jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
My daughter (9) got a phone recently and we're kinda managing it through Google's Family Link and it absolutely sucks in pretty much all regards. We're only interested in absolutely minimal control just to make sure she doesn't install something stupid/dangerous, other than that we trust her to use YouTube and the likes responsibly, but that's not The Google Way.

YouTube Kids was the first thing that bothered me. Google wouldn't let me allow her to install regular YouTube, so she was stuck with that horrible, insufferable crap that makes Teletubbies seem like Kieslowski. It's still beyond me why she should be barred from listening to stuff like Kraftwerk's The Robots, Bananarama's Na Na Hey Hey or Hit 'Em High from Space Jam, all of which she's much more into than whatever YouTube Kids thinks 9-year-olds are all about. Fortunately I stumbled upon a toggle in the Family Link settings that would let me let her install and use regular YouTube.

And forget about the YouTube Music family plan, that's just straight-up impossible on a sub-13 account. Then there's Spotify Kids (which is pretty much just as bad as YouTube Kids) but Spotify at least lets you lie about her age and install the regular app. (We've all heard the horror stories of Google completely shutting people out from Photos, Drive, etc. for lying about a kid's age, I'm not about to risk that just yet.)

Oh, and you're also not going to be gaming with your kid on her new phone. Google Play Games won't let sub-13s sign in with their Google account. So this PEGI-3 rated disc golf game with multiplayer but no player interaction is a total no-go.

I find it absolutely baffling how little control I have of these things as a parent. Why on earth can't I let my kid use YouTube Music? Why is she allowed to install a PEGI-3 rated multiplayer game but not play it? And why can't "sign in with my Google account" work like when she's asking permission to install an app? Seems like a pretty obvious way to go about it.

/rant
Automattic is not the same as Wordpress
> As someone who has been engaged in weightlifting for almost 30 years, this is no surprise.

Agreed. I was honestly surprised to learn that some people were promoting rest periods as low as 30 seconds for building muscle. It's been common knowledge that super short rest intervals are not helpful for as long as I've been around.

Any weightlifter can tell you that super short rest intervals will limit volume, which is detrimental to muscle growth.

The article feels a bit like a strawman attack on fitness forums or bodybuilder stereotypes.
Remember when people said "it's only extremists like Alex Jones" and "white nationalists", yeah well now Twitter has banned the president of the United States.

I'm not a supporter of Trump, but I'm yet to hear him explicitly incite violence. I know he encouraged the protest at the Capitol but I've yet to see evidence that he was hoping for it to turn violent? And if he did want that why did he speak out against it? He's also repeatedly said there will be a peaceful transfer of power.

Am I missing something here? I've been told I can be quite a naive person so perhaps I'm taking him at face value too much. Either way, I'd appreciate if someone could help me put my thinking right on this.

Also, does this mean we can expect Biden to be removed from Twitter if tweets anything in support of BLM? I'm not comparing events here but both protest groups have had pockets of violence. I suspect he wouldn't be and that points to a bigger problem here. If you think the wrong things like the election was conducted unfairly or you disagree with lockdowns, too bad, big tech will silence you online. If you believe conspiracy theories about Russian election interference or write a book called "in defence of looting" you're fine, you might even find you'll get praise from people in the media.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-fifths_Compromise

I guess I am conflating the history of slavery in the US with racism.
Sun didn't have Jobs's Reality Distortion Field technology. It can't work otherwise.
They found their own pool to go pee in, and now they’re surprised that nobody wants to swim with them.

It’s not everyone else’s fault that nobody else wants to be around these people. If you go to the pub and start picking fights you’ll be avoided and thrown out pretty quickly. This is the same: they went off and created their own app, their behaviour got worse, and now nobody else wants to deal with them. What is unreasonable here?
What he’s describing is technocracy. It’s not a new idea, it’s literally how huge swathes of our government operate, without anyone knowing it because the roles are rarely politicized. One of the controversial themes in the last few years has been how much this administration has politicized seemingly professional and previously uncontroversial staffing to load up loyalists. There’s always been some cronyism in every kind of high profile appointment, but seeing purges in low level public health positions is ridiculous.

We so much expect professionals in these roles that it’s almost never discussed that their roles even exist. They don’t have high turnover and they’re almost never used for political football.

It’s not to say that that’s a panacea, people in comfortable professional roles don’t routinely shake things up. But making their job descriptions political isn’t the solution to that either.
I remember reading a long section talking about the applicability of Canadian law, which included a section about it applying to any spaceship where the Queen was aboard in her capacity as the Queen of Canada, but I can't find it now.

I did find this in the Canadian Criminal Code:

https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/c-46/page-3.html#do...

Space Station — Canadian crew members

(2.3) Despite anything in this Act or any other Act, a Canadian crew member who, during a space flight, commits an act or omission outside Canada that if committed in Canada would constitute an indictable offence is deemed to have committed that act or omission in Canada, if that act or omission is committed

(a) on, or in relation to, a flight element of the Space Station; or

(b) on any means of transportation to or from the Space Station.

Space Station — crew members of Partner States

(2.31) Despite anything in this Act or any other Act, a crew member of a Partner State who commits an act or omission outside Canada during a space flight on, or in relation to, a flight element of the Space Station or on any means of transportation to and from the Space Station that if committed in Canada would constitute an indictable offence is deemed to have committed that act or omission in Canada, if that act or omission

(a) threatens the life or security of a Canadian crew member; or

(b) is committed on or in relation to, or damages, a flight element provided by Canada.
Eventually would this deplatforming not push more people on Tor, and deeper underground? I worry if they're restricted too much, may lead to gross privacy harms for all of us. Better to let some outlets exist for the sake of monitoring.
The President pressured the VP and Congress to overturn the election results. The President also told people to rally in Washington to pressure Congress into overturning the election.

Then the President told the crowd at the rally to march with him to the capitol to pressure Congress into overturning the election results.

People then marched down to the capitol, broke into it, killed a police officer, and forced congress to evacuate. When asked why, rioters stated they were trying to prevent Congress from certifying the results.

It was a failed attempt at a coup, and a very bad attempt at a coup. It was still an attempt though.
Why do I get the feeling the “free market capitalists
“ are the ones bemoaning 1st amendment rights on private platforms. Oh the irony !
We've banned this account for repeatedly breaking the site guidelines, repeated flamewar, and using HN primarily [1] for political and ideological battle. Those things aren't allowed here because they destroy what the site is for, which is curious, thoughtful conversation. To protect the site, we therefore have to ban accounts that do them—especially that primarily do them.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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It's a deliberate choice of words. Yes, your money is going towards a good cause, but if you accidentally sent the money to the wrong place, you couldn't possibly tell. Your donation is never mapped to a specific result. It's just added to a much larger pool. You will never get a message saying "your donation paid Paul's first month of rent" or something to that effect.

By comparison, volunteering at a soup kitchen feels real, regardless of effectiveness. You see the people you help, and I suspect that's why people prefer being charitable in less efficient ways.
It depends on what kind of application you mean. Headless servers doing basic file and network I/O are pretty reasonable to sandbox. This is what Docker does.

But GUI applications are a whole different thing. The standards simply don't exist to make that easy. It's not just basic graphics. Things like internationalized text rendering, text input, and accessibility are ridiculously hard and only a few mostly-complete implementations exist. (Such as in browsers and operating systems.) And they need to keep moving as the culture changes; you want to support the latest emojis, right? Well maybe you don't, but your users will.

Furthermore, these implementations are at least partially specific to particular programming languages. If you want something portable, you might build on the Skia graphics library but that won't give you a way to build an app on its own.
That's interesting about the power levels per-channel. In my case, I actually WANT the not-going-through-walls experience. In an apartment (or hotel room), the goal is just to get as much coverage as you need, not to blanket three floors down.

Smarter power level selection on APs (specifically consumer grade) would be nice. If all of your clients have acceptable signal strength, ratchet down, otherwise try ratching up, etc. If nothing else, it would be nice if manual control was possible (e.g. Apple removed transmit power selector from AirPort Utility).

There's also the problem I mentioned with OS X (and possibly other clients) being biased towards 2.4GHz. I have to create separate SSIDs for 2.4 and 5 GHz at home, and some devices live on one and some on the other. Otherwise, I'll see occasional periods of really terrible performance with 2.4GHz, presumably because of interference (I can see 20+ SSIDs from my living room).
> When your time is worthless anything is possible.

I kinda want this on a mug or something.
As an Iranian who watched a lot of porn back home, it is not true. In 2006 it was limited speed though, and censored, so if I watched porn, I would have to be on VPN or proxy.

The cause: Iran has free government run universities, so education is a big thing here. Go to Stanford EE department, you would be surprised by seeing that many Iranians.
> He disagrees because their are compensated with money that the company has which already belongs to the shareholders.

Preferably, other shareholders
What % of the calories that food banks buy are junk food?
Joint statement: https://www.cisa.gov/news/2021/01/05/joint-statement-federal...
Being well meaning isn't the problem - history's greatest monsters thought they were doing good by their country. There's an old saying about good intentions...

Anyways, the problem with requiring affirmative consent to unblock is that the people running the filters are just a

select name from subscribers where filter = false

.away from getting information that could be used against people.

It's best that they not have that information in the first place, and that's before we get into the question of if "protecting children" is worth all this trouble anyways.
Ok... so what's the second best?
Just about everyone I know - including people who play FarmVille - agree that it's really not very fun, but the app (I hesitate to call it a "game") compels them forward with a number of addictive mechanics.

Few people I know classify watching TV as "fun," but it passes the time and is entertaining.

No offense, but it really sounds like you have a horse in this race - do you work for Zynga?

None taken. I absolutely have no relationship whatsoever with Zynga.

Consider the argument

Television isn't intended to provide entertainment, it's only intended to addict you (to the networks' benefit).

I can't imagine it would be so uncritically received by Hacker News.

Clearly FarmVille has addictive elements, like any game. I'm shocked that Hacker News so enthusiastically accepts that "FarmVille isn't intended to provide entertainment", and is punishing me for saying so.
The review gives one two paragraphs commending the book before moving on the prurient details. I would not ordinarily read a review of such a book to learn about the subject of a biography.
No, I've set no constraints on private efforts. Things of low cost quickly become very expensive (in both time and money) when multiplied by the size of the population, or the number of cities, or whatever other base you're imagining. I've not yet heard an actual suggestion though.
Do you know if there is a way to quickly jump to a specific window in Opera, with a strings search, like in Vimperator? This would be really nice.
But there's something to be said for a degree as employability insurance.

There is something to be said, and it's been said.

The question is whether not it's just said or it's real. Growing evidence suggests that college degrees are falling out of line with needs of society. (I'm not saying degrees are bad things. I love education and keep learning every day. If anything, I have a problem with certification madness)

If you'd like some arm-wavey slandering of the tech community, I'll give it a shot: younger and younger people are making millions of dollars at startups. This has, in effect, created something of a lottery system where there is huge payback but most folks don't win. VCs and Angel groups are jumping on the bandwagon, using age as a indicator of startup potential. All of this creates a perverse set of counter-incentives against a traditional classic liberal education. That's a bad thing.

But it's not bad enough to get all upset about. Not yet. It's simply something to observe and see how it progresses.
SciFi in 1920:

|==now==|=======================future=====================|

SciFi today:

|=====================now===================|====future====|

See? The problem is that we are out of land! We have so much science now that would have been fiction before, that you can write a totally scifi novel that is just seen as contemporary fiction. Take a gander at the newer William Gibson books (Pattern Recognition for example). They are set a bit closer to present, but if they had been written in the 70s, they would have been totally scifi (laptop computers, cellular phones, realtime video editing, etc).
Your point is well taken but I'd offer one caveat which is the people in Reminder #1 are a big part of the problem that creates Reminder #2. I recently attended a meeting between educators and future California Governor Jerry Brown.

At that meeting I watched a woman with a doctorate in English scream at the future (and former) Mayor of California because he was telling her they'd have to cut her six figure salary. Even though she admitted her students test scores were abysmal and everyone in the room knows she couldn't go anywhere else and get paid the same rate she still felt she was entitled to the money on her degree alone.

Bottom line (IMHO): If society is to move forward people who deify the degree need to be relieved of that delusion even if it's painful to them.
Hmm. I've never used SciPy before but let's see if I can figure it out:

$ brew install python pip gfortran # Fortran's for scipy...

$ pip install numpy

$ pip install svn+http://svn.scipy.org/svn/scipy/trunk/#egg=scipy

If you don't want to use the SVN version of SciPy, you can just use:

$ pip install scipy

Homebrew and pip are the first things I've ever used that made me not miss apt on debian.
Periodically test the infrastructure backing up your primary production assets. Make tests so close to reality as possible. Use tests results to learn and improve your processes.
Agreed. You use Matlab if you want to do work that will not been seen outside of academia. You use R if you have some hope of getting a real job after your postgraduate years, and you use C/C++ code with Python (or Lua if you like the Torch work) as your glue if you plan on being one of the rock-stars that people actually compete over.
Is return proportional to area? Diameter? Some other quantity? These are the same flaws Tufte identified years ago.
To take the opposing position, use of hallucinogens or other psychotropic agents will physically alter the brain and may cause real, permanent effects, e.g. HPPD¹. The consequences and danger are something I choose to avoid and I would encourage others to reconsider as well.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucinogen_persisting_percep...
However odious the law is, businesses meddling in politics is even more scary and odious. Even if it's for the "good thing" (because of course everybody defines thet "good thing" to be what he stands for).
That is a fun story, and a great example of a deeper analysis of the sort you aren't going to get from Cook. Thank you for sharing it. :) It would be interesting to see whether there is an application of this to hiring practices (I don't see a clear way this could be done).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9287287
I'm curious what Cook's position is on the Israel/Palestine conflict. Apple's making heavy investments in Israel and Cook has met with Netanyahu who's extremely right wing. Netanyahu's party wants no Palestinian state west of Jordan and for Israel to be an officially Jewish state. Gaza's essentially an open air prison. Of all the things Apple's involved with, that seems to be the most at odds with his expressed values of freedom, equality and human dignity.
The business community has figured out a lot of things great for business. Non-Discrimination is on the list, but so is wage-fixing (on one hand) and providing alcohol to minors (on the other).

Leveraging Apple's weight here just seems inappropriately selective to me.
Tim Cook is the CEO of one of the world's largest and most influential companies.

This alone makes him absolutely qualified to comment.
Excellent point. To make it slightly more concrete, I make vastly more now in Las Vegas than I did in North Carolina. Yet, in some ways I am worse off in a material way. I make more, but I pay much more for a smaller house, much more for electricity, and slightly more for food than I did in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Overall, I have less discretionary budget than before.

Of course, this is counterbalanced by having more opportunities in terms of career, education, culture, and entertainment.
>What are you going to do after you "cash out"?

Whatever you want! Start another job, go trekking, work for a charity, write poetry.

The original article questions whether money can get you freedom, the answer is : yes it can! The ultimate freedom is choosing to do things each day because you want to, not because you have to.
I've sadly encountered code like that at work :(

The core app for the company I work for (a FORTE UDS piece of legacy code called OSIRIS) has similar strings embedded in the database, for things such as determining the user's profile (why make a lot of columns when you can have one column represent a lot of values). It's obscure as hell.

This post reminded me I need to find alternatives soon - though it's hard to quit because the company I work for pays slightly above average wages for my country and has job security.
Even in a non-native speaker they are still signs of poor comprehension. If you are going to have someone write your documentation, they had better know the language. I have not bought from some companies a second time because their documentation was so bad.

And, truthfully, many non-native writers are as good as many natives. Non-native speakers can be more readily identified (if for some reason you want to) through unusual word choices or stilted (overly formal) grammar.
Square sounds perfect for that. They are shipping out card swipers already, too. I would request another one if you haven't gotten yours yet.
I don't agree.

The only reason why web designers should not use ad blockers, that I can think of, is to see how others are placing ads and learn from them, so when you have to design a page that has ads, you know how or how not to do it.
Even if we are, we may still not be responsible for the government's actions. The US is run by majority rule, so when something is decided, it doesn't necessarily reflect the will of the whole citizenry.
And while some of those laws are OK, they should ALL be scraped for the principle that:

"Nobody knows better than me what is better for myself and mine."

It's not always true (see vaccination or smoking) but the alternative is much worse and in much more cases.
You don't own anything than just on a good will basis. YouTube can terminate your account at any time, withour prior notice, at their sole discretion. This is said in the ToS in many places.
I build blockchain development tools at Truffle (a for-profit company). Most of our efforts are on Ethereum tooling, but not all, we are building some tools for enterprise blockchain tech as well as other public chains.

I think most of us here believe we are building tools that will have had a role in the long-term future of (decentralized) finance.

https://trufflesuite.com/
It is most definitely not news, but going so far as to say it's something no one cares about is going a little far.
For what it's worth, I had a golden retriever who liked to toot the horn of a little Fisher-Price train, so I bet a sound board would work. He always used his nose, which I think would be more likely to work on an iPad screen than paws.
Destroy jobs, increase supply of labor commodity, ???, profit
Lots of career paths (not necessarily jobs!) add value to society, and I'm not about to do them. Daycare worker? They should be paid WAY more given the value they provide. Even if the salary was higher than mine, there's no way I would consider that as an option.

Conversely, there are lots of dirty, dangerous and demeaning jobs I've never held which don't seem worth it. How many people die in coal mines every year? Would you want to do that?

By all means we should give those workers a decent shot at retraining, like Germany did with their coal miners. If anyone figures out how to use robots to entirely automate their job or engineers manage to make wind and solar scale up cheaply, I would say that's a net positive for humanity.
Yeah, my "they" was really unclear. I'm sure that no developer in his or her right mind would ever call anything "invulnerable." That's just asking for it.

I guess it makes sense that the media would call something like that invulnerable though, they don't know anything about it anyways.
It's not possible to include extra information like 'shipping address' in a bitcoin transaction, unless that transaction is sent to an IP address (vs sending to a bitcoin address).
I'm on Safari and ditto.
I kind of understand your line of thought, but it is implicitly taking sides: if employers can just say "you're only allowed to work on X" to shut down any sort of metadiscussion about the conditions under which X is done, that makes any sort of work to change these conditions nearly impossible.