skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every time they roll out the ability to so activity that’s bad for people, it’s always “think of the children” and “think of the poor”.

I can see the day where they try to legalize child prostitution by kicking back 20% to schools.

It is NEVER the case where the proper way to fund an unfunded social need is to support the wholesale exploitation of the very group you’re funding.
I would bet my 2 Euro, that it is because people just don't have a need to buy new PC ever year, because computational power did not really went up in last decade?

i.e. I still have my Lenovo E520, which I bought in 2011, after putting there SSD, new battery and more RAM, it works just fine with Windows 10 until today.

I still have my desktop computer with Intel i5, bought around 2013, still working with Windows 10, I have it more-less as backup PC. Got new one around 2019 with AMD Ryzen 7 and I feel no need to upgrade for next few years. Because why should I do it?
It's not m1 with safari fantastic. Safari's bland though, so compromises get made.
Exactly. The idea is neat but it's no different than the mini ray tracer you write in graphics 101, with the twist that the output "frame" buffer is the text buffer of notepad
Or they just don't understand the difference between a DDoS on a website and an actual, effective cyberattack on an airport.

Never assume malice etc
Well, it makes a difference when trying to convince in good faith.

If an argument can be used to prove contradictory positions depending on framing, then citing that argument as if it is conclusive without that missing framing is wrong.

Assuming a person making this mistake is acting in good faith, pointing this out is constructive, and allows the opportunity to complete the argument with by adding missing framing.

FYI it would be a frame-dependent 'Proving too much' fallacy, not a 'slippery slope': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proving_too_much
You have massively over estimated the power of Unions, and completely overlooked what I believe is the real reason for the shift. The institutional investor.

401K's, Pension funds, and other funds of funds that since WWII have pushed the business cycle from being a 5 year + picture to being a Quarterly Earnings report

That more than anything has had the biggest impact on what the parent comment is talking about
The "come back home" functionality relies on the GPS on the drone, but the "follow me while filming" needs the phone's. I saw quite a lot of motorcycling vlogs using that feature.
> But these people are so obviously detected it makes no sense. They are not even trying to hide.

Why would they try to hide? If their employment agreement or their company's benefits clearly spell out a way to get 6-24 months of leave, how is it wrong to simply choose to do what's spelled out? How did "making use of benefits that are clearly written out and allowed" turn into "taking advantage of the system"?

I take advantage of 100% my company's 401(k) match. Am I taking advantage of the system? How about someone who takes their full maternity leave? Should too many people who do so be a cause of stricter legislation?
It's up to your user agent what it displays and which cookies to store. It's the user agent that needs to change to stop bugging you. That's what brave are doing
You don't, but you can still use it. Btrfs is stable, it's just the feature for RAID 5/6 that's explicitly marked experimental and potentially dangerous with known architectural issues. There was a time when that was a bit unclear, but now they're really straightforward about that: don't use RAID 5/6 and you have a rock solid file system.
By improvement you mean lower cost and easier availability?

I wouldn't call suicide an improvement over proper treatment or social help. And we're not talking a terminal case here.
The EU's biggest contribution is the power it gave me, a simple citizen, to force* billion-dollar companies to not share and even delete my personal data if I want to, without a complicated procedure.

*And I mean force, not request.
Please be aware that the procedure is not risk-free and there is general concern in the medical community that it does more harm than good in healthy adults.

5/1000 colonoscopy patients have complications (some fatal) which is way higher than the base rate for colon cancer.

It’s not a harmless screen like a mammogram.
The US does collect over 300 billion dollars from corporations in tax revenue...
Here’s a much better article from CNN. [1]

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/10/us/airport-websites-russia-ha...
None of them. But all of them combined. And they never are all part of the same job description; except perhaps in an organization small enough to not have job descriptions.
A key consideration should be how easy it is to 'game' well-being measurements.

It's pretty hard to game economic measurements as a whole. Metrics with smaller scope are generally much easier to game so while they may be a slightly more accurate measurement initially, they may be more vulnerable to corruption.
Another article about it: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/us-travel-websites-kno...

> there is no indication that any airport operations were affected
People doing threat intelligence are generally on top of attribution and try to do appropriate, fact-based attribution.

That said, the warnings about Russia interfering with US infrastructure were flowing a bit before the invasion of Ukraine. Russia would be the first suspect on the top of the list, even barring good threat intel.
I commend you for hand rolling it all and not using JS.

I miss the days of good ole forum software (e.g. FluxBB/PunBB) before it was superseded with massive JS bloat/clunky forum software like Discourse, Flarum, etc.
This is misleading. If only technically necessary cookies are used, no consent pop-up needs to be shown.
I can't follow your point regarding targeting browser vendors. The websites are tracking their users so websites are the right target.
Demolition Man has turned out to be the most accurate depiction of the future.
Our newest product is a very advanced 3D Scanner[1]. Photogrammetry, structured light scanning, phase shift laser radar, and now non-contact via an interferometry. 3D Scanning is alive and well with various methods.

[1]https://apimetrology.com/ladar/
Aren't male e-residents required to join the military!!
Also, no one appeared to be offended.
No more so than other organizations.
And now fast forward 5 years and the iPhone 8 is still getting full OS updates and the Pixel 2 stopped getting basic security patches 2 years ago.

At this point I think I qualify as a career Android developer (did other stuff but just a lot of time on Android) and my joking reply to anyone who asks why I use an iPhone is:

> I'll switch back when Android can handle a screen rotation without blanking the screen.

The thing is, the fact there's no smooth rotation isn't literally a blocker, but it's what such a subtle thing represents: Android apps are still living with the complexity of a situation that showed up because of the limitations of the 256 MB of RAM the Android G1 had in 2008.

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They're still doing this messy state restoration stuff where the OS essentially has to kill part of your app to support a basic rotation, they never went back and fixed it as phones matured, bad configuration change handling easily causes hundreds of thousands of crashes a day for end users, constantly throws a wrench in development that Google has had to invent many different catcher's mitts for, drains resources that would be better used on improving the user-facing functionality of these apps.

And this isn't the only feature like that. There are so many basic sharp edges of the OS UX-wise that will just seemingly never get fixed, and even if were fixed tomorrow, it'd be at least 6 years before those improvements represented even 90% of the Android userbase (something iOS tends to achieve within 12 months...)

[and before the nitpickers show up, yes you can override configuration changes and manage that for your own app... no it doesn't scale for any "normal" app]
> You want to optimize for comprehension by readers rather than convenience for writers.

Given the exorbitant cost of education (in the US), I think this is a reasonable desire or expectation for a student to have.
Autotranslation for the lazy: https://www-iphones-ru.translate.goog/iNotes/sayt-sberbanka-...

It's strange that Safari does not allow to bypass the problem with the certificate.
This is a prime example of why the Fahrenheit Scale is always the correct choice.
correction. only legitimate currency ;)
I am sure Apple's own Mac App Store apps are free to use those though right?
That's only when the poor people do it, when VCs/ banks / hedge funds do it they are stewards of future innovation and macroeconomy efficiency experts, guiding our economy towards the activity that returns socially beneficial results.
Now you gave some characteristics to pay attention to, and that's fine, but it's not exactly an "uncanny valley", is it? At least that does not elicit the same effect on me as when I see a CGI of eyes in a super-realistic 3D render of a person. I could totally see myself missing these details and misjudging images like these as human-generated. Maybe I'm just not an attentive person.
I don't have the number and I don't know how many people do so on a whim. Certain measures are working in certain situations (if there is physical barrier sure).

My bigger point was that nobody decides to kill themselves for fun and what needs to happen is systematically helping people not knee jerk reactions like banning X or Y. I may be wrong
I worked a lot on my first job. I thought this company was my company, and I tried to help a lot, failing in every attempt. Boy... it was very painful.

After 6 years without a raise, I went to another company.
After my departure, 4 people are hired to do my work.
And six years later I went back to the first one, with a 700% increase in salary.
What I've learned over the years is that with an external proposal, you get a raise 99% of the time.
And that your effort is basically irrelevant. Politics and social capital are much, much more relevant. If your competitor is the owner's son, friend of the boss, you will lose.

In the end, with some social capital you can't work in practice and you'll never get fired. Quiet quiting is for people without social capital.

If, like me, you have zero social capital, my recomendation is to be very professional: I work 8 hours and if the company has an emergency, like a DDOS, I help, but I ask for a day off in the same week. If there's an opportunity for a raise, I'll try. If I see an opportunity to help the employer, I try, but without suffering. If employer try to umilate me or do not accept the days off from a emergency, like DDOS, etc I will find another job. Your employer will likely never be truly professional, but you can be.
And spells “tread” as “thread” - or is this some unknown-to-me alternate spelling / definition?
What kind of fascism? The one where corporations run rampant in alliance with the state?

Why, sounds like what's going on here.
The quote you embedded is attributed to a person and where they work? Perhaps you meant to quote something else?

Mandiants attribution methodology is trivially found on their website: https://www.mandiant.com/resources/blog/how-mandiant-tracks-...
The organizers of this event should be fined massively
Hacking groups can have a recognizable fingerprint / strategy [0]

Killnet has claimed responsibility for similar attacks in the past [1]

[0] http://attack.mitre.org/

[1] https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/ncas/alerts/aa22-110a
Subtitle:

"Instead of arguing Utilitarianism vs Deontology, everyone should just follow Virtue Ethics"
I want the government to be accountable to a metric they can't fernagle with. Something that can be compared to years previous, and nations varied.

I'm not sure well being metrics currently (or perhaps can ever even in principle) fit the bill.
This will not abate at all given an economic downturn.

The old school keeps waiting for these deeply rooted changes to blow over like a reddit fad. During a downturn I expect the "mellenials" (and all the gen x and others who have joined them) to double down.

I currently jump at any chance to take less pay for less work. The opposite direction holds no appeal to me unless it is my own gig.

Something this pervasive and organic does not blow over.
https://www.mandiant.com/resources/blog/how-mandiant-tracks-...
Mail it to me and I will with 9D LADAR. The point cloud data will include color data on the points. Fill out a contact form on our website asking for Robert.

https://apimetrology.com/ladar/
I work 200% for over 20 years outside of Silicon Valley, You know how many raises I got... Lots, you know how many promotions I got, Lots

Maybe it is time to get out of the cesspool that is California
When nil is not nil
Ubuntu Linux tries for the office desktop
Split orthogonal isn't at all comparable to a different layout.
I've heard this fairy tale for decades, and quite frankly, I'm putting it into the same camp as claims of undeleting data from magnetic media or reading license plates from space --- By that I mean that such things may be theoretically possible, but from a pragmatic and practical perspective, they might as well be complete science fiction.

Please, can anyone find a single concrete example of ENF working? All the information I can find about the UK's supposed widespread and automated use of it starts to evaporate into the same kind of conjectural nonsense as polygraph tests.
Is there a better effort done elsewhere?

Governments have always lagged to regulate corporations, either because of conflicts of interest or plain incompetence, which is especially true for Big Tech.

But at least the EU is trying to some extent, which was GP's point.

> No they just made it peppered with useless popups.

The popups were a workaround the web adopted due to the lack of technical details in the law, but the law itself isn't to blame. There have been many fines handed out, which is a step in the right direction, at the very least. We should celebrate any step towards protecting citizens from corporations, not scoff that it's not perfect.
I'll just go ahead and shill acme: If you want to learn the Unix programming environment, vi and emacs are good in that they will work mostly as expected on any OS, but that's because they don't assume that you will use any user level applications. On acme, it's assumed you that have a shell, plumber and a whole load of commands and scripts ready to help out (as well as a mouse).
In the process of learning Unix you learn acme for free and vice versa.
Really great news for their CMO (Chief Marketing Officer), really un-great news for CSO (Chief Security Officer).
A government list of people banned from sports betting seems to be an interesting idea. Obviously there are offshore platforms that would ignore the list, but the point is just to raise the transaction costs a little. I wouldn't like to see courts force people to sign up, but I could see joining the list as a prerequisite to rehab and personally know a few addicts that would sign up when they have support so they don't fall when they're at their lowest.
Many seem forced and weird, like the couple having a romantic evening playing Atari 2600 Combat. Maybe it's the forced closeness so they can fit in the picture while doing pogfaces?
To be more clear, I hope:

Comparing seconds-since-epoch "now" to the same from a year go: timezone doesn't matter so long as I'm consistent. Pick UTC, pick CDT, pick nothing, just do the same thing both times. This is the vast majority of usages of seconds-since-epoch, I think.

Comparing seconds-since-epoch "now" to epoch: in the abstract, timezone still doesn't matter, except, well, how do use the same timezone as epoch unless you know which timezone epoch was in? You could be off by 82,800 seconds! In practice, assuming that the epoch was Jan 1, 1970, midnight UTC seems to work for those rare cases, leading to the widespread (but technically incorrect) belief that epoch is in UTC.
For what it's worth, phpBB still sortof supports having javascript disabled [1] but it is nowhere near as lightweight as the example here created by demindiro.

I also commend demindiro on not requiring JS. It is refreshing to see simple yet useful applications.

[1] - https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=2106245
In my own working experience and speaking with others, this is the part of "quiet quitting" that is too often missed. This is 100% about the question "does extra professional effort on my part, to the point of sacrifices in my personal life, lead to any benefit or reward?"

In game theory terms, if we have a system that increasingly disincentivizes cooperation and incentivizes defection, it should surprise no one to see less cooperation.
La crosse area, love going down to viroqua during this time of year though.
You are conflating good advice with behavior mandates.

It's OK to advise me that gambling can be dangerously addictive, or that getting vaccinated is a good way to avoid getting sick.
> Every year, you'd have your performance review, and assuming it wasn't bad, you'd get some sort of a raise.

Even when they do have this, those raises usually max out around 5%. Maybe 10% if you're utterly amazing.

Problem is, you can get 20% just by moving, so unless the company is astonishingly employee friendly, you're always losing out.
I guess this is one way to solve 5G's line of sight problem.
Those useless popups are there because websites still want to track their users. They aren't needed if only technically necessary cookies are used.
I can’t imagine an entrepreneur that can’t be bothered to write their own pitch deck…
Product Manager’s Guide to Preference Management for Notifications
This is something I'm debating myself right now. We have a proposition on the California ballot in November to legalize online gambling. On the one hand, if adults want to gamble, why should the government stop them? Sure, tax the hell out of it to account for the externalities of it, like increased crime and an increased need for social services when people bankrupt themselves, but don't outright ban it.

On the other hand, is it worth the externalities? We ban drunk driving because of the extreme harm you can cause others. We ban smoking in a lot of places for the same reason.

Is the harm to society of easily accessible online gambling worth allowing consenting adults to consent?
Hey Axel, next time create and obtain the client key to give to Firefox TLS and run a MitM proxy to do WireShark capture of raw HTTP traffic.

Bonus if you do this all the time, you’ll snag the whole thing when saving all captures.
The government. They thought it was a good idea to put a spying and tracking device in your pocket and they needed a way to make it appealing. This is just the latest scheme.
IIRC some king had this system for taxing cargo in the holds of ship in port. The crown always had the option of purchasing the cargo at the self selected price.
The thing about certain mental health issues is that they can get better with actual long term therapy.

I do not believe this happened here, the girl was treated at most 6 years. Describing it as 6 years of anguish is uncharitable to people who survived mental health problems for decades, and even manage to live with them.

It can take years to find out that a certain therapy even works... And here we have people hastily resorting to big red button, even after messing up previous suicide attempts.

I would not call it euthanasia, it's suicide by doctor. (In parallel with suicide by cop.)
While technically it doesn't receive tax money because it must earn a profit, it of course is partly financed by the government. Just one example: I lived in an apartment that was owned by the Swiss Post (close to the post office but a separate building ). With a AAA credit rating, it is of course cheap to buy buildings and make a profit. A regular private company couldn't do this. Well, I benefited as well as the rent was relatively cheap compared to similar apartments.
For the majority of smartphone's existence no permission was necessary, probably because no one ever considered it. Then it was learned stores, for example Target, were using their mobile app to broadcast Bluetooth signals in order to track shoppers movement around the store. So around 2019 Android added it to the general location permission to use Bluetooth for anything other than audio transmission to/from a paired device if device pairing is handled by the OS, hidden from the app.

In late 2021 Android changed it to a separate "ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION" permission, while Apple still keeps it under the general bluetooth permission (while the popup mentions it can be used to track your location).
What is artificial intelligence and what isn't?
That's a lovely sentiment, but it quickly runs into problems. Sometimes it's hard to know if an helpful action will produce a positive outcome. Certainly, just giving people what they ask for won't necessarily do that. For example it's probably better to not help an alcoholic with violent tendencies acquire more liquor, even if he asks very nicely.

It's almost as if there's some sort of a need for a normative science of what acts are truly helpful in the sense of improving lives and which aren't. I propose we call those acts that are helpful and make things better "good." Then we can go about trying to figure out what acts are "good" and under what circumstances in some kind of systematic way. Let's give this enterprise a Greek name to make it sound more impressive.
I don’t really understand.

Open standards are great.

Forcing every company by law to adopt a single open standard will have positive implications more so than not having any open standards, but it will also very much lead to the same concerns of centralization that the author expresses.

In any case, the “foundation of the internet and all it has bred” and the standards driving it are an excellent example of why competing OPEN standards are good, and why forced adoption of just one standard would be harmful.

So, I’m honestly not sure if you’re agreeing with me or if I’m missing something.
RIght, that is the issue. As it is, Medium is just one of the domains I'm never going to click on. I expect low-quality articles everywhere. That's not the real problem. It's the ridiculous paywall, and it'll continue to die as long as that's in place.
What's mind-boggling to me is yesterday's report that not all the VR employees have VR headsets, and Mark is mandating weekly VR Horizon meetings for people in the org. This had to be know by everyone in the org, except for Mark, that they didn't have a policy to get the employees headsets, and everyone was too afraid to tell him. The dude is living in a bubble and his underlings are just telling him what he wants to hear. That's no way to build a product or team, when people are afraid to tell you anything negative
Yes, sarcasm. Their shenanigans are too numerous to describe. I don't know how anyone can continue using them.
Never? The NFL has had no problems redirecting billions of state and local funding to build stadiums and other altars to their players. Thru things like food and beverage taxes, every US resident helps underwrite the NFL even if they never watch a minute of a game. If you do watch? Be prepared to spend hundreds or thousands to go to a game and buy merch.

Bread and circuses. And sell the bread if you need a ticket for admission.
> Wonder if the evidence still supports that

It doesn't. Bereavement, disability, unemployment all make people less happy over the long term

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4235657/
Chrome has a similar market share on mobile as well, especially since it's the built-in browser for Android
There you have it --- proof that money is not a reliable indicator of intelligence.
Code of Ethics – IEEE Computer Society
Just make sure you're not genetically bad at Folic Acid in which case you want Methyl-Folate instead.
Corporations will just pass along the cost. Just directly tax the rich.