skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The company retaliated against their employees through unrelated services it happens to also own? Is this the kind of free market we want? Turf wars?
Thank you for this! I had a feeling it wasn't a security issue. I closed my ticket saying it might be one due to finding websites mentioning Dom clobbering
Sounds a bit like cheating, but as an avid watcher of My 600-lb Life I'm all for.

On a more serious note, it feels pretty messed up trying to "solve" the problem by conducting 20M surgeries. Having watched the aforementioned show one learns that there's usually a whole package of surgeries to go through (skin removal, bad knees etc), leaving people pretty severely scarred. All in all it's pretty grotesque to be honest.

On the other hand I guess you need to try to break the cycle of the next generation getting fatter than the previous one somehow...
Thank you for the question!

We don't limit concurrency on the builder VMs. When you create a project you are effectively getting a dedicated build VM with a persistent SSD cache for each architecture you want to build for. We run native BuildKit on the VM and connect your `depot build` directly to the builder instance via mTLS. So your concurrency is unlimited with Depot as well (or at least as unlimited as BuildKit will allow for).
Personally, I feel Meta has the right to do so.
1. Violating TOS

2. No clear privacy policy (re: how does the app protect and utilize user info)

3. Circumventing user access/security policies

Maybe I missed something, but it sounds like everyone on their team participated in multiple violations on Meta’s platform. I admire what they were doing, trying to polish a turd, but I don’t think they should get upset when they get sh*t on their hands.

Meta/Facebook/Instagram are a cancer that needs to be excised. No amount of plastic surgery will cure the rot within. The platform exists only to get users into a feedback loop that they can use to advertise to you.

Best of luck to the team, hopefully they come to see this as a positive thing, find alternative solutions, and never have to deal with that garbage platform again.
The expensive part of nuclear isn't the parts that coal plants provide, either. All those miles upon miles of precision welding made to withstand decades of harsh conditions with out a single leak? Coal doesn't need that. Large, high precision concrete pours? Coal doesn't need that. Containment structures? Coal doesn't need that.

Nuclear is inherently an extremely complex technology that requires construction techniques that are advanced and expensive. The steam turbines and cooling towers are the only parts that are easy and standard construction with well-contained costs.
Those portals are baked into the maps. I think we're specifically discussing dynamic portals, where the player has the ability to bridge any two spaces at runtime.

Descent can't do that.
James Hoffmann has a video on this paper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoYBLn9hRqs

In my view, sure it's a perfectly good way of making something like espresso with good extraction, what a lot of coffee people call these days a turboshot. But it's not really providing what people usually want in an espresso: a concentrated, textured small coffee.
Good management isn’t paying everyone the same, but it is explaining to employees why there are differences and how that employee can reach the same pay as their peers. The law doesn’t need to force anyone to get a raise but it should help do what managers should be doing - managing their team. And if the management can’t come up with a good reason for the difference they either match the salary, the employee now has good cause to hunt for a job and perhaps can see if there’s a pattern against a protected class.
I have an LG C1 OLED 48 inch which I use as a monitor. Its a really beautiful screen although a bit reflective.

But it must be the most fragile feeling device I have ever owned, the bulk of the screen is like 2mm thick and I basically have to get myself into a state of extreme focus, meditation, stretching and so on before I dare to move it. There's no easy way to grip it without putting some pressure on the thin part, even with two people.

I seriously wish they didn't go for the brownie points of making a screen this thin. Sometimes just because you can doesn't mean you should.

Seriously, make it like 20mm thick, robust, easy to move.

I cannot imagine that any other screen, budget or otherwise, could feel more fragile than this.
That's exactly where this "article" lost me as a reader.
> Well, what did they expect?

It would be good if companies did not ban you on one site for violating the TOS of a completely different site.
Breaking::

> UN1feed says Apple removed The OG App, which let users create and share Instagram feeds without ads and suggested posts, from the App Store; the app ranked #50

[1] https://www.techmeme.com/220928/p47#a220928p47

[2] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/the-og-app/id1637701040
My own experience is that SD requires a lot more prompt engineering to get an appealing output; DALL-E and midjourney spit out amazing results with even minimal inputs. But what I've found is that when it subs in its own aesthetic, its the same aesthetic. Almost like a style.
Close in price but lighter, longer battery life, and less distractions.
I picked up on this last year and what frustrates me is I feel like I can't override the population-level unconscious anxiety and despair that many continue to spread through their behaviors (often being fed by these doomscrolling news narratives).

Words can be consciously dismantled in the mind, but actions are subtler and speak something subconsciously... It's like if you walked up to a pool and everyone was tiptoeing around it and not jumping in. No matter how fearless you are there's still something deep that triggers your own apprehension.

With COVID people are still behaving fearfully and there's nothing I can do about it other than suffer the harvest of ongoing social distancing stupidity, the idiotic glass walls still up in every grocery store, the "contact-less whatever the fuck", the lack of hotel room service... all the 100s of stupid anxiety-driven behaviors and changes that got implemented the past few years that were once never a thing.

Ahh whatever, back to doomscrolling.
I found a service, on amazon of all places, to do a film-to-digital conversion. I thought it was worth the money, and they sent back the original media and all that. In better shape than I sent it, actually--I was charged 3 bucks for a repair to a VHS tape, which was transferred flawlessly.
I would advise not taking anyone seriously who advocates for an ideologically driven vegan diet and makes statements like
"There's nothing special about cows or pigs or chickens. Our bodies are so similar that we mostly use bacteria to digest meat, which is why you lose the ability to stomach it if you stop regularly eating flesh."

Let's start with the fact that the human stomach acid pH which you can feel free to Google. It's nothing like the other animals he's talking about. Our stomach acid is extremely acidic due to our early evolutionary history as carnivorous carrion eaters. He also parrots another myth which is that once you are vegan you lose the ability to digest meat. My father has been vegan for 20 years and I was vegan for 5 and was able to digest meat right away with no issues when I went back to meat. It's a myth repeated by vegan ideologues and is completely unfounded in science.

Do I think someone can be very healthy on a vegan diet? Yes. But the last people you should ever listen to are vegan ideologues. They already have an answer in mind and do nothing but cherry pick facts to support their chosen answer.
(Electric props, not a jet.)
My Samsung TV included anti-virus software! Why does my TV need that? Sure it can install apps, but they’re all from Samsung’s own TV app store.

I only learned this because the UI had gotten soooo slow, like five seconds to respond to each button click on the remote control. Turning off the virus scanner mostly fixed the problem. Thanks, TV software update!
Spam should have its own Moore’s law. It only ever increases. I shudder to think of how difficult it is to try to run an anti spam filter when literally millions of spammers are trying to beat you.
They developed an app that decouples Instagram from the money stream (for Meta)

> Get the OG Instagram experience.

> Remove ads and suggested content, create completely customized feeds, download content, turn off read receipts, and more.
Fast Company's content management system was breached Tuesday evening
DALL-E can't do hands much better, I've got plenty of images of people with root vegetable hands
yeah, agreed : the difference between a non-programmer who programs and a programmer is the methods by which they achieve the results.

an easy way to find work to help with on github is to go to hackaday or some other such 'hackaton/diyer' community and follow the project links -- you can spend the entire evening fixing foot-guns and lazy/naive implementations of fairly well understood early CS concepts -- that's not to say that professionals don't make the same mistake, but amateurs who are just trying to get something to work rarely hit the codebase again after the thing does what they want.
Titans of Nuclear
> I think our laws need to be updated to make sloppy security an existential threat to businesses.

No. Or perhaps yes, but only in part. Our laws need to be updated to make corporate malfeasance in general an existential threat to executives and board members, as individuals. Ordinary Aussies end up in jail for unpaid parking fines. Centrelink 'customers' (ugh) get robodebted, often into depression, sometimes to death. The "law" rules us plebs with a rod of iron, and wields it with abandon. Heads of industry get away with pretty much anything. If they want to skirt a law, all they have to do is shove fines on balance sheets. Those fines can be in the millions or billions; they're just another business expense.

Suits in jail would change the so-called 'incentives' (myopic concept though that is) dramatically. "More suits in jail" should be the catchcry of the next few generations. Every T shirt. Every graffito. Every pop song.

Of course to really fix this stuff we have to go after 'investors' and eliminate the absurdity of limited liability ("gamble on destroying the world and risk only your stake!"), but that ideology is now so culturally rigidified it would require a collapse of 'civilisation' to eliminate. That may well be coming of course.
what a condescending comment
Succeeding in Venture Capital Is Mostly About Knowing What to Buy. But When To
doesn't sound anything like a hdd. a light is either on-off.. the sounds a hdd makes are not at all due to a binary influence.
Are you accusing these developers of violating privacy?

If not, you're twisting things to the point of deception. Facebook is supposed to crack down, yes, but it's a specific thing they're supposed to crack down on, not ad-removal.
At one point I was determined to move to a car-free neighborhood in the US. Unfortunately they all seem to be tourist islands: Fire Island, Monhegan Island, Mackinac Island, Bald Head Island, etc.

I gave up and resigned myself to teaching my kids how to avoid being killed by drivers and advocating for safer street design. But if someone ever builds a Cyclocroft[1] or Culdesac[2] in my region I'd happily move there.

[1] https://twitter.com/mrmoneymustache/status/10960784095689891...

[2] https://culdesac.com/
Each employee willingly participated.

I understand the feeling, but these weren’t random people that had nothing to do with a company action. These were all individuals who took part in the act.

I agree it’s petty, and yes this is what many free market proponents want (unless free market is just a convenient guise to get what they want).
Many years ago I took a course in high performance driving. One of the takeaways is the advice to always be predictable. Being predictable means the other drivers can avoid you. Being unpredictable means they'll hit you. Give the other drivers a chance to avoid hitting you.

I bring this up because Drivers' Ed never mentioned it.

For an obvious example, using turn signals is being predictable. Not passing on the right is being predictable. Driving at the same speed as the rest of the traffic is being predictable. There are all kinds of traffic laws, but most boil down to just be predictable.

For the cyclists, please don't draft behind some unwitting driver. (Yes, I see this now and then.) Please don't randomly weave in and out of traffic. And please don't bike across the crosswalk, walk your bike across it. Drivers cannot react fast enough to a bike darting across the road.

And when the bike lane does a Kriss-Kross across a car lane, stay alive and don't do it in front of traffic.
Debate people who have actually different opinions. This might involve discussions with people outside the Bay Area.
When designers started switching from Photoshop to Sketch, "Layer" kinda changed meaning from "a clear sheet with drawings on it" to "any object on the canvas".

In Photoshop a layer could have many shapes on it, if you drew one shape/mark on top of another within one layer, they would be inseparable. If you drew any two things in Sketch, they would always be separate, I suspect this is why they stuck with the term "Layer" even though something like "Object" may have been more accurate.
Give it a few.

It's only a matter of time until the Leftist tech platforms ban a critical amount of content producers and make themselves irrelevant. After all, each creator you ban represents a multiple of monetizable viewers that you just partially or totally told "don't come to my site".

Take Rumble for example. It still has a substantial amount of gristle, but a growing amount of mainstream content. It is also now a publicly listed company undergoing hockey stick growth at a time when most companies are not.
Takeaway: Be open-minded about the medium of information transmission. Books and lectures are what we're accustomed to today. Are there other forms (perhaps non-mainstream ones or undiscovered ones) that could be better?

For instance:

Academia is accustomed to publishing in the form of papers (e.g. pdf). This form has fixed margins, cannot contain animations or interactive widgets. Would publishing in an environment that allow for more flexibility be better for communicating their achievements and ideas?
Do most chrome users?

It looks like 25-40% of internet users block ads. Depends on country. I can’t find per-browser stats, which would be somewhat fascinating.
"Don't be polite, be predictable"
To say nothing of the fact that you have lots of sliders to configure jsut how closely or loosely it follows your prompt. And choice in sampling methods.

You can't just compare SD and DALL-E performance on prompts alone, because SD gives you a lot more levers to steer it in the direction you want.
Its not ok that Optus even has peoples passport info (even if it may be forced on them to store it)
I have this exactly for my Apple //e SD card reader. Reading from an SD card makes no noise, so there’s an option to make it. It’s called the Noisy Disk Mechanical Sounder for the Floppy Emu.

https://shop.bigmessowires.com/products/noisy-disk
Have you poked around lexica.art?
Don't rely only on mail for booking confirmations?

You need an alternative way for users to get their confirmations, and any associated documents, simple as that.

Those materials can be provided in a self-serve download area.
Well China owns the lions share of real estate in Toronto and Vancouver. And given how Canadian economy is dependent on real estate it’s not surprising. [1] [2]

[1] https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-why-are-chin...

[2] https://www.macleans.ca/economy/economicanalysis/chinese-rea...
Social networking space is not a true market due to the fact common users are not buyers or sellers in them.
Eviation’s all-electric Alice aircraft makes its maiden flight
This is honestly the exact reason I haven't tried to develop a facebook app or extension... I've heard that the smallest mis-step can get your account suspended like this. Not like a 'here's a warning' but 'you read a variable you shouldn't have, now your whole account is deleted'.

This isn't usually a problem, except Facebook has a pretty unique position in our society. It might be the only social media some of our immediate family have. It's the de-facto social media presence for some smaller community organizations (like parent groups) and hobby groups. A ban from Facebook is a lot more deeply impactful than being banned from, say, gmail or something.

I could understand if they sent the developers a cease-and-desist or initiated some sort of legal action with this as a potential consequence. I could even understand blocking the app until it was resolved. But actually searching up the dev team and banning their personal Facebook accounts for something they're building on Instagram...

This makes it so much scarier because Oculus is also Meta, and the community there is still heavily reliant on developers to grow since Meta has sunk so much money into it and it still hasn't quite found its footing in the market. Do they think more people are going to develop for it if a potential consequence is their facebook account will be perma-banned as a first-resort? Would you be willing to experiment on that platform?

Anyways, I'm no gazillion-dollar monopoly, but it seems vindictive more than good business sense.
> but there's a common story in Ireland that Christianity came to Ireland late, just before the 'dark ages' in Europe, and that Christian culture and monasteries thrived in Ireland, and then Irish monks later carried this learning back into Europe

At least we are all taught this sometime as a child, but I've never taken the time to verify it and always assumed it is, let's say, a charitable stretching of the truth. The golden age phallacy, Irish edition.

I know that monks did create some beautiful books - the Book of Kells, for example - and art during this era. But did they also preserve much non-Christian (i.e. actually useful) knowledge along with the art and theology?
Yes, though that original Kindle was an ergonomic nightmare in other ways. It was difficult to hold without triggering those buttons because they were right on the edge of the device. The silver scroll thingy was kind of fun until it stopped working and then the device was toast. The asymmetric wedge shape was a cute reference to some kind of notebook but didn’t work well in the hand.

I went through a succession of Kindles and the recent ones have not buttons but I find that I don’t really miss them. A simple tap of my thumb on the nearest edge of the screen works just as well.
Employers will just create superfluous titles so they don’t have to price-match.

My own opinion is that wages are completely unfair and never can be. Some people produce value several times their wage but it isn’t socially acceptable to pay someone with an important-sounding title minimum wage because of mediocre personal performance. It’s always safer to overpay your dead weight and underpay high-performers.
No just Bikes has an episode about a car free neighborhood [1], in Canada.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWDFgzAjr1k
Cloudflare's CAPTCHA replacement lacks crosswalks, checkboxes, Google
Doctors tell all – and it's bad
> If a man wants to date just to get sex, then the woman missing that dating "opportunity" actually just dodged a bullet.

I agree, but that still reduces the number of available men in the market, which was my point.
Oh let's. Please. The 'baby' is killing our entire living world, and nothing short of removing the idiocy of limited liability is very likely to save it.

Actions without proportional consequences were never going to lead to anywhere but destruction. Folk psychology told us that was likely (however much virtual-economists feigned ignorance). Empirical reality has confirmed it.
Obviously they can, the surprise is that they did.

Vindictive actions like this are rarely profitable, they tend to scare people off from doing business with you.
Are there (good) reasons for Telcos to store customers' passport info aside from laws instructing them to?

Can telcos do sufficient KYC without?

(Edited)
And a limited market for what would be expensive technology.
> This is not correct for most public employees. Depending on the employee, the ratio will be broadly similar to that of a private-sector employee doing a similar job.

This is absolutely false.

Participation in retirement benefits is 52% in private industry vs 82% in state and local government.
Medical care and benefits is 47% vs 66% and the employee share of the premium is 22% vs 14%.
Life insurance participation is 56% vs 81%.

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/ebs2.pdf

Benefit costs are 29.5% for private industry vs 38.3% for state and local governments.

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/ecec.pdf

The difference is larger for federal jobs.
> They tweeted that they reverse-engineered the Android API, which would likely get personally you banned anywhere

The question is - how do we even allow it do be legal? Not being able to reverse engineer applications running on your own devices is some kind of bullshit dystopia, tolerated only because average citizen is not technical enough to realize how dystopian it is.
I could see banning the app, and maybe their business accounts. But to track down the developers and ban their personal accounts seems rather extreme.
My soundbar only has one HDMI port, though, so that doesn't really work.
I was wondering how this was the first infinite scrolling page that could actually keep up with the speed of my mouse wheel when I let it rip.
This is exactly what I tell people who like small cars. I've got a big truck. I can't necessarily see you. If you're driving a smaller car, be predictable. Don't cut in front of me or I'll end up crushing you.

To those of you driving in anything smaller than an SUV, signal before you turn. Don't cut across multiple lanes. I frequently see small cars and sedans think they can just cut in front of a space I leave.

Right of way won't matter once you're crushed metal.
Interested to hear what you think is "Political" vs "Non-political".
Congratulations on seeing this product all the way through production, a lot of people would have given up with all the headwinds of the past two years
Ok thanks for the clarification.
That’s a great video, especially the monologue given after the product promo.

I hope this succeeds!

I do wish the screen was more than 500 nits, but perhaps future versions will improve on this.
I want to build an automated cat feeder. Personally speaking, in terms of systems design where a bug could result in an extreme breakdown of diplomatic relations, it is of equivalent gravitas to building a reliable nuke silo.

Is this the project where I finally pick up Rust, or should I continue with the usual Python mitigations (reach-this-target-state instead of do-this-thing, tiny stable wrapper around heavy Python logic, no fonts.com online dependency, restart foodd every minute, etc.)
> Are you accusing these developers of violating privacy?

Yes, the app is downloading private user messages (ostensibly to show a modified messaging interface) and private photos, according to their feature list.

This isn't a simple DNS-level ad-block, its acting as a proxy where the app developers can intercept and see all data.

Their website doesn't even have a privacy policy, just a dummy link: https://www.theogapp.com/
Hm, I tried to check it out (I run my own synapse server) but when I log in I get the error: "Invalid glTF file: Missing asset section." and have no idea how to fix it ^^.
https://help.instagram.com/581066165581870

Except for the part where the TOS explicitly states that you will be banned from all Metas products…
I have worked on this problem. I would not say incredibly easy. Maia chess (linked in other reply) is pretty good but only has an accuracy of around 55% iirc, and that’s with enough data to train on. Grandmaster level games are rarer and have less data.