skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got my child an AppleWatch SE (a few years ago), which yeah, technically has a bunch of apps but they're not really useful or of interest to them, and if they don't have social media accounts (which mine don't), then it acts as a phone and locater without all the rest.

On the downside they kept begging for a phone so they could text their friends, which was reasonable, and texting on the Watch is a terrible experience. So we finally did give in to a phone but with locked down parental controls, so they can't install apps, etc. (though I'm finding those iOS parental controls don't work as well I had hoped; there's a huge issue with them being reset suddenly -- lots of forums of people complaining about this).
Meanwhile at Google HQ: I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced…
I would submit map functionality to the list as well. I think it would be healthy for a kid old enough to tell time to experiment with navigating, maybe following along on their map on drives.
Prabhakar Raghavan got fired (= promoted out of the job) last week.
(This person is associated with Shimmer)
Good start ... but it should actually be "Wait until 18". I did this with my son and, now at 25, he has a much more normal perspective on connectivity and social media than most his age. There was ZERO downside (for all you worrisome types who think not having a phone is bad for some reason). Thinking kids "need phones!" for safety / socialization are making that shit up entirely.
> It's endlessly frustrating that the US government wants to centrally plan my hiring decisions

What's the alternative - the government outsources visa issuance to the companies employing foreign labor?
I find arxiv papers a bit scary, their page was more welcoming https://crux.galois.com
Guardian article discussed here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41992399
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Good, but I would have preferred a comment about 'process gates' somewhere in there [0]. I.e. rather than say "it's probably nothing let's not do anything" only to avoid the extreme "let's double check everything from now on for all eternity", I would have preferred a "Let's add this temporary process to check if something is actually wrong, but make sure it has a clear review time and a clear path to being removed, so that the double-checking doesn't become eternal without obvious benefit".

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33229338
There was drama with Lina and another person in the vtuber hacker space who directly referred to them as marcan.
Just to note. 80% of recruiters doesn't mean 80% of ads. A recruiter that has posted thousands of legitimate ads in their career, technically only needs to have posted 1 fake one to be eligible for inclusion in the 80%.

Although I understand, and to some extent share, your skepticism regarding the "study", I have no problem conceiving that a trend might currently be setting around the practice of posting fake ads, for whatever reason. It doesn't require much. In an unregulated playing field, simple peer pressure and survival is all you need to drive everyone to shady practices.

So, the study might be moot, but the number isn't so surprising.
Pay-to-win isn't really the issue so much as microtransactions in general. Most of these games have an in-game currency to buy stuff (some is pay-to-win, most are cosmetics) and protecting that currency (and the virtual goods traded on the market it drives) is paramount. These games also tend to have moved away from 'community hosted' servers, since these give an opportunity for hosters to hack in features that might be detrimental to sanctioned behavior.

In short, we typically see KLA on games with in-game currencies whose servers are controlled by the vendors.

Inasmuch as KLA is actually used as anti-cheat software, it's usually a proxy for actual moderation (i.e. labor). Community-hosted servers generally develop their own processes and customs for handling bad actors, but vendors generally don't want to hand that kind of power to internet strangers.
I've been using ChatGPT for about 6 weeks as my go-to for small questions (when is sunset in sf today? list currencies that start with the letter P, convert this timestamp PDT to GMT, when is the end of Q1 2025?) and it's been great/99% accurate. If there was ever a "google killer" I think it's the ad free version of ChatGPT with better web search.

Google started off with just web search, but now you can get unit conversions and math and stuff. ChatGPT started in the other direction and is moving to envelope search. Not being directed to sites that also majority serve google ads is a double benefit. I'll gladly pay $20/30/mo for an ad free experience, particularly if it improves 2x in quality over the next year or two. It's starting to feel like a feature complete product already.
For those not in the know, the Soviet Union was an officially atheist empire and explicitly anti religious, foremost anti christian. I don't know if the poster above me is denying this or if he/she considers it general knowledge which needn't be mentioned.
Speaking for myself:

1. I want nginx to serve static files, and everything else to be reverse proxied to the webapp

2. The configuration file that allows /favicon.ico (and others) to be a file but / and other paths to be passed to the webapp is kind of ugly. Here's mine:

location ~* ^/(favicon.ico|apple-touch-icon.png)$ {
root $icons_path;
}

In my own case I've so far decided to accept the ugly config file, but as you can see, I haven't gotten around to adding even a robots.txt or any of the other files the modern web ecosystem expects; and adding them involves adding them one-by-one. I can see why someone would say, "Why make an ugly hack of an nginx config, when I can just define the favicon location in the metadata to a path easily configured to be files-only?"
as a chrome PWA it's 259MB for me, vs ~700MB for the electron app.
the interviewers are being paid to do interviews
Feature flag development culture is the only practical way to do continuous delivery. The old approach is still used in markets where it makes sense - database systems, for example, often have only a handful of releases per year. But there's a lot of markets where it's just not feasible to make customers wait 3-6 months between when you finish developing a feature and when it's available for use.
Is that still true?

20 years ago when a video game came out you would find walkthroughs on the web. Now you get senseless spam on Fandom and if you want a walkthrough you might need to seek through 50 hours of video to find the 20 seconds you need and hope they didn’t edit the important bit out.

That is, enshittification has already damaged the web enough that people aren’t making content for it, the platform has been in decline a long time.
At some point it seems like Google switch to ML-based search instead of index based search. You can search for very specific combinations of lyrics and scenes: "eyes on me pineapple bucket of water house of cards chess time loop" and you won't surface a link to the music video featuring all of those things (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlzgDVLtU6g), you'll just get really generic results of the average of your query.
I think the idea is that those are websites on the web, which are distinct from the web itself.

There are several meaningful difference between surfing Youtube and surfing the web. These include ownership, access, review, exposure, and more.
https://www.reddit.com/r/dumbphones/
IME Google's summary is not actually hallucinating, the problem is they are forcing it to quote the search results, but they're surfacing bad/irrelevant search results because Google's actual search hasn't worked in years. It's a RAG failure.

For instance I searched for the number to dial to set call forwarding on carrier X the other day, and it gave wrong results because it returned carrier Y.
There's this tech pattern of letting the cash-cow stagnate and deteriorate while focusing on high risk moonshots.

This especially happens after they dominate the market.

Take for example IE6, Intel, Facebook, IBM, and now Google.

They have everything they need to keep things from going off the rails, management however has a tendency to delusionally assume their ship is so unsinkable that they're not even manning their stations.

It becomes Clayton Christensenesque - they're dismissive of the competition as not real threats and don't realize their cash-cow is running on only fumes and inertia until its too late.
Unless what you’re doing creates a landslide of government funded competition across the planet.

When all the major governments of the world face the exact same problem you do after copying what you did, you might be onto something.
I turned on search the web to compare vs google search + AI labs, and ran a battery of typical tests. Google was instantaneous vs gpt-4o which wrote out each letter.

Subjectively, I'm not switching for quick searched - google remains lightning fast and is good enough. But I already use gpt/claude/etc for conceptual searches and deeper analysis.

---

[used leica q3] ==> google (product listings and website; Chatgpt told me about the Leica q3 and mentioned ebay)

[value of mac air m1] ==> neither!! (google was useless videos and crap; chatgpt gave me a price range and useful explanation... which made no sense - used was the same price or higher than new!)

[vogue lyrics] ==> google wins (gave me the lyrics; Chatgpt whined about copyright restrictions and sent me to a youtube video)

[weather in nyc] ==> tie (both provided correct, rich detail about the current weather)

[root causes of ww1] ==> tie (both identified Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism, explained each and then mentioned the assassination of the Archduke as the triggering event)

[bohemia to midtown] ==> equally bad (both figured out that it's a request for local directions, but neither just gave me directions until I gave a specific destination)

[bohemia to penn station] ==> ??? (chatgpt correctly gave me bohemia ny where google picked some obscure local listing; otoh chatgpt wrote out directions where google gave me a nice map)

[btc to usd] ==> tie (both got today's price)

[what time is it in stockholm] ==> tie (both got it right)

[iphone 16 vs 14] ==> chatgpt wins (nice comparison; google didn't pop search labs and just gave me websites)

[ffmpeg to clip the last 3 secs of a video] ==> chatgpt ?! (I didn't love either answer TBH)

[456+789] ==> google (both gave the answer, but google included a nice calculator)

...and the stuff people really want:

[porn] ==> google (gpt whined about policy violations; google gave pornhub and other "useful" results)
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> none felt they were missing out

Exactly. It seems obvious to me that the vast majority of social media is junk and I'd prefer to keep my kids from getting drawn into it for as long as possible, and I think a ton of parents feel this way. The main counter-argument I hear is that "that's where socializing happens these days, and if you keep them away from it they'll just be left out / isolated from their peers".

An initiative like this acknowledges that we have some control over our culture. We don't just need to put up with a shitty status quo because "that's the way it is".
Interesting, thank you.

I suppose that you do have heating in the home?
"Today, a kid might be alienated without a phone." Might ... but more likely not. I can't understand why this irrational fear of potential social problems if not tethered to a phone is outweighing the clear evidence of actual social problems when tethered to a phone has so much traction with adults.
> tessellator.cl is the most unhinged file of my career

...so far. The presenter is only 23 apparently. Maybe I'm speaking only for myself here, but I think career unhingedness does not go down over time as much as one might hope.

In all seriousness, she does really impressive work, so when she says this 2,000 lines of C++ is inscrutable, that gives one pause. Glad it's working nonetheless.
Very silly question, no doubt, but why don't we train LLM's language skills on internet fluff, and actual knowledge only on some reputable sources like Wikipedia and Britannica?
I always wondered about these /SubscriberLink/ links. Is sharing them considered unethical?
You may be confusing what happens with a phone with what is required.

Certainly kids can have a social life without a phone. It’s not required. I just had a kid who didn’t get instagram until 14. They claimed that their life was ruined, but they had a healthy social life without it (and without a phone).

I think people generalize what will happen without things they think are common incorrectly. Just because phones are used for many things, it doesn’t mean those things are impossible without phones.

I do think it works better if more parents did it and it was so nice to find other parents (super rare) who felt similarly.
"Nihilism is the belief that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated."
The next step will be adding functionality to convert and save a BrowserStep[] into a portable file format and addition conversation functions to turn those files into .jsonl that can be fed into the transformers library etc. For the PII piece, there's no current plans to introduce anonymization features but open to suggestions.
Maybe add the flag|vouch to the comments for those threads? Not entirely sure how it works (or if its possible), but it seems to work pretty well. I am guessing there is a filter for bad actors, even if not, the few that would be affected would maybe end up with positive comments from long aged accounts.

Thats a lot of maybes, but my impression of the flag|vouch feature is as a first step community moderation and guessing it works well? The job thread being jobs targeting the community, I would think it would as well, or at a minimum help.
8th grade may be somewhat arbitrary, but as children grow older you trust them more with things that you didn't when they were younger, teaching them responsibility and independence over time.

I don't need a website to provide some type of evidence (not sure what kind of evidence you'd be referring to) to understand that. It's parenting 101. This is just applying it to social networks (that's the issue more than the phone itself) just it would apply to any other type of social interaction (going out with friends by themselves, TV, gaming, etc.)
meanwhile millenials had full reign over the internet as kids cause their boomer parents didnt know shit. back when everyone did the famous A/S/L questionare from randos online lol.
This counterpoint feels like it needs just as much scrutiny as the position it’s refuting.

Isn’t “but everyone else has one” the appeal kids make to their parents about most everything? (I know I was guilty of that as a kid myself)

Why is this a new level of “denying them a social life”?
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Guess who came up with the idea of the Backyard Ultra? The Barkley race director.
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Pipewire and a pinephone, librem etc?
Motorcycles are a good candidate for such a marketing strategy, especially in South Asia
It’s true. My daughter didn’t have a phone until 9th grade, which she just started. She had talked about getting a dumb phone because she wasn’t very into the smartphone thing, which I was supportive of. However she now takes public transit to high school, and really wanted the Transit app so she could easily navigate in the city. So, an iPhone is where we landed.

And I have to say, it is astounding how quickly that thing got its hooks into her. I naively thought she might have been immune to it, given her habits and attitude. Boy was I wrong.
At least below age 12 or so, our kid's social life consists entirely of classmates that she sees 7 hours a day at school during weekdays, after school and in weekends playdates with classmates that she likes, sports, music and swimming lessons,and some time with parents in somewhere between. Where does the phone come on?

In our class we were the first to give our kid's a phone. She doesn't find it very interesting and barely spent any time on it, since she the only ones that she know with a phone number are her parents.
Completely agree. One can be skeptical, but the actual man is likely greater than the legend.

I own a coin designed by Pythagoras. Well, it’s from 510 BC Croton, features the tripod from Delphi, and has little snakes at the bottom. Also 10 little dots. No tetractys, but that’d be a bit much. Also, the front is the opposite of the back (Aristotle describes the Pythagorean obsession with opposites).

I mean, maybe it wasn't Pythagoras — but his father was a gold smith and it is the most beautiful coin of the era, suggesting genius. But it might have been Hippasus, who was known for having conducted the first hypothesis driven experiment of all time: casting bronze chimes in musical proportions to see if the 1:2:3:4 intervals that make stringed music consonant apply with the thickness of chimes. They do. The mathematical model generalizes.

Currently, I’m working on a textbook callout that helps students learn about fractions using musical intervals — and introduces all the DEI glory of Pythagoras (multiethnic, gender-mixed community, credited his moral doctrines to a woman, Themistoclea of Delphi, etc). I’m leaving out the fact that he was kicked out of the boys Olympics when he was 16 for being too effeminate. He won the men’s Olympics in boxing, introducing some kind of new martial arts. Then he trained the most successful Olympic athlete of all time, Milo of Croton, who won 5 consecutive Olympics. No one has done that since.

Let me know if you need sources for any of these facts, I collect them all. Pythagoras is the bessst
I get your point. But the current situation is clearly not tolerable.
This is clearly aimed at Americans only.
The truth behind Apple's most unpopular decisions: It's not about you
Oh wow that is surprisingly spooky, looks like something out of Coraline.
You are right on the first point, but I don't think you are right on the syscall part - a kernel level module can just read the PT directly without resorting to a syscall, no? You get access to CR3, and besides kernel-level PTs have a fixed logical (and if memory serves, physical - though maybe just on windows) address.

When in the non-PAE mode, I think one can still practically trigger page faults on attempted reads on the PDEs mapped by a kernel-level aimbot, force flushing of TLBs when anti-cheat tries to read the PT, and effectively conceal the cloning (although if the anti-cheat is doing this often enough, the performance impact might be too much?).

When in PAE mode, I do not know of a practical way to do it, but I haven't been researching such exploits for a few years now.

I think at this point, the most practical way to implement an open-source, undetectable aimbot proof-of-concept would be to perform static reversing of the game engine to get the network protocol, peform a MITM to listen in and recreate state on a separate process or machine, do a PnP input injection via a real or fake mouse/keyboard.

Reversing the code (as opposed to memory structures) is very hard these days, though, and not because of anti-cheat software, but because of the high-end anti-piracy runtimes and layers upon layers of abstractions which are annoying to analyze in assembly. (But sure, not impossible, and I am sure people are doing this considering the crazy amounts people are willing to pay for private aimbots).

For a system programming geek its all very interesting and intellectually stimulating, but boy does it ruin the fun of multiplayer gaming :-( I think the best way to protect against cheaters would be to run streaming-only servers where all the processing happens server-side.
Microsoft is literally not in "FAANG". But they are in MANGA.
Why do you say this? I recognize the name, it's someone in the tech community. But they are not associated with Shimmer
Or ... we could continue doing what worked for all of us before being tethered to phones. Communicate beforehand / afterwards / using shared phones (which still exist) and learning to navigate the world using brains.
We've used both gabb and an apple watch and they both work decently well. The apple watch has a few too many features by default but it's not as engrossing as a smartphone. The gabb watch was great overall. We switched from gabb -> apple at the end of 6th grade because we felt like our daughter had reached a point of being able to ignore the distractions of the watch in most settings and for the most part that's worked out well. We upgraded specifically to allow texting/IM'ing friends, which may or may not be within what some people want happening.

I will note that having her be able to call us is fantastic. There's a lot of end-of-school "hey you need to walk home today / walk over to my office / oh wait i'll pick you up" kind of coordination, which we could probably avoid with careful advance planning but it's really nice to be able to be flexible.

And also, youtube shorts / tiktok are the most addictive thing I've seen put in front of a child that age. She can browse YT shorts on her school computer at home (!!) and it's .. it's really stunning how absorbing it is for her. And not in a good way.
Doesn't France have extreme heat waves in summer?

The way temperatures have been changing in Europe in the past decade, you may not have A/C at home now, but I bet you'll have it in ten years, tops. So will everyone else and their dogs.
Our school says that every single time a kid gets a notification or call, everyone gets distracted, and that's why they are not allowing any one carry phone/smart watch.

Which I totally agree with.
I’d say cell phone penetration is sitting at about 25% with my 6th graders friend cohort and that seems to hold up when I talk to my friends with kids.

I don’t know if that will hold until 8th grade but for now my kids social life seems to revolve around the neighborhood, school and his activities.

I was under the impression phones/social networks were becoming unpopular. My kid certainly has a dim view of the latter.
I love how the term "endianness" was picked straight from Gulliver's Travels. It's a very good fit - old wise computer wizards must've known how it's gonna be.
Yep, I was incredibly skeptical about Kagi but I tried it and never looked back. Now my wife, friends, and several coworkers are customers.

The chatgpt approach to search just feels forced and not as intuitive.
Your mileage may vary of course. The jobs I’ve had since an on-campus interview in grad school were all people I had worked with in some capacity. Basically never sent a resume except pro-forma.

I became curious long after the fact if a job description for my last job that was written for me was ever posted.
Kamala's alcoholism

Which is apparently a straight up rumor, entirely lacking in substance:

https://www.newsweek.com/kamala-harris-drinking-problem-alco...
Money is just one way of establishing "trust clubs". Time is another. For free-to-play games, you could make it so that users are peered with other users who have put in the same amount of time into the system. So if you've gone a whole year without being flagged for cheating in the system, you'll be paired up with other users who have also gone years without being flagged.

If you create a new account, you'll be peered with other new accounts (low trust). Still possible to cheat, but the cost is very high (years of effort to get accepted in the best trust clubs)
In the UK ages 12-13 are typically Year 7 of secondary school.
Yeah, the culture war stuff is a big deal for people who don’t write code. But I don’t think their opinions are that important for Linux kernel. Pretty effective to have it as honeypot. Allows for easy programmatic filter out for non-coders.