skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t have kids yet but I’ve been thinking about this problem a lot. I personally don’t consider a no screen policy a very good idea, especially in the Information Age. After all, the technology is not a problem here. Instead, I’m building an intranet with an in-house search engine and a video streaming service which I’m going to populate with Wikipedia articles, my fairly decent collection of non-fiction books, some of world best fiction, movies, music etc. Besides that, no internet access for minors in my house. My fight is not with profanity or obscenity but with tasteless garbage like all that clickbaity ad-filled batshit YouTube is pushing onto me.
Neither. Social media companies are in regular contact with all major governments about lots of issues. A weekly "hey all here are some accounts we noticed, have a great week" email to a designated Twitter contact for review requests is completely ordinary. YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, everyone hears from the U.S., U.K., France, Germany, Australia, Japan.... and decides what to do with the information.
If others were not able to help, please reach out to me.
> What is the point in having all of the drivers be open sourced and mainlined if we're not willing to fix them to support this?

With open source and mainlined drivers, it's very difficult to change all the drivers and ensure they work.

Without open source and mainlined drivers, it becomes impossible.
Which naturally, if you don't create a Meta account till January they are gonna delete all your purchased vr apps.
The gun made it so that even a dainty person could kill a strong person. However, some people are better shooters than others. It will just shift the goal post so that a new skill is required. Being strong is still a thing… just maybe not the most important when in a gun fight.
Yes, the forbidden-fruit effect might grease the skids toward addiction.

You and I, as parents, are both fortunate that our respective children received the gift of constant attention. I fully admit that this experience-everything attitude works a lot better when you're actually there to provide choices, knowledge, feedback, etc. Two working parents who hardly see their kids during the week would have a different perspective.
That's a pretty slow bullet (I'm assuming it's a spicy 9mm). It should be possible to load rifle cartridges that are fast enough to make the race interesting.
It's not, but at least it's feasible. Trying to suppress technology instead is futile in the long term.
Glad this is working out for you so far.

> From age 0 to 3, the human brain grows to 80% of its adult size, 90% by 5. What happens during these years have an outsized impact on their rest of their lives.

Do you have a study that affirms these observations are related?

We know that something has an outsized cognitive impact the rest of a person's life at these ages, do you know that brain matter growth size thingy neuron something something is that thing?
Impressive the chatgpt could understand that backspace problem. I’m drooling on myself trying to understand it.
"He is a well known and regarded game designer, who moved to a new consulting role at Oculus in 2019"

Err, WAT? In the context of gamedev, game design is not what I'd say Carmack is known for. He's firmly in 'down in the weeds implementation detail and optimization' territory. How does one write anything about Carmack and get something so fundamentally wrong about who he is and what he's done professionally?

Game designer credit in this context (id software) generally goes to Romero, if anyone.

Edit: Just look at Carmack's wikipedia page FFS, he hasn't been credited for design since SOFTDISK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carmack#Games
For shared it’s important to not suddenly break sites, even during security updates. That’s were you get hardened php and keeping php 5 still alive on many shared hosts. I can see this as just being something added to new Wordpress installs but backwards compatability will always be kept for the current shared hosting. However it does give an opening for a new comer on the block who starts fresh with a simplified set up since they can start fresh on with a simpler infrastructure.
Maybe it’s time to become single issue shark fin voters.
> There's lots of things like concrete and steel that need to be contained as well.

That's actually the VAST majority of what needs to be contained. But these don't need to be contained for thousands or even hundreds of years. We're talking a few years (<=5). This waste also does not require shielding nor cooling and is mostly a precautionary factor ensuring that there is no cross contamination. Low level waste accounts for ~90-95% of waste, intermediate is ~5%-7% (shielding but no cooling. Short lived ILW -- <30 yrs -- is often stored on site and disposed normally. Long lived ILW is just thrown in with HLW in geological depositories for convenience) and high level/trans-uranic waste (<1%-3%) is what needs to be stored in a geological depository (several of which exist btw).

Just want to make sure you have the facts before you start forming big opinions. Things like concrete and steel are typically stored on site and later disposed of normally. It's not really the concern of nuclear waste.
prev: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34020492
This is a pretty condescending post that assumes quite a lot about my work.

> You simply working on a project isn't useful to a company, what's useful is working on the right project.

No, my project was measurably useful to the company. It wasn't useful for engineers, but it was useful for internal, non technical users.

I helped build a team from scratch and launch a product with high internal user satisfaction. But I was told that I needed, specifically, engineers from outside my immediate team to vouch for me. And I met with other people with the same problem and they told me "Don't work for products for business users."

As an aside the internal tooling for non-technical users was atrocious. Wonder why. :)
It doesn't matter if they were pro-dem or pro-republican. They were doing nothing wrong. What business is it to the FBI. The FBI had partisan agents working on government time to censor American citizens during an election. If you step out of your partisan headspace for a moment, you might realize how dangerous this is.

Imagine how this my play out in a future election with different candidates.
> This was admittedly self-inflicted – I could have moved to Menlo Park after the Oculus acquisition and tried to wage battles with generations of leadership, but I was busy programming, and I assumed I would hate it, be bad at it, and probably lose anyway.
I appreciate that. I used redis in the past, but wanted a node-only solution to keep things simple.
Metaverse as a general concept is not a bad aim and Meta seemed to have some interesting ideas.

But their presentation was clumsy at best and they had miles to go to convince critics that they were not aiming for a very dystopian interpretation of the concept. They failed spectacularly on the PR side. Probably enough to make their own engineers lose hope regarding both ethics and executive management.
Just look in front of you. The monitor you are using right now. That's incredible technology. You think that would be possible if people did not care about engineering, having a number of peers around them across multiple levels of the organization that cared to a similar level?

EDIT: What I mean is, you need multiple passionate people across many levels to achieve that. If reward culture wasn't somewhat healthy, I don't believe this could work.
I work on a project that builds an SVG compliant vector scene graph and allows for detailed interaction via its API. Writing client code that can plug into the rendering pipeline or just altering the existing code is also fairly easy - comparatively at least.

It's at https://github.com/parasol-framework/parasol but fair warning though, it is in alpha right now and going through an overhaul.
Since we have a Unity product, I’m moving us to an F# backend! I actually quite like it since we’re building a typical web api for a game.

You don’t have to deal with the typical need to determine what packages to use as you would in ocaml. I have aspnet and co. I’m okay with OOP leaking here and there when I get most of what I need already: an ML tool with an huge ecosystem.
OpenCore Legacy Patcher for Updating Older Macs
I think it depends on organization. In some good ones, politics and engineering align well. In most, they don't.
I don’t know why we treat cognitive dissonance as some huge gotcha, when so far as I can tell that’s almost all of us, almost all the time.

There’s an obvious practical difference, exactly because of the scale. Shark finning is a gratuitously cruel luxury, and so (relatively) easy to stop. Whereas most people like meat and don’t want it to be twice as expensive. As long as that’s true, ending factory farming will be an extremely heavy lift.

Personally I think we should stop doing bad stuff where we can, without worrying too much about whether the order makes logical sense. Progress is hard enough already.
That's likely one part of it, another part of it is that Musk knows Tesla's real value like no other person in the world and may well have come to the conclusion that with the competition ramping up for real now is the best time to sell his still overvalued stock.
Even at the rate of 0.08$/ kwh or may be 0.05$/kwh , it is not a bad deal for rooftop solar if you intend to use most of it personally.
> This is a pretty condescending post that assumes quite a lot about my work.

Sorry if it came across that way, that was not my intent.

> No, my project was measurably useful to the company. It wasn't useful for engineers, but it was useful for internal, non technical users.

If that's not what the company values, then that's not a project the company wants to incentivize you to make. If you choose to make it anyways, would you really expect them to reward you for it? It sounds like the issue was as I was suggesting, that what you were trying to solve for wasn't what the org wanted and wasn't what they were goaling you on.
> In the UK, the last I checked, it was contraindicated for long-term use, meaning it could be used for smoking cessation but not for long-term ADHD treatment.

It is not a typical treatment, but a psychiatrist in the UK does have the discretion to prescribe Bupropion off-label.

In my own n=1 experience, as a fourth option, only after unsatisfactory trials of more traditional stimulants and Atomoxetine.
I don't understand this question, can you elaborate?
Even though it’s filtered, the amount of garbage on YouTube Kids is astounding. We made the same choice.
> Infra you're rewarded based on the impact of the product teams leveraging your infra - and product teams you're goaled on moving specific metrics.

This was not the case for me. I was told that my project had significant positive impact, and had many product teams vouch for me, but it didn't matter because "the principal engineers don't know who you are".
I think you’re reading the wrong thing into my comment. I would absolutely agree the problem is that externalities aren’t priced in. The result of pricing those in would be that everything gets more expensive and consumers get to consume less.

I don’t like the idea of blaming companies anymore than blaming individual consumers. They’re working in the same market
It's kind of scary that AI is now indistinguishable from Redditors that have Googled things and think they're experts because people actually take the advice of the latter with regularity.
Or, you could say that Meta is focused on an audience that doesn't have a highish end gaming PC, and have a relatively small budget (say $400), which is probably most. For realistic hardware spread, see: https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Softw...

But, they do still support that type of user with AirLink/USB. Problem is, there's not enough of those users, so many of the developers target Quest users, which where the eyes are.

I think a step function in VR quality, which requires a step function in the number of eyes behind a powerful system, will come with PSVR 2.
The point is you alleged that the apathy in this was due to partisan selfishness. It’s clearly not if even the “winning side” is ambivalent about the feds cracking down on their partisans.
Why be sad when you can get glad?

Look at this field manual for some inspiration:

https://www.openculture.com/2022/01/read-the-cias-simple-sab...
They don't exactly need a non-compete (those are hard to enforce in CA anyway), they can just buy any up-and-coming VR companies. And they do.
He was Bethesda and Oculus. He isn’t Meta.

Meta doesn’t seem to be able to do anything at all. At Facebook it was an unrivaled (yet amoral) champion of social media, but it doesn’t even seem like that now
Actually, I cut some of the more verbose parts of all three answers...
Discussion in progress:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34022484
it all makes sense in the aggregate, when capital is scarce. when capital is superabundant things tend to invert, and you get a lot of criminals just milking money from the system
Tangentially related since there has been a lot of talk about working with ancient systems: does anyone working with TXDOT know if they are still using mainframe systems to drive their core database and services? I worked with a quasi governmental agency about a decade ago and became pretty intimately familiar with their mainframe setup. Didn’t look like it was going away anytime soon when I was there.
I completely agree.

I am so fed up with this problem that I'm not going to mince words.

Nobody wants to be told they're disorganized and sloppy, but people outside engineering (especially sales and client people) are the absolute worst. They're the ones with the ADHD.

Engineers rarely have trouble with deep focus on work unless they're constantly being nagged by idiots who don't understand what they're costing the company.

There's a strong business case against the abuse of chat for "quick questions" or whatever other bullshit people are too dumb to figure out on their own if they just spent a few seconds more in thought before bothering anyone else.
To be clear, GrapheneOS was running on much older matrix room versions and the bugs that were causing the issues have (to my understanding) largely been mitigated in the later room versions. Of course it's not ideal it happened, but I wouldn't expect the same set of issues to persist after the upgrade, the mitigation has already existed it's just GrapheneOS (understandably) wanted to avoid the disruption of an upgrade if possible.
Grew up without TV at home. In fact, no electricity at home until mid-teens. Still can’t watch TV to this day. My kind of fun was always out there with kids from the neighborhood running around, kicking a ball, getting tired and getting dirty in the process. As an adult it has been replaced with team sports and physical activities. I want the same experience for my kids. Essentially have fun programs that require them engage in an active way: play music instruments, play a couple of sports, paint, spend a lot of time outdoors.
Basically, it implies going back to local currencies, with all the good and bad this involves.
Ask HN: How to monetize content on your own blog?
I've got some very well clicked/read articles on my blog and I wonder if anybody has experience with monetizing content like that.

There are hard paywalls and alike, but I thought more about some "soft" way to do it. 10 years ago I would have thought about flattr, but maybe there's something like that around today?

Any ideas, recommendations and first-hand experience?
> I actually thought facebook was doing a ok job with oculus until the whole 'metaverse' social push happend

Spending billions of dollars on a subpar MMO game when better ones cost tens of millions at most to make - is bad?
The SuperNews documentary on Twitter elaborates: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5Ff2X_3P_4&t=168s
Did you work on something that no other engineer at your org did consume? Like the previous commenter.
He isn't alone.

A core problem is that FB culture is way too positive and happy, and hard criticism is received poorly. The politics to get anything done if your name isn't Mark is borderline impossible.

I left a year ago, and I've become beyond happy.
Exactly what happened. I was capturing some of my earlier conversations as screenshots, and didn't feel like retyping the whole thing. Errors are mine, apologies.
In the future, code beyond all human comprehension will be rated for reliability by the number of layers of garbage unit tests it's buried under. Tests for the code, then tests for the tests, then tests for those te-...
>Second Life, VRChat, AltspaceVR

NeosVR is the best example I've seen. But it seems to be severely stumbling because of internal conflicts.

Here's a good summary: https://youtu.be/0rvAKRWC82g
This was my gripe about all console games. Real gamers that are daily users have their systems kept up to date, but I'm not one of those. I'm one of those that plays a few times a month, and only when I have nothing else to do. Because of the infrequent use of the console, I'm guaranteed to have to do an update on every use. The update alone cuts into the time allotted for gaming. So I play even less and less to the point that after my last move (3 years ago), I never even plugged my console in.

So I totally sympathize with the loss of enthusiasm for the delays from forced updates.
The main contributor to falling trees in the Pacific Northwest is that trees can grow quite large while having relatively shallow roots because of the ready availability of water near the surface.
The whole message posted to Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid0iPix...
That provides motivation to relentlessly promote yourself or you risk being cut...

The 'FAANG problem"...
I'm not arguing against you. I'm arguing against the reality that most people struggle to differentiate between shades of gray and down-voted the parent simply because he wasn't unequivocally bashing SBF, and dared to comment on some other complexities of the situation. If SBF tweeted the sky is blue, would you refuse to believe it simply because SBF is a fraud?

The bankruptcy team is working to fix his mess, but they are first and foremost working for an hourly rate.
> Though from what I hear the leadership there was the real problem

It almost always is.
Usually it's because there's a database license or something that costs even more than the OS. No one wants to be there, but it possible to get trapped.
Oh, I got your answers.

> "Where to keep it"

On site. That's what we're doing and that's what works really well. Honestly, it is only the high level stuff that will outlive the powerplant. I know this might not be the answer you want to hear, but the truth is that we probably won't do any significant huge waste repositories (like Yucca Mountain. Though we do have smaller ones) until the waste reaches a significant volume and it actually becomes a problem. Human nature and the inability to do long term planning or something. The good news is that even if we increased our nuclear output, globally, by say 10x or something, we'd still have many decades to resolve that problem because so little waste is actually produced that it can be stored on site relatively easily. Maybe we put things off because in the future we're usually more knowledgeable and have better technology so things are cheaper. Maybe we're just dumb. Either way, it doesn't seem like a huge worry.
> You get promoted and compensated more if your work aligns with the company, and less (or none) if it doesn't. It's your job to figure it out.

I have never worked at a FAANG. Wouldn’t it be the manager’s job to figure out what I should be working on? What is the manager’s job at such a company?
Thanks for the link, I'm looking forward to reading through it.
The real world welcomes you back, John!
Mute lots of channels by default. Might seem pointless to still keep them in the list, but I consider those like muted bookmarks. You have to mute @channel and @here before muting the channel for some unknown reason.

Turn off @channel and @here notifications for nearly everything other than your team-specific channel that should be only your immediate coworkers and your manager. There used to be an easy way to manage these settings across all your channels in one page, but I can't find it now.

If you have some kind of team alias that people are abusing then talk to your manager about that, and possibly just disable notifications for that. If you have a ticket system, people should be using it, not pinging you on slack all the time.

You should only get notifications for DMs and direct @notifications and @here only for your team channel. If you have a team channel for support people wanting support should post questions there without @here'ing or @person'ing questions. And you should be able to hide that and not answer questions for 30-60 minutes while you're off focusing on something else.

A lot of managing slack is just aggressively ignoring shit because you can't possibly have your finger on the pulse of literally every conversation in slack while getting your other work done. You have to rely on the fact that if it is truly important that you need to be involved in a conversation that you'll get dragged into that conversation later. If you're working somewhere that it doesn't work that way, and you find people bypassing you for things you should be involved in, then find another job.

Definitely keep slack off your phone or at least keep your work slack off your phone.
It is just impossible to innovate and deliver at mega corp like FB. That’s why acquisitions become the only mean through which they can “pretend” to grow.

Mega corp are good to rest and vest. If you wanna build stuff you should work at small innovative companies.
Just picked it up. I'm surprised it reads so well as a translation! I'd have thought it pretty hard to translate wordplay well.
> "Up or out"

This is what another commentor said was a likely cause for the intense focus on self-promotion and blame-dodging, since head down actual work wouldn't necessarily lead to Up, so one could end up Out.

Don't hate the player; hate the game. Personally I could not work at a place like this, as my tolerance for bullshit, politics, and wasted energy/talent is very low.
I did sometimes, though it still benefitted something in the end. After all, my boss and other people further up the chain have a say in whether I get promoted as well, not just my peers.
You don't need to be so hard on yourself. You clearly like to read enough to make it happen. Many kids these days will never voluntarily read a book for the rest of their lives.
Couple of thoughts. She quotes Musk’s supposed rationale for buying Twitter uncritically for like 6 straight paragraphs. The fact that these stories came prepackaged with a catchy, marketable name isn’t particularly confidence inspiring as far how serious a journalistic endeavor this was.

I’m to believe Musk gave these people years’ worth of unfiltered access to previous communications within Twitter and each story that came of that was remarkably similar. Twitter controls what’s being said on their platform far more than what they’ve previously claimed, and it’s had the effect of promoting leftward political speech far more than any other viewpoint. Really? Nobody found any other interesting things worth reporting on from all of that? Weird.
This reminds me of video games that consume a currency as a form of deflationary pressure.

I guess we never destroy dollars but games will happily destroy gold you hand to a vendor, or Stones of Jordan, or crafting components to items that then become untradeable.