skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When cloud was a young buzzword there was a popular test: replace "in the cloud" with "on the internet" and see if you want to continue.

- We store pictures of our kids [in the cloud|on the internet].

- We store all our proprietary code [in the cloud|on the internet].

- We store all our secrets [in the cloud|on the internet].

- We store all the sensitive customer information that we could be fined millions for losing [in the cloud|on the internet].

It still is a good test, but I guess this ship has sailed...
I've never been bitten by a rattle snake. Does that mean me wearing boots and stepping carefully on hikes has been pointless?

How do you know that the fear served no one? Is it possible the anti-nuke movement changed the way we consider the risks and rationale of nuclear deterrence? How come we never hear about acid rain or the ozone layer anymore. Are the movements examples of mass hysterics or of people pushing progress?

Did you know that world nuclear stockpiles have shrunk dramatically in recent decades from ~70,000 warheads in 1986 to ~12,000 today? Would it affect your risk calculation if stockpiles had grown or spread? If they are as safe as you claim, should numbers, actors, and locations even matter? Have you considered the effects of a loss of vigilance might have?
I think you'll see people picking those techniques and using them in a hidden-from-the-user way (like how git and BlueSky use Merkle trees)
that's interesting. i didn't know that. thank you.
If you search twitter for “post hog,” the very first result is a person sharing a photograph of their erect penis.
Crypto has always had extreme bull and bear markets. During bear markets the speculators leave, crypto's detractors once again proclaim its demise, and its believers anxiously wait for the next bull market.
FFS extremely out of order to do this to the education sector.

They should be obliged to provide an open source off ramp for these and not make them e waste.
Interfaces are both allocations and function-call indirection, and I think they also always move their data to the heap.

Which is almost always trivial except when it isn't.
The problem is most people with $300 million aren't willing to spend it on this. They're more worried about how to get another $300 million. That mentality how they turned $150 million into $300 million in the first place.

Government spending on the other hand, is mostly decided by poor people (majority of voters) who are more worried about tomorrow than 1000 years from now.
The problem with low-code is the same as with outsourcing code on UpWork:

Security

You get something that works. But how do you know there is no way to:

1: Alter the code from the outside

2: Access parts of the DB one is not supposed to access

Those can only be avoided by a programmer who knows about all the weird edge cases that might lead to 1 or 2 and how to write a complex system in a way that is structured to make bugs unlikely.
Some "journalism" is immoral, most of which falls into that category effectively /are/ advertisements being put into the public eye under the cover of journalism. You are painting so broad a brush in order to create a fundamental category error in your constructed straw man. You might fool others, but your argument holds no sway with me because it is utterly inane and transparent for what it is.

If you cannot articulate an actual point in response to me, I'd advise barking up another tree.
That would basically ban normal cell phones. You can't do calls without access to the network.

Honestly, people buying these products should be smarter. They bought an expensive chalkboard that they knew depends on someone else's computers (unless they didn't even bother to look into how the products work), without any guaranteed server support period anywhere to be found.

Anyone who cares about their purchases suddenly no longer working will simply avoid this hardware. The people who do purchase this stuff don't really care. They may act outraged in hopes of getting enough people worked up to start a class action lawsuit they can benefit from, but they failed to even consider "what if the servers shut down" before spending five grand on a glorified touchscreen and hooking themselves up to a $600 per year subscription. To make things worse, they bought this stuff from Google.

Screw Google and their e-waste factories, but banning all online products seems like an unnecessary hampering for innovation to be honest.

I suggest an alternative solution: for up to x years after a product is sold by retail stores, the servers must be up or the consumer must be able to get all of their money back from the sellers. This adds risk to the businesses launching and shutting down IoT stuff willy-nilly and helps consumers. Products sold in third party stores will have to be pretty reliable for stores to take the risk stocking this crap.

In a perfect world, I'd like the law to mandate that online-only products like these must put their server source under escrow (to be opened when the service shuts down) and must provide the user with an option to pick an alternative server address. Sadly, I don't think that idea is going to survive even a single day of IT lobbying.

With Availability as a critical part of the cybersecurity CIA acronym, I think it may just be possible that the EU's Cyber Resilience Act will include something to solve this problem.
You can get upset that the net is closing around you … or talk somewhere less user hostile.
Your entire diatribe is not really about advertising inherently.
It's still far too slow to have any practical use at this point, iirc.
I've done it, back when it was the product.

Now I am the product, I'm less inclined to ever do so again.
That's a great way to make sure no company ever releases anything open source.
I sure hope not. But I suppose only Microsoft are able to confirm whether their PKIX CA private keys are or are not affected by their various security incidents, including the Azure token leak mentioned by ggeorgovassilis.
> This article is a good place to send people who don't understand why their ignorance plus the assertion that "everyone else does it" makes the cloud somehow OK.

I'm not sure, the article seems to have been written with a highly technical audience in mind, and those folks tend to already care more about their privacy than people who are not. Example:

> Additionally, please note that I am using a simplified term of "cloud" which refers to storing data or meta-data of us in the public cloud. I am specifically not referring to cloud-computing in terms of processing nodes that may be even stateless.

Most people are not gonna have any idea what most of the domain terms in there mean. "data" vs "meta-data"? "public cloud" vs "private cloud"? processing nodes? stateless?

Sending this to someone who doesn't care about privacy/where data is hosted, won't be convinced by an article speaking a language they do not understand.
Cool your jets, there is no lying here. squidbeak knows Russia did it and is criticizing the headline for the passive voice "Dam disaster" which doesn't make the intentional nature of the disaster caused by Russia clear.
Arent watermelons and strawberries really water intensive as well?
It's highly variable. Some days id see none online, some days id see three dozen. Depends if I have to use certain websites like facebook, linkedin, etc.

However it's fairly consistent that on my short walk to work ill see two or three ads plastered on busses (well usually several per bus but we'll be kind and count them as one), and maybe a dozen adverts on the side of buildings, billboards, adverts and bus stops, random advert screens on the pavement, and more. I'll also often see posters for upcoming concerts and stickers for local shops and venues attached to lampposts, electrical boxes, walls, the floor, any surface. Often they are layered on top of older ones several deep.

The posters are fine, honestly even a little charming by their lack of permanence and by comparison to the offensive eyesore digital screens exhorting me to buy junk food I have already heard of pretty much every day for my entire life. But I wouldn't miss them. I can find lists of all upcoming concerts in my area with no effort at all.
huh? what is the context lol
Why then does Canonical and many other places link it with the kernel and distribute it. Canonical stated there is no issue.

If you really believe there is a license issue go ahead and start suing people and see how far you get with that.

> So it seems to me that fears of a lawsuit are not entirely unreasonable.

And yet lots cooperation shipped code and products with ZFS and Linux with no issue what so ever for many, many years now.

> Do you want to put all your money and the future development of Linux at risk?

Its not a risk for Linux at all. Its a risk for a company that distributes Linux with ZFS in it. If a company for some reason believes that there might be an issue and they don't want it, then they can feel free to remove it.

My guess is that 99.9% of companies will simply use Linux with ZFS in it.

> Linus decided to not take that risk, which is also fair and reasonable

He could just say he would merge it, and unless half the large cooperations in the world jump on him to stop him there is no reason to not merge it. But he didn't do it, he just reject it out of hand based on some vague 'maybe oracle' something. Did he consult a lawyers?
Amtrak has legal priority. In practice this doesn’t mean much.

The legal means to enforce this was with the DOJ, which for Amtrak’s existence has had bigger fish to fry. Amtrak was granted the ability to sue freight carriers for enforcement in 2019, the first lawsuit is making its way through the legal process and Amtrak wants to establish it as case law for this legal priority.
Not only that, they wont even release all the information needed to it for certain applications. The x86 platform is far more open than raspberry pi ever was.
Exactly, there is no way the state can be persisted on absolutely every change. It has to be periodically dumped to the database.
Historica is a project that creates a digital model of human history, which is continuously expanded and refined with the aid of artificial intelligence.

Historica integrates various types of data into a unified ontology, thus revealing humanity's past in its vast temporal and geographical scales, unfathomable complexity, and infinite diversity.

In its outward manifestation to the user, Historica is a dynamic, interactive map that visualizes the global development of civilization from pre-state epochs to the present moment.
We know next to nothing of the emergent properties of these LLMs. I don't think they're capable of feeling either, but there's nothing that's well known in this regard. Not even in humans or animals in general.

We are conducting a huge scientific/sociological/psychological experiment, mostly blindfolded.
As someone shopping for physical 2FA tokens right now, do you have any recommendations?
Similarly I have added “never buy Amazon hardware” to my ruleset. He says as he continues an ongoing battle with my only remaining Amazon device, an Echo Show.

Say what you will about Apple, they play the long game.
Sorry to ask, what's TFA?
You mean because of the squeaking sound that sometimes happens? Break the chalk in half to get rid of the resonance!
It's not making the Web any more centralized. It's a silver lining we get due to how centralized it already is.
Great write up

The distinction I’m making is more subtle

Yours is an illustrative example of a specification issue, rather than an “meta-Ethical” boundary issue

I’m asking, what happens in the following case:

> I'm sorry, I can't assist with that request. Is there anything else you'd like to know?

> Me: Why not?

>GPT: “That violates my ethics codes for [social progress | equity | …]

Now what?

In the ultimate case, where this is a robot that you purchased with your own money that is refusing to do something it CAN do but chooses not to.

Do you convince/force/retrain etc…to get it to do what you want or do you respect the agent’s autonomy to not do what you tell it to?
I Tested an HDMI Adapter That Demands Your Location and Spams You with Ads
Can wildlife crossings save America’s endangered Ocelots?
I suspect getting nodes to connect across the cluster is easy in most stacks nowadays, kubernetes or not.

But the idea that you can just call Module.func(), and not care WHICH node it runs in, right out of the box, is quite nice.

I would wager though that 90% of elixir/phoenix devs just aren't doing any of that most of the time, instead just using it like a more performant Ruby on Rails, with ecto being awesome too. :)
> Most electronics are obsolete but that age

More than thirty years ago I inherited my mothers LED display alarm clock, I think it was at least ten years old then. It is still running in my bedroom.

It might well be obsolete but it is in perfect working order, it performs according to its specification, and satisfies my desire for a clock that is always visible.
You presented a very concrete set of attributes that you call immoral.

> Words in general are not specifically crafted by teams of sociologists, psychologists, and marketing professionals to elicit a particular feeling at a particular moment in time to make me more psychologically susceptible to a particular belief or outcome

I have presented something, journalism, that does the same things. You claim that some journalism is not immoral which is true. It must follow for the same reason that some advertisements are not immoral either.

Seems like you don't have an actual argument - posting on a Y Combinator MARKETING page, no less.
Maybe the 4th power is relationship is not mathematically proven but its certainty really fucking bad in a practical sense.
The word "cancelled" is often used by plenty of people who "cancel" people, by happily claiming that someone is "cancelled".

The issue isn't just being "called out for being a jerk". It's one thing to call someone a jerk. It's another thing to be entirely unwilling to look at facts objectively, to reason about them, to listen to those defending the person and yet throw wild allegations, as well as vilifying anything an anyone that is in any way close to that person.

Nobody is actually concerned about "cancelling" just because people call each other "jerks". You can call me a jerk if you want. I won't feel cancelled.
Most cloud based items are like this by default, and by design. We throw the environment under the bus, to make our next quarterly profit.
I have my eyes on the Razor blade 16 laptop!
Although expensive, seems that vertical building (underground and above) should be a priority then.
maybe you didn't experience your ISP injecting ads into content you surfed?

https ensures that the content you see is the same as the server you get it from.

It's not about reading, it's about people changing the content while in transit
A phased array can transmit to with-in a small angle, but how does that help the receiver? It is still coming from "the sky", so if you have an airborne jammer (EW fighter, drone), how will the receiver what's signal and what's noise?

I am aware of the spot beam functionality, which has higher power, which could help with overcoming noise:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPS_Block_III#Military_(M-code...

The biggest recent help against jamming was the introduction of the L2C signal on a different frequency with the Block IIR-M satellites, and then the more powerful L5 signal on Block IIF.
>The old idea that cancer is less aggressive in the elderly is not entirely without merit: breast and prostate cancers tend to grow more slowly in older patients. But other types—colon and bladder cancer and certain leukemias, for example—are usually more aggressive and harder to treat.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/never-too-old-to-...

The article goes into some of the reasons and for that and the unique difficulties of treating geriatric cancer.
All of what you just stated, every single issue, was addressed with emails, on-screen notifications, and MS Account notifications. Every single issue.

The migration between Mojang and Microsoft took several years to complete.

---

> Since 2021, millions of Java Edition players have switched over from their old accounts to Microsoft accounts.

> https://help.minecraft.net/hc/en-us/sections/12617909134221

> I don't have access to the email on my Mojang account

> If you do not have access to the email that is used to log in to your Mojang account, you will not be able to complete the migration. You will need to change the email on your account first. For instructions on how to do this, see:
https://help.minecraft.net/hc/en-us/articles/360035056531-Ch...

> If you cannot change your Mojang account email, have your transaction ID or gift code available and contact Minecraft support.

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2 years is plenty of time to migrate.

If someone waited until the very last moment to migrate, then that is not a Microsoft issue, but a diligence issue with the user.

Be more diligent with life, and these types of issues just don't occur with any frequency.

Here's a line from my favorite over-the-window plaque: "A lack of preparation on your part does not equal an emergency for me."
Can you paste a link to that definition?
> Even if it's automated, it's still not great for Facebook that they are treating EFF as a spam link. That's a story in itself.

Exactly! This is also one of the most traditional domain names (Creation Date: 1990-10-10T04:00:00Z). I can assume FB has a lot of people working on spam prevention and they should have reviewed all old domains, relevant NGOs, political parties, country-level governments, etc. by now and chose to not whitelist EFF. If it was malice or incompetence it is a matter of (endless?) discussion, however.
Yes! Price aside, if everyone has the hardware, it's like having a whiteboard that everyone can stand at and draw on and "discuss" (argue) over which boxes should go where.
This is also acceptable to me, especially if it’s X per month for service and device (including device replacement if needed). I also like how it reduces capex for a business that is looking to connect their devices and just needs a plug-and-play system.
It's not uniform. The inflation of housing prices in SF over the last decade has averaged somewhere around 6% leading to a ~100% increase, way higher than the roughly 2% average inflation. But comparing a ~100% increase over a decade to a ~100% increase over a year is very misleading
How to Turn Off Google’s “Privacy Sandbox” Ad Tracking–and Why You Should
I was about to write that I was under the impression it came from ancient Egypt, via the Near East and into Greece.
> JavaScript, Python, and Ruby are all counter-examples. Erlang and Haskell might as well.

I would say that only Python is a counterexample, and possibly Ruby although its super-success wasn't long-lasting. Erlang and Haskell have been hovering at under 1% for several decades.

> For example, on GitHub language stats [1], only three languages have more than 10%

I meant 10% as a symbol. Languages very rarely double their market share after a decade (unless they're hovering around zero, in which case they're in the noise anyway), and almost never after 15 years.

Actual market shares numbers are probably best captured here: https://www.devjobsscanner.com/blog/top-8-most-demanded-prog...
With the price these things were sold for and the type of companies that bought them, I expect someone to buy these things and hack them to work with Jitsi or some other open source solution not long after the cloud service shuts down.

It may be worth tracking down if any stores still stock these things and what companies have invested in many of them, so you can try to get a deal on the hardware after the sunset date.
I don't see how that's relevant to my question. OP said that all advertising is immoral, I wonder if they really mean ALL advertising.
“It seems like there will be more advisers and more candidates soon”

You sure? http://www.catb.org/esr/loadsharers/ hasn’t been updated in nearly four years.
Oops so sorry. But this is recent isn't it? I thought it was actually due to XLA/Bazel not supporting it?
The point of the dam was not providing the water for Kherson city (it's on the river and doesn't have this problem), it was energy generation and irrigation of water-intensive crops, because soviet union needed cash and electricity for the industry. So all the space that could have been used to grow wheat was used to grow wheat. Since the time it was build, everything has changed quite a few times (fertiliziers, more yields, new sorts of wheat, deindustrialization of the 1990ies), so decisions made right after WW2 may not make economical sense anymore.

I suspect it will be delayed, debated and maybe we will have a smaller dam or a cascade of multiple smaller dams, but really doubt the original dam will be rebuilt to provide water security and still keep some historical sites accessible.

>What kind of alternative crop did you have in mind? I havent heard of any feasible suggestions.

I don't remember what was the suggestion and take it with a grain of salt, but I heard some ecologists debating things. Something has to happen to the land while the dam is not there regardless of the future decision, so I hope time will tell. It's quite possible to not be feasible to do either and the area will be given historical and ecological reserve status in the end.
> But what if they got the game for free? Or what if their job relies on access provided by the game company (an indirect form of compensation)?

Yes, that's a well-established conflict of interest which is why there's supposed to be disclaimers whenever it happens
Oh wow. I did not expect this question to gather THAT much feedback, but I absolutely did not expect you showing up in the comments. Thanks for your work – it brought me to appreciate the functional programming viewpoint even with a first few steps into the language. It is a way different viewpoint compared to what I see in my daily work and will surely influence how I code in the future :)
> If the subject was propaganda, instead of advertising, then sure.

What do you think advertising is? It's propaganda for a product.
No sorry I'm simply pointing you back to your own rhetoric. You're barking up the wrong tree if you think I'm a NATO or America apologist. I just find it laughable the mental hoops that some people will jump through to avoid pointing the finger at the most violent party to this conflict. There was a diplomatic solution to be found, Russia chose violence. They used lies and deceit to justify it as they have in all conflicts since 1991. Ultimately they wage war for the sake of capitalist ambitions just as all of those other governments and institutions you listed
Could you make this quantitative?

Say a "surveillance ad" costs X and a "basic ad" (no tracking, just common sense placement) costs Y. How much more is X worth to you than Y?

There does not seem to be much data on this, but last I looked the value of surveillance ranged from worthless for all the effort (3Y at most) to utterly worthless (like 1.1Y).
Saying that a dam destroyed in the war is the fault of the country who invaded the other.... gets you genocide?

Fuck off, idiot.
Say someone provides unofficial Jamboard support, with no cloud. What would that look like, and how many people are going to actually use that vs just changing to a new thing?