skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After thinking about this a bit, I don't think the minimalism is the problem.

I think the main problem is that it looks both cheap and "low". TVs are "low" and having one so prominent makes the room look low-class. The room itself looks like a cheap apartment.

The fix is to buy more stuff for the room—and especially to put on the walls—to compete with the TV so it's less prominent, or to keep things very minimal but replace the TV (too "low") with something else and re-do the entire room (chair included) to fit some minimalist trendy design. Like if this were an ultra-modern concrete room or something traditional-Japanese themed (walls, windows, flooring and all) it'd be Instagram worthy, even if it were just as minimal—but those are expensive looks to attain. No one would be saying the sleek designer room looked unlivable because it didn't have pictures on the walls or curtains or more furniture.

Reminds me of Rusty's apartment in True Detective. His minimalism is (I think it's fair to say) at least in part a philisophical choice, which could look cool or respectable or impressive coupled with surroundings to make it so, but because it's a normal, cheap apartment with normal, cheap stuff (and not much of it), it just looks... well, cheap. That he doesn't care about making it nicer-looking and more in line with impressive takes on minimalism probably says something about his character—a preference for substance over appearance, for one, and maybe some other things.

Or how "minimalism" trends in pop culture are often coupled with a consumerist focus on expensive, nice-looking items that'll still impress and signal certain things about the owner, while the same thing on a small budget usually looks far less impressive (because it's mostly cheap stuff). Tiny house vs. trailer home or RV. All that kind of thing. That the good couldn't have been acquired cheaply is about as important is its practical functionality, to certain buyers.

Nobody wants to look at Wal-Mart minimalism, which is what this room is.
Not sure! I'm less familiar with it, but I'm not an expert in the field at all. mc-stan seems a bit more general-purpose.
This is really good news for consumer privacy everywhere. I was just in a meeting with some marketers in my org and they were quite dismayed so I'm conversely quite happy. I've been saying for years that content is king and tracking will only be sustainable for so long. It's only a matter of time before laws like this are the norm rather than the exception globally.
I have found that it impacts my ability to discover new opportunities on my own. Those that are offered unasked still exist, but are far fewer without the random-chance coexistence opportunities that I uncover and develop in offices.
The whole article could have been replaced with the line "I changed my mind about advertising because I now make money from advertising". The fact that the author feels compelled to spin it out to a 480 word article suggests some deep-rooted unease with this, and also illustrates one of the (many) issues with an advertising-based revenue model - you have to learn to waste users time (aka "maximise for engagement") to maximise revenue.

Digging a little deeper, the fact that 10% of forwarded emails are sponsored[0] highlights another major issue with advertising - the conflict of interest between user needs and site operator's profit. How do I know which emails I can trust as having useful unbiased information (i.e. satisfying my needs), and which are potentially misleading junk adverts (i.e. satisfying the site operator's desire for profit)? And what is to stop the signal to noise ratio becoming completely untenable over time in the desire to maximise profit?

I'm not completely anti-advertising BTW - there is a time and place for it. Just not when you are trying to use informational sites on the web. The analogy I've used is that you don't want annoying salespeople in a library getting between you and your books, but you don't mind them so much when you are down the high street shopping.

[0] https://silken-cafe-474.notion.site/About-The-Sample-a989b5b...
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What a wacky industry we are in. 90% of the websites people like us build are primarily there to show us ads. And then there's this one addon maintained by one guy (and an army of helpers) for free that removes those ads and makes the web more usable again.
Pretty bold to make the assumption that there aren't real Nazis in Germany.

edit: if you were a Nazi and made it past 1953 in West Germany, the only likely further repercussion or punishment for anything you did was maybe an Israeli assassin, if you were famous.
> because the convention is to use a registry for packages

You can already pull your dependencies from arbitrary URLs, they just have to be tarred up first and go through npm: https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/v8/configuring-npm/package-json#u...
SpaceX losing Starlink satellites due to geomagnetic space storm
Future employers will ask your level and if Apple tells them something different they're going to think you're lying. I can see it being problematic when applying to Government or enterprise roles. They will do their due diligence and might rescind an offer if they find a discrepancy.
California sues Tesla over ‘racial segregation’ claims at factory
Or possibly while pros are having endless meetings about how in theory they would play 4d chess, or which varieties of 4d chess are best for career enhancement, or just evaluating proposals for outsourcing 4d-chess-playing to the private sector.
As is your right.

Just as a clarifying question: When you say that you refuse to call it "art" are you talking about the specific 3 pieces used to illustrate the article or the whole concept of an artist using a computer as a tool to create art?
> This idealisation and universalisation is not only Western of course. I'm a mixed kid like your kids, but South India rather than Bangladesh, and I would be and am rather unquestionably accepted as Indian when I am there. But a major driver in the split between India and (then-)Pakistan comes down to the (novel & idiosyncratic) liberal ideals we compare to.

"Liberal India" is a narrow slice of the country--more representative of the British culture that heavily influenced the Indian elite than ordinary Indians: https://unherd.com/2021/04/the-culture-wars-of-post-colonial...

Heck, my mom went to college and graduate school and had a white collar career in Bangladesh in the 1960s and 1970s. But she came from a wealthy, socially prominent family, and had British tutors growing up. It would be tremendously misleading to use her experience to talk about how "liberal" Bangladeshis are.
>The EU privacy regulations seem to have a side effect of creating a de facto EU internet, where EU competitors can become dominant because they pay closer attention to changes in law vs north american or chinese counterparts.

Within EU government and diplomatic circles, there's actually a term for this: the "Brussels Effect". People who use the term "Brussels Effect" believe that by imposing aggressive rules first, the EU software industry will have a first-mover advantage and a kind of partial "firewall" against some foreign competitors.

In my experience, the potential downsides of the "Brussels Effect" are rarely considered by these people (e.g., reduced competition within the EU, leading to increased costs for other businesses; overseas web service providers being forced to block EU customers, leading to reduced availability of services, etc.).

Another area where you see the same "Brussels Effect" in EU policy/legislative circles are recent moves towards rather aggressvie regulation of "artificial intelligence". Not just the recent proposal that was tabled, but also the CAHAI work towards a binding international instrument.
Can confirm. And Apple used HireRight when they hired me.
More analogous to locking your window, so the robber can’t get in to do wrong.
For the sake of argument I'll say the way a desire comes into being has no bearing on making it good or bad. What is the implication of this with respect to advertising in your mental model?
and spin?
Link to Intel article: https://www.intel.ie/content/www/ie/en/newsroom/news/intel-l...
I'm from the US and in my 50s, and read quite a bit, but never encountered the word 'bespoke' until a couple of years ago. Not sure whether it's rising in popularity or what. I see it fairly often now.
I didn't read it as bitter. I'm a happily married guy with kids, never struggled to date, has high income, etc. Even then, I agree with what he says. That's simply the way the world is. My wife comes from a non-Western culture and fully agrees with "A male without utility is cast aside like trash". The consequences of selecting the wrong husband are dire for a woman.
> Can we cut through the clickbait and see what's wrong here. If my website askes users for their permission to use GA and they click yes then is that still illegal here? I see this as yes it's still illegal.

If you've sought the visitors consent then yes it's legal
> You are the one who needs to prove that without ads people won't get what they want.

This is the default mode for startups. It results in failure. "If you build it, they will come," doesn't work in the marketplace. Try it yourself.

> Disruptive is a synonym for "unethical".

Hard disagree, sorry. I don't think you're going to find many like-minded people on this site.

> > Everybody has "needs" they're not fulfilling.

> [Citation needed]

I'm not even sure how you can deny this. Do you really think everyone out there is living their best lives? Are businesses out there just performing at 100% efficiency, with no need for any new products or services to help them improve? What do you think economic growth is based on, if not the creation of new value?

> and the solution is advertising?

Yes, the solution is marketing—advertising being one piece of that puzzle. How did 'M' in your example find out about the product? Are "experts" just born with inherent knowledge of their fields?

> advertising is lies so people not only will try to fulfill a fabricated need, they will also be frustrated by the fact that advertisers lied to them.

I advertise. Nothing I say is a lie. I advertise that I can help non-technical founders build their MVPs better, faster, and cheaper than my competitors. That's true. I advertise to people that want to build an MVP. Their need exists before I advertise to them. Nobody is going to see an ad of mine and go "Oh man, I was going to spend my paycheck on food, but now that I've seen this ad about NoNerds.com building MVPs, I guess I'll starve and give them all my money instead."

> How can you not see the fraud is beyond me.

I'm not the one speaking in absolutes. There is bad advertising out there. Most brand advertising is bad. But ~50% of the advertising market is PERFORMANCE, not BRAND. How you can not see the difference between "Buy budweiser and get laid," and "Buy Infotex solutions and save 15% on monthly payroll costs." is beyond me.

> that's grotesque.

Agree to disagree. The economy is based on the creation and distribution of value. Good marketing seeks to inform individuals of potential sources of value to them. It creates efficiency in the marketplace by allowing new solutions to reach more potential buyers more rapidly.

Does it grant airtime to "bad" solutions occasionally? Of course. But in your own arguments, the buyer is ultimately the one responsible for the purchase decision. And if good products are being advertised as well, the buyer is given an opportunity to discover alternatives to the solutions they're already aware of. This increased information allows them to make better economic decisions.
> Long term WASM is a more efficient compiler target. Smaller, faster, easier to deal with for compiler builders, etc.

And more obfuscatable.
Yeah the reason I have a dedicated profile for e-commerce (with uBo not installed) is that e-commerce sometimes use an array of different domains during the checkout process, and you have to whitelist each domain which is bothersome. Best just not using uBo entirely during the process.
The US has roads that are unsafe at the posted speed limit ("stroads"), heavy traffic normally lowers the effective speed to less lethal levels.
seems like some sampling bias. you're telling me 80% of men in the U.S. know's what a `parsec` is? seems high
Illegal to transmit on, or illegal to listen on? I agree with the government determining who has rights to transmit on which frequency ranges. If it was entirely a free for all, it would be hard to operate the kinds of wireless networks we all enjoy.
Except Telegram does not do business in Germany. Even if Germany gets Telegram kicked off the German App Store, they have no way to block Telegram's web servers, which do not need to comply with Germany's jurisdiction.

If they don't go down the route of implementing a state-level firewall such as China is doing, they're fighting a losing battle. And frankly, if Telegram were inaccessible from Germany, the same people would simply use the next messaging app. There's nothing groundbreaking within Telegram that cannot be replicated.

IMHO, this is the government embarrassing themselves with the fact that they've lost the goodwill of a huge chunk of the population and trying to blame Telegram for it - as if the mindset and communication of those unsatisfied people would simply change/disappear if they were no longer able to access Telegram. Which furthermore shows that today's governments still do not understand the internet.
Not one mention of Java server faces (JSF) ?
Great post. One of the major problems is that software engineering is saturated with green devs who recently transitioned from hobbyist coding and don’t fully understand the responsibilities of being a professional. Hobbyist projects are rarely held to external constraints. Usually when the hobbyist dislikes the code he has thus far written, he will rewrite it instead of iterating on it because he has that luxury since nothing depends on his project. Unfortunately in the real world, we have to consider other factors aside from what the author prefers to work on.

This hobbyist mindset is damaging to the software engineering profession in a myriad of other ways.
What would everyone think about trying to increase ad payouts?

My feeling is that Google took 50% of the ad revenue 20 years ago and Facebook took perhaps 40% after that, so the remaining ad networks are trying to operate on 1/10 the revenue they enjoyed in the 1990s and that's why ad income is no longer viable for most of us. My numbers are probably way off but my sentiment isn't.

It seems like we could fix that through various privacy/legal channels (breaking up big ad agencies?) and organizing against monopolies and duopolies.

I don't expect that to be successful, but it could open a broader conversation about where the web went wrong doubling down on in its ever-escalating wealth inequality instead of engineering stuff like UBI that would have brought shared prosperity for everyone.
I see there was a data race in my editing, so I will move my update here:

Beyond that, it is consistent with every factual claim you have made to say that the population lies on a broad spectrum of how thoroughly they are contributing to ameliorating the impact of this epidemic on the population as a whole. Your own argument is predicated on this spectrum being divisible into two populations. My point is that, wherever you make that divide, one group is helping more than the other.

With regard to your specific questions here:

1) Putting aside the abstruse issue around the axiom of choice (which is not relevant here) one can always create two groups, and in my expanded reply, I made a relevant, non-pedantic case for that.

2) There are more symmetries than dichotomous ones.

Also:

> while wholly ignoring the risks posed by the "good" group.

With words like 'wholly' and 'false', you are making straw man arguments. It is factually accurate and completely reasonable to say that some people are net contributors to public health, while others have the opposite effect.
> Bob says it would take 2

Tell Bob I wish him the best of luck in this endeavor, he's clearly a better programmer than I am.
I guess Mozilla add-ons repo is a bit behind? It still shows 1.40.8.
> That’s bad too

In what way? I agree that personally tracking an individual and using psychology tricks and whatnot to trick them into buying stuff is bad, but if it's just a company knowing what works well for them, I don't see the argument.
It did.

It's the standard file dispatcher that now supports keyword arguments for cache control.

https://github.com/racket/web-server/commit/f82decd8bbaf8251...
From a non-US perspective: At least carriers are not US quasi monopolies. They do often obey local laws. (see today's Google analytic submission on HN if you don't know what I mean)

And they provide interoperability. If my aunt uses another carrier than me I can still reach her.

Of course carriers in the US are worse than elsewhere, so some people might have a stronger point like yours. I am in the lucky situation that e.g. SIM locking is illegal here.
Any thoughts on anvil? It’s a full-stack python framework. I think it features a python to js transpiler:

https://anvil.works/blog/client-side-python
Cant imagine real estate not taking a hit when yields go up...
Would the early United States be considered an "individulistic society"?
If so then consider the continental level genocidal practices which that society consciously adopted. Remember that all of North America was populated before the westward expansion. Feel free to extrapolate backwards in time.
Does this apply to China as well?
No, you are not granted copyrights on the image attached to the NFT in all cases I've looked at, spoken to the people behind them and they also agreed.

Doesn't mean this can't be done, but in each case I've looked at, granting of rights (and which specific rights do we even mean?) is not happening.

Further more there is no obligation for anyone to do anything with the image linked to the NFT your the holder of.
> Rents are up over 30% in a lot of markets

Most people, like you, do not rent and are not exposed to this at all. Further, 30% y/o/y rent increases are limited to a tiny minority of cities (I would even suspect 30% is an exaggeration for any major metro).

> Child care is basically free for most people after their kids start elementary school

I can't tell whether this is a troll or not. In case you're serious, consider that school dismissal is in the middle of the afternoon, and generally speaking someone has to get the kids home and occupy them for a few hours. This is of course before holidays, summer break, and extracurriculars.

> Groceries are far more expensive than they used to be, I am going to estimate at least 20%

Your estimate is likely not as accurate as the BLS's estimate of 7.4%. (Caveat: many people who read HN are rich or high earners, and so they may eat different food than most Americans. That food may have increased at a faster rate.)

> Rents in my city are up 25% last year and expected to increase a further 20% this year.

This is why BLS weighs expenses. Neither of us is exposed to this at all.
Can you post some info on that doc? Fascinating stuff.
It doesn't seem like Telegram is actually doing business in Germany. I feel like simply having German citizens using your app doesn't mean that the nation state of Germany has the same authority over your business as if you were actually registered as a GmbH in their territory.
Another reason to use Element (Matrix), where phone number is not required.
Putting your money into Bitcoin is the opposite of "taking back control".
I setup something similar years ago for my garage. Instead of looking for my phone though, I wanted a way to open the garage quickly without using the keypad. My kids were small and my hands were normally full. However, I did have an RFID ID card from $work in my back pocket. So, I placed an RFID reader at butt height. If it detected my ID (or my wife's, or keyfobs, etc...) it would trigger a relay to simulate pushing the button inside my garage to open the door. It was all controlled by an Arduino.

That was quite possibly one of the most satisfying projects I've done.

I've now since moved and don't have an attached garage anymore, so this is now sitting in a box in my basement. :(
PHP got ridiculed for years for doing all the things all the other popular frameworks are coming around to support now. Server side rendering is particularly hilarious because it's like: oh, you're compiling .jsx files to .html now? Cool....can't imagine anyone ever did that before...
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That is impressive, and not unexpected given the (likely) billions of dollars of investment in things like nodejs. I did not mean to disparage it in itself just because it was developed for a particular domain.

However, if "An embedded system uses the internet to communicate" has become synonymous with "It runs linux and uses web services and nodejs" then that would be a perfect example of contorting the application to match the technology that more programmers are most productive with.
Not a genre. If you see the video, it's literally a very very very cringe video, and I shudder at the thought of calling it "rap".
You can always choose to install your own root certificates, at which point your browsers will trust any certificates issued by them (which could be your own mitm proxy)
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Prison time. If you shoot into a crowd and miss, you don’t get away with community service
> Care to compare

This fallacy is distressingly common. That's not the way logic works. The contention above was that it was impossible to mitigate the spread of covid. I provided an existence proof that it was not. It's not on me to refute every contradicting hypothesis. It's clear that Korea did something right, and people interested in techniques to fight the virus would do best to study those actions instead of make excuses for why it must have been something else.

As far as natural population immunity though: that's just wrong. It's a novel virus (c.f. the initial outbreak in a nearby east asian nation), everyone gets it. Korea has absolutely had rapid outbreaks too (the church group got a ton of press early) that show that covid can spread rapidly there. They just handled it better.
But that's the same as saying ignorance is a bliss.

You might have problems but you haven't thought about them, or in some case you can't even verbalize them.

Other times problems just become background noise, and they're there in plain sight but you're used to them - and they can have negative impact on your life.

We're not machines, problems aren't binary.

Now if you say that we as a society, sometimes, value the "wrong things" (which is subjective) and see problems that aren't a big deal, it's true. But you can't pin that on advertising - those are symptoms of poor education systems, poor health, and I'd go as far as poor value systems.
Then I don't think that Signal is a viable alternative in this case.

Atilla Hildemann used his channel as a one-to-many broadcast. He doesn't want a group chat.
Such great feedback, Tom. Thank you for taking the time. I'm definitely going to distill all your notes and thoughts on this.

It's funny you mentioned Microsoft FrontPage. Alexis Ohanian [0] also made the same comment :)

[0] https://twitter.com/alexisohanian/status/1448288261172989960...
If you own your house, your cost did not go up. Most Americans own their homes. That's how to look at it. The inflation has likely been a net good for you if housing costs in your area have increased.
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