skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My child is 4. They prefer fruit and vegetables over sweets. Milk or water over soft drinks. They come home from nursery and, in the warmer months, play outside with their friends until 7pm. They also draw and do "craft", and we do "science" together (make slime etc). They also have a base model iPad.

It's locked down using a combination of Apple's parental controls, controls on the router and NextDNS. The level of pedagogic software available on the platform is excellent, especially for preschool. There are also other 'games', like Crayola's Create and Play[0] app (available for Android too) which are fun, engaging, creative and educational.

Like it or not, this is the world they are going to grow up in. It's the parents job to teach them to be responsible with everything, from sweets to using technology. Kids aged 3-12 can get as much out of a device like an iPad as any teenager.

Just don't install Youtube/Youtube Kids...
>> Replace cash with prepaid cards

Prepaid with what?
Why Some People Find It Harder to Be Happy
>just because you choose to assign it some other emotional value doesn't change that the core purpose is illegal

The bigger question here is, why is it illegal? Most rational adults understand that the arbitrary decision to ban adults from "gambling" their own money in certain ways, while promoting gambling in other ways is absolutely ridiculous. Here in New York I can today bet on sports and horse racing from my phone or my computer. I am pilloried with ads to play lotto - perhaps the worst form of gambling with only a 50% return on investment in most games - by the state itself! But it is illegal for me to gamble on a skill-based game like poker or predict-it. It reeks of the authoritarian hypocrisy that is the defining feature of our government on every level.
It’s job security.
> I really appreciate the reference to RFM* type radios

My pleasure. It’s surprising to me how many makers / hobbyists who need wireless don’t know about them so I make it a point to bring it up any time I can. I’ve built dozens of fun projects using them and find them to work really well for my needs. There’s trade offs between the 69s and 95s, so be sure to read up on adafruit’s site to decide which works better for your needs.
I am so glad to see #embed.

I always thought it was silly that the best way to embed a resource in a binary using CMake was to either convert it to hexadecimal C array manually or use specific flags with ld to convert it into an object (and good luck getting that to work reliably with cross-compiling!).
> probably something to do with chalk dust. I don’t miss chalk dust.

However, the chalk dust has been replaced by synthetic colours that can ruin any cloth they come in contact with and are much harder to remove from the skin than chalk.
> has a piston converter

The 2000 is natively a piston filler as far as I know. When you say “converter”, are you saying you’ve modified your 2000?
I never bought a computer new the last few years except for kids laptops for college for the sake of the warranty - got a used 32GB i7-6700 game PC with a RX580 GPU when we switched to WFH during Covid.

My home server/NAS is a refurb Dell.

Now freelancing so my current laptop is my daughters old Thinkpad E-450 (also bought as a refurb) - one CTRL keytop is missing and it has a corner crack , just added more memory and a SSD.

Got a Xeon E3-1220 board and CPU for free as backup just in case the i7 dies.
> finvsqrt

Listening to the podcast, that wasn't him, he doesn't claim independent discovery of it either (like w/ Carmack's reverse). It was from someone else.
That's a valid reason (specifically, 1.4(g) listed at https://www.archives.gov/declassification/iscap/redaction-co...). And while the NIST returning such a response is possible, it goes against the commitment to transparency.

But still, that requires a response, and there hasn't been one.
I've heard a "wine expert" spew a load of rubbish like that and when offered it was obviously corked. Tasted like vinegar.
Another popular trend is videos where they ask people on the street easy questions. Things like "can you name any country on the world map?" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRh1zXFKC_o). The video creators then cherry pick the dumbest responses. The person watching the video on youtube is thinking "damn, I might not know much, but I'm better than these people!" providing that subtle ego boost. Meanwhile in the comments there's a debate raging about how dumb Americans are, and the Americans are talking about the educational system and what not.

No, it was just a cherry-picked video. Don't overthink it.
>So right now the Twitter market cap looks to be about $12 billion dollars lower than the standing offer.

You also have to factor in almost every other social media company is down 50% YTD. If the deal falls through, the market will price TWTR like how they did to facebook which shaves off another ~$15B off their market cap.

So TWTR actually stands to gain ~$27B in value.
They give smaller fines to mega corps for things that affect a lot more people.... I don't think 4 million is a slap on the wrist for an individual.
Andreas Spiess, "the guy with the Swiss accent," analyzed the Helium network in May 2021 for his YouTube channel about electronics and micro-controllers. His video [1] provided a technical description and also analyzed the Helium business case. Spoiler alert: he concluded that the business case for hotspot owners was comparable to a Ponzi scheme.

At the time of his analysis, the Helium network had about 39,000 hotspots with about 32.5 million data credits spent in 30 days by network customers for data transport. At the fixed price of $0.00001 per data credit, that customers spent a total of $325. On average, each hotspot earned a little over 8/10 of a cent from data traffic during those 30 days.

In the 14 months since that analysis, Helium signed up many more data customers and grew the network to almost 920,000 hotspots. Customers spent about 187 billion data credits in the past 30 days at a total cost of $1.87 million. On average, each hotspot earned about $2 from data traffic during the past 30 days.

Hotspot owners also earn rewards from proof of coverage activity: sending beacon messages and witnessing those messages from other hotspots. Proof of coverage rewards were very lucrative during Helium's first year, but diminished rapidly as more hotspots shared proof of coverage pie. Those rewards also diminished in urban and suburban areas as people deployed other hotspots nearby.

The Helium Explorer [2] lets hotspot owners find locations where proof of coverage earnings remain high. These locations are in smaller communities and on the periphery of overdeveloped metropolitan hotspot clusters.

[1] https://youtu.be/nerQCrOam5U
[2] https://explorer.helium.com/
I’ve been writing stray thoughts in a pocketbook for about 18 months. That also lead me to keep a modified Scanners Daybook (similar to this post). I’m on my second such notebook and have been doing so for nearly a year.

Finally, I keep a third notebook for travel. The idea being that I don’t want to lose my original, but I probably don’t want to lose my travel one anymore either, so…

Anyway, this can be a successful long term thing.
Yes, this is why my Roomba doesn't get much use anymore in our house. There's always a loose toy somewhere. We have to have the kids pick up all the toys first before we can vacuum. At that point we end up using a Miele canister vac instead. We can see what we're about to vacuum up. It ended up being the better purchase over the Roomba.
I also fell for the hype - was a big supporter of the OLPC then Asus released their first netbooks EEE range - bought one and it was shit - blamed the mediocre Intel Atom processor and the keyboard was kind of dinky for my paws.
Coming back to this. Just want to say I disagree, while it would also be a nice listen to have experts discuss topics with one another equally. It is refreshing to gain knowledge on a subject from an expert in this conversational format to basic questions.

The fact is Lex isn't an expert in 99% of the subjects his guests are coming from. And neither are we. But, the format is a great public lecture with a soft conversation in between. And it should be increasing the general knowledge of the public who are watching. And that's one of his goals. And why the podcast is popular with many not from technical backgrounds.

I feel like every technical person will surely agree that the average intelligence of most of the public is going downhill, at the same time as the complexity of science & technology increase. This kind of general intelligence podcast can only be a good thing.
I'm referring to the law in the context of the purchase offer from Elon, as the person I'm replying to quite clearly stated "securities and contract law".
Got new banc accounts, changed owner, etc.

Most prominent example:
Germany Launches €10 Billion Bailout for Gazprom’s Local Unit

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31773314
Musing some more while I'm here (a bunch of armchair psychology to follow):

Everything in your brain is chemicals, but beyond that, external influences can I think cause very deep, "low-level" changes in your brain, that end up feeling more like chemical imbalances than they do like being upset about some particular thing. Like, the thought "I'm sad my partner left me" is made of chemicals, but I think depression operates on a much lower level than that of conscious thoughts like those, even when induced by some external stressor.

When I pay attention to my own mood, I can sometimes notice specific things that trigger feelings of depression. Something stressful happens, I'm worried about something, etc., and I'll react by getting depressed. But the depression doesn't feel like it's tied to whatever just happened. I'm not sitting there being like "omg I'm so sad about X" -- I just feel depressed: I'm not getting much joy out of anything, nothing seems interesting or exciting, I'm not looking forward to anything, etc.

It's only when I force myself to take a step back and ask "what might have happened recently to cause me to feel depressed?" that I'll realize "ah yes, X just happened, that's probably why I'm feeling depressed right now". But even after that realization, the depression _still_ feels disconnected from the stressor. My conscious brain knows that the depression was probably caused by X, but my subjective experience of the depression is still disconnected from X.

I guess this is kind of analogous to waking up with back pain, wondering "what did I do to my back?", and realizing "ah yeah, it was X". Realizing what caused your back pain doesn't somehow alleviate the back pain -- the damage is already done. You can maybe try to do X more carefully in the future, but even that is no guarantee that X won't cause you back pain again.

I think we like to think that because our brain is where our consciousness and ego and thoughts are, that we can control it in a way we couldn't control other body parts, like our backs. And that we ought to be able to "will away" mental pain in a way we couldn't just "will away" back pain. But that's not always the case; the brain's just another organ.
The fees that PredictIt charges also make the market highly mispriced. E.g. you can't arbitrage two markets on PredictIt because PredictIt will take a cut of any profits you make in a particular market, without deducting any losses in other markets.
LLVM and Clang (I’m assuming you’re referring to these based on timing) are not Apple’s. Both have been under the LLVM Developer Group from inception, and LLVM existed for many years before Apple hired one of the lead devs.

While it’s true that Lattner worked for Apple while he created Clang and that his personal contributions were probably biased, it’s always been an outside of Apple project with independent contributors.
I thought this was going to tell me about a hardware accelerated text editor.
I am not naming people I know personally, especially not in this context. There is no irony, I am telling you, that there is a Taiwanese source behind my statement. I would have been happy with the same statement from OP.
I read your comment, and started to draft a reply, but I went back through it, I don't actually think you understand the words you're using, so it's kinda pointless.
GraphQL is a format and contract for exposing APIs, just like REST is a structure for exposing APIs, just like SOAP is a format and structure for exposing APIs, just like gRPC is a format for exposing APIs.

Those are all the right analogies for comparing GraphQL. GraphQL doesn't say anything about how the underlying data is queried - at the end of the day it's just a bunch of resolver functions that you can implement however you want.
I disagree. I don't need to know the compiled opcodes of a Java program to know that I wrote code that tries to perform a division by zero.

What I need is a clear explanation of the issue using the actual source code I wrote.

That's it. Whatever does this job, a compiler, an interpreter, random fairies, quantum AI overlords, it is not relevant.

Clear error messages that show my source code, and explain the issue, that's the answer to fix these typical runtime problems.
Has never happened. I know this is something that is given as a benefit of Nix, but I have personally never encountered the situation. For every project I have worked in professionally their tool chain was standardized enough that the situation never arose.

If parallel installations like you describe is a requirement — and I’m sure that it is — then Nix looks like it could help. That’s just not something I have ever found myself needing.
More food poisoning occurs at home, than at restaurants.

I don't know what 'restaurant' you were at that used rags and buckets, but it certainly would have failed health and safety regulations.

Source, 15 years as a chef.
I also started at 8 years old with QBASIC. But without childhood friend or Chernobyl

So my files should all still be on that 386. But I do not know if it still runs

I made a backup, on a ZIP disk. Do not know where that went
If a tree falls in a forest ...
Here’s how it happens:

1. The annual congressional budget has a massive deficit every year. Our government is currently ~30T in debt.

2. In order to make up the difference between tax revenue and spending, the treasury sells bonds.

3. The country’s central bank AKA federal reserve buys those bonds, crediting the treasury without any “buyer side debit”. This part is confusing and where the printing happens. The fed adds treasury bonds to its balance sheet WITHOUT actually “spending” any money.

4. The treasury receives cash on its balance sheet.

TLDR: The fed expands the money supply to buy treasuries so congress can fund its expenses.

The fed has about ~9T in treasuries and MBS on its balance sheet last I checked.
How about browsing the new posts of a tag you're interested in on stackoverflow? If I remember correctly they don't have a rule against "complete solutions", but one against asking such questions.

For example: https://stackoverflow.com/search?tab=newest&q=react
I’m not an ip professional, but good luck to the patent trolls that think they can build exploitable legal language, patent validity, and novel descriptive claims using generative AI.

AI can generate text, it can also review and conduct tasks such as prior art search or support analytics relative to exploitation discovery.

Less if a cat-and-mouse if patent troll investments falter when their mass-generated suite of applications are all rejected.
2003 would have meant a 32-bit single-core CPU with perhaps SSE2. I imagine you'd have encountered quite a lot of software that simply wouldn't run by now. I can't blame you for buying a new one.

I used a 2003 (or so) desktop computer as my only personal one until 2014, and I'm not really one to upgrade often or for no reason, but it has started becoming seriously limiting by then. That was partially because of the growing performance demands of the web and, in particular, because (proprietary) software started requiring features that the CPU simply didn't have. It was probably one of the last AMD CPUs without SSE2 support, though, and that was the first hard limit I ran into. Nowadays 32-bitness alone would probably limit even general desktop software you can run.

I have a hard time imagining what it would have been like to use a similar machine all the way until recent years.
I recall reading a similar piece where they gave expert wine judges flights of wines to judge but some glasses would be the same wine from the same bottle and they'd judge it differently.
It's a different kind of investigation into a subject. Perfectly valid. Any textbook on a subject, will often start with the most basic question. The Who/What/Where/Why/When of questions. Another way to describe First Principles Thinking. I find it extremely foundational to know the basics in developing higher knowledge in a field.
I'll take two examples of interesting TUIs I've enjoyed over the years:

- clonezilla boots by default to a very simple tui, in the vein of make menuconfig on Linux. You can forward, backward, see all options, expert or simple, and check or uncheck them, and get some contextual help. Once you've set up everything, you can start cloning (or restoring) and it gives you simple progress bars. But before you start it gives you the command-line you can just run next time you want to do the exact same operation, which is quite handy...

- AFL (the fuzzing tool) renewed the interest (to me at least) in 'progress TUIs'. Fuzzing can be very long and there are many things that usually flby2go well at first, so you want a dashboard and AFL provides one. Bonus: it's quite fun to look at and you end up trying to optimize some metrics (like the number of fuzzing cases per second...) since the TUI taunts you. For long-term monitoring AFL also maintains TSV files, with gnuplot scripts, but the UI makes the tool fun to use (doesn't hurt that AFL was so easy to use and landed crashes real quick). Praised be Michał Zalewski, aka lcamtuf.

Both have an optional TUI that make the user experience so much more powerful (sorry I know we're nitpicking the word today...).
Yep had a dual Xeon CPU cheesegrater Mac Pro - best machine I ever owned but then Apple deprecated macOS support for it and then sold for a the same price I paid 2 years before.

Could not afford a new Mac so I switched back to Windows.
Whenever I see an "##Installation" section with more than one step, I immediately call DOCKER!
> Fast forward 30 years and the only people still debating this topic are the rock & metal guys.

An it makes sense. Rock and metal are played with electric guitars, and electric guitars are not much unless they are plugged into an amplifier. What it means is that the amp is not just part of sound reproduction, it is actually part of the instrument.

It is especially true in metal, where amps are frequently overdriven for that characteristic sound, here the idea of sound reproduction completely goes out of the window, the sound characteristics come as much from the amp as they come from the guitar itself, if not more. And if you look closely during rock/metal concerts, guitars are almost never plugged directly into the PA system, the band come with their own amps and if necessary, the sound is picked up using microphones and then sent to the PA system.

So it make as much sense for guitarists to want a specific kind of tube amp as it is for a violinist to care about the wood their instrument is made of.
> But parenting means also setting boundaries and not always indulging kids with the latest internet connected shiny toys.

You could just leave off the "...with the latest internet connected shiny toys."
An expert, prominent, and someone who the whole cryptography community listens to, and he calls out the lies, crimes, and blatant hypocrisy of his own government.

I genuinely fear that he will be suicided one of these days.
Quantitative easing is when the Federal Reserve buys U.S. treasuries with bank reserves. Both U.S. treasuries and bank reserves are “money”, just different types.

Anyone can hold u.s. treasuries but only banks can hold reserves. Banks are highly regulated in how they can spend their money and the assets they need to hold. Hence- stuffing banks full of reserves does not hit the real economy. They can’t spend it.

When the government issues debt they are creating new money. Debt = money. More debt = more money. This is why banks are regulated, they create debt(money).

The inverse here is taxes. Taxes take money OUT of the economy. More taxes = less money.
> So now the developer needs to use terraform to provision a cloud dev then k8s to run the app.

The big cloud providers have Kubernetes controllers that can provision databases and other services based on Kubernetes resources, e.g. the GCP Config Connector. Your developers can pretty much do everything through k8s abstractions - given sufficiently large platform team to set it all up.

https://cloud.google.com/config-connector/docs/overview
So don't take this personally, but comments like yours are one of the major reasons I refuse to participate in any audiophile communities.

There's always a hypothetical edge case for some audiophiles to claim that what they hear is possible. And no matter how much blind testing, research, or engineering is done, this hypothetical edge case means that something has not been proven. It's both pointless and exhausting to discuss anything with these people because the end result is always that the possibility that an edge case exists means you can't claim something is BS.

Imagine somebody claimed that people can fly by flapping their arms. You say this is nonsense, but they said you have to prove it. So you ask 10 people to try to fly by flapping their hands and they cannot. This is not enough proof for them. So now you ask 1000 people to try it. Then the person claims maybe people in your country cannot fly this way, but in other countries they might be able to. So you go to 10 countries and ask 1000 people to try. Now the claim is that you did not test enough people who went to the gym every day and you should have asked the strongest people to fly. When nobody from this group can fly, maybe you should test the lightest people with light bones. This keeps going forever because there is always yet another edge case. Welcome to Audiophilia.
_Generic is an awful feature relative to attribute((overloadable)) anyway so that's probably a non-issue
There’s no need to be dismissive since they say this in the first sentence. Preparing an easy to use app for all platforms probably does get this into more creative hands, and that’s a net-positive contribution I can appreciate.
Thanks. I'm still rethinking that. It was a quick solution to show the images especially the otherImages(which are predominantly other map images) full screen. There's value in seeing the details up close. But I might try a different design, maybe a carousel in the future.
I understand your sentiment, I could move with the tides, but I think my point (even if I'm somewhat stubborn) is that I don't think enough people point out how much harder it's gotten for everyone, especially for newer generations. I'm a very high earner yada-yada but I wonder how others who make more reasonable salaries are surviving at all here. And I think the kicker is just hearing older generations not really understanding how much better it was for them in the same location.
How to be excited to work again?
I’ve been working in the same place for over 4 years now as a senior dev. I reached the point where I don’t care anymore at what I do, I don’t care if the code I write is good, I don’t care if the company will do good or bad or if they fire me.

Now I took 2 months of vacation to unwind and do what I love.

During this time I would like to listen to some audiobooks or podcasts to become excited to code, to create and in general to work again. Anything you can suggest?