skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> One girl in her class doesn't have phone at all! The girl gets complaints from her parents because she reads too much book

I would not beat myselfe up too much in this situation. I happen to have two children who were risen almost identically with little to none restriction of access to phones, tablets, streaming and computer games.

Older daughter just turned 10 years old and is reading more books than I (she even got her own library card made Matilda style), has quite good sport results (third place at schools olimpic running with older children), and even have time to do some group dancing, bringing handful of medals from competitions. And she is doing all this while spending lots of time with her friends outside.

My 7 years old son, on the other hand, is none of this. After two years of access to tablet he still have problems with letting it go. An he does not want to start reading anything, despite me reading him books for most of his life.

I think, we as parents, like to believe that we have some influence over "emerged" behaviours of our children, but somehow in the end it all comes down to their nature and is mostly accidental.
True, which is why this will not be the only technique I'll use once my daughter comes of age.

Education and setting an example are two others I have in mind for now - the latter is of course easier said than done but honestly, if we truly believe something is healthy, why not do it ourselves?
For a living room/desktop use case, where you’d have to buy a case and storage, they are.
After trying to reach out to several of their key people on LinkedIn, I tried to reach out to them via a form on their site. This was to GIVE THEM SOME BUSINESS. Never heard anything back. This was for Telco related product that we have so not sure if it is just the Telco people in GCP who are this bad or the rot is wider than that.
Some of us fell victim to accidents or crime.
Why is a database always represented with a cylinder?
That's the question I asked myself this morning when I opened Oracle SQL Developer =)
Here's part of the answer.
> If it's not a bank and not state backed/insured, it might as well be crypto.

All I ever hear is how we need more regulation with crypto. Why aren't we demanding that with something as pervasive as Paypal/Venmo?
My understanding is YunoHost makes absolutely no attempt to isolate apps from one another, it just helps you install stuff on a Linux box. Unfortunately that means a single flaw in a single app compromises your entire server.
The point is that kids now prefer smartphones over their dad.
But the M1 and M2 lines are system-in-package, with the memory soldered on the same package as the CPU, and thus not upgradeable.
No. Its genuine and I've never understood why this wouldn't work.
This is probably what will end up happening and ironically is a worse result for third-party apps than the pricing model that’s causing a ruckus.
In the UK I have regularly seen waiting staff bypass the tip screen on card terminals before I pay. Maybe I just look hard up.
What the Breathless AI ‘Extinction’ Warning Gets Wrong
Thats not always an option. Many (most?) of these mega online communities are literally not sustainable without an enshittification plan, with investor dollars pouring in being the primary source of income until the music stops.
I was like that too, for a long time.
But for me, it comes down convenience, rather than need.

Some examples:
1. I have a smart lock on the front door. Now when friends/family want to visit and I’m not around, I don’t need to hide a key that they then can lose. They just get a code that I can have expire when they leave.
2. I am constantly either too hot or too cold. Being able to change the thermostat from where I am means I don’t have to interrupt whatever I’m doing and walk across the house.
3. Same with lights. I can climb into bed, tell my phone “goodnight”, and it shuts off all lights and locks the door.

Again, nothing that is “necessary”, and sometimes I feel lazy because of it, but it results in fewer interruptions.

The one use case I use that I can’t really replicate without smart home, is being able to remotely toggle power. Smart outlets mean I can hard reset an unresponsive server, camera, or other device.
Yeah it makes sense. When I ask something at StackOverflow, I don’t want AI hallucinated sludge as the reply.

Or if there is an AI hallucinated sludge, I want it clearly marked as such
This is correct, and we have been able to ease up on the restrictions a bit recently:

- we reset the date before which you needed to have a previous order
- the Pi Zero W is now available to all customers up to 10 per order

I appreciate it's been frustrating but things are improving and will continue to improve - you'll see a lot change over the next couple of months I'm sure.

We've done our best during this time to combat the scalpers - no solution is going to be perfect but we did what we felt was right to give our loyal customers as much support as we could.
Management and business continue to treat volunteer moderators like their employees or contractors; which even in the some of the better examples in the corporate world, can be mildly abusive as people need to eat and have families to feed.

You can't treat volunteers like that. You have to keep them happy. You have to treat them with respect. You're not paying them for their free labour.
You can speak, but attacking that other person by deliberately using something they don’t prefer is just inhumane.

It’s not a difficult concept.
Hmmm from what I can tell, at least the first two are more about how to use existing AI - is that correct?

I think I'd be more interested in exploring how to build new things if so.
The problem is that moderation does not necessarily check the solution. A moderator can't acquire the specific version of hardware the questioner had, recreate the failure conditions, then test the solution. Instead, a moderator looks to see if an answer seems reasonable and fits the correct syntax and site-specific rules.

LLMs are great at producing bullshit that looks convincing.

Essentially, one has to trust responders to provide answers to some extent. Untrustworthy responders can use generators to bullshit their way into acquiring trust.
The thing is that in this case all the adults are making the same bad decision
> the sand I draw is giving any kind of human-based rights to ML or AI.

Ok, but this isn't about giving rights to AI.

Instead this is about given rights to humans to use AI.

If you make a law about this stuff, at the end of the day, it all trickles down to allowing or disallow human actions.
It also isn’t a practical problem, even for very low number of episodes. For n >= 2, you’d want to look both at #1 before you’ve seen #2, and at #2 before you’ve ever seen #1. As long as we’ve no way to zap memories, that is impossible.
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I used it extensively to debug a very thorny MySQL version upgrade. In my experience, it knows a lot about MySQL, and can reason about weird behavior very very effectively. A typical use is asking it something like, "Prior to my MySQL upgrade, my DB integration tests all passed, but now, they're non-deterministically failing with the following error. What could be causing this?" It then proposes hypotheses, which I either accept or push back on with new information. Surprisingly, this process led to it actually debugging a great number of my problems.
that's not the only value. There's a lot more. Emphasizing on "no-noise" is a big one. Stack Overflow was created to solve the problem of having to dig through long forum threads to get answers, or getting blocked by paywalls. There's also value in searchability and showing up in search engines. Running LLMs like ChatGPT is not cheap in a lot of ways.
> ChatGPT, for example, doesn’t understand the responses it gives you; it simply associates a given prompt with information it has access to and regurgitates plausible-sounding sentences

I don't like this tone, in the sense that suggesting what ChatGPT does is "simply" and "regurgitates" feels like a biased interpretation of what the tech is doing.

I think it is fair to say: ChatGPT is very good at creating convincing appearing content that is also incorrect. Validating content that appears high-quality in form but is actually low-quality in content is a major challenge for moderators. Banning suspicious accounts that moderators believe are spamming ChatGPT based responses is easier than individually validating each and every post from such accounts manually. As the number of posts from ChatGPT backed accounts multiplies this would become increasingly difficult and time consuming.

I understand their pain and I hope they find a solution. But my gut tells me that whatever solution they come up with will be forced to tolerate some amount of GPT generated content.
How do you plan on keeping FlingUp from turning into Voat?
> Running a remote cloud LLM costs about nothing in dollars to the user.

The user doesn't care where it runs, because the user interacts with my product, not my backend. He also doesn't pay my cloud provider, he pays me.

I think we don't need to argue the fact that an on premise solution is cheaper than a cloud solution for a lot of tasks, especially when talking about bounded resources. There is some convenience in setup, and some maintenance tasks are easier, but this comes at significant costs, especially as projects get larger.

> Hopefully being based on more than predictions of local LLM performance.

What else should they be based on, pray, given the fact that smaller models suitable for on-premise and even on-machine use are improving rapidly? https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.16199.pdf

Are they at the performance levels of cloud based very large LLMs? Not yet. But their turnover times are measured in weeks, not months. And it's not a question if there will be a higher quality base model, only when that will happen.
Also contractors though. I got into a quarrel with the lowlife recruiter that tried to coax me into accepting going on pager duty. They had no room for negotiation, whatever the customer said was the deal. I left… but it must have cost them a fortune in productivity loss. Penny wise, pound foolish
> Most adults are capable of managing themselves.

Yet having family who smoke leads to kids who take up smoking. It's not guaranteed on the individual level, but statistically very significant for the population. The same goes for domestic violence, excessive drinking, and, of course, smartphone use.

Anecdotal observations of exceptions don't really make a counterpoint to the general (and well documented) trend.
Whether ypu opt in or out of recording hours (not sure if ypu actually can opt out, courts will propably decide that soon enough), you cannot opt out of the max working hour limits put in law. One of the exceptions being upper management, and in Germany, funny enough, doctors...

The legal limit in Germany is 10 hours net, pkus whatever break time is applicable. One exception are mainly surveilling duties, e.g. monitoring security cameras, where the limit is 12 hours. One theoretical "work around" is declaring Saturdays normal working days, as they legally are. Those 10 hours are (used to be, not surw if that changed) calculated on the average of 5 days, by using Saturday as working day on which people are not working the average is calculated based on six days with one day adding 0 hours to tje total. Not sure if that was ever tried in court so.

Disclaimer: The above applies to Germany.

Fun fact: If employees violqte those limits, the line manager is liable personally. That liability includes fines, I know of one case where said fine was 10k Euro, and theoretically even jail time.
I think making apps that have a very clean separation between external security code (e.g. "the claims in the JWT") and internal security code (e.g. "the app's own internal understanding of security, regardless of provider") is always a fantastic idea.
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> Yes, and that's why the "good" mods have power (against Reddit), because they know not to abuse that modding power.

That's not true. Mods abuse power all the time and admins don't give a crap. The good mods are good mods because they're not petty dicks.
"The Culture Map" is an American perspective on cultural diversity.

Other models and research exist.

- "Trompenaars's model of national culture differences"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trompenaars%27s_model_of_natio...
Building something specialized for only yourself might be faster then bending existing solutions to fit your requirements. And if you do something more advanced it will likely also be cheaper to build it yourself then buying the solution. And the knowledge you gain will be invaluable.
so essentially if i have a VM, i can just install the apps i require and then use them for my business. This sounds great but then I need to make sure i am monitoring and debugging it if something breaks ?

Also how does sandstorm makes money then ?
Yes, Yunohost makes installs very easy. But if something isn't working right then you got extra layers to deal with. I don't know how Sandstorm deals with this, but Yunohost taking care of the install and upgrade procedures means that you are bound to the Yunohost integration's version of the software. For instance when installing Discourse via Yunohost this version lags behind significantly. And also Yunohost disables the Discourse upgrade process, while it offers a superior experience.
Why turn SO into a cache of LLM responses, why not just ask an LLM if you want answers and don't care if those answers work?
They (Apple) have done something new in Ventura, macOS 13; the Dropbox folder is under a new sub-folder at $HOME/Library/CloudStorage.

Seems to be a new VFS API, in effect a standardization of proprietary cloud and storage implementations that Dropbox, OneDrive etc have previously had to implement within their apps.

I can imagine reasons for this; by going through a high level macOS API, the OS could provision things like background (or "Power Nap") network access and synchronization, which currently isn't possible for third-party programmers to access.

So it's likely not exactly APFS as we know it. If Photos was using snapshots or something similar then that could have weird interactions with the notion of remote synchronization.

I'm speculating.
not sure how old you are, but the consoles of the early 90s were very addictive, Sega, Nintendo had really great games, much more than what I can find nowadays on Facebook or Tiktok which bores me after a few minutes of scrolling.

The difference? Well, the key was that I had just some time slots I was authorized to play in a week and I suppose responsible parents now do the same with their kids smartphones.
That's right, "in" works, but "count" and "of" don't.

Here are some of my favorites:

union

funi

funion

fution (sounds like fussion)

fu

fuc

fucton (as noted by a fellow commenter)
Currently Tempest can run a lot of Sandstorm apps. However, a lot of functionality one would expect or need is not implemented yet. It will be a bit before it can replace a Sandstorm server. But it's architecturally different in some fundamental ways which will make implementing new features that Sandstorm never had much easier.
I am assuming these are not new programmers though.

When I learned Java as a first language, I remember being very confused by those words. They did not make sense to me for months.

To a noob, it's a meaningless incantation that needs to be inserted for each project.
ok.

but nobody said otherwise
Compare these two programs:

char foo[123];
int x;
foo[124] = 10;

and:

var foo [123]byte
var x int
foo[124] = 10;

In C, this surprisingly changes the value of x. (Well, it's undefined, so it could do anything!) In Go, the program crashes with the error that index 124 is out of bounds.

C is the absolute best programming languages for programmers who don't make mistakes. I'm not one of them, and I've never met one of them. If it works for you, that's impressive!
Sony chief warns technical problems persist for cloud gaming
Would it be possible to "replicate" all (or most) existing reddit content to bootstrap a new system?

Not sure if all data is available anywhere? (Common crawl? Those big internet scrapes used to train language models?)
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Are you then also not allowing the use of a browser?
You don’t need apps for most things.
I'm sceptical of the premise. ChatGPT doesn't watermark its answers. There's no decent way to detect what is "OpenAI garbage" and what is not. One of the comments says: "I detect such answers by the fact that they simply make no sense, although they seem well-written." I feel like this is a subject of survivorship bias. Would the commenter know a good ChatGPT answer from a human-produced answer?

A separate question is why there's still a lot of crap questions/answers on SO if quality is the goal? There's a plenty of low-effort and incorrect answers made by real people that are not penalised in any way.
What to Expect from WWDC 2023
I thought it was funny when the ambassador from Saudi Arabia tried to call them out on it but nobody wanted to trust that source

Like just evaluate the accuracy of the claim
> Bad meats will scarce breed good nourishment in the healthiest concoction

Funnily enough, this might not hold true in this current era of media. Bad information (disinformation) cause real harm, see antivaxxers, political radicalism, etc. So this topic is a bit more nuanced with platforms in place that can echo speech based on potentially malicious intent.
If it's used by another, what rights can be derived from the trademark?

If the username you're claiming has been used since (long) time, than, there is no right for you. First come, first serve..

You have to talk to the account directly. After that, you'll need to find a way to transfer it from them to you.
Inhaling second-hand smoke is an entirely different mechanism of exposure than just witnessing something. I loved the smell and effect of my grandmother's Marlboro Reds, and I loved the smell and effect of my father's Golden Virginia tobacco. I'd shut the windows as a kid and teen and hotbox the room so I got some, and sure enough, I ended up smoking for many years.

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/how-sec...
I started using mpeg_ts when I discovered that they stream well, that is, they can start randomly in the middle without much trouble. A few other formats I tried choked under this use case.

I don't know what this property is called so I don't really know how to search how well a format can start mid stream. any hints?
Jonson may be not the sharpest tool in a box, but he possessed both authority and high status. An example of authority without status would be a low-rank police office stopping and harassing a math professor.
Like I said, "unfortunately".
Interesting piece. My home automation solution is based on Homebridge, zigbee2mqtt and just enough Node-RED for charting and doing a bit of glue (virtual devices, custom integrations, etc.) and I’m very happy with it, but I was looking at Mako server the other day.

I found it refreshing, but the licensing is just weird — parts of it mention that the web content hosted by the server is also covered by it, and I’m not sure if that is a tenable approach.
> They don’t really understand what they’ve just copied and presented as an answer to a question.

> Content posted without innate domain understanding, but written in a “smart” way, is dangerous to the integrity of the Stack Exchange network’s goal: To be a repository of high-quality question and answer content.

Tricking our bullshit detectors (eg cues present in the text or implied context) is the biggest problem I have with usefulness of AI generated content.

I wrote the Medieval Content Farm (https://tidings.potato.horse/about) as an excuse to talk about this (and cope), although people focus more on the fact that I present it as a joke.
A bunch of things you don't like about Rust? Turns out that the person who originally created the language doesn't like them either.

I know that the main point is about governance and how having a BDFL would have led to a completely different language but I really would have preferred the Graydon-BDFL-Rust to what we have today.

Very interesting article, worth a read.
Ideally, arrays should start at 0.5 -- that is the best compromise.

Or maybe start with 0.25, since starting with 0 is three times better than starting with 1.
> Also how does sandstorm makes money then ?

It doesn't. It is an open source project. Originally Sandstorm was offered by a startup, but they stopped [0] in 2017. You can make donations though [1].

[0] https://sandstorm.io/news/2017-02-06-sandstorm-returning-to-...

[1] https://sandstorm.io/news/2021-06-17-sandstorm-community-fun...
All smart home is great to you and you family until author maintain it.
What happend when you have to leave for a month or for some reason unable to maintaint it ?

My experience is that beyond some stack complexity level simple power outage render open source solutions to the point my intervention was required.
Additionally this software is full of bugs due to how it is developed.

I had situation when I was on a business trip and one of my hall light went strobe mode :) Turns out there was a bug and race condition was triggered because someone activate PIR sensor the same micosecond previous action was turning light off (NodeRed)

Wife went crazy, called me to turn this madness off :)

Home is smart when users can handle it without you in any daily scenarios.
Otherwise it is just our fun/hobby not real solid solution :)
I'm definitely not from Citus data -- just a pg zealot fighting the culture war.

If you want to reach people who can actually help, you probably want to check this link:

https://github.com/citusdata/cstore_fdw/issues
There are some very limited cases where overtime doesn’t apply. For example, managing directors are outside the scope of most labor regulations as they’re not technically employees.

At least in Germany, managerial employees (mostly defined through hiring and firing authority) are traditionally exempt though this might be in conflict with the relevant EU regulations. We’ll see.

What I’m seeing commonly today is that your contracts will say the work week is 40 hours but x hours of overtime a month are already compensated.
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Because AI doesn't answer the question, there's nothing "volitional" in it, it's just a (computationally smart) rehash of past answers, hoping that it will all fit together somehow.