skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The article is light on specifics but this stood out to me, most Tesla's take longer to charge. I'd imagine an aircraft would need more power than a Tesla, so how are they transferring energy so fast that automobiles can't do it but aircraft can?

If I had to guess the 5 to 7 minute figure is based on some theoretical magical battery that nobody can buy yet. Something with Wh/density much greater than the current best lithium ion (1000 to 1200Wh/kg vs 245Wh/kg) and capable of much higher C rates for charge and discharge. It's a mock up so they don't have to, or want to share any more detail than a optimistic time figure.
Further: we have not the right to disturb it. A good attitude is, to exist on Earth doing as little harm as we can.
What's wrong with simply sharing personal observations based on the decades of related personal experience? Anyone who has some training in science has learned to always be looking for patterns.
Do you work out or do physical exercise of some sort? For me, that was/is the key to good sleep.
Waking up too early is called sleep-maintenance insomnia or sleep-onset insomnia. I get this a lot. I have no problem getting to sleep but then wake up too early. I sometimes wake up at 3AM and can't get back to sleep, then end up feeling like crap the next day.

What helps me:

-- A very clear clock on my room so I can look at the time in the middle of the night. If I don't know what time it is, I'll sometimes just get up, only to realize it's way too early. Once I'm up out of bed, it's harder to get back to sleep

-- I found that watching and listening to something really stupid when trying to get to sleep (old reruns of Family Guy and American Dad) help me to stop thinking about a million things before sleep. Also, if I wake up and can't get back to sleep, I watch/listen to it till I fall asleep.

-- Have a consistent bedtime, as someone else posted.

-- While light therapy is recommended in the morning to prevent normal insomnia, there are some studies that show that light therapy in the morning can cause you to wake up earlier. Try doing some light therapy in the afternoon or evening.
This is a bit Pollyanna. People aren't logic robots that start from first principles and then derive all knowledge from logical reasoning. People are emotional, irrational beings. Those of us who fancy ourselves rational are constantly involved in irrational motivated reasoning helping us maintain that desired worldview.

Not to say we shouldn't try to live up to the ideal you set forth. We should do our best. But there's not some category of honest people among whom you can avoid human nature.
I think, however, most people assume that whatever the price is, the majority of it will go to where the costs are (a human being with a car), and only a tiny amount will go for the cheap stuff (an entry in a database). The middleman's costs are higher than you think (servers, software, credit card fees, etc.), but you still expect they're measured in dimes, not dollars.

If they're taking dollars where they should be taking dimes, you expect somebody else to come in and undercut them. So customers expect that most of a $10+ fee is going to go to the driver, regardless of how that fits into the structure.

That's clearly not the case, and the real question is why. It's not profitability.
Actualy, it’s the maintainer’s responsibility to make their code serve their own interests. Those often, but not always, align with the users’ interests.
> What the license says and what image the project presents can be very different. Pointing to the license and reasoning that nobody has legally promised anything contractually is not very useful.

It is quite useful, because the license is the legal document that comes included with the software, and that specifies what things you agree to if you use the software. And it explicitly specifies that you cannot assume any contractual obligations from the "image the project presents", or anything of the sort.

> That’s a very mercenary view of the world. What about volunteer charity workers? Is it OK for them to just not show up whenever, just because they aren’t paid?

I would say that if someone promises to do some charity work and doesn't show up without a good reason is breaking a promise, and is thus being a shitty person. People should keep to their word. Open source authors promised us nothing and owe us nothing. More often than not, we owe them.
A preprint that came out after I released the book that I would have mentioned:

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/613141v1.full

They model a single cortical neuron as a deep neural network with 7 hidden layers consisting of 128 hidden units each.

Biological neurons are A LOT more powerful than "neurons" in neural networks. If you hear a claim about computer-brain parity being close - the people making it almost certainly don't understand the power of cortical neurons.
In addition to the things people have mentioned, melatonin might help you feel more rested. Start with 0.5 mg a half hour before the time you want to go to bed. In general melatonin is very safe and non-addictive, but as always when starting a new supplement you should consult with a doctor first. You'll also want to stop using screens (computer, TV, phone, etc) for at least an hour before bed time, ideally longer.
What skills you can learn and merge with one you have to create a new product?
In my case for example I'm going to take diving classes because I think I can merge diving and CS and build something fun.
> Open source is not some backyard game anymore. It
> involves companies and their commitment in form of
> infrastructure and participation.

I think this approach leads to sustainability problems, and discourages individuals from sharing their work in open source form. I make a project because I need it, and maybe it's fun to build. I generally share it because I think others might find it useful too.

What I'm reading in your comment is that once it becomes widely used, it becomes my responsibility to meet the needs of these people and organizations who have started using the work I freely give to them. The act of having it used by other people obligates me to them.

That perspective seems like it will eventually force the people who share their work in this way down the path of burnout.

> Open source is like capitalism. But a project's success
> is measured in commitment instead of capital.

I would argue that the goals of any given open source project - and therefore the measures of its success - are under the control of the owner(s) of that project. If one of the goals is to make a widely distributed and used thing, then yes - there are obligations such as you've described; they are inherent in that goal.

If the goal is only to build a thing and share it, there can be no such obligation - regardless of how popular it gets.
Would this include simple face detection (i.e. the first-line heuristic modern cameras use to autofocus)?
> but there are never any verified cases of a problem

Funny how that happens when the logs and other evidence that would verify problems happen to have been destroyed.
If the headline at least said "monopolies"...
Points well taken, but I think "unsafe" turns it into a value judgment, especially (as samatman says adjacent) since it isn't necessarily really unsafe.
The set of all computer programs is countable, so I don't think there can be uncountably many ways to have memory errors.
DigitalOcean is laying off staff
No, that is actual scope of warranty and assurance those developers intend to promiss. Everything else is beyond and above.

I pretty much guarantee you that if the "clearly mark your project as toy project" thing would become something people actually are expected to use, it would be everywhere too.

As if now it is nowhere, not on very clear toy projects and not on serious looking projects thay are sparsely maintained. The ones with license are all clear on limited warranty.
This is a pretty serious question and something that really should be answered. Is a digital conscious alive, and if so what rights does it have?

Ian Banks' Culture novels look at this a few times.

Appreciate the article links, will read them after work today.
Are bigger brains better? If there's more white matter
Linking a hobby project isn't necessarily meant to say anything about attitude at work. At work, the expected attitude might very well be that you have to bend over for and pamper customers and deal with no end of bullshit. Or maybe the expectation is that you never interact with customers directly, everything goes through customer support / sales / executives (after being checked by legal). A hobby project, by contrast, is your kingdom, and you can reject bullshit and/or have fun or just never respond to tickets without a patch because it's your free time and your pet project.

If I link my stuff or show it to a prospective employer, it's meant to show them that I can code. Nothing more. If they want to read too much into it and dismiss me as unprofessional because they found a cat meme, Theo quote, or link to hello.jpg, it's their loss not mine. Fuck 'em. Kinda unprofessional of them.
Stock market went up to the record on the news somehow.
Cooler Master is tired of telling parents that their kids aren't Juuling (2023)
Yes, but I wonder how many of those 50K users are "business critical" and how many are there just for trolling, gossip and drama.
Consider: restaurants often consider delivery to be a 'loss leader'. It's not a terribly profitable industry, maybe not at all profitable. A more limited service (unable to average costs over a large number of restaurants and customers) is going to be even less so?
BlackVue app security vulnerabilities exploited by Motherboard
The impact of CEOs in the public sector: Evidence from the English NHS
The same could be said about pretty much every link on Hacker News. Do we need more posts about:

- The death of personal websites?

- Decentralized social networks?

- Setting up a static website with Hugo/Jekyll?

- Why we did X in Julia/Rust/Go and not [commonly used framework]?
Google has like 80% of the search market share. How does one not become dependent on that traffic source?
Are you working out? You need to have vigorous ways to put stress out of your system. Lifting hard (with good form) is safe and will make you sleep like a baby. If on top of that you have a stable sexual life, the better. No coffee after 17pm and maybe consider melatonin 3mg before going to sleep (it can make you sleep deeper so recover is more fruitful).

PS: BTW, I do 6h sleep most nights and some times I need an additional 20 or 30m nap during the day and is totally sustainable (I train 5d/w).
The popularity of a project doesn't change it from "toy" or "personal" to "primary focus of developer's time". The developer might still only have so much time to spend on the project.
Well let me the first to mention Julia’s community. Especially on the julialang slack channel, the community is excellent. It’s incredibly friendly, welcoming and helpful.
What's all this BS drama? It's the original maintainers project, his way or the highway. Those who don't like his use of unsafe can take a hike, fork it, write their own etc.

If the project owner just wants to use Rust as a fancier C, just for a few niceties, and mostly code in unsafe, that's their decision to make.
>This is more like submitting your sketches to a public art gallery and then being upset when the public criticizes it.

that's not what happened. there weren't simply discussions of the viability or soundness or the crate. there were implicit/explicit demands for changes. so your analogy is wrong again - it would be like submitting public sketches and then facing demands that the sketches be improved. does that sound like something that i as the artist should be comfortable with? more importantly does that sound like something a reasonable person would do (make demands for alterations to sketches submitted to a public art gallery)?
The Five Best Fishing Mini-Games
This is false

https://www.cnet.com/news/in-rural-farm-country-forget-broad...
Ummm what are pension funds?
List of Collective Nouns for Animals
A Look at a Vintage Sony CD Burner
What news they choose to make News is an opinion.
Things that work for me:
-Teaspoon of Calm magnesium powder before bed. Not every day but a few on and off.
-no phones or tv in bed
-no blue light for at least 2 hours before bed
-dark dark room
-same bedtime each night
-no alcohol
-no coffee or other caffeine or even dark chocolate after 2pm
-daily exercise for at least 20 min
-write out my tasks for the next day so I’ve got things as much out of my head as possible
-If I can’t sleep or wake up, Get up and eat something small and protein-rich like nuts or cheese
-Don’t check phone in middle of night
-wear earplugs. It’s amazing how little noises wake me up. I use the soft moldable swimmer’s ear plugs
How should we prevent this gamma ray blast? Or will astronomy just tell us its coming?
I have been using a sleep mask to block out the morning and other light, and have a few history podcast I listen to, but those are more to go to sleep faster than to wake up later.
Not necessarily. Increased fire frequency is the primary hypothesis cited for why the population of Wollemia nobilis is so small today. They've absolutely seen fires in their past, but due to the nature of the physical isolation of this particular grove (incredibly steep, wet, narrow sandstone canyons), they've been insulated from the worst of it.
So, how fast do people expect developers of open source projects to respond before someone is considered unresponsive?

I'm not sure combining social media with code control is going to be such a good thing for a lot of developers who might not like to program in a fishbowl.
I think, like TFA says, it comes down to ease of deployment for support tooling. A single executable is easier to distribute than a set of dependencies and a language runtime. These are tools that run outside containers to manage code that can run inside containers, where dependency management and isolation are easier. It makes total sense to me.
I don't mean to come off as dismissive, but as someone who has a bunch of these company-sponsored certificates, does any employer (outside of the one issuing it) care at all about these certs?

I have a few from EdX, something from W3Schools, and something from RedHat that I still put on my resume for some indiscernible reason, but having asked interviewers about it after being hired, they don't appear to have been of any direct practical use.

I'm not saying you shouldn't learn all the stuff required for the certificate, but at the same time, I think it's naive to think that putting it on a resume is going to be much direct help.
tesla?
> People depend on this software

That is their own problem.

> I'm 80% through building an API using actix-web.

Feel free to pay someone to maintain it for you.
Re: Slowness, you can tell Alexa to 'talk faster' now. Multiple invocations seem to let you increase it a fair bit. Agree with the rest of your points though!
> high stocks only benefit the top 10% of society, and are a useless indicator for the vast majority, who have little to no holdings.

This is absolutely not true. Most pension plans are at least partially invested in stocks.
More info: This isn't what the ride is normally like. This was an express train in April, 2019, probably 6pm or 7pm, going south from San Francisco.

Because it's an express the train gets up to some high speeds, and this lateral wobbling starts to really get uncomfortable in the long stretches after Hillsdale or so.

Also, this is the balcony, which amplifies the wobbling. The lower level are much more stable, and I switched to sitting in them shortly after taking this video despite the cramped leg room.

And this was probably the car closest to the engine, like the author of this article said to avoid. I usually sat up there because it was the least crowded.
Sleep masks are amazing. We got them for my family for a trip to Europe and now everyone uses them at home.
I don't think any serious deep-learning researchers believe that their artificial models represent the reality of how an actual brain (or even the individual neurons) actually work.

That's an idea, I believe, that has been perpetuated in the general public's mind by popular science articles and descriptions about deep learning and neural networks, in a (largely successful) attempt to attract and gain attention for the subject and those articles.

One thing that did capture my imagination from this new research, though, as applied to deep learning, is whether this would necessarily cause any change in actual deep learning models?

That is, even if the dendrites are performing more complex computations, does that change anything about the "standard" layered model of deep learning systems, or does one simply add more artificial neurons to the model to compensate (and thus, nothing is really gained)?

Finally - and I know this is not the focus of this research - this new understanding doesn't seemingly do anything to advance our knowledge of how actual brains and neurons learn; as mentioned elsewhere, our current artificial models implement "back propagation" for learning purposes. While that has been a radically successful method, even its creator (Hinton) believes it to be wrong (and is working toward a different model of so-called "capsule networks" in response). As far as I am aware, no form of back propagation has been found to be performed in natural brains or neural networks, so we really don't know how this aspect works. Plenty of competing theories and ideas have sprung up regarding this.

Hopefully one day we'll figure it out; I'm of the opinion that, like so many other things that have been discovered in the past, when we do figure it out, it will probably be something extremely simple and curious as to how it remained overlooked for so long.

I kinda have a thought or idea that its done via "societal feedback loops" - that is, brains talking/interacting with other brains - though how you integrate this with a feedforward system isn't apparent to me. I'm also certain, though, that this idea isn't something new or unique (and it very likely is wrong, too).
You think violating State Department information security procedures is not a big deal?
It's a riff on the "fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful" Warren Buffett quote.
Counter: what about the tension and potential community split when a fork starts getting popular?

I was there (as a user who closely followed development) during the nodejs > io.js split. While it worked out in the end, it felt like a bitter battle at first. Node survived by chance perhaps.

We have our async-std vs Tokio right now, I'd imagine having another split (at least in opinions and preference) on actix would still keep tension high.
You are just not used to Rust's syntax.
In my experience, Rust is much more readable than C, but that's probably because I actually wrote Rust code that is used in production while I only have a theoretical understanding of C.

It's only a matter of experience with the language.

And as the blog post mentioned, `unsafe` is actually necessary to interface with other languages, including C. Without that there's no way it would be able to catch on. Sure, it's a footgun, but it's probably the only one and, again, necessary. It's all about developer responsibility. Maybe to improve the situation we could make it so that when you add a crate cargo explicitly warns you about how many `unsafe`s there are.
It only makes sense if you don't comment it doesn't make sense.
I would be very surprised if the FAA and Canadian, western European civil aviation regulators don't require something functionally equivalent to being able to operate with 25% of the lift rotors dead or disabled (an even higher degree of redundancy than a four armed, coaxial eight motor/prop octocopter filming platform today, which can lose 1 out of 8 motors and likely land safely), plus also a ballistic parachute. Something like what is mounted in the top side of a Cirrus VisionJet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cirrus_Vision_SF50
Tito- very cool! Just looked through your website and your Indiegogo. I'm at the tail end of a PhD so don't have much disposable income at the moment, but will support it when I do.

Are you going to make planters again? I hope so! Even if you aren't, I'm curious what the price was for them.
From what I've seen in meditating both morning and night is that the purpose of morning meditation is to ground and focus, whereas for evening meditation is to relax and let go. Subtle difference in intent.
Precisely, thank you.
The largest stockholding entity in the state of California is CalSTRS (California State Teachers' Retirement System); the holdings[0] represent the 11th largest retirement fund in the world[1].

[1] https://www.calstrs.com/investments-overview

[0] https://www.pionline.com/article/20170904/INTERACTIVE/170839...
Sad, they should just delay it. One year crunch to finish Witcher 3? They should have better worker protection laws.
Bad Algorithms Didn't Break Democracy
I don't have a smart tv or a smart phone.

Last thing in the world I need is an Auto Alexa.
Severely off-topic but this is also how I feel about battling racism in America, but the general notion of systems vs specific agents was strongly reinforced for me by the Slovenian political writer Slavoj Zizek in a book of his after 9/11 wherein he remarks that Left politics were becoming more and more about targeting specific agents when the processes that motivate and constrain those agents (as well as our own) are so much more anonymous that its difficult for people to even parse the significance of.
Also seen it when searching for some how-tos. More than a few times. I thought it was brilliant, but now that you mention it: why doesn't this show up more often?
>the House sat on it for a year.

You mean worked on. Its not like it was ignored.
....we use paper ballots in Canada. What are you referring to?
Re: support.

We let our Android app lapse because their automated tools incorrectly picked up a compliance error. I couldn't figure out a way to escalate that--their support was crazy bad.

That led me to look harder at our revenue. Android was 1/10 of the revenue that iOS brings in, with much lower retention, higher support costs, higher rates of credit card disputes.

So that pretty much sealed the deal for us--there's no reason to invest in the Google ecosystem.
Found a working copy of the original Github issue: https://gist.github.com/mafrasi2/debed733781db4aba2a52620b67...

Aside from maybe the second to last comment, I don't see anything here that deserved deletion.
If you are trying to get people to use your project, understanding how those people perceive your project is step 1.
Tipping is an outdated social concept that needs eliminating. If my Costco cashier is a dick to me, I report that to his manager and he gets disciplined. If my Costco cashier is super slow, his manager notices and he improves or gets fired.

Now why does this whole incentive/reward model get flipped on its head when this person is delivering food to my table (or door)? If my DoorDash driver takes a long time, I have NO IDEA whether that's because traffic was bad, there was snow on the road, the restaurant was busy, etc. What is even the purpose of the tip?

I'm more and more convinced, especially after doing a 7-day cruise last week, that tips are kept in place by the establishment merely as a way to lower perceived prices. DoorDash wants to charge you $25 for something, but advertise that it only costs $20. DoorDash is in a much better place than I to detect patterns of performance in their employees, as are restaurant managers, haircut salons, the list goes on.

In the end, the world would be a better place without tips. Those most capable of monitoring service quality would be stuck with that responsibility, prices would be communicated transparently, and, above all, total prices wouldn't even change anyway!