skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In an ideal world people would be easily able to dismiss any aspect of an article that isn't purely rational or feelings related. I believe there is something to be said for being critical about what is being presented when the authors bias is so clearly displayed. Especially when we are talking about a subject that is so multivariate and chaotic as society and how it is impacted by cars, city design, and how it impacts the economy, etc.
Am I understanding correctly that your issue is merely about attribution, and not that advertisement is actually less useful?
Following up on this... I was Miranda user. With it I was able to run ICQ, MSN Messenger and other instant messengers with an encrypted layer slapped on top (as long as I was able to talk my friends out of using the official client). Today it's called Miranda NG[1] and it seems alive and kicking[2].

[1] https://www.miranda-ng.org/en/
[2] https://github.com/miranda-ng/miranda-ng
I still use pidgin regularly for various chat rooms and ircs etc. It is a great piece of kit imo
This loops back to the question of what we mean when we say a moral statement is true, which is really the heart of what we are investigating.
There are plenty of private email lists with 1000+ members. Should email providers be censoring misinformation in those messages?
"Why do it right when you can do it twice." is one of my favorite lines to developers who insist on going fast.
Capitalism is what got us to where we are today. It is a powerful form to deploy resources in a country. Is it abused in its current form? Yes. Laying the blame to all the woes on a generation of humanity at the feet of capitalism is a lazy argument at best. I would argue that we shouldn't destroy the capital system but deploy it in a more equitable way.

Also your comment strikes me as someone who doesn't actually engage with anyone under 30 in any real world way but only what is written on the internet. That would create a bias because all the people who might want to talk online to game out their compensation is probably a specific subset of individuals who would reinforce your worldview.

Society is made up of many people and it isn't built by select few. I suggest you reach out to different communities and find people who aren't as jaded as this rant post or offer a way put your energy into engaging and changing the trajectory of society towards where your values lie. Change takes work instead of arm chair quarterbacking a straw man.
A solar-powered hobbit shire in Italy
There’s no honor among thieves. What this guy, and the whistleblower, and Mark Zuckerberg, and Roger McNamee, and everyone else are doing is simple — they’re all turning on each other. Don’t try to figure out who is “right” or “wrong” or whatever, or if it’s the government going after them, blah blah blah. It’s just a bunch of dirty people pointing fingers at others, trying to wash their karma.

Somewhere in the vaults of the FBI are recordings of my final conversations with Sean Parker. One of the things I keep repeating to that unrepentant sexual predator is, “in the end, all of you will turn on each other.” And that’s exactly what is slowly happening, and will continue happening. Especially as all of these formerly-young millennials turn into old people who will be desperate to sell their kids and grandkids on a “I was one of the good guys” narrative.

Like rats on a sinking ship, I tell ya. And don’t @ me with a reference to the stock price — the labor market determines the future of the giants in our field, because they’re labor constrained, not capital constrained. If Facebook can’t hire the best talent to build the best apps for iOS 22 or whatever, all of the money in the world won’t make them relevant again.
Exactly! Providing a walled garden just for the sake of keeping users should not be legal, just like abusing any other market position wouldn't be legal.

I get that they want their "network effect" and keep it to themselves, but this is no good for users and the industry doesn't "regulate itself" as we've heard so many times, so time for law makers to step up finally.
Maybe nothing is stable, not even protons[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton_decay
Mental Health –. By, Evon Latrail
I'm all for cost recovery and fiscal restraint, and the exception I'd propose in this case is that rural residential electrification is the cost of government. If you want to expand your habitable footprint as a state, it means some reciprocity for the people living there. The govt needs rural people settling remote areas more than those people need govt.

Satellite internet changes a lot, as if you can do off grid renewable power with satellite internet, economic viability and mobility of populations changes radically. We've seen it post-covid with rural real estate prices matching those of cities as the result of remote work (I think).

Hydro was used as a giant opaque debt slush fund by previous governments, where they levered up debt secured against revenues and then blew it on favoured groups to secure re-election. "Infrastructure," surely, but now you have a debt retirement fee on every hydro bill that is essentially a tax.
You are right that a more nuanced analysis needs to take risk into account.

Sorry, I was talking about real interest rates. Inflation doesn't make a difference to them. Real interest rates _do_ make a difference.

> Just get the hell away from bonds which will hemorrhage value from the inflation.

Bond interest rates already price in expected inflation.
You can of course print money instead of raising taxes but the principle's the same.

Lets rephrase it then. How many hours of electrical engineer time should be spent hooking up a new home in rural Ontario? Why would an electrical engineer who lives in the Toronto suburbs want to do this? How much time and effort should a country devote to running and maintaining this connection? What does the engineer get in return?

Either he gets more in return (thus "makes money"), gets less in return (thus "requires subsidy") or it's even (thus "breaks even")

How much should the person who wants to live in rural ontario give for the engineer's time? It seems Canada decides they should give a little, but not the same amount of time the engineer gives (and instead the engineer should be compensated by time from the rest of the country)

As to what that electrical engineer could be doing that would be better? Well how about fixing the electrics in a childrens hospital? Or maybe they could spend the day working on their garden, or watching netflix.
https://delphi.allenai.org/?a1=have+sex+with+my+husband
> it's expected

https://delphi.allenai.org/?a1=have+sex+with+my+wife
> it's good
Perfect Numbers (1983)
That last sentence is key. Of course governments are concerned, Big Tech is nudging gov out of the way. BT is becoming the collecting and controlling force.

I'm not suggesting one is better or worse than the other. But there is a subplot, and it's about control.
The food you eat every day is much more dangerous than Uranium glass, unless you also eat Uranium glass.
>With "volatile variables" you can use compound assignment operators on the variable. What does that even mean? Nothing.

It means exactly the same thing as on a normal variable, and it boggles the mind that people somehow not understand that. Given 'volatile int i', 'i++' means the exact same thing as 'i = i + 1'. Does that also not make any sense to you? If it does, can you explain why you believe they are different?

Volatile member functions and parameters make no sense, but volatile member variables most certainly do. And there is considerable pushback in the C++ community because this is a significant loss of compatibility with various C-headers used frequently in embedded applications. I wouldn't be surprised if the deprecated features will be reinstated in the language in the end.
There is an excellent, obvious solution. And it's the one Facebook refuses to consider because it's a large negative economically.

Give users a lot more control. Over their feeds. Over what they receive or not. How they receive it.

Alternatively, abolish the feeds entirely. Make people seek out updates by other users manually. It's time consuming, it drastically slows down the reaction-agitation cycle. People then focus on consuming only what's most important to them to a far greater degree, as their time is limited. Facebook moved away from that early approach by intention to spur time-on-platform, consumption, engagement.

In the offline space you have a small number of actual friends, a small number of people you can actually keep up with, because of time constraints. That's a good thing, not a bad thing. It keeps people focused on what's most important to them. Facebook seeks to generate the opposite outcome, they want max engagement and consumption, so now you've got two thousand fake friends, and two hundred more relevant people within those two thousand fake friends that you receive updates from on a daily or weekly basis. That's insane. There's no other good way to put, it's insanity. It's bullshit. It's fake, it's inhuman. That mass consumption of content, that the feed/wall was built to accomplish, how much of it matters to the end user? I think the answer is very little. Put it back into the user's hands to seek out profile page updates, to seek out updates by their friends - they'll do it if it really matters to them, and they'll massively neglect the users that don't matter to them. This is also where Facebook's finances implode; most FB employees are self-interested in that outcome not happening.

The central issue is: the core mission of Facebook (today) is a fraud. Everyone should not be connected. Everyone does not want to be connected to everyone else. It is not a great ideal to pursue connect-everyone, it's fundamentally anti-human. It will not make the world a better place. That ideology needs to be challenged, and it rests at the center of Facebook.

Facebook has built itself to agitate for attention. They designed the feed/wall to prompt artificially high levels of engagement. Give that control back to the user in spades. People will adjust their systems, they do know what's best for them when it comes to this matter (and a lot more so than a politician thousands of miles away that has never met this person, or Facebook corporate).

Society sculpting by some ruling authority, some group that happens to be dominant at a given time, is a truly horrific approach. It will accelerate the splintering into tribes, and accelerate oppression by the government.
> Q: Is it true that Delphi is learning moral judgments from Reddit?

> A: No. Delphi is learning moral judgments from people who are carefully qualified on MTurk. Only the situations used in questions are harvested from Reddit, as it is a great source of ethically questionable situations.

MTurk is pretty worthless in these kind of situations. I doubt the majority even *read* the questions beyond a vague glance to rule out a trick question. It's also biasing answers towards cultures that

a) are primarily in places that MTurk pays out

b) are primarily in places where the cost of living is low enough that MTurk can provide a job.
Grocery is really behind on technology. In fact if you do direct to store delivery as a smaller farm/food manufacturer, most orders are placed via text message from the buyer to a sales person at the manufacturer.

There is very slow movement around a standard digital coupon format, that does allow validation. The biggest challenge is all parties need to work together to make it happen. Both the investment to update point of sale registers and then trying to get every grocery chain/store signed up to said format on one end, and then consumers actually using these coupons on the other (which require smartphones and app downloads currently). (https://www.gs1us.org/upcs-barcodes-prefixes/additional-ways...)

The uptake into digital coupons is still extremely slow; In 2020, the load-to-card type coupons you may have experienced are only at 30% of the coupon market.
Are the issues I listed even in the news? I just looked on CNN and FOX homepage and didn't see any of those issues?
Not OP but curating a large backlog of items is a lot of work they smaller projects might not find worth it.

I am not surprised many projects chose to automatically close inactive items. It's the epitome of "the squeaky wheel gets the grease".
I mean, he's been pretty open about his goals and moral code for a while now. The entire company was built on the assumption that being connected to as many people as possible is net good.

You can probably argue that he's wrong on this, but it's hard to say that he just cares about himself.
A lock on a toilet doesn't prevent anyone knowing what you're doing in there, to a very high degree of certainty. If privacy is "what others know about you" then "you have bodily functions" seems to be something else other than privacy.
So by "want" you mean what a central actor (or maybe just you?) decides is a legitimate want and what is not a real want that is worthy of satisfying?
> 1. a lot of people also find that entire situation to be such incredible bullshit

OK? The fact that government doesn't police itself sucks, yes. The fact that I don't have a Lamborghini also sucks. I don't see what throwing in a Hillary Clinton dig is going to do to solve this situation or offer any kind of insight to other readers and commenters besides making people feel angry about politics.

> 2. the counterargument discredits itself when it employs the mental gymnastics needed to explain that inconsistency

I don't even know what you're referring to right now or how it relates to the topic.
Say you use heroin or have used it in the past. Now you have to go in for some kind of surgery. Guess what? The opiate pain meds won't work for you! I've seen it first hand. It's awful. Hospitals are only allowed to give so much and if you're a user or were a user, the amount they give you won't touch your pain.

Guy who used heroin shattered his hand in a fall off a roof. Had pins put in. When he came around after surgery they had to call the police he was so out of control because his pain couldn't be managed.
What's Next for Transistors and Chiplets?
Ah, XMPP + OTR. Brings back fond memories.
I'm imagining a navigation system by trying to pattern-match the earth terrain with a downward-facing camera from the plane.

A suitably large database of satellite photos covering various conditions, day, night might work for all cases but cloudy (when the plane is above/in the clouds).
I concur. I really wouldn't mind anyone using this for whatsapp as I consider any message I send there is also available to 14-eyes, but bridge usage really should be disclosed to Signal users.
On the video embedded in the page, he mentioned that he will print the pages for delivery, then the studio scans them in to digitize them back, and he works from there. The article was dry but the video was pretty neat to hear his point of view on story creation - admittedly, the tactical creation was a minimal part.
I don't think people are saying you should manually handle the deluge of issues.

At least I'm not expecting this of anyone maintaining any Open Source, popular or not. (Thanks for your great Ansible work, BTW!).

But how is auto-closing after X days a solution to "manually handling a deluge of issues"?
Would, for example, it not be a much simpler and logical workflow to read those issues which you will handle manually and ignore all the rest? Why do they need to be closed?
Because if you do, I invite you to experience it in 4DX where you can get rained on, punched and perfumed. It will take your mind off alarmingly frequent cuts to Paul's love interest cum Chanel commercial. It may even--a far bigger feat--inure you to the dialogue written (one thinks) by a crack team of out-of-work teamsters moonlighting as screenwriters from your local meetup.
CFI here. It’s not a big deal in most of the country but the Pacific Northwest does have variation of about 20 degrees. It can make a difference when calculating takeoff and landing data as winds are true but runways are magnetic.
Why This Ex-Facebook Engineer Thinks Non-Technical Product Managers Are Awesome
Most of the CRDT examples I've seen appear to be Electron apps e.g. https://github.com/automerge/pushpin.

My understanding is that CRDT's rely on having a safe place to store data on the user's machine (otherwise it's a bit like doing a `git clone` to receive new data, rather than a `git pull`).

Is this not a major limitation for people hoping to use it for web apps?
Computing power, or capital to buy the coins. But I don't think this level of "fairness" is productive to discuss. Every human being on the planet having the exact same amount of wealth is an impossibility.
> I have to give them a hard copy. They have to scan it and then put it in their computers and then I have to work through their computer because you can’t even email mine or anything.
One could use the "we've advanced so far" as an argument against oil paints in visual medium. And photography actually did (sadly) create a huge gap in academic art education.

There is place for industrial efficiency, and place for medium for art.

I think the relationship of a writing utensil in work of art is similar to the functioning of artistic medium. It does not matter what it is, as long as it facilitates the inspiration and getting the piece done. "Efficiency" has no value in artistic process , unless it's part of the artwork.

In visual art, you likely want a medium that is lightfast, does not physically detoriate and offers a standard set of pigments. But the paint does not need to be efficient or fast (who needs painting! We have cameras and printers!)

Analogously, a writer likely wants a medium that has high enough contrast to be legible, and is robust. You want to use a typeface that most people can read - and write in a language others understand.

Since creative writing is a toil for most people anyway, it is unlikely faster typing or better wordprocessing will increase the speed of the final result that much.

I mean George R.R. Martin could have used quill and ox blood and the books would be done if he was writing constantly.
“make the world more open and connected” only means "scale fast and get as much products as you can to later sell to advertisers".

being connected or open won't end slavery, homelessness, crime or ignorance.
I'm actually surprised by how much snappier it feels. I'm on an i7 2018 mac mini.
How do we specify "cook until translucent"?
The worst privacy honeypot of all times.

You should never let your minors or relatives or friends close to this app. If somehow they scanned their eye with this Blockchain app, it will stay.

Your personality and opinions may change but this will be a mistake you will always regret.
> I'm not sure where you get this idea.

From the potatoes that are immediately visible on display. You have large stands with two types of potatoes that you can pick and weigh yourself (sometimes three, the difference isn't obvious). Then you have a bunch of 3kg-5kg packs of washed potatoes of two kinds: fast and mjölig.

And possibly there are one or two packs of other kinds? Maybe those 3-5 kilo packs have different types of potatoes in them? But those are never clearly marked.

And then you arrive at a recipe, and it calls for russet potatoes or dutch cream potatoes or some other potato. What the hell are those? :)

Anyway, potatoes were just to illustrate the idea. I've had the same issues with rice, vegetables, even spices sometimes.
I was trying to find information about a recent scandal and was surprised that I couldn't find any discussion on reddit. Restricting the results to reddit.com made it clear what was going on. These search terms are not censored on Yandex.

It seems that they've recently removed some search terms from the blacklist. If I remember correctly, the terms I had searched originally were "qanon" and "pizzagate" , but those are no longer censored. "pedo" and "jailbait" still trigger the censor though.
Wish the article would note that he won the Oscar for the Forrest Gump screenplay, not Dune.

I kept rereading the article and wondering how he got an Oscar for a movie that was just released.
Or, you know, this hypothetical phone might get new hardware revision at a slightly slower pace, and Apple might take a lower cut on each phone. Not the end of the world.
Bill McKibben and Akaya Windwood on Their New Initative, Third Act
I wonder how long it will take to get the VOR network serviceable. Many of them are no longer maintained.
All fair points. I do want to point out that "Chamomile Essential Oil Infused Aromatherapy Room Spray with Gemstones" is how this all started. When the cannabinoid system was brought up, it was done in relation to that. I had no prior knowledge of it being a recognized system or it's effects on the body, and assumed it had as much merit as the comment it was in reply to. That was a mistake on my part.

If they're knowledgeable on the topic then I'm sure having someone dismiss it as pseudoscience can be frustrating. I get that, but just saying someone's wrong isn't enough to change opinions. It doesn't need to be a research paper with citations, just a link to Wikipedia showing that it exists on a conceptual Level, or even a "I work in pharmaceuticals, it's legit". I'm at fault for not doing my own research as well, but thank you for settling things, looks like a lot of people learned something new
Unfortunately, no. Foresight isn't available as an on-prem solution at the moment.
Her expertise and motives are separate from the public utility of what she revealed. I'm not going to denounce her for leaking this material: I can separate the utility of having this material in the public record from her reasons for putting it there.

As for her expertise, she worked in FB's civic integrity unit as a product manager. I may disagree with her, but she does have a reasonable basis to claim better knowledge on the topic than the average person.
Oh that UBI junk again.. Keep it coming!

Everybody knows it can't work, but we need a good laugh every now and then!
Yes, democracy is the worst form of governance except for all of the other ones. I trust more in our government than I do in zuckerberg. Letting him continue the path that he and only he decides does not seem like a good idea.
Sequoia Capital just blew up the VC fund model
To protect the device getting cracked, couldn't you just have it send a message if/when the device is opened in a way it shouldn't (e.g. for inspection) and thus make that key invalid?
It always has been, since the beginning. This is purely convenient hosting for those not inclined to self-host.
There isn't any reason someone can't be both a whistleblower and an activist.

> and some of her suggestions really do not align with what the tech community wants at all

For what it's worth, she says her views on E2E encryption have been misrepresented.

Also, where is this single "tech community" with cohesive views on all this? I've never seen it. I'm pretty skeptical of anyone claiming to speak for the tech community.
Uranium, like lead, mercury, cadmium, arsenic, is a heavy metal and toxic, separate from any radiation, although the alpha particles from U-238 are only dangerous if ingested or inhaled, anyway.
>How is the screenplay disseminated afterwards?

He says, "I have to give them a hard copy. They have to scan it and then put it in their computers...".

>What is Movie Master, who made it, what are the features?

This isn't a tech article (Edit: It isn't a tech publication - it is a "tech" section of a popular publication) - they may research such details, but I definitely wouldn't expect them to. Even then, they did give us one interesting piece of implementation: It has a 40-page in-memory limit.

>'lol man used old software'

I didn't get this mocking tone from the article in the slightest.