skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Email is not "controlled" by large companies. People choose to use large companies and let them read their emails because they are stupid. Email has not evolved in any way BECAUSE its NOT controlled by some company. If Google could, they would do even more evil with email that "just" reading all your mails.

To compare Twitter with email makes absolutely no sense. Yes Twitter is a totally controlled thing by a single company, email is not. You could say it for the web when it comes to net neutrality and where it does not exist anymore ...
You can compile binaries with additional relative library paths in to them that will take priority over /usr/lib64
The court held the Apple DPLA (developer program license agreement) as an adhesion agreement. If you want to develop apps for Apple you need to sign that. I think that is also needed to get their compilers, SDK etc., that provides apps access to their IP (i.e., the device, ios etc.,).

While the contours of how sideloading is going to unravel is unknown at this time, it is possible that Apple may still use some form of app notarization (perhaps an API for 3rd party stores and require that the stores use those APIs -- similar to their stance on webkit).

Then, similar to the Netherlands case where dating apps were allowed alternatives to InAppPayments, but charged 27% commission, Apple might charge a discounted commission (relative to the 30%) for sideloaded apps.

They will look to get their cut.

I don't like it, but that seems to be where this is headed.
> However, I've recently caught myself self-censoring and avoiding sharing provocative or speculative opinions, since they immediately get downvoted

You care about votes that much ?

Freedom isn’t free bud - you pay for it with Karma
Digital addictions are similar to pathologies of food, and unlike other things we usually think of as addictive, like hard drugs. That is because, as with food, most of us cannot escape the digital. Everyday, we are exposed to the thing that also incites pathological behavior. It's impossible to go cold turkey. People with food pathologies resort to things like time-bounding exercises (if it's noon, I can eat). Like processed food, digital experiences are backed by an industry whose profits are pegged to how much of us they consume. People with digital addiction are suffering from a kind of informational metabolic syndrome.

The cure is harder than the author thinks. "Making our lives so warm that the digital is dull in comparison" sounds great, but our phones channel all the vices, titillations, and novelties of the world. It's actually hard to make that dull.

I'm not sure there is a cure, but a good approach would be a digital purge -- take a month off if you possibly can. That will serve as a dopamine reset, and make many things IRL seem more interesting.

Buy a device that limits what you can do, like a lightphone.

https://www.thelightphone.com

Barring a light phone, various parental controls...

Because if you let the digital channel duke it out with the analog without rigging the game, the digital will keep sucking you back in.
Just an FYI here: Google's community support forums aren't well named as their intended purpose is for users to answer other user's questions. For the community to support each other.

For actual support you need a paid account to reach out to.

You could argue that it's badly named and should just be called Google's community forum instead, which is what it really is.
IANAL, but I don’t know that that would actually be a hurdle. As I understand it, you can apply for a trademark on a name long after you start using it, if you can prove that the word has become associated with your product in its industry.

It’s just riskier to wait, since in the meantime a competitor could try to blur the mark by naming their product similarly to yours, and you’d have no way to stop them if they succeeded in getting a lot of mindshare.
Of course it existed. It's just a lot cheaper with telemetry.

This is why companies like Microsoft cram it down our throats.
There is obviously going to be some amount of abuse of the downvote button as an "I disagree" button in a large group of people, no matter how intellectually curious they are on average. On the other side of the equation, there is also always going to be some amount of people who write a low-quality post that hurts the conversation, and interpret the downvotes they receive as being of the "I disagree" variety (sounds like, "but it's true"). And of course, this categorization will be varyingly subjective per post.

My experience has been that HN has the fewest of both problems out of anywhere on the internet. But I've been here for less than five years. If it was even better before that, I am surprised, and sad that it has somewhat fallen. It would however mirror the similar falloff I've seen on the rest of the internet.

Note that this is compounded by the HN audience using the downvote button in a somewhat unique way: As far as I can tell, if they don't think something contributes, they will downvote even if there is nothing inflammatory or shitty in the post. E.g. if somebody replies with something like, "I agree" or even just a joke, they are frequently downvoted. This looks harsh, but I actually have found relief in the relative scarcity of these kinds of nice-but-low-content posts that pepper the rest of the internet.
I'm not going to downvote you but you're comparing apples and oranges. You own the company. You decide if it lives or dies. And on that, you reap all the rewards.

The people working for you don't have the upside that you do, so why should they care to invest as much time?
Yes, there's something interesting going on there with smells and body language. It's a matter of how flexible you want to be with the word "story". In a strict sense, there needs to be who, what, when, where, why, and how. I think some of those elements are there for other animals, but maybe not all of them, and maybe not an ability to ask clarifying questions.
So long as various AI (in the distant future) doesn't start refusing to pay taxes that go toward providing for humans.
I don't think banking loses its purpose, but I do think it loses its insane profitability.

A bank is supposed to be a safe location to store my money, because storing it under my mattress is a far less guarantee of safety. It should be a slow burn towards profitability.

To your point, that goes out the window with fractional reserve banking and it's exacerbated when the Federal Reserve pulls shenanigans like remove reserve requirements...which still seems to be the case.

Either way the points are moot, the banking system ain't gonna change until we have some ungodly catalyst. Hopefully no one blames some dumb social media website for that either.
Not everyone wants to follow criminal laws 100% of the time.

If someone wants to punch you in the face just how "optimized" do you want their freedom to do so, without legal consequences, be? Aka how many "nudges" should be in place to make that harder to get away with? If you don't want to get punched, you want people to think there'd be consequences, that bystanders would tell on them, etc. All those "nudges" need to be stronger than the "snitches get stitches" and similar nudges from the other side.
I am not a lawyer, but I don't think it would work.
Been there, done that, both 12 years ago and again during the pandemic. I loved it at first and later grew to hate and resent it. The advantages are immediate and the disadvantages take a little while to manifest.
"Transformers" is already trademarked by Hasbro:

https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=76051283&caseType=SERIAL_...

Maybe they will create ChatGPT-powered Autobot and Decepticon toys?
> Because I hate having people behind me

Anyone who has read Dune should feel this way - leaving your back to the room/door is how the Harkonnens get you!
It's standalone 2FA, not a paswword manager. There's no seed.
Fox News, Tucker Carlson part ways days after Dominion lawsuit settlement
I was quite obviously talking about loading many classes.

But.. yeah, you can disable the GC and also the JIT compiler, for whatever reason.
Hmm, an SDS 940. Never heard :(

I have used a CDC 6600 and various 370s. PDP only from reading, I started with VAXen.
I think the reviews on Amazon are worse than worthless. I wouldn't read them to help make my mind up about any purchase.
My most successful use of AI so far was that Bard's answer was so useless that it made me realize the actual problem. Invoking Cunningham's Law isn't really a success on its own merit though.
Trademarks exist to distinguish the provenance of a good/service.

The reality is that “GPT” is 100% associated with OpenAI in the minds of most people at this point. The fact that this specifies an architecture seems incidental as anyone can use this architecture and just market it with a different term.

Getting upset by this seems like pearl-clutching.
I totally agree about the reality of mental health issues in the US. And I definitely agree we need more studies on LSD and its effects. It's very unfortunate that LSD is schedule 1, meaning that research is exceedingly difficult to do on large scales, which essentially means that debates like this are only really supported by anecdotes and fear on both sides.

I'd like to say I'm not pro-drugs. I'm just pro-science and anti-war on drugs, which I'll assume you are too. If there was a scientific consensus on how often normal doses of LSD caused things like visual snow or, more severely, the onset of schizophrenia or similar disorders I think the world would be a better place. If LSD indeed caused more harm to the world than existing popular drugs like alcohol, then I think anyone who trusts science including myself would say "Okay, let's stop doing them". But until then, it's just hearsay anecdotal evidence that gets us nowhere. If it does get us somewhere, it's been historically in the direction of demonizing those who do drugs which I think has had a negative effect on society as a whole.
A few years ago, the small company (4 people) I was at relocated to a new space that was as-is so we had to do the custom build out for it ourselves. Two of us are hardcore DIY types, so we took on the build ourselves. Part of that required electrical work. We found an electrician that worked with us on the plans and permits, but then allowed us to do the work for the internal wiring to the panel before he ran the mains with the explicit understanding that if there was anything that did not meet specs, he would not connect mains until it was corrected. So we bent conduit, pulled/labeled wires, wired the breaker, then held our breath when he came back for inspection. It was very satisfying when the electrician said it was better work than 90% of his employees. I wish I could find the pics I took of how clean the breaker panel was. The bending of the conduit and measure 3 times cut once was fun and frustrating at the same time, and the decisions on which way to run based on which route needed the least amount of bending was challenging and fun. I definitely have a much deeper appreciation of what electricians go through. It also made it very clear why I did not pursue that kind of construction career path my dad took and did everything he could do to have me not follow those footsteps. To this day, I find myself looking at the conduit work in places and admiring the work more than your normal person
Most people don't like littering and pollution. So we've passed laws against it.

Yet if you don't have any trashcans or other ways of disposing waste around, and you don't have much social pressure against it, many people will eventually leave their waste behind somewhere.

Much better to nudge them towards complying in specific with the laws that they want in general
i have literally over 5,000 passwords going back almost 30 years in a dozen vaults in 1P. How easy was it to migrate to Bitwarden? Any issues with Windows, Android, Linux, i(Pad)OS with the move? thanks!
I’d be interested in how someone would (care to) defend Clarence Thomas

Seems like an odd pick for a “provocative or speculative” topic
Whole graphics drivers using LLVM in the backend has caused countless issues. The way I look at it one of the main problems is that graphic API libraries shouldn't leak symbols from implementation details like them using LLVM. They should expose only the graphics API and nothing more.
You choose to behave.
There's a big connection between any form of externality tolerance and class IME.

I don't mind noisy DIY work, older cars polluting, parties on the weekend. It means that I can do them too.

As long as it's not preventing people from sleeping on work days I don't see the problem to be honest.
Map FYI

https://www.egypttoday.com/siteimages/ArticleImgs/2021/3/30/...
It also isn't hard to find an electrician that will come sign off on self done home wiring work to satisfy the regulators. To me that is a sign of overregulation. Electricians concede that non-electricians are capable enough to do their own work but the law requires somebody with a license to sign off on it.
"1Password Unlocks $620M Round, Reaches $6.8B Valuation" would be my guess.
I mean, what sort of reaction are you trying to provoke that is not downvotes? Downvoting is a generally expected result of direct provocation. If an opinion is known to be provocative it usually means there is a wealth of existing discussion about it already where the finer points have been debated, and if a comment doesn't meaningfully add value to that larger extant discussion it'll probably be downvoted.

Speculative opinions are sometimes downvoted for being repetitive or easily Googleable for veracity first. There have been plenty of comments I started, googled in the middle, learned something, and didn't bother finishing.

Is this about covid? Politics? AI/LLMs/transformers? Religion? Vi/Emacs? Those are where I see downvotes. The first one needs pretty nuanced discussion because despite the focus of the world's science the virus is still evolving new variants and there hasn't been enough time for really great peer review and consensus-building on all aspects, and there's a huge political element. I think the political divide between parties in the U.S. is the worst it's been in a couple hundred years, so that will draw out the downvoters for anything controversial. We are going to have to literally vote to further the political discussion/landscape. AI is moving so fast right now that no one is quite sure what is happening and there is a philosophical divide or two over what it means with respect to consciousness, sentience, intelligence, etc.; a mix of covid-level uncertainty with a bit more existential implications and a big helping of YMMV on impact. Religion is mixed both with politics and existential beliefs and so also requires more nuance than provocation or speculation.

Emacs. (This is an example of a downvotable comment; sharing only an affiliation or preference without some contributory nuance or furthering of a conversation)
The 2 hour lunches are actually useful once a week. Sitting at your desk is even less a guarantee anyone is working. Its a fools errand to try to micromanage that.
>Remember: if you're not paying for the product, you are the product!

This cliche isn't true: if you pay, you're a more valuable mark. You're always a product.
Man I love this. As a kid my dad had a friend that had some type of old industrial control interface, in unpainted sheet metal, he had wired up that just did blinkenlights. Had a bunch of 7-segment LEDs, light-up push buttons, switches, throws, dials, meters, and a bunch of other stuff. It had that tactile goodness that a touchscreen doesn't.

Basically it did nothing, but man did it inspire my imagination. I remember spending hours playing with it as my parents talked and played cards. This must have been the late 70s as I was 4 or 5 at the time (if that tells you my age).

These kids have it good.
If you lose enough karma over enough posts that you are losing privileges, it’s safe to assume that the damage you were doing to the discourse on this site was not completely harmless.
Quantifying slow down of the game Gravitar on Arcade1up’s “Atari Legacy” cabinet
True, or be able to keep them in folders. Imagine trying to manage your TOTPs if you, say, are a freelancer who does work for 25 different clients.
This calls into question most psychological research.
Without telemetry it is a closed-source application that contains all your secrets, is updated periodically, and is already storing encrypted copies of all your secrets on their servers. If they wanted to intentionally exfiltrate your data they could already do it easily.

I don't see how adding telemetry makes any significant difference.
I appreciate your opinion even if I do not agree.
Tangential complaint on google account sign ins.

If I remove an account from an app / device, I expect it to be gone. But they clearly shadow it.

I have three google accounts (work, work and personal). And when I log into my personal account, which I have removed from the gmail app. It still uses that app as it’s “2FA”, and then reactivates the account.

1) if I remove the account, actually do it!!!

2) if I’m not logged into any apps, then use a 2FA method I DO have active (google auth app)
His words as ceo were empty and devoid of meaning. I have no idea how he says so much with communicating so little.
This is... well, this is one take.

ChatGPT is the fastest growing app of all time, and almost everyone in the US knows what it is. It's absolutely dominating people's mindshare.
The success of YouTube and TikTok proves there is demand for content from people that have not been followed. Most of the content people watch on these platforms are from people they are not following. People gain value from seeing content that is relevant to them.
I'm surprised they didn't offer some subscription-based extra features to have a steady flow of revenue instead of only depending on hardware sale.
I think there should be a lot more focus on getting people to work only 40 hours. There are lots of people who have to work overtime without getting paid extra for it. There are lots of "managers" who aren't or managers who are paid little that have to work overtime. The exempt salary limit should be much higher. I think the software development exemption should be removed but at least we get well paid. Some countries have maximum hours.

Equally bad, there are lots of hourly employees who work 32 hours and would like to work 40 hours and get benefits.

Pushing 32 hour work week feels tone deaf when lots of people aren't working 40 hours.
That's what Wikipedia tells. I had no clue where it came from. Of course it's not unheard of the big companies like Apple buy their best ideas from elsewhere.
I wouldn't say it's cognitive dissonance, but rather, it's people becoming informed that their (implied) privacy choices aren't being respected.

The (albeit false) implication, is that when you're not sharing your location, /you're not sharing your location/.

These people likely believe that their location is private and only used when they /explicitly/ enable location sharing features. To us, that's obvious - to the lay person, it's not. It's an extremely common (and gross) dark pattern.
> Is it a problem? Right now it doesn't seem to be a practical problem.

It will be the day these image hosting services die (and they do, all the time). This setup separates the post content from the post itself. I hope that most of us remember what a giant mess hosting images for forums on free image hosting services (that were later shut down) caused.

Apparently there was a discussion just a few days ago about Imgur deleting images that are not associated with a user account[1]. Just imagine all the broken image embeds that will cause…

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35636190
I have to repeat my most important concern about Nostr from ~3 months ago[1]: Nostr makes you forward data from strangers unencrypted. If anything unlawful which you forward for Nostr is ever found on your computer, or found transmitted from your computer, you'd have fun time to explain to the authorities how it even ended up on your machine, and why are you disseminating it.

Encryption is not trivially easy to introduce into this scheme, and it can't be too seamless. It's possible though, and I encourage the developers to work on that.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34529931
Perhaps ChatGPT wasn't the best name for a product and OpenAI would have gone with something more trademarkable if they knew it would become such a hit. Still, my comment above is a simple application of Hanlon's razor.
It could be that the English concept "community" is subtly different from Finnish "yhteisö".

Another way to state this could be that as a community grows larger, the shared norms become weaker. Large communities often have subcommunities that believe that their norms are more universal within the community than they actually are. Ugly things tend to happen when two such subcommunities collide.
>If consumers spend more money, then businesses will respond by hiring more workers.

Unless they can expand by spending capital instead. Workers are an expensive long term liability. This is why in every industry that has been able to automate at a cost 'around' human labor or less has. You don't harvest wheat with 100 people with scythes, we invest huge amounts in to capital intensive combines that can do the work of a few hundred people. At the same time, some fragile fruits have not been well automated yet, and we use unskilled low paid labor to do work like that.

What you are not doing is answering the question of "What will happen if we can automate a significant fraction of white collar labor"? Blue collar work moved to the service/information industries for higher pay. If that market shrinks, there is not any other high paying skill based market for these people to move into that I know about.

It is highly possible we could see general wage suppression. Plenty of jobs, very rich companies enriched by the control of AI, not plenty of pay. Now just contemplate the economic problems that's going to cause.
great idea. while we are at it, we should also require that the police have a key to your house and vehicle, as well as your debit card pin number and, email password, and bank password.

its necessary security, so you agree with this correct?
Your interpretation is off. Any “asset” is valuable to own because what the owner chosen to do with it that creates value for others. In order to be valuable, you have to create value. You don’t get to trap people in your commercial real estate as prisoners and force them to pay you rent, as your net analogy implies.
>See also his weirdly derogatory comments about disco.

This won't be a surprise for anyone who knows much about him. Mark Mothersbaugh was a punk/new wave guy (though obviously not exclusively) and most punks had a visceral hatred for disco.
Theoretically, "thrown away" votes for the Pirate party would get attention from red and/or blue both if there were enough of them.
so... the new feature is you can turn your 2FA into a 1FA google login...

if you think this is a good idea, i highly recommend you add a second 2FA device to the account you're worried about instead of... centralizing your "have" factor into a "know" factor.
If that is true it gives me the kind of background I was looking for.
I'm inclined to believe the job bank numbers here are incorrect, based on what it lists for software engineers, which seems a bit low: https://www.jobbank.gc.ca/marketreport/wages-occupation/5485...

Assuming 1880 hours per year (52 weeks * 40 hours - 120 vacation hours - 80 stat day hours), that would imply the median wage in BC is $99414

Levels reports a median pay in Vancouver (where I assume at least 60% of the software engineers in BC are) of $156K, and $130K in Victoria. While Levels may be off, I think real wages are somewhere in the middle.