skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are two parts of this article that stand out to me.

"But frankly, I think that information is an important factor in how some people will choose to vote in the fall. And so we want to make sure that information is out there and people can see it, warts and all."

And:

"What would Facebook do if Trump falsely said on the platform that he was the winner of the presidential election?

Gleicher dodged the question, refusing to directly say whether Facebook would take action against such a post."

That's why they'll fail. You can't fight lies if you don't believe that lying exists.

And I think Facebook, for whatever reason—self-interest calculus rooted in having the largest userbase at all costs, or currying favor with the current administration; or even some genuine intellectual conviction that every opinion deserves to be evaluated no matter the larger damage—has convinced itself that lying doesn't actually exist.

I'm trying to avoid kneejerk Facebook cynicism these days, so I'll say that Zuck is a smart, hyper-ambitious guy, and maybe he legitimately thinks he has some philosophical case for giving a voice to unstable people who believe Donald Trump is America's last bulwark against a future ruled by a shadowy cabal of pedophiles.

That second part, however, gives me strong reason to believe Facebook's tolerance for lies and weaponized misinformation is entirely about self-interest. The question put to Gleicher would have been a mindlessly easy softball for anyone who was sincere about eliminating lying.
There is this joke about a guy who goes to patent office and says "I invented dynamite!". Patent clerk says: "But dynamite has already been invented." Guy: "I invented more of it."

Drug development is like that. Huge sums of money is spent for creating slightly different molecules to create competitor for already existing drug.
When someone discovers way to treat disease with drug. Competitors learn
how the drug works and develop another molecule with similar function that circumvents patents.

That money should be used to original drug research that is more risky and uncertain but it generates less profits.
So it's a net non-zero CO2 footprint?

That would rather be against fertilizer then.
Well the other hypercapitalists sell a product that sucks and sure, it lets you run other stuff, but it absolutely tramples on your privacy and is still, for the most part, worse in all aspects. (and yes the keyboard issues were very close to tipping the scales)

I wish the choice was simple, but it isn't.
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I don't understand the down vote for this. If you're geographically away from your family and friends and need to stay in touch, there are other media for that and you don't need a whole solution like Facebook.
It's really unfortunate that the transportation disaster investigation model hasn't, uh, taken off in other sectors where the margin of error isn't so small that there's no alternative.

Even in aviation, however, independent investigations by government (e.g. the NTSB) do not extinguish civil or criminal liability. Incident investigations are inadmissible in court, but civil suits and/or criminal prosecutions can be, and are, conducted as parallel processes.
3-4 million people die a year in the USA. So maybe this is just the normal death rate?

In the bay area only 3% of deaths are due to covid.
No, I wasn't trashing the German government.

I'm well aware what I did is not a best practice. I've been on HN 11 years.

I've also thought a great deal about certain kinds of issues and formally studied them etc and I'm extremely frustrated with how certain things are being handled. I'm quite confident that reading the article wouldn't fundamentally change my opinion. It would only allow me to say it in a slightly more socially acceptable fashion.

The qualifier I gave covers any such inaccuracies and it's unimportant anyway because no one takes me all that seriously, though they really should.

And I don't really feel like pointlessly rehashing that fact. It never changes. It's the same BS as always and there's nothing I can do to fix that.

I'm done being silenced by that fact on subjects I'm knowledgeable about. I have enough karma to withstand a few downvotes for the crime of admitting I know something useful and never mind that no one is ever going to have a goddamned ounce of real respect for me. Whatever.
From the Mastodon comment[0] where I found this:

"COHERENT was a UNIX variant for DOS compatible PCs and this is the 1409 page document that will teach you everything.

"This document assumes you've never used a computer much less UNIX and walks you through installation, configuration, how logging in works, basic usage, using text editors, basic and advanced administration, network administrator and eventually topics including programming!

"You walk in a baby and walk out a C programming UNIX wizard, all on your 286 with 2MB of ram."

-- penny, @penny@cute.science

[0] https://mathstodon.xyz/web/statuses/104720370803968311
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I'm glad it "just works"
I agree, it would be awesome. Thinks like virzoom bike controller are pretty fun and unlock unexpected use cases (see https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/5y15vx/elit... for a fun take on that)
To me, it seems to mean something like "you only need to add 7 lines of code to use it"

While I still kind of disagree with your title, I get where you are coming from now.
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I tried and it worked great. My well wishes to your family
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If you start from Holly, CO on the eastern border and measure to San Francisco, CA and Ocean City, MD he's only off by about 300 miles--300 miles if you take US 50 in either direction, and interestingly ~300 miles if you let Google Maps take you via the boring Interstate routes (interstates tend to be straighter than the old highways, making up for the more meandering north-south jogs of I-70, I-80, etc, as compared to US 50).

Of course, it's more like a 500 mile difference starting from Colorado Springs, or 600 mile difference from Denver.
But they had a choice. You can always build a pc with linux/uac=0 or buy it from those who know how to do that. Aren't you conflating freedom with everyone living the way you want? And with uninformed choices, which nobody has to inform. And with ecosystems that do [not] fit your particular views. As a conscious informed user myself, and after experimenting, I tend to choose some of Apple's products. Not Apple's as a company, but as an idea of how things should work. You do not take my freedom to be able to do that, do you? Remember that all that Apple has is what their customers chose to give them. You cannot just go and blame them for getting what they want, based on some freedom morals that weren't even trampled for them. Hardware and software that is free in many regard is still there. Don't you think that you just blame people for their choice?
What OS are you running on linux that makes the experience worth it over macOS? I've grown up using macs and am used to the UI quite a bit. Have a work machine (t580) and used Ubuntu and Fedore. Both have been quite challenging to use with lots of Graphics Issues. Sure the thing runs everything I throws at it in terms of docker/system-services/etc., but UI stuff is really ugly.
Hi I'm the Community Manager for Programmable Banking so AMA

In this Programmable Banking Community demo, OfferZen share how they built a company card spend tracking system that integrates with to help our Finance team save time managing company expenses.

I'm super excited about this because it's the first published example of how Programmable Banking can be used for with Private Banking for Business to enable companies to build fintech for themselves and their clients.
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I've noticed this as well. It has gone on for a significant time now. That leads me to believe that they have data that says that it's more profitable to alienate users that hate it rather then remove it. I'd be very interested in seeing that data.

As part of this they have also other things that they do that I think are downright dishonest, for example, when you land on a subreddit and are asked to log in or use the app, the top bar logo link no longer leads to homepage but to /register. For me that's why shady and made me immediately leave the site but it's still there which suggests that it works on a significant part of the userbase. Again, I'd really be interested in seeing their data.
There is a buy america act, which requires the government in buying from American companies, there are also federal similar laws which might be the reason here

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buy_American_Act
Thank you!

CloudSQL (expensive wrapper around mysql) restricts you changing the wait_timeout which is really terrible when using cloudfunctions OR innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit. Now! With my own reverse shell I can finally edit the CloudSQL variables and contact a SRE.

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/server-system-variab...
Bits and Pieces.

But we have hundreds of puzzles from tons of manufacturers. Other than the puzzles for little kids, all of our puzzles are non-grids.
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Cheers for that, it was a good read!
Done like this, it's like a carbon sequestration project that would decide to periodically dump all of its captured CO2 in the wild back again...
The status from Google Cloud status page offers a bit more technical details of what happened:

"We are experiencing an issue with Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters using node auto-provisioning becoming stuck during node version upgrades. Node auto-upgrades have been disabled temporarily."

https://status.cloud.google.com/
Automation is not a fixed thing. Many industries look to be people heavy but can rapidly swap, ie taxi cabs in a driverless car world. Speeding that up seems like a net social and economic benefit if we don’t need to worry about structural unemployment.
> which gives more credibility to his statement than the partial citation you used. It is still anecdotal of course but given the history of the region the culture does not shift dramatically as soon as you cross the border.

This gross generalisation is nothing new about India. People who do that(even if they are from a "neighboring country") do not understand the many contours of a vast and very diverse country! Indians have now become used to this partial vision of others about the country. The rest of the citation you included itself would have given you a hint: "similar kind of community in its neighboring country". Comparing a community to a whole country is quite a leap!
Take it a step further: Remap CapsLock to be 'Escape' when pressed&released, and 'Control' when held.

Easily configurable under Linux with xcape, and (iirc) karabiner for Mac. For Wayland there is also a tool.
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Battery life and hardware support. You'd get better battery life and thermals running Linux in Virtualbox on a Windows/Mac laptop than on bare metal. I'm a Linux enthusiast but every time I use it on a laptop is pain. Laptops are like phones in that they need deep integration with the OS to be usable long-term. The best way to use Linux is on a desktop that you build and can control what hardware is used. (The desktop with multiple monitors is a superior form factor IMO for getting work done.)
Only if the notarization signature hasn’t been stapled to the binary.
I work in enterprise, we have around 10.000 employees and operate around 100 different applications that we’ve build ourselves and around 50 where we are in direct corporation with external developers.

We almost never exactly or improve quality of code. The only time I’ve done an actual quality improvement was when I improved some data queries and took a look-up from 5 minutes to around 10 seconds, and we only looked at that after about 5 years of complaints.

One of the reasons it’s like that is because code quality doesn’t really matter when the application performs what it’s supposed to do without flaws or long waits. The other reason is because it takes developer time, and that’s better spent on new development.

If you could truly automate code reviewing, we might be interested, as that would deal with the resource allocation issue.
I get that this is mostly for fun, but isn’t there a huge problem here, in that training the algorithm first requires human interpretation of the animal’s emotions? Which is a huge uncertainty in the first place?
Tech workers live and breathe the space between mechanism and intent. Policies that are inconsistent with their stated goals offend exactly the same mental hardware that finds bugs.

There's nothing inherently wrong with heavyweight bureaucracy. Roles, ceremonies, witnesses, signatures, tamper-evident seals, 2-man rules, split-knowledge safe combinations... the community loves this stuff. But we don't respect it because it's policy. We respect it because we were following along, trying to break it, trying to do better, and we couldn't.
I suspect that if elon musk had not self-funded, well, nothing would have happened.
Heavily sandboxing apps by default is fine, and some Linux distros are, slowly, moving to do this - see e.g. AppArmor and Snap.

Even giving warnings by default about unsigned apps requesting high privileges would be fine if the implied message weren't basically "everything we haven't checked is malware". Something like "We nor any other provider you've chosen to trust have no idea who made this and we haven't checked if it contains malware. This program may steal and delete all your files. Be really sure you trust the author before running this." would be much more honest.

Good security does not require a single entity becoming the sole gatekeeper and taxman for a huge fraction of users.

> Why must everyone constantly have to risk their own neck to defend someone else’s perception of freedom. Why should they all pay (in terms of risk and time mitigating against it) for something that benefits someone else alone?

I'm not advocating for Windows-levels of "install anything with access to everything with barely any warnings". And I wouldn't say you're "constantly risking your own neck" if you deliberately ignore warnings.

In computing as in society, I don't see how we can remove all possibility of getting cheated into hurting yourself (by installing malware in this case) without essentially submitting to some form of autocracy. And I think freedom benefits almost everyone, at least indirectly. As a concrete example, in the Apple/Epic case, an alternative game store would likely result in healthier competition i.e. lower prices. As another example, Hong Kong protesters with iPhones would have had an alternative way to coordinate: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-49919459
The approach may be to start educating the Apple users to understand that these messages do not necessarily mean that the app itself is malicious or from a malicious source.

Yes, I know that ideally Apple should be allowing opensource apps or at least have a mechanism for opensource apps also to be verified by the gatekeeper and that is something we can campaign for, but in the absence of that, we can atleast educate the users.
> Sometimes I wonder what the world would be like if we just said "that sucks" and required a full postmortem instead.

This is how BAA built Heathrow Terminal 5. They took on all risk and just dealt with each problem as they came up: https://www.christianwolmar.co.uk/2005/04/project-management...
The company can pay you anything between the legal minimum and the marginal product of your labor. As the labor market can never be perfectly competitive (i.e. an econ 101 textbook market), there will always be an employer who rationally calculates that paying more than minimum wage will be profitable - which in turn has an impact on the decisions of the other employers. This has nothing to do with them being nice guys.
There are plenty of "production" projects done by maker community.
Try Razer stuff.
Consider the neurological danger of visualizing yourself as (e.g. hitler) repeatedly over and over. The exercise mentioned above is one of neurological conditioning (anpassen in german). You are training your neural pathways to take on a certain form of thought pattern. If you pick (e.g.) hitler as your mould, then you are training yourself as hitler. That's what the danger is with such a practice.

Therefore, you must be careful and wise about what neurological mould you are seeking to "impersonate" with your practice, since you would be creating new habits and neural pathways in practice.

I'm not an expert on this topic, but I can use my common sense to figure that out.
Apple has patents on their trackpad. Dell etc. are literally not allowed to make good trackpads.
> These days, those corporate insiders have a lot of their wealth tied up their company's stock.

Yes, that helps a bit to align incentives. In practice, it's only a start.

(It's especially interesting because investors these days tend to be broadly diversified and typically own shares in all the companies in an industry. Managers are typically highly concentrated.)
I agree. There are also cases where many Kubernetes clusters in different regions consume the same cloud service like RDS Cluster. So, tight coupling of cloud service (assumed to be stateful in most cases) and workloads doesn't work in some scenarios.

In Crossplane, our primary scenario is to have a dedicated small cluster for all the orchestration of infrastructure and many app clusters that will consume resources form that central cluster. So, clusters with workloads come and go but the one with your infra stays there and serves as control plane. See the latest design about this workflow: https://github.com/crossplane/crossplane/blob/master/design/... I'd be happy to hear your feedback on the design.

Disclaimer: I'm a maintainer at Crossplane.
The reality, regarding jobs, about all of this: jobs will be outsourced to countries with cheaper labor.

It's already happening: kiwibots, which runs teleoperated delivery robots, is using drivers from Colombia, for $2/hour.
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OpenStreetMap treasurer here to jump on the tangent. Hi!

Apple's focus is on maximising profit, and ours is on maximising mapping and the width of our membership, especially after the entryism attempt last year ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19008792 ).-

We've also recently received a non-profit signing certificate from Apple through our German local chapter, and two of us are working on getting JOSM automatically signed and notarized. Our workflow is at https://github.com/thomersch/josm/blob/master/.github/workfl... and a JOSM.app built yesterday can be downloaded at https://github.com/thomersch/josm/actions/runs/214334897 .
Free computing is dead. Apple and Google killed it.
I once departed Stockholm on Jan 1st, flying to San Francisco. The route goes north, across the polar circle and over Greenland, then south towards the US west coast. As we passed the polar circle, the sun set. A few hours later, we passed it again and the sun rose, only to set again as we approached the evening in US. So I got two sunrises, two days and two sunsets that single day, which I thought was so wonderful I still remember it.
But isn’t every mega project different? Do they all have problems in the same ways? That seems different than airplanes. There are different models of planes, but overall they seem a lot more similar than different so that my findings are probably applicable to any other plane.
The substantial lack of malware in the Mac world pre-dates the Mac AppStore, and numbers have not changed significantly since the introduction of that and/or Gatekeeper.

Gatekeeper is a commercial boiling-frog lock-in strategy sold as a security feature nobody asked for.

> open-source charities

Open-source, as a term, was invented in order to sell what was then called Free Software. It has nothing to do with charity.

> Curation is not a bad thing

Apple does little or no curation on the Mac AppStore, because the amount of developers using it is still relatively low.
Technically it's the threshold where R drops below one. You might expect transmission to continue for some time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herd_immunity#Overshoot
It used to be 'Startup News'.
The less agency people have, and the less expertise is teached to them and expected of them, the less capable and the more exploitable they become.
Is this basically a Business Analyst?
Crete, which was destroyed by a volcanic eruption:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minoan_eruption
I think the difference is your "community" public wall, where you publish the user-scrapped recipes, saved on your own server. Neither Paprika, nor Evernote or Pocket does that.

If someone publishes a third party content on a public wall (like Pinterest, for example) - then the don't copy it to their own servers, they use only the links, which lead to the original webpage.
Are you talking about on-demand compression for viewers, or on-demand for uploads? The economics of on-demand transcoding are usually pretty bad in the cloud.
Beyond 'pretty', how does this help the user in any way?

I'm an emacs user and love it but lack of fine scrolling is hardly it's worst feature.
Ultimately the us government and states cannot be trusted with basic infrastructure.
Periodically they would fall over landing on the recovery barge and explode, but that's to be expected. :)

(and your idea is brilliant, it should jokingly be called "blue ice")
If you can't even summarise how his plan would be affordable in this discussion then... I'll draw my conclusions.

That's a good summary of UBI, actually: It's great, please let's not get bogged down on details like financing.
If I look at my parents they are well past the point of developing any expertise. Everything is about protecting them now.
User emails file to drive

script connects to drive and parses list of files within

script copies files into redshift and moves original file to different directory or deletes it

alas what can be done? this is what the company gets for building like this ^.^
Does the fact that you think alternatives suck make apple have a monopoly? Sure they have a monopoly on your desires, but that isn't a big enough scale for laws to get involved.

There are alternatives out there. So it becomes really hard to claim anti-trust.
I wonder if this ongoing genocide is mostly unknown by the general public, or if it's known and not regularly on the front pages of mainstream media (and therefore perceived as unimportant).
Thanks! For me it's super important that people can understand my art super easy. Art doesn't need to be difficult.
It was the cheapest section to build and the easiest to start on.
Oh yeah, growing food is definitely one of the biggest sources of emissions! 26%. But many things besides fertilizer. Reviewed here.

Poore, J., & Nemecek, T. (2018). Reducing food’s environmental impacts through producers and consumers. Science, 360(6392), 987-992.
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Hey, I currently go to CU! Weird to click this and see a picture of our library.
Even then. If the input images are from untrusted source, you need to scrupulously treat the OCR output as untrusted too, and that it is actually OCRing and not mining crypto (say, using image library exploit + OCR math library functions), etc. etc.