skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>So you are equating politeness with not halting bad ideas. That is not politeness, that is incompetence.

In some cultures, direct comment on an idea is the norm, but in others it might be very rude. Even engaging in what you might find to be polite critique can be a challenge; even the most well intentioned comments might not transit cultural boundaries unscathed.

Worse, there might be some context you're missing that causes you to trigger someone without any intent to cause offense.

Example:

A new, senior developer transfers to my team. He puts up a CR and asks me for review. As I comb through it, I find a couple small bugs and take the time to explain why they are bugs, thinking perhaps he did not understand a subtlety in a library we are using. This same library has tripped up a number of developers on occasion, as there is a state that is being manipulated, but under certain circumstances it can be put in a state that is not intended. It's part of a language standard library and not something we can wrap in a safer way, sadly.

He apparently knew about it but just didn't account for it, and he took my explanation to be very patronizing and condescending, given that he already knew the problem. He then read into the rest of the review a hidden malice.

This is partly my fault; perhaps I didn't need to fully explain how the function works, though with the misuse I thought it could be a chance to teach. I probably should have taken more care in some of my verbiage; I tend to be somewhat direct, which comes across stronger than I intend it to. Not "You're a moron, delete this bad code" but more "This function call will not do X, Y, and Z. It will do W instead. Why not use ABC instead?"
How does the charismatic reject people who want to join but who doesn't share the cause as (s)he understand it.
Hah, if that was the issue it won't be bad. Wall Street taking debt is no concern really.

The real issue is the extraction of wealth from citizens by Wall Street, Wall street builds nothing, absolutely nothing. They claim they provide liquidity, but yet when things look bleak, that liquidity dries up as they run and tighten up on credit. When they going is good, it's all about wealth extraction, they extract it from 401k, pension funds and from every day transaction between average investors trying to make an investment. The entire world of HFT is a joke. They have turned the market into something worse than a casino. In Vegas, you really know your odds, at wall street some of the instruments that are being pedaled shouldn't even be allowed in a video game.
> A battery is a wear part and should be easy to replace

In my experience, the screen is the wear part. As a klutz, I prefer the lighter phone (which impacts with less force) bonded batteries enable to a user-replaceable batter phone whose broken screen forces replacement.
Having cleared all cookies recently, I'm re-encountering all these dialogs. They've gotten cagier.

Anecdotally, a third of these cookie dialogs are violating those principles, either preselecting all third party advertisers, or claiming all 60+ third parties are necessary for the functionality of the site so Allow or Go Away. Or having only one OK/Agree button.

It's not just little guys. Slate.com for example:

Slate’s Use of Your Data

By clicking “Agree,” you consent to Slate’s Terms of Service and Privacy Policy and the use of technologies such as cookies by Slate and our partners to deliver relevant advertising on our site, in emails and across the Internet, to personalize content and perform site analytics. Please see our Privacy Policy for more information about our use of data, your rights, and how to withdraw consent.

[Agree]

https://slate.com/gdpr?redirect_uri=%2F%3Fvia%3Dgdpr-consent...

The privacy policy generally says you're welcome to go opt out of each individual third party then delete their individual cookies from your browser, beat yourself up.

Slate for example, says, "You may choose whether to receive interest-based advertising by submitting opt-outs..."

The justification appears to be "EU doesn't tell us what to do":

"Please note that the Services are directed towards users who reside in the United States. By using the Services, you consent to the collection, storage, processing, and transfer of your information in and to the United States, or other countries and territories, pursuant to the laws of the United States. Some of these countries may not offer the same level of privacy protection as your own."

This Privacy Policy also features dynamic legalese:

"Slate tracks when EU readers grant consent for Slate to collect and process data through the use of an identifying cookie on your browser. The browser through which you are currently viewing Slate does not currently have such an identifying cookie. If you are an EU reader this means that Slate is not collecting or processing data from your current browser session."

https://slate.com/privacy

// I am currently reading from EU -- a good time to clear your cookies.
(Disclaimer: I'm an Amazon employee, but I can only speak my own opinion on this matter.)

A couple factual problems with this: first, the employees that have access to this sort of data are in white collar roles, and are hardly being paid "absolute bare minimum." Second, when Amazon interviews employees, we ask about our Leadership Principles (https://www.amazon.jobs/principles), one of which actually is that leaders "Earn Trust." Trust is absolutely something we look for in employees.
They probably aren't optimizaing for mass as much as you would on a flying drone.
This hits another big point I've been wondering about GDPR. If site X has third-party JS from Google, Facebook, or so on, who does GDPR apply to? Is site X the one collecting the data, or is it the third party?
Capitalism is a wonderful thing, but only when the social benefit of a service is well aligned with the profit of realizing that benefit. When they are completely misaligned, they may pretend to do a job while they are actually doing a very different one.
I read about work politics so I can get good at self-defense for my economical interest, but avoid going offensive so I can sleep sound at night and keep a bit of my naive child heart.
To me it seems like philanthropists generally do a much better job spending money well than our government does. They don't tend to use it to bomb other countries, they often consider the lives of foreigners as important as the lives of Americans, and being able to ignore pork barrel considerations makes their projects more efficient.

The money spent by philanthropists is small compared to the US budget so they aren't in any way a replacement for the welfare state. But what money they do spend seems to go a long way.
Is it even worth trying to really help those people? If they are not going to be one of the best, then they are not so good and can be ignored. Give them hope, so that they buy the book and continue to fail in their life. Perhaps some even will get inspired and find the leverage within themselves to become better at something.

Publishers won't publish a book that says "If you can't make it, then, well, you can't really make it, haha".

Someone has to do menial boring depressing work. In a way, I'm doing it right now, fixing some bug in a barely profitable web application. Thankfully I'm not washing floor or flipping burgers though. But somebody has to do it.

Who is going to win in life anyway? Nowadays luck and opportunity is everywhere, a pretty girl from a third world country can make thouthands of dollars streaming videogames on Twitch. If she's not stupid and lazy, success is guaranteed.

The book is going to speak to some people and that justifies it's existence. Even if some people fail to become truly good and end up pursuing something they are not passionate about, it's not that bad. Many people say life is not about destanation but the journey. In that case the book is somewhat bad, because if you're not passionate about a journey, then your journey probaby was unfullfilling.

Some people just lack passion, they can't get excited. They need something else.

In general companies are unintentionally evil, stupid, and treat employees very bad.

Author's idea is not bad, when you compare it to wanting to become an expert complainer about gender inequality and monetize that. Although it can work. It does work for some people. Damn, I get a feeling that author's idea is outdated and today it's better to follow your passion, instead of becoming good. Doing both are obviously superior. But you can win whatever your passion is. In most of the cases.

If you are fat, ugly and lazy, you're not going to win.

I mean seriously, look at 6ix9ine he is a simple guy but he is winning. He lets his nuts hang and he is winning. He is not an expert musician, he's not lucky, he's just so passionate about making catchy music that he has some kind of personality disorder, borderline delusional, and yet... He makes millions of dollars and loved by millions of people.

Passion.
You raise very valid points, but the way you address them has a very different ring to it than "the big elephant in the room is...", which is a pretty blatant a dog-whistle for "the problem is dumb foreigners".

Now, I do wish to give the GP the benefit of doubt, but the expression is problematic regardless of intent. My comment was more of a response that implied dog-whistle. Admittedly, it was a bit reactionary because of my own personal experiences surrounding these issues, and the ease of which I have seen people blame things on foreigners without even a hint of self-reflection. But as you mention: the paper suggests these issues are not caused by immigration.
I don't want to get into a heated nutrition debate because it's such a mess divisive landscape, but wanted to share the other side, which looks compelling: https://nutritionfacts.org/2016/03/22/the-effects-of-dietary...
And another interesting piece of science pointing at causation rather than correlation regarding LDL and CAD: https://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-do-we-know-that-cholest...
I wonder did the person parking the bike in your garbage disposal spot know that it was your personal spot?

We don't throw our trash bags out in the street but put them in larger containers. Can't park a bike on those.
Is there a solution to this at all? What can a normal person do to protect themselves and their loved ones? I am not talking about voting, running for office etc, though that is probably the correct, long term fix. But short term?
True, but its distribution, scale and movement isn't linear either. Like conservation of energy, Bezos and Amazon are a part of "the economy", he technically hasn't extracted anything from it (just storing it). Doesn't mean that money hasn't been extracted from the rest of the community.

I'm not arguing from a philosophical standpoint, merely pointing out that from a public perception standpoint, a backlash on the apparent hypocrisy of him giving a damn about the community by trying to tackle homelessness whilst potentially damaging it in a tangential way through his ways of working is justified.
Spot on :)

As I said, some people will interpret directness as rudeness. Those are the ones that expect for the language to be couched. But, in my opinion, it's better to be seen as occasionally rude than allow for those other negative behaviors to occur.
Probably part of the reason why they built and maintain Chrome.

Firefox will always have a dedicated user base -- if Google want to be the default search engine on that browser they will have to pay for it otherwise services like Bing will occupy that space.
But ads don't provide money until clicked on. So there's no money lost by implementing ad blocking. The only real thing lost is the potential that someone will click on the ad.
He doesn’t have control of the justice department. It’s also uncertain the military would violate the constitutional ban on law enforcement at his order.

To get closer to autocracy he’d need better control of one of those two branches.
> a federal court in 2013 said they have to stop collecting fees until they come up with a use for them

This is fascinating! I didn't realize that killing Yucca Mountain triggered lower taxes for the companies producing the waste. That's pretty poor incentive alignment. It also might help explain the seemingly excessive amount of ad-spend against Yucca mountain when I lived in Nevada.
What are the odds of every James Bond movie getting all the tech stuff ludicrously wrong and, yet, getting all the spy parts perfectly right?
I keep my phones for 2 - 5 years.

During that time, I'd need to replace the battery at least once, maybe twice.

Its not a straw man argument - but I find your response telling. Perhaps its not clear to a majority of HN users, but not all of us iPhone users live within productive reach of an Apple Store. Getting to one in person can be very inconvenient if you're not an American in a metropolitan city.

This is a very USA-centric point of view, you know.

Having a user-replaceable battery would go a long way towards assuaging the hassle of having to deal with Apple Service. Especially in parts of the world that don't have that luxurious, consumer-friendly, American-style glass facade with its fancy logo and happy green-shirt wearing customer reps ..
"Now however?"

A logical thing to assume for someone who is fully engaged with current events/news. However, most don't follow /r/politics religiously, and the nightly network news certainly isn't covering it (with the outrage that they should be) so many are still blissfully ignorant. Or is it willfully ignorant?
While I like the way NeXT looks too (“Lickable, like concrete!”), a lot of the comments are getting wrapped around the axle of skin deep appearances.

What’s exciting to me about this is that someone is chasing the notion of desktop environment built on OpenSTEP-compatible technology. Projects that chase skin-deep appearance of macOS are a dime a dozen.

What would be cool, is if all those developers who’ve written software for macOS could also target Linux and BSD without much trouble. And if disappointed macOS developers could still target macOS while running Linux/BSD day-to-day.

The Etoilé project doesn’t seem to have seen any love in some years, but imagine if they’d continued and Apple was forced to play catch up with some first-class bridges to new and exciting programming languages.

This project is exciting not because it looks good or bad, it’s exciting because it’s the seed of a not-skin-deep reimplementation of a desktop environment on top of GUI technologies whose consistency and viability have been bourne out spectacularly by NeXT and macOS.
What's the problem with "illegal shipping" anyway? Surely it's not worth launching a satellite just to stop the odd customs-evader?

What is this really for?
I understand that moving to Angular is not trivial, however this is old even for AngularJS.

1.7.x is in a long term support, while 1.6.x stopped being supported since July. The version they're running has at least three vulnerabilities: https://snyk.io/test/npm/angular/1.6.0
I am not sure that helped in this case. Hyperbolic "fake news" claims aside, I have observed a marked, and downward, shift in nuance when NYT covers most hot-button issues. I find myself looking for other sources first now. They just seem to have created a self-funding bubble. I find it unfortunate, as a majority of their reporting is still stellar.
The logic here is that there's three possible answers, and also a lot more empty blocks than checkmarks or Xes.

e.g.:

- say there are 100 or so blocks, 20 are checkmarks

- if I click on 40, and get 10 checks, 30 blank, that means I got 30/20 wrong
No money in that. They'd rather show you some relevant results interspersed with ads and irrelevant results.
> A Volkswagen AG compliance executive who pleaded guilty in the U.S. for his role in the company’s $30 billion emissions cheating scandal was sentenced to 7 years in prison.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-06/vw-execut...
my understanding is your politeness would be interpreted in essence as saying that the issues are subjective rather then objective. when later in the process this is revealed to not be the case, this will lead to friction: hence fighting and resentment
Post office boxes are expensive, require filling in an application form, and require human interaction to access the contents. Amazon Lockers are included in the normal "free" delivery, require no paperwork, and are completely automated.
Its not just regulatory efficiencies. Its more market efficient than using craigslist as many on the sell side previously were.
ASP.NET Core 2.2 Introduces API Analyzers for Improved WEB API Documentation
Damn robosexuals.
He doesn't eat anything for 1 week in 4?
Well I have read that it is a heat engine of at least the 12th power so there must be some accounting of where all that energy goes.
+1 on the Ecclesiastes quote.

A lot of people seem to find it depressing. But for me, who was already plagued by existential dread before reading Ecclesiastes, it was the first time I felt someone really speaking to where I was at.
This is an empty argument; obviously nothing can be emission-free for as long as we run our cars, planes and ships on (non-captured-CO2) carbon fuels; but if the source of our energy is net emission-free (i.e. if you used the energy to build and decomission plants and mine and process nuclear fuel, you'd still have energy left over), then we can slowly move the rest of the society over to electricity as well. Without "almost-but-not-really-emission-free" power sources, that's simply something we cannot do.
Until BuzzFeed News differentiates themselves from their vile clickbait roots, they will continue to not get respect. I am not sure this is unfair, even if it is unfortunate.
> I'm still surprised no one has yet figured out a way to store sensitive data about personal interests and preferences on the client-side and let the client itself pull appropriate ads for the user to see.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that the idea behind Brave? Blocks ads and (assuming you opt-in) replaces them with less obnoxious ads chosen by the client?
If that is true, then why even have fat instead of extra muscle?

Burning muscle before fat makes no evolutionary sense.
You're right. Google probably wouldn't build an outright illegal feature. However Google would and has built features that are at the very least in legal grey areas/haven't been explicitly regulated. Thing like the WiFi tracking feature, bypassing safari's cookie restrictions, tracking android users' location even when they opted out of that or had their GPS feature turned off, and so on.

They did and will do that again because they know whenever they get caught they have to pay several million dollars at most after years of such violations and then they can be on their way to rinse and repeat with something else like that.
Yes. However Workspace contains WindowMaker for window management functionality. Here is some information about internals https://github.com/trunkmaster/nextspace/wiki/Workspace-inte...
To establish precedent for the UK policing the worlds oceans - a goal its had on its roster for centuries now.
The people who work in these warehouses should unionize. They have a strong case and their roles can not be outsourced. These things have to be local for it to work - it needs people for it to work. Automation may come eventually but it's not as close as people think.

This is the perfect environment for a union to operate in.
To anyone who doubts the cynical misrepresentation of reality carried out by the mainstream media, try this: Take 3 months off. Don't read a paper; don't watch news TV; at all.

Then read a paper, and watch the evening news. You will see it immediately as clear as daylight, it jars so powerfully with lived experience.

I suspect the reason people don't see it is because we are all steeped in it all the time, like the boiling frog https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog
If you have a degree in Computer Science, that should be good enough. Every job is going to use different languages and platforms but for someone with 4+ years of the fundamentals under their belt, and probably at least 2 or 3 languages and 2 or 3 OSes from their various classes and all the programming assignments, learning new languages is pretty much a cakewalk.

Any reasonable employer knows this. The problem (in my experience) was getting past the headhunters and HR departments and such..they often are staffed by imbiciles that know nothing about C.S. and you may have to do some bluffing here and there.

The bottom line is that if you can actually get a BSCS you are a solid person and will have no problem with the much more trivial work in most software jobs...in fact, after your university courses, you will probably end up very bored very quickly doing rote, boring, repetitious work.
So what is your point exactly?
Or Uber using Greyball to try and evade regulatory enforcement in specific locations?
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/1999/09/top-100-corpora...

Exxon, Royal Caribbean, Rockwell International, Warner-
Lambert, Teledyne, and United Technologies each pled
guilty to more than one crime during the 1990s.

https://www.alternet.org/economy/17-worst-corporate-crimes-2...

Five banks (Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Barclays, Royal
Bank of Scotland and UBS) had to pay a total of $2.5
billion to the Justice Department and $1.8 billion to
the Federal Reserve in connection with charges that they
conspired to manipulate foreign exchange markets.

https://www.cheatsheet.com/money-career/4-of-the-biggest-cri...

In 2008 and 2009, a salmonella outbreak killed nine
people across the U.S. and sickened hundreds more. The
source of the contamination was traced back to the
Peanut Corporation of America (PCA), a Virginia company
run out of its CEO’s garage. The salmonella outbreak
turned out not to be a tragic accident, but rather the
direct result of PCA’s and CEO Stewart Parnell’s
decision to intentionally ship contaminated products. In
2014, Parnell was convicted for his role in the crime.

The list just goes on and on and on and on.
Google admits changing phone settings remotely
Matthew Salomone https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwtNK3_f99g3mqS36OtoO2w
You can pay employees less and retain them longer.
Not all of the benefits. There are some significant benefits to the immune system that require at least 72 hours of fasting in humans.

https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2014/06/fasting-can-be-u...
My understanding (IANAL) is the site requested (i.e., X) is the data controller: X caused the third-party requests to occur, and is therefore responsible for any data transmitted over them.
Yes they do, CPM vs CPC.
I don't remember voting for the UK to police my countries sovereign waters.

Fact is, the UK has no real place in the world if it isn't policing things such as the worlds oceans, or its finances. This is a role it has granted itself, un-democratically - one may even say, Imperiously...
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> quickly enough that you can become large enough to get a seat at the table when the regulations are reworked.

It also makes sense to do this in areas where no one is watching. For example Monkey Parking got shut down almost immediately during the same time SF was probably at it's height of negotiating what it was going to do with Airbnb rentals in SF. https://www.wired.com/2014/06/app-that-lets-users-sell-publi...

Also, Airbnb, like many other companies who tout "growth hacking", illegally (in the eyes of the craigslist ToS) used a technique to basically leverage Craigslist audience to grow their own.

Mind you, this technique is also being encouraged by a partner at one of the most prominent VC firms in the valley. https://andrewchen.co/how-to-be-a-growth-hacker-an-airbnbcra...

Point is - it's very easy to blindly select what you feel is "right" vs "wrong" or "bad" vs "good"[0][1] when your money is on the line.

[0] - http://www.paulgraham.com/good.html

[1] - http://www.paulgraham.com/ronco.html