skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This gets messy because you already have problems with (mostly substitute) teachers ripping out implants (ex: insulin pump), cutting wires/tubes, or preventing kids from using their phone to monitor blood sugar, etc because they try to be "tough" on the no phones rule.
Evidence shows many die each year due to lack of medical care; we can find all kinds of cases where policymakers engage in pageantry and little else

Policy makers do the job the public says and the public is fine not arguing for new systems, just improving their own lot through minor reforms. See teacher strikes; soon as they get theirs, they quit bothering with the labor organization…more pageantry, little else

If healthcare was the tent pole of our economy; still needs STEM Ed, still needs technology, still needs the physical logistics we have; doesn’t need stupid jobs people could do on down time

We need to stop with the minor reformism of trickle down which was only ever an obfuscated sarcastic joke about poor people
For this interested in topic, you might enjoy reading The Anxious Generation, which has been on the NYT nonfiction bestseller list for a while. It goes into the data on how teen mental illness rates greatly increased when smartphones (apps + the front-facing camera) and social media algorithms were developed. The harmful effects are obvious to anyone who ever interacts with kids. The book also proposes several basic changes like delaying when kids are given smartphones and disallowing phones in schools, as well as advocating for play-based schools.
I do all these things too, but I don't need to be required go into an office to do so.
Lack of mul/div isn’t actually good. Having it be done ins guest code is a magnitude slower than is host code.

My other issue was that there is NO working Linux user space for rv32. There is for rv64. No Debian. No Ubuntu. No anything for rv32
No, logic operations aren't "recognized as necessary". For instance, the IBM 1401—the most popular computer of the early 1960s—did not have logic operations. (This was very annoying when I implemented Bitcoin mining on it.)

The reason that the 4004 is considered a CPU and the 74181 is not a CPU is that the 4004 contains the control logic, while the 74181 is only the ALU.

Of course, "microprocessor" and "CPU" are social constructs, not objective definitions. (For instance, bit-slice processors like the Am2901 were considered microprocessors in Russia.) So you can craft your own definition if you want to declare a particular processor first. cough MP944 cough
tldr for others: no evidence up to 2019, suddenly spike of depression/anxiety after 2019. I wonder why? So do they. I can think of many things that changed at the end of 2019 but social media wasn't one of them.
You don't have to search the students. Or even put the phones in a locker. You just make the rules about them known, and if students are found using a phone during class, they can just be punished with detention/suspension.

I don't understand why this is hard to enforce, or requires special laws. We had rules about not using (feature) phones back when I was in middle school (~2002), and you just kept your phone in your backpack/pocket until the class was over. It worked.
If you build locally for Apple hardware (instructions in the whisper.cpp readme) then it performs quite admirably on Apple computers as well.
The following link says 5x more chargers in EU than US (and twice as many EVs):

https://apricum-group.com/ev-charging-infrastructure-race-in...

Rapid charging is now widely available (certainly could be more)
Definitely try it with Ollama, it is by far the simplest local LLM tool to get up and running with minimal fuss!
IMHO, social media should be much more heavily regulated (specifically: mandating transparency) in democracies.

Used to be, you could buy a newspaper and print your viewpoint, but everyone could see it.

Now, you can trivially individually target users, invisible to any oversight.

How is that not an existential threat to democracy? (Whether from a foreign nation-state or anyone else is immaterial)
I have noticed growing cringe on youtube shorts hyping ai products/founders
1)https://www.youtube.com/shorts/j2AwScMSrRA
ToString() Blog – new post about Apple PCC
Hello HN community! I'm Marco Altea, the writer behind [toString()](https://www.tostring.ai), where I explore technology topics. In my latest post, I reviewed into Apple's Private Cloud Compute (PCC), a cloud designed for secure AI processing in the cloud. PCC promises to extend Apple's renowned device-level privacy into cloud computing, utilizing custom hardware and a hardened OS to protect user data. Join me as I analyze how PCC could redefine AI privacy standards and what it means for the future of cloud-based AI services. I'd love to hear your thoughts and feedback!
If they don’t take it out and use it (or at least don’t get caught using it), what’s the problem? If they’re using a phone in class, take it like any other distraction.

I have four kids in school and while extreme incidents are rare, if I set my kid to school with a phone it would be to contact me in an emergency. I completely agree with no phones out, on silent, etc., but I’m unsure how I feel about schools taking away tools that could be used to get help.
I'm envious of that intrinsic sense of self worth, but I don't follow how that's a consequence of being Christian. I carry guilt and shame from sins that can't be rectified, knowing that Jesus loves me doesn't help me love myself.
> So if a child says they don’t have a phone are you going to search them?

If a child says they don’t have any cigarettes or a knife etc. etc. are you going to search them?

Most kids follow the rules. A few troublemakers with phones won’t make a difference and can be easily handled by existing disciplinary actions.
It is extremely hard to make a phone detector that's able to detect only phones in a specific room, considering how far the cellular signals can travel, and how pervasive wifi is for everything
For anyone who hasn't tried local models because they think it's too complicated or their computer can't handle it, download a single llamafile and try it out in just moments.

https://future.mozilla.org/builders/news_insights/introducin...

https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile

They even have whisperfiles now, which is the same thing but for whisper.cpp, aka real-time voice transcription.

You can also take this a step further and use this exact setup for a local-only co-pilot style code autocomplete and chat using Twinny. I use this every day. It's free, private, and offline.

https://github.com/twinnydotdev/twinny

Local LLMs are the only future worth living in.
One thing worth noting is that the metrics the author mentions (sales, likes etc) are clearly, as everyone would readily admit, not a true measure of value. At best, they're a proxy for what actually matters. And we know from Goodhart's law and reward hacking that optimizing a proxy is, at some point, either useless or actively counterproductive. This thought can be a real source of peace of mind.
This is the key thing for employers to understand.

Be flexible to your employees style, and you'll have an easier time attracting and keeping happier , better performing employees.

The employees desired style is what matters, not the employers.
Christian and his team over there are actually pushing boundaries and doing really cool stuff.
https://throwflame.com/

It’s baffling to me these are legal to own. Firearms have lots of restrictions, but 30ft burning jets of napalm are fine. You can even get drones!
Spoken English: Conversation Analysis
I think the median user starts with quicklisp and then clones random stuff into the ~/quicklisp/local-projects/ dir where they are automatically visible.
hmm interesting.
Other thing to add is if we treat it as a ssh server , we actually won't try to go out and break things.

But I think that was the whole point of arc , to break the convention and be something completely new

and I have a reason why

They were competing with the giants called google , safari , firefox which have insanely large funding and their whole point was trying to sell something later built on this arc browser.

and since chrome , firefox etc. don't try to come up with these ideas because well security reasons (which I agree to / as seen in the post)

I think arc wanted to seperate itself from chrome / firefox and that's why they became a bit reckless you could say since this exploit was available.

Also the other thing I want to convey , is that "With that, I don't see much exploit potential in learning stats like the number of cores on your machine"

this was only recently discovered. Just imagine the true amount of exploits in these proprietory solutions which we don't know about.

Yeh. Just like a ssh server , I would personally like the source code to be available but developing browsers is time consuming and money intensive for developers but ladybird exists , but its in beta.

that being said , not open source is also that private , (xz) , but atleast it got discovered way quickly and was able to mitigate it quickly
This law affects companies, not students, as it should be. Enforcing limits on students is the job of parents, not teachers or police.
you are suggesting that life-threatening levels of dependency requiring a phone to continue to live, is common enough to warrant public policy ?
Just a hint for the brave ones: The collapse of Maslow's hierarchy of needs is the goal. A global regime aimed at citizens obedience, control over movement, food, and resources is planned and in motion. There is no conspiracy or delusion in this. Seeing this requires just a drop of critical thinking.

If your perception of yourself is firmly attached to the collective projections imposed by governments, ideology, religion, or any form of group thinking, you are cooked.

In times like this, one must find the connection with nature and take action. Get out from the cities. Search places with enough water and option of growing your food locally. Be prepared for this activity to be outlawed under the Global Climate Emergency act, which the UN is ready to activate under the command of elite families and their servants in governments, military, and science institutions.

In essence, when your money is truly worth nothing and your life is driven by debt, you are a slave for life.
This is the same core observation as Scott Alexander's famous article, Meditations on Moloch.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
Hungary just banned phones (and also all devices capable of connecting to the internet, and/or capable of recording audio and video) from school.

I'm a student in an IT technical school. The only thing this affected is now instead of my classmates playing on their phones during class, they're now loudly playing card games - and now people who do want to learn can't because the teacher has to constantly stop and yell at the people playing cards.

I think students should be able to do whatever they want during breaks - they can do actually useful things with their devices, other than scrolling social media or playing games.

Also, this new ban completely eliminated kahoot and similar, since phones are collected at the start of the day and giving them out for a class involves incredible amounts of paperwork. (So much for modern teaching/learning methods)
It might be fine if you’re a successful professional or entrepreneur and have a good salary or business.

Of course if you’re an Amazon warehouse worker or a burger flipper, and your labor is completely fungible and provides low monetary remuneration, then you would judge yourself as low(er) value in comparison. So determining your self-worth via other properties makes a lot more sense huh?

We can create value through more things than what we do for a job. It’s true!
GPU and NVMe are PCI-e devices, they are both widespreads, so I do not get your point
Are we all wrong about AI? [video]
OK, congress can't be wrong.
Big Poultry: How a secretive industry rules the roost in North Carolina
Croatian war vets get 2 years for gang rape of mentally disabled child
Due to Croatia's growing popularity as a destination for digital nomads and tourism in general, I'm posting this to raise awareness of a horrible legal practice. In Croatia it is widely accepted for courts to award war veterans extremely lenient penalties for crimes that include murder, rape, paedophilia and even war crimes. In this case three war veterans, one of which is a serving policeman, received just a 2 year jail sentance for an ongoing rape of a mentally disabled neighbour's daughter. The rape happend while she was between 9 and 11 years old. The war was over for almost 20 years at the time.

NOTE: Use your browsers translation tool to get an acceptable translation. Index.hr is Croatia's leading online news service
A related observation I've gotten from interacting with normies including my wife:

Most people assume there is such thing as a "self" and that it is okay, natural, and desirable to preference yourself when interacting with other people. Indeed, for most normies, there is only various people and their selves interacting. My autistic perspective is that there is only a system of the world, various roles that people happen to occupy, and here are my options for where I can slot into it, might as well choose the best one, but it never occurred to me that the other people in the system could be individually influenced or that you could preference your self over others. At least, until I interacted with others enough to realize that that was all they were doing.

Relatedly, most normies project this self-interest onto aspies and assume that when they are saying how the world is, they are pushing their own agenda, because in their worldview everybody has an agenda. As a result, the aspie tendency to make observations about broad sweeping systems comes off as arrogance, as preferencing themselves and their worldview over everybody else. But to an aspie, there is no such thing as arrogance, because arrogance implies that one preferences their self-worth over others, and there is no such thing as "self" or "worth", and it is nonsensical to talk about self-importance.
The last 3 phones I purchased, it was a choice between

- plan + buying new phone + no contract

- plan + phone "free with plan" + increase in plan cost because of phone + 2 year contract

For one pone, the first was a clear winner. For another, it was slightly cheaper to get it with the plan (2nd option). For the last (iphone) it was the second option, but there was no increase in plan because of it.

So, the "cost" of the phone can vary a lot, and taking the time to figure it out is well worth it.
> this question is a serious one

the question may be serious but the "solution" (kids have a phone so they can call their parents before they get shot) is not

there are other ways to prevent school shootings, but because we have so many people in this country who like to play with guns we can't get it together enough to take the measures needed that would greatly reduce and perhaps totally eliminate school shootings (which are an almost uniquely American experience, and as a parent with kids in school, it's frankly terrifying and I couldn't give 2 f's about what the founding fathers wrote 250 years ago when the context and reasons for the 2A, which made sense at the time, have nothing to do with our modern era. It's like saying "well our illustrious all all-knowing founding fathers didn't find it necessary to ban slavery in the Constitution, and in fact, provided for it (3/5s etc.), so we should bow to their infinite wisdom and continue to allow it today."
What makes you right on the topic? A belief system based on a personal mental model? Genuine question. Provide evidence it is a net positive compared to the robust evidence of harm it causes, or evidence that revoking or regulating access for children is going to cause harm vs being neutral; children lived lives before social media, for example.

Continued unregulated access to social media is likely to cause harm to children and teens, based on available evidence. Not having access? What harm does that cause?
This is my belief as well. Either one of three things happen (in order of most likely to least likely)

1. AI replaces software engineers in the same way that "autopilot" in planes replaced pilots. Augmentation of boilerplate (particularly devop CI/CD, deployment tedium) sounds pretty appealing to me.

2. AI genuinely replaces software engineers. If that's true, there's no reason to believe it wouldn't soon disrupt other engineering domains as well. At that point we're basically closing in on AGI, which doomsday predictions aside, I would like to hope leads radical progression of technology and evolution of mankind.

3. AI is completely banned/suppressed Dune style. This only strengthens my position in the market.
I was walking around the Rijksmuseum just yesterday and had the same thought. Except: Rembrandt’s paintings stood out to me among those of his peers. His subjects didn’t feel posed and his lighting and setpieces felt soft and naturalistic, not artificial. Each canvas gave the impression of an intimate peek into someone’s life. The style almost reminded me of late Romantic paintings (e.g. Peredvizhniki) that came 200 years later.
interesting.

I am kind of shocked because I really got positive feedback of hetzner from what I heard from people.

I need to post about this on r/vps and hear about people's opinion.
No, you need two of the newest M3 Macbook Pros with maxed RAM, which in practice some people might have, but it is not gettable by using old hardware.

And not having tried it, I’m guessing it will probably run at 1-2 tokens per second or less since the 70b model on one of these runs at 3-4, and now we are distributing the process over the network, which is best case maybe 40-80Gb/s

It is possible, and that’s about the most you can say about it.
You can trust that the government wants to protect the children. The question is what does "protect" really mean.

Western governments do a pretty good job of protecting kids from labour exploitation, for example.

But that's because it's relatively easy to enforce. Protecting them from other harms is more difficult and involves tradeoffs with personal or parental freedoms.

I really don't think these initiatives are intentional power grabs... although you're correct that opportunist entitites will exploit these regulations to empower themselves.
Now if it would just support mousewheel zooming... Thats my only problem with the viewer.
> The researchers found that over three-quarters of hybrid workers feel like they belong, compared to 74% of fully on-site workers

lol
I agree with you. I think the place to start would be with the ingredient list. I think they would say to avoid things that don't sound like food. I think chemicals are the real danger. It is very hard to do a conclusive study on how good or bad specific ingredients are, unfortunately, so it is hard to say some chemicals is OK. Secondly, but not as bad, I think are ingredients that are refined from foods. There are many levels of refinement so this is tougher. White flour? Sugar? Then there are things that take an industrial process to extract things from food, which I just put in the chemical category. Maybe they could color code the ingredient list on food packages?
In the USA, folks spend their whole lives jumping from one car subscription or house subscription to the next. In return for something that needs constant maintenance, instead of improving with new features and DLC. And when you stop paying, you lose your life’s work :) /s
The Continue extension for VSCode is pretty good and has native connectivity to a local install of Ollama
Every time I’ve seen phone rules deployed by a district they’ve been overwhelmingly popular.
Are we still pretending Musk fights for free speech? He had no problems abiding by India's or Turkey's censoring laws.

Brazil made it pretty clear what they wanted, but Musk had some petty beef with the Brazilian judge in charge of the operation (cue the ai image he posted of that judge behind bars), and so refused to comply.
To be fair, car sellers have also started things like being able to brick your car if you're behind on payments. Or, for the up and coming ones, have the car just drive itself back to the dealer (Ford).
> It feels super strange to talk to yourself

I remember the first lecture in the Theory of Communication class where the professor introduced the idea that communication by definition requires at least two different participants. We objected by saying that it can perfectly be just one and the same participant (communication is not just about space but also time), and what you say is a perfect example of that.
Do you get headaches because of your dry eyes? (specifically, after staring at screens for a long time)
You forgot Star Citizen. "Unlimited" budget but nothing special.
I'm young enough that smartphones were just hitting the market when I was in high school, but old enough that using your phone in class was still totally verboten. (We all tried to skirt the rules[1], of course, but we knew the rules were unambiguously a thing, and knew there'd be consequences if we got caught.[2]) And for the most part, teachers didn't have to implement any special solutions; we kept them on us at all times, and if a teacher heard/saw your phone, they were liable to take it for the class or for the day.

So the current situation with out-of-control phone use in schools is interesting/puzzling to me, because clearly something's changed since then—but I don't think "better smartphones" are the differentiating factor here. Something's shifted with how schools enforce (or don't enforce) these policies, or with kids' relationship to their phones (and believe me, I was plenty hooked on mine back then too :P), or something else entirely.

It's also puzzling when people argue that smartphones have opened a Pandora's box that makes it impossible to control student behavior—because I know firsthand that that's not true!

[1] I think the threat of punishment also forced us to be relatively discreet about it. If you're texting in class, you have your phone on silent, brightness all the way down, barely sticking out of your bag...

[2] Some teachers admittedly gave more of a shit than others, but I rarely saw students taking advantage of that in a disruptive way—the most blatant thing you'd see is a kid listening to music on headphones during art class or something. I might've been the biggest offender in that regard, because I would occasionally bust out a Wiimote and N64 emulator to play Mario 64 on my phone, but I knew when I could get away with that and when I couldn't.
I'm well aware of what this law does, but we are not talking about this law in this thread.

> Enforcing limits on students is the job of parents

Luckily in California we understand the value of protecting kids over uninformed adults. That's why we require vaccines to attend school.
Ask HN: How can I experiment with LLMs with a old machine?
Dear all,

Recently I purchased "[Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch)](https://www.manning.com/books/build-a-large-language-model-from-scratch)" by Sebastian Raschka, so that I could learn more about how to build and/or fine-tune a LLM, and even developing some applications with them. I have also been skimming and reading on this sub for several months, and have witnessed many interesting developments that I would like to follow and experiment with.

However, there is a problem: The machine I have is a very old Macbook Pro from 2011 and I probably would not be able to afford a new one until I'm in graduate school next year. So I was wondering that, other than getting a new machine, what are the other (online/cloud) alternatives and/or options that I could use, to experiments with LLMs?

Many thanks!
I think the revulsion, if I can call it that, is to the apparently-trendy term "traffic violence."

What was wrong with "traffic accidents"? People had gotten used to it so you had to invent something new?
We'd be screwed if a Mount Tambora black swan event happened again.