skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Putting on my "engineer hat" [1] for a moment: the title of this article is misleading, and there's no introduction to clarify the mistake, which makes me trust the author less as a copywriter. The article discusses copywriting, which is only a small subset of marketing, not equivalent to it. The rest of the article covers points that are quite obvious to the HN audience: we don't buy a notebook or mobile phone because of good copy; we look at the specifications, often knowing them even before the products are released.

[1] https://www.debonogroup.com/services/core-programs/six-think...
Sorry about that, first time posting: https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/local/2024/08/29/data-ha...
> Also, private prosecutions for these kinds of things are unheard of, just as they are in the US.

They are uncommon, but not unheard of. For example, the parents of Johan Asplund privately prosecuted a man for his murder [1]. But sure, if you think the only useful outcome is a conviction for attempted murder, then I agree that seems unlikely. In any case the first step should be to appeal the prosecutor's decision to drop the case.

The right to private prosecution in US federal cases was removed following the 1981 Supreme Court decision in Leeke v. Timmerman.

1. https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/vasternorrland/enskilt-ata...
Not an expert, just my experience:

Engineers gets excited by the details of a solution and try to sell on those. But end users typically want the problem to be solved with minimal fuss and effort. Details are off putting because they require effort to understand! Focus on how you will make things simpler.
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Factual observation or hypothesizing is not victim blaming.

You clearly have some sort of agenda with this comment.
good catch - yes I added two projects in one comment!

laudspeaker (open source firebase cloud messaging/customer engagment) - https://github.com/laudspeaker/laudspeaker

panopticon (short story on encryption and espionage) - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VRI4X5fCUpwurUDvKmvzJpT7...
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In the interests of my mental health I will not work for any company where the top management are psychopaths, focused on the share-price and the next quarter's financial results. I prefer companies that produce tangible product and/or services that clients pay for.
No, they don't do joke articles. It's not the Onion. That wouldn't be called satirical in France anyway.

It's satirical in the sense that it takes a mocking tone. It doesn't do parody.
Germany might better satisfy demand with renewables if it stopped shooting itself in the foot by blocking wind turbine locations due to NIMBYism.
I really liked Brave Search but unfortunately it started giving me captchas on every search after 11 pm Pacific or so for some (unknown) reason. They’re not even image captchas, you just click the button and wait 15-20 seconds which is pretty inconvenient.
Paid article that cuts out before it even states its thesis. I don't understand the value of putting posts like this on HN. Presumably the paying subs have seen it, for everyone else it says close to nothing and access to the rest appears to cost $300.
Very much agreed on a lot of the points there, and on that note, how new frameworks market to developers is probably a great lesson in that. Pieter Levels (of nomadlist.com and similar fame) recently talked about it on a podcast, how he basically sticks to PHP and jQuery, and how often he sees developers jumping on a new framework, not realizing it's likely a marketing tactic that's pulling them in.

Time-stamped to that part of the podcast, roughly 2 minutes of relevant answer: https://youtube.com/watch?v=oFtjKbXKqbg&t=2613

The part that feels most like the advice above: "And same thing what happens with nutrition and fitness or something, same thing happens in developing. They pay this influencer to promote this stuff, use it, make stuff with it, make demo products with it, and then a lot of people are like, “Wow, use this.” And I started noticing this, because when I would ship my stuff, people would ask me, “What are you using?” I would say, “Just PHP, jQuery. Why does it matter?”

And people would start attacking me like, “Why are you not using this new technology, this new framework, this new thing?”
The next level is to have another layer of encryption and wrap that in the TLS/SSH, and maybe use steganography to make it appear legitimate. Much harder to detect.
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RealID essentially ties your identity from a state id perspective to your SSN.

The Feds are trying to mandate it, hence the push.

The issue with it is that many people, especially the elderly, poor people, and kids in complex non-custodial families have a hard time getting their physical social security card. Replacement of that document is a major pain in the ass.

It’s a big waste of money, tied to even bigger wastes of money like voter id.
From the paper: "...Although designed in the 80s, such networks are still quite active today, especially for embedded systems..."
He explicitly mentions the second of those, in exactly those words:

> Why is jargon effective? Because it shows the reader that you speak his language.
P.S.

There's another interesting distinction to be made between Idris, a programming language that can also express a lot of maths, and TLA+, a mathemtatical language that isn't a programming language.

Languages like Idris make a sharp distinction between the type level and the object or computation level. The type level can express something analogous to the propositions you can express with TLA+, but these propositions must be filled or "realised" with content at the object level, and that content is required, even at the syntax level, to be a program, i.e. something that is executable.

In TLA+, in contrast, there's only a "type level". You can define refinement relationships between different specifications -- i.e. one is a more detailed description of the other -- but there is no requirement that any level needs to be executable. It may just so happen that some specification are detailed enough to extract a computation from (same goes for mathematics in general), but that's not a requirement.

BTW, it is interesting to note (as I do here in more detail: https://pron.github.io/posts/tlaplus_part3#algorithms-and-pr...) that quite often even simple algorithms -- I give QuickSort as an example -- that are described in a way that's detailed enough for a human to implement and perhaps even a computer could extract a reasonable computation from, are still not a program. The QuickSort algorithm says nothing about how to pick a pivot because any choice would still be an implementation of QS, even though a program must pick a pivot somehow and some choices may be better than others, nor does it describe in what order to sort the two segments -- they could be sorted in any order or even in parallel. For there to be a program, the computer must ultimately be told these details. Still, the algorithm is specified without them, as they don't matter to the algorithm itself, and it can be formally specified in TLA+ without them. If you choose, you may specify a particular and less abstract implementation of QS in TLA+ and check that it is, indeed, an implementation of the more abstract algorithm.

This could be seen as analogous to the object level in a programming language with dependent types, but the difference is that in TLA+ it's not required nor is there a clear distinction between a level of detail that is executable and one that isn't.
Somewhat off-topic, but I find this webdesign hard to use, especially on Desktop. It looks like a good design for a print-out poster, but not so much for a digital site. Something is just... off. Perhaps the work of a designer who usually works for print media?
Not with the fierceness and at the scale of today. Boiling frog and all.
I'm not cheering the end of the free internet, I strongly believe that the web will adapt and be better off.

> You’re cheering on expansion of government power

More like a shrinking of megacorp tech giant power.
Reminds me of the Death Valley Germans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Valley_Germans
I think it's testing how fast you can go from ~25 (depends on how quickly you dare take a roundabout) to 70 in between each roundabout that is the best part of living next to MK.
Bad article.

The only reason Chevron's in San Ramon is because the older generation of execs and mid-managers used to attend the UC Davis B-School (both undergrad and grad), and helped setup the campus in San Ramon (right by the Costco).

Wirth doesn't have the same attachment to San Ramon, so it makes sense for Chevron to move to the actual Energy Market hub (Houston).

San Ramon also stopped giving sweetheart deals to Chevron now that it's economic base is much more diverse from 20-30 years ago, because the city has become a Palo Alto 2.0 and can sustain itself of property taxes, and Chevron began the move to Houston back in 2018.

And finally, Chevron is a massive player in the renewables space - with Chevron Ventures taking plenty of strategic bets in the battery tech, solar, and charging industries.
It doesn't use the word, but "access to any substantial set of the features or functionality of the software as a hosted or managed service" is a specific kind of competition, and who is a competitor can change at any time depending on what functionality Elastic adds, even if you had reimplemented some of the enterprise functionality in a private fork.
The title is about being blocked by the guy who created this platform, not politics. That's what this thread is about. Political discourse is against HN guidelines, after all. If you want to debate politics here go ahead, I just don't want to, and don't have a strong position on these particular matters either way.
Thank you for answering.
The process is very hard to comprehend for me. These guys are so creative!
> One day in March, I was walking my dog, saw a house numbered 3147, and thought it was a funny pattern. It’s the Fibonacci sequence with a different seed (31 instead of 11).

The Fibonacci sequence with 3,1 would be 3,1,4,5. I think you mean the house number was 1347. That would work and be easier to notice.
Intel hired too many MBAs. When will companies realize hiring people with nothing but MBAs (because they have no hard skills) is a recipe for long-term failure?
Resorts on Spain's Costa Brava struggle with invasion of jellyfish as seas warm
You need an excess of energy to build a car centric city as it uses far more energy to shift a million people by car than by underground transport or high speed train

Not sure how much energy a garden can use, could you elaborate?
It’s all theatre. At the end of the day, you’re presenting proof that was essentially obtained the same way, a long time ago.

The letter from your neighbor is surprisingly reliable. Certainly more reliable that a record of birth from Texas.
The phrasing is odd indeed.

In any case in communism majority of theft was committed by the workers themselves, so any guards would likely be in on it anyway.

The real economic system and its currency at the same time was the massive web of connections and favours. How does one guard that?

My grandfather, who was a surgeon, was reportedly particularly good at obtaining scarce goods like toilet paper - most likely as a token of gratitude for the procedures he performed.
> The engineer’s purchase decision is more logical than emotional

I truly wish this were true, but looking at my own purchases, it's not.
This is reminiscent of a story in the New Yorker about Reddit - there is a part of the story that describes r/Place:

Last April Fools’, instead of a parody announcement, Reddit unveiled a genuine social experiment. It was called r/Place, and it was a blank square, a thousand pixels by a thousand pixels. In the beginning, all million pixels were white. Once the experiment started, anyone could change a single pixel, anywhere on the grid, to one of sixteen colors. The only restriction was speed: the algorithm allowed each redditor to alter just one pixel every five minutes. “That way, no one person can take over—it’s too slow,” Josh Wardle, the Reddit product manager in charge of Place, explained. “In order to do anything at scale, they’re gonna have to coöperate.”

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/03/19/reddit-and-the...
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Show HN: Reboo - read tracker (Strava for books) new iOS app
I think it's fair to say most security is built-in by your average developer. However, the security side of things needs efforts from a far smaller pool of experts that can make your tool as secure as is possible. I don't imagine it is as cheap to find feature developers as well as security experts or security developers. Practically speaking, cheaping out on security might cost you the reputation of the app, so doing it well will be expensive but worth it, but might never be worth it if you offer everything by default but in the end only a fraction of your customer base uses the features.
> There is also the added benefit of saving a lot of time on both sides

My realization: it doesn't save them any time, as talking to you is seen as one of their goal.

The type of personality in that line of work usually thrive in live calls more than in factual chat, so there's absolutely no downside for them most of the time.
We’ve got “be gay do crime” - love that

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lol. The original stayed pretty close to the eat/fight/screw paradigm, at least as far as capt Kirk went.
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How did you find the link? Please share... Really interested to find out.
> I find it deeply uncomfortable that the HN contingent is rushing to defend the French government on this matter.

I find it deeply uncomfortable that the HN contingent is rushing to defend Telegram like if it was an open attack of free speach and not justified by Telegram completes lack of cooperation in crime investigations.

>If Telegram really was not answering enforcement requests in a timely manner, then France should have moved against the company either through a direct ban on the app itself or other court action. Putting its CEO in prison sends a message.

Yes, it sends the message that executives are actually responsible for what their company does. That's a good message.
Or reducing traffic deaths from dangerous driving with a financial deterrent

Did you know that during GWOT, US military personnel deployed to combat zones were more likely to be killed in a car accident after returning home than they were to be actually killed in combat?

Cops being abusive pigs doesn’t invalidate the logic behind the law, but then again it always has been the uneven enforcement that’s the problem
Rspack v1.0
But don't other people (not only engineers) also slowly realize that all these emotion-appealing ads are deceiving? Don't they want to be informed, and not brainwashed and exploited?
Yeah, it is engineering in general, I think you are right.
I’m genuinely confused by your comment. Pies can be duplicated. You just grab the same ingredients and follow the same recipe.

Same thing happens with software. You grab the same libraries and languages and build the same thing.

I think I get what you’re trying to say when it comes to software but sometimes one might switch even if the new software doesn’t offer new solutions.
In the fediverse, owncast is an established selfhosted solution for livestreams with chat: https://owncast.online/
Why?

You realize that the 9/11 hijackers (the event that kicked off this stuff) were traveling with valid identification.
Right, their reasoning in 5 and 6 sounded like the point is to just appear like an engineer. It may be enough for the ad guy, but I don't think it's strictly what the engineer wants. IMO, it relates to the previously made point that engineers want clear and accurate technical communication.
> Engineers look down on advertising and advertising people, for the most part.

Worse, we know how to filter it out and actively do so. We know all the tricks. Most successful advertising platforms are built by skilled engineers.

> Engineers want to know the features and specifications, not just the benefits.

Replace engineer with people here. If you are selling something and you can't articulate what it is that you are selling, you are wasting your time. If what you are selling is very complicated (and many products aimed at engineers are), people are going to have questions that need answering. A lot of those questions start with the word 'How'. Avoiding to talk about the complex parts of your offering comes across as evasive and untrustworthy. Or worse, as clueless and incompetent.

A lot of successful marketing actually starts with these how questions. People will find their way to your website or your sales people if you have good answers to such questions. Maybe they'll checkout your product and give it a try. Maybe they'll sign up even. That starts with you providing something they need that they were looking for anyway.
Hi Liam - can't seem to see a call graph. I've sent a report, but wasn't sure what to expect, as your site has a nice preview of the architectuer graph, but not the call graph functionality. Perhaps add a second preview? $19 does seem a little steep. Would it be possible to have a lower cost with a user supplied 3rd party LLM service key?
what engineers like above everything else is correcting people, weaponizing that is the way to selling to them
My thoughts exactly. The author compared two concepts that exist at two entirely different levels of abstraction and utility.
One concern with doing this as a whole is you may end up blocking legit organizations from accessing your site. If you're selling something that could be a problem.

For example, the org might be self-hosting WireGuard or another VPN solution on a cloud provider and people are connecting through that so their outgoing IP address comes from a cloud provider.
It’s better. Why does a bouncer at a bar need to know where I live?

With digital id, presentation can be as simple as a green light.
Turing's life and work was a big part of my research and I was involved with a number of academic Turing memorial events, I've had dinner with his closest living relative. I'm well aware of all the inaccuracies.

I was given 114 minutes I don't think I could have done a better job of giving a feel for the guy, his work, and the situation to an intelligent person who has a passing interest in tech (e.g. my wife) than they did in the film.

This may just say more about me as a story-teller than as a genuine appraisal of the film.

If you want detail, read Turing's biography by Andrew Wiles, such a great work and impressively comprehensive. If you just like code breaking and WWII history, read The Hut Six story by "Turing's boss" Gordon Welchman, the publication of which lost him his American and British security clearances.
Not only is it duplicated on a whim, the internet makes discovering it, and getting it, very easy.

So I can not only easily keep getting that one great pie infinitely, I can discover and sample every great pie in the world to find the very best one for me. With actual pie, I'd probably had to travel to Vienna (sachtertore!), or Seattle (apple pie?) to be able to "sample" it.
What stops you from sybil attacking the lottery and selling to highest bidder?
You're onto something, and I can say that I still haven't found a way to define this group of people.

I'm a marketer, with some technical background, and as a consumer, I fit into the bucket OP talks. And clearly, I'm not an engineer. The only thing is that I'm more self-aware of emotional purchases disguised as logical ones, and I recognize that no one is immune to being influenced, but that came with the trade.

I guess that maybe more software engineers fit into this bucket, or more software engineers care to voice their stance making them a "loud minority" because they witnessed what the internet became and they care about it.

But certainly isn't exclusive to them.

I tend to think it is more related to people who experienced several instances of a communication channel without advertising, which ended up having their user experience ruined by advertising.

For example, in Television for many decades advertising was part of the medium. No program airs without ad breaks, product placement, etc. In a way, for many of us, it was always there and is part of the medium. Heck as a kid TV Christmas ads were a form of entertainment.

While on the internet, it is true that advertising has also been present for decades - but throughout the years you had many communities, products, and platforms that at some point didn't have ads, and many lived long enough to have ads ruined the experience -> I think this is where antibodies started to arise, and the feeling was validated by others who shared their bad experiences and concerns because, you know, its the internet :)

This is a complete anecdote based on personal experience - but I agree with you, there are more out there, and it isn't just engineers.

I'd say they're curious people (pioneers/early adopters) who value their experience but were defrauded several times by having companies trade their trust for many variations of ads. This can be anyone, it isn't limited to tech-savvy people, nerds, engineers, gamers...

Like people who started to search "reddit product name" +5 years ago (before Google picked up on it) in their decision-making process when buying something. How do you define that?
Did only one bot acted on the page at a time or multiple bots controlled the checkboxes at once when there were many small pics/elements to form the 1000x1000 image?
I meant to ask did multiple people draw on the canvas at the same time or it was only one person/bot at a time?
Well there is marketing and then there is marketing. Given the fact most of us would be out of a job without advertising of some kind, I cannot condemn it the way you do.

However I despise deceitful marketing as well. I am also not a big fan of the way my company markets itself. It is neither deceitful nor misleading, but just ... irrelevant to people working in the space and thus hard to align with.

But I also know companies (that we have worked with) who spend their marketing budget on hosting small-ish conferences and choose to post content from their (technical) blog in their LinkedIn. For me personally, that way of marketing themselves just inspires more confidence than ... overconfident salespeople.
Engineers love being told how smart they are.
that question lacks good motive.

but future-wise, go, zig and rust is where i would focus.