skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm against companies tracking my whereabouts and wanting to know everything about my personal life. However. Here's what the "charges" are as per the statement:

>The investigation concluded that Tim Hortons’ continual and vast collection of location information was not proportional to the benefits Tim Hortons may have hoped to gain from better targeted promotion of its coffee and other products.

So it's obviously ok for a business to collect information. This includes information _legally_ collected from customers' phones (I'm sure everybody just clicks OK agreeing to the terms when installing the app). So what's the issue? That the amount is "vast"? That it's "continuous"? That it's "not proportional to the benefits"? Who decides what's vast and what's not, what's proportional and what's not? I'm really not getting what they're being accused of doing. They got a lot of data and had no clue what to do with it (missed opportunity if you ask me), is that a crime now?
Downtown Hamilton, or downtown Toronto?
The EPA Declared That Burning Wood Is Carbon Neutral (2018)
My thoughts on Meta and the whole Zuckerverse thing is still "yeah, I think I'll sit this one out". I really don't want one of those Facehuggers strapped to my face.
I don't know anyone under 50 who actively uses Facebook.
How is that related to Sheryl stepping down as COO at all?
This is basically the idea behind [Thin Backend](https://thin.dev/). Instead of exposing raw SQL strings we have a few high level functions to compose queries in a nice way and to do all kind of CRUD operations. These functions map 1:1 to SQL.

We use a WebSocket connection to keep all queries fast. Auth is solved with row level security.

It's even in the name: The backend layer is just a "thin" layer over the database. Most of the business logic is then implemented in a "rich" client/frontend.
ClojureDocs is great. See also https://cljdoc.org/
If he was buying these NFTs they were already for sale on the open market. Most of these NFT sales are not auctions but direct, "buy it now" listings.

A physical analog would be someone buying an obscure comic book series or packs of Yu-Gi-Oh cards before they got featured by a national expo or collectible marketplace. And then flipping them for a higher price after the hype train started.
Yeah. I suppose I mean that she's been disappeared for the public eye for a while, so why leave now? My guess isn't that maybe she's lost too much influence and just doesn't find the job interesting anymore.
The web was pretty much invented just so people don't need to use PDFs
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She's abandoning the titanic
There’s something to this school of thought but the logical counter-factual stuff just seems like such a dead end

I don’t understand why the better approach isn’t some kind of type-theoretic style answer - just say that a first-order decision algorithm takes in a problem description and returns a choice, and a second-order one takes in a problem and returns a first-order algorithm

Then say your decision algorithm is a second-order one that argmaxes over which first-order one performs best on the input problem. There’s no logical counter-possibility issues because you’re not having to imagine “what if my algorithm behaved differently”, the fact that it necessarily returns a particular first-order algorithm doesn’t contradict it being able to evaluate them
Freelance clients who think that meetings don’t “count” as work and thus shouldn’t be invoiced.

Obviously it’s up to me to fire these clients, but still…
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if you read some of the leaked documents from FB, I strongly suspect you'd revise this opinion.

When have you ever seen FB act in such a quick, noiseless and effective way?

its a 130k people, and Sandberg is the head of the chattiest part of it. Not only that there is Boz who appears to want to not only subsume the CTO position but also COO (see dinner comments)

TL;DR:

FB is far to big and uncoordinated to manage something like this.
Not necessarily a bad thing. The world is aging and old people have all the money
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meta seems committed to remote work
The idea that HAARP caused the massive flooding of the Mississipi in the 90s by causing the jet stream to move is still held strongly today.
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Or it's a nice way of saying he's a micromanager.
What are you talking about? She is the face of the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
thats the Sandberg™ brand.
The medical debt seems to be the entire source of your problems. By your own accounting you'd be banking close to $2k a month without it. Were you uninsured?
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I think there's little doubt that tons of soot and ash in the upper atmosphere can cause periods of global cooling. The problem with the nuclear winter hypothesis is in the link between nuclear war and tons of soot in the stratosphere. These nuclear winter models make a lot of assumptions about the likelihood of a modern cities turning into firestorms and the amount of soot they would generate, the amount of soot lifted into the stratosphere by the fireball, and the amount of soot that stays there instead of precipitating out.
My understanding is that Borgs can be subclassed, you can modify the behavior, use descriptors (setters/getters), etc. You also avoid the `global` keyword.

It's really not the most compelling reason. I recently found a cleaner way that actually achieves identity-equality, which I think is a much better way of going about things. Not actually using it anywhere at the moment, but I think it's neat.

class Singleton(type):
def __init__(cls, name, bases, dict):
super(Singleton, cls).__init__(name, bases, dict)
cls.instance = None

def __call__(cls, *args, **kw):
if cls.instance is None:
cls.instance = super(Singleton, cls).__call__(*args, **kw)

return cls.instance

class MyClass(metaclass=Singleton):
...

class MySubclass(MyClass):
...

>>> MyClass() is MyClass()
True

>>> MySubclass() is MySubclass()
True

>>> MySubclass() is MyClass()
False
> city life is horrendous

You find it that way, but obviously others love it. Rather than declaring it, it would be interesting to know what you found to be good and bad about city life.
Keep this job.
Serious question: Is there a law that says a person cannot be working two jobs? I mean, I get it if the people fired failed to do their job, but if they were fulfilling their duties and weren't working for a competitor, I don't see an issue.
That's in your local bubble. In some countries Facebook is no. 1 and on same level or even more important as Google Maps for businesses. Wished it was not the case though.
Seems like great news for Meta.
Oh, I'm just asking, if you have to set up a video call in the office anyways (which is often the case, these days, due to multiple teams working in other parts of the country and off-shoring) and the rest of your time is spent siloed with headphones to block out noise, due to office distractions - the reported upsides of the office (collaboration, community, teamwork, shared sense of purpose, closeness to fellow coworkers, etc.) all seem to fall away. What then, becomes the real argument for having an "only work at the office" policy and reviews not be based on the metrics of work done and quality of work?

And you are correct, my question was horribly phrased before =)

EDIT: and just for reference, I lead a small team and am not really management and we're still remote. We seem to do well and these are the metrics we go by, so I'm generally kind of curious about this. Occasionally my manager asks about hours worked, and I'm vague about it, but our output is better than most teams and of a high quality, so she doesn't peak inside too often =/
It's hard to stay motivated/sharp if you feel sick, fatigued, achey, etc. So I recommend taking a close look at your health... more specifically how you actually physically feel day to day, alongside looking for potential causes. Keep a health journal if you have to. Believe it or not, most people don't realize how some things subtly affect them.

Take this for example. Every couple of weeks or so, I noticed my stomach would ache, and bowel movements would burn. Wasn't sure why, but it turns out, it entirely coincided with me chewing gum or lying down after a large meal. Ceasing to do these things removed these acid reflux symptoms I'd occasionally get. Now I don't have this problem anymore.

Another example. I use to get migraines with aura almost every weekend. Again, wasn't sure why until I figured out it was due to my caffeine consumption. I use to drink coffee during weekdays at work, but would avoid caffeine otherwise. This meant I would undergo a caffeine withdrawal every weekend, and it in turn would trigger my migraines. So I cut out all caffeine from my diet (including chocolate) 2 years ago, and I haven't had a migraine since. I now sleep easier, focus better, and my mood is more stable.

Both of these changes have improved how I feel, which in turn have improved my stress tolerance and motivation for things, which I think has helped me on cognitive tasks. Maybe there are similar changes you can find and make.
USDT was far more stable and secure than any typical scam, so we're well past the "smallest steps to protect [yourself]" line here. "The currency might collapse in on itself"? Yes, that's a valid concern. But, "Do Kwon might steal your money." is not a reasonable thing to expect people to be concerned about.
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This is also happening with videos on Amazon Prime! Just recently, many videos have the Buy/Rent button replaced with a "How to watch this video" link that only pops up a box saying, "Visit Amazon.com." Very helpful!

I've opted out of several rentals already just from the stupidity of this.
Absolutely a bad thing. Young folks have less money, but are more impulsive with spending. The 18-44 crowd is an extremely coveted market segment.
> Mark’s belief that people would put their real selves online to connect with other people was so mesmerizing that we stood by that door and talked for the rest of the night.

Real selves, ha! More like jealousy (and other negative emotions) evoking versions of selves.
That's not true.

I come from a family of farmers since centuries, in Southern Europe. I am the owner of several large plots of land and I helped my family when I was a kid.

Growing food in greenhouses makes food cheaper than growing food outside greenhouses. Problem is quality. E. g. a tomato grown in a greenhouse does not taste as good as a tomato grown outside. In fact, the greenhouse tomato hardly has any taste.

Another problem is organic, eco-friendliness and all of those "luxuries of the first world": when growing in greenhouse, you'll have to use pesticides and all of those things that improve yield and keep plagues at bay. But then you are no longer ecological so some markets (e. g. Germany) close for you.

Also, this whole thing about "peak agricultural land". Bullshit. Really. There's plenty of unused agricultural land. The main problem with agriculture as of today is prices of sold goods vs cost of production, and that's only because of globalization, cheap transport and cheap labor in third-world countries (Africa, South America). E. g. where I grew up, there were big extensions of almond trees. Yet already 30 years ago, it was cheaper to bring almonds from California than grow our own almonds here! That crop is almost gone now, except for people (like me) who still have some almond trees for our own consumption (not to sell).

And the actual problem will happen in a few years, one or two decades at most: most of the sons and daughters of farmers went to university or vocational school, and now they have other jobs. Not farming. What will happen if globalization reverses (like it seems to be doing since COVID-19 started)? or if transport costs so much that growing locally starts to make economical sense again? We will have lost that knowledge and skills about agriculture. My only hope is I am seeing a few of my school and university mates, who studied Economic Science, Psychology, Electric Engineering, Civil Engineering, etc and became so fed up with those jobs, that they went back to agriculture (and they are making money because they have an analytical mind and they know what to grow, when and who to sell to, and first thing they do is they have a "business plan" for their lands and crops). Something like what happened in electronics.
Yeah; they're paying you for the work you do. Even unpaid, it still leaves this gaping hole in what they need done. They won't be able to find someone to pitch in for 3 months for any sort of skilled work, and they actually will still be on the hook for your benefits. The paid part for many companies is almost immaterial; if they'll let you have unpaid time off, they'll let you have paid time off. If they won't let you have paid time off, they won't let you have unpaid time off.

Even as a manager, it's easier for me to let someone have one day off a week PTO, with a wink and a nod, than it is to formally get someone to work 80% hours. And that barely is perceptible to upper leadership.
I wander what this means for Nick Clegg, and how much of his promotion to be “the same level” as Sheryl and Mark was related to her intention to leave.

He obviously isn’t a COO, but then Facebook has an existential legislative risk. So maybe that’s the indication, they need to be co-run by a policy leader, and opps is a solved problem.

https://amp.theguardian.com/technology/2022/feb/16/nick-cleg...

> “[Mark] added that the new role would put Clegg “at the level” of himself and Sheryl Sandberg”
It seems really nice to work with but investing in a niche ecosystem that adds another layer of complexity on top of a tall stack is a hard sell for me personally
I tried that just now, and got a "you must log in" page.
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> I've never used our in-car GPS (other than playing with it once).

You bought it. That's enough for them.
Well, more time to "Lean In" to activities like being in a relationship a guy that systematically covered up the sexual harassment of his female employees, I suppose?

https://www.wsj.com/articles/sandberg-facebook-kotick-activi...
> So just stop installing stupid apps and you don't have to worry about issues like this.

I agreed with you up until that last line. The problem is that this sort of invasive tracking isn't limited to the apps on your devices. The devices themselves are spying on you, and the lack of meaningful privacy protections leaves us vulnerable even if we left our cell phones sitting in lead lined boxes.

Without installing any apps on our phones at all this kind of pervasive tracking data could be collected using bluetooth beacons, using cell phone tower data, using facial recognition technology, using license plate readers, using the GPS/OnStar systems in our cars or using radar systems that see through the walls of our homes.

This isn't a problem our personal choices can solve. We only have the power to make choices that hurt us in different ways. We need real regulation and laws with many rows of very sharp teeth.
This might have been before uLisp (definitely prior to my knowledge of uLisp), and they wanted to write the interpreter for it themselves. IIRC it had 16k of RAM, so it definitely could have run uLisp.

[edit]

I should also point out that just storing the names of all of the symbols in the common lisp specification exceeds the RAM requirements of uLisp. Obviously builtins can go in ROM, but it gives you an idea of the sizes involved.
This made me smile big time. Outstanding!

ps: choice of e1m1 is interesting, iirc the reference benchmark is e1m2 (demo2).

EDIT: demo2 -> e1m4 !
I mean hard to leave a job where you’re getting paid hundreds of millions.
The guy is famous for spending 16 hour days on the line for weeks at a time to pull companies through crisises.

This is a far cry from the normal "he's here, he's working, he's mean, he's demanding, I don't like him" that I usually hear when people complain
The Soviet era? You mean in the USSR? How is that relevant here? And are you really claiming that everyone in the USSR had a 10 minute commute? That would be some incredible planning!
The formal announcement on FB (https://www.facebook.com/sheryl/posts/pfbid034NsoF5YfSkES7pT...)

Javier Olivan, the company’s chief growth officer, will take over as COO this fall, a spokesperson told CNBC. Sandberg will continue to serve on Meta’s board of directors.
Likely alluding that this was a major factor to her resignation.
I've kept very strict rules since the start of my work life. I save half of my income and try not to spend more than 20% of income on rent (which required living with my partner in a tiny 150 square feet apartment when most of my friends had much better apartments).

But that has helped a lot preventing lifestyle creep. I undoubtedly spend more now than I used to since I went from roughly 20k a year to 350k a year but I still keep saving half of my income. It does mean that I live a less luxurious lifestyle than my peers.
I know many people under 50 who use instagram. Almost everyone in fact.
I'm an astronomer who's been following the situation, and this comment of yours is entirely false.

For example, there was only one satellite painted dark, and it didn't work well enough. The next mitigation after that worked well, but not well enough.
That does explain a few things.

Sandberg has been exceptionally quiet in the last few months, and given that the succession underneath her has been horribly bungled, I suspect she's chosen this time to bugger off.

I'm not sure what this means, but I hope Sandberg's style of disingenuous personal "brand" disappears with her. Just say what you mean and give us time back.
Just Facebook itself or also Instagram and Whatsapp?
I used to do a lot of incident response type stuff and I just got tired of everything being on fire 200mph gogogogo all the time. It was already pretty fast-paced and then new management rolled in and decided to 2x the metrics just to do it, and I wasn't the only one with big changes on their linkedin recently.

I realized that everyone and their mother is hiring and decided to scoot off.

Oh, and before [the ordeal] I was doing a lot of travel consulting. If it weren't for [the ordeal] I probably would have quit a lot earlier because the work-life balance was just abysmal.
Lets not forget about how he was hobnobbing with Trump during the pandemic to get his factories back open.
> Third, it can't navigate a path without connecting to the satellite

How else would it work? Just sense which way the wheels are pointing and track the speedometer?
Don't worry, soon "The Metaverse" will fix all those problems. /s
“Sheryl Sandberg Leaning Out of Facebook” would have been a better headline.
Has it been a little more than a month since it was revealed she used Facebook employees to protect her boyfriend at the time from media scrutiny? They were launching an investigation on April 21, 2022
>Are there limits to the growth on a finite planet?

Yes, but we are 4 orders of magnitude away from them. Adding the potential for space industry, this grows to 13 orders of magnitude. That's ~1000 years of 3% annual growth assuming no efficiency gains, but we still have about 8 orders of magnitude available in computation efficiency, which gives us about 1600 years of 3% growth until hitting 2 on the Kardashev scale. Only close to it limits to growth become a real consideration.

Anyone claiming we are hitting fundamental limits of growth now is a doomer. We may be hitting limits of growth given currently deployed technology, but that's a completely different statement.
I think either of these extremes are too general to be helpful. Of course some companies are ok with that, it's something someone's likely to resign over (even if not immediately) so better to grant it if possible than lose someone and go through hiring and training cost to replace them.

Also 'would consider firing you on the spot' is very location dependent, that's not even legal everywhere. Even where it is surely it's a bit extreme - 'lol, no' will do.
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Honestly Peter stepping down from the board was a larger signal to me. But it’s just the totality of the data points.
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She's not leaving until the fall. Of course the timing of the announcement was deliberate, lol.
I was going to write a long post. But, good riddance.
These moves are prepared months in advance. I'm not sure why you would link an unrelated trial about a movie star to the announcement. Sheryl is a billionaire, she probably wants to take time off.
She also personally approved an anti-semetic smear campaign against Soros, because his trust gave money to some non-profit that were critical of facebook.
Is the data packetized and with timestamps?
If it's a Google Maps hit, street view and look for an actual storefront? Many mom-and-pop locksmiths have stores with safes etc on display. Though that won't work so well with tow companies.