiation stage try to sell you their stock options at an implied valuation 10-100X from the current one), the RSUs are granted at the price of your joining date.

If/when the stock later crashes, typically the company is going to issue generous refreshers to good performers to bring them in line with their original grant amount (source: several friends who worked at FB during the stock crash of last year), whereas when the stock skyrockets your compensation skyrockets as well because your RSU grant price is locked in at your offer/refresher date, like a reverse mortgage (source: myself).
Lot of comments are saying confidence, not overconfidence. Very different things. Confidence is great, in both you and others you are "entrusting" somehow. The problem is lack of competence.

What is the definition of overconfidence. I'd argue being less competent than your confidence warrants. Where as if you're competent then being confident is "correct". The difference is whether someone is competent or not. Not if they are confident or not.

The problem is not confidence. It's peoples in ability to gauge competence / using confidence as an indicator of competence. Which is what the OA says, but many comments here are diverging from that and going off on tangents about confidence.
I remember talking to my fundamentalist Christian friend in high school who literally said his last goodbyes to his friends. The next time I saw him was awkward.
I've lived in a fairly wide range of housing (although all in the US) over the years, with a wide range of kitchen layouts. I've never lived in (nor come to think of it can I recall ever encountering) a kitchen with a door.
it's not just the smell. smoke from cooking is a leading cause of lung irritants in the home. always try to exhaust it if possible (filtering is a distant second in effectiveness, apparently).
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> I wanted easy privacy

> Uber [..] Grindr

Can I just comment how contradictory this is? I understand "privacy" means different things to people, but when used like this it's diluted to an arbitrary buzzword. What I mean is:

Grindr Shares Personal Information With Third-Parties: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16735956

Uber pulls U-turn on controversial tracking of users after trip has ended: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/aug/29/uber-u-tu...

Uber has user route history, payment history, etc, and law enforcement is readily utilizing this data, e.g. in the recent Jussie Smollet fiasco, in cases. Even if you're not worried about that, Uber had a massive data breach, which they were investigated for and fined.
They say there is the ability to opt out, i wish the US Government would pass a bill that everything is opt out by default (for the US of course). This is not just for this article but for all data gathering devices/software in general. I found with helping non tech friends that most things they buy rely on them not knowing or understanding the "send back to the mothership" option.

Just like my firewall, first statement DENY ALL.
We're already seeing filming-in-public laws tightening up thanks to things like creep-shots.

Laws take a long time to be revised. By and large, our public photography laws are still based in a time when most photos would become a negative which sat in a box for 30 years and then got thrown out.

I hope that we will see better progress in the area of rights of insignificance and the quiet enjoyment of ones life before we reach that point.

If we don't, it'll be a bumpy ride until the law catches up.
All of this pales in comparison to the coming devastation of climate change and the global pollution crisis, which actually should be included in that 90's list as well - and the 80's, and 70's...
You can probably find the same soluble support Stratsys uses the price is just going to be bonkers like all their materials.

I just print with normal support structures but E3D soluble support is supposedly very good (but very expensive like $280 for 5 lbs.).

So I’m not going to spend that much money I rather print something that would print with minimal supports and just cut them off.

Yeah Stratsys doesn’t care about the final quality of your benchy but it will work every time and their integration along the entire toolchain is excellent including the design phase which means your CAD is going to be aware of the dimensionality impact of the printing as well as other constraints like support material placement.
I suspect this is the case as well.

All the big companies are doing immutable, append-only event logging and probably have no mechanism to expunge this data. All because storage is cheap and they need to hold on to everything for testing or whatever future need that might arise.

What a pitiful dystopia we're living in.
The problem with software is that, for almost all software, the only specification for what it is supposed to do is discovered as the software is written. Nobody knows all the data, the data semantics, its dependencies, what output is really required and how that it to be computed from that data. Virtually all cases, and certainly all software I've ever been involved with, all this is discovered on the fly during the development effort. We even encode this into our processes, after all one of the main reason agile and similar processes exist is the understanding that we need to iterate to discover what the spec should be.

If a full specification is truly known up front and validated, then building software that works correctly to that specification is a well understood problem with well understood processes (sure, much more time consuming and expensive than regular software engineering, but that is a different category of issue)

But look at the Boeing 737-Max8 problem: the issue doesn't appear to have been the implementation of the software, the problem seems to have been that the specification itself was poorly constructed for business reasons. And now software gets the blame? Sigh.
I'm sure saving up 2k to go to Spain one summer is really going to put a dent on a home. 5% down on the median home in my area is 30k now.
Similar, but OT: does anyone know of a script that will delete your tweets from before X date? There's tools that bulk delete, but I want to delete from before a certain date.
I'm mostly suggesting that the word "scraped" is not being used correctly. If they used an API security flaw to access all of the private data then I wouldn't consider that scraping how the term is traditionally used.
Somebody hire this genius at $300k/yr immediately
Do you have links to example 3D UIs that you're talking about?
Are you talking about Corbyn? The guy with broad support despite an unremitting smear campaign from every single corner of the media from The Grauniad to the Beeb, never mind the tabloids? The guy who has been astonishingly effective standing up to the Maybots and revitalised Labour?

I'm very curious what poll you're referring to there that has him after "don't know".
Somerville is already one of the most densely-populated places in the United States (16th most densely populated city in the nation as per the 2010 census--6th most that isn't part of the NYC metro area) and I'm enthusiastically in favor of that increasing with additional building. Keeping in mind that new construction necessarily overwhelmingly favors high-end construction I'm also in favor of increased proportions of affordable housing, as well as rent control ordinances to help keep people in their homes. And I say that as a soon-to-be rental property manager and owner, too; these are things that would be skin off my nose in the near future.

So that's a pretty weak strawman--and, tbh, I've seen your posts before, I thought about ignoring you because I get a troll whiff out of them. But I will also push on the real question behind it, because there is the germ of something useful there. I believe that a society should openly welcome people who are not members of the majority, should emphasize that its public administration be mindful that it operates for its constituents, and where, when citizens need help, they can get help. The place where I live is not perfect, but there is a drive to adhere to such principles.

It is not impossible to find that elsewhere. It is unlikely to be found elsewhere that also doesn't involve disconnecting from my personal social networks and also doesn't require a car to commute.
If you don't mind me asking, how much did you negotiate?
That only works if it's not market wide. Good luck getting option/rsu refreshes in a general tech recession.
The only other types of companies that basically print money like web tech companies do are in the finance sector (hedge funds, investment banks). That compensation is not out of line with what front office professionals at those companies make. ($230k is significantly higher than finance for an entry level job, but $400k for someone with 5+ years of experience is significantly lower, so on the whole it seems to be pretty comparable.)
Oh yeah, it's minor for sure. Personally, I believe it's more of a "being wealthy means you do better on IQ tests" effect than "IQ measures how much money you will make."

I was mainly getting that point out of the way so the poster I was replying to wouldn't get hung up on my evil liberal agenda.
That’s widely quoted but turns out to be incorrect.

https://twitter.com/jmhorp/status/1125468274995675138
Three weeks pretty much mean the lions share of the box office take is in already.
> verifying the safety of non-trivial software is NP-Hard.

While true, this depends very much on the design (or lack thereof) of the software system. Many of our software systems are more complex than necessary because they weren't designed or the designs weren't considered carefully enough. When the software is allowed to grow and accumulate masses of code virtually unchecked, it becomes computationally intractable to continue to verify the system.

Much of the software involved in aircraft, specifically, can be reduced to very simple designs and implementations where the necessary safety analysis is feasible.

The present complexity is often in the accumulation of legacy defects and corrections (fixing the right problem in the wrong place) or trying to fix hardware problems with software. I'm not 100% pro-rewrite, but many avionics software groups (that I've encountered) refuse any rewrites on certification grounds but end up with something unbearably complex as a result (simulating hardware databuses from the 1980s in software on a 1 GHz processor when the system was initially targetting a 16 MHz processor).
While that would be amusing for sure, systemd's pid 1 is actually single threaded.
Super cool on iPad

It can track 10 fingers at once did not even know the iPad could do that.
> Microsoft decides to use Blink instead of the browser engine they already had.

The stated goal of the EdgeHTML rewrite was to "be fully compatible with the WebKit layout engine used by Safari, Chrome and other browsers. Microsoft has stated that "any Edge–WebKit differences are bugs that we’re interested in fixing."" [1] It seems the hardest way of doing this is black-boxing WebKit and making a parallel implementation.

What's going on here is that browser rendering is being commoditized. Just like OpenSSL, or Clang, it doesn't necessarily make sense to implement these on your own anymore, there's no clear business reason. There is little to be gained from having a better flex-box implementation, but lots to be lost by having a worse one than the dominant browser. Using Chrome's source disarms this problem.

> "Download Chrome because it's a better and faster browser!" It doesn't have to be true, people believe it anyway.

I mean, maybe... that's not what's won every previous iteration of the browser wars. Its been either through exploiting an existing monopoly (IE, Safari on iOS) or merit (FireFox). Sure, doesn't have to go that way now, but I don't know why we assume that people are going to be moved by "Chrome is faster!" advertising on something that most people prefer not to care about probably.

> "Download Chrome because Edge doesn't support Youtube!" They totally didn't intentionally break Edge.

They can do this regardless of the engine Microsoft chooses to use. If anything, using Chrome makes it more blatant that they're purposely doing it since there's no plausible deniability that its a weird rendering bug in Edge's code. So this seems neither here nor there, if any Edge with any engine got popular then they could choose to go this route and then maybe we'd have an antitrust case on our hands. Unless the argument is "Microsoft should stop making browsers altogether", not sure what the point of this is (maybe that is the thing that is being proposed?).

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Edge#EdgeHTML