skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think we should embrace it. Take a step back and look at what happened here.

Remember that for 99% of people, seeing a video of their friends is a happy interaction. It's the kind of thing an ML model would notice, even if TikTok didn't.

As the author points out, of course TikTok uses wifi data to know. It's not even wifi -- it's "Both people connected to our service from the same IP. These people are related in some way."

If you think that's sinister, you must think Dan's pretty sinister too. Checking IPs is moderation 101, and dates back to the dawn of chat rooms.

I think everyone is nervous (and rightly so) that bigcos know so much about us. We've also seen how quickly the political situation can change -- it's easy to imagine a dictator using this knowledge to purge undesirables.

But other countries are already doing that. That is the reality in which we live. My wife and I are doing IVF in June, and with any luck, I'll have the opportunity to help guide a new soul into the world. I feel that my main responsibility is to prepare them to lead the happiest life they can -- all else being equal, optimizing your family tree for happiness seems like a reasonable approach.

Cutting out "the entire future" in the name of protecting one's children isn't something that I'm particularly interested in trying. To each their own; but someday my kiddo is going to realize that I can't protect her, the same way my father can't protect me from ruining my life by tweeting out certain combinations of words. I want her to be prepared to take advantage of the world, not hide her from it.

I'll be bookmarking this comment. In 14 years, I suspect I won't feel the same way when she's running around with the local boys. Parents don't share in the upside, only the downside, so it's hard to resist the urge to shut down their behavior and box them up for their own protection.

It's good we'll have data points on both approaches. I don't know that the author's approach would be bad, but it's hard to imagine myself being who I am today if I were their kid.

(One of the neat things about IVF is that you can choose the gender of your children. Deciding to have a daughter was a very "we live in the future" moment.)
I'm not from the USA, does the FBI usually throw in grenades when arresting people for insurance fraud? If not, then perhaps other lower-quality social-media websites such as Reddit/Twitter might be more receptive to your comments?
Trains are intrinsically resistant to hijacking - it's really difficult to get them to divert to Cuba, or to crash them into a high rise building, unless one was somehow built on their path.

I'd really like to understand the TSA's scenario, it looks like another massive and pointless waste of money added to what that the organization already does in airports.
Depends on the topic, even if HN has a relatively high signal to noise ratio, a lot of it is still noise. I mostly read blogs off gemini aggregators like Antenna.

So I'm mostly using HN as an ersatz message board.
I didn't know this, thank you!
He says he had hundreds of users and hosting costs were a problem. This made me curious how this could be. Testing SSL for a few hundred users should pretty much free these days.

He said Patreon pledges paid for 25% of hosting. So I looked up his Patreon. Turns out he has 3 (!) patreons, together paying $9 per month.

The web is a strange place.

Here comes a fun fact I can add: He is doing better than me. I have a website with about 500000 monthly users and 5 (!) patreons. So while he only had 1% paying users, I only have 0.001% :)

Did I say the web is a strange place? Will this ever change?
Could be a fungal infection. Treatment would be to starve it by not consuming anything it can process for the most part, a pretty restrictive diet. A doctor should look at that.

But having issues after consuming certain types of yeast or alcohol is very typical. For some these fungi cause problems, some live with them all their lives.
That's right. Thanks for correction. I have been doing exactly that. Using custom domain email everywhere I needed. Will use generated emails from now.
On an unrelated note: why are the US police cars called "cruisers"? Are they a different category so to say?
Right.

I'm in the highest-paid job of my life, getting a free day off once a month on top of 21 days' leave and public holidays. Free health insurance, learning budget, work from home, equity, share plan. Things are very good. I couldn't want more or design a better job.

Yet the agile ceremonies, working on a team where small PR's are open over a week as people argue about names or something, isn't following someone's arbitrary style preference, which is now a dogmatic team rule in the team styleguide.md file or rules.md file or contributing.md file or the department guidelines.md file. Breaking a deliverable into the most minor task possible in a Jira, so you know each class/function you have to write and then find the original plan is not the reality when coding. Then story pointing the card, even if the task itself is less time to do than the effort spent in Jira and pointing. The religiously pairing and people being afraid to do work on their own. All while the deadline is slipping away, and no real work is getting done as the time is taken up by the process around the work rather than the work. You find yourself burnt out, wanting to quit for a simple life.

We know it's not so bad. On the outside, what more could we want? But it also takes its toll mentally. We've probably done much harder jobs in our youth, in call centres, working retail, labouring in factories for minimum wage 10-12hrs a day 6-7 days a week, juggling school with the rent, yet some of us still feel like this is the hardest it's been mentally.

I'm probably going to leave my position to go to a small ten person company. I find them much more fulfilling, no large processes, people turn up, do their work, may need to do more than their fair share as a small company, but you can see the progress and get a sense of achievement.
Are you talking about the same religions that exists on planet earth? because in our earth suicide is prohibited even in many non-religious Ideologies.
It's one thing to feel with the pain of others, but another thing to glorify or defend things that shouldn't be.
I have hundreds of friends both IRL and online, hang out with lots of different people every week, have piles of hobbies (many involve tech), and run a b2b company serving major silicon valley tech firms.

I also don't have a smartphone and I almost exclusively use open standards and open source software, most of which I self-host in a rack in my closet. The only way I can be reached is e-mail and matrix.

You do -not- need a smartphone or FAANG to live a rich technical life in 2022 though many in the US sure seem to think you do. In the USA, you go to Defcon and see google/apple/discord nonsense everywhere. Even the privacy village (ugh). Go to CCC in Germany and you will see thousands of people gathering and exchanging ideas with only open software and protocols, because they don't trust US big tech.

The fact so most in the US, like you, think that app culture and surveillance capitalism is required to thrive in our online world is evidence of some very successful marketing.
In the about[1] you claim there are no ads, which is not (no longer?) true.

[1]: https://goonlinetools.com/about/
Ask HN: Looking for a previously submitted article on API security protocols
There is an article I cam across on HN, one or two years ago where at the author went into detail on numerous api security authentication and authorization implementation protocols, his experience with each, their faults and his advise when each should best be used. If I remember correctly, he had just finished a big project or migration where they had to decide on which one to use.
My TLDR opinion: The MBAs squeezed all the value out for shareholders and short term profits once again. Cut every cost to the bone, sell everything not bolted down until the end. It only took as long as it did for Sears because of brand and brick and mortar inertia.

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Inventory counts: have to do 'inventory' (check what's really there), which costs workers and time to verify. Most frequently seen by consumers when a store thinks they have X of something but they really have N (likely zero).

POS: Infrastructure is a cost center... How do you measure the hypothetical losses?

Saturday... video message? WTF kind of cult is this BS?

Maligned incentives. I'm sure ages ago those metrics used to be useful for promotion or something, then they became the literal payment system. No wonder that place felt like a used car showroom for merchandise as they were going out of business.
Except it ignores the little detail of stuff like Ravescar profile.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravenscar_profile
In other words, you're making a claim that's impossible to verify?
I spent a year working on an automatic volume control product[^1], but this smells of correlation...noise ~ heart damage? The most polluted and stressful places are also the noisiest. And what causes the noise? Burning of jet fuel and hydrocarbons. Leaf blowers are also some of the dirtiest burning engines ever invented.

[^1]: https://wallfly.webflow.io/
How can a passenger force a fully autonomous taxi to pull over? And what happens when the passenger is in the driver's seat and the police think they are resisting orders?
@dang can we get a change "away for" to "away from"
>Hope so. IP is rent seeking and should be abolished.

In my opinion exclusive rights shouldn't be abolished, they should be time limited (up to a quarter of the human lifespan) and extensions should be gated behind very high taxes.

Humans capture water from the environment for their personal use (e.g. drinking), however, eventually they release that very same water. What modern corporations are doing is akin to sucking a pond dry and swelling up to an absurd size while never intending to release that water back to the environment.
> with little benefit.

I would say one of the first changes would be to re-instate Trump, which would bring back a huge amount of free marketing.

Here is a single account that by far generated the most brand awareness of Twitter than anything else. "Twitter" was mentioned in every news outlet every single day. And it drove engagement from both sides.

I think a lot of people can see the liberal bias hurting the company and were waiting for something like this. Just look at how many people are coming out from the wood work talking about free speech.

The funny thing is that here is a platform where you can choose who you listen to and who you don't by following and blocking, contrasted to all other news outlets who give you no filtering options, and force you to literally switch off the service if you don't want to hear from someone.

It makes no sense for Twitter to need to ban people.
If you change your username, i don't like talk to "throwaway"-trolls
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>because our schools curriculae are in complete disconnect of the world we've built within the last 40 years

I'd be very curious to know if any of the tech-based education programs being rolled out at a rapid rate include any material on the dangers of technology and social media addiction.
> > Even teachers use Whatsapp to communicate with pupils nowadays.

There are messaging platforms that are not dependent on Big Tech. If communication via group chat is so key to the school operations, parents are more than entitled to ask the school to implement a proper platform for it.

> Covid made damn sure parents are somewhat paranoid about social contacts, and having people over is still pretty rare.

That is your first-order problem to solve.

Giving kids a smartphone as a substitute for proper social interaction is a terrible band-aid.
>Being socially excluded was the bane of my life in school, and I'll be damned if I'm going to be a contributing factor to my child becoming a pariah.

As someone who had similar experiences, thanks for letting your children be in control of at least some part of their lives. You're doing the good thing.
What about policing? From the video, it is clear that Kim Potter clearly made a mistake when she pulled her gun instead of taser. Where do you draw the line? Are some fatal mistakes acceptable while others are not simply because of the societal opinion of the job?
Imagine if every failure in a traditional car became news.
The company didn't really change at all, it's simply that Jan 6th made it easy to justify the ban.
I mean you could do a modicum of research and find that people were often fired for being gay or trans. Still are, far more than "cancel culture".
No clue how they came to this conclusion, if nothing else, I learned to despise (and find my ways around) airbnb when I was working from abroad.
It's much more likely place, where google will win with maps (as they usually contain direct, unsupervised contact with actual rentor/ landlord).

Now its double the truth with their integration for searching rental prices there.
US Military Makes 'Significant Effort' in Quantum-Resistant Cryptography
Those still produce noise when you press the keys. Source: a friend can't practice after 8 because it bothers his downstairs neighbours.
Those are blood pressure readings, not heart rate.

And yeah, alcohol consumption tends to increase blood pressure.
> This is not something that can be solved by going to individual teachers

Yes, it can. You just need to become part of the "intolerant minority" that refuses to give in. https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...
One still happens today and has received zero essays from PG, despite it still being an issue in the tech community, and the other doesn't actually happen.
Le Wrong Generation meme is decades old.
I agree with you, I do more useless things with my phone than I'd want.

But is limiting the solution? When they become adults, they can do what they want, what would be the best way to teach them healthy habits? I'm not convinced keeping the kids away from phones as long as possible it THE solution (maybe part of it?) We keep them away from heroine, from alcohol to a degree (although for me that started at 14-15). Maybe the state should put out stronger advice and forbid them in schools perhaps...

But we are also addicts, and I got my first phone at 17 (it was this one [0], still, sms could be pretty addictive, not much compared to what can be done now). So that didn't really work. Maybe what we really see as problematic will become normal over time? I mean, looking at a small screen is not nice, but if it's in your glasses or VR? At least it is less bad for posture and eyes. It will perhaps be more addictive even, so immersive... Maybe overtime we'll get to evolutionary pressures even, you can get most things you want in VR except food and procreation... Or can we, man where are we going...

[0]: https://www.gsmchoice.com/en/catalogue/ericsson/gf768/galler...
For someone who seems versed in many of the schools of meditation, you seem bitter and condescending. What's the point of all that snark? And here, of all places. If they are wrong, teach them — but not in that tone.
A guy says:

> I don’t know how Sears failed so hard

and proceeds to describe exactly why it failed so hard.

BTW, despite all that corporate bullshit one thing should work reliably: inventory. When a customer is physically in the store you can "sorry, actually we don't have $thing in stock" all you want, they can't just teleport to your competitor. In the Internet - they can.
I saw updown.io here on HN some time ago, it's a great service, cheap enough I don't notice, and quiet enough I only notice when there's a problem.
Child abuse is not speech… I don’t understand how it is even necessary to explicitly say this. :-/
Thanks for being a good parent.
It's absolutely reasonable to not want to be harassed by noise in ones home. Even if that means a musician has to find another place to practice. Living stress free takes precedence over learning an instrument.
This is ridiculous. There are emergency brakes all over and people are spread between cars and cabins.

List of places where people are more exposed with no places to hide:
- a TSA line at an airport (bonus because victims very unlikely to have their own fire arms)
- a lecture hall at a university
- a Walmart
- a movie theatre
- a Costco on a Saturday

> I'm surprised we don't see more of it, being honest. Only a matter of time.

You haven’t really thought this through. There isn’t anything special about the train here. The only thing that is special is how obsessed we are with airports.
I find the explanation offered by Cruise amusing: the car supposedly "figured out" that it is in a dangerous spot to be pulled over and "tried to move to a better one" (extremely complex behavior), while the actual reason for the car being pulled over was not having its headlights on (seemingly a relatively simple bug).
"No Knock" usually implies that they don't announce that they are police before they kick the door down.

I'm not sure I could confidently say that a rich person is less likely to draw a gun when someone kicks their door down in the middle of the night.

Maybe they are more likely to have a panic room, or just long corridors that provide enough time for the situation to become clear before they have a gun held in their face by someone claiming to be the FBI.
Helicopter parenting has been shown to be orders of magnitude more damaging than any potential "dangers" out there.
I don't think people are outraged about "bots" being moderated. It's more about huge accounts with non-liberal views like Trump.
I think he did that when he created git?
Statistically, they don't prosecute wealthy people much to start with.
This is (IMHO) a very good approach.

Most parents don't realize how little control they actually have over their kids' lives. If a parent doesn't provide a consequence-free communication channel with a child, the child will quickly learn that communication leads to punishment and will refuse to communicate.
Really not unreasonable. Postage is expensive- on something like a mobile phone bill just that would be 1-2% of the gross, before printing etc.
And moreover enormously wasteful of resources where email seems to work pretty well.
(And for handling commercial invoices dealing with people still sending paper ones is an expensive irritation)
Another interesting question (to me at least), is what if Sun had made Solaris open source about 10 years earlier. I think there's a chance what is now Linux (and potentially Android as well) would have adopted the Solaris kernel.
The differences may not have been great to some, but I believe we may have been about 10 years ahead in the opensource OS game by now, since the Solaris kernel was such an advanced thing at the time, and with the thriving Linux community it could have really flourished...
> do not gamify karma-whoring

Christ, I'm not really on the 'complain about social media' train, but this resonates with me so much. The way people pose and mug for upvotes on Reddit - or mortifiedly delete their comments when they get some downdoots – is, well, it's self-abasing. I can't believe the effect it has on people. For kids I can only imagine how destructive it would be, in the already insecure and reputation-centric environment of school.

I don't know what the solution is. I believe it lies _broadly in the direction of_ better clients, rather than different networks. The latter is a fool's errand. The former is still hard, but at least practicable on one's own: to find or create [apps / web clients / browser extensions / etc] which don't surface the karma component as much.

HN is a good example of that: it still has upvotes and downvotes, but the design (especially not showing you others' downvotes, beyond binary indicators of positive/negative) centres them much less. It's an illustration of how you can substantially reduce this through frontend changes alone, without needing to change the core logic of the product.
Yeah, normal editing for X minutes, then append only seems to be good solution.
The sad reality is that poverty is criminalized.
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I would be certainly terrified if the car didn't pull over and I would see cops chasing me. And all I could do was watch.
"Cruise vehicles are only authorized to drive from 10PM to 6AM, which obviously makes headlights pretty important."

So why rely on the automatic headlights at all? Why not just set the headlights on manually?
These constraints are good. Brevity is the soul of wit. Nobody wants to read your essay. If you want to tweet longer, you should pay for it, one way or another.
The teachers are not the ones setting up the servers. All they need is to install a mobile app, and get a piece of paper that says:

- Name of the server
- Username
- initial password, which needs to be changed upon login.

The element client is far from being perfect, but even my aging parents could start using it, join the family group chat and adapt.
> No one wants to reinvent the wheel so gluing together packages is considered best practice. The work has become more about making decisions around the packages you choose rather than being given time to make the package.

While I have not been developing anything much lately, I realized that most of my career making things ended up being. In part because of this, I found the passion to start digging through again stuff I wanted to learn but never had a project for, basically now a deep dive into system programming. At the moment, I'll probably only gain insight, but it feels more gratifying than learning how to glue packages together.
All parse fine, and unambiguously, due to the maximal munch rule.

x---y is (x--)-y, which is semantically valid.

x-----y is ((x--)--)-y - but it's a semantic error, as x-- is not an lvalue.
>SELinux is also a bad example

No why? If you have the right (and correct) rules, SELinux absolutely act's as a "sandbox", that's exactly what i meant, a sandbox don't need's to be another layer of software. Run in your "namespace", can just create/access/execute/read your port, files, memory..that's it, that's a sandboxed application.

For example that "namespace-sandbox" is standard in Plan9/9front...without any additional software, just the filesystem and 9p.

https://dwalsh.fedorapeople.org/SELinux/Presentations/sandbo...
>I think what people value is subjective.

Yes. Like taste. But not all subjective choices are good. McDonalds will harm you more than healthy food.
They should risk well more than their jobs for their criminal behavior. I'm so sick of qualified immunity I could convict a cop for chewing gum.
it depends where you are. i agree with your ideas, and i'd like to get there too, but here where i am it is literally impossible to keep in touch with people without a smartphone. giving up that smartphone would result in complete isolation.

but that doesn't mean i am addicted to social media stuff, just using messaging for the most part. but also, i grew up before smartphones and i learned to be somewhat disciplined about computer and tv use. my kids are unfortunately not getting the same experience.