skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tl;dr: Suburbs have changed even since the 80's, primarily sociologically but also architecturally, and combined with wider changes in overall culture has made alternatives to the internet less and less practical.

Another jumping-off point: https://www.techdirt.com/2024/01/05/utah-governor-absolutely...

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>let yourself spend less time and energy on your kids

>The fact of the matter is the world is a safer

>and more prosperous place than ever before.

Sadly, it's often not even a matter of safety from "danger", but safety from the law. Getting CPS called on you[1][2], or getting arrested[3][4] as a parent is not good, even if you are fortunate enough to win.

Then there's the whole angle of disappearing third places, lack of places that can be reasonably visited without driving privileges, nobody's outside because of all of the above so there's nobody to "hang out" or "play" with, desire to funnel kids/teens into more "productive" activities like academics and sports (depending on affluence and interest, this isn't AS bad as the above points), places outright banning[5] young people, etc etc.

[1]https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2018/09/05/mom...

[2]https://www.cnn.com/2015/04/13/living/feat-maryland-free-ran...

[3]https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/07/arreste...

[4]https://www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-mom-accused-of-leaving-ki...

[5]https://www.businessinsider.com/teen-bans-curfews-malls-them...
> This is exactly how my education went.

No it didn't. I am very confident it did not. All students that make it past grade school go through nearly the exact same sequence and motivating examples beginning from geometry, high school algebra, and then some introduction to calculus if not calculus outright.

And the motivating example has always been how to calculate area, and if advanced enough, volume, for all kinds of shapes, regular or otherwise. This is not a recent development, its been the motivating example and the entire purpose for calculus having been invented.

I am so confident in this that I am here to call you a terrible student and that, yes, you likely were a terrible student, especially since your characterization is the exact standard excuse I hear from terrible students.

So now I have to drill - what was "nonsensical"? What had "zero context"? You immediately have lost the claim of "zero application", so we don't have to go there.

If your claim is beyond K-12 math and into university, then I would be too upset to even argue with you if that is your actual position. Making these claims after more than a decade of learning math tells me you have trained yourself to forget all you learned.
That’s a fair take. I normally have cruise control on. I wonder if anything will change when they add more lanes.
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When I was a kid just a few decades ago there were several things within my available area like arcades, mini golf, a small hill to play on, etc. today in that same area there is zero kids friendly entertainment except a theater that’s too expensive and the small hill was closed to the public by the HOA for legal reasons. Where are the kids supposed to go? It’s not an imaginary thing happening, 3rd spaces are drying up for kids and adults alike.
https://archive.is/eSfgA
A few years ago I visited the U.s. virgin islands for a work trip with a client. The clients nephew is 23 and lives and grew up there. He's a marine biologist and a spear fisher. He makes money ferrying people between the various islands on a small dingy boat and showing them fishing spots. He works in a small lab besides that. He's tan and in great shape and has a random beater phone. He watched almost no TV or movies. He knows a ton of interesting people. His life is just out among the islands and water and people and its richer than anything i ever experienced.

It's one of the most profound moments when I was like THIS is what the dream you'd have of what your kid could do sans social media and smartphones. It's a shame every kid doesn't have the same access and opportunities though because of how we're building our "modern" society.
I am actually working on something like this in https://borg.games ( also see https://github.com/BorgGames/borggames.github.io )

Basically the idea is that the only endpoint available through regular HTTPS is the signaling server, and the other services are accessible via WebRTC by requesting peers from the signaling server with service's public key.

There are multiple things I am planning to layer over p2p connections: CDN, virtual LANs to play games "locally", gameserver hosting, etc
It would have made it worse, because there would be 300 crates with 250 different maintainers, all pulled in by several trivial/baseline dependencies. More dependencies = higher the probability that a malicious maintainer has gotten maintainer's rights for one of them, especially because many original authors/maintainers of rust style microdepencency crates move on with their lives and eventually seek to exit their maintainer role. At least for classic C/C++ software, by the virtue of it being very inconvenient to casually pull 300 dependencies for something trivial, there are fewer dependencies, i.e. separate projects/repos, and these tend to be more self-contained. There are also "unserious" distributions like Fedora and something like stable/testing/unstable pipeline in Debian, which help with catching the most egregious attempts. Crates.io and npm are unserious by their very design, which is focused on maximizing growth by eliminating as many "hindrances" as possible.
Well that's inconvenient, I was (probably, time permitting) going to propose to some of my friends that we attempt to reverse this for fun tomorrow.

Anyone have a link to the git history? I guess we can use the ubuntu tarball for the evil version.
Of course many will, and they'll have a head start in life being internet literate relative to those who don't find a way to get online, and the latter will also have to figure everything out abruptly when they hit a certain age.

It's as stupid as trying to legislate that kissing can't happen until 18. It's not practically enforceable and trying creates unintended consequences.
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The key thing that died pre-smartphone was kids leaving the house and playing outside. Game consoles, cable TV, and computers all probably contributed to that, but so did the great crime paranoia of the 80s/90s.
Great stuff. Yeah it's as I suspected CA collects more from property tax per capita than TX, NY more than both. CA and NY both have very high income taxes that augment schools so it's not likely lack of money that is causing poor outcomes.
Sheet metal curving is probably cheaper than flat panels. A flat panel is wobbly, adding 3D curves to it can stiffen it significantly. A flat panel in any non-matte finish will also display any imperfections like mad (ever looked at the reflections on windows and noticed how uneven they are?), a curved surface is more forgiving. And using a matte finish isn’t a solution, that introduces a ton of other issues.

> No need for massive torque and the batter should be upgradable

Massive torque is just sort of the way these motors are. It’s not necessarily a big cost driver. And upgradable batteries sounds expensive to me.

I do agree that people spend ridiculous amounts of money on cars though. But on the flip side… I’ve designed some larger (not quite car size, but pretty large) products, and boy do the costs add up quickly. I suspect that once you’re talking something as niche as a US road-legal minimalist electric vehicle you’ve killed your volumes, so 20K is probably way out of reach as a price target.
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> that FSD v12 is surpassing human levels of safety

According to who?
All right, I'll search for those and read about them.

It's unfortunate when a project I've worked on for a while is never used, but at least nice when I learned something from writing it.

Thanks!
I'm with you here. It'll get worse as my kids get older, I suppose. With any luck I've taught them well enough by then.

Didn't kids get in trouble for staying up to late reading books? Then it was TV. Then it was those damn video games making us all violent. Now it's smart phones?

Like most things, don't abuse it and it's not a problem.
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This will come off as passive-aggressive in text, but it's a sincere question: How do you make sense in the rapid increase in mental health issues, including suicide, that seems to correlate so closely with the adoption of smartphones?

I'm absolutely not saying that it's conclusive proof of the article's position, but I do think it's a powerful data point.
No they haven't! Suburbs as we know them developed as a result of land made available cheaply post-WWII and the automobile enabling the sprawl. Sure there's a bit of a spectrum of how badly developed a particular suburb can be, but without car dependency they could not exist and don't make any sense.
There's a pretty wide swath of normal in the middle of all of that. I hate to break it to you, but in the "good old days" - parents didn't "stop paying attention to kids at all". Half of the reason kids could run around "unsupervised" is because stay-at-home-mom was the norm for most women. Which meant if your kid was a mile away from home, you knew that someone else was still making sure they weren't getting into too much trouble and if they were you'd get a call letting you know what was going on. I remember more than one occasion where I knew there was a 50/50 chance I was going to be grounded before I walked in the door for dinner, despite "being unsupervised" for the entire day during the summer.
Netherlands:

- may not work more than 60 hours in a single week, and not more than 48 hrs/week on average

- may not work more than 12 hours in a single shift

- must rest for at least 11 consecutive hours every day, and at least 36 consecutive hours every week

- stricter rules than this for pregnant women and minors

https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/onderwerpen/werktijden/vraag-en...
Here's an article about an entire town where all the parents agreed none of them would get a smartphone for their kids, and so no kids felt like they were missing out, and then none of them pined for one.

Sounds like a great plan.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jun/03/much-easi...
WebRTC is widely misunderstood. It is not a p2p-enabling technology. It requires a mechanism for passing messages between nodes prior to establishing a session (this is called "signaling" in the literature). So it's another turtle layer: it's a scheme for communicating between nodes provided they can already communicate.

So why does it exist? Answer: to reduce the cost to provide a service where bulk data flows are p2p. It does this by trying to get said flows over UDP with NAT traversal directly between the host networks for communicating nodes. The canonical example is internet telephony. But it does this on the assumption that there will be a long tail of node pairs for which a hairpin route through a server will be needed. It doesn't remove the need for servers, only the resources needed for those servers.

Everyone who says they have built a true p2p system with WebRTC is confused[1].

[1] You can build such a thing with WebRTC, but only if the nodes are not browser hosted and have public IPs. If you think that's useful then you're also confused.
No, it’s so bad that high school teachers presume that everyone has a smart phone, and if you don’t, you can’t participate in some parts of the classes. Complaining to school administrators falls on deaf ears.
I hadn't heard that term before. I'll search for it. Thanks!
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Amazon has a track record of giving users private data to the police without their consent.

You could literally find yourself in the middle of a murder trial at the cost of saving 30 seconds at the supermarket.
When you turn 23 in a couple years, you’ll look back at college and realize you weren’t at the apex of all knowledge back then.
PyPI halts new projects, users for 10 hours due to infostealer influx
Hard to do that when you're fighting against billions of dollars and the world's best engineers who are doing everything they can to keep you as a daily active user!
I wish there was a mobile device that ONLY had age-appropriate and educational content.

Add in a well-aligned AI, and I'm sold.

Think of the "Young Lady's Illustrated Primer" in Neil Stephenson's "The Diamond Age."
What? Literally anywhere outside - are you saying most kids back then hung out at arcades and minigolf regularly in their free time? We couldn't afford that. I remember playing at the hill you're talking about - or a park - or just throwing a ball against a wall with friends when I was in the city.

Also who cares if the HOA shut down that hill? Are they patrolling it? Why would the kids care about that?
I grew up well before the internet and devices. Atari 2600 was the hotness. I grew up well outside suburbia out in the boonies. We were never bored as you seem to imply kids will be. The was nothing to dry up, there just was never anything there. Outside. That's where most of my time was spent.
I am not as confident. At some point, the barrage of ads and media and intrusion will cross a breaking point. You already see the cracks, people are experiencing a postmodern disassociation with reality.

Echo chambers, doomscrolling, hype cycles, misinformation, AI/Photoshop fakes, state level disinformation warfare, propaganda, and good old advertising are simply overwhelming people.

The forthcoming fake flood of AI is the next possible breaking point.

I think some people are starting to reject media, and I think the drumbeat is increasing.
You might read https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/29/4

"However, building from source wouldn’t have protected you against this specific backdoor."
Depends on how exactly you build from source. A generic build was not the target. Andres Freund showed that the attack was targeted against a specific type of build system.
Are you referencing the '-unsafe' suffix in the second link? That is not something to worry about.

This is from Gnulib, which is used by Gettext and other GNU projects. Using 'setlocale (0, NULL)' is not thread-safe on all platforms. Gnulib has modules to work around this, but not all projects want the extra locking. Hence the name '-unsafe'. :)

See:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2024-02/msg001...
It looks like git clone https://git.tukaani.org/xz.git still works for now (note: you will obviously be cloning malware if you do this) - that is, however, trusting the project infrastructure that compromised maintainers could have had access to, so I'm not sure if it is unmodified.

HEAD (git rev-parse HEAD) on my result of doing that is currently 0b99783d63f27606936bb79a16c52d0d70c0b56f, and it does have commits people have referenced as being part of the backdoor in it.
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They’ll get off their phones just after the adults.
Fair point - it's definitely not easy
I see, thanks! But they didn’t explore the idea of orbiting sails. The rotational momentum would counteract gravity, and allow for heavier objects.
Ross Anderson was indeed a giant, not just in computer science, but also in his work on the politics and ethics of the influence of computing in our lives. The world is lessened by his passing, but his work lives on in those he has inspired.
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Sometimes things evolve in ways that make us feel a little obsolete.

I've been learning NixOS for a few years now, and it would have been impossible without systemd. It's one heck of a learning curve, but when you get to the other side, you know something of great power and value. Certain kinds of complexity adds 'land' (eg. systemd) that can become 'real estate' (eg. NixOS), which in turn hopes to become 'land' for the next innovation, and so forth.

Whether this happens or not (whether it's the right kind of complexity) is really hard to assess up-front, and probably impossible without knowing the complex new technology in question very well. (And by then you have the bias of depending, in part, yourself on the success of the new tech, as you've committed significant resources to mastering it, so good luck on convincing skeptical newcomers!)

It's almost like a sort of event horizon -- once you know a complex new technology well enough to see whether or not it's useful, the conflict-of-interest makes your opinion unreliable to outsiders!

Nevertheless, the assessment process itself, while difficult to get right, is worth getting better at.

It's easy for impatience and the sensation of what I've taken to calling 'daunt' -- that intrinsic recoil that the mind has from absorbing a large amounts of information whose use case is not immediately relevant -- to dissuade one from exploring. But then, one never discovers new 'land', and one never builds new real estate!

[ Aside:
This is why I'm a little skeptical of the current rebellion against frontend frameworks. Certainly some of them, like tailwind, are clearly adding fetters to an otherwise powerful browser stack. But others, like Svelte, and to some extent, even React, bring significant benefits.

The rebellion has this vibe like, well, users _should_ prefer more simply-built interfaces, and if they don't, well, they just have bad taste. What would be more humble would be to let the marketplace (e.g. consumers) decide what is preferable, and then build that.
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Yes, we can. The age of smartphones and traditional computers is going to come to an end.

Instead of a computer or smartphone with a UI, everyone will have an AI assistant they can interact with naturally as if they were another person.

If you need visuals, you'll be able to ask your assistant "Show me the latest stock prices for MSFT" they will wave their hands and a graph will appear, similar to what you'd see if you used a stock trading app or site manually, but a much faster and more natural interaction.

For this to happen, smart glasses need to become more compact, like normal glasses and visual AI avatars need to become a thing first. We already have the base of the brain in LLMs, large action models will only get better.
Reliability is something easily discounted because the data to characterize it is much more difficult to capture than performance data. In most applications you can work around this with redundancies and diverse technologies, but no one makes a fault tolerant powertrain due to cost.

I don't think there's a good reason to keep pushing down deadend reliability paths. We should be responding to our hard earned decades of learning and be pressing advantages. Not every novel and viable solution ends up being an enhancement.
Adults can't even get off smart phones, so I wouldn't hold out much hope for kids.
Thank you. For those wondering, the text of the state is here: https://revisor.mo.gov/main/OneSection.aspx?section=130.028

I'll be interested to see how this plays out; I generally support laws that protect employees from being fired based on what they say and do outside of work, but it seems like there's an obvious issue where comments made outside of work could create a hostile work environment under (eg) the CRA. (I don't know if this case in particular is anything of the sort, to be clear.) My bet is on Block settling rather than taking on a fight that Twitter/Musk will almost inevitably appeal to as high a court as will hear it.
> I have imagined ... north america was sparsely populated (allowing endless bison)

The "endless bison" in America was actually only during a relatively short period of time. IIRC there was a gap of almost a century between when the Native American population was decimated due to disease, and when settlers of European ancestry headed out west.

During that gap the bison population exploded.
I didn't appreciate just how much hatred there was for Google, I now maybe understand why they aren't doing in person events.

However, that they don't publish a schedule of events is pretty poor. Why would I sign-up if I don't know what I'll be learning about?

Is WWDC the same?
Crypto is more like handing money out to joe random on the street corner because he promises he’ll be there again next Friday with a 10% interest rate.
It sounds like the equivalent of driving for Uber while working a part time job, but with nicer scenery.
Hey, just because it looks, smells and is written exactly like every other moral panic ever, doesn't mean Concerned Mothers shouldn't go lobby for a law to Change Things for the next generation. Surely it won't lead to a generation that is praised for lower [drug use, comic book fascination, dungeons and dragons, sci-fi, etc, etc, etc] during the enforcement period who then suffer from massive relapse in later life, sometimes with disastrous- but more often just revolutionary- effects on the world, man.
Alpine has been great for me too.

Use an USB Flash drive mounted as a R/W filesystem for logs, etc.
fsck can usually recover those f/s when crashed. The root f/s remains intact.
It's not only that account, other maintainer has been pushing the same promotion all over the place.
>I had no idea there were bison in Europe.

I've been on nodding terms with these guys for some years:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaur
I’m American, from DC metro. Shorts are a big one - far more popular in the US than abroad. Particularly cargo shorts, which are goofy no matter who you are. ;)
Agree but I think it is more like 8/10 or 9/10 of Googlers who would view Sundar as, to say the least, uninspiring.

The problem is that the good internal candidates to succeed Sundar have mostly already left Google, or don’t seem interested in taking over.

If Sundar left today, it could be that Ruth or TK would end up running Google for a while. That would be much, much worse.
this is very awesome! Could you recommend me some books if I want to do something similar? for example, on how to design a pcb board for a PCIE pluggable hardware.

Thank you very much!
I suspect my ADHD makes it hard to do this.
What happened to the inside out rotary that was supposed to be extremely compact and would enable cheaper PHEVs? IIRC the patents were about 5 years ago.
Indifference looks like hate to the Adorable Representative M.C. for Youth.

I do love the gushing parody response, +1 for commitment.
Anyone have any level of confidence that for example EL7/8 would not be at risk even if more potential exploits at play?
It’s been a long time since I’ve used either, but ext3 _is_ ext2, with journaling added on top, right?
> does it actually match the working hours that a person genuinely living (and sleeping) in China would follow?

No, it doesn't:

https://play.clickhouse.com/play?user=play#U0VMRUNUIHRvSG91c...

The vast majority of their Github interactions are between 12.00 UTC and 18.00 UTC
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https://worldhappiness.report/ed/2024/happiness-and-age-summ...

> In many but not all regions, the young are happier than the old. But in North America happiness has fallen so sharply for the young that they are now less happy than the old. By contrast, in the transition countries of Central and Eastern Europe, the young are much happier than the old. In Western Europe as a whole happiness is similar at all ages, while elsewhere it tends to decline over the life cycle (with an occasional upturn for the old).

This seems to be a phenomenon uniquely present in the Anglosphere. I don't think smartphones are the culprit.
I read it as the encrypted data is on the user's devices and not servers?
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