skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Because differential pricing gives you power over human behavior, allowing you to make even more money. For example, by influencing public discourse and attaining regulatory capture.
Linus Torvalds: “Do No Harm”
How to Design Better CTAs
If one person can promote, demote and fire the other, that's a potentially huge can of worms even when the manager isn't starting the relationship off with casual abuse of power. Maybe some of the other complex thoughts should be like, "Can the manager be trusted not to play favorites with their lover?" and "How will the rest of the team react?" and "If this relationship goes south, can they avoid the appearance--and actuality--of retaliation?" There's a reason a sizable minority of companies have HR policies prohibiting office romances between two people in the same reporting chain, and it's not (solely) because HR professionals are big jerky jerk stick-in-the-muds.
More a sad commentary of how many people think there's some magic bullet of security practices and if they just follow those, then they won't be hacked.

If you don't assume that you will be hacked, then you won't design in auditing, alerting and containment that will tell you when you've been hacked, let you determine what data was compromised, and prevent the attacker from having free reign over all of your systems.

Otherwise, you'll be like a former coworker that refused to secure internal systems because "We paid a lot of money for our firewall, it's going to block any hackers". It took me less than 30 minutes on my first day to hack the login passwords of senior executives because they logged into a non-SSL reporting server (and I did through a simple MAC overflow attack on a network switch from a network port in the break room)
Not sure about that! The magpie can be spectacular.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYEYc8Ge3nw

Edit: Australian Magpie is NOT a corvid, they just share the same name as the European Magpie because of the look. Oh well.

http://coyot.es/thecorvidblog/2016/03/07/australian-magpies-...
This is somewhat in the works.

There is an issue on GitLab to enable federated pull requests and I believe Gogs/Gitea community is working on getting some sort of standard figured out if I'm not mistaken.
Could you tell us a bit more? How did the doctor establish that bacteria was the problem? I started having problems after having something like a flu, with thick yellow stuff coming out of my eyes. The ear doctor I saw didn't have many ideas.
Also if you're in the DC area, it's really worth going to the National Air & Space Museum, as well as their 'oversize' Udvar Hazy centre. The out of town place is special and hardly gets any tourists, even though they have an SR-71 and the Shuttle, Discovery. Other things include an X-15, the Enola Gay (feels weird if you've visited Hiroshima too), an exhibit on the Keyhole satellite program, a U2 and tons more. I don't think they have an F117, sadly.
It's good enough for basic use of apps. I can read my e-books fine, browsing works as well. Yes, the letters are a bit dotty, but that's not an impediment. It's less comfortable as using a high res physical screen in front of you, but for terminal work it doesn't matter that much. I'm not sure about the resolution 1024x768 or higher depending on how close you are to the virtual screen. Do you remember working with 1024x768 screens? It's like that
The rule is simple. No messing with your employees. Even if they want you to.
Nice photos. Most with authentic accessories. Including the the last photo out of a flat window of an eastern bloc soviet style concrete fab building (probably common in 1980s era Poland)

Little nit-picking: The Duke Nukem 3D running on an 300 MHz is a bit out of era, given it was almost 2 years old game when the hardware got release. Quake 2, Hexen 2, Unreal 1, Half Life 1 or Age of Empires 1 would be games of that era (end of 1997/early 1998). (mind that MHz race was in full speed back in late 1990s, a two year old PC was considered "stone age", a two year old game looked "like from stone age")
Add "temporarily" to both your statements, see how simple it really is. To add 2 more things that makes it even less simple:

- "People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both".

- Apple is screwing over developers AS A BUSINESS MODEL (de-value your complements) - and you want me, a developer, to support them?
The security triad is the following:

1. Something you know
2. Something you are
3. Something you have

Unfortunately, the security of an SSN is it's something which the government gave you, and doesn't fall into the security triad.

So when a loan is approved, it's approved with data that may have been made public, either through public records, or through data breaches. The SSN and birth date were never meant to secure financial loans with, and should never have been in the first place.
I agree. If my boss instructs me to implement data collection, then the company must be liable for everything that proceeds from there. Full stop. If that is too much of a risk, then companies will have to NOT COLLECT DATA.
> I totally disagree here; I don't think Fossil user interface is superior at all!

Have you even used it? I'm using both fossil and git and I find fossil's CLI and integrated documentation vastly susperior to git's in terms of usability.
Will users outside the US have to pay extra for netflix etc?
Huh. That's an interesting term. Thanks!
I've read Genius, but "Surely you're joking Mr. Feynmane" and "What do you care what other people think" are his best auto-biographies.

I believe they were mentioned in both Larry Page and Serge Brin favorite books.
We've been seeing this type of articles from the New York Times on an almost daily basis recently. Given that the New York Times considers Facebook, Google and Apple as direct threats to its business model, I think the use of words like "evil" in this context is an insult to their readers' intelligence.
What is “safe” about storing $1000 on a piece of paper that you “forget about for five years”?
Personally, I don't like either. I've found the CLI to be rather confusing, especially since there is no default SQLite filename so I can just go without having to type it all the time (that was last time I tried it).

The Web UI doesn't fare better and it somewhere on the lower half of my UX shitlist.
>My first short-term suggestion for a newbie is to buy and read "The C Programming Language", 2nd Edition, by Kernighan and Ritchie (K&R2).

Many parts of this book, even in the first few chapters, seem like they were written for someone that's already a programmer in another language. I ended up giving up on it to use another source because it didn't seem to explain anything very well to a beginner. I'm going to attempt it again once I finish reading a gentler introduction.
What I find important to talk about is the narrative that "if you think your company hasn't been broken into, you just don't know it".

Of course no system is 100% secure, but the narrative that it's inevitable anyways is often used as a defense for bad practices (like in the Equifax case).

Breaches might happen but it is not inevitable. And good practices can still have an impact on how often breaches happen, how much is stolen, and how useful the data is to the intruder.

I always get angry when I see some company head like "we will be broken into anyways, why even try?". They won't do that with their physical company location, why with their network? Because they don't really care about other people's data.
Rodent research is a horrible testing method. This video explains it well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHl0nIdbiLA
You'd want to be careful doing that. When people are upset, they sometimes shoot the messenger. It seems to happen a lot in security.
> isn't worth the extra 600k

Do you really think you should pay twice as much in the US compared to other countries with equal quality?
It's pretty hard to shut down open source
When it comes to security, there are no dumb questions.
You might be interested to know that there's more than one documentary. 4 in total!
Kind of. Say an ISP cuts a deal with Google to make all Google's traffic higher priority than other traffic. When customers are using less than the network's full capacity nothing changes - all traffic goes through at full line speed. But as soon as any buffer starts to fill up on any device on the ISP network (because of network congestion) the network devices will pull Google's packets from the buffer more often than other traffic until the buffer is empty. Then it's back to line speed for everything.
The wiki, issue-tracker and web pages are all available off-line, just like the source code.
...isn't that sort of what a massage is?
If you got all your information from this article you would be surprised that, for example, 82% of Americans have a favorable view of Google. It's like the old school media is trying to manufacture negative opinions of the new school.

https://www.cnet.com/news/googles-approval-ratings-best-appl...
What does your about:support say about accessibility?
How is bitcoin useful? Other coins do exactly the same thing with faster transactions, more anonymity, and lower fees.
Public money and honesty.
This is pretty much circular at this point. I’d say the risk/reward (no matter how much money can divert risk) is not great enough or we’d have already seen this happen pre-Open Internet
> Is it possible to use bcache in front of an NFS volume?

No, because bcache only works for a block device, whereas NFS presents itself as a pseudo filesystem (NFS) to the target.

You could however use bcache as a local accelerator for a remote iSCSI target.
>so, there's some of that carbon expenditure going into computers and networks to manage these transactions?

Yes, but a bit less, with high confidence.

>Banks also use your money to make more money for themselves, does that bother you at all?

Not really, miners in bitcoin also make money, don't they?

Additionally, European Banks announced they're starting SCT Inst, SEPA transactions which are confirmed in 15 seconds instead of overnight. My bank doesn't charge me fees for it.

Why bother with bitcoin's immense carbon footprint when it can't beat the lower effective carbon footprint of banks if they are faster and cheaper?

>but they're definitely a step in the right direction.

I can agree with that, but they need to fix things to be applicable for a wider audience.

> we can certainly observe the current networks and come up with better ones in the future.

I'm currently somewhat invested in Ethereum since they plan to go into PoS which would be immensely more efficient.

>so, are you suggesting that we stop reproduction and burning fossil fuels and slow down the "advance of entropy"? (or is it just bitcoin you want stopped?)

No at all, just refuting that you can decreaser net entropy.

>Also, "net increase" in what system?

In the closed system that is the reachable universe. In any closed system, net entropy increases over time. That's nothing inherently bad, just a property of closed systems.

You can somewhat "cheat" and decrease entropy in some parts of the system but the entire system will increase or not decrease it's entropy.
You have my respect.

Your profile says "Contact me" but there's no contact info.

(It also says: “if you're going to claim something, please cite!” :) )
Ikea uses a variety of screws, even though their best known "key to happiness"-type screws are hex drive. Anything below a certain size will have a different head, though. Small wood-holding screws, for example. Or the "sticky out" bits that their screw locks can attach to.

Here's a Google image search for "ikea screws" showing a selection: https://www.google.de/search?tbm=isch&q=ikea+screws
The article brings up three critiques of tech:

+Tech is destroying the young via social media

+Tech is causing the social media addiction deliberately to profit off of it

+Tech giants are monopolies (Apple/Google/Microsoft) that invade privacy and impose unfair conditions on content creators and smaller competitors.

Then at the end the author proposes a rebranding of tech:

> Imagine if instead of claiming to offer us the best things in life, tech merely saw itself as providing efficiency devices. Its innovations can save us time on lower-level tasks so we can get offline and there experience the best things in life.

> Imagine if tech pitched itself that way. That would be an amazing show of realism and, especially, humility, which these days is the ultimate and most disruptive technology.

So rebranding is going to make everything right? Who is he writing to, the public or the tech companies? Is he trying to give them advice on how rebrand themselves to appear to be less evil? I can understand his critiques of tech, but his proposed solution falls quite short of the mark!
The social atomization trend in the west began long before facebooks and googles even existed, before the Internet was available to the general public. They, and Facebook in particular, probably aren't helping but they didn't cause it either.

What bothers me the most about these tech giants is the complete about face on free speech. Companies that couldn't exist without it, that couldn't have been founded without the open web (Google) and belief in freedom of communication (Twitter), as bastions of free speech (Reddit) are now busy coming up with new ways to censor their users. This is part of their progressive culture mentioned in the OP but a very specific one.

I don't know how many people still care but this is how they lost all my goodwill towards them.
> Their technologies are extremely useful for the tasks and pleasures that require shallower forms of consciousness, but they often crowd out and destroy the deeper forms of consciousness people need to thrive.

Boy that's a hell of a label to stick on all the technology produced by Google, Facebook and Apple. How do you even get all three of those companies into one bucket without just making it a stupidly big bucket? One is a search and advertising company with a bunch of side business, another is an innovative hardware company with a bunch of side businesses, and the third is an addictive social network. They're all "tech" and they're destroying our deeper consciousness? Ok.
A community where makers share their projects and progress
I think it makes sense because retail ISPs operate in a two-sided market. Comcast provides access to Internet services, which customers want and are willing to pay for. Similarly, Comcast provides access to customers, which the Internet companies who provide those services (and associated CDNs and transit providers) want and are willing to pay for.

I don't think there's anything especially wrong with this business model. It's similar to how a newspaper charges both readers and advertisers for access. The disadvantage is that you have to keep both parties happy.

Incidentally, if customers uploaded the same amount of data as the Internet services, Comcast wouldn't get transit fees but it would get additional revenue from the customers, so I think things would balance out.
Jimmy. Jimmy 2020, my man. Did you click the link? Did you notice how every link on the page links to a free video? Did you see the paragraph at the top of the page explaining that these free videos are part of a larger course?

No? Huh.
On the other hand, I have gutted and butchered whole animals before, and still happily eat meat.

Good on you for sticking to your morals though. I don't mind vegetarians or vegans or whatever, but the one group that really annoys me is people who eat meat, but get upset seeing animals get butchered.
I dunno, how evil is the media?
An Easy, Extra $20B/Year for Amazon? An Open Letter to Jeff Bezos (2014)
No-- the cloning operation didn't preserve the partition information. When I first bisected/found the issue I thought it was as you describe, but it's really just that cloning 0'd it out in the new copy and everything else was proper.
I like a lot of the minor tools that I don't use often, but come in handy when I need them.

Avy Mode, which I suppose is the successor to Jump Mode. Letters light up across the buffer and you can quickly navigate to where you want.

Multi-cursor mode. A Sublime killer feature. Wasn't exclusive very long.

Not sure what it's called, but it binds window changing to shift arrow. Probably my best time-saver.
There is a very good practical reason why the compositor is in no position to fix that even if it could theoretically be possible.

A major source for the compositor latency (or actually, the increased response time you get with a compositor) is that the "render to back buffer" (ie. compositor's texture, at the best case) and the "blit to the front buffer" (which happens by the compositor by drawing the window geometry) do not happen at the same time.

From a technical perspective it is perfectly possible for a compositor to create a tight integration between a program and the compositor itself: simply synchronize the program's updates with the compositor updates. Every time the program says "i'm done drawing" (either via an explicit notification to the compositor, via glXSwapBuffers or whatever), issue a screen update.

The problem however here is the compositor has to take into account multiple windows from multiple programs so you cannot have a single window dictating the compositor updates. Imagine for example two windows with animations running, one at 100fps and another at 130fps. Depending which window is active (assuming that the compositor syncs itself with the active window), it would affect the perception of other window's updates (since what the user will see will be at the rate of the foreground window's update rate). Moreover, beyond just the perception, it will also affect the other windows' animation loops themselves - if a background window finishes drawing itself and notifies the compositor while the compositor is in the middle of an update, the background window will have to wait until the update is finished - thus having the foreground window indirectly also affect the animation loops of the background windows. This can be avoided through triple buffering, but that introduces an extra frame of latency - at least for background windows.

So to avoid the above problems, what all compositors do is to decouple window update notifications from screen updates and instead perform the screen updates at some predefined interval - usually the monitor refresh rate and they do the updates synchronized to it. However that creates the increased response time you get with the compositor being on a few milliseconds behind the user's actions, with the most common example would be window manipulation like resizing and moving windows lagging behind the mouse cursor (which is drawn by the GPU directly, thus bypassing the compositor).

Hence the linked article recommending a 144Hz monitor to avoid this, although this is just a workaround that makes the problem less visible but doesn't really solve it.
I’ve seen a fair few industrial accidents including amputations and deaths. I don’t think that the injuries we have each seen are very relevant.
The things that are detected and punished are not necessarily the things that cause harm. Smoking pot a week ago isn’t actually a problem. Being tired from watching Netflix all night is far worse, as are a few other things, including drugs which aren’t readily detected. The imperfect system currently used causes one hell of a lot of harm. There needs to be something, but the current system isn’t right.
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Yes, that precisely what I wanted to say. For newbies, I would recommend to read this fantastic book on Deep work [1]

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Deep-Work-Focused-Success-Distracted/...
Used to be good, but too many copycats has saturated the aurora of the primitive technologist.
I mean, i’m Extremely hostile towards “old media” and my opinion towards google is highly negative.

If anything, there is probably a strong correlation between liking google and trusting old media.
I feel like none of the problems described are really symptoms of Big Tech, they're more symptoms of technology itself along with the fact that we haven't yet adjusted to it psychologically as a species. None of the problems that the author describes are problems that would not be there if "Big Tech" didn't exist and were replaced by decentralized systems or other alternatives.

I think the author missed a really good opportunity to explore the developing relationship between the human psyche and the overflow of information that this age has provided us with, and instead made it political and blamey.
The problem is most libertarians can't actually focus on winnable issues like the ones you describe because the fringe of the party spends its time yelling about how taxes are theft, stripping on stage, and promoting secession.

The fringe refuses to see the massive risk of not supporting net neutrality by government.
some people use an org-mode file as issue list, but then non-developers cannot easily view or add issues to the list unless you set them up with an easy to use org-mode (web?) editor/viewer.
1)Comparing the tech industry's effects to the tobacco industry is a bad joke.

2)Of course monopolies exist in tech and are bad, but that's the nature of the protectionist state capitalism in the US over the last few decades, and is not restricted to technology alone. Unfortunately corporations have more influence on the working of the government than the people, and we're now into an era of unprecedented corporate mergers and monopolies.

3)"Imagine if instead of claiming to offer us the best things in life, tech merely saw itself as providing efficiency devices. Its innovations can save us time on lower-level tasks so we can get offline and there experience the best things in life."

That's what a lot of companies do. Apple and Microsoft market themselves as selling productivity devices that help you get work done quicker. Jony Ive is on record saying that people use iPhones too much.

It's also not reasonable to sweep in hardware companies like Apple, who don't particularly care how much time you spend using their products as long as you buy them regularly, to facebook, who very much care about how long you spend on their site, since this is inherently linked to their profitability. What are facebook going to do, encourage people to log off so that they can live happy lives while facebook's profits decline? The purpose of a corporation is to maximise profits, you cannot expect companies which compete in the attention economy to compromise on that even if their services are addictive and not useful to the people who use them or productive to society.

If you really think monopolies and corporations like facebook are harming humans without offering any competing benefits, you'd have to question the whole system of corporate capitalism and whether we should allow corporations freedom to function without public influence over their activities.
Old media has been trying to create a negative image of the new media (internet & videogames) for the last 20 years.
We need to apply the same sense of proportion to sexual violation
Using the word “tech” to describe the business practices of unregulated monopolies is really starting to grind on me.

It’s not necessarily journalists’ fault; that’s the term these companies have used to market themselves for years.

We (the engineering classes / actual technologists) need to do more to brighten the line between the technology and the motivations and incentives of the people putting up the capital (and the executives/lawyers/lobbyists they control).

And, possibly, to recognize our latent power to influence certain decisions.
That survey is more than 5 years old. A lot can change in 5 years.