skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> she's not an expert on mental health. She might be right, she might be wrong, but she isn't a source of truth.

It's FB but for the purpose of studying effects of social media on mental health it should suffice:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-knows-instagram-is-tox...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/sep/14/facebook-...

https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-internal-report-sho...

https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/how-social-medias-toxic-conten...
> Are there good corporate email alternatives that just do email/calendars and do them well with business-type SLAs? Zoho? FastMail?

There are literally tons of them.
> The 1990s-2010s Internet was a golden age

It was the golden age because from the 1990 to 2010, the internet was majority american. For the entire 90s, the internet population was something ridiculous like 95% american. Fun times.

> in the sense that even though the Internet was a child of the US military-industrial-research complex, political powers didn't yet perceive it as a potential threat vector or even comprehend it at all ("the internet is a series of tunes").

Comprehend it at all? Are you joking. Maybe the dumb politicians didn't know it but certainly the real people in charge certainly knew it's potential.

> Social media and "Web 2.0" were probably the death knell for this era

The death nell of the era was the smartphone which allowed millions of computer illiterate peoples around the world to join the internet. The demographics of the internet was definitely changing in the 2000s, but the arrival of the smartphone toward the end of the decade accelerated the demographic shift. Now americans make up a small portion of the internet population.
> or CA saying they'll do the same to gun owners).

But doesn't the CA law explicitly acknowledge this by saying if the TX law is ever knocked back the CA law automatically becomes null and void?
I have a theory that is grounded on no-scientific evidence whats-so-ever. This applies only to the 2-5y population.

1) kids in nursery get sick a whole lot, and is not always just 'building up their immunitary system', it really is a one-two punch of constant illness that drugs for months on, with little to no recovery mechanisms. This is truer in bigger city with a higher turnover of the class cohort

2) a lot of the socialization aspect of nursery is overrated. Parallel play is a thing, and the need for socialization doesn't require a whole 8 hours. There are plenty of other opportunities to socialize. Especially in higher density areas, where institutions are more involved in creating moments for kids to socialize.

3) the cost of central group based nursery has skyrocket. (just empiric evidence), at the same time there is an increasing supply of 20-something-y-old that don't want a nursery job, but are happy to do a more flexible working hour in a less 'stressful' enviroment (aka less children, more home based).

The combination of the 3 things has made homeschooling a lot more interesting for parents.
> Which is essentially what public school does.

The school I went to had, luckily, excellent teachers. One of them, not sure if as a coordinated effort or not, was big on letting the class decide things and helping us form the social structures needed for that - structuring discussions, votes, rules, and so on. I suspect it was a reaction to the dictatorship time requirement of studying an idealized version of Brazil's political organization.
Yes, these exercises have been standard since long before Covid but now the expectations are much higher.
Well now a good chunk of Palestians are dead and Palestina finds itself in an even worse situation(politically,economically,socially). Surely there is a better way than poking the bear to see what happens.
You can also read this as despite being banned TikTok expects 2/3 users to find ways to circumvent the ban
I'm in the middle of a free trial for the Workspace Gemini add-on.

It really, really sucks. I've played around with having it make tables for Sheets and it frequently gets confused or responds with ~"I can't do that, I'm just a LLM", even when feeding it one of their suggested examples word for word. Sometimes it's willing to iterate, sometimes it refuses. Once it gets confused,the only way I've been able to get it working again is by clearing the session and starting fresh.

And it's sloooow.

None of this saves me any time or frustration.
What are your thoughts on my app idea- car pooling for high school students
I'm building an app that connects high school teenagers for carpooling and building friendships across the school community. It's like snapchat but for ride sharing. Not all kids have driver license and this app will allow them to communicate ride needs for daily commute or events like sports, music or dance etc.,
The previous administration were the one who started Operation Warp Speed to reduce other regulatory hurdles, so maybe they will.
Question -- will pharma companies try and slander downplay this article?
Would not have been competitive due to labor costs. Also the chemicals used in manufacturing are quite toxic.
See my second paragraph. It can be ultimately positive while still being civilization-ending.
So what is your reason to wanting to WFH? You advocate it yet give none or is it "I don't need to commute, family matters, can do my washing through the day"
You might be on to something though!

If you dont mind dropping the religious aspect i think you already have the rest via the Prison-Industries Act; as cheap as an Asian child but with the strength and intelligence of the US adult prison population.

Hold on im going to write this down.
Our two kids are homeschooled and are generally equally excited to play with all their friends (some homeschooled, some in regular public school, some in private school).

I have yet to see or hear any "othering" of their friends. In fact, I'd say the breadth of different social situations they are exposed to makes the "othering" less likely.
It’s good to get fresh perspectives, especially when the military industrial complex wants to hide them from you.
Napoleonic wars beg to differ.
The big difference about that reinvention is that there are way more parents present in those environments than the typical public school variant. So both good behaviors to observe are more visible and also interventions are significantly more frequent.
Investors are the customer, so they are pandering to them by shoving AI into everything regardless of resulting enshittification. Foie gras AI for the stock price.
> It's right on the tin, "Feed"

+5 Insightful
It seems to me as though one can talk about the good old days, talk about progress, talk about things getting better, worse, or anything in-between. There are countless examples to draw from and endless lines of reasoning. Sometimes it's an interesting conversation but often it's not—you get the same rehashing of historical events and what-about-this. But basically what I see is a never-ending ping-pong game of "it's getting better" and "actually it's getting worse" (and vice-versa).

I'm more interested in the next conversation, one which moves on from this banal stalemate. What if nothing is happening at all? What if the questions we're asking about memory, the past, and progress rest on faulty assumptions?
Teen suicide rates have been falling in Europe and most of the world. North America has edged back up to 1990 levels, and it's largely alone in that trend.

Europe and the rest of the world has social media as well. And of course 1990 didn't have social media.

There are a lot of reasons teens can feel hopeless, and I think the hyper-partisan political atmosphere / circus, coupled with the existential crisis and very real career crisis caused by AI, at least in the common understanding, the rapid heating of the Earth, etc. I would attribute all of those as dramatically more likely to lead a child to seek an out more than social media, even if the latter is much easier to blame.
Then you either curate your feed very well or you don't use YouTube at all. Spend a couple of days indiscriminately watching whatever slop the algorithm recommends and you'll start seeing some eyebrow raising content.
Staggering charts.
I think in 2020, Iraq's parliament did vote to expel foreign troops, yet the U.S. military presence continues albeit in a limited capacity.

You are right, governments usually coordinate with governments, but my point is that the consent of the government doesn't always align with the will of the people, particularly in cases where public opinion is suppressed or ignored.
Having the emotional maturity to deal with things you don’t like happening has a major influence on how tough being bullied feels like. It’s rarely much time or physical pain, but some kids obsess over it even if they aren’t the major target they often feel extremely persecuted.

Adults can watch something happening and think nothing particularly significant is going on while some kids are experiencing extreme internal distress.
Zoho’s SLA I can’t speak to but it’s hard to argue against free forever, including custom domains. For personal use it’s perfect and the paid packages are much better value for money than Google/Microsoft.

FastMail is wonderfully competent at being an email provider, has human support (or advanced enough an AI to fool me) and wildcard domains.
Judging from the author's other assertions, this suggestion probably comes from a place of not limiting yourself to system fonts given that they're so prevalent. I can't say I agree either, and would add that some of the "free fonts that inundate the internet" are professionally designed by well-respected foundries.

That said, perhaps we should view these "rules" as laying a foundation for people who know nothing. I see the equivalent in fashion all the time, where breaking the standard set of fashion "rules" without knowing them in the first place can lead to disaster. Only by internalizing the rules can you then subvert them successfully.
The difference is that only recently with the CHIPS Act did the US gov't put money to support strategic industries at large scale.

The US in its history after the 60's would invent a lot of core industrial tech, but then we'd let Japan, Germany, etc. actually commercialize because we didn't want to pick winners.

We invented CNC machining, SMT / pick-n-place for PCBs, industrial robot arms, etc., and these were all American dominated, but foreign countries supported homegrown companies long-term, and those American companies went bust.
The real issue with Facebook is the inability to tune easily. One of the reasons I use Instagram and Threads is because I feel I can easily tune the algorithm with likes. I can keep up with my friends via stories. I dont need to post on my "wall" stupid stuff like the beer im drinking. Instagram + Stories feels like the best medium to see what my friends are upto with short stories and images. The explore feed can be tuned so I get content and threads fills the void on X and its terrible algorithms. I agree, "deleting" facebook or simple just leave it on deprecated mode and never use it besides market place is the best thing you can do. I dont give a crap what person's political view is and dont need to see a news feed based on triggers.
1) Let’s not prescribe language-use on the web instead. Something that originates in one place does not always stay in one place. How does that sound?

2) It’s abbreviated in every single thread on the sub in which it originated: https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/

3) Now that you have seen it and received the explanation, you will recognize it and can be the messenger in the future.
Not sure the religious remarks intention, but there's jails / prisons where prisoners do labor in exchange for very low compensation. Considering you get billed for being jailed, I would personally prefer working than to mount up debt I have no way of managing.
On non CCP controlled platforms, they cannot chose what stories to "organically" promote and who to promote them too. Most people have no concept of the 99% of posts to social media that never get traction.

They can still kind of do it, but it requires a lot of work to fool other companies algo's into artificially promoting what you want. Much easier to just call up Bytedance and say "We need everyone in this area seeing this tiktok tomorrow".
That page looks terrible lol
I agree completely, social media is essentially a dopamine addiction. Steve Jobs had an apt quote regarding what you said "our brains are primed on some level to buy into this stuff."

> When you’re young, you look at television and think, There’s a
conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But
when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks
are in business to give people exactly what they want. That’s a far
more depressing thought. Conspiracy is optimistic! You can shoot
the bastards! We can have a revolution! But the networks are really
in business to give people what they want. It’s the truth.
Yeah that and LiveJournal. And then it just kept going down from there in terms of self-expression, effort, quality, personal, actually-SOCIAL-media, etc.

"Social media" went from blogging and commenting with your friends and others to watching videos of ads interspersed with random memes and shit.

Quite a slide.
Meta's race to beat OpenAI: 'We need to learn how to win this race'
Those companies ought to be sued. They know that their die is cancer-linked and they still use it in the US even though they don't do it in Canada/EU.

We, as humanity, should sue all this big companies (nestle, coca-cola, etc.) for poisoning our lives for profit.
If Europe invested more in their militaries they could dictate their own terms with their neighbors.
Maybe Germany should have begun decoupling from Russia in 2014 after the invasion of Crimea.

Instead, Germany Inc sold out to Russia and China - with national champions like Deutsche Bank becoming addicted to it's Russian originated business and Volkswagen becoming addicted to Volkswagen China.
Not just trade reciprocity, but ideological reciprocity. The argument that the US should allow TikTok because “free speech”—while China bans American platforms because of censorship and also dictates content on TikTok because of censorship—seems obviously broken. Seems like the rule should at least be something like “Europe is welcome to blast propaganda at our teenagers for as long as we get to blast propaganda at their teenagers.”
This is a trite (and arguably silly) comment bordering on neo-Luddism. The genie is out of the bottle. There's really no going back.

Worse, it's treating symptoms as the problem. We, as a society, deify hyper-individualism. This is to such an extreme that people actually in completely and utterly selfish ways are glorified and celebrated because "freedom".

Social media happened after we destroyed community and any sense of collectivism. Unhealthy social media habits are a consequence of that. They didn't cause it.

Where once you needed just one job to live, you now need 5. Every aspect of our lives is financialized. We spend 30 years working to the bone to pay for a house that cost 1/10th what it did 30 years ago. The high costs of housing have destroyed all the so-called "third places".

Federating services does nothing to the core problem here. I find HN's obsession with federation, which literally solves zero problems for users and creates a bunch of problems, bizarre and out-of-touch.

The problem is capitalism.
I think it isn’t that unusual for homeschooling parents to form groups, you can do an art class together (otherwise hard to afford), start up some recurring social events, that sort of thing.

K-12 school is sort of a weird social situation, right? You are mandated to be there (you can’t even quit or find a new job), your manager has the right/responsibility of in loco parentis, your co-workers can’t be fired and their only punishment for goofing off is that they might get nagged a bit, and your worst peers don’t care about that at all. I don’t think it is obviously good practice of grown up social skills. You can see the maladaptive behavior that sticks around after—office gossips, bullying, that sort of thing (I mean, that sort of behavior is present everywhere, but I’m pretty sure it is enhanced by the fact that these are strategies to win in the pressure cooker).
If they get cancer they will probably die earlier and save us more money on not having to distribute social security checks.
My First Year in Bug Bounty
Who turned off the cheap GHG free Nuclear power? Who cheated on the emissions tests for the main exported vehicle? I have to assume you think all of germany's problems aren't of their own making per the tone of your comment.
These types of products have been around for a long time. I sued to have one a decade ago. It wasn't LiveScribe. Wacom also had a product like for this type of use.
The more you ban, the more "centralized" and "massive" the platforms you don't ban get. Unless you literally ban everything.

One has to be extremely naive to think Google (youtube) lobbyists didn't play a role in this Tiktok ban.
> The govt is mad that a foreign company is outcompeting a domestic one

China certainly engages in security theater for their own economic advantage as well. It's no coincidence that any American internet company that tries to operate in China gets throttled or "accidentally" blocked by the great Chinese firewall. And no, economic retaliation against China isn't "stooping down" to censorship of China. That would be like framing the EU's retaliatory tariffs against Trump as a punishment to European bourbon lovers.

> The govt is mad that they have control over the narrative on Facebook but do not on TikTok

Yes, but people do not appreciate what that really means. Countries need to eat the consequences of influencing domestic media, so you at least need to maintain a weak form of checks and balances. For example, anti-lockdown censorship during Covid in China eventually caused even more resentment against the CCP.

On the other hand, look at examples of Russian election interference in 2016 [1]. One of the posts is "Satan: If I win Clinton wins. Jesus: Not if I can help it. Press like to help Jesus win." The entire goal is to get Americans to distrust and hate each other. Nobody in America has anything to gain from posting this, but China and Russia have nothing but to gain from a more fractured America. We only found out about this because Facebook cooperated with American intelligence to find this foreign propaganda. At best, you can't expect the same cooperation from TikTok they are accountable to the CCP. At worst, TikTok would actively be working with China to disguise this propaganda as genuine content.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/01/us/politics/russia-2016-e...
I find AI meeting transcripts and summaries to be one of the most genuinely useful things to come out of this era of LLM tools. Being able to see a quick summary of what was decided or who was supposed to do what next is just so helpful, either for refreshing your memory after the weekend or just because people aren’t all that great at taking and sharing notes.
I don't think I agree with that. You don't get the system snapshotting, and you can't make your root filesystem tmpfs if you just use Ubuntu + Home Manager.
He's already got enough sycophants, too.
What's more interesting is that if you do it correctly, someone could leave jail / prison with interesting niche skills you could technically hire for, assuming they prove they are reformed.
Virtually every book I want this for has been around for 70+ years and still no high or low quality audiobook has been produced. How long do I have to wait for those aspiring top-enders before an audiobook can be made available?
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The 'US foreign policy blob' had been warning Germany that basing your energy policy on purchasing fossil fuels (which you are trying to get rid of) from a dictatorship in the hopes it gets them to play nice was a stupid idea and now Germans are paying the price for poorly thought out foreign policy. Good thing they still have those nuclear plants, right?
People in Gaza are celebrating the proposed ceasefire and Zionists are angry about it. I’m no Trump fan but it does indeed look like he’ll be better than Biden (who was the worst).
Relevant news story from a few years ago in the UK, where a bakery was using US sprinkles on cakes, that aren't legal to use in the UK, due to Red #3 :

https://www.npr.org/2021/10/15/1046348573/sprinklegate-sinks...
what problem are you solving?

Discovery ?
Ease of arrangement and management?

If discovery, you are fighting against worth of mouth of a very clicky group of people, that have plenty of other ways to exchange infomration that leads to discovery.

If it is ease of arrangement, you are fighting against SMS/text-messages.

TLDR: there is no business opportunity here, but it's a cool CRUD app to build and i'm sure you'll learn something in the process.

If you disagree with the above, do some user research with your target demographic. If you agree with the above, do some user research with your target demographic :)
There are definitely hero teachers and administrations in public schools. They aren't the norm though and it's a bit of a lottery whether your child will end up with one.
I wish it had - I’d vote for the person fighting for my right to party
An argument could be made truncation is a sort of random projection, though it probably depends on how the embedding was created, and a more textbook random projection is likely going to be more robust.
The ceasefire in the works is supported by Hamas.
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No that’s not the goal — having the fabs onshore means US intelligence agencies and executive/legislative branch will have access. This is contra to Taiwan where the Taiwanese government oversees this access.

Some people might like the sound of this, some might hate it, but day to day, there are significant portions of the US gov workforce who deal with counter espionage, corporate safety, and of course more publicized are the parts that enforce or “request” compliance with US goals, mandates, projects and so on.

Once a factory is on shore, literally on your sovereign land, you have a lot more say.

No different than wanting your banking managed on networks in your country, or your weapons manufactured in country.

That said, generally states have competed for sites like this, and cities like San Jose, Austin and Portland have benefited from having large silicon industry economic bases. I can’t speculate if TSMC will benefit local industry that much, but I imagine it can’t hurt — it’s extra jobs, and probably a boost for suppliers that are convenient to the foundries.
> No one is learning about Critical Race Theory anywhere other than law school (or possibly undergraduate sociology classes that pre-law students would be likely to take).

Yes and no.

You are correct that almost no one is learning full CRT legal theory in K-12.

That said, CRT principles have expanded beyond legal studies, and they have certainly made their way into classrooms. Here is an example of an article that makes a case for it:

https://www.uclalawreview.org/yes-critical-race-theory-shoul...

I’m not sure if you know many education academics, but I assure you that CRT and derivatives thereof have been some low-hanging fruit in education research for over two decades (i.e., relatively easy to get published).
Does anyone have a gentle introduction on binary λ-calculus? I've tried reading other pages on this site but it goes a bit too fast for me understand what the hell is going on with it.
American corporations have free speech rights. Chinese corporations do not.
Is that comparable though? It's not an open job position with requirements listed that anybody can apply for.
I don't know how that works in the US, but according to wikipedia the president can nominate a person and a majority vote in both houses of congress can confirm that.
It's not like the best candidate wins...this is politics...
Or the Chinese version of instagram, by short