skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let’s play devils advocate for a moment:

Why should I be able to control what someone else knows about me? Seriously? If you sit in a park bench and watch me running around on a hot day I can’t compel you to “forget I was there”. And if you use that knowledge as data to support opening a lemonade stand, and even to reach out to me directly and offer a discount on cold drinks, who is being socially harmed? Where is the “social atomic bomb” here?

And, if I consent to this because you can offer me better prices if I allow you to cookie me, and I don’t see a problem, it seems everything is humming along ethically and harmlessly.

So I’m not sure I buy the conclusion that “behavioral advertising is ethically bankrupt”. Notice in your comment you have to evoke the idea of “mass behavioral knowledge”. What does this mean and how is it bad or different from “minor or regular behavior knowledge”?

Please understand I’m not writing this comment to defend the advertising industry. I’m writing it because I also believe this stuff is potentially grievously detrimental, but I don’t think we have a good foundational construction today for why. And we can’t say what is wrong. If we could, we could more easily point a finger at it, declare it unethical, and make laws against it.

But, no, I don’t think we’ve yet landed on the answer. It’s not some innate “right to be forgotten” and it’s not GDPR telling everyone abstractly that “you can’t use PII in your application”. (The GDPR bit is kinda moot because you argue that it’s unilaterally not okay regardless of consent and the GDPR argues it’s okay with consent, so the GDPR is not a solution to your argument.) There’s something else here to build a case against.

If real harm is impacting individuals or society then shine a light on it! Otherwise it’s just ra ra we hate behavioral advertising because it’s spooky. Which while fun to rally around, doesn't really carry social and legal weight. Pointing this out does not bring me snarky joy, rather it frustrates me because I think we’ll be stuck banging our tech heads trying to make every internet standard and protocol 100% anonymous fighting the digital boogie man until we try a new approach. In order to make social and legal progress, because I do suspect the solution is social and legal, we need a really clear understanding of the problem.

In the face of a globally connected world, what new fundamental right do humans have, that behavioral advertising robs them of, that we must take extreme measures to protect as a society?
The volume of "revolutionary new techniques" is exceeds our capacity to master each+all of them. I wonder what a https://killedbygoogle.com/ version of https://landscape.cncf.io/ would look like.
Fish – A friendly interactive shell
(2014)

Some older threads,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16729408 (2018 / 43 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22141719 (2020 / 27 comments)
Our constitution applies to all humans on our soil except where it specifies otherwise.
It’s a problem with getting body scans.

I think it’s useful to look at the overall behavior change that happens with a thing.

I mean I guess lung cancer isn’t a problem with cigarettes, it’s a problem with people smoking lots of them.

Body scans don’t provide useful information due to their false positives. Maybe eventually this gets better, or it may be a limitation of this type of scan.

But I’ve talked with many doctors who say that MRI just isn’t actionable enough due to the limitation of imaging.

But for our purposes, full body MRI scans, done without a specific cause, are net harmful and should be avoided.

I mean, it’s legal and people can spend their money on whatever they like. But people spend money on all sorts of unproven “health” expenses. I don’t think MRI scans are as bad as homeopathy, but it’s in that same area.

This, of course, is different from diagnostic scans. MRIs are valuable tools and it’s not the scan is bad, just how they are used sometimes.
That site was cancerous, even with content blocker on iOS.

The parable in the article is also used at the end of Charlie Wilson’s War by the character played by Philip Seymour Hoffman.
As a counter example, I love learning new languages and frameworks. Reading a “Getting Started” tutorial is as interesting to me as picking up a new book. That’s what I like about public cloud, with hundreds of services there is always something to learn.
Well, if my memory serves right, this investment started with RedHat's support for CERN's ScientificLinux and snowballed from there.

Then this snowball is solidified by the hardware we use, namely InfiniBand and GPUs, plus the filesystems we use (LustreFS or IBM's GPFS) which requires specific operating systems and kernels to work the way it should.

It's not as simple as "Mneh, I like Debian more, let's replace".

While I strictly use Debian on my personal systems, we can't do that on our clusters.
> oh this version is ... Full stop.

The weird contradiction is that you would have a better impression if things just stopped there.

E.g. the most current release on windows is broken. You grumble and give up. Heck, for apple stuff you would probably give up before even thinking of trying to fix anything.

As far as users are concerned, linux would be better if it simply said "No!" more often.

The fact that you treat "fighting" and "compiling" as options and then complain about it being tedious already shows a bad image. All other OSs simply say "Nope. Tough luck" and you are happier for it.
This post and the comments here make me think of two things:

1. Digital minimalism can be extended to hardware. Buying the most generalist machines for every possible use case is what leads to having all this clunkiness when you travel. Think deeply on your hardware scenario and optimise for that. You might save some money in the process too. E.g. I moved from a desktop + decent dev laptop to just an M1 MBP and a Steam Deck - primarily for portability and battery resilience during power cuts. I've recently also ditched my mech keyboard for a smaller wireless one I can travel with.

2. I do kind of wish we'd get more desktop devices in a tablet form factor - "Bring your own keyboard" sort of thing. I don't even care about having a touch screen.
Consumer Reports doesn't have this issue I believe. The write-ups aren't as good but they've been around for a while.
Directly yes.

In this case though, Spacex is enormously important to US national security and NASA.

It's effectively NASA skunkworks.
Technology is a false god. Speaking of which, I spent about 15 years of my life being an atheist. I went to Mexico last Christmas and came back a changed man. I answered the calling of my conscience. I think over time the current political situation in the US is going to push people back to traditional values as well. Living life for yourself is always going to be ultimately unfulfilling. Men need to sacrifice and be responsible for others. And submitting our own will to the will of our creator is very liberating.

And if anyone from Mexico sees this, God bless Mexico. I’m thankful for Catholic nations. The level of devotion and permeance is awe inspiring. I have a new admiration and understanding now of the Catholic world. It almost feels like home in a way.
Time is finite. Censorship is already in place by those that seek to use yours.

Whether this is 'better' is the debate. But that you a person is a product who's manipulation of is current is not. The new current is that of false agency.
The EU doesn't derive most rights from human rights. Every country has its own constitution and the differences between EU countries is vast, as is the relationship of each country in the union (and plenty outside of it) with the EU.

All these generalizations serve no purpose and are strictly speaking off-topic. If you're going to make such comparisons you're going to have to work a lot on clarifying the context within which your comment is made because it is very easy to misconstrue what you write on account of the gap between the situation as it really is and how you present it.

Dragging in asylum seekers serves no purpose, that's not what this is about at all, so you categorically can't illustrate any differences between the US and the EU regarding the rights of people crossing borders by shifting the topic like that.

Even if such a comparison in the abstract might be interesting. We could also start a conversation on emacs vs vi in this thread, it would be about as off-topic.
Yes indeed! Longest word you can type without the top row (middle row, bottom row), from my wordlist.
tl;dr: the best kind of software is no software at all.
I really would not say it applies to whole Eastern Europe.

Baltics, Poland, Slovakia, Czechia, Romania and many other places are developing fine and less and less people are emigrating.

And the picture definitely is nowhere near as depressing as Albania and this region in particular.
Why not become (or help) the Debian packager of youtube-dl? Debian packaging is not especially difficult and the whole thing runs on volunteers. You don't have a right to demand that Debian or Ubuntu keep particular packages up to date.
OP is from ~2015.
it’s censorship by the politicians of the day.

europe has been backsliding on hard won freedoms for a while. this is just part of the trend.
This is almost a decade old so kinda undermines that point.
> we're too dumb to use the results of this screening the correct way, so you shouldn't get the screening

I agree with this. One day we might be smart enough. But they say is not today. It’s ok to be dumb.

It’s also dumb to spend thousands of dollars on these diagnostic scans that we’re too dumb to use.

We can plan around our stupidity. We can also research new ways to use these data and, hopefully, one day be less dumb.
Mumble install & configuration :

sudo apt install mumble .

Config : Do mind that mumble starts up and puts you in the appropriate channel of the LAC free server channel the moment you choose a mission to play
(that's the start page of the chosen mission, you don't need to start the mission yet) On that mission page you can change the team you want to play with ; red or blue, the realm you play it in (best for now to leave it on 1 because it's the realm that has all the missions fully working)
To change the team, click on the "Blue" (or Red) team button, mentioned in the upper left part of the start page . DO NOT forget to click on "Update" to make the changes in the game and in mumble .

Once mumble is running in the LAC server and you are in the chosen mission and team, you need to configure the Mumble connection : click on Configure, then choose settings and click on shortcuts .

On that screen one has to add 4 function keys, being F1 talk to your team (Blue or Red), F2 to talk to all players in that mission (Red AND Blue),
F3 for mumble volume down 10 % and F4 mumble volume up 10% .

Follow these steps :
Click the ADD button, then click on the "unassigned" field under Title "Function" and choose Push to talk, then click under "Shortcut" and press the F1 key .
Click the ADD button, then click on the "unassigned" field under Title "Function" and choose Whisper/Shout, then click under "Shortcut" and press the F2 key . under the Data column , then click on the 3 dots on the right of "Empty" and change in the Whisper Target screen like this : on top, click on Shout to Channel, and at the bottom click on shout to subchannels .
For F3 : click on Add, choose "Volume down 10%" in stead of unassigned on click under Shortcut and press the F3 key .
For F4 : click on Add, choose "Volume up 10%" in stead of unassigned on click under Shortcut and press the F4 key .

And that's it for mumble, but if your connection is bad or not working at all, click on configure and then on "Audio Wizard..." and follow through all steps .
One of the things my father passed on as a critical part of mature adulthood: Consumer Reports.
On a higher level, software development is a process of converting unknowns to knowns. We can't estimate or act upon what we don't know; as we uncover details, we can more accurately gauge level of effort and what the best solution is for the problem at hand.

If they're nontechnical, they may not care about how it's done at all, but they will care about timelines. They may have agreements with others that depend on the product, or may have stakeholders they need to communicate with.

As developers we usually focus on our direct communication with the business owner, but I think it's helpful to imagine the second order communications that will result from how we communicate progress on our technical solutions.

For example, if we convey confidence to get a certain piece done by x date, the founder may in turn pass on that confidence to shareholders. But if we later backtrack after realizing that it will be a bigger lift than expected, the founder may have to walk back those expectations.
Did you even read the article?

It points at how miserable virtually all Albanians that get baited into traveling to UK have it
I am still excited about hardware but progress has slowed down to a crawl, especially on the GPU side.

Can't blame AMD and nvidia for trying to make a profit, though it sucks to be a consumer because what we do get right now is severely overpriced junk that couldn't be sold to the big enterprise bois. Literal scraps.
I wasn't talking about Northern Europeans, I was talking about the fact software engineers in America have some of the most cushy, out of touch with reality packages in the world...I was responding too:

So after correcting for vacation, US engineers make about twice German counterparts

"Both will include full health benefits etc."

What I'm saying is that for a lot of people In America this isn't the case and it's those people who would benefit from more time off, especially because there job consists of more than sitting on HN for 50% of the day...
An article of what to do and what not to do. It ends on:

> If so, do you really care what other people think?

WHY write any of the other paragraphs?! That’s the entire article!
Docker for things like this always feels like such an overkill to me
In Ireland at least, there's a probationary period of up to six months where you can be fired at will.

https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employment/employment-...
Any kind of monument to the future comes with risk it won't last or won't be visible.
The fact that there are new and exciting things happening has nothing to do with whether the language is becoming less popular/relevant/adopted. Almost any index or ranking for programming languages you can find, TIOBE, stackoverflow survey and even Google Trends show that interest in php has been declining and not coming back. That is just the reality, and nobody is going to care if some part of the language or ecosystem improves.
A Meccano computer: MOTAT’s differential analyser
I don’t disagree with you. Perfect is the enemy of good and action > inaction.

I’m simply saying if you come across someone who is lost and without a map, it is helpful to at least give some basic direction.
It’s particularly difficult if you’re in the place where your product isn’t well developed and you don’t have product-market fit.

Salesforce.com is a great case study, they executed with great discipline, fot a huge amount of funding in the first year

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/salesforce/company_f...

and they’re famous for resisting customer demands to change the way they do things. Instead they developed a model for customers to run their own code inside their platform, access it through an API, etc.

There’s another idea which fascinates me that I’ve rarely seen executed well which is to develop something that is a hybrid of custom and prepackaged software. I worked at a place that had developed in the early 2000’s a packaged web site for wineries to sell wine online and when I went driving around the finger lakes (where I live) I would always see the signs of wineries who were our customers. Despite having a few things like that the company struggled financially and collapse under the weight of technical debt. (For one thing they depended on a proprietary language called Tango which let you build web sites with an interface like Scratch. I told them they ought to hire a CS intern to help write their own Tango implementation but they weren’t ready to do so.)

The authors of this book

https://www.amazon.com/Software-Factories-Assembling-Applica...

wanted to make this happen. They were in charge of the enterprise version of Visual Studio and unfortunately it turned out nowhere near as cool as what they speculate about in that book.
I'm pretty sure these people had it better under communism as the article points out the place was much more liveable.
E-ink is so Retropunk
That's quite a take, can you back it up in any way?
(2017) or some other year seemingly? The emails start in 2013 and end in 2017. I used to use wire cutter a ton and found the content reliable, but this year my own research would sometimes disagree with theirs. I also found the brand of towels and found and I loved through wire cutter kept their brand but completely changed into a cheap product for the same price.

I’d expect NYT to disallow kickbacks/etc, though the acquisition was 7 years ago so who knows.
For quite sometime I've always felt that "sports analogies" are overwhelmingly the BEST way to frame most microeconomic disputes. Much better than the far inferior Darwin-esque "Survival of the fittest" metaphors that imply some natural order to certain types of greed and bad behavior.

There's NOTHING natural about our economic systems. They're all COMPLETELY made up, let's treat them that way.

(and yes, here it is about 'lobbying the ref')
Yeah I absolutely agree that it’s chilling what could be done with that information and it won’t matter to such people whether it’s accurate.

I mentioned Uganda because I listened to a story earlier in the week about a man being thrown out of his mother’s home because she saw his Tik-Tok feed and it was full of very openly gay content. So we don’t necessarily have to imagine it - in some places this is already happening.
I have no skin in this game, but it's important to note this is from 2015 and The New York Times didn't buy Wirecutter until 2016, and that CEO is long gone.
>I don't think you can (easily) send SMS from a laptop as though it were your phone.

Sure you can--at least with Macs. I do it all the time to both Apple and non-Apple users.
I feel the same way about games— especially AAA titles. I can’t be bothered. Some games that you might consider for giving you a unique feeling without any pretentious nonsense: Limbo, Inside, Journey, Planet of Lana.
I feel you.

I still `cat foo | grep bar` instead of `grep foo bar`
I'm not exactly sure what to make of this article.

First of all, it's not current -- it's about an exchange of e-mails nearly a decade ago, in 2014. With the founder of Wirecutter (Brian Lam) -- but then the NYT bought Wirecutter in 2016 and installed a new leader in 2017 (David Perpich).

And second, the term "kickbacks" sounds bad, but they're using it as a synonym for "affiliate links" here, and Wirecutter has always been 100% open that they make their money through affiliate links. This is not news.

Third, I can't find any actual evidence in the e-mail chain that the lack of affiliate links changed their recommendation. Seems like they had a pretty good reason for changing their recommendation -- that their new recommendation was $1,000 cheaper.

I don't know why this is being posted now?
Does YT Premium work offline? The OP says they will be going without internet which is why they need to download them.
HN is exceptionally left-leaning. The only reason posts like that get downvoted is because it signals some kind of moral posturing that is completely irrelevant/unearned and exceptionally negative. It also comes across as lazy when people try to discuss some nuanced topic and a poster just blankets the conversation with the same old cliched anti-imperialist anti-“West” rhetoric while adding nothing of substance other than a wiki link. It’s senseless. Go drill some wells in Africa if you want to help, your lazy “advocacy” is just annoying when spouted at people who don’t hold any responsibility for those events and frankly don’t care.
This. I love getting stuck into new-to-me technologies that are tried, tested, and still around. Is this a good idea from a career perspective? I'm not sure. While I knew some SQL before, I'm deep diving now and I'm sure that'll be useful in snagging future jobs in the data space. But learning Lisp? The principles and perspectives I pick up will no doubt be applicable elsewhere, but perhaps not the language. But then again, not everything is about career progression — I'm really doing it for fun and on that front it's certainly delivering!
I think it's interesting that the time horizon being discussed here is so short.

I don't think I've cared about new technology... ever. I have cared about "new to me" technology at several points in my life.

When I was a teenager, the world was FULL of new (to me) technology, and I ate it all up. Programming in QBasic and Turbo Pascal, using hex editors to figure out file formats in my video games and mod them, building PCs from parts. Along the way to my late 30s, a few more new to me things produced excitement: GIS, Bash, Vim, Raspberry Pis, 3D printing, Linux containers, etc. I was years late to all of those parties, but still happy when I got there.

No amount of adopting the new version of an existing thing will ever replicate the joy and wonder of encountering something entirely new to you, and as you stay in the industry longer, there just aren't as many completely-new-to-you things to come across. Now, I have more excitement learning new things that have absolutely no connection to tech, because it's still novel enough to be exciting. Small engine repair, biology, and carpentry have sparked more wonder in my more recent years than anything I did on a computer.
Ah yeah, famous "it was better under communism" until the unsustainable system collapsed.
* Not all software dev is the same; if you're building something new then that's much more risky.
* Track the risk as well as any dates - a section that still has the same date but has suddenly got less certain needs watching.
* You split it into separate parts - good; now make sure you leave plenty of time for integration and testing as you bring the parts together. Do it regularly. It always goes wrong.
>Legislation is put in place to ban behavioral advertising

>"how i can use Tech XYZ to do behavioral advertising now?"

you don't.
Basically, good health plans like the ones you would get in a tech job will have either no or very low monthly premiums ($0-$50/month), and pretty low deductibles ($1k) and out-of-pocket maximums ($2k-$2.5k), meaning no matter what happens, you'll never pay more than $2.5k for your healthcare in a given year.
I explicitly instructed in my custom instructions to never use Python, Go or JS, and to stick to functional languages. Works a treat.
Or, advertising is harassment.
This post by the company (target?) of Wireguard's scheme has some valuable details, but I think it focuses excessively on "kickbacks" (which, in this context, are ordinary affiliate agreements).

The more egregious behavior here is that Wireguard seemingly intentionally avoided reviewing newer versions of a product as part of an attempt to apply pressure on the product's company to enter an affiliate agreement. When it became clear that the company wouldn't do so, they essentially allowed their review to become "stale" in order to make it's (affiliate agreement covered) replacement appear more organic.

That, at least to me, is more scandalous than the "kickback" part. Especially given that Wireguard has always been somewhat transparent about relying on affiliate agreements.

Edit: Wireguard appears to have written a response disputing that behavior: https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/our-response-to-nextdesk/