jacobsimon

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by jacobsimon 20d ago
Yet other people claim to not have an internal monologue (including my wife and brother) and say they don’t hear anything when they think to themselves, and don’t really even “think” in words for that matter. So this comparison is also tric
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by jacobsimon 7mo ago
The number is wrong / the citation is misleading. It’s closer to 20-30% according to that study, the 79% is referring specifically to cases involving social media, of which Meta platforms are obviously going to make up a large percenta
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by jacobsimon 7mo ago
1. Parental control features on phones and computers 2. Grassroots marketing about potential risks of social media 3. Maybe better parental consent via existing regulations like COPPA
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by jacobsimon 7mo ago
It’s just an incredibly different statement. It’s like saying 79% of Americans voted for Trump vs 79% of registered Republicans voted for Trump, they lead to very different conclusions.
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by jacobsimon 7mo ago
I’m not saying it’s easy for teens to stop using social media, I’m just saying it doesn’t seem like it should require intervention by the US government to do so. There are many other ways to go about social change.
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by jacobsimon 7mo ago
Yeah that’s a good counterpoint. I guess it hinges on whether you can define a clear boundary around what is harmful or unharmful social media. Like to me “online shopping addiction” is probably a more realistic and analogous problem to gam
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by jacobsimon 7mo ago
I should say market share of social media* updated lol
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by jacobsimon 7mo ago
Not trying to defend Meta at all here, but this report is also lying. For example, it says "79% of all child sex trafficking in 2020 occurred on Meta’s platforms." But the source it cites actually says 79% of online social medi
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by jacobsimon 7mo ago
> Facebook causes harm, disproportionately so for younger people I think I disagree with this step. Facebook causes a kind of indirect harm here, and is used willingly by teens and parents, who could simply choose not to use it. That&#x2
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by jacobsimon 1y ago
Curious, let me know if you find anything about it! That does sort of explain why the brain areas would be locally flipped, but maybe doesn’t explain the global flip (right body -> left brain) that the original article is talking about.
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by jacobsimon 1y ago
Fair enough - so in reality they _are_ being pressured directly to remove the content and it has nothing to do with selling the products. A slippery slope indeed!
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by jacobsimon 1y ago
Maybe a silly idea, but here’s a solution to prevent financial censorship: make the game free. Or monetize via another way—ads, subscriptions, credits. There’s actually a lot of options for Steam if they aren’t being pressured directly to r
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by jacobsimon 1y ago
Had the same initial reaction - have we come full circle to Bootstrap 20 years later? But after playing around with their theme builder[1], I think there's real value here - you can quickly spin up a custom-ish set of Tailwind componen
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by jacobsimon 1y ago
Nice work! I really like how simple it was to get started. I know this would make it a bit harder to signup, but I think you should consider creating a Chrome Extension that allows you to get the real mouse coordinates, if possible. I think
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by jacobsimon 2y ago
Quality has improved so much too, I tried it a few months ago at Demo Day and I’m blown away by how good it is now.
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by jacobsimon 2y ago
Seems to work fine on iOS Safari and Chrome
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by jacobsimon 2y ago
Honestly, I think Apple played their cards perfectly. They didn’t try to be first to market with R&D, but they’ve launched just enough features to excite customers about new phones, while appeasing investors and subduing potential compe
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by jacobsimon 2y ago
Hah I’ve been having the same issue as the author with those scammy “package delay” texts getting summarized in my notifications. Didn’t realize how widespread that type of spam was until now. Why hasn’t someone implemented better spam dete
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by jacobsimon 2y ago
There’s nothing grammatically offensive about this. It’s like saying, “Cars come in all colors. Mine is red.”
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by jacobsimon 2y ago
I’d be surprised if they’re not using AI or some sort of rule-based generator at this point.
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by jacobsimon 2y ago
Well one key difference is that Google and Amazon are cloud operators, they will still benefit from selling the compute that open source models run on.
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by jacobsimon 2y ago
Oh great to hear, thanks for the kind words :)
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by jacobsimon 2y ago
I think the implication of the top comment is that cloud providers are buying revenue. When we say that cloud provider revenue is "up due to AI", a large part of that growth may be their own money coming back to them through these
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by jacobsimon 2y ago
So cool! I was just wondering the other day if it would be possible to build this! For front facing mode, I wonder if you could add a brief “calibration” step to help it learn the correct scale and adjust angles, e.g. give users a few targe
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by jacobsimon 2y ago
Just bought two. Nice work!
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by jacobsimon 2y ago
… It somehow just dawned on me that firm is between “hard” and “soft”
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by jacobsimon 2y ago
I think you’re missing the broader point, which is that there is a lot to computer science outside of the purely mathematical formalism. For example, distributed systems and networking are more like a physical science because they seek to m
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by jacobsimon 2y ago
My unprofessional take: The SEC is concerned primarily with protecting investors. If anything, changing to a normal for-profit structure and removing the cap on returns would be viewed as more investor/market-friendly than their curren
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by jacobsimon 2y ago
This is the way
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by jacobsimon 2y ago
Was thinking about this recently. The author misses the importance of timing in the unity of perception. It would be rather easy to conduct an experiment and ask people, “did X and Y happen at the same time?” where X and Y are different sti

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