skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The conclusion amongst friends we've come to is that screens are not inherently the problem -- even video games are not really the problem. The problem is Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok.

Blaming specific social media platforms (that I’m guessing you don’t use) is not as accurate as you’d expect. For example, the worst offender I’ve seen in slightly older kids is actually Reddit, which many tech-minded parents don’t include in their “bad social media sites” mental list because they think it’s not as bad as the others.

Using your sugar analogy: The few people I knew growing up whose parents had severe sugar restrictions at home ended up having very poor eating habits when they were older. They would consume sugary foods and drinks at higher rates then normal when given the freedom because it was a forbidden treat and they felt the need to binge because they never knew when they’d be allowed to access it again.

A similar thing seems to happen with kids who are overly restricted from TV, games, and other content: They never learn to regulate or moderate, only binge when the opportunity presents.

In my opinion, setting structure, limits, and teaching moderation with consequences for breaking the rules seems to produce better results. The parents of today who impose harsh and extreme regulations on kids, even with good intentions, are discovering the hard way what everyone else learned about restrictive households in decades past.

> I had a TI99 at age 4(ish), a C64 soon thereafter, and away I went.

Tech toys at this level still exist. In fact, old Nintendo or C64 games are still fun for kids. Those old calculators are still available. You don’t have to try to substitute a smartphone with the whole internet and all the apps for a narrowly directed learning experience of your youth.
2200 ton saved for 12 planes is about 1.5milliom usd

Each 777 can carry about 150 ton of fuel.

So they got about 15 fill ups free
Would it work for something other than peanut butter?
Candidly, you’re projecting your own feelings. You could go on. Kids could not. They don’t know or care, for the most part, about any “rights” that are or have been considered being “rolled back”
tld is .dev

localhost:~# dig dev soa
…
; <<>> DiG 9.16.39 <<>> dev soa
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 65000
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 512
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;dev. IN SOA

;; ANSWER SECTION:
dev. 299 IN SOA ns-tld1.charlestonroadregistry.com. cloud-dns-hostmaster.google.com. 1 21600 3600 259200 300

This is the soa config?

> SOA ns-tld1.charlestonroadregistry.com. cloud-dns-hostmaster.google.com. 1 21600 3600 259200 300
That doesn't excuse it. Excellence demands the persistent striving for what's difficult rather than surrender. If it means dressing up in a penguin suit or taking up comedy, more power to the teachers who are able to reach students through all manner of cool unreasonableness.
Nice!

I built https://seattle-movies.innocence.com/ out of similar motivations, although I limited my focus to arthouse/indie movie theaters. I also produce an .ics calendar feed which for me is the most useful feature; I like scanning upcoming movies on a calendar app I already use all the time.

No DB under the hood, just a nightly scrape and process. Works fine. Sometimes the format changes and updates break until I fix them; not a big deal and the code is available in case I ever get bored.

https://github.com/BryantD/film-calendar for the curious. It’s intended to be easy to adapt to another city.
I don't get what this means?

- There an option to compress images before uploading (which is probably on by default). Not unreasonable.

- Content is deleted if you do not access Google Photos in any way during two years AND do not have a paid storage plan. Not unreasonable.

- If you use more storage than you pay for during two years, content will be deleted. Again, not unreasonable.

I really do no get the complaint here.
A lot of us nerds here on HN would probably struggle to detect sarcasm 75% of the time.
When was the last time you had the alignment checked?
This case was about how quickly a hearing needed to take place, not actually about asset forfeiture.
Yeah, you are correct. My brain is a bad model lately, since Advanced Neuro Lyme Disease. I synthesized the information from those podcasts + google poorly. This is depressing.
You can definitely go considerably faster. A lot of these FOSS cores are either outright unoptimized or target ASICs and so end up performing very badly on FPGAs. A well designed core on a modern FPGA (not one of these bottom of the barrel low power Lattice parts) can definitely hit 250+ MHz with a much more powerful microarch. It's neither cheap nor easy which is why we tend not to see it in the hobby space. That, and better FPGAs tend not to have FOSS toolchains and so it doesn't quite meet the libre spirit.

But, yes, even at 250MHz trying to run Chipyard on a softcore would certainly be an exercise in patience :)
JWST's First Spectrum of Trappist-1B
>>AeroSHARK replicates this hydrodynamic property on aircraft. It is a "special film" made up of "tiny 50-micrometre riblets that reduce aerodynamic drag during flight."

While it's at this point obviously tested and proven to work, I wonder about the size of that texture in relation to the texture on actual shark-skin, and whether they are working at similar Reynolds numbers.
> We might as well extend it by having recipient public keys available via DNS records directly (or DNS specifying how to fetch them using some other protocol) and encrypting the contents of the e-mail as well.

That's just OpenPGP. There's even an OPENPGPKEY DNS record type. We all know how that went. It requires users to know what public keys are.
only on lobsters
I haven't thought that air travel can be made significantly better but I think 5 years ago or so I flew the dream liner for the first time and it was so much quieter and so much better because of it.

Anyone knows how long a airplane has to fly to be written of?
My personal opinion is that it's not just about brain quantity. I think being embedded in an environment is necessary for consciousness. My argument is that there is no such thing as unqualified consciousness -- you have to be conscious of something. You're not born aware of yourself, you spend the first few years of your life figuring out that you are embedded in this thing called a human body that, with considerable practice, you can exercise more-or-less direct control over. After more years you figure out that your body is further embedded in a world full of other things that you have only indirect (at best) control over, or no control at all. Only after all that can you draw a line between you and not-you and become aware of "your" existence.
> Short form videos? What about long form video?

These are being solved as we speak. I'm working on this problem directly and the level of control and consistency achievable is incredible. Video is just a special case of images.

Take a look at the ComfyUI space and the authors of plugins and papers.

> quality annotated 3D models

The research is progressing at a fast pace. We can get good surface topologies, textures, and there are teams working on everything from rigging to animation.
gardengardengarden — library for the web
By “zone”, is this regional? It was for a .dev tld. So that makes sense as to why I (someone in US) was able to see changes immediately.
Slightly off topic question.

>That compared to a package of roughly $22.6m (£17m) in 2022.

This man already had $22 million dollars. What drives someone to even keep working once you have that kind of money. You could live your life over again 20 times with just that one compensation package [1]. Seriously, what's in it for this guy? I can't imagine being head of Boeing is a particularly enjoyable position. Is there some secret way of living that only makes sense once you've attained an obscene net worth? Is just plain old power and greed? I'd have been out in 2022, hell if I had $1 million right now my main focus would be on how I can not work for the rest of my life. $22 million? I'm gone man, see ya. $33 million? Well, I guess we'll see what he does next.

1. https://www.theknowlesgroup.org/blog/average-american-lifeti...
I think you are conflating "american" users with western users. Most users around the world are aware of Americans intentions, not chinese. Only Americans think Chinese products are a problem and you guys are investing billions on making this a world sentiment. Without much success.

tldr: Americans are afraid of Chinese people possibly spying on them, the world hates Americans real world-wide espionage system.
There are clearly examples of fully open open-source with more than 10 people working on them, like linux, postgresql, etc.
Air Travel Design Guide
Network pruning.

In ANNs, pruning 90% of the weights without substantial loss isn't unheard of. I guess this may be analogous: continuous pruning and fine tuning over a lifetime. Though, is removing 90% of the brain more analogous to 90% of weights, or 90% of the rank?
> Wouldn't there be 100x more of the same capability looking for threats and trying to head them off?

Hard to determine.

It's fairly easy to put absolutely everyone under 24/7 surveillance. Not only does almost everyone carry a phone, but also laser microphones are cheap and simple, and WiFi can be used as wall penetrating radar capable of pose detection at sufficient detail for heart rate and breath rate sensing.

But people don't like it when they get spied on, it's unconstitutional etc.

And we're currently living through a much lower risk arms race of the same general description with automatic code analysis to find vulnerabilities before attackers exploit them, and yet this isn't always a win for the defenders.

Biology is not well-engineered code, but we have had to evolve a general purpose anti-virus system, so while I do expect attackers to have huge advantages, I have no idea if I'm right to think that, nor do I know how big an advantage in the event that I am right at all.

> There is no stopping a singularity level event after it's begun, at least not by any process where people play a role

Mm, though I would caution that singularities in models is a sign the model is wrong: to simplify to IQ (a flawed metric) an AI that makes itself smarter may stop at any point because it can't figure out the next step, and that may be an IQ 85 AI that can only imagine reading more stuff, or an IQ 115 AI that knows it wants more compute so it starts a business that just isn't very successful, or it might be IQ 185 and do all kinds of interesting things but still not know how to make the next step any more than the 80 humans smarter than it, or it might be IQ 250 and beat every human that has ever lived (IQ 250 is 10σ, beating 10σ is p ≈ 7.62e-24, and one way or another when there have been that many humans, they're probably no longer meaningfully human) but still not know what to do next.

I prefer to think of it as an event horizon: beyond this point (in time), you can't even make a reasonable attempt at predicting the future.

For me, this puts it at around 2030 or so, and has done for the last 15 years. Too many exponentials start to imply weird stuff around then, even if the weird stuff is simply "be revealed as a secret sigmoid all along".
Windows 12?
"Only" 28%? That's damn impressive. In the US, it's around 0.3%. In bicycle-friendly Oregon, it's only 1%. That's an order-of-magnitude to 2 more.

https://www.bicycleretailer.com/studies-reports/2021/05/20/b...
Damn Tübingen! You are the _third_ person who tells me about it! I’ll find a better source soon, hold on
This project looks interesting. I saw you use stty to configure the console, but there is a native "UNIX way" to do this via tcgetattr/tcsetattr, you'll have to figure out how to use these C functions elegantly in Go though / if there is some Go package which wraps them already. On Windows you'll have to configure the console via win32 API calls GetConsoleMode/SetConsoleMode and again you'll have to figure out how to do this from Go ⇒ you'll have to add some compile time switch between "UNIX like" OS and Windows to support both. The "UNIX like" version should work on Linux, macOS, and various other UNIX like systems.

You could also improve the debugging experience with full execution trace recording (record all executed instructions / memory accesses / … to a trace file) which would not only give you detailed information about what exactly went wrong if something goes wrong but also allow you to directly debug your own Z80 code on assembler level.
This is amazing. Where do all the free protons come from?
It is the most reasonable choice when you get to disregard the long-term risks because by the time they are likely to manifest in a problem, it's no longer your concern anyway.

I don't think it's accurate to describe it as "loss of progress", either. It just makes progress more expensive. There's no reason why e.g. those support & maintenance jobs cannot be located in the same country, or at least a friendly one - it's not like there's something magical about China that makes Chinese inherently better at 5G maintenance. Nor is there any reason why the data centers cannot be run by different companies in the same country.
How much have you spent to get started?
There are plenty of possible signatures (though uncertain) of actinides in there as well, some of those -could- have short lifetimes so not that far off.
Ohalo
'Urgent' change needed to tackle bullying in astronomy and geophysics
Meta: I am intentionally respecting the site's (lack of) title capitalization since it's obviously part of the a e s t h e t i c

From the “About” butan on the bottom right: “gardengardengarden (like www) is a curated library and a collection of essays that explore the current state of networked technologies, and aims to inspire a new perspective on reimagining a softer digital future that is rooted in intention and expression. One essay is published on every active day.”
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I remember that when I was around 8 or so, it happened several times in the morning while waking up, that I saw someone entering the bedroom while I was not able to speak or move. It was terrifying. It must have been imagination, since nobody appeared to have noticed anything unusual.

Is there a name for such event?
The mistake of cyberpunk sci-fi like Blade Runner is that the setting is always future Los Angeles or Tokyo, when Houston has been a much better candidate for the international, multilingual, steel-and-glass-and-concrete megacity of the future.
Ohalo Introduces Boosted Breeding
They are very effective at dealing with Whistleblowers
It is also highly likely that these people answering the polls are simply lying and know very well what actually happened. I watched a lot of raw footage around the time of Al-Aqsa Mosque storming and what I saw considerably differed from what Palestinians claimed had happened. Al-Aqsa mosque really was used as a base for violent attacks - there were piles of stones stored in the mosque. What especially shocked and disturbed me were people just hanging around in shoes like in a nightclub, showing no respect to the holy place.
On a fundamental level, if you reduce input you will have less storage costs.
Fair use laws, if the country has them, don’t include profit. OpenAI, and other similar LLMs, are commercial products. “A.I.”, i.e., an LLM, can not make art therefore its output can not be patented and the algorithm can not be an author. You’re playing an ignorant semantic game.
Rebuilding the system on itself and validating that the bitfile is the same is nice.

I'm amazed that it could be rebuilt in 512MB (and in "only" 4.5 hours on a ~65MHz CPU.) My experience with yosys (and vivado etc.) is that they seem to want many gigabytes.

> A 65MHz Linux-capable CPU inevitably invokes memories of mid- 1990s Intel 486 and first-generation Pentium processors.

50-65MHz* and 512MB seems comparable to an early 1990s Unix workstation. Arguably better on the RAM side.

*4.5 Mflops on double precision linpack for lowRISC/50MHz
That sounds like at least a percent or two in savings per year, which is not too shabby.
Roughly 25 years. The other thing that you probably didn't notice directly but made you feel better is the better pressurization. Newer planes tend to keep higher pressures (since carbon fiber is ridiculously strong), which helps prevent some of the general discomfort of flying.
I am probably a bigger Apple critic than most, but I genuinely don’t understand the commonly stated sentiment that Apple is bad at fractional scaling. I’ve been running 27” 4K monitors at “looks like 1440p” scaling on my MBPs for years, and I literally cannot tell the difference in quality between the built in display and my monitors. Is there some particular app or use case where it’s more noticeable?
Controlling chaos using edge computing hardware
You could also come up with many examples where he worked hard against repeating lies from others since he often reasons from first principles.

But yes you’re right. The difference is probably whether one "beliefs" Elon is beneficial for the world or not.
True. I got lucky: when we played, there were maybe 20-25 non-players in the entire playing area, so avoiding them was no problem. I didn't hear any complaints about our game. It could have definitely been a bigger problem; thankfully, it wasn't.
> “energy and information are the same thing”

Reads like this [0]:

'the human body as undergirded by a "quantum mechanical body" composed not of matter but energy and information'

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepak_Chopra
> “all you can eat and drink” respectively.

It would interesting to see the effect of that here in Australia. Imagine the Homer Simpson at the seafood buffet episode but an entire country.
How have the eating habits in the West change over the last 70 years?
I (the author) am a senior in high school. It was mostly high school kids. Average age probably 16-17.
PDF link in the page header is 404
“Windows 1.0 and the Applications of *Tomorrow*” keynote, Charles Petzold (2005)
I guess it depends how big your house is but on the rare occasions I don't leave my apartment I don't even top 700 steps.
So instead of seing a hot "small" spot (the star), we'd see a warm (a bit above absolute zero) but very large sphere?
We do both. Id say works OK at best. Need better mixing perf!
Thanks! The "flags" (balls) really make it more fun, because you can pass to other people.
Hiring Founding Engineer Junior
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We also mix our spicy oil for a common breakfast meal we make on it sometimes
Exploring the Adversarial Robustness of Multimodal Large Language Models
""...we design algorithms that can generate adversarial examples to jailbreak SLMs in both white-box and black-box attack settings without human involvement. Additionally, we propose countermeasures to thwart such jailbreaking attacks. Our models, trained on dialog data with speech instructions, achieve state-of-the-art performance on spoken question-answering task, scoring over 80% on both safety and helpfulness metrics...

...Despite safety guardrails, experiments on jailbreaking demonstrate the vulnerability of SLMs to adversarial perturbations and transfer attacks, with average attack success rates of 90% and 10% respectively when evaluated on a dataset of carefully designed harmful questions spanning 12 different toxic categories. However, we demonstrate that our proposed countermeasures reduce the attack success significantly...
Your favorite sci-fi plot is not a realistic prediction of the future.
I did valuable work on a 2 MHz Apple II with a 4 MHz Z80 add-on running CP/M that I used to write the documentation. The documentation part was just as fast forty years ago as it is now but assembling the code was glacially slow. The 6502 macro assembler running on the Apple too forty minutes to assemble code that filled an 8 k EPROM.
Not at UT yet, but going to UT in the fall to study applied math! I'm definitely looking to organize more fun stuff like this in Austin.
Without having thought it through fully I feel like the classic "trusting trust" attack could work at the fpga/bitstream level.
I, for one, don't like American canned comic books or IPs produced by faceless corporations and prefer artisanal Japanese manga.
Screen Wake Lock API
Yeah that makes sense. We weren't large enough to justify it though. They cancelled the program a few years later (2010ish). I haven't seen a police helicopter over this town since.
1. Is cold peanut butter a misery? I grew up in a cupboard pb home, and I enjoy fridge pb as much as cupboard pb. What temperature do you keep your fridge at?

2. Storing upside down is a precaution against oily messes because the oils separate on top of the peanut solids, and so is under the peanut solids when upside down. Also, I mentioned that at the fridge temperatures the oil congeals, and so remains mixed when refrigerated, avoiding any oily mess.
RTTY Art Historical Archives
Ya, improved grip is needed. I was gonna use rubber wheels but got lazy and wanted to use what i had on hand
I expected them fail me on the homework, as was fair. The assignment has a point-value, I showed up each morning with an empty notebook and requested a zero on the assignment instead of a late penalty. Homework was worth 15% of the final grade and I had no problem passing without any homework credit whatsoever.

The lesson I learned is that if you beat certain people at their own game they will never let you live it down. Whether I was dysfunctional or not, their response didn't work and they refused to renege after months of failure. They failed as a teacher, when I hadn't failed as a student.
This is really out of date thinking, even South Korea is better at making ships than America now. In wartime China would switch from gadgets to bombs and drones and out produce us by an order of magnitude. They already produce 3x more vehicles than America; It’s 2024, not 1956. Review the article called “The return of industrial warfare”.

https://www.rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/comme...
The 787 and the A350 are both a delight to fly long haul
Big money is behind both sides. Ask yourself, is it wise for one country to depend on another?
Thanks! Was definitely considering implementing "jail", but I wasn't sure where to put it for both teams, so I decided against it.