skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I wasn’t responding to the OP but the idea that somehow changing managers is complacent and/or punting the problem to someone else.

It isn't? Whoever inherits the role will have the same issues, so how isn't swapping teams punting the issue to someone else?

> Employees have 0 responsibility or incentive to improve their managers (the converse is not true).

Employees have a responsibility to make sure their job gets done, and can (and should) identify obstructions to that happening.

> there’s probably only single digit % of managers who would take that positively, if even.

'Managing up' is a well-known and fairly common skill at large companies.
>...and one of the solutions they’ve proposed is to order Apple to carry apps it doesn’t like in its App Store. This isn’t how we’d do it. There are lots of ways that forcing Apple to publish software it objects to can go wrong. The US government has an ugly habit of ordering Apple to sabotage the encryption its users depend on.

> But Apple also sometimes decides to sabotage its encryption, in ways that expose its customers to terrible risk.

Somewhat tangential note but this level of nuance in an article is just confusing. Why are they presenting an entire new argument (in the second quote) to refute the premise of their basis for rejecting the previous one? They dump this argument and move on to a completely unrelated point in the next paragraph, which frustrates me. Also, the second quote has "sabotage its encryption" and "expose its customers to terrible risk" as hyperlinks, meaning they are linking to entire write ups of why they believe this. I'm sure there is merit to the point, but why briefly mention such a bombshell point as an offhand comment in this article? Makes it much harder to read-- I feel like my attention is being pulled in a lot of different directions.
China aims to bring Mars samples to Earth 2 years before NASA, ESA mission
The Gervais Principle shows up every once in a while on Hacker News and seems relevant:

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/the-gervais-principle/
I expect there's a ton of overlap between the anti-Electron "gang" and folks who don't think a website needs an app at all.

Plus most of those website "apps" are just a bunch of webviews anyway, so you're not going to save battery by using them. Just like Electron.
This x100.

Sure, Apple have a disproportionally large power that should be acknowledged and stifled sensibly by regulators, but man do they create truly beautiful products that make my life better in myriad ways.

Facebook, on the other hand, maintain a business model that seems to do little but incentivise actions that exhaust ill societal outcomes. It's exhausting (pun intended), and I've certainly felt my mental health crack slightly under the burden of some of their products (not WhatsApp, which is fantastic and I hope isn't integrated further into their ecosystem from a user perspective).
Yeah, never buy a house near a military base, especially one active during WW2 or later. If you do, don’t consume groundwater.

The military’s approach to dealing with waste in that era was essentially “dump it over there” or “burn it with fire”. Airbases are particularlye bad as the crap they spray on the wings for de-icing and the firefighting foam. Is everywhere and often is nasty stuff.
> Why is it unrealistic to expect a single doctor to have mastery in every medical specialty?

Full stack doesn't mean everything.

And actually all the doctors are doctors first, so they know everything about medicine, except they are not specialized in all the medical specialties.

Which is rarely a requirement in medicine.

Brain surgery or conjoined twins separation isn't that common, but an highly specialized surgeon is perfectly capable of curing common diseases just like a cardiologist can perform common surgery, such as appendicitis.

Full Stack means that you can get things up and running, not that you know everything of everything.
I have iPhone XS. Full of 3rd party apps. My wife and my daughter have iPhone XR. Also full of 3rd party apps. Other daughter have iPhone 11. 3rd party apps? Yes.

Nobody in our home noticed any slowdowns, especially 4-6 seconds to unlock the phone. That's just ridiculous. I just checked with wife's other phone (iPhone SE), it works as always.

You can blame Apple for many things, but iPhone longevity isn't one of them.
No, Kranar-the 70 million does not include unpaid parking tickets, unless it escalates to a criminal case (which rarely happens). The explosion in these numbers occurred during our war on drugs in the 80's and 90's, along with "three strikes" laws.

The 70 million number relates to the number of people who have, in their record, an event(s) that might stand in their way from a variety of opportunities, so they are, by definition, serious events.
In some circles that'll count against you if you try to sell the product/company. Investors are interested in recurring revenue and will value it very differently than your loose-relation clients.
Not saying it's a thing you should always do, but worth keeping in mind.
>For whatever reason positive news tends not to play well on HN, even if it’s factual.

People on HN are very good and detecting when someone is trying to blow sunshine up their ass.

Take, for example, the second part of this tweet:

>Very poor households (< $25K) shrunk from 24.7% to 18.1% (number rose slightly)

That is an abject failure of an economy if I even saw one. 18.1% of households in the most embarrassingly rich country in the history of the planet are living in abject poverty? Even with what you can do with poverty wages nowadays, that fucking sucks.

This rate should be <1%.
The point is big tech has too much power. Apple, Facebook, Google all have too much power. Unfortunately the US government can't pass any reasonable laws around technology so we end up relying on these companies with too much power to be (hopefully) a positive for the users.

It's different for everyone, but for me in order of trust its Apple, Google, and FB is a distant distant last with almost anyone else you throw in there.
Then, clearly, what we need is a seek-friendly video encoder.
Try Rumble. No censorship, it's the whole reason it exists.
Interesting. I definitely respect Butterick’s opinions on typography.
Religious content bans happen all the time. Consider the ban of Lightyear in 14 countries last week.

Also, it has never been easier to form geographically dispersed but aligned cultural groups.

I don't know which Internet operators you are talking about, but mine does not give a crap about the culture of the content I consume--only the ability to sell me ads about it.
Wonder how this affects MozillaVPN subscriptions.
It isn't an "AI screw-up". They posted a 90-minute video containing explicit photographic depictions of sex acts, without noting that the content was possibly inappropriate for some ages. Some system correctly took down. Now it's back up, with the correct age notification in place.

The lesson here is not about AI, it's about how correctly managing your videos is a lot easier than whining on substack about how oppressed you are.
Not if you use yt-dlp/youtube-dl or one of its wrappers like mpv to watch it.
Perhaps eventually.

The Feds took almost a year to pay me the $700 theybowedbmenwhen I resubmitted my taxes due to forgetting to add one item I took a loss in.
There's Odysee based on LBRY, but I don't know if LBRY is here to stay. It's hard to tell with new Blockchains like that. I have to imagine running a node is expensive too.

[1]: https://odysee.com/

[2]: https://lbry.com/
For many popular streamers it is indeed their job
Just to how much the US is incarcerating, the difference between India's incarcerated the US incarcerated is 1,590,200. Assuming 70 rapes per day with 70% (49 per day) not convicted, it would take 32,453 days (approx 88 years) at 100% conviction rate to match the US's current incarceration rate.
hard for some people to leave when they've paid thousands in hardware, apps and media content that doesn't migrate easily to other platforms.
I’m definitely willing to believe 30% is higher than it needs to be, and while it could probably be argued either way for various reasons, Apple’s large pile of cash is my main reason for anticipating that I would agree with you.

However:

> I pay for my Apple Developer Account annually, so while XCode is free to download, distributing my app is not.

It’s a nominal fee, and judging by how often the apps on my devices announce new updates, probably covers 15 minutes of human time in the average update/release review process. My guess is that’s probably going to be the minimum App Store membership fee regardless of commissions.
At my previous gig I observed a few worrying things that were not fixed with security training:

- People still stored passwords on Slack channels, emails, Confluence, etc.

- People still used simple passwords such as "password".

- Literally nobody who wasn't already using a password manager started to use one.

In my opinion SSO, 2FA, etc. are absolutely needed at many places where people can't be trusted with following basic advice and training.
And if you take it upon yourself to try, suddenly you become the sole point of contact for anything that ever goes wrong with it from then on, even if it would have failed before the change.
Used to work for Vimeo, I know a bit about this.

Hosting videos is a non-trivial thing. Let's say you upload a video in 4K. Not everyone can watch in 4K, so it needs to be converted into other resolutions. That's transcoding. Then those other files need to be packaged so a player can intelligently upscale automatically depending on throttling — that requires a bunch of frontend and backend code to work correctly.

Instead of building it themselves, Cornell could pay $$$ for a white-labelled third-party service, but they would be on the hook for a large recurring cost, and they won't get the benefit of YouTube's excellent discovery.

We saw this phenomenon at Vimeo, which offers all the transcoding and throttling etc. Back in the day camera reviews were overwhelmingly hosted on Vimeo (mainly because it had a reputation for higher-quality video).

We assumed that paying users would prefer their videos be watched in isolation from others' accounts — this seems obvious, but it means that the average user watches fewer videos per session, which decreases the overall view count.

Over time YouTube mostly caught up on the video quality front, and camera reviewers were drawn to YouTube where there was a much greater chance of their video racking up a high view count than on Vimeo, simply because users watched more videos on YouTube.

Stated cynically, YouTube doesn't respect users' attention spans as much, so it gets more viewers' time than other platforms. That means more people want to put their videos there for people to watch.
this borderline appears to be "thief calling another theif, theif".
Ask HN:
Would improve the visibility
wasm is just fast at doing that that's all.

However, do make us to think we need another API for general JS without WebGL and GPU access.
Cool tool, thanks for sharing!
Apple store votes to unionize in growing push for U.S. workplace protections
Yeah. Decisionmaking like that is probably related to why they have $170 million in the first place.
In Cambodia, researchers document the largest freshwater fish
It would be an interesting future historical study to see what caused more harm:

-Manufacturing the best firefighting chemistry (e.g. military purchases for missile warehouses, resorts, apartments, etc.)
-Using the chemistry to actually fight fires

It might be a case where sometimes second best should have been the way to go, but it’s hard to know beforehand I imagine, especially in safety scenarios where people are laser focused on optimizing for that.
There is a good chance that it will happen eventually. Atwood's law is: "Any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript." But the root cause of this is really that when you get enough volume of activity in some area then the lowest common denominator tends to take over. "Worse is better" should have been written as "Worse is better for adoption" because it is definitely worse for every other attribute. In general, network effects are lowering the quality of everything.
> We"? Which "we"?

The "we" that is currently going through the Democratic process of passing laws which are almost certainly going to pass.

> "We" don't want you to tell us

Feel free to vote for a different lawmaker then. Or that is what you should have done, because it is too late in Europe already. They are going to pass the digital markets act.

Go participate in democracy if you disagree.
Tourists have access to tourist-only specials though, which make up for that, I think: https://www.sbb.ch/en/leisure-holidays/inspiration/internati...
Terraform has the ability to import it
Huge logic sleight of hand.

It is a very different piece of legislation to apply a cautionary principle to any substance in cookware, food containers, or in contact with human skin, versus a full out ban on iphones because some processor inside it used a PFAS lubricant at some point in the supply chain.
Seattle Is Building a $54BN New Railway
Are there any good alternatives? I looked at Tortoise TTS but the performance is too slow. Silero is fast enough but the non-commercial license is a huge turn off. Shame since it seems like it would've been a nice project to contribute to.
> In the case of Facebook, whole societies and the psychology of the masses have been negatively effected.

In my opinion facebook is very beneficial to society, so I find it strange that such a strong negative claim, stated as a fact, yet only a matter of personal opinion is left unchallenged.
The legacy OS is even less hassle, because it never gets any updates and just sits there.

If you compile old software on a new OS, every single update to that OS has a chance to blow up your compiled old version, so it takes more hand-holding.

Can be worth it at times, but other times it's just easier to firewall and hope for the best.
@cher14 best way to contact you ? info@ bounces back :(
I wind up pausing my subscription when I get too many credits. It’s not a full cancellation, but I don’t have to pay.
I would think they would mean this tweet which is a screenshot of the youtube channel returning a "this page isn't available":
https://twitter.com/elotroalex/status/1538168994712399872
I went to a new dentist over a decade ago, and he wanted to cap 4 of my teeth, because he said they were stained, and he said it probably meant there was a cavity underneath. I changed dentists immediately. I’ve still never had a cavity.
True, but there's nothing wrong with being a TERF (more accurately, MERF). Feminism is for women and girls only, i.e. female humans. Not men who claim to 'identify' as such.
Organizations like Google, Amazon, and Apple have more capital and potential to do harm to individuals than most governments in the world.

> Both the left and right political movements have had ample opportunity to fix this problem but they've made their bed. Now they get to lie in it.

This is frankly nonsense. Net Neutrality is dead because organizations like Google aren't bothered by having more control on the net as well. For every "blackout" site when NN was a big pet issue, there are 10 people who were in favor of NN then that could not even explain what NN was.

Google doesn't push on the NN angle anymore because they make more money on a closed net, and pushing out anyone critical of mass media/advertisers.

NN is dead because the big institutional players are against it. It's as simple as that.
To a branded Card App in 24 hours
The email address I give out to companies is theircompanyname@myserver.com - this has most of the privacy benefits the author describes. But frankly, I did it just to find out who sells my personal info to spammers. Turns out quite a few do, and whenever I get a spam email, i just look at the to-address and I know who betrayed me.

Edit: multiple typos
I've been a mullvad user for the past couple of years. I only occasionally use them for privacy on open wifi networks or whatever, but the experience so far has generally been excellent. I initially used the official Wireguard iOS app to connect, but their iOS native app is freaking excellent. WAY more reliable and user friendly than the others I've used— ExpressVPN and some other. It's been quite some time since I used the other ones, however, and they may have equally good branded clients by now.
A gun and a gallon of water will go farther, I believe
The archive saving home sewing history from the trash
Automate the Freight: The Convenience Store That Comes to Your Door
This is the worst written article I've seen in a while. It gets very lost in the weeds, struggles to make any points, just sort of wanders about.

There's no actual discussion of what a unique email should be. Or how that could possibly work and be practical given that any payment related site will also need your real name and address.
Houses are not intended to be a medium of exchange, and neither are they collectible... But they fulfill an fundamental need in society, so they are going to be assets that will have some value in and of themselves. At the end of the day, people find utility even with some of the collectibles you allude to, like art works, whereas in crypto there is nothing tangible, and the buyers seem to be buying on the greater fool theory for the most part. It's not as if the money is growing because of value being added and part of it being captured as a result of the investment, e.g., a stock investment, C.D., or a money market account. People seem to be more interested in it as a store of value than as a medium of exchange...
I haven't been to the dentist since 5+ years, and I also don't use toothpaste, just an old toothbrush, floss, and (clove or other) essential oils and massasing my gum when it hurts, few times a year
I can wholeheartedly recommend them after using their service the past few months.
They offer Linux configs with wireguard (a sore point with other VPN providers, who tend to either not support Linux at all or only offer openvpn), their Android App has worked flawless and it's just 5E/month.
It's not that hard to run Linux without modules, I've been doing it on my laptop for a decade.

Just build the kernel and set the right options, this is for a Dell XPS13: https://github.com/jcalvinowens/misc/blob/main/kbuild/config...

It takes a few hours to whittle it down for a particular piece of hardware, but I've never broken anything on Debian by running kernels built with CONFIG_MODULE=n.

* Edited for clarity
It is possible for train A and train B to arrive at the same time, and depart at the same time, allowing convenient transfers in both directions. From my brief experience on Swiss railways, I found this arrangement to be quite common.
Incredibly evil. That's why I used up all my credits and then cancelled my account. I briefly flirted with "gift subscriptions" because I was still wanting new audio books a lot, but that has its own problems. So I gave up on them.
The best humans wear a moral suit, attained trough intense education and effort. Humans don't overcome their instincts, we keep them in check either by conviction, or by fear of the consequences. Humanity is ridiculously far from enlightenment yet.
Ah this article put the finger on why I don't trust my 'new dentist':

The operation is just too slick from a business POV. As someone familiar with SaaS or in general this kind of recurring business model, you can sense all the little operational policies and procedures designed to increase your LTV.

It's a well-oiled machine. Without fail, the hygienist recommends cleaning not once every 12 months or even every 6 months, but every 3 months. When pressed on why, eventually they'll admit it's how nice it feels to have clean teeth and how important your smile is - but NOT strictly necessary for health.

This particular dentist also will shut down and take their entire staff to a resort for a week every winter if the team "hit their targets" for the prior year. That's the literal phrase they used to explain the trip. When I asked what those targets were, the person turned bright red.

So dentistry has a trifecta of factors that will encourage dark-patterns: (1) a true health-related reason for going both preventatively and to deal with problems; (2) a cosmetic / vanity-related reason (white teeth), and (3) the air of higher-educated medical authority.

Wrap that all in a lucrative recurring business model and of course it's going to lead to people taking advantage or at least overpaying for what they really need.

Just writing all this out made me realize I shouldn't be going to my current dentist! Thanks OP. :)
Wrong as in unethical or wrong as in untrue?
"The document further requires sites that offer comments to collect and verify account holders' real names"
This is one of the reasons why if we ever touch a box (say to update whatever it is doing) we also bring it to the latest possible version of the OS we can find; luckily for us CentOS exploded just before the last one, so we moved to Ubuntu instead of CentOS 8 which was our original plan.
> unreasonable "safety standards"

Are these the same safety standards that cause apple predictive text to refuse to recognise the cuss words I a grown adult use and have to go back and fix over and over again. Ducking stupid if you ask me.
It's not much better than "Your.Full.Name+company@example.com" in practice tho.
That certainly impacted the believability of the overall story. Not saying the rest of the article is false, I don't know, but that line is so out of place that I wonder.
i miss being on the road. i used to travel for work from sunday to thursday. client work aside, this was a guaranteed period of time alone for me. while i love my wife, i need a lot of it.

i havent traveled for a client since then and it is slowly driving me nuts. balancing work, gym, alone time, personal project time, and time with my wife is pushing my limits hard.
Yes, the 20% that has all the money.
These were literally _lectures_ containing images from pornography because it was _part of the lecture_.

IIUC you're suggesting people -- academic lecturers, no less, not professional streamers -- splice out sections of their lecture, replace them with a content warning, provide a contextual link to the "risky" content, and then hope that people will follow it, jump right back to the original lecture, and then come back? (And that somehow that link won't trigger the same YouTube content flag, b/c obviously they're going to at least broadly categorize outbound links to combat spam.)

This (meaning HN) community regularly nerds out over SEO, landing page optimization, and zero-friction payment flows. Why should we expect educators to be successful delivering complex content in an approachable way if we're also going to require them to carefully slice their content into "acceptable" and "NSFW" segments and deliver them separately, even when the original lecture was linear?
Democrats ask Google to censor search results for pro-life pregnancy centers
When my mother moved in and we went on daily walks, she lost a pound a week for a year. Her entirely sedentary lifestyle (and that of most Americans I know) is a major factor for her obesity. Standing is now considered exercise it has gotten so bad.

But people will blame anything instead of taking action, so…
Good question. I doubt any of them are truly private but I think it at least adds a layer of privacy and security from the service provider, but as with most things it probably won't protect you from a court order.
And anyone who has done the same to cheat the tests in other industries should also be penalized accordingly. I can't believe you're excusing deceptive behavior and test cheating because "everyone does it!"
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Relying on advertising companies to host stuff because server software is hard to self-administer was a good way to bootstrap things, but the shine is wearing off.