skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, and that's very much why I remain interested to see what comes of it.

If it's going to move forward it has to shake the sleazy image with all the scams, pump and dumps, Ponzi-schemes and market manipulation.
A totally different kind of creativity is involved.

Frankly, people get ahead in CS by writing papers. Many people who are successful in academic CS aren’t that interested in writing programs or even that good at it.

Video games require interdisciplinary talent. The credits for a video game look like the credits for a movie because it takes 2-d and 3-d artists, character designers, writers, musicians, sound effect specialists, voice talent, and various specialized programmers.

Sure there is the occasional legendary developer who makes something like Touhou on their own but that’s deeply unusual. If a person is dedicated to success on the CS track they might not find it helps them get a postdoc or faculty position or tenure.
I often wonder what the world would be like if the Buddhist sciences of the mind (e.g. mindfulness) were taught at all levels of society, as a priority, and TFA mentions it near the end, to say it's not enough:

> Meditation is a useful tool – but we actually need to stop the people who are pouring itching powder on us. We need to band together to take on the forces stealing our attention and take it back.

I'd argue the 'attention stealing' -- the 'itching powder', as the article called it -- is all in your head. It does exist, concretely, of course, in the form of social media, video games, etc. but their power over you -- the itchiness -- is something I find is seen for what it is through mindfulness. If we teach people proper control over their own minds, we put the power in their hands to evaluate new technologies and services mindfully.

I would sooner fight for teaching proper mental hygiene to people than trying to regulate every possible idea under the sun (as it suggests at the end). You DO own your own mind, as TFA says at the very end -- so take control of it!
The argument that most signed integers never use the negatives is a bit misleading, as I'm sure most unsigned integers never use the upper half of their range either
I had to read the whole thing to make sure I didn't miss anything.

You don't need to read this article, it's adding nothing new to the conversation except for a whole bunch of "i'm so smart, use my wisdom" type stories dotted neatly around the "i don't like that i'm getting old" lamentation going on.

> Some scientists say these worries about attention are a moral panic, comparable to the anxieties in the past about comic books or rap music, and that the evidence is shaky

Who gives us a toss what some scientists say? What does the friggen data say?

Is this really what passes for higher tier journalism these days? Pathetic
It's more like "got any Rollies mate" these days (nothing but lung cancer and taxes...)
I made money during the dotcom era but am still negative because it reminds me of the worst parts of day trading. Not pets.com or Kozmo, which for all of their flaws were at least building something lots of people want to buy (both could have worked with less rushed expansion), but the sleazy pump-and-dump companies which had “here a miracle happens” in their business plans. I remember so many people doing the same “who cares about value, this number is going up!” pitch.
>What he said is he suggested to study it. Which is fine. He never "suggested" injecting it or drinking it.

No, it absolutely is not fine for the President to spitball dangerous ideas like that on live national television. Even Trump later said he was being "sarcastic". Is that an appropriate moment to be sarcastic? Did he sound sarcastic at the time?

I don't understand your reflexive defense of Trump. There's a million things to hang the guy for, this isn't like Obama and his tan suit or his dijon mustard.
Ask HN: How do you stay off your devices?
Odysseus tied himself to the mast of the ship so that he wouldn’t succumb to the sirens’ calls. What’s the equivalent here?

I work in tech and I enjoy programming, and there’s always stimulation to be had on my phone. I’m growing to resent this and want strategies to deal with it.

What I want is to go completely dark, but I don’t want to lose 1) my job or 2) my friends on WhatsApp.

My first thought is to replace my iPhone with a feature phone that still has WhatsApp but maybe not a browser. Any other strategies that have worked for you?

Edit: just occurred to me that maybe this is the wrong place to ask.
Author here. I believe many of the complaints here are concerned about what is more common rather than what is universally better over all possible inputs which is actually the point of view this article is written from. The issue with the "general case" is that exploits are never actually found there, they're always found in the edge cases such as large, or "pathological" values as it were. Signed integer arithmetic has more of these edge cases than unsigned when it comes to sizes, indices, and offsets used in expressions controlling memory (either directly, or indirectly) which is the most common application of integers in a codebase. The native-word-size unsigned integer type covers the full numeric range for those operations, while signed simply cannot. At the same time, preventing a whole numeric-range that is simply incompatible with those operations (negative values), and a whole class of issues related to undefined operations. The only real edge-case unsigned has that is more error-prone is values close to zero under subtraction and that's relatively easy to account for which I go into great detail to explain.
The Lancet article was opinionated. It may have been wrong. I still don't see how that constitutes suppression or cancellation or censorship (and certainly not an accusation of racism). There were people within the scientific community who disagreed (Chan is one). There just weren't many of them.

Holding an opinion contrary to an expert consensus isn't a state of persecution.
Yes if these moonshot ideas are as old as electricity and have been attempted by thousands over decades. Only because you think physics doesn't apply doesn't make it so no matter how much money you throw at it.
...Or you can use a cryptocurrency like NANO (I'm sure there are others very similar), which is feeless and has nearly no delay to transfer. If there is a scam hiding in there, I've yet to find it.

Honestly I've stepped back from the entire crypto space for a while now, the whole space pisses me off, it's all hype and no progress. Or rather, the work that was needed to be done has now been done (feeless, near instantaneous, anonymous, and consensus based transfers of money) is now possible, and yet I still hear the screams about bitcoin daily. It's an outdated technology. A paradigm shift for software for sure, but a now long outdated one.

I'm sure bitcoin maximalists will reply in rage, but I can't convince you to see the truth through your speculative emotions, so I won't even try.
That wouldn't work with ADHD. You'd probably sit down and think about all the things you could do with that time without actually doing them while continuously scolding yourself for not doing them, and then get up 5 hours later, 3 of which you felt hungry and 2 of which you felt like going to the toilet.
Unfortunately Dragon development has mostly stalled for the last 5 years (Dragon 15 was a leap forward but that was quite some time ago now).

You can still make use of it via Dragonfly (see also Caster[0]) as mentioned by a sibling comment or by using Talon[1] or Vocola.

Having used a computer 90% hands free for about a year and a half back in 2019, I chose Dragonfly then, but would probably choose Talon nowadays - less futsing about and it has alternative speech engine options.

I also recommend looking into eye tracking: the Tobii gaming products[2] work well for general computer mousing with some software like Talon or Precision Gaze[3] - well enough for me to make a hands free mod[4] for Factorio, for example.

[0]: https://github.com/dictation-toolbox/Caster
[1]: https://talonvoice.com/
[2]: https://gaming.tobii.com/product/eye-tracker-5/
[3]: https://precisiongazemouse.org/
[4]: https://github.com/caspark/factorio-a11y
I think it's more about existential crisis than electronics. People don't have focus because they don't have focus in their life. They drift along the trend and only have occasional focus when it is forced upon them (e.g. deadline tomorrow morning). They don't really need focus, IMHO, because most of the things they work on don't require that. Social media and other things just feed them the phantasy that they are "focused" and "have something meaningful to do". I kinda agree a previous commenter that there will always be entertainment (and those entertainment are trained to grab your attention) around and removing some from us won't fix.

I also found that lack of energy plays a role. Whenever dealing with a difficult topic (e.g. studying something difficult), my energy level drops fast and in maybe 20-30 minutes it's totally gone and I cannot force my eye balls to fall on the reading material any more.

As mentioned in another comment, I believe I also fell victim of "juggling", whenever I'm learning online (i.e. without a book), I tend to multitask if the material is not very challenging (i.e. does not need focus). That brings me the conclusion that modern web learning platforms such as edX and modern course designers tend to simplify/gamify the material by cutting the material into very small chunks (most of the videos are sub-5 minutes). I would like to fall back to the traditional learning experience in which we read physical books, working on real electronic components and have to make appointments to ask questions (or grind in library for hours, even days for one single issue).
This is why I think we should ban ads on the internet. Ads are inextricably tied to the abuse of our attention; they turn attention into money.
Ads shift the incentive away from providing value, replacing it with an incentive to consume our time. I think all currently ad-driven platforms would be less harmful with a donation or subscription model.
Not to say such a ban is the perfect solution, but I think it is 75% there.
The government continued to investigate the lab leak hypothesis from the very beginning. The fact that some scientists tried to paint it as anti-Chinese bigotry (and some of the accusations clearly were) did not stop this. There's very little there there.
It would be “pulling birds” in BrE with no preposition.

Verb objects (and transitive/intransitive) are another difference between the dialects. In AmE you can say “I wrote Grandma yesterday”; in BrE that would be “I wrote to Grandma yesterday”.

A lot of AmE usage is becoming commonplace in Britain thanks to the Internet, though. You’ll now see commercials in Britain that implore you to “Search ‘Fred Insurance’ for full details”. Five years ago that would have been “Search _for_ ‘Fred Insurance’”.
I personally don't care about DeFi, I only care about the technological aspect. The tokens are just a mean to use the decentralized service. And again, people misusing the tool does not detract from the merits of the tool.
If you're inclined to read up on this topic, read Paul Graham's (free) essays instead. Don't buy this VCs book.

For instance, here's an article which talks about unit economics, aka why the bird company mentioned failed http://www.paulgraham.com/aord.html
Is there a way to _prove_ one is less influenced by advertising? I have an Iphone but several models old, and most of my clothes are Amazon Basics/brands with no logo.

So yea, I echo the claim. But I’m probably wrong. Where’s my blindspot? Is there a way to test how affected I am by ads?
> Unlike the people who developed Android, BlackBerry's leadership was blindsided by the iPhone's popularity

Android was blindsided by iPhone reveal, but the developers had the foresight to see where it was headed.
- Inflation will begin to tail off at the very end of 2022

- JWST will work but impressive looking images that the public are hungry for will give way to purely scientific work that looks a little more mundane.

- Biden will subtly disappear from view as much as possible due to old age

- Governments will fail to relinquish their authoritarian mode of operation despite covid becoming endemic.

- I predict the world will be even further away from it's 2050 1.5 degree C target.

- Seriously dank memes
“Doctor, it hurts when I do this.”

“Don’t do that.”
AUTOVON brings back memories from the mid 1960s. I was on a US Navy Oiler which was getting some maintanance from the shipyard in Subic Bay, PI. The shipyard officer we were assigned hosted a small party at his home and learning that I had been frustrated in not been able to complete a phone call to my wife in California imitated a call for me from his phone. Amazingly the call went through almost instantly and as I heard my wife answer an operator said more or less: "Sir, are you aware that this priority is used by the Joint Chiefs of Staff and ... . Sir what is your name, rank, and position?" Operating under the conceit that I may be stupid but not that stupid I quickly hung up.

The handset was a 'regular' one, not the one illustrated.
These new laws take effect in 2022
I’ve wanted to learn more about DSP for a while and recently started working through The Scientist and Engineer’s Guide to DSP [0] and it’s been fantastic. It’s much heavier on explanations and lighter on math equations than other books or courses I’d seen previously. It’s helping me build some real intuition around this stuff.

That book plus this article’s excellent explanations really helped things click for me and I’m very grateful to both authors!

0: https://www.dspguide.com/
Bitcoin’s growing energy problem: ‘It’s a dirty currency’
Were you considering a 9 year old model though? This shouldn't affect the newer ones running Android.
PythonKafkaCompose: A good starting point to learn Kafka
> You are talking about just one function - transfer of value

I do not. I am talking of the only way money enters this system. If there would be no money in the system no one would care. At the end of the day, in this time and place, our society decided money is the ultimate goal. I don't like it but it's what it is.

> You can have much lower transaction fees than in Visa / Mastercard

First of all: it's nonsensical to compare money to ... money? the problem with crypto"currency" is that it's not money and it's crossing that barrier which makes players lose money. Second, it's not inherent to the money system to use Visa / Mastercard. You can use other ways to transfer money -- but again, this is irrelevant.
Never heard for the nonce in America
Is this true though?

I can send $1000 USD to someone in France who wants EUR for $7 with Western Union.

How does Bitcoin or Ethereum let me do this for less?
What you describe is not special to crypto. Every currency exchange is "always winning". The rest is not very logical.
No. Nothing in Snowden's leaks showed this happening. If anything did, there would have been lawsuits. People believe there were a lot of things in those leaks that weren't actually there.
Does this fallacy have a name? The rough incline fallacy?
Any MacOS users who might need a little help running the originals: I downloaded the GitHub sources for the book and then downloaded the MacOS version of Vintage BASIC.

To run Super Star Trek, this command line worked for me in Terminal:

~/Downloads/vintage-basic-1.0.3/bin/vintbas ~/Downloads/basic-computer-games-main/84_Super_Star_Trek/superstartrek.bas
Because this is the fallback when you compile without udev support
It's not controlling anything, just providing steering cues for the pilots along whatever route it's set up for. Setting it up for the flight's intended route is a checklist item, which appears not to have been performed on this flight. Also on the checklist is identifying the correct airspeed for current conditions, called "Vr," at which to "rotate" and bring the aircraft off the ground during the takeoff roll.

Actually doing that is a memory item, intended to be prompted by a "Vr" call from the pilot not flying. As far as I know it's not yet clear whether the PNF gave that call, but the PF certainly waited to rotate until well after reaching Vr. This is where the "sanity checking" appears to have failed, with the PF heeding the misconfigured flight director when it disagreed with other instruments and the situation visible out the cockpit windshield.
I wonder what kids raised on iPads with big childproof cases will be like when they grow up, or even just when they get into high school.
And myself in the process of answering you :)
Interesting question.

I think there are those of us that enjoy following along with a discussion as opposed to directly participating in it. A “lurker” if you will.

For myself, I like to do this to see opposing viewpoints on a topic, to help crystalize my own thoughts. Also, I often read on mobile and don’t have the patience to write lengthy replies on my iPhone keyboard.

I’m not necessarily saying that users like myself deserve the right to dowvote, but I do consider myself part of this community, even if I am not actively “participating” by writing comments.
Well, "The Biggest Rock" back when Onion talks were funny: https://youtu.be/aO0TUI9r-So
Best Form of Government on Mars
Right, I think addiction is probably the bigger story rather than attention.
>If grid scale batteries ever become a viable thing and cheaper than nuclear then that’s just great

Ok. So, what if that already happened?

>In the meantime however

The meantime is past. Arguably it lasted until latest 2020 which was the last time grid scale batteries were expensive. 2014 was the last time solar or wind were expensive.

Meanwhile, if you tried to commission a new nuclear plant now it wouldnt be running until 2030 earliest and possibly later (hinkley point C will take 20 years).

A new battery/wind/solar farm usually takes a year and theyre still plunging in price.
The hangover cures assessed in this study included Curcumin, Duolac ProAP4 (probiotics), L-cysteine, N-Acetyl-L-Cysteine (NAC), Rapid Recovery (L-cysteine, thiamine, pyridoxine and ascorbic acid), Loxoprofen (loxoprofen sodium), SJP-001 (naproxen and fexofenadine), Phyllpro (Phyllanthus amarus), Clovinol (extract of clove buds), Hovenia dulcis Thunb. fruit extract (HDE), Polysaccharide rich extract of Acanthopanax (PEA), Red Ginseng, Korean Pear Juice, L-ornithine, Prickly Pear, Artichoke extract, 'Morning-Fit' (dried yeast, thiamine nitrate, pyridoxine hydrochloride, and riboflavin), Propranolol, Tolfenamic acid, Chlormethiazole, and Pyritinol.

well, they didn't test the ones that work! sheesh.
>Is it cheaper than demand shaping/wind/solar/grid-scale batteries though? That's the real question.

Hmm, I think one should also add other factors.

Space Requirements for Wind and solar. To generate the same amount of energy as a nuclear power plant a lot of space is needed for Wind and Solar.

Resources to Produce Batteries, Solar Panels and Wind mills. Battery production requires a fuck ton of water. With impeding Water shortages this is suboptimal.

How many Solar Panels and Wind mills can we produce daily?
Not just construction and installation on site, but also mineral mining for the Solar panels.
And then how many factories can produce these, and can that be scaled up?
How many construction workers are there and how many on site installation can be completed.

We need 1200 wind turbines to replace an 30year old nuclear power plant. Windturbine = 3mW, Nuclear power plant = 1.2GW

Just to cover our current demand of electrical energy we need a ton of wind turbines and solar panels. Than add to that every other industry that needs to switch to electricity, Transportation, Chemical Industry, Steel Industry, heating etc. This would quintuple our electrical energy consumption.
Point me to any document that says the US asks other countries to spy on its citizens.
Necker Cube
You're acting like corporations aren't enacting control over large populations right now either.

Everything the market does as a byproduct of maximizing profits is fine, but all other intervention with provably better mental and physical health outcomes is authoritarian. Did I get that right?
No one with a working strategy is going to describe it to you. It would dilute the strategy's effectiveness. The nature of the market is that any edge that becomes public knowledge soon stops working.
Governmental Ethics of Covid
The Essence of Calculus [video]
Nonce more specifically means someone who preys on children versus (say) a rapist who merely preys on adults.
“Of course I don’t have to do this,” one middle aged man said, carefully cleaning the table with a damp cloth. He put the cloth in a little pouch, sat down beside him. “But look, this table’s clean.” He agreed that the table was clean.

“Usually,” the man said, “I work on alien religions… I catalogue, evaluate, compare. I come up with theories and argue with colleagues here and elsewhere. But the job’s never finished. Always new examples and even the old ones get reevaluated and new people come along and come up with new ideas about what you thought was settled. But,” he slapped the table, “when you clean a table, you clean a table. You feel you’ve done something. It’s an achievement.”

> from Use Of Weapons, by Iain M. Banks
For lack of a better term it’s proof of work. Simply making accounts and waiting is easy, you don’t want the temptation to create a lot of accounts then heavily downvote people you disagree with.

Voting rings seem like an easy way around this but tend to be easy to catch.
Yeah, when we are lucky to have a several days long Internet breakage at home (we don't use cellular Internet), all of a sudden things which had been 'not possible' or 'so hard' or 'so tiring' for months or years suddenly become possible or normal or even obvious. We even manage to do things together with family members. Imagine!
And British dialects are so wonderfully localised.

Leicester, as you say, has the “Lestah” pronunciation.

Peterborough has the ubiquitous glottal stop (sorry, Pe’erborough has the ubiqui’ous glo’al stop).

Rutland has neither.

It’s 20 miles from Leicester to Rutland and another 20 from Rutland to Peterborough. When I lived there I could often pinpoint a Rutland accent to within a group of villages, though I don’t think I could do so today.
> In the real world, the amount of currency increases when a bank extends a loan which then creates more value by such things as being using as capital, allowing you to enjoy a home now instead of decades later and so forth

Or the central bank decides to flip a switch and create trillions of dollars in money with the stoke of a key and distributes it to parties it feels needs them (mostly banks and other financial parties [0]).

This is also a very short term limited view of money. A stable currency is not the norm for most of history. Even today's relatively stable system in western democracies is very short.

If you take a longer, broader view of currency and monetary policy you'll see that the system is not sustainable an there is value in an alternative money supply thats based on rules and not reliant on the wisdom of central bankers appointed by politicians. Whether crypto is the answer is different question. But to think that somehow western central bankers are beyond approach and figured it all out in the last 50 years is naive.

[0] https://www.covidmoneytracker.org/
> nothing seriously bad actually happened here

Incorrect! They exposed their pax to unnecessary risk. You do not think like an aviator.