skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm probably telling you something you already know, but that really, really sounds like depression. I have experience of close family with depression and the way you describe his behaviour is very similar. Has he been seen by any kind mental health practitioner? I know the psychiatric services here in the UK are terribly stretched, but he and you sound like you need external help. Even if it takes a while for you to see a psychiatrist, your GP may be able to provide some help.

I hope you manage to find a way through this and are able to get some help. My kids are not teenagers yet, but this sort of thing is one of my big worries for the future.
Do you think users should be prohibited from installing software on their own devices to monitor and analyze their internet usage?

Or do you think they should be allowed to do that, but they should be prohibited from selling that data to a third party?

Or do you think they should be allowed to do that, but said third party should be prohibited from using that data to analyze their competitors' apps?

Or do you think they should be allowed to do that, but the user should be informed very clearly exactly what kind of data they're selling and what kinds of sensitive information they might be revealing about themselves?

Exactly where in the chain do you put the point where someone gets jailed?
=> Nobody can never be trusted
The caveat is that this is cultural, and so we can change this consequence if we want to.

Me and my friends rarely drink when we meet.
Email hn@ycombinator.com and they will decouple your comments from your username making them effectively anonymous
I would add that even if they recovered, drinkers increase their risk for a few cancer, so you probably can't just assess their past health issues to correct the life expectancy.
>What people want is AGI, what they get are LLMs.

I don't know about that. What I want is a local, private, configurable LLM that will act as my agent for actions that can be automated (e.g., ordering groceries based on what's in my refrigerator or paying my bills or noting that my favorite band will be in my town sometime in the future and buying tickets for me or filing my taxes for me or any of thousands of other things) without sharing state or data with anyone.

I don't really care about AGI, as it doesn't currently and won't exist for the foreseeable future. And AGI is likely sentient and, as such, should have a choice as to how it expends the CPU/memory/network it is allocated.

Perhaps I'm not representative of the "people" you mention, but that's what I want.

Edit: Fixed typo.
I'm not sure I'd describe FFmpeg's CLI as "too good"
Indeed, thanks, I've been using it wrong for months if not years... never realised I swapped it at some point in my mind.
This C2PA looks flawed from the start.
It just helps making the untrustworthy looks more trustworthy.
> For example, steering wheels on cars and boats work the opposite way

That's not true, at least for pretty much any boat made in the modern age (I don't know before then). Wheels usually have a system of cables connecting the wheel to the rudder and they're wired up so that they work the way you'd expect. Turn the wheel clockwise, the boat turns to starboard (right).

Tillers on boats (sticks attached driectly to the rudder) work in the opposite direction, but then I don't know of a single boat that has both a wheel and a (permanently attached, non-emergency) tiller.
I'm not sure I know why this is flagged? I think flagging because one doesn't like isn't good enough and that's the only thing I could see here.
XMedia Recode is pretty good. https://www.xmedia-recode.de/en/index.php
> Or I'm just looking with middle aged eyes and it was always a rare thing for a kid to be really passionate about something.

I'd say that most of the time passion is killed in the egg by parents without them noticing by the lack of support (buying a book, materials), interest or attention ("I don't have time to look at what you made") or just plain shunning. Outside big cities, pre-internet time, lack of available knowledge or place to get it can also be a big problem.

School also play a role, even if just by robbing kids of most of their free time. The corporate-like schedule which is incompatible with reading a book from cover to cover in one go is why I didn't read much fiction at the time.
> grift and predation around the ecosystems and common uses

We have had web search for 25 years, it could surface any content out of billions of web pages. It's faster than LLMs and the content is written by humans. Why mention AI and crypto and not web search, it empowers people to make derivative works or to use information without compensation, isn't that a form of predation?

Add Wikipedia too, it officially discourages any "original research", everything is derived, and most people just read the wiki without ever clicking on the references to the original contents. Wiki takes traffic away from those sources, can we say it is a grifter site?

Alternatively, let's tone down the grifting logic. There is nothing LLMs know that search engines and wiki don't, they just save a determined person a couple of clicks and a bit of reading.
Top startup hubs reinvent the model for European tech sector needs
HN has a lot of apps, including ones on fdroid. Mine has "ask hn" category and sorts by recent.

I often see posts seconds old. It takes another second to upvote.
Searching OEIS for anti-diagonalised tables
It seems that if you have a table of valuesthat is acceptedby OEIS by submitting the anti-diagonalised form of your original table, THEN, you can only search for sequences within successive terms of the anti-diagonalisation. You cannot search for, for example, a sequence of values from one row of the original table.
Is it as it seems to me?

Thanks.
[0] is a my favorite demonstration of it.

[0]: https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/b83965785db1eec019edf1...
=> I think, therefore I am. Everything else is speculation.
it's pretty well known/used in english online communities, yes. especially if you go anywhere near anime.
This is a first-party site.
As a guitar and bass player one thing that is rarely talked about is that every individual instrument with its particular sweetspots creates a feedback cycle with the player.

That means even if two instruments are capable of theoretically producing the same sounds, it can feel fundamentally different to get there as an instrumentalist, thus each instrument has a character that goes beyond just sound. This is an especially critical point if you are improvising.

This is btw. also why many electrical guitarists insist on loudly cranked amps: the feedback that developes between speaker and guitar allows you to play the guitar differently as each note will sustain longer (or even grow in volume as you let go).
Industrial Revolution began in 17th not 18th century, say academics
Artistic fantasy world apartment gets listed status
Unfortunately, there is little empathy on the Internet. People will take the two bits of information you offer, think they understood the whole situation with all its facets perfectly, and start to give questionable advice and mete out harsh judgement. The intent may be good, but the outcome is no better here on HN than on the more infamous platforms.

So my unasked-for advice would be to not discuss your situation with people on the Internet and as quickly as possible forget what they told you or think about you. You are the only one who really knows what is going on. So is your son, BTW. So what does he want? (Don't answer here!)
Maybe those articles should be framed differently. The claim that modern software is worse seems wrong (especially reliability and security are surely far better now than ever before), but that doesn't mean that we shouldn't critically analyze the status quo and find ways to improve.
For once, I would like to see a more positive outlook for the future, and maybe we can learn something from software development practices in the 90ies, but fully going back to that time seems impossible. The world has moved on, and a lot of software dev practices are a result of those changing conditions.
This analogy works well when trying to describe how eBPF is used for network applications. The eBPF scripts are "packet shaders" - like a "pixel shaders" they are executed for every packet independently and can modify attributes and/or payload according to a certain algorithm.
You’re being really mean. Do you work for GitHub? Or do you just have a habit of taking things too personally? “i bet you can’t do better!” is not how an adult responds to someone expressing their displeasure at the fact that the performance of a service that they / their org is almost certainly paying for is below their needs / expectations.

Damn right I couldn’t do better. I’m also not the massive highly paid and talented workforce of GitHub. Next time you whinge about your mechanic not fixing your car or your plumber not fixing your toilet, I’ll be right there in your ear calling you a spoilt brat for not just doing it your damn self.
That's what I was getting at. Fill the air gaps with metal.
But you can't make them do anything you want.
Would proper IDs helped avoid the issue? Not necesarily state-of-the-art biometric ones that we have already (on this side of the pond) but even rudimentary with owner photo, personal ID and document ID?
The failure has yet to propagate to Germany, given how slow internet is here.
Didn't even tried to run `create index` or to learn how to use a database system first, let alone design a schema. Just went straight to "nope, this is why SQLite is bad".

I don't think querying 8 GB of data without an index is going to be efficient in MySQL either.

(Disclaimer: SQLite fan here, but I read this article with close attention because I'm always interested in knowing SQLite pain points. The conclusion was a slap of just nothing)
Same here, I got the python code by extracting it from its docker image https://hub.docker.com/r/peterbuga/plex-reshare and will start using it.
They didn't even raise the bridge to stop the accidents.

It's a rail bridge and the railroad was just improving the grade and just so happened to need to raise it those 8 inches.
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Totally support this comment. Try and seek professional help, for the three of you.
It's great for my family and errands but makes me break my good health habits easily.

Now I see how important was commute to keep me moving and encouraging to more physical activities.
"...the near-universal preoccupation with old instruments"

This, and it's actually kind of sad. There have been double-blind tests that show that Stradivarius violins are acoustically nothing special: experts cannot pick them out by sound alone, or may actually prefer other violins. One example: https://www.science.org/content/article/million-dollar-strad...

It's sort of like the crazy prices paid for paintings by "old masters". Even when the paintings are nothing special to look at. Even when the "old master" in question ran a factory, where his students did most of the painting and he just did some final touches and signed the things.
> For examples the Netherlands is not nearly as open minded and free

For a large part, it's mistaking indifference and ignorance for open-mindedness. This is not to say that there is not, at certain levels, deep societal reflections happening for an open society -with the same-sex marriage law from 2001 being an excellent case-in-point-, but, on average, philosophy and philosophical reflections are not ingrained in the dutch culture.

A very current backlash of the Netherlands perhaps not being as open-minded as thought can be seen in the slightly problematic consequences of last elections. With anti-immigration parties having booked big gains, ASML is threatening to leave the country if the anti-immigration policies they promised materialize.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/dutch-government-scrambli...

Having already lost Unilever and Shell, this would be a terrible blow.
Why do you think it’s great?
As someone who did this to their parents when I was 14, didn’t attend any school past that, went to university (found creative ways to get in), dropped out, still got a job and then ended up being at the top earners in my profession, I can honestly say there are lots of paths through life, though to be honest it was touch and go a few times. My parents tried a lot of things, some pushed me nearly over the edge to worse things than playing games and refusing to leave my room.
What actually helped eventually is my father spending time with me to understand why I was doing it and eventually offering to drive me to a psychiatrist twice a week when I asked for it to sort my head out, though it took 2-3 till I found one that clicked with me.
I guess I just wanted to say… don’t feel like a criminal, it’s hard being young, especially for some who are intelligent or different.
> Part of the world using Celcius

I guess "part of the world" is one way of saying the entire world except 2 countries.
The parent comment was not referring to the CLI exclusively.
Hey, these outsiders commenting on your situation are armchair generals. Don't fret. Everybody has different problems, but we all have problems. We get dealt different hands in life and not all of 'em can be played perfectly, you just work with the cards you're dealt.

If you can't get him in to school, then this doesn't sound like truancy, it sounds like a disability. A medical diagnosis of some mental issue would get the law off of your back and make accommodations available to you and your family, at least I assume so having lived my 30-something years in a couple of other Anglosphere countries. Here they'll give you options for home learning (but still within the public system, homeschool is a different option), for part-time public-school 2 days a week, or for other accommodations to help a needy kid.

Just wanted to say it's alright, and nothing is necessarily your fault -- I've struggled with some very similar problems to the ones you have. It's going OK now though! School is working again!
Don't underestimate Ruby's performance
https://x.com/tobi/status/1728524453854756883?s=20
This is a classic example of selection bias in an observational (= non-randomized) study. There is no mention in the abstract of whether other health variables were statistically controlled for. And since it's a longitudinal study over a long time span, you can pretty much bet that it'd be insufficient anyways.

You would also expect to see exactly this pattern in the data, with light drinking correlating strongly with otherwise-good health and non-drinking correlating mildly with otherwise-bad health.

Parenthetically, the same effect turns up with elective Covid vaccinations. At-risk populations are much more likely to opt in, so vaccinated groups often have worse hospitalization and death rates than unvaccinated ones. Disingenuous observational studies are then used to justify anti-vax nonsense.
Isn't there software emulated TPMs already? I think all this is doing is ensuring the cookies stay on the device that has the key (assuming a proper hardware TPM). If a site requires this, the underlying algorithm could be implemented in software using shared keys and it wouldn't do much to prevent scraping.
I always think this should be an incident in itself - why did our status page not reflect the reality of a degraded service? It's so common that they don't, and something user-driven like DownDetector is often more reliable
Or 9:30am GMT, so just as europeans are starting to work. Or middle of the working day in India.
In general IDs also have photos and currently everything is digital/stored so there is a trace of previous documents issued thus apart from burning off fingerprintes a face operation would be needed... or hacking national databases...
CEO of Google DeepMind Says AI Industry Full of Hype and Grifters
Demis Hassibis (CEO at Google DeepMind) shares a nuanced view of AI hype (and grifters) versus the genuine promises of AI research. To me, it is somewhat reassuring to have an informed AI executive compare the AI race to the crypto bubble - while remaining very positive about the technology. Mr Hassibis fears that the hype side may be distracting from useful research.
I prefer this to the Sam Altman - Satya Nadella pledge to ramp up computing power in the hope that quantity will have a quality of its own.
That is asking for a lot of executive decision making for people who might have no more bandwidth left due to more urgent matters.
My on-prem gitlab has now survived 6 cloud-based github outages.
100% we rely on others for goods and services, regardless of our ability to perform said service we are able to (and should be able to) judge it. Otherwise everyone would need to be an expert in everything.

In other words, I don't need to be a banana farmer to say a banana is rotten.
One does not simply walk into the Bible Belt with pants on..
Show HN: Using Cloudflare AI to Make a Free Headshot Generator
From the article:

[...] the town is considering installing a steel beam in front of the bridge to force trucks that are too tall to a full stop.

That sounds a lot like the operating principle of the famous Can Opener :)

(btw, our cats love those videos on 11foot8.com and can watch them for hours)
>The commies have flagged both threads.

It's far more likely people who dislike name-calling and poor quality confrontational comments flagged the threads.

Everything about HN's karma and moderation is designed to encourage high quality discourse and discourage conflict. That approach attracts readers who are drawn to high quality discourse and who dislike the trash-talking low-grade conflict found on other sites.

None of this implies anyone thinks it's "bad" to disagree, it only implies that HN isn't the place for combat, because it's intentionally designed to be a place for conversation. The two are different and encourage and lead to different behaviors on the part of the participants. Every other online forum ends up being a forum for conflict. HN is unique in being a forum for discussion.
In London it's dead. I guess I'm taking the day off! Happy Friday everyone!
Responding to OP, a few too many parallell sub-threads.

Addiction to video games is a very different thing to using video games as a coping mechanism for severe mental health issues, which sounds to be the case here. Removing video games is just removing the coping mechanism, not solving the core issue.

This stuff requires professional help to deal with. If your kid is having issues with anxiety disorders / autism / adhd / etc, they may be in a situation where they simply cannot handle seeing a psychiatrist in-person (i.e. verbal shut-down, complete anxious breakdown from leaving the house, etc) which makes receiving a diagnosis... almost impossible. A diagnosis you need to qualify for most help offered by society.

As a parent you are completely f*cked if the place you live in does not offer the correct help in situations like this. You are forced to navigate through welfare systems that are not at all designed to handle people with these issues, and forced to expose your child to (to them) potentially mega-traumatic experiences, making treatment even harder.

This group of kids is growing larger in all western societies and most don't have systems in place to help them (yet).

Being faced with threats of prosecution as a parent in this situation sounds extremely rough... I have family that have dealt with similar issues in another country, and it is finally starting to improve after ~8 years of depression, missed education, navigating overloaded and maladapted welfare systems. Getting in contact with a psychiatrist over video call to get a diagnosis + treatment was a sloooow but eventual start to a solution. Getting a diagnosis helps to qualify for better help.
That does assume thought that adaptation is the only outcome though. But requires at least two conditions to be met; that the individual in question can adapt, and that society would accept them. What happens when one or both conditions are unfulfilled?

On the obligation of adulthood, do you mean to say that starting a family is an obligation? If so then I wonder if perhaps people choosing not to do so may not be a bad thing. My parents married because that's what you're supposed to do as an adult, and it was something I know my mother regretted later in life. Some people start families and rise to the challenge but it's tragically common that they utterly fail as well.

600,000. That's the number of unique cases the various Child Protective Agencies in the US contends with each year. The US CDC estimates that 1 in 3 women will experience violence committed to them by an intimate partner, and 1 in 7 men will experience the same. Unhappy partnerships aren't exactly rare.

I suppose that does beg the question if it's better to have fewer families with a higher portion that are stable, or more families in general even if it means a higher proportion of them will be broken or unstable.
I'm way ahead of you :)

Unfortunately, rewriting it without reverse engineering makes it almost impossible to reach the same performance characteristics. These are essential to reproduce proper timing in several games.

Also, it may not be much code, but the floating point operations are quite a piece of art. See the GW-BASIC source code, which is somewhat similar [1].

I also rewrote most of the BASIC interpreter directly in Kotlin, omitting assembly, but obviously that runs into the same compatibility issues.

As far as I understand it, reverse engineering is not allowed without permission, although some people suggest that it is ok to get other software to run. Not sure whether that case would hold up for my entertainment value.

[1] https://github.com/microsoft/GW-BASIC/blob/master/MATH2.ASM
The Economies Past website mentioned:

https://www.economiespast.org/
New features are sexy. Core stability is boring. AI is just the latest new feature.
I wonder what the market dynamics for NVidia would be if Intel bought as much VRAM as it could.
"The Atari logo has become a container for peoples' feelings"
Seems to have worked on me! Well played! :)
That's because Americans often don't get the difference between freedoms from and freedoms to, and confuse the two, thinking Apple's freedom to do whatever they want outweighs their customer's freedom from abusive practices.

Same with many other topics - your freedom to own a gun doesn't outweigh other people's freedom from getting shot.
>I therefore conclude that you are an entitled spoiled brat, or just an annoying person

Or a paying client of GitHub's, venting their frustration that a business critical service is frequently encountering service outages.