skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this a fantastically important topic and good post, but also misses some important things (which i dont know but there are defienitely missing ones) and focuses very much on recent tech-sphere promiment issues .

some points

-privacy is probably most important for most people in their private relationships and social life (instead of the emphasis on these recent issues)

-could be made more comprehensve/extended we have some regulations for privacy in personal relations, e.g. sexting/sex-pics publication

(that could be extended to more activities)
(this is not related to the private relationships mentioned one point above)

-there is a difference between privacy for separating life/having different identities and forgiving/importantness-view-reduction of past behaviors
(some european countries heavily limit prepetrator-/convicted-personal-info-transmission, mainly on the belief that this aids rehabilitation(reduces reperpetration-rates) but possibly also on the belief that then the crime is paid for/there shouldn't be further punishing for it (incl social one) but they dont approve of crime/dont see crime as a separate legitimate identity)

--it is very interesting that there seem to be no(?)/very limited norms around past-information-transmission/its legitimacy
((eg after 10 years things shouldnt be mentioned)
(there are systems that deal with wrong-thought(seen as wrong) behavior like of course personal forgiving, church forgiving of sins etc that are about legitimacy of taking into account(shouldn't be (negatively) taken into account) (maybe this indirectly speaks a bit to the main subpoint indirectly because then it would also get somewhat delitimized to talk about it/continue to frequently talk about it (which could well be seen/meant to affect the talked-about person negatively) but this is then more an indirect effect)

-violence/(counter-)aggression seems to most pronounced in personal relations, e.g. people aggress/retaliate (like for other unwanted behavior) and try to reduce status of orig aggressor, eg just saying theyre bad or associating them with low-status categories (eg theyre ugly or dumb or do something (if it happens often enough probably gets turned into insult thats somewhat divorced from originally maybe somewhat seriously meant relationship-supposation, e.g. son of a whore etc)) (again by just saying that or telling negative gossip etc)

* -privacy is very important for/very important component of self-expression (and identity trying(so latter part of former ofc (so e.g. really)) *
(maybe most important part why privacy matters)

-for these more politcal/abstract/not directly personal discussions something you could have specific settings like Chatham-house-rules while still maintaining productivity-oriented rules in other parts
(so Chatham-house-rules for a restaurant-meetup or discord, but disturbing discussions in workplace could be brought up to HR etc)
(chatham-house-rules instead of more restrictive rules like around medical privacy etc)
(this is a bit work in progress)
I read it as “We only test on Chrome and mobile”.
The one I wrote for myself.

It's a janky one page PHP file + either simplepie or picofeed for the backend; using flat-file lists to store the feeds themselves. And it's PERFECT for me. Been using it for years.

As a non-professional (literally, I don't program for a living primarily, I sometimes teach classes in beginner stuff) this is the kind of thing I'd love to encourage more non-professionals to do. No need for even "apps" here.

https://gitlab.com/jrm4/mahrss

In action:

https://jrm4.com/mahrss
I don't want the walled garden — I don't care if its GitLab or GitHub or some other tool — as long as I can do stuff like rebase and squash easily and discuss the patch without having to subscribe to a mailing-list, set up inbox filters, prepare the patch for emailing, participate until the patch is in, then not forget to unsubscribe.

Comments about a patch are fleeting and should be gone after the patch lands — and should be treated as such. Any relevant comments will be in the source code.

GitLab (and several others) can be self-hosted for free; and the walled garden (GitHub?) is tolerable enough. And as long as you keep your software development practices sensible (centred around git, not GitHub), there hardly is a wall really.

> As far as local development is concerned, there's no reason you can't use all the git tools to manage your changes.

Certainly possible, but I didn't manage to get git-svn working the last time I wanted to contribute to a SVN repo. In the end I just created a local git repo in-place and generated the patch with git format-patch.
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That’s fair, there are similar nations doing even better. I’d still group Denmark into the “wealthy Western European countries making serious per capita GHG emissions cuts by percentage and in absolute terms” club. UK has done surprisingly well also (surprising relative to my casual expectations).
Because it works, is well understood, can be used by non-devs and there are tons of plugins that solve pain points. Not saying it is great or perfect, but for the average non-developer trying to stand up a marketing site, landing pages, blogging etc it is the smart choice until there is a reason not to use it. I dislike how it is built overall, not a big php fan either (however I respect it), but it works and doesn't distract valuable dev time to update some marketing copy or changing images or adding a blog post.

Even for developers, if they value their time and are starting a business it is smart to stick the marketing site on Wordpress. It means they can easily hand off tasks on it for lower costs and they can focus their energy on the important parts of the business that will differentiate them. Picking a less common CMS system won't differentiate the product or team, instead it usually just causes more headaches that are avoidable.

My general advice for anyone starting a company and wanting to stand up a basic site is to use wordpress. Build content on it, use it for what it is good at. And use your dev resources in areas that will make the business successful, which is not recreating the wheel.

To me it is the same as if you are starting a e-commerce business you are smart to use shopify, bigcommerce, volusion etc versus building a custom site to handle it. Even better to start with wordpress and woocommerce over some CMS + building & integrating your own commerce platform.

With anything there are exceptions, but just my 2 cents.
Let's see. Einstein published his general relativity paper in 1915. One of the things it explained was the precesion of Mercury, but that was already known - it wasn't a prediction or a test. When was the observation of the sun bending starlight during a solar eclipse? 1919 - and Einstein proposed the test. He found ways to test the predictions rather quickly.
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I mean... if you have to make the decision between a bloated ui and a simple one that does something well, then the latter would be the better choice. Especially in a market like this where power users could spin up their scripts that they can really customize.

But it doesn't have to be either or. These are big enough companies that they should be able to afford the time and resources to design easy-to-use UI that also allows the features power users are looking for. I know some people will say it's not easy - but this is a hard problem because of management and time. If you do enough testing and iterations, you will end up with a good UI. It's just no a priority for a lot of companies.
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> Believe it or not, if you tell customers you will recycle old products for them, you'd better not sell them instead.

Legally, I'm sure you're right. But on a practical level, what do you think recycling is?

If you fish something out of the trash and reuse it, congratulations, you have recycled it in the most efficient way possible.

It's like these recyclers are "too good" at their jobs. I thought market forces were supposed to make sure of that.

The really disgusting thing is Apple coopting "recycling" for "destroying unused product to maintain brand value."

If you have an old Apple product and you want to be good to the environment, do not take it to an official Apple recycling dropoff!
Looks like they are suing under breach of contract, because employees of the companies had FB accounts and therefore broke the ToS, as well as unjust enrichment. The actual complaint is here:

https://www.scribd.com/document/478333898/Facebook-lawsuit-v...
In 1789 the US made a very conscious decision to tie free movement of labor to free movement of capital within its operating zone (probably the first ever economic agreement of its kind). The US is a union of sovereign states.
> Well, imagine that you, a white-presenting man (what does _that_ mean)

If you met most of my family members, you would not think they were white, but if you met me personally, you probably would.

Only once in a long while does someone seem to read me as 'not white' (and unless I'm speaking my heritage language they usually guess wrong about what flavor.)

> were on a phone interview with someone you couldn't see, and afterwards, you said something like, "I was trying to determine if they were Black."

If I'm on the phone with someone, I am sure I am trying to figure that out. Folks who claim otherwise are most likely incorrect about what they are doing.

I would certainly know better than to say that aloud, since I grew up in a society where I know how it would be perceived, and have intuition around it. I don't have to think much to realize the implications.
Pelican is slow. If 8 seconds bothers you, you won't be happy with Pelican. I think there are settings where it kind of detects what has changed and only renders that output to speed it up, but I've not experimented with it. I rarely make changes to my site, so waiting is not a concern for me.
Yes this is possible! Usually done with repurposed clean room pass thrus. It becomes harder to achieve as greenhouses get to 1+ acres in footprint.
Well I would give Excel some cred for acctually following local number conventions. It the beginning there was no internet and interoperability issue.

Usually it is the us-en way or the highway.
I'm not familiar with the details, but if they were at all similar to the mid-2010s Greek situation then they were not sustainable, irrespective of IMFs involvement. Generally I think there are better ways to grow economy than pure austerity, but the details do matter.
If you have racist clients, I'd expect that this would manifest more as assigning the "right" demographic of employee to the clients and keep the "wrong" ones far away from those meetings, as opposed to a straight-up hiring restriction.

I don't think GP was trying to justify the practice, but noting that this exists in domains like finance because the product is an image, not actual performance.
Wouldnt the energy required to do so just generate more waste / greenhouse gas?
> The closest I'm come to mimicking Mac style on Windows to create an installer that does not actual install but extracts the contents to user's temp directory and executes the application. Needed a simple solution so the end-user just had to download and double click to run the application since they might not have admin rights to install the application.

I create these self-extracting packages all the time too. Getting the icons and such right on the package can be a bit of a pain so I made a quick script[0] to automate the process. You may find it useful too.

[0]: https://github.com/pR0Ps/make-sfx-package
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You don't need to go on space journeys to observe people's rhythm shift.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1330995/
>But the number of your customers who want unbounded complexity is very, very low.

It's worth making a distinction here between complexity and flexibility, which I think some designers / product managers fail to grasp.

Users don't want complexity, but they do want flexibility, especially from tools they use all the time. It's a hard balance to make products that are simple and flexible, but the products that pull it off tend to rule the world. The humble spreadsheet software is the ultimate example.

For example: adding more whitespace and limiting the number of fields on a screen will reduce complexity for users, but it may also reduce flexibility and end up as a net negative. (looking at you FreshBooks, I'm still angry about that redesign a few years back!)
Got it: I missed the context of "industrialise poor countries."

At least we recently voted pro-immigration, or more properly anti-anti-immigration, which should help a little on the demographic front.
Perhaps so, but Firefox is but one program among the hundreds or thousands that are available in a typical Linux distribution. "Most" implies a quantitative analysis (i.e., more than half), which I think is disputable.
Pelican has a lot of features, but it's not as if you need to use all those features. If you want a plain site, it's trivial to use.
Yes, I've also had very powerful demonstrations of the rules no longer applying. And the more my mind tried to fight it, the more explicit and painstaking the demonstrations became, until I was forced to submit to a shocking realization (roughly: that I do not, and cannot, know what reality "really" is, and shame on me for having the hubris to so confidently insist otherwise).

It would have been very easy for me to ascribe this to something like advanced alien technology, or the simulation hypothesis, or other extraordinarily strange possibilities. From the Buddhist perspective, it is the very nature of mind to demonstrate and teach -- in whatever ways the sentient being requires -- the infinite flexibility and unlimited potential of experience. If one is receptive to it, it can be integrated in a healthy way (much unlike the alien or simulation explanations, IMHO). In my experience, that is why psychedelics are not necessarily appropriate for all people at all times.

Would love to hear more about your story, if you feel like sharing.
For the longest time, government websites in Iran required using Internet Explorer to access. A few years ago, it started to change. Now most of them refuse to work with anything but Chrome. At least in this sense, Chrome is really the new IE.

And no, it's not because there is a standard Firefox does not support. I have installed a user agent switcher add-on on Firefox and that has been sufficient to let me use them. Like back in the days of IE, web developers do not care about users of non-dominant browsers to bother testing on them, and prefer to block them from access instead of risking receiving the occasional bug report or complaint from someone on Firefox or Safari.
It basically depends on your level of wealth. If you're just a middling peddler on the streets, heck, even the low constables in the police force will bully you into paying them a "fine". Gangs won't mess with you, but they might protect you for a few if you pay them (to play Robinhood mostly). When you're an SME, you'll be paying the local ganglord. When you're a mid-level businessman, you'll be paying a gangster-turned-politician. When you're a large businessman, you are likely the gangster. When you're as rich as the fat Ambani or Tata, you're essentially paying the gangsters in government to do your bidding.
The current global economy is only possible because of cheap global shipping using tanker ships.

Just take a look at a map of ship traffic.
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/visualizing-every-ship-real...

Its so cheap, it makes possible to catch salmon in Alaska, process it in China and sell it back in Alaska.

But its a singular failure point. If at any point war or pandemic disrupts this traffic, millions of people will die of hunger.

Cities like Dubai and Honolulu don't have any hope of feeding their million strong populations with their local farming and natural resources. Its either impossible, or they have totally abandoned their food production capability for cheaper shipped produce.

I would move to Hawaii, but the probability of all out cannibalism in a war situation is real threat there.
Neural coding is not a solved problem. Rate codes are not sufficient to explain all experimental data.

Neither is learning; we know some things, sure, we have models for long- and short-term plasticity, but we have no idea how learning actually works.

With computation, there are many hypothesis and dendrites do indeed do more than you would think, but again, these are just small details.
Your statement mostly ignores the Star trek replicator which is an alchemist's dream.
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Smaller companies (5-20 employees) will most likely be a lot more understanding.
Thanks for the feedback, it's very help and constructive! Regarding the 3rd point about screen fatigue on the computer, would a lower bandwidth (ie phone call or audio), help mitigate that issue? Although lacking non-verbal body cues, I have found 1:1 phone calls to be somewhat nice for long calls, usually bc I'm hands free (but unsure how it would apply in a short spontaneous conversation).

Again, thanks for your thoughts!
Perhaps it's better to be wise than smart.
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The nineties were a very flush time period. This article is trying to paint it as if those weren’t extraordinary times.
Much appreciated! There was too much in there I was unaware of.
> That's a result of political choices made in many jurisdictions

It definitely makes it more difficult, but a lot of it is a "law of nature" because moving is expensive, time consuming, risky, and you give up your local connections. There's a reason for the metaphor "putting down roots."
Or you can approach them in a friendly manner and talk about your Chickens, why are they so fascinated and make a new friend.

My advice is to try to understand that your judgement is probably not aligned to malice of the intruder, instead verify with friendliness and if they’re still “creepy”, by all means proceed with your action plan.

Love each other and our neighbors. Dude probably just wanted to send it to his girlfriend what he found interesting on the way. Sure the means of communication has changed, but back in the day it would be a photo taken on a Kodak disposable camera and majority of the narrative would have been through story telling.
I would even adventure to say that privacy is a human construct that doesn't really matter... why is privacy that important? when did "privacy" start to be of importance to the human been.

As a devil's advocate, if EVERYTHING, absolutely everything was public, and "common knowledge" and accepted (you sleep without clothes, oh god! scandal!) a lot of things would be easier.

Of course the fact that people are judged for their choices is what makes us value privacy... but the right thing would be for them NOT to be judged by those choices.

I understand at the basic level it is an unpopular opinion, but I submit this as a thought process on the same level that Asimov, Heinlein and other SciFi authors proposed to test our basic social assumptions.
Yes, it is, but it is also out of fashion today.
I really wonder what the author of the sites endgoal is. Do they want flatpak to be eliminated? Do they think theyre stopping the next "systemd" from taking over their favorite distro?