skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I personally found Facebook hard to quit, but not entirely impossible. I would compare it to giving up cigarettes: not easy, but I got through it. I am coming to terms with the fact that I have have a very serious and damaging internet addiction, however. Like many serious addictions, there's a lot of shame attached to my real addiction, which is 4chan. 4chan is like being addicted to heroin. Every day is a battle to look away from the train wreck, and so far I haven't been able to overcome this addiction in any meaningful way. What's interesting is that the site doesn't use any of the scandalous techniques that facebook is currently getting heat for, yet it has a grip on me that's basically ruined my life as much as a crack addiction could ruin a person's life. It's so bad that I've spent many years of my life living in very close proximity to hard drug users, because of the poverty my addiction has caused me. So, I guess what I'm getting at is we might have a bigger problem than just facebook, or at least I do.
From the message:

> ...all apps that allow for account creation must also allow users to initiate deletion...

So any third-party client that allows creating an HN account would need to stop. (Are there any?)
I've wondered how many potential serial killers there are out there that will never kill simply because we, as a society, have elevated video games, movies, and adult entertainment to such an extent that killing just isn't as gratifying as blowing time on WoW, Netflix, or PH.
Then you've got two Russian blues already. That's exactly that.
Are commenters here familiar with the history of police and "private security" being deployed against striking workers? This has been happening without interruption in the U.S. since the nineteenth century.

There are some excellent resources out there - some useful keywords to search would be "Pinkertons" and "Ludlow"…

It's useful to recognize that police primarily exist to defend private property and the persons to whom said property belongs.
GitHub repo: https://github.com/RUB-SysSec/gadget_synthesis
That’s every newspaper online. And gym memberships. And many others. Easy to get, pain in the ass to end.
I'll need some more evidence to believe it. They're strongly citing the "scars" on his forehead which, to my eye, look a lot like the wrinkles on anyone's forehead.
I can't take credit for the arguments made, they mostly come form the excellent book 'The Language Hoax' by John McWhorter, I should have referenced this in the original comment but it's a bit too late to edit it. In the book he takes a very hard stance against linguistic relativism and demonstrates the harm the theory can have when applied by certain people to certain languages or peoples, he even goes as far as to caution about the recent trend for weak relativism. There's also a 45 minute talk he did on the book as well (0).

One example in the book would be the Pirahã who famously don't have words for numbers, they can describe 1 'that', 2 'pair', a few, and many, but not much else. It wouldn't be hard to imagine the harm that would be caused by taking a Whorfian approach would have on such a tribe. In this subchapter he does make the point that it's culture that drives the linguistics, and the subtitle of which is pretty pertinent, 'Tribe without Paper or Pencils Mysteriously Weak at Portraiture'.

Lera Boroditsky is a good mention as well, she authored both of the mentioned studies on Mandarin. The first was 'Does Language Shape Thought?: Mandarin and English Speakers’ Conceptions of Time' (2001) (1). Other researchers have tried to replicate this study (2) and were unable to do so, although they note that all documented examples of linguistic relativity can't be dismissed just from one flawed study, and explicitly note that the effect of the mechanisms is unknown and that the issue is with the claim that language is the mechanism. Boroditsky followed up with 'Do English and Mandarin speakers think about time differently?' (2010) (3). It still seems to be an active area of research and I don't think we'll get a conclusive answer any time soon.

(0) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QglKeIIC5Ds

(1) http://lera.ucsd.edu/papers/mandarin.pdf

(2) 'Re-evaluating evidence for linguistic relativity: Reply to Boroditsky (2001)' https://ruccs.rutgers.edu/images/personal-karin-stromswold/p...

(3) http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.690...
If only there were some system in place where police would request the judiciary evaluate their evidence and reasoning to see if violating the privacy of the suspects were approved and warranted.

Whatever would we call such a process?
people on HN only use exclamation points in code or sarcasm
Easy. It became so packed with fake posts and paid-for crap that I got bored and quit oh, years ago.
No, you are currently at an organization that hasn't allocated enough resources to Splunk.
I think the problem is that it requires chatting live with someone who's job it is to prevent you from cancelling in the first place. If you can sign up in two clicks you should be able to cancel in two clicks.
>>” Workspace ID/Tenant ID/Customer ID, having your data grouped that way makes it very shardable”

Dumb question, if someone starts off by grouping their data only by Customer ID and then later needs to shard. Couldn’t all of the sharding problems go away if they simply created a new Customer_Tenant table to map customer_id into tenant_group_id
>So you prevent them from recording your conversations with friends by having no conversations and no friends.

You're absolutely right. Because there's no such thing as other messaging apps, email, social media platforms, SMS/MMS, telephone, written correspondence or discussion over a beer/coffee/meal. Only WhatsApp exists.

Gee, I wish someone would invent some or all of of those things -- I'm so lonely! /s
On the contrary, a random character string is meaningful in some conceivable language.
Yeah, I probably could have bumped both those numbers an order of magnitude.
The Tools That Make Us Human
> Is there not a more active, not brute force approach for containing the plasma?

I think General Fusion's approach is interesting, they're compressing the plasma with a liquid metal wall.
I grew up in a very religious (technically a cult) setting. Earlier in my life, I believed some of it. I bristled at the suggestion that what I'd been taught might be wrong. I relished in the opportunity to practice "apologetics" and debate non-believers - a concept that appealed to me deeply at the time.

And then, I grew up and left the bubble. I was fortunate enough to get a job working with people who held diverse viewpoints. I still found myself resisting those viewpoints instinctively, but I learned something that surprised me at the time: the people who held those viewpoints were good people! Who'd have thought? I'd been told those people were the enemy. Unbelievers, sinners, "of this world".

As my relationships with those people grew, the cracks in my own belief systems started to grow.

I'm now in my mid 30s, and would describe my mindset as that of a scientist. I'm excited to learn when I'm wrong, because it means I learned something new about the world.

I often think about the people I left behind, many of whom are still deeply in the bubble. I wonder if I got out because I was predisposed to have an open mind, and when given the opportunity I took it, or if I was just exposed to the right combination of things to help me see the light.

All of this to follow up on this:

> Does anyone else find it hard to personally connect with the well-researched claim that people respond with a fight-or-flight response to ideas that challenge their core beliefs?

I can still feel some kind of connection to that early version of myself, or at least I know it was there and now it's not. This history has established within me some empathy for people who still do react poorly to new ideas, and I've found that it helps me better understand (not accept) the viewpoints of others around me that might otherwise seem insane.

Edit: I know it's not great to complain about downvotes, but I'm really puzzled here.
I hope third-party clients are not forced to, because making the delete API private would be a great opportunity to indirectly ban them.

Edit: it's only for apps that allow account creation. If you expose the API for account management to third-parties, it would make sense to include account deletion.
The commentary net inspects the final state of the engine net, but not internal layers.

Deeper introspection is a really important goal, but by the time you make serious progress there, chess is the least of your worries.

I do really like the work people have put into introspection and visualization so far though: DeepDream comes to mind. There was also another great paper or page that I can't find.
Introducing Golden Open
I thought of this idea as well, but don’t think this is really the right approach.
Many of these issues relate to specific features which developers subsequently avoid using.
I think these types of initiatives should be more broadly targeted and probably curated by the maintainers/users of the software. E.g. the faster-cpython project is focusing on improving general Python interpreter performance: https://github.com/faster-cpython/ideas
Offering every user a free Zoloft prescription.
Seems like the police's problem. If the police need more money to enforce the law, then they should request it through the proper government channels.

If the pipeline company needs more support on their frontlines, then they should pay a private security company such as Pinkerton[0] or Blackwater[1] - not the police.

A weak or non-existent financial barrier between corporations and government is synonymous with corruption.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinkerton_(detective_agency)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackwater_(company)
A statement like “too much wealth in population group x” can only come from someone with utopian ideas about how society “ought” to be structured, especially since population group x seems to be the source of this wealth.

What moral system informed these utopian ideas? Why does everyone have an obligation to subscribe to it?

If the rest of the world wants to hand arbitrary taxation power to some bureaucrats in pursuit of their moral ideal, let them have at it.
I want to put in a plug for Cedric. He is consistently one of the smartest writers about tech online. His writings about naturalistic decision making have changed the way I think about a lot of things in business.

https://commoncog.com/blog/the-tacit-knowledge-series/
Wonder if this applies to Apple itself. There is no way to delete your Apple ID (or other info Apple knows about you) using the device.
In many companies source code for all products is available to each and single developer.
Non-profit would be a perfect business model. It isn't like that level of functionality requires a multi $B company to run it.
Ironically a phrase made most famous by Donald Trump. It's going to be real interesting as politicians going forward analyze and adopt ideas often attributed to him while simultaneously trying to distance themselves from him.
It makes perfect sense, in order to prevent someone else from registering your old @icloud.com email address and impersonating you or performing password resets.
What about inmutable systems? My app (using scuttlebutt) creates an 'account' but it's located as crypto keys only within the app and apple keychain. So far the apple reviewers refused to believe that it works like. It's open source, they've got the code... but still....

Same is true for anything crypto. The account as it were exists on many devices, but it's not something you as the app creator can manage.

I think apple protecting privacy is good, but the effect on actually private systems is complicated.
Thank you; corrected. :)
Did not even noticed it was down. I think the problem are the people - Zuck just making bank on the weak.
>Maybe? Getting a bunch of cards works out in your favor. Costco card nets me 4% back on gas everywhere and 2% in store and extends the warranty on things.

That's one way of looking at it. The other is that debt is priced in everything and you're just recouping part of it.
Same on Firefox and chrome on Android for me (though Firefox flickers the last frame rather than black screen)
I've found that working and expressing my ideas more locally is far better than posting ideas to the world. It is also contrary to how social media, radio, and TV are modeled.

By starting locally, you build a following and don't need to worry as much about being ostracized and cancelled before a well-known credibility among people who will support and defend you is established. (Don't break the law or support negative means in the process of course).

So many people get burnt out and cancelled right when they become famous now because social media catapults people from obscurity directly into popularity, when they don't have proven and tested experience, no prior following, and no prior reputation.

Pop life is a meat grinder.
Tell the guy that your dad and mom are rich, and eventually become soft touches if someone is really persistent about asking them for money. :|
I might have said yes if China did anywhere close to as well as the States or even Europe.
I was reading about this the other day on Wikipedia.

IIRC, he also used this to locate his two estranged daughters, who were on a boat belonging to the Indian government, and sent helicopters filled with UAE special forces in full battle rattle to kidnap/abduct them.

Definitely living in an age where being estranged from somebody rich and powerful is something you very much do not want to be.

(Oh no, I'm shadowbanned :(
spent my controversial post-ability karma a little too quickly I guess...)
The test for that problem will be seeing what happens when one of these apps get breached. Unless Apple is willing to terminate developer accounts when it comes out that app makers are not actually deleting anything, this is completely toothless.
yeah, I didn’t even think twice about dropping $4 on it
Perhaps because there is a strong cultural requirement in China for a groom to have his own house before getting married. If real estate gets more expensive in a bubble, so does marriage, and there is less of it.
If I had to guess, many sources.

Cultural influences, biological influences, prenatal environment, etc.

I will agree that it's probable our conscious part of the brain is less in control that we tend to believe. Still, the rest of the brain is still part of an individual.
Looking at the maps in [0], there's a variety of land types involved, including state forests and private property.

Having spoken with some folks who are involved in this sort of protesting, frequently the lines are built on private land with a utility easement or eminent domain seizure. In the cases of private land, often the owner is sympathetic to the protesters but legally barred from supporting them, so they tacitly look the other way from a group of protesters camping on their property. Since utility workers are only allowed to access the easement when they are undergoing active work, the goal of the protest is to prevent active work as often as possible, forcing the pipeline company to repeatedly weaponize the state to enforce their easement.

[0] https://www.stopline3.org/map
Presumably to prevent someone from hijacking accounts.
Who decides what's a professional painter? Car builder? Software engineer? The market. A healthy market needs a ton of providers and a ton of consumers. The news market in the social media era is not healthy.

Historical precedent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt#Trust_busti...
They don't necessarily need to target normal people, it's possible that over time they have optimized their site to attract those with certain traits that are most profitable.
It's been 6years since I actively used Facebook. But they acquired everything that I'm addicted to.
Yes. Many/most Wells Fargo ATMs have had contactless for several years now. Their Android app used to offer NFC contactless support so that you never had to even use Google's Android Pay to use contactless.

I think they originally didn't work with contactless Android Pay, maybe because the card number is different, but it's been fixed a few years ago. They also have the app-based ATM login, so I don't recall ever using the physical WF debit card in the last X years.
Subscribing through the NY Times iOS app already solves that problem I think, there’s no need to delete your account, just go to the Apple subscriptions management page and end the subscription.
> The library didn't have too many fake science books.

As a kid, I found the UFO section of the library and read all kinds of interesting and almost certainly not true things. It was conveniently next to the programming books ..
Totally fine. My issue is with the streamers who promote socialism to their fans and say that wealth should be distributed, meanwhile pocketing a huge paycheck. I guess there's a market for stupidity. It's both funny and sad.
Is there anything similar to jumpstart for go?
> I find this quite convincing

I would find evidence of it actually convincing, which you would think would be foregrounded somewhere. And yet, mysteriously, it is not. This suggests that the claim is bullshit.
Then maybe switch your bank to a sane one ? Effectively voting with your wallet.
5 years for two small sections of two cities isn't exactly inspiring. LA was supposed to happen two years ago.

I guess at least they haven't killed an innocent pedestrian with their self driving, like Uber.
The Myth of Sustainable Development
>"Twitter has by far become a more egregious platform for society"

Absolutely. Not only are the people on Twitter much more toxic, the trending feed is way more prone to manipulation and influence campaigns. If I don't know someone directly on Facebook, I'm probably never going to see their stupid hot-takes. No such separation on Twitter. Also, whenever I scroll through Facebook, more than half the posts are advertisements anyways. It rarely shows me anything of value from my friends and somehow fixates on the same dozen people. Oddly, I was never even very friendly with those dozen in real life.

People say Facebook is dangerous because people fall into a loop of following content they already like and falling into grouptthink. Firstly, how in the world does not apply more strongly with Twitter? Second, on Twitter it is possible to bombard non-followers with repeated, biased, and motivated messaging. I think this is far more insidious because it creates a false sense of consensus and you can condition people to react a certain way with repeated messaging. And, these users don't even need to actively follow the influencers' accounts.

Edit: I don't even follow people like "Brooklyn Dad, Defiant!", "Duty to Warn", or "Palmer Report", yet I am always seeing content from these paid influencers whenever I click on a trending topic. So imagine if you're not a partisan person and you consistently keep seeing messages from these kinds of accounts. Chances are, eventually, some of their tweets are going to influence how you think and give you a biased view of things.
I don't think police using ML is negligent in and of itself. Overly relying on a model, however, would certainly be negligent.
You mean like if I would make a youtube video regarding safety data from the mandated you-know-whats?
This might be the sloppiest take I've ever seen on this topic.

- "In fact firms do not do this." — In fact firms merge all the time.

- "The typical scale of most firms seems far smaller than can be explained by these effects." — No reason is given. Italics do not constitute an argument.

- "It seems obvious to me that by now such a food agency would have intervened in food production, processing, and distribution far more extensively that has been the actual case in our actual history." — Not at all obvious, and again no evidence or even any argument is given.

- "The amazing thing is that all this would happen even with high quality oversight and accountability by agencies to politicians, and politicians to voters." — The amazing thing is that the author thinks he can state this prediction without basis of any sort.

There are good reasons to beware centralization, but this piece is simply lazy.
This gets an F. Show your work.
Yep. Modern Russian children will have easier time telling pink from red than light blue from blue since they share the common material culture with the rest of world, but otherwise you are spot on.

Pink is another little color which appeared a short time ago and permanently extended our palette.
>In countries like Norway, that kind of data is publicly available. It makes for less second-guessing and less suspiciousness.

Given that one strategy for businesses is to optimize monetary intake by tailoring prices to how much specific customers can pay and often this tailoring is facilitated by stuff like checking if you are using an iphone or an android phone etc. etc. - if you use your name and address to login to a service and you are from Norway could they look up how much money you make and more precisely tailor their prices for what you are able to pay?

If so, boy, that letting people know exactly how much money you have thing is great.
Obviously this is a matter of personal preferences and experience.

Real register names are usually very long, to indicate their purpose, so you would not want to repeat them on each line.

This can be avoided by redefining ClearBitField.

Even so, writing an extra "ClearBitField" on each line does not provide any information. It just clutters the space.

Anyone working with such code is very aware that &=~ means clear bits and |= means set bits.

When reading the table of names, the repeated function name is just a distraction that is harder to overlook than the operators.

The way to improve over that is not adding anything on the lines, but using simpler symbols by defining the registers as structures, i.e.:

register_1 . bit_field_1 = constant_name_1;

register_2 . bit_field_2 = constant_name_2;

register_3 . bit_field_3 = constant_name_3;

Unfortunately, like I have said, the hardware vendors seldom provide header files with structure definitions for the registers and rewriting the headers is a huge work.

However, if you are able to rewrite just the register definitions that you use, that would be better spent time than attempting to write functions or macros for these tasks.
>Perhaps not, but often there's value in maintaining casual friendships.

A good point. I can't (and don't pretend to) speak for anyone else, but I want to be around people who want to be around me. And not all of those.

Take from that what you will.
If I use Ctrl+ to try to make the text large enough to read, parts of the content go off the page, and I can't see any way to get them back.

Beautiful work, but effectively unusable for me.
In a Chrome browser on desktop, you can right click and "Copy Link to Highlighted Text". That's the context (hah, pun) where I know it from. It's really useful!
There is a fusion startup called CT Fusion that has an innovation in this vein: [warning: not a plasma physicist, this is just what I understand from talking to actual physics nerds who follow this] instead of using giant magnets for plasma confinement, they are using a continuously variable magnetic field that is provided by helical coils surrounding the plasma. By monitoring the shape of the surface of the plasma and varying the electrical input to the coils, playing whack-a-mole as you put it with the shape of the plasma.
So Cloudflare comfirms that we can use R2 to store public docker images that will serve TB of content per month almost free?