skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not defending Google or dude above, but at this point I really can't blame neither Google nor people working there. Almost everyone in a position to affect change is well aware of this and everything morally reprehensible either Google, Facebook, Apple, Reddit, TikTok, Twitter, Snap, Medium (add like 20 more) does.

Complaining about companies will change nothing as long as there are people using them. Whenever the privacy topic comes up a few people come back with I have nothing to hide, or it's too difficult to figure out which is good, or my life is busy and I can't focus on that, or it's all fucked might as well just install cameras in my shower. All this means is that: a lot of people don't care or are too nihilistic to want to change, and neither of these groups deserves sympathy.

If you still use Gmail, you don't get to complain that they scan your email, or use it to sell you stuff, etc... If you use Alexa you don't get to complaint that they might be using other trigger words to register interest, or that your parrot ordered something by mistake. These companies have been making their position on all of this extremely well understood over the last freaking decade.

If you're in a position to let someone who's genuinely not aware of this and still uses Google, you can maybe consider telling them, if they change then that's a net positive on the side of humanity, if they don't then it's on them.
To be fair to OP, Apple makes it dead easy to see how much the IAPs are for a given app (in the case of this one, $2.49 monthly or $24.99 yearly).
You could do the same thing about cigarettes and cheeseburgers too. The problem is that it’s inherently a regressive approach where the brunt is borne by the lowest income classes.
That's quite a disingenuous way to describe the situation.
Without ZEV credits, the polluters would keep on polluting.

With ZEV credits, the polluters, for now, keep on polluting, but they have to subsidize the development of clean automotive tech, and fund their own competition. This is definitely a good thing, and give them a big incentive to stop polluting (as much) so they can stop paying for those ZEVs.
In my understanding, this was much a vehicle for what figures as the mystical in the Tractatus: spiritual insight, personal revelation, faith and believes, ethics, internal evidence. If we can't share or even show them, how do we arrive at any consent? How are they even a thing between us?
amazing author IMO. came out of nowhere, wrote very little, kubrickian in that he doesn't want to repeat himself, idea quality is astounding in that his ideas are new, influential, and fully formed. You can read true names every 5 years and still be like 'oh that piece came true'.

Rainbow's End is the icing on the cake.

Everyone has N novels in them, maybe he just reached N.
I dont understand why people get so defensive when it comes EV vs Fuel vehicles. My friend who is an asian immigrant working in Idaho, experienced quite a bit of friction when he announced that he bought a Tesla.

Their major argument constituted how the tax benefits paid by US citizens were going for a Tesla owner (in this case being an immigrant.)
The problem with Remdesivir is that it's often administered way, way too late. If someone's oxygen is at <90% and they're about to need a ventilator, there's already so much viruses in their system, so much inflammation, and so much cell death that stopping new viral reproduction is too little, too late.
>"- A system that starts with our database schema

- a language in the front-end that abstracts away server connection and db access"

Optimal data layout for storage and for processing / presentation can be quite different. Automatically mapping one to another I think can not be efficiently implemented in automatic fashion. I've tried different frameworks that claim to achieve it but at some point you always hit the wall. As a result I've long abandoned all those attempts and do manual transformation in code that are optimal for my particular situations
> Also.. SaaS with next? If you're building a SaaS application, you're probably building an API first and an application second. You probably don't want to entangle this API with your frontend, even though you can.

Oh no, someone tell rauchg and the rest of the Vercel team that they've not only built a terrible framework (next.js) but their using it to build Vercel is also bad because checks notes IceDane on HN said nobody does this.
This is why the new hot thing in mechanical keyboards is gasket mounting and PCB relief cuts. There is some progress happening here.

A good desk mat helps too.
The second one.

So that whole "be your own bank" concept is a constraint to good UX?

Do you think it's possible for that paradigm to change? Where it's just as easy to work with crypto?

Is it a matter of not enough UX expertise or is it a tech issue?
My mind is spinning with these carbon credit things right now.

You can trade them! Like a stock market!

If /wallstreetbets started buying all these up (not sure of the supply right now), they could fleece dirty industries.
The easiest approach is to remove the billions (nearing trillions) in annual fossil fuel subsidies. People fight against subsidies to clean energy, forgetting how much more flows into an industry that is killing us.
This might be off topic, but the illustrations in the article are nice! Crux really did a good job there.

In regards to the actual article: as someone who primarily works in higher abstraction level languages (Java, .NET, Ruby, Python, ...), i find it really nice that i can spend more time thinking about domain/business concepts and problems, instead of worrying about the lower level concerns. My hat's off to the people who valiantly work on the lower levels of the stack.
>"I'm under no legal, ethical or moral obligation to look at anything"

That would depend on you moral theory of choice; applying Kantian (deontological) moral theory, your behavior violates the principle of 'universalizability'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kantian_ethics
When it’s not Electron/Web: wHy nOt an eLEctRoN wEB aPp

When it’s Electron/Web: wHy nOt nATivE

When it’s iOS: wHy nOt aNDroId; 80% oF tHe wOrLd

When it’s Android: i pErSoNALly prEfeR iOS fOr tHe UX

Maybe I should take a break from HN
Screenshots doesn't scale properly and destroy all information about text (not that PDF stores text properly, but at least PDF readers succeed with various tricks to recover it).
Having been fairly close to the Derby.js project I'd guess that the difference between it and just using React and a web API just isn't that much in reality. Live updates of data isn't something most applications need (and very few parts of those that actually do). The added complexity is not to be underestimated, and there are some things inherit with live data which makes it more complex. What happens when one piece of data updates at an unexpected point in data, half-way through a method where you process something? Plus you still have the difference between backend and frontend, just that now it's more difficult to understand where and when what is run where under what conditions.

Then specifically for Derby/Share JS they didn't put enough resources into the project to make it good enough compared to the alternatives.
It kinda doesn't feel like a Steinbeck book, really, but it's not a bad read, for what it is.

(someone DV'd my original post, at some point, and I'm not sure if this is why [maybe it was for some other reason entirely] but I intended my use of the term "propaganda" in a descriptive, neutral sense—that's what it is, and what it was intended to be)
From his perspective Windows and Linux are equally open in that he can have his own marketplace in each.
Huge Privacy Issue With PayPal Twitter Tip Jar
Some of my favorite aspects of capitalism are when incentives align people toward things that are also in the public interest in addition to the private interest of the company.

Another historical example that comes to mind were some train companies lobbying to end segregation because they didn't want to run separate cars/routes for different groups.

Another thing that isn't really an example of this are the bodegas in DC (often run by immigrants) selling both trump and hillary hats (or whatever current political battle is going on) to the public - arguably that could incentivize divisiveness, but for some reason seeing those stands meeting demand without caring about tribalism makes me smile.

Tesla is kind of an outlier here though, in that Musk's motives were in the public interest more than the private interest at the start (accelerating adoption of alternative fuels) - so in this case the private interest is in service to the public one and not incidental.

[Edit]: I know it's poor form to complain about downvotes, but what I assume must be politically motivated downvotes on this are lame.
Tobacco firms were notorious for expecting their employees to be tobacco users.

My mom was a sales clerk for Macy's and one of her friends was a sales clerk there who later became a tobacco company rep who went to convenience stores to manage the marketing displays.

She smoked like a chimney. After my dad died and her friend got divorced, her friend moved in a for a while with my mom and got my mom smoking again. My mom hid it from everybody and we found out only after she died from a cardiovascular event because we found a pack of cigarettes, one half-finished, in the cupboard.
Emails today work as receipts. I once had an issue with amazon where I bought a hight value item (relative to my usual buying pattern), and they silently cancelled and deleted it. When I contacted support, they first said if it's not in my orders list, then I never ordered it. Then I showed them a screenshot I have taken from my phone previously, with the order number, and they said it was from an account that does not belong to me. It took multiple calls to support over a few hours for them to finally admin that they deleted it.

They can fix their privacy issues on their platform, I want my email receipts.
Yeah, that video was primed for clickbait. The picture of the repair bill they showed was from 2019 for a completely different car. Both Rossman and Rich Rebuild’s channel are complicit.

There’s always more to the story.

https://twitter.com/petteri_bergius/status/14384521225263104...
This is true. In fact many larger companies will automatically delete any resume with a photo, regardless of your fit for the role.

This is because they'd like to avoid any liability for any kind of bias, so they make it an across-the-board policy.

Source: I'm a recruiter and have worked with over 400 companies, of which about 20 have this policy.
That's really a separate issue, which has to do with a combination of enough zero carbon electricity generation, distribution, and storage.

Though, I do wonder: Are there egregiously ineffecient electric vehicles currently on the market?
Sounds like a quote from The Diamond Age: https://www.google.com/search?q=the+diamond+age+hypocrisy
A lot of things in my life have changed in the last thirty years, but one thing that has not is late nights and lost sleep (and angry/confused roommates, girlfriends and wife) due to a Civ obsession.

I've played every version on the Mac, and VI is my favorite so far except for some of the cheezy quotes that accompany tech discoveries. And it's horribly buggy and slow.

Nevertheless, here I am thinking about the game I started last week but paused reluctantly to participate in real world civilization.
Apple does, but the product's website does not. As the above poster was pointing out: if the product is worth paying for the Op should make that clear.
> The higher the cost of fuel, the less people are killed by cars.

Not if your goal is to move from ICE to EV. Just because it's an EV, doesn't mean fewer people are "killed by cars".
Ask HN: Will all this anti-FB coverage amount to anything in the long-run?
It seems every once in a while, Facebook becomes the target of a lot of negative attention. It causes an outrage here, on reddit, on twitter. But overall, most people I know don't know or if they do, shrug their shoulders and keep scrolling on their feeds and checking their 'Like' counts.
>That’s funny, I wondered why Amazon order emailed sucked so hard lately. Thought it was just them being dumb.

It's the opposite.

Amazon wants you to click back into the store to buy things. One way to do that is forcing you to view orders in the store instead of your email inbox. They care more about that than Google seeing your purchase history.
Agreed but only if we subsidize low income earners.
>which means...you won't be playing by the rules

No, it means the rules will be changed.
Any insight as to how you managed to get rid of the track worms in your grey? We're still battling that here and nothing seems to last.
Yes it would and also inflation. Goods would cost more which would be another whammy. We should boost the tax credits for new EV purchases. And maybe extend to your first used EV purchase too.
>These companies have been making their position on all of this extremely well understood over the last freaking decade

I don't think that's fair. These systems are extremely complex. I work in the user privacy space for a company you've heard of, and I can't say that people don't care. I think they don't understand. They don't understand that these companies have PhD educated ML data scientist getting paid outrageous salaries mine your behavior and influence it. I will never, ever blame the user for being exploited. I will always blame the people who continue to work on these systems, because these systems are evil.
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Have you seen that advertisements that traditional OEMs and dealers run? Have you visited a dealer?
offset it with more tax credits for lower income
so? I say this to point out that if they're doing something that is to be deprecated there's nothing wrong with disincentivizing it, so long as we keep helping them get their needs met or towards self sufficiency.

For example nothing wrong with doubling tax on gas if we also improve public transit.

My main point is that regressive, nor disincentivizing the poor are wrong things to do if they're causing issues for society.
> Meanwhile i just waste those 20minutes on Hackernews.

Practically every "productivity hack" is less effective than simply dropping all lowish-value Web browsing and doing almost anything else instead.
Apple Wallet Will Be Able to Store Covid-19 Vaccination Cards
You have a typo on the landing page.

"Learn from the past an become a smarter person today"
Really agree with this. The whole "trying to do 8 projects at once is actually a coping mechanism because it lets you lie to yourself more easily about how little you can really finish" was a light bulb moment for me
> If you’re adult-sized, it’s nearly impossible the keep the shoulders in a natural, pulled-back position while typing on a keyboard.

I have to disagree with this.. I'm 6'1 and had bad posture for most of my life. I had the same issues with pain that you describe. But recently I've put a lot of work into it having better posture and I don't have any problems anymore. You just need the right desk/chair height and sit up straight without resting your back on the backrest.

Something like this is really helpful: https://www.amazon.com/Posture-Corrector-Men-Women-Truweo/dp...

If you've never put effort into having good posture then you probably don't have the muscles that you need. Doing yoga, or any kind of core exercise, is also really helpful. I can't tell you enough how much better I feel having built up some real core strength. I used to hurt my back all the time but that never happens anymore!

Just my $.02 :)
When you can buy 2 everyday keyboards for 30 euros in total it's difficult to justify the shocking prices of split/mechanical/ergonomic keyboards.

I could buy an ErgoDox but it feels too much like a status symbol rather than a working tool.
I mean, it's always been a bit mind blowing to me that companies relied on client-side processing for their business models to work.

It seems like server-side, dynamically generated static content would have at least been explored more than it seemingly has.

I always assumed this was what Google was always trying to eventually get to with AMP.
> a dozen different kinds

This is a vast underestimation. There are now hundreds of Cherry MX compatible clones, many of which are considered better than Cherry's original designs.

For example, I'm typing on a switch called the Gazzew Boba U4T, which is much more tactile and sharper than anything Cherry has ever made.
Kenisis is in the process of launching a refreshed, split version of the Advantage. They have some teaser images on their Twitter.

But they also have more conventional split keyboards (though you can also buy a 90 degree tenting kit to make them weirder again)
They're using the 2nd layer lightning network, fees are not an issue.
> People wake near sunrise.

I found it surprisingly difficult to find data. Not just data for or data against, but any data at all. What little I found organized by month seems to accurately show the percentage of the month typically on vacation (so people sleep later on average in August than September, or they sleep a lot later in Dec than in Oct due to holidays, at least in the north hemisphere).

I theorized that regardless of DST people would wake up later from June thru Nov (DST starts in Nov where I live). Unfortunately the graph shows the opposite trend of people tending to wake up on average almost 4 minutes earlier in Oct than in Sept. Or in spring our DST ends in March, so I expected people to wake up earlier in May than in April, but its the other way around by five minutes.

I'd theorize if required wake up times strictly followed solar elevation, then something like a graph of car accidents vs time of day would vary greatly by month, but it doesn't seem to in what little data I could find. "Most dangerous time to drive" graphs seem to imply evening rush hour is a little more than twice as dangerous as morning rush hour so that would seem to imply morning wakefullness problems are statistically insignificant.

(Edited to note: I'm not insisting you're wrong, but I am insisting I can't find much of any data on the topic, maybe you are right but nobody knows for certain...)
The language itself was a really interesting halfway point between typescript (near JS syntax) and purescript (stronger type system), before either existed. Plus some extra goodies thrown in.

It's really too bad they bound it so tightly to the framework, as I think there's a chance it could have succeeded as a language in itself. But these reactive shared-code things never seem to work out.
When my ISP decides to replace DNS traffic I call it a MiTM. I happen to be technical enough to fix it. Many of my friends are not.
"time off death for survivors". Wow, what a sentence
Would any of the 3+ people that dislike what I said like to explain why or is it more, like, "THE WAY YOU SAID IT", that is rubbing you faggots the wrong way :P.
Well, maybe dystopian SciFi turns out to be not as much fiction as we had hoped ;-).

Ubiquitous surveillance together with artificial intelligence are probably one of the most powerful tools for authoritarian regimes you can imagine. They already have the physical power to hurt their opponents, now they also know exactly where they need to apply this power to keep themselves at the helm and quash any resistance before it can get too organized. And the artificial intelligence doesn't need to be all that intelligent if you have enough data, it's not as if authoritarian regimes would care if they locked up a few more people than required.
I remember Google went through much the same process with their own private server kernel fork.
Ivermectin has been shown to be highly effective against hookworms [1][2] and so far no parasites seem to have developed any resistance to it. Curious that it's not on the list of drugs approved for treatment of hookworm in dogs in the US.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2723924/ [2] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6897345/
gRPC for Microservices Communication
One thing that amazes me is how many of even the most-effective people I know seem to spend multiple hours a day doing low-value web browsing. Is it actually impossible to avoid that temptation? Or are there people who manage it but they're just living in a different world than I am?
My brother is a HS student. I once listened in on an online class of his where students were asking the teacher their doubts. Indeed, many of his classmates don't understand directory structures.

Multiple kids also didn't understand the concept of a "zip" file because on windows explorer it opens like a normal folder, and windows hides file extentions by default, so it appears almost identical to a normal folder, but contained files (obviously) can't access other files in the zip file (which the kids mistook as a "folder").
No inside information, but from what I glean reading between the lines in various podcasts, books, etc. this tech has been used already in Afghanistan & Iraq by US special assets. I would expect it is in use elsewhere in the intelligence community. If so, that's all fine with me provided it doesn't become a warrantless tracking method employed by DHS/FBI either directly or indirectly.
This is a good point.

What about poorly designed protocols / projects then? I am not sure any UX person could fix a burning train, right?

Shouldn't the UX people be included as early as possible? That would probably help right?
None of my younger family members use facebook. I think that's a problem for facebook.

As far as privacy violations, etc., I don't think the general population care much.
I suppose that true breakthrough would be a development of a plant or fungus "base" that would be able to create animal cells.

So something like bamboo rhizome constantly growing an meat trunk, using either photosynthesis & minerals (plant-based) or plant mush (fungus-based) as source materials.
EU has a min excise tax on gasoline of 0.359 euro per 1L, before VAT ($1.6 per gallon). Most countries have it way higher (Germany : 0.6545€, or ~ 0.78€ after VAT). Higher fuel taxes should incentivize public transport, smaller/more efficient engines, etc.
The average user doesn’t understand the basics of an operating system, we teach that to people pursuing IT careers. If technology has changed such that what we consider “the fundamentals” have shifted, then we should be incorporating that into our education of IT professionals rather than assuming society has an obligation to make these ideas known.

Yes computer are a huge part of our life. So is plumbing, and I know very few people who are comfortable doing their own toilet installations.
NFTs solve the problem of digital theft. It's just...that's not really an issue with the sort of digital goods that can use NFTs. Nor do most people want to download a whole blockchain for every marketplace they want to participate in (and then continue participating in to facilitate transactions).
The cost of not doing it would be much, much greater though, and disproportionately affect lower income folks
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Does that work with encrypted DNS?
These devices don't even have space for an antenna (limited by physical size). The power required by the sensors is dwarfed by RF transmit.

The current challenges of powering a radio device with an MPU at this size are far too great for this to be useful. Unless there is a breakthrough in radio physics, drones need to be a certain size that is much larger than this.

Unless they plan to release a billion of these, sweep them up, and then have interns/grad students probe each one to extract the collected data.