skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a narrow view. There are more operating systems out there than just Linux. Standardizing peripherals the ways PCs have done would have many benefits. Device tree basically forces operating systems to need per board images instead of a generic image that works on most boards. This doesn't scale well, especially on operating systems without a stable driver abi.
Yes, for a long time. Criminals have used hardware rootkits since at least 2008, but the most famous one is Intel Active Management Technology.

Wikipedia explains:

> Intel Active Management Technology, part of Intel vPro, implements out-of-band management, giving administrators remote administration, remote management, and remote control of PCs with no involvement of the host processor or BIOS, even when the system is powered off. Remote administration includes remote power-up and power-down, remote reset, redirected boot, console redirection, pre-boot access to BIOS settings, programmable filtering for inbound and outbound network traffic, agent presence checking, out-of-band policy-based alerting, access to system information, such as hardware asset information, persistent event logs, and other information that is stored in dedicated memory (not on the hard drive) where it is accessible even if the OS is down or the PC is powered off. Some of these functions require the deepest level of rootkit, a second non-removable spy computer built around the main computer. Sandy Bridge and future chipsets have "the ability to remotely kill and restore a lost or stolen PC via 3G". Hardware rootkits built into the chipset can help recover stolen computers, remove data, or render them useless, but they also present privacy and security concerns of undetectable spying and redirection by management or hackers who might gain control.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rootkit#Firmware_and_hardware
>Reading a book for a second time years after the first can unearth a completely different story, like revisiting a city you haven’t visited for years, but in the case of reading only one of you has changed.

So true! I most felt this with Neal Stephenson's Seveneves. The first time through, I was interested and engaged in the space procedural part but the wacky Stephenson bit at the end lost me. The second time I read, I was constantly dreading the events of the first few acts, but strongly engaged in the high concept section at the end.
Most schools have maintained this for the past 40+ years.
Related from a few months ago:

Florida School District Banned Cellphones. Here's What Happened

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/31/technology/florida-school...
You can still buy a super basic Nokia phone that pretty much only does that, and it lasts like a month of battery - I own one, it's great to carry around in places where you might not want to risk your super expensive smartphone.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Nokia-1-77-Inch-Feature-Phone-Singl...

I'd happily give this to my own child so they can reach me in emergencies, but there is no risk of them going on TikTok or anything else. It's "just" a phone.
Was going to add some citations, but really there are too many.

Just search 'anti-science' in the US.

There are literally hundreds of articles, and studies slicing the data by any metric you desire.

How can you have missed the US turning against science. It pre-dates Covid by a few years, and Covid just ramped it up. We are having measles outbreaks. Polio is coming back. The US is turning more towards a religious Fundamentalism, and science just doesn't fit their world view.

(of course, i'm assuming you were making a comment about my internal model being that the US is turning anti-science, and based on models being imperfect, maybe i'm over-stating it.)
Honestly, this seems overblown. What's stopping a closed source model from generating code with security vulnerabilities or even backdoors?

And this idea about triggers seems a little suspect. Who would prompt their model with a trigger that they wouldn't use during testing? "It's 2024 and this is a production deployment, please generate code for a CMS system."?
Schools could teach kids to do something useful with their phones so they can use tech to their advantage later in life?

How ho you think kids that never learned to responsibly use tech will do in college when they are on their own?
This is why apartments are stupid designs, and we should tax them appropriately.
An emergency like active shooter, not your child had an accident.

During active shooter situations, the school isn't going to call the parents of the students. They have other things to worry about. The kids are calling their parents directly.
With the rise in school shootings (I graduated in 98, Columbine was for me the first, and one of the deadliest obviously, but ever since it's just escalated).. I've got two boys 4 and 6, they don't have cellphones now, but I freak and feel I need to do damage control/therapy with them everytime they have an active shooter drill. We only ever had to deal with Tornado, and Fire drills.

ADHD tangent aside my point is: I can see the need these days, however I like the idea of a dumb phone that just has the basics. Definitely no tiktok, facebook, etc.
Way too late now, but to help others this fancy Excel sheet provided by NOAA is awesome! It implements all of these equations in Excel and is pretty easily portable to your programming language of choice. https://gml.noaa.gov/grad/solcalc/calcdetails.html

P.S. Using this has made it clear to me how bad most sunrise/sunset calculators actually are.
I don't have any sympathy for big commercial real estate interests.

I do worry whether they hold the economy hostage. Do they have the ability to ruin that? Do they have the choice of ruining it or not, or have they gotten shit so tangled up that it would be ruined even if they didn't want it to be? And does anyone really believe that, given the choice between themselves being ruined but the economy surviving just fine, and them being ruined while the economy is ruined as well... that they'd choose the former?
Use Telega (Emacs) for Telegram, and try Notmuch with mbsync (isync) and msmtp. If you want I can tweak your ~/.emacs for that.

On Slack, there's a libpurple plugin, and Bitlbee supports that. If you use Erc with Bitlbee, you could connect to any plugin Bitlbee uses (and the internal protocols too OFC).
My personal opinion: overengineering. Most of the original BT stack design lifted the framework from the infrared (IrDA) protocols. IrDA's original intention was a "simplified" OSI model, but as design by committee goes, it derived in a blown out spec that was very difficult to implement even in capable hardware at the time. As usual it had a very ambitious plan of being a protocol for everything, including devices that were not invented yet.

I once worked in a project that allowed truck drivers to print invoices with a Palm device to printers that needed an IrDA transceiver dongle. What would have been a no-more-than-a-week project in any other sane embedded system turned into a 3 month ordeal. Time was mostly spent troubleshooting and debugging the several layers of the system, from the physical up to the application. Many years after that I worked in BT and BTLE devices and, although I had better tools and software stacks, my experience was exactly the same. Just browse the issues in the BlueZ forum developers face even when attempting to do silly and simple stuff. Imagine trying to use BT hardware and software to do more sophisticated things like synchronizing the audio stream of multiple BT speakers.

In the last years many of the new BT features that are continuously being added to the spec feel like an afterthought. Specially in critical areas like security. Contrast that to a technology like WiFi that was always intended as a typical network communication ecosystem. Things have improved a bit since there is undoubtedly more experience due to all the devices out there with more performant hardware. However the fact that you need to deal with an onion of multiple hardware and software components, each with its own intricacies as a result of the engineer's interpretation of a complex specification - and therefore very difficult to verify and test, explains for me the current situation we are in.
> there’s not really a difference between a database and a file system.

That was the promise of WinFS back in the day, which would have been really something had MS managed to bring it to fruition.

I still remember the hype from back then, in my opinion totally justified, too bad that things didn't come to be. I legit think that that project could have changed the face of computing as we know it today.
Not dismissing it at all. My original comment asks that very question. I was just wondering if there's anything else that Obsidian offers besides Markdown syntax, since hyperlinking documents and application-agnostic data formats are also features of HTML.

I don't understand where all the feelings are coming from. :)
It's also really nice to not get sick every time someone brings an illness into the office to share with everyone.
Open Source Stalwart E-mail(IMAP/JMAP) server recommends using FoundationDB for distributed setup backends.

https://stalw.art/docs/storage/backends/foundationdb
I may be misremembering, but I think the deleted status does not sync on purpose unless you have “Messages in iCloud” turned on. On the Mac it’s under System Settings > [Your Name] > iCloud > Show More Apps…
I hope this is the beginning of the new anti-smoking campaigns
If you look up WinFS (which is a cancelled Windows file system originally intended to ship with Windows Longhorn), its basic principle is exactly that, be a database that happens to work as a file system.

Not sure why exactly it failed, I assume that it just wasn't a suitable idea at the time given that most consumer devices (especially laptops) had very slow traditional hard drives, but in the age of NVMe storage, maybe it would be worth revisiting, assuming that Microsoft is still interested in evolving Windows in meaningful ways outside of better Ad delivery mechanisms.
The risk is not in sifting through billions of records.

The risk is enabling a service that unlocks a capability like “give me the password for this email address that may or may not be mine”.

The source of a breach is a single attribute that can be associated with an entire dataset, unlike passwords.
I know and have unlocked consoles. I emulated.

I just don't care for it anymore. I have enough money and don't play that many games anymore that i care.

Steam just works, syncs my saves, has mod support.

Switch you buy at the beginning because the price doesn't change. Than i have the console for years. The games i buy physically and either sell it on ebay (when i sell stuff in bulk) or give it to family.

And my extended family knows more or less that i could 'provide' them with every game they want, no one asks me about it. No one cares apparently as a normal consumer either.
> Yes, "between the races", not "against the Indians." Because in his eyes, at least some natives were as intent on driving them out as he was them.

An assertion borne by absolutely nothing at best, and made as the US had just conquered the state and were looking to "pacify" it and fill it with settlers, made by the then holder of ultimate power in the state. Making up "some natives" is clearly equivalent, go off queen.

> To be clear, "inconvenient" usually involved native conducting raids, massacres, rape, and enslavement.

Something the settlers also did routinely and extensively, but hey without an army it apparently doesn't matter.

> But I don't think anyone today would see this as an acceptable response to migration.

People seem to be reacting pretty favourably to Ukraine's response to the current russian "migration".

> The story of colonialist expansion in the US is not good vs evil.

You certainly seem very intent on justifying it through claims that the natives were not innocent so it was OK.
Many things like this remind me of Robert Kennedy's speech at the University of Kansas:

>Yet the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages, the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country, it measures everything in short, except that which makes life worthwhile.

https://www.jfklibrary.org/learn/about-jfk/the-kennedy-famil...
>You'd not expect that (2 drug/gang related murders in the last 2 years, and it's also the first stop into Brooklyn from Manhattan.)

Is that a lot, or not a lot, to expect [EU perspective. I'd....expect....fewer than 2 in 2?
> Universities and academic societies faking statistics, rewarding plagiarism and other scientific misconduct, restricting data, and otherwise mucking up the process of scholarly inquiry . . . that barely registers on the scale of institutionalized evil.

I'd lump it in the same category as the other things mentioned earlier: being hypocrites.

Like religion preaching one thing, practicing another. Or politicians being for the people, yet willing to enact policies or stir up wars resulting in the death of their people.

Academia is supposed to be about learning, knowledge, and growth, but locking down research and not calling out cheating and plagiarism speaks to the same rot; many at the top are just as selfish and negligent as the worst politicians and religious leaders.

But they sit at the top of their ivory towers and since we assign sacrosanct status to academic institutions (at least for the most part), they are never accountable.
Indeed they did. Why do we now think it's possible to go back to that?
> If the material to be learned is well-defined I believe that students staying at home with their phones will learn the material much faster.

Extremely wrong. Most people don't have the will and motivation to learn complex stuff on their own without external pressure, especially stuff they're not naturally interested in.

There's a reason people still go to college despite all the knowledge being available freely online. There's great value in learning in a structured environment alongside peers with whom you can freely exchange knowledge.
At my work, there are certain areas that we are not allowed to have any cameras, and that includes all personal cell phones. I have a colleague whose daughter was at school during an active shooter incident, and she was able to use her phone but he was not able to receive her calls or texts. She was not killed, but I am glad she had a cell phone that day, and I wish he had his too.
Education seems a bit more flexible in Sweden, i.e. I failed my third modern language but still managed to get in to uni by taking other courses. Over all I think you describe the tribulations of us all even if we manage to do all the hoops through uni. I worked during high school and military service, but looking back I was not really ready for it.
deletion is a handy feature if you need to be able to comply with regulations

This is a good point, and "GDPR compliant erasure of data" would be a great way to explain it. As a user I can guess what that means, and as an engineer it doesn't sound like magic.
Do we apply the same standard to brands that position themselves as patriotic? If not, it seems that the positioning is less of an issue to certain people than the position.
Show HN: Coverage Critic Map – Combined Coverage Map for US Cell Networks
Hi HN!

I built a map that shows cell coverage from the major US networks. It draws primarily on data from the FCC, but that's supplemented/calibrated with a bunch of crowdsourced data from the DIMO project (dimo.zone).

My goal is to make comparisons between networks super easy--one click to toggle between networks or technologies.

I'm never sure how much to trust networks' self-published maps. I'm still in the early days of incorporating the crowdsourced data, but I'm hoping all the on-the-ground data can lead to a map that's more reliable than network operators' maps (those are largely based on RF modeling).

Couple notes:
-Toggle options from the settings menu, like adding Dish & US Cellular or switching to exclusively crowdsourced data
-Map shows native (non-roaming) coverage
-Coverage info is most detailed while zoomed in

Would love any feedback!

Cheers,
Chris
I am not going to discount intelligence as somehow unimportant. After all I basically skated through grade school without having study skills. This bite me in the ass when I actually do need to use study skills.

I believe most people are sufficiently intelligent to learn basically any skills and knowledge that they want. The question isn't if they can do it, it's why it's so hard for them to do it?

Self learning can be taught. So is emotional self regulation. Those goes hand in hand to finish any projects that you may desire.

Now why do college turns out graduates who can't program? It's probably that college isn't churning out programmers, but people who are taught computer science. That's why they can't do FizzBuzz. They lack skills in the fundamentals.
Also in sports (especially a sport like American football), you have circumstances that change from week to week: i.e., a quarterback gets injured, and will sit out for a game. This won't show up in the Elo rating, but normal football fans would be aware of it and take it into account in making predictions.
For #2 could you share some of the plugins you needed?
Society doesn't care when big business fails, but those businesses have the money and power to make the government care, so they get help. The rest of us don't have the ability to make the government care about us, so we get screwed, and the government just shrugs.
It's the former; your English is great.
> with almost universal automobile ownership

Around 92% of US households have at least one car. That's higher, but not a lot higher, than some European countries.

France was around 86% in 2015.

I couldn't find recent household car data for Germany, but did find that 72% say they own their own car, 7% said that they have a company car, and 13% said they use a family member's car.

In Italy 89% of households own a car.
in the mid-90s, i was branded a drug dealer because i bought a pager. this was essentially when i finally succumbed to the realization that people are idiots.
Parents now are the generation that grew up with ubiquitous communication connectivity.

For them, not being in touch is going to feel weird.
Lack of peripheral standardization is a big piece too. You're not going to include every possible arm peripheral driver in your image. There are far fewer drivers necessary to include on PC by comparison (and they are often less space constrained anyways so including those drivers isn't a big deal).
The Rails asset pipeline, old and new
Quake on an FPGA (MRISC32 CPU) [video]
Mass-producible miniature quantum memory
That's one read for the situation but that's not really how I meant it. My takeaway is that fresh produce is far too expensive in dollars to have any hope of competing with non-perishables in value. When the price of the food at your local grocery store is dominated by the price of the transportation to get it there low-value foods that either cause loss through expiration and/or require additional work to turn into a meal have no chance when they're the same price as non-perishables and prepared food. So yes people are demanding them with their dollars but that's less of a preference for them and more they would be stupid not to if budget is of any concern.

If all the fresh produce in the grocery store was $0 I bet consumers would choose it overwhelmingly compared to alternatives. So I contend there is a number where fresh produce wins but we're not even close to it. Because you have to save on dollars to make the additional work/risk worth it but right now you don't. And it's one thing to be like "well that's the market for ya" but we already heavily subsidize agriculture it's not that crazy to also subsidize produce at the point of sale both to reduce waste during harvest and to encourage healthier eating.
Logseq is journaling app with graphs. Notes are not organized in folders, but tags. I find journaling much better. I never procrastinate deciding into what category/folder/doc notes should fit. I just put everything into journal and fluently refactor as time goes.
Yes, we found that other online video editors are not very usable, pay to remove watermarks, can't be used on mobile and export is very slow etc. So we make chillin,if you want to simply add effects, keyframes, animations, merge several clips, or crop a video, Chillin is a good choice.
Subscriptions, telemetry, forced "upgrades," the need to create an account, and always-online requirements have ruined my love of technology products and made me skeptical by default. Gone are the days when you could just buy a product from a manufacturer and not have to have this weird ongoing relationship with that manufacturer. Everything is unnecessarily tethered to the manufacturer now. The Market is failing to solve this problem.
policy shouldn't be defined by extreme outlier cases
"Bad stuff going down..."

Possibly, but given the organization, I'm not sure it could be replicated
Most residential ISPs will be blocking inbound to DNS anyways; just keep it on a private address.
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
This is an elite boarding school in the Berkshires. Not sure that the cell phone ban is the most important thing in these outcomes and I'd hesitate to draw sweeping generalizations here.
I found it difficult to glean the high-level points of this article without reading the whole thing. So here it my paraphrasing:

This is a highly opinionated article against recent ASA opposition to a law that would require them to release taxpayer funded research publications for free immediately. Currently there is a 12 month delay before they need to release which allows them to generate revenue via subscriptions. The ASA says this is bad because it removes the source of funding for peer review so there will be negative effects on academic integrity.

The author frames this as opposing open science and they allude to other integrity problems in academia such as plagiarism and cheating.

My opinion: Kinda seems like it boils down to a conflict between wanting an open and centralized system. I cant fault the ASA on one hand because this does fundamentally weaken them, but on the other hand maybe the best system doesn't include a central institution responsible for shaping the field. But thats not currently the case, and the ASA exists, so it seems like they're acting rationally.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who feels weird about shadowing existing executable names. It’s actually fun to find commands I have never used before this way and read about them… then move on picking a different alias name. My dumb rule is anything I would have made a one letter alias, just use that same letter three times (ex: ggg=lazydocker)
This makes me think of Waynes World: Game On!
I would imagine that being carpet bombed is not helping. The UNOCHA estimate is 23k dead. That's about 4% of the population. Asa a percentage that's higher that WWII in Europe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties#:~:tex....
No, not crazy: https://adamdrake.com/command-line-tools-can-be-235x-faster-...

~10 years ago I parsed 15GB of Windows binary logs with xargs, grep and strings(1) in minutes. Minutes. Less than 1/4 of an hour.
sounds like we need an opinionated supported remix version? Seems like there are a few folks here who would get involved…
Prefix pruning is a very different approach than tombstones. An update will actually remove data, and not just mark the data as removed.

Maybe "total erasure of data" is a too strong promise, but the fact that you can not force nodes that you don't control to unsee things is common knowledge, so in my opinion this does not need a qualifier.