skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's unfortunate to hear... Accurate metadata matters to both the artist and the consumer, as you experienced yourself. I feel the need to shamelessly chime in with this because of how random this is, seeing our name on Hacker News: I'm one of the founding guitarists of VERIDIA and yes, the music is rock.
Assuming your children are not 17 ...
I was disappointed by how much of the previous discussion [1] avoided what (in my reading) was the most interesting point -- the absolute situated and interactive nature of development which almost no other language/system supports. (Hell, it was even in the damn title!)

It would be really nice to see a thorough discussion focusing on that.

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In the spirit of the author's desire to "get weird", I’m struck by how often people’s choice of programming languages (and tools, more generally) is from a defensive stance. I understand that when working on problems where better technology is unlikely to lead to significant advantages (so you’d prefer to cap the potential downsides), but I’m still surprised by the sheer paucity of examples where people are willing to make aggressive technology choices to get leverage on their goals, and solve interesting & worthwhile problems.

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[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28345617
I wonder if this is a similar effect as the “classic white marble” impression of Greek & Roman architecture - we have an entire aesthetic (both artistic and cultural) built off of the “purity” of the white marble remains; meanwhile it turns out in their time they were garishly colored and decorated because the Greeks and romans, like all other humans, actually enjoyed living in places and looking at things.
Had this happen to me at my first official dev job. Had 'junior developer' in bold at the top in my resume, application, and in several emails to the hiring manager. Got hired, and quit within 2 months. Manager would become upset at times over knowledge gaps I had as a result of being a junior, and the solution they came up with was for me to dedicate my weekends to unpaid, self-directed training.

At some point I actually reminded the manager that I was a junior, which resulted in them acting shocked and saying something to the effect of "well, let's hope that's not the case", and was basically flat out told they have no time for a junior. This was the manager who interviewed me, read my resume, and recommended me for the position.

I was replaced by a university undergrad student on summer break when I quit. I don't think people realize how the problem here often isn't you. Organizations with deep dysfunction are more common that you'd like.

Happy ending though. Got a new position the week I quit, and all turned out well.
Depends how fast you go :)
Do you have any links on the topic you could share? Very interested in learning more! I am a bit of a precision positioning and fleet data collection wonk.
> You can't persuade skeptics by not addressing (simply omitting) some most important concerns…

You're making a couple assumptions here which don't hold true in practice. (1) That "skeptic" concerns are uniform. Those may be your important concerns, but they're not for others. (2) That you'll be able persuade "skeptics" by logically addressing their concerns. You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into.
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I've used the whole citadel stack. It's fun. And i really enjoyed using it in text only cli bbs mode. In the end, since it was src install at the time, couldnt get the others (tm) to support. So, we went for sogo.
Because anyone who knows the actual history, knows that's bullshit and OP could have just looked up the facts instead of making up something.

Japan was going to fight to the last man/woman/child. They were going to have seniors and children fight with sticks. The Pacific theater was already one of the bloodiest battle fronts in the war and the US was battle weary and didn't want to expend another 500,000 Americans to invade Japan. They dropped nukes to avoid another extended and unbelievably bloody conflict.

Go listen to the Hardcore History podcasts "Supernova in the East" and it'll make it much more clear.
Related note: with systemd you are probably better off using its OnCalendar facilities. There is even a tool called 'systemd-analyze', which can be used for verifying the correctness of your OnCalendar timespec:

$ systemd-analyze calendar "*:11/5" --iterations 3
Original form: *:11/5
Normalized form: *-*-* *:11/5:00
Next elapse: Mon 2021-08-30 23:21:00 EEST
(in UTC): Mon 2021-08-30 20:21:00 UTC
From now: 47s left
Iter. #2: Mon 2021-08-30 23:26:00 EEST
(in UTC): Mon 2021-08-30 20:26:00 UTC
From now: 5min left
Iter. #3: Mon 2021-08-30 23:31:00 EEST
(in UTC): Mon 2021-08-30 20:31:00 UTC
From now: 10min left
Thank you, You made a nice suggestion, "helping people finding affordable healthcare"
This might just be the most hard to read article I've ever seen.
Thanks that's a great link.
That one invaded the capitol and tweeted that.

She will not face any jail time and pay a fine of a few hundred dollars and that's it.
Why are so many doctors burning out? Tons of real and electronic paperwork
The Americans travelling through Canada to "go to Alaska" certainly weren't acting in good faith
I left Facebook years ago and have no reason to go back. I can share photos and videos with friends and family easily enough. Most of the online relationships were pretty superficial as well, so I don't need them anyway.

Facebook does have some value, but it seems like the signal to noise ratio is very low. I'm not sure how rare my case is though. How many people in there 20-40s feel the same?
Live like a monk – the key to success
What exactly am I supposed to do with a phone call?

(a) I cannot trust that it is who it claims to be, due to the last 2-4 years of caller-id / scam attacks

(b) I can't authenticate many shared secrets with the caller because most of my life details are probably now exposed via data breaches (and thus "open secrets")

So no, there's no reason for me to believe anything a telephone call claims to be from or what the voice on the other end of the phone says they are. Why pick up at all?

Authentication of legitimate official business is, in my opinion, the big problem of this decade.
I'm using Nextcloud for calendar and tasks, and I keep notes in plain markdown files that are also synced with Nextcloud. On Android I use Nextcloud Notes, Nextcloud Tasks and https://github.com/Etar-Group/Etar-Calendar

These are by far the best note and calendar apps I've used. Far better than Google's options. Apple's reminders are a bit better than Nextcloud Tasks, but the only feature I'm sorely lacking there is repeating tasks. Google doesn't support this either, which leads me to believe that it's a shortcoming of the CalDav spec for tasks.
I love org mode and use it all the time, but I still occasionally blow up my file with inadvertent vim commands! Yes I know I am a weirdo for using eVil mode :)

The most common mistake I make is having caps lock on and hitting J a bunch which merges all the lines together.
The era of leaded petrol is over, eliminating a major threat to health
How do you say and/or spell out parentheses?
I'm a little surprised nobody has mentioned Zim:

https://zim-wiki.org/

From their site:

" Zim can be used to:

Keep an archive of notes
Keep a daily or weekly journal
Take notes during meetings or lectures
Organize task lists
Draft blog entries and emails
Do brainstorming"

Zim itself is a good desktop application and Markor is a good mobile client for it. Sync can be done via nextcloud, dropbox etc. I'm not 100% on the state of the windows support, but I use it daily and it is great. It coexists nicely with version control, too.
AOL never had the reach of Facebook, even adjusted for era, population, anything really.

HN has been predicting Facebook's demise for years, and it keeps getting bigger, making more money, etc etc.

Despite what you might think, Facebook isn't a giant Nuremburg Rally that will impale itself on race hate and political polarization...that's just the twisted worldview you're imposing on it.
> Alcohol is an addictive, psychoactive, carcinogen. The difference between drugs and “online game time” is pretty stark from my perspective.

Requires elaboration. When "online game time" is intentionally designed to be addictive, its affects on addicts need to be critically examined - loss of physical fitness, loss of social fitness, loss of motivation, agoraphobia. That both can be consumed responsibly in small quantities does not preclude that addiction is a serious problem and too often not treated like a serious problem in Western countries.
> With spam callers ringing off the hook now

It’s gotten really bad for me in the last few months. I get at least 5 spam calls per day, starting at 7:30am.

Most of the calls are from real estate companies/agents who have the wrong number and are trying to reach the owner of some property. Around 80-90% of the calls are from area codes in Texas (have no idea why, I’ve never has anything to do with that state).
I have definitely lamented how easy it is for my kids' generation to play games, compared to the memory optimization techniques I had to employ to even get them running ;)

> Ooh, if I LH the mouse driver and allocate a little more EMS it should work, but don't forget to load DOS=high,umb!
The vast majority of depressed people do not demonstrate symptoms of gaming addiction. Even if one were to accept the argument that gaming addiction is always caused by underlying depression, that doesn't mean it shouldn't be considered separately from garden variety depression - there is often a nasty positive feedback loop between depressive symptoms and addictive symptoms. Besides, psychiatry in general needs to be increasing the precision of its definitions if we are going to get anywhere with new treatments.

Ironically, depression is often caused by other underlying disorders (e.g. Autism), yet if the symptoms are met there will be a comorbid diagnosis, rather than saying that depression is just a symptom. It can be difficult to disentangle cause and effect for a lot of comorbid diagnoses, and also many existing treatments address symptoms rather than causes. So the distinction you are making hardly exists in the field at large (at this time).

As for the deeper question, "could an otherwise healthy person develop gaming addiction?", I'm inclined to answer yes. It of course depends on how you define "otherwise healthy", as I'm sure we could identify genetic risk factors for gaming addiction, and I bet they will correlate with risk factors for addiction, ADHD, etc. However I've certainly seen people who were functioning well but perhaps a bit bored at school/work or a bit anxious in social situations take a complete nose dive when they got hooked on the "right" game.

I'm curious if you would say the same thing about gambling addiction?

Edit: just to add I am 100% against anything like what China is doing. I think we need more resources to help those who are spending more time gaming than they would like, which involves recognizing it as a legitimate issue. I also wouldn't mind some restrictions on the tactics game companies can take to make their games addictive, although the details of that would require careful consideration.
I suspect they will have to start verifying caller origins or people will stop using phone services. If there are online communication channels that do a better job of verification they will win market share. Phone companies will become a data pipe supplier. There isn't a lot of money in that, outside of monopolistic practices.
Faraday Invented the Electric Motor, his mentor accused him of plagiarism
While I don't mind the regular vaccine (no different than flu), the restrictions are worrying.
That is a service many would want in the US as well though.
Intern at a place that isn't hiring with ads like that.
this needs to be one of the highest rated comments squarely due to how much luck (or gruelling prep) is involved in effectively memorizing answers, i.e. the issue with technical interviews to begin with.
> Don't try to argue that perfection is necessary - it isn't Security is an economic good, with a price, and a value. When value exceeds price, implement the security. Otherwise, live with it.

Turns out not everything is operating under market dynamics; unless you’re willing to put a price tag on election integrity, which is a public good. Especially in comparison to existing alternative implementations.

Perfection is a strawman, you are not even arguing for elasticity depending on the attack vector, you’re arguing for a backdoor selective to the identity of the intruder.
AWS official SDK for Swift alpha release
Why is Hacker News still downvoting me and not allowing conversation?
Please, can anyone explain how my comments and critiques are not being fairly treated? They are all auto downvoted even though I make fair assessments. If I don't, fine, let the crowd downvote me. But why do the mods and Hacker News use bots and artificial down votes instead of outright bans? It is like they are trying to drive a different consensus that they like better than allowing what the crowd would naturally let rise or fall. It's censorship full tilt in my opinion on a site that proudly boasts the America notion of free speech and right to not be censored. I guess they mean government censoring, but they can censor citizens how they like.
Try to travel to the US or another developed country. Observe what's popular that you don't have, and then figure out how to bring it back.
China set to begin first trials of molten salt nuclear reactor using thorium
Do you know where to buy FLACs for classical music? I would love to pay money for good quality music to put on my computer without having to buy physical CDs.
I have family and friends who work in the game industry, and I can tell you it is none of the above.

Here is the answer: Crappy gatcha games and skinner boxes branded with a popular IP marketed towards kids are:

1. Much easier to make

2. Makes A TON MORE MONEY.

A gatcha game is basically a slot machine, which is basically a website with a fancy front-end. This means you can shovel out these games with low-skill labor, make your money, and then re-skin the same website with another property.

A lot of the gaming companies that used to be owned by a visionary leader are now owned by VC firms that don't give a shit about games, they give a shit about the money machine.

So they produce the same crap over and over again, employing behavioral psychologists to develop the most addicting loop possible.
true, there are a lot of problems but its easier to build from an existing solution present in developed countries. Some Nigeria problems have solutions in developed countries.
>...So the sensors could be trained to detect such local distortions, almost like some fish have a lateral line ...

Turns out, this has been modeled already (2007):

[1]:https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Fish_Navigation_System_Re...
Somehow, delta got from India to the US, so clearly those settings and testings aren't sufficient
There was like 3 sentences to that article that were actually useful news. The rest of it is written like an 8 year old full of sugar and caffeine and trying to "meme" like the cool kids.

Beyond that, yes. I'm significantly over this demographic specified, but my phone is on mute permanently. It's never set to ring loudly unless its a very special circumstance. I also use silence unknown calls (iOS). It's really hard to get a hold of me via the phone. My work phone goes direct to voicemail specifying to email me instead.

One thing to keep in mind that assists in this change, more recently, is the explosion of smart-watch-like devices. If you've got Android Wear, Fitbit or Apple Watch - your wrist vibrates you and tells you who's calling. Very hard to miss and no need to ring.
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And if that wasn't bad enough, then they banned Winnie The Pooh
The ringing is important for a reason not mentioned in this article. My primary use of calling is to locate the phone that my wife or kids have misplaced -- if they didn't have a ring tone then we couldn't easily find their missing phones!
"You see my son, these children with limited human rights..."
This has certainly soured my view of the Elementary OS project. Someone has created a project to help himself and other users and chose an obvious name for it, then a representative from the company behind it wants the name changed and threatens legal action if they don't?

Regardless of the actual trademark status at hand, they decided that they would rather burn a bridge with a dedicated user who spent their free time to improve their product and in a way to provoke fear of legal costs. Why wouldn't he look for supporting data to offset that legal threat?

They're literally abusing the power imbalance in this situation to try to get things done their way, and I don't understand how anyone in here is siding with them?
Facial recognition: https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/9/22567029/tencent-china-fac...
I just send everything to voice mail if I don’t recognize the number. If it’s important enough, they’ll leave a message. Otherwise, well ….
Single player doesn't prevent them from being tied to an online service. Even in America, lots of modern "single player" games don't run without a connection to the internet.

These services could easily institute the same limitations on their SP games; forcing them to do online checks on certain events. They could even be sneaky about it by punishing you if you try to evade the checks somehow by deleting your save game, making the game more difficult, or employing other techniques used to dissuade pirates.

They can also do forced updates on software to fix any exploits, run background services that force kill executables, and a bunch of other stuff. Mobile devices are especially well locked down. It just depends on how badly the company wants to keep kids from playing the games. They just need to make it too big of a pain to worry about for 99.99% of gamers, then report the other 0.01% of troublemakers to the authorities.
I agree with you about China going beyond that.

But now would be a good time to roll back all the temporary 9/11 stuff, if there are any politicians wanting to see some trust lent to talk about 'temporary'. Hard to see a better occasion for it ever coming up, with the 20th anniversary in a couple weeks.

About the WW2 example, I was surprised how much was still on the books and even in continuing 'emergency' use, reading https://www.amazon.com/Crisis-Leviathan-Critical-Government-...
Between the two examples, the historical style feels much more alive, vibrant, dynamic. There's a real energy there.

I went back to the Furtwängler version and it felt like what my mind feels like when my depression kicks in. It's flattened out and lethargic, like it's lost the will to live.

I'm no classical music connoisseur, I rarely listen to it. But the difference is night and day to my untrained ears. One is boring and the other captures my attention.
That is not what I am suggesting, but alas, you seemed to have proven my point. I did not write clearly enough, and behold the outcome. Now imagine if we all do this in a codebase.
I hate phone calls. Just despise. In part, because it requires someone to stop at least part of what they are doing and spend time talking to me.

Messaging? The conversation can go on around other things. Let me know you are playing games and I can set my expectations for responses. Don't get back right away? Well, it probably isn't important and you know I thought about you, and you are free to get back to me when convenient.

When my spouse and I lived on different sides of the atlantic (pre marriage), we could have discussions that transcended sleep and work schedules. Other folks, the discussion just ends, sometimes informally but sometimes in similar ways to phone calls.

I hate video calls too, but I use them occasionally for family since I now live across an ocean, but only if they insist.
> One useful way to make them more accessible is to put the hardware cursor somewhere useful, even if hidden.

You should be doing this anyway to account for hardware terminals where the cursor is always visible, including the traditional VGA/VESA text console that still gets used by default on PC hardware.
Human beings are social creatures and it's a psychological need whether people recognize this or not - and this is still considering some of us are introverts and it takes more out of us to be social.

40-50+ years ago, all the way back to the dawn of man - so most of human history, this conversation would be completely irrelevant.

Technology changes us an individuals and as a society, it's broken our bonds, ruined out communities, destroyed our connections to each other, increased rabid individualism - not just in the political sense but in the sense of consumer identities and lifestyle brands and hyper-specific cultural balkanization and what do we have to show for it?

mass increases in anxiety and depression levels.

The average high school student today has the anxiety levels of a person being seen by professionals for the disorder in the 90s.

As a parent... you are going to project one way or another. I'll project the way that'll more than likely build a stronger, happier, more resilient child.

This love affair with the people who give you likes and retweets being the only ones who really get you, is poison. Relating to digital worlds more than the real one - sitting around for hours upon hours "consooooomnig" digital goods from your phone or laptop, is not life.
I think it was seen as a success since it was the event that turned the war around and led to the eventual victory of the Allies. Sort of a vacuously true type of success, the operation might have failed to meet most of it's objectives (I don't actually know) but that doesn't really matter since it led to "winning" the war.

However, of course, the truism that there are no winners in war remains. No military operation is going to have a low cost of human life, even a successful one.
Interesting. Is it a huge deal if they miss their 30 minutes a day?

I probably allow my kids too much time with screens, but the flip side is that, if they don't have screen access for a few days, they don't really care. They'll read some books or play outside, no big deal. I get wary of setting hard limits on their screen time, because (knowing their personalities) they would then never accept if they didn't get that time for whatever reason, and constantly be trying to make sure they get their screen time, rather than the current state of affairs where missing their screens for a day or two doesn't phase them one bit.
Interesting. Can you give some pointers/examples?
Curious - for meeting availability.

If I have a Google Business account for my company, jim@mycompany.com - and an external client of mine, tom@myclient.com, wants to see my availability, if he adds my external email address as an attendee, will he see my availability?
Thanks, pls keep updating. I need to build a really long list :)
That's just nonsense. There is absolutely no need for UK cattle to be fed soya-based feeds and if finishing lots have recently started using them, it's for a minor percentage increase which might be financially worthwhile but certainly isn't a requirement.
> That's... weird. I mean, I couldn't really imagine one of the 13 colonies not signing the declaration or constitution.

The US Constitution went into effect on ratification of 9 of 13 states. Virginia and New York were numbers 10 and 11, but ratified it before a government under the new constitution was elected. North Carolina waited about a year later to ratify it, and Rhode Island even several months after that (it ratified it only after the United States threatened to embargo them), and consequently were not part of the first government under the new constitution.