skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My parents drove me to burnout, dropping out of college, and becoming an anxious traumatized wreck, by only providing support in response to achievements, and destroying my self-worth whenever I strayed from their chosen path of maximizing academic accomplishments to get into the most prestigious and stressful college possible. I don't plan to have kids, because I'm not doing well enough to provide an environment of psychological safety where they learn that they have worth as individuals and not just for their achievements, and I cannot give them a world where they will be safe from homelessness and starvation even if they do not find a high-paying college degree.
This is what killed it for me. There was also no obvious way for me to "train" their recommendations, even if I was willing to tolerate an algorithmic-only feed.
OK I edited and removed the first sentence. Apologies if I sounded condescending.
Depends. If you think it is just diminishing returns, than you always get more the more you put in. Just not as much. You have to drop to negative returns for that to go away.

And indeed, in that framing, it is going to be tough to make it so that those who can afford to spend their time shouldn't do so.

So, are there policies where we could make it so that folks can put a legit value in the things they are neglecting for this extra spend in time? I can certainly hope so.
An eSIM is just a SIM but pre-embedded in the phone so the carrier can't provision a key inside a new SIM and then send it to you, they have to interactively and remotely setup their trust in a key in your non removable SIM.

There's not really any advantage AFA networks, etc, but it may be harder to GEO-restrict a software process than where you are willing to mail a new physical SIM, and of course it will be possible to support a lot more eSIM profiles simultaneously without the physical issues of trying to add bays for traditional SIMs that should be physically distinct if provisioned by different carriers.
To be clear, without kids I probably wouldn't go there unless we happened to be at a mall/etc that it was attached to. But it ain't bad!
According to this poll:

https://reason.com/2014/08/19/august-2014-reason-rupe-nation...

Americans are split regarding whether there should be a law requiring 12-year-olds be supervised when playing in a park - no cars there.

As an European, to me this is absurd. At twelve I had a bus card and the privilege to go wherever, as long as I respected curfew.
I'm very curious about Bluesky, still. If anyone's got an invite to kick around, romescpro@gmail.com =].

I am earnestly trying to go all in on ActivityPub these days.
If you live in urban areas such as NYC, upgrades are important because of signal interference from skyscrapers, subways, below-ground parking garages, basements,and tower congestion etc. The improvement in modems (eg, now X65 going to X70 Qualcomm) and transceiver electronics are improved as well as battery life.
I yearly upgrade primarily but not only for that reason. The newer modems are particularly good at weak signals, eg, < 120 dBm.

I use Verizon and use iPad Pro and Apple Watch also on cellular. Works really well together.
I made the switch to iphone as well in 2021 after androids for 10 years and I echo this sentiment. It's not transformational, it's more or less the same, especially compared to a pixel flagship phone.

I still use google photos because I find it better and it works fine. My next phone will be a pixel again though.
Have you (or anyone else) seen any issues with Russian citizens (including those not even located in Russia) having issues obtaining visas to the United States (or other countries)?
What, no pineapple? *stirs pot
Absolutely agree. Back in the days, I was very inexperienced, I was thrown to the task of administering DNS (with BIND) and Sendmail. I had 100+ servers. The first couple of month was a lot of reading, and understanding things, but relatively fast I got a good understanding of it. After 6 month I was teaching DNS to other teams in other countries for the same company.
It was not at all hard. I'm a very average engineer, and from 0 to explaining to others in 6 month, is by no means a difficult topic.
Tor/VPNs/HTTPS is a pretty broad spectrum of protections. Everyone on the web now pretty much uses HTTPS all the time. Most people don't use a VPN but I imagine most HN users do or at least know how. Very few people use Tor. What benefits do VPNs bring over just HTTPS? What benefits does Tor bring over VPNs? And do any of these actually solve anything if you continue to use Google, Meta or similar services?
You sent me down a rabbit hole. Holy crap! The AVERAGE rainfall in Sierra Leone in August is over 600mm... 23 inches!
When does little Johnny learn intrapersonal skills, conflict resolution skills, active listening skills, how to build and maintain friendship skills, or self-determination skills?
Yeah, taxes make that hard where I am. Better to work part time
He didn't seek them out. RFK is a big name in his fights against big pharma, and a group of mothers petitioned their case to him. He was skeptical, but based on the evidence presented before him and their lived experience, he turned those concerned mother's into a voting base he represents.
Everyone deserves political representation, including mother's with autistic children
To me it seemed like it was mostly a new front end (of sorts) for the existing instagram userbase.
I'm part of this statistic. I've been an Android user my entire adult life, but it really has been a constant downward spiral over these past several years. My previous three phones from LG, Motorola, and Xiaomi all had major software bugs that were never fixed, the biggest being just incredibly poor network connectivity (across multiple carriers, mind you) resulting in at least several calls just not connecting to me. I switched to an iPhone SE several months ago and have had zero issues whatsoever. I resent that my money went to a company like Apple, but there really is no alternative if you want a decent cell phone in 2023.
Yes, it is a US centric view, but it also explains why iOS market share is nearly unstoppable in the US. It will likely tilt much farther in that direction if there aren't fundamental changes in how people use messaging.
Go watch Sesame Street, S01EO1.[1]

Early Sesame Street is all about unsupervised kids in a big city.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9NUiHCr9Cs
Remove zoning restrictions is step 1 to allow denser more walkable areas, which will reduce urban cost of living.

Step 2 is to change the highway code to make stroads illegal and make more normal safe roads.

Step 3 is change the fha rules so more dense homes are built.

Step 4 change cafe standards so smaller lighter cars are the norm, possibly tax suvs and trucks.

These are all stroke of a pen changes.
Meta has no ability to not try to control your attention and divert it toward ads. They are institutionally incapable of anything other than control and divert. It is why I didn’t sign up for Threads and wouldn’t use Oculus if I were given one for free. The only Meta product I have access to is Facebook because my community is obsessed with FB Marketplace and posting upcoming IRL events on FB rather than email. I hate how Meta infiltrated our lives and now cannot be excised.
FWIW When I switched from Android->iPhone, I didn't think much of it. Some stuff was better, some stuff was worse. I didn't 'feel' that much better.

Then when I switched back from iPhone->Android (Pixel 4) the change was a lot more jarring. I noticed a lot of polish and batteries issues and I missed my iPhone until I finally switched back.

My theory is it's similar to lifestyle creep. You wont appreciate improvements as much as you'll notice regressions.

> Every once in a while I boot up my old android phone (oneplus 6) and use it and it's snappier than I remember and feels way better in my hand than my iphone does.

I wonder if you'd use it as a daily driver for a longer time if you'd have the same experience as me.
> We are still "enjoying" unsolvable recapthas everywhere

You know, I hardly ever see those things.

They come up as part of a challenge-response when the server thinks your traffic is sus. I generally avoid them by staying logged in, not blocking cookies, and not using Tor or another route obfuscator.
> As a user of the "--color" flag for the `ip` command, I'd love to see tools like dig produce more modern output

https://github.com/ogham/dog is pretty good in that regard
>We have seen critical appraisals of past social media launches, e.g., "Google+ Study Reveals Minimal Social Activity, Weak User Engagement" (2012)
<https://www.fastcompany.com/1837332/exclusive-new-google-stu...>

This was nearly a year after G+ launched. The article in question here is about three weeks after the launch of threads. That doesn't seem like a fair comparison to me...
> modern society can't seem to tolerate even a single dead children

You mean parents can't seem to tolerate even a single dead child. And that's true, especially when most parents only ever have one or two children.

Obviously they don't want them to die. To parents, their children aren't an abstract idea or a number that they can rationalize away.
In the rare case it doesn’t, you can swipe down. But the animations help a lot, it is pretty idiomatic after a while. Something came in from the left? It goes out there as well. I converted like 2 years ago and it didn’t take a lot to get used to it.
> We can have this

Can we? I think a necessary step towards this direction is a complete genetic model of the human body, which we haven’t even the ability to compute until very recently (if at all).

I feel like we need to solve the bioinformatics thing before we’re able to gcc new body parts. Which I think is incredibly solvable, though ofc it’ll take decades.
If you could change one thing about immigration law in the U.S., what would it be?
Seems misleading to even mention 200W in any capacity at all.
Curious, why do you "resent" your money going to Apple?
No, not quite.

Edge snapping has been around since Vista or 7, but this is new and additional, and as a long-term avoider of Windows for >20 years now, I have to admit, it's good and it's the single thing in Win11 I actually like and admire.

Watch the vid.
ML is fundamentally not a CS specialty. It is a statistics/optimization (thus applied math) specialty.

CS only comes into the picture at runtime. ML theory is divorced from computability until then.
I meant while you are working taking on tasks and responsibilities that will help you stand out in the market when it is time to look for another job.

In other words, always keep an eye on the market and be prepared. That also means keeping a strong network, always answering emails and LinkedIn messages from recruiters and judging which ones are reputable and which ones aren’t and honestly, doing resume driven development.
> It's not the hard kind of cache invalidation. You don't really have to do "invalidation" at all.

One of the points he brings up is negative cache, or caching the dns into a state that it won’t retrieve a resolved address even if it’s available simply because the negative case is cached.

Invalidation is definitely a part of it, mostly because you kind of can’t.
The Mastodon "hype cycle" was jam packed with people saying "this isn't it"[1]. The choice of server, account migration issues (partly resolved), and just some aesthetic reasons made it obvious it wasn't going to be the thing. There was a strong, I would say majority sentiment that everyone was waiting for some more Twitter-like competitor.

"Everyone was declaring Twitter over."

I mean...Twitter is very much over. References to Twitter, or Twitter being the canonical source, has utterly disappeared. Whole media spheres have made Twitter just another place, not the place. Whole fields have dried up on Twitter.

If you're hardcore into culture wars, Twitter is probably your place. Probably feels as alive as ever. In virtually any other field (sports, media, tech), while some people with big accounts are still trying to hang on -- for obvious reasons as other platforms just set them back -- engagement and "the crowd" has absolutely dissolved. Governments, agencies and groups used Twitter as a public space, and not only have many pulled back, I cannot fathom anyone making that choice today.

And that doesn't mean one needs to cite where someone replaced their "Twitter-like" activity. Many people just took it as an opportunity to assess the joy that sort of site was bringing them and decoupled. In the same way that the decline of blogger didn't mean that other sites grew the same amount...many people just stopped blogging.

[1] isn't it for a "general public, all topics" solution. Mastodon absolutely is a technical solution for niche spaces and groups and is absolutely flourishing in those realms.
The epitome of cheap gyms in the US, Planet Fitness, uses QR code check in. They used to give out keychain barcode tags, but stopped during COVID.
Not really discounting your experiencs, but 20 years ago plenty of folks had scheduled activities. Music lessons didn't get invented in the past two decades. Nor did school/college prep. Indeed, the numbers typically show that those that did this, had a better chance of success at whatever they were scheduled to do. (This fits expectations, too. People succeed at that that they are prepared to do...)

Would love to see updated numbers on it.
Don't you have USB-C cables for literally everything else? This is Apple's equivalent to finally dropping micro-USB, everyone is using USB-C now, thankfully.

I mean my MBP has a MagSafe charging port, but I use USB-C for powering that too. One type of cable for everything.
Yes, there is some backend code to support sync between devices and moving data from one device to another. I don't plan to have a big backend code base, it's a bit of outside of my expertise.
Because they're hostile to general purpose computing.
Yeap, pretty much. It doesn't recreate the difficult-to-move "thunk" of TVs without remotes with separate VHF (2-14) and UHF (15-36,38-69) controls.

- Married with Children

- The Simpsons

- Fresh Prince of Bel Air

- SNL

- Airwolf

- Knight Rider

- The A-Team

It doesn't recreate standing and pointing in just right pose adjusting rabbit ears. They were impossible to tune them because touching them changes their parameters greatly. Some people put aluminum foil balls on the ends.

Many older TVs supported NTSC UHF (OTA) channels up to 83 and beyond, but the maximum channel was 69 because 70–83 were reallocated in 1983.

To hookup a Nintendo or Atari (NTSC) to an older TV, a box like this would be needed to switch between the console and the OTA antenna.[0] Some of them included an additional switch to select either channels 2 or 3. In the transition to coax, sometimes they would have or need a push on matching transformer to work with newer TVs. Nintendo released (included?) a coax-only auto switch.

0. https://www.vintagecomputing.com/wp-content/tvswitch_2_large...
This is an understandable sentiment, but I do not think it applies in this case. In the case of Ithaca, most single young people live closer to the colleges, and drive or bus to the chain stores.

The actual town, I think, survives on the individual shop mentality because the physical layout of the town. The Ithaca town square is physically designed to be the physcial, social and cultural center of the town, which allows the shops there an advantage of being a center of the community, completely surrounded on all sides by walkable residential living. This gives them a competitive advantage, that lets them compete with the bigger box stores which require taking a bus or car a few minutes downtown to arrive at.
Their focus on brands over features at launch might be 'backfiring' as the platform itself seems so fake.
Eh don't beat yourself up. I grew up with a lot of unstructured play time and I still don't feel like I have any real passions or a very satisfying career. I think that's pretty normal and a lot of what people talk about with regards to passions and interests is just bullshit or making conversation.

A father or mother admonishing their kids to behave in public is not really anything new either.
In case you haven't tried dbt (www.getdbt.com / "Data Build Tool") - there's a whole package ecosystem that solves for things like this. The one that came to mind is "dbt-audit-helper": https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-audit-helper#compare_relatio...

It's kind of like PyPI/DockerHub for SQL. Lots of cool stuff in there...here's link to the package hub: https://hub.getdbt.com/
This has been a huge problem in my social circles.

I really like my current android device, but my wife and our friends have iphones and we are all constantly inconvenienced by the messaging and other poor sharing options between platforms.

They share things without having to think about it, and I have to come up with solutions that are acceptable to them.

Between this issue and the differences in performance in the last few years, it has me thinking of moving back to team blue after 10+ years on green.
Because you're a business and you don't want to use your personal phone, or get a whole new plan for a phone you have to lug around that gets very sporadic use.

That's not a made up use case; I think there are a lot of businesses that fit that description.
In my experience doing research, this question should go *at the bottom*.

Why:
A basic 101 thing one learns in Market Research is that personal questions _always_ go last.

So, if you want to ask an interviewed person if their answers were honest, researchers should be placing them last, towards the end of the questionnaire.

But, this only works if the questionnaire is oriented towards asking first impersonal questions, then more personal ones.

As another commented said:
This is a lot of work. Doing research, asking people questions, gathering and then analyzing data is no walk in the park. It's sad that this happened.
And, most important of all:
Always being honest, no matter what the results are, even if you don't like them.
Is configuring BIND hard just because it's got an obtuse zone and configuration format? Or because there are a lot of DNS-server-level decisions that need to be made?
Choose another profession?

The market doesn’t value journalism. I’m not saying that it isn’t important. But the market has spoken.
Funny, my last android was samsung which I had many of the issues you describe above, and in particular it felt very bloated.
I've been getting older generation Pixel S and they are very good for the price. usually 1/4 the price of a comparable flagship iOS and I never have any issues.
It pushed a bunch of sponsored ad content that wasn’t targeted correctly, and never really showed me anything from my friends. It got annoying fast, so it got deleted.
> A kidnapping is sudden and unexpected. No time to adapt. But there are abusive situations when there is plenty of time to adapt.

To wit, the second most prominent supposed case of Stockholm Syndrome was the kidnapping of Patty Hearst, who was supposedly held captive by the SLA terrorists and abused for a protracted period of time before she started helping them rob banks.
I'd stay unless I had other GC options (like exceptional qualifications or achievements that would get you into a high priority category). Another factor is how much time is invested in the GC application so far?
MSN Messenger replaced AIM globally.
routing multiple servers through one that uses IPv4 so you only have to pay for 1 machine

This is called a NAT gateway and it's AWS networking 101. If you're not willing to learn how to use AWS then you're going to get ripped off.
100% agree on every point.

Ability to crush Leetcode problems has little correlation with ability to make web apps and CRUD apps. I've been working in this industry for 25 years and it is extremely rare to have to bust out some compsci/Leetcode algorithm stuff in real life.

I'm okay with maybe a very quick coding screener like Fizzbuzz. The reality is a lot of people applying for these jobs can't code, at all, period.

https://blog.codinghorror.com/why-cant-programmers-program/

Anything more than that is silly IMO.
The SJ part I gave more context in a reply to: Spivak

But to address the level of statements: I see SJ as one part of it, not the only or major part.

> enthusiastic nerds

Maybe it's the spaces I'm in but I'm not seeing that these days. I'm not hearing about personal projects people have made anymore. I'm not seeing a lot of enthusiastic young presenters at conferences etc. I'm just seeing younger people trying to stand out in the rat race and they aren't similar to when I was growing up. (I.e. lan parties, identifying as nerdy people and grouping together, etc).

The last young person I recall being like that was a guy who did a presentation on using Joycons at Scaladays 2017? This was a kid that did have experience in the us first robotics group. But f me.. a high schooler pretty good at Scala.. that's awesome!
If your first instinct upon hearing that you're self-centered is to maim the other person, you might be proving their point.

Kashoggi was a US citizen lured to his death by a foreign regime -- not seeing eye to eye on privacy is one thing but imo it's strange to hand wave the incident away because the average person is unlikely to end up in the exact same situation. People are stalked by their employers, exes, strangers, etc every day -- deep privacy absolutely can be valuable to the average person.
But the cake is a lie.
This is so cool!

How does it work?
You can write to them, but I promise you: incoming mail basically gets circular-filed if it's addressed "To whom it may concern," and if you try to inconvenience an individual Googler by calling them out they'll eventually leave directions with the front desk team to circular-file their mail for them and all you're doing is inconveniencing someone in the mail room every morning.

Which, hey, if you think that's worth it, it's a free country and I can't tell you not to. Maybe you'll convince a front desk receptionist to petition the temp agency she works for to change companies.

Google maintains a physical address because Googlers sometimes order packages and it's a legal requirement so they can be served formal court papers. That's it.
It turns out that the network effect is indeed powerful.
Bjorn Lomberg is not a serious person. He has a long enough track record to see this clearly now.
Opera GX Unveils 'Fake My History,' a Clean Slate for Your Dirty Past
A lot of people regularly bash Trump and Biden for being old so I'd imagine they won't have issues with RFK.
As much time people spend in their phone and utility that people get out of their phone, why is that crazy?
People always bring up that "90% of US prisons are public so it's not a private prison problem" but those public prisons all contract out things like food and communication and monitoring and anything else that's possible to private companies.

Nobody should profit off of prison, period.
Even the most optimistic reading has these "rain panels" well under 1W/m^2. For comparison, peak solar irradiance is something like 1400W/m^2.

This webpage has already burned more energy than that panel will ever produce.
Incredibly expensive, especially given IPv4s have recently been auctioning at around $40 outright...