skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can list *many* cases where echo chambers are not a bad thing at all.

Of course this will depend on your definition of echo chamber, however, if any community doesn’t begin with “we hold certain things to be self-evident” then that community will be overrun with noise and off topic nonsense. It will be impossible to find any relevant signal.

And anyone who doubts this only needs to look at completely hands off forums to see this. They may be fun occasionally, but these are hardly useful if you’re looking for some kind of information. Im not implying you’re doing this, but many people imply that anything other than “hands off” is an echo chamber, and honestly, this is just silly.

that kind of definition of “echo chamber” is all but useless.

echo chambers are hardly inherently bad.
Srsly Risky Biz: Thursday, August 26
Hmm, https://www.cyph.com/websign-architecture the hkpk suicide bit is a beautiful hack, but is so far removed from the motivating purpose of hpkp, that i dont think you can really blame web browsers for not caring.

Although i guess im kind of surprised that worked. I'd assume that service workers could fall out of cache before hkpk at random, and then your app would just be bricked (?) Seems like a bad failure case that could just happen without anything makicious going on, but maybe i just dont understand how service workers work well enough.
The 2 leading theories are:

1) it has a floating foundation (in sand, not to bedrock), unique for this size of building in SF.

I talked to an architect once, and he acted like this would be ok. Guess not.

2) workers on the nearby tunnel "dewatered" the soil near the building. Changing the moisture level changes the resistance of the sand to weight.

Note that in an earthquake zone, soil "liquefacts" and settles, forcing water up, so it's terrifying that a large building rests on that. The building could literally plunge into the ground, or fall over during a liquefaction event.

See the videos from Kobe - waterfalls appear on top of the ground in liquefaction areas.
These days if you follow responsive design (why wouldn’t you?) you’ll never need an m. subdomain. I don’t think Wikipedia should have any less functionality or information on mobile.
This is a false equivalence. Standard Oil was at the top. Apple is clearly not. In the USA, they may very well be, but I doubt the margin is very high. https://images.app.goo.gl/hLr1zAGs7Wq5TG46A
A lawyer will say that Apple though in the lead as a brand, is still second to Android in terms of market share, no matter how fragmented the market is.

This might be the same in other western countries as well. But overall Android would still have more devices running it than iOS.
Use libunwind to debug memory leak issue
Yeah, good idea. What's the best place on the internet to find them ? (I mean if there is some community/curated list or anything else like that)
Oh, I didn't mean it as an indictment of Haiku. More just an intellectual curiosity.
There is a union, making vaccination a requirement is almost certainly a violation of their labor agreement.

Separately the damage being done by trying to coerce people to get vaccinated is so extraordinary and counter productive. We are going to see a massive return of many preventable diseases as a result of this coercion having the predictable and opposite reaction to what's intended. It's going to set back public health 50 years.
It always saddens me when people get working dogs like border collies as pets without understanding their needs. Without constant stimulation they get bored and basically lose their minds. It’s really important to know what you are getting into.

I guess the same is true for intelligent birds like parrots or ravens . Most people don’t understand the level of commitment these animals need.
They should have just stuck with Hangouts. They had name recognition, the name itself was appropriate for the service and it worked with the existing services structure.

There was no reason to depreciate it and abandon it.
Comparing everything to 1984 is so lazy.
Whose primary funding comes from Google.
> No one said it had to be easy or advisable.

Now you're making a pedantic point about a technicality instead of what's happening in real life.

> Any software that I run that I didn't write myself is subject to the license of the people who wrote it defined it to be. Even the MIT License places requirements on you for you to be allowed to use the software. Exceptions to these copyright protections have been made which extends to jailbreaking iOS devices, which requires modifying copyrighted code.

The MIT license doesn't require you to allow anyone else to scan your private data and doesn't allow the licensor to change the terms after you've already started using the software.

> All hardware is paperweight without software.

If you buy a Dell and you don't like the Dell crapware, you can remove it and the device still works just as well (if not better). If it came with Microsoft Windows and you don't like the Windows license, you can install Linux or OpenBSD. The hardware is still useful even if you don't like the license for the software it came with.

If you don't like Apple's software licensing terms, your iPhone is a paperweight.
I was going to quibble that org is an abbreviation but https://www.wordgamedictionary.com/dictionary/word/org/
Pitching to investors beyond the pitch deck
(I'm sorry - I have long since given in to this strange urge to type short alpha-numerics as hex. I can't justify it; it's habitual; and when I catch it, I always hope no-one is using a font that highlights it.)
staying out of major cities can make rent or buying a home an order of magnitude cheaper.
This is a crazy hack! I'm amazed it works.
As impressive as it was at the time (and still is), a floppy is writable.

Booting from read only media and having a fully functioning OS was completely groundbreaking. Especially when you consider how much hardware was supported without configuration.
Idk, i remember having to support IE6. That was not fun. Some churn is good.
One could just as easily suggest the opposite: that people who have gotten the vaccine, feeling even safer, will engage in more risk-taking behavior because they have the added safety.

With the absence of evidence in either direction, it is unwise to draw either conclusion.
This is a term from their own advocacy, as an alternative to much more derogatory ones. It focuses on work issues: pay and safety. The OF issue is about pay.

"Artist" might imply dilettante. "Worker" captures that they are doing it in order to get paid.
what's the rate of a given illusion working consistently across general population? Probably not high enough to make that approach work.
Masks are a bad joke. Respirators are the only thing that work with aerosol size particles and covid is well below the size that aerosols are classed at. See Edwards et al 2/23/2021 (figure 4.) for a start. Go and read the package insert on an N95 mask (the weakest kind of respirator), it warns they are not suitable for asbestos particles which are many times larger than the covid virus. Masks leak because they are impossible to seal, they don't do anything beneficial. The infection rates in schools in Florida where some were under mask mandates and others were not were identical and tracked the general community rates.
In women, they tried to go opposite way and disallow natural production that is too high.
I think that is very good (even though they say it is satire, it is good). (The end user should apply their own CSS if wanted; my idea of "meta-CSS" (not implemented or even properly defined yet) would allow the end user to conditionally apply CSS, so that for example it will only apply to those that don't have their own CSS (or whatever other criteria you might want); meta-CSS would also be the way for the user to configure media queries such as dark mode preference, etc.)

For some web pages, deleting the CSS can help, sometimes not. Perhaps the way to go about such a thing is to consider mainly HTML, also considering CSS and ARIA to fix the layout (some web pages have forms that don't work correctly when CSS is disabled, but I have seen them have ARIA; an implementation could use ARIA to fix up any forms that are broken by doing so). So, while the CSS can be deleted, it still might need to consider it for some purposes, such as checking if something should be removed or formatted differently (e.g. emphasis, fixpitch, etc; HTML can specify such things too but it is not always done properly).

(That web page does have Google Analytics, with the comment "yes, I know...wanna fight about it?" preceding it, but you can just disable JavaScripts to avoid it.)
The article is from 2017, by the way.
I always want to hear the opinions of the managed when managers make presentations about leadership. In my company there is often a huge disconnect between how managers think things are and what the managed think.
Interesting you mention these causes, they’re the topic of this interview currently on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28308970
lol, I use Teams in the browser on Debian for work as it only takes a few hours before the "Teams Preview" fat client for linux starts consuming every cpu cycle my host has available.
> Yes well thats vaguely the shape of the point I was making

So, your point is that something is bad because it's /possible/ everyone involved with it could be terrible at their jobs? If that's your point, then I can't imagine why you'd try to make it, because it applies to nearly everything in the universe of "doing things".

Similar to your original comment of "You've now made a patch that you don't understand.", you've now made a point that you don't understand.
I used to work at WhatsApp, so I'm probably biased, but I just don't see how anybody is excited about RCS.

RCS is brought to you by the carriers that can't make SMS work reliably and made MMS work even worse. The only way it's gotten any traction is because Google decided to just declare itself as the backing server by force. But as you said, how long can we expect Google to run it?

And, what does it give us? Another messaging service that I have to see if someone is on before I message them? But with easier authentication, I guess. And, since it's carrier based and maybe? falls back to SMS, I assume I could get billed for messages (especially international messages). Yay, I guess?

Supposedly RCS has an E2E spec now, but given how long it has taken to roll out how minimally it has, I would expect the E2E rollout to take even longer. Again, I'm biased, but E2E is kind of a basic requirement of personal messaging at this point.
Haha, no worries, it was just odd to see.
What your employer is willing to pay you is the lowest amount of money for which someone else is willing to do your job. That is actually just a different way of saying the same thing.

>Your argument is the same as saying my house is worth the lowest amount for which somebody else would sell a somewhat similar house, which simply ain't so.

that is exactly what your house is worth. If your neighbours are selling their homes for 300k good luck demanding a million for yours. That is in fact exactly how any market determines a price for a commodity. If everyone starts selling their shares what do you think happens to the price of yours? If you think your neighbors dumping their homes on the market doesn't determine your property value you're in for a big surprise
> Except that right now thy don't have a plausible reason to be scanning things, and any indication of something like that happening without prior expectation would be an even bigger deal than this is. Setting the expectation that this is acceptable is how you hide overstepping and abuse.

How do we know Apple isn't doing this right now? How do we know if and when they do? Are people keeping track of everything the phone sends back to Apple's servers? Is it even possible any more?

Considering Apple doesn't let you have full access to the device, the phone could do anything, encrypt the message and send it. The only way I know would be by monitoring the traffic off-device on the network all the time, which means only while on Wifi. And that wouldn't give you content, only metadata, as by then it's encrypted and you don't have the key.
"Video streaming giant Netflix had a total net income of over 2.76 billion U.S. dollars in 2020, whilst the company's annual revenue reached 25 billion U.S. dollars" [1]

Yes, they can last the way it used to be. Well, they did slightly increase the price because they were forced to spend ridiculous amounts of money on their own content, but they are doing just fine.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/272561/netflix-net-incom...
Tooth cleaning solved – just bite in this sponge toothbrush for few seconds
Would it be a bad thing if RCS didn't happen? It seems like a last-ditch effort for carriers to try and attempt to claw back some of the control they've lost. Now, I'm no fan of having dozens of messaging apps, but carriers being involved again - is that better? And also, is the RCS spec even sane? Can I use it on desktops and laptops? TCP/IP is one of the best things we still have.
Oh man HTML imports looked sweet. why was that deprecated?
My experience: we were working long hours (until 2am) trying to solve problems which were unsolvable. The end goal could not be reached. Second to that, engineering is a rather thankless job. You get nearly no feedback that your work is helping someone or helping to achieve something (as opposed to say, a doctor where the feedback to your work is very direct and tangible). What I found is that burnout isn't a particular event or a moment in time, its rather like a scale where on one side are all of the bad things in your life and on the other are all the good things. The mind can take a lot of stress, but if the scale tips too far toward the bad side the entire balance gets thrown off. It took me around two years to get out of it, but what helped was to become hyper aware of everything in my life and if it was a net positive or net negative event, commitment or activity. I tried my best to cut out all of the negative (not my job, however). I like my boss, my colleagues and I enjoy what I do. It was a temporary phase that tipped the scale in the wrong direction but we managed to regain balance in the end. Its been around 4 years since then, I'm still in the same job (with a slightly different perspective) and totally fine now. My takeaway from all of it: make sure to look at other areas of your life to find the source/solution to your burnout. For example: sport, eating well, sleeping well, taking time to clear your mind (meditation, walking, sport, whatever works for you), social activities, activities with your partner/spouse, family. This is of course anecdotal and worked for me, may not apply to everyone.
I think he intends that it can be used as a seedbox. It can be a command line switch, though.
Not really, which makes me glad I didn’t buy a playdate to use for game dev.
Every single HTTP request done by you is tracked down on the server, every single one!
Thank you so much. I have been looking for a good browser for E-Ink devices for years.

I'll also take the opportunity to mention that AnkiDroid works perfectly fine on E-Ink devices such as Nook. You don't even need root anymore, just install a launcher via ADB. I literally spend an hour every day on my Nook with AnkiDroid.
If I search for "streetcar named desire" I want a finder which says "nope, but here's the other work by {Elia Kazan, Tenesee Williams, Marlon Brando, Carl Malden, Jessica Tandy, Kim Hunter}

Oddly, I don't want "here's the abortive experimental 1970s film shot in Russia by a drug crazed student also called "streetcar"

But.. from Netflix's PoV, its equally likely I did want that because they know I watch e.g. Luis Bunel films

So.. how can they know? Answer: they can't. They simply can't get my mood right, all the time. Sometimes, they will do well and guess. Sometimes, they do really badly.

Another take: How many fans of the british "Office" wanted to be told to watch the American "Office" ?
This study by FAIR Health attempted to assess the prevalence of Long COVID from billions of US healthcare claims looking for problems that occurred 30+ days after a diagnosis of COVID-19:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/media2.fairhealth.org/whitepaper/as...
https://www.voanews.com/middle-east/pompeo-meets-afghan-tali...
IBM gleefully cooperated with the Nazis. It won’t be long until Apple is using this framework to alert the PRC about Chinese dissidents. Just to merely stay in their market.

iOS 15 effectively is the point where Apple kicks off the holocaust that they’re going to be responsible for. I hope they enjoy their place in history because they’re earning it. I’ve loved my iPhones, but there’s a warm place in hell waiting for all Apple employees involved in this endeavor.

Apple is an enemy more threatening to mankind’s freedoms than Al Qaeda ever could’ve been.
You could “just go there” and start asking questions.

I wouldn’t though, lest you be arrested like Michael Spavor.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-58168587
It doesn't need to, the server has the master key and the data it cares about is tracked on each HTTP request.
I guess it depended on which part of the open source crowd you were/are involved with. Pretty much every project I cared about back then, as far back as the mid- to late-90's, had propped up a self-hosted vcs server. I used to run a personal svn server which wasn't that big a deal to set up and nearly zero effort to maintain. Where svn fell apart was the distributed part of the equation: it worked fine for the core developers who had commit access, not so great for anyone else who wanted to contribute back. Even today there are number of projects that are still resistant to git (i.e. git, not github) and clinging to svn.
May be risking a lot of downvotes, but I really want to work for somewhere that cares about a11y for very selfish reasons - I want to use semantic html and not have to do stupid shit like using a package that re-implements the select element with divs
Well if you're speaking from an incentive point of view. The incentive of society is to keep men as docile as possible. Testosterone is not the best hormone to achieve this effect. On the other hand estrogen is quite freely given if you want to go the other way.
Giving testosterone to people dying from dystrophy would open the discussion of steroids and it would counter the narrative that steroids are the worst drugs in existence, designed to kill you the moment you take a miligram.
Can you back any of your assertions with any reference?

Other than everyone wanting the war in Afghanistan to end ASAP, every single one of your statements is.... Peculiar.
UK petrol is about £1.30/liter = $1.80/l = $6.80/US gallon. Not really enough to seriously deter driving yet.
Optimizing the monetization of attention to serve corporate objectives. Short term priorities for short term goals (quarterly earnings).

The incentive structure is functioning properly, it’s just the wrong one to build something enduring and truly great
So are you telling me, a lot of people listen when it is free, and now that people have to pay, a lot less listen? STOP THE PRESSES!
Right now most of my messaging is on SMS/MMS, so if RCS makes it less terrible, that would be exciting. Obviously if you have to check to see if somebody is on it that's a nonstarter but I assume it'll fall back to SMS/MMS, like iMessage does.
Since it's gathering dust, any chance you would be up for parting with your PinePhone? hnaccount@altmails.com
I wonder - with all the limitations being imposed on IFRAMEs, what do people do when they have a product that needs to integrate UI with other peoples websites?
The Web is the modern version of timesharing/X Windows, the owner of the application tracks down every single HTTP request and their contents.
I can't quite put my finger on a concise answer to your first why, but it has something to do with the idea that some people have that seniority and longevity allow people more room to 'call the shots'. This can be seen in the workplace, in HOA communities, government, basically anywhere there is a power dynamic.

Not saying that it is the right way to do things, but its hard to deny the presence.
Right, so build more single family home. Why would Bakersfield need condo towers and high density?
Meebo was basically my sole always-pinned tab until the day Google bought and killed it. :|
Almost no one does it, and every SaaS application knows more about you than you think.
> So many of us go above and beyond for our companies/projects/teams/whatever. The author here describes overcommitting at work. We might have the best of intentions, but at some point, we don't see the returns we yearned for and start to question what all this self-sacrificial giving is for. That is when burnout really sets in. I've had friends burn out while working for hostile or indifferent managers, startups that are trending the wrong direction, companies that engage in illegal or unethical behavior, etc.

This is me. Multiple times now. Each time I’ve joined a company, I’ve enjoyed getting to know the product and the tech. I’ve grown up to it, and then I get to a “but we could do better” point. I’m a high initiative/gullibile/naive person I think. And so then we “do better”. We go big(ish) and it’s awesome. I do so, because I can’t just do the 9-5 thing. I get into it. I want to put a ding in the small part of the universe that is that product. And 4 times now it’s been successful.

And then I wear out.

A big part of it is some combination of discovering the company and/or team mates just don’t get into it like I do. So I feel disenfranchised then (as do the few other peers that have collaborated in doing cool things). And so then I’ve been fortunate to find a new opportunity each time. As I keep track of what happens, the product runs for 5-10 more years being maintained by “don’t go the extra mile, don’t really get into it, do what the PM asks for, nothing more, nothing less” developers. And ultimately, the project/product caves. Layoffs and depressed salaries occur. Morale sucks. What was awesome and lively, like the stupid tree in that stupid giving tree book is just a sad stump surrounded by sad engineers. As I talk to these engineers, it’s never their fault. It’s always something external. They just don’t seem to realize that if you don’t keep the product thriving, it won’t keep supporting you.

Frankly I’m at another nexus like this again right now, and really struggling with what to do next. I’ve been shackled with both a very nice salary AND about as strong a guarantee as one can have that I can stay here doing whatever until I retire in 15-20 years. Ageism terrifies me.
At the core it's a matter of convenience.

When there's only one service to pay for or even two or three most people don't have a problem with paying a fee to have access to everything they want to watch.

But when there's fifteen services to pay for, even if they collectively cost less than the above example, many simply give up and turn back to piracy.
CDC study: masking not effective for school children
CDC seems to have buried the finding that masking and some other common measures don't seem to be effective for children in school. Specifically: "What was not included in the summary was the finding that many of the most common mitigation measures in schools were not effective. These measures included distancing, hybrid models, classroom barriers, HEPA filters, and requiring student masking."