skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A local tech school I work with the teacher does attendance by the phones.

They are to be put in a cabinet in a small bin. If they are not there...the kids do not get listed as being in class.
Yes...There are a couple kids with no phone...but sadly only a couple.

I personally think this is the way to handle this. In this class's case it is a machining/manufacturing program it is especially important to have the kids paying attention due to safety issues. They are quite literally running machines that can kill people.

When I was young we were told to not bring anything that was a potential distraction from learning...for me or others. If we did, it was taken away.

This also applied to hair and dress code...not that I am against free expression or anything like that...but the point was that anything that took away from the educational process (again...of you or others) was not allowed. I remember kids being sent home for wearing inappropriate Tshirts or haircuts (dyed mohawk). This was not the 50s...this was the 80s-90s.

Not sure what changed...but in my case it is time as a parent to make an effort. There is no reason for my kids to have phones at school...They don't answer when I need them to anyways.
Wait until you find out about "lifetime" warranties. It turns out that in California, the only guarantee you have on a so-called "lifetime" warranty is that it has to have a duration of at least 3 years. I'd be willing to bet most states don't have any better legal guarantees.

https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-lazarus-20140930-colu...
ken thompson when asked what he thought of virtual machines,
his response "they are such a good idea i wrote one. you may have heard of it: unix"
“We have a thing that is arcane and hasn’t taken off with the public so don’t make a new one” isn’t exactly a stellar argument.

The only winning move is to onboard users and given hundreds of millions of people may be looking to leave Twitter, Mastodon utterly shit the bed and missed the moment.

That’s the end of the story: if the system can’t catch users raining down from the sky during a generational upheaval in social media it ain’t never gonna make it.
Cost of a Noisy Social World
One of the things all these pundits neglect when they focus on the structural drawbacks of the dollar is the existence of a viable alternative. To be a real alternative reserve currency, the other currency must have enormous trading liquidity, very significant debt issuance (ie the issuing nation must have voracious debt appetite backed by a huge productive economy), be broadly accepted for trade (ie I can't just convert on my own - my trading partners need to convert as well) and be relatively more stable in both political and market volatility terms.

It's not enough for the US/dollar to have problems, the alternative would need to be far better, and there would need to be huge capacity for everyone to be able to buy in without massive market moves leading to a catastrophic stampede for the exits.

I personally think we will see (and are in fact already seeing) a gradual shift from absolute dollar hegemony to a more mixed picture but I think it will never amount to actual 'dedollarization' but more likely a situation in which you can trade in RMB, you can trade in EUR or you can trade in USD and there will be an increase in Eurobonds etc where nations raise debt in these foreign currencies as well as USD or their domestic currency to provide trading liquidity.
Are you accepting that no amount of contrary data in 10 years would change your mind?
Not sure about DSL but cable is DOCSIS which resembles Ethernet more than telephony.
Looks more like a Chinese Room to me.
Where did you get that the LLM was as _intelligent_ as a human?

First hand experience -I’ve been using it daily for the past two months.
this is not about arithmetic comparison, it's about erlang's exact-equality operator
Can you elaborate? I don't see your point.

If I read "no artificial colours or flavours", I don't presume nothing has been added, because that would be really naive. So if the ethyl butyrate they re-introduce to the juice came from fruit, I see that as natural, and a pretty reasonable thing to do. Is that what you're contending?
the problem is the second interpretation is wrong. for example, exp(x) would give a higher value than it does since the average value of the exponent of a range is higher than the exponent of it's center.
Let's not forget the ~600 lines of type declarations lol...

To be fair, though, in C, those would just be hidden inside a header file, so you wouldn't notice them as much.
Never thought of it buts it's funny in away that the cities with the shittiest winters are the best walkable cities.

Really so cal, texas, South east, and west should be walkable but their car centric nightmares filled with traffic
Who will curate though. Before the internet you'd read a book based on a recommendation from a friend, a sibling, a trusted figure. Now, in this increasingly isolating world, we get recommendations from small subreddits, maybe a HN post, and of course the subconscious prompting of adverts that seep through our filters.

An AI could be the writer and recommender in all those modern scenarios. Will this mean we revert back to listening to our friends and family over online opinion? Probably not, because they're no less exposed than we are to online recomendation creep.
What are your thoughts on KERI? Some of Phillip's slide decks are weird to go through, but I really like its security & usability goals (key rotation needs to be realistic!) and the fact that it's going through the IETF RFC process. (Also, it avoids cryptocurrency-related blockchain baggage. It's disappointing how much blockchains have infested decentralized identity efforts.)

<https://github.com/WebOfTrust/keri>
From a strategic asset perspective, the "gold" of fab and diffusion shops are in software and equipment configuration. It would be better to exfil and sabotage crucial equipment to retain the power to either return, exchange, or destroy it rather than irreversibly blow it up. It'd be a whole lot more geopolitically "acceptable" too than making bad press of one colonial power or another victimizing tiny Taiwan.
Yes I would classify Genghis Khan, Napoleon, etc., as probably even farther from the median adult human then Phineas Gage type oddities.

But this is splitting hairs since the main point is that the maximal case can't possibly be that much more extreme then already well documented cases.

Because only the observable actions of humans in the world is after all what we're capable of perceiving directly. And this is limited to what their body, including vocal chords, is physically capable of doing, no matter how many mental irregularities they have.

Or are you confused about something else?

It's unclear what the meaning of the rest of your comment is.
My understanding is it's mostly a thing in the northern latitudes -- England and Canada, and some northern US states, especially North Dakota.

In eg Indiana and Iowa the growing season is long enough there's no need to desiccate -- the weather isn't going to turn before the crop has a chance to dry.
>GPT-4 is better at reasoning than 90% of humans.

Even for obviously nonsens that 90% of humans would recognice as such.
I think the best frontend is a client you write yourself. You can switch effortlessly between models - summarize to compress - edit the context to be more relevant. Strip out irrelevant context and so on. I like using it better than the web client most of the time. I'd share it, but it has lots of personal prompts and workflows that I'd rather keep private.
I think it can be summed up in the following ways:

1) Parenting takes effort, use that effort to do 2-4
2) Know what they are looking at, prioritize face-to-face interactions.
3) Know the parents of the kids they are hanging out with.
4) Make sure that the parents of friends have the same values as you when it comes to social media.
I love 1bpp pixel art and the whole site looks great! Nice work, or shall I say labor of love?

On a whim, I picked up an e-ink display, 1800x1400 that has 16 grey shades, though I am unclear whether that is per pixel. Should know soon.

As I learn to use the display, throwing some of this art on it should look great.

That is all really. Just wanted to say nice work from one bit per pixel lover to another.
That's what I'm getting at - the Pi is amazingly powerful, but it doesn't come in a clamshell with a built-in screen and run for a month on a pair of double As.

I would really like something that was the exact form factor of a 200lx, but with a modern very low power chip and a color screen, even if it only ran for a week or so.
That wouldn't solve the hard problems I meant. Rust portability is an easy problem - it's clear how to port Rust to more architectures, just nobody has done it. But doing interop between Rust and C in both directions, with complicated things like RCU in between - that is a hard and complex problem.
I tried using Evolution a few years ago, but repeatedly hit problems where if I deleted text while composing an email, "Undo" would not restore it. I filed a bug, which was eventually closed with "we've changed some things around that might have affected this issue, please try to reproduce when the next version is released".

Looking at their issue tracker[1], this kind of thing seems to be a common complaint, rarely resolved with an actual direct bug fix. Most charitably, I assume that Evolution is designed for a use-case or workflow I don't have.

[1]: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution/-/issues/?search=un...
Not for as long as advertisers are onboard, which wouldn't be very long if they don't curb it.
How do you figure that, when the CFD software is already built and available, and the premise in the question is that that the asker is already in a position to start using it? It's pretty clear that the background of the asker is aligned with a software approach.

> Building a physical model, on the other hand, merely requires 3D printing the desired shape, doing some sort of casting process to get that out of metal, putting it on a boat, and seeing if you get a noticeable performance impact.

I love how you sneak the word "merely" in there, when for people like me, and presumably the asker, this would be a Herculean task :D
PwnAssistant – Controlling /Home's via a Home Assistant RCE
> I believe we care about self-directed thought, or agency. And a computer program needs to keep running to achieve that because it needs to interact with the world.

By that definition, every computer virus and worm qualifies as having "self-directed thought" and "agency." Their very existence "to keep running" and propagate satisfies the need "to interact with the world."
I think it’s important to say this: I think asking questions is great, and I’m glad that we’re not just taking statements at face value because making social suck less is a worthy goal.

However, you are coming across as highly adversarial here. Mostly because you immediately follow your questions with assertions, indicating that your questions may be rhetorical rather than genuine.

I’m not accusing you of anything per say but I very much want a dialog to happen in this space and I think your framing is damaging the chances of that happening.
In case anyone is wondering, this doesn't 'solve graph problems' with quantum magic any faster than a normal laptop solves them. The preprint is on arxiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.00936v2
but I can't see any supplemental materials on arxiv including any code ("[26] See Supplemental Materials.")

Title and subtitle of the Synopsis on physics.aps.org:

> "Large Photonic Processor Solves Graph Problems: A quantum photonic device can perform some real-world tasks more efficiently than classical computers."

What the paper itself says, which is a "Letter" and not a normal paper with sections like introduction, methods, discussion, conclusions, etc:

> "It is an open question, however, whether the GBS can yield advantage compared to improved classical algorithms and quantum-inspired algorithm."
An experimental editor for WebGPU compute shaders
What would be an example of “non-deductive” reasoning, which requires embodied perceptual experiences?
It is my understanding that our solar system contains heavier elements necessary for life due to a super nova deposing those elements. Is this considered common for solar systems?
They can make them at-cost and then charge whatever they want on their store. They just also have to allow me to choose different stores, or install another OS on my console if the OEM goes against my wishes. If you don't think I deserve that right as the lawful proprietor of said hardware, then we may be at an impasse. It seems like perfectly fair game to me.
Building Enterprise IoT Solutions with Eclipse IoT Technologies
I agree with you. I posted it because I thought it was interesting to contrast the two approaches, not because I want the USA to win, or indeed that it is a race at all.

That said, it could be seen as a race by some, in that the winner could temporarily get access to most of the world's encrypted communications, in which case I'd hope neither would get even near the finish line.
Search for 1550 series jobs or an engineering series (08xx) if you qualify by your degree. Those pay better usually than the many IT and technician jobs you found.

Your search is also finding roles that start at GS-7 or 9 and go up to 13 or 14. With experience, if they hire you, you would cone in as a 12 or 13.

https://www.usajobs.gov/Search/Results?g=12&g=13&g=14&g=15&j...
> I am not a Bhakt,

I am a Bhakt. I became one after I voted for the first time in 2019. I had to choose between Congress and BJP at that time and I decided to go with Congress because I hated Modi for the 2002 riots.

Afterwards, I had a nagging feeling that I had been conned. I am a 90s kid and am staunchly anti-Congress. I have seen first hand how they have ripped off millions in scams and destroyed India. It's almost as if the British loot of India never stopped. But how did I end up voting for corruption then? The con finally dawned on me when I realised that they point at Modi and vilify him not because he's anti-Muslim (he's not) but because he's cleaning up the mess. He is delivering on growth and and transforming India at a rapid pace. He's going to be the Deng Xioaping of India.

However, I was branded as a Hindutva fascist as soon as I voiced my support for him. And I have embraced that term fully. I've studied Hindutva and have turned into a complete Sanatani. My goal in life is now Moksha!

One of my greatest regret in life will be that I didn't vote for him in 2019. I am writing this from the queue of Karnataka assembly elections. I voted for him today.
They're still ==.

=:= (=== in elixir) Somewhat means "and has the same binary form"

Fwiw, julia made the exact same choices.
I spent the following year exploring the space with a handful of prototypes, and then recorded a series of podcast episodes as a form of design journaling: https://ivanish.ca/hest-podcast/

Work on Hest continues, but I'm being quiet about it until I have something to show.
> iOS literally doesn't have "just there for storage" directories that are not icloud. Either you use the photos pool, or you use icloud, or you use per-app directories that are local to each app.

Isn’t this no longer the case
for the last 5 years or so?

‘Files’ allows to access local non iCloud folders and every app with the right entitlement can write/read there.

You can even integrate your own cloud service into ’Files’ making in indistinguishable from iCloud (in some ways at least).
> Has it occurred to you that most other places make barely any manufactured goods at all compared to China? Particularly basic materials like steel. How do you factor that into your calculations?

China looks terrible compared to almost all other significant economies. When fundamentals like electricity production are much dirtier, you don't need to look much further downstream.

> But it doesn’t matter regardless

What "doesn't matter"?

> because any attempt to impose authoritarian climate measures on China will send the West into economic crisis, one way or another.

International terms of trade can not be "authoritarian", by definition. That's an ironic misunderstanding: if you want authoritarian look no further than the communist dictatorship ruling the country.
Don’t tell anyone, but I still think we’ve been terrible at UIs since VB6 and Hypercard.

We mostly gave up on 2D grids as device resolutions evolved. We made HTML, then made HTML5 as if everything was a blog or newspaper with a navigation bar, semantically (and you still have to learn that the nav contains a bulleted list?)

Unfortunately, it became a 3-hour or 3-year or 30-year process for someone to learn “how do I add a button at the bottom-right of my app?!”
Zone 2 training.
The long version.
I appreciate that you didn't attack anyone personally, but your comment was definitely written in the flamewar style: cross-examining, argumentative, and polemical on an inflammatory topic. That is not the curious conversation we want here, and even if you didn't intend it, it was likely to (and indeed did) provoke others into responding with inflammation of their own.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
> I have seen a number of wall clocks that feature the Latin expression Tempus Fugit or "time flies" and so I decided to name my project Tempus Nectit or the closest approximation I could find for "time knits."

Another option would have been "tempus texit".

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/texo

(It's true that "nectit" is a direct cognate with English "knit" and is probably also a plausible choice. It could also be interpreted as "time ties", which has a nice unintended rhyme in English with the traditional expression!)
Random bit-flip invalidates certificate transparency log – again?
This happened before a couple of years ago, and the problem seems to have repeated itself. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27728287
An actual default would be different. The US doesn't have anything like the wiggle room it had last time.
Yes, me. But old modems? Two months ago I was integrating a 5G modem into a bare metal embedded application. AT is also used for the WiFi and Bluetooth chips/modems we use. AT commands on two- or four-wire RS232. Not everything is Linux and PCI/USB.
To control law and order, you need to take action on the ground. Indian government has already deployed the army and paramilitary forces to control violence.
Freetekno was a movement in Canada where people exploited crown land laws and went to the middle of nowhere to rave in peace. They used early satellite maps and reconnaissance. It’s dead. Wish I had participated.
@dang likely a spam, phishing link
Perhaps shockingly, African hunter gatherers and sedentary Western office workers have the same daily energy expenditures as far as we know. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3405064/

In other words, people training for ultramarathons really are probably working harder than other people, even accounting for lifestyle and income disparities.
Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar. This part of your comment was great:

> I've moved to the US last year for higher education, and fortunately for me here I was able to meet a lot of Pakistani's. And not once did anyone say anything against India or me. In fact even the older generation was so thoughtful, and recognized our shared culture and history. And they were sometimes more friendly and less judgemental than fellow Indians here.

But the rest was much too disputatious and aggressive.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
I believe they are referring to this:

https://oss-security.openwall.org/wiki/mailing-lists/distros

> Please note that the maximum acceptable embargo period for issues disclosed to these lists is 14 days. Please do not ask for a longer embargo. In fact, embargo periods shorter than 7 days are preferable.
The only other distinction between == and =:= is for integers and floats. Integers are not =:= to the corresponding float, but are ==, so it has nothing to do with closeness.

-0.0 is a weird dumb non mathematical value that IEEE 754 put in (for example the standardized value for sqrt(-0.0) is not even justifiable based on their choices). I think they didn't want 1/(1/-Inf) to be Inf, or something.

In the end think of erlang's "==" as "equal in value" and "=:=" as "equal in representation in memory".

Now if you really want to raise the hackles of someone using Erlang, should ask why integers and floats don't have a well ordering, and what you should do when you sort them.
Everything is a Chinese room if you expect to see reified comprehension inside (and, naturally, don't find it).
Yes. I even started to hear the noises.
Other third party cloud storage providers seem to have no issue developing decent apps and there are APIs that allow them to be integrated in a similar way icloud is. So I’m not sure this is entirely on Apple…
I understand your perspective. Everyone is entitled to their opinions, but just adding a few notes.

When it comes to certain historical events or experiences, there are nuances that can only be truly understood by those who have lived through them. This does not mean that those who haven't experienced a particular event or lived through a specific period of history are incapable of contributing to the discussion or forming valid opinions.

The world we live in is indeed far from black and white. It is filled with shades of gray, and acknowledging this complexity is essential when discussing matters of politics, power, and oppression. Recognizing the intricacies involved helps us avoid oversimplifications and enables us to delve into a more comprehensive analysis.

Opressive regimes throughout history have demonstrated their ability to manipulate people and gain and perpetuate power. It is a phenomenon worth studying and understanding. By examining historical examples, we can gain insights into the factors and mechanisms that contribute to the rise and longevity of oppressive regimes.

Revolutionary movements do exist, but they are often the result of a long process that builds up over time. Social, economic, and political factors intertwine in complex ways, eventually leading to significant changes.
Thanks for taking the time to write this up. I’m thrilled that there is some motion happening to make social a bit less terrible and your write up is maybe the most objective, least rhetorical commentary I have seen on bluesky so far (side note, is it too late to change the name? I always end up calling it “BS”).

I’m still waiting for an invite to try it myself but I’m excited to see how it compares to mastodon.

I’m also curious to know if AT Protocol can be used for multiple service types. I’m more interested in a reddit replacement (lemmy) than a Twitter replacement (mastodon) and I’m hoping we can see another full scale fediverse come to fruition.
Yes. For me, part of it is the display tech in use. Those monochrome CRT displays look great! And that "white" phosphor helps augment the whole thing in a way an LCD misses the mark on, but just slightly.

Still looks great.

For what it is worth, an e-ink display will look fantastic! I have one and will view this eye candy on it soon enough.
Not even old modems, AT is still used everywhere. Just about every modem I've bought off Sparkfun uses AT.
Are they those awesome self-service milkers where the cow just walks up and gets milked automatically?
I bet GPT is really good at prolog, that would be interesting to explore.

"Answer this question in the form of a testable prolog program"
100% an AI generated response.