skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do the defendants have any of their own video evidence to back that up? If this hand-waving were such a big issue, surely someone would have recorded it, even if only by accident.
I'd much rather have a gTLD that is not a .com or a country-code like .SO or others. There have been problems with startups trying to get back their ccTLD. Notion for example nearly lost notion.so because they had to prove they were residents there. So stick with generic ones like .app .click etc

Also: .club domains were famously down for a few days, so pay attention to that. .ORG is another one worth trying, but mostly non-profits use that (but you are free to setup a .ORG business site if you want)
This rings extremely true based on my observation. Fundamentally, companies working on large projects will ship their org chart. It is modestly more difficult, if your org chart gets spilt in two such that two or more teams are now maintaining the same SPA, to synchronize their work such that they don't interfere with each other's activities. You begin looking at a more traditional application development model with full program integration testing in the mix.

Multiple pages means multiple entirely separate client-side contexts that are a security hole if they can clobber each other.
> we can choose not to use Facebook

You're looking at this from a western perspective. Some non-western countries are entirely linked by Facebook products. When Facebook went down last week, some people couldn't access their BANKS. You OK with that?

That's what Facebook wants: to become something you simply MUST use to survive.

It goes deeper in the US as well but not as deep: some restaurants and small shops don't have websites, they have facebook/instragram pages, which means I cannot access them.

We need legislation to stop Facebook creep, because that "creep" eventually makes it mandatory.
To be fair, a lot of the criticism is constructive in nature (not all of it, of course). Personally, I'd prefer that to pats-on-the-back.
> The result is, healthy young people who almost certainly cannot benefit from taking the vaccine are being pressured to take it, suffering extreme adverse side effects, and being told that they're just psych cases (suffering from anxiety or something similar)

The above post is the exact reason why we are never getting out of this Pandemic. Just pure misinformation being passed as facts.

Young people can die from COVID but they won't die from COVID vaccine shots. Once they are vaccinated, they are much less likely to spread COVID, which is the real reason we want the young to get vaccinated. So they can stop spreading it.

Individual cases of people having strong reactions to the COVID vaccine is expected and not harmful to the individuals. I fail to understand why anti-vaxxers keep posting this kind of information. They are just telling us what we have already been told we can expect.

Also, if you think having a strong reaction to the COVID vaccine was bad, wait until you get COVID because it just might kill you.
Nah it certainly doesn't. This only covers up to February 2018. At the time they only had $2B in issued USDT, and of course, they remain under investigation by the DOJ and SEC.
> you're just writing nice frames that reveal your bias. a lot of people who questioned health authorities throughout this have been vindicated on various things, including the threat of COVID itself.

I feel you're being disingenuous.

I mean, where exactly do you see any "vindication" regarding the real threat of covid19 when in 2020 it was already the third leading cause of death in the US and it already overtook the 1918 flu as the deadliest pandemic[¹] ?

This assertion is even more ridiculous given that those criticising the initial covid19 response tried to downplay it as nothing more than a harmless mild flu, and now we're seeing in the US alone over 700 thousand deaths.

[1] https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/covid-19-...
Are you really suggesting that we shouldn't assume good faith of the article author because it's not in the guidelines? The results aren't pretty as we can see. When you read an article you as a reader have an obligation to try and read the article the way the author meant it imo.
Yes. To me, its more like they leaned into what the assumptions about them because they couldn't shake the assumptions. As in, at first they were doing what they said and people complained anyway, so then they did what people were complaining about because it was a conveniently awesome amount of money and people kept complaining, so then they changed their legal contract to reflect that they can be what people complain about, the state investigated and found the period of time where they did what people complained about and had not updated their legal contract yet.
A good first step.

The best move would be to prevent giants from having so many hands in so many jars. The lines are hard to draw, but a good heuristic would be if they're stepping across industry boundaries.

Commoditizing your complement is great if you're engaged in war tactics against a few rivals, but when it's broadly applied to everything it's essentially a scorched earth campaign that has massive negative externalities for the entire capitalist ecosystem.

As an example and a prediction of the outcome of this behavior: in a decade there will be few movie studios left because Amazon, Apple, and Google ate them up so that they can keep eyeballs on their platforms.

Things we deal with today: browser monoculture, unilateral decision making, and erosion of ad blocking. Devices you can't repair that are the only way you can access certain sets of services. Etc.

If these were separate companies, the experience would be top notch for each piece, and user rights would be respected.
Bust the ISPs first otherwise this is nothing more than attacking your enemy. There are alternatives to Google services already. They are more open than Apple.
Noom, a popular diet/weight-loss app, works on the same principle. I've used it. To start the free trial you need to prepare the payment mechanism. Then after X amount of days, the paid service automatically kicks in. I wasn't super-excited to discover I'd just committed a lot of money before I was ready or even fully committed to the app/service.

I suspect this is going to be the new trend for future apps, since it almost certainly delivers a higher number of paid users than other methods do.
Again though, how would 2+ mini Facebook's make that better?
Reddit is an interesting one. Since it's an anonymous experience, I guess it'd be the same issues with any internet community. It can be stressful to see seemingly abhorrent viewpoints in such concentrated numbers. And it can be stressful when you feel a community is turning against you, even if your connections to that community are extremely tendentious.
The trauma is actually a bit higher in drone operators from the moral injury aspect. When you teleoperate a drone you cannot say to yourself that you killed to protect your life and that of your buddies.

The part I would worry more about is the selective pressure for violent psychopaths and lack of pressure against them - especially the anonymity. If there was a psychopath soldier who enjoyed say shooting kids for laughs he would at least make himself a high priority target even without any court martial/appalling his fellows enough to let him get killed or doing so directly.

Unless the CIA is involved with the designs there is a small upside that the robot dogs probably wouldn't be capable of rape at least. That isn't an inappropriate joke - it is an honest assessment of their record and moral character.

For the US as a belligerent the biggest demoralizer is that they seldom pick winnable fights and instead pick expensive quagmires for political points. That they fail even with science fiction ubertech demoralizes them further as it makes it cleae the lions lead by donkeys were fortunate in comparison. That seems to serve as progressive national permanent damage to faith. In the case of actually exercising the draft opinions have leaned stronger towards "Immediate treason or defection is the better option over fighting for one who enslaves me." since the Vietnam War.

Of course causus beli fabrication and propaganda to play on fears have also progressed as techniques unfortunately.
Problem is, this is simply assuming that governments can't do that already. Anyone thinks that if president Xi wants to know who has photos of the Dalai, Apple is going to say no to any demand they make? Apple will be more than happy to oblige; they will censor, remotely disable apps, and push silent updates with location tracking and the like. I am quite sure this has already happened.

This is actually why I dislike when "libertarian" organizations are all too happy to let the corporations have practically unlimited surveillance power, but when the democratically-elected government tries to do it on a smaller, specific scale? Then no, that shall not pass! Government bad!

Well, I have some news. If your democratically-elected government is really ever going to turn Stasi/Fascist, Apple is not going to stand up to it, and they are going to be all too happy to share your data with them. Your government may right now still have some decency left, which means that they send a legal request to Apple instead of a secret letter from a three-letter-agency, but that is not going to be the case for a more evil one.

The solution for sure involves preventing these corporations from having surveillance power, _in part by using government regulation_ since apparently citizens do not seem to understand the problem. A cultural change is also required, so that pervasive surveillance by corporations stops being seen as normal. Then when the government wants to do it they will have to roll their classy-old own spy tech, rather than just asking for the data to any corporation.

This is yet another area where the market, "vote with your wallet" or "self-regulation" by the corporations themselves is not going to cut it. They need to be forced to avoid having access to this much data about their users.
I made a comment elsewhere in the thread about the Gemini PDA. Do not trust this company to deliver proper GNU/Linux support. Ever. They keep using MediaTek chips and horrible shims to use Android drivers on GNU/Linux and none of it works well at all. It's not even close to the experience you would get with a PinePhone or Librem 5. You are giving up a lot to get those better specs. After getting a Gemini PDA I am never buying anything from Planet Computers again.
It was a competitive bidding process, no? I don't mean to suggest there aren't huge problems with the army's acquisition process, but it seems no one wanted to make them for less.
> There is such a distance from "kinda works in demo" to "killing active enemy" that it is barely worth thinking about for five years or more.

It depends on the level of investment. WW2 saw a tremendous technological progress in 5 years because that was it took to win the war. Nowadays, I don't see why AR would be so urgent.
Well, the "Explorer Edition" units haven't gone on sale yet. Right now only developer units are on sale, and those are strictly for developers who will contribute to the kernel, firmware, drivers, and shell. But I'm sure they will be willing to process a refund for you if your device hasn't shipped out yet, otherwise you'll have to return it minus the cost of shipping.
A lot of social media posts come down to bragging under the guise of "celebrating life". People will go on a vacation and then meter out the pictures from it over months to appear like they're on perpetual vacations. I don't mind people apologizing for those.

To say nothing of edited photos.
It keeps them on the right side of political censors, while allowing them to get the truth out a tiny bit at a time.
This settlement only covers up until February 2018. At that time they only had $2B-ish in issued Tethers (as compared to $65B ish now). $850M of their assets were seized in an AML sting shortly after that, in mid 2018 [1], they've been fined $42.5M [this article and 2] by the CFTC and another $18.5M by the NYAG [3].

Basically they've had to forfeit almost half of their assets up to [edit] Mid-2018.

They remain under investigation for bank fraud by the DOJ [4] and for something unspecified by the SEC. [5]

I suspect this party is just beginning.

[edit] By the way, I love how each party here is framing this.

> Tether: "As to the Tether reserves, there is no finding that tether tokens were not fully backed at all times—simply that the reserves were not all in cash and all in a bank account titled in Tether’s name, at all times."

> CFTC: "In fact Tether reserves were not “fully-backed” the majority of the time."

[1] https://fortune.com/2019/05/03/cryptocurrency-new-york-attor...

[2] https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2021/10/15/cftc-fines-tether...

[3] https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/2021.02.17_-_settlemen...

[4] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/26/doj-reportedly-probes-crypto...

[5] https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2021/09/24/sec-hints-at-teth...
There is mindlessly doing "Agile" "by the book" in a time and place where it doesn't fit (ignoring the whole idea about people over process)

... and there is doing something completely different in a time and place where agile would be perfect - and claim that it is "agile".

(And there's thankfully places like the team I work on now where other teamleads come to see how our team lead does it. I suspect part of it might be all the stuff she doesn't do ;-)
I find that when people characterize a widespread anti-parasitic medication, used in humans for over 30 years, as a "horse de-wormer", that I have a great difficulty in believing they have anything meaningful to add to the debate.
Are there any hidden traps in the free plan? I know they have incentive to onboard as many free users as possible since they get part of the card fee when you use it, but people get greedy even with an opportunity to make essentially free, effortless, and ethical money.
Server 2012 R2 on ESXI7.0 non-accessible bootdev from Windows paravirtSCSI patch
Twitter, Youtube, Reddit, and TikTok don't have megalomaniac CEOs who got rich selling out their users to advertisers while spending that money on PR messages like "privacy is dead" and then turning around to buy all the mansions around theirs so that they can protect their privacy.

Also there's that little itty bitty issue where Facebook was purposely manipulating people's timeline feeds to see if they could produce depression-like symptoms, without informed consent.
I've heard the contract team (PMs) over-promised (as usual) literal SciFi features that can't physically be implemented (especially around the size of the helmet).

Engineers on the project are leaving in droves (we got a couple interviewing for us, but I presume a lot more are just moving internally) to avoid the crunch and (likely) eventual crash & burn (because if they can't physically implement the requirements today I doubt they'll breakthrough in a year).
Gov't acquisition always involves shifts 'to the right'. Even in 100x smaller programs than IVAS.
I have not seen wild tobacco growing, but the domestic varieties are striking plants and often have a covering of dead bugs on them. That would attract attention, I'd think.

Tobacco as we now know it has incredibly light flyaway seeds that seem to prefer being moved after germination. I'd like to know how much of that is domestication and how much is wild adaptation we never beat out of it.
Tech can always an option. I mean we are entering WFH being the normal so office spaces aren't exactly what is required but once you start building Tech everything comes along with it (schools, stores,tech law firms etc) that supports Tech and in general people move where the money is.
It's not an obsession with productivity. Speed of the tools we use limit the thoughts we can think.
Wow you seem quite sensitive. It's an analogy from the author's perspective, you don't have to take it personally just because it happens to clash with your own perspective.
> Switching brand of cigarettes doesn’t protect your lungs.

Atleast get one with filters?
You can still be hyper-productive without killing yourself in the process. Also, some people actually like to do these things.

Keep in mind that there is a point where relaxation turns you into a worthless bum, and constantly analyzing things before you act will mean you struggle to learn which paths don't work in reality.
I can kinda understand the Google Drive: they requested her files for an internal investigation (at least if I understood the article correctly), she deleted those files (by deleting the app through which they could have accessed the data) which is indeed a non-compliance, a bit like destroying evidence.

What baffles me is the Pokémon GO and Robinhood. What, they wanted to see her movement data as well as her share in Bitcoin? That's just dumb. And unless they needed her physical locations and movements at certain times and dates (for which they would need a specific order), they could have simply gone in the location data in the freaking settings!
Apple has a financial incentive to comply. The Chinese market is so huge. Most american companies would do anything to gain access to a market like that. When you do business in China, if the CCP says jump, you jump or prepare to forefit every single asset you have in that country. Full stop.
How does it compare to psycopg2? I've been using psycopg2 for the db calls and then loading the results in to a dataframe if necessary. Separation of concerns.
The reader comments on this article are overwhelmingly supportive of Chappelle. So why is journalistic opinion on the topic in the u.s. almost entirely not?

My best guess is Twitter. Most journalist are active Twitter users and may have imbibed a particular culture from it that is out of step with even the more left leaning parts of the general public, like NYTimes readers.
I've been doing web development for over twenty years now. Perl, PHP, ASP, Rails, .NET, Flash, Flex, Silverlight and various JavaScript and SPA frameworks.

I really like the MPA approach. To me it means building a bunch of mini SPAs. You can still stuff everything into a single SPA to deploy to a mobile app, but it gives you the advantage quicker first-time page loads and a lot of extra flexibility.

Compared to the Web 1.0 way of doing things where you POST and then reload the page, you're taking an API based approach so when a 3rd party needs to integrate with you - that part is probably done already.

A lot of sites use the MPA approach wrong though. They load the "apps", then proceed to make a whole bunch of asynch requests for data. In most cases, using a mechanism to inject in data when a page first loads makes everything feel a lot faster.

It's the best of both worlds: you get the speed of the old school web and the flexibility of modern practices.
is that a joke? they run completely different things
I never liked Android, having owned a few. The hardware is quickly obsolete, interface has this clunky feeling, apps don’t work properly, often because devs don’t see the same rewards as their iOS brethren. And however you spin it, it’s all proprietary sponsored.

A linux phone might have the same problems, but at least its far more closer to the Open Source side of things.
On a Thinkpad X270, 14m8s from I typed `stack build` in a fresh clone. I had the GHC version, but almost no libraries from that snapshot, so it had to compile a bunch of dependencies. I then tried a fresh clone and `stack build` again and that just took 1m15. Guess this is why people use things like cachix :-)
The vindication I am referring to is the vindication of the people who were saying COVID-19 was dangerous in December of 2019. This group of people were told to calm down by the authorities and media. I know it's hard to remember, but it's important to not forget. If you recall, Nancy Pelosi went out of her way to go for a photoop in crowded SF Chinatown when the administration was calling for flights from China to be restricted, and Bill DeBlasio (of NYC mandate fame) was encouraging people to go out to the theater even after COVID was in the US. Here's one media article trying to frame tech people who were worried as overreacting: https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/2/13/21128209/coronavirus-fe.... I believe this article has been quietly edited to undermine the claim that it was so, so wrong, but unfortunately I can't dig it up on the internet archive.
I wonder if it's the amount of memory on my phone then. The thing is, the old version of FF didn't do this, and neither does the current version of Vivaldi.
The product is still in development phase right now. I am collecting emails so I can reach out to people and get their feedback on the product. I'm considering removing that registration wall if it poses to be too much of a nuisance
If a bit of mayo falls off my sandwich while I'm at the beach, have I created an oil spill?

Scale and context matters.
Wow. My initial thought was just to lie. But given what you said I’m not sure what the right approach would be. What a terrible situation.
Having worked in AR, the first place to use it in the military isn't in weapons; but rather training, logistics and construction.
>When ML researchers speak of such a manifold, it's kind of loosey-goosey because a set that includes isolated points that don't have a continuous region around them aren't actually manifolds.

So they mean "subset" when they say "manifold?"
Playing devils advocate here, Magic Leap has managed to burn through $3.5 billion and has made no achievements of note - instead of solving the two primary optics challenges of AR, they allocated their capital to make blacks look slightly blacker.
That's the vendor lock-in to the walled garden app stores. It works, and if you want to break the cycle, you need something new.
Except that's not what 7-11 did here. They took photos from a tablet, as select customers were taking a survey.

Doing that without consent is still obnoxious, but a far cry from embedding a camera in the PoS terminal that captures everybody as they check-out. 7-11 might also do that, but it wasn't reported here.
That's like imagining a world where governments hold billionaires and CEOs accountable for their greed and crime and their tax evasion. In other words, a pipe dream.
This is wonderful thank you. - As for starting from the beginning: over my dead body. I start from the end and figure out how we got there, always.
You do not know what zoom level they are in the shop, most likely they have microphones on and their resolution:

http://www.ltsecurityinc.com/citysurveillance

The only difference is that in one case, you are conscious on being filmed. In another case you know you are being filmed, but you prefer not to think about it...
Have you gone through a professional licensing program? Nearly 100% of the people on HN that make this argument have not.

The big difference is that a licensing process is objective in a way an interview can never be. That alone adds value in a way you cannot possibly imagine until you have worked in a different industry.

There is no greater institutional barrier or discriminator than implicit bias.