skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I should be able to control my own phone

That battle was lost a long time ago. I should be able to restrict (or know) what the apps do. I should be able to firewall my phone. I should be able to access the files on it.

But in the end, only apple decides this, and their decisions are self-serving.
This guy ships!
Why is that? Capitalism forces them?
People keep suggesting stuff like that as though it were somehow easy to know who was a child.

It isn't. Not if you want to serve the whole world, or even very much of the world. And not if you don't want to create a panopticon where everything anybody does is associated with everything else that person does, and nothing is ever, ever anonymous.

There are a bunch of sleazy "age verification" companies out there claiming they can do it. They can't, but they've spent years lobbying governments all over the world to get it required.

All "ban children from X" ideas are non-starters because the damage from creating the ability to know who was a child would greatly exceed any possible benefit. Assuming there was any benefit to begin with.
Not sure that a game of basketball has enough parallels with the activities involved in generation of significant wealth for this to be a sound comparison.
> Would you let your children become addicted to gambling?

The problem is worse because it's not up to the parents. Even if the kids opt out, they will now feel excluded because all their peers are on social media, they will still be a victim of the gossip mills and other nastiness present on social media even if they're not directly participating. That's why a blanket-wide ban for under-18s or under-16s is necessary.
Wait, I’m still not clear on exactly how these protect against ionizing radiation. Is there some unique structure of these proteins that act as shielding?
When a distro maintains patches, it's mostly down to either:

* Change default value for some parameters, that can't be upstream due to compatibility reasons.

* Change build flag / macro for optimization and/or workaround compiler bugs.
I'm on 16.2 and this is an issue here too
> Killing local network access is an actual bug.

Yeah in additional to any local servers you have it would break continuity (handoff etc), it would break casting. Sounds very poorly thought through.
Ok, I have no problem with him being released. I have a problem with him skipping the line and being out in an hour or two. Even serious white collar criminals spend a night before even seeing a judge and making a plea.
Definitely avoid makefiles per directory, see Recursive Make Considered Harmful https://accu.org/journals/overload/14/71/miller_2004/

The approach being recommended in the sibling comment to this is quite nice!
I noticed I got downvoted for trying to understand what someone was saying. Your answer helped a bit but I still don't really understand what OP was trying to say. In any case, it says a lot about communication on HN. I'd also like to know what people who downvoted were unhappy about my question.
An unenforced code is so useless it is barely worth mentioning except to express total and utter contempt.

In your view, how many times has google engaged in evil conduct with this "code of conduct" having had no say before, during or after the decision to be evil was made? Estimate it.

"Don't be evil" is long, long gone and it's a shame.
This is the death of a public space, it's withdrawal. Now this is a dark age technology, a void that information goes into & never comes out of. This is socially dead technology.
I've found with my own projects that the AI allows me to focus on the interesting stuff. I was porting some quant work from a Jupyter notebook into a flask app, and the AI is quite handy at providing boilerplate for stuff that isn't relevant to what I want to work on. I need a site that can display charts for a given analysis of an indicator, and ChatGPT handled that for me quite handily.
Everything you just said is grossly and obviously wrong.
It's hardly "just chance".

Wealth is a fitness landscape. The way to climb it is a function of talent, intelligence, perseverance, connections, leverage, charisma, mindshare, labor capital, financial capital, "right place, right time" (chance), and a multitude of other factors in an n-dimensional, m-agent game that is simultaneously cooperative and competitive.

You can start at an advantage or disadvantage. You can make choices that put you closer to an upwards (or downwards) slope. You can take low-energy paths. Comfortable paths. Wrong paths, expending your energy doing the wrong thing.

There are so many ways to explore.
> It is not the government's or the society's responsibility to babysit your kids

My point is that the government do try to protect children from various harms, why not social media?
These hotspot networks show up under “My Networks” on iOS 16.4 FWIW.

They can say what they want about “being given the lowest priority”, but but they clearly are competing with my home network and winning some fraction of the time.
If you're smart or talented, then that gives you a huge boost. It's yours to lose. But without effort, talent is of no use. I have seen people who have talent squander it by not putting in the effort. Family wealth obviously helps too , but of the top Substack authors I follow...most succeeded by raw talent and some effort, with otherwise minimal connections or family wealth. Same for top start-up founders...most seem to only come from middle class households.
A casino is needed for none of that. Quick or slow estimation always shows that betting at a casino is a bad bet, unless you are an extremely gifted "hacker".
enough with these posts, there is closure to this situation -Twitter usage is declining and going downhill anyway, so there's less interesting data to even scrape anyway. There has to be worthwhile data for it to be worth the while and cost.
I thought you were talking about Georgelemental, sorry. I'm talking about the genre of "Democrat big cities are hell holes"in right wing media. Maybe you don't read much so don't see them repeated over and over. Many people have stopped reading in this day and age
Those are not significant problems in an environment that encourages merely 50% bike use. They should be "considered", but avoiding harm to those people is something that would require minimal impact to the plans at that stage.

So I stand by not worrying about it at this point.

"Don't worry until we're on track to 50%" and "Don't worry ever" are very different suggestions.
Loved XP once the Fischer Price theme was turned off. Loved the now small footprint.

But, it's hard to give up the real terminal, now that you've used it, isn't it? Modern Firefox, Python, tons of software just doesn't support it any longer.

A shame really. I'd love a modern Windows 2000. ReactOS not quite there yet.
Medical science is one field where, assuming your can handle the deaths, ignoring ethics will let you move faster than competitors. You can skip early phases and go right to testing in people, you can try gene editing and just bring embryos to term and check the results. An interesting counter to this is that CCP draws some power from its ability to be seen as a legitimate protector. So losses from overly aggressive medical experimentation will have to be kept quiet.

At some point we will be able to engineer people with more of the positive traits we see all at once, and many fewer defects. If you do it safely at scale first it would make your society more robust, but that is a big “if”.
As who use 75% keyboard with QMK, I use both dedicated and hjkl mapped arrow keys. I don't understand why so many people love smaller keyboards for that reason.
I suspect that regex is very much like mathematics for these models: they're just bad at it. If you provided the model failure cases for each failed attempt, you might get better output. I've also seen folks say that requiring reasoning makes answers more robust as well.
This is ignoring the impact of destroying the network effects. Even if 20% of the kids bypass the laws by accessing social media via VPN, that's no problem, because the negative influence comes from the large network and the fact that all their peers were on social media. If 80% of the cool kids aren't on it anymore, there will be no pressure or desire to participate and engage.
The indictment is not the problem but how he just strolls in and out like it was a dentist appointment all for appearances sake. Who else gets treated this way with their personal bodyguards even accompanying them through the whole thing.
Oh yes, perfect, counter crushing defeat of good with rampant nihism. Lovely.
because of COPPA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Online_Privacy_Pr...
On the experience of being dirt-poorish, for people who want to be
That's great, and dovetails perfectly into a video I just watched on the topic, which I really enjoyed. It's a little flashy with the animations at first, but getting into the meat of things, they're used well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7J7X7aZvMXQ
Thanks for that link! The concept of "Directly Executable High Level Language" is also kind of fascinating— seems almost like an early pitch for something like a native LISP or Java machine.
I was in a computer science program and the department literally just gave Windows 2000 keys away. They had a booklet with sheets of stickers and just said take whatever you want. It was easy to give to your friends.

When Windows XP came out, Microsoft unfortunately made them report every key given out, and the free ride was over.
"Tech" has made almost everything available almost everywhere, good and bad.
Thanks I just did this as well. I often defend Apple's decisions but this is downright ridiculous.
That's nice but when carriers abuse shitty home routers for these WiFi APs the networks are absolutely not to be trusted.
It sounds like OP is in university, so they could have anywhere from no free time to mostly free time.
To me, it seems the only way to enforce this is to invoke some sort of KYC mandate for social media sites. Obviously, in practice this would only target legitimate companies. So yeah, I think you would simply need to require that people verify their accounts in the same manner that say a Cryptocurrency exchange verifies a person. In such a universe Elon Musk might finally gets all his users to buy a blue mark.
You do all that on 6-8 hours of work a week?
Missing invites to parties, social gatherings etc.

Even for not having an iphone I suffer from this, and would miss out on tons more if not for Facebook for event invites, Snapchat/Instagram stories, etc.
Forget about the children. Can someone ban me from social media?

Better yet, can we just ban the thing altogether?
I guess his next stop is Windows 10 LTSC.
> I just don't see any alternatives to banning social media, perhaps even up to the age of 18. The dopaminergic effects are not dissimilar to drugs and social media is just as addictive.

Ok. Now, how do we counter this very same argument against tv and video games?
RubberDuckGPT
Direct3D 9.0c
Arguably you legally must be experienced to operate one
It’s a terrible model, directly rewards click bait and attention grabbing crap vs. selectively paying for good stuff. Substack is much better and the quality available there reflects it.
Fair criticism. But can you defend blocking the user from manually disabling these networks?

I’d understand if I got a pop up saying “add these networks for the best experience”, I accepted them, etc.

I would have (upon detecting this problem) just removed them and gone about my day.

The problem here is that you are forced to use them with no opt-in and no way to disable it.
If the FBI did that intentionally it would be a great April fool’s joke.
> It simply implies that in a case where both have considerable skills and effort, the 'rich kid' will get much farther

Well if you assume everything is equal but you give one person more money then, sure, that person has a higher chance of success.

But that's missing the point: Many important things are not equal between the two groups, and it doesn't always benefit the wealthier one when it comes to starting companies.
One of the best predictors for financial success is your ZIP code.

https://www.opportunityatlas.org/
Oops, fair enough—I had just been thinking of older history and forgot that the Bolsheviks moved the capitol. St. Petersburg is still the second-largest city and a major strategic location, but you're right that it's not the capitol.
Implications of Open Monetary and Information Networks
Thank you for the info! As I said, I definitely remember Win2k, but not how I got it. My guess is OEM CD to be most likely, then bootleg, then full retail.

Another option was student bookstore. Microsoft sold its wares at universities at steep discounts.

Edit: a sister comment jogged my memory. I bet it was either a giveaway by an EECS dept or a heavily discounted disc from the university bookstore. Which is why I do not remember paying a noticeable sum for it.
> The dopaminergic effects are not dissimilar to drugs and social media is just as addictive.

I'm sorry, this sentence doesn't explain to me why banning social media is necessary. What are "dopaminergic" effects? Why is it so awful that social media is addictive?
> Educating parents on how it can harm and hinder their children is a harder, but more effective approach.

Is it? There are a number of teachers and allied health professionals in my family and they all say that the majority of parents have zero follow-through on simple things that will materially improve their kids lives.

I can’t imagine the case would be any different with social media education for parents.
https://archive.ph/9A2MP
I’d understand if this was a flip phone, but why should iOS lock the user out of wifi control?
It seems like the article might be addressing a slightly different question, which is "How should you distribute research funds"

(and if you're smart and want to get rich) you should distribute them evenly.
Agree on each suggestions. I’m especially excited about building #2, which I think is a fairly subtle, hard problem to solve.
I'm sure NSA will love this feature
Not sure if anyone asked this question here but how do you plan to transfer the load of the wings/sails to the structure of the vessel?

A medium containership that weighs 150 tons moving at 20 kts has a lot of energy. If the wing is providing 10% of the propelling force, it’s like pushing/pulling 15 tons.

You need to transfer that to the structure of the ship, which may not be built to support that kind of stress.

Edit: I’m a software engineer at a maang company but my background is in maritime - I went to maritime college.
"Public space"? It's Twitter, I think you give them too much credit. 12 months ago, clicking on a Twitter link forced you to log-in the moment you interacted with anything on the site, if that's not an information void then I'm not sure what is.

To me, Twitter has always been dark-age technology. Syndicating discrete feeds is not rocket science, relying on Twitter as much as we did to provide a supposedly-public space was a huge mistake.

> name a better place to see & be seen online.

Gmail? IRC? Wix.com?

It's crazy, particularly in this site's culture, how many people perceive Twitter as "the world". Just because Oreo and Wendy's have an account there doesn't mean you're addressing everyone. It's an echo chamber, unfortunately one that keeps getting louder and denser as time goes on. Supporting Twitter was never a good idea, under either of their idiot CEOs.
> I'm so tired of this argument. HN and Reddit are not social media.

Reddit is very much a "social media". So is HN.

Removing photo posting or allowing people to use pseudonyms doesn't exempt a site from being social media.

If someone doesn't post photos to Facebook, does that make it not a social media for them?

If Facebook decided to allow pseudonyms, would it not be social media?
I wish I could go after Monster for using the word 'Energy'.
>Wealth creation in isolation would be no different.

Unless you think "wealth creation in isolation" involves valuing assets with no relation to fundamentals, there's no reason to believe why that would be the same as popularity contests for popular media.
Make sure you check up on it later, in my case the carrier turns auto-join back on a few minutes later.
I ran a similar thought experiment with a collegue the other day. We talked about how the world might change if internet ads were made illegal overnight. A lot of tech companies would lose value and I suspect a significant portion of the economy would become less productive, but I don't think it wouod be catastrophic for society. In fact, I think we'd maybe all slow down, not purchase as much andaybe even desire less.

As you said, it will never happen, but I too would be pleased if it did.
Having multiple adjacent networks enabled is liable to cause customer devices to roam between access points on and off their LAN even when

- Remote access point doesn't provide access to desired resources

- Have acceptable performance

- Have acceptable security parameters according to users needs

Most users can't stand up a vpn inside their network and configure it to alleviate the self inflicted wound of having their phone decide that the user isn't qualified to select the wifi access points it prefers to connect to. You may as well ask them to grow wings and skip Delta. Instead they will be placing irate calls to their ISP about why their wifi sucks so much and I will be silently cursing Apple.
Many times have I lost hours, days, or functionality that was never regained to an update/"upgrade."

Never have I had my personal computer owned by some exploit that resulted in data loss/breach.

Thus, undesired upgrades are a greater risk for personal computing than security. Simple as.
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Or, one could consider the crazy option of letting parents exercise at least some modicum of decision-making on how their children live their lives. I can understand much of the disgust with social media as it is today, but some of these arguments spin off so far into emotional reactionary vitriol that they lose whole forests for meager trees about the larger dangers of laws deciding such minutia for parents.
I applied to Senior Dev for Windows position.
Some curious and easily distractible engineers have trouble making progress, but generally don’t cause harm. They basically work sideways to the direction of best effect.

However if there are two of them, their product is negative.

Or perhaps I am perceiving a dysfunctional pattern that really isn’t there.

Yet, even if they are imaginary, their impact is real.
> Totally, that's why I figured it's easier to just ban it for under 18s, then leave it alone for over 18s.

There is no such thing as "leave it alone for over 18s".

If you institute strict age requirements, those have to be enforced for every user account. So yes, that means every site you use would require you to go through something like a KYC process.

Privacy on the internet would be gone. You can't enforce age restrictions if you allow users to remain private.
Show HN: Banterai – Talk to any AI celebrity, human-like voice conversations
I remember attempting to run Windows NT 4, but it lacked a lot of hardware support. Windows 2000 Professional fixed a lot of that. I consider Windows 2000 to be the first stable AND usable (for a desktop) version of Windows.
> Banning things rarely works.

This depends on your definition of the term "works". Prohibition of many things has had a profound effect on the shape of human society. Prohibitions on religion for example, such as the repression of the Huguenots in France and of Christianity in Japan prevented the development of Protestantism and Catholicism in those countries respectively.

Prohibition and censorship of revolutionary materials and correspondence societies in 19th century Europe absolutely slowed down the process of democratization and popular reform there.

Even just in personal experience, it's much easier to get weed since it is no longer prohibited. You used to need "a source" which you had to work out in each new town or city you moved to. Then there were limits on what those people could get you.
I’m not shocked the carrier would try, I’m shocked the OS lets the carrier dictate this with no user recourse.
A Spate of Recent Deals Raises Chatter of a Fading Petrodollar
> There is no other security as far as I understand it

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35447903 says it uses RADIUS authentication and “I can't just stand up [spoof] the ‘t-mobile’ or ‘Passpoint Secure’ SSID”.
> I wish brave would focus less on attracting advertisers and more on the use case where people just buy BAT and let their browsers fund content creators from the wallet without having advertisers in the loop at all.

This sounds like a desirable group of features, but might this tread a bit too closely to making Brave a money-transmission service and put them under the scrutiny of far more complex regulations?
Part #1: https://course.fast.ai/Lessons/lesson1.html
While I have no doubt that your zip code is a good predictor of financial success, the link you provided doesn't really support the claim that it's "one of the best". As so far as I can tell, it doesn't even bother try quantifying the predictive effect, let alone comparing it to other factors. It's just a map of income by zip code.
All the business schools' cases depend on survivorship bias.
Or you prepare before launch to a provided set of standards. PCI hasn't sunk innovation, for example.
I bet that was it! I either got a sticker like this or got it at the university store as a free add-on to a 90% discounted VC++.
I wouldn't go this far but I'd definitely make social media a lot less social/algorithm/attention driven.
No they won't. They'll keep the kids on as a loss leader. So much value add in indirect ways. Put up with a few years of not advertising to them so you have a user base later on. Keep the parents on-site under the delusion they are "spying" on their kid.
With iOS the new UX seems a little bad. I have AT&T. If I go to the Wifi settings and tap "Edit", and then go to the AT&T Passpoint managed network, tap the "i" button, and disable auto-join, then back out of the detail view, the save button is still disabled. However, if I just tap the back button out of the managed view, it still saves.

So, anyway, at least for AT&T you can definitely disable the auto-join at least.