skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the point of view of somebody who has been writing front-end code on and off from the late 90s through to present day:

There isn’t much understanding of the architecture of the web these days.

People commonly think of web development as a combination of two things: a browser environment in which their JavaScript application runs, and a backend that can provide an API for it to use.

HTML is seen as something that is constructed by JavaScript in the browser. HTTP is just the way you get JSON from the API. URLs are unimportant beyond the desire to make what appears in the browser’s location bar look nice. There’s little understanding of how hypertext is supposed to work.

Tailwind is popular for CSS. People construct their layouts and styles by adding numerous very finely-grained classes to every element in a way that resembles inline styles. There’s very little understanding of how to organise CSS – the most common argument I hear for Tailwind is that it’s impossible to keep CSS organised without it, as if the alternative is to just write one big stylesheet with everything in a mess. “Coming up with names for classes is hard” is something I’ve heard loads.

Graceful degradation / progressive enhancement is now niche. Unobtrusive JavaScript is pretty dead. Fortunately, server-side rendering is making a comeback, but unfortunately most of it relies upon running front-end things on the server with JavaScript as a speedup to bootstrapping the JavaScript running in the browser.

Front-end code is now written in the context of front-end JavaScript frameworks instead of what the browser natively provides. Browsers natively support web components these days, but they were devised by architecture astronauts and are not pleasant or easy to use. Instead people write components with React, Vue, Lit, etc., which have varying degrees of interoperability with web components, which very few people care about. If you want to use a third-party component, you look for one that is written specifically for your framework.

The web platform itself has come a long way though. Browsers almost completely agree on how to render things; CSS layouts are a lot easier and more capable; you don’t need CSS hacks to target workarounds for specific browsers any more; people upgrade their browsers frequently; and even when there are backwards compatibility issues, there are a lot of tools that will transcode it to more compatible older code at build time or polyfill at run time.

If you’re an old-school web developer, you’d probably enjoy writing code with all of the new options available to you. But you’ll probably be quite frustrated when working with newer developers who view the web more like a deployment target for an executable than a real platform with unique strengths.
Does the use of AI make someone more intelligent?
You can join those communities and discussions with "work" accounts. Instead of creating a personal twitter or meta account, you could create one that is only used to join those specific groups and discussion.
I hope that a high security facility which stores tons of cash has something better than Wifi cameras?
Not really the same, because the article is not calling for banning any source of social media. How would you even classify social media? We are taking about ad infested hellholes with no incentives other than maximizing revenue, regardless of the content pushed.

The proper analogy would be banning books with certain content, which we already do. You can't distribute a book calling for a specific person to be killed or doxxing them. Doing this on social media in Ethiopia is encouraged, as it drives engagement and has lead to actual deaths of people I know. They have a policy not to moderate this content despite having the resources. Just like they have a policy to make the apps as addictive as possible.

More importantly, Facebook is not a "printed book", it is the printing press. It owns the internet. It's not remotely comparable. And that's why it is a threat to free speech
Exactly, homeless people living on the street should really be called familyless.

If I went bankrupt and lost everything I have a social safety net of family members who would put a roof over my head until I got on my feet again. Only people without that safety net end up on the streets. Or they have addictions that mean their family can’t take care of them anymore.
Is anyone advocating for "micro monoliths" - (building lots of little monoliths all deployed side by side)? That's the level of crazy the monolith versus microservices needs to get to.
Exploit a memory safety issue in the tokenizer/or other parts of your LLM infra written in a native language.
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When something gets too big, laws are necessary to allow competition. See USA breaking up Standard Oil and AT&T. Also USA almost breaking up Microsoft.

Otherwise you will ends up in Russia-style oligarchy.
As a user, I basically just care about a minimum baseline of competence... which most models do well enough on. But then I want the model to "just give me the code". I switched to Claude, and canceled my chatgpt subscription because the amount of placeholders and just general "laziness" in chatgpt was terrible.

Using Claude was a breath of fresh air. I asked for some code, I got the entire code.
> If people feel these platforms are negatively impacting them, they should stop using them.

The problem is how to stop the mob attacking you from using them.

An American equivalent might be if social media existed a 100 years ago and was being used to encourage lynchings. Yes, it really is that bad in some places.

The problem is that FB does moderate things relevant to the US but ignores the rest of the world. They will remove white supremacist material in the US, but not the equivalent elsewhere.
PHP is slowly gaining ground on strict typings and every update brings new features. It’s really fun to see losely typed methods over time being refactored to typed methods, giving you that slight peace of mind in every step. Big kudos to the PHP and Laravel community.
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This is a real everyday pain that anyone with social media accounts can’t fathom.

Most (like 90%) businesses don’t have a website or when they have, it’s a static website. All the news are on social medias behind nag screens.
Just like it’s better to have a friend who has a boat than to own a boat, it’s better to buy a politician than to be one.
Sorry, but that's just too rich.

If you don't know how to design schemas (extensible, modular, ..) and don't know how to design coherent APIs around that, then yes, go Microservices to mitigate the risk. The risk here being the likely chance that you got the schema wrong and end up hacking around it in your "monolith" [almost always sic].
There's one in the city where I live. Her fortune is a company (you have all heard its name) so in a certain sense her wealth is putting a number on a large number of voters' jobs.

Recently the company decided it needed a plot of land, located in the middle between there of its sites. It got that plot.

Call it an oligarch or call it well-paid voters' jobs. I think the later is truer.
Free markets don't work. Corporations absolutely will abuse their position and power to establish monopolies wherever they can, blocking any new entrants to the market. I wonder how we (europeans) would ever regret regulation to stifle monopolistic behaviours from American behemoths.
Microliths, if you will.

Personally, I'm all for macroservices (no joke).
Monument Valley at 10
"No runtimes or garbage collectors." seems like an odd thing to advertise. Have either of these been the cause of problems in mail servers in the past? I'm guessing not?
Only because there is a term for it in Chinese, it doesn't mean this problem unique to China in any way. And it also didn't start in 2022 when "quiet quitting" became popular, it's a tale as old as time.
And then there's Therapist who keep saying everyone should be in therapy and drug companies with the latest in psychopharmacology.

Histeria (and the virbrator), ice pick lobotomies, electro shock therapy, Quaalude, Benzodiazepines (valium) as mothers little helpers, MAOI's, SRRI's (PSSD), Benzodiazepines again (Xanax, klonipin). <<< (Hint all of these things turned out to be DEEPLY fucked up)

And for good measure a few variations of adrenal Ritalin and other methamphetamines.

Maybe, just maybe, and hear me out on this, we have more people with mental health issues because "self diagnosis" and "self identifications" can get you a prescription. Maybe, just maybe more people have mental health issues because there is a whole fucking industry designed to profit off of problems that have a "diagnostic criteria" and not a "test". Maybe just maybe we should remember that the "reproducibility crisis" has some of its worst offenders in psychiatry and psychology.

Or you know blame social media, like we did for books, radio, tv, Elvis and rock, rap and metal, video games, 4chan and now....
Can someone ELI5 what he said in the blog post please? What does the script do?
There's a "Read more" link at the bottom, which links to the actual article - not sure why that's not the submission: https://www.forth.news/bots/reuters/articles/66161a6836b7020...
The codebase
Programming Language Scalability
This tool looks super interesting! I had a question-
You mentioned the ability to run tests to ensure the fine-tuned model behaves as expected. What evaluation metrics are built in, and how customizable is the evaluation pipeline? Can I easily add my own metrics?
Yes you can. But then, you have an account. Most people that dont have an account on social medias just don’t want to accept the TOS.

Also worth noting that it sounds like meta thinks like they already have all earth population in their products because new accounts are really easily banned for no reason. Any temporary account I made to access some information have been blocked minutes or hours after creation.
>until the websites you need (bank, local government, etc) only support the pipes build by a tech corp in a faraway country

they don't get to decide this if push comes to shove. Banks and governments in European jurisdictions obviously can be forced to comply with European laws and if there was some geopolitical question about security you can just force them to switch to a local fork of Chromium which given that it's open source is technically relatively trivial.

It's the same as Linux essentially. The overwhelming majority of commits comes from RedHat, Huawei and Samsung or other international corps which is fine because there's always the implicit option to fork it. We don't need fifty different kernels given that we're talking about open source software. In the olden days of Internet explorer and dependence on proprietary software this argument made sense because you could theoretically be squeezed without an ad-hoc alternative, but that's not the case any more.
It’s a houseboat that has been built up like an on-land home.
This is also literally one of the most complex, relationship-based, and opaque to outsiders communities on the planet. Try to wrap your head around the unimaginable clout and favor calling that this took to develop. "Exclusive" is an understatement. Nobody has free access to something like this.
I view it the same way. It's evolution. How it plays out is usually too complex to understand. Trying to avoid making decision for yourself (because everyone is different), by making it explicit for all people, is just running away.

Also whatever we have now, a worse thing is coming yet. Or at least, a newer stranger one.
'Ndrangheta are famous for laundering money for other cartels, criminal organizations etc. Tens of billions. They have hooks in many countries governments say in EU and launder billions ie via EU development funds (this happened in my home country on big scale, corrupt directly involved government fell, another came, rewind 4 years and the crooks are back and won elections, even stronger... ashamed where I come from)
I have seen some of the same with Sri Lankan posts. Loathsome stuff in Sinhala. Not calling for genocide, but definitely encouraging persecution and bigotry. One group that was particularly poisonous was removed after a campaign by many people. One person complaining gets nowhere. I am sure there is more similar material elsewhere.

I think the underlying issue is that American companies view everything through the lens of American culture and if its not a problem in the US, then it is not offensive.

I once reported a racist comment on FB. Someone said that people of their race should not "interbreed" with people of another race because the latter are evil. FB said it did not violate their community standards.

IMO it was probably because it was a comment by a black person (probably American) about white people. That is not the major problem is the US so its fine.
>Restricting the right to free speech does have negative consequences

sure, but not everywhere is America and some places seem to manage without slippery-sloping to eternal damnation.
But why do you make it sound like it’s not an option to teach kids to not have fear of missing out and having meaningful ways of spending their time in the real, offline world? I guarantee you that there is nothing of value that other teens are saying that your own children need to be updated 24/7
This is a silly comparison. The table saw was not designed to be addictive, turn its users into a highly lucrative commodity, or push algorithmically driven agendas. Social media was. The dangers being compared here are very different.
> Anecdotally, Instagram ranks much lower than Reddit for causing problems among the young kids I’ve worked with.

It's hard to tease out causality because Reddit overuse would have more self-selection of kids with preexisting depression. Happy kids would see no reason to doomscroll Reddit.

Instagram on the other hand is more compelling to everyone, and what you might interpret as positive content could be interpreted by a teen as being excluded by the popular kids yet again, with no easy way to opt out because unlike Reddit everyone at your school uses the platform and expects you to be on it.
Community goodwill to offset part of the negativity they deservedly receive for the shady aspects of their main products.
I will never understand keeping so many tabs/windows open at all times either. I have max 4 different windows for different tasks, and when I find a moment, I sort through what I actually need, or simply bookmark an entire window, and close the rest.

There's a bunch of workflows that can avoid this. I've already covered bookmarking entire windows (and opening an entire bookmark folder in a new window), but there's also tonnes of addons in the way of session management. You are not doing 95 tasks in a single day, and I find properly closing them also brings the necessary closure to free up my mindspace.
> No company wants that "advantage" because that would make them less money and give them much less power.

If your company had 3% of the market and not screwing your customers would get you 10% of the market, you're now not only making more than three times as much revenue, you have that many more units to spread your fixed costs over.

That doesn't work when you have 40% of the market and not screwing your customers would get you 47% of the market, because the value of screwing your customers can easily be more than 20% but less than 300%. Which is why the screwing happens in uncompetitive markets but not competitive ones.

> Exploiting your customers also gives you power over them. You can remotely disable features your customers already paid for and force them to pay you over and over and over again to get them back. You can ensure that your product is only used in ways you approve of. You can change/censor your product at any time after it's sold. You can force customers to keep paying for the rest of their lives for a product they used to be able to get with a single payment of a set amount.

All of which customers hate.

Notice how "smart TVs" don't do most of these things. You buy the TV once and it keeps operating indefinitely. Why don't the most popular TVs require you to rent them for a monthly fee? Why isn't the monthly fee $1000/month? Because customers would buy from a competitor instead.

> If there's really an endless fortune to be made selling smart TVs that don't push ads or spy on users why aren't you personally working on doing just that already?

The spyware is already optional. Plenty of popular TVs work fine if you connect your own input to the HDMI port and never connect the TV to the internet. You can't get a competitive advantage just by offering the same feature unless the incumbents stop offering that feature, which they haven't, presumably because they know it would cost them sales.
idk running a Hackintosh is kind of strange no
> There’s a reason real money launderers charge up to 50 cents on the dollar. It’s f* difficult.

I have no sense of scale for any of the things in this topic, my reaction to this is "only 50 cents?" because that would still leave these thieves with 15 million USD, which is significantly more than most Americans earn in their lifetimes.
I guess you can always use AI to detect inappropriate content from users... oh wait.

Seriously though, I understand that these mostly play to the enterprise market where even a hint of anything remotely "unsafe" needs to be shut down and deleted but why can't they allow us to turn off the strict filtering like Google does? Why can Google offer "unsafe" content (in a limited fashion but it's FINE) but LLM providers can't?

Lack of competition?
> What do I care what others do?

example from real life:

My local musicians community decided to use only FB to communicate their gigs dates. I refuse to use FB. I no longer know when or where is the gig. I don't see my fellows anymore.
It has always been green washing. Apple agresively fights any repair laws and spare parts laws. Their claims about recycling are there just for show just for the eco crowd. Most people will feel good thinking the products wont end up in waste but they all buy new anyway.
What do you mean? The next largest LA heist was caught because they couldn't disperse of the cash properly [1]. It's hard to spend that much money with seemingly no income stream without the IRS raising a few eyebrows.

You would need a lot of planning and coordination on how it's spent and where it's spent to make it look legit. And have enough untainted income to live while you plan on how to spend the tainted stuff.

[1]: https://www.latimes.com/california/newsletter/2022-01-05/dun...
It performed surprisingly well at categorization tasks where json results where involved compared to gemma:2b and gemma:7b
Is there a good alternative available in the EU? Anthropic announced it was available in the EU last month, but it seems now that they've changed their mind.

https://www.anthropic.com/claude-ai-locations
IBM didn't want to rely solely on Intel when introducing PCs so it forced Intel to share its arch with another manufacturer that turned out to be AMD. It's not like AMD stole it. Math coprocessor was in turn invented by AMD (Am9511, Am9512) and licensed by Intel (8231, 8232).
It sounds like something bad happened with your son. I'm very sorry to hear it if that's the case - if you want to say more, please feel free.
I'm sure that more creative versions exist, but a very common way is the WiFi deauth attack.

The advantage is that it works on the protocol level, so you don't have to nuke the entire spectrum for the entire neighbourhood (which would attract attention)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_deauthentication_attack
Oh nooo, middlemen dying, how awfullll
It's $1000 per, no? This is one of the gaming cards.
> It doesn't matter whether you abstain from using Instagram or not, some of your friends will still be more or less subtly influenced by its existence in your social interactions

You could say the same thing about the Bible, or Harry Potter, or any number of things too
Laravel is Rails clone afaik
This “somebody” is part of the wealthy ruling class who makes the laws through billions of dollars spent on bribes(“lobbying”) and propaganda.
Might have to see if it works on wine. The screenshot has the horrible aero window frame though.
WTF did i just read? This lyude guy totally powertrips lmao. And use a work email too? Geez
Is this a prize similar to the X prize for getting into space? I'm not sure if this is an Elon X thing or a google X thing.
Yeah, like 99% of humans music this days. We've achieved the goal of creating the same crap with less effort, success.
The Bible, I absolutely would, the negative impact of dogmatic Christianity has been pretty bad on society IMO. Harry Potter, not so much, but still some yes. I still have to argue with some of my friends that the books have some dubious morals that I wouldn't be comfortable ingraining in my children (if I had any).

The scale, extent and addictiveness of these two things are nothing compared to algorithmic social media though.
Who takes out the junk mail when there are no garbage collectors?
The lack of money for "influencers" sounds like a feature to me, not a bug!
> Avoiding the problems of social media requires skills and restraint that even most adults don’t have.

The parent commenter propose that you can not escape the negative consequences of social media, even if you fully restrain yourself, as you have the second order effects from your friends using it.

The parent commenter says that this is not an individual problem and cannot be solved on an individual level. It is a macro issue.

Just like you stopping eating meat will not really make a dent on global warming.

I think that is very insightful.