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When all my peers were using AIM, and Yahoo instant messenger on Windows, I was on Linux communicating via online forums and IRC learning from mostly adults willing to mentor me as an anonymous username on the internet.

Right, and that was before all the kids were on facebook, or twitter, or whatever.

You're talking about a time when the only online-networking being done, was being done on a desktop computer. IME, less than 1 out of every 100 children in 2000 were actually using desktop computer.

We are now in a time were 95/100 children are using some sort of portable personal computer that is with them all the time.

> I was homeschooled and moved every 3-6 months growing up and in spite of all these "handicaps" I still learned to make several IRL friends within a week or two of every new city I ended up in.

Which was perfectly possible when almost none of the kids were on computers. Now they all are.

> Stop worrying about making kids popular and making them conform in ways beyond basic manners and respect. The roads less traveled are more likely to kelp a kid develop atypical skillsets which will give them an advantage in the job market later.

I'm afraid you're not a good example: you appear to lack some important skills wrt to the world as it is.

Think about it this way - there are people who didn't bother putting up with the hardship of a reduced social network, and they ended up more successful than you.

I don't think you have any interaction with children. I do.
I forget where I’ve heard this so sorry in advance for the unsourced claim, but I think white noise is much better for humans to place in space. Higher frequency beeps can bounce around much more than a broad spectrum white noise blast.

Anecdotally they tend to travel much less, and generally be less annoying too. I can hear a beeping truck from ages away in my flat, but not once have I thought “god I wish that kssh kssh would stop”.
> Not all errors are criminal negligence, but those that are certainly need to be punished just as this.

> The methods and practices we put in places in workplaces like this are there for a reason. And it’s simply not acceptable at any levels to apologize killing someone by accident by saying “Oh but the IT system has problems, so we’ve decided to ignore safety procedures to move faster”

> And this will certainly make hospitals safer.

To me it seems like this will make hospitals less safe. The nurse seems to have made a mistake which the hospital's system essentially guaranteed eventually would occur. If it was criminal negligence it was criminal negligence by the hospital. By focusing on the nurse you're decreasing the incentive for the hospital to fix its flawed processes. If the nurse should be prosecuted for negligence it seems the same should be true of basically every person up the chain above the nurse as well.
Bezos's tweet was a response to Elon's poll, not vice versa. Elon's response to Bezos's tweet was something like "Good idea"
Stripe can take care of most of the hassle. I’d at least send a “Save the service” email with a Stripe payment link (no programming required) and see if I can get some decent bites.
PDFs can already contain videos and JavaScript. But given the security problems, I consider it a feature of most non-Adobe PDF viewers to not support that.
It is perfectly reasonable that `from_utf8_unchecked` is unsafe because the sequence of operations `from_utf8_unchecked(array).chars().next()` will call [1] and can trigger memory unsafety with the `unwrap_unchecked` call if the array is not valid utf-8. This means that at least one of the three functions must be marked unsafe.

[1] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/027a232755fa9728e9699...
I'm guessing the plan is that once you reach that scale there will be people in the cars?
Elon Musk could insist on appointing a board member to represent his interests while still maintaining enough separation to criticize openly.
Right, if you actually want to read my comment instead of doing as you describe the leader, you might see things differently.

Because then you'll notice a few things: a its acknowledgement of certain
USA war crimes and b that its tongue in cheek.

Although also c and d too its always a good idea to provide sources for any claim (especially heinous acts) and most people associate war crimes with human-by-human acts such as mass rape, genocide and forceful relocation, which I'm genuinely interested in knowing if USA has done such act.
Simple. Drink poison, get sick.
I was looking for a doodle alternative, because the latest "improvement" made it far worse. The kukkee demo seems to require registration though? one of the best things about doodle for me was that I can just use it instantly without registration.
I'm wondering if it's the twitter polls that killed it. I bet twitter polls about how to run twitter from a board member, with no intention to follow through from other board members, would count as misleading investors to the SEC.
> But, given computers with built in cameras and having some use for discerning its reality of objects in 3d space, subject to Newtonian physics, and projected down to a 2d CCD array, the ideal compression would be subject to the same pressures as influenced the evolution of the human eyes and brain. Thus it should be similar.

You have a good point! Though I wouldn't say the 'same' pressures. We can actually identify differences in those pressure, and use those to speculate.

Eg human computational capacity does well in terms of total operations performed, but individual units are really, really slow compared to electronics. That means human hardware can't run anything that requires a lot of 'serial depth', everything has to be almost embarrassingly parallel to work, or involve a lot of lookup from caches.

Also the design of humans is constrained by what evolution can do. Eg we still have blind spots in our eyes, mostly because evolution can only take 'small steps' (small in the space of genes), and inverting the eye so that the light receptive cells are in front instead of behind the nerves and blood vessels is not a small step in that space.

The power constraints on humans and computer are likely to be different. Humans are also not networked with sub-second latencies to the rest of world.

(Just to be clear, the examples I gave are second-order corrections to your much more important first-order idea!)
Another option would be to just communicate the limits of their commitment to the site to their users. Maybe people would step up to takeover/assist, or another solution would be found. At least users would know that it's on the way out in advance.
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> If a teacher could not figure out how to communicate with a kid without routing those communications through Facebook servers, I would kindly teach them how e-mail, matrix, or other neutral internet protocols work.

I get the feeling that your worldview is extremely limited, and you have not experienced the world of kids.

We choose schools based on how successful their graduates are. The more CEOs, doctors, etc that a school produced means that that school is more successful.

Once the school is chosen, you adhere to their rules. For my kids, some of those rules included online-only stuff. Sure, I could send my kids to a shittier school, but I don't want to do that.
Yes. She mentions finishing in Switzerland when discussing travel plans at some point in her previous posts, with emphasis on finishing.
When I was about 12 I routed my parents dialup connection through -my- computer so I could monitor (and sometimes manipulate) -their- internet usage.

When they didn't like the content of my livejournal, I simply used my MITM to serve them a copy different from what the rest of the world saw.

The more you teach a kid about how tech works, they sooner they will use it to defy you.

It is not a big surprise I ended up in infosec.
That’s assuming quality is a constant and is purely objective.

Is there an opportunity cost in providing a gratis/marketing tier versus focusing more on paying customers?
A lawyer in the article asks that very question. Many of their clients have had their front door bashed in without the FBI ever considering the aesthetics of that. If the FBI is concerned about such aesthetics, maybe it should extend that concern to all houses, and not just those in rich neighbourhoods.

I believe there's evidence that property damage in a neighbourhood can lead to more crime ("broken windows"), so avoiding visible property damage in vulnerable neighbourhoods actually sounds like a good idea.

At the same time, for a sense of justice and equality, it can also be important for people to see that rich people are held accountable for their crimes just like poor people are. So maybe they should only bash in doors in rich neighbourhoods and not in poor neighbourhoods.
> double standard vs a human driver who needs to pull over immediately when instructed by the police or face potentially grave consequences

Especially where Police is so hasty to use their cruisers as weapons[1]

[1] https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/06/10/arkansa...
That sounds very similar to Dürer's Rhinoceros. Or in general, learned people trying to draw from even detailed descriptions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%BCrer%27s_Rhinoceros

> Dürer's Rhinoceros is the name commonly given to a woodcut executed by German painter and printmaker Albrecht Dürer in 1515.[1] The image is based on a written description and brief sketch by an unknown artist of an Indian rhinoceros that had arrived in Lisbon in 1515.[2] Dürer never saw the actual rhinoceros, which was the first living example seen in Europe since Roman times.
Not that I normally use it, but at least on iOS the gmail app’s ‘report spam’ button gives just this; ‘unsubscribe and report spam’ as the first option.
I recently subscribed to https://8bitnews.io for retro-computing news and haven't been disappointed.
A bit unsetteling how institutionalized corruption is talked about so casually.
The analogy doesn't stand.

Some uses of social media can be "as harmful" as banging your head on a wall, but a smartphone is much more than that.

> They will be miles ahead technically of most of their tiktok scrolling peers.

Life is not only about technical skills. And I've had plenty of these "technically minded" people spewing complete BS about vaccines here on HN, so I guess they think they're technically minded but aren't
>In my experience

In my experience, there is absolutely zero correlation between preference for meetings and willingness to communicate asynchronously. To me, this is simply advocating for meetings to force people to communicate and be empathic. This has its own set of problems, as evident by anecdotes in this thread and the many discussions prior.

>This is a local optimization

On the flipside, you assume that the local optimization does not lead into a global optimization, while referring back to the parent's "meetings good" as a global solution. Obviously, giving an anecdote of the other extreme of the curve is just there to show how absurd the notion of "meetings are best" is. There is success on both sides of the curve. I would really like to see empirical evidence of "meetings best", as the trend continues towards "more meetings" (or really just more bureaucracy) without any strong evidence as to why this is beneficial for the entire company.

>As the parent put it, this is a people problem

I agree. More communication != better communication. Synchronous communication != better communication. Just like some books read better with fewer words, so can less communication lead to better communication. Unlike what a lot of pro-meeting people like to believe, the anti-meeting crowd isn't arguing for "no communication" as a whole.
This is a very good app. Weekly-based todo list is something that I replicated myself in Joplin for ages. Now it's a lot better and with automations! Thanks for keeping it up!
There are electric pianos that are really-really good with feedback and feel and whatnot you piano players value, just plug in the headphones and practice away. Of all the compromises musicians have to make in apartment buildings this is one of the best and easiest.
We still have the same business incentives. Why wouldn't any CEO of a publicly traded company reduce resource costs as much as possible? If he would not do that, the boards would install someone who does. As an employee for a restricted time, it is optimizing your numbers and economic success until your successor takes over.
Sounds like Elon didn't accept Twitter's conditions for joining the board.

For Twitter this is serious; Elon could destroy Twitter.

Sell it again, and create (or buy) an alternative.

Just like Trump he has a personal brand big enough to jumpstart a social network, and unlike Trump (it seems) he could probably build it.
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If I might, I would like to share the hyper focused newsletter that I do on embedded systems: https://embedsysweekly.com

From the feedbacks I have, a lot of professionals from the field like it.
It compares it to a 1070 which is on par with a 2060.
I think in general frameworks make tend to make the easy things a bit easier and hard things significantly harder. They trap you in other people's architectural and technological choices in a way actually making sane architectural and technological choices of your own doesn't.
In case no one is specifically identified for the infraction, doesn't it come back to the car owner ?

Not in the US, but that's how it would work here for illegal parking or if the driver fled from the cops and the car is never found for instance. Even if the owner doesn't own a driving license, that's just where the buck stops. The owner if of course free to try to shove it somewhere else, but that's on them to make it work.
As someone with ADHD I would like to chime in here.

“Like stopping sentences midway to chase butterflies.”

It can be like that for some people with ADHD. But every person with an ADHD diagnose is not cast in the exact same mold.

When speaking about ADHD, it’s crucial to be aware that there are three subtypes: predominantly inattentive (ADHD-PI or ADHD-I), predominantly hyperactive-impulsive (ADHD-PH or ADHD-HI), and combined type (ADHD-C).[0]

Please keep in mind that different people can have vastly different coping strategies and vastly different support from their partner, family, etc.

And then there is medication, which can make an enormous difference for some people.

”I find it utterly incompatible with being an engineer.”

Nope. That’s just incorrect. ADHD can make someone’s life very challenging, but those challenges are not necessarily unsurmountable.

[0] See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_deficit_hyperactivit...
Who: Other developers working on the same Linux distro. Targeting other developers or upstream maintainers by talking shit about them on twitter, probably also discord.
When I wrote my DNS parser [1], I set a follow limit. I'm not sure how viable it would be to limit the pointers to earlier in the packet would be.

[1] https://github.com/spc476/SPCDNS
You are joking, but something a bit like this can actually work with some extra assumptions.

Have a look at compressed sensing!
Patrick McKenzie (patio11) continues to deliver really insightful commentary at the software/business interface. https://bam.kalzumeus.com/
> If a teacher could not figure out how to communicate with a kid without routing those communications through Facebook servers, I would kindly teach them how e-mail, matrix, or other neutral internet protocols work.

And some (few) would appreciate your effort, but quite pragmatically have to acknowledge that there is no way they can support a classroom full of kids with those solutions, and that even if they could, it would get in the way of the curriculum. In the Netherlands too, WhatsApp is decidedly not (or only nominally) optional in high school. This is not something that can be solved by going to individual teachers (and really, most won't understand why you can't 'just' use WhatsApp); you need legislation to break open those silos and technological support at a national scale for non-commercial alternatives. The former is happening in the EU (so give it a few years before you can chat with people on WhatsApp without a smartphone from a Linux laptop, maybe); the latter is a non-starter in many countries due to government IT projects failing constantly.
They could make quality long last products. But in general both as individuals and as society in general from companies to government value cost cutting and short term profit most. So ofc what gets made and sold is the cheapest possible product that is still passable at time of sale.
If you disable data altogether (wifi, not just mobile), you don't really need any screentime limits or other rules such as where she is allowed to use it. She'll very quickly self-limit the amount of time she spends on it. Keeping in touch works fine with voice and sms.

As we all know., the internet is an infinite time sink.
Isn't that what calendars are for? Most of the time they are pre-installed on all OSes and they handle recurring schedules and notifications. On Linux I use Thunderbird for email with the Thunderbird Lightning Calendar [1]. I sync phone and desktop using CalDAV.

[1] https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/calendar/
You can store a lot of spam in a $200 hard disk.
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Right, I hadn't thought about those issues, and it's impossible to expect that venues and conferences will be capable of vetting the documents without introducing inefficiencies.

Perhaps we should move to sandboxed webpages embedded within electron, where each paper is its own page?
Earplugs can give you tinnitus because they provide almost complete silence, in which your brain can latch on to the tinniest pre-existing tinnitus sound that was already there (which is pretty common in the current era of hearing-damaging equipment and environments), but you didn't notice it before. Once the brain notices it, it's basically impossible to unhear it. That's my theory at least.
> Good for the freight trains though, since they'll have the tracks to themselves.

Most of the tracks (in the west at least) are already owned by freight companies and Amtrak just squeezes in usage at their behest. It’s part of why Amtrak sucks as much as it does (no priority).
Yet another reason not to bother with Solaris, given the long investment IBM has had into Linux since 2000.

IBM withdraw their offer, because they didn't had any commercial reason to go forward with the deal, and they aren't a charity to start with.

Also interestingly, it was Oracle that turned Solaris into the first commercial UNIX that has successfully tamed C into production, not Sun.

Something that naturally the Oracle haters don't care about.
which are equivalent to the 2060. Yeah it's a bottom barrel GPU originally intended for mobile SoCs.
Another advantage not mentioned is that '@icloud.com' is a generic domain that has been (and still is) used for a lot of real e-mail addresses for years. That means that most registration forms cannot just simply block '@icloud.com' because that would lock out a lot of real '@icloud.com' addresses.

Hide My Email is very good and I'm using it a lot.
Why Airbnb Will Take over the World with Remote Work
Money is power. That is a truism everybody is aware off. But Liberalism is fundamentally incoherent if that were true. So people have been deluded into forgetting this simple basic fact.
It can be both. This word is old enough that it was significantly affected by the evolution of languages. But since some non-Indo-European languages have words that sound similar (the Chinese ones, in my uneducated opinion), it could indeed initially have been a Wanderwort.
I try not to. Sometimes I'm lazy but I usually try to put in the effort to read the article first, if I think it might be interesting, because I tend to find the articles to be more insightful than the commentariat, and because I tend to complain about people not reading the articles a lot. I think it's important to try to expand one's intellectual horizons and take the risk of engagement in a community predicated on satisfying intellectual curiosity, because otherwise comments tend to feed on each others' ignorance rather than spread insight. Especially for subjects not likely to be in HN's wheelhouse (anything non-technical, or technical but not related to programming) or subjects with any political or social dimension, where the tendency towards the "aggressively ignorant hot take" might prevail. I see little value in reading the comments first in those cases.

Conversely, if I haven't read the article, I try not to comment as if I have.
> Servers are cheap, and big companies frankly seem to love it when we're dependent on their infrastructure.

I've worked on a few different sync engines for mobile apps over the years, it's also a matter of user expectations in consumer apps. Users expect to seamlessly pick up where they left off on another device and the absence of an intermediary server makes that difficult.
I might switch back to it as I had some delivery issues with Cloudflare on some messages, but the issue was the email size, as emails with attachments wouldn't come through. +1 for the change!
> Neuronal Networks are for some reason the optimal medium for intelligence

No, that's not the same 'intelligence' ("General Intelligence") as the "I" side in Artificial Intelligence.

The term 'intelligence' applied to Artificial Neural Networks makes sense, as such: to reach a procedural solution it takes an engineer; the engineer is said to have reached the solution because "intelligent"; ANNs are (semi-)automated builders of function approximators; ANNs are said "intelligent" because they "reach solutions" (like the engineer would have done - "approximator":"engineer"="Artificial":"Natural" Intelligence). And of course they are not "intelligent", while they are in some sense. It's just an expression, it's rhetoric (it requires considerate interpretation).

That some sort of "intelligence" is achievable in other ways, or that ANNs spawn as an idea from anatomical considerations of naturally intelligent entities, or that ANNs could help in modelling general intelligence (etc.), is tangential.
Has Anyone Else Found Uber App Has Been Flakey Lately
I am used to the Uber app on my Android phone being fairly solid, the app itself is ok but lately I have having a lit of problems that seem more backend.

Example, I get dropped off at my building in the morning, but for going home I walk around the corner so it's straight onto the freeway, avoiding a couple of blocks and sets of lights. Just now going home, my pickup spot clearly showed around the corner on another street, but the driver said his pickup spot was out front of the building, about 75m away. Shit like this is every second ride now for at least a month.

I'm an Australia, but I wonder if this is a symptom of the internal state of Uber.
The attempt at an individual/technological solution to a problem that needs to be solved at a societal/regulatory/legal level.

It's a bit like talking about buying better gas masks and forcing your kids to wear them, when we should be advocating for stricter emission standards.