skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an Iowa kid, I detasseled corn every summer from when I was 12 to 16. 10 hour days, 5 or 6 days a week, in the Iowa heat and humidity. Not saying every ag job for kids is like mine or José Velásquez Castellano's, but it's not that cruel. I'm not sure if I was supplementing my family's income or not, but I sure was paying for things that other more well-off kids had their parents pay for. I'm not arguing for "child labor" but if you grew up in an agricultural community none of this seems that shocking.
It’s completely fine to do some work at that age, get a little pocket money, and learn what work is first hand. It’s not ok to do that instead of everything else. Part time work can be beneficial, full time work is child labor.
> just buy Canonical or something

Canonical doesn't really make any things that are considered part of a desktop OS. Ubuntu is just a package (and some argue a bad one) of things made by other people.

There's very little value in the Linux desktop and I don't see that changing anytime soon. You're probably best re-inventing the wheel if you want a Windows competitor, like Google did with ChromeOS.
Yeah but what about when their GPA is 3.254? Bet you're not laughing then! /s
I strongly disagree. I would love for a search engine to, intelligently, cater the results based on my previous search history and patterns.
Seems unlikely. Samsung would justifiably paint that as anti-competitive / monopolistic and the last thing Google wants is more scrutiny from various government regulators right now.
There is no conspiracy - theaters will just straight up admit that the prices of soda, popcorn, and candy are what they are because they make (at best) pennies on each ticket sold and make up for that by making a high margin on concessions.
It's been previously reported, you missed the evidence you say doesn't exist (you frame your ignorance as knowledge of absence)

>Apple is only planning to implement sideloading support in Europe.

See also the language about this being the start of a rollout of sideloading in other reports - ie EU only. This will be driven by courts, Apple hasn't and won't be charitable. Apple spins every incremental change as a positive win to cover PR instead of admitting partial defeat.

Btw Apple already today restricts loads of services and content based on region, you should look into that if you think that's a challenge for them
I learned to read so young that I don't remember learning to read. That must have been such a feeling of awakening.
> Spending an occasional weekend working a few hours in a field sounds perfectly fine and character-building for a 12-year-old. More 12 year olds should be getting outside and tasting manual labor!

Leave it to HN for the top comment to defend child labor. WTF?

The exception for kids to work on farms used to be for small family run farms where the kids would inherit the farm one day, so they'd be building equity. Bad enough, but understandable for the time.

Today? For commercial mega farms? Fuck that shit. That's blatant wage suppression.
How does that test intuition?
It's named after a fundamentalist figure named Duane Gish. You can probably find his clips on Youtube.
Its Hydrogen, the concern is explosion
https://www.ccohs.ca/oshanswers/safety_haz/battery-charging....
In comparison, the EU legislation on teenage working (it's a quick and easy reading):

https://europa.eu/youreurope/business/human-resources/employ...

First sentence: "You cannot employ young people under the age of 15"
google still owns android
Could this be because of GPT at OpenAI(MS).
Wow. I thought this was going to be a big rant piece on why we should all go back to dynamic linking again and I was so ready to start my Monday off with a spicy take.

But yes we should all also be adding links in our writing and publishing on our own platforms.
SpaceX Scrubs Starship Launch
Eliud Kipchoge’s Next Feat: The Tactical Boston Marathon
OK, well, I guess I'll try it. I'm not looking forward to 6 months from now when they do an internal product review and decide to kill it, again.
> Sideloading is full of risks, and I don't love it. But it's at least a little bit of competition to push Apple towards make the App Store useful again.

As someone who develops for the platform, I tend to agree, I'll probably never distribute apps with sideloading, but I think ultimately it's a good thing. I'd also be happy if it attracts more interest and developers to the platform who were previously turned off by the App Store process and Apple Tax.

I also build for macOS, which has always allowed sideloading and don't see any major issues with it there.
> better desktop OS

> Google

It wouldn't be an OS, it would be a casino full of flashy ads. The worst company for anything business critical. Ads - yes, email - ok, anything else - never. They get away with Android because it's mostly a consumer market.
If gods of chaos decide give a future where google completely gets broken up a chance, I'd be massively pissed if someone doesn't detach google reader and bring it online just to make a point.
If Bing will manage to pull it off then the only conclusion to draw from this will be: never bet against Microsoft, lol.
Desktop market share moves very slowly. A 1% shift per year is a big move last I looked. ChromeOS is doing about as well as possible gaining share.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.politico.com/amp/story/2019...
Do you need a license to deploy this, or can you do it with such low tx power that it's permitted?
I think it's mostly about culture and infrastructure. When we lived in Southern Germany, I cycled to work literally 5 days a week for three years (22-25 km per day, depending on the route), yes also when was snowing or raining. I still use cycling as the only means of transportation to the office, but with WFH it's currently only 2-3 days per week. I live in The Netherlands again, where cycling is one of the primary forms of transportation.

Rain: I use rain pants and waterproof jacket/shoes. Snow: bike lanes are cleared, though I did regularly cycle on snowy roads in Germany when they were not cleared yet. Tires with some profile and experience make it very doable.
Can you say, if this makes it more difficult to tell jokes?
When MS switches on bing chat on chrome it will be a huge blow to google
10 years ago, Google was one of the most exciting companies in the world to me, culminating in that amazing Google Chrome comic https://www.scottmccloud.com/googlechrome/

Their products and software seemed genuinely inspiring. Now, it seems to just be maintenance or death. Seemingly happens with all once-loved tech companies to some degree. It's quite sad but I guess time moves on. Totally self-inflicted for them though, they decided to stop moving forward
IMHO reading competency starts at home, not in the classroom. Kids need to be interested in reading, and that's up to the parents more than it is to the school.

My very unique / personal take. Have been doing sight words with my 5yo for the last two weeks. He just started his second term of prep (pre year 1). He's not advanced as far as I can't tell, but I'll tell you it's exhilarating to watch his progress. He absolutely loves the challenge of it. And he's already sounding out and reading short, repetitive books based on known words. He's a lucky kid for so many reasons. Not a great case in point for the same.

All kids are different, with unique needs, and schools should be expected to adapt to these. But it's a two way street. If an individual isn't reading by fourth grade, after four years of schooling, then something is going on .. either at home or in a cognitive sense. If a whole class isn't reading, then sure - look at the curriculum ... but there's probably something more systemic at play.
SpaceX as well, with their original Falcon 1 (demonstration rocket, before they secured funding to pursue Falcon 9)
Where do you see ChromeOS and Google Office as falling flat in that regard? Desktops are pretty smaller in market size compared to laptops these days.
DDG uses Bing under the hood
I'm actually not entirely sure about that. For example, if I know a lot about a particular topic and the search engine knows that I know a lot about that particular topic, then when I search for something, it should give me a condensed result and not introductory-level material. Or if I have certain preferences for the format of material I'm given. For example, if I prefer college-level outline material versus eighth-grade reading level text, for example.

So it seems entirely reasonable to me that you would get different results.

If I had a personal assistant that was performing the search for me, I would expect customized results from them. I don't know why I should not expect the same from a machine.
Well, yeah, teachers have been bamboozled.
All this was promised from falcon though.

I don't doubt theres potential savings, I'm dubious that we'll see order of magnitude cost reductions. Escaping earth's gravity is always going to be hard.
The crop is also a problem. I occasionally work with tobacco graders. Extended exposure to tobacco plants will absolutely destroy your skin.
Sundar is a McKinsey consultant who is very pleasant and agreeable and can keep a boat steady while maximizing shareholder return. Unfortunately there isn’t much innovation happening .
Google needs a Larry Page or Musk like character back at the helm.
"efforts to tighten agricultural child labor laws have repeatedly failed because of opposition from Republicans in Congress and farm lobbying groups. They argue that such changes would hurt family farms and make it harder to teach kids about farming."

This is the bollocks. I have a farm. Kids have been out helping me since they were about 5 or 6, and around I've never herd of some formal wage system in a family farm for kids. They do it because you're contributing. Having farm labor laws for 'family farms' that go beyond family is utter lies and incredibly repugnant as they are essentially twisting things to allow people to use child labor.

As an Australian I dont understand what has happened to the moral compass in USA. Its like while the rural parts say they are a Christian nation, the reality to an outsider like me seems they follow money as their deity more than anything.
The bastards finally did it. They rewrote Rust in Rust.
>It didn't even remotely occur to anybody in the family that learning to read was special

As usual, it's much fuss about nothing. Same goes for financial discipline. There are no special techniques, unless one are dealing with special needs kids.
in an earlier thread i half joked going to Matamoros and paying a fisherman $50 to take you out to see the launch. just for the record, that boat in the area is not me! ;)
Well you see we just haven't tried real socialism yet. The wealthy should not be allowed to give any kind of private education including tutors to their kids. And they shouldn't be allowed to interact with their kids at all because that too causes inequity. State boarding schools all around. Then we will achieve a classless society.
I am so glad the latest Proxmox VE release contains a dark mode.
Thanks for the fact check. Looks like I accidentally grabbed quarterly numbers instead of yearly. At least it's the correct order of magnitude :)
I am one of those twelve-year-olds that worked in the fields to save money for an education. We actually started when I was about 10 or 11. My sister and I grew pumpkins to sell at our roadside farm stand and grew vegetables that were sold to a local grocery chain through a program run by 4H/Cooperative Extension.

It was hard work, but a great experience. There were some 10-12 hour days when we were planting, and it got pretty busy during harvest season. We had days off and typically during the busy part of the season we wouldn't spend more than 4 hours working. Our parents also worked just as hard as we did.

It was great because there was no set schedule and we learned some things about entrepreneurship. I was proud of the work we put in and what we were able to achieve. The last season we ran the farm, we made about $12,000 in today's money.

I don't think this form of child labor should be discouraged, but rather encouraged.
Apple is serving their shareholders by offering users a safe platform. It’s a marketing feature.

I don’t disagree that government should be regulating this, these aren’t mutually exclusive options.
There is an entire genre (vaporwave) that is rooted in sampling stuff like this. It’s a treasure trove.
That sounds like a work safety issue, not a child labour issue.
> Emacs also has a built in email client, RSS reader, IRC client, calculator, file browser, web browser, markup language, regex DSL, Vim emulator, terminal emulator, custom elisp based shell, interactive REPL that works for several programming languages...

Then most of these things are not in "emacs" since most of them are packages and not builtin. That was my point. Emacs is insanely customizable through packages, and can essentially run anything. Chrome and Firefox and any other web browser are also insanely customizable through "packages" which you just so happen to download as soon as you enter the URL to the "package" you want, which we really refer to as a web app. But, that doesn't make the browser an OS, and it doesn't make emacs an OS either.
count me in :)
No, this would be a good exercise for first-year calculus. It's a very reasonable question, nothing out of the ordinary.
That is its own kind of hunt. I greatly enjoyed this series

https://www.servethehome.com/introducing-project-tinyminimic...
I have literally watched a 5 hour plus video essay (NOT just a stream VOD, an actual video essay without much filler) recently but I concur that a lot of times a shorter video would suffice to get the point across.

I guess there's room for a happy middle ground between traditional TikTok and modern long-form YouTube.
For clarity, the Ancient Greek alphabet was thought to me using a cue based method exclusively because well, it's ancient Greek, nobody talks ancient Greek anymore, it's considered a dead language (it's still very close to regular Greek in terms of alphabet though... but that wasn't a part of the education method - I will say that it helped out a lot when visiting Greece to be able to read the signs since the alphabet was still virtually identical with I think like, one extra character added over the centuries?).

The teacher did all the things you expect from a cue system - teach the students the mnemonics, instruct them how the characters are all named (because ancient Greek has a name for every character) and detail how they all looked, but there was never any conversation on how the language was actually spoken. You just had to kinda figure out what the words meant. Small aside, but we did get a phonetics lesson for Latin, to explain how the name of the Romans most famous field general, Ceasar, would eventually have his name used for the leaders of the Roman state. That word would then turn into the German word Kaiser, a word that would be used to describe a certain group of state leaders, specifically emperors (even in different languages with words like Czar being derivatives of it, with a similar pronunciation). It helped a lot to understand Latin by seeing how the pronunciation gradually evolved, even though it wasn't spoken anymore.

The only reason I actually ended up learning it was because my grade was failing and due to an administrative error, I could do a resit on an alphabet test I completely failed earlier in the year. So to prepare for that test, I decided to ignore pretty much every single mnemonic/letter name that the teacher had taught me and I just did... a straight mapping. I mapped every character in Greek to a letter similar in my native language. I had a couple of doubles but it did work. I put it together with a small word list that used most of the letters and just learned how to pronounce those words. Suddenly the alphabet clicked and that was in less than a week, after a year of failed cue-based teaching.

As for Duolingo - as far as I have tried (with Japanese), it's overly reliant on the flashcard method of learning languages. It felt very ineffective; you don't really engage with characters or words, you just learn how to fill out auto-generated sentences and how to pick the right translation from a set of 3. I don't think the issue is gamification, but rather the framework thats being used here. (Probably in part because this particular framework is easy to put into programming while "figure out the right phonetics and put those together to figure out words" is very difficult to gamify, since you're going to need to do correction based on similarity, which is very different from person to person.) I might try learning Japanese again - it's still a personal goal of mine - but Duolingo did not help much there.
Scrubbed for today
> This ML stuff makes a humble web dev like myself feel like a dog trying to read Tolstoy.

Just like any discussion between advanced web devs would make any humble woodworker feel?

And just like any discussion between advanced woodworkers would make a humble web dev feel?

"It's really simple, they're just using a No. 7 jointer plane with a high-angle frog and a PM-V11 blade to flatten those curly birch boards, then a No. 4 smoother plane with a Norris-type adjuster and a toothed blade for the final pass."

Whut?

"You could use Webpack to bundle your HTML, CSS and Babel-transpiled TypeScript 5 down to shim-included Ecmascript 4", "They're just using OAuth2 authentication with Passport.js and JWT tokens, which easily gets you CSRF protection", "Our e-learning platform uses LMS.js and xAPI.js, plus SCORM for course packaging and Moodle as the LMS backend.", ...

There was a time you didn't know what any of that meant.

Just because you don't know what the words mean shouldn't make it sound difficult. Not saying AI is easy, just that the jargon is not a good indication of difficulty and we should know better than to be so easily mystified.
When I started delivering the Milwaukee Sentinel in the winter of 1960 at age 12, carrying my papers in saddlebags on the back of my bike, I thought it wasn't all that bad considering I made about $5/7-day-week & my allowance was 25 cents.

Looking back I'm amazed I didn't seem to think being out in heavy snow and below-zero weather in the dark was a terrible thing.

Pushing that bike uphill a half mile to the paper drop depot at 4:30 am on school days and weekends didn't seem all that bad, nor did having to perfectly place each subscriber's paper so as to encourage them to give me a 10 cent tip when I went to collect each month.

Bonus: I got home around 6:30 am, in time to get another hour's sleep before school.
Then please provide your argument.
In corn country, it's common to have young kids do "detassling" at a young age. While machines can assist, there's no way to avoid having to do some of the process manually, and detassling is essential for high yields.
I've been fighting for probably a full decade at this point to get Swiftkey to stop turning "ok" into "OK" and making me look like either a geriatric or a lunatic. It doesn't matter how many times I tell it to stop predicting it it keeps happening.
I use bing via duck duck go and it's total dog shit but I don't want to use Google so I just suffer through it. And even Google's 1st page results are pretty useless nowadays
Right. They develop services, see which ones attract a large audience, and close those that don't. https://killedbygoogle.com.

I like it, personally speaking. Google has a lot of power, and it's an approach that minimise the use of that power to push people around.
I known it’s hard to believe but I sense LLMs have slightly knocked his ego down and injected a small dose of humility.

https://youtu.be/z5WZhCBRDpU

I pick that up in above video and also in the post above.

Definitely healthy for him which just to be clear I’m a huge Wolfram fan and the ego doesn’t really bother me, it’s just part of who he is, however I do find it nice that LLMs are having him self reflect more than typical.
'Big sponge': new CO2 tech taps oceans to tackle global warming
I can't tell if your sarcasm is top notch, but isn't Chromebooks and GSuite (docs, sheets, slides) exactly the thing you describe?
Wouldn't be that easy to abuse, the Coast Guard is involved.
A song that uses AI to clone the voices of Drake and The Weeknd has gone viral
It can absolutely do it in 1 but does depend on your prompt!
I had no idea that OpenBSD didn't accept Apache 2 code

https://www.openbsd.org/policy.html
For a while, when I came up with a really clever, original one-liner, I'd search Twitter history and find that it had already been made dozens of times.

Worse, we started a business and scoured around, looking to see if anyone had ever tried it. A little over a year in, we realize someone else had started it, two years before us, but with slightly different terminology. Fortunately, but we're both still around and kicking over a decade later, though with a good understanding now of why not many other folks had tried it.
Insect Farming Startup Raises $175M for Food Expansion
The song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VszJPLAtK0U

A couple of other interesting examples also linked in the article.
There’s an extension that enables it for all browsers
Using Bing GPT4 hashtag commands
I don’t know how old you are (over 40?) but I suspect there’s a generational gap here. In the 1990s and before, in my part of the US anyway, a teenager without a job was seen as lazy or entitled.

Sometime after the mobile internet happened kids stopped working. They stopped driving cars and that was a big motivator for work. There was a lot of money flying around and parents just started handing spending money to their kids.

Now I read articles post-COVID that sound shocked that fast food chains are advertising jobs to 14 year olds. If you’re much under 40, this might seem like some terrifying Charles Dickens stuff.
YES!

And not just privacy but also shady practices around canceling and managing subscriptions and others.

There is a very good reason I bought my parents iOS devices and the app store is the biggest one.

Even as a technical person myself this is a big selling point for me to have an iPhone.

Does it give a lot of control to apple and have they blocked some apps I wish they could allow, Yes!

But I will take that over a future (that I really don't see being an "IF" since we know developers like Facebook will jump at the chance to be shady, and they could just make it easier for others to follow) where the choice is made for me by an app not being available on the store.
Falcon 9 never promised full reusability, only first stage reuse, and it did cause a large reduction in launch costs, as well as pretty obviously representing a paradigm shift considering all the other reusable rockets in development, the surge in funding for space tech startups and megaconstellations becoming practical for private entities.

To emphasize that last point, on the back of Falcon 9, Starlink represents over half of all satellites in orbit and Falcon 9 itself accounts for nearly half of all orbital launches in the past 2-3 years. The lower costs are also evident from the fact that many lower budget NASA missions which would have previously had to rideshare ended up just getting a dedicated F9 for less than the rideshare would've cost.
Doubt it. Not enough people even know about it or will discover it to be a "huge blow" to google
This argument makes no sense. If you follow this thought process, you could also complain that Americans can't buy nuclear weapons, but they can work in nuclear labs.
We don’t know enough about the Pornhub acquisition
Everybody needs a certain base of math to a certain age so that we can find the students that want to go on with math and so that they are able to. Society needs that.

Along the way, everybody has a chance to get a feel for math in the world, which I would say is on par with a certain base in the humanities; we should strive for every citizen to have it, even if it’s not strictly needed for survival in the job market.