skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it's seen a decrease in socializing between kids outside of school

Because of social media. Sports teams and after school clubs didn't go anywhere. Parks didn't go anywhere. Malls are in decline but the period of time they were an active social location was the 80s and 90s, which is a blip in the grand scheme of things. Community centers still exist, churches still exist, libraries still exist, basements and backyards and living rooms still exist. My neighborhood is full of young children who are always playing at the park, at each other's homes, at the pool. Yes, if you hand your kid a phone and a social media account to occupy their time, they will struggle to identify non-social media ways to interact with their peers. That doesn't mean those avenues no longer exist.

I agree with you that parents shouldn't be required to watch their child's every move, and I would go further and say that our modern society in general is actively working against parents ability to parent their children properly. But when it comes to social media, the facts remain: social media isn't remotely crucial for a child's growth or ability to socialize with their peers, they may in fact socialize better without it, and regardless, its extremely damaging and risky to their mental and emotional health.
Yes the burden is still on you. You're not just claiming you have not yet seen sufficient evidence of something existing, you are claiming it explicitly doesn't exist, ie that there has been some search conducted that should have found it if it had been there, but got a null result.

Of course in this case, not only can the tea cup be seen by Earth's telescopes, pictures of it are widely published in every book on saturn.
That's not a very good comparison. Visa is more like the lightning system of bitcoin and ignores the breathtaking energy use of the underlying network. It's a good thing that people can give a decent estimate of bitcoin energy usage.

Try doing that with a fiat currency of your choice. Because it's invisible doesn't make it free.
Devices with Cgroup v2
Thanks, good tip.
You can't do WKD with just signatures, there are no identities associated with the signature to just look up.
At least Amazon is announcing the data breaches in Health this time... Oh wait, it's not Amazon that announced it. It's PillPack.
It's tough to foresee that something like FISA or PATRIOT Act would even be on the table during the previous election when voting for representatives. Yeah, you're right, incumbents tend to keep getting reelected, and while I think the similarities of Democrats and Republicans are overblown, one place where they are very similar is supporting law enforcement, intelligence agencies and the military industrial complex. Taking that into account, even if my senator answered the phone, they have no accountability to me for up to 6 years, and political parties can play games with votes when they know they have the numbers to make sure congress people representing risky districts or having elections coming up soon vote in a safe way.

There are some politicians who side with the American people on this, sure, but they are few and far between, even if you look at who is running in primaries. People who voted against the patriot act, like Bernie Sanders or Ron Paul are considered political extremists, even from their own parties. Add to that silence from SCOTUS on the matter (as recently as this: https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/22/supreme_court_wikimed...), and it becomes clear that to say that my right to vote for congressional representatives gives me a say secret surveillance is awfully hand wavy, I think to the point of naivety or victim blaming.

In the wake of Snowden's leaks, Gallup found that only 37% of American adults approved of the program, even saying it was designed to fight terrorism: https://news.gallup.com/poll/163043/americans-disapprove-gov..., which is a very charitable way to frame the question for proponents of the program, but again, it doesn't matter what Americans think even when they go into the voting booth, because intelligence community is going to continue doing this anyway.
Seeing Centuries
> The Patriot Act was written and ready before 9/11

Do you have a citation for this assertion?
That didn't make obvious sense to me. It makes as much sense as "It's bad to regulate cigarettes. Imagine what would happen if the government regulated apples."
You can't sell AM radio subscriptions, I would imagine the demographic that listens to AM would likely pay for something in its place.
Nah, the second program I ever made, age 17, was a text based rpg that was incredibly addicting.

In <200 lines of python code, I made an addictive game. Random enemies of various difficulty, including one that was ultra hard, so you had a reason to keep playing for hours as you leveled up.

My buddy got so hooked to it, he wouldn't move onto our next activity, lucky for me, whatever I did with my input() was bad and he caused it to error out at some point.

Addicting games arent hard, fun games are hard.
99% of programmers will never directly touch WASM, but in 10 years 99% of web users will use a WASM-based runtime in their browser for daily tasks/entertainment.

WASM will eat SPAs and a chunk of the gaming market, it's just a matter of how long it takes.
This opinion about alternative news sources you have, where did it come from? Perhaps one of those trustworthy news sources or experts you are to never question?

By closing yourself off to alternative news sources entirely you are allowing yourself to only consume the mainstream narrative. This is why I push back on dismissals based on the source, don't be so lazy, explain what you think they got wrong without appealing to authority.
The Popover API
PMs make less than Devs at the same level in the company.
Can you please make your substantive points without fulmination or flamewar? That's always possible, and we're trying for something else on this site.

I know these topics are important and the feelings are understandable but the problem is that on an online forum, this kind of rhetoric becomes just-more-internet-drama-noise, which doesn't do anybody any good and drowns out the quieter, more curious conversation we're hoping for here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Good list. Is there anything not included on this list that should be?
Yeah but this was definitely achieve well before 200 years. Armies existed since the dawn of civilization. We are talking B.C. dates.
It's not about being attracted, it's about how you act towards someone.
> I've never understood why MS charges so much for their virtual desktop services.

Because if virtual desktops (which are easier to share between individuals if you have non-overlapping shifts) are cheap enough that people can use cheap, non-Windows client devices instead of individual Windows desktops, Microsoft sells fewer licenses.
Yes, that's how playing music works. Whatever you do on your first playthrough is what you'll do on every playthrough if you don't specifically try to change it. Consistently reproducing a mistake is generally much easier than unlearning the mistake.
The gov announced several 4th gen reactors, and they recently finished repairing a few of old ones

What would be fantastic is if France was able to sell more reactors to other countries who don't have access to the technology.
Also known as "the Blub paradox". https://wiki.c2.com/?BlubParadox
Laser probe used in brain surgery to remove growth in woman with seizures
OK, that makes sense, though possibly less useful. I was thinking the UDFs would operate on the query or raw data.
Lars is an incredible drummer.
You don't have to trust the bank, as long as the bank is a FDIC member and you're not depositing personal business amounts of money you only need to trust the government to keep your deposit safe.
Use Brave Browser for insta-blocking all ads. https://brave.com/

Install Sponsorblock to remove sponsored content and fluff from videos. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sponsorblock-for-y...

Install SmartTubeNext on your Android TV device to watch youtube with no ads + sponsorblock support baked in. https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTubeNext/blob/master/README...

Install Revanced on your android mobile phone to watch youtube with no ads + sponsorblock support baked in. https://old.reddit.com/r/revancedapp/
If I open a vegetable stand and accept Bitcoin, what would be the difference?

The reason why no one uses Bitcoin is because it's a nascent technology full of rough corners that needs to be smoothed out with time. Until a few months ago, it would've taken 15 minutes for the payment to go through. Is this reason enough to throw the baby out with the bathwater?

But for some weird reason, many software engineers look at Bitcoin as a finished unchanging product. It is like looking at ARPANET and saying "this is bollocks, it's never gonna work."

I guess drive-by criticism is less work than sitting down and improving something with is new, exciting, a bit crap but with huge potential.
I used to work in an automotive paint shop. When our exhaust scrubber (burner) went down, we had to stop painting cars. We had a 'budget' of VOC exhaust per year. I don't know when that went in, I imagine in the 80's or 90's.

We switched to water based paints in 2013 and that really helped with the VOC.
Lol. Lots! All of the top performers.

Because sitting in traffic pissing your life and time away is #worthit.

Because being able to eat a healthy lunch you make youself is lame.

Because going to the office to attend virtual meetings on Chime is the best.
Damn, I was reading this hoping it was the page of the ultimate browser/mobile app or extension...

How did we get so far without having all this by default?
Doesn't the first and last one cancel each other out?
Digma Beta: First Runtime Linter for Java Code
That company has not just lost the latest plot, it doesn't even seem to have a plot anymore.
Yeah, and he claims to have the equity offer in writing, too!
Understanding Code Smells in Elixir Functional Language [pdf]
Yes, exactly, the reporter is almost never held accountable for the false take down request, and because of the current state of tech the entity doing the takedown is a gigantic (usually automated) tech company that is risk averse.

The huge power differential puts the reportee in an impossible situation where the "neutral" third party is completely unreachable and executes their actions often without human intervention/judgment.

A better law would be one that has actual penalties for wrongful reports, possibly (when the third party acts as a gate keeper like Apple, Google, etc) holding the third party liable for a wrongful judgment might help balance the scales as well because "erring on the side of the reporter" won't be a no-brainer risk-wise.
This guy blocks.
Imagine how much would be gained if advertising were lost.
This will also help add to the outrage if ad blockers are ever taken from us by some means.
Yep (and be pragmatic/emphatic, a lot of this stuff can seem obscure to non-techies).

My partner/wife is a long-time iPhone fan. I never tried to convert her, but she is on the point of switching to Android because she can't use Firefox on iOS.

It's completely absurd too - to discard a perfectly fine device otherwise, just because it cannot block ads, or at least, cannot run uBlock Origin (for blocking cookie-banners, social annoyances, etc).
I don't block adds, I only block tracking cookies, and yet I am told repeatedly by websites that I am blocking ads on a daily basis, and that they will go out of business if I don't disable my "ad blocker."

Meanwhile I am quite content with pages that show me full-width banner ads without tracking me.
Car seats and baby formula are regulated. Is social media next?
Setting up a Kubernetes service is the way to go, though you could also use NodePort on the pods.
Customers have priority of the assets anyway, even if they're in a corporate account. The commingling rules help because by the time the funds in any commingled account would get frozen they'd already be gone. Look to SBF, Madoff, etc.
I can appreciate that you are trying to be proactive about parenting but I disagree with your moral puritanism. Kids who are completely sheltered often don't end up as well adjusted adults in my experience.
> WASM will eat SPAs and a chunk of the gaming market, it's just a matter of how long it takes.

Ah yes, the classic "we're still early"—might I introduce you to cryptocurrency? Apologies for the snakiness, but if it hasn't happened in the last 10 years, do you really think it will happen in the next 10?
So we are scared that AI can 10000x the current problems of capitalism? The problem seems clear enough to me.
I see some music/drummer nerds in here so I have a recommendation. Check out the drumming on Mound by Phish. Any live version (obviously). They get the audience to clap in 4/4 and then introduce a different time signature while the claps continue, it's hilarious seeing people try to stay on the 4/4. Maybe you'd have to hear it. Also, the jam on Split Open and Melt is essentially in 33/32 (it's 3 bars of 8/8 and 1 bar of 9/8, but the snare never deviates from 4/4 time so that its relative placement changes every 4 bars).

I've shown these to drummers and they geek out on it. Sorry for going off topic but there is a recent Metallica video where they are talking about Phish's 13-night run at MSG, so this reminded me of that.
Show HN: Cosmic – Headless CMS and API toolkit v2.0
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I’m Tony, the CEO of Cosmic (YC W19). We just released Cosmic 2.0. This release is the result of two years of dedicated work by our team which we are proud to share with you.

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Cosmic is an API-first (headless) CMS that offers a web dashboard to create content and API tools to deliver content to any website or app. Our customers use Cosmic to avoid the pain of building and maintaining their own content management infrastructure. (We originally launched on HN in 2019 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19330262)

Problem: I started building Cosmic back in 2014. As a full stack web developer working at a web design and development agency, I found it tedious to build each project with the same open-source tech stack (WordPress), performing the same plugin installation, configuration set up, hosting, etc. Plus, I found that we would run into the same issues after a website was finished: clients would blow up their website by installing a rouge plugin, constant battles with bot armies, and other limitations with developing on a monolithic CMS website.

Solution: I thought, “wouldn’t it be great to have a single easy-to-use dashboard interface to manage content, and dedicated API endpoints to deliver content to any website or app, regardless of tech stack or device? The result would be a website that is lighter, faster, and more secure.” Then began developing the solution I wanted.

Cosmic was born, and it satisfied my needs. I then let others try it. They would build stuff using Cosmic, break stuff, I would fix it, they would break something else, rinse and repeat. Eventually I met others who were willing to work on the problem with me…

Cosmic 2.0

Fast forward to today, after years of building, talking to customers, getting lots of feedback, and from that learning, building a brand new version of Cosmic that, we as a team, are really proud of. Rebuilt from the ground up, Cosmic 2.0 aims to satisfy the same needs that I had years ago: provide an intuitive dashboard to create content and powerful tools to deliver content to any website or app. Some notable improvements and new features include:

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3. Darkmode theme option.

4. Stricter Object type modeling and more types including video, audio, color picker, emoji, and more.

5. Content folders for better content organization.

6. Global search dashboard command palette (Command + k).

Along with a new dashboard, we’ve got a brand new website, rebuilt from the ground up using: - Next.js - TypeScript - Tailwind CSS - Content managed by Cosmic (of course! We are dog-fooding our own CMS)

Let us know if you have any questions in the comments below!
> The package index only hosts the packages, but doesn't release them. The dev releasing the package is who signs it.

I know that; the GP is describing a countersigning scheme, where the package index (qua trusted entity) countersigns for the signing key, which the dev then uses to sign for their package.

> Without an easy way to verify the keys, the signatures are useless. Which is why PiPy is removing the GPG keys all together.

Agreed entirely; I'm the one who wrote the analysis in the linked announcement :-)
That's just part of the natural selection process.
I've heard of the fact we have more endurance then the horse but walk one to death? Source? Or deeper explanation?
I would be curious to look at the raw numbers and how they were computed. France has been a net importer of electricity for a few years now, since we decided to shut down a few nuclear facilities. As a result we're importing a mix of electricity produced mainly by surrounding countries, like germany, where electricity is emitting far more CO2 than our local one (probably by a factor of 100x).
Its incredible to see someone so strongly supporting Nintendo.

>Company did bad thing

"Oh but they stopped doing the bad thing, no big deal"
I'm generally pro pricing in externalities but this is a good example of using regulations to cut a Gordian knot of system interactions.

Good advert for citizen climate assemblies.
> The Internet, in a vacuum, could elevate humanity. But whatever we have now, it exploits our shortcomings for the profit of the few, and are simply not made to have most of our social interactions behind a screen that's always in our cone of vision.

This reminds me of broadcast television. When TV first started becoming a thing that regular people had, it was widely considered to be a force for good. Being able to educate the masses, to provide people with good information they need to know, to bring communities together.

In less than 20 years, TV showed itself to be a failure at all of those things. To the point where in 1961, Newton Minnow proclaimed TV to be "a vast wasteland" and bemoaned its failure to live up to its potential during a speech at the National Association of Broadcasters.

The internet (well, the web, really) is following a very, very similar trajectory.
I'm waiting for Podman to hit AWS ECR/ECS. Until then it's just an interesting topic.

https://github.com/aws/containers-roadmap/issues/626
These are in Fort Collins, CO. It's the 151st largest metro area in the US, so it's not really a tech jobs hub. Getting up to $150K plus equity and benefits wouldn't be a great salary in San Jose or Seattle, but it's not out of line with a lot of tech jobs in less populated metro areas.
A really interesting project.
I would try to leave this playing tonight as a screensaver.
See also: https://buybitcoinworldwide.com/bitcoin-is-dead/.
But cigarettes and apples aren't substitutes for each other. A better analogy would be a country banning emacs and mandating vi, or vice versa.
Google’s latest AI tool can customize product images
How about laws for mandating spyware on our elected politicians?
I feel like WASM gets a lot of attention from devs who are like “the web sucks, because JavaScript sucks. I won’t sully myself with such a childish programming language. If there was ever a way to build web apps without JavaScript and I could use [my preferred language] then web development would instantly become a joy and I would be happy doing it”.

Those people seem to get excited at the idea that you could build web apps with a “real compiler”.

But personally I just don’t buy that JavaScript is the reason web development is hard. I think it’s just the natural outcome of the fact that the capabilities of browsers are both varied and ever changing, and therefore the expectations of clients are always changing, and therefore the tooling to be able to (relatively) quickly meet those requirements is always changing.

But we’ll see. Maybe there will be some beautiful, stable web dev framework built on WASM that comes out!
Came here to post this. I was looking forward to the results.
I just follow this

https://youtu.be/Ovqhzil3wJw
Climate Pledge, amiright? /s
'Verified' Twitter accounts share fake image of 'explosion' near Pentagon
you suck it up for a few projects until you can establish yourself as a tech or product leader and then you can tell other people what to do, but you'll (probably) never have a point in your life where other people aren't going to at least try to tell you what to do
EU seeks top court backing in $14B tax fight against Apple
Sorry that doesn't pass the smell test.

Corporations are run by people and can absolutely be mismanaged to death.

If they are so profitable why are they cutting so many jobs at the parks and other places?
Why are they closing down the 300 million Star Wars hotel without trying to even salvage it ?
Why was Bob Chapek forced out and Bob Iger return ?

It's clear something negative is occurring at Disney that has spooked the executives to point they are saying things like they need to "right" the ship for all major franchises and cutting costs at the parks.
Thanks Jason, point taken, should dial down the jokes or even remove them all together...
Is that what happens when the song pace changes in Franz Ferdinand's "Take Me Out"?
Different people will say it happened at different times.

I noticed it around 25 years ago.

But I understand there have been phases of go-to prestige job that a certain class went through. Techbro didn't immediately displace, say, investment banking bro, or management consulting bro.
That's just inhumane.
No offense, but I don't think you looked too hard. There are lots of calls that could be used to do things in a more performant way, or to make things possible that were not possible using documented APIs. [0]

Generally speaking though, what you say is true. There are certainly no "magically faster" API calls.

There are thousands of undocumented calls that, if you were aligned with the internal team at Microsoft that wrote them, allowed you to write better performing code than if you were a third party. And as a major developer inside Microsoft, you had the power to get API calls created for your needs, while third parties didn't. That is the crux of the matter.

Here's one straight from the site we're discussing today, the IOwnerDataCallback interface [0] makes it possible to do grouping on a virtual ListView. Windows Explorer uses it to great effect, everyone else can't use it. [2]

[0] http://undocumented.ntinternals.net/

[1] https://www.geoffchappell.com/studies/windows/shell/comctl32...

[2] https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/35197/Undocumented-List...
I agree. Wouldn’t it be interesting then to see what we could accomplish if we unlocked similar formalisms for critical thinking and daily life?

I’m not a fan of Ithkuil actually, as I think it takes it too far. But I do wonder how much clearer our thinking would be if we had a logical / rational language as our mother tongue.
Show HN: Open sourcing Harmonic, my Android Hacker News client