skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No need to panic: there is some research available. I found this article on The Verge an interesting read: Why note-taking apps don't make us smarter, https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/25/23845590/note-taking-apps... .

It links to an article in the New York Times, citing a study that lasted approximately 20 years. (No direct link, because paywall)

Gloria Mark, a professor of information science at the University of California, Irvine, and the author of “Attention Span,” started researching the way people used computers in 2004. The average time people spent on a single screen was 2.5 minutes. “I was astounded,” she told me. “That was so much worse than I’d thought it would be.” But that was just the beginning. By 2012, Mark and her colleagues found the average time on a single task was 75 seconds. Now it’s down to about 47.
In the words of Jack Sparrow, "Me? I'm dishonest, and a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest."

You can always trust a corporation to be a corporation. These days I'm frankly more surprised when I'm not screwed over.
It is really a reflection of how broken the civil court process is in the US.
Its a lot more like deduplication that achieves that compaction.
It took me some time to realize that Cloud Solution Architects are also just slightly more technical sales people in disguise whose only mission is upselling you onto more dependency. Same thing about their PR, every CxO these days says they need "multi-cloud", whatever that means and the costs are usually enormous, while complexity rises — with questionable benefit.

I did the math for our own stack and after a setback month in client revenue, and decided to put all our servers into a single AZ in a single region. The only multi-AZ, multi-region services are our backups. Surviving bad machines happens often enough that it's priced in via using Kubernetes, but losing a whole AZ is a freak accident that's just SO rare that calculating real business risk, it seemed apt to pretend it just doesn't happen (sorry, Google Cloud Paris customers).

Call me reckless, but I haven't looked back ever since and it saves us thousands of dollars in intra-AZ fees per month alone.
I agree that it's annoying not to spell things out literally, but what I hear is that if we talk about those aspects then people get in a moral huff and refuse to do anything to solve the problem, and innocent people who aren't hooligans, dumbasses, or fanatics die along with the hooligans, dumbasses, and fanatics.

If you say it's "not really about" those things, then you bypass people's knee-jerk moralism and make it possible to actually work on the problem and prevent people from dying, which is important because many sane and reasonable people have no choice but to mix in with the dumbasses if they want to participate in these activities.
Yeah Scotland's very much up there, its known for having some incredibly remote regions.
Is this anecdotal or based on widespread publicly available evidence? Not meant as an accusation, but it’s the first time I’m hearing this and it’s slightly alarming
> No! Stop diluting this word.

Yes, you're right, I'm misusing it.

However, I think that there is a phenomenon that happens to a lot of tech products that is more general than what Doctorow is talking about. There is a certain type of person who is attracted to building a new thing, and there is a different type of person who is attracted to a thing that is already successful. Pioneers and Settlers, as a former colleague of mine described it. In the context of Internet services, pioneers care a lot about attracting users initially so they tend to dwell on every minor detail. Settlers care a lot about stability, so gradual degradation over time (e.g., in performance, in other measures of quality) is tolerable as long as its rate is controllable and well-understood.

I think that Doctorow's thesis is a special case of this where greed is the driving factor behind the gradual erosion of quality.
Opinions are valid, for sure. I can tell you that I’m a happy slack user at a company of just over a hundred thousand.

I haven’t regularly used teams in about a year, but I would legitimately consider passing on a job offer where they used it.

In a thread where many folks are talking about using the best tools for a job, teams is never the best tool for any form of digital communication.
> I didn't know there's different kinds of bricking.

There are two types of bricking[0]. A hard brick, where the device no longer functions, and may not be recoverable, and a soft brick, where the device is still working, but fails to boot to a usable state.

> It does NOT sound like having root access.

Could you clarify what you mean by this not sounding like you have root access? You have the ability to sign in to the device as the root user out of the box, which is exactly what root access is.

> This big warning is on the front page:
>
> > Warning: Toltec does not support OS builds newer than 2.15.1.1189. You will soft-brick your device if you install before support is released. See remarkable2-recovery for information on how to recover your device if you have done this.

Yes, I know about the warning, I wrote it. When it was less strongly worded, way too many people were ignoring the warning, trying to install toltec on an OS version that didn't have the offsets required for rm2fb yet, and did not write down their SSH password or set up an SSH key.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brick_(electronics)#Types
> If hardware acceleration is not available it should fall back to software not fail to build.

It's not always possible to make the same security guarantees for these implementations. Software implementations of AES are frequently vulnerable to cache timing attacks, for example (e.g. [1]); even simple operations integer multiplication may not be constant-time on some architectures.

[1]: https://cr.yp.to/antiforgery/cachetiming-20050414.pdf
I have helped some people I know update their resume with chatgpt. It's a good tool to help with wording or even summary and format.
I don't think that's what you were asking though.
On Using Go's `T.Parallel()`
> You’d be surprised what the WHO allows McDonald’s to put in their food and in the whole supply chain

Literally anything, but only because while there are many gorganizations in the world that regulate food, food service, and agricultural suppy chains, WHO isn’t one of them, being an intergovernmental coordination and information sharing entity, not a regulatory agency.
Very cool! Would it even be possible to get llama.cpp running on this thing??
Attempting to trigger terror attacks on purpose should be prosecuted, that's it. The same way the driver carrying terrorists can be prosecuted without forbidding anybody else to drive.

For now the legislators targeted one specific way, but if they diversify their methods the law will adapt and generalize. There's just nothing to win in appeasing fascists who complain about their freedom of speech, we already know where it leads to https://i.redd.it/3b470c0htra61.jpg
It sounds like her son has ADHD (and her too likely as it’s mostly genetic), just like me and millions of others. No, it’s not an epidemic. Social media and phones in general are the perfect “solution” for brains that are in a constant craving for stimulation.

I don’t want to get into the whole personal responsibility vs evil companies dichotomy, but something that has helped me tremendously is wasting time on my own terms, not because I got a notification. There are days when I don’t receive a single email because I’ve aggressively unsubscribed from almost everything. Same for the notifications on the phone - if, say, Uber sends me a notification for a coupon for 50% off at Chick-fil-a, that’s an immediate banishment and the app can no longer send any. If that degrades the app experience when I do need a car, that’s their problem for abusing my trust.
>/dev/shm is a tmpfs mount. It's not synthetic. It's basically "/tmp but it uses your RAM so it's not essentially-unbounded

/dev/shm is for the shared-memory facility. It's not used as a temporary filesystem by anything (possibly excepting the user). FreeBSD's shm implementation actually does support the read/write interface, but it doesn't expose a filesystem.

>, so we didn't put it on /tmp because then stupid legacy programs might OOM the kernel."

>Yeah, but the output of df(8) re: tmpfs is meaningless,

/tmp is tmpfs on Fedora and other distros. The size parameter on mount can limit available 'storage' so the free 'space' df output can be useful.
Desambiguation [pdf]
Hello,
This is in French and it mixes Religion and Science, but I hope some people here may found it interesting.
Best regards,
Laurent Lyaudet
> If you’re using this kind of thing ... why wouldn’t you just use a mutex or reader writer mutex.

>> you want the readers to be able to read multiple values atomically.
I read this in TFA, and interpreted it to mean you could read multiple values atomically, which would be an answer to your question - mutexes only protect one thing and you can't combine them atomically.

But looking at the code, it seems that this does no better? It only allows reading of multiple values insofar as it protects one hard-coded struct which happens to have multiple fields.
Just go to a hotel. Airbnb isn’t cheaper and it’s no longer a unique experience either
Football must look at how individuals such Luis Rubiales acquire absolute power
The world hasn't ended, but I'd argue that the number of malicious actors within the space is rising, as are the consequences of being compromised. We're simply seeing more and more malware make its way into open source ecosystems, and I don't imagine the trend will be reversing. For this reason alone we should be striving to achieve full build reproducibility, though I agree with you that demonizing (or threatening) Dtolnay is wildly inappropriate.
NYC will hopefully start banning short term rentals starting next month:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/news/2023/08/25/new-yo...
There are it's and then's: cells and their organelles are for all intents and purposes molecular machines.

Some proteins might act as a sensor, binding to some other protein when triggered, in turn causing some action to occur.
so the system says "f*ck poor people, gotta kick them while their down"?
The Human Ecology of Overshoot
Of course it's fundamentally unlearnable.

No matter what we do know, we can never prove there wasn't someone else who figured it out even earlier but never wrote it down, or they did but it and all references to it were lost.

Most "firsts" carry an implicit asterisk that isn't worth mentioning. The first person to run a 4 minute mile did so in 1954. With the asterisk that somebody else might have already done that millennia ago but didn't have a stopwatch. And we'll never know.
An hour seems way too long; but I can confirm it's very slow. However, almost all of that is in this loop to generate the navigation: https://github.com/danog/MadelineProtoDocs/blob/master/docs/...

If I disable that your project builds in 30 seconds (no cache!) on my pretty old and not very fast i5-8350U, which is roughly what I'd expect for a project of this site. It will be even faster with cache, obviously.

I didn't look too closely, but I'm reasonably sure that can fixed so the total build time will be 30-40 seconds without to much effort; it looks like it's just generating the same HTML every time, so just caching it on the first generation seems like the obvious way.

And sure, Gojekyll is loads faster and more forgiving of these kind of inefficiencies, but "a few minutes" still seems pretty slow, especially considering even plain Jekyll can do it significantly faster.
I think the worst part of this is that companies can (often times intentionally) do extremely scummy and even illegal stuff with the knowledge that if they're caught, the worst they'll have to do is pay back what they should have in the first place. AirBNB probably makes thousands off of refusing to refund in cases where they were supposed to. And the one time that they're forced to, they don't have to pay a fine or damages.
WizardCoder 34B surpasses GPT4 on HumanEval
WizardLM claims to have beaten GPT4 on HumanEval with 73.2% @ Pass1 to GPT4s 67% (in the original GPT4 report).

Big, if true. Their own testing puts present GPT4 at 82%, but 73.2% still seems very competitive.
Was it really stolen or it's us who are constantly looking for content regarding stuff that happens 20,000ft above our heads? Maybe thinking that if we understand it then we'd rise to that level?

When influencers fail to answer questions such as the name of the President or the speaker of the House or the capital of Argentina people laugh at them.

I have come to realize that maybe they are in the right, they are extremely focused on what matters and pertains to their lives
The ribbon design apparently came out in 2007, which fits my memory—it was terrible, Office was already well into decline by 2010.

Although, really, it is just what some of the other comments mention here. Re-learning UI is just a pain in the butt. So, I guess the first version of office that we all hate is the first one that came out after we were kids and learning new UI was fun.
> So far the only solid use case for Rust that I have seen in applications where security is extremely important.

But that's basically anything that touches the internet.

Not having buffer overflow vulnerabilities in your communications code is huge.
These biologists seem impossibly naive. By putting this kind of information in the public domain, they are putting these creatures at risk of being commercially exploited in various ways. At the very least, the precise locations should not be divulged.
My (general purpose) Linux machines and Chromebook all have reasonably sized UI elements for mouse use.
Egypt recently completed an extension to the Suez canal

Turkey is also building a canal from the black sea.

you can look up the costs. both of these countries are very regulation-light...
Why release it and not keep it for domestic use then?

> The amount of whining, specifically Chinese whining, is absurd. Especially as their shitty air pollution blankets the entire Pacific.

Not just Chinese, South Koreans too https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/protests-mount-so...

You should drink that water if you complain about them being upset
That's the article's title, but the actual content of the article is about: 1) df, 2) lsblk, and 3) mount. And yes: I clearly caught that you said "majority", as my first comment was about how you only seemed to have 1/3... but, now, showing -D for the df functionality (which was you showing me wrong, absolutely), I did agree that you have hit the majority (2/3). Adding the lsblk one continues to confuse me as to the intent.

(FWIW, I frankly just didn't like how you flippantly came in and off-handedly dismissed the article without much explanation and by redirecting people to a Linux-specific tool that has a million options that you apparently still have to configure. I found the article quite valuable as it somehow never occurred to me to try to get these tools to filter these crazy Ubuntu devices, and it felt as if--honestly still kind of does--you were viewing the article extremely narrowly, maybe based on just the title.)
I can see many issues with airbnb saying it's okay to have a camera pointing at bed but I'm trying to connect it with sex trafficking. From the keynote that she linked it's not clear. Obviously recording would be blackmail material but is the idea that airbnb owner would be a trafficker or conspire with traffickers against customer?

Note that the real issue is not lack of refund but deep implications of having cameras like that. Victims of blackmail would not be asking for refund...
Ask HN: Does anyone need a bot to continuously scan Slack/MS Teams for API keys?
But which version of rust?
This is just a blurb linking to the full article https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/we-dont-n... which was discussed 9 days ago at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37161347 (92 comments)
https://remarkable.guide/ has a bunch of current information on the state of hacking your device. You have root access out of the box, which means how invasive it is depends on how you go about it. The community is trying their best to stick to a set of standards that keeps things from being too brittle, and "just works".
> The above is an edited extract from Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention by Johann Hari, published by Bloomsbury on 6 January.
On the wargames front, a modern TRS-80 speech synthesis module replacement: https://hackaday.com/2022/07/29/hackaday-prize-2022-modern-p...
"Come on down. No wait – don't! Ayeeeee..."
Don't get me wrong. I totally understand that your way is why we don't see annoying rendering bugs anymore. We just put up with UI's that are slower than 25 year old UI's on machines that are a 100 times faster.
> Was our attention really stolen? Is this a literal claim, or just hyperbole?

It's obviously figurative... unless you believe Professor MindMiner has built a machine to *schlorp* liquidified Attention out of unsuspecting victims into his own swollen and increasingly-monomaniacal cranium.

However it's much shorter than "impaired or damaged without our informed consent by outside forces because it profits them to do so."
glad i don't have to be a part of the code review
That’s not true. I can, for example, demand that an open source project not bundle malware. The maintainer may not listen to me but I reserve the right to demand it and I don’t see how this is toxic at all.
Made me think of Cosmos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUCS7l4-EU0
Fair enough. But the indictment reads as if they were knowingly profiting off of illegal transactions and we may be looking at the case where that line in the sand is drawn.

As a counter example, should the US government not try to stop the cartels from using Swiss banks for money laundering because some arbitrary contract was already in effect?

In other words: Monero might be getting some friends on the Fed's crypto blacklist over this case.
From a practical perspective it’s definitely your problem if you need a car…
maybe what feels good or bad to people in a natural setting is not actually a useful measurement of what affects the well-being of nature

maybe the actual health of the motherfucking ecosystem matters more than what looks nice on a postcard

common sense is what tells you the world is flat, chemotherapy is bad for you, and lead paint and sassafras are good to eat
http://web.archive.org/web/20230826164333/https://www.washin...

https://archive.ph/jY2ca
The CPU can only address 64k of RAM, so... no.
Quantum 'yin-yang' shows two photons being entangled in real-time
It's almost as if HN isn't a monoculture.
If you will pile them, you can probably fit 30. Or 100 toddlers.

But the real question, did you ever run into situation when 9 kids sitting on road suddenly appeared in front of driving car?
High utilization means high variability and low resiliency and the last k-percentage of utilization causes highly non-linear effects.
> * Device with a low power thermal sensor, cellular connection and a battery that sends a heart beat with the current temperature once every minute or so. Maybe even BLE mesh network of such sensors. Simple patterns like a sudden increase in the are or sensors going offline can indicate something is happening.

I'm not sure what is simple about needing to deploy orders of magnitude more devices to achieve similar levels of coverage...
https://archive.li/cPhEj
Would you pay of an enterprise version of this platform?
Could the Universe be a giant quantum computer?
That is clever! Thanks for sharing these. It's endlessly fascinating to read about how such accurate conclusions were made via simple observation and deduction.
No, that’s really how it is. They leave opportunities to save or make five-figure (and larger) amounts all the time, because it’s not worth the distraction from other activities. And also from straight-up mis-management, but a lot of the time they know exactly what they’re doing, and it’s on purpose, and it’s probably not a mistake.
Thanks. Since seeing M. Levin's planaria's videos I'm on a quest to learn this topic (and usual developmental biology)
Have you seen the Ventura system settings update? It kinda looks like iOS.

Edit: I also think the touch screens have gotten more accurate so you'd probably have not that bad of an experience. Using windows with a finger or pen isn't that bad.
> Attempting to trigger terror attacks on purpose should be prosecuted, that's it. The same way the driver carrying terrorists can be prosecuted without forbidding anybody else to drive.

Was Charlie Hebdo "attempting to trigger terror attacks"? Was Kurt Westergaard trying to incite his own death? How about Salman Rushdie? If you're just going to say "doing something which pisses off terrorists is illegal" then I hope you're prepared to convert, because that's what it would take.

> For now the legislators targeted one specific way, but if they diversify their methods the law will adapt and generalize.

That's the problem right there, it's a genuinely short walk to anti-blasphemy laws.
Houston, Tx is a good counterexample to the generic "zoning is the problem" idea.
I tried to test your remark and drag my Brave browser around, my whole PC froze for 2 seconds. On a 12c/24t 5900x...
yes I agree but the US does that to European countries and other allies also.

Even militarily that overlaps strongly with energy policy. Although the verdict is still out on who blew up the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, the US did say it was opposed to it despite it being sovereign European energy provider's decision to partner with Russia.[1] The US said they would not allow the pipeline to happen. That's pretty clear foreign meddling in Germany's affairs. Again, that includes the possibility you think the pipeline is a bad idea.

On social policies, the US has pressured allies to align with its own views with Hungary[2] who is a NATO member, Poland[3], and Japan[4] recently.

[1]: https://www.facebook.com/statedept/videos/under-secretary-nu...

[2]: https://www.newsweek.com/biden-administration-weaponizes-dip...

[3]: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/u-s-ambassador-marches-in...

[4]: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/21/world/asia/rahm-emanuel-j...
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Warning statement becomes the howto guide.
I use it for some webhook stuff to put together an RSS feed for a website that doesn't provide one. I didn't want to have to code up a web app just for it.

N8N comes with a webhook listener, and it was easy enough to cobble something together with the built-in nodes and coding custom ones with javascript (they just released a python node that I haven't tried yet).
Have you considered using multiple of the current displays together in a single product, presenting them as a single view to the user? Does that help with the pricing?
Oh wow this is fantastic news for New Yorkers. I hope this gets picked up by more states & countries.
Just for fun and learning, after writing a CHIP-8 emulator, what would be a good first emulator for a real device to tackle?

NES or Gameboy are my two main ideas, but I'm curious if there are other suggestions.
The I/O module seems like overkill to me. It probably would be heck of a lot easier to turn a TRS 80 into a dumb terminal and just use serial connectivity to a Linux box.
yes, the more complex arm isa runs counter to formal verification, and so does the complexity and secrecy of the arm implementation

lots of realtime systems still don't bother with formal verification, even though it's enormously more accessible today than 20 or 40 years ago
Related:

N8n.io – Workflow automation alternative to Zapier - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21191676 - Oct 2019 (196 comments)
Weird to not mention the HIT Force. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Interference_Task_Forc...
Houston has zoning by other names (mainly land covenants).