skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I have this preconceived notion that I don't want to violate my children's privacy.

If you have a preconceived notion that frames these questions in terms of privacy, then you will have a preconceived solution. Why is this discussion being framed in terms of "privacy"?

There is a large and growing advocacy for "children's privacy" that I am quite hostile to. The advocacy largely seems to be focused around allowing children to "experiment" and try things for themselves without feeling pressure from their parents to respond in a particular way, or fear repercussions. The stated goal is to let the child become their own person.

But by and large, these "experiments" are around topics like drugs, sexuality, politics, and religion -- and at increasingly younger and younger ages. All of these are extremely hot button issues, so I'll choose the last to make an example of. I've worked extensively through my church with our youth ministry. How would you feel if I wanted to have a "private" conversation with your grade school child about their sin, and necessity of repentance? If I responded to your objections by framing you as the unreasonable one, and asking why you wanted to invade your child's privacy? They need to become their own person, and be free to make choices for themselves!

You would be right to have a legitimate fear that your child would not be "becoming their own person" (as advertised), but being indoctrinated (or even brainwashed) into a certain way of thinking when their minds are too young to know how to appropriately think about these things independently. As a parent, no one should want to have "private" access to your children -- and even unsupervised access to your children should be completely transparent.

Freedom and privacy are important values to teach your children. But this is the privacy that should be taught: there are certain things that you should not expose to the world, and others have no right to ask of you. But the "privacy" that I see being discussed is an inversion of that. "We want privacy with your children, and you cannot violate that privacy!"

To close with an example of how I'd frame this issue: YouTube/TikTok wants unfettered access to my children, to sit them infront of a non-stop roll of advertisements, content that has been engineered to be addictive, and has the potential to create harmful feedback loops. To supervise, monitor, and restrict the quantity and quality of what my child watches (or even searches for) is not an invasion of my child's "privacy" or "freedom".
> Individual initiative is not enough to address systemic issues

I couldn't agree more. But before we can have the software equivalent of a food safety agency, people have to stop shrugging off food poisoning with "they probably deserved it".
If a 13 year old is that inexperienced and much of a target... it's probably time to have a conversation about sexuality and the perils of sharing sexual pictures of oneself with random people on the internet.

I swear, most of the "But what if?!"isms boil down to "I don't want to have an uncomfortable conversation with my child to teach them about the world."

(Said as the father of a 14 year old)
How does software discovery seem to always be free, but music gets special treatment?
What is PVTM? Or why your Rockchip RK3588 CPU may not reach 2.4 GHz
That is true however the abstract of the study notes:

"In a randomized experiment, we find that deactivating Facebook for the four weeks before the 2018 US midterm election...

...(ii) reduced both factual news knowledge and political polarization;"

[1]: https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20190658
One use I can think of is killing a child process in such a way that the parent process considers it has successfully returned.

For example you have a "curl" command in a script that is waiting for a server that doesn't respond, killing the process with the kill command may cause the script to fail. If you want the script to continue anyway, you can use that trick.
Preacher, some of us have tried reading the fascist piece of fiction known as the old testament.

There's is no christianity brand that is not compromised exclusively of hypocrites. You follow a book that literally tells us certain people should rule us all.
They must have fixed it, I buy a lot of stuff on bandcamp and I've only entered my card once.

The only friction is waiting a few second per track for them to prepare my 12 flac downloads, clicking through payment only takes a second or so.
Ask HN: What convictions do you hold that are antithetical to popular belief?
I ask this generally, it's not aimed at a specific subject or niche. I'm also not hoping for "split the room" style answers (e.g. jam-then-cream is better than cream-then-jam, or cats > dogs, etc.).

Examples of beliefs (not my beliefs I should note) that run against the grain might include things like:

* Facebook is not an evil company and the world really is better off with Zuckerberg's incessant pursuit of "connecting everyone".

* On average, the net effect of Climate change is will be good for humanity.

* Avatar is the greatest film ever made.

A good answer should include some degree of reasoning about the statement: <statement> is true because <reasons>. Also, ideally avoiding truly controversial and sensitive topics that could start flame wars.
Content creation is a hit making business. Video games, movies, tv shows, music, literature, etc. People are passionate and work in the industry because it’s a creative effort and you can make a lot of money. But as an investor you should value content businesses with low multipliers because it is difficult to repeat the success. This is also why sequels, formulaic stories, downloadable content, subscriptions, and all manner of solutions to derisking content is applied because of the inherently risky nature of hit making businesses.
Worse is better.

Something is better than nothing.

Is it really important that it is perfect? Who really cares?

What do you win by doing this imperfectly (time - to achieve other / more meaningful things, or to rest, or to spend time with people you care about, or for your hobbies)

What do you lose by doing this imperfectly? Not much usually.

Who will notice? Probably nobody.

In the grand scheme of things, why bother anyway?

What are you trying to achieve? This task perfectly, or this task is just a something you need to do to get paid so you can have a meaningful life?

If people do care for a specific aspect/corner, they'll tell you anyway.

They probably prefer seeing something earlier so they can give feedback, so you can achieve an even better result, counter-intuitively.

Besides all this, I think I achieve this by not caring so much and not tying myself personally to much to the task. And by thinking about the outcome. Perfect often leads to worse outcome, and is relative to only you anyway because other people care about other stuff than you.

Of course, it is still important to achieve the task correctly, but as perfectionist we usually need to take a step back.
> people have a choice of energy provider

I don't know where you live, so it's impossible to say what you actually mean. But if you are referring to the choices for electric power, these are almost certainly new developments that have been forced by legislation mandating giving consumers a choice, which is only a small walkback of the past century of promotion and even subsidizing energy producers that use fossil fuels. Energy production is a deeply non-free market. Even in recent times with the rise of solar, it's often the case where it's illegal (or sometimes merely inconvenient or uneconomical) to sell power back to the grid.
The article specifically talks "of Google breaking those AdBlock extensions in 2023 with a massive update, which is rather terrifying, to say the least." What is referenced here is Manifest V3. Gorhill, uBlock Origin developer, agrees that this will significantly limit uBlock Origin on Chrome.

https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/338#iss...
I think Sidebery is better for tab management. The default tab UI is horrible for any non-trivial work.
I don't see teens mentioned in the article anywhere. If anything, teens are probably underrepresented in the data due to greater willingness to use non-traditional outlets.
Firefox is worth it alone for its 'reader view'.
Especially on Android.
And it's the easiest way to get around the likes of the NYT weak paywalls.
DataRobot employee resigns over stock sales
Good talk but most of the information is pretty much word for word from a book with the same name by Tom Standage.
You don’t say where you live, but in the United States, in addition to ‘titzer correctly says, these “100% renewable” providers that are piggybacking on the established providers’ grids are mostly a flavor of adjustable-rate scam.
Agree on this one. I went to a concert this week. When the concert started, thousands of smartphones were raised in the air and many people spent an awful amount of time grabbing ugly videos with saturated sound. I was guilty of grabbing a 1min one.

Do we really enjoy the moment as well when grabbing everything. I doubt it.
Saves us with AWS accounts!
Exystence
> Tik Tok for her would be a necessary evil. [...] While not productive, they are harmless.

I think it is a mistake to view something like viral TikTok videos as "harmless". Wasn't it a few weeks ago that we had a front page article on a child that died during a "pass out challenge"?

But you raise a good point. Other parents giving their children unsupervised access to the internet creates a massive problem. A colleague of mine started with a hard and fast "no internet" rule. That absolutely broke when all his son's friends were playing minecraft.
This article is all short term thinking.

Netflix has more valuable data on user preferences that Hollywood could only dream of. If they add a good gaming platform, they will do well in the coming future.
Right now, I have 258 tabs open in my main window, of which I’m actively using at least a dozen, and will use another few dozen within a day or so. (Probably should go through and clean out a hundred or two.) Most of my family is some degree of tab hoarder as well (my eldest sister regularly has over a thousand tabs spread across a few windows).
And durations:

package main
import "fmt"
import "time"
func main() {
three_secs, _ := time.ParseDuration("3s")
five := 5
fmt.Println(five * three_secs) // error: type mismatch
fmt.Println(three_secs * three_secs) // 2500000h0m0s
}
I use RateYourMusic and Last.fm mostly to find out about new music:

1. RateYourMusic has a wonderful feature of democratically tagging albums with genres. People suggest this or that genre, then if it gets more than 2 votes (or something like that) the album's page is updated to feature the genre. You can then browse the genre page and swift through other similarly-tagged albums. Here's an example[1].

2. I find Last.fm's "Similar Artists" section to favor niche artists more than, say, the Spotify equivalent.

[1]: https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/casper-mcfadden/medi...
Read the fine print on the bar chart. They're measuring catalog by trying to figure what the current top 100 streamed songs / albums are.

I can only name a song from one top forty band from the last 10 years. (The HU; I have no idea how mongolian throat metal charted in the US; check them out.)

However, I regularly stream dozens of albums that came out after 2020.

The article seems concerned that pop music is dying. Good riddance?

I'd be much more interested in a revenue-based breakdown (inclusive of concerts, merchandise, etc.), and the number of musicians grossing over $10K, 100K, 250K 500K, 1M, etc. per year over time.

If the population of musicians earning a middle class income is increasing, that'd be great news, and would be well-worth having fewer break $10M per year.

Edit: misspelled "The HU"
The first logo was Newton with an apple over his head.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fa/Apple_fi...

And the bite was supposedly put in to identify the simplified logo as an apple, people thought it was a cherry.
I can confirm this anecdotally. My teenage niece only wants to listen to music her grandfather was into.

Just terrible, terrible pop music from the 70s.
Also "The media kids enjoy today is bad for their health." As true for TikTok seizures and speech impediments as it was for Judas Priest inspired suicides and D&D Satanism.
Maybe Netflix needs an ad-supported Freemium entry point too? Whilst cracking down on account sharing?
Are you familiar with the Slaughterhouse cases?
Everyone who is now the age that Ozzy, Slash, and Alanis were when they did the work that made the world pay attention, was born after 9/11. Meaning, in that climate. They were never conscious of a world without the web, Facebook, and YouTube. Rock, as Marilyn Manson noted, is deader than dead. That’s a formidable and fertile tradition going back to the blues that’s just over and done as far as the mainstream is concerned. Forget Metallica- we don’t even have Nickelback and 3 Doors Down anymore.

Instead of reaching for your logical fallacies and statistical poindexterism to pseudo-refute the article, maybe have a think about why it might actually be describing an actual phenomenon.
Amid climate change and conflict, more resilient food systems a must
If you're into Vim, this is a fantastic extension for keybindings: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tridactyl-vim...
Let’s say you have an audio graph like this in your DAW:

synth → reverb → output

Every 5.33ms the OS audio system (CoreAudio, JACK, etc.) calls your DAW to produce 256 samples of audio. The DAW looks at the audio graph and asks the plugin connected to the output, the reverb, to produce 256 samples of audio. The reverb calls the next plugin, the synth, to produce 256 samples of audio, then applies the reverb effect on it, then returns it to the DAW, which returns it to the OS, which writes it to the audio hardware’s buffer. This all happens within the same 5.33ms callback.

You can have as many plugins as you like, there’s no additional latency (unless the plugin explicitly adds buffering).
Seems it wasn’t just “possession of an oil filter silencer”:

> Candelario sold and manufactured AR-15 style assault rifles in Maryland without a license. The ATF caught Candelario by using an anonymous man to purchase the firearms in a gas station parking lot. This agent purchased six rifles, as well as two fuel filter silencers.
I also love bandcamp! Very simple design, very mid-to-late 00s but without clutter. I want it to last forever.
I’ll be in Portugal in a couple months and would happily take a detour to check this place out. Contact is in my profile
For me the containers on desktop and uBlock origin support on moble are the big features of Firefox. I was glad containers made it in considering usage must be pretty low since even just "user has an extension" is less common than "user has no extensions".
I think the "music is boring" sentiment could be about the lack of shared experiences due to hyper-fragmentation. It's easy to access all genres of music from one app at flat monthly rate. The mainstream, then, is the lowest common denominator much more so than before. Specifically it doesn't need to embrace any rising genres. And there are no longer pronounced subcultures either, if there's no friction e.g. queueing up in front of the record store - that facilitate socializing with like-tasted fans.
I'd hazard playing outside is still critical competency-training for a mentally well-adjusted life.

From personal observation of {plays outside some of the time} vs {never plays outside}, the latter definitely have more neuroses.
Netflix originally had a very healthy and diverse social ecosystem of reviewers. For some reason they decided to remove all comments and lengthy reviews for the thumbs up/down. Maybe it was because they didn’t want to hire mods but honestly it was a huge opportunity for Netflix to create a very sticky social media network that would be impossible to replicate and disrupt. Maybe because of hubris they thought that the studios would never catch up with the tech. I mean look at blackberry and Nokia - they never caught up to Apple but when you think of it as hardware vs software especially commodity cdn software after a decade it really comes down to either the content or social network effect. They missed on both.
I find FF slower than Chrome. Tried to use it, ported all my preferences but it just feels heavier.

Brave with uMatrix works well for me. Disabled the metrics and crypto stuff.
Firefox is literally the only program of any kind that I can think of that even supports MRU Ctrl+Tab. Windowed UIs, sure, MRU is conventional, but tabbed?
> Netflix is just the victim of basic capitalism. You need to show endless growth no matter what the circumstances are. Fundamentally unsustainable.

What's basic capitalism? Is it bad that capitalism victimizes fundamentally unsustainable companies? And to whom does netflix need to show endless growth?

Lots of people and even companies do not require or have endless growth, many are content (or at least sustainable) turning a relatively constant profit.
No one except for you is talking about protecting the server.
I wouldn't be so quick to paint the big ad networks as natural phenomenon like foxes, that just need to eat.

After all, foxes don't need to eat 23% more hens year after year for decades. Their stomachs are only so big.

It's partly the atmosphere of hyper-growth--"growthism" it is sometimes called--that has given rise to this situation. And it is partly because big tech has been gaslighting us about how all this tracking and ad personalization is good for consumers--which it isn't. It benefits advertisers and ad networks, not consumers.
The stuff that's mimicked in movies would probably be something like a silenced 22 short round or maybe a subsonic 22LR round. The primary noise of a gun is the bullet breaking the sound barrier, the secondary noise is the actual powder burning. You can absorb some of that with a suppressor but if you shoot a round that goes faster than the speed of sound, you'll still get an audible and identifiable 'crack'

A hand gun round will usually run you about 145-160db. There's a lot of variation here like barrel length, load, all of which influence speed which is also a factor. Take 30db off that with a suppressor and you're still looking at over 100db and maybe even over 120db which is the hearing loss range.

At best, a suppressor brings the sound from 'hearing loss' to 'quite loud' for normal rounds.

For a subsonic 22 round you're looking at something like 60-70db, take 20-30db off that and you get that sound that you hear in movies.
It had been reported that supposedly Microsoft has a secret exclusivity deal with Qualcomm for Windows ARM to only ship with Qualcomm-powered devices.
If you can only sell after 4 years, who is going to provide liquidity?
Do you think that I would be spamming this of it wasn’t real? I’m legit close to launch now.
Email masks: the way to reclaim your email privacy
It’s being worked on.
TouchID support for WebAuthn is the last thing I need to make the switch for my daily driver browser. I used Firefox for years, but being able to use TouchID for auth/MFA is just such a huge quality of life improvement for me that it keeps me on Chrome.

Fortunately it looks like there has been at least a little movement on this recently (bumped from a P4 to P2)

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1536482
> Firing a gun with no hearing protection is a pretty jarring experience

That's perfect UX for the use case
Firefox is amazing except when working with electron based web apps. Most of the note taking apps I use only have chrome extensions. So now, I have to use both.
Recently, I've researched browser battery consumption for laptops. Every test I've seen rates Firefox the worst out of the big 3 or 4. Are there any settings/extensions that may have been overlooked for these reviews that can be used to help Firefox be more energy efficient?
If this is what you believe then you're simply looking in the wrong places.

I firmly believe all the best new art (including music) is digital. Everytime I go looking for it I'm astounded at what I find.
A big downside to this on-package combination is the inevitable degradation and destruction of some I/O. Take optics for example, if your SFP transceiver has a bad source or detector, you can replace it and keep going. If your on-package optics chiplet dies, you're simply stuck with no optics and either have to replace the entire package or maybe even the entire device.
Basic capitalism does have something to do with Netflix' problem. However, nowhere in capitalism does it say that you need endless growth. Netflix' valuation was dependent on growth (as signalled by its' PE ratio). Basic capitalism says you need a profit. Netflix will be fine if their profit never grows anymore, and they pay out their profits constant dividend. Even investors will not be terribly disappointed by the zero-growth scenario under its current valuation, which given their PE-ratio would be equal to a 5.8% yearly dividend and no capital gains.
We need to keep I Think You Should Leave on the air
I'd never made that realization before,

Thank you.
Not op, but I recovered from covid shortly before vaccines were available, and then opted not to get the shots based on available data on reinfections.

That decision has only seemed better supported as time has gone on, yet I still have to desperately avoid the topic in polite conversation if I don't want your average person to make all sorts of incorrect assumptions about me. There was also the risk to my livelihood from employer mandates.

I would have to see them go back and say "hey, that wasn't a deplorable decision, and we're sorry for encouraging everyone to think terrible things about you for making it."

I understand the noble lie argument, it just means that now I can't feel comfortable taking anything that comes out of public health at face value.
yes indeed, perhaps the famous example
Computers won't make themselves smarter (2021)
>The article specifically talks of Google breaking those AdBlock extensions

I bet there will be a Chromium for without that + Brave is already working on it. Power of open source I guess?
> Good/extensible keybindings

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/manage-extension-shortc... is a little hidden, but gives you at least some flexibility.

> Tab search

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/search-open-tabs-firefo..., I use % in the address bar very regularly.
An e2ee solution is no good if the government is unjust, they just declare end-to-end encryption illegal and start arresting people the moment the signal hits the wire. Similarly, one can't expect an unjust government to reign in wire tapping, nor can one expect an unjust government to break up a telephone monopoly to enforce decentralization of potential surveillance threats.

And that's the problem with trying to solve an unjust government in this way. For any technological countermeasure, you can just imagine that the government is sufficiently unjust to render that countermeasure's use itself a threat to the user.

People, not technology, reign in governments.
I don’t intend to diminish the article itself, since yes ditching chrome and Google is a win for personal privacy.

But I can’t ignore the irony of this article loading dozens of trackers. Like, is the cognitive dissonance that bad in web publishing? Do the teams writing the content not know about the way the publisher presents the data? Is this just pure hypocrisy? I’m at a loss.
> Spotify is even easier to kill than Netflix,

Each of the big media companies hold maybe 25% of the "legacy" catalogue (75% of streams). And playlists are usually mixed, so switching app to listen to a few 15% of songs won't happen.

They simply don't have the market power at the moment.