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Why would an 11 year old be on the internet at all?

Homework, from a surprisingly young age, often expects and requires internet use. Personally I would have preferred a reasonable mix of all sources, including using a library, and when and why to choose - the internet often lacks depth, or is wrong, and kids often go through a stage of "it's on the internet, it must be true". I'm not convinced they all get past that, as if they do it's self-learnt. Adults too.

Guided use is for younger than 11 as they'll use the net in class and for homework, as well as socially well before high school these days. You'd better have tried to give them the tools and skills to try and judge, be suspicious etc before then. Considering most people really aren't that tech aware, how is a non-tech parent meant to judge when is the right moment? My peer group isn't even slightly representative as there was a heavy presence of router rules, firewalls, non-admin access and so on. None of which is there the moment they hook up to coffee shop or friend's wifi. So, just like walking to school, best you can do is give them the nudges to fend for themselves, and hopefully know when to yell for help or advice from parent or teacher. (Teach would probably be non techie, and not much use either).

Then you have peer pressure. It's hard to resist too early smartphone or social media use when your kid is the last in class without, and it's their main form of contact. They don't call round houses or phone like we did in my, pre-internet schooldays. Facebook et al say you shouldn't have an account before 13, but there is precisely no enforcement of that. So what to do? As you say children can be quite cruel, often especially to those who don't conform. We judged the right moment was around 12-13 - high school is when kids get properly cruel. We were amongst the last of the very late adopters as far as we can tell...

Critical thinking is one thing that is markedly absent in education, it's far more checking the boxes of giving them a tech education, and schools using "modern stuff", like those mostly pointless interactive whiteboards all the schools got at great expense. No evidence of teaching them to think, to judge, to differentiate between ads and SERPs, or which SERPs might be potentially trustworthy, how to judge a source's credibility, etc, etc. Course critical thinking might have some of them questioning the system... :)
> At what point would they exhaust their bruteforce capability or decide that they've probably got the wrong pattern and go for another one?

Go in increasing order of difficulty. Or estimated rarity based off of password dumps.

Something like: One character, two characters, one word, one word plus a character, one character plus a word, one modified word, three characters, etc.

"word" being a list of most common words in the united states, or something. Like you said, using many languages screws up dictionary attacks. But most passwords don't do that.

> I hope the next pattern they choose isn't one to four random English dictionary words followed by the number of letters in the resulting phrase, expressed in binary using X for 1 and Y for 0!

That would just be "four words plus five random characters".
This is a nice essay. While he's right I only notice the bad parent situations probably, I've seen numerous instances of incorrigible kids had by otherwise successful parents with drug addiction and mental health issues that have almost no relationship to their parents and are in and out of institutions including prison into adulthood. The parents haven't experienced much joy or pride around their kid in a long time. If everything works out fine then it's probably lots of joy like Paul says. My family history seems to suggest to me I'd be in for a long hard road, I'm not willing to subject myself or offspring to that kind of suffering.
Parphrasing Brian Tracy [0] all people (and kids) are - lazy, greedy, ambitious, selfish, ignorant and vain - this is just a human nature. We're not bad because we feel those - because everybody does - what makes a difference is how we react/what habits we develop around those feelings that counts.

[0] Six basic character (...) - Psychology of Achievement - Brian Tracy
would it really be cheating? I mean if you get a competitive edge by utilizing complex logic, would it be fair ?
While I get the sentiment, I'd suggest many aren't built this way. Feelers are, and find value in the "feeling" of feeling needed, providing, caretaking. There are groups (of which I am one) who find literally no personal value in that. Childrearing is a series of rote tasks, performed repeatedly, that are performed on billions of humans raised.

If anything, childrearing made me suic-idal for years at the mind-numbing, repetitive, 'useful only to 1' tasks, and made me solely aware of the inefficiency of raising humans. My kids are 6 and 9 now, and things became much better when they're able to take care of themselves.
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reminds me of a story in “the man who mistook his wife for a hat” by Oliver Sacks, an amazing collection of harrowing psychological tales, where one of his patients–a computer programmer!–has a dream where she can no longer control her limbs, and when she wakes it has somehow come true.

https://www.litcharts.com/lit/the-man-who-mistook-his-wife-f...
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Given the context of 'code golf' I don't mind the submitted solution being 'close enough', it even seems like the programmer in question was precise in their wording (if they were quoted properly).

Overall the thought of a pinned register being software updated once every 7 seconds for near a thousand years is the worst part.

I stand corrected; I'm so used to seeing these unrolled (which hopefully the hypothetical compiler's done) that I didn't consider the stack implications; that's the most cringy part.
It seems crazy that the school allows that. This is sort of what I mean though, society in general doesn't recognise the danger. No school would just allow strangers into the school to chat with the kids during their free time, or get some flat earth loon in to speak with them, but quite happily expose them to YouTube without supervision.
Right, see e.g. https://variety.com/2019/film/festivals/caught-in-the-net-ji...
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> I've never met a full time homemaker who thinks she's getting a raw deal.

For an extreme example, consider a battered spouse who is afraid to leave because they have no financial independence. Even with alimony and such, the stay-at-home spouse takes on a lot of risk.

However, two working parents with young kids is a very difficult endeavor, so I can definitely see the appeal of one parent having time and flexibility!
There is a major conflation of wildly different issues in this thread. Downloading child pornography is not cybersex, and neither one is kidnapping/molestation.

I suspect the conflation occurrs because most people don't want to bear thinking about specifics, and stop at "abuse". This is understandable, but distinctions are important when analyzing any problem. For example, the idea that grabbing the perps from the story means there are fewer kidnappers is highly wishful thinking.

Details are necessary to develop appropriate solutions. The behavior in the article is something that legal enforcement likely cannot curb, like "speeding" 10mph over. The perps are certainly problematic and guilty of something, but their quantity/fan-in is too great at Internet scale. The only solution I can see working is curated whitelist-only environments, the same way you drop kids off at a purpose-tailored daycare rather than a downtown alley or a prison.

Details are also important for making sure that the "kid-safe" solutions are appropriately targeted so they don't end up leaking to wider society. Anonymity in general is important for a whole host of marginalized peoples, and there are many interests that wish to erode it for their own nefarious ends.
I'm clueless as well but here is the best thing I could find: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasy_football_(gridiron)

To me this sounds a lot like FIFA (the game by EA), which I'm clueless about as well.
Would you please stop posting flamebait here? We've already had to ask you this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Calm yourself. I put it in quotes for a reason. That's a completely different animal than cold-messaging kids on Instagram.
Honestly you should be worried about all platforms. This article applies to abuse on Instagram but this is not the only problem and not single platform. If it comes to Instagram IT was the first place where i noticed how dangerous social media can be. It was not so popular like now and it was not "as safe" as now. Some years ago i have seen a lots of posts with photos of people cutting hands. It was extremly disturbing. My advice is to educate and keep away children from social media as much as possible. This is a tip of an iceberg how it can destroy young lives
> they won’t be competitive for their wealthier customers

Sure they will. You don't charge too much so that the customer will start feeling that its worth their time to look for alternative offers. That upper limit it usually higher the wealthier (or "spending happy") the customer is. So it totally makes sense to establish that limit individually per costomer.
Reference counting is not better, it's a poor man's GC. Reference counting means: 1) instruction pollution from all the refcount updates and their synchronization 2) circular references, ie memory leaks 3) too much time spent freeing memory (whereas a generational GC spends time on live objects only) 4) memory fragmentation and hence slow allocation (whereas in a normal GC allocation is just O(1)
Maybe you're right, I might be too sensitive on this matter. Thank you for your thoughts.
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If I had started younger, I would've tried for 4 kids instead of 2. I was 33 and 36 at my childrens' births. I would definitely do it younger if I had it to do over because now I want as much time with them as possible and would like time with grandkids. That said, we are fairly comfortable financially, and if that would necessarily not have been the case if I'd started younger, then it's really hard to say whether I would chose that in retrospect.

That said, I'm not sure having kids has to be so bad for your career. Nothing focuses a person more than needed to keep work time-boxed in order to leave time for family. Perhaps the totally self-motivated types would suffer, but for me and other parents I've known, it can sort of add a level of maturity and focus that can actually help a career.
It seems just like Aurora then. The code is MySql/Aurora with AWS’s own storage layer.
> without showing evidence of what it is that they are supposedly fighting -

I don't understand what you're asking them to do. We know what the images contain, because the images are described in evidence put before the courts. We know what the images contain, because survivors of abuse tell us what their photographs are like.

Start with things like the UK's Sentencing Council's definitive guidance page 76: https://www.sentencingcouncil.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Sexu...

They've handily split the crimes into a matrix: possession, distribution, and production; and category A, B, and C.

Or you can have a look at the "Copine Scale", which has 5 levels and is more descriptive: https://consult.justice.gov.uk/sentencing-council/indecent-i...

The image levels used are:

level one – images depicting erotic posing with no sexual activity;

level two – non-penetrative sexual activity between children, or solo masturbation by a child;

level three – non-penetrative sexual activity between adults and children;

level four – penetrative sexual activity involving a child or children or both children and adults; and

level five – sadism or penetration of, or by, an animal

More information on the Copine Scale is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COPINE_scale
Similarly, the price of a venue or a band or a caterer is at least double if it's for a wedding.
They're close cousins, corvids too.
Result: massive increase in illegal dumping.
If the point is to protect society, why are they ever let out of jail?
Why do you assume they're not earning trust? The article says: All three apprentices were placed on the test-automation team, which writes tests to ensure the quality of other engineers’ code, precisely because it’s insulated from customer data. The people doing the hiring are aware of the issue, as anyone in their position would be. It is obvious.

Would you mind re-reading the site guidelines and noting this one?

"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
For sure, no worries. I'm dyslexic and guarantee you I've made worse mistakes for various reasons. : )
The kids are your project right now, it pays off
Minecraft was hugely successful early on specifically because it didn't have to explain itself -- you had to do your research to figure out the game. And when you died you sometimes lost everything.

I guess they needed to add tutorials to better accomodate the wave of younger people who picked up the game in the mid 10's, but I actually appreciate Notch's decisions (or series of happy accidents that culminated in a highly addictive game).
I have two kids (6 and 3) and if I had to do it all again I would not. I miss my old life. Not that it was anything special but the things we take for granted like grabbing a quick bite to eat at a diner or going to the bathroom becomes a chore. I realize it gets better but damn, years of tending to the kids flew by and I can't for the life of me recall what I did for fun.

my problem has been that I'm an overachiever and I've been career oriented for the most part of my life. I know there's a saying where folks on their deathbed would never say "I wish I could work another hour," but I don't know anything else besides work. I definitely need a hobby and I feel bad at times when I resent my kids because I can't do what I was able to do before.
It would likely lead to people working harder to find better prices.

I moved into a nice house that was about to be foreclosed a couple of years back and after moving in, we had to get some of the same things done that we’d had at our previous home. The quotes were usually 2-3x higher for the exact same job.
> POSIX should probably be replaced when the time is right.

Everyone loves to bash POSIX. The idea of replacing it lingers on, but has anyone considered the idea of updating POSIX to remove the gnarly parts? This is a somewhat incompatible change and would have to be versioned appropriately.
> This is one of the most interesting articles I've read this year

Just in case you missed it, have you read this?

https://story.californiasunday.com/resnick-a-kingdom-from-du...
>In other words, you’re making a circular argument: since you’re defining “biologically programmed behavior” as “having children”

No, I am pointing out a contradictory argument, which was PG's "X is not X (because some Y)." Well, no, X is X, because that's how reasonable people define identities.

His original quote:

>But it is not, as I implicitly believed before having kids, simply your DNA heading for the lifeboats.

How I read it:

>[Having kids] is not...simply your [biological programming to reproduce].

That is obviously wrong to me, and the clearest way to point that out is to show that "biological programming to reproduce" is the definition of having kids.

>You’re also missing my point. The only reason you have any desires or goals or ambitions in the first place is because, at least heuristically, they serve some sort of self-replicating purpose.

I'm not missing that point, I agree with that point. I just don't see the relevance to my original argument.
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Here's a funny idea. How much is children's psychological damage from exposure to sexual ideas and images innate, and how much is cultural? Taboos about body parts don't seem to be entirely universal. I wonder if we could solve all child sexual abuse "simply" by treating sex as being as natural and harmless as eating food, which is also a very intimate and vulnerable activity that people have strong desires for. Are humans really wired to emotionally self-destruct as a result of experiencing the wrong kind of sexual behavior, or do we do it because of societal pressure?

The revulsion that people experiencing true homophobia have towards gays looks a lot like the revulsion many people here are expressing about pedophilia. The justifications are a little different, but the emotions look similar. It's nothing like the feelings people have towards objectively worse things like death. They talk about car accidents, disease, and even murder without that sense of disgust.
The first time I was catcalled I was six. My friend and I were playing dress up and we put on very messy red lipstick and blush. She left to have lunch and home and we agreed to meet after lunch on the corner of street, her house was next-door to mine. I guess I didn't wash off all of the makeup, but a group of grown men shouted and whistled at me then quickly drove away. At 11 I went on short runs close to home, I was whistled at most days. When I turned 15 and took the bus to work at a nearby mall, I was often asked if I needed a ride by older men, and often had to brush off comments or offers by older men, twice they had sat next to me on the bus blocking my way out, I had to tell the bus driver and stand up on my seat to climb to the seat behind me. When I first went on the internet I tried asking people about about majoring in Physics and what their work was like, I was in high school and if they found out I was a girl they would usually try to convince me to date them, send a dick pic. I even had an offer from a 60 year old to fly me out to live with them. I think men have no idea that girls and women experience this.
It's poor competition. In cities where there is a free taxi market Uber is just like every other taxi company (so every taxi company has apps for booking, has nice cars, has pre-payment etc).
In cities with medallion systems or other artificial monopolies, you aren't going to get that.
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It's a lot easier to buy a moose outfit than fly to 5 Canadian cities! That said, I would have enjoyed less cliched Candianism like "Toronto young professionals discuss which condo they are saving up for" and "Ottawan mother from English-speaking family looks on in despair as five-year-old daughter refuses to practice French, forever dooming her to provincial political office".
The more targeted the discrimination, the worse it feels. They're targeting your ability to pay, but also your weaknesses. Imagine highly accurate, pervasive, and real-time user profiling (and sharing of information among big companies), and it's not hard to imagine, in the case of Uber, being charged more the day after your paycheck clears, more if they know your specific flight arrived late, more if they know the car rental companies at the airport have low inventory, more if your selected destination is the hotel at which they know you have a reservation, only being presented with "black car" options if they know you have an upcoming business meeting, etc.
That’s an oversimplification. Uber’s primary innovations were social. They convinced riders that it was safe to jump into a stranger’s car, and drivers that it was safe to run an illegal taxi business. They managed to do both of these things effectively in large enough volumes to change how people think about taxis. Both of these things seem boring and normal now, but they were radical a decade ago.
I love your enthusiasm so you got my upvote :) With that said, it's hard for me to see why some people are so bullish on VR/AR productivity. The headset seems heavy, taking it off-and-on is cumbersome, AR fidelity seems like it leaves a lot to be desired, etc.

My sister has a VR headset, and so does my cousin. I think it's a cool toy, but I'm not really sold... maybe you can convert me. After all, Christmas is just around the corner.
Fantasy sports is when you pick a fake roster of players, subject to certain rules. You get points based on how well your chosen players do. Carlsen is the best in the world at this. And at chess.
"Cobalt, lots of it. Most of it comes from the Congo, mined by 40,000 child laborers, which compassionate Minnesotans refer to as child slave labor."

The author forgot to mention, that cobalt plays a vital role in catalysing the removal of sulphur from oil, so not only 'green' energy relies on cobalt mining.
This isn't all exploitative. I used to work trades and we regularly found the richer clients to be absolute PITA's about super minor details. They were the first ones to threaten not to pay unless we redid a big thing and also wouldn't offer to compensate for any phase of that.
It would be possible to do that, but it's not really what was asked.

The way you'd train a neural network with that footage is comparing the recording of the neural network playing the game to the recording of the speedrunner, and scoring it based on the difference in the footage.

However it wouldn't really be learning "from scratch" and "end-to-end" anymore, since you're essentially teaching it to imitate and play like a human player. Also your network would likely be just blindly executing a series of learned actions, without any real understanding of the game. If you confronted it from some situation that's not part of some speedrun it memorized, it would probably be at a loss. Pretty useless.
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Yes, programming it as a state machine is straightforward and there's already mods that do this.

I was working on something that would automate MC a while back, too, and I programmed it as a state machine that would loop through various tasks, which consist of subtasks. When you have a goal (like gathering diamonds), that's just a list of tasks -- and then each subtask consists of a list of tasks too, until you break it down to the "point at block", "walk to block", "swing hammer" level, etc.

It was fun but I am pathologically bad at finishing projects that I start.
I'm having trouble articulating my thoughts about this. Here we have 2 companies losing many hundreds of millions of dollars per month, and everyone here is losing their minds that they want to raise their prices. Price discrimination is just the market side of progressive taxation: everyone agrees that the rich should pay more, but not when it comes to cab fares? If you don't like the price, don't pay it: Uber v. Lyft is a false dichotomy anyway and ignores all the other cabbies in the market.