skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You seem to be overlooking the bald-faced lie told by Meta/IG that someone's new account is violating "Community Guidelines" before they can even use it.

I don't know about OP, but the the article they linked had a screenshot showing that the Community Guidelines they'd violated were around "account integrity". Looking at those[1], it seems plausible that OP and the article's author used something during account creation that triggered an integrity system, similar to what the parent was describing. Maybe they used a proxy/VPN, or something else that caused the robots to think that they were "Creat(ing) an account by scripted or other inauthentic means."

I don't think that big tech deserves a free pass on much, but to think they they're suspending accounts just to harvest phone numbers seems like it would be something they'd likely get into deep shit over: stock price drop, huge fines, CEO in front of Congress-type of thing. I doubt it would be worth it to them.

1. https://transparency.fb.com/policies/community-standards/acc...
The rules don't apply to them.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-66165001
Britain Admits Defeat in Controversial Fight to Break Encryption
> Are the microphones in vehicles actively listening to conversations and shipping them off for analysis? Or is this all purely hypothetical (i.e., they say they have the right to use it, so clearly they must be trying to acquire it...)?

All data that they can acquire will be acquired because data can be sold, leading to higher quarterly profits. There are almost no other considerations.
> When it became feasible for the NSA to essentially tap every phone in the U.S. I think most of us just presume that they will do just that.

Much narrower claims were dismissed as paranoia before Snowden's disclosures. The comment you replied to made that point specifically.
Sure, whatever, a factor of 10 here or there hardly matters. I literally misinterpreted “multiple gigabytes per hour” as 999 GB/hr, not a much more reasonable 10 GB/hr. I literally overestimated data rates by a factor of 10,000% and the number still comes out “reasonable” i.e. a cost that can be paid if the cost/benefit is there.

Unless you want to claim storage costs $5,000/TB for 3 MB/s of I/O “multiple gigabytes per hour” with 90 day retention for a team worth of logging is not stupid on its face. Not to say that is a efficient or smart solution, but certainly not a “look at this insane request by developers” the person I was originally responding to was making it out to be.

Personally, I would probably question the competence of the team if they had that sort of logging rate with manual logging statements, but I am merely pointing out that “multiple gigabytes per hour” for 90 days is not crazy on its face and a plausible business case could be made for it even with a relatively modest engineering team.
(contact sales for pricing)
The reality is that most software isn't designed like a car is. Especially with most organizations using some iterative+incremental development approach.

As a result, the development of software nowadays doesn't really lend itself to one-time purchases.
> One is "top down": teach the system some high level principles that correspond to known general concepts, and the other is "bottom up": determine the structure from the data itself and use that to generate general concepts.

This is the same pattern explaining why bottom-up economic systems, i.e. lassaire faire free markets, flawed as they are, work better than top-down systems like central planning.
> It's not a given that it will get better again. Not on timescales that matter to our species anyway.

But it could.

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/massive-forest-restoratio...

The right trees, planted in the right locations (0.9 billion hectares), could store 205 gigatons of carbon dioxide. ... That's two thirds of all the CO2 humans have generated since the industrial revolution.

https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets

If the world adopted a plant-based diet we would reduce global agricultural land use from 4 to 1 billion hectares

So we could plant not just 0.9 billion hectares but 3 billion.

Twice as much CO2 as we have generated since the industrial revolution.

> Couldn't we do that while still burning fossil fuels? Not sure why we'd have to stop burning in order to have the option to work on capture and mitigation.

Because those technologies don't work at the scale needed. Check how much we're producing and how much carbon those factories are able to store. We'd need tens of thousands of them.
> people use social media to find their tribe and, regrettably, find outgroups to isolate from and criticize

Yeah some people are very ridiculous in this way.

The other day someone responded to one of my TikTok videos with a video of his own.

He apparently had some sort of problem with the fact that I enjoyed something, that he enjoyed too, but which he thought I was too enthusiastic about.

In his video he told me that I need to go outside and experience the real world, instead of thinking my hobby was important.

As you can tell I am annoyed by this. Otherwise I would not be talking about it now.

Anyway. If he had taken time to visit my profile, instead of going off telling me his opinions based off of one video he saw. He’d have found that I am already spending a lot of time outside. He’d have seen that I am traveling, visiting countries, experiencing the world.

What an annoying moron that guy was.

I didn’t respond to him, because I won’t give him the satisfaction of knowing that his rude expressions affected me in any way. But I wish he’d just stay away from social media in the first place, instead of coming there to shit on one of my videos.
I think it is illuminating to consider how these debates would go very differently if employers where the ones whose budgets paid for all the hours/fuel spent in office commutes, and clearly showed that change with RTO.

There's no inherent reason commute costs are usually borne by employees, it's just tradition--and perhaps what is/isn't an appealing alternate-compensation expense under tax-code.
My company's CEO used words no other than "we believe collaboration is better in-person" to justify forcing everyone to work in the office three days a week. The usual "revitalize downtown" or "support local business" argument doesn't even apply in our case because company is on a highway. You know this decision is not based on any concrete data but purely on the investment in those useless buildings and wanting to force people out.
Maybe, but cultural opinion about diets has always been shifting and multifaceted.

For example, the high carb SAD being defacto is a new thing. It became the default around the same time as the agricultural revolution and mass media. Before that, there were lots of of options. During the period where mass media ruled, their was only one zeitgeist (brought to you by Kellogg’s!), but now with the internet we are back to historical norms where those with means are able to find advice free of commercial incentives and regulatory capture. For example, low carb has been around for centuries.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-carbohydrate_diet#histor...
The most annoying part about all of this is how smug and proud some of these companies were about announcing that they were remote first and hiring all of these people on promises of being "all in" on a distributed remote workforce which they saw as the future. I get that everyone likes to be able to change their mind at any time, but commitments that affect people's lives need to be honored if there can ever be any sort of working trust.
Yeah, I had exactly that, but in my opinion better, with fullscreen mode on https://flems.io. Right up until hackers found it was a great place to host their phishing sites...
I get that you hate the guy, but c'mon.
I mean sure I am happy buying stuff once and only pay one time. Like a car, house, pants.

With that kind of stuff I don’t expect updates and bug fixes, improved usability and the kind every week.

But when I’m am renting a house… I expect my landlord to care of it. These are the different deals I guess.
They're realling upping their expensive domain name game with hey.com and once.com.
I work at Amazon, so I have that bias, but I'm very very skeptical of that line of argument. Remote work has the potential to save companies truly enormous sums of money, both on real estate, and on reduced salaries. For many companies, being able to freely hire anywhere would absolutely reduce mean compensation, instead of paying massive tech hub salary premiums. The interests of city and state governments, real estate companies, hardly come into it.

I find it very easy to believe the straight-forward motive given; that leaders are concerned by the impacts of remote work on collaboration, innovation, mentorship and other kinds of productivity that come through group work. That's been my experience too.

At the same time, I think remote work can be very successful, maybe even more effective than traditional office work, but it almost certainly takes skills and practices that are attuned to that way of working. It's not unreasonable to believe that an entire workforce wouldn't simply adapt to that in the long term in just a 3 year time frame driven by a pandemic.
I mean, they are both kind of true. The only thing palatable to the government is to raise income taxes. They won't dare touch capital gain tax or property tax - which is where the vast majority of wealth is concentrated. Income tax is absolutely brutal in this country, with the 100k cliff for example. It's very hard to accumulate wealth via salary.
> The only group not benefitting from RTO are the actual workers.

That depends on the worker’s goals. If your goal is to have work/life balance or “personal” productivity then, yeah, I empathize. But there is more investment I put back into my team when I’m in person. It’s not just my code output. I find it very hard to mentor young engineers remotely.

Also, if you are a stockholder, like many engineers, and if teams do in fact have more “synergy” (bleh) then it’s also good for the workers via stock based comp.
I'm sorry but this was easily the most pretentious book I've read all year.
Wonder how well it would work for things like RC submarines. The distance increase isn't all that valuable for RC but the lower power required sounds very useful.
I read somewhere that big cities ( SFO) with tech concentration are giving tax breaks to companies that will bring their employees back in-office.

Cities like SFO with estimated 30% vacancy which primarily rely on corporate taxes will collapse!
That's why we can't have nice things. :(
I am not expert but I think OP means different hormones would start to get produced and others would become suppressed to support the creation of a placenta, to support the the lining of the uterus and to cease ovulation and menstrual cycle as well as to start supporting the growing embryo in terms of nutrients by means of generating and connecting blood vessels.

I read somewhere that pregnancy (unlike what is normally described) is a tug of war between the embryo which is the leach if you will on the mother which is the host. The embryo basically try consumes the host and so long as everybody is doing what they're supposed to, all the mechanisms end up keeping that war at bay with both participants making it alive at the end. If some mechanisms (and signals) were to misbehave one of the two would cease to exist.
Meanwhile, my mother uses photoshop and illustrator, she can't afford the ever increasing price of subscription services. She's in her 70's.

It a distraught for her to think of losing access to her creatively outlet if she was to unable to afford the current subscription model.

Subscriptions should be followed up with a perpetual license. She's just glad she forked out on CS2 when it was DVD based.
Funny that you talk about greed when one of the reasons everything went the way of subscriptions is because of piracy. Even here and today, people defend pirating movies when you can rent one for a few bucks in 4K HDR with Dolby.

Nothing but greed by people making top 1%-10%ile incomes.
> the article they linked had a screenshot showing that the Community Guidelines they'd violated were around "account integrity". Looking at those[1], it seems plausible that OP and the article's author used something during account creation that triggered an integrity system, similar to what the parent was describing. Maybe they used a proxy/VPN, or something else that caused the robots to think that they were "Creat(ing) an account by scripted or other inauthentic means."

Compare my HN username to the domain name of the linked article. I am the author.

I did not use a proxy or VPN.

> to think they they're suspending accounts just to harvest phone numbers seems like it would be something they'd likely get into deep shit over: stock price drop, huge fines, CEO in front of Congress-type of thing. I doubt it would be worth it to them.

Apparently it was worth it to them:

https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/08/twitter-admits-it-used-two...

This is not a conspiracy theory, it's something that has actually happened.
well, by definition if the key is to be used, and to be used more than once, it cannot be kept safe. The key has to go through multiple hands on its way from the senior government official responsible for its safekeeping to the peon assigned to unlock a specific phone at a specific point in time. It could be copied at any one of those points. No amount of technology or cryptography can solve the master key problem. The social problem is the technical problem, they aren't distinct.
That sounds to me like opening console and messing up with the website's JS code :D
Sounds like we need a (inverse) finfluencer index to prevent overexposure to Cramer.
This. People seem to forget that employee time costs $$$$. You take on a lot more operational burden and that has a real cost attached to it and in organizations of all sizes that makes the calculus interesting.
I sent an email last night. I don't know if quantity is important here, but it can't hurt to have multiple people dropping a line.
Companies also get tax incentives based how many butts are in seats. So, it’s not just a sunk cost fallacy at play here
"I know people at a baptist church that many people would accuse of being “fascist” because of their religion who do all three of those things you say"

The Nazis weren't totally against charitable works. They were against charitable works that benefitted "inferior" humans.
Their purposes have been served. Values have been signalled. Implementation was never going to be possible, which made it all the better a choice, as it means you don't have to actually do anything except blame tech companies when it doesn't happen. Job done.
Every other framework not only has its own implementation of hooks, but notably: every one of them is faster, smarter, easier to write, or a combination of all three.

I agree that useEffect is bad.

But there are other SPA frameworks that do things better. In fact, just about any other framework does things better.
You really should only have to buy software once. It is quite dumb that we have to be subscribed to everything. This is what makes me use open source everything. Subscriptions are services and if I need a service to write documents FML.
I'll give the 37signal guys the benefit of the doubt, but it's a difficult concept to talk about in the abstract.

Once the first product shifts, this might be a more meaningful discussion.
The amount of 2 hour birthday lunches people get dragged to after in-person meetings not even relevant to their job is off the charts wasteful.
Starfield DLSS3 Mod with DRM
I'm not the OP but that sounds like http desync bugs like https://portswigger.net/research/http-desync-attacks-request...
Worst motivational post I've ever seen. they'll probably find hundreds of thousands of idiots who'll pay for their crappy product.
If we’re just talking about standalone software, say OG native desktop photoshop for instance, then sure. However, any web based service is, by design, going to need to charge a subscription given the downstream hosting and infra costs.
> on every child's device

Devices only in public areas in the house. Dumbphones for emergencies.
If they're not threatening then there's no point in punching them, beyond perhaps satisfying one's own violent urges.
That's not a fair comparison. Final Cut Pro's price on macOS has been $299.99 since 2011, and Apple sells a "Pro Apps Bundle for Education" available to everyone that includes Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, and other macOS apps for $199.99 (https://www.apple.com/us-edu/shop/product/BMGE2Z/A/pro-apps-...).

I'm sure a lot of users would appreciate a one-time payment option for Final Cut Pro or Logic Pro on the iPad, including teenagers who have some money saved up.
> very few programmers are typically interested in having their opinion on typing changed. Most programmers find themselves drawn strongly to typing or not quite early in their career, and then spend the rest of it rationalizing The Correct Choice to themselves and others.

He's certainly right about this. I can't wrap my head around why anyone wouldn't want types in their program*

The types still exist you just didn't write them down! Why won't you just write them down!?

*short scripts excepted
Great, great, now what's a black hole positron, or a black hole muon or black hole tau (and their respective antis)? If these other particles aren't qualitatively like electron black holes, why not?

Assume electrons are black hole electrons. Why are there so many more of them than positrons?

Assume all charged leptons are black holes. Why are the higher-mass tau and muon so much less stable than the electron, even though (anti-)muons are stable enough that muonium can participate in chemical reactions (there's useful real-world applications for that since the muon's magnetic properties distinguish from atomic hydrogen)? Why is muonium still perfectly fine linear theory (in bound-state QED theory (BSQED) they're just two pointlike leptons) while black hole electron + black hole antimuon almost certainly isn't?

(Similar questions can be asked about positronium if only the first generation of charged leptons can be tiny black holes).

Extra credit: why aren't neutral leptons also black holes?
Consumers often talk about one-time payments but balk at the prices that are required to have them while also being able to have the devs pay for their expenses. For example, look at this recent r/apple thread [0], the dev made the perpetual license 2.5x the annual license, which makes sense from a ARPU perspective, but people don't want to pay 70 dollars, even though tools like YouNeedABudget are more expensive.

The psychological impact of one-time purchases cannot be removed from the decision and that is also likely why SaaS is so enticing, the prices are much lower in the short term, but can be higher in the long term, just like getting a loan vs paying in full would be.

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/168shog/after_almost...
California’s Gavin Newsom Signs New Executive Order on AI Risks
Unfortunately Amazon is one of those companies which can get away with this.

Moats so strong that they could completely fuck over (as they have been doing for a while) their employees but will still end up okay as a business.

CEOs with moats as thin as a razor will see this as correlation though and burn their companies to ground forcing their employees to RTO.
> "secret sauce" output sampling

are you referring to beam search? something else?
Spotify is, let’s say, $120 a year. After 10 years, let’s say $1200. If an album has 5 songs, and an album costs $12.00 (dunno, middle of your range plus easy math), you can buy 100 albums in that time. 500 songs.

After 500 songs for 10 years, your model costs more and offers no value (in fact, it’s less convenient for a dozen reasons)

I don’t know about you, but I listen to way more than 500 songs… a year. Let alone a decade.
Oh, it's definitely one of the most distinctive difference between US and Europe. Of course it is not all the same. Germans are on the more conservative side, while the Dutch are known to be more entrepreneurial. But overall none is on the same level as you Americans.
> Better hope someone doesn't come out with a fancy super module that has everything integrated because there will be no disabling it as soon as that happens

I was just thinking about how to find and disable all the microphones in a car and realized that, with software, any speaker can be used as a microphone, so the logical conclusion is that you'd have to disable all the speakers as well.
There's a non-zero percentage of people where exercise is what they need to solve their depression. For everyone else it's one piece of the puzzle.
You do GIS projects infrequently as a hobby. Simple stuff. You want own some GIS software. Subscription is burdensome due to infrequent use and you don’t care about next year’s features.
As much as they charge for it, I would want to use it if I had a Tesla. But since I have severe trust issues with Tesla, I would never* buy an electric car from them anyway. * at least for the next 5 years, probably longer. I'm just glad I live far away from the places self-driving cars are common, for now.
Sic: Green inflation accelerates tech shift [pdf]
> I wonder if the lack of a physical keyboard discourages hacking.

You can still use whatever bluetooth keyboard you have on hand. I don't think that's a serious issue.
I wish I could blame autocorrect. Just had proteins on the brain and typed the wrong word. If it wasn't obvious,
protein --> proton
(Clarifying, because you brought up disrespect, that I don’t believe in disrespecting them for their beliefs; they are just humans like you and me with their own struggles.)

I don’t use the word “bigot” because of the flimsy usage I’ve observed from others. Enough people use it to mean express anger/dislike (like how someone uses “ouch” to express pain) that I don’t associate it with semantic content.
People will always make mistakes. Thats why it's better to focus on processes that should've been built to catch or stop mistakes, especially mistakes by a single person.
That pricing sounds fair. Unfortunately, I feel that's the exception. Adobe Dreamweaver CS6 was $400 [1]. Now Dreamweawer Creative Cloud is $250 per year [2]. So after 1.75 years, you've already taken a loss.

[1] https://prodesigntools.com/products/adobe-cs6-pricing-list.h...

[2] https://www.adobe.com/creativecloud/plans.html
I'm unclear on what your point is. It sounds like we're more or less in agreement. Unless you're saying Nazis should be executed for being Nazis.
I have never had an in-person joint whiteboard session that was actually productive. I have had several virtual whiteboard sessions that were very productive (thanks cheap graphics tablets!).
is the imagine including the hosting? I could see that, and even higher if storage space got into the terabytes.

I myself could see 3-$500 and self host on my own hardware / vps - with options to pay for future upgrades that include new features if wanted.

I like basecamp, and would consider buying in that way, but there is more and more competition in the space that makes others attractive, and with the speed of changes with the others paying 24 months of service in advance doesn't make as much sense at it would in a smaller space. For me anyway.
If humans were rational the human average would keep going up as anyone bellow average leaves it to robots, but instead it sounds like a lot of people with illusory superiority will keep hurting themselves..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_superiority
Can we use software and in particular LLMs to bring more transparency on how government works? Government outputs tons of reports and documents and most of it is not scrutinized because it is overwhelming to the average person.