skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m with you almost all the way. I’m just not going to say that any of us our entitled to the resources of someone else.

I believe in what’s best for the commons, but not at the expense of stealing what’s not mine. Sure, take possession of what’s yours, your information, your privacy, your property. But don’t give it all away to receive some benefit, then insist on seizing it all back and keeping the benefit.

The transaction you make with Meta is that you’ll give them a piece of your property, in exchange you get to use their machines. If you don’t want them to occupy your property, stop using their machines.

I choose not to use Facebook/Instagram because I’m not so self important as to share my daily life with “friends” I only talk to out of convenience and lack of something better to do. I don’t feel like the benefit Facebook offers is worth the toll they exact. I don’t want my land to be part of their machine, and similarly I don’t feel entitled to it.

When someone sends me a Facebook or Instagram link and I’m asked to login, I just let them know I can’t view that link. If I’m blocked from Instagram content, or increasingly Twitter content, because of my adblocker, then I just accept that the content isn’t available to me.

I host content I want to share with friends and family on services that I either host or pay for so that I don’t have to subject them to that. So they don’t have to sign away their privacy to view my kids having fun at the park.
What a blast from the past seeing ki4u again. I spent hours on here as a young teen obsessed with Cold War era history.
Lance Hedrick has a little more in-depth video, I found James' to be too brief. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOSbOZY_tN0

i definitely don't drink a lot of dark roast espresso, but i think a turboshot has no problem producing adequate texture.
Lobotomize my TV.

Or yours.

My TV was a AU$420 42" LCD that was approximately the last of the models that dont have built in bullshitware.

One day it will break I suppose. Probably should have bought ten of them.

Now might be a good time to stick up on secondhand dumb TVs.

Fortunately I enjoyed watching movies / series, but not so much that I think a $3000 / better quality display would enhance the experience significantly. I also can't justify that sort of expenses on a screen.
This kinda is how freedom works though. You're free to use whatever client you want, and Meta is free to implement API in a way that will not allow your client to call it.
Even with ad blockers and NoScript, the website layout is awful due to the constant blank spaces where the ads used to go, paired with a miniscule viewport for the actual text.

I've started to use Reader Mode a lot more lately, and it has been surprising how much more pleasant the Web is when consuming articles this way.

Maybe we should Invent a protocol for marking up text documents and sending them over the Internet or something? Maybe call it Actual Text Markup Language?
This is my first release of the BulletinBoard application. It allows scripts to show messages to the user or get information from them using custom dialogs.
Florida CEO urged staff to work through Ian. Then she took it back
It's a threat because 3rd party clients like this circumvent payment for the service via ads. If you don't like the terms, don't use the service. There are plenty of alternatives.
The NRC bills hourly.
Given that this only runs on certain Apple hardware, I wouldn’t be surprised if the Secure Enclave holds that certificate and can confirm at an extremely low level that it is being used only to sign a hash of of the app code itself and a shared secret with the app developer.

Brilliant, in a scary way. In a way it makes data portability regulations all the more important.
The government, who makes laws all the time to cover every single tiny aspect of everyone's lives, is asking Optus nicely.

What more could they possibly do?
Considering I wrote offers for dozens of entry level SWEs at G? Not recently.
Is there any information out there, how the use of tactical nuclear weapons by Russia against Ukraine would change the war?

Every news station is talking about this possibility now. But I cannot find a single analysis of how likely it is.

And how likely it is seems to depend on the effect these weapons would have on the situation on the battlefield.

But I cannot find any info on this.
Pandora's warehouse has a nice ring to it, I'm surprised to find it isn't already an expression.
Improving the Accessibility of Your Markdown
They don't though. They're giving the data to the original client, not to the third party one. They're free to choose who they're giving the data to and you accept those conditions by using their product.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Customer success: Churnbusters

Customer operations: ?? No idea never heard the term
>Will this break Netflix/YouTube/AmazonVideo?

>No. This does not break or limit access to subscription services or other DRMed content.

I can't run Netflix app on rooted Android, but could on a rooted TV. I guess this isn't something Netflix was prepared for.
I think in general, from a product perspective, the way to build a big platform is to solve a small problem completely and then iterate. But that's your choice.

(Firefox made the same mistake, I believe: there's no market in being the second-best product for a large userbase, instead of being the very best for a smaller.)
Let me offer you a question then: Do you know how much data the OG App is taking from you while you authorize it to work on your behalf? How do you know it's not reading through your entire message history? Or building its own network graph of your friends to sell? How about security? How do you know it's securely storing your credentials? Or that it's not selling said credentials as well?

Like in this scenario to Facebook it is in theory effectively you. Not the app operating on behalf of you with a limited set of permissions.
We really need bootstrappable and reproducible builds to be more popular:

https://bootstrappable.org/
https://reproducible-builds.org/
Yes you did! Sorry for restating what you had communicated more parsimoniously. (I'll be looking for somebody to help write my HN comments for me.)
A Manchurian Candidate
Probably has some javascript handler or something?
Er, no.[1]

[1] https://www.epi.org/publication/ceo-pay-in-2020/
Do you support AT&T's behavior there?
It's a reinforcing phenomenon, with helicopter parenting being one of the facets. The usual way it goes is

1. Parents say the street / road is too dangerous.

2. Parents drive their kids everywhere.

3. They induce more road usage, demand more road infrastructure. They move to suburbs which are more car centric, force more pedestrianized areas (downtowns) to become more car centric.

4. Places become less walkable, and more dangerous for people outside of a car.

5. Go to 1.

Some of helicopter parenting is mostly over imagined or exaggerated fears ("crime", being abducted by predators which is rather rare, etc), but fear of car death is in fact valid given it is a leading cause of child death (was number 1 until this year gun death became #1). The unfortunate reality is the very act parents in the US take to make it safe for their children perpetuates the issue the ecogecko video I talk about has.

Given at this point no one will let their children be the first to face danger, likely the issue will not ameliorate itself naturally, and government action (pedestrianization, change of streetscapes, change of landuse and zoning, etc) is required.

Anyway, rereading your post, cars aren't the only factor in childhood stunting in the US. I'm not sure because I haven't researched outside of the car centric bits (that is supported in research) but it does feel like a culture wide issue in the US.
I don't agree*. You can care deeply about many things, and still be unopinionated.

Maybe more specifically "care about having a mental model where you are right" less. ?

* Yeah yeah, ha ha!
Throw Randall's on that list too.. the quietest of them all.
I think the idea is that the title is clickbait, because it doesn’t include the name of the road.
I went through this when I was a teenager during Reagan's first term, and my parents when through it when they were teens during Kennedy.

This article tones it down to a dirty bomb, and the results closely resemble any natural disaster. Based on what I read about the 2020 fires in CA and Ore., I saw that roads were backed up, store shelves were hoarded, and infrastructure failed. And that was without contamination sticking to everything like and STI. Unless you can avoid evacuation and have done a meticulous job preparing -and- have a shelter, I don't think it is realistic to expect to survive a dirty bomb attack. I was truly, existentially scared when my Mayor announced that we should prepare for evacuation during the fires... because our freeways can't even handle rush-hour traffic. What was I supposed to do with two kids and pets and stores that were already picked clean from the pandemic? I've added more water jugs since (and a small trailer) but I have a low-level fear that no preparedness is going to work long term for something like a dirty bomb, that will eventually require relocation.
> What am I allowed to do with this data?

Their ToS disallows the use of unauthorized clients; if one were to accept the ToS, create an account, and use the unauthorized client then they would have violated the agreement and circumvented the legal protections around the private portion of their API.

> If they were trying to limit access to their data, they would, like cable companies do, provide a secret to me so that I could decrypt the response.

They do. That's the effect of having portions of the API and data accessible only to those who are logged in, and have agreed to the terms of service.
My position is that if a website uses anti-adblock and you're using an adblock, circumventing it isn't okay. You're free to use a different website.

Now, one could argue that by displaying ads in the first place, using an adblock is circumventing something therefore it isn't okay (basically remove one layer of abstraction from the previous sentence). That's also a fair position, but not mine because of entirely selfish reasons (it's inconvenient to me and non-adblock users are subsidizing my use of those websites).

One could argue that allowing adblock users is a strategic decision in hopes they can spread the use of the website and payoff their "debt" that way. I operate web games and I allow adblock users for that reason.
Your chart shows installed capacity, which is different from total power output. For gas plants in particular, since they are used as peaker plants with low capacity factors. In 2021 only 12% of the natural gas consumed in Germany was turned into electricity. In 2011 it was 14%.

https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/37985/umfrage...
Second Life is still doing $50-70M a year. The company (Linden Lab) has 300 employees. I'd love to be considered an irrelevant failure and still banking $50M+ a year.
So obfuscate the data before exporting it.
By this logic, it should be illegal / a breach of contract for you to run an ad blocker, since the company may not make money? Should you also be forced to look at ads and not switch channels while they're on TV, with the channel being free to cut access if they find you haven been looking at the ads they serve?

This logic really bends over backwards to support FB's and similar business models.
If one of the criteria for your success as a manager is “managed a team of size X”, it stands to reason that you would want to increase that X as much as possible.
Interesting. Do you know how? When I tried it a few years back, it was a complete mess.
Yes.
Some pages won't load if they're on whatever blocklist you're using.
You can manually remove them from your blocklist.
> “Filling the roads with monster trucks is an intentional policy choice”

It really is. For decades, US fuel economy standards, emissions rules, and tax breaks and depreciation rules have all been weighted in favor of bigger, heavier vehicles.
Does this or will this provide real-time data of the real world, like OpenStreetMap, weather data etc.? Could be helpful then for tackling climate issues.
*>ghost sim

Do all countries require a ton of personal info to get a sim?

Why do we accept it as a given that the government must know who owns a phone? Is this necessary?
Doesn't meta have an obligation to product users that do want to use their product? This is like saying people should be free to pee wherever they want, if you're worried about the smell, don't walk there.
> WhatsApp being the biggest issue here since in many countries that is considered a way of conducting business.

Absolutely the best reason why businesses should move to Signal. Imagine if your business gets cut off from Meta products, or if at any moment some of your customers get cut off.

Facebook is an extremely limited and poor platform for representing a business, and it too should be avoided for the same reasons (and for being such a garbage fire in general).
If it’s due to self interest, I’m unaware of it.
If it's unauthorized, then not only does MITM the ad revenue, it MITM's the user's authentication too.
The argument has been made before, that adblocking is a form of theft. I don’t disagree with it, and when a site blocks me for using ad block I accept it and either forgo the content or disable my Adblock.

Years ago there was an effort to allow users to pay a monthly fee to avoid ads. The idea was that this specific ad network would distribute those funds to the sites you visited in place of ad revenue, and the users would instead see a placeholder of their choice (like a grey block, cat pictures, etc).

I signed up for it, unfortunately they could never achieve market penetration compared to google Adsense, eventually the product died.

Unfortunately there is more money in collecting your behaviors, habits, and using that for targeted advertising than most people are willing to pay for content in aggregate.

YouTube and other platforms have seem some success in ad free options, but only on those targeted platforms where the value-add is clearer to the consumer.
I'm not sure if you are joking, but just in case if not...

A 100 person team working for 4 years at $200/hour is only $160M.

Really curious how a billion dollar could be spent on something like this.
Only some builds support it. This is the one I'm familiar with: [0]. () around a word causes the model to pay more attention to it, [] around a word causes the model to pay less attention. There's an example at the link.

[0] https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/wiki...
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/member-sophisticated-china-ba...
First of all. I like this a lot! Keep up the effort. But of course I have to graybeard complain that it's not officially what we call `smooth scrolling` which typically means scrolling at the pixel level synched with VSYNC. But pretty cool, like I said. I know if you keep it up you'll find more tricks to exploit
>Many folks on here might be too young to remember, but there was an era where cable companies served premium channels with a scrambled signal to all customers

Even more esoteric, there was an over-the-air company, IIRC called Vu, that broadcast an analog encrypted signal that required a box to decode properly. Tuning in without it resulted in a signal that was not in-sync so the h&v blanking floated across the screen. In my area, it was a UHF channel that would switch to the premium encrypted signal at 7pm. The decoder was about the size of an Atari 2600 console.
I'm confused, what's the point of the contract that says "you can't do this" if not to legally enforce that you can't do that?
The art of fair play: Developing systems to deal with players who cheat (2021)
Just a thought, but isn't it possible they were written while they were still being built, so they would be open to their surroundings and well-lit with natural light?
Plans continue because if they didn’t, starting from scratch and ramping up again would take decades. This is simply because expertise would be lost in the meantime. Just because the plans are being made does not mean it’s inevitably going to happen.

Also: what makes you say a linear collider would be a better investment?
Work stuff, or hobby stuff? If work, what industry? An environment where you are able to do ad-hoc replacements like that sounds cool as heck!
Yes, people can and will write malicious programs. Those will sometimes take the form of third party clients for a service. That is not and will never be a valid argument against them being allowed to exist. Monopolies are not ok. Abusive behavior by the dominant market players isn't ok.
> Meta isn't some utility people can't live without.

This is not true for large parts of society.

There are many institutions which force you to communicate via facebook, so not having access to it means you're locked out of parts of your real life.

This is horribly wrong by those institutions, of course, but here we are. It should be illegal, but isn't yet.
Exactly. I have pi-hole and maybe one every month I have to go to the web interface and click the link to disable blocking for five minutes while I use some kind of shady software.
Hey Kyle and Jacob. Congratulations on launching this and I was really excited because we were looking for something just like this. But as it stands this would be too expensive for our organization. We have a bunch of small (micro?) services and having to pay 25$ for each seems too excessive.

But maybe I'm misunderstanding the pricing?
p.s. If I have to go out of my way to evade anti-adblock measure then the answer is a clear yes to me. Otherwise, if no clear block is placed before me I view it as a moral grey area. Sites that I want to support and regularly visit I disable ad block for. I am one of those people who don’t have adblock on YouTube.

I’d like to see an internet that didn’t need ads or ad blockers. Give me a better way to help you monetize your content.
I don't think there should be "freedom to use my stuff but my ignore rules" model - if a person (ot a company) is providing a service, they should be able to do it the way they like. Don't like the rules? Don't use the service.

It there was fraud invoved, one party may get damage/compensation.. But forcing someone to provide service is just not right.

(With the exception of monopolies of course. Let's regulate them.)
I wonder how long it will take to find the Malayan airlines plane
https://archive.ph/LoTdr
Live in Germany, driving for 25 years. Never was in an accident. Same as my father, who has been driving for more than 45 years. Anecdotes, I know, but I definitely know less people that were in accidents than those that were not.
Do you know if it’s possible to enable tv recording and maybe vcr (or how it’s called the thing that allows you to pause live tv and resume later)?
In italy for some reasons they are disabled..
Have a look at Peep (the Network Auralizer) [1] for an example of such a tool. I had this running about 24 years ago when traffic on the 'net was a bit more manageable but turned it off when I got fed up with the place sounding like a jungle.

[1] https://peep.sourceforge.net/intro.html
Yep, when I go to a page that blocks content because I have an ad blocker on I don’t even try to bypass it or inspect source and edit to remove it - I just go elsewhere.
Would not help if you get the input, output sensors and the engine together. Like in the chess shoe project.
I agree with you wholeheartedly. However I can't resist shilling self hosted alternatives here.

> There's no reason I should have to be subjected to untold tracking, snooping and advertising functionality to be able to post or look at photos and comment on them.

Stand up your own PixelFed instance for your family and friends today!
All that was missing was a first clause, "This is a good law because ..." :)
Have Meta heard of the Streisand effect?
I must say, I never would have thought of that!
In much of Europe stoplights are on the near side of na intersection and there are stoplights exiting intersections as well as entering. This facilitates integration of pedestrian and bike lanes/crossing (often these are separate). Also there are no left turns across traffic, instead there are roundabouts, and these are more easily integrated with cyclist lanes.

Finally, of course, cars are smaller (on the the other hand, so are streets).
For those with an interest, see also

> Rotary Cell Phone (Description and Build) (youtube 52 mins)

> Mar 5, 2020 My open source rotary cell phone went viral (surprisingly, to me and my husband), and people seem to be interested in it. The original description with links to notes and design files is here: [2] and a starter kit is now available here: [3]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0euCWf0FpOA

[2] http://www.justine-haupt.com/rotarycellphone/index.html

[3] https://skysedge.us/
I have a friend who does ML-Ops consultancy - basically help startups set up domain-specific ML pipelines and such in the cloud. He doesn't make over 250k+, given that this is in India; but he makes more than enough to get by.
> Is there any information out there, how the use of tactical nuclear weapons by Russia against Ukraine would change the war?

There’s only vague assertions by the west about what will happen and that is intentional.

It’s likely to lead to a heavy retaliatory strike against Russia, I believe one of the options floated was effectively sinking the entire Black Sea fleet if Russia uses a nuke.

Keep in mind that any use of a nuke effectively necessitates a large reaction physically to try and avoid nuclear proliferation and use going wild.
I don't think we can know. Either it leads to nuclear response, or it does not. If it does not, I think it will embolden Putin, which would not be good news. So I actually think a limited nuclear exchange would be better if that happens Risk is though that it escalates further and then all bets are off.
1. Most of that cost is an apples to oranges comparison as the nuclear plants are required to fully fund decommissioning upfront, whereas dismantling a wind farm (even if just turbine by turbine as they break down) isn’t priced into that alternative. apples-to-apples it’s not that much more expensive upfront cost, and significantly cheaper over 50+ years of operation.

2. Most of the real costs that exist for nuclear are construction. Repurposing coal plants saves a good chunk of that.