skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is mainly a question of attention directed inwards vs outwards. From a biological perspective, situational awareness is what has allowed our species to survive, there's evolutionary pressure. That this behaviour is so prevalent now, given the comments, suggests that our environments have become too safe and human beings are losing this awareness. It also suggests a high degree of narcissism, where my own thoughts are more important than what's happening around me.
It's like that because mobile clients need cooperation from the server to have push notifications, and you can't have IMAP servers cooperate in that regard :-) so the outlook servers fetch the mail for you and then send you the notifications.

I wouldn't have microsoft read my email either, of course. Thankfully in windows you have dozens of clients to choose from.
> Make it illegal to own a car that does not have a governor which limits it to 25 mph.

„Intelligent” speed assistant becomes mandatory for any new model homologated in the EU from next year.

But as we are are onto banning random things that piss us off: can we ban bicycles moving faster than 25mph and also being an idiot? Or even better, make it illegal to procreate with an idtiot. Like mosquitoes, idiots will surely die out if they cannot procreate. Now someone has to come up with a legalese for an idiot.
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Thank you for sharing your experiences; I'm sure it's hard to see your friend go down that road.

From my experience, the psychedelics will "tell you" to slow down, but it's up to the individual to make that choice.
I’d bet you swallow more from your toothpaste, face wash, or other microplastic sources.
I had no choice....my career was destroyed because of the defamation...Google wanted to crush me rather than give me back my life and ability to work ...and spent millions of dollars on its own legal costs...it is what it is...
the post office did actually implement stricter screening, including x-rays, chemical detection, and GPS tracking, due to mail bombs... in a way mail bombs sped up the process of implementing package tracking systems for everyone — they took a very serious approach to safety despite not being the direct cause of the problem

from my perspective, this is the kind of regulation the FTC should seek out — so for different reasons I agree with your analogy

magazines are an entirely different beast and it's strange to not address that — I have to physically go out of my way to purchase a magazine or have one delivered... that's something I opt in to

people opt-in to instagram, but for teenagers there are much larger stakes involved... instagram has become an integral part of many teens' social life (by design) and they're constantly getting targeted and personalized ads fed to them directly

the fact that the goal remains engagement makes it pretty clear where meta's priorities lie, and it's not on the side of safety
I agree with your broad point but the hierarchy is there on purpose.
Gaming hasn't been an "excuse" for years. More games run on GNU/Linux than any gaming console, installed as easily as finding the game on Steam / GOG / itch.io etc. and clicking "install".

I actually switched to GNU/Linux in college because I wanted to play video games less. This happened right before Proton was released in 2018. Let's just say that I was very unsuccessful in my goal when switching.
Thats obviously not a primary concern. Similar to how your home kitchen isn't going to have a food inspector show up and close it.
Did not seem to work with Firefox mobile for me. All I could do is continue without dragging. Turns out you get a score of 26% that way and a rating of "not half bad".
Why do you think RIPA was widely advertised as a means to combat terrorism?

Here is the Home Office site from the time; https://web.archive.org/web/20000510065613/http://www.homeof...

Which includes an open letter the Home Secretary wrote in defence of the bill; https://web.archive.org/web/20000601233317/http://www.homeof...

Here are the Explanatory Notes from the act itself; https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/23/notes#:~:text=S...

None of them mentions terrorism.

What RIPA did was made it illegal for local councils to do the kind of busy body, nosy neighbour surveillance they were already doing - unless they obtained an authority to do so. It also provided the means of redress for people wrongfully subjected to such surveillance.

In other words it introduced proper regulation of intrusive investigative techniques.
Thank you for introducing me to this!
Those "wee bits" will still be relatively big and you're probably pooping most of them out again. Assuming the plastic itself is fairly benign and non-toxic I wouldn't be overly concerned about swallowing a little bit of it.

I'd be more worried about all the tiny micro-plastic fibres you're breathing in every day that are going in your lungs, blood, and other organs.
You are unable to explain it, showing a clear sign of lack of understanding.

But maybe you have links to others who are able to explain it, not the Bitcoin paper which obviously does not lead one to think network security will subsume all available matter for compute.
it does go to the right post, but adds context on top (the selected tweet with bigger font size is the right one, but previous tweets of the thread are shown before it). I do agree that this behavior is confusing though.
!remind me "did Google kill this before 2026?"
Are you trying to claim that locking your door at night, and carrying a firearm daily, both result in the same amount of risk of life threatening downsides? Because I would very much disagree with that statement.
I got this the other day after updating some apps via Samsung market, with Samsung Wallet. (An app I never use.)

It was a system dialog that popped up warning that the app had 'malicious behavior', iirc. And was in language more certain than your typical AV software false-positive.

Since I never use the app anyway, I uninstalled it to prevent the repeating "warnings".

What really aggravates me though is that I have Google's Play Protect turned off, yet have to reassure it everytime a non-PlayStore app gets updated or installed (via a similar system pop-up dialog) that No, I don't want to turn on Play Protect. Occurs occasionally for Samsung market apps, but almost everytime for F-droid or sideloaded apps.

So it's (Google) obviously monitoring and scanning everything installed regardless of your settings.

I just wonder if this Samsung App issue is Google pushing the envelope to more aggressive default (and non-overrideable) intrusion, or if it was unintentional.

Or maybe unintentional only in that it included Samsung official apps.
And I'm not even sure how reliable is the "miles driven" metric. I mean I'm sure you can estimate it somehow, but what's the margin of error there?
> Well we spend the last 60 years reengineering all our cities to be car-centric,

We engineered them to be human centric. It's just that the humans had easy and reliable access to affordable cars and fuel. So, naturally, the market did what it does. When you say it's car centric you intentionally ignore any benefits or efficiencies that were created in that decision and equally imply that it was a top down decision.

> I currently live in Ann Arbor, MI (the 244th largest city in the US) without a car.

Do you own or rent? Are you a college student or a resident?

> If they built a Trader Joes downtown

Why do you suppose they haven't? Should the government compel them? Why them and not some other chain? What if two chains want to compete for that footprint?

> number of fully protected bike lanes downtown

Do you bike in the winter?

> and seems to be doing a good job of making the downtown denser as well.

The population of Ann Arbor has been steadily increasing for the past 80 years. The last 20 years have shown no change in that steady rate. Any recent changes are very unlikely to account for the very slight continual trend.
The first problem is much harder to solve, the second one only happens because of the first.

The city elected to do the easy useless thing first and is patting themselves in the back (people are still gonna be flying due to shitty human drivers tomorrow). This is a problem.
How can it be the median if it's the 90th percentile?
an interesting question is how to filter out the folks who just feed it through chatgpt, because obviously the people who just lie to get out of any mild annoyance are the ones you least want as coworkers (though obviously people who can effectively use large language models will be incredibly valuable)

i asked gpt-4 some programming questions today, and although it gave clear and convincing explanations in english, it made a lot of really dumb mistakes in writing the code. but this was in a mode where it couldn't call out to an external interpreter; maybe a lot of those will go away once it can test the code

most programmers would have done worse, but is there a pattern to the dumb mistakes chatgpt makes that is clearly different from the dumb mistakes junior programmers make?

like for example i gave it this

#!/usr/bin/perl
# See also cifs.py. Edited GPT-4 output; see <https://bin.gy/clignitter>
# Try watch -n .1 ./wing.pl.
for(1..9999){$t=0|rand 3;($y,$x)=$t?($y/2,$x/2+($t-1?40:10)):(.3*$x-.4*$y+12,
.4*$x+(.2+abs($$%99/99-.5))*$y);$a[$x][$y]=1}map{$r=$_*2;print map({substr
" .':",2*$_->[$r]+$_->[$r+1],1}@a[0..79]),"\n"}(0..18);

and asked it to translate it to lua, getting the following nonsense in response

math.randomseed(os.time())
local a = {}
for i=1,9999 do
local t = math.floor(math.random() * 3)
local x,y
if t == 0 then
x,y = .3*a[1][2]-.4*a[2][1]+12,
.4*a[1][2]+(.2+math.abs(os.time()%99/99-.5))*a[2][1]
else
x,y = a[1][2]/2, a[2][1]/2+(t-1 and 40 or 10)
end
if not a[x] then a[x] = {} end
a[x][y] = true
end
local str = " .':"
for r=0,18 do
for c=0,79 do
local val = (a[c*2] and (a[c*2][r*2] or 0) or 0) + (a[c*2+1] and
(a[c*2+1][r*2+1] or 0) or 0)
io.write(string.sub(str,val,val))
end
print()
end

of course, i've seen worse from interviewees, and understanding the original program is a high (and arguably counterproductive) bar, but perhaps the particular pattern of bonehead errors here could identify this as llm output? maybe the very fact of being so spectacular at understanding the original code is a red flag, at least combined with being so incompetent at writing the lua version?
Is it a personal habit or a local speciality? If the later, any name/recipe will be appreciated.
When I tried the beta, it didn't even support IMAP whatsoever. It only supported Outlook, Gmail, and iCloud Mail.

Priorities straight.
I've felt this way and have started celebrating inputs - the work involved in building something - rather than outputs (the sale, the deployment, etc.). Once it closes or the deployment is successful it's always onto the next thing immediately and there's no time to sit back and reflect on the hard work and enjoy the time spent with others in the process.
That’s not the way I see it. There’s no reason for it to be a compromise unless it’s purely financial. I have everything set up just the way I like it with the existing status quo.
There are other upticks in conditions which are potentially caused by microplastics that are a little more politically controversial to have discussions about.
We live in SF right near one of their yards and I have the same opinion. They're not ready, and there are incidents I see nearly daily
Seems like this can't be a 'bug' can it? How would it only come up now with the current ongoing situation?
Good read - very relevant to today's markets and trends. There are many "best practices" that just further dehumanize the corporate world.
> Anyone, and I really mean this, who has the option tho choose between Windows, MacOS and Linux (KDE / Gnome / some custom thing) chooses one of the latter two.

I have the option and ability to use whatever OS I want, and I like and enjoy Windows. I use Windows for gaming and .NET development, macOS as my daily desktop (RDP to my Windows dev box), Android on my phone, iPadOS and ChromeOS around the house, and Debian on my servers.

I detest ads, but the portions of Windows I object to involve only some cleanup on install. I find the unblockable ads in Android/i(Pad)OS/ChromeOS (e.g. the ads in all of their app stores) far more objectionable than the ones I never see in Windows.
Ah just to be clear, I don't think I really detailed any of the things I experience that make me suspect I have ADHD. I do struggle a lot sometimes. For instance: The kids need socks so we can leave. I go upstairs. Hmm I want to check how that download is going that definitely doesn't matter at all right now. I check it anyway. Maybe click around a bit. Now I need to pee. What was I up here for? Go downstairs. Wife (rightfully) asks me where tf I've been and why don't I have socks. Etc.

Another example: hyperfocusing on something (again, usually programming-related... thinking about a project). Need to do a simple task. Autopilot doing a different task because I'm too busy stuck in my head thinking about the thing.

It pays off during interviews, oddly enough - the anxiety and novelty have me super sharp. Same thing during incident response when things are broken.

It's the classic executive dysfunction and novelty-seeking stuff. I don't have the hyperactivity symptoms though.
Windows 11... now with more AOL!
I don't believe it.

If it was true it would have been reported elsewhere.
Key word there is wealth. Income is different.
An ML model to differentiate human-in-pain screaming from other noise sounds like scifi-satire.
I don't use Nest or have strong feelings about it, but this bit stuck out:

> TypeORM is not even typed. When you run a .findOne() method is just passes back a generic.

This is patently false. I'm not sure what the author is even trying to say here, but the output of `Foo.findOne(...)` is `Promise<Foo | null>`. If it's not, there's a good chance you're coloring outside the lines. Maybe this is true in the context of NestJS, but it is not true for typeorm on its own.
The manufacturing cost is astronomical, these things are typically handmade from 4 smaller screens (which are already expensive) because there's not enough demand to automate the production process.

Everyone wants a giant $30 e-ink screen, but realistically they'll never be as cheap as an LCD of the same size and nobody's willing to pay even that price.
> Tests in school don't require creative problem solving

I’m not sure you can make such a broad statement.
I continue to be blown away by the development of redbean
The real answer is that the US doesn't want public transit. I visited a rustbelt town several years ago, and a new mall had been sited specifically so that it would not be on the bus network: being accessible to the people who ride the bus was considered a liability for the businesses that would rent space in the mall.

More recently I visited a much nicer midwestern town which is planning an expansion of its bus network amd optimizing traffic lights for better bus flow. There is a new mall on the bus line. The difference is that 95% of bus riders in this second town are upper middle class college students.
Oh god no. This is just not the solution for most people unless you want to own their computing infrastructure until they drop dead and have to micromanage their differences galore.

And for myself, I'd rather pay for O365 than use Linux on the desktop. It is just so so so broken. High DPI is a mess, half the apps are only 60% complete, weird ass bugs (LibreOffice won't open spreadsheets it created half the time for example) and on top of that things break all the time on routine upgrades from power management to GPU drivers.

I say this as someone who actually spends most of the day SSH'ed into Linux boxes.

I've been trying for 25 years to get it on my desktop and it's nowhere near any commercial product in any way.
It’s design for manufacturing, not design for repair. There are tradeoffs everywhere in hardware design. I’m guessing that by building the MacBook this way they greatly increase the rigidity of the keyboard. If instead they had made the keyboard a separate module in order to facilitate easy replacement then it’d either be way less rigid or it would need an additional backing plate which would increase the overall thickness of the computer.
You can pipe text/html to w3m/elinks to get the same results. Well, almost the same, some e-mails are not that well designed. I still love mutt, it's so rapid and it works almost the same when I first used it, over 20 years ago.
It's illegal and we send people to jail for it. What is this.
get one made out of rubber
> Require all children under the age of 18 to wear a smart watch with video and microphone recording that can be accessed by a child protection agency at any point. You could have on-device content recognition, so most of the data is discarded without being uploaded, unless that child is tagged for extra attention by authorities. ("We use on-device smart algorithms to ensure privacy.

I also watched that South Park episode.
It's in the spirit of preloaded crapware, Yahoo, and AOL.
That stereotype applies widely but is not universal. Richard Feynman, for instance, was a good example of a well-adjusted, happy, aware-of-lots-of-stuff hyperfocused creative genius. There are many others. On the order of half of the economics professors I know (at least fifty) seem to me similarly well adjusted, despite all being quite focused.
I had drivers training when I was 15. I'm now in my late 40s. How much has changed that I don't know about? I know about the zipper merge only because of an advertising push, but most drivers I know still are not aware of that. What else is new/different? I have no idea. Sure we should probably limit young drivers more (first 2 years passengers allowed only when a more experienced driver is in the passenger seat, perhaps something about low horsepower cars...), but ongoing training is completely missing from our current training and it shows.

Commercial (not private) pilots would be a good example. They regularly take refresher courses to get updated on the latest laws. They have regular simulator training so they can practice situations harder than anything they will ever encounter. They have to provide proof they are in good health. (I'm not what is legally required, or what something all airlines require but isn't legally needed).

I've seen driving simulators - not video games, but actual driving simulators. They are very good, we can require everyone spend a couple hours per year in one to show they know how to drive. We can setup situations where the other car does something stupid. We can setup situations where you will crash and have to choose the least bad crash. We can setup bikes and pedestrians to ensure that you drive safe around them. We can setup bad weather, ice on the roads. We can setup mechanical car failures. These are things that rarely happen and so you need refreshers to ensure you do the right thing should they happen to you.
Is this 'free' outlook different to the version that ships with O365?
Exhibit 1: "Chrome User Trust" and Google's "PR Narratives": Brown v. Google [pdf]
The fact you don't actually say what you're thinking of implies it's not a strong or defensible position.
That was always the selling point about autonomous cars, i.e. that they could be driven 24/7, almost.

There was no selling point related to the environment backw when the hype about self-driving cars really got going, I'd say 2016-2018-ish, you weren't getting people talking about taking the tram instead of getting driven around by these things.
Meta is not being banned, though.
While the TLS-based version was removed from Chrome [0], you can implement a less efficient (and slightly less secure) version in js. I created an example [1].

The gist is:

1. Client creates a key pair in js

2. Client sends pub key on initial auth

3. Server validates auth and attaches pub key to cookie

4. Client signs each request payload with a timestamp

5. Server validates signature and timestamp

The security issue is in step 1. WebCrypto can generate non-extractable private keys and store them in indexeddb. However, this assumes no malicious code flips the “extractable” flag before the pair is generated. So this strategy is trust-on-first-use.

[0] - https://chromestatus.com/feature/5097603234529280

[1] - https://github.com/kevlened/prevent-exfiltration/blob/main/i...
wow. When I started there end of 2011 it was something like 35,000, and ~20,000 engineers. And even then when I went down to the Googleplex I always walked around stunned absolutely baffled what all those people were doing. (Our office had about ~300 people back then)
Pedophilia indeed is referring to sexual attraction to prepubescent children.

Hebephilia refers to sexual attraction to early pubescent children.

Ephebophilia refers to sexual attraction to mid to late puberty children.

In the US, legally none of these are explicitly outlawed. There are "ages of consent" laws, which are aimed at the age of emotional maturity of the individual.

Also in the US - people like to label violators of age of consent laws as 'pedophiles', because that label connotates the worst of the worst sexual impulses. But in fact, they're conflating the two things often enough - a 19 year old having sex with a 14 year old is most definitely not a pedophile, but he could be breaking the law still which makes him a criminal.

But hey - let's throw in one more twist here. 100 years ago or so, said 19 year old would have been committing pedophilia, because the age of puberty has dropped drastically since then.

All that said - I'm not going to die on the hill of suggesting an Ephebophile is less bad than a Pedophile. Just that most people are using the latter term incorrectly, and conflating it with an age of consent violation.

...And for the folks downvoting me:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedophilia#Misuse_of_medical_t...
This implies 30% less power at matching peak performance, not faster performance like the title says.
The models that were redesigned for M series CPUs actually do not have riveted in keyboards. The 13” M1 MPB is like that only because its design is a holdover from the Intel era.

Here’s a video of the KB being replaced on an 2021 16” model.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Sd1cwO5Y5RY

Replacement keyboards can be had for $30 according to Google, though I don’t know if that’s an official part or not.
No one mentioned income. These “tax rates on wealth” callouts are part of the larger movement to promote taxing wealth instead of just income.
Or we could link them together to make it safer so one doesn't veer off the track, maybe get nicely furnished stations where people can switch over to another set of linked cars to get where they need to go. Imagine the possibilities!
Thanks for the reply and for the screenshots.
before writing my initial reply, I went back and tried to get a 50/50 split based on your comment and came up with the same solution. But I didn't understand why it worked.
I now believe it's either pure luck, or there's something about the sizes that result in a 50/50 split.

I think it's easy to see that if the central hole of the doughnut were either smaller or larger, or if the handle of the cup was smaller or larger, these splits would not work.

> I’m not a mathematician; maybe I got lucky with my approach. Crucially this is a brain teaser so it plays by the rules of a game. I formulated an hypothesis by starting from the assumption that they give you a satisfactory fighting chance.

Sure, that's fair, it's just that your original explanation for how the solution is to swap the problem from splitting the cup to splitting the doughnut was so intriguing and puzzling that got me curious.