skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's away from the original point, but I think it's important to highlight the factual inaccuracies from your claims. This is meant charitably, I hope you will take it as such.

1. "Walmart is proof that centralized planning can have extremely successful results" - "Central planning" means something specific, and does not mean "having a plan," even a potentially large plan. It doesn't just mean planning by a rather large entity. From https://www.economicshelp.org/blog/glossary/central-planning..., "a Centrally planned economy can overcome market failure and achieve equality of distribution." Walmart is therefore not an example of this since it does not fit the definition, and makes use of a competitive market for labor, real estate, and the goods it sells. The US had a plan for Apollo, but it still had to deal with a free market for the newly invented integrated circuits that made up its electronics - the government couldn't simply dictate that the desired number were produced.

2. "Nuclear power plants are too expensive (both upfront costs and insurance) for private enterprise" - A list of US Nuclear power plants (https://www.nei.org/resources/statistics/us-nuclear-plant-ow...) shows several owned by private enterprises. According to https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-pr..., the world's first large scale nuclear power plant was owned by a government, but was built and operated by a private company.

3. "Planning is _good_... It's how big things happen." There are lots of things that happen without central planning. No one does a survey of how many computers the US needs and then tells Intel to make a certain amount of processors. Likewise for food, clothing, pencils, or whatever other goods we may need. Plans often make assumptions that prove unrealistic, and centrally planned governments have often proven unable to adjust, leading to famine unheard of in capitalist countries.

4. "Marxist-Leninists believe in extending democracy to include the workplace and the economy." In a Marxist economy, a bureaucrat figures out how much of a thing is needed, and tells people when they need to work to produce that thing, and how much of that thing they can get. There is no input from "the people," except for nominally the person who figures this out for everyone represents the people. Compare this to a capitalist economy, which may be imperfect, but allows everyone to vote on what's important for society to provide through spending preferences.

5. "don't strut around like you're better than them" - the claim was not that capitalist countries are perfect, but rather communist countries were/are a failure. The only one that has seen any lasting success in China, and that was only after it started adopting capitalist practices in some areas. The implication is also not that anyone is better than anyone else. In many locations in Eastern Europe, the same people with the same resources had vastly different qualities of life depending on whether they were on the west or east side of the Captialist-Communist border. The implication is only that communism is a terrible system and was a failure everywhere it was attempted.
this offers a fresh perspective. thank you!
once in a while there is a blogger that offers a different view or perspective on a topic that has been beaten to death here. them being noticed at all is simply magical since they have to compete with people's friends and colleagues around here...

i absolutely love that you have more than 30 articles per page.
> Additionally I don't think there is anything wrong with client-side analytics in general since it's basically the only way to monitor performance/usage in production. And this type of thing is hard to discern from the more benign case

I think in these situations it often helps if we would find this behaviour acceptable in the real world. For example we see advertisment in airport toilets or malls or whatever. As someone pointed out, the company advertising does have an interest in finding out if the ad is effective. So would people find it acceptable if someone was following the from the advertisement and writing down which stores they go to, what they buy? I acknowledge that there is significant effort to develop technology (e.g. using ultrasound) to do this, but the efforts to do this covertly are IMO a good indication that people would not accept it if it was done in the open.
That repo doesn’t have any code in it, it’s used purely for issue tracking and syncing with the VS extension repo, I believe.
The European Union Is Facing Its Worst Recession Ever. Watch Out, World
Although like many I probably would prefer a traditional cursor, I appreciate that people are exploring the possibilities of the space. I hate change for its own sake. But there are so many choices that go into graphical user interface design. Even if we've hit a local maxima, I don't think we've hit on the best paradigm. We've only been at this for ~60 years or so. Not to mention the personal preference that goes into this. Keep exploring! Keep experimenting! (Just please don't force me to change how I use my computer against my will.)
The principle of non-violent communication (NVC)[1] completely changed my approach in life to stressful situations. Practicing the same with my family, friends, work colleagues changed my life. Changed the way I approach situations. Allowed me to also apply it in reverse where I am now able to lead those stressed with me towards a NVC path. I am trying to understand their fundamental base need rather than just focus on what they are saying. This allows those around me also to become in tune with themselves and I can see it on their faces when they get the aha moment. I've received simple thanks sometimes for this so I know it is not just me that finds it useful. Works wonderfully well with toddlers as well! The whole premise that kids are stupid or don't understand stuff also gets upturned when you apply NVC to communicate with them or help understand their point of view.

It wasn't easy, took months before it became habit, just had to keep it going. Even now sometimes I forget and my lizard brain pops up from years of conditioning that will take some time to undo. But am I so happy I found out about it.

[1] https://baynvc.org/key-assumptions-and-intentions-of-nvc/
Don't worry about remembering facts; instead, seek to understand how and why things are the way they are. By understanding deeper reasons behind things, the facts will make contextual sense, and will be much easier to recall, or if necessary, to deduce. This can apply essentially anywhere, from physics formulas to historical events to programming conventions to political actions.
I'm distinct from the voice in my head.
BuzzFeed extends pay cuts and furloughs 68 employees
You mentioned sports betting funds - Just wondering if you could elaborate further on the use case here?
I used to have a greasemonkey script that would filter articles or domains they come from based off of keywords.

Found it! (this was made by hn user
furgooswft13) https://gist.github.com/m00g00/e539ec22bf588edca0e6dfe1a05eb...

I think I used it for "737" and "Boeing" for a while.
Don't be disingenuous. You flagged him because you got called out on your furfaggotry.
Great green globs of gooey greasy gopher guts/
Marinated monkey meat/
Stinky little piggies feet/
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Why do you think that's a crazy conclusion? That code is worthless - such quality of work would not be accepted in the private sector. And it's doubtful it can be of any value at all.

So when the work they do is this bad, I think it's reasonable to question whether they should be continued to be paid for no value to the public.
Yes I saw that icon, nothing ever showed up there. No badge and when I touched it I never saw what I had already added. I started by tapping the first restaurant they suggested. I viewed the menu, picked an item and set the quantity and added it to cart. Then I picked another item and did the same. I figured that would feed me so I tried to order it. No evidence of any previous interaction was discernible. The cart was empty. Any time I touched the cart icon I just ended up back on the main page of the app and had to pick my restaurant again.

I thought maybe I was picking a restaurant "outside of my delivery range" so I made sure location services were on. No change. The first thing it does is ask for an address, I shouldn't even have to give it my GPS coordinates but hey, who would test that right? When I enter the address I shouldn't even be able to see restaurants that don't deliver to me so I doubt that was the problem.

It just simply did not work at all. I'm not dumb, I tried to give them my money and couldn't figure it out, maybe I finally got old. Maybe I got hit by a cosmic ray.

I can call the local pizza place and submit a delivery order in under 11 seconds:

"Hello mulmen, would you like to hear our specials?" ~2s

"No, thanks" ~1s

"Ok, would you like to repeat your last order?" ~2s

"Yes" <1s

"Is the card ending in 1234 still valid?" ~2s

"Yes" <1s

"Thanks, we will be at 1234 Main St #1 in 45 minutes." ~3s

<click>

Seriously, I timed it. 11 seconds is my best. They have a local call center for their many locations so they pick up almost immediately. Order takers only take orders. I can place an order on their webpage (they don't have an app, why would they?) in under a minute.

Pickup orders from other nearby spots is similar.

I don't understand the value these delivery services supposedly offer.
Now do 4chan
At the very least, this might spawn some discussion around being able to remotely enable/disable SDKs, from a server that you control. Last week it was Google Maps, today Facebook SDK...
For a researcher, that means running an experiment changes from "running the experiment" to six months of meetings with higher management establishing business cases, budget justifications, getting competitive quotes from different providers, etc. (in other words it just doesn't happen).

The choice is not between "on premises" and "cloud", it's between "on premises" and "our glossy faculty brochure says you can do this but really you can't".
The comment thread on the self-awareness post is both very convincing and really meta. I love how clear the training of the different bots is.
I always imagined using a technology like this would feel really contrived. Like the number of dimensions of expression, or sensation you can impose on another person using it are so limited that it would almost feel kind of silly. The only thing you can really impact in a meaningful way seems to be timing. But good sexual experiences require so much more, pressure variation, directionality to name a few things. Can you comment?
I hope so too, but it's not like a fleet of fine-tuned EC2 instances running CentOS 6.5 is going to be patched and rebooted regularly without a similar amount of sysadmin attention.

(Not picking on CentOS, just using it as a placeholder for $REQUIRED_OS_BECAUSE_OF_CUSTOM_SOFTWARE.)
India (UP): Life term if corona patient causes death by ‘intentional affliction’
Well I like Leetcode type interviews a lot.
No, that’s something very different. The point GP is trying to make is that most opinions people hold on things are not actually their own formed conclusions, they are just regurgitations from authorities they trust.

This happens excessively in politics. Suddenly a huge chunk of a political faction will have the same “opinion” on a complex topic they have no day-to-day interaction with or previous educational coverage. When you try to dig deeper on these topics people hold such fervent “opinions” on, it turns out that it’s just a restatement of what they heard from a friend/talking head.
Hybrid cloud is the moneymaker solution, but there are no out of box solutions for it.
Their co founder Bryan Cantrill gave a talk at Stanford on what they are trying to do, essentially offer on prem servers comparable to what “hyperscalers” like Google and Facebook put in their data centers — highly efficient and customizable (in low level software) iirc.

https://youtu.be/vvZA9n3e5pc
Yes, the browser is where cookie management should happen, we call the browser the user agent for many years, it is the piece of software which is meant to represent the user's best interests when surfing the web.

Unfortunately these days the browser would be better referred to as the advertiser's agent," or perhaps just Google's agent.* Owing to Google's control over both web standards and the advertising market, cookie management features have received little attention.

Google's monopoly power has prevented a competitive market of privacy-focused, user-first browsers from flourishing.

It's also probably unlawful, the irony is that not too many years ago we punished Microsoft for unlawfully leveraging its monopoly to control the browser, and when we stopped them we paved the way for Google to do the same thing!
Like cable TV.
I watched the video and I was like "this looks pretty but I will probably not like this cursor behavior"
Most people I talk to or see online discussing their Digital Ocean usage just use their VPS.

Yes they offer managed databases and kubernetes, but these are newer offerings. I of course don't know how well used they are, but I never see or hear anybody talking about them.

I use them for all my stuff when I'm not on company time, and the reason is because I can just be like "spin me up a Debian box," which I cannot easily do on the things folks typically describe as cloud providers.
MSFT loves devs :)
Leaving aside how to apply marxian analysis to household relations, non-professional sexual partners, and so forth - the case of how people conceive cam sex workers using these things is an unambiguous example of marxian fetish. Your "human relations disguised as a relation between things" is laid pretty bare, there. That it also puns as "fetish" in a more conventional vulgar sense is just icing on that cake.
>The 'not knowing' part happens when the outrage is then transferred to any app which does integrate the FB SDK (like zoom).

Sorry, I'm lost here. Can you elaborate?

>We as developers have sortof taken for granted that the FB/Google/etc SDKs can do no evil. Maybe that attitude should change, because public opinion certainly has.

Previously, you mentioned

>If apps start charging money, there would be a significant drop in the # of average user installs. Then the app would only make money off of privacy focused users, which is comparatively small.

I don't have any reason to believe sales would lessen if a formerly "free" application began charging. The difference, however, I have no idea. You mention "significant" which is, of course, relative.

It isn't difficult to see the incentive at work in this scenario:

a) I could charge a nominal fee for use of my software, foregoing the unsavory practices discussed in this thread, and make X amount of money.

b) I could sell my user out and potentially make more than X amount of money. How much more? I don't know, but more.

Is that what it comes down to?
Remains to be seen if they immediately discharge all active-duty service members who receive a positive diagnosis, following the same logic they used to arrive at the current decision.
I couldn't agree more.

And this is why I like to call them "Self-Crashing Cars".

I'm fully capable of ploughing in to moving and stationary objects at high speed, under acceleration, myself. Thank you very much.

And OTA updates that can change the behaviour of the vehicle between uses? Just no. I have enough trouble switching between my Japanese and European cars (one of each) where the indicator stalks are on opposite sides of the steering column. I'm forever indicating my intention to turn with the wipers!
I would find this article more credible if the author was a decent writer.
Ask HN: Why are links of some [dead] submissions removed?
Usually when a submission gets killed, their link is still clickable, like

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23074193

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23072417

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23095051

But not with this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22877206

What's up with that?
I've found that a key part of CSRF protection is ensuring it gets added everywhere consistently. When new features need to be done yesterday and you have to review code from 20+ junior developers, it's easy to miss that extra hidden <input> field.

That's why I love if it's built into the framework like Django or Phoenix rather than bolted on or home-rolled.
It usually doesnt get that bad because transitive dependencies don't get added to the path. I.e. you actually need to have a list of 1000 direct dependencies to get 1000 path entries.

If for some reason you have a crazy amount of paths like that and path lookups were a problem, you could use buildEnv to create a single bin directory that had symlinks to all the binaries in it.
You CAN have your cake and eat it too.
What service contracts? Only hardware warranties n extended hardware warranties..
maagnit.com also similar to lobsters tags
> I notice you skipped South Korea. What stopped it there?

South Korea is anomalous. Has literally any other country been able to replicate their success?

> Glad you are admitting your own ignorance. Now, if you would just listen to the people who do know a little something about viral epidemics and their containment, you could cure that little condition.

Containment/minimizing covid-19 deaths is a very short-sighted variable to optimize for. Leaders need to weigh the cost of containment vs. the cost of prolonged lockdown/economic collapse. I have yet to see you acknowledge containment policies as having any downsides whatsoever. I don't think you really understand how desperate the situation is from an economic standpoint. The Fed can't just print money to solve every problem; otherwise, why work? Why not just have the Fed print every citizen $1M?

> In the meantime, you should stop spewing these dangerous ideas. You sound exactly like the Texas Lt. Governor. And, let me tell you: neither I nor my family are dying for you.

If you or your family are extra vulnerable, I'm afraid you'll have to avoid contact with others until a vaccine is developed. In the meantime, I'm not content with the current solution of "halt the economy/destroy lives/print money indefinitely". I feel the best course of action is to let the disease spread normally with a few extra measures in place to slow it down (social distancing/masks). And it seems a lot of governors agree with me - many states are starting to re-open. In my opinion, covid-19 is not as bad as it seems. Our data is biased because it comes mainly from hospitals while the majority of the cases go unnoticed. Things will return to normal.
lol, alright, thanks for taking the moment to educate
Can you explain this argument? They are not adding the Facebook sdk to track failure.

In fact I would say that the incident we are discussing here shows that adding the sdk adds a failure mode.
It has to say something about the effectiveness of your marketing if the only way you even observe it having an effect is by installing spyware on every users system.
> Is this even legal under GDPR?

I guess you could always complain about it to your country's data protection watchdog and then we'll all find out?
>This is an incredibly poor take.

No it isn't.

> It's well known that academic software doesn't follow great software engineering practices.

That doesn't make it acceptable. Also, it's also "well known" that vast majority of academic work has zero tangible effect on society. This isn't one of those works. It's possibly the most important piece of academic work that has happened in recent memory. So the bar for this is MUCH higher than typical academic research work.

>. That it isn't fully deterministic (with a fixed random seed) doesn't make thee research invalid and shouldn't discredit research that builds on the model.

It does make it invalid, when the difference between runs is as big as 80,000 estimated deaths which can lead to dramatically different government policies.

> This is another level of crazy.

No it's not. Academia is way behind the industry when it comes to modeling the economy and the real world.
If it is significantly
non deterministic based on the number of cores, then yes, it should be tossed.
Do you know how common it is to use the Facebook SDK for app analytics even from outside the Facebook ads ecosystem? I can’t remember exactly where I got this from but I was under the impression that it was pretty widely used for general analytics in the same way that loads of sites use Google Analytics without being in their ads ecosystem.
There are other ways to target / close the circle. App developers can share emails of new installs with facebook for cross match and more options. Would this feel better?
Maybe if they have a narrow definition of robot that requires it to have computer vision, as opposed to just a machine that repeats a repetitive task exactly.
Apple should put a second front camera on the iPad?
> If you are running real infrastructure, a couple hours of developer time will never out-weight the astronomical costs of cloud hosting.

Over time, buying things yourself will always win out on cloud architecture, or the cloud business would be bankrupt.
Keyframes, InterFrame and Video Compression (2016)
Ah, another favorite. Computer Love is a brilliantly sweet song. It actually is a great encapsulation of their genius — somehow marrying human warmth with technology.
The hand tool in Acrobat Reader did this earlier.
I don't read it that way. I read it as a message to not be discouraged if you aren't immediately a master because nobody is immediately a master. If everyone looks at the results of their work and says "I can't do this" then nobody will ever improve. It's a hacker's viewpoint for sure. Don't let the perfect be the enemy of not just the good but anything. Fail fast, etc, etc.

I didn't learn to use a command line or write python scripts instantly. I spent thousands of hours banging my head against the wall. Progress is slow. Imperceptible even. Stick with it and eventually you get there.

Does this mean everyone can do everything? No. It means you'll never find what you are good at it if you just give up at the first sign of failure.
good point. local tourism may pick up some slack
Strange enough, I recently noticed there's still life in Usenet's comp.lang groups for things like formal anouncements and language spec casuism with content not found elsewhere (after the decline of mailing lists and degeneration of StackOverflow). Seriously considering posting there once again.