skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Potentially controversial thought here, but I'd like to bring it up for discussion.

I feel like the work ethic I see throughout the industry is extremely toxic to society, and leads to some of this. In China for example there's a so-called "996" work schedule (9am-9pm, 6 days a week) which is basically expected of everyone in tech, unfortunately, and it seems Silicon Valley is heading that direction as well with all the off-hour meetings, weekend work, and on-call requirements. Many SV companies also demand 72 hours or more of work per week, in my adecnotal observations.

What I'm often observing is:

(a) such toxic work ethic is largely set by male founders who don't care about other important things than work e.g. family plans

(b) others in the industry are forced to compete with those ridiculous standards, including females, those with disabilities, those already with family, those taking care of a family member, etc.

(c) this results in those groups being consequently disrespected by investors because they can't match up to the workaholic male founders who don't care about anything but work. I've heard several investors talk negatively about females behind their back because "they might want to have kids".

(d) this results in more workaholic male CEOs rising to the top

(e) the cycle repeats

Are my observations and inferences correct, or am I off? Open question here.
That reminds me of something, which I suppose goes against what I've been commenting here. The rest of my family still eats meat and rather than throw out bones I will freeze them, let them accumulate, then make a broth and drink it. It seems immoral to waste the bones, sort of like how it seems more moral to only seek out that which might otherwise be wasted. It's a grey area for sure. In that regard though I suppose I do still eat animals? I certainly wouldn't make the broth if my family wasn't eating meat, though.

And you're right, most of the world has amazing vegetarian food. It's daunting to take on learning all of it. Indian and Thai foods especially have been incredibly appealing to me lately. So much flavour and nutrition is possible and these people seem to have figured it out a long time ago.
Sounds silly but the only things that have helped:

- Working at a cafe, if they're open near you. Prevents distractions like porn, pets, TV.

- Getting a physical pomodoro timer like this: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000J5OFW0/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b... I tried the webapps and they just wouldn't stick. I needed something on my desk that I cannot minimize or close. I set it to 40 min blocks for "work" in which I devote myself to staying focused. Every time I want to click away to youtube, I glance at the timer and it brings my focus back. When it's done, I set it for a 10 minute break. This is what I did in college too.
Hard to keep people alive when you have vaccine producers that don't deliver on their contracts yet ship out the very same stuff to other customers.

Not that you'd need it, as apparently Australia will be able to produce its own AZ vaccine by end of March, but ask AZ to ship batches made in the UK or US to Australia and see how well that goes: at least the EU is allowing exports as long as it's not singularly expected to bear the impact of production issues.
I haven't seen any of my photos given out to anyone, so what's your concern? The ToS also doesn't say anything about sharing my private photos.
For me, I’d position myself as one who’s focused on value and focused on results. For new clients, you can lower your rates but ultimately clients buy trust that you can deliver what they need.

Soft skills are highly undervalued in the tech community yet if you start speaking with management and other non-tech stakeholders, you’ll quickly find out how valuable you are.
My understanding of FLOC is that it would meet that standard.

That it would independently identify you to Site A and Site B as a person in a particular cohort.
These projects always have their rationale in their README. This one isn't an exception:

> Lambdex appears to be less readable than functions and will mess up my code. Why should I use it?

> The project is not to criticize the present design of Python, but an experimental attempt to provide alternative for the ones who need a better anonymous function expression. The need may be from a second language they are familiar with, or the paradigms they want to use.
Capitol Peaceful Protest.
Go vs. Rust Performance Comparison
It is astonishing what an obvious phenomenon consciousness is, and how little we know and think about it. It’s a massive scientific mystery, neuroscience can’t even define it well.

It sometimes seems science, e.g. neuroscience has not truly left dualism behind. We still seem to talk about and study mind and body as separate entities.
But what about consumer hardware the might be failing? So your typical 7-10 year old PC still trucking along serving as a Facebook and word machine. Genuinely curious as to how common bit flips are in the wild.
I feel the same way. So often we optimize for situations that many of us feel shouldn't exist in the first place.
Kind of a corollary: Place something fixable in your PhD thesis so the examiners can find something to write about. Something that doesn't make you look stupid but will make them feel like they'd done a thorough review and won't focus on your more subtle but perhaps more disastrous errors. Perhaps just a thing PhDs tell other PhDs to do but never actually do themselves.
It's interesting to watch consumer behaviour around Telegram's growth and how much value people place on preserving conversation history at the expense of security and privacy. Even people who are aware that e2e encryption is only enabled on Telegram when you explicitly open a private chat soon abandon it because it lacks multi-device support which makes it easy to miss messages.

WhatsApp has always simplified their security model by not even attempting to support multiple devices (the desktop app communicates via your phone instead of directly with the servers). This greatly simplifies the server infrastructure for WhatsApp too, but there really is no good excuse for them not supporting portable local backup and restore after all these years.

For your friend's sake, the app Anytrans claims to be able to backup and restore WhatsApp between platforms. I haven't tried it for that, but it might be worth checking out. It's part of Setapp.
> Fun story.

Ouch! That's some definition of "fun".
have a kid then
I hadn't scrolled down this far when I brought up the cogito myself - but I guess great minds think alike.

But, I think Descartes is straight up wrong here. He doesn't doubt, he believes that he doubts. Descartes never got away from his evil demon - it simply blinded him. He didn't take radical skepticism far enough and if he did he would realize that the Cogito is not good enough for a proof of ontology!

The universe of the evil skepticism demon is as follows: "There is exactly one truth, that there are no other truths". If you hold that axiom, than how can one unironically conclude that the cogito is a neat proof of ontology? Seems like the philosophical equivalent of "wet pavement causes rain"
"A manual is a human-operated type system."
> There will be an incoming email shortly

To the founders: ignore their email and consult your lawyer.

Trademark infringement generally requires an element of consumer brand confusion.

There is no way USPTO will see a restaurant and a stock trading app as likely to cause consumer confusion, as they are in completely different industries with absolutely no overlap. Sharing the same name doesn’t matter much given that fact.
Show HN: Block Porn/Hentai images using AI web extension
Simple answer: The sum of all online marketing dollars is more than the sum of any amount of money people would pay for online content.

That alone means direct payment will never replace ads.

Most people are not reading The Financial Times or Bloomberg, they are reading rags like The Sun and Facebook gossip. I would love for that content to go away, but really, ad supported models work great for that demographic.
You're quite right. I've taken Show HN out of the title now. Thanks!

In the future, if anyone notices a case of this and has a minute to email hn@ycombinator.com, it helps a lot to let us know!
> have a long memory

I would argue generally it’s agreed that humans have short memory.
If you've got fiber to the home, there's not much reason not to have symmetric gigabit though...
Could you be specific?
Firefox Mobile has extensions; I use it because it has ad blocking.

I believe you meant to say that Safari and Chrome don't have extensions on mobile, lol.
FireFox 85 on MacOS. It happens anywhere I click on the page, the body text very quickly flashes off and back on again.
I imagine a futuristic society would have dorm-like options for people to have children while in college/graduate school.

Having a supportive community in an educational environment would be a win/win/win for all.

As is mentioned elsewhere, it is not as fun raising kids when you are older and slower.

It’s great being able to experience youth with the new youth.

People with kids will self report higher levels of meaning and focus in their work, so a village/dorm like environment in a university might be an ideal place to take advantage of such a situation.
Made it to a byte – announcing the release of Mageia 8
Do you think people would receive your advice the same way if the sexes were reversed?
Maybe off-topic, but I see there is a giant difference in how I feel regarding tv/radio/street advertisement vs Internet (mostly targeted) ads. In old media, there is a lot of variety in ads, to the point where basically no particular ad ever became too annoying to me (with few exceptions). And the specially cool ones give me good feelings.

But when it comes to Internet ads, I find it's the opposite. Take Youtube for example. It is often the case where Youtube will show me the same 2 or 3 ads over and over for quite a few weeks. That is extremely annoying, and makes me want to never ever have to deal with those brands. Seriously, fuck those two insurance companies, or that macho soap brand, also Google Pay, or that AOE clone game. It is extremely annoying. I know exposure to the brand leads you to become familiar to it so more likely to buy it, but the kind of extreme exposure that some internet (targeted) advertisement makes me associate those brands with negative feelings. That can't be good for their brand. </rant>
I'm not so sure freezing eggs is sound advice.

Lord Winston, who is professor of fertility studies at Imperial College London, warned that it was "a very unsuccessful technology" and said: "The number of eggs that actually result in a pregnancy after freezing is about 1%." He later clarified he was referring to live births.

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-51463488#:~:text=Lord%20Wins....

“It’s not like I would discourage egg freezing. Women should be doing it because it’s the best option they have, but it is not an insurance policy,” says Christos Coutifaris, past president of the ASRM and a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Pennsylvania. “Insurance policies usually guarantee a payoff. In this case, there is no guarantee.”
https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/08/14/133377/mothers-j...
Can you think of any reasons why it would be limited to just those countries? Note that I'm _not_ asking why those countries are nifty. I'm asking what you think Apple gains by limiting it to just those countries in the first place or would lose by not limiting it to just those countries. The feature technology would be the same regardless of where you are, so saying "only available to users in X" seems like an arbitrary restriction. And there are surely orders of magnitude more Apple iCloud users in Japan or India than in Liechtenstein.
Or delay the startup. Older founders are more successful, anyway. You don't have to give up family. Just wait until your kids moved out (or are teenagers and ignore you, anyway).

People who trade their happiness for money will lose their happiness and (statistically) their money as well.
I fear that your questions reduce the problem to the point where no answer is possible. Loading the Y Combinator logo in here is almost certainly not tracking, but loading an invisible, 1px-by-1px gif in an email almost certainly counts. It's missing the forest for the trees.

The simplest definition of tracking I can come up with is "collect data about me that can (and often, is) used to build a profile of me and my behavior". The NGinx log could or could not be tracking, depending on whether you use it to diagnose issues ("we should optimize this picture, it's loading too slow for too many people") or to profile me ("ID 12345 uses a 56K modem, let's sell him a new one"). But no perfect definition exists because everyone has different thresholds of what they are okay with.
Of course.

It is very difficult to get a good number across all sectors. Despite my post, I’m not all that convinced we are in a deflationary period. The bell-weather asset for me would be Gold, and its price since I’ve been alive wouldn’t make me lean towards deflation.

If anything would, I suppose it would be the number of hours worked. That is, how much labor does it take to support a reasonable lifestyle. In my experience — and I’m an old geezer, so take this with a grain of salt — it seems like a lazy bastard can get by in this world a lot easier than 100 years ago. The degree of manual back-breaking labor that went into earning a dollar has decreased significantly. I don’t know how that would get figured in.
> relatively rare, especially on good quality servers

Good quality servers are the top of the reliability standings. The bottom... the bottom is very far down. Very far.

I'm a hardware guy now. I'm still amazed anything ever works at all. The worst are things like DDR SDRAM that work well enough that people think they can get away without error detection. At least modern MLC NAND flash is so bad that it obviously doesn't work at all without ECC. Better that than silent failures.

The first Guild Wars game actually added a Prime95-style iteration before sending a bug report/crash dump back. An astonishing number of clients failed this test; if I'm remembering the conversation I had correctly, something like half of all oddball crashes got filtered out by that test. Half! (To be fair, overclocked cheap gaming machines may actually be the bottom tier of reliability, but the point stands.)
Before you're dead, yeah.

I don't think it's controversial to say that in a public arena (for example, an office) you have to be careful with subjects like politics and religion, and with humour. And that's always been true.

And social media extends that public arena, and magnifies misunderstanding. It's interpersonal discourse with something like 90% of a person's actual ability to communicate stripped out.

So I think people have to be careful (not in thought police way). If you have something tossed out into the public arena, it doesn't at all mean it can't be humorous or touch subjects that are going to trigger arguments, but for something like technical documentation it is reasonable to just make sure it's neutral. I'd love if most documentation was well written, skilful prose that exposed the authors own opinions but I'm also aware that's not appropriate for most people.

If you are addressing a public audience, often need to meter what is said. I think this is all beyond ridiculous, that the person used Twitter to make what looks like a completely baseless arument and accusations, worded in such a way that sounded authoritative and designed to encourage a pile-on, but whatever, careful when talking about politics at work

Other commenters have focussing on "woke" and "SJWs" etc., and I think that's a chimera, particularly because it goes the other way just as much*. Maybe it's just the birthing spasms of people learning to deal with this form of communication. Here's a person on Twitter who has [deliberately?] misunderstood the intent of another person's writing, then written a screed about some issues that upset them even though those issues weren't present in the text. And it's all very susceptible to manipulation by people with specific agendas -- the tendency is to broadcast rather than communicate (I'm doing that at the minute, I'm writing this down as ideas occur to me, and I've kinda ceased responding to your comment), and two things get confused.

* as a current example, see "cancel culture" in UK universities and the education secretary's (and by extension the government's) response to something that is almost completely fictional. That's heavily social media driven, by people shouting about it.
I recently had to create a handful of class diagrams. To document existing stuff, vs as a design tool. Just the level of detail needed to make the point.

It's been ages since I've done UML stuff. Surely things are better now?

I tried a handful of tools. PlantUML, whatever comes with IntelliJ Ultimate, something that had recently been front page on HN (edit: dotuml.com), mermaid, nomnoml, an app I found on the Apple Mac store. I even tried just a generic diagramming tool.

So frustrating. Overlapping edges and arrowheads. Couldn't control placement or order. Classes with just names (no fields or methods) still showing those extra lines (vs just a name with a box). Couldn't discern abstract (italics) from concrete (bold) classes.

I gave up.

I was tempted to just hand draw the diagrams. Alas, my lettering is turrible.

I finally went back to wrestling with graphviz's DOT.

It's not great. But at least the edges don't overlap.
Are you familiar with Charles A.S. Hall? and Biophysical Economics...
1. China has prior restraint on everything associated with working in the media - purchase of materials required for publication of newspapers, licenses to publish media, licenses for journalists, all requiring heavy inspection of political views.

2. The US doesn't.

Your other points stand, but this core difference still matters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prior_restraint
When downloading directly from iCloud.com that's true (and annoying), but you can also bulk download all of the originals via Photos.app (making sure to check "Download Originals to this Mac" rather than "Optimize Mac Storage").

Unfortunately, that wouldn't work for my wife's situation. Her computer is one of those MacBooks with a 256GB drive, and only one USB-C port. So the amount of data stored in her iCloud photos would easily overload her drive, and if I hooked up an external drive, the computer would run out of power before the transfer completed.

I'm not interested in buying a hub for a one-off operation.

I tried afp:// and smb:// mounting Photos libraries on large drives on other machines on the LAN, then downloading the photos to those, but that turned out to be excruciatingly slow, and very unreliable.
Rich elites buy-out all properties/flats in cities because its a better overall investment taking to account inflation.

People who slave in that situation consider themselves unhappy and thus consider moving to a houses outside of the city. Due to limited infrastructure outside of the cities -> only a part of outskirts are really habbitable for those families. The demand in this case is higher than supply.

Demand is so low only because city politicians are too inefficient in providing new places with infrastructure.
Good thought experiment

Not nearly as much inflation as you might think

Most of everyone's newfound Billion would sit idle

The inflation would come from the $200K/year everyone was spending, as in if you just gave everyone $200K*expectedRemainingLifeExpectancy, you'd get the same consumer inflation

The extra billions would go into inflating assets.

The key concept here is velocity of money - really interesting concept that surprisingly (at least at first for me) falls out of the formulas in Econ1 classes. It does relatively equate to the actual turnover of a piece of currency, as in how many times does that George Washington bill change hands in the year after you spend it?

The key policy hack is to give help to people who will SPEND the money, not to banks and corps who will just park it in investments.

That gets the multiplier effect you need out of crashes.
What agreements are you talking about?
In my opinion the thing that is leading most to inflation in addition to your points above, is that there are way too many land lords anyone who makes a little money goes and buys a house, increasing demand.
Like this ?

const char* strings[]={"ab","cd", "ef", "gh", ....};
char result[1024*1024*1024*1024];
size_t sz=0;
for(int i=0; i<sizeof(strings); i++)
{ size_t len=strlen(strings[i]); memcpy(result+sz, strings[i], len); sz+=len; }
result[sz]=0;
Start enabling ipv6 on your routers, these iot devices are going to break ipv4.
USA does the same don't see any impact there
I do find myself saying the word "daemon" way more than I did as a kid.
I agree with you. The only way out of this is via automation. If we have high enough automation, costs will drop despite lack of growth. In the end the world will be a stark 0.001% who own the automation and the flat 99.999% who subsist on leisure and boredom.
Fed changed the inflation targeting policy in November.

They are now doing average inflation targeting This means that they allow core PCE inflation be above 2% for a longer time so that the average settles around 2%.
The biggest fine so far is €50,000,000 against Google. Ironic considering the topic of this thread, but not surprising.
Plenty of farms with goats and llamas to visit on weekends if you work in southern ontario. Or AirBnBs on mini-farms. Goats always stand out as the funniest animals. But their eyes endlessly creep me out.

We get away from the city and do this quite often.
I also would like to hear rsync's answer. But I'll make a guess:

The (world) population is no longer growing (much). But productivity growth hasn't stopped. The result is that stuff gets cheaper, that is, the same number of dollars buys more. That's deflation.

Worse, we've gotten to the point where many people have what they need - not necessarily everything they want, but most of what they need. (I'm not going to buy twice as much food if my salary doubles. I'm not going to drive twice as many cars. I'm not going to buy a house that's twice as big. I'd use almost all the money to pay off debt and to invest.) That makes it hard to create inflation in the basic stuff, because you can't make demand exceed supply.
Thank you so much! Would love to chat
Can you go a day without the Internet? How about two days?

Sadly without this tracking, the engines of the ad economy come to a stop. We have royally ducked up the ecosystem to the point where there's no fixing it. Ever. Even laws such as GDRP won't cut it, Facebook & co. are happy to flout the rules since paying the fines is worth the cost of breaking the rules.

In the case of Google ad money vs Content marketing economy, it really is a case where the chicken came before the egg.
Python users who use numpy and scipy are actually using a lot of Fortran code.
Takeout is NOT great, at least in my case. I never once managed to fully download my photo archive, despite my repeated attempts. I gave up, so my current "strategy" for keeping my photos safe is "Never ever do anything that might make Google algorithms think that I'm violating their ToS".
Not anymore?
Why Swift reference types are bad for iOS app startup time
Given Google's other tracking practices (X-Client-Data and leaky modern APIs like AudioContext), very unlikely.

X-Client-Data cannot be disabled (it's hard-coded) and ships telemetry to DoubleClick without disclosure.

Google Chrome is the DoubleClick browser. Why else would DoubleClick be hardcoded into the source as a place to send telemetry?