skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Geographically speaking (and population-wise in the aggregate), most of Texas has been inhospitable to liberals and progressives since it was first settled by whites. The cities are still chock full of liberals, though, where they have significant political power.

There's a long game to be played here: as more progressives arrive (and as conservatives "see the light"), eventually the balance will change to tip the state blue. Conservatives see the writing on the wall, too, which is why they're resorting to ever-more-desperate tactics.

The losing side of the war is always the one who fights the craziest before the final defeat.
News flash: Facebook is a corrupt company, and anyone working there is morally bankrupt. Duh.
This is reductionist nonsense. I can easily imagine scenarios where Apple disagrees with China treats its oppressed citizens, but chooses not to speak out against them.
I’m sure he has exceeded this by now. If you can afford to keep genius around then you should.

It’s hard to get familiar with engineers at Amazon. They have spokes persons who release things written by others and their external contribution process is difficult at best.

It isn’t a surprise people think he is a nobody. I still remember him after five years.
I can confirm the first part from my own experience. I ported one of my other apps to Windows (native, had to learn C# and UWP). The Windows revenue unfortunately is way, way less than Mac/iOS.
> In Africa, while there was a lot of colonization, in most places the indigenous people were not displaced (and replaced) to the extent that they were in Europe, Australia, or the Americas, so whoever built this map has probably not spent as much time documenting them.

The Arab conquests of North Africa would like to question this.
Lobbying the government of Texas to get rid of bad policy is part of doing their one thing well, convincing people all over the palace to but iPhones.

Mind you, representatives choose their voters to ensure that they will win elections. The power has been removed from voters hands via gerrymandering
Within some constraints you can put whatever you want in your corporation's bylaws when you found it, including a directive not to make a profit should you so choose.
Why would you not want to block slave adverts? Absolutist approach to freedom of speech?
But there's no strong evidence it actually saves energy.
The thing is that this isn't companies influencing state law. This is companies deciding who and where they do business. In many cases valued employees are going to quit and join a company not in Texas if their employer does not give them the option of transferring to a non-Texas office, so the company has a vested economic interest in retaining them and locating their offices in some place where this will not be an issue.

You have every right to be an asshole, but you don't have a right to make other people put up with it. If you're going to enact something that a large swath of your population finds deeply offensive, don't be surprised if they leave, and don't be surprised if the economic activity they generate leaves with them.
Which operating system doesn't have this attack vector? Is there one that somehow doesn't have a supply chain?
One point I think a lot of people are missing here: it's not likely that Zuckerberg would have paid anything out of his own pocket even if he had been sued individually. Generally most large companies agree to indemnify and defend their executives against any civil liability stemming from their position with the company.
I'm looking for a cool domain name to buy.. If you have one DM
I think my bar for learning a language is being able to fit in socially without being "that guy who only speaks English/broken [insert language]". I'm sure I could learn barebones German in a short while, but feeling shut out of social activity because I don't speak with fluency doesn't sound like a fun.
Much like anti-virus software.

What is BE?
Thanks for the kind words! Re: attention to detail: nobody has discovered the easter eggs yet!
Kant's critiqe of pure reason was what the title suggests actually, he also argued that logic (i.e pure reason), cannot hammer out ethics (what one ought to do) nor metaphysics (what ultimately is). It's only practical reason which can determine morality, i.e. his point of departure for his ethical theory is the acting being, not pure logic.
>What you're really saying, though, is that you'd rather everyone live (or die, as the case will be for a lot of people) on a 1 degree warmer Earth.

What a weird thing to say, when there is an order of magnitude more people dying from cold than from heat today. You seem to be the one wanting people to suffer and die.
Isn't the question why was it 50x? I agree that there's definitely a value prop here where it's worth upfront money to avoid potential damage (moral caveats aside lol). But it seems unlikely that the FCC was like "100 million and we depose Zuck, or 5 BILLION and we let it go", which feels borderline blackmail-y. Why did FB propose 50x as opposed to some smaller number as part of the proposed deal?
I think that Matt Levine ( https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/authors/ARbTQlRLRjE/matthe... ) some time ago mentioned a similar case?

A CEO being as well a shareholder of the company wears 2 hats => as CEO he has to act in the best interest of the company (which includes all shareholders?) => a conflict with remaining shareholders arises if he as CEO acted for his own personal benefit? Something like this? I think that Matt Levine's conclusion was open, but I'm not sure... .
I think the real story here is that the browser has really become the OS. But whereas before we left all decisions up to the users about what they could install and trust, and they trusted the dev to not do anything nefarious, the browser makers realized that users are a bad judge of character and devs cannot be trusted to be honest. So the browsers created a complex api access process to protect users from bad actors.

To move this sort of paradigm back into OS would require a wholesale re-write of APIs and how they're accessed.

Surprise! Both Apple and Microsoft did that, but neither of their new APIs caught on, because the benefit of being a native app was outshined by losing the easy access to the user data. So from the dev's stand point they may as well get the benefits of cross platform that web-apps afford if they're gonna have to deal with the gate-keeping anyways; native performance be damned.
Yes, but the $300 device wasn't really my main point. Just some middle ground of using Google, but maintaining a copy of important data. The copying could be done with a $30 external usb hard drive and regular visits to the Google Takeout page.
I think https://beagleboard.org/ are compatible?
"Sorry! Looks like something went wrong. In order to use our site you'll have to enable idle tracking. This helps us improve our software for customers like you!"
I think everyone should take a step back and breathe.

If the people and government of Texas feel that way about abortion, far be it for me or frankly any of us (not from Texas) to question it.

Frankly, if you need an abortion you can go to another state. It’s probably <$200 flight almost anywhere in the country. Apple could literally offer flights to California for any medical procedure no questions asked and problem solved.

I also don’t see Apple as having the moral high ground here. They employ slaves in China. Apple respects the Chinese government and says nothing. They’re sterilizing people, organ harvesting on live people (Christians and Muslims) in China. But this... this is what people care about?

But... is that what’s this really about?

I don’t think so.
The phone number is not much of a barrier. I'm a verified player and only queue with other verified players, and I encounter cheaters regularly in CSGO.
Couldn't this information already be discerned fairly easily by user interaction such as mouse movements, requests or scrolling?
Why are you using a browser to test microservices, for which browsers are an atypical-at-best client?

Amiga got right what Unix got wrong: A well-structured, open binary protocol is almost always preferable to a "plain text" protocol because the parsing overhead really adds up.
> Thumb-operated trackballs don’t work for everyone. “Overuse of the thumb can result in de Quervain’s tenosynovitis, where extending the thumb becomes a painful movement,

https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-trackballs/a... > "Should you switch to a trackball?"
Ah, but if Mark Zuckerberg is the majority shareholder, isn't spending an obscene amount of money to keep him from facing liability actually in the best interest of... the majority of your shareholders?
The “vote” system has been broken badly, which is why the “free market” system needs to be used instead until it’s fixed - and to help fix it. And if you don’t like a company acting on some social value, don’t buy their products.
Anti vaccine activists don’t tend to be too good at math.

They also tend to be wrapped up a whole bunch of connected conspiracy theories, of which this is just one, and have their root in cultural grievances rather than objective fact, so arguing with them on a factual basis tends to be futile.
The fundamental problem is they are determined to maintain a growth rate that can no longer be maintained (developing economies can grow 7% while catching up, developed economies can't.)

While they could bail this out with the printing presses it's really a symptom of the underlying problem and that can't be handwaved away.
Yes, you've got to start somewhere, especially as solo-dev.
This is neat, although it throws a wrench into my recent move encrypt my AWS secret access key with my TPM to prevent the key from being used anywhere besides my laptop[0].

[0]: https://github.com/psanford/awsv4signer/tree/main/examples/t...
The DST does not save energy (at least in Brazil). It was abolished based on a lot of studies that showed that (and that it brought quite a lot of harm), and the talks about reestablishing it because of energy saving are nothing but stupid.

Oh, and both ANEEL and the ONS already made quite public and definitive statements that DST won't save any energy this year.

I wonder who is making pressure for it.
see also https://www.onedevice.eu/desk/
You mean that 50-60% of players appear to be currently cheating in ways that are detectable by you.
Nobody's being asked to renounce their faith. Give us a break.
But you have never seen that so it hasn't occurred to you that it is possible.

I don't believe it is possible, no. Even in places with frequent trains during the day, they typically stop at night. Say I need to take someone to a doctor and fill a prescription at 3AM. The usual pharmacy and urgent care are closed. Is there a city on earth that has trains to exactly where I need to go, every five minutes, at 3AM? Will the train get me there as fast as, or faster than, a car?

IMO transit is incredibly useful for situations where everyone is doing the same things at the same times. But it forces you onto a schedule and a destination, with little flexibility.
Perhaps if you want a perfect solution, but in practice most people aren't cheaters, and those that cheat tend to eventually make a mistake and get caught by the anti-cheat. The remaining 1337 you can manage manually.
My experience is the opposite. I can open up my wallet and take out a $1000 bill* in about three seconds; if change is due, that typically takes about another ten seconds. Paying with a credit card takes about a minute, four to ten times less convenient, except a significant percentage of the time the time "no hay sistema" and it just doesn't work, and sooner or later your credit card number gets sold to the Russian Mafia on a carding forum. I guess for super organized people checking your monthly statement to see if you've been signed up for a porn subscription you don't know about is not a big deal, but if you're super organized can't you just organize yourself to have the cash you need when you need it?

Also, do I really want Visa International to know what brand of constipation medicine I take and which anarchist magazines I subscribe to? (None, I swear!) Anything I buy on a credit card is something I can expect to have to explain to the police or the immigration authorities sooner or later, possibly after the next military coup, or maybe just because there was a protest nearby that turned violent and they'd like to know why I was in that neighborhood that day. Also, why do I need acetone? I'm not cooking meth, am I?

If you think this stuff will never affect you, well, nobody ever thinks it will affect them, until it does. Most people alive have lived through an invasion, a coup, or an episode of extreme governmental repression, and most people who haven't yet will.

Bitcoin is a nice alternative when it's applicable, but transaction costs are a bit high for buying a cigarette or a restaurant meal, and it's a headache when the confirmation time is 45 minutes instead of 10 minutes. Hopefully Lightning will fix this.

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* Inflation is bad here, yo. $1000 is about US$6, but printing $2000 bills hasn't been approved yet.
In the cases where end-to-end vendor control over the hardware from the player's fingers to the HDMI out exists, yes that seems possible.

But on a PC? Where the user can install whatever software they like? Much harder.

It feels like stopping aimbots will ultimately fail as eventually we'll see bots that use machine-vision to spot heads and pick them off. You wouldn't even need to run it on the cheating machine, this could be a separate device doing passthrough on the mouse, keyboard, and monitor.
I thought they were comparing people’s reactions to news about equifax’s data breach exposing people’s social and other identifying info to news about the government stealing from people via civil asset forfeiture.
Thank you for sharing this! You should post it to HN as its own post-- I work to classic music and this is a very interesting list that others would enjoy, too.
Why does nobody want to touch it? That is what is a mystery to me.
The lack of cross-play always bugged me. Usually a friend group settles on a particular platform to buy so they can all play together, which is a pain because in a lot of cases that platform is far from ideal for everyone. For example consoles always seemed quite useless to me because I only casually play games, so when I'm not playing games I have this expensive and powerful x86 computer doing nothing because I can't use it for anything else but playing games and maybe watching movies. I wish Sony had kept the "install another OS" option that they introduced for a while in the PS3.

Fortunately my friends are PC gamers too so no locked down hardware in my house :)
Please don't post unsubstantive defensive stuff about the community. I realize it's frustrating to hold a minority/contrarian view (believe me, I understand) but all a comment like this does is add bile, which helps nothing.

Two productive choices are: (1) take up the cross of patiently and respectfully explaining what you believe to be the better information; or (2) chalk it up to people being wrong on the internet and just don't post.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Under the new TX law, Apple would be exposed to liability for flying employees out for abortion. Apple can say they don't ask employees on their medical details, but it is a risky play.

Additionally, Apple does not determine the law. If legislature responds to Apple, that would be due to the structural aspects of democratic government, in other words, the voters want something and will place pressure during elections. And Apple is just one of the many big companies in TX.
Let me know what you think once you get a chance to try it!
Plenty of organizations run local DNS servers, you'd think it wouldn't be a big stretch to start adblocking at that layer (though doing it on the client does allow for more fine tuning).
Bandwidth isn't the primary concern here. CPU time spent parsing/unparsing is. Depending on how your application is structured, it can actually dominate time spent in application logic. Whatever the case, it's simply waste heat being added to the universe. Use a little-endian, 64-bit-aligned binary format, and parsing overhead simply goes away.
this is completely unrelated to the content of the post, but, since when has lesswrong have such clean web design? 0.o
The fine was 109M.

Not sure why you felt the need to clarify that the settlement happened after the 5B was paid when the 5B was conditional on Zuckerberg / Sandberg not being liable in the settlement.

The question is what did these people know / do that was worth 47x the fine to keep them safe.
Oh I'm not trying to say which keyboard setup is better than the other.. just that I think a normal keyboard works fine if you've got some core strength and good posture. But you know, that's totally just like, my opinion man.
Wow this is interesting. Congrats on the launch!

For those who don't know IPFS, or how this would be used, could you share an example on how this would be useful (vs. other providers)?
> you update the database on the server and all the relevant UI(s) will automatically receive the updated data and re-render only the parts of the UI that display that data.

I really don't like that idea. It seems to me inefficient and error prone.

Let's say you're updating a database. You add some records to one table, and you update some records to some other tables.

If the program automagically updates the UI, then on the first change it will attempt to update the UI (causing lots of processing) , then on the 2nd change to the database it'll update the UI again, and on and on for each change.

Wouldn't it be better to make all your changes to the database then only after that run an updatePage() funiction that updates the web page?
Technically, if Apple did that they'd open themselves up to lawsuits under the current law for aiding in an illegal (under this law) abortion. So they actually do have a stake in all of this since they could be named as the defendant in lawsuits in Texas if it stands and they stick with providing insurance coverage around abortions the Texas law now deems illegal.
> Sending away all of your PII to be verified in games isn’t much better (in terms of intrusiveness) than running anti-cheat software in the first place.

In my mind it's much better than running N number of different anti-cheat software on my machine, assuming that this reputation management entity is very well respected. Again, it'd be very hard to get a system like this right, but I think it is certainly possible.
This analysis includes as income a portion of the value of un-taxed stock gains, so it's not a traditional measure.
Why not just pull a Salesforce and offer all employees free travel out of Texas to get an abortion?

Over time this perk grows across the Texas economy and causes political change, or continues to be a few companies offer it and people can virtue signal by choosing where they work.
I didn't say people should be blamed for signing up, but for continuing to use these companies and services after seeing many people burn or because they prefer the convenience. If you:

- want the convenience
- are not willing to pay for it
- and have gone out of your way to avoid doing your research on how this thing works

== it's on you

but i'm not saying this to blame people really, i want people who are in this position to take responsibility for themselves and look up wtf is (for example) google doing and how is it free, then choose if they're ok with that (and stop complaining) or are not (and quit it). Enough people leaving Gmail will absolutely make a dent in how Google thinks. I'm optimistic about this. More people are waking up to the technological-slavery we're living in.
I don’t think regular voters like the policy; they just don’t have any input. Plus there is only so much bandwidth for legislative process, and that’s pretty log-jammed by some hot topic issues lately.
> What defines an "indigenous" people?

This map is mostly a still picture of where different tribes and ethnicities were when they first encountered Europeans (or written history).

"indigenous" French, for example, is harder to define because there was no written history or very little. Are the people who painted the Lascaux caves [0] the "indigenous" French? After them there were Bronze Age and Iron Age cultures that evolved; where they descendants of the Lascaux people or part of a group that settled the area?

Same thing with Greenland and eastern Canada, the Viking made some descriptions of the natives that more or less matches what Europeans latter observed. But it's not clear they were talking about the same culture [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lascaux

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skr%C3%A6ling
Cheating in CS:GO's casual mode is still very common, not sure about competitive. But yes, server-side detection would make more sense.
I wonder how you're able to get your name taken off the list.

I imagine it would be fairly hard/impossible or involve some sort of payment.
As mentioned in the tweets, the bipartisan FAIR act is supposed to reform civil asset forfeiture.
BattlEye maybe.
but but , this means they 'll never learn about the malicious ads
BattleEye
> Anything that gets the behavior change will necessarily screw a lot of people.

I disagree. Just look elsewhere around the world. It's doable, we just don't do it.
> I want a business to focus on their business, not on social change or influencing policy.

Well you're a little late on that, business has been influencing policy since the East India company was chartered in 1600.

I'm perplexed how people don't perceive business has been influencing policy for centuries until they start intervening recently for employees who are women and what have you.
If there's one thing that all cheaters have in common, it's an inflated ego. If the enemy is cheating, and half your teammates are, and it's casual, you're gonna toggle on harder. There is no way to get banned in casual, unless it's by VAC, in which case you already have it injected so it doesn't matter.

You are right, though; my estimate is just personal experience
Cuts and jumpers (on a different scale) (1989)
Is there a benefit to companies all using the exact same web service request signature scheme?

One downside is that it would make widespread web service API abuse even easier than it already is. One would need to understand even less about the mechanics and workings of same-scheme services across companies. Yes, this is security through obscurity, but why leave more surface area open than necessary?

Malicious actors will certainly appreciate it!
I am kinda interested on what happens if they let it stand. If Bob in Ohio can sue some doctor in Texas over an abortion, what kind of fun will we get when this legal theory gets applied to gun laws?
This isn't entrapment. Entrapment is when the government forces you to commit a crime not when the government provides all the tools required to commit a crime without any coercion. Unless you can show you were pressured/forced to do the crime by the government it's assumed you would have done it the same if the situation arose without the government being the other party, because you already did and presumably you didn't know they were cops.
I'm not sure why any of that stuff should be protected in the first place.

100 years ago, a company could build a machine. It could be full of "trade secrets". But at the end of the day, anyone could tear it apart and figure out how it was made and how to repair it. If you were willing to fix it, you could use that machine forever.

Why should a modern "machine" be any different? Why should how the machine works be legally protected after the company no longer makes it or supports it?

This is basically just an extension of the right to repair argument.