skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a large and growing body of evidence indicating that pervasive phone connectivity has led to large increases in psychiatric issues among all demographics, and particularly among younger people who have now grown up immersed in a phone culture.

More informally, smartphone usage by children promotes a short attention span, a lack of any sense of presence where actually situated in the physical world, as well as less and lower quality interaction with others, leading to poor social skills, anxiety, social isolation, and a focus on superficial social signaling over meaningful human interactions, ultimately producing the mental illnesses referenced above.

See e.g. https://kagi.com/search?q=summary+of+mental+health+outcomes+... -- there are far too many sources to even list here.
> shallow takes like the one above provide nothing of value.

The previous Portuguese PM António Costa, who had to resign amid a corruption inquiry...Has just been announced today for an EU role that will triplicate his previous annual salary as Portuguese prime minister

"Portuguese PM António Costa resigns amid corruption probe" - https://www.politico.eu/article/portugal-prime-minister-anto....

"Portugal's Antonio Costa expected to be next head of European Council" - https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/portugals-antonio-costa...

"...Costa's appetite for a top European position has been an open secret for years. In March 2022, amid speculation Costa was angling for a Brussels job, Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa warned him that he would call an election if he were to leave his post early..."

It is a graft and of the worst kind, and naive takes like yours is what led to scenarios like Brexit. It's a jobs for the boys organization and you are not part of the club.
McDonald's pulls AI ordering from drive-thrus – for now
There might not be many people taking that train from Chicago -> Los Angeles, but I wonder how many people take it for part of that route? There are 32 stations on that route.

I had occasion once to take Amtrak from East Texas to Los Angeles and there were only a handful of other people doing that, but there were a ton of people who got on and later got off between East Texas and Los Angeles.

For these long Amtrak routes they are probably best thought of not as a means to travel from one endpoint to the other, which will almost always be faster and cheaper to do by air, but rather as a collection of local or regional routes arranged end to end that share trains.
Excellent deep dive (and surprisingly not self-referential). I read the dead tree version (https://amzn.to/4cs5EDA) when it first came out.
This will always be the best example of HN.
You've made multiple assumptions here that couldn't be further from reality. You don't have to use production for testing or share test credentials between environments for automated tests to exploit an unintended environment, you just have to forget to clean up a `.env` file after testing a hotfix.

... is that good? Hell no. But it's a much more common version of reality than you're assuming is happening.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40706164
> it's basically just a RISC-V SBC but in a Framework mainboard form-factor.

As someone who's been looking for an excuse to get a Framework, I'm thrilled at the idea that if this doesn't pan out, I can just swap in a different mainboard and convert it to a full-featured x86 laptop, and then donate the RISC-V mainboard to the tinkerers at my local hackerspace (who are more than capable of 3D-printing a nice enclosure for it).
Thanks, Rekursiv is very interesting, and the Wikipedia article gave me the keywords to dig further on the topic of "high-level language computer architecture"
Bulgarians are just as smart - it's an EU country and the language is easier to learn than Russian. Здравейте! Many other benefits to hiring Bulgarians also.
When my dad died I woke up the next day on a new Earth that was less bright, where I cared less about all things including myself. I don’t think it gets better, you just gradually forget your old home.
The invisible kind because not all the parts have arrived because WiredZone and Next International are terrible Supermicro VARs to be avoided.
The interface isn't the best for finding older comments but there's the HN highlights list: https://news.ycombinator.com/highlights
Hands-On Guide to Property-Based Testing in JavaScript
Saying mathematical notation has no ambiguity is a hilarious joke.
Repurposing a psychological model as a way to gain insight or start a conversation is one of the five stages of debunking.

/s
Just installed on my Oneplus 6, and the amount of polish that's gone into Gnome Shell Mobile since the last release makes a huge difference.

Can't wait for the talented folks bringing up the camera of the Snapdragon 845, then this may be a viable alternative to the big 2. https://fosstodon.org/@joelselvaraj/112621744555315631

Also, I'm tempted to run a little node server on an old phone now.
Hm, is the "ribbon & lipstick = woman" part not bothersome to you?
> essentially unbeatable (unless there's a critical bug) due to hardware-backed attestation.

FWIW Google started enforcing those attestations like one month or two ago, and there are many critical bugs. I haven't kept scores, but some other people did : https://x.com/wanghan1995315/status/1803063996204912873

And please note that they only list big brands leaks. Since you can use any OEM's attestation key, /any/ OEM leak can break those so-called "security protections". Even after all security flaws, there is still social engineering. I guesstimate that you could ask an ODM's engineer for an attestation key for like 1k$ and share it to like 20 persons. (200 would probably still remain under the radar, but you need to be capable of keeping a secret with 200 persons)

Though the conclusion shouldn't be that attestation keys are insecure and we need a secure variant (because a secure variant is indeed coming). The conclusion must be that users own the device they bought. Not Google, not Apple.
He looks to be peddling the same info that he has been peddling for twenty years. If he has had no large scale projects or results to show in this time, why would someone listen to him now? I am not saying his ideas don't have merit, only that it doesn't look like he can be trusted to implement them well. Perhaps someone else can take over his ideas and do a better job.
Ask HN: How do I become a more productive, high executive function engineer?
I'm not looking for advice on time management or anything like that. It's more that I see these developers with portfolio sites with all these projects and apps and cool stuff and I wonder how to become a developer like that. They seem so productive and capable, and I feel like I can't finish anything. I get that I'm comparing my livestream to their highlight reel so to speak, but I really feel like my development/programming skills are very subpar compared to most developers. I've been programming for 5 years and I can't think of any functioning, well-crafted piece of software I've shipped that I'm proud of, in my work or in my personal life.

Some of this is that I'm feeling demotivated at my current job, I've gotten some negative feedback, some of it is office politics, but some of it is fair. The thing that I think is fair is that I can't seem to actually deliver or ship anything and be truly productive. IDK, how do I enter the flow state and start making software I'm proud of showing off? Either in my work or in my personal projects?
Not anyone here, evidently.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/102651
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40659671
Allow me to further blow your mind:

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/who-were-the-neanderthals.htm...

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/are-neanderthals-human...
Google Glass was pretty locked down too iirc

And it's gone, too. Gee, I wonder if there's a pattern here.
I was once brought into a PowerBuilder project, during the discovery phase due to my French skills more than anything else, and naturally was cheaper than getting an external translator.

Everything except API calls was in French.

I also have seen enough code during my lifetime with comments, and occasionally code as well, in Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, German.
Parsing Python ASTs 20x Faster with Rust
https://hn.algolia.com/ is quite good for finding things on HN.
> Yes, as people point out, this product doesn't make much sense for many people, but it doesn't have to: part of the advantage of this platform is that components don't need to appeal to a wide customer base.

I feel like this has been the promise of the modern manufacturing era for so long, but it’s felt like all the momentum’s gone in the opposite direction - everyone chasing the most beige thing they can to try to get the largest market share. I’m excited to see more products and companies pushing against that trend, and it’s part of what I really appreciate about Framework - their product is absolutely a niche product and will always be, and they’re doing the hell out of it.
Materials startup advised by 'godfather of AI' raises £24M
It is an interesting start. OrgProfile is going to be what makes or breaks such an effort, IMO. Building a single Org Admin UX for auth data as well as app data is the key - I want pre-built UI for managing and inviting users, but then want to easily add to that UI to include other org-specific configurations and view the org's data. If you land in a place where that is easy to do, I'd definitely reconsider Clerk for future projects, as I really do like the idea of what Clerk can deliver.
Yes! This is absolutely the right move for SBC makers. It has always bothered me that SBCs are sold as entire laptops, which were often subpar because its hard to justify an expensive screen/keyboard/shell for a single cheap underpowered SBC. Then, when you move onto the next SBC, you end up with an entire laptop of e-waste instead of just a single motherboard. Framework has already done an excellent job creating the physical/human interface, so lets just replace the brains inside of it so I can keep using the same excellent matte screen, keyboard, and touchpad and have essentially the same user experience (but with different performance).

Hopefully this board can also operate in stand-alone mode outside of the framework shell just like the official framework motherboards because then we'd get the best of both worlds while also being able to benefit from the coolermaster case. Regardless, I'm going to order one when it becomes available.

Also stoked to see the open source CAD files for the shell.
If you click on lists at the bottom of the page[0], there are two relevant entries:

* highlights: Particularly interesting comments (manually curated via request) https://news.ycombinator.com/highlights

* bestcomments: Highest-voted recent comments https://news.ycombinator.com/bestcomments

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/lists
> Kids watching Tiktok, Reels, Shorts, or whatever, doesn't really bother me at all.

My main concern with this is that it shows a very very unrealistic view of life.
It's basically the old "unrealistic role models" debate all over again (and this applies to both boys and girls). Except worse because TV shows and such were at least presented as fiction, whereas this is presented as "real life", even though it's not. And "education" is not going to solve this, because intellectually knowing something and feeling something like this are two very different things.

There are some other concerns as well; here is what I got on YouTube some time ago when searching for "Alan Lomax" (famous for recoding obscure "regular people" playing music throughout the US): https://imgur.com/a/jTQ6xvM

This is just rage-bait designed to make your angry. It has nothing to do with what I searched for. I don't have an account, don't store cookies, and even if YouTube was somehow tracking me: I more or less only use it for music stuff, sometimes comedy or programming videos. Certainly not politics.

None of the above is strictly new per se. George Galloway was around with fairly inflammatory rhetoric before social media really took off, but level and amount of exposure do matter a great deal.

And while almost all journalistic mainstream journalistic outlets do care about some level of balance of viewpoints (even though this is not perfect), this is just non-existent for a lot of online stuff.
Actual article, an op-ed from the Surgeon General: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/17/opinion/social-media-heal... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40706073)
How do you know it's carrier RCS? To the best of my knowledge they are only gatekeeping access to Google Messages private network, not carrier RCS? (Considering the very little number of carrier RCS that's not very relevant though)
gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/17/opinion/social-media-heal...
Wait, did they only fix subnormals on the E-cores or did they fix them on the P cores also? It would be really weird if they only fixed this on the E-cores, but I haven’t seen anything saying that Redwood Cove fixed this issue.
Doubt it. Earth is not even a sphere.
[dupe]

Actual article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40706073
To reinforce your point, I think any given person is much, much more likely to die due to nuclear war than in a school shooting.
"The European Union does not have a democratic deficit same as the moon doesn't have an oxygen deficit"

The EU is a profoundly dysfunctional institution, and one of the main reasons why is the lack of democracy. I say this as a pro-Europe person.
This kind of friction is so expansive and ubiquitous that another, less negative word for it is simply “life.”

It’s like John Lennon said:

“Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.”

Instead of trying to eliminate or stigmatize it, it can be more productive to think of it as a creative input into your static system which can be harnessed for unexpected good.

(And personally I would rather live by the worldview of Lennon than a 19th century German general.)
The joy of playing Minecraft as a walking SIM (2023)
What's your problem, bucko? 2x the L3 and a lower price tag.
Yes, my definition would be more originalist ("because it has been this way") if you may.

Consciousness has been a definition of the inner human experience made by humans themselves, regardless of the lack of clear understanding of what precisely denotes consciousness. Can animals experience what we experience? Well, maybe, but that's not consciousness, as I'm reserving that term to define the human inner experience exclusively. In particular, I'm here to argue that a "scale" proposed by parent is not possible. Why? Because the concept itself was born exclusively from the human experience to summarize the undefinable complexities and interactions of the human mind. Given consciousness is undefinable by specific terms and their relationships (ie. there's no "formula"), we can't really assign partial consciousness consistently to other species. We can say "bees play" or "dogs fear" but that can't really be put in a consciousness scale, because what would "10% conscious" even mean?

> it could be just as possible that animals experience consciousness in the exact way we do

Other species may experience something analogous to consciousness as they also experience complex interactions of different traits in their minds. But it's always going to be their own interaction and I would not call it consciousness. And whatever it is it's definitely not the exact way we do.
100% what I was going to say.

This is a just a misstatement. There's plenty of valid things to critique sama on, but this isn't one of them.
I remember reading this comment at that point. I totally agreed w/ the author, at least on point number one. A lot of us here where already paying for web hosting and using FTP clients to upload our files and like mentioned Linux, which had the time meant Ubuntu for most of us had it so nicely integrated into the file system. In someways we/Ubuntu were just ahead of the OneDrive. Honestly the only difference between OneDrive and the aforementioned setup at the time was it required you put in a host, username and password to set it up.
I've heard this a couple times and never believed it. Earth is perceptibly not round. Scott Manley did a quick video showing that in some satellite images the difference equates to more than a couple pixels. Some quick googling shows the earth being about 0.3% not-round, which would match a 1000-pixel image being not-round by a few pixels. But a 0.3% deviation is exponentially greater than is allowed by the standards for ball bearings.

>> the Earth deviates from spherical by only a third of a percent

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figure_of_the_Earth

>> For instance, the Anti-Friction Bearing Manufacturers Association (AFBMA) has a set of grades for bearing balls. A grade three ball has to be spherical within 3 millionths of an inch and the diameter must be accurate within 30 millionths of an inch. This means that for a grade three quarter-inch ball, the diameter would have to be between 0.24997 and 0.25003 of an inch and the smallest diameter measured on the ball has to be within 3 millionths of the largest diameter.

https://science.howstuffworks.com/transport/engines-equipmen...
why has nobody else been able to catchup/come close?
We did not use insolation data, only elevation model. I saw a HN post a few weeks ago about a solar shade map, the author explains quite a few things in it: https://shademap.app/help/
How branch prediction works in CPUs [video]
My guess is that this is a post training (rlhf) artifact on world model prompts. There were likely many “logical inconsistency” prompts which humans coerced to the above response.
From u/buryat:

SR-71 speed check

One time we were going fast

a small plane got on the radio and said "how fast am i going"

the tower said "you are going fast"

and then a bigger plane got on the radio and said "haha i think i am going faster how fast am i going"

and the tower said "you are going a little faster"

and then a jet fighter was going really fast and talked like a really cool guy and said "hey there, I sound like a cool guy, tell me how fast I'm going"

and the tower said "you are going very fast" but he sounded totally normal

And then I wanted to say something but that was against the rules, and then the other guy in my plane said "hey tower, are we going fast"

and the tower said "yes you are going like a million fast" and then the guy in my plane said "I think it's a million and one fast" and then the tower said "lol yeah ur plane is good"

and then I said "did we just become best friends"

and the other guy said "yes"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29373436
The Ars article linked below seems to indicate about 20x vs competing solid-state products and 2.5x vs liquid electrolyte batteries.

"The new material provides an energy density...1,000 watt-hours per liter, which is about 100 times greater than TDK’s current battery in mass production. Since TDK introduced it in 2020, competitors have moved forward, developing small solid-state batteries that offer 50 Wh/l, while rechargeable coin batteries using traditional liquid electrolytes offer about 400 Wh/l, according to the group. "
ANY school shooting, whether people are shot or injured or killed, or whether the shooter simply misses and nobody is struck, is extremely rare in the United States.

That is to say, it almost never happens.

The few incidents that do happen garner outsized media attention because they are unquestionably tragic. That repeated messaging makes them feel more common than they actually are.

For comparison, fatal car crashes on the way to or from school are FAR more common than school shootings (while still rare.)
Can we deduce from your comment that you are in fact, not conscious?

We all know what it's like to be conscious (I presume - my theory of mind is intact but may be flawed). It's obviously the quality of being, i.e. experiencing qualia.

And since we as human beings are conscious, it stands to reason that there are probably other living beings (or matter in general) who are not. (Living) matter that doesn't experience the world, basically. No frame of reference. Unless you believe in panpsychism; then everything is conscious and we can ask ourselves what it's like to be a rock.

It's just that the hard problem of consciousness states that we haven't been able to define this "state" in its exact physical, neural correlates, but just because we haven't been able to do that yet, doesn't mean it doesn't exist. It quite literally is the only thing we can know for sure exists, because otherwise no one would be there to ask or hear the question to begin with.

And sure, you can try to break it down into behavior and other properties of a living being, but that is simply side-stepping the hard problem and just ignoring the question of qualia.

Then again, there's something like "aphantasia": some people do not have the capacity to mentally visualize anything, and often aren't even aware of that themselves. I can imagine there's something analogous with the quality of consciousness, i.e. literal "NPCs" who do not experience the world from a frame of reference, but are basically non-sentient, human, autonomous agents. That's just a very dangerous line of thought, so don't take that too seriously :)
The benefit to this is obvious but what is the risk? If a battery is punctured in a present-day phone, it can ignite in a pretty dangerous way.
Waymo Driver 3.5x better at avoiding injuries over 14.8M miles in SF and Phoenix
That is one version of implication.

The implication could also be that a time component isn't stated explicitly.

He drove her to university. Time passes. Now it's "afterwards" and Sue is done with her classes and they go back home to drink tea.

For all we know Joe had a cup of coffee while she was writing an exam but because they live so far from university it made no sense to go home and come back to come pick her up as it might take an hour to drive each way and the exam was 2 hours.
i found this funny. bitcoin's first HN post, and commentor claiming its cute, but no will entertain the idea.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=600813
The most anthropocentric thing I've read all year.
The article title from the source is completely wrong. The 100x is comparing TDK's previous (best?) solid-state battery to a new one they claim to have developed.

Most batteries found in laptops can be found in 200-600 Wh/L depending on the exact chemistry. TDK is claiming 1000 Wh/L
You're right! I'm used to his articles being full of self promotion and Wolfram-talk, but this one is not.
I appreciate that there is a body of research discussing possible implications of large-scale phone connectivity, but this does not meet the bar of "objectively harmful externalities".

I'm not even talking about methodologies or replication or evidence or p-hacking (all of which are huge challenges to this sort of research).

On a much more fundamental level, the statement "unauthorized smartphone use in a classroom setting is objectively harmful" is a defensible statement. I don't need a study to tell me that, nor should anyone. The extraordinary claim in this case would be the opposite, for which I would have to see tremendous evidence, and which even then I would likely not believe.
That's not an interesting argument, all you're doing is staking out words that are reserved for beings with souls or something. It's like saying submarines can't swim. It's an argument about linguistics, not capabilities.
Hey, y’all weirdos are the ones who pave the way for the rest of us. I’m not going to buy this - I’ve got a large enough hobby project graveyard to know where I sit on the customer/nerd spectrum, but I’m stoked it exists. I like the idea of RISC-V, and the easier it is for people to develop on it, the closer it comes to being useable by upright apes like me.