skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "standing up for yourself" via the use of power when you're in the wrong is just bullying.

I'll concede that sentence is a little too wide. If they were standing up for themselves on some newly introduced corporal punishment laws, for instance, I'd be a lot less keen.

Perhaps I should rephrase - "I'm not sure how much I agree with this law, it seems to have some merit though may not come from the best of places, but I applaud the Australian government for standing up to facebook nonetheless."

I don't buy "you should pay to link" but news articles are a large part of what makes up a facebook feed these days, usually in the form of a large-ish picture, a full headline and the lead-in sentence. I can definitely see the argument that they are using it as content.
How’s the compensation (pay and/or stock options) for your product manager role now, as compared to your development roles of past?
I'll quote another guy from this thread:

"I like that TrueCaller on my iOS device works for most features without getting any permission from me, while on Android it refuses to buzz from the splash screen unless you give it every permission - including full contact access and phone.

I like that on iOS a famous payment app from India (PhonePe) works flawlessly with zero permissions but on Android? It needs both location and contacts to even function - neither of these are mandatory for their functioning but still they do and can get away with that.

You know WhatsApp doesn't let you use "Status" feature unless you provide Storage permission to it on Android (I doubt they need it just to shows those images, videos, and texts)."

I think it's important to note that the mere existence of controls, i.e buttons that do a thing, don't actually end up achieving their goal of improving user privacy unless there's also enforcement of usage patterns. You can't get away with stuff like this on iOS, and it's clear by these accounts that the same companies would do the same on iOS if they could.
News orgs could already block that content if they wanted using robots.txt, but have chosen not to - indeed, they go out of their way to sprinkle Facebook's opengraph and other metadata to make their content more searchable and present better when shared.

The law is bad. I'm all in favour of our government actually taxing FB, Google, and others that manage to offshore all their profits to lower tax jurisdictions, but a pseudo-tax based (partly) around links is unacceptable.

I hate to stand with Facebook, but in this case I have to.
>I think 80 tons of CO2 for BTC is wrong. It should be around 15-20 tons (75% of BTC is mined with renewables, I think approx 20-25% is coal)

80 tons is already the lower estimate. The upper bound is closer to 200 tons.
Since 2013 although I don't know if Santander was in it from the start. I'd guess yes.
Remember Crypto knows no borders, it's decentralized, peer to peer, and private keys aren't seizable by force. Central banks may outlaw it, and that will hurt, but it's not going to put an end to it. Especially should USD go into hyperinflation and all hell breaks lose.
I like very much https://github.com/sorin-ionescu/prezto
Los Alamos chess
Cryptoassets: tax for individuals
Try invoking the "Jewish test".

Imagine that the author dedicated a whole paragraph to the thought that Jews reap disproportional benefits from Bitcoin mining and that it is consistent with their long-term pattern of cartelizing, scheming and plotting to dominate the world economy on the backs of goyim.

He would certainly come with some names, too, because the techno-nerd crowd in America has a sizeable Jewish component.

But it would still scream to heaven.

And this take is not much better, this kind of demonization of ethnicity is plain evil.
Same story; different perspective:

The US has a bunch of real resources. They are being directed to companies that are basically burning them for no reason ($X off resource in, $X less a bit out).

If they demand that companies show any sort of ability to generate more than they consume, then too many companies fail. So instead they are encouraging wasteful companies to keep on doing what they do.

At some point, the deadweight builds up and a series of worsening crisises emerge as people start fighting over what is left, which is no longer enough to have a peaceful society.

The problem is that if losers don't lose, they will end up in control of the economy. I could out-compete almost anyone on vast amounts of borrowed money while making a loss.
It would be great if they could go into more detail on what they've improved over pyhamcrest (https://github.com/hamcrest/PyHamcrest) which I do use on occasion when there is no other easy way to write a good matcher. That said though, pytest's assertion rewriting goes a long way towards making hamcrest-style assertions redundant. But not completely.
Well, apart from the average Texan just at the moment.
There should be a law that you can cancel via the same method that you signed up.

For example you can sign up for recurring paid channels on the Amazon app on Roku, but have to log in on the computer to cancel.

What happens is my 80-year old parents try a week of HBO, Starz, Showtime, Britbox etc. Then can't figure out where they actually signed up. Was it under roku, under amazon, under a new app? What credentials did they use? Then they forget about it and are billed in perpetuity.
Friend: "No, of course I don't know the phone number of the Smithsonian by heart, what am I, psychic?"

Visit the Smithsonian? Setting aside the impracticality... how do you look up the address?
How the hell do you get from "App Store" to "Freedom of Speech"?
The claims I have seen from you and from e.g. Sam Trabucco amount to basically "Tether is legit because we create and redeem tethers regularly." This is not real evidence, in the same way that "Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC is legit because I deposit and withdraw funds regularly" is not real evidence.
Most people I know who have started this, started doing it as side jobs. Those side jobs eventually became enough to be a full job. Followed of course by either hiring more people or going back to a part time job.

It would seem to me you need a sales person to actively find work if you want to grow beyond just you.

For finding customers, the best method I have seen is to teach. Be it at a conference, junior college, etc. People will see you as an expert and when they need something they will hopefully remember you.
Wouldn't the price go up even more as people try to get rid of their USDT by buying stuff with it?
This is why I can't wait for self-driving cars to take over. They are sooo much safer for me as a pedestrian.

They could almost make cars tolerable in the city. Almost.
It suffices to kick down a couple of doors to make people afraid to share information.
Someone at Facebook really screwed up today. As well as news sites, Facebook had also blocked some hospitals, government sites and vaccination related info sites.

That surely wouldn’t work in their favor?
They can choose to block that, even specifically for Facebook and Google while leaving others alone, just by messing with their robots settings.

If you post a link to content that is being excluded using robots.txt you'll get a link and no full headline, no lead in sentence, no picture - those are the things that the news orgs have gone out of their way to provide to Facebook.
That "bricks" your Mac, and you have to do a DFU restore with Apple Configurator 2 to recover from it.

The SSD on these Macs contains system firmware, including the boot picker and recovery mode. Do not wipe the entire top-level block device. They cannot boot from external media, by design.

M1 Macs are not PCs, and you shouldn't blindly apply whatever you think you know from the PC world. Their low-level design is much closer to an embedded device like a Raspberry Pi, minus the SD card slot. https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/M1-vs.-PC-Boot

It's hard to truly brick these things (you need to wipe NOR flash for that, and even then Apple can fix it without taking them apart, but you can't, because if you wipe NOR flash calibration data is gone and it has to go back through part of the manufacturing test process), but wiping the entire SSD isn't going to help you. If you start messing at that level, you'd better be prepared with another Mac and Apple Configurator 2 to get a proper clean start.
It’s nice. I used to get an endless barrage of anxiety-inducing news, now all I see are posts from old friends and groups I’m interested in.

I would be very happy to relegate news to daily chatter and the 7PM bulletin. I wonder if Facebook will let us keep filtering news once it goes back to normal ... (I kid - of course it won’t.)
What do you think about requirement to release everytime they change how their algorithm works to news corp nazi propaganda lite to game and rank high?

And Google cannot choose to not index news site. Literally making Google a propaganda machine. How is this not clear to anyone?
> nearly three stone

what does that mean?
This is written like they are disrupting the model, but in reality GoodRx is just another pharmacy in the old model. Operating exactly the same way of taking kickbacks from PBMs who in turn raid the drug producers while driving price hikes most often eating up well above 50% of those price hikes themselves.

Seems the only difference is “it’s a tech company” which changes their valuation and ability to raise capital, but they still don’t seem to actually be disrupting anything, just another cog in the broken machine.

Or am I missing something?
That's really neat, thanks for the link :)
I had the same gripes with a mechanical keyboard. I don't get the love for the extremely long key travel (even old school rubber dome keyboards have too long travel for my taste)

A good, super flat chiclet style keyboard are by far the best imho.
Great, now you have two parties who both don't think they are responsible for the problem. Customers blame companies. Companies blame customers. Nobody thinks about the real problem which is the fact that governments are allowing the continued subsidy of CO2 emissions. You can't expect a system that is built around incentivizing CO2 emissions to reduce CO2 emissions for the sake of charity.
whenever someone makes blanket technical statements in this crazy boasting fashion, i think of Yeats:

> ...the worst are full of passionate intensity.

that said, it's difficult to feel sympathy for people supporting a platform that encourages terrorism, murder, etc.
How do you deal with addictions of any kind?
Addiction can be very difficult to handle. If a person gets into addiction of any kind due to any mental health issues, family problems, depression, failure etc. they should consult the addiction recovery specialist and put their efforts in getting sober and living a healthy life. Get engage in those kinds of activities that interests you and drag your attention to other useful and healthy stuff rather than alcohol and drugs.
https://landmarkrecovery.com/recovery-reverse-brain-damage-drugs/
You can buy stocks. The company you are investing in can do the work on your behalf.
L33T Code teaches you nothing about building reliable, fault-tolerant, and performant computer systems.

It’s irritating as fck that these FANG companies are so brain dead, that this is all that they can focus on.
Surely there's some overlap between old greybeard IBM TrackPoint keyboard fanatics and old IBM mechanical keyboard fanastics... the TEX Shinobi is for you. I am typing on one and I have been using the Model M much in the 90s. I was always joking I have my room secured: if anyone breaks in I just boink them over the head with that thing.
Your gun won't protect you when Big Brother comes knocking at your door. Even if you can make it too difficult to actually take you by force, which I doubt you realistically can, the state can simply make your life sufficiently difficult (e.g. no way to get employment, no credit lines, no education for your children, no electricity) that the act of actually imprisoning you doesn't matter anymore.
Within Europe standing advice from national governments is to have a copy of your ID prepared in advance for hotels to hang on to, with certain details blacked out (like the social security number if this is still present on the front of the passport) and the name of the hotel/camping/hostel/b&b written over it. The Dutch government even has an app that does this for you.

Handing over your actual passport is not required, and the last I've heard the only places where these are actually demanded are pretty shady or just downright ignorant. I haven't had a problem handing over copies anywhere in Europe though. The hotels do need your ID's document number, and a copy suffices for this. Most only jot down the actual number and immediately hand back the copy. Rarely someone might ask to see the actual passport as proof that you have it, but I have never been requested to hand it over (and you shouldn't).
I feel it's this very nature that made it impossible for Web apps to become mainstream on mobile. Steve jobs made so many bullshit arguments against Flash because he knew if flash was allowed on mobile nobody would purchase games from app store.

Now the same shit is happening for web apis / pwa. This is really sad and really makes me hate Apple as a company.
> Perhaps it even has a fiduciary duty to do so?

This isn't actually true, but there's a lot of people invested in interpreting Ford vs Dodge that way. Pretty much the only thing you can't do is directly hand investor money to rank and file employees. Everything else can be done just fine if the management wants and is prepared to put up a decent cover story.
I should really get a new one... The spills aren't exactly the best for mx switches... The rest no problems. Ofc, I could swap the switches for second time, but getting bit lazy...
Uh, thanks for the efforts and the answer. Anyway, in case you'll consider this feature to be implemented, count my +1 :).
> I hate to stand with Facebook, but in this case I have to.

Why? Many comments I read are trying to make this a google -vs- Oz issue where you can only take one side. I'm taking a side where I want to see Google regulated and charged as an internet ad&search monopoly, Newscorp regulated and charged as news provider monopoly, and Oz to just put more taxes on huge companies and stop playing with Murdoch. FB can get penalties for lack of moderation while we're at it. They're all bad, we don't have to take any evil person/org's side.
Completely agree! I learned LISP, but have never 'worked' in the LISP language. But the understanding of logic I gained has been a part of my foundational understanding when developing.
> Who thought the Anglo-Saxons they were?

They mean this sentence is unintelligible.
History tells us it is far better to let Martians govern themselves. The colonies would eventually rebel regardless; might as well embrace it and let them dictate their own laws.

That being said. Guns on mars! GUNS ON MARS!!! They have a rIGHt to hunt space deer!
I also don't understand why every single keyboard on the market insists on having unergonomic lift for the back of the kb. Model M is an extreme example of this trend (or rather it's predecessor).

After using MS Natural keyboard with a front lift, which allows for straight wrist position you just can't turn back to the bad lift angle of common keyboards.
$0 to $35k MRR in 8 months
>This is how life is as a PC gamer and it's.... actually good.

Are you kidding? Because it just takes a look at how bad the EA store is to realize it sucks.

Yeah, you don't use it, but you know who does? every single person playing Sims. You'd be amazed how many "Why does the Sims 4 doesn't work anymore on my mac?" calls I've got...
Fb blocked their own Page! Yes it seems they were too eager
There are clearly elements of this which make for a frustrating experience.

But, looking at the timestamps, from the point of first message to actually cancelling the subscription was 14 minutes. Not too outrageous?
Completion is one of the biggest reasons people switch to zsh. Did you initialize the completion system in your .zshrc?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Zsh#Command_completion
I would say I have the same strengths as you. I kind of see it like a "mid-stack engineer" or "middle tier" like you say. It's a lot of data wrangling. It can happen on the "back" of the client or the "front" of the server. I'm no good at design or meticulously tweaking animations. Neither am I interested in configuring Kubernetes or setting up a complex architecture of interacting backend services.

I get what you mean about hooks, I was initially apprehensive and like you I realized the problem they solved. I think the problem we have now, is they are the answer to everything, along with Context. Code that could have been a plain Javascript module is a hook that uses Context to pass refs between components.

I think a big issue is reactivity outside of a reactive view library isn't talked about much. You have libraries like RXJS and Effector, which I'm a big of, that let you handle reactivity separately from a view but they're still full black boxes themselves. I'm not sure many people think about reactivity as a quality separate from any library.

The libraries react-query and svelte-query are an interesting manifestation of this. I haven't diffed the code or anything but they share a core that is essentially the same. Observer based reactivity to handle async calls. Yet there are two different repos with duplicated code providing different frontends based on React and Svelte. I don't want to pick on how the code architecture or anything but it feels like the reason there isn't just a base "query" library that exposes its own Observer API with bindings to React and Svelte is because of the general refusal to accept splitting out responsibilities and there should be a "React way" of doing things.

I'm hoping the TC-39 Observer proposal along with Svelte's idea of a store contract might open a few eyes and show people that the frontend doesn't have to be the closed off black box that it currently is but a lot of people already seem set on the idea that Observers are some RXJS stream based thing that they want no part of.

Anyway sorry for the long reply. I've been thinking about this stuff a lot in trying to establish my course through all this.
Also, honestly I think people having less engagement with news in general would be a good thing.

Yes you need to be informed, but perhaps constant political reporting/link-sharing/outrage shouldn't be in a social space? I know, it's not my right to force that on FB, we should start a new social network, with blackjack and ...

But I do wonder if this constant engagement with news and outrage isn't part of what opens the door to the misinfo and conspiracy.
Look, I get that you don't like the advice to overwrite the first 1GB of a drive, probably because it strikes you as inelegant and suboptimal. But you've done a horrible job of identifying any real problems with that method, and it's certainly simpler and more reliable than the procedures in the blog post that didn't work. And your proposed "portable, reliable, robust" method is by any measure less portable, and not available at all on macOS.
> Our current PM is a fairly hard religious conservative

No he's not. He's a left-leaning centrist, like both major Australian parties. Trying to apply American-flavoured extremism to the Australian political spectrum is exactly why getting rid of bubblegum news is a good thing.

For those playing at home, Scott Morrison the "hard religious conservative" who famously said[0] "the Bible is not a policy handbook, and I get very worried when people try to treat it like one" also happens to belong to the party that:

* Outlawed general access to firearms

* Legalised gay marriage

* Introduced GST (VAT)

* Introduced women-centric divorce law

* Gave people free money for having more children

* Made healthcare for pensioners free

Ad nauseam. None of these actions are "conservative" in the slightest, unless you're comparing them to literal communists, of course. The Australian Liberal Party is probably more left leaning than the American Liberal Party.

[0] https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2012/february/1328593883...
Competition between parties can only produce better results when there are at least two parties who are semi-sincerely trying. The awfulness of Republicans is a license for Democrats to let down their own standards to the bare minimum above that.
I can tell from personal experience and direct account that SOME girls are happy and proud at having sex with powerful or famous people, and that if it would lead to advantages in their life if would only be better for them because SOME people love the feeling of cheating at life somehow.

Everyone knows now that Amber Heard was physically abusive and literally said in a recording that "No one would believe your complaints since you are a man". Talking about girl privilege...
I understand your view, but it's just a lens you are used to looking at. At the bottom of the rabbit-hole, you model data and state like you do on the backend and you map that via provided UI layer functions and objects to the renderer.
Yes, there are edge case quirks but most of them is stuff you don't need to care about, and when you do, are a google search away. A good frontend-of-the-frontend developer is great at state management and deriving state from the UI model the designer presented it and the data model the backend presented. I believe backend developers have the same skill, just lack experience/"passion" in applying it on the UI end.
Some other thoughts on what makes open source machine learning, from Debian:

https://salsa.debian.org/deeplearning-team/ml-policy
Identity politics is the new fad, it's getting out of hand frankly. Just throw it into anything when you don't have substance to present.
You absolutely can wipe the main APFS container on M1, from 1TR mode (the recovery menu that you get by holding down power). That will wipe the OS along with user data. Unless you have something broken in system firmware at that point, it's a clean start.

This works from the GUI Disk Utility too, usually, though that tool is flaky sometimes. It definitely works from the command line.
They blocked the damn fire service pages... during bushfire season. I hope there is some law that is breaking so they can tear Facebook a new one, it's massively irresponsible and outright dangerous
I think in some sense this is good. Something like intellectual property rights, if you found the news and reported as one of first hand sources, then you should get paid for it (if you ask for it, because someone is using your work).

Also I think Facebook should register as a news agency in Australia and charge news publishers if they re-post content from FB. This way FB also makes money
I'm taking Facebook's side on this particular issue only (and I don't even like that, because they're - as you note - bad).

I agree with all of the things you want, but this isn't a tax on Google or Facebook (and we need more taxes on Google, Facebook, and their ilk that offshore profits to low tax locations), it's an attempt to tax links.

This is a good read and worth your time - https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2021/2/17/paying-for....
There’s no such thing as “a startup within a big company”
Neat matching of username to comment!
Speculation - it could create better politicians through two means:

(1) More competition for local immigration, which creates selection effects whereby the better run locales attract the largest populations and survive

(2) Small local elections aren't subject to partisan MSM outrage coverage or social media virality. Local politicians more likely to emerge organically through legitimate community relationships and reputation, instead of how effectively they're able to stoke the national outrage. Local journalism is also more healthy and fact based, so perhaps more likely to get an informed outcome instead of an outcome driven by partisan tribalism.