skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OK but if you read the link you included WW specifically MADE an app for children and collected the data:

"the agency... marketed a weight loss app for use by children as young as eight and then collected their personal information without parental permission."

That is pretty wilful -- so we can be confident they have or had data targeted from children. Dropbox on the other hand -- I'm not sure how that case is similar. Are children now allowed to use cloud backup services? Why wouldn't they?
Shows up as "Video not available". No reason provided. Anyone else experiencing this?
Indeed, brand advertising is a thing - specifically to reenforce and make that brand "brighter" or have more strength in the person's psyche, so it stays familiar. The concept of advertising at its foundation is often taught that you must distribute the value of the spend over say 10 months, e.g. you're primed for that long and/or may act on the ad you saw 10 months prior.
I find it interesting how people define a lie. It's the responsibilities of these people to be on the same page and so if they are not lying they are rife with poor internal practices which gives me about the same impression of them as if they had been lying.
Their hiring process could use some serious streamlining. When I've applied in the past, it seems like recruiters have a good half hour to an hour of mandatory spheal about how their "unique" interview process works... and even if you try to tell them that you've done these kinds of interviews before, and even interviewed with Google successfully but turned an offer down before, they'll still helpfully offer you their "insider tips" to... read cracking the coding interview and brush up on data structures.

God forbid you have an unusual niche in industry -- last time I applied, the recruiter took at least two weeks with regular calls to update me on their attempt to get me an interview for the niche I work in. Google's software output definitely reflects just how bureaucratic and convoluted their hiring process has become.
Couldn't this really be a case of, they're so well known now that they don't need to advertise? If the did this when they started, probably things would be different.
I have had this issue. I found a game and played straight for a month, almost all day and I wasted so much time and lost opportunities that I sold all my in game resources and did what you did, canceled and uninstalled everything.

I was good until a couple weeks ago. (I had almost 10 years of staying away) And I have found my self control is greatly enhanced, but also maybe because I truly care more about time with my wife and family. I have had a few late nights where I over did it, but I am very close to uninstalling it again because of this.

I am a big believer in "I am the problem" viewpoint, so if it's not a game it will be something else, and I need to change me, not the activity. I think this applies to all inherently non-destructive activities that people get addicted to. (ie, watching tv isn't destructive a little at a time, but binge watching for days straight is...)
Attacking rich foreigners for not paying enough <insert tax or contribution> to their adopted homes is fairly common throughout the world, no? America does make it harder to avoid paying tax with a system that taxes income regardless of which country you earned it in, but most of the rest of the world does not work this way.

To use the UK as an example, attacking rich foreigners for their "non-domiciled" tax status is extremely common. This is where you live in the UK, but for tax purposes hide your wealth in another system with lower tax rates, effectively paying no income taxes at all in the UK. Variations of this concept exist throughout the world in many countries and routinely draw politically ire.

Just this week:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-61017993

Wealth coupled with a collection of passports often creates far more opportunities to avoid tax than being stuck under the rules of one single State, rightly or wrongly.
Another important feature of this release, not mentioned in the notes: No major language changes. It's almost all tooling improvements, plus a few library functions getting stablized.

This is great! It makes things more manageable for third-party implementations like mrustc and gcc-rust, for teaching resources that can spend time improving their docs on what's already there instead of documenting new stuff, and for the long-term health of the language itself. Here's for many more releases like this one!
I'm not smart enough to judge work of such momentous significance.

Is this for real, or is this guy a wealthy quack? It just seems like I would have heard more about it if it was real.

Or are we living through a Galileo moment where a genius is laboring outside the established institutions and is closer to the truth than the establishment?

My neo-cortex is just not capable enough to judge these things, but I hope smarter people here can chime in.
> Honest question - how do you actually effectively share code between many repos?

One way is: Each repo is a responsibility boundary and single source of truth, you use code from other repos the same as any other external dependency.

> How do I know that me changing my backend app’s API doesn’t break any other project in the company potentially calling it?

Changing an API breaks projects using it; you either do versioned APIs and/or coordinate changes with downstream consumers, the same as you would with an API with external customers.

(Another way is “downstream projects checkout their dependencies and build against them as a routine part of their process.“)
life coach here. your feeling is valid and there is no 'answer'. It sounds like you believe you have to actually do something in order to have a point

this feeling demands deep personal reflection and / or extended authentic conversation with someone who knows you well -- nothing a text forum will be able to give you so do not be discouraged if you read a hundred posts of advice and none of them do anything for you.

If you want to explore more of the philosophy of this kind of feeling then I have a recommendation. There is a popular podcast called "Philosophize This!" by Stephen West that actually went into a multi-episode dive on "The Creation of Meaning" recently. It starts on Episode 157. The podcast is a casual conversation-style lecture format. The first episode is 25 minutes long.

>Yet we focus on these artificial goals set by childish dreams, society or life events.

In my experience goals are used to resolve unmet needs. Children are very needy and have lots of goals. If you need more money, you set a goal to get it.

Is it possible that you have no goals and see no point in anything you do because you have nowhere to go but down? You are safe. You are fed. You did it. Maybe it is time to kick your feet up and enjoy.
Maybe this will be what finally puts an end to the whole art NFT shenanigans. A piece of art isn't so unique if there are infinite slight variations on the market.
For those of us that are not going to read Wolfram's papers, what is multicomputation?
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Feynman wrote something in the sense Wolfram did invent an interesting way to implement quantum chromodynamics on a computer, so he did something contributory to science.
At least at Google: you don't. There is just one current version of your library. There are exceptions, but for the vast majority of things there is no concept of versioning.
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If you are an alcoholic just stop, if you are depressed just be happy, if you are poor just get rich. Thanks for the advice
I’ve heard rumors of a leading investor putting together a fund specifically to short companies which he expects to go bust defending toxicity lawsuits. The key issue - I understand - is toxicity caused by interactions of chemicals approved before interaction. The further argument is that mass sterility will have huge economic implications.
It’s a series of articles that are delivered to your house once a week. That’s close enough.
Ideas being subjected to peer review != the institutionalized "Peer Review Process(TM)"
I usually try to avoid describing speech as "dangerous" or "toxic" but in this case I think this is dangerous as it's a perfect fit for confirmation bias for someone struggling with video game addiction who wants it not to be true (I know from experience). That said, I encourage it's widespread dissemination because it's an important discussion. Upvoting to try to prevent this thread from becoming dead.

Using the DSM-5 as the only source is quite risky. Consider how they described homosexuality at times in the past.

Video games are absolutely magical! The human senses/brain system evolved to fit a very particular world with certain limitations, none of which exist in a video game world. You can get so deeply into the video game world that you ignore and are even unaware of basic needs like hunger. In video games your senses can become supercharged. You can obtain god-like powers that humans have dreamed of probably since the dawn of time (invincibility, flight, etc). A human brain that evolved with a basic dopamine-based reward center can easily be tricked/manipulated to crank out way too much, which is (at a very simple level) how drugs and other addictions work.

Honest question: do you think there is such a thing as sex addiction?
I've never used Syncthing, but I used to use Unison pretty hard. Why did you switch to rsync for binaries? Was it that you really didn't need bidirectional sync, or was it a failing of the tool to handle large binary files?
I can only recount my experience with FFXI, which in its original form was designed to be a tremendous time sink. It was hard an unforgiving and the amount time spent there was measured in years for me. I stopped when I noticed I basically cut off just about everything else in my life and I started to call in sick to camp specific mobs.

It is a different kind of addiction. It is psychological and, in a sense, a lot harder to break as the social component keeps you there.

What worked for me is just realizing that I can't go on like this forever and a cut off was necessary. I am not sure it is healthy, but I still participate in some events for other MMO type games ( races in POE for example ). It is hard, competitive and since I am not a top player, I end up satisfying my jonesing for a while. I guess I like punishment.

That said, the older I get, the more I see games as a distraction. I don't think it is a waste, as I do remember that distraction got me through some tough moments in life, but.. there is a time and place for everything.

In short, I can't really give a generic advice. People are different. See what works for you.

As an anecdote, I logged into my old FFXI account last year out of boredom. It was no longer the same. All the friends have moved on, difficulty and system changed beyond what I found acceptable; it was a nostalgia trip. I played for a week or so and I never renewed since.
> I couldn't disagree more.

*sigh*

I know where you're coming from. This is the classic argument for limiting unit tests to black-box testing of public APIs exclusively, avoiding clear-box testing altogether.

I agree that it's possible to write absolutely wretched fragile clear-box tests. And I agree that if you have a black-box test and a clear-box test which provide equal validation of functionality, the black-box test is superior because it will survive a refactor.

I generally dislike absolutist rules of any kind when it comes to unit testing and prefer to think of things in terms of ROI. Sometimes you can add a lot of value with a clear-box test because the functionality is impossible to write a black-box test for without a ton of extra work and time.

But sometimes you may be in an environment where absolutist rules are the only way to go.
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This guy is so full of himself. He is going to explode anytime.
Part of it is just the incentives on Google to improve things, which is to say...very little pressure to change. Google, given its historical reputation and current great WLB is very sought after. Attrition is low (by faang standards), everyone wants to work there and will even take pay cuts to do so. Google loses candidates everywhere through the process and it doesn't seem to matter.
> I wonder if there is a field of meta-map-making

There certainly is, although I'm not sure it has a name. Kids gets introductions to it on schools, when they have classes about how to read a map in Geography.
I'm halfway through it, awesome review!
The pros seem to give less of a shit about live wires than I do, from what I've seen. And I already give fewer shits than I probably should.
The Texas property tax thing is no joke. If you're not from a high property tax state, coming into Texas can be a bit of a jolt. I do think there are states out there with higher property taxes? Those are the people who might find Texas property "cheap". Texas definitely has a lot of "gotchas" that you need to be ready for.
I think the most common option is you don't. The organizations that Dan gives as examples mostly don't produce public facing libraries, and when they do it's a separate process that lives on GitHub.

Instead, everything is based around the idea that you check out the state of the world at some commit, do your build, whatever validation you need, and send it to production. You do this pretty often, ideally multiple times a week. Very occasionally you have an emergency where you want prod + cherrypick, and you generally build tooling that allows saying "build at this commit, but also with these later specific commits merged in".
Yeah, if people can throw around "deaths due to air pollution" it seems pretty legitimate to throw around "lives saved due to nuclear".
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Yes, and this is why it is news. Someone returned them although the expectation was nobody would. Maybe I'm missing something from your comment...
Because there is not enough for everyone and the property should not be treated as an investment.
By believing that Dark souls (the first one) is an unrepeatable masterpiece and not liking any other game (except hollow knight)

And then feeling tired of finishing it more than 5 times and being unable to play it again.
The data is public, less than 5% of homes are going to foreigners. Don't see how they even accomplish banning foreigners when there are free trade and free investment agreements. The problem is that bonds have negative yields. Retirement funds are forced into buying real estate, because housing is a safe investment right?

The federal government knows this and knows they can't do anything. If they targeted retirement funds like they should... what happens? Housing bubble pops, retirement funds lose tons of money. They are busy attacking the oil industry because they know they cant extract anything out of Finance, Real Estate, or insurance.
Several months going through an interview is too much. No company is worth that much time unless you have an attorney drawing up contracts along the way, so that is the first red flag.

Now, the hiring manager convinced you to spend evenings/weekends prepping for coding and design interviews. This sounds training, and by law they may have been required to pay for that. In the future, you shouldn't spend more than an hour or two prepping for an interview unless they offer to pay. If you don't have the skills needed, then I'd recommend just telling them that. Companies that try to get you do make a big initial unpaid investment in time will also be the kind that will expect you to work a ton of overtime unpaid.

In regards to the remote work, get it in writing upfront. Recruiters are dirty, so maybe this is a valuable lesson to understand that from now on.
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I found a Dropbox alternative: https://nextcloud.com/

I'm never going back. Way better in every aspect than Dropbox.
Agreed that electrical potential is present in all points of a uniform conductor. And that it takes only a tiny amount of current to interrupt a beating heart (as low as 60mA).

However it is not correct that the path of the current is not important.

Current will not flow between two points of equal electrical potential. There are some complications in the modelling (skin is a better insulator than internal bits, bags of salty moist flesh and bones are not resistively consistent, etc), but you're still in a much better situation to reduce potential difference across your heart, if the external potential difference occurs between two fingers on the same hand, vs two fingers on opposite hands.

OSHA says:

> The currents that pass through the heart or nervous system are the
most dangerous. ... If a hand comes in contact with an electrical
component with current (and at the same time the other side of your body makes a
path to the ground), this will make the current pass through your chest and possibly
produce injuries to the heart and lungs.

https://www.osha.gov/sites/default/files/2019-04/Basic_Elect...
> but the fuel has a very dirty production pipeline

Not really. You need very little uranium to operate a plant, and a lot of it comes from decommissioned bombs. When we were mining it in the US, it caused far fewer problems than coal or natural gas.
I mean... it has to eventually. If my country has a population of 50 million and I build 800 million homes, will investors keep buying them all at above market rates (read: more than I spent building them)? Then I can build 100 million more and keep collecting infinite money?
Why is foreign investment in Canada real estate so big vs the US? Is it just a pyramid scheme or something, or are investors actually making use of the properties?
I live in a small-mid sized city in Ontario. The biggest issue with our lack of housing is a hugely corrupt local government that has introduced a TON of extra fines and red tape to the building process. Plus there's a tremendous amount of "I'll scratch your back, you scratch mine" with the local building companies (of which there are functionally two). This all means that it's prohibitively difficult and expensive for any new developers to enter the scene and the best margins exist in the $500k+ range for new houses. It's a nightmare.
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That's why I used words like "spirituality" and "faith" instead of "religion" and "dogma".

I'm describing a shared social/psychological phenomenon, not a shared epistemological status.

Read my posts less as works of the philosophy of mathematics and more as anthropological musings.
>And in other cases, your customers just cannot be reached by ads at all - eg: military contracts.

Overall I agree with what you wrote but I just to highlight that you can absolutely target military contracts with ads. If you visit Washington, DC you will see ads for fighter jets, missiles and random obscure military systems by Raytheon and other contracts at bus stops. Guess what - military planners and decision makers live in DC and use public transport. While conversion rate is minuscule, you need only one multi-billion military contract to pay for a lot of ads.

Digitally you can target by geo location (Pentagon/military bases/installations) or even for example microtarget places where key senators live. Lots of options.
Where are you going to get these deep cavities? Where do you do pumped hyrdo in Las Vegas or Phoenix? Lots of solar, no economical way to store the excess right now.

You list lots of technologies that are "mature" - but maturity isn't enough. They have to be economically viable, and until they are they will continue to exist mainly in posts like yours.

In the meantime it's nuts we keep ignoring nuclear and continue to frame discussions around nuclear in the context of light water reactors, which are the worst kind of nuclear tech we have. There are other reactor designs that are far more practical, fail safe (do not require active cooling, coast naturally to a stop if interrupted, can actually burn what many erroneously refer to as nuclear waste, etc.)

We should be doing ALL of the above, not just arguing about nuclear vs. some other tech. We need it ALL.

China is charging forward with liquid thorium/molten salt reactors. If they establish the tech before we do - watch out. The industrial revolution forward saw the greatest expansion of wealth and democratization of power for humanity - and the bulk of that was unlocked by cheap energy! Energy is the greatest force multiplier and we are FAR to casual about just how important it is.

Americans are starting to figure that out with the policy changes brought in by the recent administration - energy pricing affects all aspects of modern society and in pretty dramatic ways. Europe is going to find out if they keep poking the Russian bear too. Especially Germany after they turned off all their nuclear plants. Increase reliance on fossil fuels and then antagonize our greatest provider of them - bloody brilliant!
The wildlife survived the meltdown, I'm sure they will survive this.
long ago ran a little computer game company. early on I'd spend <awkwardly-large-amount> on Google advertising, and that channel resulted in say a <= $100 revenue over company lifetime

I'd then go spend say $200 to attend a game convention, with my own private little display booth, and... it resulted in >$200 in revenue from game sales. (forget numbers exactly but it was far better return than buying Google search ads ever was.)

granted it might have been because my Google ad placement/messaging was not tuned ideally -- who knows. But I always value concrete results over theory or might-have-beens. and so its effected my views on advertising ever since
> The holy grail is probably writing all your business logic inside pure functions, and then unit testing those, while integration testing the outer layers for happy and error paths. But good luck trying to get your coworkers to think in pure functions.

I've come to a similar conclusion. Functions don't necessarily have to be pure in the academical sense, though - but I feel like the more the business logic is decoupled from dependency injection and the less it is relying on some framework, the better.

It makes testing a lot easier, but also code reuse. I've just been writing a one-off migration script where I could simply plug in parts of the core business logic. It would have been very annoying if that was relying on Angular, NestJS or whatever.
I would be interested in understanding what you think Bazel's strange decisions are. Prior to Bazel, I had also used some of my own custom build systems--I was multiple rewrites into it--and I had independently come to some of the same conclusions as Bazel, such as the need for target syntax that separates the package name from the target name within the package (like how Bazel specifies targets as //dir/abc:def).

There are a number of other Bazel decisions that seemed strange until I tried to figure out how I would implement some particular feature.

My conclusion is that there are lots of small reasons why build systems are a pain in practice, and that the problem is a lot more complex than most people give it credit for.