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I don’t think one size fits all here. I have two kids in this age range and they respond to different approaches.

My daughter is very creative and loves to spin up ideas and stories. When she asks me a question about the universe, I throw it back at her.

“Daddy, why do flies have such thin wings? Why don’t they break?”

“Well, what do YOU think?”

She’ll then invent some explanations, we’ll have fun questioning them, and eventually look up some real answers.

My son is much more execution-minded. He usually asks questions because he wants to understand how to build something. With Legos. In Minecraft. Whatever. He’s less interested in creative word play and more interested in creative building. Sometimes I can use the same tricks as with my daughter. “How do you think it works?” With him, I can often reframe the question and make him grapple with his goal at a higher level.

“Sure, here’s how a gear box works. But what do you really want to accomplish here? Is there a better way to do this?”

I haven’t read any books, this just seems to work for us. In either case, it’s critical to encourage kids to ask questions, and to teach them how to ask effective questions.
This comment section looks like a guerrilla marketing campaign for various language-learning web apps.
"Apple of X" categorization is very apt, but I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with trying to occupy that part of the market. I also consider Nespresso and Dyson to also be in that category, for example. It's obviously not everyone, and far from being the best value you can get, but I'm glad they exist.
Can't try it - it shows a red triangle with ! in it and a Retry button which does nothing.
I disagree. There are times when either no open-source solution is available, or the open-source solution is unmaintained, or not popular (thus not under much scrutiny) and you don't have the resources (time and skill) to audit it yourself.

As long as the incentives of the developer of the security scheme and the end-user are aligned (so no backdoors), I would trust a widespread, proprietary solution which appears to stand up to significant attacks (the solution being widespread means there are lots of efforts underway to crack it) more than an open-source implementation that nobody uses.
You might want to check out the more poetically-sensible Seneca, who was born a little after his fellow Roman, Cicero, and wasn't particularly fond of him. Seneca too addresses the "growing old" topic quite often and incessantly in his (124 excellent) letters and other essays. Allow me to quote from his Letter 12 ("Visiting a childhood home"):

[quote]

"... Let us embrace old age and love it. It is full of pleasure if you know what use to make of it. Fruit is sweetest just before it spoils, boyhood most attractive as it is departing; when one is devoted to wine, it is the last drink that brings the most pleasure—the one that puts you under, giving the final push to inebriation. Every pleasure saves its greatest delights for its last moments. The most pleasurable time of life is on the downhill side, but before the drop-off . Even the time that stands at the very brink has its own pleasures, I believe. Or if not, then it has this instead: one no longer feels the need of any. How sweet it is to have worn out one’s desires and left them behind! ..."

<Skip the funny anecdote of a certain "Pacuvius, who used to hold funeral ceremonies for himself, with wine and the ritual meal" for brevity's sake.>

"The happiest person, the most untroubled possessor of himself, is the one who awaits the morrow without anxiety. Anyone who has said, “I have done living” rises profitably each morning, having gained one day."

[/quote]

Some more quotes from Seneca's letters here[+]. His Letter 26 is entirely about growing old.

PS: The English translation used to quote the above bits: Letters on Ethics [University of Chicago Press]

[+] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24400629
They wouldn’t be as successful, but maybe that is just a transient stage. It’s possible that as people come to experience and understand how painful they are, there may be more willingness to pay for alternatives.
If they add the ability to dump the cache to a local or network drive, I'm sold.
Japan's relaxing entry ban but not for tourists
> "Corporations may be people to you"

I never said this. What does this have to do with anything?

> "If an employee says a thing you don't agree with, for you it is a political statement and you shut it as such."

No. Disagreement on something doesn't not mean that it's political. Most reasonable people can easily figure out the difference: Talking about weather or our tech stack is not political. Talking about immigration policy is. So we discuss the former without the latter, just like millions of other people in many companies. It's not difficult.

> "If you make a political statement"

I don't. That's what no political discussion means and it applies to everyone. Why do you assume people can't follow their own rules?

Overall, if you don't like the rules of the workplace then leave. That's the whole point of this policy and exit package. You're not entitled to stay and discuss whatever you want, and thinking that you can is a very privileged expectation.
First, find something that excites them. If it doesn't excite them, they won't engage with it and they won't take any lessons from it.

Physical learning seems to be important. Legos, science experiments, flying kites, etc., are all great ways for kids to learn about things in a concrete way. One science experiment I did with my oldest daughter was a "Will it sink or float?" experiment that is easy to do - just get a tub of water and random house hold items (coins; cereal; piece of bread; piece of paper; etc.).

Reading to them, and stopping to ask them questions about the book. What's happening on this page? How do you think that character feels? What do you think is going to happen next?

Show your kids that they can write stories. It doesn't have to be something fancy, just a bunch of pictures on regular printer paper, each with a sentence describing what's happening. If your kids are too young to write the words themselves, you can ask them what the page should say and write it for them.

Let them be bored sometimes. When given nothing to do, kids are forced to figure something to do by themselves.
They absolutely could do that, which is the point. UBI gives you the freedom to make the best decision regarding how to use your time. If UBI is enough to cover you, then spending time at home raising kids and taking care of your family may be the best use of your time, which is a win for both your family and society.
Nice extension. For the love of GOD do not hijack my "new tab" page and focus on the page instead of the URL bar.

That is SUPER ANNOYING. There should be a button to disable this behaviour very clearly on the page.
At our school there is a lot of support for the "growth mindset". In summary, you praise the effort more than the results, believing anyone can do pretty much anything with enough effort (contrast with the "fixed mindset" where abilities are considered innate). Keeps children actively learning, and not resting on laurels or giving up because they think they aren't good enough. Seems to make sense - I remember reading about all the child geniuses that end up not amounting to much as adults, the theory being that they stopped putting effort in given they hadn't developed a connection between effort and outcome.

Just reading up on the "growth mindset" now, and it seems there is some recent criticism of the idea, although that stems from inability to replicate the research results, not that there is a more widely preferred alternative.
Your strawman argument is invalid to what I said. I spend an inordinate amount of time researching each candidates views and each propositions pros and cons. Before election day I usually set aside a day or two to deep dive into every choice I make. I take voting very seriously as people have died to give me the luxury to vote. These actions all occur outside of the office where they belong. That being said leave politics out of the office.
It is a tautology, but we are studying teaching, so maybe that's not unexpected? ;-)

My point is that the goal of the course should be to understand principles, not to teach people that their existing intuition is faulty. Who cares about their prior condition of ignorance?

For more, see my reply nearby.
What I Learned Inside the NBA Bubble
> But on probability your gut-feel will always fool you.

Yes, this is especially true when first learning; however, one can still develop intuition so that it serves as an invaluable motivator and guide through difficult problems.
There is a search box at top of center graph.
ActiveJ: High performance Java microservice framework
Developers: The page must be fast! Google found an extra .5 seconds in search page generation time dropped traffic by 20%.
Also developers: Let's use Cloudflare - 'Checking your browser before accessing content - please allow up to 5 seconds'.
I agree. Sharia law traditions have a number of advantages.

However, I think the costs outweigh whatever benefits exist.
How do you know this to be true? Are they using Nest data to monetize something?

Apple also tried their hands at iAds, in the end companies will do whatever works best for them. Considering Apple has made privacy a marketing feature for their devices, I am quite sure Google would want to have that playbook as well for their premium devices.
Are they doing this intentionally to bait-and-switch people?
I met my wife through smalltalk at the cash register, so I can attest that some slack in these jobs serves an important function in society!
There is a lesson from that - and it is one of the reasons why e.g. Signal is a walled garden (as a service, not as a protocol): federated systems tend to be really hard to update to a radically different newer version of the protocol.

You lose longevity, but gain flexibility if you go walled garden route.
Interesting to see an actual application of bubble memory. For those that don't remember, there was a time in the early 80s when bubble memory was hyped as the next big thing in memory technology.
Bringing up Monty Hall at a table full of tech people has always resulted in an argument that will not end until one person gets the rest of us to admit we are wrong and changing doors is the same probability as staying with the same door.
Windows XP leak confirmed after user compiles the leaked code into a working OS
The only way to truly secure something is to make it inaccessible. You can't pick the lock of a door if it's a wall, you know.
In Soviet Russia, it's Naggin' Nadia.
As someone who develops on these platforms, the problem is how difficult it is to get true figures for market share.

If you just search "Apple vs Android market share" you get an incredibly false picture of reality.

Android isn't just Android. It's everything from a flagship like a Galaxy S20 to a "Galaxy A2 Core" destined for low-income markets that was never meant to compete with an iPhone, and for which most app's target markets might as well not exist.

I remember a conversation with Jake Wharton where he insisted it was fine for apps to adopt the iOS strategy of dropping older OS versions extremely quickly. His reasoning the devices that have owners who spend the vast majority of money on the platform have newer devices that get updates.

To some degree he was right (not enough to excuse the absymal Android update ecosystem but I digress)

We've reached the point where even things that are comparatively used as "semi-dumb phones" show up under Android figures because of how ubiquitous of an OS it is. There are a ton of Android devices out there that are 3 or 4 major versions behind, leading a lot of developers to support them.

But if you actually look at top app revenues' (of which I've seen a few now), they consistently might as well not exist.

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For that reason, if we actually shave that down to people who are paying into the app ecosytem (ie. look at the customers of the app developers, not the customers of the phone manufacturers) , suddenly you realize why so many apps and games go iOS-first for development:

https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/07/03/apples-app-store-...

It's no contest, Apple dominates the market for actually making money off apps. Because it's not just that Apple is making more gross revenue, it's the fact they're doing it with a third of the installs(!!!)

It's a one-two punch against Android devs since, as installs scale, support and review problems scale, while revenue is not scaling at all with it vs iOS.

It's a reflection of what I mentioned above, just how many Android devices are really not iPhone competitors, and not catering to a demographic that spends money on apps.

The average developer is making many times what their Android equivalent is making per app. You can make money on Android, but if you're blocked off from iOS, you're hurting in a huge way.
This is anecdotal of course. But I was an Android user since the first Galaxy S until the Galaxy S7 (with Nexus and some others in between).
I don’t know if this is still the case but every single time I had one of the big updates my phone just started getting slower and slower, most of my phones got a crack in the screen, battery started draining really quickly. I couldn’t spend more than 1.5 years with the same phone without wanting a new one really bad.

Then I got my first iPhone almost three years ago, and I still have the same phone and I don’t feel a need to get a new one. After several major updates my phone still works perfectly (even better I would say). Battery is in 85% and still lasts a whole day.
Do I miss some features? of course, but the same would be true if I switched to Android, I would miss Shortcuts, Airdrop and other small features, plus at present time I can’t think of a big feature I’m missing from Android.
Now imagine an entire cruise ship where the toilets don't work: https://www.cnn.com/2013/12/17/travel/carnival-cruise-triump...
Assuming there's enough non-activists in the company to actually get some real work done while the primadonnas are blowing hot air and ganging up on the the next victim
Playwright for Python: Reliable end-to-end testing for the web
This is a tangent, but judging from the other comments here, I feel like everyone in HackerNews read the same set of articles saying facts don't matter - people are 100% emotional, and now never try to convince others of their beliefs.

This is obviously false, if it were true we, humanity, would have never developed and accepted new ideas. If it were true we wouldn't have communist, we wouldn't have advertising or propaganda or marketing or most fiction books.

The truth is as usual more nuanced, yes, with some effort you can convince your father that the Earth is in fact not flat, just like with some persuasion and skill you can convince people of anything you want, little by little.

It just isn't easy or fast and you cannot make appeals to authority.
I’m sorry, I just noticed that as well, that should be fixed in five minutes.

Edit: As far as I can tell, the issue is fixed now.
I think inconvenience of activism plays a role here. I don't have to endanger my life by stopping a murderer. I should however at least call an ambulance if I see somebody bleeding to death on the street.

Of course I didn't support the bleeding by not taking action to stop it, but I did have a responsibility to act. I think this responsibility to act is the issue here. If I was supporting anything or staying neutral are semantics that I don't see central to this issue.
> but arbitrarily excluding wages from someone’s earnings

No one's excluding wages from earnings, or tips from earnings; what is excluded is tips from wages, just as is done when setting a separate tipped minimum wage (that only is a minimum for wages, not wages plus tips), like the federal $2.13 and many state wage and hour laws for tipped employees, or when setting a minimum wage and not counting tips against it (as is the case in a number of US states and territories, including Washington, California, and others.)
Form Follows Function: On Louis Sullivan’s Kindergarten Chats
Plug a cheap fm radio into a rpi and record and stream it to the Internet and then play it on your phone. Maybe a weekends work?
you don't need to be an expert to know that you're exactly correct, all you need to do is look at how the airlines behaved when they got bailed out last time.
"incredible sounding stereo". With speakers within inches of each other, and you standing many feet away, and moving around? I don't think so.
There's also the good old argument that your argument has been used in respect to Google for decades and it has yeilded the exact sort of outcomes this paper is warning against.
I think each side needs to have sympathy for each other. I totally understand not wanting to hear about politics. I'd love for the world to be boring enough that work could stay work. But on the flip side, a lot of people have skin in the game, so to speak, and can't disentangle politics from their life. Being able to ignore politics right now is a very privileged, very lucky position. I have no doubt that if you surveyed various politically active employees, they'd love it if they didn't have to think about politics. Unfortunately that's not their decision.
I think street prices might be quite a bit lower than what we're seeing on Samsung's site.

Amazon has a bunch of affordable models from Samsung. Haven't clicked through them all but here's a 65" with HDR for $600.

https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-Business-Software-Speakers-LH...

However, it's probably not the sort of "dumb" TV we want:

Setup your TV with custom content quickly
and easily using the Biz TV app - available
for Android and iOS

Seems like this is interfacing with some sort of app on the TV, so I suppose it's not a dumb display.
The issue is you cannot tell me what a sexual predator looks like. Or, more disturbingly, you can. Because they look like you, they look like me, they look like everyone.

So a policy of "keep sexual predators away from children" just cannot work. That's a game you have to win every time. They just have to win once. One mistake and you've just allowed a predator access to children. And it's not like they'll stop.

And note, I say children, not women, because we aren't talking about the abuse of adults, we're talking about people sexually preying on children.

So I'm sorry. "Just stop criminals from committing crime" is a intellectually bankrupt argument.

The issue is that the problem is vast and multifaceted. We have to balance safety with allowing these children access to these things. And on some level, these children will have to become proactive members of their own safety. Whether we want them to be or not, they will have to be responsible to some degree.

And, no, it shouldn't be necessary. But we ultimately have to deal with the world as it is, not as it ought to be.
If you’ve got a high end credit card (something that charges $500 or more a year for the annual fee), it probably comes with a travel concierge service. Your wait time on the phone is going to be much shorter, and the credit card company is a large enough aggregate customer that they will have leverage you don’t.
I am surprised that there is not more celebration of the drastic reduction in air travel. Aside from the near-term economic impact on those in the industry (which is horrible), there is nothing else but upside. The obvious ecological gains are great, of course. In the past 2-3 decades, air travel became far too cheap, and grotesquely overused. It became the norm for a family vacation to mean flying to the destination, and a casual activity (hey, let's fly to X for lunch today!) for many. Cheap airfare + Instagram made a nightmare for many great destinations.

I'd welcome a much smaller-scale air travel industry, even if prices per ticket increase substantially.
I mean the porcelain friend specifically. Which party symbols should it be ordained with?
I think this is painting a rather stereotyped view of people on the left. I share most of the views of the left, however don't end relationships with people over it, preach, or attend any seminars. I think you're seeing the vocal minority here, which is of course more outspoken as they care enough to talk about it. Apart from the most extreme people, I have had many productive conversations with people whose views were more left than mine and haven't been ostracised once.
Is this meant to be a response to me?

Why are you talking about ‘not harming capitalism’? What has that got to do with anything?
Just don't shoot the cacodemon labeled "init (1)" and you should be fine.
>There is no reason to think that this is never advantageous for the employee, and the workers who don't find those terms advantageous remain free to work for any other employer.

Your use of "never" is a red-herring. You have to quantify what it means. If 100% of uber drivers prefer higher pay over flexibility, what would be your argument? In other words, your argument completely hinges on a significant chunk of employees feeling like they are not being exploited. Without data, it won't stand on its own.

>There is value in that, or why is anybody doing it rather than working at Walmart or Starbucks where that isn't available?

Because those jobs are soul crushing, if you've ever worked at one of those. Just because Uber is offering "better" working conditions doesn't mean the drivers are happy about the pay. Also, if your standard of ethics is "whatever the employee voluntarily accepts" then why have a minimum wage at all?
Right, my understanding is that in a sense it doesn't "enable new performance", because operationally speaking it's all stuff you could do anyway. What it does is move a lot of potential approaches from "absurdly unsafe" to "perfectly fine", so whatever your threshold for safety it's likely to move some speed improvements over the line if you care much about speed.
the flamewar detector seems interesting:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23280488

how often does it get triggered?
It is very different from continent to continent and country to country, but the not paid internships I know are for positions that prepare you for tough to get jobs or where the training the intern receives is far more valuable than the work the intern does. Some internships are closer to free schooling in a company with the option to get hired after 3 months. There are bad companies that use internship as cheap or unpaid labor, but that's the abuse of the system, it does not means it is always bad.
I disagree with your assessment of "materially positive".

Police response times have been dismal in my neighborhood in North Seattle, and crime has increased. The maintenance man who worked with my wife downtown was murdered by a tenant recently because there was not enough police resources to accompany the eviction of a tenant who was making violent threats.

The community programs have had no noticeable effect on poverty or homelessness rates, as prosecution and drug court diversion has been discarded. I see needles most times I go for a neighborhood walk, and the children's playground is currently occupied by vagrants who are chopping down trees in our park.

The minimum wage laws pushed my young brother-in-law out of full-time employment in 2019 and led to his moving out of state. Multiple local shops and restaurants have closed over the last few years because they can't keep up with rising artificially imposed costs. The new taxes on businesses and high earners has led to Amazon moving 25,000 jobs out of the city to the east side.
Hacking Vim into Godot's Editor