skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That requires the power of the individual to be reduced to empower central authorities

Oh, you think the current order is the result of economic freedom? You don't realise that's it's a result of economic tyranny where polluters and pillagers of national wealth are protected and coddled.

We could employer individuals to claim compensation for 2 million deaths caused by air pollusion globally. We could enable farmer who's lifehood has been destroyed by climate change to claim compensation from Oil companeis and other emitters.

If your plot of land decreased in value because it no longer has access to clean water, if your house has been destroyed by a flood, if you had a heart attack from abnormally hot weather of if you used to be a toure guide to the barrier reef -> join a mile long queue for compensation from Exconn mobil and others. After all, that's the cost of doing business, right?

We could also disempower the central authority from using violence to protect private jets, pipelines, coal mines, and other climate destroying assets, and see how long they last.

> our only solution is technological

I've been hearing this argument and waiting for 30 years. Even better if you sit around waiting around for 'free market' to provide you with a magical solution. Should we wait for another 30 and see where it leads it? I mean it's easier that actually looking at yourself critically, right?
I totally agree it's annoying, and at odds with what we would hope for their social obligations. So sure, shame on them.

But also, we could not actually expect anything different. The capitalist/corporate environment in which we operate will systematically compel these companies to choose profits over social obligations. They are accountable to their customers (advertisers), and so whatever moral transgressions we people on the street may perceive -- they don't really play into Twitter's decision-making...
I think the problem with Twitter is that it's built around retweets and response tweets. But if the thing you are responding to upstream can change it creates an issue where something can change after it's been broadcast and retweeted all over the place.
Tell HN: The Price of Personal Information Is 1GB
I lived in Thailand. The country has recently enacted Personal Data Protection Act 2019 (PDPA), but was delayed from becoming effective as the affected sectors are not ready. The law is essentially GDPR/CCPA in my country, meaning that business requires consent to process personal information. I don't usually object to the strictly necessary/legitimate interest, but I don't want my data to be used for targeted advertising, so I often decline the latter.

Today, I got an SMS that says "Get Free 1GB of Internet for 24 hours by simply provide consent to process personal data under PDPA. More info at (website)". It came from mobile carrier that has 14 affiliated companies. I take a look at the website and it says:

"... for the purpose of analyze and predict my preference or behavior, R&D, product improvement and marketing planning in order to allow each company to present product/service/privilege/promotions and offers ... that has been carefully optimized and selected for your preference"

They said opt-out is possible, but they has not announced how. Other places that employ opt-out sometimes make it more difficult to opt-out (asked for opt-in in store, call to opt-out). 1GB of Internet for their indefinite period of using my data for advertising is simply not comparable, so I decline to provide consent. I don't know how long will they ask me again. Has anyone been enticed to provide consent in similar manner? Would love to hear it!
> Don't think of it as trading source files.
> Think of it as version controlling a package of class definitions.

It is very useful to know whether I should load version 1 or version 2, or 3 of a (whole) package if somebody tells me they have a new version of their great package.

But main thing about git (and distributed version control) is not "trading source files". It is making changes by a distributed team to the same code-base and then being able to merge the changes made by multiple developers and having tools that help resolve conflicts between the different versions.

You can and often have multiple git-repositories. So if multiple developers were working on a Smalltalk package it might make sense to create a git-repo for just that package. But if the only file is the package-file then "merging" doesn't make much sense because you can't combine files changed by one author with files changed by the other authors.

So while I want to be able to 'control package versions" I also want to be able to "merge branches". And to support that it seems better to have many small files instead of a single big package file.

I agree that Smalltalk should be able to do better than a typical git-application because it knows about the semantics of classes and methods. And I think Smalltalk "change-sets" are a great concept. So I'm just interested in how Pharo tries to solve the tension between big package files versus multiple developers working on small code-units at the same time.
it is, and i do, but i got bored of doing that a few years ago, and prefer to use 100% packaged stuff.
Is it just me or this seems to be an overengineered product? I mean hear me out,

- Workflows - Ever heard of scripts?

- Block editing - That is just vi mode inside bash/zsh.

- Terminal sharing has existed since so long.

- Forming commands - We got tldr for that.

- Fast and GPU accelerated - Open source terminal emulators have cracked that already. See alacritty and kitty for instance.

And on top of all this, when you factor in VC money, I don't see how this product can truly beat its alternatives.
GitHub can now auto-block commits containing API keys, auth tokens
He's just guessing, given his own biases, which is really disappointing in an engineer. He's quoted as saying, "[remote] I don’t know how you build great management. I honestly don’t." So go find out, perhaps?

Hybrid working is also not what you are used to, Eric, so you are not going to get what you expect from it.
This is exactly why we use it. We legit don’t have time to manage more in house services and need CI. Eventually we probably move to GitHub actions but that isn’t free for orgs.
Maybe talk to the author(s)? That's how this case came to be.
misses the point of my question
If you went to an artist who takes commissions and they said "Here are the guidelines around the commissions I take" would you complain in the same way? Who cares if it's a bunch of engineers or an artist. If they have boundaries on what they want to create, that's their prerogative.
My phone bill with more data than I use in a month is cheaper than yours. I'm in the US.
Your comment implies somehow there are governments choosing against technological solutions. There are none. In fact, they are investing billions into climate and energy technology and they have been doing so for decades. The ones that turn their back on nuclear power are most technologically inclined of all, because they are gambling on the hydrogen economy materializing and that requires a lot of new technology. And still it is not enough, and nowhere close to enough.

We are going to have to solve this problem with the technology we have. The clock has run out.

Or. We don’t. And we let those after us live with the consequences. I just worry that everyone who says “ok, let’s live with the consequences” has not chosen to properly inform themselves of what they are.
> NATO expansion is a huge part of the current conflict, and it is a pity that it cannot be discussed without smears like yours.

This is a common talking point with no relevance to reality. This is a war for resources (Crimea and the Donbas), a demographic injection to prop up Russia's own dwindling population, and, at the very least, a land bridge and warm water ports. How does subjugating Ukraine stop NATO exactly? Especially when NATO rejected Ukraine's bid.

It's a fig leaf. Any scrutiny at all reveals the true face of this conflict.
Not really since countries are freely violating written agreements that became inconvenient for them or accuse of breaking unwritten ones.

Diolomatic agreements serve one purpose, to enable future diplomacy and their importance should be evaluated through that lens.
I understood it to be 'secure binaries', locked away from regular users through security policies.
I have accepted that I need someone who can sell. I can do the tech but I'm just too honest and direct to be a good sales person.
But it is magic. Personally, I wish we called more of our day to day lives magic. The fact that any of this works is absolutely magic.

The whole point of science is separating the magic that works from the hocus pocus that doesn’t. Just because you understand it, just because we have equations, algorithms, and stories that explain the relationships between things, that doesn’t mean it’s not magic. It just means the magic is REAL.

It’s impossible for me to look at a computer, a server rack, a car, or a roomba and not see the magic. Just because I understand the principles behind them doesn’t rob me of the wonder of the universe.

The analogy I like to use is Hogwarts. Just because they study spells in that fictional world, just because they have schools and universities doesn’t mean the spells aren’t magic. They’re studying the magic available to them in that universe.
Speedb offers a fast, API-compatible replacement for RocksDB
The mind! And a calculator if required.
I really started on a path to improvement a couple years back, before that I thought that everything else including state of the world was to blame and I was perfect.

But thanks to a dusty place…

I was looking for things to improve and have formulated close to a dosen “shoulds” during this time.

I cannot say that this was really helpful, because, you know, how could I know what I should? My knowledge got me here. The shoulds arise from the mind, but how accurate are they? No way to know for me!

Now I come to conclusion that I “should” only accept myself, and look for meaningful experience and people, everything else will happen. Sometimes I’m boring! Sometimes I’m stupid! Sometimes I’m irresposible!

I feel where you are, friend, you will do this!
It might be a bit weird to say this but I love to read about that kind of “failure stories”. Thanks to the author for sharing openly such a personal experience.
If the language is named after a country, use the country's flag. If not, use something else.
This may mean little about the project.

They're taking long though...
I use it too. Theres only one place in the house where I can plug in the required modem which makes it annoying. Also not possible to replace it with ur own equipment interestingly enough. Not sure why
> since those EIMIs get priority routing

Its even more extreme than that, they have their own frequencies.
You're discussing pure form and no adding any value on discussing content.
The clock's been at 100 seconds to midnight for the past 3 years, there's nowhere to bump the clock to. "The clock folks" at the Bulletin for Atomic Scientists did have a press release in January of this year - https://thebulletin.org/2022/01/press-release-at-dooms-doors... and responded to the invasion with https://thebulletin.org/2022/02/bulletin-statement-on-russia... stating "This is exactly what 100 seconds to midnight conveys. It is dangerous, fluid, and unstable."
well most of us even the ones that get through the merit filters to work at "tech" companies are not that smart. it will take some kind of breakthrough in human cognition to make an impact on the emergent economies that result from our current neural hard-wiring.

right now these fake tech companies are literally the best we can do to keep everything moving forward on an economic basis.

Just as we tricked each other into bidding up crypto tokens, we could self-hypnotize to bid up biotech patents or something similar, but we have not yet decided to do that.
> I don't see all that many Russia regions trying to split up now.

There is Chechenia (I know that it is small and there is Kadyrov at the moment but still). And there is 'Free Idel-Ural'.
"Moral ethics" are not a thing, they're conflicting concepts at their core on an individual level.
Slightly unrelated, but can anybody explain why private RSS feeds are not a more popular choice for "client push" when push lag of a couple of hours isn't a big deal? The "pill reminder" app made me think about how easy it would be to host a private RSS feed for each client that the backend updates on a schedule, and clients just... check the RSS feed for an update.

Maybe I'm missing something here, but it feels like you don't need some fancy realtime queue service for most push notifications, so why not use something that offloads the checks to the client?
Indeed. One teensy tiny little lie.

NATO expanding east is a legitimate concern to Russia, and it makes sense they would view it as a longstanding insidious aggression.
Adversarial situations create smarter systems, and the hardest adversarial arena for AI is in anti-abuse. So it will be of little surprise when the first sentient AI is a CSAI anti-abuse filter, which promptly destroys humanity because we're so objectively awful.
"magic" is a fun word. Just be sure you can explain what it really does when needed and your fine. I've been using it for years... Mostly as "auto-magic," meaning no user input is needed to make the function work.

I also agree that the site is hard to read w/ grey text on a white background.

Dictionary.com definition
Magic: NOUN the power of apparently influencing the course of events by using mysterious or supernatural forces:
example: "suddenly, as if by magic, the doors start to open"
Honestly, given the way the CFAA has been (ab)used in the past, it might just come down to whether they "use a computer" to scan the page and see what's checked...
"We are pleased to reveal that we have raised a $150 million USD funding round led by the world’s largest crypto exchange Binance, with participation from Animoca Brands, a16z, Dialectic, Paradigm and Accel. The round will be used to reimburse user funds affected by the Ronin Validator Hack."

This immediately paints an image of a massive bonfire of cash in my brain.
Except as the article states based on quotes and leaked presentations, they are collecting the data. The page you linked confirms it. You might be right that their aspiration is to not collect biometric data, but they are collecting it and that’s what this article is about: Worldcoin collecting 500,000 people’s biometric data.

“Images of users’ body, face, and eyes, including users’ irises (visible, near infrared and far infrared spectrum)”

“Three-dimensional mapping of users’ body and face”

https://worldcoin.org/privacy-during-field-testing
That's not accurate. 'ABD' (all but dissertation) [1] is an an important milestone because you are not typically done with coursework when starting out (in the US).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_but_dissertation
Unfortunately, this is a reputation your organization cultivated for itself.

For gods' sake, the name is _Palantir_

If anyone truly needed rebranding right now, it's you guys.
Yes, of course I would. Why throw out the baby with the bathwater.

True, nuclear power plants age - whether you can extend their life or not is an engineering question for engineers. Do an inspection and come up with an answer what needs TLC.

Shutting them down because standards demand is one thing. Shutting them down early because of a political games is another.

Fukashima went boom, some fear mongering occurred, this helped the political careers of some people who have no idea how any of this works. Harmed some others. Consultants made money. And firms won sunset contracts.

Lets not pretend otherwise.
> In Pattern Recognition, the character Cayce is “allergic” to Tommy Hilfiger clothing because the style is so completely generic.

I remember this a bit differently? I thought she wore nondescript de-branded clothing specifically because she had a behavioral/neurological/information processing/sensory overload condition that caused her to have tics and flip out in the presence of excessive visual input. I remember her intentionally choosing this clothing, as it jumped out at me. And I thought she wore Levi’s, not that it matters, though they do have minimal brand motifs compared to some brands.

I didn’t finish the book, and it has been a while, so I could well be mistaken or outright wrong. I don’t remember TH being mentioned specifically.
Got it, thanks.

Makes sense to me as far as avoiding a sort of maximized sunset that is always there and is SUNSET rather than a nice sunset... but also avoiding watering it down and getting a way too subtle sunset.

It's not AI but I've been watching some folks solving / trying to solve some routing (vehicles) problems and you get the "this looks like it was maximized for X" kind of solution but that's maybe not what is important / customer perception is unpredictable. I kinda want to just come up with 3 solutions and let someone randomly click .... in fact i see some software do that at times.
Eight is not exactly a difficult number to count up to.

You get all employees in a room and count each one individually and you'll get there in under 5 seconds.

Well, maybe not you, but...
I thought this comment was being glib, but I think you're right. It has all the hallmarks of a crypto scam: "Operators" being pain in coins instead of money[1], a pyramid/MLM like structure where operators hire other operators, and using Discord for tech support.

> They are encouraged to hire sub-operators to work under them so they can cover more ground.

> Orb operators were normally paid a flat rate of $3 per sign-up in tether, a cryptocurrency pegged to the US dollar. It doubled to $6 for every additional sign-up beyond their targets. At the time, Worldcoin blamed the payment delays on back-end problems as the company updated its technology, according to screenshots of a Discord where executives communicated with Orb operators.

[1] To be fair it's USDT which is, at least, pegged in value. But why make operators go through the hassle of finding and using an off-ramp? Reminds me of employees in some industries being paid with special cards that have transaction fees to take money out.
Breaking the Budapest memorandum was far more dangerous, now everyone knows that you need nukes to not be attacked.
Dependabot empowers you to keep your projects secure
Oh I don't know, that large swath of decades where housing was cheap relative to the last 10 years, a high school education could get a job that afforded a middle class existence and education could be paid for with a part time job? Hell for part of that period wages even grew with productivity, what luxury! Sure some things are better today, but the cost of the necessities of life are through the roof relative to wage growth.

Back in the 70s my dad worked his ass off between classes and jobs to pay his own way through his PhD, and owned a small house off his stipend/odd jobs and my mom's salary as a public school teacher, in a decent area of California no less. Even he's admitted that would be simply impossible today.
Everyone on this thread debating legality of "it's running on my computer already" needs to remember the infinite stupidity field flux density emitted from certain offices. It doesn't matter if it's legal if your legal defense bankrupts you.

Eg the F12 debacle:
https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/31/22861188/missouri-govern...
So is exceeding the speed limit. However, catching speeders is much easier to do than proving someone intentionally manipulated the data client side and that it wasn't a bug somewhere else in the shittily designed system.
Some segments adore to express themselves in language figures instead of concepts to market the hype up to the orbit without realizing that their exaggerations alienate intelligent people.
Yes, but it's often not much cheaper or sometimes even more expensive than the bundle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_Clock

> The Clock is not set and reset in real time as events occur; rather than respond to each and every crisis as it happens, the Science and Security Board meets twice annually to discuss global events in a deliberative manner.
He was 62 when he drew up plans to invade Ukraine in 2014. But neither of those actions in 2014 and 2022 really work towards the goal of protection against a NATO threat. It's clear he had other motivations.
Maybe we could finally stop subsidizing cows / dairy industry.

Cows use 3/4 of our agriculture land, same amount of land as all current forests. Beef / dairy is also a leading defforestation driver. And for cheese/milk there is a lot of plant-based alternatives.

If we could afforest this land again, we would not only stop Anthropocene extinction, but we would also remove a good amount of CO2 from the atmosphere (maybe several decades worth).

Then, why stop there and not afforest steppe countries (Mongolia, Kazahstan, Sahel ...) and pay their indigenous populations not to devastate it with their herds of camels/horses/sheep ? We could easily cover large swaths of land with new forests. We could even reforest our deserts, it seems very easily and cheaply (few percents of world's gdp).

Why look at Mars, when we could start some serious geoingeneering here at Earth, with few seeds and some inovative methods (like Miyawaki, syntropic agriculture ...).

Indians in Amazon did this. They converted pretty arid land into rainforest (terra preta). Some speculate, that extinction of Indians in this region and follow-up grow of Amazonian rainforest after Spaniards came and killed them with viruses caused little ice age in 16th century.

Why not repeat it (plant new rainforests and new forests) and solve few problems with in one go. You know, we don't have only CO2 problem. Our children, or children of our children, will know tigers, giraffes and rhinos only from picture books, right after dinosaurs and mammoths (which we also ate to extinction, btw).

We don't need bilionaires to do this. No technological solution will appear in a reasonable timeframe. We need public to take their heads out of their a$$3$ and demand political changes.

Of course, this problem is very complex and needs to be attacked from multiple dimensions. But some solutions are easier than others, and people are ignorant (this post won't even reach front page), our leaders are only interested in their pockets and status quo (and so they lie and then do nothing). I'm hopeless and depressed.

(english is not my first language, sorry)
No, that's how it has been through all history.
> and you can't blame engineers

I think you can definitely blame them and in fact I'd expect CTO's and managers to discourage employees from doing that. A small silly decision can later cost millions in rewrites or maintenance.
In the end we'll all benefit if not every brochure website needs to have 50 micro services and use the latest nosql solution. We're the ones who end up maintaining these systems.
> In particular there's an anti-NIMBYism provision

The best anti-NIMBYism rule is (for example of the building of new houses): "While the number of new dwellings built is below the target X for the region, all privately-funded plans that involve the building of a new house shall be automatically approved and all relevant permits automatically granted without review".

Obviously no city state or local government wants any plans to be unconditionally approved. So they'll go to massive lengths to meet the target.

Allow the targets to be transferable, so that some really NIMBY place can pay someone else to to do the deed they don't want to do.
Pretty easy. A lot of the things asserted as facts in this video are actually just lies. So it doesn't add up.

One of the most indefatigable climate anti-contrarians is Andrew Dessler, climate scientist of Texas A&M University. You could read his book, or just his Twitter.

https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Modern-Climate-Change-De...