skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Are you sure ads are "nagging" people as opposed to genuinely changing what they want?

This isn't a bad line of reasoning, but it prompts the question: is it good for amoral, profit-focused corporations to genuinely change what people want?

There is a real philosophy that people's wants and behaviors are primarily influenced by environment, but that doesn't absolve us from asking questions about whether they way they're being influenced is healthy and in their best interest. Instead, it prompts us to ask ourselves how to make that manipulation more ethical and how to tell the difference between re-engineering people in an ethical way and re-engineering them for selfish/unethical reasons.

Ideally, we want to give people some degree of agency over how they're influenced. At the very least, we want the people manipulating them to have their best interests at heart. Advertisers don't. If people genuinely want Pepsi, and the reason is that Pepsi made them genuinely want Pepsi, that isn't necessarily a better outcome. We still have to ask why Pepsi chose to do that, and whether some desires are healthier than others, and whether Pepsi should have that kind of power over a population?

In general, we view top-down control over people's actual personalities as dystopian-adjacent, or at least very dangerous and tricky to navigate. Most people on this forum would react negatively to the idea of a government brainwashing or even genuinely shaping people in a highly manipulated way so that they felt a stab of pleasure every time they voted for a particular political party. At the least, we would want to think about the long-term consequences of that manipulation. And a corporation isn't special, we should have the same fears about them.

Your desires may not be "pure", and you may legitimately enjoy everything you buy, but if that's the case and you're correct that advertising makes you actually like things, your desires were still manipulated in such a way that satisfying them required giving a company money. It's worth asking whether or not that is a parasitic relationship, given that the implication behind it is that you could have also been manipulated to enjoy something that didn't require giving a company money. Under your theory, a company took steps to make sure that didn't happen. In the worst-case scenario, it's like engineering someone to enjoy cleaning specifically my house for free and then going back to their house to live in poverty. You can still argue that is an exploitative action, even if the end result is that they like what's happening.
Just two in the UK during 2021.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_killings_by_law_enforc...
So it's conditional reality. Now make that fit within your usual realistic philosophy...
Didn't AirBNB try something like this?
Not necessarily, they might have timestamps and register # that could be correlated to build a "unsupervised" profile of a customer.

Extreme case: you are the only person that ever buys product X around time Y, so that fact can be used as an anchor to build a profile.

You need to be way more paranoid if you want to be a true privacy warrior.
Because they pulled it? Or because they were very close to airing it?
Not everywhere. It depends on the jurisdiction.
The short explanation is that phone and computer chips are incompatible with cars (except in Tesla cars where they do use some, and even then Tesla cars still use chips that are literally have no comparison with computer chips).

The long explanation is that the "node" of the process used in phones and computers are different from those used in cars. Most computers can tolerate errors and correct them a bit later, but in cars that scenario can result to injury or even death. Car chips are built to totally different standards, and to borrow a terminology in software, written in assembly and not C. You cannot just reuse the processes intended for computer chips and apply them in cars, you need to manually check that everything still works out.
> The Bauhaus kind of discourages things that are easy to copy in functionality though

Why do you think so? The whole idea of this school was to make things scalable while preserving aesthetics. It’s not yet IKEA, but it is already not Jugendstil.
Hmm, I really don't think MMS is widely used in Switzerland. If Bob has an Android and wants to talk to Alice the iPhone user, Bob is not going to be SMS-ing/MMS-ing Alice, Bob will write Alice on WhatsApp (or Telegram, or Signal, the great WhatsApp-agree-to-our-new-EULA exodus also happened in Europe), which Alice will almost certainly have. Apple has no iMessage-moat in Europe.

If you want to measure my certainty: I would bet 1000 Swiss Francs that if you went to the center of Zurich and asked 50 random people who have smartphones if they had one of WhatsApp/Signal/Telegram/Threema, they'd say yes.
well I would go as far as saying advertising is corporate propaganda...
It's a generic word that means "you worked here". Which is the point of the parent comment: it's a way of confirming that someone was an employee without revealing their title, a la Intel.
Per the About section [0] on the README:

uBlock Origin's manifesto.
Free. Open source. For users by users. No donations sought.

Without the preset lists of filters, this extension is nothing. So if ever you really do want to contribute something, think about the people working hard to maintain the filter lists you are using, which were made available to use by all for free.

You can contribute by helping translate uBlock Origin on Crowdin.

[0]: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock#about
Wow, I was about to post in support of this, but surprisingly this seems like a wildly unpopular opinion on HN! Honestly, I wish all companies did this. The less information out there in databases about me (or the more obfuscated), the better. People should not be able to just "request" personal information like this from some 3rd party data provider. It's none of a prospective employers' business what my full title was, what salary I made, what department I was in, or any of that.

I wish all companies just submitted "Previously worked here" as your title, for all former employees, which would nullify the privacy intrusiveness of this data.
I a lot of areas cops weren't allowed to stop people due to the plague. Only took a few days for that message to reach the general public. Great fun
If your potential employer is fickle about such idiosyncrasies, then that's their shortcoming, not Apple's.
CEO quote from the link....

> which as a CEO of a technology company
I don't think so, because as you said most went to the rich anyway. For the inflation to be caused by the stimulus, it'd have to actually be in the hands of people spending it.

Demand can only go down when prices go up for elastic goods, so this isn't a factor for, e.g., oil, and anything made or transported using it (everything). Demand is further increased by people having already put off a lot of spending for 2 years.
Because privacy is maintained for those that want it, and those that don't know they want it.

Free services may exist perfectly well:

- They must not invade privacy without obtaining consent

- They must not transfer personal information to jurisdictions with privacy controls which are too lax.

If a business relies on doing either of those two things, it deserves all the problems it has.
Ray Tracing for the TI-84 CE
Just for a counterpoint, as commented in a previous thread, my partner and her friends are obsessed with the culture of peloton and they all wear a considerable amount of peloton clothing. It’s been a predictable gift given among her friends over the last 2-3 years.
Why did any shareholder buy into the hype? When Peloton decided building their own personal factory in Ohio was a great use of money, their shareholders and fans cheered about how great idea it was. We're getting healthy and helping unemployment in the rust belt! Same for having a full time Peloton employee drive the bike to your home

Those decisions made absolutely no sense financially, and were immediately shut down once the CEO changed. But when they were decided Wall Street was cheering them on
I think largely the whole world, as well as the German people, benefit from preventing a resurgence of Nazism there.
There is no point in end to end encryption in public channels, so this specific criticism is not valid.
It turns out that the employees prefer the whip and before that they complained about not being paid enough. And new studies show that organic food is not particularly different and the suppliers are lying anyway, so people really just want to feel good about what they're buying. /s
The goal is to create European state enterprises to replace Microsoft, Google, Facebook etc. These privacy regulations were championed by socialist MEPs.
> I would never have known about the Quesarito

that's brand awarness, the product is the same.

When I go out eating I try different places, because some of them is surely better than the others.

The ads for "Quesarito" it's their product, if you didn't like it, you would be now thinking that you were fooled by the ads.

Exactly what taco bell did to you for all these years.
5 year prison sentence for plot to blow up virtual FSB building in Minecraft
> ntpdate -q will tell you the drift, your logging (...)

Sure, that's if you got root on the machine. I was not talking about VPS hosting which we've been doing for a long time, but rather so-called "serverless" services.

> Has that been your experience?

That's been my experience with most managed hosting i've had over the years, though i've had some good experiences too. I've never dealt with Amazon but i'm assuming since you can't run diagnostics (since you have no shell) and like any other business it's likely their first level of customer is inexperienced and reads from a script, i'm guessing you're gonna have a bad time if you encounter weird/silent errors from your cloud services.

Some hardware errors are hard-enough to diagnose with root and a helpful customer support, i can't imagine without those.
> If your manager doesn't believe that your team should build things correctly and minimise technical debt then he's a terrible manager and you should leave.

If you or your manager believe that there is only one "correct" option and that technical debt should always be minimized (vs being balanced against other factors), then odds are you're bother either terrible or very naive. In almost every moderately sized piece of work, there are multiple options and there's a choice of which one to take based on various priorities (ie, the best option varies depending on multiple factors).
> Sex consists of multiple different traits which have a bimodal, not binary, distribution.

Sex traits in most cases follow a binary distribution, unless you take something like phenotypical height. In the aggregrate, they also form "sex" which is binary. Differences in sexual traits do not create "third, or fourth" sexes.

> Those binary sex categories are a social construct layered on top of the multidimensional physical reality.

This is an ideological perspective, which is pushed forwards by those who want to change the law around sex, by redefining what sex means.

For example, under the Equality Act 2010 (UK), hospital wards are allowed to keep sex segregated for reasons of privacy and dignity, which to some is unacceptable.

Sex is an observation of a physical reality, not a "social construct". It would have been unremarkable to say this even 5 years ago. The physical reality around sex has not changed, rather the ideology around it has, which is why I'm going to leave this discussion there, as there's no reasoning with that.
The bookkeeper literally needs access to receipts and invoices to do their job. No bookkeeper is going to work from an anonymous list of payments; that's how you get swept up in a money laundering raid.

Before the internet, the owner took a shoe box of receipts to their bookkeeper every month. Those receipts had your name, date, etc. on them.
You can definitely cry censorship. Having a government process of censorship doesn't mean you can insist it's not censorship. Plenty of government groups responsible for censoring have the word "censor" in the name.
From your link:

“The government’s role in fracking’s development was important, but not so important that it eclipses the effort and investment of private industry”
The vast majority of radio frequencies are illegal for private use in Japan, but that doesn't mean that radios are illegal, or that people don't use radios, or that anyone even checks for compliance.
germany has no speed limits on many of its highways, and people do take advantage of it. yet they have half the deaths than us highways.

speed isn’t the sole problem imo.
Do you know if Microsoft setup this EU shell after the whole thing with the FBI wanting emails stored in Ireland?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Corp._v._United_Stat... (2016)
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act (2018).

If so, it might end up in court again, and we'll have to see how that precedent gets set out. Will be curious to see how this plays out.
If that were true, I'm not sure we'd use the term "extinct" to refer to Neanderthals.

(Some) humans are willing to mate with just about anything. There would be human-dog hybrids if it wasn't genetically impossible, as unsettling as that thought is.

Seems more likely that we treated Neanderthals as humans do with other outsiders: we exterminated them and took their resources.

Word has it that you can find their descendants on Wall Street though.
A question from a newcomer to the ecosystem: do you have any recommendations for an admin system like Django's? On a related note, how do you usually determine whether a package is abandoned vs stable?
This isn't about "anti-mandate" discussion, it's about blocking the channel of someone (Avocadolf) who's got an open arrest warrant for inciting hatred and denying the holocaust as well as death threats to politicians (actual threats, not just dancing around the issue). I believe death threats are illegal even in the US.
> metaphors inside their heads.

You're begging the question presupposing the non-Platonic viewpoint here. How do we know that metaphors are "inside the head"?
Ad hominem is when you say someone’s argument is wrong because they’re a bad person. Ad hominem attacks are frowned upon because they cause good discussion to devolve into a shouting match.

In contrast, this thread has simply been establishing that jlcoff is a bad person. It’s not a fallacy or a derailment of the discussion to do so, rather it was the discussion. I can imagine why they feel attacked, it’s because they are literally being told they’re a bad person for their personal views. It would be implausible to expect a debate about the morality of working at a place you believe to be a scam, with such a person, to go without challenging them for it. And I wouldn’t expect such a person to respond without raising some form of “let ye without sin cast the first stone” defence and eventually just dribble out insults. My point is: you don’t have to worry about using community standards or HN policy to protect me from ad hominem attacks from them; all of this was priced in. It is inseparable from the nature of fraudulent schemes and the people who push them.
So this is a major crisis, i.e., a big problem, right?
But what would be the point? Why would you load code over HTTPS if you're going to make it static anyway? If the code can't change dynamically, then you might as well put it next to the JS file on the filesystem.

I think this is a terrible idea that can only end in misery but I can understand why they don't add integrity validation by default.
Ask HN: Looking for Roles in NYC
I've been working as a software engineer in Ad Tech for 3 years now. I've worked largely in developing, maintaining, monitoring big data pipelines that process TB/day. I have strong skills in AWS/Spark/Python, but I am happy to grow into a new challenge. I am happy with my compensation and benefits, but less enthused by the advertising industry - it doesn't inspire me to work hard. I would love to work somewhere with more young people and in a more interesting industry (i.e. education or biotech). It would be a great plus if there were more opportunities to grow into non-SWE work as well. I am interested in staying in NYC. Any ideas??
That's kind of meaningless because we don't actually know the vaccination status of those in the study.
My first comment on HN here.

Initially I used to think of Crypto as a fad and a pyramid/Ponzi schemes (maybe some of them still are), but off late my understanding of the concept has evolved. If you compare say Bitcoin to Gold there are many parallels
1. Can be considered as stores of value, on their own are worthless (there are edge scenarios where gold is used in electronics etc.)
2. Can be lost or stolen, but cannot be not destroyed
3. Available in limited quantities
4. Work/Energy spend required to obtain them (mining), are not readily available
5. Liquid assets, can be bought and sold easily
6. One is physical, other is virtual

I’m beginning to think that CryptoCurrency has a future.
Yes, this is why one should not lie about one’s former salary. I have lost candidates over this; HR caught them in a lie and blocked them on integrity grounds.
Not every negative departure is the departee's fault.

As an obvious example, if a POC experienced frequent racism at a company they might leave a company without having anyone they would want to use as a reference even though THEY weren't the problem.
The reason for anything complex in society always comes down to multiple reasons and many individual choices, but I'd say that the real core of it comes down to (far too many) people tend to mirror the opinions of their chosen media because they're scared of making a socially unacceptable choice. Media says crypto is bad, so people here say crypto is bad as that's the safest choice for them.

The really fascinating part of it to me isn't that crypto is currently abhorred here, it's the shift you're going to see at some point in the future when the rich+powerful folks have made their plans and fully packed their bags, and the media gets their marching orders and starts telling people that some future chosen crypto is good. You're going to have loads of people here turning their mindset on crypto on a dime and claiming that they really liked it all along with absolutely zero self-awareness.
I agree in principle I think you could (I'm not a lawyer). However, you run into the starting problem of needing a trusted authority to verify a rights holder is in fact the rights holder. Also if the right is exclusive, how is that managed, i.e. prevent them issuing the same rights to many people. All answers thus far seem to point back to a central authority, and then what's the point of it being on blockchain.
Binance to invest $200 mln in U.S. media firm Forbes
So what primary key are these other analytics using if not IP? (Their docs say they don't store IPs but do store user agents). It looks like it's based on browser fingerprinting - if I'm right OK it's not an IP but it's not much better and if things keep going the way they are pretty sure this will be up for the chop in the future.
I (well, realistically my wife and I) just bought a house and I remember thinking "now would be a good time for a bout of inflation." I'm not quite as certain about that anymore but the rate we got is a fair bit less then 7% so I suppose we're making out on this to some degree. Not on groceries though.
We already had a good sneak peek in Germany, when schools closed last year for some weeks due to the pandemic.

Popular video conferencing solutions weren't allowed due to privacy issues. The official "Lernraum" platform that have been used for this did not work most of the time.

I understand where these laws come from, but it's sad that there often is no European alternative
"1 page visited" (with no identifying information about the visitor) with a third-party?

False equivalence, no online stalking company actually works like that (that would require a server-side hook). They all make the visitor go to the third party's desk and increase the tally themselves (via http request), giving the tracker company access to all the contact details of the visitor.
I do not understand this logic. The "Judenstern" predated the Holocaust by a long time, so they are comparing mandatory vaccination to a slippery slope rather than the to end of the slope. The "Judenstern" is how it all started, i.e (in their view), by segregating clean and unclean groups with vaccine checks.

It is insensitive, but by doing it they are clearly anti-Nazi. They are not belittling the Holocaust and they are not comparing vaccine mandates to the Holocaust.
I believe the issue isn't specifically with anonymised IP addresses in GA. The problem is that the Google Analytics code is loaded from a third party server and, to do that, this server gets your IP address even if the data sent by the GA code itself contains an anonymised one.
> It would be like liberals in the US blocking Telegram nationwide for allowing anti-mandate discussion and then saying the reason has not nothing to do with censorship.

People on the blocked Telegram channels have denied the Holocaust (including the channel operator himself) which is a crime in Germany, Austria and 16 other European countries [1] or called for the murder, disfigurement or other injuries to politicians [2].

"Anti-mandate discussions" are bad enough, but unlike what went on in Hildmann's channels this stuff isn't criminal so the comparison of yours is a bit wrong.

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gesetze_gegen_Holocaustleugnun...

[2] https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/medien/hunderte-morda...
Not many legal ones, yet, anyway.

I'm always struck by how there is basically no mention of bittorrent in conversations about web3. It was web3 (decentralized, cryptography-based) technology that's about 20 years old. And at first the notion was that people would save on server/bandwidth costs by sharing server/bandwidth for large files. But we still have "Moore's Law" or something like it for Internet connectivity and storage space so it ended up being almost exclusively used for piracy.

This is more or less exactly what is going on with bitcoin. Right now, people are using it here and there for transactions, but not out of necessity really. There are a few cases in certain countries, as pointed out by people like Garry Kasparov, that being able to avoid the authorities is a good thing. But in general, it's an academic argument because the authorities will do what they need to do.

And for a long time, bitcoin was just bittorrent for money. Mostly used for illegal stuff like SilkRoad.

So, while there are a few limited use cases now and may be a lot in the future, "trust me bro, it's gonna rule!" isn't good enough for me to put faith or money into.
> Because advertising is manufactured demand.

Some companies spend a lot on advertising but their product does not sell. How does your model explains this ?
The development side. Compiling and simulating your Verilog/VHDL can be done with open source software, but to put it on the FPGA itself, you generally need closed source (and sometimes paid) tools to generate the bitstreams. Contrast that with microcontrollers such as the ATMega which can be programmed from start to finish using an entirely FOSS stack - even the bootloader and programmer. And for some reason, these companies consider the bitstream formats trade secrets and refuse to document them at all.
Well, in theory you can also go to jail, for saying you think the catholic church is a organisation of criminal pedophiles. (blasphemie paragraph)

Does not happen in reality, though.

There are Nazis in jail though for denying the holocaust (Horst Mahler) and for trying to incite violence (Landser). Not for expressing their nazi ideology, but for direct calls for murder.