skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let’s not pretend this is a pure win. There are good uses of web scraping, like Archive.org trying to preserve the web. But what HiQ is doing is looking at public LinkedIn profiles and then snitching to employers if they think an employee is searching for a new job.

It’s easy to blanket say “web scraping is legal, do what you will“. The tricky part is protecting people’s public data while not giving a huge moat to giant corporations who control it.
> Large farms move their crops in larger, more efficient vehicles. The efficiency offsets, to some degree, the distance.

Yes I understand this. My point was that it's not as simple as comparing trains to old pickup trucks, which seemed like a strawman. But I've been doing some research and was surprised to learn that food-miles are a relatively small portion of the emissions associated with food, so point taken.

> You also are conflating organic and polyculture farming. Most organic farming is monoculture and much of it is industrial.

I didn't mean to conflate them, I meant that monoculture + industrial is more resource-intensive than organic + small-scale. But I guess I was using "organic" as a catch-all for sustainable farming practices, e.g. polyculture, rather than literally "USDA organic".

Debate about "local produce" aside (which I probably should have let go), my more important point is that it's definitely possible to reduce your carbon footprint meaningfully.
Why are gems awful? It’s one of the best imo
I believe Atlantic had such an article recently. Good starting read is "How dentists rip us off" from Readers Digest.

However, it's a bell curve. There are extremely moral and extremely immoral people. Some of them are dentists.
Your second point is interesting. I suspect the contract between hiQ and some company is that hiQ provides info on public profiles, and if LinkedIn removes all public profiles by requiring a login the contract would become moot. Just the same if I was to change my profile settings from public to private, hiQ wouldn't be in breach of their contract (nor would I).
You can obviously abuse C++ templates, because they are more (or less, depending on how you look at it) than simple generics. However, in what way can parametric polymorphism be misused or be a crutch for bad designs? I can't think of an example that wouldn't be horribly contrived.
Because copyright law exists.
This is just plain desinformación, hydrogen has an efficiency of 70%, which means a loss of 30%, and yes this figure is improving by "throwing money at it"
You are a disinformation website that only ever leans NWO, so your article is quite idiomatic and ironic. Fact:Nazis took away free speech and called it disinformation. All truth came through Joseph Goebbels. You think like J.G.
the autoreply is a great addition! i’ll have to add that to my switching process. thanks.
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Light rail has a lot more destinations, and most rail systems are designed to complement bus systems.

I live in Utah, and our "urban" area (SLC) is similar to many "suburban" areas in terms of population density. We have a commuter line that intersects with light rail, which intersects with the bus system. Rail hits most of the important business areas, and buses hit most of the residential areas, and each runs every 15-20 minutes. If you know the system, you can get around fairly well without a car. It was expensive to build, but it is used quite a bit so it is absolutely worth it.
These failures apply to every tablet that is not running a full desktop OS.
Of these the iPad is far and away the best option currently.
I use Firefox and the new Tracking Protection feature can sometimes prevent Captcha boxes from loading. Click the Shield icon by the URL, then toggle the Tracking Protection to off. The page should reload, does it display the captcha?
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>>Most importantly, the appeals court also upheld a lower court ruling that prohibits LinkedIn from interfering with hiQ’s web scraping of its site. This fundamentally changes the balance of power in dealing with such cases in the future.

This, I don't agree with. I agree that it's not fraud to send a bot to scrape public info but the site should every right to block a bot or person.
> People want their data to be public and all of the benefits that comes with public data but then they want to chose who gets to see it - it's a complete and utter paradox.

That's a complete misconception. Of course you can find manufacture inconsistent ideologies if you combine ideas from different people, but I think you'd have a difficult time finding one person who believes what you just described.

What I want is, put simply, organizational transparency, personal privacy. I believe humans have a right to privacy, but I don't believe organizations have rights, period, and I believe radical transparency within an organization prevents organizations from trampling the rights of individuals.

Organizations in this case include corporations, governments, and nonprofits.
That's about 90%+ efficiency pumping it up, and generating it down (electrical conversion). So maybe 85% total storage efficiency. How's that compare to battery or other storage systems? Lithium is 98% by some sources.
Not sure is call something 90% true “a lie”.

The fact is is that his core statement is true.
It adds full environment reproducability. Essentially, "it works on my machine" -- "then we'll ship your machine". Nothing about docker in particular is meaningful, if they shipped VM images this would be identical, but docker streamlines creation and management of the entire OS image. It eliminates all differences between the developer's laptop and the production server.
All one needs is different pairs of shoes worn on different days.
No British Airways?

A quick look shows a lot of award availability to China for some reason...
Shouldn't this be handled by website developers via PWA-related tools? Think about it, if you're website is meant to work offline (and safari cannot know this), you can implement the necessary code for it to work offline (e.g. web.whatsapp.com)
This is why I strongly prefer the Dutch term 'auteursrecht' (author's rights) as opposed to copyright. Copyright has this annoying incorrect connotation that it has anything to do with copying when it's really publishing that it should be limiting.

Downloading publicly available data should (by definition of public) not be a violation of someone's rights. However it's easy to see why it wouldn't be desirable for someone to republish creative works as their own, so it's reasonable to give the author control over how their work should be published.

And in the case of price data or similar you would be hard pressed to deem anyone the 'author' of it, hence it would be weird to enforce the author's rights.
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Sure. My data is still my data, and if I publish it on my platform for free, that still shouldn't automatically give you the right to copy the data and provide on your platform.

It's basically the same as a TV broadcasting a film for free, and then going after you legally if you recorded that film and uploaded it to your website.
Does the surface buoy generate power? How is it powered?

I thought of doing something similar but based on a single vertical line, it probably needs to be flat to account for flows and thermal gradients refracting sound.

What cpus does it use? Is there a local backup of the sound field on the buoy? Is the full sound field sent up, or does it have to be "pointed at" something?
Have you tried a non-verbal approach? I.e. 'authentic movement', guided dreamlike meditation, ecstatic dance? In a sense reversing the Moravec's Paradox (1) and letting the older, bigger, more complex brain take care of things.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec%27s_paradox
Despite user concerns, Ubiquiti UniFi routers will beam data back automatically
Exactly —- while the alert system is interesting and does have value, if they are putting in the tough, long, and grindingly harsh effort to compile these disparate data sources, that itself is the moat and becomes the product. Definitely worth doing!
Bill Gates and Warren Buffet apparently know each other pretty well, maybe they can even be called friends, and Buffet trusts Gates enough to give his foundation $3.6 billion.

Imho the Netflix documentation "Inside Bill's Brain: Decoding Bill Gates" is worth watching for a variety of reasons.
I think the point with being able to lounge forever is that you're free to pursue whatever interests you have. You're not shackled by having to make ends meet, so your passion projects don't have to suffer.
They'll just counter-sue for defecation
The <a> tag allows you to set a "download" attribute which will prompt the user to save the URL/file rather than navigating to it.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/a
“Z doesn’t work on Linux. Sad”

“That can’t be true because there are literally dozens of applications that can do Z, just not the ones your using.”

At best you can say that companies making popular apps don’t bother with good Linux support which has pretty much always been true.
Does anyone know what happens if you send in fake id? I have heard of people's accounts getting hijacked with fake passport scans. Is Facebook really able to authenticate IDs?
There are many effects that contribute to semiconductor aging. Thermal stress and diffusion, as you and the child comment suggested, are definitely part of it. There is also electromigration, which can cause the interconnect to fail. In advanced nodes there are effects related to the magnitude of the electric field and the various material interfaceds, such as hot-carrier injection (HCI). Here's an article which gives explanation of a few aging effects:

https://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/processors/transist...
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I implemented backends for various payment services in my last job, and we had a lot of maintenance going around payments, mostly for failing to properly synchronize state between local and remote payment-related entities, but we also had race conditions and timeout-related idempotency problems that were more complex to debug and fix.

Granted we had a lot of micro-transactions as well as grouped transactions (around 200 on average, one failing transaction blocking the process for the whole batch).

But it was extremely time consuming to operate daily maintenance tasks:

- it was complex and sensitive enough that only few people were able to do it.

- we had enough problems to devote one man full-time to maintenance tasks.

Is this what people who handle ten of thousands of transactions per day all experience ? Share your story please.
it’s temporary until you’re fully switched over.
The cyber attack the UN tried to keep under wraps
Billions are being made collecting data and content for free and publishing it along with targeted advertisements. Web-scrapers can collect that aggregated data and redistribute it or create competing services. This is terrifying to certain tech giants and threatens their moat's and lock-in/network advantage. They will lobby hard against it with PR campaigns citing everything from security, privacy, copyrights and all sorts of other exaggerated bogeymen. At the end of the day its mostly about preserving their monopolies though.
GNU screen and tmux have screen sharing. That should be enough, right?
> A lot easier than making a CRUD interface ontop of a Base database.

Making an interface for a few columns of a few hundred rows sounds like the classic NCIS hacker line "let me quickly code a GUI in Visual Basic to run that IP address check".
Off topic comment: If the blog author reads this; it's very hard to read the blog with that background (reader view helps though).
Anyone ever read any stories about the concept of "agents" where everyone had their own computer agents that did all the work and talked to other agents do all the steps like book your flights, tickets, order your food, collect/collate data for your purposes, etc?

We need to make the internet "Agent" friendly.. we should stop assuming the end user (end human?) will ever see any webpage on the internet.
Hi, you are on the right track, I wrote a whole book around it. https://gumroad.com/l/understanding-seo/hacker-news

It never was about all that onpage stuff, it always was about the User <> Google <> Website triangle.
Nothing can be "demonstrably" secure if we cannot demonstrate it. We simply cannot guarantee control over the depot for the given time-frame. A lot of things can happen in 1 million years.

You should really read this for another view on that "simple" topic: https://www.forbes.com/sites/christinero/2019/11/26/the-stag...
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Can I just buy long term soybean commodity contracts which follow the price of beef/pork, then sell some each year? I’d prefer that to eating crickets.
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It's a common misconception that the closer to the equator you go the better solar panels work. Solar panels are less efficient the more heat they are exposed to.
What social norms are you talking about? I always ask to see and read anything I'm asked to sign, and I don't think I'm being "difficult" in any way. Why on earth would you sign something you've never read?
Are you using Instagram or WhatsApp?
Hydro has more loss, which is worrisome. Maybe 5X the loss per cycle than battery?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tortious_interference

This would mostly mean that you cannot start interfering with webscraping you previously allowed merely because you learned that they're making money with the scraped data.
OK, what behaves like a Ponzi scheme that lasts too long?

Money Laundering of assets on a national scale, e.g., for oligarchs who have taken 95% of a nations' wealth. Their biggest problem is to get it "legitimately" into the international money system.

If the fund owners have really discovered a technological "secret sauce", why isn't it working in their other funds?

Not a conclusion, but a valid open question.
Is even that much new? Last time I tried it shared everything, which is completely useless.
The problem I ran into is that my company will match employee contributions to registered non-profits. Wireguard doesn't seem to be a project under a registered non-profit. My company won't donate to a random Patreon or PayPal link.
> When the original Mac came out, it didn’t have multitasking, either.

What is the author referring to, exactly? I've seen screenshots of the original Mac with multiple windows open on screen.
Yes well, it comes off as flaming, and no matter who started it it is only adding fuel to the fire. Flamewars are not productive, no matter which side of it each of the people are at.

Statement of fact or not, and insult or not, the question is, does the comment contribute to the conversation? And does it do so in a tone that is likely to be received well by others?

Even if someone is inexperienced, is telling them to study more and telling them that they are ignorant useful? Not really IMO. Aside from the thing about tone, it is also a question of whether it is giving actual actionable advice.

Actionable advice includes pointing to specific sources of information, like one of the sibling comments did.

Non-actionable advice includes telling someone to just study more in general.
Synology Surveillance Station is pretty nice, but closed source.
people love to repeat things. he hasn't donated anything yet. he donates when he dies.
From your friends :) Or you will allow it. To use it. On the other side you can at least control that the common advertisers wont get it (like fb). For everything else get root and xposed + xprivacy. But for most users that is too much. I just gave the easiest advice. I am running microg lineage, xprivacy lua and netguard. But I wonder was this as advice worth the letters used? ;) Will someone go trough the trouble to use it? To replace the rom, install everything, run everything in block mode and allow only what is really needed, like connection to my own mail server? My own ssh tunnel? Probably not. And then comes the master villan, google. How many will remove that one from the phone? Waste of words, right?

Anyway even netguard is far better than nothing, most apps dont need their own servers. And the largest data slurpers are known. For fb just block all fb domains.
OK, maybe "misleading" is more suitable.. :)
> I don't like using exported variables as final values, so I need to use functions to return the final values, which is verbose and not elegant. Lacking of read-only values also causes some unnecessary performance losses.

This sounds like you're fighting against the language. I think a lot of developers do this. I think one should either embrace the language or find another (you did mention moving to C++).
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> I don't know what I will get when it finally dies - you?

Every year I've been waiting for apple to finally release a good mbp. The specs for the new 16 inch mbp seems great on paper (but without any user-upgradeable parts like the 2012, but that ship has sailed), so I'm waiting to see if any major issue shows up before getting one (probably early next year).

The backup option if the 16 inch mbp turns out to be no good is building a kvm-based hackintosh with gpu pass-through. I could fully migrate to linux, but still need MacOS for iOS app development so this system might works for me.
Who said anything about "doing nothing"? Retiring is not the same as doing nothing; in particular, retiring does not necessarily imply only "sitting on a beach forever".
There are people for whom life means more than just work, and for whom the end of working does not mean the end of living.

For what it's worth, turk73's attitude regarding work only being a means to earn money is just as misguided and narrow-minded.
Avast Defends Data Harvesting, Plans to Get Users to Agree to It
You seem to be missing a URL or any text with details - which is a shame. As I'm currently moving more and more wifi kit to Ubiquiti means I'd be extremely interested to learn more.
On Linux Mint, I've had great success with Zoom, and Microsoft Teams of all things.
There are cases where "dropping into your algorithm" would count as fair use such as a search engine of copyrighted content.
I'm also doing this with internet-connected vms, but I have closed all ports using Iptables
I'm working on strong AI using natural selection and reinforcement learning to develop an intelligence not necessarily modeled to ours.

What I can't figure out is what to use as inputs, similarly to the human senses, so that it doesn't become too specific, i.e. weak, but instead remains general and able to understand the binary language computers use.
I actually got these somewhat obscure references immediately: https://xkcd.com/378/

still very funny
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People want their data to be public and all of the benefits that comes with public data but then they want to chose who gets to see it.

By People you mean business or people people? Because I don't think people want everything to be public, many in fact use various networks to avoid oversharing and even then many people don't want their old bosses or exes looking at their profiles, there just don't exist tools to limit access that granularly.
Because 99%+ of other patients just sign it without reading it.
I use it for my primary email, absolutely no complaints about it. The web interface is nice and clean, the app is pretty good too. I migrated from Gmail about five years ago (after an invite from a friend) and I've not looked back.
> Seems to imply that every business is somehow beholden to every contract signed by anyone.

Implied contract is that if you publish something, it's public and you have no right to dictate what software people use to consume it.
Wireguard is really, really awesome. I've been using it for a bit now and it almost completely Just Works™. I've only had two issues, one of which is known and the other of which I think is probably my fault somehow.

The first is that for some reason I sometimes need to ping machine B from A in order to get to C via B (in my case B sits in a VPS, while A is a laptop and C is a desktop).

The other is that I would love to be able to connect directly over the LAN from A to C and vice versa, only going via B when A is mobile. I'm pretty sure that I could fix this with more IPv6 addresses and routing tables, but so far no joy.
That's an excellent point about the fungibility of energy storage. But I don't think the lower capacity factor of nuclear plants in France is a reasonable argument against nuclear energy anyway.

The non-electric uses of nuclear thermal energy you mention are potentially interesting, but essentially they're just a slightly different form of demand response. If you're doing demand response in your desal plant, you can do it regardless of whether it's an MSF plant driven from nuclear thermal power or an RO plant driven by electric pumps. (And RO is usually considered more efficient.) I think it's more common for waste heat from power plants to be a nuisance that results in cooling towers rather than an asset that results in district heating, although I'm not entirely sure why that is.
Agree that oral transmission was an important & practiced skill. But I do wonder about how well it let you transmit "technological" knowledge, in a manner that could be turned back into practice. Do we have any examples of people doing this?

My counter-example is various failures to reproduce early industrial-revolution processes... from memory, wasn't there a stage when the French were pushing to catch up in iron-making, and sent spies to England, from whose accounts they could not make the process work? Despite having not just words, but materials and examples of the result. (The solution, eventually, was to pay people who had the knack to move there.)
In theory, right?

See the South Park WWITB issue.

I believe South Park used a videoclip from youtube, and Youtube’s ContentID system removed the video South Park had used, because Youtube considered it a violation of South Park’s copyright.
One of the reasons I keep working on this project is that I am in a similar situation. When I started researching this topic, I did a test. I made x-rays, and my friend dentist took dental photographs of me. Then I had sent these over email to 7 independent dentists.
Recommendations I got where as diverse as the ones from "How dentists rip us off" article by Readers Digest. I haven't done any of recommendations except for 2 fillings that even I was able to recognise on the images. For the rest, I am going to use my app to find the best solution.
The reason is that they are highly levered with many small short term trades.
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“Jul 21, 2014 Within these complicated financial structures, Renaissance Technologies was able to borrow as much as $17 for every $1 in the account.”
FWIW how this happens is Huawei gives still influential former gov folks cushy jobs:

https://twitter.com/_JakubJanda/status/1222496191897731073
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