skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given that Kissinger served on the 'board' of the Nixon administration, he did set a bit of a personal precedent of advising a... Less-than-ethically-unblemished organization.
Non–line-of-sight imaging over 1.43km [pdf]
There is a difference between no-brand, generic items you can buy for cheap on Aliexpress or Ebay, I'm fine with that, and counterfeit items like this one, which are kind of evil imo, and must be tracked and removed.
to provide some example to your point:

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Transportation/Tokyo-Metro-...

"The company recorded a net profit of 61 billion yen ($560 million) for the year ended March, up 0.6% from the previous year thanks to external factors such as the increase in foreign visitors to the Japanese capital. It posted revenues of 435 billion yen."

I don't think there's something fundamentally different about Tokyo compared to other dense metropoles like NYC or London. Low density cities like LA might be a different story.
Intuitively, it makes sense for something like this to be possible, though I wonder what the trigger is. Drastic change in hormonal balance caused by the transitioning process activating / connecting parts of the brain that were "malfunctioning" previously? Or "just" a result of increased happiness stemming from having dealt with a large problem?Sounds hideously difficult to replicate.
I think it becomes a problem when people do those things because it's required to stay competitive, and not out of genuine interest.
I don't think public transits lend themselves to such "unit-economics" level individual centric analysis. There are many indirect second/third order benefits which I conjecture outweigh the primary benefit of transporting people from A to B. To name a few

1. They attract a section of population to the region who prefer public transit which in turn leads to more business.

2. A string of businesses spring up in/around intermediate stations. Then you have service businesses that support those; like restaurant etc.,

3. It creates employment for thousands.

4. Cost savings w.r.t. parking space, reduced accidents etc.,

5. It makes car ownership that much less of a requirement for jobs in the city.

This is what I noticed in Amsterdam, Netherlands where car commute is considered almost as a last resort. Obviously there are other things that need to fall in place to make public transit work but I believe it on its own is quite beneficial.

From the view point of an individual I don't doubt that economically car commute is perhaps cheaper than mass-transit, but I don't think think that's the goal of a public transit. The benefit to the society is at an aggregate direct and indirect.
I'm perfectly okay with us being presented as weird, it keeps the normal people away. ;-)

Did you mean something else?
> It's not just neurodivergence, but its that he recognizes where he jabs people and pretty much admits he doesn't care.

This is the thing for me. Being neuroatypical and unable to follow typical social cues, or having trouble expressing thoughtfulness or care is just a fact of life. But not being thoughtful and not caring is a choice.
Autistic MtF programmers is something that happens enough to be a trope, joke or meme.
I've tried openSCAD as a hobbyist. It's a lot of fun.
Won't somebody please think of the business value???
Is seebs someone that's particularly famous? The parent comment seems to imply they were part of the "Stallman, Linus, ESR, et. al."

And their profile just says "that seebs".
Douglas Adams' note to self reveals author found writing torture
I believe it is natural human social behaviour that is simply emerging again after a long quiet period after the dissolution of organized religion. IMO, all the horrible mob mentality and violence that used to be blamed on religion, really didn't have much to do with religion or its associated belief system.. rather it's just ugly group and social dynamics that reemerge the moment people come back together under any umbrella. Turning away from religion wasn't the achievement we estimated it to be, much of the problematic elements associated with it persist unabated.
The last point I’ll admit exposes my bias against Facebook.

But the previous two points make no difference on why tracking is baked into an internal portal so I speculated as to the reasoning as anyone would do — it’s not a stretch to think that data owners could sell customer data to an aggregator like Facebook for an additional line item of revenue.
> Any implication that public transition should be profitable is pernicious.

Really, or is it a failure of the western cities to run profitable, efficient and ,eh, clean transport networks. Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore are running private, profitable and efficient metros for a much cheaper fare than what other cities can do.

The reality is that these massive infrastructure projects have turned into huge embezzlement schemes of public funds from different players (politicians, consultants, unions, etc...); and they are holding the public hostage: Otherwise, are you going to stop/disrupt public transportation?
Sounds like you're in the US (apologies if assumption is incorrect). If so, and for other, it’s worth considering that each country has its own way of doing things and that context is important.

Whilst I am sometimes in despair about the decisions of planning committees across the UK, there is more often than not a benefit to them. The councils across the UK seeks to protect historic buildings. In this case the only building in the street to survive WW2 bombing raids. In a city and country where WW2 & the blitz is still part of the national psyche, this give it extra value. Culture changes very slowly and is built upon the past. The UK has made a collective decision to include in it's culture maintaining what it sees as important legacies of the past.

The context of the destruction and punishment for deliberately disobeying the local planning laws is that developers across the UK are regularly asking forgiveness, not permission. They will destroy and old building, pay a fine, and then profit handsomely from the new building they put in it's place. Orders to restore illegally demolished buildings are done precisely because they require a lot of human & financial effort, which is the point. Significantly harsh financial punishments seem to be needed to make a development company alter its behaviour, because the smaller financial punishments obviously aren't working.

In this case, the landowner knew the history of the building when they bought it and knew they didn't have permission to develop the land but they willfully ignored this and tried to get away with knocking it down. They got caught and were made to pay a financial penalty for their actions. The "human effort" you're worried about paid people's wages, so definitely not wasted for both the workers and the local residents.
Perhaps Freedoms vs Freebies?
The best I can guess is that the author is mixing up load balancing through reserve energy and efficiency losses. The amount that is reserved for load balancing is also not anywhere near the size they are talking about.
No, that’s neither true nor “technically correct”. Services that the user provides health information to for their own purposes aren’t considered covered entities or their business associates, and thus HIPAA rules don’t apply. This is why Dropbox, and GMail don’t have to be HIPAA compliant.

If you say “Read the law strictly enough” please do...
> or if I should wave to someone I've met twice if they're 15 feet away walking towards me.

To be honest, nobody knows for sure. I call these "Seinfeld moments", as in you could make an entire Seinfeld episode out of talking about it: should I have waived? If yes, I did waive, why didn't the other person waive back? Was it because he/she didn't see me? Was it because he/she did in fact see me but didn't like me? etc.
But isn't that a core part of the problem? If I make a statement and you infer something about my intentions, how are you to know if I actually meant to imply that or not? It seems like a constant game of walking on eggshells if you're trying to pre-emptively prevent anyone from concluding that you were trying to imply something bad.

It also seems like this is a largely solved problem in candid one-on-one conversations and interviews: if the other party thinks you're implying something, they can follow-up and ask whether you are indeed intending to. Without two-way discourse, taking someone's statements in good faith seems like the lesser of two evils.
Is it not this?
https://www.facebook.com/business/learn/facebook-ads-pixel
Wow so much memories,
Red alert 2 was the first game I ever played
Japan's systems were privatised after they were built. Would they be as successful if they were private from the beginning?
JAMStack and headless CMS are neither simple to deploy or easy to setup. Quite the opposite. Compare that to WordPress which makes it relatively easy for even non-technical users to getting started.

What developers consider "simple" often bears no relation to reality.
The context isn't an autistic person being great at people but getting sidelined for the label of autistic so Beethoven seems a bit irrelevant.
It works.

I can use static site generators (and have used several in the past: Jekyll, Middleman, nanoc), but now I can simply open the web site and start writing. I don't need to be at home in front of my personal computer. I don't need to fiddle with themes and templates.

WRT to JAMstack and headless CMS: I cannot use those. I don't understand them. I certainly won't learn JavaScript and install huge development platforms and tool chains, just to write a few words (and sometimes even a photo).

Security is mostly a non-issue: Keep the number of plugins small, use WP Super Cache, and most of your pages are static anyway (and nginx will serve them without even running any PHP if you so wish).
> I guess they can’t afford to cover costs given current prices

This is plain wrong. One of the reasons I was a fan of B2 was their tech and how they achieved such low costs:

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/design-thinking-b2-apis-the-h...

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-and-cloudflare-part...

While this FB pixel debacle is obviously a very big screw up, it's pretty much a "screw up" and unintentional from what I understand so far. And they have fixed it already which is a positive step towards redemption.

From my speculation - the screw up seems to have happened from including the googletagmanager. They probably only wanted it to stay on the home page of B2 (for ad conversion tracking if I were to guess), not on the dashboard itself after login. The screw up caused it to be on the dashboard too.
> The city is spending more on inmates despite a drop in the number of incarcerations during the pandemic, the report said

Isn't this going to cause the price per inmate to go up?
Sounds are loaded via http, so copy the link and use curl. E.g. https://experiments.withgoogle.com/ai/drum-machine/view/audi... and https://experiments.withgoogle.com/ai/drum-machine/view/meta.... I don't think there's any MIDI.
Reading about the “best thinkers” developing “a purpose in life” is not critical thinking. It’s just reading. Reading about great thinkers makes you a great thinker in the same way that reading about astronauts makes you an astronaut.
No, they don't need to snoop on you. Just fire a single pixel saying this is a user that they would like to find more of. FB does the rest based on data in FB, not on Backblaze. The mistake was them just adding it to the online dashboard because that's the easy way to automatically include paying users.

> "easily identify companies that does this"

No. And this can happen for a lot of reasons as explained so even harder to check for.
This behaviour is intended in erlang and it‘s very good. You don‘t start to develop the application with wrong concepts. Your ordering from different producers will work on a single machine, but the second you want to upgrade to a distributed system everything will fail. In erlang you start designing everything with a distributed system in mind.
You bump your fists together, and then spread your fingers apart as you pull your hand back, as if your fist is "exploding" outward.

A few gif examples:
https://gph.is/g/aK8Yww6
https://gph.is/2q6aAIV
https://www.pri.org/stories/2013-02-13/gif-day-obamas-explod...
I don't like the obscurity of that implementation, but any drawing program MUST have the "only select objects fully enclosed by the marquee" option.

Illustrator STILL does not have this, despite years of customer complaints. It is therefore useless crap as far as I'm concerned.
US Sleepwalks into Stagflation Nightmare
Yeah there is a lot of room to hide in the gaps of what they said.

Still, main point is you only need an identifier and none of the other data Facebook has. Pixels are not required for this as noted in the original comment, they probably have enough in the account details already.
What kind of scenario do you have in mind? I think it’s possible to turn an incident like this around, PR-wise, but I can’t see how they will explain how they can sell something as secure and trusted, when their security process was unable to discover that they had deployed spyware in production. If it was there for a few hours before it was discovered and removed, well maybe.
+1, got mine a few weeks back. For about €6 including shipping costs. They don't pretend to be a different brand.
Did the CEO have more ore fewer humanities courses than you in his undergraduate program?
The ad hominem stuff isn't classy at all. I agree.

It was a heat of the moment thing. Mostly I'm being angry at invasive tracking being the norm when going down the 'growth hacking' path. I must lack perspective but it saddens me that contextual advertising and focus groups apparently aren't enough.

edit: to make up by adding something actually useful to the discussion... I checked and I don't see any DNS requests being made for any facebook domain when browsing my B2 buckets. Maybe by now they got rid of the tracking pixel?
Yeah, it’s technically supported, and I have seen the patient ship it in limited use. But it’s certinally not a well tested path and the stability leaves a lot to be desired.
> That is the existing infrastructure – your vision of hermetically sealed, disease-free places to stop is simply unrealistic as considerable time and money would be needed to build these everywhere in Europe that a driver would need to stop.

All countries with quarantine facilities I'm aware of are using existing buildings. They don't have to be hermetically sealed, just ensure that people don't come into contact with each other inside.
I don't think the success of private/public is a universal thing and probably depend on how low corruption the government is. A metro system has to be bootstrapped by the government at the end of the day, to be able to appropriate of some private lands you are going through.
Some people roll that way. Their childhood (or genes) gave them a personality that enjoys conflict, or that only feels good about themselves if someone else is feeling bad, or enjoys hurting people.

It's most clearly visible in griefers in online games, because the social consequences of griefing are minimal. Some people are just plain nasty.

But I don't think that's what's happening here. And I think it's ridiculous that it's been interpreted this way.
It's the law of maximum outrage. What justifies more third-party outrage victimology? That an ND {of some intersections} was unfairly expected to know the rules, or that a rude {same intersections} was making {some other intersections} uncomfortable.

Harsh truth, but an easy rule for NDs to follow. Anything you say in public will be judged for its potential. If someone can get points for making it sound bad, they will.
I gave up on Amazon and Ebay altogether, and deleted my accounts.
It's just not worth my time having to deal with dishonest sellers and getting zero help.

Those sellers know perfectly how to play the complaint systems of the platforms, and it's destroying the customer experience.

When I want cheap crap, I now buy it where I know it's cheap crap, and when I want quality, I preferably buy it directly from the manufacturer, or from a renowned dealer.
If you crunched the numbers for road-building, wouldn't it look even worse?
Anyone has the full scientific report? The Wayback Machine PDF link is seemingly broken: http://web.archive.org/web/20080517201411/http://www.npl.co....
Live feed from Iceland erupting volcano [video]
They're removed from society to protect society from them. However, depriving someone of their liberty is a pretty extreme step to take, and not one which should be taken lightly.

A TS individual for instance may be annoying, however they aren't causing actual physical harm to other people, in the same sense that a murderer might be.
Wow, that's extremely useful!

There is an alternative, in the Finder view menu -> Show Path Bar. It's displayed at the bottom. This will display the path of the current selection, or -- if nothing is selected -- the currently opened folder.
That's how businesses make decisions.
All of this is kinda anectodal.

Working on a PhD in Neuroscience or for Boeing is not the end goal (in fact you should probably avoid Boeing if you have a degree in Aerospace)

There is a huge demand for tech workers, its all over the published media. As long as you get that degree, and can pass the entrance interview (for which a degree is far from a requirement), you can get a job.

Also

>Guess what happens to a school's reputation when their "best and brightest" end up being idiots in the workplace.

Literally nothing. Entrance interviews are a thing, and there is enough "padding" to absorb the lack of skill, especially in jobs with goverment contracting involved, where the company places someone on the project just to charge the goverment a certain rate for them, even if they don't do anything.
As domeone coming straight out of college, I disagree with your premise that threading is not accessible anymore. However, one possibility is that a proliferation of new languages brought with them new threading models and runtimes that all behave slightly differently. This makes many of the models look foreign.
> able to critically engage with difficult ideas

Discussing the different sides of difficult ideas in a classroom setting is not critical thinking. The ideas don’t even need to be “difficult” to practice critical thinking on.

Humanities does focus a lot on teaching students the current critical views of lots of things in society. But they focus far too much on the substance of the critiques rather than the process of generating and meaningfully evaluating them.
Genuine question, is there anything useful he has said in the last 10 years he has said you can point to?

He seems helplessly lost in the past, before the web, the explosion in javascript, etc. etc.
They could have just left off the greeting.
No, his post[0] didn't say anything about people of a similar age. His post linked to an article about a Dutch group forming a pro-pedophilia political party that wanted to drop the age of consent to 12, and then eliminate it entirely.

RMS did not (as the parent said) directly argue that pedophilia is ok, but I don't see much distinction between directly arguing that vs. linking to something that does argue that, and him saying he agrees with it.

[0] Not removed; https://www.stallman.org/archives/2006-may-aug.html#05%20Jun...
> Don't they have any sort of vulnerability assessment or security code review?

I bet people just don't realize that the frontend code could end up being a source of major data confidentiality vulnerability. The threat modeling, auditing etc. usually just concentrates on attack scenarios involving the backend to save money and keep frontend development a bit lighter on the security review process side.

Does not make it excusable of course, just means their threat modeling was inadequate. But probably explains how this was able to sip into production.
I don't think I'm redefining the term.

"Insider trading involves trading in a public company's stock by someone who has non-public, material information about that stock for any reason. Insider trading can be either illegal or legal depending on when the insider makes the trade. It is illegal when the material information is still non-public, and this sort of insider trading comes with harsh consequences."

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/i/insidertrading.asp
The Metropolitan Line of the London Underground was partly funded on that model. They bought farmland, built out a commuter railway to it, then either built housing or sold land at a profit in order to get capital receipts to part-pay for the railway and customers to ride it in perpetuity.
Facebook does not, and never will, pay for data like this.
The Telegraph has them as buying the property in 2014. [1]

When you purchase a property in the UK you agree to abide by the planning regulations. So they were legally required to follow the planning process, which is that you need permission to redevelop a property, including knocking it down before redevelopment. They had already been denied permission for development of the property so there was a very clear and known legal requirement that they willfully disregarded and therefore were subject to penalty imposed by the planning committee.

[1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/environment/11525262/...
Workaholism is an addiction and a mental health problem. I have worked for 50+ hours a week for 4 years and last year I became a manager and have worked 60-80 for the last year. On bad weeks, I joke to my wife that I am headed to my 9-5... because I sometimes work 9am to 5am and get up the next day for another 9am meeting.

I am absolutely doing real work, if anything, it's my non-work life that is "theater." I won't check my phone, or even eat because I'll lose minutes of work. It's clearly bad for me and my productivity.

I'd love to "work on" my workaholism but...
The flat corporate graphical style has a Know Your Meme page and rich parody-art ecosystem:

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/subcultures/corporate-art-sty...
The Deal Force and the Library Force of Legal Tech
Your facts are incorrect.

Singapore's MRT subway lines are constructed and the assets owned by the Land Transport Authority (LTA), a government entity.

Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation (Toei Subway) is owned by the government of Tokyo.

MTR Corporation Limited which runs Hong Kong's Mass Transit Railway (MTR) is a majority state-owned Hong Kong company (75.09%).
making oneself likeable to people one doesn't find particularly likeable themselves is a lot of work, the people who are labeled neurotypical are often jerks to the people who are labeled neuroatypical so why not use one's gifts as a neuroatypical person to be unlikable in return.

on edit: explanatory, not recommending
HIPAA only applies to healthcare providers and a couple related industries. Facebook is not there (yet).
It's possible to manage the chrome browser centrally via g suite, and push out DoH settings. I use this in conjunction with NextDNS to put all browsers organization-wide onto a single blocklist, and block the common tracker hosts (GA, GTM, Facebook's domains, et c).

It's not foolproof, but it would stop this.
The actual 1x1 pixel is a leftover from the previous generation tracking tools, and even the page you liked to recommends _against_ using that method because it can’t spy on users enough.

Here we are talking about a tracking _script_ embedded in the page and sending to Facebook everything the user does (“standard or custom events triggered by UI interactions”).

Using only a pixel to track how users move around the app wouldn’t have landed Backblaze in as much hot water. Instead, it looks like the Facebook _tracking script_ (automatically) exfiltrated sensitive data like file names, and that crosses a limit.
The vast majority of people you would write off as ""woke"" do have good intentions. There's just a very loud minority just as there are in any political movement.