skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As the parent of a young child, I strongly support this bill. Right now, keeping her away from a phone is no problem because at her age, her peers are largely kept away as well. However as she gets older, I suspect peer pressure will become an overwhelming factor and laws like this will tip the scales back into parent’s favor.

If Facebook/Instagram/TikTok or whatever stop operating in California for those under 18, good riddance.
I'm going through roughly 100 old vb6 functions that do god knows what and breaking them down into knew SQL queries ( we are restructuring the entire database, last one had no PK, FK, or normalization)
I'm writing what I think the functions do
and documenting what new tables should be used.

I also will be rewriting some of them but for now I'm doing this so when more team members join the project then can have the coles notes on each vb6 code breakdown.

Thanks for the suggestions.
You must not have children
I mean, the alternative is littering dead rovers, so a little plastic sheet doesn't sound as bad
I'd love to see RockStar do a GTA/RDR-type game set in a warzone. I always pictured the Balkans but it could be something more current like Ukraine. One key would be that messing with any actual military would be absolutely deadly/futile, so the game's focus would be on the stories of decisions and survival in the backstreets, running messages, finding food/fuel, relocating family, etc.

(This thread makes me realise just how many games already exist and that I've never heard of.)
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While I appreciate the social cohesion and equality of opportunity such a totalitarian indoctrination and control could provide, it’s anathema to most Westerners. I would not support it.

Certainly it’s the fastest way to curb religious extremism, racism, and other social ills. Sadly it’s also the fastest way to create them.
Windows updates (some? Not all?) come down over port 80. That rubs security folks the wrong way.

There is extra validation (chiefly, digital signatures) which protect against MITM attacks, but some still think the bandwidth is worth the risk mitigation.
> Not forcing microsoft.com and windowsupdate.com to use the corporate VPN sure seems like an oversight to me.

I imagine that some enterprises don’t want or need to have that data traversing their VPNs, it’s not sensitive data and their networks are probably busy enough with back to back teams calls.
On the other hand, we want to prevent new companies forming on the premise they can make money from gamifying their product so much it becomes addictive. Now, addictiveness has to have some definition to be useful. It can't be some odd random user who suffers from some kind of condition that prevents them from self-regulating their particular addiction whereas for example other people don't get addicted. There have to be some thresholds and milestones which indicate some service is "addictive" and then regulate against that.
not yet - but this is very high on our priority list! If we had built in encryption in this first step, then it wouldn't extended development time by many months. Instead, we chose to release sync first, prove the core local-first technology works and is scalable, and add in encryption in phase 2. The basic protocols and data structures are designed with encryption in mind, so we're excited to start work on that very soon.
A "One City Block Stealth Action RPG" like the one described by Warren Spector but with a big emphasis on the stealth aspect.

Basically Die Hard X Splinter Cell
Set in one highly simulated skyscraper where you approach the game how you wish with fighting mechanics like Sleeping Dogs (environment interaction) and immersive sim possibilities
Yes. This is one of several similar cases the FTC has pursued against social media companies over the last few years. I believe Facebook had a bug that inadvertently outed their misuse of the 2FA phone numbers for advertising and that was what initially put the practice on the FTC’s radar. Around the start of the pandemic the FTC actually did a study[1] looking at the “secondary uses” of security data. They registered for 2FA with a bunch of websites and then tracked how many non-2FA related calls and text messages the phone numbers received. While the experiment was a great idea I think the way they structured it leaves much to be desired.

[1][PDF] https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/attachments/office-technolo...
But mistrials are pretty dang rare - I don't think this is a reasonable concern.
I have to ask, how is it better to restrict children (not everything you can do with a smartphone is tied to social media) than the corporations that target them, that intentionally create addictive experiences?
Yeah, if they have $300MM and are laying off, something is seriously wrong.
Exactly. Jury nullification, in my opinion, is the ultimate form of democracy.
Yeah even spotlight search sucks these days. When it first came out in Tiger or so it worked great. Now it's slow and it never finds what I'm looking for even if I type the exact name.
So tell me why do people use DDoS protection? It's just money. If you run a server you should be able to eat all the cost!

Seriously do you follow through what your arguments actually mean if applied in general?
Yeah cause that went so well
> But it has nowhere near the risk profile for evolving human disease as unregulated wet markets

Is your assessment based on evidence? I'd be interested to read a statistical analysis comparing the number of diseases that have come out of "regulated" industrial/factory farming versus unregulated wet markets.
> We have an answer to this. It is, empirically, a very long time, as there seem to be a handful (possibly only 2, certainly less than 5) users impacted negatively enough to report an issue. It does not usually make sense to solve an issue that doesn't exist. Presumably dozens of users reporting the same issue would cause a reprioritization, but if no one is complaining, there's no reason to change priorities.

You have enough information to understand that it is a problem, regardless of how many people are actually complaining to you. I self host git, if Google was chewing up 120gb a month of my bandwidth I'd definitely feel it but I wouldn't figure out what was going on easily, let alone figure how how to complain and stop it.

The behavior is rude and bad engineering. Just because people aren't yelling at you for leaving dog poop in their yard doesn't mean it isn't a problem for them too.
I imagine a person's view on this is highly correlated with the level of hoarder their parents are.

For me, it will only be a sad single day project as part of the grieving process. Hundreds of hours is just a totally different story.
Most TP-Link wifi routers can run OpenWRT. That would solve your problem.
Mentally ill means whatever we want it to mean, and there’s no reason not to make it include this.

If there was a "treatment" that worked, it'd be a good alternative to life in prison. (Although if that was some kind of future-lobotomy, it'd have a lot of its own ethical issues.)
Have you checked out cycle.io?

Started using it for container management, and have been pleased.
I respectfully disagree. There was a vibrant community on soda well into the early aughts, even if it was running FreeBSD on x86 vs. some older more esoteric hardware architecture.

It's good to see that the CSUA encyclopedia still exists somewhere, even if it's not hosted on soda anymore:
https://www.erzo.org/shannon/writing/csua/encyclopedia.html
I had the good fortune to meet and work with the primary author at a small games company called Skotos Tech during my later undergraduate years.
>I wish there’s some cheap “dumb wireless AP” products that does nothing other than switching packets.

Have you tried unifi? Their pricepoint is about the same as a mid range wireless router.
Indeed, some of the smartest individuals in the world are hyper-optimizing their products for addictive properties with multi-armed bandit optimization strategies. The average overworked parent doesn’t have a chance in comparison.

If this law isn’t perfect and has some unintended side effects, we can adjust and stay flexible.
I can see why "watson.telemetry.microsoft.com" was added. Id block that too if I saw it on my network.
oh really, might have to take a look.
thanks
I have met only a few truly difficult people to work with in my 25+ years career. Most were simply incompetent while stubbornly believing they were rock stars. No amount of negotiation or gentle discussions work with those kind of people. And the rest were basically passive aggressive sociopathic control freaks. Again, no amount of talking/negotiation worked with those people. I have literally tried everything. To them trying to talk/negotiate/find common ground is a sign of weakness and a signal for them to double down on their controlling behaviour. Because it is obviously working :) So now I simply block/avoid/deflect people like that and treat them like kids that needs to be disciplined to behave. That works so much better!
> It's totally out of place with the rest of the Swift programming language. They had to add new crap to the language to accommodate its declarative style, when Swift is (was) unapologetically imperative syntax-wise. It's an obvious bolt-on and leaves a really bad taste in my mouth.

Woah now, that's interesting! In my mind swift has had awesome support for functional programming paradigms since launch. I understand it to be leaning in about as far as it can given that it's built with first class support for Obj-c oriented frameworks.

What makes you feel like it's unapologetically imperative?
> it's engineers/ scientists/ programmers doing all the real work

Ask the engineers of any failed companies what real work they’ve been doing?

> 90% of Musk's promises remain undelivered

He promised the hard things that are more often than not fail. He doesn’t care if he is wrong.

> his contribution to each company is so minor he can 'lead' five companies at once and still has so much free time he wants to buy a sixth.

That’s an uncharitable take. He is obviously doing a good job given how EVs are being seen today, and how dominant SpaceX has become. One may argue he isn’t afraid of challenge, and work six times as hard of other CEOs
The Vaultwarden I'm using uses stable Rust 1.60 and Node isn't involved at all.
Even with modern technology (I guess) we have to use lots of tricks to get desired performance. So (I guess) the level of skills that was necessary to create the Pong, would help designing modern chips as well.
yes, the OAuth scopes are way way too coarse. Even to the point of not being able to separate readonly vs R/W.

GitHub apps are indeed noticeably better. But that doesn’t always help
You could argue that reading is addictive, maybe some people find math so as well. I became addicted to computers when I was a kid and we didn't even have the internet. Sports can be addictive, along with dancing, or just plain socializing. Silly, yes, but you can bet that there'd be lawsuits claiming all sorts of things are addictive and some number will find sympathetic juries. Seems like a pretty bad idea to me.
FIDO keys should only be sold in 2-packs in my opinion. You should never have a single key as your second factor.

That being said, one-time use backup codes are a standard way out of the problem.
Diablo where you control a large party -- I tried this idea myself (using a bit of hack) and found it to be such great fun and extremely addictive. The only bad thing about it is that you can't go back to a single-player Diablo any more :-) There is a webpage that I made about 15 years ago: http://pl.postech.ac.kr/~gla/diablo.html

I still play Diablo with 8 characters occasionally. I wish there was a game like this.
It changed recently I think https://www.onmsft.com/news/microsoft-update-catalog-uses-ht...
Ideally Facebook, Twitter and the like could be sued into oblivion instead.
I get the impression he felt somewhat trapped at Twitter. Between the board and the user base and the Federal government breathing down their necks, it must have been extremely difficult to actually do anything.
It was initially an internal tool at GoCardless (YC S11). Good team. Would gladly work with any of them again.
And if someone intentionally "shits in the pool" repeatedly, they should expect legal action to be taken against them. At a minimum, being forbidden from coming back.
So, a silicon valley startup?
Not wallpaper, exactly, but (unless this has changed recently), you can run the screensaver as your wallpaper.

/System/Library/Frameworks/ScreenSaver.framework/Resources/ScreenSaverEngine.app/Contents/MacOS/ScreenSaverEngine -background

https://osxdaily.com/2011/01/22/set-a-screensaver-as-your-de...

I used to do this once in a while, back in PowerPC days. Twenty years ago, it was amusing.
I believe both, in most cases. When a video is uploaded to YouTube, YouTube runs the audio through a speech-to-text algorithm to generate the transcript for the video. And the generated text is also what's used for video captions, when they're turned on. When a search is performed via VideoMentions Search, the tool gets that auto-generated transcript and searches it to find keyword matches (along with the video's title and description). When a transcript is manually uploaded for a video, that is used instead.

Thanks for checking out my project!
On a bit of a tangent, there was a prequel. A plague hit - it was very annoying but lethality was low.

Half the player base decided to quarantine. There was a route west, which involved a dangerous swamp and a climb up a mountain that most newbies couldn't make if they didn't have the right buffs. New citizens would be escorted to the mountain, quarantined for 4 days, then buffed so they could cross it.

The other group was the "gains" group. They figured out that sparring increased stats rapidly and they could buff stats to the point where the disease was no longer a problem.

So then there was a PvE war with the orcs, which hit an uneasy peace, where the player base decided to just give tribute of weapons and armor to them. A third faction spawned, the orc sympathisers, who snuck more steel weapons to the copper age orcs. A smith player unlocked the orc race this way and black market emerged trading iron to the orcs.

The gains faction were uneasy with this and broke the peace treaty. The rest of the game, unhappy with breaking a treaty, moved west.

The gains faction conquered the orcs. The orc god was impressed and there was a party involving player-crafted beer, and a brawl with a god that increased someone's dodge skills to superhuman levels. The orcs were assimilated and they created a warrior-murderhobo faction in the north. They took on small territory, near a rich mine and some rare leathers used in armour. By the end of the game, everyone up north including chicken farmers had the highest tier swords.

The isolationist faction had a larger block of land and established trading relations with the dwarves. They got access to many of the remaining dungeons and artifact zones.

Sadly the game died shortly after, because of tech debt, server costs, and a burnt out player base. After a year, it was rebuilt into what became Soulforged today.
Disagree.

White collar malice, even more so in tech, has an enormous blast radius. It affects a giant amount of people. Sometimes in small ways, but small suffering multiplied by a huge number is a large negative impact on society.

If one could trace down the single person (most) responsible for the offense, I would fully support jail time. I doesn't have to be long. Maybe 3 months for a case like this. And a note on the criminal record.

So that they can FEEL it. Right now they hide behind a corporate shield and suffer no personal damage nor reputational damage.
I always wanted some kind of game that was kind of like minecraft tekkit (modpack that allows you to use technology to make futuristic things) meets FPS and also MMORPG. I imagine it would be a game where you would have to find resources to build things, but also have to defend yourself from other players and build bases. In the game there would be multiple nations / teams who would be at war with each other, and there would be a map of the game that would be divided into sections. Each section would have different resources, and players would have to travel to different sections to find the resources they need. The game would be extremely open world and there would be no set objectives, so players could do whatever they wanted. There would be diplomacy between the different nations, base building and resource collection, first person shooters and strategic missions as well as an in game economy.
One of the reasons why CPUs are getting faster is because the more transistors you have, the faster is the chip and vice versa (this is not a proven statement but rather my intuition). We might not be able to use higher clock frequency, but we still can fit more transistors on the same area.
I would bet money Bolt disclosed financial statements and all material information as part of this offer.

The risks here are not rocket science. If the most recent round of preferred stock financing was $100, and your exercise price is $20, the risk is that if the stock ends up being worth less than $20, it's a mistake in hindsight. You can talk all day about the risks, the numbers, etc. What's currently happening is macroeconomic -- inflation, fed tightening, asset prices dropping across the board, etc. This was not some Bolt-specific issue. People assumed it was more likely that the stock would be worth at least their exercise price (which still may be the case). A full half of the people this was offered to declined, because they were prudent and the risks were probably clear. The other half was probably optimistic, and also gambling on crypto and other startups at the same time.
it must pack a real punch
Parents should "parent" but children are not with their parents 24x7. They are often in school or in the company of peers who may offer contradictory influence advice and counsel.
Die Hard X Splinter Cell
But taking place in a highly simulated skyscraper

Pretty much an immersive sim similar to the "One City Block Action RPG" described by Warren Spector
But with a big emphasis on the stealth aspect, and fighting mechanics like Sleeping Dogs (environment interaction)

Where you approach the game, an hostage situation for exemple, how you wish
Early Copy Protection on the Apple II
Intended by the US government.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XKeyscore
Oddly enough, in most states it's legal for a parent to furnish alcohol to a minor.

I remember being given a glass of wine or a beer occasionally growing up. I think this is something that my parents did to discourage underage drinking my making it boring (which worked, at least for me).

That works because the parent is mediating.
Imagine watching a series about a bunch of people sitting in muddy pits doing paperwork for 3 months, or counting charcoal/pollen on a microscope in a lab. That's 'real archaeology'.

There's a very limited amount of information known about what's uncovered while people are onsite and film crews would be prohibited from filming most of the spectacular things that might be found for ethical reasons. Moreover, it usually takes 1-2 years after excavations are completed to organize everything to a degree of public presentability.

All of that is a really bad fit for typical production schedules and TV drama, so what popular media does is go to people who have opinions about sites that are already long excavated and find the ones that give them the most 'interesting' soundbites and perspectives post-editing. It's entertainment rather than education.
This says it’s about 240 employees:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrickcai/2022/05/25/checkout-...
> some people just want to watch the world burn ...

-- Game Controls --
E Move forward
D Move backwards
S Move left
F Move right
Can't someone bypass that with a custom etc/hosts file with IPs for the blocked sites they want to visit hardcoded.
My impression of C++ is that you have to write multiple constructors before you can implement any logic.
That’s a strange false dichotomy. These NFTs aren’t in lieu of compensation. They are for recognition and verification of achievements. Compensation is separate.
What are database isolation levels (Episode 8)
> This plus the fact that Dependabot is not able to update Docker Compose files at this time.

https://github.com/dependabot/dependabot-core/issues/390 upvote and/or implement it as a fork and run it in an Action.

> The other problem that I have is there is no easy way (probably for good reason due to potential abuse) to manually trigger Dependabot. So Dependabot might run once a day or not do so for quite a while.

There is, it's just hidden in https://github.com/:org/:repo/network/updates > click "last updated ..." and then click "Check for Updates" and it'll start a manual run.
What made them special was the service. I knew several people that worked there when they were the king of the hill. When I started grad school at Texas A&M, Gateway was the sole supplier of computers, in spite of the fact that they were a state school just down the road from Dell. According to my friends that worked there, Gateway decided service was too expensive, so they killed off the single reason they were popular. (The move may have been forced by the market, but it nonetheless eliminated the reason anyone had to buy Gateway.) I tried to buy a Gateway in 2002 and there was no way to get it delivered, so I bought a Compaq at Best Buy.

An interesting side note. North Dakota's current governor also started a billion-dollar tech company, in Fargo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Burgum
Ask HN: Blog post from engineer diagnosed and prescribed anti-depressant
Hello, a while ago I read a blog post from a software engineer who would start off happy at jobs and then become deeply unsatisfied. He would get fired or quit and and move to the next job for the cycle to repeat. He didnt know the reason for his unhappiness and then was diagnosed and prescribed medication which made things a lot better.

I'm trying to find the post as it feels very similar to my own situation and am seeking professional help and want to bring it to the doctors attention. I'm not fond of medication but would like to see if a similar diagnosis is applicable to me and find strategies to deal with it if not meds as a last resort.

Thanks for any help!
What’s even more, is we can make higher frequency chips, it just turned out higher density gates was the easier path to go down.

If the gates path reaches its end, we can still go back to clock. It won’t be easy or cheap to solve all the clock problems, but if it’s better than the alternative someone will do it (like how fracking only became viable as a means of drilling oil once the cheap, easy to get oil was somewhat depleted)
I want something that involves advanced science, but doesn't feel forced.
What are the prerequisites to studying general relativity?
Interesting that they don't offer practice for (general) Software Engineering roles.

"What field do you want to practice for?

Data Analytics
E-Commerce
IT Support
Project Management
UX Design
General"
SSR has absolutely nothing to do with computing performance, it's about network speed and SEO. Your react/angular site isn't going to run faster on low end smartphones or computers with SSR if you end up loading the entire react/angular app anyway.

If you really care about low end devices, you would stick to HTML and use Javascript only when necessary and the least possible amount of it.
If this is a concern, lobby for applying the law to companies or social networks over set sizes. Tangential laws are proposed in the EU that apply to companies with market caps over ~$80 billion, for example[1].

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/24/22994234/eu-antitrust-leg...