skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would contest one point in the article, and I admit this is dependent on where you live:

> But social media is very different because it transforms social life for everyone, even for those who don’t use social media, whereas sugar consumption just harms the consumer.

In countries with single-payer healthcare (or socialised healthcare), it's not true that it harms only the consumer. If it turns into obesity, diabetes, or other medical conditions, then it may transform social life by virtue of adding pressure to the healthcare system. This is a rephrasing of the argument against smoking, where the argument that was smoking harms nobody else, and the counter was that smokers created a healthcare burden.

Arguably this is the same case in insurance-based countries, but the payment structure keeps the onus on the individual, not the overall system.

The point being that social media has damaging externalities no matter how it's framed.
EDIT: I think I follow how this works now. I didn't understand the sieve itself, so the co-routines was throwing me for a loop.

We get all the numbers from 2 to 40, print out 2, then eliminate all the entries divisible by 2. Now we're left with 3, 5, 7, 9, etc.

We print out 3, then remove all the entries divisible by 3.

This repeats until we've hit the end (40). The next number after a round of eliminations will always be a prime.
Looks like there was an initial blip in failures around 0:00 UTC on Feb 21st.

Then, consistent failures starting around 9:00 UTC.

Deliverability is intermittent from what I see but the API is consistently breaking.
Schools should have Instagram Reality -classes pretty soon. Young kids really do compare themselves to the highlights of other people's lives.

They don't really take in the fact that the fitspo model in the picture is sucking in their stomach, flexing like crazy and posing in a very specific way to get the photo. And in many cases looking good is literally their job, they can spend 16 hours a day to look a specific way and have sponsors and money to do it.

Nor do they notice how that one influencer they are following just had one vacation to $fancy_location, but took thousands of photos in different clothes and keeps posting them all year round to give the impression of constant travel and luxury.

(Social) Media literacy is more important now than it ever was in the past.
Fully disagree with windows phone. It never reached enough maturity to be a true competitor to ios, but it absolutely could have won over android. the gui was truely innovative (with the « tiles » system), and the general feeling and smoothness was absolutely better than android. Microsoft missed a huge opportunity there. It never was a technical problem, MS knows how to make operating system. It was only a strategical one. Ballmer is 100% to blame for that.
My best two takeaways for using AWS lambda:

1. Use Rust
2. Use containers

I save a lot of time with those two decisions. My lambdas are significantly less likely to have runtime errors. And with containers I can select which version to run from my registry
I can recommend the book “American Girls” by Nancy Jo Sales.

I don’t have any daughters, but I’ve worked at some big social media companies, and this was required reading at one of them. The boss there did have daughters, but it wasn’t only so we would understand. It was so we wouldn’t build Trust and Safety headaches in the first place.
Plus an exclusivity agreement to ensure no sharing is happening.
What do you say to potential customers who are concerned with the legality and privacy challenges associated with session replay?

I recognize how tools like this could level up product/marketing-level decision-making. But with litigation as recent as October 2022, I'm wary of incorporating something like this into any software I control.
Sorry, you are right. I didn't want to post something too negative about it. Obviously, I have to decide what I don't follow, and underlying such a decision is also a belief that the field is more likely to be a dead end than others. But I have no solid argument to back that up.
That's not a very complete story. The proliferation of telemedicine services by private sector services in BC, and Telus in particular has actively reduced the availability of healthcare professionals in rural communities.

While telemedicine is a suitable replacement for some medical services, the cannibalization of public health services for privately owned, less capable service delivery models is actively harming folks who need in person care. This isn't theoretical, there have been numerous cases across BC, Alberta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan where medical offices in rural communities have simply closed to in-person visits and the doctors have shifted to deliver telehealth services exclusively. This increases access for prescription refills, or low-to-moderate risk, non-acute diagnosis that can be done, but lowers access to in-person care, or the established doctor/patient relationship for prescriptions for high risk medications.

I am not opposed to private participation in publicly funded health care programs, but the increased push across Canada from business and some political parties for increased private care options appears to be directly undermining the public health care system. We should have a true single payer system, with mandated pricing for medical procedures, and drive private sector competition to allow them to compete with publicly delivered options in a way that increases, not decreases access.

I'm not sure how to do that because I am an application security specialist, not a medical policy specialist, but it's obvious to many Canadians that the current approach is not working, and is probably not a model to promote.
First thought: oh, huh, a self-hosted CVE generator.

In seriousness, installing Roundcube on my own server circa 2006 was the cause of the first and only time I’ve had a server hacked. It’s probably improved since then or it wouldn’t still be around, but it put me off ever hosting my own email. The risks only get worse the further away you get from personal/hobby use.
Was that your intent? You effectively grounded her. Actually worse because if she was grounded she could still talk to her friends. Trying to equate all "technology" and confiscate it like it's an extra nonessential thing like video games or toys is a mistake a lot of parents seem to be making in an environment where most social activity happens online and where everything is planned.

It's fine I guess if that's what you wanted out of it but it's a pretty harsh punishment all things considered. I would have taken the grounding every time.
After 9 purchases, what's the percentage certainty you'd have all four toys? If you had to pre-purchase all n at once from the outset, what's the value of n to be 99.9% certain you'd get all four?
> The economy didn't get better for everyone, in fact inequality rose starkly; this might be a correlating factor.

One thing that I thought about this is that while unemployment might have been low, both parents were more likely to be working.
Qualified Immunity could be easily fixed by law. That congress has been unwilling to pass such a law tells you that both sides support.
I think it’s likely that humans will go extinct, but probably at our own hands.
Isn’t this the prisoner’s dilemma? Does that make us prisoners?
https://status.mailgun.com/incidents/7d33gsdy05rz

> We continue to investigate solutions and are actively monitoring the system.

Feb 22, 2023 - 20:04 UTC
There's several ways of doing service discovery for HTTP services like this in an enterprise, using 3xx replies to redirect if you move the service. The simplest is to just use a URI authority that you can change as needed. The next simplest is to publish URI RRs in DNS. The next simplest is to use the .well-known URI local-part namespace to include information for client-side routing. Granted, the last two are recent developments.
Really odd to draw the line at before apartheid and after. Jacob Zuma's reign was really a clear sign of corruption hitting an extremely high level & he did things like say I took a shower after so I wouldn't get AIDs.

My layman understanding is that the ANC's dominance of politics enabled extreme corruption to take place. It does look like they've finally started to lose hold
> Why are we ignoring the future of our species and human rights on a larger scale of time?

Because we like money.
I'm not saying there's no fraud, I'm saying people being unofficially "called out" doesn't mean much
> at least Microsoft knows how to deal with enterprises.

For what it's worth, this was a big part of why I had a positive image of Google. Enterprises are boring, especially when it comes to technology. They make boring decisions about technology because they are almost always made based on bullet lists of half-truths, rather than by the people who actually have to use it.

Google seemed to make things for the users. Gmail, Google Docs, Google Talk, none of these had feature parity with their competitors at the time, but they were just so much better to use that people abandoned those enterprise products, even if their company was the one paying for them, and Google's popularity skyrocketed.

Many years ago my university asked the students to decide between Google and Microsoft for the (student) email platform. The impression I got from IT folks I knew was that they were strongly in favor of Microsoft. But when both companies were asked to make presentations to the students, I remember leaving the Microsoft one thinking they weren't even trying.
Writing a bare-metal RISC-V application in D (Better C)
Have you ever read “The Chaos Machine” by Max Fisher?
Demis Hassabis has my vote.
Yep, that describes it pretty good

Thanks for the hint. I'll have a look at it.
Separate data storage and provision from curation!

This creates several new business models and opportunities for improvement

YouTube, et al, simply ingests, stores, and provides videos with extensive metadata profiles for query, but without any search or editorial/optimization algorithms

A separate business layer of 'channels' or 'networks' provide curated content from the host database business using the metadata and user preferences.

Imagine the 'wild animal' channel, or 'cool videos from the 70s' channel

The channel layer survives by meeting the market segment demands and received subscription fees or advertising revenue

The host also can also inject ads or charge subscription fees for access to the metadata for channel queries.

Neither layer violates section 320

Separating data hosting and curation creates an entirely new media market and opportunities for consumer choice

Like the phone and airline monopoly breakups, I suspect this change requires legislative action
Gambling, cigarette, alcohol, weed, cocaine or social media can all potentially get you addicted. It doesn't mean that on a random sample, most people cannot reduce their consumption. It depends of how hooked you are.
That's about right. Ever since I stopped raising chickens, I've been buying cage-free eggs. The price doesn't seem to have changed much over the last year and that is probably why they were selling out faster.

I just bought groceries yesterday, and checking the Walmart I went to, this site was accurate at least for that location.
But for you, ignorance of the law is no excuse.
As others have said, talk to your co-founders about this.

What you say can be true, but they might want you to stick around anyway. And so they might come up with ideas/solutions to these problems.

The other thing to remember is that mistakes and wrong steps are unavoidable. And they increase in size and frequency the less there's a common process or roadmap for what you're trying to do.

By definition, startups are at the extreme on this scale.
while i agree that the moon formation would almost certainly have sterilised the earth, i don't know of any evidence that there was anything to sterilise.
Got it. Wasn't trying to call you out; just curious. I've read the "removing social media has made me much happier" claim so many times but haven't been able to do it yet. But I think I'm close.
I'm a physician with a software background, another physician at my work used ChatGPT to write a compelling appeal for a patient when insurance denied coverage. I've started to use it to automatically dictate procedural reports. I provide an example report and tell it to modify the report as needed (e.g. "right iliac bone biopsy report with 11G needle"). Beats tabbing (or F2ing) through autotext fields.

These examples make me think, "ChatGPT for form completion" is the killer app as it applies to law, real estate, medicine, etc.
Images from the Collective Unconscious: The Eranos Archive
> the people who chime in the most about their careers are usually those whose careers (or relationships) are going the best

I'm skeptical about this. I suspect that it's more likely that such people are presenting an image of their lives that is much better than the reality.

In my experience, people who are living great lives rarely feel the need to tell everyone how great their lives are. Even when they're teenagers.
They’re producing less with higher profits. That’s just a textbook example of there not being enough competition in the market or there’s be competitors trying to enter and steal that market share.

If they were producing less and maintained profit margins or saw them drop, that might be an indication that the costs in general have risen enough that the price increases are just because the sellers can
Haha, it's a great question. My conclusion at this point is that caring for a rescue makes sense. I wouldn't buy an animal from a breeder. I don't have pets, but I do like the idea of a rescue in which the benefits are more evidently mutual, and the relationship isn't initiated like a purchase.
Where the heck did you get the idea this is restricted to black majority countries? Like, check out the history of Poland some time.

The European powers generally conquered, colonised or bullied wherever they could. Some countries like Vietnam recovered well, others like Ethiopia did not.
You definitely can report an underage user.
Every war has collaborators on the enemy side.. so this will be the same.. tons of people will happily load the gun for the AI overlords if it came to that — especially if they make a buck along the way..
You could've said the same thing about crocodiles 54 million years ago, but, hey, 54 million years later we've still got crocs.

It's a specious argument. Just because our species lifespan has been short until now doesn't mean anything about how long it will last from here out.

There are other, legitimate reasons to think maybe humans won't last very long, but, this certainly isn't one.
The real Best Coder was inside us all along.
https://github.com/alongubkin/spider
I don't care if an AI wrote it, as long as it reflects the candidate's motives and background.

> If you're actually going to reject someone for having a bad cover letter, does that not heavily bias against people who aren't as proficient in your chosen language?

Then get ChatGPT or a friend to write it? :-)

When I say "proper", I don't mean "good grammar", but things like why you think you'd be a good candidate. Why does this job appeal to you[1]? Etc.

[1] I personally don't like this one as much,
Here's a question I don't know the answer to. How does an already depressed and dysphoric trans person --- who doesn't know they're trans --- with unsupportive parents ever, ever find out what the cause of their depression is without a robust network of connection to people from elsewhere?

Let's assume they live in a deeply rural area in which variant sexualities and genders are frowned upon. They are the only person who feels this way that they've ever met. Their parents restrict the media they watch for whatever reason and they assume they're broken.

This is not a hypothetical. Coming out saved my life. I don't use social media because I have better ways to spend my time, but I'm wary of taking away the one light in a tunnel that this only-nominally-hypothetical person might have.
Interesting take. I have some questions:

> 1) Global pool of candidates

Why not? global pool could potentially get you a lot more bang for your buck. I've employed folks from outside the US and it was a joy to get really talented folks and pay them stupidly well for their location. They were super excited to work with us for that and we were super excited to pay them a lower rate than hiring in the US. Win-win.

> 3) Remote work

Why not?

> 1) Permanent hiree after 3 months of time with us.

I think this works well on paper, but not so much in practice. I wouldn't be interested in wasting 3 months of time (even if I'm paid) just to find myself back in the job hunt process again. I can't imagine on a large enough or complex enough project that three months would be sufficient to be measurably productive. I'd rather use that time to find a longer-term place that is a better fit for me. This is just me though.

> 2) You will be part of our family, we'll build great things together

Oof, no thanks. I'm exchanging my time and experience for money. I don't need additional weird social hierarchy or hidden rules about behavior (not to mention the passive exploitation).

> 3) You'll get a decision when you visit us. Just drop by, no appointment necessary. We'll make time.

Gosh, as an employee there, this would signal to me that I might be expected to be interrupted and context-switch to an off-the-street interview. That doesn't sound like fun.

> 4) If you get rejected, we’ll tell you in the most honest way possible. No HR bullshit talk.

Sometimes that "HR bullshit talk" is to protect you and your company from lawsuits. Honesty combined with "HR bullshit" is possible and not mutually exclusive.

----

On another note, I appreciate such visible signals that I would not be a good candidate for your company.
> A former smuggler said García Luna shared a document containing U.S. law enforcement information about a 2007 seized cocaine shipment, the AP reported.

NPR really burying the lede here.

[1]

> But the story that most got me was when El Grande, or Sergio Villarreal Barragán, described how the traffickers got their seized cocaine back. He was talking about Mexico’s biggest ever cocaine haul, when the marines took down 23 tons off a ship from Colombia in the port of Manzanillo in 2007. I covered it at the time and it was a big deal, proof that President Felipe Calderón, the boss of García Luna, was taking on the cartels. The New York Times sent a correspondent to watch it burn, and he described the “pomp and ceremony” as the white cocaine morphed into a black cloud.

> But it was all a lie, according to El Grande. “We exchange fake drugs for the good drugs,” he told the court. “At a ranch where we trained our hit men, we created a small factory so that we could develop the bricks…We made a mixture of sugar and flour so that we could compress them. They were actually mixed with acetone and ether. And we had them dry out. Once they were dried, we would cover them with varnish so that they would look shiny. And we would package them as any other cocaine brick. And that's how we did it…We transferred them to the Manzanillo port, and I delivered them.”

> You caught speculations that cartels were pulling such stunts. But to hear it told in a U.S. federal court really drives it home. The destruction of drugs was a simulation. You could not trust what you saw with your own eyes. The Mexican government, or elements of it, had created a whole simulation it was fighting a war on cartels when really it was working with them.

[1] https://ioangrillo.substack.com/p/so-is-mexico-a-narco-state

(h/t https://twitter.com/ElParece/status/1628414077461573634)
I think this hits the nail on the head. Or, it sounds like you’re engaged to help give your child the self-advocacy they need to be responsible for their own life.
This whole subthread is gross. We're asked by the guidelines not to have discussions like this. Can we please not?

Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, bots, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
But this is quite common -- on most bitcoin-related topics the top comment usually points out (correctly in my opinion) how it is all bogus. I don't have the knowledge to say the same about quantum computing, but my heuristic points in that direction.
It's true, but the lack of curated feeds, semi-anonymous profiles, and the relatively strict moderation of topics and discussion style certainly make it seem less addicting and harmful than the others.
No wonder if you feel mentally better if you are not in need of those apps - eg. you already have a decent social life.
Why do you think that it's so certain? There are moments in history were the number of humans in existence numbered in the thousands. What kind of event are you imagining of that is certain to occur that will kill every single last human?
They had me at Woolf's description of Mirrlees.

A pertinent observation for the main course: "Western society at a certain point in its history moved from an understanding of the human self as essentially porous—open to the divine and the demonic—to an understanding of the human self as buffered—self-enclosed, neither vulnerable in the way that the porous self is nor capable of exaltation either."

And for dessert, a pointer to Gore Vidal's acerbic take - "Will anything sensible be done? Of course not." - on the war on drugs, written in 1970 before it was a thing: https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/98/03/01/h...
This is as clearly untrue as "by visiting my website, you consent to buying all my products" is.
Hands down my least favorite feature of Hacker News. Maybe I'd change my mind if it wasn't on and I had to endure all of the clickbaity and superlative ridden headlines but right now I feel like the confusion this creates is much more annoying than the nasty original headlines it is protecting us from.
Kubectl from a Tandy 102 portable computer
> there's some nonsense interspersed here, e.g. the claim that R has "a more mature package universe" than Python.

As a programmer, I find R hard to use and not very well designed, so I can see why you'd call that nonsense.

But when I was a math student, I found that in some ways R does have "a more mature package universe". There were many math algorithms that I could find packages for in R and not in Python, even as a mere grad student.
Hey there HN, here's a fun product I've been building at Vercel with other folks. I would love to hear what HN think about cron jobs in general, and the API we're proposing.

If you have questions on how this is implemented, let us know :)
You're arguing with the discussion section in the bottom. But in the middle, there's analysis on researches that made a clear experiment. Researchers asked students to restrict the usage for several weeks, and they showed some effect, while the papers where restriction lasted only one week, showed no change. This is rather clear evidence of causation.
I thought it was 6% but my brain said "No, you're inflating that number. There can't be that many crazy people" but THERE ARE.
I ordered directly on Abbott's FreeStyle website.
There was 30% unemployment in apartheid era?

(Definitely agree with your first paragraph)
PostHog started as a product analytics tool but we now have a fully fledged session recordings product including handling console logging and network requests for debugging. Mobile support is coming shortly too

Disclaimer: I'm Head of Product at PostHog
> there's another social group they can gravitate to that has other interests besides instagram posts.

no, there isn't
That appears to be "road freight" not "rail freight".