skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMHO, this feels like another wave of nannyism that follows after a new technology matures. Being a 90s kid, discovering porn, violence, warez were all normal part of growing up that I don't think has had any negative impact nor do the puritan panic about pornography.

Matter of fact the internet started speedrunning censorship and monopolization post 9/11 without much of a fight and I think this triggered the default in people to just shrug and seek other ways to access and share data.

It's as ridiculous as suggesting Bittorrent is harmful for kids because of its unrestricted limitless amount of data. What's more harmful is preventing discovering adaptation and self-balancing on their own in the face of endless entertainment wish diminishing value.

There's just so many things outside internet and smartphones that even adults struggle to balance, the last thing I think kids need are adults taking away that trial by fire and allowing themselves to develop their own sense of moderation.
I can’t work with notifications enabled. Every hour I work, I make a 15 min pause or so and then I check Slack and answer if needed.
Not just Slack, I don’t have any notifications enabled. I always pull. The only exception is phone calls.
Global industrial hub responsible for the destruction of Mexico's Atoyac River
They might mean in the sense of data races, which can happen in other languages with pointers. In unsafe code, Rust exchanges that (kinda) for upholding Rust's reference rules, which is its own flavor of UB. Although if you have long-lived raw pointers, the data races come back too. Free UB!
This makes me think, as I've thought previously, that the generational labels seem too broad for the pace of change in information technology over the last 40 years. I read your comment as an older Millenial and thought "what?! a smartphone in 8th grade?!"

Despite being in the same "generation," someone born in the mid-80s came of age with radically different consumer technology compared to someone born just ten years later in the mid-90s. I have clear memories of trying to understand what the "Information Superhighway" was, and then getting dial-up Internet in our home for the first time. At the end of 8th grade, I convinced my dad to upgrade from 33 kbps dial-up to cable. As a sophomore in college, I remember thinking that some company would make a lot of money by putting Wi-Fi access points everywhere so we could have always-on Internet access with some sort of mobile device... Just a night-and-day difference from the experience of someone getting a smartphone in 8th grade.
I know. I thought the same. Still, part of me wants to believe that something else will come.
Either Android or iPhones can be customized. The parent has to take the time to sit down and set it up.

The iPhone has a lot of parental setting customization. You can disable certain built in apps, prevent installing anything from the App Store or just prevent making purchases, set screen time restrictions, and a whole bunch of other things [1].

Android has similar settings with Family Link [2].

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/105121

[2] https://www.androidauthority.com/android-parental-controls-e...
Spotify Bricked the Car Thing, So I Hacked Mine [video]
Because if you deny a kid a Nintendo, even though "everyone has one", it doesn't kill their social life, because they can still go over to a friend's house to play (arguably, this is better for their social life).

If you don't give them a smartphone, and all their peers use their phones to communicate, as well as talk about TikTok videos, your kid will be excluded from all that. If that's where the majority of interaction takes place, then yes, it does deny them a social life.
> Kids entire social lives run on their phones.

> Denying your kid a smart phone is basically denying them a social life nowadays.

Wow, what country is that true? Thankfully, not in the country I reside. None of the children I know have social lives that revolve around the phone.

Wherever you live, if the phone is already the central aspect of a child's social life, that is a great tragedy.
Wow, didn't expect to be downvoted on something that is so obviously aligned with what I see around me. It is a very strange feeling, very different from downvoted posts that present unpopular opinions.

It makes me look at some statistics

https://www.statista.com/statistics/911064/worldwide-air-con...

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/air-condi...

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=52558

https://www.rfi.fr/en/france/20220723-france-does-not-use-mu...

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskFrance/comments/vhs8dn/how_commo...

Apparently, Japan, USA and now China are huge users of AC in personal homes (like more than 90% of them). That's in sharp contrast with what is observed in most of Europe, including France where I live.

I never had the opportunity to travel to any of this country, so indeed I was totally blind of this extrem gap in use from my own personal experience.
Fair point, but there are a couple of reasons why we would only apply this to kids. First, something can be harmful to children and not to adults. Second, even if smartphones are harmful to adults, for better or for worse we let adults ruin themselves. It's a necessary condition of freedom, that you have the ability to make bad choices as well as good.
More like snobism: reading classic books for the sake of being able to brag about them. As if that made someone a better person.

If the author at least did something creative... but nooo reading Brothers Karamazov as a kid is better than playing WoW.

I still take the kid who created something, or at least spent time with other kids. And apparently the author didnt.
it's probably futile, and the 'AI/art protests' seem to miss the point that the protest itself is also encouraging The Man to seriously consider AI-powered replacement.

The protest itself is exactly the kind of thing that will be avoided by replacing humans, demonstrated writ-large for the people with the cheque-book.

I can understand the spirit of protest and why it occurs, but it just seems so out-of-line strategically/tactically when used against automation that's taking jobs.

Just the order of events is kind of funny to me, and this applies to automation-job-taking protest the world over : A technique is demonstrated that displaces workers, the workers then picket and refuse to work -- understandable, but faced with the current prospect of "This mechanism performs similar work for cheaper", it seems counter-productive to then demonstrate the worst-case-scenario for the patron : a work stoppage that an automated workforce would never experience, alongside legal fees that would never be encountered had they an automated work-force.

That all said, protest is one of the only weapons in the arsenal of the working -- it just feels as if the argument against automation is one of the places where that technique rings hollow.

In the case of media/movies/literature/etc, I think the power to force corporations to value humans is solely in the hands of the consumer -- and unfortunately that's such an unorganized 'group' that it's unlikely they will establish any kind of collective action that would instantiate change.
Well, "Wait for 8th or whatever the similarly-aged grade level is in your area" doesn't sound quite as punchy.

This is applicable to anyone, anywhere, though sure, it's targeted at a US audience.
Honestly, even referrals are sucking for me in 2023/4. Referral would almost always mean I at least talk to someone on the hiring team
. Now it's been maybe a 40% chance I even get a recruiter call?
Congrats on the launch; the idea and process is a good one, but the results so far are less impressive.

For a simple PoC typescript CLI tool I had, AutoFix decided to do this several times:

https://i.postimg.cc/1z4Fs663/Screenshot-2024-10-31-at-21-37...

In a straight forwards repo with no README it created a reasonable starting point.

Yet in a more complex repo with an existing and comprehensive README, it decides to replace it completely with a simple one, removing key insights. I suspect the existing README isn't considered at all, making this kind of patch incompatible with most workflows (i.e. creating a README once isn't particularly onerous, keeping it up to date is).

This may be a project to watch, but I'm disinclined to use it at the moment.
>Do you live in NYC?

In Manhattan at least (this is different elsewhere in NYC), as a general rule, 20 city blocks (going from 44th Street to 45th Street is one city block) is approximately one mile. Three Avenue blocks (e.g., from Fifth to Sixth Avenues, etc.) is also approximately one mile.

Walking ten blocks (~800 meters/~1/2 mile) to do just about anything is pretty normal, and walking further is pretty common too. If you note that's one-way, the round trip is ~1.6km and multiple jaunts daily aren't uncommon.

While street lengths are different in other boroughs, depending on where you live, you may well walk several miles every day. Or you may not. Folks who live in the North Bronx, Staten Island, Eastern Queens or South/Southeastern Brooklyn may well use motorized vehicles for many purposes, as the layouts are more similar to US suburbs than other places in NYC. YMMV (pun intended).

Edit: Fixed prose.
Big 2 years ago (813 points, 87 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33718508
This demonstrates how fast Java actually is, it's all about writing good code.
I only used that feature inadvertently a long, long time ago. As I remember, the program would throw a Throwable exception when it would enter code that wasn't translatable. There was some sort of hot reloading, too. So you could try to fix the code and continue.

The really neat thing was that the Ecliose Java compiler is built specifically to support the IDE, so all the the warning and error annotations in the editor come from the actual compiler even while you are typing. There is no separate parser and linter just for the editor. I believe that the ability to translate broken source files on a best effort basis is actually an offshoot from that functionality.
We will get there when ppl move past capitalism and socialism.
Like an ant colony pushing into one direction.
It will happen, but we need few more global dying events / resets.
I believe human race can get there but not in current form and state of mind.
I have no doubt that Google’s search team is optimizing for the best results. The problem is their ads team is optimizing for revenue. You can’t optimize for two things at the same time without compromising (the optimum is the Pareto frontier).
> I don't think Ghost is providing any new solutions here—they've just gotten lucky / been small enough to not be out-competed in their hosting niche yet.

While I agree with most of your comment, I do want to point out that intentionally targeting to be small/niche is a kinda solution in itself. To me SourceHut is another good example of how being small can be winning move. Being sustainable with <50 employees is far more manageable even if you face some competition, than if you have >1000 employees.
Previously (12 points, 6 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42002994
Even 1B parameters model show “impressive capabilities” for anyone not accustomed to the current state of the art. And there are plenty of relatively small models that perform as well as ChatGPT 3.5 when it was first released and felt like magic.

“All” that was needed to get there was “just” feeding it more data. The fact that we were actually able to train billion parameters models on multiple trillion tokens is the key property of the transformers, there's no magic beyond that (it's already cool enough though): it's not so much that they are more intelligent, it's simply that with them we can brute-force in a scalable fashion.
I like the idea of having an actual 'carefulness knob' prop and making the manager asking for faster delivery/more checks actually turn the knob themselves, to emphasise that they're the one responsible for the decision.
Thanks, that was educational.
Fingers crossed for Telo Trucks! Barely bigger than a kei truck but with as much bed space as a light duty pickup.
Control. Like always. An H1B can't just job hop to the next company without more hoops and strings attached.
Aspirational at best I'm afraid. What happens when the other partner/parent/family member isn't responsible, smashing your plans? Or if the event has a variable end time with no safe care or phone in between? How do you deal with emergencies like school closures that now require every child to line up to use available landlines (my personal favorite experience)?

Landlines are becoming scant in my particular part of my country, YMMV. I rarely even see them in my workplace anymore.
I guess it's these two files?

The original 2600+ lines of C++: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/asahi/mesa/-/blob/main/src/ga...

The translated code: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/asahi/mesa/-/blob/main/src/as...
Exactly. That’s why I never understood Gemini. It is in a zero-sum game with Search.
Other way round -- 8th grade is UK Year 9.
DuckDuckGo and Bing is the same cesspool. People need to wake the fuck up and support each other instead of these behemoths.
Was your boss aware of the toll it takes to interview (well) on his own teams?
Major base changes, or just added more stuff on top of the same base?
I would say yes, reading Brothers Karamazov is probably a better use for a developing mind's time than playing WoW.

Hell, that's a better use for an adult's time than playing WoW. But adults get to do whatever they want with their free time, and it would be hypocritical of me to judge.
> Labour has an incredibly relaxed attitude to British property. As the Chagos islanders found out, it wants to give away as much as it can, as quickly as possible.

That is an extremely facile take on a complex situation. Kind of hard to take the rest of the article at face value after that.
This level of skepticism flies in the face of references to Pythagoras across multiple contemporary authors. Keep in mind that it is damn hard to prove something in the 6th century BC with the same level of evidence as today.

But Heraclitus, for instance, was contemporary and accused him of plagiarism and trickery. Why abuse a person that doesn’t exist? Ion of Chios was contemporary and said that he authored Orphic hymns.

The Orphic hymn to Apollo proclaims “your resonance attunes the whole globe”. Now, we don’t know that Pythagoras wrote that. We can’t prove that sort of thing. But it sure seems Pythagorean.

Did you know that Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo and Newton all claimed to be Pythagorean?

The man is a legend. Embrace the legend. He wrote lots of things down but he either destroyed it to avoid creating a doctrine or it was destroyed during one of the different massacres of Pythagoreans. Because that happened.
A tweet from them in 2022 says Shimmer partnered with them, you even follow them personally on Twitter (and their company on Instagram) so does Shimmer's Twitter account and both of your companies also follow each other on Instagram and Twitter.

And Shimmer has a blog post that mentions both them and their company as "partners".

I'd definitely call that associated...
I think battery manufacturing is pretty heavily automated, isn't it?
Figure 2 trips average per traveler, and that's 6 million car buyers.

And I wonder how many are in specific market segments. For example, maybe not many luxury or super-luxury car owners; they fly. Maybe lots of minivans and SUVs for families and capacity. Maybe not many economy cars.
> Reality is that the kid will be a loser / outsider due to no phone.

That is supposition, not reality, and there are parents here who have shared their experience with kids having a healthy social life without a phone. More importantly, a very important role of parents is to make good decisions for their kids when the kids are still too immature to do that. "But all my friends are doing it" is literal child reasoning and should not be the only factor in parenting decisions.
Me too, especially today!
Yeah but C# is. Or, compiled to IL and JITted. Unless there is an AOT thing now that can truly compete with c and rust. Been out of the ecosystem for a while.
Oh yeah, I agree with your point. I really wouldn't be worried very much about the DOS machine with packet drivers being exposed to the Internet. It's easier for me to have the "retro net" just being generally isolated, though.

Windows XP on the other hand...
Which is why liability is needed.
Sure, I don't see where in my comment I imply this is a problem for all open source communities, just that it's a problem for the type of open source community John seems to want Ghost to be (no intellectual property, making revenue via providing services).

For #1, that is the kind of logic that works fine for the early adopters, but frustrates and turns away the people who just want e.g. a Substack that won't squeeze them for login walls or a Wordpress that is easier to use. I've seen a lot of non-technical people in that bucket turned away recently by Ghost (Pro)'s opaque and confusing member-based hosting costs. It makes it completely impractical to run a free email newsletter, and plenty of other Ghost providers seem to have this worked out. So all it takes is one of those competitors breaking through to achieve name recognition and get a lucky roll of the marketing dice to overtake Ghost in revenue. And then they can fund their own fork and the Ghost community is forced to agree to their development wishes or become outpaced by their proprietary features. It's a pretty bad place to be in.
>For manual labor there's no amount of money you could pay Americans to be farmworkers.

In this market? Throw me a hoe tell me where to dig. I just need to pay rent.
Well that's great, but still the atmospheric CO2 not only keeps increasing, but at an accelerating rate. I guess the plants won't save us.
Some fears in this genre are well overblown, I agree. I also like the idea of kids learning for themselves, but it depends on whether they can learn before it becomes unmanageable. There is probably middle ground between no phone and phone here, and a less spoken about factor (IME) is that some kids and parents just have different dispositions and outcomes. Whether that is nature or nurture, it's hard to isolate or alter much right now. There is definitely nannyism following a new technology. I think it becomes gradually more true not because technology is inherently dangerous or something, but because we are producing technology that likely is more and more dangerous. Of course I don't consider social media addiction and Bittorrent on the same level.
Microsoft is their leading investor. They don't technically own OpenAI.
> we don't want off-topic arguments and because it would be too easy to exploit it for shenanigans.

Are there any other reasons you mentioned? I only found this one.

Thinking about it, people replying to the post stake their reputation too in whatever they post. If we see a throwaway or newish account causing shenanigans, people interested in the job post can form their own opinion of the nature of the comment? (isn't that what downvoting is for too?).

Since threads have this nice toggle feature you can always click [-] to ignore whatever people is saying about a job posting.
I regularly see gangs of e-bike groms with cellphones terrorizing my town.

I'm not sure having a smartphone has at all impacted their outside time.
Well, Google's search results are still the best among its competitors. Bing's results are terrible and have a hard to understand UX. So it's not Google's results, it's the practices they use to dominate the market.
In principle yes, but I just can't handle many more emails. Also, it's not clear how we would respond. More at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42011354.
No, they do not "frequently just call out to C libraries".

2 of 10 (pidigits and regex-redux) allow use of widely available third party libraries — GMP, PCRE, RE2 — because there were language implementations that simply wrapped those libraries.
I think this post from another thread is a good answer to this. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41930275#41931671

Tldr:Seeing shock content is like eating a spoon of salt. The mind has defence mechanisms for it. You consume it, you are disgusted, and you never want to do it again. Consuming social media is like eating fast food
Representatives of LWN have posted here before saying they are OK with it, along with a polite request not to have it go overboard since they need to fund the site and writers, editors, etc. That funding comes from subscriptions only IIUC.

FWIW an LWN subscription is pretty affordable and supports some of the best in-depth technical reporting about Linux and linux-related topics available.

(I am not affiliated with LWN, just a happy subscriber - I also credit some of my career success to the knowledge I've gained by reading their articles).
That’s sad but probably inevitable. Is there room for something like a personal Garmin navigation device? Does that already exist?
Kagi answers that there is "CBMC", which is single-threaded, but that there are extensions "Deagle" and "Yogar-CBMC" that provide multi-threading for CBMC. It gives links to the papers for all three, however some of them are closed access (or in other words, fact checked, unlike arxiv).
Air conditioning is not an extravagant luxury, although I know many people who live in cold countries believe so. That's why I'm asking you to broaden your horizons. You don't consider indoor heating or plumbing a luxury to be comparable to a private jet?

In hot and humid places, having AC was always a priority a hundred steps above having internet access, until cheap smart phones arrived.

And they use a lot of energy, just like heating uses a lot of energy in colder climates.
Computational Bottlenecks of Training Small-Scale Large Language Models
Same question, but for VSCode plugins. Besides copilot what is everyone using? Claude support is a huge plus.
Related 5 months ago:

Turns out Spotify can't open-source Car Thing because it's a potato (37 points, 37 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40603704

Spotify won't open-source Car Thing, but starts refund process (271 points, 236 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40534665

Spotify Car Thing will be discontinued (77 points, 230 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40456644
It's hard to cross check since you didn't mention what you consider are good answers, but the quick answer snippet on Kagi says:

> The Yogar-CBMC and JCBMC solvers are notable multi-threaded variants of the CBMC (C Bounded Model Checker) framework: ...

Followed by further details and references. The search results themselves look relevant and reasonable to me, but again, outside my area of expertise.
Yep. For the same reason my oscilloscope and spectrum analyzer are in the same isolated network as my retro stuff.
It's quite functional and usable, now. so I'd agree with hack, just not the rest of your adjectives.

That was a good read! I've been thinking a lot about what comes after git too. One thing you don't address is that no one wants all parts at once either, not would it fit on one computer, so I should be able to checkout just one subdirectory of a repo.
Yeah, I'll provide peers, but absolutely not seniors/management references. One of them very purposefully has no social media footprint and I'm not going to cross that line because of some recruiter call that almost never goes nowhere.
> This makes me think, as I've thought previously, that the generational labels seem too broad for the pace of change in information technology over the last 40 years.

Yeah, no kidding. I'm an older millennial as well, and I didn't have a dumb phone until my senior year of college, let alone a smartphone.

My experience growing up was so much different from someone born just 10 years after me, even though we're technically in the same "generation".