skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I don't see anything in the Facebook privacy policy that I wouldn't expect a high school student to be able to comprehend.

I think, vocabulary wise, yes. High school students should be able to read each word.

The problem is context and impact. Can the reader not only read the words, but understand them in the context of the entire document as well as in the context of their usage?

For example:

>"[...]we collect information from and about the computers, phones, connected TVs and other web-connected devices you use that integrate with our Products, and we combine this information across different devices that you use."

The words are easy to read. The meaning, however, is not. Most people don't take the time to learn how severe of an impact aggregating data has. It seems harmless to share two pieces of non-PII, until you learn that two pieces of non-PII may become PII when aggregated.

The test by Lexile claims to measure complexity, not just the legibility. However, I haven't looked into the test that much and don't have an opinion on its accuracy. That said, I don't think the average person can _understand_ the documents, even if they can read the words - which is the same conclusion reached in the parent article:

>"Even policies that are shorter and easier to read can be impenetrable, given the amount of background knowledge required to understand how things like cookies and IP addresses play a role in data collection."
So can SGX (under certain circumstances). So can your hard disk, your NIC, and probably your firmware via DMI.
Yeah, when it comes to cross platform stuff I'm pretty forgiving with this sort of thing. Finder botching it sends me up a wall though. It's probably only a few lines of code at most to fix it, but Finder is closed source so I can't investigate it myself, let alone fix it, let alone send my fix upstream.

(And frankly I'm hesitant to even report it as a bug, since for all I know Apple will decide that NFS/symlinks getting thumbnailed in the dock preview is the real bug, and "fix" that leaving me worse off than before.)

Edit: Also sort-by-kind also fails in Finder when symlinks are involved. When "keep folders on top" is set, symlinks will still sometimes (but not always) appear above folders.
Japan plans new driver's license system for elderly as accidents surge
From a different point of view, I don't see using PR to have lower fees very ethical. It looks to me like "lower our fees, or we are gonna trash you in our PR, and you know we have a good reputation".
Intervention and interning street addicts in rehab centers is a very effective program for Rhode Island. They prosecute drug crimes and misdemeanors, and offer a choice between prison or rehab. Many people who go through the program say it saved their life.

West coast states have similar alternative drug courts and rehab available, but they are underutilized, because there is no prosecution in the regular court system and therefore no incentive.
Yes. Hence the 'death by a thousand cuts'. We couldn't fight every battle. We lost.
I've been thinking about having a service that lets someone else randomize the location of your phone. That was the primary goal and it evolved to food delivery couriers having additional services where they charge people's phones in a lockbox while they run around all day.

Result: Many people's location is erroneous data. No single person's use of the service is suspicious and merely reflecting a societal sentiment for privacy. Maybe some of the charging is done with renewable energy.
because using that service is entirely optional.

Countless posts have been made by site operators who needed to adopt AMP to remain competitive in google search results.
Absence of evidence for free will can be another illusion. If one does not believe in free will, the discussion about justice system is pointless. In this case judges and this discussion are just parts of the puppet show and follow the same script.

As with gods the free will is matter of belief and cannot be proved or disproved.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-corruption_campaign_under...
Sting operations are not entrapment.

Entrapment requires coercion by the police to push you into something you wouldn't have otherwise done.

Selling drugs to an undercover cop? Not entrapment.

Selling drugs to an undercover cop because they said they'd kill your family if you don't get them some drugs? Entrapment.
What about google takeout - https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout
Just gonna leave this here:

https://xkcd.com/1217/
Is there police from mainland China or are they local to HK? Would they always side with mainland interests?
Why does software update? We want to have it become better and the summation of your comment is imposing a nihilistic view that nothing needs to change if it's all fated to happen. That's contrary to how humans strive for increasing the quality of life and making the system better even if it's fated to happen. I'm trying to express my view as a needed piece in the destiny of humankind like any other person.
Accountable? What has this done to the Chinese government? They do not give half a fuck most likely. They've crushed bigger revolts, with more of the world's eyeballs watching. Social media just makes it easier to build this crowd. Sadly, that just provides a bigger crowd to crush.
#3 you forgot India, Bhutan and Japan
The russians would be very happy to help probably.
Happy teen yes, but we set drinking ages for a reason. Teenage alcoholism is an evil that we rightly should fight against. When a kid is trying to decide what they want to buy, Strongbow should not be the cheaper option than diet coke.
yeah that's what i did. inputs also help a bit with code reuse, imho.
I didn't mean to suggest that law enforcement is outside its typical role, just that it is outside its legitimate role if it were behaving in a way, as dewaine suggests, of blindly enforcing a law for that law's sake.

This action doesn't appear to actually enforce any law, only to create acrimony and violence in communities where some people choose to violate it.
Might this be an indirect hit against Trump' tariffs by the Chinese Govt?
To mimic your use case, I went through a trial run and it does let you enter a non US billing address (Australia was a drop down).
The Standard Joint Unit
Give a closed source app my bank credentials? No thanks.
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I think the company's own website is much more readable than this cnbc report. https://www.indigoag.com/the-terraton-initiative
Audiobook streaming has become a standard service of local libraries.
It doesn’t matter if it’s okay. I just brought it up because some guy was making the silly claim that his only option was to bow to standards set by google.

I don’t think google should be in charge of that, especially if they use search results as a way to force adoption.
They are not banned in the U.S.:

As of January 2017, many brands of magnet spheres including Zen Magnets have resumed the sale of small neodymium magnet spheres following a successful appeal by Zen Magnets in the Tenth Circuit US Court of Appeals which vacated the 2012 CPSC regulation banning these products and thereby rendered the sale of small neodymium magnets once again legal in the United States. It was the CPSC's first such loss in more than 30 years.
iCloud for Windows was recently revamped after collaboration between Apple and Microsoft [0].

[0] - https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204283
Ok, thanks for the info.
> copmetent

Thought this was a typo at first, but given the context maybe the spelling was intentional and humorous!
But you need some strong incentive structure to not start doing heroin in the first place. For most, that's the knowledge that heroin is going to invariably screw you over in the long term. Not to mention the long-term medical side effects of heroin usage...
The decision to let the arms keep flowing and to let SA to get away with a particularly vicious murder appeared to be made on camera by Trump during the Khashoggi saga. The episode was very depressing to watch.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/10/trumps-not-gonna-let...
The whole Kinder Surprise ban is insane. They're clearly labeled as containing small parts so are not suitable for toddlers. I'm a parent of a toddler and you have to have eagle eyes - they'll put anything they can find in their mouths.

If it's not toys then it's stones they pick up from the ground outside. Or coins, or nuts, or dried pasta or one of a million other things.

The one design improvement they made was the eggs - with the old design the egg came apart and as a teenager I used to put them in my mouth. In the new design the egg is one unit so that risk is removed.
http://archive.is/0lnMW
Mary Meeker’s 2019 internet trends report – Code 2019
Yeah +1 that this becomes more of a thing based on name alone.

You might need to explicitly state in company policy that:

- Crossbows not allowed at board meetings.
It seems surprising that the laser has such selective activity on CTCs versus healthy cells. Why are these cells so much more absorbtive? Is this specific to melanoma CTCs (more pigment)?

I also wonder how they did this measurement. Seems like you'd need to take pre- and post-laser measurements of healthy and CTC counts in the bloodstream to have high confidence that it is disproportionately damaging CTCs. To what extent does this damage healthy cells?
inoreader is pretty good. Free plan has 150 feeds, and $20/yr for the cheapest paid plan.
Is it hard to integrate a (HA) hardware load-balancer in front instead?
Devil's advocate- just because the violence is not visible doesn't mean it doesn't happen. It's just pushed out of sight. The increased ease of acquiring drugs is probably pretty strongly correlated to stronger cartels elsewhere.

I think the real solution is legalization of most drugs but until then I see no issue with these tactics.
Docker and Kubernetes are the new NoSQL. Just give it two or three years.
I have a hard time feeling bad for "professionals" that haven't realized that apple products are and have been a scam for about 20 years now.

There was a small period in time where power macs were good workstations.

Now they sell 6000 dollar cheesgraters and i9 laptops that throttle to a lower speed than their i7 models, with soldered on memory and storage.

Steve jobs may have been a bit greedy, but ol Tim has brought things to an extreme. It's pretty bad when your brainwashed userbase starts ditching macbooks for thinkpads.
Oculus Quest likely sold low 6 figures of units in first 2 weeks of launch
nope.. Only local HK police.
From what I’ve read in British sources, there are persistent rumors about this but it’s all officially denied.
Have they started crushing anyone with tanks yet?

I think you are being hyperbolic and ignoring the impact of the entire world watching these protests in real time vs a couple of journalists taking candid photos from hotel rooms and calling in to their home offices.
Not really, otherwise they wouldn't bother doing background checks for security clearances. Some of them are extensive. They interview your friends.
Local HK police.

>Would they always side with mainland interests?

It's not as if HK has means to resist the PLA, so...more than likely, yes.
You're imposing a nihilistic view upon me. I'm proposing we don't ignore the evidence and make an antiquated system be designed properly.
You forgot the /s

Or Are you not aware that the monarchy is already Islamic, of the kind least tolerant towards personal freedoms?
> Alexander wept when he heard Anaxarchus discourse about an infinite number of worlds, and when his friends inquired what ailed him, "Is it not worthy of tears," he said, "that, when the number of worlds is infinite, we have not yet become lords of a single one?"

(Plutarch)

(But as far as we know he did think he was great. "Only sex and sleep make me remember I am mortal", "If I were not Alexander I would wish to be Diogenes", and so many other lines suggest he thought he was awesome, note those quotes are my paraphrasing.)
How did the HK government get stacked that way, though - does the CCP formally pick out candidates, or is there something else going on?
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14986324
No! More of the same.. but better!
TL;DR the EU basically uses a whitelist and the US basically uses a blacklist

Of course the EU bans more stuff and the US allows more, those are the default actions of the respective systems!
I don't see any information about the source code... No mention of Open source on the website.
No. Web Request will be accessible via Enterprise Group Policy, but ordinary extensions installed by individual users won't be allowed to use Web Request to monitor all web traffic.
> What exactly are they going to do?

Nothing. As you said, the UN is toothless.

What having an agreement lodged with the UN does is properly escalate this into an international issue. That makes it easier for governments to react. Those reactions could be harshly-worded statements, diplomatic mediation or even the threat of sanctions.
Uber, Lyft Executives Urge California Compromise on Driver Pay
What a boneheaded policy. It's all the bad parts of drug prohibition and none of the good ones. All the crime and violence associated with drug trafficking will still exist, but now there's no disincentive for people to do drugs so more people will become addicts. Asinine.
Links are legit. Updated. Didn’t mean to be rude
identical submission posted 19 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20160335
The law enforcement are vastly overselling their capabilities and impact here.

These dark-net markets are already rife with FUD from scammers, and the LE accounts spreading it are painfully obvious to the communities that they exist in.
> Justice isn't a pick and choose kind of thing.

Not all laws are just. Not all application of law is just, though it may be lawful. The Constitution even has an escape hatch built in: the presidential pardon. The framers were quite aware that sometimes the law is not just- otherwise, why allow unilateral pardons?

Sodomy laws were only overturned nationally in 2003. Was everyone involved in consensual buggery before then "hypocritical" for being "upset at politicians like our president and congress for breaking laws"?

as a practical matter civil disobedience is a pretty fundamental part of how democracies function. I don't think darkweb markets are civil disobedience! but there are many, many worse things than hypocrisy.

Hypocrisy is another thing that is a fundamental part of how democracies function. Without hypocrisy you can't really have a free society.
The world watched ukraine be split in half. The world IS watching the uyghur population in china being enslaved. The world's been doing an awful lot of watching lately...not much acting.

What can the world do? Military action against china? Insane. More trade sanctions? what what will we wear and where will we get batteries and plastics?
Phoronix is a good place to go for compilation benchmarks - https://github.com/phoronix-test-suite/phoronix-test-suite
Right. I agree that it should improve public transport and infrastructure. But it hasn’t in the Bay Area. We vote for propositions and bond measures every election cycle only for the state to disappoint us again and again. The end result is high density without community benefits and infrastructure improvements.

Case in point, I can’t go out to get a bottle of milk between 2.00-7.00 because of traffic. People are cutting through residential roads due to traffic apps diverting them away from freeways which are clogged anyways. There are no shops within a mile of most homes. There are shopping hubs and then there are residential developments. Due to greed, Bay Area cities (ABAG is the name of the org) has zoned everything residential and there are no shops, no green spaces, no parks..no parking and no public transport! Just homes and homes and more high density homes to extract as much property taxes as possible. So these are not even affordable homes but expensive million dollar homes. These tax dollars go to improve other areas in California that is not as well off as Bay Area. Hence the awfulness of our region.

You’d think as a cash cow we would get some benefits for shouldering the economy of this state massively, but no...we are just a place where Sacramento can milk and milk and milk more for taxes. You’d think they’d improve other parts of California.

So obviously something is off..if this is a repeating pattern, then perhaps we must correct our assumptions about the benefits of high density vis a vis sustainability and quality of life. The data doesn’t deliver the promised benefits.

In the Bay Area, we don’t have low density sprawl. We have high to medium density already and most land is built out. We have a public transportation problem with both intra and inter city gridlocks.

The solution is to build outside and developing the public transport system to connect the hubs in the state. They have already wasted millions and millions on this with no impact except creating unsupported high density dwellings leading to more traffic woes.

Fifty years is ridiculous. Most of us won’t be alive and our children would already be burdened with debt before they are born. In China, roads and bridges and homes are built in months. Not even years. Here the bureaucracy of big govt makes any project going like one is rowing a boat through a creek of molasses.

So how do we fix this? Certainly not by handing over more tax dollars to Sacramento every time they come up with another hare brained scheme.

I mean..even this post here..check the article. They only know that they need 100 billion. No plan. No ideas as to how to collect it. No way for us to perform due diligence.

Fool me once etc.
I wouldn't view things as hopeless & useless until people completely abandon reason and rational for progressing the system of society. Determinism doesn't make me feel hopeless or useless because I can see faults in a system that's antiquated by an incorrect belief.
I've been using newsblur as well (unlimited as well), but only on my phone. From an iphone to a pixel it's been fine and dandy. There was a problem with dark mode page viewing messing up light view, but it was fixed fairly quickly. I kept an eye on the issue at github. They're good people.
Delta workers seeking to unionize say they are 'under siege' by management
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/27/us/marijuana-california-l...

First search result in Google. Black market for pot growing in CA at the expense of the legalized market.

The violence in the 1930s WAS caused by the prohibition, sure it had lasting effects but ending prohibition was still the right move.

No, the violence was caused by criminals funded themselves primarily by breaking prohibition laws. If violence was caused by prohibition, Utah would have been the most violent state in the nation for most of its history, since prohibition was the law in most of Utah for most of its history. It still is the law in parts of Utah.
> and there's nothing the population or the Brits can do about it.

Do you see this attitude reflected in the other protestors you've met there?
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> My ISP could most certainly sell me a guaranteed minimum speed on their portion of the network at all times of day!

I feel like this is stretching the definition of 'could' a bit, it's not like the residential arm of most ISPs are equipped to just flip a switch and give you a dedicated connection but yes, it is technically possible. It's also ludicrously expensive, a 100M dedicated point-to-point connection in my area costs about $1k/mo. and you have to foot the bill to dig the trenches and get the wire to your building. Should be noted that this doesn't include the costs to access the wider internet.

My point still stands though, minimum bandwidth guarantees aren't really possible on shared systems.

I'm more than happy to make ISPs change their wording but when it comes to residential internet "X Mbps" has never not meant "Best Effort capped at X Mbps." Regardless, changing how ISPs advertise themselves suddenly won't change the reality of this class of internet. Among this group of people that already know how it works and don't need the pamphlet the advertising doesn't really matter -- it's not like it will suddenly cause ISPs to change how their network is run.

> No, that would be analogous to the electric utility charging you more if you're using the TV vs the dishwasher.

I feel like the mistake here is making it sound like the person who's consuming the video content is the only party that matters. Presumably you're okay with your water company charging more for industrial use. But here's the thing, the factory is only using all that water because consumers want to buy the products made at the factory. And by charging more to the factory they're essentially charging more to consumers for using water for that specific purpose.

A good analogy for video content would be PCB manufacturing (especially since it uses a lot of water). In this case consumers are buying their made-to-order boards on-demand and their purchase directly triggers the water usage required. Yet the PCB manufacturer (and you by proxy) are still charged the industrial rate.

The same with video content, just because you as a consumer request the video doesn't make the company delivering it not a different class of customer, a high-volume bulk-sender.
Bunch of punks - Caesar cried at Alexander's grave too.

Still, to me, Alexander's father was the man who made Alexander, so he was greater. (I don't mean by birth, the army and previous conquests)
This was an in vivo experiment.
Since copyright is first and foremost intended to be a mechanism to enrich the long-term public good, I'd argue that a rightsholder's short-sighted intent to control their work is outweighed by the public good done through archiving and preserving a work.

Copyright was never intended to give authors ironclad control over their works in perpetuity. It was intended to give a limited period of exclusivity, in return for the expectation that the work would always become public property. Eternal copyright upsets that balance, and shackles public culture behind bars.