skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 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.

Facebook knows Instagram is toxic for teen girls, company documents show (wsj.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28523688

Facebook proven to negatively impact mental health (tau.ac.il)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32938622

Testimony to House committee by former Facebook executive Tim Kendall (house.gov)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24579498
>I installed this in the morning to give it a test drive, and after several hours, I learned the following: it's great when I reach for the phone as a distraction; it's a big annoyance otherwise.

I have thought of a workaround. Instead of an app that asks "Why?", a sticker on your phone that asks "Why?" Or maybe just a question mark. I will order one for my phone.
Yeah but if you're running something that is using a ton of bandwidth, presumably it's a service that needs to be online and reliable. Being cheap and constantly cycling out servers introduces complexity to your system. Hetzner could also easily change their terms to close this loophole if it's an actual problem.
The Techno-Realist Manifesto
Amid a confounding mix of hype and genuinely valuable innovation, today’s entrepreneurs, scientists, and other experts betray an abiding belief that technological progress will make us healthier, wealthier, and wiser. But there are strong reasons why we should not bet everything on future world-changing breakthroughs.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42260346
Exxon lobbyist investigated over hack-and-leak of environmentalist emails
ah!, amazing things,your mind,viewing and doing
and a phone
well for me,its making money with it and finding sex from it
depending on your interests and needs, the two could be combined
Because we don't move in a repeatable fashion. I'm not in one position, all the time. My whole arm moves in fairly random fashion.

The RSI is not because of movement, per se, it's because of repetition of the same moves (Thus, the "R" in "RSI").

Trained touch-typists keep their back straight, their arms at the same level, and basically only move their hands and wrists; always alternating between the exact same positions. I suspect that "extra-clicky" keyboards, which require a bit of force to actuate, don't help.

It's highly efficient, and I have always been in awe of really good touch-typists. Most don't get RSI, and I'm not sure what the difference is, with the ones that do.
Birds of feather and all that. I was lucky enough to end up in a class full of kids much smarter than me.

As for LLM replacement for talented teacher,even though I kinda worry that it would be subverted by organizations and various interests intent on stripping anything of value from LLM thus rendering LLMs role as a talented guide/teacher role largely useless, I personally found exploring new subjects even more engrossing than ( at one point in time, following down the rabbit hole of Wikipedia entries on some obscure subject ).

Part of the problem is that this thing would need to be marketed as safe, but safe is staying within rigid parameters that do not allow for a genius level individual to grow. Smart is probably a lot easier so safety features will likely not be triggered that often.

The other problem is that only some kids will take advantage of that mode. Not everyone is inclined to explore like that.

I have no real solution here. My kid is not at the age I need to worry about it yet, but I am slowly starting to plan my approach and I think tuned LLM with heavily restricted digital access will be the initial approach.
I finally gave in to all the word of mouth marketing and moved to Hetzner about a month ago.

Fuck.
Why gambling but not Facebook?
I trust a Harvard undergrad more than I trust a second or third tier grad student. It's so easy to shit out mediocre work and build accolades without actually being able to do anything these days.
I agree with you that changing the behaviour of the networks would be better, but what actions does a state like Australia really have here?

If they just say, "change", it must be backed up by a threat -- "we will fine you" or "we will ban you" are, I think, the most obvious threats available to a state.

But fines can be tricky to exact across borders, especially with bigger states, and if Australia says "change or we'll ban you later", the networks may play chicken and deal with it later, when the threat is real.

Starting with "you're banned" means it's painful now, and it's on the networks to prove they've changed and win a way back in, if they care. They might suddenly be willing to listen to how they need to change to get back in, and get that work done.

I'm not really in favour of bans on access to information or networks of people communicating, but a(n effective) ban does seem like a potentially effective tool to motivate action, even if it lacks nuance and doesn't solve the real problems.

I say "an effective" ban there because, come on, if it's just an age verifier then teenagers will figure it out and the whole thing is toothless, not ruthless.
I think the author would say that certain forms of content, like blogs, can be useful. I don't think they're completely eschewing digital reading, but instead pushing for far more print reading than is common now. The two aren't mutually exclusive.
Batting in the batting cage is much closer to skills required to perform as a batter than Leetcode problems are to perform at most jobs as a software engineer.

Is there some overlap of Leetcode problems and real world problem solving? Yeah, a little but most of my time is not solving yet another algorithmic problem but thinking about the problem from a business/product perspective, decomposing it, uncovering and understanding requirements, designing code that will be easily read and modifiable by people in the future, etc. 95+% of my time on the job is not trying to figure out what's the best way to find the number of inversions of a red-black tree.

There are jobs that hard and deep knowledge of algorithms is important, for those please go ahead and keep testing people on it. The vast majority of the jobs requiring people to jump through Leetcode hoops is not that, and a lot of those interviews are not testing for what is actually needed to perform the job well.
We definitely do. Just enforcing the laws would do, as drugs and gambling is a good amount of social media ads revenue
> But we don't need the government to protect people from Facebook!

Says who exactly ?
Travelling to Europe? ETIAS alone will not be enough
Interesting. My kids aren't allowed on social media, and they're happier and less moody than their friends who are addicted to it. They see it, and don't even want social media anymore because their friends spend so much time on their phones rather than being present and having real experiences.

I don't think I would wish social media on any child, though I believe it's a problem that can be solved not by more laws, but by better parenting.
I got excited, but then there is no "automatically verifies PR compliancy" in the text. As far as I can see it searches JIRA etc. and puts the data next to the PR for the developer to verify.

"With Qodo Merge, the team can effortlessly view each ticket’s details within their code editor or PR, reducing interruptions and enabling a more cohesive workflow. Developers can easily cross-check code with ticket requirements as they work."

The title is beyond click-bait and marketing.
The reality is that these are not culturally significant institutions and most people in London don’t care. Ordinary Londoners rarely use these markets, and they mostly sell to restaurants, and require major financial support.

Not everything from the past is good. We don’t still run coal power plants in London just to get that historic smog.

They were already planning to move both markets way out of central London (to a place no-one but a local would ever go) this is just changing it to not providing a new site.
Not to mention that the interview process in a lot of fields without any objective hiring criteria consists of the hiring manager being friends with your uncle or your grandparents going to the same country club as the CEO. I'll take what we have, thanks.
This is a good and subtle point of law -- The City of London is a corporation "by prescription".

But while it was created by neither statue nor royal charter, I doubt the parliament could not end it if it so decided....
Microsoft also has multiple data center projects already underway in the Helsinki area.

Electricity cost is quite low in Finland and the Nordpool area in general compared to large parts of Central Europe. Also low carbon footprint.
Same. I randomly stumbled across someone's (Ben's) picoCAD timelapse on Youtube last January[1] and the toolkit was so simple that I bought it and tried it myself.

Sure enough, I was more productive with picoCAD in my 30s than I was with 3dsmax/maya/etc in my teens despite many hours of tutorials. I joined the Discord and even participated in some jams.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/@bencanfield/videos
Just a quick note on my comment. We have mostly hardwood floors, so the mopping is really nice. The vacuuming is OK, def not the best. I can see if someone had mostly carpet they would be disappointed with it.
LOL. Go to genius.com. Pull up: Pras - Ghetto Superstar album. Ctrl-F "Dirty Cash"

Songs on that album that contain the phrase "Dirty Cash":

Blue Angels

Cant Stop the Shining Pt 2

Get Your Groove On

Frowsey Pt 2

For the Love of This

Dirty Cash (Instrumental, lol)

Yeah eh Yeah eh

Avenues

Another One Bites the Dust

It's a solid dope album though, great production values if you skip the filler interludes.
So... enshittification :)
> According to the CA supreme Court, you have a right to free speech on private property that is regularly available for public use.

According to both sides of the aisle on the US Supreme Court, a social media site is not a public forum [1].

[1] Supreme Court Signals Loud And Clear That Social Media Sites Are Not Public Forums That Have To Allow All Speech https://www.techdirt.com/2019/06/18/supreme-court-signals-lo...
We also don't understand how some drugs work, either (e.g. Tylenol).
I would like to see some evidence before I buy this conspiracy theory. If anything, I feel like legacy media is too lazy and entrenched to even consider this
But as things improve, the bar gets pushed up? So in relative terms it hasn’t improved.
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I was already generating complaints about how things used to be better before by the age of, like, 10. Nowadays I have a huge list.
New requirements to travel to Europe – What is ETIAS
Hum... I noticed you aren't telling the actual way.
Py-gen-ML: generating ML code from config schemas
py-gen-ml is a Python library that aims to simplify the process of managing machine learning projects. It uses Protobuf schemas to define configurations and then automatically generates code based on those schemas. This can include code for base models, patch configurations, sweep configurations, command-line interfaces, and entry points.

One of the key benefits of using py-gen-ml is that it reduces the amount of manual work that is required when making changes to configuration schemas and/or values. Atomic code generation guarantees consistency across YAML parsing, CLI parsing, sweeps, and any other code that is generated.

Another benefit of py-gen-ml is that it offers strong typing. This means that the code that is generated is more likely to be correct and easier to understand for you, your team, your IDE and your type checker.

py-gen-ml also supports flexible YAML configurations, which can be used to define the parameters of your machine learning project. py-gen-ml provides support for advanced referencing and variable support within YAML files, as well as real-time validation in IDEs using JSON schemas.

py-gen-ml can be installed using pip:

> pip install py-gen-ml

There is a quick start guide available to help users get started with py-gen-ml. There is also additional documentation that covers topics such as the command-line interface, parameter sweeps, generated factories, and a Cifar 10 example project.

Using py-gen-ml can help you to manage complex ML projects more efficiently, streamline experiment running and hyperparameter tuning, and reduce the impact of configuration changes on your workflow.

It's still in an early stage, but ready for feedback!

Check out the project here: https://jostosh.github.io/py-gen-ml
I’ve used one for years on various MacBooks and it’s very effective. The paper is very thin so it causes no real mechanical stress and also opaque, so all the camera sees is a field the color of that paper.

There’s been no damage to the screen from the adhesive although occasionally I’ve had to clean the residual adhesive with 70% IPA, but nothing worse than the typical grime that most laptop monitors pick up.
Best guess, NewsCorp is pushing for it as Meta is a direct competitor.

Albeit, many 16 year olds are not using social media for news, but it does get them used to social media as there go to site early on.
Thanks this is the perspective I was looking for. Like how television was imagined to bring Shakespeare to the masses, but instead met the masses where they are. And how people in the losing party lament the ignorance of the voters when it has always been so, or worse.
If your job or hobby in any way likes LLMs, and you like to "Work Anywhere", it's hard not to justify the MBP Max (e.g. M3 Max, now M4 Max) with 128GB. You can run more than you'd think, faster than you'd think.

See also Hugging Face's MLX community:

https://huggingface.co/mlx-community

QwQ 32B is featured:

https://huggingface.co/collections/mlx-community/qwq-32b-pre...

If you want a traditional GUI, LM Studio beta 0.3.x is iterating on MLX: https://lmstudio.ai/beta-releases
Way too expensive for me.
Legacy media are indeed lazy and stupid, but all that's stopping them is the Australian parliament, who are lazier and stupider.
Used knex before typescript was a thing, it was such a life saver.

Everytime an ORM conversation would come up, I would bat it down, especially at the time where Bookshelf (now 100% dead) and Sails.js were popular.

We were all in on knex and it was such a life saver, especially migrations.

The only custom thing we did was an extension that would run explain on queries and flag anything that had a query cost over some value (I forget what it was).

Made finding new queries that were unperformant really easy.

The composability was nice, but we didn't need to use it all that much. It made one of our services that was essentially a query builder very easy to build. Something like "Find me patients that need X work Y weeks from now, now add a filter for medication type..." was easy to script out.
Drug development faces a forecasting problem, not a measurement problem. In the same way that temperature, pressure, and humidity readings have been collected for centuries, it wasn’t until we developed models and computational power that accurate weather forecasting became possible.

Similarly, in drug development, we’ve long had access to extensive pre-clinical data and measurement tools. However, without predictive models to interpret this data, we will continue to struggle to forecast a drug’s safety and effectiveness in humans.

Interesting coincidence that for the last several decades, the rate of success of a drug advancing from a phase 1 clinical trial to approval is about 10%, which was just about how good we were at forecasting tomorrow’s weather between 1900-1950.
This is pure insanity. This ban is something the Soviet Union or China would do, not the free world.
It seems that Putin has indeed succeeded in rebuilding the USSR, but only on the economic side.
Demonstrating core competency is one thing, leetcode is typically not that though.
While I absolutely support the idea of Proxmox (especially with ZFS), I think to start a learning project it is probably overkill to spend $600. I would maybe start with a Dell T30 or Fujitsu Celsius W550 for < $100 used or using a Gigabyte MC12-LE0 Mainboard with a Ryzen Pro 5600. Stacking one of these with a modern NVMe and some ECC RAM should go for additional $200, the Fujitsu Machine is OLD, but has intel AMT Remote Management and draws <10W Idle.
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According to recent studies kids don't know what a file or a folder is and can't even copy/paste anymore, I think we have a good margin.
> you are speaking in absolutes.

No I'm not. I said "there's something to it". I'm not OP, and I think OP could be understood to be speaking as "in the vast vast majority of cases" rather than an unbreakable now-and-forever rule. It's wise to interpret people in the most charitable reasonable light, generally.

> but is it absolutely true, and absolutely true today

If it's true in 99% of cases, or 100%, the difference is pretty small. Seems odd to focus on.

And we weren't discussing whether or not this would be true in a hundred years, but what the situation is now and historically. Certainly there is a potential for radical change; I would even call it necessary.
Let me tell you about color temperature. I have soft warm led light in my workshop. 2700k is a warm indoor yellow color temperature. 5000k is a harsh bright hellish blue.

https://wginc.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/WGI-Color-Tempe...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/27/world/europe/naples-volca...

Half a million people in Naples and surroundings would be directly affected, in addition to the impact on local and global weather patterns, and on the economy.
Are you up for coaching? Sounds like you'd be a fun stern coach (well I think someone stern is fun).

Just for like 15 to 30 min. per week, nothing much. My email is in my profile.

About me in short:

2 bachelors, 2 masters (bsc: psych, CS, msc: game-design, CS).

Software engineer for 4 years

Teacher (programming) for 2 years

300 leetcode questions done (not sure if I'm doing it for interview prep or fun or both, don't need to go the leetcode route anymore but I find it a rewarding endeavor)

I sometimes expand my math capabilities for funzies

My email is in my profile
I don't think there's overlap despite picoCAD having the word "CAD" in its name.

Just compare its examples with dune3d's real world circuit board example to see the difference: https://picocad.net/

Better comparisons would be Crocotile and maybe Blockbench. Not CAD software.
Obviously the formatting differ, but why would you deliver different content to different devices?
Representatives democracy also only works if representatives take it seriously too. Much (if not most) elected ones serves their personal agenda before the voters interests, let alone those of who can’t/don’t vote.

There’s also no universal _Truth_ that someone can grab entirely and as you noted information is essential but humans can’t be omniscient and you always miss something.

- "If others players cheat, I would loose by following the rules"

- "all i know is I know nothing".

Those two reasons explain why abstention or white/protest/defence votes can be fact based with a logical reasoning IMO.
If people just marked the title with a (paywall) it would already be an improvement.
> My personal hunch is legacy media is largely driving this

The level of conspiracy theory about the “mainstream media” feels out of control at times. Legacy media’s control over the population is already gone (as you stated), with what leverage would they be forcing this?

Occam’s Razor: voters are genuinely concerned about the effect social media is having on kids. As a parent I hear about these concerns a lot. That is what is driving this, no matter how badly thought out the implementation is.
Yes, because kids love when parents are all up in their social media accounts watching their interactions. What about parents who just buy their kids booze?
Oh, I see now. I thought he was talking about a computer language but he was actually talking about the English language. My bad.

So are you saying that POLL was a bad choice of name because polling means "check if there is something available and if there is get it"?

What would be a better name? How about availableToFetch and fetch? Any other better idea?

I don't like remove because you are not actually removing the object from the ring.
This means I will need to update the app when the certificate changes on the server, i.e. it has expired and needs to be renewed.
I didn't say I expect anything from anyone, but we all have the choice, with the very rare exception for those that are developmentally disabled and incapable of rationally choosing.

For the vast majority of those of us who have the power to think and consult one's conscience, we can and do choose the course of our action. Over time, we can also choose to escape our ignorance and learn the ideals that facilitate humanity in our mostly mammalian body, and then choose to learn how to be better and then actualize being better.

Very few of us have anything but a lame-ass excuse, usually falling back on one's cultural upbringing to make excuses for our deliberate, if unthinking, choices.

The best "structure", as you put it, is to make empathy a major part of childhood education, teaching that we are all human beings, each differently endowed but worthy of respect to some degree. As well, we have to teach that we have to resist the inner urgings towards selfishness and ignorance in favor of willful action that will the benefit of the whole.

But, no, I do not agree that most people cannot learn such a moral framework, and the proof is the simple fact that we are all living in groups, none of us being completely self-sufficient for all our human survival needs, not to mention those things that bring us entertainment and relaxation.
"Many people" is an understatement. In my experience 70%+ of applicants fail basic fizzbuzz or reverse a string level questions. If you think these questions are beneath you, good, you've just made my job easier as an interviewer.
Yeah. OVH prices things out that way.
So lazy that they successfully lobbied governments to ruin their relation with big tech companies like facebook, google etc

To give newspapers 100s of millions of free money just for the “privilege” of linking to their article, a “link tax”.

They are lazy about reporting news without a bias, but they are perfectly active when it comes to lobbying.
Here is the pricing page: https://account.servicestack.net/pricing. I had to dig a bit before getting it so just want to save everyone the trouble.
Comparing visually wasn't safe in the first place for the same reason, this changes nothing
I love Crocotile. It's got very opinionated, kind of weird UX, but it gets me in the zone so so well. I haven't used it in ages, I should give it another spin.
Among other things, there is solid evidence that the move toward gambling in the US has been a disaster. This is a topic that's fairly easy to study in objective terms.

The evidence for social media harming people is highly disputed and, I would say, largely unconvincing. For one thing, it relies on self-reported subjective well-being.
Just because consent is routinely violated doesn't make the consent violation at hand OK.
> better parenting.

And that's the key point. The crucial one.
BFS? Really, there are libraries for that and I would hire a kid who timidly used one as they could not remember how to implement it over someone who confidently introduced and off by one bug because they thought they knew how to implement it without references.
Why don’t we? Cigarettes are harmful to people, they get regulated. If Facebook is harmful, why not regulate it?
Another privacy killing feature coming from a government who can't help themselves from knowing every little detail about everyone's private life.
Yep they're the technology equivalent of a discount supermarket. Everything is commoditized to the extreme.

Breath of fresh air in the modern cloud era tbh.