skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kids Who Get Smartphones Earlier Become Adults with Worse Mental Health (2023)
I am not a fan of many of their products, and I have turned down hiring managers at meta before.

But I wouldn't rule out working for the company. Look, I am old enough to remember the time when Microsoft was the antithesis (and sworn enemy) of the open source movement. Yet today, they are a completely different company.

So, even if there are some things I don't like about Meta, I would still seriously consider any particular offer, and decide whether to accept it based on the details of the position, not the reputation of the company.
One could argue that by using Google Docs, you are giving your consent. If you don't want that, stop using this service.
This is a bit too harsh evaluation, IMO. I visited USA a few times, and I think people there are just used to not knowing exactly how much they'll pay. I am a bit stingy with money (some would say miserly), so when at home I usually count how much I'll pay before proceeding to checkout. This is impossible in the US:

* even something as mundane as a grocery shopping involves taxes (different in every state), not included in the price displayed in the store.

* In restaurants it's mandatory tipping

* for food delivery it's tipping, delivery fees, marketplace fee and more

* for tourists it's "yes the trip costs just $15, but see we forgot to mention that to actually see something you need to buy entrance ticket for another $15"

* etc

Only the last one I would call fraud, but nobody except me was angry so I think it's just the way it is.
The difference here is that Xerox isn't trying to handwave away copyright, while OpenAI et al. are explicitly defending the position in court that LLM output doesn't violate copyright, not that the LLM user is responsible for copyright violations. (I'd be hilarious for them to try to take this stance thought)

I.i.r.c. they even "give you a license" to use LLM output, implying that they own the copyright. Too lazy to look this up so I might be wrong there though.
If it were that easy, why do most systems converge to The Big Ball of Mud?
Intel has a Pretty Big Problem [video]
There are a few things that always puzzle me when I think about it.

1. Divided lights in windows. They end up looking like cages to me!

2. Non-functional plastic shutters. They don't make any sense!

3. Wood textured vinyl or cementeous siding. Why?

4. Why aren't we using MORE (recycled) plastic in the one industry where plastic or resin impregnated products would probably benefit (moisture and insect resistance)?

We have such weird "traditions" when it comes to our home design, construction, and material selection.
Jetbrains is subscription, at least if you click on 'store' :)

Only if you click much further you find out that you retain the rights to the last major version. If that's still true.
Where did he say this? In any case, I can confirm it from personal experience. x86 isn't that annoying if you ignore most of it. The worst thing is the edge cases with how some instructions can only use some registers, like shifting/rotating using cl.
I just added the ability to decode progressive JPEG files (of any size) down to thunbnail images (1/8th sized) on MCUs with less than 32K of RAM. This is a unique feature because normally you would need enough RAM to hold the entire image as DCT blocks (and potentially the entire decoded image as well). I decode the first scan which normally contains the DC values and maybe a few extra coefficients. This allows generation of 1 pixel per DCT block, thus a 1/8th by 1/8th sized image without needing additional RAM. I can add support for full progressive decoding (even on constrained devices), but would needing additional funding to justify the effort.
Who in higher education is teaching and encouraging dark patterns?

Where are people learning not just how to design them, but that there's no ethical impact to subjecting people to them?
Yes. I was laid off 1 year ago by a VC company. It was brutal moment but i learnt hard lessons on how to not applying for the wrong company. Now i go back to the office and it is funnier than remote work.

I meet real people locally and have real world connections. It is really important to not resolve burntout alone at home.

Also i could have real work life balance to spend more time on passionate hobbies.
I mean you could extract an archive you've downloaded to your filesystem and said archive could have funky file names and then you use this tool..

But I suppose it's not a very likely bug to have in this kind of tool.
If everybody started doing it:

- suddenly all low paid workers would miss the same targets, in which case no individual can be blamed anymore

- the madness might stop rapidly because it would make the dark pattern worthless

I sympathize with the low paid workers. I also don't like the fact that by that logic, businesses can just use low paid workers to protect themselves from the consequences of their dark patterns. Like, it's all too easy to go full evil and just put relatable human shields in front so nobody feels like lifting a finger. What are we supposed to do against this?

Of course, it won't happen: the effective way of fixing this would be through law.

Now, while this comment is serious, the previous one was more intended as humor.
The Stormtrooper Problem
I guess MBA fits the bill.
While the security clearance process tries to reduce risk, it inadvertently creates the biggest one: the people who get through lack real diversity. Misfits are filtered out. Stormtroopers are hired.

YCombinator would most certainly not suffer from this type of problem.
It's all fraud. They just have Stockholm syndrome across the pond :)
They fund and do a lot of work beyond the horrible choices for initial RCTs. This fall we should hopefully see actual pharmaceutical interventions and a plethora of research they’ve been publishing.

The more important parts of their programs are the omics and tissue biopsy programs.

May they hopefully turn the ship…
And I can tell you liked it! It’s fine, but not all of us did!
Yeah but it's a tradeoff in usability, that's an accessory that needs to be provisioned and carried around.
The extra performance is on the side of the developers of the app. They can use a technology they already know (the web stack) instead of learning a new one (e.g Rust) or hiring somebody that knows it.
Hah this reminds me of a site I built for April 1, 2019 http://www.mynamecon.com
Thank you, Mr Celine.
FirefoxOS was simply dumped too early. You need TIME to advance in an established market and they simply didn't give it time. They wanted results within a year or two, but growth occurs organically in an occupied market.

In India, an entire telecommunications company was forced to use a fork - KaiOS for Reliance Jio phones because FirefoxOS was abandoned.

FirefoxOS was a terrific idea, but the baby needed time to grow up to teenage level, but was murdered soon after birth
> I think people there are just used to not knowing exactly how much they'll pay.

I've been an American my entire life and I've never gotten used to it. I'm pretty sure the pervasive dark patterns are what is deranging our society to the point where we think electing a conman, genital-grabbing, reality TV star as our president will solve things.
Unfortunately you either (a) need to craft your resume to work for all types of recruiters and all types of hiring managers*, or (b) carefully pick the type of firm and hiring managers and recruiting team you want to work with, then tailor the CV to appeal to them and get rejected by organizations that would annoy you.

The choice depends on your “need” for the next job.

* Examples of opposites in resume-reading personas: Many roles open vs. single role open. In-house versus outsourced recruiting. Contentful versus process recruiting. Technical versus MBA managers. Surface impression forming versus depth reading. Credential seeking versus competence recognizing.
>less methane and require less ressources thus they are greener

The relation between CO2E and « greener » is not so straightforward:

- pigs defections are (very) bad for ecosystems downstream the nearby river.

- pigs are supplemented with fish oil and/or floor, not cows. The fishing methods impacts the marine populations and ecosystems
If someone posting to mastodon is newsworthy that doesn’t flag mastodon as being in a strong position.
One of the main conclusions says:

> which aims to make the kernel more secure [...] Contrary to the common belief, our study shows Rust only makes the kernel more "securable" but not fully secure due to unsafe usage is inevitable in driver development.

Okay, but does it make it more secure or not? If yes, is it by a significant amount or not?

This feels like it's moving the goal post and so ends up not really answering anything. I don't think anyone believes "fully secure" was ever a possibility, especially given the mix of C and Rust.

The more in-depth analysis that follows never answers that question either beyond just "reduces the vast attack space", and it was a genuinely interesting question. I feel cheated out of an an answer.
> Do you know the difference between infrastructure and ideas?

Do you?

Can you make an example of "We were leaving some of the best products of our labour in the 1800s and early 1900s"?

Have you ever read Slavery, Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution?

Are you aware of the Williams Thesis?

I would like to discuss the matter and not read your ad hominem, because it's honestly the least interesting thing in the World and you are not even good at it.
Starlink Mini is now available for anyone in the US to roam
This could be extremely easily solved with legislation. Just have a law that says you must be able to cancel a subscription exactly as easily as how you signed up for it.
> All art is political.

Nonsense. Art is strongly related to culture, and culture is strongly related to politics. The fact that art these days is very much viewed in a political frame, in the US in this case, is because politics have taken a huge role in US culture. Like, it's all American people seem to be thinking about these days.

But no, art is not political in itself. Art, by some definition, is a thing whose meaning is created by who experiences it. Art might look political if the observer looks at it in a political point-of-view. But in reality, tinned faeces [1] are not a political statement nor a reflection on the human condition. They are literally just shit in a box.

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artist%27s_Shit
dut looks very nice.

One small surprise I found came when I have a symlink to a directory and refer to that with a trailing "/". dut doesn't follow the link in order to scan the real directory. Ie I have this symlink:

ln -s /big/disk/dev ~/dev

then

./dut ~/dev/

returns zero size while

du -sh ~/dev/

returns the full size.

I'm not sure how widespread this convention is to resolve symlinks to their target directories if named with a trailing "/" but it's one my fingers have memorized.

In any case, this is another tool for my toolbox. Thank you for sharing it.
A virtual debit card service like privacy.com lets you create a card for each subscription, limit how much per month can be charged, and end the virtual card at any time.

By default the card will be vendor locked, meaning once a company makes a charge to the card then only that company will be able to do so.

That said, doesn’t solve the issue of everyone wanting subscriptions. A few $5-$20 here and there will quickly rival a utility bill.
For me, the next step after 10 is Linux. Maybe Debian, because Ubuntu is slowly going the same ad-laden direction.
The author is both ignorant of SQLite history, and philosophy as also ignorant of the real use-cases SQLite solves for embedding a lightweight SQL-ish database into applications.

Looking into his "about" section he worked mostly with web APIs (Stripe, Heroku) and is a self-proclaimed fan of Postgres. Maybe when he acquires some experience working with embedded applications without boatloads of resources available nor a stable network stack he might appreciate SQLite for what it is since the comparison to Postgres is non-sensical when approaching from that viewpoint.
On the other hand, they just managed to get their resume in front of thousands of people.
The string "3.99" always comes back as a string, but when you need do anything at all to it, it resolves down to the same problem.
In the beginning 'twas the command line, and cmd was good, and it sufficed, for computing was the product. And we looked around and saw the IBM PC and Mac - and Amigas and STs and Commodores before them, and Spectra, and Lisas and IIe, all after their kind, and all was well - for they were computers.-

Then the OS became the product. And it needed glitz, and it needed a GUI. And so a GUI came. And then "updates" came - for we were now "online".-

And thus the "network" came, and we were "as one", and our compute was joined forevermore, and we could no more tell our children from our children's children and our old age from our youth. And sadness and pointlessness was turned "social" into glitz. And everything from our infirmity to praise went there as plain as day and dark as night for all to see. And all seemed well.-

And it came to pass that our user accounts went on the net, for they were "subscribed", and they were also "online", for they had lost their flavour. And the advertising came ...

Now, we ourselves are the product. The "network" is the computer, and much woe is to come. And there shall be much girding of our loins, off of our loins as well, for our hardrives and compute are places of consumption, rented out under pretense of service to those that run the bits.-

For now AI is also come, for we have ourselves trained it, with the fruit of our sweat and our tears. And all is well and will be well, for AI shall be unto us a confort in loneliness, and a hand in our fields and unto us an oracle for all truth and wisdom and even law - with time.-

And we forgot our code and became garrulous and forgetful of our trades and machinery, and we knew less and less with every season. And it became the law to know the code no longer, and the trades. For it was now a crime and deed of evil to gaze upon the code, or long for it, or learn, or have our trades as did our fathers.-

And the computer shall no more exist, for all will be compute.-
Political? It was performed by their system. It doesn't sound like a human was in the loop at all, besides those who developed the system. And like I said, it isn't just this post alone. Read my comment again.
Webd: A 90kB Alternative you might want to try https://github.com/webd90kb/webd
> Love Kernighan, such a humble person.

A perfect example: Just about 3-4mins into the interview he said that the motivation behind the book was "kind of pretentious".

To me, and many others, his opinions on programming are amongst the most interesting and useful. In large parts because he can convey them so clearly.
Yes, I'm highly skeptical of subscriptions, but there are obviously cases where they make sense (and I work for a SaaS company so it'd be pretty hypocritical if I said the never do). I subscribe to a gym and actually go regularly as an example. I'm slightly on the fence about music - it's nice to be able to own the file in such a way that no one can ever take it away, but the convenience of Spotify is impossible to match and I sometimes subscribe.
Sorry - I'm missing the point being made?
> We don’t control them, we don’t know what kind, if they can be considered personal info or not

If I were you, I'd consider changing my lawyers. This is explicitly forbidden by GDPR (art 28), you have to know what your contracted data processors are doing, and you have to have processes in place to assure data subjects rights (eg remove their data from your contracted third parties on request). Cookie banners have nothing to do with this, and you're in breach of GDPR cookie banner or not. If your lawyers didn't stop you from breaching art 28 but recommended slapping a cookie banner "to be extra careful", that's a major red flag.
This is why there should be a hard limit on mergers and acquisitions for any business. All companies become tentacular godzillas after a decade or two and the state is forced to keep them running because its "too big to fail" for the economy.
Nothing changed, nothing changes, nothing will change.
If I were to serve a targeted exploit like this, I would certainly hide it in the binary and have the binary determine whether it's running in the targeted environment and then run the payload.

It's much, much easier to hide a malicious payload in a binary than an easily auditable shell-script. And it's much easier to make a decision of whether the payload should be enabled or not if you are already running on the local machine.

If you don't trust a publisher, you really can't run anything of theirs. Shell script or, especially, binary.
On different lines?

By that definition there's about 300 trains per hour in the core of London across each underground line, elizabeth and thameslink. That's in each direction.

That's one train departing from the core of London every 6 seconds, before you even consider surface rail.
You understand most SaaS companies are global, right? This isn't a problem only impacting 5% of the world.
I disagree here. The right action is boycotting the company and lobbying/protesting/voting for better consumer and worker protections. Or organize it as a concentrated group action so your first point holds, but don't just do it solo.
But it's also the most cost expensive (from provider side) among 1FA and 2FA-OTP
Also did an algorithms in machine learning course in matlab

It’s a great language choice for it

It weeded out the script kiddies who incorrectly signed up wanting a Tensorflow or PyTorch course

It’s a fairly bland and slow but usable language for the task

Shits me off to no end a lot of engineering courses moreorless indoctrinate their students into using it unconditionally, though

Octave exists but is a relative pain to use
I'm constantly seeing companies trying that shit here in Denmark. Usually they stop with that specific dark pattern once our consumer protection agency (Forbrugerombudsmanden) threatens them with fines. But then they just try with something else. It's a big game of whack-a-mole and the consumer protection agency is serverely underfunded and understaffed - they have just 24 employees tasked with enforcing marketing and consumer protection law for every single company in Denmark)
Seeking Advice on Starting New Entity and Navigating Cofounders' Departure
Considering closing my company and starting anew. Need to redo contracts but that's fine. Co-founders hold over 50% of shares. Any advice? Also, cofounders are leaving, and I'm confused about the process. Insights appreciated!
Kinetic wall: how it's made [video]
> LLM chatbots ... were not designed to be "factually correct" they were designed to predict words.

For this question, what LLMs were designed for is I think less relevent than what they are advertised for, e.g.

"Get answers. Find inspiration. Be more productive.
Free to use. Easy to try. Just ask and ChatGPT can help with writing, learning, brainstorming, and more."
https://openai.com/chatgpt/

No mention of predicting words.
I had this field of mudballs where I kept getting bug reports related to this particularly muddy ball, and I kept slapping on more mud (always in a rush) and it never quite fixed it. Eventually I had read that code so much I almost knew it by heart, I had spent so much time there. And one night the new design appeared in my head. I suspected it would take only a few hours to implement. And, sure enough, five days and a few evenings later I had turned it into a beautiful garden. It passed all tests, it hummed like a well-oiled bee, it was awesome to behold.

And then, because it generated no bug reports, I never looked at it again; and I spent the rest of my days there slapping dirt and water on the other mudballs.
That's what makes me so deeply suspicious of posts like this. It costs nothing but a few minutes to spring up a fake account and dump on the competition.

Who knows if Lukas is legit, but they don't seem to have asked the service provider where their data is yet. Or what happened. You're not going to get those answers here.

Going straight to social media before you've found anything out stinks.
I definitely looked up what names people were naming their kids when choosing my kid's name. It allowed me to pick one that was not so unusual as to be seen as weird, but wasn't going to clash with everybody else out there either. It worked. He occasionally meets others with his name, but not very often. The only issue is that his name has about five different common spellings.
60hz gives me a headache after a few hours, been like that since I was a kid.
Once works. It's an option you have to turn on: Settings > Mouse > Additional mouse options > Show location of pointer when I press the CTRL key.
No, the hard part is having to secure all these little random services that I've now built. Why would I not just pay for someone whose job it was to worry about this instead?
People that say "all art is political" often mean it as:

- politics is about power dynamics, ideas, class, etc.

- art production and consumption interacts with those

- thus art is political.
Dual Booting OpenBSD and Alpine Linux on a X220 ThinkPad
To succeed, learn to be an asshole
I use SQLite with my flask app - it has 5/6 users connected at once max - and its excellent. I've run into issues with alembic when running migrations occasionally. I had intended to move to something "beefier" but I see no point, unless I have to really scale up.

Its straightforward, fast and easy for a casual DB programmer. Everything is wrapped in SQLAlchemy anyway, so all the complicated logic is in my Python code.

Which have been around ALTER_TABLE and CONSTRAINTS
Fedora is also nice.
Advanced alter table operations do involve creating a new table, but the pattern for doing that is actually pretty robust: you start a new transaction, create the new table, copy the data across and then atomically swap the table names before you commit: https://www.sqlite.org/lang_altertable.html#otheralter

My favourite feature of my sqlite-utils CLI tool is the "transform"
command which implements this pattern for you (also available as a Python library method): https://sqlite-utils.datasette.io/en/stable/cli.html#transfo...
If you are doing that, it's probably best to skip platform-specific frameworks and try AvaloniaUI or Uno Platform, both of which have decent documentation, if a bit limited in the first case, but I found various templates and examples more than sufficient as a replacement.
Hardly an SMS issue, an issue with a vendor not properly securing a sensitive datastore.
Boycotting is a nice counter measure. Effectively, you don't even participate in funding the dark pattern and you put a pressure on fixing it because of the loss of income.

You need to know the issue beforehand though.

lobbying/protesting/voting for better consumer and worker protections is obviously the right thing to do, and acting collectively too. Only collective actions will be effective against such tings, most probably.
To be fair, it's not a simplicial complex, but simplicial and cellular homology coincide on triangulatable spaces like RP^2 so I gave it the benefit of the doubt =) algebraic topology is a pretty fun field regardless of how much a language model knows about it IMO.
I'm using Zed for a couple of months now. As a Vim bindings user, my personal fav Zed feature is that the Vim bindings really work.

Zed is made by people who used Vim themselves.
> To succeed, you need to know how to be a conman. It is not sufficient to be pleasant. You need to know when to raise your voice and when to make someone cry. And above all, you must know how to be an asshole and still decide not to act like one. You have to choose to not to use people.
The majority of users of HN are not American, you may be living in a bubble. It's "American based" only in the sense of ownership.