skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed. It's the height of hypocrisy for a company to define the borders of its own system and then prosecute those who they consider in violation of them. There is no consideration given to whether the data should have been collected and retained by Facebook in the first place, regardless of whatever arbitrary access policies they defined to fit their own business and data model.

It's not clear what Facebook's position on scraping truly is. Sometimes they downplay it as "normalized and widespread," and other times they castigate it as inexplicably legal and clearly immoral, or even outright "in violation of state and federal law." For example:

- April 2021. Researchers find an exposed database containing the scraped data of 533 million facebook users. Some news reports refer to it as a "breach." Facebook attempts to downplay the issue as the result of third party scraping. Headline in ZDNet: "Internal Facebook email reveals intent to frame data scraping as ‘normalized, broad industry issue’" [0]

- October 2020. Facebook announces lawsuits against companies it claimed created a "malicious extension on Google’s Chrome Web Store designed to scrape Facebook, in violation of Facebook’s Terms and Policies and state and federal law." [1]

So... which is it? Does Facebook believe that scraping is a "broad, normalized industry issue?" Or is it a violation of "state and federal law?" It seems like they measure severity of its impact primarily based on the reactions of political commentators.

And what's the difference between automating a browser and automating an API client? Why did Facebook design an API for accessing the data they collected, if it's illegal to collect? They've even claimed to be the victim of Cambridge Analytica, who purchased a "quiz" application created by a developer who pieced it together using code straight from the "examples" section of Facebook's API documentation.

There is one obvious resolution to this apparent contradiction. If we remove Facebook from the question, then the contradiction resolves itself. All we need to do is stop presuming that Facebook has the right to collect and retain this data in the first place. And as a user, if you publish your data to a website designed for sharing it with other people, then by definition it is no longer private data. Therein lies the central question: what is "semi-private" data, and who controls its boundaries?

[0] https://www.zdnet.com/article/facebook-internal-email-reveal...

[1] https://about.fb.com/news/2020/10/taking-legal-action-agains...

p.s. another thing they never mention is why companies want to scrape lists of facebook users. perhaps it might have something to do with the "lookalike audience" feature, and its more precisely targetable predecessors, which allow advertisers to upload a list of usernames and email addresses for targeted advertising?
>I'll believe it when I see it.

This whole "yea inter-sat free space fiber links are totally going to happen" charade smacks of the same hype baiting as "full self driving by end of year" nonsense that Elon has been spouting since 2018.

The Starlink "team" did an AMA on reddit[0] last year and it was comical how empty the answers were. People asked about the space lasers and the answers were all "yea it's a really hard problem, BTW we're hiring!" which honestly felt like an admission from HR that they're looking for engineers willing/able to cash the checks marketing already wrote.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/Starlink/comments/jzozv3/every_answ...
I was shocked when I got a new doctor that he had all my vaccine records going back years. Things like flu shots and tetanus boosters that I didn't tell anyone about except the pharmacy and my insurance company.

Back in the day, your health record was like a criminal record. If it got a black mark, you couldn't buy insurance any longer. I hope we never go back to that.
Let the waste sit in place for decades to decay away much of its radioactivity, dig a hole in a geologically boring mountain away from people, dump waste in the hole.

Alternative first step: build breeder reactors to recycle most of the waste into nuclear fuel and dump the smaller amount of leftovers in the mountain.
> If we don't built war machines at parity, we become Ukraine. Toothless. Ripe for bullying at best, hostile takeover at worst.

That's only one part of the equation. It could be that the perpetual arms race also leads to situations like Ukraine's now, or many others in the recent past.

It's a way of thinking everything is a nail, since you are holding a hammer.

> Nature is metal. Look at orcas playing with food to teach hunting. Hornets laying larva in live prey. Lions eating out distant relatives alive.

Nature may be metal, but we aim to be better. After all, when a male lion takes over a pride, he often kills the cubs sired by the previous male; do we want that in human society? The good old "is-ought" [1] problem of philosophy applies here.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is%E2%80%93ought_problem
I don't believe what you think I do.

Authoritarian states have been the default for most of human civilization. Freedom is a good, but it doesn't "auto-win". It can lose, and in fact it has lost, over and over and over again, throughout human history.

Native American tribes were arguably more free than Europeans at the time the new world was discovered. Unfortunately, they didn't have guns and horses, and the Europeans did. I would prefer not to end up on the side without the guns and the horses the next time a paradigm changing military technology is discovered.

If we want to keep the society we prefer, we have to fight for it. That's not because we like fighting, that's simply the only way it's been made to ever work at any point in history.
If the Ukraine invasion was in a vacuum maybe but Russia has set it sights on a number of nations regardless of their NATO involvement.

They’re absorbing Belarus soon, was Belarus getting too cozy with NATO?
What are pick-ups used for, then? In my country they're mostly owned by farmers.
Then the writing was on the wall for months, but actually years
Now go look at the cost of a home or apartment in San Francisco or nearby towns. I'll wait...
How to use Git for things other than Source Code
I find it strange that you liken the OS to a hotel. Shouldn't it be your house?

But even on an airbnb, the owner is not allowed to record you secretly, and even then it is very creepy, and they cannot put cameras on the toilet, on your bed, etc.

On macOS, however, it is way worse than that. You buy a laptop that you own. Then you write a program in C and you compile it. Now, when you try to run your program on your computer, the operating system betrays you and tries to send some data to Apple and check whether you are allowed to run your own program. Moreover, this is the default behavior. This is extremely creepy, outrageous and should be illegal if it isn't already. The programmers who coded this betrayal, and the managers who ordered them to do so, should be tried and put in jail for their shameful malpractice and violation of basic human rights.

EDIT: The technical inconvenience is a minor one; you only notice it, if at all, when you are over an unstable wifi connection. And then it is just a minor nuisance. Even with a flawless implementation, however, the main problem would remain: that new binaries on macOS "call home" to ask for permission to be run on your own computer. This is totally unacceptable as a matter of principle.
Someone who earned 150k cash and 50k stock might be able to save, but they'd probably just keep their stock as their "emergency fund". Twitter are blocking them selling that stock. Effectively Twitter are laying people off and putting a freeze on their savings account. I think it's reasonable to have a little sympathy for people in that situation.
All technical solutions are trade-offs.

See, burning coal is bad for the environment under many angles. But it fed the energy to the industrial revolution, with immense improvements to everyone's quality of life (from running water to advanced medical care). Now it's time to retire it, but it won't be realistic to go from muscle power to nuclear and solar power directly.

Same thing with crypto currency. It's like a steam engine from 1800: large, dirty and inefficient as it is, it already solves real problems.

Now, moving from proof of work to proof of stake is a huge step, like moving from firewood boiler to a turbine. Maybe not a complete perfection yet, but a huge jump in efficiency.
The Starlink donations to Ukraine has probably been about showing Starlink capabilities to the military, now going after navy contracts?
Wherever is most legally favorable from the perspective of liability and taxes, probably.
Really? Rand Paul is who you go with?
> EE is interesting for CS too.

There are a lot of SW developers who have no idea how the processor they program for, works.
And most of them are also not interested.
It is just sad.
Not only only we not pricing in those externalities, the current regulations are structured in a way that actively incentivizes bigger vehicles, above and beyond consumer preferences:

https://www.thedrive.com/news/small-cars-are-getting-huge-ar...
If Google removed all social functionality and user contribution possibilities from Maps, then they'd still be able to monetise it through ads and users would still be the product, so that's not really relevant to the discussion.

I would argue that the product does not require unpaid work to function. The other question is whether OP providing reviews to Google is a) really work, and b) really unpaid.

I think there are good arguments it's not 'work' (although this is more of a question of semantics), but there are very strong arguments it's not unpaid. Obviously there's no exchange of money, but Google offer a platform for reviewers to share their thoughts and ideas with an audience.
> The thing is Americans just do not buy sedans.

I see more sedans on the road than any other type of vehicle. Crossovers I see almost as much, though.
They're not going to all switch to Starlink overnight.

But over a few years, if Starlink delivers on it's ambition, I'd expect a steady stream of converts.
tell me you've never been outside of a city without saying you've never been outside of a city, lmao.
That's a great one. Habitability implies that we are preventing avoidable dangers. It's also gives a connotation of positive-feeling ownership, i.e. a home, as opposed to ownership of something 'bad' like debt.

I would tack on 'hospitality.' It isn't just a great place for us to stay, but an inviting and comfortable place for guests, visitors, and others unfamiliar with the layout of the property.

My team recently started working on another department's codebase. It is quite habitable to the current owners but inhospitable to me and my co-workers. It's hard to learn their conventions, no matter how consistent and logical they may be.
The US looks to kill Chinese chipmaking ambitions with ASML sales ban
The usual reason for that pattern is that they want to do variable pricing depending on how much their product is worth to you, but yeah, it's never a good sign...
> If those externalities were priced correctly, people would stop buying big cars.

That isn't what it means to "price externalities correctly". Pricing them correctly means that the price covers the cost of the externality. That doesn't stop people who are willing and able to pay the price from doing so.

> This is the sort of things governments can be good at if they choose. Otherwise gas/energy prices will eventually do it for us. And it won’t be pretty.

This is exactly the sort of thing you want a market to sort out. Rising energy prices would naturally create the market pressure needed to find alternatives. It's the kind of problem firms would see coming a long way off and prepare for.
So, as you say unions are more general, and thus might be easier to work with?

Would there be any benefit for Tagged Unions over "non-tagged" Unions?
> I'm not sure how Americans can undo the colossal car arms race... taxes based on weight?

Yup. The Urban Institute recently proposed doing just that.[1]

[1]: https://www.urban.org/urban-wire/us-could-taxing-heavy-cars-...
It definitely did
Nothing wrong with being a glass is .05% full kind of a person :)
In addition to what has already bern written, notice that children and teenagers often need to test limits to define their own identity and independency. So there are good chances that prohibiting something is going to make it even more appalling to them.

This is not bad on itself, I think it's a fundamental step of becoming young adults. And it doesn't mean parents can never trust children. But neither can they assume that what was discussed can be always given for granted.
London has long benefitted from its position allowing its working day overlapping everywhere from the US West coast to Japan, even if barely at those extremes. Most of the world's population lies between UTC-5 and UTC+5 I believe.
The T14s has a 2880x1800, OLED, 500nit, wide color gamut, 90hz, screen option. It's probably the best screen you can get on a laptop right now:

https://psref.lenovo.com/syspool/Sys/PDF/ThinkPad/ThinkPad_T...

The T14 has a 4K IPS option:

https://psref.lenovo.com/syspool/Sys/PDF/ThinkPad/ThinkPad_T...

With that and USB4 the AMD Lenovos seem to be finally uncorked. At this point the Intel-only X1 is suffering as a supposedly top of the line laptop. The chassis is slightly better and that's about its only advantage.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2022/03/05/twitter-em...
> The weapon that counters an ICBM is, in fact, an ICBM

Not at all. You can't hit an ICBM with an ICBM. All you can do is retaliate.

> The counter for a bomber is another plane.

Realistically, the counter is RADAR. Once you see the bomber, you can use any number of tools against it, including aircraft, SAMs, surface-to-air artillery, blacking out cities, etc.

> missiles are simply rocket-based drones

For an incredibly specific definition of a drone, sure. But in that case, so are bombs, satellites, and steerable ballistic projectiles.

> and they will have to become smarter too.

They have.

> the counter is AI

Not at all. An AI still has to operate a craft within the bounds of physics, and an aircraft flown at any speed will still follow a predictable path. Getting close enough with hypersonic shrapnel has proven effective throughout the years.

> We test this theory every day with Bots vs Humans in any number of computer games.

Bots in games don't need to follow the laws of physics. Their performance doesn't degrade with damage or environmental conditions. They have perfect information beyond just their vision.

Also, bots in games that require more information than "see avatar shoot avatar" - i.e. RTS games - have to cheat to outwit humans.
As pedantic as this comment thread was, I laughed.
And jet fighters!
Cities Aren’t Built for Kids: But They Could Be
> Websites get hacked and people's data get stolen all the time. Also, do I really control and own the data I generate on these sites.

Unless legislation forces application providers to be accountable for privacy breaches, with tough penalties, I don’t see why privacy-sensitive users should forego applications that work with local files, moreso if those applications are free.

Unrelatedly, the author explicitly states that Electron apps aren’t real desktop apps. So he’s talking about native apps.
That is dangerously bad thinking. MAD is a pipe dream, and the world is still much closer to annihilation today than it was before nuclear weapons were invented. There have been far too many close calls to count.

Secondly, no country will back down on the calculations of some unproven AI. And those calculations could only be proven in blood.
Why do they depend on Starship for launch?

Are the new satellites too big for the current rockets?
>Nationally, 80% of the top 10 sellers are either trucks or SUVs (Honda Civic and Toyota Camry are the exceptions).

https://www.edmunds.com/most-popular-cars/
> The CO2 calculations are based on the national average, but electric grid emissions vary considerably across the country.

Keep this in mind. If you live in VT you’re at 0. If you live in TX or FL maybe don’t bother.
https://www.eia.gov/environment/emissions/state/excel/electr...
Having policies, records, procedures and documents for everything might also make due diligence easier in case you want to sell the company at some point. Makes it look a bit less like a messy one man show too.
Making changes and recompiling is much more expensive in EE.
> The Supreme Court is not a political organization.

It sure had me fooled.
Who says more dangerous equals more expensive? Killing a victim can often be cheaper than the medical costs required to treat a severely injured person.
Thank you for the reminder. As a 95 kg white male who only on a few very rare occasions felt even a bit nervous walking anywhere, it is good to get a reminder that different people experience our same world very differently.
Yes I was a young project manager and assigned impossible project deliverables that even the people 3-4 levels up the org-chart could not get done with their political capital within the business.

In a matrix organisation with different programs trying to get other departments to work on your program and fight competing programs, it was a death sentence.

This was then used against me in performance reviews.

If I had any advice it would be to raise the issue with the wider business to make it clear that it’s not your fault that impossible thing x did not get done and complain loudly to hr and higher ups about bullying.

It was rats on a sinking ship and people trying to deflect blame on the lower rungs.
Yeah, we are going to update the book as new developments occur. There is a new section dedicated to just that!
To a good approximation Australia is a desert surrounded by a narrow, narrow strip of livable land. It would be pretty remarkable if it had a population close to that of the US.
Hilarious! You must have only been in the first world then.

I moved from one of the most dangerous cities in the world to one of the safest. Wandering in the latter is fun, in the former - it's Russian roulette. You have to go from A to B, as fast and carefully as possible.
Compared to what?

Inmarsat is the only viable alternative for smaller boats that offers unlimited data plans, has higher latency due to being geostationary, much lower bandwidth, and charges about $8000 for a gigabyte…

I‘m not sure what Ku or Ka band GEO providers charge, but I doubt you can find anything competitive there either, and these require very large antennas.
Or Murdoch's media empire is worth more than losing mere $100m+ on Theranos.

Isn't act of integrity, just common sense.
Or maybe it's the Tesla Roadster of this particular long-term plan. Some scoff, others wait for the price on the upcoming tier that's not quite 350 Mbps...
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I don’t like how everyone is blaming the Supreme Court for actually functioning. There is no constitutional right to abortion. They created it out of thin air in Roe V Wade, and it’s been corrected here. This pushes the regulation back to a disfunctional legislature. Focus on their failings.

This could be the turning point in society putting up with a congress that constantly abdicates its responsibility to legislate…responsibly.
You can't take out a 401k loan if you don't work there any more. In fact, that's one of the major drawbacks of 401k loans. If you leave employment, you have to repay the loan within a set time period, or treat it as a disbursement.

That said I agree, complaints about "what will happen when my severance runs out!" did elicit a bit of an eye roll.
I would have killed for this back in the 80's and 90's working on oceanographic research ships...
Almost no information here or anywhere else. Any other source? What roles? How many?

Edit: 30% of its recruiting team: https://www.wsj.com/articles/twitter-lays-off-third-of-talen...
The thing that works best for me is 1) have really good noise-cancelling headphones so I can't hear conversations going on around me, and 2) just listen to a couple minutes of some instrumental music I like at the beginning of a focused session. The music playing can be distracting after a while, but just listening to a bit to get my brain going is a bit magic. After I turn the music off, it keeps going in my head in a pretty intense and still almost audible way. I find myself absorbed in it, moving my body to the beat and maybe humming with it, all in a way that isn't distracting to the task. Don't know how it works but it's fairly pleasant shrug.

My go-to is the Final Fantasy piano collections: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-dt1ZXxZ6I. I've listened to the music so much that it's no longer novel or distracting, but is still pleasant, complex and familiar.

I don't like trying to work to music with words, either. I end up spending my cycles trying to decipher what they are saying... I've never been able to understand words in songs.
This pendulum will keep swinging. All of this has happened before and will happen again. The question that I got from the original article is not if there is pressure to move back to local applications (there is), but if we've hit the maxima for remote (webapp) applications. Eventually the remote-first momentum will wane and we will cycle back towards local applications, data locality, and local processing. We've been pushing so far with remote, web based applications for many years now. Email was first, but then came video and office applications.

Mainframes -> microcomputers -> appliances (phones, tablets) -> whatever's next... (home servers?)

At some point it will swing back. It won't look exactly the same, but the industry will swing back. It might not be for speed, but as you say, for privacy. It's easier to protect data that is physically close to you.

We will probably also swing back from microservices with HTTP APIs towards monolithic applications. But that's another thread!
Not really embarrassing when nothing else exists like it.

350mbps is _insane_ for this
Maine 20% fossil I believe. Or just buy some panels.
Sure, but look at Roblox experiences like "Adopt Me" or "Bee Swarm Simulator" with gacha mechanics. Keep inserting a dollar and pulling the lever, maybe you'll get the ultra-rare diamond flying rideable pet dragon bee. Those games are very whale-friendly and are pulling serious numbers. Heck, Bee Swarm Simulator has its own line of toys available at Walmart now: https://www.walmart.com/c/brand/bee-swarm-simulator
Wait until they work out how build sheep fucking machines in Minecraft!

As for Roblox I watch with one eye open and educate them. It's a great environment to learn distrust for others, particularly in Adopt Me. They learned how to not get scammed fairly quickly.
I myself am still fuzzy as to why we need a VM but it is, indeed, due to the permissions that ZFS requires to do a 'zfs destroy' ... which you need in order to manage your own snapshots.

So, basically, you need to be root to fully manage your own zpool ... and if you need to be root, you need to be in a VM. In our case, we use bhyve and we have had very good success.

We have this on very good authority - Allan Jude of Klara Systems has helped us audit the entire setup and there is not, unfortunately, a lighter way to do it.
I think just about everyone would do better at home than in a Baltimore high school.
You know, from having lived through the 80s and several crashes in between I'd say what sucks today isn't the financial/jobs markets or economy but rather the people and how terrible we've become politically divisive. That's what I see.

That 20% market drop from high just seems to be a correction and it was needed because that market high was based on crazy stuff anyway. But that 20% didn't do jack to 99% of the country. We didn't win when it went up, but inversely, we haven't really lost on its way down.

Sure, inflation sucks but if you ask me - stalling our insatiable appetite to consume is probably a good thing.