skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The piece sounds like a petty personal revenge, where it's hard to detect any rational point.

She grew up in a family abusing screen time, centering the TV above anything and anyone. That was very bad, as she readily admits. How then does it make any sense to look away when a similar or worse issue is affecting young people?

Instead of preventing it from happening twice, you focus on "rubbing it in", because two wrongs make a right?

Further, from a pragmatic point of view, the comparison makes zero sense. Nobody cares how much TV the elderly watch because there's little to ruin at this point. They're past their productive years, so it doesn't matter from an economical point of view. For most it won't affect their dating chances or ambition to start a family. It matters little (or at least less) for their health, as they're already in winter.

For young people and society as a whole, these things matter far more. I don't know what the proper regulation (if any) would be for screen time but let's at least establish that the stakes are a 100 times higher compared to an old guy watching a stupid TV quiz.

The nature of the screen time is also incomparable. Digital is far more addictive, radicalizing, privacy-invading and exploitative compared to TV.
> I support Mearsheimer's reasoning because there is a logic behind it.

There was a logic behind Hegel. Marx believed it.

There was a logic behind Marx. Lenin believed it.

There was a logic behind Lenin. Both Stalin and Mao believed it.

There was a logic behind Schopenhauer. There was a logic behind Nietzsche. Hitler believed it.

If the 20th century taught us anything, it was to be extremely wary of fine-sounding philosophers with their arguments about "logical necessity" and "historical inevitability". Way too often it was a rationalization of evil, or at least it was used by evil men to put a veneer of "necessity" on their evil.

Mearsheimer's position may be pragmatic, but it is deeply morally nihilistic. Are you also? Can you even spell "wrong"?

Russia's invasion of Ukraine is wrong. Russia's missile attacks to destroy infrastructure are wrong. Russia's actions toward civilians in the territory they conquered are wrong.

Why is NATO expanding? It's really simple. Because nations on the periphery of Russia are terrified of Putin! They're terrified of Russia's "sphere of influence" being a "sphere of military operations". They've seen it too many times. Why did Sweden and Finland just decide to join NATO, after more than half a century of neutrality? Because they saw what Russia is doing in Ukraine, that's why! It wasn't because they were pushed into it by the US. They were pushed into it by Russia! They wanted a very clear sign that told Putin in no uncertain terms: "Don't try that here."

Your morals are leaving victims to their oppressors because "realpolitik". That's Quisling's morals, and Chamberlain's, and it's sickening.
What do you think about Zig?

I am not a fan of metaprogramming, but this is a relatively important feature of Zig.
I think you greatly underestimate how hard it is to find a good build engineer. Two of the smartest and hard working engineers did a bazel migration at one of my old companies and had to contribute heavily upstream to support all of our use cases.

It’s much cheaper in the long run to migrate to a well supported tool that you can extend than have to continuously staff some of the best engineers to keep building on your homegrown mess.

This comment is reminiscent of others i have seen about “building uber with 20 engineers” what could be so hard?
Instead of commenting on the author, perhaps we could share an example of the appropriate nginx config:

upstream http_backend {
server 127.0.0.1:8080;

keepalive 16;
}

server {
...

location /http/ {
proxy_pass http://http_backend;
proxy_http_version 1.1;
proxy_set_header Connection "";
...
}
}

https://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_upstream_module.html...
Ask HN: Book recommendations about the history of the internet
Hello HN,

I would love to hear your recommendations on books about the history of the internet.

The topic is broad and vague, but I'd generally be interested in the different protocols, key people, how it was used throughout time, browsers even, and whatever else that you think might be related.

I am not in CS/IT (I'm an academic scientist) so it wouldn't have to be overly technical, but I do appreciate some detail.

Many thanks!
I believed he mentioned early on that it was due to the perf gains Bazel provided.
Authoritarianism at its finest.
Leave sasquatch out of this.
IMHO a clear example of govt intervention being beneficial is the EU enforcing USB C for charging, and before that, USB for phones charging. Compared to the complete mess, inconvenience and waste of virtually every single model of phone requiring a proprietary charger.

But of course there are a zillion other examples, if you bother to look, it's just that those benefits disappear into the fabric of society.
"Big" there might be referring to physical size.
I hope for the good of humanity that a difference here is that Twitter has some utility, whereas the comparable code bases at large tech firms are mostly useless features/products (i.e. bullshit work).
I liked Yahoo! pipes and the idea of being able to glue things together on the internet, but unfortunately many web sites simply don't have good APIs to enable this. In my experience pipes workflows were also brittle since any site could easily break them.

The lack of stable API support on (many/most) web sites (and no incentive to provide it), the likely low user/developer base, the apparent lack of killer apps, and Yahoo! itself probably all combined to prevent pipes from becoming a big thing.
oh my... I was at the point of making a git plugin to do this. This pretty much was the bane of my existence.

:pray:
Yep, there are lots of ways to do something similar. Reader modes are also built into Safari & Firefox directly.
There aren’t more scams of that nature…they’ve been around forever. You’re just more aware of them, there are more elderly around and it is easier for anonymous scammers to target the elderly with today’s IT. Protecting the elderly is an IT problem worth working on. I hear there are several thousand FAANG types at loose ends at the moment…
Actually the research suggests that participation trophies are counter-productive, because it teaches kids that they don’t need to try, they are simply entitled to rewards:
https://lancasteronline.com/opinion/columnists/undeserved-pr...

The whole concept of participation trophies came out of the “self-esteem” movement, which has mostly panned out to be BS.
Twitter was losing millions of dollars each day. It wasn’t profitable or even break even.

An engineering culture that’s awesome at a company like that will only last until the money runs out.

I’m not supporting what Elon is doing. I’m just saying that what Twitter was doing before wasn’t sustainable or on a path to being sustainable. The culture was part of that
Kids these days, with their writing and their abjads and alphabets… rotting their brains LOL. And they think I am corrupting the youth!

I don’t think Socrates really existed btw. He was likely a rhetorical device of Plato and Aristophanes, similar to Sherlock Holmes of Arthur Conan Doyle. And both authors say the same of their main character:

“He was the wisest, and the best, man I have ever known!”
The main problem with it is that "web3" is a technological answer to what is not a technological problem. Aside from IP assignments, the internet is inherently decentralized as it is. It's just that people don't choose to use it that way.
The only intelligence with human capabilities is, so far, human intelligence. We can see how nature incrementally improved 'the algorithm' when we look at other animals, from simpler ones to primates. We don't see the capabilities of even lower animals in modern deep learning based networks. We know these networks don't match in neural function what we see in biology. Whether deep learning will lead to the North Star of human intelligence is guesswork, and guesswork rarely works well with complex systems.
Frederick P. Brooks Jr., Computer Design Innovator, Dies at 91
The Real Challenge with SwiftUI
Very cool, I expected some arcane magic but the code is super clear. I didn't know you could get video data like that in Javascript.
Whoa, that's quite a bit of text but it all went off the rails in the first sentence already and you go on a tirade from there that's wholly uncalled for:

Stop gate-keeping woodworking

I don't see where I "gate-keep" woodworking. My first sentence specifically said:

If you're in it for quick results, absolutely agreed. If I had to earn a living making furniture or any kind of carpentry, I'd definitely use power tools.

That's the opposite of gate-keeping. I'm saying, power to you if you want to use power tools, like one of the other replies says they do because it's just an enabler of other hobbies to them. And I say even I would if I had to make a living being a carpenter for example.

I'm saying what I love about woodworking and why I use hand tools:

The point is to to do something that is not easy. Something that takes time. Skill. Mastery. And do it badly lol!

For me the fun is in the process and seeing that these results can be achieved with just these hand tools. I find that amazing. It was a lot of fun scouring EBay for cheap, in-enough-shape-to-be-useable planes and saws. Why do I choose one arbitrary limit over another? Well because it's arbitrary and I chose it and I'm having fun with it!
Which argues that clients should randomly change their MACs, and you could share your PRNG with friends so they could recognize you, even if it changes often.
Seems like nginx should update its default settings. Can’t think of a reason to not make keepalive the default.
What engineering development are you referring to? Do you have any examples?
I believe that is the number of installs in active browsers, not how often people interact with the extension (which is much lower).
Justice is for little people. SBF has “big guys” for friends. He’ll be fine.
Do you know about carbon filter recycling ? if you pyrolyze the filter would it evaporate the toxic compounds and leave pure carbon lumps ready to reuse ?
Isn't EDM that horribly repetitive thing you have to be high or drunk to really enjoy?
Sounds like author self-immolated their marriage and is still salty about it?
I remember watching Discovery and National Geography documentaries when I was a kid and absolutely loved them. A few years ago when I could afford a cable subscription of my own I was so excited about finally getting access to that content again, but the excitement didn’t last long. It was all reality TV, conspiracies and ads, like all of it all the time. Not a single serious documentary was aired in the first two weeks of being subscribed, and by the third week I had stopped checking the program. So I canceled it before the month was up.
> A child and a retiree are not even remotely comparable.

Excessive consumption of low quality media is both bad for the brain and bad for society.

> leave me the hell alone to do whatever I want to with the rest of my limited time here on earth

If that means being manipulated by aggressive algorithms designed to keep you locked in and wasting your limited time, that's fine for you. Personally, I find it horrifying.
wind turbines only work when the wind blows.. not comparable
Apology letter Sam Bankman-Fried sent to FTX employees
Dude, hell no. This is an incredibly entitled outlook.

You don't get to check out and look at your phone while your children or grandchildren want your attention. As an elder, you're expected to invest your time and wisdom into the next generation, not sit around on your ass doing nothing. Sure, maybe it's your right to squander your experience, but if it's also your choice then you deserve no respect.

There's also the looming reality that as you continue to age, you'll be less capable of caring for yourself. Hopefully your children will take care of you, at least until they grow sick of you. And the caretakers in a nursing home certainly won't give a damn about your "productive achievements" when they're changing your diaper.

You're right about one thing. A child and a retiree are not comparable. You should hold yourself to a much higher standard than a child.
https://i.imgur.com/EzVONAD.png is how it's done in my current extension, perhaps you can make one of the bottom squares say "Custom color" and when clicked on, it would expose a color picker. Then save the choice in local storage or however you store data now. Dark Reader is also another great extension to look at to see how they did it.
It's possible to build on multiple brownstones and replace it with a denser multifamily but:

You have to own the lots

You have to get permits and go through a lot of reviews by the city and possibly the state (if it's condos)

You'll still be faced with aging infrastructure. The subway is 2/3 capacity at most and still there are delays and crowded train cars.

I'm not questioning the wisdom of higher density, I'm questioning the feasibility of it. How many years and how much did it cost to make a few blocks of 2nd avenue subway?

London and Paris appear to be doing a better job at expanding the city outward, adding infrastructure as they go.

There is something deeply, fundamentally wrong with modern urban growth in the U.S., and I suspect it has to do with the decentralized nature of the political system. How many layers of approvals do you need here and how much coordination do you need with how many agencies across how many levels of government from local to Federal.
Exactly, if I put out an add like this it will be counted into worker shortage:

'Hiring decelipers with experience of devops, security, and 15 years of Rust experience. Proven controbutions to linux Kernel. $30k'

We can all see how laughable this is. It is equally laughable to hire workers on shit wages, just because they are blue caller jobs doesnt mean there is no minimum bar at all

The market swings both ways, but media seems to have inherent bias favour how employer's would like it to be
Deciding whether something is waste is a value judgement about what you spent it on. If you make a beautiful food sculpture that you enjoy looking at, but doing so renders the food inedible, is that food waste or not? If you feed it to someone who's already eaten more than a healthy day's food intake, is that food waste or not?

You can only say whether time is wasted if you have a measure of what's a valuable use of time, and the idea that "productive" activities are more valuable than social farting around is not uncontroversial.
I find Pawn Stars (without the ads, i.e. on YT) pretty enjoyable and interesting.

I agree that Discovery Channel and similar ilk are pretty awful though, not much substance at all to those - and the volume of ads makes it unwatchable regardless.
Your idea sounds great, like a programming speedrun.
Ramen-based fuel now powers one of Japan’s most beautiful sightseeing railways
We need to better price in the cost of destroying ecosystems-- think like we're doing with the carbon pricing, but much broader in scope. Basically what the "E" in "ESG" should stand for, if the system made sense. And we need international, cross-party alignment on this.

I'm not extremely optimistic on our ability to do what it takes.
It's also a terrible idea from a performance standpoint.
What is your definition of a wasted life? It's bound to be different from the next person.

Food is made to be eaten, that is its purpose. So it's clear what wasted food is.

What is the purpose of a human life? There is no universal answer, hence no universal way to define what is a wasted life.
Please choose more descriptive titles for your submissions here, people.

Some dude I don't know is porting a game I know nothing about to a language I know nothing about and his reason is "because I feel like it". He has grievances about the current state of things and the port hasn't gotten anywhere yet.

I have a hard time thinking of a blog post that would be less useful to me.

No lessons learned, no "why you should consider this obscure programming language you have never heard anything about". Also you need to go to wikipedia to find out the programming language is targeted at games. Programming games is not one of my interests.

You'd think they at least explain why jai is good for programming games.
But they don't. The blog post can't, in fact, because he hasn't gotten far enough yet to draw any conclusions.

At least make it look like you are making an effort to not waste my time.
I'm curious, have you ever studied philosophy? I ask because I often hear this kind of rhetoric from people who have a distorted idea of philosophy, and don't grasp the impact that philosophical thinking has on the proper performance of scientific inquiry.

In the current case, we might not arrive at one definitive answer, but we can accomplish at least three things:

1. Eliminate bad answers

2. Understand the edge cases of the good answers

3. Ensure the scientific community is acting in accordance with 1&2

I think you may be surprised by how often the scientific community spins its wheels on nonsensical questions, due to a lack of philosophical grounding. One example is the mind-body problem. Gilbert Ryle shed light on the category error that underpins Cartesian dualism in the 40's. Until then, scientists were (quite frantically) searching for the locus of the soul.
Check out “Designing Intrinsic Layouts” by Jen Simmons—https://aneventapart.com/news/post/designing-intrinsic-layou...

Thanks to Flexbox and CSS Grid, you may not need media queries for most layouts.
On a similar note: because Socrates never wrote anything down, it's entirely possible everything attributed to him was made up.
The point is that Musk didn't acquire Twitter for business reasons. Nobody thought Twitter was a great financial opportunity. He acquired Twitter in order to change Twitter, for whatever his actual goals may be: "save humanity", "free speech", shits and giggles, etc.
Amazon Can’t Get Peloton Back in the Black
Working at night.
Clarification - critical of not winning.
Lightspeed is 'spending a fortune on hiring' as tech sector cuts thousands
You could kill all life on Earth, then there'd be no mass extinctions after that. You could put all animals in zoos and maintain their populations at a constant level but that's not a 100% guarantee. Best way would be to continue advancing human society so that we reach a state of such abundance that no one on Earth needs to put undue pressure on wild populations of animals while at the same time achieving a mastery of the natural world that would allow us to avert any major disasters that might befall the Earth such as asteroid impacts, coronal mass ejections, super volcanoes, gamma ray bursts, rogue black holes, and the death of the sun. Look sharp, we've got a lot of work ahead of us!
AMD all the way. Avoid Nvidia on Linux.
Does this mean Musk was right?
I totally agree! The truck was recently safety inspected for the state, and brake systems are supposed to fail front and back independently. Front and the rear failed in different ways, though the front failure was precipitated by the extra pressure when the rear failed. The mechanical emergency brake was fine.
FTX Hires Ex-Regulators to Investigate Firm’s Collapse
Presumably they mean Vercel licenses.
bingo! it's crazy that people keep comparing this to wind turbines.
I sometime bookmark, but mostly tags.. or just hoarding lumps of links. Hmm thanks for the info, I didn't know pocket did that. Now I just need this as a standalone firefox extension :)

ps: in any case, my suggestion was a soft tongue in cheek, not pressing you, unless it excites you. And kudos on your results already.
Well said. The outcome of the Bazel/Pants changes along with the avoidance of the "just buy it" from the outset will pay dividends in efficiency and savings forever (current-events-doomsaying aside).
> So as long as I'm gaming mindfully it's all fine?

I actually think there's some merit to this view. There's a big difference between engaging with a TV program and vegging out while it plays in front of you, despite the superficial similarities.
> If you have 2000 SWEs you'll pay 40k/month just to have access to the website.

That doesn't sound like a bad deal if you have to hire such a big build team; let's say you could fire 10 people, 10 * 150.000 (rough estimate) / 12 = 125k/month. That's a 85k/month saving.

I highly doubt GitLab fits the need of such massive monorepos; my only point is that the financial argument is not very strong IF GitLab were a viable alternative to such a big build team.
It’s always in sufficient light for a modern camera to have 1000+ shutter speed as well.
This timeline is such a mishmash of mediocrity. Voice assistants could have been a vibrant ecosystem of different personalities, like say buying a Darth Vader voice pack or having your computer sound like a snooty English butler..

There's a great little game series called Megaman Battle Network (Rockman.exe in Japan) which diverges from the mainline by showing an alternate universe where scientists focused on AI instead of robotics, resulting in a world where "Navis" are ubiquitous.

I wonder, what if our early software engineers focused on bringing natural voice control to CLIs, before perfecting GUIs first?
Maybe because the goal isn't feeling good?
Sadly quite true.
FTX's collapse underscores the need for regulating crypto
We all know thats for military camps.
I do that right now without any web3 stuff.
The blogpost was clearly written about parents who had no such high aspirations for their children, though.
the number one problem with onshore wind is a capacity factor around 30% and on top of that you could have long periods with no wind at all.
Music geeks might appreciate this. I recently made a CD wall of my most-scrobbled albums: https://photos.app.goo.gl/GkXKM1FpmsqwzALP7
> For example, a person who likes Black Sabbath, and really technical instrumental metal, probably doesn't like the comparatively simpler slipknot

That's just thinly disguised metal snobbery. Almost all metalheads adore Black Sabbath, because they wrote fantastic songs. Sabbath's music caught on because it's so accessible. They were certainly good musicians, but by no means anywhere near the top of the Technical Sophistication Food Chain.

I myself am a cretin, and thus have little patience for technically advanced music, but I'm happy to accommodate a vast world of music where everyone finds something they like, so I'm not going to denigrate anybody's favorite Super Technical Metal Band with twin guitar solos and the 75-piece drum kit - it's all good to somebody. But you've gotta be kidding if you think Sabbath is that kind of act.
You should try with
location / { return 200; }
and turn on SSL caching in nginx . Also, check default ciphers in both cases
It sounds like an ok idea that someone didn't execute properly, unless the idea really was to give the checkmark without real validation.
> With Steam, the brand respect they have is five-stars!

It's so funny how this works. I remember when Steam came out (I was in HS) and it was extremely controversial. Everyone, and I mean everyone, hated it. "I need to start ANOTHER application to run my game?" It was slow, clunky, buggy, and basically a piece of garbage. It also started the anti-consumer aggressive software DRM trend (you basically couldn't share games anymore). In other words, it was a huge gamble by Valve.

There's few people I'd tag as "visionaries" in the software realm, but Gabe Newell is one of them. No idea how (maybe it was just luck), but he literally saw 10-15 years into the future. Very few people are able to do that: off the top of my head, I can only think of Jeff Bezos, Steve Jobs, and Elon Musk.
I hindsight I should have left out the "beginner" part. Thanks ofr pointing me in the right direction, exactly what I was looking for.
This reminds me of this scene from Harold and Maude that I think about a lot:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0FX_ROcNV4