skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm building a reading game and I want to run simple ethical ads for fantasy novels and live play RPG podcasts and the ilk on the homepage of my app at a later point. I'm at the point in building where I'm initially building my audience and need to advertise that my game exists to the world.

Where else can I buy an ethical ad to find my potential players? My best idea so far has been to purchase an advertisement on some of those podcasts I mentioned, since they are just reading a sentence or three during their normal recording so there is no additional tracking really going on that I'm aware of.

You four would be a great option for reaching other developers. Imagine if you could search for ethical advertisers by category with links to reach out. Does this exist already?
So if the rule is that economic and political power tend towards equilibrium, then the corollary is that moments of disequilibrium are followed quickly by economic or political change. For example, the rising French business class in an environment where the aristocracy has all the power was followed by the French Revolution. And as the article points out, the emergence of a global economic elite is followed by that elite coopting all the governments of the world. On the other side, the rise of strong unions was quickly followed by a period where there was a lot of political empowerment by the masses.

So, if I might suggest a solution, the answer to a situation where corporate power is transnational is a transnational union movement; something like an international congress of unions or maybe like the IWW.
At some point companies like Fast Company have to accept that they are a significant part of the problem, and just writing articles about it is not enough. This page contains a ridiculous number of trackers. The site pulls in content from the following 3rd-party domains:

s.skimresources.com, sb.scorecardresearch.com, secure-cdn.mplxtms.com, z.moatads.com, ml314.com, secure-us.imrworldwide.com, www.googletagservices.com, www.google-analytics.com, www.dianomi.com, d1z2jf7jlzjs58.cloudfront.net, static.chartbeat.com, assets.adobetm.com, platform.twitter.com, www.queryly.com, cdn.polyfill.io, www.lightboxcdn.com, content.jwplatform.com, platform.instagram.com, www.inc.com, images.fastcompany.net, connect.facebook.com, cdn.conversant.mgr.consensu.org, cdnjs.cloudflare.com.

images.fastcompany.net is probably just used to serve static content from a cookieless domain and some of the others are CDNs for libraries, but the rest are all there for tracking purposes.

If you don't like what the ad industry is doing with people's personal data, please don't keep giving them ways to get to it.
Ah yes, sex work jokes in 2019. That's going to resonate well.
A hypothetical regulatory regime to mandate and enforce patching and other good practices?

It's worth thinking about. It might also be worth considering if we think there's a good way to get there without doing more harm than good. Congress is not always known for their high-quality technical regulatory work.
I wonder how many people know that electric vehicles have heaters and AC units for the battery packs?
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I think this is actually the best book for learning to draw animals. I've had a copy for over 30 years, and I still like to go back to it sometimes.

https://www.amazon.com/Draw-Animals-Perigee-Jack-Hamm/dp/039...
Sure, I think that would be a good proposal as well. Ideally all companies would have some degree of worker representation / control.
Sounds to me like you enter conversations with a pre-made idea of what you want the conclusion to be.

Questions to ask yourself if you feel that way regularly:

Have you considered that various shortcomings might hold different weights to people depending on their background, experience in other adjacent domains, etc? That what is factual for you might not be so to others?

How do you know that your analysis of the shortcomings are correct/pertinent? That the person you're talking to hasn't delved in it as deeply as you have and just reached a different conclusion? Are you the close minded one for having decided early in the conversation that because you've thought about it in a certain way in the past, any interlocutor who thinks of it differently is necessarily wrong and stubborn?
Aerial things are the number one culprit for man-made damage to squirrels.
I've browsed a few times the assembler courses on Pentester Academy. I'm not sure I'm up for being a pentester but I do like the particulars of assembler and CPUs.

Would you recommend those courses in particular (looking as amd64 and arm ones)?
Yeah, if somebody came to my front door to "sell me electricity" I'd be on high alert, regardless of his race.

Where I come from it's a known scheme where one guy gets you distracted at the front door with some semi-plausible sales pitch like re-sealing your driveway while his accomplice goes behind the house and robs you blind. Of course, even when the apparent salesman is a genuine salesman, that doesn't mean he's a nice person. Door to door salesmen praying on politeness to get unsuspecting victims into high pressure sales situations in their own living room is common enough that my blanket response to all salesmen knocking on my door is telling them to fuck off. In a certain sense, calling a salesman a thief might actually be giving him the benefit of the doubt.
That's quite the jump you made...
I don't want to get off-topic but the birth rate is an unspoken reason why we have 12+ million "undocumented workers". Immigration is proxy for population growth, which in turn is an easy way to "grow" the economy.

Obviously, propping up the economy in that way has helped to spark socio-political issues. Long to short, the Fed is "against" the middle class and immigrants are taking the brunt of the blame for it.

FYI - It was my comment this sub-tread is from.
I was thinking about this and because of the book _Clean Code_ I had already decided that comments will lie at some point.

So I moved towards descriptive variable and function names, but those could lie as well.

So I'm thinking, how could we ensure truthful intentions at all?

And I think only a combination of small pull requests, good variable and function names and a thorough review can save us here.

But I don't know, I'm just a junior developer.
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Reselling agencies promising to sell you electricity cheaper than the local utility.

Of course, they’re buying the electricity from the local utility, so the contract generally looks something like a monthly price of U - x for a couple months (U being the price set by the utility, x the promised discount), followed by a number of months of U+z, z>>x.

They don’t mention the U+z; that’s left to the fine print.
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In some states (including NY and CA) electricity is partially deregulated so you can choose from different providers, even though it all goes through the same grid. There are actually sales people who go door to door or set up booths to encourage people to switch, usually pitching it as cleaner energy and/or cost-saving.
Interestingly, I'm at that unproductive phase right now. On one hand, I could fix this fast and ugly, but then my code is going to look no different then all the code I go home and complain about. On the other hand, I can try to make my code really nice and abstracted with well thought out design patterns like <golden-coworker>'s. So, on one hand I'm a hypocrite and on the other hand I'm slow and hardly productive because I am just learning design patterns and no matter how many times I refactor my code it never looks as good as <golden-coworkers>'s. How did you get out of this stage? Please help.
> Does anyone actually really use canvas the way we all fear

I think I missed something, what do you mean by this? Are there some data leaking privacy concerns with HTML canvas elements?
> If I had started playing with Python earlier, my life could be a lot different. I was not a guy back then who made programs on TI-84 calculators; I thought that was magic

How come you didn't start playing with the TI-84 programming language instead?

There's no more "battery included" than that, and it's not a pun only: you can program and run on the calculator (not a GREAT way to program it, but quite a nice way to spend your time instead of paying attention to the class :^) ) if you bought it new I guess you had a paper manual for the language (I had one for my TI-89), and there's so little you need to learn and take care of (libraries, dependencies, versions, execution bit, paths... None of these are an issue the novice user will be confronted with. It's like a C64 all over again).
> When they first started they used FreeBSD jails IIRC.

Nope. Solaris Zones.
Because we as a society have yet decided that it's bad. Just like we used to not think environmental pollution was bad, or at least with stunting businesses.
>> and when that individual is not open to those factual shortcomings.

> That's when you should play the part of being stubborn and close-minded yourself, if this is what it takes to ensure that your points are heard.

Do you honestly believe that this is an effective technique in spreading your ideas?
I think she covered that by mentioning that architecture is more important as a senior developer. My understanding as a senior developer by what she means is not to focus on optimizing the hell out of code. Too often, people would demand others use the most optimize piece of code, but if the code is only going to be called once or twice, you should focus your time on other things more important.

I think your company is suffering from bad architecture design more than anything else. It seems like everything is tightly coupled with little room for modifications. This probably means those senior developers weren't really senior to begin with. This tends to happen at startups where business is prioritized and people get hired with inflated titles. I have seen that happen in a lot of startups.
I've seen pictures before. I don't think this is the first picture.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/fish/group/coelac...

Still amazing nonetheless.
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It would be an overwhelmingly better idea for such islands to make ammonia, and release that into the sea. That would enable surface algae to bloom over a widely dispersed area, far from land, which would absorb huge amounts of carbon and reduce acidity. They might need to introduce small amounts of iron and other minerals along with the ammonia.

They could also gather carbon -- ideally from up-current water -- for (un-)natural gas, but it is clear which contribution would have the larger effect, on atmospheric CO2, per joule of solar energy.
Multiple of these points could be grouped under the general belief that "Everything is equally important". The #1 change required for growing into a senior role is to form a habit of ruthless prioritization of how you spend your time (and your team's time, if applicable).

Often you end up in situations where all of the following are true:

1. Your teammate or colleague is designing or implementing something.

2. You have different ideas about how that thing should be done.

3. Your ideas would produce an objectively better system.

4. Even though (3) is true, the improvement to the system or design isn't worth the cost in your time, team velocity, team morale/development, etc.

In that case, the right move is not to intervene, and to let your teammate design/implement the system their way. This is hard to do, because most engineers are natural maximizers[1], but for most tasks you're much better off with a satisficing[2] approach. This isn't to say that you should never give feedback on designs or in code reviews - you absolutely should, but always remember that you have a limited budget for your own time and for team morale, and you should spend that budget on the feedback where it will make the biggest difference.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximization_(psychology)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satisficing
Just curious, did you go to Harvard with Zuck? That's the only way you could have been on Facebook that long, as he only created the earliest version in fall 2003.
> Learned as junior: New tech solves old problems.

> Understood as senior: New tech creates new problems.

This is one all the people who push "new and shiny" need to learn.
> Make sure nobody at state or DHS or justice can subvert this new agency, they need to stand on equal footing with any company or agency.

Interestingly, a service similar to what you described is already offered through DHS:

https://www.us-cert.gov/resources/ncats
https://www.dhs.gov/cisa/cybersecurity-assessments
Agreed. The future __is__ already here. It's just unevenly distributed, literally.
True, but that also means filling the ranks of the Church with people coming from wealthy, powerful families. You can imagine the effect that has on the relationship between temporal and spiritual powers.
> A final study showed that participants who read a popular magazine article about the malleability of intelligence (designed to foster a “growth mindset”) subsequently scored higher on intellectual humility than another group who read an article about intelligence being fixed.
> What’s more, those in the growth mindset condition went on to display a more positive approach when imagining dealing with someone with opposing views, and this seemed to be driven by their increased intellectual humility.

I find this part interesting as it might explain why some communities are so toxic and other... nicer: the niceness can spread between members. So the first few members are very important in setting up the community's culture.
There's the "it'll do" mean of "good enough", which really isn't good enough. Then there's the "of sufficient quality" meaning, which is by definition good enough. The latter is the true minimum bar, IMO, and what I believe the author means?
> It absolutely does, especially compared to the alternative of not doing it.

Absolutely doesn't compared to eliminating the person afflicting the mental violence.
Oddly enough, PETA’s website does a great job with this. They have a whole section of their site that’s just paid listings of vegan products. It’s actually fun to browse; it feels like you’re in a shop and seeing new things you hadn’t considered (like vegan travel packages or a cork briefcase). I felt very strange that I was enjoying looking at ads.
I'm not sure of your claim that the Catholic Church is the oldest existing organization as that is a pretty broad term. For instance this Church is older, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_Orthodox_Church_of_Jerus...

I believe the Catholic Church is the oldest corporation (they were the first non-human entity recognized by law as having similar rights and responsibilities as an individual).
You're also getting at why it's difficult for those underrepresented in industry to make headway or gain knowledge. It's not as easy as "we have a diverse team". :)
In defense of the guy that brought it up: race-mixing is a huge scissor statement. It's already working here - you're getting your socks in a tizzy over a mention of it and can't get past the object-level. The meta-level is it doesn't matter what concept they use - race, gender, sex, identity - posters can and will use it to make you fight people you would otherwise get along with.
YouTube provides the platform, while ad buyers select the targets. Sounds like someone picked "people in Thailand" without filtering by native/preferred language. https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2454017?hl=en

Edit: to clarify, even though Google makes targeting pretty easy, you still have to know what you're doing to set up a good ad campaign. Lots of businesses don't realize that ad buying actually requires some knowledge to avoid wasting money, so they just get the in-house "power user" to take care of it.
Bear uses Apple's CloudKit to sync to your iCloud and the Bear Notes people don't have access to your data.

https://bear.app/faq/Sync/Syncing%20&%20privacy/
Huh I was thinking of loneliness.
The benefit is being able to make changes and sleep soundly at night.

I agree with the grandparent that they are more useful as a project matures rather than the design stage. Starting small and adding tests as designs solidify is a good tradeoff.
People in fields where they write code that has to be proven can still know when it's appropriate to write bad hacky code. If they believe "I write proven code for my EHR system therefore all code must be like that." I would argue they're not pros.

Being a professional is knowing how to do your job well. Applying a single heuristic to every problem isn't that.
They are still context sensitive, just the retargeting guy is bidding higher so that is what is showing.
Isn’t there a chance it’s the other way round. People might start off arrogant but once they acquire enough superior general knowledge they figure they know jack and forces them to be humble ? It’s a common enough fallacy to get cause and effect backwards.
...I get voted up and then a day later I realize I made my usual mistake of typing in "Illuminos" instead of "Illumos". Apologies to everyone who suffered through reading that.
I would think on a variety of companies fitting the description the author makes. Consuming large amounts of capital with plans mostly being "growth"
We've become so used to having running water everywhere, that we forgot how precious water actually is. As the climate is changing, groundwater level goes down, as more and more pieces of land are covered with impermeable concrete, and precipitations becoming less dependable, we could have, as a civilisation, put in place some more ingenious, low-tech solutions for reducing its consumption. Instead, each of us (in the western world) wastes about half our body mass in water daily on washing away our s--t, to be processed and disposed of somewhere else (f--k the environmental costs), while dreaming of a "digital", s--t analysing, probably ad-based iToilet.

This is not the smart toilet. The smart toilet is a toilet that doesn't waste expensive drinking water on disposing of our waste - for example a composting toilet.

We (a family of 4) have been living with a composting toilet for the last 3 years. Yes, it demands more work, and is more suitable for people who spend most of their time at home. It demands more work, emptying the bucket on to the compost pile once a day and bringing in sawdust or wood chips for use as covering material. There's also the maintenance of the compost pile.

The benefits of a composting toilet are numerous: it's much easier to install, needs no hooking up, easier to clean and maintain, you save so much water (about 40 gallons per day in our case), and you get to keep most of the waste from your metabolism in the form of compost, which can be eventually used for growing food, essentially closing a loop of self-sufficiency.

If this interests any of you folks, I'll be happy to answer any questions.
I agree to the extent that many seem to acknowledge the transfer and remittance use case but seem to think that the market is already filled by niche players -- the fact that FB doesn't have to contend with network effects because everyone already has Messenger and/or WhatsApp is a huge deal.

It is simultaneously the case that FB can't build this and then magically be exempt from each jurisdiction's laws related to cross-border transfers. It's not like a real decentralized coin where there's no real enforcement mechanism, each government will know exactly where to knock and FB will play ball with reporting requirements, etc.

I think the right analogy is that they want to be to the rest of the world what AliPay is to China -- ubiquitious, so that it will very quickly be the case that you know everyone supports it in the world so you don't need to carry around your credit cards. Sort of like what Apple and Google Pay would want to be but with a larger incentive for retailers to adopt it as it has instantly higher penetration among users. It also might be more likely that messaging payments to a retailer becomes the norm instead of NFC (like how everyone in China pays for a restaurant check with AliPay by simply sending payment via message to the address, usually on the table in a QR code).

I'm not sure that it needs to be a blockchain but I assume it's about making the economics work by cutting out middlemen. If FB gets everyone to use this in their daily lives, however, it'll be a huge win for FB even if they don't make money on it directly -- because purchase data is very valuable, but also because you can't feasibly get rid of FB once it becomes your normal payment method.
I... I just explained why everything adds up to what my original comment said... (sigh)
And the complementary truth would be "I know what the user wants".

My team and I are kind of trying to break this up, since we suffer from this a lot.
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I get your point, and that kind of thinking is probably why they didn't go for it - understandably the risk appetite and innovative culture of a MNC is different to a burgeoning startup.

For the record, Netflix is now worth about an order of magnitude more than Sony. Should Sony have tried? Maybe. In a lot of ways they were better equipped to try but they didn't and now someone is gaining a disproportionate share of global eyeball time
Attribution: “Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.” — John F Woods, 1991 in comp.lang.c++¹

(I do not know who first replied, ‘I do know where I live.’)

¹ https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/comp.lang.c++/rYCO5yn4...
Some of us technical people like to be client-facing. The key is to make room for us to do that. Let us handle the client/user and then take meetings with us so we can filter what's appropriate to you.

The biggest problem with "technical people" is the desire to retreat to a pair of headphones and not communicate with anyone all day. Set aside some consistent portion of your day where that's the only time you'll take meetings and we'll work around your schedule.
If you're giving money to a restaurant that serves meat is is hard avoid the idea that you're funding a restaurant that contributes to "harm".
I don't think that's been the case for a long, long time. Almost every new game on modern consoles and PCs will see one (or many) updates in its lifetime. Game cartridges, things we used to think of as immutable, are merely storage devices for delivery of the original game code. Two recent games I purchased for the Nintendo Switch, on cartridge, both required a download before I could play them.
Thanks for the reply. I only have PG&E. No alternative that I know of, so that sounded off kilter. But glad to know what that is all about.
What would the legal basis be for having any recourse?