skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We've made laws against plenty of thing in the advertising world.

- In Australia advertising cigarettes is illegal.

- In New Zealand billboards are illegal.

- In Australia there are very strict "truth in advertising laws" and breaking them has big penalties.

If we really care enough about this issue, we could absolutely make laws preventing certain dark patterns on the web. Given it seems likely that all commerce will move online in the next decade, it starts to be more important than those old modes of advertising I mentioned above.
There are testimonials on the landing page.
The Need for a Unified Ethical Stance on Child Genital Cutting
I wonder the extent to which homeschool kids tend to develop the social and academic traits that resemble their parents. My kids were school-schooled, but the kids who were diligent, self disciplined, and academically inclined had parents who were professors and doctors -- fields that select for the same characteristics.

My kids were involved in music, which is a popular activity among homeschool families, so we got to know quite a few people that way, and socially, the kids resembled their parents. Kids with competitive parents, tended to be competitive, kids with laid back parents were laid back.
This is a hilarious thing to find on HN.
But then again, how many years have we been hacking, the wiener to bun ratio problem!
Setting aside whether FLoC is private enough, how can you say it is not more private? Today, with third party cookies, many companies have almost your entire browsing history through a combination of direct tracking and cookie matching.
With FLoC this information stays on your device, and only a summary is made available to sites.
I got 3600 dead at 1.2T. I guess there’s ways to improve on that by coming down hard on the first wave, where basically 70% of my deaths happened.

I find it hard to impose a lot of restrictions when there’s basically 10 people per day infected, but suddenly it’s 500+/day.
That isn't how antitrust works. In the US, having a monopoly is not a crime; abusing a monopoly is. The consent decree had very specific goals and requirements, you can go read about it at Wikipedia. But none of them were about shrinking their market share.

The European EC decision was different, but also was not targeting market share.
Would it make sense to use a graph DB to model file hierarchies (folders and subfolders) at scale?

(hundreds of thousands of folders)

The idea would be to use a graph DB for a first query to get the file ids in scope (all files inside a given folder and its subfolders) before running the actual SQL query, eg creation_date < foo AND file_id in [array from graph db output]
This would be a great time for these people to take a vacation and leave housing alone. It's a really shitty time to be adding stress to the situation.
> Similar arguments are being made regarding the public's access to general-purpose computing, 3D fabrication equipment, AI agents, and indeed: drugs (both psychoactive and medical). Putting this increasing number of "genies back in the bottle" is infeasible and I would argue harmful.

I’d argue that the only way to put that many genies back into their bottles is an authoritarian government, which is never worth it no matter what promises a would be tyrant makes.
Biden Weighs a Response to Ransomware Attacks
Freedom must include the freedom to make mistakes, as well as the freedom to make choises you don't understand.

Otherwise some entity will "keep you safe from yourself".
Open Insulin
Wise broke a new record on their direct listing and so did another tech giant that just hit $1TN. Not only the fastest but a first for a company founded in this century and that is what you don't see every day.

Compare that to 13 days ago, MSFT was the second company to reach $2TN [0].

But that seemed to be fine by the HN crowd to be 'interesting' enough to discuss about even though I find that unsurprising and less worthy of attention than Facebook being the first and fastest $1TN company founded in the 21st century.

Since each of their IPOs, it took AAPL and MSFT 3 decades to reach $1TN. For FB? Less than a decade.

So the news of both Apple, Microsoft [0] [1] is fine but not Facebook? [2] It seems dang doesn't understand the gravity of this milestone for a public company like Facebook.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27621539

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24210991

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27667464
Insights into Mathematics – N J Wildberger
...slow clap...

thank you for this.
https://www.jefftk.com/p/why-i-work-on-ads
In fairness, the person sending the email or the memo isn't usually the person that came up with the policy, right? Isn't that usually done by a large group?

What's the difference in just emailing HR to complain than replying to the email? In either case, can you really expect anything to happen in a large company?
Depends on the regulation. Some things should be obvious: don't collect people's contacts and then send them spam without warning. Don't collect a credit card for a free trial and then start charging it without explicit user action once the trial is over.

But you might argue that doesn't cover all or even most dark patterns, and you'd probably be right.
What if the superhuman AI thinks that humans are the cancer cells to its metaphorical body and decides to eradicate us?
It's not the music, it is the soft-core (if even) pornography. Just because "everyone is doing it" does not make it worth doing just to fit in.
the synthetic lighting method was actually used in some of the Half life 2 episodes in a kind of Normal maps ++ method (basically normal maps with built in internal shadowing) I wonder if valve still uses it, as they mentioned actually creating the source texture was fairly expensive and involved final gather type rendering a 3d scene with 3 colored lights :) (as opposed to just measuring normal vectors per pixel)

edit: https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/apps/valve/2007/SIGGR...

edit edit: https://youtu.be/1ry67uHZSS0 another fascinating use of a very similar technique
They are already on a long, steady decline in most developed countries due to their off-putting approach to politics. Raising their political profile would be unwise.

In any case, it's not as if they aren't political enough already.
Bay area is expensive for sure but such salary comparisons are always exaggerated. Housing is the only thing that makes a significant difference to the annual budget for a ~22 year old, and even a $20K salary bump is more than enough to cover the difference in rent and other basic monthly expenses. It will almost always be worth it career-wise and financially to work in silicon valley for a few years, especially at the start of your career.
Interesting -- that sounds very good. They're actually community-based schools, in a very true sense.
Unspoofable caller ID is belatedly happening with STIR/SHAKEN but in general your point stands.
What's the difference between starting a topic and hitting reply?
Nintendo's Future
Asking for a friend, Sillysaurus?
one more reason to sign your git commits
npm has been buggy for so long that it is actively driving me away from NodeJS.

I would like to wait to see if the rearchitecture for npm 7 actually allows them to test for regressions more productively, but at this point I don't know if I have the stamina to wait for my company to migrate to node 16.

Someone offers me a job doing Elixir or non-webapp stuff and I'm out. Probably permanently.
I did absolutely nothing and only had 108k deaths.
So if my code is MIT licensed it won't be included in this obvious exploit of FOSS engineers?
By that definition, professional guitarists are disfigured, constrained, narrowed. They go through painful physical changes (callouses, uncomfortable fingerings), and learned to be a guitarist to the exclusion of so much else they could have done or learned. Plus many of them don't even compose music, and just play the music of others - never providing their own musical ideas, only regurgitating the work of others.
For 1 bedroom...
And where do we draw the line? If I cut my hair can I sell it? I literally mutilated myself. Of course, hair is not a vital organ. What about a nose, then? Why not a kidney? (we've got a spare)
Why not? It just amplifies videos that are more likely to be viewed. If there are no explicit biases, then it's a free market.

Penalizing the unsavory opinions makes it not a free market.
The point of this paper is that bad stuff would exist but you'd never see it unless you explicitly seek it out. You might not even be able to search for it; you might have to paste an exact URL to get it.
It's pretty typical to have flexibility in scheduling. Some classes are mandatory for a particular grade level, the rest is prerequisite-based.

At my local school, there was an extra early bird period in the morning if you wanted to take an extra class. We could also take classes from the local community college and have them count as both high school credit and college credit (today, the high school I went to has moved and is now sharing a property line with the community college, so it makes it very easy for students to go back and forth). My niece just graduated from high school two years ago and she's pretty close to finishing her bachelor's, because she had earned a lot of college credit already. For motivated students it really works out great.
So more like competing with a PLC? It would need to go a lot further than a be a tiny PCB.

I see all sorts of cheap MCUs used by engineers in industry for non-industrial environments. I guess they're targeting this market, but considering they have been getting by with hobbyist hardware I want to know what makes this new product more valuable.
It’s not a free market because the owner of the platform is sitting on the scales. It’s hard to argue that the best videos or ideas win out when a large chunk of what’s watched next is actually controlled by the platform itself.

Honestly, that’s probably fine, but it does mean that any analysis along the lines of “the free market of ideas” is of questionable value, given that YT is heavily manipulated by YT itself.
I barely remember them. I worked for an ISP that had a dual T1 to Digex. We also had a couple to UUNet and another to MCI. Digex was cheap compared to the other two.
It looks like normal <video> tags that attempt to load webm, then mp4, then falls back on a still image. All assets are loaded from their own webserver too (also my PiHole didn't block anything.)

Perhaps you have autoplay blocked? They are set to autoplay by the looks of things.
I just tried their software and it's... uhhh, no way this is better than AE, unless (and very possible) I'm doing something wrong, this isn't baked software. I tried playing with it, it glitched out like crazy, and then eventually chrome on my M1 MBP locked up, tried again, same deal. My degree is in digital imaging technology so I was pretty curious to try it.

Edit: I just spent the last 25 minutes persisting with it, I'd say their auto tools are actually worse than AE. I guess it's a consumer product, but even then... seems like you'd be spending a lot of time for little reward, for example, it's not clear to me how I might refine this mask: https://share.getcloudapp.com/rRujBABR

Edit 2: I'm gonna be a little more generous and say I think the mask itself is pretty good, it can deal with some pretty complicated situations well, but the tooling is very remedial.
Of all the critiques I've read, this one is most arrogant. "We found this great way to cause cancer. Cell phones can't do it this way, so they must not cause cancer." Cancer may be caused, or abetted, by yet undiscovered mechanisms, and it's hubris to presume we know enough about cancer, or the human body, to say these mechanisms can't exist. Cell phones might inhibit DNA repair mechanisms, for example.
> especially advertisers

Not true. Advertisers wouldn't give a damn if they themselves wouldn't be targeted.
"Social justice" movements are also manipilative and are doing much more harm than good at this point, but companies and a lot of people keep pushing them. Should we start banning them too?
A little surprising that software managed to somehow attract this level of drama. If there's any truth at all to these latest claims then 4Chan's got some way more screwed up folks among them than I'd previously heard about.

As for Audacity, I'ma just switch to another tool or tools altogther for the time being until this whole thing calms down a bit and one of the forks takes the lead. I still have KWave, LMMS, Ardour, and a couple few other options, so it's not as if I'll be unable to edit audio when I really need to. We've always got choices in the land of FOSS. ;)

Heck, I bet Blender 3D can even do audio editing if I dig around in it's docs a little bit. I know I can use it to edit video, so composing and exporting audio alone should be totally possible too I imagine.
These social media platforms don’t act like common carriers.

It’s a fundamental necessity of the business that social media platforms be able to deliver enough good content that users want to join and engage while filtering out enough bad content that users don’t get fed up and leave.

So they implement all kinds of mechanisms designed to promote and emphasize “good” content and minimize “bad” content. It’s important to understand that “good” means good for business and “bad” means bad for business, and of course there are sometimes short-term vs long-term considerations to balance.

Mechanisms like search rank algorithms, retweets, comments, likes, content policies, moderation, flags, bans, etc.

If the government takes some of these mechanisms away from a social media platform they will (1) fundamentally change the nature of the social media platform — quite possibly breaking what made it a desirable place to share in the first place; (2) prevent these companies from making business decisions in their own business interests.

Imagine HN with no moderation, or your favorite narrow-interest subreddits full of spam and political posts with no one allowed to moderate them or ban the crap posters. It entirely defeats the purpose.

Is this really what we want?

Also, remember that platforms much more permissive than the big social media platforms exist that are accessible over the same internet, not to mention plain old web sites. So what exactly is the need to force, say Facebook or Twitter to have very permissive content policies?

I think what many people concerned with this actually want is for social media platforms to continue to moderate and filter bad content and promote good content, but they want to tell the platform what “good” and “bad” mean according to their own opinions rather than letting them determine that for themselves.
I played around with this a year or so ago. Very interesting how a mouse interface can be built with the bare minimum of functionality, just enough to be able to run a program by middle-clicking some text. I struggled to get a hello world to compile though, the error message was too terse to be helpful.

I think Modula-2 provided more of a realistic system to base real software on, whereas Oberon has been stripped to the bone to enable the whole CPU and OS to be implemented by one person. They've gone too far along the minimalism spectrum to be very useful. However it provides inspiration that an OS and user interface can be implemented from scratch.
Perhaps for games on a platform like the ZX Spectrum and MSX, but I suspect most of the CP/M targeted apps wouldn't care.
Will China Invade Taiwan?
An economic argument might be that a person buying an arm must be able to make better use of it than a person selling an arm (e.g. the buyer can pay the seller enough to incentivize it), so therefore it is more productive to society to allow the transaction.
I recently got a smart LED strip controller to put Tasmota on and found a BL602 instead of an ESP32. This chip has been a drop in replacement with the intention of lowering cost and potentially protecting against trade dispute chip issues with the US govt.
There is no magic bullet, no, but a lot of people are confused about how much less sense npm lockfiles make today than ruby lockfiles made when npm was still new.

Some of us are considerably salty about it. Especially the design-by-PR aspects of the whole thing that have resulted in confusing gyrations from one version to another.
All the major browsers already locally track the sites you visit so they can maintain your browsing history, turn links purple, etc. What FLoC adds is that it locally computes a low-cardinality anonymized summary of your browsing history, and makes it available to sites.
> Nobody wants to sell their organs. People that want to purchase organs would love your suggestion however, as it allows them to justify exploitation of the desperate under the guise of "it was their decision".

The problem is that almost any labor is unethical under certain systems. We just notice it more when it's in the extremes, like sex-work or selling an organ.

If we didn't have a situation where people could be taken such advantage of, this wouldn't be a problem. The cost of buying an organ might be very high, because no one would be forced into it.

But yes, if suddenly selling organs were legal in the US, that would be a very unfortunate thing because it would immediately be abused.
Me too! However I like spending time at home with my family even more.
Not only is that a tu quoque fallacy but it also fails to take into account that both Ceuta and Melilla are integral parts of Spain and have been since the 16th century, centuries prior to Morocco's independence from France in 1956, whereas Gibraltar, being a British Overseas Territory, is not and never has been part of the United Kingdom.
> It's not the music, it is the soft-core (if even) pornography

So, the older generations’ complaint about popular musicians since at least Elvis’ hips.
Pacific Northwest heatwave “virtually impossible” without climate change
> In New Zealand billboards are illegal.

Yeah right.

Billboards are everywhere, not sure where you got that idea.
best try was 70 deaths with the government being overthrown in Jan 2021
Why is the first question to this stuff not "maybe their policies are shit?"
The techie in me is tickled. The citizen in me is filled with dread.
Right to Repair: Message to Steve Wozniak from Louis Rothman
Your eyes are closed if you haven't noticed a massive difference between the years of Elvis and today.
I’ve used somewhere between 75 and 125 “Arduinos” over the years in various projects and a device I sell in (obviously) low volume. All of the Chinese boards have worked fine for my purposes. Are they Arduinos? No. Do they work at 10-25% of the price? Yes.
Advertising, alcohol, tobacco, meat production, online gambling, excessive daily gaming are all net harmful and yet here we are.

Just because something is (considered) harmful to society doesn’t mean that it is right of the government to use monopoly of violence to prevent individuals from it. Some things, of course, but it is not sufficient.

Lest you’re looking at a moralizing authoritarian government as a good thing.
Funny, trying to visit that page crashes my mobile Firefox browser.
Contradictions: A Sign of False Information
States sue Google over Play store
Maybe this is new, but in my 15 year career working for startups, I've only ever had monthly vesting.
a little long winded, but very interesting if Wozniak responds...and wow, referendum difficulty in NY :/ would be interesting if we had a digital ranking site for bubbling up referendums without such lobbying costs.
Your hair is constantly falling out and being replaced. Your nose and kidneys aren't. That seems like a wholly obvious line to draw.
Question: are judges expected to solve Russell's paradox?

Because a "no open source" clause presents exactly that kind of paradox. Just try and answer me this: is the ULL an Open Source license?

If the ULL is an Open Source license (perhaps because it provides all the same freedoms as one), then you can't actually use those freedoms, because of the no-open-source clause... which makes it not an Open Source license.

If the ULL is NOT an Open Source license (perhaps because of the restriction against a field of endeavor), then the no-open-source clause does not trip... which means you have all the freedoms of an Open Source license. Which makes the ULL an Open Source license.

No clue if you could use this argument in court to invalidate the no-open-source clause.
I'm currently using 'npm ci --prod', which means that they never get installed in the first place.

However it's incompatible with optionalPackages, so I'm carrying around some tertiary dependencies that are a small but noticeable fraction of the entire archive size.
Consider that people don't write scripts to work with your system, but with their system. When I see a Ruby script, I don't complain to the author and tell them to use Python instead.
ai is currently a tool, and will continue to be for the forseeable future. Even in the days of kapek was this cry that an all controlling parent machine was around the corner. When this eventually comes into existence, like all things, it will not start in a place of power with supreme intelligence, but in some academic setting with no power. So what if it escapes to "kill all humans", ignoring the fact that this would never happen because the machine would require humanity to give it purpose, it would be instantly be thwarted by ml amplified human consciousness which at that point could sufficiently manage an outbreak. As long as the tools humans make become more powerful at a rate that scales with agi, this article will simply be speculation of an impossibility, of an ai that can be created by humans that do not fully understand it.
> Do you have a source for that?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wx9Jv5uxfac

Here you go. :)
1) It’s not clear that market making is all that necessary or desirable with homes. Homes are not stock shares.

2) Zillow does more than just make a market, they’re also supposed to be facilitating transactions between buyers and sellers. The fact that they’re also a party to these same transactions is an obvious conflict of interest.
Neat game. A couple critiques:

1) no warm weather bonus in the second year?

2) maybe it would be fun to play with a fixed budget. As things stand it’s a little hard to make the trade off between money and lives
My company also does not have a 1 year cliff and it's wonderful.

I switched a few months ago from a company that did. It was a farce how my old company, at the end of the year, would say your compensation for next year is $X but part of X was paid out over the next 4 years with a 1 year cliff each year. Just one of many reasons why I left.

My current company pays out equity every 3 months and it's incredible.

The only good thing my old company did was pay every week instead of every 2 weeks. I know most companies do every 2 weeks; I was surprised at how large a difference getting paid every week vs every 2 weeks makes. Not sure why the extra week between is so impactful but it really is.
We already have fair trade, sustainable supply chains for palm oil. Legislation seeks to regulate the trade and force companies to use that supply chain instead of destroying non-renewable habitats and species. If we waited for any country to pass and enforce legislation to control its natural resources which are being exploited to the point of depletion, it would be far too late to do anything, anywhere.
Going undercover to infiltrate Chinese-American far-right networks
It is absolutely possible to counterfeit open sourced designs. Copyrights and trademarks are entirely different types of IP.
Biden Drafting Executive Order to Promote 'Right to Repair'
> an abomination, a thing beyond comprehension, a horror outside of reality, the form of existence which is shared.

I don't know if that better describes my feelings about Remote Attestation of operating system configuration, or just SystemD.
A Better Platform for Testing Circuit Boards
Spain disputes that the land the airport is on was covered by the Treaty of Utrecht.