skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How can Canada tax social media companies? They're not Canadian. I guess they can tax commerce that takes place on social media companies or ad sales, but that's really just taxing their own citizens.

Meta has Canadian offices and does business in Canada. Even if they were doing business purely across the border, it doesn't mean that you aren't subject to Canadian law. It is perfectly possible to go after foreign entities, especially if you are the government going after large multinationals.

In any case, the rule isn't that social media companies would be taxed. It is that they have to pay new sources for copyrighted content that they display on Meta sites. In other words, if Meta displayed a CBC article, they would have to pay the CBC for the content. Meta decided that they didn't want to pay for other people's work.

> If journalism is a public good whose supply is below an optimal level, why wouldn't the government just fund it regardless? Although I personally prefer as little state influence over media as possible.

Just like the US, and many other western countries, Canada has taxpayer funded news, the CBC, which is independently run. With smaller markets, journalism doesn't necessarily pay as an industry, but it is seen as a public good. The US is a big enough market that multiple high quality news companies can profitably cover it nationally, and locally. This just isn't true in Canada. We have an area bigger than the US, with a population the size of California, with a GDP about 2/3 that of California. It's really hard to make money covering such a large territory when the money is tighter, and the costs are higher.

This was never about a lack of journalism, this was about paying for journalism.
People Googling their symptoms and treatments undoubtedly does cause anxiety and correcting mistaken impressions does cost clinical time. There is a middle road here somewhere - we just have to find it, or accept the costs that come with having more tools.
This happened to me with my iPhone using a QuadLock mount. The camera started just shaking uncontrollably. Luckily I got a new iPhone back from Apple since I told them I had no idea how it happened. Now I'm using a Vibration Dampener https://www.quadlockcase.eu/collections/accessories/products... that seems to work, but I had received no warning from QuadLock that their mount could potentially damage my phone beforehand. Now I see that they have a small warning when purchasing which is a lot better.
Is that really the case? Can you point to some references backing that up? (Hehe, unintentional pun)
Note: This uses SD v1.5, not the newer SDXL.
There is no way we should just trust a person for having a PhD.
Really? What's stopping you from doing that then?
The money quote for me is:

> “You get on an exchange for as long as you can, until they shut your ass down,” says Knox (an independent sex-worker). “You quickly [run out of exchanges], so you sit on a lot of useless money. The whole ‘crypto is permissionless and censorship-resistant’ thing is a bunch of bullshit.” (Knox suspects she has ended up on a blacklist at Plaid, a provider of technology plumbing to large crypto exchanges like Gemini, Kraken, and Robinhood, leading to the repeated bans. Freya Petersen, spokesperson for Plaid, says no such list exists, but that all firms that wish to use its services are subject to a standard risk assessment process, factoring in the industry in which they operate.)

The only way around this would seem for sex workers to have their own wallet with keys that they control, but that still leaves them with no way to cash out, and landlords, car loans, and grocery stores do not accept crypto.
This will get used against you to deny insurance coverage. Not to help anyone.
I use FastMail but would consider moving. Can I have unlimited aliases when using my own domain? I use their MaskedEmail function to generate aliases for each service and have > 150 at this point.
Not really, i don't follow it closely. I believe some others in this thread dive into it a bit.

My (mostly assumed!) takeaway is that Flakes isn't perfect, and many existing users don't like that a very important part of Nix is being rushed. Conversely, many Flakes users think almost the exact opposite -- that Flakes has been taking too long and Nix is incomplete without it (i'm more in this camp).

All around though i don't have the energy to partake in this holy war, so i mostly ignore it. I'm sure i am wrong on some important details, so please don't take what i say as more than it's worth.
The idea of knowing you're going to get dementia sometime in the next decade is interesting. But I don't think it's straight-forward as to whether or not knowing is a good idea.

It's also a little amusing to take the idea to its logical extreme: What if it becomes a societal norm to know? Would public venues allow soon-to-be dementia patients line cutting priority etc? Think amusement parks, transit reservations, hotel booking, bars, movie theaters -- all of it. There could be a whole industry built overnight of catering to this specific demographic.
IAM in Cloud Native Geospatial Platforms: Key Considerations and Case Study
> we have no quantification of what abuse is. Is 1 hit abuse? 1 bowl, 5 bowls, 1 blunt?

Why focus on the amount of consumption, when the side-effects of the consumption are more important?

I would argue the amount of consumption is more indicative of tolerance and dependence than addiction or abuse. The interactions between all of those phenomena are extremely complex and can occur together or independently.

> It's harder to identify abuse of marijuana. Maybe it's time to start.

Maybe it's time to start looking as to why people abuse cannabis (and other substances) in the first place?

There is only one true reason why people abuse substances. It's because they work and they work damn well. What other options do people have? Psychotherapy and psychopharmacological interventions may help, but there are no miracles there. And at the end of the day, what are those who choose that route left with? "Do not depend on Cannabis. Instead, become dependent on this other substance." Looks like you end up in the same place either way -- just with a different stigma attached to one's poison of choice.
A have opioid addicted friends that just order their supply from off-shore pharmacies that ship genuine meds - they aren't hurting anybody, well, other than the US government by avoiding having to pay tax on medication.
On one hand I agree. On the other hand that’s precisely what we do on social media all day. So it’s a very honest branding. But few like hearing the truth.
This is a shockingly asocial response.

I may not need an ambulance, but I may appreciate a ride home. I may get a flat and be unable to fix it, ten miles from home. I may go for a run and need a ride after I tweak my knee. My kid may get norovirus at school and need to be picked up and taken to the doctor.

Trying to treat your life like a Jira ticket is slightly absurd. Pretending other people did something wrong because they don’t is ridiculous.
I mean, Asimov predicted this very thing - a robot’s definition of “through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm” may differ from ours.
tough. took me six months. only time that seems similar was 2003 (post-dot com crash, post y2k). I was employed, but went on the job market to the sound of crickets. got nothing and sucked it up at where I was. took until web 2.0 before things returned to late-90's normal. so that was maybe 2005/6?
Huawei Is Building a Secret Network for Chips, Trade Group Warns
No one is forcing the advertiser to offer their resources for your use, so why would anyone feel the need to justify it?
Yes, the purpose is to inflict harm.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/malice
Your question is basically, “Why would France not want Nazi Germany to have an analytical device attached to 2/3 of its citizens in 1940?”

This is a foreign government we have a decent chance of being in a great power military conflict with, the first of such since the Second World War. It is so obviously a tool that would be used in such a conflict that I have a hard time accepting this is a good faith question you’re asking. If it is, then you need to stop thinking of it as a social media platform and remember that’s just the front end of the network.
Any tldr about why we should be looking forward to this?

Any cool things?
Being a component of a popular media subscription bundle ... like the New York Times. That seems like the right model to me.
Google Mandalorian Easter Egg
> In other words, there is still a (lossy) translation layer, it just happens to be in the RDBMS rather than in-app.

It's not lossy if your application can guarantee a json <-> datatype roundtrip and the json is validated with jsonschema (generated by your application)

In Rust it's something like this

https://serde.rs/ to do the data type <-> json mapping

https://docs.rs/schemars/latest/schemars/ to generate jsonschema from your types

https://github.com/supabase/pg_jsonschema to validate jsonschema in your database (postgres). with this setup it's interesting (but not required) to also use https://docs.rs/jsonschema/latest/jsonschema/ to validate the schema in your application
follow the money. as long as the incentives are to make us buy this product, or that one, this will inherently be biased at some point. I've yet to see a recs website truly aligned with our long-term satisfaction.
A few subreddits might be the exception here; but Reddit's model itself causes other type of challenges long-term.
we're currently trying with https://objet.cc
"A newbie once met a dzogchen master: - Do you meditate? - Why meditate? - So you aren't distracted. - Am I distracted?"

It's from one book about dzogchen. Rephrasing it: "- Do you practice balancing? - Why would I do that? - So you can stand upright. - Am I not standing upright?" (while the newbie is still crawling)
TrackMeNot does allow opting in to a list of keywords[1] that have been monitored by the DHS[2]

[1] https://github.com/vtoubiana/TrackMeNot/blob/master/dhs_keyw...

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/reuvencohen/2012/05/26/departme...
Good skinhead or bad skinhead?
tl;dr The Library of Congress should buy Internet Archive
The whole online ad industry is based on users honestly clicking on ads so that advertisers get some sort of feedback as to its effectiveness. If extensions are silently clicking on ads, it renders ad metrics and tracking completely irrelevant.

I love it.
Or get the project approved. Sometimes you dont work with reasonable people: they want micro services, they cannot forgive you for doing one and then not having transactional correctness. So you have to call your business service a micro service, a small lie that saves a lot of pain and money.

It's like finishing a migration by renaming your initial project with the new name of the target project: everyone is happy, the software is still working, the various political stakeholders now feel the warm embrace of ownership from the old bad domain to their turf, and you saved years of reinventing the wheel to end up in the same place.
Thank you for such such such informative article jahfer!!
> incentivizing captcha and other tech to stop bots

At what place would this incentivize captchas? It can't be when you click on the ad, because users would just close the window.
And very well and clearly written.
> solve pain that cut through 5ml of oral morphine.

I've also seen tons of homeless people in my city who have ruined their lives because of morphine and its derivatives. Maybe I'm wrong, but I haven't seen droves of homeless due to Cannabis usage.
CPU-heavy operations are allowed, strictly speaking, they're just "impolite" and may cause subtle problems.

for example, say you have an aiohttp-backed web server, and in the handler for some URL route, you do a CPU-bound computation that takes 5 full seconds to execute.

a crucial thing to remember is that asyncio programs, by default, are still single-threaded. so for those 5 seconds, your computation is the only thing running. other event loop tasks are unable to run. the loop is "blocked" in the same way it would be as if you called `time.sleep()` (not `await asyncio.sleep()`, but the regular synchronous sleep method) or made a blocking IO call (in a pathological case, you might open and read a file on a remote NFS share mounted over a WAN link, for example)

now, suppose your web server exposes an `/alive` healthcheck endpoint. during that 5-second interval where you're hogging both the CPU and the event loop, aiohttp won't be able to dispatch requests to the healthcheck endpoint. if your load balancer has a 3-second timeout for those healthchecks, from its perspective the service will appear to be flapping between online and offline, even though the service itself never actually goes down.

the "polite" thing to do, for this sort of big CPU-bound task, is to hand them off to a ThreadPoolExecutor like you said (or ProcessPoolExecutor if you have GIL concerns) with `loop.run_in_executor` [0]. that gives you a future, and when you `await` the future you are politely yielding the event loop to allow other tasks to run, such as those requests to the healthcheck endpoint.

0: https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio-eventloop.html#asy...
What a fabulously detailed and niche piece of documentation this is.

Anyone know of other examples of documentation projects like this one?
Nobody really needs reviews of shitty products. A review site really only needs to write long form reviews of products they recommend due to quality or value. The affiliate stuff then really isn’t that much of a conflict if every product provides equal revenue.
Each to their own, in the Kimberley and later the Pilbara I used to ride a dirt bike 30km to high school every morning, same back in the afternoon.

The early attachment to off road sticks with you :)
Same approach to reviews as the news it’s all for sale
The lifecycle of his ideas typically is: it occurs to him past midnight, he tweets it like it’s already done, backlash from everyone, his team/ceo steps in with explanations how this was all planned years ahead of time and is the most 5D chess ever to unleash the everything app potential for all of us, then nothing happens, or something half assed is implemented for a few days and then often backpedalled.
"Would public venues allow soon-to-be dementia patients line cutting priority etc? Think amusement parks, transit reservations, hotel booking, bars, movie theaters -- all of it. There could be a whole industry built overnight of catering to this specific demographic."

Do we do this for people with cancer?
She was 4.5yo if you want to be picky. Some of the hikes were:

https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/montana/grinnell-glacier-... (from where we started, this was 19km return plus climbing around at the top; I carried her on my shoulders for less than 1km)

https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/idaho/sawtooth-lake-via-i... (15+ km and rained for part of it)

https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/utah/chesler-park?u=m (16km)

In 2021 when my other two children were 6yo and 9yo, they did 40+ km in 24 hours. Hiked midday until 10pm and then 7am until midday the day after. They are just normal kids; I am not fit but enjoy hiking.

Here's that story: https://sarogaining.com.au/news/almertas-bluff/
https://www.instagram.com/p/CUUTaCcJfN8/?igshid=MTc4MmM1YmI2...
My rsync backup goes from the live filesystem (and then does some snapshot-like things on the other end with hard links and what not), but it's for my househould's shared network drive, so atomicity isn't super important. Mostly there's not many changes, and if there are, it's ok if it takes a couple snapshots to settle.

I didn't originally have that area as its own zfs filesystem, and it wasn't even originally on zfs, but I moved things around when setting up a new, offsite, backup system... Just haven't gotten around to redoing the old backups. I don't think I'd spend any more time on rsync based backups, given how I use things now; incremental zfs means no need to compare, which makes me have good feelings.
This does sound really cool- and like a way to ultimately set up a secure, not that complex backup method...
Oh golly gee, I'd never considered that before. Thanks for enlightening me.

Of course we have no data about the counterfactual where Gore was president instead. Half of Bush's wars were a direct reaction to external stimulus. The "Patriot" act was a bipartisan thing. And when the team in office did change, it's not like Obama did much of anything to roll back Bush's activities - hence the equivalency of considering both parties not terribly opposed to authoritarianism, just favoring different flavors of it.
Interesting tidbit, I didn't know that. Is there any good evidence that the cherry tree story is made-up?
How has Skiff's email deliverability been?

I'm curious if your emails go to spam more frequently, being a smaller player in an established hegemony.

You have a generous free tier which may attract spammers. How do you deal with IP reputation?
Yeah, that checks out. The only thing I trust less than a homeless person asking for money is anyone even remotely near military matters.
How long am I supposed to bring my mind back for?

Based on my past experiences:

Every time I try, it's gone again so fast that that it's like an endless loop. And that's if I am conscious enough to catch it. Hell, my mind can wander for minutes at a time without me even realizing that I was supposed to be focusing on something else.

Not trying to argue against your recommendations, but I am really trying to dig deeper into the topic to figure out where the disconnect I am facing is.
There is anxiety because information is locked away by companies and regulators. They do zero efforts to help the public understand anything.
And no GPU!
I largely ignore the licenses on this stuff and use it for commercial purposes. If they want to sue me, let them. In fact, I dare them.

Their models are not copyrightable and I would not waste this opportunity to establish this fact.
Are you just pointing out that sometimes justifications are wrong? Yeah, we know.
There is basically nothing that can guarantee someone knows what they're talking about (and isn't misrepresenting it).

That said, having a PhD in a relevant field is really up there in terms of credentials. If that's not good enough for you, what is?
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212803

> high-power motorcycle engines

Neither “high-power” nor “motorcycle” are words I would use to characterize the vehicle in that advertisement.
What cannot the client forgive you for not ensuring: I faced this case, we had an ivory tower-designed micro service architecture, the travel insurance team decided to use it to not be fired or humiliated by the architect 2 floors above.

They proceed to create 5 services in python aws lambdas: ui proxy, credit card processor, insurance gateway, email service.

The flow would be: the user clicks buys, it sends the the ui proxy, which triggers a redirect to a credit card ui, the client pays, the backend sends a request to the insurance gateway, and if all goes well, an email is sent with the policy.

Ofc, we didnt receive a policy document from the insurance gateway, we'd generate it ourselves on success, the insurance gateway only saying "ok". The first few weeks, the team missed some failure condition on the insurance gateway, and would charge the client and send a policy pdf by email, but the client was NOT actually insured. It impacted 7 clients a day going to trips thinking they were insured but were NOT.

Imagine the face of the business when they realized there was no transactional boundary over the whole process: one micro service could fail and the others could succeed and god knows what happens then. The change was to build one giant procedural thing that does 1 step at a time and finishes once all is good. One service, one transaction, one state that matters. The architect was eventually fired, finally.
This may have already been said, but many of the authors/gurus/teachers from the “Vedic” tradition emphatically state how true spiritual work should and even must be done scientifically.

The science as described involves primarily data gathered from direct observation of one’s own experience, rather than studying the external physical world.

This goes very contrary to the statistically driven science most people are familiar with, even though certain hypotheses, experiments and results can be observed in larger groups.

However, if the scientific method is applied rigorously to matters of the spirit it will yield great dividends.

I came to “spirituality” by means of almost rabid skepticism, and extreme distrust towards anything not “based in reality”, or measurable with instruments, slowly exploring and asking questions about the nature of reality.

This extreme skepticism is so important, as belief or faith is the enemy of knowing. I believe the western mind (one with developed rational thinking), when applied to areas on the frontiers of consciousness and reality is an extremely potent tool.

One can marry the logic and reason with intuition, emotion and introspection and go very far into the unknown, bringing back wisdom to enrich one’s own life, and the lives those one shares this knowledge with.

I believe that as a species we’re in the verge of discovering a whole new layer to what it means to be human conscious beings.

I’m not really sure if there is a point to this comment. Perhaps I am just excited to see spiritual inquiry happening in the mainstream, with structure and discipline.

I am sick of strict materialism, and just as sick of the ungrounded beliefs, taken in faith by people involved in the so-called “new age movement.”
Rich Hickey (creator of Clojure) references Polya several times in his classic talk "Hammock Driven Development". Here's a transcript:

https://github.com/matthiasn/talk-transcripts/blob/master/Hi...

I've long been impressed by Hickey's problem solving skills, so I took much of this talk to heart, and even bought a copy of HTSI. Can't say it really helped me any more than Rich's talk (as a programmer) but I'm thinking I'll give it another look.
>I tried looking at the Pixel for the Vanilla Android experience and long support, yet it seems like people are fighting battery life issues all the time.

my pixel has good battery life.....I know it's anecdotal but it's been fine.

I've always been an android user on smartphones. Was samsung in the past but now I have a pixel. I like the pixel and vanilla android experience overall. Android allows some freedom to customize, I like their call screening, and the wide choice of apps. Pixels are also starting to be supported for longer; maybe not as long as iphones but it's always been an android issue and they're finally starting to address it. Stability is there imo. I have all the apps I need to do what I do everyday but obviously everyone is different.

I own a variety of different hardware including apple products, but I'm not 100% reliant on their ecosystem, so I'm keeping the pixel for now.

>Also, couldn't find anything coming near the value of a baseline Macbook Air M1 as far as build quality, battery life, stability etc. is concerned.

Agreed
I think the bride/groom buy a bunch and hand them out. You're supposed to put them back when you're done and then they will have the photos all aggregated and publish them online. Tends to lead to better candid moments for the wedding. At least that's what happened at a couple of weddings I went to.