skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I fully agree. Adding to this: I think there should be an interface/data divide. Facebook has created an entirely new market by aggregating specific data into a public space. Their only innovation is their interface; every single byte of data they collect from there is not theirs. They did not produce it, they do not own it.

The only new legislation I'd like to see enacted is for these social media and data aggregators to be split into two companies: the interface company, which would exist to serve their interface, and a data utilities company, which would exist to serve the data they don't own. This would open their data market for hacking upon, in the spirit of what you suggest and enabled by the repeal of the legislation you've outlined.

The only way towards greater freedom is to make the world freer.
Thanks. I'm legitimately quoting, but also prefer use of more specific terms like "tripled" or "fives times more expensive" etc. than common dramatic headlines words like "crushed", "slammed", "blasted", "surged".
The outrage, I hope, is that Facebook conducted research that made it aware of something negative it was doing that made it money but kept the information tight and continued acting in a harmful way because... it makes them money.

Ignorance is one thing and can be forgiven to some degree or treated as negligence. Wanton money chasing at all costs with no regard to damages you knowingly cause because, again, money, isn't forgivable.

A side effect of this is that it can create disincentives for publishing such research but let's be honest, FB as an organization would never knowingly allow such information like this to ever be published, even if the general public ignores most of everything. That's just stupid from a business perspective. It would be like cigarette makers creating their own surgeon general warning without a mandate to do so. They have every reason not to.

Research will continue because businesses understand the value of science and research even if they don't respect it. That research will only ever be used to their advantage though.
Racing Heart Alters Your Decision-Making Process
What? People sell shit for what people will pay for the shit.
It's not ridiculous but it does lead to this conclusion: That there is probably a single optimal "skateboard" type design. Manufacturers are converging on this anyway.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skateboard_(automotive_platfor...

Then the real truth that no one wants to hear, is that there is no need for so many different types of passenger vehicles.
Better link: https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/steel

Tl;dr...Meh?

It's up but historically it's not that high, it just cratered for most of the teens.
Planned obsolescence by bricking old hardware?
Where did you hear 24 hours. Sounds anecdotal. All fire crews are trained. Are you saying there are untrained firefighters? Do you think that you in your tech job are more aware of fires than a firefighter.
At what point in your life are these "countdown until you're dead" clocks useful motivators?

When you're young, the days ahead seem limitless, the prospects are wondrous. I imagine you'd shrug off any notion of urgency to "make this week count"

When you're old, every passing day feels like the walls are closing in, world is getting smaller, friends disappearing, doors closing. At this point, the time to make your weeks count has long passed, the clock only serving as a cruel reminder of your failure to achieve.
I always want to negotiate when buying a car, but I still want at least the MSRP as a reference point, and more information is better.
I don’t know about what you have seen, but a lot of of banks are not even offering new HELOCs now.
Note that you can't just cut down a tree and make lumber out of it. You have to dry it out first, which, afaik can take a long time.

I don't know about the other stuff though.
General price discovery. Not too different, but auctions would have multiple people bidding on the same unit, rather than simply the same build plan here.
"For non-programmatic usage and verification," it should be served in a human-readable manner, typically including things like formatting, and maybe even syntax coloring if you're feeling nice.

Take my `Accept: text/html` and give me my HTML-ified JSON, dangit! ;)
Didn't the big German auto manufacturers literally develop the hacks to bypass diesel emissions inspections? I'm not sure I'd hold anyone up in a pedestal on this score...
it might also attract other particles to it, growing it in size and potential to obstruct etc...
By contrast, all my readings of zen and Confucianism emphasize sincerity very strongly. Some people attribute this cultural sincerity as causing the high work quality of some Japanese companies. But I’m basing this on books, not experience
NSO employees aren't US citizens.

I wonder if Mudge has a license.
Anything, I got an honorable mention using a Leica scope. Homemade would be fine as well.
AMD: We Stand Ready to Make Arm Chips
I found this book to be extremely insightful on the process and pitfalls. Communication in writing and being specific about grading specs for various finishes was one of my big takeaways. There's a lot more to it though. Having an architect act as an independent PM may be a good idea too if you forgoe a GC.

That said, I didn't follow through yet and haven't built anything myself. Even if you do use a GC it's still a great read.

https://www.buildwise.org/review-what-your-contractor-cant-t...

Edit: I did get as far as talking to my go-to mortgage banker about construction financing, and learned that self-GC'd projects are pretty much not finance-able through traditional paths. Many of these projects end up unfinished, with the GC-owner running out of money. And with no certificate of occupancy they can't be easily sold or refinanced.
Biologically, human body is not designed to digest meat effectively. The cons of eating meat for major protein source outweighs its risks.
Studies have shown that there is a correlation between social media use and decline of mental health.

(https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4183915/)

Not only that but anyone that has used social media can say that to you, specially younger people.

Meanwhile studies show there was no correlation between violence and videogames. And except for lag you can't really find a lot of people that will tell you videogames made them violent.
(https://www.psychologicalscience.org/publications/observer/o...)
I wonder if it's less COBOL itself and more the entire architectural and design-decision stack associated with traditional COBOL software. I'd expect you might see similar concepts with Ada, except those come with security-clearance requirements too.

For example, the entire "mountains of dependencies" mindset feels relatively new. There was a time before .node_modules, Composer and Ruby Gems.

If your codebase is legitimately decades old, your dependencies are either "something we built 100%" or "something we bought/fully licensed and retain 100% control over our copy" Even if you aren't worried about a left-pad incident breaking the entire payroll system, you probably have compliance/audit mandates that are much more easily satisified by saying "here is the master disc that is untouched since the Carter administration".

I'd also expect that the mainframe/batch-processing mindsets have wildly different philosophies on reliability and performance than most consumer services. You can't get away with returning a cutesy animated gorilla and telling people to retry a $7 million B2B payment, or developing elaborate GraphQL-ready chainable APIs when your connected device is a 20-year-old fixed-function terminal with a few dozen kilobytes of working memory.

Now, I'm sure you can build to those same constraints in Python or Node or C# if you want to, but the ecosystem is not really built to support you. There's a lot more move-fast-and-break-stuff.

I've always been conceptually interested in COBOL-- I have that "born too late" mentality; I missed when "you work in the same room as THE COMPUTER" was impressive and you had to wear a labcoat. For me, the problem is how you get started in the sense of "what's the toy problems to even start grasping syntax and build flow." What's the COBOL answer to the "demo to-do list" for web technologies or the "half broken Blackjack game that doesn't actually pay correct odds" everyone wrote in interpreted BASIC in the 1980s? Are there even readily usable toy problems that play well to its strengths?
Children aren't responsible enough to.. well.. take responsibility for their actions. That is what you are arguing against.
>>Libertarians would have us believe that unregulated, free-market capitalism is somehow diametrically opposed to state capitalism. One encourages innovation; the other stifles it. What Thiel demonstrates is that unregulated, free-market capitalism is in fact closely aligned to state capitalism. Deregulation means that nothing constrains the monopoly power of the security state and nothing gets in the way of people selling it their bogus and corrupting wares

Absolutely ridiculous characterization of "unregulated, free-market capitalism" and libertarianism in general. The logical fallacies, in particular the non sequiturs linking Thiel's decisions to some imagined definition of "free market capitalism" that allows for abusive expropriations of private property to expend on wasteful security state initiatives, is particularly egregious seeing as how the author is intelligent enough to be aware of them.

This is pure bad faith ideologically motivated sophistry.

Free market capitalism simply means markets free of prohibitions on mutually voluntary interactions, including interactions that involve the exchange of money (gasp!). If you want to claim that interactions between parties with different wealth levels are inherently non-voluntary because of power/information asymmetries or some other superficially plausible but ultimately cockamanie ideological talking point, fine we can have that debate, but don't mislead the public about the plain definition of free market capitalism.

Oh and free market capitalism is not unregulated. There are foundational regulations, encapsulated in common law and that the statutes that codify it, against fraud, assault and any other violation of others' human rights. Under this governance doctrine, the courts are the parties who determine what constitutes a breach of anothers' rights, as they are the only body capable of engaging in the impartial deliberation required to do so effectively.
If I'm going to have to view ads, I'd prefer to see relevant ads instead of irrelevant. The issue is with the data collection and privacy issues around it. Not with making ads more relevant by appropriately targeting.
They aren't satellites and they haven't made it even close to orbit yet, but I recently had a chance to make it down to Boca Chica, TX recently where SpaceX is building rockets.

Granted the incredibly complex engines are built off-site and only installed at Boca Chica, but the entire facility is a gigantic dusty, oily, noisy construction site with guys in hard hats and driving lifted trucks. My kind of place, tbh.

In college I worked at a physics lab that built an instrument that was on the Cassini probe to Saturn. The amount of effort that went into the supply chain and maintaining even jellybean components under a constant nitrogen atmosphere (to prevent any oxidation) was crazy. Meanwhile, Ingenuity[0] is flying around Mars with running Linux and literally off the shelf components[1].

[0] https://mars.nasa.gov/technology/helicopter/

[1] https://www.zdnet.com/article/to-infinity-and-beyond-linux-a...
Don't forget "soared" and "plunged", used practically any day the market moves more than a hair.
related info: Uttar Pradesh elections in Feb-Mar 2022.
No, that’s not really skyrocketing if your point of reference is other volatile things (stocks, crypto currencies, etc).
> It could be hard to get a car up into the tank... connecting a winch might not be possible due to the heat, but I wonder how they get around that to tow it?

Seems like something similar in design to this would do the trick, maybe with sufficiently thick steel plating on the side:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaYN6yC4bnI
Heh, NK exists because the CCP pushed the USA back from the Chosin reservoir.
Uhh, I'm not sure where you see the word "extension" on your [1], but I don't.

Registrants can include info like file extensions with their registration, but those extensions are not registered (not by IANA, anyway).
> As a political disrupter, Thiel was a flop. Steve Bannon considered him too flaky for the serious graft of government, which is saying something. But this wasn’t really the game Thiel was in. Mainly it was just for show. What he wanted was to get close to government contracts.

[emphasis mine]

Surely the success of Palantir is a data point in favor of the thesis of the piece?
Honestly my eyes glaze over whenever someone compares spacex or it's founder to virgin galactic or blue origin or their founders. Spacex is currently working on their second generation reusable, autonomous space launch system and vehicle. Their first one is already in heavy use. The other two companies are just playgrounds for their founders to spend money on to pretend to be visionary. Elon Musk and Spacex are serious about space, the other two are not, comparing them is silly.
Few such organizations would ever antagonize law enforcement.
> In short, yeah, I'm having a hard time buying any comparison between Doom and Facebook.

That's kind of my point: The tech community can relate to Doom in the context of their own childhoods because we grew up with it. Adults can't relate to Instagram in the context of childhoods because that came after our time. So without first-hand experience, they substitute whatever feels correct, as prompted by hyperbolic articles like this one.

Every generation thinks the way they grew up was correct, while subsequent social changes are bad. There has always been moral panic about what "kids these days" are doing, from social media to video games to portable music players to watching TV and so on.

It was the exact same story with video game violence: Adults at the time didn't grow up with video games, so they assumed the worst. Politicians and news media stepped in to seed the most dramatic possible interpretations, pointing to correlations with increasing gun violence (at the time). To adults who didn't grow up with the context and saw no personal upside to the video games, heavy-handed legislation felt right.
A quick google suggests that approximately 80% of the internet runs on php. I dont think you need to worry.

Hell, use comic sans and have pineapple on pizza, too. Some folks just hate eveything.
The full title is "Competition Is For Losers: Silicon Valley Vampire".

Further reading:

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/indepth/national/how-peter-thiel-...

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/88745476/peter-thiel-is-a-n...

https://www.dia.govt.nz/diawebsite.nsf/Files/Citizenship-rel...

https://www.dia.govt.nz/diawebsite.nsf/Files/Peter-Thiel-rel...

https://www.dia.govt.nz/diawebsite.nsf/Files/Peter-Thiel-rel...

Whats interesting is that people often mention that he secretly funded a lawsuit against some low quality news website, yet in his letter to NZ asking for citizenship he stated his Founders Fund is the primary supporter of an organisation called the Committee to Protect Journalists, "a non-profit group that prmotes press freedom and defending of the rights of journalists "to report news without fear of reprisals".
They ran a child porn dark web site for two weeks:

"Playpen was a notorious darknet child pornography website that operated from August 2014 to March 2015.[1][2] The website operated through a hidden service through the Tor network which allowed users to use the website anonymously. After running the website for 6 months, the website owner Steven W. Chase was captured by the FBI. After his capture, the FBI continued to run the website for another 13 days as part of Operation Pacifier." -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playpen_(website)
> Dosage, and probably mixing -- how much do you want to trust that that ingredients are mixed so thoroughly that the little dab that gives you a human dose actually has that dose?

It’s just dosage. Unless you’re getting your horse ivermectin from sketch sources. Who’s going to trust a multiple thousand to multiple millions of dollar animal on questionable ingredients.

> If you really think you need Ivermectin, get a prescription from a doctor so you'll be getting a known dose and have medical supervision.

Hey agreed, so tell your lefty buddies to stop causing mass panic so those without medical insurance or money won’t try treating themselves.

> Or, you know, just get the vaccine and reduce your risk of a serious case of COVID by 95%+

Tell me the long term risks of the vaccine. Also show me some medical credentials since you’re recommending everybody get the vaccine.
Spend 3 months watching YouTube, you'll probably learn more tips than many contractors know. Then 3 months practicing small mock-ups - building forms, frames, stairs, windows, roofs, installing insulation, vapor barriers, sheeting, drywall. A fancy shed isn't a bad place to start.

Plan on hiring a plumber, electrician, and HVAC specialist. Probably another 3-6 months to figure out all the paperwork.
This is such a strange and wildly ignorant opinion that seems out of place here on Hacker News of all places.
> Nobody wants to do that though if they can just use Linux right?

That's kind of what I'm getting at, yeah. Sure, you could port a bunch of drivers to some new kernel and driver API, but even out-of-tree (let alone in-tree) drivers don't necessarily lend themselves to that, and the comprehensive collection of in-tree drivers makes that a hard sell.

> However, the arguments of Linux accumulating code and becoming less and less maintainable could precipitate into situations where alternatives spring up which take what they want or need out of Linux, without all the other crud.

Definitely seems like a possibility, though (to my knowledge at least) it doesn't seem like there are any projects going in that direction - I suspect because of the relative instability of the driver API (let alone the absolutely-not-stable-whatsoever ABI) and the more intertwined nature of kernelspace code compared to the userspace ABI/API.
Failure to grant a change of venue which resulted in intimidation of defenses expert witnesses (and subsequently impacted defenses ability to procure witnesses)... Disparaging the defense in the presence of the jury. Failure to sequester the jury throughout the trial. etc.
The copyright owner could sue them, not the victims of this policy.
thanks for the TLDR
Maybe prices will go negative like oil!
> File extensions exist completely outside of MIME.

Yes. I am well aware that certain software, such as Windows, MimeMagic, or Apache, do include their own lists. That is not a "registry" and in fact you will likely find that every such list is either identical to, a fork of, or incompatible with every other such list.
> Once you’ve worked with a few clients, you’ll realize that most of them aren’t as unique and special as they think they are.

Perhaps it’s just the kinds of things I work on, but I n my experience it’s mostly been the opposite: the customer is a domain expert in what they do, but not in what I do. I usually learn a lot (not by these experts’ standards, of course, but by mine) about new domains and as a result the world just looks different after each project.
My first experience with an MS-DOS virus was in the
late 1980s with the Jerusalem virus. We wanted to play Nethack during programming class (PASCAL) in the computer lab, and so brought a disk with a downloaded version (1200 baud) from home to install on the school's computers. Needless to say, someone had an infected copy, and before long it spread to most of the machines. It would cause weird things to happen like little blue rectangles to randomly appear. At that time, nobody was familiar with viruses (the computer teacher was actually a math teacher picking it up on the fly), and so the computers stayed infected for months until someone figured it out.
Reading this just gave me the sensation of turning on the Apple Macintosh (or something similar) in the school computer lab and feeling the hair on my forearm stand on end from the static.

One time we stuck aluminum foil to the CRT screen and ran a wire off of it and zapped various objects and each other with the arcs.

And of course the BWONGGG of degausing.

Cathode ray tubes, what a hoot.
Hi, I worked there for over a year and am familiar with the specific research discussed in the article.

IG is a net good because even in this specific case, it did more good than harm. The numbers in the article are all less than half. On average users self-report increased well being when they use IG, as long as they don't use it too much.

But improving things on average isn't good enough. IG also wants to improve the situation for the users who self-report being adversely affected by their IG usage. IG has added features and spent a ton on research and product improvements to improve subjective wellbeing, and have been successful in measurably improving self-reported wellbeing, reducing objective measures like bullying prevalence and negativity.
I'm sure there's a logical fallacy in here somewhere.... scratches head
> Well, yeah. For all the complexities of nutritionist meal plans and fad diets, losing weight can be achieved leveraging nothing more than a caloric deficit.

- Colon cancer
- Diverticulosis
- Ulcerative Colitis
- Ulcers
- Hormonal Imbalance

I can keep going if you want, but these are just some of the diseases that can cause obesity when a person is eating less calories than they use per day.

And given some of these are very serious and life threatening, and you’re reducing a persons problems to an easily resolved issue, kindly keep your mouth shut about obesity until you learn more about it.
idk its still almost 1.5x as expensive for a 2 by 4 at home depot
agreed, it just seems easier to make being on social media mandatory; then the kids would hate it
This is a fairly short sighted take. If SpaceX is able to commercialize space we could shift a lot of things that are traditionally difficult to off Earth even if you intend to remain here. For example, space provides a good method to pull a vacuum, run higher efficiency energy collection (solar/photo synthesis), or release byproducts of toxic manufacturing. Possibilities are very expansive. If we think of it this way: We will release X amount of CO2 to get a permanent space base which will save us an ongoing Y amount of CO2 forever in the production of some goods.

This is also assuming that there's no value in small, safe, steps on a path to socially acceptable space travel. Right now there's a perception of a lot of risk in going to space which is valid. If technology becomes safer over night no one will know it is safer. These incremental "we can launch", "we can reuse", "we can send a person", "we can send 4 people", etc messages are broadcasting to people that we can do this and that we are doing it. It's no longer science fiction.
I legitimately didn't know there were newer versions than 8. I haven't been following the Java space very closely, so I kinda did a double-take when I saw "Java 17" lol.
Government won't kill it. It's perfect for the cashless society they want to bring in, they're the ones behind it.
That was so annoying! It was all I wanted to know.
Let's hope copper follows suit. I need to buy some heavy gauge wire.
That doesn't make it an illusion. Yes if they circumstances are different the house will have a different value.
Samsung Internet is actually surprisingly good. Highly performant, and a plethora built in adblockers (sadly not Origin).

Night mode works across all sites, it clearly was written by a team enthusiastic about their jobs.
I don't know why I couldn't reply before but I can now, but I just wanted to say I appreciate your viewpoint and I apologize if I seemed hostile.