skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>"It's not realistic to put the burden of monitoring business practices on the individual person. If you ever have dealt with buying a house or medical stuff you should know that understanding the transactions completely would probably be a full time job. That's why we have regulations and laws so people can spend their time more productively."

I think the point the OP is making is that when the regulatory regime fails to protect customers by taking action against a company with such frequent and glaring violation there is something that can be done as a last resort - voting with your feet.

Clearly regulators haven't instilled any real fear into this toxic dump of a bank.
Very often, programmers aren't given the time to do something properly. Management makes the decision to ship with critical bugs.
Service list: https://switching.social/

Blog that describes implementing a trivial ActivityPub server: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/
Because it would cost money to pay someone to read the file.

For a corporation, every moment is the time to rely on auto-push-button, wage avoiding software.

Corporations are amoral at best.
And they would have to hide such a wiretap device from auditors.

Moreover, cloudflare would be in a legal minefield since Mozilla would likely have standing to sue, if cloudflare violates its own terms of service.
This is what virtue signaling is all about. Magnify your tiny sacrifice so you won’t be asked to do more.

It’s hard to calculate your personal global warming impact directly, but luckily economists have found that there is an incredibly reliable 100% correlation between monetary velocity and natural resource usage.

So if you want to calculate your impact on global warming, just multiply your spending times your PPP. Spending more on virtue-signaling brands has the opposite effect your going for. Sorry.

So if you want to actually do better instead of feel better, just spend less. It’s really that simple.
I do this while learning a new language, and something else that helps is to make little changes as well. Rename some variables, store x+y in an intermediate variable before printing it, print to stderr instead of stdout, annotate a type that could be inferred. It accelerates learning by quite a bit for me
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It's the paradoxical side of internet, you have more and faster, and it's actually too much for the vast majority of people.

It's my theory but before things relied on a curating system of people, that inherently kept things integrated and sensical to a point. Even if you couldn't source, check .. there was a natural amount of trust to the system that was valuable for it to exist.

even for information, dosage is the poison.

I tried to educate myself about medicine, and I felt like drowning, if you actually want to stay mathematically objective, you're faced with an enormous sea of 'potentially..' and theories that can come and go. Most people don't want this they just want to vent so selection occurs and group forms, faster and larger now that we have the web.

Also I'd say your hyper-truth title reminds me of a sensation that I have since computers/internet became ubiquitous. We're trying to logify the whole world, everything is engineered, stored facts, backed by statistics. And it seems it became a culture, if not a cult. Nowadays most discussions will end up with 'what is your source' I'm not sure it was the same before. People would discuss, as a human relationship thing, they would try to express their views, and share, not try to make a provable thesis. I think that humans don't need 100% veracity to function, just a good amount of 'true enough' so people can get on with their daily lives, even if that mean local reality distortion, at the end of the day most of it is not life critical. And you can sense that with the news.. 24/7, many many channels, and this information is mostly noise, hoping from crysis to crysis.
I would also add the Beyond the Press channel (especially some of the older videos) and Project Farm
Was watching someone getting a Altair to run basic via a teletype and a paper tape. The amount of bit flipping just to get the initial bootloader ready made me appreciate the work Woz and like did to make later systems boot straight to a prompt on a CRT.

On a different note, those old systems had a RAM and CPU clock that was basically synced. Thus my understanding is that one could "cycle count" ones way to high performance code.
I'm a Wells Fargo account holder. I haven't closed my account. I don't really see a reason to. The other big banks are just as amoral, and they would screw their customers in a heartbeat if they thought they could get away with it. The main difference between Wells Fargo and other banks is that Wells Fargo got caught.

I wouldn't consider a local bank or a credit union, because I like being able to find a branch anywhere in the country, and small/local financial institutions are not exempt from bad behavior either. They also tend to have significantly inferior online banking and mobile apps.

Closing my account would just mean moving from one amoral giant bank to another.
And we change. Nowadays everything is a goddamn statement.. I say A today, and it's over, I can never say B tomorrow. Except that we do all the time and I think it's absurd to turn people into walking theorems.
Not clear why this comment is getting downvoted, seems like a reasonable summary to me.

From the title I was expecting the article to be more nefarious, like "donating" to a charity that pays obscene salaries to friends & family for cushy jobs or something.
Amazing. Hopefully, it continues to improve.
Not sure where your 12 hour figure came from. I found this though:

> Colaboratory is intended for interactive use. Long-running background computations, particularly on GPUs, may be stopped.
Our crappy ActiveX object was made for the windows xp era. When it started to glitch, my boss told me to 'just disable UAC' on our customers pcs (instead of fixing the issues). Did not do it and instead told him what to fix and fix some things myself...

Another one is installing basically trackware on the website, from an external party, that recorded certain input fields so it could mail you later when you didnt buy the product...
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This is where I started: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/06/how-to-implement-a-bas...

That article does a nice job explaining the very basics.

I think https://activitypub.rocks/ is meant as the landing site, with a list of implementations.
What does it even mean to willfully misunderstand??

On currency as fiction: the author uses a very precise meaning of fiction: "untruth". I don't think that currency fits that meaning. Can you explain?

On bad guys using fiction: ignore the word "bad". Why does the author complain that people use fiction, if he just explained it?

On taking sides: in several modern conflicts he mentioned, the author emphasizes the use of fiction by one side but not the other. It's pretty obvious which side of the conflict the author is on. I didn't feel his expression of personal political views improves the article.
This is far too far, and a lot of it is wrong
Yes you can! We used it for a university project and it allowed us to test different model configurations and datasets much faster. Before that, we'd run the training over the day / night on one of our personal desktop computers with a dedicated GPU. Using Colab reduced the time needed for training by about 75%.
There are details. Look at this:

https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=star%20treck%20tng%...:

compared to this:

https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=star%20treck%20tng%...:
Good point but I don't think a company like Mozilla should rely on this kind of analytics... I use this browser to try to protect my privacy as much as possible so this telemetry "feature" is disabled but I did use the RSS feature to find feed addresses.
I think the big difference now is that it's much easier to do centralized propaganda at scale and Facebook and others help distributing it. There always has been manipulation but we are in the process of building up the perfect surveillance and propaganda machines that are actually affordable. The Nazis and Stalin would have been happy to have the current tools.
I think the main problem with this is that we’d have to believe in some kind of god, which is obviously not going to fit the narrative.
I see what I did: crossed the wires on earnings and revenue between the steps.

(2 trillion dollars seems like a big correction to me, btw)
Would it exist in vim without neovim. The landscape has changed, but part of that is due to neovim's existence.
All of these involves cloudflare violating terms of service they've made to Mozilla.

Ideally, this would be caught in an audit and ideally Mozilla would be in a position to sue on your behalf.

How many users sue their ISPs over DNS logging, poisoning or other violations of trust.
Rather old, but legacy needs docker support, easy centos 5.11 with gcc
r/edc is more like r/guns but I see your point most of the stuff people "carry" about them is absolutely absurd. I just carry my carkeys, a decadent titanium wallet, and my phone.

I mentioned r/buildapc because the way the table layout specs on r/ultralight feels similar. People have a goal and layout everything they use inside of that backpack or pc-case. There's not much else the same besides that.
I am keen to treat this the same as ommiting technical details of trebuchets in a book about some Lord siegeing another Lord's castle - it's not the point, and if one really gets inspired to know, he must search on his own.
I don’t think anyone would say that there was 1B in fundraising. They’d say there was 100MM in fundraising. The market cap of those shares is indeed price * shares outstanding. But that’s not enterprise value either.
The X overlaying the text is a nice touch, too.
Ciao dozzie, I have omitted "implementation" from the title because I thought that was obvious enough. It seems not.

The project proposes both an independent research in defining a specification, and also an open-source implementation based on that specification.

If you want to know what it does, read the specifications or at least the first sentences of the README :)

"PJON® (Padded Jittering Operative Network) is an Arduino compatible, multi-master, multi-media network protocol. It proposes a Standard, it is designed as a framework and implements a totally software emulated network protocol stack that can be easily cross-compiled on many architectures like ATtiny, ATmega, ESP8266, ESP32, STM32, Teensy, Raspberry Pi, Linux, Windows x86 and Apple machines. It is a valid tool to quickly and comprehensibly build a network of devices. Visit wiki and documentation to know more about the PJON Standard."
This is a really well written article using simple language.

One other reason for companies not willing to go public could be regulations like Sarbanes Oaxley that increase costs and responsibility for the company. I am all for good regulation.
> The author also goes into political and moral arguments and starts taking sides.

Is this per se a cause for reduction in credibility? What's wrong with making political and moral arguments and taking sides?
Yeah, some hackers wear white hats, others wear black hats, and then there are those who wear paper bags over their heads.
He's a known quantity, and has spent a long time building a community for free - I've been reading his newsletter for a long time. The folks he has in the forum are cool and smart, and also I know he does his research so I trust what he writes. Worth the cash.
Very cool, could be useful for programming interviews, especially for data science and similar positions where interactive plotting might be important.
punative damages could exceed that under a lot of conditions
FxSolver – A solver for engineering and scientific equations
multi-media means that the PJON network protocol implementation operates on a wide range of different physical layers and media.
A $300k robotaxi could still undercut conventional taxi/rideshare, but the costs will have to come down considerably before they challenge the economics of personal vehicle ownership.
If this actually happened, this is the most awesome interaction on HN I’ve seen so far. Kudos to you kind sir
Interesting the comments are all "The companies business model sucked" and nothing from

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

Also WRT ageism and changing ethics over time, "we don't have automated testing infrastructure" was BAU in the 80s/90s yet today would be an ethical WTF moment.

Something that probably still happens today is the old "address ... economic .. issues related to work projects" Pointing out this thing is never going to run a net profit just means I'll get downsized first; everyone who's numerate could run the numbers if they wanted to and they're all theoretically responsible adults at the meeting table, so ... If you mean address the fundamental economic issue, as in make sure my resume is updated while avoiding a meaningless fight with execs, sure...

Oh and edited to add, WRT taking responsibility, a couple of times I've optimized and improved processes to the point its a one line shell script wrapping a grep or echo and that's kinda queasy taking responsibility for "writing" that. Replace half the job responsibilities (and presumably employee slots) of a department with a one line sql query in a cronjob, that kind of thing.
Of note, the cost of the VM and GPU used in Colaboratory is only $0.54/hr total. If you are doing a research project, it might be more pragmatic in terms of workflow to use a more powerful machine that's slightly more expensive.
I heard of people looking at the position of stars (on night photos) and the sun to guess the latitude.

There was a story during the 2016 US election campaign where someone had a webcam pointed at a flag for some of the parties, and some folks managed to find the location by observing the stars and drove there and changed the flag, or something like that.

Edit: link to the story: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/d7eddj/4chan-does-first-g...
I guess you don't realize that closing costs on a home are between 2 and 5% of the purchase price?

There's something called the "the five year" rule, which is generally considered the amount of time it takes to recoup the closing costs of a home purchase [1]

Now add the price of two relocations - moving into the house and moving out of the house.

These folks are like if they net anything more than a few grand on this.

[1] https://moneyning.com/housing/the-five-year-rule-for-buying-...
It's not a reasonable summary.

From the parent commenter:

> And further, this article is basically calling out a person in particular for putting $500M into a fund for the purpose of philanthropy (sooner or later) and then not having made enough donations (it would better if he had to donate 5%/year -- again, why?).

From the article:

> But four years on, there is almost no trace of the Woodman Foundation, or that $500 million. The foundation has no website and has not listed its areas of focus, and it is not known what — if any — significant grants it has made to nonprofits...If the benefit to the needy is difficult to see, the benefit to Mr. Woodman is clear. After GoPro’s initial public offering, he faced an enormous tax bill in 2014. But by donating via the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, he eased his tax burden in two ways. First, Mr. Woodman avoided paying capital gains taxes on that $500 million worth of stock, a figure that most likely would have been in the tens of millions of dollars. He was also able to claim a charitable deduction that most likely saved millions of dollars more, and probably reduced his personal tax bill for years to come.

The parent commenter goes on to sum up the article as thus:

> Evidently people are so angry at successful people at this point, they are [now] going after their charity too, again not clear on why.

The article asserts early on that the problem is lack of transparency:

> Mr. Woodman achieved this enticing combination of tax efficiency and secrecy by using a donor-advised fund — a sort of charitable checking account with serious tax benefits and little or no accountability...So while donors enjoy immediate tax benefits, charities can wait for funds indefinitely, and maybe forever.
Lately i have become obsessed with the internet of artisan horticulture. Just fruiting plants so far:

> exotic banana cultivar discussion

>> bananas.org

> exotic fig cultivar discussion

>> ourfigs.org

>> General tropical fruit discussion

> tropicalfruitforum.com

> weird explorer, a (semi)-edible fruit reviewer

>> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChsbD6Clp-ZPqKwXJR3V7DQ

> the amazon of rare and unusual plants

>> logees.com

(although for more obscure plants you often have to find a more local seller on a forum)

So far I have bought a bunchosia armeniaca (a fruit that supposedly tastes like peanut butter) and a petite strain of figs which I am currently trying to fruit.

This does not even touch obvious subcultures like bonsai trees.
C# is one of those languages that I absolutely love and wish I had any reason or excuse to use. But it only seems used in .NET apps which are inherently harder to write than web apps which is why I learned Electron instead.
Not necessarily fewer shareholders. Fewer shares is the only certainty there. If the company is returning eg $6b per year in profit, in the form of a dividend, then that distribution is going to fewer shares as they're repurchased.

Microsoft for example has had an enormous repurchase program over two decades. They've bought back something like $150 billion of stock. Yet they can have more shareholders today than when they began the first repurchase program. That's because new public investors can continue to come in. Also, formerly large ownership positions can be sold out of, de-concentrating it (eg Gates donating shares to his foundation, which then sells the shares, plausibly to a lot of new owners over time).

Consider Johnson & Johnson. They could buy back their shares for 50 years and still end up with more total shareholders, as people are very attracted to their persistently rising dividend.
But in agreeing to spy they would violate their contract with Mozilla.

Presumably, that would make them liable to damages.

Moreover, they will be subject to audits, where such spying is at risk of getting caught.

This is a lot better than everyone trusting their own ISP.
To highlight the sheer feasibility of this in the near future and invite policy discussion.
Wells Fargo has a very long and well-established history of making "mistakes" in their own favor that harm their customers and/or break laws. These "mistakes" are typically non-technical in nature, have nothing to do with engineering standards, and in several cases appear to be a matter of deliberate bank policy:

> On February 2, 2018, the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank barred Wells Fargo from growing its asset base any further, based upon years of misconduct, until Wells Fargo fixes its internal problems to the satisfaction of the Federal Reserve. In April 2018, The Wall Street Journal reported that the United States Department of Labor had launched a probe into whether Wells Fargo was pushing its customers into more expensive retirement plans as well as into retirement funds managed by Wells Fargo itself. Subsequently in May 2018, The Wall Street Journal reported that Wells Fargo's business banking group had improperly altered documents about business clients in 2017 and early 2018.

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

These are just from the past couple of years. Check out their Wikipedia page for many, many more. This isn't even the first time they made serious "mistakes" with mortgages specifically: check out their 2012 settlement. Here's the judgement in just one case:

> On April 5, 2012, a federal judge ordered Wells Fargo to pay $3.1 million in punitive damages over a single loan, one of the largest fines for a bank ever for mortgaging service misconduct. Elizabeth Magner, a federal bankruptcy judge in the Eastern District of Louisiana, cited the bank's behavior as "highly reprehensible", stating that Wells Fargo has taken advantage of borrowers who rely on the bank's accurate calculations. She went on to add, "perhaps more disturbing is Wells Fargo's refusal to voluntarily correct its errors. It prefers to rely on the ignorance of borrowers or their inability to fund a challenge to its demands, rather than voluntarily relinquish gains obtained through improper accounting methods."

Blaming the programmers for these "mistakes" is like blaming bank tellers for the reckless banking policies that caused the 2008 meltdown.

This has nothing to do with "engineering standards". Notice that all these "mistakes" benefit Wells Fargo at the expense of its customers and/or the law. If it was just "shoddy standards", you'd expect a few mistakes to be in favor of the customers...

These "mistakes" proliferate because they make the bank money, and only cost them a slap on the wrist and some small fines. This is Too Big to Fail in action.
the youtube rollerblading community is pretty interesting. it feels like everyone knows one another even though they're spread across the globe.
Its really frustrating that there isnt an option to enable automatic VPN for all connections.
I love these low-key ways to play games over lightweight protocols. I know this is a bad example but Facebook Messenger used to have this but they took it away. Not sure why. It was one of the few things I actually enjoyed about it.
Apropos of nothing, I'd like to add my own rec for CherryTree. I started using it about a month or two into my new job, and in the year since, it's been a fantastic resource, allowing me to recall and review take and projects I'd all but forgotten just a few weeks later. Especially good for programmers with the rich support for language syntax highlighting. You can't mix languages in a single node, and the info feature is a minefield of surprise behavior, but overall, an excellent utility!
Would you consider Soviet troops and materiel in North Vietnam as imperialism then as well?
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Hard to believe there's no mention of working on projects for the NSA.
Yes, maybe not pseudoscience, but also not very useful.

So based on their nine questions, I score rather high on their "D-factor". And while I don't spend much time obsessing over "utility maximization", I have clearly made many utility-based decisions. For example, I never wanted children, notwithstanding social expectations, and preferred to do what interested me.

It's true that some of my interests have been entirely selfish. Having fun, in various ways, for example. But I've also spent years being quite idealistic. Academic pursuits. Working on social and ecological issues. And now, being a privacy advocate.

I do get that my idealistic efforts could just be driven by the desire to look good. To be admired and recognized. But I'm aware of that, and use it for motivation, while recognizing that it's all ultimately empty and meaningless.

So anyway, I believe that human psychology and ontogeny are far too complex to be usefully characterized by stuff like a "D-factor". At best, that just gets at what we're conscious of. And what we're conscious of is largely meaningless post hoc bullshit.