skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>To be a social being in the 21st century is largely about navigating these platforms

No, you aren't navigating the platforms, the platforms are configuring you so to speak as to work as just another input/output or relay, which is obvious in the language you're using here: 'connectivy'. (that's how we talk about switches and routers). As Baudrillard pointed out in his piece 'The Ecstasy of Communication', being a sort of input at some terminal and endless exchange of meaningless symbols isn't socialisation, it's the opposite. It's the destruction of the social through mass communication. It's like some sort of morbid dance that has no actual meaning at all, people mechanically switching tinder results back and forth to optimise an algorithm that makes that process easier in an endless feedback loop.
For my (local) C++ projects, I use CMake to make .deb packages. It is easy enough, uninstalls cleanly, so does the job.
> Apple aren't preventing anything, they're just not helping us out either.

It's the same thing. (And the only reason they aren't yet outright preventing it is because it would be bad PR - nobody wants their desktop computer to be like the iPhone or iPad. But it will happen.)
Nope, not unless Singapore is covered by the GDPR.
A lot of the RAM usage can be explained by users expecting crisp fonts and icons on 4K screens. That's quite a lot more data than in VGA.
Jim Keller: The Future of Computing, AI, Life, and Consciousness, Lex Fridman
> So I'll happily work 50 hour weeks instead of 40 hours

But why? If your contract says 40/wk is expected, then just work that and set targets based on that. Why give your employer 500+ hours per year of your life that you don't owe them?
> I'm not a Christian, but this is worth considering by everyone:

>"For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, but loses his soul? Or what will a man give as an exchange for his soul?"

This would only affect people who assume “they” have an immortal component, i.e. a soul.
But how can you really be sure you're not going to break something? There might be software that accidentally depends on timing, say, or the order of items in a list or some other undefined behavior that you assume you're free to change but software authors didn't realize was unstable. A lot of programming is done by trial and error rather than reading the manual.
You mean the client? That'd be an intermediate step to metal. If you want speed, the fewer intermediate steps the better.

Otherwise I don't understand the question.
> Of course this ideological view of society is long gone so there's just no sense trying to push back

It's only gone in ultra dense cities, as soon as we leave our techno bubbles the old world comes back real fast.

> Accept that today's child is a highly connected, distracted, techno-proficient being and let that be that.

I don't think you have to be that fatalist to be honest. When I see two years old kids already holding phones in their stroller, while the mom/dad is pushing the stroller with one hand and looking at the phone they hold in their other hand I feel like we went too far.

You can teach kid to use tech as a tool to navigate the world, but the vast majority of gadgets and services are pure distraction that are designed to trigger addiction mechanisms and milk your attention/time/money. I'd rather teach my kids how to become a master of google maps or how to use an app that let you navigate the night sky and its stars/galaxies than put them on fortnite and tiktok, I don't think these things exist on the same plane. I don't think people fully grasp how important the first decade of a child's brain formation is.

Self reported loneliness and teenager suicides have never been so high so I kinda cringe when I hear people saying restricting kids access to internet/tech will make them more disconnected and anti-social. A very large part of internet interactions are shallow and fabricated, they can't replace real world relationships in any way, shape or form.

I agree in some capacity that cutting out all these things would be very hard and probably damaging in some way, but embracing them completely without any restrictions is, imho, much worse
Because it may be shallow, but when discussing the criteria by which they decide what is worth taking down, it is also a very valid argument.
Attacks like that are not really acceptable on this site.
This is exactly what I intended to do when publishing this article: provoke sensible discussion. I think it's valuable to talk about polarizing views. Often agreement solely depends on the context you are in and it's useful to get familiar with different contexts.
If I remember correctly, that’s supposed to be the reason why Steve Jobs used to wear the same outfit all the time.
The possibilities presented in the podcast and the wisdom is just jaw dropping. Infinite fun and a highly recommended listen.
There was something about the era vhs was a part of that caused people to release stuff you just wouldn't see today. Small batch releases from small town churches of heavy metal laden clips interspersed with grainy pastors warning people of the devils hold on our youth. Hillariously cheesey square dancing tutorials with fully permed men and women. Strange and obscure indie animation that oozes with the grit and unabashed honesty of unfettered creativity.

I love checking out the vhs section at thrift stores, and will often pick stuff up that seems like it'll give me an interesting porthole view into the past.
Not really. The reason the EU wanted Windows N was to avoid users having to buy a bundle (the EU really dislikes bundle pricing). Skype is gone from all Windows 10 installs, and while WMP was able to access lots of special APIs, Groove (which is the only media player bundled on Windows 10) uses the same APIs as every other program, and relies on the same preinstalled codecs.

This provides the same situation as with Windows N: No Bundle pricing, no Microsoft programs having any special access.
And yet here we are :-/
A systems programming language cannot afford to silo itself on a single OS solutions.

There are plenty of OSes to choose from by the way, even your rant barely scratches the surface of the options available for any serious systems programming language.
Copperhead's CEO admits to them tracking devices via unique identifiers
Citibank accidentally wired $500m back to lenders in user-interface
I believe even dark web monitoring software don't look in there
... and transmission. Getting energy from Sahara to Stockholm with tolerable losses is no easy feat.
It should be noted that one of (if not the) biggest game release of all time this year, CP2077, was built on the back of terrible working conditions and months of crunch.
The field of nuclear quantum theory was like a snake swallowing a hippo of funding. People studying electronic structure end up bringing advances back to nuclear theory, because many of the practitioners of advanced nuclear shell structure simply aged away before computers got so powerful. I'm optimistic that there will be more developments... There's several laser accessible transitions known. https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.08320
IMO depression is something that only resolves with endurance and time. Luckily there will be people in your life that will find you or that you may find by chance that will help you with this. All this happens on its own time though, it sounds a bit religious but one needs to have faith. I am not a doctor but I wouldn't recommend anti depressants to anyone really as it numbs you and takes away your ability to think which means that it doesn't really solve depression. On the other hand if you're going to kill yourself then anti depressants may help you but always bear in mind that they should be temporary and that you should try and get off them if you can.
Governments should always be considered a provider of last resort. They are absolutely necessary, you can't talk yourself out of that, however this should never prevent the existence of a private market that can respond faster.

The primary advantage of markets is that they excel at providing value very efficiently. The downside is that they service the most profitable customers first so in fringe cases there will be a large segment of people without service.

The primary advantage of governments is that they can afford to be altruistic and ensure fairness. However, they are inefficient and slow to respond, meaning they will not solve the problem to a satisfying extent and only do the bare minimum.

If you do both you get the best of both worlds. Those who cannot afford private service can wait for government relief. Those who cannot wait for government relieve can pay for private service. The private market keeps the government in check, the government keeps the private market in check. They cover each other's backs.
> My personal stance is that trying to exploit your workers is a losing game

Maybe in highly paid and creative fields, but for the vast majority of business around the world, I observe exploiting the power imbalance between employer and employee to be very beneficial for the employer.
The sad thing is that this isn't an either-or choice. Applications could provide a precise list of dependencies and ranges that they need. Distribution package managers could try to respect those as much as possible, but still have the authority to override a library or two due to security issues, in a centralized manner.

Everyone could be reasonably happy if both sides did some work to understand each other and support each other.
> It is interesting how manufactured distraction-free sessions like yoga, meditation, paid retreats, have emerged to fill the demand for idle time. We’re forgetting how to unplug unless it’s a product or service that we can buy.

This is the most interesting part to me, people managed to monetize these things. After vacations, entertainment, now they monetize idleness, I really don't know what to think of it. The funny thing is that they're really two sides of the same coin, they both compete for your time and money
This is almost impossible to read on a phone.
> iOS is a walled garden ... MacOS is not.

Technically, that is true. But it is getting there. Apple makes more money, and importantly recurring revenue, from its services now than selling its hardware. The move to ARM processors is one of their strategic moves to further "close" their desktop platforms too. The only reason they don't do it outright right now is because they know people like you and me will immediately abandon the platform if we are stuck with only macOS and can only install everything from the App store. But we would be fools to ignore that the noose is tightening and, with M1 you are now stuck with macOS (unlike the older macs). The next iterations will close it down further ...
So are you saying that the current people in charge are the "charismatic narcissistic Machiavellian sociopaths" who exploited the power vacuum that existed with the creation of the internet and are now kicking away the "free speech ladder?"
Well, aminozuur is pointing out hypocrisy. Facebook is not applying the same rules to everyone. That is bad. That aside, my own views are similar to sep_field's... with the exception that I would silently prefer Facebook to go away, without explaining why I'd like that.
This is true, but it would be just as true whether you did it in a free market or through some government program because the inefficiency comes from having to make and store that stuff. A free market just gives us more ways to quantify that inefficiency.
Startups are more commonly on python/ruby/node/php. It's faster to start with and to iterate.

Java and .Net are more common in longer-lived, larger projects, or when performance matters.
We're careful to specify what is defined behaviour (basically what we document) and the rest is not. Of course bugs exist both in our libraries and our callers, and we fix those, and work with callers if they had depended on the buggy behaviour, but that's a genuine case where the caller must fix their code. Fixing a bug is miles different from unnecessary breaks in APIs.
I don't know anything about corruption - but I do know multiple inspectors turn up together, and most inspectors are themselves former teachers.

So it's easy to imagine how occasionally an inspector would have an old friend at the school.
New Reddit is almost unusable for me in Safari as well, it amazes me how they are so popular when the experience in the browser is so bad. (old.reddit.com kinda works, but lots of embedded things like slideshows or videos are a really bad experience)
> Mining hardware is just trash when new hardware is released, pretty much immediately.

How come? You can still game with these.
An American company will always be a mouthpiece for American propaganda. Not saying whether it’s right or wrong, it’s just the way it is.
I'm not sure this is a realistic worldview though. This supposes there will be a facebook competitor. As the decades march on, perhaps there will be, but it might not be till we're long gone. There still isn't a competitor to Google, for example.

Parler was a competitor to Twitter, and you saw how that played out. The next competitor is going to have to deal with that quandary.
I get what you are saying but don't you think that Facebook selectively taking down some pages based on political considerations actually increases their power and not decreases it?
He'll know better next time.
Although you may disagree with the current value of most cryptocurrencies would you at least agree that their inhenrant value isn't 0?

Newer projects like Uniswap, AAVE and MakerDAO (for DAI) are uniquely new and novel concepts that can't be accomplished trustlessly without blockchain technology.

Bitcoin has a lot of intangibles (name recognition, trust, hashpower) and for many is a more intersting asset (in what it represents) compared to gold.
>If you are an engineer and you want to try a new technology, go for it. Even if it doesn't make sense. Learn new things, don't stick with the boring tech. Maximise your own happiness and your own knowledge, not the profit of your higher-ups.

If you're a responsible adult you'll probably be the one who has to ship the stuff you started with the "flashy framework X" - boring technology is about maximising happiness - it just takes a while for this to sink in.
With all due respect, they are more interesting than what most of you are posting. Reminds me of old Terry, may he rest in peace.
The aviation industry has an expression: "there are old pilots and there are bold pilots but there are no old bold pilots". Young, inexperienced pilots often take unnecessary risks and occasionally learn important lessons - sometimes terrifying lessons. Those lessons lead to a more cautious approach to flying as they grow older. It seems to me that boring tech is equivalent to cautious flying. Experience matters. Maybe its time to co-opt that expression into the developer world - "there are old coders and there are bold coders but there are no old bold coders". Ageism is a problem in the tech world. Experience will almost always consider (maybe even prefer) boring tech - generally for good reasons. Perhaps its time to value experience a bit more than we have.
You are clearly not a JavaScript developer. It really feels like everybody has just given up and thrown in the towel. There are no good developers, let some giant monster framework make all your decisions, and frequently chase shiny shit. Of course this means starting over, from scratch, in small sections of the product every couple of years.

> The industry constantly mints senior engineers who have been bitten by complexity, but doesn't want to hire them, or listen to them.

Again, in JavaScript land that is not what it sounds like. The industry has minted a bazillion expert beginners who have never moved out of their parent’s basement and had to live on their own (in a technology sense). They are fanatically invented here fearing original code more than job termination and now they have somehow risen to make architectural decisions about the future health of your software and business.

I guess they failed to understand that choosing boring software is different than depending on a package manager to write all your software.
Just tested on some movie snapshots, doesn't seem to do the trick to me on Google Images (and the noise is very noticeable).

Shame, I thought I would be able to trick Google Images and stop giving away answers for my movie quiz game that easily.

The only method that works randomly as an anti-cheat measure is to revert horizontally the image. It fools Google Images a lot of times.
Caddy v2 seems to be doing something right although I don't think it comes with the same number of features out of the box. Plus it's more of http reverse proxy.
What a great post!

> I learned a lot. It kept me motivated through hard times with no customers, as I kept saying to myself if this won’t work, at least I’d learn something.

This is where I am at right now. I am trying to moonlight my own learning platform with two kids and a full time job, using a new-to-me technology is what keeps me going. It removes the stress of success because, no matter what, I succeed in some corny kind of way. Both myself and my existing employer get a better version of myself I’m the end.
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RubyGems dependency confusion attack side of things
> Just frustrated by the seeming religious fervor some Apple-haters have.

It goes both ways. I'd add that atleast the "Apple-haters" have more of a standing in defending open computing standards and demanding Apple be open too.
None of the skyscrapers in those pictures are power plants or pipelines. Human beings were freezing to death while empty corporate headquarters remained lit up like xmas.

Maybe there should be some reserve power in the system to make sure power plants have capacity to heal themselves, sure. But that's really a tiny part of the overall system.
> Everything must be appified and scheduled

You see it very often on HN with all the articles about tweaking your productivity, scheduling everything, writing what you're doing every 15 minutes in a logbook as to not lose a single second of your life to "unproductivity", &c.

We're applying machine concepts to human life as if all that mattered was how much "things" you can produce and how much other things it allows you to consume
I haven't read the book, but now I definitely will. Thank you for the tip!
> “Xšayāršā” (pronounced: Khsha-ya-ṛsha)

Wow, that's helpful.

Seriously, IPA and a translation and/or explanation would be greatly appreciated.

Edit: 'IPA': not the beer, but 'International Phonetic Alphabet'
Very good point. "Exciting" is in the eye of the beholder.
Or rather the lack of ability to run a free os on M1.
If the biodegradable plastic isn't made of oil but something we grow, then it would still be CO2 neutral.
Over and over again I hear from friends who work at companies that chose exciting technology that a major benefit is that it makes it easy to hire talented engineers who are exceptionally good, because that’s who’s interested in learning the exciting tech—and for startups this can mean being able to afford a top-notch engineer when they otherwise might not.

And over and over again I hear from companies that use boring tech that it’s extremely hard to hire top people and so they hire junior people and hope to turn them into senior people.
According to local news[0], one of the injuries was an elderly lady who had to be treated for a head wound, whereas the other injury concerned a child which had developed burns after picking up the hot debris.

[0]: https://nos.nl/artikel/2369529-boeing-verliest-stukken-metaa...
How are people still using toilet papers in developed countries? It still amazes me. I am from a developing country and it costs around $15 to fix a new bidet/handheld-shower to my existing pipe connection. There is the cost of water though. But then again. I am in a rainy area. Water crisis might never occur here. Plus all the waste is going to ground. So, not much to worry here. But seriously. Use bidets or at least handheld-showers
UK school leader here. I can't argue with the perceptions in general, but an important thing to acknowledge is that school inspectors are not born yesterday. The inspectors will be former school leaders, and some still will be in schools themselves. They also speak to parents and students to get a full picture of the school. Is it all disingenuous? A bit, but doesn't everyone tidy their house before someone comes round?
Wow I didn't come across this during my research - seems similar to my solution, although TabFloater is a little bit different!
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It's generally high maintenance, npm dependencies, deprecations, leftpad, javascript new shiny culture etc

You can make it work with more maintenance, but you did ask the question what's wrong with it!
Howabout a priority system for how power can be utilized and at what price. Example from highest priority to lowest:
Power plants' internal keep-alive and ignition mechanisms > Hospitals, fire stations, and other emergency services > Housing >>> Corporations
> This supposes there will be a facebook competitor

Why does there have to be a competitor? I think we will do fine without social media.
Only if they are permitted to maintain a pseudo-monopolistic position in their market. So their own self destructive behavior, coupled with legal and societal push for options in the social network market.

The legal aspect may include legislation to forbid governmental organs and/or employees (of note) to use platforms such as FB and Twitter to disseminate and or engage the "public". If they engage the "public" then the platform must be open to "public" without restriction.
Honestly, this is such an interesting problem. If one were to assume that price gauging laws for fuels didn't exist one would be allowed to think about how to provide this emergency service in the most effective way possible. Uber could just have a new category for emergency deliveries. The government could also take advantage of this service for emergency relief.
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and where maintainability and tco matter
could i have upload button on youtube on ipfs? so when i visit same youtube page, i got video from ipfs, not from youtube?
Cheers. I appreciate your positive attitude.
I think we have passed the first stage where people have gone through a couple of disasters and have learned they actually didn't need majority of the features k8s offers at their scale. They are now actively looking for simpler tools which opens space for nomad and co. Plus success stories from companies like https://fly.io(yes I like them) with nomad are pilling up.
Freight planes are not serviced by dedicated freight mechanics. Passenger planes are well below capacity and maintenance companies are as well.
I just want to note that nothing caused suicide other than his decision to kill himself. I don't condone suicide as a method of protest. The damage to the family and the person are too severe. He talked about another world in his letter. That doesn't happen and I hope he meant that metaphorically, because otherwise he really did not know what he was doing. I wish media stopped reporting on suicides except in statistics. Not that I'm saying academic fraud is okay, it's not, it's evil and I would hope they get jail. But the media should not put suicide on a pedestal.
Will check,thanks.
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Can you give some examples - I thought Intel was pretty involved with the Linux foundation and have released a lot of open source code?
Learn new things, don't stick with the boring tech, try exciting new products.

Don't put them on the critical path of your company without an exit plan.