skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Largely agreed, +1. However, a loosely related example: I think I have benefited quite a bit from never ever having seen neither of my parents drink vodka (aside the traditional shot for the deceased at funerals). Because of this, it is easy for me to avoid the mental and physical addiction of alcohol altogether in my adult life. It just wasn't part of my childhood culture, period.

Youtube algorithms and the most stupid smartphone games are obviously addictive, so it does make sense if parents step in with a well-considered "thou shalt not" at times. This is far from a perfect solution, but in the long run, it is very probably better than doing nothing at all. I've seen really horrible results of screen time overuse on a teen girl -- basically, a lively and clever 7yo developed into a 18yo with no social skills whatsoever, and the habit to even scroll her phone while brushing teeth!

It's like decidedly putting away those candies when you sense your child has had too much for today. The same thing. No need to punish the child's brain and coping mechanisms for the parent's inability to... parent.

Best solution, obviously, is simple parental role model: the entire family putting away smartphones for the evening. (In our case, for example, nobody in the family has a smartphone; only dumb phones here. So far, with our oldest child being 9yo, I don't notice this being a problem. He is clearly fine not having one.)

I have also observed that careful explanations of what gaming or smartphones do to the child's brain also make a lot of sense. Our son is clearly interested in these effects, so he is always setting himself timers to limit his gaming. (Doesn't always follow them, but often, nonetheless, does; I think it is the purpose that counts, not 100% execution.)

I think children need to see cause and effect of smartphone overuse already at early ages. They need to understand and feel that by reasonable, down-to-earth limiting, parents are actually protecting them and their brain.
Regardless of how humble, good business strategy can be useful to pay attention to.

There was a recent posting of a twitter thread by Peter Yang discussing the $Trillion valuation.

I added a link to a different thread where he pointed out Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang gave an inspiring commencement speech on May 28 where it was briefly mentioned the way Nvidia almost failed on 3 different occasions:

https://twitter.com/petergyang/status/1662831418882560000

At the time this did not appear to be appreciated at all.

Maybe this far into June there will be others who find his recollection worthwhile.

As an excerpt:

"Run don't walk. Either you're running for food, or you are running from being food:

1. Have the humility to confront failure and ask help.

2. Endure the pain needed to realize your dream.

3. Make sacrifices for your life's work."
No, but this sounds really cool! I run a Discord for 3D printing / Makers, so if you figure this out the community would love to see the journey.

https://discord.gg/sf23bk2hPr
Could be because the Indian Premier Cricket League (IPL), which started in 2008, is huge now. Here's the per match broadcast value of sports leagues around the world (Jun 2023):

1.NFL: $17 million

2. IPL: $13.4 million

3. EPL: $11 million

4. MLB: $11 million

5. NBA: $9 million
Is Blink a replacement for VMMs like Firecracker and Cloud Hypervisor?
I don't think so. The Home PC generation is way more technically literate than the generation after that grew up with the smartphone, where the elementary interaction has been reduced to just three basic steps that always work: 1) lift and look at phone 2) swipe finger up 3) press the dopamine er - Instagram - button
Oh that's nice, I thought the IRC bridge had been left to languish. Good to know I was wrong!
I couldn’t see any prices… did I miss that information?
In your view, what are the key (realistic) things to fix this?
> If someone creates one that believes life is pointless, there is no God, and life after death is a myth, I think they have formulated a sort of nihilism which also permeates how they act in the world.

Yet that is not what we see at all. How many wars have been fought over religion? How many political parties use religion to oppress others? A belief in God does not equate to being a good person; it’s quite often the athiests doing good in the world.
Ah, a casual joke about letting a child die rather than have a mobile phone. C'mon, really?
Who would park it there though? You receive money there and send it to your bank, or you send a little money to pay something. Who stores money there?
Or perhaps there is way to restore sight, but it’s costly, has a long wait, and besides, there is this much quicker and cheaper “treatment” a patient might try.

Another scenario, a person with a mental health condition stops taking their medication. They live alone. They have a mental crisis, end up in a clinic. It’s a busy time and doctors don’t have time to investigate. But there is this simple solution to the problem, again within reach, it ticks all the legal checkmarks, so let’s offer that treatment.
According to Wikipedia, each pin is only rated to 500mA. If you look at a pinout (depending on key), there's roughly 9 3.3V pins. 14W at 3.3V over 9 pins would be 470mA per pin.

It seems like comparing the amperage of M.2 to USB-C is indeed a little silly.
Good thing he mentions the blue whale conspiracy to show his expertise on the matter
There is also the fact that some people have a knee jerk reaction to hate anything associated with systemd. Although, I think that is less significant than the two reasons you listed.
In Portugal being done, means that if I need to place a blackboard on the wall and the screws don't fit, most likely we will get some creative solution to still hang the blackboard, consider it done, and if it falls down, no biggie, we hang it up again.

In Germany or Switzerland, in the same situation, you would be told that it is a security issue and it is dangerous to have a blackboard that might fall, to reschedule placing the board to when the proper screws are available. Only then will the blackboard be placed in position and it will only fall if the rest of the building falls as well.

Yes, steorotypes, yet quite real with two quite different kinds of what done actually means.
If anyone has suggestions, I'm all ears.

Currently I'm looking at lemmy.ml. It has its issues, but they removed the hardcoded "slur filter" awhile back, and the UI is imo reasonable for non-technical users. Bonus points for being decentralized.

I think getting this particular community onto a private Discourse server would be a heavy lift, and I'm not eager to add a server for 10k DAU's to my AWS bill. Imo Discord is a non-starter, for a variety of reasons.

It's unfortunate that no substantial competitor to reddit is currently available. I would really like to see an alternative for those of us with niche communities. And it would be doubly great if reddit.com kept all the "outrage porn" that hits their front page, which seems to be what they're optimizing for anyway.

For as many years as so many of us have been watching reddit's continual decline, it seems like a site that hosts small communities and offers similar functionality should have arisen by now. I think there are a lot of moderator-types such as myself who value the opportunity to serve our respective communities and would be happy to send a few dollars a month to a site that offered reddit-style forum hosting in order to provide a place online for people to gather and exchange information.
> fascism is a mass political movement that emphasizes extreme nationalism, militarism, and the supremacy of both the nation and the single, powerful leader over the individual citizen.

And what you are saying is a stretch.
"Taxed to death" - where does that come from? How? I'm relatively high taxed, compared to many, I pay a bit more than 40%. But what I'm left with is disposable money, except for car and house insurance (reasonably priced). Plenty left for my wife and myself, for doing everything we want, to travel, and still add to our savings. The only economic burden I can think of is unexpected visits to the dentist - that can cost you.
I'll take this system before absolutely any alternative.
On the contrary, my experience of being a kid is exactly why I'm convinced this is good for them. As a bullied kid I'm pretty sure computer access literally saved my life, and I've consistently seen that the younger someone got on the internet the healthier their relationship with it is.
am I using discord wrong? I see it as a chat and voice client, reddit has wiki's and posts... I have no idea how to discover old content that has been posted in discord besides searching but that's not really "discovering" in my mind. I can scroll through some top posts of all time in a subreddit to see what it's all about. How do you do that in discord right after joining a server?
My nephews were showing me how kids in their school were using Google Docs comments as a social network.

Point being, humans are highly adaptive creatures. You have to cut the source.
It has been going on for 23 years. My rage128 card, which I bought as a youngster, in 2000, had the worst drivers that 80% of the time did not work.
It’s a react frontend with a standard API and a database, and Keycloak on top for IAM.
Here in NSW Australia our new state government is implementing a no-mobile-phones-in-high-schools (11-18yo) policy, scheduled to come into effect the last term (quarter) of 2023.

This extends a similar existing policy in primary schools (5-11yo).

I think in general it's a well received policy, and pushes questions and decisions about ownership and usage outside of school back onto parents. It may shift some of the economics favourably for parents that want to hold off a little longer in providing their kids with a phone.

The problem - inasmuch as it's a problem - is evaluating the long-term success of such a policy in the absence of any kind of comparable control group.

https://www.nsw.gov.au/media-releases/nsw-government-begins-...
So because we had it worse when we were kids, we should make sure kids today don't get to take advantage of anything modern?

When I was a kid, I got to play with the cast-off computers my dad would bring home from work. If he had your attitude, he would have thought, "oh, we didn't have computers when I was a kid, so certainly there's no value in my son having one".
What if someone trains a model on public domain works only? It hasn't been done, because the law doesn't require it.

LAION-5B is a big mess and its caption quality is all over the place. Stability.ai basically chose a brute-force approach and threw a lot of data at the problem.

But now imagine if someone took all the public domain images that they could find, properly labelled them and then trained a base model on all of that.

I'm pretty sure that its output would also be very good. There are a ton of public domain photos out there so photorealism shouldn't be a problem.

So - what's your argument then?
This project seems like just the thing to kickstart a new era of decentralization/federation for the social web, an answer to Reddit/Twitter/etc.
> the "pooper scooper" compensation number includes the government's retirement and insurance obligations

Thank you, this is very important information. I believe that for my job a lot of the money being put into the pension on "my" behalf is to cover unfunded obligations taken out for other people long before I had this job. So these payments aren't for my benefit, but for the average benefit of the entire pension fund.
Depends on your jurisdiction, what you described sounds like a labour dispute in a very employee hostile place. Where I live it's illegal to fire people who threaten to strike
> I'm a current Googler and I'm not livid

Fair enough. I didn’t mean to speak representative for the cohort. Just that we’re past the point of it being a legitimate market of identity. Nobody should be running around defending Google out of misplaced pride anymore.
Now $550…

No wait, $582…

Hang on, $622

(Gentle joke. Argentina has even worse inflation than the USA)
Certainly there would be repercussions in terms of credibility, but what legal repercussions could be brought to bear? Non-copyright is public domain--it belongs to you and me to do with as we please, including putting another name on it. Try printing Shakespeare's _Hamlet_ by MacsHeadroom and no one will stop you.

(For the record, I would never sell another author's copyrighted work without permission. And I'd certainly never stick my name on something I didn't write because I value my reputation. But just because _I_ wouldn't doesn't mean people wouldn't. I'd bet plenty of money that they most certainly would.)
No, it doesn't. I meant the best of both worlds w.r.t. packaging and distribution (which seemed to be the focus of the article), not sandboxing.
As a private company, Reddit can do whatever they want. You can make your own Reddit if you want to. You are not entitled to a platform if you do not abide by the rules. You don't get to abuse the town square to further your own political causes. Yadda yadda yadda.
Am I wrong in thinking that scrapers are the real secret sauce tech here? I mean the state of the art transformer LLM tech is all based on the same public research. But creating a robust corpus of data...are scrapers totally mundane solved commodity tech in 2023?
>a "strike" of sorts

Why is everyone calling this boycott a "strike?"
Thanks for showing me this. As another C# dev I know what I'll be adding into my HA stack.. :)
How Parking Ruined Everything
I am unable to watch this on my phone.

It says "either you watch this page in the official reddit app or not at all".
What a shite place
What happens when sites like SO become so polluted with AI generated text that the next generation of LLMs trained on the Internet is just AIs being trained on AIs?
Interlinked.

Oh wait, I am Nobokov...
Yep, politicians keep saying that most cops are good, but it seems like even the good cops are ok with stuff like this.

Whenever this topic comes up you have some people arguing that it's not a big deal. Often these people admit to having these cards and carrying them around but still insist that they aren't valuable.

Yet this system has existed for decades across the country. If these cards weren't valuable people wouldn't bother to keep printing them and handing them out. It's clear that the people carrying these cards expect that it will help them get at least a little special treatment.
Until I started taking AP classes, I didn't really have to carry around any textbooks throughout my schooling. High school class of 2019 here.
Yeah the keyword is so hyped by SEO blog article writers, it's ridiculous.

I am building an eBPF firewall for a couple weeks now and am still in the learning process, but finding articles that actually teach you how to implement something is so ridiculously hard.

I've seen more crappy execve hooks that don't compile than anything useful. The demos of XDP project that are less than 4 weeks old don't even compile.

Took me a long while to get there, and now I am stuck with bytecode parser problems (am assuming I am using an invalid pointer of sorts, results in invalid scalar which could be anything).

The response of the bpftool guy was basically to learn the bytecode format. So here I am, learning the bytecode format to write a C program. In 2023.

In case anyone wants to help build a DNS filter and execve hooks to detect suspicious activity: [1]

(Yeah yeah shitty C code, I know)

[1] https://github.com/cookiengineer/ebpf-firewall
> This community sucks, but for different reasons.

For what reasons? I am honestly curious if we share same thoughts
Why did this get downvoted? If you're just looking at death rate, it's absolutely true. Over 3/4 of all COVID deaths in the US were aged 65+. [1]

Lots of other people got COVID, and some of them became seriously ill or died (mostly over 50). But the supermajority of Americans who died were over 65.

1: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1191568/reported-deaths-...
Ha ha ha ha. No.
OpenAI will never make pre-alignment models available.
Lack of companies who earn a lot or have a lot of cash / good business model. Currently open FAANG engineering positions are close to 0 (Still more than 600 positions in the US) and there are single digit "FAANG-like" companies here (hundreds in the US).

I don't think that Germany will ever catch up tbh. There is no incentive. Once you earn a little more, the progressive tax rate is too high and eats everthing away. Less people pursue engineering in the first place, because net wages are so compressed. Also just look at real estate.

Munich:

- Median house price: USD 1’534’933 for ~1500 sqft

- Median salary: USD 59k pre-tax.

The pension system will break in the next decades. Actually
it already is.. it is already heavily financed by other taxes.

This country has other perks like more vacation days, but making bank is definitely not one of them tho.

Many academics emigrate to Switzerland, USA, Netherland or Canada - me included.
This isn't a strike lol. It's a boycott.
no that would be a "when" :)
It seems, but I might be wrong (others suggested it though) that you need the app to be compromised to do this. A server hack wouldn’t work because you still need your key/seed phrase. The app, with a hack, of course can, next to unlocking your wallets locally, send it to a server (which should never happen) and then the owner of that server can take the funds.

To me this seems the most obvious. Use open source wallets, reproducible builds, hashes and, of course, cold wallets. Also, divide; don’t put your money in one place; I would say that goes for banks too.
If you only have one PC, multibooting or choice of HDD's especially external USB3 enclosures can help a lot to keep things separate and/or isolated.
You can get a smartphone that has all the major functionality for much less than a thousand bucks. Much less than a hundred bucks even. $30 will get you something that a kid will be content with: https://www.walmart.com/ip/Straight-Talk-TCL-30-Z-32GB-Black...
https://huggingface.co/Mitsua/mitsua-diffusion-one is an image generation model which is "trained from scratch using only public domain/CC0 or copyright images with permission for use".
Computers pre-social media were different. You could do a lot offline. Today, social media has been proven to be extremely toxic. There was a paper submitted to HN that mentions how much worse mental health is the earlier a child gets a cell phone[1].

Today children have unrestricted access to God knows what is on the internet and social media. This is not a recipe for success. Parents need to get involved.

[1] https://jonathanhaidt.substack.com/p/sapien-smartphone-repor...
Are you on crack? She could kill others by spreading it.

Your rights end when you start putting others at risk. It’s the same reason you can’t get hammered and go drive or build a nuclear reactor in your potting shed without a permit.
I don't see it as an issue. The bad part of social networks is feeding you never ending crap. If kids want to talk to each other... what's the issue with that? We had phone calls and party lines and passing notes before. (Or letters for those who were into that) They were as much a social network as Google doc comments.
There would be if it were a strike, because the so-called "strikers" would operate the company as employees.

This is a boycott, not a strike.
The internet often feels like this already, i.e. if I Google a question the top result will be often be a Quora post
What if someone trains a model on public domain works only?

Also adobe sort-of did that already - they trained their own model only on their own images. So no "IP theft" there.
What about direct syscall runtimes like Go's?
A lawyer got ChatGPT to do his research, but he isn’t AI’s biggest fool
The intelligence comes from RLHF.
100k Qubits on the Horizon
Please don't do that. If you are straight enough to actually explain your operation in this detail, it shouldn't take much extra thought to realize why you shouldn't run this on the public internet. Users of that forum expect human replies. If they wanted to have LLM replies, they could use one of the available interfaces themselves. You are only contributing to the noise on the net. Please stop, and find another hobby.
Case in point, if you design an aircraft intended to safely transport people between destinations, they will create Kamikazes.
Did your co-op start with this model? (I presume it did.)

I like the model a lot, and wish I'd done domething like that with my own business. Alas I fear it would be exceptionally difficult to -change- to that model now, because the record interests at every level that would make it hard to do.

A company with that model attracts folk who want that model, who understand (or can be taught) how concensus works, how the outcomes are not always "fair" and so on.
> It's realized after retirement

If any of those funds are being used to fill prior unfunded obligations then they will not be realized by the employee after retirement, but by other civil service retirees. It's typical that the employer will post a single defined percent of salary toward the pension fund for all employees, not a varying percent depending on the expected funding status of each individual employee. This means that if a pension plan isn't fully funded the employer needs to increase this percent for every employee even though the top-up funds are really only going to backstop the pensions of previously hired employees. Yet this top-up percent will be calculated as part of the total "compensation" for the more newly hired employees.

At least I am assuming this is how it works given how the pension works at my employer.
I'm willing to bet OpenAI knows how to detect OpenAI output, either via stenographic techniques or via keeping a database of all the text it's generated. Both, probably.

Which means future OpenAI models would be getting trained on the output of competitor models. Like Bard. Oof.
Got it. Godwin's Law it is, then.

FWIW, in the context of the fediverse where there are reportedly instances run by actual neo-Nazis, it's both wrong and confusing to label someone a fascist for instituting a policy designed to keep those people out. You can disagree with the policy, but it's particular important to choose accurate labels here.
I think HA is using ZHA under the hood for Zigbee communications.
Patterns of socialization meaning what exactly?
The last link reads mostly like a press release from the manufacturer. I suspect there are reasons why it is inferior to LiDAR not listed on that page. LiDAR traditionally can be kind of impractical but solid state LiDAR will help a lot with that.
Good. Flood Reddit with idiotic comments to make the platform even worse.