skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was doing this early in my coding career, but after a certain point, I noticed that people kept making mistakes that I already made before and I didn't have the confidence to say anything because I assumed that they knew better and there was probably some other factor that I wasn't smart enough to see.

Because of my passive attitude, everyone was getting promoted ahead of me at work and I was forced to code in a way that I knew was incorrect. Projects in my day job working in a bigger team moved at snails pace while my personal open source projects with only a couple of contributors progressed very quickly and the products were higher quality with fewer bugs (even though I had a lot less time to work on them).

Now I've become extremely confident (inwardly) but I still struggle to assert myself (outwardly) so my new approach is to steer people towards my ideas in a way that they think it was their own ideas. If only I could have more money, I could afford to be more outwardly confident and I wouldn't have to resort to such pathetic manipulations.

When you don't have money, people don't believe their own eyes when they see talent... People believe that money is a measurement of talent. It's even hard to believe your own talent. But beyond a certain point, after many years, you can't keep ignoring the results.
Or the fourth one, no ads? I might be the minority but ads are wasted on me anyway (apart from the annoyance of seeing them).
The democratic party is the party of the affluent and sacrosant, so it's no surprise that they opt to make a million poor families suffer so one injustice wouldn't slide.

Their fragile world view remains intact, while none of their constituents pay the price.

Just the make sure where you stand.
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True. I miss the old web.
Is it even possible to eliminate it altogether, down to the very last 'influencer'?

As long as people care what is popular and fashionable rather than what is good there will be ways of exploiting it.
Finding cheaper solutions is tricky. I myself am not that strong in electronic engineering, so assembling my own small device is a no-go for me. But yes it would definitely be possible with a small LCD and rpi.
Yes, but Tylenol’s toxicity is due to glutathione depletion. Your body can handle the toxic metabolites with no issue, as long as there isn’t a lot of them.

Once you’ve depleted your liver’s glutathione stores (too much tylenol, too much alcohol, not enough food to replenish glutathione) then the Tylenol becomes very toxic to liver tissue.
> The next line does its best to define the script’s location directory, and then we cd to it. Why?

Eh? This breaks all relative path arguments:

/path/to/foo.sh bar.txt

If you need to reference relative path data internally then that should be hidden from the caller by that same logic, but used only internally.
Why? He jimmied a lock. A bank should not use a padlock. He found a key and found a dead end... oh no, in the dusty closet there was another lost key. That one shouldn't be there... wait the old key opens everything? Oh no.

Privilege escalation is explicitly allowed by facebook. He escalated.
So true.
In my case, if my script has loop, I will use python or perl instead of bash.
Studying microbes / organisms might also help us discover useful biological and chemical properties which we might be able to use in other disciplines.

What if we could program cells to perform desired tasks? Or find some way to employ a novel form of photosynthesis in solar panels? These are very random examples, and it is likely to be something very different, but with the right technology, who knows what could be possible in the future.
So if I look at facebook while sitting at my desk I am working? I don't think so.
You're probably aware of the "illusory truth" effect, basically that if you repeat something enough times people will perceive it as true. That's probably the original persuasive technology :)

https://fs.blog/2020/02/illusory-truth-effect/

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2958246
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I think there is much uncorroborated assertions about bias.

Associating emotions to a product or getting attention is an old trick that existed before modern marketing. The smoking example can be generalized for fashion and there are mechanisms like peer pressure involved that certainly incentivize consumption. But they are not overriding your will. Addictions can, but even then I would say there is still a free will involved.

> but I sense this is more of a grey zone than most people are willing to admit.

I do believe ads affect me, but the scope is limited and regulation would be more draconian than my natural inclination to give products an unjust bonus for boobs. However, it may not work, because I come to the conclusion that the product must lacking if you try to sell it with dirty tricks.

> Isn't this the same as the authoritarian nightmares that we've been pointing fingers at?

No, because people can make up their minds, otherwise they would have a lot of cars by now. They loose that, however, if you regulate too excessively because the decision is already made for you. There are sensible reasons for regulation, so it is a gray area, but I don't see it as helpful here.

Empirical counter evidence in favor of my free will for any practical purpose: There is no irresistible ad.
How is it not a racist archetype? Good guys = white people from the north with British features and bad guys = dark people from the South with Middle Eastern features is in fact how the British thought of the world for hundreds of years... Tolkien and Lewis writings simply crystallized world views that were prevalent.
I might be overthinking this but I find her wording a bit concerning if they weren't fully awake to this dependency pre-pandemic. Everyone knows where Microsoft/Google/Amazon/Apple are based and these companies generally are operating under their own names so it's not like a shady conglomerate who owns everything without you realising.

Anecdotal and hardly conclusive but I work in UK local government and we get a weekly email from our web proxy showing the top 50 domains by proxy traffic in that period. The usual split is something like 42 domains that are linked to US companies, 5 are UK companies with the remainder being the rest of the world (including the EU). That's been the case for years now.
This is a really interesting space that I'm deeply passionate about. I think the issue exists in general with any abstraction: from highest levels where users have to understand and maintain a text document to deepest level of maintaining and understanding computer code.

Making a text article understandable isn't just about the syntax or the structure or the images; you have to have knowledge in the subject to be able to grasp its contents.

With this in mind you can probably create the most amazing UX for allowing end-users to program a system. Problem is that if the user doesn't have any domain knowledge then there's no amount of syntax-system-trickery one can do to make it easier for them to program it.

The space is also highly subjective: something that might work for me might be completely alien to others.

With that said I think the work by Harel et al on "scenario based programming" is fundamentally something that will impact this space greatly [1]. Their vision calls for not just making it easier for "end-user programming" but to shift the way we think about software as something that is more aligned with how we generally think about systems. I gave a talk about this earlier this year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oKzTrq0gMM

1. http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~harel/papers/Runware.pdf
They talked about adding NAC to tylenol, which is an antidote for tylenol poisoning.

Problem is, NAC can be quite rough to take - nausea, vomiting, etc.
Yes, I would. Please leave a reference to your product here when it's done.
Just wanted to say thank you for your (informative) rant.

> In that job, I can decide on my own technology choices without having to compete with egos and trends. I can sit down and think about, write down the tech choices, instead of landing in an assignment where the decisions have already been made, or where they're made in a 15 minute meeting where the loudest or most impatient guy decides without any deliberation or paperwork.

1000 thousand times this.

Would read that post btw.
Visual novels often do that - you put in ypur name and it is seamlessly included into the text portion. It is a simple yet surprisingly immersive trick when the game starts talking about you or to you. :)
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Having been on both sides of the table, I would slightly disagree here. Fraud prevention for example will get an order of magnitude harder, plus this move will further skew the playing field towards FAANG who have the resources to puzzle the scraps back together for decent conversion tracking with the help of logins, IPs, SDKs with First Party IDs and a massive dose of machine learning.
Which is one methodology out of very many.

The fact that one is being taught how to do something in school doesn't mean it's the only way.
Does fingerprinting work in iPhones? Android devices come in many versions but there is only one manufacturer of iPhones.
I click "reject all" (+dark pattern "object" to "legitimate interest").

If a site wants me to do that all individually, I close the window. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. Oh, and I probably should report them, because it's almost certainly illegal.

And yes, this is freedom. The freedom for me to choose. I can still click "accept all" if I want to. I couldn't before, and I didn't even know how much there was.

What you meant is "convenience". Freedom is not always convenient.
maybe their room ?
Developers of embedded devices have long track record of embedding backdoors into their devices "for support purposes". Some of them try to hide backdoors better when they are discovered. Here we can see three generations of such hide-n-seek, ending with applying unsound crypto to hide access to backdoor: https://habr.com/en/post/486856/

I guess we have to do something with it eventually. Probably widespread ban of import of devices with security issues in its design will do.
I don't know what this does:

set -Eeuo pipefail

But I do know this one, which appears to be missing one:

set -o pipefail -o errexit -o nounset

So, one step up: Use long options and long names. Make it readable, and not just writable.
Large doses of vitamin C taken with aspirin or ibuprofen also seem to help with the stomach acid problem. Inspired by a paper on PubMed (so this isn't entirely anecdotal) I tried it and it works for me.

Food also helps but not 100%. IME it does not seem to "soak up" all of the excess acid. Vitamin C is also not 100% but IME more effective than food.

I'm not a frequent or high dose user of NSAIDs, I just seem to have an easily irritated stomach.
What's the need for the snark ? Bugs can happen anywhere. Doesn't mean we don't try ?
I did the same on Amsterdam - Berlin and vice versa. Internet (4G) is terrible in rural areas of Germany though but if you prepare for thst its no problem. You can also take a night bus. Amsterdam - London should be open now too though not as useful with Brexit (I previously took a night bus on that trajectory).
> I don't think that the legitimacy of the E.U. will be challenged overnight over a single decision regarding Google or Facebook.

I figured from phtrivier's account of things that they were suggesting it's a political pattern for national leaders to blame the EU as unrepresentative. If it were a one-off I'd agree.

> if the E.U. moves against Google and Facebook, it's because it feels these companies are evolving into a threat against the first principles from which the Union has emerged

My point was about undermining perceived legitimacy. I've not commented on whether the regulations themselves are a good idea. Do you think phtrivier's account of things is mistaken?
Note: the paper on the benefits of a Mediterranean diet is the mostly highly cited of retractionwatch's papers.

https://retractionwatch.com/the-retraction-watch-leaderboard...
It would seem that review sites would be a massive beneficiary of a ban on advertising; whether or not they review in a Consumer Reviews (scientifically backed, generally) or Bob’s Internet Affiliate Shills or Celebrity Chris’ Favorites manner is left as an exercise to the reader.
What free software phones are there that actually take steps to prevent tracking?

Most free software OSes I know about generally give apps lots of access to the system they are running on, which makes tracking a lot easier.
If the average is HN, I'm not even in the fucking graph.

If the average is people I know it's a very different outcome though...
Of all the things microsoft have done, using a vaguely insensitive name is not really that worrying to me.
Firefox's fingerprinting protections are useful, but they are not enough to prevent fingerprinting altogether.
If we're discussing the capitalist society, the salary does represent in a very literal form your worth to the company, and by consequence probably your skill level too. I'll admit that it's more complicated than that.

What you should not associate with your salary is your own sense of worth or success, because there you're on mentally unstable grounds.

But in my original response I just gave a random example, and you're right that we should not expand the discussion in that direction.
I wouldn't say it's _completely_ separate, in the sense that within a certain field + industry combination, the salaries will be fairly stable, and from there it's a combination of skill, worth to company, being able to market yourself, be visible, and being in a position (financially and otherwise) to be able to bargain effectively for your salary. Along with your networks, looks, etc. With an added heap of some randomness.

All of these add a lot of noise, but there's still an underlying signal there. It's kind of like BMI; at an individual level, it may be highly misleading due to the variance, but at a population level, it's fairly insightful.
Long live the flame bait
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I don't know if they believe it. I think they see it has a good moat between them and google considering google has to kill their own profits to believably provide privacy.

Apple seems to believe it will drive market share, and I think that's better than them believing in the principle (since public companies are not principle driven).
I suspect that a few of the things in that report are more correlated than the report suggests.
Yeah there is no realistic full cleanup. Some of the pollution reaches the ocean before anyone even notices, much less brings the court process to a conclusion. So, we need to fix it before the emissions are made.
Which is ironic given that a GPT generated article made it to the top recently IIRC.

I'm glad hn isn't like /r/programmerhumor (i.e. if I argue a point I don't want to explain what a pointer is) but the delusions of grandeur are in equal parts tragic and hilarious sometimes.
I think that if you have malware, then formatting of hard drive is minimum of what should be done.

I would not assume that malware is actually purged, and unpacking backup archive and running script to reinstall software is not so troublesome (assuming that you have backups and script to automate installing your programs, but if you are on HN then you probably have it)
When talking about the immune system there's tons of agency.
Aljazeera docs are cool too
If anyone downvotes your comment it is because it plays into common tropes that don't help anyone.

>When you have talent, it is your duty and responsibility to hone it and care for it.

First of all there is the idea of a talent being a trait. It's not. It's merely acquired (through exposure aka experience). You have zero duty and responsibility to hone anything.

>You have a gift

Yeah, the gift of being human. The one thing that helps you more than anything else because being human lets you acquire everything else.

>to squander it in a misguided attempt at humility or fear of trying is the worst sin you could commit.

There is no such sin. Everything is wasted by default. The vast majority of animals never reach adulthood.

>Stop listening to what other people have to say about where you should go and what you should do; their reasons are either selfish or fearful. Only you are sufficient judge of what is your true potential, and that only comes through the continuous experience of discovery and trying.

That's an argument to stop listening to you because you are a burden to me. You will never give anything, you just take.

Your arguments boil down that every living thing starts at minus x and if you do (not try) your best and do everything perfectly you will merely arrive at 0.
How could the same URL be submitted twice and not caused duplicate detection ?
Many do. On Darknet Diaries Podcast they mentioned even the NSA buys zero days, and selling to them (if you're a US citizen) won't be (as?) illegal as selling to a foreign nation is.
Facebook the app, maybe not so much in Europe, but WhatsApp is pretty much the defacto cross platform messaging app here that everyone uses and also Facebook's Messenger app is used quite a lot for group chats where you don't have everyone's phone numbers.
If you go that far then the entire legitimacy of legal systems, judicial systems, penal systems, world order etc falls apart. Free will does not really exist, but what is the alternative to pretending that it exists.
I wonder if countries where English is not a native language have a built-in advantage - media they consume in English runs in a virtual machine of sorts.

I have noticed, for example, that anglosphere seems to adopt US Hollywood/cultural tropes much easier and faster than other countries. Down to, for example, people using the word 'like' every other word or speaking in a certain tone of voice being quite pervasive in England but to my understanding relatively rarely seen in, say, the Netherlands.
If the script must iterate over the lines of its input, I've found perl -nlE to be a godsend. Basically it is equivalent to

while(<>){
chomp;
<insert your -E code here>
}
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Yes, that's all correct. The reason for the small block size has to do design decisions made in the rest of the streaming stack, which is shared between all TV devices.
A lot of people here are leaning towards just writing the script in Py.

Could somebody please educate me on why bashing it would be preferable?
We routinely use terms like "dependency injection" for programming, "drop the beat" for music, "oscillating" for a set of political views and how they develop throuh time, or even "transcribing" for DNA-related activities in the cell, if you want a biological one. None of those have to do with apes or their everyday lives. Or try explaining "political correctness" to an ape...

We are perfectly fine abstracting high-order things that have nothing to do with apes, and using those terms and abstractions IF they are useful. We are also perfectly fine to not bother with it if existing terms offer the best possible utility.

So no, our basic assumption is not that everything is an ape.

I'm not sure where this fascination with undermining the great intellectual feats human brains are capable of is coming from?
its not quite the same url
Google is happy as long as google.com is the default search for Safari.
It doesn't offer any indication that social media is the root cause of the current state of political polarization in the US, or any indication that polarization is bad or harmful.

I think people place far too much stock in US partisan screaming. It simply doesn't matter that much.

I'm not arguing that the US isn't polarized, that much is clear. I just don't see any precipice.
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Why can't they support multiple interfaces? Allow people to switch to one if they like
> That being said, of course Google and FB are never going to be banned in the EU. They'll lobby to death to get the regulation to be "reasonable", and they'll mostly comply because they want their part of the advertising market, and they'll pay the fines when they get caught.

Sure they can be banned EU-wide, although it can obviously be circumvented by the ambitious. Have you been paying attention to EU politics lately regarding the digital single market? Because the EU already has huge behind-the-scenes plans (generally unannounced) for EU based platforms and developments.
Microsoft ported part of Office to Windows. Excel for Mac is from 1985, the first Windows version from 1987 (you could say both evolved from DOS Multiplan, but that was on Mac, too); Word was on DOS in 1983, Mac in 1985, Windows in 1989.
To be more specific, get rid of setters unless it is a data object. Have all fields be final and set them in one constructor. This makes the code more readable since you know no method will change the internal state.
Depends which Jitsi...
This is insane in the membrane. Pip search is very popular and useful. How many companies shut down services because they are too popular?
I just tested with my iPhone 12 in Safari (latest software) and it said I have a unique fingerprint. That really surprises me.
> What do you mean by projections?

@Jtsummers puts it as “Map the problem into other domains”; another interpretation (or a variation on the same) is “look at it from a different angle” or “look at it in a different light”. Do both -- move around with your light source, shine a torch/flashlight at your problem, and different shapes will be “projected” onto the wall behind it. Kind of like, if you are familiar with Hofstadter's _Gödel, Escher, Bach_ -- remember that “G,E,B” cube pictured on the cover of many editions? A more or less abstract “thing” or idea can be “projected” into different practical views depending on perspective. In actual practical work talking about “projections” can of course feel a little highfalutin’; to me it's a bit like always talking about your RDBMS tables or views as “relations”.

But in a more philosophical sense it is of course perfectly valid. And AFAICS it's an age-old idea in Western philosophy; what I described above is essentially precisely what is known as _Plato's Cave_. (Which incidentally is why @tenken’s identifying it as “Eastern” feels quite peculiar to me.)
Would be a shame if everyone sent them all home?
Thank you for the inspiration, I am currently reading the Subprime Attention Bias (https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374538651) that seems to pick up on the internal effectiveness metrics, and might have some answers regarding your first question.

I am personally intrigued by the idea that people, who are aware of persuasive tech, PII, captology and marketing efforts skyrocketing in the attention economoy, start to mistrust products/ services or political agendas that spread their message with the help of such tech.
Might only be my bubble though...
why is this downvote! Bring back web that is just displaying info (e.g text, image, video) works in tor 'Secure' mode.
What views are these pedophiles espousing? How common is this? I see many people who would be considered bigots, but I have yet to encounter truly pedophilic views on any mainstream media.

What I see, rather are experts being accused of being pedophiles, for pushing controversial ideas about how to prevent pedophiles from committing crimes, and being censored accordingly.
Looks like Mozilla still ignores the memo that anti-tracking starts with anti DRM in the first place.

Apple your new friend.

State of the art data protection looks different. Mozilla ain't asking for help for that thought. How unfortunate!
Apple makes exceptions to exceptional people. I mean, OSX x86 port started with a remote engineer.
In devops nowadays:

Bash is a prototype to the app in Python that is a prototype to the app in Golang.