skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I mean what else can you really do? Mental health outcomes are a second order effect of FB’s stuff.

I don't think Mr. Zuckerberg can do much, besides pivoting to a new-flagship product which is what he might be trying to do with "Meta".

With FB/IG they are just responding to demand in the market. Maybe there are low hanging ways to make it fundamentally better for mental health, but at a certain point that objective will clash with $ and who know's if it's what consumers want if given the option https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premier_(cigarette)

The government should probably step-in to research and regulate but its more systemic than just FB. Apple/Google don't get their fair share of the blame, they are selling Skinner Boxes as a service to all these companies. It's ridiculous you can't have more control of notifications. If I want to get a notification for a New Message, Tagged in a post or an update from Delivery driver... I have to also let these apps poke me whenever they want to try to get me addicted to their platforms.
Apparently the answer is "it depends on the soil chemistry."

DURABILITY OF REINFORCED EARTH STRUCTURES: THE RESULTS OF A LONG-TERM STUDY CONDUCTED ON GALVANIZED STEEL.
M DARBIN, JM JAILLOUX, J MONTUELLE, and ROMANOFF
Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers 1988 84:5, 1029-1057 https://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/doi/abs/10.1680/iicep.1988... (pay article)

Others here https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=galvanized+soil

The following appear to be true: (1) HDG (or equivalent) has an order of magnitude greater resistance to corrosion in soil than uncoated steel, (2) corrosion rates are highly influenced by presence (or lack) of chlorides, sulfate, and citric acid in the soil, as well as temperature.

Given the above, the suitability of galvanized steel in soil, at standard steel diameters and coating thicknesses, is either suitable (for low aggressivity soils) or non-suitable (for high aggressivity soils) over an example span of 20 years. Tl;dr: test and characterize the soil it's going to be in.
"Big Five Personality Test"

I mean look at it. Its just fluff. I know which personality I want to get, I can easily affect the outcome without trying too hard.

And yet people put huge amounts of value on these tests because they have the veneer of "science" to them. its basically phrenology, but with slightly less overt classism.
It has been pointed out that NFTs have actually been around for a few years, but their rise in popularity coincides with the IRS tightening some rules about using artwork for tax write-offs.
That’s a legal construct. The company owns it (in licensure), but he’s the sole user/operator if it.
I don't get how Blockchain technology is in a publishers/studios interest. Why do they ever want to give up control over revenue streams? And there are simply not enough games with large-enough eco system and longevity (like WoW).

I really want to see pitches that don't contain any hype BS bingo lines to share holders (like me).
Because making it work the way YOU want can be far easier than making it work the way 50, 100, 200 people want. And once they see you as a supplier of thing they'll expect you to give them what they want, because that is how people are.
Your comments are incredibly disingenuous and you're the type of person who would be crying fascism under Trump.
Having a gun to your head is technically a choice too. This is your argument.
Smashing Big Red Button to Leave a Zoom Call
I just got banned from Twitter a couple days ago for the same reason: "platform manipulation and spam". I only occasionally tweet about college football and don't do anything illicit at all. All I can figure is I was banned simply because of the accounts I follow, which included @TrackerTrial among other "controversial" conservative-type political accounts.
Yeah, but in practice that hasn’t been relevant.

It’s important to be cautious, but it’s also important to not be a know-it-all who just because they can think of a limitation of a data collection / statistical method they can suddenly cast doubt on the whole thing, even though people who know much more about it already probably did exactly the same thing.

Finden a limitation of some data is extremely easy. Extremely easy. It will literally always be possible whenever people are working with data about people because this shit is hard. That doesn’t mean you get to name that limitation, cast doubt on something and piss off. That’s unproductive and irresponsible.

These are the facts: incidence is a great leading indicator if some care is taken with it and it’s regularly put into the larger context (i.e. given more vaccinations a higher incidence is possible until things turn to shit). And you can shout data limitations at that central fact until you are blue in the face but it’s still gonna be there and true.
The science is about making inferences and checking how good such predictions match reality. Religion, on the other hand, can at best explain, not predict in any verifiable way. That is, it is about deducting consequences from one’s beliefs.
I think some of us are more sensitive to criticism than others (?). I'm like this. I have several projects that took me forever to showcase due to anxiety of negative criticism.

Advice given to me was to post your projects anyway and don't fret too much about the negative comments: you'll always always get a mix of negative and positive comments, everyone does, so don't take them personally.
It is, most of the time. That's why these outages are such a big deal. Nobody would care if it went out multiple times a month.
Not the same sort of thing as OP's example, but a while ago I found something simple and neat that made me think about code a bit differently. I shared it.

The first few comments were negative — not ideal but certainly okay! — but then the author started getting harassed off-site. I was contacted and immediately deleted the post.

Start to finish, the whole process took maybe 30 minutes, but it was sadly instructive and I think about it every time I submit something here. It's probably made me comment less.
He/she is blocking a head count for a person who would improve the success of our team and our company.

I prefer people who genuinely like to improve our whole environment than not.

Sharing and caring!
This comment is absurd. I cannot for a second fathom how you came to believe so naively that’s productivity increases do not result in lay offs. Seriously how did you come to that conclusion? I’m just curious because it’s so disconnected from reality I can’t figure it out.

Also, your assumption about tooling is 100% incorrect as I myself have written tooling that was saving an org 35k a day, in a single market.
Public vs. Private: Bathroom Edition
I use Youtube Ratings plugin that needs an API key from YT. I heard they're disabling it on Dec 15.

Youtube - please don't be assholes. Leave the API as is.
What I don't quite understand about Ubisoft's NFT offering is that, assuming it actually works and people get onboard with it and NFT items do actually start becoming valuable, wouldn't that mean you'd want to move your valuable NFT assets to a cold wallet? If they're in a cold wallet, you then wouldn't be able to prove you own them to use them in a game. If you keep them in a hot wallet then the game could verify they're still yours, but then you risk someone stealing them if someone finds an exploit in the Quartz code.

Everything about the 'useful' side of NFTs where people actually use them for something promotes bad cryptocurrency opsec. One day someone will steal all the in-game skins and guns and hats or whatever, and there's nothing Ubisoft will be able to do about it. They won't be able to refund people, or replace items, of offer any sort of fix. That will be the end of the whole idea, and if Ubisoft have built it into the heart and soul of all their titles, the end of Ubisoft itself.

It seems like a very high risk strategy. The only logical reason I can think of for them doing it is that someone at Ubisoft has sold the board on the idea, and is essentially running a Tezos pump and dump scheme, and they've made a chunk of change from the 30% increase in the price that this announcement brought.
There is an insult in schools for kids who have default skins in games.

This is basically laughing at kid's being poor, can't stop it. But game producers are actively creating those environments where even if its just cosmetics you are still in a lower caste if not buying into cosmetics.

There are also pattens by Ubi or activation where you are places on server with higher rated player so when they dominate you their characters with weapons and skins are presented in a kill cam. That is to create subconscious idea of getting those to play better.

Thirdly on Valve and buying/selling items. Arcanas are skins in Dota. They are very expensive as its alternative character skin with new voice lines and visuals for skill. Nowdays arcanas are expensive, none tradable/marketable, and more importantly one time exclusive. Its massive FOMO pressure. Back in the day you could buy an arcana and while it costed you a bit you could sell it back at small % loss, not anymore.

Those companies are doing all of it cuz it makes them piles of cash, as those tactics while predatory - do work - and work very well.
> Also, it's absurd to equate what she's done to any form of violent extremism or the Jan 6 rioters -- that's an apples and hand grenades comparison.

Just because the ideology in question is your particular ideology, does not make manipulative radicalization defensible.

I'd wager that most people imprisoned for getting radicalized do so before committing any violent acts.

Especially when we're taking about East Asian nations, where social harmony tends to be valued over personal freedom, relative to the West.
Don't allow Twitter to set cookies, that fixes it completely.
Sigal did not test triple vaxxed.
I do think it's something that needs that be talked about more. No doubt there are people who think that this whole overgrowth of cruft around git is git.

Git is a distributed version control system. It doesn't need servers. That's in fact one of its bigger selling points. If a meteor hits github or gitlab or whatever, it's enough that you have a cloned version of your repo to completely recover. You can set up your own remote on a raspberry pi at home.
One mistake I made was googling the example earworm songs mentioned. And getting one stuck in my head. And this one which isn't on the list. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Zbi0XmGtMw
I do not hate Rust at all as I am completely free in choice of my tools. Reading HN however leaves me with the impression that Rust public is often on a holy quest to declare anyone using languages other than the Rust as infidels.
But even on a syscall level, Linux calls are way more barebones with not too user-friendly struct passings, etc. And due to their obsession with C, it is the same way in user space as well.
And then what? What makes you think the leaders/rulers of our society will then somehow “pay us back”?

You’ll just end up broke and without a job.
On the topic, there was another good post recently on hacking in a new operator to the Go compiler. Yes they rebuild the ^ operator but it's still very illustrative of hacking on the Go project!

https://medium.com/trendyol-tech/contributing-the-go-compile...
We started to share those kind of snippets in Operation manuals and knowledge sharing session.

This helps other people to grow.
He came to our startup once (IncludeOS) and simply asked us what we had problems in, in C++ and what we think about it. Very refreshing. I also won a game of Secret Hitler by denying his veto.
Now you have two ledgers, one of which isn’t distributed
How do we save our freedom? Why is the truth such an apparent threat?

Every day there is more and more of this that I am losing hope.
Ask HN: Is Protonmail Down?
Anybody else unable to login?
Cue "Three Body Problem" trilogy references
The Japanese Pachinko (pinball) market is bigger than the casinos of Las Vegas, Singapore and Macau combined and is dominated by ethnic Koreans like Masayoshi Son of Softbank whose dad was in the pachinko parlor business. This might explain the "gambling" tendencies of Masayoshi Son and Softbank with investments in WeWork and Better.com

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pachinko

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/CEO-in-the-news/SoftBank-Ma...
I don't know the particulars of the situation of course - I imagine there's a big bump in work involved between making a tool useful for its creator and making it idiot-proof for one - but I have observed that as organisations get larger predictable performance becomes much more valuable relative to outstanding performance.
> It's like we're the enemy that the phone is being secured against. I barely have words to describe how much I hate these companies and the way they try to control me.

I’ve had enough of it, too. Ordered a Librem 5 and can’t wait for the day it arrives – so I can finalize my divorce from the Apple ecosystem.

> I wonder why organizations such as GNU aren't working on free software clients for these popular services like WhatsApp and Telegram.

Regarding WhatsApp, it looks like it’s against their TOS, and Meta goes out of their way to detect usage of third-party apps and ban your account [1].

Regarding Telegram: not only do they allow third-party implementations, they even link to them [2]. Besides, Telegram’s own desktop client is FOSS under GPLv3 [3].

[1]: https://www.cultofmac.com/314343/use-a-third-party-whatsapp-...

[2]: https://telegram.org/apps#unofficial-apps

[3]: https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop
No. The argument is that the inter connected web of mycelium is much more significant and crucial than edible mushrooms.

No one is going to die without morels but without the soil food web, we are a dead barren planet. Mushrooms and fungi and mycelium is evidence of a living planet. We need that signal to determine the health and viability of earth.

When I ask for robots on the farm, I am betting against low paid manual labour. When I develop long supply chains and invest in more and more warehouses, I am betting against local manufacturing industries. When I create indoor morels(even amongst all the other wild mushrooms, morels are very special), I am betting against the soil food web of life and cycle of life.
Depends what you're optimizing for. Most people would probably say getting a good start to their career. That means making things, being able to code, pass interviews.

Most beginners would probably quit out of frustration/disinterest. My generalized advice would be then to do whatever to find joy in the task. If its fun, you'll stay longer and learn more. If its just a job, a means to an end, optimizing your time is futile because you'll hate it.
I think rust will also have an effect on C drivers. People will rewrite their code to match safety levels. Even without rust based driver on your system you might benefit without compilation time penalty.
You are talking about prior case law, while I'm talking about likely future trajectory of case law. The constitution protects what the supreme court deems it to protect, within some reasonable interpretation of the text.

There is no text in the constitution protecting abortions either, yet we have the Roe v Wade result.

Here was the finding:
"The Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution provides a fundamental "right to privacy" that protects a pregnant woman's liberty to choose whether or not to have an abortion. This right is not absolute, and must be balanced against the government's interests in protecting women's health and protecting prenatal life. The Texas law making it a crime to procure an abortion violated this right."

I'm sure any rational observer can infer that the result stretches the definition of the wording to reach that conclusion. I am not anti-choice, just pointing out how loose of an interpretation can be used to reach a result.

It's pretty clear to me that if we enter a world where 95% of communication runs through a handful of companies, that right to free speech is meaningless without protections also against sufficiently sized/impactful organizations. There's certainly a way to reach that conclusion using the current text.

A conclusion could be that the government is infringing on the rights to free speech by not adequately protecting the public from large private entities. That's a pretty easy to reason and grasp result.

Let's revisit this comment in a few years. Pretty confident it will play out this way, especially given the current makeup of the court.
They supposedly only enable them when they know the tank is being actively targeted by a missile that the countermeasures are effective against. Supposedly.
Fiat Money... https://youtu.be/hx16a72j__8
"The [deficit] spending is the [inflation] tax" -Ron Paul
Since everyone is trading stories, here is mine: I once worked in a newspaper at the start of desktop publishing (DTP) and Word. They received the news from Reuters (as an example) in some strange format and had two people employed specifically to reformat and correct that text using Word before going to DTP. I wrote a Word macro (more like half recorded, half edited) that did 90% of the work because it was painful for me to see those people speed editing that text over and over again. They were very happy but they begged me not to tell their boss as they were afraid they would loose their job.
I hate this mindset. I’m not trying to make my job and the job of others obsolete. I just want to get paid so I can fuck off and do some other shit I want to do.
I read that whole article and all I came away with was, "Gravitational waves bend space time a little in a phenomenon called gravitational memory." I still have no idea by what mechanism though, other than guesses at some deeper super symmetry.

Can anyone dumb this down a little more for me? What holds on to the deformation? If spacetime can be deformed by a gravitational wave, then how can its original be entirely decided by the amount of and the arrangement of matter nearby. Meaning: if a wave passes by, unless it impacts the arrangement of matter in the locality, then what "holds" the deformation?
I think it was earlier this year. I saw some post on HN about Manjaro + Wayland and decided to try it out. In the end I ditched it due to not being able to do screen sharing.
Well, at least we have cookie banners.
The article claims Microsoft is 'selling the cure' for cybersecurity flaws in its products, but provides literally zero evidence for this statement.

Somewhat disappointing the author expects me to take this core foundation of the article on faith.
Elite hobbies let billionaires pay no tax
For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off from All Human Contact
YT is similar to Coursera, edX, Udacity, etc. in that they all offer tutorial videos. But with YT as a platform, it's the viewer's job to find the best one whereas Coursera and others already review the videos before publishing. Now imagine YT that has enjoyed thousands of additional tutorial videos due to the pandemic and remote classes suddenly stops showing you what other people thought of such tutorials without offering an alternative (such as a "reviewed by YT" badge, etc.) That makes the platform shockingly unusable. I already click on fewer recommended videos and have less incentive to contribute to the platform by clicking the dislike button because I know it will all be for nothing.
Tightening rules does nothing if they aren’t enforced.

Otherwise why did the IRS pay out $30MM in refunds for “Slavery Credits” that had no basis in law?

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/irs-pays-30m-in-slavery-credits...

There are literally thousands of examples of things like this.
I just really hope this thing will not be a bitch to cross-compile. I'm not interested in building llvm + rust in addition to my 5 or so gcc cross-compilers, especially looking at the cadence of rust releases.

So as long as it will be possible to use the system's llvm+rust to build for all 4 CPU archs (at once) I'm currently building my kernels for, I'll probably not be too cranky about rust in the kernel.
and more importantly, they get paid in line with what the tool is worth.
As a young, healthy person you don’t get the flu vaccine to protect yourself, you get it to lessen the chances that you’ll pass on the flu to someone elderly or immunocompromised for whom the flu is often deadly.

This is how vaccines work toward public health. Not by preventing illness in all cases, but by lessening the pool of potential cases to ease the health burden on the population.

It’s good practice as a citizen and a neighbor to get vaccinated.
Curious that you put Consider Phlebas behind Matter (my least favorite, by far). My favorite is probably Look to Windward, closely followed by Player of Games and Use of Weapons.
There seems to be a disturbing lack of interest in figuring out how these people are actually getting poisoned. Will replacing all the lead pipes actually have an effect? Why is it that hundreds of thousands of people in Rhode Island drink water from lead pipes, but only hundreds are poisoned per year? What about other causes, like lead-based paint exposure, or less obvious things like giving your kid 5oz of fruit juice per day[0]? Every non-child pictured in the article is obese and I begin to wonder what their knowledge or interest in nutrition is - I know multiple people who feed their child way more than 5oz of fruit juice per day, even after I told them about heavy metal concerns, because they can't believe that 'getting fruit' can be bad.

https://www.consumerreports.org/food-safety/arsenic-and-lead...
Diagnosing Gender Bias in Image Recognition Systems
My preferred stack is:

- Linux OS

- TCP Cubic

- nftables

- BPF

so i can host my Suricata, Zeek, and Snort.
Having a properly functioning automobile and wearing clothes are not comparable to having shit injected into my body.

Tell me what else I need to be injected with in order to hold a job.
I’m sure there’s plenty of hyperbole in this post, and it's really just more hearsay, but within their lane, I think TrueAnon is reputable enough. https://twitter.com/trueanonpod/status/1468617453718675461

> It was some doofus not at the trials trying to shill his paid sub stack and then tweeting absolute bullshit. As you can imagine, a lot of the 500,000 followers were bots, which is probably why it got suspended. Also we are covering this for Barstool Sports.

(Quote tweeting a Barstool Sports account, so that part’s a joke).

> It had 200k followers the day after it was launched it doesn’t take a damn genius to figure it out!!!
It's also an issue of disrepair.

Any house built in the 70s (or before) in California probably has lead paint. Which is a lot of them - that's when the primary population booms occurred. Those houses aren't being stripped of all paint, instead you need to keep the paint in good condition.
It's a hard problem.

Remediating lead is expensive. The standard appears that you sign an attestation that you don't know there's lead in the house. This leads to a situation where no one actually does any testing.

Lead pipes and contaminated ground have their own challenges, but I was under the impression that the cheap way to remediate lead paint was to paint over it. Is that not the case, or have these places not been painted in 45 years?