skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"And I think that if these were the optimal way for society to operate, we would already been doing it."

Why? That seems like an extraordinarily implausible claim to me. Presumably you don't think human societies at all times and places are 'optimal', so why would the Western world at the present moment be? And in any case, what is understood to be optimal is historically variable, which is, in part, my point: maybe we should realign our culture.

"Capitalism and Communism, in the form of bartering and tribes exist since the first societies."

Again, I profoundly disagree. Capitalism is a historically specific configuration of social, economic and legal arrangements. It requires that the economy be elevated into an independent sphere of production and exchange, free of direct political control (contrary to feudalism). It requires the creation of a large surplus population, driven out of subsistence agriculture (the historical norm for the last six-thousand years), who come to depend for the means of life on renting themselves out to a small elite with a monopoly on the means of production. It requires this to be at a sufficient scale that large profits can be ploughed back into investment in a cumulative process of self-expansion. This has generally required a certain amount of stability, a powerful military base, and sophisticated trade networks, among much else (as in Northern Italy in the middle of the last millennium, or the Dutch imperial network after that, or the British Empire after that). Similar things can be said about communism - though it's more complicated.

"If France started to decline compared to other countries economically where their competitors have a labor force doing better work and spending more time, something would have to change".

Why would they do 'better work'? Generally, if people do less hours of work, their productivity in the hours they do work goes up. Part of the point of reducing working hours is to redistribute those hours more evenly. So it is not simply a reduction; it is also an addition. But I would assume net working hours would decline, and thus net GDP. I don't see why that's a problem.

"Wannabe "productivity" would go up don't show in numbers".

I don't know what this means.
The Adaptive Behavior of a Soccer Team: An Entropy-Based Analysis
I use Sandstorm.io which has most of the features of Google Docs/Sheets and then some. But there are plenty of other open source alternatives as well. Look at Nextcloud and Cloudron as other options.
That's gross, but the overall organization is still efficient (or it has some sort of monopoly or huge moat). Otherwise it would be completely out of business by now.
I don't think upvoting is meant to be a signal that you agree with the article - only that you think the article should be seen and discussed by the HN community. You clearly do think this, so an upvote is appropriate. After all, upvoting an 'X has died' post doesn't mean that you're glad they're gone!

You could also simply bookmark the page.
Not sure how "gentle" that was. Maybe it's just my own knowledge base, but there seemed to be a lot of mathematical symbol gobbledygook. If that's your thing, I get it, but if you are fluent in arcane math symbolism, you probably don't need a gentle introduction. And if those types of formal equations look to you like they are an alien language, they don't bring clarity.

In the same vein of "speaking the language of your audience" I'd think that Python would be a more readable and commonly understood language for examples.
Is it your product? The "get started" buttons don't work. As well as none of the links under "What does Narwhal Offer?"
You speak as though an author on Slate.com has any actual say in what Slate.com does to set policy. It would be the same as if you read this article on any other "news site" - so why would you dismiss the author's concerns about privacy? Simply because they chose to use Slate.com as the outlet for their statement?
The last three companies I've worked at stated it something like this: you work an average 8 hours per day, we want you to be in the office between 10 am and 4 pm from Tuesday to Thursday so it is not impossible to schedule meetings. Works pretty well for everyone involved.
Works just as well the other way around. Every time managers are mentioned at HN, some programmer is sure they can do a better job than their/most/all managers.
Probably it's too late. Or do they really load the scripts from Google et al after you click "Accept"?
At a minimum, investors would.
+1 I've seen lots of people work in the same position because they're afraid they won't be able to cope with a new job. When they finally go elsewhere the job assumes knowledge of stuff they just never learned that would've been understandable a few years before.

Explore your options, never settle.
The bank I use for business checking doesn’t even have P2P transfers. So I just write myself a check once a month.
Firefox is fine and DuckDuckGo is good enough by now.

Firefox has the added bonus that it doesn't implement a two tier cookie system. Of which one tier cannot be deleted.

This, in combination with the new and improved "sign-in-convenience" convinced me that Google is exactly as dirty as any other tech company and should be avoided like the plague, wherever possible.
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It's time we stopped encouraging indies
There is an online office suite based on Libre Office. https://www.collaboraoffice.com/collabora-online/
> If you want a shot at being as wealthy as they are, their advice is not going to help your odds, although you may well have a better life by other measures.

Your point about not conflating their lifestyles with their financial security is well taken. Their point is not about wealth but about health, not about money but about life. Rather than money grossly gathered, they propose a life well lived.

However, it's important to keep in mind the obverse, which is that one should not strictly dissociate their lifestyles from their financial security. Recognizing that lifestyle and wealth are uncorrelated (or loosely correlated) avoids the facile prediction that overwork will yield wealth when, in reality, overwork most often yields a miserable, dissatisfying life without extravagant wealth.
Their end goal is being the biggest data hoarder in my opinion.

This position will secure them so long as we can find a use for data. And right now, data is something we use everywhere.

They can continue to use it for advertisement, or they can pivot or expand to new market, more nefarious or for the good of everybody.
They could sell it to government for mass surveillance or they could use it to help scientist find a cure for a disease. We can always find a use for data.

So I think their goal is to hoard more and more data, and make it has accurate as possible. Google for me is neither a search engine company or an advertisement company anymore. Their core is data hoarding, and they make profit using this in several ways, advertisement being just one of them.
Sure, so this means they are now a multi-billion dollar advertising company as well?

If a tobacco company makes a donation to a cancer research charity, do we now hate the charity?
I'm not suggesting someone spend all of their time writing code outside of work, I certainly don't, so please don't label what I'm saying as such, or as "bullshit". Yes employers pull that crap, and want you to sell your soul, that's not what I'm suggesting.

I don't think programming is something you become good at simply by doing your 9-5. I've worked with a lot of 9-5'ers and they're rarely the best or most rewarded developers.

What I'm certainly NOT saying is that you should work _all_ hours, in fact I will say exactly the opposite, don't, but, do be willing (if you're able) to finish solving a problem before you call it a day. For your sake, not for your employer's sake. I prefer to finish my work day on the last "problem solved". It leaves you in a much better position to leave your work at work, than when you have a problem you didn't solve and which will bug you until you solve it. If you find a problem is going to take more than "minutes" to solve, accept that its a problem for another day and try to leave it at that.

To further elaborate on my first statement, so it isn't misinterpreted again;

Do it because you enjoy it, and you _want_ to do more of it outside of work; even if you don't do, but, even IF you don't, you can visit conferences, meetups, hack-spaces, various other <insert-tech-or-language>-con, you'll meet cool people, learn about things you didn't know and perhaps teach other something. If you can make it "a way of life", contrary to ck425, do spend _some_ of your free time working on programming tasks, find something different from your work, for example, contribute some time to an OSS project you like (for e.g. I use and like to contribute to Home Assistant) or some other project you enjoy using, where you'll interact with the skilled people behind those projects.

To be clear, that I'm not disagreeing with ck425, just that he (and probably others) might misinterpret what I'm saying as "you should spend all your time programming or else you'll suck": Do all of this, only after you done the other things you enjoy doing more.
I‘d love to see something that makes development and deployment on touchscreen devices practical. Node-red, Retool are going in the right direction, but aren‘t powerful enough to be complete solutions. I‘d favor a visual dataflow language/environment with easy sharing/extensibility like node-red that compiles to wasm, C, other languages and deploys to the cloud, to App stores etc. with one press of a button.
Brute-forcing a seemingly simple number puzzle
I’m a fan of Firefox and I use it when I am docked at home or near a power outlet but the battery life hit is enormous on Mac OS compared to Chrome and Safari. The performance is fine, I just wish I had better battery life when using Firefox on the go.
It isn't for nothing that we often describe programming as "talking" to a computer. Programming is a language, and as the alphabet replaced pictograms in human languages, so characters and words continue to be a useful and above all compact way of representing computer languages.
Russell & Norvig devote considerable space to it, and their chapters all end with a great historical review section.
Why is the silence deafening? And what exactly is expected from Facebook? Today it'd say it was 50 million affected, and in a day change it to up to 90 million, and a week later it'll become 130 million, then it'll be 150 million, and then people will stop caring, as they have before, and move on.

There are three kinds of people — those who stopped using Facebook a long, long time ago when the very first privacy issues came about; those who will never stop using Facebook unless they're moving to Instagram or another hotness of the day; those who may stop using Facebook after hearing about privacy or security issues. The last category is very, very small. So is the first.

The only way to get out of this mess is to have a "new hotness" that's as good as (if not better than) Facebook and is privacy preserving, decentralized, easy to use, etc. We're still a long way away from that.
If your work really is so simple that all of it can be automated then it initially sounds like a golden deal: the employer is getting what they're paying for and the employee has a lot of... free time.

But the trouble is that most decent programmers just couldn't stand that. They absolutely need to feel they're doing useful work. So they'll either expand their duties in the company (likely with no similar expansion in their pay) or leave for another company (that pays them to do the both challenging and useful work).

Another case are companies where you absolutely need to automate lots of stuff to get to do real work. If you fight the system you'll run out of energy sooner than the system ever would, but if you automate the fight you can stay operative yourself.
Silicon Valley is a disease that has made politics sick
It’s partly the fault of high street retail. Go into a shop to buy running shoes, and you’re greeted by this barrage of technical nonsense about “pronation” and details of your running gait and what sort of support you “need”. of course, it’s just an obvious ruse to get normal people to buy expensive products, but it contributes to the atmosphere described in the article. I do blame US retail culture, but the UK is so culturally coupled to the US in retail that it’s long been the way in the UK also. I’ve even been videod running on a treadmill to perform gait analysis as if I were a pro athlete! It’s embarrassing that people suck this all up. But it’s not just running, try buying a tent or sleeping bag from an outdoor store like REI in the US. “So what sort of camping do you usually do? What altitude do you normally camp at?” “Dude I just want a fucking sleeping bag.”
My guess is that Google, like Facebook, have a good impression of your CANOE/Big 5 personality type: Conscientiousness, Agreeableness, Neuroticism, Openness, Extroversion. And in that they have an extremely good assessment of your likelihood to repay loans.
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As a non-native speaker, I would have expected the title to be "Why Google Worries Me".

"Worried About" sounds like it's Google who's being negatively affected by this, but that doesn't seem to be the main point of the story.

Is this a common pattern?
Alphabet's cyber unit Jigsaw introduces a new security app to bust censorship
> But it brings users within an accidental click of sharing their bookmarks and browsing history with Google.

It's two clicks, you need to be really explicit about it. The first click opens a huge "You're about to turn on sync" dialog, where you have to click "Yes, I'm in" again.

I don't disagree with the general sentiment, but the article isn't factually correct. It's also by the same person who misunderstood the recent chrome changes and wrote a long blog post triggered by them misunderstanding what was going on (https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/gyny83/google-chr...).
Always understand what you are doing, never accept advice like 'do it exactly like this to be on the right side', in short: stay clear of vodoo. Learn scripting to avoid repeating yourself, learn templates/macros or whatever it takes to avoid code duplication (it takes an effort, but is really worth it). Have some kind of document where you can write down your experience, what was learned, what kind of problems you have solved - patterns keep repeating and writing stuff down helps to be aware of these patterns. Try to learn reading code - it's a skill of great value. Learn specifics of build tools as a lot of time gets wasted if the tools are not understood

Be a bit sceptical of people who pass out judgement and advise
Do you mean this https://www.zdnet.com/article/firefox-tests-cliqz-engine-whi... ?

Mozilla was an investor in Cliqz, so it's not precisely a full-on third party. And the data was (at least, according to the article) well anonymized.

I can see why Moz would want to try and keep up with the user advantages of collecting this information -- catching malicious URLs, etc -- but even if it's just appearance-wise, they've lost a bit of trust here.

Frankly I think they should have two distributions of Firefox, one that's bells-and-whistles for the best user experience, and another that takes a more aggressive pro-privacy stance. This can be little more than the set of preinstalled extensions + default config.
Kubernetes on Bare Metal
Looks like donating to charities to get a tax break, which seems fine. Is there a way that they are controlling how these monies are spent?
My company uses ITIL. Definitely a four letter word. I feel like Peter Gibbons much of the time. For me to deploy a server, I need to create a Change Request, have it reviewed by my local Change Review Board. They know nothing, and are a rubber stamp. Next it goes the the Main Change Review Board. They are higher up, and know even less. I have to have my CR into the LCRB a week before they meet, and then it takes an additional week for the MCRB to approve it. So at least two weeks to deploy a new VM. Retirement can't come soon enough.
With all of these emerging privacy concerns, it reinforces my choice to move away from the Android and Google ecosystem insofar as I can.

It reinforces my choice to embrace the Apple ecosystem. While their products aren't perfect, they do take your privacy seriously and you do pay for it. But to me, that seems like a fair trade. Additionally, they have second to none customer support, so it's going to take a company providing the same level of support (3-5 business day repairs on laptops) for me to move away from Apple.
Author agreed to have their article published there.
What CIA connection?
It only really makes sense for trees that have low depth.
It's still in their code of conduct.
> I've read that if you have stamps in your passport from certain Middle Eastern countries, you can't get into some other Middle Eastern countries.

Normally you can get two/three passports for that reason.
Huh, I'd have to read up on this. I shared the impression that the whales were endangered.

Perhaps it's easier to ban all whaling than be selective?
Yes, on newer versions, this can happen when Tracking Protection is enabled. This feature causes things like CAPTCHA and other third-party scripts to break. When this occurs, look for a shield icon in the URL bar to the left of the green TLS padlock. Click it and disable Tracking Protection. This has fixed every site issue I've seen so far.
From the article:

> If nothing else works, then at least I can vote with my feet—or my fingertips.

If they were serious about privacy they could not write for Slate or at least comment on how the very site we're reading this on also has major privacy issues.
Look where it is - middle east. It is by far the most US-friendly country in whole region, even if something would go wrong with all muslim western-aligned governments, US can rest assured that Israel will remain an ally. They don't have that many other options I think.

When politics, power and money enter the game, in region so rich in oil (meaning trillions of $$), some humanitarian concerns are thrown quickly out of the window because 'priorities'.

I find it hilarious in the worst way possible - Israel, by definition jewish country (although not 100%), is running probably biggest concentration camp in the world these days. History doing some 5-dimensional circles and laughing on all of us. Palestinians are not helping much to improve their own situation, but after 60+ years behind the fence, who can blame them.
There's also Brave browser by Brendan Eich. It's still very young and have issues, but it's getting better over time.
That a rather naive position. Over time one periodically needs to poke individual instances to see what's going on in them even if just to ensure consistency of what the aggregation sees vs what the instance is doing before destroying the instance one has logged into.
Sometimes using this abomination is the only way to go "up" in the filesystem.

Yes! So annoying that finder doesn't just have button for "go up in hierarchy" at least somewhere on every screen (whether it's regular Finder or a save/open dialog). It's totally baffling to me. We can find room for the "Tag file" feature nobody uses, but a "go up in hierarchy" button is apparently too much to ask for.
> so why would you dismiss the author's concerns about privacy? Simply because they chose to use Slate.com as the outlet for their statement?

In fairness, that sounds fairly reasonable. I don't know much about Slate (and the advertising consent makes me hesitant to click it), but if I'm an author wanting to write about privacy concerns, and I have Google publish me (be it by Blogger or some other medium), wouldn't my article feel a bit.. odd?

I'd be asking you to set aside your privacy concerns so you can read my post about why you should be concerned about privacy.

I'm not saying that's what's happening here, I'm not even clicking the article based on the silly terms. Yet, these comments make me feel it's similar in concept. Why should we step aside our privacy so we can discuss privacy? The content is on a less than stellar medium for privacy discussions, at the very least.
>"What we wish is to be able to opt-in once and for all, to get rid of these incessant interstitial pop-ups sprouting like mushrooms across the Internet."

If they implemented GDPR correctly and in a sensible manner, you would get one popup per site, once. You would give your consent to data collection and usage, and they would save that preference in a cookie or your profile settings for that site.

Instead, they want to punish and irritate you into simply accepting whatever they say, in order for the popups to go away. It's completely deliberate.

They could also simply support the Do Not Track header, or a "Please Track Me" counterpart. But they won't do that, because that would make it too easy to escape data collection and profiling, and wouldn't let them annoy you into accepting their onerous terms.
Not just wages, but mobility, there is a person attached to those wages.
Ask HN: What have you automated in your day job?
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DRM doesn't stop you from playing pirated content, the goal is to make the content only decryptable using approved hardware/software, to limit people's ability to copy and paste content Willy nilly and share with their friends in Napster fashion. The determined people still stealing content never will be stopped, but it's inconvenient enough that average people aren't going to duplicate DRM-laden stuff themselves.

Importantly, I think, when there's a higher barrier to content theft, the remaining sources of pirated content are fewer and easier to track.
Hmmm.

I have to say, I'm an American and I think we're definitely that way about our professions ("I'm a __________") but I don't really recognize the "hobbyists" described in the article.

> BTW, if you really want to experience what I'm
> talking about, visit a demoparty.

We have lots of that here in America!

Well, not demoscene meets (sadly!) but all the people I know who have passionate hobbies don't really "identify" with them.

I looooooooove playing tennis (2-3x per week) and I'm always trying to improve along with my wife but I don't have a goal to compete in tournaments or anything. I don't typically say "I'm a tennis player."

I'm also passionate about being an audio hobbyist but I'm happy wading in the shallow end of the pool; I don't even design my own speakers, I'm happy using the designs others have made and putting my own finishes on them. There are a few competitions in this hobby, but they are friendly and collegial and collaborative sort of like the demo parties... well, except all the guys are 55+ years old.

I have friends that are very very passionate about art, running, etc but I don't see them really shaping their identity around those things.

MORE IMPORTANTLY THOUGH: thank you for making my morning brighter by mentioning the demo scene =)
"why wouldn’t you keep expanding your workers’ obligations until the cracks appear?"

Maybe because you are a nice guy? I hope I'll never have a boss with your ethics, I'd be gone very fast.
So start billing for the value you provide, not by the hour.
We only hear about breaches when they get user data.

The Cambridge analytica thing wasn't really a breach IMO.

1 large breach vs 0 over however many years does not seem statistically significant.