skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From a user standpoint, information should be given out on a need-to-know basis. We're in a post-storage-scarcity world, after 2005 or so. Data is collected for everything and no longer deleted if it has any value.

The fact that organizations are starving for data means they will correlate and profile on anything they are allowed to gather. Once gathered, never deleted, bought and sold. More ethical employees replaced as needed.

You're in a librewolf thread, maybe wondering why it exists? For a primer I recommend the Frontline doc, "The United States of Secrets." It is on Kanopy, maybe PBS app for free. Worth paying for. Their more recent Facebook doc was interesting as well.

In themselves, bookmarks are not important. But they'd be pretty valuable (combined with other things) to use as an input to an advertising algorithm, no?
Hi,

great project, and looks very neat :)

I would be very curious to hear about any difficulties when implementing actual collaborative editing. Did you have to go into CRDTs and friends?

Cheers!
Dude you come on real strong and tell people that they should work harder, or pay back money or whatever.

There's nothing to refute because you can't refute tone. Plus it's not my job to be your debate partner for free.

Basically, either don't tell people what to do, or set conditions on how they should debate you, or you will get voted down.

But really, I suspect you are getting just what you want, really, pissing people off and making a stink.
CMU is nice. I'd look into good programs that offer some verification / formal methods. CMU is obviously great in all regards.

There are some pretty nice ones in EU as well, with low fees / no fees depending on your passport.
With each humanitarian crisis in Ukraine, the US comes that much closer to intervening in a direct way. Neither Ukraine nor Russia will capitulate, they're too evenly matched conventionally. So there will be many, many of these events happening in the future.

Already the leadership of certain NATO countries are calling for a no fly zone, and transfer of various weapons systems. It's a simple exercise to ask yourself what humanitarian disaster would be so egregious that the US would be forced to act because if it did not NATO itself would fracture, with newly-added former Soviet republics and eastern block countries acting on their own.

That event is not very far away. Mariupol is a disaster, but it's one that none of us can influence. We can, however, take steps now for the inevitable arrival of exchange of fire between US and Russian forces.

I'm happy to ratchet down that stand, but until something happens with clear de-escalatory potential, the base case needs to be direct US-Russia confrontation and likely nuclear escalation.

Edit: the split in NATO could come quite quickly. A low-yield nuclear first strike by a cornered Russia into Ukraine would put the entire immediate vicinity (the Baltic states, Poland, etc.) on alert that they're next on the list. The pressure on local politicians to act first and receive reprimand from NATO later could be irresistible. The US's "ironclad" commitment to Article 5 does the rest.
Going’s step further, Are you saying it’s not okay to blacklist neo-nazis? I get there’s the issue of who decides, but I’d say its fair for companies to say black list a neo nazi from working if that’s their desire. If someone walks in with a swastika tattooed on their forehead I wouldn’t hire them or serve them.

Same with perceived “communists” it’s not a protected class, while I disagree with that particular instance of freedom of speech/association it seems totally within the rights.

If the government is directing the blacklisting it’s a different matter. Private corporations and citizens are free to.
Relevant: https://luminocity3d.org/WorldPopDen
It probably does but I never heard Israeli forces specifically targeted civilian bomb shelters, hospitals and schools.
And much less secure.
https://youtu.be/J6eS6JzBn0k
Lithium-Ion Battery Fires in Electric Vehicles - Safety Risks to Emergency RespondersNTSBGov

Thermal runaway, stranded energy and battery reignition should preclude EV usage to transport children until adequate safety measures are put in place. EV car fires are intense, high voltage and severe. A bus full of children fire doesn't bear thinking about.
The problem is that the fine print on Amazon Prime says they'll use any card you have on file to continue it if the one you initially selected doesn't work.
I took a class in cognitive psych decades ago, and one of the highlights was going over 'A Pattern Language' and 'A Timeless way of Building'.
I just don't see a point in criticizing Rogan. He does exactly what he claims he does and I don't want him to get cancelled. His show is useful.
Perception matters. Direction and rate of value increases in a neighbourhood matters. The perception of the neighbourhood affects the value of a particular property.

Zillow can affect that perception. It is making calls about entire neighbourhoods, not just one property that it has a declared interest in. It is acting as a supposed uninterested party (valuing the market overall) and an interested party (benefiting from the valuing of a particular property). That's the potential conflict of interest.

How much home buying do real estate agents engage in vs just acting as an agent, compared to Zillow (in relative terms)? I don't know, maybe it's similar...
Test 421

edit: A bell? A thicc rocket..? Neat.
“ The scary thing is that it's easy to see how something how like this could drive a market boom and bust cycle.”

The opposite really. Speculators do their best to buy low which pushes the price back up toward the mean in the aggregate, and sell high, which pushes it back down toward the mean.

Speculation is a stabilizing force overall.

The boom and bust cycle in real estate is very real, but driven by other things.
Was going to comment on the irony of this not being a list, then got to the excellent final line.
NATO soldiers have been conducting training operations in Ukraine since the Crimea takeover.
There's also the fact that coal power plants tend to be pretty far from heavily populated areas. Even if the US power grid were 100% coal (which it is not) this would still be a win as far as cleaner air goes for a significant portion of the population. There's a big difference between a coal burning power plant's emissions 50 miles away and a school bus idling right outside your house in terms of air quality. That's not even counting the air scrubbers and particulate capturing systems many coal power plants are required to have. The bottom line is the exhaust coming out of a coal burning power plant is much cleaner than even a brand new diesel school bus, let alone all the older buses still in service.
Who is going to enforce terms like "Russians aren't allowed to use this"? Russian courts?
Is that one Wembley stadium of hoi polloi or is it 2.5 flushing meadows? Half a Woodstock or a Macy's parade of the great unwashed?
Most small businesses want some solution that Just Works^TM. The less time and money spent, the better.

Most small businesses will also not jerry-rig their own payment processors.
I'm not sure you know how built-in hardware calibration works. A built-in arm on the CG swings out at a set interval and automatically creates a LUT for the screen.
> except perhaps for the realization that no gun law, no matter how popular, will ever be allowed to pass.

On the contrary:

Ohio: https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/582202-ohio-house-a...

Utah: https://ksltv.com/455505/utah-law-that-drops-permit-requirem...

Alabama: https://www.thektog.org/threads/alabama-to-get-constitutiona...

Such laws have spread since Sandy Hook. Gun advocates like to contrast it with the Sutherland Springs church shooting.
Most of what you wrote is about 30 years out of date.

Here in the US midwest beavers are shot and their dams dynamited wherever they are found.

Not whenever. Sometimes. Today, in many places, even in the Midwest, beavers are considered beneficial to restoring a habitat to a more natural state. As long as they're controlled. But the wholesale slaughter you describe is simply false.

The majority of the US used to be endless chains of mosquito-infested beaver ponds, the entire length of every stream and river

Also completely false. Unless you define "majority of the US" to mean "portions of the Ohio, Mississippi, and Red River watersheds," which is far from the majority of the US.

The extinction of the beaver is what made the US agriculturally useful.

The beaver is not extinct.

For better or worse, the age of the beaver is definitely over. At least in the US.

You have generalized your personal experience in your very small part of the world to be representative of a vast nation.
Sure, we should act according to Putin's whims. So if Putin says 'do not help Ukraine or else' we stay. If Putin invades the Baltics, well, no ICBMs, right. If Putin nukes Ukraine we do nothing (no ICBMs right?). Can't we just surrender the world to him to stop these ICBMs?

Good thing we didn't have this attitude during the Cold War. We can help, and we should not going to listen to a non-ultimatum which hasn't been even given.
I don't know about this. Most places aren't very restrictive. The big cost is labor and materials. Both of these are constrained resources. Any rapid increase will lead to even higher costs. Again, preferences of the people with the money to actually build new construction will be to buy run down houses to remodel or level and start over, with large area and expensive options of course. I don't really see anything indicating the housing supply at the low end of the spectrum would increase, nor that overall prices would drop given that inputs would increase.
They aren’t fungible to you, but to other people moving into your city from somewhere else because of economic opportunities they are (or they wouldn’t have moved so easily).
I just cancelled Audible (an Amazon property) and the process was similarly confusing. In fact, it seemed to not even allow me to cancel unless I used my credits first. So I had to go purchase a book with my final credits and then come back to the cancellation page. Then after clicking through some non-obvious buttons to cancel, it gave me one last button that I almost clicked because they made it seem like it was a confirmation button. But it was actually a button meant to undo my cancellation. Very dark pattern.
I fully agree, open source is incredibly underutilized. When it works well it can be extremely powerful. Take for instance the recent flipper zero kickstarter/product. It’s finally shopping and even though it’s very incomplete there’s already a vibrant community of hackers tinkering with it.

I feel the same disappointment as you. As a child I envisioned a world where I could go work at somewhere like Google and truly use their resources to give back but every project seems in some way tainted by the underlying drive to make everything profitable for the company funding it.
Kiiind of.

For the syncserver itself, where all the data is synced and stored, you just need tokenserver+syncstorage, plus a database backend of choice. Easy-peasy, you can set it up trivially in minutes if you're used to spin up docker containers and have a database server. Loads of people do this.

However, you still need a way to authenticate. Most people just piggyback on Mozilla's servers for this. This means some metadata (not the synced data itself, mind you, but still) will be shared with Mozilla and a surprising number of third-parties.

To get the last meter and be fully self-reliant you need to go down quite the rabbit hole and set up the fxa stack. It involves several interconnected microservices and a handful of separate mysql databases. I managed to but it took a couple of days to dig through the sources and figure out exactly what is necessary and disable all the third-party integrations. The pieces are all there and it's all done in the open but it's clearly built with the mindset of a cloud-based startup.

https://github.com/mozilla/fxa

Once up and running it has been hands off, not much maintenance at all. Happy I did it but unless you like doing this kind of stuff as a challenge, I'd probably recommend using some alternative extension, until it becomes more approachable.

If you take it on, there are helpful people in the #fxa:mozilla.org Matrix room. More activity there, and self-hosting related discussion/issues/PRs in the fxa github repo, might push them to put in more effort to make it easier to self-host the stack and bring/keep docs up to date.

Hoping to do a proper write-up soon to make it more approachable for others, once things cool down a bit at work.
I'm wondering if NASA will change their plans for Mark Vande Hei to return on Dragon instead of Soyuz. His return is planned for later this month, so I suppose we'll know pretty soon.
Sure, any time:

> text can be resized without assistive technology up to 200 percent without loss of content or functionality.

What does "without loss of content or functionality" mean? If the resized text flys off the side of the screen (but there's a scrollbar now), is that a loss of functionality? I sure can't read it as quickly anymore, because I have to scroll to it. So that's less functional to me, but that's my opinion. And there isn't a layout solution to that, because by definition making text larger will mean less text on the page, assuming full-page content.

Does "without assistive technology" mean my website needs to manually implement a Size Up/Size Down control, or can I assume your browser has it built in?

You might consider that pedantic. But I can take almost any of these guidelines and ask the same questions. And the answer is always something like "what a reasonable person would think." But we're developers, and highly disturbed by ambiguity. So saying "the law is to follow these guidelines" doesn't fit right when the guidelines are not empirically defined.

> For the visual presentation of blocks of text, a mechanism is available to achieve the following: Foreground and background colors can be selected by the user.

Does "use an extension for your user-agent to swap out the CSS" count? I can't think of a single mainstream website that lets me choose the color of my text.

> Web pages do not contain anything that flashes more than three times in any one second period.

What is a flash? What is an anything? Can I embed a flashing YouTube video in my user-generated content that I post to make your website in violation of the WCAG? Do you have to implement technical countermeasures to prevent me from doing that? Does YouTube have to prevent users from uploading such content? These are the kind of questions that have to be answered before we could seriously consider this as practical law.
Does a bee think about winter? Does a tree? Or do they react in response to stimuli with evolved, complex behaviors? Does a bear go out and gorge itself to gain weight because it thinks that's the best way to get through winter or does it do so because changes in weather/seasons signal a set of immediate compulsions which have broader survival advantages?

We can even grant that honey bees, for instance, do appear to have some type of awareness of time and space, as indicated by their communicative 'dances'. However, there is a vast gap between encoding approximate seconds to kilometers (in human terms) and the time relations of the heat death of the universe.

Intelligence, self-awareness, these are all things that have developed in various species to varying degrees. And new data generally keep showing that we have previously underestimated just to what degree that is the case.

However, it has yet to be shown that bees (or any other animal) are compelled to instantiate and perpetuate social interactions with the point of advancing propositions such as "people who live in the future matter morally just as much as those of us who are alive today."

> billions of years ... survive through the winter

That's G.R.R Martin levels of winter.

EDIT:

I don't want to make it seem as if am I discounting the ability for the deployment of forethought by other animals. There is, however, the issue of any 'horizon of time'. Bees can work to restore a hive in the middle of winter because it is potentially conceptualized, in some fashion, to be necessary. A crow can interface with multiple interlocking scenarios in order to achieve an outcome (usually food). We have cooperative behavior: one monkey distracts the tourist, the other steals the food, etc. However, there seems to be little evidence for any other species having such a notion of time as to extend much more beyond immediate concerns in an active sense. Longer phenomena, such as the reproductive cycles of cicadas, is more linked to environmental factors and internal molecule clocks than it is to what could be defined as conscious relations.

This is not also to say that some species may also have (or in the future have) undergone convergent evolution with regards to this type of mental processing, just that it doesn't generally seem to be the case.
There is one important difference between written lists and PowerPoint presented lists. IIRC Tufte emphasises this difference too.

A written list can be read in any order. You can go back and re-read previous items, and then go into the future and see what the conclusions from the current items are, and so on. This free-form temporal flow of any writing (including lists) is a very powerful tool of reasoning. Arguably, this property of writing is what leads to an intellectual explosion once a people learns how to write.

In a PowerPoint presentation, the temporal order is fixed. And humans have a tendency to infer causality based on order. So with a PowerPoint presentation, you can (more easily) convince someone of invalid conclusions of logic because you control the post hoc ergo propter hoc.

So, I guess, all of this to say: writing lists good. PowerPointing lists bad.
The scenario where the destitute masses toil for the crazy rich few does not make economic sense in the post-industrial age we currently live in. That scenario only makes sense in low-productivity societies (and that was essentially how most pre-industrial societies were structured).

Why? Because it is mass consumption of goods and services by the many that allows for the massive wealth of the few on top. If not for this mass consumption, the very rich would be orders of magnitude poorer in an absolute sense (though they may be much richer than the median in a relative sense). It is only by skimming from a huge economy that allows for the very rich as we understand them today to exist. And if the mass consumption exists, that means, by definition, that the majority are not destitute.
I dunno. I agree this work is important, but I also find it boring and frustrating. Its like adding logging, plumbing configs, etc. Obviously it has to happen, but at least for me it's neither interesting nor exciting.
Isn't that the state we're already in? Very few sites actually test for accessibility before pushing production changes. It is already a second class citizen.
Maybe they call him fasteddie because he drives so slow.
Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia and the international community did essentially nothing about it. It both emboldened him for further invasions, and provided him a huge manufacturing power to pump out tanks and armaments. If the international community said "Hell no, we're defending Czechoslovakia on principle because that invasion is BS", they would have fought a much weaker Germany and very likely prevented WWII (or at least one nearly as bad). Frankly I don't see how you can argue that's not an extremely apt comparison.
Im honestly surprised they have not intervened directly let. The US invaded Iraq for less. Here is a democratic country needlessly invaded, with obvious civilians being targeted and killed. I think the US politicians are too old and still fear their memories of the cold war. War is hell but not helping is merciless.
Sounds like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mono_no_aware

> The awareness of impermanence, or transience of things, and both a transient gentle sadness (or wistfulness) at their passing as well as a longer, deeper gentle sadness about this state being the reality of life.
If you are solely supporting union or solely supporting intersection then roaring bitmaps is probably not a perfect solution to any of your problems.

There are some algorithms that have been optimized for intersect, union, remove (OR, AND, NOT) that work extremely well for sorted lists but the problem is usually: how to efficiently sort the lists that you wish to perform boolean operations on, so that you can then apply the roaring bitmap algorithms on them.

https://roaringbitmap.org/
Open Source was always political, ultimately this is where some moonshot projects like GNU got their momentum from. IMHO the red line is where it gets destructive or actually discriminates individuals. In the past PGP couldn't be exported to certain countries so sanctions apply also for OSS. Speaking of the immense popularity of web3 and decentralized of course not all measures will be realizations of government directives. That said I don't think OSI (opensource.org) represents the whole OSS movement.

Also the title is a bit click-baity. The protestware example is clearly weaponization of OSS but the other examples are not.
A collection of stories about open source from all over the world
That one. Yuval Noah Harari in a recent TED talk noted that we could measure the peace of an era by the percent of world GDP spent on military. He suggested that the period between the Berlin Wall coming down and this invasion was a significant historical low.
We take two types of vacations: 1) foreign travel where we are constantly on the go visiting new places and 2) home rentals with extended family.

For the second category usually it is the beach, but sometimes in the mountains or other area. We tend to get 10-15 members of our extended family and friends and the activities often include making food communally, playing games, moving between the house and walking distance activity like the shore, even napping. The house very much gets used and isn't just a place to sleep.
What will be the USP that makes it a success we are all waiting for? At the moment I'm switching between DDG & Google.
I was spit on, had two of my hotel reservations cancelled, and was robbed
It's not they're writing a library full of assembly for the sake of it. Reading the readme, one can discover they have dedicated optimised implementations for a large range of processors, which in turns means there's a lot of assembly involved
> I don’t really want to have to read through each of my dependencies and transitive dependencies licences to determine whether I am agreeing to <the things included>

I slighly edited the last part of that sentence to highlight a problem with this kind of thinking. I do understand that the author may prefer all their software dependencies using some well known license like "Apache 2.0" instead of dozens of variations of "Apache 2.0~modified"
Has. Not "is entirely".
That's a good argument against one-sentence lists, but the author seems to be arguing in favor of numbered headlines (with paragraphs in between).
Well, I grew up in southern Illinois, and we had beaver in my literal backyard. Which, granted, was a wetland which flooded several months of the year, but that was mostly owing to the Army Corps of Engineers doing their job, not the beaver (they flooded where we were to prevent flooding elsewhere).

So, unless this beaver eradication program is a 21st century novelty, I can say that it is not generally true of the US midwest.
This is actually not used yet. Working on implementing that as a factor.
This is interesting. I'm curious how this will be functionally different from using Carta to allow secondary sales.

Namely, I wonder who the "others" (other than GM) are. In addition to this being attractive for employees, is it also a way for additional institutional investors to take an equity stake in Cruise?