skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Obligatory link to Maciej Cegłowski's The Website Obesity Crisis[0]

> These Apple sites exemplify what I call Chickenshit Minimalism. It's the prevailing design aesthetic of today's web. I wrote an essay about this on Medium[1]. Since this is a fifty minute talk, please indulge me while I read it to you in its entirety:

> "Chickenshit Minimalism: the illusion of simplicity backed by megabytes of cruft."

I just opened up that one-sentence, image-free blog-post, with uBlock, uMatrix disabled. Without cache it pulled in 790 KiB - with cache it's still 108 KiB.

And it used to be worse:

> I already talked about how bloated Medium articles are. That one-sentence essay is easily over a megabyte. It's not just because of (pointless) javascript. There's also this big image in the page footer[2]. Because my article is so short, it's literally impossible to scroll down to see it, but with developer tools I can kind of make out what it is: some sort of spacesuit people with tablets and mobile phones.

> It's 900 kilobytes in size.

I hate Medium and their ilk with a passion.

[0] https://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm

[1] https://medium.com/@mceglowski/chickenshit-minimalism-846fc1...

[2] https://static.pinboard.in/ob/ob.082.jpg (Cegłowski's archived copy of that once-mandatory 900 KiB footer)
That's just a bad headline. "Ties" is so vague that it can mean anything.
> (every American life lost matters)

Are non-American lives somehow worth less? (Or just worthless?)

That's the kind of ethno-centric mindset that doesn't even bother to count the civilian "collateral damage" as long as our guys are safe in their body armor or -- better -- thousands of miles away directing drones from behind a desk.

It doesn't help much with building intercultural trust and understanding, though, or "winning hearts and minds".
Yeah, it's really convenient. I often compare the price per weight when choosing between two different but similar items.

I also remember a time when I needed a new dishwasher, and one shop had it from $300 for $200, while another shop just had the same dishwasher simply for $200. I got it from the second shop, of course.
Counterpoint to the people agreeing here at having a much higher dvorak typing speed vs qwerty speed, I've never tried dvorak, but I have a >100wpm typing speed on qwerty (every time I do a challenge with people at work on typeracer.com, I flag their bot-check validator/captcha process) having learnt to touch type as a teenager juggling multiple msn-messenger conversations without wanting the counterparty to be aware
No, it's useless and I speak from experience of dealing with spammers who forged mail from friends family and colleagues in the past.

People are not trivial automatons who can have their opinions rewritten on the fly by auto-generated text. If auto-generated text reaches into its giant grab-bag of learned expressions and produces something actually interesting or insightful, people might be interested in that new line of thinking, but if - like many of these examples - it's essentially rambling if coherent nonsense then it won't have any impact at all.

So I rather think it's you fooling yourself. You've been reading comments online for years without knowing who or what produced them. If you discovered half of them were artificial tomorrow, what difference would it make? The people around you are already judging arguments based on the content, not their volume or who wrote them.
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Don’t get me wrong you don’t “need an excuse” to prefer one thing over another, just as I don’t need to apologise for not liking it you don’t need to apologise for liking it. Indeed, at least until very recently, I think you’d be considered in the main. Personally I grew up in awe of entirely software-defined interfaces (mainly due to the Star Trek LCARS touch-interface specifically designed to look as if it were a very simple manner of controlling very complex processes) and that will probably stick with me my whole life. Keys and buttons are just cool to me in a retrofuturistic/Blade Runner kind of way.
Not being American or Chinese I guess I can throw stones
Supporting copy and paste in electron
Well, that's something that I can't argue against. You're totally right. :D
I feel that there is a wealth/background effect here that could be studied somewhat too. I think people who don't have to worry about money are less likely to pay any attention to discounts and deals.

Having come from a council estate, there is a certain mindset behind getting a deal for everything, making your little money go as far as possible, buy one get one free, or discounts on anything, or coupons to get into restaurants or discounted vacations, or companies that "get you deals" on all your electric, gas, TV, internet bills, 8 packs of cheap beer, etc. are all seen as victories and you are crazy for not taking advantage of them. There's an emphasis on getting more quantity for less money. That's easily exploited.
The problem is and always will be that truth is tricky to define, and “blocking fake news” is immensely easy to exploit for nefarious purposes.

Perhaps the better solution here is not to try to block the flood but to manipulate it by using market incentives. Notice how high-quality journalism tends (again, quite subjective) towards subscriptions and sponsorships, as users will actively want to participate whereas lower-effort content has to lean heavily on black-box advertising networks. This could be solved with a few changes: tax advertising a lot more, and use these funds to subsidise subscriptions and sponsorships in media.
So even on an electoral level, consumers get fooled by this and want access to shady deals. That's going to make it really hard to get fair consumer protection laws.

(Though maybe it's not surprising that people get fooled in politics.)
Probably a combination of not needing to be very strong (we don't use raw strength to hunt very often) and a metabolic cost.
Not for sure no, but the signs are all there.
I have 10 Raspberry Pi's with Debian Stretch and Jessie - the Raspbian variant. I updated a "sacrificial" Pi and rebooted without error.. this time!

Package: linux-libc-dev
Version: 4.9.82-1+deb9u3+rpi1
Priority: optional
Section: devel
Source: linux-4.9
Maintainer: Debian Kernel Team <debian-kernel@lists.debian.org>
Installed-Size: 4,466 kB
Provides: linux-kernel-headers
Homepage: https://www.kernel.org/
Download-Size: 1,300 kB
APT-Manual-Installed: no
APT-Sources: http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian stretch/main
armhf Packages Description: Linux support headers for userspace
development This package provides userspaces headers from the Linux
kernel. These headers are used by the installed headers for GNU libc
and other system libraries.

edit: formatting
> Use a softer keyboard if you can

This. I dislike mechanical keyboards largely for this reason. Apple's "modern" laptop keyboards (pre-butterfly) are the best I've ever used. For me, they have the right amount of pressure required and key travel to be able to type very fast (>100wpm) at very low effort.
The ones that I know well, including a mechanical engineer, are back to dealerships (ack!) or independent mechanics.
> I suppose #2 may have some limited value, but not much.

Didn’t stop apps from trying exactly that anyway.

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2016/09/20/dropbox-macos-s...
I increasingly tend to close popups on websites by deleting them from the DOM through dev tools. Not the most user-friendly method, but it's quite thorough.
Alligators evolved during the Late Cretaceous (100M-65M years ago) and populated the waterways of the south-eastern US around that time. Pythons were introduced to that ecosystem roughly 30 years ago.

noahA does a pretty good job of explaining why the current thinking is that invasive species are a very bad thing but I agree it's a form of hubris to think we can control these things when humans seem to want to follow a whole other set of behaviors. Still, I think it's a good idea to try to motivate good stewardship.

Here's an incomplete list of other invasive species in the Everglades:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_invasive_species_in_th...
The book "Predictably Irrational" by behavioral economist Dan Ariely that was mentioned early on in the article is also a good read. It does not directly related to pricing strategy but provide good insight to the irrational decisions that we make, and the BOGO falls into that category.

In a similar vein, I have just finished "Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness" by Thaler and Sustein. This might be worth a look as well.
> Repeat after me: calling something logic doesn’t make it so. Calling someone rational doesn’t make it so. Opinions from Youtube men are not facts. Getting mad about philosophers you haven’t read isn’t reason.

Finally somebody nailed it.
I can see how business practices and contract obligations get in the way. I'm not asking to know the exact address or company name. Or even enough info to know which job it is (such as company age, company size, product type).

All I'm asking is basic things like "what tech are they ussing" or "what type of role is it" etc.

Of all my theories for why they can't say up front I'm now leaning towards this one: they need to gather my info so that if the 5-10 minute phone call is fruitless, they'll have enough candidate info on ME to be able to pay for that call, when they say that info in bulk. If they gave away the big parameters first (location, pay range, tech, ..) they know that's when most conversations will end. I haven't tried, but I'm guessing that if I just tell them enough about me first, they'll eventually allow the call to contain details about the position. At that point I'll just say "no thanks, I can't move to city Y", but they are happy they got some good info.
Will I be able to fix it?
> China Internet is not free and open.

Then Google should have nothing to do with it. Otherwise they are not supportive of 'a free and open internet', but are actively supporting a close, censored and controlled internet.

It's pretty simple.
I do, but I'm OK with being a statistical fluke.

I imagine there could be a number of IOT, media or other devices unknowingly running Debian on ARM though; more than we realise.
They're going after the companies that actually drive the traffic. If Google News, Hacker News, Reddit, etc isn't linking me to your site... I'm never ever ever going to see your site. You still get the page views, ad revenue, etc when someone else sends me to your site, so what's the beef?
because the more fibers you use for small movement the more energy you consume and higher the risk of actual damage
I've been on a computer pretty much 12-16 hours a day for 30 years now. Dvorak only makes sense to me if you only have to use a single keyboard/workstation for all of your computing time consistently. On my own I have four different machines/OS and I frequently have to type at other peoples'.

I spent 10 years in Dvorak, Colemak and a variety of modified Colemak layouts before settling back on qwerty. I never noticed much difference in typing speed between it and dvorak (~104wpm) and I am still without RSI.

Using vim with dvorak is a real pain.
"Science is not about consensus. Science is what can be tested and thus demonstrated." - ThomPete above

ThomPete on this page is, it seems, holding people to impossible standards and then complaining that they're not met.

I have no idea what they mean "If someone want to convince me...they need to explain to me what scientifically demonstrated consequences of climate change...won't we be able to deal with 50-100 year from now." .. "There is no shortage of speculated outcomes. What there is a shortage of is demonstrated outcomes"

A shortage of what?! One is supposed to demonstrate the future somehow, or give a deductive proof, or something? What would count as evidence that events predicted by scientists will occur? I'm not sure. Nothing, it seems.

It seems any prediction or forecast about almost anything can equally be called 'certainly not scientific', 'politics masquaraded as science', 'speculations...not scientifically demonstrated' etc etc.

I guess the probability of asteroids hitting the earth is independent of the stuff happening here, of human plans and actions, so can't similarly be accused of being politics in disguise. But most issues on this planet - all the other ones I can think of - aren't of that kind.
What's even funnier is it's often people (who are not British nor their descendants) raising this objection in the English language...
Obviously software build reproducibility

“Huawei is required to have reproducable builds”

doesn’t protect from hardware backdoors. That solution is the proper solution to the software backdoors, again:

“the code running in the network is the exactly same as what was vetted by CSEC.”
I know. I've done that many times. But what the WireGuard guys are saying sounds like it's something very different:

"Because it uses these deep integration APIs, we're only allowed to distribute the application using the macOS App Store (whose rejections, appeals, and eventual acceptance made for quite the stressful saga over the last week and a half)"
I have been using Dvorak for 10 years and I love it. I also type in three languages regurarily (English, Finnish and Japanese), and that would make it pain in the arse for anyone who doesn't have the energy to define their own layout.

Btw. I use a layout based on the Dvorak-⌘qwerty on Mac, which reverts the layout to QWERTY when the command button is pressed. That makes the keyboard shortcuts work better. On the other hand, it messes up some non-native apps, especially Java-based ones.
> p.s. the snow on https://data.zx2c4.com/wireguard-for-macos-screenshots-febru.... is pretty hilarious

Comic Sans MS, we meet again!

(Happy WireGuard user; using the go version on macOS for ages, using wg-quick, using the EdgeOS port on my Ubiquity router, and using the Android userspace version. Roaming simply works. Only thing which sucks is on Android the VPN gets lost when you update the software.)
You're right that absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. But presumably you don't think that vaccines don't prevent serious diseases? If there were significant negative side effects of vaccines - of an order which negates the benefits of those vaccinations - I would argue that we'd know that by now.
The way I heard it is that the U.S. could not domestically provide an off the shelf end-to-end 5G solution. In addition, Huawei had at some point declined to install NSA backdoors. This was essentially the backdrop that led to Huawei being tarred and feathered.
> As an aside, why why why do people use the international keyboard layout?

That's like saying "why do characters outside standard English exist?". I honestly don't understand what you're complaining about. People use international keyboard layouts because they want to write another language than English.
See for instance http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/carpalx/?dvorak .
> Is paying for convenience inherently wrong in your world view?

I was channelling the spirit of the article.

But for me it's not that something is convenient on it's own, it's 2 things. Firstly, it's that it's shady and manipulative and that people will defend this when challenged by saying "oh it's okay I don't like to think about it, it's convenient".

Secondly because a BOGO offer (or Amazon Prime) lowers the cognitive load it is explicitly a convenient thing for us. our brains think we are both getting a deal and we are having a smooth ride. It's easier to not do the economics and it's easier and smoother for us to think less even if we spend a little bit more.

>There is also the utility value of not needing to think

>Shopping around can be time-consuming

>Spending...cognitive effort to save money

Now, making money isn't wrong, nor is hacking on psychology, but I don't see any comments in HN defending BOGO. We all like to think we are rational and that it's others who are the crazy ones.
What did you expect? Antibiotic resistance is a new phenomenon. There's no science in modern Russia, and good sources on the subject like "The Lancet" and NIH's pubmed are in English.
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Not the best picture — but here’s the pack resting by a river in Chateauvert... https://twitter.com/ibreathetweets/status/109746226978771763....

Perhaps as they say, It doesn’t have to be pretty to be beautiful ...

And one Fully Loaded for checking before a flight - https://twitter.com/ibreathetweets/status/109746414128192307...
A memory safe implementation is probably what you want.
Ever tried topre?
Creating Experiences with Dark Mode – Don't Burn My Eyes Please
You're not exactly beating the system. That's just plain old brand loyalty, which companies love. You've stopped shopping based on quality or value, and they can turn a profit without investing anything into marketing.
Just be aware that (allegedly) your "fat gains" are also preserved - fat cells are only created, never destroyed, and those that exist, even if you starve them and they become smaller (i.e. lose fat/reduce body fat percentage), they'd still get "fat" much easier than growing new fat cells.

Or this might all just be bro-science, you never know ...
> The problem is that on iOS Apple's "quality control" includes banning normal and fun human activities such as sex.

While being totally OK with (gun) violence. Hello, double (American) standard. Keep that double standard in the US. I don't want it in the EU. Thank you.
When my wife comes back from shopping I often jokingly ask her 'how much did you "save" today' and she laughs back.

We're in a quite good position so it doesn't matter as much but it's often easy to get lost in the rebates and forget how much is actually spent.
Actually I think we're in agreement here: I didn't make it clear but the nominal figure to which I was referring was the magnitude claimed free. By saying "extra free" they get to write down 10% instead of 9%.

I also agree the difference is small in this case but I'd argue:

* Small wins are still wins.

* The difference is not so small with bigger percentages.

Imagine I decide to tweak my margins for a time and sell 1.5Kg of cereal for the price I previously sold 1Kg. I could say "33% free" (relative to old price) or "50% extra free".
Even without discount on the more expensive one, it can be used as a marketing trick to make you buy more expensive. For instance offer three versions of a product: $1 branded as cheap/bad, $2 branded as good, $5 branded as luxury. The last one exists mainly to anchor the value of the $2 as also cheap and to make you buy it. If one only had the choice between $1 and $2, most people would choose $1 option.
Data-spewing Spectre chip flaws can't be killed by software alone
"Right now there is this thing called Brexit." I'm British, so I'm all too aware of Brexit. The comment I responded to didn't sound like someone who had legitimate suspicions regarding the state of British politics, it sounded like a fatuous, offhand dismissal of people who were taking a serious interest the effect of social media on democracy. I'm interested in thoughtful criticism of the report, but this wasn't that.
Why not use Google Drive ? It offers unlimited storage for businesses.
There May Soon Be Three Internets. America’s Won’t Necessarily Be the Best ('18)
This would happen less often if the affected patients reported the individuals to the licensing board in the relevant jurisdiction. It's not going to fix it completely, but it would help.
I used to dread snake case before I switched to dvorak
Oh no, I was thinking about IP infrastructure. Core/edge routers and the like. I don't see any technological advantage they have in that market but I could be wrong as I have not seen any product comparisons in a while. As I understood it, their wins are due to their pricing.
Aren't there official iPhone battery packs?
Also with these "deals" you often also have to ask yourself:

Are you buying it because it is cheap or are you buying it because you need it? Often people buy stuff they don't need because it is on sale "right now."
On that note, backdoors would either be hidden in proprietary apps, or delivered through OTA updates. Maybe a mix of both. I'd be interested in a diff of stock binaries vs recompiled "source" binaries to see if they differ significantly enough.
Doesn't always work though, some web sites also manage to block scrolling of the main content which may not always be easy to figure out (esp. on messy web sites with megatons of JavaScript code, HTML and CSS).

And surely there are browser plugins that help you remove annoying DOM elements in one click?
"Read contract yourself then get back to company and request to either remove all one-sided clauses or make them equally two-sided."

I did that not too long ago, to a potential client. The client's response was "Well we have used this standard contract with other freelancers and they have never complained about it. Take it or leave it" I left that client.
Possibly, though I would still check capacitors and any voltage regulation (transformer and linear) to make sure it won't blow up suddenly because some wire coating rotted through.
Basicslly a modern version of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wave_(novel) ?
Doesn't Google guarantee updates for Pixel for only 18 months?
I think this makes sense - in that it is better to target unearned income than earned income (in fact it seems bizarre that unearned income is taxed at a lower rate..)

However, it seems that capital gains tax would be easier to avoid in the modern global capital market by putting the shares in the care of a trust based in a different country or something.
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Malicious program without LD_PRELOAD can still copy the binary to other folder and sufficiently change the menu to point to the copy. Then modify the copy by binary patching to do whatever. Or run it via modified qemu to do whatever. The main problem is the lack of a proper sandbox and that all programs in user session generally have the same permissions.
Because when it breaks, it is broken in a stable way.
There is a lot of generally invisible work of leaders. That can be hard to distinguish from "not doing anything at all" in the moment, but across a year or more, the leaders who carefully build teams, work with the engineering leads to set appropriate goals and scope for projects, make sure that critical roadblocks are removed, ensure that engineers feel engaged with the work and company goals will succeed beyond that of those are literally doing nothing. To the junior engineers in the org, it may not appear any different and one leader just seems to keep getting lucky (appearing to just be dealt a series of good teams, good projects, consistently getting good outcomes, etc).
I've witheld buying a new MacBook for the last few years.

Dislike the butterfly keyboard (lack of feedback) and touch bar removing the ESC key among others.

Really hope this one is something I'd buy.
I think of the internet/computers as intelligence magnifiers. Unfortunately, stupidity is also magnified.

I did worry about using that derogatory "stupid" word, possibly replacing it with "uneducated", but after arguing with a similar group, conspiracy theorists, I decided to let it stand.
There's no way of measuring this kind of "bias", as far as I know. I get the impression it's a bogus concept.
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I don't know about the US, but eg. scoresheets with carbon coy were handed out in the last tournament I played (Italy).
I don’t want to beat the system because I know it’s a lost battle from the get-go ans I also don’t really feel the need of being “lured” into buying a product. That’s also one of the reasons why I still don’t use an ad-blocker, as I’m almost totally blind to advertising, both online and offline. I do think though that this tactic has made me purchase less stuff over time, I consider that as a win.
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