skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The ability to read 1’s and 0’s will be around in 1000 years time. It will be easier to convert bluray to some new format when bluray reaches end of life. Bet you could find vhs schematics, if you couldn’t find an active vhs digitiser right now if you tried.
There seems to be no distinction between TV and gaming. It’s all just “screen time.” But the distinction is VERY important. One can be addictive.
Depends on how you use/play it, just like it depends on how you use social media or TV. A lot of my social media usage is finding stuff and sharing with friends in group chats and us having discussions/laughs over them. Most of the "TV" (streaming services, anime, etc) that I watch is done with my partner or a group of friends. If you just turn your brain off and grind, then WoW or any other MMORPG is an equivalent mindless time waste to just consuming TV. I suspect it gets more fondness in nerdy circles just because more folks in these circles relate to it.
When we find the magic wand to do that, I'm not sure I'd wave it but ok.

'Fair wages' is tossed around a lot. I'm not some money-grubbing oligarch but imagining you can control wages has a pretty bad track record. It's going to take more than talking about the end game, to come up with a game plan.

Anyway, I don't think I'm being any more emotional that the knock-off remark I responded to. If I came off as reactionary I apologize.
Cynical Guess: Things are similar or worse at many other, non-Apple-related, locations. But it's the same old "$HorribleThing didn't really happen if it wasn't click-worthy in western media" situation. And "Apple" is the ace of trump for making things click-worthy.
I put the brakes on Libre.fm a little to avoid becoming a social silo. What’s there works and people keep using it.

GNU social was a spin off, later merging with StatusNet and later Mastodon was a rewrite of GNU social in Rails.
Everything is a waste. The only issue as it pertains to well-being is that too much passive consumption is both unhealthy and leads to lethargy. It can have it's place. Some people seem to enjoy it more than others.
While the average lifespan (American stats) is about 79, if someone makes it to 80 their average lifespan is 88.
Well done on your work! It's nice to see new tools being developed in graph world, especially in Rust.

I would just like to emphasize that there is a big difference between a graph database and graph algorithms library. This is a thing that has to be taken into account. Besides that, real life use cases usually include dynamic data. That's the reason why Memgraph holds a set of dynamic graph algorithms. For example, we implemented dynamic PageRank algorithm [1] which is the approximation of PageRank carrying the same information as the results of PageRank - the likelihood of random walk ending in a particular vertex. In use cases such as credit card fraud detection, dynamic graph algorithms are of a huge importance to make important decisions as fast as possible. Besides that, we have implemented a set of modules built on top of NVIDIA cuGraph [2] which provides a set of wrappers for most of the algorithms from the cuGraph repository. With GPU-powered graph analytics from Memgraph you can explore huge graphs databases and make decisions without long waits for the results. [3]

[1] https://memgraph.com/docs/mage/query-modules/cpp/pagerank-on...
[2] https://memgraph.com/docs/mage/query-modules/cuda/cugraph
[3] https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/running-large-scale-graph-...
The Berserker Hypothesis: The Darkest Explanation of the Fermi Paradox
That's a good point, I also do this as it brings some amount of comfort vs being alone with complete silence.
Waste is waste, that's not a judgement about the person wasting something, it's a description of what's happening.

If you throw away food, you're wasting it. You might be allergic to it, but that doesn't change the "thrown-away food is food-waste" bit, it just explains why you don't want that food around.
As I understand it, the Feds are still negotiating with the Bahamas to set up the interviews.
I'm one who did just that - my mom fell into the trap of qanon, trumper, cultist, and worse bullshit. And every time I went over there, she had that idiot box on, blaring foxnews propaganda. I caught her more than a few times down a real rendition of 2 minute hate from Orwell's 1984.

So, I turned on the child filters on her tv and removed foxnews, oann, and a few more. Is it ethical? Well, it's gray for sure. But given how unhinged she was getting, sure, I'll take that hit.
30 years later, millennials will be on their smartphones while complaining kids these days never come out of their VR world.
Yeah there's definitely different types of shows. Just like there's different types of books. There are some shows and movies that have deep philosophy to them and you can spend hours, days, or weeks mulling over and discussing. The same is with books. There are also plenty of trash novels that are purely for entertainment. Is there a difference between that and your standard mindless sitcom? Probably not. But we also shouldn't paint with too wide of a brush or we're closing ourselves off to a potentially powerful form of art, expression, and even a method of learning.

I also think there is nothing wrong with purely engaging in entertainment. But this is an issue when it gets addictive and becomes too much. We need to be nuanced about these discussions rather than being so judgemental and putting our own perspectives as the higher status. That's just stroking our own egos and that's similarly not healthy nor beneficial to society as a whole.
Redox OS 0.8.0 is now released
"A.I. Safety" is a proxy for a battle over control of what kind of output or inquiry should be allowed at all.

Suffice it to say, ideologues desperately want control over everything AI/ML. That's the real danger.
That makes sense from a hardware point of view. I was wondering whether there would be issues using a Steam account from an unsupported country.

It requires a Steam account in a supported country to order. But after receiving it, can you log in to an account from a different country? Technically it should be doable. But there might be some policy that stops it from working.
My grandma would watch cricket (which is the whole 6 hours sometimes...), snooker, tennis, cycling and Formula 1.

My dad would watch the cricket by seeing the TV to the Teletext page for the score, and watching it refresh every minute. (If you're young or from America, this is life watching a Web page refresh.) There is only slightly less movement than watching actual cricket.
> Sleep 8-10 hours per night, eat a good breakfast, don’t use nicotine, exercise every day or almost every day, get some sun. Not only do these help by themselves but they also make medication like phenylpiracetam and adderall (adderall in particular needs a lot of protein to work best) more effective as well.

That makes sense.
Since such amphetamines increase the release of dopamine and noradrenaline.
And for those two, you need l-dopa and for l-dopa you need tyrosine and for tyrosine, you need protein.
So you need to increase your protein.
But I don't know by how much, though ...
I guess you need to find out by trial and error ...
You're already positioning yourself in a very specific value framework when you put productivity and self-improvement at the forefront. There are many other frameworks in which finding pleasure in the present has value.

I've known people who chased the future so hard they never took the time to live.
Speaking about wasting time! Reading that article was a waste of time. That was more of a journal entry of a woman disgruntled with her family life, than it was on the "screen time" of various age groups
We might be better off if conventions in email programs changed so that the "Send" was not the default but rather something like "Schedule this to be sent at the next top of the hour". We wouldn't have to resort to any UI fakery, and there might be interesting societal effects if widespread enough. (Most mail delivery doesn't need to be immediate, but pretty much no one tunes their setup to minimize interruptions.)

It obviously won't work very well if it's entirely handled by the client, since your battery might die, you might go out of range, etc.
I want to throw some love out for GloriousEggroll and their custom proton distribution as well. Thomas has done fantastic work on Proton and it generally works better for me than the official version.

https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom
Twitter's Advertisement teams have been decimated, possibly to the point of non-existence. I've seen online advertisers complaining that their emails / issues are not getting any responses in the past two weeks, despite concerns about advertisements + brands being shown next to pornographic material (which is the fastest growing section of Twitter this year, even before Musk).

While porn has been on the rise on Twitter, the uptick of branding next to pornography is a recent issue. I'm guessing that a lot of those services Mr. Musk turned off in the past two weeks were related to brand-protection that these advertisers cared about.

Its no secret that lots of social media sites have pornography sections. But what brands want is assurances that their advertisements are isolated away from those corners, especially for brands like Kellogg's, Mars, and other brands that want to build a strong brand with children.

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I'm not sure what Volkswagen is worried about: it could be that Volkswagen just doesn't want to give money to Twitter when its obviously going to just be funneled to Elon Musk / TSLA eventually.

Still, the loss of Volkswagen is yet another papercut in this slew of advertisers that have left Twitter.
s/rust/scala
I've noticed similar. I've woken up early, taken my pulse and notice it was a bit high and used that to decide to go back to sleep.
Then can you come up with a rigorous definition of "waste" here that others would agree with? Definitions usually require consensus.
Most games aren't multi-player? I could only wish, hell most games that should be only single player are now multi player.

The trash that is the multi-player games add ons what has ruined tons of games and no just because of compatibility.
If you restrict yourself to older office versions like e.g. 2013, they should be working fine with vanilla wine. At least I remember running Word seamlessly on my gnome desktop. I even created a „desktop“ file so I could double click on word files to fire up Word.

I recommend using the „play4linux“ fronted to wine which makes it rather easy to install and maintain windows applications and games.
> I'm not interested in opinions about mob programming, I have very positive experience with remote sessions :)

Well, I am. Wtf is mob programming and who’s got hands-on-keyboard?

Pair programming makes sense because a discussion can be held — mob programming makes me imagine twitch plays Pokémon
In my time in academia (math/cs), public criticism of other people's work was extremely rare. Not for the (somewhat strange) reasons listed in the article, but because it never ever reflects well on anyone involved.

I knew a researcher who publicly challenged some obviously bullshit research, and basically got absolutely nothing out of it, apart from a certain reputation. The correct thing to do is just ignore the bullshit. If you want to challenge good work with some gaps, there certainly are ways to do it without appearing critical.
Try as we might, most of life will be a waste. There are only a few moments in life that we truly cherish and would not consider waste.

Anything that is not bringing you closer to experiencing one of those moments is a waste. Spending more effort than what is necessary in pursuit of those moments might also be a waste, especially if the payoff isn’t worth it.

Therefore, you should setup your life so you can experience as many of those moments as possible. Money is the common tool of achieving a life of endless experiential opportunities. But it’s not enough, you must also learn to greatly reduce or eliminate all responsibilities as well so you can live freely. You must be financially independent, location independent, and ideologically independent. Only then can you truly stop the waste of life.

Some people are so bound to a time and place, a source of income, a way of thinking, that they will be lucky if they ever experience a single moment in life that is not a wasted.
Or use an existing chain that doesn't confer any advantage to early miners/adopters. Perhaps one with a pure linear emission (fixed block subsidy).
I wonder if when writing started to become the preferred method of transmitting information between humans, some people suggested that the methods of oral tradition were superior.
Also, written media is inherently superior to animated media in my opinion, if you want something else than entertainment and factoids.

I mean, i like alternative history, and even history channels on youtube or the television. But i would never form an opinion from them. I would rather read, even old and criticized Paxton books, because i know i would stumble on some stuff, sometimes rightly, often not, and the lecture of newer books will confirm, or infirm my original thought, and allow me to form better one (not a WW2 nerd by the way (i really prefer the 16th to 19th), but i think Paxton should be the most read historian on a non history-focused forum. And he was my entry point into the science).
You're falling into your own trap of what is and isn't a lie.

Lets go with the common aphorism 'all models are wrong, but some are useful'. As it puts forth there are a large number of useful models, but wouldn't that fall under your term of a lie since it's not the truth of a situation.

The problem with reality is it feels no need to be explainable.

I think I meant to post this to the user above you....
https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/pgn/eCxDBoc6S?tab=review

chess.com analysis

accuracy 75.4 vs 70.6 so it did a measurably good job matching performance

there is something very lifelike and appealing about an AI that blunders at the same rate as you

best chess engine, good job
OpenFold: Retraining AlphaFold gives insights into how it learns and generalizes
You can click sign in on that prompt and then there will be "X" button :)
I think there is an exception to satire because good satire has to take on the form of what it mocks, and therefore you can't make an epic painting.

The hard work of satire is figuring out the best way possible to make the satire.
Solving Cybersecurity’s Data Conundrum via DIR Approaches
An influx of security tools and alerts, and ineffective and/or suboptimal detection, investigation, and response (DIR) processes have painted security operations (SecOps) in a chaotic light. Then, throw data and resources that are all over the place into the mix, and you’re potentially looking at a big mess—one that goes beyond the confines of an organization’s network and assets. This includes the external attack surface and deep, dark webs, which are primary sources for digital threats.
The author was speaking for himself, so there's no contradiction there.

If anyone wants to consider parts of their life a waste, let them do so, it's only their business.
Do people ever come back and read them though?

It seems like for people with 50+ tabs, rate_of_addition > rate_of_closure.

Saving state is a fair a point, but I can't think of many read pages where that's important to me + I'd trust it to a browser.
There's this phrase I heard recently: "Losers focus on winners, winners focus on winning"

Now, I don't _love_ this phrase because it implies life is a zero sum game, and that if you haven't achieved success you're a loser -- neither of which I think is true. But I do think it gets to something important, which is that the best way to find success is to focus on how it relates to you, not to someone else. I'd love to be running my own successful company, but if I look at my own script, what do I need to do to be the kind of person that could pull that off? What are the intermediate steps? I think when you compare yourself to others, you're essentially trying to live by someone else's script, but why should their script ever work for you? They have entirely different advantages and disadvantages. I think you're almost always going to fail trying to do that.
Sometimes it's fun to cuddle with the kids while you play a game that they enjoy.

My 6 and 4 year old love "Tunic" and "Stray."

The Steamdeck is a lot of fun.
It’s the type of engagement.

Watch television geared towards old people or young children sometime. It’s engineered to grab passive attention and the active content is ads.

It’s easy to see the effects on people. Little kids will go crazy to obtain some product. The older people face a more insidious marketing message - fear.
I disagree. Object-oriented programming is very easy in C even though the syntax itself doesn't guide you. Essentially, all C code I write is object-oriented. Perhaps you are thinking about dynamic dispatch which indeed is very annoying to implement correctly in C?
Well, that's definitely true.

Having someone tell you something is vastly better than reading it.

Aside from the intonation and stresses in tone there's also a plethora of body language and cues to pick up on.
> The issue is really that doing _anything_ mindlessly is a waste of life.

So as long as I'm gaming mindfully it's all fine?

> Would I recommend it? No, huge waste of time.

I have a suspicion that on my deathbed I'd be regretting only one thing. That I didn't get more time to play and have fun.
Socrates on the Forgetfulness that Comes with Writing: https://newlearningonline.com/literacies/chapter-1/socrates-...
And, as always, the devil is in the rate of change. Living during slow changes is not hard but if the rate of change exceeds your ability to adapt, you are screwed.
It's sort of like modern art. Maybe you could have done it, but you didn't.
Personally if I've opted to hide it I wouldn't want to see it unless I've specifically asked for it.
> Meanwhile, those aged 65 and over spend just under six hours on average watching TV daily.

Wait people are still watching broadcast TV?

I guess if you're a pensioner in the UK who doesn't have to pay the license it makes sense. Though 6 hours, even of the Beeb, seems a bit nightmarish.
I think the better parallel is information theory and DNA coding, which happened around the same time, and there was a lot of flow from the IT folks to the DNA folks when people were trying to deduce the "code". See https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3220916/ and other things written by Schneider
Socrates on the forgetfulness that comes with writing
Sure, you can check out more here: https://www.remotemobprogramming.org/

Basically, one person writes the other discussion, and we switch every 20 minutes, so everybody can take part.
No, he explains it's eggregiously false. His blessing is not required or requested. Just expressing bafflement that nobody along the production path thought there was anything wrong with this piece of shit.
Investigating a backdoored PyPI package targeting FastAPI applications
I'm delighted you called out these problems when you came across them, and sorry that he didn't have the grace or maturity to take it on board without getting defensive.

Like many thin-skinned hype merchants with a seven-figure salary to protect, they're going to try and block criticism in case it hits them in the pocket. Simple skin in the game reflex that will only hurt any chances of improvement.
I agree that WoW is a waste when considered in relation to the space of possible things a young person can be doing. In practice, though, teenagers are basically trapped in their school related social circle and activities. For me, WoW was a place to be someone else, other than who I was at school, and to feel valued for reasons beyond my performance in high school social games.

Beyond that, I legitimately think that my experiences with raiding, min-maxing, grinding, etc. were a sort of preparation for the social dynamics of... corporate leadership. Of course, a lot more was required (technical skills, philosophical grounding, etc), but it was a good start.
> Many people do a lot of things they think are productive but see no improvement in outcomes. i.e. reading articles

Or to put a different spin on this, some people spend so much time producing things that they never pick up a book.
> Because software should “know” that we form habits.

This is my problem with SaaS as an end-user.

Imagine one day you leave home to drive to work. You have a coffee in one hand and a briefcase in the other. You have done this a million times before, getting from the front door to your driver's seat, and you can do it blindfolded. So you grab your brief case with your coffee hand and watch so you don't drop either. You extend your hand to open your car door and ...

OUCH!

You stubbed your fingers.

Surprised, you look down and to your horror you see that your car door handle isn't there. You look around and notice that 6 inches away is something that kind of sort of looks like something resembling a car door handle, but it's different and wasn't there before. You try it, and to your relief it opens the door.

You take a seat, turn on the ignition and suddenly your am/fm radio turns on and a strange voice shouts "Welcome to Your Car Version 2.0! Try Our All New Shifter Feature!"

And that's when you look down and realize ... your damned shifter has moved to.

You never asked for this, you are now late for work and are going to take shit from your boss, your life is objectively worse off for the change and you can't, for the life of you, see how any of this is "better."

But that describes pretty much all software in current year.
Yeah I'm in my 60s and... not too impressed by the supposed wisdom of my fellow Boomers.
I wonder why GitHub doesn’t apply their own signature when they rebase a commit with a valid signature from one of their users. They do that when you edit a file through their Web UI.
"Hey, I wonder what this fence is doing here. Should I call Chesterton and ask, or just knock it down and see what comes in and out?"
topic also discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33724134
If you're looking for applications, CodeWeavers' Crossover Office is the place to go. If you actually can't afford it, you can use plain WINE. But Crossover is nicer, has support, and funds WINE development, since CodeWeavers sends their patches upstream.

https://www.codeweavers.com/crossover
When I was a kid they were similar concerns about kids spending too much time in front of the TV…

And in the 90s about kids spending too much time in front of the Xboxen.

Have to ask my parents what they were worried about in the 50s, probably too much time reading books.
I'm seeing KPIs for grants (and even for the whole programs of grants) as, for example, quantity of publications in top quartile impact factor according to e.g. Scopus and Web of Science.

They do not want to evaluate each publication separately or pay experts for a separate review of each publication (if they would, that could be a source of funding proper peer review instead of it being done by random volunteers) but rather defer to the existing ratings of the publication venues. They need a simple objectively measurable quantitative metric, not a complex qualitative one.
That sounds like it's exactly what I want, thanks, very interesting.
Consider a moment the framework where people's actions tell the truth about their true wants, and the possibility that many people constantly and effortlessly tell lies (to themselves and others) about what they actually want.
I keep pointing this out and it seems like nobody believes me.

I miss the last.fm radio so much!
Caterpillar Advances Sustainable Mining with First Battery Electric Large Truck
Yup the people who have problems with Windows are the ones who fuck their registry up with this hacky bullshit. Just leave everything alone and it works fine.
Each runtime function call would probably need its own unique value, perhaps stashed to memory.