skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
PhDs are massively taken advantage of. The whole "do it for passion" thing is literally used as argument to abuse them.

Little money, long hours, effectively up or out pyramid where most people gonl out, expectation that you will move in few years and partner will follow.
Sun lamp, Vitamin D etc. all help. As you mentioned, hanging out in brightly lit areas where there are people around also help.

For me one component of SAD is isolation. When I was living in big northern cities where there were people out on the streets all the time and stuff to do, I was never affected by SAD. Deep winter? No problem.

Now that I live in a suburb in a region of introverts, I feel SAD in spades. I’m an introvert but that’s a bit different from being a loner — I need people around me even if I don’t interact with them. So I go into the office instead of WFH. No many people there so I chat with the janitors and admin staff. Even this little bit of human interaction makes a difference for me.

Your emotional well being apart from the weather matters and will either compound SAD or attenuate it.
It seems that Microsoft is conflating "public" with "unlicensed."

Sadly, it is a common practice. Humans are really good at rationalizing their way down the slippery slope. "I'll just use this clever way to loop over that structure. Well, actually, the whole function pretty much does what I need, I'll just drop that function in. Hmm, I could just change the API of this module a bit and that will work nicely..." It doesn't take long for learning to turn into copyright violation. I've seen this repeatedly while reviewing code of junior engineers. The engineers aren't malicious. They just sort of slide into it over time.

As Copilot gets better and better, I just don't see how it doesn't end up violating license terms, at least occasionally. Even if much of its output is fair use, as long as some of it is violating licenses, MS has a problem.
There are way better examples than this, such as the checkbox on Elastic Beanstalk that makes you decide whether to give your application a public IP. This checkbox would default to false, and in most sensible configurations would cause Elastic Beanstalk to be unable to reach the application VM. The amount of similar things on AWS (options that literally make the thing unusable if set a certain way) is astronomical, and often for simple things the documentation is non-existent or requires you to custom-configure IAM via xml. Oof.
But then you can just have a "makeEmailVerified" that takes an UnverifiedEmail and converts it to a VerifiedEmail without verification. Then the "send" function still needs to check things.
Twitter has gone from losing -$200 million per year into losing -$2,000 million per year... in just one week. ($1,300 million extra losses from the debt associated with the buyout, $600 million lost in advertising revenue).

Its a serious problem for sure. Its obviously a far more stressful situation for all involved. Perhaps the typical user isn't affected yet, but we're all forward looking. Anyone who can add up revenue / costs / profits can see that Twitter suddenly became in trouble this past week.
I think everyone experiences them differently. I can tell my eyes have a bit of "lock-in", but the level of lock in is tiny compared to staring at a laptop screen or phone for the same amount of time. It's definitely not in the realm of other VR products I've used.
Lisp has arbitrary-precision integers by default.
FTL's design sems like it would work well on a touchscreen, bu I have never seen a port.
The closest we got was the asm.js humble bundle, but I was not able to extract it.

I wish they open-sourced the game, like VVVVVV was. Oh well, at least Fex-Emu, Box86 & co are progressing well :)
Imagine saying this about writing, or the printing press. It's not just reductionist but cynical.

Optimizing for outrage is a mass communication problem, not an internet problem, and unfolds roughly the same in every new medium from town criers on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism
Even if that's the case, she seems able to differentiate opinion from fact.
Just in case someone from the '90s was working at drpepper.com, I remember fingering them and someone had some amazing scrolling ascii art of betty boop IIRC. So much good ascii art on there, actually.

I 'member.
Having taught some lock picking classes...

I think the point is, almost anyone with 5 minutes to watch a video on basic techniques (or who is interested in spending 30 minutes just messing around with no prior knowledge) could probably pick this very expensive lock.

To do what you're describing, some people wouldn't get it, and for those that can do it (most, with some practice), it'll probably take 30 minutes to an hour of practice - or a day or so for the outliers.

It's a huge difference in difficulty between the two for a few cents in parts.
To each their own! I would much rather moderately have weed.
Unsigned int is 32-bit, most address spaces are 48-bit or more.
I think the concept of it is kind of cool. The NYT or any other journalist institution could put up their own "twitter" and not rely on Elon not to ban them if they criticise him. Other people are setting up what is essentially their own YouTube, at least I found a French Blood Bowl 2 mastodont server that was full of match videos. I'm sure it'll be too much of a hassle, because you sort of need to put effort into it, and you don't on twitter/YouTube/discord/tiktok/whatevercomesnext. Especially in terms of actually turning your "views" into money, but the concept is pretty cool and very old "you own your own shit" internet.

Unlike a blog or something else you make on your own, it'll all be semi-connected though.
EDPS , the organization that hosts (?) this mastodon is funded with $20M from the EU budget. It employs 96 people (last data i could find). ( Obviously not just for mastodon)

I d actually like to see something like a public funded mastodon, like we have public TV
As a parent of three children (all grown up now) if anything I was harsher on my own than on others for the following reasons - A) Set an example / Lead by example and B) What right do I or others have to dictate how other parents raise their own offspring?
i have an iphone 6s its better than most android phone these days
Worth noting: Tarn and Zac seem to have had very very little to do with the actual UI beyond feedback, providing data retrieval endpoints, and sometimes reorganizing how data was deliver. Kitfox games are the ones delivering the UI.
There's more than just culture divide.

People being manipulated by giant propaganda networks to hate each other more and more and prevent progress from being made is an age old social _problem_.

E: Removed comment about being a throwaway, appears to just be a new account. Sorry about that.
Found an alternative way that works for those who live in a country covered by GDPR or the UK Data Protection Act:

https://help.twitter.com/en/forms/privacy/request-account-in...

I received a confirmation e-mail almost immediately.
nobody knows this
I'm almost sure Adams didn't think he was joking. He was just expressing it through a joke.
You don't move to West Norway to combat long dark winter days, you move away from there. He's just explaining his routine that he needs to have to cope with the days in West Norway.
"[I] live in West Norway."

The rest of the paragraph explains exactly why living in West Norway would be an unhelpful move.
I stopped using alcohol this summer, after it made me sleep worse. I also dislike the idea of having it act as a crutch for personality. It was fairly easy for me to learn how to be gregarious and engaged without it.
> ...wait until people get tired and cold and things get expensive and nato will very quickly fall apart

This is not far from truth, and not far from actually happening. Politicians (especially german) prioretizing ukraine over their own countries, possibility of actually UK destroying the nordstreams, people getting cold and unable to afford adequate heating, industries (already) closing down, a lot of protests (already happening) and mainsteam politicians pretty much playing the same record (saying the same thing)...

what do they/we (europeans) expect to happen? If the mainstream left and right are doing the same, the only way to change the current situation is to find an "alternative"... back in the '30s, for germans, it was that austrian painter dude, and we all know how that ended, both for ze germans and for the rest of europe... (and me, living in a nearby slavic country, really don't want history to repeat itself).
And how do you suggest you regain access to you account when/if you lose your 2FA device?
This article gets more terrifying the more you read
The more things change the more they stay the same.

Discussions in Usenet had exactly the same topics and flavour as forums and twitter today. Guns, abortions, free speech (including the old 'fire in a crowded theatre' trope).

Also present was various shades of mental illness, including the benign and the performative and narcissistic. Netnews was nicknamed 'nutnoise' for a reason.

You might find this sad but I find it strangely comforting. People in large semi-anonymous communities are predictable. At least things won't get (much) worse.
Yes, the WACC (Weighted Average Cost of Capital) explains why it made financial sense to roll out solar PV in northern European countries before many sunnier areas.

But as you say, Australia has no such excuse, having both the geography and the cost of capital to be a world leader in this, way beyond what they are now, which is okay but could have been much, much better.

Also points to an easy way to provide assistance to any country that is trapped into this financial dead-end.
Do they rely on twitter? They use it, but almost every public organization has a website (wordpress). Twitter is a megaphone that they should use (like any other mass medium) to reach citizens
I didn’t read it as an imperative but more like a pronoun dropped sentence.
Remember this the next time you vote. Without progressive governments we wouldn't even know what's in that box of Cheerios. It's called consumer rights. In Europe we have many other rights too, such as worker rights.
There is only one winner in the last 40 years of policy induced price volatility. The finance industry.

Human beings need to live in houses. Housing is one of the oldest and most basic of commodities. What do you do as an individual renting in 2020, 2007, 2004, or 2012? The answer is you reduce your housing exposure by buying.
> Why don't they buy a considerable stake in these American social media companies instead

I'll assume this is made in jest, as for this

> I don't understand why the EU bothers wasting money on these initiatives.

I don't know, and I can't say I believe this should be a priority of any kind, but it probably costs them very little in both cash and man-hours, has the benefit of being self hosted rather than relying exclusively on third parties and I appreciate their endorsement of these federated platforms however small
TEE is more generalised, it runs arbitrary crypto operations. TPM offers specific cryptographic operations using the keys that it holds.
Array.length is 32-bit in Java. This is from 2006.
There's not really any routing, but you don't need to send posts to every instance, just every instance that has users following your instance's users.
Body doubling (or doing something with others around) is an awesome technique to overcome a motivational hurdle for activities. While the term originated in ADHD circles, it is definitely applicable to those outside of the ADHD community as well.

We're actually building something just for this ( https://doubleapp.xyz ) and it can be for any sort of activity - cooking, running, working, studying, etc.
Well I’m not in the US :)
What I find most interesting is how this plays into Warren Buffet's complaints about the American trade deficit: America has been selling long term assets to buy short term toys.

In Warren Buffet's explanation he uses selling farm land as this exact example.

Of course under free trade we would expect foreign buyers to own bits of land. The challenge for America: these are not land swaps. America is not buying up bits of land elsewhere. Instead America is selling these bits of land for trinkets.

The US Dollar is a global reserve currency. Which in the abstract sounds nice to have other countries sell US things in exchange for more US debt: but in practice that means selling assets. US Government Bonds or US Farm Land. Both are assets openly traded.

The issue is not foreigners. The issue is America is running up a debt and is selling the farm.
> i dont know shit about anesthesiology, if an algorithm weights my comment discussing anesthesiology with the same weight as an actual widely peer-respected anesthesiologist, something is _severely_ broken. this type of thing is happening across the board.

Facts are one type of content, but what about these types of prompts?

* An an anesthesiologist walks into a bar…

* I’d rather be an anesthesiologist than a …

* My recent experience with an anesthesiologist was …

* Can someone please explain why an anesthesiologist …

Also, the problem with a peer-reviewed domain expert approach is that if we took a collection of randomly sampled domain experts from 100 years ago, many might have opinions and theories about their own area of expertise that we consider abhorrent or factually wrong today. It’s only through loudly questioning those enshrined, institutional beliefs that we make progress.

And often times those questions are raised by those folks that experience the outcome of those theories. It’s one thing to be a peer reviewed domain expert operating in the realm of controlled studies and intellectual thought. It’s another to be a human being with one life to live, who’s on the receiving / implementation end of these theories.
FTL is in the app store on iOS. I remember playing it on an iPad years ago - looks like it's been available there since 2014.
Yes I read “The aviator” right after. I also liked it, in some sense it was just like Laurus, though at the same time a completely different story.

But that was the main thing I noticed, was like, this is a world that thinks completely different from me.
For a general thing, the NYT profile of Zach and Tarn from DF being in the MoMA is great, but that was 2011:

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/magazine/the-brilliance-o...

"Zach brought over a drinking glass from the house in case I got thirsty, because Tarn owns only a couple of dishes. In the fridge were three sodas and a jug of water and nothing else. Tarn said I was welcome to anything, although the jug technically belonged to Scamps — the tap water has something in it that makes the cat refuse to drink it. Tarn consumed “maybe one glass” of water in the last three months, hydrating with soft drinks instead. “Water’s not doing it for me these days,” he said. “I know it’s bad, but the sugar goes right into programming the game. If I don’t drink soda now, I get a headache and can’t do any work.”

Tarn has had to deal with fans haranguing him about his health for a while. It's been a pretty common meme in DF culture to wonder what's going to happen to the codebase when Tarn passes it, with heavy implication that it'll never get to v1.0.

" . . . in the only moment I heard him speak with anything like bitterness, Tarn called Minecraft a “depressing distillation of our own stuff.” He paused, adding more magnanimously that the game “has its own things going for it.” The problem, he concluded, “isn’t with Minecraft so much as it’s with society.”
“Blood moon” eclipse on Nov 8
Lots of code is valuable to society. Find a product you believe in more if that's the problem. And a lot of software is very valuable but taken for granted.

To pick an arbitrary example, word processing removed all sorts of even less "valuable" work from the world: mailing thing around, extra printing, photocopying, physical filing, transcription services, and all sorts of related rote secretarial duties. Those jobs are gone and people do other things now... maybe they work in healthcare.
On the plus side - if someone tries to kick it in hard enough to damage it, free pyrotechnic alarm!
I think the concept you are looking for is a ["torsor"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal_homogeneous_space).

Basically,

1. You have a 0 time delta, and you can add and subtract them satisfying some natural equations. (time deltas form a group)

2. You can add time deltas to a datetime to get a new datetime, and this satisfies some natural equations relating to adding time deltas to each other (time deltas act on datetimes).

3. You can subtract two datetimes to get a time delta satisfying some more natural equations (the action is free and transitive).
It is currently available for iPad only. The developers apparently felt that the iPhone screen was too small.
I haven't enrolled in a party and I get probably 6-12 a day now (from both sides).
Could we have required that they only sell vodka, so as to target only alcoholics? Perhaps this would have just made "casual" beer drinkers into more hardcore alcoholics, though.
The article relates this same fact, with a focus on alcohol:

“The rate of such deaths had been increasing in the two decades before the pandemic, by 7% or less each year.”
It works great on the iPad. In fact, it is a superior experience to keyboard/mouse.
20 metric ton is roughly the same as Falcon Heavy center core(unloaded), for visual reference. It's not a random stage 2 left in orbit, it's the F9S1 coming down.
It was a major plot driver, but not the whole plot. You probably forgot it because the movie itself was forgettable.
The plot and writing was low-effort and lazy.
> Letting go half of the staff exactly enabled $1B in debt servicing

$1.3 Billion debt service (assuming 10% CCC Bonds locked into April 2022 on $13 Billion in debt)

Assuming 3500 staff were let go, do you really think each staff member was costing the company $370,000 / year ? I don't think so. I'd estimate the costs-per-head to be under $200,000 for the typical staff member (sure, maybe some set of senior programmers are paid $250,000 with + $100,000 in benefits, but there's not _THAT_ many senior level staff. And the seniors are exactly the people you don't want to be firing)

Even then, that's just the debt issue. Rumor is that Twitter lost $700-million/year or so in ad revenue at its latest advertising conference.

My current estimate to Twitter's yearly losses is _STILL_ on the order of $1100+ Million or so, even with all the staff reductions. (Originally $2+ Billion or so losses/year, but maybe 900-million/year saved from this firing spree)
I'm not sure what your point is on this; whether you're saying they make plenty of money, or not enough, or if you're not really speaking to whether it's enough. But speaking directly to the numbers

- The smallest monthly amount the article mentions is $3,000 / month

- The highest monthly amount the article mentions is $8,181 / month (Dec 2104)

- The current number seems to indicate $6,999 / month

- $7,000 * 12 = $84 / year

- Split between two people, that's $42,000 / year each

- General rule of thumb is that the cost for an employee doubles their salary (to account for expenses such as health care, supplies, taxes, etc). So assume they're actually making less than that. We'll make it $30,000 since the overhead for a contractor is less than that for an employee.

$30,000 per year is not a lot of money to live on.
> Only politics?

When the owner becomes super political then it alienates 50% of the country.

Companies don’t care one iota about politics, they want their publisher to be a partner and a force to propel their commercial product.

Of course they will pull out as soon as they notice that ideology becomes more important than pushing commerce. Which is why what is happening at Twitter. It’s also the reason why advertisers snub Trump’s Truth, whereas they flock to Instagram, Facebook, Tiktok…
The thing is, SOME people did and are still trying to use the internet in good ways, to share and help others.

But bad actors and bad intentions and lowest common denominator is always inevitable.

Reddit alone proves you can still have anonymity and people still behaving well enough to share/help. The key is moderators and moderation tools. And obviously "unlimited" freedom has to be sacrificed for "ground rules".
It’s not a mass communication problem per se.

It’s that humans prioritise social instability because it could mean death in, or of, the tribe; the incentive to make sales, as your link alludes to, is the driving force behind co-opting that. If that incentive disappeared I suspect mass communication would not be the problem.
Really? Public Access Version Available on: November 09, 2022, 12:00 AM https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/121795
It happened in May of 2020. The debris landed in Côte d'Ivoire and the debris was spotted in it’s way down by a local infrasound station. The debris was tracked in the atmosphere by multiple governments and there are photos. Google it for yourself.
> The idea that giving people access to more knowledge about the world and about other perspectives would be a big help in addressing social problems isn't crazy.

The idealized version of the internet always looked to me like "everyone would get along if we just understood each other. Giving everyone a platform solves that.".

The internet is showing us that reality seems more like, "everyone would agree with me if I just knew the right thing to say to them. But they refuse to stop being wrong, so I need to be more vocal.".
> and it was mainly smartphones that enabled that, because they let you take the internet outdoors.

I'm not sure it was "taking the internet outdoors" that made the difference - we could do that before, I certainly did with laptops.

The key difference with smartphones, IMO, was the conversion of the internet from a "pull" technology (I had to choose to go to a website) to a "push" technology (that website/service can disrupt me wherever I am). That's driven a lot of the nasty impacts (remember how Facebook used to send nonsensical pings to your phone to drag you in? "Your friend so-and-so you've not talked to in 20 years has a birthday! Wish them well!" I assume it still does it, but I've long since stopped using it and it hasn't been an app on my phone in far more years than that).

But we also had all the work on addiction from the "free to play" game model enabled by in-app purchases, which supercharged the research into how to just drive people up the wall and keep them staring at your service ("engaged").

If smartphones only worked inside, I think the problems would be almost as bad. I agree with you about smartphones, I just think there's a bit more nuance into why they ruined everything.
Nick burns would disagree :)

https://youtu.be/25J3u3P-HHg

Technology natives skipped social to enjoy innovation without the emotional fodder. They were left on their own with nobody to coddle them.

Its 2022.. Illiteracy is obvious
If they pretend it didn't happen, most people are going to not realize it never happened, unless it blows up bigger.

HN is not exactly the front page of the new york times or something.
Why not just have the tv palying in the background? Works for me.
> ...but flee the second hard times come?

For the US and most of the rest of the world, when the 0.01% families are fighting, dying in droves, and seeing their wealth, bodies, minds and souls shattered along with the rest of us, sure I'll consider defending my home even though that happens to temporarily align with their interests [1] [2] [3].

But until then, the elite bought it, the elite broke it, the elite are welcome to defend it. Don't include me in an armed forces that only ever enforces elite demands when I empirically, functionally have not had a proportionally effective political voice my entire voting life. Not my monkey, not my circus.

[1] https://www1.udel.edu/htr/Psc105/Texts/power.html

[2] https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2...

[3] https://www.vox.com/2014/4/18/5624310/martin-gilens-testing-...