skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm one of the creators of YourDigitalRights.org, a service which automates the process of sending data requests (it's free, open source and were a registered charity). What is described in this article is, unfortunately, a common case with some big tech companies.

I've recently started an experiment to send data deletion requests to 600 data brokers and document what happens. It's dark patterns all the way down.

The solution is to escalate your request to the local data protection agency (attorney general in case of California). I believe that if enough of us do this it will make a difference, even in the case of Amazon.

Following this realization we've recently added an optional features which will follow up with you some time after a request is made, and depending on the outcome, offer to automate the escalation process.
> The only actual fix is to try to educate everyone about what's going on, and what we as a species are doing.

Yes. But your fix and mine are different. You think that its the damage the environment that's the problem.

I agree to some extent, but I think there is a more fundamental problem - that of people slavishly following what the government+corporations have to say. These 2 groups work together and they are helping each other - not the people or the environment. They are perfectly prepared to use whatever excuse - the environment, disease, etc as long as it advances their authority. Increasing compliance to authority is the goal - if you agree it is right to pay taxes, fines, etc under the guise of helping the environment you are weakening yourself and will also fail to achieve the goal you desire.

'The people' have Stockholm syndrome with regards to the governance structure. We think people from the government are here to help. They are not lying when they say that - but they are here to help themselves. At your expense!

This was commonly understood - but it seems as the governance structure has increased its power, applied psychology to the masses (nudge units), altered educational systems, etc, etc, this has had the effect of training people to think that it is a neutral entity. People believe that we need to vote harder. It can never work.

Nietzsche said it best:

A state, is called the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly lieth it also; and this lie creepeth from its mouth: "I, the state, am the people."
Cool, I do none of that.

The lengths that are required for people to acknowledge a problem… The “it must be you” answer.
Just the algorithm being publicly available won’t help much, unless all the data that is input to the algorithm is also publicly available.
The costs to carriers will be going up and by marketing they are subtly letting us know the cost of our service plan will be going up.
find & grep have been invaluable tools for me to begin grokking an unknown codebase, esp in the absence of more tailored tools. if I happen to have an IDE avail which fits a use case and has whizbang search or visualization, I'll use it

also: GraphViz is a great tool and CLI friendly
Another way is to add search for walled gardens: The most common by far are corporate documents and datastores.

It’s also a harder problem to solve than Google’s algorithm.

After two decades Microsoft seems to have brought in support, but they left the hard part to others.
Don't think it's the whole story, but 3g, 4g and now 5g were used as big selling points for new phones and plans to consumers.

If people start buying things based on the name, they'll form opinions on it.

Most consumers purchase based on buzz words like 4g and 5g. They barely pay attention to bandwidth.
What kind of latency are you seeing? I see 4G latency around 30±10ms so I could believe that's an area for improvement but also one which wouldn't be transformative for many applications.

From my perspective, the big change we need in the U.S. is getting away from tiny data plans — most of the interesting 5G applications also use a ton of data and when 1GB is concerned a princely amount it's hard to care much about video calls.
I can't figure out what their business model is. Do you know?
Reminds me of the folks on my neighborhood's Nextdoor that claim that their Hughes Net connection (1s+ ping, tiny data caps) is just as good as Wave cable (xxms ping, relatively huge data caps, lower price).
Especially if this is long term, this is a great tool:

https://github.com/hound-search/hound#hound

It would be great if someone integrated this with tree-sitter plus something to make the search semantics a bit smarter about usages of X:

https://www.etsy.com/codeascraft/announcing-hound-a-lightnin...

Screenshots:

https://jaxenter.com/hound-go-react-code-search-engine-15008...

Another trick I use for Java: javap all the Enums out of the compiled artifacts; these indicate weird things like "modes" that you can use to start asking questions relevant to the domain. Like "why are there four ways to reprice an invoice" or finding the "types" of fees or w/e in a billing system. (assuming enum classes are used)
In a previous job I managed a migration from bitbucket (!) to self-hosted Github Enterprize. As part of the migration I forced the creation of a monthly "backup restore test".

Every month we had a recipe to spin up a new instance of the Github appliance, and import the most recent backup into it.

A lot of systems do tend to get a little neglected over time, and of course different organizations have different priorities, but I insisted on this because I figured for that particular company the Github instance was one of the most critical components - if it is down people can't work.
Possibly, but I doubt that 35-years later, folks would continue to read and re-read that .txt file for its entertainment value. Those few hundred thousand bytes of Mario Bros. code have been reviewed by so many for so long!
Based on the name, I was hoping it was a roguelike.
You could beat them in a small segment market though. EG: A group tired of being banned by google.
I recently bought 4 32" monitors (2 for work, 2 for home), and I wasn't remotely interested in 4k. QHD is perfect, and if you get monitors where that's the max, pretty cheap. (Every 4k monitor I've had I always downscaled it)
That's exactly my point. Understanding the dependent context can be considered the "advanced morality" the parent post asked about.
Mortgage Rates Moving Closer to 5%
I prefer the billiondollarpitchdecks.com site that was on the front page of HN a few days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30783677
So use scaling?

I find this a strange complaint, (not saying you’re wrong!) as to me more pixels should mean better rendering of elements, not dictate their size.
I hear that's common in the world of the peasants. Those of use in the 5 Commas club enjoy those reminders, as we try to comprehend what it would be like to have so little. It's beyond our understanding though
I think it is now safe to assume knowledge of xkcd 1357 at this point.

Private censorship is still censorship and it is still powerful, otherwise Google and Facebook wouldn't wield it as often as they do (often at the explicit legal behest of the states in which they operate).
> [] can be used on any variable, not just strings and arrays. It returns null and issues no warning.

It warns, will likely become an error in a later version (these are being slowly increased in error level to give people time to migrate): https://3v4l.org/qQdSP

> The [] indexing operator can also be spelled {}.

Not anymore: https://3v4l.org/jtjCj

> Unlike (literally!) every other language with a similar operator, ?: is left associative. So this:

Not anymore: https://3v4l.org/t8io2

Regarding string/number comparisons:

https://wiki.php.net/rfc/string_to_number_comparison
> I've recently started an experiment to send data deletion requests to 600 data brokers and document what happens. It's dark patterns all the way down.

I would love to read a long form piece on your findings!

It sounds like it would a great way to advertise YourDigitalRights as well.
Don’t miss the link to the HQU Colab notebook at the end!
Because I believe a search engine for the internet should be nationalized, like the internet itself.

Google "solved" the internet search engine problem. Other competitors are just replicating it poorly. There's nothing good for the consumer here.
For what it's worth, the Portal 2 community maps (available to download and play within the game itself!) are really good. Each week there are about 3-4 new really fantastic puzzles to play, and of course there's a healthy back catalog.
What is "alt-tech" ??

Is this a term used commonly? It's referenced in the subtitle but no where in the article.
This could be a niche search engine for advanced users, but I feel that to average users this would be a strictly worse experience because they have no interest in figuring out how to "select an algorithm." They expect to type a query and the result they want comes up at the top. The search engine should be able to infer whether the user wants results that are more recent, more interactive, more authoritative, etc. based on the query, past search behavior, and anything else that is known about the user. If that isn't happening, the search engine needs to be made "smarter."

The way it's likely seen by many tech companies is that the more decisions you have to offload to the user, the less advanced your system is. An old car with a lot of knobs and dials and levers is not more advanced than a self-driving car with a single control, select destination. Some people will still prefer the old car, but it will be a niche market.
> Reducing the space necessary to keep accounting records that are mandatory to be kept on paper

I can't wait to see the ensuing hilarity when this is challenged in court.
I’m a huge Pet Sounds and Smile fan but, it’s easy to dismiss or overlook The Beach Boys because 90% of their discography is frankly complete crap.
Do you mean favored by minorities, or that the conservative position is the minority?
>"if you are not acclimated to "retina" smoothness for fonts"

I am not using magnifying glass so for my eyes smoothness is just fine without "retina" prefix.

>"The colors aren't great. The blacks are just dreadfully light"

If you care so much about colors get real pro display. Just be prepared to second mortgage your house for that.

For mere mortals (I mostly use 32" BenQ monitors) colors on are reasonably fine and so are blacks. No artifacts. I do not see Apple as superior in this department.

Once again, if for some reason you need perfect colors / blacks / uniformity / whatnot Apple with its "retina" is not the one to go with. Try Eizo for example
(Thank you for your reply! I'm using some of that pattern. It wasn't enough for my requirements, unfortunately. What I have now works fine; I use the handle directive a fair bit and that makes sense to me. This is not a problem now)

The main problem with Caddy's documentation is that it is a maze of twisty tunnels! Lots of terse fragments of documentation that bounce you on to other terse fragments of documentation. It feels fractured and impermanent. I lose my place.

Part of the problem is inherent to very flexible packages like this, and it is going to be difficult to solve.

I think you possibly overestimate how many people have time to learn about the JSON syntax or API configuration, how many people want Caddy outside of a package manager installation, etc.

It almost seems to me that you need entire documentation guides -- "Caddy for Nginx users", "Caddy for Apache users", "Caddy for people who need an API-driven server" -- that have much more narrative flow to them.

(IMO, configuration file adapters are a hiding to nothing. Just explain to me why Caddy is better and help me make the switch)

I love Caddy for what it is now doing for me -- please don't get me wrong, I think it's an impressive project -- but after 28 years of configuring web servers I really need migration documentation that I can read in detail without clicking from link to link and lots of emoji people.

Small observation: the mid-blue text on a pale blue background for your code examples and monospaced text is difficult to read if your eyes are over 40 years old and it's been a long day.
macos fractional scaling causes massive system slowdowns, completely unusable for coding. integer multiples are fast
I'm am curious about USB-C vs others. My MBP takes 10-20 seconds to wake up on an external USB-C monitor. Is that a MacOS issue or a USB-C issue?
I came here to point out Portal Reloaded. It's the most mind bending game I've ever played!
This might be an unpopular view here, but here goes:
Back in the day (1994-1995) Windows (non-NT) crashed and glitched constantly. Linux was a rock by comparison.

That's no longer my experience. Modern Windows is quite stable. Modern Linux gives me more issues, systemd related sometimes, and every time I update and get a new kernel, I have to struggle to get wifi back.

I will admit that my Windows 10 sometimes reboots itself overnight for updates, but other than that I often have quite long uptimes on it.
Isn’t Algolia pretty much eating this market?

They seem to be very dominant on the problem of “here’s my dataset, please provide me with an api / interface to search it”
We handle 50-60 million monthly page views (comments embed requests) in our commenting system using PHP/Laravel, NGINX (2 load balanced servers), Redis (for queues and caching), and MYSQL.

All performance issues we have ever encountered were always related to the database - never had an issue with PHP or Laravel.

However, we use Node.js for websockets. Though there are some improvements in PHP for event-driven development (like ReactPHP [1]), it was quite hard to find proper documentation and help to build a production-ready WebSocket server. So, we ended up using Node.js for that.

The new features added to PHP in the latest versions are great. Type hinting and return types are really helpful in writing better code. I hope there will be an addition to type hint advanced data structures (ex: Arrays of Objects) in a future version.

[1] https://reactphp.org/
The discussion here is worth the badness of the article.
‘Will l be allowed a cleaner or driver?’ Russian oligarch's Life after sanctions
The "Why Not?" section here starts with a disclaimer that the author is personally affected but doesn't actually say how. The points raised boil down to "I have enough speed so I don't see the point". Ok, but that's not a reason why not.

Remember bandwidth isn't just about how much an individual can get but how many people can be serviced within a given area either in total or without subdividing into cells, which then require somewhere to put another tower.

The author didn't raise this but I've seen others who have brought up the nebulous "radiation" argument against 5G. Here's a good litmus test: if someone can't tell you, at a minimum, what "ionizing radiation" is then you can safely ignore everything they say about "radiation".

Here's another: if they can't describe the "radiation" in terms of the radiation exposure from eating a banana, you can also safely ignore them.
On Changing Minds – The Effortful Educator
Perhaps an alternative would be to suspend a screen from a drone that is constantly moving around the room. It would combine eye muscle exercise with neck exercise. For extra points, the screen could be configured for me to chase after it, providing ever more opportunities for exercise.
I wonder how practical it is to use a VM per application instead. Of course, Qubes has already done this, but it uses Xen. What would be the minimum practical overhead per VM, when each VM needs to run a single-application GUI stack?
> Image search still has a long way to go, IME.

Try images.yandex.com: it's vastly better than most others. It's not too good at identifying specific people but it will find prior exact uses of an image (like TinEye) but is especially very good at abstracting what's the abstract subject, color, pose, setting etc in a photo and show you similar.
Non-paywall:
https://archive.ph/WYCdz
It’s funny today. But to put it in context, many Americans wouldn’t use German products after the war. My parents refused to buy German cars and other items for decades.

Much like Russian products are abhorred in America right now. Caviar, LukOil, Kaspersky AntiVirus, etc…
This reminds me of Xerox DataGlyphs:

https://microglyphs.com/english/html/dataglyphs.shtml
They still don't like spending half the time training people just to have them not come back. No one like a rotating cast of tech workers who show up just to make themselves feel better.
Technical analysis (Bollinger bands and the like) would be treated similarly to horoscopes by many people who know how to work a Bloomberg terminal.
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The MS in MSN stands for Microsoft, launched by Microsoft in 1995. Microsoft did indeed buy Hotmail.. in 1997 before google was even founded (1998). They have mostly retired the email addresses (you can instead get @outlook.TLD or @live.TLD addresses) but as you say, some have managed to maintain them for legacy reasons.
The Opposite Of Autism
Great article. I also suggest watching Casey M. recent video[0] about Conways Law. How organization in your company determines what you can/will do and how organization of your code follows the same principles.

Starting with just the handlers and introducing layers as you make sure its time is great way.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IUj1EZwpJY
I used to love "smaller" fonts and whatnot. Unfortunately my 45 year old eyes can't do it anymore. These days I stick with 2 32" at QHD. I've always used my laptop open for things like the terminal etc, but I find that's a bit too small unless I'm sitting directly in front of it (coffee shop etc)
I'm not sure how low in volume the requests are. It's really hard to automate because you have to gather data from many internal teams and products, and the data is intentionally siloed to enhance customer privacy and data security.

Manual work isn't the best way to handle it, but the costs of automating (in terms of security, intricacy regarding different storage systems, etc.) is too high to really automate it on a grand scale.

Where I work, which is low traffic generally, we process around 10 requests or so a week (from what I've seen).
Never attach a "Smart TV" to WiFi. As a rule of thumb, they'll only get worse.

Once the manufacturer sells the TV, they don't give a fuck about you anymore, they're already paid! Though they would like to push updates to send you more ads and track you.

I've never attached my 2020 LG 4k 65" to any network and it works great. I did pay $50 to add a GoggleTV CrapCast thing, it works fine for watching movies.
3 big buttons at the top after search results

"You're viewing through FOOBAR lens. Click here to view results from another lens".

Doesn't have to be that complicated.
Those are arguments about shaming _inside_ parliaments and courts, which are obviously controlled speech environments; that has limited effect _outside_ courts, with the exception of sub judice rules.

> well developed traditions against name-calling and insistence on respectful language and behaviours like using proper titles (which can be a bit off-putting seeing how politicians act outside parliament)

Indeed. You can call your opponent a terrorist criminal just fine as long as you step outside the building first.

For a given dispute the court is certainly more likely to find a just result .. if you can afford to litigate. Or, in the case of criminal law, if the prosecutors will prosecute. If they won't, you can only resort to "the court of public opinion", i.e. shaming.
> It ultimately took about 19 days for Amazon to fulfill my data request, in stark contrast to its reported median time of 1.5 days to process a data request, as per the company’s California Consumer Privacy Act disclosure for 2020.

That's interesting but not particularly surprising. I bet the median request isn't for all data. An all-data request may involve pulling data from cold-storage, which I'm not surprised would take 2+ weeks (it's quite possibly a relatively manual process).
No, the Clippy thought experiment asks the question: "might we accidentally build an AI that kills us all?"

It's not a very complicated thought experiment, you know. Not hard to interpret.
so how does this put more power in the hands of candidates?
> actually tends to beat Gradle in performance too.

Mvnd seems somewhat recent compared to Gradle’s daemon feature. Are there any measurements that confirm this statement? I don’t find any in the repo?
I really like their UI for desktop. Has anyone managed to package their latest UI into a framework that can be used like Qt ? I remember they had an XUL based framework but I understand it's deprecated now ?
> Psychological factors also underpin attitudes towards freedom of speech. Liberals tend to be more creative and open to new experiences, these attitudes underpinning traditional liberal attitudes towards freedom of speech. If one embraces challenges, diverse viewpoints tend to be less threatening. Conservatives are different, tending to be more fearful; most studies find an association between conservatism and anxieties such as the fear of death. This is unfavourable to freedom of speech; the principle thrives when attitudes are open.

What a simplistic view. Conservatives tend to be less interested in the novel follies of the day.

Also, conservatives don't think one need be a credentialed Biologist to know to which of the two actually existing genders one was born and shall remain until death, irrespective of the latest fashionable thought.
Well, for starters, Planner is also a native application written in Vala/GTK. The only non-native part about it is that you're forced to run it as a Flatpak (which is a bummer), but that makes it just about equally as "native" as any sandboxed Mac app.

Almost to a comedic extent, Planner does copy a lot of the touches that Things has. For example, dragging the plus icon in the corner to a folder will create a new task there, much like Things. Each section of checkboxes also gets a tiny status indicator, and everything in it is drag-and-droppable. I understand your skepticism, but this really is a complete ripoff of Things in a glorious way. If nothing else, you can't deny the fact that it's more bang-for-your-buck being free and whatnot.
There are systems now to archive masses of data on film. Contrary to ordinary printed paper, film can easily last several decades and even centuries.
I really enjoy the 49” ultrawide 1000R format Samsung has been pioneering. It’s the size/resolution of two 27” 1440p monitors next to each other, has a buttery smooth refresh rate, and a curve that makes viewing more comfortable and natural.

The new quantum dot displays are also very innovative.
When I replaced all my monitors, I just went with QHD displays instead of 4K, even though I've always scaled in the past. So much cheaper.
No Google alternative will be able to raise funding because top VCs own Google stock and they have no interest in seeing their Google shares lose value.

Secondly, the media would not allow it because many top media executives own Google shares. If a better Google competitor came along, media companies would do everything to suppress information about it so that nobody would know it exists.
Capitalism isn't very good at it compared to an AI. As a result, good things can happen in it.