skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the linked paper (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-11341-2):

> …measures of intelligence at baseline (ages 9–10) and after two years. At baseline, time watching (r = − 0.12) and socializing (r = − 0.10) were negatively correlated with intelligence, while gaming did not correlate. After two years, gaming positively impacted intelligence (standardized β = + 0.17), but socializing had no effect. This is consistent with cognitive benefits documented in experimental studies on video gaming. Unexpectedly, watching videos also benefited intelligence (standardized β = + 0.12), contrary to prior research on the effect of watching TV. Although, in a posthoc analysis, this was not significant if parental education (instead of SES) was controlled for.

A few interesting points:

- This was measured for children 9-10 yo and then two years later (11-12 yo). Children is a very broad category, but they’re not talking about toddlers, but closer to adolescence.

- Watching videos has a positive correlation similar to playing video games (but not quite as great), but only when parental education rather than socioeconomic status is controlled for in the data. Does this imply that the more important factor is how educated the parents are? Or do they mean parental education to be involvement of the parent in educating the child?

Anecdotally, my much younger nephew (almost 5yo) watches YouTube videos on how to draw Spider-Man and cars. It’s all self directed and stuff that he’s choosing to engage with. as a parent, I definitely see the educational value, and maybe even a glimpse of how unschooling could be effective practice.
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I would say area is integration, and that, for the simple case of integrating a constant function, equals multiplication of that constant by the length of the interval being integrated over (measure of the set, if you’re doing Lebesgue integration)
I don't think anyone has ever seriously suggested PHP is dead. People may want it to be dead, but it's probably still the most-used language on the web!
Nginx ingress, arguably the most popular reverse proxy for Kubernetes, is also lacking any HTTP3 support because of this slow progress. The related issue is 5y/o and the feature is now planned for its successor.
https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/issues/4760
I think this will be the one thing that causes Google to revive its plan to scan all books in existence. They had started it, and built the machines to do it, and were making good progress... until Copyright hit them. BUT if they're not making the full text publicly accessible, and are "only" training AI on it, who knows if that would still be a problem. It's definitely a vast treasure trove of information, often with citations, and (presumably) hyper-linkable sources.
HTTP/3 is enabled in the curl package on Debian:

https://samueloph.dev/blog/debian-curl-now-supports-http3/

Daniel also has a more up-to-date post on HTTP/3:

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/06/10/http-3-in-curl-mid-20...
so in answer to my question - no you can't even imagine both could be bad. Your talking points sound very tankie so I guess nuance isn't to be expected.
Splitting hairs probably but personally I'd say it the other way around: a likelihood is not a probability or a probability density, so there's no reason to think that it would integrate to 1.

The reason it's not a probability or probability density is that it's not defined to be one (in fact its definition involves a potentially different probability density for each point in parameter space).

But I think I know what you're saying -- people need to understand that it's not a probability density in order to avoid making naive probabilistic statements about parameter estimates or confidence regions when their calculations haven't used a prior over the parameters.
Ah yes, the good old "this one time". Maybe throw a "temporary" into the mix for maximum assurance.
That's not the right question. There are three buckets.

The biggest bucket is going to be purely financial trades. This is true whether you're trading wheat or copper or oil or whatever. Anybody who thinks they can make a dime but doesn't actually want any of the underlying is here.

Then of the rest, you split by social value. For the traditional markets, most of these trades will be socially positive. Wheat buyers and wheat sellers are mostly making things that people actually want and benefit from. Anything like that is in the "positive social value" bucket.

The third bucket is socially negative. In the traditional commodities, this includes the people who were trading nickel but just swapped in rocks, and other kinds of fraud. Or if you were a terrorist who was buying oil to dump it on the Great Barrier Reef, that'd be there too.

Most crypto trading is in the first bucket, because that's true of almost any financial market. People who need the underlying don't trade much compared with people who are seeking financial advantage. But of the rest, unlike traditional markets, most of the non-financial trades are socially negative. Cryptocurrencies main non-trading uses are things like ransomware, scams, pump-and-dumps, rug pulls, and money laundering, plus other efforts to evade the controls of the traditional financial system.

So the right societal question is: Ignoring the financial traders, what's the ratio between the socially positive and socially negative uses of the underlying?
Which ones? Can you link some or provide the right search queries to find these?

Without substantiating your claim with links / references, this is an empty "appeal to authority" argument, aka weasel words.
> I don't understand why would they not ack or fix this

Because they have (tree letters) customers. /s
There research is not credible because their only "evidence" is that when using certain keywords, Instagram and YT returned more "anti-China" content than TikTok.

So instead of arguing the U.S. social media has an anti-China bias, they argued that it's the evidence of TikTok being more pro-China.

Using American social media as the control group for neutrality on China is absolutely insane.

The most likely cause is that TikTok is just a lot less political and more international than YT and Instagram.

For rest of the world, people do not automatically associate words like "Xinjiang" to "Chinese government oppression", the fact that they expect that to be the top result can be argued that American media is the one manipulating information.
It has never been about that. This is about Facebook, Google and Twitter not wanting competition for for their ad markets.
They clearly don't have the old code base, workforce to hypothetically adapt it to VoLTE, or factories to manufacture the phones. New Nokia TA-xxxx phones use MediaTek/Unisoc(Spreadtrum) SoC and MediaTek MAUI software rebranded as "S30+". Which means those are reskinned Chinese phones.

Old Nokia had RM-xxx or RX-xxx model numbers, so it's also clear that some of their corpo structure did survive.
Didn't apple announce earlier this year they were going to open NFC up more? What ever happened to that?
I didn’t say they don’t do artificial segmentation. I just noted that, in this case, it might have an upside for the user. There might also be some binning involved- maybe the parts failed as A300 parts.
I would support a move to a more proportional system, but I think it's an exaggeration to describe the present system as 'incredibly undemocratic' (especially given that a clear majority of the voting population chose to keep this system in a democratic referendum not very long ago). There's plenty to criticise about the UK at present, but HN sometimes goes off the rails on this topic. I suspect that a post describing the USA as 'incredibly undemocratic' would get shorter shrift – even though the electoral college is arguably an order of magnitude more bonkers than the UK system.

Edit: I'd also add that the UK is astonishingly democratic in some respects. It is remarkable that Brexit was implemented merely because a majority voted for it. There are few countries where such important decisions of national policy would be put to a popular referendum in this way and then implemented faithfully. (I was very firmly opposed to Brexit, FWIW.)
I also read between the lines something like "don't be surprised if we start to make our own chipsets and drivers, because current vendors can't be trusted to do a good job".
> Secondly no, it's not illegal to spread misinformation, no matter the motive. The First Amendment absolutely guarantees that right.

Not accurate, no, assuming that by misinformation you mean information that the author knows to be false. To name just two quite legally clear examples with no inherent connection to foreign states, US defamation law and US product liability law often create civil liability and occasionally even criminal liability for certain categories of knowingly false statements.

But, sure, spreading misinformation is not always illegal, and a blanket ban on that would indeed violate the First Amendment even though more targeted bans have been upheld as passing the relevant judicial tests for laws affecting First Amendment rights.
Years ago in a different city I had a TekSavvy DSL connection.

There was some issue, and I called tech support. The initial conversation included some hints that I, too, was ... Tek Savvy. (sorry)

The agent ditched the script and we dove into a live debug collaboration between peers. I have no idea whether the same spirit endures, but it was an amazing positive experience, unlike anything I've seen before or since. Recommended.
I have yet to meet a competent sysadmin that cares much about "desktop", and to the extent they do they mostly seem to invent their own graphical tools, with Tcl/Tk and so on.

Are they common where you live?
By the way, those Sun machines would crash if you forked more than 127 times.
This is nicely done.

One function I've written that I frequently use is a generic iterate <T> function which (in JS/TS land) allows you to loop over a T[], Array<T>, ArrayLike<T>, Iterable<T>, AsyncIterable<T>, including generators and async generators.

It is just easier to always be able to write: "for await (const item of iterate(iterable))" in most places, without worrying about the type of the item I am looping over.

I like the reducers and collectors in your library! Going to try it out.

Also, something new I discovered is the Array.fromAsync() method in JS, which is like Array.from() but for async values. I don't think it is available in all browsers/runtimes yet though.
Instead of attacking the poster with an ad hominem / character assassination, why not provide a counterpoint to their arguments, or ask them why they think it's Russian propaganda (burden of proof is with them after all)?
"I don't like this thing, so rather than not support that business model the government should make it illegal."
My god the tone in this article is flippant for talking about the scariest part of our “eliminate all human life” deterrence system.

And stupidly jingoistic in how it scaremongers that the five chinese subs could hit the USA while being smug about how the USA deploys five times as many of them.
It wouldn't be anonymous then if it was in my work place.
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>They still lose on price by ~$30CAD monthly, but I could forgive that. Paying for objectively better customer support and an ethical ISP (even if just a reseller) is something I can work with.

Surely you'd be better off taking the $30 and donating it to EFF (or Canadian equivalent)? Spending extra money on an ISP that occasionally engages in activism but has higher cost structure is less efficient for everyone involved.
I'd love to see it tbh, there's a lot of brainrot on those platforms too, to the point where the 2016 elections were in part swayed by stuff being mindlessly shared on facebook. They had to come up with new laws, regulations, and measures against "fake news" and everything, root out foreign influences, increase rules on political advertising, etc.
And both parties are almost exactly the same with foreign policy.

The "two-party system" in the U.S. is perhaps broken beyond repair, and presents an illusion of choice in many ways rather than an actual choice.
Or, for the Knuth-included, surreal numbers: https://people.math.harvard.edu/~knill/teaching/mathe320_201...

(Seriously though, learn to love the minefield. ~~~~Another physicist)
Especially since it's now the erstwhile upstart frenemy that sits in the driver's seat. They have institutional memory of where they came from, so they know to be on their guard against the same thing happening to themselves.
China’s Orbital Maneuvers Have Space Force Leaders Seeking Better Options
> Secondly no, it's not illegal to spread misinformation, no matter the motive. The First Amendment absolutely guarantees that right.

Again, does NOBODY know what the first amendment covers???

If you yell FIRE in a crowded theatre (misinformation) that is not covered by the 1st amendment[1]. Please stop talking confidently about something you don't understand.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schenck_v._United_States

Edit:
Schenck v. United States was largely overturned by Brandenburg v. Ohio but not completely, only limiting the scope. There are also many other examples that could be used to show that spreading misinformation is not blanket covered by 1a (defamation for example).
I wonder if Gorbachev had any pathway available to him that wouldn't have lead to the eventual dissolution of the Soviet Union? By the time he rose to power their economy was in such serious trouble it was a choice between reform or perpetual stagnation, but I don't see any way for Gorbachev to make the necessary reforms without triggering a coup attempt against him from the hardliners which was arguably the moment Soviet power was broken.

'What if Gorbachev succeeded in reforming the Soviet Union' is an interesting alternate history scenario I think. I'm not sure it's a realistic one though, the problems he faced were likely insurmountable.
what about the kids who read HN
Social Security also goes to disabled people as well as "disabled" people. That population is almost 10 million people.
Recruiters operate in US high schools to reach minors.
Except it is. The Supreme Court has actually ruled that the First Amendment rights for Americans to receive foreign propaganda, even during the Cold War:

https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/lamont-v-postmaster-...

I don't think you know what the First Amendment is. Not only does it guarantee freedom of expression, but also freedom to receive other's expression and speech.

The U.S. government is not allowed to ban any foreign books, movies, or even propaganda.

I really wish people like you do a little bit research before making such a confident statement like that.
Other than the huge amount of enterprise software which was only supported on Intel, most of the high-end server business below the mainframe level after the mid-90s, and the huge install base of x86 software keeping everyone but AMD out? Even their own Itanium crashed and burned on x86 compatibility.
So let me see if I've got this right. You can fly drones over a US air force base and shut it down. This lets you conduct a DOS attack on the base. You can also get to a place where if the drones contained munitions they would be very difficult to stop before they did their damage, but nobody is authorized to stop it.

Also, if I understand correctly, Wright Patt is a place where they experiment with new radars and stuff. But they couldn't track the drones to see where they came from or where they went. (Or didn't - it might be deliberate strategy to not turn on the fancy toys while the drones are there to monitor.)

All in all, I have a hard time buying all this. In a world of Russian hybrid warfare, in a world of China gearing up to at least be able to invade Taiwan, in a world of Iran still trying to find ways to pay the US back for the death of Sulameini, in a world with North Korea being willing to do just about anything, doing nothing about all this would be somewhere between incredibly gross negligence and active treason.

I consider it more likely that someone (US military and/or intelligence) at least knows exactly what is going on, and likely is doing it themselves. They just aren't talking about it.
This makes sense to me if I think of games of old like Sim City or games with puzzles in levels but a lot of games today are just mindless micro-transaction delivery systems so I’m skeptical.
Netscape Navigator 1.0 was released 30 years ago (and 1 day) (2014)
Active acoustic camouflage.
SVGs themselves are just an image format; but because of their vector nature, they could easily be mapped onto values from a simulation in a physics engine — at least, in the game physics sense of the word, rods and springs etc., as a fluid simulation is clearly a better map to raster formats.

If that physics engine were itself a good model for the real world, then you could do simulated evolution to get an end result that is at least as functional as a bike (though perhaps it wouldn't look like a traditional bike) even if the only values available to the LLM were the gross characteristics like overall dimensions and mass.

But I'd say the chance of getting a pelican SVG out of a model like this is mostly related to lots of text describing the anatomy of pelicans, and it would not gain anything from synthetic data.
No. This phones keypad , controller, and screen are on a separate board.

This would be like plugging your monitor and keyboard into a new computer.

There are some lorawan handheld communicatiors using surplus blackberry cases and keyboards from blackberries that never were, that they got for pennies.

Except this dude wants to drop in a roll-your-own cellphone board with a basic os, instead of a lorawan radio and basic os. Same idea. But he will have to design this.

Whereas You can get schematics to build a lorawan communicator with blackberry parts, and there are community supported roms for that
I'm always up to learn something new that may enrich my opinions.
Exactly, which totally undoes OP's argument. At the high end the manufacturer can have its cake and eat it too. By pricing the TVs in the high income price bracket and ensuring there are no ad-free versions on the market (easy to do because most consumers don't choose devices based on ads or not, even if they find the ads irritating after the purchase), they get both the profit of selling a luxury item and the recurring ad revenue for selling ads that they can confidently tell advertisers will be seen by affluent people.

OP's argument assumes an efficient market, which over-the-air updates ensure this market cannot be.
The ductless design seems great for smaller units or open spaces. Although for smaller units you want to get building owners to install these. Have you seen interest from them or are you expecting a company to take up this design and sell it to them?

I would consider installing this in my open finished attic even though I already have a whole house ERV. The problem with a whole house ERV, particularly in a multi story house is that it doesn’t necessarily produce a lot of fresh air where you are in the house.
Thank you!

I tried quite a few various similarity metrics, and Jaccard was giving me the best results. This is all very subjective, of course.
Isn’t he a discredited pseudo-academic?
I'd say CoD type games improve spatial awareness and hand eye coordination.

While factorio improves what we commonly think of when we say IQ.
What I learned with this article is the English idiom:

"Don’t count your chickens before they’re hatched."

Which in my language translates to:

"You should not sell the bear’s skin before killing it."

Not that it appears in the article, but rather because the author wrote the blog post before doing the thing. Which results in a blog post essentially saying "here is the cool thing I plan to do", which was apparently never done.

Anyway, I'm happy to know about counting chickens now :-).
China’s potential usage of the app for influence campaigns (propaganda, if you will) is a near certainty. I just do not agree with characterizing these operations as culture destroying to the US, or to the West. I have no qualms about suspecting the CCP of using TikTok’s massive cultural reach to push/suppress narratives they find beneficial/hurtful, I am just skeptical of how much cultural eradication can occur. Both major political parties claim the same regarding their narratives (push/suppress) by the American owned tech companies but they are both still here and both conservatives and liberals, in the American context, are still using Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, and Google.

tl;dr - Sure the CCP is probably doing ‘the thing’, but it is not going to lead to the downfall of the mythical ‘West’
It's not "a better measure." It's correlated to G in some respect, but the correlation is vague, and it's very far from determinative... Otherwise you'd expect table tennis professionals and ace baseball sluggers to be geniuses.
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>even though more targeted bans have been upheld as passing the relevant judicial tests for laws affecting First Amendment rights.

Such as?
They are pretty oily.
Coder wrote a bug so bad security guards wanted a word when he arrived at work
Just teach your kids that they can't afford free games.

Tell them to maintain a wish list on Steam and GoG and let you know when there are sales for the real games. Teaches them patience too.
Not sure if I understand this complain, I was a Clojure programmer and from what I remember most of the constructions in Clojure ARE defined as macros or functions.

Special forms (that are the Clojure "keywords") are small enough in number that at one time in my carrer I used to know all of them: https://clojure.org/reference/special_forms.

> and if it’s a choice between case, condp, or cond

For example, those are all macros:

- case: https://github.com/clojure/clojure/blob/ce55092f2b2f5481d25c...

- condp: https://github.com/clojure/clojure/blob/ce55092f2b2f5481d25c...

- cond: https://github.com/clojure/clojure/blob/ce55092f2b2f5481d25c...

> Finally, by not being a builtin, it doesn’t really feel blessed as a language feature

I am also quite not sure about this criticism. Lots of things that are heavily adopt by Clojure community are not built-ins but are in the `core` namespace. Probably the most (in)famous example is `core.specs`, but for example both `core.async` and `core.logic` are well used and they're still not built-ins.
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HTTP/3 support is a bit frustrating, since it's highlighted a serious split in engineering effort & focus, which has created a two-tier internet: browsers & big CDNs do support and use HTTP/3 heavily, but most small tools, servers and programming languages don't have stable built-in support at all (e.g. no support in the standard libraries for Go, Node.js, Python, etc) for either clients or servers. Even big tools like Nginx only have experimental support, disabled by default: https://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_v3_module.html

Many years after this article was posted, OpenSSL does now have QUIC _client_ support (from 3.2: https://github.com/openssl/openssl/blob/master/README-QUIC.m...) but server support is still not available (and for Node at least, OpenSSL's approach here has been one of the main blockers for serious built-in HTTP/3 support).

There are some native libraries you can use to work around this, but they're not easy to set up in many cases and they're totally separate from each languages normal network stack. As a typical developer, the general solution is still 'just use HTTP/2 everywhere', even as HTTP/3 use on the browser web spikes higher and higher.
Thank you for your kind words!

That link you've shared - doesn't open for some reason