skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that this study didn't separate the two very well, but it's a difficult task to be fair.

They found that the kids' bed times were far earlier without phones, but was that a short term effect? Was it an effect of being observed and measured? If the parents valued their kids' sleep, why was the average bed time of 12 year old kids after 11pm pre-ban? You could blame that lack of sleep on phones if it made you feel better I suppose, but it's clearly not the whole story.
I certainly don’t think intelligence has to be made out of meat but I do think it’s a complex set of questions and we owe it to ourselves to actually try to tackle the underlying issue of what intelligence and self-awareness etc really are and how we might know whether a model did or did not exhibit these, because we are apt to fool ourselves on both sides of this argument depending on our prior beliefs.

You can see the same thing when people talk about whether animals exhibit self-awareness. There are experiments with dolphins and mirrors for example that definitely suggest that dolphins recognise and might even be amused by their reflection when they see it, but some people find it very hard to reconcile themselves to the idea tgat a dolphin might have a sense of self. I personally find it harder to believe that any particular characteristic would be uniquely human.
What's happening with founders over 40?
Automated proof of the transcendence of π in HOL light
I agree it's not as straightforward and accept your version of the future as very real possibility as well, but I'm focusing more on the aspect of showing off something that differentiates you. Already on instagram you have plenty of things with lots of views and social capital that generate a great picture of a specific view, but the actual experience of getting there or everything around it are miserable. People pay a lot of money to have something that can make them feel special and going to Mars would have that property maxed out.
I've set up myself once to learn Helix. First there was Kakoune that sounded exciting with its new modal model, but what had me wanting to really give Helix a go, beyond being exciting, was that it advertised itself "batteries included". It promised to deliver all the cool things programmers' editors do recently.

But then I stopped abruptly when realized Helix misses a key feature of Vim: swap files. I can just start editing and have not have to worry about losing my work, may whichever of computer panic, computer running off charge, environment (desktop env or tmux) crash, etc. occur.

So edit semantics is cool, but fundamentals like recovery should be got right before being a serious contender.

(I did a quick search to see if there is any news on this front, but what I found is all about "recovery hooks for panic", which is far more less than what's needed - it's about an emergency saving of the work if something goes awry with the editor. I need to be protected from loss if something goes awry with the environment too...)
I don't know any single anti-gun-regulation person who manufactures guns. Anyways. I am not app developer blah blah and I'm against this. Don't want your kids to be cash cows? Don't give them a credit card...?
Hey folks, made a Tinder-like swipe card component for Framer – fully customizable and smooth as butter.

Controls I built in:

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Adjust the border radius and add a subtle inner stroke

Toggle on/off green/red inner shadows with full RGBA controls for the colors

Add custom icons for swipe directions

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They are baiting for a lawsuit. Posting this right now isn't very beneficial for openAI, since they themselves want to loose the self inposed restrictions.
> because the economics of creating sophisticated proof's of concept was beyond the abilities of any one person

What?

Are you trying to say it’s too expensive for a single worker to make a POC, or that one person can’t make a POC?

Either way that’s not true at all…

There have been one person software shops for a long long time.
We can freeze and reanimate living things only five or so orders of magnitude removed from humans; if we're just talking hibernation, it's as little as two.
How do you get practical experience out of that?
P hacking is easy. Get test and control groups. Measure 40 health attributes. Give test group your special compound. Measure 40 health attributes again. Keep only results that show positive benefit (avg. around 2 by random chance). Publish, profit. Data would be clean and does not need to be manipulated. The overall scientific process is rife to be corrupted as long as tester and measurer are the same party, especially when there is financial incentive.
Imagine the suffering at the animals' side....
Banning phones is the practical policy. Schools could not police the myriad of apps and websites.
Government generally can’t on a public resource.
My dad got bored in the peak of the pandemic and wrote a name over Kentucky. https://imgur.com/a/ZBu2EYT
AI, Encryption, and the Sins of the 90s
They didn't exactly cheat. According to the rules as written, what they did was acceptable. Others who were slightly less blatant about it were permitted, and continue to be permitted, to do the same thing.
do they drive revenue from ads too?
Transform Any Document into Clean Markdown
(2025)

Debian 13 hasn't been released yet.
There seems to be a growing awareness in the RISC-V world that they have made the mistake of being generals refighting their previous war, and things have moved on without them noticing, but unfortunately they painted themselves into a corner of inappropriate technical decisions, and this is manifesting in comments like those quoted.
it's a way to express steps in a continuum (given by the context):
- not close (1)
- close (2)
- very close (3)
- arrived (4)
That's how language works. It's not mathematics and uses "salt and pepper" to convey the message as accurately as possible.
https://www.hl7.org/fhir/
To what end? Why do school kids need a smartphone?
Hawaii's population continues to decline as more move to California
Sufficient genetic separation in the presence of range overlap. Otherwise you're just arguing about whether things are geographical races vs species, which can only be subjective. (Mayr and Haffer had it right)
Docker and Devcontainers. You can make a mess in your own little box and not mess with my system.

We use conda/momba to install some more complex dependencies that are piles of shared libraries and a messy web of sub dependencies.
Also maybe see this: https://github.com/kspalaiologos/kamilalisp
Broadcom's long and winding path to the trillion-dollar club
I’d humbly suggest “protestation” isn’t the right word here
Scientists call for a global effort to create an AI virtual cell
The classic stand-in of boiling a bunch of water, then spinning turbines is likely our best bet.
I saw the draft script Phoenix without ashes in an anthology. I ought to look up the show as I'm a fan of trashy SF. (Just read Pohl's notorious Plauge of Pythons)
Good little write up. I was a little confused at first because the link is anchored to the bottom of the page, I presume accidentally.
They can’t make an engine reliable enough to only have one.
Please don't take this in bad faith but unless you're struggling with health related issues these limitations seem rather self imposed. Your second paragraph makes it sound like it's mental rather than physical, have you considered a mentor or life coach?
Sure, the difference is that one solution is immediately accessible to a school, and the other will be lobbied against by billionaires for a decade before meaningful change has a chance to happen.
The 'death panels' you're thinking aren't a result of the Affordable Care Act. Without the ACA, my kidney donation to my Dad would be a pre-existing condition and preclude me getting care for my remaining kidney. Fun fact: When I've mentioned this in social media online, Republicans love to tell me that it's my 'fault' for donating it so I have to suffer the consequences despite the fact that it saved the government money overall between Medicare and the VA.
0.6/1$ per M tokens in groq/cerebras vs 0.3$ per M tokens in deepinfra (for llama 3.3 70b)

But note the free tiers for groq and cerebras are very generous.
if anyone really wants to find out they would have sent an interceptor drone to take pics w/
The Henry Jackson Society (HJS) is a trans-Atlantic foreign policy and national security think tank, based in the United Kingdom.

While describing itself as non-partisan, its outlook has been described variously as right-wing, neoliberal,and neoconservative.

The Society identifies itself with a "forward strategy" to spread democracy and liberal values globally. It is currently focused primarily on supporting global democracy in the face of threats from China and Russia.

The Society is also known for its reports related to Islamic and far-right extremism. The Society is named after the US Senator and leading Democrat, Henry M. Jackson.

non-partisan?

pro Israel and anti Palestine then!
Probably damn near zero if you have time stamps. A couple one pixel blobs would do if all you're trying to prove is that some idiot got dead because they cut a garbage truck off and that the garbage truck didn't rear end them or, or some other simple "he said she said" situation like that
Or even banning phones makes schools (where the experiment is probably being conducted) less transparent, allowing more freely to pressure subjects (intentionally or not) to ensure the "proper" result of the experiment.
I call social media and other addictionware companies the “tobacco companies of the mind.”

The problem isn’t the phone per se. It’s the apps, which is why I don’t have that shit on my phone and use screen time and app approval with kids.

Not only do these companies addict and drain peoples’ wallets, but I largely blame them for the sorry state of political discourse. I watched it happen. When the algorithmic timelines hit around 2010-ish and everything started to be engagement-maxxed everyone (IMO across the political spectrum not just one side) lost their mind.

Sane well reasoned ideas and nuance don’t maximize engagement. Trolling, controversy baiting lunacy, tabloid and conspiranoid trash, hate, fear, and lynch mobs maximize engagement.

We’ve kind of known since the dawn of media that trash maximizes engagement and that if you engagement-max you get trash, but at this point it should be considered proven.
Yeah, it is down to the apps, not the phone as a device as such. Engagement driven software exists on consoles and PCs / laptops as well, and I'm not even talking about "social media" stuff, but pretty much all live service games and beyond. In return, I've stumbled over people that cannot even imagine why someone would take a smartphone into a far off-grid area, because for them the phone is synonymous with "always on" and all these stupid apps.

Problem is, the regulations regarding all that will take much much longer because the very fact all this engagement driven software is actual poison for the brain hasn't reached the stage where you can just hammer down facts and drown everyone who still thinks this is a good idea. They should show how all that affects overall productivity and all the billions and trillions they throw out of the window, how it pours oil into the fire of more and more people being overly stressed (which is not just work causing this) etc.
1 is exactly what Denmark does on many levels. From early medical to care to infra to lifestyle. Children are accepted as part of whole life, not as some bothersome nuisance that most western countries treat children as such.
Frankly this is not entrepreneurship. Retried, sons settled, no financial risk. It's as good, as bad as signing up for another government job

Enterprise is throwing the last dime you have knowing if you lost it, it's the streets.
A driver for controlling RGB LEDs using PWM, with gamma correction
Maybe it doesn't collapse, and the world is quantum through and through?
Very cool magic/tech!

Apologies if this goes against the hacker spirit, but do you know where I can buy a similar thing? In Europe?
I'm not surprised to see cognitive ability rise quickly. When I ditch the computer for two days and use pencil and paper, my math abilities rise sharply.
If you cannot harmlessly use it publicly then it never was a "nice thing we had".
god, the serendipity in HN sometimes is out of this world. im desperate to pratice chord progression in a more hands on way, hope this help me! ty
No mention of chemical stabilisation that I can see which is what you'd really to do if we were bulk producing antimatter: the idea is you produce a crystal lattice into which an anti-particle can be injected where it stably orbits due to the internal charge configuration.

There's some possible ideas for how to do it out there, but obviously we kind of lack enough antimatter to go experimenting.
If you are interested in a more nuanced way of comparing languages, take a look at:

"On the expressive power of programming languages"
Matthias Felleisen

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0167642391...

Abstract

The literature on programming languages contains an abundance of informal claims on the relative expressive power of programming languages, but there is no framework for formalizing such statements nor for deriving interesting consequences. As a first step in this direction, we develop a formal notion of expressiveness and investigate its properties. To validate the theory, we analyze some widely held beliefs about the expressive power of several extensions of functional languages. Based on these results, we believe that our system correctly captures many of the informal ideas on expressiveness, and that it constitutes a foundation for further research in this direction.
> The NHS is good for this because it has generally good data availability.

I predict that the USA will collect less and less data, and allow access to less and less of what is collected.
"Love and belonging" is the third in Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs.

It's difficult to feel a sense of belonging if all your peers have access to something you don't, even worse if that something is your social space itself.

(Full disclosure: I am rampantly anti smartphone. But I understand kids' need to have it.)
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What do you mean by "inappropriate technical decisions"?
Playstation 5 transformed into a laptop for $2,750
Without an exchange of money (or goods), there's no contract between the parties. Other laws may apply such as copyright, but not contract law.
'I received a first but felt tainted': inside the university AI cheating crisis
The advertising for this on TV was also confusing in this regard.

It's only because most UK secondary schools already ban phone use in school time that (in context) it obviously means round-the-clock.
Do you have a link to this. I’m interested in reading more?
Good job. I'm trying it out.
From a pragmatic perspective, the site's current approach is flawed; but identity is independent of body type, so I don't think yours is the right criticism. If the purpose is to fit different body types, there is overlap between "male" and "female". Trans / intersex people, sure, but even just considering cis endosex people: there are thin, gynecomastic men, and buff, broad-shouldered women.

If I regularly have to shop in the men's section, am I supposed to select "male"? The women's "plus size" on this website is a fairly average build. (The people most likely to need a website like this are the outliers.) I get that you can't do much if the photographs don't exist, so it's not like I'm proposing a solution.
I wonder what's more niche, a $3500 AR headset or a giant foldable iPad
Yes. I think a good example of this is the attempt to force everyone to use CFLs c20 years ago for light. Huge step backwards in quality of light, plus for many use cases they had a higher lifetime cost and shorter lifespan.

Then decent LED bulbs came along and noone needed to force anyone to do anything because the product works as a drop in replacement with lower lifetime costs in almost all relevant use cases.
"From the experimental School for Poetic Computation, which describes itself as dedicated to “the study of art, code, hardware, and critical theory through lenses of decolonization and transformative justice."
Aren't ppl like that are more likely to use vaadin and similar frameworks?
https://www.comicsmaker.ai

Its a service where users can create comics using AI generated artwork. Love creating art and writing software so it's a passion project for me. Haven't done any marketing yet, its mostly organic search traffic.
Even Socrates could tell when the consumer has become the product, so I guess this is not a new problem.

I wonder if there is some sort of solipsistic voice within us that recognizes when too much exposure or connectivity to other people becomes overwhelming in a way that we lose ourselves in it. I grew up and remember the times before everyone had easy access to the Internet in their homes, let alone on a high-powered terminal that now fits in our pockets. Those of us of a certain age remember a shift in social interaction that rivaled the previous generations telling mine we consumed too much tv (the 24/7 news cycle was a terrible idea for my generation, in retrospect).

On the one hand, kids don't need their smartphones in schools because mine did just fine without them. On the other hand, the smartphones can be used for a force of good, provided those "paintings" they are looking at are enriching their learning and growth in some way, setting them up to ask better questions when engaged in the Socratic dialogue.

But how do we guide usage toward that aim? That is the real question we should be asking.
Ask HN: How important is a portfolio on a SWE resume (non front end)
This seems like an inevitability. That is, eventually, "AI" will be used to create adaptive interfaces for whatever the HCI user wants: graphical, immersive, textual, voice, and so on.
XFCE 4.20 Released
really sucks that we're stuck with python when languages of the same realm (JS and ruby for example) are so much better (as languages and with regard to the associated tooling)
If death is a suicide it doesn't automatically means that third parties weren't involved. It's possible to push (temporally) vulnerable people over the edge, even if when helped/left alone they wouldn't.

Especially if one party have incentive to discredit/destroy such person, so court/jury won't take their testimony seriously(or there will be no testimony at all). After all it's almost impossible to connect such actions with subsequent suicide.

While suicide is by definition action of individual, what leads to it isn't always the same.
Then why do we observe a collapse?
The point of the market is not for you to do better than anyone else. The point is to price things right so that the market as a whole makes money. By picking stocks, you're either a gambling monkey or a more conservative gambling monkey.
Not really comparable because these are 12 year old children.

Not only could the phones be put away at night, but universally available parental controls could be used to lock the phones at a specified time each night.

We do this. It is just part of parenting, like deciding the time of bedtime.
Sequences in math start with 1 by convention, not for any fundamental logical reason. It’s a reach to say that math is “inherently 1-based”.
Astroscale's Adras-J Achieves Historic 15-Meter Approach to Space Debris
Human and Machine Intelligence: The Year 2039
That’s why we need blanket bans where no one has a smartphone at school.
As soon as it is eliminated, I predict the start of a decades long movement to restore it.

DST wasn't some sort of government conspiracy against citizens. There were valid reasons for it that have clearly been forgotten.

For most people, DST provides an extra hour of daylight after work for personal activities for most of the year.

Without DST, the extra daylight will occur before the start of the workday --- where it is harder to take advantage of because most people have to start preping for work or school.

Net result: Less personal time during daylight hours. Show of hands for those who want this?
These things completely fly above my head. I wish I could understand them because it’s pretty cool, but I got lost at the very succinct SRT explanation and it went downhill from there. Still, die shots are always pretty to look at.
At least one could have been the Prince Andrew Line.
For increased happiness it is the ban of addictive websites. Likes, dislikes and most importantly, flagging, censoring and cancelling, externalizes your locus of control and makes you think that you live in a dystopian world.

The Internet wasn't this bad when people were on Usenet and no one would censor your thoughts.

For cognitive abilities it is the phone ban itself.
> He got my father a job at a milk plant, working 9-5.

As a person who was raised on a small family dairy farm, when I read this I thought of cow milk processing like in the US; producing pasteurized milk, cheese, etc. But I have never seen milk or cheese in my limited exposure to Indian cuisine. So, maybe someone can enlighten me; what type of milk and how is it processed?
I run a youth tech club and honestly, attention to what we do vs. phones is all about whether kids are 1) engaged, 2) not tired. To drive engagement, they must have something to do, while progressing and seeing immediate results. I don't believe that's what normally happens at school.
What do you mean cover?
They may have lifted that from the Wikipedia article, linked below. See the “collision” section.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1955_Le_Mans_disaster
i think microsoft and google add feature to export their docs into markdown
Nix solves this better, including supporting Windows, and with significantly better error reporting. It even installs Python for you. Nix also has platform-independent lockfiles and a number of other features. Oh, and it's a lot faster as well.
Have higher standards for your devtools.
Neat project. I’ve been using SimplyPiano on iPad for about a year and it’s great for learning sight reading, scales, and chords. I recommend it for anyone seeking to improve their piano skills as well as devs building similar apps.
AI Leads Enhancement Tool
How many orders of magnitude more complicated is a human mind than a cell? Infinity, I'd guess.
On a related line of enquiry, both gemini-2-flash and sonnet-3.5-original can act like computers, interpreting and responding to instructions written in code. These two models are the only ones to do it reliably.

Here's a thread https://x.com/xundecidability/status/1867044846839431614

And example function for Gemini written in shell, where the system prompt is the function definition that interacts with the model. https://github.com/irthomasthomas/shelllm.sh/blob/main/shelp...
The VC's want someone dumb and impressionable.
Honestly? I think they are just rationalizing away their respective midlife crises.
Super-Convenient Software, or the End of Workflows as We Know Them
Seems to me that more than the age, it is about attitude. If you have a personal who is still curious at 60 and just working to stay active, you are getting a wealth of experience without the kind of nonsense that basically comes from having to take care of a family and the responsibility to raise kids. The upside (or downside, depending on the situation) is that you'll probably get more candid feedback.
Why wouldn't they make it into a targeted weapon? Us humans turn everything else into a weapon.
I think many people using llms are faking it and have no interest in “making it”.

It’s not about learning for most.

Just because a small subset of intelligent and motivated people use tools to become better programmers, there is a larger number of people that will use the tools to “cheat”.