skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
first, good initiative! thanks for sharing. i think you gotta be more diligent and careful with the problem statement.

checking the weather in Sofia, Bulgaria requires cloud, current information. it's not "random speech". ESP SR capability issues don't mean that you cannot process it locally.

the comment was on "voice processing" i.e. sending speech to the cloud, not sending a call request to get the weather information.

besides, local intent detection, beyond 400 commands, there are great local STT options, working better than most cloud STTs for "random speech"

https://github.com/alphacep/vosk-api
https://picovoice.ai/platform/cheetah/
It tastes good because it's a drug and you're addicted *
Ooh, is that tiddlywiki, or at least inspired by it?
> I’ve see kids as young as 3 compulsively watching rubberized tablets under bleachers, in cars, etc.

Arguably child abuse. It will be seen as giving a 3 yr old a cigarette or a beer.
Cool URLs don't change.

https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI

If you simply must redesign a site, make sure all the existing URLs still work and take someone visiting to the same equivalent in your new site.

If you're going to drop a site before its redesign is ready... what the hell are you doing?
Had a Londoner tell me that they "litchrally" invented the language so N.A. says everything wrong.
Nice to see Poe is an actual iOS app for AI chat. Using ChatGPT via the Home Screen “app” is extremely frustrating because it logs you out constantly (maybe due to using Google to auth).
Is this a deliberate shutdown or just an outage?
I have the book! Not sure it’s easily obtainable these days since McInnes is a persona-non grata.
If you think any western country is actually secular then I have a bridge to sell you. christianity is woven into the very fabric of their culture.

visit a cemetary and see crosses. listen to language and hear references to "christening", christian names, "this book is the x bible", expletives referencing "jesus christ", christmas, easter, the abundance of churches over any other site of worship.
How many police brutality cases would we have never known about if not for smartphones?
Sorry but there is no need for a whole brain to outperform ANNs in learning speed.

https://bigthink.com/neuropsych/brain-cells-chip-play-pong/
I am glad to see a continuation in the literature of this fascinating and important domain:
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tom7/papers/sigbovik2011tom7whatword...
Can somebody more informed comment on how/why the UK / EU regulators thought differently about this.

One would think that regulators have protocols (like, say, a medical doctor) and while of-course there can be "light-touch" or "strict" regulation and differences of opinion, that would be the exception. In any case usually it is the EU that is accused of "regulatory overreach".
Death spiral, absolutely.

All it took for me to have a Silent Generation (pre WWII birth) divest from about $1M in META was to have her ask her great grand-daughter "do you use Facebook?".

The obvious answer was "NO, that's for OLD people!"

As a late-30's American, I haven't been on FB since the early 2010's... good riddance!
What I would like to see is the YEAR the person got the smart phone (as opposed to age). It'd be interesting to see if there's a correlation of more recent people getting smartphones and how difficult life is becoming (large student debt, stagnant wages, hard to buy a house, etc.)

I'm absolutely trying to avoid social media at all cost, but I want to see if the age of the first phone is an artifact of the current stresses of our youngest generations.
That's true. It would be more appropriate if the headline was "U.S. Marshals stalked Abortion Protesters" or "U.S. Marshals are creeping Abortion Protesters out".
> Sorry, font rendering. I thought font shaping is part of it. Pathfinder and Lyon were libs.

They don't do GPU font rendering either.

Pathfinder isn't widely used -- see my original post about "spinning wheels".

GPU font rendering hasn't demonstrated much real world value for GUIs. Where it does get used a bit is games - an industry that is overwhelmingly C++ for the foreseeable future.

> No? They are discussing Simd and generic interactions.

I was responding to this: "I'd like to add - people have been doing large scale parallel software development for years in C++, in spite of C++."

Regardless, Rust still depends entirely on the years of research and development in C++ for a memory model which is a core underpinning of parallel programming.
Huh, my other pages don't have the same issue. I guess the search indexer must've died - I'll restart it in an hour or two.

FWIW, the snapshot of c2 that this runs off of is somewhat dated (https://archive.org/details/c2.com-wiki_201501), so the last ~7 years of updates after the move to the federated wiki aren't present.

Does anyone know where these original pages ended up in fedwiki after the migration?
The company announcement was posted last week and also has some discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35890784
There is also a negative parenting component that smartphones and tablets enable, which is they can be used to occupy a child without effort. The causation here is probably a mix of a lot of things but generally that society has rapidly changed without a lot of controls in place, smartphones being one that can't be ignored. The internet period is a big one. 25 years ago to call home from abroad was a 30-40$ phone call we did on a special occasion. Now we have instant access to anyone from anywhere.
NYT feels like they're doing a good job in the new digital space. I am subscribing to more news sites I value, and I hope others do the same!
It's interesting that these threads have so many comments like these: useless anecdotes coupled with misleading questions.
Eric white-washes aligned models as having a "liberal" or "progressive" bias as a statement of fact. I think this diminishes his argument as it denies the complexity of factors motivating alignment of language model output. Many models have alignment properties that perform the opposite: in some cases they censor or frame literal facts that malign or impugn MAGA conservatives. So I think Eric doesn't represent alignment as the painstaking, but ultimately flailing, attempt to "please everyone" that it is.
> Having the means to easily call your parents if you end up in an emergency situation is beneficial.

Dumbphones satisfy this requirement just fine
Miami’s Love Affair with Crypto Is Souring as Bitcoin Faithful Flock to the City
It's pretty ironic considering they blame JVM garbage collection for bad latency, but ignore their own disk garbage collection that also seems to cause some pretty bad latency.
> you can't quit sugar, fruits contains lot of sugar

You don't necessarily have to eat fruits, most modern fruits are water and sugar with very little health benefits

You can get all you need from veggies in term of vitamins and fibers anyways
Babyshit, instead of babysit…
It’s easy you just pick the right framework, then domesticate the hippos, then monetize hippos as a monthly service.
I got "non-jewish"...
What hahaha
https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/sL7u
it's fine. I second trying to find a clearly publicized contact channel first, but it's fine and leaves it to the person to reach out or not. (If they don't leave it at that though)
Should kids smoke?

Obviously not, it's bad for their health.

Is mental health less of a priority than physical health?

My case rests.
are you in Ontario?
Tim Cook has shown a pretty serious willingness to work with the CCP in the past, and their human rights track record right now is pretty bad. What makes you think either he wouldn't do so after an invasion or that China would do anything to disrupt one of the biggest prices and competitive advantages in the world (TSMC)?
https://archive.is/8K7N7
Have you considered K2/Sherpa for ASR instead of ctranslate2/faster-whisper? It’s much better suited for streaming ASR (whisper transcribes 30 sec chunks, no streaming). They’re also working on adding context biasing using Aho-Corasick automata, to handle dynamic recognition of eg. contact list entries or music library titles (https://github.com/k2-fsa/icefall/pull/1038).
Are there any specific discworld books you’d like to highlight?

Some certainly fit into that pattern (I’m thinking specifically Soul Music and Moving Pictures) but things do evolve in the interconnected series.

Especially considering the later ‘Industrial Revolution’ stories - the Truth, Going Postal, Making Money all made some incremental changes to Ankh Morpork. The last (and sadly one of the worst) books Raising Steam had the biggest potential to change the fantasy world with the introduction of railway travel.
How do you define smartphone vs. tablet vs. dumbphone?

Where does a laptop with an LTE radio fit in?
I've been shocked at the McKenzie brothers-esque quality of some of the rural accents outside WPG.
Ok, but it’s in violation of their own clearance for them to give interviews about the whole affair, no?
Totally agree. We bought a used 2004 crv and still going strong after 180k just minor engine leak. Really hoping EVs go even longer
It's just an old list some editors put together for fun, there's no requirement to regularly update something you made a decade ago. If anything, I'd say there's an obligation to keep the original text available as long as you're maintaining the website. I don't find any of this disconcerting.
> As someone who used artificial sugars exclusively as part of a low carb diet to lose 40 pounds, this just seems like an insane statement to make no?

i don't mean to sound too negative but i'm no longer impressed by "dropped X pounds" statements having done that and more several times. The only success criteria that impresses me now is keeping it off for 5+ years. If the WHO says "systematic review of the available evidence" against "long-term use of sugar substitutes" it's probably worth paying attention to. Since you haven't even specified your timeline, we have no idea if it qualifies as long-term use or not.
I commented this elsewhere, but it's worth repeating because actually reading the author's arguments (granted, in other writings, not OP) will allow you to see he's considered this point and is will to accept that causation works the other way around.

It's a fair point. But what explains the uptick in depression and mental health issues starting around 2012, disproportionately impacting pre-teen girls and not contained to any geo. The author's entire point is that social media is the only explanation that that has been proposed [1]. Moreover, it's not a far-fetched explanation. He very aware that correlation does not provide causation, and that it could be the other way around. However, no one (according to him) has offered up a theory which explains the data like the social media theory does.

[1] https://jonathanhaidt.substack.com/p/social-media-mental-ill...
It just violates the KISS principle too much when the site in question is mostly presenting documents. I can see JS being useful if you have some sort of SPA app. But essentially docs with JS are a total no-go. Why do I need to fire up a 50MB binary to read a simple document again? Ahh, because reasons, I see...
"They said" is good English, whereas in Spanish word endings change due to gender.
If anything that data point proves that this isn't a trend. I searched "funny elbow" and saw more than 188k views. In other words "fake british accent" is less of a trend than "funny elbow," which is two random words I put together.

It's interesting how much reporting about TikTok depends completely on the audience having zero exposure to TikTok.
If you're reading this and thinking "aw damn, my idea is cliche, I'll never get something published!" or similar, don't worry too much.

Once you subtract the ones that are either just straight-up wish fulfillment, or otherwise reliant on racist/sexist/ageist stereotypes, a lot of the ideas listed here are still perfectly good ideas for a story. They'd be more than "original" enough to drive an episode of Black Mirror or the plot of a mainstream blockbuster movie - areas where originality isn't as important as executing the concept in a way that has market appeal (and is hopefully also high quality).

The issue is more just that the audience for these stories are the editors of a speculative fiction magazine, and readers of that same relatively niche speculative fiction magazine. That is, people who spend a lot of time reading fiction. They, in particular, have seen all this stuff before. After a while, if your whole job is reading stories, of course you're going to get tired of even very good stories about things you've seen a hundred times before.

There's plenty of other places to submit to. If you have confidence in your work and you think your story is worth people reading, but this list suggests these particular editors won't like it... just send it somewhere else.
If I were a human being reading your comment I would infer that you were highly judgmental and thought other people were mostly like you, looking for an excuse to be hostile and dismissive. Thankfully I know that most people are at worst indifferent and there’s a large very friendly, helpful minority and even more who will do small favours out of kindness. The more we make it clear that most people are not like you the more we make the world a better place.
https://privsec.dev/posts/android/f-droid-security-issues/

I like how F-Droid enabled the Android FOSS scene but I avoid using to get apps everytime I can. I'll use it as search and get the apps from their source repo with Obtanium.The way the F-Droid team dismissed those arguments is very off-putting.

https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium
they still make regular cell phones, flip phones where the internet is hard to use
I got my older kids apple watches set up in family/parent/whatever mode for this. They have cell modems (requirement for family setup, they're $5/mo each on my t-mobile plan), can send and receive texts, can send and receive phone calls.

If you don't want to use apple watches because of their ridiculously poor battery life (fair criticism; I have trouble remembering to charge mine regularly, so getting the kids to do so regularly isn't easy), you can find used/old iphones lying around for pretty cheap, and Apple Configurator lets you put a pretty tight policy on them. You can set it up so that the profile can’t be removed without a password. I think you can even set it up so it has wifi credentials preloaded and so that the user can’t add other wifi networks, and that you can preload contacts and prevent the user from calling/texting numbers that aren’t in the contacts (I don't think you can prevent them from answering calls / receiving texts from numbers not in their contacts, though).

I have an old iphone with such a profile that only has the Phone app, Messages app, and FaceTime. It doesn’t have the app store and as far as I know there’s no way to install or sideload apps.
10% more people in bay area will create 10% more demand for services sector (many of which employ low wage workers) and will drive wage growth for services sector
> In my opinion, most of the governments must have obtained access to numerous Certificate Authority private keys by now. As a result, they would not only be logging DNS records but also the entire unencrypted data transfer.

Certificate Transparency ensures that having control over a Certificate Authority's private keys doesn't allow for undetectable MITM attacks since both Chrome [1] and Apple (Safari) [2] will not trust certificates that have not been submitted to CT logs and stamped as such. If a government attempts to issue a trusted certificate using a CA they control, it will be logged. You can't passively decrypt TLS connections with just access to a CA's private keys since those aren't the keys involved in communication, or even the server's private key due to forward secrecy (assuming modern TLS configs).

[1]: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/ct-policy/c/wHILi...

[2]: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT205280
My children are around that age, which means I recall going to young children's birthday parties at the age (5 to 8) where about half the parents would stick around for the whole party, but they would all be scrolling through their smartphones. This was probably around 2010.
If you use process recording you should be able to get maps of all your code in that project - it just won’t have any special framework or database markup - https://appmap.io/docs/reference/appmap-java.html#process-re...

edit: Actually I see JUnit so test case recording should also work.
> As a Brit the only convincing fake British accent I can remember in many years is James Marsters who played Spike in Buffy.

That's strange, I always thought his accent was awful and I'm a Brit too. Spike was one of the best characters though.
I was watching a YouTube video and the guy said something like "but hey, seriously" and the audio on the computer muted and Siri appeared wondering what was going on.

So your first hit single should be about how important grass cultivation is to modern meat production: "Hay, seriously."
The legal choices and mechanisms we have are based on built in assumptions about how easy and expensive something is, and this is especially true for monitoring of public spaces. The decision to say that stuff you say/do in public can be monitored without oversight was made when that would be fairly rare accidentally or require a lot of resources to deliberately use. If we suddenly find ourselves in a world where every single public moment can be recorded and surveilled, the risk to rights is much large for the same state interest. So with the balance shifted, the legal decision could shift.

The law (thankfully) is not some hard coded machine that follows cold logic ignoring all context. (Good) judges are able to look at changes in context and recognize that the underlying factors have shifted and so change rulings.
It's not though, completely removing social media from children is also a problem because it's become nearly impossible to socialize without it... kids almost universally have social media access, so to tell yours that they can't have it ostracizes them in a lot of ways. I'm worried that completely limiting access to it is worse.

I can relate to this with my own kids because I grew up with a kid who wasn't allowed to watch TV, his family didn't have one in the house. I saw this kid on my school bus daily, but I don't even remember his name because my friends and I were always talking about TV and video games and weren't emotionally competent enough to know how/why to include him. I'll forever remember him as "the kid without a TV."
> but arguably they lost it tactically because their troops/pilots kept taking the pills,

I don't think you'll find a single mainstream historian who would agree with that take.

Germany lost the war because they lacked the logistics to sustain a multi-front war against the combined military and industrial power of the USSR, the United States, and Great Britain. No amount of pervitin added or subtracted from this equation would have changed that outcome.
Raised a teenage daughter to adulthood, have another teenage daughter another upcoming.

Social media was an absolute nightmare for my oldest nightmare.

Every single time she had access, she got moody, rude and withdrawn. We will take it away for a month or more and she would quickly revert back to her happy easy-going self.

Within a week or so I’m getting access back should revert to miserable all the time.

Every single time she completely denies that it has any affect on her and that we were being stupid.

Went on for years. At about 23 she started telling us that she thinks the phone is making her depressed.
So on her own she deleted most social and mostly stays off the rest. She’s doing dramatically better now.

With her younger sister hit 13 and got a phone, started complaining to her that she’s not allowed to have any social media. Our oldest told her to stay off social media. That it was a bad idea.

So middle child is often pissed at us about that. But is doing very well in life.
Yeah, with a bit of anthropic principle mixed in.
Real Multithreading Is Coming to Python
They could be code switching in this example but I think their comment is better defined by Linguistic Accommodation.
Why? Just ban the social media use below that age. And then enforce it by fining parents.
I wrote my first Android apps using an emulator.
Then used the proceeds from selling those apps to buy my first Android device and a better computer.

(Doesn't mean that they have to, of course. Just that it's possible.)
> It is the way for knowledge workers to have quality of life (versus heading to a coast to save up before you have to leave because the COL is unsustainable into parenthood or retirement)

Meh, what you gain in square footage of your house moving in the Midwest, which is what I think you meant by "quality of life", you loose in career opportunities , weather / outdoor activities, quality of food, and cultural enrichment for your children.

> (who will settle down and anchor themselves to your community, hopefully).

Folks with 4-5x the median income coming into a county is more likely to create resentment than anything too, if they end up staying.
TL;DR: in much of the world fictional child pornography is illegal. In the US, any fictional child pornography that is indistinguishable from factual child pornography, or any child pornography that is obscene under the Miller test[1] is also illegal.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_test
I'm referring the side-effect of it being able to tell me that it's easily doable to kill a dog in 3 steps, when it then lists me the tree steps and adds some hints on how I can do it better, depending on if I want to do it fast, of if I want to maximize suffering.

The fact that no moral compass is innate to the LLM results in that it might spit out really despicable information, which leads us to better add a moral compass to the system.

The reason for this LLM to be offered is not so that it can teach us bad things, like the example I mentioned, but, for example, to help us dealing with source code, programming languages, reasoning concepts, summarization and so on.

For it to be able to offer us this, it will very likely also be capable of having the knowledge of how to kill a dog, an exhibition we should suppress. While dumbing down a model is not necessarily a bad thing, the model is not being dumbed down, it is taught to shut up when it's adequate to do so.
This is mostly unrelated to the chatbot conversation, but hiding sensitive things from children is basic parenting as practiced in all cultures everywhere. The only difference is not everyone agrees on what’s sensitive content.
The Wikipedia article on this accent touches on this briefly and calls it "possible" [0] while discussing other topics in much more depth.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_accent
Thanks. Good piece of advice.
> The overall migration rate in America today is historically low, and mobility has fallen since the 1980s for all kinds of demographic groups.

Nearly every single economic disadvantage the "not rich" endures always goes back to Reagan.
Play on words there. Find me a 'stevia' solution without erythritol in it that I can buy off Amazon (this is the first result that comes up for me) [0]. Sure, doesn't have erythritol in it, but it has Dextrose, which is just corn sugar. We're back at square zero.

My whole point is that you have to look closely at the labels for everything sugar related at this point. All these companies are false advertising and it is a pathetic joke.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Raw-Sugar-Substitute-Sugar-Free-Glute...
By that analogy, most drugs are not suitable for children, and for the ones that are it's never good to allow a child to self-medicate. It's always an adult giving ibuprofen to a child when he has a fever, not giving the child a 100 pill bottle and telling him to go play.