skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The biggest problem I experienced with Screen Time is that when an app is outside of its limits, push notifications from it do not get delivered. So enabling the feature caused me to end up missing out on timely push notifications. Sometimes the notifications during the downtime got delivered later and sometimes they just never appeared at all.

This seems like a bug to me, or at best a very unintuitive side effect. I wish there were a way to still have push notifications delivered normally and only have Screen Time effect actual app usage.
The most interesting fact is that there's now a postgrad degree in gdpr
There's no single definition of addiction. Gabor Mate's sense of the term seems serious enough, and screentime/socialmedia habit certainly fits: a behavior that gives relief or pleasure but in the long run causes harm, and you can't give it up despite those negative consequences.
Same thing with the housing market. Emergent behavior based on everyone doing what is best for themselves
> his father started working with programmable logic controllers (PLCs), and his interest in these controllers led him to purchase a Z80 processor board and start programming on it

In the PLC world there is a notion of "tags". These are values pushed or poked by PLCs with some kind of external (networked) access. They are essentially network-wide global variables. If you think about it for a little while this looks like key+value store. There are some common operations with tags: on/off, counters, bit fields, along with static/updating values. There is a notion that if a tag hasn't been updated in a while it is "stale" or unreliable.

Although my POC deployment of RKVDNS (DNS Proxy for Redis https://github.com/m3047/rkvdns/) revolves around SecOps / DevOps / DevSecOps, my horizon is SCADA and rationalizing the federation (edge) vs centralization (cloud) dilemma for observables, leveraging the reality that these days even (Purdue) Level 1 has DNS.
This caught my eye, since I'm doing the Teeny Tiny Compiler tutorial [0] (transpiles a tiny BASIC-inspired language to C).

So, I thought I'd take a look and see how a modern BASIC compiler does it!

Alas! This appears to be proprietary. (There is a GitHub but only for bug tracking.)

[0] https://austinhenley.com/blog/teenytinycompiler1.html
> I use it for sim racing just about every other day at home.

Oh lord. Even going back to being a kid I had nightmares about being in a car as it goes over a cliff and starts tumbling down. Years later, I got my Rift and gave Dirt: Rally a try. Misjudging a turn and careening off the road into thin air, all in glorious first person VR, triggered that primal fear in me. It was too much.

Meanwhile, I fuckin love VR flight sims and can pull barrel rolls all day no problem.
It is the radiation of course, but when it it is inhaled or ingested, rather than just being in the vicinity. Of course, that is true for many types of radioactive particles, and they do require cleanup or other remediation.
Starting today doesn't mean everybody, everywhere at once will see changes. Rollouts don't really work like that.
Russia using a "dirty bomb" on Ukraine makes zero sense. The whole strategic interest in occupying and conquering Ukraine was to access their resources. If you irradiate everything it's gone for generations on all sides.
In the 90's the Seattle Times estimated that 10,000 millionaires (excluding the value of their homes) live in Seattle that made their fortunes from merely being an employee of Microsoft.
> I think what gets lost in this debate is the fact that in most major US cities you can have two cars, a yard with a lawn you can mow and a guest room without sacrificing walkability and public transportation.

My city qualifies! The house might even be pretty damn cheap and surprisingly big!

But the schools will suck. You have to move somewhere with terrible walkability to get decent public schools.
Except they already did layoff 10,000 people....
Metaverse is DoA. Public perception is that it is either too complicated/expensive to use or that it is essentially a worse VRChat. More technically inclined circles see it as a data harvester and crypto-scam breeding ground. Facebook itself does not use it for its supposed intended purpose of virtual conferencing, instead mandating that all employees return to the physical office to work. It has next to no adoption and is the butt of many jokes. Romero abandoned the project with a public statement saying how out of touch and inefficient the workforce behind it is.

Your outlandish sweeping claims about the users of this site aside, sticking your neck out for the Metaverse is just not the hill to die on.
> I think any insurance company would have a lifelong suicide exclusion if they could

I suspect you're right.

There certainly are desperate people who go to Vegas, lose their entire savings, and choose to end their life because they're not willing to put in the work to continue trying to survive for another, say, 40 years, starting with zero assets.

There are also people with severe mental illness (poor/no executive function, prone to psychotic episodes, imbalances in their brain chemistry) who make poor choices or don't even consciously make choices but their body is nonetheless doing things, who end up also choosing to end their lives.

There is overlap between these two groups. How could an insurance company decide which is which? If cancer can kill you and they pay out for that, why would they not pay out for deaths due to mental illness? Because they can. We're becoming more willing to talk about mental health, but there's still a ways to go.

There's a ton of stuff that can go wrong with the mind and I couldn't hazard a guess at what proportion of people are 100% okay.
Most binary formats are easier, not harder, to parse.

It’s sad. An entire generation or two that doesn’t know the basics.
What percentage of the negative comments come from chatbots that are part of foreign influence campaigns to spread negativity in this largely Western world (or even largely US) forum?
> ... if I was truly addicted ... I would just ... uninstall the app. Not a problem you can solve, of course, but this is still a great leap forward.

Their feature of triggering a text to a trusted friend for accountability if you do this was really clever.
This is a meta question, but I made a comment here twelve hours ago, and now it's showing the original post was from only 3 hours ago and that my comment was only 2 hours ago. What's going on with that? You can also see if you look at my comment profile history when I made that comment twelve hours ago it has the time correctly marked there but not in this thread.
I don't see how Apple doesn't have a few hardware and software combo card to play here that make it impossible more effort than it is worth to try to emulate.
Google's Latest Experiments in Labs
Just launched in the Google I/O keynote.

Seems like most of the waitlist signups are US only. Mullvad VPN worked for me.
Because it isn't just about power production. People use that power to then go off and do things. The question I'm asking is what does that look like? Because how we do things still requires oil and other destructive acts, for example.

An analogous situation is electric cars. Electric cars, eventually over the lifetime of use (not immediately), save emissions over combustion engine cars. However, building a single mile of road is something like 10x or 100x (I forget the exact multiplier, but it's at least an order of magnitude and maybe greater) the emissions of a car (electric or combustion). So given the idea that electric cars actually bolster if not increase the love and use of cars, then that has a downstream effect of more roads being built and maintained, which is far more polluting than the cars themselves.

So you need to look at things as a system. I'm not arguing for anything but looking to understand things. I think fusion is obviously something we should do. What I'm wondering is how do we get people to realize it isn't a one-stop shop for staving off even more environmental change.
Colin here (I'm the "named employee"). I don't mind being called out, FWIW. I'm proud of what we built.

We would definitely have implemented sorting by recency if it was trivial to implement. But as I said before, our data shows that it is infrequently used, and to scale our search index, we designed it in a way that makes this kind of sorting tricky.

Sometimes to ship products like this, tradeoffs have to be made, and I continue to think we made the right one. Nevertheless, it's good for me and the team to hear feedback like this so we can continue to improve the product.
Would ask on the subreddit r/scambait
This is impossible to do in a useful way for publication. You can do case studies, but minor changes in various factors that seem minor can make a massive difference in benchmarks. As such you need to find real world data, used in a real world scenario, for your application: then benchmark it. Even then you have a benchmark useful for your application only, and not worth publishing.
You're confusing an individual for the whole.

If an individual cheats but turns out to be competent, it's no loss for the company or anyone else, really. But on average, if cheating is common, more incompetent people will slip through and ultimately cause problems. I can bet my life savings on black and win, but that doesn't make it a good decision.

> Works well enough, but it's a highly non-scientific, non-rational exercise.

If you'd like to know about the research behind interviews, they've found that unstructured interviews aren't better than pulling people out of a hat, regardless of how effective they feel.
> NB: this is completely irrelevant except as a mathematical curiosity, because GDPR prohibits any processing of PII (in this case - the fingerprint), not just storing it anywhere, without a legal basis.

Hmm, but using PII in anonymized form is allowed, right? But how do you anonymize PII without processing it?
Google Branding Generative AI in Gmail, Workspace as ‘Duet AI’
Not actual math rock, I don't want to get into a genre purist debate, but I mean math-esque i.e. mathy. They flirt with changing time signatures across instruments constantly in their music; not necessarily complicated ones, but multiple through each song.

I guess this style is more common nowadays with 90% of bands writing straight up label music or their music is influenced by their label so much that they're pressured to pack their music with more dynamics.
Renaturation is standard, but the environmental quality of result is still subpar. Sometimes it looks pretty, but plant and insect diversity is very low. It's a good idea to think about this -- i cannot think of any large scale example that has ecologic and not just PR value.
You don't really have to know what specific year they were born in, the refusal to capitalize is a dead giveaway they did not experience that time at all. Anybody of that time period would be embarrassed to do so on a public site.

Kind of funny how we carry these different meanings to mostly meaningless things.
Is the definition of what constitutes a ‘hate crime’ the same in Texas and California? (Probably one of the main reasons which explain the situation in Sweden)

Are people in Texas just as willing to report it as in California?

etc.

I’m not saying that hate crime is necessarily more prevalent in Texas. I have no clue. It just seems like a weird comparison to make when it’s not that clear you’re not comparing oranges to apples..
A Visual History of Typewriter Art from 1893 to Today (2014)
Also part of Google Cloud as an AI pair programmer?
who was your domain broker? My company really needs to find one.
Hey this is pretty cool! I will try it! Thanks for sharing it.
I don't know, I alternate between thinking that's remarkable and not so much. I could run that connection via the power grid too, or the water supply (if we were in the same city).

Edit: I concede it's actually pretty remarkable. It is like the nervous system of the planet. Sure there's not a purely electrical continuity, but neuron synapses don't have an electrical nature either.
I'm quite impressed with the vertex and api stuff.
Maybe I don't understand the concept, but aren't lock-free structures "just" delegating the locking mechanism to the CPU via atomic operations ? (although even if that's the case I can understand the speedup) (and if so, why aren't all those lockfree structures the default, instead of using mutexes ?)
Sure, but there is a clear disparity between how much you make on the amount of stock you can reasonably have versus how much executives make on the amount of stock they have. The parent comment implies there is some kind of level playing field here, which there really isn't.
And it does so for everyone else. The landscape is as flat as ever, the winning party is whoever you pay for running GPT.
One angle on this I'm particularly excited about is the formal methods/automated reasoning work the team did on Cedar: https://www.amazon.science/blog/how-we-built-cedar-with-auto...

"We want to assure developers that Cedar’s authorization decisions will be correct. To provide that assurance, we follow a two-part process we call verification-guided development when we’re working on Cedar. First, we use automated reasoning to prove important correctness properties about formal models of Cedar’s components. Second, we use differential random testing to show that the models match the production code."
Yeah, but it's a humiliating lesson that good enough beats best.

More complex business logic was solved with VB than with Haskell. Same for JS, PHP, Python and all the other "poor" languages.
but I like screens
That's an absurd conclusion.

One film will only get a person to sit in your theater one time. If you're very lucky, they will watch the same film two or three times.

After the first few days, how is it any surprise your seats are left empty?

Instead of maximizing for audience diversity, theaters need to rebalance content diversity. Get the same butts back into the same seats by showing something else.

The largest theater in my state has 20 screens showing 19 films. The last time I saw a film there, the theater was empty, because of course it was! Everyone who wanted to see it either already had, was in the next room over, or was planning to see it at one of the other 5 showings that day; or the next...

I bet they could have filled every seat on a Tuesday afternoon if they had just shown something else. It's not like every person in town has seen every movie ever.

It's obvious this whole situation is self-inflicted. The studios that own 100 years of content don't want to compete with their own new releases.
PaLM 2
You may need to pay a few months of salary, but how much is that really compared to paying someone working in the US? A normal severance package for someone in the US who has worked for 3-4 years at a company will be 1-2 months of salary, which is probably more than 6 months worth of Mexican salary. And that's to say nothing of all the money you saved over those 3-4 years. Seems like a small cost of doing business.
Respectfully, I disagree. At it's core, business school is the study of making money. How to make power and social status numbers go up.

The business domain is interesting, and intellectually deep and rewarding, but without the money, all interest goes away. The money is the point.

With tech, there are complicated technical mechanisms. They still exist to make money, but, there are many layers of translation in between. And it seems easier for humans to be interested in computers in a more pure way, because of these layers between. Kinda like how a gift card "feels" more personal than cash even though it's a strictly worse gift.

So I think business school attracts many more "ends justifies the means" types of people because of these inherent properties.
> Rule #1: Identify the environment you are in.

> You never EVER do any ticket closing or commenting on your very first day. Others might interpret this as a threat: e.g. who is this who came here to show-off, that thinks he knows more than us?

holy shit my man... you have worked in some dire situations. Last time I hired a junior dev that finished a bunch of stuff in his first couple days I made sure everybody knew what a good job he was doing, how proud we were of him and how lucky we were to have him there. Your coworkers are supposed to be your allies, not a threat.
I think this is a general issue.

An inflation measure is defined by a particular basket of goods, and sometimes their prices move for good reasons. We shouldn’t expect it to always cancel out in such a way that our salaries end up with exactly the same buying power for those particular goods.

But my cost of living is factored into whether or not I’m making enough money to, uh, live. My code output is not very good while I am dead.
Wendy's to begin replacing drive-thru staff with AI chatbots
Fwiw to my memory, 8 years ago people complained about cynicism and negativism on HN just as much. Eg people never stopped quoting that famous top comment on Dropbox's HN launch (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863#9224).

I strongly doubt this attitude ever changed. It's always been

- first comments are dismissive gut reactions
- a bit later some nuanced/positive comments arrive
- depending on mood and luck, one or the other kind floats to the top

I mean how often have you read a super positive top comment that starts out complaining about all the negativism in the thread? It's super commonplace! HN is still full of optimism and excitement, and also middlebrow dismissal. Just give it a few hours for every topic.
I understand that you are being poetic, but just in case someone reads this as fact: you are describing a dedicated circuit - which is what telephones used. The internet works on packet switching, so there are numerous little breaks between the signal and receiver as your data is routed along a "connection".
I don’t think this dichotomous thinking accurately captures the nuance and may just show a personal (and understandable) axe to grind. It’s definitely not an either-or choice.

Somebody can still quite easily work in CS and find affordable and high quality living. But maybe not in SV. I’d even argue you can work on more interesting problems. But people overwhelmingly want to work in SV because of the status it confers.
It'll be interesting to see how AI disrupts the "mix other people's stuff and call it your own composition" space. I have to admit I look forward to DJs complaining about models being trained on their work. In a very primitive way what we calls DJs really are forerunners to the LLM.
I/O 2023
It's also a solid rubber duck, it'll test you by giving you misinfo and you have to tease it back from the brink.
First time I have ever been called "anti capitalist" and I've been called many things:} Believe it or not there are employees of M$ that do not receive stock as compensation. Those of us (I include myself) that do live in the capitalist/libertarian bubble and get such things tend to forget that. These non-shareholders are also the ones most impacted by inflation and tend to work hourly.

I was not trying to imply there is some grand conspiracy. I was however trying to point out how the incentives of large companies are structured and are often skewed. God forbid any of those non-shareholders try to form a union.

Maybe it would be good if more people in the bubble walked a mile in some one else's shoes.
Not to sound too much like a libertarian, and I'm not against unions, but isn't this something that can be more or less corrected by a lot of engineers finding work elsewhere? It's not like Microsoft has anywhere near a monopoly on the software engineering space anymore, and most of the engineers there can probably adjust to remote work without too much of an issue.

Then we get the cycle of Microsoft complaining that they can't hire enough people, and then they bump salaries up again to be competitive.
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JPEG has EXIF, MP3 has ID3 tags, MP4 has ilst, MKV has Tags, etc. We don't need xkcd/927 for these other formats that already have standard metadata mechanisms.
Having friends and former colleagues who work in the "yuppie Wall Street job", it doesn't pay the obscene salaries you think it does, even at the major hedge funds and investment banks, even in NYC and Chicago. The number of super-high NFT development jobs is vanishingly tiny. Most jobs at trading and investing firms for developers pay the same or even less than elsewhere. Sure, if you're a Calypso or Endur or Murex specialist you can command the $300+/hr rates, but then you may be out of work for six months or more when the project finishes. There's no easy move from FAANG while keeping the high salaries, there's 1+ orders of magnitude more jobs in FAANG (or at least there were) than in high paying non-FAANG development jobs. Most development jobs pay not much more than an experienced public school science teacher, and without the job security.
How long until you get a FAANG acquihire offer where they quietly shut this app down? /s (kinda)
They also released today StarChat, their code model fine tuned as an assistant

Might be good to try with CodeGPT, AutoGPT or BabyAGI
I disagree that the McMansion is back. Leave it in the 1990-2008-ish time frame. The “new ones” I’ve seen going up are genuinely better, have much more sensible layouts, and don’t try the same goofy throw-design-out-the-window stuff the McMansions did.
I think the subcontext is

> The stats can prove there're not enough high quality men for every girl out there given their standards.
So ... same attack vector, you implying crimew might be this anonymous 4chinz user? Intriguing...
What about https://www.producthunt.com ?
What is the difference between Clearspace and One Sec (https://one-sec.app/) ?
I know Zoe Keating (the cellist) mostly because of her looping setup.
I think you are making the grave mistake of confusing cause and effect. Confusing a price willingly paid for motivation.

>yes, they do want to be oppressed - but by their own people. not by your people.

This is a half truth. Nobody wants to be oppressed, but they will choose the boot they think is lighter on them or heavier on others.

You may have been around a lot of different people, but I don't think you actually listened if this is the conclusion you are drawing. You can take that as a comment from someone who identifies more as a "middle class redneck" and then the equivalent alternative.

Nobody is clamoring to have their medical and retirement benefits taken away, but they have been sold on the idea that the alternative is to pay for both their own and that of other people. They are picking the less oppressive option as they understand them.

You can ask your in-laws what they think the alternative to Mao was.
You can ask the Russians what they think the alternative to Putin is. Both will provide you an alternative that they think would be worse.

People will accept some oppression if they think it is the Lesser of two options. They don't actively seek it out
Reusing obsolete ones make sense, but the Hayes AT protocol is still in very active use. Sadly.