skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my opinion it's 100% the parent's fault. I have multiple teachers in my family and over the past 10 or so years the occurrence of absurd parental expectations has skyrocketed.

These parents not only want, but EXPECT, to be able to directly communicate with their child at any given time. It's also extremely common for them to track their children's phones via Life360 and thoroughly monitor every aspect of their kid's lives. This even, now, extends to college. Parents will literally email professors and perform tasks for their kids (or adults).

The helicopter parenting in the US has gotten completely out of control and nobody knows what to do. Kids aren't playing outside because of phones; they're not playing outside because parents are terrified.

Kids no longer even have to argue for their grades. The parents will, literally, side with their kid and force better grades for their kid. Parent-teacher conference isn't what you think it is anymore.

Teachers don't give a shit because they can't. Nobody supports them here. I mean, they can't even implement a late policy anymore. Seriously, if you don't accept an assignment that's 1 week late, you'll never hear the end of it. And then the principal complains, and then you're fucked. Which is why we have no late policy and infinite retakes and on and on. They couldn't enforce no phones because they have no power.
Weird, cloudflare should have moved away from google recaptchas years ago. Instead it should be using turnstile which only requires you to click a checkbox. The only site I know of that still uses google recaptcha is archive.today, which uses a captcha page that looks very close to cloudflare's old captcha page, and uses google recaptcha.
Because Tesla and Musk bad... or something of the sort.

This is the way it goes here in HN for anything related to Musk.
I think the reason for that is because people are fearful of change.

Talking about AI as assistants means people still have their jobs but now their life is easier. Whereas saying AI will completely change the way we do X then makes AI scary and a threat to our jobs.
It isn't necessary to be hyperaware to simply look over your shoulder before wandering into a car lane.

> the consequences for such lapses should not be death or serious injury

Well, that's indeed what the consequences are.

> He just swung out from the inner lane assuming that she had noticed him

All my posts here are about the cyclist assuming that cars see them.

> they should still be able to ride their bikes just like drivers

Drivers are required to signal and look before changing lanes.
Here's a look at my AI Audit on Bingeclock for anyone who's curious. Interesting drop in the last 48 hours given that it coincided with Cloudflare's announcement.

https://www.bingeclock.com/blog/img/ai-audit-cloudflare-0923...

The payment program sounds intriguing, I suppose. I can't imagine it will do much to move the needle for websites that will become unviable due to traffic drain. Without a doubt, AI scrapers will (quite rationally from their POV) avoid anything but nominal payments until they're forced to do otherwise.
Im the same, caffeine after ~1pm results in afternoon sleepies. I have ADHD and caffeine affects me differently.
it's not, it's an oligopoly. In corporate it's basically them, microsoft, kind of google and then a tiny sliver of the market is filled with a whole bunch of wannabes.
I'm sure that .NET has all libraries you'll need and to absolutely need one from a different language, whatever it is, it's a pretty niche case (e.g. perhaps the extremely good Rust `regex` library is faster, but it would hardly be worth the extra complexity in the general case).

I think is more common that you have some in-house library in a different language (Rust in this case) and you want to reuse them without rewriting them.
Worrying about being wasteful of filament is a mistake. That's how you end up making parts that feel cheap and flimsy.

Noone praises cheaply-made products for being economical with materials, we call them cheap and nasty, it's the same with 3d prints.
I never said I thought increase in ability was linear either. We're encroaching on phenomena that's genuinely hard to describe/put a number on but GPT-3 is worlds apart of 2 and it feels like 4 is easily ten times better than the OG 3.
I can say Improvement lags behind compute somewhat but that’s really it.

That said, it's ultimately up to the people footing the bill isn't it ?
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Asking why a tech company whose only product of note is slowly dying, why they are spending money on unrelated advocacy, is entirely reasonable though?

All you have done is convict him conclusively of having an opinion while not liberal. Guilty as charged. I am unclear why that is such a problem.

Theres no such thing as unbiased, so lets set that impossible-to-meet standard aside.

Anytime Mozilla comes up here, the question comes up about supporting Firefox development without the pile of other stuff they do. There is no way to do so. Perhaps their lack of focus is a concern that crosses partisan lines, and ignoring those concerns simply because of tribalism is unwise?
Do AI models produce more original ideas than researchers?
> How well and how fast, well, that's a separate topic, but you can.

Yeah, we all know how that goes. These things were painfully slow when they released and even more so now.

Even for the time the screen was small and low resolution.

I’m also thinking the CMOS battery should be pretty easy to replace? The main battery as well? I’m not sure why anyone would live with the deterioration of those wear parts when they are so simple and inexpensive to resolve.

I think the original unit was rated for just about double that battery life right? So that battery has definitely deteriorated. The author just has low standards.
The general strategy of creating a differentiable representation of a problem and simply describing the constraints is pretty powerful. See also databases (allowing arbitrary knowledge storage to be a tightly integrated part of a larger ML problem), graph layouts (you can do _way_ better than something like graphviz if you add arbitrary differentiable characteristics as constraints in generation -- mixing and matching between the better parts of normal layout routines using your human intuition to say what's important about this graph in particular), ....
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> - Reusable bags have to be reused dozens of times to make up for the additional environmental impact, so damage likely went up

patagonia makes or at least in 2010 made reusable grocery bags from spare ripstop nylon from recycled garments (or spare material). i've got to say, they're the best @$%^ing grocery bags...they fold into a wallet sized pouch too.
though i get your point, it took like a day to prefer these to paper and plastic.
> The critics bemoaned the advantage that rich kids had when studying for the exams... but when colleges temporarily switched to essay writing, grades and extracurriculars as the bar for admission, the incoming class was even more heavily skewed to rich kids.

Was there some mechanism to ensure/confirm that the scoring for those remaining factors didn't get changed during the process?

I imagine someone judging an essay or extracurricular activities would behave differently if they thought it mattered a lot versus whether they thought it was just a tiebreaker to apply after a standardized test.
In America it's more like the wealthy people (typically older people who purchased homes when they were less expensive) disliking the idea of people spending time alone at home possibly deteriorating their mental health and providing mandated "normalization time" to socially adjust to what the office space defines as "normal".

Case example: The weird YouTube parents who likely never spent time with other parents and got into child abuse scandals.
I'm sure in such a situation a hypothetical "no phones" rule wouldn't be enforced. I can't imagine a scenario where kids are on lockdown and the teacher hands out detention for texting.
How can anyone come to the conclusion that it's a good idea to use imprecise generation on the go in the tool made to refer to specific already defined things?

Year 2024. Now we use more computing power to make computers remember things worse.
Yeah the ways AI models have learned to interact with the world are all hilariously skeuomorphic given their capabilities. A model that runs on silicon has to learn English and Python in order to communicate with other models that also run on silicon. And to perceive the world they have to rely on images rendered in the limited wavelengths visible to the human eye.

But I much prefer this approach over allowing models to develop their own hyper-optimized information exchange protocols that are are black box to humans, and I hope things stay this way forever.
If I'm using something other than my phone for music I like it to be an actual physical medium like tapes or a record collection. Is the iPod really that good of a middle ground compared to downloading songs on your phone or something?
And it's still a decade away
I would also throw money at a 14 pro max and 15 pro max version.
Arizona same story (but $0.10). works great really, in that reusable bags are pretty robust, after 12+ years of using them myself. when i space out and forget, i blow a dime or two. convenience in versatility.
That's deliberate, they do let you play audio in the background if you pay for YT Premium. I think hacked clients like ReVanced can enable it for free.
Shhh... you're not supposed to say anything about this!

We need to sell the idea of abundance for everyone so investors and employees will feel good about dedicating their livelihood to our organization!
Dropbox works
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I do find chatgpt is helpful in laying out the formulas you should you in the context that they should be used in. Something I personally know I have no business doing.

... At the same time, I also am aware of how hilariously dumb chat GPT can be in deep technical contexts. I've taken to saying that when it comes to a technical topic, chatGPT will confidently tell you the wrong thing to do 50% of the time, but that's fine because it will give you the terms and context you can use to audit its solution yourself. Even if you don't understand the answers you can easily have chat gpt explain the gaps, again, 50%, but giving real information contextualizes the conversation better. I would expect this to improve accuracy, and my personal experience bares this out.

There was a brief window of time where the strongest chess players were chimeras, humans who assessed AI suggestions. Quickly even they found themselves outperformed by engines.

I suspect this is happening here as well. And I also suspect its going to take a good deal longer.
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I think another hand instead of extra fingers would be much more productive
> I don't feel like this problem is limited to kids.

It’s not, but the point is that they are typically the most vulnerable group of people. What the author wrote doesn’t imply that the problem is limited to kids.

The dead body guy is Logan Paul, he is doing a collab with MrBeast, it’s in the article.
20 years ago it did. People (kids, at least) made a real distinction between an "iPod" and an "MP3 player" even though one is obviously a subset of the other because Apple is a named luxury brand. It was basically the blue bubble controversy of its time and especially frustrating for socially-awkward, self-important 14-year-olds that had superior products like the Creative Zen Vision:M who had to endure ridicule from their friend group in sixth period lunch because their music player didn't have a click wheel :-).
A previous discussion about the exams:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33888398
First rule of good design: misuse isn’t the humans fault
This dovetails with something I've been thinking lately; the foundation of civilization is standing on the shoulders of giants (ie, I might make small contributions but I didn't invent compilers, CPUs, mining, agriculture, etc).

Progress in large part is figuring out better ways of doing that (language, written language, printing press, internet access, etc).

When you look at things that way - LLMs start to seem deeply ground-breaking (assuming we work out the confabulation kinks).

EDIT: fixed grammar/typos. Maybe I should have had an LLM proof-read this...
How is this different than say, ticketmaster charging money to not get "blocked" from a venue (ie. a ticket)?
Apple says photographs should be of things that 'really happened'
Firestore is great, especially as a cleaned up and more capable version of Datastore, but Firebases's influence on it as a successor to Firebase Realtime DB is showing in this complexity here.

IMO, the easiest and most secure thing is to not do direct DB reads and writes from your client. Use a traditional client-server architecture and have your server talk to the DB.

The times I do use the Firestore client library, it's only for reading and only for the realtime updates. My security rules disallow all writes.
Sorry, but are you saying you believe Valve is responsible for the development of every game on their store? In case you're just genuinely unaware, games are developed by a variety of people and studios completely separately from Valve.
> I wonder how the 8K to 6K reduction happened.

As said, most of their workloads were on cheap VPSs before. Moved some to 'scale-to-zero' solutions, reduced the bloat in VMs, fixed some buggy IaC, also moved some stuff to the serverless scene. That got a decent ~20% reduction.
No, but they are punished for those. I remember, kids used to smoke in schools. They got detention and their parents were told.

I don't get it, people break rules so just don't have them? What? Why would we do that?
You seem to be looking at environmental impact based on carbon footprint, or whether the bags end up in the ocean- but that’s not the limit of the environmental impact.

The plastic bags break down into microplastic particles, which makes its way into our intestines, lungs and reproductive systems:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-024-02968-x

We don’t know what we’re doing to our bodies here - it might be nothing, but I think it’s completely justified to pump the brakes regardless of carbon impacts.

Paper bag bans, I’ll grant you, seem pretty silly.
It is pretty comical. "We invented digital superintelligence so it can wait on the phone to talk to your healthcare provider".

If we had digital superintelligence then surely it could figure out how to actually provide healthcare to people who meed it, and innovate in treatments. An AGI is a singularity event, in the sense that the transformation it would affect on the state of technology and our lives is rapid and unpredictable. I doubt that our society's hundred-ish year old systems would survive such change, and if they did they would be anachronistic and depressing.
I'm using mailinabox.email without problems. It's great.
I believe “learn any distribution of data” is his attempt at describing the Universal Approximation Theorem to the laymen.
You are confused - the Hezbollah fighters are on Hezbollah payroll hence they are "active" and part of the organization. The non-active reservists are not on IDF payroll since they haven't been re-called for duty, so the are considered fully civilian.
Completely off-topic, but do you happen to use text-to-speech for comments?

The usage of 02 and O2 interchangeably piqued my interest; it seems like a way for such an error to occur.
You are wildly out of touch here.

The labor cost for replacing parts on a car isn't just another ballpark. It's another planet.

Obviously if you want to replace every part of the phone it is going to cost more altogether than a new phone. No reasonable person would argue that. And of course there are limits. The screen and mainboard are by far the most complex parts. The frame is trivial by comparison.

The problem is that there is effectively no real aftermarket for parts and repairs. Apple all but refuses to sell parts and makes using third party parts as onerous as possible.

They have been able to get away with it so far by riding the wave of quickly advancing mobile technology. But as next year's phone starts to look less and less different from last years phone, people are going to start to get serious about repairability and Apple is going to be forced to make some changes.
I agree with some of this article - particularly the best tool for the job bit around cameras and gaming consoles - but there's no reason the iPhone can't be that tool, it just probably isn't through Spotify or Apple Music. Apple isn't going to put a remarkably better DAC in an anniversary iPod that they put in the iPhones (if it varies at all), so the quality bit is a rough sell. Then it's just quality and content of the library, to which I'd suggest something like Plex to manage a library they curate, instead of pushing that through iTunes/Apple Music. I'm not in the camp that Apple Music is awful (though also not an apologist), but I'm always going to get the copy I want at the quality I want if I manage the library myself. And if I forgot or don't have something I really want, I am holding an Internet-capable device that can still stream whatever content from whatever provider I want.
Two-hundred-terabyte maths proof is largest
I bought one of these: https://www.iflash.xyz/store/iflash-quad/, four high endurance 256 micro SD cards, and an iPod 5.5 off eBay a while ago. I converted all my FLAC files to Apple Lossless and loaded it on that. I plug in wired with Focal Batys. It's a dream on a long flight.

Only downside is I now have to carry around a 30 pin iPod cable or a USB-C to 30 pin adapter now to charge it.
The constructive nature of memories in insects: bumblebees as a case study
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Yes! We don't have AppleCare Plus here, hence I have to use with a case. I designed it with a case in mind.
True XD
Disagree. Both articles talk about Telegram but they are otherwise completely different.
Do you also get mad at companies that make locks when people install them on their front doors?
This is just how antitrust works. The regulator defines a market, usually fairly reasonably, but sometimes incorrectly. Then the regulator points out you have massive market concentration and tries to do something about it. Then the company(ies) that hold that market power lie out their arse/otherwise creatively redefine the market so it looks like it's under a threshold that would require action. Then this goes round and round in the courts for years until someone gets fined, the regulator goes away and the guy who was leading the charge at the regulator gets a cushy job at the big co or related co or starts a law firm specializing in fighting against what he was previously fighting for.
The funny thing is that (power density) isn't even the only single obvious and insurmountable problem. What about:

1. The fact that carrying larger loads would make this extremely noisy, making it nearly impossible to use anywhere indoors.

2. Similarly, as another commenter said, if you scaled up the load capacity, then you'd basically be creating a hurricane in any enclosed space.

3. Thus, if all you are left with is outdoor applications, this device compares negatively in nearly every way with a standard delivery aerial drone.
Very nice, unfortunatelly it looks like we can't charge while charging.
I didn't say that, but that's ok :)
> I don’t think mass adoption is their goal.

I'm not so sure about that.. FRom the repo :

> Tesla also announced joining the Ultra Ethernet Consortium (UEC) to share this protocol and work to standardize a new high-speed/low-latency fabric (be that TTPoE or otherwise) for AI/ML/Datacenters

Also it's a protocol, personally I will only use a protocol that's fully spec'd. It's a pain sometimes to have consensus among all contributors but it's valuable.

> edit : I will only use a protocol that's fully spec'd IN PROD
What is the intent of allowing arbitrary document assignment to any other global user in the system, with zero default security checks in place? That seems like a fundamentally terrible idea. Other sharing systems require explicit steps to share documents between users (sharing a Google doc with an email address, for example), and it's a very controlled workflow. In Firestore, user IDs are global, and you can arbitrarily give them data? Even if you can get around this with specific security rules, why is this even a thing in the first place?
As soon as I notice that I got this slow-fade-captcha, I will intentionally click all the wrong fields until I get a reasonable captcha. Not sure this makes a difference but it kinda works
Getting the job done is the hacker ethos. Sometimes that means buying a solution instead of spending a bunch of time (and money) building it.
It really is a fantastic scam. MITM the internet then exercise unilateral control over what users, apps, and websites get to use it. Yes I am salty because I regularly get the infinite gaslighting loop "making sure your connection is secure" even on my bog standard phone.

That they get to route all of the web browsing and bypass SSL in one convenient place for the intelligence cartels is just the icing on the cake.
Maybe they could solve some of the core issues instead. It is like CF lost the source code and just pushing new more or less useless features all the time. Even though I think this is a fair change.
I picked up a Hidizs player on Amazon as my modern iPod equivalent. Biggest use case for me: I don’t want a phone or device that does stuff other than music. Some moments I want something that doesn’t tempt me with distractions, apps, or the internet in general. Plus, I’m not always online: flying or out in the middle of nowhere, I can’t rely on streaming. Lack of connectivity happens just frequently enough for me to be annoying. The UI on the Hidizs device is clunky, but it does the job.
Apple Music + iTunes Match lets you stream your personal music collection. The music is yours.
>Sick enough that I hope someone prominent at the EFF or similar takes Cloudflare to court over it.

On what basis? It sucks that you can't visit those sites without going through an interstitial, but at the end of the day, those sites are essentially private property and the owners can impose whatever requirements they want on visitors. It's not any different than sites that have registration walls, for instance.
Seems like I don’t know the magic spell. I’m constantly getting “catastrophic failure” alert boxes when I try to use the explorer window for file transfer. The “import” functionality seems to work but is so slow that I gave up. I cannot have my phone and computer tied up for who knows how long. And it fails if my phones display goes to sleep.
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They really should but they don't. In my area I get Walmart to deliver my food and they just outsource to whatever gig service they want like Uber/DoorDash. And they're just not equipped to deal with the bag return. For a full grocery order I get a bunch of reusable bags every week that I just simply can't use. I hate it honestly. Now it's clogging up my garbage.