skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How does not having social media restrict free speech? Do you think free speech didn't exist before social media?

Arguably, the presence of social media homogenizes the speech we're allowed to have.
I ran Windows 2000 from the last beta until they stopped supporting it. The only thing I ever loved more were my Commodore 64, my Amiga 500 and Blue/White G3 tower running Mac OS and Mac OS X. It was extremely consistent in terms of UX, more so than Windows 98 that had all kinds of 16-bit cruft left in it.

It did not use a lot of resources, I was a bit of a tweaker back then and I just shut down any services I didn't need for home use and it was absolutely fine on 64MB.

It ran all games and applications that I tried to run.

I HATED the Windows XP UI, never installed it. Why install something slower and uglier? 2000 was way better out of the box without ever experiencing issues in terms of compatibility.

It's true Vista had a ton of nice new features under the hood, but the inconsistency in terms of UX of every Windows version after 2000 felt extremely off-putting.
The comparison was made in 2012 with PHP 5. PHP 8 is out now and likely includes most of Facebook's improvements. PHP 8 should be fast enough for any web app or backend.
but Meta's versions are significantly different than the old, boring thing that you and I have access to. At my company, we are slowly rewriting our python services in golang because off the shelf golang incurs significantly less costs than off the shelf python on a per request basis.
Internationally people would be streaming it, but TBH the images of the thing itself aren't that impressive and the video stream compresses well. I did like seeing a timelapse of a city as the eclipse happened.
I can’t read the article, it just gives an opening paragraph with no actual statistics but based on other comments it appears that it’s the predictable result: a chrome only web.
> a situation where it’s “cheap to be rich.”

Sure. Sort of like methanol. As a society, we sometimes raise the (legal) floor even if it helps those at the margin. Not commenting on this policy alone. But one could make the same argument about seatbelts, airbags, flame-retardant bedwear or anything else purchased privately with lethal consequences.
Great song by Blue Oyster Cult.
They can’t really self-prescribe though, they are not allowed to prescribe drugs to humans. In fact, in many jurisdictions, doctors are legally allowed to self-prescribe.

Perhaps the difference is that vets can both prescribe and dispense drugs, while human doctors often need to have a pharmacist dispense the drugs.
> “There aren’t many places this amount of cash can go.”

Sure, buddy.
The point is not to have a one shitty lesson on it, probably by someone who doesn't even know what cookies are. The point is, that alongside learning math, biology and history, you should also come out of educational system emotionally mature and equipped with skills to survive in modern world.
Not all skills are acquired through a deliberate lesson, the role of school is not only to teach but to upbring a generation(s).

If Huberman can teach you a basics of nutrition so can a formal educational process. The problem with relying on youtube educators is then that it is down to luck if someone will come across it.
In my country, India, these platforms are used less for free speech and more for brainwashing and spreading hate and misinformation. Most of these posts are in Hindi, a major language around here, and call for all kinds of hate such as suppression of a specific religion, call for genocide, invading and acquiring neighboring countries etc.

I've tried reporting such posts multiple times but hate filled posts are neither removed, nor restricted. If a platform cannot provide adequate moderation, it should stop operating in my country and be held responsible for providing a platform for spreading hate pseudo-anonmously.
> Federal government should start paying companies like this a hefty lump sum and take the patents by eminent domain

This means seizing the ruling class gets to seize anyone's inventions. Nobody writing these rules intends that. But while we can forgive the first dozen attempts out of naivety and, later, stupidity, I'm not sure how we similarly excuse modern performances.
By you and what army? :D
> I'd love to have fewer windows open ;P. But like, each of these windows has a number of tabs in them, and there is only so much space to see tabs.

So why not use TST or similar (which you're obviously aware of)?
> "Intuitive" is not an objective property, it's too polluted by habits you've learned from other systems.

To an extent, but then the test is seeing how people who have never used any system interact. I maintain the MacOS paradigm is objectively less intuitive than alternatives.

> But we can say this: there's nothing intuitive about Windows' incomplete transition to the new settings app that still sometimes requires you to jump to the old control panel system; there's nothing intuitive about Linux' 50 desktop environments, each with their own incomplete configuration systems

Sure, that's clumsy. Not really relevant though.

> In any kind of match up, MacOS will win on simplicity and intuitiveness hands down simply because every other option is just much worse.

Strongly disagree. MacOS comes in behind Windows for certain, and likely behind a couple of FOSS DEs as well. Windows has issues, but usability isn't one of them.
As far as I know there no browser yet on iOS in EU using a different engine than WebKit. The main issue seems to be that it has to be EU-only and companies would have to maintain two applications.
> What is the explicit difference between 1 person and 10 persons when it comes to their rights?

None.

> Explicit, I want to know what rights we lose as soon as "I" transforms into "we".

In this case a company isn't "we". It is usually the owner.
I thought Windows XP's installation process looked just like Windows 2000's? Text mode display and everything, but running the Windows NT kernel.
As usual, Haidt is spot on. There's no reason a child should have a smartphone, or be on social media having the algorithms warp their brains. Honestly I would say kids shouldn't have phones at all, except that these days they can't easily find public phones to call their parents (unlike when we were kids). But solving that problem certainly doesn't require a smartphone.
Have been using PHP since 2008 and will continue to do so. The community, ease of development and ecosystem around Laravel is unbeatable.
Whatever there is to say about 4chan at least I think at one point it directly told this message.
Not only malls, in Europe and Scandinavia, many small towns and cities that has seen greater days are working hard to make it more livable for people of all ages, incentivizing small shops of all kinds and prioritizing bikes and pedestrians while the cars have to stay on the outskirts of the town center.

It takes time though, but I see a trend and a hunger among people to reclaime physical spaces and to spend more time amongst each other, making room for chance encounters etc.
See my reply to the other comment of my same opinion :)
Because it is the parents responsibility to set boundaries for their children. It can be complicated at times, granted. But that doesn't make it less of their job. Heck, I got my first CD player with 14. Yes, I felt left out at school, but... guess what, I didn't die. Children need to learn that there are rules, and someone else dictates them. Throwing tantrums is a typical reaction that needs to be weeded out as a part of growing up.

Besides, the "somebody has to think about the children" meme is slowly but surely getting old and tiresome. Not somebody... Their PARENTS. If you dont feel like setting boundaries for your children, please, with sugar on top, dont have any.
Yeah, you had to slipstream in the storage drivers if you had no floppy drive.
Only "most of the time" ? :(

You'd hope at $15,000+ per unit, you wouldn't have to reset it at all...
The machine is a replica rebuilt from old photos of the original.

The level of secrecy around these machines at the time led to them all being destroyed, along with all of the plans! This is perhaps more understandable given the UK kept the fact it had cracked the encryption secret and continued to offer similar machines to other states so it could spy on them for many years after the war!
>> plus only allow up to one hour of unpaid commuting.

And that kids is how I met your mother... I mean and how California finally got high speed rail funded. It only goes an hour into the Central Valley but its better than nothing.
> the multitude of two-stroke-engine-powered vehicles in Southern European cities, so I can imagine having them replaced by electric versions

In India, the 4-stroke came in big right around the time when leaded fuel got banned. The anti-knock stuff only really worked properly on a 4-stroke, so you'll notice that it took somewhere between 2000 and 2005 to really kill the new vehicle market for 2S.

However, the sound, that is what is completely different about these - you can actually talk on your phone sitting in the electric versions, while the petrol ones need you to shout over it when it goes up a hill.

The most interesting intersection for me was the mobile app and the EV charger combo the drivers use.

In my last visit to Kerala there were plug points under some street lights which could charge these 3-wheelers at 240v at 15amps off the pole.

These guys would just be parked right under one of those, with their mobile apps open & they'll unplug only once they get a pickup location, keeping their batteries perpetually topped up when idle.
This doesn't come out of nowhere. They "gave their son a gun and ignored warning signs of violence."
Seems to be "Mini.cab"? Don't know if there are any other names for it.
That's because there are no safeguards and failsafes to keep authority in check.

When Winnie the Pooh orders you to jump, your only permitted responses are Yes or How high? unless you want to be deleted (no, not killed, deleted) from the face of the planet and any and all records known to China.

Same goes for Russia and other authoritarian regimes.
0 to full platform in 5 months doesn’t seems impossible when you are Meta, especially for a Twitter-like.

Still impressive, but the hard part of launching a Twitter competitor is not technical, especially when you already have a virtually infinite amount of already competent developers and infrastructure and when you don’t need the product to make money asap.

The hard part is launching it commercially and giving it enough momentum.

Like the adage says, I can code Twitter in a weekend but it will not be Twitter and it will not magically make money.
Yeah, and that has downsides they admit!

> Despite the apparent advantages of reusing Instagram's platform for Threads (much faster delivery time), Malkani admitted the company introduced a substantial amount of technical debt that must be addressed in the future.

If they forked Instagram for Threads I bet the codebase is WAY more complicated than it needs to be.
>> If someone knows more about the motivation/goals with the research that would be interesting to have further explained

The organizations that need to ensure the chips they receive are 'as expected' don't know how those chips may differ or why (or even that they will.) They just need to prove that they received what they ordered, on every unit.
>This guy who wrote about subversive cat women and robot cities and weapons made from angry psychic weasels and mind control sex between people who are literally floating naked inside a chamber of flames – he had also codified the U.S. military’s approach to psyops at the dawn of the Cold War? Really??

That part is not super surprising. There was a ton of para-psychological, New Age woo-woo happening within military circles of the 60s, 70s, 80s. Men who stare at Goats is a fun book that delves into some of the really bizarre psychological experiments the US military ran and a lot of pop culture draws from that intersection, Metal Gear Solid for example. There was a thing called the "Human Potential Movement" that originated in 60s hippie circles that somehow made it's way to the military as well and influenced some apparent programs trying to create superior soldiers.

It's pretty hilarious and a little bit concerning that these ideas were sometimes as popular within these institutions as they were in the conspiracy theories about them.
How is this example any different than what the parent has said? If people feel these platforms are negatively impacting them, they should stop using them. Or do you believe others or the government has a right to disallow what people want to watch via their own choices? You may call it brainwashing but others may disagree.
Create a once-a-year drone holiday. If they can't get past the hobbyists and spies, that's good to know now rather than later.
Hmmm. The original, in fact, does NOT have the 0x0a at the end of the file; however, in process of deleting first part of file up through and including "1.#####", my linux command line tools (or vim?) added one there (unbeknownst to me at the time). I proceeded to solve first puzzle with the 0x0a there at the end in the head-shortened ciphertext, and I got readable plaintext, but my sha256sum does not match yours. If I remove the 0x0a, I get neither readable plaintext nor a matching sha256sum.

(btw, love this project, thanks for sharing it)
Note that the reforms suggested by the author are primarily normative, not legislative:

"""
More specifically, we’d try to implement these four norms as widely as possible:

1. No smartphones before high school (as a norm, not a law; parents can just give younger kids flip phones, basic phones, or phone watches).

2. No social media before 16 (as a norm, but one that would be much more effective if supported by laws such as the proposed update to COPPA, the Kids Online Safety Act, state-level age-appropriate design codes, and new social media bills like the bipartisan Protecting Kids on Social Media Act, or like the state level bills passed in Utah last year and in Florida last month).

3. Phone-free schools (use phone lockers or Yondr pouches for the whole school day, so that students can pay attention to their teachers and to each other)

4. More independence, free play, and responsibility in the real world.
"""

https://www.afterbabel.com/i/143412349/what-now
This is a phenomenon we see in the entire developed world, or possibly the entire world, including in the west and Japan (NEETs, Hikikomori).
> Abstention = social isolation, which for young people is far worse than exposure. Restricting your children's access is not an option...

"Everybody else is doing it" has never been, and still is not, a valid reason for anything. If other parents choose to let their kids ingest mental poison, that does not mean that one should allow their children to do the same. Abstention is not only an option, it is something which absolutely should be enforced by any parent who cares about their child's well being.
It restricts free speech in the most direct, literal sense - by... restricting your ability to freely speak.

The historical existence is simply irrelevant. Just like existence of pre-TV/newspaper speech is not a relevant factor in determining whether banning all TV/newspapers in 1950 restricts free speech
So, why are alcohol (and nicotine) still legal then? Maybe there is a 100 year old lesson hidden somewhere...
> Competitive markets would fix this immediately...And the customers all have an incentive to choose the one that doesn't, putting any manufacturer willing to respect the customer at a competitive advantage.

No company wants that "advantage" because that would make them less money and give them much less power. If you sell a product and people are willing to pay X for it then you can make X (minus your costs), but if you can also collect and sell your customer's data you will make even more money on top of what you would have otherwise. Nobody is going to leave all of that money on the table.

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.

No company is going to give up all the extra money and power to "outcompete" their rivals. You can see that for yourself. Where are all the companies giving consumers what we want? 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? It's guaranteed to make you rich beyond your wildest dreams when you drive every other TV company on Earth out of business right? Why hasn't someone done that already? Sometimes it will always be more profitable and advantageous for companies to refuse to give consumers what they want. I hope you're right someone does decide to make a massive fortune selling high quality smart TVs that don't exploit the customer, but I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for one.
Well you sound very angry. I didn't want to hijack another persons post to discuss an unrelated topic, but happy to discuss. I wasn't shilling anything I was sharing a procedural project related to this very post. These links are great for context on the tone of your reply, but say nothing of my project. As charming as Dan Olsen is (/s) there is a place in this world for digital scarcity, it's interesting, it's valid and even if 95% of the crypto ecosystem is cringe and scams, there are a lot of good people doing good work.
Why stop there? Why not drop all laws prohibiting sales of tobacco and alcohol to minors? Why should these producers have their right to sell impinged upon by scared parents pushing a bunch of laws through congress?

After all, you're free to use or not to use tobacco and alcohol, right? So it should be every kid's choice.

In fact, why stop there? Why not allow fentanyl pills at the counter of every convenience store for anyone who wants them? You have the freedom to choose to use or not to use them, so there's no problem, right?
A lot of Facebook those days is Node.js, Rust or Python.

Its no longer PHP heavy like it used to be.
Texas will use AI to grade this year's STAAR tests
Staggering Layers for Added Strength in Your 3D Prints
One could argue that if a security engineer of Microsoft falls for Dark Web honeypots Micrsofts security may have serious problems.

Edit: Not a honeypot but a confidential source. The killer or did they intercept his browsing session?
Explain please how my suggestion bans GitHub.

GitHub does not show me (on my home page) "recommended" repositories, rather only the ones I specifically searched for, and the information on it is organized in a chronological fashion, which is permitted by my suggestion.

Is your issue that I can see public comments regarding the repository? That's permitted - comments on random repositories do not show up on my home page, only if I specifically go to a particular repository, which is effectively joining it for the purposes of what I wrote. (Although I guess that could be clarified.)
> girls who spend five hours or more on social media per day are three times as likely to be depressed as girls who use social media only a little or not at all

I mean, I can't possibly imagine the state I would be in if I spent 5 hours on Instagram every day for extended periods. But the same applies to watching reality TV or reading tabloid newspapers.

Social media clearly affects young people — some of them negatively. That said, it's not 100% negative all the time. Maybe it's just changing the structure of society. In the same way that computers gave nerds the option to be the cool hacker kids and highly-paid FAANG engineers later, some skills/traits/behaviours are becoming more valuable while others are losing their usefulness.

Things won't be the same, just like things aren't the same as they were 200 years ago. People will adapt and learn to deal with the new challenges.
I really wanted to understand where this community is at in their generative AI journey. Are you in production? Just looking around? Have you tried and ran into serious problems? Is it living up to the hype but too expensive?

I built a little poll at https://forms.gle/WezLRpGUkiF6Za4w6 and have it set up to auto-share the responses with any respondents so we can all learn together.

I'd love any input!
Thank you, I was wondering if that was just coincidence. Google has been pushing Chrome ever since Apple announced BrowserKit. And they do it on their own platforms (which is free for them) with features Safari also has.
Apple might need to start paying google for ads to counter-promote safari.
IMHO all 3 major cloud providers are overpriced if you have just a simple service. Go with something simpler like Hetzner or DigitalOcean, Vultr, or better yet fly.io or similar if you can.

AWS especially will just suck you in with all the complexity. If you barely have an MVP you’re doing it wrong if you’ve ever thought about IAM lol.
PHP and the ecosystem around it, especially Laravel, makes developers incredibly productive: everything is so damn easy.

Nothing comes close to it in Go, Ruby, JS (Node), Python; from what I've seen. Laravel is one step ahead.
"building it properly"

This strikes me as funny: what could "properly" mean to an industry if a successfully launched and operational piece of software serving clients globally somehow doesn't meet the requirements.

I think this talk of "proper" is just purism, its not grounded in reality or sound engineering practices.

The article should be lauded as kicking off a new era of practical engineering that rejects software purism.
if we’re honest, there’s been times where we’ve too wanted to take on someone else’s skills, wit or winning personality by means of osmosis.
That's a good point, but shouldn't it be temporary? I had thought at this point the whole world (including alcoholics, hooligans, and deadheads) was training up their own?
I wonder if they catch them, these people get a longer jail time or SBF.
Maybe? I dunno.

The design of this is pretty clever: https://www.wired.com/story/apple-find-my-cryptography-bluet....

I presume somewhere you can turn this off for real, but the defaults seem sensible to me.
Laravel rocks though I am more of a Symfony man myself, been working with it since 2.1. API Platform has no equal. At $job I built a fully DDD system on top of it and its been a breeze.
Might be a bit late to the debate, but is Beeper secure enough to use? I'm apprehensive about installing it.
I hope i get it to run on my 96gb m2 in q4.
> So the only real crime is violation of zoning laws.

Caltrain is a government agency – it is incorporated by its three member counties under the California Joint Exercise of Powers Act, which enables two or more public agencies to agree to create a new jointly controlled agency, and delegate some of their powers to it. As such, do zoning laws actually apply to Caltrain? I don't know the answer to that question, but I wouldn't assume the answer is necessarily "Yes". Zoning laws are primarily targeted at private actors (private corporations and individuals) and government agencies are not always bound by them.

It is true that the work these Caltrain employees were doing was not authorised by upper management, but they were making improvements to Caltrain property and using Caltrain funds to do so, so most likely they still legally count as acts of Caltrain.
It's worthless until they open up the api for private use.
Right at the top for me.
It's a variant of "use a 747" for a 380 story which happens all the time. Meh.. any plane will do.. (grabs stock shot of the red baron's triplane)