skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's contrast two addictive and harmful phenomena in order to see what's controlled them and what hasn't:

1) Cigarette smoking: In the last 50 years, the % of adults who smoke has fallen dramatically. WIN.

2) Slot machines: I don't have revenue numbers, but I'd be surprised if the $$ figures have fallen by anything like smoking's. LOSS.

Internet addiction (and smartphone addiction) IS harmful. If you disagree with that, you can probably stop reading.

If you're still here, we can agree it would be very good to decrease addiction, even if it'll never disappear entirely. How?

For smartphone addiction, we can publish a few articles like OPs, or make fun of addicts, but it'll probably turn out like slot machines. The addicts don't care what we think of them.

For smoking: cigarettes were never actually outlawed -- adults can still buy them. So what worked and how could it be replicated?

1) Massive public pressure and education, so smoking became uncool. This has barely started on smartphone addiction, so bring it on.

2) Outlawing smoking in all public places. Covered below.

3) Restricting for youths. Also covered below.

4) Taxes: a pack of cigarettes is massively taxed.

5) Lawsuits, like the state attorneys general filed against the tobacco companies.

Now, for public places: it's possible that certain apps could be rated by some agency, public or private, as "addictive" or "distracting." The app makers would fight it like hell, but too bad. The literature on how they're addictive is pretty voluminous now.

Once we have a legal designation of Instagram or TikTok as "addictive" the way is open for indoor spots or schools to prohibit them, make them illegal to use while driving, or for the app makers to restrict them for children.

Would this work on its own? Pretty imperfectly, but the effect of social apps being rated "addictive" even if some are not rated yet, combined with the education program, would be large.

I haven't covered (4) and (5) yet, but this posting is already pretty long!
Creating more private alternatives to cross-site ad tracking is a project that most of the major browsers are working on. In addition to Chrome, Edge has https://github.com/WICG/privacy-preserving-ads/blob/main/Par... and Safari has https://webkit.org/blog/8943/privacy-preserving-ad-click-att...
This brings up a good point. Be prepared for a situation like this. Even if your radio set up is correct, your neighbors might not know where to get help to solve interference problems.

http://www.arrl.org/files/file/Technology/Neighbor_Info/Neig...
As somebody with less to lose, I guess it's my duty to take the fall for you. Examples are the idea that women are underrepresented in prestigious jobs because they're biologically determined to not want to do them or not be as capable of doing them. Another is that blacks are poor because they're genetically inferior at doing things that make money (ie. professional work).
For the cars or the planes?
I’m sure the Navy wished it wasn’t canceled, and the Marines probably would have been happy with Harriers.

The stealth window of usefulness is closing anyway with improved radar.
That seems like a better plan than “let’s do nothing.”
Third for newpipe. The modern internet is practically unusable without FLOSS.
RTGs also avoid having moving parts or working fluids. More efficient energy recovery systems are available if you're willing to accept some maintenance items.
I wrote all the code for group projects because I didn’t want to leave my grade up to the apathetic do nothings types in the cs dept where I went to university.
Would you feel more comfortable reading a sensationalist post about an evil corporation devouring a great free software project? Would you trade factually correct information for whatever fits your view of the world?
I think the general argument is that if someone is financially desperate, then it's not really voluntary. It's like asking why folks working under terrible conditions don't just quit.
'What motivates you? The chance to have a pizza party at the office? Or knowing you can spend rush hour having dinner with your family instead of getting honked at by someone who just cut you off?'

I like my colleagues, have friends among them, enjoy having lunch with them, and more generally like real physical interactions with people. Skype is simply not enough!
FLOC is tracking in your browser. How is that not individual? Not that it matters. Tracking is wrong whether you are able to track an individual or not. This is not just about privacy.
Also used in every catalytic converter in every car.
Amen. For more on that, see Edward Tufte's "The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint". It's no wonder Jeff Bezos insists on his subordinates bringing 2-3 page length essays, not slides, to decision meetings.

https://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/teaching/courses/pi/2016_2017/phil/...

https://mondaynote.com/bezos-a-ceo-who-can-write-2f368ee3659...
I wonder if the advice about having different passwords to different sites needs to be expanded: have different, unrelated usernames too.
Apparently, the World Bank. Middling trustworthiness.

http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GNP.PCAP.PP.CD?year_h...
If there’s one lesson I badly want to see all engineers learn is that odds are they haven’t the faintest clue what it’s like to be a typical user.

99% of computer users do not inhabit the same galaxy as you do when it comes to understanding and managing technical details.
Sway and WSLg and Windows 11
A screenshot of Windows 11 with WSLg running Sway Wayland compositor. What are your thoughts/ideas regarding modern Linux desktop environment running almost seamlessly on Windows?
"How soon until Adobe buys them" was exactly my thought too.
I am so glad for all this work that HFTs are doing, let's me buy ETFs and all kinds of things cheaply. But maybe not now, I need the valuations, rates, risk premia to get a little more attractive. Maybe even next year, who knows when's the next March/April 2020 coming. I am hoping for a much better selloff next time!
"A promising counterbalance to these trends is to develop alternative ways of being that increase and diversify the “crowd within” - and drive an ongoing inner discourse ....
It’s to look more often within, and behind, to develop depth and soul.... And we could do worse than to turn to Jung for a starting point in that journey."

There's so much to Jung's work that finding a way in to the core can be difficult. I once studied several of his collected works. To learn whether his ideas might have value for one's journey, his own journey and motivations are revealed in memoir Memories, Dreams, Reflections. His 'evidence' is the universality of human experiences ... his own and those of his patients.

To get to some of the core ideas (without dilution), try the two books of Vol 9. Archetypes... (which arrives at key idea 'Individuation') and Aion (gets into self, ego, shadow, anima/animus). These aren't easy reads, but many have found the effort rewarding.

Edit: Joseph Campbell's ideas (specially TV series The Power of Myth) might be a more widely accessible way to learn about this path.
I mean the 'lowers' function from the linked post, which counts the lowercase characters of its input. In this case the apl function returns an array of rank one less than its input, where each item is the number of lowercase characters at the given position along the reduced axis.

I don't think this can be expressed using fmap. (I'm not sure what <$> is, but judging from [0] it seems to be syntactic sugar for fmap?) You would at least the more powerful 'reduce' (or some analogue thereof), and I'm not even sure if that would be sufficient to properly express the rank operator.

0. https://wiki.haskell.org/Functor#Related_Functions

EDIT: the problem with the rank operator is ensuring the array remains rectangular. (I know haskell lists are not rectangular; imagining a type which was.) APL punts on this by being dynamically typed, but you would have to solve that problem somehow. 'Reshape' suffers somewhat the same problem, and I'm not sure it can be typed sensibly.
Yeah I suppose in the context of MLE it makes more sense to talk about your choice of variables. Which does matter unfortunately (which is kind of obvious when you note that you can convert any distribution into any other by chaging its coordinates [*]).

Using a prior gives you an 'out' by picking the Radon-Nikodym derivative w.r.t. that prior, since this definition of probability density is independent of your choice of variables. In most applications of MLE people implicitly use the (improper) uniform prior in which case you end up with the usual density. However this is usually done without justification, which is a bit dangerous.

[*]: For a rather extreme example consider that if X is exponentially distributed with mean 1 then so is -log(1 - e^-X) which you get by using the CDF, flipping the distribution and then using the inverse CDF, this transformation swaps 0 (the mode) with positive infinity.
Because there's only one L2 point, and it'd be very risky to have two units orbiting. So your spare would just sit around costing money in the case the first one works. The folks that do this are pretty dang good at what they do, so they're willing to bet $10 billion on success the first time, vs $20 billion to hedge with a spare. Even with a spare it's not clear to me a malfunctioning first example would have enough Delta-V to get it safely out of the L2 point proximate.

If it fails, they'll learn all they can, then try again with another follow on project, that likely will take advantage of technological improvements since functional requirements on this one were set in stone. Pre-building a spare just doesn't make sense with this kind of project.
Clearly not allowing anyone to track is good for competition. Now there are certain companies that collect data from multiple sources. That gives them a benefit compared to others. But what I do not understand is how they can do it? How can you accept that your company spies on its users and collects data on them? How can you say it is OK?
If anyone wants to play with it there's a live demo here: https://fr0stbyter.github.io/jspatcher/dist/?projectZip=../e...

Most of the files seem to be presentation slides, only a few play any audio.
Robinhood IPO faces threat of retail snub on Reddit
Imagine being a new manager/vp/whatever there... do you want to go to a shareholders meeting and say "this was a great year, we mainatained all the same stuff, because it's working great already!"... or do you want to say "we've unvailed a totally new, totally better chat platform, with millions of new users, and gajillions of new chat threads!"?

Sadly, the same is happening at other tech firms, where only something "new" gets praised, and we end up with all the icons looking the same, and good products killed (just count the number of chat/communication services from google).
The problem isn't necessarily that the employee expects to want to leave in under a year, so much as they don't want the company to have an incentive to let them go in under a year.
They don't have any power in this area. Those big companies hire industrial psychologists and neuroscientists to calculate precisely how often notifications should be issued to give you that little squirt of dopamine and be hooked. The notifications are not an accident, they are by design.
I don’t think that would necessarily work because some of the subjects deeply integrate with one another. For example, English and math have huge crossover because English classes are about being able to convey ideas and you need to have a strong grasp of English to succeed in, say, a statistics class.

I think if we could fine-tune instruction to skill levels, while still requiring a strong foundation in each subject, we would be much better off in the education scene.
This was a better comment than your original sarcastic comment - the internet’s got enough vitriol, please don’t add to it.
Lessons from Being Acquired Twice
I think you're taking a very narrow definition of what a threat means to make your point. To a Marine in Afghanistan, the threat was not mitigated by a nuclear arsenal. To them, close air support from a technologically inferior aircraft like the A10 did a better job of eliminating a threat than the F22 in many instances. To the original point, this is why it became difficult to retire the old plane despite the JSF and F22. It could be tied to a specific threat, and that meant it was politically much easier to defend keeping it around even if the business case was that it costs too much money. At the end of the day, politically defending a budget is much easier if it can be concretely tied to a credible risk.
Yes, but "Heinz" remains as a condiment company or division owned by Kraft Heinz.
These are not more private alternatives. This is just tracking using other methods. FLOC is tracking and it is in no way more private.
Invites to Founders Network Boston Chapter
Hey Boston founders, I recently relocated to the Boston area from SF and I've been appointed Boston Chapter Director. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions about the Boston tech scene; if you're looking for VCs; or just want to get hooked up with the right people and get serious about networking again. I also have a limited number of invites for Founders Network, so we can discuss that too. Cheers!
Sri Lanka’s ancient, almost lost martial art
I've had my house egged and repainted, and been physically assaulted at events over baseless personal grudges held by others. You could tell me they hate the guy just for existing, and it'd be 100% believable.

If I had to guess - I'd say it was down to refusing their name suggestion. Which is a really damn petty reason to hate someone, but one I can entirely believe. One of the personal grudges I was dragged into was exactly that petty.

The internet has been well overdue for a good chlorine dosing for a long time.
Cloudfare uses Lava Lamps to generate true randomness: The Nitty-Gritty Details
Is everything free? It's not very clear on their website.
My guess is that they don't want to run this on the users computer (even though video editors have fairly beefy machines) because it would be easy to extract out the ML models and use them, destroying their business model.
Youtube Kids is a thing
So this is where all the Mozilla donations go: not to its floundering web browser or development of other open web technology, but to 10-month long YouTube “investigations” of the exact same sort a dozen other media outlets are doing.

Waste of resources aside, this is missing the forest for the trees. They claim that YouTube’s algorithm is the problem, but in regards to the goal of an open and user-empowering web, YouTube is the problem. The implicit argument here, again sad to see coming from Mozilla, is that one siloed website completely dominating web video through predatory pricing and network effects would be totally OK if a bunch of people they liked were put in charge of its recommender systems.
This explains why some videos are demonetized but not why they're banned.
> If someone is willing to cut off their arm for sale as food, should other people be allowed to buy it?

What's the argument against allowing this? That it's distasteful?

Edit: pun not intended, but noticed immediately and preserved.
> I’m sure the Navy wished it wasn’t canceled

It was canceled because the Navy said it wouldn't work, both because of cost and take-off weight of the proposed Naval variant relative to the capacity of then-current and in-development carriers.
This seems to be a Heinz Canada marketing stunt and I don't think they sell hot dogs here. Hot dogs typically come in packs of 10 here, although you can get bigger family packs.
> > I don't know, do you think the world would be better if people could sell their organs?

> Freedom of destiny. If a spouse wanted to sell their organs to improve the life of the remainder of their family, and made the choice with sound mind, then absolutely.

How is that world better than this one ?

With all the resources we have in the world, why don't we strive to allow for people to have better options than organ selling ?
yup, but the official nano is 20eur + tax +shipping,... so yeah... sadly, if you're just a kid who wants to learn electronics (=if you dont have a large hardware budget), buying 3 nanos, frying one, half-soldering the other, and actually using the third is still the best option.
It's an insult to actual entertainment.
Or not making porn.
The OP says that. That is the proposal in the OP that I thought we were discussing here, is why I was discussing it. The proposal in the OP for `DO_NOT_TRACK` does consider them part of the same problem all to be controlled by a `DO_NOT_TRACK` setting.

It may be that both you and I think that's not a great idea, or at least needs more fine-tuning as a proposed standard.

> This is a proposal for a single, standard environment variable that plainly and unambiguously expresses LACK OF CONSENT by a user of that software to any of the following:

> ad tracking

> usage reporting, anonymous or not

> automatic update phone-home

> crash reporting

> non-essential-to-functionality requests of any kind to the creator of the software or other tracking services

https://consoledonottrack.com/
they sort of are open. your brain is basically a interpreting and predicting the world 24/7. it work by making meaning of what it perceives. a flood of a neurotransmitter basically alters the way the brain works and whatever experience you have is your brain trying to make senses of the new and unexpected electrochemical activity.

you are not communicating with your dead mother or you are not being a god.

it works for depression because it allows the brain to exercise and form neural pathways that are not normally allowed. even if we think about the brain as one organ, in reality there are a lot of interconnected neural nets that are regulated by a central supervisory net called the DMN. Under psychedelics, the DMN shuts down while the other networks increase activity.
Stacks – Launch your open-source web apps with one Docker command
Criminalization of dark patterns?

It’s not impossible to imagine — intentionally tricking a user is sometimes called fraud — but I’m not sure we’ve thought through the implications of criminalizing website design.

The biggest companies are the ones least affected by regulation, because they can invest resources into complying. Small startups sometimes can’t. A teenager in their bedroom usually can’t. And that’s no small loss.
1. It's weird that the values you pick lead to an example scenario where the person you're disagreeing with is even more right.

2. The point of the math was to show that it's a big deal for basically any reasonable values. It doesn't depend on the exact numbers.
Demonetizing them may not be sufficient for the parents or advertisers, particularly the former.
Didn't know the research behind this article costed an entire mozilla donation. Not sure how other media outlets are doing it.
They are though. You just don't agree with their viewpoint and seem to want this kind of censoring of content.
Your oversimplifying and missing a lot. The F-35 is not a replacement or substitute for the F-22.

The F-22 is an air superiority fighter. The F-35 is a multi role strike aircraft. The F-22 would never be allowed for export, because it has features we don't want to share even with allies. The F-35 was designed for export to allies from day one.

There's no scenario where just buying more F-22's made more sense than building the F-35. The F-35's project problems, primarily driven from the joint acquisition strategy are their own thing, completely independent of the F-22.
I knew the GPLv3 Installation Instructions requirements were narrow (enough that I don't think it's actually a barrier to, say, bundling GPL code with an iOS app), but "anti-TiVo so weak it wouldn't stop TiVo" is a TIL.
Two options for available for what? We need to enforce the law and prevent violent criminals first and foremost while also exercising some modicum of restraint against non-violent drug users and others that are not directly endangering others.

Letting a bunch of kids from the ‘burbs play Marxist revolutionary while not responding to police was stupid.

Then the progressive element forced out the black female police chief and the “peaceful protesters” showed up at her house https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.q13fox.com/news/protesters-...

I don’t really buy the police brutality narrative pushed by the media either. Yes there have been some about of isolated incidents but crime has gone down as a hole and encouraging people to hate the police will just cause more problems.
A Look at Building with Astro
When Donald Trump talks about lab leak it is clearly racist conspiracy and harmful video, otherwise its okay

https://comicallyincorrect.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/04...
Things are very different in a field with long product cycles. If it takes 5 years to get a product into the field then the company has a huge incentive to retain employees.
This should be about the growth of Cryptocurrency and not bitcoin.
> If you rent this 4br for $4,500 (perma) rent is $13,500 / year

What?
Not everything is online and many things that are were better off when they weren't.
(2019) but what a balanced, thoroughly researched, well-written article on the politics of redeveloping Penn Station in NYC. I’m glad someone posted it. Worth a read for anyone championing big money, high visibility, major impact, long slog government projects, or those trying to block them.
Yeah, universities get away with that because the students have already gone through primary education and already have the required foundation of knowledge.

Universities will require one class in a number of different fields to market themselves as liberal arts schools, but don't pretend like one algebra course gives a person all the math skills they will need in their life.
According to the latest data, the Pfizer vaccine that Isreal used is 99.3% effective at preventing hospitalizations, compared to 99.6% for the other strains it was originally tested against.

Given that the vaccine seems to turn the delta variant from a potentially serious, sometimes fatal disease, to a mild annoyance, I would think that plans could proceed as normal.

At a certain point, when Covid ( delta variant or not) becomes less dangerous than the Flu or Rhinovirus, it may not make sense to worry about.
It's directly harmful to society to make it rewarding for people to mutilate themselves.
I read that and thought, Do you have kids?
> like Aus/NZ

Well, we haven't eradicated it have we. Keeps popping up.

We'll only know if the lockdowns are worthwhile after few years of accounting.
Engagement is a number you can game. Makes me wonder if they have their 'gamification' and 'game theory' wires crossed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_arbitrage
Note: DoorDash employs the labor of approximately 104,000 people. Of those, about 4,000 are classified as employees. Of those, only a portion (of unknown size) are "equity-eligible."

Only equity-eligible roles classified as employees get equity. For everyone else employed by DoorDash, and on whose backs DoorDash is built, let them eat cake.
> It's mostly social media (=bullying), games, or snapping/sharing creep shots of classmates, from what I've heard. To a substantial degree the phones are just amplifying what's already bad about school.

I'm pretty sure there's a selection effect in what you heard (eg you only hear stuff about kids using phones was something goes wrong enough to be headline-worthy).

For instance, I'm no fan of social media, but I wouldn't say it boils down to bullying and nothing else.