skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my experience, first generation happened on BBSs (contemporaneous with usenet, which wasn't on my radar until it was nearly dead). Then came niche community discussion boards and AOL. Then, Geocities and webrings. Friendster came out a few months earlier than MySpace, but they were close enough to be the same generation. By my count, TikTok is sixth generation? I can't help but feel that I'm missing a few; not even considering my anglocentric experience.
There's a concept here to refine... I've thought about something that's perhaps related.

One problem with a lot of modern (online/shared) games is the sense of missing out when you're not playing, or the sense of competition which demands focused attention. Both of those tend to upset life balance.

I have pondered influence based games, somewhat like turn-based, where you aren't able to micromanage play but instead strategize and occasionally provide instructions or goals. Then the game does the playing, and you can observe if you wish. But importantly, for lengthy periods you cannot make changes or influences; so frequent observation wouldn't be rewarding or useful, and you could feel content to go away for a day or two. Then when you return, there's a bit of excitement to discover how things turned out and to plan what goals to modify or add.
Oh you sweet summer child :). Have an upvote just because I'm happy someone managed to avoid it. Did you know Facebook's iOS app has around 18000 classes? Yeah.

Edit: It's actually the iOS app, not the Android app, crazy either way. But yeah in university I was taught the whole "a cat is a feline which is a mammal which is an animal" shtick. Completely useless in the real world.
^^ this

Would add: prestige law and government jobs; trying to be an actor; working at Amazon; working as a chef/cook at most restaurants, esp fancy ones--the list is quite long of "passion jobs" that pay poorly and involve all sorts of abuse people wouldn't put up with at other jobs.
Ahh, that'll do it. Fascinating.
this. if a Google/IG ads team was put on Twitter ads, their revenue and user satisfaction would likely go through the roof
Ooh, like Holedown in a browser.
https://vscode.dev/
Nothing that the typical junior engineer does with OOP can't be done with functions and well organized files. If they can't be trusted to do that well they shouldn't be writing OOP code.
I want to see AirTags built into all mobile Apple devices. iPhone, iPad, remotes. With it's own rechargeable battery, it would be really useful when my silly kid forgets where he left his iPad.
And that was the almost-universal response on reddit and YouTube comments, but are those people more, or less likely to buy an Apple Watch? Maybe not for themselves, maybe for their grandparents? Besides, it's the absolute bedrock of modern marketing, from weight loss pills to perfumes to clothing: when ads depict supposed customers smiling with their families, or going on a date, or being the center of attention at a party, it's the exact same psychological trick, twisting the knife of your insecurities, fears and FOMO, just done more subtly.
https://bytebucket.co

I'm the kind of person that always buys electronics used on eBay, where you can get really powerful but 2-3 years old devices for a few hundred $. And, I find shopping for used electronics elsewhere is still terrible (how good is a 1yo i5 vs a 3yo i7?). So, I made this site to help me in that -- I started scraping eBay listings for laptops, picked out the specs and cross-referenced them to benchmarks.

True to form, I made this early in the pandemic for the fun of it (I'm not even a software dev), then realized marketing is boring and never shared it with anyone. Real life makes me busy, but there's tons of features I want to add eventually. And now I have a very interesting dataset to play around with.
To add to this, anyone can scan an AirTag that they've found, with NFC, and get the serial and last four digits of the owners phone number.
oh that's cool man
Building a New World-Class University with University of Austin Prez P. Kanelos
> I’ll add to the positivity

Thank you!

> Serializable transactions are expensive, and that deserves to be an explicit caveat. Not everyone knows this, and it’s an important thing to put up front.

We've not seen a major difference in our benchmarks (though maybe our benchmarks are wrong :-)). EdgeDB tends to produce very short transactions, so that helps. EdgeDB also knows if your statements are read-only or not, so we have the ability to steer these into a read-only transaction, though this isn't implemented yet.
What do you use as a word processor?
I don't know any Chinese really so I can't comment too much. Taiwan has a syallbary called Bopomofo and PRC has Pinyin but I think those are only really ever used for typing/teaching. Parts of Chinese characters do have a phonetic component typically and from what I've heard this maps better onto Chinese than Japanese where possible sound could have very little or nothing to do with the phonetic component. So you could maybe write another character with that component maybe?
I thought, well it's 2022, how bad can it be?

Well, to anybody else curious, it took 3 messages to find a hard N. I don't even know why anyone would use that word (unless they're openly racist and terribly uncreative at writing).
Thanks for that nostalgia hit. I think I had about 7 or 8 of those, plus a couple that weren't on that page.

Time to look up some 8 bit emulators....
Japan isn't a very good example because their economy has absolutely tanked because of their horrible monetary policy. Japan was in a liquidity trap caused by their low inflation for literally decades which caused their economy to grow barely 1% annually. The reason their unemployment rate is low is because they've been stuck in this rut for literally 30 years, so people have adjusted. That doesn't mean it isn't causing immense harm though. Real wages are literally lower than they were in the early 90s. https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2013/03/09/w...
what about when the abstractions age and a new feature for a system needs the data from the components from another system?

the long term answer is probably a refactor, but what's the common quick fix? copying/duplicating data between component types? systems that examine other components as well as their native ones? merging systems?

asking the hard question... how does it stand up to the unpleasant cases?
Similar route here. I went from VB classic to JScript on the server (and client, so was doing isomorphic JavaScript 19 years ago!) and then to C3 a few years later.
Thank you, that was an aspect I hadn't considered. That said, I'm not sure how much I agree with the conclusion of this particular answer. My understanding is that IP addresses are only considered personal data if they either uniquely identify a person (e.g. a static IP address), or can be joined with additional available data to uniquely identify (e.g. a dynamic IP address logged by somebody who also has logs on the dynamic IP assignment).

In addition, that there is an exception allowing the collection of personal data for legitimate interests without prior consent. While that has been erroneously argued to enable a business model (e.g. Facebook's ongoing collection), server security by applying IP address bans would be be a more solid case [1].

[0] https://www.whitecase.com/publications/alert/court-confirms-...

[1] https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/28603/how-to-satisfy...
I wonder what the %s are of people that lose a device and do not immediately lock it? Is there a large enough market for buying stolen phones that are locked to make them useable again?

Do these people expect to extort a finder's fee? I just don't think "criminal" enough to understand the value of a stolen phone.

> Plenty of folks will take matters into their own hands for a $1,000 device

I was once mugged at gun point and the 2 guys took my wallet/cash/phone. For some stupid reason, I thought it a good idea to kindly ask for my wallet and phone back by convincing them the phone was several generations older, it would be locked as soon as I returned home, as well as any cards in my wallet being canceled. Also, just to avoid the pain in the ass of dealing with the banks and not going to the DMV for a new ID. The 2 guys laughed, and gave me everything back except the cash. To this day, I don't know what made me think that was going to happen. However, as soon as I turned the corner, I was on the phone with 911.
We have data and complex systems. No one, with the exception of Alan Kay, has convinced me that Object Oriented Programming is or was a good idea.

“… Because the problem with object-oriented languages is they’ve got all this implicit environment that they carry around with them. You wanted a banana but what you got was a gorilla holding the banana and the entire jungle.“
—Joe Armstrong, creator of Erlang programming language
Saw this before 4pm today and entered the word I solved at 4:30pm yesterday. Solved in 1. :)
Possibly even by the criminals own devices. It's kind of genius
> HTTPS imports allow a greater detachment from a centralized registry,

I know that the people advocating for this are smart, I know you're being thoughtful about this, so forgive the simplistic question, but every package manager I'm aware of for NodeJS already supports this.

Can't people already import npm dependencies from arbitrary URLs without signing or attaching anything to the npm repository? And the other thought that jumps into my mind is, if people aren't doing that with npm that even though it's well-supported, that might be a signal that there are problems with the model of using arbitrary URLs for dependencies that make it less attractive overall to developers -- and I'm not sure how ES Imports using URLs would change or fix any of that.
sounds like you're missing the point of crypto. it's not about the data management, I think some ETH clients use postgres internally, the blockchain as a network is about removing central coordinators and trust assumptions (including ones we take for granted in our society)
In civil law countries, a contract is the law between parties.
This would, unfortunately, not surprise me in the least.
Intel's Pay-as-you-go CPU
>I don’t remember claiming the UI thread couldn’t be blocked by callbacks

You had claimed that worrying about threading "[...] is an exceptionally low level detail that very few people should ever have to think about." When main threads block, UI devs do need to worry about it. Go's Goroutines do not solve it without thought.

> If you instead had each UI handler spawn a Goroutine

If you did that, you would have a mess of a UI. Like I keep trying to get across, that is not how any of these frameworks work. They are all single threaded and order matters. Implicit execution yielding is insufficient.

Kotlin is probably closer to async/await than Goroutines. Functions are marked with suspend, coloring them like async in C#. Task.Result is replaced with .await() in Kotlin. Scopes are explicitly managed and can be bound to threads, much like the fine grained management you get in C#. If C# added launch { } syntax to fire off async methods, I would not mind it at all, although I don't think it would be significantly different. The coloring remains because it is essential to the problem space.

You keep claiming implicit threading is better for UI but you have no examples. That said, you're free to like or dislike async/await as you choose. I am simply trying to inform you of a use case that you are neglecting.
And added trackers and a cookie popup to it, and censored the word lists (guess and solution).

And their own statement about it implied they intend to put it behind a paywall eventually (wording was something like "it will initially remain free for new and existing users").
"Every AirTag has a unique serial number, and paired AirTags are associated with an Apple ID. Apple can provide the paired account details in response to a subpoena or valid request from law enforcement."

For a company that 'values privacy', how do they think it's acceptable to only advertise this information now?
Better management. Better developer experience.
„i leveraged prior experience in ultra-scalable real-time systems at the edge with my people skills to produce X“ type of bullshit is different than „i had this very specific role at a large and known company that is only assigned to people that have demonstrated high levels of skill“, the latter is plain fraud if not true.

it‘s like saying „i have a pilot license“ if you don't
I have Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G. Honestly, it was fast and smooth only the first day. After I installed the normal apps I use (pretty much widely popular ones, nothing crazy), it got so slow - as slow as my old Galaxy S9+. The battery life is terrible - after an hour of live creaming, it drops by a fourth! The scroll is not smooth due to the piling amount of notifications, which keep wasting resources. I'm not an Android developer, but it seems that active notifications slow down the whole phone - no idea why! Also, be that stupid to shoot a video or live stream (like I do) - you get phone calls, message noise, etc. if you forget to turn them off! Who in their right might would want notifications while they are shooting a video? Even less so - audio notifications, which ruin your video?! Not to mention, that the whole video processing power drops, and it starts skipping frames! To me, it's a huge Android design flaw - once you start shooting a video, everything should die (well, I understand the complexity, there might be background services, etc.), but with every new phone, the same issues stay, and many times I scream that I need to buy a regular camcorder and stop dealing with those who play to be mobile OS designers! For example, I'm in a Do Not Disturb mode, yet, I get notification sounds in the middle of the night! I understand that there are apps, to which I can grant access to override silent mode (like Opsgenie, for example), but I have no such apps and granted so such rights! Worst of all, Samsung disables essential apps without bothering to confirm with me. I just noticed that Google Fit is disabled because I haven't opened it - there goes all my activity tracking for months!

When will we have sane and intelligent people behind the design of a modern mobile OS at Google? Sorry to be so critical, but I've been a loyal Android user since its first device and I'm getting tired of waiting for the basics to become available. It's not getting better, just new problems keep piling up on top of the old ones!

in 2020, I have a nearly $1,500 device, which still cannot last a day and I still have to keep monitoring the battery level! And I almost do not use my phone - I just sits in my pocket 99% of the time!
That doesn't help people who don't use Android either.
Yes! I got interested in this when my colleague worked with a person who had an entire hemisphere resected as a teenage.

FWIW, the nail thing is a bit of a neuroscience meme. I heard--and stole--this quip from multiple people in several different situations. There's also a really striking figure in that chapter (p. 7 or 8).

No argument that the rats' behaviors are affected. I suppose whether you find the slowness of their grooming expected (because of brain damage) or impressive (because it happens at all) is a matter of taste. Glass^W Skull half-empty or half-full, if you will.
Drivers not working on M1, if they're third party, are generally on the vendor - not Apple. Kexts do not run with Rosetta translation.
The purpose of laws is to protect and govern their local citizens. I would hate to live in a world where a law does not get passed because of an argument like "but imagine how much work developers will have to do to follow the law!"
I think it needs to be emphasised that advertising in one of the catalogue magazines and even the classified section of many specialist mags is very different to most of the advertising on the internet today.

Those ad's were informative for those who were looking to see what services or products were available. Little or no possibility of creating demand where it did not exist. Internet ads are almost universally designed not only to create demand for a product, but also to feed the fear of exclusion if the viewer does not have the product.
I share your frustration daily.
I decided to buy the new M1 Pro (16GB RAM) because my old 13' MacBook pro (2017) was unusable due to its sub-hour battery life and unbearable sluggishness. There was always this lag between typing and the text appearing in my editor, which was stressing me out a lot.
At first, I was amazed at how fast and smooth my expensive upgrade was, but after starting to use Docker, things changed for the worse.
I assume (and I may well be wrong) that something is going on when running Docker on M1 macs.

My recent switch to vim from WebStorm was in hopes of preserving as much RAM as I could (WebStorm typically used 2~3GB of RAM on my machine) to prevent the bursts of slugginess.
Personally, I love the idea of not having to pay back what I borrowed to buy my house. But I also can't be so anti-social as to advocate screwing over everyone who doesn't have money for a downpayment and can't afford the risk of keeping their savings in the market. They really ought to be able to put some money in a savings account, or in a jar if they don't have access to banking, and have an idea of what their savings will be worth in a decade. Better educate people that they sometimes have to take a pay cut to stay employed than hoodwink them and leave them destitute down the road.
We laugh at mainframe dinosaurs here, but really, it all just cyclically trickles down to PC / x86 / Linux :->. Vms and containers and now - unlockable CPU features. I'm assuming speciality engines are next :-)
Sure. I don't do much product discovery via Amazon either. For that I turn to places not trying to sell me things like Consumer Reports, Wirecutter, and Kevin Kelly's Cool Tools. Also forums where other users talk about our shared problems and what has worked for them.
Looks like the wayback machine has multiple copies per day
> Can you please elaborate what these areas of disconnect are?

I'm not the OP but something I have noticed is the JavaScript wünderkind seem to want to completely reinvent web browsers but in JavaScript. They seem to not actually know HTML, CSS fundamentals, or even HTTP. So you end up with frameworks that reinvent everything a browser already gives you (for free) but entirely inside their JavaScript monstrosities.

I might just be grouchy and uncharitable but it's certainly the feeling I get looking at any of the big JavaScript frameworks. It's infuriating to see frameworks reinvent something like a button with a bunch of anchors, divs, and spans when HTML gives them a perfectly functional button with a bunch of built-in events including touch events.
ASIO has levelled claims against people connected to government ministers as well e.g. Gladys Liu.

Australia doesn't have the same level of deep bipartisanship that exists in the US so I wouldn't assume that our intelligence agency is a political tool.
I would guess they simply applied their existing word game dictionary — probably the same one they use for “Spelling Bee”.

It doesn’t include slurs, uses US-spellings (at least in the US), and intentionally doesn’t include “obscure” words, though obviously that’s a judgement call. (Spelling Bee has an email link if you want to dispute an exclusion — I believe I helped get “ichor” added to the list.)
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Do you have to reveal who you are to Apple to use an airtag though?

Or with decent operational security can you purchase and activate airtags in an untraceable way?

If you can that undermines your point, however if you can't then your making a very good point.
Wayback machine

https://web.archive.org/web/20220201003547/https://www.power...
There have been studies that confirm sleeping outside results in sounder and healthier sleep.

I think about it in terms of germs. Yes, on paper it's more safe to sanitize everything, but in doing so we prohibit our ability to build defenses, and actually become less healthy.

In the same vein, maybe by sleeping on mattresses indoors all the time, we fail to build a tolerance to adverse sleeping conditions, and maybe get more sensitive to them too.
Fiat money isn't supposed to be held for long periods of time. That's literally the point. The government is incentivizing you to invest/consume it, otherwise we're in a liquidity trap. It's just supposed to allow people to to make transactions and be confident that the thing they are selling won't be worth 20% more tomorrow.
There is nothing wrong with ontological reasoning. A cat is a feline, how you express that relationship, or if it is even worth expressing, is another matter. We also learned “Cat(x) :- Feline(x)”, but never used that either (and no one ever derides the use of predicate logic in programming). I think we spent most of our smalltalk time covering metaobjects (I did my CS program before Java took over).
I made an NSFW website, which was a wrapper around a streaming site, allowing me to load and watch up to 16 streams at a time. I couldn't find any other website that did it, so I just threw a couple of Azure functions together in a way that costs less than a dollar a month.
Hardly!

And what you are omitting is the very high cost to people needing accessibility right now.

Those discoveries are:

Not a sure thing

Not on an easy to quantify timeline

Not broadly applicable.

And this is not zero sum. Every dollar spent on accessibility pays off right now. Starts paying the moment access is improved.

We can always, and should always, be advancing medicine.

There is nothing in the way of better accessibility. We can do it now and it pays us well when we do.

There are things in the way of, "let's just fix the people!" and the fact that we do not know how, do not know when we will know how, is in our way solid, like we can't miss it.

Finally, treatments can be used, until they can't. And "can't" comes up an awful lot. Ramps and other devices just work.

They work even when people do not need them to work, or people do not expect to need them. The world is just easier, and new moms, old people, and many others get the benefit.

So, when "we can't" comes up, what is the answer for those people?

I propose:

Boy those accessibility spends are really helping a lot of people! Sure glad we did that work.

And remember, YOU yourself, right there reading this, very well could be one of those people. You don't know.

None of us does, which is why the work is being done.
> But the whole thing can be characterized as: "Let me make up a random test, according to my personal opinion of what defines cognition and then see if a random animal I choose passes it".

But of course! How do we know that humans are, indeed, the smartest? What if we've been failing every single test that mice have been throwing at us over the past millennia, and they wonder why we are so dumb?

(This is a reference to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in case you're wondering if I've gone mad. Not that one wouldn't presuppose the other :)
The thing I've noticed about people on the other side of the divide is this irrational fear that doing anything incorrect, even once, is going to completely brick their device and cost a bunch of money. So they develop these weird superstitions and go through the ritualistic rote-learned menu clicks because exploration doesn't feel safe.

I don't know the origin of this attitude.
Bret Weinstein has also been making wild, alarmist claims about mRNA vaccines. He's not a credible scientific voice at this point.
I'm building a game algebra and playthrough animations for the game Kingdom Rush. I love iterating on strategies but couldn't remember a whole playthrough well enough to iterate.

Still in progress, but you can see my existing playthroughs at https://relentlessoptimizer.com/KR/maps.