skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's both reasonable and important to criticize companies for behaving unethically even when it's not illegal. At the end of the day the "company" itself is incapable of doing anything. Humans are the ones actually making these decisions and then actually carrying them out.

Unfortunately we don't and likely won't ever know who exactly did what. The best we can do is point at the company as a whole and say that some people over there decided to do bad things, nobody else in that group stopped them, and then some of those people went and did the bad thing. I don't see why that's not a reasonable critique when we cannot be more specific.

I think that it is also important to do so. The more we perpetuate the idea that companies can't be blamed for bad-but-not-illegal behavior the more we help enable people to make those sorts of decisions as part of a company. They can't be blamed personally - it was the best decision for the company and that's what companies do, you know?

We also help reduce negative feelings towards the companies when they do behave unethically. You can't actually blame them - they're a company after all, right? But this actually helps enable companies to get away with it. Negative public perceptions can impact the ability of a company to make money. I don't see why we should be trying to reduce this kind of influence.
I guess you need to plant X trees, wait Y years for them to accumulate Z carbon and then bury all the trees M meters underground to stay there forever.
Just so you know, the parent is the CTO of Gab.
Alibaba cloud build server hacked – source code being sold
there is an integration. Its in Beta and i believe it wasnt free but it does work.

go to readwise -> dashboard -> export -> Notion.

be sure to test its working by doing the flow over a week or so, i remember the initial setup was not seamless, but i just went to look now and its been doing its job well for a while now. Youll want to ensure it exports when you take new notes, so you dont have to manually export. Cheers.
Not secret, but still, they're taking the publisher's money, imagine if it was your service: if the users subscribe through your website, you get 100%, and if they subscribe through Apple, they pocket 30% and you get 70%.

Apple is relying on the subscribers' not knowing of this money grab...
riiight... that's why there's a scandal about border patrol on horseback rounding up migrants to be sent back to their home country, and significant encampments of people trying (i.e., failing) to get across; this is not merely open borders and walking across as you falsely imply.

Stop posting propaganda
China has a big inflation problem and it's pushing up prices worldwide
At a first read, this is great, because it's apolitical. It's about innovation, and is positive, I.e. doing something instead of telling people not to do something. For once this seems like something a government should be doing. I'm almost suspicious I missed something.
Understanding Our Online Dumpster Fire
The more salient point isn't about classifying any particular person as independent-minded or conventionally-minded.

It's that almost everybody cargo cults almost everything. Once you realize this, you start asking yourself powerful questions. Why do I (and everybody else) believe this? How might it be wrong? What might be a better explanation?
There is a third option:

keygen + little snitch blocking
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The FTC generally cares more about screwing the end buyer than screwing the app developer. So this probably won't end well for Apple, since it sounds like steering buyers to a more expensive option.
https://thecounter.org/who-really-owns-american-farmland
https://www.motherjones.com/food/2021/05/bill-melinda-gates-...

where I farm our (60 miles from DC and Baltimore) not very productive red clay is going for top dollar and not to farmers. Not necessarily hedge funds, but high income earners buying up property for investment.
It's a perennial topic of debate to define the borders of Up North. Growing up in Bay City, the border was generally agreed to be Clare - or Tawas if following the coast. It was a source of some amusement to learn that many Detroit residents considered Bay City to be Up North. The source of the confusion is that Up North is actually shorthand for "my family's favorite vacation spot".

There are some rules to the classification - Traverse City and Charlevoix are unambiguously Up North for example, and the Upper Peninsula is so utterly North that the designation "Up North" can seem a bit ridiculous, so it gets its own term - The U.P.

Anyway, this is all to say that no one has ever in the history of Michigan referred to Grand Rapids as "Up North". Certainly not on a latitudinal argument. But the author appears to be from Chicago, so perhaps it's her family's personal Up North.
You can remove CO2 extremely cheaply using olivine today, this is a completely fake problem.
How many of the ads Apple buys are for small developers who couldn't afford it and how many are for massive companies that could absolutely afford it?
> There is actually no contradiction between moderating to remove obscene and other illegal content and supporting the principle of free speech.

Yes, there is. There is, in fact, a fundamental contradiction between the idea that the State can declare content “illegal” and “free speech”.

The obscenity exception turns free speech from “the government cannot ban content” to “the government cannot ban content unless both the judge [0] and a sufficiently large portion of the public sufficiently dislikes it [1] and it has to do with sex and/or excretion.”

That's not to say the founders wouldn't have agreed with it; the founders agreed that hereditary slavery had no conflict with the right of persona not to have life or liberty deprived without due process of law, so as a whole thet had pretty big blind spots in their conception of rights.

[0] the official prong being that the work lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value

[1] that the average member of the community would find it appeals to a prurient interest.
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It's actually an interesting question how nefarious or harmful this actually is.

We obviously know why Apple is doing it and why the apps in question don't like it.

But a couple things occurred to me:

You could view this like Amazon giving away your book or android app in a promotion. As I understand it, they still pay the author as if it were a sale, so the author seemingly has nothong to complain about. Even that still seems wrong to me but that's the argument Amazon uses. That is essentially, no, litterally, Amazon advertizing your product for their own purposes.

Another argument Apple and Apple devotees and general "invisible hand" worshippers may try to use is: Any sales generated by the ads would not have existed without the ad, and so it's not taking anything from the app developer.

I don't really buy either theory, but it does take some thinking to describe a mechanism by which they cause harm and should be considered invalid.

They hold enough water to convince a lot of people who want to be convinced, and the arguments against just sound kind of weak and whiny.
5% is still much higher than the costs of climate change for at least a century (at least if you believe the IPCC projections).
You are right. I had to buy an absolute basket case of a house all the easy fix and flips are gone. You have to be able to take the pain/work of the deals that people without vison pass on.
Some people are excited about Oculus and the metaverse, but I can't stomach the idea of FB-owned VR. Social media already feels like a parasite and a drug thanks to FB, and putting an Oculus on feels like wrapping the vampire squid right across my face.
> Basically, they just don't want their brand Doom to be associated with the band "progressive thrash metal" music.

> It's not the first time this happens and it does make sense. In another occurence about a podcast named Garden of Doom, they found an agreement.

How does this make sense? Why in the world would they have any say as to the use of the term "doom" in another market? The fact that there is precedence is more evidence that id/bethesda has a large legal department and isn't afraid to swing it around. If someone had the will (and means) to stand up to them, I highly doubt any judgement would come down saying that consumers confuse video games and heavy metal bands.

This whole thing makes id look pretty bad.
The amount of phone-home in the macOS these days is also absolutely astounding. My new mbp16 has at least 4 different processes talking to Apple
Maps servers even with location services disabled, and if you press F8 it sends the machine's unchangeable hardware serial number to Apple (linking it to your IP) without consent. (FWIW it also says on screen that it is doing this when you press F8.)
The US doesnt have a presidential palace, so this must be in a foreign country. There isnt really anything the US can do for localized jamming in a foreign country.
It never ceases to amaze me how much Apple is willing to trash its reputation just for some pocket money. I can't imagine this or the App Store ads to actually make that much money, and both make Apple look terrible.
This might not be what you are looking for but might solve your problem: https://www.dynu.com/

Dynu has free services for cheap subdomains but they also have a fairly decent registry too. I was even able to set up a mail domain (of course useless because of IP blacklists). I used a reverse proxy to provide SSL to my hosted domains. I set it all up with Docker and bash.

I had quite a few fun little services running at home on my pc. Never seemed to find a use for it though.
They’ve certainly faced an onslaught from the press, which has decided they are Philip Morris 2.0. It’s very unclear if that is going to translate into actual legal trouble.

If I was at FB I’d be more concerned with how young people are rejecting it.
> only half their job offers are taken up, that's super surprising to me

It would be interesting to get some stats on this. But the common advice when applying for jobs is to "get competing offers" so you can negotiate. I wouldn't be surprised if people who are getting offers at FB, can get a few very high quality offers at other places as well.
1FB00: Unicode block for legacy computing [pdf]
More importantly, having an actual price tag on removing carbon from the atmosphere would allow carbon markets to finally work. Assuming there is enough political will to properly monitor and tax CO2 emissions worldwide, which is a huge ask. A lot of companies and countries will be tempted to lie because it will make their products more competitive.
The main problem with prefab is transportation costs. It is not surprising that the homes were setup in Berkeley, which is near a port, since sending goods by sea is like 50-100 times cheaper per distance traveled than by roads. Plus sea travel cost comes mostly from weight, not size, so transporting bulky items with mostly air by volume is ok.

But for more inland travel transportation cost for pre-built modules becomes very problematic. It is much cheaper to bring dense raw materials. But then of course the issue is high building cost and 3D printing tries to address that.
I wish I could run Mojave or Catalina on my brand new 16". It came with Monterey, which is ugly. Whoever thought light grey text on dark grey background was a good or reasonable UI choice should be fired.

It's the Windows XP Home of operating systems.
>Since I only had the opportunity to finish my high school diploma and this was several years ago I wonder if you could have any suggestion to brush my math knowledge up in order to properly understand the examples of these books.

You should really consider taking a few community college math courses if you're serious. Math is extremely difficult to learn on your own. Not only because of not knowing what you don't know, but because it requires intense effort and repetition which is very hard to force yourself to do. You can work through the concepts and delude yourself into thinking you understand something when really you're just hand waving it. Taking an actual course and being faced with the gaps of your knowledge by someone else is very humbling and essential to actually learning it.
Indeed, binomial distributions are quite unimodal!
> Why did I want multi forest? Guess I was preoccupied with whether or not I could, and didn't stop to think if I should. : )

Good news; you belong on Hacker News:)
I just ran this on a Fedora machine and connected to Windows using rdesktop. It works and it's amazing. I like it. The Internet will surely be confused today with a surge of traffic from Internet Explorer 5. Incidentally, google.com still loads and allows searching; bing.com does not load.
> The feature, when combined with Apple's biometric security measures like Face ID, could cut down on fraud.

So in order for your identity to be accepted as valid by the governments under Apple's global ID system, you have to give their software a record of the unique biometric markers of your fingerprint or face, and agree to whatever terms Apple put in its ever-changing terms of use.

I assume the Android implementation will end up being identical, to allow governments to give the illusion of choice, but there will be increasing pressure on people to enrol in this unified system, just like how regular covid testing (in lieu of vaccination) is made prohibitively expensive.
There are so many little apps that do one part of managing personal knowledge well. It's hard to find something that really manages it all well... the way YOU want to manage YOUR knowledge. Todo lists, messaging, calendar, notes, bookmarks all seem to fit... as does some kind of project management. So many tries over the years, and every time, some part is so bad that you end up throwing out the whole.
Personally I think the mistake is to see it as a layer on top of HTTP, in any sense other than as a hack to make it work with web browsers (using POST /graphql as a poor man's plain old IP address or hostname).

In conceptual terms, it's clearly an alternative to HTTP, so it's not a surprise that it collapses all of HTTP's expressive power into the singularity that is POST /graphql.

It's interesting to imagine a web browser which truly did use GraphQL as a first-class query language comparable to SQL, with markup separated into another protocol altogether (HTTP GET, or an equivalent). I wonder what the future of web browsers looks like, and for how long we can continue simply by monkeypatching the HTTP resource model. Google's herculean efforts to adapt their crawler to the new de facto model, exemplified by SPAs, are interesting in what they reveal: https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...
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Lies, damn lies and statistics.

Why calculate density of Sweden based on the total country when most people live in a couple cities? That’s just lying. It’s like calculating Canada’s density over the Arctic when 80% live within 100 miles of the US border.

And is my statistics about suicides wrong? 2020 was the highest since 2012?
That bitwise XOR is polynomial addition (and subtraction) in F_2[x] (polynomials with coefficients mod 2)?

More immediately, it’s about the only way to unambiguously write which polynomial you mean, independent of endianness and similar notational issues. (The error correction properties don’t care about the way you arranged the bitstream into bytes or words.)

But I find the knowledge that I am just implementing long division helpful, too. I did transcribe the beast mindlessly from a reference book a couple of times before I got it, but debugging it that way is pure hell.
Helion is the only one I know that's saying they'll "demonstrate net electricity production, as early as 2024." Maybe they will maybe they won't but it makes a change from the usual "maybe in thirty years" stuff.
It's highly likely that carbon removal follows similar economies of scale as solar too, so the costs are likely to continue a rapid decline.
It will make a few very rich without returning any tangible value to consumers.
The good: People who are unaware will be benefitted.
The bad: This will not stop trade if that's one goal.
The ugly: They don't do this with their ads.
This is the case with most tech firms. Unless you’re hired specifically to work on OSS stuff, your likely job role is “boring” stuff. If you’re really good and deliver consistently, you get to work on projects with increasing scope and impact, and if you build a custom solution for a unique problem you face, you may open source it and it might end up solving other peoples problems…
GPL was really aggressive from the start. Being "GPL compatible" doesn't really mean "compatible" so much as "gives GPL its way". That became an issue even as we saw more GPL variants, like AGPL. When GPLv3 failed to add network copyleft, GPLv3 and AGPLv3 ended up with awkward, matching compatibility provisions built in, so they wouldn't be incompatible with each other.

Non-FSF copyleft licenses, like MPLv2 and now EPLv2, try to reduce the resulting pain by including "yields to GPL" clauses. More recent licenses like [Parity](https://paritylicense.com/versions/7.0.0) head off many problems by allowing more flexibility on terms, while still requiring release.

I'm all for considering all options when it comes to software licensing. But both business models and social causes are tightly coupled to choice of license terms. Telling people to just give their stuff away under permissive terms is in fact telling a lot of people not to worry about money or "software freedom".
One of the recent thought experiments I've been pondering: "What if there was a blacklist that you would join by taking/continuing employment at facebook?"

The idea being that companies would agree to a pact in which they would blacklist anyone who works for facebook. What would be the consequences?

Some sub-questions:

1. Would a blacklist be legal? Do employment laws prohibit hiring decisions based on one's prior employment?

2. Would companies agree to join the pact?
2.a If tech workers were unionized, would the union have any power to persuade companies to join a pact?

3. What effect would a functioning blacklist have on facebook?

* The only effect I can thing of is FB would have to start paying more to retain/attract employees.

....

This is all just a thought experiment. A what-if question. I'm not seriously proposing a blacklist. I'm just curious about what would happen if one where implemented.
Their pricing structure seems to indicate a personal, non-administrated account is free. There are a lot of missing check marks on the free tier but I'm not sure if a personal account really needs permission groups or dedicated support.
KVM is being passed to the Docker container, so it is using hardware-assisted virtualisation. Of course, certain things like the BIOS and peripherals will be fully handled in software by QEMU.
By the same author, the 1FB00 unicode block: https://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1FB00.pdf

I think it's even more interesting, as it will improve the textual rendition of graphics for people who can't use sixels.

See also Chafa https://hpjansson.org/blag/2021/09/16/chafa-1-8-terminal-gra... for more details, and sixel-tmux https://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-tmux to transform sixels into unicode if your terminal doesn't support sixels.

I'm waiting for 1FB00 support in Iosevka: https://en.m.fontke.com/font/131973120/charset/2201/
The only good thing about facebook to me is creation of ReactJS.
I understand gambling at Casinos as a fun novelty with your friends. But as a legitimate way of making money? Seems so risky. Especially when gambling online seems pretty straightforward. Or even better, gambling a percentage of your income on stocks or cryptocurrencies seems like it should fulfill the same addiction with less potential for completely destroying yourself financially.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S17505...

Relevant:

Qualitative proposals to control atmospheric CO2 concentrations by spreading crushed olivine rock along the Earth's coastlines, thereby accelerating weathering reactions, are presently attracting considerable attention. This paper provides a critical evaluation of the concept, demonstrating quantitatively whether or not it can contribute significantly to CO2 sequestration. The feasibility of the concept depends on the rate of olivine dissolution, the sequestration capacity of the dominant reaction, and its CO2 footprint. Kinetics calculations show that offsetting 30% of worldwide 1990 CO2 emissions by beach weathering means distributing of 5.0 Gt of olivine per year. For mean seawater temperatures of 15–25 °C, olivine sand (300 μm grain size) takes 700–2100 years to reach the necessary steady state sequestration rate and is therefore of little practical value. To obtain useful, steady state CO2 uptake rates within 15–20 years requires grain sizes <10 μm. However, the preparation and movement of the required material poses major economic, infrastructural and public health questions. We conclude that coastal spreading of olivine is not a viable method of CO2 sequestration on the scale needed. The method certainly cannot replace CCS technologies as a means of controlling atmospheric CO2 concentrations.

P.S. Counterpoint:

This is from a preofessor in the Netherlands, 2016 He's giving lots of strategies, other than "Olivine all the things": http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2016/07/olivine-weathering-t...
This is a whitepaper from that professor 2017: https://www.scirp.org/journal/paperinformation.aspx?paperid=...

His own summarized blogpost, where he is representing the "Olivine Foundation": https://smartstones.nl/the-rate-of-olivine-weathering-an-exp...

So I'm thinking this is probably a good foundation to start from. How long before someone can convince the US, much less China to olivine their fields?

This is not a fake problem. It's a series of problems, but I concede that olivine is a good way to go.
Wouldn't it be more efficient to remove CO2 from the sea where it has been accumulating as the oceans act as sinks for atmospheric pollutants and ocean acidification is actually more of a problem in the short term?
Windows 2000 was my favorite version of the OS. I kept it running far longer than I should reasonably have. Thanks for giving me another reason to fire it up!
The bullet effects in Terminator 2 weren’t CGI
Their repo has like 300 open issues today...
I have type 1 diabetes, and use open source tech for getting the glucose readings from my sensor and pushing it to a Pebble, but insulin dosing is a way more complex story.
I’ve done stuff like this. It doesn’t always work, but people are often happy to help, especially if they already believe something is amiss.
Yes there’s lots of algorithm books! Too many to learn them all. I had an anxiety attack and bought most of the introductory algo books mentioned in CLRS chapter 1.

I liked ALGS4 by Sedgewick as my introduction to Algorithms. I still refer to the Coursera course. I actually started with CLRS and doubled back to ALGS4. I wish I did it in reverse order but it was still useful reading CLRS and refreshing my math skills.

I would say grab a few and see which ones you like. CLRS, ALGS4, Algorithm Design Manual, and Algorithm Design by Kleinberg and Tardos are a good start. You can look in the bibliography of each books for more suggestions from the experts themselves.
For all the understanding and sympathy in this piece (which is virtually unique, and admirable for it); it still comes across as smug and holier than thou.

Do you assume, sitting down and talking to any of these folks; that they may want you to change your beliefs and manner of living, for some reason on some issue? Is it within the realm of possibility that they could offer you an insight that would improve your life?

But we're quite certain we have wisdom to offer them, even if we have the self restraint and understanding to hold our tongues.