skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have two big points here: governments should ban social media, and to save its reputation, the tech industry must pull the plug on those services before that happens.

Social media is the new smoking, and Meta, ByteDance, and X are the new Philip Morris. Their products are services that feed you addictive content in an addictive way, such that you spend hours and hours using the service, during which they show you as many ads as possible. That's the money firehose. There's no question it's very bad for kids, and we should ban the shit out of it. We shouldn't do it immediately, we shouldn't do it in a draconian way, but we should slowly chisel away at these services with regulations until we've transformed them from addictive mind manipulation apps to chill forums and blogs.

What does regulation like that look like? "Hey it looks like you've got > 10m MAUs, please make your default algorithm recency and not engagement, please restrict users to 1 hour of total use of your feed a day, please only show users 1 ad every 5 minutes, welcome to a consent decree where we monitor all your content moderation choices, also here's the framework you'll be using."

Does that sound nuts? It's actually what we want: we don't want our kids using social media more than an hour a day, we don't want them served tons of mindbending ads, we don't want some asleep-at-the-switch content moderation crew letting ISIS recruit on these services or weirdos spam our kids with pro-ana content.

True to nerd form, we've really lost the plot on this one. We're arguing like, "kids can use VPNs" or "there's no difference between Instagram and Wikipedia" (lol) and blah blah. Laws and regulations aren't airtight. Kids can still pay people to buy booze for them! We still don't let them buy it themselves because that's way worse! Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good here.

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Importantly, the debate is basically over. In this poll [0]:

- Americans overwhelmingly are concerned about kids' social media use

- Only 51% think it's primarily up to parents to prevent harms

This poll was conducted over a year ago, so I'm sure even more Americans are concerned and even fewer think it's solely up to parents to prevent harm. Regulation is coming.

Tech is at a crossroads right now. It's been on a downward slide for over a decade. No one thinks tech is on their side anymore. It's very close to being just the latest soulless, corrupt business empire in a long line of soulless, corrupt business empires (tobacco, mining, trains, energy, pharmaceuticals, etc). If social media platforms go down kicking and screaming, it will cement this reputation.

Maybe this is fine! Energy companies are doing pretty well! But I don't imagine the people at these companies think they're working at big oil or big tobacco. If you don't relish the prospect of defending your career at every social gathering you go to for the rest of your life, tech needs to pull itself back from the brink before it's forced to. It's the only way to save its reputation and actually be the positive force for good it thinks it is.

[0]: https://www.ipsos.com/en-us/americans-are-greatly-concerned-...
Easier said than done. I've got a dual X5690 at home in Kiev, Ukraine and I just couldn't find anything to run on it 24x7. And it doesn't produce much heat idling. I mean at all.
From the article you linked it sounds more like a vehicle used to transport the money during or immediately after the robbery was what led the police to them.

"Despite the daring robbery, what ended up solving it was not that exciting: An informant identified Hill as the person who rented a 14-foot U-Haul truck a day before the heist and had returned it a day later."
> "Please don't post shallow dismissals"

- HN Guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)

Or if you're going to post a shallow dismissal, at least say something interesting about why you're dismissing, unlike your comment which literally adds nothing to the conversation and doesn't educate anyone who doesn't already know what led you to your opinion.
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Lovely ) I like it a lot.
Really, school is worse than any of those. In most cases.
Just to clarify, is the scope of social media being referred to here particular, typical apps (eg: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram), or any app/service that has interactive social and media elements (eg: Discord, Reddit)?
Yeah funny as a one-legged rabbit hopping in neat little circles. If I were still on social media I wouldn't want to take a long look at the quality of my interactions or the costs associated with them either.
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> do you believe others or the government has a right to disallow what people want to watch via their own choices

Yes. As an extreme example: watching cheese pizza is not allowed by governments. We have collectively also come together to consider murder as socially and legally unacceptable. We can and should regulate social media if posts read as follows:

- we should invade and bomb that country to bits
- we should destroy all places of worship belonging to XYZ religion
- we should vote for XYZ because only he is going to save our religion from PQR
- and much worse which I can't type here as moderation team of HN would omit those

IMHO: give the current form of social media another few decades and it will come out shinning bright just like opioids did in the USA.

These same social media platforms, when required by law, become very effective in moderation but there's next to no moderation in my country and most of the hate and abuse is counted as just another engagement metrics.
In case it wasn't obvious from the context of the rest of my comment, I was using this dictionary definition of 'functional':

> designed to be practical and useful, rather than attractive.

It gets the job done. Really well.
Is git archive deterministic? I think github has trouble here. (No argument that is ought to be deterministic.)
I don't think so. The US government could kill Microsoft; no European government could. The EU / some European government could kill a European company; the US couldn't.
Previously, this would have read "Twitter". They can't just write 'X', since everyone would assume that was a copyediting error.

(Still can't get over what a terrible rebrand that was.)
There are many ways to induce download of the wrong file, not just tampering with the origin website. An old-school MITM remains a real hazard and in some organisations/nations it is directly enabled by the local infrastructure.

Ultimately this is why we also sign the checksum.

(Now you have to protect your signature verification supply chain. It never ends)
Hi All,

I used to be a lawyer and practised & studied law for several years. I was overwhelmed with work and always tired of managing clients & Court proceedings. There was little or no motivation left for me to continue practising law.

It was then I was introduced to indiehacking and I was amazed to see how technology can help build scalable products & services without having to put in several hours of work.

I along with my co-founder then launched productlogz, a feedback management community platform where users/ clients can submit their feedback and engage in fruitful discussions & debates amongst themselves and us. Instead of just building on hunches, we started taking inspiration & ideas from our users and it helped us build better products aligned to user pain points & needs. Its been a great journey ever since, which is equally challenging & satisfactory at the same time.

Would love to get feedback & take this tool to reach the masses.
You mean, you don't care whether your pompous lecture about von Neuman's greatness is actually true?
> The drill reached 4,776 meters and the deepest core was collected at 1,177 meters

So they did 3,599m of drilling for no purpose? This seems inexplicable, perhaps I'm misreading it.
I remember when they taught mcLuhan in highschool - 1970s - in order to make us more aware of media manipulation.

I wonder if they still do. Ironically, this was in Florida - probably be considered too woke by Desantis.
> [...] if you don't like these products and feel they are negative, then don't use them.

And have a severally impacted/constrained social life?

People with all kinds of hobbies use those platforms to organize group activities. You are either on there or you miss out.

I dance tango socially. The tango community, world wide, has settled on FB. Or rather: if you are a dancer, teacher, organizer or DJ, you better be on FB or else you won't know where and when to dance, how to find students, get people to attend your event or get booked.
I.e. even if you decided you didn't like FB, you have no choice but to join it and thus help cement their monopoly on how people with this hobby organize themselves.
GSM blockers are easy to buy. Unsecured camera logins can be detrimental too, manufacturers use a lot of the same default login information and they keep it readily available to anybody who knows where to look or how to ask properly.
Also if there was inside knowledge, perhaps by a VAR who maintains the CCTV - They usually use the same login/password information for every individual camera which makes it too easy to just log in directly to the camera via IP and kill it.
I had no friends for the majority of high school. I still often find it hard to make friends. I would not have said I didn't have opportunities to practice social skills. Like, I still spoke to people every day. It might take some longer to learn than others but you just have to like, leave your house and have work/school and go to shops bro. There are opportunities everywhere. College gives you the most opportunities. If people in your class don't like you, there's like 200 social societies that you can join. You could even go and just talk to your professor about work. Your lack of opportunities and your lack of skills are two different issues. There is no lack of oppurtunity in college. The only people who actually lack oppurtunity for attempting to better their social skills are some disabled people.
How is access to a wholly privately owned walled garden in any way relate to printing books? Private networks are by definition not public domain and thus are totally irrelevant to any discussion of free speech.
Not to deride this (too much), but the 'robustness' of deployments with shell scripts is tempting bait. Things are until they aren't, 'nobody rides for free' - decide what you're willing to pay.

Example: this interprets the output of 'ls'. Reliability is dependent on good quoting/never introducing a project with spaces

Ansible is a nice middle ground, personally. I write the state that differs, use a library of scripting.
Yeah the "drunk script" look is to avoid straight lines hiding multiple paths. Cool that it's recognisable though!
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Cyprus-based Aloha Chrome

Norway's Vivaldi Chrome

Germany's Ecosia Chrome

U.S.-based Brave Chrome

U.S.-based DuckDuckGo Chrome (truly a disappointment)

Norway-based (actually Chinese-based) Opera Chrome

Hurray, "small" browsers are winning! Gud news everyone! :)

We need to establish some name for this bullshit. For example similar to "greenwashing" in the energy sector, we can call this disinformation campaign a "chromewashing".

PS: not that I expected a quality journalism from the unknown site forth,news, but not even mentioning Firefox as a true real alternative in the whole article is baffling. Sure, it gets a small mention in the end, but not on it's own merits, but as an example of some Apple's business process problem. Not a word that this is the only Chrome alternative left on some OSes.
One of the criteria I used when choosing my son's school is that mobile phones are not allowed at all in school. It's a primary school (until 12 years old) so you wouldn't think that mobile phones would be that common at that age but from what I've heard of other parents, smart phones are common already this early.

I don't believe in completely forbidding access to everything when my son is older but there's a time to introducing things like this and it's not this young.
There is also a significant distrust of Google (and other large tech companies) growing in Europe, and probably most other places outside of the US. Tie that with the fact that they are now charging people for using photos/email etc, there has never been a better time to cut ties with the company where possible. I'm sure Chrome will remain the most popular browser for now but the younger generations might be more inclined to use products with less "baggage".
There are multiple way of organising CSS effectively that aren’t specific to single organisations. But my point wasn’t that there is an “enlightened method” that will solve all of your problems, I was pointing out the common misconception that there are only two options: organised CSS with Tailwind or a chaotic free-for-all.
I agree. Same here. The only social media I have is mastodon and usenet. Yes, I live and work with others and email and phone is sufficient. If people try to get me to use slck I refuse. If I cannot refuse, I deploy my slck2email bridge and reply once every 24 hours and usually colleagues stop chatting with me when they realize they won't get an answer until 24 hours, or they drop by my desk, email or call me on the phone if it is urgent.

I think a lot of the complaints from people who "cannot stop" is just laziness. They need the government to construct an excuse so they won't have to man up and take control of their own lives.

That is also sad, because it means those people will never grow up but will be constant children in the eyes of the state.

Then I would say there are the 0.01% who do have psychological problems and they need to see a doctor.
I was responding to the second paragraph in the original article, in which the author gives opinions on the success of other initiatives based around moral panics.

If you wanna know what’s going on with kids and mental illness and suicide, ask almost any social worker and they will straight up tell you how kids don’t have any hope and often have extremely minimal support. My generation is depressed and anxious for completely reasonable reasons. It’s a rational response.
From the main project page, it mentions it has typical alias support:
>Email aliases, mailing lists, subaddressing and catch-all addresses support.

Another feature that would be nice to have built-in is masked hide-my-email aliases for privacy like the cloaked email services from iCloud, FastMail, SimpleLogin, Cloudflare email routing, etc.[1]

For now, I use the typical aliases addresses in Dovecot but it doesn't hide the real email when replying. Also, creating new aliases in Dovecot-based email systems is very tedious and cumbersome because you have to go through the cPanel interface to create them. (Some suggest using the "catchall" feature to avoid the need to manually create new aliases but that advice is not workable when spam robots constantly send emails to new random addresses in your domain.) The cPanel/Dovecot aliases also don't have any metadata so you can add details on what the alias is for and when it was created.

[1] masked email services examples

https://support.apple.com/en-us/105078

https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/4406536368911-Ma...

https://simplelogin.io/

https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-email-routing

EDIT ADD to reply : >On Stalwart you can implement masked e-mail using address rewriting

Stalwart's feature of "Sieve scripts" for custom rewriting/filtering is interesting but it's not UI friendly for endusers to create new masked email addresses (and also later delete them). There's also no user-defined metadata. It's also not clear if Sieve scripts can run on outgoing mail rather than just incoming mail. Example of how UI workflow in Apple's Hide My Email is simpler than Stalwart Sieve scripting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJRrkJy0vUk&t=34s
For LLM inference - yes absolutely.
But you only need to spin up/down quickly when you have huge variations in traffic which most small scale apps/service do not have.
> slipstream

The vocabulary that people came up with in a time of Star Trek: Voyager and Fast & the Furious…
This is a telling argument. Newspapers and television broadcasts, while geared towards broad public consumption, were never wholly democratized platforms and that didn't run afoul of the first amendment. It stands to reason that management of content on social media platforms or outright banning the same wouldn't either.
Cut off the internet and use it as an offline search engine. That way you can really just lock yourself in a room and build something without the distraction of social media and memes.
They may not want that because e.g. it would reduce the amount of interaction their latest model gets. In general, being able to force-upgrade your users is a big advantage.
For people who live in oppressive regimes where certain political speech is illegal, like China or the UK, anonymity is a powerful tool. I would not want to take that away from them.
Not around these parts!

They all use Discord and/or Snapchat here in Australia.
No one I've every asked about this cares about Android vs iPhone. No one.

No one apart from the Parents uses the built in messaging and SMS.

But then the Parent groups all use Facebook Messenger for most group comms.

The whole green / blue bubble thing is either over played by the Press or purley a US Phenomenon.

But given the marketshare of the iPhone with teenagers in the US, it seems it's possibly less of an issue its made out to be due to the fact that most people have iPhones anyway!
In Stagex we already produce a deterministic, full-source-bootstrapped, and oci-native builds of curl.

release: https://hub.docker.com/layers/stagex/curl/latest/images/sha2...

source: https://codeberg.org/stagex/stagex/src/branch/main/packages/...

signatures: https://codeberg.org/stagex/stagex/src/branch/main/signature...

Every package is bootstrapped all the way up from a heavily reproduced 256 byte assembly seed (Stage0/live-bootstrap) and built by two or more maintainers with confirmed matching hashes, and with signatures from well known keys.

100% of commits in our repos are also signed, and every PR merge also comes with a signed merge commit by the reviewer.

Information on how to verify our keys is found in the maintainers file: https://codeberg.org/stagex/stagex/src/branch/main/MAINTAINE...

If the curl team wants a similar level of supply chain security for their own official binaries or Dockerfile we would suggest cloning our Containerfile and hash-locking all dependencies to the latest stagex release (please by all means reproduce, verify, and sign that too!).

This should be easy for curl maintainers to build and get identical hashes for their own release binaries to the ones we build and sign.

Stagex could also be used to produce source tarballs with generated files from similarly deterministic/multi-signed versions of autotools etc.

I am not convinced there is a good case for having any auto-generated files in the source archives though. Force distros to bring their own autotools, etc., imo.
+ https://boringtechnology.club/
Maybe you could get involved by pointing out the mistake and proposing the alternative? I imagine that downstream can't easily switch to another distribution method without notice.
> No, Switzerland is at most a semi-direct democracy. .. We don't vote on every last decision the government takes

Trotzdem nennt man das "direkte Demokratie". Wir hatten noch so etwas wie "Staatskunde" in der Schule. Die Jungen haben das heute anscheinend nicht mehr. Der Punkt ist, dass das Volk per Initiative etc. bei Bedarf eingreifen kann, also nicht nur dem Parlament aus der Ferne zusehen darf. Siehe auch https://www.eda.admin.ch/aboutswitzerland/de/home/politik-ge....
https://thecritic.co.uk/j-k-rowling-is-honest-not-nasty/

Same author defending Rowling.
Been there, done that... "it's all on the page, just check it mate". And suddenly you're that annoying weirdo that refuses to do things like everybody else.
You can, if you can afford it. Few can afford emergencies.
If anything, these two should be acquitted, and instead Caltrain be charged for letting space where people could live in go so unused and uncared-for that it took whistleblowers to find out the "illegal" conversion.

With property comes responsibility, and clearly Caltrain didn't give a fuck about its property.
I think most people who cannot learn most of these skills between the ages of 12-21 (when it's perfectly socially acceptable to fuck up to varying degrees, since literally everyone is learning), are probably neurodivergent. In which case they need to get a diagnosis, that will hopefully open them up to coaching by a human being. Perhaps something like this tech could be supplementary for some extreme cases there. Anyone who is not neurodivergent is just being overly self conscious if they think its not normal to blunder a lot even up to the age of 25. Such timid people will be actively crippled by staying indoors talking to a computer instead of participating in normal human developmental behaviour (otherwise known as interacting with other humans and fucking up a lot).

I say this as someone who literally had no friends in high school and wasn't particularly fond of leaving my house because of it. I get accused of being some extreme extrovert so often here just for saying common sense things about how humans are social creatures and you really do have to go through these things.
Back in 2017 I think k8s was all the rage and all of us were reading it on HN I think.

But what I, too, have seen is a greater emphasis on the boring, simple tools here on HN and I love that given all the experience and PTSD from the startup.
Not so much Monument Valley-like, but I also found The Room tetralogy (quadrilogy?) very enjoyable. Certainly a very different aesthetic from Monument Valley's whimsical colour-palette and story line, but excellent puzzles nevertheless.
My thought on NodeJS is I've experienced incredible productivity with Astro web framework, as everything is written in TypeScript.

I'm familiar with Livewire and have used AlpineJS, but I plan to adopt Qwik (Resumability) as a component in Astro, which addresses frontend performance. One step ahead of others now that I don't have to maintain Go language as a backend which took me months to migrate to TypeScript for a medium size platform.
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I really adore this app, it helps me so much with tutorial making and teaching! Thanks for creating it.
Any company that makes a classic looking tuk-tuk, but electric?
> What problems is it solving that require the confusion that it generates?

I think I answered that already. It keeps the language spec consistent and simpler.

Imagine the complexity you have to add to the language spec to say that when we write [] we deal with the reference to this list except in the multiplication syntax a = [[]] * 5 where the inner [] is not a reference to the list but the list value! Such special case will make the language both inconsistent and harder to understand for experienced programmers.