skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not screentime but on a similar thread. My daughter was born in '96 so screentime wasn't an issue when she was young. My story is about alcohol. When my daughter was about 12, I decided to stop drinking. Not that I was a big drinker or anything - I probably had one or two beers a week. But I decided to demonstrate that social drinking - or any drinking - was something that people can choose to abstain from without any downsides. I started to drink beer again some time when she was in high school.

My daughter did get a feature-phone in middle school and then a smartphone in high school. I never set any limits - but I was fortunate to have a child who managed her time exceptionally well. I wonder how much of that came from her not having smartphone exposure when young.

I do feel for parents today.
Geekshelf is where I was gonna go. ;)
Emoji are “fun” but it’s got to stop. These characters are going to be used until civilization collapses, so we can’t just keep being like “lol, let’s add a food that is only eaten in some regions and has been around for less than 100 years.”
How far is the distance between the rooms?

What’s in the way?
Concrete, bricks maybe?

Because modern mesh networks are very reliable.

To troubleshoot it all, I’d get a long run of loose laid Ethernet cable and demonstrate that I can maintain a stable connection to two known good switches on either end.

I’ve been had issues using Powerline, but as others have said, there are perhaps other issues that I’d not been aware of before!

We don’t have MOCA over here in Australia as Coax I. The house isn’t really a thing here!
Is your argument that only perfection should be acceptable for change?
To be clear, I was intending my post to be exclusively about components. I was assuming people would get their preferred niche frames to put them on.

If I'm going to pick a fancy niche frame I don't want to afford I'd opt for a Jones LWB space frame. I'm actually a recumbent rider so the more likely expensive cycling purchase would be a velomobile.
A whole lot of use without the compiler.
Ask HN: Why does the Clojure ecosystem feel like such a wasteland?
A lot of people suggested I look at Clojure because of being a big fan of Common Lisp. I remember in the past I was turned off because of the lack of good documentation.

Surprisingly the case is even worse today?

Two examples:
The getting started page remains as bad as I remember it with links to discontinued Github projects.

And the main libraries section https://www.clojure-toolbox.com seems to link to projects where every other one is unmaintained or discontinued.

For example the getting started for Pedestal, one of the main web libraries has its Getting Started page last updated seven years ago? http://pedestal.io/guides/hello-world

Where can I find latest documentation and tools / libraries in a easy to use page or section?
Ever read MAD magazine?
My point was you were very TS/JS-centric with a preference for frameworks that embed HTML and CSS in JS instead of the other way around. Try Htmx?
We should probably start calling them copyright infringers, since pirate has been reappropriated.
Thanks for the link. I watched the first part, and an interesting story/claim is that before Cyc started, many "smart people" including Marvin Minsky came up with "~1 million" as the number of things you would have to encode in a system for it to have "common sense".

He said they learned after ~5 years that this was an order of magnitude off -- it's more like 10 M things.

Is there any literature about this? Did they publish?

To me, the obvious questions are -

- how do they know it's not 100M things?

- how do they know it's even bounded? Why isn't there a combinatorial explosion?

I mean I guess they were evaluating the system all along. You don't go for 38 years without having some clear metrics. But I am having some problems with the logic -- I'd be interested in links to references / criticism.

I'd be interested in any arguments for and against ~10 M. Naively speaking, the argument seems a bit flawed to me.

FWIW I heard of Cyc back in the 90's, but I had no idea it was still alive. It is impressive that he kept it alive for so long.

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Actually the wikipedia article is pretty good

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyc#Criticisms

Though I'm still interested in the ~1M or ~10M claim. It seems like a strong claim to hold onto for decades, unless they had really strong metrics backing it up.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37358353
sort of an automation, but I install all my favorite apps with brew and then use brew again (brew upgrade && brew upgrade --cask -g) to update everything

Bonus: I went the extra mile and wrote a script that bootstraps my entire setup: https://github.com/fastily/autobots/blob/master/macOS/setup/...
You imagine there won’t be other limits, but maybe we just don’t know what they are yet? It tends to be true that some things that are easy for people are hard for AI.
Arguably many suffered and died young or lost young children. Some likely regretted having, or skipped having kids. It's completely legitimate to consider the societal costs and not only the benefits to birthing children.
Forget about digital dark age. How about tech dark age? Our tech supply chains are incredibly fragile. We saw what happened in Covid and that was just a virus.
https://www.theregister.com/2006/03/10/torvalds_gpl_drm/
So the take here is:

- I like how it feels to own a hammer, so everything should be like that. (I guess people shouldn't be able to rent hammers, or anything else?)

- You can't prevent the government from using what you build, so you might as well set up no barriers to anybody using it.

If you don't see any difference between limited control and no control, I don't think I'll convince you. But I think most of the ways we engage with the world involve degrees of control, and that there's value in picking where to exercise yours.
This will tarnish Magnus' legacy. It's clear he only made those accusations after a post-game interview that he found to be disrespectful. In turn he decided to destroy a young players' career.
I'm anything but green. And I have, of course, made all these mistakes over my career. But if you're capable of running in 5th gear, don't take advice that says stay in 1st until you've finished the product.
If I'm understanding this article correctly, and I might not be, the main point seems to be it's not just how much you eat but what you eat. Isn't that what people have been saying for years now? Eat your vegetables and skip the McDonald's? Again I might be misreading it and I apologize if I completely missed the point
Can you walk into any NY retailer and do this? Or is it up to the seller whether they support it?
Happy to help how I can!
Oh! I forgot one of the best parts! CSS is automatically scoped to your component. No manual shenanigans. No weird naming rules your dev team have to agree on. No giving up and just using inline styles. No hacks.

Just make a descriptive class name and write your CSS styles. That's it. You're done.

https://learn.svelte.dev/tutorial/styling
Colombia or Iraq, sure, but in most countries, this isn't the case.

Although the tourist is a universally-reviled species, the best tip when traveling is don't become the clueless, reckless, *sshole cliché American tourist. You can go to a hidden neighborhood brasserie in Paris, have a good time with the locals, and not be outed as an American tourist if you don't look or act the part.

Universal rule of life: be cool. (Many) problems solved.
In Vietnam, they just called me Mr. Dollar.
likewise, Worms 2 on PC here (Windows 95)
I wonder if piracy has just not been a danger for so long that some people think of it as some quaint activity of the past, like cavalry charges and top hats. "Thieves on a boat? That's not piracy. Elements of the crime require peg legs, tricornered hats and parrots. The law says if they don't raise a Jolly Roger, then it's not piracy."
> Since policy is meant to 'catch bad ppl', why limit to icloud option and not scan all the time

The policy is meant to ensure Apple's servers are not storing and distributing CSAM, not that Apple wants to become a police investigative force.
First time hearing about this. I'm surprised the whole region isn't massively degenerated after centuries of traditional incest. The numbers are pretty staggering
Thanks! The goal was to demo the database engine and show off how everything can work airgapped (after the browser downloads everything). I think there’s a lot of parameters to tune (Use just the first paragraph of the article, or everything? Search within some short distance of a particular article?) and I haven’t yet.

Wikipedia is a great demo dataset, and I’m definitely up for adding more datasets. Specifically, just like iPhoto lets you search “mountain” and you can get pictures with mountains, might be cool to search with some multi modal models like CLIP on various datasets
Regular reminder, icebergs don't look like that. https://joshdata.me/iceberger.html
I’ve been wondering if this would happen. The deal always struck me as obvious self-dealing.
I don't mind wet and wetter, I mind the 3 seasons — hot, hotter, hottest.
I think if someone had tried to make encoding-in-filename a common convention it would have just resulted in people writing “.txt.ASCII” without understanding what that meant, and we’d have the same charset sniffing we have now plus another mess on top. (For example: when you have a “config.ini.UTF-16” and a “config.ini.WINDOWS-1252”, which should your program prefer?)

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An anecdote: I was writing some code to send data to another company as an XML file. When I sent them a test file to validate, I got a complaint that it didn’t declare its encoding as UTF-8.

“Yes, our database uses UCS-2 for exports,” I replied. “Why, can you not read it?”

“Our system imported it just fine,“ they explained, “but it needs to say ‘<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>’ at the top and when I looked at it with a text editor yours says something else there instead.”

“Yes, it doesn’t say UTF-8 because it’s not UTF-8. Sounds like your system is OK with that, though?”

“Yes, the rest of the file is fine, but we can’t move forward with go-live until you conform to the example in our implementation guide...”

Actually changing the encoding proved difficult (for reasons I no longer recall), so I ended up shoving in a string replacement to make the file claim the wrong encoding, along with an apologetic comment; their end apparently did sniffing (and the BOM was unambiguous) so this worked out fine, but it goes to show just how confused people can get about what a character encoding a file actually is.
https://archive.is/bCnau
It's absurd, but true. I do think it's unintentional, but due to historical reasons GPLv2 doesn't prevent tivoization, which is more aligned with open source than with free software.

Again, I'm not discussing what the intentions were, nor what the practical effects used to be 20 years ago, I'm referring to it's position today.

Suppose a hypothetical that GPLv2 never existed and that the GPLv3 was written in 1990, then someone came along today and wrote a variant of GPLv3 that specifically permitted tivoization and firmware blobs; surely such a license would be seen as moving from open-source to free software.
Ask HN: Misquoting of Search Result Numbers
Is there any legal barrier to search engines reporting a higher number of search results than is actually available?

Google, for example, will report millions of results from a search, when only, at most, hundreds are actually available as links from google.
> And worked things out together.

So much this. Kids are living, breathing, thinking human beings. They are immature yes. But that doesn't remove the value of their opinions or their agency. And it's not to say you give them everything they want, but that you find common ground and aren't seen as dictating things without reason. If you can explain your point of view in terms they understand, compliance is far more likely.

For the most part, my kids have unlimited access to electronics and the internet. Yeah, sometimes they watch stupid TikTok videos or silly toy reviews on Youtube. Other times they are learning how to code or learning how to knit or how to make slime from common household materials, etc. Last week I baked bread with my daughter because she found a recipe on TikTok she wanted to try out. They sometimes watch content I don't like or agree with, but often that's resolved just by talking about why I don't think it's good content or sending a good message. I've talked to both of my daughters about why I don't like SSSniperWolf content as an example. Usually this works out fine, but none of the things they watch are so egregious I feel like I need to cut them off. And who am I to judge the occasional mindless entertainment when I've always done the same and I can readily see it's a small portion of the content they are consuming?

When I hear folks talking about zero access and no smart devices until X years, I have to ask myself where the trust and relationship exists between these parents and their children. I just can't imagine not having enough of a relationship with my kids to not have a good understanding of what they are up to online and how they are perceiving it. I can't imagine not being able to trust the values that I've instilled in my children and having to cut them off from the world to hide that neglect. Further, I feel these sort of blanket bans put kids into a position where they feel they need to hide what they do from their parents online which is the absolute opposite of what they should be thinking.

That said, we do have restrictions. No electronics during dinner or shared entertainment sort of things. People scrolling social media during movie time is a pet peeve of mine. The electronic devices are not an escape from small talk during boring family dinners or the slow part of the show we're watching.
Local LLM inference GPU coil whine [video]
Fonts, for example. That is a style, and should be set by the rendering instructions (like CSS) not the code point.

Semantics: there's a code point for the letter 'a' and another code point for the mathematical symbol 'a', although the glyphs are identical. Unicode points should not have semantic meaning - semantic meaning comes from the context in which the points are used.

You know, like the text in a printed book.

And so on, for the other bullet points.
If this worked for B&H it would be awesome.
https://archive.is/NEzPM
Now try getting the full daily amount in
Not different from the fact that we have useless CC0/CC1 characters somewhere in Unicode. As long as bearable (i.e. not too many), having rare characters is okay.
I would second a mesh network system. They are far better than they were a few years back, with enough radios to keep everything fast and enough smarts not to step on each others' frequencies. Remember to keep them placed as centrally as you can, not on outside walls.
The adjustable grip hitch is great but the Blake’s hitch is almost magic and my favorite knot right now.

https://www.animatedknots.com/blakes-hitch-knot
https://archive.is/2JQX8
>4. SFFD members had to locate an SFPD officer and request him to move his vehicle to allow successful egress from the scene, but doing so further delayed patient care.

Sorry, a human driver fatally hit a pedestrian, then a SFPD car was blocking the ambulance from leaving with the injured person? and we're going to make this story about the dangers of Cruise cars? I'm all for complaining if the cruise car did something wrong, but vehicles get disabled in the road all the time for various reasons.
Reminds of Daniel Everett's work with the Pirahã, who have non-existent recursion in language. Unfortunately one exception in biology is not evidence of generality. Proof by contradiction works in math, doesn't work very well in biology. Doesn't even work well in physics e.g. room temperature super conductors are extremely rare even if they exist.

Physically you can make people do anything, but what they want internally is a completely different matter and there is no way today to probe that.

Let's assume there is a large section of people who can only love their direct off springs, the author could perhaps claim that that would be immoral - is this gaslighting or what. What's the end game for this kind of stuff - it's to eliminate all preferences - quite akin to slavery.
Why would I like HTMX if I already said I dislike HTML-like DSLs? I tried it, it has the same issues as Vue and Svelte DSLs. I don't want to turn HTML into its own programming language when I have a perfectly good one through JS/TS right there that I can use.
Yeah I didn't expect Photopea to be any good but now I use it all the time. Perfect Photoshop replacement for light editing.
Friends here: https://github.com/ickc/bootstrapping-os-environments/tree/m...
No, it would've been impossible. One photo match wouldn't have been enough to trigger any sort of response within Apple's system.

And that's ignoring the fact that his photo wouldn't have matched anyway because it isn't in any CSAM database.
How to protect your ears and avoid hearing loss: An illustrated guide
https://archive.is/DSfkb
But I use the khlav kalash emoji all the time!
It was similar with Bloom County, stopped at the right moment. But then he made the mistake of trying to "restart" it with Outland.

"Are you sure you should be telling Santa all this?"
I've only seen one so far. But that means there are others around here too, and I'll be seeing a lot of them soon enough. So I really hope that this article is right.

Our city is already reeling with a white fungus that's killing off all the dark maples. Some trees were losing leaves so badly that in July that it looked like Autumn underneath them.

We really don't need simultaneous tree-pocalypse.
Oh, this I never knew. Thank you.
Not to distract from the topic but vehicles cost orders of magnitude more could be geofenced like $500 rental scooters so the engine computer would recognize the handful of high-speed tracks in the region.
https://archive.is/taHJF
WAPO: Fatal Force DB
https://archive.is/DYFYm
I have already explained why mathematical alphanumeric symbols exist in the first place [1]. They are an extremely small portion of Unicode; you need way more examples.

By the way, if we indeed decide to encode characters according to glyphs, we would have to distinguish a double-storey `a` from a single-storey `a` (among others). They have clearly different glyphs, so why shouldn't we? Think about that.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28294032
Why does this matter? It’s definitionally the least productive years of someone’s life outside of childhood.
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Generally I'd be applying to other game roles, but I've never worked outside of games and I'm curious to know whether these sort of skills I've accumulated are of any interest to some non-games companies.

If anyone needs someone who can write C++ code on a constrained platform environment where performance really matters, where experience doing lots of optimization is needed, where 3D math is useful, where a knowledge of good UI practices is a bonus, that all might be something I can help with.
A lot of those weird emojis have been repurposed beyond their reason for inclusion in Unicode, so I won't discount them.

See, e.g.:

https://totallythebomb.com/stone-man-moai-emoji
Oh yeah, you can toss ‘em in just about anywhere. The most well-known application of this would be Duff’s device: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duff%27s_device
Hypatia transracialism controversy
We're already failing multi-generational travel on a giant rock full of food, water, oxygen, and free energy. Seems weird to assume we can do it in a tin can with fewer resources and zero forgiveness for error.
If a warrant has been issued, the police have no choice but to arrest you as soon as they encounter you. The matter is out of their hands. They're under orders by the judge who issued the warrant to take you.

The application for the warrant should be a public record. If your lawyer can point out errors or falsehoods in to application to the judge, he should be able to get the judge to quash it.
SuperMemo for Wizards [video]
Mostly its a matter of making sure he runs around, and doesn't just sit on the floor staring at a screen. I mean sure they go outside for a few hours a day at school, but I expect children to be "active" in whatever way they enjoy.

Later if he has interest I'm sure I could talk to him about coding, but I know he's seen me do enough that he'll not consider it bad..

(It has to be said that a lot of people who talk about bad content are also saying they don't trust that youtube, and apps, will have appropriate content. And a lot of the time kids want to play with phones and the internet they want to do it alone..)
This is a prime example of why people dislike philosophers.

It's like they take a perverse pleasure from pissing in peoples' cornflakes.
> People dont choose to have kids based on how they like to spend their time.

I did, I made a conscious thoughtful decision that I'd be trading off stuff I wanted to do and taking care of a child instead.
The question is whether it should come up at all. If my ambulance takes a while to nudge its way through some crowded traffic at a busy intersection, would anyone think to tell my family that poor urban design and a lack of roundabouts contributed to my death?
I never called it over engineered.
> Two autonomous Cruise vehicles and an empty San Francisco police vehicle were blocking the only exits from the scene, (...), forcing the ambulance to wait while first responders attempted to manually move the Cruise vehicles or locate an officer who could move the police car.

aka the SFPD car was probably there, and cruise cars stalled, blocking the exit so they had to find someone to move one of the 3 cars, 2 being cruise.
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“Because my friends have one” is one of the absolute best reasons for a middle schooler. It just doesn’t sound like a good reason to an adult. If the other kids are all playing a game the one without a phone is left out.
"As for clients, on mobile there's nothing available for android last I've checked."

There's PhoNews, but it wasn't very good the last time I tried the free version. It ran slowly, or sometimes not at all, trying to follow a small number of newsgroups off of an NNTP server run by my ISP (that otherwise worked well with other non-mobile newsreaders).
https://archive.is/YoqZR
I think your entire thesis is wrong.

People are not having kids because they have good alternatives now. International travel is affordable for more and more people, regularly going to fine dining establishments is something accessible to most American software engineers, and the people left having kids are the ones either too poor to afford those good things anyways, or people who are knowingly giving them up in exchange for expected joy from raising a child.
IDK it makes sense to me.

Unless you call `new` there's no guarantee that you have a different object.
Hmmm sometimes I send/read, but I have notifications off and have zero expectation of replies or replying.. just when I'm bored.