skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I gave private math lessons for more than two decades.

I can't speak about self harm, but them kids got in couple of years around a decade ago insanely unable to focus. They were consistently distracted.

Adults who use lots of internet in general (regardless of socials) are the same. Applies to my girlfriend (she changed a lot since she started working behind a computer) and I have to admit to myself (which is why I block most of the internet during working hours).

It's insane how your brain gets rewired by doomscrolling into essentially dopamine seeking.
I agree. The world as we knew it ended with 9/11 and the new one has been made progressively worse ever since; mostly because "the war on X" is currently a thing and requires you to give away some of your rights.
It may be an unpopular opinion, but I suspect treating juveniles with kid gloves all the time and the popularization of the view that they are entitled not be exposed to anything that may upset or offend them has lead to less personal resilience.

The social media environment does also mean that when subjected to bullying it is amplified by a massive factor that previous generations were not exposed to, so the change in expectations is certainly not the only factor at play here.
We're too deep so I can't reply anymore, but I didn't say this was an explanation for it, more like a possible requirement for it. There may be other ways in which free will would be possible. Remember, I said already multiple times I start from the premise there is none, but it's fun to take the other side and try to come up with possibilities. I think you're too boring if you just take a position and never try to defeat it in your mind!
No, it'd be FedEx, since the USPS is the government.
What's wrong with the anime?
As a side note: while the O in OCuLink does stand for optical that variant is not in use. Every OCuLink connector and cable are just ordinary copper interconnection.

Meanwhile Samtec has PCIe active optical cables, they have had them since 2012, it's a very niche application currently.
Cats do the same thing if you take them outside on a leash. My cat is dumb enough to get tangled, but smart enough to know that I will guide her in reverse every time.
I see this question/complaint posed on HN almost weekly at this point, but I cannot relate.

Has Google’s UX gotten worse as it has elevated more and more paid ads over the years? Yes. But, not being able to find “even the most basic” things with Google is not an issue I encounter.
> Animals didn't land on the moon or discover quantum mechanics. Whatever it is that allowed humans to accomplish things like that is a worthy basis of a distinction.

Not every human knows how to land on the moon or understands quantum mechanics, so how do you make the distinction?
> So what is this BRICS club exactly

It's called "blunting".

The best way to undermine alliances is to be a part of them and undermine consensus.

China did this to APEC in the 1990s and the WTO in the 2000s, and India is doing the same in BRICS and SCO.

Because this is a zero-sum competition, this means if one is a member of an alliance, the other needs to join as well to blunt their relative advantage.
Wow then maybe quantum bacteria are conscious. Bad news for us vegans
We don't really know what GPT-4 "is". I remember reading a number of relatively well-informed suggestions that there are a number of a models inside there, and the API being interacted with is some form of outer-loop around them.

I don't think the location of the outer-loop or the design of it really makes much difference. There is no flock of birds without the individuals, the flock itself doesn't really exist as a tangible thing, but what arises out of the collective adjustments between all these individuals gives rise to a flock. Similarly, we may find groups of LLMs and various outer control loops give rise to an emergent phenomena much greater than the sum of their parts.
I needed to set up an email for my own hobby domain and spun up a little Ubuntu server and ran this:

https://mailinabox.email/

Worked a treat and did everything. I was sending and receiving email within a few hours.
This is not a bug caused by memory unsafe languages.
My model was not to demonstrate that utility doesn't go down ever, it was to show that it can do that extremely slowly, which makes the utility argument about why we discourage it societally a bit weak - we're clearly not very good at discouraging any other behaviors resulting in long-term bad outcomes (for society or the planet), and we reward all sorts of risk-taking.

I think the simpler explanation is that gambling is seen as addictive and destructive on an individual level, and there is no need for total utility to explain why that's undesirable
> And are all animals conscious? Amoebas? Virions? Bacteria? I reject panpsychism as going against common sense; I think there probably are very simple (read: small) animals that aren't conscious.

Probably worth mentioning Kristof Koch's book, "Consciousness" – who happens to be a Christian. He puts it as a gradual thing correlated to complexity, which makes it more likely that it "feels like something" to be a mycelium network or the internet than an mussel.
Tolkien memorial unveiled at author's college
The power button placement is a total non issue. It’s not like a single tap of the power button instantly powers off the laptop, usually it brings up a power menu with off/sleep/restart/logout options or locks the screen, and it takes a 5-second hold to hard power off.
Humanity observably is in a category of its own. The human authors of the Bible are just some of the many persons who have made this observation.

One obvious example is morality. Take climate change. No reasonable person says that the life forms responsible for the Great Oxygenation Event were doing something immoral. On the other hand plenty of people say that humans causing a comparatively trivial shift in atmospheric composition is immoral.
Clausewitz's Masterpiece: The Art and Strategy of War
Except despite using quote marks, that’s not an actual quote, that’s your straw man.
> Each generation changes the message enough so that even a short period of 30 generations is enough to completely obliterate any of the original message.

Wouldn't multiple transmission between generations and the comparison of diverging stories of the older generation in a newer generation work like an error correction?
I agree. There have long been concerns about the impact of various media on children, as highlighted by figures like Jerry Mander, Neil Postman, and even Ron Serling.

The issue lies not only in the quality of the content but also in the mediums through which they are consumed.

Today, we are surrounded by low-quality content that can be quickly and easily accessed. Those familiar with ADHD(and struggle with it) understand that the instant gratification from these videos can lead to a craving for more.

As a millennial who grew up with unrestricted access to the internet and the advent of smartphones, I truly believe the situation will continue to worsen rather than improve.

I even wrote an entire book on this topic, detailing how internet addiction has profoundly impacted my life.

https://www.amazon.com/Enough-Seeking-less-world-more/dp/B0B...

If anyone wants a free copy, send me an email and I’ll send you one gladly!
Careful with carbon tax plans, they can be regressive:

https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/energy/what-carbon-tax-can-do...
> i do kinda get why they're very protective.

I am not sure if a typical Android with a bunch of (preinstalled!) crappy apps is more secure than a GNU/Linux phone relying solely on FLOSS repos.

Changing banks can be easier or harder, depending on your country. People do it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40678203
I'm pretty skeptical of the idea that [recent technology] is to blame here, and not decades or centuries-long societal patterns. Especially when that technology is shaking up established "authorities" and calling their so-called expertise into question.

The fact that this seems particularly strong in Anglo and historically Protestant places and less in other developed countries suggests to me that this is more of a specific cultural phenomenon and less of a problem directly attributable to social media. But of course that's a much more complex topic and not something that you can wrap a trendy new nonfiction book around.

Social media is not like those earlier innovations. I think the best metaphor here is to imagine a public square in which people talk to each other. They debate ideas or put forth ideas that may not always be brilliant. They may not always be civil, but people can speak while others listen. Sometimes people are moved by persuasion or dissuasion. I think the Founding Fathers assumed that’s about the best we can hope for. Imagine one day, and I’ll call it 2009, that all changes. There’s no more public square. Everything takes place in the center of the Roman Colosseum. The stands are full of people who are there to see blood. That’s what they came for. They don’t want to see the lion and the Christian making nice; they want the one to kill the other. That’s what Twitter is often like.

The public square was emphatically not what media was like before social media. It was a locked-down space controlled by large corporations: newspapers, TV stations, and other institutions that told you what was acceptable to talk about and what wasn't. It wasn't a public square with equal access for all.

The Internet, just like the printing press in the 1500s-1600s, took that ability and spread it to millions of people that previously didn't have it. The results of the Gutenberg printing press were both good and bad, depending on your persuasion, but these types of "we need more restrictions on Internet publishing because old authorities are losing power" really sound like something that was said about the Gutenberg press when it started to spread information that called authority into question. It didn't work then, and it won't work now.
You ever think the "safe" districts are safe because the constituents living in those districts swing further left and right than average?
Ecuadorian forest thrived amid deforestation after being granted legal rights
You are correct (as far as I know), but:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_problem

No point to looking up the current exact price, nor payload, when removing orbital junk is multi-million-dollar ante game, and state-of-the-art is "a few engineering prototypes exist". The bottom line (that we're many orders of magnitude away from economically recovering small space junk as raw material) would be true whether the cost of launch was $20/g or $0.20/g.
Why not both?

Create safe districts, moving the real election to the primary stage, and then give the electorate a doomscrolling-device as their primary information source.

So the primary voters become more radical and paranoid and we wind up with growing proportion of fringe candidates who would lose to a dog if only they weren't safe seats.
I have to take this comment at face value. Contact NIMH[1] or your local equivalent.

If you or someone you know is in crisis
Call or text the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at 988 (para ayuda en español, llame al 988). The Lifeline provides 24-hour, confidential support to anyone in suicidal crisis or emotional distress. Call 911 in life-threatening situations. If you are worried about a friend’s social media updates, you can contact safety teams at the social media company . They will reach out to connect the person with the help they need.

[1] https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/suicide-prevention
What distros will get this version soon?

I read yesterday that for kubuntu it will take months.
Show HN: Tech Stack for Solo SaaS Developers
Show HN: Radius – A Meetup.com alternative
Hey everyone! I'm introducing Radius - a project I've been working on for too long! It's an early stage and pretty minimal (which, according to YC means I launched early enough) alternative to Meetup.com, built using Ruby on Rails. It's a platform for creating thriving communities and discovering events around you.

What can you do on Radius?

- Want to create a group, post events and gather RSVPs? You're covered!

- Want event discovery? Coming soon™!

I'm a software engineer based in the UK. My first attempt to make this failed spectacularly when I hired a budget dev years ago to "build an MVP" when I had next to no knowledge of software development. So naturally, I changed my career and learned how to build it myself.

I wanted to build something that made it easy to find out what was happening around you. We have all these platforms focused on ticketing, meetups, and other event types - but they're all niche enough that they each only list a fragment of what's going on around us. Then you have another subset of groups which host their own website/mailing list and may only advertise an event on -insert social network- and you never know about it until it's too late.

The issue I have with existing platforms:

- Meetup excludes too many groups by not offering a free tier for smaller/non-profit groups which make up for a huge number of small communities. So many groups just end up dying because one person has to pay the fees. Then there's the fact that their search experience is just terrible. FWIW, I also think they have a marketing issue with the name Meetup.

- Eventbrite does ticketing pretty well, but completely failed to develop the group/community aspect and doesn't seem to have put much emphasis on the discovery of events either. They, like Meetup, only attract a certain subset of groups/events as well.

So, it feels like there's an opportunity to fill the gap with something that focuses on a wider range of events/groups and emphasises discovery and community. There's so much activity happening around us in the real world - and that's what I'd eventually like Radius to capture.

I'm aware that the discovery app category falls into the list of "YC honeypot ideas" but in the time that I've cared about this, nobody has built the thing I wanted to exist, damn it (Maybe that's a sign NOT to build it..).

At best, people might find this useful and at worst, it's been a fantastic learning experience.

--

Feedback -

There are a bunch of groups using it for events at the moment, and they've given great feedback to date. I haven't advertised it much though, so this is my attempt at gathering the next wave of feedback. Feel free to:

- Try it out: See if Radius works for your groups and events.

- Give feedback: Let me know what you think and how we can improve.

- Request features: Tell me what features would make Radius even better.

Thanks!

Link:- https://www.radius.to/

Example group:- https://www.radius.to/groups/toronto-ruby

Example event:- https://www.radius.to/groups/toronto-ruby/events/s1tczn2usqf...
Themes from Real World Crypto 2024
Poll: Only 28 Percent of the Public Has "High Confidence" in Higher Education
Why BS? The US government can jail me; the Chinese government cannot. I therefore fear surveillance by the US government more than I fear surveillance by the Chinese government.

Now, in an ideal world, I want neither China nor the US monitoring me, nor anyone else. But for me personally, the downside from the US monitoring me is larger.

That line of reasoning seems sound to me. If you see a flaw in it, state what the flaw is, rather than just labeling it "BS".
> rivalry be resolved through economic means

I asked chatgpt to tell me about the history of this concept. It confirmed that it is a BRICS invention.
This reminds me of Feynman’s famous essay about the rat mazes and how the rats used all kinds of unexpected cues to navigate like the sound of their feet in the floor and the position of the room lights.
What you’re talking about is true and worth pointing out. But it isn’t enshittification:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification
At this point, the simplest explanation is that it actually is malware. A more credible explanation than security researchers making something that looks this much like malware, but actually isn't.
I switched to DuckDuckGo years ago, then upgraded to Kagi when it became available. Search results are snappy, relevant, and customizable.

For technical questions, Kagi’s Code Research Assistant is my first stop. It combines web search and AI summaries. While it says “code” on the tin, and does generate useful code snippets, I get a ton of value from it on super user issues and library/tool research too.
At some point I heard the phrase: "Always be the dumbest guy in the room."

I've tried to live by this to various extents, and it's kind of a counter-intuitive phrase, but the more I've thought about it the more it's made sense.

For me the phrase encapsulates a few things:

- Surround yourself with people who are 'smarter' than you, you'll learn more

- Be humble. It's hard to learn anything when you're the 'expert' in everything.

- Give yourself and (by example) others permission/space to not know things

This article reminded me of that.
What is the mainstream gop? They seem to be electing people who are all about these extreme positions.
Is there any modern CHERI-type approach to this? I don't know if the idea is a dead end or not, but I'd be very interested to see a modern processor that is made with something more symbolic and lispy than current x86/aarch64 designs which still feel to me like they're made for C.
Counting down has been used because many/most CPUs have instructions to loop until a counter has reached zero or to branch on zero flag. This avoids explicit comparisons at every iteration.

You can actually see that in the x86 assembly code examples in the slides: When counting up there is a cmpl instruction to perform the comparison with the end value before the conditional jump (jne). When counting down, the subl instruction will set the zero flag when the counter register reaches zero so that there no need for comparison and you can directly execute jne/jnz based on that flag. That also saves a register since you only need to keep track of the counter.
Mainstream people oriented social media is indeed really bad. But is it the technology or the incentives governing it? In other words, is instagram bad because of pictures, or because of engagement-optimized recommendations and endless feeds? What even is the difference between the medium and the message in a world of hyper-personalization?

When social media came we did as we always do; we talk about the potential of the emerging technology. Connecting people across the world, learning, sharing experiences. I don’t think we were wrong in the assessment, but I do think many of us were missing that potential is not the governing force - it’s the incentives.

Now, people are doing the exact same thing with gen AI: talking about the potential. But what’s the business model? Will our kids get excellent private tutors with endless knowledge, or a barrage of post-truth content designed to market, sell, influence, nudge and confuse?
I think I finally understood that math

in queue theory, you don't expect "operating rooms" to operate 24 hours per day - spherical patients may have a gap, which causes the room to not work for some time, but then jamboree happens and it averages out

doubling the cows input doesn't mean each "burst" becomes twice as big - some of the new cows can simply fall into periods that previously weren't used

thus the second portion of patients don't need a whole second copy of all operating rooms - part of them get gobbled into inactive timeslots of already existing resources
For those who find those kind of approach fund, Raymond Queneau created: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cent_mille_milliards_de_po%C3%...
The physical book is actually not great to manipulate but it is fun.
Another recent approach: https://oupoco.org/fr/generateur-de-poeme/index.html
(this one is using poems from the 19th century), and it has a "physical" implementation: https://oupoco.org/fr/le-projet/view/35/la-boite-a-poesie.ht...
Sadly internet is an inseparable part of modern IT slave.

Sometimes I wish there is a special prison that admits people who wants to achieve something but are too distracted to do so. It doesn't have Internet, nor does it have smart devices. It doesn't allow them out until they achieve the objectives. I'd be happy to buy its service.
> if orbital manufacturing finds it cheaper to collect space junk

This is a giant "if" that generates enough gravity to pull all the space junk into a ball.
Usage is definitely mixed, but I’m surprised you haven’t encountered this. From Wikipedia:

> Although some scientists equate the term "humans" with all members of the genus Homo, in common usage it generally refers to Homo sapiens, the only extant member. All other members of the genus Homo, which are now extinct, are known as archaic humans, and the term "modern human" is used to distinguish Homo sapiens from archaic humans.
War on drugs was the 1980s.
How about a turing test for leather? If you wear a leather jacket for a week and can’t tell it was faux leather, it passes the test.
> People don't go to jail for errors like these.

Yeah, probably not. The problem is that they should.

The other problem is that people say stuff like "People don't go to jail for errors like these" as if that weren't a problem.
You most likely won't be an astronaut or a movie star, just like you most likely won't make it as an influencer.
That smells like bs to me.
> You have smaller family sizes; people retreat inside because now they have air conditioning and TV and they’re not out in the front yard socializing as much. So, for a lot of reasons, we begin to lose trust in each other.

I think that a bigger factor is the car-centric city and suburb design that started in the US after World War II. It was intended to give everyone what they wanted; a big house, a yard, consistency, etc., but it prevents anyone without a driver or a car & license from socializing and visiting a "third place." I think that it increased individual isolation even before the internet or social media existed and thus set the foundation for social media to be as big of an influence as it is.
Buying movies online is such a waste. Long term rental mentality indeed.
> I think most animals are conscious but a qualitative distinction between humans and animals is very reasonable. Animals didn't land on the moon or discover quantum mechanics. Whatever it is that allowed humans to accomplish things like that is a worthy basis of a distinction.

Is this not a very self-serving assertion, though? Pointing at things that we humans have accomplished and are proud of, and saying that sets us apart, or are in a sense categorically higher than other animals?

Other animals may well look at this and look down at us for having to do all these things in order to feel accomplished. Octopuses may draw a qualitative distinction between them and us because we lack the means to alter our appearance--surely they're more physically manifest than other animals due to their color shifting abilities! Plants must belittle us for our inability to passively absorb energy from the sun.

We could definitely say that our ability to get to the moon sets us apart. But in doing so, we also have to acknowledge each and every other trait that would set an animal species apart from the rest, and there's no shortage of those unique elements.
> Pretty sure management (without tech clue) have something to do behaviours like this.

Always the same bullshit with you people here. Could never possibly someone built a sub-optimal system -- it HAD to be management fucking with our good intentions!
I think what you’re suggesting has been the prevailing view among biologists for decades. It’s uncontroversial to say they’re conscious.

Whether they’re self-aware, understand death, how intelligent they are, etc. are where the debates are and have been for a very long time.