skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regardless of studies and what they bring to light, always assume your phone has been compromised, assume others have intercepted your texts and have data mined them to determine not if you’re a nuisance (that’s a given), but how big of one. With that, assume most companies from there on out have access to how wealthy you are and how they can best sell products to you, use your data to sell your friends products, and so on.

Do not store anything on your phone that you wouldn’t want your worst enemy to see. Do not even say it while your phone is nearby. Put your phone in an acoustic proof container/soundproof box if you need to have a talk with anyone. Don’t bother with airplane mode, it’s a sinkhole waiting to be discovered so assume it’s compromised until given sufficient evidence to the contrary.

With this in mind, you can sleep soundly knowing that your phone is a monitoring device, and as such privacy-related studies that demonstrate (as they always do) that your phone isn’t as private as you think will not come as a surprise and you will have no bad habits to undo/change.
USB 4 is supposed to fix this by basically removing all the optionality.

Of course I don’t know how you tell if a device/cable is reliably USB 4 or not.
This is not the kind of problem that can be solved with a fancy app. What the industry needs is proper oversight.
Our medical system is completely screwed up from a capacity standpoint. I was sick a few weeks ago and called my primary care doc. No appointments for a week. Do an online appointment which is useless and they say I need to be seen. Go to urgent care. 4 hour wait. I figured that was my best option so toughed it out. During my time waiting I saw multiple people come in, talk to the receptionist, and leave in tears when they were told it was a 4+ hour wait. A guy came in with a badly cut finger. I have no idea why you would try an urgent care aside from the fact that you know the ER is gonna take 12+ hours.
Reminds me of one of my favorite microbes, tersicoccus phoenicis which is "only known to exist at two locations on Earth, and were independently found in geographically separated clean room facilities nearly 4,000 km (2,500 mi) apart."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tersicoccus_phoenicis

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/rare-new-microbe-found-in-two-...
Under what whistleblower statute? There are various statutes that provide different percentages, but there are strict rules for qualification.

I haven't seen any indication that she is a qualifying whistleblower under any statute (though admittedly I am not deeply following these revelations).
My understanding is that plans have been put in motion to eliminate all oil wells from the LA area.
In classic USB committee style, they try to do the right thing and still bungle the naming/marketing.

Just like the absurd “hi-speed/super speed” debacle, they fail to mention what people really want to know:

“Will this drive my monitor?” — bandwidth tells me most of what I need to know but to the average user it makes no sense.

“Is this a fast cable for my external drive”? “Is this really expensive cable overkill for my external drive?” Sorry, most people will have to guess, and will get the more expensive one “just in case”

“Will this work with my YYY” (i.e. “Does this have the alternative mode I need” — who knows?

“Will this charge my XXX?” - this is mostly right TBF: if device wants Y watts, choose a charger and cable with that number or larger. The knowledgeable user may be able to “trickle charge” their device in a pinch but not everyone needs to know this,
We do, and while I love it, a word of warning: do not allow production FDB clusters to have any member get above 90% storage consumed.
Previously we had tons of incompatible plugs, but if the physical plug fit, you were reasonably assured that it would actually work. In our shiny new future everything is shaped like USB-C, but you can't tell whether anything will work simply by eyeballing the plug. I'm not convinced this is progress.
Protesting in the streets, the way it's commonly understood today, is basically just a show. Why would the powers that be actually care about it?

A nation-wide strike, now that would get attention.
They are given psychotropic drugs to make them easier to manage and less likely to be able to complain.
Endless greed.
I think we should agree that women and girls physically harming themselves is "harmful".

> Frances Haugen: And what's super tragic is Facebook's own research says, as these young women begin to consume this-- this eating disorder content, they get more and more depressed. And it actually makes them use the app more. And so, they end up in this feedback cycle where they hate their bodies more and more. Facebook's own research says it is not just the Instagram is dangerous for teenagers, that it harms teenagers, it's that it is distinctly worse than other forms of social media.

I just started listening to this https://www.audible.com.au/pd/More-Than-a-Body-Audiobook/035... which shows directly through research how this kind of depression leads to physical self harm.

Now I'm questioning why I even want to have an Instagram account.
Yeah, even reading the synopsis gives you that "this author is really bad at math" feeling.
The necessary innovation is ethical/political. People over age 80 should be able to request to medically cease their life for any reason.
Good. They can go be martyrs in their own little extremist shitholes and only affect the like-minded.
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It's also misleading in that "they're the most."
Something has to be #1
You discussed everything except the profit motive of the owners to bleed every bit of penny from their "earnings"
it is extremely poisonous, it kills almost every living organism

You may want to look up the history of the invention of petroleum jelly...
1) NEMA connectors cannot signal how much voltage/power they can handle though. If they could, there would be more pressure to use a single connector

2) You absolutely can plug the wrong IEC13/14 cable in to incompatible devices, or pass more capacity than it's rated for. For example, I've seen equipment with IEC14 sockets that only takes 120V (not SMPS), nothing stopping you from plugging in a UK240xIEC13 and letting some angry pixies loose.

Is that IEC compliant usage? Who knows, but it's convenient so manufacturers do it anyways.
Maybe they can write books about their struggles in jail. I’m sure nothing bad could come from it.
Seems like the most impactful solution would be an EPA or CARB ban on sales of new two-stroke lawn devices. Although this article suggests a switch to battery powered devices, four-stroke replacements more easily fit the niche than something which degrades in charge and takes a while to recharge at that.
> they are (understandably) refusing to ship an up-to-date global python interpreter with macOS

What is the understandable reasoning?
> The US can barely afford to school its children

Ironically, I was just listening to this today: "Why Does the Richest Country in the World Have So Many Poor Kids? (Ep. 475)
" [1]

There really isn't any excuse - it's all a product of our politics and culture, or vice versa... I'm not sure.

1) https://freakonomics.com/podcast/child-poverty/
> Protesting in the streets, the way it's commonly understood today, is basically just a show. Why would the powers that be actually care about it?

Because that kind of show is how the ideas it promotes are normalized, which is the foundation on which other action is built.
> Elderly people should live with their families.

No. It’s an unreasonable burden to expect families, which are barely holding themselves together in this wonderful world of mandatory-two-income-households we’ve built, to take on not only their adult children who can’t afford to rent or buy their own homes, but also the extensive and expensive care of their elders.
Is it me or have things shifted from “prevent what you say online from being traced back to you as much as possible as it could be used against you” to “what you say online is now part of your resume and ‘leaving it blank’ is a ‘bad look’”?

I’m … not young and follow the “blank slate” approach. Was just wondering if the world had changed while I wasn’t paying attention.
Sometimes this question matters but sometimes like now it doesn’t. You really have to contort your basket hard to not see inflation in 2021. No matter what you pick it’s up10-20%
> NFPA estimates there were an estimated 1,115,000 career and volunteer firefighters in the United States in 2018. Of the total number of firefighters 370,000 (33%) were career firefighters and 745,000 (67%) were volunteer firefighters.

https://www.nfpa.org/News-and-Research/Data-research-and-too...
It depends on what you mean by long-term, I'd guess.

Does it fix the problem completely? No.

Is it better than letting them spew unfiltered nonsense to everyone? Yes.
I don't understand how you can say that trigger warnings somehow make people avoid getting treatment - how does that make sense?

Therapy and exposure are both helpful, but not all exposure is theraputic. If someone is actively treating their trauma, containment and building up a sense of safety is one of the first steps. We don't treat soldiers with shell shock by sending them back to combat zones, nor by repeated showings of violent war movies that aren't intended for therapeutic use, and not in a theraputic context. That isn't to say that any exposure to a concept is inherently negative, its surely one of the better treatment methodologies that has evidence behind it. But the context in which things comes up does matter. Its the difference between someone making progress towards healing and going into a negative coping mechanism spiral.
When I was at Google I worked with the developers of the Radish project [1], which was installed all over at the time. It's amazing how far the state of the art has some since then. Aaron told me about the memory constraints - The Radish streamed data to the e-ink display's memory buffer to update, powering it on to do so only briefly, while a Pi Zero is plenty enough to render the whole display. We've come a very long way.

[1] https://developers.google.com/gdata/articles/radish
What about fuel injected 4-strokes? (Maybe these don’t exist in the leaf blower market yet).
It’s simple really. “All X are Y” where X is an immutable characteristic and Y is something negative = hate speech. “Covid vaccines contain 5G microchips” is misinformation. Do you have any examples of what you’re alluding to?
Nytimes has nada on this.
I hope they do like USB 3.0B and add yet another independent set of connector pins for 4.0, making it twice as large. /s
"Elderly people should live with their families."

Spoken with the confidence of someone who has never had to care for an elderly relative who was in both mental and physical decline. In any case it is a deeply personal decision without a definitive right or wrong answer. After seeing my Aunt try to care for my grandmother for years only for it to negatively effect their relationship because of her dementia I wouldn't blame anyone for choosing a care facility.

I know people who were so effected by their experience of caring for an elderly relative that they checked themselves into a senior living community in their 50's so their kids would never have to feel like they needed to do the same for them.
> You're the richest nation on earth*

*On paper
OP was talking about representative democracy specifically, not democracy in general. There are other ways to go about it. In fact, there are ways to go about representative democracy that are drastically different from the status quo, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delegate_model_of_representati....

And there are democracies out there today that aren't capitalist, in the true meaning of that word:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebel_Zapatista_Autonomous_Mun...

https://pdfhost.io/v/Hrr2IgtuS_SocialContractoftheDemocratic...
I’m wary of an angle here where the individual was hired by FB to set them up for a much bigger gambit down the road.

This individual can bring to light relatively trivial things and demonstrate that FB has put so-and-so measurements in place when they really go all in - think dissident/political enemy crackdown type of moves. Remember: the senate hearings are a farce because the senate is in bed with FB/NSA/CIA. But it looks good for them to seem tough and in turn it looks good for FB to say “We established a committee to oversee this X months ago. We absolutely care about Y.”

The individual looks like a hero and they get a big payout. Not a bad gig.

Unfortunately the concept of corporate plays like these are buried in William Gibson novels so people think they’re a fantasy, unaware of how the game works.
Imagemagick. Does everything.
The lesson of Hitler in this particular case isn't that Hitler shouldn't have been put in jail, it's that he should have been put in jail even longer.
> US is unwilling to support euthanasia

I don’t know about the rest of the US, but Washington and Oregon have allowed physician-assisted suicide for the terminally ill for years.
The offshore platforms are in federal waters.
All twelve people followed this link to a good read :-)

Thank you.
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> The US can barely afford to school its children, purchase its homes, or enact reasonable public health measures without bankrupting people.

No, it can easily afford all that. It chooses not to because the US (that is, the majority of political power in the country) prefers to impose the pain of the imminent risk and frequent reality of bankruptcy on the working class.
What is the distinction between what you say and being an advocate? If they truly believed one way is more efficient, and managed accordingly, how are they not an advocate insofar as their team is concerned?
Unfortunately, the people with the power to "invest in this" will not ever be in the situation that the rest of us will be. Most "real" people are more worried about how their children will live with not enough time left over to deal with how their parents will die.

This is just one of many issues. We are coming apart at the seams in our society in so many ways that by solving one issue we must ignore another. There is so much poor investment across the board. It's tragic but I fear we are so far off the rails now that perhaps none of it can't be saved.
> why on earth is whitespace relevant??

To eliminate the need for braces and semicolons, of course. It's part of what makes python so easy to read and write. Is it really such a problem?

I honestly can't imagine disliking python. It's my goto for anything where performance doesn't matter due to its unmatched ergonomics and vast libs. Golang comes close but for some reason having to implement really common and basic things yourself is part of the language's design philosophy. Plus it's compiled so you can't just drop into the interpreter for a slick one-liner.

What's your preferred quick and dirty scripting/programming langage?
Or, you just buy ones adequate to your needs. Buy one visual style for charging, another for data, or label them if you are really neurotic. You can definitely tell the better ones, they are thicker and stiffer.

I'm all too eager to deprecate my box o' rando mini/micro/meso USB A/B/hard drive cables.
I would define them as whataboutism.
> Do silicon valley companies not screen for intensity of political views during job interviews in order to prevent issues like this?

That's literally illegal.
Just charge a call-out fee for the homes that use it. No need to punish well-run homes or pass new tax laws for something very easily addressed and internalized.
Well, we also seem really bad at managing education. There has been a huge increase in the number of non-teaching staff (i.e. administration) in schools. At the same time that we wring our hands over class sizes, a growing proportion on dollars spent ostensibly on education go to stuff that doesn't happen in the classroom. We can "barely afford" stuff when we let a whole industry of nonessential stuff graft itself onto the thing we actually care about.
> > C is the lingua franca of computer science.

> Is it? If you were to randomly draw a developer from the body of working programmers, how confident would you really be that they could competently write a good portable C program, or even write one at all? I certainly wouldn't put any money on it.

Perhaps what they meant is more like "C is the lingua franca of linking". CS people or developers may not be great at writing C code, but almost everything can execute it. C++ of course, but also Java and Python. I think even Haskell can call C code, but I'm not certain of that.
The only thing I mentioned that is hard to do (for some people, not for me) is fasting. It is also the most effective for losing fat and for resetting insulin sensitivity. Also, hunger hormones actually decrease over a (moderately extended) fast, and metabolism does not go down significantly.

I'm talking about a zero-calorie fast, just water / black coffee / tea.

The problems you describe apply to low calorie diets, not fasting.

I went from >95 kg to 70 using the methods described above. I held that weight for several years, and I can control my weight up and down by manipulating the number of days a week I fast.

I know that it is possible to consistently, reliably lose fat because I did it, and continue to do it when necessary. Lots of people have done the same.

People are good at finding reasons why they can't lose weight. The truth is, they just don't want to do what is necessary.

The hardest part of fasting is not physical but social. When you fast regularly over years, you experience how weird our culture's relationship with food is.

We do not eat because we are really hungry. We eat to be social or comfort ourselves or because we are bored.
> A few years ago, some bad actors were successful in convincing Congress of a crazy conspiracy theory that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction ... They used a platform called The New York Times to spread their lies.

Citation needed that this was a knowing conspiracy as opposed to bad intelligence.

Setting that aside, there's a big difference between an institution like the NY Times getting it wrong on occasion, despite all their research and fact checking, vs an institution like Facebook building a platform that systematically rewards disinformation at massive scale.
1. Python has a low barrier to entry and is a popular first language, so most users don't realise how bad it is.

2. Python was originally popular with old-school sysadmins, Debian types, and a lot of its package management is based around that philosophy of carefully hand-tended servers shared by multiple users.
I’ve only run into those once in real life but man what a mess of a committee’s design.

Actually let’s go back to DB-25. Each pin can be one “feature” so you can identify which features a device/cable support by looking for which pin(s) are missing.
Aren't there already pipelines to crowded areas? I mean, that's where they're typically consumed right? Also, it's not like pipelines that are in the middle of nowhere could be replaced with pipelines in urban areas. The whole point of pipelines is to cross between where it's produced and where it's consumed. Even if you built a bunch of pipelines in populated areas for no reason in the hopes that it will gather more awareness, I suspect that what will happen isn't some sort effort to improve pipelines nationwide, only the ones in populated areas.
Who do you imagine would go for it? These wells have been nothing but a disaster from Santa Barbara on down.
Back when I worked at $HEALTHCARE_INUSRANCE_CO we were trying to solve this (more general problem) from the other side. We regularly saw routine calls for what could only be described as "loneliness". Our research lead us to find that a high percentage of elderly folks (50+) identified as lonely regardless of their living situation. [1]

Looking deeper into claims data, we found a high percentage of these calls were in rural communities. These inessential emergency calls often lead to resources being expended without need. For example: the singular community ambulance being dispatched to the caller's home only because they wanted to chat. Even when considering the dispatcher filtering out these callers, and the emergency personnel doing their best to leave as quickly as possible, it still places a strain on the system. Tying up emergency personnel with mundane tasks creates a far greater risk for the community if & when they're needed.

We unfortunately found no solution to this problem. It ran deeper than just alleviating non-emergency emergency-response claims: it was due to the loneliness epidemic, and the company was uncomfortable shouldering the financial and legal cost of trying to create a solution.

1. https://www.aarp.org/personal-growth/transitions/info-09-201...
Shhhh, if they notice their ideas are already held by their opposition they'll never accept them.
Parent was referring to physician-mandated homicide.
In fact, it is perfectly legal in most of US. It is on paper illegal in California, but I haven’t seen this law actually being enforced.
Capitalism can't save this. This is fundamentally a social decay problem. Modern social behavior sweeps all "unpleasant" grief under the carpet. Out of place out of mind.
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326801/000132680121...

"In addition, our current restated certificate of incorporation and bylaws contain provisions that may make the acquisition of our company more difficult, including the following:

- until the first date on which the outstanding shares of our Class B common stock represent less than 35% of the combined voting power of our common stock, any transaction that would result in a change in control of our company requires the approval of a majority of our outstanding Class B common stock voting as a separate class;

- we currently have a dual class common stock structure, which provides Mr. Zuckerberg with the ability to control the outcome of matters requiring stockholder approval, even if he owns significantly less than a majority of the shares of our outstanding Class A and Class B common stock;

- when the outstanding shares of our Class B common stock represent less than a majority of the combined voting power of common stock, certain amendments to our restated certificate of incorporation or bylaws will require the approval of two-thirds of the combined vote of our then-outstanding shares of Class A and Class B common stock;

- when the outstanding shares of our Class B common stock represent less than a majority of the combined voting power of our common stock, vacancies on our board of directors will be able to be filled only by our board of directors and not by stockholders;

- when the outstanding shares of our Class B common stock represent less than a majority of the combined voting power of our common stock, our board of directors will be classified into three classes of directors with staggered three-year terms and directors will only be able to be removed from office for cause;

- when the outstanding shares of our Class B common stock represent less than a majority of the combined voting power of our common stock, our stockholders will only be able to take action at a meeting of stockholders and not by written consent;

- only our chairman, our chief executive officer, our president, or a majority of our board of directors are authorized to call a special meeting of stockholders;

- advance notice procedures apply for stockholders to nominate candidates for election as directors or to bring matters before an annual meeting of stockholders;

- our restated certificate of incorporation authorizes undesignated preferred stock, the terms of which may be established, and shares of which may be issued, without stockholder approval;"
The research paper confirms it isn't sending the MAC address, but says it is sending the hardware serial number. I assume Apple has table to lookup up the MAC from the hardware serial number. So there's really no difference, is there?