skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As some parents would attest: some babies sleep a lot. They all wake up a lot :)
My friends mother used to be a dentist, she would go to sleep very early. Then wake up in the middle of the night, do som paperwork and go to sleep again. Sounded very intersting.
The CDC and WHO are still spouting off about cleaning surfaces without, to my knowledge, one single well-documented case of surface transmission.
On linux you can create a network namespace exposing only the wireguard network device, so that applications in that namespace cannot leak traffic. Setting this up, however, is quite fiddly in my experience.
If cars had no externalities just building more and more roads would probably be a good strategy. But cars have high externalised costs. There is of course the environmental aspect and accidents, but, perhaps less obvious, due to poor space utilization, more car infrastructure makes cars all but required since density becomes so low that walking or cycling are right out and public transport has no chance of being remotely cost-efficient (or convenient, who wants to walk ten minutes through a parking lot to reach the store after getting there by bus?)
And nothing brings in the money like political clickbait.
Then make a dedicated fall detector and sell it to the elderly. They already make wrist bands with panic buttons that phone for help, put the sensor in the phone hub just in case they fall and lose consciousness.
> We have a root project that's fully CMake, that orchestrates our sub libraries (also using CMake, declared with ExternalProject_Add)

well, those are not sub-libraries but external projects with their own build-system. I have sublibraries in submodules and add them with add_subdirectory and everything shows and is auto-completed correctly.
Ruby is strongly typed. So is Smalltalk.

It is not statically typed, so given a variable you can not know from the variable which type it currently holds. But in Ruby you can always know from the object itself which type it is.

That said there's a lot of work going on in Ruby to allow you to get more certainty statically about types. See e.g. Sorbet
> 32mb RAM and 8mb Disk Space.

I miss such numbers so much.
I disagree. These annotations help to bind the variables to the context and the “detailed nuances”.

Yes this is called a lookup table, and while it can seem obvious to you when you have spent 1y working on the same subject, it is not for the others.

People will anyway skim-read it, as I do, and put it aside for detailed reading, if the overall idea is good or if I found an interesting technique.

Anyway, the best papers I read were short and concise. Cf. historically Lebesgue paper about measure theory and his correspondance with Picard, compared to Borel’s theory.
> For all we know, COVID-X is just around the corner.

Not necessarily Coronavirus based, but the next jump from one species to another of some pathogen (viral, bacterial) is pretty much a certainty. And with the amount of habitat destruction and bushmeat/wetmarkets we are increasing the odds of it happening soon considerably. The last three decades have seen an ever increasing number of such events each of which has the potential to trigger a pandemic like this one, a milder one or one that is much worse.
I wonder if having additional two years worth of data changed their mind.

We see how easily this virus mutates. Recent research indicates that Omicron evolved for some time in mice without breaking out back into human population.

Natural origin is way more playsible than ww thought in February of 2020.
Typescript is “breath-first,” you can convert your entire project to typescript in a minimal pull-request. Gradually adopting the syntax.

ReScript requires a lot of commitment, as you have to completely rewrite each module to 100% comply with the type algorithm.

Typescript even transpiles when it encounters type errors.
> I guess it was easier to take a slight (...) reputation hit,

Not a reputation hit. A credibility hit. Essentially 100% of what they say now is lies to my ears. If their policy is to lie to me "for the global good", this is the most rational position.

I'd have preferred if they had told the truth as they knew it (the disease is airborne, masks help you to avoid infect people, please leave all masks to health personnel, people who hoard masks will be severely punished).
The full story is I had a severe burn out (so that means exactly that : your brain is really damaged). My family is super supportive so I don't have that many things to think about.

As a young er student, I had tons of "side projects" (like coding games) :-) So I was definitely not studying all the time. Nowadays I'm 100% focus so it means I work about 8-10 hours a day on my courses. I have very good sleeping habits, I eat well (vegetables but just too much chocolate), I walk 45 minutes 5 days per week and practice taichi about 20 minutes a day.

I tend to outperform students (about 2 standard dev above mean) in practicals but for examinations, where I have to memorize the whole course, that's another story, I perform just as the average BUT I pass half the exams so it means I'm really underperforming... The stress is a big issue but the memorization is the biggest one. It just doesn't work like when I was 20. It's super frustrating.

I have a master im compsci + 2 years phd preparation. But after 20 years, data science is totally foreign to me. It's just math math math, I don't recognize anything I know (so it's super interesting, but I'm really lost :-))

Also I chose data sciences because I was scared to see some COBOL programmers who didn't jump into the web/java/you name it track and who are now old and can't make the effort to switch). So I felt, business intelligence is moving outside the realm of application developpers (because many companies now know how to to business processes with IT) to the realm of data sciences (because that's where there is more room for improvements). I hope I was not too wrong :-)
The locality that you want for performance is available as row values in sqlite.
Sqlite seems to have the parts needed to build a graph db.
It's quite possible that in the near future, memory expansion will happen mostly over the PCI-e bus.

Vendors are moving towards bringing the main ram closer, to increase bandwidth, reduce power and reduce latency. However, this will necessarily mean that the amount of ram a CPU has will be fixed -- there will be no more dimm slots.

So what if you need more ram than the market provides on the top-end cpu? Samsung has your back, with CXL.memory. [0]

[0] https://www.anandtech.com/show/16670/using-a-pcie-slot-to-in...
> If you write any application in "native" widgets for the host OS, shame on you. That is definitely the wrong way to do things in almost every case nowadays

Could you elaborate on that? Isn't using the native GUI API of the OS a relatively sensible default, especially if you aren't targeting multiple OSes? If you definitely want cross-platform support, I can see the argument for choosing one of the cross-platform frameworks but I still don't think that means using the native GUI API is such a bad choice.
Yeah there was a time, where I would sleep from 2-4 to 8 and then take 2 hour nap in the afternoon(after school when I just dropped dead) because insomnia. But I felt like shit all the time...
I guess DevOps also need jobs, when I compare team sizes between both approaches.
Agree, Mullvad provides really good VPN service. I faced almost zero downtimes / speed throttles. It establishes quick connection with server (maybe because it uses wireguard). Anyway, I'm a regular user and I think paying 5E worth it.
This is one of those things that has been at the edge of my attention for years, and when someone articulates and demonstrates it, I had an "aha! of course" reaction. :)
“Thanks to Xbox Game Pass you can now play DOOM on your phone”
It reduces TCB. TPM is smaller than entire server.
How do you get homework help when you reach Master's level of education?
By homework help, I mean doubts that are beyond basics. For eg-: I am Computer Engineering student(our course is 75% electronics engineering),and I am big data studying. I find myself in places where I am hell lot confused. The resources don't suffice at all.

I get confused. But the issue is I get help from nowhere. Reddit NO. Stackexchange NO, other forums NO. How would I? As these subjects are studied by very few people as it is higher level of education question, how do I deal with this? Any guidance?

Sadly I don't have any close friends whom I can ask.
Well technically, that's correct. Most masks that are typically worn are not very effective at preventing the wearer from catching Covid. They are effective at reducing forward transmission. The exception is proper sealed n95 or other filtering mask, and those require training to use properly, as well as being in short supply.
Sorry but where did you see me defend the lack of investigation?
Are you kidding? I’ve dealt with half a dozen, like FrontApp, Looker (before it was bought), Stripe etc

This was while working at a bank, where the level of scrutiny from financial regulators, privacy regulators, and customers with a bone-to-pick with us was sky high. It’s was a total pain in arse dealing with data protection agreements, and vetting them (both the agreement, and company) to make sure they met the standards. But you can bet your bottom dollar we did it.
Yes and no. The syntax has been updated to make it less OCaml and more JavaScript-like.

ReasonML can compile to native, rescript can’t. Reason still exists as a separate project, and projects that have been rewritten into reason will not necessarily switch.
You don't seem to understand the material you are linking to at all. That's fine by me but this does not constitute evidence in the scientific sense of the word and that's what I am getting at.
"flagged"

The irony.
... and if Italy learned the lessons from Asian countries, the initial spike in Italy would not have been so devastating.

I think a more fair take would be that most countries did not take COVID19(in particular, the early variants which were much more dangerous) seriously enough until there was a major source of infections in their country, at which point it was obviously too late.

There are some exceptions(in particular, New Zealand, which is in the Anglo world that you malign), but I think in general it is a true statement.
Re Grandfathering: That's really difficult to do in iOS Apps for example.

It also introduces a new level of complexity on many levels, e.g. rights and access management, product versioning and maintenance, customer support etc.
There was even an Oreilly book about it: https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/programming-firefo...
No async/await is a good thing, IMO.

Using fp-ts there is never a need for async/await and the code is still linear, (Promise is transformed to TaskEither<Error, Result>, similar to the example in the article, although you can ignore the error and just map over the result, handling the error somewhere near the end of the chain).

Problem with async/await is that the syntax is so easy that eventually the whole codebase gets polluted by it, even parts that could have been completely separated.

From the coding perspective, the problem with promises arise when there is a need to bind the intermediate results. You can either store them in an object and return that object for the next .then(fn) call, or you can nest inside a promise. I guess nesting is what annoys people the most (pyramid).
This was the biggest fumble of the Mozilla strategy in the last 20 years. Instead of focusing on the developer market, particularly after the appearance of WebKit, they bet (half) the farm on a quixotic quest to build a mobile OS from scratch. By attempting to gain a level of control that was always unlikely, they endangered their own survival.
This continues the trend of most* "conspiracy theories" proving to be true 6-12 months after they are dismissed by the mainstream.

Excepting completely ridiculous ones, but even those sound more and more plausible with every confirmation.
I used to sleep like this too, for around 15 years (20-35yo). Then I began to experience many-day insomnias, or inability to wake up until my body feels like it. Troubles with digestion, immune system, motivation and mental state in general (all interlinked). Checking my hormone levels was like rolling dice every time. My endocrinologist, gastroenterologist, neurologist, psychotherapist all told me that if I don't correct my sleep cycles and get married, I'll suffer even more. I did the former half a year ago and feel much better.

It doesn't have to be connected, maybe my health would deteriorate independently of sleep or alone factors, but doctors say that it puts you into the risk group at the very least. I'd say be careful, but 5-10 years ago I'd also waved it away as irrelevant :)
What is succesfully on the market is unstable and unfinished software with long list of features no one needs, nice looking but unergonomic user interface, with a software architecture based on the newest hyped buzzwords and to complex to deliver a stable product.

What users need is a stable (no CD/CI) software which has the function set they need to do their business.
Very curious about the computer, what are the internals?
I find it difficult to wrap my head around as well. One way you might think of it is not space expanding, but all objects shrinking. If everything shrank to half size, including wave-lengths and velocities, the size of the universe would double in size, and objects would appear to move apart from each other above the speed of light at large enough distances. However, you could never use this fact to travel above the speed of light.

Not sure if this comparison is valid though.
Specifying that as something isn't directly testable, it's better that a bold new theory should actually be the null hypothesis isn't how science works! We've observed a lot of populations with little or no natural light and there is no reason to cherry pick the one or two which actually conform to Ekirch's proposed "standard" form of sleep. I mean, for a start, assuming "pre industrial revolution photoperiods" generally matched the ones in Wehr's study involves pretending that seasons don't exist in most of the places Ekirch's soured material came from!
Everybody has my respect by default, until they make a major fuck-up like Macron did there.

Maybe he fucked up sooner than that, thus not being worthy of respect at that point. But I'm not interested in politics at all so I missed it.
Mozilla (the org) never supported any of the "make Gecko embeddable" initiatives.
Also the next point

> It should have (and has shown to have) better scaling laws

is a statement based on two anecdotes but I don't see a compelling reason why this should be the case in general.

Active learning approaches are not mentioned even though they allow incorporating human feedback during the fine-tuning process and this can be done with a purely supervised approach.

IMO the last point is the only compelling one : having for example agents that can browse the web during learning could open a lot of possibilities. It would have been interesting to develop this last point more : what are the current difficulties in training such agents?
Isn't it the other way around? I.e. chrome with user logged in to google account is way less likely to present endless/unsolvable captchas.
Remember their boss was Trump who didn't believe it's a thing at all.
I wouldn't mind owning one though.
> And some books get a "pocket edition" which doesn't do any of those.

It’s not "some" books get one and others get the other. All books get out in a first format decided by the publisher. There’s no "default" format; it can be big or small depending on the author/publisher’s choice. Then, later, you have reprints, which are often (but not always) in a cheaper format, the one we call "livre de poche" and which sells for less money. But this reduced price has little to do with the format; paper doesn’t account much in what you pay for a book. When you do reprints you have reduced costs everywhere because the text is already there: no need for a translator, reviewers, etc; also, there’s no marketing and the author’s fees are usually lower. In fact, in Italy, reprints are cheaper even if they are usually printed in the same format as the first edition.
Sleep through baby crying? I found my own babies cries to be a complete NMI.

When we had infants I'd go back to sleep pretty well instantly (co-sleeping, with baby on a side-cot at bed level; baby breastfed, not by me) but in general one would wake to the little snuffles that precede the crying (I guess that helps to calm them before they get in a tizzy [in a state, brought on by their own actions, crying in this case]).

I sleep through thunderstorms without stirring.

I'm a few years out from dealing with crying babies and still if there's crying in the background, that sounds like one of my kids, I'll pop-up like a meerkat. The sound even gets though (non noise-cancelling) headphones when I'm gaming, though I won't know what I've heard until I take them off.
I get your point. But the long term damage doesn’t justify the lie. That’s a race to the bottom.

And what happens when the scientist and politician is in a hybrid role, like Fauci? Folks don’t trust Fauci because credibility, in general, has been harmed. Q conspiracy theorists thrive in a world of distrust. Chronic distrust of politicians is too high a price to pay to justify the use of the occasional manipulation.
I was banned from the biggest national (Norway) Facebook discussion group on the pandemic for posting a comment reasoning about mask usage and whether the official guidelines might be factually incorrect. That's far into propaganda and censorship territory.
Customers also didn't ask for even more ads and tracking in their TV, but they did ask for cheaper devices - the result is that you'll have to shell out serious bucks for "digital signage"-style displays if you want to live in peace.
What a load of...

The article's arguments against the Macbook Air are "they don’t look great" and "the design is outright archaic."

The XPS13+'s capacitive touch strip seems to be a badly designed copy of the infamous Macbook Pro touch bar, which at least had some additional functionality compared to regular function keys. The XPS13+ only replaces physical keys by capacitive sensors which are hard to use and find and don't add any useful functionality.

The borderless touchpad looks nice, but it probably makes it harder to figure out where the touch sensitive area starts.

If you also remember the well-known overheating problems with previous XPS13 models (see e.g. https://www.techadvisor.com/review/dell-xps-13-9300-2020-378...) you start to wonder what the point of the XPS13+ is, especially considering that the price will probably be in the range of similar Macbook Pro configuration.

Even Apple has learned (again) that form over function doesn't always provide benefits for the user...
Attaching a term like "wokeness" to minority dissent over decades or centuries of systemic, cultural, economic, political discrimination, oppression, or abuse in an attempt to group every type of challenge that doesn't fit within a certain criteria of "conservatism and patriotism" is a false narrative. It seems that everyone is trying to find a scapegoat for their own failures or lack of mobility. Arguably, where and how you start in life makes a big impact on where you end up. Therefore, discrimination and oppression with historical basis, spanning generations, in one form or another, is very much more difficult to overcome or to endure.

Corporations ARE amoral entities; reacting to consumer sentiment that often shifts based on cultural or political trends. Their aim is to make a profit for shareholders and other stakeholders. During the times of "cultural conservatism and patriotism" it was enough to say "made in America", albeit unnecessary, since globalization's effects were not an issue. Company leadership being labelled as communist sympethizers may have stoked fears and anger. Being a former supporter of the Nazi party or the KKK (morally objectionable sentiments) meant little. So, was it corporations that were immoral or the lack of outrage from the majority conservative patriots that could explain this difference better?
This is a fabulous podcast that, amongst other things, highlights those feelings amazing productivity at night.

https://nocturnepodcast.org/quiet-transmission/

https://nocturnepodcast.org/the-nocturnist/
you might find clang-check useful.

https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ClangCheck.html

you will need a Compilation Database (CDB) in a compile_commands.json file. I know CMake knows how to generate one, but the fact that other build systems don't shows how fragmented and user- unfriendly the cpp ecosystem is.
Why didn't it have road or mobile traffic for a week? Is this a fact?
That said, even if it was manufactured, its release is probably a freak accident.
Thanks I'll try it! I had seen that fork before but the main reason for it to exist (specifying the sites in advance instead of allowing all sites) had also been incorporated in the original plugin.

I'm very surprised this one is available in the mozilla catalog and the original isn't.
Do you think so? It may seem risky in itself, but I think this would capture many current practices in mathematical notation.

The language could aid you to clarify your code. For example, by forcing each variable to be declared explicitly at the beginning of its scope, on a line all by itself. Then the compiler could put a warning if one of these declarations didn't have a comment.
There is a vast difference between responding to someone by saying it's unlikely and responding to someone by calling them a Republican/racist/Nazi, which is how several of my questions about the origins of Covid-19 with regards to its seemingly unique and varied symptoms were responded to during the first year of the pandemic.
Interesting reference to Seed https://seed-rs.org/ – first I've heard of it. Anyone using it?
As if "devops" were a job... at most companies the sad reality is that the ops team gets fired and the developers who often enough don't even have more understanding of a Linux shell than ls/cd/cat/rm get told "you're also doing ops now, have fun!".

Inevitably, issues will plop up - hacks, data loss, site going down over the weekend because there's no 24/7 on-call any more - and then management comes down to the devs and whines "what's the cause of problem X"... and fires the rest when they say "we're developers, not SREs and server administrators".
Yup at this point if you buy into the new consumer products of either MSFT or GOOG, you have only yourself to blame when they inevitably get cancelled. Stick to their cash cows if you want stability. What really hurts is of course when they buy a different company and then kill its products. (Nest)
I sometimes have 3 - 1 at the normal time, interrupted by needing a pee (Age/male/kidney disease), then a second interrupted by the elder of my two dogs needing a pee and a third short one until work time. Not ideal!
There’s no VPN blocking in place, and there are no plans to do so.

But if you want proof of what AT&T isn’t going to do, it’s going to take a while to compile.
The next step: dedicated VPN over FPGAs
Precisely this. The occasional manipulation to try and prevent a run on toilet paper or gas stations is not worth a total loss of credibility.
Because in Europe Apple doesn't have a dominant market position.

In the US in many places (like teenage users) they do have a dominant market position, and they abuse by actively trying to worsen the user experience of buyers of their products who dare to include an Android phone user in their friend groups.