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- Team dynamics: engineers have and share areas of responsibility. No echo chamber or ivory-tower architect. We should all be collectively accountable for systems architecture.
There has ALWAYS gotta be a pedant, isn't there...

The article is obviously about smartphones and social media
> Equating a casual/convenient 10 Duolingo minutes a day with studying a textbook and paying for a teacher is absurd.

Exactly.

You don't learn a language by doing 10 minutes a day.

> Your statement of why Duolingo is successful would equally apply to Rosetta Stone and Babbel, thus it doesn’t address the question.

Those services have their problem too and will probably not replace a proper textbooks, but at least Babbel offers proper courses created by actual language teachers that include actual instruction in the grammar of the language. It's more of a virtual textbook than the gamified hellhole that is Duolingo which, incidentally, is why the latter is so much more popular.

> Your suggestions are a terrible first step

I guess that's just your opinion then. I don't understand why you need to build "confidence" to work with a textbook and a tutor, and I don't even think that Duolingo gives you "confidence".
I agree I was in a very very humid jungle like atmosphere near Cambodia and certain EV cars work better in this environment than others where u can adjust certain parameters so that humidity doesnt wear and tear certain components
Show HN: Create video overlays from GoPro Videos or any GPX/FIT file
This side project has got the point that it is relatively usable now - as long as you're not scared of the CLI - and can create some pretty nice and accurate video overlays.

It's far from perfect!
A stupid project just for sake of learning. Within are immature group of friends we always had a million nicknames. The website will give the nickname of the day! As stupid as is sounds, I want to kind of buld everything from ground up and i am facing a lot of challenges. Handling login, exposing APIs with an API Gateway, Database etc. I wish I could find more interesting project to learn with, but i have no ideas :(
Keeping the clock in UTC is reliable on Windows 10/11. Windows will happily read and write to the clock in UTC, and things like NTP sync just work.

Source: 2 years of heavy Windows 10/11 usage with that setting.
Then you really want Nim.
It’s OK! Thanks for replying politely. HN can be combative sometimes.
From about 16 years ago, it also has a slide-out second monitor on the side that was an interesting idea, but effectively useless.

Here's an image of one with the monitor slid-out:

http://www.tabletsnlaptops.com/laptop-images/lenovo-thinkPad...
The point is that you can get that with graviton too, which is a much smaller transition.
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Seems like a pregnant woman who died as a passenger in a car crash would be included in these figures
>rise of smartphones was also the rise of “phubbing”, i.e. when people go on their phones instead of paying attention to the people around them

Got a few tips for this, first obviously if you’re meeting with people never do it yourself, one person doing it always causes chain reactions.

If you’re meeting with one person and they start doing it never use it as an excuse to check your own phone just sit there in silence waiting for them if they’re distracted by it. This works surprisingly well and it’s funny how often people apologize, when if you check your own phone it’s always considered fine you don’t get the apology.

If you’re in a group and talking about something factual like when a movie came out or a directors name and someone reaches for their phone to google because of the compulsion and just desire to stare into their phone is getting too much, just say “it’s not important” and move on or actually I’m going to start just lying I mean it doesn’t really matter we gain nothing from having the exact answer and actually sometimes the conversation is better and the answer comes to you if you don’t check. This one bugs me a lot because like all you get is someone messing around on their phone and then announcing “it was blah blah” then everyone going “oh ok” like the act of checking the phone added nothing to the conversation, we can talk around ideas without knowing exactly who or when what happened. It just made that person addicted to their phone get their fix.
I agree, don't believe it's just hype, that level of control is useful, but for outright image quality and for most use cases, midjourney is better.

I still don't like the look of most of the Stable diffusion images, they just look slightly off/amateurish to me, where as midjourney produces images that make you go 'wow'

If you wanted to use these tools, midjourney would be my go too, with stable diffusion a backup for when some of the additional features were needed, perhaps inpanting on a midjourney image and using controlnet if needed but if you just want a pure image, midjourney is what you want.
"One could do a PCA only on people with european ancestry, or people living in a small town"

That would be extremely interesting. Maybe a way to do polygenic risk scores for traits like IQ.
> In any case, the data clearly shows that isolation is increasing. Teens had been getting gradually more isolated through the decades — perhaps as a result of larger houses and better entertainment options at home.

Or just the fact that according to surveys, Americans are, ahem, split on whether 12-year-old should, by law, be required to have supervision.

I don't have specific statistics on teenage suicide in the EU, but the general rate has been falling over the same period despite roughly the same level of exposure to phones and social media.
And I bet in classical Apple style, they would definitely gimp the Android iMessage app restricting some features, just to spite Android users and try to force them to buy iPhones.

Android users will still be second class citizens so the transition off Whatsapp or Signal will not happen.
OP:

> about: Dmitry Wolf, Moscow, Russia

I guess OP thinks that Ukraine "asked for it", that "it's a brother nation that must be one with ruzzia", "Kyiv is ruzzia, thus Ukraine does not exist", "Крымнаш", etc.
Definitely not, we got lured into it by the original WA owners under (later) false pretenses. Back when we would just pay a euro one time, or every year with a big focus on privacy.

Now it's just everywhere, helpdesks, schools, classes, parents, sportsclubs. All WA groups sadly. We even have this: [0], like it's some government sanctioned platform. Disgusting.

I am getting more and more people into Signal though. Some geeks on Element.io.

[0]: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=attentie+buurtpreventie+wha...
That sounds like just prostitution with extra steps. I wouldn't call it a scam if I understood what you mean correctly.
Unnecessarily pedantic, yes.

"Smartphones" are only "smart" compared to what came before. Which to the youth is irrelevant, because before their day. To them a phone and a smartphone are the same thing. All your comment does is to let everyone know you are old enough to remember phones which weren't smart. Not sure what it adds to the conversation
>> How is letting me know that apple can use it without contributing back going to affect my decision on which coreutil to use?

Apple using those utilities could be a good thing. I've used MS PowerShell and WSL a bit, and their implementations of common CLI software is sometimes incompatible. To work around the incompatibilities you end up using proprietary features or doing something inferior. I would be better if they just dropped in the standard utilities. OTOH I understand the fear that they may provide useful proprietary extensions because of an MIT license.

Example, their version of ssh does not allow a script to hand it a password, hence my script was changed to print out "hey, type this password 'blah'" and required user interaction in the middle of an otherwise totally automated process.

Every OS should use the standard (GNU) utilities, or at least a set that aims for complete compatibility (Rust versions).
Also:

The new term introduced by the researchers for this type of coexistence, "alcobiosis," is formed by letters from the three key words: algae, corticioid fungi and symbiosis.

I prefer falgosis, but... whatever.

Also:

"And so the main unknown still is in what way this symbiosis is beneficial for each of the partners."

It's probably immune system--as in the algae help the funghi fend off predators/pathogens; or, binding, as in the algae secrete a substance that makes it easier for the funghi to attach to or burrow through the surfaces.
The day the internet died!
Im left handed and can use the mouse on both sides. Started using it on the left when i was young, but was almost forced to use the right hand because of space issues in computer labs where they try to fit as many computers as possible next to each other. Whenever I tried to use it with my left hand, I ended up entangled with the person on my left.
And 90% of software engineers prefer to take 100 vacation days per year :) why not

It is interesting to hear what they want, and as an employee, I agree. However most of the companies I know want to see the employee at least one day a week, I think it's a fair compromise.
I'm working on ExecAPI - https://execapi.com - a code execution as a service platform, starting with WebAssembly nanoservices, deployed a bit like CGI scripts, but running on the edge, so comparable latency to Cloudflare Workers and Lambda@Edge. Currently thinking about ideas around HTTP-triggered workers, long-running services, web hook handlers, etc. and how we can bring cloud costs down to the bare minimum.

It's more of a fun project right now, but hoping to unearth some marketable use cases and ideas as I go along. I'll do a proper launch in a month or two.
Also people who breathe air.
What a terrible article :D
Elon Musk's X the everything app
Yes, exactly the example that i thought about.

The pregnancy status is almost useless if the cause of death is missing. It gives no data on underlying problems that needs to be solved.
SimpleX File Transfer Protocol (XFTP)
Ask HN: My company revoked a couple of job offers. What should I do?
The company I work for, a medium sized online retailer in Europe, revoked 3 job offers a week before the new employees were supposed to start. All of them had already handed in their notices so were essentially left jobless.

One of them was accepted back to their previous company, but the other 2 are still looking for new roles.

I am very disappointed and upset about my company's behaviour. I know it's not uncommon in the industry and it's due to a recruitment freeze, but I still find it reprehensible. I feel things could've been handled differently. It also sends a very bad message to the rest of the company.

My colleagues are disappointed too and talk about how bad, disgusting it was, but so far no one has taken any action. Should we voice our concerns collectively?

I am bitter and not sure I can get over it even though my job is safe. I know I can find something quickly, should I leave (terminate my relationship with them) and make it clear it's because of the aforementioned reasons?

I feel like what they did, albeit legal (?), is immoral and unjust and there has to be some sort of tangible response.

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts and advice please. Would greatly appreciate HN's input.

Thank you in advance.
The source article [1] claims that " the largest messaging services (such as Whatsapp, Facebook Messenger or iMessage) will have to open up and interoperate with smaller messaging platforms"

I am very intrigued to see how the various platforms will enable such features in software terms - WhatsApp recently allowed the usage of proxies via their platform, and there is talk of Apple maintaining the Made for iPhone program when they roll over to USB-C which is allowed under the "USB-C for phones" law they passed recently. So expect some creative applications/interpretations of the DMA.

I think it'll work similar to telegram, they'll "open up" without the E2EE aspect and basically enable a "compatibility" mode. Otherwise, and being more cynical, this does feel like a 'ploy' to get around E2EE by making large, privacy-focused platforms such as Signal 'open up' (I do wonder if Signal would be classified under the rules for turnover etc). Suppose it depends on the final text of the law and how lawyers interpret what "opening up" means. Haven't really seen much about what the EU is going to expect there.

But if we are cynical, expect the end of E2EE messaging apps entirely.

[1]https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/fr/press-room/20220315IP...
I'm doing it via the openai library in the way they have in its docs.

>completion = openai.ChatCompletion.create(model="gpt-3.5-turbo", messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Who is Scott Alexander?"}])
> Eric Levitz points out that life in the U.S. is much better, in terms of material standards, than it used to be back in the days when teen suicide rates were much lower. In fact, if anything, wealth seems to make teens less happy;

This point was followed about liberal politics, before diving into why it was the phone.

Couldn't there be more of an effort to find what teens care about beyond money and politics ?

I'd also give an alternative take: the state of society is horrible and teens care about the world they'll be living in.

Sure phones make these issues more apparent, info flows faster, further. School shootings don't stay local news. Olympics Committee corruption is not burtied in the 20h news. Instagram pushes our esthetics stronger than previous media.

Then can't the issue be that we're horrible and it's way more exposed than before ?

The conclusion could have been to fix the world one step at a time, instead of going for the "close your eyes, shut your ears, hold your nose and you won't be bothered by the place you stand."
That depends on what problem you're solving and how much you're willing to spend. Some people seem to thing grid storage is a failure if it can't store power in the summer to use in the winter, but that's really not a realistic goal. Storing power during the daylight to use at night is far more reasonable -- expensive, but doable with current technology.

Pumped hydro storage is another option. As is relying not so much on storage but rather expanding grid interconnection. Day/night solar cycles are less of a problem if you can buy and sell power across many time zones.
Most archaeological artifacts were just garbage..
It's DOA for so many reasons
I'm very excited about the Digital Markets Act. Some things that excite me which are definitely in scope:

- Interopability between walled gardens like messenger apps

- Side-loading software on your devices

I'm also hoping that we see this specifically lead to the following:

- Installing your own operating system on any electronic device

- Third-party video games running on proprietary consoles without the vendor's approval
What do you expect? The legislature to guess what will become the popular, largest and essential years before and regulate it beforehand?
That is the actual news. Lack of channels for the real owners to contact nuget/microsoft.
Part of the answer is here

"Former Googler pulls back the curtain on a bureaucratic ‘maze’—and lambastes bosses and employees for losing sight of what’s important"

https://fortune.com/2023/02/16/alphabet-google-former-employ...
They probably won't, and even if they did, I won't hold my breath.

As it is the difference between sending photos via iMessage vs sending photos via WhatsApp is like night and day. I don't know how Apple managed to f. that up but if I have to send more than 2-3 photos the app asks me to do horizontal scrolling, which is not optimal, to say the least.

Plus the very process of sending and receiving the photos themselves seems very clunky in comparison.
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800 is still way too much, but given that we are 7 billion people on the planet the number seems rather low.
If you really want to annoy an English person, use an American flag to represent English-language localization
That is definitely not true - I have an analog wrist watch (and am under 30). Also, there can be benefits to the use of analog clocks: in some circumstances they're quicker to read the time off of.

http://www.mcld.co.uk/blog/2006/digital-vs-analogue-clocks.h...
ask chatgpt
" If you take a phone off a depressed teenager, you get a suicidal teenager. "

Do you ?

You're giving this as an obvious fact, however it really is not. Maybe it's true, but it goes against what happens for young adults, or against :
"This paper investigates the extent to which social media are harmful for teenagers, leveraging rich administrative data from the Canadian province of British Columbia and quasi-experimental variation related to the introduction of wireless internet there. I show neighbourhoods covered by highspeed wireless internet have significantly higher social media use, based on Google search volume data…I link spatial data on broadband coverage to 20 years of student records that provide detailed information about individual student health. Using this novel data linkage, I estimate a triple-difference model comparing teen girls to teen boys in terms of school-reported mental health diagnoses, before and after visual social media emerged, and across neighbourhoods with and without access to high-speed wireless internet. Estimates indicate high-speed wireless internet significantly increased teen girls’ severe mental health conditions – by 90% – relative to teen boys’ over the period when visual social media became dominant in teenage internet use. I find similar effects across all subgroups. When applying the same strategy, I find null impacts for placebo health conditions – ones for which there is no clear channel for social media to operate."
Phones (and tablets) facilitate access much more than e.g. laptops and desktops. The thing buzzes or vibrates in your pocket, you grab it and look at it. It's immediate, it interrupts everything.
And comment you replied to is about Mars.
> I've used MS PowerShell and WSL a bit, and their implementations of common CLI software is sometimes incompatible

Are you implying that Microsoft would use the common CLI software interfaces if GNU coreutils weren't GPL? Because I deeply believe they wouldn't. Embrace, extend, extinguish.
American or normal?
that subterranean aquarium under the football pitch?
No. It was just a reflection if what these fines are, and why they come about.
I hear you, but the solution to a flawed world isn't to push a negatively biased narrative (because let's admit it) down teen's throats until they are committing suicide. The article does go into this and doesn't assert what you say it does. In fact it suggests cultivating a sense of "optimistic determination" in response to the challenges we face in the world, which is clearly not the vibe one gets when doomscrolling.
Does this bother anyone else?
Almost all the reviewers sound like employees who work in areas like healthcare and are fed up with having to log in again after leaving a PC unattended for a short time. To me this screams that something is fundamentally flawed with workstation authentication in the service industry. I feel that well implemented hardware 2FA a la Yubikey could be the solution here.
If you run Linux and have the `units` program installed, you can even do it without reaching for a web page:

$ units '1-(11hr+22min)/(11hr+55min)'
Definition: 0.046153846
What about parameterised queries?
It depends on how they do it. If they simply renegotiate or go through various arbitration/adjudication processes, then the impact can be small. (Of course if they don't accept the outcome of these processes, then it'll be worse.)

That said, on this level it's almost 100% politics. There are many ways to get out of these unfair deals made in times of desperation, the question is - like you said - are they worth it or not.
The actual Digital Markets Act text does say the end user should have the choice to enable/disable the interoperability.

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A...
Adding ChatGPT's initial prompt as a message with `system` role may make a difference (didn't try): https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/chat/instructing-cha...

Also, we don't know ChatGPT's parameters (temperature, etc.).
If you think that, you're not familiar enough with modern games as a service. Fortnite lives on the latest version of Unreal Engine, and Unreal Engine changed a lot from the initial Fortnite development until now with many new features, rewritten parts, and major refactoring of other parts. It's huge and constantly evolving, so it is similar to, i.e., browsers.
Though it was handled in the end https://twitter.com/joelverhagen/status/1630706389147418629
> Are you planning to make proprietary changes to `cat` you are unwilling to share?

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I will be one of the last to defend MS, but what are you talking about? I'm on Linux Neon, based on Ubuntu 22.04, with Firefox v110 - can use LinkedIn as usual, including picture posting.
This varies a lot depending on where you live and your routine. If you’re middle class, lives in a nice neighbourhood and go out into posh areas, the risk is really really low.

This is why this Tinder scam is extra dangerous, as it’s baiting men to go alone to a non public location to meet an unknown woman.
I might agree with you with everything except twitter.

I feel strongly that twitter has been disastrous to a nuanced public discourse. The format is just shit for everything that is not a catchy slogan or an oversimplification.