skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You may be on to something with the smoke campaigns. Maybe there could be some campaigning directly for sleep quality.

For example, I sometimes smoke "socially", sometimes up to half a pack during a night out. I never perceived it as "catastrophic", just as you say people don't perceive not sleeping enough as catastrophic. I would bet a lot of people don't feel like dying after smoking a cigarette or ten. The point is that maybe those campaigns do work, even when the issue isn't perceived as "critical" by the people. It could be launched as an education campaign, for the long haul.

Another thing which helped me a lot with sleep quality is exercise. And this is something for which there already are campaigns, at least in France, and from what I see it becomes more and more common to see people advocating for it. However, I don't see those campaigns talk about the effect of exercise on sleep.

When I started lifting some weights (nothing much, just a bunch of dumbbell exercises in my apartment) and going for short, light runs (around 30 minutes around my neighborhood) I noticed my sleep quality had improved enormously. A few weeks in, I actually started to sleep less than before. Went from around 7-8 hours and having a hard time waking up to around 6 hours and waking up refreshed and without an alarm.

So what I found out was that exercise actually turned out to be "free" from a time standpoint. But the overall levels of energy during the day went through the roof. Of course, the first two to three weeks were hard, especially waking up in the morning, but it was worth it.
TL,Dr : knowledgeable, skilled programmers writing semi-confidential software in C for mostly a single OS, by themselves, with total control of the feature set and release schedule, can produce pretty fast binaries.

Which is great ! I just don't know how to transfer that to building software as a team with multiple skillsets, unknown feature set (because market feet is still searched for) aggressive schedule, (We don't know what we want to build , but we need it in six months), large target audience ("what do you mean they have to install stuff ? Where is the link I can paste in an email so they open it in IE6 ?") , and,let's be honest, less knowledgable and more lazy developers.

(To be clear : I'm not criticizing the network or project. I just find it interesting that they had a goal - making fast software - and that, to the ebest of my knowledge and without a rigorous analysis - it seems that most projects converged on a very particular kind of software. Which just happens not to be the kind most of us will ever be working on, but it does not matter. Go them !)
Yep, 10 out of 10 of those "IoT frameworks" unequivocally qualify as epic fails.

As of recently, I had to work on Microsoft Azur IOT. Their "embedded" library doesn't even load into memory if you are not plugging in an external ram on the most beefy MCU on the market. It takes 1mb+ to do a very, very basic HTTP+TLS+JSON parsing. And even this way, it often triggers watchdog on moderately long transfers.

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On a sidenote, had a conversation one time with an ex-webdev in the setting of developing for MCUs:

— "How did you get it to 1MB?"

— "I shortened the strings, and removed the dead code!"

— "No, I mean, how did you manage to get it past that 1MB?"

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It's quite hard finding experienced non-webdevs in general these days, but among those, the number of people who can do C for embedded (and under embedded I mean bare metal, not Linux on SBC) is so low that we can say that real embedded devs have pretty much went extinct.
The games are completely different though, Factorio is a base builder game, Human Resource Machine is a coding game.
https://www.coursera.org/learn/discrete-optimization

> This class is an introduction to discrete optimization and exposes students to some of the most fundamental concepts and algorithms in the field. It covers constraint programming, local search, and mixed-integer programming from their foundations to their applications for complex practical problems in areas such as scheduling, vehicle routing, supply-chain optimization, and resource allocation.
Open Architecture with no black boxes. Total control over your system of the kind we used to take for granted before the Intel Management Architecture days. Very focussed on throughput and centralised operation (for example homomorphic encryption and encrypted memory to forestall snooping).

And yes, when used ‘correctly’, these systems can be very fast... in the steady marathon kind of way rather than the spasmodic sprint-racer clock-boosting-and-throttling manner of today’s mainline chips.
Think of it as a simulation of a load of event emitters / consumers, but you don't have to think about them yourself, allowing you to focus on hooking them up and solving issues like starvation or congestion all the time.
Your post is mostly right. I haven't read the article itself (paywall) but I already knew about this particular issue through work.

You've touched on a lot of the "pull" factors that cause the Baltic states to connect to the EU. There are however a few geopolitical "push" factors that cause Baltic states (particularly Lithuania) from staying dependent upon connections to Russia.

The Lithuanian grid has been able to rely on energy from Russia due to the Kaliningrad enclave being dependent upon the Lithuanian grid. Russia has recently been making investments into making Kaliningrad energy independent. If this is achieved, Russia no longer has a vested interest in the security of the Lithuanian grid.

Given the history of alleged Russian sabotage of Lithuanian infrastructure (other than electrical), there is considerable fear that once Kaliningrad is energy independent that Russia may sabotage the Lithuanian grid. Therefore Lithuania is rushing to connect to the EU grid before Kaliningrad achieves self-sufficiency.
Damn, this place looks amazing, it looks like El Dorado in a sea of despair, for someone being used to make the same points than this manifesto and being looked as a weirdo in response.

Sadly they block Tor users, because they use Cloudflare. Maybe we're not that much on the same page after all.
It's so various news orgs can just publish it in all or part with no editing.
There are nevertheless reasons to consider Librem 5: https://forums.puri.sm/t/comparing-specs-of-upcoming-linux-p...
We have consciousness because our brain tells us we do. Establishing anything beyond this is futile.

Consciousness sounds like an extremely beneficial evolutionary trait to me. Imagine an "unconscious human" who shares the same body as us but the brain thinks it can't think, thinks it is dead, thinks that nothing it senses is alive or real including itself and its own thoughts. That unconscious human can definitively exist as an organism but it would have a hard time to coexist in a community of humans.

Please don't nitpick the usage of the word "think" because I'm referring to "machine style" thinking. A computer can think without being conscious.
Can confirm sibling's observation.

I find it much easier to fall asleep when the light is redder. Even for example when reading a book, if there's a lot of bright light in the room I will have a much harder time falling asleep.

I've noticed that if I wake up for some reason at night and turn the lights on, if the light is bluer it will tend to wake me up completely, whereas a red light will allow me to stay "sleepy" and fall back asleep quicker.
Your First 90 Days as CTO
I know you re probably joking, but please mind Poe's law.

For the uninitiated, yeah, some dies can die during dicing. But I think you'd have trouble finding the cracks, and then it's just infeasible to precisely cut both halves where they would need to be cut, then reattach them. The issues would be the cut thickness, not damaging the circuits near it, precisely aligning the circuits, and then electrically connecting the circuits.

Alignment is probably the hardest part, we can barely do it for flip-chip wafers/silicon interposers on the order of the µm, imagine doing it at less than 7nm, which is the transistor pitch here.
The third person is standard format for press releases. It’s so that journalists can copy bits verbatim without having to rewrite who did what.
“There have been two key pieces of information used to produce estimated grades: how students have been ranked in ability and how well their school or college has performed in exams in recent years.”

“there was no direct connection between an individual's prior achievement and their predicted grade.”

Who wrote this algorithm and can we see it?
> custom silicon optimized for WASM

I doubt it. Like Java, WASM is intended to be used with an optimising JIT compiler. It doesn't make sense to try to implement Java or WASM directly in hardware.

ARM used to offer Jazelle, which could run Java bytecode directly on the CPU. It's now long dead. It makes more sense to use a sophisticated optimising JIT to produce efficient machine-code, than to make hardware to directly run an unoptimised IR.
> And if they did omit the search results their argument that they treat content fairly falls apart.

Why? That's just the same as respecting robots.txt, isn't it?
I have taken a reading, in controlled conditions (in the shade of a berm next to an earthen road, digital thermometer accurate to +-0.1C), of 54.2C - admittedly over dust rather than vegetation, but there was no vegetation. I’d been collecting all sorts of data along our route (started from the U.K.), mostly just for the sake of it.

This was in the Kazakh steppes, in 2012, about 100km NW of Aralsk - it was under 20% rh, and the heat was just unbearable - it took us tens of litres of water each per day to replenish sweat, just sitting on our asses in a car with no a/c. The dashboard melted. The glue in the headliner melted, and dripped down the walls. The grip on the steering wheel sloughed off, and the gear shift head glue melted, and that fell off too. At the end of the day, we had an uncomfortably hot shower with the remaining water that had been sat in the car with us.

54C, when measured as an accurate temperature, manifested as 60C on the thermometer in the car, which was its maximum, as it had shown that for several days before the LCD also melted.

So yes, take the apocryphal tales of high temperatures with a big pinch of salt, as most will be overreported, but I can vouch that this particular temperature isn’t entirely unprecedented on Earth - what is worrying is that it is now frequent enough that it is being observed, rather than just being a random nutter in the dust with a penchant for data.
Source? Because each CEO affects many people. So it sounds like you just made that up. Meanwhile, I provided a source that shows higher crime rates when there are higher wage gaps. Where are those wage gaps coming from? Please provide sources, not your own reasoning.
> to change your IMEI

Not exactly the same, but in Librem 5 you can at least replace the whole modem.
Yeah, it's simple if you've already exploited the target's computer...
Do *s represent flags in this diagram? If so then you can proceed because the 1 and 3 at the top are both saturated, so the two cells below them are safe.
That's exactly the point: is it possible? From my understandings, GPU allows massive parallel matricial calculations but that's not the case for mutations and crossovers (which involves random selection of mutate gene). Even so complex fitness functions (that are based on mathematical operation that takes into account more data per point like a moving average) couldn't be converted to matricial calculus.
> Lithuania had to shut down Ignalina nuclear power plant, this was a required condition from the EU or Lithuania wouldn't be able to join the Union

> which is funny, 40% of Sweden's power comes from nuclear

I think the issue there was that this was RBMK-type reactors, which is the same type as in Chernobyl, and it is generally considered unsafe, even with the safety upgrades that was done to it.
It isn't zero day now but it was for at least two years. That rather stretches the definition of zero day but for two years Windows machines have been vulnerable to something nasty that was known about.
Not the GP, but I'm guessing they prefer static sites simply because they are much more difficult to hack or compromise in some way. There's no database to defend from injection attacks, etc.
I've spent so much time in Factorio, I'm sure I'll fire it up again at some point soon now that it's finally hit 1.0. I mean in my opinion it was "done" years ago in that it was a good game, the only thing that might improve it would be a better tutorial, story mode, or more 'endgame' things to reach for (I'd love a technology tree beyond satellites, I'm sure there's mods for that), and / or for the early game to be less tedious; maybe offer an option to have a starter base laid out already, needing some basic repairs. Or as I've seen in the trailer released recently, the crashed ship; have that act as an early game processing plant and source of materials and electricity which you can eventually deconstruct once you've got everything up and running.
> 1969

Nice.

My career started around age 10, as I published my first page online. It was built on a pirated copy of Claris HomePage. Thanks, Claris!
- Satisfactory

Factorio but in 3d.
That's the price you pay for being lazy and using closed, proprietary technologies and acting on their marketing. Like GCP and AWS were the only clouds there. Like you had to have everything hosted by them under "planet-scale" buzzword.
That’s nothing. While nowhere near as severe there’s an ansi padding bug in SQLserver when doing replication that they refuse to fix for going on 10+ years now iirc
Goodness gracious. That's dreadful and exactly what I feared the effect of that rule would be were it followed strictly. It looks like a hacky workaround to an unnecessary problem.
@HN: If you use the word 'degrees' please add F or C to indicate which scale you are referring to. Many here are from the US and would interpret it as degrees Fahrenheit while many others read it as degrees Celsius.
In theory a tech-competent judge could enforce laws to be closer to technical reality.
Maybe, in that case giving them a possible vehicle to defend themselves shouldn't pose a problem. And that includes holding parents and practitioners accountable.
I'd vote they just delist news.com.au. It's a PIA when some search returns tags.news.com.au that is blocked by pihole.
It's a cesspit of news biased news anyway. Sure, other newspapers are biased as hell and many just a voice for some ignorant opinion or blind agenda, but they are quaint in the naivety. News.com.au is an organised propaganda machine.
If training a language model was "unremarkable" we wouldn't have a hypefest everytime anyone releases a new model, with a catchy name no less. BERT, ROBERTA, GPT-2/3/... etc. are remarkable enough for their creators to write papers exclusively for the purpose of announcing the model and describing the architecture used to train it etc.

In any case, I don't remember anyone ever naming their n-gram models or HMMs etc. The reason for this of course is that training a language model with a deep neural network architecture is anything but unremarkable, not least because the costs in data, human-hours and compute are beyond the reach of most entities other than large corporate teams. If training a new model from scratch were truly "unremarkable" we'd all have our own.
Looks like about 10k USD for the POWER9 recommended config

https://secure.raptorcs.com/content/TL2WK2/purchase.html
Magic Bytes and Security: When file categorisation goes wrong
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/320/
I'm hoping to see something similar in London. I've already moved out of my flat share to live with parent. Hoping to move out of London all together. Thinking of moving to Bristol or Cornwall
The author seems to mostly care about the native performance in a sandboxed environment.
> Scientists have found that the intensity, duration and frequency of heat waves worldwide are increasing due to human-caused climate change. A 2019 study found the planet has entered a “new climate regime” with “extraordinary” heat waves that global warming is worsening.

they're definitely making the connection.

did you read the article?
A thermometer against the wall doesn't have free airflow, is typically higher than 1.5 metres above the groud, and may or may not be in the shade; all these will typically account for more error compared to standard conditions (typically provided by a Stevenson screen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevenson_screenhttps://en.wik...) than miscalibration.
I had a similar experience. For the month or so I was hooked, I felt attached in a way I haven't felt to a video game since I was a teenager. It almost felt sad when my interest dropped, like I lost something valuable.
British people? I'd kill for a local place that regularly served Sunday roast with a Yorkshire pudding. There was one in my city for a while but sadly it was at the edge and they didn't sell enough to keep it up, as such roasts need to be prepared a long way in advance, so you had to pre-order.

Always love to grab myself one when I'm in the UK though.

Discovered the other day a restaurant that sells afternoon cream teas - perfect!
Drew Roos wrote this code to calculate the exact probabilities: https://github.com/mrgriscom/minesweepr/
If you run an HPC cluster, I'd have thought you have to talk to vendors as a matter of course, but I assume there's no point yet. At least one UK vendor will sell you AC922s (POWER9), I guess as one-off, if you wanted.
Golang bug: for range loop reading past slice end
Rimworld and Prison Architect come to mind; they both deal with workers and tasks spread out over the map.

Transport Tycoon and similar games also come to mind. Recent iterations are things like Mashinsky.

Democracy (3) might fit.
I've wondered for quite some time why not triangles or hexagons. I guess the yield (percentage of wafer thrown away) improvements would be minimal. Plus, the temperature is often better controlled at the center, which would make the edge parts less performant anyway.

That's the other advantages of chiplet design: maximize yield (a small defect renders a much smaller chip unusable), and much more granular binning (easier to sort out good/worse chips, due to placement and random issues during fabrication). Not to mention you have a much more modular design at the end, where you only have to change the cheaper (not 7nm) silicon interposer.
Australia ain't a nice country. We moved away partially because of rampant racism.
Predatory journal accepts fake story about scooters and hydroxychloroquine
I suspect many people do but just don't (yet) realise that there's an alternative.
Doesn't GCS over Power as a platform? Likely to only deep pocketed customers but iirc they did a partnership a while back.

yup -- not turn key at all -- "contact sales" but it exists: https://cloud.google.com/ibm
I don't have the reference, but I am pretty sure that in order to meet requirements for type-approval (e.g. FCC approval in the US) phones have to show they are resistant to IMEI modification.
California’s Blackout Warning. Renewable mandates cause electricity shortages
I can absolutely believe that. I'm a relatively recent transplant to a new country and though I fall into your category A and am nowhere near fluent, I could conduct basic daily affairs (ordering at restaurants, pay bills at a post office, make basic appointments) in about 2 months or so of being here. I think adults don't give themselves enough credit in language learning.
does anybody have a link to amazon product page for caregivers?

i seem to have run short on these
I moved out of SF in March. Not because of the virus, I just had a long-planned move (to London) with interesting timing.

Unlike many of my tech peers, I love San Francisco and the Bay Area. It's a beautiful city and surrounded in all directions by even more beautiful places. The food, music, and art scenes are all amazing. Oh and it happens to have near-unlimited job options for my career of choice.

The only reason I wasn't thinking about buying and staying forever was because the economy there makes absolutely no sense. Housing prices are out of control and the stock is of pretty low quality. Food, drink, and entertainment prices are also super high with no low end at all. NYC might be just as expensive but you can still get a dollar slice of pizza if you want it. You know SF is bad when all I could think in my first month in central London was "wow it's so cheap here".

If things come down to earth a little bit, even if it's still a Top-3 most expensive city in the US, I think I'll go back to SF and stay there.

And I think the current exodus is a win-win. People who were only there because their jobs forced them to be there were the source of a lot of the natives-vs-techies clashes which made the environment seem hostile at times.
I note you want to support table markup in HTML but you don't want to support table layout in CSS. How are tables supposed to be rendered then?
Wait, there's a timer involved? I always ignore those.
> Open Architecture with no black boxes.

How do you reconcile this comment with the one from
reacharavindh?

What use is the "Open Architecture" part if they're super expensive (ok, maybe you can ignore this part) and you have to go through sales representatives for a simple sale?

Those are still barriers to entry, even if they're not technical.
Excerpt:

[O]ther states are managing to keep power flowing. Why can’t California?

California last experienced rolling blackouts in 2001 amid energy market manipulation by speculators. This time the cause is energy market manipulation by anti-fossil fuel politicians. Democrats have mandated that renewables account for 60% of state electricity by 2030, which has forced power providers to invest in renewable energy sources now to meet the deadline. The result is something of a Rube Goldberg physics experiment.

During peak daylight hours, California produces a surplus of solar energy, and power generators may be ordered or paid to cut back their production so the grid isn’t overloaded. On Friday and Saturday Caiso reported about 1,000 mega-watt hours (MWh) were curtailed—enough to power 30,000 homes. This year 1.3 million MWh of power have been curtailed.

But this means supply shortages can occur in the evening when solar energy plunges but demand for power remains high. That’s what happened this weekend. Many natural gas and nuclear plants that can generate power 24/7 have shut down in recent years because they can’t compete with heavily subsidized green energy. A 10-year-old natural gas power plant in California’s Inland Empire is being decommissioned this year—20 to 30 years earlier than its planned lifespan.

State water regulations are also forcing the shutdown of “peaker” plants along the coast that can quickly ramp up generation when the sun goes down. This is why the Public Utilities Commission last year warned the state could face an energy shortage as early as 2021 on hot summer evenings. That day has arrived a year early.
The remarkable ES6 spread operator
I didn't install anything per se, but gained access to my colleague's machine remotely and would play very subtle audio messages in his headphones whilst he was listening to music. Was amusing to watch his facial expressions. I also messed with the volume every now and then and once went a bit crazy and he sussed it out.
So what? Democracy isn’t a sacrament, it doesn’t sanctify the government. Hitler was democratically elected. Democracy does not have moral valence as such.
> Essentially, students lucky enough to be in private education were more likely to see their grades go up / stay the same, compared to students receiving free education seeing grades going down.

Students in “private” schools get a better quality of education than those receiving “free” education. And it isn't free, we pay for it through taxation. And over here the “private” schools are called “public”. While the public schools are called comprehensive.