skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> it's highly unlikely he's doing the same thing for those 12 hours

This may seem like a safe assumption but if we abstract to the core of "continually monitoring a loose network of 3+ degrees removed people for fear of missing out" I don't think they are doing anything diverse with their phones. Your own use of a computer is far different: kids and young adults are doing no coding; research (beyond asking Siri random, shallow questions); or monitoring, communicating, meeting, media consumption outside of these social networks. The homogeneous, consumption-focused all-consuming aspects are my real concerns. It's the Fentanyl of the 3-channel TV universe that I grew up with.
Everyone should be free to believe in whatever the fuck they want.

All I want is churches or any other form of religion completely banned from political consideration.
Comparing google to big tobacco is very flawed. Big tobacco has essentially one product, and that product is always harmful.

Google on the other hand has a variety of products. Even when it comes to their biggest product i.e. ads, they'd still make a shitton of money without tracking and storing everything in perpetuity. Would they make less? Very likely.

But they will not "stop existing", even if they were forced to stop all tracking tomorrow. They can still sell ads not based on the users tracking history, but based on other context that doesn't require a huge data store, but ephemeral information at most (e.g. "user is searching for term x RIGHT NOW, and has a German IP RIGHT NOW"). And of course they can still make money from the "play store tax", money from users of their APIs, cloud and services.

If we actually prohibited tracking now, far beyond what even the GDPR does, advertisers would still spend money, like they did in the print and television days as well. And google controlling a large part of the market already with an iron grip (search, youtube, android) would still come out ahead of the competition.
I've started using Firefox and can never go back to Chrome
The US government didn’t end up formed this way on accident. It is to avoid a “winner takes all” situation where 51% of the country dictates all laws, policy to the other 49%.
> The Bronze age collapse, so far as anyone knows, was due to invasion by "sea people".

I thought the dominant theory right now, as far as anyone knows, was due to several drought years in a row prompting everyone to abandon settlements, creating sea people (that others then had to fight)
Wait, what about “the people” part? The people just don’t have rights as long as there’s a local bully that wants to remove them? That doesn’t seem consistent or reasonable.
‘promoting general public health through sensible preventive medical programs’ is not generally listed among the top evils committed by totalitarian regimes.
Where is there more livestock than people?
Consumption and purchase of music are different things. The culture has not stopped. The kids just aren't paying. Thier parents are paying for easy access to Queen songs. The kids get thier music elsewhere.
Chronic procrastination can be associated with perfectionism, in which case it is the result of fear of failure because of the self-imposed high standards. The reason for the fear of failure is that the failure is perceived as the individual failing to measure up to their ideal self, which threatens their self-worth.

So procrastination is a defense mechanism, but it is a maladaptive one, because the individual ends up feeling ashamed of their procrastination.
“Abolish the senate”

“Abolish the Supreme Court”

…when my party isn’t in control of it.
I could be misunderstanding what you mean, but do we actually have evidence that the author has ignored the dangers of adtech until now? All we have is this one topical opinion piece; we don’t know either the contents of their mind or their opinion piece history (unless you bothered to look it up; I didn’t.)

I read this opinion piece as: “here is a topical example of the danger of surveillance capitalism.” The language if imminent danger reflects both the topic and the intended audience, not the more oblique and unlikely claim that privacy violation is okay so long as it doesn’t trample on this one specific issue.
There already is less activism of where it matters. Social media causes all activism ends up blacked holed into "spreading awareness" to a few issues. How many people who are demanding the SC justices to resign actually bother to vote for their state legislature who makes these abortion laws? The majority of Ohioans actually support abortions in most cases, but the only people who vote for smaller elections are Boomers, so that's how they ended up with a ridiculous 6 week abortion ban.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9ptA3Ya9E
I mean, storing the solar in Lithium Iron Phosphate batteries in bulk only add a few cents to the cost of electricity. I even mentioned it earlier in my post, which you ignored:

> …you can displace like 80-90% of grid energy use affordably with a battery (at least in bulk prices) even without net metering.

But no point in doing that while solar penetration is low, which it still is in my area.

As far as level of discourse, yeah, that’s precisely my point. Claims like this are so far from true for the vast majority of the world that it lowers the level of discourse to misinformation and slander:

> … Having solar panels on a random home will almost certainly be worthless because most major urban centres are not in solar-efficient areas.
Vaccination (and masking and distancing) are the only things we really can try to reduce transmission.
> "The [dye-sensitized solar cell] consists of a porous conductive powder layer, which was formed, for example, by screen printing a conductive powder ink containing terpineol and titanium metal powder onto a porous glass-fiber substrate."

This kind of TiO2-based DSSC approach has been around for perhaps ten years at least. Here's one of the earlier papers (2011) listing ~4% efficiency (fairly low). The usable lifetime of the material has been one of the big problems in commercialization.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20934187/

This article is a better overview of the current state of the industry. Maybe some of the earlier problems have been solved, maybe not.

https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/solar/these-next-gen-so...

> "There are two main reasons for this. The first is DSSCs’ track record of problems with chemical stability and subpar performance in real-world applications. The second is that there are far more effective technologies for converting direct sunlight to electricity..."

China seems to have mastered relatively cheap monocrystalline Si cell construction since ~2015, which have high efficiency and long lifetime and are basically the best solar PV option on the market by a good margin. This is what those tariffs on Chinese solar panels are really all about, but no US manufacturer has anything similar in quality to offer. That's the result of miniscule American R&D budgets in the RE sector for 40 years, of course.
There's also the fact that –let's face it– code is intimidating. Having a ui

- that looks more like what children are used to in everyday UI

- that is *localized*: in general programming languages are centered on English. Most young children in the world don't speak a word of English (beside "hello, what's your name?" If they had the luck to get English classes in grade school)

Lowers the entry barrier by a lot
According to Western European culture, sure. Apparently people started thinking of it as an apple because of a choice in translation.

Realistically, scholars believe the forbidden fruit referred to is a pomegranate- because geographically it makes more sense. Apples originally come from the region around Kazakhstan- much further East than where the garden of Eden was supposedly located.

Some people also think it was a fig. Ultimately the way it was originally written, it's impossible to know for sure but it's unlikely that it was an apple.

I don't know about the choice for logo and intent behind the symbol, but I find the geographic origins of plants interesting.
He does have a point regarding dependency on stuff made elsewhere. Should europe head towards total war, it would barely manage to source oil and gas for the metal processing industry and for fuel. Where would countries like the uk or hungary or others get their much need resources for building tanks and warships? Not to mention the much needed electronics. In my view a good chunk of manufacturing needs to return to allied nations so that even at short notice we can redirect efforts from consumer goods to defence. Imagine china stops sending us pcbs while saudi arabia stops sending oil. We’re bust and we’ve signed our own demise one outsourcing contract at a time.

That and we need critical thinking by better education. Else all it takes is facebook ads to influence our elections and we collapse from the inside.
The problem is that you can't put ridiculous characters in the real world since the world around them will still be 'normal'. This makes everything else that doesn't really make sense outside of a created world look bonkers.

Take the trope of ridiculous large swords that supposedly are just made of metal, and are heavy, but somehow the thin and slender wielder can swing about with ease for hours on end because 'they trained for it'. There is no scenario where you could adapt that to live action without it either being completely ridiculous or modified to an extent that the existing fanbase will hate it.

This is the problem with many plotholes and plot devices that are used inside non-live-action and non-scifi media where it simply breaks as soon as it is taken into live-action. Some of it stems from the never-ending use of serial/procedural series where the main characters need to remain the same for a long duration (and as such no real damage or change can be made), while other issues are mainly due to the huge gap between reality and unexplained differences.
Taking notes can be miserable but it improves my recall 100x.

Exactly. Taking notes is great if you have a goal in mind, like incorporating ideas into your own writing or quickly grasping a complex system you're learning about. It doesn't make sense to apply to everything you read unless you don't read for pleasure at all.
> Everyone should be free to believe in whatever the fuck they want

> All I want is churches or any other form of religion completely banned from political consideration.

That's rather an astounding amount of irony right there.
As of two days ago, 15 June 2022.

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2022/06/15/inter...
I think it would be better to cause an exception or even a segfault for that
> This is why it is important to keep a technological edge over authoritarian governments. Such governments are not morally equivalent to democracies. They have radically different goals, and radically different value systems.

For all this boasting about how moral the US is, remember that the US illegally invaded Iraq, leading to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. More generally, the US and its allies have wreaked untold havoc in the Middle East over the last 20 years. And going farther back, the US fought a long and brutal colonial war in Vietnam (plus neighboring Laos and Cambodia), in which it killed millions.
Fair enough, those claims could use some evidence. The author of this article once wrote:

> As more of the Internet permeated our lives, so has the expectation that tech companies share a responsibility for content that’s akin to food companies’ responsibility for public health.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/03/24/online-...

It seems fair to characterize that as believing that "Google and other corporations [should] keep acting as internet police".
MoonZoon: A Fullstack Framework in Rust
Specifically, what ‘shattered’ that trust?

What did you need to see from those in power that would have maintained or built that trust?
I understand that some area have massively increased land prices

That is not the discussion, the claim I was responding to said that the MAJORITY of urban homes the value of the home is made up by the value of the land, not the home

I can see that in some very select regions of the nation, but through not the midwest that for sure should not be the case, and I am suspect that the MAJORITY of the nation is that way

Thus my asking for a SOURCE for the claim that was made as my experience differs

So far all have a gotten was 2 cherry picked anecdotes to prove the claim with no actual data backing it, as such i will simply assume the statement is false
You have no case, just "dictator" bad. For you to make a case is to point to any (any) historic precedent when drastic social reform happened without confronting reactionary and regressive forces.

Peter the Great was a dictator too.
Meme/cult stocks existed before too, but they were pushed on TV by Jim Cramer and other paid goons. The analysis presented here is mostly correct, but limited for assuming that something was uncovered recently.
Why would someone want to store private data in the cloud ?
Please point to a democratic country where people are prohibited from praying five times a day, or are otherwise prohibited from having private religious beliefs? (Religious practices that harm others, or force others to participate, such as ones that require non-consensual subjugation of women don't count.)
instead of whoever left a hole in the hen house

The entire world is full of holes, and always has been. We shouldn't be lauding the foxes that use every hole they find. Unethical activities should be called out, not downplayed and dismissed.
That's the issue - two spots, but instead of maintaining a 128GB part for 2x128, they're shipping 256 as 1x256.

I can see the logic, they're not maintaining a whole part/inventory just for the lowest config. I'll let everyone else argue over whether it's worth the penalty or not.
I agree with you on copyrights in general, but I'm not sure that's the issue here.

1. Movies and their sequels/prequels: If anything, copyright should make it easier to make NEW stuff. But while there's lots of interesting movies being made (check Youtube and tiktok and vimeo etc, and even the mainstream streaming services which have tremendous long tail of weird content!), as far as cinemas specifically go - that's less and less where we watch our video entertainment, attention span is lower and lower, and people are choosing safe choices with their limited money and time, so cinema-oriented companies are making tremendously expensive visually impressive safe content. I can watch experimental interesting stuff at home. I go to cinema at cinema prices for a safe movie that has astonishing special effects that I cannot feasibly watch at home. It's an outdated medium, but that doesn't mean art itself is dead - it just moved to new forms.

2. Music may well be a discoverability problem. There's a RIDICULOUS amount of new stuff being made. Experimental and traditional, interesting and boring, in all shapes and formats and kinds. Go to reddit and see the amount of cool stuff people make at home. But it's also positively overwhelming... whereas I know I like Sultans of Swing and will always like Sultans of Swing :). And we have to consider who is the paying audience and how they pay - is the cool stuff teenagers and youngsters watch and listen to captured through traditional channels? Cool new stuff has always been shared and bootlegged.

So I think cool innovative art is being made all the time, more than ever in fact; but not necessarily much or all of it is being consumed and importantly tracked at mainstream level. And that may be OK and normal. The article is looking at outdated art format/consumption, and noting that they are showing outdated content. It may be more tautologically true than an enlightening/warning sign.
What does "scales falling from eyes" mean?
I don’t understand you completely.

Most programs are not video decoders running a tiny tiny code on gigabytes of data, they contain quite a bit of code and many parts of it run irregularly. By not “paying attention” to memory allocations on these vast amount of cases, you get similar, or sometimes even better performance, safer and more correct software, faster. If it turns out to be a critical part, it is very easy to pay a bit more attention to the allocation story there.

So in like 90+% of cases, a GC is a huge boost to productivity, and this is proved by their extensive usage in the industry.
My argument is that the blanket "enforce it with laws" is meaningless until this document exists. I'm not saying that I don't practice security in my apps or that no-one should, just that the law (right now) is not the right tool to fix this problem.
> Should europe head towards total war

That's why we had tried our best not to get into "total war", two world wars were enough for us.
I never understood the super high valuation of Netflix in the past. Sure, they had great CDN tech, and sometimes they had good content (in the US at least) but their business model was the most susceptible to disruption from all of the FAANGS since their tech would ultimately become a commodity and their content could be taken away, surpassed or both.

They had no vendor lock-in effect like Apple, Microsoft or Google and no social media network efect like Snapchat, Discord, Meta that would guarantee their customer base to stay long term on the platform. They also couldn't monetize their users' personal data through ads as much as the other chat apps and social networks. And it was only a matter of time before juggernauts with valuable IPs like Disney, Warner, etc. would build their own streaming services to disrupt them.

The moment their competitors with the desirable IP would jump in the ring, or their content was no longer addictive, or their customer base would feel economic hardship, or their VC money dried up, their service could be easily disposed of without a hit to quality of life to their users.

Also, people could pirate their content basically for free, so there's also that, versus the likes of Disney, Warner, etc had other revenue streams besides just a streaming service.
Why would kids need a full debugger with console? That's far from "simple".
> Slavery existed in every region of the world.

This is perhaps a provocative point, but legal slavery has not existed in England for about 900 years. The rest of your points are an irrelevant and inaccurate response to my comment, so I won't address them.
Why would he? Forgetting irrelevant information is not a problem to be solved; it's garbage cleanup.
>> The best feature on a phone is the camera and maps app. One is for capturing and sharing memories, and the other is for finding your way to friends and adventure to make those memories.

I agree strongly with the rest of your post, but then you highlight the two biggest offending aspects of our current society: (1) Everyone is so busy capturing and sharing "memories" they're not actually experiencing them in the first place, (2) When we're trying to get somewhere we don't even look up to ask where are we right now IN RELATION to where we'd like to go before pulling out our device. The second is particularly odd to me, as my father (now in his 70's) did all sorts of adventure travelling as I was growing up with nothing more than paper maps and I now watch him routinely ask for gps directions to places he's been dozens of times. It makes me sad.
Supply chain driven inflation coupled with seriously bad policies took Sri Lanka’s social fabric earlier this year. While an extreme case, it serves as a modern day example to contemporary leaders… not sure if they’re looking, though. Maybe they’ll start when El Salvador fails in the next 12 months, but then, Venezuela did and not much happened.
The data can be tampered with as it is going over the network if it isn't authenticated. TLS provides both privacy and integrity guarantees.
> understanding what 'likelihood' actually is or represents

The probability of observing the data you observed, assuming that the model parameters take on a certain value.

> understanding what a 'partition function' actually is or represents

The probability of observing the data you observed, this time averaging over all possible parameter values (weighted by the priors).
The scales were blinding the person, and when they fall from the eyes, the person can see clearly.
Oh, you should see the 128-line compiler OP unveils in the second hour of the class, now that students have the gist. And by the end of third hour...
to be fair the backbone of the economic engine, real estate sprawling and the "hustle corruption" (really low wages integrated by bribes) and other cancerous issues were literally crearted/reinforced by jiang zemin / hu jintao. XI tried too late to change some things like education for profit (with political objectives) but his approaches were stupid and looked more like a political stamp down on rivals economic bases leaving the country to suffer
This is easilly fixable - have an browser extension or OS service that randomly does things on the internet.

If you dont want to delete my data let my data be garbage.
> First, if anyone was doing anything for 12 hours a day, it's probably an issue.

A good yardstick, but it depends on the activity. 12 hours on SnapChat daily => probably excessive. There are days when I have hiked 12 hours a day (definitely excessive!). The difficulty with a phone is the myriad uses a phone has in our lives. GPS-mapping (not just for driving, cycling or walking, but for hiking too - e.g. alltrails.com), star-gazing/charting at night, creative writing, recording/listening to music, programming (yeah using ssh apps), photography, video, email, texting, audiobooks (as a traveling executive, I often drive 5+ hours using G-Maps, while I am listening to an audiobook, while I get interrupted with dozens of phone calls), health/fitness/workout monitoring, sleep apps, games, banking/finance/credit, monitoring my home/AirBnB's etc, boarding passes, Uber, shopping, way too many hours on HN, you get the idea.

As has been said, we are cybernetic organisms, and the mobile phone is an extension of us (soon one day inside us). Whether we use it to enrich the diversity of our lives or to dumb-down and become mono-active, I think that is the issue.
Yes. We use null-cancellation very often as a production/engineering tool, not only as a “test”, so it has to be, otherwise our tricks won’t work.
The parent comment I responded to referenced this, but inaccurately portrayed it as an issue of amateurism rather than that being the cover story for blatant racism
> we know damn well that consumers don't choose fuel sources

That's not entirely true. Where I live people have a choice of energy provider which includes much more costly "100% renewable" options. Guess how popular that choice is.
I’ve been working on an IDE for music composition

https://ngrid.io

Launching soon.

Join the discord https://discord.gg/a5ttYuG
> It should be unlawful to process sensitive personal data without adequate security

It is but "adequate security" is not defined. That is what I am saying. Would someone without 2FA or this particular account reset process be prosecuted in the EU? Almost certainly not because the Prosecuter cannot currently say, "you didn't follow NIST guidance XYZ requiring it to be done this way".

> private credit registers are all but extinct in the bloc now

I'm not sure why you think that. In the UK, we have a number of them who are used by organisations. They are bound by the same GDPR regulations as everyone else.
Yes, but we're talking about North America, so..?

The point isn't that coppicing et. al. produces infinite wood, it's that it's a better way to manage forests than just chopping down all the fucking trees, eh?

Coal has never been the solution to an ecological problem.