skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>It would seem about 43% or more of the population of the United States is infected with a means of operation which eliminates or completely disables critical thinking mechanisms and relies exclusively on internal..

IMO, it is about 100%. Conspiracy people are not less rational, or radically so, on average. People just aren't as rational as we believe ourselves to be. Many of our positions and beliefs are acquired socially in practice. Logic and reason are part of it, but remember that we learn from other people. We learn who to learn from. Trust plays a role.

As I said in the original comment, the epistemology can be interesting. In practice though, the sociology is often meta to epistemology
Wow. Decades and I didn't realise this was why I and ball point pens don't agree.
Maybe if we start the habit of signing one's own appearances, this at some day will make unsigned video considered unreliable.

But I guess this is wishful thinking given that we don't even generally sign written comments yet.
Old joke: A reporter once asked the aging Einstein if he though inventing the Cosmological Constant [1] was his biggest mistake. "No" he replied, "that was my second biggest mistake. The first biggest mistake was marrying my first wife."

[1]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmological_constant
>I looked at Fastmail at the time, but there was one showstopper which I forget (and should revisit).

Was it Australia's anti-encryption law?

https://www.itnews.com.au/news/fastmail-loses-customers-face...
That's interesting thank you for sharing. However, this is just environmental laws being used to serve the same monied interests that I was complaining about. Private industry doesn't want mass transport, they want to sell cars. Landowners will always use their property rights to enrich themselves at the public expense.
I'm using Fastbill to add time spend with the client and then automatically create invoices from the times.
Same. I'm at a similar position except I haven't quite got my Android situation sorted out. Google photos is really quite good. And maps too.

Migrating from Gmail to fastmail was really quick and easy and I wish I had done that sooner. Except I think I'll be finding websites registered with my old Gmail address for the rest of my days.
There is a big continuum between better privacy and better convenience. You have to find a balance that works for your needs.

Some recommendations, from across this continuum:

Use a VPN, from a company that you trust.

Firefox - use containers to get some separation between services.

NoScript - for blocking JS. This takes some time to get used to but is definitely worth it. After you have a whitelist going, it is much less painful.

uBlock Origin - for blocking ads. This one is a super low hanging fruit.

Privacy Badger - occasionally catches some trackers missed by Firefox and uBlock Oigin.

Decentraleyes - to avoid big CDNs.

OpenDNS instead of your ISP’s or Google’s DNS. Or consider setting up a Pihole.

Switch your search engine to DuckDuckGo.

Tor (or even Tails) - significantly more privacy, but at a much higher convenience cost.

The biggest privacy win will be no longer using services from companies that don’t respect your privacy. This is doubly true of mobile. Many people cannot go without a smartphone (I still use a smartphone) but it’s worth considering whether you can drop it.
Trying to get my credit union to allow users to opt in to sell bulk annon checking account transactions to a hedge fund. Having that much point of sale data would be huge.
Have people at your work generally been happy with the 16" MBPs?

I had one, top of the line, and I hated it -- it ran crazy hot all the time even when I wasn't doing much of anything. Connected to an external monitor, it would fan up just from surfing ordinary sites with Safari. From lots of googling around it seemed that many, many people had this problem.

I was actually quite thrilled when I was able to send it back to HQ, and am now back to loving my 2014 13" MBP.

Having dealt with those thermal engineering problems, I am both very hopeful for Apple Silicon, and very wary of buying newest-release Macs.
I agree 100% with this. I have a fairly large tinker shop with 20-30 different machines and initially bet on the Pi platform to do CNC/Octoprint/robotics/etc controls, thinking I should standardize. Most of the Pis failed with storage issues eventually; be it eMMC, microSD or USB flash drives. Since then I've moved on to x86 based industrial motherboards which ended up costing about the same when you include everything. Zero problems since then. And boot times are now measured in seconds, not minutes.
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These alternatives should definitely be taken with a huge grain of salt. I don't see how Discord is the third most "privacy-friendly" alternative to Hangouts that doesn't track you while explicitly claiming they "may" collect your email, messages, images, VOIP data, etc. [1]

[1] https://discord.com/privacy
That was a great Kubecon. I remember a couple of the sponsor swag items were beanie hats, which ended up being a big help, but was (hopefully) completely unplanned.

I am one of the people from small companies that Dan spent so much time talking to, even though I'm sure there were a billion people from Google/Microsoft/Amazon that would have paid handsomely for his time. We've truly lost someone special.
> If I thought the whole "beat out the big guys by using cheap compute" thing was so easy, I'd be doing it instead of writing about it.

Very wise.
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While I agree, it's also possible that certain ideologies don't actually lead to revenue from advertising in practice. If I'm selling a line of Jewish labelled clothing, then it doesn't do me much good to include pro-Islam sites in advertising. And although the above is a rather specific strawman, there are many other areas of advertising, companies and products that don't have broad appeal in a given category.

As a potentially better example, if a higher than typical number of LGBTQIIAA+ are likely to be vetegarian/vegan, then excluding them from meat based product advertising might be better use of dollars spent.

Just because an advertiser doesn't want to advertise among contentious groups doesn't mean they are being bigoted about their targeting, it likely comes down to not being worth it due to limited response from those markets.
I think Microsoft is better too. I subscribe to M365 (family plan) so I've been switching everything over to them. Email was easy (used outlook desktop app), but photos is hard. That and I have no alternative to Google voice
> For content owners who feel their videos were erroneously restricted, YouTube will let them appeal the decision.

I’m sure that this process will have no problems whatsoever.
That’s ok. The Senate and the FBI have said the evidence is real.
Which software will we still be using in 900 years?
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>Although environmental regulations and requirements in most European countries are as elaborate as U.S. regulations, the environmental review processes are generally better streamlined, and approval is obtained faster than in the United States.

The idea that U.S. regulations are simply administered more poorly than European ones reminds me of the U.S. tax system. For years, anti-tax people in the U.S. (and the tax prep industry) have blocked changes that would simplify filing taxes. They think (correctly imo) people will like taxes less if they're hellishly complicated to file. Is something similar has been happening with other regulatory requirements?

I would be interested to read about it if anyone has any sources.
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By shame and disgust, I suspect you mean something along the lines of virtue-signalling, but I think it's much more simple than that, it's plain old economics:

Long-term reliability and excellence. If you keep shutting down products, who could risk relying on them? Not me, because switching costs are non-trivial.

If you launch ten different chat products (luckily the icons match) and shut them down a few months later, what kind of product mind want to join your company? Not me, because I want to work on products that survive.

If your product hiring pipeline suffers because you keep killing products and you disable customer accounts willy-nilly, who wants to risk falling behind because they are stuck with products designed by designers who never talk to customers? Not me.

So avoiding Google at this point is less about morality and more about insuring yourself against a myopic product strategy and engineers who are not allowed to talk to their customers.

If you want to fix Google, put engineers on call and let them talk to customers. Fire anybody who refuses to talk to customers. The problem will resolve itself in 6-12 months.

Of course, it is important to put your money where your mouth is, so to answer your question directly: I am actively de-Googling myself and being very vocal about it because I believe that's the only way to affect change in large corporates who. Here is what I've done:

- Switched from Google to DuckDuckGo. Haven't used Google in over 6 months.
- Switched from Chrome to Firefox. Very happy so far.
- This week I signed up for Fastmail and switched my MX records over, so Google can't learn show me ads anymore.
- Next up is Google Docs. Sheets is going to be tough.

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I think women from cultures where the fairer sex are considered historically ‘submissive’ would have dealt with this entirely differently. In other words..they wouldn’t have gotten mad, they’d have gotten even.

I suspect Mileva was probably on the spectrum and/or didn’t have had a high social IQ. One needs high survival skills to be female. She wasn’t designed fo it.

Women who are not surrounded/supported by their ‘sisterhood’ or female ‘tribe’ often get exploited by men. Female input and advice will save a lot of loss and damage. Because. Experience. Other women know. They share. They talk. They gossip. Guidance. There is an evolutionary advantage to gossip and chat. That’s how female wisdom goes viral. It worked in the pre social media era. I am always suspicious of men who try to isolate their girl from female company. That’s a warning sign. I have never been wrong w/this assessment.

Children are a burden. Women should be taught not to have children without a supportive man who cannot be a father for life. Because it’s a responsibility for life.

Single parenthood is not a badge of honor. We should not celebrate it as a society. Or rather, we should not glorify single parenthood. I suppose there is obviously something to celebrate about children. But the experience of creating something is different from the value of the creation. Would be parents should understand the gravity of the task and responsibility in front of them.

Raising children is the most difficult thing to do .. even in partnerships never mind as a single parent. I honestly don’t understand why people are eager to have children. Sometimes more than they can afford wrt time and money and effort. It’s not for everyone. There is no shame or guilt in living and enjoying life as an individual.

Had Mileva Einstein not had the parenting responsibility and burden, she would have blossomed as the scientist she was obviously meant to be...the female uterus is severely undervalued. As is the value of progeny.. by men.. it is the vessel for half their genetic material and their only way to leave a meaningful biological legacy. So until we can grow little humans in pods, women must make men pay their due for carrying their genetic material and delivering it as viable life forms or deny them the opportunity to leave behind a genetic legacy.
Good point. It would not be free, nor necessarily trivial/easy, to support this.

But does that mean it's unreasonable to require companies to do it? We already force plenty of engineering with regulation (GDPR, HIPAA, FERPA, PCI-DSS, SOX) because these are things society wants, even if the company would rather not.

Also, maybe the proprietary format doesn't need to work forever. Just add a disclaimer that it's only guaranteed for, say, 1 year? Or just "best effort"? All the file does is give the customer an incentive to return to Prezi later on. It would be in their own best interest to support this, if they weren't allowed to sidestep the whole issue by making it difficult to leave in the first place.
So the solution is a party that is, in fact, infallible?
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I put them all together because the end goal is to provide some kind of backup strategy. In that context, all three are equivalent. (Carbonite has clunky FileManager-like GUI for handling backups.) Make sense now?

I actually use Google Drive for files I share with people who don't have MS Office, then I use Duply+PGP->Duplicity to AWS S3 backups of all documents on my Mac that aren't on GitHub (and don't have GB of object or docker files), and lastly I do monthly TimeMachine for the entire DISK (because TimeMachine is effing amazing, I won't go into to much detail, but it is brilliant when moving to a new machine).

When it comes to backups, I am reluctant to spin up rclone/borg when a single alias that calls Duply+PGP to S3 on my 1GBit upstream fiber has worked fine for almost 10 years. Just telling me I should switch to something without a making an effort to explain WHY is basically asking me to spend hours studying and trying something that might fuck up my established protocol for what ROI? I don't quite share your enthusiasm for new flows, prima fascie. ;-)
I mean it _was_ food.
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If this isn't clear enough at this point, it's unlikely to be worth anyone's time to explain it (again). An exception can exist and serve a purpose without ever having to be be thrown, and the thing thrown in a throw statement doesn't have to be an exception. Exceptions and "try ... catch" are completely orthogonal. The question is fundamentally... sideways.
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I saw the pandemic special and, I don't know, it just didn't seem funny to me. I still watch Mr. Hankey's Christmas Classics every year when I decorate the tree, and I still love what they did up until around season 12. After that it gets hit-or-miss and after a few more seasons just didn't seem worth watching anymore. I'd chalk it up to getting older and not smoking pot anymore, but I still love their old stuff.
> making $60/hour in salary while being contracted out for 3 times that amount

Those devs should have listened to patio11 (Patrick McKenzie)'s advise, and directed built a relationship with the companies they were being contracted out to.
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Actually, it is the announcement of an event, many of the HN readers might want to follow. So posting a link that informs about the event seems not to be off-topic to me. I wouldn't want to miss the event so I am happy the link appeared here on HN.
You say that because you think ARM gives toy performance when everything actually points to Apple Silicon will be a performance beast. It may not beat the big x86 gaming rigs but I am quite confident that the highest performance laptops of any kind in the next few year will all be ARM based.

iMac and Mac Mini are also small enclosures which will benefit from ARM performance wise.

All that matters is really watt per performance and dollars relative to performance and there ARM already beats intel. To beat an x86 intel is just a matter of throwing in enough cores.

AMD will be harder as their performance relative to cost is better than ARM and intel. But there is nothing special about beating intel at this point.
Take it as evidence of how difficult it is to avoid Google and continue to function on the web. I use weather.gov.
That works too, but I assumed the ongoing hosting costs would be larger than the cost of developing a feature to provide an export and letting the user handle storage.
Time zones (even if daylight saving time switches aren’t synchronized) are a tamed version of synchronizing every clock with local sunrise. Things such as “Let’s meet next month, same time” wouldn’t make sense anymore.

Everybody would have to know what location a meeting is scheduled in. “An hour after sunrise in London” would be the same for everyone, but if you also meetings “two hours after sunrise in Madrid” and “three hours after sunrise in Paris”, how much time there is between them will vary during the year.
One thing worth remembering - thousands of current "Bay area tech workers" grew up in other parts of the country, and moved to silicon valley primarily for job opportunities, but may not otherwise share in the religious, political or social views that dominate that space.

So while in some cases there may be the conflict you're alluding to, for other people, they're just moving back home.
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It is not dying for CAD/CAM and visualisation folks that don't want to bother with Vulkan boilerplate for nothing, on their workloads.
+1 Vivaldi is a beautifully designed product in my experience. I haven't used on mobile tho.
I used to use Chrome browser for everything, but not anymore. Now I use Firefox, Safari and Brave. I am making preparations to move from Google Apps Mail and Gmail to Fastmail. I would not use Google drive and Google docs for anything. Still use google search, but looking for an alternative as I don’t trust results in many cases. I feel technically they are still better than other search engines, they just heavily manipulate search results.
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What you're saying is correct but also puts a non-sophisticated seller in a poor negotiating position. They do not know what existing data the buyer uses or how their data can be complementary to anything.
How does this work for any profficient computer user?

I dont move my shoulders when typing, all through hand/fingers... just double checked in a mirror... arm might wobble a bit but there's more movement from breathing.

I would understand it working if you type one letter at a time with one finger... or conspiracy theory scenarios where webcam embeds key presses in the video somehow and that gets picked up by the ai.
If I am not mistaken, Google is the one doing the contributions to WebKit.
It's paid out of the taxes on wages of laborers like these engineers working on tunnel construction; when you estimate the expenses for building a tunnel, that's included in the list price - it's just that in USA invoice that line might be labeled "union-agreed benefits" and in Switzerland invoice the same thing might be labeled "government-mandated social security tax" which covers things like "government sponsored" (i.e. taxpayer-paid) pensions.
Others have probably mentioned this, but my first thought is how this will bring deep fakes to people's attention, and make them realize that nothing they see on the internet is necessarily real.
They could send batches. Or provide an expiring download link.
If anyone from uk.bookshop.org is here, glad to see an alternative to Amazon but search needs some work. Also, any plans for e-books?
I've had a ton of paperwork done in recent years (voting, child passport, visas). Most of the conveniences stops when you don't have NZ's drivers licence...

p.s. IRD has it's own login system.
Walmart - the unexpected champion of the people?

Having human workers check for out of stock items when they are walking the store doing things normally does seem a lot more cost effective than the robots I've seen in store.
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Saying “you have to prove your premise” is not a good faith attempt to show the premise lacks evidentiary support. Maybe the premise has plenty of support, maybe not. Maybe everyone else already has that context and you being ignorant of it isn’t the other party’s problem to solve. Or maybe the other party is a conspiracy crank and telling them they failed to supply evidence is solely flame bait. None of these options advance the conversation or assist other readers.

If you say “citation needed” and you believe that has rebutted or refuted or challenged the other party in some way, you are wrong. It has not done so, regardless of the merit or lack of merit of their claims.