skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> this just means that said groups can hijack the agency of thousands of people at the same time with the same set of tools.

Yeah, very good point.

What we're trying to get at is this idea that some of the voluntary decisions people make aren't really voluntary.

What's (sometimes) proposed though is that this somehow invalidates the idea that people should be able to make their own decisions at all -- that they're incapable of it.

To go back to the idea of people controlling their devices, a hacker might trick me into giving device permissions for something I don't want -- because I misunderstand the permissions, or because they have some kind of leverage over me, or because they convince me that the permissions are no big deal.

I'm all for efforts to address 'Limbic Capitalism' that involve educating consumers and trying to plug those kinds of holes and giving people ways to interact with brands where brands can't sidestep informed decision-making processes. I disagree with someone who looks at those holes and says, "well clearly freedom isn't working", for the same reasons I disagree with someone who looks at Android's horrible permissions system and says, "well, clearly users shouldn't be able to decide whether or not an app gets location privileges, clearly only the smart people at Google should."

On the software side of things, we've learned that things like upfront permission prompts on app installation circumvent user agency, and we've started to move more towards forcing apps to only ask for permissions at the moment they need them. We've also given users tools like the ability to grant a permission temporarily rather than permanently.

Those kinds of solutions help defend against exploitative behavior without robbing users of agency.
It's pretty lame that the examples on the page show the answerer not just answering but also talking down to the questioner. XY is a problem that happens a lot, but disparaging people who are trying to learn is not the right response.

Here's how that conversation should have gone:

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Q: How can I echo the last three characters in a filename?

A: If they're in a variable: echo ${foo: -3}

A: However, if what you really want is to get the file extension, it's probably better to handle extensions of any length. Try this instead: ${foo##*.}

A: That expression says to find the longest prefix of `foo` that matches the given glob pattern, and remove it.

Q: Oh wow! That is actually what I wanted, but it hadn't occurred to me that such powerful pattern-matching would be built into the shell. I already had a solution involving piping through sed, but it was pretty slow and ugly. I noticed that all the files I'm operating on have three-letter extensions and I figured there'd be an easier way to take a slice of a string, since that's a common thing to have built-in. But your answer is the best of both worlds. TIL!

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There's really no need to admonish the questioner for starting with the wrong question. That won't help. It will only make them afraid to ask questions at all.
Slavery deprives someone of a basic human freedom. A free market is the exact opposite of that.
I've never been picked up by a Tesla when requesting Uber or Lyft rides.
Polish government went exile after the Soviets invaded.

PS: In 1919, it was USSR who fought the war on Polish ground, and lost. I don't think you'll find too much material to play moral high ground here.
Neither of these things are true and there is enormous evidence.

First, if it was fast enough, people wouldn't bring up its bloat and speed in every discussion of slack.

Second, there are hundreds if not thousands of programs much more complicated than slack that work exceptionally well and have been made with these GUI libraries. A minimal amount of searching would show this.
Great idea! The card graphics don't look as nice for me as they did in your blog post, though: https://imgur.com/a/RrjMifa
It would be a harsh society indeed that didn't protect against some poor choices. You got injured and your insurance lapsed because you forgot to pay it/did not realize you should have it/didn't have the money/got ripped off/made a bad decision/the check was lost in the mail? Starve and die? I've traveled in countries that can be like that and its not a happy place to live. Medieval you might say.
US demands social media details from visa applicants
The Kids App Market
Does that mean people have to hand over their personal information at airport or something?
That's like equating people critical of Israel with those in favor of reopening Auschwitz.
>Obviously if you have privacy concerns you can just keep it turned off or ask maintenance to unplug its ethernet.

*For now:

https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/bpr6xs/if_you_choo...
I think it's called "development lag" in children, and there were a few studies done on how most eventually catch up to their peers. There are some contributing factors such as right/left hand dominance, vision and/or balance issues (many children go undiagnosed for a few years when suffering from issues with their eyes or inner ear etc), some hand-eye coordination lag can be attributed to a slowly developing brain / neurons, possibly down to nutrition, physical exercise, stimuli etc etc.

While I agree that some children and adults seem to have an "innate" ability, I would argue this ability is formed by their development as children and how they grow up, and there are a few studies coming to this conclusion (just search "children development lag" on google scholar).

I would further argue that most, if not all individuals barring physical and/or mental disabilities can acquire any given skill with deliberate practice (in a method that works best for them) over a certain period of time not far off those with an inherit advantage; again you can search "deliberate practice" on google scholar to find numerous studies.
Well, it certainly does. 23 kids dying in a shooting incident is a lot more impactful than 3000 kids dying across the nation. One impacts nearly everyone with kids in a geographical area (many will need counseling), the other only impacts a couple families in a given geographical area.
British and French had treaties with Poland, the US didn't enter the war until 41.

Roosevelt and Churchill seemed to believe Stalin's promises about Poland at Yalta. Only later did they seem to realise Stalin's words were empty. Churchill was hugely criticised in parliament right after for the poor treatment of Poland, including by his own party. There was even a vote of confidence in the government.

Of course post-war Europe ended up looking very suspiciously like the Molotov-Ribbentrop lines...
I'm sorry, but this is such a cheapo propaganda like comment to what the other guy said

Throwing numbers around as if the decentralized killing or the fami es within non-totalitarian systems weren't comparable is just silly

The guy is t advocating for anything of the sort, and the article doesn't mention governments themselves, but decentralized profit driven enterprises....
To follow on from "the public demanded it" and bring it back to the original article... why is the media publishing these photos? Because the public want them to. The vast majority of newspapers are profit making enterprises, and they're giving customers what they want. Blaming the media here feels like missing the forest for the trees.
That was an excellent piece. I've done a similar thing on a much smaller scale (fighting for karma within niche subreddits), complete with the careful analysis of which content sources do best, which times of day are ideal, what kind of titles and themes cater most to the userbase... I ended up writing plenty of automation as well, to help me filter through the vast quantity of potential submissions and find those which would guarantee a top spot.

Reddit is a nice confluence of several things that humans find addicting - semi-random rewards, detailed metrics, quick feedback, novel stimuli, all magnifying the power of underlying signal (social approval). None of that is specific to reddit, of course–every social website eventually becomes that same game, or dies.

Unlike the OP, though, I didn't find it unhealthy. Compared to, say, video games, or TV, chasing karma was a much better hamster wheel to run on; it motivated the sort of careful analysis, planning, and diligence that I could eventually apply to real problems. My hope is that reddit (and reddit-like attention machines) push more strongly in this direction; the ideal feedback loop isn't one that spurs no addiction at all, but rather one for which addiction has net positive consequences.
I disagree thoroughly. Murder always affects those metrics much more than accident. Mass murder more than individual crimes of passion. Freak accidents more than common accidents. Et cetera.
No they don't.

They support the fake right to coerce manufacturers into making products that can be self-repaired.

Yes, there's no "right to repair". There's a right to buy whatever product you want.
I'm talking about when evidence was first being discovered, as is the case in this thread. Humans have a disconfirmation bias - we have a hard time accepting new, conflicting information.
I think it is worth telling (politely) the questioner that they really should start by telling people what they really want to do, in order to get better feedback in the future.
Same reason as why celebrities are reported “Found dead in a bath tub” and not “Committed suicide”. It discourages copycats.

In some way the more you talk about the perps, the more you’re saying “You can do this and then you will be famous”
But there is a standard for tagging audio data and iTunes uses it, just like any other half decent audio player / music management software. As long as your meta data is clean your library should present in a very consistent way between different players.
I totally get the negative consequences of gig jobs: no benefits, security and so forth. But whenever I take an Uber or Lyft (maybe 100 in the US and UK) I ask the driver how they feel about the job. Almost all of them are happy with it - some gripe about the pay but they like the flexibility. It's possible they aren't thinking far enough ahead - and I'm talking to the self selected group who didn't get a disabling injury or illness and fall into poverty.
“If we had some ham we could have ham and eggs if we had some eggs.”
The Ecobee thermostat seems to provide that, it's a fully functional smart thermostat even without a Wifi connection. You don't get weather adjustments, remote access with the app, and online reports, but otherwise it's fully functional.
Apple and other hardware will not agree. But peope buy devices bacause of the apps. The reason symbian, meego, blackberry, windows et all died was because some of the popular apps where only available on Android and iPhone. Microsoft of course knew this but failed because they where unfriendly to developers. And are now desperately trying to bye goodwill in order to keep Windows on PC relevant.
This looks a lot like Rust's match blocks (which were inspired by pattern matching in ML languages). It's nice to see pattern matching constructs come to more languages.
Russian trolls fueled US anti-vax debate by spreading misinformation on Twitter
Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to turn a profit. One only has to look at the click bait that's included everywhere these days to see what sells.
So for a while the communitsts were the good guys, they unite factory workers against evil factory owners; then capitalists became the good guy, who pay worker fairly and champion human rights; are we seeing a coming back of communists being the good guys again?
> First of all, public transport is not individual travel. Neither the times nor the locations nor the cost are under your control.

Then cars are not individual travel as well. The only thing you control is time of departure (not arrival). You don't control locations because you are limited by availability of parking space. You don't control the cost because it's just a function of distance, gas prices, your car efficiency and time of travel.

Car fits you definition only if you have a parking outside of your flat and right at your destinations and there's no congestion. Even then you would not control the cost and time independently. I think your definition of individual travel is unreasonably restrictive.

> Bicycles are individual travel, and that is why they are so relevant in modern cities, but they are neither weather-independent, nor barrier-free, nor do they provide the same utility as a car.

And car in congested city does not provide same utility as a bicycle or subway. Car is not the ultimate mode of transport, just one of many, one overused and abused.

> IMO the problem cities have with cars is not the pollution

You should appreciate pollution. Recent studies show that even at 'safe' levels it significantly diminishes human intellectual capacity. This affects for example results of important exams in your life and harms your career as result of that.
I'm not sure I agree as we cannot put accidental deaths, even with large total numbers, and mass homicide in the same bucket.

Moreover, when there were mass accidental deaths, as in the case of recent Boeing Max's, there was enough coverage.
The Path of Least Resistance [pdf]
> I can't help but notice that the media of the US is very reluctant to shine a light on an epidemic whose solution invariably involves cutting into the profits of its oil and automobile sponsors.

The media is reluctant to shine a light on behavior where the viewer is responsible.

The media knows very well that their average viewer is an irresponsible fool, but they also know that viewers don't like to be lectured to.

It also just so happens that large parts of the US are either unlivable without a car, or unaffordable. That's just the reality, maybe a 50-year infrastructure plan on behalf of chairman Sanders will change that, but not much else.

> Every time you hear about guns killing children, challenge the narrative by saying, "is talking about this taking away from our opportunities to rethink some of our car-dominated infrastructure?"

The word for that kind of behavior is "whataboutism". It's not going to win you anything.
People don't bother to look before voting. IMO, HN should at least require clicking through to the actual URL before allowing someone to vote.
I think people in general want to put up a positive persona up. I think most people (certainly not all) aren’t going to tell strangers how awful their job is, even if they think that.
Why would they do that in a "live" situation with people who would report it?

Because they want to warn off some nations that are getting a bit aggressive with something that might give them pause.
I've already condemened it.

PS: I like sharp counterarguments, but I guess it cannot go as "P1: We did wrong! P2: What about that time you did wrong?"
No honor among thieves. Poland was marked to be taken off the history books because her neighbors were powerful. Poland would have the same back then, if it was in their position. History of the world. The last few decades are very unique as we have peace, minus a few things here and there.
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Counterpoint: I use my iPhone to do the same, it takes an extra few seconds to tap to look at the weather and queue up a couple podcasts. Why raise my exposure to save 5 seconds?
When you use a definition like "two or more people shot in the same incident", of course there's going to be a surprising number of incidents - because that's not what most people consider to be a mass shooting.
Entropic: A federated package registry for anything
I’m not sure what you mean by “even”. Your implied list contains what, just the NES and the gameboy?

I know plenty of games can exist with only two buttons, but it’s still limiting and likely to be off putting to many devs.
> Cease all forms of oil and automobile subsidy.

So punish the poor, basically?

Bicycles just don't cut it.

The better alternative is more investment in public transport which I assume has a better safety record than private vehicles.
Once you know about it you might realize Bayesian data analysis is relevant for many problems. If not, it will certainly change your way to approach problems forever.
Companies have mostly stopped patenting computer algorithms outside of narrow areas where there are strong interoperability requirements e.g. video codecs. Few algorithm are practically enforceable as patents.

I think you seriously overestimate the incentives to publish. In several computer science domains, and certainly the ones I work in, the academically published algorithms are often a decade or two behind the state-of-the-art that is never published. Valuable algorithm advances are often explicitly treated as trade secrets. As an equally common case, the inventor(s) simply have zero incentive, either personal or financial, to spend their time publishing it -- they did it to solve a problem, not to publish, so they prioritize spending time with their family etc. This disadvantages open source software, and academia spends much of its time reinventing algorithms already known in the industry. In my experience, surprisingly little hardcore algorithm R&D happens in academia, so any model of information dissemination that makes this assumption is going to be suboptimal.

As an example that is unrelated to my current work, I developed a set of novel algorithms that massively improved the efficient parallelization of graph traversals in 2009 -- a true step function in both scalability and throughput per CPU (I was working on supercomputers at the time). Fast forward a decade to 2019 and these algorithms still haven't shown up in academic literature even though people built systems based on them and they are superior to what is currently in the literature. In this case, the algorithms are not even secret. I've also learned some brilliant and as yet unpublished algorithms of unknown origin via these same oral traditions over the years. As a social dynamic, it feels inappropriate to publish an algorithm that you learned this way.

This is a challenging problem to solve. Companies spend serious money on algorithm R&D hoping to obtain a commercial advantage. Outside of that, publishing is often an unattractive use of one's personal time if you are not an academic. This reality disservices the software community at large and I'd like to arrive at a better solution, even though the current reality benefits me greatly as an insider who sees loads of amazing, unpublished computer science.
Could it simply be because they want people to be aware of the suspect and report sightings, in the cases where the suspect hasn't been caught yet?

Victims are harmless. If not caught, the suspect isn't. Hence the latter gets far more attention.
Provided there is some kind of malicious activity, like drunk driving or manufacturer negligence, I find there to be quite a bit of media coverage of motor vehicle deaths. I'd guess that our perception is that they don't cover it because there are so many distinct events which get short 1 minute nightly news stories, while school shootings tend to result in longer, more focused coverage.
After John Lennon was murdered it became less common for media outlets to publicize the identities of murderers beyond maybe a name and a mugshot.

With the more recent shootings there has been a bit of a revival of going into the profiles of the murderers (mostly, it seems, on cable tv) but that is a bit of a departure of the norm.
Roosevelt and Churchill practically gave away the whole of Eastern and Central Europe to Stalin. That's why the whole Yalta affair is quite unpopular amongst Eastern and Central Europeans. Hopefully history won't repeat itself now that we're all part of Nato.
You wrote optical and IR.

Anyways, the only footage I've seen so far is that FLIR video from a plane showing a weird object that happens to precisely follow the rotation of the camera and behave exactly as you'd expect an internal reflection in sensor optics to behave. Given that this is apparently the only footage publicly available from that incident, I'm inclined to discount the reports that some people say they saw something on other instruments.
> money losing proposition.

You are defining money losing as not funded by selling goods and services. Most accountants would define it as costs exceeding revenue.
As others have said, these agreements are meaningless, they are more like timeouts to get ready to attack. Lots of agreements were broken, when one side felt they could away with it.
Customers are not the source of “if it bleeds, it leads”; editors are.
People have a knee-jerk reaction that publishing photos glorifies said person. So to many, the journalists are glorifying the killer and not the victims.
That's a pretty big "if".

The 10x figure I was quoting was from the comment I was responding to. I do think people need to look at what was accomplished by the Strongtalk team and various other projects dealing with dynamic languages including some Lisp implementations. I'm pretty sure Python can be a lot faster, but the legacy code is going to be a big, big problem.
> First, if it was fast enough, people wouldn't bring up its bloat and speed in every discussion of slack.

You should break out of HN bubble

> Second, there are hundreds if not thousands of programs much more complicated than slack that work exceptionally well and have been made with these GUI libraries. A minimal amount of searching would show this.

And yet, very few of those thousands of programs are cross-platform and just as few of those cross platform ones don't look like they where made by a high-school student on a string budget.
Hope that sometime in future they might be allowed.
I think it's more like whitewashing - where the 'meh' is the enemy of 'better, and already exists and works'
I remember having an online discussion about how the Chinese tourist stereotype is inaccurate, and how it affects Chinese-looking people in the west. Then a rando jumped in and listed all the evil things CCP has done, completely irrelevant to the topic at discussion.

Having a discussion about anything China is becoming increasingly difficult.
Where ? I see "before", not "after".
> This is how degrowthers envision the process: After a reduction in material and energy consumption, which will constrict the economy, there should also be a redistribution of existing wealth, and a transition from a materialistic society to one in which the values are based on simpler lifestyles and unpaid work and activities.

And equating redistribution with communism is silly - top income tax rates in the US were the highest - around 80%-90% during MacCarthyism !
This is a great attitude. I tend to approach junior technical staff asking these sorts of of questions with a slightly different tack -

Q: How can I echo the last three characters in a filename?

A: What is it you're trying to achieve by doing Y? What's the context? You can probably do it this way ... , but let's see if it's a good fit for the problem you're trying to solve.
Yuval Noah Harari has thought this through pretty well, it seems to me. At least about why it is a problem, not necessarily with the answer. He talks about this in all his books. For intro on his thinking on this issue, see this article:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/sep/14/yuval-noah-har...
The Inevitable Same-Ification of the Internet
Fundamental understanding of linear algebra and optimization techniques
Bill Gates, Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett on Socialism vs. Capitalism Debate
What’s your solution? Not being snippy just honestly interested.