skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The public doesn't trust politicians, the government, or its official experts. Facebook is a public forum, and the public uses it to express their mistrust. Politicians then pretend that Facebook is the reason no one trusts them, because shooting the messenger is easier than admitting that they don't have much authority any more.

Are there major problems with Facebook? Absolutely. But the motivation behind attacks like the one leveled by this journalist is transparently to deflect blame off our incompetent political establishment and onto an easy scapegoat. The truth is that if politicians want people to trust them, they're going to have to figure out how to convince those people. Making Facebook or Twitter delete your enemies' posts hasn't worked in the past and it won't work in the future. This is a free society. You don't get to replace the public's opinions just because you declared those opinions "misinformation." Maybe in China, but it just doesn't work that way here.
What’s the human rights rig using now? Facebook?
It definitely helps to not have a family, and not to get sick, but if the finances work out after considering everything a generic fear of medical expenses shouldn't necessarily keep someone from pursuing an early "retirement". Home expenses are the more important consideration I think unless you've already got some medical stuff going on. I kind of did things in the wrong order and quit my job last year before finding a place to move to, and still haven't really settled on a new location, so I'm continuing to rent in high cost Bellevue WA. With no job, if I want to buy a home (that's absurdly overpriced even in places like Wyoming relative to 2019/most of 2020) somewhere and not pay in cash I'll need to do an asset depletion loan, whose typical 70% of assets calculation puts me at about a third of the more traditional 28% monthly income rule for qualification purposes.

My personal health insurance is a crappy plan that's $250/mo (it's going up to $280 for next year) -- I don't plan on actually using it and I have an HSA fund from my last job that will cover 1-2 years of hitting the out-of-pocket max if something does happen. Depending on the something, and its chronic nature, that may force me to change my situation, but top of the list of likely doable changes is to just go back to work (either to afford a better plan that'll cover something I need or get with the group plan the company has). If being "retired" young doesn't work out so well in the first few years, it's not that rough to become un-retired, compared to being in your 60s or 70s, and hopefully at least you had a fun break.
Facebook decides what you see. That they have created an algorithm that "maximizes engagement" is just another way of saying that they've decided what you should see is what they believe will keep you most "engaged". They could choose to use a different metric -- it is entirely their choice.
:D Corrected
Ok, so how do I get unblacklisted?
I had a chance last March when all the temporary remote work started, to grab a nice rural property and move there from the Bay Area. Chickened out because I didn't know how permanent the remote culture would get, but I wish I had pulled the trigger. Seems like since then, the rest of the country (including rural areas) has caught up with the huge real estate price hikes. Every stereotypical "lake house" has spiked and it doesn't seem like such a bargain anymore. Too bad!
> Weird thing is that I have a google cloud account with $120k yearly spend and my startup on it. Time to hedge my bets and move off google cloud.

I wouldn't trust Google with anything valuable... their customer support is non existent and the company seems to be "full of themselves" in dealing with their errors and things that are their fault.

For all shit that Amazon gets, my experience with AWS has been generally positive: Their technical support is really good (you get a HUMAN who guides you through screen share to achieve what you want) and it has been quite dependable in the more 10+ years that I have used them commercially.

Today's Google feels like Microsoft in the 90s or early 2000: "You don't like us, tough luck, fuck you and you still have to use us".
HDMI was never a pro-user protocol, it was made to encumber a digital display signal with DRM.
That is just bullshit.

A $8/mo charge for a app based remote start? I could live with that. Servers need power, the app needs updates etc.

A $8/mo charge for something which does not incur costs for Toyota? Hell no.

It seems like bit by bit - every single industry is going down a fucked up route. TVs with built in ads? Cars with pay-by-month features? DRM locked coffee machines? I really hope, there is some sort of evil-bullshit-corp ranking homepage.
Does this trite phrase apply to crypto software projects with bug bounty programs?
I host mine (see my username)
We make the same "hope it fits" joke every year and everyone still smiles, so I guess it works fine.
Here [1] is an interesting article that advocates for not blindly enforcing SSL everywhere as it makes deliberate mitm caching impossible. Also discussed in 2018 [2]

[1] https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2018/08/07/securing-sites... [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17707187
> One philosophy is that zero input basically never be a valid input unless you're taking in integers

This is obviously not possible, since you can imagine lots of complex objects are all integers or themselves composed of integers, and for this entire class of objects, the zero value usually makes sense.

For example, a 3-vector (in the physics sense) is a 3-tuple of integers `type Vec3 struct {x, y, z int}` , `Vec3 {0, 0, 0}` being the origin. How does a function specify that it can take an optional 3-vector? Even worse, you can imagine a struct for a potenitally 0-volume cube represented as 8 Vec3s, one for each vertex, whose 0 value is again a valid object.

Of course, you could gratuitously add an `IsValid bool` flag which must be true to the class, but the cube example shows how this quickly becomes annoying and bloated.
Sorry to say but Evan does not come across as particularly pleasant or likeable to anyone he corresponds with. Common courtesy would go a long way.
Ads. They want to introduce friction into the process of leaving their site so they can keep showing you ads.
Izzard is from England which has a high degree of gun control. The murder rate doesn't seem to be strongly correlated to regulation, however. This lends less credence to Izzard's conjecture. Maybe people who may murder will use whatever tool is available or aren't concerned about breaking gun laws?

https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/GBR/united-kingdom/mur...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearms_regulation_in_the_Uni...
The only way that will happen is if adults start using it. Next time you meet a 12 year old who says something is "cringe", tell them they are "cringe" for using the word "cringe".
There’s almost always more to My account was banned stories.

I mean here there’s the obvious question of why not make a new account and move on? Considering the description of the account that would be much less effort than has been invested here.

And less drama.
> We have to come up with a ethic solution

If you try, won't some people somewhere on the Internet, get angry at the ideas you have, and start writing angry things to and about you?
I zelle’d (US instant payment system for participating financial institutions) someone their cash wedding gift, to heck with social convention.
That’s not a bad way to describe it.
The joy of AAAS! (Automobiles as a Service)
I moved to somewhat of an expat bubble in rural Portugal, lots of advantages, the few disadvantages for me though are having to drive everywhere and lack of options for schools. Granted these are not specific to Portugal, but more for the "moving to rural / suburbs areas". Some people don't mind the driving, but for me, realizing I will be a taxi driver until kids get a driving license is a little depressing. Especially the driving to school part...

However, the advantages still offset the disadvantages for me.
It’s a little hard to go you a specific answer as it’s highly personal but the pandemic is also highly local.

Europe is hard with the pandemic because it’s crowded in the main towns and cities, and a little colder than the USA. In smaller places the virus is much much less severe than you think.

That being said, I think the impact of the virus will diminish with the combination of vaccines as well as the virus continuing to mutate and compete against other variants.

Probably it will eventually become endemic and not so life threatening and reach an equilibrium, but that’s just what I think. It’s probably not great for the virus and it’s babies to kill lots of people and then suffer massive human led reactions like vaccines and quarantine measures. Maybe the cold or flu thousands of years ago were much more deadly.

Anyway, speculation aside, there’s also quality of life to consider. A lot of other places in the world really emphasize this.

The big picture is it’s an amazing world with cool people, and it couldn’t hurt for those of us who are without families and with some savings to explore it.
Gmail is not that bad at auto-identify the spam, for me is the only thing that works quite fine. I'm with you for other things.

Major trouble for me is the concentration of a lot, really a lot, of datas in the ends of few companies and the the worste is that all of these emails/traffic is not encrypted, so all of it can also be tracked/read/used.
I disagree. Half the population will always have above average intelligence.
But why not CC0? That basically just grants an indefinite royalty-free license if public domain isn’t an option.
was posted here sometime ago:

The door refused to open. It said, "Five cents, please." He searched his pockets. No more coins; nothing. "I'll pay you tomorrow," he told the door. Again he tried the knob. Again it remained locked tight. "What I pay you," he informed it, "is in the nature of a gratuity; I don't have to pay you." "I think otherwise," the door said. "Look in the purchase contract you signed when you bought this conapt." In his desk drawer he found the contract; since signing it he had found it necessary to refer to the document many times. Sure enough; payment to his door for opening and shutting constituted a mandatory fee. Not a tip. "You discover I'm right," the door said. It sounded smug. From the drawer beside the sink Joe Chip got a stainless steel knife; with it he began systematically to unscrew the bolt assembly of his apt's money-gulping door. "I'll sue you," the door said as the first screw fell out. Joe Chip said, "I've never been sued by a door. But I guess I can live through it."

(Philip K. Dick: Ubik)
The solution is to vote with your wallet. These days consumers are pretty weak willed though and are willing to put up with almost any level of abuse for their shiny new toy. Look at what consumers are willing to (overpay) for during the pandemic as an example of that. $500 NVIDIA graphics cards going for $2000...

Eventually people fed up with it will "jailbreak" their cars like the farmers did with John Deere tractors. Then people might face legal action or maybe even jail just to drive their cars as intended. Fun future.
how does it compare to windowmaker, the open source nextstep inspired window manager/desktop environment from 20 years ago?
Also found this link today -

https://support.lucidworks.com/hc/en-us/articles/44156492440...

I'm glad I couldn't get SOLR to work on indexing PDFs for a client project last year and I chose an alternate solution after reading it today...
There's effectively no cost to do it now, though.
I lost my Google account the same way in 2007ish. I never got it back, nor was I able to get any explanation of the violation or chance at redemption. Best of luck to you, but until there is regulatory pressure to give some rights to account owners, you’re probably not getting anywhere.
Look at video games, particularly on mobile. I mean they aren't even games anymore. They're just metrics-optimized psychological-trick machines to extract the most money from you $1 at a time ie in-app purchases and pay-to-win. These aren't games: they're engagement bait to bring you and your wallet back each day.

Why do we have this? Because people suck and it just makes way too much money for anyone not to do it. Why didn't we have this 20 years? Because the technical capability wasn't there.

It's really no different here. Communication and messaging costs have really gone down to zero. If it wasn't FB, it'd be someone else. There's simply too much money with very little costs in engagement bait, whether or not that's the intent of the platform or product.

And yeah, that's the case because people suck. Most people aren't looking for verifiable information. They're looking for whatever or whoever says whatever it is they've already chosen to believe. That's it.

I'd say the biggest problem with FB and Twitter is sharing links as this is such an easy way for the lazy, ignorant and stupid to signals their preconceived notions to whatever audience they happen to have. But if Twitter or FB didn't allow sharing links, someone else would and that someone else would be more popular.

I honestly don't know what the solution to this is.
Those are a family thing, though. Other than at my wedding, I've only ever received a straight cash gift from family members (eg, grandparents).
Analogue Pocket Review: Gameboy Games Have Never Looked So Good
I've had my desktop background be the same NeXT default color for years. Same on my iPhone and iPad.
Marketers are people without morals, probably most of them can be classified as a high functioning sociopaths. Developers are realistic and mostly care about product being as good as possible. In the terms of marketing product isn't that important but rather finding the biggest market which implies telling fantastical stories to naive people. These modes of thinking are entirely opposite of each other.
OpSourced | SRE & DevOps Engineer | Full-Time | REMOTE (US Only) | Hiring Mid to Senior and Management Levels

We cultivate teams of skilled and devoted DevOps Engineers capable of providing a fanatical level of support for our wide range of customers and a variety of tech stacks. Then we set that team loose to build and support highly available, scalable, and reliable infrastructures and automation that our customers can use to iterate as often and with as little friction as possible.

You'll work directly with other engineers on our teams, and alongside those customers day to day to build, automate, and manage their infrastructures so they can focus on their applications! If you're looking for an opportunity to work at a scale few ever get to, this could be the right place for you! Paid Benefits, Flexible Hours, unlimited PTO, fully remote, and bootstrapped and profitable since 2006!

Minimum Qualifications :

• Experience maintaining production Linux environments

• Experience working with tools like Terraform / Ansible / CloudFormation

• Experienced and comfortable working in Git

• Strong Customer Service Mindset

• Strong Troubleshooting abilities

• Attention to detail

• Self motivated and diligent

• Ability to participate in an on-call pager rotation.

• Availability to overlap the majority of the workday in US Eastern to Pacific.

• Eligible to work in the United States, or as a contractor outside the US.

Preferred Qualifications :

• Strong Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation experience.

• Experience with AWS, GCP, Azure or prior certifications.

• Experience with Kubernetes, EKS, GKE, AKS.

• Experience building and maintaining CI / CD pipelines.
Nice. What do you have?
BMW tried to add a subscription for iOS CarPlay. Seems they had enough backlash that they canceled it. Total bullshit they would even try that.
It doesn't give the same results as other IQ tests, it's correlation is nowhere near as strong as you let on, the average expected difference is 2/3rds of a standard deviation.

Beyond that, yes, RPM is culturally biased. If you have experience with basic geometrical manipulations and bitmap manipulation you will find it much easier. For example if you have CS training you will notice that half or more of the questions in many RPM style tests are basically XORing two images together, with a small twist some times.

You'll also find it difficult to argue that that people who culturally do less manipulation and work on paper or on a screen will have a more difficult time.

Beyond that, there is clearly a body of research that finds IQ tests to be culturally loaded, and solid research that shows that even further studies in the same society where the IQ test was developped has a significant and measurable impact.
> centerpoint moved as you panned

If your display is tall and skinny and north always points upward, transverse Mercator is a good general choice among conformal projections. If your display is square or squat, then a stereographic or conformal conic projection is less distorted for any particular view.
That's an interesting map. What does "Initial WOU only" mean? According to NWS, "WOU" is Watch Outline Update. Does that mean that as storms track east and they expand the watch, they don't include those updated regions?

I live in an area shown on that map as having only been under 2 tornado watches in 2021, and I know with certainty that my area has been under more than 2 tornado watches this year. Frequently the watches are issued further west and expanded to cover my area, though.

(edit) This map seems to be more what I would expect:
https://www.spc.noaa.gov/wcm/20ytora.png
My estimate of a few dozen was a bit high, but still this graph shows a large part of the country that averages around 10 or more watches per year. I think my point still stands, though, that people aren't going to put life on hold and take shelter every time there's a tornado watch issued.
I never read the books, I only saw the Ender's Game movie that came out like 8 years ago. I remember thinking that the premise itself had promise, but that the movie was this rushed, hard-to-follow piece of crap that was borderline unwatchable.

For years people have told me that the books in the series are way better than the movie but I still haven't gotten around to reading it. Maybe I should.
API with NestJS #57. Composing classes with the mixin pattern
Are there any notable systems exploited by this besides minecraft?
I uploaded a private video of a screen recording of me demoing an in-development feature of a website for a client so that I could ask them if that's how they intended it to function. There was no audio.

That video received a strike and was flagged as a scam... before I ever even sent it to the client. YT is ridiculous.
This, minus the cryptocurrency, is IPFS. (Though I've never used it, so I may be wrong.)
LTT did some manual testing of HDMI cables [0] in hopes of answering the last question of this article, "how do consumers know if a cable supports v2.1 features?"

Does anyone know of other tests or more comprehensive data sets?

[0] https://linustechtips.com/topic/1387053-i-spent-a-thousand-d...
Google bought back 12.5 billion dollars worth of shares this past quarter [0] which puts them on a 50 billion a year track and it has only been going up. 50 billion on a 2 trillion market cap is about 2.5% which while not as high, they do keep increasing it.

[0]: https://ycharts.com/companies/GOOG/stock_buyback
"X is obsolete" for any X which is not literally marked "obsolete" in the relevant reference is just a convenient lie. The real reason is going to be either "I don't like X" or "I don't understand X".
Please don't use titles like this. It's against the HN guidelines: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

If you want to say what you think is important about an article, that's fine, but it's not ok to use the title box for that. Here are three better options:

(1) make a text post, describing what you observed (in this the Google ad), providing appropriate links, and giving your point of view;

(2) submit the URL with the original title and add a comment to the thread explaining why you posted it. Then your view will be on a level playing field with everyone else's: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

(3) put up a blog post somewhere and submit that to HN instead (this is basically the same as (1) but on an external site).
Nationwide, crime has been on a downward trend for decades. Yes, there are spots where it flares up. And COVID appears to have caused a marked increase in some crimes. But, overall, the US hasn't suddenly degenerated into a state of lawlessness.

https://www.bbc.com/news/57581270
I have both a new electric Audi and new Tesla. In either car I can just remove the sim and it'll completely disable all of the internet based features. A lot of the FUD around new cars is spread by grumpy old automotive journalists.
The NERV facilities capture the "rushed research facility" vibe quite well. Not only the UIs are spartan but they have a team of scientists running even the most basic systems and still looking at every issue, and you can also see cables laid out on the floor and everything. It's more realistic than the usual "pristine facility that deploys giant robots" on other shows.
In principle this can be fixed by splitting infrastructure charges from energy consumption charges. But that opens another can of worms because of how consumers have previously enjoyed effective subsidies from bundling costs into per-unit charges. Rural customers in low density areas would have higher bills if they paid for infrastructure explicitly. So would customers in dense areas who consume only a little electricity each month but still need the infrastructure to work around the clock. Customers who live in urban or suburban areas and consume a lot of electricity would see their bills fall. Since this latter group tends to be more affluent than the previous two groups, charging each customer for their actual infrastructure costs is also likely to be perceived as unfair.
Once again Boz has been reading a bunch of pop philosophy books and the press team left him alone with the press again.

He _may_ have made some excellent choices with oculus (price, formfactor feature tradeoff). However he still hasn't grasped the basics of communication.

His internal posts are long, rambling and at a tangent to the point he's making. Someone told him once that allegories in stories can be more effective means for communication. Either no one has told him he's doing it wrong, or no one who he respects has. more importantly the point hes making is normally painfully reductive, despite the 8k words implying its well thought out.

The core problem is that he honestly believes that facebook has done the best it can. He is firmly of the school of thought that he and his team can do anything, and do it better than anyone else.

The problem is, he can't do communication, and it shows. Worse still he can't empathise with the "other side". I don't mean sympathise, I mean mean understand why they are thinking the things they are.
Really should run `mvn dependency:tree | grep log4j`
> If this keeps up, some used cars will have a higher value than new ones.

That's already the case with construction equipment and farm equipment[0].

Right now, used cars often have a higher or near-new value because you can get one today - a new car, at MSRP, may be 6+ months wait, which doesn't help if your car just got totaled.

But, yes, everything is doubling down on toxic dystopian surveillance systems, subscription systems, and it's damned near the only option left anymore. I'm not sure what I'm going to do when the current fleet of vehicles needs rotating, because in 10 years when I plan to buy something newer, I'm not sure if anything won't be simply toxic. My car doesn't need a cell connection, sorry...

[0]: https://www.thedrive.com/news/31761/enormous-costs-of-new-tr...