MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by canucker2016 | 2025-04-10 19:58:10+00:00
While the Oura ring won't alert the user to sleep apnea, one person with an Oura ring looked at the accumulated data from their Oura ring and could see the signs of sleep apnea - https://www.tomsguide.com/features/my-oura-ring-helped-me-di...

Ringconn, similar to Oura without the compulsory subscription, claims to be able to detect sleep apnea with 90.7% accuracy. see https://ringconn.com/blogs/news/understanding-sleep-apnea-an...
by paulorlando | 2025-04-10 19:58:17+00:00
The important quote: "If the tariff from China is 100%, and you know it is going to be 100 % for the next 10 years, you will make a different business decision than if it is, ‘Might be 100%, not sure what's going to be in three months, what's it going to be in a year from now, and what's it going to be in three years from now.’ That uncertainty does not create stable markets. It does not create very accurate business decisions."
by al_borland | 2025-04-10 19:58:19+00:00
I don’t think the timer and status is for you, so much as for other people in your physical world. Examples would be someone who works at home who needs a way to signal to spouse/kids that they are busy and when they will be free, or an office worker who gets frequent walk up interruptions.

While there are certainly much cheaper ways to solve this problem, I think there is a market. Specifically podcasters and YouTubers who film at home, love gadgets that will look good in the background of a video, and love gear more than the work itself.

When I was in the office I solved this with a hoodie. If the hood was up, I was focusing and people generally didn’t bother me. I never even said anything or realized I was doing it, people just got it.
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by mort96 | 2025-04-10 19:59:02+00:00
Forcing vendors to contribute back upstream is an attempt at making vendor toolchains not exist.

If a company makes a new MCU with some exciting new instruction set, they need to make a compiler available which supports that instruction set and make that compiler available to their customers.

With LLVM as the base, the vendor could make their toolchain proprietary, making it impossible to integrate it back into LLVM, which means the vendor toolchain will exist until the ISA gets wide-spread enough for volunteers to invest the time required to make a separate production-quality LLVM back-end from scratch.

With GCC as the base, the vendor must at least make their GCC fork available to their customers under the GPL. This, in theory, allows the GCC community to "just" integrate the back-end developed by the vendor into GCC rather than starting from scratch.

Now I don't know how effective this is, or how much it happens in practice that the GCC project integrates back-ends from vendor toolchains. But in principle, it's great that vendors have to make their toolchains FOSS because it reduces the need for vendor toolchains.
by panzi | 2025-04-10 19:59:29+00:00
I mean, without `history.pushState()` and `window.onpopstate` things wouldn't be as nice. Ok, I guess one could do about everything with `location.hash = ...` and `window.onhashchange`, like in the before times. But the server will not get the hash part of the URL so a link to such an page can't be server side rendered and has to fetch the actual page content in JavaScript, evaluating the hash. When I browse things like image search it is really handy that you can use the browsers back button to close an opened image without loosing any dynamic state of the page and that the x button on the page will close the image and remove the history entry just the same way, so a later back won't re-open that image.

For me the back button wasn't hijacked.

But I am for disallowing the use of `history.go()` or any kind of navigation inside of `onpopstate`, `onhashchange`, `onbeforeunload` or similar or from a timer started from one of those.
by Suppafly | 2025-04-10 19:59:31+00:00
>"Individual components used in fabrication are sourced direct from chip makers and parts distributors."

I suspect most of those are from overseas. A lot of that stuff just isn't made in the US. I don't know why they are shady about it, they should just be honest and denote which stuff isn't available at all in the US and which stuff isn't available at reasonable costs in the US.
by gus_massa | 2025-04-10 19:59:36+00:00
For GPL v2 only, let's start the list with Linux and Git...

The "or later" has been used in creative ways, like relicencing all the Wikipedia content, or the Affero to AGPL transition. Nothing shady, but unexpected.

Do you trust RMS to avoid doing shady things in the later GPL licence? I do, but he is not longer in the FSF.

Do you trust the current members of the FSF to avoid doing shady things in the later GPL licence? I don't know them.

Do you trust the future members of the FSF to avoid doing shady things in the later GPL licence???
by Leftium | 2025-04-10 20:00:05+00:00
I have two simple email rules/filters that filter out most marketing emails. They should work for your emails.

Even if you don't use gmail, you can still apply the general strategy: https://blog.leftium.com/2023/11/automatic-inbox-cleanup-wit...

While the rules could automatically delete/mark the emails as read, I just tag them with labels and "skip" the inbox so I don't get an email notification.

I can mark all of them as read with a single keystroke after skimming the subject lines for anything important/interesting.
by JohnFen | 2025-04-10 20:00:31+00:00
> that in America there is a constitutional right to bear arms that shall not be infringed.

That's not clear-cut. The language of the amendment is more nuanced than that, and the interpretation you're using is a modern one. In the not-so-distant past, it was interpreted as meaning that states could have well-regulated armed citizen militias, not that everyone has a right to carry a firearm.
by raydev | 2025-04-10 20:00:37+00:00
I used to run long distance. I'd have to go for 15+km in a single session to get any noticeable impact on sleep and it wasn't huge.

Weightlifting on the other hand... a solid hour of going heavy will put me out like a baby every time.

I'm very curious why. Am I just built for long distance running and NOT for building muscle?
by mindcrime | 2025-04-10 20:00:41+00:00
Inflation doubles every 30 years right?

Is that the rule of thumb? I never knew. I guess you only really notice it big-time on large-ticket items that are purchased infrequently like fire trucks. Maybe a car or something, but I never buy brand new cars, so that's probably another reason I haven't been in tune with the degree of inflation.
by beefburger | 2025-04-10 20:00:43+00:00
I've been experimenting with PostScript programming over the past two years, creating several small games (Tic-Tac-Toe, Chess, Sokoban and Tetris) all running in Ghostscript or directly on printers. Here are my annotated slides about this quirky and fun journey, filled with insights, code snippets, and lessons learned.
by wubrr | 2025-04-10 20:00:48+00:00
Well the dog brain and human brain are very different statistical models, and I don't think we have any objective way of comparing/quantifying LLMs (as an architecture) vs human brains at this point. I think it's likely LLMs are currently not as good as human brains for human tasks, but I also think we can't say with any confidence that LLMs/NNs can't be better than human brains.
by chriswarbo | 2025-04-10 20:00:53+00:00
The usual approach is to give Nixpkgs some `overlays`, which override the attributes you want. This can be handy in conjunction with attributes like `.override`, `.overrideAttrs`, etc. for swapping-out things deeper in the dependency graph.

The https://codeberg.org/amjoseph/infuse.nix project looks nice as a way to simplify annoying chains of overrides; though I haven't used it personally.
by o11c | 2025-04-10 20:01:36+00:00
I was really confused by the mention of 68k at first since MacOS 8.6 dropped support for that, but following the link it looks like it supports System 7 as well.

Cross-compiling would be faster (than emulation or too-old hardware), but I have never heard it called "easy". There are a lot of projects out there that need special configuration, and many don't even support the HOSTCC variable, etc. And that's before considering the importance of system libraries.
by palmotea | 2025-04-10 20:01:45+00:00
> The Star Trek computer from TNG is basically an LLM, really.

No. The Star Trek computer is a fictional character, really. It's not a technology any more than Jean-Luc Picard is. It's does whatever the writers needed it to do to further the plot.

It reminds me: J. Michael Straczynski (of Babylon 5 fame) was once asked "How fast do Starfuries travel?" and he replied "At the speed of plot."
by Dylan16807 | 2025-04-10 20:02:21+00:00
I'm still annoyed they increased the price for B2. Maybe "free" bandwidth gets people to use it more? But as far as their costs go, between the time they launched at $5 and the time they upped it to $6, hard drives (and servers full of hard drives) cost half as much per TB, with 1/4 as many servers needed for the same number of TB.
by namaria | 2025-04-10 20:03:10+00:00
> "they can only produce code that's almost identical to what's in their training data"

Again, you're misinterpreting in a way that seems like you are reacting to the perception that someone attacked some of your core beliefs rather than considering what I am saying and conversing about that.

I never even used the words "exact same thing" or "almost identical". Not even synonyms. I just said overfitting and quoted from an OpenAI/Anthropic paper that said "predict plausible changes to code from examples of changes"

Think about that. Don't react, think. Why do you equate overfitting and plausibility prediction with "exact" and "identical". It very obviously is not what I said.

What I am getting at is that a cannon will kill the mosquito. But drawing a fly swatter in the cannonball and saying the plastic ones are obsolete now would be in bad faith. No need to say to someone pointing that out that they are claiming that the cannon can only fire on mosquitoes that have been swatted before.
by mindcrime | 2025-04-10 20:04:27+00:00
is a key factor behind the steep price hikes and lengthy lead times

I'm not sure I have an opinion on that. Again, I've been away from the fire service for a long time, and there's a lot of issues that I'm probably not fully up-to-date on.

Do you support the custom-build approach?

I have mixed feelings on that, and always have. On the one hand, I do believe that local needs vary a lot from place to place. For example, a rural farming community in Iowa probably genuinely needs things different from, say, San Francisco. But does each department really need to specify every little detail of how their truck is configured? I'm a big proponent of standardization and I sometimes think that people spec'ing fire trucks get too caught in believing "our case is special" when maybe it's not that special after all. So... uh, yeah. I hate to waffle, but it's hard to say for sure.
by vannevar | 2025-04-10 20:05:11+00:00
>Asimov’s future was pretty dark. He didn’t come out and say it, but it was implied that we had a lot of big entities ruling everything.

>As I recall, many of his early stories involved "U.S. Robot & Mechanical Men" which was a huge conglomerate owning a lot of the market on AI...

>May want to reread. U.S. Robots and Mechanical Men is pretty prominent in his Robot stories.

Good points from some of these replies. The interview is fairly brief, perhaps he didn't feel he had the time to touch on the socio-economic issues, or that it wasn't the proper forum for those concerns.
by zzrrt | 2025-04-10 20:05:12+00:00
I get it, I wonder if I am over-reacting too, but when they're shipping people to prison in the hands of a third world dictator for allegedly being gang members (we pinky promise but oops we made some mistakes), with no trial, against judges' direct orders, with US officials retweeting said dictator's giggle at doing it anyway... it feels different this time.

Back in the olden days of Bush or Obama, they would at least have a trial in a secret court with a judge who was maybe not rubber-stamping it, the public was pretty sure they were real terrorists, and the jailers (or executioners!) were Americans who faced consequences when they mistreated the prisoners.
by williamDafoe | 2025-04-10 20:05:17+00:00
USA has three advantages that no place else in the world has. First we have the biggest oil deposit in the history of mankind with the Permian basin. Second we have more inland waterways in the Mississippi River system than the whole rest of the world combined and third this abuts the best farmland on the planet.

I would say that the USA also has an advantage of open immigration for intellectuals to keep our universities strong but the anti-intellectual Trump administration is destroying this advantage as fast as it can!

The greatest advantage that we ever had was to lead the free world in ideals. A friend of mine was telling me yesterday that every child in India when they reach the age of six wants to go to Harvard and settle in the USA. They want to stand up for freedom and for democracy and for putting down all the evil dictators in the world. We are losing this image very very quickly it could be gone in a matter of months!

Don't brag about our aircraft carriers it would take us 25 years to build 11 more. We are nowhere in ship building we destroyed our domestic shipbuilding in the 1980s when we reoriented it for military shipbuilding and then the Berlin Wall fell down and we drastically cut the military shipbuilding budget and that caused our shipbuilding to go to almost zero overnight (3 heavy ships per year nationwide whereas China's largest ship builder does THIRTY!).
by fc417fc802 | 2025-04-10 20:07:17+00:00
I'll preface this by stating that I fully realize that localized datetime is absolutely byzantine and fraught with difficulties. That's the rationale for leaving it to an external library as close to 100% of the time as possible.

I also realize that there might well be complexities involved in calendar software that I'm unaware of. Hence my comment - I'm genuinely interested to learn. That said, I think your examples are all fairly clear examples of errors in reasoning by the programmer. Specifically they stem from conceptual mistakes regarding the relation of different logic domains (by which I'm referring to storage, display, scheduling, etc).

You never move events around in TAI (the unambiguous storage format) just as you don't go manually flipping bits in an SQLite database. You always work in a localized time because that's what the user is reasoning in. And you use the datetime library to implement as much of those manipulations as possible.

> US vs Germany, conflicting DST rules.

Go back to the era before smartphones and PDAs and the internet. You're in Germany on a business trip. You call your secretary to reschedule next weeks meeting back home. You don't use German time when doing that, you use US time.

Events have a location which has a timezone. Scheduling happens in that timezone. Blindly using the current local timezone of the device is a reasoning error. Storage, scheduling, and presentation are distinct logic domains.

> you have half the attendees showing up at the wrong time.

There is a single unique TAI time for a given event (after all that's the entire point of using UTC or TAI or what have you). All attendees will see an equivalent local time barring a bug in the datetime library.

See my earlier point regarding which timezone to use for the computation.

> TAI introduces the leap second bug for calendars.

Only if you make the mistake of attempting to manually manipulate your data storage format. The point of TAI as opposed to UTC in this specific case is to offload the complexity of handling leap seconds onto the datetime library so that you don't need to worry about it.
by Aurornis | 2025-04-10 20:07:23+00:00
> There are also far more skilled electronics designers in the USA than he seems to think.

Second this. The Liberty Phone PCBA isn't even that exotic as far as modern designs go. The NXP SoC (CPU) it uses is a common part with a rather pedestrian ball pitch. A board like this is within the reach of countless trained EEs here, but they're usually happily employed at companies with higher volumes and margins. This often translates to a perception that they don't exist in the US market when low-budget companies go looking.
by x0x0 | 2025-04-10 20:07:49+00:00
It's a strange direction. I thought Cloudflare viewed R2 mostly as competition for S3 when used as cdn backing storage (a very natural place to compete.) For which, btw, it is great -- I seamlessly use it for ActiveStorage and not only is it way cheaper, but configuring it is about 100x simpler than the s3/cloudfront/random acls/signed cookies stuff.
by Buttons840 | 2025-04-10 20:08:28+00:00
Joking aside, you're right. It's easy to imagine that Emacs has stagnated, but there are regular releases with improvements, some of them important fundamental improvements like native compilation.

I recently saw a Reddit post in a vim subreddit about using AI for coding, the response was "we don't do that here". I saw the same thing in the Emacs subreddit, and there's like 10 different packages for AI integrations, and, allegedly, Emacs is state-of-the-art when it comes to AI interactions through the editor (if only the user can configure it correctly). It's something I've been meaning to try.

https://www.reddit.com/r/neovim/comments/1js30ep/whats_every...
by settrans | 2025-04-10 20:08:53+00:00
Great, so we're in agreement: Gaza has forfeited its right to statehood after committing the October 7th massacre, literally aimed at destroying Israel. Quoting the Hamas spokesman Ghazi Hamad: "Hamas is prepared to repeat the October 7 Al-Aqsa Flood Operation time and again until Israel is annihilated."

https://www.memri.org/reports/hamas-official-ghazi-hamad-we-...
by goda90 | 2025-04-10 20:11:06+00:00
> You can really rely on everyone driving a motor vehicle to obey practically every traffic law every time. That is, they stop for red lights, they stay in lanes, make legal/safe turns; they generally stay near the speed limit and don’t egregiously violate it. And they know that driving is a privilege and that violations can cost them their license, which will cost them their job, their freedom and a lot of things.

Where do you live that this is your observation? This is not what I observe in the United States. Speeding is rampant. Distracted driving is rampant. People roll through stop signs and run red lights enough that everyone should watch out for it.

> It’s a college town, and so there’s lots of young adults and/or foreigners, and they don’t know the laws, and they don’t care, and they walk wherever they want, and they scoot wherever they want, and they bike whatever direction they care about. And traffic laws be damned.

I'm curious what the traffic laws actually are for pedestrians and cyclists in your town. I imagine almost all of them are in regards to interactions with cars, since a pedestrian running into another pedestrian is rarely a life threatening scenario so having a law to enforce pedestrian only traffic isn't a big deal.

>It often confuses motorists when I permit them to enter a driveway rather than walk in front of them. Many motorists are extremely over cautious about pedestrians, and it’s nearly always difficult to convince them that I’m yielding my right-of-way— on foot— and permitting them to do what they want.

In many places the traffic law is to give pedestrians right-of-way over vehicles at otherwise uncontrolled junctions. Motorists are confused because you're asking them to break the traffic laws.
by 9rx | 2025-04-10 20:11:15+00:00
> Would you call a midwest farmer in the US a “peasant” or just a farmer?

All peasants are farmers, but not all farmers are poor.

So, no, not as a group. Midwest farmers, on balance, are going to be some of the richest people you can find in the country (mostly because of their land wealth, which Chinese farmers don't have). There are likely to be individual farmers in the midwest who you would call peasants, though.

Chinese farmers, on the other hand, are likely to be very poor. Some individual farmers in China are rich, but as far as the group goes... It is not as bad as it once was, but as that group they still lag well behind the typical urban dweller. As that group they are peasants.
by simonw | 2025-04-10 20:11:49+00:00
I don't think I understood your point then. I matched it with the common "LLMs can only produce code that's similar to what they've seen before" argument.

Reading back, you said:

> I often see people wondering if the some coding task is performed well or not because of availability of code examples in the training data. It's way worse than that. It's overfitting to diffs it was trained on.

I'll be honest: I don't understand what you mean by "overfitting to diffs it was trained on" there.

Maybe I don't understand what "overfitting" means in this context?

(I'm afraid I didn't understand your cannon / fly swatter analogy either.)
by FireBeyond | 2025-04-10 20:12:12+00:00
All of your examples fall under business continuity or ownership.

I can fall into a coma in the US. If your business depends on “being able to send aid”, then you have failed as a business.

If I am not delivering work output, terminate me.

My employer is entitled to my work output for compensation, no more, no less. The rest is an unwarranted intrusion into the rest of my life.

You are of course correct, they are free to not hire me, as I am free to not work there.

“Install” - you describe a device that reports my location, and described being required to take that with me so they could know / verify said location. That is so beyond the pale.

“Oh you said you were in Bali last week? Passport please so we can verify.”

What next? Do I need to send my after visit summaries from my doctor to HR, too?
by gedy | 2025-04-10 20:13:35+00:00
We didn't have an automated pipeline since the UX team wasn't really tech savvy enough to dive into detailed styles, so we relied on recurring syncs every 2 weeks. The DS changes tended to be slow and incremental from the UX side as well which helped.

Bootstrap (like Tailwind and others) has a configuration for generating the full component class and styles from a few variables, so updates to fonts, colors, spacing, etc were easy to manage and roll out to wide usage incrementally.
by bradac56 | 2025-04-10 20:14:06+00:00
It has to be a voip connection as there are no true land line connections in the USA. It's probably copper to the house but once you get to the first relay box it runs back via a optical switch and fiber.

AT&T was the last holdover in the far rural northwestern states but they upgraded about 10 years ago. There just not going to say that as fiber is probably whiten 1500 feet of 80% of there subscribers none of the big boys will tell them that as DSL(copper) is easier to maintain and lower bandwidth requirements makes more money in federal subsidies.

More than likely it's just bad chinesium Walmart phones and a very old DSL modem.