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Comment · 1 month ago
Fantastic UX, so smooth even on smartphone ! Congrats
Comment · 1 month ago
PISA data show that students who use AI for specific schoolwork tasks, such as summarising texts, drafting or conducting research, attain lower scores in science than students who do not use AI.

See graphs on PISA 2025 homepage : https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/pisa-2025-results-volum...

So much for all the EdTech startups that want you to use their AI teachers. Seriously, this should be a major signal to keep screens and AI solutions out of classrooms. That's not solving everything but at least students would be given a few hours window of de-brainroting everyday. I'm open to accept that AI can have a positive impact on education but people and tools are apparently not ready and for the moment using it is a net negative.

Comment · 2 months ago
I tested different models of the 5.6 family with different settings, although I couldn't exactly remember precisely which ones.
Comment · 2 months ago
I got the opposite experience very recently : tried to OCR a bunch of handwritten emails addresses with chatGPT and I had to make so many corrections that I gave up. Whereas Mistral nailed it on first pass.
Comment · 3 months ago
I say this is a click bait article. The guy is taking a contrarian view on smartphone use by young people, with weak and very subjective arguments.

> the impetus for the most authoritarian internet regulation in the UK, including the <16s ban, has come from the affluent/wealthy/1% elite on the political right wing

Very strong take with no justification at all. What we observe is that many developped countries with different political orientations are currently taking action against harm caused by social media and more generally by excessive screen time. This is not about political right wing.

>It’s easy to understand why: the upper classes have always objectified their children into possessions. These are groups who, culturally, do not want their children to have agency over their own lives, nevermind devices, nor do they want their young adults to develop essential skills to live their lives as independent adults. They never have. And they never did themselves,

Really sounds like a frustrated person that projects his own problems on the rest of the world. And totally not relevant to the debate about the impact of social media on teenagers.

Comment · 3 months ago
This is a terrible idea. Screen time hinders the development of fundamental skills, including language and social interaction, especially for children of these ages.

France have already moved to ban screens from places with children under 3. Other countries (including UK, Australia) are also setting strong limits on screen use for kids under 5. This is for a reason.

Products like this are driven by business interests, not good will. Good parenting with screen control is the best way to have a fulfilled and happy child. Protect your children, keep them away from screens while they are under 5 and guide them carefully when you introduce screen time.

Comment · 1 year ago
I think you are mixing up different concepts.

Power impacts frequency, reactive power impacts voltage. It doesn't make sense to "cut power when frequency drops".

Comment · 1 year ago
Thanks, I was looking for an article like this, with a focus on the differences between generative AI techniques. My guess is that since LLMs and image generation became mainstream at the same time, most people don't have the slightest idea they are based on fundamentally different technologies.
Comment · 1 year ago
I hope not. It would be such a disappointment.
Comment · 1 year ago
The faq says rankings can be affected by automated moderation. I'd appreciate to have this clarified by a mod if one happens to read my words. Thanks

How are stories ranked?

The basic algorithm divides points by a power of the time since a story was submitted. Comments in threads are ranked the same way.

Other factors affecting rank include user flags, anti-abuse software, software which demotes overheated discussions, account or site weighting, and moderator action.

Comment · 1 year ago
How come this article has disappeared from HN front page ? Posted 2 hours ago and with 649 points
Comment · 3 years ago
Thanks for the heads up ! Without your message I'd probably have found out in a couple months :)
Comment · 4 years ago
Well depending on the size of your codebase, npm dependencies and Angular APIs used, it might or might not be a big deal. You can have a rough estimate of the complexity by running 'ng update'. Yes major releases come at a rapid pace and it is hard to always be on the latest version. We update regularly once we are 2-3 major versions behind and usually it's not so awful.
Comment · 4 years ago
I was wondering the same thing, especially with https
Comment · 4 years ago
It'd be interesting to know why load time hasn't improved.

In the comments I mostly see "because of js and adtech", but is there a factual analysis somewhere ? How much is due to the recent massive deployment of https and related latency ? Is it a problem of latency or bandwidth ? What type of contents is causing most of the waiting time ? Images, css, js ? Just wondering

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