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Awful people doing awful things. But never before in history have they had the tools to scale and amplify their behavior as they do today.

As we continue to see more and more evidence of the deleterious effects social media has, I keep wondering how the people employed in this industry rationalize their contributions to things like this, and lack of meaningful action in response to it.

Many Meta employees are here on HN. What are your thoughts when you read about how Meta seems ill-equipped and unmotivated to do anything about this? Do you care?

Seems like Meta could just disable mom-run accounts for minors with the flip of a switch and make a positive difference. The fact that they don't speaks volumes.

The rationalizations I've heard boil down to (a) money (b) nowhere else can you work on interesting technology innovations at the scale of Meta (c) if Meta didn't enable this someone else would and (d) idealistically hoping you can effect more positive change from within the beast than outside of it

Is there something else?

When I was there (part of the project), it all went to SAP R/3 on SQL Server and Windows. But I left in 2008 and I'm sure they have changed a few things since then :)

Microsoft completed a very successful SAP implementation, on SQL Server and Windows. After two failed attempts. I am probably one of the few people who worked on all 3 tries. And prior to that they had a few AS400s running the business.

I think there are also a lot of people who are only interested in RAG if they can self-host and keep their documents private.

I have Kaiser and when I need a new CPAP or supplies I just order from CPAPMan or whoever, and pay out of my HSA account. Not all plans allow HSAs though.

This is how a lot of big companies work. They self-insure. They set the rules, pay all the bills, and the insurance company just administers things.

If you work for a company that does this, be aware that the things you dislike about your insurance coverage may well have been designed that way by your employer, not the insurance company. Don't curse the insurance company when you don't like the benefits. Ask your manager and HR department why your employer chose that rule or limit.

I guess it varies by country. In the US they pull CPAP listings very quickly.

Policy: https://www.ebay.com/help/policies/prohibited-restricted-ite...

eBay is pretty good at enforcing their policy banning sales of medical equipment requiring a prescription. They yank any listing for a CPAP very quickly.

It is an oddly specific choice to use the word macaroon for this, given the widespread confusion over macaron vs. macaroon and how many other unambiguous variants of "cookie" are available for naming a piece of software that is a newer fancier cookie. I do not accept Wikipedia's milquetoast concession to call a macaron a "French macaroon".

Was it intentionally named as an allusion to this confusion? Software is full of hand-wringing over naming and the importance of naming. Is it supposed to be a kind of cookie that is often mistaken for a different cookie?

Or is this just another referer, a mistake that has been accepted as canon. Referer has the benefit of not being a real word at all though, so is less confusing.

When I saw the title and graphic I assumed it would be an article about conflict over cultural/language imperialism.

Fail2ban doesn't help when the attacker/abuser rotates their IP address constantly. I now look for aberrations in a few http headers they often neglect to spoof in their attempt to act like an honest human.

The phrase is usually "batteries included" not "and batteries"

Is there history or a meme that holds that z is for jump?

Just wondering if that is why the hotkey for the jump action in Baldur's Gate 3 is z

It is a great spot. Can be a tough entry when the surf is up. But overall I would say it is certainly among the best spots on Oahu for shore snorkeling. And it is just a 5 minute drive if you are staying at any of the condos or hotels at Ko Olina.

Kind of a hilarious take if you watch the keynote where significant time and a moving backdrop are devoted to highlighting the miasma of navigating across 100 apps on a smartphone. Decrying "just install another app" is a big part of the raison d'etre for the whole product!

To each their own, but I could not finish that book. Too much plodding coziness. It felt like reading something written by Cory Doctorow -- a lecture wrapped in a novel. But without any of the compelling momentum Doctorow employs to carry the allegory. Maybe it would have picked up a bit if I stuck with it, but I quickly tire of being hit on the head over and over with an author's novel-length not-so-thinly-veiled self-help message that perhaps should have been an opinion piece or short article.

I suspect he meant it as a pairing to his GOAT book, which he proudly claims is the first book simultaneously released through GPT-4. He encourages readers to engage with the book through ChatGPT 4 where you can give it prompts such as "list three amusing anecdotes about Keynes that I can share at a cocktail party"

Suggestion: under "works with your database" consider naming the databases rather than only offering a list of icons.

Also seems to be a bit of hubris to claim a SQL IDE "works with your database" when SQL Server and Oracle, two of the database products with the largest market share, are not supported (yet?)

I have a postfix server I've hosted on DO for over 15 years. It is only on the UCEPROTECT block lists that block all of DO, everything else is clean. I use it mostly for receive-only and use Amazon SES to send anything where deliverability to customers is important.

What's a solid low cost ($5/month) VPS provider that is below the radar for this kind of broad brush blocking based on guilt by association? Thinking of making a move, but I kind of hate to give up the 15 years of good reputation on my IP address and starting over.

The whole blog post is very tech company product oriented and seems almost completely oblivious to the vast number of software engineers building line of business applications for internal use, under the COO's budget.

They usually follow a predictable pattern, like trying to hit every (almost entirely invalid) URL starting /product/1 /product/2 /product/3 and on up through the millions. They also will rotate the User Agent but neglect realistic/authentic values for other request headers.

NYT article comments section is worth a read to fill in more anecdotes adjacent to this article's subject. It is striking that the article features the word "corruption" only in a positive light ("many types of corruption have been reined in") and the word "caste" appears not once.

My Windows 10 desktop is not supported for upgrade to Windows 11, but still does everything I ask of it with no slowdowns, compromises, or sacrifices that I can observe, including running Baldur's Gate 3 at full fidelity and experimenting with self-hosting 7B LLMs.

Every attack of significance I see these days uses rotating IP addresses.

I've tried LocalGPT, PrivateGPT, and H2OGPT. Have you been satisfied with the responses you get from PrivateGPT? When I tried it, it seemed very shallow/cursory in its responses. I saw much more detailed and complete responses when trying H2OGPT.

There was the somewhat recent issue in Seattle where a station included an image file with no file extension, and it bricked the radios in Mazdas: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2022/02/radio-station-snafu-in-...

I have a little hobby project where I record an FM radio music station using a SDR and then remove all the non-music portions for offline listening. I like the music selections the DJs pick, but I prefer not to listen to the DJ commentary and the advertisements.

I evaluated three methods of recording: analog capture from a standalone FM receiver, using this nrsc5 library to record the "HD" radio stream, and using an AirSpy SDR with this library: https://github.com/jj1bdx/airspy-fmradion

Recording the "HD" (what a misnomer) radio was nice in that there was no hiss or multipath effects, but in comparison to the other methods the digital compression artifacts became impossible to un-hear. It seems to top out at about 96 kbps

The airspy-fmradion library has some nice stuff in it to address multipath, resulting in the best audio quality of the three methods I tested.

I use https://github.com/ina-foss/inaSpeechSegmenter to identify which segments of the recordings are speech vs. music.

And despite being illegal, lead is still in the majority of paint tested in India

So you have to read between the lines and infer that "artificial colour" might be lead? Seems needlessly vague.

Would be nice to see some energy around ideas like eliminating the stepped up cost basis on inherited housing and using that new tax revenue to fund social housing.