skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a Googler, this sounds a little over-sensationalized to me (mostly because of the choice of quotes), but I bet there was some unpleasant sausage-making going on as well.

First of all, the quote from Jack Menzel about figuring out home and work locations sounds 1) about typical for him and 2) exactly correct. If Google is giving you directions and popping up traffic along your route between home and work every day, it's pretty clear what's going on. There's nothing weird or unexpected going on there.

Second, the settings thing. I see this as two issues: one, multiple settings, and two, making the settings hard to find. For the first, both search and maps had their own settings (web whatever vs location/location history), and they didn't talk to each other. I'm sure the relevant VPs talked about relevant VP-things, which probably did not include the config page. Both were sure they had an option to turn location off (for their project), so that box was checked, and done. Yes, someone should have made sure there was a single button, not three, but the org chart was shipped instead.

The hard-to-find thing is harder. I, as a regular schlub engineer, think that sounds pretty sleazy, but I have no idea how true it is. If someone's A/B test said, oh user engagement was down on this arm, I can see that happening. It'd be a failure, but I can see that happening.

I guess at my level, it seems like all the people I'm working with take user privacy really seriously. If someone wants their data deleted, we go through a lot of hoops to make sure it's really gone. Any feature using user-data gets a privacy review and usually ends up requiring pretty strict differential privacy bounds.

This is a little unfair and possibly just ignorant, but my impression is that Google is far better at protecting user location info than the telecoms, who have more complete data from cell-tower triangulation and who are generally willing to sell that data to whoever, and yet they get a lot less attention for it.
I find a useful indicator is to look at factory out of warranty repair pricing.
Sort of a guilty secret but I used to save POC work for right after a company talk or party and a few beers. I could spew out a few hundred lines of code that was a bit messy but was got the job done. I’d go over it and clean it all up the next morning. Almost always an incredibly productive exercise for me but ymmv.
This isn't right. After turn 1, player 2 has say $200 worth of assets (depending on what they buy). They can mortgage that for $100. Then they need to pay 10% income tax on their assets ($20). No problem.
> Shi and the Wuhan Institute of technology.
Doesn't seem likely they'll voluntarily

Shi and WIT are not related to WIV, are they? This could be independent and without explicit consent of WIV?
> no way to dispute a buyer's return

This is another hidden benefit of shopping on Amazon: they see my (egregiously long) shopping history. I'm sure they have some risk profile on me that suggests I'm not buying and returning a bunch of stuff to rip off sellers.

If I say something some pack of kids underwear is the wrong size, or a $15 LED light didn't arrive, or a pair of boots needs to get exchanged, it's dealt with in maybe 60 seconds of clicking on their site.
The current set of paid users are sufficient to break-even on the infrastructure costs.

As for personnel costs, a few more hundred paying users and we'll be set. Feedback from existing users have been positive, and we should be able to reach that point by end of the year.

It helps that we're living in one of the cheaper parts of the globe, and are not motivated by money. We're building this because an easy to use, privacy friendly alternative needs to exist.
As an employer, many of these are a hassle that we’d rather just not deal with when there’s still great candidates from 49 other states we can choose from.
The worst thing is it is a knock-out format, which is inherently anti-social.
You're assuming citizens have any say on matters of real importance. A strong assumption nowaday may I say.
That's what I did. The 6 copies of office + 6x1tb cloud storage is hard to beat, especially if your employer is part of the HUP or you get it at a good discount otherwise.

I looked into other services but nobody seemed to compete, especially since I needed ~250gb minimum.
Also someone you trust to intercede if things go wrong. Who knows what happens when I buy from some site I've never heard of and don't get my stuff or have problems with it. I prefer to deal with large, well-known sites for this reason.
Fwiw insurance is covering my compounded Ketamine nasal spray 50%. Ends up being $30 for 1.2 grams (100mg/1mL).

AMA, I guess. It was prescribed to me primarily for nerve pain.
Punishing employers for trying to hire people is a bad strategy.
These are the ones that are really annoying because the cost difference is so minimal between the cheap junk and the good quality stuff, and most of the cost is the installation.
Because most competitors are much more than $2/mo.
A truck bomb would do barely anything to those except perhaps crack the ones immediately next to the epicenter. Local cleanup would be required, but nuclear waste containers have been generally over-engineered with things like that in mind.

The famous video of a train versus one of the transportation casks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY446h4pZdc
It’s only harmful because the people who privately compensate drastically differently on their private whims have the power to just move that pay around geographically. This protection would be much more effective if it wasn’t exploitable by capital mobility.
My father started his self-hosting journey with a similar need. He went with Piwigo (https://piwigo.org/) that seems to fit his requirements.

Not sure I would personally pick that (PHP, documentation misaligned with my concerns...), but it may match others' criteria.
Media interactions of stars is part of generating and maintaining that appeal.

Maybe it shouldn't be forced. I watch sports sometimes, but I have never cared to sit and watch hour long interviews, especially those just after the match. It is not interesting to me, it is just media circus.

Then we have manufactured drama in these "events", UFC and Conor come to mind. He is asked shit questions, he gives shit answers (mostly just insults) etc etc. The whole thing is just disgusting. If this is what entertainment is, then maybe we should rethink our standards.

As a fan, I just want to watch a good match, see the better player/team of the day win, and thats just about it.
If I was shotgunning? Absolutely. I don't know which end of that range I'm going to end up in, but unless 250k is too low for some reason, it's at worst basically the same information I had without the salary range.
Mathematical brain model may pave the way for more human-like AI
Obviously HN commenters like us are going to think that. Honestly, I bet even YouTube commenters would say the same about their own community.
Basically, 99% of everyone reading this, their laptop is this but wrapped up.

Nobody "needs" a solid aluminium billet NMC ground down to high tolerance shape mac). The ThinkPad experience, is defined as a sell-job on "you need this"
I think the OP's broader point is that these come at a non-zero cost. Just like any number of safety mandates it's about balancing value.
The irony is NYT ran an article chastising Amazon for the very thing they also engage in.

I recently had to call NYT to cancel my membership. The person on the other side ran me through a script, and each time I told them I didn’t want their counter offers. It was annoying.

To be honest here, I canceled my NYT subscription because of the very subtle yet obvious propaganda laced in their articles on a recent news event. They present themselves as honest reporters, when in reality there’s language that in a subtle manner takes a clear side and provides a distorted view of a complex situation.

The honest truth in my opinion is the NYT isn’t honest or more objective than other papers. Yet time and time again, their reporting is viewed as gospel.
Hey cool! I'm super curious to hear more about this. I _also_ wrote a pseudo-graph-database on DynamoDB (https://github.com/aplbrain/grand) :) It pretends it's a networkx.Graph, generally, but we also have a Cypher implementation on top of it.

Would love to chat more about this sometime if you were interested!
Senate Voting on $10B bailout for Blue Origin
I've been dreading the "softwareification" of weapons for quite a few years now. There's not a day that goes by that I don't think about how weapons can nowadays be readily and cheaply made with commodity parts and no special training or materials. Obviously the algorithms and software for this sort of stuff needs to be made, but it's far more accessible than expertise and equipment in for example metallurgy.

There was a video a couple of years back of a kid in Texas attaching a pistol to a drone and firing off a couple of shots. Stuff like this is not rare or inaccessible, and it's only a matter of time before it becomes widespread.
Yeah exactly. It's the vetting, not the actual entering of information.
and in 2015 it was reported Germany was helping the NSA spy on European politicians. NSA doing what the NSA does really.

https://www.theverge.com/2015/4/24/8489477/bnd-nsa-informati...
Sounds very reasonable, thank you! I could make it refresh 1/12th of the time (twice a day) and that should get me well past once a year maintenance levels. seems pretty reasonable of a product after all.

If I put something like this in my bathroom, where it could be exposed to freckles of water droplets and humidity often, how concerned do I need to be of a malfunction that could be disastrous (such as starting a fire when I'm out of the home)?
Bitcoin doesn't have associated environmental destruction right now that I know of. I assume you're referring to its energy consumption, but at the moment it's a subsidy to renewable energy, because nuclear energy and fossil fuels (except for flare gas) are too expensive to compete with super-cheap wind, geothermal, hydroelectric, and photovoltaic energy.

https://hbr.org/2021/05/how-much-energy-does-bitcoin-actuall...

Now, at some point in the future, Bitcoin might become an environmental problem; the cheapest ways to get energy have been environmentally destructive in the past, and they may be so again. Maybe in 50 years we'll have to campaign against Bitcoin miners who want to convert the mass of Jupiter into energy with their fusion reactors or black-hole clusters. But right now the only places that Bitcoin is causing environmental damage are places where some government has unwisely subsidized fossil-fuel consumption, and Bitcoin itself is what puts an end to those subsidies.
You can take a look at this repo [1]

Self-hosted

- Photoprism [2] - Feature rich server-based application for browsing, organizing and sharing your personal photo collection. The most similar to Google Photos.

- Photoview [3] - Photo gallery for self-hosted personal servers with Facial Recognition.

- Photostructure [4] - Self-hosted photo library that makes browsing and sharing a lifetime of memories delightful.

- LibrePhotos [5] - Active OwnPhotos [6] fork. Self hosted alternative to Google Photos.

- Nextcloud [7] - The open source self-hosted productivity platform that keeps you in control. It has a Photos plugin to help you organize and visualize your photos.

Third-party

- Stingle Photos [8] - Open source solution that provides strong security, privacy and encryption to backup your photos.

- Crypt.ee [9] - A private and encrypted place for all your photos, documents, notes and more.

- Ente [10] - Encrypted backups for your photos, videos and memories.

Local

- DigiKam [11] - Awesome Professional Photo Management with the Power of Open Source.

[1] https://github.com/pluja/awesome-privacy#photo-storage

[2] https://photoprism.app/

[3] https://photoview.github.io/

[4] https://photostructure.com/

[5] https://github.com/LibrePhotos/librephotos

[6] https://github.com/hooram/ownphotos

[7] https://nextcloud.com/

[8] https://stingle.org/

[9] https://crypt.ee/

[10] https://ente.io/

[11] https://www.digikam.org/
If you can hold out until 2136 approximately, there will be no more coin to mine, and the value will be substantially higher than it is now.
Milwaukee sells heated work gloves for $150 a pair and they’re real nice at -40.
The more revenue from Windows goes down the more they’re going to push stuff like this (& gather and sell user data)

I know this is what everyone says as soon as Win10 is mentioned, but if Win7 still had security updates I never would’ve “upgraded”
It’s a very addictive, ego-boosting way of thinking but is very broken. It’s like this fantasy that you could be _the one_ like Neo from the Matrix. Except that doesn’t work in real life because everyone has the same fantasy of being _the one_.

Ursula K LeGuin covered the same subject but a lot more even-handedly. The Dispossesed is a good counter to Ayn Rand.
Thanks, [this](https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-air-purifier...) was a great read from a trustworthy source.

The AP-1512HH sounds like a great buy for most cases, although if you're particularly concerned about VOCs including exhaust fumes (we are - we live in a dense city, close to a main road), the Austin Air HealthMate HM400 is probably what you want. Used by "FEMA and the Red Cross ... for deployment at Ground Zero and the surrounding areas in the aftermath of 9/11", apparently.
I mean, I am guilty of putting things off too. But my mother's birthday happens on the same date every year.
Who is "locked out" of the traditional system? The stock market seems easier to get into than ever. I always hear this as a dig of the existing structures but its starting to sound just like the other pro-crypto memes out there.

Edit: No refutation? Just downvotes? Ok then.
Go for cleanings even if you don't fix the cavities right away.
But if you care about the coefficients the first time you write the code, you are prematurely optimizing. The theory here is wiser than it intended to be :).

First draft: don't be stupid with asymptotics as PP says.

*only if there is actual problem in prod or whatever: bust out the concrete measurements.
https://theuserisdrunk.com/
That sounds like my experience with Agricola. The person who introduced it to me was very enthusiastic and friendly but I found it just a miserable experience.

That said, I play and enjoy a lot of games. Many of them are more social and lighter, and all are more directly competitive/interactive. It sounds like, while of course board games just may not be for you, it's also possible your tastes didn't match with the group you were with.

That said a lot of people tend to like games with no direct competition. These are derisively called "multiplayer solitaire", and a few times I've played some games like this by mistake and been mystified as to what's interesting about them. Recently, partly due to the pandemic, the "roll-and-write" genre, which is basically all like this, has been experiencing a burst of popularity. So a lot of people seem to enjoy it.

It's not as solitary, but Gloomhaven, the number one ranked game on BoardGameGeek, is a very expensive game with a typical session taking four hours, and by the admission of its fans a large chunk of the gameplay time is setup, teardown, and bookkeeping. I played it once and I can't imagine what anyone sees in it, but there's demand so more games like it end up on Kickstarter or whatever.

It's frustrating to see something I can't enjoy at all be the top of the industry in some ways, but the nice thing about games is they're quite diverse, so it's not that hard to find something more to my taste. I just have to keep in mind that some people have very difference preferences and that's not always communicated clearly.
In CO, Texans are the boogeyman
I get why this seems like a big deal for tech workers who feel they ought to be able to work from anywhere they please, but I don’t think that some tech companies avoiding remote work in Colorado is that big of a deal for Coloradans in general. The vast majority of jobs are still local in nature, thus this transparency law will apply to all the jobs the vast majority of people in that state are interested in / eligible for. On the whole that seems like it’s still a big win.
I don’t think this is really related. Google supports open source & they do basically the same sort of stuff. Open source at this point is just common sense. It’s more profitable than a fully proprietary model in many cases.
I'm in the market for this, albeit for different reasons. Perhaps coincidentally, right after Google announced ending their free storage their sync started acting up for me. Even though I'm a _paying_ customer. In that circumstance the usual Google lack of support becomes quite unacceptable.

For me the key feature is partner sharing. My wife and I take lots of baby photos. We see each other's photos as if we took them. This is the critical feature, and there is I think a large market for it. Even the slick ability to browse photos on the phone is nice but non-essential. Sync two people's photos reliably to a common S3 bucket, and even a janky web interface (+API) will suffice to get us to migrate. Convincing just one partner is easy.
Other countries also help the NSA spy on US citizens so that they can do it somewhat more legally
Web development is far from dying. Web3.js is as brilliant as the rise of jquery & Web 2.0.
My point is that I'd like to adopt these policies more broadly so the cost is carried by employers, not workers. They're perfectly reasonable costs, I have solidarity with my fellow worker, I want the people who should actually pay the cost to do so, not people in the state that led the way.
Could you go in to detail on the exact symptoms of this nerve pain?

Also, did you have to nudge-nudge-wink-wink at the doctor to get this prescription or did they actually believe that you had real nerve pain and that ketamine was the best treatment for it?

This is the first time I've heard of ketamine being used for nerve pain. AFAIK it's mostly used as an anesthetic during surgery.
Hmm, the author's post contains lots of tracking images/scripts.
Google is often the default search engine across many operating systems and phones. There’s no apples to apples comparison with Amazon, and before you force this false analogy, let me clarify that you’re arguing a strawman.
The Five Eyes have built a sufficiently valuable asset that the security services of other rich countries all want in.

Denmark is in Nine Eyes, so they’ll happily sell out members of Fourteen Eyes (like Germany) to get closer into the circle.
>>Always buy generic drugs, they're exactly the same.

I'm sorry to say. This is false.

This will be a bit technical but often, generic drugs are a racemic mix (both L and D conformations in some mixture) where as a branded drug may be a specific conformation or specific racemic mix (e.g. 75% L, 25% D.)

The issue comes from the fact that L-conformations may have different (better, worse, otherwise) effects than the D-conformations.

TL;DR Not all generics are the same as their branded counterparts and they might effect you differently. Caveat emptor.
Also there the Moments app by Synology that automatically backs up your photos to your NAS.

I third this recommendation.

I use the pointy clicky AWS Glacier backups app in case everything goes sideways.
I won’t pretend there isn’t big fat profit in there, but I have to think the cost has more to do with this being an IV infusion. You’re more paying for the medical care, including being under observation.
This is a decent theory. There have always been crazy conspiracies, books on the Bermuda Triangle or Ancient Aliens were bestsellers decades back.

Now that this stuff can be weaponized on internet-scales, makes sense to try to own the space before someone else does. I’d suggest they move away from known Naval testing ranges and to areas where there are environmental issues. That could be tied to “aliens worried about environment”.
The hypocrisy in employees is when they continue to reap the financial benefits of their institutions. The cliche “you can’t expect a person to know a subject if their salary depends on not knowing it.” Ignorance is not a valid excuse when they’ve clearly indicated an outspoken awareness of the problems in the org. The excuse in this case is “instituting change from within”
Good, here's hoping we reduce the number of states that push this burden on individual workers so you just do transparency by default.
But the "cost" seems to be business simply maintaining some reasonable documentation and records. Hardly a burden - since there is already a mountain of paperwork around hiring it's like this adds 2% more. Nothing. And if you're small your PEO will (likely) handle the whole thing.
Are you in Venezuela? I notice that that article is about something that was expected to happen, not a report on things that actually have happened... what's the story on the ground?
> The only adversity inheritent to the employer/employee system is the same adversity inheritent to any buyer/seller relationship.

Sure, but your choice of work far dwarfs any other of those other transactions in its magnitude (and ongoing nature).
No, I find those interviews shitty and insulting to players. There is no value add.

It is a bit different in combat sports. People like Conor have made this an art form - constantly insulting others, shit talking, talking about money etc. None of this makes any sense, or is useful to elevate sports. It is just disgusting. Just like other shit things in life, there seems to be a market for this.
Sure, just get a google takeout of your photos data, and whatever else you want backed up, and stick it in S3.
If you have a centralized corporate IT department you probably also have a maintenance contract with eg Dell. It's much faster and easier to just keep a stock of ready-to-go spare machines so you can immediately swap out any broken ones, then send those broken ones back to Dell to be repaired or replaced and returned to you to replenish your ready-to-go stock.

This is how it works on most industrial job sites - your drill breaks, you go to the locker and check out another one. When the Hilti guy comes around, he collects the broken ones and they get serviced or replaced.
It’s not forced, in the sense that if someone doesn’t want to play in that setting and receive that money, they don’t have to.

There’s no job where you get to skip the part that actually generates revenue for the business because you don’t like it.
And it bothers me that there are people who think they need to white knight for a company valued at billions of dollars when a bug causes a driver to pay money to work, yet here we are.
I don’t know when you last used PayPal but it is an incredibly convenient way to pay on vendor websites. I use it 75% of the time I do online shopping.

I would almost always prefer to click “pay with PayPal” than start some new account or fill in details on a given vendors site.

I would go so far as to say that if large enough retailers who already have storefronts were savvy enough, PayPal could make Amazon obsolete.
Well one reason is there are many many different legal jurisdictions involved that handle media distribution differently. Licensing and copyright agreements are all over the place. Most of this stuff predates the internet from what little I know, so you have the typical legal clash between the last generations rent seekers and todays.
I still wonder, what happens if other countries like China, Russia spy on other governments and are disclosed? They will be embargoed by US. But why there is nothing happens when US spying other countries? Because US does it with good manner and good intention?
I'm a white late-30's politically inactive prole with no social media accounts, a paid off house, solar panels, plug in hybrid, e-bike and large vegetable garden. None of this bullshit really concerns me.

It's all just the oligarchs fighting for who gets to momentarily sit at the top of the pile.