skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it wasn't for companies like Facebook using and thus requesting that information to begin with, it would be a hell of a lot more difficult for American and Chinese agencies to get your data.
Mentally freeze time at when A receives 4 and pretend you are B. When A receives 4, you don't know yet whether A received 4. Hence, you can assume the worst and assume that A didn't receive 4. You know that A has sent 3. However, you can assume the worst and assume that A thinks that A has failed to send you 3. After all, you don't know that A has just received 4. You know that A has received 2 because you received 3 from A. But does A know that you know that A has received 2? As we said earlier, you think pessimistically that A thinks A has failed to send 3 to you (even though you did receive 3!). And so you think that A doesn't know that you know that A has received 2. In other words, you think that A thinks that you think you have failed to send 2. And so on.

I found it helpful to draw it out. Draw a human with the letter B on their T shirt holding a letter labelled 3 and create a cartoon thought bubble on top of their head. Inside that thought bubble write the text "I wonder if A got my letter 4 but assuming they didn't this is how I picture them..." and draw a human with the letter A on their T shirt holding a letter labelled 2 and create a cartoon thought bubble on top of their head.... The final thought bubble should say "I wonder if B got my letter 1 but assuming they didn't I will not attack."
When working at one of the other big banks in the Netherlands I had a security officer ask me: “So are we using any open source software?”
I had the pleasure of seeing his face go white after I told him pretty much every bit we had from OS to framework, compilers, languages and everything in between was open source software...

It wasn’t a surprise that we couldn’t open source some of our stuff “because security”

So yeah, good to see this sentiment is changing
> yet as an adult it has been very, very difficult to make friends.

Isn't this a common experience for most people now. I feel like I frequently articles highlighting loneliness in adults. I've had the same experience.
Right, which is why the result in the headline seems misdirected. "Facebook quitters" are, in fact, a special group. They/you recognized problems that were addressed by quitting facebook! And the study found that when this population removes something they feel is a problem, they feel better. That's... not really surprising, if you think about it. And importantly, it's not a result that says "social media will make everyone feel bad".

I'm one of the normies like the grandparent comment. I don't use Facebook all that much, and most of what I see there is just a stream of banal life events from a selection of people that I'd otherwise not hear from. Most of it isn't that interesting directly, but I'll admit that my life is enriched by retaining these relationships I'd otherwise have dropped. It's definitely not something I feel bad after using.

Obviously that's not your experience, and there's nothing wrong with that. Certainly you shouldn't be forced to use this platform if it makes you unhappy. Really this just goes down to "people are all different and we all have to find our paths through the world". Technology changes the battlefield a little at the margins, but it hasn't changed the war.
I sincerely hope this won’t stop kids from learning about Linux and contribute to kernel code.

Labeling Linux as dangerous tool is far from reality.

Parents reading this, let your kids use Linux!
On the fiasco of this project and its usage of differential privacy: https://medium.com/@francis_49362/dear-differential-privacy-...
How do they rule out the correlation that families that move a lot might not be as stable in general?
slack and confluence :)
Even monkeys and primates have it. Humans definitely have it, there are cliques, in-groups, out-groups, trying to get into various groups...it's obviously a culture at each school, but since it's observed in monkeys and primates, we know it's somewhat natural for humans.
Why do states need branding / logos / taglines? Why not just use the shape of the state and the name?
Agree with all the pros stated in the article. However, there are cons:

1. Each desktop app is shipping almost a full browser, updating it independently and bloating RAM, storage and CPU utilization in the process.

2. RAM/CPU bloat issues are real - even the V8 team advices against overreliance on excess RAM. They've noticed a speed increase in the process of releasing V8-lite aimed at aggressive gc

3. Even amongst the most mature GUI frameworks based on html/js, there's far too much overhead for trivial things, like reading/writing to file. For instance, in electron, since the browser V8 context isn't allowed willy-nilly storage access, a file read from the browser V8 goes across a couple IPC requests to complete. Also, these hops aren't widely documented and understood, making desktop apps janky by default, instead of fast by default
Nice! I recently launched a similar Chrome extension (free, open source, no tracking or ads) that also includes a greyscale option to make the websites less interesting / addicting once they load https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/get-your-focus-bac...
Communists busting a game in rural China
The text seems copy&paste from this news article https://coinrivet.com/what-to-expect-from-cryptocurrency-leg...

Darrencrypto1: the submission form can be confusing. For articles you'd fill out URL and title and then you can leave a comment later. Though 'what are your thoughts?' is implied because people submit articles to start a discussion.
I only use HN and Reddit.

The only regret I have about deleting FB two years ago: not copying down friends' birthdays.

The solution? Ask them.
> My solution was to use the remaining credits for the first four of the The Wheel of Time (14 novels long).

Thanks for the inspiration. I've been putting this off because i didn't have a solution, but just pulled the trigger.
Whether you actually have lost your memory is a factual question to be determined by a trier of fact. Generally, most triers of fact rule against the forgettor if forgetting benefits them.

OTOH, if a witness forgets, they would not be held in court, because there's no benefit to them forgetting, and so their loss of memory is believable.
It gives you a credit of $1,000 monthly for 2 years, but there's no real indication anywhere on Github of exactly what that pays for?

So it's not really free.

How does this compare with Gitlab and Bitbucket offerings for small teams?

I know Bitbucket has a one-time payment option for their self-hosted version of $10 for 10 users. Pretty hard to beat that, unless you're adamant you need it hosted for you.
Somehow my brain saw "cats" in there.
I can understand where they’re coming from I think.

I browse HN or reddit a lot when I put something in motion that will take 4-30 seconds to complete. Because who can wait tens of seconds for something.

Then 15 minutes later...

But if I know that I’ll probably have to wait just as long for the site to load then perhaps I’d just sit and endure, maybe...
>After a day or so of thinking about it and seeing my projection match what was being reported, I concluded China chose this function because it shows a concern but does not cause great alarm. A predictable upward linear growth. Unsettling, but not terrifying.

Initially the expansion was clearly exponential as evidenced by the clean straight line in the log-linear plots.

Under high mixing conditions (like a high N-dimensional cube) this is to be expected for the initial breakout.

Then quarantine and lock-down measures came, and experts expected the second derivative of the cumulative infections to reach a constant, which subsequently happened.

I witnessed a lot of people not understanding 1) why a simple quadratic? 2) why is a quadratic any better??

When there social distance measures are in effect, the virus can only diffuse on territory, and not "teleport" by public transport etc.

This means that it can only spread in 2 dimensions.

Consider the oversimplification of an epicenter, with a disklike area of infection, then a constant radial ground speed through diffusion, would mean the infected area would increase quadratically with radius. And the radius would increase proportionally to time (effective ground speed, since 2 months from now people will not be able to suddenly sneeze 2 times as far...).

So the cumulative number of infections would hence increase quadratically with time.

If we knew the eventual infection percentage (which Gabriel Leung estimated as potentially being 60%?), then we could calculate the effective radial ground speed:

If P is the number of people per area A then rho = P / A is the population density.

If only a susceptible fraction S can get infected and assuming a circular disk, with A = pi R ^ 2 = pi v ^ 2 t^ 2

Then we can calculate the cumulative number of infected people N as N = rho * A * S = rho * S * pi * v ^ 2 * t ^ 2

so the daily new cases would be

dN / dt = rho * S * pi * v ^ 2 * ( 2 * t )

and its slope X would be:

X = d ^ 2 N / dt ^ 2 = rho * S * pi * v ^2 * 2

(units: confirmations per day, per day or confirmations per day ^ 2)

solving for ground speed:

v = sqrt( X / ( rho * S * pi * 2 ) )

Sadly I can not read Chinese for your link, can you fluently read Chinese or did you use something like google translate?
No - this is likely a hoax.
https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/issues/2723#issuecomm...
Something I say constantly, especially to others trying to make a decision to act, is "What's the worst thing that could possibly happen?" The thing is, you probably can't even imagine the worst thing that can possibly happen from any given decision. But by saying it out loud, you try, at least briefly. And in doing so, you often realize that "the worst thing that could possibly happen" really isn't all that bad.

I wanna ask this person on a date. What's the worst thing that could possibly happen? They say no and I feel embarrassed. It's a lot easier to do scary things if you actually think about the consequences of failure, rather than letting animal fear control you.

This, I learned from the Stoics.
Seconded. Police are not There To Help You. Police enforce the law. When in doubt of the law, they simply enforce. Don't ever tip someone off to the police unless you have a real reason to believe they have or will harm a person.
Vintage RC
Is that a net benefit, though? Couldn't those communities re-organize onto platforms that don't harm democracy and rationality? On the one hand, anti-vaxxers have caused a lot of damage, and FB aided in that; on the other hand, FB in general has taken revenue and power from those groups, and do we want FB to have more or less power?
> When did cows become the great climate scapegoat ?

Since the whole process is highly inefficient. The cow needs more than 100 litres of water a day. It eats a lot, it produces methane. All that, just for your 80 litres of milk a day.
"Your son may be involved in Fortnite"
FB FOMO is a such an issue for myself. I remind myself that no one has a perfect life but nonetheless, I find myself driven to inspect profiles of people I admire, only to be horrified when I realize how much younger, but still more successful, they are than myself, or they do more interesting work, or are paid more, or live in a more appealing city, or take nicer vacations or inhabit more attractive bodies.

It's perfect recipe for feeling inadequate. I console myself by knowing someone is lurking my profile, thinking the same thing.
Would being angry about it make anything better? Could it restore the missing parts, or go back in time and un-stunt a person?

Being at peace with something is not the same thing as being happy about it.
I used to. Now I have a bookmark folder named "Tsundoko" that all the tabs go into on a regular basis.
> I get the sentiment, but some perspective is in order.

Stop minimizing mental health issues. It's profoundly harmful!

Thousands of people in the world jumped off some bridge after being told "you have a good life, take it easy" one time too much.

> We're in the goddamn catbird seat.

A lot of developers have very undeserved jobs, yes.

> We make a shitload of money

Not everybody has the sheer privilege of being born in the right country. In most lands developers are quite underpaid.

> we punch keyboards in a heated office at a desk. We're not mining coal

If you are talking about modern coal mining - it's done by pressing buttons while sitting in a heated steel cabin.

If you are talking about mining with a shovel - that's some dishonest cherry-picking.

On top of that, burnout and suicide rate strongly correlates with feelings of doing a pointless job.

When cooking or building a house or mining coal people can be get a surprisingly amount of satisfaction from their output.
I meant the parts that are not in EU, such as the Republic of Serbia (which is different from the Serbian Republic).
What Do You Have to Google? Every. Single. Time
There a 'depressing' side of passive information intake. It satisfies but thinly. If your life is not balanced you can kinda get stuck on thin, aptly named, feed.
Thanks for reminding me to reset my iPhone to black and white!
You can configure Leechblock (1) to do this. You have to configure it to show the 'Delaying page'.

(1) - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/leechblock-ng...
Similarly: Alcohol quitters report more life satisfaction, less depression, and anxiety
Avocado'n'toast – Machine-generated comic strip for millennials
Not an expert by any stretch of the imagination. I'm just capable of doing the most basic of research, which is something you probably should have done before commenting.
Data Analyst? Time to Learn Python
Three weeks accommodation in Berlin for $80 by house sitting
As for myself, and most men, ordinary and dull, being devoid of that which attracts women, the vacuous but sonorous, like me, fb is perpetually the Garfield cartoon where John is sitting by the phone waiting for anybody except his mom to call. And then cobwebs.

Deleted, I'll project my soul into the stars and find better company, and sing hymns with Epictitus and Nolan.
I can't upvote a second time, but this was a very good use of analogy. I am going to save this for later.
They probably wouldn’t because it’s too specific. I’m in Germany and figured I’d just connect to one of the currently most used VPN Servers in New Zealand. Makes my connection slow when I can’t procrastinate or want to reduce screen time without actually blocking apps by enabling iOS Screen Time.
There are just a couple places using it to schedule stuff these day. I'm not sure how to get away from that.

I can't believe none of my 200 friends post anything anymore.
> you'll have to excuse that most things take a US centric view

No, you are not excused. This is not an US-only website. Please respect other people.
There's a common question, "convert an RE into an NFA" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thompson%27s_construction)
1. Find which politician uses Android

2. Report them for using Linux

3. ???

4. Profit
Right but part of the problem is the proliferation of different tools. If I choose Parcel I can no longer use Vue CLI, and 99% of documentation, blog posts, stackoverflow answers etc. no longer apply. Plus I have to learn what Parcel is.
The Good, the Bad, the Ugly: Microsoft's Three Impacts on the Data World
What kind of work do you do? I’m not aware of any major operating systems that use a micro kernel architecture off hand.
> This is what kill files were for, which every half-decent news reader of the time had (something that's still lacking in most contemporary web forums).

...that just didn't work, as I even wrote: with active trolls _most_ threads had the troll somewhere in them. They tended to dominate the groups and saturate everyone else's time.

> Web forums were also a lot easier to use. You didn't need to download or learn to use a news client. All you needed was a web browser, which everyone already had and knew how to use.

Oh, and frequently had better moderation. Maybe because of accumulated experience, or maybe because they were less cliquish than usenet was.

> If Usenet was better integrated in to the web, it might have stood a chance.

Usenet better integrated with the web is called a web forum. Some, like Discourse, are even pretty good, they're far easier to set up than a non-alt usenet group. The one thing going for Usenet is modempunk nostalgia.
Good for you (and the cow) but this is not how it works in today's diary industry.
Monthly Data News – February 2020
Snitchbot
I didn't see the author pass any judgement on the quality of the technologies, or whether it was fair or unfair that they didn't get adopted.
This is a really hard call. My parents moved to a different district at about that time, and it quite beneficial overall for me. But, I wasn't really leaving many friends behind, so that was less of a question.

As an adult, I somewhat accidentally ended up moving step-kids (a bit older), and I deeply regret it. They had far better educational/career opportunities in the new place, but I think they probably would have ended up happier hanging out with their goofball/stoner friends for a few more years.
not sure if you're being flippant re: 2 minutes but that's almost certainly undersold. you'll have to forgive me but i'm extremely skeptical of that claim if made seriously.
Author here - not pushing any site in particular but house sitting is a nice bit of travel hacking.

It usually involves looking after pets.

I felt good about it as well as it doesn't have the Airbnb issue of raising rents or changing the nature of an area. I'm just minding someone's place while they are on vacation.
Reminds me of this article about a student whose property was seized because he had computer expertise:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/04/boston-college-prompt-...
Full derivation:

https://physicspages.com/pdf/Griffiths%20QM/Griffiths%20Prob...
GitLab's similar program can be found at https://about.gitlab.com/solutions/startups/
Probably a satire https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adequacy.org
They also get to demonstrate their way of doing things in public, which in a field as active and mercurial as frontend web development has value in influencing where changes go. If they have a particular solution to a problem that's not well-solved elsewhere, they can influence the world to follow their approach to solving it (or at least not pull the rug out from under them) instead of going a totally different way and turning their code into technical debt.
VMware Project Nautilus: Docker Desktop Alternative for macOS
Bad Habits of Absolutely Ineffective Programmers
I don't think the RIAA's efforts had much effect on Usenet, since in that time-frame the RIAA all but ignored Usenet. They were much more in shock-and-awe over Gnutella (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnutella) at the time.

What I think led to the decline was at least a combination of:

1) an overrun of SPAM - Usenet was first to be hit by the spam flood, email SPAM came later as Usenet usage died off.

2) the 'newness' factor and the 'new shiny object' factor of the web drew away existing users, and resulted in new users never joining (i.e., pictures, fancy formatting, etc. all made plain text character Usenet posts look "old-fashioned"). And once you have a situation where new users don't join, and some number of existing users continue to depart, you are on a downward slope to disappearance.

Both of the above helped contribute to ISP's dropping NNTP service. Bandwidth costs for #1 (plus bandwidth if they were carrying alt.binaries.*) and a drop in NNTP usage due to #2. They (ISPs) no longer saw offering NNTP as a sales factor for obtaining subscribers, and once NNTP was no longer a "hook" to bring in subscribers, it was only a matter of time before they decided to just drop it entirely.

And of course ISP's dropping NNTP accelerated the issues around #2 above.
I deleted my Facebook account about 2 years ago (created a new Messenger-only account for a handful of ongoing chats).
I have never regretted this step.
How to Manage Up Effectively
I was obsessed with electronics from about age 3 or so... I was introduced to Ohm's law around age 10 or so but having no Algebra knowledge it made practically no sense. The way current flowed (or didn't flow) was quite mysterious.

It wasn't until I learned current and voltage laws that the way current flowed actually made sense.

Analogies were super helpful too. A capacitor is like a rubber membrane that pressure can build up on. Voltage is pressure. Current is rate of flow. An inductor is a wheel in the pipe with inertia. A transformer is two mechanically linked inductors. A Mosfet is a pressure-activated switch. A BJT is a current-activated switch. A diode is a check valve.

It wasn't until I took Physics in high school/college though, that it all finally "clicked". All of electronics could be described quite well by those finicky electrons that repel each other. How a capacitor actually works. How a charged pointy surface draws the electrons to the point, sometimes enough to escape. How magnetic fields are actually produced.

Digital electronics was actually much easier especially coming from a background in computing. It's all logic, you don't really need algebra or calculus.

Anyways I would like to offer this as a counterpoint and say that learning the fundamentals and physics made the world of electronics way more satisfying than to always be tinkering but not really understanding.

I do think though that these topics are really quite difficult to understand and internalize. Even most practicing EE's I think struggle with really able to internally translate the physics, and Maxwell's laws into the day to day work. It is just quite abstract. I know I still struggle with it.

The truth is most EE work is not so different from software where you can get by most of the time by reading datasheets, basic laws, following working circuit examples, and relying on what's worked in the past. You don't have to derive everything from first principles all the time. There is just a wealth of well understood designs out there to pick from. Additionally a lot of the work is plumbing and being careful, such as basic PCB design.
How about not showing any usernames or profile info for any search results? That way you get SEO benefits as well.
Comparisons between modern mundane luxury and the lives of ancient royalty rarely take into account the different stressors present in either case. Maybe the life of a medieval sovereign would still be preferable to that of a modern serf, if nonmaterial considerarions were included.
Can analysts and statisticians get along?
Back then I recall HTML modules being used as a synonym with HTML imports… It was contrasted with JS modules. Interesting.

Anyway, the standard is there and apparently being worked on so I fail to see how it entirely isn’t a thing—hopefully another incarnation will land.

All around it just feels like a solid way to bundle all the aspects of an element together.
I think the other replies are correct, and this is nothing to be alarmed about. But I don't think you should be downvoted just for asking. Nazis are using new dogwhistles all the time, and infiltrating forums like HN. I don't blame you for having your guard up.
This is one way to dumb down the population and fill them with fear. Given the current events in the UK, neither of these goals are surprising. Anti-intellectualism seems to be rising in many parts of the world and is clearly correlated with the rise of right wing authoritarianism. It makes sense as authoritarians want to keep people stupid and ignorant of what is going on by controlling them through fear. This is what happens when the culture adopts authoritarian views. The US isn't much better in this regard. One can really see the similarities between the societies when looking at their worst aspects, authoritarianism, anti-intellectualism, and fear mongering.