skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>FB has abused our brain chemistry with addictive content. Their platform makes discussions more impulsive, passionate and careless not unlike any other addictive substance. People crave "the goods" ie browsing their bite sized feeds, and neglect the responsibility of actually learning about the news. Not unlike how if you're addicted to sugar/unhealthy foods you don't want your veggies.

Is Facebook the bad guy here? Where is examination of the person doing the scrolling?

(The following applies to adults):

Ostensibly, the person should be allowed to spend their time as they like if they're engaging in legal activity. If people thought that engaging in social media was bad for them, they would stop. Are we really saying that people cannot stop using social media? Are we saying that people don't think it's bad for them?

If people can't stop doing an activity that is definitely hurting them, don't they need professional help? Do all these social media users need professional help?

What amount of time on social media is sufficient for it to have a negative effect? Is it anything besides zero?

To be meta: if hackernews is social media and social media is bad, are we all hurting ourselves?
Or don't. None of them look like children anyway. There are a bunch of kids made up to look like adults. First time you see your kids do it it is funny, but you then lock away the makeup because it wouldn't be funny the second time just a waste of makeup.
> Oh, WebKit are absolutely not the only people doing this. Opera used to with their Presto engine, and I’m pretty sure I’ve seen a similar list in Gecko, though I can’t find it now.

This is the last (shipped) Presto one for desktop:

https://web.archive.org/web/20190204112249if_/https://github...

Perhaps more surprisingly, this continued into Chromium-based Opera (though archive.org seems not to have that, but that's the OPRdesktop directory in that repo); this was primarily down to sites with a UA string allowlist, and having to lie to get in. (Chromium-based Edge also has a means to override the UA string.)
Does the website load for anyone? Cant get it to load and pings not working.
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What ever happened to the idea that people can express their own opinions without representing their employer? It used to be that many personal blogs had a readily visible disclaimer along these lines: "Opinions expressed do not express the views of my employer."
Yep, nobody wants to talk about that.

She even has gone further, and denounced the people who wish to use her trauma to score political points. Nobody cares -- her trauma is important only insofar as it is useful to them. They think it belongs to them, not her.
I haven't worked there for a few years, but I'm 99% sure that German stock exchange in Frankfurt (https://www.deutsche-boerse.com/dbg-en) is still operating their clearing operations (central counterparty) and some others on OpenVMS/Itanium servers from HP
Java is still (as I understand it) very much a thing for EMV and possibly other smart-card applications (transport fare media?).
"user interface" is half-assed and full of traps

Welcome to Git.

And least it's a lot better than it used to be.
> natural photos don't look any different

They can! Not frequently, I'll grant. Once I was using Lightroom and was very confused by a pixelated looking edge of a yellow flower against a blue sky, the edge of which moved diagonally across the pixels. Eventually I realized it was the mosaicing! I actually ended up switching to RawTherapee for that picture, the AMaZE demosaicing algorithm handled it much better in that particular case. Lightroom in the last few years added a high quality demosaicing mode that you can selectively enable, and it handles the picture correctly. It's pretty slow though.

In any case, reporting resolution using the single-color "pixels" is probably more justified for an image sensor (with its array of square light detecting sensors), than it is for an LCD screen, which is usually a square array of non-square sub-pixels.
We're talking about microbes though.
If you look at the actual data, you will find that black box models are in fact responsible for preventing the majority of abusive content including hate speech and porn on social media platforms. Ban these models and you’d find your favorite social media platform is more abusive. Most of the racism and sexism you are concerned about comes from other humans.
Do you not find yourself to be naturally persuaded by your friends through your time and experiences with them?
I think the impedence mismatch may also be that among the Really Care group, there are those who think that people in the Just a Job crowd have a sort of moral responsibility to find a job where they Really Care.

That's, imo, an unreasonable requirement, but if you're super passionate about something, I can see why someone might see it.
This sounds like a nuanced view, but I think you have missed the point - we're using terminology that allows for us to talk past each other and that's part of the problem.

At least in my experience, the Just A Job crowd are generally _very_ vocal about their view that this is Just A Job. Their worldview is not compatible with the worldview of people who Really Care. There is a very healthy middle ground of people who (in NON CAPITAL LETTERS) both really care and for whom this is just a job, but they don't _identify_ with those as their primary worldview.
I'm not sure about that. I'd always heard about it in the context of "deplatforming" people by actively getting them kicked off whatever social media or getting them fired from a job where they can influence society. Maybe that is where the word "cancel" originally comes from for all I know.
U.S. charges three North Koreans in $1.3B hacking spree
The link you provided does not support your statement.

It is about financial scams, and not disinformation per se. Specifically it reports, "Older adults were the least likely of any age group to report losing money to scams. But when older consumers experience consumer fraud, their reported financial losses were greater than what younger consumers reported.".

They also report on the specific scams older people tend to fall prey to, namely: "older adults were more likely than younger consumers to report losing money on tech support scams, prize, sweepstakes & lottery scams, and family & friend impersonation. Phone scams did the most financial damage. And while gift cards became the payment of choice for scammers, wire transfers still take the top spot for total dollars paid.".

How did you generalize all of this into saying that "older people tend to fall victim to false information disproportionately at higher rates than younger people."? Do you have direct evidence for that?

I think we have to be careful when trying to paint an entire group of people in this discriminatory way, especially without evidence, which is probably what parent comment was getting at.
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This is only fair, the law makes little sense and there must be a solid effort to actually introduce monetization to the internet for these sorts of problems to be addressed. Arbitrarily targeting social media platforms shows a fundamental misunderstanding of the internet by lawmakers.
Like "terrorists" vs "freedom fighters" it's very much about which side you're on. And if you feel like you're about to slip into minority status, you suddenly have a very different opinion on the majority making their voices heard than you did when you were the majority.
Yes, that's what I meant and I agree it's probably not going to be reconciled in a HN thread.
The server limits the number of connections; this is likely the heaviest traffic it's seen; I've raised the limits a little to hopefully help with this.
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That seems to be torturing the trolly metaphor quite a bit when the original works perfectly fine (actually better) for this situation.
In return for the benefits of living in a modern society, you pay many prices; one of them is a cap on how much influence you are permitted to hold over others.
Ask HN: Identifying side project ideas that companies need or might buy out
Is there way to validate a side project idea corresponding to the need of existing companies that may show interest in buying them out once built?
Is there way to analyze or find what companies are interested to buy what kind of side projects?

For example: Regarding the cryptocurrency market, if there is a much more better version of coinmarketcap with great ux, etc..etc.. that makes it a better product, does any company would like to buy that out, make their own and grow it?

Or do they prefer to have an in-house team and build something from scratch.

I believe building side projects are cheaper than assembling a team

Does anyone else have a side project that you are looking for to buy? What those ideas might be?

Thanks a ton in advance. Apologize for the unstructured questions.
John Steinbeck arguably did that for your first image:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grapes_of_Wrath

It's not really apples to apples of course. Steinbeck describes much more, but also takes much more time to consume. The point though is that it's possible to convey very complex emotional states in literature or poetry
Do you also support cars only being allowed to be repaired at specific dealers, only using tires sold through the manufacturer with a 30 % cut? Luckily this is illegal in most of the world. In the EU I can change the battery, tires and oil and the manufacturer can't deny it or remove the warranty. With an iPhone i can't even have a pro technician work on my phone without Apple taking away warranty from me and calling the cops on the technician's shop for importing refurbished Apple parts. They will be either forced to open up or they will be split up in tiny unrecognisable pieces.
Avoiding getting fat was the reason I started lifting weights. Eating is so much fun. Tasting good food is one of the greatest pleasures. The only things standing between me and +50kg are Sport and MyFitnessPal.

I can absolutely relate!
Someone on HN once linked this Twitter thread and I made a point of jotting it down.

https://mobile.twitter.com/sooppressed/status/12824046471609...

I feel a real urge to say, for the record, that I don’t consider myself strongly “anti-cancel culture” or whatever, just that I understand the skepticism towards it and think that it’s referring to something that exists and at the very least has amped up since the end of the Bush administration. Although, truth be told, I doubt that’d be enough if my turn comes, and maybe all that just proves the anti-CC people’s point.
Articles of general interest are allowable in moderation.

Also, there is broad overlap between the tech and entertainment industries. Some people here have experienced the seedy underbelly of entertainment. And such stories can be very interesting because, for the most part, tech workers in those industries are involved but invisible.

Like gossip among the servants.
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> Obviously you must not be aware that Android is not the leading platform in terms of app sales.

Both are still in the range of tens of billions of dollars. If one is worthwhile the other is too. Android is also by far the leader in number of actual users, which is what matters most to companies like Facebook.

The sideloading process is harder than just installing an app. Most users do not know how to do it and have no interest in doing it.

Google does not allow third party app stores to be distributed via their app store, and I assume Apple would do the same.
Thanks, that makes more sense. Yeah in that case I agree with Dang, that topic has been argued to death already and mostly going to lead to a flamewar...
There are a lot of non-technical requirements for the Apple App Store, for instance on what an application can do with bluetooth, local networking, contacts, photos, and location data - even after the user gives access approval for them.

Another great example is the target of the Apple/Facebook spat currently - Apple has not just said that the developer needs to go through the OS-dialog approval to use the IDFA (identifier for advertising) to track users, but to do _any_ cross-organizational tracking, including using mechanisms that Apple does not have technical protections for.

Apple developer accounts involve real-world identity verification, so that (hopefully) abuse results in an actual ban of the company and people rather than just of a throwaway account.
The restrictions on FOI may be an attempt to allow the government to directly pay market rates and otherwise do the things they normally have to hide via an outsourcing partner.

Look at what happens when the Daily Mail and/or opposition MPs find out that an IT boffin is being paid more than a nurse. They stoke unjustified outrage until the hospital is forced to outsource to Crapita to hide its costs.
Because magic doesn't exist. It's not the first time humans have ever thought, "Why I'll just manage my debt by inflating my currency!" Look at Germany in the 30's. You can say that wasn't a liquidity crunch but it was in terms of non-currency liquid assets, such precious metals.
I hadn't heard of this one. That and the brexit bus/cardboard box bus SEO hacking suggestion makes something of a pattern.
Tell HN: If you are a Keybase user, you might have some crypto laying around
Like most HN users, I had a Keybase account before the Stellar space drop that happened back in September 2019 [1]. This week I checked the app and noticed that the XLM coins were still there and now worth around $600. Just a reminder for people who had forgotten about this giveaway like I did.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20919927
> "Bioethicists have discussed this for decades and understand it more than you".

To the bioethicists, ok, boomer.
Great. I only load images when I desire, and only rarely.
Consumption decisions made by individuals will never solve this problem, as it is more of a problem with labor/industrial regulation and corporate governance.
And? Thats not because "AWS" was like "OMG so smart", AWS is already well aware of this issue but lays the blame on "Shared Responsibility" and are likely annoyed that Salesforce, a partner of AWS< released this without communication.

Honestly, my guess is there was a lapse in Salesforce somewhere, where either legal or PR didn't check this because this likely goes against Salesforce and AWS NDA for their partnership. I worked as an AWS partner before, there are requirements that go into place before you can release stuff like this to the public. Plus, having worked with Salesforce as well, I assume they have a PR policy to not use the word "hacking" in tool names or description, especially in regards to partners. My company has similar rules for OSS stuff.

This was more of a bad PR / Legal issue. AWS is well aware that people misconfigure permissions...

And again... better tools and more popular tools already existed... This is not new

https://rhinosecuritylabs.com/aws/pacu-open-source-aws-explo...
It shows my email in the upper right, so it is signed in to something apparently.
RainbowForth is interesting, but unrelated to RetroForth.
Why? This is exposing people to the form of the virus for which vaccines work. What will be learned? If anything, a challenge study for some of the newer variants and vaccines might be worthwhile.
>How you can argue for less software freedoms, while paying a 30% tax for any app you distribute, is honestly mind boggling to me.

Why do you care what my preferences are? If you don't care for the iOS model, you should go buy an Android. Apple doesn't have a monopoly.

I prefer the Apple model because I want these restrictions. I want apps to be blocked from cross-app tracking. I want apps to have to explicitly spell out the type of data they collect from me, and how they use it. I don't care that I can't side load apps.

If you want a spyware phone, go get an Android.
A use case for manually unsubscribing is if you have an account on some site (say, an online retailer), and you don't want to run the risk that everything from them gets caught as spam, for example receipts or password resets that you do want to see.

Another is if you get signed up for multiple different streams of messages ("What's New!", "Tips to Get the Most out of X", "Company Communications", "Coupons", etc.) just by signing up for an account (and, as you point out, not actually opting in for any of them explicitly). Since Gmail does not always flag all of these different things as spam, it can be more efficient to go to the "unsubscribe" page and uncheck each of these streams yourself.
For the last bit: If it's suitably seamless, it's actually not that bad. I've been carrying one on my keyring, and it's just another key, only this one "unlocks" websites.
this guy gets it! the thing which annoys me the most about hacker news comments is the pedantry: "how about stop trying to kill technology you don't like" shhhhh
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The market for home backup generators and batteries in Texas sure has been booming like never before.

It might be worth following the money to see if there are decision-makers heavily invested in this type of thing.
Some of the best quarters for Nokia & co were just before they went under so that's not a solid reference point, unfortunately.
I've seen people get upset about authors from demographic group X writing about people from demographic group Y.

Apparently, that is a prerogative of only group Y nowadays.
> Facebook's statement says that news is only 4% of what is shared on their platform.

Would be interesting to know how much of the remaining content roots in those 4%. How many of the remaining posts are in reaction to news, or reactions to reactions to news. Also do the 4% include screenshots of news articles and headlines, a very common practice on Facebook.
There's an entire subreddit for sharing maps that try to draw conclusions from maps that end up just being proxies for population density: https://www.reddit.com/r/PeopleLiveInCities/
Entrepreneurs set their own hours based on their desired lifestyle, are their own bosses, and have the majority stake in their work. They are not at the mercy of anyone but themselves. I would say that falls under "employment that provides an environment for a healthy balanced life".
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You underestimate the complexity here by orders of magnitudes. You also overestimate the usefulness to news companies. You underestimate the harm that bad actors can take.

The search algorithm tells you the order of search results for a particular set of terms. Except that as input you need to feed it a graph of the entire indexed internet, which is re-indexed periodically as the content on the index changes. How does knowing that benefit new companies? What, exactly would your hypothetical full-time guy/team, equipped with that index at huge cost, tell their company that would justify the time and expense? That they should write interesting content that lots of people consume?

Second, the general approach has been published and is well documented [1], as are its susceptibilities to attack [2]. So there's your algorithm, what does it tell you?

Third, general SEO isn't the problem, it's coordinated attacks that can poison all search results / ads markets if enough detail is known. Google invests [3] heavily to address these areas [4].

Finally, you underestimate how much of a firehose you'd have to drink from. It describes all of the internet.

[1] http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank#Manipulating_PageRank

[3] https://www.quora.com/What-does-the-Counter-Abuse-Technology...

[4] https://www.blog.google/around-the-globe/google-europe/meet-...
I think it would only be interpreted that way if you don't know what LWN is?
Motivating by equity in startups is extremely misleading most of the time. You give people paper money that are extremely unlikely to have any value, even if startup has successful exit due to liquidation preferences (excluding really one of cases, of most the time good IPOs).
> Except in the real world when we see games offered in multiple places (e.g. Steam and the Epic Game Store) they are usually the same price.

Is that really true? Legitimate Steam keys are sold by stores other than Valve's Steam store, such as Humble Bundle, Green Man Gaming and Fanatical.

I shop at multiple stores that sell Steam keys, and I would say that I only buy less than 1/3rd of my games from Steam directly, due to heavy discounts via bundling and other sales at various online game stores. I find that the alternate "Steam" stores have sales more often than the official Steam store does.
You made the fatal mistake of being human in a spam-filled world.
The residential land in Quebec is still using the Seigneurial (feudal) pattern.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seigneurial_system_of_New_Fran...
Just as our pandemic is much smaller scale. On the whole, if this is a parallel, I'd rather be here than in the last go-round. Let's hope that pattern holds.
No matter how many times it gets repeated it doesn't make it true: Market share is irrelevant. You can abuse your market position at both 15 and 50% market share. A few tiny companies working together to fix prices is still illegal and punished no matter if they together are only a tiny fraction of the market. Apple is abusing it's position, no doubt about it. If you doubt install another app store or avoid the 30% tax.
He still raped a 13 year old. Why is anyone trying to defend or excuse his behavior? I don't care if Jesus came back from the dead and forgave him, it's still not OK.
There's nothing preventing Apple Pay-level security features from being integrated with 3rd party vendors like Stripe, except Apple's desire to keep 30%. It's highway robbery compared to every other payment processor's fees and has nothing to do with security, cost of operation, or doing right by users. Apple has conned users into believing that rhetoric, but it's harming developers, which are also a type of user.

No platform should ever be allowed to be the sole gatekeeper for apps on your device; that it's done for security is dishonest. And it's doubly egregious that they've tied payment processing restrictions onto it too.

I don't make mobile apps so I have no skin directly in this game, but as a user who believes my devices are my own, and as a developer too, I have to stand with my fellow developers in demanding app stores do right by the people producing apps for them.
> internet is full of horror stories

Well you have the extremism bias. Only people that are really mad at apple will voice their opinion. You probably won't hear from the thousands or more of developers who have no problem with publishing on Apple platforms. Since it's nothing out of the ordinary they don't go out of the way to comment how awesome it is to publish on there.

And also what I've seen with these stories that there is always a human from Apple App Store review involved, the conlusion often are a phone call with an apple rep or something like that. That's one of the things that's often not true in cases like Google - no humans to reach.

So true sometimes Apple pulls an app, unrightfully, like Amphetamine or etc. but they usually reach out back and you can talk to them.
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What nonsense. Apple is a business, it has no right to participate in the economy - it has to follow the rules.
I absolutely want to ban self-driving cars that behave in ways no human can explain or understand! The mere idea that anyone would think that should be legal is borderline insane.

All you are doing here is convincing me that tech companies are just runaway trains with nobody at the controls!