skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I wonder when they're going to tackle macroeconomic forecasting?

That was Dark Sky's play - and it was amazingly fruitful. It would even leverage the barometer in most phones. It was a bit disappointing when Apple acquired them since it cuts non-iOS users off, but it was a great app when it was out. For iOS users as of iOS 15 Apple's weather widget is now based on Dark Sky's tech making their app redundant.
Lacks’ cells were harvested and developed long before the advent of consent procedures used in medicine and scientific research today, but lawyers for her family say Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., of Waltham, Massachusetts, has continued to commercialize the results well after the origins of the HeLa cell line became well known.

The lawsuit asks the court to order Thermo Fisher Scientific to “disgorge the full amount of its net profits obtained by commercializing the HeLa cell line to the Estate of Henrietta Lacks.” It also wants Thermo Fisher Scientific to be permanently enjoined from using HeLa cells without the estate’s permission.
The Catholic Woman Who Pioneered the Field of Archaeology
like i've written in other comments

She has proven evil happened, we're now asking who directed it. The first thing we need to know is who did she report into, and who the most senior person in her teams meetings was.

From there just keep going up, it will stop at some point (I have no doubt there will be zuck martyrs, just wondering at which level)
Mondoo brings security tools to every developer
Yes, I do not have any problem with it whatsoever. There are probably plenty of books that also cause some percentage of people to develop suicidal thoughts, but I do not want to start banning those books.
> But the idea of air travel where you watch the trees, rivers, pass as though you were on some "elevated train" is fascinating to me.

I did a hot-air balloon flight in Southern England several years ago and this low-level aspect was an unexpected bonus. The hills and rolling countryside seemed much more three-dimensional than I have seen from light aircraft, for whatever reason, especially in the low early-morning sun angles. It was also possible to hear ground noise (e.g. dogs barking at the balloon). You could also see the slow reaction of flocks of animals (e.g. sheep) that moved in their fields away from the balloon.
The point of the blog post is that Timescale cloud isn't totally "serverless", because for some 20% of use cases, you do want to think about nodes and other database internals.

From the blog post:
"So today’s serverless data platforms are not familiar or flexible. But further, black boxes are never truly easy and worry free: you never know if there are any skeletons lurking in the proverbial closet, just waiting to cause your service to fall over."

(Timescale employee here)
Ads.

I knew something was seriously wrong the moment I saw a legitimate business (EBay) selling eye-ball space (ads) on their property that was supposedly profitable through legitimate business (hosting a marketplace, taking a cut, etc).

Ads create a negative and detrimental feedback loop by incentivizing dark patterns and other negative gamification in order to squeeze out previously non-existant eyeball time from your product. E.g. the optimal path for say EBay is to have a user come on, find what they want, browse a bit through interesting things and recommendations, buy what they want/need, then log off. Instead, ads have incentivized spam listings which do two things: More eyeball time and thus ad-impressions/clicks. And they've cause the creation of non-optimal experiences by allowing non-optimal players to exist through pure randomness. I.e. In an ideal market, it should be "winner takes all" for any unique genre or field or product space, one which should be exploring. Instead, the spam listings make it so a non-negligible amount of useless and bottom of the barrel products/sellers/companies to exist and thrive.

For FB, ads have commoditized eyeball time even more directly than the indirect example I gave above with EBay. A potential product path with FB should be people using it as a platform to interact with people they know, organize events, and to have a shared space to communicate and discuss ideas.
Are they giving free egress on the public 5432 endpoint - if you host with say DO/Linode (obviously you have DO/Linode limits too)?
> There is evidence Social Media causes harm to some individuals' mental health (in a widespread manner causing some measurable societal harm)

And they do so by exploiting human weaknesses using the same psychological techniques used by casinos and other forms of gambling.
Will this also be implemented in the mobile browsers (e.g. Firefox for Android)?
I think that's true, but there's also a danger of asking someone to 'be that guy' who isn't Steve. That seems like a bigger risk.

And in the meantime Apple still has its own fairly cohesive idea of how you use their devices and software ... while places like Google cancel and re-releases apps with half the features as the one they canceled, and I don't think they have a real idea of how people use their stuff.
agreed but still impressed by authors effort
How the pandemic taught farmers to love online sales
Sell it and buy something better with actual Linux support. Anything that involves installing Linux onto an M1 will always be an unsupported hack*, at best.

* Some of y'all need to unwad your panties and look at the overall picture here.

Without Apple contributing to the kernel or at least documenting the system, getting ANYTHING running on an M1 is still a hack...

...regardless of the quality of the end result.

I wish the Asahi Linux folks the best of luck and have no doubt that they're capable.

I just wish it wasn't so much effort put towards hardware from a company that is known for its incredibly hostile response to users doing what they want with the hardware they own.

And for those who insist that 'unsupported hack' is an insult, you should look up other meanings in the dictionary sometime.

* Definition of Unsupported: (of a program, language, or device) not having assistance for the user available from a *manufacturer* or systems manager.

* Definition of Hack: an act of computer hacking.
I understand that and I’m ready to do that. But I see it as being part of the group that is building something. In IT, unless you are an architect, things are pretty much set. I understand that I romanticize it a bit, but I won’t settle until I try for myself.

I think this is what I want my career to be so I’m trying to go for it. If it’s not, then I’ll go for mechanical engineering and I’ll start all over. Mech eng would line up with my hobby of racing cars in part.
> Other Apples are emerging all the time

How so? Are other people creating closed software platforms where they charge 30% off the top for their developers? I agree that they've gone more corporate over the years, but it was only after the realization that they could exploit the market with their install-base. It's quite literally, step-for-step identical to Microsoft's old Internet Explorer parable that got them in so much trouble. They're taking advantage of a market without any other options, which is not something that an emerging company can do, much less at the scale Apple does it.
Convincing somebody who can hardly turn on their computer to get their own domain is just not practical. Even if they can get their own domain they still have to set up DNS. Good luck getting them to set up MX, spf and dkim.

I think things would be better if more people had their own domain. I just don't see any way of making it happen. I can't get my own family to leave gmail even with me handling all the domain stuff for them. Even my technical coworkers who are capable of this don't care.
Your own troops would be issued PPE — in this case, laser protective eyewear.

This is already a thing due to the widespread use of laser rangefinders, designators, and the like, as well as the fact that the Chinese have fielded blinding laser weapons.
This sounds like the social media equivalent of Apple's CSAM feature. Use children and teens as the straw man argument for censoring social media so you can use it later to squash political descent.
>"basic editorial processes in place that do a rudimentary check on truthiness"

I think this is merely an illusion. The beauty of English is that you can spin a story a dozen different ways while still presenting 'true' facts/details about an event. (Edit: "Fiery, but mostly peaceful" is a quintessential example of this.) You can also shape how strongly the public reacts to something by how much you decide to cover the story. I guarantee you that if the Fall of Kabul happened under Donald Trump's administration we'd still be getting daily news stories about the fallout.

Furthermore, the press has done an excellent job of branding itself as an impartial arbiter of truth, whereas in reality they're just another business run by people with their own motivations.
I didn’t know that! Thanks for letting me know, I’ll check that out.
> The extreme radicalism

What do you think FB's role is in that? Do you think the "algorithms" are to blame?

Seems to me that unmoderated online discussion will always be toxic. Take a look at the chan forums for an extreme, anonymous version of social media where there are no algorithms to blame.

When you bring the general public online and give them a platform to voice their insane ideas they never discussed before, you get the internet in 2021.

Combine that with the fact that until recently, people on the opposite sides of the political spectrum rarely interacted. The division was there, but it was masked by the inability to directly attack each other. Now, I can go on Twitter and argue all day with the other side in a thread below a Senator's tweet.

Unless you are suggesting Facebook begin heavily moderating what people say, there will be no other outcome until we as a society collectively learn to 1. Have empathy for others when conversing online, 2. Stop participating in discussions that make you feel terrible, and the classic, 3. Don't believe everything you read online.
He occasionally did that to Tim Cook as well.
I think her fundamental argument isn't even really about Facebook specifically. It's about algorithmic content ranking being intrinsically harmful to society. The thing that's specific to Facebook is that they actually have a ton of research quantifying this -- which she has released -- and yet they are still all-in on it.

It doesn't seem like there's a lot of complexity to understand here about how Facebook works as a company. Their commitment to optimizing metrics over all else is well-known already. The interesting thing is the research showing how harmful that is.
Wonderful! Thanks for the info!

I have to check the current state of rstudio/ipython console support with sixels: doing everything from the terminal is a luxury I want in 2021, especially now that hidpi/4k screens are becoming mainstream :)

Last time I tried in uni on a "new" Thinkpad R52 (well, new for me as it wall already over 10 years old, but it had such a glorious 1400x1050 display!) quite a few things were missing.
> forcing a financial cost to sending mail

By doing this, you'll encourage the commercialization of email. The people who can fund sending email will be the ones who send email.

Frankly, I don't think email is broken, as is. It is very easy to subscribe and unsubscribe to email lists, and spam filtering generally works. It is relatively easy to control one's inbox, and it is completely under your control, as opposed to the many other services that have tried to replace it.
Sometimes people (me included) can't separate the person from their creations/actions.

I'm not saying they always should, but is just an observation.

I think is fair to say that Jobs changed several industries and that has a lot of value to me, but there are plenty of documented situations when I was left thinking he was not a good person.

I don't need to know him to learn from all those documented facts.
Lucky for Zuck he’s spent the last decade cultivating lots of relationships in DC...
FB did not totally disconnect from the internet as far as what I observed. They broke their backbone (from the blog post, as well as seeing that their edge was returning 503s during the incident), and FB withdrew specific BGP announcements which covered their DNS servers are what I saw. I think this is consistent with what Cloudflare actually said, although not what has been often repeated since then.
The fact that it's possible to question whether or not any illegal behavior has been revealed doesn't mean that Facebook didn't cause – and is not causing – any harm doesn't mean there's no basis to Haugen's revelations.

Rather, it means that under the current regulatory regime, there are no penalties for behavior harmful to consumers. That the only recourse is to file with the SEC alleging harm to the stockholders is simply a reflection of the fact that the mantra of "shareholder value" has become the only law that corporations have to follow.
I'm wondering if we somehow read different articles.

"1. They wanted free stuff (water), and didn't get it."

Um... their water system failed, and Prospera hooked them up to their own water system, without informing them that they would be charged for this. Further, the entity doing the charging was calling itself a philanthropic foundation.

"This is why it might be easier to develop advanced human communities on Mars - no locals to worry about!"

I'm not going to make sweeping assumptions about you based on a single comment. However, this kind of phrasing makes it sound as if you believe peoples' wellbeing and autonomy are secondary to - or perhaps at odds with - profit.
Hey, small world. I know the author. :)
For everyone responding that smokers cost the government money, it is actually the opposite in that they save the government money because on average they die sooner. From the manning study: "In this analysis, the federal government saves about $29 billion per year in net health and retirement costs (accounting for effects on tax payments). These include a saving in retirement (largely social security benefits) of about $40 billion and in nursing home costs (largely medicaid) of about $8 billion. Costs include about $7 billion for medical care under 65 and about $2 billion for medical care over 65; the remaining $10 billion cost is the loss in contributions to social security and general revenues that fund medicaid. "

(PDF): https://www.everycrsreport.com/files/19980430_97-1053E_53c59...
Moreover, warnings are useless if people can't vote with their feet. So if you want to actually affect change in the dynamics of the market you need to make services compete on quality and value to the customer rather than engaging in a scramble to accrue insurmountable network effects and lock-in.

That means mandates for data interoperability. Sadly, I have no idea how to implement that in a way that doesn't utterly stifle innovation by ossifying what sorts of data models social media is allowed to have. But at the very least we could create a sort of interoperability minimum that prevents you from locking up things like photo albums or peoples' "social graphs."

Over the longer term I'd like to see some kind of disentanglement of the protocols, standards, and data models from the front-end clients. It's obviously a lot more complicated now, but in the same way that you could access AIM, ICQ, GChat, and a bunch of other stuff from a variety of chat clients it would be good to be able to do this with everything social. Hell, ActivityPub basically tries to do this now so it's not impossible.
The problem is that without laws, what would those "standards" be?

You have to do more than the law? But how does any business in the future know what that is?

The great things about law are predictability and flexibility. If the law is not enough, we can change it. Then everyone is held to that new standard. But having a standard that is not laid out, is the same thing as having no standard at all.

Going into an area where we say companies have to meet an unwritten ethical and/or moral standard is ripe for abuse. Under those conditions, if I show certain messages or ads on my website that are wholly unethical and immoral, but not necessarily illegal in the written law, I'm opening myself up to liability based on violating unstated ethics and morals.
Context for those who didn't see it yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28749244
This is apparently not cool these days. I think we’ve lost our spirit of what made SV great. Now it’s just identity politics, pessimism and general stagnancy as Peter Thiel puts it. I honestly kind of want to go back to 2005 - what a time to be alive.
I bought more after a stop loss sale. I was a strong bull for a while basing on where I spend my advertising dollars.

I spent like at least 60% of my clients money on FB (before CTV scaled). Now CTV is eating more budget AND I'm really feeling the iOS changes.

I think the ad market will sort it self and value out but this month has been bad and all over the place. For instance targeting small non-profit donor lists isn't as effective but for some reason I'm having some success just targeting everyone over 45 (a non-profit ask, prob won't work as well for a Democratic ask).

I also see a ton of tik tok videos reposted with logo and everything on IG.

Still a bull but I am concerned and unless they get a new platform or immersive reality/ar takes off I don't think there is room for huge exponential growth anymore. Significant incremental 100% though IMHO.

But who am I opinion doesn't matter, my ad buying experience is only one tiny anecdote. I'm small in both spend and my investments - only recently became better at saving vs spending. Though my dad put in more than I could a bit after IPO and has bumped his retirement considerable
umm if this hearing results in some kind of monetary settlement she will be entitled to some of it
No disagreement there, and for the record I am glad the Jan 6 rioters are being prosecuted.

The point I was raising is that "Facebook = riot" is too simplistic an explanation. Moreover the contributing factors are not isolated to one event or political persuasion.
I know a lot of leftists who would do a spit-take laughing about you calling Biden the "leader of the left today". Contemporary leftists hate Biden/Harris almost as much as they ever hated Trump.
I'd assume it is a cache invalidation problem at that point: from my lay understanding BGP probably needs to busts caches on a withdrawal to keep traffic from going to black holes and prevent DDoS attempts, but probably has to wait for TTL timeouts to cache new routes (and those TTLs are going to vary by whatever cache systems the other ASes are running not the timing of Facebook's AS sending the new [old] routes.).
Interesting idea. But Musk and Bezos are still in charge…
Why not cache the HTML/CSS instead of using a screenshot? I'm no expert on web/browser development, so I don't know the difficulty or feasibility in caching just the visible bits leaving a static HTML/CSS snapshot minus any javascript seems, but it seems more ideal IMO since you'd still be able to click links.

Just a thought
Facebook further blurs the difference between objective analysis, expert opinion, and uninformed nonsense. And, yes, like the talk shows, it profits off this amplification of nonsense. Algorithmic engagement is the natural evolution of "if it bleeds, it leads".

Facebook just happens to be much bigger and much better at it than the legacy news companies.
Musk (and his PR machine) leans into his mostly manufactured image as an eccentric genius, which charms an audience who is susceptible to that type of thing.

Bezos has had no significant public profile to speak of except as a brutal, unrelenting capitalist. He's clearly trying to change that with his post-Amazon charm tour in space.
I'm incredibly thankful for Jobs introducing the personal computer. Computers are devices that we can own and use, not intangible and unreachable academic things. We owe our careers in part to him and his work.

At the same time, I'm profoundly upset at his introduction of the App Store and sidelining of the right to repair. Our devices belong to us. We should be able to do with them what we please.

It's also incredibly anti-competitive to tell every startup in the world that what was once free to distribute, market, and form a relationship with their customer: "now you must sit atop Apple rails for (entirely artificial) reasons". It's extractive. There's so much more to solve in the world. Why take energy from those smaller than you? It lowered the fitness and innovation capacity of everyone else. Those dollars could be runway and additional labor for someone with bright ideas.

Jobs was a human just like the rest of us. There was both good and bad in him, and he made a profound mark upon society. The world was shaped by his short time here. No question.
Simply disallowing corporations to reach the scale of Facebook/ConAgra/Amazon/WalMart would solve many many problems.

These companies do awful things because:

1. They have few viable alternatives so ethical consumers end up choosing them when they might not otherwise.

2. They have enough money that it is profitable to do bad things and pay for the damage control.

3. They have enough power to defeat regulation and government oversight.

4. They are so large and monolithic that they can hide their internal workings more easily.

5. The org chart is so deep that those in power are psychologically removed from much of the consequences of their overpowered actions.
I cant help but think Apple is using Steve to tell us what Apple really is. Since Tim Cook has failed to communicate that message across to its audience. ( May be apart from certain ideology group ).

It may also help to temper the new born hatred against Apple from their long time supporters.

I really wish he was still alive, and continue to be the yard stick of quality so we dont have Apple Music, spending two years on the next song and then another two years reversing that. [1], Apple TV+, as Steve would have partnered with Disney. A whole generation of MacBook with Butterfly Keyboard. Apple without an Editor is like a Giant Design Studio, everything looks great, from UI to Industrial Design. But they are more forms over function.

[1] https://youtu.be/B9Ve-mEy1oY?t=260
Afaik it has no support for receiving messages while offline, at least this was a blocker for me to consider it. Solutions with some mail box protocol on a DHT could work, but maybe it's not a hot research topic how to do this anonymously and reliable?
Tim Cook is the one responsible for their overseas manufacturing. Him successfully pulling it off is the reason he became CEO.
"Where is My Flying Car" is very good. The author is a bit overoptimistic IMO in his assessment of technological capabilities, but it has a great overview of attempted aviation innovations that I've never seen anywhere else.

There is a different book also called "The Big Score"[0] (not the one put out by Stripe Press), that is about a mining billionaire, Robert Friedland. He was Steve Jobs' roommate in college, it's alleged that some of Friedland's charisma rubbed off on Jobs. Interesting book for people who want to read about how startups work in the mining industry.

[0]: https://www.amazon.com/Big-Score-Robert-Friedland-Voiseys/dp...