skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My daughter is 14. We will get her a mobile phone next year. She has an iPad and a laptop. She has issues with youtube shorts taking attention away from school work on her laptop. We will be maintaining screentime controls, and won't allow TikTok to be installed on her phone. She has a snapchat account, and uses it primarily for the messaging feature. She knows she's not allowed to view content not related to her friends and we regularly check up on that. We have the password to both her devices. Since we discovered she has problems with impulse control with YouTube shorts, she can't have her door closed if she has her computer or iPad in the room with her.

She is an avid reader, and reads for hours a day, re-reads the same books, and on YouTube she mostly consumes recipes, book reviews and book related content (like fanfic) so by most standards she's pretty good.

That being said, once she has a phone, she will not be allowed to use it in the house at all.

Our youngest has fewer issues with impulse control, and uses her iPad for things like Duolingo, Toca Life and Finch the self-care pet and messaging friends on iMessage or Facebook Messenger kids. She doesn't have access to YouTube, but does have YT kids. She likes the tiny cakes channel and regularly brings me the videos because I find them very enjoyable also.

They're both very heavily supervised and when they demonstrate there are problems, we take away their devices.

My eldest has had an apple watch SE since year 7 and we use that for communicating, and she can get in touch with friends that way. I also bought a 4g nokia with has the SIM for the same number in it (I had to use my backup iPhone to set up her watch) and if she is going somewhere further or longer than a school day she takes that for safety reasons.

My youngest will follow the same trajectory, we talk about the risks with them often, and they aren't allowed phones at school (by the school) and have had regular online safety sessions provided by the school.

Australia is also seriously considering legislation to criminalise allowing children under 16 from having any social media accounts.

Note that we only got them iPads in 2020 because of home schooling, prior to that we had given them iPhone 5s each to listen to podcasts and music. We always used screentime controls, and had them set up with family sharing and their own iCloud accounts, they have never (even as children) been allowed to use either mine or my wife's phones, we never let them watch or listen to anything during dinner or on car rides under 2 hours (a rule that still stands).
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> aero flaps had never been demonstrated

Does he mean grid fins? Because "flaps" are something else entirely.

Grid fins have been around since the 1950s.
Your kid won't have no friends if they have no phone. They will be in school with other kids for 8 hours a day, no phone required for interaction. Pretty much all messaging apps work from computers as well if they need to talk to friends from home and you don't have a landline.
13 is basically the max unless you get into management. There are a very few 14 positions and nearly no 15s.

Almost no one in tech gets into SES, and they wouldn't want to -- SESs don't write software.
I couldn’t find it on the product page: any idea if this has a vibrating alarm? I’m in the market for something to wake me up without disturbing my partner
The US government is throwing money hand-over-fist at SpaceX, the idea that the Biden administration is artificially obstructing SpaceX is not based in reality. Meanwhile, Trump is publicly anti-EVs and anti-self-driving-cars, so Musk's rabid cheerleading cannot be motivated by economic reasons.
I'm fairly certain the Apollo first stage engines were recovered from a location relatively close to Florida/Bahamas, just east of the launch site. Not point nemo.
Readers of Hacker News, I coined the unique term "OpenV2K", for my project, back in 2019.

For four years, I was the only search result when folks typed "openv2k" into a search engine.

This month, I discovered there's a new shell company, that uses my unique project name: openv2k.com

I do not own that domain, and have no reason to think that their business intentions are genuine.

All I'm asking from folks today, is to link to my project: https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenV2K/

Help me page-rank-bury some no talent ass clowns, that formed a shell company, with my unique project name?

You don't have to accept anything I'm proposing, you can call me mean names, whatever, just link to it.

Help my unique project keep its unique name, instead of death by shell company astroturfing?

The OpenV2K project takes existing concepts, and historical demonstrations, and proposes a new way of generating the RF pulses (now with an SDR), before then amplifying the pulses to get an already well-established result: the perception of cranial voice, or "hearing voice in your head", by pulse modulating the microwave auditory effect. That is the crude capability that this project will deliver, as a GNU Radio Companion module, that any RF hacker can freely copy and implement, for just several thousand USD in used RF parts.

Many readers find a deeply held personal excuse, to make this all just go away, because they need to sleep tonight. I can understand that, but accept that popular attitudes are being directly confronted, with solid science and RF engineering. If this is all just schizophrenia, take a seat, and come "hallucinate" with me.
Jewish people lived in that region long before Islam was even invented.

As did other dominant groups before and after them. In any case the Jewish population's size and influence peaked after a major catastrophe (the Bar Kokhba revolt) some 500 years before the first wave of Islamization even reached the region.

Isn’t this just manufacturing an artificial claim?

What they did was no different from the inevitable self-imprinting both religious movements and settler groups do in places the get traction in - they started to believe in a part-mythical, part factual "origin story" of how they got there and assumed dominance, and that was that. In essence no more "artificial" from the imprinting of any other group that attains dominance in a region over time (including that of the Jews in the area, many centuries previously).

Islam's telling to itself seems to go about like this:

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

By way of context: (1) it took a long time for this to happen (specifically in two waves about 550 years apart), and (2) even by the first wave, the Jewish community had already been vastly diminished (in part by expulsion, in part by assimilation as the other commenter notes), and the region had already been long since Christianized.

So there was no major Jewish imprinting to dismantle or oppose by then - or even make reference to, by then. If anything (with Christianity's imprint melting away before them) the region probably started to appear as a tabula rasa to them, in short enough order.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Jerusalem_(636%E2%80%...
I'll find out in due time when my kids get older, but I think #1 is overblown due to #2. It probably varies by region, but there is so much demand for "back to the roots" where I live, that I don't think this will be as bad socially as you say. There will be other like-minded families, and the bonds between my kids and those families' will be more enriching and meaningful than the average, device-oriented ones.

Some degree of device pragmatism is inevitable of course. But I don't think my kids will need a smartwatch until high school, or a phone till very late HS. In other words, I think there is a balance of these options possible.

Jonathan Haidt gives a lot of hope here, as depressing as "Anxious Generation" usually is.
Anduril doesn't generally sell hours to the government like most defense contractors.
It is really not an easy or straightforward process. Of the major world religions, it’s probably the hardest to convert into.

Being born into it is the most common and ‘supported’ way.
I'm a 90s kid.

My parents didn't let us have a TV. TV shows were a social object: in the 90s you'd come to school the next day and discuss what you watched. You signaled your in-groups by what shows you liked and what you didn't like.

I had none of that.

I had friends, but only because I got very good at hiding my oddities. I was disconnected from my peers and learned a set of behaviors that have fucked up a lot of relationships longer term.

Addiction to social media is terrible. But to those who ban your kids from social media entirely: how are you addressing the fact they will be isolated from their peers because of that.
CRLF was the correct way to implement a new line the way we think of it now, because teletypes and typewriters considered the “return to the 0th column” and “go to the next line” to be different things that are each valid on their own.

CRLF was the standardized way to implement “go down one line and return to column zero” and they’re the only ones who implemented new lines correctly at the outset.

Blaming Microsoft now, because they like backwards compatibility above almost everything else, is misplaced and myopic.
I still think the Space Shuttle was more impressive.
Named by whom? The term did not even show up until the 20th century, so it wasn't the christians who named it like that. Pure Spanish myth. Oh, and the battle that started it all? Never even existed. Pure historical revisionism for nationalistic purposes with no more reality that horned vikings.

There are many things wrong with the term. A "reconquest" also makes it sound like the area was under siege by the Arabs or something. But the fact of the matter is that the peninsula, except for perhaps the Basque country, has been a melting pot of cultures under the succession of rules by larger empires. It's not like those christians, or the "Spanish", held control at some point, lost it, and then got it back; they never had it in the first place or even existed as a nation. So it's just a ridiculous term altogether.

https://www.lavanguardia.com/historiayvida/20191208/47205574...

https://blogs.elpais.com/historias/2015/04/la-batalla-de-cov...
I believe the lawsuit brought by the states against TikTok is a part of a broader mission to arrest control over TikTok in the US at a sweeter price.

And while I don’t think TikTok is an angel, i see the whole consolidated effort at “taming” TikTok as being for show and claim of positive reformations. It’s disingenuous. It’s deceptive. It’s conspiratorial.
> "took active steps to promote a narrow beauty norm"

People are going to flip out when they hear how Hollywood does casting. /s
If one follows this general approach (most do in my experience), contradictions may indeed be (metaphysically) unavoidable.
Wait till you hear about Typescript, you know adding types to ECMAScript, like Macromedia did some 20 years ago. :)

Being in the industry for 20+ years and starting as a teenager making games in Flash it makes really hard for me to treat webdev seriously with all their revolutionary innovations.

At work I often encounter a resistance to a tech or solution I propose, because "there hasen't been any substational contribution to the repository in a week, seems dead to me". To which I kindly respond with a question - how do you calculate hypotenuse, because it's been a long time since Pythagoras made the last commit.
Meanwhile, some of my friends are still doing side jobs using CakePHP, 20 years later. :)
> the BLS numbers tell a story that plumbers and electricians make almost exactly the median income that full-time, year-round workers in the US earn.

Looking at BLS wage statistics for tradesmen really won't tell you anything about the financial well-being of private small business entrepreneurs; you need to be looking at their company's financial statements---which is quite privileged data---for a meaningful idea.
A definition of “social media” that includes HN has been stretched to the point of uselessness. We would have to invent a new term to refer to the things we actually mean by “social media”. Better to just not do that so we can keep having a useful term.
I was thinking it would be especially effective for situations where one needed to predict the behavior of a chaotic system, not so much accurately but convincingly. Turbulence flow would be an irreducible system right?
This is nonsense. You can parse every code with simple Notepad, if you have time. You don’t need to use even search, if you wish.

Or you can make your life easier, and use tools which helps you.

Once again, regardless of codebase.
Presumably because the US owned networks are just as bad.

There are many people (myself included) that oppose a tiktok ban but would happily support more stringent rules that outlawed tiktok’s bad behavior and applied equaly to facebook, youtube and musk’s ego project.
That doesn’t exactly sound like your average electrician job. What is your point?
It's also important to point out that a forth standard probably helps a few of the commercial vendors keep some level of interoperability, but in general, the hobbyist community (I would guess the bulk of forth users today) ignores the standard almost entirely and just implements their own forth (commonly a new one for each project).

The old saying is "if you've seen one forth, then you've seen one forth". It isn't a language like Python, but more like a language philosophy.

The creator of forth (chuck Moore) wasn't a fan of standards and felt they led to bloat. He was uniquely lucky and gifted to where he would figure out the minimum implementation of both hardware + software to solve a problem and by hardware...I mean he designed his own chips. So at the end of the day, he had a holistic tool where the hardware and software were designed together to solve a specific problem. He wouldn't implement anything he didn't need. It's a fascinating process that I would guess wouldn't work for 99.999% of people as most of us aren't at that level of knowledge/efficiency.

Forth and Lisp are both super freaking cool.
Oh my goodness this drives me insane. Ebay sucks for this. Just tell me the info! I shouldn't need to log in.

I do my best to avoid merchants who use shippit because of this. At least shippit tells me the actual carrier and the carrier tracking number so I can do what I need to do. Even if the third party shippit tracking is up to date I still don't want to use shippit's tracking page anyway.

I had to reach out to (deeply patronising!) customer service for Sendle because they don't show any carrier information at all on their tracking page. None. I'm in Australia, and they are an Australian company so it's not like they're unfamiliar with the way things work here. Sendle tracking page never has any tracking information, and if I'm lucky I'll get a 'your parcel has been picked up from the sender!' email a week after the thing has been delivered. It's so frustrating! It's so needless; sendle already got their slice of the financial pie, and as far as I can see, their value proposition isn't going to be negatively impacted by simply choosing not to obfuscate the carrier info, so just give me the information! I think it would make the value prop better; if I am not going to be home when a parcel delivery is scheduled (which again has never been visible on anything I've received via sendle), being able to contact and coordinate with the carrier prior to a failed delivery can be necessary. If I knew what day parcels were coming and by which carrier so I can make sure I'm home at the time they typically show up. Also maybe don't be rude when customers ask for basic information that should already be provided by default! You're supposed to be a shipping company! Useless.

I just don't understand the motives of making tracking hard or impossible (thanks, sendle). Ebay making you log in means you might just buy more stuff while you're here, but for third party shipping companies whose customers are businesses trying to ship things I don't understand the value of (developing, hosting, integrating with carrier tracking, etc.) their tracking pages at all, obfuscating the carrier info or not. Is it just because the shippit tracking page looks nicer than most carrier tracking? I'm probs missing something obvious? If anyone has any insight, I would genuinely love to understand.
Algorithms focusing on beautiful people is no surprise. Look at any social media and the attractive ones gain more attention, this means better engagement thus screen time.
Does one or the other of them not involve being hazed, in an occasionally fatal fashion, by a bunch of jocks?
Estimated costs of the fully loaded cost of the shuttle program ended up at $600 million to $1 billion per flight. The refurbishment costs per flight and man hours/staffing were astronomical.

It actually would have been a lot cheaper if they had gone for serialized, mass assembly line production of Saturn V class disposable rockets to launch piece of space stations, satellites and manned missions into low earth orbit.
Monado: Open-source XR runtime for VR and AR on mobile, PC/desktop
What kind of behaviors?
One of these with a Java card and NFC would be cool.
You're right.

Back in 2015 or so I could watch Twitter addicts' personalities and worldviews change in increasingly bizarre ways. It was weird.

TikTok is the same, but distilled: faster, more emotionally charged, and optimized more aggressively. They are not unique, they're just winning right now.
Oh, it's not merely the wages. It's the utter gamification of entire occupations.

Once again, my theory that gamers become atrocious developers (and middle managers) is proving true. The gig-work apps are like real-life A.R. video games, complete with quests, badges, level up, and really perverse incentives that all march toward a thankless, joyless grind.

I've never enjoyed unionization or job security. Yet I've steadfastly refused every employment except W-2 with reputable firms. Sometimes a staffing company is ok. Anything below that is an exploitive scam, unless you've got really good boundaries. Large and publicly traded corporations aren't kind, but they certainly abide by employment regulations.

Thankfully I don't need to work for support or survival. My heart goes out to all those who are trampled underfoot by this relentless Juggernaut.
That would have a severe downside of not letting your customers access your website.

Fast-abort on bare-0ah will still be compatible with all browsers and major http clients, thus providing extra mitigations practically for free.
Glad you were able to get your BP under control, it’s a silent killer. Any tips?
Is there any source for first-hand specifics of what she does?

I used to argue in reddit (same username as my HN) basically calling Musk a fraud and Gwynne Shotwell being all the brains 6 years ago, but I've since changed my position after seeing engineers in spaceX give props to Musk at podcasts, twitter, and various interviews.
So they'll suffer the angst and pain like I did begging my parents to upgrade the graphics card from CGA to EGA?
> One of the most surprising is that all smooth manifolds of dimension not equal to four only have a finite number of unique smooth structures. For dimension four, there are countably infinite number of unique smooth structures. It's the only dimension with that property.

Can you give some intuition on smooth structure and manifold?
I read Wikipedia articles a few times but still can't grasp them.
Profiles aren’t always entirely accurate. That’s kinda fine, since (IMO) they’re mainly useful for pointing you in the correct direction.

Once you’ve found a small enough chunk of logic that’s worth optimizing, I’d recommend relying more on benchmarks and disassembly.
There is no reason those ascii characters need to stay unprintable. You could use other characters like an interpunct, silcrow, or down carat.
You go out of your way to put your kids into more in person social interactions. Local events, school extracurriculars, sports teams, organizing get togethers with neighbors (and generally inviting neighbor kids to come play in the backyard whenever).

Some of those things are easier than others for a family to take on, but in a strange turn of events, the various social media "bubbles" mean one kid and the next aren't exposed to the same trending topics (like some kids don't even know what skibidi toilet is, while others are all into some NBA or NFL players, while others are following chess tournaments or LEGO stuff...).

There's still enough real world events outside influencer bubbles that you can keep social media (mostly) out of a kids life and not cause that kid to be on an island.

There's a balance between media exposure and overprotection, too. Every parent has to find it. It's one of the most difficult aspects of parenting once your kids are old enough to talk!
Just Stumbled Upon Hidden Feature After Years of Using Windows 11 File Explorer
It should be possible to save the cursor position, hide it if it moves away from view during scrolling, and restore it back on any command but scrolling, or at least at the firs cursor-movement command.
One interesting thing I’ve never seen discussed is how puberty shifting earlier in modern times clashes with human sexual instincts and related cultural norms.

Absent abuse situations, pre-pubescent humans have basically no interest in sexual behavior, and, except in very rare cases of truly deranged individuals, adults have basically no sexual interest in pre-pubescent minors.

Historically, I believe puberty roughly coincided with the age of marriage for girls. One can argue about the mental maturity of a 17 year old and whether they are ready to make important life decisions, but there is clearly a huge mental difference between a 17 year old and a 13 year old, and puberty shifting earlier did not come with a forward shift in mental development.

So now we have essentially mental children who are interested in sex and related behavior (e.g. suggestive dancing), in a way that I believe is probably unprecedented in all of human history.

Also, while it is gross to consider, I’m guessing that many viewers of these 15 year olds are actually adult men of all ages. This problem is significantly amplified by a shift to earlier puberty, since I’m guessing in a counterfactual where the dancing girls are pre-pubescent, these men would feel disgust and move on instead of guiltily lingering.
it does not.
This is what your 20s are like. You’re someone who actually commits to those whims.

Good.

Keep doing that, don’t settle. You’ll find what you’re looking for.
Former TikTok exec: Chinese Communist Party had “God mode” entry to US data
https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2023/06/former-tiktok...

Two academic studies argue that TikTok favors Chinese government views, and a new analysis says TikTok's parent firm is entangled with government propaganda organs.
https://www.nbcnews.com/investigations/tiktok-says-not-sprea...
> There's no such thing as a "trailing newline," there is only a line-terminating newline.

Is "line-terminating newline" a controlled / established term I'm unfamiliar with or am I right to hold deep contempt against you?

Because "trailing newline", contrary to what you claim, is 100% established terminology (in programming anyways), so I'd most definitely consider it "existing", and I find it actively puzzling that someone wouldn't.
> (He calls LF "newline". OK, fine, his reasoning seems legit.) He is not advocating changing the language of the standard.

The Unicode standard does call it NL along with LF.

000A  <control>
= LINE FEED (LF)
= new line (NL)
= end of line (EOL)

Source: https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0000.pdf
No. Dylan has macros. They’re much like Schemes syntax-case macros vs just ad hoc list building like Common Lisp.
That is really terrible and I worry for our kids being anti media iconoclasts.

If only there were a community for likeminded families.