skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know why this is hard. At least in the classroom if not during the entire school day.

You get a cabinet with a bunch of cubbie holes, kids put their phone in at the beginning of class, they take it out at the end of class. They can even lock and each kid takes a key with them if theft is a concern. It doesn't seem that complicated. They have these things outside every SCIF. I know they exist.
This. This and the recent trend to hold parents of juvenile mass shooters to account if they enabled the kid gives me hope that there our still functioning parts of our collective brains not completely rotted by the culture wars and twitter/x/facebook
Why would anyone buy a Raspberry Pi when they can get a fully decked out Mac Pro?

There are different use cases and computers are already pretty powerful. Maybe your local model won't be able to produce tests that check all the corner cases of the class you just wrote for work in your massive code base.

But the small model is perfectly capable of summarizing the weather from an API call and maybe tack on a joke that can be read out to you on your speakers in the morning.
I mean, most people agree on 95% of policies. The media just focuses on the remaining 5% in which there is disagreement.
Spear or some form of a spear has been the dominant weapon of pretty much all time, from prehistoric people hunting the mammoths to world war 1 bayonets. Roman legionaries with sword and javelin are about the only major exception to this rule that I can think of.
You keep your p..n stash on GitHub???

How does that even work, like, can you mount a GitHub project through fuse and put eCryptfs on top?

Asking for a friend.
> In real life, these turn into black holes

I think this is right, and I think he explicitly calls out that these calculations were done with Newtonian physics modeling point particles - and we know that those two factors severely limit the application of this to the real-world.
Ask HN: Could Qualcomm Buy Intel?
I saw this floating around. Unsure if it’s serious. Seems like it would be a huge win for Qualcomm: they’d get fabs, all the x86 IP (or maybe that’d have to be spun out), system integrator know how for use with Qualcomm’s ARM stuff, networking, etc etc. all of this would help them with their VMWare side: maybe they go the HP route with green lake and ship the hardware with the software a la Sun Microsystems?

What do the VCs say? The lawyers say? Does it even make sense?
I’ll flip this around a bit:

If I’ve raised $1B to buy GPUs and train a “bigger model”, a major part of my competitive advantage is having $1B to spend on sufficient GPUs to train a bigger model.

If, after having raised that money it becomes apparent that consumer hardware can run smaller models that are optimized and perform as well without all that money going into training them, how am I going to pivot my business to something that works, given these smaller models are released this way on purpose to undermine my efforts?

It seems there are two major possibilities: one,
people raising billions find a new and expensive intelligence step function that at least time-locally separates them from the pack, or two (and significantly more likely in my view) they don’t, and the improvements come from layering on different systems such as do not require acres of GPUs, while the “more data more GPUs” crowd is found to have hit a nonlinearity that in practical terms means they are generations of technology away from the next tier.
This is why it always pays to do your best work down to the smallest detail.

You never know if, 400 years later, people are going to invent a way to examine it atom by atom.
They removed CFCs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorofluorocarbon
I've not yet used any local AI, so I'm curious - what are you getting? Can you share examples?
Regarding "cheapskates" - I think you have to see the EV prices in combination with typical German salaries. If a middle-class EV costs more than the yearly gross income of an average German software dev, you know there is not much room for rising sales figures. Especially figuring in the large difference between gross and net income here. Add the lacking charging infrastructure and the current decline in sales is no surprise at all.
So if a child says they don’t have a phone are you going to search them?

But you don’t even have to take the phone out of the possession of the student.

They use these at some phone free concerts.

https://www.overyondr.com/phone-locking-pouch
Throwing plastic on the ground instead of in a bin is already illegal, and often carries $1000 fines if you are caught. And putting it in a bin already is just kicking the can down the road. I say we blame the corporations who are making materials that are nearly impossible to effectively recycle, don't biodegrade within several human lifespans, and break down into something that may very well be poisonous to us and our ecosystems.

Blaming consumers for this is like blaming them for lead in gasoline.
Saying this is similar to saying "I won't fly 500 miles, flying is dangerous, I'd rather drive!"

The truth of the matter is that school shootings are still much rarer than the daily use of phones in school. Talk to a current middle/high school teacher. They will tell you that in most classes there are at least some kids on their phone the entire time, and there is nothing they can do about it. And those kids distract the ones around them.

Kids get "emergency" texts from home midday, and it turns out to be stuff like "I put your socks away for you".

They can't take the phone away anymore because if they do, a parent comes in making the same argument you did, or they accuse the school of theft.

A statewide ban of phones during class time would at least give the local administration and district some air cover in these cases to confiscate phones that are being used during class.
As a parent, school shootings are the real serious issue and one the kids actually care about as well.

Phones should be banned like Pokemon cards were banned. Bringing them to school is fine, using after class and even lunch is fine, but having them out in class gets them taken away and detention for repeat offenses.
I rather suspect that he saw bad numbers and didn't get the public support he was expecting/hoping for to challenge the law.

Probably Brazil can live without Twitter better than Twitter without Brazil
“Addictive feed” has quite a ring to it, doesn’t it. Conjures the image of someone eating out of a trough. It’s a good piece of legalese propaganda.
An application of the Poisson distribution (1946)
Does caffeine intake nullify this effect?
Exploiting Exchange PowerShell After ProxyNotShell: Part 3
they are the only thing you can use if you don't want to or aren't allowed to hand over your data to US corporations and intelligence agencies.

every single query to ChatGPT/Claude/Gemini/etc will be used for any purpose, by any party, at any time. shamelessly so, because this is the new normal. Welcome to 2024. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better.

>(and less useful, even illegal) things

the same illegal things you can do with Notepad, or a pencil and a piece of paper.
Firewire Maintainer Is Looking for Help Testing IEEE-1394 Devices on Linux 6.12
no I meant that
though you need to login , i think arc isn't available on linux , only mac (or maybe windows though not sure , I see some issues + the security issue)

Ye it required login and my brother logged in (just see ! , the amount of friction to login etc. yet my brother , whom I would consider to be a little conscious of security still gave to try it in the first place)

sry if I didn't respond correctly
Direct quote:

In fact for some use cases they can actually work out both more expensive to run and less environmentally friendly once you total up their carbon footprint in full.

End quote.

No, once you total up their carbon footprint they make up their additional costs in carbon in less than 20k miles.

As far as bikes are concerned, I've never owned a car in my life and I'm 40. Locally I go on foot, bike and rarely public transport and long distance by train and I rarely fly. So if you want to join me, fell free to, it's am awesome way to live. If not, EVs are a much better option.
I used to toss bananas in my cart without any plastic bag around them. Nature packages them already!

Now if I want organic apples or something, I may be forced to choose a pre-bagged selection of far too many; take it or leave it.
I’d rather let administration for individual districts craft their own rules.

They have done well in districts my kids have been in.

State wide top down rules is too disconnected from the front lines for me to believe they’re anything but legislative theater.
> prohibits online platforms from knowingly providing an addictive feed to a minor without parental consent

totally onboard with the concept; but what is the burden of proof that a feed is "addictive"? If it falls on the state, then this probably won't have much effect (other than maybe to scare tech companies to be a bit more careful, which is maybe the best we can hope for)
Interestingly, even the file folders that hang from hooks at the top have this scoring.

Canonical: https://www.tops-products.com/pendaflexr-surehookr-reinforce...

Better photo: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MXC0YS5/

(Source: Nerd young child with Pendaflex filing system.)
And it’s just as toothless and it will be unless they take the draconian measure of forcing everyone to verify thier ID before using the internet.
Agree but I want to see this enforced not just on kids that walk into a school and opens fire. I want it enforced in large urban areas. Any minor that opens fire, their parents need to be arrested. The law is currently only being applied to kids that get their hands on so called assault rifles. It needs to be applied to handguns in urban areas that comprise the majority of shootings by minors.
I use ollama through a Mac app called BoltAI quite a bit. It’s like having a smart portable sci-fi “computer assistant” for research and it’s all local.

It is about the only thing I can do on my M1 Pro to spin up the fans and make the bottom of the case hot.

Llama3.1, Deepseek Coder v2, and some of the Mistral models are good.

ChatGPT and Claude top tier models are still better for very hard stuff.
I object mainly to the misuse of the word addiction. If they were not able to misuse this word then the causation of the proposed harms would shift. Imagine just for a moment that the concept of addiction does not apply here. How would the blame for the perceived harms (self reports of being sad, anxious, etc) shift? Addiction implies control and loss of volition. Removing addiction from this context and there is no control by the third parties and no loss of volition for the minors.

The mitigations for the actual situation would be much different than the performative situation. Anxiety/depression in minors has indeed gone up since 2019. But the causes are not screens. Rising housing, food, etc prices relative to incomes, the whole worldwide pandemic, knowledge of environmental damage, and increasing totalitarianism and conflicts around the world account for most of that.

In terms of what government can do, they can address the core issue of fractional reserve banking without periodic debt forgiveness meaning there is always more debt than money supply leading to worse lives and conflict for everyone including young people. To truly make peoples lives better we should have government act to create a sustainable system not pretend mandating what's on screens will fix things.
This definitely tracks with my experience. I take a tablespoon of cod liver oil daily and I've definitely noticed a complete flatlining of my emotional states. My baseline is just basic calmness and a general lack of "monkeymind"/intrusive thoughts. Really amazed its not a more prescribed treatment.
Mazda has marketed half a dozen weird engines, all of which were crap. It has been a remarkable streak of stubborn, unwanted innovation from such a small carmaker.
Still using Jekyll, keep meaning to switch to something else, but it works… www.atomic14.com
Instagram and TikTok saw this coming. Both have recently dropped features to meet the spirit of this law.

TikTok now has "feed mirroring" for adults to use with their teens, so they can see what the algorithm is pushing at them. And Instagram now has a teen mode that lets parents choose which topics show up in their feed and disables notifications at night.
As the other comment mentions, mouse studies are hilariously cheap compared to human trials. We're talking many orders of magnitude. A couple grad students can do a mouse study at costs very much approaching zero.
> Intel's networking is mediocre to bad depending on the product

That's an interesting statement, as their Wi-Fi cards are some of the best on the market and common laptop-purchasing wisdom says to buy anything with an Intel Wi-Fi adapter and avoid everything else.
Certainly not. You can buy great boots for 250$. I bought my Salomon boots 5 years ago, I wear them a heck of a lot in the Canadian winter, and they're good as new. Much more comfortable than a Doc Martens boot, even in their prime, resolable with a Vibram Megagrip sole, has a carbon fiber backing plate that will never wear out, etc...

What happened is that technology advanced, and now good quality boots don't look like Docs anymore. The market for high quality, vintage construction boots is tiny, because people who only care about quality won't buy them anymore, which is why they are expensive : only a special kind of people who care a lot about quality and looks/nostalgia are going to buy them.

People who need high quality boots just won't be satisfied with heavy, fussy, non-breathable leather and rubber boots.
That’s exactly what they use at some of the schools that tried it (and there’s an arms race where some kids figured out how to hack these devices and unlock them). Locking up thousands and thousands of dollars worth of phones for the day is way too much liability for a school otherwise.
as a parent with kids in school I am 100% in favor of this. In my son's middle school schools are not allowed in class but that puts the burden of enforcement on the teachers instead of just making it a blanket rule that you can't have it at school period
> Musk, free speech

Now that's an oxymoron.
If you believe that (it's the fault of the industry) a common answer is to put a cap on plastic production, just like we put a cap on ozone destroying CFCs. First you prevent growth in the industry (it's easier to tell the industry not to build more factories than it is to tell them not to use the ones they built) and then you phase out.
The first of those is a reaction to another piece:

> Psychologist Candice Odgers recently stated the skeptics' case in an essay in Nature titled The Great Rewiring: Is Social Media Really Behind an Epidemic of Teenage Mental Illness?

The second and third are by the same person, who keeps mentioning his new book for some reason.

The fourth includes a counterpoint:

> “Those who feel worse may turn to social media for solace or community,” Dr Amy Orben, research fellow at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge, said of the research. “It’s not a vacuum, it works both ways."

The fifth is an opinion piece by a computer scientist about careers.

Oh, you added some more while I was writing this. Stop it?

So for the two extra ones: the APA one opens with "Using social media is not inherently beneficial or harmful to young people." The other one is by the same guy as the NYT opinion piece, who incidentally also has a new book out on the subject.
I understand.
I use firefox / earlier used librewolf

But a lot of people use chrome so I wanted to atleast try to give justification on why / how arc messed up so hard.
It's not well established at all. I don't think a single study has conclusively and causatively linked pornography use to lower testosterone levels.
Ultra-precise particle measurement thrills physicists
It is unwise to professionally rely on a SAAS offering that can change, increase in price, or even disappear on a whim.
You can't enforce silly laws. Who would enforce this ban? Teachers? That would be a school regulation, not a state law. Or do you want police walking around school arresting kids with phones? Do you enforce all of your guidance for your kids using legislation? A real solution to the distractions and harm that phones cause when used at school is harder, of course.
I'm not keen on Java for other reasons. The fact that a single .java file can generate multiple .class files is annoying but not something tools can't handle (it's actually similar to .h files for C/C++ - remember, we only need the complete dependency graph for the rebuild, not the current build).

The main part that's difficult for humans is if there's a non-public class at top level rather than nested (I forget all the Java-specific terminology for the various kinds of class nesting).
> what is the burden of proof that a feed is "addictive"?

Daily use growing? So basically social media companies' KPIs.
This looks stupid.

If I am reading the legislation [0] correctly, teenagers now have to tell Spotify what song to play one after another, every single time one track ends. Unless someone has previously made a playlist (I think) - in which case you can only listen to playlists that you or (someone else has made) if you are a teenager.

I'm surprised that the music industry let this happen to them.

[0] https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...
> What's harder, to become the best tennis player of your neighborhood or the best tennis player on the planet?

>> When I was twelve, I used to roller-skate in circles for hours [...] One Saturday, a friend invited me to roller-skate in the park. I can still picture her in green protective knee pads, flying past. I couldn’t catch up, I had no technique. There existed another scale to evaluate roller skating [...] Soon after, I stopped skating.

Seems like the author struggled with comparison before the internet, like the grandfather comment said.
I imagine it is not difficult to make a phone detector. A phone is sending almost constantly. If a phone has to be in flight mode the whole lesson then there is no reason to bring one
Open source maintainers get a kit of "clout" and respect, and they can use this experience to get high paying jobs at big companies. I know of a few people who clearly do this.
Private Equity's Lucrative Takeover of Minor League Baseball
>There is no such thing as social media addiction

What a silly statement. There is 100% such a thing as social media addiction and it is real.

Apps consume mass amounts of data in attempts to keep you using their app for as long as possible and build a uniquely tailored experience just for you to keep you coming back.
The comment I replied to said there is no proof of social media addiction. That is false. One does not need to convince folks on HN, only policymakers. California and Florida (both enacting such regulation) are the first and third most populated states in the US, respectively, with a total population of ~61.5M people. Federal legislation is pending in Congress.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/421...
I really wish legislation like this was structured as an experiment, so we could robustly determine if it worked. Otherwise someone will come along in ten years and rip it out, saying there’s no evidence it improved things.
The problem is that districts and schools have tried this, but then parents complain and threaten to sue about "stealing the phone" and such. The district doesn't have a leg to stand on.

They need a state law to back them up so that they can tell the parents to take it to their legislature instead of the principal.
All I see is left and right agreeing that social media has become too dangerous and they need to create a moral panic and smokescreen as a pretext to regulate it. Same shit as the FUD around TikTok and "Chinese mind control."

Can social media be addictive? Yes. Should we trust the government when it claims it wants to "protect the children?" Absolutely not.

This will end up being about enabling surveillance, harassment of minorities and policing political wrongthink, like every other such initiative. And it's kind of sad that Hacker News, which is usually critical of the motives of government almost to a fault, is willing to let its hatred of social media excuse naked and authoritarian power grabs like this.

Like y'all rise up if Apple tries to track CP on people's phones but if someone declared all social media illegal tomorrow most people here would have a party.
There's something to be said for minimal education barriers to posting.
It’s addictive if the state says it is, according to the state’s technical definition of “addictive” (personalized content, etc. - the bill has a detailed definition).
If they say they don’t have a phone, fine. If they later have a phone out in class, you tell them to put it in a cubby. If they have it and don’t take it out in class it’s not a problem.
The short, blunt answer is you're being taken advantage of and you're letting it happen by being supportive and amenable and working literally a second job literally for free. To be ultra clear I am not blaming you as the victim - people deserve a fair world - but that's the reality of how things are today. Many (not all) people will take everything you let them take and never feel a moment of regret.

There are a handful of sad cliches here - the only reward for doing extra work is more work, hr isn't your friend, and you'll never get promoted out of a job you're underpaid for.

From your story I think you need to find work at a different company. Your boss knows he has a free developer at his command and isn't going to give that up. I don't know him but if he is as big of an asshole as your story makes him sound like I expect he is the reason your move to the other department fizzled and I would be very wary of him sabotaging your attempts to get a new job.

Building software professionally can be fun but it can also feel a lot like this. If you're enjoying the creativity and problem solving part I suggest you start interviewing for entry level coding jobs at different companies. You need to with more senior engineers to set the right boundaries and to help you learn (eventually you'll look back at your first real project and laugh at the bad decisions while marveling that you got it working at all). Use a friend for references not your current boss.

The flip side of this abusive relationship is you can probably phone in your work for a while as you recover mentally and find your next job.

tl;dr - you have to take action in order to fix this and you probably can't fix this and stay at your current company. You also have problem-solving mindset that will help you find a career that pays much better than answering phones.
oh no. how will they survive?
> I was willing to stake my whole life on it and use everything in my power to change it

You made dating easy by fully revolving your life around it for some period? That sounds very interesting - mind sharing the bullet points with everyone?
Magnetic fields drop off quickly with distance, so I would presume this noise is quite low unless you are picking up magnets or working close to large powered coils.
I swapped away from Wordpress to Pelican, a static site generator written in Python. The theme is a heavily customized version of Octapress - and its really performant with zero third-party dependencies / network requests.

Plus I like that I can literally click a button in Obsidian which formats a note, compresses/optimizes the media, and pushes it up to my website. Frictionless blog posting FTW.

https://github.com/getpelican/pelican

https://mordenstar.com

Though... recently I've been thinking about swapping over to Astro because the grass is always greener.
You actually need a lot less than that if you use the mmap option, because then only activations need to be stored in RAM, the model itself can be read from disk.
Iirc Koenigsegg is using camless valves (using solenoids?)