skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends, I do not use gmail for personal/private messages just work and login to webpages, I do not use maps or location or assistance on my phone either, but this story still sounds scary because google has many products and a ban on youtube(where they forced people to use google accounts) will lock you out of everything. Part of the solution for this problem would be if you get a ban on Youtube you can still use gmail and the other products. Other part of the solution is to tell people what exactly they did wrong, I sometimes got warnings from Sony that I did something against the TOS and not to do it again but not details what I did (my son plays games on a PS4, I tried to look into the chats he made recently but I could not find anything to explain it so I tried the best I could to explain him to watch his language because he could get locked out the games) and like others said some human support would also help a lot.
> obviously misleading maps are posted as representations of fire damage

The maps referenced in the article aren't "obviously misleading" -- data visualization techniques are always lossy, that's just how they work. Claiming they're misleading is the real deception.
Join #freebsd-nix on freenode. It's quiet here, but it exists.
Now try that with a secret chat.

Telegram makes it easy by cheating with privacy and security.
>Maybe there is an opportunity for a forward-thinking software group which strives for competence on these kinds of platforms, and is prepared to take over the abandoned customers?

Criminals tick all those boxes and love internet devices that have been neglected for some reason or another. Which has a worrying level of ironic that such `security` devices can turn to the dark side.
I wonder how long it'll take to get lightly personalized ML generated variation of such content. And how long it'll take to people notice that it's generated and not a "real" person
Sorry, guess I worded my old post poorly. I have next-to-no interest in Pijul itself. Git is working fine for me, and the snapshot model is much clearer and easier for me than patches anyway.

My problems only become relevant when trying to contribute to projects that already use Pijul/Nest (Carnix).
Personal anecdote - A friend of mine was sent a letter by Arthur C. Clarke praising him about a program that Mr. Clarke was using and Mr. Clarke also included his phone number. Well another friend I and cajoled my friend into calling Arthur C. Clarke. He picked up and my friend talked to him and then I had the opportunity to speak. I asked him something that had been bothering me; different than most of my peers; I thought that HAL was more of a sympathetic character. So I asked him 'Was HAL evil?'. Perhaps this was too simple of a question because he answered with the cagey 'What do you think?' and then 'Go back and re-watch both movies and see if you can make up your own mind'. But in the way he answered this question, it made me feel that yes HAL is only evil relative to your point of view. HAL, of course, was desperate and from desperation leads to a course of action that most would consider evil. It was murder of course.
With all its overly discussed faults, YT is such an invaluable resource. There is so much free high-quality content: educational, sport, music, spiritual.

YT should get some respect and recognition.

I'm an avid yt music user. There is practically infinite musical content there never released on any other medium. It's an irreplaceable cultural treasure.
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This is why FreeBSD doesn't do "stable ports" tied to a system release version. Stable ports are a very bad idea.
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There is a clear argument that you chose to ignore: cherry-picks are patently not a problem in Git, and the only problematic aspect is how some git users might create their own personal problems by developing misinformed workflows while ignoring any information on best practices. If you try to reinvent the wheel on your own, ignore any advice or info, and end up with a badly shaped polygonal thing then you simply can't pin the blame on your chisel.
Easy fix is to switch to Hemp or Oat Milk. I find them more interesting and I imagine hemp milk isn’t much of an issue for bees.
From all visible metrics, sex and social activity are plummeting precipitously across the developed world——lower rates of sex, lower sales of condoms, higher marriage age, lower birth rate, more suicide, higher rates of antisocial mental disorders, and on. It’s easy to see that not just YouTube but communication technology in general is partially, if not greatly responsible. But what’s even more concerning to me is the idea that all this feels in some ways inevitable.

I think this has been so plain that even science fiction has grappled with it extensively from the musings in Neuromancer, Snow Crash, Transmetropolitan, etc.

The biggest question to me is: as feeble biological beings who are prone to replacing healthy social interaction with the kind of social hallucinations provided by technology, what would lead us to a better life? Technology seeks to mediate all things, and is possibly more successful at this than even capitalism writ large. What can fallible humans possibly do to combat this malaise?
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Horrible cache utilization.
One of my applications is distributed through Appimage. It works really well.

I really feel it should support containerisation in a similar way as Flatpak does. In my opinion, the idea that any application on your system can can touch all your files and access all your other applications is really problematic. You're always just one broken (intentionally or not) application form having your entire system compromised.

As best as I can tell, the only solutions that even tries to address this is Qubes OS and Flatpak.
really engaging article. a couple comments:

> treat loneliness as a serious health problem that could even lead to early death

italics are mine. I've seen this written a lot of times, and I find it disappointing that we are focusing so much in reduced life expectancy. in my opinion, the real issue deserving the attention is the reduced life quality.

now adressing the topic of the article: I think we should reflect more deeply about spaces, and how modern society is losing them. nowadays, practically every exchange involves money, products, services. if a space doesn't make sense in an economic sense, it tends to disappear. the only big "free" space left seems to be the internet, so it's no surprise that people tries to find everything they feel they are missing there. but it's clearly not enough, not a good alternative. we have become really good at hacking everything, and now we can't trust anything. it's not just that we don't want the messiness... to me, it seems like it's becoming harder every time to find good places to get messy, unless you are really thinking explicitly about it and going somewhat out of the road. it's some kind of natural contradiction for humans: we don't want a messy world, because it hurts us, so we are trying to steer away from that, but at the same time we need it. how do we reconcile everything?
Freezing them also turns on the immune response.
Yeah I pay for YouTube Premium and spend a lot of time watching the extremely high quality arts, current affairs, and documentaries you can find on there.

Follow the Royal Opera House for example! Super high quality production values and frequent posting. Better than what you'd regularly find on even high-quality broadcast TV like BBC 4, or a subscription service like Netflix.
Even if that is true, given how easy it is for a billionaire to have an abortion if they don't want a daughter, and to make sure no one knows about it, I don't think it's proof of anything directly.
Southeast Asian drug laws are far more draconian than American drug laws and the only reason nobody talks about intergenerational poverty there is because single-generation poverty doesn't exist. Imperialistic powers took turns colonising the region for a century or so and then World War 2 happened. Everyone came from generations of having no wealth and no power.
What is productivity and how do we measure it?
>19%: The Great Water-Power Wake-Up Call

>A few years back, number crunchers at the California Energy Commission tried to add up how much electrical power (and other forms of energy) goes into using water in California. The bottom line number they came up with: 19%. That is, nearly a fifth of all the power generated in California — as well as huge quantities of natural gas and diesel fuel consumed in the state — goes into water-related uses.

http://ww2.kqed.org/climatewatch/2012/06/10/19-percent-calif...

Irrigation is a CO2 emitter - especially when water is transported all the way from the Colorado River to California farms.
I totally agree with you, but I also notice the slow but steady increase in ad content before, between, below all YouTube videos, that also seem to call back to my preferences, feelings, tastes, past interactions, etc.

The question I always ask is: how long until YouTube removes the ability to skip ads altogether? How long until a painfully nontrivial portion of our browsing time is spent directly consuming propaganda?
Wait until the generated content realizes that it is itself generated, then the real trouble will begin
Thank you, that's good to hear! Your arguments are valid.
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It’s not about the abstractions. In the case of Oracle or any other database, if you’re only using standard SQL and not taking advantage of any Oracle specific features, why are you spending six figures a year using it?

The same can be said about your cloud provider. If you’re just using it for a bunch of VMs and not taking advantage of any of the “proprietary features” what’s the purpose? You’re spending more money than just using a colo on resources and you’re not saving any money on reducing staff or moving faster.

You’re always locked into your infrastructure decisions once you are at any scale. In the case of AWS for instance (only because that’s what I’m familiar with), even if you just used it to host VMs, you still have your network infrastructure (subnets, security groups, nails), user permissions, your hybrid network setup (site to site, client to site VPNs) your data etc.

In either case, it’s going to be a months long project triggering project management, migrations, regression tests, and still you have risks of regressions.

All of the abstractions and “repository patterns” are not going to make your transition effort seamless. Not to mention your company has spent over a decade building competencies in the peculiarities of Oracle that would be different than MySql.

After a decade, no one used a single stored procedure or trigger that would be Oracle specific? Dependencies on your infrastructure always creep in.
Sure, there is immense value of the youtube content.

Question is if any of the good sides of youtube can be attributed to youtube itself or if it is just the presence of a free and popular video distribution channel that enabled them.

The youtube monopoly is getting quite unbearable, and the ads can be insanely intrusive. Which of course is a feature, so that you'll buy a youtube subscription.
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It's almost certainly propranolol, but it is odd they wouldn't just name it
I've read a number of times over the years that OG was 80s slang for "old guy" (or "an old G"), and that the 90s Ice T song was a play on the older usage. Don't know if there are any citations though.
A similar phenomenon is the use of pets as pseudo-children or relationship partners. Babies are expensive and ruin your sleep for years. Significant others can cheat on you, leave or simply get boring. A cat, however, just like these YouTube boyfriends, is fairly inexpensive, practically takes care of itself, will always love you and will never leave. It is a sort of infantalization of the relationship process.

I think the only solution will be a cultural recognition that the consumeristic mentality of easier = better isn’t necessarily true, and that difficulty, struggle and suffering are inherently worthwhile, more authentic and character-building.
If you don't want to pay for it and you don't want to be 'consuming propaganda' who do you think should be paying to run YouTube for you?
Looks like editor.toJSON() exports the current graph.

I tried it in the dev consolve, on this page: https://rete.js.org/#/components

The exported object has properties id (string) and nodes (array). Each node is shaped like:

{
"id": 1,
"data": {
"name": "rete",
"importance": 1
},
"inputs": {
"pkg": {
"connections": [
{
"node": 2,
"output": "pkg",
"data": {
"pins": []
}
}
]
}
},
"outputs": {
"pkg": {
"connections": [
{
"node": 3,
"input": "pkg",
"data": {
"pins": [
{
"x": 306.4013957327592,
"y": -1661.933328730452
}
]
}
}
]
}
},
"position": [
-509.99078981156725,
-241.02053426307492
],
"name": "Package"
}
When I read articles similar to this one, I can't avoid asking myself how can universities take a more integrated approach to disciplines related to software engineering and computer science. I know that we can't learn all the stuff that's going around, but some standard organization should be put on the table. I felt it many times while studying this lack of "low level" preparedness.
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...because dating is the motivation for young men to accomplish awesome things, according to this video. It’s a fun thought experiment, though:

- On one side, women provide half the work (a recent article on HN said they were now the majority of US workers),

- On the other, if access to family life was a motivator in the 50ies, what is the motivator in the 2020ies, now that dating isn’t... vetted by parents/society/social status? Will we keep accomplishing awesome things? How much motivation will one put into it given the rewards are now rather inversely correlated with work? (Working out, travelling the world, doing NGO work is opposite to having a career, and it’s not even enough to grant one hopes in relationships).
there is never a golden rule, "the rule of 3", sometimes experience because you have seen the exact same can trump the rule of 3 and you can abstract it on the first try.

Clean code - duplication, should focus on duplicate code that needs to change at the same time on all X places it is duplicated.

If the code seems similar but actually has NO correlation, then its not duplicate it just works the same.
> Scholars point out that, even in ancient times, the idea of being an "Aryan" was religious, cultural and linguistic, not racial. — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryan
I think the "old religious beliefs" have more to do with it than any connotation of forced sex (at least I have never recognized this in the way people use the word).

"making love" is something partners do as a healthy and (re)productive part of their relationship, "fucking" is what 'animals' do, purely done for pleasure. It is a bad word for the same reason gluttony, excessive alcohol and drugs are a sin. A society where everyone mindlessly chases dopamine from carnal pleasures is less productive, especially when this leads to unrest and violence (and I guess that's where forced sex comes into play).
Just leave the job already.

I've only seen that once in my career. One developer rewriting existing code constantly, to such an extreme degree it's unfathomable.

He rewrote large amount of scripts (often overnight). Other developers would wake up the next day or continue the project next week, only to find a swath of issue reported by users and the project is gone (rewritten and moved). Did that for while, destroying the work of many people across a number of teams, making enemies and leaving a trail of projects ablaze. Didn't manage to get him fired (organizations rarely fire people) so over time other developers simply stopped working (what's the point when it will be undone the next day) or left.

At first, I thought this was the normal junior mistake. Reading code is quite hard, so one reflex of junior developers is rewrite existing code to make it "prettier" or "better", of course it's just a path to understanding the code because they understand what they just rewrote after the fact. One aspect of learning real world software developer is to stop the urge of constantly rewriting like that.

But that was not it for this developer, he went on and on never learning. Trying to mentor lead nowhere, his stubbornness and deeply ingrained vision was stronger than the will of any lead or manager. Worst challenges were, he fundamentally disagreed on almost all objectives, required features and design decisions, he simply had a different vision and ideals deep down that there is nothing you can do to reason about. He was ultimately unmentorable and unmanageable.
What a dishonest post. Even assuming those tests are relevant, you've selectively quoted from the article.

> When taking the geometric mean of all 46 benchmarks carried out, Intel's own Clear Linux did come out about 4% faster than Ubuntu 19.10 and 8.5% faster than Windows 10.
It deserves credit as a product but I prefer to acknowledge the cultural impact of the internet as a medium. Regarding music I’ve found its algorithm getting worse. I used to go on benders of discovery on YouTube. I just don’t see that anymore.
There is nothing wrong whatsoever with wanting companionship and getting a pet. Extra points if you take it from a shelter.
I agree with the point you're making, but you're actually wrong about C/C++.

It's true that C/C++ compilers usually have a flag that gates language features. However, you're still using the same libc not matter which standard you've picked. For example, there were some changes made to format strings in C99, like parsing hexadecimal numbers with scanf. If you have a C99 libc, you'll always get that behavior, even if you specified "-std=c89".
Netflix went in the opposite direction and contributed KTLS so we now have encrypted sendfile :)

but we also have netmap, which is like mmap for networking, pretty cool stuff
I also think visual coding works for high level abstractions rather than low-level procedural style workflows. E.g. for ML a visual flow could be import some data, train a model, deploy model to cloud. Orange Data Mining is an example of visual programming at the right level of abstraction but stops short of including enough modules to be useful in common data science workflows:

https://orange.biolab.si/
That isn’t what I said, at all. Pets are awesome. But they aren’t replacements for human connection.
Whats most annoying to me such "onlinedness"/"cloudness" that people (myself including) associate with web apps are not really dependant on the front end being web based. You should be able to build as good collaboration etc features as easily with native apps as with web tech. In mobile the the lines are blurrier, but on desktop there feels to be division between offline native apps and online web apps, with very few bridging the gap with native online apps.
That is not how human learning works. Manuals don't contain hundreds of thousands of examples to allow students to draw their own conclusion.

And for inventing new physics, there are two very different approaches. One is perhaps similar to machine learning, where people look at an existing model, find experimental data that doesn't match the model, and adjust the model slightly until it matches the new data. But another mode is where you have a model with certain mathematical properties, then you discover new mathatics that give more properties, and you only then ask for more data to check these extensions.
Cat does not love you. It never leaves, cause you locked it. If you move away, cat prefers to stay.

Treating children like pets would be effectively emotional abuse. And while dog can fill some of yours emotional needs, quite frankly, kids won't.

I have children and had pet and I can tell you that those two are comparable in any way. Not just in easy vs hard scale, but it is fundamentally different relationship.
Right, it's an ethnic concept: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Aryan_peoples
> traditionally Caucasian names like "Cummings"

It always amazes me when US Americans talk in terms of human races like it's the most normal thing in the world. And no, “Cummings“ is not a “Caucasian name“ (whatever that is supposed to mean), it's an English name. I don't want sound too harsh, it's just that as a Central European with all our recent history, things like this really rub me the wrong way.
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You’re misreading the article. To enforce a private debt, you have to sue and get a “court ordered judgment.” A debt by itself is not executable until you get a judgment. “Debtors prison,” consistent with the EuCHR definition, historically referred to putting people in prison for failure to pay a court ordered judgement arising out of a private debt, i.e. “a contextual obligation.”
This is a problem not just in profanity filters but also on marketplaces like Etsy. Heaven forbid anyone named Harry Potter wanting to sell on Etsy. They would more likely than not find themselves banned with little recourse.

In this case for 'trademark' reasons, but the problem is the same. Filter for a set of things, and eventually legitimate examples of said thing are going to get caught up in it.
There may have been effort to stop it from happening again, but from the outside it seems there has been zero effort to mitigate the harm already done, I don't think Facebook contacted anyone to tell them their very personal data had been downloaded by a third party because one of their Facebook friend participated in some poll, and that they would now be targeted by very personalized political propaganda .

It was swept under the rug.