skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The closest I know of for a formal definition of "addiction" is the "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition's" criteria for substance use disorders. It lists 11 criteria. The more that match, the more severe the disorder. https://pastebin.com/HA9BipGn
The rhetoric isn't very positive.

There's individual freedom and there's aggregate outcomes. No person should be prevented from almost anything, but what's causing many people to behave in a certain way, and what are the likely outcomes?

We can be concerned about MGTOW and incel culture etc. without specifically wanting to force people to conform.
The fact that there are only two significant payment processors, and they act in lockstep to deny service to minority groups is a way bigger monopoly threat than Facebook owning both Instagram and WhatsApp. How Visa and MasterCard have escaped anti-trust scrutiny is beyond me.
That's not a vision, that's a nightmare.
There are some engineering management (quite the oxymoron...) degrees, see https://www.mempc.org/engineering-management-programs/ (full disclosure, I attended one such program also I did not slip onto the dark side!).

It's quite funny (or sad, depending on your point of view) that at the same time large companies are desperate to find technical leaders, yet the middle-management layer is filled with MBAs that prevent engineering managers from even existing. There's definitely a glass ceiling there.

Some companies have come up with a partial solution to this antagonistic need, they invented the "Product Manager" position (or "PM"), which is a kind of not-so-technical engineering position (who does not and cannot really "manage" anything)... and then filled those positions with technically inept MBAs.

Unfortunately, an MBA is a degree in nothing of substance (See Mintzberg), so technical acumen cannot come from the MBA per se.
I use wakatime.com for tracking IDE time. Generally I spend between 4 and 7 hours in an IDE.

My best days, I can hit 9-10 hours IDE time - but generally when I hit that, it's because I've spent the evening working on my own stuff.

It's incredibly difficult (and undesirable) to hit that number working entirely on my main job. Diminishing returns come in fast. Switching contexts to a project I'm personally interested in is critical.

I think the better approach to being productive is to aim for ~4 hours of IDE time, maximizing deep work as much as possible.

I use codestats.net for tracking code volume (measured in "XP"), dividing it by the IDE time in a spreadsheet to get the hourly code volume each day.

XP/hour a very noisy signal* , but not useless. For me, it usually varies between 400 and 2000 XP/hour - a very rough proxy for deep work when averaged out over long periods. I'm always trying to improve on the mean.

*e.g. debugging time yields a far lower XP/hour than greenfield development.
What happens when someone uploads their illegal porn to the blockchain aggregator and it can't be taken down? It seems like there's a strong need to censor things like video and photo sharing.
> I don't think it's unreasonable to argue that some sexual behavior should be considered "bad"

Why would you think that?
I imagine people would love a original PacMan update that solves the overflow issue
The Assange witchcraft trails are still ahead. I wonder if Trump will do something like offering a parden.
> But there are other costs too: Our choices creates climate change for others.

Optimising your personal heating choices has a maximum benefit of $50 per month of fuel saved in the fight against climate change, then.

That rounds to zero compared to industrial-level decisions, and requires perhaps similar mental thinking time.

I don't see climate change being fought this way, not even if engaged people make themselves feel uncomfortably cold in the winter to the point of risking hypothermia (which is already a significant risk especially in the older population).
I used to work at Google, as an engineering director on the Chrome Mobile team. While I agree that the UX of many Google products needs fixing, it's not just a simple matter of "Google, you are made out of money. Fix your fucking interfaces."

The article misses a really important point that you can't just revamp the UX for a product used by billions of users without some pretty serious blowback. Startups like Notion have a great deal of flexibility to tweak and innovate on their UX as much as they like, but even changing something minor in Gmail or Google Docs impacts orders of magnitude more people, using the product in such a huge number of environments -- phones, tablets, PCs -- in every language and every corner of the world. Every time Google has tried to make a major UX change -- look at Inbox, for example -- the challenges of bringing all of the existing users over to the new experience are very real. As a result, the UX tends to evolve in smaller steps, which (of course) results in the final result being more of a hodgepodge than you would get if you just started from scratch.

Google has very good UX designers, UX researchers, product managers, and engineers. These people know how to design good user experiences and care very much about the end result. But there is the reality of being boxed into design decisions that are difficult to undo without making some really major changes that are highly disruptive. Now, you could just say that Google should bite the bullet and hit reboot on some of its bad UX decisions from years ago. That is always an option, but it is often difficult to justify the benefits of an improved UX versus the productivity hit to all of the existing users.
Advertising itself is good. Knowing about different products that can help you is actually really good. Sure you can get this information from friends and word-of-mouth, but it's not always accurate, and there is nothing wrong with using advertisements too. Plus, there are some advertisements that are genuinely works of art.

Even personalized ads are good if they're done in a way that ensures your privacy is safe. It would be awesome if Steam could find me some video games that are actually interesting.

The problem is a lot of current advertising is completely broken. It's been said a lot before, but: companies making you watch ad after ad that you're just not going to buy, ads encouraging me to ignore them because they're ugly and make it harder to see content, advertisers that are so obnoxious and bad at advertising their products that I'm less inclined to buy them. Idk how this kind of crap advertising actually gets companies more money, but I guarantee it's not "subtly influencing" me to buy "Slots Royale" or fake medicine, or even Geico - and I know I have human biases and distortions. Also, ad tracking which takes all of my data and doesn't even work.

Idk what the current trend is but I've heard that advertisements are generating less and less revenue. I wouldn't be surprised if, as population the gets more tech-savvy, ads will be forced to change / die out because so few people actually use them. Or at least get better at advertising.
I think so. 3900X has 9.89b transistors and it is still faster than the i9.
GE really did own NBC.
i have bought some nintendo games a year or two ago, some of them received 0 update, still operate as a charm, without any (at least noticeable) bug.
Now an update can "fix" broken business models.

I loved the "fixes" to Plants vs Zombies when EA bought popcap.
I mean, I'm not unaware that there's other strains. But the representation is slim to none.
The astonishing thing here is that there is a forum where papers on C hacks can still be considered for publication.

I some ways that is encouraging, because research in practical systems things is valuable and used to be one of the cornerstones of computer science.
Was with you until the end
This is why all this bullshit about "let's add a backdoor to all encryption just for the government" is just that: bullshit. A year or so after it is added, it will be available to every government on earth this way, and a year after, on your favourite warez site...
Can you point to some SFW reference on the Girls Do Porn case? It sounds ungoogleable.
Probably the larger concern (or at least as large) would be that the current electrical grid couldn't handle that kind of load if a significant number of people started driving these quick charge electric cars which require these large currents. Likely we'd need to slow down the charging anyway to accommodate the limitations of the power grid.
Basically, for many men, gaming is the only socialization they have. After a years, it may became only socialization for some.
That is entirely possible.
That is the problem I have with Apple Services as a whole, that is Apple Music, Apple TV+, Apple News+ and Apple Arcade.

None of these were started because Apple thinks they could do better and contribute something, a word Steve Jobs likes to use. They are doing it simply because they needed those Services Revenue. Something to dilute down their near 100% App Store Margin and Google Search Placement.

Apple Music was something they wanted to save iTunes / Music as a Business. And they bought in Jimmy Iovine for that god damn "Next Song" idea.

Apple TV+ and Apple Arcade were part of the grand plan for Apple One. Unlike iCloud, Apple Music and Apple News+, Apple TV and Arcade does not have any per unit cost. iCloud are cost / GB, Music are cost per song played, and News are cost per article read. TV shows and Arcade Games are paid as a whole at a fixed cost regardless of users. This give opportunity for Apple to bundle them at a discount.

One could argue Apple Fitness+ is more like iTunes where it is used to sell more Apple Watch / iPod. And it isn't out yet so I am giving it some benefits of doubt.
> Until you go outside and try to walk in the street :)

There’s no bad weather, only bad clothing. Dress appropriately when going out - every Canadian 5yo has mastered that skill.
With the recent new features they have been adding, I would consider old.reddit not supporting them as a feature rather than a bug.

As others have said, none of the new features they have added have been desirable.
Sure!

- Both

- Both

- Yes. I wish that weren't the case, but considering that I can't find a single provider so far who respects end user privacy, I would expect for one who does so to charge more.

- No. Ideally, the provider wouldn't keep any logs, so they wouldn't be aware that the same client was making a subsequent request.

- I guess it's completely up to the provider. As this would be the first privacy-respecting provider, they'll probably have to go all-in with privacy, if they wish to gain traction and popularity within the community. So no, I'd personally hope that they wouldn't do that. However if this were an existing provider hoping to start becoming more private, yet they also have current customers for whom these features matter, then I guess workarounds like this are better than not being able to transition to better privacy in general. Or, even better, offer features like this for customers who need it, but allow them to be disabled from account settings for those who don't want it.

- To me, personally, I do not care at all about metrics. If a client is querying DNS, then it's because they're about to connect to one of my services (leaving cyberattacks out of the picture for the moment), at which point if I wanted to (which I don't) I could collect metrics. That being said, I don't think that, for those who want it, collecting generalized metrics at the country level, for example, would be unreasonable. And other metrics, such as DNS routing based on server "health checks" or number of resolution errors, etc. aren't bad either. It's just imperative that when the company collects these generalized metrics, they have a clear and perfect process of purging the metrics of all PII, and only saving the country name from which the request originated, for example.

No problem!
Google drive nested subfolder is also a mess.
Yeah, this false belief that some insist on clinging to, that only rich or gorgeously handsome men get a woman is so tiring. The world is filled with average or really not-good-looking guys with great girlfriends and wives. However, these are guys with kindness, talents, and other personality traits that they've learned to use wisely and guys who have learned that some great women don't always look like models. Humanity needs all of these traits, not only handsome faces.
Same. I was about to order a X1, then the new Apple machines hit and switched to an M1 Air. Just the battery life itself is a good enough reason.

I say that as someone who has been very critical of Apple for the last 5 years too. Looks like they care about their laptops again.
The question is, were those games shipped as buggy as today's games?

Today's games are more buggy, in part because they're much more complex, and in part because software update allows to ship them unfinished.
I'm actually more of a cold turkey experimenter. I started running barefoot more consistently only this September (discovered it accidentally on my own a few years ago). But I can state that it has done good to my ruined knees and I'm definitely a lot more resistant to catching colds.

I have, however, somehow always loved really cold weather (I'm in Estonia, so winters around -20C are nothing too special here; this year, however, it has not gone below -7C yet. No snow yet, either.)

But I do find this guy really interesting: http://barefootrunner.org/winter/wbfr_article_110610.htm

Also, a random thread on frostbite: https://www.thebarefootrunners.org/threads/frostbite.1479/

And another on hookworms: https://old.reddit.com/r/BarefootRunning/comments/14s6m8/lea...
I don't know that I'd call an labels and axis "statistical minutiae" - they are about the minimum information required to gain any meaningful value from a bar chart.
I would like to hear too. But I think I know.

Most people when they hear an opinion that they dislike (possibly because its challenging or worse, true) would rather that opinion disappeared. I think I am downvoted and flagged because I am prepared to voice my personal opinion that has a basis that I am prepared to defend. I am even prepared to change my opinion if I'm corrected! (Shock horror!!)

Most people do not want to engage with that - they would rather say that I am undertaking hate speech. So they would actually rather take a minor act of hate against me (even though I have not taken an act against them) - to quash or silence my opinion - than consider an alternative. Consensus is everything, even in a discussion about philosophy! Its sad, but it does tell you much about the world we live in. That people are highly educated to think according to what their authorities tell them - they do not/cannot discern things for themselves.

It used to be a popular thing to say 'I don't agree with you, but I will fight for your right to say what you like'. Those days are long gone. Now, its I don't like what you're saying, you're challenging me and as that causes me psychological harm you are inflict hate speech on me. And that I feel threatened, rightly or not, means I am empowered to try to hurt they person I perceive to be threatening me..

Worst to me, is that HN facilitates teeny, tiny acts of violence against me. I can only post a reply once every hour or so at the moment because of downvotes and being flagged. Perhaps that surprises you? Sure, youtube, hn, facebook, etc are private platforms and they can do what they like, but where exactly is the free speech? The effect of the measures these platforms take, is that some thoughts are not allowed - to most, I am committing thoughtcrime and deserve to not have a voice. Its amazing.

TLDR - people are a bunch of babies and can't co-exist with opinions that differ to their own. They feel threatened because their worldview is a stack of cards - a small gust or comment could bring it all crashing down.

PS - this is a great video from Larken Rose that touches on some of the points I raised, from a different angle:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoPRLeXEzE0
All of the predictions / claims except for (1) seem very incorrect to me

At the big corps that I've worked, my laptop is just a client to the machine that hosts the code & does the builds (that machine has been a giant Linux desktop & an ec2 instance)

We already see Apple chips in ec2. Today it's ostensibly "rent a machine to run your test suite" (although iiuc there's a 24h minimum rental), but I don't see any reason why it won't eventually be "just run your server on an apple cloud instance on ec2" (or develop locally in a container and deploy to that)

Software is actually reducing the friction of deploying to a different machine than you develop on, and the proliferation of high end custom chips isn't going to change that
Really, an SEC filing is their only response to this? I guess it goes to show how much SolarWinds actually cares about it’s engineering.

Every other party involved has released some kind of security postmortem. Get your act together, and address your customers directly.
You are right, there different ways to measure transistors, but if I recall it correctly this should not account for more than 20 or 30% difference.
Can you elaborate more?

I am uncertain if you are saying that I was engaging in the behavior you are describing or if you are describing behavior you have observed regularly in discussions like these.

My question was meant more to think about what constitutes an advertisement for the purposes of a hypothetical "50% tax on all advertising revenue" proposed by the parent comment.
Harmj0y, who is probably the best public AD hacker right now suggests 3 month rotations, IIRC.

My guess is the idea is to mitigate compromise of very old passwords, spray attacks using breached site creds, reduce insider threat and at least offer some mitigation for compromised hashes.

I think this is wise compared in work environments - 90 days, 180 or even 360 would be a good mitigation over _none_ to too many.
It's really nuts trying to implement something like SAML in XML. The standard is a security minefield.
How to Run an Effective Code Audit (Includes Code Report Template)
The linked article with the benchmarks doesn't make it clear what JVM is being used. Since the Java benchmarks seem to perform well, I assume they're using a native JVM?
I'd add that material UI is one of the worst things to come out of Google, and their implementation in GCP, Gmail etc. I absolutely hate it, and it looks cheap. Even Windows 10 interface looks better.

Even though Material UI is functional, there is something off about it. Something is weird about it, and I can't tell what. Maybe there's a word for it. It feels/looks cheap, like designed for the lowest common denominator device. Like... at least add a backdrop filter/blur to it, it gives a different feeling. The current flat design feels dead and soul less.

The only place where material UI is suitable is Google search. Not Gmail, not GCP and DEFINATELY NOT on stock android.
So you believe that modern men would prefer an AI girlfriend because modern women are unlikely to want to be a subservient best friend/are overweight?

I don't know that I would believe that to be true, especially in modern China where most women are of average/slightly under weight. Also we don't see much of a similar trend of women being drawn as much to some AI boyfriend.
They could be fixed using low-tech tools though.

Something you're overlooking with your concept of "reliability" is that cars produced before 1980 can be fixed using pretty basic tool. It's conceivable that a car from that era could continue to work well into the 2100s. Because most of what can break on can be remanufactured by a reasonably-skilled machinist.

Yeah, cars need to be fixed much less often, and they are substantially less fickle vis-a-vis temperature and operating conditions. But the moment the software to repair newer cars is gone, so too goes our ability to easily fix them.

This isn't some far-flung dystopian idea either. It's totally possible that the hardware & software used to repair today's cars is difficult or impossible to come by in 30 years. Some of this stuff is five- and six-figure investments. Maybe stuff for GM or Honda vehicles will be accessible, but what about smaller companies like Mazda or Subaru?
I find this a rather simple take on Apple marketing. Not saying it is wrong, but surely it can not apply to other products.

I recommend watching this take instead. 10 years old, and still clicks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp0HIF3SfI4
Regardless of the irregularities or errors, which are arguably bound to happen, and do happen every election, the question is whether there was enough errors/tampering/irregularities to constitute fraud that would overturn the result.

Further, this report highlights one voting system in a couple counties in a battle ground state. A study that would answer the question above, would look at a representative number of counties in every state.

Why are we focusing on these states?
Stoic Text Search
Why Domain Specific Languages? A Collection of Anecdotes
no not you but digital advertising in general.

i think this is a misfire on my part and should be a reply to [Marcus] up thread.
It makes me wonder what's going on at a technical level, that it's still broken after all this time. I would have figured that a dependable native video player is a solved problem.
I'd rather have parents who looked at porn occasionally in the privacy of their own homes...
N somewhat compatible ARM chips, that is to say they are somewhat incompatible. Remember the home computing landscape of the 80s / early 90s but also the diversity in server architectures and OSes

I'm not so sure. Or at least, I don't think a balkanized landscape like that would last very long before the market converges on some type of de-facto standard, much like things ultimately did in the 80's/90's, and late alternative ::ahem, Itanium:: failed to gain traction in the market.

Also, instead of a variety of (often vendor-specific) OS's, we're really only dealing with two major candidates: Windows & Linux. Linux with its multiple distributions is more complicated, although AFAIK the main server distros there are Ubuntu, Red Hat, Debian, and CentOS. So the chips that best support these OS's would likely be the one the industry converges on, assuming it's available as a commodity component. (i.e., not just in a propriety cloud) And it would be smart to make sure desktops/laptops can run the flavor of chips running in clouds because that's where much development/coding happens.
As a former Googler, Google has been utterly hostile to self critcism on this front. Responses to any criticism of Google's UI falls in the following buckets:

- Well I think it looks great.

- Stay in your lane, how dare you criticize our designers. This makes them feel unsafe at work. (Whatever the fuck that means)

- We did a user study and they liked it, so it must be good.

Fundamentally, Googlers are afraid to make real judgement calls. You're accountable to those. So you hide behind endless user studies, committees, etc. This doesn't just apply to designers: Engineers are also sandbagged with "we need more data" until a risk-taking idea gets snuffed out of existence.

The internal "inspirations" doc for Material cite the original Google.com search UI. A big white screen with a text box in the middle.

If you ever wonder "why the fuck can't I tell where one piece of the UI ends and the other begins" or "why do I have terrible eye strain from this UI" when looking at a Google property, it's because designers are boxed in by that "inspiration."
I searched for "Girls Do Porn controversy" on DuckDuckGo and it gave me this:

https://www.insidehook.com/daily_brief/news-opinion/controve...

Which cites this:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/884gq3/girlsdoporn-is-offlin...