skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a somewhat similar question. Don't get me wrong, I don't think moving more of teen social life onto the internet and less in the physical world is going to lead to happiness, so I agree on principle. But this obsession with social media in particular as the cause of all ills seems overblown.

I am a huge fan of Jonathan Haidt, and think he's done a great job in explaining some of the cultural shifts going on, and the changing of morality/psychology in our society.

But I feel like he is overselling social media's impact. He even mentions in his testimony, that the correlation between social media use and mental illness may be around r=0.10 . That is a fairly weak correlation. I also have not seen a study (note that this doesn't mean one doesn't exist) that has done a good job of controlling for the selection effects involved with the data, to attempt to understand if there is any causality involved and what direction it would go. My hypothesis is that those with mental illness would be more likely to use social media more in the first place.

Social media feels like a bit of a bogeyman in our society. There are 100% issues with it, and I don't necessarily think it's net-positive for humanity, but it's only one part of the ever-changing environment we as humans are now finding ourselves in. Blaming social media won't solve our issues, I feel like they run much deeper. Some of the deeper issues are around meaning, identity, belonging, status, decreasing tolerance for discomfort/inconvenience, increasing detachment from physical reality, etc. Our amorphous culture is guiding us down this path and it's really hard for us to grasp...
How do you go from reading ξ to saying "oh I need to press <G-x>" ?
> For some types of web apps (e.g. interactive games), it might require JavaScripts

I can't help imagining that the correct fall-back implementation here is to make the game turn-based instead of real-time, although even a game as simple as Pong might lose its appeal under that constraint.
...did anyone here read the actual article?
Yep. Same thinking lead to the split of /etc/shadow from /etc/passwd.
Except in this case older generation(s) can make/map a realistic delta between past and current such that to make reasonable hypotheses.

Frankly, younger people can make the same hypothesis and test from the obverse...it's not that hard.
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I'd be tempted to like Android 4 but I think that's when they got rid of the framebuffer requirement for kernels so it meant you had to use Android for graphics and couldn't just replace the userspace with eg debian anymore.

EDIT: I've probably used up my quota so here's my reply:
Userspace only cares about CPU arc. You can grab a debian rootfs and run it on a kindle/android/rasbpi etc. without even having to recompile things. The kernel however needs drivers and with modern Android many of them have to be rewritten. Replacing the kernel is a development exercise while replacing the userspace is mostly a matter of just installing the right software.
> This doesn't really align with my experience.

Well TBF, I was an SRE while at Google, so I worked with a whole bunch of other teams. And tech talks were considered a good way for SREs to familiarize themselves with partner teams' various systems. So my calendar had several weekly meetings for tech talks and other presentations...and they were usually pretty yawn-inducing. And at the same time, I felt a fair bit of pressure to prepare talks about my various projects and present them: it would help to spread my knowledge and (ahem) raise my visibility. But they weren't interesting projects, and I was not interested in making presentations about them (or in general).
Not OP, but I'm self-hosting for similar reasons. I don't spend very much time on maintenance - if a service is troublesome, it's not worth my time and gets the cut. I don't subscribe to any security newsletters or have any automated new version monitoring in place (yet), but I'm planning to do that at some point so that the home lab can run itself with minimal intervention beyond changing a few version numbers in docker-compose files and rerunning my "redeploy everything" script.

As for languages, it's a very marginal factor. If I have a large number of possible services in a given space, I usually gravitate towards Go, because most Go applications are closer to 12-Factor compliance and generally stability than, say, most Python applications. If I have no options or the best service in a given space is written in COBOL or something equally bad, I'll still take that. I'm quite pragmatic.

IMO, if you want to get into this, keep a few things in mind:

- Docker (Compose) will save you a lot of work

- if you want to expose stuff to the internet, you'll need to stay reasonably current with updates

- have a good system for backing up your data. Experimenting is far easier if you can back up what you've got, and start over from scratch to try a different approach. Doing this "live" is riskier.
Swap "information" with "ML-optimized and personalized dopamine dispenser". At what age would it be appropriate to own such a device?
I set out to figure out the answer to this question by writing about it and comparing various performance issues, ease of composition of components, debugging, etc.

I didn’t find any particularly interesting or meaningful differences.

At the template level, JSX exposes more plain old JavaScript than Vue’s templates do. I find defining and using types in JSX land more intuitive. Otherwise they’re fundamentally both excellent and very capable and neither is doing any one thing glaringly wrong.

I ended up scrapping it because the deeper I went, the less interesting it got. I think it really does come down to ergonomics and preferences
What about the user experience is better?

I'm weighing this option myself now, but honestly between an iOS device and a mid-tier Android phone, it's hard to tell the difference. Email / chat apps / web browsing is more or less the same.

Certainly the amount of telemetry collected by Android is markedly higher [0], but that's not so much of a UX difference.

[0] https://www.scss.tcd.ie/doug.leith/apple_google.pdf
It's a good color for a hot dog stand.
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This seems a cool idea. Few things comes first to mind is to have a paid feeds for reuters / near real time news feeds, paid AMA interactions (Only fans model but for AMA) and paid forums (communities). But all of the above are already matured and has a different apps that satisfy the needs in a vast manner. So twitter could only be providing a intermediate between the user and a service.
Then you refuse to be a helpful contributor to discussions.

Life is littered with cases where people thought they understood each other but didn’t. If there’s a chance you’ll be misinterpreted, you’re not communicating well and need to take steps to correct it, just out of general empathy for those who don’t have the exact same knowledge as you.
SOMA - really awesome survival horror game with a great plot.

Deliver Us The Moon

Detroit: Become Human
To talk about the connection you had with that person. I think that's is exactly why it is so special to meet with people online is that you can open up fearlessly and have very deep exchange super quickly while still being total stranger. So you get theses very unique interaction you'll most likely never have irl. It's quite common i believe. It happened to me and i know other people it happened to them as well.

I think it's interesting that on website/apps designed for dating and meeting, all the exchange i had were very poor and shallow, the best place for me was actually lastfm before it became a ghost town.
I'm a foodie, I cook a lot. I enjoy food porn. Sometimes it inspires me to prepare something new or adopt a new technique. If the dish was prepared by a friend, their creation makes me happy just as if they had posted some sort of art or electronics project.
Question on caloric restriction. I have read that it is the main reason that fasting (even intermittent) works. I heard mice that ate 40% fewer calories lived way longer or something like that.

I'm a thin dude (6'3" and 165lbs). If I don't force myself to eat I will drop towards 155lbs, as has happened before. I eat in a 6-8 hour window daily but I aim for 2000-2500 calories. What would caloric restriction in this context look like?
What's less harmful when it comes to human health and safety in non-essential activities, to assume no risk of harm or injury or to assume risk of harm or injury? I assert that the null hypothesis is that it does not have a benefit and is harmful. This is not an assertion of fact, simply a position of likelihood and a judgement that doing a physical and emotional punishment to a person is generally harmful and that doing so must be balanced against ensuring a just outcome. This is not an unreasonable stance. You, on the other hand, if I understand properly, are saying that we should be able to do whatever we like to a punish person unless we show it directly causes harm. Down that road lies such human rights abuses that holding such views should be considered unconscionable.
I'm going through the Google interview process right now, second round. My interviewer has rescheduled three times in the past week, each with less than 24hrs notice and without a reason given.

Is there a 'safe' space I can give feedback regarding this that doesn't damage my chances of making it through the process?
Damn, I was completely off!
From what I've seen and noticed myself, exposure and engaging with different arguments in good faith (e.g. able to switch sides and argue for the other side in as convincing a way, as one might do in a debate club) tends to either move people towards the center or makes them agnostic to any solution. At least in political questions, or questions of "ought" as opposed to "is".
> I'm surprised shareholders haven't demanded a better explanation yet.

I think we all know what happened.
> The author did a really good job of pointing out problem of promo culture, but the solutions suggested are more inspirational than actionable.

Totally agreed.

One thing that killed my motivation in mega-corp(tm) is that your peers are, in reality, your competitors, despite the constant barrage of HR propaganda indoctrinating the opposite. Either directly or indirectly, you are incentivized to take high visibility projects for yourself, take credit for other people's work, and reinforce a narrative about yourself where you are better precisely than those around you.
Yu can embed all multimedia types, plus internally attach files like xls, or whatever you want.

This part of the reason it's such a security nightmare.
Reading this thread made me feel like all the embedded jobs are low paying or moved to China. And whatever is left has fierce competition. That's why my parent comment.
This is also why folks advocate for a separate auth system (keycloak was just mentioned here on HN) since they are different types of information.

>I feel like at some point they're just going to go completely radio silent because the extent of the breach will become such that they'll have no choice but to just lawyer up.

I feel like they are heading this route as well. Possibly even withholding information in order to save the company from mass exodus due to the incident. I'm sure they'll be fine.
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It’s not really boeing anymore though, not since McDonald Douglas reverse acquired them
Everything in this country, in this life, is a competition. One big zero-sum game.

It starts in high school. Social status, academics, athletics, and now social media followers and likes.

I am very glad that when I was in high school, social media wasn't really a thing yet. I could leave it all at school. Just go home and read, play video games or go outside. Most of my mistakes were limited to the memories of those people who witnessed them first hand.

Kids today are under near constant competition with each other and it takes a toll.

At some point, I hope, without some massive existential crisis serving as the impetuous we can collectively come to the understanding that our technology has vastly outpaced our morality. I hope that the prevailing social norm becomes cooperation over competition and the desire to lift others up instead of stepping on them for your own personal gain.
Other companies usually publish books on management
Consider the possibility that this perspective might be less a reflection of reality and more a reflection of the media environment.
Just 16.5% of GitHub users currently use two-factor authentication
Features checked off as "working" when they pass a test/demo instead of passing code review?
The exact details are classified, but, if the current aircraft are anything to go by:

Military-grade sensors, telecommunications equipment (the current aircraft have 87 telephones and 19 televisions each), additional exit points, a completely remade interior, including the President's private quarters, a kitchen, storage equipment, cold storage equipment to store enough food to serve hundreds of people (or a few dozen people for several days, there was an article about a $20M fridge a few years back), anti-nuclear shielding, reinforced glass, separate quarters for guests, senior staff, Secret Service and security personnel, a medical annex, which includes a fold-out operating table, emergency medical supplies, and a well-stocked pharmacy, the president's executive suite, a conference room, modified engines.

Air Force One does not have a fighter escort most of the time.
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I hit that the first time I moved servers. Turns out you need to backup and restore the configs on disk for there to be continuation. Doesn't make much sense honestly but whatever.
From the environment in which early humans evolved, it is far more disordered to eat 3 square meals a day.
There are a great many things I don’t always agree with the majority on, but in the face of a determined majority, I often lose. That’s a part of living in a democracy, and I can take solace in not always losing. I don’t support majoritarianism either, if we ever reformulate the Senate for any reason, I hope we still end up with an anti-majoritarian institution of some sort and I even have some ideas on how to both accomplish that and make it more representative if you’re interested.

That said, political offices are inherently about power. They are offices of power, not fairness; people who seek to be elected to office are people who seek acquire power; and the Constitution we have, including the one that you think we should have is fundamentally a power sharing agreement between people and States. Without the rule of law, we don’t have a nation, nor do we have the institutions we rely on to protect us from injustices both foreign or domestic.

Abortion was never not political. SCOTUS cannot bang their gavels and make it not political because society has politicized this issue under Roe/Casey’s jurisprudence and will continue to politicize it even if Roe/Casey are actually overturned. You could not successfully pass a constitutional amendment, declare victory, and expect the political nature of it to evaporate. There is no “should” here, there is only the reality that we live in with the people we share it with whether we recognize it as such or not.

More than abortion, I think the biggest problem we have as a nation is a lack of buy-in, or put another way: representation. We have more or less the right framework for government, but the most powerful branch of government is Congress and Congress itself is both too under-representative and too disinterested, and specifically the House of Representatives for which it is their entire schtick to be the directly elected house most representative of Americans. If you wanted to pass a Constitutional amendment of some sort, I would think about how to improve the legislature, because it doesn’t matter how many “rights” you stack in there if Americans do not culturally respect them. So how do you get the buy-in so we can have actual conversations about divisive political issues which divide us (instead of SCOTUS kindly putting the legislative conversation on hold for 50 or so years, elected representatives have more or less been able to say whatever they want without facing actual electoral consequences) and broker actual compromises?
It was certainly said tongue in cheek, but I played in the same men's league that Scott Foster played in at Johnny's Ice House in Chicago and one of our players legitimately was called up to a professional team a week after playing a men's league game.

Granted it was a low level professional team, and he was called up by a previous coach he had played for, but certainly was worth a couple chuckles.
I completely agree with you.

Not to mention the other obvious contributors to poor mental health (war, isolation, health, economic, etc.) that surround us that are being:
1. Ignored due to increased ability to distract one's self
2. Being constantly amplified via social media

In differing conditions, social media may not pose as much harm as it does today. I sure hope they factor this into account when legislating anything.
it might be that it took this amount of time to establish the facts of the events. If they recounted an incorrect version early, it might do more damage than not telling it.

I dont know if the github disclosure "includes" heroku's disclosure : https://github.blog/2022-04-15-security-alert-stolen-oauth-u... - but it was at least april 15th - close-ish to when the event occurred.
Reducing latency is mostly easy to measure, has directly understandable implications, is likely (and understood to be likely) quite difficult to pull off on a product like maps. It's basically a perfect promo packet project.

The example given by the author - fixing lots of tiny features in sheets - is the opposite. Difficult to measure, lots of little and difficult to explain implications, sounds kinda easy - many individual items probably are just work.
(circa:2020) Meet the U.S. Army’s New Drone Swarms : https://mindmatters.ai/2020/09/meet-the-u-s-armys-new-drone-...
First, nice Neal Stephenson reference, second, you're right to challenge the notion that banning social media is equivalent to banning information. It's about time-scale. I figure my kids can and should read anything they want in book form. But they cannot and should not see anything they want from the internet. The time-scale of the internet is too short, the quality of information (particularly commentary) is very poor, the opportunity to "engage" is too distracting. I'm not convinced anyone is really able to handle the onslaught of the internet - I am certain that children are not.
>How is a lack of positive vision indicative of poor social skills?

They never said it was. IF they were drawing any connection, it is the opposite direction. Poor social skills and lack of community can lead to feelings of isolation, hopelessness, and depression.

>Have you ever considered that maybe young people are disillusioned with their surroundings and the people who are older than them? After all - you come on here and complain that they’re socially inept, negative, and mostly unworthy of any attention. Maybe they’re just reflecting back what you feel about them.

This is a valid consideration. It is possible that there is a generational divide at play where youth are seen as having nothing valued by older generations in terms of interests and social interactions. This could be a perception, or it could be a reality.

In my life, there are certainly people that I do not share an interests with and do not enjoy their company.
If copyright extensions occurred before, why would this idea prevent new laws granting copyright extensions?
I've seen fly/io and render/com mentioned in these Heroku discussions, but I have yet to test either of them.
Is it possibly over-engineered?
During my interview process, my recruiter was very much my advocate. Have you talked to them honestly about this? It should not hurt you. I'm sorry you're going through this.
They all found each other online :(
The F-22 program was $11.6 billion, F-35 $1.7 trillion, Boeing recently got a contract to manufacture 100 more AH-64E attack helicopters at $3.4 billion.

We spend a lot on the military, including air force 1, and spend very little on science like JWT.
Does that make it any less true though? It causes people to change how they act. Political activism among youth seems to be quite high. Perhaps for the better.
Don't. It isn't going to help you or them.

Just roll with it. It's all upside from the interviews. It's largely a good place to work and worth the headaches during interviews. Smile and carry on.
I hope I can down level myself after I go over 65 or 70 (depending on my health of course, hopefully I have that option). I think it is an option at some companies (older talent getting ready to retire but still have a lot to contribute).
The plain text to PDF is easy if you use defaults for the font, and how many words and characters are per line, exclude control characters, exclude Unicode, most of the fancy stuff like letterheads, or such.
To those interested in becomming a Watchmaker I can offer this:

1. The school route is great, but after the two year program you still won't get a parts account from anyone. You will have no problem finding a job though.

2. Self-taught. It will take awhile, but it's a rewarding hobby/career.

Every budding Watchmaker should have books. Books by DeCarle, Fried, and Daniels are great.

There are old correspondence courses that are good to. Try to get Chicago School of Watch Repair, and Bulova School of Watch Repair. Hunt around for the best price.

The quality of internet videos on the internet are spectacular. You are lucky to have them. When I started their was only one guy who taught Watch Repair.

Tools:

#2, #5 Dumont tweezers. (any tweezers will do, even the cheap ones.)

Watch back removal tools. You will need various types, including Rolex, and universal tools.

small ultrasonic bath to clean parts. A mason jar filled with cleaning fluid, and rinse will suffice to hobbiests though.

oils. Moebius are recommended, but expensive. Personally I think they are overpriced.

Presto #1,#2 hand removers.

some Radico.

A mainspring tool. These can get pricy. Look for a old set of Marshall mainspring removal tools.

Decide if you want to work with a loupe, or a 10-40x stereoscope.

a band remover.

A staking set. (Look around. No need to spend more than $250.00

A jewelers lathe, mill, etc. come way later. The biggest mistake newbies make is buying every tool they thing they might need. Then again you wealthy boys can go crazy.

Too tired to go on, but I'm in the Bay Area under "I buy Watchmaker, jeweler, amd some Machinist's estates. I'm gearing up to do repairs. I hope to have a website soon. I'm thinking about teaching, but not sure if there's a market for it.
Not to sound nationalistic, but the fact that we(USA) are not setting up fabs like crazy makes me feel like it's temporary. The same way Georgia Pacific and friends didn't set up tons of TP factories during the pandemic.

I figure someone much smarter than me ran the numbers and decided it's not worth the cost. And chips being in such shortage for many years would likely be worth the cost.

All of that said, I wish the US gov would sponsor in some way new fabs in the US. It's nearly a national security risk at this point.
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Wow no wonder! I produce an IoT device and was using this TI buck boost voltage converter that was the only component that I couldn’t source. It used to cost 90 cents. And all the mainstream sources went dry a few months ago (digikey, mouser, etc). So had to dig into random Chinese 3rd party suppliers and I was getting quotes from $7-25!