skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that laws are the right way to deal with this - there will always be another vulnerability for bad actors to exploit; technical solutions are not the answer unless you want to move your smartphone at the pace and rigor of the Apollo program - but I three real challenges here:

1. If NSO enjoy the tacit support of the Israeli government, then they are effectively judgement proof, no different to crimeware businesses that enjoy the tacit support of the Russian government.

2. Major Western governments such as the US will support the Israeli government for "bigger picture" reasons, and potentially implicitly the NSO. Particularly if the NSO are "only" facilitating the torture and murder of journalists who upset the Saudi government. So again, whatever national laws or international agreements may be in place don't really matter. Much as you'll never see a Blackwater mercenary in front of the war crimes tribunal in the Hague, you'll never see the NSO charged anywhere.

3. More broadly, there have been solid international frameworks for cracking down on, for example, money laundering. The AMLAT treaties are quite effective for money laundering, not so much for finance of terrorism. No nation outside of Canada has designated ISIS-like organisations as terrorists, subject to finance controls, for example. Trying to get an effective, multilateral agreement on how to handle tools that many governments want cheap access to in order to attack their enemies will be quite the challenge.
I switched from visiting Reddit from the web/phone client
to a Gopher proxy with Lynx (in order to view the submitted sites in the posts):

gopher://gopherddit.com

Also, my NNTP list:

alt.ascii-art

alt.folklore.computers

alt.os.linux.slackware

alt.sys.pdp10

comp.infosystems.gopher

comp.lang.forth

comp.lang.perl

comp.lang.perl.announce

comp.lang.perl.faq

comp.lang.perl.misc

comp.lang.perl.moderated

comp.lang.perl.modules

comp.lang.perl.tk

comp.lang.postscript

comp.misc

comp.unix.programmer

comp.unix.shell

fj.life.in-japan

rec.arts.int-fiction

rec.radio.amateur.dx

rec.radio.amateur.moderated

rec.radio.amateur.space

rec.radio.shortwave

Sometimes I interact over NNTP on https://synchro.net (they have a web/BBS interface too). As the pace is much slower, I can comment once or twice a week and everything is still good.

Finally, Gopher and Gemini sites. A really slow pace, no ads, no likes, no bullshit.
Disclaimer: I've not specialised in media history, though I've been exploring it for a few years.

You can find clear bias through sources such as I.F. Stone (active 1950s -- 1970s), or George Seldes (1930s -- 1960s, lived to 1995). Earlier muckrakers included Upton Sinclair (The Jungle and It Can't Happen Here, 1910s -- 1950s), Ida M. Tarbell (The History of Standard Oil, 1890s -- 1920s), and Lincoln Steffans and Ray Stannard Baker (both late 19th century / early 20th).

There's a phenomenal interview with Stone from 1974 on ... Public Television's ... "Day at Night" programme: https://youtube.com/watch?v=qV3gO3zxQ1g

I've commented numerous times recommending Hamilton Holt's Commercialism and Journalism (1909), a short book highlighting the influence of advertising on media. It's short, readable, fact-filled, and available at the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/commercialismjou00holtuoft

Walter Lippmann's Public Opinion (1922) largely established the model for the "impartial press" (so called, only partially successful as such) during the bulk of the 20th century. It was based in significant part on Lippmann's own experience with failures of the news media in reporting accurately on the Russian Revolution of 1917--23.

https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.126489/page/n1...

Other authors I'd recommend would be Ed Herman and Noam Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent (the title itself is a reference to Lippmann's work), Robert W. McChesney's many books on media, Ben H. Bagdikian, The Media Monopoly (cited in the famouse Google "Backrub" paper (http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html), Neil Postman's Amusing Ourself to Death, and Edward Jay Espstein, News from Nowhere (https://archive.org/details/newsfromnowheret00epst).

The last looks at television news as of 1971, including the numerous biases built in to the medium through narrative focus, budget constraints, and technological limitations, as well as the pace and scale of operations. Not all of those still apply, though some do, but it does remain a persuasive argument of how even incidental characteristics can profoundly influence a medium.

For contemporaneous criticisms of television, see Edward J. Murrow's "Lights and Wires in a Box" speech, and Newton Minnow's "Vast Wasteland" speech, from the late 1950s / early 1960s.

https://www.rtdna.org/content/edward_r_murrow_s_1958_wires_l...

http://www.janda.org/b20/News%20articles/vastwastland.htm

I've compiled a few further references concerning media generally in a "light reading list": https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/7k7l4m/media_a...
Combine this with UBI and a monitoring collar (cellphone). Running a society becomes ridiculously easy. Simcity.

It might not be a free society per se, but it might be a very happy one.

(I'm getting that friendly "you are posting too much, wait an unspecified period of time before we'll allow you to post again." thing. It discourages trolls but it also enforces mediocrity and conformity. Just saying.)
You can find brand new sealed ones on ebay... Just sold one for about $450
> IMO, what holds it back is a lack of a top notch IDE

I hear good things about Lispworks[1][2], but personally I'm put off by non-free development tools. Especially ones with a 3-4 digit price tag. However, their business model evidently works for them.

[1] http://www.lispworks.com/products/lispworks.html

[2] https://lisp-journey.gitlab.io/blog/discovering-the-lispwork...
And, even then, unless I am on-call there should be no expectation that I am always available even during work hours.
I think this subthread assumes FB is politically neutral. I don’t think that’s a good assumption.
Open-Ended Learning Leads to Generally Capable Agents
No, it's not. While our accomplishments can be impressive, the likelihood of lab grown food being not quite identical to naturally grown is too high for me to risk it. It's only my health we are talking about.
Yes, what you are missing is that usually you are using an editor like emacs where you can modify a specific form and send it to the repl. That way there is no chasing back through repl history for a form to paste back into a file.
It's a sad irony that we rely on a Windows userland to get games that work for more than a few years on a Linux distro.
The coercive forces are beneath discussion because we're all addicted anyway?

I dunno man. That sounds weird.
In a little over 100 years we've gone from the first powered flight to flying a helicopter on Mars. We might not be mining asteroids in 5 years but it isn't unreasonable to think it could happen in our lifetimes.
True. If it's not the deer (rural, suburban), it's the rats (urban).

Container gardening on a (south-facing) high rise balcony works pretty well, though.
Svelte is very new (a year and half of meaningful adoption).

React, Angular, Vue.js are the most popular, in that order.

I hate to say might=right, but for a project like Wikimedia, choosing a mature, popular framework is important.
I’ve dealt with this before, I routinely break my social graphs. New email address, dont link a phone number or not one that youve ever given to anybody.

The trick is, on the first session upload a profile photo or two or three, and actually friend a few people.

YMMV
How naive, Do you think these dictators represent their people? Even the simple semantics can't make that allowance. These dictators are the reason Israel is protected, and both Israel and America spend billions plus to ensure they remain in power. This elusive enmity, that can spring back in eyeblink, is created by Israel, it was not there for thousands of year. In fact, if it was not for Muslims there won't be Jews today. Zinosts know that and they know how to manuveur Americans, who else can explain this better than Netanyahu himself:

https://twitter.com/trtworld/status/1398806365078962178

Quickly read it because I have gut feeling my freedom of speech is going to get revoked soon.

https://twitter.com/Farid_0v/status/1393786856916062209
everyone pays for Facebook with their data. In fact, people not even on Facebook pay for Facebook with their data
Taking milk from a cow is in no way like picking an apple. Apples are intended to be eaten by any species that wants to, as a kind of quid pro quo for spreading the seeds. Cow milk is for baby cows only. Humans keep cows lactating by forcibly impregnating them, and then taking the resulting calf away. Much suffering is involved, physical and emotional.
There is a very practical reason: Starlink. Launching all those Starlink sats on Falcon 9 must be much more expensive than they would like, and Starship aims to provide a considerably higher payload capacity with much lower cost (if the re-usability plans work out).

Apart from that, Musk is great at marketing and sometimes full of crap, but when you listen to some of his converstions it's not hard to believe that the Mars mission is earnestly what drives him.
The faq answers this [1]. The issue is that GNSS vendors and standards need to clean up their act before you can do this reliably across different receivers.

[1] https://gpsd.gitlab.io/gpsd/faq.html#why_not_parse_nmea
I love the "invasive species" analogy, but it's just colorful BS.

> This follows two decades in which Walmart’s super-charged growth left small-town retail in shambles. By building massive, oversized supercenters in larger towns, Walmart found it could attract customers from a wide radius. Smaller towns in the vicinity often suffered the brunt of its impact as their Main Street retailers weakened and, in many cases, closed.
> Today the dollar chains are capitalizing on these conditions, much like an invasive species advancing on a compromised ecosystem.

Shouldn't it be harder to open a dollar store now that there's both an independent grocer and a Walmart? Who knows? Without facts, it's just whatever narrative supports the author's worldview.

I do believe in food deserts. But the simpler explanation is that fresh produce is more expensive than processed food, and stores specializing in expensive things don't do well in poor areas.
This - the idea that it's OK to dehumanize people as long as they themselves dehumanize others (by not listening to them?) - also sounds like an excuse that would work for almost any kind of dehumanization.
> in the US people are OK with giving their password to Plaid?

They absolutely shouldn't be.

There are/were services like that here too, but what trust (or usefulness to be honest) they had will/has erode/d as a consequence.

Also you don't have to be a literal bank, the better (/with enough of an EU/UK focus) services like that will just offer the proper authentication method instead, now (since 2016 I think?) that it's available.
> What creatures would form under an intense magnetic field? In methane? In close orbit around a dim star? In a hot cloud nebula?

Before the question of what you have the question of if.

Then you have the question of continuous constraints. Sensitive dependence on initial conditions still has to operate in a constraint space, and maybe constraints for complex adaptive living systems are much tighter to begin with. Tornados are also sensitive to initial conditions, they are even self organizing, but they are not living beings for example.

Imagination is fine when you’re not burdened by starting a working system from first principles. Conceivable sounds probable when you know less about the constraints.
I once saw a setup with a whole rack laid down on its back in a tub of mineral oil, like you describe. You could slide individual servers up and set them on the top of the enclosure, letting them drip down into the tub. Kind of messy, but not unreasonably so. (This was setup at SC'09 in Portland. I'm impressed that someone went to the trouble to set this thing up just for a few days of a conference.) The oil was actively pumped through a radiator with a fan.

Part of the whole point of the system is that, since oil is a better coolant than air, they can run the whole system at a higher ambient temperature, like 80 or 90 degrees F instead of 70-ish. That could reduce energy costs quite a bit.

I'm not sure if the oil goes bad eventually and has to be replaced; I could see that being expensive if there isn't a simple way to clean/recycle/reprocess it back into usable oil.
Interesting, did not know that they could ban people for that. I did exactly this and haven't had an issue yet. Maybe because I've purchased games through their store. Fingers crossed.
The "reverse a binary tree" problem gets often brought up as one of these tricky algorithm problems that you just have to know. However, the "algorithm" is to just swap all of the left pointers with the right pointers in each node.

The biggest difficulty for most seems to be that they don't know what "reverse a binary tree" actually means. It sounds kind of mathy and opaque, so I get it, but candidates should be able to have a dialog to figure out what the requirements mean. And on the flipside interviewers should be ready to have that dialog and not count not knowing the term by heart against the candidate.

This problem to me feels qualitatively different than the "rabbit and hare" algorithm for finding a loop in a linked list mentioned by another poster. That one needs a non-trivial algorithmic insight that just might not come to you during an interview. The solution to "reverse a binary tree" flows out of the structure of the problem statement as long as you have the fundamental skills for walking and manipulating data structures and the conversational skills to understand the problem, both of which seem fair to test for.
Because lockdowns are detrimental to society (mental health, division, etc). Why can't we take a level headed approach. It seems like our approaches don't take into any consideration past experiences with similar viruses, or leverage data. We have a lot more data this time around.
> Go ahead and start "fixing earth" then, you're free to do so if you think it is "sexy".

I don't think it's sexy, at all. It's hard work, but it's also necessary.

> "colony run by a dictator"

A space colony is a pretty harsh environment. I'd be that it'll tend toward harsh, centralized leadership sooner rather than later, but, you know, maybe I'm wrong on that. In my defense, the things that make democracy possible -- plentiful resources, some level of societal trust, public safety -- are not going to be plentiful on Mars.

> Humankind needs a frontier to strive towards, this has always been the case and will probably remain so.

Agreed.

> There used to be many frontiers but technology has developed as such a rapid pace that they're starting to become quite rare.

Disagree. It is still the case that every question we answer in science leads to two more. Now, granted, not everyone needs/wants/can be a scientist.

> As said, feel free to "fix the Earth" but may I suggest framing this in a more positive and inspiring way?

Yeah, I probably should've, that would've probably been more convincing.
I don't trust the results of anonymous online surveys, nor should you. It's amazing that any organization purporting to be journalistic would report such results, but those are the times we live in, I guess.

Anyway, my comment was about base rates of harassment received by anyone saying anything critical of anyone else: they are high, no matter who you are and what you are saying. It's not right, but it's not limited to women.
That is true. It's really hard to find news in MSM about this stuff though. I had to get to page 3 on google (tried ddg first!) results to bypass defense news type sites as most people would just poo-poo those. Things haven't been looking so good. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/china-s-g...

Japan takes a stance: https://www.npr.org/2021/07/26/1020866539/japans-position-on...

Issues in Philippines: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-56474847

Things have been heating up in the region, for the last few years especially, and generally not trending in a direction I think most of the world wants to see. I don't think the scenario I proposed is that far fetched, and the probability is continually trending is a bad direction. China is a rising super power and by most accounts will rival/surpass the US in many ways, very soon. Within a decade.

One way to accelerate that is to throw a monkey wrench in the world economy while you are largely insulated from the results. At least more insulated than your competitors are. I wouldn't even say that hitting a few Samsung fabs in the process was out of the question. It's not like the response will be much worse than if they didn't touch Samsung and only took Taiwan. Might as well?

I hate thinking this way and I could very well be wrong in any or all of my arm-chair analysis. I absolutely hope so. China's stance on reuniting Taiwan back with the mainland has been growing as Taiwan's power has been growing.

> BEIJING/TAIPEI (Reuters) -Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged on Thursday to complete "reunification" with self-ruled Taiwan and vowed to "smash" any attempts at formal independence, drawing a stern rebuke from Taipei, which lambasted the Communist Party as a dictatorship.

> China, which considers democratically-ruled Taiwan its own territory, has stepped up efforts under Xi to assert its sovereignty claims, including regular flights by fighter jets and bombers close to the island.

> "Solving the Taiwan question and realising the complete reunification of the motherland are the unswerving historical tasks of the Chinese Communist Party and the common aspiration of all Chinese people," Xi said in a speech on the 100th birthday of the ruling Communist Party.

> "All sons and daughters of China, including compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, must work together and move forward in solidarity, resolutely smashing any 'Taiwan independence' plots."

https://news.yahoo.com/chinas-xi-pledges-reunification-taiwa...
> Creating a separate account just for using the hardware is not only expressly forbidden, but can result in you being locked out of your device:

I'm not one to defend Facebook, but what you've said is just not true. That only happened to a handful of people at the very beginning and was likely a moderation bug. People aren't getting banned for having burner accounts.
I once used a parse expression grammar in a MongoDB load testing and cache warming program I wrote for a major migration project. We had limited hardware and ridiculous access patterns on the dbs; after the first painstakingly planned migration had a 1 minute degradation immediately after cutover, we decided we needed to pre-warm the new instance. MongoDB has a function to load indices into memory caches, except our indices were too big and the memory too small. This also didn't warm Linux page caches the same way. Using a PEG parser I wrote a golang program to tail for find queries from the old instance and make identical queries against the new instance.

This worked very well and I was able to tweak the PEG pretty easily. This article was a great read and reminded me that PEG is great. I'd love to do that again, it was fun and I could really use another PEG.
The kind of app that has 60k LOC, dozen of pages, makes 15 fetches per page (e.g. a report with 5 charts and 3 series per chart), reuse data between pages to avoid remaking the same fetches, have 1 or 2 forms synchronized between every page (like dates and selects filters), save the filters into the URL query params to be able to share the report and restore it when you open/refresh the app, and so on.

You end up with code like this at the bottom of your files

myCustomHOC1(
myCustomHOC2(
withRouter(
reduxForm({ form: 'filters', initialValues, destroyOnUnmount: false })(
connect(mapStateToProps, mapActionsToProps)(MyComponent)
)
)
)
)

Although it's probably not that common anymore (as OC said, practices changed), it was a common pattern a few years ago.

In the new project I started last week, I'm using only hooks/context and a few libraries like react-router (useHistory, useParams), react-query (useQuery, useMutation), react-hooks-form (useForm)… and it has been a breath of fresh air. react-query is definitely another "big shift", it completely changed the way I used to think about fetching data and centralize it. It's very good, I highly recommend to try it.
Reminds me of the "Karen" meme [0] that ridiculed the behavior of "speaking to the person in charge" when dealing with blankfaces blindly applying policies. The meme has become a weapon to make fun of anyone questioning the blankface's authority.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-53588201
This is a really interesting project/opportunity. Does the trapped CO2 become permanently trapped? And how do you guys envision “integrating” into the existing processes to offer them the solution? Is it a fairly heavy lift?
As a parent I've flip flopped between leaving my phone in the bed room / office during the day to flipping through TikTok while my kids crawl over me because my brain is so fried and all it wants is some dopamine hits to help get through that day.

Thankfully, crawling out of the first year of our second child and sleep, routine, etc. is all getting easier (not being in COVID lockdown helps too) and I'm finding it more common for myself to leave my phone in the bedroom while I enjoy my day with the kids.

I've also realized that the sole reason I bring my phone to the kid's park is in case I need to contact my wife, or vice versa. I've been tempted to get a smart watch w/ cellular just so I have less bulk to carry around, but a "dumb" phone may be just as sufficient ...
I used oops to help someone I knew several months back. It still exists and worked amazingly well.
> Just as data point and prospective Apple spend more TDP budget on its mobile CPU core than any current ARM Server CPU core.

Are you talking TDP per core? Because there are many ARM server processors with much higher total TDP than Apple's A/M series processors. Even per core, I find it hard to believe that's true for even most ARM server chips, let alone all, given the total TDP of an M1 (10-15W, 4/4 big.LITTLE cores) or an A14 (6W, 2/4 big.LITTLE cores) chip.
The relevant experts - virologists, epidemiologists, etc. - neither believed nor claimed that we were on a path to the elimination of the outbreak. They've consistently stated that the virus will be around for at least years, probably decades, possibly forever.
> Any suggestions for what to try next?

I'm in the same boat as you -- a Firefox user (and evangelist) from the beforetimes. But Firefox stopped meeting my needs when the revamp occurred.

I haven't really found a modern browser that is acceptable, though, but it's not for lack of looking. In the meantime, I stick with an older release of Waterfox.
I'm not a rocket scientist, but my understanding is that efficiency is derived from the exit velocity of matter from the engine. So the faster it can fire matter in the opposite direction the more efficient it is. There are some other factors as well like bell shape, which are generally designed to provide better efficiencies at different atmospheric pressures (ranging from sea level to vacuum of space). The main consideration after these factors is the mass of the engines. If multiple engines and one giant engine had all of these same factors equal, then I don't think there would be much difference in the efficiency of the rocket. Likely though, there are differences and other advantages to multiple small engines. The easiest one for me to think of is modularity. If you want a specific thrust for a payload it's much easier to add more small engines together than to try and throttle down the large engine to the correct amount, if that is possible at all.