skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whew! I saw the original title about attention spans declining by 65% and was worried, but now I see the updated title and consistent with Betteridge’s Rule can be confident they have not been actually declining. Thankfully I don’t have to read the article as it seems long.
> Curious what makes you think that the overhead and inefficiencies inherent to a million small solar installs is somehow better than a single managed facility benefiting from economy of scale both for maintenance and design.

Location. Deserts are far from people. 80% of people in the US live on the east half of the country (and most of these on the eastern half of that). But even the midpoint is too far from deserts to use energy from it.
> At that point, why do you need a grid connection?

Because winter happens?
The Novint Falcon is a force-feedback controller that gives that feedback. Imagine holding a pencil for writing, and using it to scratch the surface of a sugar cube and feeling the indentations, and then also touching the sides of it to literally feel out how big it is.
Yeah I, subjectively, have experienced the same. But with the same caveat about having ADHD. What I find more substantial is my stress level correlates with what media I consume. Books, long form writing, or even just any text medium (as opposed to video) tend to be more relaxing and allow me to focus better.

I wonder if stress is the causal mechanism for focus here? Maybe not entirely but a proportion of it.

I think speculation is allowed here since the author was unable to draw substantial conclusions either. But did distill a lot of useful information together.
> The goal of the project is to learn more about the person on the other side of the web
…
The intro says this data would be useful to advertisers to better count ad impressions, stop social network bots, enforce intellectual property rights, stop cheating in web games

Go f yourself, Google. Browser’s purpose is to serve me web pages, not to learn about me.
true, but laws making that illegal are also being considered at least in some places, which means awareness of the dangers does exist
Doesn't sound very different from Grandma's recipe cards in terms of information density, potentially harder to follow if you have to deal with video playback. Recipe blogs also have compressed instructions, so it's not like you need to read all the fluff, but when first stumbling upon a recipe, a short video is definitely better at grabbing your attention and showing you the major points and the result, in a way that traditional blogs and cooking sites fail to replicate. Video is also better for conveying technique, but I prefer paper or cards while cooking something that's not completely new to me, for fewer handwashing interruptions.
Terrestrial Trunked Radio (TETRA) – (Trans-European Trunked Radio) : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrestrial_Trunked_Radio
CUD?
He’s not trying or claiming to improve attention. He’s trying to reduce outliers to improve the ability to quantize the parameters.
They're going to prevent me from running an adblocker in this "web integrity" environment, aren't they.
Except in the age of hyperinformation, you will see such fringe systems pump and dump on the time frame of a few months, not decades like it used to. You would pray that it would not happen and the thing that you are using right now will not gain that kind of attention.
Scraping Hacker News like a leet 10x haxor
I had the idea to show my web scraping process with this tutorial/code session. I started live streaming coding sessions a couple weeks ago to help show my process and to hang out with some fellow late night coders https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IrE4tH87OmI&t=5011s

If you want to see my more recent streams where I mess around with Llama 2, huggingface inference API, word2vec and more check out my channel.
lmfao, writing 10+ pages about attention span seems ironic
I think you are missing the most important one. The one that killed Nissan essentially. Degradation from time. Testing for that is the hardest. You simply cannot just accelerate time. We can do all the calculations and maybe do brutal environments and tests, but at the end, we can only wait.
Thanks, a bit lost as to what to do as this was a very important domain for me. Both on a professional and emotional level. Do you think I'd still be able to sue despite the fine print?
Yeah, it's explicitly disallowed by ICANN to register a domain with this unicode character (along with numerous other characters):

https://www.verisign.com/assets/icannrestricted/idn-icann-re...
In terms of low decoupling:

It sometimes makes working with _slotted_ children in a non-lock-in way difficult in terms of state synchronization as opposed to props.children in React. The solution here in an app would be to use a state manager, but it's much more difficult for components that do not want to require the user to use a state manager e.g. design systems.

Additionally, hydration and customElements.define() upgrade order is a different consideration compared to other mono-state frameworks when it comes to SSR.

In terms of state management:

There are plenty of tools out there like lit-mobx shopped by Adobe. The team has also made some examples that show how easy it is to integrate your own state manager into Lit using ReactiveController such as Redux. There is also work being done such as example implementations of Preact Signals integration:

https://github.com/lit/rfcs/blob/preact-signals/rfcs/NNNN-pr...
Can we get great RISC-V cores from Apple or AMD please with that vector ISA so we can shut down this whole notion of ISA as a product differentiator?
And we should actually be doing both.

For exactly the same reason we should subsidize the cost of nuclear energy to ensure a sustained ~25-40% nuclear base, we should subsidize solar locally (rooftop et al.) and utility scale.

The answer isn't either or, it's all of the above.
I think you may have missed the part where games are supposed to be enjoyable (for all parties involved!)
> Distribution systems don't come for free and have many of the same problems as 'last mile' internet.

Nor does centralized. The grid needs to be upgraded to handle the significant increase in demand. But more importantly, over-centralization will mean we're putting all our energy production in fewer baskets (than we have now). Decentralized is a form of a redundancy, a form of backup. It's also a form of independence.

There's no single silver bullet. We'd be wise to blend, and blend wisely. And yes, they might have some added financial costs, but not doing it will surely come at other costs (e.g., blackouts).
Absolutely wrong. If it isn't profitable it won't happen, society will just choose to kill itself. We need to make it profitable.
That is a solar thermal system not a photovoltaic system. You are comparing different technologys.

Last I checked, solar thermal is not a price competitive utility scale generation technology; photovoltaic is. That facility was probably funded as a large scale experiment to investigate the viability of solar thermal at increasing scales (or corruption).

The gigawatts of new utility scale PV being brought up every year are largely privately funded and cheaper than existing generation sources (in the current context).
tl;dr.

Edit: Okay. That was a "low effort" response. So I'll expand. That we even have such an abbreviation makes me think that maybe (contrary to Betteridge's Law[0]) the author of TFA might be on to something.

With so many different things fighting for your attention, it can be difficult to stay focused. It takes practice and discipline to shut out other things and maintain your focus on something. I don't claim to be expert in doing so, but I do try -- and fail some of the time.

I believe that maintaining focus/attention is a learned skill. One that isn't considered important to acquire/teach.

Once upon a time, there were fewer immediate distractions which enabled (forced?) us to focus our attention for extended periods. Nowadays, there are so many things fighting for our attention that it's more difficult to learn that skill.

Is that good or bad? I suppose that depends on your point of view.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...

Edit 2: Added the missing link.
>> "The technology for “dangerous” AI doesn’t actually exist"

What? Did you not see the Netflix documentary on AI for military use?
They literally have AI's that can beat fighter pilots in dog fighting.

Just because it isn't walking around having coffee and chatting you up, doesn't mean it isn't already very advanced and deadly.
I take it you didn't even check the links because they disprove your comment but instead took something completely irrelevant but dislikeable and are now trying to somehow connect it to the context with chewgum.

Congratulations for making the internet worse.
No earlier than Q1 2025.

None of the products announced for 2024 (e.g. Sierra Forrest, Granite Rapids, Arrow Lake, Arrow Lake S, Lunar Lake) support this.
> What happens if you don't go into the 2nd flight?

They took my luggage off the plane and United agreed to put me on the next flight to my final destination for free even though tickets were $750 that day.
> Rooftop residential is 2x+ times as expensive as utility scale.

This may be true, but a residential install does eventually pay for itself in 5-10 years, and after that, effectively free power. So it's cheaper and better for consumers.

How does that work? Oh yeah, it's because they don't have to pay for the maintenance of the entire distribution network plus the profits of utility companies.
Early in my career I worked on IBM mainframes and wrote JCL for them.

Let's say someone knocked on my door tomorrow and said "We're looking for someone with any experience at all with JCL on IBM mainframes. We'll pay a million dollars a year for a 10-year guaranteed contract. Are you that guy?"

I would say "Nope. Sorry. I'm a plumber. I don't know nuthin' about computers."

(And then they would say "Ha! GOTCHA! How'd you know we were talking about computers? Now take your million-dollar check and watch your head as you get into this nice black helicopter.")
Usually a few hundred to a few thousand times a second.
"Optimism Bias" is a pretty well-accepted term in the research, and it's defined in here, which I cited:

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/pdf/S0960-9822(11)01191...

It means having a more positive view of your prospects than is warranted. Also, considering the risks to be less than they actually are ("it won't happen to me!").

What you're talking about is complacency.
Collecting disorders and faking mental illness is a very hot at the moment, esp. among children (and troubled adults) - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/29/well/mind/tiktok-mental-i...

The number of people in my life diagnosed with various disorders, with accompanying drugs, via short meetings with doctors they've met once is staggering.

Re: children, do you know many parents? I know many and many of their children are medicated for ADHD. They are usually active and healthy boys who don't like sitting still in class or have grown accustom to video game and screen time, so when they don't have those things, flip out. On demand entertainment and smart phones have created a screwed up reward system for young children. ADHD medication is usually the prescribed solution to that problem. By the time they reach middle school, they have no chance. Its an uphill battle to stay ahead with school and maintain all the hobbies/extracurriculars. I blame the parents, and while they're responsible, the FDA/"doctors"/pharma companies facilitate it.

I'm not saying people are faking things like schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. Mostly ADHD, anxiety, and depression disorders. Seems like 1/3rd of people I interact with have one of those, or all of them.
If you are making a tunnel through a mountain to transport individuals, the cost of the vehicles is immaterial relative to the cost of the tunnel. A tunnel that can carry 700 people an hour is mostly worthless, even if it was cheaper than a tunnel that can carry many trains per hour.
This was just a short clip that has English captions. He refuted Dawkins' book in a longer series on his main channel, but I don't think it has English captions. He is an expert, no need to be dismissive.
Thanks for trying it out! I agree the recovery dialog needs some improvement. Ideally I'd like a way to let people back in for a limited time if they accidentally close their browser. Couldn't think of a sufficiently tamper-resistant implementation with the current architecture.. but as another commenter pointed out, maybe that's still net better(?)

Sounds like your notional usage pattern fits with how I use the tool as well, i.e. more like monthly/quarterly. If a discount or extended trial of the annual plan would be helpful, always happy to set those up as mentioned on the pricing page.
> "Safety issues" are to him more like, "the AI will kill everyone to fill its objectives"

Yes, and he was way ahead of the curve here, since similar positions got a lot more mainstream in the past years and months. E.g. two of three AI Turing award winners (Hinton and Bengio) now say that superintelligent AI poses a serious extinction risk. OpenAI has also identified the alignment problem as a major issue. Even former AI skeptics like Douglas Hofstadter now broadly agree with this assessment. Yudkowsky's opinion was quite prescient.
Perhaps the church of Al can throw a few bucks the way of the recently not-fired-but-no-longer-employed AI ethics crew, similar levels of grift going on in each.
The more I learn about passkeys, the more painful they sound.

I understand the need, but this is yet another in a growing list of things that is indicative of the general decline of the web. That loss saddens me.
Someday, when the last red dwarfs are burning out and all the black holes have evaporated, the Malthusians will get their “see we told you so” moment. Thankfully that day isn’t today.
I'm wildly curious if you know more about this particular point in time, but knowing Vg of your plane and being able to perform (and know when to perform) a forward slip to land is something most pilots today learn before they ever fly solo, much less get a license that permits them to fly passenger jets.

Struggling to see what glider knowledge applies here (other than, perhaps, glider pilots slip to land more frequently since it isn't like they have power to remove).
Synthesis of carbon fuels from what's already in the air is theoretically net-neutral if you use clean energy to do it; you're just taking what's there, and putting back what you took.

The main issue with fossil fuel is that we are burning embodied carbon from millions of years ago, throwing the present system out of whack.
I got what they were saying...
That is not true in this case. It's just a CPU bug; not even a side channel.
Established companies that are not startups typically provides more guidance, but also less freedom. They may also offer more pay for the first couple of years, until and if the startup becomes a success. You have to have some tolerance for byrocracy and more+longer meetings, though.

I think one way of finding a mentor is to ask someone that you want to become more like, that typically work as a manager or in a position where they want people to succeed, to mentor you. Keep asking people until you get a "yes". This is probably also easier in a larger organization.

Best of luck.
My guess is there were too many other more urgent flights landing there at the time.
It's not just nuances, it's entire straw man fallacies. They don't understand basic Islamic tenants and claims, let alone advanced topics like Kalam, and then they attempt to argue against it, making a mockery out of themselves.

Details do matter, because they lump all religions together and attempt to argue against them as a whole, not realizing that there exist core differences among them, even if there is potentially large overlap between say Islam, Judaism, and Christianity. Disregarding these facts is doing an injustice to themselves and to their audience, and spreads ignorance and malice.
IQ doesn't mean anything here.
"So—why hasn’t anyone investigated this question to satisfaction yet?"

Would take too long.
90% of the noise about Musk and Twitter has zero compassion for software engineers. We're "techbros".

If Musk were doing all of the same things, and much worse, without the culture war stuff attached we would never hear his name.

"I take full responsibility for this difficult decision..."
The US Max & Erma’s restaurant chain had this in the ‘80s as well.
Steve Jobs Monday Motivation [video]
One day Google may well flag your sure as lower security, refuse to let you show ads, or disappear you from search results.
I didn't say anything about the government forcing Elon from his companies -- losing his security clearance seems like a reasonable outcome of his proclivities driving his instability.

As for the rest -- I don't think his choices are consistent with CEO leadership roles across the companies he's in. Twitter & Tesla have issues, Tesla's largely revolving around AutoPilot & FSD -- and eventually the market and/or Boards and/or his creditors will see a change in the risk and ROI of his leadership.

SpaceX seems to run pretty smoothly. Elon's halo is massive, and the lift he provided to Tesla and the EV market, in particular, can't be underestimated. But, IMO, there's no way this ends smoothly and happily, 10 years hence, given how he's acting in at least the Twitter corner of his field.

As for the previous leadership at Twitter and their censorship / collusion with governments -- yeah, that sucked, but it grants Elon nothing at all. Different shit, different day.
I'd reconsider your rejection of llama.cpp if I were you. You can always call out to it from Python, but llama.cpp is by far the most active project in this space, and they've gotten the UX to the point where it's extremely simple to use.

This user on HuggingFace has all the models ready to go in GGML format and quantized at various sizes, which saves a lot of bandwidth:

https://huggingface.co/TheBloke
attested proxies, back n forthing between a user, and the chrome zone
From the original "Elixir is Safe" article:

> 3. “Shared nothing” concurrency

> Item 3 is the killer one for safety. Like two people, two processes cannot share memory; they can only communicate by sending each other messages.

This makes impossible an entire class of thread safety issues. "Elixir is Safer" might have been a better phrasing, but you're misrepresenting the contents of the article if you're claiming that it is limited to expounding "concurrency is hard and I think this concurrency model is easier".
Autoenshittification
While approaching to land, you are on the backside of the power curve, so pitch for airspeed, power for altitude. You have correctly indicated about managing airspeed. But it is not as difficult as it sounds. If you were flying at the beginning of the slip, you will continue flying through the slip unless you mess with nose positioning, or pitch. TL'DR, DON'T PULL UP while you are in cross control.

Here are some suggestions. As one of the child comment stated, go fly a glider for a few hours. It will immensely help with flying "not straight". I started it for gaining better understanding of flight but ended up finishing a commercial ticket on glider as well, because I enjoyed it so much and also just for the bragging rights.

Secondly, cross control is perfectly safe till the time you pull back on the stick. That is how you get into cross control stalls, the starting configuration for a spin. When you are slipping, you should actively trim nose down, (that you should have done already, remember you are approaching to land), and maintain just a little forward pressure as you fly sideways. I would recommend, grab a competent CFI and get cross control stalls nailed. I know it is not a part of PPL, something I am very pissed about. Hell, PPL in US does not even need spin training. Bollocks, if you ask me....
Also I’d assume the people who physically install rooftop solar are different than the people doing utility scale projects.

We should be doing both!
> The priority should be reducing needless and wasteful consumption.

In an utopian world I would agree with you. I find consumerism ugly as well. However, without consumerism there is no economic growth. Without growth no capitalism. Without capitalism no democracy and peace. It would completely upend our civilization.

I mean consider how crazy everything goes when we have a small dip in economic markets.
The program is Celeste: https://juliahub.com/case-studies/celeste/index.html

It seems to be pure Julia.

Julia uses the LLVM compiler; I’m pretty sure that’s the only platform, aside from experiments compiling to WASM.
In this case, it would avoid the exploit, because it requires a shared register file.
>> We should be blanketing every inch of desert with solar.

Has anyone solved the water problem? You know, cleaning all those dusty panels.
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles Petzold is probably up your alley. Building to how computers work from first principles.
When it comes to a game of chicken it's better to not just seem like you won't move, but to throw out the wheel entirely.

Of course it's dubious if it applies here, especially because the playing field doesn't feel quite equal, but I think the most effective thing we can do is simply refuse to use websites that require a custom built user agent to access.

Heck maybe we've already mostly lost the battle to keep the internet usable with curl, let's at least try to keep some of the other options open.
Ah! I see, you mean carbon capture and utilization as synthetic fuel. Yeah I think that's a good idea to pursue, though I have a lot of skepticism that it will be able to scale faster than other stuff that's going on (like battery storage and enhanced geothermal).
> I am not convinced that the current state of UX is such that it's possible to make a UI where there is zero need for product tours, documentation, video tutorials, etc.

Agreed. All software, like much modern design, is starting to look the same, which is heading to about as close as we can get here: that _conventions_ are baked into apps to such an extent that "everyone" "knows" what to do. But even these huge sacrifices to homogeneity won't ever sufficiently cover everything, or even close. At best we get common patterns, like games, where you can relatively quickly get to grips. But games are model worth considering. They don't smack you in the face like Driver.js does but they propose a congruent concept (progressive complexity).

Anyway. I don't know. UI is hard. Abstractions are hard. "This button does this", "Click this to blah" is one approach. Driver.js has its place. And for apps I'm not sure the progressive complexity of games translates well (the app environment doesn't generally scale along the same progression vectors).
Yup, this is something that is frequently not talked about.

HttpOnly merely prevents the theft of the cookie via XSS. It doesn't prevent an attacker from performing operations on behalf of the user via XSS.

That said, it does make the attack slightly harder. You have to write a bespoke attack script, rather than just a nearly universal one-liner to steal the cookie and then take over from there. In addition, if the victim navigates away from the page, then the attack ends. Of course, most likely, the attack script will only need a few seconds at most to complete the attack script.
You seem to have some knowledge in this area. I'm curious your thoughts on Enhanced Geothermal?

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/18/fervo-energy-hits-milestone-...
For posterity:

1. Have attention spans been declining? (slimemoldtimemold.com)
338 points by janandonly 4 hours ago | flag | hide | 254 comments

2. Attention Is Off By One (evanmiller.org)
400 points by elbasti 4 hours ago | flag | hide | 129 comments

Note that the #1 post is probably there because the title earlier had the provacative "Yes, 65%" appended to it. So even more numerical.