skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you explain how exactly charging their users money is a better long term business model for Google than selling their data? If you don’t count the threat of regulation (since you say it won’t solve the issue) I can’t think of a single piece of evidence supporting that.

It sounds like your reasoning is “users will eventually wake up!” which I would bet a lot of money will never happen.
I think you replied to the wrong comment, I'm talking about student drivers, not Teslas.
"Problem is, real world programming in Lisp is not simple" is also correct.
> Third party cookies, love them or hate them, have been with us for a long time, and simply dropping them would not be viable without the long phase out.

Not true, FireFox and Safari have had them off by default for over a year now. Additionally Chrome had planned to turn them off last year but then cried "covid" which for some reason = delay... because... think of the adverts! i mean covid!

Anyway, I'm pretty sure any large websites relying on 3rd party cookies for functionality will have already experienced users blocking issues. We have and have already been forced to change, we don't do ads, but our use case is a bit esoteric in that it needed 3rd party cookies for sessions.
article admits we have a million years to think about this
A DSL and app for defining workouts/progressions. Primary audience would be powerlifting/strength+conditioning/etc coaches to program for their clients. Not sure if it will ever go anywhere, but it's an area I'm somewhat familiar with and a fun way to explore some new tech/ideas.

I have 30x500, so I need to work through that at some point, which my disrupt the above.
One question I always ask in an interview, often of multiple people:

"If you could change one thing about this company, what would it be?"

I always find the answers telling--not just for what it reveals about the company, but the person. I've heard responses ranging from thoughtful to downright hostile.
Debian knows how to do secret voting. In fact, Debian's latest election of their Project Leader which also ended last night was secret.

It looks like it would need a General Resolution to allow secret voting for future General Resolutions.
At this end of this article, there are some detailed reports on the effectiveness of ivermectin in Brazil.

https://covid19criticalcare.com/ivermectin-in-covid-19/epide...
When Facebook spends engineering effort to work on React, it's not out of the kindness of their heart, and that's ok. It's still productive and an accomplishment, it's just productive for a reason that pertains to their business. It is the same here. This tool helps the adoption of Elixir, running Elixir is their business, so yay! But the comment I was replying to implied this is somehow entirely separate from their business, which it's not.

Not really sure how it sounded like I was diminishing the accomplishments of others. How would you have phrased the point?
Lots of stuff... hazmats, grain elevators, etc.

It’s not unreasonable for firemen to put out fires. It’s just a novel path that requires training.
What if we regulated Facebook like cigarettes or pharmaceuticals?
Being destructive is alright, it is part of existing.

We are non-aware and so we take limits lightly and act like there won't be consequences.

Also I don't hate us. I just think we can do a lot better :)

And hopefully we will.
Some opinion article from a social justice warrior doesn't indicate that the vast majority of people who say "defend the police" are not saying "abolish the police." That kind of black and white thinking undermines the conversation.
Well written, though it’s important to remember that different juries judge different writing styles as “better.” Conciseness would be celebrated in business and tech. Vague, ornate writing might be appreciated by those who enjoy surreal books and art.
> you've got to explain how the people in the car tricked the autopilot into driving at crashable speeds

Or the autopilot did that by itself. I don't see why we need to assume any human trickery.
They’re not someone. Asking humans to change their behavior because a brand asks to be represented in an unusual way is asking for free marketing.
We'd ignore them, and a bunch of people on HN would militantly deny that they couldn't possibly have navigated the vast distances across space to get here.

Then we die from their space smallpox.
Hope they treat us with the same level of respect, civility, and kindness that we would show to aliens if we were a spacefaring civilization? /s
No one beyond chip nerds like myself ever really hear or care about node stepping and we all know it's more of a name than anything meaningful.

Intel don't market the node itself to consumers but rather the architectural generation. The whole 10 vs 7nm does not generate a perception of Intel being behind but rather they now are behind with the move to TSMC 5nm and the fact Intel still can't get volume production from 10nm for any product line that requires top performance.

The cynic in me feels that this is recent FUD originated in Intel marketing to try and smoke screen the disaster that is Intel 10nm. A little too late imo.

It's not that 10nn is bad but rather how long they've actually been working on it. If it had only taken twice as long to get to volume production they would have been well a ahead of the competition, remember the old tick/tock.

Arguably 10nm was suppose to be here in 2016, but only actually went into production in 2018, hence the the 14nm+++, and it's still not there yet.
Young Hare[1] is the most absurdly detailed watercolor I’ve ever seen. Also fun thing about Dürer, he made most of his money off woodcuts because he realized the mass market was where the money was and is.

And the saddest thing about Dürer is how he fell into a deep depression as he aged and no longer had practically perfect control over his hands.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Hare
KMFA: https://www.kmfa.org/
Might as well go meta here: you mean "nit pick".
...and what? What do you expect that to do?
Good idea! Lots of untapped revenue from a Facebook tax, and people are typically quite ready to impose "sin taxes" like a Facebook tax would be.
Why Choose Flask over FastAPI
> With BasiliskII things are easier as it has a drive mapped to the app’s file sharing folder. You can use the Share Sheet in the same way as Mini vMac, but you can also simply copy/move a file to the BasiliskII folder and it will be accessible inside the emulator.

Hidden inside this innocuous statement is a bit of black magic fuckery.

It's easy enough to present a block device to an emulated system and let the emulated system run its usual filesystem stack on top of raw block storage. That's what Mini vMac does. Basilisk II is a bit different--it installs a filesystem into the guest through the Mac OS filesystem manager on the guest side.

Just take a look at this code:

https://github.com/cebix/macemu/blob/master/BasiliskII/src/e...

Crazy.
You're saying that Autopilot cannot be blamed for this failure, because you take it as an axiom that Autopilot doesn't cause this kind of failure? That's just an empty tautology.

Failures are failures, you can't just assume they don't happen on such a complex system.
I freely admit this is a pedantic point, but it's extraordinarily doubtful that any road car reaches 2000 ignitions per second (the threshold for "thousands").

In a 4-stroke engine each cylinder ignites once every two revolutions, so even a 12-cylinder engine wouldn't reach 2000 ignitions per second until 20,000 RPM.

A more typical case - say, a 6 cylinder engine hitting the redline at 7,000RPM is experiencing 350 ignitions per second - so, hundreds rather than thousands.
Something like that!
Another thing is that third-party cookies can actually offer real functionality that has nothing to do with advertising (for example platforms like Salesforce let you integrate your own offering into a Salesforce users' system, and third-party cookies can be a pretty straightforward way of accomplishing that).

I don't see really any non-tracking reason for FLoC
> Surely this is not suggesting that Google searches afford any privacy. ;)

Depends on who you want privacy from.

Google's entire business model relies on them being the only company on the planet who knows as much about me (or you, or any other reader) as they do. I know that anything I do while using their services is going to be logged and analysed by machines like crazy for the rest of time, but I'm also reasonably confident that they're not going to let the interns page through this data whenever they get bored, and I'm very confident that they're going to do everything in their power to prevent my complete browser history from ending up for sale on some data breach forum.
The author does not speak for the Black Lives Matter movement, nor for the vast majority of people who use that phrase. The use of "we" in the title is egoising.

A quick search of "what does 'Defund the Police' mean" will find that the vast majority of proponents, and of articles written about them in almost all newspapers and magazines, interpret it as reducing the budget of the police and redirecting that budget into non-violent community aid.
That explains it. I always forget the orders of magnitude involved between the smallest colloquial definitions of "the solar system" and the largest technical definitions. It looks like it was only in the planetary region for under a decade.
As an aside I think Intel have actually done phenomenal work to stretch their 14nm as far as they have. It's taken a significant amount of power draw to do it, but still a significant feat of semi conductor design imo.
Star Trek's Borg are an interesting step along this line of thought. They are a collective intelligence, described as a collection of individual consciousnesses, which may or may not count as a "sole being". But how their collection is unified and organized is interesting to think about.
Another 2666 fan here. My copy of Treasure of Sierra Madre cites Traven as an inspiration for Archimboldi.
>humans

you can say human beings or men, it's okay
What really undermines the conversation is twisting the meaning of words, saying what you (supposedly) don’t really mean, and then blaming people for interpreting them correctly.

Here are more examples:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/07/how-i-beca...

https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2021/02/12/We-Actually-Mean-Aboli...

https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2020/08/the-abolition-mov...
Earth is likely very very valuable galactic real estate. Terraforming barren planets or moons is incredibly energy intensive. Assembling habitats in space also potentially quite frustratingly complex. Earth from a technical perspective has incredible resources. Aren’t we already pointing our latest telescopes at nearby solar systems looking for “habitable” planets? They are gonna want your planet sorry. Maybe they will work out an Indian reservation like proposal because the guilt is hard for them.
CPUs are starting to move toward 2.5D and 3D packaging, but for the foreseeable future thermal limitations will prevent a fully 3D processor from being viable. Transistors per unit volume doesn't really have advantages over transistors per unit area when we're at most looking at stacking some cache on top of the CPU logic (and in the near future, we're really just putting chiplets alongside each other and providing interconnections with similar performance to communication across a large monolithic die).
When dealing with complex dynamical systems (such as markets), you don't get exact answers. You get general phenomena which require intelligence to understand.

But in this case, the answer's very simple, and in my opinion, very obvious: High-risk people value the vaccine more, and allocating a proportion to the open market gives them the option of paying for one instead of having to wait for government permission. This is a first-order effect, not even a second-order effect.

The second-order effect would have been that more people might have been incentivized to create a vaccine if you opened the door for more profits. Right now there are lots of individuals throughout the world who don't have access to a vaccine.
Marine Species Flee the Equator
yes, laws can prevent you from doing things that, when explained technically and without context, sound trivial and not important.
As far as I'm concerned, it is just great that something made it for people to be "all up in arms about it". And "why" is not very important and neither is it surprising, really. I mean, how could have people been all up in arms about well-established technology all web is built upon, when 10 years ago google was, allegedly, "the good corporation", all people were like "I have nothing to hide", avoiding FB because of privacy concerns was just "being paranoid" and people telling stories confirmed by Snowden shortly after were "schizophrenic"? It is literally like 3-5 years (right before Cambridge Analytica scandal, I guess) since being "concerned" about your web-presence became somewhat mainstream.

And FLoC is... well, it's new.
> My understanding from a security friend is there are all these hurdles and the Chinese government wants access to networks and source code for anything that’s operating within the country.

The famous “friend” who can corroborate any statement without being humiliated after being harshly refuted...

If you think CCP is so rich that they can hire enough people to make sense of the code of all businesses in China, then you might as well outsource all your IT development to CCP, because AFAIK, CCP government employee and contractors are dirt cheap...
> In yours... well? Good luck. I suppose we can tell the parents they can just make another kid.

In your world we maim more kids less badly. Mike Tyson's daughter choked to death on one without ever leaving the surface of it.

In mine we take the measures that prevent kids from being killed. Namely not leaving kids playing with an inherently dangerous machine.
Sure sounds a lot sexier than ‘Machine-woven sneaker with 3D-printed soles’ given that custom-pattern machine-weaving is 200 hundred-year-old tech.
> If you have a mouse with some additional side buttons (that you don't already have mapped) I can strongly recommend mapping them to ctrl-pgup and ctrl-pgdn, so you can go left/right with your tabs in the current browser without having to relocate either your hands or your mouse pointer.

These hotkeys are functionally the same as Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab, which - at least in my idle position - don't require moving your hands any meaningful amount.
Product led is just an excuse for MBA types to insert themselves into IT departments and leech high paying salaries.
I think you are extrapolating from your personal experience.

If I were to to do the same I'd be saying that there are no religious people around anymore and the church's only exist to interfere in politics, the people involved only having "faith" in as far as it justifies there actions.

If we had a large and verifiable alien encounter, there would be three types of reaction.

Denial - it's a fake,
Panic - Run for the hills,
Acceptance - Ok, it's what it is, how do we move forward with it.

There would be of course be people from each of these groups trying to profit from the event in whatever manner is possible.

I think the reaction to the pandemic shows how communities react to uncomfortable events, and I think the difference in reactions from different communities/countries give a pretty good indication on how they would react to an alien encounter. Some countries would react well, others would just dissolve into chaos.
Brin's Brilliant Blimp
The things that would necessarily be true would be that, they would have superior weapons and tech, they would both arrive and reveal their presence (generally) on purpose, the outcomes are pretty binary where it's either to elevate our species or suppress it, they are somewhat like us (as to huge ones we might as well be bacteria, and to microscopic ones, we're monsters) and there would need to be some condition they were waiting for that made revealing themselves both economical and necessary. Mere benevolent altruism doesn't justify the energy costs to travel space, there has to be something else they need from us.

The discipline that has the most predictive power about their intentions is likely economics. Maybe they want to use us as an expendable species of space-apes for further colonization of new planets. It's an upgrade the same way being a research chimp is an upgrade.

However, given the time/distance they've traveled they'd be adapted for space faring, and not planet dwelling, so in terms of their deficits, muscles developed under gravity aren't their specialty. Their bodies would be the absolute minimum necessary to contain and sustain their minds, reproduce, and operate their tech, to where what we encounter or perceive would likely be exoskeletons. What minerals are unique to a planet like ours (other than life) that can't be found with less hassle than getting here, elsewere in the universe?

What should we do? Listen. Learn. Then negotiate. They need us for something, and anything less than the fairest possible terms is going to be very bad for our species.
Aws also offers that in terms of aws Lightsail
It comes with the servers , DNS system , ip management under one interface.

I find it more simplistic that Digital Ocean , tbh
>and a bunch of people on HN would militantly deny that they couldn't possibly have navigated the vast distances across space to get here.

This is a mischaracterization of their position. What those people probably meant is that given an unexplained phenomena, the chances that an alien involved is small, therefore we should look for more benign and more likely explanations. It doesn't mean that if an unambiguously alien ship showed up on earth that they'll deny its existence.
> outsourced to China previously wrote off all these risks as unimportant and later cried foul when their IP was stolen

Give me one concrete example from a reputable source. I'll PayPal you $20 (gift option) look my profile to get my contact information.
Then we die from their space smallpox.

Unlikely we will die from their version of smallpox, because they aren't likely to share human DNA.

Remember, we are literally surrounded by viruses. We eat them all the time. The vast majority are completely harmless anyway. They have their specific targets.
Some details in the article:

1) The police stated "no one was in the driver seat at the time of impact" of the Model S

2) Two people died in the subsequent fire from the crash into a tree

3) "it took firefighters nearly four hours and more than 32,000 gallons of water to extinguish the fire."

4) "At one point, crews had to call Tesla to ask how to put the fire out, Herman said."

5) "The owner, he said, backed out of the driveway, and then may have hopped in the back seat only to crash a few hundred yards down the road. He said the owner was found in the back seat upright."

Another link with some additional details:
https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/tesla-spring-crash-f...
Twitter is already doing this to some extent by displaying warnings on some tweets for the "informational danger" they pose as a result of being fake news or hate speech or whatever. It's not that different to the warnings displayed on cigarette packets or in the fold-outs of pharmaceuticals.
Don’t forget the part where instead of trying to create something useful from the vast technological advances that they’d provide, we instead use it to compute cryptographic hashes slightly faster than the week prior.
The proposal seems untenable unless it creates a marketable asset. The more detailed description (http://www.betterinstitutions.com/blog/2021/2/2/rental-pensi...) calls it "Social Security" for housing.
I always felt that the alternative version of Vulcan contact is more true to life. After all we've successfully dealt with other human species, and the highly developed aliens who probably overcame their anger, violence, etc. may be in for a surprise.
So motte-and-bailey.

Here are more examples:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/07/how-i-beca...

https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2021/02/12/We-Actually-Mean-Aboli...

https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2020/08/the-abolition-mov...
> but, is there a tournament or contest along the lines of 'producing some result via searches' quicker than others? im thinking a form of this might exist at defcon/thotcon/similar

If there is, it will definitely have deliberately horrible SEO.
> The LEO narrative seems something like 'We didn't sex abuse before the internet so the internet must be responsible.'

This is what worries me the most, because it's masking the underlying truth and trying to sideline the reality.

As the sibling comment to mine delved into, it's kind of terrifying how much of this occurs within activities that should be safe and are sanctioned by bodies of authority.

Of course, I feel I can't say as much about how LEO and politicians are poised to abuse the narrative to get what they want as I've never been a victim of such abuse. That's why I am glad that people like you are speaking out against it, because the chilling effects of potentially causing greater harm to victims who haven't come forward really bothers me.
> The biggest issue I have with walking is that the city becomes a bit boring.

Check out StreetComplete -- I find it a great way to give walks a little more purpose.

https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete
So it took a few days for what you said to sink in. And there were a few other information sources that combined together to bring me to the conclusion that you're right.

I've actually started writing a self-study course on passing the FAANG, as a trained educator with a bachelor of Education and five years experience as a high school teacher, I think I can make a fair shake at designing a series of free learning materials on the subject.

I started inviting people along and have built up a list of about 20 people who've at least SAID they'll stop by to my live streams (once a week) to discuss the problems of the week.

It's going to be a structured course https://github.com/AlexChesser/faangterview-preparation-cour... I'll be releasing under MIT.

I don't know that the switch would have flipped in my head about the ROI of the FAANG interview.

As I said, it took a couple days to actually sink it but you have completely changed my mind. I now completely agree with you that they are worth doing for a number of reasons, many of which aren't financial at all.

I see them as equivalent to the Bar exam for Lawyers now. Would you hire a lawyer who said "I don't believe in the bar?" (I think we've seen how that played out with the Kraken lawsuit!)

Would you go to a hospital that said "We don't believe that doctors need to have done the USMLE"?

In both cases hell no!

You're right. This is not arbitrary or cruel, it's just a professional qualification. Sure there's some luck involved, there's the chance of personality conflict. There's all sorts of potential downsides... but there's also the upside.

Being better at my craft overall is the ultimate reward. If I'm a better developer overall, the money will follow regardless of whether I get in to a FAANG
I’d like to know if the Rathaus one is still going. I rode through the top once and it was a little scary.
BigDataCloud Adds IP Fallback to Client-Side Reverse Geocoding
Man I would have liked to see more of his works in that article.
Why would they let us do our thing? Given enough time we might become just as advanced and resource hungry as them.

Who knows what trouble we may cause them in the future, or rare resources that we might currently not even know exist we might steal.

The time to place place mouse traps is long before there's an entire family of them living in your shed.

It'll be either extermination, or - best case scenario - capture/trap and possibly study. Any characteristics or capabilities we humans poses that they find interesting/funny/useful will be catalogued and copied. No need to keep us around.