skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not really a different discussion, no – one of the first things an article that was actually interested in this issue would do would be to contextualise the Canadian implementation with respect to the rest of the world. Are there thing that make it noticeably worse, or more subject to abuse? There might be – but we'll never find out from articles like this which go out of their way to avoid questioning that.
Google and Facebook are both very good at protecting your personal info. Their business value is based on nobody else having it. Their security teams are much better at their job of protecting it than, say, you are.
>We have had the Five Eyes and ECHELON for decades. Since before the Snowden revelations. How is this different?

Because the EU is not part of either?
because it doesn't work, nor ever will...
Userspace replacement for Linux kernel-provided virtual consoles/terminals

https://cgit.freedesktop.org/~dvdhrm/kmscon/plain/README
There’s no way Southwest hasn’t been the cheapest. I just cannot see that being possible given that they don’t nickel and dime you for everything.

United is by far the worst airline imaginable. I actively will not fly with them after being stuck on an airplane with them for 19 hours straight due to their fuckup, only to have to spend a night in New Jersey at a terrible hotel because we then missed our connecting flight (obviously). In the end, all they offered was a measly certificate that required you to use it at United (and was the equivalent of a mere fraction of the total flight cost).
So it turns out the US actually does make that differentiation. A non-violent individual hobbyist who occasionally deals cocaine on the side and isn't part of a gang isn't charged the same as Tony "Scarface" Montana. Career criminals like the fictional Tony Montana get "I'm a professional" charges while hobbyists do not. Professionals get charged under the RICO Act, which stands for "Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racketeer_Influenced_and_Corru...
>I have no idea why the sibling comment would be dead.

Taking this statement in good faith:

1. 20% is a huge fraction that shows a commercially viable alternative. Pricing shifts can shift that quickly to AMD being the preferred option for use cases, just like AMD was as the inferior but cheap CPU ca. 2015, and as Intel is in that space now.

2. Computing demand is incredibly elastic based on market conditions. For every game-changing application of parallel computing, there's a bitcoin mining rig in a place with subsidized electricity. Price hikes kill many applications at the margin, reducing the demand that needs to be met at higher prices.

3. There are well-funded new entrants to various segments of parallel computing at all times, and juggernauts in adjacent spaces will move in if encumbants leave huge spaces. Intel were the only serious CPUs, then the only serious laptop CPUs, and now they're competitive bjt bargain parts. Remember when Apple didn't make their own chips? And in another space, Qualcomm are going to lose their flagship reputation to Mediatek soon if they don't stop turning out trash Android SoCs in the next generation or two.
I'd bet many of the older things were also disposable but the ones that lasted stick in the mind more. But absolutely we also moved towards less and less repairability in how things are assembled. Adhesives or plastic welding vs rivets and screws. I'm afraid I am not good at thinking about the question well, but is it better to have lighter cars that need less metal but in exchange they are less repairable? I get tied up in defining the bounds of the question so I never have a satisfactory answer.

A lot of the money in tech seems to be tied to the same marketing, convincing people to consume. The greenwashing is a problem as well, although I wish I weren't so cynical when I see a company trying to do better so often it seems to read as "We're making our X more green and efficient, so buy more of them"

I was swimming in a lake this summer with a friend involved in marketing when he made a comment about what happens when they run out of people's attention seconds. Do we make more, fight harder to retain attention, die?, or is there another solution.
The thing is human intelligence shines in the long tail and stochastic parrots thrash and die there.
You probably could too if you accepted the living standards of the 1960s and lived in a low cost of living area. I know people that happily make some version of that tradeoff, though I wouldn't personally.
I just finished reading the Twitter files.. can you politely, if that's possible for you, show me specific examples of what you claimed violations of 1st and 4th amendments??

FBI warned Twitter about Russian adversarial actions, which is known and documented by anyone not blinded by their made in China maga hats
Username checks out ;) But seriously, yes, they are ridiculously fragile and usually only SMD soldered on, no hole through part to give it some mechanical strength. Very frustrating, I am super careful inserting USB-C connectors and have broken a couple already, fortunately not on anything expensive.
> [...] group of people [...]

What group of people are controlling everything? Please don't let it be Jews...
The short answer is no. They are a very recent phenomenon.
To be fair the last 10% of any project is generally 90% of the work. So saying you are 90% done yet being far off is truthful, in a sense.
I want to believe you they would, but I wasn't born yesterday. I'm within less than 2-hours drive from two such US military bases that have nuclear weapons deployed there. US military bases are considered US soil de-facto, they don't need to ask permission to do anything. They can launch an attack on anyone without consulting first with the host country. Yet, on paper, we're sovereign.

They've been plenty of protests in Europe over this matter this year, but they won't show them on CNN, that's for sure.
Price fixing increases profits as long as nobody undercuts you, that's the whole point
You're right. Things have to exist before they can be considered to fall apart.
I wonder if Tesla drivers simply use autopilot more than ford’s do.
I could rephrase my point the third time but don't think that would help.

The fact that you both reject the idea that class war is central to Marxism and call yourself a "class reductionist" in the same sentence only further demonstrates your lack of introspection.
I have one Gmail tab open 24/7 and many many search tabs open for days or even weeks.

Your numbers are worthless.
Yeah, there is very little garbage in my purchase history. Anecdotally it seems like a minority of the people do the bulk of all garbage purchases. I have one friend for example with ADHD who does a ton of impulsive shopping.
I remember when I went to the UK for the first time, I knew the language, but was never confronted live with a London accent.
I did not know the postal code system(every little borough out there belongs to London, but has zones and postal codes) , nor did I know the public transport options.

I simply went there to visit a friend which had moved there, that is all.

So just before the transit area after coming off the plane, a ginger and a brown haired fellow stopped me and started asking questions, without showing a badge or identifying themselves.
They were plain clothed officers, guessing they are police was rather easy, they had very bad choice of çlothing style.
So they ask where are you going and why.
Purpose of stay and lenght, how will you get there and blabla, many follow up questions.
Do you have a return ticket, whats her name.

I told them, thats your job to find out and I intend to travel by cab, am I good to go now.

They let me go on my way.

This is the kinda people who will be dealing with our data, hell no.

I will fill out whatever if I ever wanna go to the us, but I prefer to not hand over any data upfront.
great comment: "How did you manage to turn a story that takes Robert Kraft 15 seconds to tell into a 9 minute video?"
He specifically proposed terms friendly to Russia
I feel like you are making an assumption that your flexible implementation, or a single "wrong" implementation, becomes dominant.

If there are many implementations with differing amounts of perceived flexibility or wrongness in different areas, the average is going to be OK.

If misunderstanding a spec is so common that many implementers are universally confused and "wrong" in the same way, maybe it's the spec that was wrong, and the misinterpretation should have been the spec.

Ps. Phrasing this as "evil" contrasting with good reads to me as paranoid and melodramatic.
Of course they are sleeping there, the question is - with whom, and how much coke is consumed per night. Gimme that biometric data... oh wait, it's all out there already.

/s :~(
> ToS is like HR: they both exist to protect only the company.

This is, of course, not true about HR and yet another thing people just say to sound cool.

HR’s job is to hire people and run your payroll and benefits. If you have a health insurance question are you going to avoid them because they’re going to fire you as soon as you look at them? No.

If you’re a first level manager molesting a distinguished engineer are you totally safe from HR because you’re “the company”? No.
Isn't this kind of orthogonal to the free speech debate?

There are reasons to be worried about community silos, but my point wasn't that Mastodon is perfect, it was that it's more resistant to censorship than Twitter is (particularly government censorship).

Having large community spaces where everyone interacts might be a worthy goal, but those spaces are often going to require a larger degree of moderation and policing to stay civil. It's a tradeoff that (as far as I can tell) Musk doesn't seem to advocate for -- his policy seems to be that people should block/mute whatever they disagree with, and the platform shouldn't make that decision for them. If that's someone's approach to free speech and they want individual or small-group control rather than platform-wide standards, then Mastodon is a pretty interesting implementation of that idea.

Compare this with something like HN -- there's one feed for everyone and limited blocking tools. That forces everyone to interact with each other, but also means that HN mods and users are both a lot more involved in debating what stories are allowed and how discourse is conducted, and those decisions impact more of the community when they're made.
Thanks for the summary. I clicked on this thinking it was going to be about QFT, ether, and all that.
> For which there is no evidence at all

https://www.pcmag.com/news/pentagon-impressed-by-starlinks-f...

Are you in the denial phase or the ignorance one? If the former, why would the government take part in a conspiracy to pretend that Starlink didn’t require special support to work in that environment? If the latter, why would you even boldly claim “there is no evidence at all” without even doing a cursory search?
Haha I use speakon for charging + data of computer backpacks. Because they can have more pins than xlr, can carry decent load, have good strain relief and locking mechanism.
The government didn't do that though (even though they could have!). Tons of people remain unvaccinated, though I acknowledge in certain cases the person had to find a different job more compatible with their inability to do risk analysis.

Remember also that if you get sick and go to an ER, they are required by law to treat you. The society has an interest in preserving this legally required service to be available to it's people.

You weep at the lack of informed consent for the vaccine but have no concern for the person who bleeds out in a car accident because the EMTs were overwhelmed with COVID patients who had completely preventable serious disease.

You don't want to take a measles vaccine due to the potential side effects (remember: nothing is perfectly safe), but yet want to live under the protection of everybody else who did take it.

If you choose to live in a society you gotta take one for the team every now and again. Sometimes the government is wrong and it sucks, but this was not one of those times!
It sure can:

alias pbcopy='xsel --clipboard --input'

alias pbpaste='xsel --clipboard --output'
There are people actively doing interviews saying that.
This seems pretty cool and like a step in an interesting direction but I'm having trouble running the code. It maybe just be HN formatting.

If you indent by 4, this will do "block code" type formatting. So, to copy code, try indenting everything by 4 spaces before you paste to HN. That way we can try running the code ourselves.
True, though I think this is a good practice in general if switching your password manager, even for benign reasons (price etc).
MBAs made profit growth more important than consistent profits. Witness how dividends used to be a sign of a dependable company but now they're for suckers. Everything else broken in the economy is a consequence of this philosophy.
Yup. It’s part of gun control campaign. Scare the living s#it out of the general population that is driven by hysteria anyhow.
Is this a Zeno's paradox, where you can never actually finish?
The main reason for these demonstrations is the systematic repression of this corrupt dictator's regime for over 4 decades, and not the coverage of the news and the reflection of the people's voices by Iranian journalists like Alinejad. What causes the killing of people is this bloodthirsty regime and its dictator, Khamenei. Please don't write the regime's fallacies here, no one buys it.
No, it’s the peripheral device. There were initial confusions among bootleg/hacky manufacturers such as:

- whether CC pins are to be handled by the cable or by the device,

- whether added pins are for insertion detection or for protocol use by the host,

- which pins are to be pulled down or left NC for charging,

- whether USB-C is meant to be a “mobile” connector, or a replacement for the USB-A connector, or how soon the replacement is to occur.

As the result, there were some devices that has a USB-C input but only works with an A to C cable.
Do you really think the MBA wizards can't figure out some basic pay issues?

It seems you're discounting just how complex HR can be, especially in the face of exigent circumstances. No amount of bonuses will immediately staff up an entire terminal in the face of a massive snowstorm.
I wonder why they would do such a thing?

Perhaps dropping $10k or more on something called “full self driving” makes said drivers believe that the car can fully self drive by itself?
And also people who love java would never complain, they tend to call what others call “overengineering” a “scalable clean architecture”.

And more “clean” it is- more happy they are.

I’ve been there myself.
Does this mean you should always pull the lever in the trolley problem?
We don't need to refashion clothing, radar sees us just fine. But I'm sure people would want radar reflectors just like they want high visibility clothing at night now, for extra assurance in edge cases, to be sure they always got priority over sensor artifact false positives.
You tell the truth, because if you tell such an obvious lie it will reduce trust in all future public health announcements!
You say "human-centric", but you really mean "what I want". Many more humans would be upset at being unable to recover their data if they forget their password than would be pleased by this.
Yeah, last time I tried, it was impressive, but kinda slow and limited to execution on a single core.

Eager to take another look at Borg and Kopia, etc.
Show HN: SearchOrganizer – a Chrome extension to cluster results
I'd wager yes, based on the promises Tesla has made about the feature compared to how Ford talks about theirs.
This just... WAAAAAAY too on the nose...
Its dishonest to not scale by effort required when reporting project progress.
4% of 1M is $40k, not 50.

The idea is you withdraw $40k/year and invest in low risk income funds that yield 2-3%/year.

So withdrawing $40k gives you about 40-50 years and that’s safe for most 65 year olds.
That's a good point. I rarely travel domestically with checked luggage.
One of my parents neighbors died suddenly of Covid. She ran a small business as a vacation planner. Her husband did not have her email password. This was a huge pain and a source of stress when he was arranging the funeral because he was unable to inform people who expected her to be managing their upcoming vacation that she died. Sometimes timely access is valuable.
The 2016 mobileye summon feature worked. The current tesla smart summon feature is still in beta.
That article isn't terrible, but it links to https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S092134492... which essentially calculated that since x% of trash in a country goes to the ocean, then a similar % of recycled material that that country receives also goes to the ocean. (It's not the study I read, but it makes the same error.)

This is a false connection. Countries pay money for recycling, they are not going to turn around and dump that valuable material in the ocean.

Contrary to what many people think, recycling producers do NOT pay poor countries to accept plastic, it's the other way around.
An organization that seeks shared profit for all of its members, and allows non-members to set the cost of their labor

This doesn't specify how the shared profit is distributed. Makes sense, after all, some animals are more equal than others.
https://circle.tufts.edu/2022-election-center

But they did…
thats a real shame. Any idea why GPT-3 generations differ so much? Maybe eleuther/whatever could look at refining their model in a similar way.
Imagine the government put a giant bowl full of money in front of every city hall, and said that you should feel free to take from it if you're starving for food. It's enforced by the honor system. This system is extremely easy to use and efficient in delivering funds. How long does the bowl last, and what proportion of funds go to the intended recipients?

Obviously, not long and not much, so we build systems around the bowl of money to prevent fraud. These systems inherently cost money, making it less efficient, and reduce ease of use, meaning people who genuinely need the money have a much harder time accessing it.

SSDI in particular is rather infamous in that it's rife with fraud[0] but also extremely difficult for the genuinely disabled to utilize[1], to the point where it's pretty accurate to say that the SSA is willfully blind to people in genuine need. The article we're all talking about is an example of that.

[0] https://www.nationalreview.com/2013/06/rogues-gallery-social...

[1] https://www.kshb.com/news/local-news/lawsuits-lay-out-accusa...
I have found this to be a huge missing piece of any SRSs I've come across. Personally, I have a pipeline that looks at what knowledge I've already learned and only then reveals successive information.

For example, I'm learning numbers in Spanish. First, I ask myself to go from doce => 12; then, 12 => doce. Then, once I have a few numbers in my memory, I can start to combine those into diez + dos = ? (answer doce). The idea is that this last example requires recalling three previously-learned Spanish numbers to arrive at the answer. This is a trivial example but this underlying structure of successive layers of knowledge shows up everywhere and is horribly under-exploited by our current learning systems.

Programmatically this can be done. Manually, this stuff takes way too much work.
That's great if you stay on top of the news, see it coming and get your data out of the way before the compromised app is pushed to your phone. Maybe habitual HN users are safe, but I think most Signal users would be compromised like this.
For Amazon to be forced to charge to the customer a small fee for each package shipped, modeled after the electronics recycling fee that California requires to be charged and disclosed at time of purchase, would create a financial risk to their revenue stream, by forcing Amazon to charge customers a fee for every different box and bag used — not to mention compelling customers to use the “reduce number of boxes” option by default, which forces Amazon to absorb the consolidation cost previous externalized by cheap shipping from multiple depots back into their logistics chain. Given only this one example, do those risks reach the levels of potential impact necessary to compel its disclosure in public filings? Are there other examples?
I have a family friend that owns gas stations. He always says that gas prices have a tendency to "take the elevator up and the stairs down".

There doesn't have to be explicit collusion. People that have large amounts of capital know whats best for them and are very judicious when it comes to lowering prices.
It's native by all definitions of it. It calls native APIs, renders native system elements and what you get is indistinguishable from an app written in Swift or Kotlin down to the machine code displaying it.
That seems like a philosophical argument.
It’s not especially valuable or private anyway. If you leave something everywhere you go (ie you can’t protect it without a spacesuit), and there’s nothing special about it compared to anyone else’s (in terms of economic value), it can’t be either of those things.

People are especially sensitive about their DNA since they think pharma companies can somehow develop new expensive drugs just by looking at it. (There’s actual discrimination issues on this one of course, not to mention family drama…)
> "The system" is a hodgepodge of thousands of different laws, programs, agencies and organizations under a multitude of federal, state, county and city jurisdictions and operating under rules and budgets that were approved over numerous different sets of elected and appointed individuals over decades, each of which had to strike compromises and try to work within the existing system.

Yah... the problem is, there's a critical mass where the main job of the system becomes to perpetuate the status quo. Efforts at simplification or to raise efficacy are threatening to too much of the system and attract substantial resistance.

I think a core problem facing the US is a lack of administrative capacity in government. We have excessively complicated systems collapsing under their own weight, but steadfastly defending their own existence. We have the political right thinking this is an inevitable characteristic of government, and so they create a self-fulfilling prophecy by kneecapping administrative strengths whenever they can; and we have a political left that is so excited about all the things government can do to help that they don't spend nearly enough effort considering how we can build the administrative systems necessary to reap these benefits.
none of that obviates that there could have been a design at some point.

It's just fun to think about.
Have heard a twist/joke on this where an engineer says something like "i'll never get all the way there but close enough for it to work"
Fungible Tokens and Decentralized Exchanges
Or Amazon could... Ya know.. collect their packaging and ... I dunno ..reuse it!
re: "if the once a week banners bother you that much, it suggests you are using the site very, very frequently":

no.

the banners never bothered me when I used the website daily, multiple times a day. They bother me immensely now that I use wikipedia once / twice a month. Now, every time I open it there is the banner asking me to donate (every time more invasive).
Considering Tesla's deceitful marketing, that is likely, yes. But Tesla/Musk shares the blame for those accidents because of the false advertising.
- TSLA hits $10/share
I haven't flown in 3 or 4 years, if that matters. Most of my flights were to California or DC, so perhaps that matters too.

I know what you mean about fees. I just booked American for my wife last week, and it's horrid now. No free bags anymore, and you have to pay to even pick your economy seats. It was way more infuriating than the last time I'd booked.