skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess the web first way of dealing with this would be to have the data online also, maybe even on the same platform. Then you could have things like: Look at visualizations of this dataset, at what people have done with this dataset etc.. And you could immidiately verify the results, assuming you trust the data.
Didn't you read the fine print?
I agree with everything you said.
As just a guy? Not so easy. I'm not a company, I'm just a person.
Thanks, I'll read up on these!
Actually no it hasn't. I think I'm just blind occasionally.
These blocks may also prevent Microsoft from getting updates, including new virus scanning profiles. I'd say that blocking access to them could be a risk.
It's true that the lack of awareness of privacy is pretty prevalent even in industry. Hence the ease of obtaining large amount of highly curated data. But it is also true that these details are used as material for sensationalist journalism. Sometimes I can tell clearly (by understanding what they speak) the interviewees were so innocently excited without knowing how they are cut into videos. But I could be biased too.
Why are people so quick to assume the motivations of others for a basic comment?

Posting form this position - Psychopharmacology and neuroscience research to post graduate level. I'm not keen to see a genetic explanation, i'm keen to see the results of research into this area because then we can discuss the extent biology plays a role in relation to socio-economical factors.

There is some research suggesting opiate addicts could be compensating for a dysregualted endogenous opiate system through substance abuse. There is similar work for dopamine with smoking. Looking at things this way could change the way interventions are offered and also potentially reduce stigma for some of those who have addictions.

Some interesting links that have likely already been shared on HN for both socio-economical and biological theories:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_Park

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-018-0117-2
That doesn't invalidate the point, it reinforces it: when you sign up for an Apple-style "walled garden" you cede all control of whether or not your app ships — and, assuming you do ship, whether or not your users can keep using your app.

You being tired of it doesn't change anything. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Someone with twice the total amount of hair (follicle # * hair length) will take approximately twice as long to achieve the same level of greasiness. This is holding "hair oil"/sebum production fixed. Sebum is produced in the scalp, which is why bald people still have shiny heads. If anything, men with more hair produce less sebum, since overactive sebaceous glands are caused by the same hormone which causes hair loss (DHT). Lucky people like you generally produce less scalp oil and that oil is distributed over a larger volume of hair. Men experiencing hairloss can take finasteride to reduce their DHT levels and simultaneously reduce/stop hairloss and excessive sebum production. Material side effects are rare, and reports of persistent side effects are extremely rare, but of course it warrants a discussion with one's dermatologist.

The preponderance of unsolicited advice is to lay off the product, when that is the worst advice for the people who need the most advice.
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Oh yes.

This is one of my favourite spin-offs:
https://ultibo.org/
I've heard faraday cages can prevent transmission and reception of electromagnetic waves.
There is a solution even to that. That's what the Microsoft sale is all about. That's why Bytedance proposed to sell ALL shares of their US branch. Replace the entire US branch staff with US employees. Vet every line of code. Don't send any data to China. This is the ultimate solution.

And yet nobody seems to be interested in this solution. People are still cooking up new reasons to ban Tiktok. Or ignoring the existence of this solution altogether.

Why do you think that might be? I suspect it's because the issue is more emotional and fear-based than rational. People are falling for the propaganda.
>To what degree does the EC actually get a say in this? These are both American companies, so presumably the commission cannot block the acquisition.

If Google doesn't want to do business in the EU then EU has no say in it.
Some things like the size of the US National Debt are genuinely getting noticeably worse rather quickly. It’s ~125% of GDP (26.6T) ignoring COVID and likely to get significantly worse over the next year. Interest added up to 383B in 2009 and 574B in 2019 that’s insane. https://www.treasurydirect.gov/govt/reports/ir/ir_expense.ht...

Plenty of issues do evolve slowly. The Ogallala Aquifer is rather critical to the Midwest and has serious issues. Sure waiting two years isn’t going to make that much difference, but that just means we wasted another two years before doing anything.
Ask HN: What was the best project management style you have been a part of?
What tools did you use? Any particular methodology? Why did it work for your team or company?
Neither Vine nor YikYak was doing $3B in profit/year. TikTok is likely here to stay.
Like it or not, Hong Kong is part of China.
Everyone knows that there is only one way to mount your toilet roll and that is so the paper flips over the top and to the front :)

The author was hedging their bets and providing comfort to those poor misguided heathens who disagree.
The situation that we have is that the only person who actually has the willpower to stand up to China (Trump) is simultaneously too idiotic and too self-centered to effectively do so.
The US president can probably compel Apple and Google to remove Tiktok from their app stores. Tiktok can appeal that action to the US court system and the US legislature, but those appeals would probably go nowhere.

So a technically inclined Android user or a user of a jailbroken iOS device can probably continue to use Tiktok, with effort, but will have much fewer people to interact with using the service.
" The other dog walker you see on the path, who is terrified of what they think is a disease that has killed 7% of the population[1], will report you and because it's the law you'll be punished even though it makes no sense."

Sorry but this is utter nonsense. The authorities don't have time to track down every citizen-reported non-mask wearer. You are imagining a deep-state dystopia that simply does not exist.
Free trade doesn't work between countries with different value systems, the values will be exploited as a weakness. Same applies with labor and environmental standards.
Sorry, this is not the rebuttal. You may want to have your own meanings for words, that's fine (I guess), but do not expect others to agree to them.
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I doubt the author would make the same complaint if Microsoft wrote similar proprietary extensions for Emacs or Vim or Atom.

I also doubt they would make the same complaint if JetBrains or someone else wrote the same proprietary extension for VS Code.

Neither the first case nor the second would make any of those editors any less open source.
Comment Flagging on HN as of Late
Is it just me or is comment-flagging becoming the default means of disagreeing here?
Isn't that feature supposed to be reserved for anti-socially ridiculously deliberately offensive materials that need to be removed etc?

I'm also less and less convinced about this "points voting system" in which a downvote costs the downvoting person nothing, nor is any justification necessary.

I would like to see a flag require a submitted textual reason, and downvotes require a comment postulating a coherent and logical motive, that obviously needn't be agreed-upon, but some input of some kind to raise the bar needed to damage someone.
Isn't that a GDPR violation?
> Slavery is much older than the period that the term "scientific racism" refers to.

If you know this, then you also know that these are not comparable forms of slavery. Romans (or whatever) did not treat their slaves as sub-humans.
Apple sends out emails about a month before your certificate expires - I bet they didn’t check it and/or thought the expiry would only apply to new builds

*replaced pronouns and specified
Ah, the illusion of control…
Pre-Training Is (Almost) All You Need: An Application to Commonsense Reasoning
Why, like Ariana, you should be grateful for your ex (IDE)
Because "genetic causes" will be abused (and arguably is pretty much just a dogwhistle) for racial stereotyping and Untermensch classifications, so you better be damn sure about the accuracy and impact magnitude before talking about it.
Google Certificate Authority Service
Due to the focus on security, I'm curious about customer isolation here. When you do interconnect with a cloud provider, it's traditionally into a VPC. Does cloudflare have a similar concept in play?

How, for example, am I prevented from setting up a CDN configuration and/or EdgeWorker that talks to someone else's "private" (or non-internet routable) IP addresses? From the article it sounds like edge nodes have routeability to them, so is there some additional layer of packet encapsulation/tagging or something performed by proxy server?
Once you get this, you can start building matrices for any (finite dimensional) 'vector space' not just the standard 'vectors as a list of numbers'.

All you need to do is to pick a basis for your vector space, and you can start to represent linear transformations as matrices w.r.t. that basis. Even cooler is when you let go of specific basis choices, and start talking about properties of linear transformations that do not depend on a choice of basis. Things like a determinant, eigenvalues, etc.
When Terence Tao writes stuff like this, I'm always very happy that I got to experience the Moore-method for learning math (at UT Austin). A group of us would be dumped into a class with a common topic and we'd just have to prove things (topology, algebra, analysis) ... on the blackboard, in front of everyone. The best work we did was when something started going wrong and then we'd all start arguing about the proof, building count-conjectures on the fly and riffing on the math. The worst work was when someone went and found a proof ahead of time and just showed the answer. There's so much to learning where the sharp bits of math are; proofs are the razor-thin path through the briar patch.

It was only later that I found out that history, the study of art & literature, and philosophy can all teach you the same thing. The important part is that you're interested in the topic.
Yep, I do share your concern. They so far haven't done anything shitty with this capability (unlike the one the main thread pertains to, which they have done over and over).

There absolutely should be a mechanism to disable the feature, although I think it should be enabled by default.
I feel like this is overblown, because I see ugly and poor people in tiktok all the time (if doesn't matter if you're ugly or poor -- you can still make compelling content), and I occasionally see disabled people too.

Perhaps this is true for the very first content you see, but not true once the algo becomes personalized?
Belarus declares military mobilisation on the border with Russia
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I am skeptical (with an open mind) of the JSONField pattern. We’ve used it in a few places where you have something like inheritance, so you want to handle all Event objects the same at the top level, and then dispatch differently based on Type. This works fine.

My concern is that this is a pattern which experts advocate, but less precise/experienced engineers are likely to break when it comes time for a data migration.

With normal SQL fields, if you change the schema you need to create a migration, and that gives an easy point to check for datamigrations too. If any commit can silently change the write-schema, it’s a lot harder to police.

So I suspect if your team skews towards very experienced engineers the JSONField pattern probably gains in value. If that’s right it’s probably best to caveat the recommendation.

Interested to know your experiences with schema changes though.

I’m also interested to note that you are pointing out a general issue with Django I’ve experienced - the Models spread through the whole system. You can solve that in other ways, say by having a repository layer that used normal (non-JSONField) models and maps them through to a POPO. I’m not sure you _need_ the JSONField pattern to get the separation you’re looking for.
Can't edit now, but I just want to say that I've reconsidered this point of view and now find it mildly racist and insensitive. Apologies if anyone was hurt by this.
China and Uighurs: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
Is there the option for European users to have this data removed and not collected again? - If not, would this be a GDPR violation?
Reminds me of motorcycle helmet standards in the United States, where “DOT” is the minimum legal requirement. For people who want to live, ECE, Snell, or the new FIM standards are a must.
Going a bit off topic here, but I love that it's called a "Home Computer."

Computers used to be a family thing. Back then it was a bit of a status symbol to have a "computer room" for the family "home computer," and many a den or library or spare bedroom in middle America was converted to being The Computer Room. The ads on TV and in magazines showed families gathered around this new wonder machine, and even in my dysfunctional household that really happened. Family members who wouldn't normally speak to one another would come together at the home computer.

Today, we have "personal computers." A term which evokes a more "me and mine" vibe, rather than an "ours" ethos. We picked up the "PC" term from the business world, where it was an important distinction that each person could have a computer, rather than rely on the company's shared resources. But that term should have stayed in the office.

There's a reason that early video game machines, and even some computers, had four controllers — because people would come over to your house and you did things as a group with other human beings. That's why everyone had candy dishes in the living room and guest towels in the bathroom — in case "company" came over.

Now, the state-of-the-art is being locked alone in the dark in a "media room" with goggles and headphones in your own cocoon, shutting out the real world, and the human beings in it.
Looks like it’s been fixed

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24049630
I think it's more just of an acknowledgment.

I don't know what folks want in a news bit about this 'OH WOE IS ME?!?!'
>> research to suggest that these algorithms can induce behavior-changing tactics through trial-and-error?

Cambridge Analytica certainly had that research. Media campaigns are no longer about "getting the word out", projecting an idea and hoping it sticks. Modern campaigns are about changing a narrative, moving individuals from one opinion to another through whatever means works best for that individual. I cannot see how Facebook wouldn't be studying this.
> My salary has gone up 84% in those 18+ years.

My salary went up 300% during the first three years of my career... but it mostly meant that I had no idea about the market when I was freshly out of university, and my employer was happy to take the advantage of my ignorance. (As I later found out, the increased salary was still way below the market rate.)

I am not contradicting your judgment, just saying that increased salary may also have another interpretation. And how much you feel you deserve, that also depends on your background, etc. For example, it felt quite weird to me when I was making more money than both my parents together; and yet, it was below the market rate for my type of job.
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Trump's Extortion on TikTok Sale
I use Windows inside Linux KVM virtual machine mostly for gaming. One of my GPUs passed through into VM with PCI passthrough.
The simpler answer is TikTok paid an ample Chinese labor force to watch and heart U.S. videos. This gives the users a nice dopamine rush and brings them back. It was obvious by the number of likes and comments very dumb videos would have.
I guess I'm too used to Android where you need to install a 3rd party APK.
But I would argue that designing an algorithm that appeals to the human psyche in the way that Bytedance as done requires more than math skills. Designing the TikTok "For You Page" is not a pure ML problem, its a people problem that is being solved with ML.
The old adage is "hope for the best, prepare for the worst". In my opinion, doom and gloom news stories should be handled by calculating the probability of the doom scenario affecting you, figuring out what you should do to prepare given that likehood, doing it, and then cease worrying about it.

Covid-19 surging near you? Make sure you have enough stored food to weather a quarantine, have on hand whatever supplies you think you might need to combat symptoms that are bad but not bad enough to be hospitalized for, and make sure your will is in order if you have a comorbidity. Then go about your business wearing a mask and social distancing and forget about it.

In my opinion, this is the happy medium. Much more positive than constantly being afraid every day scrolling through news stories and much more grounded than just thinking in platitudes.
Both Google and Fitbit have major EU subsidiaries in order to serve the European market. They could spin off the EU subsidiaries and merge only the US headquarters, although that would probably be impractical.

Google Ads policy: "“Google Entity” means Google LLC (formerly known as Google Inc.), Google Ireland Limited or any other Affiliate of Google LLC"

Fitbit Privacy Policy: "Fitbit International Limited, an Irish company, is your data controller and provides the Services if you live in the EEA, UK or Switzerland"
I thought the whole point of rent-control was to keep prices from going up? In this instance they would be going down.

How could you spin that as a good thing for landlords? Ignoring blatantly false news, that is.
Judge speaks about the ‘madman’ who killed her son and calls for privacy rights
As I said it isn't in the app store.
The research on OD and Dyslexie is mixed, but I added it to my Chrome extension, which is designed to improve readability. [1] Before we added it, it was probably our most-requested feature.

1: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/beeline-reader/ifj...
Then it's settled. Thanks.
If you think the legislation is stupid, blame the legislators. Companies have to abide by laws, even stupid ones.
Do you have any advice for making that transition? I'm a SWE with about 3 years experience. I'm hoping to make this type of transition in a few more years. Also, are you in the US? Does paying for your own insurance significantly erode your earnings?
There is, it's called INFORMATION_SCHEMA and defined by the SQL standard.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/information-schema.h...

Postgres also has its own schema that is basically manipulated directly by the C runtime:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/catalogs.html
0.4% of people who _were already reporting on their pain_ (likely a group who are plausibly more likely to have some sort of pain issues than the general population) had this gene. That is, this is extremely rare. And the effect was small. It shouldn't bolster any stereotypes.
Manually, right? Django autogenerates all of the SQL schema for you on non-JSON fields. You could replicate that work, but that sounds tedious.
Nicely done animations, great licence too.
I'm an FPGA engineer. This is cool, but seems unlikely to be used much in practice, mostly because the tools are so crufty that the industry has silo'd itself into separate hardware ecosystems. For example, most places will use all Altera or all Xilinx chips, and their designs will rely on features that are only provided by the Altera or Xilinx tools/chips, making switching tools expensive and time-consuming.
Exactly right. Yet they are fully signed and sold in (supposedly) secure app stores. When people talk about a feature providing security, it's important to ask "security from who?"
As I said 'if you start from the entrance, it's fine'. The comment up thread that I interpreted that way (it wasn't my own) was in reply to a comment that sounded like you could start anywhere (e.g. attempt the maze in the right spirit and then give up and put your hand on any wall), not just at the entrance.
Closing bugs.launchpad. net/ubuntu/+bug/1 was a mistake, now I understand.
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If the president can't compel Apple/Google to install backdoors, he can't compel them to remove TikTok.
That sounds just like YouTube and how I presumed Vine worked though? E.g. that the majority of users don't set up any follow graph, and that most content users view is algorithmically-discovered and not like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram where most of the content is based on an explicit graph?
I feel like most of these graphs seem to be the same graph just with a different initial conditions?
> Isn't it going to be hard to stay away from both blizzard and Activision? They made/make really good stuff.

Not really. The last good game that Blizzard made was StarCraft 2, 10 years ago. It's free anyways, so you can cost the company a few cents in server charges without supporting them. I don't play console games, so Activision is completely irrelevant to me.

> The concept that if anything about x pisses you off

I was talking about Blizzard specifically, not x. Ditching Blizzard will save you years of disappointment and frustration. It's quicker & easier to forget them for moral reasons than to be gradually disillusioned by their releases.
China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan all have lower infection rates than we do, and one of their biggest ways of controlling it has been masks. Taiwan in particular has never had more than a few cases and they are near neighbors to the epicenter of this whole thing. They controlled it by cutting off travel and using masks and they've never had to do a shut down.
>"the faculty will not accept asymptotics"

the hell does that mean?
I wanted to respond to your comment that started

> I've been here off and on for almost 9 years.

But it's flagged / dead.

Anyway. I'm not a Wrongthink Troll. Just a guy, probably more like you than not in most ways... that has a low tolerance for self-aggrandizing behavior. The tone of the post I replied to just rubbed me the wrong way.

I apologize for the unconstructive nature of my comment. I should have said nothing. Now I just feel like the Tone Police... And nobody likes that.
It was an advanced class for kids who'd done single-variable calculus early.
People not wearing reflectors while wearing black is so silly.