skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm literally playing Factorio right now, with my kid. Got into it over Christmas based on HN talking about it all the time. Good game to multi because I don't have to pay attention all the time.

It really reminds me of software in many ways. You fiddle with tiny little things like balancing a belt, and then move on to building belt balancers. You then move up the abstractions to where you're not really placing inserters all the time. Maybe you make some blueprints and you're placing a whole set of nuke power plants in one go, or looking at trains.

The kid loves it, but you can (luckily) tell the difference between what he makes and what I make. That engineer keep-stuff-organized thing takes a bit of time to hone, but he's getting there. He also understands how to find root causes now, based on looking at where there's a blockage in production and tracking back along the chain.

One thing that's interesting is that the game is a bit, you know, dark. I mean we've built hell and the kid doesn't mind. Literally paved paradise with concrete. The air is black with robots, 100k of them at the moment. There's furnaces all over the place. We got rid of the steam power generation but there are huge areas of nukes all over. The natives are getting atomic bombs thrown at them constantly, it takes a while to even get to the nearest spawner. Or water that isn't green.

And yet he doesn't ask about how we destroyed all the cliffs and filled in the lakes, and chopped the trees.

"How should we make it bigger, dad?"
dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30304053
> What exactly is the point of phone verification of the official answer is “lie to us about your identity”?

Phone number is not about identity, but about reducing spam (they're also not at all tied to your identity, at least not unless you buy data from service providers). The point is that you need something that is very easy for your normal user to do, but very hard for bots - effectively, it's just a glorified captcha.
I'm no fan of Musk, but you don't have a claim, just vague conjecture. Post sources that his family was exploitative
Dude. Over-share.
Thanks. Could you please add a dockerfile for faster installation ?
My understanding is that ForstPunk is more like a Grimdark dystopian climate nightmare than running a startup.
That doesn't mean it's not also a threat. It just means that if it is a threat they can always say "That's not a "threat". It's a legally-required warning in a regulatory filing for investors of a possible negative event which might occur." Facebook knew journalists would see this and may have wanted it to be reported on.
> never, ever launch features

They launch features all the time: the new UI, longer tweets, reply hiding, moderating who can reply, spaces, etc. It's a long list.
"Addiction can be defined as a persistent, compulsive need to use a substance, despite the negative consequences to you or others."

What about things that are beneficial but unclear if they're healthy? Staying up late on the computer but then taking a sedative to fall asleep immediately so that you don't spend an hour staring at the ceiling. You get more sleep, but you're probably addicted to the sleeping pills. Without them, you don't get enough rest.
I've changed the URL to that from https://gist.github.com/moyix/ca4091f16f0b5011bfa8f3f97f705a.... Thanks!
My point was only that the card-chip associated number, the ApplePay associated number, and the number the user hands out to web sites, are not correlated. The user could choose to change their CC number every day when they wake up if they want, and the physical card does not change in any way as a result. Nor does it need to, since you cannot use it outside of the card.
Surprised and slightly worried that there has been a whole protocol out there since 1996 that I never heard of until now.
Since you can have unlimited amounts of email addresses for free, they are not the ideal identifier for products for which there are “free up to a certain point” aspects or “we’d like to make sure we’re dealing with an individual person” aspects? Though surely in the latter case something better than an email OR phone number is possible.
Installing wind power in cities would make wind power several times more expensive.

- Land in cities is far more expensive than the land where wind farms are currently built, so the electricity costs would be higher.

- Cities are already densely built up so it would be much more difficult to get the long turbine blades delivered for installation, raising costs again.

- Cities have worse wind resources because the built up environment impedes smooth, fast air flow. Turbines built in the middle of cities would generate less electricity over the course of a year, raising cost per kilowatt hour for a third time.

You can't build efficient (megawatt scale) turbines on top of buildings, and little turbines are basically gimmicks that don't supply significant energy. Rooftop solar power generates more energy at lower cost than little rooftop turbines.
Infosys, Cognizant, Gap Gemini, TCS, ATT Global Services, Accenture, HCL, Kyndryl, and on, and on, and on goes the list.
By the same token I don't know why jp88 thinks it's okay to spend their time volunteering on behalf of Google. Is there some angle that I don't see or is there a subculture of people who enjoy providing free services to huge highly-profitable companies?
Yeah. I took my partners dog for the afternoon. It has an airtag (not an official supported use). I knew the dog had it but there was some comment made about our walk. Monitoring by proxy.

When I worked at a power monitoring startup (we monitored home power use, by individual circuit) this passive monitoring came up. And our CEO mentioned to his wife that she was home early.. "how did you know?" He saw the garage door circuit draw power... He was told he could keep his toys, but not to talk about them.

Our sales guy had a potential partners remote door installed. He noted one time the dog walker did a pretty short walk (the door opens where x minutes apart), and was wondering if he could mention it..

Passive monitoring is everywhere. Not just cell phones.
ID.me gathers lots of data besides face scans, including locations
Do you have some instructions, screenshots, or video about the lobster project?
The letter from Wyden and Heinrich explains it a bit. The issue is that other foreign bulk collection has some oversight from Congress and the judiciary. Bulk collection authorized under FISA (The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) is reviewed by the FISC (a special secret court) and every so often the court will find that the NSA or FBI has messed up and needs to fix its procedures around US persons. Those programs are also briefed to the House and Senate intelligence committees who can, at least in theory, exercise oversight, even if in secret.

This CIA program has no particular statutory authorization and is being justified under an executive order from the 80s. It wasn't disclosed to anyone in Congress. It isn't being even notionally overseen by the FISC. It's just a bunch of CIA people justifying their own procedures to themselves.

https://www.wyden.senate.gov/download/hainesburns_wydenheinr...
I've had the same Google account since time immemorial. About a year ago, Google started hassling me to hand over my date of birth. I had long lived without access to "mature" Youtube content. But now Google began bombarding me with pop ups on my Android phone. I kept refusing. In retaliation, Google took my ancient GMail account hostage, blocking access behind an unskippable demand for my DOB. I had no choice but to cave and provide them with a date. I was livid.

Now that months have passed and my jets have cooled, I would like to take a moment and speak directly to Google:

Thanks Google. You finally gave me the push I needed to pack my bags and leave. I've completely de-googled my life and encourage everyone to do the same. You're an evil company. Anything positive you may have contributed to society has been long eclipsed by the damage you've done in your quest to subjugate the web. In short; good riddance and get fucked.
He’s probably mostly correct, but remember he doesn’t have any actual medical qualifications.
When US can't compete, they just ban stuff. See Huawei and TikTok.
Questions and results here: https://gist.github.com/moyix/ca4091f16f0b5011bfa8f3f97f705a....

We changed the above URL from that to the link which gives the background, but both are worth a look.
European Union Will Pay for Finding Bugs in Open Source Software
>"If a new transatlantic data transfer framework is not adopted and we are unable to continue to rely on SCCs (standard contractual clauses) or rely upon other alternative means of data transfers from Europe to the United States, we will likely be unable to offer a number of our most significant products and services, including Facebook and Instagram, in Europe."

Compared this to Apple.

>Apple's position is it should indeed be able to reflect on the terms and decide whether commercially it is right to accept them or to leave the UK market. There may be terms that are set by the court which are just commercially unacceptable.

I will let HN decide which one of them is really a threat.

While Apple haven't said anything similar to the Dutch, I think they just gave them the middle finger.
Wow, didn't not know this.
I need get my son into private school that doesn't do that asap.
Hey, thanks. I'll look into that. The way I've been personally dealing with paywalled content is just copy and paste. I use the "manual" option from "add content" and then save it that way.

Alternatively, I also email things to the app - the subject becomes the title, the body becomes the article.

But yeah, considering that the goal is to reduce friction, the manual work isn't ideal, but it gets the job done.

I'll try to take a look at what's possible with getting the current dom.
If you think going to Mars is useless, don't go.

Just don't stand in the way of those who chose to go.
Thanks dang! I regularly see these types of comments on articles linking to Twitter, but those tend to remain at or near the top, from what I remember at least.
Is it? I would indeed hypothesize that within the population of Fields medalists, IQ distribution is roughly normally distributed.

Are you arguing that it is actually skewed towards some cutoff point of "just smart enough to get the medal"?
>The heart is unable to regenerate heart muscle after a heart attack and lost cardiac muscle is replaced by scar tissue.

https://www.uclahealth.org/heart/cardiac-repair-regeneration
It's silly to make a universal statement like that, that's why I qualified it in my own. Whether or not math should be present in the assignments depends on the university and the background of its students. MIT's SICP could use calculus in its course because the students were either also in calculus or had already taken calculus when they got to the course. It was expected in their situation. Waterluvian, helpfully, clarified that the course they were talking about was for non-CS majors, so whether or not a basic algebra concept is appropriate would depend on the background of those non-CS majors. Are they all STEM majors or 99% STEM majors? Then you can assume they know algebra. Are there more humanities and arts majors? Then you can't, or shouldn't.

Besides, most intro to CS courses also include basic algorithm analysis (that may not be true for the non-major version of the course) which means the course will require the use of at least arithmetic, probably some algebra, and some basic calculus. So why not write programs that make use of math when you're already assuming the students are competent in basic math?

At least at the universities I was familiar with, a non-major first CS/programming course was generally targeted to STEM, but not CS, majors, so again familiarity with algebra would be a reasonable assumption (at GT, these were taken by the various engineering majors and used Matlab as the language of instruction, I think they previously offered Fortran).
Maybe I am. What's the difference and how does it apply to what I'm saying?
There are vanishingly few people for whom Twitter being down for a couple of hours induces panic.
The definition of 'success' varies. If you mean 'completed the project on time with decent quality' -> then no, that doesn't happen as often as with tried and true experts.

When I said 'success' I meant: 'achieved a basic level of competency after bungling one or several projects, often with unknown or unquantifiable bugs and then move onto the next company / role with few consequences'.

More succinctly: caused harm to others/ project and still got a paycheck.
Keeping it.

Every company all hands for the past year wouldn't be complete without an exec making comments about our eventual "return to work" policy, which has been delayed over and over again by surges and variants.

Asses in chairs is not a "company culture". I'm 10x more efficient in my home office than my open floor-plan desk next to the bathroom (with no sound-proofing) in a high traffic area. The 45-minute commute (each way) that I save largely ends up translating into more hours worked from me. With communications primarily happening over email and chat, we now have written records of decision making processes and we lose a lot less information along the way.

We're not a purely software company, so I understand some roles simply don't work remote, but I don't agree with a company-wide policy preventing regular remote work. I'm not looking forward to the struggle that is on the horizon.
Funny how everything but the obvious big change is a conspiracy theory.
Will try to get it done in the next few days. :D
There's always going to be some kind of gatekeeping at some point in the process--even in a purely digital marketplace, there's limited attention. Small publications like this are pretty much the least limiting form of this: relatively cheap to produce, many of them with only a few employees, publishing many short pieces, often skewing toward authors without existing followings.

There's a huge difference between controlling access to a niche audience which in large part exists because of the publication itself, and controlling access to publication in general.
Funnily enough in my career, whenever I took a job after an algorithm and whiteboard test, I would find myself doing the most basic CRUD applications whereas when I interviewed in a more humane way, by talking and exploring the knowledge set I bring to the table, I ended up working with cool algorithms in some highly technical areas.
Longer tweets was launched five years ago.
This doesn't follow at all, unless you are also making the claim that if you are comfortable with cognitive dissonance, you will be unable to participate in communications with others in ways that do not make them uncomfortable.
Are you arguing about techno-feudalism or just being defensive about anyone criticizing businesses?

The whole discussion here is about the idea of power dynamics. It isn't about the boring waste-of-time topic of just attributing "value" conceptually. If you enjoy playing Mozart's music on the piano, that has "value" to you, but "extraction" is a poor metaphor, and there's no power dynamics at play, it's just life.

The only thing interesting in this topic is the question of concentrated power and who has power to control decisions about how things are set up in society. Google has set up an arrangement where they are extremely profitable and a relatively small number of people get to decide how their platforms work, and the divided users only have the choice to take-it-or-leave-it (and network effects push them into it, schools and businesses and others use the systems, you better also, and the mere fact of all the value captured there makes it hard for competition to arise).

This is a question of organizing, collective action etc. The executives at Google can make decisions and they have a whole organizational system to carry out their will. There's no organized power for the users. The label "techno-feudalism" doesn't argue that value doesn't exist or that the serfs are literal slaves.
I think it’s all about placement and reach. They are good at SEO and article promotion on social media. Since people see it all the time they just assume it can’t be that bad.
This is about data sending without consent, which has to be explicit. E.g. if I, as european, create a Gmail account and my mails reside in an US server, I give explicit permission for all my emails to be transferred between Europe and the US. Namely: I'm informed of the extent of data collection (all my mails incoming our outgoing), the duration (forever), the storage (Google servers) and algorithms used (I consent the scanning of my emails to create adds).

But if I visit a web page hosted in Europe, and that page uses the FB cookies, Google analytics, etc. maybe I'm unaware what and how the data is being collected.

They relied on the cookie banners as explicit consents (i.e. if you click this "OK" button, you give explicit consent to all our data gathering and sending), but that might be not fully compliant with GDPR.
While Twitter is down you might enjoy reading Dan Luu's blog post of major cache incidents at Twitter: https://danluu.com/cache-incidents/
It's possible that the concept of the precept is unique only in name, but it's one of the things that the university likes to think makes it special. I do think it's a bit unusual.

As for the statement that my friends were smarter, this is just my subjective opinion, like everything else I wrote. Still, I think their subsequent careers show they had serious intellectual firepower. You know some of their names. I was lucky to know them.
If "proof-of-x" is desired for spam account prevention: Sure, happy to provide that as a user.

Just don‘t also tangle it to my user ID and/or 2FA recovery.
https://archive.is/tEdBR
I know a couple of institutions in Argentina that do this. I'm on my phone now, but there's a paper about lion king which is an example of this.
It's not typical. It is possible though.
Nanos on the 64-bit RISC-V Architecture
Where typical = atypical
Let's throw out every textbook and start over, then.
You have to ask the stupid questions of the right people, unfortunately.
I had to upvote just based on the name. the doctor evil reference is hilarious
What many people in this thread get wrong is that the problem is not and never has been posts, photos or messages shared with the public or a person that can reasonably be expected to be in the US. This data is mad explicitly public, and by posting, the user grants consent to distribute - worldwide. The problem is, however, with tracking data facebook runs it’s advertisements on. This data is compiled from a number of things, but must be orderly protected. That is - in my opinion - only possible in a federated service model. Anything that is explicitly shared and needs to be delivered in the US (or anywhere, for that matter) still will be. The GDPR and the concerns over the SCC only concern the ad path. Federating facebook will likely hurt their ad business, and, to make it worse, they still need to ensure the US has no jurisdiction (even if they would like to have it). This seems only possible by making the federated company 100% independent, which brings its own problems.

The reality is that Facebook (and meta, for that matter) very well could do that. But they probably won’t, because it would hurt their bottom line.
Thousands of NPM accounts use email addresses with expired domains
Do you really think it's worth reading poetry translated via Google Translate?
Some truckers are blocking bridges. https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/10/americas/canada-trucker-prote...
booking.com's service is easy to use but I've had several issues with them in latin america

1. had a hotel cancal on me because I didn't "call ahead" ffs: I don't speak spanish

2. showed up to the "resort" looks like it had been abandoned for months. literally no one there. total ghost town

3. show up in town, try to contact the hotel to get directions. they told me they cancelled because I didn't show up on time despite me messaging them ahead of time that the only tow busses for the town arrive either in the early morning or late at night

4. showed up, price was suspiciously good. Yea the actual hotel was terrible. dangerous part of town and the rooms were one step above prison grade. of course I had already booked and poid so I ate the loss as I took an uber to a better hotel in a good part of the city. It had a 9 rating.
I used to live in Southern California. Many bus stops have no bench and no weather protection. It can get brutally hot without shade, and since it's a drought area, lots of people get caught without clothing for inclement weather. I think it almost criminal that there's at least no covering for these stops, much less a bench to help wait out such conditions.
I remember looking at that. They are indeed really cool. What do you mean with notes and highlights you should revise? What kind of revisions are you doing?
Twitter Up again
Agreed, its very common. But this doesn’t apply to me. Allow me to explain:

I lived in four different countries across three continents seven different times by age 15. Throughout, middle class. Leaving Europe for Canada as a teen was extremely difficult. I still love Europe the place and Europe the people.

Finally, I moved to the US from Canada - hardly polar opposites - and was reared on a diet of anti-Americanism that took ten years to shed.

I didn't dream of coming to the US, the best grad program that I got accepted to was in the US. I didn’t want to stay, I got married. I came to love the US kicking and screaming.
> a typical new grad offer

That's mare than stretching "typical"
I was in the Twitter Space where some of these events occurred. In my opinion, he was off-base as a representative of a company on a personal account that was used for work purposes; he directly mentions the company in his Twitter bio. His adherence to Catholic doctrine in no way justifies the way he articulated his religious convictions; his phrasing left a lot to be desired, and alienated many LGBT members of the crypto community.

The only thing I’ll say to temper what he said, and doubled down on multiple times, is this:

The Twitter Space that this occurred in wasn’t moderated well at all, was a shitshow of people talking over each other to grill him repeatedly. Godwin’s law was invoked multiple times. Hypothetical child incest victims seeking abortions were also floated as purity tests. It was not a serious religious or philosophical debate.

It was a digital bedlam, whose outrage fomented over the actual perceived unwelcomeness felt by LGBT folks in the web3/crypto community. The proximate cause of this was discovery and coverage of the tweet under discussion, and the repeated avowals of that tweet in the Twitter Space, which then led to calls to change delegates of $ENS away from the person in question. The whole situation escalated rather quickly.

None of this is meant to trivialize his beliefs or justify them, either. I think he was wrong to say what he said to begin with, and I can understand why many no longer see him as a responsible community leader in ENS: the community lost faith in his ability to represent their interests.
Is Consciousness First in Virtual Reality?
NE U.S. here, cannot reproduce any of this at all. App and browser are fine, cleared cache and cookies, can still log in, search, everything. A regular quantity of new tweets keep appearing.
I feel like maintaining a whole web browser is a waste of time. Just maintain the qt fork of firefox instead
To underscore your point: cocaine was much easier to kick for me than tobacco. But neither had the grip that caffeine had on me!

I’m pleased that all three are a distant memory now.