skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nope. The websites do this, but its inconsequential. Every single piece of literature you hear about how collecting data is bad fails to mention any real world results of this. And no, things like Cambridge Analytica do not count, unless you want to make the claim that people are so easily influenced by online media that they cannot be trusted with their free will and MUST be subjected to strictly controlled media consumption.

The real problem is that there was some idea planted in peoples heads that we should care about privacy. Even worse, a lot of people in the tech world adopted this, without understanding what privacy even is.

In reality, people dgaf about privacy. Of course, they say they do, because its feels good to virtue signal. But for every day things, everyone buys phones and uses apps that track you everywhere and build models, stores their personal data in the cloud, and pretty much always click accept on all the website banners, because when there is nobody around to virtue signal to about privacy, the reward is not there, but the drawback is degraded experience.

But of course anything ideologic like this can be used to win elections, and hence GDPR, which exists only as a means for politicians to gain political power through pretending to care about some aspect of peoples lives.

For the record, privacy = control of the data that you put out, which means you have to go pretty in depth tech wise to set this up if you want full privacy (for example, rooted Android phone with no google apps, removing or firewalling services that phone home). And its fine to accept some level of degraded privacy for a better user experience, but your standard shouldn't be the standard for everyone.
That's my experience, having been on FSD beta for almost two years now. It's still "un-human-driver-like" in a bunch of surprising ways, but the actual meat and potatoes "does it do more or less stupid stuff" is I think ahead of my own driving at this point.

At this point I trust its microdriving (lanekeeping, distance management, speed control, collision/obstacle avoidance, etc...) more than my own for sure. The higher level stuff is still a mixed bag (will it get stuck at that merge, can it make this lane change in time, does it understand that this other car is going to yield or will it stop, etc...).
I wish they actually sold parts, and not assemblies.

My fiance has an original 13" M1 MBP. She spilled a drink, and about 1/3 of the keyboard is non-functional. To replace the keyboard (which has to be a ~$100 part), Apple Service says they need to replace the entire laptop shell. I think they wanted roughly $800, or nearly the price of a used MBP of the same specs.
Too well timed. It's an obvious psyop. Unfortunately a lot of people will fall for it.
All currently existing electoral democracies are corrupt by design, you cannot elect people and expect them to not be lobbied. Only lottery based sortition with short terms and decades long cooldown periods solves that issue. It hasn't been tried since ancient Athens though, afaik.
Encryption is either strong or it isn't - there's no room for a "breakable by governments but not by anyone else" tier of encryption. We learned this lesson the hard way with "export grade crypto" - i.e. the reason why DVDs were so hilariously easy to decrypt. The safety margin of how many bits there are between "breakable with a smartphone" and "unbreakable by every computer on earth" is very thin, and it shifts a lot, so the NSA has no advantage over 'bad guys'. The moment the NSA can brute-force a key so can anyone with a botnet of compromised AWS instances.

Alternative proposals to force messaging apps to provide decryption keys for otherwise securely encrypted material aren't any better, because computers and encryption algorithms cannot read and understand a court order[0]. So if the keys are held by the government then they can decrypt everything without actually needing to ask someone else and prove that all the constitutionally-mandated procedures were followed. If the keys are held by the communications service, then they can at least theoretically refuse an illegal order[1], but then they run the risk of insiders stealing people's secrets.

Remember that the push for E2E encryption started specifically because of two related trends:

- Intelligence agencies doing incredibly sketchy shit to bypass encryption at major tech companies (e.g. that NSA diagram explaining how you can get implants into Google datacenters and bypass the encryption)

- Companies wanting to protect the privacy of their users from themselves, because they hire a lot of people with potentially too much access to the production equipment.

Banning E2E, going back to "export grade encryption", or demanding decryption capability rolls both of these back significantly. You can engineer a key escrow / backdoor system to resist one particular kind of attack at the expense of making another easier, but you can't eliminate both while maintaining nonconsentual decryption capability.

[0] This is a corrolary of that old IBM saying: "a computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision".

[1] Let's put aside the whole "no expectation of privacy on metadata" nonsense for now. While that is already a privacy nightmare, opening up communications content to unlimited decryption is a bigger can of worms.
In the context of this metaphor, I would describe ADHD as the inability to get into the zone despite desperately wanting to, and the inability to get out of the zone despite desperately trying to.

Lots of zone time, very little aimed at the targets you'd prefer.
1) Acquire Twitter

2) Decide that driving traffic to your platform will now cost a bajillion dollars rather than being free

3) A high number of entities that drive traffic to your platform decide to leave

4) ???

Business genius
To me, the internet should have destroyed the idea of a large centralized federal bureaucracy. The two ideas are almost entirely incompatible. The citizens now have access to each other, their local government, and to world news in a way they never had before. I have a feeling that getting rid of all the large centralized power structures would allow the gift the internet to truly flourish for humanity.
Beeper [1] is built on Matrix, and their bridges to all the other messaging platforms are open source too if you wanted to self-host.

[1] https://www.beeper.com/
Fair enough. I think the correct way to do it would be to integrate Firefox sync into Thunderbird.
Actually, I won on liability in two trials - 2015 and 2023. Damages were to be adjudicated separately because I was self represented and simply couldn't cope with doing a complete trial against Google's two law firms. This is the second liability decision if you are interested.

https://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdoc/au/cases/sa/SASC/...
I'm agreeing with the article.
yes lights let higher throughput roads have more time. i don't see why it makes my statement not true.
How else are you going to manage dependent options of an algorithm but to inject the dependency inside of its configuration?

Say in rust, you have some struct backing a trait. But your implementation of the trait can also have a variety of options which are parameterized by some other trait. You end up with a generic struct: that is all dependency injection is. Every generic struct in rust is an example of dependency injection.

Instead, dependency injection frameworks help people instantiate large dependency graphs with some lifecycle management. Those I am a bit of the take it or leave it opinion.
The cars are driving themselves, how is that nothing to show? Ultimately self driving will allow smaller buses and improve the pedestrian experience that way.
Microsoft thought the way you do for years after the iPhone came out. They thought they’d be fine competing using CE based systems. They completely underestimated the advantages a modern, secure, pre-emptive multitasking OS with proper process isolation, fine grained multi threading, and all the other features you get that a workstation class Unix OS bring to the table. That 8MB footprint sound great, until you consider all the things you’re giving up in order to hit that target.
you'd think with various state governments deciding that "gay marriage isn't safe" and some of the more extreme governments deciding that "critical race theory isn't appropriate" (you know, stuff like the entire civil war and why it was fought. "state's rights" my ass. I learned the basis of that in 3rd/4th grade. I learned about MLK in 1st/2nd grade) that we'd be wary of such lines of thought. Games and movies avoid that with self-regulation for a reason. Having the govt. decide what social media is appropriate is outright censorship (and not the kind the gamers love to complain about. Literal government suppression of information).
5 perfect as well (95% total), what does this mean??
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openAPI docs support is mentioned https://www.jetbrains.com/help/writerside/api-documentation....
> But a VC would rather set that money on fire to have a small chance at a 100x return.

Blaming VCs for public policy failures is fair when they lobby to create those public policy failures. In this case, it seems like their efforts (lighting money on fire) are likely to improve pedestrian safety, so it doesn't seem fair to blame them.
> "Airplane mechanic decides service manual incorrect, custom fix leads to 200 dead"

All airplanes of the identical model have an identical manual.

No two humans respond the same to complex (or often, even simple) health conditions/situations.

Just because we don't have enough docs doesn't mean custom solutions are the enemy.
Copyright is what allows that income in the first place.
Why not both? We shouldn't have flying humans, nor cars rolling over and dragging people.
https://www.youtube.com/@JJRicks has almost 200 videos of his Waymo rides at this point, and has probably captured everything one could hope to see them do.
I look forward to the absurd user interface rules that get proposed or even enshrined in federal regulation. It's an impossible task.

Alternate path: attach electrodes to kids, measure dopamine levels, and turn off the app if they go too high.

Simpler, but less fun: set the max time an app can be open.
The streets are otherwise empty - they don't need any data other than there is a car that just left a red light - it will most probably get to the next light in (calculate based on the speed limit) so we can turn the light in time. We typically have sensors in the road so we can detect which lane the car is as it goes through the next (now green) light and so make predictions and turn the next light green (sometimes two lights - one if it goes straight, one if it turns). Sure when there are two cars it becomes more difficult, but even then we can do a lot to time lights so most of them are green if you go straight.

Self driving car technology could be (at great expense) be used on all the cameras in a city to get a better picture of where people are really going and thus turn lights green to cause the least waiting.

Most cars sit at a light burning fuel and thus emitting CO2. Then they use a lot of fuel (read CO2) to get up to speed and at the next light that fuel is turned into heat by the brakes (hybrids can do some recharge, but they are not 100% efficient so there is still a lot of CO2 for no work)
"nationwide" oh boy, how exciting for their customers in the 191 other countries
Bernie Madoff and Sam Bankman-Fried both made the mistake of messing with the money of other rich people.
If you're not watching Sakurai's YouTube channel, you're missing out. We need more top tier creative people producing behind the scenes stuff like this. It's better than most game development books you can buy, and it's free.
It's remarkable that the paid version of Google accounts is in many ways a second class citizen to the free accounts. The only thing I have Workspace for is the custom domain, but that makes it incompatible with many other Google products. Totally bizarre.
> Put another way, code review is also about a level of trust. Will the committer be around next week? Are they on the same team as me? If yes, give them some leeway to commit incremental work and make improvements later. Not all incremental work need occur pre-commit. Mention areas for improvement, sure, but don't go overboard as a gatekeeper.

I think this is very important, especially the part about incremental improvement. too many see development as laying concrete where it has to be perfect rather than as an ongoing process.

and personally the only thing I find PR's good for is ensuring jackasses aren't doing stupid shit. And by stupid shit here I mean things like using floats for currency (I caught that w/i the last year), things of that nature.

But my preference is to work with people I can trust and at that point I don't give a crap about a PR or a code review.
Apple does do keyboard only repairs; but Apple has a policy that they never do partial repairs. Your laptop is sent back as it came, or fully repaired.

I’m not saying it’s right, but drinks trigger small indicators inside the chassis warning the technician that the board may have taken liquid damage. From Apple’s perspective, even if the board appears to be still functioning; it cannot be warrantied and should not be considered reliable (to them, it’s as good as broken).

On Apple’s scale, I do somewhat get it. You don’t want to give someone back a “repaired” laptop that burns out later from latent damage. But it’s still… expensive and overly cautious.

Edit: I guess it’s somewhat a matter of perspective on what the repair is meant to accomplish. For you, it’s “I want a working keyboard.” For Apple, it’s “fix all potential consequences of water damage and make it safe to use again.”
I think Moore's Law was always going to kill CE. It has several limitations that could not be worked around and were irrelevant 25 years ago but very relevant today.

In a world where Apple just stripped down their desktop OS to make a phone OS, there is no future for something like CE. This is why Microsoft just moved to using their desktop kernel for future versions of Windows Phone -- it makes porting software so much easier.
> people were talking about hyper convergence and running network functions in K8s and shit. Not sure how much of that materialized.

Cilium is a hyper-converged networking solution on top of Kubernetes that you will read about and think, okay that's pretty cool. It's given away for free by Google.

Is it so far fetched to say that if there are already Kubernetes facades for the major cloud vendor's virtual networking solutions, which have been around forever, there will be similar stuff for "on premises" customers too?
Because that's what happens to companies when they run out of cash to burn and still don't have a viable business. What do you think happened with Apple's massive self driving car division? Or Uber's? Lyft's? There are dozens of failed companies in the space already. Ultimately GM and Google are going to run out of patience as well.
My doctor is great and test both my zinc and copper regularly. So I only take zinc when my levels are getting close to the low level.

Zinc can inhibit the observe shows copper, so that’s why the copper tested.
One primary design goal togomak had from the beginning was concurrency. All tasks run concurrently, unless a `depends_on` argument is mentioned. `just` didn't support that when I was initially building togomak, but there is a feature coming in soon which I am looking forward to: https://github.com/casey/just/pull/1562 .

While I was building togomak, I read through Dagger [1], Earthly [2], Concourse CI [3], Jest and Make along with the stuff I was already working with - Jenkins, GitHub actions and GitLab CI. Dagger [1] is really great, I like its design - it supports writing pipelines in Python, Typescript, Go and a few more languages. togomak tries to abstract away a lot of it. Such as dependency management (in the case of python, the requirement of a python interpreter, and its package managers, etc). togomak is just a single statically-linked binary.

[1]: https://dagger.io/
[2]: https://earthly.dev/
[3]: https://concourse-ci.org/
I agree with you, and am reassured by cryptosystems that use 25519 and put on edge by those that use the P-curves (not because of backdoor conspiracy theories, which are silly, but because the P-curves are easy to mess up). But cryptography engineers increasingly disagree with me.
lol-actually Google engaged outside law firms that made millions of dollars in legal costs - in the end they just wanted me to go away - lol - so they settled for 'appropriate' compensation BUT left the liability intact.
> no human would be able to do.

You say this but as a motorcyclist I've learned to have my eyes everywhere. I suspect many others would say the same. You acclimate to the vehicle you most often control: if that's some woolly handling sluggish SUV then I suspect, no, you probably wouldn't have done well in this situation, but if you were more used to driving a vehicle that requires more attention I suspect you'd do better.
you do realize that you fire people (especially those NOT adding value), you'll make more profits?
There is no objective morality, so any such ethics committee must have to make some trade-offs that are a matter of opinion. We can already mostly agree as a society that protecting civil liberties is more important than having zero crime: otherwise we wouldn't have freedom of speech, freedom from unreasonable search and seizure, and other things which make it easier to commit crimes.
The Silent and Relentless Erosion of Corporate Soul
How do you propose they do so?
State security apparatus is forever in a conflict with personal privacy rights. Everything that protects Paul Public also protects Chris Criminal/Tommy Terrorist(/Randy Revolutionary), it's an old issue that pushes continuously for weakening any form of privacy protections from legal (investigators love that so much of our lives now lives in 3rd party hands so they can access it easier) to technological (the continuous assault on encryption since it became feasible for the average person to use in communications).

As a side note this is also something that anyone who works in privacy preserving software will have to recon with at some point if they think seriously about their goals. If your tools are strong enough to protect journalists (or insert whatever oppressed group you prefer) in hostile regimes it's good enough to protect criminals doing things you personally abhor.
Meanwhile, I went to an Apple Store to try to repair the button on my 4-yo iPad and the only comment from the Apple “Genius” was “your iPad is too old, get a new one”.
That isn't how it works.
If I remember correctly more focus was on the collectors inciting to abuse by paying for the videos or like creating a market for it.
A bus/tram that shows up every 3 minutes (average wait time 1.5 minutes) is going to generally beat dispatched self driving cars in terms of convenience. 20 busses per hour is a completely reasonable level of service for most of the day in a major city and doesn’t need any kind of routings because swapping lines has such a minimal wait time.

However, if you’ve only experienced terrible public transit then it seems like you need fundamental change rather than simply doing the same old things just better. Self driving seems like a solid fit for 2am, but driving empty vehicles only makes congestion worse.
For what it's worth, this sounds like the opposite of autism to me.

People with autism generally have less of a filter for familiar or ignorable stimuli. Where neurotypical people are generally able to tune out things they know or decide to not be relevant, people with autism have less ability to do that, and doing it is more draining for them.

If anything, it sounds more like ADHD to me. But armchair diagnosis is always fraught with peril, and the couple of dozen labels in the DSM-V are nowhere near enough to describe the millions of ways that brains can be different.
This has reached absurdity, everything we do releases dopamine. You would ban all activities humans do for pleasure.

If you want the make the case that IG is unhealthy you need to argue along a different axis because the problem with IG and heroine isn't that it makes dopamine.
This is by design, San Francisco discourages driving that way.
Cloud missed; shares fell :(
Sounds like they do... way mo testing.

Ba dum tss
it is profiting from shame and enabled by Google - please see my above comments for examples from US courts
> Uh, the Bill of Rights does not apply to corporations. It applies to humans. I recognize no other entities with rights.

So, you're saying that this new set of rules can be evaded by people wanting to form social media firms if they get someone to operate it as a sole proprietorship and then build a set of contractual financing, revenue-sharing, and decision-control arrangements around it that approximate (without, for the proprietor, the liability shield) a corporation, since it will then legally be a single human endowed with the rights of a human?
These are essentially synonyms:

> pass laws and enforce them

> strong arm private companies into obedience with threats of retaliatory regulation

Companies are also entities subject to laws, and enforcement of laws against companies absolutely involves strong-arming them.
Yup. And gaming as in board/roleplaying-games too.
In an OOP codebase, what I usually find is an if or switch with some enum which then calls something along the lines of SomeManager.shared.whatever().

Sorry for being cynical. I can't help it.
Is that what happened? MBAs and greed destroy a lot, but I’m not sure about Lisp machines. Beautiful hardware and software, but unbelievably expensive, and custom hardware was bound to lose out on performance.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210425
They have ~4.000 less employees comparing to the previous year.
You know why SSRIs work for some people and don’t work for others, because the people who it doesn’t work for don’t have depression caused by serotonin deficiency. Their depression is most likely caused by too much GABA.

Depression is a multi causal disorder.
What vehicle on the road in California weighs 1 ton?

A youth side by side I guess.
Superbly well put; I wish I’d learned this earlier in life.
Whats your point?

Their device features has been behind android for quite some time, with only a slight edge in overall maxed out performance.
5.5 billion gets you a bit over 2 miles of subway in nyc [1] these days, hardly the public transit revolution needed to make autonomous driving redundant

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-23/in-nyc-su...
States sue Meta claiming its platforms are addictive and harm kids mental health