skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't limit the time my kids can use screens at all. When I was a kid I watched TV or played video games for about 12 hours a day at weekends and as much as I could at other times. It didn't do me any harm. In fact the obsession with computers probably helped me with my career.

I don't allow social media though, as that is undeniably toxic. Also attention span reducing tiktok is not allowed. They watch a lot of YouTube, and we watch stuff together sometimes. It is basically the TV of their generation and although some of the stuff they watch is mindless, some of it is informative and helps them develop useful skills.
> giving them responsibility

I am not a parent, so maybe don't listen to me, but if I were (especially to boys), I would try to deeply instill a value of responsibility into them.

Boys are naturally going to have a higher tolerance for risk, and that can be a very good thing, but it needs to be directed and they need to learn to differentiate good risks from bad ones.

But more generally, building up an identity of being responsible and showing what is expected of them as a child, family member, citizen, human being, etc. will hopefully mean they will do what needs to get done when it needs to be done. Try to get them to ask themselves "what's the responsible thing to do here" and "why is that the responsible thing to do".

idk, maybe that's super obvious. Sorry for posting my naive opinion.
Cisco tried a fairly extreme version of this, but a new CEO put an end to it due in part to morale damage in the bulk of the company not working on those projects: https://www.ft.com/content/a81c934c-cb31-11e9-af46-b09e8bfe6...
As far as probability of failure, having a large number of small powerplants raises it to basically 1. But as far as consequences go, it's a very different story.

If you have a 10 kg rock dropping on your head, you're very likely dead. For 10 kg of gravel you've very pissed, and for the same amount of sand you're... possibly having fun?

We don't care that much about the probability of failure, because as a society we've already decided we REALLY don't like nuclear disasters. I don't think you could convince anybody that going from 1.5% to 0.5% is good enough. But lowering the maximum impact of a failure is a different game - it just means what we now call "disaster" becomes not just unlikely, but impossible.
I was banned for twelve hours yesterday for responding to a Dril tweet. Deleted my account instantly. It was fun while it lasted.
hello my brother
i like a program that tells me the weather
Linus overuses parentheses. Or rather, parenthetical remarks. It's interesting.
I agree with the author that it's worthwhile spending your time elsewhere than adding encryption.

I think the real issue is higher-ups think that if data is encrypted that somehow mitigates meaningful exfiltration, but just look at data breaches like Capital One and you'll see that's not the case.

The whole stealing the (correct) hard drive or concerning yourself with a host-level attack should be at the very bottom of the list as far as your threat model goes -- these are not really typical of the surface area of most deployments and you're better off focusing on the surface area such as application security, transport security, having your applications perform the encryption than relying on AWS controls, etc.
As a kid I saw a reference by Asimov to Lehrer and that sent me off on a quest which ended with a very helpful librarian in the American Center Library in Delhi.

Then many years later, iPad came out and there was an app which catalogued all the elements with that song as the lead-in.

Unfortunately it seems to have vanished from the app store.
> The de-emphasis of subscriptions means that there are fewer superstars, and fewer parasocial relationships. This, in turn, has kept creators from getting too powerful or quite as invested

What would be the motivation for being a creator then?
The MPD & its clients are quite more complete, providing features such as: media library, indexing, extended searches, tags. etc.
Instead mpvc is just a simple client that provides a mpc-like interface, and communicates with the mpv running on the same machine over a Unix Socket. So YMMV depending on how many MPD features you require.
I do not have any facts to refute what you say about Oppenheimer, but from what little I have read and Wikipedia it seems that Oppenheimer (Bohm’s PhD supervisor at that) helped him on numerous occasions [1]. Even by recommending him for positions in the UK and ultimately Brazil when Bohm went into exile.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bohm#Youth_and_college
PG&E retail prices are 3x what they are not too far from here.
The core of the problem is, as almost always, incentives. The agencies set up to write the rulebook and supervise and the people in them gain nothing by having nuclear plants built. Their mandate is to prevent accidents - and you can't have accidents if you don't have power plants.
Except technology makes it possible to constantly send get requests to everyone not carrying it. The limiting factor here was how much time police was willing to waste.

Slippery slopes work exactly because people are incapable to predict the long term consequences for eroding safety standards and are at the same time arrogant enough to believe to be very much capable. Its cognitive biases at work in selecting some of the most reckless approaches for dangerous situations.
As a dev internal communication should not be a primary goal. Especially in a large company you should have a team representative (e.g. engineering or product manager) that takes on this overhead. And others should be mindful of this. My company instructs people not to tag entire teams.

This is not on you!
I’ve been following Freya’s work [0] for a while. She works in the game industry working with Unity, hosts a bunch of Discord channels, and live streams about game math and shaders. This video is relatively long, but it’s one year in the making. If you ever wanted to understand a bit more about Béziers vs B-Splines and G2 vs C2, this is great place to start.

PS. I would also highly recommend these sources which have been covered before on HN:

Curves and Surfaces by Bartosz Ciechanowski [1]

A Primer on Bézier Curves by Pomax [2]

[0]
https://acegikmo.com/

[1]
https://ciechanow.ski/curves-and-surfaces/

[2]
https://pomax.github.io/bezierinfo/
Fukuyama’s Victory
(This is the most ridiculous thing I've put on the internet, but ah well whatever)

Personally, I feel pretty strongly that consciousness is an emergent property of parallel processing among cooperating agents in a way that is completely at odds with the entire idea of what an "algorithm" is. We feel multiple things at once. Yes there is some research that provides evidence that we can't multi-task for real, that we just switch between tasks, but I am not talking about what we are able to do WITH our consciousness. Our brains are very obviously not firing 1 neuron at a time. Take vision for example. We can focus on one thing at a time, but the image itself is an emergent property in our brains of many different cells firing at the same time. It seems bound to the information feeding it in a way devoid of sequence. I know matrices are used to replicate this, and the input matrix is processed in layers to simulate the parallel processing, but i dont think that really cuts it. Time is still applied in discrete intervals, not continuous. Every algorithm has "steps" like this and I would be surprised if you can ever have enough of them to achieve the real thing. You can probably get infinitely closer from an observational standpoint, but no matter how many edges we give it, it'll still be a polygon instead of a circle so-to-speak. It'll have a rational valued circumference instead of pi, metaphorically speaking.

Whether a Turing machine is sufficient or not to replicate the amount of concurrent processing an actual cell network of millions of Neurons is capable of every moment, I can't know, but today's computers feel way off from even blurring the lines.

A Turing machine seems insufficient to replicate the mechanisms for which our consciousness appears to emerge from - even ignoring the substrate. I don't know much about quantum mechanics or quantum computers but my bet is on the qualities that differentiate them from normal computers to be critical.

Then again we could just define consciousness as a spectrum and then claim everything is on it, so a sufficiently complex loop might be enough for us to categorically claim it as conscious.

For all we know, rocks are conscious. Maybe it isn't an emergent thing at all, and there is only 1 wave of consciousness in the universe for which all matter taps into and our chaotic nature is actually at odds with that comsciousness. Maybe this creates a tension that allows for us to observe it, akin to how we can't look at ourselves but we can see our shadow. In which case we wouldnt have consciousness, consciousness would have us. Maybe we are all the same literal consciousness observing different forms of chaos, and it is the chaos, not the order, which happens to be sufficiently complex enough for us to entertain an identity. /s
As a non USA-ian I can't say I ever heard a single person talk about "legos" until I joined predominately US forums.

Hearing people talk about Lego as "Legos" still sounds weird AF.
> I mean, my laptop doesn't overheat daily in my bag when its booted... /s

When you say booting in your bag, are you describing the act of intentionally booting it without removing it from the bag while the bag is open (because taking it out of the bag is a surprising amount of seemingly unnecessary effort) or the "why is my bag warm to the touch oh shit my compy's on" surprise wake from sleep while the bag is closed (because, at least in Windows, there are some events that can wake a compy from S3 sleep at bad times, such as moving it, not moving it, or exposing it to oxygen)?

The latter was quite jarring the first time it happened and so far the only workaround I've found is hibernating the computer before packing it up (which isn't a big deal, but bothers me anyway, because I don't move it often enough to make hibernation my default "lid closed" action).
Prompt: write me a bad opening sentence to enter in the bulwer-lytton contest

Response:
> "As the sun set on the dusty plains, John pulled his sweat-drenched shirt away from his stick-thin frame and gazed longingly at the flickering neon sign of the only bar for miles, silently praying for a cold beer to quench his thirst and dull the pain of his troubled past."
What a fail, that is way too good
This is just not good.
We are not making an apples to apples comparison though. The bandai power ranger toys would be in the $100 range today. For the same range of price, they released a full megazord + dragonzord + titanus in metal, and they can transform an merge, that's what should be compared to.

I wish I liked some design of the transformers lines you linked. Unfortunately that's entirely subjective, I understand that's nobody's fault. I used to like the transformer "animals" (I had the gorilla, the trex and the eagle), but I love veichles, I just don't like their mecha-form design and rather prefer gundam or power rangers style. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be decent toys for those nowdays.
Market socialism and market communism exist. I think they are bad ideologies, but they exist.

Don't confuse ideals with immediate needs. My ideals, and what I'm willing to do today in the name of harm reduction aren't always aligned.

It's called "making compromises" and "using your judgement". A blindly dogmatic adherence to ones own idealism is a recipe for all talk but no material improvements.
> properly behaved DHCP server

One of the common issues with this is that home routers don't usually persist leases across power cycles.
The internet wants to be fragmented
>The young man broke into the enclosure, took off his clothes and jumped into the middle, horrifying other visitors who witnessed the attack.

>Once inside, the lions reportedly immediately pounced on him and began to 'play' with him.

>At this point, zookeepers intervened in the attack and shot the two lions in order to save his life.

>The director of the zoo, Alejandra Montalva, said: 'We believe that this person entered as a visitor and paid for his ticket.

>The zoo director said she was 'deeply affected' by the deaths of the two lions, a male and a female.

>One witness said the man was 'shouting things about Jesus'. They continued: 'He was screaming religious things.'

>According to the news channel, the suicide note that was found inside his clothes made allusions to the apocalypse as being a reason for his attempt to take his life.

>He added: 'He suffered several injuries and trauma to the head and the pelvic area. 'We have high hopes that will recover and that will be fine.'

How is this guy the victim here? What about the lions?

[Edit: retracted dumb speculation]
Disturbing content attracts attention, and that's the most disturbing content the platform allows. Users are addicted to disturbing "content", the "content creators" manufacture the substance, the platforms stuff it with ads, advertisers produce the ads poison to make end users buy things they dont need.
The most repressed / “protected” people I’ve known have also had the biggest trouble dealing with the real world when those limitations were lifted.
From what I heard from my friends who _have_ uploaded something to TikTok, it is very possible for a random creator to wake up one morning with 5 million views to their videos, much more so than Instagram or Youtube. Once that happens, I can imagine how people can keep chasing that high for a while, just to try recreate the success that was given to them once by the algorithm.
social validation / ego at the minimum. for many people it's a foot in the door to a modern entertainment career, getting sponsorships, etc
They need to just bite the bullet and devise something other than & to clearly distinguish nesting.
read -s -r MY_PASSWORD

Then, after typing your password you can safely use the $MY_PASSWORD variabile
Anyone on YouTube getting hundreds of thousands of views are making waaay more money from the views than anything they destroy filming it.

I hung out with a guy who would do donuts offroad in a brand new Ferrari he just bought because it got millions of views. The damage to the Ferrari was a tiny fraction of the money he made from that video...
Could he actually reject it though? The kernel has to interact with all kinds of other interfaces and I'm sure Linus doesn't like a lot of them - he's certainly commented as such. But if there's a binary logging system used by some distros and good code is submitted to the kernel to interact with it, it wouldn't be great if he rejected it on a philosophical basis. They make it work well, not dictate what you do with it.
Decentralised doesn't mean unstoppable, in front of the federation its just a website/api with moderator reporting features.

I think it would be perfect for audiobooks too. Many audiobooks by amateurs are public domain but hard to gain traction if another inferior recording already occupies the only slot on librivox.
CC0 (like BSD/MIT) is basically a quit claim deed.

The US has unilateral copyright assignment though. I always wondered why you could not just assign the copyright to the federal government. Work-for-hire by feds is public domain.
Right, but they took a perfectly good (great for the time and the price) and messed it up for a couple years with a really ugly, oversharing, privacy threatening account system. I am sure many-- probably most-- people didn't care but I think early adopters and developers found it very alienating.

People say that the Meta account-- or the old Oculus accounts-- is the same as the FB account they mandated but really that isn't true. For a while they were essentially forcing you to run FB on your phone or browser to use the hardware. It was super yucky.

I really like their hardware and I appreciate that they are working on developing a platform. I just wish they could be content to sell a platform and sell aps on it, the way Apple does.
Plexiglas®

A trade name.
> Wasn't it an implementation of Linux system calls on top of NT?

Windows subsystem for linux has 2 flavors. WSL1 was more of the whole system call on NT thing, kind of. WSL2 is a lightweight hyper-v VM with an MS customized Linux kernel with a bunch of tweaks to do cool shit.
Kind of not an accurate description of solar panels or that we just have to live with PGE but whatever.
Google ended up with a bunch of chat apps because the culture promotes building new over keeping things running.

The first chat was basically an XMPP service. It was decent, it federated outside of Google, it was fully functional. It even supported group channels (XMPP conferences) internally. But I don't think that was ever exposed to the public.

Then Hangouts was created. It was, per usual at Gooogle, a ground-up rewrite. IIRC not the same team. So they spent at least a couple years playing catch up to get feature parity with the XMPP chat. Worse, Hangouts was one of the first services to suffer from strict team-created "Personas" design philosophy. Any time anyone would complain about a feature, or miss-feature, it was flatly ignored because "You're not one of our Personas". It took years of complaints to get them to change their minds.

By the time Hangouts was good enough to fully replace the previous service it was now boring and people left the team for other new projects. Because maintenance won't get you promoted.

The other random chat services were basically experiential toys.

Now we have Meet, which is is likely another case of "Hangouts is unmaintainable tech, we need to re-write it". Years of getting up to feature parity. And miss-features that won't get fixed.
You're describing small c conservatism, actually being conservative about change. It's a valid point of view and at least debatable. Even the most progressive person is conservative about some things.

The GP's comment is describing the capital C Conservatism brand. It's subsumed the idea about being politically conservative and combined it with an astounding mix of racism, bigotry, and in many cases outright fascism. It's weaponized the Chesterson Fences concept describing some fantasy "back in the day" utopia that only institutionalized racism, bigotry, and fascism will bring back into existence.

Unfortunately for the small c conservatives the big C Conservatives have turned their descriptor into their brand name and polluted debate about conservative politics.
https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/torvalds/linux is a more featured search engine with limited go-to-definition functionality, and removes the need to clone locally and search in many cases. Can be used with any GitHub repo. Just make sure to first enable "case sensitivity" and "structural search" using the buttons in the right of the search textbox so that the search is exact (which is a task that GitHub's own search fails at).
The transmitted energy does end in your body in case of normal bulletproof vest tho. Only very little is converted into heat, the main job is to spread it around. Movies as usual do a terrible job of portraying reality here.

Ceramics aren't used because they break on impact, they are used because they are harder per kg than steel so the whole thing can be lighter.

Imaginary "unbreakable plate" would still be backed by layers designed to slow down the pulse and dissipate that energy and if it was thinner and lighter than ceramics that means you can put more materials behind it and still come out ahead
you also have dashes for parenthesis.
The whole point of sending a message instead of calling them is the expectation that they will look at it and respond at a later time when it doesn't disturb them. If it were urgent, I'd call.
I'm in Perth. Our feed in tariff changed in July to 10c/kWh between 3pm and 9pm, and 2.5c/kWh at other times. Use tariff is 26.2c/kWh. I'm pretty sure our solar will pay itself back in under 5 years, but we have a 25 year warranty on the panels.

My parents are building outside of Adelaide and they've decided to go off grid (solar + battery + backup generator). Their expected payback period is (iirc) 8 years, with a 10 year warranty on the batteries and a 25 year warranty on the panels. They're expecting to have to run the generator once a year or so.
I understand where you're coming from. Archiving all that work history was pretty useful since so many projects involved repeating the same process but on new data. It was important to make sure that everything happened in the same order and the notes added to the screenshots as I worked or at the end of each day helped me avoid lost time and prevented repeating mistakes made the first time through.

I was reluctant to use any tracking software until I had to get paid the first time. Since I came on board during a flurry of activity I bounced between several projects every day for weeks. Each project had a different owner who had their own budget and project code. My handwritten notes and memory were a sorry rendering of the day's work compared to the one minute screenshots which could give me near exact start and stop times for time spent on each task. I could review handwritten notes and picture what I was doing and make an educated guess about how long I worked on some things but the software allowed me to nail down exactly how long I spent on each task and made it simple to invoice payment for all my time without guessing.

I am a consultant in a one-person company so I get to do all the work and all the background stuff too. This software made the drudgery bearable and efficient and allowed me to get paid for all the time I spent on someone else's projects (I billed to the minute since I could document to the minute).

There were no real red flags with the clients. Good people in a high-speed environment.
I agree. But the peak is Windows 10 (BTW it already has the game bar). Windows 11 seems like a small step back in those things: I haven’t found a way how to show seconds when you click on bottom right datetime. I’ve used it countless times. Another annoying thing is the right click and hiding all things in something like Show more options. And the last one is drag&drop between windows. E.g. I was used to drag the file over the icon in taskbar, which activated/opened that that program. Now it doesn’t seem to work anymore. I personally haven’t noticed any significant improvement between 10 & 11. Maybe just more options for window snapping.
so no actual examples?
I kind of wonder whether Tesla, a company making cars with GPS, microphones and video cameras embedded in it is also regularly contacted by crime agencies.
I highly doubt it. What percentage of those people spend money on FB?
Hebrew as you mentioned doesn't have a T-V distinction, and neither does arabic.

There appears to be some use of the 3rd person/titles in jewish prayer to contrast to the normal 2nd person, and islamic prayer does likewise (even though apparently "business arabic" has added the possibility of a marked 2nd person).

So IIUC all the Abrahamic religions originally used an unmarked 2nd person, and have opted to translate this as the familiar-T in languages which do make the distinction.

Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4j55NKXeMk the Shamil Niggun, an orthodox jewish tune, whose denotation is the lament of a sunni muslim Caucasian Imam captured by orthodox christian Russian forces, and whose connotation is the ephemeral "captivity" of the soul in the body.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imam_Shamil#Musical_compositio...
We use email for that. Besides, if the intention is for Slack to be as async as email, then why do we need to have notifcations and plings and red badges?