skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thread I responded to was a story about a child using a tablet, and a reply saying that particular story was "akin" to children consuming nicotine. Neither contained any mention of social media.

I can, and do, capably use both tablets (and smartphones!) without needing to use social media, and we have no indication that the child in question used social media. So, let's forget social media for a moment, then, since it's a red herring here. Let's return to topic: whether the story of child tablet usage which spawned this thread is "akin to" child nicotine consumption.

I appreciate your point about deep computer knowledge being less useful as HCI approaches a conversation, and can see that being a possible future as well.
You're not disabled yet. But you may want to care about this before your eyesight, motor accuracy, etc. start failing. It's not some big "disabled/not" switch - setting the font 1pt higher is accessibility, changing the colours is accessibility, being able to tab through fields consistently is accessibility, etc.
Ask HN: What would a TikTok ban look like?
I've seen a lot of discourse here on the business and politics of a ban, but nothing technical.

I imagine if ByteDance can't/won't divest, their US presence will dissolve: App store and server contracts are orphaned if not explicitly voided. But then what?

tiktok.com will still exist, albeit hosted outside the US. Would the government insist Verisign revoke the domain? If so, there's always other TLDs.

Then what? Compelling DNS providers to block certain domains ala EU piracy bans? Well, there's always DNS providers outside of the US, or doing the recursive lookups yourself.

And then? Compelling ISPs to block IPs aka the UK? Well, then what about VPNs/proxies/Tor?

I guess I see this as a slippery slope to a Great Firewall of America. I can't imagine most people will care, but it leaves the Internet in a pretty sad state.

On the other hand, maybe this will inspire the next generation to work on more decentralized platforms.
> One-in-three U.S. adults ages 18 to 34 live in their parents’ home, according to U.S. Census Bureau data from 2021.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/05/03/in-the-u-...

> Nearly 4 in 10 Americans lack enough money to cover a $400 emergency expense

https://fortune.com/2023/05/23/inflation-economy-consumer-fi...

> What a $400 emergency expense tells us about the economy

https://www.minneapolisfed.org/article/2021/what-a-400-dolla...

And the master of them all:

https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
I, personally think teaching kids critical thinking is great. Here in Eastern Europe they are only taught useless facts and not to think too much on their own, remnant of the past I guess...
And "Simillarly" to "similarly".
> going through the process to receive a redacted report with a request to pay for the full one

Thanks. You saved me the effort.
My bet is that impersonating someone using AI is going to be made illegal within 5 years.
> The county government can only do better because they get to cheat - they don’t need to make a profit, but spectrum does.

Amazing... they're so close to realizing. :)
I’ve not had any issues with vibrations but I’ve not been driving perhaps long enough?

That said, the newer generation of trucks are so smooth I don’t think that’s as much of an issue as it may have been in previous generations.

Wage wise, working as a developer in the UK (working for small consultancies, not startups etc) my wage topped out at around 38k - last year driving I earnt 46k and this year with promotion (from rigid to articulated vehicles) and annual payrise, plus assuming I work a similar amount of hours I’m estimating 52-55k (all before tax)
Rideshare and delivery apps have enabled more people to do those jobs than before.
Sure, but legally allowed and capable and motivated to do so are very different things. Most people I know don’t even change the preset wifi password of their router.
Yeah, but that cliff was around 40ft, according to the narrator. They aren’t swimming fast enough to hop back up that.
Are Ruby on Rails positions still pretty popular?
If the jobs is moving boxes around, then I think we are good.

monitary and fiscal policies will keep employment high regardless of AI and robotics.
It could be that solar or wind can “shut down” much faster than offline natural gas can be brought online, so it’s better to run them at some sort of “idling” power than to turn them off entirely.
This statement contains the unstated premise that efficiency is a higher goal than all other goals.
You've been breaking the site guidelines quite a lot as well as using HN primarily for ideological battle. We ban accounts that do these things, so if you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules, we'd appreciate it.
Well yeah because most people are away from home during those hours so there's little you can do. And workplaces, schools like that working hours are when electricity is cheap.

Workers might start demanding WFH or that their leisure hours be during the day and we can't have that.
Totally agree with you on that. I hope this lives up to your expectations. Thank you!
I would disagree with the inference that menial tasks are automated and interesting work isn’t. I can clearly see a future where the pleasure is automated away leaving the stressful uncomfortable tasks to the human.
There are gobs of fascinating battery ideas like this! Pumping water uphill, heating up enormous piles of insulated carbon, spinning monstrous flywheels, etc. Their plausibility is highly dependent on the environment. So I hope that we'll eventually have a constellation of these wild batteries supplying the world's storage needs. I suspect that we'll see the idea you described gain more adoption. The result: fleets of "air battery" homes climate controlled by municipalities via opt-in smart thermostats (and credit incentives) to ease grid loads.
US imports from China is ~2% of US GDP and largely in electronics [0], which are actively being targeted for sanctions. It will be painful but not catastrophic for the US to "de-risk".

China has to import both energy and food to sustain it's economy and population[1, 2]. There is very little domestic consumption to absorb their own production capacity and western countries are actively blocking their markets, like the EV situation in Europe or electronics with the US.

They have a very bleak demographic picture with a massively aging population along with some of the lowest fertility rates in the world[3]. It is odd to think of China as running out of people[4], but there will be two elder dependents for every working age person very soon.

There is an expectation of a full on collapse coming and local governments there are already $100TN+ in debt collectively[5]. If there was a pivot possible, would anyone provide that capital with what is happening with the Evergrande liquidation where foreign capital is the first to get wiped out?

Any company that hasn't pivoted to India or some other SEA country for manufacturing will simply be left behind.

[0] https://www.visualcapitalist.com/visualized-ranking-the-good...

[1] https://www.cfr.org/article/china-increasingly-relies-import...

[2] https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=61843

[3] https://www.worldometers.info/demographics/china-demographic...

[4] https://jonathanrileywriter.medium.com/chinese-demographic-d...

[5] https://www.wsj.com/world/china/chinas-colossal-hidden-debt-...
I don’t do nights out or away, so I’m home every night (morning as I work 3pm until I’m done, generally 1-2am, sometimes 5am)

No spouse or kids which probably helps and is why I don’t mind picking up overtime and extra shifts
Because this closes you off from being able to use a whole suite of development options (such as front end JS frameworks).
I replaced a Fritz.Box many years ago and a Windows-based laptop I have here still tries a lookup to frit.box every few seconds.

It's Monday morning here and I just started the laptop. It's still doing lookups on fritz.box.

Does anyone know where and why Windows is requesting this?
you might get rid of managers, but you will still need leaders.
No deadlines or fixed commitments in academia? Surely you're joking.
Note you can toggle off sources in the chart by tapping on them in the legend.

Gas plants can respond quickly to changes in load, but they need to be up and running to do that. In the future this will be done with batteries but we don’t have enough of those yet. California does have about 20x more batteries than it did a few years ago, check out the Record Tracker link. There was a new record for battery discharging 5 days ago.
How about AI censorship? Without lobbying, how would corporations share their expertise on the matter for politicians to take into account?
don't worry, McDonald's already profiled you via camera and whatever radio emissions your phone and car are making from the moment you entered their parking lot, so you don't need to install their app for them to spy on you.
>Since this phenomenon is taking place at basically every part of the globe either capitalism is so all consuming that escape is not possible or it is a universal human phenomenon.

Well capitalism is a global phenomenon... so?

>Again, the same people blaming capitalism for too much phone use have in the past blamed capitalism for disadvantaging the poor by gatekeeping access to technology. The whole critique is incoherent and unhelpful. Instead of trying to find actual solutions the blame is put on a vague concept. So vague that is can cause anything, too much phones, too little phones and anything else you can imagine. It is just a very lazy thought process.

You seem to be mixing up critiques. Complaining capitalism about the resource allocation strategy (capital owners get things first) is orthogonal to complaining about capitalism building skinner boxes in the pursuit of profit. The concept is vague if you actually don't try to put effort in understanding the critiques, as reveals thinking the critique is "too much phones".

>The truth is that markets will always exist and that humans will always seek pleasure in unheayways, phones are just one instance, but so are drugs, online gambling, prostitution, etc. If you blame capitalism you can't solve anything, because the change required to change anything would be so great as to guarantee it will never happen.

Markets may always exist, I believe they will, but that's still an hypothesis. What definitely hasn't always existed and I bet it won't exist forever, is the ideology of worshiping the markets. The idea that markets are efficient has not always existed, and surely the absurd idea I have read here about markets being "a form of AI" has not always existed. If you believe that markets == capitalism, yes, you cannot solve anything, but I think that applies to defenders of capitalism, not the critics.
the job displacement could be in the care sector. that is what usually happened.

I don't think being a caregiver necessarily is a more complex job than the ones being displaced.
On average man burns ca. 2500 kcal per day, mostly in rest. One hour of reasonably intensive cardio burns 500~600 kcal. If you have two such workouts a week it comes down to an increased energy use of 2*600/(7*2500) = 7%. Or a large meal. Just looking at the numbers it seems spending some time at the gym is not going to do much for loosing weight. Or said differently: eating 7% less is easier.

Of course cardio and strength training are useful for building/preserving muscle mass and general fitness. But for weight loss looking at food seems more effective.
They have a reverser switch and neutral cuts off the power to the engine, forward excites windings in one way, reverse in the opposite way
That's really confusing: If there is so much solar generated that they have to pay industrial user to consume electricity, why don't the solar companies just stop sending power to the grid instead of paying money? Are the solar companies unable to turn off their system due to a limitation in their system?
Look at that beautiful nuclear baseload. Providing clean, consistent power no matter the time of day or season.
Doesn't say much about that either way, as Amazon in particular already had a known problem of running out of people willing to work for them: https://www.vox.com/recode/23170900/leaked-amazon-memo-wareh...

The last 200 years of automation being followed by new jobs is slightly stronger evidence that further automation will lead to new jobs, but I don't see any way that could remain true once AI is actually human performance when on hardware that runs under some appropriate electrical power threshold. Induction and Turkeys.
I'm always curious how people can still be so upset about Google Reader a decade later, but not a single (popular) RSS reader has popped up and really taken off as a replacement.
Firefox was already at 25% when the iphone released[0]. The idea that there wasn't competition in the browserspace before the iphone is wrong.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers
A little crazy but fun idea.
What is sh.reddit?
Why lua though?
Yes, work is covered under both the Working Time Directive (which I’ve opted out of the night work limit and the 48hr working week) and the EU Drivers Hours rules - work are hot on infringements for exceeding working hours but more so on breaches of driving hours or insufficient rest hours.
This will end hilariously
Inspiring stuff. I love to donate to orgs like this in lieu of giving gifts to people who have the resources and inclination to buy anything they want already.
I remember bring your parents to work day that's mentioned in the article there. That was a great event! If I recall correctly some parents even traveled all the way from India to attend and some parents sincerely mentioned that it was one of the happiest days of their life.
My guess it has to do with shit conditions. I mean, shit break must be off the clock? F that.
It turns out that for the time being robots don't complain to be handled like slaves.

The real problem is when others follow Amazon in scale, leaving humans to survive in a new order.
What’s the difference between an effect and a “coroutine” where calls in the function body to other coroutines are implicitly yielded? Or is that not a real coroutine?

That’s what Kotlin’s `suspend fun` does.
I suspect that relatively few people, even on this site, could build a background file sync application for iOS very easily.
Not a hater, the M3 is the best car I have ever owned, but based on the fact they cant get the windscreen wipers working properly and auto-pilot keeps braking for no reason, even if they cut it to zero dollars I still wouldnt trust it.
Running SXM2/SXM3/SXM4 Nvidia Data Center GPUs in Consumer PCs (Archive.org)
Truck drivers in the USA can easily make well into the six figures as owner operators. It’s not gonna compete with FAANG (except maybe on oilfields?), but it’s a very good living.

And of course if you’re good at running yourself as a business you have the skills to run other drivers too if you choose to invest in a fleet.

Heck, for a while Amazon was paying people to quit and start trucking.
So you think it is smarter to, say, tell the carpenters “just start building a house” without giving them plans?

What you described is not how successful products are built and maintained; what you described is why we have world full of lots of shitty tech from “move fast and break things” ADHD-like management and young programmers that think they know everything and cry about having to do thinky work first. Literally the worst kind of programmers to have on a project.
UK version: https://grid.iamkate.com/ written in PHP: https://github.com/KateMorley/grid
Why is Windows 11 so annoying?
I wouldn't be as dismissive as you.

Even at the height of smoking, around half of the population were nonsmokers.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/184418/percentage-of-cig...

How many high school kids don't have a smartphone, especially outside the poorest areas? One in thirty?

Socially, it is very different being part of half of the population, and a tiny minority of the population, doubly so if it restricts your communication capabilities and you are left out of all common activities of your peers.

The situation can be fixed, but a critical mass of people willing to change their current ways must gather and be willing to sacrifice some efficiency and comfort for the sake of personal contact.
Surpringly the shortage of drivers is not actually a thing anymore (during Covid perhaps) but the large number of people who got their HGV license when the government changed the rules during Covid has actually caused pay rates to drastically fall due to their being more drivers looking for work than work available.
The country lacks any real garbage collection infrastructure. And I'm not just talking about ritzy landfill/recycling/compost bin sets every few hundred feet on the sidewalk, emptied by the municipality, I mean there's literally nowhere for any service to actually take the trash if it was in a bin and not on the ground.

Most cities don't even have a functioning, modern landfill, just clandestine piles served by dump truck. Much of the trash picked up by this effort may have literally already been collected and dumped by a truck in a pile by the river.

There's a big "broken windows" element to the continuation of the problem. It's going to take altruistically motivated, powerful regulators and a lot of money to fix, and neither is not easy to come by in Guatemala.
Not sure on the specific combination, but since everything in Jax is functionally pure it's generally really easy to compose libraries. E.g. I've written code which embedded a flax model inside a haiku model without much effort.
Article also on github [1]

[1] https://github.com/l4rz/running-nvidia-sxm-gpus-in-consumer-...
It's the terrraform part of the LSP that's buggy and there's an issue open for that on Terraform extension's GitHub repo.
If this is "plug and play" can it be added to say llama.cpp and give ~3.67 speedup to existing models or is there some complication?
are you saying that employment is low now because of the automation we have seen over the past 100 years?

are you saying that interest rates are not being lowered to allow kapital. investment for job creation?
> takes me much longer to recover after strenuous exercise than it did when I was younger

The biggest difference I feel is proclivity to (small but reoccurring) injuries in certain weak spots...
Because of less skills required? What are you basing this on?
A Lightweight File System Design for Unikernel
Terrorist advocate uses ad hominem. What a surprise
I can't think of any usage for that project other than spying for the employees. Just slightly modify the saving mechanism to send it to the corporate cloud and voila. AI profiling. Perfect for harassment at work and layoffs.
At a previous job I helped build a hyper local method of computing spot prices to enable lots of cool ideas. We could compute unbalanced prices on the distribution grid and had a pilot project where DERs were priced based on how the influenced the local distribution grid.

For example, placing solar downstream of a transformer nearly at capacity could allow for deferral of capital upgrades that would only be needed for a few hours a day.
It seems to be extremely rare, but do bear in mind that if Apple bans your account (Apple Id) you will lose access to your icloud files irrevocably.

See my previous posts on the matter for more info.
Anthropic CEO predicts AI models could replicate by 2025-2028
That handbook is from 2012 so 12 years old now. Are there any updates?
I’ll never understand why developers there make less than the US. It’s not like they aren’t providing similar scale/leverage to a business.
That will be my reply whenever the next person asks how big the team I used to run was.
That's just corporations though. Maybe we should think about alignment...
Explorative studies are helpful, but as you say then need hypothesis testing in further research.
How does one distinguish between asking homeless people, and asking them seriously?

I think the distinction between "Doing X" and "Doing X seriously" may be a lot more important than people realize.

> and the reality is that it's simply wrong that such services exist.

I agree with the general direction of your sentiments, but it is technically true that more than zero services exist, thus "services exist" is a true statement - pretty clever eh? Imagine if the whole world ran on tricks like this!
Does NASA have any planetary colonization program?

They do plan the Artemis mission, but AFAIK that is about establishing a tiny scientific base on the Moon, probably with regular exchange of the crew. I don't think they proclaimed an ambition to settle massive amounts of people there.

For me "living on another planet" is only really SpaceX's goal. Build a semi-independent nation on Mars, with a million or more people necessary.

That is very different from a scientific base project.
Daniel Dennett's Most Useful Critical Thinking Tools
Bitcoin miners upgrade power centers to brace for slashed revenue post halving
But, some already operate at their peak. Then, you automate that and they can only shift to unemployment. The conversation shouldn't be about replacing the most skilled workers. The conversation should be about what happens to the average worker. That has an average IQ level. That can't learn something to compete with the automation. These people have families. These people will suffer.
> they will have no need for an economy at all

Who is going to buy all of their crap then?
Have you tried doing much with VS/C# in practice? I get some new, weird bug every time I use it, the UI preview tabs take ages to show up, the compilation delay is easily crossing 2s, etc. It's really not great if you're already bothered by the speed of vscode.
There have been several. I liked newsblur for a while, but the magic of reader seemed to be when a friend of a friend shared an article that you would never otherwise have seen.

Simultaneously, blogging as a medium has changed for many economic and cultural reasons so even if reader remained I think the ecosystem would be different.

Someone on HN recently said that the difference ten+ years ago was that people were blogging in the evenings and weekends after their full time position, but now the content economy can provide an income, so we have a lot more processional creators, who IMO, over produce.
I appreciate stories like this as a reminder that it is never too late to make a change in your life that is right for you. Some folks stick to their comforts and avoid such a big life change out of fear - but sometimes the temporary discomfort can lead to greater fulfillment in the long-run.

Whether your coming from or going to lorry driving - or any other job role, keep telling your story and maybe your path will be an inspiration for someone going through their own jaded, burn-out experience.
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>”By the time someone has entered the workforce it should not be necessary to be ‘checked on’ by some surrogate parental figure.”

Hire some recent grads and then make that statement. Not all require checking in on, but often entry-level, junior folks do. Don’t ignore them and don’t hold it against them. You, I’m sure, had someone checking in on you when you first started. Not in a “Are you at your desk” way but a “Are you able to complete the tasks? If not, how can I help you?”

Sadly the last few years with remote work and layoffs have made it so companies get rid of those who are “just doing the job” and keeping those that are “always the job”. Brutal.
100% agree. Video can be helpful for supplementary illustration, to show exactly how to orient parts in an assembly, etc. but at the cost of (often) sitting through a lot of rambling monologue that is not.

I haven't tried this yet but it would be helpful if each step included a link to the spot in the video where that step is shown, so that in case you need it it's easy to find.