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Yea, the Bull Moose is one of my heroes. But I'm also not blind to reality. The benefit he had in his days of trust bustin' was the fact the general populace never worshiped the old business titans like the second coming of Jesus. These days, people with open arms and open hearts say, "Yes! Please! Exploit my data and ruin the market with monopolistic practices because you said you love us and you say nice things about the poor and wanting to save the planet." Then they cry foul when it's too fucking late.

The point to reading history is to learn from the past so the same mistakes are not made again. Something people STILL don't understand. Nothing here about WeWork or Amazon or Apple is new. New market, sure. New business practices? Hell no. Exploit workers. Exploit consumers. Exploitative contract verbiage. Exploit and lobby the government. Bullshit self-interest deals. Nothing new at all. But even here on HN where it's supposed to be a bunch of smart guys, they all jump like lions on the kill whenever someone mentions one of these silicon valley asses are up to no good. They start reciting whatever xyz fallacy they saw in an article to pretend like their dismissal holds water. Take a look back into earlier this year on HN about WeWork. Some folks were talking about how over valued the company was and it was a silly business model to begin with due to their PR pushes. It wasn't going to hold. Oh no, just a bunch of baby boomers, racists, and uneducated collegeless plebs who don't understand how tech works. They don't know what they're talking about. Let's throw confirmation bias into their face. Hell, the Theranos discussions were even worse before they got exposed. All a bunch of misogynist racist assholes if you questioned the validity of any claims made by Holmes. For a group of people that claim to believe in science and evidence, it's a rather emotionally driven community that uses pop-psychology, middle-school level debate tactics and mass numbers to push weak agendas.

There's a part of me that just thinks, "Fuck it all. Let it burn." But I figure if I go on these rants every now and then, someone else who doesn't believe the hype machine, but feels alone in that, might get a sense of "Well, I'm not completely alone in thinking this company/person is an asshole."

But what really makes me mad, no one here can rightfully claim that if they were in that dude's position with WeWork, that they would do any different. But oh, "How could this happen? Shame on them! Shame! Shame!" You're really going to claim that you entered STEM if it had the same employment prospects as a someone who majors in philosophy or art? Maybe they would have tried to negotiate for an even $2b. I'll take that claim of doing something different and shaming the guy for settling under $2b. But if you had the ability to legally walk away with $1b+ from a company you are the founder of, and you know it won't hold water for too long, you wouldn't take it? People illegally walk away with far less money.
wow that's amazing!

I can't see the link between quizzes and pinterest. Mind giving more details? on why you are there? :)
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While this is true, it is a solution for people dedicated to getting a problem fixed. Calling up a support line is a huge barrier, and companies lose out when people cannot file bugs or express their frustration with little issues with ease.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21334307
"the book" colloquially means https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/book/ (I'm one of the authors)

The O'Reilly book is good too.
I’m saying they have full control of something buyers want, so they can charge 30%. If their revenue starts going down due to their customers deciding 30% isn’t worth it, then the seller (Apple) will have to consider dropping their price if they want to continue selling.
> The bill would require communications platforms with more than 100 million monthly active members - Facebook has more than two billion - to allow its users to easily move, or port, their data to another network, Warner’s office said in a statement.

I assume that this proposal is based on good intentions. But how they want to overcome the technical hurdles is a mystery to me.

Who decides, how facebook should structure their exported data? Will there be a standard? Social media platforms like facebook, twitter, reddit or youtube are so fundamentally different that I doubt it is possible to create a common standard.

And who decides which services need to have a compatible data format?

The idea of downloading my twitter feed and post it on mastodon and vice versa is, I guess, a pipe dream. Or will I be able to download my Imgur posts and import them in Reddit? Can I export all my Youtube videos and import them on Vimeo? Yeah, go figure...

I think a better alternative would be a requirement for such companies to open up their API. I want full access to my twitter feed for free. This would allow third parties to create a single interface to many different networks, like twitter and mastodon.
do all your tweets just mean top level? or all your replies to others as well? and the resulting threads?
You omitted an important part: the pointer pointing to the stack. In GC'd or refcounted languages, (almost) everything is on the heap (occasional exceptions being primitive types like integers). This of course leads to worse performance because of an additional dereferencing step and cache misses.
> most of the value in social media is due to the network effect

Global network effects require consolidation. But there are many local network effects that add value with less scale.

In the real world, these local networks emerge as friend circles, interest groups, block associations, companies and industry networks. These local networks are either subsets of or correlated with the global network. But they produce value relatively independently of it.

Starting such a social media company today is hard because surviving amidst Facebook is hard. (See Snapchat, which could be considered, at its start, a local network of a certain age group.) Portability lowers this barrier for new entrants.
Yep. There is a small demographic that would even attempt to cycle. And hell no, I'm not riding my bike 20 miles when it's 98 degrees in south Texas. I can't think of anyone I know who'd do that. My typical day: drop my kid off at school (he goes early so can't take the bus), drive to work, pick up groceries on the way home, and then take a bunch of kids to soccer practice. No way a bike works for any of that. I love bikes (and no cars) for downtown areas. But if you live in the suburbs they are just for exercise/hobby for most people.
The parent you're replying to answers that question. And if your question is meant rhetorically, it doesn't contribute to the discussion either.
But you can already take your posts with you. You can copy paste all the posts you've made and nobody can stop you.
It's not that hard to install an app from outside of the Play Store. It's just that people are perfectly comfortable using the most easily accessible option. In the HN bubble it's easy to overestimate how much people care about using some other app store. Developers do because it impacts the bottom line but for users to care it would have to be a pretty massive cost saving or some other obvious drawback of the official store to care about alternatives.

How often did you wonder where your car parts come from? How easy is it to mod your ECU? If there are "open source" parts for your fridge? Etc. - insert any topic that's mostly transparent only for the people who actually care about it and dive deeper into the technicalities. Chances are you care less about that but a car tinkerer feels the same way you do about your app store and wonders why you aren't protesting more.
This is pointlessly pedantic. The person clearly meant they preferred elections be won by a majority of the popular vote.
It's easier to bootstrap a new network if you can take your data with you. This is how Facebook/LinkedIn got much of their early viral growth. They would scrape your email (at that time the biggest network) for contacts and invite people you knew.
A promising area to work on is being able to account which bank accounts all those trillions and trillions of tax payer dollars ends up in, when it is moved in the name of national security. Seriously, it ends up in someones account. Someone is making a real lot of money making you think you are under immediate attack all the time.
It's easy to change from independent contractor to employee if you really want. The experience on the CV is just as good and you probably get paid (a lot) more.

The only real risk is that during economic downturns it may be hard to find contracts but your employer could fire you as well.
Somebody might decide that his Twitter account offends somebody important and make it disappear. Or his Twitter might get compromised. Or Twitter might go out of business. Or maybe no reason at all.
"Are these contracts signed before GDPR? Signed after?"

Why would that matter? If the law changes, contracts may have to be updated. Microsoft is large enough to be in the "should have known the changes were coming, and should have acted upon it" camp.

"Is there some part of the EU that you can submit a contract and that they go thru and raise any compliance issues that you should change?"

Yes/No. On the one hand: NO, just like with (almost) all other laws and regulations in any government (or, for that matter, companies. You can't ask Apple or Google whether doing X will get your app on the App Store, for example). Allowing that would be impractical, as governments would be overwhelmed by entities looking to find exactly how far they can go before they get 'caught'.

Also, there's the "Separation of Powers" thing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_powers). That brings me to the YES: on the other hand, there is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_case_(law). It will cost you money, but, if you do it right, less so than when you go in full.

Also, the ones to be fined, if any, in this case likely also, and maybe more so (as a, perhaps somewhat bad, analogy, there's nothing wrong with a North Korean company applying for some US defense contract; companies hiring them to do the work would be in the wrong) would be Microsoft's customers. Many of them also are large enough to be in the "should have known the changes were coming, and should have acted upon it" camp.
>so it is advised to use pointers to objects on the stack sparingly

At least in the C/C++ world, this is not true. Where possible, we prefer stack allocated objects. Stack allocation is fast and usually gives you better cache performance than heap allocation.

Rust's lifetime/borrow checker provides compiler support for well-established best practices amongst professional C and C++ users.
A) facts don’t somehow become invalidated because a subgroup of people wants to use the facts to push an agenda.

B) Taleb is the exact embodiment of the “intelligent, yet idiot” description that he so loves to level against others. He is ridiculed by pretty much every intelligence researcher and behavioral geneticist who is aware of his take on IQ. Recently I witnessed him arguing on Twitter that the Justinian plague was not the Black Death. They’re both caused by the same bacteria, yersinia pestis. Find a better intellectual hero.
“Better that right counsels be known to enemies than that the evil secrets of tyrants should be concealed from the citizens. They who can treat secretly of the affairs of a nation have it absolutely under their authority; and as they plot against the enemy in time of war, so do they against the citizens in time of peace.”
― Baruch Spinoza
Evidently. What is your explanation for the success of Trump?

Because he has a pretty clean alibi for not implementing mass surveillance.
I just use my Google Drive. Lots of docs, searchable. Access by my phone when I remember to add something. It's all I need.
Amazing reply. Thank you. I see Dr Chua is dropping a new text in December. I'll see what I can learn by then and if it sticks I'll support with a purchase
Connections can be reestablished, people may like the ability to reconsider their connections.

Additionally, there is a difference between content published and any content commented on/interacted with.

I think most people just care about being able to export their “posts”
Interoperability just gives more people potential access to your data. What most activists are trying to do is move towards fewer people having access to your data, as well as you having full and legal custody of your data.

Interoperability is better for companies, particularly small ones. But the idea here is to help people prevent companies from accessing their data willy nilly. I'd think the goal would be to decrease the number of access points and to require that strict, explicit, legally binding, criminally enforceable, consent be given for every access to a user's data.

If you want to help smaller companies compete, that's a different discussion that can be had. But securing the data of users and providing a great deal more privacy than user's have right now really is a completely reasonable effort in its own right. In fact, I would think for the vast majority of users, the effort to ensure security and privacy should probably take precedence over providing more companies potential access to their data.
Yes - the crux is just to add some logic and throw out beams which don't match your constraint, then rank candidates based on sequence probability.

You can roll-back the generation process and/or mask the probability distribution using simple secondary logic, but I find beam search gives generally better results, especially when the word I want to force is very low probability - most of my sequence models kind of go off the rails when they are forced into a low-probability sequence ("the man went to the xylophone zebra sdawoqhdjwna"). Also I find this problem gets worse in domains without "reset" tokens like spaces, where there are always high entoropy possibilities (the letter after a space has a lot of good choices) followed by lower ones (after the first letter, there often become less good choices - at least until you hit another space). Particularly in music generation, models that sample a "surprising" sequence tend to go off the rails. It is also a behavior that seems worse in RNNs, than transformers for me.
One but difference of this approach over just using the original library directly is that now you have a type system that can enforce more invariants than it is possible in C and that the library was previously already relying on. If the (now reduced) API surface happens to still expose a bug, it can both be fixed in the library and/or protected against in the API.
It's pretty easy and requires no physics, actually.

Here's a simple, extended version.

A quantum gate is, mathematically speaking, a matrix. For a given physical system, of fixed number of qubits, obtaining that matrix on a classical computer takes (on average) a fixed amount of time, let's say T seconds. A quantum "circuit" is a sequence of quantum gates, applied consecutively in time, and you simply multiply them all to get their overall effect.

So if your circuit is made of 10 gates, the total CPU time is 10T, plus the time for 10-1 matrix multiplications. If it is 20 gates, then it is 20T plus time for 20-1 matrix multiplications.

Since multiplying two matrices of the same dimension also takes a fixed amount, on average, the simulation time grows linearly with circuit depth.

The quantum supremacy is related to how T grows as you increase the number of qubits, n (which is exponential, it's a 2^n by 2^n matrix).
I am sorry for my ignorance. I am a new citizen of this part of the world. Too late to edit it.
I don't have the technical specifics in working memory, but would the privacy-preserving Apple geolocation system work here?

E.g. You could export edges of the graph as well, but in encrypted form. Only when the owner joins and supplies the decryption key do they become usable and valid
>Users have virtually no say.

Well, that's true. Because once content by or about you is out there, neither you nor anyone else really has the power to force anyone to delete it. That's not so much a company making a decision but a collective decision that you don't generally have a "right to be forgotten."

But that's not so much individual companies making an affirmative decision to always preserve data as no one providing individuals any real rights to erase what they've made public.
It's not a bad thing to point out the failures of modern medicine or to choose to put your health in the hands of naturopaths. It is, indeed, effectively how the human race got along until modern medicine.

The problem is in forcing your choices on others.
To expand on your point, Snow Leopard came out 2 years after Leopard did.
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Isn't the business model there: analyze the data uploaded and use it to enrich targeting. This is what they've done with every other free product. Maybe when we pay outright that will stop?
“the ultimate aim of government is not to rule, or restrain by fear, nor to exact obedience, but to free every man from fear that he may live in all possible security... In fact the true aim of government is liberty.”
― Baruch Spinoza
I find the comparison to java a bit unfair, because this pattern is totally possible but has been largely deemed a bad pattern. The analog to the pattern in java is to extend from a non-final class. So in this case "class HTTPClient" and "class CachedHTTPClient".

There are lots of drawbacks to doing it that way, the worst of which is that you need to remember to override the method in CachedHTTPClient everytime you add a method to HTTPClient, and the compiler gives you no hints about it.
The limitations of that approach don't line up with the example. Someone running a fever is running a fever because of an immune response to illness a lot of the time, which is an aggregate response. The body has trillions of cells, in the case of temperature you don't need a reading of each one. Researchers sometimes do, and medical testing of methods, drugs, or devices is a lot more scrutinized before doctors ever get access.
I have a whistleblower hotline available to me at work... If I see something and call that number, my identity will be protected. That is the way my company would prefer I handle ethical issues and I will keep my job. If I gather up evidence and release it to the press, I will lose my job. That is the difference between, say Snowden and this whistleblower. But that does not negate the validity of the complaint.
Celebrities cause 10.000x carbon emission than average person
Farming methods and use of chemical used should be evaluated individually. Organic is always better is not good strategy.

Some organic products taste better, but most of them don't. Some organic products are better for the environment but many are not. Most staple foods should not be organically farmed. For everyday foods it's important to to maintain good quality, avoid wastage and reduce the use of farmland if you want to be ecological.

Reducing the use of pesticides with better farming methods, breeding and genetic engineering should be part of ecological farming.
A year ago, I found a perfect solution for myself. I'm using https://github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki, writing there everything I find useful. From articles and quotes to lose ideas, notes, project information, or todos. It has support for markdown and export to HTML, which I can style however needed.
>The lived experience of IRV is that this does not happen.

What "lived experience"? IRV has never been used in American elections at least, unless you count some towns.
Well, it is certainly my personal experience, and the infra design I linked seems to take advantage of it. But, perhaps I am spoiled by more careful car traffic, because it's quite rare that cars would speed into an intersection because they're by default liable in accidents with cyclists, who may enter the intersection with various accelerations. Also, a bike mechanic once blamed my chain wearing out too fast on me accelerating like a crazy motorist.
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> ...there is no "news" anymore, only opinions and narratives put forth for political and financial gain.

"News" isn't a product you can just take out of the box and use. "Some assembly is required" and that's what citizens are expected to do (unless they're graduates of Trump "University", I guess).
> Who decides, how facebook should structure their exported data?

You might find clarity in the bill [1].

It avoids, as good laws do, defining how companies must comply, instead setting principles for clarification by the FTC and courts. ("A structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format" is the bill's language (§ 3(a)).)

> who decides which services need to have a compatible data format

Congress. "A product or service provided by a communications provider that...generates income, directly or indirectly, from the collection, processing, sale, or sharing of user data; and...has more than 100,000,000 monthly active users in the United States" is the bill's threshold (§ 2(7)).

[1] https://www.scribd.com/document/431507473/GOE19968
Demon Slayer just finished last month. Oh, and I missed Attack on Titan and Steins;Gate. Aside from that, I can't think of any other great ones off the top of my head.
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> Even electric bikes are not the solution, at least not in many parts of the world. What happens when it rains / snows?

What happens when it rains?

As someone who lives in the developing world, I'm always a bit taken aback when people seem to be so unaware of the lived experience of the billions of people outside of America & Europe. This isn't some hypothetical scenario that we don't know how it plays out. It is the lived experience of hundreds of millions of people who get by just fine.

I live in a city in Southeast Asia where every day over 6 million people commute on two wheeled vehicles. We have monsoons, so 6 months of the year are the rainy season.

What happens when it rains? We don't need to make theories. We just look at the real world in places where people can't afford cars and have to deal with rain. They get by just fine.

Go to almost anywhere in Asia, from India to Taiwan and everywhere in between, and you'll find hundreds of millions of people that get to work, school, hospital, and everywhere else they need to be on two wheels despite torrential rain and sweltering heat.
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The counterargument is that regulation around collecting and permitting access to data simply widens the moat for incumbents.

Facebook and Google can implement a 500-page law.

A startup cannot.

So I think it's important to keep "How are we encouraging competition in the marketplace?" in mind as these proposals go through.
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Just a nitpick, but FB did that without any real user consent. This would require that companies not do it at all. Rather that the user himself would have to take his data to the new company and explicitly give the new company consent to host the data. That's the way it should work. The user should always be in charge of her data.
> If managers are getting things done by wielding their authority from the org chart, odds are they aren't great leaders to begin with.

Agree. If an organisation has power distance between managers and others, perhaps they have more fundamental problems to begin with.

By power I meant the privileges and rights that comes with their responsiblities and tasks. A simple example would be rights to ask for more resources or budget.
Try to learn how to communicate with people, you dull pedantic asshole.