skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Florida has banned social media for under 14's starting Jan, 2025.
Generally I am against government overreach and sometimes they make very odd decisions like campaigning to ban lab engineered meat in the state but on this I very much agree. Just remove social media as an option for those that are very young.

Its easy to say, that's the parents responsibility and that is a correct statement but most families require 2 working parents these days, most of whom are not tech savvy enough to understand how to limit social media or access to questionable sites.

Social media is an addictive, mind altering poison by design. Through the pervasiveness of echo chambers and intentionally addictive features such as endless scrolling and recommendations it seeks to do nothing except turn its users into revenue by keeping them online and seeing / clicking ads.

I lost my sister to it as she became so wrapped in the political side of it that any belief besides hers and those she followed meant you were a borderline nazi.
Strange... even Vespa (which is by no means a cheap scooter) had a two-stroke engine in its base model until 2017, according to https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vespa_Primavera (German version, the English one has less details). Of course, if it's not commonly available at gas stations, preparing the gasoline/oil mixture for a two-stroke engine becomes a bit of a hassle...
I'm quite interested how the ground control station for that is set up, or if it's flying autonomously and in radio silence. If you're illicitly controlling a drone, presumably you don't want to be standing around holding a great big radio transmitter like a Vegas searchlight pinpointing your location. And you also don't want the drone to be broadcasting either since modern planes are bristling with electronic warfare sensors.
> That's how the iPhone does it as well, btw!

That explaines why my work iPhone has an empty battery after 2 weeks of being turned off. Good job Apple. /s
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No, not if you want to participate in certain aspects of society. For example: getting a job, which is pretty crucial, IMO.
You are all quick judging here, let's not forget presumption of innocence
This sounds like post-facto justification for following rumors and disinformation during the pandemic.

Yes, expert opinions do change as new data comes in, and yes, public policy is as much influenced by politics as by science. But during the beginning of the pandemic, the OP is absolutely correct that a shocking number of people showed very poor judgment based on social media.

And this has not changed. Social media continues to be a cesspool of conspiracy theorists and deliberately provocative content that increases "engagement". Please don't dismiss this point by putting "expert advice" in quotes.
People always makes these points of things not being technically Turing machines because they are finite, they have finite memory. Well, obviously! Your computer has finite memory too. It doesn't matter in practice, and the conceptual idea that this thing can do arbitrary computations is more important.
Well I can't really complain about that at least. States have a lot more leeway and are explicitly given the power to manage their public schools.

A quick look at Indiana's law and the news articles are interesting. The law requires schools to implements rules that ban phone use during class, but the actual rules and implementations are left for schools to decide. The articles I found make that sound like the law is toothless and passes the hard work off to school systems, but in my opinion that's a great law as it let's every school do what works best for them without prescribing a single solution for everyone.
Again: been there, done that. Good for you (and others, even if they don't know) that it worked, but in my case it didn't. Part of the reason is that FB is also the place where events get promoted. The integration is so tight that any other solution is an inconvenience to the normies, ie. the 99%. You have your events, your communication tools and your audience, all in one place, it's effective. FB is eating the world really... convenience for the masses.

Luckily, I have other hobbies that are less prone to this, mostly because they don't involve much event promotion if any at all and don't need any audience to exist. Example: my local shooting range uses a mailing list for communication and you can always hang with fellows at the club-house.
The hurdles to get over to reach this logic path is amazing.

They used employers funds without approval to build something that benefited themselves. Sure, it happened on employer property but without any type of approval. That is theft, let us not try to come up with complicated explanations to say its not theft.
Why go:

I like Rust, and zig. Both end up with better performance than go. All three will output portable binary.

I like Ruby and Django. I can get a V1 site out faster than I can with go.

Java is java. Its great if its huge, but hard to do "simple" in java... and the specter of "is this the year oracle fucks every one" looms large in the java ecosystem.

The compile/test loop for GO is stupid fast. How go deals with dependency is fist class. Go nailed concurrency model has found a sweet spot between safety, ease of use and developer performance that is unmatched.

Go is the "brutalist architecture" of programing. Most people look at it and go "why" but if you embrace it, and adopt it, there is an effective sensibility that you're not really getting elsewhere.
The use of ls in this way is not good form:

cd /root
for project in $(ls go-cicd);

I think a better expression would be:

for project in ./*
do [ -d "$project" ] || continue
...
Is there a good way of keeping track of tabs in different windows across reboots? I recently tried having all tabs related to a specific project in their own window on a different workspace, and everytime Firefox wanted to restart because of an update I had to close both windows and then go to History - recently closed windows to get back my tabs.

I'd love something like tab groups that included windows, so I can seamlessly move tabs between windows, recover them after restarts, etc.
> This the much discussed “third place” that has all but disappeared in much of western life.

American life if anything really.

Southern Europeans especially are an extreme example of how it is to essentially live outside.
Reminds me of the opening of the Suez Canal, where a British naval ship did something that obviously pleased the admiralty but which they were obliged to condemn.

> As the time approached for the ships to ceremoneously enter the new canal for the first time, the contingent of British ships were second to the French in the congested approach. Captain Nares had difficulty accepting this positioning, and so, during the night and without using lights, he maneuvered Newport forward into an inextricable position in front of the French yacht accorded the honor of entering the canal first. The French were understandably upset, and protested to the Admiralty. Captain George Nares received an official reprimand from the Admiralty, but was, apparently, the object of great admiration for his clever actions, and was questioned at length about how the feat was accomplished.

From https://web.archive.org/web/20151009025658/http://aquarium.u...
Every human-readable programming language must be compiled into some sort of bytecode (opcode in PHP) and/or machine language in order to work. The question is whether a human ever needs to be aware of that step. In PHP, you generally don't. In the aforementioned setup, you don't need to be aware of SCSS compilation and minification, either. Not even if you use devtools, because the map file will point to the correct line in the original source.
If you prefer using GPT-3.5 due to its lower price or speed, wouldn't it be better to switch to Haiku? People were even able to match the performance of Opus when they added a couple of examples to the prompt.
I don’t work for OpenAI but I do remember them saying that a select few customers would be invited to test out fine tuning GPT-4, and that was several months ago now. They said they would prioritise those who had previously fine tuned GPT-3.5 Turbo.
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> Video games are a cause of teenage violence.

Literally no one believes this. I grew up playing Resident Evil and Grand Theft Auto.
Well you can get the baseline GPT-4 model without new system prompts via ChatGPT Classic: https://chat.openai.com/g/g-YyyyMT9XH-chatgpt-classic

It is an official GPT provided by ChatGPT with GPT-4 as backend.
Arguing that your technology should be required by law, while offering a performative release of one patent (which is absolutely not enough to cover a working implementation), is the dictionary definition of bad faith. You don't have to go any further than the linked article for evidence of how this guy has acted throughout his entire career.
I think there's two major drivers here - scarcity of attention (1) and social distance (2).

1) Your attention on social media is monetized by others, which means there is always something tugging on it like so many street peddlers, in addition to all the 'organic' content made by other users. When there's a shortness of attention, you're always going to be more snippy and inclined to the short pithy retort, instead of long conversational openings and explorations of topics. Those require a lot of social trust-building and responding to feedback when you do them IRL, which is difficult on social media because...

2) Other people on social media just feel less real than those you encounter in real life, because you can't feel that bad feeling in your gut as strongly when you upset them, or the good feeling when you make them laugh. That same social distancing means you have a much easier time either idealizing them in that parasocial influencer-guru follower style, or feeling comfortable with being very harsh and combative with them. AKA the toxic gamer lobby phenomena, where people say the most heinous things you've ever heard to eachother, all the while being mostly fairly ordinary kids and adults IRL.

Both of these are kind of inherently tied up in the way we are ordering more and more of our (para)social life, so it seems very difficult to escape.

To paraphrase a point somebody made about content generated by machines purely to tug on your attention - everything feels increasingly meaningless because you have a finite amount of attention, and more and more of the 'social' interactions that your brain deals with in a day ARE meaningless and intended solely to mine your attention and keep you scrolling on ads.

I don't know how to fix that.
You can get the baseline GPT-4 model without new system prompts via ChatGPT Classic: https://chat.openai.com/g/g-YyyyMT9XH-chatgpt-classic

It is an official GPT provided by ChatGPT with GPT-4 as backend.
It's funny you mention vertical videos. I'm currently working on a toy project using MobileNet which classifies YouTube thumbnails as clickbait or not, as per my preferences, and I classify every vertical video as such. It needs more training data but it's up to ～78% accuracy at the moment. Next I'm loading it in a Chrome extension.
RIP Peter Higgs, who laid foundation for the Higgs boson in the 1960s
> and how I came to realize it's a directed graph.

One of the funnest things in computer science is realizing how some problem that you may not suspect initially turns out to be some type of graph.
> I reckon I could implement 90% of the end-user functional features of Twitter in a weekend.

Building a Twitter clone is an exercise that's frequently used in system design interviews. It's a popular exercise because it's a trivial system to implement to meet client-driven requirements, but the feature set becomes progressively more complex when scale, performance, and business requirements are thrown into the mix.
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The argument isn't finite memory but rather the lack of it being expandable memory; as in it cannot learn to read/write to a hypothetical infinite tape. (Although I'm maybe not the right person to word it, I recommend the prior linked video)
Because he's pushing to have the technology covered by his remaining patents to be required by law. Do you think this is OK?
I think that's what got xz into trouble in the first place.
I think it is mostly for these reasons:

* It's complicated so it takes a while and you need lawyers and such to make it right

* Rules for training are probably hugely vague and undefined. Because you could ingest personal data and it cannot be deleted

* AFAIK it needs to be hosted in Europe (not directly GDPR related, but america has laws that allows them to spy on all traffic in the US, so this is somewhat the counter to that)

In the end from my experience just working at a company that needs to be compliant this usually means:

* All the services need to be hosed in EU including 3rd parties we send any data to

* There needs to be a way (email is enough) to delete user data (including from 3rd parties which need an endpoint so you can trigger it from your side)

* You need to inform the user about the data useage and allow them to opt out of the "usage" of this data for non-essential things (i.e marketing emails). This does not mean you cannot save this data if you also use it for other things, but you can not use it for the non-essential case.

* You could be in trouble if you save data "just because" and do not use it for anything essential or if it is not transparent to the user.

Not a lawyer. Just the things I notice in my day to day. In the end companies need data protection professionals to navigate these things. Which is probably another thing a startup does not worry about it early on.
Thank you for sharing this. I hate all the hoops everyone is using the justify why it was ok what they did. These were not some sort of sleep area for all employees, these were private accommodations for these two individuals.
I had a similar bug more than 10 years ago, also while building a search index through Lucene. It would crash after hours of running with an impossible nullpointer exception. It always appeared after running for hours, and running that specific iteration would not trigger the exception, so hard to reproduce.

Turned out it was a java jvm bug which was triggered when the jvm decided to recompile that code part since it was used more frequently.

Try running your code with the -server flag and see if that makes a difference.
-by (Norse suffix for 'settlement') vs. -bury (corruption of Old English for 'castle') lets you pretty nicely draw out the borders of the historic Danelaw i.e. the area where the Norse Vikings settled:

https://placenames.rtwilson.com/#W3sidGV4dCI6ImJ5IiwiY29sb3I...

Compare against this map: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:England_878.svg

The Danelaw ceased to politically exist over a thousand years ago so that's pretty impressive.
Elon Musk plans to rejuvenate the original platform as Tesla's dominance wanes
The Musk-owned automotive company faces declining demand for electric vehicles and intensifying challenges in the Chinese market. Even typically optimistic analysts like Wedbush's Dan Ives were harsh, calling Tesla's most recent quarter a "trainwreck."
There are so many psycological problems that we don't know anything about yet. Not everyone are normal. Or better, we don't really know normality yet. Some people have very big problems physically meeting people and after a full day of work, this might be an impossible task. Internet might seem like a shield that allows building up strength for the next day. The old thing about "Just get out there and meet people" isn't the solution for everyone, just don't give up on them. There is a way to coexist with us all, just have to find your way of doing it.
Getty Images CEO Calls for Industry Standards Around AI
I've been using 16x Prompt to construct prompts with source code context and pasting the final prompt into ChatGPT web UI: https://prompt.16x.engineer/

Disclosure: I built it.
AzerothCore: Self-Hosted World of Warcraft 3.3.5a Server
Well, I bet this site is going to be getting a complete overhaul of their security systems which will probably include a real-time offsite backup.
> people work more on abstractions and are more productive

Well, that's one way to define "productive". If a site contains links that are "clickable divs" or has layout shifts, or whatever other "modern" atrocity, can the work really be rated as "done"?

Without done work, productivity is either zero, or undefined.
I'm not using the API. Both are $20/month subscriptions.
Drawing attention to the fact that people choose the absolute most vulnerable possible equipment and then express shock when it's exploited is hardly a shallow dismissal. Is your complaint that the GP wasn't sufficiently verbose for your tastes? What's the minimum word count required to call bullshit?
C build systems are so cursed. Autotools is obviously horrible, but projects like curl cling to it, because somehow every other C build system sucks too.

It's frankly amazing how deeply fragmented and backwards-looking C is that this continues to be a problem. In the last 30 years, a countless number of C build systems have been created, and yet an ugly pile of obscure macros outlives them all.
The Gelman plume near Ann Arbor had wells way over that limit and this is probably going to affect the city water supply since the plume is getting close to the Huron River where Ann Arbor draws water from. That's part of why I moved towards Detroit when I bought instead of west of town. Now I should get my water tested in Oakland County, since I'm still on a well and who knows what's going on this close to I-696. Do you know if there's testing resources?
At least in Debian there's already the inevitable discussion about a supposed opportunity for "finally" moving to zstd. Which to me, frankly, feels a bit like getting out of the frying pan and into the fire, or what I think Arch (yuck) did years ago. That's not because I'm so much into xz. It's kind of funny there's a possible Debian connection, of all things, considering that quite a lot authorities and services in areas like China, Russia or Iran are recently migrating, for obvious reasons, from Windows/Mac to more or less home-made (~styled) Linux distributions, that just often happen to be based on Debian. I don't think this is too popular in English speaking countries in particular, but then I really didn't want to chime in on the speculations. ;P
Maybe I am bit dim, but how one can choose GPT-4 Turbo? Is this available from https://chat.openai.com/ ?
“Gamified” and “focus” shouldn’t go together. Game mechanics demand attention.

Anyway, it’s a pomodoro timer with a customizable character and that lofi girl feel.
Your comment runs contrary to a lot of established statistics. We have demonstrated with ensemble learning that pooling the estimates of many weak learners provides best in class answers to hard problems.

You are correct that we should be using expert AIs rather than general purpose ones when possible though.
> Google is still beholden to consumer privacy laws.

To ignore them or what ? None of the FAANG respect the privacy laws (GDPR for example). They just pay lobby money and insignificant fines from time to time and no government cares about it.
Animal-free egg protein startup Onego Bio is closer to cracking the egg market
That sounds a lot like the Italian Alan Ford comic.
All the sane and rational people are rooting for you here in the U.S. I’m sorry our government is garbage and aid hasn’t been coming through as expected. Hopefully Ukraine can stick it to that chicken-fucker in the Kremlin and retake Crimea too.

I didn’t have an X5690 because the TDP was too high for my server’s heatsinks, but I had 90W variants of the same generation. To me, two at idle produced noticeable heat, though not as much as four idling in a PowerEdge R910 did. The R910 idled at around 300W.

There’s always Folding@Home if you don’t mind the electric bill. Plex is another option. I know a guy running a massive Plex server that was on Westmere/Nehalem Xeons until I gave him my R720 with Haswell Xeons.
> I went to the site hoping to see forums discussing the commercialisation of OSS. Ya know, how to make enough money so you can afford to do this as a day job.

Why? Elastic, Redis, Mongo etc. have enough funding, employees and supporters enough to argue for themselves (and do, often and loudly), since they have the commercial revenue and favourable to themselves licenses. Why should the community be their mouthpiece?
Can't all these many people who want the technology purchase it today? I think for every new hobbyist that comes along only because of this saw there will be five less hobbyists who stay away because of cost.
I think this depends on the level of optimization you go for. At the extreme end, you’re not gonna use “vanilla” anything, even in C or Rust. So I doubt that you’ll get that smooth onboarding experience.

In Go, I’ve found that with a little bit of awareness, and a small bag of tricks, you can get very low allocations on hot paths (where they matter). This comes down to using sync.Pool and being clever with slices to avoid copying. That’s footgun-performance tradeoff that’s well worth it, and can get you really far quickly.
I mean, unfortunate, but Thailand is not a US _rival_.
It is worse than that. We will pay thousands of dollars out of our own pockets for tasks like editing, proofing, and indexing.
>> let's not forget presumption of innocence

Are you trying to be sarcastic?
$230+k is low-income?
The article is misleading or misinformed. There are numerous cheap consumer drones that can go miles high. The hardware is more than capable of it - it's just the firmware that's crippled, but it can be modded. You can also just make them quite easily. Here's [1] a video of a guy with a homemade drone that hit a height > 40k feet, along with links to buy the exact parts. It's almost certainly just people trolling, because it's somewhat predictably turning into the Great Balloon War of 2023, part 2.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6QL0VjqYgI
Surprising public health benefit of unemployment?
I'm pretty sure any physically realizable computer is a Finite State Machine (FSM).

The Turing Machine assumptions of infinite memory and unbounded time lead to a lot of poor intuitions about them, in my experience.

That bad intuitions would also apply to FSM's, though. Or to the human brain for that matter.

For instance, a well trained human brain may be Turing Complete, if they can access some external storage (like pen&paper). This leads to confused concepts such as the Chinese Room argument.

Even though a human brain can contain a Turing Machine, it doesn't mean that understanding a Turing Machine gives much relevant understanding of how the Brain normally operates. The native compute model of the brain is completely different.