skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know the whole tech stack, I only got this much information after surreptitiously bumping into him one day. They had a few dozen devs and years invested in the company - and this was in 2017 or 2018. I'm sure that there were other technologies involved, in fact I do think that both GPS and some in-store box which was already used to record passing IMEIs were involved.
Do you think this hate groups just disappear when you censor them?

I think it's the opposite and you reinforce their behaviors and thinking.
> And what we now call "bias" used to be called "perspective".

More like what we used to get was perspective instead now we get bias. Perspective provides a wholistic view, not a myopic, dogmatic slant that skews facts to fit their perspective.

Journalism has gotten much... much worse over the years. You can read 1960's NewYorker and find a stark difference in their ability to put away political bias and provide a deep comprehensive review of the topic.
This really grabbed me:

"The main benefit of taking a break from social media is that you stop living in a fictional world and finally start dealing with your own reality."

There is lots of quantifiable information showing that social media is bad for you. This seems much harder to quantify, but seems like the elephant in the room.

Great piece.
There are close to billion devices with an ad-blocker today and chance is they would still continue to do so even if all ads magically became privacy-respecting (for example just 90s type banners).

Most ad blockers don't affect simple 90s type banner ads.

I use an ad blocker. I still get contextual ads on duckduckgo.com based on my search keywords. Most ad blockers focus on links to known global, privacy invading ad networks. No link, no block.

I don't mind simple context based ads. What I object to; and what I think most people object to, are personalized ads driven by privacy invasion.

Ads without proper context are mostly just an annoyance anyway and the associated personal data collection is subject to abuse. The only reasonable approach for a consumer is to block this crap until advertisers stop throwing money at it.
For some (maybe many?), consumption of social media fills a huge void. For those who have lasting friendships, frequent social gatherings, nearby (and united) family, quitting social media can be as easy and feasible as the author suggests.
Planning my social life around it. I'm not as fun at dinner if all I can have is water.
With limited cores or cpu speed, I've been using lz4 with bzip, gzip, pv, and to copy files over ssh.

Now pbzip2, I just use defaults with multiple cores for compression.
Interesting.

Apple seems to track the accelerometer data in the background. (Why health app can tell you about steps and stairs...)

But beyond that data leakage is an interesting problem.

10 years ago I started working at a company that did home power monitoring. We used my bosses house to test. When he went on vacation you could clearly see it in the power use. The daily rhythms of a home (laundry on wed, out late on certain nights ), when they cooked. It all had become very apparent under the guise of just monitoring how much power you were using. We switched to selling to businesses shortly after which was much better. Though those that wanted to generate as much as they used and monitored it were interesting and provided good feedback on the product.

Our Big Boss's said his wife got a little aggravated with him, when he noted she had come in early (you can keep your toys just don't talk to me about it), and he noted his house cleaners operated by turning on all the lights in his house, and turning them off only when finished cleaning a room...

Its a weird world, and the data you put out there might say more than you think.
> The general public is desperate to trust something; anything.

I will agree with that. My lack of trust in the US food industry is why I largely stopped eating meat in this country.
Over treatment is a real issue and can create more serious issues that the original problem.
Twitter's tiny character limit makes any sort of real discussion impossible. There's no room for nuance or detailed explanations of a position when you can only fit two or three sentences.
In the United States, the 2021 DMCA anti-circumvention exemptions do include this case[0]:

> (17)(i) Video games in the form of computer programs embodied in physical or downloaded formats that have been lawfully acquired as complete games, when the copyright owner or its authorized representative has ceased to provide access to an external computer server necessary to facilitate an authentication process to enable gameplay, solely for the purpose of: (A) Permitting access to the video game to allow copying and modification of the computer program to restore access to the game for personal, local gameplay on a personal computer or video game console;

However, these rules are currently renewed every three years, instead of being permanent, so it could not be the case in the future.

[0] https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2021-23311.pdf
Disagree, I think title is correct, Israel's forced displacement is human rights issue.
Pictures 2 and 3 of the slideshow show a moving target - a ship model on rails.
All you need to do is yell and boss people around!

The biggest success for these people is if they spend so much time micromanaging one person, the rest of the employees can actually run the business without them interfering.
I want to say this gingerly because who knows if I'm right, but here goes:

I think the only way to come to this kind of conclusion is if you're hearing about the SPF-record beg-bounty phenomenon for the first time in this article. Because we get these all the time. There can't be any benefit to singling any one of them out.

Further: this isn't a 419 scam. You're not soliciting wooden keyboards from people trying to ransack your bank account. These are just pentesters who are not (perhaps yet?) good at their job. The reports you get from them are dumb, but they're not usually wrong; they're just issues that nobody cares about.

You can write a post about the beg bounty fraud without using cruelty to stimulate the nucleus accumbens of a huge number of people. But it's harder to do it, because the underlying observation ("oh, there's a lot of bogus scanner-fodder bounty posts") is banal. Here, Troy wanted to light us all up. But he didn't want to work to do it. So he recast some hapless bounty dork as a scammer and built a whole post around administering justice to them. Gross.

There are a lot of disadvantaged people overseas and they're increasingly connected. They're fundamentally no less capable than we are. I look forward to their eventual overthrow of infosec.
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Agreed on all counts. Responses like this are why I continue to find HN an inspiring community.

I wonder sometimes why there arent more grassroots non-toxic (?) social platforms for more localized communities.

For instance what is preventing there from being a community-funded simple instagram-like app for individual arts communities in non LA/NY cities given that its never been easier / cheaper to build this kind of platform?

The answer my be that it still isnt easy to build reliable / scalable apps that people actually want to use. But sometimes I wonder if theres not something more sinister going on...
> Is there a "Class 3" coming along?
Quite possibly. There is a class of problems to deal with when technology has outlived its usefulness and must be gotten rid of. Coal power arguably has Class 3 problems now.

There are also Class 0 problems, like fusion, where just getting things off the ground is difficult.
> there are some major differences between a state actor committing aggression and acts of terrorism

They are overlapping categories; most terrorism is done by state actors (directly, not even counting actions through proxies, which account for most of the rest.)

Heck, terrorism takes its name from a specific instance of internal state action.

> The US was not considered a state actor in fighting for independence.

Well, it wasn't considered that by Britain. France, OTOH, executed two treaties with the US in 1778, so they clearly had a different view.
The demand is that platform remove certain content and certain opinions. You are not allowed to have a wrong opinion on vaccinations currently for allegedly safety reasons. You have warped that claim, since you want to remove content. There are platforms where everything goes and they are under attack.
According to microsoft's documentation[1] it's unintentional. Presumably because it's picked up from whatever's in memory, rather than being collected intentionally.

>which may unintentionally contain user content, such as parts of a file you were using when the problem occurred

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/privacy/configure-w...
Unfortunately this won't happen unless something or someone takes actions. If governments is not going to bother to do the enforcement of the laws, then nothing changed until they do it.

If there is a new player in the field, what or who is going to stop FAANGs from buying the competitors (even it violated the antitrust law)? Sure we do have Sherman Antitrust Act for this... but no one bothering to do the enforcement and the companies are not going to stop for the goodness of their hearts.

We cannot expect the small/newcomer companies to try to compete against FAANGs and hoping thing changes. The only way we can get the enforcement seriously is the Congress itself. Frankly, the Congress prefers to listen to their corporate masters over their constituents.
Which is an example of the "best or why bother" attitude of exceptionalism the internet can breed, which can affect people in some surprising areas. Even something like grass roots motorsport. Everyone's too busy in their garages trying to build the absolute peak performance car, before even doing a single lap, because they think they can't have fun until their car is as good as all the others on Instagram.

There is so much fun to be had in the space between 0% and 100%, and some don't even get started until they're confident they're already at 95% in the comfort of their own home.
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Are you using social media, correctly, as you put it.. Or. is social media using you?

I find that even if you go out of your way to sanitize and make SM useful to your needs. You can't do away with the unhealthy incentives around it and possible potential dopamine addiction.
Well then you need to make sure it's covered by your contract with the off-duty workers. If it's covered by the contract then you have nothing to worry about with this law anyway. If it isn't tough luck.

Most countries already had rules about this. The thing with rules and laws is that they only matter when employees actually legally enforce them. When employees are scared of their employers it's generally fuckall for employers anyway.

I don't get why people here freak out about this.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding the feature that you would like to have, but I think Citus columnar supports what you want. Citus columnar storage has projection pushdown, so it only fetches the columns that you requested in your query.

To quote from the blogpost[1]:

What are the Benefits of Columnar?

- Compression reduces storage requirements
- Compression reduces the IO needed to scan the table
- Projection Pushdown means that queries can skip over the columns that they don’t need, further reducing IO
- Chunk Group Filtering allows queries to skip over Chunk Groups of data if the metadata indicates that none of the data in the chunk group will match the predicate. In other words, for certain kinds of queries and data sets, it can skip past a lot of the data quickly, without even decompressing it!

Disclaimer: I work on the Citus team at Microsoft, but have not worked on the columnar storage.

[1]: https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2021/03/06/citus-10-columnar-...
So much in this article to comment on, I don't know where to start. But this...

> Testing for residues is not common in American organic regulation.

That's a loop hole built into the regulation. If you don't test, how would you know? It's like not testing for covid-19 because it will make us look bad.
way fewer people died than bombs dropped. There was no 'mass bombing' - it was all highly pinpointed with roof knocking and warning of people in the area.

The mass launches of artillery rockets against israeli cities was mass bombing, just less effective.
Yep. Every time I shitpost I get downvoted. I know the bar I'm expected to clear here!
Get a story, such as "Facebook using Core Motion APIs to uniquely identify users!" to go viral, and Apple will patch it real quick.

In fact, Facebook may actually be doing this now, after the recent actions taken to nerf advertisers (yay).
So... pretty much the Dan Hibiki of chess openers?
It seems strange that this Wikipedia page keeps getting posted on HN. It is kind of an interesting event, but what exactly is the point of bringing it up over and over? If it is that important then wouldn't it make more sense to write just a little bit about the context and how it relates to modern products and practices which have changed in the following decades?
How long does the app stay in use? I have insta installed (for a business that I’m slacking on) and I open it about once a month for roughly 1 minute. Maybe I should just uninstall and reinstall it each time I need to use it.
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The vast majority of people you actually work with are competent, sure. But the problem with interviewing is that it adversely selects for incompetent people, because competent people are more likely to have jobs and not be currently interviewing.
Depending on centralized CDN's with logging is not using native IPFS, correct if wrong
Tough. The logical consequence of “we can’t show you the proof” is “okay, I don’t believe that you have any”. After all, you would not believe my assertions about fantastical achievements without evidence, and the consequences of that hypothetical are much lower than the state saying it should be able to kill people in the name of “counter terrorism”.

More succinctly; “it would compromise means and methods” is a phenomenal way to cover up shaky or non-existent evidence.
I trust Telegram with my data like I trust my wife with my credit card. So far Telegram, like the wife, has been responsible.

I trust Whatsapp with my data like I trust 409 internet princes with my credit card. Their reputation precedes them.
Ah, my bad, thanks
> All of those were needed to get us to the point we are at now

Yes and look where it's got us. Time to stop doing those things. The solution to climate change is going to be nothing like what people expect it to be. Nuclear or some magic solution isn't going to present itself. The solution is going to be a monumental shift in how people live and several decades of misery for people who aren't used to being miserable.

> What if we were stuck in an 1800's london type environment, just reproducing and burning stuff

This would be preferable. London would have been ruined but we wouldn't have been able to scale this to ruin the entire world the way we have now.

> Environment would be completely rekt.

Environment is completely rekt today.
From the rest of the parent comment, I imagine construction is the whole software development lifecycle [0].

In particular, understanding the finance / business side gives you a huge edge in the "figuring out what to build" part of the cycle because you'll have a deeper understanding of the business need and value proposition.

Implementation is picking which "language / framework / paradigm /architecture" is used to deliver the business need. You will need to understand these at some base level, but becoming an expert in them won't have the ROI that learning to manage the lifecycle will.

Lastly, when learning about software- literally nothing compares with doing it side-by-side with professionals. Do a free course but then immediately start applying. You'll learn more in a few months on the job than you will in a few years of self study.

[0] https://www.upwork.com/resources/what-is-software-developmen...
A self-directed project I did for a university course was to make a Morse code transmitter and receiver. I was able to use the same LED for both.
Social media consumption really falls into the same category as addiction. Some people can manage doing addictive things better than others. If social media is having a negative impact on your life, stop using it. If you can moderate it and it has a positive impact on your life, use it.

As a side note, we have to stop blaming platforms for human problems. What social media has done to the world isn't new, it simply used to be contained.
Yeah, I suppose you're right. Something that dangerous just shouldn't have been left behind to be salvaged in the first place.
As always, grass is always greener - by median income Portugal is 11th in the ascending order (11th worst).

https://appsso.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/nui/show.do?query=BOOKM...

It sounds like a good piece of legislation. The rest needs to be fixed of course but that shouldn't stop all positive change.
That's exactly the one I'm using, thanks! I was considering the fan, but I've also been worried about torching my house. I'll give it a shot.

I put some work into the frame the cluster is in, and it makes a pretty nice end table. My main pc is a little fanless industrial computer and I love it.
In this thread, there are a lot of people saying Reddit and HN are their social media, and it is not the same as FB or Instagram.

I think we should distinguish between social media that uses algorithms to promote content and serve ads from those sites that don't. HN is definitely promoting something (they advertise one product: getting the best startups to do YC). But, AFAIK, HN does not algorithmically push content to me based on what I have indicated I care about.

That's the dangerous precedent FB set. They are crafting a world for you, and you are unaware of it. And, even FB employees probably don't know, they just know that they get their bonuses so they can finally buy a house in the bay area when they tweak that algorithm and the advertiser success rates hit the metric for the quarter.
The normalized solution sounds like a performance nightmare?! Stick the original data into something like Clickhouse? (After checking whether indexing would fix it for a few years more)
I too don't think you should have a `security.txt`, but in, meh, 5 years of fielding bad bounty reports for various companies for various reasons, I've never seen someone appeal to their sick mother or their college fund. I usually get one additional ask after I say "no", and then they move on.

I'm not sure I see the reputational risk you face here, since we all know the score on these reports. What are they going to do, tweet that you have an inadequate SPF record?
If we call that doxxing, isn't that the same as an identical twin who commits a crime being held liable for defamation of the twin who shares their face?

Edit:

Or, by the same token: a parent is liable for diluting the value of their siblings DNA because they passed that DNA on to children. I don't see this going anywhere.
I don’t buy it. This law doesn’t prevent competition outside working hours. The employee who wants to be seen to go “above and beyond” doesn’t need a time-specific prompting message to decide to work an extra 15 minutes.

The boss can easily make it known that those extra 15 minutes would be rewarded, either by dropping an email at 4:59pm, or using management clichés like “going the extra mile” and “taking one for the team”, or worse, manipulative non-verbal techniques that give advantage to in-groups and create barriers to out-groups.
If companies can’t monitor employees working from home how do they protect against malware? Does every employee now bear responsibility for keeping their system secure? If they cause a data breach because they didn’t update their system could they be liable?
Interestingly I can not keep headphones on (in ear, over ear does not matter) as after a while I begin to experience discomfort and after 1-1.5 I go mad.
The term “organic” with reference to foods, has become a
victim of its own success - at one time it was a meaningful description
of how a food or food component was grown, but it is now
merely marketing puffery due to redefinition and allowance
of levels of contamination that render it meaningless.

Yes, local producers at farmer’s markets still offer
foods produced without pesticides, herbicides, and
chemical fertilizers.

Yes, farmers of any size or scale
can rationally balance the market prices of organic products
against the expenses of pesticides, herbicides, and
chemical fertilizers, the costs of application, and the potentially lower crop yields from doing without them.

But if there is no testing of products, no certification
of crops versus farmland, no auditable paper trail from
soil to seed to plant to crop to mill, the “organic” has
as much meaning as “improved” or “healthy” in the marketplace, and is wide-open to the type of fraud
described in this article.
Thank you for mentioning that. I was just about to say that I quit all social media EXCEPT for HN.

And sometimes I am faced with the same negative effects as I was on larger platforms. For example posts or comments about salary or revenue will make me worry about my own financial future. Or technical posts will scratch on my self esteem when a lot of expertise is involved.

I think what makes HN feel different to its community is the fact that it is well moderated niche community that can look like heaven at first.
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Oh, well it sounds like you're doing everything right. This also probably scales really well.

Thanks for sharing - hopefully a lot of people will use your anecdotal evidence to impact the way they hire people too!
Yes. We're going to have to figure out how to manage this side-effect, because the delight of having the best always at our fingertips isn't going to go away.
Yes.

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Queries: https://www.haiku-os.org/docs/userguide/en/queries.html
I'm not an expert, but I know some poisons accumulate in the body fat. If you believe in the harmfulness of PUFAs, they too become part of the body and are similarly damaging.
> If you're going to be a competitive runner or cyclist you can't be carrying around extra body fat and hope to be competitive.

The article directly addresses this by discussing how offered body fat goals approach unhealthy levels for women.

> So this isn't really a women's issue

That healthy body fat levels differ between men/women and that women are expected to adhere to body fat goals that are most reasonable for men - that kind of makes this a textbook example of a womens' ussue.

and It's still not clickbait.
This is also for the release of .NET [Core] 6.
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No it doesn't,

Velocity landing should be above stall speed, albeit slightly. No one wants the airframe to crash/slam into the ground.

Source: Aeronautical in a previous life