skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So this can help parents and kids with mobile games, but let’s talk about the elephant in the room of the games we ourselves are addicted to or our kids keep coming back to play.

When I was a teen I was addicted to World of Warcraft. I played for a few years before quitting. My grades dropped, my social life was hurting, and all for just in game items? I remember how worried my parents were about my screen time and the lengths they went to try and limit it.

Some of my best friends continue to play to this day and keep telling me that they are bored with it and will quit next expansion. They are now re-playing the same game over like they did with me a decade ago as it’s now a “classic” version.

How do we help people get help they desire when these games create almost a combative, intervention needed type of situation?

There’s https://www.restartlife.com/ and other similar types of websites out there to help, but I feel like the problem is the dark patterns already have a hold on one’s behavior to the point where only that person can be the agent of change or a major event happens in their life to spark the change.
A company that does not grow can still share profits with the owners, so it makes sense also for not growing companies to stay on the stock market, so people can buy/sell these future profits.
Apart from the fact that I include Apple Notes in this... yeah.

(Mostly because it is suitably ubiquitous -- it's an operating system feature for me.)

As I consider moving to a more low-budget dev environment again I do question whether I need to jump the remaining step to text files in some cloud storage. But I'd want immediate background sync (not having to wait for the note to arrive on a device or explicitly fetch it).
i wanted to save with a single click and keep a link to the referring page . you can check at https://pinplz.com
Lua with LÖVE [0] or LÖVR [1] is fine for many types of games though, even though Lua is a language with GC. Most of the heavy lifting is still done in low level languages like C or C++. And it should be easy to write performance critical parts in C/C++ anyways, if needed.

I suspect LÖVE / LÖVR would perform better than Java for games, but haven't tested or verified myself.

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[0]: https://love2d.org

[1]: https://lovr.org
> but as both a smoker and a former FB employee equating them is a stretch.

We shouldn't equate them. Facebook can scale out its ability to do harm in ways that Big Tobacco couldn't even dream of.
Sociopaths are not uncommon as people think. They think sociopaths are “mad killers” but they’re just people who don’t feel remorse when ie lying and have little to no empathy. I’ve met mild sociopaths who were just bankers who would never even think about second order and third order effects of what they were doing. It’s not some kind of rare condition.

I heard the figure was 1 in 30 but 1 in 20 is close enough.
The better feature is that it is also irreversible.

Irreversible contracts with holes that you cannot dispute in a court of law.
From a technical (software) perspective, what you say aligns as well - I would claim that Facebook has done very little in terms of actual innovation of their core product since their popularity in early 2010s. I want you to think of a snapshot of facebook.com in 2010 where there wasn't much interactivity on the site and everything relied on good 'old hyperlinks and compare it with its present state - where everything is a clusterfuck of react components with unpredictable behaviour.

What I mean by that is - random disappearing newsfeed elements, and random exposé of page admins' personal accounts while commenting on something, bizarre disappearance of comments, loading signs everywhere and for everything and what not.

Sure, one can argue their investment into ReactJS could be considered as innovation. But, look at the business side of things - What value has ReactJS ACTUALLY provided to the site NOW compared to what it was in 2010? Not much.
In 2010, Facebook was this minimalist website where you could add people and post stuff on each others' walls and yeah, occasionally message them. Today, it is a beast that is tons of megabytes downloaded to your computer on the first page visit with a "Messenger platform" - which is just rebranded basic messaging functionality and the clusterfuck that is "Facebook business suite" which is an unnecessarily complicated garbage UI for basic page admin functionality and their "Ads Platform" whose feature set various with where and how you use it. Not to forget Facebook's screwing up of m.facebook.com (the mobile site) where it is barely usable now and with half the features not working (eg. links in stories). Oh, and did I mention about Facebook Lite, Facebook App, Pages App, etc etc. and none of them look like a complete, polished product.

Facebook is a classic case of a taking a good product and screwing it up with needless complexity to the point where the core product is unusable. All this Meta push is just a nail in the coffin for users like me who have had enough - whose expectation wasn't much - just to stay in touch with friends and family. Sometimes, innovation could be as simple as maintaining a stable, core value proposition. I am noticing a lot of people around me are switching back (anecdotal observation) to plain old websites and blogs to express their thoughts and I love that.

I for one, can't wait for the downfall of Facebook, so we can go back to less bloated non-react-vue-js powered SPAs and just back to bare hyperlink powered static webpages :)
Also the legitimate interest abuse was also ruled against. Many of these claim legitimate interest so they have a second set of options you need to untick or click "object" to individually. This isn't valid consent as not giving consent is harder than giving it, and per the ruling isn't valid legitimate interest as the companies did not conduct an adequate balancing of the user's interests vs the businesses and when the DPAs did so they did not find the company's interest outweighed the user's privacy interests.
NFT scammers tried selling songs from John Lennon, Disney, and Nintendo
Possibly interesting trivium: automated debugging was first described in 1982, in Ehud Shapiro's PhD thesis titled "Algorithmic Program Debugging" (it's what it sounds like and it can also generate programs by "correcting" an empty program):

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

Of course all this targeted only Prolog programs so it's not well-known at all.
I didn't have facebook for the last few years and I was wondering if I'd have to come back to it to be able to access local news/info. Never happened and never needed to. It's true though that in some countries that's the primary communication channel for businesses and even governments unfortunately.
Apple kinda gets the cash. They get my money for being the only company who goes out of their way to not know anything about me.
Most people are not nerds like us and prefer to interact with people in person. They cook dinner, they make babies, they read, they play with their dog. They use computers for work. Then you have the gamer segment.

VR games are generally casual / active. Not playable in most apartments due to space needed. Most gamers are into either shooters, dark souls style games, or moba-style games. And action/rpg - which is great in VR, but there are also only a couple of them.

Metaverse? Live in VR? Why? You can live in real life. People have other things to worry about.
> Why is no one ever like “ByteDance is a drug cartel”?

Why are you so sure about that? Both are harmful, Facebook is bigger.
> much worse

For the ‘industry’, that is.
>Why is no one ever like “ByteDance is a drug cartel”?

Because defending Facebook ( whether part of it or as a whole ), will be an extremely unpopular opinion on HN.

1. No one knows ByteDance, only TikTok.

2. No one on HN uses TikTok much. The demographics / target audience are child and young adult. Like SnapChat. So it is not on their Radar.

3. HN for the past 10+ years have been hating Facebook, it is borderline a cult. Trump era has turned this up to eleven.

4. They all think Facebook is the root cause of misinformation and spread. It is why the community or country is divided. It needs to be destroyed. Which is a strange take because I think twitter is far worse.

5. So Anything but Facebook, if TikTok will destroy Facebook, they will gladly side with TikTok, even though ByteDance the company is Chinese.
Well to be honest, things on arxiv are not properly speaking “papers” in the academic sense. At least in Maths.
How I built a daily podcast from the posts on my favorite subreddit r/SaaS?
> That IBM sold the PC subsidiary was the worst mistake the could ever have done

That was years and years after they had already committed "the worst mistake they could have done", which was not buying Microsoft early on when they had the chance. This should be immediately obvious, as you're here complaining about people confusing Windows with PCs. After that, their failure to secure exclusive rights to Intel's x86 chips, their inability to keep up with all the clones on the market, and the missteps of the PCjr and OS/2, the eventual sell off the PC hardware business was inevitable.
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A fish rots from the head.
All Facebook needs to do is to outbid Google and become the default search engine on iOS.
>So you are well versed in multipath reflection and why it makes unassisted GPS in urban environments with tall buildings close together almost completely unusable?

Yes, a common problem even for static measurements. Yet it worked with 'dumb' gps navigations. Btw - it's not just a p roblem in urban evirorments, especially for phase measurements - you shouldn't do precise measurements near the trees.

Just to illustrate when doing a phase measurement, under good HDOP constellation, next to the forest we barely could achieve an accuracy of half meter using Leica 1200. We measured the same reference point using total station and neighboring network of reference points.

For a reference, you could easily get sub 2cm accuracy, although below 10cm was a minimum target for that job.

>If you want to build an early 2000s Garmin competitor, sure. But people don't buy $1,500 pocket computers every 18 months to keep doing the same thing.

Sure, but it isn't a CORE REQUIREMENT for the service to function. you can degrade it, and have it work pretty well, without requiring all users to submit other tracking data sources.
Great point. Hadn't thought of the accelerators like that - we're fortunate to have our first employees willing to work without needing much cash and we can self-fund for awhile, so we didn't think accelerators were necessary.
I personally think that Ma Bell-era regulatory infrastructure isn’t equipped to deal with modern tech giants, but I don’t think that hyperbole is assertions shorn of an argument for a better idea add much to the discussion.
If Apple can say, "Go out of business, Facebook", they're a monopoly.

Even more so if they do it with the flip of a switch instead of new and novel products.
probably not. if your into old school console rpgs ya(even remastered version). probably if your into anime as well to an extent.
I remember being disappointed when they dropped the college requirement. But I do think that was the right decision. You'll only ever scale so much by only enrolling .edu users.
> Anyone remember that Next Big Thing was supposed to be 3D TVs?

No. I remember TV companies pushing it since it was cheap for them to include and they hoped people would think of it as the "Next Big Thing", but consumers and especially reviewers during the aughts saw right through it.

Even in the 90's I remember it being seen as a short-lived novelty more than anything: https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1997-05-02-970502...

Regardless what you think of VR I think there are clearly far more bulls than 3D TV ever had.
GNU C Library 2.35
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Plenty of American HN commenters agree with the mega-corporations in these threads, including at least some not employed by them
Well my point is that AFAIK 13-year olds are more impressionable than adults. Right?
I'll look at adding actual screenshots from the product, thanks for the feedback.

I will reduce the animations as well.
Good, I am happy fb is tanking.
Swift is technically not a language with GC I believe. It's probably using reference counting like Objective-C before.
This result is well worth a meme.

https://opensea.io/assets/0x495f947276749ce646f68ac8c2484200...
So if transferring cryptocurrency isn’t free, then how is it ever going to replace cash, theoretically? Right now I can buy a coffee for cash and the exchange of currency is free if I hand over the bills right then and there.
I guess the alternative would be to actually transact on the exchange instead of the blockchain? But then we’re just back to centralized banking?

What’s the ideal scenario here? Transactions on chain eventually become free and then we truly have a useful distributed currency?
As others in this thread have pointed out, some of those proofs involve calls to high-power decision procedures, so I was curious to see if as a baseline, could Z3 solve the problems in the blog post with no guidance?

For 5/6 of the problems, Z3 solves them automatically and instantly, with the same problem encoding as the problems in the post. (Problem 2 involves factorial, so that one can't be straightforwardly translated to Z3.)

Code: https://gist.github.com/anishathalye/0d5cd359adcde85fac6bf76...
Apple doesn’t even have a monopoly in any market they participate in.

Additionally you’ll be hard pressed to find someone who will say opt in tracking is a bad idea.

The larger argument is that the vast majority of high value companies probably should not exist today.
How are "Coinjoined" transactions [1] able to be definitively traced to any one individual?

Every coin-mixing event can be interpreted 1,496 different ways. With each cycle increasing interpretations exponentially. "Every Whirlpool is structurally sound with 100% maximum entropy; Never cycling with yourself; Never cycling previously seen coins together; Never any deterministic links between inputs and outputs; And never any address reuse."

The authors of this coinjoin protocol use Boltzmann analysis to determine 1,496 possible linkages.

[1] https://kycp.org/#/323df21f0b0756f98336437aa3d2fb87e02b59f19...

[2] https://samouraiwallet.com/whirlpool

If everyone starts doing this, will all coins eventually become tainted? I don't see a way out of this problem.
My take: fb failed as a social network. Its a data sink you put stuff in but you can't get anything out. You cannot represent real social networks in fb. In real social networks you have different social circles and a different name. Facebook devides the world into friends and public, you yourself have one identity only, and that's not a good model for mapping real social networks into digital ones.
During the pandemic when we all really needed social networking fb failed to map your local bars social network onto fb.com.

If they focused on being a social network tool, instead of eating competition so they are _the_ (only) social network, people might increasingly use their products.

But they give nothing back.
Whoops fixed that typo lol. As I've said with others i'll put in more actual screenshots rather than those stock images.
For tech people (like the ones who post here), it should be fairly obvious.
I am not clear which switch Apple can flip to put Facebook out of business. I assume Apple can delete Facebook from the App Store, but that would be just as consequential to Apple as to Facebook.

Also, it would seem self evident that Apple’s ability to influence Facebook comes from having a novel product, that people like to use compared to the alternatives.
> Some people get sick using vehicles in real life, and they still tolerate it for the most part.

I’d say getting around has more utility than being in the metaverse.
In Soviet Russia, mathematicians, physicists, etc came to the same conclusions as their enemies in the USA.

However, the social science results, although unified in each country, were almost always different and in conflict.

Social sciences are politics and nothing more. It’s an opinion of how the world ought to be.
So, I just want to be sure that I got what you mean.

If my app (or whatever) just include what I think is good because users are idiots and I know better than them, then, my app will only attract idiotic users (or attract smart ones, but they'll behave like the idiot one)?

Using the parent example, if I'm an idiot user (or one behaving like that) I wouldn't want a slider that allows me to select the range I want, but I would want a specific button labeled 10-12? Or I wouldn't even want one, because the app creators know better than me?

And in the last paragraph, it's about letting users go on a journey from novice to expert using your app if they want? Like using a tooltip on an icon showing how to the same using a keyboard shortcut.
You make very valid points and I appreciate your input as it echo's many of my issues.
I've yet to hear anyone who bought a Tesla say they didn't realise what they are getting. Searching HN there are 600 linked articles on Tesla self driving. It's not really a secret.
I agree with some of your points but the misinformation one is tricky. Absent Menlo Park getting hit by a meteor, trying to increase FB’s obligation around controlling misinformation is a net increase in like Zuck’s personal editorial power right?
The binary search in a case statement is annoying for stack machines like this. How would implementing your own jump table as a hashmap to functions perform here vs a case statement? I'm guessing the function calls make it a lot slower as you mention in the comparison with the tree walking.
One thing I forgot to mention - and this could be completely wrong thinking, but we're tring not to scorch the earth and hit up every VC possible. Our "great idea" - we are sensitive to getting to market as quickly as possible and are somewhat concerned a VC may take the idea and try and implement with an existing portfolio company. Perahps a paranoid concern and it may be unrealistic to expect to keep things secret while attracting a great investor - any thoughts on that would be appreciated as well.
Show HN: Emergency softlight for late night video calls
This has kind of a weird backstory, but in short, I am doing later and later video calls and needed a way to offset the blue tint of my laptop camera, so I hacked a quick web page to use my monitor as a softlight.

Might not be suitable for all skin tones, and is a 30s hack that turned into a 15m one, so YMMV.
Man, there’s a few of you left holding a random stock after a pump and dump you fell for faded. That’s it. That’s the reality. And somehow this has morphed into “we didn’t miss it !“, and then lastly into “this is war and we will take down the global financial system”.

Total nonsense, but entertaining in a car-crash kind of way.
I don't think we could say they walked away yet. Cashing that money is going to be much harder than the hack itself imo. They might have already compromised themselves if any of their interactions with the
contract, including past interactions when they were still experimenting with the exploit, was not properly annonymized (used tor + vpns + public internet Hotspot).

There are a few companies that specialize in tracking blockchain hackers. Not to mention law enforcement.
There are similar snarky comments in some politics threads. I'm not pro-cryptocurrency, but this is how you identify HN groupthink. "Cute", "jaded", snarky comments. I mostly just downvote instead of confronting HN's groupthink.
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41 years of no Twitter here. Feels great. Never have to waste time sorting through a firehose of information to find one drop of something useful. Never have to deal with the terrible UI and UX. If anyone's armchair comedian one liners is good enough, a friend will send me the link .
The paper does not discuss chemistry or biology. The paper discusses statistics.
> given enough time the entire crypto space will have reinvented every regulation they tried to get rid of and understood why they existed in the first place

Right, but they have to get through the robber baron and feudalism phases first.
Very interesting! As a social scientist, the replication crisis gets me seriously down, making me doubt the integrity of my field. It's good to see that there's not such a problem in maths...
Foolish 60hz peasant, why aren't you aiming for 240hz? Get your crap done in 4ms!

I play a lot of games, from PC to console to mobile to handheld to VR, I really don't get these kinds of takes. Until games from indie to AAA fix their existing loading and stuttering and microstuttering and various other issues, clutching pearls over GC non-determinism seems so silly. There's no GC to blame for why you can stare at a static scene with a can in a console AAA game under development for 6 years in a mature engine and see its shadow flicker on and off. I find it hard to believe we'd be in a much worse situation if GC languages were even more prevalent. Part of this is that there's already a lot of sources for non-determinism in a C++ engine that can cause issues including frame slowdowns. Of course with effort you can eliminate or bound a lot of it, though the same is true for GC'd languages. Real-time GCs have been a thing for decades but sure you probably aren't using one, nevertheless you can often tweak a non-real-time GC in useful ways if you need to -- or as is mentioned every time this topic comes up, do the same thing you'd do in C++ by allocating big pools ahead of time and reusing things (i.e. not making garbage). Memory management is not the hard part of making a game, though the more complex and demanding the game or constraining the hardware the more you'll need to consider it regardless of language, and change up what's idiomatic when programming in that language.

Not that it matters, because any positive t is going to mysteriously always be too much, but the 1ms number is really underselling ZGC. Maximum of 1ms pause times was the goal, in practice they saw a max of around 0.5ms, an average of 0.05ms (50us), and p99 in the above-linked article of 0.1ms (100us). A more interesting complaint would be the amount of memory overhead it needs. Tradeoffs are everywhere.
TikTok turns it up to 11 in my experience. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube all started off with a mechanism where you choose whose content to view through following/subscribing/friending. Over time, this was de-emphasized in favor of algorithmic recommendations, but it's still a strong signal. On the other hand, following on TikTok feels like an afterthought - it really aggressively recommends content based on the slightest interest. TikTok's algorithm is strikingly good at identifying what you like and keeping you there. YouTube also tries this, but it seems to be less effective at it and just degrade to showing you videos for the extremes of your political leaning rather than say, how effectively TikTok figured out what I find physically attractive.
Got it I've heard other say this feedback. I'll look at changing the graphics
> If everyone starts doing this, will all coins eventually become tainted? I don't see a way out of this problem.

Indeed, if everyone started doing this (or everyone started using Zcash with z-addrs), then you might be able to get away with it. But that's not where we're at today.

Try signing up to Coinbase and funnel $320M worth of ETH via that account. They will 100% lock your account and ask for proof of where it comes from. If it comes from after doing a bunch of tumbling, they will go harder against you to prove where it comes from. Any big exchange will do the same diligence as otherwise they themselves will get into trouble with the law.
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