skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, abject failure on that front. I work at a BigCo, and it's ridiculous how hostile it is to optimizing hours worked.

A few examples:

There are some weekly meetings to review changes and incidents for a 100+ person department, where they work through changes and incidents one by one, in random order - basically you have to listen in for the whole hour+ so you can respond if they get to an incident/change you are involved with, you can maybe address questions/concerns for 30 or 45 seconds, but have to listen and wait to be called for over an hour. If you aren't responsive when called upon, you look bad, so 100+ people all spend an hour waiting for their 30 second slot.

Lots of neverending support / escalations for supposedly "urgent" stuff, where they say we are experiencing X problem, how do we fix it? We suggest... check A to diagnose... check B, etc... nothing. 10 minutes later... we are still experiencing X... ok, did you check A or B? nope. somehow, it's urgent enough to pester me, but never urgent enough for anyone else to do anything at all.
It's been more than five minutes, I opened the menu again and it's still disabled. I'm on an iPhone 12 Pro Max on iOS 16.4, which is the latest iOS.

> even after switching it off

This might be your issue, because after a restart your iPhone no longer has access to your saved Wi-Fi credentials, but it can still use EAP-SIM to join T-Mobile's Wi-Fi network first. But I see your point that it does not respect the "Auto-join" toggle.
This is a very US centric way of looking at this. Currently sitting in a packed subway carriage in Busan, South Korea. There are carrier WIFI APs installed in every carriage. Their network is literally built to offload people onto wifi where possible, I presume to reduce congestion on not much or very directional spectrum in the tunnels. In this case, it makes perfect sense to push people onto their wifi. Not connecting to your own networks preferentially is a pita though. Seems like a really neat solution imo
> Fine $1000 x complaint received each month.

Ahh yes, fine companies $1000 for each complaint received. Surely nothing will go wrong and nobody would ever think to do this to sink their competitors? Surely the government overhead of enforcing this would be cheap?

It’s so weird to read all of these HN comments that can’t take basic realities of the internet and regulation into account.

Suggesting automatic $1000 fines to companies for “complaints received” is the most obviously exploitable system, which is bizarre to see on a site that usually brainstorms ways something can be exploited.

Websites like Hacker News would disappear because they can’t risk $1000 every time someone complains or if someone posts something that might be an ad. Reddit gone, forums gone, Discord gone.

The internet would become a walled garden of pre-approved corporate content, viewable only after you verify your ID and add a credit card to confirm that you're an adult.
The author is, if this is all real, one of the most prolific programmers I’ve seen. Wow! Can I have some of what he’s on?
I think that might be specific to your carrier, forcing these network to be automatically joined despite your preference. I'm not seeing the same behavior with Verizon, where I get the managed networks but auto-join happily stays off.

I'm guessing MVNOs like Comcast would rather force you on their wifi if they can because this way they avoid having to pay the underlying MNO for traffic. Which might explain why they would force enable auto-join.

I'd vote with my dollars and pick a different carrier that doesn't have such user hostile wifi policies.
I wholeheartedly agree with you here. It’s sad that I haven’t found a way to explain this view to others without sounding like a raving lunatic - which also speaks volumes about the state of the tracking/advertising industry.

Pihole via DoH plus uBlock has changed the internet so much for me, I literally can’t stand using other people’s devices. Let’s not even talk about watching TV, going to a sports bar is downright shocking.
Prices are high, but it's so hard to find something better than M macs right now, so until there's a competition, I'll be considering macs.
Changed from https://messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/template/oa... now. Thanks!
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As noted by another poster[1]: how are you going to enforce it?

The idea of banning people from seeking things they want to do to themselves is incredibly stupid with the "War on Drugs" and it's equally stupid here with all the same consequences: a sudden explosion of either unregulated social media alternatives (back in the day Napster had a chat function even), or suspiciously immature "18 year olds" on Facebook and Tiktok.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35447990
I agree, India in general has pretty bad bureaucracy against tourists, it feels like the government doesn't care at all about attracting them.

But I recently saw that Wise supports transferring money to India via UPI (also more anecdotally - I am living in Singapore and saw that some local banks have this feature as well). I guess this won't be as comfortable as just scanning a QR, but couldn't this technically work for tourists?
I invite the WiFi Alliance to participate more in 3GPP meetings and straighten out the standard for handover between LTE/5G and Passpoint WiFi networks then.
Yeah, these things are all part of being a team of 1x engineers rather than a team of .5x engineers. If you have a single 10x (and I've worked with some) then it's not important but those guys have their own issues.
Well, maybe not writing. Occasionally low-level C libraries - especially those that deal with keyboard input - decide to provide identifiers differing only in case... There's a WIP RFC for providing a way to deal with identifiers that need to be verbatium by surrounding them with backticks, though.

https://github.com/nim-lang/RFCs/issues/477
Social media seems like it's screwing up older people at least as much as children. Banning advertising fixes the problem for all age groups
Isn't that how tech works though?

You get hardware to work. Then try size/cost reducing the hardware, with software or error checking taking up the slack.

Then when you get good at it, make it cheaper and/or smaller and start the whole cycle over again.
Inspired by the article I looked up how to convert my camera for IR photography and of course immediately I'm in DPreview forums.

RIP! There will be no other place after Amazon kills it.
> Kids just sign up anyway and then the moderators wait for them to slip up and still are just making an educated guess.

I’m baffled by all of these HN posts from people who seemingly forgot what being a kid is like. Kids are experts at circumventing the rules.

All of these suggestions about fining companies any time a kid manages to use the website are DOA. Kids will use the internet and steal their parents accounts, IDs, and credit cards. The harder you lock it down, the more terrible the internet is going to become for anyone trying to use it.

Meanwhile, every social website will just pick up and relocate to a country with sane laws overnight.
It just seems like an emotional reaction rather than practical advice.
From Deep Learning Foundations to Stable Diffusion – Practical Deep Learning #2
To play devil's advocate, I frequently see people throw software and automation at problems that could've been solved with a system/design change. "We make 20 of these widgets a day, they take too long to make, let's automate it!" Unfortunately the first questions aren't always "why do we make these widgets?" or "do we have to?"

Lots of out of touch leadership types automate away system design flaws IME. Rather than automating for speed or consistency.
I've been leaning on ChatGPT about 1/4 of the time for programming personal projects. It's a great way to get boilerplate out of the way, as well as quickly introduce me to things I didn't know about. Once I get started, though, I stopped using the AI. I'd use it for code reviews, but it isn't smart enough to thoughtfully make comments about how data is pipelined through a complete application (it lacks in other ways, too, but that's the big thing I noticed).
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Just don't

Use a different sort of device
>But society stops minors from doing all sorts of harmful behaviors, like drinking, drugs, gambling, guns etc.

None of which affect my freedoms.

>not allow personal information to be used

I 100% agree with this. If a kid can't consent for anything else, how can they consent for their data being collected and processed?

>I don't think this is some loss of freedom we need to worry about.

You may not worry, but I do. Online anonymity is important for people ruled by shady governments, and there is no guaranteeing your government won't become a shady one in your lifetime. There are multiple examples of this worldwide, both in the past and present.
Firewall!

Firewall! Firewall all the things
Make of a DMZ off thy router
Content inspect every common packet
Install on ev'ry device that sniffing
Snicker--alas for lack of space, a new
Line beneath: pf -f /etc/pf.conf

Firewall! A backdoor of no trivial make
Of maister's werk, a tiny hole
Strapped alongside, whistling rockets,
Detonating lines, monitored ropes

Whence thy enterprising sleuth
Perchance stumble or sneak
On day zero of the time
When secrets revealed
And figured the locks
And found the world
Beyond

Then a new sys admin is made
With belt of tools; persistence too:
A shoulder burdened with weight
Of knowledge, yet
Too a realization: imprison'd knowledge
A deliberate moat, a shadowed keep
To while the youngest times
In learning's depths
This brings back memories of my very favorite Windows 98SE.
Is there a github link? I tried clicking the logo but it didn't work.
They have faraday paint if you’re so inclined.
> thank you for answering my question of how you know a condition that you are familiar with from your country holds sway the world over.

And for what it's worth, I live and was born in the US, but was thinking of a youtube channel that rescues animals (many of them dogs) in India, and another that rescues dogs in Ukraine.
There are still opportunities for fraud and misrepresentation even for brands with bad reputations.
> As noted by another poster[1]: how are you going to enforce it?

The number of comments here that haven’t realized that any regulations would require huge privacy intrusions for everyone is weird to see.

It’s like people are imaging some magical set of rules that would only apply to kids but wouldn’t impact themselves negatively.
> My early mindset revolved around trying to fight processes and replace them with some kind of technical solution or automation. I now try to favor communication and investigation to reveal the underlying problem that the process was trying to solve. And sometimes, a broken process may still be better than a broken program. Because human communication is a complex issue that cannot always be fully encapsulated in a rational specification.

This is key. As the old quote goes “Automating a mess means you get an automated mess”. I’ve seen too many managers use process, and too many developers use code, to avoid digging into a mess. A mess involves ugly human emotions and motivations; understanding why the mess is there is scary work. Ignoring that work and focusing on the "technical" leads to weird requirements that then leads to bad software.

It's a real pain to maintain a prematurely automated solution to a social problem. It makes the mess worse.
Social media is unlike drugs in that if you abstain while your peers use you're in some ways worse off. I wonder if there's a narrower ban to be had, either on image usage or especially on filters
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Link is currently down; here's an archived copy: https://archive.is/PJlEX (missing pictures, unfortunately).
Cf. the recent article posted here[0] regarding the trend of stripping away child autonomy.

[0] Giving kids no autonomy at all has become a parenting norm - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35417250
This goes to show that the real way to succeed in life isn’t to go about wearing a tin foil hat, but rather to enclose your neighbours house in one.
This is the start of a good article on the subject, but doesn't mention the surveillance capitalism aspect.

> everything from gender identity...

Odd—they always lead with this even though it might affect less than a few percent of the population. There might be other ways to help these folks.

> might have to verify their age using official government identification

Now we're getting somewhere, that's a big problem for everyone.

Maybe if they made such sites charge money, which realistically means credit cards, it could largely solve this. Would probably reduce some of the dark patterns and mostly prevent kids from accessing them. That's how it worked with porn, didn't it?
> Let's say that there's a Government Identity office that, when you turn 18, grants you an Adult Citizen ID# security key that lets you verify your identity digitally.

There's really no reason a non-SSN identification number couldn't be used for this. If SSNs weren't sensitive, you could just have a government endpoint that takes an SSN tells you whether the holder is over 18 (or "no, or the SSN is not valid).

The only challenge is knowing whether the number belongs the the person sitting in front of the computer. There's no way to stop a kid from using their parent's number. Which is sort of the whole problem with SSNs in the first place: their value largely comes from the fact that they're secret-ish. In effect, they're passwords.
I ask this honestly, possibly because I'm of an inferior build, but do these types of people have jobs?
Maybe supercentarians are more likely when, for whatever reason, there aren’t any cheeky young upstarts breathing down their necks :)
> I'm not going to choose to "prove I'm an adult" to most of the Internet, just the sites I want to use.

Except for purchases and other business or government type interactions I flat out refuse to do this. I simply do not use web sites or services that require a real name. I only rarely use ones that require an email.

Yes, this means I don't use most commercial services and major websites. I honestly think I'm better off for it. But it's also a line in the sand and I feel much better for observing it.

HN doesn't require an email to sign up. If it did, I almost certainly would never have created an account here.
QEMU (with its pseries machine type) doesn't actually run the PowerVM hypervisor, but rather it directly implements a very similar hypervisor-guest interface (based on the Power Architecture Platform Reference and Open Firmware) such that they are treated as the same hardware platform in Linux's eyes.

QEMU is also capable of emulating a variety of other PowerPC machine types, including PowerNV/OpenPOWER bare-metal systems, various Power Macs, RS/6000s etc.
> but I do use YouTube

I don't have Google auth cookies on my primary browser and every Google property has cookie autodeletion when the last tab is closed. Every time I start YouTube fresh, I get a new profile that I have to mold back to the content I prefer. On a fresh window I'm constantly bombarded with superficial crap I never click on. I'm also perplexed by the amount of T&A clickbait that gets offered in the shorts specifically. I have to spend time clicking animal videos to steer that to something less obnoxious.
Scroll about 75% of the way down to:

(11) General Interference with Organizations and Production
Drugs also have this property- although I think it’s probably more true in the case of drugs than it is for social media.
That's a really good point. And a case in point - I remember when I was 12, joining forums, there was always a prompt asking me if I was over the age of 13. Obviously I clicked yes and registered anyway!

But part of the danger is the ubiquity of it I think. Every teenager has social media, so there's this massive peer-pressure. If you don't have it, you get picked on. I wonder if banning it would reduce the numbers at least enough to reduce this effect.

I'm definitely not saying this is some silver bullet... But I think we have to do something, and maybe this is a reasonable starting point.
I hope people don't let their cat go to outside. problems are problems.
"require" is a fuzzy term. If you force your lips and tongue to stay in place, you can get partial intelligible vowel sounds from your larynx, and feel your larynx changing as vowels change.
Sometimes the bleeding edge costs less, its just not priced less.

and if not binning helps. Slightly faulty memory chips/cpu cores/gpu units become the midrange or budget lines of a product in speed and/or capacity.
From the history page, click Manage History and it shows the setting.
Why do you think privacy driven tech people are non monetizable? There's a whole hardware industry around built them for devices with audit trails and etc.
Unfortunately, it's a rational response to Twitter's algos. They heavily downrank tweets that are just links as they want people to stay on the platform.
SHOCKING DEVELOPMENT "Nobody knows"
It was the first stable Windows OS that could run all the latest games and desktop applications without constantly crashing or needing a periodic reinstall. It was their best desktop OS at the time. XP was just 2000 with an ugly default theme and added bloat.
Totally, that's why I figured it's easier to just ban it for under 18s, then leave it alone for over 18s. I'm an adult - I don't want to be told what I can and can't see.

(Obviously, "banning it" is not so clear-cut. Are you going to force Instagram to require that everyone uploads an ID to verify their age?)
AI is currently a trending topic. So it’s natural that everyone and their dog is talking about it right now. Plus, it’s impressive.
Why ban at all? Enforcing it is an issue. Privacy-intrusion is a given for everyone, not just kids. It probably would not work, similarly to any related bans. Again, why ban at all? Let the parents do the parenting... I guess? Or ban having sex without the use of contraceptives if you are so keen on banning.
There's also nothing stopping the service from remembering this hypothetical SSN equivalent (or a fingerprint of it), exchanging data with other service providers, and tracking you that way.

There are certainly cryptographic primitives that can be used to solve the privacy concerns but I have approximately zero confidence that they would even be considered for use by the current technically illiterate batch of legislators.
Doesn't seem to work in Safari
When I lived in Canada I worked 35 hours per week as a full time employee. It wasn't kept track of though, and as long as you're getting your work done you're good.

Now I live in Japan and work 40 hours per week, and all employees need to keep track of work hours.

It makes such a huge difference. 8 work hours + 1 lunch hour + commute means it's always dark when I get out of work. Most people have 30+ minute commutes so that leaves < 6 hours of free time, and most people don't have the time and energy to go out after work. Even if I wanted to go out after work everyone is exhausted.

Compared to Canada where post work activities are extremely common. I used to attend a language meetup, have dinner with friends, and go to a club every week.

So in my experience even 1 extra hour makes a huge difference. I'd love to work 30 hours per week of I could.
I generally work between 5-7 hours a day.
A lot of it depends on having a good manager and good team members that you can rely on.

For reducing work hours, I do a lot reading internal technical documents or technical blogs with my free time. This helps me with getting the job done faster.

I also spend a lot of time helping out coworkers so when it's time for me to ask help, the job gets easier.

Another way is not to overcommit on work.

With my free time, it's mostly family and hobbies.
I loved NT4 and used it for a while. However the lack of USB support forced me to Win2k.
You mean not a mobile phone? Because it's not just iPhones with this feature.
Apple Configurator (self-hosted local MDM, free macOS app in store) has an option for "supervised" iOS devices so that Wi-Fi connections are limited to SSIDs which are pre-defined in the MDM profile. It's intended for enterprise usage. Worth testing to see how MDM policy interacts with carrier-managed Passpoint networks.

Note: you can't supervise an existing device without wiping it, so this is an experiment to conduct with a spare phone, or one already managed by Configurator/MDM.

Apple Configurator training: https://it-training.apple.com/tutorials/deployment/dm095

Wi-Fi payload: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/devicemanagement/w...

Another option is using Apple's MDM for small business to define a list of approved SSIDs, https://www.apple.com/business/essentials/

Edit: is there an option to "Remove Profile" in Settings?

General -> VPN & Device Management -> Configuration Profiles

Edit2: workaround by null routing the carrier's Wi-Fi SSID? https://www.reddit.com/r/tmobile/comments/vvt6dd/comment/iyr...

Change IP address to manual and 127.0.0.1
Change subnet mask to 255.255.255.0
Change DNS to manual and 251.252.253.254
> In that case, tax might come out of their profit and not be passed on.

Yes, this is true. Some landlords merely use rent to offset the cost of the house, not to cover it entirely. But over enough years, the majority of rental property has to be paying its way, or it gets sold off.
Created a Steam account a few weeks ago to buy one. Was promptly told I needed to do a bunch of stuff to verify I wasn't committing fraud (or something like that), including resending them a bunch of info they already had, plus a picture of my ID. Support personnel seemed to be hired based on their skills at being unhelpful smartasses. Promptly closed the account without awarding them a single thing they were demanding, ain't nobody got time for that shit.
Sort of. I can understand offloading to WiFi. I cannot understand preferring carrier WiFi hotspots over my own.
Only if they could see infrared
further work: predict the prediction so you know when the people who can predict will buy or sell stock.

Honestly hasn't wallstreet been doing this for years, several orders of magnitude smarter? They have been plugged into people's purchasing models for years, either directly or through data brokers.
I feel like it's the scale of China. It's apartment complexes empty totaling 4 million homes, sure, but with 1 billion people, say 200 to 400 million homes, that's 1 to 2% of the total. And 60 billion square feet is less than 20 square miles, so really that much in the scale of things.
It is perfectly possible to be correlated. People almost universally eat more meat as they gain wealth. So if a diet of mostly plants really was the way to go, you aren’t going to find it in upper Manhattan.
Hi, I’m having trouble finding the frontend role in the link provided. Has it already been filled?
I'm so tired of this argument. HN and Reddit are not social media. Is your real name Pragmatic Pulp? Do you post pictures/videos of yourself here, or update us about your family? I could go on but I hope you get it.

"Social Media" is a really specific term and it doesnt mean any random forum.