skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can post “I’m selling vapes to 13-17 year olds, $10 a pop!” almost anywhere on the internet. I won’t get banned for it until someone brings attention to it. I can upload ads like this anywhere that allows users to upload ads. Will the news write a headline like this about it if I do it anywhere other than Facebook?

This is a complete non-story. The appropriate forum for it is a bug report to Facebook, not international news. It should make you skeptical about other news about Facebook, because it indicates the media does not have a basic “is this bullshit” filter for stories they publish about Facebook.

If this was actual commercial activity, with real vape vendors selling vapes to children, and Facebook kept it up after finding out about it, that would be a story.
Smart person, and it takes courage to not go (down) with the crowd. The people who don't come back up are the ones who lack your good judgment, I expect.
I recently implemented AdMob ads in an app and I wanted to contact Google support with a question. However, any time their "contact us" assistant didn't know the answer to my question, it would respond with an Error Page saying the email the support team can't be found.
> I assume your are stating that putting businesses out of business will solve either of these issues?

We have deemed jobs that pay too little to be a nuisance to society and that they absolutely should be put out of business.

That is the whole point of the minimum wage.

The problem is that the minimum wage is so pitifully low that economically effective unemployment benefits are significantly higher. If the minimum wage were $15 (which is still below where it should be due to cost of living adjustments), unemployment benefits wouldn't look anywhere nearly so attractive.
Do you not have community property in the nordics? Here if a married person signs for a loan then the couple is jointly responsible for it, no impersonation required.

Same for withdrawals. Some couples will use individual accounts as a convention but they are each entitled to drain the other’s, whether or not their name is on it.
Why is this not conducting in "Exclusive Dealing"?
https://www.accc.gov.au/business/anti-competitive-behaviour/...

Is the Aus Gov able to do this to simply because it is not a corporation? as per http://www6.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdoc/au/legis/cth/cons...
I wonder if people thought the same about radioactive substances?

There's a large body of emerging science that points to inhaled particulates reducing health and lifespan.
The release does not say these things, and it is misleading to intentionally paraphrase as to invent logical conflicts that aren't present. In particular, it is wrong to equate the existence of controls with the abuse of market power.

Examples:

Kicking a scammer off your app store is a use of power that benefits the consumer.

Obliging service providers to mislead the consumer about their subscription options is an abuse of power and a barrier to consumer choice.

The desired outcomes are not "bipolar"; they are consistent with advancing consumer choice and consumer protection. They would only appears as conflicting demands to a rent-seeking organisation that prioritises its market share over consumer outcomes, which is of course why regulatory agencies like the ACCC exist.
I'm not sure if I'm missing something but right now the global goal is 0 co2 by 2050 which already means hitting 1-2 degrees increase.

Every measure right now, which doesn't hurt us, doesn't do anything right now to solve the problem.

Mexiko has a drought strongest of the last 30 years, permafrost is unfreezing, etc.
The « rugged » part usually translates to thermal and reliability concerns, which are traded for raw performances.
Four months ago a friend of mine had his Google account suspended with a vague message about a terms of service violation. He escalated and appealed it with my help. It was no use. He lost everything. Files. Photos. Email. Calendar. Even his business domain registrations. He was paying for Google services like YouTube and storage. He couldn’t even get a download of his data.

This is why I never used Google Cloud. I’ve heard these stories for years. You can lose everything and have no recourse. It’s not worth it.
Would F-Droid have accepted them with an ad bundle included? I seem to remember that as an anti-feature for them.
That’s a good point. The US has a somewhat unique system there. I’ve been googling this and I can find any definitive reference. All I can turn up is that the application for an IATA code is supposed to be made by an an airline or CSR, not the airport itself. What I can’t find is an explanation for the “coincidence” of the K prefix.
"AArch32 support is WONTFIX, as far as we are concerned. Even if implementing rr on 32 bit ARM were possible I don't think anybody cares about it at this point."
It also doesn't values the leverage owning complete ecosystem gives the company. If Apple decides to split iPhone, iOS, iPad, AppStore, Music/Content in different companies the value will be much lower than of a company together. Total>Σ(parts)
Same device access, same email domain, same tax registration number, going off other answers in the thread
Couldn't agree more.

My Amazon retail account got flagged for fraud (cause I had an old CC attached to the account).

My AWS account got disabled as well
Naively assuming ffmpeg and others aren't too happy that their hard work gets used in questionable military or LE operations. Perhaps a more restrictive license[1] can help fight companies like NSO Group, Cellebrite & Co (and continue the momentum Signal created). Best case it would make it illegal for them to use the software and worst make the possibility to use public patches much harder.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14864197 (from the top comment):

> Linked below is an example to restrict military use. Note though, it's so broad reaching that it might scare away even non-military organizations for using your software. And it still doesn't address how you enforce such license. So there's lots of questions about the applicable of this example license. http://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/ocb/license2.pdf

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EDIT: Such a license would probably no longer be fully open source (afaik). Perhaps it's time to create a new breed of license that allows people to build systems where they know their work isn't going to be used to guide a missile or get someone killed for their sexual, political or religious believes.
Indeed wholeheartedly agree, it was not my intention to single out a particular industry and participation is key since like you said transportation and energy are two main causes for which we do have control over.

It was just interesting that the percent contributions where really similar between the two when intuitively I would expect Oil/Gas/Coal methane leaks to have a marginal climate impact.
Advertising is virtually always manipulation. Logically if you want to be ethical you just won't let them target minors at all or you will be incredibly circumspect in whose human reviewed ads are run.
Well "toxins" is ill defined.

But CO2... to simplify imagine being a vegetarian, how much plant matter would you eat in a day? How much plant matter grew in one day in your houseplants? The only way plants are going to fix carbon is by adding it to their own mass. Just think about a conservation of carbon atoms. There's no way any plants in your apartment are going to make a dent in the carbon cycle of your personal environment.

There are arguments to be made for lots of things sticking to or getting sucked into the leaves of plants... maybe if there were a whole lot of plants a meaningful amount of VOCs or other pollutants could be removed... maybe.
There's a team at University of Michigan who can't do their "sending shit patches to the linux kernel" research anymore, surely they'd breeze through ethics signoff on doing this...
Very neat, but there are only a few places on Mars I recognize well enough to find. It would be good to have a list of points of interest and a way to go to them.

There's also a Twitter symbol at one point on the globe; not sure why?
I think the ACCC actually hasn't been that great for a while, unfortunately. We have awesome consumer protection, but they've made serious missteps more recently, especially under their current commissioner, Rod Simms.

They made a terrible ruling forcing the NBN to have 121 points of interconnect (basically peering POPs) back in 2009 (originally, NBN Co wanted to have 14), to protect the seven or so long-distance fibre providers. In the meantime, these providers merged with each other so now we only have three, and the 121 POI policy made it extremely difficult for smaller ISPs to compete on the NBN, because most couldn't afford transit to all of them, so we saw huge consolidation in the ISP space. So the ACCC ruling directly caused a reduction in competition in the ISP space, and it didn't help prevent what they were trying to prevent in the transit market either!

Then, look to the insanity of the media bargaining code. May have been some coercion from some Government donors behind the scenes there, who knows... But at the end of the day, which there were some legitimate concerns about Google and Facebook, most of their conclusions didn't really make sense (they conflated what actually happens, where Google and Facebook publish a link and one-sentence excerpt as if it was the same as publishing the whole article, and their solution was to force Google and Facebook to pay money to the big media organisations, which just happen to be big donors of the political party in power). The resulting law was so bad that Facebook threatened to pull out of the country altogether and removed news from Australian timelines for a while, until the bill was watered down.

In terms of these policies, the ACCC strikes me as not having a great deal of competence, but at the same having huge delusions of grandeur. I really don't want to see another episode like the tiff with Facebook, where even though Facebook do super scummy things and I generally dislike them, in that circumstance they were absolutely in the right...

I vaguely recall being angry at the ACCC about a bunch of other things over the years, but I can't remember any specifics - will have to try and look it up. I think it was blocking some mergers that wouldn't have reduced competition, but then approving some that posed potential serious damaging consequences to the market etc.
Laundry and clothes by far creates the most dust and particles in my home, probably yours too.

At night, with the lights off and the room dark, turn on your phone LED pointed at the ceiling. Look closely at the air just above the light, you'll see tiny little material threads and speckles. I do not like the idea of constantly breathing that in.

I've used an expensive HEPA air filter in my room and did some testing, lo and behold: when I checked the air with my phone LED it was absolutely teeming with material particulates (probably cotton, which I mostly wear).

The air filter creates a circulation in the room disturbing dormant dust and kicking it up into the air, but the filter doesn't seem to catch and contain this dust.

Alternatively, when I left my room window open without any filter and allow fresh outside air in, the phone LED test later reveals almost pristine air quality probably a 100x decrease in particulates.

I'm now trying out a water-based air scrubber, one that looks like a fish bowl. It agitates the water, non-ultrasonically, just using rotation, and sends air through the wash. Doesn't seem to be more effective than just letting fresh air in through the window though.
Do users have dedicated IP addresses instead of sharing on one IP?
It would be correct correct for the Google employee to say "I am unable to..." because that is against their employer's policies. But they say "We are unable to...". "We" meaning Google, and Google is certainly not unable to reinstate the dev's account because they are unwilling to do so, which is what "against Google's policy" means.
Your examples are still much better then beef.

Beef creates the pressure for forest killing soy btw.
Maybe get in touch
> okular-extra-backends

> Includes support for mobi and epub

Curious. I didn't know that was there.

> as well as TIFF,

The last time I've tried it didn't seem to support multi-page TIFFs

> CHM

Very curious. Never seen a good alternative CHM viewer (although seen apps advertised as such numerous times).
Are we really pretending that it ever stopped?
She is and was an adult woman. Can I not expect her to know, in the typical case, whether she does or does not consent to sex?

Women often feel confused about the detail of their own consent after date rape or acquaintance rape. This is true in part because most people imagine rape is some kind of violent assault by a total stranger conking them on the head and dragging them into an alleyway.

They don't expect to have to ask themselves how much alcohol is too much alcohol for me to have been consenting? Did he or did he not intentionally get me drunk for the purpose of impairing my judgement?

Did he or did he not lie to me and maneuver me into staying alone with him in an Airbnb in the name of "helping" me? Since he did, in fact, help me get to this conference, does that somehow negate his bad actions or something?

Etc.

People expect rape to be some obvious, easily identifiable crime and it's often not.

I once saw a question posted to the internet where the woman was like "I know I need to drink less..." when a colleague plied her with alcohol until she couldn't stand up anymore and then took her to his hotel room. She felt she had been unfaithful to her boyfriend and internet strangers had to tell her "Girl, you were raped, not unfaithful."

Hopefully women are clearer than that "in the typical case." Presumably, "the typical case" isn't actually rape.

But what she described is very normal for anyone who has been treated abusively not by some random stranger at gun point but by someone insinuating themselves into their lives and claiming to be a friend who just wants to help, etc. Even without the detail of sex, people often agonize over what they did wrong, whether or not they "owe" someone who intentionally shafted them etc when they were supposed to be friends, business partners, etc.

People who know ahead of time how this works are much less vulnerable to such predators and can still get shafted. Predators typically seek to place themselves in a position of trust and to operate under a cloak of plausible deniability. They actively seek to obfuscate their real intentions and then act all hurt if you question their intentions, etc.

It's very hard to sort something like that out.
After a car crash, the police may search your device for evidence of inattentive driving. Anything else they find on it is fair game.
>> I expect google's legal resources are sufficient to discourage plain copying, even if a court case is never won.

Attackers don't care about laws. All they care about their end goal.

You have fraudsters who game the AdWords, reCaptcha etc

Gmail is a strategic tool.

>> the chances of gmail's client side bits doing anything that novel that's also competetively important are slim to none

You are underestimating value of Gmail product. I'm not allowed to share what kind of value the client side has but it certainly does.

>> While there may be a case for DRM in some places, gmail is almost certainly not it.

Again, you are underestimating value Gmail provides to consumers.

This country is a democracy. Companies can obfuscate or de obfuscate code at their wish whether there is value or not.

Privacy people can use Privacy oriented tools or go build their own seriously.

DRM is a billion dollar industry!
Coinbase also did a remarkable thing: they forgot that bitcoin itself was a political project. When Armstrong said that if you didn't like his stance you should leave, some of the employees who left were bitcoin libertarians, upset at the company's willingness to get into bed with Hacker Team (who'd hacked for dictators) and Facebook.

Basecamp similarly spent years creating an image of having a social mission, and DHH posting about politics was part of the company image. It looks like the employees were foolish enough to take him seriously.
I use IVPN. While it’s pricey, the company cares about security and privacy. They publish a third party security audits frequently. I haven’t had any issue using their service. They also support wireguard, which is a plus.
True. It really is a special card. Good thing is, at least for me, I don’t need a new GPU I’d just like one for higher fidelity in games.
Sure, actually I’m impressed of how much you can accomplish building things in short time without code especially considering that I spent last 1.5 years on my last project (coding both front & back end). This was a few days project to utilize what I have collected for that project regarding the launch process. It’s using no-code tools to present a product, collect payments and let potential customers send requests using AirTable forms that are also used later to track submission process.
The latest M1-based MacBook Air is a joy to use and performs well above its weight.
Being a manipulative jerk and creep is not a crime.

I think it's very brave of this woman to write such an article, and warn future victims about this person. So in that sense, such articles NEED to be written. Who knows how many young girls she saved from the same experience.
Erlang's OTP and Elixir's wrappers on top of that is what is severely lacking from all languages claiming to provide tools for better concurrency.
I'm confused by the conglomeration argument... even beyond the innovator's dilemma aspect.

The conglomerate market cap may be less than the sum of its parts at any given instant, but that completely discounts the strategic interplay between subsidiaries that results in substantially larger growth prospects & marketshare capture.

This isn't universally true -- e.g. GE Healthcare & GE Aviation probably have very little overlapping strategic benefit. However, Google Adwords, Adsense, YouTube, Gmail ads, etc all benefit from common infrastructure & distribution. Or in the case of Berkshire, the ability to gobble up new investments relies on the tax-advantaged leverage of the insurance float.
Thanks for your feedback, I'm working on improving the responsiveness and to add a resize/crop functionality to picture upload. Until then, the best format for a profile pic is a square, this will avoid any distortion.
I have the same setup, no resolution scaling on macOS. And also, like the parent you replied to, sit about 70 cm (28 inches) from my display.

It's so big that I actually don't sit in the middle but to the left of the display. I use the right of the display as a second monitor.

As an aside, I have the Philips Momentum (model 436M6VBPAB) which is sold as a monitor but can double as a TV. It has HDR, which is very nice in a light office. I suspect it is no longer produced in any significant quantities. The price has been going up.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this in-depth article.
As we're working on air quality at Airica, it's great to see that this topic is getting more attention lately.
We focus on easy to deploy air quality monitoring for schools and offices. In these spaces it's just as much about CO2 as PM as high CO2 levels reduce cognitive performance significantly. This 2016 study shows 61-101% better cognitive scores in well ventilated buildings:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4892924/
Are you saying it's a 55" display?
> if someone is signing up for many different services, they are probably using the same password everywhere, or ...

This is completely the case, and at least from my experience the reality is worse than what is often believed: people don’t have distinctions between websites.

i.e. if a layman registers john@cool-website.invalid:correctStaple, and then they open another-sitename.invalid the other day, and presented with login screen, his intuition will be “john@.:correctStaple has to work”, because that’s what he “entered” yesterday.

Federated sign-in solves this by allowing users to use coherent id:password string for any login page without having to have distinctions between domains.
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The reason for title insurance in the US is that registries do not reflect the final legal status of land, merely the best available information about it. Someone could show up with a legally valid claim that was not on file.
Precision 5820, 4 Core model is a hunch based on description of computer being slower than 5 year old model. Whatever way it got configured it was money thrown into the toilet. Un-upgradeable with oem low cost parts, hard to sell and will lose value faster than ordinary 3rd party components, hard to work with enterprise oriented parts. There is nothing good about this computer if youre not a Fortune 500 company.
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I know some skinny-jeans-wearing gun-toting women, as well as gun-toting guys who not only watch soccer but play it as well.
Indeed. I have seen a study that suggested free range cows in Australian grasslands were even less CO2 intensive per calorie than grains and also made use of land which wasn't farmable.

However such a thing can't really scale because of the large area required.
The ones I'm referring to always provide both their rationale and their sources for their verdict. It's trivial to verify in most cases.

> Nobody - because fact-checking [of the type under discussion] is essentially an infotainment service, and people providing those services don't wish to draw attention to their competitors.

You are basically suggesting that no one has an interest in disproving something on the internet, which is probably the second thing people engaged with after porn.
I don't know for sure, but there are certain things I notice which I think may have been improved when I started keeping track of CO2 and keeping my windows open. (I don't spend most of my time outside and I certainly don't sleep outside; outside levels might be 450 but inside levels even with my mitigations are usually around 700)

Like so many things I think it is a small effect; it's not like I can go anywhere for a week to experience 300ppm air.

I haven't gone to the levels of designing experiments and data tracking on myself. The fact that I've lived with allergies and a broken nose most of my life probably hasn't helped my personal respiration characteristics.
> It'd be like going in and saying that someone could reprogram the red light camera to superfluously give out tickets and record incorrect data.

Over here a guy got a speeding camera fine thrown out because the authority running the cameras couldn't prove the MD5 hash they were using was adequate to verify the evidence.

I can't quickly find a detailed explanation, but here's a reference: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/08/the_md5_defen...

If my memory serves, the actual argument was that the MD5 hash was only covering the photograph, and that the speed/date/time stamps weren't included in the hashed data and therefore _could_ have been tampered with.
It's funny until you meet such people.

Actual conversation that went on in my room at a summer camp two decades ago:

-At what age did you try vodka for the first time?

-Ten.

-Yes, ten appears to be a good age to have this experience.

A preteen alcoholic is a sad sight, believe me.
That's among the reasons why I actually dislike ePub and prefer to convert (which involves pandoc/calibre + some hand-written scripting and hand-editing) epub to FB2 (which I love, it only has some minor imperfections). FB2 is a well-structured straightforward single-file XML designed with data-presentation separation in mind.