skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My SO (born 1981, first use of computer 1999) left her job and started at university again in 2019. She now is studying with people born around the time she first used a computer.

Watching from the sidelines I can attest the fact that nearly none of her fellow students know how to efficiently use search engines, digital knowledge repositories or stuff like pubmed.

They also have a hard time working collaboratively in a digital fashion with tools like MS Office 365 or Google Docs.

Her neice is the same. She is 18,still in school and has no ability to create a thesis in Word. TOC, headlines, footnotes, citations, footers, nothing. Either they never were taught this in school or neither her neice nor nearly all my SO's fellow students thought this to be a relevant skill.

But. And here is the catch. Together with her there also started few other students around her age. They also never learned the skills necessary to efficiently navigate digital research and usage of Office tools.

My SO learned these skills because of her former job as well as genuine interest in these things.

So from anecdata I would not differentiate by date of birth. I would make the differentiation with the question if people used devices for producing stuff or "just" consuming stuff.
They must comply with Chinese law. So they put iCloud data in China. So users with harmful images of "free hongkong" and winnie the pooh should be reported to authorities. Apple complies with local laws right?
Kind of both. They've added some gcc-specific extensions to clang, but also removed some gcc-ism's from the Linux kernel.
As I already explained: RAII is pretty darn standard practice and guarantees basic exception safety in your own code too. The music is already there and people are already dancing to it.

> What if they weren't?

Obviously the language wasn't designed for rebels. The implicit understanding with tools is that you use them the way they're meant to be used. Only in that case do you get to assume you'll reap the benefits they claim to provide. If you insist on deliberately dancing to a different tune, then you get exactly what you asked for. You can't drive against traffic and then complain people run into you.
Some of the old BSDs probably. Given modern driver support there's nothing much I couldn't do with it.
It doesn't take too long for them to double their body weight. If you ate like Michael Phelps you could probably double your body weight too.
Tokenized karma in Reddit communities is going to change everything. It started with r/EthTrader and DONUT (which you can currently use to rent the banner space in the subreddit to display your ad), and extended to r/CryptoCurrency and /r/FortNiteBR, with MOON and BRICK, respectively.

The latter two are part of Reddit's official tokenized community points project, which is going to expand to more communities, and which will be adopting Ethereum L2 solution, Arbitrum, for scalability:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/opi5rg/scaling_re...

In all three communities, you can purchase special monthly membership with the community tokens, and use them to vote on polls that can also be used for governance decisions.

As the community points are on the blockchain, and map to user contributions in each community, they give Reddit communities the ability to migrate to other platforms, or leverage their karma reputation for other purposes (e.g. voting on other platforms). This decoupling of reputation from the platform will go a long way to making social media more open and geared toward the end user.

It'll also distribute economic power, by giving ordinary people, all over the world, a new means to earn income:

https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/l9dye7/i_so...

https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/kqrikd/sold...

https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/n371id/how_...

https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/ly79uw/as_a...

https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/l9bdtn/guys...
They are not E2E encrypted if they are decryptable. We should use the correct terminology here, especially to not subject users to false security.
What stops them from altering the deal is that they have said they won’t, and there really is no evidence to believe otherwise.

If they do, then they do. There are never any guarantees about anyone’s future behavior. However just saying ‘what stops you from becoming a thief?’, does not imply that you will become a thief.

There is no new capability other than what they have said. They already had far more general purpose mechanisms for analysing and searching your files already in the operating system.

The leap from doing spotlight indexing to searching for the keywords ‘falun gong’ or ‘proud boys’ in your files is also simple. So is the leap from searching your photos locally for ‘dogs’, to searching locally for ‘swastikas’ and reporting back when they are found.

If they decide to build some spyware, there is no need for it to be based on this. It’s a red herring.
Great, make not-logged-in reddit even more terrible than it already is. That's going to go super well.
> look what they do now 10 years later

Care to elaborate? I am genuinely curious
This couldn't be further from the truth. You sound like a BTC maximalist.
Downvoted why? This is a fact

https://www.economist.com/the-world-if/2020/07/04/what-if-wa...

Edit: Downvoted again, you idiots xD classic HN
Every thirty seconds, the Tesla demands attention. If you're distracted, it beeps like crazy and a few times of that, the system disabled itself for the drive.

I also don't "feel" like it can drive itself so paying attention still is warranted.

Rather than saying Level 2 is garbage, we should look at the stats and determine whether it is or is not safer than driving without automation. A perfectly attentive driver will beat automation, but as all the annual deaths while driving show, that is certainly not how universally drive.
What? That is the science.
I would, as hinted at in another comment, differentiate between people mostly using consummation devices or general purpose production devices.
Are there an certifications that are valuable from an employment perspective for software engineers?
Statistically most people, vaccinated or non-vaccinated, are not infected. Once infected, both vaccinated or non-vaccinated can transmit if there is sufficiently high viral load. Normally, a high viral load causes symptoms that would cause someone to self-isolate or fail a temperature check, reducing transmission. Because a vaccinated person can be infected without symptoms, there may be some cases where they should be isolating, but are not, and are thus transmitting to anyone, vaccinated or not.

https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20210729/cdc-reverses-guidan...

> Even if they’re not showing symptoms, fully vaccinated people should “get tested 3-5 days after exposure to someone with suspected or confirmed COVID-19 and wear a mask in public indoor settings for 14 days after exposure or until they receive a negative test result,” the agency’s website says. The CDC previously said fully vaccinated people didn’t need testing after exposure unless they showed symptoms. “Our updated guidance recommends vaccinated people get tested upon exposure regardless of symptoms,” CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, MD, told The New York Times in an email. “Testing is widely available.”

Stanford University will test all students, including those who are vaccinated, https://twitter.com/stanforddaily/status/1425554996683149313

A subset of all populations globally, especially in young people, have already recovered from a Covid variant and have some natural immunity, which is sterilizing immunity (both upper respiratory system--since that is how they got naturally infected--and serum antibodies + T-cells). Governments have the option of performing national sero-surveys to statistically estimate the percentage who are already immune without a vaccine. Individuals who can afford to pay for testing can determine if they have natural immunity, including the newest FDA-EUA test for T-cells (costs $210 with blood draw, only in US for now), https://t-detect.com
Back in the 1990s I used WordPerfect and would edit the codes to adjust documents. I wonder what that makes me? Something more than a digital native? My kids grew up with computers, but come to me for everything computer related. I try to teach them how to search for their answers, but it’s usually faster to just ask me.
Went diving for the lede and gave up somewhere near the wreck of the titanic. Maybe I scrolled right past but wow that was a lot of extra context.
Yes. But, which of those two options is actually happening?
Tried to give it on an old HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11465078

and it gave me an "No video supported.." for https://per.quest/f0538689a63a0ff24718ad05fd715a59.mp3

Hope this helps. Running firefox 91.
Two issues:

1. Your comment didn't add any information—it was just grandiose, inflammatory claims ("extreme mental gymnastics", "farce to begin with" and "blatantly obvious")

2. Replies like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28163531 are to be expected to such comments. This is the way that discussion degrades. (That was the top reply to your comment before I downweighted it, so the effect was a lot more obvious before that.)

Ok, three issues:

3. This entire subthread is way more generic than the better parts of the discussion. That's to be expected from inflammatory comments that don't add information. Generic threads are much more predictable and much less interesting than specific ones: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor....
For sale: Access to your company network. Price: Less than you'd think
The parting words of the article, on what seems to be a site for PC gamers, looks significant to me:

> but I need a reason to get into Linux and stick with it. Valve’s work might get me there.

How many PC gamers an article with this title will reach, I don't know, but getting more people thinking about "Linux" seems good (even if the open systems guts are in a somewhat closed appliance). Especially when gaming has been keeping a lot of expensive home PCs on Windows -- thereby keeping a lot of other things people do on Windows.
I'm in my mid 30s and decided to move country, I gave myself almost a year to get sorted (find a job, house, etc) and it's given me something to look forward to. It's also a challenge that's kept me busy. This might not be suitable for your situation, but something to consider.
Wow, and here Fox news had me thinking at least 50% were sheep.
Someday Americans will use metric :)

Which day comes first?
In fact, the article, as read by a human, highlights Cadillac’s Super Cruise.

Now the human who did actual research went to Cadillac’s site which touts

“ Offered on the 2018-2020 CT6, 2021 CT4, CT5 and Escalade, and forthcoming 2023 LYRIQ, available Super Cruise is the first true hands-free driving-assistance feature for compatible roads (2021 CT4 and CT5: late availability expected summer 2021).”

First true hands-free driving-assistance feature for compatible roads

Would this be considered morally wrong or driver responsibility?
The pricing of GitKraken is a little frustrating. 5 pounds a month is quite a hefty price just to be able to use a private repo. Especially since it has not materially changed for my usage, so I would have been much happier giving them the £50 for a single licence.

This is once of those scenarios where subscription for an enterprise might be a thing, but makes no sense for me. The JetBrains model would make sense and I could justify that.
in a voice that doesn't sound like their voice.

on edit: changed your to their
Well it's been multiple years and hn still needs multiple pages, ironic considering they claim to deal with the best people in tech. So I guess things take time?
it seems to be pay what you can afford.
Agreed, but Tesla should still have a weight sensor on seat to prevent this nonsense.
Well there are so many rules and official norms (approx. 400,000) and exceptions about pretty much anything in France that this is pretty accurate... Just look up the rules of the road regarding phone calls while driving for examples and see how it has evolved over time: specifically holding the phone was forbidden but using headphones were explicitly allowed until the latter also got banned by another law a few years back. Now to have calls we must put our phones on speakers (but not too loud) and use both hands for driving, effectively forbidding us to give any calls while driving all that without explicitly saying so.

It's hardly enforceable, but wait until you encounter a zealous police agent that's been tasked to give a certain amount of tickets
Huawei is following their playbook from the Nortel days. Why would anyone expect them to stop doing what brought them to success?

Malicious Life made a great 3 episode podcast series on that.

https://www.cybereason.com/blog/malicious-life-podcast-china...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Huawei#Nortel
I think shutting down password auth is a mistake, especially if you look at MS services and where they stand now. Authenticating against their Graph API is such a hassle that we just skipped its inclusion in some of our projects because we just don't have the dev time available for allocation.

While it is fine to require better auth, it should be in the hands of users. Otherwise adoption is severely endangered.

That said, Github is an extremely juicy target for someone trying to inject code in a lot of codebases without anyone noticing. So popular repos should certainly make use of it.
Ahh yes. socialism bad, unfettered capitalism good.

Maybe we (The US) should just lift the embargo?
Adobe and Chromebook ads are all over Reddit. I don't read any tech or design subreddits yet I get them all the time. I doubt what you're seeing is targetted at all.
Chemical analysis of woolly mammoth’s tusk reveals the distances it travelled
Show HN: C programming language extension: Cedro pre-processor
> I know that isn't how you should look at it, but that's still how it feels

It's definitely how you should look at it because it's right. Once a device is compromised in this way, there's no going back and the erosion of privacy and expansion of scope will become neverending. If a capability exists, it will just be too hard for spooks to keep their fingers out of the cookie jar.
trinkets to natives is a great way to clarify whats going on
I've been training some non-technical folks at work to make content changes (mainly markdown) and GitHub Desktop is fantastic.

We start in the browser using the built-in editing functionality and build a PR, then when they're familiar with that we progress to GitHub Desktop and VS Code.

Worked really well so far, planning on trying both Codespaces and the `.` editor next.
$5/m is honestly peanuts. The amount of value I get from it is way, way more than that. I pay it yearly, like I do for PHPStorm.
By default iPhones autocategorise your photos, don't they?
This detection and scanning are going to testify possession of illegal material, not a specific action.
Why would you write Typescript this way? The Lisp > EcmaScript should be way more terse.
It’s just that version 724.1.2 might look weird in some eyes.
Oh. Disappointing.

Since it was in Bloomberg, I thought the article might be about productivity, dollars of GDP produced per unit of effort. An update to Chad Syverson's 2011 survey article, What Determines Productivity, perhaps.

Instead it's part of the victim-blaming industry of "if you're not frantically busy, you're wasting your life".
Especially when they use tools that make files that contain all the history through "non-destructive changes" anyway.

But I think the reason is because the mess of folders they then create in DropBox and they can never find their files.

What would be great is if someone could make a TimeMachine for non-developers that uses git, because that is what they are doing in their heads anywy.
I have this 'theory' about 'diet fatigue': the more times you lose weight, the harder it will be the next time. I hadn't associated it with age but with the count of times I (kind of successfully) lost weight through calorie deprivation and sometimes additional physical exercise.
Property crimes, yes, arrest.

Financial crimes, no. Holding them hostage isn't useful or productive. As long as they are cooperative with investigation, let them be until a verdict is reached.

It's too easy for governments to accuse people on a whim of financial "crimes" that aren't really crimes. That sets a very bad precedent for misuse of power. Next thing you know they'll be randomly arresting people from their bedroom for suspected tax evasion instead of auditing them. Not good for those who did follow the rules.

There are real crimes, yes, but there is too much grey area and there is no danger to people or property to let financial crime suspects be at home.
This seems overly complex. If you change the state of the world from X to Y, and Y is the preferred state, then you have created value.

One may say "who says Y is preferred over X?". And it's a legit question. The question is, have you created value or not?
The line is not a delusion just because it happened to be crossed at some point. The line is there because humans intuitively consider it to be there.

The fact that the line is there gives us a reason and a foothold to fight back when someone attempts crossing it.
And there I am, naively believing that issues stopped being thing... Well, just buy different sets of tools.
The author's point is that being named a "digital native", a term that is often used to describe young people who seem to be very comfortable with using "technology", does not actually mean that digital native is proficient at using any particular aspect of that technology.

The author is a lawyer, and legal work requires you to work extensively with word documents and word processing, so proficiency with word is a good anecdote to illustrate his point.

I looked at the task list he uses and they are critical basic skills for legal work, I don't think they are poor measures at all.

When your document is 400 pages long and being worked on by multiple people, it really helps if everyone knows how to maintain proper styling for navigation, auto update cross-references to paragraphs, hyperlink to definitions and named sections, and then strip it of identifying information so that it can be presented clean to the client. If even one person can't do this, it mangles the document.
Yes! I went from walking from home down to campus and then all around campus everyday. Plus I didn’t have much money for food. Lots of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and noodles/pasta. Now, I drive everywhere and sit on my butt in front of a computer most of the day. Plus I can afford much more calorie rich food, and a lot of it. No surprise I’ve put on 40 pounds over the last 20 years since finishing college.
Bessel's Correction
Between this and chat control, future suddenly looks very bleak for those who care about owning their privacy
That's a thing, exploding head syndrome. I had it for a few years. It was when I was particularly stressed.

It really sucks. Sounds like a gunshot in your ears. I actually had this happen to me about a week ago. It's been a few years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploding_head_syndrome
I can imagine FFI being tricky. But what’s tricky with regards to databases in this context?
> there's no local vs cloud separation anymore which you can use to delineate what is under your own control

If uploading a perceptual hash of a photo breaks 'local vs cloud separation', the uploading the whole photo in the clear surely does the same.
Only idiots and psychos make definitive decisions as if they had all the data in the universe when they don't.
Haha, exactly! You'll have to untangle a mess no matter what you choose. It's in the name -- SOFTware! Soft, because it can and will change.
PST means Pacific Summer Time in the summer.
Why won't you buy the new iPhone Billy? Are you a pedophile?
Guilty until proven innocent.
if you work in a mechanical field you know that machines regularly combine metric and imperial parts. You may have to use a 3mm hex wrench and then sixty seconds later a 3/32 hex wrench.

Only in America. In the rest of the world, you won't have a 3/32 hex wrench.
> For people who bought into managed garden

There is nothing that prevents you from staying in the managed garden. Just use the Apple app store, and don't use other app stores.

> Developers, especially on HN, cannot accept there is group of customers that just doesn't want to interact them directly.

Then don't interact with them. Just use the Apple app store only. Problem solved.
It’s not a fallacy when we can see the slope being actively oiled up right now. Hate speech laws and policies being used to target dissenting political opinions, tech companies using their power to put their thumb on the scale in elections, health emergencies to curb basic civil liberties, etc.

And generally any law and policy should be looked at with the optic of how is it going to be used in the worst possible bad faith because ultimately it will. I remember the UK using its anti-terrorist act powers against Iceland during the 2008 financial crisis.
Cubans complain that all economic surplus is confiscated by the state. So then how is opening trade w Cuba going to help in the long run when all it will do is give a bunch of cash to prop up the regime? We have to stop trading with totalitarian governments including China and Russia, not allow more of them access to US markets.
Very interesting, thank you for those links.

According to the second link, 255k people have been vaccinated in Iceland, out of a population of 364k (according to Wikipedia). So about 70% of the population has been vaccinated.

And according to the chart "Number of vaccinated individuals among domestic infections", about 60% of infections are among fully vaccinated people.

That suggests vaccination may not reduce the chance of infection much. As does the recent spike (the largest to date) in the "14-day incidence per 100 000 inhabitants" despite 70% vaccination.

Vaccination is still worthwhile, of course, to protect against severe illness, but if neither vaccination nor previous illness will prevent infection, it seems like COVID is going to be an illness we'll experience many times in our lives (hopefully with less impact once our immune systems adapt).
I say this as someone who grew up with Windows 98 and XP - I think the Commodore generation, if anything, are the true digital natives.

I've heard stories from more than one person from that era about how they'd write their own cracks as kids so that they could distribute pirated software in the school playground.
A volatile currency with direct transaction fees ranging from $0.05-60 [edited per FreeRadical - thanks!] and indirect transaction fees of roughly $90 (socialized block reward). Whose value dropped 50% in a month then went up 50% in a month (which of course still leaves it 25% below its near-term highs). I don't think even the Cuban Peso performs like that. Think about both of those in terms of the average salary of a Cuban national. How about the minimum wage? $0.44 per hour.

[edit, and while I'm in here] And why did it drop 50% in a month? Because the worlds 25th largest automaker decided it was a bad medium of exchange for buying electric cars.

Perhaps unsurprisingly in Venezuela, they decided to go the other way, dollarizing. They moved 66% of all transactions to the USD, forcing the Maduro government's hand, and leading to their major banks offering USD deposit accounts. [1]

If anything they need USDC not BTC. This is just gambling in a regulatory and legal void. The Mad Max of finance.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-13/venezuela...
So my current "people who consistently do really cool niche stuff" list contains foone, Neil Cicierega, jan misali, and now this guy.

Any other suggestions?