skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As well as that, YouTube is more accessible for most people. Programming will never be for everyone. It requires a certain mindset.

Personally for me making YouTube videos is very hard, much harder than programming. I hate making them and I hate watching them just as much. But I'm an outlier and I realize that.
Okay. And what specific number of quality adjusted life years would a vaccination program need to promise to save across the globe before you personally are willing to take it?
"The Amish were right" != "The Amish were right to a certain extent"
It's a different time. Substack has quite a big creator audience of outrage merchants that monetize writing things you're (allegedly) "not allowed to say", to an audience that happily pays to keep their favourites engaged in the shovelware equivalent of culture war opinion pieces.

I'm sure you can think of one no matter your political affiliation.
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> It's sad that despite all the warnings, people are so myopic and apathetic that it takes something this big and obvious to make them react.

This is what governments and NGOs are for.

Individual initiative is not enough to address systemic issues like pollution, or food/car/airline/workplace safety for example.
You can't just blame the average person for not running their own mailserver, growing their on food etc.

Surveillance capitalism is now a political problem like monopolies/oligopolies creating pollution and so on
> True, they are brutally oppressed

What you deem oppression is entirely cultural. It's your choice to project that on others.

The Western liberal views the Iranian woman as oppressed because they can no longer freely sell their bodies.

The Iranian revolutionary may view the Western sex worker as oppressed because capitalism effectively forces them to sell their body to buy shelter and food. Or something about spiritual oppression. I don't really know, to be honest.

> It's perfectly fine to have an opinion about the form of government

About as fine as caring about what your neighbor is doing in their bedroom. Which is to say, pretty weird, albeit normalized in imperialist societies. It's literally none of your business.
> It took time to demonstrate that cigarettes caused lung cancer. If social media causes depression and anxiety, it will take time to demonstrate that, too.

And let's not forget the decades it then took to overcome the lobbying of the tobacco industry.

Same thing with climate change, people have been writing about the perils of messing with the greenhouse effect for a good century, yet, here we are.

So, let's say that at some point there is conclusive evidence that social media have costly negative side effects on society and its people. What then would the multi-billion dollars company behind this do about it?

As much as cancer-free cigarettes or CO2-free combustion never really were an option, given the possibilities of the digital world, I still hope there are ways to use technology to have an overall positive influence.

Nonetheless, with the same kind of sad stories that never fail to repeat themselves, I feel like there's a fundamentally deeper issue at work and I genuinely wonder, how would you, could you, "hack the system", so to say, and use all its dirty mechanics so that the pursuit of private interests would, for once, have positive externalities?
No, it’s about a recent, popular self-defense case in which many people wanted the victim to be found guilty, and they would talk about how he “crossed state lines” as though crossing state lines was some ominous, evil thing. This “crossed state lines” rhetoric was even parroted by the media, and eventually it became a meme as people used it sarcastically.
Not finding any regulation on the misuse of oil filters … yet.
What OP is saying is that the brilliant people churning ideas and insights within FSF, are terrible at advocating for it.

I agree.

As an example: FSF points about free (as in liberty) hardware was years ahead of its time; yet it wasn’t taken very seriously until MS push for UEFI.

The work of getting the message out on the important points is better left to others.
How does that work? Sure, the buffers are in the hardware, but there still needs to be buffering between each pair of components? Say between two different effect plugins.
Like the author said, that is optional. I'm writing a concatenative language with a C-similar syntax

GitHub.com/civboot/fngi
Although technically an idiot who carried his phone with him and took
almost no forensic precautions the police officer Wayne Couzens who
murdered Sarah Everard probably had various levels of access to
digital privilege that allowed him to plan the abduction and killing.

At least that's the discussion my class brought up recently when we
were talking about LOVEINT and stalking by people who operate CCTV
cameras and so on.

Why do we persist with this incredibly naive assumption that
behind digital power are actors who deserve an assumption of
benevolence first, and the odd rogues are just bad-eggs?

When it comes to this abortion issue, Google are in a privileged
position of power and should be handled accordingly.

Surely, if we think "zero trust" is a fit way to conduct
cyber-security, it also applies to civic security? Shouldn't anyone
who handles public data be positively vetted to within an inch of
their sanity and themselves be placed within panopticon of radical
transparency?

Protecting any vulnerable group, including women, from digital harms
requires a change of mind-set, a new kind of digital literacy.
Those are not "assets" in any meaningful sense. You're just making things up.
> I usually feel disheartened and a little self-loathing after doomscrolling on Twitter in a way that I never feel after reading a book or a decent magazine.

Hey I'm only 30 and had a panic attack after doomscrolling on twitter during one of the heights of the pandemic and having COVID at the same time. 0/10 would not recommend. I have never experienced the same with reading a book.

A great read is the "the coddling of the american mind" which talks about the instagram and social media problem with teens. Some of the stats and studies there are ringing alarms that nobody is paying attention to.

I think this topic especially needs to be experienced first-hand or observed by a caring parental/teaching figure. I'm fairly young and was one of the earliest generations on social media. I've spent the last 5 years of my life on a quest to moderate my usage on the platforms that I've been addicted to since their inception. I'm even writing a book on the topic about how I've been managing it.

> The results in both cases were striking, with clear improvements in a variety of measures of happiness, wellbeing, anxiety and depression. It seems that a break from social media is good for your soul.

I would agree with this, but I would extend this to general technology usage and not just social media. As I get older and more senior in my career, the more and more I'd like to just go build a cabin by a pond like Thoreau(Walden). Re-connecting with nature in the meantime has done wonders for my happiness.

Perhaps a bit of self-reliance goes a long way in this world where we're constantly comparing ourselves to others on social media.
Is there really a lot of online bullying among teenagers? Seems weird as it is so easy to turn around, everything is in the open.
Guns at any home don't really have an absolute level of fineness I'd say; it also depends on where the home is, who is in the home, if the person possessing the guns is reasonable and trained etc.

If your home is a small apartment in a building with small apartments all around you with walls that are essentially a thin sheet of cardboard, and the gun owner hears voices that aren't really there, is it still fine? (and suppressors don't even factor in at this point since they are essentially just hearing protection)

I don't think there is a universally applicable rule where it is fine or not-fine. Factors like the individual(s) involved, the location and even social climate make such a big impact when it comes to weapons. Probably also why there is a blanket ban on suppressors, not because it was actually based on the use with common sense.
Hospitals are not designed to operate at maximum capacity.
The DOS Word was actually pretty good but, yes, there was a lot of competition for (incompatible) word processors at the time which basically continued until Office on Windows basically squashed it all. Latterly you had pretty good text-based user interfaces and, as you say, there were lots of kludges like TSRs, Double DOS, etc. that filled in a lot of gaps in the original DOS.

The other problem is that PCs basically weren't fast enough for full graphical interfaces at the time. So there was a period when DOS was acceptably fast for most purposes and Windows really wasn't even when it started to get reasonably usable in the Windows 3.0 timeframe.
It only had itself to blame
But as this current crisis clearly shows, the problem is not privacy invasion by FANGs. The problem is government privacy invasion, everywhere. And there, sorry to say, Google is not the problem. Perhaps some changes to their policies is warranted, but a total turnaround? Why?

Hospitals and doctor's effectively report on women's periods, contraceptives and pregnancies when women visit. This is not optional, this is important for correct diagnosis and care for women, as well as for emergency care for women when necessary (many drugs and life-saving treatments, including emergency ones, MUST NOT be used during pregnancies, not because religion, but because they would harm the baby, or mother, or both). And unlike Google searches, Facebook chats or Amazon orders, medical provided information about periods has actually been used to convict women getting abortions.

Something similar goes for social workers providing women with feminine hygiene products.

The first thing we need is for police to stay away from medical records, and to go back to outlawing doctors, and any medical and social services (esp. mental care of any kind) giving any information to the police.

But that would this information is inaccessible to law enforcement and the next time some teenager disappears for a week we'd need to show backbone ... The next divorce proceedings we need to show backbone, and WHATEVER mental health history any of the partners have needs to stay out of it. We need to make police, justice, some medical procedures and social work harder, and accept the costs that will come with that.
They make pretty decent silencers when affixed to the muzzle of a gun, and suddenly become an NFA item.

I know a guy with a diesel repair shop who bought a “suspicious” number of filters off Amazon at once. A couple suits showed up at his door asking about them. We totally live in a surveillance state, and Amazon feeds your purchase history into it.
Public health professionals are not competent or qualified to make those decisions.
Scratch is awesome! I used it in high school for some small, silly games. It was fun :)

As for "next steps" from Scratch: I think micro:bit [0] can fill that gap. Several of my coworkers were part of an event that used it to teach a group of middle-schoolers about programming. It uses block-based programming (supporting even Scratch I think?) and lets you move to and from a text-based language (Python and JS IIRC). I'm not sure if micro:bit has the same social component that the Scratch site does, but it seems like it could at least kids "hey, this is what my code looks like in Python!" Then, they may go and download Python and start hacking away on that.

0: https://www.microbit.org/
Yeah for me this timeline stuff totally killed Facebook for me. It's so horrible now. They should have made it possible to keep the old feed.
The most annoying thing about anti-reneweable people pretending to be nuclear fans is that they don't realise that nuclear grids need "storage" the same as renewable grids.

Here's nuclear fan David Mackay to explain it to you, in a quote from his 2008 book:

> If we kick fossil fuels and go all-out for renewables, or all-out for nuclear, or
a mixture of the two, we may have a problem. Most of the big renewables
are not turn-off-and-onable. When the wind blows and the sun comes out,
power is there for the taking; but maybe two hours later, it’s not available
any more. Nuclear power stations are not usually designed to be turn-offand-
onable either. They are usually on all the time, and their delivered
power can be turned down and up only on a timescale of hours. This is a
problem because, on an electricity network, consumption and production
must be exactly equal all the time. The electricity grid can’t store energy. To
have an energy plan that adds up every minute of every day, we therefore
need something easily turn-off-and-onable. It’s commonly assumed that the
easily turn-off-and-onable something should be a source of power that gets
turned off and on to compensate for the fluctuations of supply relative to
demand (for example, a fossil fuel power station!). But another equally
effective way to match supply and demand would be to have an easily
turn-off-and-onable demand for power – a sink of power that can be turned
off and on at the drop of a hat.

> Either way, the easily turn-off-and-onable something needs to be a big
something because electricity demand varies a lot

https://www.withouthotair.com/c26/page_186.shtml
To me, what you describe is just flow state [0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology)
https://archive.ph/pUXb3
Either you agree with Google collecting data in a way that facilitates enforcing the law, or you don't. You can't be picky about Google facilitating the laws that you happen to like or not.
It's bizarre because it never happened. In the time of those "three television networks", newspapers still had massive reach, so the networks didn't control as much as you seem to imply.
I'm writing a concatenative language with a C-similar syntax. As a first language (to write) I've found it very pleasant. Following the forth models, I start with an extremely lean (~2000 lines of C) VM and assembly and that builds a macro-based language in a few thousand lines -- all in a single build+execute step.

I'm currently implementing function syntax, and the type system will be next (also C like with a bit of interface-like "Role" objects and type extension)

GitHub.com/civboot/fngi
> It reminds me of something a friend told me about a youtuber called mister beast(or something); how in an interview he said he was practically raised with youtube as his sole life, spend all waking hours thinking "what would buzz on YouTube?" and not just him, he would talk about this with his fellow content creator, like they were obsessed.. Afaik the guy is doing really well.

I understand what you're trying to say about this generational view of youngsters being into the latest fad tech not being viewed as productive by the older people in their lives. I think mr. beast is an awful example. You picked one of the most successful and well known youtubers. For every one of him, there are millions of unsuccessful individuals with youtube channels or other social media "jobs." Survivorship bias is real here. The income distribution is extremely top heavy and unfair.

> When you're looking at kids glued to the phone, you're looking at how the generation above me/us looked at me,and not you. And I think I'm in the majority of people that was glued in front of the PC; Nothing "productive" really came out of it.

You're right that for the most part nothing productive comes from consuming entertainment as such for the vast majority of consumers of social media, especially when young. I'm still unsure of where I stand on this issue, but I'm certainly more cognizant of the costs of social media and so forth than the benefits.
States aren’t required to enforce federal law, and the federal government can’t force states to help enforce federal law, as it’s unconstitutional.[1] If the feds want to enforce the marijuana ban and the state doesn’t volunteer to help, the feds would have to use e.g. the FBI or DEA to enforce the law. The feds don’t have the capacity to do that nationally, though, so it mostly goes unenforced, except maybe for large busts where it’s worth it for the feds to put the effort in.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commandeering#In_the_United_Sta...
Palmer Luckey: U.S. is falling behind in defense b/C Big Tech is scared of China
Spotify: Suddenly unable to play any tracks · librespot
This may be true for the US, but the whole argument falls apart as soon as you remember the world is wider. Eg in Europe are suppressors often allowed with a special permit only = which, in my country, basically means army use only.

There are plenty reasons why.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Legality_of_firearm_...
That's like blaming mass shootings on only the shooter instead of the tools and laws and social contagion etc that helped to cause and aggravate the situation.

Yes people have always been mean. Doesn't mean social media isn't a large amount of gasoline on what used to be a pretty small and localized fire.
How about getting rid of these ridiculously long copyright terms so that people can actually reinterpret and remix and reinvent the cultural artifacts of their youth?

Isn't it kinda obvious that these copyright terms - tailored to suit corporations almost exclusively - are like a straitjacket in terms of creativity? All human cultural work always built up on what came before. We are - as the saying goes - standing on the shoulders of giants. But since about one generations, the giants have started to refuse to let go and don't let us climb on top anymore.

So, yeah. When you prevent the old giants from dying and stop their corpses from becoming fertilizer for new ideas and approaches, that's just what you get; a stale 'creative' industry, ever regurgitating the same ideas without real innovation and experimentation.
Additionally, for years more or less the only tool to check for startup items was a small freeware by Mike Lin (Autoruns came later AFAICR):

https://www.portablefreeware.com/index.php?id=249
Haskell coders have to do this often enough that there is a token that does this grouping… f $ g x = f (g x), so the expression `a b c` is still a source for ambiguity.
I don’t really have a plan, just pointing out how it just moves around who is driving. One option is to buy in bulk vast majority of stuff to make fewer trips and then have delivery trucks do fresh/perishable groceries, like the ol’ milkman. Which, of course, is already a thing but a bit different from the newer grocery delivery model.

Also, while I like the sidewalk robot pod things and flying delivery drones, I legitimately like the idea of delivering stuff with PVC pipes and little electric pods. A little on the small side for groceries, but seems pretty doable without adding congestion or noise (to surface streets or the air). https://i.pipedreamlabs.co/
Yeah, it will go down. France is not building enough new nuclear to replace aging reactors. They'd have to build way more to replace oil and gas.
Those features are all but inevitable to an ad-funded social media platform. If you want to increase ad revenue you need people to spend more time in your app, and that means you need a constant stream of new stuff in their feed. If facebook and instagram just showed us the stuff from the people we knew, we would scroll through it, be done, and move on. Instead they push us to follow lots of people we don’t know, so there is always more new stuff and a reason to be in the app and watch ads, but now the stuff from the people we do know gets buried, so they give us an algorithmic timeline that tries to make sure that no matter how often you go in or how long you keep scrolling, there is always a reason to keep scrolling and you’re always seeing the stuff you came to see. Commentaries on posts are the same thing, every reply is a notification ping and another reason to be in the app. Ideally the discussion / group functionality has enough drama to keep people energized and posting, not so much as to turn them off completely.

This is the market at work. If the current crop of social media platforms with these patterns hadn’t chosen this path, other platforms that did would have outcompeted them. The fact that people spend so much time in these platforms is proof they are really good at showing them what they want to see.

Wanting to build a “healthier” social media platform is sort of like trying to make a “healthier” alcoholic beverage. We make it healthier by consuming it less, not by changing its nature, because its nature is the point of why we consume it in the first place.
My point exactly. He was mouthing off about how bad Wikipedia is and then said or let slip that he in fact does browse it through a proxy.
Allegro is still a thing among some hobbyists, I used it years ago for dome experiments first on Windows and then on Linux.
Buying up the trailer park/land is becoming an increasingly predatory business model for investors, precisely because it is impractical/impossible and a poor economic decision to move manufactured housing or trailers.
Others have pointed this our before. It's strange how few people notice or know however.
Also, there’s more distribution costs and more distribution driving for numerous small stores Vs big stores.
I didn’t rebut either of your quotes because they’re both ascribing intent to the actions of others with very limited information. I’d be rebutting their interpretation of events, not the events (and I’d also be doing it with the same limited information).

I also think the broader point is more important.
Are the current leaders of Iran not dictators? Because if they are, and I think they are, your one-note argument is really weak.
It’s not optional if you want partial application/implicit composition. You can certainly have multiple syntaxes within the same language, but you can’t get the benefits of concatenative languages without also getting the drawbacks.
> But as this current crisis clearly shows, the problem is not privacy invasion by FANGs. The problem is government privacy invasion, everywhere. And there, sorry to say, Google is not the problem.

I literally said that boycotting Google and period apps is a stopgap solution and the real fix is to get rights to privacy enshrined in constitutions?
And then knowing this, investors buy the land and jack up the rent a ridiculous amount. It's a predatory business that produces no value.
I don't think I've ever seen a script use a.bash extension, so I wouldn't put any weight on that.
Chromebooks are not so popular in europe.
It's a red flag for further investigation as it is a tool often used by professionals. At least in movies. I stand by my humorous analogy!
Super useful for machine listening to stick this into an FPGA (and why
not start baking standardised versions into SoC) because so much of
the code for these projects is in this tedious pre-processing that is
common to almost every application. It's also the place I see the most
errors - and you don't want to find you trained a whole set of shit
with avoidable mistakes in your input DSP, because that invalidates
everything.
Thanks for sharing this advice. I'm exploring external funding but there's a lot of good points here too.

Good to see that the cashflow is going the way you want, best of wishes for your future! May I ask, would you mind sharing what your startup is?
How generous of them to sometimes allow you to use your hardware the way you want!