skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In 2004, in our earliest study, we found that people averaged about one hundred fifty seconds (two and a half minutes) on a computer screen before switching their attention to another screen

Maybe it's just me, but I look at several different screens each day (Phone, Workstation, Raspberry Pi for home network logging using Pi-Hole, and a tablet). Not to mention our main TV. This is all normal for people these days. One screen for everything doesn't cut it, unless you are very disciplined and force yourself to use one device for everything, but I don't see the main purpose of that.

Maybe if you're running a business with tricky logistics, you need to be pinned to a single device and need real-time interaction with your systems to get things done?
To whoever wrote this, I have this unsolicited advice: being obnoxious about your competitor is very off-putting to the reader.

Putting down your competitor is a very fine art if you don't want to come across as a douche. Done correctly it can be hilarious though. But this is just a bull in the china shop.
I've always looked at IBM like an even more extreme version of Microsoft. I'd probably have us on their path if the cost and knowledge weren't a massive barrier to entry. I know IBM has some cloud thing for us baby startups, but I sure as hell can't figure out how to use it or if our customers are even aware of it.

Vertical integration of the business into one magic box is a perpetual dream of mine. Bonus points if I can yell at exactly one vendor if anything goes wrong.
EMF Levels of Apple Devices
EMF levels of various Apple devices measured using a hand-held RF field strength meter.
My favorite part of TSA locks is there are only 7 different keys. So if you lose your key in the airport, if you have more than a handful of people near you, you don't even need to know how to pick or break it. Someone has your key already! [https://techcrunch.com/2016/07/27/security-experts-have-clon...]

Or, just buy the replacement on amazon I guess [https://www.amazon.com/tsa-key/s?k=tsa+key]

Frankly, it's probably better to just use a random re-usable zip-tie. At least then you won't figure out you lost your 'key' somewhere inconvenient.
5 to 24 months according to this site: https://rav4resource.com/rav4-prime-availability/#:~:text=Ho...

I was looking at plug-in hybrids and ran across a reference to people having to wait 2 years for a RAV4 Prime.
There's an entire explanation section on that link, I don't know why you're using it as proof that "it cannot be explained in any other way". Choosing to believe something happened is one thing, choosing to believe that is undeniably attributed to a larger power is an added layer that isn't rational at all.

You are misusing logic in the same way. You are disconnecting it from its value in order to justify a belief in a larger power. This is neither logical or rational.

The entire idea that religion is rational or logical is one that's been pushed since the late enlightenment era upon realizing that you cannot control others through religion unless they believe that you are operating rationally on behalf of a larger power. This is the trick. It's very effective!
Twitter was a useful tool years ago... indeed.
As someone who argues routinely with long-winded racists on Reddit, it's no haven. Nor are the crackpots spewing 1/6 rants and COVID conspiracies on Facebook.

I think social media itself is the problem, not the post length.
They also reserve the right to kick you out of the app store once they have their clone ready :D
Also not a pilot, but I did a little googling.

Here are a few key selections from https://pilotinstitute.com/forward-slip-vs-sideslip/

> Both forward and sideslips involve opposite aileron and rudder input. In a forward slip (typically used to increase drag and decrease altitude), the aircraft’s nose points away from the direction of flight, with the lowered wing facing the direction of flight. In a sideslip (typically associated with the final stage of a crosswind landing), the aircraft’s nose points in the direction of flight, regardless of which wing is lowered.

and

> To understand the difference between a forward and a sideslip, we need to understand the slip in general. A slip, at its core, is an uncoordinated turn. In other words, when the ball of the turn coordinator is not in the middle, you’re in a slip.

So in general, a slip is a situation where you're banking, but not turning, due to opposite inputs to ailerons and rudder (i.e. between stick and pedals).

As I read through all that, I thought I was coming to a decent understanding. However, finally,

> The jargon is unnecessarily confusing – you move forward during a forward and a sideslip, but you don’t move sidewards during a sideslip; you technically move sidewards during a forward slip!?

Hmn.
I always assumed this convention was just using "of" in the same sense as function composition. From wikipedia:

> The notation g ∘ f is read as "g of f "...
Time is worth more than money. It could turn around, but it could also not, and if it doesn't, you're not getting those two hours of your life back. You have a very limited amount of time allotted to you on Earth, choose what you do with it wisely. You'll get more money, you won't get more time.
Most of the account and cash-flow priority types have customization options that can be used to do things like adjust liquidity/withdrawal rules and dial things in based on your circumstances. And if there are some specific areas where you'd like to see even more of that, just let me know.
People use game engines for more than just gaming too
While I watched a lot of films on the big screen at school (I was involved in the film group), over the years I've watched fewer and fewer. These days my maybe once a year criterion is whether it's something I'd want to see in IMAX if I could. Though I'm not sure how much length has to do with it.

I'm honestly surprised that movie theaters have come back to such a degree. I suppose the lesson is that the pandemic didn't really change things all that much--certainly not to the degree a lot of people expected. Even more flexible work arrangements, much less fully remote work, is mostly in some bubbles.
Certainly, you can frame an argument around the perspective of more advanced beings viewing human behavior as somewhat algorithmic or non-sentient. Here's a suggestion:

"It's quite fascinating to consider your perspective on the current state of AI, and you make a strong argument. However, I'd like to offer a different lens through which we might view this issue.

Consider, for a moment, a hypothetical race of beings far more advanced than us. Let's assume their consciousness, sensation, and understanding of emotions surpass ours in ways we can't even begin to fathom. From their viewpoint, our behavior and responses could appear as automatic and "pre-programmed" as we perceive AI's responses to be today. They might observe how we eat, sleep, work, and reproduce, and conclude that we are merely 'optimizing' for survival and reproduction.

Furthermore, our reactions to environmental stimuli could seem simplistic to them, akin to how a software program's responses are viewed by us. Just like how an AI responds based on its training data, we react based on our life experiences and genetic predispositions, which are nothing more than 'biological training data'. Our joys, fears, love, and anger might all seem like programmed responses to these hypothetical beings. Does that make us non-sentient?

While it's valid to consider that AI, as we know it, doesn't experience emotions or sensations like humans do, one could argue that sentience is a matter of perspective. The question then becomes not whether AIs are 'conscious' in the same sense as we are, but whether their ability to mimic human emotions and responses is sufficiently advanced to warrant a redefinition or broadening of our understanding of consciousness." (My idea, chatgpt used for phrasing, unedited)
There are no censorship laws in America. Under Elon's twitter, no sitting president of the united states will get banned. That alone is enough of a change. Please show me some examples of new Twitter increasing political censorship of people he disagrees with. The reality is new twitter has vastly expanded the amount of accepted speech, which is never a bad thing.

The flight trackers thing (from what I understand) ended up being a security risk with NON PUBLIC information beginning to appear there (people actually following cars and reporting). Not saying I agree with it, but in those circumstances I'd imagine most social networks would have done the same.

Turkey thing is not a choice of his. Not all countries have free speech like America, either they comply or get banned. The real test is censoring in free countries like Facebook, Instagram, old Twitter, etc have been doing.
Compare this with the Quest devkit: https://developer.oculus.com/quest/
Reputation isn't revenue.

You could say the same thing about Brain or Waymo.
Yes, it's generally legal to apply an additional surcharge on card transactions beyond the cash price, thus making it appear as if the sales tax is being removed. It's all above board as long as the full value of the sale is reported and taxed (exact details vary by tax code, of course).

It's generally illegal, however, for a business to evade taxes by failing to report the full value of cash sales. It's also legally dubious as a customer to knowingly help facilitate such transactions (e.g.: anti-laundering laws)... but I don't think it's common to catch heat for this if you're an otherwise law-abiding person.
I do not miss performance tuning apache.
Right? I would be enjoying life to the fullest, privately. This guy has already reached end game, instead of enjoying it, he's squandering his name/reputation for internet points.
I can see them having the ability to link a wireless controller for hardcore gaming like you can to Apple TV (and of course iOS devices).

For everything else games could use hand tracking with a similar control scheme to Kinect and Wii attempted.
I've had a lot of luck with Graphviz and ridiculous numbers of nodes. Have you tried that?
sounds like a need for something like a utility or public corporation.
This seems unlikely given how much effort they put into the physical demo experience at the unveiling event, according to nearly all attendees.

It's more likely that it simply doesn't have the processing or cooling capacity for an impressive game experience.
It's actually very easy to make Fortran bindings for Julia, where you can call your Fortran code from Julia.

https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/calling-c-and-fortra...

So unless you think the Julia version will compile to faster code than the Fortran code (probably not if you use a fancy paid license Fortran compiler), then definitely don't rewrite.
porn has existed since humans were able to draw pictures on cave walls, and on every kind of medium invented since. That "malicious vice" won't go away any time soon
I think this is true of AI compilation in general. Torch MLIR, AITemplate and really everything here fly under the radar:

https://github.com/merrymercy/awesome-tensor-compilers#open-...
Their Mac announcement was basically a catch-up release to get DirectX working on Metal roughly as-well-as the Open Source Vulkan translator. If that's not an apology release, I don't know what is - it feels pretty clear that Apple's obsession over platform control has hamstrung game developers. They could have been a Steam Deck, but they chose to be a Steam Machine.
I don't really understand the subject matter enough, so I apologize in advance for the meta-comment...

The author mentions that he would maybe have written this as a scientific paper:

> I tried writing a serious-looking research paper about the bug and my proposed fix, but I lost a series of pitched battles against Pytorch and biblatex, so I figured I’d just write a blog post instead. (History is written by the winners; blogs are written by…)

Honestly, thank god he didn't. This paper is so much more readable and approachable than what gets published in "serious" journals. The tone is self-effacing, it does not have an "ego" the way scientific papers tend to have. If all science read like this, and if we were "allowed" to cite research that reads like this, I think we would be much better off. This reads like a conversational, approachable textbook, not like an impenetrable wall.

Is it because I don't understand attention at a PhD level that I hold this opinion? Maybe. Could he be writing like this because he's a layman and utterly wrong about the topic, unlike those Serious Science Authors? Maybe, I don't know.

But my god, wouldn't it be nice to be allowed to write like this?
Walk into an art gallery sometime and you'll see even more expensive wall art.
> The more you build walls of ideas around yourself the easier it becomes to make you discombobulated with the slightest gust of wind.

Resilience can be cultivated with practice. The more you enter caves you don't want to enter, the more treasure you find.
From the Atari site, to be clear about the main motivation:

"At 11.5 x 20.75 inches, these boards are stunning wall pieces. These boards use the original bill of materials, follow the original schematics, and can be used to replace damaged original boards by using the original parts from these boards."

https://atari.com/products/lunar-lander-reproduction-pcb (under 'Product Details')
However, the folks at Oxide are at the top of the game for this space with dozens of years of experience in building and testing such systems. Secondly Oxide's crucible stack is completely written from scratch in Rust, which dramatically reduces failure modes common to such stacks, which are often written in C / C++.
It was a plate, probably 3" "tall" and as wide as the frame, attached in four places at each of the corners. As a result it held the frame rigid (much like a corner bracket would). If you pulled the top toward each other, in addition to the top bar of the frame resisting that pull, the bracket would resist and attempt to make the bottom/side angle less than 90 degrees.
Are you sure about that? Twitter's net loss in 2020 and 2021 were $1.1b and $221m.
For sure, they definitely feed into each other. The yoga practice got me to put that meditation practice into my body in a different way, as did the Muay Thai. Plus the physical practice opened and strengthened my body so I could sit comfortably in lotus for long periods of time. Before that my hips were tight and the first few years of daily seated practice were uncomfortable. I rarely if ever exercised previously.

Anyway, getting the meditation practice off of the cushion was what the physical practices taught me. It's like the story of the arrow making dakini [1], you've got to have the practice in all actions you take.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saraha#The_Arrow_Making_Dakini
/64 is not enough if you need to run two networks (e.g., a guest WiFi in addition to the main one). And yet, here in the Philippines, an IPv6 subnet larger than /64 is an enterprise-only feature that is denied to home users.
Christians believe in cannibalizing a human/god chimera, for the sole fact of trying to get rid of sin that you got when you were born....

And astrologers are weird?

The basis of astrology is the teachings of Hermes Trismegistus, and "as above, so below". And the teaching was that everything is connected, even if appearing distant or not connected.

Earlier astrology was more concerned with timings and when the esoteric energies were either maximized or minimized.

Which is saner than "imma go eat a god-wafer to try to get rid of sin that I somehow got cause 2 people fucked"...
They only have, like, four people employed right now.
In general I'm fan of text based diagramming tools, but with all mermaid diagrams that I've tried to do (flowchart, class diagram), you hit syntax limitations way too early...

Also lack of consistency in common things.
True. I wonder what the use case for this is exactly. Maybe a strictly offline platform for techies?
For Python, I would recommend to try keeping the balance between Functional and Pythonic.

An example: a comprehension is often a better idea from a “Pythonic” perspective than using the map function.
>How did we get the ability to do so and why we can do so?

By having to predict or own futures?

When we're deciding which tree to climb for the most fruit and balancing our choice against the one that attracts the least predators we are taking a lot of complex concepts in a very fuzzy manner. The threat we imagine may not be real. The rewards we imagine may not pan out.

This reality simulator we made to survive happened to also work very well when we extend it into maths, which if math is reality would make sense.
Ultra-Precise Timing NIST Experiment Using Light Frequency Combs
Could even host on github pages with a cname.
I've been tracking finances for years, can I add historical information so I can see timelines or is it all just from today forward like so many other trackers?
VHS didn't have manufacturer-controlled content purchasing.

The other major VR device manufacturers have a similar approach; you get the apps and content through their stores. Sony, Facebook, Google, etc. are all similarly unlikely to have official porn support; Steam is perhaps the most likely (as they permit at least some adult gaming on their store).

I suspect you'll see plenty of porn apps in jailbreak / sideload world. Quest already has 'em that way.
Thanks, really enjoyed the app by the way!
I like the theory that the reason attention span has declined is because the demand for quality has hugely increased.

Since there are so many blogs, films, books and videos out there, we no longer want to waste time on things that don't entertain or provide value to us.

If in the past you might've given in and read or watched through boring parts because there was less options available, now people demand less B.S. and instant value. Because if you don't provide that, there's someone else a click away who will.
>view themselves as shameful and romance as transactional

No, you can thank social media algorithms on YouTube and TikTok pushing "influencers" like Tate.

They get fed a stream of essentially shitbag instruction videos and individuals trying to be a "role model". They specifically garner audiences of young men.

porn on the other hand has been around even for us millennials and older, we turned out fine. What we didn't have was the Tiktok and Youtube algorithms.
I remember that, but just because they showed that doesn't mean that there are not other fully immersive capabilities.

Like I said, we are talking about a product that is at least a year away when they first showed it off and they did tease other 3D setups.

To me all that ever said was, hey you can pair a controller to this if you want. A natural extension of being able to watch a movie or whatever.

I feel like saying no games based on that presentation was very premature. Really saying almost anything about what this can and can't do except for exactly what we were shown is premature given the large chunk of time between announcement and release and needing to see what developers can actually do with it once all of the pieces are ready.
not really, only when it makes sense with their main mantras of locking you in
Nearly two decades ago UK has pushed banks to have a similar system (Faster Payments), and the result is great: instant transfers between UK banks, for free.

This hasn't killed PayPal, but there's no Venmo or equivalent here.

They're literally instant — when I press "Send" in my bank's app, the recipient gets a notification about receiving the money before I lift my finger. The fact these transfers are free, easy, and with some checks and insurance, is probably why cryptocurrency transfers didn't catch on.
As opposed to updating any other piece of software in the system directly? The OS has always had full control.
What's the chances the iPhone will end up like Betamax? It doesn't offer porn apps, after all
> Both Pearson's wife and Dion's husband, Rick — who happened to be in the cockpit with Pearson — had died years earlier.

So not only was she a passenger, but also the other chap in the cockpit was her husband.
lower latency is definitely a great point. The second point I subscribe less to it, this would mean more complexity and harder constraints on the battery
And they designed and produced a plane with commonly faulty fuel gauges at the time.
Your opinion is probably not popular, but I agree with you.

I was speaking from a purely business perspective, from Apple’s point of view they should do this to sell systems.

For society, I think this is probably terrible.
Trying to read classic literature really makes this apparent. Hemingway's Sun Also Rises must have been a riveting adventure story when it was published in 1926, but how can it compete with 10,000 hours of adventure travel on youtube, netflix etc.? Same with Moby Dick in 1850s... these were glimpses into exotic lives rarely heard of back then, but today you can find those stories or similar in vivid moving pictures and audio everywhere, in much more digestible forms.

I really wish I could appreciate these great human achievements in the arts, but at least for books, I don't think my tech-atrophied brain has the ability.
Robot Tow Rigs Are Coming to Take Your Illegally Parked Car
Maybe in a couple of years, as time permits. Thx for the suggestion.
i don't find this argument convincing. it depends, at minimum, on bounding 'aliens' to mean something reasonably close to humans. if we allow aliens to be arbitrarily different, than i don't see a reason to bound their abstract symbolic technical development any more than arbitrarily distant to human development. otoh, if we assume that aliens are significantly similar to humans in some specific respects, then it seems likely to me that their technical development will also have substantial similarities, including but not limited to their abstract symbolic development. the space of abstractions seems large, and our particular path through it is historically contingent in both obvious and likely non-obvious ways; likewise for the formal inferential constructs which we use to parameterize this space
Of all assumptions to make, assuming the universe is made of math is likely the least harmful.
Come now, thats unfair and unrealistic. Likely, you get thrown in a gulag for not possessing the license to tweet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_the_Soviet_Union
The data by age show a consistent decline in attention:
34 to 55 year-olds were significantly lower than either 18 to 34 or 55+

This is interesting because it fits with none of the hypotheses and none is suggested. What could it be? To me it suggests that working and/or raising children have negative impacts on attention span.
> in Musks SpaceX case it seems to be th 50s SciFi.
It literally is give a listen to the podcast "The Evening Rocket" it's where I heard of that connection.
One of the authors responded to correct a Dutch publication about this research [1].

He explains the attack thusly:

- Attacker intercepts message that he decides he wants to decrypt.

- Attacker later goes to a location of his choice, and targets a (possibly different) radio with his directional antenna, pretending to be infrastructure.

- Attacker plays with the radio's perception of time to discover the keystream used to encrypt the previously intercepted message

- Attacker applies keystream to message and obtains decrypted message.

The connection between radio and mast is therefore not directly attacked. It is therefore not a man in the middle. At a different time, another connection is set up, whereby that radio then leaks material with which an earlier message (possibly from another radio) can be decrypted.

Finally; Even back then, 32 bits were not sufficient to protect confidentiality, especially given the often sensitive use cases of TETRA networks.

[1] https://tweakers.net/nieuws/212022/onderzoekers-vinden-kwets...