ianseyer (u/ianseyer)

ianseyer commented on Ultrasonic Chef's Knife seattleultrasonics.com/... · Posted by u/hemloc_io

andy99 · 3 months ago

As an aside, this feels very familiar as a sci-fi weapon, does that ring a bell for anyone? I was thinking William Gibson first but I can't place it there.

ianseyer · 3 months ago

Raven in Snowcrash? Not quite ultrasonic iirc but extremely thin, like the wire developed in three body problem

ianseyer commented on Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones ericmigi.com/blog/apple-r... · Posted by u/griffinli

CivBase · 9 months ago

It's absolutely wild seeing comments like this on a supposed hacker community.

ianseyer · 9 months ago

It’s important to remember this community is under the umbrella of a massive venture capital firm.

ianseyer commented on Show HN: I made a puzzle game that gently introduces my favorite math mysteries rahulilango.com/coloring/... · Posted by u/MCSP

bgoated01 · 2 years ago

I showed this to my two kids, and we all three enjoyed it. The zero knowledge proof portion didnt really click for me, but we liked the four color map theorem stuff. This led me to download some maps for my kids to attempt coloring on paper, and also got me wondering about how this holds or doesn't on non-euclidian spaces. Turns out the maximum is four colors on a sphere, but 7 colors on a torus! More details here: https://mathworld.wolfram.com/TorusColoring.html

Thanks for leading us down this mathematical rabbit hole today.

ianseyer · 2 years ago

The best analogy of zk-proofs I've heard is to suppose you have found Waldo in "Where's Waldo," and want to prove that you have done this without revealing the location.

You could take a piece of paper (much larger than the picture/book), and cut out a waldo-shaped hole it and position the paper such that he is shown in the hole. Then, when you show it to the challenger, they know that you have found him without you revealing where he is.

ianseyer commented on Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone clicks.tech/... · Posted by u/guyinblackshirt

koenraad · 2 years ago

Fuck ‘content creation’ on mobile phones. I like mobile phones for two reasons, 1. because it is a phone and 2. because I can use it for authentication stuff. The rest is all focused on consuming and giving away your data.

ianseyer · 2 years ago

cool

ianseyer commented on Pepsi: Breathtaking Design Strategy (2008) [pdf] jimedwardsnrx.files.wordp... · Posted by u/Jimmc414

ianseyer · 3 years ago

Worth mentioning that this is the same design company that blew $35MM on a terrible redesign of Tropicana Orange Juice, which they reverted back within a couple days (but kept the mock orange cap)

https://www.thebrandingjournal.com/2015/05/what-to-learn-fro...

ianseyer commented on Pepsi: Breathtaking Design Strategy (2008) [pdf] jimedwardsnrx.files.wordp... · Posted by u/Jimmc414

ianseyer · 3 years ago

A funny parody song of this presentation by the legendary Neil Cicierega (potter puppet pals, ultimate battle of ultimate destiny, brodyquest, mouth sounds, etc…)

https://youtu.be/fu3ETgAvQrw

ianseyer commented on Ask HN: What's are your personal automations? · Posted by u/iameoghan

emerged · 5 years ago

I never found the perfect note taking and/or scheduling software. So I wrote a Python script which combines several tools which together give me what I need. My entire life revolves around it, can’t imagine living without it anymore.

Getting that sort of system sorted out is maybe the most productive thing you can do because it is meta-productive.

ianseyer · 5 years ago

can you explain a bit more about this? sounds very interesting

ianseyer commented on My daughter was a creative genius, and then we bought her an iPhone medium.com/modern-parent/... · Posted by u/Macuyiko

JoeCianflone · 5 years ago

It’s not ego driven but there was anger on my side. I hate it when we blame technology first, which seems to be the point of this article. Kids can absolutely be addicted to phones that’s true. But it’s the job of the parent to set limits, this person admits in the article that her daughter wore her down and flaunted the limits and there were no consequences. So yeah she may be addicted now, which we can’t really diagnose, but that’s still the parents fault for setting limits and bending to the will of their kid.

ianseyer · 5 years ago

I don't think the article made this differentiation specifically, but I don't see this as blaming technology, but ad-driven companies engineering skinner boxes. It is well understood that advertising companies wreak havoc on children's health (tobacco, body image, sugar, etc). We should hold these companies accountable.

While there were definitely lax restrictions here, there are more factors here (societal pressure, both cultural and literal; the article indicated that study groups and other activities were coordinated solely on social media) that affect one's proneness to phone addiction.

In addition, in the article linked above (and others), parenting is not _the_ bellwether preventative in terms of phone addiction - there are psychological factors, environmental factors, etc.

In addition, there are societal variations across gender that are documented as having an affect on proneness to phone addiction.

Don't let your individual experience override the reality of the situation. This is an issue that is going to require extensive research and potentially regulation.

ianseyer commented on My daughter was a creative genius, and then we bought her an iPhone medium.com/modern-parent/... · Posted by u/Macuyiko

KungFuJohnny · 5 years ago

Title is completely misleading.

The problem has nothing to do with an iPhone. It has 100% to do with bad parenting.

The author even acknowledges this, but I guess blaming the iPhone gets more clicks than "Poor parenting harms child".

ianseyer · 5 years ago

Here is some peer-reviewed research on how little an affect parent control of phone usage has on phone addiction: https://journals.lww.com/jan/fulltext/2018/04000/does_parent...

There is a multi-billion dollar concerted effort by the largest companies in the world to get an iron grip on the attention of children at a level of granularity never before seen - don't pretend like that isn't a novel cultural force that should be reckoned with.

ianseyer commented on My daughter was a creative genius, and then we bought her an iPhone medium.com/modern-parent/... · Posted by u/Macuyiko

JoeCianflone · 5 years ago

What a load of shit. I’m sorry I have an 11 year old who has an iPod touch the real problem here is lax parenting. My son cannot use his phone alone in his room alone, he doesn’t have TikTok or any social media apps. He cannot take it to school (not that there’s a school to go to at the moment) or take it out of the house unless he asks first and 95% of the time we don’t let him. Kids test—that’s like an iron law of childhood. It’s your job as a parent to set boundaries. Set the rules and set the consequences and then FOLLOW THROUGH on the consequences. This is the equivalent of lazy parents in the 80s blaming “death metal” for their children’s problems, or lazy parents in the 90s blaming video games, or 2000s parents blaming the internet. It’s you—all these problems are your fault.

ianseyer · 5 years ago

"What a load of shit", "all these problems are your fault."

Really? This comment just seems like ego-driven parental grandstanding rather than an actual attempt to understand how the first generation born into the era of smartphones and all-the-time internet access might have difficulty negotiating a healthy psyche against a multi-billions dollar oligarchy of companies intentionally seeking to monetize their attention.

Congratulations, your son doesn't seem addicted to their ipod. Cool anecdote; here's actual data about wether or not parental control of phone use has much of an affect on phone addiction (it doesn't): https://journals.lww.com/jan/fulltext/2018/04000/does_parent...