skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The main "practical" reason is your personal security. Despite anonymization, the kind of data collected by these companies is generally enough to identify you easily. A bad actor at that company could do you quite a bit of harm. So could a politically hostile government, if it demands the company hand its data over.

And with the exception of HIPAA-controlled medical data in the USA, the company that collected the data is free to do anything it wants. It can resell the data, or store it in 10 places and never delete it. This means the window of risk for your data being compromised and used against you extends far into the future.

There is also the general belief that, if any of this data collection and tracking we're done off-line it would be considered terrifyingly creepy.

So even if you have "nothing to hide", as many of us don't, it's not necessarily about protecting what you have right now. It's basically saying that people have a right to some amount of basic privacy, if only to protect their individual personal freedoms and security. Therefore we should take a principled stand against unmanaged black-box data collection at all times, in the same way that people in the USA try to defend their rights to free speech and press even if it does not necessarily affect them in daily life.

So it's about protecting your personal security now and into the future, as well as taking a principled stand on something that should be considered an individual right.

Edit: in this particular case they are interested in knowing how and why you saw some search results or some advertisement as a result of whatever algorithms are being run on your data. This is probably in response to increasing news coverage of people being unduly influenced by various search and advertising algorithms out there on the Internet. Personally I don't know if I care specifically about the algorithms, I just care what data has been collected, where it is being kept, and how I can have it deleted or not have it be kept in the first place.
Since others may be curious, what the UK received under the Marshall Plan looks to be about 3x what they paid back under Lend-Lease. (Which in turn was maybe 10% of the cost of what was shipped.)
“Seeing is believing” really doesn’t make any sense in the modern world. And facts don’t exist in a vacuum, they are presented with a specific narrative, some are just omitted, some are plain lies (China bringing joy to Tibet population by providing better food, really?).
Google is the worst at privacy. Even when Apple or any other company fucks up it's always worth noting that, maybe it dents their undeserved reputation even more.
A very interesting read. Propaganda seems to be constructed similarly using the communication tools of the day. The patterns are very similar.
The hellish e-waste graveyards where computers are mined for metal (2018)
>> Jesus would have registered as "Jesus Bin Yoseph" to get a passport or an Amazon Prime account. His (hypothetical) children would have "Bin Jesus" as their family names.

More precisely, "Yeshua Bin Yoseph" and "Bin Yeshua" for his kids.

"Yeshua Bin Yoseph" most likely being an actual name of at least one individual living today (somebody from Israel).
Don't impose your preferences on other people. Personally I think having to commute an hour to and from work sounds horrible, as does the idea of living in a suburb with barely any restaurants or people around compared to the city centre. I can't be the only one who would happily trade reduced living space for reduced commute and a more urban location. Different people care about different things.
In our societies obsession with punishment as a means of dealing with wrongdoing it is easier to justify punishing a man than a teenager, so I think we subconciously prefer to frame it that way to justify wanting to enact punishment.
Google News is completely irrelevant, comparing to Facebook. Particularly for news.
> A ubnt edgerouter-x is good for up to about 800Mbps of NAT and runs an os derived from Debian and vyatta. Or something like a mikrotik rb4011.

Personally, I was thinking to configure network with ER-X for myself, but I quickly started to reconsider to take ER-4/ER-6 or Omnia, which seems to be few magnitudes better. Omnia is great SOHO router, it has better transfer over the air (5GHz on Turris it's between 900-950 [0]) than ER-X in eth-eth (700-800 [1]). If you aren't scarred of having a all-in-one device[6], then it might a great choice if you would like more possibilities, e.g. to setup few more services directly on Turris (i.e. PiHole, Syncthing) with mSATA disk, instead of using RaspberryPi with SD card (:scream:) for this purpose. In terms of pricing (for EU customers) pricing does not sound that bad (if you also looking to have a WLAN network), because ubnt ER-4/RaspberryPi 3B+/UAP Lite (note, it's slower MIMO 2x2) [2][3][4] is about 260+ pounds, for Omnia 270+ pounds.

[0]: https://bluegadgettooth.com/best-openwrt-router/

[1]: https://www.mbreviews.com/ubiquiti-edgerouter-x-review/

[2]: https://skinflint.co.uk/ubiquiti-edgerouter-4-er-4-a1749252.... (~160)

[3]: https://skinflint.co.uk/raspberry-pi-3-model-b-a1785657.html (~30)

[4]: https://skinflint.co.uk/ubiquiti-unifi-ap-ac-lite-uap-ac-lit... (~70)

[5]: https://skinflint.co.uk/turris-omnia-2gb-a1520592.html (~270)

[6]: I have heard following rule of thumb, that networks should be organized to have dedicated devices per given resposibility instead of having such router-switch-nas-godzillas, because of easier replacement in case of failure, maintenance, etc. etc. (just like in microservices architecture).
Claiming your $125 from Equifax is a “moral duty”
System Preferences->Keyboard->Modifiers

You can swap Control to Espace there (probably the same place you mapped Caps to Control???)
I don't exactly agree with this. Solutions like that can be optimal under certain assumptions.

In my mind, there are two ways to write software.

One way, represented by traditional product shipped to customers (think Microsoft Excel), is writing software in such a way you can show it works correctly under all possible circumstances. You need to write every piece of this software to be resilient to changes in environment and always do the right thing no matter what. Writing software like that takes care and is very expensive.

Another way, represented by typical business application written for use by the same company, is writing software to work in only very narrow possible set of circumstances. You demonstrate that it works and you ship it. Do you need it to work on all possible OS-es? Hell, no, you have an image and it works on it, it is enough. You insulate yourself from outside interference as much as possible, docker images, tightly controlled network environment, dependencies, only single supported integration architecture, etc.

The second way is the way to go when building "enterprise" software for internal consumption. You need to understand what you are doing. You need to understand why you are doing. If you are doing it correctly it will always be cheaper and better than investing in "perfect" solution.
"my partner has Alexa set up to turn lights on and off"

Do you really need the help of a megacorp to turn lights on and off?
Seems like a great way to have zero privacy whatsoever for something that adds very little convenience to your life, if it even works correctly.

The whole thing just grosses me out. It's sad that the big companies are pushing this as their newest "innovation".
Maybe in 20 years. As usage of electric cars is still ramping up, demand for new batteries is going to outstrip supply of old batteries by far. And that's before we ask how difficult it is to extract raw materials from old batteries.
Sounds to some degree like a usability issue. Echoes of Three Mile Island.
The previewing execution is cool, reminds me of my Python debugger https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=fraser.l...
Americans, correct me if I'm wrong but I've researched that left leaning people don't like the idea because minorities can't get documents easily because of distance or money, right leaning don't like federal government have the list and are a bit paranoid about it. Both reasons sound very weird to me.
This is an incredible story. His mom had the same undiagnosed, unfixable problem. The gist is,

> If he could cut out the medullas of his adrenal glands -- sort of like slicing into a hard-boiled egg and removing the yolk -- his health would improve.

> Eventually he recruited a surgeon from the University of Alabama-Birmingham. In September 2010 Lindsday went to the university hospital, where the doctor successfully extracted one of his adrenal medullas.

> Three weeks after the procedure, Lindsay could sit upright for three hours. By Christmas Eve, he had the strength to walk a mile to church.

> But progress was slow. In 2012, he underwent a second surgery at Washington University in St. Louis to remove the medulla from his remaining adrenal gland.

> A year later, he was well enough to fly with friends to the Bahamas. It was the first time in his life the Midwesterner had seen the ocean.
That doesn't even factor in the sea sickness. Chained and locked in one position with people stacked on top of you? Some of them vomiting on your head in a sweltering, stifling, and pitch dark hole all day for 2 or 3 months? No thanks.
Remarkable story. It's amazing how closed-minded "experts" can be. I suspect there are many conditions that will eventually be understood thanks to the hard work of people who approach these illnesses with the curiosity of a scientist instead of the hubris of an "expert."
so...land value tax! :-)
Just a dark pattern to force people into using the app instead.
I assume though if there was less poverty in Hong Kong, more space wouldn't suddenly appear... the existing small spaces would just become nicer but more expensive.
It's not just the UK -- housing prices are rising everywhere. I think it's a consequence of low interest rates. Because interest rates are so low, people can afford a 30 year mortage -- nobody would have been able to afford the interest rates on this in the 80ies or 90ies. This means that property owners can now ask for insane prices, and someone will pay them.

Also, since interest rates on savings accounts are practically zero, people look to real estate as a safe investment -- further driving housing prices.
From the article:

> The pouch cell as described, can provide ∼1 mA of current. At the typical operating voltage of ∼0.5v, each cell can provide ∼0.5mW. The cell is robust to at least ten cycles of charge and discharge without noticeable loss in capacity. An array of 6 cells is thus sufficient for low current electronics for sensing applications (such as low power microcontrollers like Texas Instruments MSP430).

It's research into making safe, DIY rechargeable batteries, which is pretty damned cool.
What are "good living conditions" that you would approve of? And what's too much, because certainly there's a point where the space (and resources) are wasted? 20sqm/person? 40? 80?

Keep in mind that we'd need to supply that space to everyone. Picking a low number sounds like a good idea if you don't suggest turning every park into a sky scraper or "removing" part of the population so there is more space to go around.
Think Legroom on Planes Is Bad Now? It’s Going to Get Worse
I think I (poorly) coded anti-hotlinking when I wrote my site.

Here are all the images in an imgur gallery:
https://imgur.com/a/aNdXGwu
> It’s incredible that we have accurate, automatic speech recognition for a variety of languages and accents, in real-time.

Then a few paragraphs later:

> For real-time transcription, Amazon Transcribe currently supports British English (en-GB), US English (en-US), French (fr-FR), Canadian French (fr-CA), and US Spanish (es-US).

So basically it boils down to two English variants, two French variants and US Spanish variant.

And then one wonders why such projects never pick up steam around the world.
Agreed. However, the worst part is the FAA. Specifically, what baffles me is the massive hand-wave they did on this considering it is one of their mandates to check flight-worthiness of Airplanes/Airlines.

I hope all the other agencies worldwide will double check all the prior certifications issued by the FAA, because all their credibility is gone. Especially considering the US was the one the last countries to ground the 737 MAX.

I wonder what happened there. Bribes? Favors? Lobbying and ties? All of the above?
While I dislike that this is even a thing, from a pragmatic standpoint I wouldn't mind living there if it was cheap.
Most software engineers aren’t qualified to have an opinion about the quality of proprietary safety critical software systems that also happen to run against proprietary hardware.

So unless you’ve found an economical way to develop an open source jetliner... honestly, what would be the point of open sourcing safety critical systems to the general public?

I’m not at all saying it should be closed off from external safety inspectors or regulators or anything like that, but I’m not really seeing the value of opening the software up to the general public.
Jai Programming Language
Interesting factoids:

Marshall plan replaced and thankfully rejected the previous Morgenthau plan - which would have explicitly ruled out any aid to Germany, and actually further destroyed the country.

In a fine bit of statesmanship Marshall plan aid was offered to the Soviets, who rejected it. It was offered in fairness, but in the certain knowledge Stalin would refuse. It would never have got through Congress anyway. :)
4.5 jô (= size of a tatami), which is the unit of surface most commonly used for apartments in Japan. 1 jô = a little less than 2 m^2.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatami (section "Size")
Neurasthenia
Wow. 1-1.25 million enslaved by barbary pirates, 2.5 million enslaved from the black sea to the ottoman empire, and 5-17 million enslaved in the East African/Indian ocean slave trade.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_slave_trade
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_slave_trade
I help organize KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, and we are planning to add live transcription (also known as open captioning) to future events. We also want to offer simultaneous translation to and from Chinese for our Shanghai event. I'd love to see a comparison of the major offerings if anyone has done it. If not, I guess we'll need to.
People might elect a genocidal government that decides to send all people with Trait X to the gulag, and Google or Facebook have data identifying you as having Trait X. Clearly the solution is to give the government even more power so it can stop these companies collecting the data, because without them there's no way the government could conduct mass data colllection on its citizens.
But the grey line assumes that we as a species act like responsible adults. There is something darkly comical about the IPCC emission scenarios.
If it doesn't involve taxes, welfare handouts and financial regulations the government sometimes do pretty well. One article is not much to go on, but it doesn't look like they are talking about taxing tech companies, but raising the transparency standards they must abide by.

If the government isn't setting the standards for privacy, it is obvious that there will be no standard other than 'profitable for Google, good for America'. I would like to see higher standards than that in Australia.

Going a little more to the root of this thread - if Google can raise enough political pressure to force the government to leave them alone that in itself would be evidence they have too much political power.
I work remotely as a game developer been saving a bit of money living outside a big city in the US. Tokyo/Japan has always been a dream destination for me figure if I don’t visit in the next few years while I’m flexible I may never.

Any suggestions for someone visiting that does not speak Japanese?
I figure, if I avoid leaning new linguistic trends, after enough years pass, my writing will suddenly seem sophisticated. What's the payoff for mimicking internet slang and turns of phrase? A decade from now, you either sound like a has-been, or a person who can't let go of their youth.
House prices are just a matter of allocation; deciding in the competition whether you or I get to live in a small or large place; or indeed any place (tempered by our preferences on % of income/wealth to spend on housing).

Nah, I'm talking about the actual existence of places to live. We used to _build new places_ all over the place, speculatively.

The local and national governments used massive plots of land to build huge estates.

We stopped doing that. The numbers and prices and stuff are besides the point. The home that I am currently occupying will, barring nationalization or excessive tax, be in my family for the next 60 years. The price of it is essentially irrelevant. What matters is that it exists, as one house which homes one family.
The general consensus I've seen here on HN is that Boeing should have done a clean sheet design rather than trying to shoehorn increasingly ill-fitting features into a decades-old design. You're not accurately representing that view.
> leading to groupthink and bro-management nonsense in the worst case
I'm not quite sure how to interpret this, could you give examples ?
Russian Hackers Build Fake Skype, Signal, Pornhub Apps to Lure Victims
>It's a good thing that such an option exists.

I totally agree. It makes me irrationally mad that some cities like London and Los Angeles enact policies meant to prevent small apartments on a pretense of lofty words, completely ignorant to the fact that commute distance is one of the largest factors in one's happiness and well-being.

This is one of the best examples of "no skin in the game" decision making, as the vast majority of decision makers live in relative comfort and it costs them almost nothing to pass this type of policies which signal value, don't have immediate obviously bad effect and are not strongly opposed by anyone. However, the cost is paid by the countless people who spend hours in traffic and, consequently, the environment.
It's a very relative concept. You can always omit some part of the record pretending you're "anonymizing" it, while the rest is easily correlated with a particular person.
I had to manually download all the invoices from a marketplace each month as they had no "download all" button. I created a script to (download list of invoice names, get the invoice PDF based on name, save PDF in folder). All this was done by hardcoding paths and assuming stuff doesn't change, I have implemented this script in a few hours and have been using this it for over two years without any issues (doing each month in 2minutes what previously took 1 hour). What's the problem with that? Yes, sometimes I had small isues (eg. I was being rate limited trying to download PDFs, but quickly added a request delay to fix that issue and it worked again. I think it's a lot faster/more productive to implement what's quickest and adapt along the way, than spend a lot of time implementing the "perfect solution" which probably has the same chances of failing as the quick-and-dirty script.
> The average hotel room is probably around 30m^2.

I've never stayed in a hotel room that large (neither in the US nor in Europe), more like 20sqm including the bathroom/shower.

> My walk-in closet when I lived in SF was probably about 12m^2.

Everything is relative. If you're living on a super yacht, a 30ft boat appears tiny.
Unfortunately, for every "outsider" with a legitimate idea, there are hundreds more emailing designs for time machines to physicists or selling homeopathic products.
No it's not, adrenal fatigue is when you cant produce enough hormones primarily cortisol

What he has is "bilateral adrenal medullary hyperplasia.
In layman's terms, it means the medullas, or inner regions, of his adrenal glands were enlarged and acting like tumors. His adrenal glands were producing way too much adrenaline."
I understand the urge to summarize, but maybe interested HN users can be expected to read the article before coming to the comments? This seriously degrades the quality of discussion.
I think it's more correct to say that the companies setting them up aren't the ones forcing them.
I would always reach for scripting every time. Getting a working implementation and experiencing real world data + problems as soon as possible is always best if you are taking an iterative approach.

Unless there are some serious domain experts on hand, I feel mapping the problem space is the most valuable approach - and one of the best ways to do this is to attempt a fast and basic solution. The alternative is a big design up front with minimal experience in the subjext domain.

It feels like the inverse of "I'm going to scale my foot up your ass"[1] - how useful are your reliability and metrics if your service is never used / becomes irrelevant / newspaper business dies / company folds / huge paradigm shift in tech.

I feel the dirty hack is a valuable step in the process, and its not possible to jump to the end without mapping the route first.

[1] http://widgetsandshit.com/teddziuba/2008/04/im-going-to-scal...
Pretty much any zoning policy is based on protecting incumbents over newcomers.

I'm slowly coming around to the idea that trying to move to a major city is just daft unless you're very wealthy. You're intentionally choosing to compete on a stage that you don't have to compete in and there are generally huge stacks of rules set up to ensure that it's difficult for you to do so.
Arguing over which tech behemoth is worse at privacy is pointless. The fact is that they are incentivized against privacy. Your data is valuable. The cost of anonymizing your data is expensive, and offers little measurable ROI.

Some companies work on providing the illusion that they care about privacy. But at the end of the day, unless it's convenient for them, and does not interfere with their goal, you should assume the worst.
Good point. However, as I understand it Vanguard's funds have < 0.2% management fee, so hopefully smaller than .35, e.g. https://investor.vanguard.com/etf/fees

But you're right. If manager charges 0.5% and fund charges 0.2% I'm still losing 0.5% of principal and 0.2% of my gains per year.

I don't see a reason for hedge funds. In my mind those are folks who have a proprietary edge on the market due to location, information, or experience.

To me, private equity ("PE") are folks who know how to reshape companies.

I spent a fair bit of time working w/ and for and sort of as a VC - that is a fun lifestyle but their risk adjusted and fee adjusted return is not impressive:

http://www.industryventures.com/2017/02/07/the-venture-capit...

The weighted average of table "Early Stage Venture Returns" shows about 2.5X on money with an assumed period of 10 years.

That's about 10%. When I invested $400k in venture capital in 2000 [timing...] it was worth $250k total return by 2018 - so not as great.
Except for glTF to work, WebGL needs to work as well and it isn't a given, without any sort of control of what kind of hardware or browser someone is using.

And even if the hardware and browser offer proper WebGL support, it might occur that the drivers are black listed, thus making any proper use of WebGL unbewarable.

Such is the WebGL reality, where devices with native support for OpenGL ES 3.2, might still struggle to see a WebGL 2.0 scene.

With a video everyone gets to enjoy it.
I no longer see a way to turn Siri "off", only to not respond to "hey Siri" but rather the home button. Does this mean she's not listening unless I've activated, or is she listening anyway? (I can't seem to help anthropomorphizing Siri it seems...).
We have Realtime stocks, sport etc.. but no real threat info ?? Why in earth this is possible ?
There is a popular trend where people will read the comments first and depending on the discussion they move to read the article