skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was linked from the repo.
https://github.com/nextdns/metadata/tree/master/privacy
Looks like you can just add those to pihole as well.
Do you think this also holds true for americans who develop weapons to kill people? American drone pilots dropping bombs on cities? Palantir employees, bank employees, lobbyists, people working on DRM and censorship systems, politically partisan reporters, etc. etc. etc. etc.

I find this hand wringing around Facebook employees very wierd when it's so trivially obvious to find people that outright build systems for murdering other people and are even proud of it. If those people exist in hundreds of thousands, why is existence of people that build a webpage that sells advertisements and shows messages from people this wierd?
In what way is it worse working for Facebook than working for a news outlet to write fake news that outright attacks LGBT communities? And why can everyone understand existence of those reporters and then wonder why people still work at FB?
Sounds a lot like Brave New World
If this guy was a lawyer representing me in a court, I be in jail by noon. His defense seems to call on the reader's (jury) optimistic nature too much when the stakes on the line are cut and dry.

All jokes aside, excusing Signal for doing this would be bad. For the many users who would be exposed to the potential security threats that abound with this new payment integrations. Am no crypto-head but I've seen negative criticism too about this new coin being added.

Signal seems to have built a good reputation of trust among privacy communities, despite having questionable anchors such as requirement of phone numbers for use and trusting only their centralized server. This sudden change in direction puts this app in even more shakier grounds.

I'm glad the true intentions behind this app are now coming to light.

More scrutiny is best for Signal.
Not sure why you think FAANG is getting the cream of the crop. Looking at stuff like Rob Pike's comments about Go's use for the general Google employee base [0], I think there is quite a lot of misalignment between the aura of mystique from the outside and the situation as seen from the inside.

[0]“The key point here is our programmers are Googlers, they’re not researchers. They’re typically, fairly young, fresh out of school, probably learned Java, maybe learned C or C++, probably learned Python. They’re not capable of understanding a brilliant language but we want to use them to build good software. So, the language that we give them has to be easy for them to understand and easy to adopt.”

https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Lang-NEXT/Lang-NEXT-2014/Fr... (00:20:40 up to 00:21:10)
> That is, advertising camping gear on a camping review site (without tracking) still has some nonzero commercial value even if facebook tracking exists and works.

Precisely this. Go back to the advertising model where you place the advertisements in relevant locations. It's like going into the local pizza parlor and seeing an advertisement for a local plumber.

"Joe's Pizza" in Somewhere, NY can still say "I only want advertisers who want their ads shown in 30 mile radius of Somewhere, NY".

Flip the entire thing on its head and go back to camping sites showing camping ads, and auto parts stores showing ads for the latest amazing oil filter. They don't need to know who the user is at all. They are on a camping related site, they probably want to see camping related advertisements.
> What's "no technology",

A poor, non-existing fanciful hypothetical argument that cannot stand on it's own, but is made to illustrate an ill-convinced point: because since the advent of anatomical Humans (~200k-300k) we see evidence of Man was using clubs or spears fashioned from wood, or arrowheads with the art in caves to go with it.

All of which fall under technology of some sort.

In short, its a poorly reasoned hypothetical to support one's own biases and perhaps disdain for tech and the inherent inequality that follows from those who benefit from it.
Who would have guessed - an article that seems to consist mainly of quotes from hedge fund managers reaches the conclusion that passive investment is bad not just for them personally but for the entire economy!

I wonder if it's occurred to them that they could perhaps use their knowledge and resources to provide better investment options rather than spending their time being shocked and appalled that investors prefer to pay less and earn more.
Blanket banning of crypto is, as you wrote, limited to the usual suspects.

In the EU it's treated like any other asset, my tax office here has been asking me to declare any, alongside (foreign) cash, banks, etc for years now.

So no, more blanket banning does not seems likely to me.
Using UML implies that someone is planning development more then a week ahead, be agile man, no plans, no docs and no time for unit tests.
AFAIK, this is only activated for UK users.
Gosh, they are actually trading https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/kucoin-token/

Trading volume $55k Fully Diluted Market Cap $162bn

And have a pilot use going shown here https://youtu.be/sxBw2SQ5dCE?t=13

In the white paper they allocate 15% of coin supply to team and advisors so I guess that's a theoretical $24bn worth of tokens for their trouble, not that they could sell many at those trading volumes.

I agree it sounds pretty sketch.
I've always wondered why blockchains always assume all nodes are equal in trust. Why I can't add special trust to certain nodes? I mean this is what makes a 50% attack possible. Most people can trust their family members, close friends and neighbors, while only anonymous nodes can lead to a 50% attack.
This kind of sounds like what a PM should be doing though. Remove distractions and let you focus on your work.
That is really crazy early! Where is this?

My high school started at 08:10 (I think) and elementary school at 08:15 and those were the earliest starters in the neighbourhood. University luckily started around 9.
Definition of a "perfect" market, first line:

"All firms sell an identical product"

Seems one of those cases where perfect doesn't mean anything like "good". It's entirely irrelevant to the case at point.
There isnt that many jobs in a grocery store that need many people. Stocking shelves and cleaning mostly. Once those are automated there will be a lot less jobs.
(Disclaimer: I'm coming from MariaDBs temporal table feature but this is basically the same in PostgreSQL)

Temporal tables adding an additional "time axis" to SQL databases. A "valid from" and "valid to" field is added to each row and the SQL syntax is extended for allowing two new types of queries:

1. Query the data as of a specific point in time. E.g. "show all customers as of April 9th 2021". This not only limits WHICH customers you see, but also select the exact state of each customer as valid at this point in time. For example if the adress of a customer changed on April 10th, you will get the old address.

2. Query all versions of a specific entity. This makes tracking of changes or time series analysis possible.

This feature is transparent, so if you use "normal" SQL queries, you keep getting the current state of the data. I don't know if this is true for this PostgreSQL extension, but MariaDB even hides the "valid from" and "valid to" columns and only show them when you explicitly select them.

Additionally there a two types of "valid from"/"valid to" data, which can exist at the same time:

1. Application period: Those validity dates represent a period in the real world. If we stay at the customer address example, they can express "a customer informed me, that their addess will change on April 15th, so the current address is valid until then and the new address is valid from then".

2. System period (also called transaction time): Those validity dates are a kind of technical period. They represent when data changed in the database, e.g. the exact point in time when an UPDATE query was executed.
I believe all 800 were infected in the Israel study.
Overleaf also doesn't work with symlinks properly.
Oh man, I've made so much software for my wife and family. She never uses my stuff!

First, wouldn't use my math apps for kids (Math Planet, Math Pop, Numbaland) bc she was against screen time. Then, for her, I made a math app that specifically doesn't involve screentime (adaptive practice where parents read out math problems) — and she still didn't use it. My kids like it, in any case: Factflow.io
Tbf i was never comfortable with the seasonal flus and colds. Why are we tolerating that as a necessary evil, loss of productivity, people losing a week of their lives. Schools and workplaces are not even trying to mitigate the spread during high flu season, and that's wrong.
Poor people aren't doing brain work but instead do manual labor etc. It definitely should be a core part of any study to highlight this.
What? You can send 0.01 ADA or less, can't you? + maybe .12 for gas.
> expert in sprint planning

Because they need tech expert and not PO?

> passionate about user value

Lmao, this is such a vague and useless statement that it is barely worth commenting.

What the hell is "passion", how do quantify it and how do you use it? What happens when person you hired for "passion" loses it?

> Sometimes the best hire for the team is the second best developer but the best person-who-can-explain-things or person-who-can-run-meetings if explaining things or running meetings is holding the team back.

You test for that during interview. Do you think algo challenge, system design are just writing some stuff on the whiteboard and you're done? You need to explain stuff in such a way that interview wants to hire you.
So stem is still 25% more?

Everyone who works hard has a right to live comfortably and not in fear of some giant cost coming forcing them to squirrel away piles of money.

Stem should be about building tomorrow and making a better society, the personal fortune building has polluted the field and is distracting us from more important problems. Having a $500,000 stock portfolio shouldn't be mandatory for a decent life.

There's a reason for our technological stagnations mapping to the rise in inequality.
Because these people literally pay for that? There is a 30% some cut even on the revenue apart from the yearly pay the dev needs to pay to the platform.

Imagine if you pay for your coffee and while you're drinking it the waiter decides to take it back with no explanations given. Just randomly barging in on the service you paid for!
Index funds are great, it works on the assumption that while the whole economy grows everybody who owns a share in an index wins. So it incentivizes people to grow the economy.
Only a few people can beat the market anyways and it's the people who can correctly assess the risks like insurance companies (that still win even if they lose), some VCs and people who are close enough to the companies that they just know that it's likely to be successful.
The reason non-tracking ads pay less is that tracking ads are now the norm. If standards/laws were implemented to protect privacy and block such tracking, content providers (if they are so inclined) would make as much money with non-tracking ads as they do now with tracking, since there would be no invasive competition.

Your daily paper didn't have a list of your interests yet succeeded in making money through advertising. Why can't they now?
I’m not sure where you’re getting that from. On iOS you can add any webpage as a dedicated tile.
Its form may be a way to conserve bricks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crinkle_crankle_wall
System period and versioning can solve several problems, like change auditing, failures investigation, human errors correction.

App period solves the problem of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slowly_changing_dimension
Yeah and famous white males Nightingale and Katherine Johnson.
Since I had a child, I started questioning whether cognitive decay in aging people was really caused by aging or a change in sleep patterns. Now my kid makes his nights mostly without problems, but the ~2 years of insufficient sleep feels like it had a toll.
There was a nice discussion a few days back on how no one bothers to donate to open source, while they will gladly pay for a subscription service.
Yeah definitely. To be fair, I was kinda harsh, but it's incredibly frustrating to see people ignore core parts of the DS workflow because it doesn't map neatly to cool technologies. Especially when that part is the base for pretty much everything you'll do with data.
And the vaccine is about 95% effective, which means around 40 people not immunized. This is meaningless.
I think that GUIs are a huge pain. I prefer config files. Also, Little Snitch is not portable across platforms. Mac-only.

Most firewalls are set up as whitelists for incoming connections. Similarly, I set up DNS and HTTP "firewalls" as whitelists for outgoing connections. Zonefiles define the RRs that applications are able to query and lists/maps/tables define the hostnames/URLs that are accepted by the proxy.
Also in the same series:

"Average lifespan would be 800 years if it had grown like the population of China"
At least with MobileCoin you kinda know what you are getting - it's to let you send anonymous payments over Signal, funds raised go to Signal and or it's founders - if you don't like that don't use it. This sounds more like a con where they appear to be charitable but the money all disappears somehow.
Not for nothing, 35mm film contains 87 megapixels of data. So even printed small in a 4 X 6 Photo you could make it large and have a really good image.

https://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/film-resolution.html

The storage is worth it. Especially if i can just dump it somewhere in the cloud.
humans do not give up, we adapt
Earplugs are cheap. Helps you sleep.
For a healthy person in a good bed without interruptions, 8 hours. But if you have trouble falling back to sleep after being woken up, you can lose a fair amount in a noisy environment. If your bed is bad, you may wake up or not fall into a deep sleep. And there are medical conditions that can make you be unconscious but not actually sleeping. Plus, high stress levels interferes with sleep.
Ah. That's indeed early.

In France kindergarten and primary school starts at 8:30 and ends at 16:30. Mid and high school at 8 or 9, never earlier.

This is very early for children and teens, really not physiological.
As an American living in Israel, can 100% confirm this.
The concept of “passive investment” is puzzling to me. Presumably we buy stock to support good, viable companies in return for some profit on investment. Passive appears to remove the element of scrutiny from investment. It could make sense if there were no bad actors that game the books and generally make their business models seem sound despite reality.
Only people with no family history with real socialism will talk about its benefits. Only countries where some kind of socialism seems to work are nordic countries. But all in all they are really different and from each other and upon closer look really free market with exception of few areas.
The article also mentions that Signal can block the crypto payments in some countries to prevent being blocked.
ostree-docker-builder – Build a Docker image from an OStree commit
Cannabis has its own weird history for sure, but has a ton of racial undertones throughout the history of its restriction
Your reference says:

"Companies earn just enough profit to stay in business"

which contradicts your comment:

"in a “perfect” market there cannot be profits"
Most, if not all monopolies are government granted in one way or another.

As far as criminality goes, billionaires are the least criminals of us all because they've been able to use and sometimes change the law to make them not fall into the definition of criminality.

In short, what's needed is less "regulation" as it is the main defense mechanism monopolies employ to stay monopolies.
I'll bite. Worked at FB for a couple of years, until very recently. The HN groupthink on the company is quite strong, reaching conspiracy theory levels in some cases. Thing is, 95% of users (which is like, half the world) either do not know or care about the latest controversy.

Personally, I just do not buy into this "Facebook is evil" narrative, and even less so having worked there. Social media holds a mirror up to society, and we don't like what we see there. It's not our fault, it's Facebook's! So screams the press that is losing subscribers to new forms of media. Is FB sometimes incompetent? Sure (who isn't at that scale). Could they do things better? Of course. Are they trying to? Absolutely (the cynics would never admit this point, but it's true, e.g. the amount of resources and cross-company efforts thrown at improving privacy is incredible).

From my perspective, Facebook (and WhatsApp, and Oculus) have added a lot more to my life than they have taken away. My family and friends are all on Facebook, so clearly they feel similarly. Internally, there are indeed plenty of smart, empowered people that also haven't bought into the doom and gloom of what, ultimately, is a loud minority.

I fully recognize that my priorities might be different from those of others. Or perhaps they are impacted by the negatives differently. All opinions have their place, and I don't mean to speak for all employees either, just sharing my own point of view.
yeah, I understand that people prefer to not have trauma in their life but it’s just impossible :)
You can combine versatile individuals in versatile teams.
"I pay Apple to uphold this bar by any means necessary. "

I pay the electric company to have a store where only approved toasters and microwaves are sold so as to keep quality high!

I pay my car company to ensure that only approved tires, windows, audio, windshield wiper fluid can be used.

This logic is not working.

Apple, and ABC corp, and any other companies can have app stores.

If you want to shop at the 'absurdly high standards store' that's totally fine, but otherwise it's anti-competitive.

There's no reason 'Person A' can't send an app to 'Person B' if they want.

It works on Mac, Windows, Android, Linux and everywhere else.
Then why not make another damn app?! This is insane.
> Eat my butt, Apple. Eat my butt, Google. Just let me publish my frickin app, you already emptied my pockets.

If you are tired of the duopoly, consider supporting GNU/Linux phones. They are not perfect yet, but for the HN audience can already be daily drivers.
That’s a good distinction, but I’m not sure how that jives with telling the public not to wear masks, if they knew it was airborne.
> you've had ten years to acquire some

That makes it a ten-year-old pyramid scheme. It may be born from noteworthy ideals, but its flaws have become more apparent over the years. Stephen Diehl succinctly puts why the bubble has lasted so long:

“Writing about bitcoin for a lay audience is challenging. If people know enough about tech alone they might think there's no problem, if they know enough about finance alone they might think there's no problem. If people know enough about both then they know it's all a big scam.” —https://twitter.com/smdiehl/status/1363898199010852869

> The existing fiat currencies suffer the same issue.

Bitcoin touting to be the future of money while having the same if not more problems than fiat currencies is exactly why it deserves all the scrutiny it can get.
Naps are great. Taking 20 minutes of nap turned my afternoons from distraction zone into my most productive time.
I'm not actually talking about public service unions here, just at-will employment. I personally think that lots of people in this conversation seem to believe that it's either at-will, or the public sector process when in fact the European experience demonstrates that there's a lot of space between these two opposite poles.

My position is that given all this HR dance to prevent lawsuits, at-will doesn't really exist in professional jobs, so it might be worth ensuring that this is standard across all roles rather than just those where the fired employee might sue.
It is the whole point.

By "definition", if it's being bought in a "perfect-free-market" it is only because it's been deemed good enough.
This is great!

Make me laugh and educate me at once? I'm sold!
Active investors don't support good, viable companies. They can be misled, or just join pump and dumps.
Wrong URL? This article has nothing to do with your title.

"How an app with 20M users leaks sensitive data"
I second this. I have been diagnosed with ADHD as an adult, and my experience, before medication, sounded very similar.
It's an interesting question. Is a traumatic experience created in your mind different from one that occurred in the natural world. On the surface perhaps but on a neurological level I don't know.
Claude Shanon
I suspect weapons-manufacturers and soldiers are less self-deluded, to be honest. They believe there are bad people in the world who need to be killed to keep America safe. They also believe in the principle of civilian control of the military, and it's not the military's job to second-guess the elected leadership of the country. Who specifically gets killed is above their pay-grade.

Contrast this with many FAANG employees who may believe they personally are "making a difference" and continually second-guessing and sniping at their (unelected) corporate leadership because they need to feel that they're On The Right Side of History.
In my country it's the same, I think it is done that way because most people jobs start at 8 or 9, there's no school bus system, only private transport for kids going to school, so this schedule gives a chance for parents to drop off their kids at school and make it to work afterwards.

Personally I hated it at the time, because getting up early is not my thing, but now I appreciate the time I got to talk with my parents on my way to school thanks to that schedule arrangement.

Also to offset this early getting up, we jus went to bed earlier, like at 9pm or 10pm max, so not sure it really made a difference on anything.
One clearly doesn’t exclude the other. And really, that’s all you need from this article. (And that’s not even in the article)
> What kind of technology enabled wealth gap in feudal society? It seems it was more about religion being used to subdue people.

I'd argue the advent of centralized currencies did more harm than any and all standing armies combined.

When you think about what a parasitical entity does in biology, you realize that simply killing a host is not evolutionary advantageous--their are 3 types of parasitism, not to be confused with the 3 types of symbiosis of which parasitism lies in.

So instead the parasite seeks to keep the host alive as long as possible in order to extract resources/life from it in order to propagate and spread itself and its DNA/RNA into Nature in order to infect other hosts and rinse and repeat.

Simply by demanding that peasants/serfs pay taxes and conduct all commerce in the coin that bares the issuers legacy has brought about so much of Human misery and perpetual serfdom that it baffles me what immense gravity their is in just the last 10,000 years since the supposed advent of Agriculture and therefore modern Society.

I've spent the last ~15 years of my life focused on this very topic, and while I have gained a great deal of insight and probably did a PhD's worth of research, it would take my entire Lifetime to really dissect all of this.
> squeezing out competitors through artificial and illegal means.

Their means are legal. They make them legal though "regulation". It is why they do not get fines (most of the time) nor are in jail.
No. It is not meaningless. Had the vaccine had the same efficacy on the various variants, the ratio between them would have been the same. However it is not, indicating that the vaccine is vastly (factor of 8) more effective on the main variant compared to the SA / Brazil variants. Hence the conclusion.

It could do with more data but that has also been the case for similar studies of the AstraZenaca vaccine.