skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Add to the fact, adherence to a fixed advanced sleep/wake schedule can lead to significant circadian phase shifts in adults with DSPD -- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S13899...

People are downplaying the extent to which habits and preferences have an impact. Staying in bed late will shift forward your circadian rhythm. Blue-light emitting electronics will suppress melatonin at night and raise cortisol.

Before the industrial revolution few were staying up all night regularly unless they were on night shift. Bright light and multimedia available at night changed.
I'm just looking around for this mystery 100 Gbps card. Think it'll work with Cat9?
I love the revolution that FreeCAD BIM and rest of https://community.osarch.org promises.

When I'm going to find an architect, that's going to make a project of my house, I will specifically look for companies that use FOSS software, even though it probably will narrow pool of available contractors by a lot. I mean it is going to be MY HOUSE, something I plan to live in for many years (in my case I like to wait longer, build a house exactly the way I want it, and live for the rest of life in it). I want to buy project and "own" the project in a sense to be able to open it and modify.

I also want to be able to simulate the heck out of MY future home before it's build. Using fast computers we have today I can try different sizes, shapes and properties of windows, walls and doors, adjust heating, cooling, plumbing, airflow, home automations and countless other things. I can see how the sun would enter the home (https://floyd.lbl.gov/radiance/) before foundations are laid. Sure, most people don't want to do that and that's okay. Most people also don't want to look at the source of programs they are using. I do and even when I don't, I love to have this possibility open.

I understand, that so far Autodesk dominated the architecture software, but since they are moving/moved to subscription-based plans I hope that more and more architects will move away from subscription-based software. For their own good. I wouldn't gamble tools of my trade on something that can be taken away from me any moment and hope they also wouldn't.

FreeCAD BIM & company work to make it possible and for that I am very grateful. It would be great if in next decades we would have something like open source catalogue of great solutions in home building.
I'm not even gay and I thought the man was sexy!
it might be Mystic Towers?
I tried to address that in a comment below but you both made it clearer.

It's hard to keep a neutral yet supportive stance toward others. We react or overreact due to our psychology and education (and mood at the time) but it can backfire.

I think this should be discussed because it's highly valuable for everybody .. both personally and for society as a wohle.
Every time it happens I imagine Nigel Tufnel was worldwide emperor at some point and just said, "Well, it's one later, isn't it?" And everybody just said, "Huh".

And here we are.
Note that Matt Walker has fallen from grace, at least on HN. His book "Why we sleep" used to be widely recommended around here, but there appear to be very serious scientific shortcomings affecting some of the information he presents.

See e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21546850

That is not to say he's wrong on every count, but take what he says with a huge grain of "might have been invented/fudged and then cited from and by himself" salt.
Thanks for mentioning us. The core idea of Dark is "can we take away steps and so reduce accidental complexity", which is very much in line with OP's point that we're stuck in an old way of writing software. I think the live programming that's allowed in Dark really changes how people can write code.
I was sorely disappointed by Lewis's Space Trilogy. The entire trilogy could be summed up as follows: "And God smote his enemies." Three books building up to a final conflict, and in the end it feels like one side wasn't even needed, since God takes care of it anyway.

To boot, his use of allegory on Perelandra was just hideous. If you're going to make an allegory, you don't have a character explain the allegory while it's in progress!
The only stats I have seen on this show that the autopilot reduces the rate of collisions. So it's not really a product that kills people, but the opposite. The stats came from Tesla, though, so I can't rule out the possibility that they are incorrect.
Jupyter notebooks are language agnostic - different languages are supported by different kernels.

That's why they renamed the project from "IPython notebooks" to "Jupyter notebooks" - it was to reflect that they weren't just for Python any more.
Sway is the only Wayland compositor to supports freesync
I non-ironically refer to it as “we hate parents” day. Since the benefits are imaginary it seems like an easy win relative to the costs.
Enzo Mari, Industrial Designer Who Kept Things Simple, Dies at 88
I've always liked this novel for its depiction of people whose justification for tyranny is "improving society", regardless of how the members of society feel about being improved.
It's always worth bearing in mind that Google literally doesn't care.

If you're not someone who can directly generate significant bad PR for them, you effectively don't exist.
A lawyer set himself on fire to protest climate change. Did anyone care? (2019)
This time.

How about next time?

Fact checking became a thing less for facts and more as an attack tool.

I’ve been part of as agencies. They go out of their way to make sure their is only one viewpoint on anything that gets ad dollars.

Makes it difficult for other side to run a media company if they can’t get advertising dollars.
Why the PDF Is the Most Important File Format
> I do not have a fucking disorder! I just sleep differently!

It seems to me that if the issue is classified as medical disorder, it may have some advantages in relation with society, e.g. requirement for employers to accommodate it.

It is generally much stronger position than 'it is just my preference'.
In my mind, I was listing the Connery movies that I liked and I completely forgot The Man Who Would Be King. I love that movie! Along with Michael Caine and Saeed Jaffrey as Billy Fish, it really shows a fun side to him.
> Postgres will probably lose more data in your case when the application developer doesn't handle the exception for a text field too long, and loses the whole row. (If you're an application developer, you should audit your code now.)

The thing is, you'll noisily lose your data, which is far more likely to be caught and corrected. Even the most roughly put together web app is probably going to have some mechanism to alert about server-side production errors.

> A well-written application using Postgres would have to truncate the data before insert, achieving the same result as having MySQL auto-truncation, but with more initial and on-going maintenance effort in the case of Postgres.

Not necessarily - you could alert the user that they need to provide less data, or mitigate it in some other way (maybe storing a summary and the full version in a blob somewhere).
Yes it should but it doesn't... a new carrier would probably be the easiest option.
As a grain farmer I cannot imagine what kind of farmer is worried about the wall clock. For us, the only thing that determines if we work or not is the weather. Maybe the only advantage I have noticed is that the parts dealership is open an hour later if we have a breakdown. However, we're also not yet done for the year and won't be before we go back to standard time, so that falls apart for our late season work anyway.

Further, if the UK is anything like my country, only ~2% of the population are farmers, so even if they did all object the 98% wouldn't care and move forward anyway.
In the article is missing how many percentages of people are bothered. Since the benefits for the rest are quite big.

Since 8 hour jet lag requires only a night worst case two of sleep to adapt, why is this 1 hour such a big deal.
Show HN: Web scraping that just works with OpenFaaS with Puppeteer
The enormous potential of social media to measure human culture
As someone skilled in the RF space but not the audiophile space -- why are audio DACs still a focus for innovation? The bandwidth, linearity, isolation, and jitter requirements all seem quite modest and distant from the edges of what's possible along every performance axis. Is it linearity at high power that's still a problem? With feedback techniques available, I wouldn't think so, but I could certainly be missing something. What's the sticking point?

Or is this more of a marketing game of adding hiss / distortion / lowpass / other non-idealities that perceptually improve quality and convincing people to use your DAC to do it rather than software? It seems a bit unlikely.

If I had to guess, it would be that the narrowly defined task of a DAC has been thoroughly solved and commodified while the high end of the space differentiates itself with industrially relevant features like failover, monitoring, durability, and compatibility. But then why the interest in a DIY DAC? Maybe I'm reading too much into this, it's all curiosity driven, and I shouldn't interpret a desire for DIY DACs as a statement that audio DACs aren't a solved problem.
It is truly amazing the lengths to which people like you will continue to lie and dissemble for the sake of this false narrative. Not surprising really, but just sad.

The emails that have been verified are bush league vague messages that lack even verification that they went anywhere but straight to the spam folder. Where are the responses indicating the messages were read? Where is the DKIM on any of the emails that suggest impropriety? Oh yeah, you don't have any. No one is moving goalposts, we are clearly stating that you haven't made any forward progress at all and are nowhere near scoring any points.

The best part of all of this is that you and all of the other little Trumpkins have wasted so much social capital pimping these dumb conspiracy theories that the rest of us can easily ignore you going forward. As unpleasant as the past four years have been, one minor upside to the experience is that it revealed many of the truly deplorable among us.
Where do you suppose its running then? Its pure market segmentation with AMD dictating what runs where

totally incompatible: https://www.itworldcanada.com/article/amd-zen-3-processors-w...

erm, we means totally compatible!!1: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-reverses-course-will-e...

"chipset" nowadays is just a pcie device providing legacy ports (USB 2.0, additional USB 3, SATA, HDA audio controller, PCIe bridge, I2C, SPI, LPC, bunch of GPIOs).
Maybe I should be ashamed of myself, but I even liked that movie :)

At the same time I felt that Sean's lines were jusy too predictable, that took away a lot from the performance.
> 5. https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im if I want
> a TUI. This is closest to what you were asking for.

Thank you! Yes, this seems to be almost perfect. I cannot believe that there is no "arbitrary string search" feature, but I can grep in another terminal window at least.

Thank you.
You're assuming eggs need to be broken in the first place, which is not at all proven. There are more options than what Tesla is doing - just look at Waymo as a counterexample of actually prioritizing safety over public release speed.
This bit was very interesting:

"This last month we also had a hectic turnover, because Autodesk changed the terms of the free version of their Fusion360. There is a full load of new limitations that restrain much the use for personal/hobby users. For example, the g-code you export from Fusion360 to CNC machines (that cut objects out of a block of material), is now making the machine running slower (and therefore raising the production costs), for no apparent reason other than nagging the users into buying a subscription. As a result, we saw a massive migration of users to FreeCAD, and it's really thrilling to see people discovering FreeCAD and learning it and liking it."

Seems also to be reflected in contributions: https://twitter.com/FreeCADNews/status/1321931951658422284

"We'd like to take a moment to congratulate all the new devs that are stepping up lately to submit fixes for the #FreeCAD project. Thx for leaning in! The commit log is becoming quite diverse and exciting to follow"
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In case you haven't been actively following development, there's now a "template" repository with the framework and a minimal core, so you don't have to figure out which ZX Spectrum bits to hack out:

https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Template_MiSTer
Virus is too small to be contained by masks that were never meant to be used for this purpose.

They have no virus filter.

Biohazard suit will help you with virus. This masks wont.

masks alone have no significant effect in interrupting the spread of ILI or influenza in the general population, nor in healthcare workers:
https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/masking-lack-of-evidence-with-...
Why Dark Mode Matters
Lack of a common API is a problem even inside OSs. Here's Windows: http://shanekirk.com/2015/10/a-brief-history-of-windows-audi...

And I disagree that it's deadly simple... Even sound synthesis (where it's "just math") is very hard, because you have to watch out for aliasing. Same if you're changing pitch or doing anything other than playing back a WAV.

Also, it's hard-realtime, which limits the programming languages you can use. Then, if you're not using the OS audio mixer (lots of different reasons not to), you gotta do the mixing yourself, which is another can of worms.
I think so. This is a good start for sure
Should everyone on HN have the same opinion, didn’t get that memo?

Nothing is 100% safe. By your logic we’d have no medicine, have you ever read the side effects of some medicines.
Hey everyone-
I am one of the co-instructors for this course (Michael Hilton). Thanks for all the comments! I’m happy to answer any questions about the class, and I’m always looking for suggestions on ways to make the class better: AMA!
While certainly Greenwald's article could have been improved, this was an opinion piece and it seems clear that his editors wanted not just greater clarity but a different opinion. Using the code review analogy, the editors wanted not just cleaner code, but an entirely different result. As the author of the spec (his own opinion) Greenwald felt this was unwarranted. Had they restricted themselves to helping him better express his preexisting opinion, I don't think he would have "refused to be edited".

How do you feel about Matt Taibbi's defense of Greenwald's actions? While "censor" might not be the right word, Taibbi seems to agree with Greenwald that the editors' pushback went far beyond editing for clarity: Finally, when an editor lays out “suggestions” about things that might “help” a piece “be even stronger,” it’s a signal both parties understand about what elements have to be put in before the editor will send the thing through.

https://taibbi.substack.com/p/glenn-greenwald-on-his-resigna...

(I've seen your comments in the other threads, and appreciate your insight)
Are you concerned about privacy on a video chat platform?
Mother nature doesn't handicap for overpopulation.

The earth has a carrying capacity, locally, regionally and globally, and a high population density does nothing to increase it.
How is that censorship if he signed a contract saying he wouldn't publish for any other outlet?

Haven't you worked for companies that disallow you from working for anyone else without prior approval?
What Bitcoin’s White Paper Got Right, Wrong and What We Still Don’t Know (2018)
Airlines Generate Revenue
Sean Connery, James Bond actor, dies aged 90
It clearly isn’t. Everybody should ask themselves, “How often do I have a near-miss on the road that another human in the car with me prevented by warning me?”

I’ve had that happen a few times in the decades I’ve been driving. It appears to be a regular occurrence in this software.
This is precisely Orwell's objection to the end of _That Hideous Strength_, in the review which is linked.

(On the other hand, if that's literally all you took away from reading it, then you missed all of the parts which Orwell found engaging and which he ran with in _1984_.)
Greenwald’s story did damage Bolsonaro’s reputation, but I don’t think it had much to do with Lula’s release.
The virus spreads with water droplets exhaled and coughed by the body. Those droplets are big enough to be contained by the masks.
AbstractAPI uncannily comes up with my neighbourhood while others are just the city.

Wrong city: Maxmind, KeyCDN, ipdata, IP-API,

Failed to fetch: ipinfo, ipgeolocation, HostIP.info
Tesla stats are extremely misleading and deliberately slanted toward favoring Tesla. Unfortunately, it's not really possible to find real stats since they're hidden by individual OEMs and insurance companies. But you would need to compare comparably priced modern cars with standard ADAS features to Teslas with Autopilot to get a datapoint worth talking about for the general case. You would also need to look at where Autopilot is engaged (mostly highways where accidents are rare in general) vs. not engaged (mostly city streets where accidents are common) to draw any real conclusions about safety.
If it wasn’t for Twitter, I too might think that Hunter Biden was just getting a cushy job similar to, say, Bush’s daughter getting a job at the Smithsonian Design Museum. It might not occur to me that of all the jobs he could have landed, these just happened to be big money deals in China and Ukraine, where Joe Biden was active in foreign policy - negotiating trade deals and firing financial fraud prosecutors - that seemed to involve a lot of free money for the Biden family. It might not strike me as corrupt, and I might not notice that the press are clinically uninterested in finding out more, or even asking the Bidens to clear things up.
This is terrible advice.

I ended three decades of migraines by following advice that they were triggered by food allergies to gluten and corn.
Industrial automation that runs the world at large in thousands of ways isn't 100% safe under normal circumstances, much less "all" and yet we have almost entirely automated elevators, high voltage relays, medical equipment, nuclear reactors, autopiloted airplanes, and gas powered furnaces, to name just a few.

Most of this automation operates under certain assumptions about its environment and in some cases shuts itself down in a controlled fashion to fail safe in ways that may not be available to cars on roads, but these are not new ethical dilemmas.

But to pick just one example, automated saw stops and controllers aren't 100% effective at preventing injuries, but they're still a huge safety improvement over the human population at large just winging it.
See this[1] paper.

Bugs can still occur of course, but if one restricts oneself to valid manipulations the bugs will be found in the specification and reflected in the code. It's not a magic bullet, and that's one of the reasons TLA+ was invented, it helps with complexity on the specification side. However a method like the one Dijkstra shows in the referenced paper can be used to faithfully implement the TLA+ checked specification.

[1] https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~crary/819-f09/Dijkstra75.pdf
> only to be available for free now

Not legally. I doubt very much the copyright holders of all of these games have allowed their use in this manner.
Kind of similar? I've woken up under NO2/Desflurane 2 times in my life and another time had NO2 just didn't seem to have much effect. After the first time I've made it a point to tell the anthesoilogists of my previous experience but with no personal record it just keeps recurring.

Litocane seems to metabolize or otherwise fade in effect faster in me too than what most dentists expect but at least they listen.
Deep Learning and the Compute Divide in Artificial Intelligence Research
There are other mini-TCLs like TH1: https://fossil-scm.org/xfer/doc/trunk/www/th1.md

Maybe the TCL community keeps track of them somewhere?
That's called "different timezones", which we know how to deal with. (Although there is a certain attraction to everybody observing UTC.)
I agree. The President’s son, a prominent figure in the right, shouldn’t be comparing Democrats to Nazis. Surely that would upset you.

=="You see the Nazi platform in the early 1930s and what was actually put out there ... and you look at it compared to like the DNC platform of today, and you're saying, man, those things are awfully similar, to a point where it's actually scary," Trump Jr. said.==

https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/02/politics/donald-trump-jr-dine...

Also, there was the time the President called people who cross the southern border as “rapists”.

== They're sending people that have lots of problems...they're bringing drugs, they're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.==

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/election-2016-donald-trump-defe...
> Legal : If you sell it as a drive assist and not a driver replacement, you're off the hook, with a high probability

In Germany they lost a case about their Autopilot advertisement. So not even legally they are in the clear.
If you want the amount of data necessary you do need miles driven. The millions of extra miles may very well be what it takes to put tesla over the edge. Sure you can do that in a controlled environment, but it would take a lot longer, and people would die in the mean time.
Yes, if I didn't know better I'd say someone is trying to create news.
What else not 100% safe shouldn't be allowed? Passenger planes? Cars in general? Cancer medicine?

Why wouldn't a community of engineers welcome a statistical improvement over meat drivers?
SpaceX will ‘make its own laws on Mars’
Yes! I want tools that do that optimization for us! Better compilers/languages, but with more opportunities for optimizations. Even if it takes a long time to compile I think for most software this would make a lot of sense as it is used much longer than a couple days/weeks.
Seems Harvard scientists debunked this idea back in 1999?

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/1999/07/human-biologi...
It’s time to go beck to solar time; optimal for health, and in the age of digital assistants, totally doable.
A new spin on atoms gives scientists a closer look at quantum weirdness
America had this issue before these sites came up.

Ignoring this will make a single individual better, but that will only leave you back at square one - which is being at the mercy of the America news media environment.

For an individual this may be the right call, for the scope and scale of the issue being discussed in this article, it doesn’t seem like it.
There was no standard to begin with - switching to happens on different dates in different countries.
Considering the fact that battery storage would need to undergo several orders of magnitude in price reduction to provide true grid-scale storage, does this really matter? Battery storage is, at best, going to provide municipal load for minutes or maybe hours, but it is unlikely to cover a 24-48 hour power ebb anytime in the next few decades.
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I’m trying to think of a comparison and I can’t come up with one. Something where we’ve relinquished control to something else that we’ve designed. Maybe trusting robots to build the cars themselves or something akin to that.

Either way, it’s definitely new territory for us. I am sure there will be debates on this forever but I foresee reasonable arguments by both sides.
If technology is required to be 100% safe under all circumstances, then why aren't humans held to the same standard? For humans, we have a driving test that measures readiness for driving. It includes a margin of error for new drivers and there's also an expectation new drivers suck more than experienced ones (e.g., indirectly via higher insurance rates).

I'm having a hard time understanding your position as to why the technology should not be allowed, even if it were to perform statistically better than humans. Is this more of a philosophical perspective?