skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nope, Because there are very good reasons for some services/applications to be shut down. Making it impossible to shut them down attracts a vary particular clientele that I personally don't want to be associated with.
Apple is huge in gaming. Earlier this year, Mashable reported that mobile gaming was now 60% of the entire gaming market. Consumers apparently spend $1.6 billion per week on mobile games.

https://sea.mashable.com/tech-1/20432/60-of-entire-gaming-ma...
Google announces GA360 customers have till 01.07.24 to move from UA
If anyone want's to keep their YoY data up to date they need to migrate over to GA4 by July '23
That's what the article says. We aren't doing enough to limit global warming to just 1.5c. we could do more a possibly limit warming to 1.5c but it becomes an ever greater challenge the longer we leave it.
That doesn't change anything. You need a huge amount of energy to remove CO2 from the atmosphere because CO2 is a tiny constituent part of Air (~400ppm) - that means one has to move a million molecules of air across a collector (whatever that is) to remove 400 molecules of CO2. You can't do that without huge amounts of energy and a huge surface area for your collector ... on any human timescale.
California: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jsW9MlYu31g
"I don't see why this is even a partisan issue"

Because one side wants to treat the underlying causes, which it sees as poverty, inequality, lack of good education, and lack of opportunities; while the other side has the attitude of "fuck 'em, they're criminals", and wants to be "tough on crime" by increasing policing, criminal penalties, and the number of people thrown in jail.

The former side sees the justice system as fundamentally unjust and favoring the privileged, connected, and wealthy, and as discriminating against the poor.. as disproportionately affecting blue collar criminals while giving white collar criminals a slap on the wrist (if that).

Jail is seen as both a finishing school for criminals and a human rights disaster, where inmates are not actually reformed but come out as more tied in to the criminal underworld than ever, and where after they are released society almost forces them in to reoffending because legal work opportunities for those with a criminal record are so limited and many inmates learn nothing in jail except how to commit crimes more effectively.

Many see the police as abusive and corrupt, with the recent exposes on police brutality, murder, and corruption just throwing fuel on the fire. Police cultures which try to cover up abuses within their own organizations instead of bringing them to light make the general public even more distrusting. Giving more funding to police departments which betrayed the trust of their communities is seen by some as funding a criminal organization.

Meanwhile, the other side sees those police who are caught abusing their power as just a few bad apples (if that... some will support the police no matter what crimes they commit), and deny that there are systemic issues which need to be addressed. For some of these it's always the criminal's fault, if someone's in jail they deserve it, and the justice system is in fact fair and just.

That's not to mention vigilante, militia, and "patriot" groups which are happy to take the law in to their own hands to fight those they see as enemies.

Attitudes towards drug offenses (which are the reason a huge portion of people are in jail in America) also matter.

These are all very different views of the world, and those are some reasons why criminal justice reform and what should be done with or about police is so controversial.
Works fine here. Only thing I can think of that I have set different than most is I have the "use my activity to help train google search" or whatever that setting is turned off. Basically I have everything I could ever find turned off for google searches to make it as generic as possible.
> I don't want to be bothered for hours figuring out arcane error messages for each and every round of updates

That's not really a thing if you're on a stable distribution. That's the entire point with going with distributions that do periodic releases rather than rolling releases - you benefit from testing others have done before you.
I'm not convinced that the mere presence of forks is necessarily evidence of poor decisions. It's been eleven years since MATE and Cinnamon were forked from GNOME and they all seem to be relatively healthy projects.
And those do not fall under copyright.
I thought that even if you but them at 9.62% on or before Oct 28, their interest rate will be set at whatever the new going rate is for November-April on Nov 1?
> Poor people care less for the environment than wealthier people, as a general rule.

This is not true. "Higher and lower incomes make little difference to people's concern about the natural environment, according to new research from the University of Bristol." https://phys.org/news/2012-09-environmentalism-rich-poor.htm...

See also: "People Of Color And Poor Americans Are More Likely To Care About Climate Change, Study Says" https://www.livekindly.com/people-color-poor-likely-care-cli...
https://blog.google/technology/research/project-starline/

It looks like it's similar to Cisco's telepresence.
Does Valve have a great track record with hardware? The Steam Machines, Steam Controller and the Steam link aren't really talked about or mentioned in gaming circles anymore.
That's a great point, thank you
I'm saying you're blowing things out of proportion by referring to companies, plural, and saying that any other ad tech company is at all associated with what Google is doing. Even if they stand to gain from it, they have absolutely no input into the process (it's not even an open web platform like other Chrome changes!). And as every single thread on the subject on HN has made excruciatingly clear, Google has nothing to gain from the MV3 changes ad-wise, since they serve all of their ads from the exact same domain they've always served them from, and they can be blocked with 1 (one) single filter rule. The limitations in MV3 primarily affect the sketchiest and newest adtech providers, exactly who Chrome is already seeking to block for user experience reasons and who Google Ads probably won't work with. There's no reason to believe that the MV3 filter changes are the result of any collusion or malicious intent inside of Google, unless for some reason they feel like taking revenue share AWAY from their ads business by helping companies they hate.
I feel that people in the lower stratum haven't so much as gotten poorer but rather the other strata have gotten relatively much richer.

However, there are areas in the lower stratum where the rug has been pull out from them in the form of jobs exports (sending MFG overseas) as well as depressing wages via low-skill immigration --these immigrants put price pressure on the native population due to the expanded worker pool.
> That professor Goddard, with his 'chair' in Clark College and the countenancing of the Smithsonian Institution [from which Goddard held a grant to research rocket flight], does not know the relation of action to reaction, and of the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react -- to say that would be absurd. Of course he only seems to lack the knowledge ladled out daily in high schools.

From a NYT article from 1920, arguing the theory that rocket fuel can propel a rocket in space violates the laws of physics.
Nobody but tech bros cares a whit about VR, sorry. VR is a toy, and a poor one at that.
>The advertising potential is insane.

You realize the "just slap ads on it" monetization method is going away, right? Outside of regulation (ie GDPR) and platform control (ATT), it's 2022; do people really still believe that flooding a product people love with ads won't change user behaviour?
This is not true for all tech companies, including FAANGs. For some (many?), the first grant is all you are entitled to, and subsequent "refresh" grants are based on performance, manager discretion, or other non-guaranteed criteria. Hence the "4 year cliff" many people complain about.
It only works if developers have the autonomy to make decisions on what to work on.

It does no good to expose a developer to customer problems if they are unable to make the decision to fix it. At that point it's just wasted effort.
The sf cops make the $1.7M single stall toilet look like a bargain.

45 traffic enforcement offices only manager to give out an average of 10 ticks every day. That’s not each, that’s as a whole department. https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/bayarea/heatherknight/article...
"So we ended up with a country that claimed that all men are created equal but did not actually adhere to this."

lol - and yet we did eventually fix it. So much for the unchangeability of US government. So yeah, the rigidity still worked - and continues to work. It's absolutely not a bug, but the most important feature in preserving our republic.
It's called "The Innovator's Dilemma" and not "The Innovator's Win-Win Situation" for a reason. You don't know what the future holds, so while you're making the decision both options look bad. Continue chugging on their FaceInstaApp stuff and they'll eventually stagnate and get taken over by SuperIMessage. Go all-in on a risky new path and there's no guarantee that it'll work.

Anyway, I get it. People hate Zuckerberg, they hate facebook, they wanna see the whole thing burn down. But then what, will that magically get rid of social media? Or will TikTok just take over?
Waka Investors Update // October22
Thanks for the advice, it's appreciated! Any ideas how to get in touch? If not I'll try my luck at public twitter (which has had a 50/50 success rate for me in the past...)
Not as many people are trying to enter BPL as, say, Widener Library.

Widener also has some areas that have to maintain absolute quiet. I have found this generally doesn't work if tourists are allowed in.
Yeah, just like no one really wanted a Palm Treo or whatever flagship smartphone was dominant in 2004.

This is all about where the ball is going to be tomorrow, not where it is today.
Is that how the tool announced in OP works in general? I had assumed it removed it from all Google search results; going back and looking at the OP... I'm not really sure. (Google not being transparent about what they're doing? Shocking!)
I've asked this question a couple of times on stackoverflow, but it get's removed, even though it is a legitimate question to me:

I have found that working in a team with php has made it, sometimes, difficult to catch bugs that a typed language would prevent at compile time.

How do larger teams work with php and frameworks like Laravel and prevent errors that are related to type-checking?
> What is the government’s minimum standard for a car autopilot to be sold as an “autopilot”?

California seems to be using the Society of Automotive Engineer's standard here, per the forms for applying for an AV license.

> Air autopilots rely on a pilot being present, observant, and able to take over if necessary. Air autopilots are not infallible.

Air autopilots aren't really comparable. First and foremost, pilots require far more rigorous training than drivers, and are unlikely to be wholly unaware of the limitations of autopilot. It's also almost unanimously agreed that air autopilot is safer than manual flying under some conditions. There's some debate over how heavily it should be used, but I can't find anyone saying it shouldn't be used at all.

> How could Tesla realistically train its ML models if not for the billions of miles of data it collects from Tesla owners?

Tesla would pay employees, who are well-versed in the risks, to monitor the vehicles while they drive. The same thing that other self-driving companies do.

> How much damage will this litigation do to American autonomy R&D?

Probably very little. Tesla is the only one selling to consumers, so they're really the only one in the space that could be at risk from this lawsuit.

> How much of the recent Musk hatred (by institutions such as the media, and large elements of the public) is due to Musk re-aligning himself politically against the Democrats and Big Tech?

I won't discount it as a possibility, but Musk has had a lot of detractors for a long time. It was bound to happen at some point; you can only overpromise and underdeliver for so long before people start to notice.
It's just performance, getting less tired, etc. It's coffee for stupid adults. It's not short term if you don't stop using it.

If you want to actually benefit from 'illegal' drugs in a work environment look into microdosing psychodelics.
“Think the rigidity of the Constitution is probably it's greatest strength.”

What if you’re not a liberal but haven’t figured that out yet? Sanctity of the constitution appears to me to be the defining feature of much conservative thinking, or so they say.
Any time a company uses "flex" in the name I now associate it with generally making things worse. "Flex PTO", "Flex Pay", "Flex Role" (aka remote but not really)
> believe advertisers will continue to trust this AI based future, I certainly don’t

Why not? If ROI remains high, why would I care ?
Yeah exactly.

Those people don't seem to realise, it's all the same hours, so getting up earlier doesn't help, going to bed later, does. They think it's some kinda secret but really they are just working with there body clock and cannot impose that on others.
I agree with this. Once I post something, I don't sit there hitting refresh waiting for a reply.
usually you use specific frameworks for that, not pure Python.
I've moved to self-hosting a miniflux instance and have been pleased with the performance for the past several years. Highly recommend.
About as much of a moral quandary as changing TV channels temporarily when an ad comes on. Or more directly, using a TiVo approach to skip ads altogether. Or changing the radio station during a block of ads. Or skipping past an ad segment in a podcast. Or... not looking up at a billboard when I'm driving on a freeway that raises money from billboards.

Or more aptly, switching and/or muting the tab when an ad comes on a Twitch stream.
Bingo. It's been about a decade now since the revival of VR. We've had 10 years of, "everyone is going to be computing in 3D". It never materialized. Worse, it looks like the content is shrinking and stagnant.
I think we're beyond taking what Elon Musk says at face value. Musk is so deep underwater on this deal he is really going to have to pull out all the stops just to keep it afloat, let alone to actually do what he wants with it. I think this is the first true sign of the pivot for Musk from "Ha this is funny I'm going to shitpost" to "Oh god, i'm going to lose me and my friends several billion dollars".

Twitter under Musk is going to be saddled with $13Bn in debt, on top of that their last quarter they reported losing a $270m. So in aggregate it seems pretty likely that Twitter is going to be bleeding monstrous amounts of money very quickly, and it's quite likely Musk is going to have to start throwing good money after bad just to keep it afloat. It's not just that it's going to be losing money, it's that if they can't service this debt his creditors can step in and take Twitter, which would be absolutely hilarious.
other than the giant one staring at us 93 million miles away beaming massive amounts of energy directly at us all day, fusion reactors otherwise don't exist. Maybe not throw away all the other approaches until they do?
I haven't learned yet, but here are some resources posted here:

Build a ray tracer in rust. Recomends the 'crab' book from Oreilly.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29791142

MAke a 2d game
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28861618

basic syntax:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25610741

and lastly:
https://github.com/rust-lang/rustlings
though i dislike the install method...
Did you miss the quote at the top? It's important to read all the words.
I love being a spectator: a love letter to my friends
GitHub encrypts sensitive database columns using ActiveRecord:Encryption
I said that for a long time but honestly it's getting cooler. The exercise applications alone are a huge market (in theory almost everyone).
It was a ludicrous notion that it was possible to begin with.
> Their understanding is entirely in their own mind.

Well yeah that's how society works.

Unless you want written code for all social interactions? Most don't.
Here is what I am basing my arguments on:

https://climateactiontracker.org/countries/russian-federatio...

More generally, if Russia (or any party) has incentive, means, motivation to create climate change, do not be surprised if they actively work to make it happen. Russia can literally light things on fire and come out way ahead.
I am still long Meta, as I am long VR and the metaverse. While there's no guarantee that Meta will win this race, they are making the investments needed to try.
Official SQLite WASM Branch
Eight thousand years ago we didn’t need the Haber process to keep several billion people fed.
I am very much in favor of putting engineers on customer support/success. I believe it is important to develop empathy and understanding of the user's experience with the product you build. Not only will it help you implement what they need, it will also serve as a way to call BS against product managers who try to get you to build things that look good on their resume (but don't help the customer.

But after reading through the comments from those who are against the idea, I wonder if there might be a productive middle ground - have engineers listen in on (but not participate in) any calls between the customer and the Support/Success team. This doesn't need to be done for a solid week, but perhaps a steady diet of 2 calls per week for a few weeks would help.

I'm sure you could imagine other 'middle-ground' ways to achieve this - but clearly nothing will work until engineers at a minimum buy into the reasons why some direct exposure to customers would be a good idea.
Actually it can be either way: https://www.cooleygo.com/what-is-a-section-83b-election/#:~:....
Why did we feel the need to isolate a minor aspect of slavery, teach everyone the new term, and then arouse outrage against it, instead of simply organizing against "slavery", which had already been considered wrong for generations?
I think it's a good idea to act in the same way that you would like other people to act. I think making an income through advertising is both immoral and inefficient, and I would like to see ad-supported sites shut down. So I think that it is actually morally imperative that I send a message to such sites that their actions are causing harm, and I would encourage everyone else to do the same.

If I were hyporcritical enough to run an ad-supported site, I would hope that my site visitors would do the same thing to me.
A lot of people blame Meta's VR attempt, but I don't think that's the problem.

The problem in my opinion is that we have reached peak advertising. Advertising is ultimately a doomed business model as it works against your users' interests, yet requires those users to willingly use the product and engage with the ads.

Over time, users learn to ignore it (see "banner blindness") so a short-term response is just to include more ads to compensate, but there's only so much space before the entire product becomes saturated with ads and users leave completely because the inconvenience of advertising became greater than the value the product provides. Regulators are also wisening up to it with stronger privacy protections (that threaten non-consensual ad-targeting) all around the world.

Advertising is a time bomb and an unsustainable business model. It provides short-term revenue (and a lot of it if you play your cards right, as Meta's stock price until now reflects) but will never be sustainable in the long run. Advertising is a parasite and its host will always try to get rid of it - a pretty terrible business model when you can instead align the incentives by charging your users money and provide them a valuable service in exchange.

Is there value in Facebook's products (whether current, or future VR-based ones)? Yes. Is there enough value to justify a overinflated stock price that only got there due to a combination of monopoly position as well as temporary gap in regulation against spyware? Doubt it, and so does the market.
Have you seen Mezzano? It's a pure Common Lisp Operating system, albeit there are few C programs that were transpiled to CL to run on top as well (IIRC, DOOM :D)

It's somewhat limited but AFAIK it could in theory be made to self-host (right now IIRC image building is done separately from another system, but that's mostly a case of some programming work)
How are solar panels or windmills a trick?
Tweaking the Variables
Elon Musk confirms $44B acquisition of Twitter
Why only for YouTube? YouTube on FF with uBlock Origin still yields zero ads.
To me the issue is that Meta is pushing to attack three challenges at once.

On one hand there’s the hardware. Even now, people report motion sickness with the hardware. If you are trying to create a computing interaction medium of the future, these details around accessibility are going to be incredibly important. And I haven’t even mentioned battery life. So meta is working away at this very expensive challenge

The second challenge is the interaction model. No one is entirely convinced yet of what interaction with computers should look like in VR. Right now it’s “mouse/touch+windows but in VR. That’s like when TV and cameras first happened and it was theater shows but on the tv screen. So Meta now has to invent or at least shepherd computing integration models and that is also incredibly expensive.

And finally there is the metaverse. Technically we all live in the metaverse already. I interact with people I don’t know across forums and social media. I interact with them more than I do with some of the people I know in real life. I play games online which have meta worlds (Minecraft, temtem, and animal crossing for example). I may not have a single game of infinite worlds and meeting places but the concept of a universe within my existing world already exists and it’s served to me by the internet. But Meta wants to make it a ready player one kind of experience where I interact with it through a VR experience. That seems really forced because they are drawing a line in the ground saying that VR is how the metaverse can exist. This is also an expensive bet especially when the interaction model hasn’t been figured out yet.

I don’t know where this is heading for meta but their goal of creating the next big computing and interaction platform with app stores that they control instead of apple or google is incredibly ambitious but seemingly poorly executed thus far.
Plenty. Look into publicly verifiable secret sharing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publicly_Verifiable_Secret_Sha...
Yes, but I would recommend one of the Android based ereaders (e.g. Onyx Boox) so you can have apps. You might not use DnD Beyond, but it's still really good to have the option for other things.
Uber riders, in-car video ads are coming
This varies widely country by country. I think your case applies to Germany(at least for options). Most of the Nordic and Baltics pay tax on value at vesting afaik.

I heard some German employees got screwed by option grant taxes when the stock tanked between grant and vest. Some even took loans to pay the taxes.
>I don’t believe advertisers will continue to trust this AI based future, I certainly don’t (have run an e-commerce store for 10 years).

How do you advertise your e-commerce store?
Those changes happened 1.5 years ago, so it doesn't seem at all obvious why they'd have a larger impact now than in the previous 4 quarters.
Well, as a repair worker you're also not really supposed to mess with settings that are frankly purely subjective (yes, about:blank loads faster, but if people want to always go to MSN first, you've just increased the time and friction to get there), and have nothing to do with whatever problem people came to see you about.