skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if it is logged, there are ways this behaviour could be masked.

Say a colluding miner mines blocks including this unbroadcast transaction until they finally hit the block target with this transaction included.

Bitfinex then broadcasts the transaction to mempool. After some plausible delay (but a short enough one that no one else gets a chance to mine it), the colluding miner publishes a valid block including the transaction. No one can confirm that the miner didn't receive the transaction from mempool like everyone else, and then 'get lucky' shortly after.

I'm not saying this is what happened, I think user error is more likely. But it can neither be ruled out nor easily proven.
"Delete Facebook" is like saying "Delete drugs." The whole reason Facebook is dangerous is because its draw on the human psyche is stronger than that of the average person to resist, and that the people who do engage with it can harm the people who don't. There needs to be a national social media policy the way there is a national drug policy. We need to have the conversation about where we want to be as a country from "full ban" to "fully legal," just like people recognize that a country's drug policy can be somewhere between Singapore's and Portugal's.
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It's not about security questions, the implication that the author doesn't make explicit is that "how old were you when you got your first job" probably says more about your economic well being and possibly your political leanings.
Amazon abruptly banned Washington state treat-maker Chukar Cherries
> The fact that git works on lines of text [...] we could be looking at the alterations to the abstract syntax tree.

Fundamentally git does not operate on text, it operates on files (content addressed SCM not a ledger of text diffs); diffs are generated upon request between arbitrary merkel trees. So there is no need to implicate git in such a tool, it can be independent:

GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF
When the environment variable GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF is set, the program
named by it is called to generate diffs, and Git does not use its
builtin diff machinery. For a path that is added, removed, or
modified, GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF is called with 7 parameters:

path old-file old-hex old-mode new-file new-hex new-mode
It's becoming increasingly clear that social media needs to be more strictly regulated. How to do that in a free society is a difficult question. OTOH, if we take too long to figure this out, it may be too late. In fact, it may already be too late.
> end of April

What's so special about vaccination rates in April? By late August this NBC poll shows a huge gap. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/meet-the-press/nbc-news-pol...

Already vaccinated:

- Democrats: 88 percent

- Republicans: 55 percent

- Biden voters in 2020 general election: 91 percent

- Trump voters in 2020 general election: 50 percent

Another analysis from September comparing electoral results and vaccination rates by county shows the same trend.
https://www.kff.org/policy-watch/the-red-blue-divide-in-covi...
If only startpage hadn't an ad tracking company as an investor
Dang looks sick, wonder if I get it on *nix.
Public charter schools can't pick and choose their students the way private schools do. They have to take students with special needs, discipline problems, etc. Expulsions can only be done in extreme circumstances.

The real advantage of charter schools is parent engagement. Parents usually have to specifically ask for their children to be placed into charter schools. That's a signal that the parents take education seriously and will impose some discipline on the children.
Not if you're in an accelerating reference frame...
A part of why gas prices are so high right now in the EU, is because of ETS (emission trading scheme) prices. EU industry has to buy CO2 emission rights, and the prices are at an all time high right now, causing coal plants to stop production. If the high gas prices cause more production from the coal plants, this will push the prices up even more.
UK electric car inquiries soar during fuel supply crisis
Why should the children have to do something just because their parents have a particular job? It isn’t their decision what their parents do.
> Yes, a question-post invites more engagement than a simple comment, but there’s something else at work here.

Is there?

I've noticed wannabe influencers on Instagram including questions and polls with every one of their Stories. They're doing it to "juice the algorithm" by getting responses. That in turn theoretically gets them featured on the Explore Page or whatever. YouTubers do the same things, ending each video with a CTA question you should answer in the comments.

The Facebook question pages that boomers answer seem to just be doing the same thing, attracting comments and interactions and thus boosting the page.

The bigger question I have is why Facebook thinks I would be interested in seeing in my timeline that my 68 year old aunt has answered "Freddy Mercury" to some question about the best musical act they've seen live.
Hum... Have you looked on the situation of ex-criminals?

I really fail to imagine an unconditional transfer (like the one you are replying to) turning into a monster of untraceable rules.
Have you read about the Cambridge Analytica scandal?
> there are some important classes of throughput optimization that are incompatible with garbage collection

Can you share some more details about these optimizations? I.e. what they are and why GC tends to go against them?
I'm curious if the data harvested from this is skewed to older people, and more "naive" people. Most of my techie friends have uninstalled FB (like me), or rarely interact with it. And my smarter friends just don't interact with that kind of clickbait-y post.

I wonder if marketing folks will even notice. Like Google Analytics, which is disproportionately blocked by smarter and more technical people. Marketers cheerfully ignore that, though. Will they even know that they're missing our data?

Is the Venn diagram of FB enthusiastic data-donaters and people who don't block GA just a circle? If so, are public policies and corporate marketing strategies going to be designed to cater to them and not us?
I too saw the widely-circulated picture of the "open graves" in NYC. Somehow they forgot to mention it was just a regular picture of a pauper's graveyard. Funny what fear can be provoked by context-free visual imagery.
I worked at FB for a while, and the problem with long term projects were that they were long term. In FB you need twice a year to make self review that shows what kind of impact you created during last 6 months (and based on this you are rated, raises, refreshers, etc). In long term projects impact might be only at the end of project, which leaves you "impactless" for a long-long time. Because of this people didn't really want to join any long term projects.

While I was there management was trying to resolve this situation and transmit message that long term projects are impactfull and important (and strategic to company), yet they couldn't answer question of how impact should be calculated every 6 months.

Maybe by now they came up with some formula or something
I once saw an official Facebook blog post about some change to the T&C, with 80,000+ comments on it, most of them one of those meaningless copy-pastes about how they don't consent to Facebook using their data. More comments were appearing every second.

Every 20th post or so, someone would be saying something like "Stop it you idiots, this stupid copy-paste doesn't do anything, you can't declare your rights like this." Then a bunch more copy-paste comments would appear before the next person telling the idiots to stop.
Was trying to find a friends address to send them a surprise gift. It was weird how easy it was.
Ok sorry I misunderstood your comment. I thought you were blaming it completely on not having enough renewables.
What is CSV other than a matrix of data? Its matrices all the way down.
I don't see how banning a high karma account would be embarrassing? I didn't even know that people cared about karma on Reddit.
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My question was more about the fact that we're still burning extreme amounts of carbon purely for energy, not for density of energy or density of power or portability of engines - we're burning coal for electricity, we're burning gas to heat homes.

We'd need to pay back all that energy, but in the coming decades we can't even afford the energy cost of the relatively much simpler solution of "simply" not burning bulk carbon for heat.
I mean, I don't get the sarcasm. Have you had another app steer you away from engagement for the sake of your mental/behavioral health in this way?

I certainly haven't. Other than maybe Nintendo suggesting go outside breaks or something.
Why Does the iPhone Still Use Lightning?
Pinball FX3 is so hostile to regular gamers too. The level select screen makes it really hard to see which tables you own and which you don't (to incentivize you to buy more), until you go and find them and add them to favorites column. There is no way to filter the list by tables you own. I am so sick of this upsell bullshit when I have already given them my money, and even worse most of the list is licensed franchise bullshit for properties I do not care about.

Also their ball physics feel weird. It has gotten better from FX -> FX2 -> FX3, but still feels off. Their remakes of actual tables seem to have a different physics model and ball interactions feel a lot more plausible
This has been posted before
Don't worry - their comment response to the meme page is annoyingly broadcast into the timeline of every one of their friends.
I did grant your hypothetical though? If Facebook and Instagram software was the primary, and root cause of the distress that caused someone to commit suicide. I still think it's misleading to say they "literally killed". The value in that distinction is exactly that misleading.

Reusing my planters nuts example. If planters nuts is "literally killing" people with their peanuts; the solutions will fit around that premise. How do we stop plantars from killing people. Contrast peanuts are responsible for the death of people. How can we stop people from dying to peanuts?

If you still reject that argument because I'm not conceding the assumption of responsibility enough. Then I apologize for misunderstanding your argument/question. And I can answer why I can't grant the charity. it's because it is so divorced from reality that I lack the context to speak intelligently. The amount of things that I understand about reality would have to change so drastically in order for a software application to literally kill somebody leaves me without the ability to reason about it logically.
Who gives a hoot. Only an absolute moron use social media
> I understand the difference, and the condescending snark is not appreciated. I don't think the difference is very important in this case.

As an example, you wrote earlier:
> In fact, we see some of this in TLS - not everyone can participate

As written this is nonsense of course. TLS is a series of published standard protocols, everyone can "participate" by implementing one of the protocols, and at their option some or even all optional extensions.

But for the Web PKI things are quite different, only some can participate and under exacting conditions. On one side, Certificate Authorities can only participate via the root trust programmes of key trust stores operated by Mozilla, Microsoft, and Apple, plus Google (for Android and, perhaps sooner or later, Chrome) and Oracle (for the JRE). Participation in these programmes requires obeying the CA/B BRs, but also is at the sole discretion of each programme operator and so their own policies apply†

As subscribers, the Web PKI is only interested in certifying names in the Internet's DNS hierarchy and, to a small extent in the Internet's IP address hierarchy. Other names aren't actually certifiable in the Web PKI, sometimes to the surprise of would-be subscribers (and even, once in a while, CAs)

Finally as a relying party (the role all of us occupy even if in addition to other roles) the Web PKI is only applicable to the Internet, which of course is a lot of things but it isn't everything.

> It's also revealing, perhaps, that you don't understand that the "Web PKI" is used far and wide in domains outside of the web.

That's true, and has been for many years, and yet, there's a reason it's named the Web PKI anyway. Notice the B in CA/B stands for "Browser" even though today these are (except Mozilla) operating system vendors, historically they're the browser vendors. You could imagine alternate worlds where say, IBM, Apple and Sony are the biggest players in CA/B instead of Mozilla, Microsoft and Apple, and it really isn't about the web at all, but they're quite different from our world.

If you don't like the phrase "Web PKI" you could sometimes substitute PKIX, but, ultimately PKIX isn't quite the same thing. PKIX is technical, it explains how to use the X.500 system's certificate format (X.509) to talk about the Internet instead of the X.500 directory, but it makes few substantive policy decisions. Certificates you get from Let's Encrypt are PKIX certificates, but, the ones you mint for testing with self-service tools or that come supplied with many Linux installs are also PKIX certificates and those aren't trustworthy. Certificates from Let's Encrypt are also part of the Web PKI and that's why you trust them.

† These policies can be quite significant, for example Microsoft's programme requires that participants agree to revoke certificates if Microsoft so chooses. In practice Microsoft seems to use this power to kill off certain types of phishing scam that attack Microsoft's products. Mozilla's programme has historically been the origin of a lot of important public policy some of which is now in the CA/B BRs.
Is there an ad blocker that cannot be detected?
How is this immaterial? The two co-founders tried to defraud an investor.
Well or you could just migrate to a country where you don’t need to наехать
Imho the only thing the iPad loses over Wacom is the shape of the pen (my pro pen 2 is head and shoulders more comfortable to use than the apple pencil). The remarkable pen is not much different than the apple pencil. Wacoms strength is their application support/drivers support which remarkable doesn't have and iPad has its own ecosystem. I suppose also that you can get very large tablet displays with Wacom too while the iPad tops out at roughly 13".

Facebook has been pushing ads for this device at me since it was available and each time I look I can't imagine why anyone would want one except that they have money to burn and time to waste beta testing on something that doesn't have an ecosystem but has a low power screen.

Amazon is already a major consumer of eink screens and could eat their lunch tomorrow and close the whole company down in a year. There's no future for it without an app ecosystem and a more compelling reason to exist

An iPad and an e-reader do much more than a remarkable for not that much difference in cost. I dont see a long term future for their company or product
Just curious, but what about TikTok's data collection is at all distinct from what Facebook/Google collects? Wasn't it just on the front page that Google keeps a history of your purchase receipts in your Gmail account even when you've deleted them? This article[0], while debunking the "Facebook is listening through your microphone" myth, presented research that at least ~9000 apps were screenshoting your in-app activity, possibly recording video, and sending it to either a third-party or themselves.

Or is it just that TikTok is a Chinese company?

[0]https://newatlas.com/computers/facebook-not-secretly-listeni...
Fastest Orbiting Asteroid Discovered at NOIRLab’s CTIO
"Using the powerful 570-megapixel Dark Energy Camera (DECam) in Chile, astronomers discovered an asteroid with the shortest orbital period of any known asteroid in the Solar System. The orbit of the approximately 1-kilometer-diameter asteroid takes it as close as 20 million kilometers (12 million miles or 0.13 au), from the Sun every 113 days. Asteroid 2021 PH27, revealed in images acquired during twilight, also has the smallest mean distance (semi-major axis) of any known asteroid in our Solar System — only Mercury has a shorter period and smaller semi-major axis. The asteroid is so close to the Sun’s massive gravitational field, it experiences the largest general relativistic effects of any known Solar System object"
We store them as serialized text. We could store them as nodes in an AST; we could store them as OLE/CFBF structures like older versions of Microsoft Word, or do what Ted Nelson suggested decades ago: T. H. Nelson, “Complex information processing: a file structure for the complex, the changing and the indeterminate,” in Proceedings of the 1965 20th national conference, New York, NY, USA, Aug. 1965, pp. 84–100. doi: 10.1145/800197.806036.
The Soviets were going to do it in a few years anyway. Maybe it would not be as quickly as they got it done. Japan even had a wisp of a program. Everybody knew that an atom bomb program was a thing to do.

At the barest minimum, we would still develop nuclear reactors, and then plutonium would get discovered, and it’s easy to manufacture and purify (compared to U-235), and the bomb is just a matter of time.
I'd call it 'Doing a paper on what I'd like to call "the political compass" without checking for prior art.'
Luckily for Reddit it can only be highly embarrassing if people actually notice and raise a stink, which shadowbanning is designed to avoid. The shadowbanned user may just naturally get sick of the lack of interaction and leave the site, like this top /r/worldnews moderator with 14mil Karma who has been shadowbanned since July last year: https://old.reddit.com/user/maxwellhill
What do you mean the inability to really turn it off?

I don't even have my face registered and just use a passcode for everything.
I’ve been called “dangerous” multiple times for posting screenshots of the state department of health covid dashboard. It’s crazy…
Yeah. Other parties get data, FB gets cold hard cash. I bet they're quite happy with those terms.
Already done, parents are still on there as it's the best way to connect with people they went to school with 50 years ago, as far as I can tell Facebook is burning through the younger ages and it's going to end up a digital retirement home, already well on the way.
We do not store executables as serialized text, unless they are meant to be executed by an interpreter.
Not much.

- Raised a few decent humans.

- Saved a few people's lives (violence, accidents, drowning). I seem to show up in the right (wrong?) places at the right times.

- Helped a few animals.
Probably not, but people in WEIRD cultures tend to disproportionately value impersonal social accomplishments, trust in institutions, individualism, self-enhancements, and confidence.

[1] https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/09/joseph-henric...
Are those two lights a car or two motorcycles? Or a motorcycle and a car with one taillight out?
So they were trying to build an "Instagram Kids" without any thought about parental supervision?

I guess the original plan was to just moderate all the content, until they realized how that wouldn't scale, so now the moderation will be outsourced to the parents: "Your kid found something nasty on Instagram kids? That's your fault because you didn't properly supervise it with the tools we gave you!"
TikTok ran out of clips to recommend to you lol
Maybe figure out why it is you don't want to go to bed. It's usually because you don't like doing the thing you do after waking up.
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Still doesn't even compare to calling mass-murder "accidents"... Or maybe 9/11 were accidents to you too.
the nostalgia factor for Dreams & Fantasies for me is mostly the music & sfx. the game was fun, but the atmosphere from the music brought it to a new level.

I still hear the laughing from Haunted Mansion [1] in my head quite often.

[1] https://youtu.be/y6xfzwO8GdA?t=933
Von Neumann once said of the Soviets: “If you say why not bomb them tomorrow, I say why not today? If you say today at five o' clock, I say why not one o' clock?”
I'm not a native speaker but I dare say the point itself about RDBMS was pretty clear. I don't really feel like continuing this argument either.
If they are being used anywhere currently it would be prop trading shops.
Several of the ideas, like ubiquitous language and bounded contexts, are highly actionable.
I live in Mexico and there are still millions here that need to use wood to cook or heat water.
> I'm not sure "free association" applies to employment. If someone chooses not to have any friends that aren't the same race as themselves, racist as that might be, it's not illegal.

> But if they start a business they cannot filter either customers or employees based on race; in that sense they aren't free to choose who to associate in a business sense.

This is not an argument that businesses don’t have free association rights; this is an argument that they have limits that the state has a compelling interest in.

This argument is like saying that we don’t have free speech rights because there are laws against incitement. It’s obviously silly; “free” never meant “without any limits whatsoever” in either case.

Furthermore, while I agree it wouldn’t be legal to make employment decisions based on protected characteristics, forcing businesses to keep nazis on the payroll against their will strikes me as both absurd and a socially undesirable outcome.

> I wouldn't say firing someone is merely an "expression" of speech, it's also the ending of an actual contract.

Given the nature of at will employment, this actually weakens your argument.

I’d also consider terminating someone for their behavior to be a matter of free association, not free speech. I thought I’d made that clear.
I'm not sure about what exactly he's been saying and I don't really care to read that because it's likely to be stupid, but I'd consider even stupid and extreme opinions and suggestions (in both directions!) on public health policy, pandemic solutions, elections, geopolitics, immigration policy, religion, human rights, LGBT rights, workers rights, voting rights, socioeconomic equality, affirmative action, education policy, gun policy, healthcare, reproductive care, etc all as political opinions.

Crimes, harassment and libel are another issue, but for that we generally want a legal process to determine the guilt and appropriate punishment; simply firing accused suspects is not a proper response because it's not sufficient if he's guilty and far too much if he's not.
Here you go
https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome
I'm sort of in a very rural area. Farm fields across the street from me. But I'm also ~5 minutes or so away from downtown.

I have available to me gigabit (down) from Comcast. I had it for awhile and it was glorious but it was also $80/mo on promo and $110 when not. The reason I got it was not for the download speeds, it was the faster upload speeds that came along with it. Still slow, and not even remotely close to speedy. But it was a solid 12mbit up. Compared to the 5mbit up I get on my 100down plan.

I would kill for some reliable upload speeds. It's awful anymore just sending images to people, never mind you want to send a quick minute long video to someone and it takes several minutes to send.
Was just talking about this the other night with my wife and how we should just start our own group sharing these baiting questions to see how quickly and largely we can grow it.
Do you have any actual proof that this is used for data mining and not because it's an engaging, fun question?
WHATWG, also known as We Have Aligned Totally With Google...

The company that has an effectively complete control over the "standard" and churns it frequently to discourage competition...
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