skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe upgrade to a recent version of PHP from the last five years. It has strong typing, not just hints in comments.

If you like strong typing, great, but many popular languages have weak types and dynamic types by design. It’s not some horrendous oversight.
I like Go. But how come they have not fix the issue with implicit nulls? Null guards everywhere... I cannot believe that a company as mighty as Google did not choose to use decades old insights on how to fix this.

Now it's really hard to fix. The std lib already does implicit nulls all over the place.

Kotlin kind of fixed it for Java, and it really helps us.

PHP is old, and makes it easier to forgive it's mistakes. But Go?
This has little to do with "how toxic our culture is", but more "how social media is engineered to enable toxicity".

We see the problems with large scale social media in every culture, and the issues are the same everywhere.

The question should be raised if humans can actually deal with large scale social media. Perhaps, just like gambling, it should be outright banned or strictly enforced to comply with heavy restrictions
https://github.com/huggingface/llm-vscode

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How hard would it be to use this as an in-memory replacement for MySQL for testing, let's say, a Rails project?

Given how important the DB layer is I would be careful to use something like this in production, but if it allows speeding up the test suite it could be really interesting.
I'm fine with well-placed and important popups, yet I can appreciate the point:

Too many annoying popups have trained me to, by default, react to popups as I react to flies or mosquitos.

As I can't tell which category a popup is in before I've read it, this makes me extra angry about the time-wasters.
That wire and magnets isn’t gonna do anything unless it’s hooked up to at the very least an amp (+ a dac if were talking digital)
How is this not the OP's exact point? If you're not forcing people to change - by banning things with the violence of government - then you're simply making an argument to people and hoping they listen, just as we ever have to.
Integrating CUDA Quantum with Quantum Computers
Easter weekend is arguably the best weekend to do something like this. It's not an actual holiday, so there are none of the normal precautions taken around bank holidays (bank vaults tend to have a lot of the money moved out around bank holidays), but much of your staff (and external forces, like cops) will be away outright or preoccupied.

It makes the entire thing far more seamless, and gives you a better window to get away with it.
Have a government agency do the age verification, then it tells FB your age but no other information. Maybe the agency gives you a unique token that it also gives to FB, and you can use it to make a unique account.
> Social media != the Internet.

Technically true, but social interaction is the great draw of the internet. Even Zawinski's Law noticed that every program expands to include social features or is replaced by those that do.
Thanks bruv. I’m good ish.
wouldn't put it past the Chinese government.

The young in China are so disillusioned, they are buying gold in droves this year [1] (instead of putting it in bank, or invest in stock market or real estate)

[1] https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240221-youth-appetit...
Few instruction manuals are as effectively designed as the Tigerfibel, designed for the crew of the Tiger tank.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigerfibel

From the Wiki..

Like other manuals designated as Fibel (basic primer), they summarised what the crew needed to know for day-to-day use of the tank, but unlike the typical tedious style of a German tank manual of that period, it is well illustrated in a comic style and much of the text is written as humorous poetry.

The author's knew their audience, with plentiful use of scantily clad ladies.
Really interesting project with JMAP support ! I would like time to test it !
Express is not in the same category as Laravel, what gets closer to Laravel in the NodeJS world would be Adonis (that I know of). Express is essentially a modular router (for people that think that server-side JS is a good idea)

If you run `laravel new my-app`, you got an application with caching, database, queue, views, translations, whatever else you can think of, ready to use with things like Oauth / Payments / E2E Testing / Feature flags / Search... a command away.

You don't get that with Express, you don't get that with Django, from what I've seen (but I'd be very happy to be wrong!)
Verified curl
https://archive.is/nvPVo

Three different companies made the things and not s word about manufacturing problems. What a difference a year or two makes.
https://aviationhumor.net/journalists-guide-to-aircraft-iden...
It's shame that you don't get the popup as a EU citizen when outside the EU
"As a European", no we didn't. Europe is far too big to generalize so casually like that. In many northern parts of Europe it is frequently raining. In the 80s and 90s me and my friends spent our time indoors because when it was either cold, or cold and wet. You might get a month or two in summer when the weather was better - if you were lucky. So we spent our time indoors, doing homework or on computers, or round each other's houses (playing video games with each other).

A mall would have been a useful place to hang out because it's under a roof and there are things to do, but there were very few good malls in that part of the UK and anyway to get to them you'd have to be able to drive. But there's no culture of young driving there. In the USA in some states you can drive at 14! In the UK you can't even start learning until 16 and in most of Europe the minimum driving age is 18.
Judging by people who make links via click listener on DIV, the answer is no.

On one side it’s understandable that people work more on abstractions and are more productive (e.g. learn React first, then maybe understand how P is different from DIV), on the other side it’s incredibly frustrating to see links that aren’t real links even on Google’s websites.
I think this could be aptly summarized as "you can't accidentally slip and become depressed" using social media. You can absolutely slip and lose one or several fingers or your entire hand using a table saw.

The more pertinent comparison would be alcohol IMO: none of the people who want "something" done about social media seem to have a problem with the widespread, massive use of alcohol within society and the incredible amounts of continuous and ongoing damage it does.
If you have children or niblings, you’ll realize how ostracized from the community one gets if they have no access to social media. It would work if parents banded together and nobody in school would get access, but otherwise it just becomes a “there’s a giant club and you’re not a part of it”. As a child, that really hurts.

When I was in high school, Facebook was just opening up access to everyone. I remember literally everyone getting on it, and swapping between messages in MSN, and some posts on FB. We had whole school wide conversations, planning and etc. on social media, and on days when I didn’t get in front of the computer to check things, I remember feeling left out. It’s just so much worse now, because every kid expects every other kid to be on the loop of things 24/7. I think that’s where we screwed up. Having just casual access without mobile phones was the sweet spot, in my opinion.
what pregnancy & violence has to do with mental disease? sure some correlation but it's not the staple in many cases... depression & suicide among kids/teens ARE increasing over time. now if that's ONLY because social media is another mild take, too

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1414751/
So, if there's not an easy solution, we should de-emphasize the problem?
I'm more curious how someone is allowed to have the time and money to build this?

I would love to spend 1-3 years with other good people to just build good tech :(
I'd certainly appreciate it if you'd contact me too, then. Thank you!
Oh, so that’s the reason I didn’t get it. And let me guess, you also don’t get the pop up as a non-EU citizen inside the EU.
Alt-space, N to minimise the window.

The system window was handy for retrieving windows that had somehow ended up offscreen. Alt-space, M for move, hit an arrow key once, and then the window follows your cursor and ends up on screen by default. Still works in modern versions of Windows - it's somewhat obsolete now you can use Win+arrow keys to move a window around, but it might still be useful if your window has ended up somewhere and you can't figure out where.
A popular position perhaps, which is why you can still go gambling while 'weak-minded' children cannot.

Personally, I hope we come to protect the vulnerable regardless of their age.
> These include their own DAC

Isn't that exactly why audiophiles - in the broadest sense, not just the golden cable types - stick with jack headphones? The DACs and amps built into headphones, or even earbuds, being very likely subpar compared to the one they can pick separately.

Headphone DACs/amps have been a thing forever and they're typically the size of a pack of cigarettes.

(Disclaimer: I made peace with BT since getting the Sony WH-1000XM4 earbuds, and later WH-1000HM4 headphones. I got them originally for the noise cancelling and LDAC support, but they're good enough that I don't hear a major difference with my friend's fancy Audio Technica)
Updates to the Community Program (VSI)
The US tends to punish white collar crime much more leniently than blue collar crime
OK now I understand where you are coming from.

Still I’m not convinced that people wouldn’t gladly adapt. People in Amsterdam are really happy of their situation and still, Amsterdam was a totally car centric mess up until the 70s-80s. Sure people pushed back when it was time to accept the change (and also changing infrastructure takes decades so you have to suffer decades of imperfect infrastructures) but now, nobody wants to go back.

Humans are rarely really anti or pro this or that, they just hate when things change and Americans aren’t really different beings.

So yes, I agree that there would probably be a huge political push back, but if it were to happen, they’d just adapt like every other country who did this transition and they’d probably never want to go back.

Edit : look at this pictures : https://dailyhive.com/calgary/sharing-amsterdams-story-of-tr...
> And that's why people look down on it

Okay fair enough...

> > I was never able to move from PHP to something else.

But that's why people like PHP, they have little exposure to something else.

People that have experience with langs like Rust, Java or C#, Kotlin, Haskell or Elm, OCaml of F#, they usually do not like PHP. Why would that be?

People who only every have used PHP (and maybe some JS) they are usually the only ones raving about the language.

If you have seen a lot of movies (critics usually have) you are better at judging the merits of movies. Same for languages.
A bit late, but Unsloth makes LoRA / QLoRA finetuning 2x faster and reduces VRAM by 80% with 0% degradation in accuracy! (no approximations are done!)

Mistral 7b is 2x faster than HuggingFace + Flash Attention 2.
Gemma 7b is 2.4x faster than HF + FA2.

Check out https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth for full benchmarks!
I'm a little surprised to hear this, my experience has been a little better. Are you using GPT4? I know 3.5 is significantly more challenged/challenging with things like this. It's still possible to make it do the right thing, but much more careful prompting is required.
I think a better question would be “how fast would our software be if it was programmed by people who didn’t waste all that cpu power on frameworks, terrible algorithms, and layer after layer after layer of cruft”
How offering remote working increases your chances of hiring
There are two kinds of freedom [0].

What we are missing in our society today is some essential negative
freedoms.

Most of us follow J.S. Mill's idea on restricting the influence of the
state. See the many comments in this thread decrying government
intervention to ban social media. That's a negative freedom, from
tyranny.

Mostly, we tend to emphasise positive freedoms, freedom to; run a
business, share speech, own technology. And that is good.

But there are negative freedoms, freedom from; coercion, the scourge
of drugs, poverty, censorship. Obviously many positive freedoms can be
expressed as negative ones, but how that logic is formulated in law
really matters.

Now the controversial bit:

What we are missing is laws that give people freedom from technology
The supposed "choice" to participate is not enough.

Like others here I've been a non participant in social media and
smartphones. I'm not a Luddite, I'm a computer scientist, but I
twigged this problem very early having dealt with addiction and
recognising how abuse is mediated by technology. I even wrote a book
about it [1].

The problem is, life is made very difficult for those who want to
exercise choice. Presently one must live as a second class citizen, in
what feels like racism and prejudice of technological snobbery. It is
utterly unnecessary.

Governments do not need to ban smartphones or social media for kids or
for anyone. Making this only about kids is a cop-out. It's
leveraging emotional messaging to side-step a bigger problem nobody
wants to face - that our whole society is under siege from technology
overuse. The more general problem is that we've entered a period of
technological over-reach. Kids don't just feel peer pressure to get a
smartphone and social media, they live in a society that wants to
mandate it.

Whether for kids or adults, we need to strongly protect the rights of
those who want a less technologically mediated (and encumbered - yes
it's not all "convenience") lifestyle. This needs us to maintain
plurality of access;

No services for government, schools, health available *only* on
proprietary and "smart" platforms. Requirement to maintain
traditional paper and interpersonal modes.

End the insanity of a "cashless society", and "smart societies"
that exclude basic human interaction and require and assume
smartphones with apps.

Strongly protect the rights of parents to choose how their kids use
technology, for example in schools, and the attitudes they are
raised with.

Governments can ensure negative freedoms without just banning stuff.

[0] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/liberty-positive-negative...

[1] https://digitalvegan.net/
Isn't SawStop patent encumbered? AFAIK the three point seat belt design's patent was made open by Volvo at the time, so the patent didn't hold back adoption.
I guess if it's only specific individuals/groups that can't print books, it's restricting free speech, if nobody can, it's not.
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> Restrict your children'ss access to these platforms.

I'm the only parent I know that has. And there is much resentment.
interesting that it finally landed.

But just because PHP apparently added reasonable typing in >7.2 still makes it a ranchy languages for most of its lifetime.

Anyway ranting about it doesn't imply that i hate it or that i haven't used it. Its one of my first languages, but from my personal view, php is a shitty language in comparision to most others
IRL nobody is running facial recognition tech and uniquely identifying you. And, despite what your teachers told you, no one is keeping a permanent record of the minutia of your life. So I know my neighbor is "George", but I don't know anything about his political opinions, where he shops, how he treats waiters, or what kind of porn he watches. Thus he's not anonymous, but his daily activities are generally private and ephemeral.

The internet flips this on its head because pseudonymous handles can be linked to reams of online activity that's retained effectively forever but can't be connected to a specific person. This is why "doxxing" is such a big deal online.

If online activity was like IRL activity and ephemeral, I might agree with you. But the internet never forgets.

Edit: By the way, this is not universally defined:

> say crazy shit

"Crazy shit" is very culturally and contextually dependent. If I condemn China's treatment of Uyghurs, that's fine in North America but considered "crazy shit" and can land you in jail in China. That's an extreme example, but there are plenty of other more banal differences in culture and what's acceptable globally.
More like Dune's sandwalk, many steps aside and little foot rounds for nothing.
What a hypocrisy. At one hand they encourage free market, and on the other they do shit like this. This rent-seeking-from-US-corpos model isn't gonna work long for EU. Camel's back will be broken and everyone will regret, including this stupid policy makers.
He used bitcoin purchased with his own details. Total incompetence on his part. The confidential source was probably the hitman scammer themselves.
I agree. It is nearly impossible!

If they are young, they are full of their own ambitions and ideas. It is hard to cooperate.
If they are old, they already have built something in the past and not looking for help in exchange of new risks.

Finding a co-founder is an additional full-time job. I have tried that in 2018 when I was starting my startup. I spent days on meetings and forums like this one.

I found dozens of amazing folks, but it was impossible to negotiate and actually start something together.

Finding a co-founder = finding a girlfriend. You do not seek for one intentionally. You just live having a chance to meet that one. Same with a co-founder.
Yes, you're absolutely right here. It's the way of money all of us following. May it be the payment processor goes rogue, or the platform itself. Or a competitor emerges (like tiktok did suddenly, like Facebook did suddenly at their start..)

it's a very easy equation:
Time = money.

No matter if it's the right hand or the left hand of the equation, but one of the sides must be bigger than the other And the quotient have at best to go towards the positive infinity if you consider how much money/work you invested and how much time you spend on it .. (ROI)

So, big, mass migration actually never happened once. It rather happened slowly and over time. Consumers switching to platforms which have what they actually want and that are easy to use (time investment). If you want Facebook/meta to go down the river, then you need something that gives the consumers what Facebook doesn't give them. If you want Google to go down the river, then you need to offer some better experience. Like bing chat / Copilot. If I think about that, I didn't use Google search in the last 4-5 months. Because I can formulate what I actually want and if I need more in depth knowledge, I still use Copilot as a starting point for my things. It's a total different approach to search.

So, mass migration happens, yes. But not because some says "it's bad.. omg, musk is the CEO" or "oh no, they put the API behind a paywall" - idealistic thinking stops there, where someone must invest time/work to get where he/she/it already is. And that's what lures the consumers into a closed, walled system - in the end they get exactly what they want.

That's why f.e. mastodon is still somewhere .. let me say, behind the fence..

It's all economic thinking and processes ruling "who and how many go to"

Just take the influencers. They can't even earn money on alternatives. Why should they migrate?
In Michael Mann's secret room, a red telephone rings...
90-GWh thermal energy storage facility could heat a city for a year
The use case seems to be very obviously isolation (archived site can’t affect archive.org’s header), although I think iframes would have been a much better solution to this)
A leaky microwave would do the trick.
> It doesn't matter whether you abstain from using Instagram or not

Yep. The other problem is that not having social media and mobile devices can be alienating and ostracizing, especially for teenagers.

Avoiding the problems of social media requires skills and restraint that even most adults don’t have.

It is a “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” situation.
Wind turbines affect different species of birds differently (they have different flight patterns and different abilities to avoid large objects) and are associated with different effects on populations of birds to those of predation.

IIRC, it's not collisions that cause most deaths, it's actually pressure effects (barotrauma; to which bats are reportedly more susceptible - eg Barclay et al. "... bat fatalities ..." paper[s]).

Larger species of bird get displaced which has a knock-on effect to the local eco-system. A particularly important point if the species is struggling to survive.

From the studies I've seen, only maybe a dozen on these topics, the bigger issue is effect on bats.

Also, fwiw, fracking and other fossil fuels do more damage to bird populations than wind turbines; but I don't feel that means we should be complacent. It's right to properly monitor the effects of new technologies on the wider environment.

There's definitely a worrying difference in reporting of 'green' harms in Western media (eg Loss et al. "Estimates of bird collisions ...").
Ha good point, I did say "let's have another shot" when I just meant another try at generating! FWIW "few shot prompting" is how most people refer to this technique, I think (e.g. see https://www.promptingguide.ai/techniques/fewshot), I haven't heard "priming" before, though it does convey the right thing.

And the reason we don't really do it is context length. Our contexts are long and complex and there are so many subtleties that I'm worried about either saturating the context window or just not covering enough ground to matter.