skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where is the crossover point from 'ignorance is bliss' to 'uninformed'? There's no doubt in my mind that women (and men) would be happier if they didn't know about the Roe verdict in America. But wouldn't that lead to less activism on an issue that really matters?

It is notoriously difficult to get young voters to turn out and asking them to turn off their phones for the mid-terms (like in the article) when they should be thinking through the issues feels counter-productive in a democracy.
Not to start a tube vs. solid-state flamewar, but I thought class D were awesome too — until I swapped out the class D in my office for a tube amp.

When some audiophile type talks about "listening fatigue" (and the lack of it from tube amplifiers) I get what they're describing now.

(This is the "Darling" tube amp I built for maybe $200: https://imgur.com/PBKOQMk)
I see this like a cartoon black hole painted on the ground.
Regulated now in the UK - dirty engine oils are ‘hazardous” and need an expensive local council permit.
Ew.

Thanks for elaborating on why shareholder value is bad for all but "big shareholders"!
This is my least favorite part of Ruby (coming from a Ruby fanboy) and I actively avoid patterns that make methods hard to find when writing it. Though I think I’m probably in the minority here.
Is there a British train that runs overnight other than the Caledonian Sleeper? I don't think I ever saw a departure between 0:30h and 6:00h.
The article gives the impression that privacy doesn't matter otherwise.

In the author's words, Google's behavior "has suddenly become dangerous", suggesting privacy didn't matter before and would stop mattering again if not for abortions.

That's an attitude worth debunking.
If you're doing something cryptographic you need a spec for that anyway, so the extra work to specifying something like json sort order doesn't seem like it's a major factor to me.
China’s Surveillance State Hits Rare Resistance from Its Own Subjects
> Enter a cage willingly, with barely any complaint, for minor convenience, then cry when you're taken to the slaughterhouse

I don't think it's fair to characterise Gmail, Google Maps, YouTube and plenty other Google "products" (Pay, Music, Android, Android TV, Android Auto, Calendar, Podcasts, etc.) as "minor convenience". Some of them were literal game changers, and some still are (YouTube, Google Maps, even if they're finally starting to get decent competition).

Similarly, characterising Google's knowledge about one's habits and interests for the purpose of serving ads (that are also, at least sometimes, more interesting for the user) as "entering a cage" is hyperbolic to say the least.

Yes, having a corporation know you very well for monetisation is bad, but it's not a cage from which you're going to be slaughtered. And even today, many people would prefer, if they even have the choice, to have free access to Maps, Gmail, YouTube and all the rest instead of paying 5-20 $/€/£ each/month, or having to buy into Apple's expensive walled garden and its own massive issues and fleecing.
Thanks for the kind words and for reading, I'm glad the post resonated. In situations like online community moderation, self-promotion is doubly sensitive, and timing needs to be super deliberate (e.g., probably only when the need arises, and then passively in signatures or something?). I appreciate you sharing, definitely will be noodling on that some more.
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We’d all be a hell of a lot better off if your camp didn’t casually and routinely believe that failure to contact FSF or advocate for Tor is evidence of a conspiracy against computing. I swear free software people have a really great idea and philosophy and absolute garbage ideas of how to promote the idea and convince disagreeing viewpoints. We badly need to start coming around to the seemingly-crazy understanding that there’s a huge middle ground between where you are and would prefer us to be, and unfettered, apocalyptic corporate exploitation dooming us all. It’s tiring to live this Sith existence that free software people push: “with us or conspiring against.” And we all know it’s RMS who sets that tone and has inspired all of you to religious battle. The problem is you’re showing up to battle with civilians most of the time, including here, in this thread, right now.

You mention nearby that you didn’t mean for this post to come off as blaming the consumer. That’s weird, because typically when I’m blaming someone for something, I use adjectives like “myopic”, “apathetic”, and “willful” to describe their behavior that I find disagreeable. Your entire post is blaming the very people you’re trying to convince; when called on it, you quickly rush in with oh no, not blaming the consumer, and not even blaming Google (!?).

> That’s why they get comments from an establishment Harvard professor, and not the FSF.

How do you think this conversation goes? Is it something like this?

“The people are dangerously close to understanding true freedom. We cannot have that and we must convince them that Google policing is in their best interest. If we call FSF that’s what they’re going to tell us, so we absolutely can’t do that. Let’s call the safe option at Harvard.”

Because (former investigative journalist here) it isn’t. The conversation you’re annoyed about actually goes like this:

“The last five hundred times we tried the FSF we got lectured about why our computing choices suck and we make bad decisions about using computers. Let’s go to a person we’ve worked with before who is able to break this down in a way that I, and my readers, will understand. Bonus: I don’t have to Google why forgetting ‘GNU/‘ in the last article destroyed my comment section.”

It’s so weird and depressing because everybody in free software is brilliant, for the most part, but just can’t see how alienating and frustrating this kind of thing is for the majority of people who aren’t them.
> Debugging with pry is annoying for complex inputs

Debugging for complex inputs is always hard, but I’ve yet to see a language do it better than Ruby/pry. Write a test that sets up your complex input, slap a pry in it, use the repl to debug/explore/iterate, then leave the test in place when you’re done.
In the event of a full nuclear war, whoever is on board the sub has probably just had their family, friends, and home vaporized.

Further, they are trapped in a small metal tube with 100 other people in similar condition, and who will probably be....not pleased if any sabotage is discovered.

I suspect it would be very hard to successfully bribe said crew members. (And have them actually follow through with their end of the deal, rather than just taking the money and...not doing it if the war ever happened)
I mean, if you’re at your own home, and your guns have suppressors on them… it’s fine.
the model decided to procrastinate, due to the anxiety of being put on display.
There are people whose brain chemistry is so screwed up that no amount of treatment is going to fix their depression. Treatment-resistant severe depression is a big issue. Is it society's role to prevent that person from doing what they want to do to when that thing would also avoid the constant pain that they're currently undergoing? Why isn't it up to that person to make the choice to end their own suffering? I'm not proposing this as the best path for all or even 98% of cases...but I'd claim for those 2%, it's akin to torture to force those people to stay alive when they don't want to consistently and for a long period of time.
> 50 year old man, it's bloody weird anyone spending this much time online, but to be outdoors, or at a bar, or a restaurant with your partner, or looking after your kids, or looking at a sunset, or on the beach - and be constantly in your phone - this is insane.

You have a great point here.

Thinking about this. When I was young I spend an unnatural, lot of time in front of screens. Here is what I did: I learned BASIC, REXX, C, x86 assembler, Pascal, and Prolog. I learned to make software for a home comuputer, then for a real PC. It was productive, made money for me, and helped me develop a skillset that has resulted in six companies created, a couple hundred people having jobs, and a decent life for my family. I have exactly zero regrets for spending time with the computer.

What if the device was a phone? You can't even create software for a mobile phone with the phone. I guess I would have consumed a lot of content, and posted a lot of videos. Maybe I'd be able to build an audience, and make some cash from my gofundme or patreon. Maybe.

> Living a life, a real life, with real relationships and real sunsets and real beaches - is an enormous privilege. Many of us are wasting it. Life is short. Leave your phone at home, and truly live it.

This is really great advice. Or at least delete all the distraction as a service apps. The best feature on a phone is the camera and maps app. One is for capturing and sharing memories, and the other is for finding your way to friends and adventure to make those memories.
“The US Department of Agriculture estimates that more than 20 million victory gardens were planted. Fruit and vegetables harvested in these home and community plots was estimated to be 9-10 million tons, an amount equal to all commercial production of fresh vegetables.” https://livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe40s/crops_02.html

That’s 3 pounds per person per week, or 1/3 of the total 12lb of vegetables per person consumed per week.

https://www.ars.usda.gov/ARSUserFiles/80400530/pdf/hist/bhnh...
oh my bad, I forgot that’s how it works
The people who are on their phones 24/7 will read this as a dig. They're not the largest group, but statistically, they are most likely to get the first votes in on your comment.
Hah! Well, we do have cougars / mountain lions
You can block the YouTube domains on pie hole or with something like OpenDNS.
Smaller animals are less massive, which makes the forces operating on them significantly less.

Our brains are too large and fragile and our fluid space is much thinner relative to our brains.
The charitable reading is that the author sees a direct link between a lack of privacy here and imprisonment and forced birth for women. That’s a material sense in which Google “has suddenly become dangerous” for the target audience of the Washington Post.

It’s manifest to every reader of this site that adtech has always been dangerous. But it should also be manifest that we’re not the sole audience.
The difference is that you're not a naive, inexperienced with life and prime target for predators 13 years old boy.
People will make choices you disagree with…
I guess I would have to disagree with that, selling out for me would be decreasing the quality of your work or changing aspects of it at the dictates of another party in order to make profit.

Generally you are selling out to someone, for example a large organization, that then gets to dictate aspects of your work in order to increase the profitability of your work, or ways that they expect will increase profitability. In such a situation you have sold out creative control.
> "entering a cage" is hyperbolic to say the least.

Until you do something forbidden, such as get an abortion, and hyperbole becomes literal truth as you're sent to prison.
It's naive, very naive. It's also required.

Google, like other industries, where build on the ideas that what they did was more or less harmless. As we learn more about what massive data collection entails, we also have to reconsider the laws surrounding it.

Google will never stop on their own, as you say that would mean that they'd stop existing. It's the same with oil or tobacco companies, and few would cry foul if Philip Morris would be forced to shutdown.

I no longer believe that tracking and data collection can be done safely and it's time to dismantle those business that rely on it. Give Google, and others, five to ten years to close down their data collection business and after that they can stop existing if they can't cope.
> it's the people not the media they use

This echoes nature vs nurture in psychology and can be debated interminably because the truth is it's not just one or the other, it's both

We need to acknowledge the powerful ways our tools influence our behavior, just as we need to recognize and reclaim our own agency in using them. Both these perspectives must coexist if we are to form mature relationships with our technology
True. I found it so obvious that I didn’t see a reason to point it out explicitly.
It does for me too. (Also surprised that I'm logged out, guess it does that after a 2 week break)
Great points about noise, and you really hit it on the nose with your final point—I've heard of a mental model of Twitter being likened to tapping a tuning fork and seeing who resonates (https://twitter.com/kevinakwok/status/1076967914580918277).

The most fun (and probably best) self promotion is done with fun in mind—Tom Critchlow's post on small b blogging vs. content marketing comes to mind (https://tomcritchlow.com/2018/02/23/small-b-blogging/), and he extends his thought with this one (https://tomcritchlow.com/2019/03/12/strange-attraction/). I also liked Matt Webb's post on this (https://interconnected.org/home/2020/09/10/streak).

Please excuse me if I'm being pedantic, I'd change the "hope" point to "showing a person"—even if it's just an email to a friend, cold emailing someone who you quote, etc.
A good yt channel to get some insight into systematic trading is "better systems trader". Also, look back through the archives of "chat with traders" yt channel. More experience on those two channels than you can absorb.
It's a very good comment. Those early downvotes, when they happen to me seem to be out of whack - they are too fast to have read the comment, and often the comment isn't controversial, inaccurate, or negative in any way.
It's possible (as a Westerner) to disapprove of totalitarian theocracy such as what exists now in Iran while simultaneously not believing it would be a good idea to interfere, especially militarily or through illegal covert action.

The West has deeply undermined itself with this interference. Quite a few people around the world actually did want what the West had to offer until the bombs and coups came and pushed them into the arms of domestic totalitarians.

All you have to do is turn it around. Imagine if the USA had a brutal dictatorship and China invaded us to "fix" it. How well do you think that would go over?

Edit: Sanctions are a little better but grossly over-used. I think they should be reserved for cases of violation of international law, such as Russia invading Ukraine, to exact a financial penalty for that. Otherwise sanctions tend to just harm the average people of a country. The Iranian dictators and mullahs are rich. It's the people who feel the sanctions. If anything sanctions make it harder for the people to organize any alternative to their current government by keeping them in brutal poverty.

Also to really understand how the West fucked up Iran you have to go back to before the Shah when the bogie man of communism was used as an excuse to intervene the first time. Read up on that history.
On the internet, no one knows you're a middle-aged man
Abolishing minority rule does not mean establishing mob rule. It means re-establishing equal representation.
Ah one more thing—I'm sure there's a better way to say this, but basically, the fact you're so considerate about noise is probably a great reason to actually post. I have a feeling the internet needs more people like you!
Most software is written for internal use and not sold to external customers. For this case Changelogs are busy work without much utility up until the point your organization is big enough that you and your "customer" may as well be separate companies. In that case you're better off writing a blog post or release announcement than a text file change log which is for grey beards, not users.
In Euclidea, you don’t manipulate the proofs but unless you’re just brute-forcing the levels you have constructed a proof mentally. Similarly, if Euclidea is implemented correctly, it generates the proof internally and checks it (even if these stages are fused). I wouldn’t rely on a game for building large developments and indeed Euclidea lacks abstraction and modularity as far as I can tell but the same developer may have a freeform environment with these features. Euclidea is an activity that mentally scratches the same itch as proving and in the same or very similar theory to TFA.
Not only in the south, in Emilia Romagna it is common enough, as an example, and though not common, it can be found in Tuscany and Umbria with a minimum of effort.
>In sane national leaders' mind

That's the thing, they were very far from sane. If you can murder millions of your own people then Nuking another country is not a farfetched scenario
Perhaps we can. It is certainly easy enough to both cancel Prime service and to resubscribe to it.
Look at the balance sheet not the stock market reaction.

The vaccines are arguably being marketed to people for whom its more expensive than its worth: the young and healthy.
The term “Zero Trust” is now a mainstream industry trend, for better or for worse.

The positive aspect of this is that - especially for those of us in the information security industry - there’s a name for this security philosophy, and shift toward approaching security architectures and policy models form a holistic perspective, breaking down traditional silos and barriers.

Really “Zero Trust” is about zero inherent or implicit trust. Zero Trust is about carefully building a foundation of trust (based on sound cryptographic validation), and growing that trust to ultimately permit an appropriate level of access at the right time. It could perhaps have been called “earned trust” or “adaptive trust” or “zero implicit trust,” and these would have suited the movement better, but “Zero Trust” has more sizzle, and it stuck.

The term is now very broadly used - in fact, being the core part of the May 2021 White House executive order issued by President Biden. So we need to embrace it.

However, for non-security people, I agree that the term can be off-putting or potentially insulting. I’ve seen enterprises deliberately term their Zero Trust initiatives as things such as “Modern Workplace Security”, or “Digital Transformation”. That’s fine - security leaders can and should adapt things to best suit the culture and context of their organizations.

(If you’re interested in more, see my book and website on this subject at https://zerotrustsecurity.guide/ )
Take Facebook, for a brief few years it did bring your closer to old friends and family, if you let it. In the quest for profit, that feature seemed to be the first to die off.

Maybe it wasn't a vision, but it could have been.
But the journalists too are just following the incentives that are provided to them. Don’t they deserve some of that “but that’s like blaming the fox for killing the hens, instead of whoever left a hole in the hen house” blanket pardon you’re handing out, here?
So we can use this to kill hanging process ? Or must wait till it's not hanging to kill it ?
It's also perfectly fair to criticize the author for ignoring the dangers that only affected other people until now.

Framing the issue solely in the context of abortion suggests Google's response should be to stop tracking a few health and pregnancy related data points and otherwise carry on business as usual.
The noise problem affects digital processing as much as analog processing, because every arithmetic operation, e.g. addition or multiplication, adds a rounding noise.

The digital noise has the advantage that it normally does not depend on time or temperature, i.e. 5 years after you have bought it, unless it has broken meanwhile, the digital device will produce the same noise as in the first day (when executing the same program). Also, a properly designed digital device will produce the same noise regardless if the weather is warm or cold.

The greatest difficulty in analog processing is to avoid changes in behavior caused by the variable ambient temperature or by aging.

Besides the immunity to temperature and time effects (within reasonable ranges), the second advantage of digital processing is that it is much easier to implement programmable devices, where, e.g. if the noise is too high, one can just change the algorithm to use numbers with more digits. That will work fine, even if it may increase the power consumption or reduce the signal bandwidth (due to slower digital operations).

On the other hand if the SNR is not good enough in an analog computer, increasing it may require a complete redesign.
Unfortunately, playing online has pretty much become critical competency-training for life, replacing playing outside which used to be the same.
I know a few people like the Pope, or any of the ~15 Patriarchs who might disagree with this.
In the 1995 case of Qualitex Co. v. Jacobson Products Co., the Supreme Court described trademark law as "preventing others from copying a source-identifying mark" and assisting the customer in making purchasing decisions.
See, I think I understand what it means to actually follow the ideals of Christ. I think it's a pretty good way to be. But that isn't my point here.

My point is that the image of Christianity is being twisted and used in the public eye and I haven't seen any actual Christians come out and condemn the behavior.

We have all these self proclaimed Christians in government, claiming to have God on their side. They keep getting voted in. Why do we still have homeless people? Why are there billionaires who take advantage of the poor? Why are they trying to control who can marry and how much control people have over their own bodies? Why do we have people going hungry while corporations throw away food to protect their profits? If these self proclaimed Christians in government really were, would they be writing and voting for legislation that help to enable the state of society that seems to be antithetical to what Christ taught?

I hear no actual Christians saying anything about it, but they keep voting. The result is people actively being harmed with Christ's name being thrown on top
> It's sad that despite all the warnings, people are so myopic and apathetic that it takes something this big and obvious to make them react.

The problem is, the very same data that anti-abortion fundamentalists or the police in the pointless "war on drugs" use against the population are what makes many services possible or usable in the first place.

A real-time traffic map only works with a large number of devices transmitting location and movement data that are then evaluated to detect a traffic jam. An app to help fertility or contraception only works with people entering very detailed data about their periods. Cell phones only work by having the phone register at each cell during roaming around.

Boycotting Google or deleting your period app is a stopgap solution - the real fix is we all need to get the right to privacy enshrined in our Constitutions, Basic Laws (the German equivalent) and international treaties, in a way that matches the reality that our phones and computers are direct extensions of our minds. We don't allow police to use brain reading (=polygraphs) as evidence in court, so tell me, why the fuck should we allow police to use digital representations of our brains?

Oh, and we all have to literally fight for the separation of church and state that basically all Western nations have in their constitutions to be actual reality. Fuck churches, fuck religion - the immense amount of influence both have on politics is completely unhealthy.
> Personally I think we're playing a high price for mobile phones.

I do sometimes wonder if Steve Jobs was the antichrist or devil, or whatever. Introduced the revolutionary smart phone complete with an icon of forbidden fruit with a bite taken from it. And then disappeared from Earth shortly after.
I think you can buy land at 50% LTV in the us also.
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