skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The law prohibits people under 18 from being account holders without parental permission, but also requires “reasonable age verification” of all accountholders.

Being a minor and having parental permission does not bypass the age verification requirement (in fact, that’s how the platform identifies minors), which is what government ID is enumerated as a means to satisfy.

But, from a data security and privacy perspective its worse, because it maximizes initial distribution of PII by explicitly requiring use of a third-party vendor for age verification of all account holders, so you can’t limit use of platforms to vendors you trust, because they have to outsource age verification.

On the PII side, on the other hand, in what seems clearly to be a drafting error, as written, the law does not allow a social media company to retain “any identifying information of the individual” once access has been granted to the service, which... would be tricky to comply with.
Which in some contexts makes sense. Losing all of your Facebook pictures is never going to be as devastating as losing your retirement.
Linux container technologies and their applications [video]
I said something like "call my cell at __" and put my personal cell number, but didn't say "personal".

Which gives you an idea of the level of monitoring they are doing to tie that together probably automatically given how quickly I was called. And this was almost 10 years ago.

I'm also old enough to recall the little background hum & beep the bank landlines used to make when you were on a recorded line.
If terabytes seem like a lot today, will they in 10 years?

250 min hd was a lot once

Then the 1 GB hds.

Storage will go in lockstep with video quality online and on device.

What’s a reasonable amount of storage for 8k video?
We did that indeed for decades and then it turned out that the site was unsuitable, because of water inflows, and now we have been planning since 2013 how to recover the barrels again. The beginning of the recovery is planned to start in 2033 and is estimated to last for decades.

It's not true that Germany has no seismic activity btw.
All phone conversations are recorded and kept for at least 7 years.

This is in addition to all email and slack/IM messages.
The Palenque Code
> The ideal for that, of course, is to have in-person conversations in a place either known to be free of surveillance and/or difficult to surveil.

Now I’m imagining tech executives having meetings in the bathroom with all the faucets going full blast whispering like the mafia dons of old.
what is the advantage of using this over jellyfin?
Wow not only is this an interesting read , it’s on mastodon instead of twitter which is somewhat more cathartic than the read itself haha
We have integrated it into our AskAi feature that allows customers to answer natural language questions about the outcome of a phone call. So for example, “was there an appointment scheduled in the phone call and what was the time scheduled?” Or “what was the final quoted value in the following conversation?” We can then take the structured outputs and use them for conversation tracking with google ads. This is a game changer when so many in the industry still rely on call length to measure a positive customer / lead interaction.

We are ctm.app
India - Airtel -

300 Mbps (symmetric) - INR 999 ~ US $12 / month (unlimited data)
When it comes to splitting up surplus value in a transaction, being efficient for one party means being inefficient for the other party. So I absolutely can claim it's not efficient, by not implicitly favoring the employer over the employee.

And we're not changing the number of transactions here with these wage calculations.
> I’m sick to death of naive tech bros thinking that every other field is so easy that their sheltered intuition is enough to understand it.

There are two problems here:

1. People learn the simplest toy models in some subject area - here, the economics of perfect competition markets - and then apply the results of it to real world scenarios that don't even remotely satisfy the assumptions of the toy model.

2. The ethics in some subject area is almost always a separate theory from the mathematical theory. Introduction to economics assumes humans are utilitarian because it makes the maths easy. But then, people use the metrics derived from that "utilitarian" econ theory, and again apply it to the real world scenarios, not realizing the humans not utility maximizing agents. Hence, what is "right" or "just" can't be derived from the simple econ theories.
Its both. These articles all seem to be a waste of time to read. But then you wonder if its some kinda misinformation and i just missed the facts.
> are you really arguing that a PE teacher and math teacher are doing the same work?

The PE teacher and the math teacher are paid the same because they are in the same union, and they collectively decided that they would be better off having a few broad classifications and equal pay for those across the board.

Usually this is explained as giving management fewer points in which to drive a wedge to separate union members, and hence divide and conquor the whole collective bargaining unit.
Interesting...I'll check this out next time I'm driving. Hope you're right! I'd love to be freed from the tyranny of Bluetooth :)
...and it also contains mysterious unholy-sounding incantations, like some kubectl command line full of literal hex.
Are you allowed to have in-person meetings? Do you have to record and preserve them?

If you are allowed to be off the record only in person, this seems like the perfect commercial real estate subsidy program from the federal government.
GostX: A GUI macOS app for gost
- All features of original gost (GostX working in sandbox, some features may not working)
- Support Tor protocol
After the greyball scandal nobody should be surprised.
> If someone is perfectly happy with their salary why should the employer pay them more for the same work?

To keep up with rising costs of living, for one.

Basically to ensure that the employee remains happy.
Thanks, although I didn’t do any of the art :P and yes, both Unity!
I never felt the slightest anxiety about LLMs taking my job or having much impact on the field. 40+ years into my career as a programmer I remember the previous supposed threats to my career and how they didn't come close to the hype. Outsourcing/offshoring, no-code/low-code, snap-together component libraries, "everyone can code." All of those things had some effect but nothing close to the media-hyped predictions. Programming remains hard because it requires skill and talent and focus. No matter how good the tools get they can't do the hard parts of software development.
Inflation adjusted return would be around $80,000, worse if you scope inflation to real estate and healthcare.
Zune HD hardware might've been solid, but the UI/software was slow and limited. I remember it taking ~5 seconds to load the calculator app. Not to mention nobody wanted a device like that without a robust App Store. I get people liked the Zune brand, but I think people overrated it.
Imagine being an employer and being this petty over $100.

My god.
Hopelessness and confidence in distributed systems design (2015) [video]
The US can't regulate the monopolies adequately.

The east doesn't have the same problem to that degree but in a way their solution is probably worse. Depending on who you ask, much worse.

We need a new paradigm for government. It needs to be nuanced, sophisticated, balanced and yet holistic, and integrate well with technology.

Or maybe due to the incompetence of current governments, the technology itself with take over.
Indeed, some classical choir parts apparently have highly significant lyrics, but even discerning words boundaries in these walls of sound is so hard that it does not trigger my comprehension.
I think its rather disingenuous or modest for tech to fall back on "whats the worst that can happen, maybe you lose some pictures from the cloud" as a defense for such a light touch.

There's many areas in which tech competes directly with, or has attempted to build shadow parallel systems to other more regulated industries - payments, exchanges, various medical plays, media, etc.
Fair point, but my main initial comparison was of photographer versus photographer/videographer in the clutter/hoarding sense. I would have a lot more than 2TB that is just personal holiday content over the years. The video content from one camera on one holiday last year is 290GB and I wouldn't want to cull much of it because unlike a traditional camera on the ground, there's nothing out of focus, not 10+ shots trying to get everyone unblinking, etc.
> If people freely trade something, in an ideal, spherical cow way, then they should both be better off afterwards. Therefore the trade (including trading labor as well as goods) creates value. I think this was called "surplus" value.

What you're describing is basically the "Subjective theory of value"[1].

> Therefore if one side of the transaction has superior knowledge of what price the other side will accept, then in theory they could get up to 99.99...% of the surplus value, as long as the other party "rationally" will be motivated by the remaining 0.00...1%.

Interestingly people don't really act like that[2].

> A purely rational actor with no secrets is easily manipulated.

Probably. Good thing that, in this case, the most important information like competing offers tends to be secret. Or at least strategically revealed.

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1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subjective_theory_of_value

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimatum_game
This is not true, e.g. California just lifted its mask mandate in "healthcare settings" less than two weeks ago [1]. Different institutions still maintain their own mask mandates to this day though and not just in California.

1. https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/the-california-mask-m...
The Boston airport has fair pricing. It can be done, keep fighting!
I just can't eat that sandwich normally so $1 is too much.
I was confused by NVIDIA having a similar weighting to Alphabet despite having less than half the market cap. But notice that Alphabet appears twice. (GOOG and GOOGL.)
I don’t think you can generalize the US like that. I’ve owned several small cars (and mini trucks), including small imports; I’ve never gotten a negative comment on them (in the southern US no less), people just aren’t very interested in that category.

I think it’s simple economics. They sit on dealer lots and move slow, plus margins are tiny so no one wants to sell them. You see this in the rental car space especially clearly where subcompacts are easy and cheap to rent because they sit on the lots. I think the issue is simply quality —- they’re uncomfortable, cheaply made, and a few more dollars gets you way more vehicle and safety margin. Market segmentation for the dealers is bad as well, they don’t want to eat high margin big cars with loss-leader tiny cars.
Serious question - are you a developer and what frameworks have you used?

The front end already knows the inputs that the backend needs (in this case tte engine). When you click on a menu, it usually brings up another view without ever talking to the backend. I’m sure some companies have a framework that can automatically generate a native view based on an API definition.

Even your standard CRUD app you usually have a set of API developers and they may publish their API using something like the OpenAPI specification and then your web developers, Android developers, iOS developers create interfaces to call the API.

> What is the code at the call site that opens the dialog? WinUI? Cocoa?

This is fundamentally opposite of how development is done in a GUI event driven architecture. The back end is never the “call site” that tells the front end to “bring up a dialog box” The front end calls the back end.

Even if it’s not a user generated action, the front end still defines the interfaces and subscribed to an event.

In your example:

1. The back end developer (the engine creator) writes code that is usually cross platform if that’s the aim and required certain inputs and raises events.

2. The front end developer creates menus and defines views that are shown when the menu item is selected. The view allows the user to enter the necessary information.

3. The front end then sends all of the information to the backend and probably some type of call back function that the back end should call when it’s done or in the case of error.

The back end is never the “call site” nor does it know anything about the front end.

This is a standard “onion architecture”
I strongly agree with your assessment. You can have a lot of fun and reliability with circa 1995 technology combined with modern manufacturing techniques.

Much of the newer stuff is about meeting emissions and fuel mileage mandates. There's a reason VVT lockouts are a thing in the aftermarket
It looks like working with text and listening to speech requires the same language-processing brain circuitry, and it's not optimized for parallel processing.
It is largely the people who are comfortable with the probability of getting caught but know that MOST stores have a policy to not engage with a shoplifter due to liability concerns.
I can't tell if this is a sarcastic suggestion or not.

This might be controversial in the private sector, but wage transparency is the norm in the public sector in my area of the world... and many people are employed in those positions.
For some reason we all read the question and limited our answers to an on-device BASIC prompt like it's still the 80's. It's not the 80's though and we have the Internet and you mentioned webapps - why don't we count cloud IDEs as something that "encourages you to learn programming right away?" There was no requirement in the original question as worded that it be an on-phone development happen on the phone, and yet we all read it that way. On my phone, I open the web browser, enter a VScode web Github Codespace, and a print ("hello world") later I'm off to the programming races, running my code on server on the other end.

Trying to answer to question but excluding resources on the Internet is like trying to program without the Internet. It's very much possible, but only for some bizarre purity test. Between Stack Overflow, Google, and even ChatGPT, never mind that documentation is all online these days (developer.apple.com; devdocs.io); it's hard to imagine programming without the Internet. Why then not include Cloud IDEs as part of the answer? What sort of purity test do they fail? Sure, they rely on resources not on the device, but to the broader question - "encourage you to learn programming", I'd say they very much qualify.
> Unless you believe there is any mechanism to force a single cross-platform GUI toolkit on all developers - a belief that would make you basically insane - the reality is there will always be N different options for cross-platform development, depending on (a) which platforms you intend to cover (b) your own development history (c) subjective preferences (d) specific functionality that may be limited to specific toolkits.

The problem is not forcing people to do this or use that.

The problem is the quality and development experience is just _so bad_ that people are resorting to other options.

Don't get me wrong, the dev experience for web is terrible, but it's still light years ahead of legacy toolkits like qt/gtk/etc.
I get that. The article doesn’t answer the question of why these laws aren’t enforced when it comes to prolific offenders.

Shoplifting under $1k in NYC is punishable by a jail term of up to 1 year. The NYPD has a 5.5 billion dollar budget, and shoplifting is an absurdly easy crime to solve given that it almost always happens on camera. Prosecutors and judges aren’t going to catch heat for going after people with hundreds of offenses.

The interesting story to me is, what is going on with the mountains of money being shoveled at police and courts?
On a tangential but somewhat intertwined note:

Australia has recently had multiple data breaches across a number of large groups that saw decades of user data copied .. that should have been PURGED.

Some of it arguably should never have been retained - proof of identity data, addresses, passport numbers, etc.

Obviously this isn't the same as internal emails, chat histories, etc but I'm hoping we here in Australia see a solid swing away from data retention "just in case", "because we can".

The default setting on all such things and software really needs to be nothing is saved unless specifically and knowingly set to be saved (for a solid recorded reason) and then for only the minimum neccesary duration.
Economically, this outcome does not require imperfect information. Dispersion in workers’ marginal product of labor is sufficient. In this case workers may be heterogeneous in the value they place on the time - that may be observed by the firm. Imperfect information might play a role here but I doubt it’s a big one.
Efficiency trades off against resiliency
I call to question the so-called "chilean economic miracle".

For Chile, although its economy did develop it's difficult is it really fair to attribute this to the policies of Pinochet? There was a good article I read from Noah Smith [1] some time ago that went through the economic basis of the regime.

I think the fact that these authors base their assumptions solely on GDP growth should raise some alarms. In today's age it's difficult to just go "high GDP means a successful economy" and even more so in a country like Chile whose economy is entirely dependent on raw exports of copper. I mean, how much of Chile's economy is simply due to having the right materials to sell to the right people, the 80s-90s and forward are characterised by the raise of high-tech all of which is dependent on copper.

Chile is also one of the countries with the most inequality in the world [2] and this is a direct consequence of Pinochet's economic policies. Of course, while times are good and the country is growing everyone is happy. But after 2010 the lack of innovation has really started to hurt the country and this lack of innovation is in big part due to the economy being in the hands of so little people. I mean, competition is necessary for innovation and this is a country where the 0.001% of the population own more than 40% of the wealth in the country. Also a consequence of Pinochet's economic policies.

All of this lead to huge social unrest just a few years ago. It's really difficult to see Pinochet's reforms as economically benevolent if you look at the long term consequences they've had on the country. I mean, yeah, dictators can implement any economic policies they want in the country. But are these really superior to the economic policies that are implemented in democracies, for example, wouldn't the right economic policies to implement in Chile be much more aligned to the policies that have been implemented in Norway when it comes to the right way to exploit and manage natural resources?

Dictators don't just implement policies in a vacuum either, in the case of Chile, these were entrenched into the constitution and the people given the keys to change it were the conservatives. Which is why the country has been unable to change any economic policies substantially to the point where even the IMF is calling for urgent economic reforms. It's really irresponsible, in my opinion, and disingenuous to look at things in a vacuum.

Finally, all of this is not even counting the humanitarian consequences of the regime.

[1] https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/pinochets-economic-policy-...
[2] https://wid.world/country/chile/
>and incredibly proprietary CPU

This is the opposite of true. sparcv8 is an IEEE standard. You might have to pay a license fee to Sparc International for certification and logo compliance, but that's it. Sun couldn't and didn't stop you from making them.
The One about AI
I feel like it might be really awesome to have that complete firewall between work and life comms.
" I had gigabit ethernet but that doesn’t matter, these spinning disks are barely faster than 100MB/s for sequential read even with a RAID setup."

Umm doesn't gigabit ethernet basically give you a max of 125MB/s anyways? And I was seeing transfer rates of sequential read from 7200rpm SATA drives greater than that even 8 years ago...
Same here. Switching to Japanese helped, until I achieved a basic level of Japanese. This also killed Korean lyrics, because Korean sounds similar enough to Japanese to trigger my attention, but I can't understand a word! :-D
Ha, you should watch slavic tourists in those duty frees (source: l’m slav) - a bottle of any above-cheap imported alcohol might be 10$+ cheaper there, nice cologne would save you even more and has higher chance of not being a knockoff from Asia. When they have a chance to save few dozen bucks - they do and I don’t see what’s bad about it, maybe apart from overflows in baggage compartments. I imagine folks like Swedes with alcohol monopoly and pretty fly taxes on alco would understand this too
It makes me wonder if long-neglected archives of old newspapers, internal corporate documentation, and government publications could have newfound economic value as training material. I know that the absolute volume is small compared to e.g. large scale document scraping from the Web, but intuitively I would guess that one old Bureau of Standards report written with a high degree of literacy has more value than 1000 SEO-chasing "how to make pancakes" guides. A lot of old documents were never digitized simply because people didn't think they had value. Is it time for a reinvigorated Google Books with a wider mission?
At 18:26 Gale Wilkinson talks about how they should be and how they solve for this at VITALIZE.
> Whether substantive illegality is necessary to succeed in business is another question, but it seems to be a common choice.

You'd hope not. But there is this proverb that 'at the root of every great fortune lies a great crime' which has been around for long enough that even if it may not be a necessity it may well be strongly correlated.
The biggest reason why we don’t see support and services companies achieving hyper-growth is that they are uninvestable. Annual revenues are low and nonrecurring, and margins are tight. VCs are looking for 80%+ gross margins and hockey stick growth.

In other words, Red Hat's model doesn't work for Wall St and VCs looking to make quick easy money riding out the next tech 'unicorn'. Red Hat has survived and thrived for 30 years now, while most modern VC backed tech companies are lucky to make it past 3. The infiltration of Silicon Valley VC vultures was one of the worst things to happen to the tech industry and why we rarely see sustainable startups like Red Hat anymore.
Yes but there's almost always someone on zoom/conference line in the meeting, which is recorded, so..

The penalties are so stiff for a lot of infractions, there is far less attempts to workaround the letter of the rules than you would immediately expect.

There's also classes of in-person meetings with externals that you need pre-approval permission to attend and to write up what was discussed after the fact.

Like people at asset management firms attending a dinner with a broker.

Another example, at a hedge fund I worked, emails, meetings or phone calls to public companies required pre-approval from compliance, and for them to be on the email or call. The emails would also require a preface reminding the moron on the other side that you are a hedge fund and they should not provide you with any material non-public info.
Agreed, i think the "telling other people what to do" thing is something i haven't seen brought up enough. Seems like the whole current social media is built on defending some group by telling other people that they're bad people for speaking the way they always have and that they must change themselves to fit your opinions, otherwise they're forever doomed to be "bad people". The bad person part is implicit in the command. When did people get so comfortable commanding others and demeaning their thoughts and agency?