skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You would have a better main point when you started to question how this accident could happen:

Oh oopsie, I am the owner of highly popular media, that by accident does everything to not talk about subjects that are highly damaging for society, but that, if they would, would be highly detrimental to my and my business partners interests. Also, by accident, instead of bringing real investigative journalism looking at the big picture, my media brings a firehose of addictive, emotionial pulp of no relevance.

The problem is: we are naturally attracted to junk that tickles are emotional belief systems, for example some ideas we have about immigrants. It takes active THINKING to go against your gut feeling.

How do you do that when you

1. were never taught to take that painful step of doubting your deepest held memes
2. were brainwashed by endless affirmation via infotainment
3. are living in an infotainment environment were half of your countrymen believe things like "the election was stolen"?

You are proposing to bank on someone already deeply burdened by debt.
Just like how we look at the anti tobacco movement as a moral panic? I think not.
As a father of 4 ranging from 10 to 30+, I certainly hope the law will not practically work and that kids will find a way to use social media.
I agree, but this is obvious crankery.

> Perfect conversations are made possible through Conversational Game Theory.

this is not the sort of thing someone who has thought critically about their own work says.
It's really easy for a technical person to do as well.

I use Coqui TTS[0] as part of my home automation, I wrote a small python script that lets me upload a voice clip for it to clone after I got the idea from HeyWillow[1], and a small shim that lets me send the output to a Home Assistant media player instead of using their standard output device. I run the TTS container on a VM with a Tesla P4 (~£100 to buy) and get about 1x-2x (roughly the same time it'd take to say it, to process) using the large model.

Just for a giggle, I uploaded a few 3s-5s second clip of myself speaking and cloned my voice, then executed a command to our living room media player to call my wife into the room; from another room, she was 100% convinced it was myself speaking words I'd never spoken.

I tried playing with a variety of sentences for a few hours and overall, it sounded almost exactly like me, to me, with the exception of some "attitude" and "intonation" I know I wouldn't use in my speech. I didn't notice much of an improvement using much longer clips; the short ones were "good enough".

Tangentially, it really bugs me that most phone providers in the UK insist you record a "personal greeting" now before they'll let you check your voice mail box, I just record silence, because the last thing I want/need is a voicemail greeting in my voice confirming to some randomer I didn't want calling me, who I am and that my number is active, even more so knowing how I can clone any voice to a reasonably good accuracy with just a few seconds of audio.

[0] https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS
[1] https://heywillow.io/
How would this deal with the various moderation / censorship schemes across these networks? Is it basically combining what you would see individually on each website?
> It's currently about equal because conservatives are no longer being deplatformed under pressure from the government.

The federal government did not intentionally or unintentionally target conservatives whenever coercing Twitter to remove content (to the extent that the government did any coercing or pressuring, which was very little if at all) [1][2].

[1] Twitter Admits in Court Filing: Elon Musk Is Simply Wrong About Government Interference At Twitter https://www.techdirt.com/2023/06/05/twitter-admits-in-court-...

[2] Internal Twitter Video Reveals Twitter Bent Over Backwards To Protect Trump And Pro-Trump Insurrectionists https://www.techdirt.com/2023/06/29/internal-twitter-video-r...
What we'll learn first is how schools use the new law as a tool for limiting device access in general and kids spend 8 hours a day reliving Gen-X.
And you think it took Trump, to tell us stupid europeans, where our energy comes from and what side effects there could be?

Well, we stupid europeans rather suspected, that selfless Trump rather wanted to sell some US fracking gas.

Even today many countries buy russian gas, because it is cheap, not because Putin is nice. Just like no one thinks bin Salman is nice, but buy his oil anyway. And to be honest, I don't think Trump is very nice.

But what has anything of this to do with germany being responsible for russias Invasion - because of criticism of its own empire past?

That is the very reason for germans big public support of Ukraine btw. Not liking empires.
If you dont belive colleges cater to the perceived wishes of their sources of money (and I'm not speaking about tuition) then quite frankly, you dont understand how colleges work. There might be a lot of "woke" on colleges at the moment, but like any large organization they are slow to react to the pendulum of popular opinion.

If you are "right wing" and want to go to a trade school because college is not for you then I support that 100%.

However, you cant then complain that colleges are liberal and dont represent you.

You are creating a self fulfilling prophecy then bitching when it comes true.

I also happen to believe that colleges are not overly political nor should they be. Sure, there are some majors that tend to attract liberals but there are others that attract conservatives. It is also the case that young people tend to be more liberal and older people more conservative so one might expect there to be a left wing bent to college.
And in elections, corporations have a vote. Corporation votes vastly outnumber human resident votes.
What bugs me is applying for Haskell/Rust/Scala roles and they make me leetcode in Python which I never use.
This will certainly have at least some positive outcomes. Image boards like 8chan might become more popular with kids. The same goes for smaller forums.
Per instance.
I can get a mini pc for similar price range. I don't think that'd be true in Nepal(more resources than...)
I like leetcode, and I think the practice is defensible. To be fair, I've made a lot of mental loops to get there.

However, I'm also sympathetic to the "leetcode is useless because you don't do it in your day to day" camp.

I used to lean more towards my mental loop side. But nowadays there has been a big question due to a recent job interview I did.

I recently applied to become a data analyst at a F500 company. It seemed fun and the pay was marginally better than what my software engineering career has been (as I'm not from the US).

I remember that when I applied, I didn't even know what a data analyst was. However, they gave me a technical assessment and I aced it.

Zero prep

Completely aced it

They told me that their work sample round was indicative of the job, so if I could do that, then according to them: I could do the job. It took me 4 hours in total.

Of course, there are tech companies that do this. However, I was a bit stunned that this was so easy. To be fair, getting in wasn't easy as I applied to some data analyst positions for fun to other companies and they all mentioned "you have 0 years of experience in this role". So I was lucky in that sense, and I was also lucky that they were willing to look at the person as opposed to treating me as a number.

There have been 2 tech interviews so far that went the same way. With that I mean: 0 prep, just using your skills and you got in based on those skills.

Look, I like leetcode, but after my recent experience I'm just not sure if it's the best way to assess talent. One could make the argument that it's an easier role? But I don't think it is, I find CRUD relatively easy too which has been most of my job. Though, there was this one week where my leetcode skills really helped as the company had a genuine novel leetcode hard style type of question.
No one would ask you to implement bubble sort, or a specific algorithm.

They would ask you to solve a problem
My Librem 14 has a microphon+camera kill switch.

Also, on Qubes OS, everything runs in VMs and you choose explicitly which one has the access to microphone and camera (non by default). Admin VM has no network.
> And if we should ban anything it's drugs and gambling, not tiktok

You realise children can legally do neither, right?

Government should be in the business of improving citizens lives. As another commenter said, left to their own devices companies would still be using leaded paint everywhere if it was 1c cheaper per gallon. I’ve grown very tired of this “any regulation is bad regulation” viewpoint, it doesn’t hold up to the slightest bit of scrutiny.
Casio turns back time with reproduction of 1983 G-Shock that started it all
"AI and Human learn differently."

Obviously. So can the scraping grifters who claim that AI 'learns just like a human' please shut up and never inflict their odious presence on the rest of humanity again? And also pay 10X damages for ruining the Internet.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42264427
You'll need to use a throwaway email to remain anonymous with reddit. They're a public company now it would be a bold assumption to think they don't resell user profile info and or buy data about the user's profile.
> dumb/racist/misogynist voters…

> Democracy only works if voters take it seriously

Do you mean democracy only works when all people vote for options that you think are sensible?

Im afraid you seem to have the wrong end of the stick when it comes to democracy. The whole point of it is that everyone, including people you disagree with, get to have a say. Calling people names like dumb and racist is just a crass result of disagreeing with somebody, and then extrapolating their entire personality based on an opinion.

Democracy works when everyone has the choice to vote, and excercises that choice. If 70% of the population suddenly voted to extradite all people with dark skin to Africa, under the rules of democracy you would need to accept that choice as correct and support it. If you decided to say the result was racist and that it shouldnt be carried out, then you are diagreeing with democracy full stop. In that situation you may as well just have a dictatorship, as what it boils down to is one person thinks everyone else should do what that person thinks is right.

If you feel that people should support and agree with what you think is right you need to do the same to everyone else in the world, including people whose opinion is drastically different from your own. Even if you feel it is wrong.

Calling people names and belittling their peronal opinions and judgements is only further sowing seeds of division and hate.
Every single Australian's ID will have to be verified (in order to confirm their age).

Depending on the degree of cooperation (/coercion) the Australian government has with social media companies, the Aus Govt will be able to access citizen social media data with relative ease. So no more pseudo anonymous accounts (or, at least, they'll be made more difficult, especially for non-technical folk).

Reminds of the 'chilling effect' of measures of bygone decades.

My personal hunch is legacy media is largely driving this, due to them seeing the writing on the wall and knowing 'social media' is their biggest threat. If young people get their information from sites like bluesky, twitter, podcasts and reddit, they may never watch a mainstream news program or read an online newspaper. Bad for business. This measure is a great way of eradicating some competition.
> You're not going up and down the track during an hour record.

Here the English language obscures the physics. Sure, the black line on the track is at a constant elevation. But the tire's point of contact is different from the system's center of mass (CoM). CoM is key here. When a rider tilts in the turns, the CoM lowers. In the straights, it raises. So, you _are_ going up and down during the hour record.

The question now becomes: how much effect does this elevation change have?

It is one thing to be aware of the effect, run the calculations, and find the result is negligible. Has anyone done this? That would be an interesting analysis, and I'd like to see it.

With this in mind, I will make another claim: for a particular rider, there is an ideal line around a velodrome that would minimize center-of-mass elevation change. This line would be faster than the current black line. How much faster? This would be a fun simulation problem.

Another interesting connection: center of mass and bicycling explains why pumping works on a BMX track, a pump track, a trail, and so on. (There are other mainstream explanations, but I think the CoM explanation is the most elegant.)
It does not work for me. For example:

> Access to fetch at 'https://bafykbzacedvzdo4hru3wul5excjthwjuz5ggd6jcs4wg77tg7bk...' (redirected from 'https://w3s.link/ipfs/bafykbzacedvzdo4hru3wul5excjthwjuz5ggd...') from origin 'https://bjesus.github.io' has been blocked by CORS policy: No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. If an opaque response serves your needs, set the request's mode to 'no-cors' to fetch the resource with CORS disabled.
Basic data structures and algorithms knowledge is a base skill that will translate to better success in any software job. Yes you may not be coding graphs in your day job (although you might - I have personally done it before), but someone who can grasp stuff like BFS vs DFS and Dijkstra's algorithm will absolutely be better at the job than someone who comes in and says "idk who cares, I'll just use a library".
I love the idea of declarative infrastructure but I'm never considering a bunch of YAML files as a good practice.

Stuff like k9s / microk8s / k3s are clutches and workarounds and I hope we all see it.

If they figure to use an actual programming language or just start using much smaller amount of files than they currently do then I'd be the first to learn k8s.

Before that, nope.

I love the idea but the implementation makes me want to slit my wrists.
https://exortstore.com/product/gmktec-nucbox-9-mini-pc-cpu-a...

This is the one I am looking into.

Availability in Nepal is a tough call. I can import from India given they're available in amazon.in and aren't too big weight. But that's about it. Yeah, I am going to do VMs hosting. Everything on bare metal, easy to make and break.
> S-expressions are the simplest way to linearize a tree.

S-expressions are one way to linearize a tree.

Now, "simple" can mean different things depending on what you are trying to achieve. RX is simpler than s-expressions if you prefer indentation over brackets, and like the robustness that it brings. Abstraction algebra terms are simpler than s-expressions if you want to actually reason about and with them.
> The Internet - WebChatBroadcasting, ICQ, IRC, etc - was like a gift from the gods in the early 1990s.

I grew up in a wealthy very tech-savvy area, and most kids except the really geeky like me didn't get internet until the mid or late 1990s, so you weren't as "backwards" as you think. You would have still been on the bleeding edge to have internet in the early 1990s.
> Governments should not be in the business of telling tech companies how to design software.

This sounds a lot like "Governments should not be in the business of telling tobacco companies how to design cigarettes." Social media use is a problem for developing brains. I'm not saying I like Australia's plan, but, like the person you're replying to, I like the spirit of it.
What do you think is correct instead?
In the US, it seems to me that active listening is not encouraged, outside of music study. I find it odd that the average person can watch a movie and subsequently analyze it in a basic framework of plot, arc, protagonist and so forth—-yet when it comes to music there is ignorance and a lack of vocabulary.
> Will the last tree be cut?

It's a metaphor (though in many parts of the world it's a simple fact); but yeah, it could be global some day. I wouldn't put it past us. We've lost countless species already.

We've been abysmal to trees. If we were to keep losing forest at our current global rate we'd lose the last tree in 400-800 years (though tbf this is decelerating right now).

New England has more tree cover than 200 years ago - great. Europe too. Is 200 years ago a good reference point though? Isn't that when we chopped like 80% of our forests down for industrialization?

Anyway, so the centers of Empire are green(ish). How's the Amazon doing though? How's South-East Asia? Central Africa?

And our new forests - are they old growth and diverse, or monoculture Sitka spruce? Organic, or doused with glyphosate?

And then there's the climate, which we are fucking up faster than scientists predicted... Can trees adapt in time? ... Would trees survive nuclear holocaust?

I'm not saying Bladerunner was a documentary. But we're on course for catastrophe, no doubt about it; and the relentless pursuit of ever more capital via externalized costs is why.
The averages vary from culture to culture and are different as the gradients change over time, sometimes up and sometimes down.

The important point is that every person has a conscience (however much they choose to ignore its suggestions) and our cultures [we are a sum of many cultures, from the large (country, religion, ethnicity, ...) to the small (neighborhood, school, family, ...)] each exert a force towards vice or towards virtue, for any of the 19 pairs.

We are the only creatures who can self-evolve, but we all have the free will to self-evolve in any direction we choose. This explains how WWII Germany, Japan, and others created their oppressive terror movements.

Compassion is the highest ideal, but its opposite, selfishness, is endemic to our lower, mammalian (and still lower reptilian) processing centers of the brain, and the current direction our planet is moving is due to our worldwide complacence with moral ignorance.
Elm and the Future of Open Source (With Evan Czaplicki) – Developer Voices [video]
Some regulations are good. Like the ones regulating drugs and gambling (that have been largely dismantled).

But we don't need the government to protect people from Facebook!
This is hilarious. Want to use google maps? Sorry, ID please! Users can post comments and reviews all over the world and see ones from everyone else.
I find that the sticky part of a post-it works very well for this. Sometimes you have to clean the adhesive part off with 70% IPA, but not too often.

Not as pretty as a custom cover but cost-effective and can generally be done in under a minute with common office supplies (post-it + scissors) which has its own advantages.
Many people fail fizzbuzz. Most interview questions at big tech are not much harder than fizzbuzz. You are not qualified to be a software engineer if you can't write fizzbuzz after seeing it for the first time in your life.
> I have tried to find good scientific evidence that shows that social media is a net negative for kids and or adults. I have been unable to do so.

> For example, Hacker News is the only social media that I use

Try spending an hour a day on tiktok (average tiktok user screen time) and 30 min a day on instagram (average ig user screen time) for a year and report back. This shit is crack cocaine for kids
"What with all the layoffs across the games industry to compensate for rampant budgetary overspending in publishing, the reality behind keeping retro games within a paid walled garden is about charging new money for old rope — and controlling the market to force gamers to play new games."

Technically, you're not forced. I bought Tears of the Kingdom once and I can play it many, many times, and Nintendo can eat shit if it tries to charge me $70 per playthrough.
Both composing text and reading map closely to thinking.

The physical act of writing , especially with pen, pencil, or quill, involves planning and structuring (both on-page planning and grammatical construction).

For generations of learners to have lost this ability must eventually have a heavy social cost.
This is going to be an interesting experiment to watch.

Because if I know kids, they will find any creative way they can to circumvent the ban.

And even worse is if some actor out there starts catering to kids by publishing "proxy services".

My opinion on this is that it's the same as banning drugs. People want to use them, and will find any way to use them.
Samuel Slater memorized the designs for textile machinery, emigrated to the US, and built the first textile mills in the US.

It might have been smarter for the British to sell their machines to the US, rather than banning exports and thereby encouraging the development of American copycat competitors.
> If you think something you have to do in an interview is “humiliating” when all they’re asking you to do is demonstrate some skill on a whiteboard you have some self-reflection to do.

I don't know about the author, but some places are asking for a coding exam that takes hours or days. The process of application itself can be a long and complex ordeal where they suddenly stop responding, only to find out weeks later only after you chase them that they already had somebody for the part but wasted your time to make it seem like they went through a proper process. Then if you get the job, you move to the area and sign up to a 6-12 month rent agreement when the probation period is 3 months or less where they can dismiss for any reason.

I think more can be done to even up the relationship. The more the employer demands as part of their process for hiring, the more they should provide the person going through these hoops. The risk is really quite unbalanced.

I know excellent engineers essentially stuck where they work because they cannot afford to miss the mortgage payments. Yes they can get interviews all day long, but the risk of jumping to a different ship is immense.
Very interesting anecdote!
I can't find that link on the ar5iv.org page for this paper. Where did you find it? Under "Access Paper", if I click on TeX it downloads a .tar file.
When it becomes an obligation.
Its been going on for so long that its hard to cal it a trend still.
I’m not saying anything about specific services, only that there is a legitimate concern which can’t simply be dismissed without reason.
Maybe read ebooks (epub) with KoReader. Recently I found out that I can build up knowledge instead of wasting my time...
> The £12.50 charge is for old, polluting cars.

It can apply to cars with a £0 VED that were built less than 10 years ago.
Maybe if you tried out of the blue, but if there was a cultural incentive to practice you could probably learn to do it fairly easily.
How do e-readers fit in here?
>Much more effective, IMO, would be to legislate the way social networks behave. Stop their most addictive patterns.

We are less likely to change behavioral pattern after that period though, like we probably won’t see someone start to smoke at 45. It doesn’t mean it’s impossible of course, but past that age it looks like brains are already on track to become old reactionaries and generate complaints about how things used to be better before.
Parents should be more responsible. That's it. This measure is, potentially, deeply ingraining the (terrible) idea that the State is responsible instead, so when all these young kids have children, they, just as their parents, will lack the ability to take responsibility and make their children more responsible by proxy, and so on, and so forth. It's a never ending cycle that is perpetuated by not tackling the problem at its real source. And let's not forget how measures taken in the name of security are oftentimes actually made to deprive us of our privacy.
Same, though mostly I'm mad we had to get here in the first place by Zuckerberg and Co being so awful that this is where we ended up.