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DyslexicAtheist 49 minutes ago | parent | on: Secret’s founder returns with anti-loneliness app ...

have you been outside recently? I mean outside without a phone for a couple of months. Give yourself a no-data diet, and just observe what is going on in others. Wait alone at a bus-stop or alone at a pub or cafe. You can see them addicted to their screens everywhere. It's the norm now to immediately reach for the phone because god forbid they might otherwise feel 2 seconds of boredom.

I think you're vastly overestimating how social people were before smartphones were widespread. This is a really awful source, but it proves the point pretty well [0].

> It's much much worse than any hard drug you could be addicted to because with hard drugs you still have others who you can do them with.

I hope you don't really believe this. I don't disagree that some modern tech/algorithm solutions are making the world a worse place, but to say that you'd be better addicted to heroin than Facebook is nonsense. Humanity is always calling the "next" thing worse than the current thing when the current thing is normalised (music, rock music, television, video games, smart phones) - here's [1] an article from 30 years ago speaking about TV addiction.

> Just do yourselves a favor and never unplug because what you see might be so upsetting that you might wonder if it's still worth living.

I sincerely hope you don't feel this way, and if you really do, you should speak to someone about your feelings.

[0] https://www.sadanduseless.com/evil-iphones/
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/16/science/how-viewers-grow-...
There's also another reason: black markets and widespread corruption make everyone a possible target of regime purges. Remember Al Capone, folks...
Yes it was: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22295160
You still have the issue of who collects.

The UN or (better, maybe) WTO should broker an international framework for digital tax enforcement.
> they spend some time and money upfront to research images' copyright status.

From the discussion a few days ago, that doesn't seem to be the case. It seems to be more like they just gamble on not getting caught most of the time.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22340547
You need to define meritocracy.

There's plenty of excellent software engineers paid pennies to work on difficult problems because they live in countries with very low wages.

And plenty of people in silicon valley being wildly overpaid to copy paste javascript from stack overflow.
Speaking about Germany here, the online banking userid is much longer and basically acts a second password. It's not written on your card or used for anything except logging into your account via online banking.
Care to elaborate?

Nothing I wrote was because of "bad blood" (whatever that is).

In a society where, whatever you say, somebody is offended and claims some victimhood status in order to justify the being offended, it is hardly surprising that people feel increasingly lonely.

I would not blame technology for that.

EDIT: So, no discussion? Just "punishing downvotes"? Well, looks like Q.E.D. then. Brave new world.
Anarchy sounds like that shoe company that experimented with Holacracy. But with guns, samurai swords, and chains.

And lots of black leather. But how do you make leather in a post-civilization society? That always baffled me.
Uh, that's the one from the submission?
> but then power users complain they don't have adequate control.

They wouldn't if they were actually given adequate control. The problem of iOS is not the fact it doesn't expose a traditional file system, it's the fact it doesn't expose any and won't let you control the apps beyond the level Apple likes nor to sideload custom apps you or the free software community might have developed (which certainly isn't a 100% evil policy - it actually protects you from evil agents like the Chinese TSA which is known to install hidden apps on Android phones it searches). I couldn't even find a way to play OPUS audio files on a recent iPhone (despite the fact iPhone supports OPUS in hardware). As a power user I can be pretty well-satisfied without access to the file system if only the UIs and APIs above it provided the level of control and functionality I want.
No, more like packet fragmentation and reassembly.
With GraalVM you can compile JVM languages to small executables with limited memory consumption. It's fairly new technology but people are using it in production.
Strongly dislike that there's no way to go back and forth or some kind of index of how many steps there are.

I do like the idea of it being interactive though.
Link to the symbolic indictment - https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/chinese-military-personnel-ch...
The issue is when people try to stack-rank the "badness" of crimes. "Is bankrupting a thousand people through fraud worse than killing someone?" The answer is: it doesn't matter which is worse. Both destroy lives in different ways.

Fraud and spam are crimes that ruin lives in their own ways.
They were still treated by a cardiologist, just not the “preeminent” doctors as they were all at the conference.

This effect has alternatively been written as an effect arising from the fact that “lesser” doctors would tend to follow established, standardized practices, be open to other opinions etc. while the higher status doctors may be less so
I like "Javascript for Impatient Programmers": https://2ality.com/index.html

If you mean ES6 as "modern" JS, then you might want to avoid any material on prototypical nature of "true" JS (which it still is under the hood). Personally I find classes and modules to be very useful.

Although you say you don't care for DOM, CSS and the many frameworks, you might need still need to build a small HTML file to kick start your JS programs. I do all my exploring and learning in Chrome's DevTools console and debugger. JS is not that difficult to learn if you already know a curly brace language (C, C++, C#, Java, etc). Even after years of working with JS, fiddling with DOM still catches me off guard on occasion.
The system still in place, if I'm not totally mistaken. (I haven't checked, because I usually don't give away my tax number for sheer laziness - I still don't know it by heart.)
I'm genuinely curious how that now 22 year old has turned out :-)
Yes, you are right but we are talking about potential causes of these strange policy decisions. One source is simply old software that cannot be updated but this sub-thread is trying to debunk that by saying that you can have a modern table with hashed passwords and a generated secret value that conforms legacy restrictions. The secret value can be used as a password on the old mainframe. There will be collisions but they can be prevented by comparing usernames.

There is no technical excuse for not hashing passwords.
>Most standard W-2 employees can't afford it, i.e., for most, the cost to hire professional help evading taxes is larger than the taxes they could save.

.

>than saving 20% on $200k/yr income

Erm, that's not a standard W2 employee's income. Not even close. The median U.S. household income was $63,179 in 2017.
Looks pretty cool, gives us a try too! Nice to see more diversity and choices in the market.

https://kloudtrader.com/narwhal
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I work in IT in the Netherlands where you can get away with only English, but I'd say if you don't speak Dutch in English and are not in a highly sought after profession such as software engineering then you're out of luck for 99% of the jobs.
My thought exactly...

there was a recent thread on HN about how immoral Getty's business model is, sending veiled treats to people regarding the use of content they don't even own at first place.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22340178
Google gets ready for its entry in cloud services market

https://www.headlinesoftoday.com/technology/tech-reviews/goo...
> Why is that a problem developers need to solve? A bad hiring process hurts the company much more than developers.

Its not well thought out company policies that interview and hire people. Generally its other developers insecurely biasing their decisions on subjective considerations for their personal preferences. That hurts the company and potential candidates, but this is still how software hiring works in most cases.

> I'll also point out that a bachelor's degree in CS is a certification

No it isn't. A medical degree is not a medical license and a law degree isn't a law license. No education is a real estate or truck driver license, though both of those licenses demand some form of education. Hopefully the education has prepared you for both the real world and for the licensing, but clearly this is often not the case in practice, at least in software.
A tool sounds interessting. Build a tool for creating the animations and sell it.
Filesystem as a database is complicated because let's assume that you have a network drive, then suddenly a transaction spans more than one computer.
Snowflake needs to debug their signup process.

I requested their pricing plan yesterday. Instead, I got two marketing emails "now that you have downloaded it" - but no pricing plan. The bug report got refused because "We noticed your email address is not associated as a Snowflake Support contact." Still no pricing plan, and no way forward.
Seems like a boundary issue to have a boss pushing meds. In fact, it could be illegal (IANAL).

Meds can help if there's a real issue, but there's almost always side-effects. Growing up, my parents were anti-medication and anti-psychology. It turns out I had untreated depression, Asperger's and ADD-I only diagnosed as an adult. Atomoxetine really helps me because I can't tolerate amphetamine stimulants or caffeine. I tried Adderal, Ritalin and Provigil, and they all made my anxiety and blood pressure much worse.

Also, I'm currently cross-titrating to my 14th anti-depressant. (The last one, mirtazapine, worked for 9 years at the expense of 25% weight gain.) Ketamine, LSD and invasive/ECT treatments are just about my last choices if this new one doesn't work. And the 12th one I tried gave me terrible vertical and horizontal nystagmus and whole-body, sporadic myoclonus. (Beware of extrapyramidal-causing and anticholinergic medications!)
This is nothing close to serious. It's a media hype train that people lap up.

More people died from the flu last week than this virus has killed in months.
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If you are at risk of being homeless or hungry you are probably below the threshold for paying taxes in most countries.
> This whole "you're paid enough so don't unionize" thing is so weak

Exactly, even Hollywood actors have a union! Although I would wager most of them aren't the high paying variety.
Honestly, my first thought was to port the code to ES6/CSS3 because I also share the belief that the code can be as concise if not moreso; however, I still think what the author did was a good solution.

I think the tradeoff is if you want to delegate everything (animations and DOM manipulation) to one language using a single library or split things up into two languages with no libraries. I prefer splitting things between JS and CSS, but I'm impressed with how clever, concise, and expressive using jQuery can be.
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haha yes exactly that.

Finance crowd with VBA macros can be daunting once they've built an edifice that is as unstable as it is mission critical.

Noobs armed with RPA point & shoot cannons isn't far behind. Only a matter of time before that ends in a self-inflicted data leak.
Your DNSSEC signatures expired:
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I agree.

It shouldn't disguise as a question if you're not really inviting a debate, doesn't feel honest IMO. When the imperative form is used the reader will often assume you know something they don't, and only argue when they see a problem or want to validate the assumption.

I believe the more the comments (annotations?) are about the code itself ("This should do X", "This is not doing Y") rather than a back-and-forth conversation ("What do you think about X?", "Have you thought about X?"), the less personal it feels, and the more the ego gets out of the way.

Same thing for denying PRs with "request changes" - I've had a few people say they avoid doing it because it feels aggressive, but knowing there's a problem and still letting it into production (and then have the PR author fix a much more costly mistake) isn't honest or professional.
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If they really do indemnify you, it's actually a pretty huge benefit. It's pretty easy to use content that is 'royalty free' but then get sued later on when you find out it actually wasn't.
Dynamic languages with no compile time checking of fields, assertions, etc. seem inherently very dangerous to me for anything security critical or cryptographic.

Sure you can write secure and correct code in them, but what happens years later when others (including yourself after you've forgotten what you wrote!) have come and made various edits, changes, refactors, etc.

This is generally where dynamic languages crash and burn, but it's particularly dangerous with stuff like authentication where a bug can be disastrous.
> You mean the ones in-platform, before you can use the product, right?

Not the op, but I didn't interpret the comment as being restricted to certain types.

I particularly dislike any walkthrough. An optional one still needs user-interaction to dismiss. Sometimes multiple interactions.

A few specifics:

- As a first-time visitor to a product, I have usually joined the product with an initial particular motivating intent. Walkthroughs can't typically know this intent (and optimising multiple walkthroughs for many intents would be a challenge), so you're just putting extra clicks in the way of me getting to the thing I joined for.

- If walkthrough experiences were genuinely of use, they'd be integrated as a permanent product feature. Examples of things like this are Instagram / Facebook / Twitter's "discover" features. These are slightly different as they're about discovering users, not features, but the general idea is the same: a user wants guidance.
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In 1840 Pierre-Joseph Proudhon defined anarchy in "What Is Property" as "the absence of a master, of a sovereign".
staff not quaranteed. Food carried down corridors without any covering from the air. Only ht food was covered with aluminium foil.
It can be extremely useful when starting a project, and is part of accepted project management techniques (APM body of knowledge and similar). It genuinely helps to consider important people's level of interest, level of influence, and preferred communication styles. I can easily imagine it becoming so ingrained as to be used in all new situations.

I've also heard of it being used in situations with difficult colleagues or excessive office politics. Of course, by the time you are writing a stakeholder management plan just to deal with your own manager and peers, you probably need a new job, but it can be useful to keep you going for a while.
> An optional one still needs user-interaction to dismiss.

If it's "click here to dismiss this walkthrough we just started", yes. If it's "click here to view a walkthrough", then... no? User interaction is required to start. That would be optional.

If you're thinking it's the "we auto started something and you can optionally stop it" then yeah, I agree, those are often annoying.
I suspect that if someone did bankrupt a thousand people through fraud you are going to have a number of suicides on their hands.
You’re missing the point. If your sales tracking alone takes up 16GB of RAM on the client, that isn’t scalable - and potentially a horrible experience to work with. Your point is correct in the single case, but I think we’re discussing beyond that.
Found a cool similar drawing example app: etchasketch.fun

(Yup, lets you draw on a Etch-a-sketch with MIDI knobs)
When you narrowed it down that much you might be able to use a metal detector or similar.
What are you talking about? That (and way more explicit) has been standard in most western countries for decades. The US is just slow to adapt modern practices. No balls involved there.
Have we really come so far that using jQuery is interpreted as not overcomplicating things?? jQuery is the extra complexity people are raising issue with here. It's not needed (and definitely shouldn't be described as "plain, vanilla". There's nothing vanilla about an extra unnecessary dependency).
I can accept a % of fluff in any industry, but in the medical field, especially cardiovascular.. it stings a bit. How much more bs is there ? Should it be investigated ?
If he's been there for a while and management is comfortable with him, I would just try to stay on his good side, kill him with kindness, he's probably the type just looking for a fight, I'd stay out of his cross hairs if he has the ability to wipe you out/make your work life less than tolerable.

Steer clear and look for another opportunity.
It's basically a slideshow with animations, not a tutorial on top of the real UI...

In theory one could also put up a YouTube video of screenshots annotated on Photoshop, but this does seem more elegant.
It's neither. It's "click here to dismiss this annoying message asking you about something you don't want"

It's essentially the ux equivalent of an ad or newsletter popup.
The accusation here seems to be that the revised statement was simply fabricated by the Stockholm police without any input from the woman.
There is a special place in my hatebook for websites which disable copy, this website just earned the top place
Can you expand on what those are? The ecosystem was the worst part of using Go when I had to, specifically because every tool I vsme across I had to double check if it was compatible with Go modules (and half the time they weren't).
Indeed it is much better to implement it in a language such as C or C++ that has historically had almost no security issues and has very few pitfalls.
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I can't believe how people honestly believe what the media tells them anymore, they have a corrupted and compromised business model.

Remember when every media outlet on the planet said that Hillary Clinton would win the election in a landslide? The same outlets also said brexit would never happen. How did that turn out? Many of these articles are now deleted.

They repeatedly lie without consequence. No other industry could get away with it.

It's reaching the point where if the media is telling you something you should instantly bet against it. Their job is to sell clicks, not tell you the truth.
No one is forcing them to work a job they don't want to. They're free to work literally anywhere else that will hire them.
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Very useful in a big company setting, even if you're an IC on a team without much contact beyond your team. It's relationship building and helps to know who is who.
y, those market places make it tough to win work and find good clients. It's a race to the lowest price and those aren't the type of clients you want to work for.

Reach out to your network and let them know what services you are offering. You're going to find more success and better clients with in your network.

You can win jobs on Upwork, but it will take some money upfront and effort to build your history of work and you need to make sure clients are totally happy so you get good reviews to get more work.

The best clients and projects will come from people you know, reach out to your network.
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This exchange reminds me of the Illuminatus! trilogy[0] in which the Discordians at some point introduce the idea of dividing humans into "neophobes" (who dislike new things and the exploration of random unknowns) and "neophiles" (who dislike sticking to established, stable paradigms and want to do new things instead).

The former end up in a stable equilibrium with slow (if any) progress, the latter fail often but are important for fast-paced progress.

In other words, whenever you (the reader generally, not davidivadavid in particular) write "probably", imagine a Wikipedia editor adding [citation needed] after it.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Illuminatus!_Trilogy
The thing about the crufty being on top instead of inside it is that we can replace it from time to time.

(Too bad the replacements aren't always better...)
Person talking on a street wants to be heard by peers from one meter. Plane flying in the sky should be "heard" by other planes from tens of kilometers. It is a technical necessity, not a voluntary privacy surrender.
I really like this. Nice and simple
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This is mentioned in the article and is more accurate, but isn’t possible throughout an outbreak for the reason you state.
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I found Cisco’s wrappers for WebCrypto implementing JOSE to be good and I don’t plan to avoid it. https://github.com/cisco/node-jose
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Your comment makes me think about FB's design. Astronomical compute and human power brought to bear to personalize, A-B test, contextualize and curate with the express intention of driving engagement.

In another thread, I remember someone suggesting FB's express goal was getting people addicted, and another user took issue with claiming that was a goal. I mentally sided with the OP, MAXIMUM ENGAGEMENT feels like an A-B tested way to describe driving addiction to me.

It's a shame that resources of such incomprehensible, never before seen enormity can be brought to bear for such a task, but a digital wallet that tries to subtly drive user behavior towards frugality feels intuitively bad.

Less purchases mean your data is built upon a cadre of less valuable consumers. That's bad for your digital wallet business! Not to mention it's manipulative, but then quite a bit of this business is manipulation. I wonder how I'd react if I read a news article about some company manipulating its users to be happier, more prosperous..

What if android's auto complete suggestions were trained on a corpus that promoted the kinds of responses that come from people google knows to have attained high autonomy * feedback?

Subtly manipulating people into negotiating better outcomes to their own personal tyrannies in their workplace or relationships. It would be SO WEIRD.

Facebook made the news a while ago with some salacious headline about using its powers to see if its feed could make teenagers more depressed. They concluded that they have that power.

Instinctually, my wish would be that perhaps companies shouldn't have vast dossiers on every living human -- but to even imagine turning back the clock on that feels like delusion.

Since we're all members of the panopticon anyways, couldn't my phone tell me ways I'm exemplary or special when my self esteem is low? Gah, it's gross to even contemplate, but maybe it's less gross than the current focused laser beam trying to get me to vote, buy and be angry as others wish..
What a neat tool.. I'm making a blog of travel pictures, I'm thinking adding this to point out things on photos would be interesting.
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