skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, religion sells, that much is clear. Who ever said that the younger generation were not religious? They are, they just changed their object of devotion.

Meanwhile my daughters use second-hand Android phones running AOSP-derived distributions, as do I myself. Only my wife - who has a company-issued Samsung Galaxy A40 which they do not want me to mess with - runs a stock distribution but I did manage to tame the beast by disabling snoopy Samsung "services" and installing an ad-blocking local VPN firewall. They haven't complained yet so I guess we're good to go.

For the price of a single second-hand iPhone SE2 (around $200 where I live (Sweden)) I could buy both my daughter's phones as well as my own. Still these Android devices offer far more useable features than that iPhone and they'll last longer as well if my 11 year old Motorola Defy which I use daily is anything to go by [1]. It still gets 3 days on a single charge, running the original battery - which is replaceable if so needed.

Instead of iMessage we use mostly Telegram plus some XMPP as a backup in case Telegram goes bad. My oldest daughter also has Whatsapp installed but hardly ever uses it. Our data is kept on the server-under-the-stairs, out of reach of greedy data hogs like Apple/Google/Microsoft/etc. The Invidious server (also under the stairs of course) keeps Youtube ad-free, our own mail server (under... you guessed it) keeps our mail from being harvested by data parasites, etc.

Just like iPhones often are stepping stones to largely Apple-dominated monocultures so these AOSP-derived Androids can be stepping stones to free software households. I do know which of these I prefer. There is only one system left here running Windows, this being my wife's company-issued laptop.

The moral of this post is that parents do have some influence over their children's choices if they start early enough. By the time they reach their early teens they are far more focused on what their friends do so make sure to inculcate a healthy distrust of Big Data and its marketing practices - green bubbles and all - in them. If it worked for us, it can work for you.

[1] The Defy was marketed as being 'IP67 waterproof and shockproof'. My oldest daughter used to have a Defy as well. She left it in her trouser pocket when she dumped those trousers in the washing and started the cycle. One complete cycle (at 40°C) plus 1200 RPM spin cycle later she found it - it was still working... The damage? I replaced the earpiece, for the rest it just worked. I'm using that device as a remote-controlled media player now. While rather underpowered and short on memory the thing still works fine as a "dangerous work" phone. You won't like browsing the Javascript-encumbred web on it though...
Anecdata here but: literally every single dev I talk to on a regular basis has told me their company has laid off a sizable amount of staff in the last 3 months. Every single one.
That level of lax fact checking pales in comparison to what Jones did. Jones didn't make a mistake. He acted with deliberate and relentless malice. The standards for actual civil punishment for slander, libel or defamation are very high. Just getting facts wrong is nowhere near those standards. Certainly not if you issue a prompt correction when it's brought to your attention. Even saying "I think Sandy Hook was staged" isn't a crime. It's as valid an opinion as thinking the earth is flat or the 2020 election was stolen. Jones absolutely tormented people in a vulnerable state for personal gain and did so relentlessly for years when he very well knew he was lying the whole time.
In Australia at least "unemployed" according to parliament: https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_Depart...

"The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) defines a person who is unemployed as one who, during a specified reference period, is not employed for one hour or more, is actively seeking work, and is currently available for work"

So if you are desperately looking for more work BUT you have a casual job providing 1 hour of work THEN you are NOT unemployed. I mean, it's right there that you have a job.

Given the high rates of casual/part time work in our workforce, unemployment rates mean nothing to me anymore...
That's management guilt-reduction.

Hire an outsourced talk-therapy outfit like Modern Health to add to the HR bundle and they can fend for themselves.
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Because there is an algorithm for it. Convert the strings into floating point numbers, add them, convert them back to strings. It’s a leetcode medium question. It should be learnable.

The article talks about abstract math questions, but even arithmetic is hard for language models.
I have all those apps listed plus Slack, Snapchat and Kik(!) and I use them all at least weekly.

Also use DMs on Twitter relatively frequently.
Hah. I just mentioned that one in a separate reply to you.

I’d love a world where we continue to get Make No Law episodes, but I’d given up hope after it going dormant for a while.
FFS. I've been fighting uphill this past 5 years to get my colleagues, friends, and family onto Signal. This single decision will tank any hope I have of keeping them there. Literally the only reason I'm able to convince non-privacy advocate types to switch to Signal is because it is a drop-in replacement for their existing SMS application.

This decision is idiotic and will cause a mass migration off the platform. Why not take a better approach and work on a better UX to make it clearer when a message thread is secure or not?
How often do you just turn it on just to give it a spin? I'm not sure if be as productive in a lab with so much nice equipment, but I'm sure people get used to it.
In some parts of the world, we've been using heat pumps for decades. Originally promoted as 'Reversible Air Conditioners', they've moved into most homes in Australia.

The hardest part to get one's head around with heat-pumps is that they don't produce heat, they move heat. Next time you're working the air-conditioner, go out to the compressor unit. Now feel that exhaust air. Hot, isn't it? That's heat being removed from your house. Now, if you reversed the cycle inside that unit, the hot air would be coming out inside the house, and the cold air would be coming out into the outside air. Hence that original advertising: 'Reverse-Cycle Air Conditioners'.

Yes, gas can be more efficient in some ways, but electricity is more easily distributed to newer homes. It's extremely rare to see gas being distributed to new developments these days. I can't remember any in the last 10 years or more. Why bother with all that extra infrastructure when it's simply no longer necessary?

My current apartment was built in 2006. We have 5 heat-pump outlets which are all individually controllable, for temperature, simple on-off, and fan-speed. What more is required?
It shocks me how much that supposed technically minded people regurgitate half truths in order to wage an ideological war against Apple.

Whether it’s throttling, repairability, or the App Store, many of Apple’s decisions make a lot more sense when you observe them as products of tradeoffs. One may not like which side of the tradeoff spectrum that Apple chose, that’s fine, but it’s preposterous to pretend like we live in a world in which they do not exist.
Reminder that Mozilla killed off SQLite in the browser, to push indexedDB, a much more limited database that they then went and implemented in Firefox with... SQLite.
I've always been interested in this, but could never dedicate the time and energy to it. Every time I've tried to, people would think it's either a solved problem or that a new app would fix it.

I think there's a bad product fit. People who really need a dating site aren't good at dating. People who are really good at dating don't need a dating site. Monetization is terrible too - most of these make money the more they date, but a perfect dating site should only be used once. So there's a lot of serial daters. There's weird stuff you see going on in r/tinder, where both men and women are great at pickup lines, but somehow can't hold a relationship.

I think what's missing is somewhat improving dating skills. Less focus on icebreaking, more on cutting deeper and finding couples that can live together forever. What are your values, life goals. Like a scammer once said, if you want to build trust, you agree with their religious beliefs, then agree with their political beliefs. If you can find people with matching values, they'd be likely to stick through things. Of course, you can't always ask that up front, you have to somehow work it into the tempo of the conversation.
I can relate - I also spend 4 years living and working in Korea. And I also still have Kakao group chats filled with just other expats including gyopo, in addition to the ones with native friends. :)

Kakao is in many ways kind of the worst of chats - phone number-bound, unspec'd, closed, non-federated, unencrypted, known to be under surveillance, ad-infested. But on the other hand around 2010-2015 the UX was quite ahead of many others, and while Telegram & co have since pulled ahead it's still nicer than, say, WhatsApp or Signal.
Could be, but assuming it was on-topic then I've already covered why the consumer price of plastic would ultimately have to be cheaper than the price of glass. It's not just an assumption, but a mathematical certainty. If they were the same price, consumers could equally choose glass, and that would hurt Coca-Cola's bottom line.

I mean, think about it. For argument's sake, assume a Coke sells for $1.00 and the net profit on plastic is 50¢ and the net profit on glass is 25¢. Every time a consumer chooses glass, Coca-Cola loses 25¢. Therefore, there would be incredible incentive to charge $1.25 for glass in this example to at least reach parity with plastic, and a company like Coca-Cola beholden to shareholder profit motive will have to comply, which means that the price has to diverge and the price conscious consumer will stick to plastic.

Which is effectively what has happened in reality. I don't know about you, but I'm old enough to remember when glass and plastic were sold side-by-side on the regular. The consumer absolutely could have kept on buying glass bottles. They were both readily available for quite a while to keep old glass customers happy, and if that's all anyone bought Coca-Cola would have had little choice but to keep producing them. But the mass consumer soon moved towards plastic because it was better in a lot of ways.

Not better in every way, of course. There are clear problems with plastic. As with everything in life there are tradeoffs that need to be made. But a winner emerged and until something changes about what the mass consumer wants to buy, nothing is going to change.

The mass consumer is known to change its habits so this isn't necessarily a lost cause. They've done it many times before. But change won't come from regulation as the mass consumer is responsible for that very regulation! The mass consumer has to already move away from plastic bottles before regulation to clean up the outliers still trying to buy plastic is tenable.
It's not unlike documentary filmmaker Errol Morris's "Interrotron":

> An Interrotron is a clever film making device used to create up-close, face-to-face interviews. The Interrotron makes it simple to create in-your-face, gritty interviews. It’s this eye-catching style that never fails to engage an audience.

https://telepromptermirror.com/errol-morris-interrotron/
I think this is premature. https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/arm/arm-chips-gaining-da...
FaceTime does auto gaze correction.
Ah yes, we should let the government decide that some people are "highly impressionable" and therefore not human beings with agency or rights. That's definitely not a terrifying precedent to set, nothing to see here
They also do wage theft all the time, unpaid overtime, ignore breaks required by law, withhold tips... Employer offenses against employees is rampant.

As far as why this might be illegal, here's some background
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/starbucks-n...
I only use whatsapp for contacting friends from outside the country.
All that to end up with giant cloud providers selling arm servers...
I think who's hosting the content is the differentiator. Maybe an allowed app that's hosting the objectionable content itself would be a more apt comparison.
I'm sure that would have done well in Holland..
I'm not a lawyer, but I don't think "longest" is important, legally.

AIUI, if you wrote a story about a character named "Harry Potter" and used nothing else from the originals, you'd still be violating copyright.

Not that these names are important. I just think a lawyer might use this example to show that Copilot is copying (without anyone's eyes glazing over), then show some complex code and argue that the code was both copied and important. The first makes the second easier to understand and accept.
> My point is that this isn't surprising, the writing has been on the wall for the past year, so an Intel layoff isn't a bellwether for things getting bad -- it's a lagging indicator of things already being bad.

Yeah. It certainly was not a surprise and the market euphoria was going to all end in tears. Saw that a mile away several months before it happened. [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29508238
It's not hard to argue the ongoing security costs could easily reach that amount. i.e Security for trump and family cost 30 million in 2017 and these families would suffer similar political targeting. Though ofcourse we can argue that trump was purposefully inflating those costs to enrich himself. But even then we're only talking 120 mil per family for quite possibly the rest of their lives.

While I think there are many people would forgo that protection or pay less for protection it's one of the ineffable personal balances of security/cost/ease of life that I could easily see a jury saying "if they went the perfect security route then they could easily spend this much".

You can't ignore that cost just because they'd normally never earn enough to pay for that security... much like a company that causes an illness is on the hook for cost of treatment even if a person couldn't normally afford to treat themselves.
His profit isn't "actual damages" though. They haven't even decided punitive damages yet.

I can't figure the math on how any of them could have been damaged $64 million. The US government values a human life at $10 million, is this 6x worse than what the killer did?
That's fair enough but you posited that distance relationships don't work out. I posited that distance may actually save the relationship and be better for both sides.

Just because you are not close with your birth family does not mean you do not have friends or your own family. You can hate being with your brothers, sisters and parents and want to be as far away from them as you can and have a loving relationship with your spouse, two or three kids or your own, maybe you are actually on good terms with your in laws and like being around them better ;)

But you still can tolerate x-mas, Easter and Thanksgiving with your birth family well enough.
> Because companies are a legal fiction that dissolve if things get that bad? If they didn’t provide legal protection for liability than most would just be privately owned assets with direct, as in legally direct not that they necessarily speak, negotiations between the owner and employees

I legitimately do not understand what you are saying. I am a business owner, are you seriously saying I would rather dissolve my business than pay what it costs for labour (assuming i could still make money after paying that much for labour) ? Are you saying that if all software engineers tomorrow simply had an epiphany, and demanded 50% more money, google would say "we had a good run, time to simply END google" ?

> Because companies are a legal fiction that dissolve if things get that bad? If they didn’t provide legal protection for liability than most would just be privately owned assets with direct, as in legally direct not that they necessarily speak, negotiations between the owner and employees

And clearly those companies still do reasonably fine, and isnt THAT much in lack of employees, or they are in a low margin market where paying more would not really result in sufficient profit to incur the risk?

> You’re reading into it if you think I’m referring to just “working joes”. It’s what desperate people do in the rule set you propose. It’s how we had indentured servants in the American colonies. It’s how there were literally people who sold themselves into slavery to pay off bets in the Roman Empire.

I am not saying any one solution fits ALL scenarios, but WHY are they desperate? if they have skills that are useful enough to a company that it could ever sustain hiring them for a pay we would both agree is decent, then what is the reason?

> If someone is in a desperate enough situation to consider selling themselves into slavery, how pray tell, do they save up a decent enough buffer?

by saving up before they become that desperate. I am not saying this covers for absolutely everyone, but I will dare say the vast majority, and I would double down and say that a large part of those where it doesnt, its because they have been held back by these authoritarian nanny-state laws and customs. A very large amount of people who are living paycheck to paycheck very regularly does very stupid shit, like buy fancy clothes, go to restaurants instead of cooking themselves, prioritize a fairly new iphone, have a few streaming subscriptions etc. They would consider it 100% impossible to live without that, and would rather go into extreme debt and be "desperate" when the bill comes due.

Again, not everyone, some people legitimately have all odds against them from the beginning. Some have emergencies happen that they realistically couldnt have prepared for even if they did everything. This is the edge cases, the outliers. NOT the bulk of people. The bulk of people who subscribe to nanny state things considers it more apropriate to have a netflix subscription than set that money aside in an emergency fund, assuming they are paycheck-to-paycheck
Being sympathetic is not the same as a fan. I think you are misrepresenting the views held by those making the statements.
What non-Champagne alternatives would you recommend to wines such as Ulysse Collins Les Maillons Rose or Jacques Selosses Substance?
Imagine waxing this poetic over an irredeemable piece of shit like Alex Jones.
He's better with Barro than when he's trying to make Legal Radiolab. :)
There are two sides to any relationship. An employer can choose to begin their relationship with me in a non-adversarial way, accepting that I and my colleagues want to be represented by a union of the group of us and still be decent and try to reward us for the hard work we do, or they can fight it tooth and nail, constantly stick to the "letter of the law" like Apple here (which is just trying to make union and non-union employees feel disconnected from each other and shed negative light on the union), etc. That's why unions also use these tactics to fight back against that (the old "work to rule" or whatever you want to call it).

I expect my employer to treat me as an individual and as a member of a greater collective of humans. Besides, my employer isn't a faceless corporation, it's the management in the chain from my boss up through the CEO, all also humans. Instead, most employers choose to use what power they have over me to make my life harder and make my working time shittier for no reason. Unions didn't just pop out because people felt too comfortable and well-treated at their jobs.
But I think that's what godelski is saying is a bit of a contradiction.

If this "accessible searchable archive" is stored "off of the device", how exactly would the device access and search the archive? Facebook can store your Facebook Chat history on their servers no problem, but E2E encryption makes this much more complicated for Signal!

It's not impossible, Apple does it with iMessage, although that was actually a pretty recent addition despite all of Apple's resources!
This can only be verified with a duel.
I would call 'people under 10' to be a targeted market. And it seems Wikipedia agrees:

"The mass market differs from the niche market in that the former focuses on consumers with a wide variety of backgrounds with no identifiable preferences"
That makes it even worse. Defraud or harm the entire country and you pay less than defaming a handful of people. He deserves to pay them for causing them trouble for his own gain, but if this isn't a political example I don't know what is.
It was certainly too expensive, but nowhere near as expensive as paying twenty five cents for an SMS message that maxed out at 140 bytes.

Before iPhone or Android existed, Blackberry was very popular with teens because you got unlimited messaging on Blackberry Messenger included with the data plan you got with a Blackberry.

Eventually there were cell phone plans where you could add unlimited SMS for an additional fee regardless of what phone you used.

By the time the iPhone rolled around, all the American iPhone plans included unlimited SMS messages without an additional fee.
The US is straight out of a dystopia from an European perspective.
> are people still programming robots in Forth nowadays?

Frankly, I haven't kept up with the Forth community. Back in the day it was really popular in astronomy as well. Lots of observatories used Forth to control their telescopes, etc.

The transition to C/C++ was inevitable for a range of reasons. Finding qualified Forth programmers became really hard at some point. For me the transition happened when a friend of mine asked me to help port a Forth codebase to C. The system was used for DNA sequencing by researchers in the Human Genome project.

It had become very difficult to maintain and evolve the product precisely due to not being able to find good (or enough) Forth coders. I think that was the last large Forth project I completed, which, oddly enough, involved abandoning Forth in favor or C.
Contrary to popular opinion, there is not in fact a $10,000,000 cap on wrongful death damages. Plaintiffs semi-routinely get multiples of that.
Nothing to do with nerve, and everything to do with self interest.

Do you think Google (or any organization) is capable of shame? I could extend your question to "How could Microsoft whine about Google shutting down its Youtube API access, while Microsoft was shaking down Android OEMs with secret patents and forciing them to make Windows phones as part of the (secret) settlement?" or "How can Apple ramp up its ad products when it rails against Google/Facebook ads?". The answer to all of those questions is self-interest.
This is SQLite compiled to WebAssembly along with a storage layer ("virtual filesystem") that fetches database pages from a web server. So you have the full power of SQLite, and the page doesn't have to download unnecessary data from the server (like the entire dataset just to show you one row). It's a super nifty hack. SQLite built into the browser is somewhat orthogonal to this concern; it didn't allow you to store database pages on the server, and this one doesn't let you write to it.
My power tools have proprietary battery's too. I buy the same brand over and over because of owning batteries already. This type of stuff is just business 101 and it’s not exactly meant to be in anyone but the company’s best interest. It can be seen in almost all industries.
Why so? I think it would better if everyone were in a productivity maximizing role, not busywork.
Totally disappointed because of this. I convinced tons of my friends and family to use signal for theur all messages and sms and now what !
Me too I use it heavily for sms.
They could just put another tab for sms and people would be happy.
Are punitive damages not allowed in libel cases?