skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was a control group, according to the site of Stanway school. However the whole thing is very much a TV show, featuring a Big Brother presenter, the bassist from Busted, and a TV doctor who hopes it "kick-starts a national conversation about which aspects of technology use can HELP our children and which aspects are in fact HARMING them." No preconceived ideas there at all, right? But I can't find a paper, with details of the experiment, such as how participants were selected and how they were motivated.

https://stanway.essex.sch.uk/swiped-the-people/

The thought occurs that the participants were being goodie-goodies, pandering to adult concerns, and saying the right things such as "yes I feel much less anxious, also I want to pick litter, save some endangered snails, eat vegetables and be virtuous in every way because all the things adults say are so right, look how responsible I am, praise me".

I guess a better test might be an involuntary one, like a solar storm that knocks the phone network out.
All that death and misery and no one even went to jail.
I'm getting pretty tired of hearing about "safe" rust. And I love Rust. The language's promoters are pushing a vision of a world that's just not true. And while memory bugs are an important class of issues, logic bugs are even larger.
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Pretty sure they sort of did this with their prior game, the name of which escapes me at the moment.

You'd basically draw giant triangles by visiting the vertices (or coordinating with remote team members) to control territory.

It'd be neat to see it explored more.
I suppose that power lines may start looking more like pipelines. These can be above-ground is the actual piping is not heavy, on lower pylons with a reduced span. Liquid nitrogen is lighter than water, does not need high pressure, and the insulation is mostly styrofoam.

The voltage can be substantially lowered, because high currents don't lead to high losses; the current may be made as high as practical, near to the limit of the material's superconducting state.
yes they had a hypothesis. that’s how science works.

You left out the other benefits the study found. those benefits seem to be quite significant. In fact, I will go as far as to say that sleep has been well associated with student performance.

You remark comes off as disingenuous and not ready for serious review.
An interesting read on alternative tokenization methods.

Questions:

1. What's the goal of entropy based byte token grouping as tokenization? Is this tokenization method best suited for the goal?

2. What about simply using byte level sequence to sequence autoencoder with down sampling for tokenization?
Ente sells cloud storage.
What do you anticipate pricing will be? How much can the user manage (create) the vocab list?
C++: Converting to a derived class from the future
Ah, missed that. New info, thank you!
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42364038
so far I was pretty courageous in giving my language models full access to the console so they can perform terminal comments whenever necessary.

thinking that the Chinese government might have built in a back door gives me a little pause though
There's a point where reductions get more expensive than removal.

We're definitely not at that point, or anywhere near it, but it exists.
At weddings, table sizes seem to be 8 or 10. Is that deliberate, to create 2 conversation groups?

I sometimes find myself trying to follow both conversations, or switching to the more interesting one. Is that bad etiquette?
Here you go: https://g.co/gemini/share/852449bad133
original paper - https://academic.oup.com/brain/article/147/10/3513/7754406?l...
No, you can't, vim visual mode always extends the selection, so moving by two words would select two, not the last one, but to see how it's different the best way is to just use the visual-first editor a little bit
Cognitive ability may have been growing as it does.. just been allocated elsewhere (scrolling).

Sleep is the real superpower.
Plain grift, or are they high on their own supply?
Commonly known as the scientific method.
Our eldest child has a phone. But it has to be kept downstairs at night - no tech in the bedroom before bed.

Hasn’t been a fight or a problem at all.
Article mainly seems to talk about vi, not vim. But I guess the author doesn't know where vim is coming from.
On the other hand, when writing C++, I very regularly wish it was more safe, even if that would come at the cost of it being less expressive
I wonder how it will pan out in aggregate when you amortise the productivity of sprinting to produce something vs crawling to fix the problems. In C++ although you are not wrestling with a borrow checker you do find yourself going fast down deep dark tunnels that take ages to get out of. In rust it might be you move instantaneously slower but faster on average but it might take time to gather that data.

For exampe I once had to help someone debug some C++ memory leaks in a vast codebase in jobs that took hours for each valgrind run. It was two of us for two weeks to eventually find and fix the problem and the fix was maybe (from memory) 10 lines tops. Not exactly productive. But the person writing the couple of hundred lines that created the problem probably felt quite productive while doing so.
It’s not that light is too fast it’s that space is too big.
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I spent the last 18 months unemployed and on WA "Apple Care", wasn't terrible, got me into the doctor for an ultrasound and into the dentist for an extraction at no cost to me.
Much less than one month. More like one day, or even a few hours depending on your job.

Or to paraphrase an answer to the original question- because Windows is so cheap (compared to the other costs in a business) that it's simply not worth any effort at all to avoid it.

Saving $100 on the lifetime cost of a laptop, and the person who uses it, is a rounding error from 0.

Whereas every incompatibility, mitigation, driver download, print failure etc just costs time.
The "nose" was only not heated if glass is a perfect insulator. But glass is not a perfect insulator.

And as-shown, a lot of that "nose" was glowing-hot after being hit with the torch, and none of it was subsequently quenched in water (as Prince Rupert drops are by definition).
The dimensional analysis justification for squaring the TFR is a total non-sequitur (TFR is unitless, so you cannot compensate for any dimensional issue this way). [1]

Instead, let's look at the Pareto front [2]:

Liechtenstein - GNI: 116,600, TFR: 1.3
Norway - GNI: 102,460, TFR: 1.6
Ireland - GNI: 80,390, TFR: 1.7
Iceland - GNI: 79,840, TFR: 1.7
Denmark - GNI: 73,360, TFR: 1.7
Qatar - GNI: 70,070, TFR: 1.9
Israel - GNI: 55,020, TFR: 2.9
Nigeria - GNI: 4,570, TFR: 4.6
Niger - GNI: 590, TFR: 6.1

Do you think countries on the top end or the bottom end of this front are better? If your answer is top, then you probably should not take a metric that weights up entries in the bottom half too seriously. And vice versa.

[1] Whereas the author's other justification, the compounding effect, is not sensible under the author's own assumptions: "how much GNI would you trade for an additional child per woman" should not depend on the current TFR like this if the author generically values every person coming into existence as he claims.

To take into account a compounding effect, one would have to do a much more complicated analysis, and place the compounding factor on total population enabling economic specialization, the sustainability of high GNI, and the actual economic complexity of each nation, certainly not on TFR. Not that I'm going to take the author's justification seriously unless their next post advocates for buying excess children from Niger, so that they can further increase the complexity of a more prosperous economy.

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_front
They think you're trolling because of the objectively false things you're saying about censorship, not anything you're saying that's actually about environmental policy.

You're also moving the goalposts by a mile if you go from "you can't criticize" to "the left will dislike you if you criticize".

> Which president said that again?

None of them said that. Replacing half the words in a sentence and asking who said the other half is not a way to make a coherent point.
It's interesting that you see a large group of people having one conversation as a success. Personally I really dislike those situations and would much rather it splinter into smaller groups.
Sure! On the other hand, if the compiler’s keeping me from writing memory bugs, I have more time and mental bandwidth to spend on avoiding logic bugs.

The same’s true with languages other than Rust, too. It’s not the only popular memory safe language.
Stuff binds to other stuff because the magnetic domains and shape match up well enough.

There is no way to effect something that attacks everything it doesn't recognize because a) there is no ooeration that represents not matching and b) if there was such a cell would be a short lived bomb that would blow up your body.

You adaptive immune system learns to and antigen when a short lived immune cell is semi randomly generated that binds to it and becomes a longer lived cell.

Presumably this could still happen but this normally takes days to happen. In between your inate immune system relies on being able to recognize a lot of existing antigens that are out there and common in attackers.

Having the entire library of malicious life become magically unknown means that you are relying on only your adaptive immune system is available to contain the damage.
I’m not a scientist in this field, but I would have been very surprised to have seen a difference in cognitive ability this quickly.

I’ve always felt that we wouldn’t recover from the negative impacts of phone addiction very quickly, if ever, after several years of addiction to doom scrolling, social media feeds, and the short bursts of 10-second videos.

I wish more real research in this field was being done, so that we could have some solid evidence — and proper warnings against — the negative impacts of phone addiction.

Until then, kids — and their parents — are left with the unfortunate decision between phone addition, and social ostracism.
I’m not a specialist but I think someone having in its hand the same device they do other activities on, may trigger some habits they have/had on that same device. That doesn’t refrain someone to be productive but not the easiest way.
Can you provide a link(s)?

A super-brief spin through Amazon doesn't show anything like that. And <= $30 is within the 'impulse buy' range, so I'm very interested to know more, if you're up for sharing :)
Seems reasonable might have some way of dealing with that when they’re able to accelerate sizable objects to multiple percents c.
Related ongoing thread:

They see your photos - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42419469 - Dec 2024 (128 comments)
Has computer science ever been primarily about programming? I don’t think that’s the case.
what's the cost difference between groq/cerebras vs using something else for inferencing open source models? I'm guessing the speed comes at a cost?
personally I enjoy conversations in groups! it gives me time to consider what I'm going to say and gather my thoughts, I have ADHD so in a one-on-one convo I tend to overwhelm people by being all over the place and often not making sense.
I don't think a smartphone itself is the issue, but the apps that are on it.

Keep the phone, ditch social media apps/sites.
Not familiar with this project but I’ve taken a “selfie” with Seattle’s live traffic cameras and it didn’t involve violating any traffic laws. The video lag was such that you could wave at the camera halfway through a crosswalk, get safely to the other side, then pull out your phone and see yourself waving back.

So maybe NYC should just add some lag.
> Japan does have a very high iOS market share however because they appreciate craftsmanship

Yeah that's probably not the case.

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Which international law this violates?

People spew this international law nonsense too much. If there is convention that has been signed and ratified by member states there is no law….
Can you sell or re-sell colo space to a handful of customers who might put TT or other “weird” hardware there? Doesn’t scale, but it hedges your own business. Requires the right customer though, like somebody who might buy Nervana / Xeon Phi but then buy NVidia from you when it blows up.
Oh that looks cool! I was really hoping it would have better emoji support than MessagEase as that is the one think I miss (the ability to search for emoji by name) but alas no.
We need to accept that humans are not capable of writing safe code in unsafe languages. Brilliant, dedicated, diligent programmers still write busted C code all the time. If the OpenBSD team still makes critical mistakes today, what hope do the rest of us have?
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Why do you assume backdoors are limited to the Chinese government?
US officials say most Northeast drone sightings are manned aircraft
Agreed. I'm a big fan of that stance. Part of what irritates me about the Rust love train is this pre-exists Rust.
Most of that list would require me to have YouTube or something up explaining how to do to, so I'd need a network to be productive lol
There is no benefit to disease as a weapon they aren't containable nor faster than nukes.

You unleash green too ensuring your targets liquidation in 6 weeks they inform you to share your own defense against it or get nuked tomorrow. You share it but it adapts and everyone dies.
I don't know off the top of my head, only played with it a little not seriously.
An A road is typically a high-speed high-throughput road. Stopping to wait for someone to slowly cross can be dangerous. So you are stationary there and then some comes around the bend at 60mph not expecting a stopped car and wham.

Not saying cars should have priority, but there you go
There also was an iChat server for Mac OS X Server IIRC.
I don’t understand what you consider self-awareness to be in this trivial sense. Is Eliza self-aware for example? Eliza maintains a dialogue albeit not obviously as coherent as a modern LLM.

From my perspective, we know what the benchmark is for our own self-awareness, because Decartes gave it to us: Cogito ergo sum. I think therefore I am. We know we think, so we know we exist. That is the root of our self-awareness.

There is a great deal of controversy about the question of whether any of the existing models think at all (and of course that’s the whole point of Turing’s amazing paper[1], and the Chinese room thought experiment[2]) and the best you could say is the burden at the moment is on the people who say models can think to prove that.

Given that, I really don’t see how you can say models have self-awareness at the moment. Models may hypothetically be able to convince themselves they are self-aware via Decartes’ method but notice that Decartes’ proof doesn’t work for us - he was able to pull himself up by his own bootstraps because he knew there was a thought so there must be an “I” who was doing the thinking. We have to observe models from the outside and determine whether or not thought is present, and that’s where the concept behind the Chinese room shows how tricky this is.

[1] Computing Machinery and Intelligence https://academic.oup.com/mind/article/LIX/236/433/986238

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room
Show HN: Endless Scrolling Fuels Anxiety – Made Block Scroll to Break the Habit
I realized I was spending way too much time on short-form content like Shorts, Reels, and TikToks, which severely impacted my attention span and felt like brain rot. To tackle this, I built BlockScroll, an app now available on the Play Store. It blocks shorts, reels, TikToks, and similar distractions without affecting other app features, helping enhance focus and reclaim your time.

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But those were not mobile services, more like Apple's implementation of ICQ or MSN Messenger.
Hey I'm the developer of the app. I realised that I was spending way to much on these short form conent that really impacted my attention span and was a brain rot to me. So I built this app to tackle them.
> I can earnestly say Kerrygold (or Irish butter from ALDI) makes a real difference than regular butter.

Was it Irish butter specifically or the butterfat %age? And if the former, did you compare to Normandy AOP butter?
Isn't disliking outsiders a bit natural, specially if you are absolutely not adopting to the culture? And is this dislikeness same as racism or are these two different behaviours?

(saying this while working as an outsider in another country where at least with coworkers I never feel like an outsider but may be that's this industry I work in)
Is there a clear leader/facilitator in that discussion class? Someone who keeps the discussion "on track" and prevents it from wandering from the chosen topic?

That would be different from the spontaneous, unstructured conversations the article is talking about.
By something liable to end human life when it inevitably adapts?

It actually makes sense to just go ahead and go to war with anyone who works on such weapons.
Depending on what you mean by "at least", the warning could still be a very effective safety mechanism, or we might realize there's no point in trying to be safe at all, or something else entirely. I think the implications need to be nailed down before a convincing argument can be made.
I appreciate the suggestions, unfortunately my problems aren't really with pip. It's more that packages ship over- or under-specific version requirements (e.g. dependency A wants numpy == 1.24.1, dependency B wants numpy >= 1.24 but actually doesn't work with 1.24.1 for some obscure reason (the authors probably didn't have A installed so they only tested with 1.24.2 and 1.26), but A actually will work fine with 1.25 so you need to override the 1.24.1 requirement). Or sometimes they have perfectly accurate but incompatible requirements and there's no standard or even good way to reconcile them.
Hypothesize then experiment
Yet people did a lot of wandering around the continent in the 1700 and 1800s.
There is also Guesstimation 2.0 by the same authors which is a sequel to Guesstimation and is just as good.

Also see Maths on the Back of an Envelope: Clever ways to (roughly) calculate anything. by Rob Eastaway - https://aperiodical.com/2019/11/review-maths-on-the-back-of-...

Related is How to Read Numbers: A Guide to Statistics in the News (and Knowing When to Trust Them) by Tom Chivers and David Chivers - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Read_Numbers

Finally, the old Soviet books by Yakov Perelman (https://mirtitles.org/?s=Yakov+Perelman) named Physics for Entertainment, Mathematics for Fun etc. also fall under the same category and are a good read.

Bonus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back-of-the-envelope_calculati... Follow other links like "Guesstimate" from the "See also" section.
You start with a hypothesis and then you test it.
No argument there. Rust is the first language that checks all the boxes for me — memory safe, compiled to machine code, open source, widely used, ergonomic — but if you told me you’ve been doing all that in Haskell, righteous! Rust didn’t invent any of those.
I imagine you will want to send more than 1kg worth of payload.
Isn't some of that matter/gas moving at really high speeds anyway?
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This feels a lot like using a supercar for a daily commute in gridlock traffic. Wastes energy, impractical, but also pretty cool
I assumed the OP was eliding that high-frequency circuits and interfaces are notorious for EM/RF noise.
> They were not in a hurry

That's a lot of supposing. Different individuals may have different ideas. Some get itchy feet. Some get banned from the community. Some run away.
You also submitted this from your other accounts [0], 8 hours ago [1], 9 hours ago [2], twice 1 day ago [3][4], twice 2 days ago [5][6], thrice 6 days ago [7][8][9]

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42421747

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42419596

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42419566

[3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42411469

[4]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42411404

[5]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42398801

[6]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42398759

[7]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42356986

[8]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42358593

[9]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42356466
It's complicated. I don't take salary. On paper, I am paid $50k but I invest that back into company and thus do not receive any cash amount. I am paying everything out of pocket.

We don't have much income through business.

I don't know if I can qualify for Apple Care (medicaid of WA).

It's hard to build business and have healthcare simultaneously.