skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was watching gore videos when I was 13. I bet lots of others were too. I turned out ok.

Survivorship bias isn’t a great way to make an argument, but I’m skeptical of the view that the internet is so much worse now. There isn’t even a liveleak anymore.

A family friend was groomed at 9yo. She was pressured into sending nude pics of herself to a 15yo. That kind of thing seems like the real danger for unsuspecting kids, and teaching them from a young age to guard themselves is the strategy I’ll be trying.
> Bundle materials into tuition expenses.

Professors: OK, my book is now $10,000.
Probably Sun Fortress?

It’s like someone lost one bet and then won another, and, resultantly, humanity lost…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortress_(programming_langua...
My 10-year kid watches the usual amount of silly stuff on youtube. But from time to time I catch him watching some popular science content. One of these days he gave a very good explanation of what a black hole is during dinner.

Then paying attention to him, I found out he is a subscriber to a very entertaining young astronomer's channel and that's where he was learning all that stuff. I sit along with him and engaged with him in the content.

On the other hand that are some content producers that are absolute trash, in those cases, I gently persuade my son this is not the best content for him, well, sometimes not so gently, in the worst cases I just lay down the law that he is not to watch that channel anymore. I do it rarely enough that it still works.

It is not magic, you just need to parent, the same way you have to do in every other situation in your kid's life that doesn't necessarily involve a screen.
24 million pixels across the two panels, orders of magnitude more than any headsets most consumers have come in contact with

The Quest 2 has about 4 million, which is undoubtedly more than 0.24 million. Has "order of magnitude" joined "exponential" as another math expression stolen as a synonym for "rilly rilly rilly"?
> Most ISPs didn't provide much information if they had a NNTP server users could use, and NNTP readers didn't come with most users computers. HTTP did.

Until Outlook Express was replaced by Windows Mail, most users computers did come with a NNTP client.
> I remember Edward Snowden went to India to learn hacking.

According to the owner of a podunk computer training school in New Delhi. If you believe this, I have a bridge to sell you in Brooklyn. https://archive.is/Aq6bU
TIL. Sometimes it's very frustrating trying to transition from Windows to Unix, and menu bars being at the top of the screen is one of those things that still doesn't quite stick with me. Hopefully it'll stick this time :)
Good example. When the 1st gen watch came out, I knew I wanted to have one, but I also kind of knew I wouldn't want the first generation. Lucky me, because I had quite some GAS at that time, the 1st and 2nd gen watches were never really easily available where I am located. Then, I conveniently forgot about the desire to own one. For years. I now have my first watch, 7th gen, and love it. Well, it is more like with a cute pet. You love it, and you learn to love its quirks. So even after 7 generations, the software is still not flawless, nor are the sensors. This is the first thing I would be worried about, if I had any inclination to use a headset: How distracting are the bugs they definitely will have? Since I totally stopped to install anything below iOS #.2 I wonder how "fun" it is going to be to use this product once it comes out :-) I have no trust left in their QA, shipment date is more important then user experience... :-(
> That's not what "Third World" originally meant; Third World was used to refer to the non-aligned countries, those countries that were neither aligned with the US and NATO (the "First World") nor the Soviet Union and the Warsaw pact (the "Second World").

Well, I concede that point; but even then it was used incorrectly considering that these third world nations are also comprised of the most developed nations in the West: Switzerland/Finland etc...

Still, the post is seething with just as much arrogance as it was misinformed and my point remains.
Well I'm going to buy Apple today.

This is the display. Next they'll release a tiny, screenless computer that'll work with it (i think they have one already?). Then you'll be able to dump the heavy laptop for basically just a box that sits in your bag/a drawer and a virtual/small keyboard.
I tried many alternatives, and finally settled on Kagi Search. It's a paid option but it's well worth it. They also have tools like FastGPT which I'm using more and more. It's a GPT model that has access to their search results. You can't use it for conversation like you'd do with ChatGPT, but for searching and summarizing it's amazing.
I have to ask, how many of you fellow techies came from households where they restricted your computer and smartphone use? Would you be you or better if you had been cut off from the digital world? How often did you lie awake under the covers until 3AM on a school night figuring out how to do something cool? How often did you get to take a conversation with a friend and run with it until someone fell asleep?

I don't deny access to the digital world has risks, but I would have lost so much had my parents done a quarter of what some of you are suggesting.
SDI->Thunderbolt “converters” are capture cards, they just use TB as the physical connector. Also, not all capture cards have the same feature set. Some of these cards have SDI capture and/or output, sometimes simultaneously and some with up to 8 SDI IO connectors. Some cards also do HDMI capture and/or output of the same or different feeds as the SDI signal(s).

The landscape of capture cards (not just SDI) is pretty diverse. It all depends on the kind of workflow you’re dealing with. Live productions in particular will often demand many connections, to be able to capture multiple camera angles, as well as to output to confidence monitors and/or backup recording devices, frame syncs, switchers, SDI routers and more.
You will never get upvotes by making obviously true statements. Get with the pogrom, er, program.

Adam Smith had worthwhile observations about how he compensated his employees. Some call it his Theory of Labor. I call it a successful Scottish business man calling it as he saw it back then

I just wish the people running the union I belong to understood what he said so they could make a more cogent argument than *You're rich so give me your money."
The one thing that impresses me is his attorney... his whistleblower complaint was filed by Charles McCullough.

The 2010 Intelligence Authorization Act formally established the Office of the Inspector General of the United States Intelligence Community within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. The first Inspector General of the Intelligence Community - appointed in 2010 - was Charles McCullough. He reported directly to James Clapper, National Director of Intelligence.

On the other hand, the thing that has me very skeptical, is his claim that countries around the globe have been in open competition to retrieve this vehicles and all of the countries have somehow kept everything secret for over 50 years. I just don't find that credible.

One part I find highly credible. The other highly suspect. In such circumstances, I the skeptic in me forces me to weigh in on its side.
From what I've read, they're transferring multiple petabytes of data a day between different backbone NNTP server farms.
But also: our generation saw a dramatic increase in obesity.

Correlation is not causation. But some correlations are just too obvious to ignore.
> nor have they for any other market they've entered

They don't care about iOS games? Apple Arcade?
Good guess. There's a reason they called it "Pro", to give room for a future device.

Also a reason they didn't mention "Metaverse" or "AI" once in the presentation...
it didn't fail, people just found something more shiny.

what scared me off usenet was the reality that very very illegal porn was flooding into otherwise normal groups. the relentless onslaught of spammers & scammers was never ending. kill files were handy but eventually became unwieldy.

it wasn't a client issue.. I was using what I considered to be the best Usenet client ever, Unison by Panic. I still use nntp via aioe.org to this day.
Looks historically unprecedented (?). This is a run-of-the-river type dam (relatively small elevation drop between upstream and downstream), but one with an enormous reservoir, with a volume (1.8e10 m³ nominal) larger than e.g. Banqiao (4.9e8 m³) or Mosul (1.1e10 m³). It is/was #48 on Wikipedia's ranking of world's largest water reservoirs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakhovka_Hydroelectric_Power_P...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banqiao_Dam

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosul_Dam

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_reservoirs_by_volume
> Are there other use cases now for Usenet nowadays?

Maybe not usenet itself, but NNTP gateways can be used to browse mailing lists.
Self-host Twitter and Reddit-like and online RSS reader written in Rust
Agree on the tech needs a big leap. Disagree on how big that leap is. The tech is like the first ipad -- bulky, huge bezels, poor cpu/gpu; or iphone -- similar drawbacks plus poor 3g connectivity, rendering the most useful app - GMap pretty much useless. But Jobs still released them knowing the tech will catch up in years, not decades.
No, it's not OK.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I hope labeling the flasks in alchemical throwback, "the rose of our masters" and "the red dragon's blood".
The 1903 Nobel was given to a guy who showed that light cures Lupus, a terrible skin disease.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niels_Ryberg_Finsen

It it very well established in science that light is good for you in some many different ways.
> I don't really find Mastodon that slow.

Not generally, but many servers. Which results in me avoiding clicking on any links to mastodon because I expect it to be extremely slow.
Every time there's a discussion of unionization on HN, I see a particular strain of comment which seems to argue against an almost Saturday-morning-cartoon version of unions. It's as if every union consists entirely of brutes, and every union meeting has the standing agenda of "Let's ask for big raises, and if the boss says no, we'll go on strike!" What is your experience with unions, which lets you make such wild claims and predictions?

As a card-carrying member of two unions, I can assure you that most of what you've stated here is simply false. Union members are not (IME) "dispassionate" workers with no stake in our work (nor are the scientists I know especially passionate about their publication schedule). Union power in practice does not primarily come from strikes (which are exceedingly rare, and nobody on either side of the negotiating table ever wants to see one). Union work is often time-sensitive (unless you think you can live for long without trash pickup, or nurses, or truck drivers, or electricity, or ...). Most movie stars and pro athletes are a union members, and those positions are just as "individualistic" as scientist.

Union jobsites frequently have "no-strike" clauses, e.g., government construction projects which must continue according to schedule regardless of a general strike. (I've worked through one myself. The union required it.) That's not merely a hypothetical: the linked article specifically notes that the NIH, as a government agency, is not allowed to strike. So I'm not sure why you spend four paragraphs discussing alleged problems with NIH strikes.

Even if it were allowed, in your imaginary scenario, apparently nobody in the union wants to strike, yet somehow the union "decides to strike". How exactly is it you think this would come to happen?
Strange. I did not have a cellphone until I was 19. I grew up to be just fine. My kid now almost 8. Does not ask for a cellphone. Kids need to be kids and have fun in other way. One thing that worked for me is I give them broken devices (electronics) and see if they can fix it. Nothing fancy. We usually go to goodwill or some after hand market. If they fix it they sell it. We do occasionally play Minecraft on a local server. That we only invite family/close friends.
13 /= 5 (numeral cited in the parent comment).

I stated in another comment that I think 8th grade (aka 13) is the appropriate time for internet exposure precisely because it's when I think kids can possibly be exposed to this sort of thing and have it have less of a chance of it being damaging.

I think the fact that you cited some of the more severe dangers a younger friend at 9yr faced further illustrates the point. Kids should not have access to the internet until they have access to sufficient information literacy and critical reasoning skills.
Apple has also acquired successful apps. In 2001, the same year that Apple "sherlocked" the app Watson, Apple acquired SoundJam MP and turned it into an app affectionately known as iTunes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoundJam_MP
Isn't this exactly how all US entities in China operate?
It'll be very interesting what they'll cut though, I have a feeling that any future version will be very similar. There's not much they can cut without making it feel cheep and comparable to a cheeper meta product
Ah, so you need to "bind together" to be able to make decisions these days? How is this going to go down with your kids? At first, you say no? If they ask enough, you explain "you know, there is this church of parents which has decided that no kid is supposed to get a smartphone that early. Sorry kids, we can not do anything about it, it is the curch of parents decision"

OK, so you can only hope your kid is rather dull. Because if they are bright, they will realize that you are pretty dull. And they will remember. I still remember when I realized that living with my mother alone is going to be hell, because I would have to deal with all her neuroticism without anyone stepping up to help. Then the plan forms: "I am going to leave as early as possible, these guys suck"
Whichever one you're using is probably borrowing massively from iNaturalist that also has (and has had for a long time now) its own AI-powered identifier (which recently underwent a major update).

iNaturalist is a platform to allow citizen scientists to upload observations of any species. The distribution data is what's most used in published research and databases like GBIF, but photos can also be uploaded with any license the observer wishes and iNatualist has decent APIs and works hard to make its data accessible to anyone
So like libreddit (sp?) and teddit, another readonly scraper, the real API supports write access.
CyanogenMod?
Does it play Half-Life: Alyx? :-D
Stupid nonsense. These idiots have deleted GOOGLE.GA
And their government domains are registered on natural person (mon.ga, aninf.ga). SICK!
Open-source framework for Trust and Safety
Only a Sith thinks in absolutes. Also, Yoda, who made the absolute statement describing Sith. Ergo, Yoda is a Sith Lord.

Also, taking philosophy from Hollywood movies is a bad idea. That's entertainment, not ethics, philosophy, or morals. Its overall very shallow in terms of thinking. And I don't think anyone ever thought Star Wars Episode 3 was a thoughtful deep movie.

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The philosophical discussion of moral relativity vs moral absolutism is hundreds of years old IIRC. Plenty of ethical people believe in absolutes. Plenty of other ethical people prefer moral relativism. I don't think we'd settle the discussion here in any case.

Bypassing the absolute vs relativism discussion for a second, it has become abundantly clear that major cryptocoin groups, from Mt. Gox, to FTX, to Voyager, to Celsius, to Binance and more... have stolen funds from their users and otherwise mismanaged money.

And not in a "kinda-similar way to banks". I mean completely, and utterly lied about their operations entirely, to a way unfathomable to mainstream finance groups (be it a bank, shareholder, bondholder or more).

The cryptocoin world needs to learn how to establish trust in its system. The primary currency of banks isn't money, but trust. (Mostly: trust that your money will come back). Cryptocoiners have failed time-and-time again.

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If we think in terms of absolutism, I think we can say that lying and stealing from others is universally wrong. As FTX did to its customers.

If we discuss moral relativism, cryptocoins are *relatively* more stealing / less reliable / more cheating than their competitors at Paypal, Visa, Mastercard, and other such financial institutions. SIVB and FRC got all their money back, but we all know someone who lost money at Mt. Gox, Celsius, Voyager, or FTX, right?

So its a lose-lose regardless of your personal stance on the matter.
What's so weird is that Microsoft had the Hololens years ago. It had a similar price, hand-based interaction, entirely self-contained, etc. I used one once, and it was astonishing. A totally magical AR experience

Of course the FOV was narrow and the resolution was probably too small for virtual monitors, and I don't know what the battery life was like. But this was so long ago, and then they just... stopped. I can't remember the last time Microsoft announced anything in mixed-reality. Maybe that Minecraft demo?

I'd love to be a fly on that wall
I’m still amazed Dropbox is making money. Doesn’t windows come with a Dropbox clone built in?
Note that the campaign is wait until "8th" (grade), not until 8 years old. I didn't have a cellphone in school either, because no one did, but that's not the situation anymore.
I have a toy language too but it is not at this step yet. Personally I would just create my own simple programs and try out some common algorithms to see how it works. I do have some old BASIC books (PDF) that I have tried to convert to my language. The books are full of simple games. Beyond that I would consider each language feature and write a program using that. You could also look in some data structures and algorithms books/sites for examples.
And still people going on saying Chernobyl only caused a handful of human deaths.. That's not the only problem with nuclear disasters.
Recently discovered this functionality is built into iOS. Take a picture of a plant, view it, at the bottom see the "i" in a circle. Click on it, then a banner under the image will say something like "id plant". Works pretty well, not perfect but was surprised that this is a built in feature.
I’m on board. I have perused the online internet’s infinite wisdom and its deepest smut. I don’t think most kids will even remotely spend their time on the informative side of things. Not to mention I can see that people struggle to hold their attention even as adults after significant exposure. Provided I make my home environment an enriching environment, they’ll be fine without a smartphone.
They destroyed. Faster go to gandi.net and register your domain ($25). Recover dns records, then switch over to another domain in good zone.
It’s very similar. We’re just the ‘other force’ that is kicking it off this time, and we’re a bit more efficient than most.
11.5Mpx per eye I think it said in the video.

Or almost 50% more than 4K, per eye.
My kids don't yet have phones, but they do have PCs and access to tablets. I don't think a phone is necessary to get involved with technology.
Mac Mini with M2 Pro
The focus on Hololens style air tap seemed like an expectation adjustment to me, that it's more or less AppleLens.
For the young ones in the audience, here's the visionary CEO who said it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eywi0h_Y5_U
Yes and no.

That MacBook was the first device to offer High DPI in that package (I wouldn't be surprised if there was some obscure Sony laptop on par with that, but doesn't matter). But weirdly enough CRT at that time had decent resolution for the distance they were supposed to be viewed at. I remember Iiyama having 1600+ px screens for sub 20" CRTs, at expensive but manageable prices (something around 500+?)

We'd accept many compromizes for laptops anyway, so a lower resolution/worst refresh rate to have LCD panels instead was part of the package.
I think it would be reasonable to assume the accident killed a lot of stuff at the time and one factor is it's not being reintroduced in part because it is a zone of exclusion.

They should experiment with bringing in decay promoters to try to prevent a devastating fire from making things worse. (Assuming they haven't done so already, which may be wrong given the age of the article.)
The terrain is higher on the NW side... This seems like a really strange move given their defensive positions.

(old link with color topo and some color commentary)

https://www.reddit.com/r/NonCredibleDefense/comments/yansa7/...
> Germany was and is still fooled by it. That is why Greece was treated the way it was after the Lehman crash in 2008.

With or without that study, Greece would have been treated this way. Saving money is burned so much into German culture that none of the recent German ministers of finance can forget their microeconomic views and adopt macroeconomic views.

This goes way back to the end of the 1920s when the German government decided to save money during the great depression.

Also, in Berlin there was a museum about saving money [1].

[1]: https://www.dhm.de/en/exhibitions/archive/2018/saving/
> I did not have a cellphone until I was 19. I grew up to be just fine.

Did you grow up in a world where most other kids had them and fluency with smartphone use was expected?
AI chatbots lose money every time you use them. That’s a problem.
The effect/kinetic energy of the water involved would be comparable to that released by a nuclear explosion.

Total madness.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/06/nova-kakhovka-...

"The reservoir it contains holds an estimated 18 cubic kilometres of water, about the same volume as the Great Salt Lake in Utah. Bursting the dam could send a wall of water flooding settlements below it, including Kherson, which Ukrainian forces recaptured in late 2022"

In 1941 the retreating Red Army blew a different dam, the Dnieper/Dnipro dam, up to a hundred thousand people died on that occasion...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnieper_Hydroelectric_Station#...
Except Apple ][ for which there were plenty of ways to upgrade.