skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> stop their kids accessing hardcore porn, violence and other mind bending content.

Such sites are not among the social media sites required to verify Australian's ID/ages, which hints that protecting kids is merely a pretence.
I'm definitely not going to ID myself to go on social media. Then I'll just quit (in fact I've quit most social media already anyway due to the enshittification). Even a parameter linked to my real ID is not acceptable to me. And also, after social media, I'm sure other sites will start demanding more checks as well. It's a slippery slope.

Luckily I don't live in Australia but I find this a troubling development. Anonymity on the internet is necessary. Because it is much more permanent than the real world. Every little misstep can be dissected decades later.
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Well, "ban guns for everyone because some bad guy might get his hands on one" has always been the law in my country, and it has worked out extremely well. There has never been a mass shooting here, ever.
You’re right, and I’m sorry for not being more specific. I was thinking of people who have trouble washing themselves, since that’s what GP was talking about.

I’ll be more mindful of the diversity of disabilities in the future.
If you need help with the turkey, Butterball runs a phone bank every November with people who can advise you on defrosting, cooking, and food safety. 1-800-butterball

But if your turkey is still frozen (today is Thanksgiving), you're going to have to fall back to "thanksgiving pizza". Even defrosting it by running cold water over it in the sink won't get it ready to cook in time.
and also in the town in Massachusetts with the motto, "The Birthplace of American Liberty."
This, I would go so far as keeping kids from social media is in conflict with (arguably) one of the most important jobs parents have which is getting kids into social interactions.
(E.g. by teaching them good manners so others will play with them)
Maybe what's most important to them isn't what's most important to you.

Have you contemplated such possibility?
This is the most horrifying thing in all of this. People with a prison guard mentality are already thinking how to enforce the rules in an even stricter way. Rules that are violating freedom of information, one of the most basics Western freedoms. Yes, there are no repreciations for the violating them at first, the frog is getting boiled slowly, but give it a few years and people who let their child use social media will be treated as criminals and put in prisons. Everything "for the sake of children."
I have used it in personal projects, it definitely feels like the succesor to it if you use TypeScript. The type safety at the schema level is fantastic.

I haven't used it in a professional setting, but if I was evaluating between Knex and Kysely I would use Kysely simply for the additional type safety, and it appears maintained.
How has Bandcamp been after the last acquisition for the artists? We (end users) were all predicting its downfall, but so far the new owners haven't done anything especially egregious yet, other than laying off a bunch of staff.

I've still got my hand on the trigger waiting to download my entire library as lossless FLAC and jump ship, but so far it seems like it's been mostly business as usual.
There's one in Tokyo near Jimbocho station called "Jazz BIGBOY" that I quite enjoyed. It looked like it was run entirely by one elderly gentleman.

Jimbocho also has a lot of used book stores, I highly recommend checking the area out.
Seriously though. While I don't like him even slightly, Murdoch is legit a business genius.

Imagine being powerful enough that you can bend an entire country to your will. That's amazing. Sociopathic probably, but amazing nonetheless.
It is more likely your GPS placed you in the vicinity (regularly?) with another AD ID that regularly searches for, purchases, or visits dog centric locations. It's also entirely possible that the other AD ID's (your grandma) dog food schedule is predictable and you happen to be visiting within a time frame of dog food purchases.
I’d like to find out what you think is really the problem. Do you believe inner-city schools aren’t funded enough to sit kids down and make them listen to Bach? Do you think kids in the rough parts of Milwaukee are just waiting for a bright-eyed teacher to play the right tape for the class? Every one of those kids has access to YouTube. Spotify is free. It isn’t the 1980s anymore, and “lack of access” isn’t why some groups like classical while others prefer drill music. Universal global access to high art and the tools of cultural creation have dispelled a great many blank-slate myths.
Sure - it rather depends on how good the 'standard of care' is or how much consensus there is on what that should actually be.

If the standard of care is already good and you don't need a placebo - then you have another problem - you probably are going to have to do quite a big trial to get the stats to show a significant difference, and you are going to find it harder to persuade people to participate with an experimental treatment if there already is a fairly good treatment.

The whole point about the challenges with clinical trials is that it's not an intellectual exercise in designing the perfect experiment and 'just doing it'.

It's about persuading yourself, the regulators, the doctors and ultimately the patients that it's something you should try - and before you've done your first trial you don't have any human data to show it's safe and effective - all a bit chicken and egg - the solution is often to move slowly in stages.
You'd presumably advocate for banning it for everyone, then? If so, might I ask how you'd define 'social media'? Presumably Facebook counts. Does HN, or Discord?
You generally shouldn’t use absolute paths in your programs. That makes it dangerous for local development, and makes running two copies of the program to compare behaviors difficult.

There’s a Venn diagram of people who don’t care enough to do that (works for me!) and people who would never think to use c-reduce. It’s not a perfect circle, but it’ll be fairly close.
Your username is pretty sus.
While we are bikeshedding, what about peek() (returns the element, but doesn't dequeue), pop() (dequeue and return the element), try_peek(), try_pop() for the polling variants.
just use a VPN. The main difference is that Gemini is sprinkled into Google in the US and in Europe it's the old Google (without Gemini)
I think it does actually do automated compliance checks.

"The Qodo Merge code review agent addresses these challenges by establishing an automated connection between ticket management systems and code reviews. The tool fetches ticket context from Jira or GitHub Issues when referenced in pull requests, then evaluates how closely the code changes align with the ticket’s requirements. It assigns compliance levels of “Fully compliant,” “Partially compliant,” or “Not compliant,” while maintaining a detailed audit trail of all reviews and changes."

From here: https://sdtimes.com/qodo-launches-automated-compliance-check...
You can stop pretending that the contents of the news-show has any relation to reality.

IMO, the entire problem comes from this one lie. But you see... a lot of people wants this propaganda machine.

Also, nowadays you can stream deep journalism that people can adjust to their time availability. We usually call those "documentaries". Most of the stuff that carries that name is psychotic garbage too, but informative ones do exist.
But talking about "social media":

When you stare into the abyss, the abyss stares back at you.
A little faster and clearer one in my opinion: https://app.electricitymaps.com/
Congrats and welcome to the 80s!
I'm interested in knowing what kind of workloads this is targetting with multi-GB executables being built at such a pace a 0.2 second wait between them is unacceptable.
Or your idea of a human being.

We're primates that make and use tools. AI is a tool, so we'll make it and use it. What we won't do is compete with it. We have better things to do.
Sure, but as Thomas Kuhn states (I only read the first chapter or so), there are critical levels whereby breakthroughs occur. It's also in Gleick's Chaos, IIRC.

What matters is that compassion becomes even slightly more operant in the ideals, attitudes, and behaviors of a population. That will decrease strife and increase happiness via the selfless service to others' happiness that true compassion entails.

We are social beings, and the effects on even the most unthinking, inertia-based folks would yield positive results, even if it's simply due to their just wanting to fit in. Still better, though, is when they have a real breakthrough and realize how a compassionate, service-oriented life actually makes them happier.

The source of happiness operates at the most sublime level of the universe -- the human-only level -- where the karmic effects due to our treatment of others are dominant. Yes, we need Maslow's needs to be met and all that, but once we reach a relatively pain-free state, karma rules (though pain can have its own karmic source, which can be either beneficial or punitive).
Not know-how, it's to do with one's fundamental metaphysical assumptions and intuition. These can't be updated by evidence, they determine what counts as evidence. For example, women are having fewer or no children; modern art is intentionally ugly. To me, these seems like signs of decline, but to another they may be explained differently.

With the decline of Christianity people of the West are now more demotivated than at any time in their history. Our religion was never about knowledge but it did guard the conditions under which the growth of knowledge was possible. Not saying traditional Christianity is the answer however we've thrown out the baby with the bathwater.
FSD doesn't speed.
> But where are they hearing about these effects that get them so concerned?

From real life? I know parents of middle school and up kids and they have first hand experience of the effects of social media and I’ve heard very little that’s positive.

I’m not saying the media aren’t trying to influence people but again, Occam’s razor: I really don’t think these parents need Rupert Murdoch whispering in their ear to be concerned about social media and kids.
Actually astound about the same thing with the microphone mute LED and the speaker mute LED. Even without any attack they are sometimes malfunctioning. None of those seem remotely hardwired on my ThinkPad Z13.
There is no self-made wealth. You can't become wealthy without the labour of other people.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/apr/03/all-billion...

The article you linked was a bit fuzzy, seems they counted people like Thiel and Musk as 'entrepreneurs' rather than inheritance because they didn't keep running a family company. But them being wealthy is absolutely connected to their families being privileged and the nasty, nasty crimes they profited from.
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You're quite hostile!

So if your hosting provider accuses you of an illegal activity, you want your hosting provider to have to take you to court. That makes perfect sense.

Your idea isn't bad, but execution is. If we had to go to court for literally every little tiny thing, society would fall apart. If a neighbor is blasting their stereo at 1am, we'd file a petition in court, because we can no longer go over and simply ask them, because literally everything is anonymous.

See, it's the lack of basic comprehension that I don't respect about you. You want to be anonymous AND you want protection that requires court orders to do anything. If we had that, to that extreme, then anyone could make anyone else' life hell. Someone could start harassing you, and the methods and means they use to harass you would be 100% protected, and you could never get them to stop unless / until you go to court to sue them, or you convince a district attorney to bring charges. That's untenable, yet you'll happily overlook that because you either don't understand this, or you choose to ignore this as a possibility even though we see evidence of people constantly trying to do these same things.

There's a reason that literally every illegal activity in the world doesn't lead to a trial. You're just pretending that reason doesn't exist.
In Finnish, kissa means cat. ”Jazz cat”, sounds pretty jazzy!
I lost 30 kilograms in 3 months.

I stopped eating all grains/wheat, potatoes, corn, and rice. Also trace amounts. So 95% of the supermarket I can’t eat and skip while doing the groceries. After a while it’s easy.

Plus I walk 5 kilometers everyday. It’s just 1 hour. I listen to a podcast. In the weekend more when time and conditions allow it.

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No, I wouldn’t:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42266169
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This describes the exact purpose of the law: to stop letting kids use those sites.

My very strict uncle was adamant that my cousins stay off Facebook when they were kids. They got on anyway. When he eventually found out, it was a bad situation. If he couldn't stop his kids from getting on, only the websites themselves can.
My question is: What behaviors will come sideways out of this prohibition?

My guess: You can’t outwit a digital native generation. Websites with less concern for the rules in general will become digital hangouts.
>Then why are their actions more harmful than any other class? I see them:

Lets assume all people when given the opportunity will do what is in their own best interests first.

The less power you have, the more working with others is in your own best interest.

The more wealth you have, the more power you have and the less you _need_ to work with others to achieve what you want or need, so you have an increased ability to weigh what is best for you vs what is best for everyone.

At some point the wealth/power split is so much that you can effectively stop caring about what everyone else wants and pursue what you want and what benefits you.

So while they may have better information, they aren't incentivized to decisions that are less harmful to everyone.

> Starting proxy wars, fueling climate doubt, lobbying/destroying governments to allow every kind of degradation of every commons. Paying people 6 or 7 figures to confuse and divide the people earning 5 or 6 figures. Apparently utterly ignorant of their legacy, which will be one of murderous self-interest and absurd delusion.

All of those can be leveraged for profit if one is cynical and self-serving enough. Most of 'them' that fall into these categories know to some degree the actions they take are harmful to others, and frankly they don't care. Either in their own self-interest, or deluded interests of whatever group they identify with.
I agree with a lot of what you're saying, but I think we probably disagree when it comes to leetcode. One thing I'll note is that in my experience, companies implicitly do not _want_ you to work at too high of a level; they fill up your hours until there is no free time, prevent you from returning to older tasks or projects to improve them, and more or less require "good enough" solutions at best.

This isn't necessarily meant as a complaint, but this is yet another way in which leet code may not really fit the job that's being performed; the company is attempting to get as much work done as possible and for whatever reason is not very incentivized to ensure that the work is done to a high standard. In other words, the super complex leet code sorts of techniques will just never in practice be utilized.

Now to your point, whether or not you find yourself in this situation is going to depend on your job and your company.
My impression is that generally they surround themselves with people that are well informed and rely on them.
And you are a rando internet user, why one should expect she’s crazier than you? Not because her Lady condition or vegan choice for sure.
> I have tried to find good scientific evidence that shows that social media is a net negative for kids and or adults. I have been unable to do so.

The author mentioned by GP is currently working on a similar questions collecting, reviewing and categorizing known literature in these open access documents [1][2]. I suggest you take a look if you are interested in the topic.

> For example, Hacker News is the only social media that I use, and I feel that I use it very differently than folks that use Instagram, for example. Can they be effectively conflated?

Well, I would say no. But to have a meaningful discussion we need to first agree on what is meant here with "social media". Clearly, this law has been passed with the intent to affect Meta / ByteDance / Reddit and similar companies with a business model that hinges on capturing as much attention of their users as possible, which is very different from HackerNews. Most accusations to social media begin bad are towards of the former type.

> but I would be very curious to see a scientific justification for banning it for kids under 16.

From [1], it seems to me that there is a non-negligible amount of literature that has been accumulating, that could be used to justify the ban. Though, Australia is not a technocracy (I hope), so I would say that there is also a certain degree of "purely social" reasons why they might want to curb the access of social media companies to their youth.

[1]: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1w-HOfseF2wF9YIpXwUUtP65-...

[2] : https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vVAtMCQnz8WVxtSNQev_e1cG...
And it doesn’t use any electricity either. It just moves electrons around.
Yeah, now that you mention it, I remember using it a lot when I worked more in that language.
Climate Central has a model that can show how much more intense hurricanes are based on how much warmer the ocean is.

This is an advance for attribution science, which aims to show how much of a natural disaster is attributed to climate change.

In the future I expect a party, perhaps an insurance firm, or reinsurance firm sue oil companies for their role in accelerating climate change to pay for the cost of natural disasters.
I bought 8 Osram leds and all died within a year. I complained and got a few for free and those also died, I think even faster.
As much as I like Musk, Twitter has become horrible. I created a new account for work and without following anybody, my feed was filled with some of the most horrible racist shit against black people I have ever seen.

Now I don't mind that stuff in forums and 4chan (some folks find that content funny) but if I have to do work, it cannot coexist with that content.
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Bold claims need proof. Does Australia have a history of that?
'"Messaging apps," "online gaming services" and "services with the primary purpose of supporting the health and education of end-users" will not fall under the ban, as well as sites like YouTube that do not require users to log in to access the platform.'

So they tell us which social media is excluded, but not the definition of "social media" for what is included? Does anyone know how "social media" is being defined in this law?

'Under the laws, which won't come into force for another 12 months, social media companies could be fined up to $50 million for failing to take "reasonable steps" to keep under 16s off their platforms.'

So how is "reasonable steps" defined? The article claims 'Social media companies also won't be able to force users to provide government identification, including the Digital ID, to assess their age.' So is a checkbox that asks "are you over 16?" 'reasonable'?
> It’s not true for the extreme top end

Any extreme is, by definition, unusual. You don’t need to be a billionaire (which is what the articule you linked to focus on) to be considered powerful or wealthy.

Tellingly, that articles notes that:

> The proportion of those in the list who grew up poor or had little wealth remained constant at roughly 20 percent throughout the same period.

Which suggests that inheriting power and money does make a difference in your chance of success. They continue:

> Most individuals on the Forbes 400 list did not inherit the family business but rather made their own fortune.

But one does not follow from the other. Inheriting a business is not the only way to have a leg up. If you’re well off you have the opportunity to risk going into some venture on your own and fail, because you have a safety net. Furthermore, your affluent family can and probably will make a difference in your business. I’m reminded of a piece of news a while back where a couple of rich kids were bragging they made their company successful “from scratch” but upon further inspection into it was revealed their customers were rich friends of their parents.
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What's the root cause?
That was my impression too. Glad to have it confirmed. Thank you.
> good games

Coffee Golf is a great time waster
when can we start placing bets on time to enshitified? it all ends the same. not worth signing up for.
Why not lock device/accounts as minor and put onus on school and parents to ensure devices are appropriately tagged? At least for pre-teens I strongly think it shall work.
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Predictably, I see a lot of concern being expressed here about how this will be implemented and enforced. There is an underlying assumption, which seems fairly reasonable, that the government is going to use this opportunity (à la Louisiana) to overreach and require people to provide their identity to access these services.

One question I have for other HN commenters though, does it necessarily need to happen this way? Political realities aside, is there a way for the government to set up an age verification service in a way that preserves privacy?

If so, the time is ripe for this community to put forward such a solution and advocate for it loudly. If current sentiment is any indication, social media age restrictions are going to go global and Australia is going to set the precedent for the rest of the world.
Agree ! Please remove those tacky ai stock photos !