skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"But this answer nevertheless captures the greater part of the attitude of many adults."

???? Is there any evidence for this? For example, in US history, who is the singular 'superhero' which overthrew the tyranny of King George? The US Declaration of Independence even describes it as 'absolute Tyranny', and that's likely the first example of tyranny that Americans will learn about.

"Each actual tyrant points to some problem"

That's .. incomplete, at best. King George didn't come to power by pointing to some problem.

"The People submit. Sheeplike."

Really? I was under the impression that many Germans actively wanted Hitler. In July 1932, the Nazi Party became the largest political party in the Reichstag with 230 representatives, with 37.3% of the vote.

I'm confused about how "submit" and "sheeplike" can be reconciled with "enthusiastic approval".

And then we get to "And so it is with today’s tyranny of hygiene socialism.".

Oh, it's one of those assholes who thinks that washing hands and wearing a mask = socialism = tyranny.

Kinda guessed that would be from the get-go when I saw it was from the American Institute for Economic Research.

You'll note the complete lack of an ability to understand what "tyranny" is supposed to mean. What makes something a "tyranny" vs. say, "authoritarianism"? Or, twist it around - has the US been a tyranny for its entire lifetime, where the white population are the sheep?

See how the lack of any definition makes the essay meaninglessly vague?
None, I work with them or chit chat at most but never played
https://archive.is/ZnSW5
You might prefer the 6-inch Joan Home device[1] (€ 249). It runs a productivity app[2], but the hardware and software stack is by the same company.

1: https://getjoan.com/shop/joan-home/

2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lRFsbLFUKk
In Europe, cross-app, cross-browser & cross-device tracking is on very thin ice legally under the GDPR, so I'm not surprised Apple finally curbs the use of "sticky" identifiers on their devices. Honestly, it's a bit shameful that a device that is marketed as the gold standard in privacy would even support such an identifier in the first place, it has literally no purpose beyond mining peoples' data.

Now that the third-party tracking ecosystem is slowly drying out I'm curious what advertisers will come up with to circumvent these new measures. Anyone here that works in the industry and wants to share some plans?
Lol just of the top of my head companies like Coca Cola and also the guy who sued red bull for actually not getting wings
The parent comment is ignorant and pedantic.

Slavery was and is a traditional human activity, and has been for thousands of years.

The Koran, written in the 7th century, glorifies slavery.

The Nazis had tens of millions of slaves. (The French Resistance became active only after Sokel began enslaving all able-bodied French citizens, men and women.)

After the EU border-free crossings started, UK business owners had slave camps for Poles. That was only 10-20 years ago.

So before you go all SJW on HN, at least learn what you're talking about. The US is not uniquely evil because we had slaves. What is unique is that we had a civil war to free them, and that's lost in the SJW narrative.
Sorry to be a dick but this is exactly what I'm talking about. You haven't actually answered my question, what IS the desired outcome here?

If we break up Insta and FB (and whatapp or the same for google), what changes? There is more competition maybe. But is that actually a good thing for the average citizen?

More competition means lower prices for ads since that's what is really being bought and sold here. But that does nothing for anyone not buying ads (99.9% of people). In fact, lower prices means more ads which worsens the experience for Web users.

Plus, with a psudo monopoly on ads, FB can and does pursue at least some social responsibility programs (banning certain ads for instance). Maybe they should do more (I think so but you might not?), but if you increase competition they will be forced to do less. So you'll see more fake news and clickbait bs. Again, that doesn't help the average citizen.

As margins fall, everyone will be forced to invest less in the actual platforms. This too seems like a worse deal for most users: sites that don't have as many functions and load slower and go down more and have more ads.

Given all these very foreseeable downsides, why would we want more competition in this market? Competition is NOT a good in and of itself. It's only good or bad based on what it produces. Cheaper flight prices are good! Flights so cheap the airplanes crash are bad. So we have the FAA to mandate standards.

Until we're ready to add something similar to social media, you need to be very careful calling for more competition blindly.
> the "state" that started WW2 was the Austria-Hungarian Empire

typo, make that WW1.
It’s not necessarily irrelevant (depending on the role). After interviewing a lot of people, I’ve found you can ask a handful of questions and get a pretty good sense for their work style (outside of technical knowledge).

That can be helpful in hiring.

If you’re looking to hire someone for a technical role on some big hairy project that might not work or seems crazy, it’s helpful to select for people who won’t say “this idea is dumb”.
Why is this interesting?

I suppose geopolitically it’s a form of shit-testing. They are probing the limits. Any escalation to this inevitably will lead to war (if someone misjudges and goes after a US diplomat, or official).

And I wonder if the west is close to a misstep. Right now the US is killing Iranian generals and scientists with impunity. All these things have limits.
I started thinking like this pretty early, and even further than that, refusing myself to "absorb"/think about positive feedback at all. I saw that as pure self-indulgence, with no actionable content whatsoever.

I was very stubborn about it too, and I remember talking about it with people whenever someone called me smart or something similar...

In my view, it is the first step towards Stoicism.
Money spent on political advertising absolutely comes out of your pocket. The process is: politicians levy taxes and excise, divert the revenue to linked entities, pay Facebook out of the proceeds. Or they extract money from companies under threat of expropriation via adverse regulation and litigation. In developing countries this is blatant; in developed countries it is disguised (as lobbying, consulting fees etc.).

In fairness, there is an argument that at least some political advertising is consumption by politically engaged citizenry who don't stand to gain financially from the result; witness spending on unwinnable Senate races in the latest election, for example. But in general you have to assume that political advertising comes with some expectation of return, which comes out of the everyday citizen's pocket.
I think the parent is jokingly suggesting that google's auth service is going to be buying a largest google one storage plan so they don't run out of quota.
> "while using not only the freedom"

Ancient Greeks had freedoms, markets and democracy, and never heard the word 'capitalism'
Ask HN: What do you hate most about modern websites?
My top 3 are:

- Cookie consent popup

- Excess animations

- Menu overlay
No one in their right mind anywhere in the universe would, in all seriousness, actually advocate for all humans everywhere to eat an all beef diet. That's so ridiculous on the face of it I didn't feel I needed to say that.
Impatience: A deep cause of Western failure in handling the pandemic?
In most places it's an either/or; you won't see both. I've never seen a grey squirrel north of roughly stirling, but have seen plenty* (well, a handful, 4 or 5) of reds in the area. Meanwhile, near me (Edinburgh), greys are abundant.
My rule of thumb: if the script needs argument parsing or any sort of error handling/cleanup, I’ll write it in Python 3.5 instead of bash.
I don't think that the legitimacy of the E.U. will be challenged overnight over a single decision regarding Google or Facebook.

Brexit is just the latest chapter in a long European history. The same is true for the Union and the Maastricht and Lisbon treaties. European history isn't finished as long as there are Europeans.

The U.K. wasn't a founding member of the E.U. nor has it ever been a stalwart partner of the E.U. ever since it joined the Union back in There has always been contention in the U.K. about being a E.U. member ever since it joined through the 1972 Treaty of Accession. The U.K. even held a referendum as early as 1975 about the question of remaining in the then E.C.C. (67.33% voted remain)

The same is true for many other E.U. members, notably newer members who joined the union in the wake of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the breakup of the Warsaw Pact after 1991. Their incentive to join the union was just as much geo-strategic as it was economic. That doesn't mean there weren't voices opposition within those countries as well as elsewhere in the union.

These two companies coming under scrutiny isn't just because they monopolize a consumer market. It's because they enable forces of contention - nationalism, identity politics - that have led to some very dark chapters in the recent European history.

The E.U. such as it is today, originates from ideas that gestated right after WWII under such proponents as Winston Churchill, and the primary incentive was... creating a stable structure for peace on the continent. The E.C.S.C. as founded by the original 6 founding members (Schumann) was about consolidating the coal and steel markets exactly because those were enabling factors during both wars. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union#Background

And so, 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.
How to find a developer job without any experience
It's a very nice template, some great gems in there, like cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" >/dev/null 2>&1 .

My general issue, and it applies here too I guess, is that by the time I have 99 lines of Bash just as boilerplate,, +logic I might as well write it in Python. But if I just have to write Bash, I might use it one day.
I can't remember ever seeing an ad on Facebook trying to convince me to go vegan or do anything public-spirited.

Ever.

I have however seen plenty of ads trying to get me to spend money on something/someone.

And conflating the political process with the marketing process is absolutely pernicious in a democracy. The Brexit campaign used micro-targeting of individuals with knowingly dishonest ads that played to their biasses.

That's not persuasion - that's just manipulation.

Put simply, no one should ever be allowed to run organised campaigns based on lying and distortion for any reason. If you need to lie you don't have anything valid to say in the first place so removing you from the public discourse causes no harm to anyone.
That point is sort-of pointless. It would be fair to boil a lot of the argument there down to "People don't act randomly. They have reasons for what they are doing. I think their reasons are bad".

I can't argue with that, but the alternatives are worse. If you centralise power, sooner or later the advertising exec gets control of the powerful body, and now you can't choose to resist even if you can see that what is happening is bad.

A key part of the free market is precisely that the world is actually quite predictable. The fact that people sometimes make predictably bad choices doesn't especially undermine the free market. The market doesn't require people make good choices, it just redirects resources to people who make better choices than the average.
Average ≠ Mean (though not always). And average (or is that median?) score is pretty much 7/10 :

https://www.polygon.com/2014/10/28/7083373/look-at-this-char...
I used to argue with Iyad on Minekey (a place to have a twitter like arguments before twitter) 10+ years ago. We disagreed frequently. I always learnt something from his arguments so I befriended him on fb. Never would have I imagined how quickly can his innocent activism escalate to have an actual hit team dispatched to have him silenced.

I was the same, the only difference is my passport and government I criticize. Yet I live a normal life, never felt threatened or in danger. It made me realize how important and fragile are those values.
That's akin to turning a blind eye for the money - kinda like political lobbying by large companies that we see play out in many countries.

Leaner is meaner and the UK leaving - sure if it was just for the money then that wasn't a relationship and the children have already grown up so to speak.

What does worry me a bit is that tech/large companies have become in effect their own political parties with the amount of influence and impact they have had over the years. So any move by the EU now to rein them in, is a good thing and honestly, good to see that political lobbying by companies has some limits.

2021 is going to be a whole better year for all.
Good move VISA, another win for crypto.
Here's one. There are plenty of others.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-social-media-...
Confronting one of the FSB on attempted murder
Posing as an "anti-pedophile" would be a good way for a pedophile to deflect attention away from themselves, or as a way for them to project the negative feelings they receive outwards.

There have been cases where child rights advocates have been arrested for multiple counts of child rape. I don't think every activist is one, or even most. They probably genuinely feel for the victims, and their suffering.
If all the people you hire are rubbish because no one good would accept your salary it’s very easy to see how you could fail to monetise.
Can you share more info on how they invalidated the idea that the Haradrim and Calormenes are racist?
What person was prevented from speaking there?
The password is

VExy!64a3ng
Building a custom API in low code
Matt Taibbi[0] is a well known writer/journalist known for his over-the-top, often obnoxious style.

As such, it's not a "totally made up" blog. That said, he's an acquired taste.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Taibbi
I love your approach to change tracking - so frictionless and no additional distractions (like the additional back-light of the LCDs)
One thing I've never understood about fingerprinting is that Firefox is supposed to prevent it by mangling the fingerprint data if you have those settings turned on. However whenever I visit sites like this, they all those the same thing that never changes, which means my fingerprint is quite stable and shared easily.
as a general rule you should be able to use the case with the proprietary footnotes etc. removed. However I am not sure how many rights one has in the U.S to publish court cases, it might depend on jurisdiction (as so many things do in the U.S)

In Denmark some cases need to be anonymized before being made available through a service like WestLaw, and perhaps the same might apply to some American cases - if so not only the footer and headers and notes would be WestLaw proprietary but perhaps also the anonymized form of the case (arguable)
Five things we can learn from the Solorigate/SUNBURST attack
> Facebook and other firms have warned that the more regulation could prompt the company to move away from Europe, which could cost jobs and block access to its site for EU users.

Please, please make it happen...
I suppose there are both philosophical and pragmatic reasons for the current situation:

1. Philosophical - you don't want to get the threat of physical force involved unless there is a very very good reason for doing so. That is, you don't want to make things illegal. So we forbid outright lying and fraud, openly misleading customers, but allow things that you describe. If you have a private online platform, why should you not be allowed to or be compelled to moderate its content? Yes, tech companies will try to maximize user engagement, but what else should they be trying to maximize? It is up to the rest of society to develop a proper culture and information hygiene to shape their demand, and tech companies will adapt. It can develop organically and passed from generation to generation, or you can try to expedite the process through schools, media and other mechanisms that exist in a society.

2. Practical - people tend to get interested by forbidden things, and they seem to like their biases. In the Soviet Union, for example, perhaps most people were fascinated by the Hollywood movies of the 70s and the 80s, and even the way the Western brands were being advertised. They seemed 'cooler' to the Soviet products that were mostly devoid of marketing. Try to eliminate most biases, and people will vote with their feet. Arguably a better approach is to allow things, but in good faith educate people on how to best deal with them and why that is the right way of dealing with them. Same way a lot of parents today would explain to their children why they should stay away from cigarettes, for example, or wash their hands before having food.
> So I decided to gamble on the opposite. Now I just assume I’m below average.

> It serves me well. I listen more. I ask a lot of questions. I’ve stopped thinking others are stupid. I assume most people are smarter than me.

> To assume you’re below average is to admit you’re still learning. You focus on what you need to improve, not your past accomplishments.

I dunno, I'm not convinced this is what "assuming you're below average" really looks like. At least not all of it.

When I think I'm below average I go along with decisions I disagree with; "that's not the strategy I'd go for but you're the person who actually knows our customers" or "that's not the architecture I'd implement but you have more experience with these things". When I think I'm above average, I'll push back harder. It would be nice to get everyone on the same page, ask questions until either I'm convinced or they are, but I don't think that's always realistic.

What does Derek do in situations like that?
I was excited, until I found out how much it costs..

For some time I have been looking a small screen that would be used for displaying various information. However, I don't want to build the hardware myself as I feel that the result might not be safe for 24/7 usage.

I've been checking digital photo frames, but have not found any solution which would allow updating the image directly and without requiring reverse engineering of an app or the device itself.
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That’s a very fair point, I had not considered that.
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While it's true that the UK departure is certainly impactful to the EU, it is not going to be as simple for the UK as the EU-antagonists (I hate the word "euroskeptic") make it believe

As a reminder, Montreal was the biggest and most influential city in Canada before the independence movement and it lost a big chunk of influence even when the referendum went for No.
Agreed. Though Signal has more utility than WhatsApp thanks to its disappearing messages features.

Technological solutions only go so far when offline restrictions can be imposed. It's entirely likely that once Signal figures out username based registration & sees some traction in, Governments will just ban it.
Yes, I don't even notice it's there until there is a change and the screen blinks a bit. To maybe reference another comment, this is why I also like e-paper, no backlight needed, just an external source of light, like the Sun ;)
As an absurd example, if someone were to invent a ray-gun that reprograms people's brains with arbitrary beliefs it would be 100% unethical and illegal to use.

However, ads or fake news article that takes many exposures to reprogram you (by using the cognitive bias back channels as you mention) are perfectly fine. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I doubt it, that would be the opposite of their public message on privacy. For all the recent complaints about Apple it does appear they really do believe what they are saying in public.
Support Free software instead, and stop begging Apple for permission to control what happens on hardware you own.
Salary doesn't reflect skill level or worth to the company. It's at best correlated and shouldn't be part of this discussion.
A while back I spent a good few weeks wrangling with NestJS and various other frameworks before I came across Nexus. I managed to rebuild my entire application—all of the work I'd done over the past few weeks—in a few hours with Nexus. Perhaps it was my specific use case, or because I'm a front-end dev primarily, but it really felt like one of those "this is what I've been looking for" moments at the time, similar to how I remember feeling about Vue.js back in 2015. I really like what I see from the Prisma team and I hope I get more chances to use Nexus in future. Congratulations on the release!
I truly believe that I am very much below average in all aspects of my life, education, skillset, career, and income. That said, that still puts about 40% of the population on the left of the curve to me.
I think it started as a compromise measure to hamper down on collection of other more persistent device identifiers (through AppStore regulation) so in a way it was a step in the right direction when introduced.
The site timeouts for me, so here's a mirror : https://web.archive.org/web/20201127172327/https://www.marce...

A little older since the web archive snapshot of today are erroring out too.
A 3-floor apartment building is being 3D printed in Germany
hmmm.. What is up with that hidden NewsletterSignup checkbox? Better not start sending me emails mozilla :P
Pfizer’s CEO hasn’t gotten Covid vaccine, saying he doesn’t want to cut in line
YouTube detects upscaled videos and downscales them
Why men? Why not say 75% men, 25% women want this. And I'm sure when society becomes more equal in China, it'll be more like 50/50.
It's a political problem, which needs a political answer.

Some things should be heritage sites for everyone on the planet. How such a status is achieved and maintained, that's the political part.
Perhaps it would be efficient to to GMO palm tree that grows in wider range. Or make a yeast that can produce oil from garbage, that would be pretty useful.
The desktop app is very useful but it's mainly because there's no alternative. It's bloated, slow, under-featured. Telegram also has an electron desktop app but at least it lets me do ultra-advanced things like changing the spellchecker's language on the fly.

As somebody who's used to 100KB snappy and fully featured IRC clients I'm always baffled when I use these modern clients that use 3 orders of magnitude more resource to look and behave like a cheap clone of a smartphone SMS app, but worse.
But Tylenol’s label says a maximum of 4g per day or 8 extra strength tablets (500 mg each).

From what I’ve gathered, you can detect some liver damage as you get close to 10g per day, but we’re talking mildly elevated ALT/AST enzymes. But if you’re sick, or drink a lot or not eating, you could see serious toxicity at 200% of the maximum daily dose.
That's kind of a moot point - most Android devices are not Google's own phones, so you can't ship a reliable user experience on most Android devices.
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