skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So "cannot be reasoned with" seems to mean "refuses to accept that I'm right".

That's unnecessarily combative. Are you arguing that refusing to brush your teeth is a reasonable position?

> I hope you aren't focusing mainly on their dental hygiene.

Dental hygiene was OP's example.

> a lot/all of the time, what's being referred to as "troubled" is really "traumatised".

I agree that most of the "troubled" kids I've known have been traumatized. But traumatization does not necessarily lead to being "troubled", and being "troubled" does not require traumatization. In any case, it does not excuse illegal, damaging, and destructive behaviors.
I watched the original interview (2020) and I found it interesting, most of the things sounded plausible.

At some point during the second interview he starts to digress about current society, inter-human relationships (or lack of) and technology, the "dangers" of the meta-verse and so on. This is ok, but it is more of an informal conversation between two individuals that are not experts on those fields, and it has to be put in perspective as such.

It also shocked me quite a bit when he went into details about his financial situation and I felt a bit disturbed about his vigilante-like statements regarding his hacking activity to "protect" the people that needs protection.

At some point in this second interview I was not sure if he was talking about actual concerns regarding society and technology or if he was just projecting his own personal struggles and worries about human relationships, isolation, and meaning of work, life and everything else.

(Edited to correct some spelling and grammar)
OP is referring to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity
I'm genuinely confused by this. Are you saying that you shouldn't have to worry about eating and living indoors? Or are you saying that you literally forget people have to pay for those things? Can you please explain what you mean?
The real problem with modern games is they're too focused on making the biggest most important game possible instead of making the game fun. I think development teams and budgets have gotten too large. It's the constraints that really bring out people's creativity.
In practice, if you're reading a J expression which contains unfamiliar primitives, there's only one place you need to look: https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/NuVoc

Idioms are composed from primitives, but many of them are shorter than a descriptive name would be, and since the set of primitives is small (compared to the standard library in most languages), it doesn't take that long to memorize most or all of the symbols.
To a high performer the tone of this article is a shot across the bow.
IMHO when a game centres around competitive play, and said game also allows you to buy competitive advantage for real money, that is a problem. A situation like this is called "pay to win" and is tempting enough for some game companies to ruin their game with.
It will change if we kill passwords, thereby making that type of misuse impossible.

In my view, the goal of the "passwordless" movement is to take basic security best practices that techies have known and practiced for decades (using unique, random, unphishable credentials for each site), and make them the default for everyone, in a way that's difficult to mess up.
Doesn't matter how often you commit if you forget to push
Citizens United was really determined by how badly the FEC f'd their argument: which was that there was no limiting principle on how far the FEC could use their power to limit non-candidate speech. They ruled the way the did because the alternative was worse.

If they'd decided the alternative, then any 501(c) organization could find itself muzzled during election season (which is roughly 90% of the year at this point). This include organizations like: EFF, ACLU, and Planned Parenthood. All of these are technically corporations.
>There's no qualification about the range of approximation. For example, "a day in May" may be restricted that it was definitely before the 14th of May.

It's a single date that falls within a set of possibilities, written as:

[2022-05-01..2022-05-13]

Still, it's possible to come up with situations not covered by even the newer edition. But these new rules cover a lot of cases that crop up in written text.

Edit: Example is covered by 8601-2, not by a time interval. An interval is all times between two endpoints, but we want a single day chosen from an interval.
If you think the industry is shit right now, you haven't been gaming. Literally OP article didn't even mention Elden Ring the greatest Triple A game that's trending right now.

Elden Ring is the opposite of everything OP mentioned and you can't criticize the industry without bringing up the IT game that is literally the opposite of the entire article.

The golden age of the gaming industry is right now. That goes for triple A games AND indie games.

The whole DLC BS is this annoying side thing among triple A studios but it has nothing to do with overall trend of the industry.
100% agree.

Let’s be clear though: you may need 4 hrs but sometimes you may need 12. Creative professions can be that way. Reaching an understanding that both can happen and accepting that fact is important.

To a certain extent, it’s just recognizing the reality of what actually happens today anyway, rather than trying to fit into the 8hour workday concept.
https://www.nolahmattress.com/blogs/blog/is-it-legal-to-sell...

This appears to be related to health laws.
It's that thing where people who, while otherwise mathematically literate, somehow convince themselves that exponential changes adumbrate some future transcendence rather than, say, the breaking point of systems.
Honestly I feel like we could take it a step further. Most people are not going to put in five real hours of work every day either. Which makes the eight hour workday in some ways all the more ridiculous.

20 hours a week is pretty much the ceiling in my experience beyond big crunch times, special events, etc. If people really stepped back and thought about how much time they spend screwing around at work I think they’d be surprised, like how many people were surprised to discover how many hours they spend on social media apps when screen time tracking was introduced in phones.

I worked in the film industry for several years on the Hollywood side before switching over to commercial. 12 to 14 hour workdays were pretty much the norm. When I flipped over to the more commercial side, our workdays typically ended at 8 to 10 hours. And let me tell you, the commercial productions were exponentially more efficient. We got more done per day by a large margin, no matter the scale or complexity compared to the films I worked on. When you know there is less of a threat threat of the company extending the hours, you tend to get things done in the time allotted.
Dismissive comments without any substance make you come across as dumb, not smart.

If you have some actual position of substance, articulate it or just don’t bother replying at all.
I would love for BonsaiDb to be able to be used from other languages. I don't think it would be terribly difficult to do. The next release adds almost all of the APIs that would be needed to build a shared library version of BonsaiDb.

Unfortunately, there are so many features I want to add, and only so many hours in each day. I'm a very happy Rustacean which means that I'm unlikely to focus on exposing BonsaiDb to other languages anytime soon.

That being said, I will do everything I can to help contributors who want to bring BonsaiDb to another language.
Being in tech has the advantage of me being knowledgeable enough to pursue tools and languages of interest that will benefit both my business and day job.

That is what I did. I learned web development and used those skills to do projects at work and for my clients on weekends.

Later on, I learned project management. Used those skills at my day job and made a consultancy killing as a PM for hire.

I feel privleged to have been in this position. So, yes, I do advocate for spending time increasing your value at work. But that time should also work for you outside of that day job.
In Pursuit of the Traveling Salesman: Mathematics at the Limits of Computation
-- William J. Cook
> You think your kid hasn't been molested. There's a good chance he has.

This.

If they get therapy, there's a slim chance that that therapy will lift the repression and expose the trauma; but it's usually repressed for good reasons, and exposing it will just lead to more trauma. But if you can make them feel safe and loved, you have a reasonable chance of addressing the unwanted behaviour.

Consigning them to a coercive regime in another state isn't going to make them feel safe and loved.
>> the urge to displace direct perceptions of the real world in favor of costly and therefore profitable technological interfaces

That for some reason brings in mind all the chaotic ecosystem of modern IT infrastructure and development. Somehow, bigger and more complex seems to be the way things are lead to go every time.
Very good question! Thank you for opportunity to think deep :)

As for definition, I like definition from science - singularity will happen when some group of people, who we name world scientific community, will mostly agree, that singularity happen.
That is, epochs named only post factum, not before, not even when things happen.

But what exactly will cause singularity, is totally different question, and I could answer for it with some probability of become prophet.

So, there few theoretical things could happen (ordered just as I remember):

1. When human will create General AI, which will have IQ slightly better than median human.

2. When people invent some computer parts with neuro-interfaces, or some other tech/bio/genetic improvements, which will be usable as commodity, and approachable for large part of humanity (at least 5%), and made these people intellect much more powerful than current people.

Variation of this, is some form of biotech beings, which will have human parts and machine parts, and will be much more powerful than current people, and will got abilities to live in environments, which are deadly for humans, like space vacuum.

3. When people create powerful enough computers to support virtual reality indistinguishable from reality, and invent method, to transfer human Natural Intelligence to those computers, so people will got possibility, to live inside vr forever, and to easily transfer their personality for example to other planet, or even to other Galaxy.

4. Humanity will create some very powerful, cheap and clean source of energy, so energy consumption per capita, will grow at least few times, so we will just continue our current slow progress to space civilization of type 1.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale

There are lot of other opportunities for singularity, but these I think most probable.
єВорог - [je]Voroh(transliteration) or [ThereIs]anEnemy (translation)

e-Enemy - kinda bad translation
Forbidden West and the Art of Editing
Please have a look at https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html Blog posts can't be Show HN, they can be regular submissions though.
Dogs' sense of smell is sufficent to detect a teaspoon of sugar added to an Olymic size swimming pool.
Somehow I've not herd of WHATWG and according to the wiki article the active memberships are: Apple, Google, Microsoft and supposedly Mozilla?

The three largest tech companies own the internet standards? That's quite unsettling.
When a single computing device has more processing power than all humankind put together.
There are definitely dark patterns, dishonestly, manipulation to drive sales in F2P games. That's not a good thing.

However, most of the people criticizing this did not grow up poor. When I was a kid, there were a ton of video games I would have loved to play, but my family couldn't afford it.

Nowadays, everyone can play. The difference between the haves and have-nots are cosmetics. Better than that: in most games, the best cosmetics can often be unlocked purely (and only) by skill. A poor kid may not have as many skins or whatever, but they can still unlock things.
Or where I live, there are at least thirty and almost all of them are overrun by spammers and scammers.
The problem I have with these games is they are almost universally tuned to make them very time consuming and grindy if you don't pay.

That is, instead of the game being balanced for what feels good to play, they are balanced so that they feel good when you pay more and otherwise are not so annoying that you quit, but annoying enough to push you to pay.

Its not: here's a good game, but you can buy these things with real money. Its: here's a game that we purposely made a bit too time consuming and annoying, but you can buy these "time savers" to make it be fun all the time instead. Any game that sells real-money "time savers" is by definition a badly balanced game. The solution to a badly balanced game that becomes tedious is not to sell "time savers" (or skips: "buy the tank now and skip the grind for it"), its to rebalance the game to remove or reduce the tedium.
If you rigorously define the term "make a sound", the tree in a forest question loses its apparent profundity.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/08/movies/oscars-diversity-r...
Literally anything you do creates a "chemical reaction in the brain". That's how brains work.
> This sentiment is often voiced on HN and I don't understand it

Note that the sentiment is "condescension is not empathy", and empathy is what you need to approach this problem.

> I claim that it's perfectly legitimate to think that certain other people are ill-equipped to make certain decisions.

You then condescend. You are superior, the "general public" is too dumb ("ill-equipped") to "make certain decisions".

> That's of course different from the question of whether you should let people know that you think they're ill-informed

How would you know? You simply feel they are ill-informed, but it doesn't mean that they are. By assuming (implicitly) that you must be correct, you deny them the agency of figuring things out for themselves: Clearly they cannot have done so, they are simply too wrong.
Yes, it is that simple.

Contracts are optional, but may be useful to be clear.

Invoices are easy, you can make them in word or excel, or notepad, or on a napkin.

Regarding expenses, more info is required (eg where you are, do you have a company, ect)
They can't overtly communicate to large groups of officers that they should just make something up (e.g. dog walker) but directing the crowd to place trust in something which is verifiable nonsense gives them the cover of conventional wisdom.
> they could undo much of the harm done by our culturally divisive "social" networks.

Or it could be worse. Meta/Twitter spend a lot of resource to moderate content for a reason. I don't see how a decentralised model could solve the problem of content moderation.
I've done a lot of a relatively high-value item (motorcycles, cars) buying and selling on Facebook and Craigslist, and let me assure you: people didn't move to Facebook because Craigslist was a 'robust incumbent.'

As a seller, I am guaranteed to get 10-20 scam messages in the first 24h of my post on Craigslist; text, email, and phone. God forbid you were bold/stupid enough to put your real information in there. You have to use burners or congratulations, you've signed up for a lifetime of scam calls.

Facebook Marketplace has many faults, but it is relatively easy-to-use, has a wide audience, attracts more serious buyers in my experience, has low spam/scam volume, actually attempts to address scammers (albeit cumbersomely; this is still a differentiator from CL) and allows me to know something about who I am trying to make a deal with.

Marketplace is succeeding despite its faults precisely because the other options are generally such terrible experiences.
I was struck by the same line. No real reason to add the part about "no empathy." And it seems like something very close to empathy to understand that one had no empathy....
AWS also has an “easy” mode for running containers: AWS App Runner (https://aws.amazon.com/apprunner/)
Were we wrong about Web3?
I've played a ridiculous amount of Rocket League. "30 minutes per day were more than enough to get all the wardrobe" is just not true. Keys and locked loot boxes were in the game years ago, it was terrible, it was taken out well before it went FTP. Now, every seasons has free stuff, a few of them are random, and random blueprint drops after matches that can be unlocked with credits, but you know exactly what you're buying. There's a "Rocket Pass" which gets you a lot more stuff including exactly enough credits to buy the next season pass with, but nothing in the Rocket Pass is random and it doesn't get you any more chances at random stuff. You can't buy the random stuff anymore, on purpose.

I buy the pass every season, even though I've been wearing the same things for years, because I can afford it, and would like to see the game (more specifically, the servers) live forever.
Except Skia is not a text renderer. Skia won't correctly position glyphs for you. It can only render glyphs for you at positions that you provide.
Over the last few years I have gotten hundred of hours of enjoyment from games like League of Legends, Valorant and Halo Infinite and couldn't even tell you how to spend money on those games if I wanted to. I honestly doubt I would have ever picked up any of those games if they were not free and I'm guessing since many other would say the same thing the lobbies would be empty and the games would die. In those case the free model is great and I don't feel like there is any loss for someone not wanting to spend money on them.

I think those cases are different than the mobile app style which makes no sense to me since many of the games are single player so nobody will see the skins or whatever anyway.
> We are as much a product of our genes as we are of our environment

Don’t our genes dictate how we respond to our environment?
My point is that taxes are a key factor in creating demand for dollars.

> the government would still need to exchange those bitcoins for dollars in order to pay its debts

That is not true. The government does not collect taxes to pay its debt, as it can simply spend its own currency which it creates. Taxes are relevant to spending in that it keeps dollars valuable.
> I think a good compromise would be to restrict games with free to play mechanics to adults, as in if you're not at least 18 you're not allowed to play games with loot boxes. Once you're an adult, gambling is fine.

Yes. As it stands many of these games are simply an end-run around gambling laws. It would be nice if games with these mechanics were clearly labelled (ESRB is showing its conflict of interest here) and rated 18+.
Why? How present was covid in the US, UK, Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand ("the anglosphere") in March 2022? It was still precautionary "Let's see if we stop it getting in" thoughts in those countries at those times. Large numbers of cases were still mostly in Italy and China at that stage. And China had only recognised it as a pandemic two months earlier, so I don't see any real complaint to be had of classifying 26 months as "two years", even if you want to focus on when it started rather than when it became a global pandemic.
Show HN: Caddy-SSH
Even if it only involves stuffing a raspberry pi into something, I want to yell at someone over the phone from my penthouse office in front of that thing while 80s power-montage music plays.
100% this, but let me add the why:

Most people don't want to do good work, they just want to get paid and fuck off. It is really hard to grok this because it is just so disappointing and demotivating.

Most people lie constantly, to appear as if they want to do work, as if they give a fuck - they are lying to your face.

Once you realize this much, once you come to terms with what most people are - the rest will fall into place.

Until you grok this, these sorts of posts will seem like cynical takes, like someone who doesn't want to work hard, who wants to be a free loader. No, these sorts of posts are cautionary tales that society is filled with free loaders and liars, so you need to tread with caution and know how to deal with these 'people'.
Everyone fails constantly, so it makes sense that "elite people" (whatever those are) do too. Why would you have to give examples for something that is a fact of life? It is like breathing. Everyone does it, you do not need examples for it.
> Confidence in that, even if update breaks something, you can just boot back into previous setup, and have working system, not bothered by breakage for the time being.

This was the goal of Ubuntu distro called snappy Ubuntu core [1]. Does anyone know whatever happened to it?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlcTDz9ogug
You weren't disappeared or censored, Chris. If you were, we couldn't hear you calling yourself a victim.

Sorry working for foreign governments cost you your free hosting. Upload it somewhere else.

We spend way too much time pretending that people have some kind of right to be on a private platform.
Fair enough! Positive Discipline wouldn't be my go-to approach (no formalized, available in book form would be by the way), so. I stick with Space Cowboys: "Lord, don't let us screw up." Not screwing up your kids is already high enough a bar. if they come out on the other end as decent human beings able to live their own lives that's all I can hope for.

So far so good, but then the rough teenage years are still ahead of us!
How about the Reddit model, where different subreddits and their mods are given a lot of freedom to implement their own rules?
Flutter App Ideas: Beginner to Expert [with Free Tutorial]
"Laurey LoL statistics indicate players spend an average of $92 a year on the game."
Lambda can now run any runtime you want. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/runtimes-custom...
Most users will use the lowest energy option, which is using a reused, low-entropy password. Using a password manager is great for those that choose to do so, but the system can be designed so the lowest energy option is still secure enough. In this light: passwords are not secure enough.
I cannot disagree with the author given that modern companies are little more than an aggregation of short-term individuals each with her own agenda many of whom would happily backstab you in order to advance it.
You might find this interesting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical.ly

> Musical.ly Inc. was founded by long time friends Alex Zhu and Luyu Yang in Shanghai, China.[7][8] Before launching Musical.ly, Zhu and Yang teamed up to build an education social network app, through which users could both teach and learn different subjects through short-form videos (3–5 minutes long).
kevein has in their profile they work on flomesh and has commented several times (and only on) this project. There's no need to fake a conversation.
>This is the only sane way I have found to progress in a tech career. The daily and weekly learning really adds up too - in my experience this is the difference someone who has 10 years of experience and someone who has "2 years repeated 5 times"

I agree. Thankfully, my culture does not shun 2-3 year job spells on your resume. Typically, this is what I do. When I learn enough to do my boss's job, I leave. I am now at a point of running my own, small consultancy service. Only need a few more clients to finally quit my day job for good.