skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you have a good example of where a union was able to protect against major changes in the job market?

Steel is out. So are auto workers.
I feel like this can change over time and across generations. When I was a kid (80s/90s) I liked the sound of muscle cars, but gradually realized that what I really wanted was something secretly fast and generally quiet. I like cars that appear refined but carry a hidden punch.

Now, brand-wise, yeah, a muscle car as an EV is just weird.
I don't like BAT and wish it could be removed like any other extension, but it's opt in?

Also, what's stopping you from installing uBlock on Brave? Considering Chrome doesn't ship with any adblocker, is it not beneficial (given your preference for adblocking) to provide an adblocker out of the box, given you still have the ability to use any extensions you would use with any other browser?
"More importantly, the caching of favicons in modern browsers exhibits several unique characteristics that render this tracking vector particularly powerful, as it is persistent (not affected by users clearing their browser data), non-destructive (reconstructing the identifier in subsequent visits does not alter the existing combination of cached entries), and even crosses the isolation of the incognito mode."

Why are favicons cached separately? I assume it is just code from pre-commercial www days that no one has since bothered to examine or rewrite?

I feel like privacy within modern browsers is a Sisyphean struggle. Their vast and ever-expanding API surface can never be brought under sensible control without splitting the browser into several unrelated tasks that must cross strictly locked down interprocess communication channels. The existing multi-process architecture must be taken to the next level, but who will do the difficult work involved given that of the major players only Mozilla and Apple have a stated incentive for privacy and even there their stated incentive is on fairly weak grounds since one is a profitable corporation while the other is funded by profitable corporations?
The mesh network was informed by, and in turn informed LEO stuff. They did smart work
Yeah but satellites get actual shit done reliably and for decades.
I think another very important component was that they were innovating in an area where they had a legal monopoly - there was no risk that their competitors would steal away their inventions. This is not the case with Waymo for instance.
> The reasons why licenses like the AGPL haven't yet caught on are complex.

They are not complex. Permissive licenses encourage adoption but hinder monetization; restrictive licenses do the opposite. Pick your poison.
It really depends.

I know a woman who worked at my Fortune 500 as a contractor for like 3 years. She was able to bill hourly, work when she wanted (mostly).

I had heard she made $600k for a similar role where if she were an employee she would have gotten $200k + benefits.

The cost of a health plan was negligible.
So two things:

1) this is insane! It even breaks the “sandbox” of incognito mode.

2) Based on how it works I would assume it absolutely decimates the back button functionality, which depending on what you’re trying to accomplish might be a good thing, and 2 seconds isn’t a short period of time. Ppl wouldn’t be that ok with waiting 2 secs even with today’s js heavy loads.
Their CVTs also use these simulated gears during normal automatic driving, presumably just to make it feel more like a traditional automatic (which it mostly does, to my untrained senses). Apparently this is important to the car-buying market, although I don’t understand why.
A public funding source can provide that kind of support for a decade, but even for the likes of Google that's a stretch.

I prefer to think of a moonshot as longer than a longshot, whatever that might be worth.

It sure is sad though, coming from the acquisition before Google X that had just so many great players throughout.
Oh sorry for my ambiguity. I meant something like:

1. Get capacity in Switzerland

2. Move data there (big project ofc)

3. Start swizz business

4. Move customer billing to swizz company

5. Make Australian company bill swizz company enough to pay the wages and offices

6. You're now technically not part of spyware haven anymore. (employees could still be pressed for backdoors I guess, but it'd look a lot better on paper)

Loads of VPN companies do this kind of move, though they rent colo all over the place usually.

I did that backpacker year in Australia, believe me I understandthat people don't want to move. It's as close to paradise as I I can imagine a place on earth could be.

I realise its not as simple as projected here, but it must've crossed their minds, as a fastmail customer myself I would like to read about the thought process on the topic.
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They can't be remote controlled i.e. remote operators can't steer the car. They can only "answer questions" apparently.

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/SelfDrivingCars/comments/e8bfse/way...
It's kinda weird to think of brain as an X project. DistBelief was developed out in the open in the main source code repo by people you think of as googlers, like Jeff. So what makes it "X"?
> Valetudo is the roman name for the greek goddess Hygieia which is the goddess of health, cleanliness and hygiene. Also I’m bad at naming things.

https://valetudo.cloud/pages/faq.html
> Isn’t launching a satellite much more expensive than a balloon?

Historically yes, but while I don't know the numbers, a launch provider that is able to reduce the cost by about an order of magnitude might have an advantage here (SpaceX are also launching 60 of them at once).

It also seems like satellites would be a bit less vulnerable to outside interference than balloons.
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This comment kind of highlights how pointless this debate is.

If you go off of what the law says, how this open source license works, and the understanding that all businesses are competing to make money, what AWS did here seems pretty reasonable and perfectly legal.

If you come at it from the perspective that AWS is always evil and the little guy is always good, you’ll view this as a terrible injustice. There’s not much substance to the justifications here, seems like you had your mind made up and then half heartedly tried to backfill some sort of reasoning. Just assert that everyone else has it twisted, of course AWS always exploits, try to evoke the spirit of open source as if that’s a single, easily defined quality.
What kind of restructuring of internet routing would alleviate this issue?
Google has offices, employees, multiple registered businesses of various types, and a bunch of physical hardware. They very much are subject to Australian law if they want to stay here.

(That said, the law is insane, and neatly demonstrates how badly our politicians are beholden to Murdoch).
There's an argument for not doing OCSP on end-entity certificates if you can approach the lifetime for the certificates that you'd realistically need for OCSP responses anyway.

Suppose you promise to issue OCSP revocations within 48 hours if it's urgent, and your OCSP responses are valid for 48 hours. That means after a problem happens OCSP revocation takes up to 96 hours to be effective.

If you only issue certificates with lifetimes of 96 hours then OCSP didn't add anything valuable - the certificates expire before they can effectively be revoked anyway.

Let's Encrypt is much closer to this idea (90 days) than many issuers were when it started (offering typically 1-3 years) but not quite close enough to argue revocation isn't valuable. However, the automation Let's Encrypt strongly encourages makes shortening lifetimes practical. Many of us have Let's Encrypt certs automated enough that if they renewed every 48 hours instead of every 60 days we'd barely care.

The solution to excessive OCSP traffic and privacy risk is supposed to be OCSP stapling instead, but TLS servers that can't get stapling right are still ridiculously popular so that hasn't gone so well.
Don’t forget about Amazon’s Kuiper System.

https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/innovation-at-amazon/amazon...
But Loon launched in 2013 and Starlink in 2018 (?).

In a world in which satellites stayed very expensive I could imagine it being a bit more successful.
The actual thing that self driving cars get you is "not paying for a taxi driver."

If one remote operator can supervise 10 mostly autonomous vehicles, you've gotten 90% of the economic value of full autonomy.
A local between-islands container ship operated by Young Brothers lost a bunch of containers recently off Hawaii Island. It happened just as they were negotiating a substantial rate increase with state regulators, saying without a 40% price hike they wouldn't be able to stay in business. The rate increase passed shortly after the accident, and our local Facebook groups exploded with accusations that the shipping company (or some of its deckhands) had essentially extorted the state. The conspiracy theory was that someone must have had a bunch of insurance on those containers. (I must note again that these were unfounded conspiracy theories with no supporting evidence other than 'convenient timing'). I'm highly skeptical of those claims, but it would be interesting to know if insurance fraud could be contributing to the increase in container losses.
This is China-US trade war dynamics. The Australian government can't back down on this. Neither can Google.

It's stupid. Google is going to pay the news companies just like it does in France, and everyone knows it. Why do people have to amp stuff up?

Prime minister Scott Morrison said at a press conference in Brisbane the government would not respond to threats.

“Let me be clear. Australia makes our rules for things you can do in Australia. That’s done in our parliament. It’s done by our government. And that’s how things work here in Australia and people who want to work with that, in Australia, you’re very welcome.

“But we don’t respond to threats.”

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/jan/22/google-threate...

(Australian, know lots of Google staffers, do not work for Google but work with them on things like standards )
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Loons are cute toys that got 100x the deserved media attention vs their actual impact. Actual remote internet connectivity is mostly being addressed through the grungy, mind-numbingly routine job of increasing the coverage of terrestrial networks. The folks doing that unrewarding work should get recognition for actually making a difference in people's lives over the long run.
I'm helping work on the compile times :) https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs/issues/420
:) art students could consider this route post studies, military creativity courses with essentially unlimited funding. It really is astounding to see how many millions/billions then and now can go into failed projects.
The very first thing I did on my old Xiaomi Gen1 was to root it with information from the dustcloud repo https://github.com/dgiese/dustcloud/wiki and controlled it through python-miio. Until Valetudo came along I was stuck with that janky horrible solution. Now I have arguably a better interface than the official app. It's come a long way since the early days it's really easy and convenient to hook the vacuum up to Home Assistant.

It's actually one of the reasons I was recommending Xiaomi vacuum cleaners to friends and family. Unfortunately they have recently changed the firmware password making it impossible to root without using a direct serial connection. I really wish companies would embrace hardware tinkerers, I'm actually proud of a bloody vacuum because of all the effort I put in to make it do things.

Mad props to Hypfer for starting and building something so awesomely cool and useful
Travel, waze, voice, snapseed, meets/hangouts, chromecast is pretty popular too. And all the other stuff people mentioned.
Exactly this, which is why it is an empty threat!
It's surreal to think that a decade ago even corps like Google could get away with using ableist language for their projects.
Ita not simply social media, it's media consolidation in general. More censorship will only exacerbate things at this point.
Since Ruth Porat came in they've really trimmed any expenditure that doesn't add straight to the bottom line

It's really hard to be a public company and to take big risks like this. The Apollo Program never would have worked as a startup or public company.

I personally had hoped they told analysts that taking large bets for often no financial outcome is just who Alphabet are - but they folded to the Wall St pressure
He does better rockets than most third graders.
And then comes musk with neuralink. Oh boy imagine the number of zeroes on their contracts with the military.
I’m finishing early access for similar product (bases on ChakraUI and not Tailwind). What do you think is fair price for something that saves you dozens od hours of UI work?
I think the original idea behind supermarkets with long rows of shelves was that some work was being offloaded to the customer. An assembly line where the people move and the items are still, or something like that. So, it actually does track that the format works well for Amazon’s purposes.
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I don’t understand people saying full self driving is decades away. We have it always albeit in a very restricted geo fence.
"antifa" is as vague as "anonymous"
OpenBSD recently added the "~" random range separator to their crontab syntax. The manual for acme-client, the native Let's Encrypt tool, provides

~ * * * * acme-client example.com && rcctl reload httpd

as the example crontab entry. Though, for maximum friendliness to Let's Encrypt that should probably be something like "~ ~ * * ~", which would run the command at a random time once per week. I think you could accomplish something similar using systemd timer units and RandomizedDelaySec, assuming it permits a delay as high as 604800.
This tired argument that Parler is an innocent victim of censorship is so invalid (by so much data) that it seems like a false flag. The moderation of Parler was designed to tailor to one viewpoint: Trumpism. It was an engineering echo chamber for a narrow set of ideologies and naked hate.
How can you compare Navalny to Khashoggi, who was cut in pieces and dissolved into the sewer?! The Turkish TV recently released the investigation footage - unimaginable brutality, tons of evidence, and NOTHING! Navalny is no threat to Putin. He wants to be perceived as one, but he is not. I am not an assassination expert, but I'm sure there plenty of ex-KGB people who can get rid of Navalny if Putin asks them. Car crashes, incidents, you name it - if he wanted him dead, he'd be dead long ago.

Thank you for the info about Novichok. It was airborne during Skripal's case, but now I see it was powder released into the air and not gas.
I used to drive ~180 miles round trip a day for work. A Tesla wouldn’t have been able to pull that off. Particularly in cold weather in the hills. But even assuming there was a charging station at work (enabling the round trip) - I also regularly drove to other cities(weekends and such) that would be 300-400 miles away. There are no charging stations anywhere in between.

This was / is common in my area. My point is that a Tesla works well in many cases, particularly in densely populated regions. They work less well if you have to drive distances, carry a heavy load, and especially not if it’s more rugged. All the more true if you have kids, particularly young ones where a 20 min charging break is rough. Or running out of charge could be a problem.

Hybrids are really much better suited to these scenarios. I think EVs will get there, they’re always closing gaps, just right now less densely populated areas make less sense.
At the same time we already have instances where false positives led to the jailing of the wrong person. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/29/technology/facial-recogni...
> The internet says: "The Apollo program's total cost was about $25.4 billion, about $152 billion in today's dollars."

And SpaceX will soon have the capability to do it with zillion times less. Seems like if you really want to make it possible, you can.
Not flying those rockets will have no effect. A single launch puts out about as much CO2 as a single full transatlantic flight. Consider how many of those fly every single day, let alone the shorter flights.
The successor, Project Taara, seems quite impressive (and more sustainable): https://x.company/projects/taara/
Think about the many hard problems to be solved. They had cost-effective high-endurance stratospheric balloons - decades of military projects never really got there. They had very detailed stratospheric wind models - decades of atmospheric science research never really got there. They had a flying LTE network. Each of these solutions was almost certainly too expensive and “niche” for any conventional funding agency to consider, but necessary for Loon to work.
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We pay our reception staff ( nice people, with no formal training ) around the amount that Intel pay their engineers.

Intel appear to be deep into a death spiral.
I think we’d want real taxes paid, which many people have parroted as ‘zero’ for a long time (I think Sanders claimed this for Amazon recently).

You’d think there would be a simple site where you can look up a company ticker symbol and see a straight taxes-paid number and how much is off-shored to mitigate tax burden.
> There's a clear public interest in knowing the identity of a subject.

Why? He's a blogger.
While SpaceX is in the news, there’s also the Amazon LEO initiative: Project Kuiper. They’ve received FCC approval and have access to Blue Origin rockets to launch.
I think SpaceX could put a man on the moon for much less? We’re currently at a few billion to put a whole horde of them on Mars I believe.
I’ve been curious about it, but it’s difficult to wrap my mind around. I’ve read a lot of frank mcsherry’s blog posts, watched his videos, been through the book, and I guess it just hasn’t clicked for me! I also don’t have any use cases that make sense as a hobby project, and abstractly I know it could be useful at work but I can’t evangelize something I don’t really understand.

Rust took me around three attempts to get into, and it took a motivated project to really seal the deal, but at some point I understood enough that it just became programming again. Haven’t reached that with differential dataflow yet, but I’ll keep trying.
Google threatens to shut down search in Australia
Yeah. I have over a dozen Ruby on Rails apps on my development machine, targeting a variety of Ruby and RoR (and other common gem) versions. I'm not aware of any problems anyone has experienced in recent years, since everyone has moved to rbenv. We used to see issues with rvm.

I don't use docker with any of these projects. They're mostly legacy for us at this point and are shipping to EC2 instances directly.

Our more current projects do use Docker, however, and we're doing development along side of Docker in those instances and that seems to be working fine for us.

I do appreciate that a dev container would / may be a better approach to this for other reasons and especially, potentially, other languages and ecosystems, though.
False equivalence. Look, I know where you're coming from. But 99% of ISIS members would be tried and convicted of terrorism because of hard evidence showing intent to kill. 99% of right-wing people are not going to be convicted of terrorism. Sure, there are some that are making serious threats and have shown intent to follow up on said threats, but believing in conspiracy theories and weird cults isn't a crime.

I'm open to hearing evidence otherwise.
> Antifa isn't real, that is right wing media fear mongering

I wonder who these guys are then:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/look-whos-still-rioting-1161127...
> I think the instances are key, and it could have a lot of value for instances focused on certain communities (e.g. certain geographic regions, or academics, or whatever).

These exist - Japanese instances, German instances, an instance for academia, etc. - but instance discovery and search in general is pretty bad on Mastodon. I think that's a key problem that'd holding a lot of the potential of federation back.
As a graduate student in New Orleans Treme doesn't even cover the half of it. Read up on the saga surrounding the new Entergy power plant and astroturfing for a taste.
> Elastic Search launched more than a decade back, when the cloud was used in an entirely different manner. The team had no way to foresee the shift to the managed services model;

This claim is highly unrealistic. Offering managed services has been the hallmark of the cloud from day 1. The cloud is nothing more than managed solutions.

It's highly disingenuous to claim that it was not possible to expect a business dedicated to offer managed services to offer a managed service.
IMHO, this is NO different from google closing down any other product. If, however, this news came with a grant of all the patents into the public domain, then it would be another story.

Could a startup set up a commercial balloon based mesh network without running into patents now held by google? Probably not.

THIS is the problem with these "skunkworks" type projects from megacorps. They suck all the air out of the room and prevent others from innovating.

Loon didn't fail, Google/Alphabet just decided they were going to discontinue funding. Now they hold a pool of patents they don't intend to do anything with. Now they will point that funding elsewhere and do the same.
Depends how you define things but their work with Deepmind ('Our long term aim is to solve intelligence') is interesting. I'm glad we get breakthroughs in protein folding rather than just ads.
That's the total cost over the decade+ the program was in existence. Divide by 10 and it becomes roughly 10% of Google's revenue.

So it wouldn't be insubstantial, but they could fund a similar effort if they really wanted to. Shareholders would have a thing or two to say about that though, which is why Elon Musk is keeping SpaceX private.
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"Firefox: ... However, it never actually uses the cache to fetch the entries. As a result, Firefox actually issues requests to re-fetch favicons that are already present in the cache. We have reported this bug to the Mozilla team, who verified and acknowledged it. At the time of submission, this remains an open issue. Nonetheless, we believe that once this bug is fixed our attack will work in Firefox..."

Gosh, I hope the favicon cache bug the authors filed isn't fixed until a broader mitigation against this is implemented.
Generally memory layout is extremely important for graph problems, even on a single node. As I understand it the Spark approach does not embrace a "flat" layout, but rather does lots of pointer chasing, which can really slow things down. Because Spark isn't very careful about memory usage and layout, you outgrow a single node quite fast, and then you're back to really bad distributed scaling characteristics.
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