skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't consider the majority of drop-shippers to be economically productive businesses: they are charging a premium because their customers don't know that they can buy the exact same SKUs from AliExpress. Customers of these business often pay 2-5x mark up on items based on marketing and lack of information, because these business are effectively just pure marketing plays.

There are certainly good small businesses, both on Shopify and elsewhere, and some would be hurt to some small degree by this change. I'm simply arguing that the majority of business which would go broke without the use of the FB ad system tracking panopticon are not the sort of small business which are societally useful or that we should mourn their loss.

"Small businesses going bankrupt" typically is thought of a negative thing, but there are flavors of small businesses where it is really a net societal good.
Do you think society at large really benefits from employers doing things this way?

If you were in the ethics department of a company, unpacked deep seated entrenched breach of social norms and were blocked from talking about it but still believed in ethics, what would you do?

I am unsure I would be prepared to do what she and Timbru did but that's a long way from the implied cynicism and also frankly abject legalistic kow-towing implicitly in your statement.

"Yea, that whistle blower had it coming, they signed the same contract i did" is pretty sad. Its not this case, sure, but its in the room, alongside sacking union organisers, refusing to approve talks, private illegal nonpoaching deals with Apple, paying your founder millions to cover up their sexualising the workforce,
It's even worse if its your surname like Poindexter or something, kinda hard to get a surname nickname.
I’m an iframely customer, how does this compare?
Yes the largest use of water in California is alfalfa and other feed for dairy cattle. If you want to reduce your personal water consumption then instead of taking shorter showers or letting your lawn die the most effective measure would be consuming less local dairy products. Or seek out dairy products from regenerative agriculture farms if you can find them.
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Please don't take HN threads into regional flamewar. We're trying to avoid that sort of thing here.

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100 MB / app is significant, especially on laptops.

Slack used to use so much memory on Linux that I couldn't afford to run the desktop app and ran it inside a Firefox tab for years... seems to have gotten better somehow.
They need more reservoirs. Georgia gets plenty of rain but it's very unevenly distributed over the years. Lake Lanier was a good start and some of the counties have built lots of tiny reservoirs but if the state wants that region to continue to grow, they need to get serious about creating a couple of large reservoirs. Conservation is good but is only one piece of the solution and not one that is mutually exclusive with the temporal rain distribution issue.
There is always 3:2 pulldown too.
Anyone interested in working in a research position should care a great deal that their management hierarchy is separate from their research hierarchy, and that the organization supports researchers working across teams. That will reduce the impact of personality conflicts and assholes.

I know that some places feel that the people managers have to be the technical experts but I would strongly advise against working in such a place.
We do know that stuff too, there were HD firmware implants and such in the Snowden leaks and there wasn't anything about recovering things from a zeroed hard drive.

I believe the government outsources to the same data recovery firms as everyone else; they can get things off drives with dead electronics or platters that haven't actually been erased, but that's it.
It's true. The one-off data viz often get the most engagement. For marketing purposes, this is fantastic. As a company, however, our product is more "sticky" the more often the underlying datasets update since the content would always be fresh. I like to say it's kind of like a Netflix movie except you don't mind watching it again and again :-)
Yes, the description and chart scream of typical journalist disinformation trying to make something seem bigger than it really is. Why does it start at 2015 when Alexa was released? We can't see if it's just continuing a trend. Also, popular baby names only last a few decades anyway, often ending their popularity with a rapid decline that looks just like this graph.
>I kind of wonder why it took this long for someone to try this approach. It just makes a whole lot more sense on the surface.

The current generation of web developers who grew up within the Chrome ecosystem has zero interest in spending time on cross browser support.

Even if the user had to install 4GB of chrome runtime they'd still argue it's better than them making it work in Chrome, Edge-Chrome and Safari WebKit.

Not saying everyone, maybe my companies hiring process is screwed but every developerbar 1 that I've worked with over the past 4 years has been the same and even getting them to test in one other browser than Chrome is honestly like pulling teeth.

Infuriates me as someone who's first job was CSS+HTML supporting IE 5.5-7.0, Firefox, Opera and Safari.

The amount of times I've heard "Can't we just tell them to use Chrome?" when talking about users is getting absurd.

The lack of understanding that a few hours of their job being slightly more difficult can add up to saving literal lifetimes of time saved or entire data centres of disk space when you extrapolate the savings across your user count. I know its maybe cheap to roll out a Steve Jobs quote but this one still resonates with me.

"Well, let's say you can shave 10 seconds off of the boot time. Multiply that by five million users and thats 50 million seconds, every single day. Over a year, that's probably dozens of lifetimes. So if you make it boot ten seconds faster, you've saved a dozen lives. That's really worth it, don't you think?"

https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Saving_Lives.txt
what on earth does choice of versioning have to do with anything. React Native isn't at 1.0 and tons of companies use it. Google releases versions/APIs of their software with tons of bugs.
Perhaps it's just my ignorance, but I was under the impression that Cortana was never really a name of a person, but adopted from the Halo franchise (now owned by Microsoft) as the name of the main character's AI companion, which sort of made the name up. If so, I think that makes it a little different.

I double-checked on Wikipedia for the disambiguation [1], but there doesn't seem to a subsection for a normal person-name of Cortana, as compared to the one for Alexa.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortana_(disambiguation)
For every one of these cases, there are likely tons more that have gone undetected. Our open institutions don't work in a world filled with rich nation states with bad intentions and a populace and politicians totally misinformed about the current threat and/or unwilling to do anything about it. China has bested the US and we should at least be honest about it.
I believe this perspective is appealing because of our current inability to recognize what are the actual factors that drive psychopath A to become a killer and psychopath B to be a CEO.

Agency is like the God Of The Gaps at the moment. We don't know what makes A and B differ and we magic that knowledge gap away with "agency".

Over time, as we understand more about the brain and psychology, the serial killers who don't have any macroscopic impairments are going to look very much like the ones that do. And the psychopaths that become killers are going to look very different to those that become CEOs (either brain and/or environment).

Only then, we will be able to point our fingers towards the precise causal pathway at play (genetics+environment). Until then, the best we can do is recognize that such a pathway exists, which the individual was gifted at birth, even though we're ignorant of the specifics.
Should have just called it "Computer" like on Star Trek.

Or let you give it whatever name you like. It's your device, in theory.
I believe the sharing only applies when talking to those third parties. E.g., if you only ever talk to friends and family, there is effectively no change.
If you're some kid running a cracked, stolen version of Windows, on overclocked AMD hardware, sure it will crash a lot. Sadly, that's how many people here on HN experience it.

For grown-ups who stay on the happy path with well-supported hardware and software, it runs very well, and is my primary development environment. When I need Linux, I run it in a VM on Windows 10.
This article seems to take the absurd position that these companies contributing to OSM are making it worse. One can only imagine the article written in the alternate universe where Apple et.all used the data but didn’t contribute their improvements back - any chance at all it would be a positive one?
> I asked, but somehow she didn’t feel like changing her name.

That's nuts. It's just a bit of paperwork!
Yep, they basically "cancelled" an entire name. I know two people named Karen, both of whom are kind and sweet ladies, and they are sick of it. I am just hoping that my name is not next.
No qualms for Googlers getting a reality check. I don't get why people think they work at a liberal think-tank where no consequences exist for sharing opinions or confidential data about the company publicly. Had someone on my team decided to write a similar doc like the one Margaret published, I'd have fired them on the spot. Shut your mouth and move on if your ideology conflicts with your employer's.
Perhaps the upside of having a biblical name that is shared by 10 million other Americans is that it probably isn't too easy to twist it into an insult.

Edit: that may be an overestimate. Still one of the most popular names in the US, but a more official source (SS) suggests there are no single names which are shared by more than about 5M people.
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>The spread of death and despair by his hand has to be adjudicated. Life in prison is the most morally just outcome for him

Well I'm glad that solutron from Hackernews has figured out the one true morality for everybody. Thanks solutron from hacker news!
That's a very good point. Thank you.
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I'm new to mechanical and split keyboards, but so far the moonlander has been great. Well, in the beginning it was a bit of a learning curve, but coming from the ergodox that shouldn't be an issue for you. Not being wireless is the only complaint that I have.
The definition of hate speech is not universal. It is purely subjective based on whoever controls the Wikipedia-to-journalist-circular-citation pipeline.
Only tangentially related, but I quite enjoyed this short film on the topic of interstellar law: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rv8kOzRZK8g
Ok, is it possible to be an LGBTQ muslim?

Meaning you believe gay people need to be stoned to death and still be gay? Or is it the other way round.

Even in this case the comparison is unfair considering that Hindu children can be killed or kidnapped and married to an old muslim man just because they are non-muslim.
That's only if you take Google's PR at face value. Also, no where in the article nor in Google's statement do they claim that Meg Mitchell did anything "illegal". I haven't seen any details about the allegedly extracted files, so I think there's more to the story.
So, despite your argument being in tatters, you insist that something I wrote must be illogical, somehow? well, you are at least doggedly wrong, I'll give you that.

If you are tempted to post further (I am sure you are), I suggest that you first read what I actually wrote in my original post in this thread.
> This is true, and it says nothing about that point of view being neutral. In fact, quite the opposite.

Maybe I should have said 'legitimate'.

Basically, I disagree with your prior indignation.
That's not my experience, at least.
I haven't had any major issues I wasn't able to solve with either.

Even if I were more comfortable with web tech when I first started experimenting with this stuff (some time around 2012-2015) I still found the end result much better.
Fired?

> A settlement was reached in September 2017 in which Weinstein and Heying resigned and received $250,000 each, after having sought $3.8 million in damages.

He resigned as part of a settlement when he sued them. The university paid to get rid of him.
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What did the US do to yogurt?
What were they afraid she was going to do, take all the ethics?
I only define them once, but I define all the database schema by hand (with an SQL script). I’d love to have something that translates Pydantic to an SQL schema definition.

Each asyncpg result has a dictionary-like interface, so I can convert it to a Pydantic model easily.
The system described sounds like a terrible idea. In order to prove someone lied on the form when they said "No" to "Are you a spy?", you have to prove they're a spy. At that point, you're free to deport them; the form is irrelevant.
The rover actually can't mine bitcoin because by the time it manages to create a block and sends it back to Earth, the block chain has already moved on and the block is obsolete. I guess this means that Bitcoin is never going to be an interplanetary currency. Paper money is perhaps not so bad after all.
I am acquaintances with a Siri. She's seems like a nice person, but since she works in a service industry I bet she's tired of hearing "Hey, Siri" all the time. If I was her, I'd ask for permission to not wear a name tag.
> China gains no benefit from destroying Bitcoin; they can just continue to let it exist and tax all the Bitcoin miners in China, generating revenue for themselves and their citizens and continuing to be a thorn in the side of dollar hegemony.

That's making a lot of assumptions which I don't think there are good grounds to assume. For instance, that Bitcoin tax revenue is something the Chinese government cares enough about for it to affect its decision-making, or that Bitcoin is a "thorn in the side of dollar hegemony."

I think the reality is that Bitcoin (and cryptocurrency in general) is a niche thing that isn't nearly as important as its fans like to think it is, so there's little for a state-actor to gain by making the effort to disrupt it.
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I've worked with many women at FANG companies and I wouldn't describe any of them as even somewhat motherly (though I have noticed "firm"). I think Dr. Gebru was fired because she cast Google in a bad light with some rather dubious arguments in a paper she wanted to publish and when she was asked to not publish her research she she sent an unprofessional email to a wide audience.

I don't know why this person was fired, but looking over the email/document she posted on her twitter it looks like she is asserting that her employers are racists and sexist on little evidence. Why would you, or she, expect to be permitted to slander the company this way and still keep her job? Although I don't know if she published this document before or after her termination, so it may, or may not have been a factor.
Don't know who's right but AI ethics AND harassment in one package feels like some sort of next level.
Well, the border actually is in the wrong place so he had a point but given how little of the river would have been in Georgia under the revised border, they still wouldn't have much of an argument for being entitled to much of the waterflow.
I think that one's motivated by trademark rules.
To clarify, the "we" in that headline is referring to the news media and Murdoch publications, not the unwashed masses of Facebook users that have the temerity not to click on the links through to their sites.
If only other software was rated this accurately. What would the Cyberpunk game release be? 0.01?
They are re-organizing the team. Presumably under someone else who will say and do what Leadership wants.

Source: https://twitter.com/NicoAGrant/status/1362270504384487424
> The French-American author Jonathan Littell happened to be filming a movie in Obo on the day that Ongwen was extradited. Ongwen gave him a rare 30-minute interview

I searched briefly but could not find this footage. Does anybody have access to it?
Thought these were all nationalities and not a single "race" as you call it
Woo..

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the 90's is asking for its platform wars back
Their licensing is written horribly, to just FUD companies into buying their commercial license.

However, the library components offered under LGPL3 are all you need to ship a perfectly good desktop app. The GPL3 licensed stuff listed in the comparison chart on the page you linked are typically the utility applications like Qt Designer which you won't need to ship with your application anyway.

It's unfortunate how the company backing Qt is going about this. But it's a great framework overall.

(At my last firm, we shipped several apps via Qt and it's always been a joy to use.)
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But it this the TOS you are signing here?

No it is not.

Does it say there is some sort of opt in to a business conversation, not only now but in the future? No.

So, you are giving Facebook the right to sell your private conversations to third parties in the future, but you think it’s not an issue because you trust ... checks notes... Facebook?

Really?
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You can change it to Amazon, Echo, or Computer. None of which are likely to be names of people in your house--other than the Dollhouse exception for Echo. Most people just likely prefer a more personal name which is, almost by definition, an accepted human name.
I think they made people powerless to control their experience.

Before that, people bought firewall software for their computer.

After that you had to rely on the phone manufacturers to "protect you" which
was a blatant conflict of interest. To attract app makers, they needed to give them incentives, which basically boiled down to data after the price of apps plummeted to zero.
Harm reduction is the name of the game.

We already allow many many many things that are more harmful. Most of the people on the planet even consider those things part of their identity.

I'm not claiming that because we allow more harmful things we should allow LSD too, nor I'm certain that trying to stop LSD usage is more harmful than allowing it, but it'd be great to get these things figured out and then do the "right thing" (ie. pick the less harmful one) instead of guessing and hypothesizing.

And on top of this, restricting freedoms should not be the default, and even then people should be free to create responsible ways to enjoy things. (There's both a speed and drinking limit on the road, but we have racetracks and we have clubs/concerts/festivals, and we usually don't mix them. Similarly, living on a ranch and singing kumbayaa or building a total anarchist/communist community is a-okay, but not allowing people to leave is not - cough Scientology et al.)
Miners don't control the price. If a PoS coin became valued, they'd be leaving free money on the table to ignore it. And if Bitcoin became devalued, the mining rate would drop to match (otherwise they'd be spending in excess of the reward on electricity)
The supporting articles state that she potentially emailed thousands of internal Google documents to external email accounts. That is clearly cause for firing, and potential legal action against her.
That's not a comparable example. There's a lot more to the priesthood than teaching the catechism - Mass and most sacraments, for example, I believe save only viaticum - and "lay priest" is oxymoronic in any case. To someone knowledgeable in the faith, it sounds like the writer is trying to say "deacon", which would still be wrong anyway, and missing nonetheless; to someone lacking such knowledge, it confers an entirely false impression.

As I said, I think OP makes too much of the phrase, but I agree it's entirely risible.
People are like that. Ask a tall person if he's tired of people asking, "What's the weather like up there?"

My first name is associated with a catch phrase of a particular era, and I can judge how old someone is by their reaction to it.

You live with it. You move on with your life.
Absolutely! I think it should be doable, FastAPI and other libraries do heavy Pydantic model inspection, and some do automatic code generation. I should explore this a bit more.
My counter is what foolinaround also said in reply to my post. Intellectual freedom is a question of culture, not of any legal or financial apparatus. There was enormous intellectual freedom at the for-profit Bell Labs. There was enormous intellectual freedom in the publicly owned Berkeley in the 70s-80s.

The culture present in the organization will determine whether you need to always be on the guard from saying the wrong thing that might destroy your career or whether you are free to challenge incumbent ideas/viewpoints/theories.

Personnel is policy. The legal charter of an organization is far down the list of factors that determine how much freedom you have -- the mindset of your peers and of the leadership in the organization matters much, much more.
Most modern vehicles are repairable at the corner garage, it just takes being a computer nerd and several thousand dollars in tools. You have to buy a scanner to read the codes and watch the live data (basically as an oscilloscope). If you need to update the firmware, or replace a failed module with a different one, you also need to pay the manufacturer to access their programming software.

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The pixel would be controlled by FB which in this case isn't incentivized to give you true results. I'm assuming the parent comment meant some kind of independent SDK.

Of course when it comes to the GDPR both would be illegal unless proper, informed consent has been obtained beforehand.
Has she considered changing the name on the tag, just at work? Just put "Jane" or something generic, or "Sarah" so it sounds similar. But yeah, it unfair that she has to be the one to change.