skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that buying "dumb" TVs is preferable, but they're often hard to find if you're looking for high-end features.

To quickly include the comments which often come up in similar threads -

There are some TVs you can find at BestBuy without smart features, but they're usually not 4K.

In many cases you can use a "smart" tv, and avoid putting it on your local wifi.
Some TVs reportedly require internet access to work at all.

In other cases people have said that the device jumped on a neighbors open wifi without prompting.

People often say that including these "smart" features makes a TV cheaper for a manufacturer, since they can then sell your viewing data.
So here's the thing. It's easy for any first-party to circumvent any of these attempts with a simple node proxy on aws lambda that passes data between the web browser and the tracking service.
Didn't the US blow up 30 afghani civilians a few months ago with drone strikes? Didn't even make the front page.

We all make deals with monsters for economic safety, or because there is near nothing we can do about it. That includes China AND the US.
These sentences do not mean "Jana loves Petr." Subject/object relationship is determined by case marking suffixes on nouns.

Another comment proposed an apropos analogy:

English is like position-based parameter-passing.

sentence.love("Petr", "Jana")

Czech is like keyword-based parameter passing.

sentence.love(object="Jana", subject="Petr")
> In any case, i don't think facebook cares too much anymore and will just pay another yearly fine for operating in the EU.

Time to push the amounts up. 2% of worldwide annual revenue per infraction (e.g. per user) should start to add up after a while.
> I don’t understand what’s so hard to understand about the fact that ads is what pays for Facebook to exist?

It's not hard to understand. Everybody knows this is the case. But that excuses nothing.

Also, it's only the case because that's the business model Facebook chose. They could choose a different one.

> You get free access and get to see ads in exchange.

I love how you say that as if it's the ads that are the major issue (it's not, it's the tracking), and as if seeing ads is some sort of benefit.

> If the problem people have is ads

Again, the problem isn't the ads, it's the spying.
> A 10% increase in heavy drinking seems small by comparison. Why not focus on that fact?

10% seeming smaller than 62% is not a fact that anyone should be focusing on.

There are actual numbers that can be compared in context; the fact that a percentage of one thing is expressed as a larger number than the percentage of another thing doesn't mean it's more important. Very few people die of drunk driving accidents (as compared to the number of people who drink), so if 20 fewer people in an area per year die from drunk driving, but incidents of binge drinking in that area increase from 1 million to 1.1 million, it's not simple to say that the outcome has been positive. Maybe 21 more people get esophageal cancer. Maybe 21 more cases of domestic violence end in a homicide.

That being said, this is a wealth effect and inevitable if you're making progress. People are drinking (out) more because their perception is that with rideshares it has become safer (easier to get home.) A cure for HIV would cause an increase in the spread of other sexually transmitted diseases, for example, but that doesn't mean that you shouldn't cure HIV.

One material difference I can see between rideshares and a cab is that rideshares are often cheaper because 1) they are subsidized by investors and 2) they can be shared. This doesn't say anything interesting about Uber; if you wanted to make cabs cheaper, you can tax them less or subsidize them. The other, which I think might be more important, is that many rideshare users don't feel the need to buy a car, and that the rideshare demographic is largely similar to the binge drinking at bars/clubs demographic. Of course, taxing cars or the parking around bars/clubs could have the same effect.
Getting access to tin is hard. And making wrought iron isn't really harder to do than making cast bronze. The issue is that if you don't know how to turn it into steel (which isn't hard, just requires discovery), wrought iron is highly inferior to bronze.

India actually basically skipped a bronze age, going largely from unalloyed copper straight to steel rather early, without any intervening period where bronze was widespread. So the bronze first then iron developmental pattern is not universal.
I don't think your statement is intended to be dismissive, but it is a bit... sparse.

Related to CLU: It introduced a lot of concepts together in one language. "Key contributions include abstract data types,[6] call-by-sharing, iterators, multiple return values (a form of parallel assignment), type-safe parameterized types, and type-safe variant types." [1]

Liskov also has other contributions[2]. Per the article, she says herself in the early days there were a lot of big problems to solve, so it was somewhat easier to make a "big" contribution.

It's interesting to look at where many modern concepts came from. It would be interesting to dig in to these a little more. Time is the one resource that's hard to come by though.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLU_(programming_language)
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Liskov
This is all anecdotal - its clear that online advertising has a lot of value - ebay is a huge brand, and removing advertising for "shoes" might not be easily measureable - however, there are tons of business relying solely on this form of advertising - no one would find their websites if they didn't.
Hmmm...

"The language, CLU (short for “cluster”), relied on an approach she invented — data abstraction — that organized code into modules."

Let's ignore how preposterous it is to claim you invented data abstraction and move to the module claim... that a simple search for "who discovered programming modules" shows:

"The Modula programming language ... by Niklaus Wirth, the same person who designed Pascal. The main innovation of Modula over Pascal is a module system, "

And it seems others were thinking the same way:
'After you won the Turing Award, a comment appeared online saying, “Why did she get this award? She didn’t do anything that we didn’t already know.”'

Not sure what to think here but I never heard CLU was the first to add modules. I'll just leave it at that.
Sell them to shady executives.
I always thought that once self-driving cars are fully autonomous, pub/bar business will go through the roof.
Learn how to get out of debt!!! https://www.daveramsey.com/blog/how-the-debt-snowball-method...

Step 1: List your debts from smallest to largest regardless of interest rate.

Step 2: Make minimum payments on all your debts except the smallest.

Step 3: Pay as much as possible on your smallest debt.

Step 4: Repeat until each debt is paid in full.
IIRC the price is ‘millions’.
Suppose you only have one case of it being used and the patient had mortal injuries with a 5% chance to survive to begin with and is now in a coma, with maybe days or weeks from waking up if he makes it.

It would be a bit early to give some overeager journalist something to "report" (let's be real, more like: "exaggerate beyond recognition").

When patients only have a 5% chance of making it without the procedure, you need a lot more than a few trials to get a good idea of whether this procedure helps.

Also if I was a patient who just survived some traumatic injury from which a full recovery is unlikely, the last thing I would want is a bunch of journalists of all people bearing down on me immediately after. I rarely talk to journalists on my best days.
China doesn't want the protest to end. People who believe they are protesting China by supporting these terrorists and their activities in Hong Kong are only supporting the central government's plan.

The Hong Kong human rights and democracy act if enacted only supports the central government's position on Hong Kong. The unrest is an opportunity for Beijing. The media discourse suggests otherwise... only to the benefit of Beijing. Understand the true meaning of your position, so as not to look so foolish.

Or not, and keep supporting China ( I thank you ) but thinking you're not.

The world doesn't have to be unipolar.
That's the same as the ISP, CDN, CMS, and plenty of other software and vendors in the middle getting access to that information. There's a difference between a service provider and data ownership.
It’s definitely about the economy. Just look at Macau.

There are no protests there. They were also a former Westen colony and now under 1 country, 2 systems like Hong Kong.

The only difference is their GDP per capita is almost twice that of Hong Kong’s.
Do you feel like learning this from someone in person was necessary, or could you get most of the benefit from reading or watching a video somewhere? If so, any recommendations?
If that's actually true, then Facebook is an inherently immoral service that shouldn't exist.
At which point your captors just beat or murder you because they know that feature exists.
Is it a vanishingly small number or is it one that you can't honestly track because you're not actually investigating on a per case basis?

The alternative is to... maybe not be super unfriendly and unhelpful when your account gets terminated? Maybe issue a warning first stating when and how you're violating a rule so you have a chance to correct it?
Puiku!

> Oh, feel free to correct my mistakes! :

If you wish so ;)

I will have my comments in Lithuanian, I think you will be able to understand them just fine.

1. „mokytis lietuvių kalbą“ -> „mokytis lietuvių kalbos“ [0].

2. „todėl šeimos priežasčių“ keisčiau į „dėl šeimyininių aplinkybių“. „Todėl“ čia netinka: jis prasmiškai artimesnis angliškam „thus“, o anglišką „for/because of“ atitinka „dėl“. Pavyzdžiui: „automobilis sugedo, todėl pavėlavau į darbą“ ir „Į darbą pavėlavau dėl automobilio gedimo“.

3. „viena iš gražaisių kalbų pasaulyje“ — beveik idealu, tik „gražaisių“ turi būti „gražiausių“.

4. „kaip tai gražiai garsa“ — turbūt norėta pasakyti „kaip tai gražiai skamba“. "a sound" (noun) -> „garsas“. "to sound" (verb) -> „skambėti“. Stilistiškai vietoj tai „tai“ geriau tiktų „ji“.

5.„koks ekspressiva lietuvių kalba yra“ -> „kokia išraiškinga lietuvių kalba yra“ arba šiek tiek geriau stilistiškai: „kokia išraiškinga yra lietuvių kalba“. „Kalba“ — moteriškos giminės, todėl „kokia“, ne „koks“.

6. „įdomios knygos parašytos lietuviškai“ — nors atskirai paėmus ši frazė gramatiškai teisinga, bet šiame kontekste (su „kiek“) taisyklingiau būtų „kiek įdomių knygų parašyta lietuviškai“.

Nepaisant kelių klaidų, dar kartą noriu pasidžiaugti, kad yra žmonių, kuriems ši kalba patinka ir kurie jos mokosi. Kuo didžiausios sėkmės!

[0] http://www.vlkk.lt/konsultacijos/3919-mokytis-ka
> There’s a lot of mainland people in the US who think the western medias are all biased

Isn't it ? I mean, I don't respect China much but this is not a false statement.
I'm at a startup, not FAANG, but it's pretty much the same for me, minus the rusty part.

It's fine IMO. Work is about producing value for your employer, so do whatever it takes to do that. Usually it's about meetings, which are pretty much therapy for management.

If you want to be better at code and can't work it into your day job, then you'll have to work on projects outside of work.

Also consider taking it a step farther, and go ahead and initiate some of those meetings or email threads. There's a reason people are making them. They help the team stay in sync and feel better about the project.
How to Make a ‘Gold Standard’ Remote Work Office
Ok, so I did understand you correctly before.

I don't think that has much value because the ad provider wouldn't know who you are to begin with.

First time you open said website no cookies would exist for the domain.

Then the ad provider wouldn't know who you are.

Ex: Access foo.com and search for shoes, shoe cookies set for foo.com
Then access bar.com which hits foo.com for the ad suggestions
Now foo.com knows you searched for shoes, since the 3rd party cookies are there.

Now if you do it without 3rd party cookies bar.com wouldn't have any access to the cookies which identify you as a shoe buyer, because those are set for foo.com
facebook is probably laughing harder at this. A few billion in fines, combined with low irish taxation is still not big enough to justify pulling out of the EU market. The EU decided a bit too late to build a chinese-style 'firewall' around european tech and it's not really working. Instead they are playing cat and mouse with big corp, which really shows that these laws were mainly meant to have an apotropaeic effect
> For example, laugh at a dongle joke in front of a journalist or some other influencer who's sneaky with a camera and a million followers, your career is over

You should laugh at these people anyway. Appeasement doesn't work, never has - whereas standing up to their abuse and pointing out how foolish they are just might.
Not sure if this actually answers the question, but - Bazel, the build system used at Google, creates dependency graphs (example: https://blog.bazel.build/2015/06/17/visualize-your-build.htm...), which I believe can be used to run tests on any code affected by a change.
Ha! I help out the NHS and they're amazed that we are able to autopopulate forms using ActiveDirectory. They're used to paper...
> Unmoderated free for all app store

I think we should call it Android. Given that, and a lack of a closed ecosystem, is why Android is hacked as much as it is, which is why I would never get rid of my iPhone in favor of an Android device - well, that and the lesser quality hardware, of course. But I think you see my point.
Norway is much the same. Not only that, but even if you do manage to be understood in Norwegian, you might find that you don't understand the local dialect at all.
Well, in my OP that you responded to, I used "eastern mystic bullshit" to explain where I was coming from and why I initially rejected meditation. It was always only something I'd hear brought up from a dread-locked vagabonding white guy with a mandala tattoo on his chest and the desperate need for deodorant.

Sam Harris makes the case that you can save the baby (mindfulness) from the bathwater (superstition, etc.) and that these practices were onto something because we share a common human experience.

Why not listen to his first chapter that I linked? I can almost guarantee that you would agree with him. You are just having a knee-jerk reaction to what you think is going on. Harris covers the exact things you think you're trying to point out.

Also, let's drop the skin-color bullshit. I reject all religion and superstition the same way I reject astrology, which is why I need a rationalist approach to have my mind re-opened to some of these ideas like mindfulness which are almost always couched in superstition. Sam Harris is precisely trying to do this and he starts that chapter making the case for it to people like me who immediately cringe at a loaded word "spirituality".
This 100%. Government needs to get involved. Apple is clearly using its monopolistic power as shield against any kind of accountability. Devs have absolutely no recourse against this monopoly.
I do most of the cooking at home for my partner. She could cook perfectly well, but I think she's out of practice these days and I don't mind doing it.

It makes ordering or going out more of a treat, too.

Also, your comment made me realize I probably stay in pants too often.
Does it also have a moisturizing strip?
More Than 100k DACA Applicants Have Been Arrested–Murder, Rape, DUI
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The thing is, that solution will only work if enough people do it, and apparently as it stands not very many people are willing to give up their favorite content to avoid ads.
California has hurdles to clear (universal background check law, a 10-day waiting period, limits on handgun purchases, a microtracking system, a personal safety test, a ban on assault weapons, a minimum age to purchase of shotguns/rifles, red-flag laws allowing police to confiscate guns). I guess it's subjective, but I think these laws are fairly lax. Given those laws, how hard is it to actually obtain a firearm? It's pretty easy! So I'm not sure what kind of effect you're expecting from these laws...

Also, whenever a mass shooting occurs, by definition the currently enacted laws failed to prevent it. The same can be said anytime there's murder, theft, rape, terrorism and so on.
at worst, facebook will pull out of EU and close its irish HQ (but probably still be tracking users). Who won?
Tokenized Public Goods – A New Store of Value
This could have been an informative article. But instead, the writer decided to go all sensationalist clickbait. That's a dark pattern, too.

For the future, I recommend to the writer that he spend less time on sensationalism, and more time on editing.
Just last week I bought a TCL Roku TV. The price was right!

During setup, I declined to connect to WiFi and then set the TV to automatically switch to HDMI 1 when it turns on, and to honor CEC over HDMI so that my external AppleTV box can power it on and off. Taught the AppleTV remote how to handle the volume on the TV, and that's it. The Roku remote is in a drawer, and the TV behaves as a dumb monitor.

I'm not even sure whether it's possible to buy a large TV without software loaded on it, but you don't have to let that software run!
Why are social skills always focusing on the positive? A lot of programmers often seem to be more nice guys than anything else, and need to be able to be more assertive / aggressive.

Everyone tries to distinguish these two, it's mostly just in the eye of the beholder - IMO aggression is just assertion when it's judged to be inappropriate or incompetently done - a drill instructor being assertive looks different to a police officer in a stand-off which is different to how you talk to co-workers - the distinction is highly contextual and subjective.

I think a lot of people with poor social skills thinks the aggression / assertion line is all about being angry or shouty or rude. Assertion uses a bunch of tools (including potentially - a louder or quieter voice, appearing angry, threats, manipulations, etc) to achieve a goal. Doing so in an inappropriate way is seen as aggressive (e.g. threatening to quit over a minor issue). Overusing any given tool (e.g. swearing a lot instead of realising a different tool is needed) is seen as incompetent (or losing control) thus it's seen as aggressive. But fundamentally there's no real objective difference.
If it’s human rights you’re worried about, then Vietnam is also communist and what India is doing in Kashmir is worse than Hong Kong’s situation.
Both are definitely contributing, but automation/process improvements is very apparent in steel production: "In the 1980s, American steelmakers needed 10.1 man-hours to produce a ton of steel; now they need 1.5 man-hours, says Joe Innace of S&P Global Platts." https://apnews.com/cae426730cd74e64932e4be7fa5cdebc/As-Trump...

Or in Austria: "The plant, a two-hour drive southwest of Vienna, will need just 14 employees to make 500,000 tons of robust steel wire a year—vs. as many as 1,000 in a mill with similar capacity built in the 1960s."
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-21/how-just-...
I thought it was mostly a reference to what was used in the weapons of the era. Bronze has several advantages over iron for a variety of uses, but a bronze sword or bronze tipped spear is at a severe disadvantage against an iron equipped foe.
Simplicity of features != UX Simplicity
It's way more simple to tap on a button than to write complex sentences. We've studied this, when users have both options available (buttons and input text), 80% go for buttons.
Yea I had similar experiences in the US with burning CDs and electronic stores helping me. Some even told me better and cheaper ways to do it.

If I went to Microcenter and wanted to build a plex server they would help me optimize it for sure.
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> Steering a motorcycle is done by precessing the front wheel.

I've encountered this claim so many times over the years. The precession force I've observed when riding motorcycles, by moving the bars after the front wheel leaves the ground, is simply not that great. It's obviously not the primary force steering a motorcycle.

With the front tire in contact with the road, motorcycles can appear to steer from precession because they initiate turns unintuitively via inverted counter-steering. What's really happening is when you initiate a turn, the point at the road:tire interface immediately veers in the direction you pointed because of the tire's grip with the road. But since this point is well below the center of gravity of the motorcycle, instead of steering the entire bike in that direction, the bike falls down and leans in the opposite direction. Thanks to the angle of the fork there's a complementary geometric relationship between the bike's lean angle and the front wheel's steering angle in the direction of the lean. These are the primary mechanisms steering a motorcycle.

The same mechanism is present in automobiles, which also have a significant distance separating the road:tire interface from the center of gravity. But in those vehicles it's exhibited as body roll, which is then necessarily resisted by the suspension components like springs and anti-sway bars. Nobody claims precession causes automobile body roll, because it's more obvious what's going on there - and the driver doesn't steer backwards briefly at the start of every turn.

Precession is a fun demonstration in science class, and does enable a motorcycle rider to exert some control when on one wheel. But it simply isn't the primary mechanism steering a motorcycle.
Sure the primary concern for Apple is users. But it's not like the platform could exist without the ecosystem around it, which largely depends on developers publishing apps. And it's not as if the dev accounts are not subscription-based - it's not expensive and Apple does not make a ton of money on this, but it's not free either.

And I don't think anyone suggests Apple should get rid of all the rules and accept anarchy on the platform, that'd be insane. They have the right to set the rules on their platform, and enforce them. And the developers should not be surprised when violations are handled accordingly.

The first problem is that a lot of the rules are entirely vague, to the extent that it's hard to make judgments based on the wording. (Essentially what we used to call "rubber law" years ago, a vaguely worded law that can be used to support whatever the state currently wants.).

The second problem is that you generally don't get clear explanation what rules you broke. That may seem reasonable, but whoever makes those decisions is bound to make some errors. And if you don't know what rule(s) you supposedly broke and how, you can hardly appeal the decision.

Yes, for Apple it's much easier/cheaper to provide as little information as possible, eliminating the issue of appeals (i.e. costs). But it's a bit of a dick move, really.

If you set rules for your platform, you really need to plan for proper enforcement, including providing information what rule was broken/how and allowing appeals.
We don't have anything publicly available unfortunately, but we call ansible-pull the instance userdata to configure the host on startup. IAM Policies and Vault integration are used to grant the host access to certain secrets needed by the ansible run.