skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a devil's advocate: while you had to know the nitty gritty it was legitimately possible to have the entire machine's architecture in your head. Maybe a few heads shared at worst. Microsoft' humble beginnings started with a dozen people who would make what most people type on daily.

No one person knows the entire modern x86 architecture. And ofc those who know a lions share are paid top dollar. Maybe still underpaid for the value they bring to the entire world, but very comfortable.

Don't have much to say about the web dev stuff. Just note that CoL is still kinda crazy in the places with most demand. I'm not gonna say "100k is so hard to live on" like some spoiled CS students but it does cut a lot more into your spending power than you'd expect.
New rule: If as a company you are providing software which is unsafe you are 100% liable for all damages. I am tired of this casual attitude towards safety.
So only tech will tell me in which building something is - sure, force more tech on everyone but complain about advertising.
Interesting, my insurance covered it last year. However it was related to eye trauma rather than a regular vision visit, so perhaps that's why.
Some would say lots there
When did they stop selling them?
The abysmal macOS System Settings, with how it cribs from iOS design language, seems to be doing what Flutter is accused of. Though perhaps that is less the fault of SwiftUI, and more of Catalyst.
I know that the ones on lichess use an algorithmic that finds puzzles in games played by real players on the platform.

Code here: https://github.com/ornicar/lichess-puzzler

You can even see puzzles by player: https://lichess.org/training/of-player
> The reality is they need office attendance to meet tax agreements with the cities they’re located in.

Why don’t they just come out and say that?
Just like Reddit- it wasn’t always that way.
Thank you very much for that detailed reply. Lots of interesting things to contemplate further based on your descriptions. What incredible complexity to balance things! It makes me wonder if there's systems that are engineered to handle the balancing in a positive-feedback, almost cybernetic way in consideration of all the inputs and outputs that influence each other.

So many things to learn about... thanks!

Also, your description of using the ground to dampen oscillations has very similar implications to electricity and ground... not a coincidence?
Building materials: A ubiquitous, invisible consumer product
Absolutely. That's why I'm glad Valve did this, and also why I wish it wasn't necessary.
So it requires redis. Would have loved if it was just a simple script or binary.
> Ads are no more psychological manipulation at scale than words in general.

"no more" in your sentence implies the impact is roughly the same (not that I agree with your premise that all communication is manipulation, unless your definition of "manipulation" is so vast as to be useless).
That's not an annoying issue with Safari UI, but the proper behavior of a native Mac app. Apps can have no windows at all and that's a feature.

The behavior the poster intends is a Windowsism. The only problem is trying to replicate it in another platform.
Shareholders.

Really they should be fine with licensing to OEMs with it free to install for those that wreck their PC.
I don't know of any services that use Yubico OTP (it's a legacy protocol) - everything's on FIDO2 nowadays
I think that colorblindness, as espoused by MLK, is a fantastic concept; I love to see it in reality.

However, when someone today claims they're colorblind, I accept that they most likely don't mean it in the same way that MLK did. And too often, I'm proven right.
What overhead is there at runtime?
Yes, that’s my understanding, and my experience. The green line on the older tracks seems to be normal.
As someone who works with open source and has helped hiring some people:

- The lack of degree still makes a difference. You're on your 20's you still have time for that. Having a degree at a bad uni is still better than not having it. I've seen managers who reject brilliant people simply for not having degrees.

- Contributing to other's projects is, IMHO, more valuable than having your own, unless your own project gets big and used by big players. Having bug fixes or features in big famous projects is a massive trampoline for a lot of people, if they want to get a job in a related industry (e.g., having Kernel patches if you want to apply for driver developer positions, having gcc patches if you want to work in compilers, etc.).

- Nothing is a guarantee of anything. In some areas there's a shortage of workers with experience and so anybody that starts contributing decently gets a chance. Some other areas are full of brilliant people so you'll be just one more person. Also your behavior affects your chances: make sure to build a reputation as a nice contributor.
I agree with most of what you say but I don't know how you manage to see that amount of ads. I use a couple of browser plugins and generally I don't see more than maybe five ads a day, not counting sponsor spots in youtube videos (which I could remove with even more plugins but meh).
I checked the Wii Shop just now... nope, it's dead.
My favourite Schopenhauer anecdote: https://richardswsmith.wordpress.com/2017/08/29/schopenhauer...

(when I related this anecdote to a young lady of my acquaintance back in the 20th century, she suggested S' list could be updated to "bikes, computers, and women"; what would be a good triple for the 21st?)
fair enough. what i was getting at was that even well made new construction inherits many constraints from the rest of the line, though it does ease others.
Like so many other safety and privacy things, the difference is simply the scale and automation. Like how there's little philosophical or legal difference between a detective sitting and listening to your phone calls and an automated system scanning them and listening for keyword.

But the real consequences are very different despite that! The automation allows it to be used more freely at low cost, to go "fishing" for crimes rather than investigate a specific instance. And a wider net will catch more false positives, and with the shotspotter having cops show up guns blazing to teenagers with fireworks for example is a heavy consequence.

Since these choices affect peoples' lives in real ways, we're obligated to consider the actual effects, rather than the philosophical foundation. It may not be "any different" in an abstract sense, but this concrete instance is very different and we have to consider that in its use.
The limit doesn’t have to be 8 years. What if it were 16 or 20?
It’s not going to just vanish because crypto has become the tool of choice for online scams and crime.

Here’s just one recent example, a small Kansas bank that collapsed entirely because its CEO got involved in a crypto scam:

“The chief executive officer of Heartland Tri-State Bank asked if the client would lend him $12 million so he could get his money out of a cryptocurrency investment. He promised he’d pay him back 10 days later, offering $1 million in interest to make it worth his while.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-09-27/crypto-sc...

Billions are being stolen annually using crypto. It’s the only use case with any traction.

For the same reason, governments are increasingly cracking down on crypto.

The conditions that created the 2011-2021 crypto booms were a combination of lack of regulation and zero interest rates, which made investors look for increasingly speculative investments. Those days aren’t coming back.
I have read that before the French Revolution there was some sort of advertising ban in France -- creating needs where none really existed I guess. Would welcome comments from someone who knows more about this.
Combinatorial Optimization in VLSI Design [pdf]
When Google does it, it's fine. When others do it, it's "Invading Your Privacy!!!"
If you can legally distributed then there is no reason it can't be linked into the main kernel.

> I don't think fear of Oracle is the issue

Why then did Linus say exactly that?

> After all btrfs also originated in Oracle (what's worse, despicable Oracle itself, not via the Sun acquisition).

Wrong. It was simply a guy that worked for Oracle, it wasn't an Oracle project.

> Perhaps Oracle's unwillingness to relicense is simply that

It doesn't matter what Oracle once, of course they don't want anything to do with ti. The community has forked ZFS long ago and Oracle has no power what so ever to reliance most of that code.

Literally nobody wants the Oracle proprietary ZFS anyway.
How were the NIST ECDSA curve parameters generated?
A post talking about how Jerry Solinas provided the NIST ECDSA curve parameters and anecdotes of how they were chosen.
I'm not sure how that's comparable. Compile-time type safety is a boolean thing, you either have it or you don't. If you have it, then my example shouldn't compile. But it does compile, so you don't have it.
The issue involves both the placement (in low income black neighborhoods) and accuracy (allegedly low). According to critics, ShotSpotter has thousands of false positives. Naturally when police think shots have been fired, their response is going to be much different than an innocent knock on the door. Imagine riding your bike down the street as a kid and dozens of cops suddenly arrive with their guns drawn.

So assuming the stats on low accuracy are correct, the use of Shotspotter seems to unjustly subject black residents to potentially harmful high-stakes police calls with no apparent benefit.
> The idea of a market works if it costs ~0 to enter a market, consumers have an infinite access to knowledge and infinite time to make a decision BUT make it in 1s when at the store, and also enough money so as to not be a problem. Basically, consumers have all the power and vendors have none.

I keep trying to communicate this whenever people are attempting to manifest an Invisible Hand to control bad behavior. More people need to be aware of this.

I like your succinct point. I wish there was something so short and understandable for an even fuller picture. Like including that for a marked to price things in a way that works for societies, consumers need to choose long term over short term gains and that the price needs to not make economic externalities of human rights or destroying the climate.
are you a mod? curious how you know that "they get moderated away". hard disagree that is "the important thing" like it's a good thing.
I gave the "industry" a pretty thorough deep dive; I learned Solidity, wrote a bunch of smart contracts, tried a lot of DeFi, and listened to ~100 episodes of the Zero Knowledge podcast.

My impression on the other end of it is that the "tech" is interesting in a purely academic sense but most of the participants are building things they know have no use and engaging in a lot of motivated reasoning about the future to justify drawing money in from the outside.

Like, it can all be a lot of fun! And some techniques, like all ZK folding schemes, are mathematical magic. But, no one wants code to be law and pretty much no one should be managing private keys tied to money.

It's a very cool but failed idea.
Given that they don't need the antenna anymore, can't they repurpose the entire pit for buildings?
>The way I see it it's a consenting relationship between sellers and consumers

I've not yet found out how to withdraw my consent for seeing ads when I'm walking in the street.

PS to answer your question:

>What's wrong with advertising in general exactly?

Have a look at the psychological techniques that are used in ads. Many many ads are based on inciting fear, so even if they "don't work" on you in the sense of getting you to buy a product, they might still work on you in the sense of inciting fear. They even managed to sell candy bars based on fear: if you're hungry you might get grumpy and will be socially ostracized. Air fresheners are sold with the message that people will dislike you if your house stinks. Ads for gambling usually target sad and lonely people in a pretty obvious way ("if you win the lottery you'll have friends").

There are other techniques too. Teenage body image issues resulting from ads have been well documented. Etc.. etc.. etc. There's armies of well-paid psychologists working on getting under your skin every which way, using focus groups, sociological research, brain scans...
> for tweeting a meme about voting for Biden by a Facebook hashtag.

Gee, that's a funny way of saying "for deliberately and repeatedly trying to trick voters into mis-voting with a planned group-campaign of impersonation and fraudulent ads."

Just because "tweets" and "Facebook" and "hashtags" etc. are tools being used doesn't automatically make something pure and innocent: All the same elements could appear in a financial fraud/scam or a bloody tribal genocide.
You can probably make it do this with any link if you post it enough multiple times in quick succession.
Good, it sounds like Elon has been making a lot of positive changes at X.

I just listened to his livestream about free speech and antisemitism with that set of famous Rabbis, I was really impressed. I think the shift towards free speech is the best thing for democracy. We can only hash out ideas, both bad and good, by allowing more discussion of difficult subjects.

The Community Notes feature, added after the transition, has been one of the best tools for dealing with bad ideas and misinformation. It strikes a great balance between combating misinformation and censorship, and I think it can do a much better job (allowing the people themselves to fight misinformation by tagging things with additional context) than the actual election team at X was doing.
> It helps keep all of us more safe

Are there good data and studies to support this claim?
Or some way to force opening up the software upon the product's death. The hardware is great and I'd love to pick one up for cheap for my home office to use for Zoom meetings.
Google is 25 years old. IBM is 99 years old as IBM plus 13 years as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company. I wonder which one will still be running at the end of the next 87 years that Google will have to run to equal that? And how many more times Google will pull stunts like this and the Nest thermostat business along the way.
Words in general are not specifically crafted by teams of sociologists, psychologists, and marketing professionals to elicit a particular feeling at a particular moment in time to make me more psychologically susceptible to a particular belief or outcome by the end of the ad spot. Advertisements are.

Words in general don't go through endless focus grouping and internal company debate to ensure the exact choice of words, tone of voice and cadence in uttering them, elicit the correct emotional response. Advertisements do.

You are being disingenuous in your response to me and trying to set up a strawman.

I realize a lot of highly paid tech workers on HN work in adtech or adtech-adjacent. It's even helped to pay my salary at different points in my career. It doesn't change the fact of the matter. The /entire point/ of advertisements is to psychologically manipulate the person viewing the ad. That is immoral, full stop.
Is this the normal understanding of private/public companies? I don't own the USPS nor do I own the national parks. However, taxes pay for them, so we are given access to them. NASA is another example. I can't just walk into the JPL and start using a computer. However, any data that is produced by NASA, I can use just like I can use the national parks.
$1m/year is not a small amount of money at all.
I would second his opinions and take it a step further ... people here will debate tech stacks til the end of time but in the grand scheme of things picking a tech that has a much smaller and more expensive talent pool could be a scenario where that choice is a death knell for the project (could be, not will be). The low adoption rate also means more abandoned libraries, less variety of libraries and possibly having to DIY things. These all add time to a project on top of a learning curve (which will vary per person) which make it more expensive.

I'm not advocating always pick something with the lowest $/hour rate. There are a lot of other choices out there that are not going to have risks around technology choice.

Long term maintenance is a concern too, not of Elixir, of the apps built with it. When that app goes into a maintenance mode (still providing value just doesn't need new/active development) the devs will likely move on to other work/companies. Now to do support work you have a small+expensive talent pool that doesn't likely want to do support work.

If you're a fan of Elixir, don't take this as me saying "no", I really like the things I learned (and continue to learn) working with it. Its just trade-offs that mostly are on managements shoulders. The developers advocating for it take no risks really.
I'm a paying supporter of the EFF, so they are important to me. But I disagree, it would be a story if this was a regular occurrence for sure, but moderation is a hugely complex, distributed, and opaque process. If somebody found code like `post.censor() if post.mentions("EFF")` then yes, it's an outrage. But it's not gonna be that simple. The real story is probably "when using statistics to make decisions, sometimes things that shouldn't get flagged get flagged, and vice versa"
> Mackey conspired with other influential Twitter users and with members of private online groups to use social media platforms, including Twitter, to disseminate fraudulent messages that encouraged supporters of presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to “vote” via text message or social media which, in reality, was legally invalid.

Tricking people into throwing away their vote by casting it through invalid methods is a lot more than "tweeting a meme."
Not sure where the 8 years number is from. It was launched in 2017 and CDW was selling it until 2021. That means some people have it for less than 2 years
Nope. You did say:

> Ads are no more psychological manipulation at scale than words in general.

This is a statement about magnitudes and in my estimation the statement is mostly wrong.
I like the way (good) chalkboards look but touching chalk sets my teeth on edge.
Wasn't Feinstein from San Francisco? If my math is right, she would have served through the Dot Com Bubble, Great Recession, and the current tech backlash.

Do you Bay Area HNers feel that she was a friend or a foe of the tech industry?
This almost perfectly describes https://ciechanow.ski/ as well. Worth poking through if you haven't seen it before.
> Therefore, you don't want to put your military GPS encryption keys in there, because if the enemy got hold of those keys, they could spoof your satellites.

IIRC, I remember reading that the NSA has cipher(s) where the decryption 'algorithm' is completely than the one for encryption, i.e., just because you have the decryption code doesn't mean you can encrypt.
Working life-size pop pop boat [video]
> One thing I would add, is Erlang/Elixir's emphasis on multi machine concurrency is somewhat at odds with the serverless future we're moving towards

IMO, that's a misconception. They work at different levels and I wrote a more in-depth explanation here: https://dashbit.co/blog/kubernetes-and-the-erlang-vm-orchest...

Although I agree the sentiment plays a role on adoption, because many ask "why Elixir when I have k8s", while in practice, if you like k8s, you should enjoy Erlang/Elixir. They apply similar principles at different scales.

So I don't think we could have made a dent on k8s, but rather, we should have positioned ourselves earlier within k8s strengths. :)
From your very own article you helpfully linked, it was found that he was spreading false information about (text) voting, causing anyone who didn't know better to become disenfranchised, a violation of their rights as an American citizen and absolutely prosecutable if you want a country based on laws, justice, and equality.
Quoted from the article: "As proven at trial, between September 2016 and November 2016, Mackey conspired with other influential Twitter users and with members of private online groups to use social media platforms, including Twitter, to disseminate fraudulent messages that encouraged supporters of presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to 'vote' via text message or social media which, in reality, was legally invalid."
To be clear, your opinion is that this dam could just as easily have failed in peacetime? And the contrary point of view isn't sensible?
The "blame" is exactly what Republican Party wants, to keep up their kayfabe marketing of "fiscal responsibility". Put interest rates around 7% for the next several decades, end the inflationary treadmill, let the everything bubble deflate, let the Wall Street debt/financialization cancer recede - and then it would make sense to talk about fiscal responsibility as a real thing. Until then any peanuts thrown to the plebs by the Democrats are really just mitigating the economic damage from the trough of overwhelming corporate welfare.
Everything you're saying can be applied to journalism. Is journalism immoral? Give me a break.
Indeed. "Egregious" in the court of public opinion isn't the same thing as a legal case put together rigorously by prosecutors arguing against the finest defense lawyers that scammers' money can buy.
The only one I can think of is Ring. Bravo to them.

Most cloud-supported hardware is pretty fragile, but services in general can last much longer. Google's excessive churn with chat/social services is probably what earned their bad reputation. They also screwed up Nest. 8 years is a lot for them.
- "Doesn't many influencer work for free samples etc?"

By the letter of the law, that's a form of remuneration, and is mandatory to disclose.

- "A “material connection” to the brand includes a personal, family, or employment relationship or a financial relationship – such as the brand paying you or giving you free or discounted products or services."

https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/resources/disclosures-... ("Disclosures 101 for Social Media Influencers")
maybe have a warning when no rectangles are drawn, I kinda wasted one credit by rendering an empty background.
Wow, you have no idea how deep the ramifications of that would be, do you? Let's say you need a toothbrush. Where do you buy it? At the store. Okay, but there's a problem. How did the company that owns the store choose which toothbrushes to carry on its store shelves? Was inter-corporate advertising involved? Is that illegal under your scheme? Or maybe the manufacturer paid the store for shelf space. Is paying for physical product space meaningfully different from paying for billboard space? If the shelf space is legal in your utopia, then can the billboard be legal, as long as it only features a bland iPhone 4 photo of the product, along with the product name in a monospaced font (wouldn't want to AdVerTiZe!). Or is all of this disgusting to you, and you want a government agency that tracks finds product vendors and produces a huge book of products that you can peruse, but, all of them are listed without any embellishment, so you have to compare toothbrushes on raw metrics like length, with, plastic composition, angle of attack, bristle circumference, mouth feel, water retention, etc. and then you order it directly from the government.
> If you are using a product for free, you are giving something in return aka your data.

In Google’s case. In Apple’s case I’m giving them money for products and services. The money Apple makes from my data is meaningless when compared to Google’s M.O.
Why can you not stand Face ID? I love it. For me, it works pretty much 100% of the time, including situations where Touch ID would be inconvenient, like when my phone or hands are wet. (I go kayaking almost every day.)
I would like to get branded socks :D
and a laptop