skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All but #4 make sense.

Apple has a pretty terrible record on security given the Pegasus spyware and 0 clicks. Although most are related to iMessage and hardware exploits.

I still have a hard time believing the Privacy stuff since PRISM and Apple's openness to give data to China and Russia. But if you believe them, don't mind the government's access, and don't want to use other software, I can see where you are coming from.
What a story. Thank you for sharing it.

And sorry to inform you, but you’re damn special.
Why Not Today?
I hate these Amrican-centralist articles. Or rather, I don't mind their US focus but they always write "the world", not just NA.

This is the kinda commnt that HN downvotes, but I ask the Americans on here to look themseves in the eye and maybe acknowledge their overstatement?
Having a student sit there and type out, word for word, a decent essay on the subject is probably fairly effective education for a LOT of subjects.

In the same vein that letting students write calculator programs to do the quadratic formula for them during a test is actually a pretty good way to get them to learn the quadratic formula.

It's not an exact equivalent to the intent of an essay today - from an education perspective - but it's not a complete miss either.
Let me be completely clear with you: you are the danger to others when you bring a concealed firearm to a conference.

There might be people outside of the conference targeting attendees? That is the talk of someone who walks around life haunted by fear.
Honestly, I don't know if it's a 'things were better in my day' sort of attitude, but it does seem like the helicopter parenting and bulldozer parenting is just everywhere all the time.

It's the attitude that kids can't make mistakes, no matter what, and that any mistakes are a direct reflection on the parents. It's exhausting.

I want my kid to mess up. I want him to fall out of a tree and break his arm. I want him to grow up and drive somewhere three states over with his friends and break down and need me to come get him.

That's part of growing up.

Now for the part that I'm not sure isn't just me being a grumpy old man -

I'm honestly afraid we're raising a generation that doesn't have proper coping skills and won't be able to effectively function in society. My proof is that college students today will remove themselves from opportunities that are too stressful - which includes just needing to call people on the phone. I have seen massively competent, not socially anxious teens turn down amazing opportunities because they had to speak to someone they don't know on the phone.

It's amazing.
It can't, that's the point. Unless you steal the attestation key from Google.

Disabling the feature on your device will make you fail attestation and thus websites requiring it will just stop working.
That really doesn't sound healthy. Babies need real interaction, they don't need to slap a screen and make funny noises. Screens are flat, they have no texture.

Sadly, babies which are underexposed to stimuli often display developmental delays compared to peers.
Oh I know. My post was never wondering why I don't fit. I know.

I was just refuting the article.
But Steam games do work straight away on your computer, iTunes DRM music did not work on your average mp3 player everybody had. It's not like you could do something about it, it just refused to play it, I know, I had one.

And if you're asking customers to pay money to get the legal music and then download a DRM removal software from some Russian website to be able to listen to it (that might existed at the time, I don't remember), well that's even more hassle than piracy.

Even Apple themselves noticed the problem but a little too late, by then Spotify was already starting to spread.
My oldest goes to a top, selective public school. They barely enforce any phone rules at all and for some classes just tell the kids to use them. Sometimes is just for research, but also you can do things like run a scientific calculator app instead of paying TI hundreds of dollars. And even normal kid stuff like playing video games during open periods is allowed. Doesn't seem to be hurting performance. We have never limited her screen time, she watches loads of stupid youtube and yet she's still going to be at least in the running for a top tier engineering school when she start applying.

Sorry this was just bragging, but from what I've seen this applies equally to all the kids at her school.
And how will “breaking up Google” help if the “Chrome company” is still implementing DRM?
Indeed.

I'm also very interested to hear what their billing will be for this, which they conveniently don't mention.

...because, bluntly, that openAI sh$t isn't free (specifically custom models), and either a) jetbrains is taking a hit to their bottom line using it, or b) they're going to roll out new pricing off the back of it.
Yes, you got it now.

Government can subsidize adoption of open standards until they've become the market standard. Even this clunky solution is better than the government assuming a right to interfere with how people use their own private property in mutually voluntary interactions.
Wouldn’t this just mean I should change my bank?
Tech-literate folks really should make a concerted effort to move to our own darknet, something like freenet or I2P, to recreate the internet before the advent of mass adoption of smartphones by the public. Forums, IRC, vent/TS, webrings, XHTML 1.0. No WebGL. No Canvas. No WebAssembly. No damn WEI.

Normies can f&$% off and enjoy the data-mined, DRM'd, ad-infested, CCP-propagandized, upload-your-photo-ID-to-post-here, privacy-free dump their illiteracy, careless disregard for harm, and data exhibitionism fetish has allowed the clearnet to turn into.
Because its true (ignoring that corporations are accountable to more than just shareholders).

That doesn't mean everybody necessarily wants it to be the case but the USG is more constrained in what it can do compared to a corporation. A law that restricts what the Government can do very rarely applies to what a corporation can do.
Third-party clients could have been made to display ads, or they could have gated third-party client access behind Reddit Gold. That wasn't the problem.

The problem was that if you used a third-party client, Reddit would have to coordinate with them to launch whatever new stupid cryptocurrency scam they wanted to push that week. On a web browser they can just push new code into it[0], and their first-party mobile clients can be updated ahead-of-time with support for the feature. But third-party clients would have to spend their own development time adding stupid "click here to get your Snoovatar[1]" links. They could slow-walk that, or just not implement that, and Reddit would have to spend time and money kicking users off that third-party app.

This, incidentally, is why every other major social media platform bans third-party clients. Third-party clients are user agents, not platform agents.

[0] Which, incidentally, makes web browsers not user agents

[1] An NFT scam Reddit tried to pull
I worked in that code base. Things were feature flagged then murdered all the time.
Generally with scratch images you build in a less weird environment, then copy your application's files into a scratch image.

https://docs.docker.com/build/guide/multi-stage/
By showing ads from the “AdSense Company” and sending your personal information to them?

Meet the new boss…
> One particular issue we fixed a couple of times in TigerBeetle is replacing by-value with by-pointer loops:

I don't know about other tools and places, but one nice thing about working at Facebook is the internal Infer linter tool[1] is generally good about producing warnings for "this copy could be a ref instead"[2] (in the majority C++ codebase) at code review time, without manually combing the LLVM IR for memcpys. (Internally, Infer is using several handwritten analyses on C++ AST.)

Reading further, it seems like they are essentially looking for the pattern where a memcpy call is generated with a large constant size parameter at compile time. Things of this nature should be somewhat easy to write a static analyzer pass for, if you've got an existing AST/SSA level framework. I believe there is already an Infer pass for this for C++, but it might be a different internal analyzer.

[1]: https://fbinfer.com/

[2]: https://github.com/facebook/infer/blob/main/infer/documentat... (and related warnings, e.g., https://github.com/facebook/infer/blob/main/infer/documentat... )
Anywhere you don't also have email, DNS, etc. There are literally hundreds of domain registrars.
There is an ugly trend here. We want to protect children from exploitation, so we make artificial learning environments where kids interact with each other instead of adults and perform often silly exercises instead of actually participating in the creation of value. Now we want to protect kids by removing their capacity to communicate and organize socially. Protecting children is a noble goal, but it may be possible that the best protection for children is to interact with adults to create value and communicate and organize socially. Building cocoons for kids hoping that will help them pupate into successful adults seems misguided.
> As with most things, the decision of smartphone access for kids should come down to having parents actually understand their child, his/her needs and ability to handle the associated responsibility.

Except that far too many parents don't do this. I don't think its because they don't care, but rather they care more about their child "fitting in". This is why our local middle school is full of 12-year-olds with iPhones. The thing is a status symbol and a Pandora's box that you cannot shut once its open.

Look - the plain and simple of it is that mental health among teenagers is plummeting, and there is a lot of evidence to suggest that smartphones are the culprit. Schools can't solve social problems. But they can at least not encourage them.
I'm subject to a moratorium on AGPL software at work. Some legal departments forbid or highly restrict use of AGPL licenses. They are concerned the licenses' viral nature causing problems for their software products.

Not that I agree with them, but, also, IANAL.
It doesn't work this way.

How resisting the temptation of using a phone AT SCHOOL, a place where most kids don't want to be, will be rewarded so they can learn the benefits of self control?

It makes no sense!

It is already hard for most kinds understand that school is good for them to make it more difficult already and force them ignore the temptation of the phone.

Really, most people who talk about exercising self control or improving it have never had to had self control in the firt place.
Endless pivots and mass departures: VinFast’s chaotic U.S. expansion
>I have heard that the switch from the main consumed beverage from alcohol based drinks to caffeine based drinks may have possibly contributed to the Enlightenment.

Why didn't the caffeinated beverages stimulate the advancement of science in the countries where those plants are native from?
moral of the story is tools don't sell regardless of license.
> In general, bots are pretty easy to exclude. They usually advertise themselves by a user agent string. Yes, that can be faked – but it seems highly unlikely that bots using faked user agents create such a large number of impressions that Google has to use this route against them.

Is this serious?
Yeah, you can argue with advanced learning stuff, and in few cases it would work. But good luck competing with Tiktok, FB ecosystem & other social and attention parasites that probably half of the class will be already addicted to. You are competing with products designed and continuously adapted with massive help of professional psychologists to be as damaging as possible.

I don't think there is 1 rule that would be simply the best solution for every single kid out there. Understand your kids, how they approach learning, stimuli, how they react, how much patience they have (and encourage the good bits obviously). And adapt approach correspondingly, continuously.

But yeah giving small kids phones is a recipe for disaster, even static glowing screen is often more interesting to them than colorful books. Also, lead by example, kids want to mimmick their parents for quite long (usually puberty is stopping this). Same situation here btw (kids, 2 and 3 years old) and we talk about it a lot. We see around us some failures of unrestricted access to computers and phones, but without time machine its hard to say how things would be different without them
Yes, and the response should be to make the repo private. Only allowing interactions from previous contributors to a public repo is disingenuous.
This is good as a user story if you are using a blessed OS/browser/device in that you can avoid CAPTCHA or whatever

This is bad as a user story if you are not blessed and get likely locked out because the web operator doesn’t recognize you as valid

This is worse in the second order effects in that it can be leveraged to fight against ad blockers, paywall bypassers, YouTube video downloaders, and so on, by forcing all those user-friendly software under the umbrella of being unblessed. Hence the moniker of “web DRM”
Because we are only 'recipients' of their actions we can only watch, shame, scream, screech.

It is, as always, for your protection. They will shake hands, implement whatever they like.

The road is clear. Chat control, Earn IT act, TPMs, Secure Boots, Cyber Resilience act, Online Safety Bill, Crypto Wars.

Most of the users decide what can happen. Most of the users are blind. The network effect will eventually force everybody to follow.
But are you talking about Qucs or QucsStudio?
Oh I know why I can't get a job. I was just refuting the article.
I'm a couple years older than you, and got my first smartphone as a junior in 2009. The school had wifi, but students weren't allowed on it. The phone was handy for looking up things, but I was certainly in the minority with a smartphone. In that era, it didn't really make a big difference socially. Group texts were the main mode of communication.

A family member dated a school resource officer for a few years, and it was really jarring to hear stories about stuff he had to deal with from high school students which weren't big issues 5 years prior. Tons of cyber bullying, revenge porn, fake calculator apps that were fronts for encrypted storage, students with multiple phones, etc.

Phones were also way less powerful back then. By the time I went to college, companies were making apps multiple times bigger than at the beginning (like 1-5 MB commonly going to 20-50 MB). I could only have ~5 big apps on my phone before I was out of memory, and the phone died for good on the 2 hour drive to college.
What’s the big problem with calling other, problematic practices that are definitionally not front-running by another, less confusing name?

Imagine a public official caught taking bribes and calling that embezzlement, blackmail, or driving under the influence of alcohol. Makes about as much sense to me.

> the problem of people seeing orders and buying based on those orders before the original orders go through.

That would be frontrunning, and illegal, as far as I understand. I don’t think it matters if there’s two parties colliding to commit the same crime.

Are you maybe referring to payment for order flow, which also has its problems (but ironically on average yields price improvements over NBBO for retail traders!), but is not that?
not necessarily true...imagine you're a kid with tech skills and you've made the local news for making a free to use website that tracks public transport buses that over the course of a month or two disadvantaged people come to rely on...then that service goes away suddenly while some disadvantaged person is out doing something in extreme weather...now that disadvantaged person has to go wait for the bus in extreme weather for a substantially longer period of time which could easily make them sick which could easily be a life altering experience for them.
Well, who's going to stop them?

As for other browsers: I guess that you'd still be able to access my website, but YouTube and GMail will just show you a generic "This browser is not supported" or, at best, "Your browser had been deemed insecure. Please use a secure browser".

If we go full Nostradamus the most likely result is that Safari will play ball (because they are already doing something similar), Firefox will play ball (because they no longer have a spine), they'll implement whatever Google says, and yet another portion of the web will be closed to those who don't dance to Google's tune. I hope you're not too attached to youtube-dl or your adblocker.
Because I worked at Google. People get tasked on working on things that get killed later all the time.

Don't underestimate how much money they have to burn and how incompetent upper management is at making hard decisions and planning.
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The battle is already lost legislatively.

Multiple US states, France, Germany and the UK are going to make the web unnavigable unless you type your credit card number or scan your face for age verification in two out of every three sites.

We are going to need to at least try to create ways to secure those credentials in as zero trust model as possible.

(Note that the legislation is a disaster, but it is done. Nobody paid enough attention. It has passed or will pass in weeks.)
Another year closer to a Shadowrun future, minus the magic, where the most powerful corporations run everything, are more powerful than most nation states, and where your only allowed role in life is a consumer/corpse-servant for life (unless you want to risk the harsh penalties of being illegal and running the shadows).

I think we will get to a PostCapitalist future. The decisions we make in the next 7 years will likely determine whether the probable future is dystopian like Shadowrun, or utopian like Paul Mason (see his book "Postcapitalism: a Guide to Our Future").

Personally, I prefer Mason's, with his goals of:

- Rapidly reduce carbon emissions to stay below 2 °C warming by 2050 (edit: We've lost this battle, see the current 6-sigma sea ice event and recent AMOC reports - maybe we can hold it to 3 °C).

- Stabilise and socialise the global finance system.

- Prioritise information-rich technologies to deliver material prosperity and solve social challenges such as ill health and welfare dependency.

- Gear technology towards minimising necessary work, until work becomes voluntary and economic management can focus on energy and resources rather than capital and labour.

That will not be if we do not bring to heel the FAANG companies now, and prevent things like Apple's Private Access Token, Google's WEI, etc. from taking root (yanking them out of the ground where already present).
The evidence is piling in that internet crack is very harmful for developing minds.

Do you think it is dumb to have a global ban on cocaine in schools?
if you think those aren't receiving maintenance you're not paying attention or are ignorant as to how hard it is to keep a complex app compiling as operating systems move forward.

Not receiving new features is VERY different from not receiving maintenance. It is wholly implausible to believe that there has been zero energy spent on keeping those codebases working in the past 10 years.
I honestly wonder how this ends. He has co-investors. On one hand we can argue if they had a clue, they wouldn't invest in Twitter in the first place. But surely they see this is ending badly and Elon is at the center of it. Will they just sit and wait, or make a move?
Break it up. Break them all up. We need more disruption, not this codswallop.
Title bar removal on Linux? Finally! :)
The broad brush market is alive and well, though.
Mine can have one when they can pay for the phone and the plan.

I reckon if they can maintain enough income to cover that, they're ready for one.

Still can't have it late at night, though. And if they do anything too dumb with it, it's gone, and they can buy another when they graduate.
I was ok with my kids not having phone until they get to secondary school but divorced and their mother decided they would be pariah if my eldest daughter didn't have one at 11.

She is not yet addicted though because appart from instant messaging she doesn't have access to social media apps and I limit strongly the amount of hours of use and outside of her small quota the phone cannot stay in her room. So she is still using it to discuss with friends asynchronously.
Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and startup form body to regulate AI development
I agree that these are all problems, but again, I think the solution is to focus on fixing those problems directly, and not let special interests use these problems as the pretense for imposing their long-desired restrictions on the free market.
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I believe google has intentionally made google maps near unusable in firefox. It's been consistently working worse and worse every year. I feel like about 8 years ago there used to be parity between them.
I don't see how this will end the "free web." No publisher will be forced to use DRM. Anyone can still create a website and make it accessible to anyone for free with an internet connection.

If certain publishers want to require ads to view their content, that seems like their prerogative.
I feel like this thread is being spammed by tiktok shills
> If people are planning their near future based on what you've said you would likely be giving them, then at some point there is probably some inherited responsibility to at least give the user of that service a heads up so they can make other plans if possible.

If you’re not paying for it you’re not owed anything. Someone was doing you a favour at their expense and then they stopped. If you want something you can rely on pay for it.
Good article. It focuses on build times as the bottelneck, but actually for me most of the time that bottleneck is 2FA.

By the time I've managed to sign in to my email to double check an instruction, I've already forgotten what I was looking for...
Do you or did you work at Google? Because I did, for 10 years.

And can we retire this inane content-less quip already?

Also I'm old enough that even my children aren't children anymore. How I would dearly love for your statement to be true.
I took SF MUNI to & from school in second grade. I took GG Transit to the city from 9-14 y/o and then MUNI when I got there. I also took the ferries and BART fairly regularly as well. All by myself.
That's not the assumption. The assumption is that the system does not receive new node-types at runtime.

Think of the JVM: you can load new bytecode (e.g. classes) at runtime, but you can't load bytecode that contains features of newer jvm versions that isn't compatible with the existing one.

I don't think this is a "functional programming-like assumption".
Yes, you just pay for the browser and not the hardware. Are ChromeBooks also a “keyboard you pay for”?
Adults have been fine with the Lord of the Flies tendencies of adolescent education. But now smartphones are ruining everything?

I don’t have children let alone teenage ones so maybe I shouldn’t have an opinion on this, but it seems that we adults complain way too much about teenagers and almost never consider that maybe we have structured their lives in a way that isn’t great for them.

Singling out smartphones or binge drinking won’t fix anything at the root.
> I don’t understand this heated rhetoric claiming it is the “death of Israeli democracy”-to be consistent, people who claim that would also have to say that the UK and New Zealand are not democracies

I'm not trying to be harsh but it's weird how frequently this (badly offtopic) subthread has been speculative, when there are plenty of Israeli newspapers wherein the reasons for the rift in Israel are discussed to the nth degree... in English... by people who know what they're talking about.