skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"If a child is getting their needs adequately met "within the rules," they have no reason to break the rules."

I'm not sure the above quote is true at all. Sometimes your kids want things that you won't give them. You can't keep 100% content kids 100% of the time.

Everything you said sounds reasonable but I think kids can get themselves into bad situations even if they are happy and well adjusted. Sometimes hormones can kick in and make you talk to people that you would never normally talk to.

It's easy to say that kids that are talking to strange adults online have serious issues in other parts of their lives and fixing those issues will fix everything but I think that's a really simplistic way of viewing the world.

I was a very happy and content kid but still got mixed up with things I should not have just because my personality was adventurous and addictive at the time.

I'm not assuming my kids will follow my behaviour but I've seen the overly sexualised content one of her friends posts and all of her friends just thinks shes cool for doing so now she has the popular girl feedback loop. I doubt her parents know. Maybe she's got some other issues and addressing those will fix everything or maybe she hasn't got issues but she's just addicted to it?

Even if she has got other issues, the first sign might be the crap she does on her phone so it's good if her parents see that sooner rather than later.

Maybe you're a great parent but you also had great kids which is only really partially under your control? Not every piece of undesirable behaviour can be easily traced back to an underlying issue that can be fixed. Sometimes it just is.

The reason why I ban her from talking to strangers online is because I don't want her to be groomed while she's emotionally vulnerable. Girls can get hooked on the idea of older boys sometimes, I don't think this means they are unhappy and even if a kid is unhappy in some part of their lives, that's normal and that's ok. Sometimes being unhappy is fine and you need to teach your kids how to deal with that but I'd like to know if she's 'self medicating' by sending naked pics to older boys because more subtle signs of an issue might be hard to detect. It's a busy world with two working parents and large demands placed upon us by her school so it can be easy to miss something.
I can't believe the census bureau thinks Bogalusa is part of the New Orleans metro area. The last anyone here heard about them was either the state taking over their finances or water system or that scandal where some reasonably ranking cop had KKK robes in his barn.
I Started a $1MM/Month Business Selling Custom Socks
One weird aspect of how Subject Oriented Programming worked in The Sims is that the "SimAntics" virtual machine context had both a "me" object (like "this" but more subjective), and also a "stack object" that you were operating on (like "that"). So when you were executing a method of any object (either inanimate objects or other people), you implicitly knew what object the method came from (the "stack object") and which person was interacting with it ("me").

Kind of like JavaScript with "this" and "that", or like the subject and predicate of a sentence.

There was also a sparse "relationship matrix" where you could associate data with pairs of objects and numeric keys, so it could remember that a person had a "slept in" relationship with a bed that increases every time they sleep in it, which affects how much they are attracted to the bed's "sleep in" action advertisement, so after they sleep in one bed a few times, when they become tired, that bed becomes more attractive than the couch and other people's beds, so they learn to sleep in the same bed every night.

Wow cool, do you have a link to Phil Agre's AI LitCrit please?

Have you read Chip Morningstar's "How To Deconstruct Almost Anything: My Postmodern Adventure"? "Academics get paid for being clever, not for being right." -- Donald Norman

http://www.fudco.com/chip/deconstr.html
I did! Transportation only accounted for 22% of the cost of a head of lettuce in my local Walmart, which wasn't really enough margin to justify the cost of the artifical lighting necessary to grow in Canada (even in dense southeastern Ontario). I think right now the most realistic application of these technologies is for premium products that are branded as such, like hot house tomatoes or living plants that can command 2-5x the standard barebones import price. Do you have different data?
Uh, 'latinos' (a lot of people in this area prefer hispanic or tejano) make up the vast majority of the population in the RGV so, presumably quite a few.
It's important.

After more than three decades in corporate life, I have "dropped out," and I'm working on doing stuff that makes me feel good.

Being happy is a lot more important to me than toys; but I have a company that provides the kinds of toys I like to play with, anyway.

I've been focusing on re-establishing my working engineering cred; mostly by creating a pretty vast portfolio of new, relevant projects. It will be the kind of thing that you won't be able to ignore.

Which will be quite important, as my gray hair causes an almost instant "write off" response.

The last couple of years have also given me great opportunity to reinvest in my own self-development.

I'm not really big on the "unplug yourself" advice. My GH ID is an almost solid green. I've been doing seven-day workweeks for a couple of years, and actually enjoying myself (and not making a dime).

Sooner or later, I'll have to slow down the hamster wheel, but I'm not there, yet. If I expect people to pay me real money for real work; I need to make sure the product (myself) is tip-top shape.

If I do that, then everything else kinda falls into place.
Request to HN: identify paywalled submissions, please
How fantastic it would be for us HN fans if you would visually distinguish submissions that are shielded by a paywall.
Am I better off having my decrypted traffic in a VPN provider's network or in Comcast's network, given the amount of trust that I have for Comcast is not very impressive?
The biggest thing about history is that we know how it ends. Nothing really captures the uncertainty of the moment. By 2000 everyone knew there was going to be a big correction. Few accurately imagined how big. It was like going to the doctors because you knew something was 'a little off' and finding out that you were going to die in three months. Then talking to all your friends and realizing that everyone you knew had the same disease.

Initially many thought it would be similar to the early 90s recession. I.E. A few layoffs with everyone getting hired back again two years later. It wasn't until 2002 that people realized that springtime wasn't coming back.

It wasn't just places like pets.com that crashed. You had every single non-tech company simultaneously scaling back IT initiatives. At the time there was still a large cohort of management types who considered the Internet more of a fad than a new paradigm. These types took full advantage of the shifting winds to cut deeply into anything tech related. This broad overcorrection did a massive amount of damage to the industry. It's not just that your project was dead, but no one would even be there to bury it.

The impact crater was still visible years later. Remember the big talent shortages during 2008-2012? That's because you no longer had a cohort of mid career professionals to draw from. Only the thin number of people who survived the collapse and a bunch of novices who were just getting started. Everyone was missing that valuable group of mid career 8-12 years of experience etc... Basically a generation of careers strangled. Which is why you'll often see no sympathy for the 'talent shortage' complaint. Five years after cutting everything and leaving people to starve you have the same cohort of managers demanding to know "where are all the people with five years of recent experience, and why don't they work for peanuts like they used to?"

The silver lining is that the bubble bursting shook off the con-artists and pretenders. The dotcom boom was driven mostly by piles of dumb money chasing anyone who could spell the word 'software'. There was a very specific feeling of dilution during the run up. Dealing with companies and teams that contained no competence of any kind. Just lots of people with grand plans. Remember that this was 5+ years before the 'fizz buzz' test became a thing.

During the boom, being a skilled professional felt like you were a hunted animal rather than a valued team member. Everyone had to get in on this 'internet thing' and they would desperately try to latch on. Imagine working in a company of 500, and only two or three actual programmers. Everyone else has 40hrs a week to hassle you for help with whatever their project is while kissing up to management. Think of a tech conference that is entirely shiny salesmen, business types and politics. Tons of fancy titles with no ability to execute. An impenetrable crowd of people trying to suck up time and gain influence. Those types disappeared first.
VPN is just fine if you want to avoid dragnet surveillance, though choose a less popular one. If you are actually the target of a nation-state level adversary then yeah install Tails and use Tor but know that you're probably fucked.
firefox (and lockwise) are very much on iOS and very well integrated with the system.
I can only post 4 comments every two or so hours, effectively prohibiting me from most of the fast-paced front page discussion and overall prohibiting me from engaging.

Why? Because I likened whale poaching to genocide [0]. I didn't even believe I was sharing a controversial opinion, because apparently that is starting a flame war and I've been warned for it before after asking a relatively simple (and apparently naive) question about black holes and getting engaged by a vitriolic and hateful user who kept flagging me while simultaneously calling me names and hurling insults.

But here I am, because Reddit is garbage, 4chan has melted, and niche forums are dying and the bulk of communication is no longer taking place within them. And there are so many amazing and talented people to draw inspiration from on HN.

In my town's local subreddit, I am similarly severely limited to a few posts every couple of hours, because I voiced the opinion in what is apparently a majority conservative subreddit that someone was making racist, unempathetic comments regarding black people and pitbulls.

I'm considering going back to a bunch of email lists...

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20326029
Most likely they are not the copyright holders so there's nothing to approve. Why so obsessed about random k pop pictures?
https://openstax.org/subjects/math are pretty good.

Start with the Pre-Algebra book, then Algebra and Trigonometry, and then Calculus volumes, the first two volumes are more than enough for SICP.

This can take you two years depending on your time.
After realizing that even as a moderately competent junior-mid-level developer my fitness for interview problems drops drastically as soon as I'm employed.

Studying algorithms reminds me of my most hated classes in college, mostly because my professor had no interest in teaching and was really only there for his research...

However, I still have no clue how to keep my interview-foo top notch while not freaking out about trying to get a job as well. I still can't believe friends of mine can line up 5-7 interviews in the course of a week and then get offers from 60% of them on their first try.
Flawed Design, Lax Oversight Led to ‘Astounding’ Miami Bridge Collapse
I think that while people wouldnt be surprised that

i -= -1

works, formatted as

i-=-1

it's unclear what each - is doing, likely someone did it because it looks nice and symmetrical, as opposed to

i+=1
There’s a good chance Beijing already has your face on file
A terrible summary of why VPNs are useful. Goes on and on about privacy with no mention of bypassing censorship. It must be nice living in a place where you don't have to worry about access.

There's no point in privacy without access.
Just because it’s ‘not-for-profit’ does not mean the employees can live on air. That would definitely be nice, but in practice they still need to be paid a salary.

But all of the profits go right back into the company (e.g. no profit for the founders), which is a powerful thing.
I can believe significant price improvements to come for solar, fission, and fusion since their fuel costs are zero or tiny. What new hydrocarbon sources could be 10x cheaper than coal or natural gas?
Could you overwrite the existing data?
Google and Facebook Are Reading Your License Plates
Yeah, I hate extreme opinions that say not to do something just because it's not 100% effective. It's like saying don't bother using a lock because all locks can be picked and cut anyway.
That’s reasonable advice, but it’s hard to pay the bills when you are off getting Zen on yourself.
Microsoft design new security requirements to protect against firmware attacks
It's kind of crazy that almost everything is seen as offensive these days. These girls will be fine I promise.
How is UiPath different than open source tools like Selenium?
Congratulations on the release. I like the direction that they're going and it feels like the only thing that it is missing to be able to replace the backend on a LOT of sites is being able to add some type of custom fields (simple key values) to posts. That combined with the subscription/membership they've added here would be an very powerful platform for many uses.
Oh of course, and to be quite honest, I really hope you folks can succeed in your mission. But, I still found that at least locally (in southern Ontario), the unit costs of importing from California still make sense compared to growing locally because of the cost of artificial lighting and the difficulties growing year round. The big greenhouse operations locally grow a premium product that can command a much higher price in order to justify the capex compared to field agriculture or just importing. I assume that premium price would have to go up even more to justify a big investment in automation, right? That's why I was asking if expensive robotics are viable now vs reliant on some change in the market dynamics.
And the headline directly above this as I post is:

65.
Trains reach record speed in Beijing-Zhangjiakou test run (chinadaily.com.cn)
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The U.S. just won't invest in infrastructure.
This. Kids are smart and the amount of ways to troll these 'ai' and 'smart systems' are endless. Hell, make a script that just searches endlessly controversial topics, and boom all that data is worthless. For every company trying to spy on these kids, theres a student who understands how these systems work and we all know how creative and open-minded younger people are.
Is this the cache poisoning ddos posted earlier?
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As I get older I tend to agree with this more and more. Find something bigger than yourself. This could be your family, your company, your idea. Work on that. Build something significant, something you can be proud of. It will give your life more meaning than attempts to find out who you are.
Think we could crowd source the outage reports? I'll build the dashboard if there's interest
Capital One uses email tracking to 'verify' your email address. I get a yearly email from them saying I've not read any of their email but I disable downloading images. These technical hacks for business purposes are lousy.
Let's not summarize too much.

The crux of the issue is that the law changed to require that artificial insemination be available only to straight couples.
At $1400/ea. you should really look at how luxury furniture and hone goods are sold. This is not a comment on price or quality. Just an observation from someone with marketing/sales experience.
Youtube uses the Media Source Extensions API, which means that JS is responsible for fetching compressed video data and feeding it into the decoder, so it can implement adaptive streaming. Pause JS for more than a few seconds and the video will stop playing.
How to Get Online Illegally in Cuba
Similar story in the US: https://www.pri.org/stories/2019-05-22/classic-tale-human-gr...
That was the most amusing part of the article. They sent Smelvetica a takedown notice and were satisfied by a quick "git rm <files>". You can still get at the target of the takedown notice through the web interface; https://github.com/tholman/smelvetica/blob/7186794b56c365e6f...
Thanks.

I'll check in with next year's model. MBP is still dead to me.
I think that to a point this is caused by the attitude in OP’s own comments. While it would be nice if it was possible to completely ignore it, I don’t think that’s realistically possible.
Searches about suicide/murder-related topics could lead to life-saving interventions. One sympathizes with families that didn't or couldn't read the warning signs, and understands why they'd whole-heartedly support monitoring.

The other side is that children learn there is an intense adult response to certain topics. That may lead to excessive interest in that topic. Or ever more secretive behavior. Or an inability to challenge authority.

On one side of the balance is maybe a student's life. On the other is more students' mental health and autonomy. Life usually wins, but only history can judge whether that's wise.
I worked for lawyers that did a lot of contract law. It can vary from state to state (in the U.S.) but the state I worked in a verbal agreement -- not even written down -- is legally binding. Proving a non-written agreement can be hard in court but that is a different issue.
I don’t know how many people will care if a company is based in NYC vs SF/valley. It still feels in general like a SV thing if thinking of SV as its ideas and echo chamber vs just region.
Elizabeth Holmes should have doubled down!
> centralize control of entire industries for no reason other than - they got to it first.

But those big companies didn’t get there first.

History is littered with companies that were too big to beat. The secret is obvious but difficult: find a better way and people that agree it’s a better way. Look at Cirrus Aircraft for a relatively recent example — they tackled an ultra regulated, expensive business and are now the best selling GA airplane
Yes. All year. And thank you for asking. :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20746802

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20601806

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20434897

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18564989

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18565101
Tell me again how modern capitalism is a good thing.....?
You'd probably see a lot of things packaged in paper, metal (foils, cans), and/or glass. So the follow-up question here would be "how do we sustainably produce paper/metal/glass packaging?", its own follow-up in turn being "how do we sustainably produce paper/metal/glass anything?".

Paper can be answered with some alternative pulp sources, e.g. bamboo and sugarcane. Recycling of existing paper products, as well as an emphasis on tree farms and wildfire prevention, also help here.

Metal and glass can be answered with recycling. Aluminum is pretty common for consumer packaging, and both aluminum and glass are pretty favorable to recycling (at a fraction of the energy cost of mining and smelting new materials).
Which board supported by Coreboot do you recommend?
Hello,

Looking for a regular intel board compatible by Coreboot which ones do you recommend?

what are the best places to purchase boards compatible with Coreboot?
Since you bring it up, mental health companies are springing up left and right. I work at a mental health startup myself. My interest in understanding and working on my own mental health led me to apply to this place. I think there are a lot of people attempting to create products to help us do what you are suggesting. Meditation, mindfulness and therapy seem to be the solutions that everyone is throwing up.
Think bigger. Instead of blocking ads, create a system where ads don’t need to be blocked.
I'm relatively new to recent desktop Linux, having been on macs for past decade or so. As Gnome is my distro's default, I've stayed with it for simplicity and am having a hard time finding what so many people dislike about it. As you write, it's very keyboard-navigable. It's quick on my (fastish) laptop. It's kind of spartan & minimalistic compared to macOS & Windows 10, which seems like a good thing.

I can see the appeal of i3 etc, but if all you want is a relatively mainstream DE that works & stays out of the way, Gnome seems about right to me.
Would love to know more. How is RPA different than Selenium?
There are 4 places where you use lifetimes. It's really not hard syntax-wise.

I teach Rust workshops and I find that novice users struggle with this, because they think of references as pointers, so they use them in places where they don't make sense (e.g. in owned structs or returned from constructors), and then desperately try every possible lifetime syntax to force through an impossible borrow.

In practice, once you "get" ownership, it's rare to use any lifetime syntax at all! In a codebase I have open right now (which is in production in 194 datecenters) only 3% of uses of references have a lifetime annotation, and it's just `<'a>` and `&'a`, nothing more complex.
Perhaps we're running into a usage mismatch about how we understand the same word. That often gets affected by cultural differences too.

Just please avoid flamebait and flamewars on HN and especially ideological battle. Those things are not what HN is for, and they destroy what it is for, so we have to be proactive about them.
Let's talk about a 12 year old then.

Old enough to use technology well, but young enough to require oversight of some manner.
And likewise, it's hard (though I guess not impossible) to achieve that Zen when you can't afford food or shelter. Maslow's hierarchy of needs and all that.
What's your e-mail? pinging you.
I'm not judging the solution, just the logic that skipped from "Omniviolence" to the absurd proposal for an AI-based government authority. The two are quite unrelated in my mind.

For example, the article made no serious mention of counter-measures such as string (which can down a drone), detection (RF directional antennae), or even just "plant more trees" (as trees make drone navigation more complicated - I know from personal experience).

Just broadcasting random RF/VHF/UHF noise (there are only so many channels available) at drones can wreak havoc.

Quite seriously, do a web search for "can you spot the source of a drone controller", and you will find a wealth of information from RF source detection, to the GPS coordinates of the controller (so the drone can "return home") - there a TON of alternatives that any "scholar" should research before even hinting at a doom-and-gloom alternative such as AI-based government.
Firefox can and does aggressively throttle JS in background tabs. However, it's not easy to do this in a way that doesn't break sites. Sometimes background tabs have JS doing actually useful work --- playing audio, running a simulation, receiving notifications, stuff like that.

I don't know what Safari is doing differently to Firefox, and no doubt Firefox can improve here, but when people say "it's easy, just completely stop running JS in background tabs" they have no idea what tradeoffs that entails. (Just as when people said "browsers should just refuse to autoplay videos" had no idea what they were talking about.)
Also reminded me of CERN - Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire, despite it now being the Organisation Européenne pour la Recherche Nucléaire/European Organization for Nuclear Research.