skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>This isn't a case of users knowingly using a tool to scrape data for their own use, the users installing the extension are, at most, mules, for the extension makers.

I feel it's reasonable for the average person to figure that a plugin that pays them for using Facebook and Twitter is paying for the data generated from those sessions. There is already a case with LinkedIn where courts are allowing data scraping even though LinkedIn disallows it and forced LinkedIn to stop blocking it.

I feel like this is a case Facebook should lose. Facebook wants complete ownership of the data from Facebook for marketing purposes because obviously if they're the only ones that have the data they have a monopoly. But preventing others from gathering competing data seems to be a breach of Antitrust. And Facebook execs will openly admit this is what they're doing. They've shut down multiple influencer related companies who completely backed down from a cease and desist from Facebook. And they're refusing to allow anyone to grant influencer agencies access to their data. This is Facebook telling people who they can give their data to. As well as Facebook saying companies can't scrape public information and then sell the statistics. And statistics can't be copyrighted.
Don't they usually arrange these as "swaps" though? (I'm no expert on this). I mean with other museums - I know there's the thing where rich people buy impressive shit and then lend it to museums so they don't have to worry about security.
This really is the only viable option right now, and specifically only the Apple TV. The Shield and Chromecast are slight improvements, but of the mainstream TV choices, Apple TV is literally the only product that puts your privacy first.
Bonus points for no procfs.
The comment about power users:

> Pryor reckons one pain point is visibility into the increasingly busy Trello boards put together by customers, but the team is cautious about sacrificing usability on the altar of feature requests.

> "Developers," he said, "add more stuff, add more stuff, add more stuff... and, essentially, you get this tool that does more things for those specific power users. But in the beginning, those people that were using it, you've now turned those people off, and they're not coming in anymore, because now the software is too complicated to use."

I didn’t fully understand this as a developer, but it become crystal clear as a product manager. I personally love power tools with countless knobs to adjust, command line options to explore, complex features to learn, and other fun things that stimulate the mind of an engineer.

But the number of your customers who want unbounded complexity is very, very low. Some of the most vocal customers might mislead you on this fact by demanding some specific feature for their workload and recruiting armies of commenters to back them up. Letting the loudest customers dictate your product roadmap will start to alienate the silent majority of your users.

Offering plug-in functionality, a scripting system, or a documented API is a nice way to cater to power users without cluttering up the UX/UI. However, that brings up a real problem with the power users who think they know more than they do, who end up destroying their data through the API and trying to have customer support fix it or otherwise hold the company accountable. It doesn’t take long to realize that you’re simply better off letting the 1% of power users feeling disappointed while you focus on a product for the 99% of users who just want your core functionality.
The model of global warming you believe in is hyperbolic and ascientific. No legitimate climate scientist is worried about "rendering the earth inhospitable".
Interesting comment. What is the argument you're trying to make? I am from a western country, and I do see privacy as one of the most important concepts of our time. And I do feel privileged that I am in such a position that I can think of it. Especially since privacy is so easily traded in poorer countries for needs like internet and communication. Yes these problems as famine and unemployment need attention they do. But in the meantime, privacy needs a lot of attention too. And like Europe started with GDPR it paves a way for other countries to follow or draw inspiration. It's not one or the other. And to be honest I am happy that I can ask these questions before it takes a larger hold on society. And again, yes we need to help other countries with those issues.

When those nations are solved from their immediate problems, they will also need to deal with privacy and these ethical questions. We just have a head start and we can already ask the the questions and find solutions for it.
Mature SAAS applications over focus currently on new releases, features and engineering. I say this because product development resources should be allocated to creating recipes, templates, documentation and communities enabling power and novice users to add complex functionality quickly.
You can get it from Flathub. It's packaged by volunteers, who use the .deb they get from the Slack website.

https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.slack.Slack
Distribution packagers often remove statically linked libraries from upstream and make the software dynamically link anyway.

I'm not saying that the UX of native packages is great for end users. I'm just saying that the security model is saner.
I don’t disagree with you about UBI, but I have to say it makes me feel sad. In my experience most people really want meaningful work, and the fact that it puts food on the table makes a lot of otherwise meh work more satisfying and meaningful.

At the end of the day it’s more important that people can meet their needs, and if UBI does that, a lot of people will be able to improvise some interesting things to apply themselves to, which I think will be great for them. But a lot of people will also sit on the couch and watch TV all day, feeling there’s no point to life. We’ll have all kinds of new and unforseeable second order effects.

I also worry that the fundamental problem is not so much income but cost of living. The way things work today, any amount of UBI that you pay but just drive up the rent. If we don’t significantly increase housing supplies to meet demand, I don’t see how we can break that loop.
That's the actual headline, but it's not representative of the article, which is vastly more nuanced, as is the scientific response to hybridization. If you look at the recent scientific response to sequencing Neanderthal genome and finding out that non-African humans tend to carry a little Neanderthal genetic material, you'll see a similar response.
OK so the company pockets the remaining $300k, while the intern still gets only $40k. Does that make it categorically better? I don't think so.

Also, the company probably only has to pay those $40k to $200k in salary costs for a few years, but the benefits derived from the work might outlive it. There's nothing stopping anyone from firing an employee just because they previously made a massive contribution to the company's financial success. Why keep the cow if you can get the milk for free?

So it might even be the full $500k in pure profits after the 2nd year.
I have used Jekyll for years on a GitHub pages site. I like working with Jekyll overall, but the site has grown to a moderate size and now it takes about 8 seconds to render changes locally. When I started a new personal site last year I went with Hugo because one of its main selling points is speed.

Can anyone share how Pelican's rendering speed compares to Jekyll and Hugo?
I'd love to combine this with the previous idea. What's the ratio of median home price to first full-time full-year income minus student loan payments? That would probably put the difference between then and now in even starker relief.
Genuinely curious, how is Palantir a threat to liberty?
Why?

Because of the guidelines of this community:

"Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."
It really sucks that you've had that experience. FWIW, I've enjoyed many of your comments here, so thanks for persevering in a bad situation!
What matters is not how much people care about it but rather how much it shapes our lives every day, how much it shapes the geopolitical landscape, and how much of a negative influence it threatens to have over us all.
Soon to be master's at the rate things are going...
Who is writing state machines without the pattern of generators/coroutines these days?
Completely agree. I'm a Korean American in my thirties, and most of my East Asian American friends lived with their parents until they got married, or they had to move a very long distance away for work. Several of my friends who are now entering their early 40s and are still unmarried continue to live with their parents. All are doing at least above average financially and could easily afford to move out, but they (myself included) don't see the point.

In contrast, my non Asian friends are shocked when the hear about stuff like this. It's like they cannot possibly imagine living with your parents beyond college. It's tantamount to admitting you are a failure at life.

I once lived on my own for two years in my twenties just to see what it was like. My apartment was barely 15 minutes away from my parents home. After two years, I came to the conclusion it was pointless because all I did at my place was sleep, so I moved back in. I didn't move back out until I got married many years later.

I will admit, I was not exactly a big hit with women and at least part of the reason I chose to move out back then was to see if it would improve my love life. It did not. YMMV, but many of my aforementioned Asian friends who are happily living with their parents today at an "advanced age" are also happily dating. For that matter, I was completely dateless/loveless when I was living on my own, but it ironically improved significantly after I had moved back in with my parents, culminating in my marriage.
Yes, you may have a pretty privileged live. In my opinion your obligated to think and care about such things, when you have a privileged live. I don't expect a poor 3rd world family to save privacy or the climate--but I expect it from people who have the luxury to spend time on these issues. Everyone will get reckt by lacking privacy or the collapsing climate if we don't do something about it.
Snaps are built on a "base snap" which in turn is derived from Ubuntu LTS. Further, they can bundle debs from the Ubuntu repositories using the "build-packages" and "stage-packages" manifest keywrods. One bonus of this design is that the people writing the manifest don't have to worry about how the deb dependencies themselves are built. They only need to worry about building any third-party dependencies.

Now, flathub does maintain a collection of "modules" -- basically prewritten manifests for building various common dependencies from source. But that collection is still quite small, and writing a working flatpak manifest can involve duplicating a lot of the hard work of Debian and Ubuntu package maintainers.

Recently, Fedora started something promising from a maintainer's point of view by:

* creating a flatpak runtime based on fedora releases, and

* allowing one to specify existing Fedora packages as dependencies instead of having to figure how how to build all the dependencies from source (https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/flatpak/tutorial/).

But it is still in its early stages.
> Software changes, fundamentals do not.

The Big-O complexity of mergesort hasn't changed since the 1990s, certainly.

But our industry's answer to "what does a properly designed website login system look like?" has changed a great deal since the 1990s.
Fantastic work! Congrats
I think this essay conflates the notion of privacy and property and goes off the rails from there. I get what he's trying to say, but I don't think it has much to do with the the ordinary sense of the word privacy. If he's saying that the boundary between the individual and the collective is a core social construct, then, sure. But there are other, much better discussions of that topic, going back thousands of years.
Just picturing how long I would last at my job if I just said no to every task I was assigned.
>"You too can become an NBA player!". You have the opportunity if you work hard enough

I didn't say that.

Rather to find opportunity that suitable for you.

opportunity are there for everyone but a one particular gig may not be for everyone. Some suitable for being youtuber, some suitable for instagram model, some suitable to be game streamer, etc. These gig doesn't exist back in 1990, old people today shouldn't compare it the gig back in 1990, the economy are always evolving.
I did. That part doesn't prop it up as the most important concern.
You may be misreading that paper because it doesn't back up your claim.

Blacks are more likely to have confrontations with police and also more likely to be killed by them. There are explanations for that which aren't police racism.

Blacks also have a higher fatality rate for being murdered by criminals. The ratio is many times higher than 2.8. Are you saying the criminals are racist?
The only thing that that is bugging me at this very moment is that Swift's switch is a statement and not an expression. Ugh!
Zola is fast and simple, but there is a hard upper bound on what it can do, and the author has no desire to change this. One example is requests to support PostCSS instead of SASS. Zola's author doesn't want a dependency larger than the entire application.

I'm currently using Zola + python/js scripts to do things Zola can't and considering a move to something like Pelican.
The Old Reader: https://theoldreader.com/

Looks and feels very much like Google Reader.
This sucks! Please don’t standardize this.
I don't think Palantir going public is about liquidity for insiders. Rather, I think it is about access to public capital markets. Obviously, it does both, but I think the impetus is access to public capital markets.
Plastic and dirt, probably.
Mac only :'(
> Edit: To clarify, he says "net tuition", then throws out a $15,000 number for modern colleges. That's on the low-to-medium end of the per-semester cost of a modern public institution, so I'm assuming he's also listing the per-semester cost for the 1986 tuition.

not sure where you're getting those numbers. the average annual cost (tuition + fees + room + board) of a four-year public institution is around $20k. [0] $15k per semester is far from the low-to-medium end.

[0] https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=76
please tell us what palantir did that google or even the nba doesn't
The Apple Watch heart monitor sends too many people to the doctor
Japan in the 1980 didn't have any better access to natural resources than it has today, yet it didn't have the labor market problems described in the article. Many, many other countries don't have a lot of natural resources and are not having these problems.
GTK does not support static linking, so that rules out pretty much all GTK applications: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-list/2018-January/msg000...

The question about it comes up every so often, but nobody has ever put up the effort to maintain it. It appears to be a lot of work for very little gain.
Again, to whom?

Arch has aur, arch can sideload rpm/Deb's, Mac has home brew, who needs this?

The only people I see using flatpak is the 50 odd Linux users we have at work, they constantly have dramas trying to make things work around home directory sandboxing, permissions, updating and more

> Single way

Why is this valuable? Just saying it doesn't make it true.

Why do we need a single way to install?

I'm not saying it's a bad thing, but giving up home dirs and a bunch of other platform specific benefits is a cost I'm not willing to pay for some made up ideal that gives me a worse experience.
> The day you need a license to write code

You don't need a license to tell your friend how you were able to beat a ticket in traffic court (that is, give free legal advice as a non-professional). You do need a license to charge somebody to represent them in court.
It's an immediate threat because it is (via their credit score, health records, criminal record) being used to repress them.
So yes and no. My parents are pretty old (they had kids late) and they really don't like telling revenue (the taxman) anything, and would be inclined to overlook tax avoidance and whatnot. My wife's parents are of a similar age, and also similar on this.

Now, all of them were born a generation after independence, so it's definitely not just that.

However, when the government has historically not given a crap about you (as the British government did not), it leads to a disconnect from the society and institutions that increases the probability that you'll be OK with tax dodging and not have as much trust in the overall society (because historically, it didn't care about you).

So, I'd say that it's slowly changing because we're not a colony anymore, but it definitely didn't just disappear in a puff of smoke in 1921.
And if existing farms become less productive, you need more land and more capital investment to start a farm. When GP talks about more labor being needed for food production, these are not more farmers, these are more field hands and laborers.
Yes, and in my casual discussions across the US over the last few years:

Health care -- it's too expensive

Wages -- Working a 40 and being able to make it in a reasonable, modest way.

Environment -- Things are changing rapidly, risk goes up, cost goes up

People are concerned about privacy, and it's important, but basic life is well above it on the radar.

Your comment seconded, the point being "most important" is very highly debatable, depending on what one may be experiencing.

And I would add, improvements on all those fronts would free people to get more involved, and that may well impact how well we can address privacy.
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I have long suspected that Excel's treatment of CSV files was intentionally antagonistic. For example, opening a CSV file will start an importer function where you must specify how fields are delimited within the file, and "comma" is not automatically selected, ever, despite "comma-separated" being literally named in the file extension.

Surely the folks programming it are not that short-sighted. It's just a punishment for not using their default format.
God be praised i like the thought of what you say in this: in essence if people want to come into the country and abide by the laws it is a good thing for the country.

Now in terms of documenting people and this may be your original intent, to allowing them to work for a while, protecting somehow well, i think that there should be a good process for this. While i am in favor of giving good forms of asylum and aid, i am not convinced about any extreme like having totally open borders with immediate citizenship. This should be a process of at least 8 or more years i think. A process i see that would take into account a problem such as the following for world as it is:

I am concerned that if people entering into the country do so with the mindset of overturning their laws, to the disfavor of current citizens in it.

So on one hand those who open borders could desire to have a set of laws that are selfish towards their party (and no human party is totally unselfish), and gain votes by doing so in order to pass laws that may not benefit the current majority and perhaps even what is truly morally beneficial.

Further concerning, when we have a nation that has traditionally been both Democratic and Judeo-Christian, receiving and sponsoring an influx of we could say Muslim people who may express desire to gain a majority and could vote to impose thing like Sharia law.

From my impression the treatment and persecution seen in countries where there is a Muslim or most other majority towards Christians (or even their own people) is worse in forcing them to behave contrary to their principles than the Christian majority nations to Muslims.

God is good, sorry, i was just attempting to write a short reply about it being an interesting comment and then found these issues to wrestle with. Guidance un to Jesus Christ be to us all.
Nobody cares because they can’t afford a house to live in, and family health insurance costs as much as rent.

By definition the median income cannot win a bidding war for housing when there’s only enough supply available for the top 5%.
Cloud computing enabling devs to engineer pretty nice stuff for small businesses
President Trump and First Lady Melania Test Positive for the Coronavirus
Yes but now that we are months into the pandemic those antibody seroprevalence studies also underestimate the true number of infections. Some patients, especially those with minor infections, never produce detectible levels of antibodies or they fade away quickly. In order to get really accurate data we would have to also check memory cells, but that requires specialized and expensive laboratory procedures.
You don't need slaves from Africa if you can enslave your own people through serfdom.
I'm almost thinking it will lead to ROI being less at the end. As they filter everyone through nice funnels ultimately they restrict reach such that "new customers" are less. Once that happens they will come back out to target "other people" not in their finely tuned categories and effectively be about where we are now. If roofers are my best customer as a hammer manufacturer and I market solely to them at some point all hammer manufacturers will come to the same conclusion and they will be fighting for the sole segment.
I was going to say that can't be correct, otherwise some civic-minded third party could swat a global thermonuclear war, saving us all. But https://fas.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/WarheadInventorie... agrees, even if it is by warheads and not by megatonnage. So if I'm in a third world country with no foreign bases that has emergency plans for autarky, I'd not be likely to come off too poorly were everything to go elliptical?

Bonus clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecPeSmF_ikc

Edit: https://ourworldindata.org/nuclear-weapons (which also shows that both the hexagonal "Force de dissuasion" and Airforce One's Tridents are in the noise)

> "These weapons have the capacity to kill millions directly and through their impact on agriculture have likely the potential to kill billions."

Maybe swatting RU/US wouldn't be so civic minded after all.
The needed models can be quite large. Do you really want to download a large model on every website making use of the new proposed apis?
That way lies madness, and/or eventually accidentally writing your own Dynamo-paper database.
Well I don't.

Also, at current interest rates, you'd need to save 65% of pre-tax income to have a good pension, so the likelihood of any of us having a decent pension is very, very low (modulo getting in early at a megacorp).
Thanks, it works well.
I was bored so I tested this on AWS from EC2 instance to ELB HTTPS load balancer (in the same VPC), and I got about 5-10ms time_total as reported by curl. So that sort of gives a baseline on what TLS latency can be when network is fast.
The HMRC internal manual lists the main factors that were considered:

https://www.gov.uk/hmrc-internal-manuals/vat-food/vfood6260