skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a challenge to define the terms in this conversation. Is Facebook social media? I think most people would agree yes. Is Youtube? Is Tiktok? Is WhatsApp?

Social media started off as a place to connect online with your offline social network--your friends and family. Then it became a place where you could meet new people. Finally, it became a place where you could find interesting content... sort of a modern version of "turning on the TV" in the 1980s. (And from the other perspective... a place you could go to build an audience, if you wanted one.)

Today, I would argue that those features have been split up. Messaging apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, iMessage etc. are where people go to stay connected with friends and family. And video apps like Youtube, Tiktok, and (increasingly) Instagram are where people go to be entertained.

Facebook is left in the middle, pushing news, then Groups, now Marketplace to try to keep people coming back. Twitter is also skewing toward 100% entertainment, a trend that Musk is leaning into with his tabloid approach to content management.

Meanwhile, people still call Tiktok and Instagram "social media" even though they don't work like social media websites did 15 years ago. Some folks even call Reddit or HN social media. (I would call them web forums.)
> There may be no good exit strategy for Google

There is an easy exit strategy for Google (and Amazon), and Google has already done it for Gmail: put a reasonable cap on how much users are allowed to use (storage for Gmail, # of queries for Alexa) and charge for anything on top of that. As server-side hardware costs decrease, wait for that "billion dollar curse" to asymptotically approach zero over the course of a few years.
I’m seriously wondering about Southwest’s software systems at the moment. I was traveling with a youth sports team on American early this month. We had a flight cancellation that resulted in about 30 people needing to find new flights. You just popped open the app or website and were given multiple options to rebook.

My brother had a flight canceled on southwest Thursday night. It was completely impossible to rebook or even cancel on their website at that point. The phone and physical lines were impossible, so we just booked a new flight for the following day in order to get him home for Christmas, it wasn’t even much more than his original flight. The next day his original reservation was “automatically rebooked” on a flight for Christmas morning. He kept the new booking and didn’t cancel the rebooked leg till he was wheels up. Craziest thing was the flight wasn’t full. He got an entire row to himself.

The fact that southwest doesn’t seem to have the ability to let customers self rebook in situations like this seems to be a major IT/software failing.
Choosing Secure Passwords
I hope your damages are minimal.

What would it take for southwest to remedy the station for you?

I know it's hard to say. You may never get your bags.

I'm basically valuing any future southwest credit as $0. All of my air miles at $0 too :(
I am bugged by this question too. I've stopped reading newspapers 8 years ago. Closed FB account 7 years ago. Never been on IG or Tiktok. Never watched more than 2 YouTube Videos in a month. Twitter? 10 minutes in every three days and I only read tweets about STEM topics. Heck, I don't even join WhatsApp groups. Reddit and HN is what I browse. I very rarely post on Reddit and stay away from all political posts. The amount of time I spend on Reddit is gradually decreasing.

So that leaves me with HN. I like HN because topics I encounter here are not nonsensical or political. There are no memes, gifs or cheap jokes here. I find myself in awe of the knowledge people have here. I am forced to read stuff here rather than fast paced casual browsing. As a meme reads, "On Internet, typing is fun and reading is hard" but HN is exact opposite of that for me.

But deep inside my heart, I know HN is also a social media in many ways and I need to cut down the time I spend on this. I am addicted to this. I realized browsing HN is essentially a coping mechanism for my depression and lifelong failures. HN gives me a false sense of "look I am not wasting my time in frivolous stuff". HH helps me escape from harsh realities of my life in much the same ways drinking helps people cope with their life. In subtle ways, HN has polluted my mind and corrupted my ability to think in realistic ways.
that's not okay. the title should be preserved. it's not hn's job to decide how a text and its title relate to upvotes and discussion. that is really questionable.
I've never heard it called "working with things", but it is true for me. I love working with things. I dislike working with people so much that I have actively refused efforts to move me into lead and management type roles.
Doctors have sometimes gotten kickbacks from Big Pharma for promoting some medicine. There’s been lawsuits in the USA over this and I am sure if the profits outweigh the costs Big Pharma will try it again. Here’s an example from Pfizer (2010): https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/insurer-sues-pfiz...
Bear in mind that many airlines allow ticketing staff at the airport (that is if they didn't get rid of them all, yes, I'm looking at you, British Airways at LHR) much more leeway in terms of rerouting, particularly on other routes or indeed carriers.

We had this on 25 December, our flight to London was cancelled. Automatically rebooked to our destination later that day, but our party (2 adults, 3 kids) was split up across two separate flights several hours apart.

Of course I had already phoned in even before we got the rebooking. email, airline phone agent said that's what they have, both of those flights now full so no chance of getting us all together. Asked about other departure points, told no.

Queued at ticketing desk for 45 mins, asked to be reunited on flight to the same destination but from a different departure airport, 2h away, agent did it immediately, checked us in and handed over the new boarding passes.

Don't underestimate just how much changes when the tickets move to airport control at T-24h
I like working with people. But, working with things pays more.
This. In my form generation library (that I maintain and use for client apps) there are two types of datetime input areas available. They take the same arguments for ranges and single/double dates, with or without time, and at what frequency of time (e.g. hourly, 15 minutes, etc). One wraps a calendar library (daterangepicker) and attaches it to the form; the other generates a responsive text input with placeholders and danger labels. Their outputs are both returned as Moments which can be sanity checked, tested against other constraints and shipped back out as YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS to the database.
What people don’t get is that the opposite of conspiracy theorist is also a sort of theorist that chooses the prevailing narrative or status quo. A friend of mine coined the term complacency theorist.
Why does the android team choose Rust instead of Go
I have read this article (https://security.googleblog.com/2022/12/memory-safe-languages-in-android-13.html) from the android team that talks about migrating C/C++ to Java/Kotlin/Rust and I am wondering why Go is not used instead of Rust or Java or Kotlin especially since Google has Go and it can be configured in a way that suits it
The Advantages of having 2 watches
Why is that a problem, and if it was due to upbringing then why that would be a problem?

> I'd like to see the same study done on the little left hunter-gatherers bands.

I don't see what that would prove. Men being biologically better suited for many types of primitive hunting, and women having the responsibility of pregnancy and nursing infants, would have a massive influence on the culture and structure of those societies.
Not anymore! https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/airline-news/2022/07/2...
I view voice assistants as Silicon Valley’s version of the $5 Costco Rotisserie chicken or $2 Costco hotdog.

I am more willing to pay for Amazon Prime and its music service is more useful to me. I also enjoy Fire TV cube because it is voice controlled. I can say the same for voice controls on Google TV and Apple TV, especially for Android Car and Apple Car Play.

It’s a loss leader that makes sense just like discounted soda that you place in the back of a supermarket, so you can force your customers to check out your other deals
People remember their birthdate as a string of numbers.

So why use a date picker for this and not go with 3 number inputs which would be a lot easier to enter your birthdate in.
> You can type the date in browser date pickers, including Safari's, even while the calendar is visible.

Not on iOS (at least assuming you don’t have a hardware keyboard). The software keyboard does not appear and there’s no option to bring it up.
This topic is discussed regularly on HN. Popular alternatives are Fastmail and protonmail (surprisingly not Outlook). I use Fastmail. I won’t touch protonmail. Their claims about privacy and encryption are mostly false and if they deceive about that, what else are they deceiving about?

Fastmail has been around for ages, much longer than protonmail, even longer than Gmail, and is completely no-nonsense. Good apps and a good web interface.

Also:

“Fastmail developers are among active contributors to the widely used Cyrus IMAP open source software project and include the lead developer and maintainer of Perl module Mail::IMAPTalk. Fastmail supported the development of the free software webmail interface Roundcube and developed JMAP – a new open email protocol.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fastmail
How do I change years? I couldn’t figure out how to quickly enter my birthdate with this.
Mood Decoder developed by neuroscientists can measure depression
Fastmail seems to filter spam for me fine.

I do different usernames@same.domain to make filtering into folder/labels easier too.
Please keep in mind that if really true, it is not a binary thing. It’s a distribution. There are going to be plenty of women who are more interested in things than the median man, and there are plenty of men who are more interested in people than the median woman.
> Eventually, UK citizens lost their faith in the aristocratic system. But they did. I may be kidding myself

To start with, getting fed up with aristocrats would be a revolutionary and progressive thing, not conservative. But it does not seem like there is enough such sentiment in the UK to change things. They still have their royals with veto power, they still have the unelected house of lords with aristocratic, religious and appointed hereditary members and the FPTP system. The house of lords can infinitely send back any bill to the parliament, by the way - which amounts to a total veto power.
Has the same problem as OP - no obvious way to select a birth date without many interactions.
Freedom to Roam in Scotland (2019)
If I have a bunch of Alexa enabled devices I'd be really wary.

Amazon usually does a decent job of continuing support. But by their own admission they have written off $10B and followed by massive layoffs predominantly in Alexa divisions. Alexa infrastructure is massive and it'll be now put on life support. Mind you that even on life support the infrastructure is incurring massive costs with zero $$ revenue. Perhaps only critical security updates will be rolled out. So expect things to break around the edges, at first.

Maybe Amazon will rollout Alexa specific subscription? Otherwise I just don't see how to justify the running costs.
I thought you were kidding, it definitely has the tone of GPT.
Installing macos on a Dell laptop, adding kexts, adding brew or macports, adding proper window management,... requires much more patience for tinkering. Or were you comparing to preinstalled, where to no surprise you have paid someone to do that for you?

> install and forget about it.

You are aware that problems don't just disappear when you forget, right?
I believe that is the job of politicians. Pulling together experts of different fields to give them information to make such large scale decisions.
Sounds like you’re trying to spin it to make this seem like innocent moderation when it was internal employees and the government forcing their views via moderation rather than letting the discourse happen
I found this comparison from a Chrome blogpost:

https://wd.imgix.net/image/vvhSqZboQoZZN9wBvoXq72wzGAf1/uh0U...

I'm really struggling to see how any of these alternative implementations are an improvement as they seem functionally exactly the same.
According to the thread, there’s 17k bags stranded in Denver. Some people will be given their back back quickly, but a substantial number will be trickling out a little at a time as flights begin resuming
Why is fruit delicious?
Maybe VisiData is up your alley? It doesn't do foreign key enforcement (yet) and is more for exploring than modifying, but with the new vdsql functionality I could see it being some part of what you want.

Disclaimer: am author.
They could just make less crappy devices. We love the concept and hate the implementation.
What would a default birthdate be? That would span 80+ years. That's not going to work. Any time an input spans ~29k values, you better provide some logarithmic-time searching mechanism. So yes, Safari's date picker is f'ing dumb.
This narrative is analogous to having dropped your ice cream cone on the ground, and being upset at the tyranny of your parents preventing you from continuing to eat it.

Every centralized service will inevitably be goaded into censorship for assorted reasons. Every filter has false positives. Grifters, charlatans, and informational warfare campaigns pumped pure horse shit into our memetic stream (through our own institutions even), driving the signal well below the noise floor. Twitter attempted to filter out the hostile noise to remain useful, necessarily throwing a lot of worthwhile information out in the process.

I've never been a fan of "web 2.0" centralization, and generally believe in free communications via libre software. But spinning this most recent tempest-in-a-teapot as some watershed scandal is ridiculous. Especially in the larger context of Twitter just being bought out by an impotent strongman, who has been marketing it with a brand of "free speech" while censoring per his personal whims.

If these events are really what it took for you to start paying attention to the power centralized companies wield, then congratulations I guess? But litigating what Twitter Past did as exceptional, as if censorship isn't intrinsic to the technical foundation of the whole service, just seems like a denial mechanism that will circle you back to your previous unaware state.
Wish people would keep this in mind for everything.
Can't speak to gender disparities but as a software engineer as I have progressed in my career I have both been paid more and spent much more time working with people.
Many airlines don't allow as much leeway in their self-service rebooking as they grant their own staff. This is perhaps ok if you're flying a route with many flights per day, but if you need even a minor reroute due to a cancellation, often the airline app refuses to even consider this, even if it saves your overall itinerary and is therefore definitely in the airline's interest too.
It wouldn't have been flagged to pieces, that's for sure!

As to factually correct, I dunno, I think you're falling for the same kind of stereotype that some Americans ascribe to the French. France's critical contribution to the American War of Independence is taught in schools. Sometimes in schools named after Lafayette, or in counties, towns, near streets or squares named after him. As is the fact that one of America's great symbols, the Statue of Liberty is a gift from France, etc, etc.

This all reminds me of a bit from David Sedaris's humor/satirical book Me Talk Pretty One Day which I'm going to paste in here so we can wrap this up on a lighter note:

I chickened out, realizing that I was afraid of France. My fear had nothing to do with the actual French people. I didn’t know any actual French people. What scared me was the idea of French people I’d gotten from movies and situation comedies. When someone makes a spectacular ass of himself, it’s always in a French restaurant, never a Japanese or Italian one. The French are the people who slap one another with gloves and wear scarves to cover their engorged hickies. My understanding was that, no matter how hard we tried, the French would never like us, and that’s confusing to an American raised to believe that the citizens of Europe should be grateful for all the wonderful things we’ve done. Things like movies that stereotype the people of France as boors and petty snobs, and little remarks such as “We saved your ass in World War II.” Every day we’re told that we live in the greatest country on earth. “And it’s always stated as an undeniable fact: Leos were born between July 23 and August 22, fitted queen-size sheets measure sixty by eighty inches, and America is the greatest country on earth. Having grown up with this in our ears, it’s startling to realize that other countries have nationalistic slogans of their own, none of which are “We’re number two!”
Windows:

Firefox https://i.imgur.com/j8djrhN.png

Chrome https://i.imgur.com/mmBInsQ.png

Both different, both slightly better (because it's clearer the year field is a drop-down) than safari from TFA. I find FF to be the best usability-wise
Except that the second and third ones are clearly awful, as there really is no way to dig into the month/year for faster manipulation (at least not one that's readily apparent).
And lacks the semantic information that's used by screen readers. If you're gonna ditch the native elements you should probably use an external library that has meticulously worked through all of these issues
Korean philosophy is built upon daily practice of good habits
I agree with the general sentiment. But on specifics, I believe this is a list of sources that could be cited within Wikipedia articles to give legitimacy to the article's assertions. The reason Wikipedia is not on this list is because you wouldn't want to appear self-referential. Having said that, yes, I completely agree.
We can see the religious right openly backing repression and those who try to seize power, and that they have the support of one of the two major parties, and continue to have people and advocates in the most powerful positions in the country (President, congressional leaders, Supreme Court, leading news commentators such as Tucker Carlson).

Who on the left is doing that and has that power?
What a trip! I remember riding my bike to my local library and spending a lot of time on this!

I also had the book that I loved looking through before bed. Very influential to my future engineering career.

I wonder how accurate the more modern diagrams are after nearly ~20 years?
Blocklists prevent the internet from being decentralized – and safe
Did you by any chance, also write the "grug-brained developer" (one of my favorite essays on SW Dev)? The artwork at that link looked familiar :)
Usually setting a default value is a good idea. That way it doesn't default to today's date.

But the standard implementation does make it very easy to navigate to a different year as pointed out in the blog post. The issue was that elderly folks don't always find it obvious how to do so. However, looking at the alternative implementations from Chrome and Android,[0] I don't think any other browser has made it any more obvious...

[0] https://wd.imgix.net/image/vvhSqZboQoZZN9wBvoXq72wzGAf1/uh0U...
> Either you're a platform or a publisher, and the difference is whether the company is legally liable for the user's content.

This trope is so old and so wrong that there's a techdirt article specifically written to debunk it and save everyone the irreplaceable moments of their lives spent arguing about it[1].

[1] https://www.techdirt.com/2020/06/23/hello-youve-been-referre...
That logic is most likely simple, elegant and wrong.
Have you ever considered buying a farm to have physical sanity, and program as freelancer or just for fun for your intellectual sanity?
Experimental Rust Feature: Safer Interoperable ABI
> Now, why is building a strong professional network important for introverts? In today's competitive job market, it's not enough to just have a strong resume and skillset. Having a network of connections and relationships can open up new opportunities, provide valuable resources and advice, and help you navigate your career path. It can also help you build your personal brand and reputation within your industry.

Sounds like a bunch of BS extroverted people are more likely to say and believe in. This makes me not want to have a strong professional network.
One thing that's very true today is that you can build an INCREDIBLE professional network without any in-person interaction. If you're too introverted to do in-person networking, the right combination of committing to projects, being active on Twitter, emailing people with ideas, etc. can make you a very well connected person.
I get so annoyed at the amount of Linux tools suggesting to install something using this method rather than focusing on package management inclusion. Even more so when they try to request sudo access.
Why would it be good practice to change your passwords bi-monthly?
> but don't put couples next to each other

My grandfather was apparently a poor dancer, but that was never one of my grandmother's problems, because in those days, one never danced with one's spouse.
When there are literally millions of medical experts recommending taking vaccines, why would you expect most people to do otherwise?

We're not all medical experts. And, we can't survive without trusting others.
I don't work for Southwest, but, I have friends that do.

The situation is kind of amplified by the fact that they are now doing crew scheduling by hand -- their crew scheduling system went offline at some point during this fiasco -- and because they aren't a hub and spoke style of airline, they don't have flight attendants at their hubs...so, what's happening is that flight attendants are scheduled for a "leg" of a trip, from Altoona to Boston to Columbus to Dallas to Edison. This flight attendant will be on that plane from Altoona until they wrap up in Edison. Because of this interruption, they cancel the flight from Altoona to Boston. Now, they need to find a plane (and a crew) in Boston to fly the leg from Boston to Columbus...cascading failures throughout their system. Add in phone system failures, a winter storm, and the busiest travel week of the year, and you've got what Southwest has right now.

You have crew timing out, crews that are abandoned at stations, and some folks telling people to not expect their luggage for 30+ days. Southwest has also been delaying negotiating with their ground crew (it's been three+ years since they've had a contract), so, I'm almost certain that when they got the Denver "Operational Emergency" email on the 21st, most of them said screw it and quit: every other airline has struggled to hire experienced folks and my guess is that it won't be long until they're re-employed somewhere else

They've cancelled most flights until Friday, with the exception being flight for aircraft staging, and will struggle to find open seats for their flight attendants to ride on other airlines (even if they are flying space-positive) just so they can have crew at locations for flights.
Beautiful ! :)
Ask HN: Could I refute companies w poor security for asking “What’s your SSN”?
Interesting. I've run into issues with the way Safari handles transparency values, but don't actually come across many other Safari specific issues these days. Safari has been pouring a lot of effort into improving their web compatibility recently and I feel like it's already making a difference

I'd be very curious to hear some common issues you have to deal with
What’s the best alternative you’ve found?
Some of those have editable text input fields. That leaves people the choice of entering the date manually or trying yo navigate the picker UI.