skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, Trump fired a bunch of diplomats, and never hired replacements (or replaced them with donors with no relevant experience), which hollowed out US foreign policy.

The Biden administration largely turned the lights back on in the parts of the government you are asking about, I think. They tried, at least. The GOP tried to block re-hiring foreign policy experts towards the beginning of his administration.

Sources:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/30/trump-us-amb...

https://www.npr.org/2021/11/13/1055575802/lack-of-american-a...

https://www.npr.org/2020/08/18/903199848/under-trump-more-bi...
If this is the case, question what will happen when the students you describe graduate. Maybe, they will get a reality check. Why didn't that check come in high school? Maybe, they will fail in life. In both cases, the school system has failed them. High school should be a controlled environment that allows youth to safely fail, learn from failure, and grow.

Phone addiction is an immensely complicated problem. This strategy of blanket bans will not rehabilitate students, just as the war on drugs failed prior.
I'd say the AirGradient products are a better choice since they includes VOC, PM and NOx sensors (Aranet4 doesn't), are open source, and Achim Haug who did this study is really dedicated to air quality.
That's a nice repo of random installation notes. Very helpful, thanks!
Building a reliable asynchronous arbiter is impossible
I agree that this is a problem with Twitter, sim swapping, and likely an insider at Twitter too.

However, what are you talking about with the article from Sam's website. He posted this.

What makes you think it's a scammer?
Apple just added nine Macs to its 'obsolete products' list
It's probably worth reading the actual text of the law: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...

It says each school district is required to come up with a policy to prohibit or limit smartphone use. The policy has to allow teachers to grant permission for phones, and it says:

> The goal of the policy shall be to promote evidence-based use of smartphone practices to support pupil learning and well-being.

That sounds like the middle ground you're talking about. Kids will have plenty of time to pick up tech skills at home, and they can still be taught tech literacy in class. But that doesn't mean they have to be allowed arbitrary use of phones to disrupt their own learning or their peers', just like they don't have to be allowed to skip as many classes as they want.
Even back in the iPod days, one of the stated goals of the designers at Apple was to make their handhelds feel like a singular piece, like something that naturally grows that way (think fruits, crystals, etc) instead of disparate pieces tenuously held together. An impression of solidity falls in line with that idea.
Tagged Union Subsets with Comptime in Zig
Source article Apple Adds These 12 Macs to Vintage and Obsolete Products Lists https://www.macrumors.com/2024/09/23/apple-adds-12-macs-to-v...
> So why are we babying students by incessant confiscation and phone cubby nonsense?

Because your prefontal cortext does not fully grow till you are in your early 20s. A 17 years olds brain is very different from that off a 22 year old. There are different repercussions to arressting development vs letting the brain "grow" and then have it face the issues of the day. Both will still have impact but the latter gives them the best fighting chance.
Man, so many of Californias problems is just:

“vocal minority is very loud, everyone else disagrees but are too busy to come yell at electeds, so we can’t fix this obvious problem. Done. Problem festers”
While I'd love to agree with your opinion, it is unrealistic. 40% of high schoolers will not enroll in college. A further 20% will drop out of college before they graduate. The students that do end up completing college are likely not the students this policy is worried about anyway.

While I'd love to see higher college attendance, the reality is that high school must prepare students for every possible outcome.
You're arguing this time they got it wrong despite not actually sharing any evidence. Understood. Your gut and vapid speculation of internet commenters is infallible unlike these supposed insurance companies. Which is funny, because even the idea these rates are being set higher is nothing but speculation in internet comments.

I agree they probably get some things wrong, but I think they probably get things right more often than not when it comes to analyzing risk. I wouldn't bet against the insurance companies on any random thing, even though I acknowledge they do make some mistakes. Chances are the insurance company understands the generalized risks on whatever they're underwriting more than I do.

If nobody was actually making claims for shrink, you really think the insurance companies would jack up the rates or require cabinets? It wouldn't just come from nowhere. And it's odd they only do it in some markets and not others. Around me there are no cabinets at Walgreens, CVS, Target, Walmart, and the other retailers mentioned in these comments. Obviously there's some level of targeting here going on, I wonder what data point they'd use...hmm...
Eggs and sperm develop from specialized cells that split very few times to avoid copying errors that cause mutations. How much the total mutation increase using skin cells?
US prepares to sue Visa for alleged anti-competitive behaviour
I'd live to know more about this than seems to be in the tweets.
https://annas-archive.org/torrents/zlib
2 Years at Amazon
I would choose Amazon over any other company just for its sheer focus on tech. Working at Amazon comes with its unique set of political drama, and mental stress but it is worth getting through them at least once in your career, and as early as possible.
Ideally, school administrators would toughen up a little and tell these parents to STFU and GTFO. But you’d have to have many, many districts grow a backbone in order to get the coverage that a state law provides.
I'd love to get your feedback on https://hub.scroll.pub/. Create new sites in 0.1 seconds. No signup required.

It's a new stack, but it's pretty revolutionary foundation, and as we get some good templates and imrpove the UX, I think it should bring a lot of joy to people who currently suffer with wordpress. It's all open source/public domain. Having started my programming career in Wordpress ~17 years ago, I have been able to take my favorite parts from it and get rid of all the annoying parts (like requiring a database, php/javascript hybrid, etc).
Bayesian priors need updating
You would still need to turn the CPU off though. Or do you suggest replacing the registers and caches and all other volatile memory with this stuff?
I would add: disable root logins, create exactly one account that can login, require a password for sudo
> …at least putin wouldn’t win.

you might be kind of close, but it’s probably more like…

“if i can’t forcibly take over any country i want for my own, ill nuke you.”

…is not a rational policy for the future of world geopolitics and certainly is more nuanced than a sarcastic “at least soandso wont win”
This is a problem throughout the USA, not just California. A tiny minority of loud, belligerent bullies with infinite free time ruin everything.
I’d still be using my 2015 but I bought a battery that went swole.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z_(military_symbol)
> If things never bubble up, does that not mean that this is really a non-issue?

It's a small issue, not a non-issue. Or some might even be big issues but for a minority of users. They're worth addressing from time to time because they add up.

And yes, the app is probably getting the job done, which is all the more reason to start polishing the app and stop bloating it into something it was never meant to be. Focus on what does make the app good and useful. And heck, you can stop hiring thousands of engineers to build useless stuff and start enjoying all the money rolling it. (Of course that doesn't happen because every company needs 'growth' to appease the shareholders, but I digress)

> And to be honest, on the original story, as a software engineer, I would rather consider if this is a better behavior for "gap" that most people would expect? Perhaps an addendum to W3C CSS flexbox spec is a more useful avenue? Fix it once and for everyone.

I certainly wouldn't. There's 2 elements, a radio and a label, and there's a gap between them, exactly as specified in the CSS. Why would you make the gap clickable? How would you even define that? What if it was radio-image-label. The radio is clickable by virtue of being an input, the label is specified as being for that radio. Should we make the image clickable because it's in a line? Or just the gaps adjacent to the radio and label? What if the are other clickable elements next to them, which ones get priority over the gap? There's a lot of issues here, and this isn't a scenario we want to just randomly do what we think is best. That's how we ended up with HTML4 and IE.
In my opinion, journaling, note-taking, and building an archive of knowledge or reminders should work seamlessly together. It should be possible to ask simple, yet specific questions like:

"When did I last buy 10kg of garbanzo beans, and from where? What price did I pay?"

And get an answer like:

"Actually, you didn’t buy 10kg; last time you only bought 5kg from X shop at Y price. Based on your past consumption, your stock will likely run out by next week. Should I set a reminder for today, after your gym session, to pick some up? (X shop is on your way home from the gym.)"

This level of contextual response would be incredibly useful. These days, I bulk order everything thanks to my streamlined note-taking and reminder setup. I’m surprised there isn’t already an open-source tool that works this well.

I keep my day organized with simple methods. During my morning walks, I plan out my tasks, priorities, and schedule—talking through everything in my head. These thoughts are then transcribed using speech-to-text and sent to an LLM. Since LLMs aren't great at remembering specific facts or handling complex relationships, I pair it with a knowledge graph to keep everything organized.

This setup generates reminders, creates schedules, and flags conflicts where I can reschedule or drop tasks. I dislike most conventional note-taking or reminder apps, so I stick to plain text files stored across Dropbox, a Raspberry Pi home server, and cloud storage like S3.

To keep me on track, I’ve built a custom notification system that sends reminders through text, email, Telegram, and WhatsApp. These notifications continue—staggered across platforms—until I acknowledge them. Since I rarely use my phone, I rely heavily on a smartwatch that receives SMS notifications. It’s a game changer: with its own SIM and long battery life, it costs me almost nothing—just $30 a year.

I avoid traditional apps for adding new information. Instead, I use a private Telegram group with a bot for input. Messaging in this group has become the easiest way for me to update my system, and I’ve grown to rely more and more on Telegram bots for this reason.

For example, yesterday the system reminded me to check my solar batteries. Months ago, I had told it that I watered them, and it automatically followed up at the right time. It’s these small, automated details that help me stay on top of long-term tasks.

I’m using Gemini Flash (a dirt-cheap, fast LLM), Neo4j, and Whisper, all tied together with Python glue scripts to make this work. Maybe someday I’ll have hardware powerful enough to run a local LLM, but for now, this setup is more than good enough.
Bangladesh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengali_science_fiction
I'm kind of more curious as to what procedures or forces of nature cause these shapes. Categorizing the resulting shapes is interesting, but more interesting to me is the why.
there is difference between having your phone with you and using it while on the job. If you are scrolling tiktok on your job, you won't have it for long.
To be clear, I agree with some of what you're saying. I think bans on anything are generally questionable and prefer to see individuals, children included, given agency over what they find is best for their situation. I also see the value in school choice. I also know that people are stupid, children included, and don't always act in their best interest. Hence why there's restrictions on nicotine, alcohol, and driving for youth and that generally isn't a partisan issue.

However, this bill doesn't appear to specify how phones are restricted, just that there is a school policy. Further it gives protections to students who need it. This is why I find it reasonable.

Schools still appear to have a choice in implementation. That said I'm not a Californian, I'm childless, and I only scanned through the bill.
The server knows which client you're using. There are indeed stricter restrictions for apps that come from app stores.
Storage controller for the NAND is on the SoC so it only works for specific configurations of NAND. Assuming it followed the pattern of the M series Mac’s.
Last and First idol is a parody of otaku (Japanese) culture.

https://j-novel.club/series/last-and-first-idol

It's really 3x short stories (~200 pages each) but here's a synopsis for the first:

The story follows Mika Furutsuki's journey to become an idol. [...] After the Monopole Super Flares hit though, humanity is on the decline. Maori still tries to revive her idol friend and ultimately succeeds after 30 years. Mika may no longer human, but that doesn't stop her quest to become the #1 idol.
I will defer to you as you are Hungarian and obviously a lot more informed than I am, but I will say a lot of the things you bring up seem to be a matter of degree.

From what I can see out there on the internet, it's more than just the media - Orban's cronies seem to have captured the judiciary as well, which helps shield them from investigation. He also seems to be trying various tactics to suppress political opposition - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/23/orban-accused-...

I think I'm going to stick by my evaluation of 'nascent dictatorship', though perhaps 'nascent autocracy' is more accurate if it's not all about the one man. And it does seem to be widely acknowledged that democracy has been undermined there, to the point it doesn't function.

> I can tell you that Orban and his cronies run a variety of misinformation campaigns [in Hungary], but nothing related to cryptography.

Yeah fair enough, it seems that a lot of other governments are all in on this sort of thing, and the headline is particularly misleading.
Some of those look pretty bad but I feel like having a news chyron on-screen for 10000 hours indicates something deeper than having bought an imperfect TV.
"Z" is used by Russia in the invasion of the Ukraine:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z_(military_symbol)
I don’t think a world of carefully curated dopamine in your pocket is progress for the human race.

And besides, these bans _are_ designing society around the existence of cell phones.
TVs generally have a service menu with color calibration options.
> you cannot be too loose of a cannon at the top

Meanwhile, in reality:

“Are there any checks in place to keep the US President from starting a nuclear war?”

What’s amazing about this question, really, is how seriously it misunderstands the logic of the US command and control system. It gets it exactly backwards.

The entire point of the US command and control system is to guarantee that the President and only the President is capable of authorizing nuclear war whenever he needs to. It is about enabling the President’s power, not checking or restricting him.

In a three part detailed longform:

The President and the Bomb (2016) https://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2016/11/18/the-president-and...

Part II https://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2016/12/23/the-president-and...

Part III https://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2017/04/10/president-bomb-ii...
"Fire as a service" would be a microcosm of capitalism today. Well put.
The real reason to sleep on it is that the hippocampus plays back the day's events into your long-term memory and omits the emotional context so that when you recall it, any emotion you have is fresh reaction, and recollection that you felt a certain way, but not a replay of the sharp emotions at the time the events occurred.

So sleeping on it is a way to wash the crud off the occurrence before reexamining it with a little more objectivity.

I read about this in Models of the Mind by Grace Lindsay. Great book.
I wonder if tesselated concave octagon shape is seen anywhere in nature. (https://robertlovespi.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/tessoct...)

I built my brand on this shape
> What I find the most interesting is that there is clearly something that makes anime stand out as being its own thing, distinct from the majority of other animated TV, but it's hard to put a finger on exactly what that attribute is and where to draw the line.

On the higher quality end of the spectrum, I think one of the main differentiators is just how seriously the staff takes the production. They lean into the cinematography, storyboarding, directing, music, choreography, etc just as much or more as one might expect from western live action prestige TV. This is exceedingly rare in TV animation in the US and is only really seen in our animated movies (which are rare these days, at least in 2D form).

The other thing is that high quality anime is exceedingly good at building atmosphere and creating vibes. Half of the enjoyment of Cowboy Bebop for example is just basking in the ambience.
Why not all three? Helping their feelings of power, Helping their bottom line with attrition, and Helping their real-estate buddies with big dumb investments in tall buildings.

There’s no reason it has to just be one thing
Those concerns are kinda the raison d'être for WPEngine.

For anywhere small enough to not have an IT department, or so large and where the IT department has effectively become obstructionist to other department's jobs, just buy marketing their own WPEngine subscription and let them do their thing.

I think people who work in an "IT Department" sometimes have a too narrow view of the rest of the world. Both ignoring that almost all small and most medium sized businesses do not have an IT department, and also that there are people and departments in their own organisations who's IT needs are real but are not considered a priority by the IT Department.

(Often understandably not the IT departments priority, the people in a bank IT department who're securing financial systems from continuous attacks almost certainly don't consider the HR departments need to set up a quick website for the company bbq or RUOK day to be a prioroty. But someone in HR is getting _super_ frustrated at not being able to do the "simple things" they know they could do if IT didn't keep pushing back.)
What you said in no way conflicts with what I said. For example, if people have dangerous lives in a way that is unconnected to age they will tend to not live long, yet the modal life expectancy due to the additional mortality of actual old age can still be quite old.

What I was saying is in reference to this study I read long ago, which suggests a modal life span of about 72 years of age in the paleolithic:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1728-4457.2007...
It’s a torque screwdriver as others have said but to me it made the whole video into an asmr experience.
There's a problem though: it's nice to be paid to consume, but it's not so nice to pay to produce. The return on investment calculus for power generation, especially solar and wind becomes trickier, which means the project financing becomes more expensive. Then fewer projects get greenlighted, despite solar panels being cheaper and cheaper.
That is exactly the point I was getting at when I wrote

> In adulthood, nobody will tell you to get off your phone. You will simply suffer repercussions if you cannot preform. If you can perform, nobody should care.

On the job, you will fail if you have a tiktok addiction. On the job, there are no phone cubbies.
What I was saying is in reference to this study, which suggests a modal life span of about 72 years of age in the paleolithic:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1728-4457.2007...
Companies' attitudes toward layoffs are changing – here's why
That's the open source project. WordPress.com, Matt's for-profit venture, gates revisions (and statistics, and plugins) behind a higher paying tier.
What I was saying is in reference to this study, which suggests a modal life span of about 72 years of age in the paleolithic:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1728-4457.2007...

Life spans were abnormally short in medieval Europe, even compared to ancient humans.
This was inevitable as the 2010's were very beneficial to their local tech industry. With the mandate to do as much tech internally there was a mother of all booms to take advantage of.

“Even a pig can fly if it stands at the fengkou, as long as the wind is strong.” Xiaomi’s CEO Lei Jun. Fengkou = Air Vent

Essentially, even if the business wasn't that great, there was still the possibility to be successful.

But as Warren buffet said "Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.". The wind has stopped, the tide has gone out and now we are seeing the blow back of this. This can be a good thing long term as it can show what has a viable long term future but it hurts a lot in the interim.
dark mode in all
All this tech has made even proficient skillsets lazy. IDK how quick I could switch to VOR.
The human heart shows signs of ageing after just a month in space
I still have no freaking idea if I can play media through it or with it and at this point, I really don't care.
Layers, layers and more layers.

Cloud providers want to provide some layers for you. Thank god they exist and live with the layers you can’t pay someone else to do.
How do you explain their ability to consistently identify the same boxes (with valuable items near the top) for the non-sleepers then? I agree it's a weird description but it seems like in practice the actually valuable objects must have been clear enough.
It is shocking to me that Instacart is still showing absolutely disgusting-looking AI-generated food pictures next to AI-generated recipes. Honestly every single one looks absolutely vile - none of them even look like food at all. And I see them every single time I go grocery shopping.

I swear they don't even have a human review any of it for even 1 second. These pictures are just....really really gross-looking. They don't even look like food. They don't even look like staged pictures for marketing of food. They look....cursed from the devil himself.
Phones mostly aren’t progress, as far as schools go.

Game boys and walkie-talkies weren’t either. Playing cards. Marbles (in the classroom). Instamatic cameras. And the ban on passing notes is basically ancient.

Those same things but on one tiny computer doesn’t suddenly make them good to allow in schools.
I came to the same realisation about a decade ago, after being a "science" enthusiast growing up. As you said once you see it you can't unsee it. Most of science is just a scam. The exceptions are those fields backed up by real world engineering. All of social and most of biological sciences are worse than useless, they are outright dangerous.
How very salesman of Altman.
> LCDs still dominate larger displays, with OLED accounting for just 3.1% of all TVs in 2023

Announcing the death of LCDs seems slightly immature.
Where do the bans end? Should offices get phone cubbies as well?
I use Kodi with the jellyfin plugins on my shield and it works well. Subtitle support is pretty good but occasionally I need to restart the app to get new subs to display for a show.

The native jellyfin client is ok for simple things but it's far more limited than Kodi.