skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good for you. But remember, not all brains are wired the same. Mine certainly isn't, and I'm not alone in this. The things you've listed, they just don't outweigh the pain of life and the inevitability of death for me. Nothing in life does.

You might feel it's your place to say things like "don't waste your life" or "seek therapy", assuming I haven't tried or don't know about these options. For a long time, I envied people like you, those who wake up every day with a reason, thinking there was something wrong with me. But the truth is, I was just born this way.

So, unless you can magically ensure that any life you bring into this world won't be burdened with a brain predisposed to unending existential suffering, I'd argue that you're not seeing the full picture.
Oh no, it does matter a lot. Would you want to grow up in a cartoon world with Google execs owning all they keys to your reality?

Believe me, it matters for Google and other big tech who create this layer of abstraction between the reality and their customers. Because it matters for their bottom line. Initially the motive may have been totally benign, like making things easier. But the fact that they are profit-oriented corporations incentivizes them to deepen the abstraction further.

The end result? Google execs owning your skills and your data - they pwn you. You don't know how reality works anymore. You want to find a job? Pay Google. You want to store a photo? Pay Google. Wanna call someone? Pay Google. Want to draw something? Pay Google. Want to develop an app so you could at least have this feeling that you could draw something without paying Google? Pay Google.

They are going to be your overlords.
I think you may be too hung up on the C(?) definition of trap representation.

Clearly the OP suggestion isn't viable for default C integers anyway, and whichever language OP's suggestion is applied to is free to define the behavior of trap representations.
Deplatforming anti-vaxxers is part of the moral mandate of any citizens and businesses in a society.
On PayPal's strategic priorities and getting back to growth
Exactly, let’s make Patreon as big as the other platforms and everything should work out great. I hope I don’t get danged for sarcasm here, but I am so not a fan of this sentiment. All the major platforms started as upstart competitors. Google to Yahoo. YouTube to all media. Facebook to MySpace. Look at them now.

The thing saving podcasts is that they are free. They continue to be ad supported or not monetized at all. But there is a path forward where they can be monetized in other ways and still maintain the openness they enjoy today.
> Meaning you should be programming just about 99% of your time in Python.

No, not me, because I’m less productive in Python than in Rust, assuming the same level of final product quality, even excluding runtime performance.

> Turns out 99% of the time you don't need to parse terabytes or have μs-response times.

Performance is not the primary reason to use Rust. It has way more to offer than performance.
Yes, it's much better when processes limp on with bugs that are difficult to diagnose and often exploitable.
Thank you for sharing this!

The Diamond Age was one of my favorite books and Neil's answer distilled and clarified a major theme of the book perfectly.
There is one centralised bottleneck - Apple's iTunes podcast index / search API - which seemingly everyone else in the company has forgotten about and runs pretty openly for anyone to submit to and use.

There are also a handful of essentially CDNs that host the .mp3 files themselves, but these are more or less completely interchangable. They're just infrastructure for hosting files.
I think people tend to blame themselves for not doing the crankery well enough, as opposed to turning on the cranks, even if it means their death. Sunk cost is a bitch.
Which is why "Wherever you get your podcasts" is a radical statement.
> or example, mutations in almost 300 genes have been identified as indicating a risk that a person will develop schizophrenia.

> It’s therefore a huge oversimplification, notes Ball, to say that genes cause this trait or that disease.

That sounds as though the genes do cause the disease, at least sometimes.

This article - whose author seems to have mind-melded with the book itself, providing no objectivity I could discern - seems to be arguing against a straw man. No one thinks that it's only genes that cause disease. If I catch covid, it wasn't my genes. If I get type 2 diabetes, it (probably) wasn't my genes.
> If anything, schools are failing profoundly in preparing kids for a technological world.

This argument is often made (and also wrt preparing pupils for their professional life). I don’t think it the reasons you imply are right.

The problem is that nothing they could use now in school will prepare them for what they will need to use in the future. The software, tools and devices they will need will change as technology keeps evolving. What they need to learn is the basics, how to adapt to a new platform and core OPSEC principles. And they can learn that on pretty much anything.

> We need more hackers.

I was a kid of the 1990s, I know what you mean. But I also was a hacker. We had access to computers at school, which was great. But we did not have to use them all the time for things that are better done by other means of communication.

My kid just spent a couple of hours doing some programming on his school laptop, which is fantastic. What is not is requiring the same laptop to take exams with bullshit spyware and requiring it in the classroom for lectures that would be better without them. Then, they are a distraction and they do not help.

> I just spent three hours last night working on spanish homework on a school supplied chromebook with a high schooler, and it was pathetic how bad the UX was, how poorly the laptop performed, and just how painful the entire experience is.

Yes, Chromebooks are terrible. They are actually a hindrance more than anything else.
I was about to say the same thing. A trillion options is just unmanageable.

One (other) solution is to create a tiny algorithm that lets the user choose the best one compared to another, and do this maybe three times. Could be done on the same page, of course.

So you have to choose between:

* Blueberry or strawberry?

* Raspberry or apple?

* Banana or raisin?
I suspect that if we stop and think about bandwith and transmission speed we likely find out that whatever might be transmitting information to our brains has to sit close to us, but I lack some data to actually do the computation.
Spyware business is booming despite government crackdowns
But you can get 99% of the same podcasts via Apple as you can via Spotify or many other podcasting apps. Just like you can visit websites on almost any web browser. This used to be how everything was expected to work online, but that has changed dramatically, and for the worse.

(Spotify is trying to break the openness of podcasting but they mostly haven’t managed to do so, yet.)
> My mom wouldn't know what is a podcast nor could she fathom what is this "wherever" she usually gets them.

If that's the case, then she cannot operate a TV or a radio either. If you have a Podcast app on your device, it's incredibly easy to find and subscribe to podcasts.

And before anybody says "She doesn't know how to install an app!" – she didn't know how to install cable either, a guy from the company did. And most people know how to install apps.
No-Code Boilerplate
That's from 2016 and AFAIK the law regarding civil asset forfeiture changed a bit (for the better) since then in the US.
Try to shuffle the order of options to avoid bias (you can see apple and banana at top, both also in the beginning of the alphabet)
> European Union is coming after apple.... seems short sighted

I think you have a fundamental misunderstanding of the goals of the EU in this matter. The objective is not to keep both companies on even keel, but it is merely about enforcing existing anti-monopoly laws. If this results in Google gaining a de-facto browser monopoly then those same laws can be used to break up that monopoly when we get to it.

What would be the alternative in your opinion? Allow Apple to break the monopoly laws in hope that they will be able to rein in the growth of the Google browser? What good is a law if it will not be enforced?
Isn't that just turning the exchanges into unregulated banks?
Canada is very expensive. Cheap labor doesn't help average Joe at all.
This addon works perfectly for this https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/screenshot-youtube...
To put it simply, no one is able to say, “wherever you get your videos”.
The point of diminishing returns for benefits to longevity is reached after exercising a couple hours a week for a few years consistently. Then you just need to maintain that. VO2 Max itself can still improve over time but the effect on longevity is not as significant.
you'd actually be surprised how much competition there seems to be in the chinese SBC gaming space

it's mostly emulation, though (see https://www.reddit.com/r/SBCGaming/)
Offtopic. I watched this post rankings [0] and saw a huge drop from 6 to 75, a minute ago. Damn algorithms, lol

[0] https://hnrankings.info/39286209/
That'd be around 57 mg caffeine. On the weak side, compared to espresso or drip coffee. You think the most common preparation is instant coffee? Kind of surprising.
When I was in Organic Chemistry in College we demonstrated this experimentally. A cup of drip coffee had more caffeine than a shot of espresso. We were college kids so I'm not sure how consistent our how methodology was but the result was pretty consistent across all of us.
A lot of natural sciences classes benefit from doing experiments. And those are much easier and more rewarding when you've got probes connected to different parts of the experiment logging their data to a laptop.

My old high school used the LabPro/LoggerPro platform for that, and it became a core part of how physics and chemistry was taught. https://www.vernier.com/product/labpro/
Nobody likes to admit that Apple still has a stronghold on the podcast ecosystem by way of their podcast directory, which is piggybacked by several “indie” clients.
Today, I learned that there's a thing called tayberry. So maybe destructive to the diversity of human thought is a bit of an exaggeration.
YouTube is the only platform that has sponsor block plugin which allows you skip all ads, self promotions etc.. Hard to compete with that.
100% - "Closed" platforms are horrible - ok for a phone thing, but if you go in with "this is a computing platform" you have to give me more - especially at this price.
Django and Wagtail is one option. Do a little research and you'll find others.
The existence of pre-internet distractions doesn’t negate the potency and pervasiveness of post-internet distractions.

Yea bored kids have always found ways to entertain themselves in class. But this is a matter of scale.

Kids being able to covertly play battleship on pen and paper is many steps removed from every kid in the class being constantly plugged into a network where the wealthiest companies in the world are spending billions of dollars competing for their attention.

Kids with unfettered access to the internet in the classroom might as well be sitting in a casino.
> The Young Lady's Illustrated Primer is an excellent book.

Wait, did you mean The Diamond Age is an excellent book? Or... has someone made/written the book-within-the-book into an actual (e-?)book?
Interestingly, Oracle does not remove the /etc/redhat-release file.

That would be an interesting fight.
Remember? I still use DataTables.
> Would love to know if a data centre could get paid for rejecting it’s heat to the system during what is heating time for other users.

This is definitely a thing in other parts of the world https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/stockholm-data-pa...

> IP-Only, Interxion and Advania Data Centers are building data centers on the Kista site, which is connected to Stockholm's district heating system so tenants get paid for their waste heat, which is used to warm local homes and businesses
You're mixed up in your understanding of how burden of proof works and who has it here. Spoiler alert: it's the burden of the person making the claim—not the one dismissing it.

> lazy and ignorant

Go fuck yourself.
Yes. A huge distraction. Notice the adjective, indicating magnitude.

Where did they say laptops introduced the concept of distraction to school?
> The only buggy or insecure code is really from third party plugins and themes. Wordpress core has been rock solid.

Rock solid? I don't really trust the codebase at all, and generally you need at least some plugins.
Are you really web scale if you aren't multi-cloud with accounts in GCP and Azure?
My son who will be in first grade next year (currently he’s in K) received form the dept of education a chromebook. Im kind of horrified to be honest.
There is no “traditional fashion”, there’s what you, specifically, are more accustomed to.
I have two PiHole instances plugged on opposite sides of the house. Instead of the mentioned GravitySync, I just occasionally copy the backup file from the primary to the secondary pihole instance (both of which are dockerized on Raspberry Pi hardware)

Works great. Rarely need to think of it. I recommend looking up the recommended whitelist and adding anything there that looks relevant to you.

Last downtime was a month ago when external circumstances forced me to move both servers. Yhe RPi, lacking a real time clock or its neighbor to bootstrap DNS, couldn't get the current time ir dns, and thus had out-of-date certificates for dnssec... Solution was to add the direct ip address to an NTP server temporarily to the list of websites to use for NTP.
That’s basically a cop out I think it’s called ? Some kind of cheap magic trick fooling the audience by pretending that if we haven’t explained xyz it’s only because of complexity.

This kind of thinking is deeply entrenched in physicalism.

And please, GPT does not think.

As Alan Watts beautifully said « science is the art of prediction « To forget that is naïve at best (meaning, any amount of untangling the complexity will not explain where the universe comes from, nor how consciousness arises from inert matter)
> because a lot simply cannot afford replacements or repairs.

My kid’s elementary school policy for iPad damage was $100 for the first damage, $250 for the second, $500 for the third.

This was problematic for a few reasons: 1) they didn’t have anyone to debug devices in a school of 1000 kids, so any problem was damage and parents were fined; 2) the iPad was several years old and costs $300 to just buy; 3) if the iPad was stolen then the full $500 was due; 4) they wouldn’t provide cases and asked the parents to purchase only specific cases and any other cases were removed. Their approved cases weren’t very good; 5) location tracking was turned on even outside of schools.

When I tried to talk with the administration they said something like “this is as good as we can do.” They said that it was mandatory for kids to use these devices. I bought my kid their own iPad refurbed for 289 or something with AppleCare for $7/month and used that for 3 years of elementary school. Arguing with the admin every year when they tried to say this wasn’t allowed.
Yeah I also find it hard to argue with such dishonesty, inability/unwillingness to look at statistics, and intellectual retardation.

Deforestation isn't an issue in advanced economies, e.g. in Europe. See OurWorldInData

Soil depletion? What's that? Plants don't need soil to grow, plants need nutrients (and can easily grow in water or even air!). We've been supplying nutrients artificially for more than a century now (see Haber-Bosch process). I'm sure we can continue doing so, just better with newer technology.

Netherlands is a tiny country, one of the worlds top food producers and exporters, and one quarter of its land is reclaimed (used to be the sea). It's not a problem.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/holland-...

> Each acre in the greenhouse yields as much lettuce as 10 outdoor acres and cuts the need for chemicals by 97 percent.

Over-fishing might be a problem, but we're solving it rapidly with aquaculture (farming of aquatic organisms). China is the other problem, e.g. they're fishing illegally in international waters off Argentina, probably will need to be reined in by international armed forces.

https://ourworldindata.org/fish-and-overfishing

Resources aren't a problem, peak oil is getting further and further away (because of fracking, new technologies, and new oil fields), and we're finding more and more other useful resources. With the advent of "too cheap to meter during daytime" solar power, we'll have more energy to extract/refine/recycle resources from other places as well (desalination, uranium from seawater, CO2-free steel, artificial (non-fossil) hydrogen and methane etc.).

Biodiversity might be a problem, but as with the above, I'm certain we'll be able to solve it.

Bottom line is, degrowth "green" propagandists are wrong, have always been wrong ("glaciers will be gone by 2020" LOL), and will continue to be wrong. Believe in our high-tech post-scarcity increasingly-moral free-market-capitalist civilization.
We warned people that the government was snooping on everything you transmitted or received.

They didn't listen or care.
> Dimensions 259mm107mm19.9mm

Anything larger than Switch Lite shouldn't call themselves "handled".
Python's use base is now dominated by ML and scientific in general isn't it? Both of those communities are relying on extensions completely. I am quite possibly biased as I haven't written any python that didn't use at least numpy.
Only when the lesson for life is "how to get stuff done when you've got unlimited access to far more interesting things that nobody will reward you for".

For actually learning things? It's like pet food packaging.

What do I mean by that? The pets don't buy the food, their owners do; the result is the packaging is designed to appeal to the owners. Does a cat care about the bright colours their retinas can't see, the metaphors they don't have the language comprehension to process? Or do they seem like picky eaters because they're put off food when it has subtle odours that their owners can't perceive? Likewise, are dogs meat-obsessed like pop culture tells us, or are they omnivores that will joyfully wolf down just about anything and wait for their digestive tract to figure out afterwards if it needs to be rapidly expelled?

Parents and schools buy stuff to teach with, it's sold to the adults because the kids have neither the budget nor the judgement to decide what they ought to learn. But how good are those things at teaching? We only find out much later, at first when the kids take exams and we see how well they learned, and later when we look at the same people in the workforce and find out if that exam itself is representative of the skills we care about.

Learning as an adult, I get to see if online courses teach me; I've gone from being a heavy user of Duolingo, even paying for a subscription, to giving up on it entirely as it morphed from lessons into an annoying kids cartoon.

I'm worried that I'm seeing similar from Brilliant.org, too. The older courses on e.g. using Q# to program quantum computers is still good — hard, yes, but good, it's actually pushing me to learn more, and in this it reminds me of when I started learning programming on a Commodore 64 from the user manual when I was aged about 5 or 6 — but the newer course updates over the last year or so have focussed on unskippable "cute" cartoons and the absolute beginner level content that parents and teachers will pay for, not filling in the gaps with the hard stuff that brings in the most educational value.
> Having a single DNS server for your network is very stressful

Common... He's talking about a home network.

I also have one of my Pi set up as a DNS server (running unbound directly not PiHole though) and this thing is rock stable solid.

We're talking about Linux here. I've had a Linux server reach years of uptime (kids: don't try this at home, it's not secure but it was a test of Linux's stability).

Redundancy is great though but I really wouldn't lose sleep over it. If anything you can "dd" the Pi's SD card to another one and just replace the Pi (or the SD card) should anything go wrong.
I think a lot of it started because of one of the better intended projects — the One Laptop Per Child movement that tried to give laptops to kids in poor countries. A key premise was that a laptop could be cheaper than all of the textbooks normally required, so the whole thing was really saving money.

But envy is one of the most powerful forces in politics, even when it doesn't make sense. So the idea that children in Namibia were getting laptops, while kids in Virginia weren't — even though it was a money-saving trick — that was just unacceptable. And unlike in the OLPC, schools bought laptops from a variety of vendors, mostly interested in upselling lots of unnecessary features rather than providing a lightweight textbook device. Anyone familiar with the history of the TI-83 understands that corporations selling technology to schools are the lowest form of life.

I can't say for sure that this is what caused it, but it was right around the time that laptops started showing up in schools, and also when the concept of the "netbook" was introduced. The early netbooks certainly seemed to be imitating that weird green blob-shaped thing that OLPC hoped would revolutionize education in the less developed world.
I haven't actually looked into this, but I imagine it works the same way Apple's iMessage:
He who controls key exchange controls everything.
They don't need to "backdoor" the encryption if they can just add a new (invisible) device to your account that can read all your messages.

Alternatively they could just do it inside the app. Sure messages are e2e from user to user, but then the FB client app can package up the decrypted message and send it off to wherever they want.

A good rule of thumb: If it's not fully open source, it's not actually encrypted from the gov, only from your nosy neighbor.
I wonder how long before Australia will go after Signal or Matrix for being actually unreadable to them. (presumably)
I suspect whether it's a majority or not depends on how you count caffeine.
I love love love love coffee. It took me years to realize that my high blood pressure was controlled almost immediately by cutting out a high-test canned “Draft Latte” drink. I can drink a single 8oz cup every few days. Decaf is fine.
System as declarative configuration? It sure does seem we've been spinning in circles for the past few decades, creating a complexity stack of failed attempts at solving the same problems.

Wonder how much of that is social. E.g. processes and function calls are effectively equivalent: command line arguments are effectively positional or named parameters, while environmental variables are equivalent to dynamic binding - a powerful technique all but excised from programming languages, except for the Lisp family. And yes, this makes the shell a REPL. The main difference between a program and a function then feels like the relationship with programmers: a program is expected to be a named thing to distribute and sign with your name; a function is more ephemeral. But does this difference warrant having each in a separate, distinct, complex layer?
That would be good but I wanted to make an app where you just do a simple, fun task every day. With an ELO rating system you can just keep going and going whereas with this it only takes a minute or so
No, this is a mirage. There are a tiny handful of major companies podcasters submit to. One of them provides a public API that all the smaller apps rely on.

A donation from Apple is not an open ecosystem.

> We do get most of our podcast data from Apple. We even use the same podcast ID as Apple Podcasts.

-- Podcast Republic