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by ivraatiems | 2025-04-10 17:58:36+00:00
Tangentially related, but very important to me and hopefully helpful to others here: I have sleep apnea. So do most of the men in my family. Though I am overweight, I haven't always been, but I have always had the condition, as have they. For those who don't know, sleep apnea is a condition where you stop breathing in your sleep, wake up slightly to fix that and start breathing again, and then fall back asleep. It sounds like choking in your sleep. In my case, I was doing this more than 70 times an hour - often multiple times a minute! My blood oxygen was as low as 67% - a threshold that would have me on a ventilator, were it happening in a hospital.

Until I got my apnea treated, I never slept well. I had not had a really good night's sleep in years, and I hadn't had a great night's sleep as an adult probably ever. In school - decades ago - I fell asleep in class regularly and napped every day. Despite this, I have been successful, but I can't help but wonder who I'd be if I hadn't had that problem. What's worse, because you do not actually sleep, whatever happens during sleep that repairs your body doesn't really happen. Sleep apnea massively increases your risk for heart disease, stroke, and many other serious conditions.

Sleep apnea is treated with CPAP - continuous positive airway pressure - from a machine that sits on your bedside. You wear a mask like Bane and it forces air into your throat and opens it, making it easier to breathe. CPAP is not a cure, because it doesn't fix the underlying anatomical issue, but properly calibrated it results in complete remission. I now sleep normally. From a sleep perspective, I feel amazing, better than I have in years. For the first time in my life, I can rely on feeling good in the morning if I get enough hours of sleep in. Even four hours on the CPAP is better than eight or nine hours without it. (Also, over time, your brain becomes conditioned that CPAP = sleep, and you zonk out within minutes of putting it on.)

It is costly and time consuming, yes, and CPAP machines are a huge lifestyle adjustment. But good lord, is it worth it. I have never felt or slept better. In the years since my diagnosis I have not slept a single night without my CPAP and I don't think I ever will again, unless some magical cure comes out.

If you have struggled with insomnia, snoring, or feeling wakeful after sleep, I beg you to get a sleep study and look into whether apnea, or another similar condition, could be the cause.
by mrguyorama | 2025-04-10 17:58:59+00:00
Communist philosophy is somewhat anti-authoritarian. It's literally about putting the everyday people in power. It's often anti-democratic though. You have to turn to Nordic socialism if you want to bring democracy in, which was developed basically as a direct result of Stalin insisting that Soviet communism was the only communism, and you could either join their (violent, awful) communism or die.

Except, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, all wrote about how important it was to be self critical, how important it was to stay grounded in reality, to make reality drive your decision making and goals.

And then they all purposely and aggressively built themselves cults of personality with the express purpose of being just garden variety dictators. They surrounded themselves with boring "Yes men" by murdering anyone who pointed out the clear contradiction between their writing/philosophy/"theory" and reality.

There's a grand canyon between what they all wrote about, and what they clearly did. The closest they ever came was Mao being like "Whoops, a lot of people died, maybe it's partially my fault" but that sure didn't dissuade him, or make him change direction.

Meanwhile their hundreds of millions of insane, murderous followers had no qualms about such a contradiction, such a destruction of reality, because they had been so poorly treated for so long in the old system that all they really cared about was tearing it down (gee, sound familiar?).

A Cult of personality is toxic to functionality. It's toxic to any progress. It's toxic to productivity and success. It's toxic to competence. It's toxic to reality.
by gwbas1c | 2025-04-10 17:59:20+00:00
I've been in a place where making that say "busy" when Visual Studio had the focus would be really useful... Except (cough) certain people in the culture would find it insulting.

It makes me wonder... How do you push on the "I can interrupt anyone at any time for any reason" attitude? I had a lot of trouble pushing on it in a previous workplace.
by jf | 2025-04-10 17:59:57+00:00
Something that I find delightful about this project is that Jim Davis approves of it!

From Wikipedia: "Jim Davis, the creator of Garfield, approved of the project, and an official Garfield book (also called Garfield Minus Garfield) was published by his company. It was mainly edited comics by Walsh, with some comics contributed by Davis."
by woah | 2025-04-10 18:00:22+00:00
There’s no course to learn the niche skills and nuances of this trade; Alessandro accompanied and apprenticed with Renato and other experts for about 3 years, learning through firsthand experience how to assess each form.

“The particularity of this profession to me is that it’s like it was 2 years ago, and it’s a skill that’s handed down from dev to dev. You go around with the most expert, most experienced BERTitori, and you watch and listen to them, and slowly they start to give you the keyboard. You try with them next to you, piano piano, and gradually, you begin to do more on your own,” explained Stocchi. “It’s a big responsibility, you have to be really capable of doing it, you can’t damage the forms.”
by bryanlarsen | 2025-04-10 18:00:26+00:00
It's not wrong. 110V is more likely to cause fibrillation. Fibrillation isn't the only way AC can kill you so which is more dangerous is more debatable.

The problem is that the risk of death is so low for both that people's perceptions are skewed. Everybody has been shocked by their household voltage a bunch of times, so they think it's no big deal. Until it isn't.
Ask HN: Laptops with a touch screen are terrible?
by puppycodes | 2025-04-10 18:01:19+00:00
Is it just me or are laptops with a touch screen terrible? I like a touch screen and I love a laptop respectively but the combination feels extremely discordant and prone to accidental clicks and errors. Am I just old and stuck in my ways? Just wondering if anyone has additional thoughts on this topic?
by ipkstef | 2025-04-10 18:01:24+00:00
He is referencing delta 9, which has a lot of the same similarities as what we refer to colloquially as "weed".

Delta 9 is much different physiologically and psychologically and can induce this abhorrent behaviors.

Also in the mid to early 2000's over 50.3% of US adults (Pew Research Center) had tried cannabis, I can assure you someone in your "circle" has smoked in their life.
by kridsdale3 | 2025-04-10 18:01:28+00:00
Indeed they do. The hardest bugfix I ever had to do (which I go back to whenever interviews ask that question) was a timezone bug that was going to ruin the iOS 7 on-stage reveal. It only reproduced in customer builds and customer hardware, which we could not debug or get root on. Anyway we traced it to a confluence of rare conditions in a date-math C file that had not been modified since 1987, and was in a completely different style from everything else in the OS. The edge-iest of edge cases.

It was hard because of the debugging blindness, not so much date-math itself. We had to do hardware-level things.
by namaria | 2025-04-10 18:01:28+00:00
It's overfitting.

Some people say they find LLMs very helpful for coding, some people say they are incredibly bad.

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.

"In other words, the model learns to predict plausible changes to code from examples of changes made to code by human programmers."

https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.08896
by mperham | 2025-04-10 18:01:44+00:00
> When that goal is achieved, what then are humans "for"? Humans need purpose, and we are going to be in a position where we don't serve any purpose. I am worried about what will become of us after we have made ourselves obsolete.

Read some philosophy. People have been wrestling with this question forever.

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

In the end, all we have is each other. Volunteer, help others.
by jonpurdy | 2025-04-10 18:02:59+00:00
It's absolutely nuts to me that US cities (like in Sunset in SF with 50 foot wide roads) accommodate giant fire trucks in addition to both sides having street parking (and driveways and garages!) instead of having narrower roads with smaller trucks (like in Netherlands and Japan, which were discussed in that video).

NJB also has a video※ about Japan's tiny streets (relative to USA) that elaborates on how a single factory (street width) can improve so much about a place.

※ - https://youtu.be/jlwQ2Y4By0U
by trott | 2025-04-10 18:03:07+00:00
Regarding point number 11 (AlphaFold3 vs Vina, Gnina, etc.), see my rebuttal here (I'm the author of Vina): https://olegtrott.substack.com/p/are-alphafolds-new-results-...

Gnina is Vina with its results re-scored by a NN, so the exact same concerns apply.

I'm very optimistic about AI, for the record. It's just that in this particular case, the comparison was flawed. It's the old regurgitation vs generalization confusion: We need a method that generalizes to completely novel drug candidates, but the evaluation was done on a dataset that tends to be repetitive.
by pmags | 2025-04-10 18:03:32+00:00
I posted the article here, and I had a fairly similar reaction to yours.

I was tempted to remove the "What does this mean for our health?" part of the title, but I thought that such a large edit might be against HN policy / too much editorializing on my part.

In any case, I thought the article was worth posting because it's a nice intro to a area of recent progress in biology that not a lot of folks are aware of.
by jamesponddotco | 2025-04-10 18:03:58+00:00
If anyone is looking for something similar, but better priced, the Ulanzi TC001[1] with a custom firmware[2] is pretty nice. With the custom firmware, you can integrate it with Home Assistant and do all sorts of things with it.

For example, one idea my wife had was to have one on top of the washing machine displaying the last cycle of the machine based on the energy readings from a Zigbee smart socket, so we don't have to ask each other if the last cycle was a wash or drying cycle.

Will it change your life? No. But for $59 buckets it may add convenience here or there ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯

[1]: https://www.ulanzi.com/products/ulanzi-pixel-smart-clock-288...

[2]: https://blueforcer.github.io/awtrix3/
by hoseyor | 2025-04-10 18:03:58+00:00
I have a genuine question I can’t find or come up with a viable answer to, a matter of said “unpleasantness” as he puts it; how do people make money or otherwise sustain themselves in this AI scenario we are facing?

Has anyone heard a viable solution, or even has one themselves?

I don’t hear anything about UBI anymore, could that be because after roughly 60+ million alien people flooding into western countries from countries with a populations so large that are effectively endless? What do we do about that? Will that snuff out any kind of advancement in the west when the roughly 6 billion people all want to be in the west where everyone gets UBI and it’s the land of milk and honey?

So what do we do then? We can’t all be tech industry people with 6-figure plus salaries, vested ownership, and most people aren’t multi-millionaires that can live far away from the consequences while demanding others subject themselves to them.

Which way?
by Rebelgecko | 2025-04-10 18:04:04+00:00
No wireless, less space than nomad, you can replicate this in a few hours with FTP, curlftpfs, and SVN, etc.

Assuming the device is as polished as its slick marketing page, I'm a little skeptical it could be replicated in a week. That said, if you disagree this is a great opportunity to undercut the competition!
by ctrlp | 2025-04-10 18:04:09+00:00
Sambas for walking or running or sports? I've had good luck with Ecco shoes with Vibram soles for walking but my favorites were discontinued. Luckily, I bought a bunch of extras. As I've gotten older I've learned that if you find some shoe or clothing you really like, buy backups. So many great products are discontinued at some point.
by s1artibartfast | 2025-04-10 18:04:35+00:00
I get that idea because society does not care about extremely localized costs if there is a diffuse benefit, or even a good feeling. You said society is being kind to others and it will be kind to you.

My impression is the exact opposite. Society doesn't care if you're the best person in the world if you're in the way of something it wants.

It is happy to put a freeway through your house to save a few bucks or minutes, even if it ruins your life.

Regulation is an even more attractive way to do this because society doesn't have to pay some low ball eminent domain.

Nobody cares if someone has spent their life building a fishing business and 300K loan on boat, the social consensus is haha, sucks to suck loser.
by danielmarkbruce | 2025-04-10 18:04:42+00:00
Even central bank swaps aren't magical. The ECB for example has an account for the US Fed, the same way they have an account for HSBC or whatever. The ECB can credit the account for the US Fed, the same way it can for anyone else.

The main trick that folks get hung up on (and, you might be too) is that most "money" is just an IOU from a bank. We've just created a sophisticated way to trade the IOUs and call it "money".
by ModernMech | 2025-04-10 18:05:01+00:00
I of course believe that. But Trump does not. Trump believes a good deal is one in which he gets everything he wants, and the opposing party gets nothing. It's a philosophy of domination and control.

It's the reason a "trade deficit" is seen as a bad thing by him. Trade deficits are the result of a mutually beneficial transaction, but that's not enough for Trump. It can't just be mutually beneficial, it has to be beneficial more in our direction than theirs.

Or look at how he treats contractors. He hires a person to do a job, they agree and deliver the work, and that should be the end of the mutually beneficial deal.

But not for Trump, his MO is to stiff contractors, force them to sue, mire them in a legal quagmire, and get them to settle at a loss. This is the kind of deal Trump likes because it's a win for him -- he gets the contracted work at a fraction of the price; and a loss for them -- they probably wouldn't have agreed to do the work had they known what they were in for upfront.

Is this a great way to run the largest economy in the world? Of course not! But that's how it's happening now because that's the kind of guy who is in charge.
by grantwu | 2025-04-10 18:05:22+00:00
Isn't S3 Express not the same API? You have to use a "directory bucket" which isn't an object store anymore, as it has actual directories.

To be honest I'm not actually sure how different the API is. I've never used it. I just frequently trip over the existence of parallel APIs for directory buckets (when I'm doing something niche, mostly; I think GetObject/PutObject are the same.)
by woodruffw | 2025-04-10 18:05:36+00:00
> LLMs are probabilistic and notoriously unable to be confidently precise in their probabilistic rationalizations.

Sure. To tie these threads together: I think there are sufficient other different properties that make me reasonably confident that my thought process isn't like an LLM's.

(Humans are imprecise, LLMs are imprecise, thermometers are imprecise, but don't stick me or my computer in an oven, please.)
by mjevans | 2025-04-10 18:05:45+00:00
Those are both reasons that .local should be static DNS on the _network_ like localhost is a standard name for the loopback address(es).

There's no reason .mdns or .mdns.arpa couldn't have just been added to the default domains search list (the list of suffixes tried for non FQDN searches); which given it ISN'T a nice human obvious word to append wouldn't have conflicted with anyone who'd already had a .local at the time, and anyone else in the future who thinks an obvious phrase like .local would not be in use by some other resolver system.
by jajko | 2025-04-10 18:06:02+00:00
For just raw cheese taste, me and my whole family both older and younger (which grew up in eastern europe where absolutely none of these was known behind iron curtain, not even as cheap stolen bad copies), AOC Gruyère surchoix and aged Gouda are top.

From italian its pecorino pepato (specifc, I know) and then black truffles variants, usually also of pecorino.

Maybe cheese you mention are more of an acquired taste rather than love at first sight, can't tell but will keep trying :)
by bee_rider | 2025-04-10 18:06:36+00:00
It was an intro programming class, so I don’t think they were up for it. Actually, that might be a pretty good project for the class, haha.

I’m not very familiar with the details of the zip format, just uncompressed/compress when I need to modify a zip. But, if you want to modify a file inside a zip, there will be some bookkeeping, right? I guess it would at least be necessary to make sure the modified file doesn’t start to overlap the entry after it…
by psunavy03 | 2025-04-10 18:07:04+00:00
> There are records showing the shock that Soviet military experts had at the effectiveness of the western stealth and jamming equipment that was used in the 1991 Gulf War (that was waged right at the tail end of the USSR's existence).

> There are mixed signals in the archives we have access to about how well (or more accurately reliable) a good chunk of the Warsaw Pact would have been if the cold war turned hot.

Are there any decent books on this? Not because I'm doubting you, just because it would be a good read.
by jorangreef | 2025-04-10 18:07:53+00:00
Joran from TigerBeetle here!

We didn't design our docs because it was "a fun thing" (as suggested) but rather because we simply care deeply about the experience of developers reading our docs. For example, concerning performance and offline use, which were further reasons we gave in the post.

We have a high bar for taking on dependencies. We don't take on dependencies automatically without justification. It's just not a philosophy that we share, to assume or to insist that everything needs to be a dependency.

(The discussion on CSP in our post was also not given as motivation, but as an example of the thought process that went into this. Again, as per the post, it's a matter of defense-in-depth. We have plans for how our docs will be used in future, that you may not be aware of, and security is important.)

Finally, we're happy with the result, the project was small and didn't take long. We're used to "painting" things like this fairly quickly. It's just easier for us than trying to "sculpt" off the shelf dependencies. That's not to suggest that everyone needs to paint like we do at TigerBeetle, but it's equally true that not everyone needs to sculpt either. [1]

[1] To understand our engineering methodology, and why we prefer to paint than sculpt, see TigerStyle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3WYdYyjek4
by keepinitneil | 2025-04-10 18:08:03+00:00
Orpheus is good. It's a very simple architecture, basically just llama3b trained to produce audio (SNAC) tokens instead of text tokens. This is nice because it benefits from the Llama open-source ecosystem which is very active. It being LLM based is also nice because it streams output and with some engineering effort supports continuation via prompt-filling (so streaming input can work).

The other one people have been excited about is Sesame. Both are very expressive and have much more room for optimization (both on the inference efficiency side quants, finetunes, distillation, etc) and on the quality side (throw more data at it). Exciting times!
by breadwinner | 2025-04-10 18:08:20+00:00
As of yesterday 46% approve of the job he is doing [1] so not quite 50% but not far below it. Unless it drops to around 20% GOP senators aren't going to be emboldened to oppose Trump and without GOP senators you can't get a veto-proof majority.

[1] https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trumps-approval-rati...
by BuckRogers | 2025-04-10 18:08:28+00:00
I can't imagine not wanting to at least get on 4.8, we just did this year. Not that it was up to me to wait this long. But I definitely would advocate a project to get anything that may need updated quickly into configuration files. That's something we do well. The rest of the stack doesn't really matter, just a means to an end. Your group's bigger problem really is just general sloppiness.
by lupusreal | 2025-04-10 18:08:46+00:00
There is the general principle of legal apparatus to facilitate artists getting paid. And then there is the reality of our extant system, which retroactively extends copyright terms so corporations who bough corporations who bought corporations... ...who bought the rights to an artistic work a century ago can continue to collect rent on that today. Whatever you think of the idealistic premise, the reality is absurd.
by lolinder | 2025-04-10 18:09:31+00:00
You're conflating racial and ethnic diversity in ways that are distinctly western or even really US-centric. Europe is extremely ethnically diverse, as is China, they just don't use skin color as the primary ethnic marker the way that is commonly (and still incorrectly) done in the US.

The 90% Han Chinese number isn't especially useful because it's comparable to the way that most of Europe has historically identified itself as the successor of Rome. That they all identify as Han doesn't make Han a truly useful grouping for judging diversity when they all have different ideas of what "Han" means.