skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something you can take from Judaism is the concept of Shabbat where you can take 1 day a week to devote to family, study (that isn't related to your job), personal things, host a dinner with some friend (COVID permitting, of course). Clearly you don't have to be religious to do this, but you can take a dogmatic approach (e.g. your Shabbat starts at a certain time and is not reschedulable, Slack and work email are off during this period, etc.). It seems to be a time honoured approach to maintaining some balance in life.
The USP of dumbphones is that they provide internet access to a curated subset of apps.

There's no easy way to tell an Android that you do want data going to maps and chat apps, but not to your web browser or social media app. You have to jiggle dozens of permissions sliders every time you switch 'modes'.

Dumbphones are that toggle. Is it going to find a $200-$300 enthusiast market? Not sure... I could see myself buying a Light Phone, but I also wonder if it's only a software problem, and subtracting features from Android will get you to the sweet spot quicker than building them up from feature phones.
Holocene extinction is an ongoing extinction event of species
huge bong rip at 7pm everyday really works wonders for me. while it can increase the anxiety for some, and even me sometimes, it's always causes a "head change" where I'm like "why am I just staring at my screen right now?"
I used to have that problem with sleeping and hunger. For me it just went away eventually.
FDA Repays Industry by Rushing Risky Drugs to Market (2018)
Most comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28238317, which was posted earlier and has what looks like a more substantive article.
Are there stats on the location:activity ratio? Are people in some locations more verbose than others?
I was here for it until I realized it's Java.
More data here: https://twitter.com/jsm2334/status/1427465003007942659?ref_s...
> I need [x] that isn't built for addiction.

You're going to be waiting a long time and perhaps will never solve this problem with technology. Healthy diet, healthy relationships, diet and exercise will help you overcome addition, not waiting for a miracle cure from tech gods.
Given how technical the subject matter is I have been surprised how easily many "less and non-tech" family and friends have grasped the major issues. The existence of adversarial images has been enough to pivot many from distrust and distaste into a state of explicit disgust at Apple's behaviour.

If one adversarial image exists, I do not see the need for more. Let Apple create a public trail of lies and incompetence to convince engineers, lawmakers, and the public that technological innovation to censor the evidence is not a reasonable nor safe way to avoid addressing the causes of child abuse, and to cast doubt on any "evidence" gathered by similar systems whether they be for papering over abuse or silencing dissenters.

A small number of Engineers are doing great work to shore up democracy. I just hope there are enough people both skilled and willing to bridge the gap to legislature.
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28097508 Apple's system and ones like it likely create an incentive to abuse more children

I'm surprised more people haven't noticed this counterproductive dynamic.

A static database of "burnt" CSAM helps create an extra premium for new images – either via expert camouflaging of older images, or the creation of fresh images not yet in the NCMEC's database.

Is 'whack a mole' against old imagery a game worth playing, if it creates incentives for more victimization?

Further: while the NCMEC database is supposedly secret, knowing its contents would be quite valuable to CSAM rings. The sorts of law-enforcement agencies involved, & quasi-governmental NGOs like NCMEC, often have poor computer security, or face insider threats from the very criminals they target. Any level of serecy the database is alleged to have should be considered conjectural, contingent, and fragile.

In particular, there seems a strange mismatch of "millions" of automated reports each year from Facebook (& maybe others) to NCMEC, with hardly any followup arrests/convictions to follow. (Maybe: zero?) Might CSAM rings be using throwaway accounts to bulk-probe the NCMEC database, in an 'oracle attack', to deduce its contents?

Might Apple's system increase the potential avenues for such probes? Fill an old Aple device with CSAM until you see it phone-home with an upload of thumbnails for Apple personnel to review.

Apple may have created a system that, while effectively unreviewable by legitimate researchers because of Apple's secrecy of methods & databases, & the legal peril of probing its behavior with actual CSAM, still lets criminal researchers learn a lot to help craft their illegal behavior.

But hey, Apple then gets to assuage grandstanding Senators & Attorneys General with the boast: "We're firing as many nonsense unprosecutable events at NCMEC as Facebook does. We're doing something!"
To be honest it's mostly for fun, and to help me dogfood https://datasette.io/ and come up with new features for it.

But just a moment ago I was trying to remember the name of the Diataxis documentation framework - I was sure I'd either tweeted about it or blogged it, so I ran a personal search in Dogsheep Beta and turned up this tweet: https://twitter.com/simonw/status/1386370167395942401

Someone asked me the other day who they should follow on Twitter for Python news, so I searched all 40,000 tweets I have favourited for "Python", faceted by user and told them the top four users.
Exactly. We socialize the costs but unfortunately privatize the profits. Americans should get stock.
The quality of the service for every one of the positive examples you mention has degraded since the largest firms involved have become effective monopolies that could get away with exploiting either their customers or their labor, or both, while also engaging in anti-competitive practices to destroy real and even potential competitors, destructively capturing large swaths of the free market in the process. The centrality and engagement-driving nature of social platforms, including youtube, have eroded the social fabric and aided the spread of conspiracy theories and political extremism, driven advances in mass-surveillance, or both. All user-generated content platforms have centralized and then adopted abusable automated moderation systems that exacerbate these problems.

Big tech has created some undeniable conveniences, and it provides an endless stream of content that entertains you as it distracts you, as you describe, but if you think that's worth the major problems the consolidation of its power has caused, you're a fool. If you haven't encountered any of the myriad ways in which this, like any consolidation of unaccountable power, is harming people, then you live in a very lucky and ever-shrinking bubble. But perhaps you have, and simply decided that this was the tradeoff for the shiny toys listed.

Maybe humanity will always live in a cycle of worshiping new unaccountable power bases for the scraps they feed them, until the dystopia they create becomes too horrible to bear, and some awful upheaval has to happen to upset it. Maybe this time the combination of surveillance technology and near-total capture of both retail and information sources, is too powerful and this can't be reversed. Maybe the planet will be uninhabitable by the time it can happen.
Related, "Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)" are covered later in the thread: https://twitter.com/mold_time/status/1419814637588070404?s=2...
The second iteration of "Windows Subsystem for Linux".

Basically it lets you run Linux within Windows and it is implemented by Microsoft:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/about

WSL1 was a Linux syscall translation layer that tried to emulate Linux.

WSL2 is actually a Linux kernel running as a Windows subsystem via containerization magic.
>The only other plausible thing wrt my account's case was that it was almost empty (i.e. no photo, no friends, not much to go by) and was somehow flagged but was given a misleading reason why it was.

That sounds much more likely to me.

When facebook has a website vulnerability that is exploited, they log everyone out, post a blog post, and makes big news:

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/facebook-hack-beach-single-s...

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/09/facebook-security-bug-af...

https://about.fb.com/news/2018/09/security-update/

>"[something ominous happened] in [your part of town]"

Those ads are all over. They determine [your part of town] through geoip or FB tells the advertiser your city. It's like the "singles in [your city]" ads.
There's also https://twitter.com/jowens510/status/1428415192480698371.

(via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28255798, which we've merged hither)
Lol you think you are enlightened and you are part of the problem.
When you use the + operator in Python, it already calls __add__ (two underscores on each side) on the left operand with the right operand. Like x + y is x.__add__(y). https://docs.python.org/3/reference/datamodel.html#object.__...
Important to hear this.

An important takeaway from all this is that people react very differently to similar regimes, and projecting our own (successful) experience of a regime onto someone else is likely to not represent their experience.
Hey, marketing ads in the Wall Street Journal aren't going to pay for themselves!
On the contrary, I think more FOSS authors should do things like this. Freedom doesn't mean you don't get to take credit for your work.
I am curious if this question has come up in company marketing discussions. One of the most common and off-putting things about the weight-loss industry is the vague medicine promise. Have you considered just saying "semaglutide" instead of "a breakthrough medication"? I honestly almost stopped reading because it comes off as so huckster-ish to me.
Is your name ruining your life?
What I'll say is if your goal is to change society's power relations to make society more egalitarian, then dealing with individuals only is expressly impotent to bring about change because atomized individuals, disconnected from each other, cannot bring about change.
Governments around the world are able to provide more services to all of their citizens, being less rich than us. I think the “government is always the problem” mindset ignores the downsides of the alternative that we’re living through now, with the only proscribed thing to do being a zero example “doubling down” on less government.

If you want your country to have healthcare, at the very minimum you do the Swiss system.
Good point. I have taught classes using DrRacket, so I suppose what might be needed is a web-based interface as well. I see similar limitations with Swift Playgrounds. They are great as long as you have a Mac, installed XCode, etc. I don't want to say it was a struggle to get students to install DrRacket, but a web interface like Observable, maybe Pluto, etc. is hard to compete against
Mathematicians Have Solved Traffic Jams, and They’re Begging Cities to Listen
For better or worse?
Isn’t urban dictionary maintained by ESR?
> Having to create issues-only repositories seems like a sign that one may be using the wrong tool.

Use it to track white papers, project planning documents, a project-wide wiki, et c., if you want to feel like it's for more than just issues. Though having an issues-only project doesn't seem worse to me than using any other stand-alone issue tracker, separate from GH.
If it supported Matrix, I'd have definitely had one. However, unencrypted SMS and PSTN? No thanks.
The government gives out loans so that politicians can claim they helped people while also claiming they controlled spending and kept taxes low.

Those taxpayer guaranteed loans are just taking money from future taxpayers and giving it to the higher education business by letting them increase tuition without limit since there is no underwriting process.

And of course the students get saddled with lifelong debt with no exit since they are not dischargeable in regular bankruptcy, and future taxpayers get soaked with paying for the defaulted loans.

Private banks used to give out those loans because they were still guaranteed by the government, and I think Obama changed that, but they still have special status that make them harder to discharge in bankruptcy.

Tl:dr taxpayer funded loans for higher education are a net negative for society
Government by threatened legislation is much worse than government by actual legislation. Legislation is public, Legislation can be opposed, legislation can be reviewed by the court and so-forth. Allowing yourself (and your users) to controlled by threats of legislation is allowing democracy to be discarded.
Not sure what “sterilising immunity” is but the vaccines appear to reduce likelihood you will get Covid (not completely make you immune). If you then get it you are much less likely to end up in ICU or die, you may go to hospital though.
Yes you can run deficits in pepertuity if they are, say, bounded by some coefficient of GDP.
> I do not think it lines up well with what the government and elites want.

I'm of the (apparently dated) notion that we are the government.
> Anything that’s not OOP

False. We could have had Smalltalk.
This is an interesting story, but does it have any point? I struggled to find it. Is it that learning can't be isolated so organizations shouldn't bother with formal training? Yet that doesn't seem right.

Strange. I enjoyed the article and nodded along with it but it seemed like an observation I have with a colleague over beers.
I'll take a family's worth of them.
I did look at that and vaguely remember finding some small discrepancies, but nothing huge.
That's the catch though isn't it? It's only wilful infringement if there was intent. Just because you don't know the law, that doesn't make it allowed but it does make it unintentional.

A license notice provides a clear explanation of the rights and responsibilities of the user. This dissuades most any notion of "lack of intent" as the restrictions are put in your face from the start.
Notes.app can hold so much more than would work in a sticky. Whole embedded PDFs in the middle of a note, images, tables.
> Mainly, I'm just buggering around with the wrong tool for the job

Is there a list of these types of projects? Or a competition for the most wrong tool for a given complex job? (DAFTCON?)

I don’t know why I find these things so interesting, but I’d love to see more (the PowerPoint Turing machine comes to mind).
Eisenhower waited until the very last days of his office to say something about it. He took no actions. He also neutered his speech by rewriting "congressional military industrial complex" to "military industrial complex". Yes, I appreciate he said something at all, but he could have done much much more.

It reminds me of employees at Facebook leaving saying its so unethical what the company is doing, after having received massive pay for years.
Normally it's just a URL encoded in QR code, as the storage capacity of a QR code would likely not be sufficient for a whole menu.

One benefit of a web-based menu is that you don't have to relabel the menu when the price change, or when you need to add or remove a menu entry.

You could also make your menu dynamic and hide a meal if you're short on some ingredients.
What’s not true?

I said ‘most’ not ‘all’, and nobody here said the only reason to hand-write a parser was context sensitivity.
Funny how the money went to (at least an attempt to) build schools in Afghanistan instead. That country has/had free universal healthcare coverage. Time for Alanis Morissette to male version 3 of "Ironic"...
From your own argument: why would they ever decide to withdraw from war?
It's https://tailwindui.com/
Thanks for sharing man.

Important to emphasize there is a large variety of causes: stress eating is certainly a big part for a lot of people, but it's far from universal & far from the whole story.

"Something that can be fixed by just putting your mind to it shouldn't have to be treated with pills" is I think an interesting statement. I'm unconvinced "putting your mind to it" is as simple as it's made out to be.
"Scrolling them away" is the default behavior. (Just never make them sticky.)
I've graduated from high school and a bachelors program subsequently. That was all decades ago. I've never read a transcript in my life. Why would people do that generally, unless they had a job in transcription?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26528522 (March 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17709543 (Aug 2018)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17512473 (July 2018)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17502225 (July 2018)
Please don't post dumb dismissals like this, which are the mirror image of the thing they're arguing with. It's against the site guidelines and oh-so-tedious.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26528522 (March 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17709543 (Aug 2018)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17512473 (July 2018)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17502225 (July 2018)

Edit: would you please stop posting unsubstantive comments generally? You've unfortunately done a lot of that and we ban that sort of account. We're trying for more thoughtful conversation here (which is also why $Celebrity wars are off topic.)
Buy a gTLD or get a foreign government to let you manage their ccTLD. Then it is simple: set an A record on the root.
>Easy you push the configuration to every target. Then they are logically consistent.

What does this mean? This doesn't mean anything?

Are you saying to push the DB to the client?
Depressing to read all the anti-vax and pro-Covid comments on this generally enlightened forum while much of the healthcare system of the southern US is being overwhelmed by un-vaccinated Covid patients.
With additional details and evidence, I'd hope so. I'm not sure how this could be seen as anything other than collusion and anti-competitive behavior.
The 3rd 'truth about reading' in this article states that:

"Book summary services miss the point."

Then a couple of lines below, we are given this disclaimer:

"By the way, the book summaries we write for Farnam Street members are definitely not in the same class as the standard fare."

As the old saying goes, 'people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones'!
It limits background activity on those apps, like telegram is sometimes slower to receive when closed. No multitasking, no animations, no gestures.

I guess that most of the battery savings come from disabling all other apps' background activity and always on sensors.
I'd probably tip anyways. I like tiping and most of friends agree that they want to be able to tip.
You're right. But when there's an exploited vulnerability Facebook logs everyone out and then posts a blog post about it, as show by the 2018 hack you linked to.

That hasn't happened here.

I don't really consider 3 years ago to be very recent.

I think that 3rd link is arguably not a vulnerability. If you intentionally want people to be able to look up future friends by email address, then that's basically the desired behavior. Now arguably allowing people to look up future friends by email is a privacy problem. Some users probably want that feature though. Yes a lack of rate limiting is a problem, but rate limiting won't stop attackers from doing it, it just slows them down.
You’re not alone in this idea.
The problem is that it's often impossible to know if the person commenting has any idea what they're talking about
Being in a PhD program has shown me that academic education does not solve any of the political problems. I mean we can also look at other countries and see highly educated populations still not question their governments.
Learn by Doing, Then by Thinking
Collaboration is orthogonal to the software being free though. You're free to make a fork and accept (or not) any contributions you want to - not just based on your country laws, but also even just on your whim. If the laws prohibit you from collaborating with someone, it's you who's not free, not the software you make.

Also, being able to get newer copies is not an issue from the Free Software definition point of view. All it cares about is whether you're free to do things with a copy you already got.

Don't get me wrong, taking away the ability to collaborate and having to jump through hoops to be able to participate in modern world are real and severe problems - it just has nothing to do with software freedom per se (at least unless you're prevented from sharing the obtained software with someone else).
That only matters for imports. For domestic economy if inflation stays reasonable it doesn’t matter. Print away.
Afghanistan is known as the graveyard of empires. No western country has ever invaded Afghanistan and won. The British failed, the Russians failed, it was no surprise for the US to fail.
Would need to be a privacy-respecting voice assistant. Think we will be waiting a very long time. Besides, Uber is ethically questionable.
Another thing I've started doing that works for me is removing a page from the history on my browser. It's easy to mindlessly browse something like reddit when I can just type 'r' and hit enter because the browser autocompletes sites in my history, but even the 1 second it takes to type out 'reddit.com' gives my brain time to realize there's nothing in particular I wanted to look at, and I was just going there out of habit because I was bored.
And violate AT&T's copyright? Perish the thought!
The Well Deserved Fortune Of Satoshi Nakamoto (2013)
I don’t think they’re replacing pretend play. My kids just played Minecraft for an hour, and are now engaged in making “tables” by stacking bean bags on each other then jumping on top of them. My 5 year old has a pretend language, even.
It’s just the artist’s opinion. They were going for something, and the blender-rendered version was not it. When it comes to stylized graphics, there’s no such thing as “better”
But left + right in Python is already syntactic sugar for calling left.__add__(right) and, if that returns NotImplemented, calling right.__radd__(left). So, replacing node.right + node.left with node.right.__add__(node.left) does nothing except sacrifice Python’s built-in fallback handling.
No idea what you’re responding to and if you’re even responding to the right person.
"Help help I'm being suppressed!"
This doesn't work on Overleaf, but locally this setup has saved me quite some time:

% Tikz caching (use make -f main.makefile to rebuild figures).
\usetikzlibrary{external}
\tikzexternalize[mode=list and make,prefix=tikzcache/] % Comment out this line to disable caching.
\newcommand{\includetikz}[1]{%
\tikzsetnextfilename{#1}%
\tikzpicturedependsonfile{#1.tikz}%
\input{#1.tikz}%
}

I would have all Tikz sources in a tikz/ directory, and include them where needed using e.g. \includetikz{tikz/foo}. Then the above would add an extra step to the compilation (make -f main.makefile), but in return all images would only be recompiled as necessary and otherwise included as a cached .pdf.
Please don't take HN threads further into tedious flamewar.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Pyroflatulence
Using one. Care to elaborate?
Russia isn’t Western; the rule is more general than you have stated.
London Retrospective Takeaways
That is true. I know many people who had to endure several days of no taste/smell and a cough in order to get it.
Ahhh I love this. I tried to do something like this for an app I built for self-reflection. Basically anytime FB or Twitter would send me a notification on Android, I would have the phone also send a notification for iFeelio and ask if I would rather check in with myself than with others. It seemed to work for a while, by I was really dancing around Android permissions and I don't know if that's still possible today on Android, and most certainly not on iOS.