skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They said the participants slept only five hours a night for weekdays. 8 hours is the generally recommended amount for a good nights sleep, so to truly bring balance to that schedule, they'd have a 15 hour sleep-debt to make up on the weekends, in addition to the full 8 hours they'd need to sleep those two weekend days on their own. I seriously doubt the participants were able to sleep 16 hours on both friday and saturday night to fully pay the sleep debt even at their level of sleep deprivation, so I don't think you can really say the "balance sheet" approach is wrong.

Well, if you take a reference of 7 hours instead of 8, it is more possible. That's kind of what I was doing when I was in high-school: sleeping 5 hours or under on week days, so a total of about 24-25 hours over 5 days; and then sleeping 12 hours or more on week-end nights. So I was sleeping as much in those 2 days, as I was in the other 5, for a total of about 50 hours / week, which is around 7 hours per day on average.

Note that I do not recommend this rhythm! Periodically during those years, I suffered from awful 3- to 5-days long periods during which I was... I don't know how to explain, like if there was a cotton wall between the world and me, I had no control over anything, everything was happening automatically, I had kind of visions of stuff that would happen not matter what I'd do, etc. I guess all of this was caused by sleep deprivation. Gee, I don't miss those periods... luckily it stopped after high-school.

But all my life, I have had huge difficulties to fall asleep at night, and also suffered from stress, which doesn't combine well with the necessities of school times, work times, and other mandatory times: I generally managed to sleep earlier when there was no need to wake up early... If I ever need to wake up at 5 or 4 AM, I won't even manage to get any sleep (or 45 minutes with 10 sweaty 180 heartbeats per minute wake-up inside).
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> Now, we are making these sensors available to companies outside of self-driving

They are explicitly limiting this to use cases that don't compete with self-driving, so it is likely bound by licensing and non-compete agreements.

So don't expect seeing one of these sensors in a competing self-driving vehicle any time soon.
It's possible your body is catching up on years of chronic sleep deprivation.

If you can get several weeks of vacation with no alarm, you may find yourself sleeping 10-12 hours a night for a while, but eventually it should decrease.
Here is a publication he supposedly authored in 1981:

https://books.google.nl/books?id=bHcgCwAAQBAJ&lpg=PA198&ots=...
You have to realize that everyone is on the spectrum. Autism isn't a binary property.
> I'm starting to think the fear we had 20 years ago about formats going obsolete is largely overblown

I don't think it's overblown. I think we recognized an upcoming problem and some of us made efforts to mitigate it. We still couldn't save everything, but like extinction, is difficult to prove.
How are the stabbings going, mate?
when can we start calling it the C4 port?
pre-echo will appear on very fast attacks; clapping, some types of drums and castanets are usually cited as the worst. Some styles of electronic music have fast attacks as well.

With older encoders, cymbals were terrible, but lame's psychoacoustic model is pretty good at masking those artifacts these days (at least at high bitrates).

For examples, some quick searching on hydrogen audio found a couple songs reported to be ABX distinguishable with lame and after previewing the songs, they do in fact have a lot of quick attacks:

Human Disease by Slayer (Some very fast and cleanly played drum parts; also it's mostly not snares; snares sound terrible at low bitrates, but I personally can't distinguish high-bitrate snares from uncompressed snares)

Show Me your Spine by PTP (The "instrument" used for the base rhythm has an unnaturally short attack).
For quite some time it was about having more.

Bigger houses, bigger plots, bigger garages.

At the same time, families got smaller, stay-at-home spouses (i.e. "free" upkeep) became less common, etc. Add in population growth in popular areas and the recent trend to smaller housing makes a lot of sense.
Facebook made a play to be the social layer for the web. A single place where you explicitly create a social network, then you can use it from all kinds of places. Want to share something with your friends? Smack the share button, it’s right here in your app.

Not a bad idea really. The problem is that it turned super predatory. Facebook just wants engagement at all costs. It’s not a tool for managing your life, it’s a tool for someone else to profit off it.
Arbitrary and capricious marketing.
Well, "rock" as in solid-as-as. Watch any of the new rescue helos hovering over a ship.

There are legends in AF helo communities about entire crews falling asleep during long hovers. (The anti-submarine helicopters have to hover in place while dipping their sonar into the water.)
That's it! I had forgotten the name.
That's why the send the cameraman first.
I would expect this from any app that implements using FB as your account to sign in, no?
>while they're technically not violating any laws.

May you elaborate on that?
F/OSS dbs AND hosted versions of those. It used to be that if you wanted to mitigate career risk, you buy Oracle so if the DB has issues, you bought the best. If Mysql fails, you were cheap. Now you can play the AWS card. If Aurora fails, you picked a hosted DB from a known vendor.

And adding to your point, F/OSS DBs have gotten really good, and they're commoditized.
> As soon as you disallow self-modified cars, where is the line drawn?

the road :) that's your line. a hundred years from now.
I definitely commonly fall into a cyclic productivity setup, though I am not sure if I would call it 'burnout'. I think that burnout is coupled with disgust for the primary activity, while my lows are characterized by low executive function, not quite at odds with disgust but personally I love my work, and I am just not thinking right when I am at my lows.

There doesn't seem to be intrinsically grinding pain to neurotypical behaviors. I say this because for the past couple months I have fixed the productivity highs and lows into a nice marathon pace. I will see how long this pans out of course.
The choice of colour analogy is unfortunate, because there really are colours that are "out of gamut" and cannot be accurately reproduced on normal monitors. If you have the opportunity to and look at one of the IKB works in person you'll see what I mean.

https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/klein-ikb-79-t01513

https://contemporaryartetc.wordpress.com/2007/09/13/fact-of-...
Because the other output of the LHS (sometimes) shows.
Facebook will just break the law. Now what? You can't destroy a company just because it breaks laws, because jobs!!!!!1 (c.f. Microsoft, Intel, Google, Volkswagen, etc.)
I think he's more honest than that. I think "I don't understand" means "I don't understand". But it looks like "I won't touch it" because he won't touch it if he doesn't understand.

One of the things Buffet (and Munger) do very consciously is their "circle of competence". They know what they're good at. They do that. They know they're not good at other things, so they don't do them. So I think Buffet is saying that he genuinely doesn't know how to evaluate Oracle, and therefore he's out.
At least for Duolingo there is an easy fix: don’t use it. I’m currently reading a researcher paper written by an employee and while the paper is interested the app itself is abysmally bad. I just tried the app again today just to be sure my opinion wasn’t a mistake but it reinforced it instead.

That app have no lesson, nothing is explained, there is just quizzes slapped on your face until you remember the good answer. The distractors are bad (you can find answer using capitalization in some case), sentences seems to have been generated automatically etc. I cannot fathom how one can learn anything with that nor why it is so popular.
It's kinda like the Pentium4, where Intel switched from Roman numbers ("Pentium II", "Pentium III") to an Arabic numberal with no space.

Hopefully USB4 won't be the energy-guzzling disaster that Pentium4 was.
>>> { 'a' : 1 } | { 'a' : 2 }

ISTM the most logical result would be:

{ 'a' : { 1, 2 } }

...but I could certainly understand throwing an exception.
Wife asks the same to me. I say her that she, and seems that also most people, don't go places with the primary objective of just visiting them. Their primary objective is to take pictures.
You're describing the "buy here pay here" used car lot model but for houses.
Did you live with the exact same set of roommates for 20 years though? And there was no risk of this arrangement changing 20 years prior to this?
That's not true outside of theoretical context, much like the concept of efficient markets. In reality, inflation does change the relative real costs due to the mechanism by which inflationary monetary policy is implemented: debt. Products that rely heavily on debt (construction, airlines, etc.) will be affected by inflation differently from products that use little of it (technology, fashion, food service, etc.)
good roast.
I remember when Oracle bought Sun and the OpenSolaris guys didn't quite fit in.

"don't make the mistake of anthropomorphising Larry Ellison" - Bryan Cantrell

skip to 38:20
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc
Reviews of it seem alright. Still have yet to see the source code added to the repo :)
Let me see if I get this straight.

Aluminum is a worse conductor than copper, but if you use aluminum you can use more of it, because it is cheaper, and thus support more energy throughput, right?
So, a high frequency DTMF[0] construction should render a pre-echo? What’s the lowest definition of “high” pairs that would satisfy showing this encoding breakage but be hearable by a majority of people[1]?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual-tone_multi-frequency_sign...

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presbycusis
All I want is a Ryzen laptop with access to an eGPU
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Source for the Thai rescue one?
Have you tried asking your bank about it? With Facebook's standing diminished, maybe they'd be receptive to removing the association between your bank and Facebook's brand.
Where I am pretty much all of the IT jobs will be in cities. My GF is a neurologist and for her to stay specialized and involved in research she is going to have to be in a city.
I imagine that a lot of professions are similar.
It was also entirely internet enabled. Worlds meeting, I suppose.
It's also not so likely that a given recording would actually have the larger dynamic range.
I understand how existing legacy companies would use Oracle db but are any new companies out there adopting oracle software? Is there some wave of startups that pretend it is 1980 buying licenses for database tech?
That author fails to grasp the concept of good enough, or optimal marginal return. Subsampling is often done because you can get the level of prediction desired at a much lower cost, both in terms of hardware and employee hours. Those projects that can glean value from full data usage certainly go for it, but always using full data on everything would be a poor decision.
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> The nightmare scenario for a financial institution is someone getting a mortgage, paying it off early, and not getting another mortgage.

This is very interesting and produces an odd incentive structure. The only upside I can think of is mortgage terms might be favourable to the buyer as the lenders just want a higher mortgage turnover which can't happen if people are stuck in mortgages for too long.
We are preparing new benchmark test for major platforms. Among other suggestions it will include memory consumption.
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if there is anybody out there working at facebook who has access to the info and can pass it on over tor, then I'm all ears. I'd be happy to put this out into the public for you. My ricochet id is in my profile.

Edit: The best person to send this to is actually Carole Cadwalladr. But she has unfortunately no set-up that wouldn't eventually get you in hot water.
Wouldn't there be feelings of tiredness or some kind of exhaustion? I generally feel well rested and chipper all day.

Without those feelings of tiredness, how would you know if it's training or your actual internal clock working correctly?
They're not stealing personal data: users are willingly giving them this data.

There is a solution to this, and that's to have stronger privacy laws like the EU does, but American voters have flatly rejected anything like that and don't want such laws.
But aren't you worried you'll lose access to your music? I have to own it! I can't have it at the whim of multiple third parties to take down as they see fit. It's too important.
What's at the Intersection of AR and Search?
yeah I agree with this strongly. My experience with HN is that HN comments are essentially that HN users view non power users with contempt and dislike everything that can't be expressed through logical axioms.

It's almost like it's a holistic experience whose entire design criteria is not "get information into people's heads as fast as possible". The duplicates are pretty annoying though.

and besides, if you swipe the images left and right, the interface is plenty fast.
marketing, naming, bundling, network effects, sla's. theres a lot more to tech than tech.
Hipster whines at MIT Technology Review and inadvertently proves article correct
Implementing a Neural Network from Scratch in Python
IDK. Skype used to be reliable, but now it seems utterly useless. They took ages, about a year if I'm remembering right, to bring out Skype for their own Windows Mobile platform. I've personally hit a bug where the web interface allowed you to set a password that was incompatible with the app (too long I think).
Rails 6 adds negative scopes on enum attribute
Let's not forget https://www.radare.org which is trying to be a OSS IDA Pro.
The enterprise version isn't production ready for serious use. $FORTUNE_500 where I'm at really wanted to make it work - I suppose we pay for it on a per-seat basis along with the Office 365 product - but client disconnects with >100 users for an internal webinar on our internal network resulted in an embarassingly broken presentation and a decision to bail off to a different vendor's product.
A Lookup to Dirac’s Lightcone Coordinate System
This is really interesting and surprising to me. Can any helicopter pilot explain why hovering is not as easy as just taking your hands off the controls? That's how I always imagined a helicopter would work!
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I've been learning Japanese with it for the past 2 years.

Although I haven't tried other apps (so I don't have a baseline for comparison), their methodology has proven quite effective for me.
The MIT Technology Review article referenced is "The hipster effect: Why anti-conformists always end up looking the same"

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613034/the-hipster-effect...
Yeah, that immediately made me think of Hitchikers:

> The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.
VMWare Linux lawsuit moves closer to a resolution
Employers do force their employees to show up at a particular time.
It is a good article, and since the misunderstandings are persistent in the same way a lot of other commercially exploited mysticism is it remains a relevant one as well. Having said that and to try to add on something new to these discussions, since you brought up this:

>Think it's 2040, singularity reached. AI runs the world and on HN we have this article popping up very frequently like every hundred Planck time unit.

One argument I can see in principle for 24/192+ sound (not music) recordings would be if someone was a serious transhumanist and honestly did anticipate that some humans will move beyond baseline human sensory limitations in the foreseeable future (by 2040 would certainly count). Combine that with the sort of incredible environmental destruction we're seeing right now, with enormous numbers of species going extinct, forests being destroyed, insect/bird levels plummeting/moving even if they aren't going extinct entirely, etc. It doesn't seem entirely unreasonable to imagine that in 2040 somebody with genetically enhanced or bionic ears who really could hear ultrasonics (and had grown up with that, so their brain had developed from the start with that input) would find themselves not being able to ever hear "what it was really like" back in the 2010s even for a simple walk in the woods. If they had been here in person they'd be able to hear all sorts of things, but our standard recordings wouldn't have any of that, and in that time the whole character of forests may be different forever ala the silent spring. It's similar I think to one of the obvious guiding principles of modern archaeology, which is to try to disturb as little as possible precisely because we recognize there will be superior tools and sensors in the future which could pick up things we can't right now. Saving as much raw data as feasible in many experiments is also like that, even if we can't process it all now decades down the line new insights might be found.

None of that has anything to do with music which is a subjective human artistic creation. Even though instruments give off sounds beyond our perception, by definition we aren't taking those sounds into account in the creative process. Future transhumans would undoubtedly create transhumanist art taking full advantage of any enhanced senses, but that wouldn't apply retroactively.
To give some more context I've evaluated/I'm evaluating the following options:

- Italy: there are too many regulations and almost nothing can be done online practically. And the startup ecosystem is crap, ~60m people and 0 unicorns, the startup incubator in my city claims a 98% success rate or something like that. This is obviously not a good environment for starting a company.

- Estonia: I'm an e-Resident already but starting a company in Estonia as a foreigner requires going through a service provider, the most popular one seems to be leapin.eu and they don't support multi-shareholder companies, nor having employees outside of Estonia. Maybe there's a more appropriate service provider though. Plus Stripe is not available yet in the country, but I've heard the situation will change in 2019.

- US: it seems one needs somewhere between $500k to $1M to "buy" a green card, so relocating there could be challenging. And opening a company in a country to which I wouldn't be able to relocate to sounds like a dumb idea. There's Stripe Atlas which could be interesting though.

- UK: the startup ecosystem seems good, I've heard good things about the governmental websites, but I'd like to wait for the dust about brexit to settle before seriously considering this option.
Yeah, this is what I can't fathom. We can detect exoplanets with telescopes with 0.01 arcsecond accuracy, hear whale calls 100 miles away with an array of low frequency transducers, and model the shape of structures by forcing seismic vibration and measuring the response to 1 part in 100 million. We can image the HIV virus and detect DNA changes due to cancer. It's unlikely that we don't understand everything we need to know (or even 1000x more than we need to know regarding this debate) about cochlea, a macroscope object that undergraduates can study with a primitive microscope.
Fyre reference? I doubt Elon busted out the mouthwash :)
> I'm not sure but I think "owning" music like in "I got some files here on my drive" seems dead to me.

I really don't think that's true. I think the "listening market" looks a lot like it did before; a large number of casual listeners and a smaller number of people who are in to their music enough to care about details. The second category does things like talk about differences in mastering between different releases, for instance, and Spotify or Apple are not going to offer you that 1973 Berlin recording or whatever. Tidal tries to cater to this market, but they don't have a massive amount of stuff. And then you get to bootleg collecting and people who record performances, old music that didn't make the digital jump and all sorts other recordings that will never make it commercial services.

I'm not a "real audiophile" or obsessive about collecting things, but I do have a lot of music (last I looked, about 60k distinct artifacts - mostly individual songs, but some of those are albums or nonmusical, also some dupes and garbage). And a lot of that is not on commercial services.
> Personally, I've long preferred Quartz's rendering approach in nearly all cases.

All cases? Have you ever compared them side by side on a low DPI monitor? I have a old but high-end 24" 1080p monitor that I bought for its color fidelity. When I'm in OS X, the fonts are atrocious compared to Win 10. Yet, I prefer OS X's font's when they are displayed on the 4K screen.

Apple moved to HiDPI long before Windows PCs, so you need an a very old Mac or external monitor to see what he's talking about.
It's probably popular because it makes it into a game and it is also easy. You get to feel good about "learning" without actually putting in the effort to really learn on a deeper level.
Microsoft seems to be focusing on cutting costs, and that’s causing these kinds of issues. It has already invested in Electron (Visual Studio Code) and Chromium (with Edge moving to it). Skype dropping support for Firefox seems to be a casualty of the same. The Electron site says that Skype is built on it [1]. So no reason to support any browser other than Chromium.

I wonder why there hasn’t yet been an Electron equivalent with Firefox underneath (with Firefox being embeddable like Chromium). Mozilla should consider focusing on this (if it’s not already in progress).

[1]: https://electronjs.org/apps/skype
Here's a cheat sheet which should cover the most common situations.

Send stdout to a file.

ls myFileWhichExists > myStdLog

- or -

ls myFileWhichExists 1> myStdLog

Send stderr to a file.

ls myFileWhichDoesNotExist 2> myErrLog

Send stdout to one file and stderr to a different file.

ls myFileWhichExists myFileWhichDoesNotExist 1> myStdLog 2> myErrLog

Send stdout and stderr to the same file

ls myFileWhichExists myFileWhichDoesNotExist 1> myBothLog 2>&1

I read that last part "2>&1" as "Send stderr (2) to the same place as stdout (1) is already going to".

Notice that if you send stdout and stderr to the same file, because of caching and other issues, the output from stdout and stderr will overlap in unpredictable ways.
Those are very nice examples. I always fell back on "go stare at the sun for a while for a shot of color that your monitor can't handle" but admittedly it was pure laziness.
I mean, plenty of businesses have incentives maligned with society. Gas stations want you to burn more gasoline, not less. Hospitals want you to visit more often, and spend more each visit. Liquor stores want you to drink more alcohol. Etc etc.

Are hospitals predatory?
Oracle consultant here.

There's nothing more disheartening then digging into an issue on a new site and realizing someone checked (or didn't uncheck) a box during install years ago and the system is not complying with its licensing.

The licence fees for small features you might not even know your using can be pretty brutal.