skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And give me a fucking break with bringing the pandemic into this. It’s especially infuriating coming from Facebook, of all companies. Maybe if they weren’t the main vector for the disinformation and anti-science nonsense that has prolonged the pandemic by turning it into a needless culture war, their “concern” would ring more true.

If companies are responsible for the content posted on their platforms, wouldn't that make iPhone the main vector? Especially since they take the most active filtering stance for any app onto their device.
Hashicorp’s hosted Terraform service has cost estimation built in nowadays and you can setup Sentinel rules to keep people from deploying infrastructure changes that are beyond a certain cost ceiling (or below)
Well, traditional DNS is all unencrypted traffic over port 80 on a network firewall/router. Typically, what some people are doing is setting up their own DNS servers on the internal LAN that recognizes lookups that are unfavorable and just refuses to allow the resolve.

An example is a tracker DNS lookup might be something like: tracker.ad.amazon.com. My self controlled DNS sees that url lookup, compares it to a list of known tracking or advertising urls, finds it in that list and instead of responding with the server IP, it just says “not found”. I then block devices on my local LAN from circumventing my internal DNS (I.e manually changing device DNS servers that would typically be my internal server, to something public like google’s 8.8.8.8), by only allowing traffic out of port 80 that originates from my Self-made local dns server.

Client device -> local dns -> public server = ok.
Client device -> public dns -> = blocked.

So this same method is also used by almost every major ISP out there to track your browsing and usage history. Along with other security problems this poses, the tech community has been developing and pushing things like DNS-over-TLS and DNS-over-HTTPS. What this does is takes a DNS request and packages it into an HTTPS packet that acts and looks like any other encrypted web traffic over port 443. The server on the other end then unpacks it back to a DNS query and responds in the same way.

That effectively obscures DNS traffic as any ole web traffic that I can no longer detect and manipulate. An example is that your Alexas will eventually (I think they may already do it in some cases, I know my Samsung TV does) use that kind of DNS tech to pass tracking and ad data back to their home servers. I can no long really stop that and preserve the function intent of the device (I.e I could place them on a gapped VLAN, but it would render all connectivity inoperable and thereby make the device useless).

So fundamentally, the same stuff we’re putting together to maintain personal privacy and security, is also going to be used to maintain the same features for Amazon’s, Google’s, any other data house’s data that it collects about you.

Further, as this become normal protocol in browsers, things like content blocking and parental controls become very difficult to do without end device sudo rights or the manufacturer building parental controls into the OS (like Apple is keen to do).

A little elementary explaining there, but hopefully you get the idea.
Key word blocking is the dumbest thing ever, arms dealers used it for some transactions, okay they'll just use a different code word, but now people legitimately using tartigrade are boned.

When they ban the new code word, they'll just switch again, once again screwing over the legitimate users of that word.

its wackamole only stupider because at least wackamole at the arcade gives you prize tickets.
> but I find it annoying that if I drive at 50 km/h in a low-vis, twisty and narrow hill road the car before me will almost invariably ignore the safety distance to signal displeasure towards my slowness.

I guess you meant the car behind you.

It is called tailgating.

It is very annoying, I agree, but if I can offer en explanation, in those conditions to overtake you wanna cover the less possible distance, being closer to the car in front of you is a way to make it possible.

Having said that: compared to the population the most dangerous cities in Italy are, in order, Genoa, Florence and Milan.

That could explain it too.

To deal with a taligater, according to the experts, you should

> Brake slowly before stopping. Avoid tailgaters when possible by changing lanes. If you cannot change lanes, slow down enough to encourage the tailgater to go around you. If this does not work, pull off the road when safe and let the tailgater pass.
> We really don't have much hope in regulating that.

Western countries can stop sending plastic waste to Asian countries, that would be a start.
I'm talking about macro level gains. When your small local accountant figures out how to manage work from home a few days per week that creates small, cumulative gains over the whole of the economy. Hard to quantify right now, especially because of all the noise going on. i.e. GDP is currently getting slaughtered for reasons other than lack of productive business practices. I do think that it's harder to notice from the vantage of tech since it is probably the most remote-ready industry. Talking to finance bros I get a very strong sense that people are getting a lot more done in some regards and suffering in others. When offices come back, they'll divide up the tasks appropriate to the milieu and gain some incremental productivity as a result.

Similarly distance education sucks. It's sucked forever buuuuut, with whole countries attempting to manage distance education at the same time across all educational institutions, I am very optimistic that we will find some new techniques that will have huge returns but it will take a while for those techniques to gain dominance.

I could be totally wrong about this, but we'll find out for sure in the next few years.
The Paradise Bubble
> "Improve the moment" where you simply think about what pleasant sensory experience could you introduce right now to make you feel better and then you do that quickly

This is (un)surprisingly similar to a dog training technique called counterconditioning where you change your dog's emotional response to a scary bad thing. If your dog barks aggressively every time they see a person in a wheelchair, you give them a treat every time they notice a wheelchair. The more immediate the response the better, so you have to watch your dog's eyes to know exactly when they see it. You try to find their threshold (e.g. they get scared when the wheelchair is 20 ft away and not moving) and work right around that threshold. Once they're comfortable you push their threshold again (e.g. now the wheelchair is closer or moving or in a different environment). Eventually they have a neutral or positive reaction to a person in a wheelchair because they know that 1) nothing bad will happen and 2) they'll get a treat!

On the other hand, when untreated, this scared reaction can be self-reinforcing like the ugh field. Wheelchairs are a little scary. Then your dog saw another one and borked and it was a bad experience so your dog figures wheelchairs are even more scary.

Anyway, it helps to realize that we're constantly training ourselves based on the stimuli we introduce into our lives. It's just easier to see with the simpler dog model. (I guess Pavlov had something to say about that.)
I know they really need to ensure that they can buy their fourth house, but this sort of stuff is revealing just how much disconnect there is between those who push for oil and the coming generation:

“What’s our message going forward?” Mr. Ness said. “What’s going to stick with those young people and make them support oil and gas?”

Nothing, old man. Nothing. We'd need at least one covid per year to stay in line with the Paris agreements emissions-wise, and that would only curb the damage to a minimal amount. We're driving into a wall the size of a mountain, and we can't bother to decrease our ACCELERATION, let alone to actually SLOW DOWN.

Younger generations are increasingly voicing how tired they are of the apathy about this issue - or sometimes, like in this case, downright evil approach to energy needs and climate change.

If you want "those young people" to support your ass, use your lobbying powers to turn to nuclear for controllable energy and renewables for the rest. But that means no fourth house for you, huge investments upfront, and actually morals..
China is proud of TikTok being a Chinese company - in their eyes it's their turn to have the next big social media platform.

It represents strength, progress of China and CCP, and maybe a glimpse of change for the perception of China being the global tech powerhouse. Probably Chinese people are proud of it as well.

So it really doesn't impress me to see their intentions to burn it down and keep their pride/save face, instead of turning the the public perception of "losing to the US"/"being the underdog" once again.
My mind instantly darts to the combination of piping + pattern matching.

Edge cases can live as two line adjustments in ways I don't know how to do in any other language.
Is this why ~half of the people say that firewalls are not worth it for IPv6 ?
You'd expect first-party apps to handle this properly. The intention is that you probe the clipboard metadata (which doesn't display this warning) to see if the clipboard looks like it might be useful to you - and then act (or offer to act) if it does.

So first-party apps should have bought into the data-detectors stuff wholesale.

An example of this would be the url bar in Safari. If you try to paste into the address bar, you'll be offered "Paste and go" if the clipboard offers a url-like object, and "Paste and search" if it's a non-url stringy object. You'll get the "Safari has pasted from Mail" warning after you select one of these, because the contents were not exposed during the metadata operations. This is the expected behaviour.
if this thing works and the meth epidemic is that severe for this being a serious issue and not security theater, you'll pay the 50$ just to live in the meth free area, because the 50$ cheaper neighborhood will pool all the meatheads

not overnight of course, but there will be a zoning effect at some point, as there always is, where some neighborhoods pool similarly minded people, as neither offer nor demand is really elastic.
We can fix climate change without changing electrical useage, driving habits, or really any habits at all. The only required day to day change worth noting is eliminating gas stoves which isn’t that critical or difficult for most people.

The real issue is industry has little incentive to change. Airlines etc are hardly going to transition to more expensive options without economic incentives.
Most people don't have a choice about how much they pollute. Can't get anywhere without burning gas, can't buy anything that doesn't come wrapped in plastic. The choices were made for us.
I find this article stupid for the primary reason that everyone has been absolutely bending over backwards to justify Apple's stance vs Epic, where everyone's argument in favor of Apple comes down to a pro-capitalist, dog-eat-dog, "if you don't like it, don't buy it" type of thing. But for other apps actually powering the iPhone's popularity, this argument is completely absent, and by behaving the same way, these companies are "dickheads." The hypocrisy is unbelievable.
I concede they are in a tough and uncertain spot with so much drone regulation still up in the air. still, it's always gross to see a company enthusiastically aiding the prosecution of its own customers.
None of the items were life or death essentials. These were things like protein cookies, pet-themed gifts, exercise equipment, etc. I wouldn’t have bought them if I never saw the ads.

But wanting and needing are different things. I wouldn’t consider it manipulation to show me something I might be interested in that I wouldn’t have known about otherwise. For instance, I just discovered (via ads) the galaxy night light trend and I’m now thinking it might be fun to get one.
the way to make massive change is through regulations on the producers and pricing in all externalities. that disposable polysterene plate is not $0.01, it's actually closer to $0.10. individuals will not act until there is famine and sewage is coming out of their faucets, at which point it is much too late.
I feel like most people who want to go back to working in an office, don’t really need an office per se — in the sense of needing to rent out a unit or floor of a building for their company to work out of.

Most of the advantages that individual knowledge-workers attain from an office — work-life separation, and meeting rooms in which to come together with others for a scheduled semi-private conversation — already have a relevant institution that will provide those to almost anyone on Earth, free of charge: the public library. Everyone[1] sitting at the tables in a public library is being productive. And almost all modern libraries have bookable meeting rooms as a free service!

[1] If your library is full of noisy people, find a different one. This mostly only happens to the one library per city nearest to the projects. I suggest a public library near a college; or, for that matter, a University library, if it’s public-access.

Yes, there’s also coffee shops, but those only solve work-life separation. Most coffee shops don’t offer bookable spaces for private meetings. I guess you could combine coffee shops with booths at restaurants, but that gets expensive quickly. Libraries are free! And, unlike the coffee shop where sitting there all day with your laptop will annoy the employees, being productive all day in a library is the point, and you have every right to ask the library employees to shush anyone interfering with your productivity, because productivity is what they want the library environment to foster.

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Who doesn't think libraries are a valid substitute for offices?

• Sales people and call-center workers, obviously. Anyone who needs to make phone calls all day. But these people were never really suited to ordinary office space, either. They need sound-proofed rooms/booths, really. You can build those anywhere — podcasters and journalists are currently building these at home. You really do need a separate space for this, though, and that might not be tenable in a small bachelor apartment. I have a feeling we might see the rise of specialty coworking spaces consisting of floors of small, rentable recording-booth rooms. (Some fancier public libraries have these too — again, for free.)

• Managers. Specifically, middle-managers. In-person, off-the-record conversations are how you "build your team", i.e. how you build loyalty to yourself and ensure that your team-members are working for you, rather than for the company, such that you can later take credit for their achievements and they won't call you out for it. This role is dying, and most of the visible backlash is likely coming from here. It's like the death throes of aristocracy when centralized government rises to replace it. Good riddance, I say. (Team-allocated executive assistants can perform the project-management tasks of a manager just as well, without also becoming feudal lords. These don't mind remote work at all, because they're fine with everything they say happening on-the-record on Slack/email/etc.)
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You may see it that way, but the overall effect of this on humanity is bad (see https://voxeu.org/article/advertising-major-source-human-dis...).

From my experience, I don't enjoy relentless targeted pressure to give up my money for goods I don't really need. I don't like wasting precious time consuming adverts, each braying for my attention in one way or another. I don't think it's ethical treatment of impulsive types and folks who are less aware of what's really happening them. Interestingly, I have felt less pressure to buy anything since installing advert blockers and ignoring TV. I remember feeling strong sensations that I needed to buy a new phone, that I needed to upgrade my PC. Now I've had the same phone for four years and a PC for even longer. Those pressures and sensations are gone and my wallet thanks me.

A strong case could be made that little would be lost to the world if we banned advertising outright. Also consider, it would be better if we could be recommended goods and services by those who don't have a financial incentive from the providers of goods and services.
> shouldn't it be even more rude to ignore internet messages?

Who says you have to ignore internet messages? It took you a half hour to reply to my comment, and that's fine. That leaves plenty of time to acknowledge a person IRL.

The internet will still be there when we get home from being outside. That's one of the advantages of the internet.
While I agree it’s not sketchy in that you get what you pay for, the true cost of what you are paying is obfuscated casino-style from their player base, which is mostly kids. Case in point, my son will want to spend 2500 vbucks on a skin until I put that into real dollars for him - “are you sure, that’s $25 of your money” (a bit less with package bonuses notwithstanding).

Perhaps this is my penance for working on FarmVille and Zynga Poker back in the day.
I converted an old 1978 Puch Maxi moped that wasn't running to fully electric. Was a great way to learn how EVs work, and build a quiet around-town cruiser. https://photos.app.goo.gl/jgL4VmpmSWA5csba8
Why online voting is harder than online banking
One problem is lack of imagination into alternative systems.
An established mechanism is hard to challenge, even when bad.

Something to drive the point home: companies could have culturally developed in the same way as schools.

Managers and bosses could continuously maintain grades on report performance. And they would forbid developers from looking up information on Stack Overflow because that is cheating. But since some employees do it, they could have added that same spyware to ensure they don’t do it.

The reason why this would be culturally wrong, is the same reason that it is currently wrong in schools.
I've done this for years. It works especially well when you have more than one computer, mutually considering eachother their default output.

Playing something in your tmux session on the workstation, but want to go use the laptop in the kitchen? Just move the headphones.

I also use it since I brought the office workstation home, along with barrier (synergy fork), to use one set of peripherals for both of my workstations.
I did not say it had to be flat. I said the people making decisions with power should be involved in doing real work solving problems (such as engineering).

What the Boeing leadership did (not an engineer) was actually to insist that the engineers NOT engineer a new aircraft meeting the new requirements but instead to kludge together something with the minimum changes based on the outdated design so that they could save money and avoid thorough testing.

The reason I use strong language is because the extreme failures of leadership dictate a realistic and honest and strong reassesment. The part that was inflammatory was when those outdated aircraft with oversized engines crashed into the ground and killed hundreds of people.
Biological sciences are more often than not just as difficult to reproduce, mostly due to the difficulty of controlling living organisms, the somewhat random nature of the outcome, and p-hacking.
Some people definitely enjoy working in an office; for others, it’s a necessity given limited space or facilities at home. I totally understand individuals’ desire to get back, and equally the desire of others to continue working at home. Certainly as a hardware company it’s been important for us to be able to take turns in the office occasionally.

But the effect the article has noted is really prevalent and weird. Seeing the actual UK government banging on about how essential it is for everybody to get “back to the office”, being very explicitly anti-remote-working, and using their usual propaganda channels to spread that message is a strange choice at the moment. It’s hard to find a convincing explanation for.
This isn't anywhere near true.
> as a consumer it is up to you to make the choice not to buy

> Unfortunately there are SO many products that you can't get without plastic.

Which is precisely why you cannot say consumers have a choice not to buy.
> But we all know landlords are, by default, shitty

That’s some high quality journalism.
Marketing (and advertising) revolves around human behavior. Anyone who thinks that's easy is a fool, or not human ;)

Fact #2 that most inside a given (startup) brand find hard to swallow is this:

Nobody cares. About your product, or your brand.

Sure, there's an audience of early adopters, and maybe you're gotten traction there. But once you get past "the cool kids" the dynamic changes. As you venture towards the middle of a market, people like their status quo. A wink, a smile and "try me, I'm new" isn't going to cut it.

Or maybe you're a B2B play. Yeah, (e.g.) banks are great customers. Do you think you're the only one with that in mind? Do you understand how slow they are to evolve? And...They don't care. You need them. They don't need you.

Solving tech problems is _easy_ relative to growth-seeking marketing (and advertising).
It's mentioned in the linked article!
That's HN on pretty much every topic except programming.
>It’s hard to find a convincing explanation for.

Cynically, the leadership of top companies wants workers back in the office (for whatever reason) and the current government is in their pocket.
How many suburban 17 year olds are saying, no thanks, I'll continue to take the bus and not get my driver's license?
The problem is those same executives then lobby against renewables, and against taxing oil for its externalities (which would also make renewables more economical). So they're actively preventing the changing of that way of life.

Just like plastic industry lobbied against reusable packaging, then when 95% of everything in the supermarket causes plastic waste, you go and blame consumers for not personally going to farms to buy produce directly.
I mean they couldn’t just do it in Matlab? or Python? So incredibly lazy.
and unfortunately they don't really want to.
It does annoy me that this isn't mentioned more often. Apple aren't taking this away, they're enabling the user to opt-out.

That these are almost constantly being stated as the same thing, only shows that the vast majority of users do not want to be tracked, and the vast majority of adtech has no respect for the user's wishes. If neither of these were true, having the option would not be an issue.
No I haven't considered alternatives between a corporate office and a home office. Could you list some? I am fairy uncreative about these things, unfortunately :/
There was a time I was excited to get a PayPal account owing to all the (perceived) hype around it.

I made one and linked my card but rarely used it. Once I had to pay to an online merchant and for some reason the card didn't work so I hooked up my savings account. Months go by and since I never came around to using the service again, I wanted the account closed.

But before that, as a personal preference, I wanted to manually remove the card and account link. The card worked fine but it won't let me do it with the bank account. Took 3 separate chats over a week to get it done and I finally closed it to never look back. I have no idea of the dark patterns exist anymore.

Now I just use cashapp to send and receive money with my friends. Left such a salty taste in my mouth, I'll never give PayPal any business anymore, just seems sketch.
Do you also work for free and expect news to be always free?