skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does anyone know of somewhere in America where it is common for children to play semi-unsupervised with lots of other children of different ages? I grew up in a super-block like setting and you could look out and see your kids play but most of the time you didn't and they'd form groups with kids of ages above and below theirs and work out some relatively fair way to play a game and have fun.

Usually sports, but sometimes something else. I actually really enjoyed this sort of setting. Kids would get hurt accidentally, there were some harmless fights, and that sort of thing.

I'm just concerned that, independent of my own viewpoint on the subject, I will be unable to find sufficient other parents with this approach, or, should I find them they'll be clustered with other beliefs that I think are suboptimal for success.

Ultimately, if there is a place with this culture then I will try to make it so I can reasonably live there.
What level of public contributions are required for a software engineer to get a dual intent talent visa to US? And what kind of agencies can help with this?
What are you talking about? The comment you’re replying to doesn’t mention anything about gay people at all.

It’s 2023, yes we know gay people get married.
are you crazy there's tons of sexual ads still on TV
A full schedule is bad for a kid. They need to learn how to keep themselves entertained, or plan their own activities, or manage their own time, and they can't do that if they get a day plan from sun up to sun down.
Meanwhile, Google steps on the rake of not putting enough battery in the phone every single time. I swear I've not seen a single flagship pixel review that hasn't mentioned bad battery. If it's bad out of the box, how bad will it be in 2 years?
Yes, but none of the solutions will be implemented. It's ultimately navel gazing.

And one of the qualities of a wicked problem is that you can't really run experiments. Finding out if (for example) a new method of teaching during early education will result in more capable college students has no experiment that you can run that doesn't involve just doing the thing. And while you can implement with "speed and urgency", the fact that this is an issue that affects people after many years means after you've implemented it, there is no more speed or urgency to be had. And you also don't get to know if you've done anything until the end. And also with all of the other confounding factors that go into the growth and development of human beings, you can't even know if what you did was the thing that made the difference.

They're hard. Full stop. We need to approach them with caution and full realization that we are essentially replacing our wings mid-flight. You don't get to be wrong without things going very wrong. So whatever you do, you have to try and do it in a way that mitigates as much possible harm as you can perceive.

And even if they did come up with a solution to one of their problems, so what. Because another quality of wicked problems is that they're fairly unique. What works for one problem is not guaranteed to work for any other problem. So even if these techniques solved even one of these problems, it does not help.

We don't need tools to solve wicked-class problems, that's about as likely as perpetual motion, we need tools to identify them.
> going dumb phone next month, which is _even cheaper_

You sure it's cheaper? I've been unable to find a dump phone for a good price - a used smartphone on eBay is far far cheaper. Also a Chinese android phone, and just don't use the "smart" parts.
Artificial General Intelligence. Like what LLMs are moving towards.
Meta plans retention 'hooks' for Threads as more than half of users leave app
rcvd, qr, rd, ra

are defined in the RFC.
It need the abbreviation to fit in the ASCII art in RFC text.

back in those days, dig users are those who read rfc
I'll shout it from the rooftops: Down with helicopter parenting!

Independence, life skills, and fun stem from the freedom to explore on one's own. If anything parents, should be constantly nudging and encouraging kids to be more independent than is typically expected by:

1. Letting them have some unstructured, unsupervised time, especially out in the neighborhood.

2. Not automatically doing or thinking for them, especially by answering advice questions with questions that encourage reflection and independent decision-making.

3. Expect them to help with chores and needs self-service, pushing back against the expectation that parents are the forever barbers, waiters, and maids while the kids are on permanent vacation.
I am not a lawyer. The transition from TN->GC is possible too under the right (narrow) circumstances. The big tradeoff is not risking travel while within the lifecycle of one TN term, and likely not being able to straddle a GC application across the boundaries of a TN renewal period at all. For some countries of birth, a TN term is not long enough to get through the GC pipeline. But for Canadians born in Canada, ones who have family willing to visit them instead of the other way around, it may be doable. Or for folks born in other countries which have no GC backlog or a short one. YMMV, but I have personally seen someone go L2->TN->GC. An unusual sequence but necessary given the particulars of that case.
The goalpost is exactly where it has always been, your example is just a horrible way to try and show that targeted advertising can be used for good. How does it "better their lives"? It's not like Headspace is giving the app away for free; teachers still have to pay for it.

In the single example you did provide, the motivation behind the targeting is still strictly to extract money from people. It may be to extract slightly less money from a specific group, but it's not like Headspace is doing the targeting out of the goodness of their hearts; they are doing it because they think they will get more profits from the higher number of sales even at a discount.

Using the most capitalistic example is certainly a choice you can make, but it's not one that is going to convince most people of your cause. If you want to convince people that targeted ads can be used for good, then actually show that it can be used for good instead of talking about theoretical and hypothetical non-profits and providing the weakest possible example when pushed for reality.
I said I agree that we could use legislation. I specifically question the voracity of the messaging here. Is not even whataboutism, is literally making up concerns on the few "big tech" companies while everyone is getting fleeced by nonsense in the financial world.

Don't get me wrong, if you want to abolish facebook and/or twitter, I doubt I would really shed a tear. Most of the complaints here, though, are not really leveled at them. Heck, I wouldn't be upset to see the others get split. But we continue to make banks bigger and bigger. We have thrown healthcare to pipe dreams only. We seem to endorse that the only way to have a future is to borrow against it.

Name the biggest data leaks out there. You will find that banks make up as much of that list as "big tech." Notable that two of the main "big tech" companies aren't even on the list. Such that I feel fine standing by that claim.

Though, again, I support more legislation. I don't support pretending there are monocle wearing villains at "big tech" that is our largest problem. That doesn't mean I think we can't also still do something about real concerns there.
If you keep your eyes open for it around (neurotypical) adolescents you’ll see that this is very true. Everything they do that they know is observed by others is an experiment. What happens if I say… what happens if I try… what happens if I wear…

They’re very keenly tuned in to social feedback, far more so than we may realize as adults.

IMO this is also why it’s so important as an adult to be very intentional and unambiguous when appropriate. Flat statements like “that’s rude” or “that was very kind” can be very powerful.

Also worth considering how online interactions change the game- they’re trying all the same gambits, but the kinds of feedback they get are very very different than in person.
40% of the general population? sure

for desirable employers with competitive pay, I'd guess closer to 80%.
Hello Peter, I'm Italian and my wife it's American, we're living in Ireland,

What do I need to do for having a work permit in the US? and can the process be in Ireland?

we would like to move once I get a job (the job ask if I can legally work there)
Build an 8-bit computer from scratch: https://eater.net/8bit
There are a lot of comments on my answer about expert witnesses, so I'll collect it all here:

Martin Rinard is a star. They pay him $850/hour because he testifies well, and he's done it before. He's got the credentials from MIT so juries tend to listen to him. I remember this exchange:

Apple lawyer: So that was a lot of money!
Martin: It was a lot of work.

People seem to be doing some object inheritance from an ancestor post's "one month" but I didn't say that. His work would have gone over many months.

They interview him, and he writes something. Then the lawyers rewrite it. Then they all go over it, line by line. It's excruciatingly boring. I sat in on two days of the review of a different expert witness' 300-page declaration, and they had another day planned after me! They probably have a mock trial, where he practices his testimony (I'm not sure how prevalent that is).

I didn't work on Apple v. Samsung; I was just a spectator.

I don't know what an expert witness would get in this Stanford thing, but it doesn't seem to me like the spending would quite so wild.
"less attuned social dynamics and courtesies and other subtle etiquettes that are desired when out in public" That's a lovely way of saying it.
I'm thinking of making the switch to iPhone this year once the USB-C model comes out

Whether I regret it, not sure, I mean Android isn't _that_ bad really and the Samsung phones are good, but I think Apple have nailed the ecosystem thing a lot better than what google have.
> An application that deployed 50 years ago and never updated would not run on 64-bit processors and would not be able to use the TCP/IP protocol suite.

You can run legacy 24-bit mainframe apps on modern 64-bit mainframes fine.

You can use legacy 3270 "green-screen" CICS mainframe apps over TCP/IP using CICS Transaction Gateway, with basically no changes to your CICS app.

It's just that mainframe customers pay a lot for this convenience and stability.
Presumably it's not just the cost of storage media, but storage of the media too. Climate-controlled warehouses leased in perpetuity, archivists, security, and so on. To be clear, I don't think this is why so much of TV and movies (not to mention radio) is lost, I think that's just lack of foresight or different priorities. My point is, I don't think just buying a few thousand off-the-shelf VHS blanks would have solved the problem.
It really is.

Imagine if we can get to a world where the difference between not having health insurance and having insurance means either you wait for your body to naturally regrow a limb or your insurance covers a more quickly lab grown one.

Imagine a world where organ transplant wait lists aren't a thing.

Imagine a world where Ukrainian landmine victims are walking on new limbs.

We can have this, but instead our best minds are fucking around with optimizing web ads, or they're figuring out how to tweak assembly lines that shit out McDonald's Happy meal toys.
I never made the claim that a user should. The guy I was replying to said "Musk isn't going to train-wreck 10s of billions" and I was responding to that.
Yep, same boat here. All my Android friends are on Discord so that's where we talk. I talk to a small handful of friends on iMessage, my family, and then some work stuff for my side business but I do most my chatting in Discord at this point (and Slack for work).
> I also wonder if "playing" in Minecraft, or Roblox supports this definition of play. Or even RPGs like DnD. It's interactive, and allows children to experiment. It's not a physical world, but I don't know if these parameters were explored.

I don't think so, but that's my opinion.

These virtual worlds have entirely different sets of rules that do not reflect those of reality or social norms. Kids do go through the same motions of testing boundaries, but they're testing boundaries that would get you punched in the face or jailed IRL-- but they get away with it without consequence because it's all virtual. There's no consequence to scamming other kids in Roblox or destroying people's artwork in Minecraft. It's completely normal behavior to them.

Tabletop D&D doesn't count; it's in-person, so if you're tossing around slurs or being conspicuously offensive, someone will correct your behavior.

That's the extent of their socialization, and then they're unleashed into the real world expecting things to work the same way there.
One thing that’s impossible to ignore is that Twitter now forces you to read bad replies. Before, it would rank the most popular replies near the top, but now you have to scroll past lots of low-quality replies from people who are boosted just because they pay for the privilege.
ALL OF THEM.

It is utterly insane how much crap they have in baked in. Everything tries to connect to you ludicrous samsung account and the best selling point their apps have is that they try to masquerade them as standard android apps and not a cheap samsung knockoff.

I have to support friends with samsung a bit and I get a headache even touching them. Great cameras, wouldn't touch one even if I was paid to actually use it.

And this is using top-of-line devices. They also have the absolute lowest range too, which is quite impressive hardware/dollar wise but the software situation is of course even worse on such an underpowered device.

The telemetry and the dark patterns they utilize gets me in the stomach. The big problem is that for I guess the majority that don't actively fight it they get extremely tied to samsung. Which I guess is a key reason to their success. A big detriment to android though.
Glitches are transient incorrect values due to delays in propagating values. Imagine a diamond pattern of reactive values like:

a = 0, 1, 2, ...
b = a
c = a
d = b + c

d should be 0, 2, 4, ... but if, say, b updates and d sees this update before c updates then you can get incorrect values in d.
My guess is more of a mass hysteria situation combined with politicians that are exceptionally credible toward anything the military says than a conscious grifting.
You can make top LLMs break their own rules with gibberish
> I think DNS is something few people take the time to learn

I kinda agree and think DNS one of those technologies where you can go an entire career without picking up more than bits and peices here and there. Those things gains a sense of mystique in industry as more complicated than it otherwise would if more people had to tackle it full on.
Interesting some of the negatives comments here. I rather liked the article. Length and hyperbole and all.

Of course, it could have been a simple quick to read tweet (or do I call them x's now?): "DRM is techno cancer".

But sometimes, you need to marinate in an idea for a bit to get it to really sink in, for slow associations to rise in your head to sort through it.
One thing I think Europe as a whole gets right (including the UK) is the approach to animal experimentation: you need a "triple license" to do it, with the institution, the lab/scientific project and the scientist themselves personally all separately required to be up to scratch and examined in detail. You can't just buy 700 white lab mice without this -- it's a specific criminal offence -- and in most countries the implementation of the directive is in terms of permissive acts, i.e. unless everything is exactly right, you're committing a crime and are personally liable for it.

I'm not saying it's perfect -- far from it -- but the separation of powers, the explicit independent cost-benefit exam done at the point of project licenses, and a tough and regular inspection framework do give me some confidence in what is unfortunately a necessary evil.

This thing sounds both like a pathogen breeding facility and deeply, deeply unethical.
Oh no you have to pay £80 to gain access to a few billion users, and automatically push updates to them. Maybe don’t pay the fee if you think it’s not worth it.
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Why? I use it all the time for that.
Mint Mobile is $15/month for unlimited.
The "shallow platitudes" cut through the BS. The government is trying to gag researchers because they want to hide their own failure. The narrative that the government is afraid of PII being revealed during a trial is straight horse shit. The courts themselves will decide what is or isn't appropriate information for a witness to share on the stand.

Furthermore, am I to believe these researchers are trusted not to share student PII when doing their normal academic research, but at soon as they become witnesses against the state that trust is no longer warranted? Bullshit. If protecting PII were the motivation they would not allow researchers to access that PII and publish their findings. What they're actually doing is preventing those researchers from testifying against the state. They're not protecting students, they're protecting the state's interests.
What’s X?
I am very interested in developing a tech career in the US. I have roughly 5 years of industrial experience and my bachelor degree is in physics.

I am currently working as a software engineer in the UK (I'm from Hong Kong) for the past 2 years and am actively considering the following:

1. Getting a Masters degree in US then work in US with STEM OPT and apply for Green Card through employer; or

2. Moving to Canada, become a citizen in 3.5 - 4 years then apply for TN status and work in US, then try to find a good timing for Green Card application

If my intent is to settle in the US, which route would you recommend me to go through?

Thank you so much for your time!
I'm pretty pissed because I have had apple stuff for years and now I suppose I can throw the lightning cables in the trash. Thanks EU!
Same here.

I implemented some dynamic dns system. I still remember how to handcraft a RRUPDATE request.

After reading the RFC, every bit in dig output makes sense
Thankfully this is getting fixed in iOS 17. Users trying the beta are saying it's a dramatic improvement.
Linksys was making home routers which were about as easy to deploy as any home router today starting in 1999. Their earliest Wireless G router came out in like 2002. The beloved WRT54GS came out in 2003.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2000/08/befsr41/
> I do local development over file:// a lot.

Not meaning to pick at anything here, but to me web dev necessarily requires knowledge and configuration of a web server.

What's being sent to the browser in a production setting is an HTTP message, not just the web content.

Many features of a non-trivial web page/app will at least require HTTP headers to be set. The "file://" protocol handles this by mocking the full HTTP response for you in the browser, but any deviation from that response on an actual web server has the potential to break your page. I wouldn't rely on opening files directly.
Proton Mail's app broke the gesture and it annoys me at least 5 times per week.
I'd be curious as to what the specific end applications are, are there any you can share?

I'm familiar with the tooling and played with it quite a bit... But never really figured out a practical application.
Maybe there's something like a "mental health crisis" that could be why it's so high.... /s
Yeah, iMessage just lost in Europe and pretty much everywhere outside the US.

Part of the issue is the Apple only lock-in, part of the issue is the branding, being branded as an SMS app when SMS are dead certainly doesn't help.
I'm still using an iPhone XS (2018) and have zero complaints aside from a lack of RAM. I plan to upgrade this year, so it will come out to $200/year. Seems like a good deal.
This is something I'm not sure people understand.

LLM's only make a "best guess" for each next token. That's it. When it's wrong we call it a "hallucination" but really the entire thing was a "hallucination" to begin with.

This is also analogous to humans - who also "hallucinate" incorrect answers, usually "hallucinate" incorrect answers less when they "Think through this step by step before giving your answer", etc.
The performance becomes more relevant when it's running the latest OS update over 5 years later. Software only ever gets heavier, as a rule.
But he was talking about how hard it is to set up, not whether people use it.
The email in my bio would love to get started there if you happen to have any invites left.
see also: https://z0r.de
PyBullet (I guess Bullet more broadly) sees a lot of use
There are consequences to doing any of those activities in excess.

Breathing too fast = hyperventilating

Eating too much = obesity

Procreating with too many partners = likely sexually transmitted infections

I agree that abstinence is not the answer, but safe sex with fewer partners is.
What they are saying is that AI is not so magical. There is a significant amount of grunt work required to get non garbage/obscene results to queries. What happens when the AI companies need to start making $$? Is this the Internet bubble again?
Eh. I was expecting something a bit more juicy like flat out transferring csvs loaded with detailed data or something.

"A proposed FTC settlement with BetterHelp includes $7.8 million for partial refunds for BetterHelp customers and conveys an unmistakable message about just how seriously the FTC takes this kind of betrayal of trust."

Um not really. If anything it conveys your remarketing might cost a bit more then you planned.
If I were in the situation the guy described I definitely would have tried swiping down and then got confused when that didn't work. I guess I'd eventually try tapping it.

I haven't used iOS in years though, maybe if I was used to it then tapping would have been my first impulse. Do you often have to tap on the top/bottom of the screen to do things?
More people could perform more studies in parallel but it is a pretty niche skill to be able to perform the studies

The point of the studies is to determine the upgrades required to the transmission system to ensure stability and reliability (prevent cascading failures)
I'd think most potential upgrades to the next iPhone would be current iPhone users. If anything, I think the switch to USB-C would be a deterrent to people who are sensitive to cord changes.

I don't understand the need to have a single connector vs a block with interchangeable cords, but I also don't care that much about it so I might be missing something.
I've found just setting the browser to always load sites at 75% zoom solves a lot of these issues. There is also the option 'Hide Toolbar' behind the 'aA' button on Safari which also helps as well
A11y-dialog: lightweight script to create accessible dialog windows
Also works for maps which also adds an indicator in the status bar. Very handy.
https://propertyofzack.com/post/63089358188/streetlight-mani...
Cheers, going to give it a look.
It did peak in December last year, but then it "declined" and stabilized at more than double the active users it had before Elon bought Twitter: https://mastodon-analytics.com/
I'm not at the moment. I spent 1 year there. I can go back; would being physically in the USA improve my chances with either of those visas?

Edit. I thought I'd clarify: I've held an L1B and I still do. I'm not in the US now but I can be.