skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't know if any location data might leak in airplane mode, but I would not be surprised if some did, for example, through NFC or Bluetooth.

Not sure about NFC, but at least BT gets disabled in airplane mode.
Yes, people who use put and delete (and any other verb other than post and get) come off as insufferable bores to me. Heck, you just use GET and it will work fine 99% of the time.
No, they get the user information now - before any charge is made in New Zealand to justify providing access to the data.
I use this one:

https://www.svp-team.com/
Western Europe faces sweltering temperatures as a ferocious heatwave heads north
> Wine @ 5. People in all Blue Zones (except Adventists) drink alcohol moderately and regularly. Moderate drinkers outlive nondrinkers. The trick is to drink 1 to 2 glasses per day (preferably Sardinian Cannonau wine), with friends and/or with food.

I thought that the “one glass on wine per day” recommendation had been debunked. Is it still debatable?

Here is one source: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/aug/23/no-healthy-l...
Most Starbucks (again, possibly a non-US perspective) will make your drink in a ceramic cup/mug if asked. Only the smallest kiosk-type ones can't do it.
If you can break a paragraph into bullet points do it!

People don't want to read what looks like a wall of text, but will happily jump to a nice convenient list of things.

People that enjoy Pynchon are a trivial percentage of the population. Good communication requires understanding what the target audience will actually pay attention to. It's a tightrope.
If it actually takes that long, we have far bigger problems, because that means technological advance has halted or regressed. In that case, it will die suddenly whenever electricity goes up and price/coin goes down long enough that all non-criminal mining operations shut down and investors panic.
I always get annoyed how these programmers can have a good sleep at night given what they have done. Note that blaming it on the marketing VP is not fair. If even 50 % employees have a thought this tracking can be stopped.
Just maximize for logic and date a computer.
In the UK lots of second hand industrial equipment requires 3 phase 415v. It can cost a lot to have this installed by your power company. I used a 3 phase converter.
https://www.bluezones.com/books/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Carr_(lawyer)

Lawyer that opposed net neutrality and now voicing his disapproval of apps built by the China.

Sounds like he's making a play to become a career politician using his version of what 'ok authoritarianism' is.

I'd like to see someone actually prove a security risk rather than hypothetically posing it. I.e. show me 1000 tiktok downloaded videos run through a program with their metadata something of strategic importance to a nation state (like the location of nuclear missiles haha).
The rule for all sides has always been “protect your own interest”. The propaganda might have been different, but that’s another thing altogether.
Do they even do their own writing in modern times?
We still use these in environmental science measurements! Both in school and in the real world. Friend of mine was a limnologist (lake scientist) and we'd paddle out in rowboats and take measurements, then have some beer and a picnic on the lake. All paid for by some grant or another.

Like the humble measuring tape around a tree at chest level, sometimes the simple tools are the best. They're timeless.

Often, having a higher quantity of cheap, mediocre data is better than a tiny handful of ultra precise measurements.

It's awesome going from the software world, counting double precision numbers, to field biology where you'd just lay ropes out in random places and count pine cones by hand, hoping you didn't miss too many.

It's funny, I always had this image of NASA and NOAA supercomputers doing detailed climate modeling (and sure, those exist too) but don't underestimate the power of just having hordes of boots on the ground (or in a boat) taking simple measurements.
Perhaps there is a reason why China’s government bans all the American Social Media companies. If they could undermine the country’s sovereignty then it would be a significant difference.
> Chinese gov generally can't do anything in US compared to US government, so personally I think facebook is more risky.

More risky? Probably pretty easily. There is legitimate risk though, especially depending on who you are, where you work, who your family is, etc.
Whatever society or country will realise first that they have to raise their youth so they will be able to withstand the lure of social media, regardless what company makes it, will become the leading society in the world in 50-100 years.
Nonsense, if trump can get away with a failed coup that sort of imagined contrivance doesn’t even register as an issue.
Oh, of course. The problem wasn't that he thought HE would be dead by then, but that everyone would either be in hell or heaven and the Earth would be irrelevant, that he wouldn't need to worry about his own great-grandchildren or anyone else's.

I just wrote one quick example of the effects that belief in creationism roughly correlate with. The idea that mankind can't damage the Earth because it's God's creation is another one.

It could be that the evolution of life has been orchestrated over billions of years by some sentient thing. But a 10,000-year old simulation of a detailed reality that appears to stretch back 13 or so billion years, vs the actual reality itself, boy does the simulation seem so much less believable.
Of course the rules don't get applied to Western companies, that is a ridiculous proposition: to ask a state to limit its own power.

> The problem should be that the data is collected and provided to the government whenever they want

Maybe in someone's ideal world that doesn't exist this could be the problem formulation. In real world, TikTok is not strictly under control of EUSIAN blob so it's a threat and it's natural for state to restrict its influence.
Guessing the numbers will soon skew even more towards universities in states where you can get an abortion. It sure is where I’d try to go if I were a young woman.
I'm not talking about legal details, but communication. No store page for video games state that the "purchase" button means anything else than, say, the "purchase" button for a shampoo on Amazon. It clearly suggests that when you buy a game you own it, period. When you buy a Netflix subscription it clearly states that it's time-limited.

At least the EU seems to - slowly - fight such antipatterns that everyone knows only exist to mislead consumers.
> those "«troubles»" are not inherent in disciplines: they are inherent to human faults and «pretext[ual]» instances behind façades. You can normally leave disciplines alone

Okay, then I've only misunderstood your reply, I didn't mean to say that religion itself is to blame, obviously. I agree with you, I just want to say that the trouble for me, is people who need to believe in something without thinking or using rationality.
I worked in the semiconductor industry, and at least in our niche of the semiconductor industry, FAEs were some of the worst paid people, a long with production test for some reason.

FAEs were seen as the lowest level support who were a stop-gap for our application engineers (non-field). If a big customer had a problem, we would send an AE out to show that we were taking it seriously. No idea if it's the same in other industries though. Application engineers weren't that we'll paid either.

Technical marketing and sales were paid well, but maybe this is a just a title thing (what you called FAE is what we called sales/marketing). Their salaries were predominantly sale/deal based bonuses though.

For people that actually developed the chips, analogue designers were the highest paid followed by digital designers. Then digital verification engineers, with verification engineer salary increasing very quickly. The salaries were shit compared to software though.

But now, talking to my friends still in the sector(doing design), competition is absolutely fierce and their salaries are increasing rapidly along with getting a lot more shares. There was a point where a senior analogue engineer could move to a graduate software position and make more money. Those days are gone now, and salaries are pretty close.

A friend interviewed for a hardware position at Apple and the salary was definitely SWE levels of high.
You get them in almost all aromatic qualities in France and Italy. Touched a pinch of one of the strongest hard cheeses I could find there. Tasted extremely strong but awesome. Still, I scrubbed, showered and bathed but it did not matter. My hand smelled of cheese for two days straight. And this was a hard cheese, imagine what its softer brothers could do.
530 comments here without the clickbait headline (fcc versus fcc commissioner): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31923483
It sucks being stuck in the silicon hole. Somebody, seriously invest in high-temperature semiconductors!
That is exactly my gripe with the article. There is nothing stopping you from spontaneously taking a trip to outskirts instead of downtown, just because you feel that to be a good decision at the moment. And yet your large scale plan to visit town A on day #3, town B on day #4 and be back at airport on day #5 is still valid.

At least in my circles people do vacation like that - general macro plan with exact micro decision taken at the moment. Macro plan is there to give general shape and maybe put certain anchor points (hotels, flights in case of vacation). Just because you planned dinner in your macro plan does not make macro plans a bad tool in general like this article tries to portray.
$4 for a day's worth of calories? How much do you spend on food every day?
There's a precompiled package for ARM these days.
Understandable but funny that US Americans start to care about data regulation only once the Chinese government is involved.

Asking the stores to remove one app won't do it though, time to adopt EU-like regulations.
Could you elaborate on what that means a little?
Anecdata: I've been doing all my projects in Go for many years now. My current production backend with 20+ services all run in Go on Kubernetes and serve 100k+ users.

It's an amazing language since it's so productive. Sometimes I write services in on go (pun intended) for an hour and after turning it on it just runs. Never experiences something like that with another language.

It's also very low on resource consumption. My server barely needs anything to serve that many users.
Slight tangent: does anyone know of a good source for more useful blog posts on ML in the wild? Many that I come across are a funnel into some product, are very short, too theoretical, for beginners, or all of the above. This post strikes a nice balance in simply sharing some experiences and opinions, like you would see in blogposts on how to do software engineering well.
Interpretation in which we or some of us can travel for holiday and watch netfix is 100% reasonable interpretation. Having accounts limited to one place is beyond absurd.
Correct me if I'm wrong but if the assumption here is that the EU prevents employers from reading private correspondence of employees then I find nothing to back that up. On the contrary, an employer in the EU explicitly seems to have such rights, given they jump through a few formal hoops first:

https://www.grcworldforums.com/business/can-employers-legall...
If a formal legal-entity organization keeps your personal data, non-anonymized, then the those world states it operates in can be assumed to have access to the data. And then it is a question of what private corporations can get the state to provide them with - officially or unofficially.
But why? What’s the initiative for this? Can any folk in Indonesian or familiar with the matter explain a lil bit?
I wrote an XML parser from scratch one time. It was fun! I just needed to read in an XML file into a C++ program, and pulling in a third party library wasn't a viable option.
This was an interesting quip: “college accreditors might be the most important institutions in American society about which nobody has heard a peep”

The student loan crisis means, by definition, that the established players are providing poor outcomes, but new entrants that would provide competition and innovation are gatekept out by accreditors.
They ban them because the companies don't want to follow the same rules Chinese companies have to follow. It's exactly what I'm asking for. Have one set of rules and apply them to everyone. Ban data harvesting completely. Ban it for Facebook, Google and everyone else and then kick out TikTok because they don't follow the rules.
Presumably this happened sometime between the late 1930s–early 40s, when Weidman (b. 1913) was a “very young man, just beginning to make my way”. Per Wikipedia, Weidman’s first novel was published in 1937.
> spare me

Communicational style comes from environment, inclination, choice and target, and may suggest but not prove (low) quality of content.

Many are irritated e.g. by the style (apparently very frequent in the USA), in articles and books, using the pattern "John one day left the house and a number of things happened; he had graduated there and does this for a living. Now, the science" - odd conflations of narrative and data following the sequences of a novelist instead of theoretical structures: nonetheless, they do frequently have juice to extract.
They are a very famous quant fund
Can someone explain the capturing "keystroke patterns" part? Are they saying the app is somehow capturing keystrokes while other apps are running?
Not just FAANG! Smaller vendors are a very significant threat vector, too, precisely because they are smaller. More owners with smaller margins, looking to squeeze the last bit of profit from the available data, thus entering grey areas almost by definition. Entire markets emerged just from this - afaik data brokers dont get access to, say, Apples Databases. At least FAANG has no real business incentive to sell the data directly.
It's a mixed bag. As news reporting has draped itself with science reporting where convenient, some people are also concerningly skeptical on science matters as well.

The trouble, in my view, is that what I would personally consider to be responsible and proportional news reporting is a fuzzy definition that is colored by my biases.

Regardless, I would like to see a higher standard of average education for people in the west, particularly Americans, so that they're better equipped to do things like reason about the news they do encounter rather than accepting everything as gospel when they hear it.
You're assuming the government's goal is to treat all countries and companies fairly. It's not. It will always make decisions in its own interests. Whether that is ethical is neither here nor there, I can't imagine of a world where that's not the case.
Verdn (YC W22) is hiring founding full stack engineers in London, UK
Your post of full of prejudices. I won't address those part, but

> You don't create a winner by working 32 hours a week, that's for sure. Like pg said in his blog [2], you win by moving faster than everyone else.

You can definitely get more done if you are not stressed out, think through things and move a bit slower but always in the right direction.

You learn that first time you end up at a company that forces you to work 75 hrs/w just because they can buy everyone can clearly see it is not leading to anything other than more bugs.

Most EU companies have 40 hrs/w with occasional periods of 50-60. I think it is a good balance where you get things done and don't burn out your employees.
This is actually a deep sentence.
so when is the Tor site coming out?
> I should have taken the hyperparameters that yielded the best model for the latest evaluation set.

> I have done enough research on production ML now to know that it pays to simply overfit to the most recent data and constantly retrain. Successful companies do this.

I don’t understand why that is
I agree with this. It's easy to get caught up in a very binary "in it for the money" vs "doing what you love" mindset, but I think the reality is a balance of both. Money is actually quite great and I am willing to compromise a little bit in my day job in order to receive more money. At the same time, there are some jobs I simply do not want to do, even if they may be higher paid than what I'm doing now.
Ask HN: What project do you build to pick up a new programming language?
A project that covers almost all the important features of any programming language.
"TikTok is said to collect “everything”, from search and browsing histories; keystroke patterns; biometric identifiers—including faceprints"

How can they even collect browsing history or biometric identifiers on Android? Isn't browser history stored in the browser's private storage space, or am I being naive here?
In Germany, you need to document clear and reasonable suspicion of the employee doing something shady before you can monitor them (especially without their consent). It's not fundamentally illegal, but the rights of the employee also weigh in heavily and need to be outweighed before you can start e.g. recording their screen without their consent.
I think there was something like that in "fortune" cookies on linux as well, circa 98. It poked fun at OS/2, as you said, and at the PS/2, for being half a computer, perfect for running OS/2.

IBM had a weird obsession with the /2, apparently.
I would agree with everything except 2). Human-readable files are ok if you're building a small program mostly by yourself, but in larger programs, on a team with other people, it becomes a mess very quickly. And if you need to enforce data integrity, forget about it. You're going to find yourself replicating what a DB gives you for free in your own code, except you're going to get it wrong.

So: Hacker News, tiny team (one person?), very simple application, doesn't change. An accounting system: rather complex, frequently changing requirements, often developed by larger teams, needs to be accessible to non-developers, has data integrity requirements. You've really got no choice except SQL.

You should definitely consider every application's needs individually, but there's a line for everything where it makes more sense to use a DB, and not understanding where the line is will bring you a lot of pain. As for longevity: the SQLite3 format has been around since 2004 and is utterly ubiquitous. I think it's pretty safe.
Japanese women have 1/8 the occurrence of breast cancer compared to American women. This changes when they relocate to the US. One study found the seafood diet to be a big factor. Most of these blue zone places are islands and coastal areas and the low meat intake mentioned probably doesnt consider fish a meat.

BTW the anti-cancer component of sea food is Iodine.
the programmers sleep at night because doing this is the only thing that lets them feed there families.

like it or not, there are always people who will see this as the lesser evil because of their personal circumstances don't give them other options.
No mention of Ruby on Rails - they made REST mass popular with drawing resource routes, nesting, going out of their way on client side Ajax to support http verbs, error codes etc.
You're asking for the impossible as 'anyone' is not tiktok.

We as individuals don't have access to that data, only tiktok does.. so we as individuals can't prove this to you.

Edit: Removed ask to share all personal data, because its bad form.
Probably means browsing within the app. Although the fyp is the meat of it, you can also browse topics and hashtags.
Browsing history: many apps (like reddit, Instagram) have their own browser in the app so they can track it, and they nag you to use their app when you open their website.

Biometric identifiers, I'm guessing mostly facial features: if you take a selfie/self-video with TikTok (which millions of people do) they can just take the data from there.
Yes, propaganda is not the thing that is new, it's the speed of information exchange and the automation of propaganda creation that is new. Whereas 100 years ago, a lie could travel around the globe while the truth is putting on its shoes, today a million lies can travel to the moon and back whereas disseminating the truth still requires the same amount of leg work (pun intended). The problem is orders of magnitude worse.
You could argue that a data hoarder in a jurisdiction other than your own is even less significant for personal data security. I agree though that western companies more or less don't have any case here as they behave the same way as TikTok in China. They are just less dishonest about it.

Furthermore the behavior of intelligence agencies sanctioned this kind of surveillance. Ironically the decreased trust will be vastly more relevant to lessened security than their surveillance attempts could ever make up for. So they failed their primary mission too. In a supposedly free country it is a strategy that only produces losers and there is not change in sight.
Well, that "Registered trade mark" '®' mark added to the "evocative anchor" does give a strong sense (with much of the rest in the communicational side) that somebody is exploiting a way to pay the mortgage.

...In some cultures.

Edit:

Disambiguating in case of confusion, having written «Communicational style comes from environment, inclination, choice and target, and may suggest but not prove (low) quality of content» just before:

style does not remove potential for good content - yet, to some cultures, if you present your work that way you give a strong image that you are there to pay a mortgage.
The UK video I posted has some details, 15,000 balls per hour doesn't seem that slow to me[1], and still, according to the video, they are putting the clean ones into "netsacks".

Most probably when they have the sacks full there are not that many "dirty" balls remaining in the pit and they can put a separator of some kind across it to start putting back the cleaned ones.

Found the site of the manufacturer of that machine:

https://ball-pool.eu/services/

What I doubt is more that the cleaning is actually done on a weekly basis or so as recommended.

[1] I have no idea on how many balls are in the "average" pit, but the US video is touting 80,000 as if it was an extremely large one
I recently got whatever HP printer Wirecutter said is the best this week (printers suck and I don’t care enough to research beyond what Wirecutter has done, even if they choose ones that have affiliate payments or whatever). I actually like the one they recommended, the ink subscription is exactly what my family needed. Sort of bummed by the tracking stuff but the printer was adamant in its documents that the printer must always remain online? I almost wonder if it has a microphone too peering in on us!

Practically speaking I’ll track down the California don’t sell my info form which should sort this out
IIRC you can use the android shared webview to determine if a site is in cache on the system by measuring access times.
I'm currently going through a youtube (edx?) video course[1] based on htdp, which I found through this hackernews comment[2].

I like it so far, but was initially surprised that there's a systematic way of designing programs. I've just been winging it throughout my self-taught career.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7dEjIUwSxSNcW4PqNRQW8w/fea...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28351733
There's a theme of overbearing control of autonomy that is probably going to reach a breaking point soon. When every move we make is held hostage, ordinary people start to think radical thoughts. I curse the supreme court every time my girlfriend makes me pull out, and before that I cursed the city of Pine Bluff every day because they are preventing me from repairing or using a building I own.

I'm sure this incompetent overreach is going to end in bloodshed. There are only a couple of boxes of liberty left to choose from.