Philomath

Lately I've been thinking a lot about how I want my children to interact with AI, and I realize that there's not much tooling around parental control or behavioral control of the AI. I was thinking, for example, to have my own GPT with some prompt engineering to make sure the LLM doesn't give answers directly and instead acts more as a guide, and also to make it understand who it is talking to. Has any of you done something about it? I assume AI adoption in households is increasing exponentially.

I thought this was a very bold move from YouTube (I'm not saying it's wrong). Are you all getting this?

I suppose YouTube wants to really monetize more and will eventually force users to pay YouTube premium or watch ads.

What do you all think?

When you hire someone you usually have to create accounts / give access to a lot of services (email, docs, accounting, admin panels, Github, cloud provider...)

How does your company handle this? Do you have an HR person that manually onboard them? Do you use software that creates these accounts for you?

Lastly, would you pay for a simple tool that does this?

I think that for SMEs that don't use HR software, a simple tool that just takes care of the onboarding/offboarding provisioning/deleting of accounts would be very helpful.

It seems like a very high percentage of internet users have some kind of adblocker, and Safari also blocks trackers by default.

So, is data you extract from those services still relevant?

Is it better to build your own tools that don't depend on loading external scripts? If not, how do you solve this issue?

I've read dozens of articles where people compare different CSS in JS solutions, but very very few actually explain WHY you should switch to CSS in JS in favor of just plain old CSS.

I am doing a lot of frontend development with javascript and I am still not convinced that having my styles in the javascript is worth it.

I hope someone can explain me why, in their experience, switching to CSS in JS was a good decision.

I find that having a strict naming convention in your css classes you can go very very far, without the need of making your js bigger and more complex. And if your problem is that CSS doesn't have a local scope, there's fixes for that too.

I recently came across a book that I would have never thought I would enjoy. It's a book on men fashion that is supposed to be THE book (Dressing the man). As I love learning about every topic I can (my name here must tell you something, philomath), I was wondering if people could, for their fields of expertise, share the one and only book that you should read to learnabout that topic.

Examples would be:

- Building a house

- Cooking

And I hope, many many others

I've been working in a React app that is growing really fast. More than libraries, what worries me the most is file structure.

I found an old reddit link (2 ya) showing some examples, but only Calypso (from WP) is a good example. The others are small and old. https://www.reddit.com/r/reactjs/comments/496db2/large_open_source_reactredux_projects/

Do you have any recommendations on file structure or links to large repos?

I was surprised to search on google and not being able to easily find the first laptop ever to not have an optical drive built in after CD'S were invented and all computers used them. I'm curious to see who can name the oldest model here in HN to omit it.

In my personal experience I've always complained about not trying a bit more to get some projects to succeed, but in the other hand, I've heard of so many people that tried for too long when the project was already dead. What do you think?