skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The argument isn’t about Facebook per se, and especially not the people at Facebook. It’s that providing Internet services for “free” on the back of advertising was an obviously great idea when such “ads” were cute product pitches and led to positive cash flow.

But when it became obvious that “ads” was the wrong mental model, and that the products being created were ultimately about the general problem of persuading people by using data collected by spying on them, it should have been realized this was an incentive structure that any sane code of engineering ethics should abandon. Facebook ended up being the best and most successful example of an organization taking this system to its most logical endpoint, but someone always would have unless a code of ethics managed to materialize upon seeing the damage it was causing before it got too far.

I don’t judge people who work at Facebook generally, but do think every one of them at this point should resign on ethical grounds. The situation could be fixed if the company (even just internally) owned up to the malincentives they have fallen into and committed to exiting it and leading on forming a code of ethics on when these kinds of system ought not be built.
Not really explained by the linked article, but my understanding is that as the Sun increases in luminosity (increasing the solar flux), the chemical reactions that binds CO2 will increase. Within 500-600 million years the CO2 levels drop beyond the point for C3 photosynthesis. Plants using C4 photosynthesis will survive for about twice as long, though by that point the increased solar flux will have caused the surface temperature on Earth to be uninhabitable anyways.

Of course, who really knows how life might evolve to adapt to these changes. Humans have been pretty good at liberating carbon for instance :P.
Didnt Microsoft tell the press there would be no more Windows versions after 10. The title is "Part of Windows 11 is a revamped WSL". This begs the question, What is (new in) the other part. It is almost as if this marketing is being employed as a distraction.

The disclosed changes to Windows 10 that comprise "Windows 11" sound non-critical, like Firefox changing its UI for the umpteenth time without ever disclosing underlying reasons: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_new_to_Windows_11
> A few years later, after having perfected my skills as a programmer,

Phew. I was worried it might take him a decade or two. Here I am 3.5 decades in, and I'm still an imperfect programmer. Clearly, I just suck.

More seriously ... can someone explain the point of this? Why would you want to implement "a kernel" in WebAssembly? The browser (JS) environment already more or less defines a virtual machine already ... why would you overlay that abstraction with yet another semantically very similar abstraction? If you want to play with "kernel" concepts, why would you do this inside a browser rather than on an actual machine (or even a host-supported VM) ?
Both. "one of the [superlative]" is a weasel word.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weasel_word
Do you have a particular link? Because simply googling the term, I find a few things that don't even mention Sassaman. But it also seems like they may be preselecting the candidates and applying the analysis to only their works. For whatever reason, Sassaman hasn't been spoken of much as a candidate, and is unclear whether his writings (of which there are many) would have been included.
The main difference is that traditional web apps aren't inherently scams.
If you haven't read the article read it, don't just read the title.

I have no idea if this is the type of thing they put as reading material in toilets in the pentagon (which I fully support if they also regularly run out of toilet paper) or if this is what top level intelligence analysis is.

If it's the former the West is doomed:

>The term "psycho-terrorism" was coined by Russian writer N. Anisimov of the Moscow Anti-Psychotronic Center. According to Anisimov, psychotronic weapons are those that act to "take away a part of the information which is stored in a man's brain. It is sent to a computer, which reworks it to the level needed for those who need to control the man, and the modified information is then reinserted into the brain." These weapons are used against the mind to induce hallucinations, sickness, mutations in human cells, "zombification," or even death. Included in the arsenal are VHF generators, X-rays, ultrasound, and radio waves. Russian army Major I. Chernishev, writing in the military journal Orienteer in February 1997, asserted that "psy" weapons are under development all over the globe.

At the time the Russian Armies largest concern was getting enough socks for it's conscripts in Chechnya.

I would expect to read material of this quality on the 4chan conspiracy board or maybe infowars if it's a slow newsday, not in official US government documentation.
It is a nice thought but that could not happen. When an event like this happens it is because of huge structural failure.

Corruption would have played a part. If you brought a tanker or free oil, whose business interest, or tax revenue, would be impacted by an influx of cheap oil?

Who is being incentivized not to solve the issue?

Where do you dock the ship?

Who gets the oil for free but then charges the next user down the supply chain?

How can you be sure the majority of the oil does not end up on the black market, exported or not used for grid energy?

Twenty years ago the most advanced economy in the world, California, had blackouts due to fraud and corruption. If it can happen in CA it can happen anywhere.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000%E2%80%9301_California_ele...
Wouldn't the original N64 already achieve this ratio?
I always included Microsoft in FAANG
A thousand words is worth a picture. Hours of video at 25fps means they owe us another 270,000 or so words.
I mean this sounds like some of the best evidence to me.
It would have to be a per-year or per-mile tax, or else you will end up with safety issues when people avoid buying new tires (as you say, $500 more)
Finney must be considered a candidate, but considering that Sassaman took his own life after declining health, it's possible he may have put in place a succession plan for the ability to speak as Satoshi. Which could be separate from a succession plan for the Satoshi bitcoin hoard.
A large organic hass avocado is between $2 and $4. You need at least half of one to make good avocado toast. If the loaf of bread cost you $5, and makes 20 slices, that's a base cost of $2.25.
Due to Lebanon's 'Mediterranean' climate [1] and long coastline, solar and wind energy could be answer for the future.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Lebanon#/media/Fi...
US forces training Taiwanese: official
There is no implication that the seal suffered.
"Lebanon’s GDP plummeted from close to US$ 55 billion in 2018 to an estimated US$ 33 billion in 2020. GDP per capita fell by around 40 percent in dollar terms. "
> Prosperity is unfortunately a zero sum game.

Virtually every part of the world is far more prosperous than it was 100 years ago.
I believe the parent comment is referring to Hal Finney. Similar points are made in this other comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28815538
That's a good data point. Although many people program for both OSs, it at least raises the question of why make a Windows app, if it's not your preferred platform?
Okay, I understand that there's some sort of world-wide supply-chain issue. Recently I've heard about fuel shortages of various shorts. It's unclear how related the mess in Lebanon is, since the article states

> Prior to the outages, citizens had for months only been given a few hours of electricity per day

and I thought the fuel shortages were a recent phenomenon.

Regardless: does anyone have a link to a decent primer on what's going on (regarding supply chains, fuel, and all the other recent economic disruptions)? I'm not interested in the usual politically motivated "just so" stories, just a list of what's happening, what parts are definitely understood, and what parts are not understood.
Apple request for stay of injunction [pdf]
The premise that nobody cares enough to send fuel, or an amount of aid comparable in value to a tanker of fuel, is false.
> Seriously, I think one of the biggest misconceptions people with opinions like yours might have is that we are somehow unified in these decisions or occurrences – we are not – and the healthy dissent is what, over time, hopefully bends us in the right direction.

I laughed a bit at this. I guess a recruiting tactic is to now advertise the exciting possibilities of burnout? "Come join Facebook because you can totally change the ethical direction of this billion dollar surveillance behemoth from the inside, one commit at a time. ;)"
I think it's Nick Szabo. This is the article that convinced me: https://www.bitcoininsider.org/article/78686/i-designed-bitc...
>There are always passive safety systems, Chernobyl and Fukushima had too.

The Chernobyl plant was such a dangerous enough design that it would have been illegal to build it anywhere except the Soviet Union.

There were many screwups at Fukushima but I think there might have been one worker who died from exposure to radiation. As a comparison thousands of people have died from hydroelectric dam failures:

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

>...Oh BTW, the prediction about the nuclear waste so far is that it's going to stay with us for the foreseeable future and we don't know what to do with it.

In terms of the waste, right now nuclear waste can be recycled (as it is in France) which would reduce the amount of waste:

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

Soon it will be possible to use most of the waste as fuel:

"...What is more important today is why fast reactors are fuel-efficient: because fast neutrons can fission or "burn out" all the transuranic waste (TRU) waste components (actinides: reactor-grade plutonium and minor actinides) many of which last tens of thousands of years or longer and make conventional nuclear waste disposal so problematic. Most of the radioactive fission products (FPs) the reactor produces have much shorter half-lives: they are intensely radioactive in the short term but decay quickly. The IFR extracts and recycles 99.9% of the uranium and Transuranium elements on each cycle and uses them to produce power; so its waste is just the fission products; in 300 years their radioactivity will fall below that of the original uranium "

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral_fast_reactor

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

While there are issues with nuclear power, the worry some people have about nuclear waste is greatly overblown to say the least. The amount of waste is very manageable (the Netherlands actually stores their waste in an art museum!) and in a relatively short amount of time we will likely be able to use most of this "waste" to generate electricity.
(To help put it in perspective, do some web searches about the problems with coal waste - it will be a much harder problem to solve than nuclear waste. The problems with coal waste aren't discussed much since people focus on the air pollution from burning coal as it directly kills so many people.)
It appears that Lebanon's currency devalued sharply, meaning the nation can no longer afford to buy oil, leading to electricity shortages.

Can someone here more knowledgeable about Lebanon's economic history explain why the currency devalued?
Well, in 2021, they are not. The late 90s and early 00s reeked of scams too.
Wikipedia: Selected_anniversaries/October_10
Off "the grid" is more than off the utility grid. It implies a rejection of the globalized supply chain, and a return to subsistence consumption. If you can't make it, you don't have it. This also includes non-existence in the financial system, and the minimization of data footprint.
Is the Bible Open?
Wow, that is a Great Depression.
For soupault, library availability was actually a key factor: lambdasoup [1] is one of the best HTML parsing libraries if you want to automatically edit element trees, not just extract data from them.

The single case when I couldn't find a library that would really suit my needs is a TOML parser. The only TOML library for OCaml that existed when I started soupault (To.ml) has incompatibilities with the TOML spec and I categorically disagree with its design.

My solution was to write a new TOML library [2] for my own use and for the benefit of the community. It uses OCaml functors to allow the user to plug their own bignum and calendar libraries if needed and I think it's much easier to use.

Well, the topological sort library [4] also counts (sort of): there are generic graph libraries that already implement sorting, I wanted it to produce user-friendly error messages about cycles or non-existing dependencies, and to take a simple assoc list rather than a custom graph type, so I also made my own.

It's used for sorting "widgets" (page processing steps) according to dependency lists that users can specify in the config (like `after = ["foo", "bar"]`).

Other than that, one thing I really like about OCaml is that the compiler team and most library maintainers are considerate towards downstream users with respect to compatibility.

The Lua interpreter [3] that soupault uses for its plugin API is a revived 20 year old research project. It only needed minor modifications to build with recent compiler versions.

[1] https://github.com/aantron/lambdasoup

[2] https://github.com/dmbaturin/otoml

[3] https://github.com/lindig/lua-ml

[4] https://github.com/dmbaturin/ocaml-tsort
You'd need the politicians to not steal it first... natural resources wouldn't do a ton for Lebanon right now.
Bravo. Bravo! I made a similar response to a FB recruiter. They followed up offering to open a dialogue. I declined. Now to follow your blog.
> I have a hard time believing that a dog has a perception ability unknown to man

Several animals have magnetic receptors, usually birds, and many detect and act on air pressure changes.

Some women have 4 color receptors, allowing them to see one color band in 16 bits. This allows them to see through haze in some cases.

Women are very empathic, and can read other peoples' emotions, often unrealized by men.

Jimi Hendrix had synesthesia, associating musical notes with colors, hence "Purple Haze."

Ozzy Osbourne is resistant to toxins, thought to be genetic.
> The WSL IP Address changes on every restart.... ALWAYS. So trying to setup a local web server for testing becomes a hassle.

This should only be true if you're doing funny network stuff. On my machine, exposing WSL2 with 127.0.0.1:8080 allows me to connect on my Windows browser: https://i.judge.sh/shocked/Punch/WindowsTerminal_whYLqVLsIM....
Also worth noting is Wily, a Unix clone of Acme [1]. A stalled project, occasionally crashing, but with a great overall feel. Acme without the Plan 9 or Inferno battery pack.

1: http://www.cs.yorku.ca/~oz/wily/
Koboll, might you work at 1 hacker way and be one of the folks on the “inside”?
This negativity is mostly a moral panic confined to the elites who feel threatened by Facebook's power to disrupt their world (which they misinterpret as the end of the world). Facebook's actual users don't seem to care much.
Nah, it was Paul Le Roux https://www.wired.com/story/was-bitcoin-created-by-this-inte...
You do need to remember to re-run this after any major “feature” update on Windows as Microsoft have a way of “forgetting” settings they don’t like or coming up with new ways to violate users’ privacy. This is definitely not foolproof, but it is one of many tools in the arsenal.
I guess the first wave of trying to get ignorant CIOs to pay for blockchain stuff is dying down, and "Web3" is the attempt to revive it?
Their definition is close to what most people mean when they say tank controls. It just doesn't need 2 sticks.[1]

Maybe it's like chiclet keyboards. It used to mean rubber keys. Now it means bezel separated keys.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_controls
200+ for a red light? These are low power LEDs, not weaponized laser diodes. If you want a "deep" red LED then go to any hydroponic/grower supply store.

https://www.amazon.ca/HIGROW-Flowering-Fruiting-Spectrum-Enh...
"Soft right wing" propaganda? I can't understand from your response what side you think I'm taking. In one point its "right wing" propaganda, in the other, I'm criticizing right wing media.

I also completely understand how you posted a screed, without making a point at all or taking a side at all.

That Facebook has found a way to have a service that provides content, and not have to pay for it, is one of the reasons they are so immensely profitable.

I kind of laugh at your comparison to a warning in front of a show that its 'fictional' as some sort of equal warning and how that relates to what right wing cable tv news and radio have been putting on the air nearly 24/7 for the past 3 decades.

My point, is that the seeds of the misinformation and right wing propaganda isn't the leaf node that is facebook, but comes from the right wing media outlets, that are carried on cable or over the air. Its also a concern that no one on the 'left' seems entirely concerned about this, when you can dump on social media.
I had one problem after another with WSL. That made me question why I was even bothering when I could just use Hyper-v instead. I still don't get why you would use WSL. I guess MS is trying to make a more seamless experience for people who aren't Linux savvy but want some of the capabilities?
I went deep into the PLR rabbit hole because I too believed that PLR could have been Satoshi. The one dagger to the heart of the theory is that PLR lived in the Philippines at the time. If you line up Satoshi’s posting times with PLR’s local time zone, you’d have to assume that PLR was posting from 4-9ish in the Philippines.
I believe that a few times in my career I've been a 10x programmer. And it has nothing to do with algorithmic savy.

Those times have been when I've been able to mix my technical skills with an understanding of a businesses needs to recommend them avoiding going down paths that would have been really damaging and unproductive for them. Really it's infinite x if the other path was going to provide 0 or negative value and the new path has any positive value.

I believe that that is the easiest opportunity for most devs to be 10x.
Here's a mobile link for you:

https://old.reddit.com/r/SM64PC/comments/q3nm9f/sm64_has_bee...

The day they kill `/.compact` is the day I leave reddit.
Good memories. Anyone remember the user nickb?
I used to get frequent headaches and eye strain during work. I bought blue light filtering glasses, and the problem went away instantly and hasn't come back. Placebo or not?
I also don't know. So I have to look to the evidence.

On the no-harm side, I see nothing.

On the harm side, I see a study about which someone has raised some concerns.

I understand you have concerns about the study design, but I'm not confident that they affect the outcome in such a way that the study provided zero evidence for Facebook being viewed as harmful.

Is there a study which doesn't run into the same concerns which says the opposite of this one?
My favorite line of reasoning from the article was that folks hold no civic duty to work on the inside for the megalomaniac that is the Zuck. I do find out very empathetic that the author understands why folks would stay employed there: it pays super well and people have obligations.
I do have a similar perception though I would add there is often political stuff that is not of particular interest to me as a hacker.
Per wiki, the Beirut explosion in 2020 also did some 13 Billion USD in damage, too
I have edge installed as a flatpak from flathub-beta and haven't seen any 'ads'.
The sandbox capabilities of flatpak also help reduce potential attack surface.
I wonder what that Arrington guy from the YouTube thread is up to these days. They were very concerned about everything.
The IRS Is Cracking Down on Small-Time eBay and Etsy Sellers
The primary benefit of f.lux is that blue light (morning blue sky) triggers wakefulness, but red light (sunset) triggers sleepiness.

I can go to sleep an hour and a half earlier if I use f.lux or a similar "turn the blue channel off" app.
Wow the website is absolute garbage. No way to view the link on mobile. Do people on HackerNews actually work for this company? Any comments?
Fixing Adtech's Unethical Behavior
Little is less appetizing than a half-used avocado. Might as well make two slices, so it doesn't go to waste.

A friend of mine turned me on to fried avocado. Much better than avocado toast, if you aren't inclined to count calories from fat...
Seriously, I think one of the biggest misconceptions people with opinions like yours might have is that we are somehow unified in these decisions or occurrences – we are not – and the healthy dissent is what, over time, hopefully bends us in the right direction.

Oh, the irony. Well it looks like the "healthy dissent" gets you out the door. Perhaps that is the right direction the recruiter was referring to?
Is the Conventional Wisdom on Educational Spending All Wrong?
> Satoshi came out of retirement in March 2014 to state that he was not Dorian Nakamoto

It appears far from certain that Satoshi posted that message on Ning in March of 2014:

Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto targeted by email hack https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/sep/09/bitcoin-c...

> An administrator of the semi-official Bitcoin Talk forum, Michael Marquardt, posted on Monday night that he had received an email from Nakamoto’s old address, “not spoofed in any way”, that made him certain the account was compromised.

> “It seems very likely that either Satoshi’s email account in particular or gmx.com in general was compromised, and the email account is now under the control of someone else,” Marquardt wrote under his username, theymos[1]. “Perhaps satoshin@gmx.com expired and then someone else registered it.”

> Shortly after Marquardt’s post, “Nakamoto” posted on the Ning messageboard, one of the first places the real Nakamoto announced the creation of Bitcoin. Using the same forum account to append a comment to that announcement, the apparent hacker warned Satoshi that his details were for sale.

[1] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=775174.msg8734884#ms...
Considering you’re exposed to water during limited times (and need to actually ingest it) but exposed to air 24/7 (or else you die) that doesn’t seem like a reasonable comparison.

If someone standing in front of you sneezes, a filter in the HVAC isn’t doing anything to stop you from getting covid.

I mean, isn’t airborne transmission still uncertain for Covid?
It originally was. It was originally Startup News. But PG thought it got boring, so expanded the scope to what Hackers might find interesting, so it became Hacker news.
Interesting to see that the N64 only used 19watts. I was expecting a much larger number.

http://www.tpcdb.com/product.php?id=2602
I imagine a lot of those green users are sock puppets submitting the first couple of articles.
Titanic Lego Set
That difference between center and peripheral vision isn't a defect. It has served us well for thousands of years. Center vision is for hunting, for tracking a target you want to chase/kill. Off-center vision is for noticing stuff in the bushes trying to kill you. So off-center vision is better at night and for detecting movement. That kept us away from the lions. Our acute center vision is tuned for daylight. It helped kill those lions when it was our turn to hide in the bushes.
Of course there’s a redlightman.com, but I am a bit surprised at the cost of these things. Is there something special about these “therapy lights” that a guy with a soldering iron and a handful of cheap 670nm LEDs wouldn’t be getting? I mean, the price of these finished products compared to my perception of the component costs is rather astounding.
I assume that means it is missing the tight integration with wsl which is my primary use case.
It really doesn't look all that much different to my eyes.