skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You might want to check out Robert Putnam's "Bowling Alone: America's Declining Social Capital" which makes similar arguments as the OP and was published in 1995, well before mobile phones had really taken off.

(I see now the article has been mentioned elsewhere in the thread, too.)
Archived copy without GDPR nag screen:

https://web.archive.org/web/20180909080100/https://www.forbe...
Your solution is to give them your phone number first?
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If they expected this to happen and went ahead anyway because profits, then yes, absolutely.
Maybe I'm cynical but I see this as a negative. Nearly every voice interface I've used outside of the big ones has been abysmal, half baked, and temperamental.
Yes. There’s a Chromebook-optimised distro called GalliumOS. I use it on my HP Chromebook G5 (weighs the same as a MacBook, costs £200) and it works great.
What about using awk?
I got one a couple of weeks ago for under 10. Didn't realise it was at all odd or rare.
Ask HN: What should I do to become a software craftsman?
I want to convince myself I am a software programmer, a real craftsman. I am trying to find out what does concept of a software craftsman mean to people here . I am also trying to get feedback on my opinion.

I have over 10 years of experience and I am working in FAANG in test automation. All my career I worked in QA and testing. I know several languages but I have never written a complete project from scratch (say >4000 LoC). Since I worked in testing all my career everything I wrote was short test code and never a large project or a part of it. I have written test frameworks but I do not feel that I can call myself professional programmer by doing that.

I have given some thought to this matter and this is the conclusion I have reached. What I need to do is to write and maintain a complete project of non-trivial complexity.I know I can learn algorithms. I have done that multiple times, most recently to pass the FAANG whiteboard interviews. I can learn a language. I know a couple already and I know I can learn a new one if I have time. I can solve leetcode style whiteboard coding questions, given I have enough time. But what I have never done is write and maintain a large amount of code.

I read that Steve Yegge has a 50K LoC game (Wyern?) that he maintains alone. I would argue this is a sign a profession programmer. Once you can do the all following you can be considered a craftsman of programming

- Learn any algorithm
- Learn any programming language
- Solve any whiteboard interview (leetcode style) question given enough time
- Maintain a X LoC codebase by himself.

Do you agree to my argument/rant/ravings above?
If so what should X be ?

Do you have suggestion for
X = 1K
X = 10K
X = 50K
X = 100K

- I know 1K in Java and 1K in Haskell is different but lets just ignore that for now
Managed C++ has been replaced by C++/CLI in 2005 and it pretty much alive.

Its purpose was to make .NET interop easier with C++ libraries and has been quite successful at it, instead of having to play around with P/Invoke until everything works properly.

Regarding Windows, Microsoft is pretty much on the ongoing transition to C++, where these kind of issues are easier to tackle.

I bet their goals regarding Checked C have more to do with the adoption of UNIX (Linux/BSD) based technologies for Azure deployments and IoT devices like Azure Sphere.
ChromeOS utilises the Linux kernel itself but without arguing semantics you can install a chroot Linux distribution with Crouton [1]. Whether that supports this specific machine (whatever it may be) I do not know.

[1] https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton
Ask HN: Should I warn my healthy food-crazed friends about Orthorexia Nervosa?
Yesterday on a German popular science program I first heard about an eating disorder, Orthorexia Nervosa [0], that is caused by an obsessive focus on eating only the most healthy foods. The popularity of numerous food trends lead to a rise in the people suffering from this disorder, with dietists and people in the 'whole foods' sector are most at risk.

Reading symptoms and diagnostic criteria, I think several of my friends and family members may be in first stages of this disorder.

Always busy with finding superfoods, preparing carrot/radish/whatever vegetable juice and pushing them to whomever they can, excessive talk about supposed health benefits, and recently started buying very expensive food supplements, vitamins and such.

I also notice they don't appear to become healthier. Losing weight, gaunt, grey skin tone, and (though might not be related) often sick.

Orthorexia Nervosa is not widely recognized as a real thing, and I don't want to be seen as overly alarmist, nor do I want to be seen as criticizing their lifestyle (a lot of worry about modern processed foods is warranted).

Do you have similar experiences with this supposed eating disorder, and are the risks such that I should inform them?

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthorexia_nervosa
This conspiracy theory makes no sense. Why on earth would your bank need identify you by phone number when you already have to give them your social security number to open the account?
The difference vs the rest of the web is so stark, I don't read the sites linked by HN posts anymore. I just read the HN comments.

It's not just size, but also JS execution time, reinvention, poorly, in JS, of features the browser has natively, and endless modals.
You can install something like GalliumOS depending on compatibility [1], but it's not for someone who's afraid of modification as to make the boot process seamless you need to modify the BIOS. I have an Acer C720 running it, and it works well - it's a light, cheap linux machine that I can take with me wherever and not be too bothered about (because of the replacement cost), but TBH I think installing Linux because of the OP's issue is sledgehammer/nut! Lots of people like ChromeOS (my Mum has a Chromebase, and since she's had it I've needed to provide precisely zero tech support which wasn't the case for either her Mac or the PC she had to replace it), so replacing it with a niche version of Linux may not be the route to go for many.

[1] - https://wiki.galliumos.org/Hardware_Compatibility
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Yes, technology acts as an amplifier for human intentions (Kentaro Toyama's words, not mine).

Thus, fixing the underlying cause of the Seattle Freeze is the only thing that can fix the Seattle Freeze, not layering tech-based fixes on top.

As someone living in Seattle since 2011, I hypothesize that most people here are sufficiently affluent that they do not need to interact meaningfully (read "make friends") with people other than their family. IMHO, this is the root cause, and I don't think that technology can change this state of affairs.
Ok, we've squeezed in an 'r'.
It's an age-old discussion board trope to seek rhetorical effect by taking a vastly complex topic and by distilling it down to something simplistic like "basic morals", But all it really achieves is to make discussions boring or even depressing.

The best HN commenters come here for the opportunity to contribute something far better than that, and we all benefit when they do.
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What I like to do sometimes is contact the support of the apps I'm hesitating on. Whichever is most responsive/helpful wins, as it's a good sign they actually care.
>That Warburg managed to get away with something so artificially constructed to evade laws is, to say the least, disappointing.

Why should a person in London be bound by laws in the US? Warburg did nothing illegal.

I’m all for the rule of law in general, but it’s unreasonable to try to use laws to distort fundamental economic reality, while also actually acting in such a way to undermine the economic system those laws were supposed to create. That’s what the US was doing. They were trying to cheat the markets for political purposes.
I did a end-of-semester project on stylometry on my masters, and no-where in our literature review did we see anyone comparing TF-IDF's scores for authorship attribution.

Other than some guy on twitter saying TF-IDF, on what grounds is this classifier chosen?

Other mention that "This is about showing off the library". In that case, the authors should chose to show case their tools for a problem they are ment to solve.

"Check out my hammer, here's how to use it: First, you get some screws..."
How does this hedge the risks? Those are still built on top of the JDK.
Evil.

Imagine those teens at school, that bought Chromebooks because they were more affordable, and now getting pried on like this.. :-(
It is this generation that is going to lose the idea of privacy and suffer from these piece of shit corporations.

It's almost like watching a movie.
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Thanks for sharing your experience. Would you mind dropping me an email at the address in my profile, I'd like to ask you something offline?
So I have to settle with an environment that doesn't value privacy or security on a hardware or software level because of some vague ideal of free choice. Okay.
> The key metric for telecoms is ARPU - average revenue per user. Net profit is a pointless number. Ebitda margins are something like 36% for verizon from a recent google search.

OP’s assertion was that because fiber service is much more expensive in the US than in Romania, American telecoms must be making huge profits on it. ARPU—which ignores costs—is useless for analyzing that assertion.

EBITDA margin is also useless for looking at telecom profitability because it’s exclusive of depreciation and interest. Telcos spent tens of billions of dollars on fiber that’s sitting in the ground depreciating. EBITDA ignores that. If anything, looking at EBITDA shows you how dismal the economics of wireline really are. People have this idea that wireline networks are free money after paying for the initial build. In reality, 2/3 of every dollar you pay in service charges goes to ongoing expenses, even before you start accounting for the cost of building the network in thr first place.
Are u worried about your country's security services or Google? Not sure of the question.
If it is (1) then stop using anything from big 5 tech.
It is likely changing ips and locations possibly makes google feel suspicious that your login is being compromised. For my very paranoid friend, I bought 2 X 'U2F' key completely open source at https://u2fzero.com/ (unlike some of Yubico keys) . All problems went away.

Also remember any form of 2-factor is better than none. Yes, GSM can be hacked and yadayada.. but even one extra factor always slows down.
See even a senior Mozilla dev got hacked without 2FA:
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/08/02/chrome_web_develope...
There's certainly a role to play there, but I subordinate the technological roles underneath the commercial ones. Our mobile devices and social media, like the rest of our society, leave us feeling catered to, but not fulfilled.

We can go to Instagram and see lots of beautiful photographic artwork, and even contribute to it yourself, but taking a beautiful picture is not the same as having a beautiful life, and can indeed blind you to the amount of effort it takes to construct it behind the relatively much much smaller amount of effort it takes to snap a decent picture.

We can go to Facebook and discover what us tech kids figured out way back in the nineties, that interacting with people outside of meatspace removes our inner filters and simultaneously removes the all-important communication channel of tone of voice, leading every sentence to feel like an attack to be defended from. We get an intense "intellectual" experience without having to do the work of actually understanding not just our own positions, but also how to best communicate and distill those positions to others. Catered to, not fulfilled.

We can pick up our phones and obtain, on tap, video games that engage our minds with an experience that's compelling enough to hold attention without the work of slowly building up skills or having to coordinate sit-down time with our fellow humans to hone those skills with. Catered to, not fulfilled. If you get good at Candy Crush, what bragging rights have you earned?

Technology has finished the job of driving us apart from our peers, but it didn't begin it. It's the proximate, not underlying cause. Technology used to bring us together, we used to prioritize that which allowed us to spend time and engage over a greater surface area than 'mere' conversation. We all watched network, then later cable, news and then talk about what we all saw at the diner or bar.

Now every single social interaction we have has been gamified and monetized to a far more granular degree, and our third spaces sit ossified in the corner like a beaten step-sibling.

Technology, the phone in our pocket, only has a small role to play. If Americans wanted more and deeper and harder social interaction, we'd demand social media and phone apps that would give it to us. I believe China's mobile app ecosystem is pretty good at providing technology that brings them together rather than drives them apart. But Americans don't want that, we want to be catered to.
Can't you just set up an alternative two factor authentication method? How about a Yubikey? I think that maybe if 2FA is not explicitly enabled on the account, Google try and enforce this 2FA 'light' method using SMS
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> Of course some of these apps, like the ones that you NEED to use for certain parking meters, are especially evil because there is an any choice. If you need that service, you’re giving up your privacy.

It's amazing neither iOS nor Android has a location picker/Intent that can be launched by the OS to give an app a one time location. Like the ones that exist for contacts, picking photos or sharing links[1].

For parking meter apps i only want to give location access when i press the "find closest parking" button, never else.

While we are on the topic, app store reviews should also be much stricter on enforcing usage of standard Intents. Many apps request full contact list, camera and full file system permission when they could use Intents for all their use cases. Maybe enforcing is a bit strict but apps not following the spirit of the OS architecture and requiring more permissions than needed should be ranked lower in app store rating and search results.

[1] https://developer.android.com/guide/components/intents-commo...
Surely the biggest mistake is using Go
Are you saying that the IQ distribution is not measured sufficiently well and there is controverse among statisticians whether men are really more likely to have scored below e.g. 70; or are you saying that there is controverse about the causes?
it's to cut down on spam from users unwilling/unable to set up tens or hundreds of phone numbers, which I imagine is the majority of spammers.

If anything I think it's the opposite --- dedicated spammers have shown they can farm resources like accounts of various types, so phone numbers aren't out of their reach. It's the casual users who don't want to give away their phone numbers or setup a throwaway one which will be turned away.
> I personally like "manly men" and that's also not a PC thing to admit to

there's nothing political about liking what you like. You don't need to justify yourself, your preferences or their reasonings to anyone. That's half the point of the sexual liberation movement.

> I'm a fairly traditionally feminine woman and spent a couple of decades as a homemaker and full-time mom. I am routinely met with open hostility from self proclaimed trans activists, feminists, etc.

for raising kids? i didn't realize investing in future generations was controversial. You have just as much right to exist and go about your life as they do or anyone else.
> you already have to give them your social security number to open the account

FYI, no you do not have to.

> You are not required to have a social security number to open a checking or savings account.

Source: https://www.consumerfinance.gov/ask-cfpb/can-i-get-a-checkin...
> Testosterone also drops from high consumption of animal products.

Does it? As far as I can tell high levels of saturated fat increases testosterone levels.
Ok I think I'll take the job then
I speak more in a sibling comment, but basically, the sheer number and quality of the services available provides for anyone to retreat from challenging situations to ones in which they need expend no personal effort to get rewarded.

In the past even those escapes required effort. Anyone who grew up in the eighties playing Nintendo knows just how much effort was required to obtain mastery, and thereby fulfillment, over a video game. Now the games are laser-focused on removing all obstacles to that feeling.

I'd like to give this phenomenon a better name to distinguish it from 'mere' consumerism, but there's definitely been a shift over the last 10 years or so as the Internet has gone mainstream. The Pandora's Box it opened up had real knock-on effects on the rest of society.
To dump this privacy setting json
https://gist.github.com/meets2tarun/2161e544f4c458c2f07641ca...

to your system.
https://www.chromium.org/administrators
All solved. It survives updates/reinstalls.
I imagine the solution to be some sort of Boy Scouts for Adults. It would be different from a MeetUp Group in that there would be some minor level of commitment which is important to keep people attending when they need it most: when they are feeling a bit down; and there would be a regular meeting schedule. If I were not traveling I would seriously look into setting something like this up.
> Eating meat is a manly-man activity and what no one wants out of study like this is to have their preconceptions challenged

Not really - for example most “manly-men” can agree heavy drinking decreases testosterone levels.
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As a Swiss citizen, I really, really like our model. The only problem I see, is that foreign people from all kind of countries don't know this system and think that their kids have to go to a "Gymnasium" to reach a university-level education later. That's probably something we should emphasize more!
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For the older ones I've read that you can reflash it to a "normal" PC BIOS and then it becomes a pretty ordinary laptop that will run Linux or Windows or whatever else.
I’ve got a hypothesis that there is a set amount of testosterone possible in the world (or social group). More males = less to go around. It would make sense from a not-constantly-on-edge perspective as the amount of males per unit of territory goes up.

Just a hypothesis, could make for interesting research.
Perhaps we‘re just not built for living in metropolitan areas with millions of people within a few square kilometers and we‘re isolating ourselves from the strangers we see every day because it makes us uncomfortable. Move back to small villages and cities?
I agree. Needing a full-time job to survive means I get maybe three hours of time to myself each day. The rest is in an open plan office or commuting. And it’s not even true solitude, since rent prices here force me to share a house with other people.

As long as I have a close friend or two that I can share my thoughts with when the need arises, and personal activities that occupy my thoughts and time when I’m by myself, I can’t imagine feeling lonely ever again. More solitude, please.
This was a study that used data from circa 180 other studies; I wonder what the purpose of the other studies were and whether there's any selection bias here?
How do i get a software project done alone from home with no deadline
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> The proof is the fact that giving trans women testosterone doesn't "cure" their gender dysphoria

Interesting! I was wondering about this the other day. Do you have any links?
>Am I crazy or does this seem like an extremely cynical attempt to get more phone numbers?

Yes it does. The normal Gmail interface I get now has a forgot password link which is by default activated after I enter the username. I have to explicitly jump over that to continue entering the actual password and thus to my mail box.
You're not cynical. This is another distraction on top of a plethora of distractions that BMW, Daimler, and other upscale manufacturers have added to their vehicles in the last couple of years.

If this was only a way to simplify navigation, radio/streaming music access, or other comparable activities that already require the driver to look away from the road to operate, I would be all for it.

However, Office 365 integration? Skype integration? I'm sorry, but those are the last things I want to be worried about when I'm driving a car.
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> What seems to be needed is a way for many of us to blindly push a button that says "commit", and get randomly matched up with a compatible group of friends.

There is an event starting in LA that might exactly do that [1]. At least in Lisbon, this works very well.

Disclaimer: I co-organize in Lisbon and build the app for this.

[1] https://www.meetup.com/LA-Digital-Nomads/events/254211266/
Sonos just did the same. They want you to create an account (and therefore give them an email) and otherwise are effectively bricking the device in the latest update.

Was time to get rid of this pos.
For children, it's always about what the parents want. Children will do anything for their parents.

Kids don't put themselves in news articles. It's the parents who do it, but they always say the child spontaneously behaved that way.
Except on server. JRE on server will still be a thing (at least in forseeable future).

https://blogs.oracle.com/java-platform-group/understanding-t...
We have many of those places where I live, but I still don't take advantage of them. I think I'll try to change that and spend more time around other people in nature even if not directly interacting with them.

Edit: I realized I wrote this outside of a small cafe in my neighborhood, with people talking, relaxing on their own, and having breakfast. I consider myself an introvert but always seem to work better in cafes like this, with people around (especially if those people are also working). I always thought it was due to the tentative time limit making me focus better on the task at hand (since it would be rude to stay too long in a cafe), but now I'm wondering if just the proximity to other people might also be helping.
About your WiFi issue: you shouldnt use WPA2 TKIP, because it is insecure.
I don’t think it’s that simple. As a dev or sysadmin, all it takes is to have resources invested in a legacy system that no one gave money to replace but are ok with maintenance contracts. This easily happens when people leave/get hired.

I have a legacy storage system only accessible through exactly Java 6u31 32-bit on Windows 7, of course I want to replace that but instead it’s cheaper to keep and maintain than to replace.

edit and I think this must be a conscious strategy on the part of any vendor: make maintenance just slightly cheaper than replacement
Can’t leave comment in blog, but the first two listings are broken - it looks like there is no empty line after ``` in listing line, and before the same in listing two. So enumeration isn’t rendered correctly
Interesting idea. One comment:

Resetting everyday at midnight means that users will have a hard time using points earlier in the day and therefore biasing towards use at merchants in the evening. This may not be the best approach. What if points earned in a day were valid for the next day?