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To me ads are fundamentally about misleading you, manipulating you, or in short: making you do something that you wouldn't do otherwise. This to me is morally wrong on a base level. Advertisement is an attempt to attack/manipulate your vulnerable mammal brain to make you do something against your interest (be it buying a product, voting on someone, etc). In other words, to do something that you wouldn't do rationally, or wouldn't do without this prodding.
Whooa did you see this guy's website: http://sakibccr.com/ This is awesome! (Just kidding. It doesn't contain anything yet.)

But this is a really nice website: https://mango.pdf.zone/
Especially this post: https://mango.pdf.zone/operation-luigi-how-i-hacked-my-frien...
I feel like websites should be able to run clearly labeled ads that are not trying to pretend to be anything but an ad.

I also feel like paid for articles should be clearly labeled as such and not hoping people will not notice the review/write up isn't just an ad in sheep's clothing.

I get it. A website needs to make money in order to stay in business delivering "free" content. Why does it have to be a game? Commercials/ads on television are not hidden. We accept that in order to bring broadcast television without a BBC style licensing fee, the broadcasters make money selling air time to advertisers. Sure, some product placement occurs in some of the programming, but that's up to the producers and not the broadcasters.

Why is it any different on the internet?
> They don't want to set a precedent of people blackmailing with a bug like rumours say he tried.

You're creating rumors, not reporting them.

You can read the letter they sent to Apple. That wasn't even the first attempt at contact and all they asked about is if there were any bug bounties available.

Nobody tried to blackmail anyone by simply asking if the bug may be eligible for a bounty.
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> I think people are fond of trying to separate perception and experience, but I'm not sure that's valid. I don't think an eliminativist would make this distinction, for example.

Problem for the eliminativist is that there are experiences which aren't perceptual. The reason for thinking we can separate perceptual experience from perceiving is because it is brain activation which results in an experience, which can happen without sensory stimulation. When we dream, we're activating our visual and auditory cortexes to create those experiences. Electrodes or magnetic stimulation can do the same on a much cruder level. And a schizophrenic may hear voices because their brain fails to distinguish between internal thoughts and external voices.
Just so you know, those days there are ways to monitor glucose levels without finger pricking, google: glucose monitor without needle.

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Why do you expect some random member of the public to obey an arbitrary rule from the infosec community that they don't even all agree on?
I saw it submitted to HN recently, I haven’t tried it out yet. But I very much like the offline aspect of it

Do you include browser extensions or some mechanism for filling in the credentials that doesn’t require me to open up the app itself?

An iOS companion that could somehow use the Continuity features of iOS/macOS to do an offline sync between the two would also be a killer feature.
I think that's the wrong premise.

UBI is based on the assumption there will be no jobs because no one can deliver better value than technology rather than just a small job market. We already have the other Conditional Basic Income which is probably optimal as long as there is a solid jobmarket.
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The US values education quite a bit (I suspect other places do too, but I can only speak for US experience), and there's a long history of rewarding children with educational funds for all kinds of things. This is very commonplace.

As to why it's commonplace, well, if the family can afford to send the kid to college, then this is basically the same as giving them cash, since the family now gets to do what they want with the money they would have spent on his college. And if they couldn't afford to send him to college, now they can (or now they have a bit more help with it, depending on how much money was given). It looks good for the company too, since no one (except possibly you) thinks giving a kid an educational fund is a bad thing. Finally, by having such an educational stipulation, it hopefully prevents the parents (or legal guardians) from spending or wasting it on other things so that the kid ultimately reaps the benefits, which I think is prudent.
From what I learned from digging into Pika/Pack a bit, I think you misrepresented it a bit.

> - The standard typescript builder can only generate ES2018

That's true, but only because the compilation to previous ES versions is meant to be handled by other plugins. For instance, the "web" plugin [1] uses babel-preset-env, which in turn will take your package.json's "browserslist" [2] into account.

> - The web bundler can only generate ES modules

The Pika project seems to be all about promoting ES modules, so it's no wonder that put this option to the forefront. However, there is also an UMD plugin [3] and a "node" (presumably Common.js) one [4].

[1]: https://github.com/pikapkg/builders/tree/master/packages/plu...
[2]: https://github.com/browserslist/browserslist
[3]: https://github.com/pikapkg/builders/tree/master/packages/plu...
[4]: https://github.com/pikapkg/builders/tree/master/packages/plu...
COBAL is a high paying language too :) It's possible Clojure pays well for the same reason, hopefully not.
Unfortunately a good number of people in that vocal minority are in the media.
If you paid the NYC level salaries, you could.
Not sure how the numbers add up. The infographic says it cost €20M. The text says 2,000 Fins got €560 for 24 months. That would amount to €26.88M.
This is a huge problem. I wish the medical industry would stop using "type" and assign specific names to disease variations. So type 1 would be diabetes but type 2 would be dropped from convention and called insulin resistance (or a new name, I dunno, setebaid). Some other words that have probably cost the world billions of dollars and interfered with public opinion:

* Hepatitis A/B and C (A and B were cured early on so name should be livervirus or whatever, C should remain hepatitis until it's eradicated)

* Herpes types 1 and 2 (1 should be renamed to cold sores since almost everyone has it, 2 should remain herpes until it's cured)

* Nonfatal cancers (especially of the skin) need new names to prevent scaring people, especially if they've been largely cured.

* SSH "private key" and "public key" (should have been called "secret" and "share" so that people would know which to keep secret and which to share.. yes I realize they are symmetric)

I could go on, but you get the drift. I think a problem here is that experts in various fields may have exceptional problem solving skills but be terrible at naming things. I've met many programmers with this affliction!
Why don't rents consume all the economic growth without UBI?

If there is, in a market (of whatever scale, and whether it's housing rental or anything else), a monopoly or coordinated oligopoly that is abused so as to absorb all income growth, that's a problem calling for government intervention independent of UBI.

Maybe these exist in some housing markets, but if they do it's an orthogonal problem to UBI that is just as important to correct even if we don't adopt UBI. It's not, in any way, an argument against UBI.
I’ve never really heard a claim like this. What regulations lead to higher prescription drug costs and higher healthcare costs generally?
It is my private property (my screen). I absolutely do have the right to use it partially if Spotify is emitting it freely. Their terms of service have utterly no relevance to what I disallow to be shown on my private property.
It's always worth checking the distribution. A 3 star rating with a normal-ish curve is very different than a 3 star rating with a lot of 5s and 1s -- and in that case the reviews will tell you clearly whose preconceived worldview the content fits.
All engineering hires go through bootcamp, period. The only engineering hires that don't go through team selection are domain experts hired for a specific team/role ahead of time.
Why do diabetics use one of the most sensitive parts of the human body for blood testing? Why not prick your forearm, or your leg, or anywhere else?
I have told people "we don't need a meeting where you read the slides to me. Just send the doc and I will read it" :-). Didn't go over too well....
I add this to my /etc/hosts file. Could not be happier
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China has accessibility regulations?
I don't really object to ads per se. I'm used to ads in television and in newspapers, magazines. I even remember reading ads very carefully in a couple of computer mags when I was a teenager. Good ads can be entertaining and informative as well. Stupid or simple ads you just skip over.

However, there are some traits I'd still like to see in ads:

- they live in a dedicated box that doesn't make it harder to read the actual content. I focus on one thing at a time. If it's the content, it's not the ads. If you make a good ad, it might be your ad

- they don't flash or animate to distract my eyes

- they would ideally have some (textual) content I could pause to read for details if I'm interested

- they wouldn't necessarily change all the time: it would be nice to have the same ad placed on a site for a week or two, so I could come back to it if I find it interesting. Print media has this advantage. I still remember some iconic ads from my youth. I have absolutely no idea which ads, brands, or names I've happened to see online today

- they don't hog my cpu, my gpu, or my battery; they don't get to execute code or try to spy on my online life: just a nice image is enough

- youtube and other video services wouldn't serve ads longer than 10 seconds: it is about the time I can still hold my attention to continue with the video. Placing two-minute ads in youtube episodes just causes me to mute the ad and continue watching some other video. I wouldn't mind a few 10 second clips of reasonably well-matched ads in a programme that lasts half an hour.

I understand someone has to pay for the bandwidth and service but the only way an advertiser can get to visit my head is to ask gently, humbly, and make it worthwhile for me. Flashing, popping, intruding or forcing is not going to make it. This is why we have adblockers.
After Hiroshima and the Russian invasion of Manchuria, but before Nagasaki, the Japanese army was preparing to impose martial law on Japan to prevent anyone from surrendering.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrender_of_Japan#August_9:_S...

After Hiroshima, the Russian invasion of Manchuria, and Nagasaki, Japan still went through an attempted coup to try to prevent the surrender.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrender_of_Japan#Attempted_m...

I think it's totally false to say "hiroshima and nagasaki had no bearing on the japanese decision to surrender". That doesn't match the evidence of history whatsoever.
> Best I'm aware, radios offer unlimited music broadcasting all day long and are doing just fine without subscribers.

Unlimited broadcasting of the same set of songs in rotation that they choose for you. That's supposed to be a huge selling point of the streaming services is to offer a larger selection than what corporate radio limits what's broadcast.
That's a really interesting point. You could argue that the problem is the low standard of PowerPoints in most companies, not the presentation medium itself. I've certainly seen the occasional great presentation.

To put it another way, my view is that

good visuals >> good writing > average writing >> average visuals

So I could certainly imagine a culture where the average visual presentation was good enough to make that the best choice.
It’s when you start noticing the differences between multiple Shawdow banned but unbounded accounts that you start to question Djikstra‘a motives. And Robinhood. And I capitalized that `S’ on purpose. Spinposium.ed
> UBI is based on the assumption there will be no jobs

No, it is not. UBI, under a variety of names, is an idea much older than, and not at all dependent on, the idea of a situation where there are no jobs.
Rules restrict the diversity of your learning and restricts your knowledge.

You don't have time for everything, so it's good to have rules. But always remember that on occasion you need to break your own rules otherwise your knowledge becomes biased.

My extra rule to overcome this bias is. Anyone who recommends me their favorite book I will read it no matter how stupid I believe the recommendation is, no matter how many rules it violates.

I found the DaVinci code this way. That book was a huge mistake, but still I now have actually read the book and have the definitive knowledge to know it's a mistake.
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And then you would be banned for blocking ads.
We don't blame the knife when someone stabs another. Spotify is just another player in this diseased game. They are part of the problem, not a symptom of it.

This is coming from someone who has followed and evangelized Spotify since the beginning, way back when Ludvig joined and it was still P2P.
Yeah, like "the fappening", for christ's sake, it doesn't have to be a "state actor"!
Open source means that the source code is available, not that you can get the product for free.
Customers who use too many company resources or hurt the bottom line get dropped. Like when a suspected card counter is banned from a casino. That's just what's happening here.
I've found it extremely difficult to track down stories I've heard on the radio on their website. The search function is really useless and even on the day of the broadcast I struggle to find the headline they used for the piece. If I'm going back a couple of days later it's usually a failure.

It looks like it should be so easy on the surface, just scan down the list of segments till you find the one you want, but for some reason I always struggle.
The problem isn't ads per se, it's all the crap around them:

* invasive, industrial grade stalking
* wasted screen real estate
* trackers
* page load time
* bloated third-party garbage
* blinkenlights
* dark patterns
* bandwidth hogging
* CPU hogging
* drive-by-malware potential (compromised ad network is an incredibly powerful attack vector)

And so on. Quite a long time ago I actually wrote down what I consider the minimum standard for acceptable ads: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10521930 ; anything more intrusive is as good as toxic waste.
I’m frankly surprised you believe terms of service regarding a data stream that a company chooses to freely emit are in any way related whatsoever to a person’s right to restrict what is displayed on a physical device that they own.

My screen is not Spotify’s property. They are allowed to TRY to display something on it, and it will only be displayed IF I LET THEM. There’s no discussion here.
The chance that this will end up giving you the same level of care for less money is practically zero.
> why shouldn't they get a tax credit for spending money to improve the local infrastructure

Amazon isn't going to be building public schools, roads, or transportation. Their presence will increase demand for those things
Has that not already been the headline a dozen times?

Certainly Apple has deserved that scrutiny, but I was also waiting to see whether they'd do the right thing here.
Thanks, that made my morning!
If I were to rate my development ability to most HN devs, I would be rather mediocre.

But isn’t this a bit juvenile a workaround for FB? It seem rather easy to workaround this as an ad blocker. Just a little doc tree parsing and regex?
>What’s wrong with tax breaks? It’s like people are under the impression that the government is actually paying Amazon.

What do you think a tax break is?

>If Amazon didn’t get any tax breaks, they would have gone somewhere else.

If the cost of upgrading the city infrastructure to handle the new influx of people (and other associated costs) is higher than the income from Amazon, it's a bad deal for the city.
The public, “ain’t nobody got time for dat!”

They will always continue to fall victim to these scams.
I assume paid subscribers aren't affected by that rule? I have a pretty comprehensive /etc/hosts file that blocks a lot of ad networks (particularly ones known to traffic particularly onerous ads and/or malicious code). There's no way I'm nuking that because Spotify has this new rule. But I don't see ads in Spotify anyways due to having a paid subscription. I assume this new "rule" will never affect me. Guess I better make a local backup of my library/playlists just in case? :P

But.. to be honest, can we just have Rdio back? It was vastly superior and when it went under, Spotify was literally not even capable of importing my Rdio library (because Spotify actually limits how many songs you can add to your library, with a ridiculously low limit of _10,000_ songs). Users have been requesting an increase to this since 2014 or earlier, with of course zero changes to this amount. https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/Your-Music-Incre... (notice it has _451 pages_ of comments)
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> And yet the US has full employment.

The US has “full employment” only under a definition of “full employment” that allows significant involuntary under- and un-employment to exist while still applying the label.
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http://ocean.otr.usm.edu/~w304644/ajha/americanjournalism/fa...

"During the Civil War the federal government was responsible for
the greatest amount of newspaper suppression in the nation’s history.
More than 300 newspapers were shut down, most of them Democratic
papers that were sympathetic to the Confederacy. Some historians have
criticized President Abraham Lincoln for allowing such widespread
constraints on the press. This article reconsiders the nature of Lincoln’s
view of press freedom. Based on a letter the president sent to a Union
general, it concludes that Lincoln changed his thinking about midway
through the war and began to believe that suppression of the press was
not the appropriate policy."
FDA approval process requires a ton of upfront R&D resources with zero guarantees. This is mostly a good thing but it's not black and white. Malpractice law is another example of regulations driving the price up, we can't get rid of malpractice law but the structure matters.
Also frustrating is being hit by a wave of down votes for even tangentially mentioning libretarianism in a negative light, there is a lot of appeal to libretarianism similar to socialism, and every other governmental or economic approach, refusing to discuss the pros and cons just further cements the partisan divide.

Just to be clear, libretarianism is not incompatible with regulation - I happen to think that a certain amount of regulation and government oversight is required to allow things to function, I am an optimist about human behavior, but the ideal anarchist world with no laws is absolutely unsustainable, IMO. So my barb (and it wasn't even a sharp one) was more about the false painting of libretarianism being incompatible with government regulation and the talking points that ensue, then any desire to allow a focus on individual freedoms.
I had to laugh when I saw the Bridgeport mill in Manhattan. One of the craziest things I've ever seen is Autodesk's facility on a pier in SF (https://www.autodesk.com/pier-9). They have a room with floor-to-ceiling wall-to-wall glass looking onto the bay bridge with an absolutely clean Bridgeport mill. That says "$$$" like nothing else.
Yes, that's correct. No tax break is structured as a check that just shows up. They're usually contingent on meeting hiring thresholds or tenure. Amazon's tax breaks were going to be by head over several years.
In an online forum like goodreads (ditto imdb, etc) it most defnitely is.
It's well-received because it's not actually UBI. It's just a job. The government already employs millions of people. You're pitching something that is already implemented, but pretending like you just invented it.

Congratulations, you're Juicero.
We shouldn't just accept a future of joblessness. It's a terrible waste of human capital. Rather than simply paying people to be unemployed, we should find work for them to do that benefits society in some way. To an extent we need to be investing more in our people, especially in the U.S., but there are also things we could do like large scale infrastructure
projects that could help fill the gap for people that don't have the knowledge/skill for many of the jobs that can't be automated.
Wait are you serious or is this incredibly subtle sarcasm?
Politicians carving out special considerations for the powerful and other people who lobby extra well is not "capitalism".

It has way more in common with government sanctioned megacorps like the British East India Trading Company than laissez faire and the invisible hand.
Only in the land of philanthropy is such a headline a thing, or even a PR move.
So instead of giving the guardian of said teenager 200k to do with as they/he/she pleases in the interest of the child, you set up a education funding scheme? But when the government does it, it's what?
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> I’m very willing to let any of my body parts go through a big fat wringer if need be.

If you're willing, how can you be extorted?
Apple makes massive profits on the hardware they sell you, that's how they can do it. The software companies that give it away "for free" (Facebook, Google) don't have any way other than advertising or selling/using data to make money.
This is why I genuinely believe STEM majors should be required to take more liberal arts (e.g. ethics) classes as a requirement to graduate.
Interestingly, Google very quietly shuttered the Google Translate for web plugin that made it possible to autotranslate sites.

The Web Speech API already exists for Speech Recognition and Speech Synthesis, so hopefully they add a translation API directly to Chrome. Can't call it an _inter_net if it doesn't easily support multiple languages!
What an interesting exchange here! This really highlights an issue that we have been dealing with for these last 80 years: What to do when the leader is known to be unjust/evil?

Here we see that these very intelligent men all were patriots to their own people, despite their evil leader. But they all knew that this patriotism was misplaced and would make the world worse. They all knew that they should loose, despite their loyalty to their own people.

In the 8 decades since, have we come to a conclusion on how to deal with this? What is a person to do when the nation goes towards evil? Must we all go Capt. America on our own[0]?

The decisions of these cowards and their internal conflicts echo to this day.

[0]https://external-preview.redd.it/sORWym5kfi2NIanLWbz_0nWtqPP...
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This is the music industry. Spotify should be happy playing music for me in exchange for exposure.
It's also not even limited to websites:

> Austria has issued its first fine for GDPR violation, sanctioning the owner of a retail establishment with EUR 4,800, Digital Freshfields report. The reason is that the entrepreneur has placed a surveillance camera which not only captures too much of the sidewalk in front of the establishment, but it was not properly marked as conducting video surveillance.