skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the American oligarchy wasn't so keen on destabilising its counterparts with
sanctions and military coups I'm pretty sure Venezuela and many others in the middle east would be in a much better shape. But then again that would require the amercain people to wake up, ask itself the right questions and act on it :)
That is a while extra level above what was being suggested.
Out of interest, which programming language do you prefer?
The USA makes up only about 8-10% (250M) of total Facebook users (3B) based on a quick search I just did.

They're not even the largest user base by country, which is apparently India.
Come on, OpenAI launched gpt4 in EU in sync.

Laws are not the issue, their model being crap at non-english languages is.
although usually LLMs don't care, I would have also tried fixing the typo “Francico” and see if Claude acts differently
Exactly what will that achieve?
If someone manages to access the running raspberry pi though, FDE doesn't protect against that, while the Syncthing's untrusted device encryption does.
Same here. Jumped ship in late 2021 for a 50% pay increase. Haven't had a pay rise with new employer since. They have one more chance this annual review cycle or I'm jumping again.

My monthly mandatory expenses (excluding mortgage, since it's fixed for now) have crept up 15-20% this year.

Just renewed my home insurance it's gone up 40% since Dec 22

In 4 years I'm expecting my mortgage payments (my biggest expense) to increase at least 30%.

We're pretty comfortable, and think we stay off the hedonic treadmill as much as possible, but looking to start a family and I have a lot of financial anxiety despite a decent 6 figure salary in London

Total (not marginal) tax burden on my salary is >40% and getting worse every year due to fiscal drag.
> six protons per 1.3 cubic yards

I assume this is some weird attempt to translate "cubic meter" for a US audience?
It's not they do it too, it's "they are the ones who do it". There is no "too" in this context for the average western user. Unless there's proof indicating otherwise.
Elon Musk is known to fire people that support unions openly. I very much doubt they will tell the whole truth if asked, unless it is personally by a friend, not by a newspaper.
If their entire user base is American, and exactly half are women, and every single one of those women have had an abortion in the last year, and they all live in states where it's illegal, yeah, half of their customers might end up in jail.
> People that forget a password, lose their wallet, encounter fraud, need to walk into banks occasionally

hmm these seem to be usecases that are almost impossible for bitcoin/blockchains that say "cheap transaction fees / trust in the system" due to no-person-in-the-loop...
And give a heads up for those that were about to purchase a ChatGPT Pro subscription as Xmas present, to wait one more month.
Everything in life is only for now.
You just invented cooperatives. Which is indeed a significant part of what communists wish to achieve. Now you gotta wonder: is workplace democracy such a bad thing?
The banners (in their annoying form) are illegal under gdpr and sites are pivoting away. The DNT header will replace it, as it entirely suffices to signal my opting out: I tell the site owner in a machine readable form that I don’t wish to be tracked. There was no legal basis for this to mean anything before.
It feels pretty good to not be sold out by my government to the highest bidding tech company and if the price I’m paying is having no access to wildly overhyped AI toys, I’ll manage.
Absolutely right, and for that reason most tech-savvy people will still not trust Meta with their data. But that they start encrypting end-to-end is a good thing, regardless.
Australia also has very strong consumer protection laws. I'm not an Aussie, but many come here and tell us about it. It doesn't seem to scare companies away from doing B2C business in Australia.
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That’s the wallstreetbets angry meme explanation but not what happened.

What actually happened is brokerages are required to hold capital reserves to cover options held by customers. You can spend a few dollars and your brokerage is required to have sometimes tens or hundreds of thousands in the bank to cover your option.

During peak memestock options activity went to a crazy unprecedented level, Robinhood had to raise billions of dollars in a day or two, like nearly four billion in a few days. And it wasn’t enough so they had to stop trading or put limits on buying options for GameStop and a few others. Etrade and interactive brokers at least also did.

They didn’t go bankrupt or get stomped by regulators or congress because they were behaving within the law and reasonably in an unprecedented situation.

My understanding comes from articles like this one https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2021/02/03/why-investors-were-willi...
Why pull it off when you don't have to do anything and the bugs just fall out for you to use anyways?
No, you're just hearing about ZFS corruption like you've heard corruption in other filesystems, this wont be the first and last.

Its easy to feel like its being targeted with some kind of campaign, however the truth is rarely that exciting. The software is being used by more people, which means it will expose more bugs.

No software is perfect, it just now starting to be abused enough to be important enough to be talked about. This stage is entirely normal.
Personally, I am not attached to chat history and am totally fine with losing it. I've never backed up any chat history, and to be honest I feel weird about having 10 years old chats on my messenger account.

I might screenshot some important messages, but that's about it.
That would be a dangerous movement. Sperm whales can kill easily an human with their sounds.
What’s the total cost of encryption engineering / bau? I assume the ‘Facebook cares about my privacy’ goodwill from unknowing users will be worth more, but building a ‘secure’ public reputation has to start somewhere.
I don't think people ignore it. It's just that ROI for crypto has not materialized.
Facebook might be a US tech company, but the US isn't their largest user base, that crown currently goes to India according to Statista:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/268136/top-15-countries-...
Workplace Democracy
The UK is insane. I left in 2020 and came back to visit recently, things are over 50% more expensive. I used to buy 20 chicken nuggets for £4, it was £6.50 or something. Pints are £7+ instead of £4.

I stayed with a friend and he kept his flat at 15c because heating beyond that was too expensive. I used to keep it at 18 and didn't even consider the costs (once I stopped being a student).

I appreciate that the 22% more expensive is on average, but the things that I care about have gotten significantly more expensive. It really killed any desire I have of ever moving back there.
The link gives a not-secure warning. First thing is to enable HTTPS before launch.
Learned my lesson. They will not see a cent of my money.
It's exactly what I do. I always try to bring the interviewer on a territory I am comfortable with and paint myself in a good light.

If you seem hesitant, if you seem unsure about what you did and why, it's not good. Why should an employer trust you with the job if even you don't trust yourself that much.

From two people, one with lower technical skills but with good people skills, projecting trust and confidence, the other with better technical skills, the former will almost always win the job. Employers want wheels that work well with other wheels and turn fast.
Can you share some examples of tax benefits they got? I'm imagining that the cost of keeping a office open far exceeds the tax benefits they would receive in return, and I doubt that local governments really track the frequency of how often workers are going into the office. Probably, having people attend the office "on paper" but with a low mandated frequency like 1 day a week would be enough to legally satisfy whichever agreements they made.
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Or not at all. If the 45% are exactly on the mark with inflation, then the average would be significantly below inflation. The 45% would have to significantly exceed inflation for it to be spot on. And of course even then it's little solace for the 55% that someone else is keeping up
At lower optimisation levels there's a register allocated by the JVM to refer back to the bytecode, which makes things easy. In principle they could change that with a JVM revision - but in practice they don't, so it's an easy cheat.

We have some ability to walk data structures and the re-compute the program's behaviour by other means, which I probably shouldn't get into here. I think we could fall back on that more-or-less completely if we couldn't retrieve the bytecode pointer directly.

The fact the JVM introduces Safe Points to help it transition between optimisation levels is quite helpful!

Our original intention was to always fork a copy of the JVM back in time to handle Java debug protocol requests but that turned out to be painful and, thankfully, also unnecessary.
I hope we will find a way to fix it without ruining all the good stuff - open borders, free market, consistent regulatory practices. European land is soacked with blood, Alsace–Lorraine, all that. A war between France and Germany seems absolutely unimaginable now - but it shouldn't be. Only 70-odd years ago Germans were exterminating French citizens of jewish descent while Brits were bombing german cities to the ground). When I say to my friends this horrible past is not gone for good and can come back if we're not careful, they think I'm mental, but I'm not. Russia and Ukraine is a lesson of a bad joke that became a reality.

That's exactly why the nationalistic resentiment in Europe is so dangerous - we all know all to well what exactly it can culminate into. Unfortunately, I don't see a trend towards fixing the problems within EU - the beauracrats fully embraced old european maximas, "After me, the flood" and "Let them eat cake". Someone should remind them where all that leads to.
I mean, sure yeah don't go to China. That's a pretty solid advice. But again, that's irrelevant for the average western user. Even with civil rights, the potential to get hurt by a western government while living in the west is orders of magnitude more probable than getting anything from the CCP or China. But yeah don't do layovers in China if you are a dissident, though I don't think that's an especially common scenario
The wage gap was always nonsense meant to get people angry at the working class over inequality not caused by the working class. Notice how governments never spread propaganda about the WEALTH gap or insist wealthy people redistribute their assets to various minority groups. When governments focus on the evils of wages and ignore wealth, just understand they're trying to stoke hatred and prejudice between poor members of various identity groups to distract people from the fact that the wealthy are fucking everybody.
Because the Wallstreet bet types don’t really use them?
They do work but often Steam Input messes them up.
>Storytelling is overrated – in interviews, in marketing, in non-fictional books.

>Clear communication is key.

That is dependant on what you are trying to achieve.
Ye. Story telling is important for the non-technical part of interviews (although some technical interview do benefit from some story telling). It won't save you from having to cram leetcode for days.
Yep, that's the old convenience vs. privacy dilemma...
Thanks!

I use it for classification for a personal project (non-commercial) and, for me, they are both pretty close in terms of quality. GPT-4 is better, but has a shorter window. I was hoping to reduce costs by using Claude exclusively, but that bug makes it too unreliable, sadly.
It’s not the future, it’s the present. You can build it with gpt4-v today.
> In addition the untrusted device must not be able to modify, remove or introduce data by itself without detection.

It sounds like that property is satisfied on a file-by-file level. But what about between files? Can the untrusted device delete some files without it being detected? Or un-delete deleted files? Or selectively revert files to older versions? The documentation describes how each file gets a signed blob containing the file’s metadata and hashes of its contents, but there’s no mention of any signed structure containing the state of the directory tree as a whole. So judging (only) by the documentation, it sounds like the answer to all of those questions is yes.

YMMV on how big of an issue that is. It helps that the attacker theoretically shouldn’t know which file is which. But imagine, say, a Git checkout of an open-source codebase being stored in a Syncthing folder. The attacker can guess which file is which based on file sizes and modification patterns. At that point, selectively reverting files might be able to mess up the code being stored, or associated configuration, in a way that creates some sort of vulnerability.

Apologies if I’m misunderstanding the security guarantees; again, I’m only going off of what the linked page says.
You can export all your FB data easily anytime, in the sense that is also easy for casual users.
There are various things that go into inflation, and wages are only a small part of it. Wage price spirals are very unlikely and have not been demonstrated. Wages are not 100% of the cost of products, so even if companies directly increase product prices exactly by labor cost increases, the product prices would not increase by as much as wages did.

More likely causes for system wide inflation generally lie in limited substitution options for people. If they have to buy from limited options, either because of a lack or supply or because of monopolistic behavior, prices can be jacked up as undercutting is of no concern. This can happen both at the finished products level, or somewhere in the chain. E.g. the cost of gasoline goes up due to lack of alternatives and since it is used by companies making and transporting many types of products, prices go up everywhere.
Etrade also did and it’s the retail trading arm of Morgan Stanley which is the sixth biggest bank in the country…

I don’t know what your qualifications for a proper brokerage could be.
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LongScope: Assessing fragmented knowledge use in extended contexts
What is a 'soft' shadow?
Since they control the client, is it possible that the "ad profiling" can still take place on the client, after the message is received and decrypted for visualisation?

The E2EE only means the message is not readable "in transit" (as in after it leaves a Facebook client)
The number of users matters much less for FB. The amount of users which can be monetized matters much more and the CPC for US users is always much higher than other countries.
I don't know my DAILY burn rate, but monthly. Otherwise, it is a very nice simple project. Good job!
Can someone please confirm: Is forced binding arbitrage allowed in EU/EEA/EFTA?

If no, what happens if you are a customer from France or Germany? It seems like this contract is totally unenforceable!

A bit deeper, I really wish it was illegal to create intentionally unenforceable contracts. Too many companies create these incredibly scary contracts that no mortal human can understand, let alone know if unenforceable.
Fun fact: There's also 2X speed floppy drives, and maybe even higher. So this can be improved further with the right drives.

I believe they were mainly used in things like photo cameras, during the short period of time when photo cameras used floppies to store stuff, and the slow write speed was a bottleneck.
I understand!
Henceforth I will compare my style of living to Nottingham and from that point of view everything is awesome. :D
I'd like to shout this youtube channel[0] which often features a "Cabinet of curiosities" episode about some rare and vintage items, explaining all the context, history and technology associated.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/@CanadianMacGyver/videos
So, just disable push notifications -> No tracking?
It is deployed on Vercel, weird!
> Whatever happened to that infectious, enthusiastic incarnation of wired magazine?

And not just Wired. It seems everything was more optimistic and exciting 10 years before whenever you’re reading this comment.
I tell them "Hey, I've used this question before when I'm interviewing developers" (often not true, but what's a little white lie), then explain what I'm looking for in a developer when asking those kind of questions.

It makes the point that while those kind of coding challenges could be a useful filter or signal, it also stresses that I'm looking for a senior developer role and that perhaps time would be better spent assessing that part of my skill-set.

I also had an interview where I joked, "You're not going to ask me to define SOLID are you?".

The interviewer sheepishly replied that they only ask that if the person puts it on their CV, before scrambling for a different question to ask.
Or a less cynical take is just reassurance that they will continue their previous nine year method and not start "price adjust" every year like most SaaS do nowadays.
It's safe to make the assumption that the tool isn't magic.
This is interesting. Can anyone provide more details?
Is it a problem if the disk is encrypted ?
Encryption is a great argument against messenger-interop regulations like the EU is planning.

https://www.eff.org/de/deeplinks/2022/04/eu-digital-markets-...
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everything not running in a browser is bad, b/c it's not within reach of the fullstack shitheads /s
People on both sides of the table have the common misconception that coding challenges are about solving the problem. They're not, coding challenges are there for me to gain an insight into how you think through problems and the questions you ask are 100x more important to me than the code you write.

I have a colleague who, every coding challenge, immediately started by writing a bunch of tests and asking questions around the edge cases so that he could clarify the exact specs of the task he was being asked to perform. Any interviewer who didn't roll with that was a sign to him that there probably wasn't an engineering maturity culture fit and helped eliminate a lot of companies.

The story he was trying to tell was that he was an engineer that considered understanding the problem to be a much more important task than understanding the solution and he managed to tell it via the way he approached whiteboard coding.
> Producing an ad for Tesla

A negative one. So the motor in a Tesla does not last for long.
The law might get fixed eventually, but I fear we will never go back to how the web was before because flooding people's screens with popups has become the norm everywhere and among all types of organisations with very few exceptions.
Not that weird, but I've thought about RAIDing some USB thumb drives together. Might actually be a good way to get practice with your choice of RAID software for cheap, come to think of it.
WhatsApp is end-to-end encrypted, but all messages have to be stored locally, which is a problem on cheap smartphones. Telegram can work on a cheap smartphone by storing most messages server-side, but it's not end-to-end encrypted by default. Would be great to get the best of both worlds with Messenger, and see the other messaging apps follow suit.
> The cookie banners are a bad outcome for sure, but GDPR does not mandate them

Not only that but the terrible banners you get are very often not compliant with GDPR.
>Who doesn't say dumb shit sometimes? Why would that bother me?

I do not mean you should stop loving Elon if he says say some dumb stuff, but why should Elon fans defend dumb stuff with even more dumb arguments.
They could, but somebody would have to write that FOSS wifistack.
You could not run selfcompiled versions of the stack on any hardware that has been FCC certified, because if you could, the certs would be gone once again.

Wifi is shared spectrum and devices using are licenced to make sure they conform to the local regulations. One size does not fit all.
For example 2.4GHz wifi channel 13 is legal in EU, but in USA it falls on a govt owned band.
This is why companies like Mikrotik or Ubiquiti have specific hardware versions for USA.
So that they verifiably cannot be set on illegal channels by the enduser.
> When I buy something on the internet, I have 14 days to return it if I don't like it

One (unintended?) consequence of this is that as a consumer, you cannot buy an annual digital motorway toll pass in Austria with immediate validity. The earliest your pass can start from is 18 days from the date of purchase.

"Customers can withdraw from the online purchase of a digital vignette within 14 days. Taking into account a further three-day period for mail, your digital 2-months and annual vignette is only valid from the 18th day after purchase."

https://www.asfinag.at/en/toll/vignette/digital-vignette/

How glorious that it's necessary to include 3 extra days to cover the potential delivery time of postal mail in the event of a return for an entirely digital product :/

The workaround for this - which I discovered last time I drove a rental car in Austria - is to tick the box that says "I'm a business, not a consumer". You don't need to prove you're a business, just to tick the box. Consumer protection nullified, can purchase product valid immediately.... <sigh>
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perhaps you are missing the redirect to www?
Give it a decade or two. The increasing amount of things we store digitally and the risk of exposure or losing them rises day by day, with it the amount of people who were credit scammed, crypto stolen, bully sharing explicit images etc, not speaking of scandals like Meta had. Not long ago people didn't care about their home being energy efficient either.
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Weren't they also in direct communication with the (I think non-existing) hedge fund that would benefit from them allowing only to sell?
Have there ever been a successful business which operated as a representative democracy (CEO elected on a 4 year cycle, universal suffrage of full time employees)?
Puts a bad taste in my mouth the only individual represented in the article is the CEO when they even call out that it was an individual who discovered it.
Wow, this is grim. Especially in conjunction with the article highlighting an aging population. I'm guessing a lot of young Italian professionals move abroad as it offers better salaries?
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>Gamestop meme traders deliberately set out to smash the system

That is a very strange and biased POV. They did the exact same thing as people have done for years and years, the only difference being this was joined by many people not in the industry.
This is a product marketing video, not a demo.
Narrative and clear communication aren’t mutually exclusive, but they are difficult to balance.

Storytelling is a skill.
> 1 - The extensive reach of the law is breathtaking.

Not really, it's about the rights of people represented by the EU.
Yes, Firebase / Firestore has this capability. You grant access to collections (and even fields) using rulesets[0].

Firestore is a NoSQL db so it's a quite different paradigmatically though.

[0] - https://firebase.google.com/docs/firestore/security/get-star...
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Fidelity has been down at least a dozen times this year, for hours at a time during trading hours. It's not exactly a halt, but effectively same boat.
At this point, with the impact they have on the global stage and the fact that they will only pay their taxes where they want, it's a but irrelevant to keep this frame of thoughts.