skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm all for grace and forgiveness, but it seems excessive to require businesses to delete all records of people who defrauded them.

If a liquor store had caught me with a fake ID, I wouldn't consider it dystopian if they put my name on a list and kept it in the back.
This is a hard edge case in my opinion, because unless you unregister that email everywhere you used it, someone else will gain access to all your old accounts which would leak potentially much worse things than a record saying this email is not available anymore.
We just got a rooftop system from a very hands-off GC-type company and I'm so pissed off about it.

If I'd known in advance it'd have multiple Internet of Shit crapware devices attached that'll probably stop working in 5 years and require expensive replacement and renovation to keep working past that, and that it can't produce power at all unless those pieces of near-future landfill rubbish are happy, I'd 1000% never have gotten it.

Mea culpa—I guess I should have asked, but it just never occurred to me—but I'm fucking never getting another solar system unless I install it myself. There are other problems (that have solidified my usual preference not to let someone else GC a project for me, because they usually just skim money and do a terrible job—they fucked up our roof bad, for one thing, many thousands of dollars of damage so now we get to sort that out too, the hassle's not worth a few hundred in savings per year assuming all else goes well which at this point I'm sure it will not) but IoT shitware would have been a deal-breaker on its own if I'd known it required that to function, not just for monitoring or whatever.
PBS, or really mostly member stations, do get some funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, but it’s not really state-funded media and the best known programming would probably easily find a home elsewhere.

What public funding there is has also been a political sticking point from time to time when some show or other has ruffled some legislative feathers.
I wonder how it respects legal web censorship orders imposed on ISPs like those of China and UK.
I enjoy a terminal workflow, and helix doesn't actually have vim key bindings and many years of vim use is hard to switch.

EDIT: I'm also a tmux user and I can't live without a replacement for this plugin: https://github.com/christoomey/vim-tmux-navigator
I thought the (all games) Korean servers required actual citizen ID, not just a phone number (though the two could be linked, I'm not familiar).
Do you have any refs/links of UI thought out at PRs and issues that you think are good examples?
> No

Cool, so as I suspected, you support engaging in bad faith, and asking bad faith questions.

Just say that from the very beginning if that is your opinion. Not sure why you would do this song and dance of denial, if this is just what you believe.
When people look up vacation destinations, for example, they will see what Google calls “visual forward” search results — organized tiles of photographs presented much like Stories on Snapchat or Instagram, along with a map and images from travel sites that link to guides.

The internet today is a more cluttered place than it once was [...]

Time to re-evaluate if the $ask from Kagi is still too much...
I think this is the real reason for the "VPN in a browser" trend. It's about getting exclusive access to browsing data.

Imagine Facebook data collection, but without being able to ignore it. That's where we're headed. Watch for Google to release a "security" product that does something similar.

IMO Apple, Microsoft, and (eventually) Google are going to use their platform dominance to usurp Facebook's ad business. That's why Facebook is making a big bet on VR. It's not that they see VR as a naturally popular platform. It's simply one of the last platforms that could be popular (for the near future), isn't already dominated by a major player, and has network effects that make it a critical mass platform similar to how Facebook works. If they can buy their way in, they own the whole market.

This kind of thing should get these companies obliterated by regulators. It's shameless, blatant, anti-competitive behavior where they're using their dominance in one market to gain an extremely unfair advantage in another.

The goal is to move the entire ad market away from the open web and into closed platforms like OSes and browsers.
Google Adsense/Admob offers no support for most of its users.

Only users that generate large revenue can access Chat option.

For the rest, the only option is to write to support community. It's deliberate: feels like there is support but there is none.
GDPR does not fix this situation. There are cut-outs in GDPR that allows companies to store data for longer. Financial/billing/taxes fall under that category.
GDPR doesn't prevent a company from retaining records of individuals who defrauded them.
I'm referring to the implementation of React, not its API.
The most upsetting thing to me several years ago was that I couldn't find a way to verify a product's UL rating. The sticker on the product can say whatever it wants, but I couldn't find anywhere on UL's website to verify that the sticker was genuine.
I wonder whether Elon supports the freedom of speech in China
People complain about smurfing because mediocre players don't want to be matched against good players (but they will always complain that someone who wins is a smurf).

It's only because matchmaking has gotten so good that it's even a problem. In the old days you matched with whoever was available and that was that.

Smurfs are also different from alts in my mind at least, an alt is something like a low level WoW character when you have a main that is max level; a smurf is more like Carlsen signing up for a chess.com account under an assumed name to gleefully squish people until his rating gets high enough, then starting another account. It only really works in games where each "match" starts off fresh for both players.
This was my first thought when I heard (after the fact) that the police visited my kids daycare. I was livid with the director, but it looks like the cops in my Bay Area town are a little more restrained
Layoffs have started and will accelerate.

It starts as hiring freezes and funding drying up, it ends in mass layoffs.

In a year or two the crash will be obvious, everyone will be certain investing is a terrible idea, and it’ll be a great time to invest/start a company.
The iPhone screenshots are very bad fakes. So that's not encouraging :/
I’m not sure if you meant to reply to me. I was commenting on what dusted said
Perhaps you'd be more comfortable with the term radical environmentalists? Western leaders are ratcheting up the climate change/ESG rhetoric like never before. A whole generation of kids now think the world will literally end in their lifetimes. What do you expect will happen?
This kind of stuff is as low effort that even apple is doing it for people. You might need to jump some hoops to not be locked into apple, but once you use a password manager, this is mostly transparent. The largest hurdle I have to deal is puzzled looks whenever I have to give my details to customer service or people in person.

Which by the way, for me is more than just dealing with spam. It's more about dealing with a breach of trust. If my info got leaked or sold by a company, I might want to review what kind of business I would like to have with them. I mean, I even got spam on an email I gave to a company I was contracting with. After some research, it seems like it was for a company owned by a high exec's son. Keep in mind that this is was post GDPR and the company did business in Europe.
Of note, Java !== JVM. Spark and Flink, for instance, are written in Scala which is alive and well :).

My best effort in finding replacements of those tools that don't leverage the JVM:

HDFS: Any cloud object store like S3/AzBlob, really. In some workloads data locality provided by HDFS may be important. Alluxio can help here (but I cheat, it's a JVM product)

Spark: Different approach but you could use Dask, Ray, or dbt plus any SQL Analytical DB like Clickhouse. If you're in the cloud, and are not processing 10s TB at a time, spinning an ephemeral HUGE VM and using something in-memory like DuckDB, Polars or DataFrame.jl is much faster.

Yarn: Kubernetes Jobs. Period. At this point I don't see any advantage of Yarn, including running Spark workloads.

Hive: Maybe Clickhouse for some SQL-like experience. Faster but likely not at the same scale.

Storm/Flink/Cassandra: no clue.

My preferred "modern" FOSS stack (for many reasons) is Python based, with the occasional Julia/Rust thrown in. For a medium scale (ie. few TB daily ingestion), I would go with:

Kubernetes + Airflow + ad-hoc Python jobs + Polars + Huge ephemeral VMs.
> If you use Neovim, can you share why you chose it over VS Code, or one of the new terminal-based editors like https://helix-editor.com/, or new native GUI editors like https://zed.dev/ ?

VS Code is a proprietary, spyware-riddled, resource-wasting worked example of why "modern" software sucks. Also for my personal use, everything that's not vim suffers from being not vim; it would cost me effort to switch for no clear benefit, and I'd still need to retrofit the same control scheme into whatever it was because the muscle memory is too strong, at which point I might as well just use actual neo/vim.

> which were built to be used as rich development environments instead of extensible text editors

> spent months tweaking Neovim/Emacs configs

I think part of the difference might be of usecase; if you want an IDE, use an IDE. If you needed to spend that much time bending the tool to what you want, maybe it wasn't a good tool to use. When I open vim, it's because I want a text editor, and it provides a text editor.
Neovim is extensibility and versatility. If you want a rich development environment, you can put in the work, or use one of the many preconfigured environments, and turn neovim into that.

If you want a bare ultra fast, terminal text editor, neovim is that out of the box.

If your only after LSP, tree sitter, embedded terminal, neovim's got your back.

Basically, neovim embodies the beauty of Linux. Use and pay only for what you want.
A comparison of current Google Maps with current OSM would be interesting too.
I bet people would be shocked with how much details there are mapped.
It's not a GDPR violation.

https://gdpr.eu/recital-47-overriding-legitimate-interest/

> The processing of personal data strictly necessary for the purposes of preventing fraud also constitutes a legitimate interest of the data controller concerned.
Klimat: Russia in the Age of Climate Change
> All of those browsers have signatures available if you question the integrity of your binary

Signatures available from whom?

The point being that a web browser is a very special case of software that has to absolutely 100% trustworthy from a reputable commercial entity (that is, someone that can be sued). The only other thing with that level of trust is your operating system.
> The only thing I can see working is pollution, pollution of our data.

this is a terrible and dangerous idea. Nobody cares about the accuracy of the data they collect on you. Stuffing your dossier with random things won't cause anyone to throw it away just because there might be errors in it. Instead all of that data, random/accurate or not, will be used against you all the same.

Your clever browser extension might have been responsible for browsing to a bunch of fast food websites, but your health insurance provider won't care. They'll just see that in your internet history and quietly raise your health insurance premiums anyway.

If your legal free speech activities make you a target, adding more free speech activities to your permanent record just means you'll also now be targeted for those activities on top of your own.

You can't know what will prejudice someone else against you. You might not be gay, or Muslim, or a heavy drinker, or an Andrew Yang supporter, but your browser extension pulls in the wrong data that gets you flagged as being one and it could cost you your job, get you denied housing, etc.

You might not be looking into getting an abortion, but anti-abortion activists who buy up the data of anyone who appears to be trying to get one, or looking for support after getting one, will still see you listed and you will still get harassed by them or dragged into a texas court room.

You might not be rich, but data brokers and consumer reputation services will see that you've been interested in expensive vacation spots and online stores will start charging you more than your neighbors for the same items on the assumption that you are.

If you want to try to hide in the crowd look into a VPN or TOR (although be aware device/browser fingerprinting can still get your traffic associated with you). Just please understand that giving others more ammo to use against you isn't helping yourself or anyone else. Adding more and more data to your internet history just increases your risks substantially because no matter if you deserve it or not your life will be impacted in countless ways by the data you surrender and none of that data, "pollution" or genuine, ever goes away.
A similar thing was attempted in Taiwan, and some people ended up quitting their jobs & just drove around with a dash cam all day to report people. It eventually ended because fines & reports skyrocketed & people became furious.
taking notes for Metaverse apps here
I can't find that track. Any link you might have?
> in your nihilistic worldview where humanity going extinct is no big deal, what drives you to do your every day things?

Having a nihilistic worldview doesn't mean that a person doesn't have the same drives, emotions, desires, etc. as other people. It's not a contradiction to both enjoy being happy and be a nihilist.

> If [something impossible], would you ...?

The answer to questions like this is always "maybe." If the impossible is possible, who knows what other considerations there are?
Well, replace with borderline spacefaring if you prefer. On the timeframes people are throwing around here, neither the "borderline" nor our previous false start, or not even a few more false starts in our future make any difference.
The reason I still use emacs over helix or zed: elisp.

Not because I particularly like the language. But because I like that I can write something in a language that executes and accesses pretty much anything the editor can do.

Does helix or zed have the ability to do that? I didn't see it on their landing pages. What are the extensibility stories for these editors?
Days at least. P&R is NP hard I believe. Force directed placement or simulated annealing is slow and random :/
Still, it is amazing what they could do back then.
Archived: https://archive.ph/2022.09.26-174344/https://www.lrb.co.uk/t...
I'm thinking Microsoft is hoping for the reverse: Why download Chrome when you have a perfectly good Blink based browser already installed.
The unreasonableness here is that since the party couldn't enter into a contract they are precluded for life from doing so in the future.
Even if Stadia refunds it?
If you're under 18, then you cannot legally consent to the TOS, therefore you can't be in violation of them. They can kick you off of then of course, but banning you later on as an adult I wouldn't think would be justified because, as above, you can't violate TOS that you can't consent to when under 18.
They do not require a phone number just to play the game, as Blizzard is doing here. They also accept more types of phone numbers and other authentication methods.
What right does Google have to store the data about this kid necessary to enforce a lifetime ban against him? The click-through contract that he was legally unable to enter into?

"he has already earned over £300" implies he's in the UK, so UK GDPR applies.
I have like 6 or 7 active adsense accounts that I created before Google required to verify ID for accounts. I made all of them before I was 15
At this point I’m thinking “Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind” would be a good constitutional amendment.

That is, if a reasonable number of humans couldn’t do it, the government can’t do it with computers against its population.
> the manufacturer states that not having it connected to the internet voids their warranty

I was aware that my inverter could connect to the Internet, and probably would be connected to the Internet during setup, but my full intention was to disconnect it following the install. I was pretty happy that the one that the vendor gave me was poll-able from an internal Web server, so I could scrape the metrics myself.

It turns out, none of this was to be. I found out about the Internet connectivity requirement for the warranty _after_ it was on my wall and producing power - and when you've spent five figures on a system with a 25-year warranty, unfortunately I had to suck up my pride and let it phone home to the manufacturer's cloud. It now sits on a separate VLAN for "untrusted" devices.

What's more, I also found out that the manufacturer had intentionally removed the local web server feature, instead making it totally reliant on the cloud service for metrics. It has a laughable rate limit of 300 calls per day, which gives me roughly 5-minute granularity (I could get better granularity if I made my metrics-gathering scripts poll differently overnight, but still), and I really dislike having to reach out to a vendor for data that's produced in my own home.
The one-pager [1] ends with some points about auditing, but when I search for "audit" int the full-text [2], I'm wanting more details. It refers to GAO audits, and ensuring that arrest photographs are not stored, but I would think the purpose of auditing is a more general and quantitative assessment of whether the system is working as intended, such as:

- measurements of accuracy rates, using new photos of people known to be in database, and people known to not be in database, and measurements of how accuracy is related to race.

- records of who is accessing the database, in the context of which investigation. The one pager outlines things you can't do, but within whatever the allowed uses are, there may be fishy harvesting things going on, and how will you notice that?

- facial-recognition technology is only as good as its software interface, and how will the development and versioning of that software be audited? what will prohibit vendors from including secret APIs what law-enforcement can use in a way that side-steps auditing?

[1] https://lieu.house.gov/sites/lieu.house.gov/files/FRT%20One%...

[2] https://lieu.house.gov/sites/lieu.house.gov/files/Lieu%20FRT...
A lot of dystopian scifi involves corporations; Robocop, Weyland-Yutani Corp from Aliens, etc. Google's got more power than substantial numbers of governments.
I think you're looking at gross and not real GDP. Regardless, GDP growth is probably what you should look at if you want to compare. On that metric, 1988 was actually the highest year of GDP growth and Bulgaria has never reached that level since

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.KD.ZG?locat...
Oh ok. So, no, the stars don't have to align at all. The attack is straightforward, the POCs show that.

The reason we don't see these attacks is because everyone patched the major issues immediately. Further, attackers don't need to really go for these sorts of attacks, there are more reliable, well-worn methods for attacking browsers.
Lawsuits work.

Around 2003 I purchased a CPU from eBay with PayPal. It never shipped because it was a scam. My credit card company refunded my money, but PayPal demanded I pay them. I refused and they banned my account.

It took almost a decade before a class-action lawsuit forced amnesty at PayPal. I use it now because it is convenient to have everything go through one service that I can control. But if they did this again I wouldn't use them again.

Hopefully a class-action lawsuit can still work against a giant like Google. If the US would get its head out of its arse and pass legislation like GDRP, we might actually have a chance at the right to be forgotten.
I am not at all in favor of this. If the police can legally obtain information, they should be allowed to use it.

IMO the right fix is at the other end: severely restrict the use of facial recognition for everyone. I don’t want corporations to have powers exceeding that of the police, thank you very much.
One way of doing all this stuff is creating "haves" and "have nots" where those who have a higher credit score from age of account, phone number, etc, get better matchmaking (against players of a similar high score) than those who forgo those things.
It's cover for the increasing editorialization of 'news.'

Reporter wants to say something about 'I bet WFH will have negative impacts on white collar workers."

Their options are:

1) Do data-driven research and come up with a dry, sort-of-compelling article about recent data releases that doesn't get traction

2) Use a 'famous for being right in a big way' celebrity to 'launder' their idea.
> but it is now maladaptive in a world of cheap and virtually unlimited calories.

I think that's the nice way to put it.

I think it's maladaptive in a world where brand food companies have developed rigorous approaches maximally exploit our normal systems for acquiring and consuming food, and are free to deploy them to increase sales.
I mean I can really only imagine two broad categories for “solutions”

1) Someone demonstrates a bigger stick. At this point a bigger stick is effective counter-nukes, or perhaps the presence of an alien civilization.

2) What you call unipolarity, although I think both are unipolarity. Mass behavioral transcendence towards a higher form of morality. Maybe achieved via BCI, or improving standard of living, or subtle coercions by AI, or looming threat of climate change prompting transformative cooperative efforts.

The latter was omitted for brevity, due to its unlikelihood. Of course it’s not binary, there’s a bit of each in the other.
> usable default colorscheme

What's wrong with the default colorscheme?
> It uses orthogonal syntax for identical constructions

There is an alternative INSERT syntax matching the UPDATE SET one:

INSERT INTO table SET col1='val1', col2='val2';
I'd describe it as fairly simple. It was just a classifier where each account name was a category: there was no fancy NLP. It used a single feature type and an algorithm from a well-known family. I don't want to say what either was lest I further proliferate the technique.

I cross checked using statistically improbable words, which helped confirm or exclude weak matches.
At least the GPDR should allow you to correct the age. I don't think it has any provisions that say that if you entered incorrect data yourself, you waive your right to have data corrected.
Needs better tools to take advantage of it, right now using hyperflex (registers on long routing lines to automatically pipeline your designs) is quite difficult from what I have heard.
Mine thought "wtf is he on about" :D
This is quite a concrete illustration of the concept of the perfect being the enemy of the good. Thank you.
Imagine that you have put malware in xyz.com/mybadpage1, xyz.com/mybadpage2, and xyz.com/mybadpage3 pages. MS flags you, and you query MS. They tell you they see malware on the first two urls. Now you gained information about their blindspots.

You can capitalise on this multiple ways. You can remove the first two and hope they remove the flag. You can design your next attack better so it is more like mybadpage3. Etc
> We already hold similar levels of power. We can just not use Facebook and Google.

Common argument. Not a great one, because some things are only available through Facebook, and not being there can complicate your in-person life significantly. But, since I'm not on Facebook, I have to admit that it's good enough for me.

> One needs neither of these services to live a normal life.

A step too far. Normal people have Facebook and use Google. One needs both of these services to live a normal life.