skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi. I've been working on FriendApp, a new productivity app to help you focus on your local friends. I've become more aware about how much time we spend interacting with people virtually that we don't see on a regular basis, or perhaps have never met. And I think we need tech to help us bring that focus back a bit to local relationships that have greater chance to be IRL

I was wondering if anyone uses other tools to keep a local list of people they want to stay in touch with, or any other hacks they may have done.

FriendApp is only available for iOS at the moment, but I certainly welcome any feedback on the early version available at https://www.friendapp.com
> it's not your life, or your life's work.

This is true for the vast majority of people, but, for some their work is a true vocation. Monastics are one example but so are Doctors Without Borders, many War Journalists, and those working to eliminate diseases common in the developing world are also all vocations.
I'm definitely not zen, but I found that they recently invented a term for what I've started doing - quiet quitting.

Hard work is not rewarded. The compensation model doesn't even make sense (like a promotion that means 13% increase of hours for a 7% raise). Management has screwed me over in the past, multiple times. I can't even put in extra hours due to my home responsibilities.

So now I just do the bare minimum.
> Authoring any work, no matter how closely copied, is not an infringement

Nitpicking, but only unless it's not counterfeit material.

Claiming painting is from "famous painter X" while it's instead a copy it's an infringement.

How long before "famous painter X's new painting found in the attic of old lady"?
I see this often with very junior engineers. They just haggle around before getting to the point. But something that rarely see in more seasoned people.
I would really love to be persuaded that an alien invasion is not something I need to worry about in my kids' lifetimes.

Come on. We can't even build an AGI equivalent to a cockroach yet. Let's get real and stop panicking about things that are 100% hypothetical.
I'm afraid that even on the Go ecosystem you'll find people relying on ORMs that doesn't even use server-side prepared statements, but escapes queries ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

bun, I'm looking at you...

* IMHO there is not even any good reason to use an ORM whatsoever (unless, perhaps, you're building something very very very very very specific that needs to deal with very very very generic data).
It would be a cosmic irony, since humans have been trying to make things "easier" since at least 4000 years.

I have another idea, make a lot of crank generators so that biochemical energy gets converted into electricity. I know you won't power your kettle nor your telsa but considering people 1) pay for exercise [0] 2) pay to power the devices to exercise .. I think it's due time.

[0] gym club managed to market gravity (and social context, but mostly gravity).
Could try checking out bigger blogs that you like and joining their discord for better/more stimulating interactions than comments. Also if you’re in a big enough city Less Wrong and EA probably have in person meetups. If they don’t they have a lot of resources for starting them.
Congrats on the launch.

What is the difference between this, and say a customized vBulletin et al.? (or, did I misunderstand what the offer is?)
Man those silicon valley big fake sludge food Beyond Meat and other companies really are pouring shitload of money into ads and politics.

They make you think we will move to a whole food plant based diet but all that will happen is that they will push their fake lab grown / ultraprocessed vegan food onto us.

Soon they will also start demonizing real whole veggies because of this.
Bloody hell, I am definitely losing the plot. The reason you feel that way is because a lot of other people do? You have absolutely no rationale or thought process for the disparities between organizations x and y except that people are mad at organization y and not organization x?
We did this as well. To mitigate the danger of a vault outage, we had a very tightly restricted endpoint which generated 24 hour certs that were fetched by automation on a single box. In the event of a vault outage, we'd have a day to either fix it or deploy public key access.
>median age of 19.

This is wild. Google says the US is 38, Germany 45, Japan 48 for some random examples (the top search result for me says Pakistan median age is 22, which is still crazy).
Does the GDPR only impact people hosting in Europe?
My first thought would be if your trying to market to devs, why?

I can't even think of a product or service that I would want to market to them.

if your marketing a course or something your not marketing to devs your probably marketing to people that want to be devs.
Not sure if GP had this in mind, but SD is (more) free in terms of liberty. So yes, you pay with electricity and hardware, but you control the process yourself, which is invaluable. DALL-E could change or go offline at any time.
> I'm okay if Cloudflare decides to terminate one or two of the biggest, most important harassment sites using their platform per year—doing something is better than doing nothing.

I'm sorry, I'd only ever heard of Kiwifarms yesterday. I am also okay with that, but I do genuinely believe there will always be a next one. People forget they made the exact same comments before caving on 8chan and the Daily Stormer. As these incidents get closer together I predict we're reaching that 1-2 site a year rate. If I can backpeddle a little on my parent comment, I far less care about any of these specific websites than the implications of Cloudflare not giving the big "We hate to do this" speech beforehand.
There are a lot of old measuring equipment that uses floppy disks.
it's a good application of machine learning and AI, to go out and identify these scenarios
Quote it as written: "organizations made up of human beings providing important services to the general public"; not merely "group made up of human beings."

An organization is more specific than a "group."

They both provide services to the general public, i.e. they are indiscriminant in who their clients are. This is different from, say, a corporate law firm that might decide to take just a handful of cases at a time and be selective about it.

And finally, their services are important, as in livelihood-saving. Of course, firefighters are sometimes life saving, so a better analogy would be firefighters working for agri-business, but "firefighters" still fits better than, say, "AMC theaters" because of the importance of the service offered.
Holy .. I wanted to do just that.
A couple of thoughts

1. We have seen a major period (past decade) of "wild west" online where
platforms could reap but not regulate.

From AirBNB renting out homes not legally entitled to, uber validating people who assaulted passengers, to whatever this verification thing is, this period is well and truly over.

2. The problem is we don't actually know what regulation we actually want. More and more we seem to find that regulation in modern world is ... less than we expect. The SEC mostly regulated by retroactive "no", professions similarly.

The problem is that's fine on a case by case basis, it's not how you can code up something to discover at the scale we see.

Facebook could not cope with nursing mothers groups at their beginnings and most professions are at the same level.

It's not bad but it certainly seems all the regulation we have is retroactive and not codified.

Or is it just we had cosy situations between regulators and regulated. And new entrants, sneaky or otherwise broke that
One of the main goals of ECS is to improve the use of the cache and reduce the amount of dereferencing.

An alternative approach, which does not sacrifice the more common OOP style: https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/%7Escd/ShapesOnwards.pdf
> the latter makes me more hopeful as someone in that specific minority community.

I'm curious what you think the "balancing" donation/action/whatever cloudflare could do to counteract the very real harms kf causes are?

This isn't a political action group that takes donations and lobbies. It's a site where people's personal information is offered up to anyone who wants it, knowing that many of those people want to do harm with it. The owners and moderators know all of this and both allow and encourage it.

I think this kind of "but we donate!" approach is both an admission that they enable harm, and a completely inadequate to the situation here.

Yes, this should be an issue for law enforcement. But this has been going on for years and nothing has been done, in spite of many efforts being made and many people literally going into hiding due to harassment from this site.

So how is cloudflare going to make this one right to their ERG?
Well sure, I think that's dangerous too. I think more people should be skeptical of the images and content they consume in addition to it being a problem that truth is harder to discern.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...

The author is right that:

1. Every single website and app regardless of whether it is specifically built for kids or not is covered by this bill, and

2. It is virtually impossible to identify and segment your user base and apply the bill's protections to only those you can 100% confirm are under 18.

So, the likely outcome is that this bill becomes an enhanced CCPA and something businesses have to generally comply with for every user.

Looking at the actual contents of the bill though, my response to that is – great! I do want to be treated like a child online. I want sites to present terms of service in a language I can understand. I want them to set my account's privacy settings to the highest offered by default. I want apps to remove dark patterns that get me to spend money. I don't want them to store my data unless using it to provide a service. I want them to tell me up front if my browsing is being monitored by someone else. I want actual consequences if a company decides to leak all my personal data. (All of these are provisions that will be enforced).

The author is critical of the bill as a whole but I don't see any argument against any of the individual provisions. I also don't get where the "eliminate anonymous web browsing" in the title comes from. If anything it will make it less likely for sites to track you.
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I wonder if and when the judiciary will strike this sort of action down, in both private and public sectors.
My first feeling here is: please reach out. I wouldn't mind a quick honest online call to exchange views and all. My contacts details can be deduced from my profile.

Besides that I have found it hard to meet interesting people, I have found a few through meetup.com communities, some in professional context. Some people are jewels that need to be cherished and admired, there is no magic mine where you can find them for free.

One learning though, the harder it is to get somewhere the more interesting people you will find. In that sense all those networking events have a quality that is proportional to how hard it is to get in.
I wish people would stop asking the government to raise their children. I am a parent. If you are a parent, start acting like one and watch your kids a lot more closely. Or better yet, actually spend time with them and stop using iPads as a baby sitter. I know this is harsh and may get downvoted but pared really need to start taking more responsibility on these matters
>People are worried more about ending a website than they are worried about ending actual lives.

People are saying "Call the FBI, not Cloudflare"

If people are doing things that break the law, it's law enforcement's job to do the protecting, not an Internet company providing services.
Don't get me wrong. I'll download your free source code and watch your youtube video at 2x speed. if it's less then 15 minutes.

Read your blog article with ad blockers on.
Don't go ruining a perfectly good internet argument with the facts /s
Don’t have to take off your shoes with pre-check and I’ve found that the probability of being groped during a secondary screening is far lower with pre-check.
> Existing law, the Parent’s Accountability and Child Protection Act, requires a person or business that conducts business in California and that seeks to sell specified products or services to take reasonable steps to ensure that the purchaser is of legal age at the time of purchase or delivery, including verifying the age of the purchaser.

My understanding is that the bill applies to the same businesses that the mentioned law does. Considering California has 40M people, that's not a cohort businesses can shut off from the internet.
Mobs always attack the weakest link. KF is not widely known- if it were canceled basically nobody would care.
Have you ever heard of Godwin's law?
Interesting, though not necessarily indicative of anything in its own right. I'd always expect a culture of free expression of ideas and a willingness to discuss fringe viewpoints would help reduce the proliferation of violent or socially destabilising behaviour, but I'm less convinced the degree of constitutionality guaranteed free speech matters all that much.
the web world is missing a nice IDL - OpenAPI is honestly way too much !
Based on many of the "unknown reach" statements the author identified, it is impossible to say.

One potential outcome, at least for US businesses where their legal teams believe they have some nexus to California, will be either:

1) apply these rules to any incoming California IP address;

or

2) apply these rules to everyone, no matter where they are located.

Naturally, the easier route above is to just do #2, which means these changes could, much like the EU's GDPR resulted in paranoid legal teams adding "cookie banners" everywhere, impact all sites that have any US presence at all.
The article is mostly propaganda attempting to humanize agents who are "just following orders."
> one that only makes sense for the person making the decision

And sometimes (often?) that reason is "I'll show him who's boss around here, don't care if it costs millions of dollars and tanks the stock price, I'm untouchable and they're not gonna forget it!"
> Lambda is only serving one request at a time and has a more ephemeral host process lifetime

Yes, a typical hosted ASP.NET app is neither ephemeral or one request at a time.
So this drives different design decisions.
Then they need to change their business model to not pay by impression or clicks.
>If you want wealth, earn it.

A lovely principle. We can start by taxing all inherited wealth and using it to compensate people who do essential but underpaid jobs, like teachers.
I am more than willing to help if someone has shown the due diligence or curiosity.

Otherwise these asks are nothing more than asking for attention, which isn't just given away freely.

That doesn't make someone an asshole, this makes someone who values their time.

“A problem well-articulated is a problem half solved.”

-Charles Kettering

https://jondouglas.dev/problems-vs-solutions/

Aside: If direct messages and email doesn't scale for you, try doing an office hours type deal.
Didn’t Britain recently pass a similar law? What was the name?
"That's when I had my epiphany: nobody truly expects you to work outside 9-5."

Nope, I've had the opposite. Most of my managers absolutely have expected extra hours for support, on-call, elevations, meeting deadlines, and even consistent extra work as a condition of a promotion.
> Also the solution seems kind of obvious to me - just disconnect yourself - delete social media , curate your feeds and stop posting about your real life on twitter , your job or where you live and find another avenue not twitter to engage with.

It seems for a number of people, online social media is the only viable, but paradoxically abusive outlet for social connections.
* son of a farmer. never lived on a farm myself (grew up here in North America) but my dad did growing up and during summer vacations we'd often help my grandfather as well with the kharif crop.
Why our screwdriver took 3 YEARS
> So like, what do you want?

This hasn’t been a particularly prompt retraction. Why the delay?
If you're betting on California doing something stupid, you always want to go long.
2008: Web 2.0 Companies I Couldn't Live Without
I went there in 2020 to check it out(Salton Sea and Bombay beach). Its a place that is not talked about alot in California as its a huge man made natural catastrophe. Bombay beach was really eerie as there was all this infra there from a more prosperous time(signs with ladies in swimsuits being pulled by a boat and well dressed people drinking by the "sea"). Saw many dead fish and their skeletons littering the beach, along with rusting playground equipment. A small contingent of artists have taken up residence in the deserted town and one of them made a "sothebys real estate" bombay beach storefront which I thought was quite funny.
> But if you want to see something specific, it's often not there unless you generate it.

Example?

I don't think I've ever wanted to watch something that only a computer could generate.
It’s coming: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Students_for_Fair_Admissions_v...
https://accessibleweb.com/website-accessibility-checker/
Splendid article.

I was thinking that perhaps walking the readers of our code through our architectural decisions(and not just through what our code does) is a good way to lessen their cognitive load.
This helps identify decisions that have been taken to look smart or because the foie-gras the author ate on that day went down really well with the Chardonnay and made them feel extra stylish.

This also helps us understand how well we know the tools we're using versus how much we do simply through pattern repetition.
My experience is different - almost everyone I know uses an ad blocker. Some of them have installed them for themselves, others have helpful friends. But I rarely see someone scrolling a webpage with the ads on it.
Exposure is uncommon, not basically never.
I had the same thought when reading about the 4inch hailstones that fell in Catalonia yesterday
Yes, this is actually what lead me to the CharaChorder! The data hand seems superior for single letter entry, but the CharaChorder has a type of chording built in to the firmware. I imagine sticking their chording engine in the DataHand would be incredible.
A relational DB can store data however it wants, including columnar formats. The interface presented to the programmer (SQL) just abstracts away the details.

ECS are more similar to the relational model than OOP is, and do not necessarily suffer the same 'object–relational impedance mismatch'.
The 99/4 architecture was quite locked down, so I'm surprised that you implemented the burglar/voting applications over/with it.

I think the BBC Micro was the most powerful platform of this class, but the C64 was the most popular in the U.S.

I wish that TI had stayed out of the home computer market. The 9918(a) video chip was really the only real advantage for it. Their mismanagement took other players down with them.
The collection of identifying information for every user on your website is antithetical to the goals of CCPA and anyone that values any resemblance of privacy.

Further, business do not want to be in charge of validating PII information, nor do they want to place roadblocks to casual users. The darn cookies and GDPR popups are already annoying enough. Are we trying to make the web unusable?

This is just insanity, and will lead to a bunch of ecommerce businesses and website companies leaving CA. ie, no one will comply unless they have absolutely zero other choices.
>What Snyder really means is that it is not the literature preferred by the academic-literary elite

yes, just like the academic elite in computer science don't have high regard for BASIC or FORTRAN IV and many here don't have high regard for C. We shouldn't listen to them? We should cling to our FORTRAN pride and seethe with resentment at those who know more than we do?

there is substance at the foundation of elitism
Azure has largely been propelled by microsoft's strong business relationships. I think it's likely that google sees gsuite and GCP as synergies given how successful msft has been at parlaying their office contracts into azure signups.
I think there are two key reasons:

1. KiwiFarms was explicitly created for essentially that purpose

2. It's far more extreme. Part of the reason it exists is because people on these larger sites (notably, 2000s-era SomethingAwful) were getting progressively more concerned and uncomfortable with the behavior. Sure, it's a concern in other places, but there are checks there. KiwiFarms has none of those checks because the behavior is the intended use of the site.

So, sure, you could go after some of these other places, but KF sounds like a very good starting point.
Is it correct to say that even my personal blog is covered by this?
An option that's not in the list: check you CA key into source control (but with a very strong password). If you set the number of rounds large enough and have an excellent password this is sufficient (not as good as HSM, but probably safer than Vault).

The real thing that gets me though, is how to deal with different users needing access to different subsets of machines. That's where I miss Kerberos.
Is it an opportunity?
I'm sorry, i don't see how this answers my question. What do you mean by "this symptom"?
A suggestion I liked was to call ".Net Framework" ".Net classic" a la "ASP classic", nicely honors the original .Net while properly suggesting it is not the "new" .Net.
California needs a looooooong straw to drink up that milkshake.

I DRINK IT UP!
>At what point does someone's right to personal safety and privacy trump another person's right to host whatever they want on the internet?

When it breaks a law and becomes a problem for law enforcement and not corporate PR.
If the 98% correct code works, and provides value then it is better than no code at all, yah?
Probably never. Companies are free to hire whoever they please. While hiring discrimination exists to a degree you can't compare if one person is less qualified than another based on gender or race or even background.
Helsinki's utility company today announced its district heating prices for the winter: +30% increase compared to last winter. This is in contrast to market prices +400% for electricity and +300% for gas. https://www.helen.fi/en/news/2022/significant-increase-in-co...

Last year, already 20% of the district heat by the utility was from renewables, and in 2030 it should be all carbon neutral. https://www.helen.fi/en/news/2022/helen-and-elisa-to-heat-ho...
This seems universally good. If you can’t determine that your user is an adult, don’t collect or store personal information on them beyond what is necessary to provide the service.
It's sort of both. OpenAI, being an outgrowth of the AI doomerist community, does have a bunch of people who really do think the technology is too dangerous to be given to the masses. This happens to mesh perfectly with the other group of people at OpenAI who want to make tons of revenue. It's a harmonious alignment for everyone! Except, y'know, us.
Crude in U.S. emergency reserve falls to lowest since Dec. 1984