skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel the need to offer anecdotal to such a subject though I realize this perhaps does not carry the same weight as scientific studies yet I think it is still important.

A few months ago, I met up with a friend I hadn't seen for 2 years. Often, and for the entirety of the bus journey back home, I saw him scrolling through his phone. When this first occurred, I thought maybe he had received a message from someone, or that there was something important that he needed to do. I become curious so I ask him what he is doing. His response? "Oh, I'm just looking at Instagram." Perhaps it could be concluded that this is just the behaviour of one individual but I think behaviour like this is becoming increasingly more common.

I have endeavored in recent times to stop using my phone so much. In particular, I have completely removed Instagram, and Twitter from my phone, both of which feature endless scrolling. I absolutely do not regret doing so, nor do I miss these apps. Instead, sometimes I might read a book, or an article, or perhaps I'll just do nothing, and reflect on the day, and what I'm going to be doing next. And I think the issue with technology is that there's always something to do. With a newspaper, eventually you'll read everything you're interested in, and you'll stop. Same with a magazine. But when you're scrolling through Twitter, there is always something to keep you engaged, and to stop you leaving. And this is not by accident but rather it is intentional because, of course, the more time you spend on the app, the more ads you see. I now feel so much better mentally when I stopped such apps.

There are, of course, benefits to technology. If that weren't the case, I would not be here now. But I am a bit concerned that we are indulging to much in the distractions that technology brings rather than the amazing things it can do for us.
But there was another big important to positioning: Incorporating other signals (cell & WiFi). There's a huge difference on the same Android device with and without Google services (which do the aforementioned job).
Yes. More or less this is the case.
Lume: The static site generator for Deno
Cracking album, was just listening to it in the car this morning. If you like that, you might like Folkjokeopus also by Harper, to my mind his most similar album (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folkjokeopus). Or Ys by Joanna Newsom which is in a similar style and rather influenced by it (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ys_(Joanna_Newsom_album) )
This further highlights the reality of lower income brackets relative to that.
Never underestimate the wants of clients. We are all in this chaotic ride together.
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32777774 posted yesterday
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experimental_software_engineer... :

> Experimental software engineering involves running experiments on the processes and procedures involved in the creation of software systems, with the intent that the data be used as the basis of theories about the processes involved in software engineering (theory backed by data is a fundamental tenet of the scientific method). A number of research groups primarily use empirical and experimental techniques.

> The term empirical software engineering emphasizes the use of empirical studies of all kinds to accumulate knowledge. Methods used include experiments, case studies, surveys, and using whatever data is available.

(CS) Papers We Love >
https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love#other-good-... :

- "Systematic Review in Software Engineering" (2005)

-- "The Developed Template for Systematic Reviews in Software
Engineering"

- "Happiness and the productivity of software engineers" (2019)

DevTech Research Group (Kibo, Scratch Jr,) > Publications
https://sites.bc.edu/devtech/publications/

' > Empirical Research, instruments:
https://sites.bc.edu/devtech/about-devtech/empirical-researc...

"SafeScrum: Agile Development of Safety-Critical Software" (2018) > A Summary of Research https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=9208467786713301421... (Gscholar features: cited by, Related Articles) https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-99334-8_...

Re: Safety-Critical systems, awesome-safety-critical, and Formal Verification as the ultimate empirical study:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28709239
This is exactly the issue, in the past, if you worked retail you were able to make a nice living. I had a few Uncles (WW2 veterans) who did very well in retail as a salesman. They were able to buy single family homes and put their children through college.

Now, the majority of people in retail need EBT Cards just to avoid going homeless. Walmart even helps their employees to get on EBT. Time to reel in these companies.
> And that’s what humanity emitted in 1990, so it’s achievable. Since then, we’ve double or trippled.

Note that global population in 1990 was 5.3 bn vs 7.4 bn in 2022.

That doesn't mean it isn't achievable - but it's implies a significant per-person reduction to achieve 90s levels.
Right, but since when does Apple (or any company) get to dicate what versions of software that I use? Granted in some cases, forced upgrades are a thing. But I am a human being with agency, I can make my own decisions on what to run on my own computer/devices.
>I found the law that this (Canadian) article is referencing, and the words "gay" or "homosexual" don't even appear in the text.

You could try search for other words or phrases like sexual orientation? You will find passages like this:

>Classroom instruction by school personnel or third parties on sexual orientation or gender identity may not occur in kindergarten through grade 3 or in a manner that is not age appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students in accordance with state standards.

No one knows what those "state standards" are which creates a chilling effect around all discussions. Does this hypothetical conversation qualify?

First Grader: What do you do over Christmas Mrs. Smith?

Mrs. Smith: I went to visit my wife's family in Miami.

First Grader: But you are a woman, how do you have a wife?

Mrs. Smith: Not all women marry men. Some women marry other women.
More likely, it's just aesthetic trends. Styles crash in, spread widely, become stale, and get replaced. Often those replacements call back to prior styles while exploring new dimensions to them.

To think that today's style finally achieved some objective progress about engagement and exhaustion is just post hoc speculation.

Minimal design is itself getting exhausting, and there are a number of styles that are coming in to challenge it, including intentionally garish designs that nostalgically call back to the Myspace/Geocities aesthetic that many young designers are fascinated by.
> Performing an operation in the user's device is inherently more intrusive than performing the exact same operation in the server.

Why? That’s the part I don’t get. People state that like it’s obvious on its face and it’s not to me.

If you perform an identical operation on a server, why is it better than performing the same operation on my device?

The result is identical. The inputs are identical.
It was Peter Atkins’ lectures in Quantum Mechanics that made me decide to go into Quantum Chemistry, so the book always brings back fond memories.

For Chemistry I’d also list Pauling’s Nature of the Chemical Bond. And maybe Szabo and Ostlund’s Modern Quantum Chemistry.
> At this point, it seems that the exclusion of muslims, sikhs and some Christians etc. From the script as freedom fighters seems deliberate.

It's a fantasy based very loosely on two historical characters. Bheem for the bulk of the movie pretends to be a Muslim and is sheltered by a Muslim family that knows his true identity. Claiming that this somehow excludes non-Hindus is farcical.

> Bheem is a nod to lower caste icon bhimrao Ambedkar

Bheem is loosely based on Komaram Bheem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komaram_Bheem and Ram is loosely based on Alluri Sitaramaraju: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alluri_Sitarama_Raju

You are ignorant of even the basic premise of the movie. But hey, don't let that stop you from theorising grand conspiracies.
I simply stated that no one should be forced to reproduce your speech, and you came back stating that's a limited view (why? no evidence or reasoning) and then made an ad-hominem attack on me, insinuating I'm someone who secretly has some agenda to destroy free expression. Maybe you're the one with the agenda here, and I'm just stating my simple opinions and views?

I'm not going to engage further with someone who acts like that.
“No arrays are allowed in pointer machine models” - quote from lecture one.
That fact is true, a fair point - when I left microsoft I left money behind but I got to go to a new faang job and left that ass ballmer behind ;-) But these friends were coming up on their 3 year anniversary I think. Amazon backloaded stock for a while. And it was more than 250k. I asked them why they couldn't get sit for a week, then take vacation, just do no shit for a month at amazon. And these two people separately said it was just so stressful they couldn't take it any more.
Oh I agree, doxxing is bad, but the CEO of Fiberhub clearly disagreed so it is reasonable that he experience it.

Or is your suggestion that the victims of kiwifarm's constant push to suppress the speech of others should just accept that they aren't allowed to have free speech and go offline and be quiet?

The TLDR of the below is: Fiberhub has abuse policies, kiwifarms doxxes people routinely as part of their campaign of denying free speech. Fiberhub hosting it means they don't consider doxxing abuse. Hence they should accept doxxing as just being part of being online.

Fiberhub, or anyone else, _cannot_ claim to be pro-free speech while supporting suppression of other speech. If all kiwifarms did was be yet another forum for bigots to be bigoted together, they would not be experiencing this. The reason kiwifarms is having so much difficulty with hosting is because they are specifically dedicated not just to hosting bigoted comments but explicitly the goal of silencing others by any means possible. Kiwifarms is a site that is absolutely opposed to free speech, and actively works to that goal, they are proud of driving people to suicide as a result of their harassment, and consider that an acceptable or even good way to get people to be silent.

Knowing this, fiberhub deliberately chose to support their suppression of free speech so fiberhub is explicitly anti-free speech. We know this, and we know that the CEO who is complaining about doxxing thinks that doxxing is ok, because FiberHub has abuse policies, and those policies have not been applied to to kiwi farms.
Eh, I take your point but I think it’s at least debatable.

Bell Labs via sanctioned, de-facto subsidized monopoly gave us everything from the transistor to the laser to Unix (you know the list, some readers might not). DoD/ARPA/DARPA funding was responsible for countless innovations, notable to this readership TCP/IP etc. (again, you know the list probably better than I do).

Public funding for innovation demonstrably works extremely well at least under some circumstances.

Private investment capital has been demonstrably effective at growing that pie somewhat, but it’s arguably been privatizing the resulting wealth even faster than its grown it, and almost definitionally privatizing it into the pockets of people with significant equity portfolios.

We’ll obviously never know what would have happened if Bell had been broken up and parceled off in the 1930s instead of the 1980s, but it’s far from obvious to me at least that it would have been better.
it's on iPhone now. before, if you wanted this, you'd have to make do with an android
This is harder than i thought
I feel bad that whenever I read the name I think “I AM CORNHOLIO, I NEED TIPI FOR MY BUNGHOLE”…
I can't think of another OSS desktop app that comes close to the success of blender and firefox. How did blender do what Gimp etc couldn't?
Make food and energy expensive, forbid agriculture, release genetically designed disseases...
wake me up when you can signup to a tiktok account using slack.

slack replaced your internal, HR monitored, internal IM. Not email. Just so happens that lots of places were using email as their IM solution.
Class warfare environmentalism seems especially counterproductive in the American context, where low-carbon behaviors are elite coded and the righteous middle class Everyman drives a lifted truck in the exurbs. At best there’s no constituency for this stuff. At worst, it encourages blocking decarbonization efforts as being too much in the interests of the rich / threatening to the middle class.
Swift could also use her time and energy to focus on what policies on a national scale can help lower emissions, and figure out what it would take for us to make political change towards a sustainable first-world lifestyle (political as in: a movement to make it feasible to live closer to work, to make mass transit better… not individual nonsense microchoices). I’ll judge her more harshly for that.
There is, actually.

The rich can be led to believe that reducing consumption is an elite status symbol, and an opportunity for posturing among their rich friends.

Though rich people will always consume more energy than poor people, there have been promising shifts, such as the rich competing to own the latest efficient electric car instead of competing to own the most fuel inefficient sports car.
The inverse/opposite of "50% chance head, 50% chance tails" is "50% chance tails, 50% chance head". Which is the same thing.

If you are looking at A alone, A is random.

If you are looking at B alone, B is random.

If you are looking at A and B together, they are entangled, i.e. their probabilities are "50% chance A head B tails, 50% chance A tails B head".

Random means something you can't predict (other than statistically), until it actually happens. If you know the state of the entire universe except for the particle B, you can't predict A. If you know the state of the entire universe except for the particle A, you can't predict B.
Is Warp just a VPN, or is that different?
The 8086 Assembly source code of the MikeOS operating system is remarkably readable and easy to understand for such low-level software http://mikeos.sourceforge.net
my 1999 honda civic has a feature that my Porsche 911 doesn't have. doesn't mean my Porsche 911 is a worse car
Like that guy, Khalid Lame.
CatLC: Catalonia Multiresolution Land Cover Dataset
Perhaps this is deliberate? The user "discovers" a new Google app by accidentally clicking on it when they really wanted Gmail or Maps?
The only math text that has made me laugh out loud, it’s really that funny. You get more of a feeling of sitting down with the authors in office hours than being emailed a list of theorems for homework. The effect is wonderfully motivating.
I understand that you're not personally advocating for this position, but I'm glad you brought it up, because I really resent this kind of "Here's an imaginable scenario where this would have some negative consequence" argument.

Yes, if the regulators stop doing their job well, and there's a sudden extreme emergency requiring some kind of action that regulators have not already approved for use in emergencies, then there will be some costs, and sometimes those costs can be measured in lives.

This is true, but all it says is "there is some nonzero chance of society paying some nonzero cost". These costs are what we are paying in order to have a well-regulated intelligence service. The bet is that the expected risk from an effectively-unregulated intelligence service has worse costs for society than one with effective regulation.

In order for "think about the children" to be a meaningful argument, you need to actually establish that the nightmare scenario is meaningfully more likely than overreach and abuse of power that causes similar or worse costs for society.

Has this kind of "We could save the children if only we could get regulator approval to tap this phone line! Unfortunately, the regulator is taking a nap, so we're forced to let the children die." scenario actually been happening? If so, is there any kind of much-more-specific permissions that could be granted by the regulators to address the actual emergencies that have been coming up?

I kind of get "You can't trade off a life!" for some kinds of arguments, but we're talking about national security issues, and failures of corruption and overreach also involve risking lives.

"We need to just drop all safeguards and trust our valiant heroes" only works if the people who are subject to regulations actually are pretty reliably valiant heroes, or there are other significant incentive and oversight mechanisms to rely on. I don't have personal experience with people who work in national intelligence and security, but I haven't ever heard anyone willing to say that people in this line of work are consistently virtuous and corruption-resistant. There are good individuals, certainly, but there really are also both selfish individuals, and well-intentioned-but-misinformed individuals who can do a lot of damage.
Is that more meaningful? My understanding is the climate is unconcerned with the per capita figure. It is concerned with total CO2.

To demonstrate, add some countries like Qatar, Montenegro, and Kuwait to that graph.
29, AARP member for the British Airways discount.
Eating a big breakfast and light dinner doesn’t lead you to burn more calories
The first is really the first attempt that I'm aware of to regulate social media companies, so it's not surprising that the legal arguments are not that robust or are clumsy at this stage. Surely social media companies are not considered "unregulatable" solely because speech occurs on those platforms. For the second, the article states that only "part of" the law was blocked, and leaves it up to the reader to guess which part. Unfortunately I can't find the actual court opinions, and journalists generally don't link to the primary sources when they have a specific opinion they would like their readers to have, which appears to have worked here.
Most people who disagree with you doesn't hate you, and you wont know the difference until you have made an honest try to convince them.
The Critical Drinker - a YouTube movie reviewer who is very very selective about what he calls a good movie, says:

"RRR is the best movie you've never seen"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKN6FAKjFPU
The challenge is not introduced, it is always there to varying degrees. Again, your statement seems to presume you can have political enemies that will ignore the distinction (that they have existential differences) and put it aside. I'm not saying there is no way to address political reality, but that it cannot be ignored or presumed to not exist. At some points the intractable political conflict must be solved first before you can get back to science and technology amongst friends.
If you're wealthy and hired a public relations consultant to manage the optics regarding your excessively large carbon footprint, this is the kind of argument they'd be making.
What country are you living in? My post was from a US perspective. If in the US, I still believe you're wrong, and my argument doesn't rely on that either way.

You haven't addressed the extreme limitations on speech the US no longer has, you haven't even addressed the limitations on speech that HackerNews has (which IMO make it better).

You are only repeating your vague unsubstantiated statements and mixing in my language about good/bad faith, without addressing arguments. This is a 2010-ish troll playbook, and you are not making addressable arguments, so I don't intend to reply to you any further.
> I think that Apple practice should be considered illegal

If they go down that path, it will affect Apple but it might be devastating to other closed platform vendors. These are interesting times...
SmartOS with zones. Mostly native but some LX thrown in for too linux-specific software.
yeah, just checking it out. These are really good indeed
The top of the pyramid are important because they set what the majority of us will want to emulate. If Swift is flying her private jet, then young high-schooler and adults will calibrate on that and fly to Thailand for the holidays because they perceive it desirable to fly around.

If we had influencers who would take a stand, it would be very beneficial at global scale actually. Let's say the top football/soccer players would decline to attend the world cup because having A/C'd stadiums in Qatar, and flying both the athletes and the fans there is generating large emissions. If they took that stand and shared it to their 50M followers-each mimetic fanbase, the benefits for society would be wonderful.

It's worth pursuing exemplarity of our elites because it sets the flagpost for everyone else. Redefining success from rolex, sport car, big house, to let's say skilled handcraft, raising horses, and living in a small rural community; that would really be beneficial to us all.
yep, everytime Apple makes a feature actually useable, all the android people come out furious.

my guess is android people also use windows, and are used to constant blue screens, malware, and random crashes.
"existential" The F-bomb of the current admins. Oh but let's raise the bar with "true enemies" and top it off with "people that don't care and hate you and your beliefs".
You cannot have it both ways.

We agreed as a society business are not allowed to discriminate. If businesses cannot discriminate, then your business should indeed be forced to host whatever content I put there, no matter how repulsive you may find it, as long as it is within the boundaries of the law.

Close the door to this and the door to discrimination will open.

For now, it will be in your favour. At some point, societal values will change again. And you will find yourself on the “wrong side of history”.

That is why we made anti discrimination laws and that is why we should stick to this.
Private relay only works with safari.
Maxim integrated really has a chip for everything
I would be horrified if this grew much further. It's perfectly fine for its current scope, but the architecture would not scale at all to a full interpreter without essentially starting from scratch.
Just noticed that also!

Curious that there is no more talk about that.
I'm not saying thet can't have a good social life, but it is harder and later in life. Aspergers you met probably spent years learning social cues.
> You can get tri-band Android phones for far less than the cheapest iPhone 13

you get what you pay for
Which way is it trending? The definition of intractable, existential differences is "war", in this case civil war. Certainly we're not there yet
I'd like to throw in OBS Studio as well. There's absolutely no software even close to the quality and functionality of it.
Clojure 1.0 was released in 2009 and included multimethods (ad hoc polymorphism / multiple dispatch), which predates Julia by a few years.
Territory? The map is not the land. Or the map is not the real world. Just as any model is just that; a model and not the real thing. And as the saying is, all models are wrong, but some are useful. And maps are certainly useful!
Eventually someone will make one that's ergonomic enough, provides enough features and can used to gradually refactor existing C with minimal changes code bases that it becomes a commercially viable alternative to just continuing to do maintenance programming on the C code.
Zoho became a $1B company without external investment
Many channels would be more than happy to enable download options, if possible.

Hell, how is Creative Commons licence they totally give you option to select, work in case of videos that can't be downloaded in any way?