skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't even need to read the article, it's money right, it's always money.

Sure he probably goes into paragraphs about other reasons or what he does with the money, but it boils down to money. The author chose to sell his/her time to an advertising company. Thats OK, we all need to work. But I dont need a blog post from them to justify their choice, they arent making me think more of them. They might make themselves feel better but it boils down to they chose to do something not great for more money, than choosing something more worthwhile for less money.

The sad bit is the amount they would earn not in advertising probably would not be much below what they currently earn. But they still made that choice and they have to live with it.
We must learn the newspeak, or its to room 101 with us all! /s (it's an Orwell reference)
They're mostly self-sufficient for food, and then have some revenue from tourism (with lodges, etc) and state employment (civil servants working for the schools, town hall, forestry service, etc).

It's not a high income community and there's a lot of unemployment, but it's not like people are just sitting there waiting for money to fall from the sky.
Never really used the chat feature extensively. I can not recommend it either way, since they are censoring groups like the DEFCAD community. Given the acquisition by Zoom and Keybase's unmonetizable nature, I doubt it will be around for long.
Yeah, after developing on linux for the last 17 years or so I would never go back.
Yes. Your private keys are not stored on their servers unless you hand them your private keys for PGP (specifically).
Do you really need top tier engineers?

Top tier firms pay lots of money for engineers because they expect them to have specialized knowledge, ability to deal with global scale, business intuition and communication skills to identify and drive large scale projects.

If your company can fully utilize all those skills, those engineers can easily bring in revenue at multiples of their cost.
> Anyway, this game of (ha)Tetris is a lot like a lot of people's lives, just roadblock after roadblock.

They should make a multiplayer version where you could pass the pieces you don't like to other players!
You have two stories, and in both stories, the protagonists are immigrants who prospered when they immigrated to the land of opportunity. They had the ability and willingness, but just didn't have the opportunity.

This is different from people who have been living in the land of opportunity for multiple generations. They have had the opportunity, so that is not the limiting factor. Often it is ability and/or willingness that are limiting factors.

Nevertheless, such rags to riches stories can be found here too: Larry Ellison and Steve Jobs both grew up poor (and were both adopted) but became rich in a single generation.
Yes, I still use it for some chat and I have some personal configuration stored in encrypted git repos. Does anyone else offer encrypted git repos with as little overhead?
This is excellent news. Detection of abundant ET civilizations would be the worst news ever received, as it would imply the Great Filter is ahead of us.
Minimalist List and Task Manager
This is an excellent point, and I think this comment thread would have much less negativity if everyone asked themselves this question.

But then they’d have to own up to the nauseating idea of callously dismissing some truly spectacular sea changes, such as failing to buy 1000 Bitcoins for a few dollars in 2009. I think most people are too full of envy to do that.

How many can honestly say they kept an open mind to the handful of such paradigm shifts we’ve experienced in the last 20 years?
> BP was paid around $65 billion

That's "BP paid", I believe.
Even at places that "do it well" it usually ends up being a massive time sink. 30 Minute daily standups, hour long sprint plannings and retros. Its hours of time lost each week.
> The author jefftk is getting unfairly downvoted maybe because cynics just see it as a version of, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."

It reads a lot like that.

Jeff posits that advertising is competing only with paywalls and brushes aside hobby work, people producing content for the pure benefit of it, as if that is not impacted.

If I produce something creative with real value as part of a hobby, I know there is a high chance it will be copied/stolen by a slick advertiser who will then out-compete me.

So, I'm net less motivated to participate in the whole system of creating content.
It doesn't matter if you fetch 300 cycles in the future, you'll eventually saturate cache bandwidth.

It's worth noting that the M1 has a reorder buffer of more 600 micro-ops, which essentially means it can be 600 instructions in the "future" (it's only the future from the point of view of instruction commit).
If "The alternative of paying $9.99/year for Youtube" was really an option - I would buy it for at least 4 kids I know, and two adults that need it, to remove the horrible ads, especially on mobile.

Get me started on the ads that come with play store apps and "free games".

however at $12/month that would be $864 per year to help them. I would jump at $60 / year for 6 people.. heck that would save me on comcast overages several months of the year.

We still pay for some searches by paying the ad costs of the places we spend money, but that's another thing to figure.. $120 / year for search? I doubt my clicks amount to that for any advertiser. I'd pay 20 for ad free, zero tracking searches, but not 100.
Elm has `Debug.todo`. If you were to use this, it allows your app to compile in development but the app would crash should it hit this code.

Elm's compiler will prevent you from creating a production application with a `Debug.todo` still in place.
> each one more inaccessible than the next.

This is a little off topic, but: I've always been curious about this rendering of this idea. If each thing is more _____ than the next, then the first thing is the most _____ in the set. It's not particularly impressive, really! You just have an ordered set and you saw the exemplar first.

Conversely, "each more _____ than the last" implies that wherever you started, it's just going to keep getting more and more _____. That's surprising! It's a new discovery each time.

...do I have this wrong? Does anyone have an explanation for why some people prefer 'than the next'?
I layered S pieces horizontally across the bottom and then it gave me a long piece.
Deleted my account on the day of the Zoom purchase. It's a shame, I liked some of the features.
> They cultivated a workforce that was more concerned with airing political grievances than they were with the success of the company. The second the politics were shut down, a third of their employees walked out.

That is a very inaccurate retelling of the story: https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/3/22418208/basecamp-all-hand...
Why use punishment when a 10 week course on correct English usage would suffice :-) Since you are the king in that epoc, you could make it mandatory!
You're in luck, the New York Times wrote an amazing piece on this exact topic:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/health/pfizer-coron...
Covid-19: Complaints after England booking site reveals vaccine status
Pretty much. Water is the enemy of any construction.

A farm near where I grew up had a big barn, built in the 1700s that was in daily use until the mid 80s. Due to a family/inheritance dispute, maintenance ceased in the 90s. At some point, the roof leaked and that set in motion things that resulted in collapse last year.
NY AG's office says ~18M of 22M+ comments on net neutrality in 2017 were fake [pdf]
I found it interesting that the first thing he says to defend his work with ads is that he gives money to charity. If you feel like you need to donate to charity to justify your actions, maybe your actions are evil? There has to be some level of guilt involved in that decision, at the very least.

Which is to say, I don't blame him for what he does. If someone dangled all that money in my face I can't say I wouldn't be tempted to take it, even if people call me evil.

However, the mental gymnastics to write an article like this does bother me. It's the same stuff probably everyone else in ads and other evil industries does to justify their actions. Reading something non-satirical like this makes me feel less good about the world.
You mean before they discontinued it last September? As the name suggests, it was a temporary taxable benefit. Unfortunately we don't have a UBI in Canada yet.
Is it better if those corrupt bureaucracies use coal instead, thus necessitating the consumption and handling of around 1000000x as much fuel?
Google will soon switch on two-factor authentication by default
How does one maintain a website that hosts graphic content while overcoming the significant challenges of doing so?

Immediate thoughts being keeping the site apolitical, unbiased, moderation, suppression of content, and the list goes on and on from there.

Did anyone hear about the lawsuit filed against borderland beat allegedly filed by a cartel founder?
https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2020/nov/09/ticker-borde...

http://www.borderlandbeat.com/ somewhat serves as proof of concept for the risks in hosting unpalatable content. Threats of lawsuits, reporter risks, and even downstream effects of these articles inspiring American vigilantism at the border.

It's never been a great idea to have an entire nation living in a bubble of ignorance - yet - the challenge of popping that bubble while remaining unbiased has yet to be overcome imo.

edit: at the risk of sounding silly; from nowhere else but the Watchmen: 'who watches the watchmen?'
It seems like a pretty big leap from "There are aspects of this that don't add up to me" (neutral) to "enabling facists".

I tend to view everthing with a degree of skepticism, and I tend to reject the idea that there are subjects that are "off limits" for critical evaluation.

I'm not sure how that's enabling fascism. It seems like it would do the opposite, no?
This is so common in SV, you are just being arrogant and salty in general, because people are showing how dumb, privacy unfriendly, and dangerous this product is, it has nothing to do with envy. Using Dropbox as an example is even worst, thats like saying "X celebrity is famous and smoke weed, then if I smoke weed, I will be famous". PG is clearly biased and he is just trying to get a return on his investment, thats all, and if he needs to hype this product to make money he will. People are not dummies, if the product is meant for the general public and not the HN crowd, then start a Google Ads campaign, or get in the Tonight Show or something.
> I have a more charitable interpretation. My impression is that the author is dealing with an ethical dilemma that most of us have not had to contend with, and that this essay is an attempt to resolve it.

That's a good point and I agree that the essay does attempt this. But with opening his piece by letting us all know about his huge income and hefty charitable donations, I felt rather overshadowed the rest of his arguments.
To be fair, these could also be symptoms of burning out or an otherwise toxic work environment, in which case changing job may be a part of the healing process. Unfortunately, people who suffer from depression will often need outside help to actually go through such a change.
See this article https://www.forbes.com/sites/clareoconnor/2014/04/15/report-... as the most previously quantified and discussed example.

Article title:
Report: Walmart Workers Cost Taxpayers $6.2 Billion In Public Assistance
I still use it for its identity features, but I switched chat over to a Matrix instance. To be honest, the timing of the acquisition wasn't good -- it came at the height of the Zoom/China FUD, and given that Keybase attracts security-minded users, it was a recipe for diaspora.
> this may have been an opportunity for OP to provide some insight into how the adtech market is evolving, and make the case that it is headed in an ethical direction. He did not

There's a section of post with "build browser APIs that will allow this kind of well-targeted advertising without sending your browsing history to advertisers, and then get rid of third-party cookies"; I'm curious what you think of it?
Funny you should mention the Big Lie...[0]

https://www.donaldjtrump.com/desk/desk-y8ggkc94j3106/
Not surprised. I gave it a shot early on, but it just wasn't for me. Listening to a bunch self-proclaimed "thought leaders" tell almost biblical tales about their struggles that lead to their dubious success, followed by an "ok, let's reset the room" and then a bunch of back patting about how great and positive the group is, and then starting over again was just cringe inducing and painful.

The ONLY Clubhouse use I found actually interesting was when the developer behind Hacking with Swift used it to hold mock iOS developer interviews, inviting attendees to step up and try to answer a mock interview question.

Of my friends who Clubhouse did appeal too, many were hooked for a couple of weeks. Today none of them use it at all anymore. The consensus is generally "it was interesting at first, but now it's really boring."
He's a marketing genius for being able to sell garbage to fools. I'll give him that
> The medium doesn't allow for stalking.

Huh. Are you sure? I don't know anything about how podcast advertising works, but it sounds like you're assuming the full audio track, complete with ads, is the same everywhere and always.
grr.. I felt stupid going through the puzzle.. but I was looking at that flushHeaders call and thought that might be a problem - simply because I never call that.
I think that we're going to need a bigger space elevator, then.
I agree with statement "Hard deadlines for some sort of fix or workaround do exist". Key being get this done before CEO's big presentation or hard code something or CEO doesn't demo this feature. The point is no one dies if CEO doesn't demo it or feature is not complete by earnings call. Earnings call is known event, one should have better planned for it.

And that bring me to people literally dying because of bugs in software like in cars or medical devices etc. That might be one time where I would have no problem sacrificing my family time for getting bug fixed. But most other situations are just artificial and deserve no extra stress.
It's funny, in the past about 99.999999 percent of the time ads never interested me. I think I might have clicked one in a decade.

Recently, just from my youtube subscriptions I think, my youtube ads have been surprisingly relevant, for things like cnc routers or various embedded tools or what not -- ads that are actually for things I might be interested in buying. (Granted there's still a ton of obnoxious get rich quick schemes that I have to skip).

I have to admit, seeing ads that actually are of interest to me does change my mindset on advertising a little bit. I still find it super creepy being tracked, and I'd like the ability to know what they know about me, and erase it if I don't like it (is that even possible?), but it is kind of nice to get ads that don't suck if I have to sit through ads.
Is the contract market lucrative? I have never gotten the impression it was
They probably used yaml for their config...
Sometimes worse off, some aren't. There are different challenges to both models. I was more pointing out that many fast food places aren't exactly a real part of a big international chain, but rather some folks that are paying to use the name and menu. None of this changes my main point, though:

If you cannot pay your employees a living wage, you should not run a business.
I can't stop myself from smiling while playing, this is hilariously tricky
Yeah, I have absolutely less than zero interest in starting my last company again. That was hard, and I had no idea all of the problems I was going to run into.

I'm super excited to start my next thing, though, which is surely going to be way easier! ;)
During the time we need leaks more than ever, they shutdown what?
First, let me say I mostly agree with you that storage speed is more important for application launch speed than CPU or RAM.

I have an nvme ssd which gets around 450MB/s according to dd, a Ryzen 3900x (12 cores, 24 threads) and 64 gigabytes of RAM.

That being said, IntelliJ Community edition, installed as a snap, takes 24 seconds to get to splash screen, 57 additional seconds for the splash screen to disappear then another 35 seconds before the first text appears in the IntelliJ window (it's a blank gray window before that) for a grand total of 1 minute and 56 seconds of startup time.

Some things are just unreasonably slow despite absolute beastmode hardware.
To be clear, according to his LinkedIn profile (https://www.linkedin.com/in/iancutress):

<<Academically I have obtained a doctorate degree (DPhil, aka PhD) from the University of Oxford>>

It does not say he is/was a professor. (Please correct me if wrong.) Still, a PhD from Oxford is an amazing achievement!

And, yes, I also enjoyed that bone-dry humor about enquiry about size of fingernail...
That poor devil. The communists took good care of him. He doesn't talk loud anymore.
There are ways to implement 2FA in ways that respect people's privacy[1], and I hope Google chooses to do that instead of (the sadly more likely scenario of) choosing ways that get even more information on their users, like requiring users to run Google apps or give Google their phone numbers.

[1] - Such as what FastMail used to do, which is to let their users print out a set of single-use random words which could be typed in along with the user's password when they log in.
Damn nature will really use any source of free energy it can huh
I personally have experienced NFT cartels first hand and would love to expose it. From pay to play propositions by a “NFT artist” that’s sold millions in NFTs for an invite to an invite only NFT marketplace, promises of $x/month in sales, to a prolific “NFT collector” on Twitter confirming being part of the whole scam by retweeting me upon request of the artist to verify the authenticity of it all.

From what I gather no one gives a shit, and their attitude seems to be we can buy off anyone who challenges us. The irony is the same people shaking me down for Bitcoin in exchange for an invitation to the marketplace/inner circle successfully have collectively called for for banning/suspending of accounts from various NFT marketplaces openly on Twitter.

Anyone here in media want to do a story?
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Being actually-correct about one's historical analogies and still making them work (or even finding that they don't! Gasp!) is harder than repeating "common knowledge" tales or fudging things to fit your narrative while writing with the same bold voice you would if you were actually-correct.

Not to pick just on PG—that's more common than not, really.
It wouldn't happen at once.

I wonder whether the gradual switch would need to be made possible through something similar to a micropayment subscription model, which is non publisher specific.

I don't want to commit to subscriptions for 5+ publications, but I'd happily buy a days access occasionally. This feels much more akin to buying a newspaper in the old world.

I think we'd end up seeing positive changes. Especially the end of content producers being held to ransom by advertisers and commercial pressures.
Information is not passively processed by the brain!

The cost of advertising is not your attention; it is your perception. Advertisements fundamentally alter your perception of the world in favor of whatever the advertiser is showing you. You are choosing to have your view of the world shaped in a way that may change your behavior. Note that this change occurs on an emotional level and cannot simply be discarded by your rational mind even if you don't believe / care about the ad at a conscious level.
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extra surprising given how Falun Gong have been treated in China, including being killed en-masse and having their organs harvested (sounds like a conspiracy theory; it isn't - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_harvesting_from_Falun_Go...).
TIL https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Main_Page
Benefits play a large part, and many of the costs for logistics (such as bringing in materials by helicopter) are subsidised.

As far as industry goes, there is none. Activities are limited to tourism and hospitality (it's a famous destination) and farming.

Until 2019, each inhabitant was producing their own electricity with solar panels, but since then they are experimenting with a "micro-grid" to try to manage this resource in a collective way.
"Most of the websites in Norway and elsewhere did not know they were sharing users data through Disqus."

Not to sound too clever, but I would assume if I embed a third party on my website, all bets are off considering privacy/data flow. Only the biggest services with the biggest publicity like GA have rudimentary privacy (opt-out, IP anonymization).
> The ads. Aren't. The problem. The stalking is.

My primary work is on https://github.com/WICG/turtledove (discussed in the post), which allows well-targeted advertising without sending your browsing history to advertisers
kotlin has TODO("reason")
switched to self-hosted synapse and element as client
There is no such thing as "correct English usage". There is only "English usage that adheres to the expectations of the listners". It's always been this way in English and it would take authoritarian social controls (not language controls) to change it.

In other words, to quote Cheryl Tunt, "You're not my supervisor!"
Ok, what is the actual ethical issue? Who are Google and Facebook hurting with their ad targeting and data collection?
>>"Recent case in point: public health authorities telling the public that masks are useless and even harmful during the pandemic (presumably to avoid shortages) and then reversing their stance when masks became abundant."

I agree with your general point, but my interpretation of those events has additional axis:

1. Masks are in shortage, and may not protect you, and public doesn't know how to use them and will probably do more harm than help by reusing and handling and touching their masks

Then as time passed and we learned more

2. This is getting bad; even if masks don't save the person wearing them, if it helps others, we are at a point where we need all the help we can get. Please wear masks to help slow the overall spread.

While there's definitely part of the complex factoring of the recommendation that masks became more abundant, I feel initial message was "Crappy masks won't save you" and later message "Crappy masks won't save you, but may save others from yourself"

98% of people I talk to don't understand that surgical mask / cloth mask will do extremely poor job of protecting them; but may protect others. (it also adds an axis of complexity for those who don't want to wear masks because they feel they have the right not to protect themselves, because that's not what mainstream masks are for; it's not about wearing a helmet or not to protect your own head; it's about protecting heads of those around you)
Here’s an example survey on the explosion of plant ownership during COVID: https://eurekasurveys.com/research/preview?id=jUyw8VHKTToQWw....
Full demo here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaNu2Brbrkg.

Looks like there’s an opportunity for some sort of app that reminds people to water their plants!