skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worry about my future children's relationship with technology, especially social media.

But I'm not really concerned about general intelligence. As a parent I feel I have some input into their intellectual growth (to the extent environment allows). I'm far more concerned about the impact of social media on their emotional wellbeing. How they interact with others, and how they view themselves.

In Australia the Government is trying to regulate social media companies. For example, last year it introduced an "anti-trolling" bill, which would require companies to reveal the identities of anonymous trolls. And this is only the beginning of what in my opinion is heavy-handed Government overreach that will not improve the online experience of young people.

Despite being a fairly libertarian person, I'm open to a discussion on banning social media for people under a certain age (16? 18?). And then getting rid of all/most regulations on content.

Not saying this is something we should do right now, or that it's definitely a good idea. I'm just saying I think it's a discussion worth having.
GrubHub Was Getting 6000 Orders a Minute During Its Promo Today; seeding chaos
My first account was infosec twitter, I mostly would comment with positivity and was utterly ignored. So I let that account go away.

After Elon made the offer to buy twitter because of censorship I created a new account to test to see if I get censored. I never said anything at all. I was busy liking or following people at first but I connected to my country's politicians and that was enough for me to be shadowbanned.

>I stopped posting anything on Twitter because there was nothing to say that’s worth the risk.

To me it's not so much risk. If you're a platform who ideally wants to maximize activity on the platform. Censoring me because of world-view is really bad. Why would I waste my time commenting while shadowbanned? I just uninstall and stop.
In Android 12, Settings → System → Gestures → One-handed mode is helpful.
Sounds cool until they mention that they're only accepting 5 or 10 people.
I lusted after QB 4.5 as a kid in the 90s just to be able to compile a real exe. It seems it cost several hundred dollars or something seemingly insurmountable so I never got it. I did find several other shareware/freeware Basics at the time that would let you compile though.
Something I'm not clear on from reading the post - the documentation for the Apply() method on the Raft type (https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/hashicorp/raft#Raft.Apply) mentions that "This must be run on the leader or it will fail". With the code as written, it seems like a user running psql has to know beforehand which process is the Raft leader for running CREATE TABLE/INSERT statements, and there's no way to redirect those messages to the Raft leader. Is this something that could be handled (and was just left out for brevity's sake), or is there something fundamental I'm missing?
Wow! Great stat, do you have a source so I can use that elsewhere?
> Why would I care about being "best possible teammate"

You absolutely shouldn’t care about it! And if you don’t care about it, Netflix doesn’t want you to work there. It’s a win win.
I agree it's an essential component of success, but don't think there will be a one size fits all solution to this.

There are many professionals, books, and good advice spread around the internet. Each person needs a different combination of solutions, depending on their current state and personal traits...
Was there a flavor of communism that didn't go way south? Perhaps a true scotsman?
Keep dreaming..the corruption and dirty money from 3rd party countries is business for both the US and the UK along with Switzerland and some small EU countries. I believe they consider it leverage as well but that's another story. If something will be done that will be to move more dirty money from banana coutries to places like Dellaware or the City of London.
Yeah, the technical details are cool and all but it's unreal how this option was even on the table. It sidesteps one of the biggest reasons for a LAN. What's the point of gathering everyone together if 35ms is going to be added to the ping.

Funnily enough, all this hoohaa was for nothing as the Asian Games got postponed anyway.
An old fish swims past a couple of young fish, and says, "morning lads, how's the water?" the young fish look at each other briefly, and one asks, "what's water?"

The water in this case is Linux.

All I want is a handful of risc CPU cores, a few gb of ram, and a framebuffer device with a good blitter. Something well-documented so I can play with the metal.
One of the major issues with biological race realism is that common race classifications do not form monophyletic groupings. If you already have a set of definitions you need to fit, any sufficiently large set of features can trivially classify those categories. It doesn't matter if the groups are race or "people who like licorice". When the features and population sizes aren't uniformly distributed, you can even get very strong correlations, without there being a meaningful underlying basis.

The social definition is used because that's a most scientifically meaningful and useful definition that avoids many of the issues with biological race realism.
Like all CEO bullshit this is pretty cringe, but admittedly it's not quite as bad or creepy as One Big Family cultures
You ask a good question! When you dig into it, the goal of almost all modern rocket engine optimization is to create a mixture rich in hot hydrogen. For thermodynamic reasons, smaller molecules move faster at a given temperature, hydrogen is spectacularly smaller than any other molecule, and the most important quality of a rocket engine is its exhaust velocity.
Not free, but Camo Studio is great if you're using an iPhone. Works perfectly for me.
Loops are very easy to debug in R. When they break and they're not inside a function, your REPL state is set to exactly what the environment was before the loop broke.
I misspoke. It’s every 2 minutes.

> Every two minutes, the energy reaching the earth from the sun is equivalent to the whole annual energy use of humanity. All the energy … the cars, lighting, and air conditioning of the world … in one year is equivalent to two minutes of the sun,” said Dr Lamya N. Fawwaz, vice-president for Institutional Advancement and Public Affairs at Masdar Institute of Science and Technology (MIST).

https://www.energy.gov/articles/top-6-things-you-didnt-know-...

https://gulfnews.com/uae/environment/two-minutes-of-sun-enou...
> A fickle, ego driven person gives the world the first reusable rockets and electric cars?

I didn't assert that the aforementioned qualities are mutually exclusive with notable achievement, and I'd even argue that being ego-driven, in particular, would help with such efforts.

That said, did Musk bring us the first reusable rockets? Almost certainly not. He didn't even bring us the first commercial reusable rocket (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Shepard#First_vertical_sof...).

And you can't possibly think that musk truly introduced the world's first electric cars, can you? There were electric carriages as early as the 1830s, and quite a few commercially available electric cars in the 20th century.
Written text quotations are so overly intrusive into prose. I'm totally onboard with wholesale sampling and remixing of other texts, but it is essential to provide a footnote marker on the text or something.

Personally, I love All Along the Watchtower by Bob Dylan and like the Jimi Hendrix version. And I love all these EDM remixes of the old classics. Losing my Religion hits different when it's powered by a sick beat.

Anyway, if there was just some pleasant way to remix by just sticking them in a chapter footnote or a page footnote rather than having to explicitly say "It's a lie to make up a text like BLOCKQUOTE As Ursula Le Guin says BLOCKQUOTE The moon is a harsh mistress is a terrible book especially when Heinlein says BLOCKQUOTE There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him"
Neither are better, but at least corruption and lobbying are somewhat more obvious with politicians. That and at least in theory representative politicians should be more conscious about the consequences of their decisions by hopefully being held accountable to their constituents.

At the moment, the issues surrounding external influences, Cambridge Analytica/PLTR style voter manipulation occur outside the scope of electoral regulators.

In reality, both systems are failing spectacularly given they are being abused by lobbyists, monetary interests, gerrymandering, FPTP, and sheer electoral fraud.

E.g.
The Tories openly lying (Brexit empty promises, Scaremongering, AV killing babies).
The Tories splitting by campaigning for the left vote to abuse FPTP.
The Tories openly ignoring electoral spending restrictions because the fines are ineffective.
The electoral college system/voter boundary abuse resulting in people in London/California having far less voting power than those in rural regions.

Neither system will be fair until the above aspects are rectified.

In the future, we are going to need to take unpleasant actions for which the current government models fail absolutely. Take climate change, or even the most recent pandemic. The current government models in the West failed spectacularly compared to places like China or Singapore.
> What is better? Well, let’s not be so contrarian that we insist that better is simply a matter of perspective.

Why is this contrarian? "Taste is subjective" seems to me to be the most straightforward and obvious take.
> "...focal length that actually makes sense"

But a new problem emerges. Your face is now larger than other faces in the meeting. When the view splits everyone into the grid, your face will be the odd one out.

I don't think it's important for your face to be 50mm photo quality portrait photography for a work meeting. Sometimes when the meeting window is full screen, I reduce its size because I don't want my colleague's faces up close in my face!

Also why do people stare directly into the camera the whole time? I don't get that. I have my laptop off to the side slightly, and use main monitors for other work during meetings, or for viewing the meeting if someone is sharing their screen. Just like in real life meetings, we don't stare directly into each other's faces the whole time. I guess personal preference in these things will vary.
Gophie – modern gopher client for Windows, Mac, Linux
..also, water storage is fairly straightforward, so the water usage peak doesn't have to exactly track with the daily solar power production peak.
What Is Chaos Magic?
A great deal, possibly even most, people can be corrupted if placed in a position that enables it. Any regulatory mechanism implemented has to bear in mind that the underlying problem is that _people_ are corrupt. Putting people in a position where there is no check (such as voting, or customers choosing whether to buy) on that corruption makes everything more dangerous.

My position all along has been that businesses are greedy, oft corrupt, enterprise. So it shouldn't surprise anyone that individuals in the revolving door between industry and regulator are still corruptible people -- whether they are in the role of regulator or business director. These revolving door individuals didn't suddenly become corrupt when entering business or become pure when entering regulatory agencies.
I don't understand why this comment is almost downvoted to oblivion.
> Bello was a hotly anticipated new author that was preparing to publish her first book

I don't know anything about the inner workings of the biz. How does someone who hasn't published her first book yet become hotly anticipated? I get the second book being hotly anticipated, but the first?
2015. This is not a new take on the current state.
When it got to 35 C in Chicago in 1995, 739 souls were lost.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995_Chicago_heat_wave
Is Sharp R7 your option? It's just a normal sized (read: big/weighty) flagship phone.
Top three reply chains are transparently Intel damage control. It slides the topic but doesn't add anything to the discussion. Fact is Intel flopped on the tick tock cycle and is going the TSMC route to try to move to a smaller process and this is essentially what's been going on with them in the past few years. Moreover we learned through Spectre and Meltdown that Intel took a lot of shortcuts for decades, Theo De Raadt famously called out the CORE microarchitecture as being dramatically flawed and he ended up being correct[1].

Profits are important as a publicly held company but Intel needs a new from-scratch improved microarchitecture which isn't based on the venerable Pentium Pro, which is basically what we're all running a riced up version of even today.

[1]https://linuxreviews.org/Theo_de_Raadt_on_the_Intel_Core_2_J...
This was done so that the IRL robot manipulation tasks could be done fast enough. In the future, we may always need small models mixed with large models for some tasks (e.g., for slow long term planning and fast short term planning), though compute does have a tendency to improve exponentially...
Doesn't Netflix pay very well relative to the field?
Intelligence and Comprehension
The short answer is Twitter.

It's the long answer as well.
I once tried to start my own company. It didn’t last long but the experience has made me want to try again at some point. Do you think that one of these options provides me with a better platform to make that attempt?
The only reason I found in the article was "because jesus f. christ" (near the end). Therefore I assume the author has religious objections against nurses. /s

In fact they mention various issues with their approach that nurses would fix automatically and without the user having to configure stuff in the app:

> sadly, true color isn't supported on many terminals, urxvt tragically included. for this reason, your program should never rely on it, and abstract these settings away to be configured by the user.

Apparently they don't care about the great terminal-independence ncurses offers because these ANSI sequences will only work fully on terminal emulators. And as they mention even those differ in supported features. Ncurses was created precisely to abstract these differences. It's not just good for "obscure dumb terminals from 1983". It would also be quite a pain having to deal with terminal resize events etc when building a TUI. And no, doing a full screen rewrite for each minor update does not make for smooth TUIs. Yes modern hardware is fast but sometimes you're on a slow SSH connection.

Personally I still use real terminals too at times (I own a real VT520 and love it) and apps that are totally ignoring termcap/terminfo are super annoying. But I know this is niche.

PS: Also from the article:

> also, i have effectively zero pull in the tech community and am also kind of a controversial character who is liable to give projects a bad reputation, which i don't normally care about

Gee, I wonder why...
I’m happy with this one https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=7da46b0a-9975-4d8a-bbe1-...
Meh, unfortunately the most important smart phone app is the web browser, and what the browser has to do is dictated mostly by site operators, and web sites have an expansionist hunger for more and more cpu power and screen space. So phones have to keep getting bigger batteries even as the electronics get more efficient, because the work loads get heavier faster than the electronics can keep up with. Once you have such a big battery, you may as well also have a big screen, especially since you need it anyway to keep the web sites readable without a magnifying glass.

It is a vicious circle. I blame the rise of non-removable batteries and the transformation of javascript from a scripting extension into a full fat application framework. It would be great if more sites had public API's.
Well COVID killed a bunch of people and disabled a bunch more, so those people dropped out of the workforce. There's also the fact that Baby Boomers are retiring. That means that economy right now wants more workers than are available which puts pricing power in the hands of employees.

And the idea that you should job hop to get higher wages and that employee loyalty to employers is for suckers has trickled all the way down and people are talking about it and there's a noticeable uptick in unionization drives.

The idea that everyone just up and quit is probably not correct at all, but I don't think its accurate to say that the environment isn't looking any different from the past ~30ish years.

I think the Fed is about to stomp the shit out of all of it though.
> Making every network-element, every hop, have to add something to the routing table is slow

How do you see the QUIC stream layout relating to routing cost? It's been a few years since I've done larger scale networking but I wouldn't say IP routing changes much between protocols. Router see's destination IP bytes, matches destination IP to network route in table, forwards packet. 10 UDP, TCP or QUIC UDP packets in any stream arrangement are unlikely to route differently or to add/remove cost (in a contrived example ignoring QUIC or TCP protocol overhead). Most "middle" hops are just pushing the packet, at least until you are hitting an AS that controls the endpoint of a connection.

Are you referring to hops where application level decisions are being made? Towards each end of a packets route there may be hops to NAT, QoS, L4 routers or firewalls that will try to reconstruct packets into logical sessions where there's a memory/lookup overhead and usually rules applied to the packet. This is likely to decide where the packet ends up but that's not slow and I don't believe QUIC connections are a fundamental leap in this type of tracking over TCP src/dst 4 tuples, apart from the observability improvements the additional quic headers add onto basic src/dst rules.
New app from UK's MI5 to help spot online spies
He did and the comment was removed. It didn't seem terrible, I don't know why it was removed. I responded to it and then it was gone.
I’m taking it as a half joke, but funeral homes are in slow decline as well due to rising cremation rates
Pretty sure the early employees did make millions from stock grants and Netflix was always known for high salaries. $250K - $500K a year not unheard of.
Are the other streaming services going to swoop in like vultures?
Thanks! 100% agree with the sentiment that devs should get in front of customers. The best teams I've worked on, the devs have an "end-to-end" sense of ownership, and the organization fosters this sense of responsibility and agency. And great work should absolutely be recognized. It should be a win-win-win—better software for end users, more revenue for the company, and financial + creative satisfaction for developers. We are working with all our might to push the world in that direction.
Apple Executive Who Left over Return-to-Office Policy Joins Google AI Unit
These questions tends to come from software side, especially web developers where deployment and distribution lead time is practically zero.

Even if Intel knew, the exact method to catch up, the time required to build Fabs, even if it was perfectly planned both internally ( as in Staff, Operation, recruitment ) and externally, everything from Land, Water, Electricity supply, equipment all readily available would still take 8 months to build and 1 year to operation. That is the fastest record to date to bring up a Fab by Apple and TSMC with lots of help from Government ( in terms of Regulation and infrastructure approval ). And if you include the planning prior to it that is more like 2 years. And it is already consider an astonishing achievement because most other players ( including TSMC themselves ) need 3-5 years.

And right now, ASML has a backlog of orders to fill, assuming they cant increase their rate of production both due to the complexity and chip shortage, they are talking about 2024 if not 2025 orders. That is ignoring other part of the supply chain like Tokyo Electron which are also running extremely tight. ( Or Applied Materials if you want to look it up )

Again, all of that is assuming you knew exactly what to do to catch up to leading node.
After failing with an EOS M50, a HDMI capture card, and the USB EOS connector I gave up on the DSLR idea and went to camo with my iPhone13 Pro.

It’s waay better.

I only use default settings. Quality trumps anything I tried before.

Added bonus: I cannot use the phone when in a call.

https://youtu.be/U4j88uwoKZw
I'm confused about the dividend puzzle. I thought that dividends were really the only thing giving the stocks of high-performing companies concrete value. Wouldn't you naturally value high-dividend paying stocks more highly?
Yes, they pay top 1% and (according to them, but not disputed by anyone who actually works there that I've seen) they reassess every year and adjust according, to stay in the top 1%. Furthermore it's almost all cash, very minimal stock, so no huge unintentional pay cuts like basically every other large tech company that can only pay the way they do by giving out generous stock grants.
Anti-aging drugs are being tested as a way to treat Covid
It's kind of weird that Ian Goodfellow is "the Apple Executive Who Left Over Return-to-Office Policy"
I was thinking today about George Floyd when there was a phenomenon of people calling Derek Chauvin's trial the "George Floyd trials".

I wonder if the "Say His Name" protests actually caused that to happen since it was a rare case where we heard George Floyd's name so much he became the main character of that story in our minds.
None of the responses are addressing the very strong point that not being available 24/7 when others are means you miss out on important decision-making opportunities. That's not necessarily about ambition, it's about enjoying your job and the things you work on and how you do them. It's about avoiding problems because you were there to voice your concerns. Without that input, you can end up feeling like a lackey.
RNG already have an advantage when they are allowed to play remotely from the comfort of their home. Yes it's not the team's fault they can't travel but it is what it is. There's another tournament in 6 months.

There's a reason this Frankenstein ping is unheard of in bigger esports.
New App Store Policy Hopes You Forget to Check Your Bank Account
I find it pretty honest. Very to your face, instead of that whole big family thing where everyone pretends to love each other, which you pointed out is worse.
> Does that count for tech?

Financial debt kills because free cash flow gets squeezed. For most tech companies, operating expenses constrain free cash flow.

Quick ratio [1] and free cash flow (or alternatively, operating cash flow) as a fraction of cash on hand (or less conservatively, current assets) would be my go-to acid tests.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/q/quickratio.asp
Could you elaborate on what you meant about the sports team applying only to key people?

Is it about a difference between operational work and strategic work?
Never seen the domain name with this sign "TM". Typing TM doesnt work.
I talked to them a few years ago but they weren’t able to change their license. I guess there are orgs that pay $1000/user just for PMs to approve merges and stuff.

We went with GitHub over it and it’s kind of a shame because GitLab has so many great features.

I can’t bring myself to pay for 1000 seats so 50 developers can use GitLab. Not to mention for pages viewers where there’s probably 2-5k who view project docs and stuff. Paying for users to log in and view web sites is pretty crazy.
Neat! Thanks for the tips.
Part of the “scale from single player to leader of the galactic forces” is that even if it were done, you’d end up having fast travel and skip systems anyway.
Maybe he means ip camera.
If I got rid of Ada Twist Scientist, I would fail my 5yo's keeper test.