skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Obligatory:

"Y.T.’s mom pulls up the new memo, checks the time, and starts reading it. The estimated reading time is 15.62 minutes. Later, when Marietta does her end-of-day statistical roundup, sitting in her private office at 9:00pm, she will see the name of each employee and next to it, the amount of time spent reading this memo, and her reaction, based on the time spent, will go something like this:
Less than 10 min.: Time for an employee conference and possible attitude counseling.

10-14 min.: Keep an eye on this employee; may be developing slipshod attitude.

14-15.61 min.: Employee is an efficient worker, may sometimes miss important details.

Exactly 15.62 min.: Smartass. Needs attitude counseling.

15.63-16 min.: Asswipe. Not to be trusted.

16-18 min.: Employee is a methodical worker, may sometimes get hung up on minor details.

More than 18 min.: Check the security videotape, see just what this employee was up to (e.g., possible unauthorized restroom break).

Y.T.’s mom decides to spend between fourteen and fifteen minutes reading the memo. It’s better for younger workers to spend too long, to show that they’re careful, not cocky. It’s better for older workers to go a little fast, to show good management potential. She’s pushing forty. She scans through the memo, hitting the Page Down button at reasonably regular intervals, occasionally paging back up to pretend to reread some earlier section. The computer is going to notice all this. It approves of rereading. It’s a small thing, but over a decade or so this stuff really shows up on your work-habits summary."

--Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash
Laravel Experiences: The Unfinalize Package
Plus the opening of the 'verified' tag to anyone and everyone lets anybody with a couple bucks get a boost of validity for people who haven't internalized the new normal of Twitter.
It makes me wonder, what will the analogue of a REPL look like in a biological system, and how will it be realized?

reason i thought to ask that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37996164
LangChain's First Birthday
Europe's CSAM-scanning plan is tipping point for democratic rights, experts warn
Yes, exactly. All of these are physiological symptoms of anxiety.

When the body is in a fight or flight mode and there is no apparent danger, we tend to notice these much more. But overall, they are absolutely and without doubt harmless.
I had a manager once who reminded me that “no one ever got fired for following McKinsey’s advice”
Ayahuasca contains monoamine oxidase inhibitors compounds too, those are the cause of the interaction. Dimethyltryptamine itself does not carry the same interaction risk. It's a mix of monoamine oxidase inhibitors and dimethyltryptamine to prevent the stomach acid decomposing active drug.
K-9 Mail is their plan
Librem 5 is the most suitable/polished/stable daily driver for Linux Mobile at the moment.

I'm curious if some Linux phone can consistently make and receive calls, its battery lasts three days and I can buy it for less than 200€.

I only use calls, the camera, whatsapp (I could try a replacement), the alarm clock (a lot), sometimes vlc and sound recorder. Firefox, maps, etc. are nice to have, but not needed.

I wonder if I'm one of a kind user. But the three requirements doesn't seem much and support my current usage.
In my 15 years of experience in software engineering, I've never found it either. I have, however, wasted 1000s of hours playing with poker cards and Fibonacci numbers instead of actually working. But I get paid for this, so, I guess: yay, end stage corpo capitalism!
Learn to have and use backups.
IMO no, because legal cannabis is sold with warnings plastered everywhere just like cigarettes. (Unless you think the existing disclosure doesn't properly warn users of the danger)

I bet this case would never have been brought if Facebook had a "This product is addictive" warning every time you open the app.
I really wish I could take results like this at face value like I once did, but after the ongoing reproducibility crisis, I am very skeptical.

Olfactory sensation decreases dramatically with age, so even if I bracket the above concern, there's just not a lot of prima facie credibility here. At best, it looks like a placebo effect.

Can we all just stop popularizing, awarding tenure, and making public policy on the basis of results which haven't been reproduced yet? I.E. wait until there really is a scientific conclusion?
Lol this metaphor perplexes me. I don't have strong COVID opinions, but I'm really confused by this metaphor, is the plane crash full on COVID? Planes are safer overall of course, but if you introduce the Bayesian prior of given: you have been in a crash, which vehicle would you rather be in, car or plane? I'd probably say car. I got my COVID shot and largely agree that while the vaccine may have some risks, seemingly getting raw COVID w/o vaccines is probably worse. but i don't even care about that in this context, your metaphor has 100% taken me off work task :)
> I can see it now ... young girls cannot see content showcasing skinny or 'classically beautiful' women, because it gives them a skewed perspective of 'beauty' that may lead to eating disorders.

Do you actually have any real exposure to the kind of things that are targeted to women on social media? It's more like young girls shouln't get sold that it's reasonable for them to achieve with a full schoolday and budget of a teenager the same appearance as a wealthy woman who has access to time, dieticians, personal trainers, and a plastic surgeon, except the wealthy woman tells you her one secret trick is actually a 75$ green powder she takes in the morning (the powder making company is paying her of course).
Hi folks, I recently set about to optimize Hamilton's memory overhead -- shared my learnings and I think it has some interesting lessons that python developers can learn from. Feel free to ask any questions (or point out anything I might have missed!).
It's common to have high performance CPU cores for the main tasks yet still have small microcontroller cores sprinkled all over the place for specific sub-block management, even in FPGAs.

For example, a small 5-stage pipelined VexRiscv CPU take around 2000 logic elements. That's nothing in today's large FPGAs. Add, say, 4KB of RAM and put it right next to the complex HW core that you want to manage and you have the equivalent of a complex FSM that's programmable without any worries about having to share cycles with other processes and missing out events with hard real-time requirements.

It's done all the time, and it's great.
No mention of combined use with tobacco?
> I wasn't getting enough sleep and I focused on fixing that.

Gotta ask, what did you do for this?
Prophetic says its Halo device can induce lucid dreams
Fair enough. Allow me to elaborate.

Being the best in an extremely niche market with little competition doesn't really mean very much. Purism is currently appealing to the overlap of people who specifically want a GNU/Linux (not Android) device and those for whom poor performance (compared to other flagship devices) is not a deal-breaker. Each of those segments of the market is already very small, and the overlap between them is minuscule.

The only way that a Linux phone could be economically viable is if it's rock solid and performs well, and based on the first-hand accounts that I've heard/read, Purism hasn't cracked that yet, which makes me pessimistic about them ever getting there.
I encounter this all the time with App Store apps. Citizen will disable itself if you don’t grant live, high precision location data even though it would work fine with “when open” and an approximate location. The app for sketchy WiFi cameras I bought requires location to register the cameras, and will refuse to activate them without the permission.
Which in-memory database did you use?
It's undoubtedly a challenging time for startups, with VC funding becoming more elusive and the broader economic landscape uncertain.

As a founder, staying agile and adaptable is key. Keeping growth on track might require creative strategies. It's also an opportunity to build resilience.

If you're navigating these challenges and exploring innovative tech solutions, you might find Rather Labs at https://www.ratherlabs.com valuable. They specialize in AI, GPT, and blockchain development and could offer insights to help steer your startup in the right direction during these turbulent times.
I don't understand the problem this solves. At least in my experience each transaction on the bank statement has a reference to a business transaction attached (usually an invoice number). The amount of money that just lands on the account without a reference is negligible in comparison and usually easily manually associated.
Think Twice Before Detecting GAN-Generated Fake Images from Their Spectra
> Facebook's own research has pointed at the harmful effects of Instagram on the mental health of children

Facebook’s own research has found both positive and negative effects, depending on the child’s status among their peers.

The Verge is quick to point out that:

> Instagram makes teen girls feel worse about their bodies

but more discreet in reminding people that fashion magazines, including The Cut (also published by Vox), have the same negative effects and none of the positive ones, like helping gender minority find a safe space, re-socialising people with physical handicaps or anxiety. The critique makes sense —I’m not denying it— but it doesn’t come. from “the algorithm.” It comes from having a lot of money poured into the Instagram creation ecosystem. Instagram has very little control over that as most of it is through brand deals or magazine raising their own profile. That behemoth of money and attention comes from an industry that has decades of well-documented problematic practices behind it, including the unrepentant glorification of using self-starvation and drugs, notably cocaine, to reach unhealthy thinness.

If you condemn Instagram but don’t include that industry among the culprits, you’ll have Snap with unhealthy models, TikTok with unhealthy models, or whatever comes next with unhealthy models.
The chief architects of the two companies who are making RISC-V cores seem to have a lot of experience if you are gone look up their resumes. Arguably more then people Qualcomm. Qualcomm bought Nuvia and are now trying to make money from that design, they never actually designed super high performance cores.

Addressing modes have never been mentioned as a limiting factor. Its not clear at all that addressing modes are a game changer for performance.

You can also argue that any other unique feature of ARM or x86 is the 'magical pile' that allows for much higher performance. The more reasonable assumption to me is that its simply about how much is invested to make it happen. I think based on its design, less investment into RISC-V will lead to a higher performance core compared to ARM because of that complexity.

Qualcomm motivation here seems pretty clear, and I don't believe its actually because they have pure technical merit at the heart of their desires.

So should I really believe the company that has clear financial motivation to push their line?
AFAIK there's no other way to affect change on HN's submission titles than to mention it (ideally with a bit of humor?)
That’s excellent to hear that for you personally, the ideation did not become reality. However, suicide starts with ideation, so any suicidal ideation must be taken as a potential precursor to suicidal, even if in the end it might not actually progress.

You can only know how bad it was in retrospect.
> rrweb ($15,000), which is the basis for our Replay product

Not to rain on the humble brag, but donating 15k to a project that serves as the basis for your commercial offering seems a bit cheap
stop using and promoting linux phones

https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/linux-phones.html
The blog post is unclear... What proportion of authors of lines of code in all your OSS dependencies received a payment?

I assume that the vast majority of tiny github accounts probably don't have github sponsors set up, and may not even have a link to a real human identity or even someone still alive.

So how does that 95% number look if you take all that into account?
I'm not sure how to respond to this, it just seems to be quite a distorted Apple-centric view. I will leave a few references and make of it what you will.

"only player in mobile space"
iOS had 28% market share when the letter was published (Q2 2010), just after Symbian with 33% and Symbian was not on the same level of "smartphone". Android was 4%. So yes, what was supported in iOS had a significant effect on the industry as a whole.
Source: https://www.statista.com/statistics/272698/global-market-sha...

"It was bad/slow/unstable"
Sure, but that's irrelevant. It's not even the main problem Jobs had with it. It's that he lost control over the platform and, if you read between the lines, the App Store revenue. Read the letter and ensuing battle yourself: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughts_on_Flash#References
I wasn't one of those with a significant net worth in NFTs or cryptos, but it's fascinating to hear about people's experiences.

The crypto world is indeed a rollercoaster ride, with both exhilarating highs and heart-stopping lows. I'd love to hear more stories about how individuals managed and adapted during these wild swings and what they're up to now.

In case you want to mint, create or show your art, Rather Labs at https://www.ratherlabs.com could be a valuable resource for insights and solutions.
Do you continue to get residuals long after you've left a job?

In most agency-based industries, the workers don't get paid between gigs, only during. Good workers hunt around for good agents, and they can make massive amounts of money per job with the agents getting a handsome cut for their job working as sales staff.
If you are looking to self-host a scalable backend that runs arbitrary code in python/typescript/bash/go with optional sandboxing using nsjail like figma, nsjail is what we use as isolation layer at https://windmill.dev (Open-source alternative to Retool/Airplane)

(Our python nsjail config for instance: https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill/blob/main/backend/...)
Good points; though I admit, I was thinking more Linux-capable/"Linux-class" cores in the mid-range FPGAs which is where I spend a bunch of my time. For that, the paltry cache sizes due to limited amounts of BRAM are more noticeable (especially when other features may compete for them) so minimizing icache footprint as much as possible is win. Admittedly that's probably a marginal case versus the tiny softcores you mention; workloads that need high performance cores will practically be better off running on attached ARM processors or whatever.

Anyway, all that aside, I personally wouldn't be sad to see the C extensions go away. I'm actively designing a RISC-V core for a small game console, and probably won't implement them, and will spend the time on more DV instead. I don't expect them to have any meaningful benefits for my case and mostly increase frontend complexity.
People roll their cars on the highway and walk away these days. That wasn't a thing that happened in the 60s, 70s, 80s, and even 90s. Some people don't survive, but a vast majority do. You're instantly surrounded by airbags from all sides these days and have a sort of forcefield to absorb the energy of the crash so you don't have to. The same concept has safely dropped rovers onto other planets. Engines nosedive downward into the ground instead of back into the firewall and then into your legs, crumple zones take the impact and absorb the energy instead of transferring it through the solid steel bumper, solid steel frame, solid steal dashboard, solid steal steering column, and solid steel steering where, where your skull is next in line to absorb that energy which up to that point has hardly dissipated. In the 60s a fender bender often messed up people's necks for life, yet people today can often flip their car and walk away with scratches, never to complain about any life long issues stemming from the accident. Automatic collision detechion systems can notice a stopped object and apply the brakes faster than our meat cpus can even process the eyeball input and notice what is going on, and then dealing with the latency of brain to muscle signals and muscle speed and accuracy. When you're about to hit a brick wall at highway speeds, 250ms more of brakes on full can shed an insane amount of speed/momentum/energy. And let's not forget about all the people who text and drive who would rear end or cross the lane and hit someone head on if it wasn't for collision detection stopping them or lane keep yanking the car back into the lane it should be in. Cars are safer than they have ever been.
I haven't used seccomp, but have recently been playing around with the Linux pledge port[1]. It has a very friendly UI, but I still struggled with allowing some complex apps to run at all, because of the sheer amount of syscalls and devices they required. Digging through a mountain of strace output is tedious...

Can someone with experience with both comment on how (the Linux port of) pledge compares to seccomp? Can it be considered a replacement at this point?

It seems like it could handle the last scenario described in the article fine, since it allows setting granular rwcx permissions on individual paths.

[1]: https://justine.lol/pledge/
I think even if it was then it's likely better to have the attackers show their hands by attacking (comparatively) irrelevant targets.
I would assume that there are insights to be gained to even more effectively mitigate potential future attacks by this.
K-9 Mail joined Thunderbird to become Thunderbird Mobile [0]. They regularly publish progress updates [1] and their GitHub repository is regularly publishing releases and merging fixes and features [2].

0: https://blog.thunderbird.net/2022/06/revealed-thunderbird-on...

1: https://blog.thunderbird.net/category/thunderbird-mobile/

2: https://github.com/thundernest/k-9/pulse
> So it's Pidgim for mobile phones basically?

Except maybe that Text actually works? I just tried Pidgin after being away from it for about 10 years. Its discord integration was lacking. It eventually showed some discord channels and some text in them, but it was incredibly spotty and the UI was useless. I walked away believing Pidgin was a dead project because it acts so much like one.
It's a lot more generous than the $0 that the license agreement said needed to be paid.
Spain's acting government to push for a 37½-hour workweek
And first, lead by example.
If the parents cannot help looking at their phone every 5 minutes, how are the children supposed to act?
American doctors are trained to dogmatically accept medical treatments uncritically. The dogma is called the "standard of care" and the entire medical, billing, and legal system will work against you if you deviate from it. They will only change their ways when they are told to do so from higher up.
Bill Gates memorized employees' license plates to track them (2016)
I appreciate simple APIs that can be used cross-platform, like SQL.
There are children who die of cancer...
Whether courts can pin that sentiment down against prior laws may determine if these "lawsuits have merit" as you say, but the concern and calls for action exist and are growing regardless of how the lawsuits happen to settle.

All these companies know they're a target for accountability now, and even many people inside of them acknowledge a need for reform and possibly restitution. Your comment seems focused on the practical matters of these lawsuits (many of which probably are frivolous or will otherwise be lost), but what really matters are the unsettled societal costs that transcend them.

You may feel that accountability is being "misplaced", but it's much bigger than ambulance chasers and grandstanders. People are genuinely concerned about real problems and are hungry for some kind of action on them.
Postgres + lots of RAM. In memory database is fine until you have to recover a 20 gig AOF.
Being unaware if you even have a gun in your luggage is the most American thing ever.
Do you honestly believe social media has no impact on teen mental health, whether it be related to self esteem or inability to concentrate? It doesn't seem like a stretch to me at all.
Apple's Big Plan to Bring Generative AI to All Its Devices
> In 2017, Apple admitted to intentionally slowing down older iPhones. The claim was this would increase your phone’s lifespan. But really, it made your once snappy phone feel much more sluggish, leading some to upgrade their phones to a newer model with marginally better specs

I doubt any of their marketing people are reading this but outright lying like that is not how you build trust in your products. They’re referring to the phone throttling its power draw when a degraded battery could no longer provide full output, and the alternative would be shutting down suddenly at a time when the phone was doing something demanding like playing a game. Other devices do this as well for the same reason, and anyone selling battery powered devices has no excuse for not knowing this. A company which shipped a phone in 2020 with 5 hours of battery life when new must be painfully aware of the challenges.

Similarly, anyone buying another phone rather than a much cheaper battery replacement is probably doing so because they want the additional performance, camera quality, etc. or simply normal wear and tear has added up over time and the repair costs are closer to replacement.

A company delivering a phone with performance slower than competing devices made a decade earlier similarly has no business claiming that the gains for most users are marginal just because their hardware has lagged far behind. There’s a great example of deceptive marketing here:

> The Librem 5 utilizes a quad-core arm based CPU, where Purism is the first company to include this CPU in a mobile phone

https://puri.sm/pages/iphone-vs-librem-5/

Someone who doesn’t know that quad core ARM CPUs started shipping in phones around 2011 would not understand that to mean “nobody else uses this specific CPU for phones” rather than what they’re hoping the reader will think: “this thing isn’t slower than an iPhone 4S” The security claims are similarly broad and designed to be read as more persuasive than is actually warranted.

This is disappointing because I like the idea of more open hardware, and it’s certainly the case that a lot of phones are thrown out because they stop getting support, but the more I read their copy the less I trust this company. They’re trying to make an argument for why you shouldn’t hold slower hardware against them, but they way they do it makes me less inclined to trust anything they say without carefully validating it.
I think you can add another criteria that certain commenters here have revealed. They usually also say that they do not want to scour the web for a pair of pants that has larger pockets (see example comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38000006). This means you also have to add convenience to the list of criteria.

I would classify small startups as more inconvenient which might in part explain why they struggle to fill this niche.
> these lawsuits are based on junk and non existent science

Unfortunately the studies are reasonably solid. They aren't double-blind control group studies but they are correlative, so not the highest most pure studies. Social media use seems to be heavily correlated with depression and other markers of mental illness and struggle.

That isn't very surprising - social media networks are designed for "engagement" and that comes from strong negative emotions. If you constantly bombard someone with a drip feed of negative emotions.. that probably does them harm.

This doesn't mean the litigants will prevail because correlation and causation aren't 1:1 but it's probably a good idea to push your kid away from social media by explaining this to them.
This results in those in higher income tax brackets receiving far more money which is deeply inequitable.