skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Without a link to the actual report, which hopefully contains more information, anyone who's ever spent $5 running a campaign on FB would know this is a little suspicious.

You can upload content to your hearts content, but ads are not actually 'approved' until they running.

And there's no way to actually 'target' without running an ad ... which they didn't do ... so ...

If they were looking for hard evidence, they could have in fact put $5 into FB, and put the ad 'live' and simply taken it down once it was approved, but before it received any views (though technically that might not be perfectly possible, it is pragmatically possible).

It's possible to mine data sets, and do queries on userbase behaviours etc, but none of that would be in the context of a specific ad being run. I think this is also what the article alludes to, and it crosses streams with the other part of the story and probably causes confusion.

All of that aside, the notion that FB, a $800B company is going to risk that by blatantly running ads for alcohol to minors where it is clearly illegal kind of defies the logic of a very self-interested entity like Facebook.

How much money would they make from that, while risking sanctions and major fallout? Probably almost none, as the buyers of ads would probably be doing something illegal, how many breweries are going to be running ads to 14 year olds? Basically none, so there's no money in this activity, and only downside.

More appropriately, it would help the case if someone, somewhere in Australia actually found FB ads that are targeting children.

Finally, there is nowhere them to hide, making the claims a little more suspicious. Everyone on the planet, can right now (including you reading this), pop open Facebook, upload an ad and try to run it. Judge, police, regulators, you, me, anyone in the world can just 'see for ourselves' at a moments notice, at any time, with less than 5 minutes without any need for complicated research - find out if FB is really enabling vaping ads to teenagers. It seems odd that something so illegal would be so out in the open, visible to everyone.

Edit: not 'defending' FB here, just calling out what I see as possibly a big inconsistency and problems with truthiness.

I've never been a fan of Facebook, I loathed them from the start, but facts are facts, and this story does not pass the smell test, we'll need to see more data.

There are probably a ton of legit things to deal with on FB, I could be wrong, but I seriously doubt they are running vaping ads to kids.
Fortunately, no one is going to force you to use other app stores.

Feel free to continue using the Apple app store. You can do that, and after these lawsuits other people will have the voluntary choice to choose a different app store as well.
How is society improved by letting 8 year olds gamble?
People without kids probably agree to this
I think it's pretty obvious that master gets its taint from the common master-slave usage.

That usage should be changed to leader/follower most likely.

I haven't renamed my default branches, myself, because "master" alone does not imply master/slave.
https://blog.elcomsoft.com/2021/01/apple-fbi-and-iphone-back...
That was a joke by the way. Sorry that I'm the only one who thought it was funny.
University of Minnesota Department Response to the Linux Foundation
The interest in these crashes is because technically, it's AI that has killed these people. That is fascinating in of itself. Are there any other automakers that have deaths from a similar cause to autopilot?

I'd be interested in quality data about the fatal crashes. I know Tesla states that the death rate is lower than with human drivers. But I've also heard that they use deaths per mile globally to compare and that may not be comparable. Is there any federal requirement for companies to report total autonomous miles driven?
I'd care about this a lot less if the government first outlawed most personal data collection & hoarding (by tech companies and others) before we go destroying the libertarian solution to this (outsource regulation to a company, which is what I'm choosing to do, given the alternatives)
DeepFake technology democratizes the ability to produce believable fakes. Before only countries and large institutions could do so.
etcd is not suitable for high volume, it's built for data consistency, not performance.
It flows better because it is writing synchronous code. The code inside of every process in Erlang is synchronous.

You achieve concurrency by spinning up processes (spawning functions). This isn't that different to firing an async function in Javascript, or starting a goroutine, etc.

And you communicate between the processes by sending async messages.

Those are the primitives. Asynchronously send messages between processes that are synchronously doing stuff. Go is actually not -that- different, except sending messages is synchronous, too, unless you set a buffer on the channel (and then you have to size it). Though I agree, because Erlang/Elixir keep it simpler than that, and are dynamically typed, it's a lot cleaner to write.
They could lower the fee to a much more reasonable 10% and still be the biggest company in the world.
A lot of creators have multiple revenue streams that one can support (merch, patreon, affiliate links). Not watching youtube ads does not have to mean you are hurting creators.
While not intended, at Facebook's age and scale, I think gross negligence is a fair assessment. That said, it seems like upthread there's questions on the validity of the report methodology, so probably standby on any diagnosis here.
Modern phone is a powerful computer but both Google and Apple along with the phone manufacturers do not really want me to use it as one. And I am not prepared do dance around their platforms doing some hacks.

The end result is that my current smartphone is mostly just a phone with couple of off-line apps like GPS and apps to install firmware to various gizmos like a drone. I do not even have data plan.
That's why I have a lot of respect for Insulating Concrete Forms. You build it out of polystyrene insulation, then fill the voids between the two sides of the form with high-compressive-strength concrete. No need to tear down the form, no need for an extra step insulating the thing after you've built it.

That all said, it is somewhat more expensive than traditional construction. Better insulated, more energy efficient, and more resilient to fire and flood.
only if you think consumers are idiots.
Why is fragmentation a problem? There's already fragmentation of the smartphone software ecosystem. How is an app that ships on iOS but not the apple store any different to you than an app that doesn't ship on iOS at all? Either way if you choose to only buy apps through apple you can't get it.
> "I realize that it is a benefit for older computer illiterate people."

It's a benefit for computer literate people too.

- IAP allows easy tracking of subscriptions and cancellation. You don't have to call and argue with a retentions rep for an hour to cancel a service.

- Apple restrictions on tracking limit abuse from ad driven business models.

- Apple can require features like Apple ID to be implemented alongside FB connect or whatever. Apple ID has privacy friendly features for users like obscuring your email via a relay. This would never be implemented by app devs because hiding your email is counter to their incentives. If they could deploy outside of the store to avoid these constraints they would.

Apple's interests are aligned with their users. The reason they can get away with charging 30% is because Apple's users don't care about all the shitty anti-user things Apple blocks app devs from doing.

The reason I care about the 30% is because it worries me that they will be forced to allow side-loading or multiple stores and lose their leverage over app devs. If they lose that leverage we as Apple users will lose these benefits, and for what?
No ascii/spacing tricks, but picking up on the number tricks:

"Haiku Amulet\n1,000,029.\nRefrigerator"

Uncommon - d5537c8974703230d5e5e92b10f459e3a0ed377208192c522e388888325beb72

"Tootsie Roll Pop licks?\n531!\nNever ask the bird."

Uncommon - dd379c5ff831df352a48f5a2a9122d116c3c1b8f3845f488888fbc69a5eeacca
How does the performance of high efficiency CPUs like the M1 scale with TDP? (e.g. If a M1 gets a fan and pushed the same TDP as typical server CPUs does it become x times faster or just die...?)
Chrome is not open source.
80+% of people would respond to a statement like "Pixels are little squares" with something like "我不会说英语", "أنا لا أتحدث الإنجليزية. ", or "मुझे अंग्रेजी नहीं आती। ". Of the remaining 20%, 99% would have no idea what a "pixel" was supposed to be, perhaps thinking it's a Google product. But the fact that the garden is mostly bare brown earth today does not imply that sowing the seeds of knowledge is futile. (I have certainly explained the Dirac-comb sampled image model in Spanish on more than one occasion, and if I have not done so in Hindi or Mandarin, it is only because of the untilled wastelands of my own withered, stunted mind.)

> If someone wants to understand the basics of antialiasing, or reducing image resolution with bilinear interpolation, the conceptualization of square pixels works perfectly

As Smith explains in the paper and I explained in the comment above, it's easy to get extremely conspicuous artifacts if you design a downsampling algorithm with the little-squares model, although if you're increasing image resolution you can frequently get away with it.

If you don't understand the formalization of the imaging problem that Smith is laying out—and it's clear that you don't—you aren't in a position to opine on how useful that formalization is. Applying that formalization will show you whether it's useful or not, and you can't try that until you understand it. My opinion from my experience is that I wasted a lot of time on the kind of seat-of-the-pants approach you're advocating, and now that I understand the rudiments of sampling theory, many problems that were intractable before have become easy. Learn from my mistakes instead of urging other people to repeat them.

> You call convolution with a square a special case, I'm calling it a reasonable first-order approximation for modern displays.

You are positing another opposition that simply doesn't exist. Perhaps you don't know what the phrase "a special case" means? A mathematical operation can simultaneously be a special case of a more general mathematical operation and useful for something, for example approximating a given display. And that is the case here. Being "a special case" of a more general case just means that everything that is true of the more general case is also true of the special case. It's not a way to deprecate the special case. It's a way to pointing you at a deeper understanding of it.

(Again, though, it's a zero-order approximation. First-order approximations are bilinear sampling and similar things. I think you have a lot of work to do before you can be in full agreement with me on all the math involved.)
“ Humans have this vanity that we're special, but we're really not.”

How would one go about proving this statement. Hint: it’s impossible (by definition)
There's an important distinction between externally and internally imposed restrictions. (In the case of killing, hopefully both restrictions are in play.)

The language is intentionally deflecting responsibility by obscuring the source of the restriction. They're trying to reduce argument by giving the impression responsibility exists in some other unidentified channel.
If Jan. 6 was an insurrection, then so was Oct. 5, 2018 when Dems occupied the same building during the confirmation hearings on Kavanaugh, where 163 protesters were arrested:

"Thirteen people were removed from the Senate galleries and arrested, according to Capitol Police." and "The crowd grew and a large group of protesters marched up the Rotunda steps on the East Front of the Capitol. There, 150 protesters were arrested and charged with “crowding, obstructing, or incommoding,” according to a statement from the U.S. Capitol Police."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/demonstrators-at-us-cap...

Funny how Pelosi didn't mention the 2018 riot during her second bungled Trump impeachment, nor that her office didn't approve spending for adequate Capitol security for Jan. 6, 2020. So many coincidences.
After perusing the LibreSSL release notes for v3.3.2 from April 17th? I see a LOT of progress towards a TLS 1.3 implementation. Its not listed as ready for use, but the underlying infrastructure is being built. Finalizing DTLS 1.2 happened with this release.

LibreSSL v 3.3.3 would be a fun time to release TLS 1.3 support. And historically? OpenBSD releases roll out the minor-version bumps like that.
> Now, Apple says it has stopped logging user IP addresses collected by the feature, and will delete previous logs of IP addresses. Without IP addresses, there's far less danger that records of app usage could be tied back to users.

https://www.cnet.com/news/apple-says-itll-change-how-it-coll...

Apple is still tracking app launches in macOS, even though it has said that it will stop logging IP addresses along with that usage data.
In my country (not AU) they banned alcohol advertising completely a couple of years ago, because alcoholism is a big problem here. So instead of advertising alcohol, the breweries now advertise their alcohol free drinks. They just changed "Carlsberg" to "Carlsberg Alcohol Free" on the same ads, and boom it's allowed.
Never said there wasn't...
Note that this was _not_ originally the case -- Jason Fried edited his post after the fact without noting it: https://twitter.com/waxpancake/status/1386810666221150210
Legislators and people on the internet know better than scientists.
This is all an argument predicted on 'oh I can't do everything right'.

No. There is an extremely common tendency for the wealthy to pass on advice...for the wealthy, and pretend like its good news for everyone.

The wealthy are by definition the minority, the advice they give is mostly wrong in this regard (unless you are rich/lucky), the posturing about minorities and such is so much hot garbage.

In fact even the argument that it might work for the middle class is an oxymoron - anything serving to bring more people to wealth and out of middle class-dom necessarily reduces the number of middle class, and mathematically increases the likelihood of the being poor.

Such advice is never presented as 'wise ways to keep the middle class around' it is usually always framed as 'do this and you will reap rewards!!'.

Need money to make money, as they say.
Manually refreshing them? How could such a process possibly be manual but not automatable? Does it involve turning a crank?
How to choose a small business phone system?
I have mixed feelings on this. Humans modify their environment to benefit themselves. We eliminated the Grizzle Bear from California and I kinda think that is appropriate. I do believe predators benefit the ecosystem to a point. Using this same logic, would humans benefit if we had predators hunting us? I bet a lot of the pro-predator rhetoric comes from people living in urban areas with little connection to rural life.
Tablets, including the iPad, have had VNC clients that do exactly this for years.
Printing $26 Trillion will do that.

Lets print another $3 Trillion...
Free will isn’t binary, there are gradations.
This guy sells books on how to run companies with progressive culture.
Ranchers don’t like it when wolves kill livestock.
Somewhat unrelated, but how does someone know what cast you are from? If you move to a new place where no one knows you, can you just say that you are from the best caste?
It will be inconvenient and even impossible to migrate some things (for example contacts, iMessage history, app data). Espcially consider how difficult it would be for a novice user to migrate. And what are those other choices? Presumably you are not considering Android devices.
P.S. Back around 1975, John Molloy wrote "Dress For Success" in which he noted that men wearing a tan trenchcoat got better jobs and pay than men wearing a black trenchcoat. Black trenchcoats quickly disappeared :-)

I still have my London Fog tan trenchcoat circa 1980.
Well you will continue to be allowed to make these decisions if you want, but after these lawsuits go through, other people will also be free to use other app store as well.

Problem solved. You get to keep using apple app stores, and other people can choose something else.
Would you be willing to pay a premium for that? What if Apple allowed other stores and simultaneously allowed apps to sell things for more on their store than they charge on other stores? Then an app maker could release on both and charge more to account for Apple's cut and any extra expenses they have releasing on their store.
Presumably, God could foresee the cryptographic flaws of any algorithm, and could therefore design a simpler secure hash function than any human. In this case, "secure" means that there exists no algorithm to compute a preimage faster than brute force.

This would be a "nothing up my sleeve" function, in contrast to something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_EC_DRBG that cryptographers would identify as sketchy.

Hypothetical question: What is the Kolmogorov complexity of a secure 256-bit hash function?
> Nonetheless, even if we accept your logic, your point remains a weird one.

It isn't weird that car buyers consider how much the car will cost them.

> Is this supposed to be a surprise to anyone?

This has all been a surprise to you. You're not across the detail but that's okay. Now you know more.
> I think gross negligence is a fair assessment.

I'll buy this, for sure.

With a lot of things that are built, I think the collective of engineers may need to be more thoughtful about 2nd and 3rd order effects from the decisions that are being made or not made. Emergent Systems are absolutely a thing.
It's not really destroying it. You can still refuse to install any apps not approved by Apple, even if other people do.

It might even be a good test. If Facebook decides they can't be in Apple's store even though the app is free and there is no government pressure for Apple to block it, you might take pause to ask why and decide that you don't want that app.
"The encryption keys are stored at Apple’ own servers"

Thanks for confirming that there's no privacy in iCloud.
... but you will understand orbital mechanics deeply. Play accordingly.
Florida private school bars vaccinated teachers
Yeah, the leadership shown here is just so poor.

I've been using Rails for nearly a decade, so I'm all too familiar with DHH's penchant for inserting his opinions loudly and everywhere. He can't seem to help himself, to the point where he was allegedly trying to win arguments against his own employees by digging through their old chat logs.

With this extra context, it feels very likely that David was one of the primary instigators in making political conversations at Basecamp heated and difficult. So rather than trying to address his own problems with engaging constructively with his employees, they decided to just preemptively shut down all further discussion.

At least that's what it looks like on the outside with the context of this piece, and being very familiar with how DHH engages in debate. I'm sure there's even more to the story, but I don't think there's any world where David comes out of this looking good.
I would suggest 'liege' and 'vassal' although the 'm-word' and the 's-word' might be an alternative.
F-droid also has the sane condition that all apps it distributes need to be built from source on its build infra (basically all Linux distros require the same).

While really good for security and debugging I can imagine it can be complicated to suport for many less experienced developers used to cooling stuff together in an Android IDE where a binary APK falls out at the end that they then upload to the store.
Funny thing is, both companies do exactly this to operate in China. The government does not allow companies to run their own app stores, so Apple and Google (and others who have similar kinds of online stores) have to hand over all operations – including app submission, storage, approvals, install etc. to another local government-approved company completely outside their control. They do all this willingly because they have to, and you don't hear a peep about it from them as they fight other governments worldwide who are trying to enforce even the slightest amount of control of their own.
The electronics labs at university have $10,000s of equipment for use in electronics engineering courses. And you need instructors with experience with both hardware and software. In my experience those with the required level of expertise earn far more in industry than what TAs are typically paid.

Of course you could always have an Arduino based course. But for anything non-trivial you will quickly need some electronic test equipment and the skills to use them well. You only need to browse the Arduino forums to realise how hard it is to learn all the inter-related material.

Any organisation providing a bootcamp style course would need to invest in considerable amount of test equipment, provide lab bench space and hire suitably qualified instructors.

Having said that, there are lots of videos on YoutTube that explain various topics. You might want to read me reply to @runawaybottle for an idea of some of the topics you might need to become familiar with.
Pension funds demand more profits, FB complies and sells teenagers (i.e. the nation's future) to the alcohol and gambling industry. This is pretty much what America is about these days: the top 1% is milking the bottom 50% and hardly anybody cares about the future.
It’s not an efficient market.
Have you ever used a Mac though? Has an App Store, and you can choose to install apps from third parties if you want to. Best of both worlds.
I'm not sure why you've extrapolated this kind of behavior to every customer support position. I've not encountered it in any of the ones I've worked.

Also, I'm not seeing evidence that the Basecamp employees that had an issue with this behavior were "going to complain about every possible grievance".
The default in my experience seems to be companies that have a generic policy about what is acceptable to talk about in the workplace, which usually excludes the topics of politics and religion. Some articulate it better than others, but when push comes to shove it's up to the owners to decide what will happen in the end. And in that sense they absolutely get to define what the company handbook means when it says political speech.
I agree. Belief in free will is, by definition, supernatural. That it can never be proven is comforting in a sense.
Pex does nothing for sewer water however.
I’ve never been a fan, but me let explain. I read the long Tipping Point article by Gladwell that originally appeared in the New Yorker in 1996 and found it rather obvious for anyone with an engineering or math degree. It seemed to be a simple article making much ado about nonlinear functions.

I must have been wrong. Malcom Gladwell’s books have been extremely popular, introducing observations, well known to specialists, to much wider audiences. The books are not really written for me; they are written for the educated and appreciative readers that just happened to get through life without studying nonlinear functions, for example. He makes the dry details interesting.

What I need are books on the countless subjects I don’t understand that are written as well as Gladwell’s. I need books about subjects like the history of philosophy or the influence of Miles Davis on jazz that are written for a non-specialist like me.
Tax the billionaires more tbh
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