skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
HEY LOOK, IT'S EVERY SUPERMARKET EVER.
Huge automatic glass doors, shopping carts, aisles with stuff on shelves.
So fucking creative.
It made a great offline music player, too!
Actually that’s a selfish way to look at it. You’re putting other peoples lives at risk inside the country. Anyone could easily decide to contribute compromised and malware infected VPN or TOR servers that will in actuality log traffic.
Socialist Romania did not pay to license Western chip technologies. All production was based on stolen IP. Ceausescu had a vast spy network stealing everything they could from abroad. The spy network was dismantled when Pacepa, the mastermind behind it, defected to US in 1978.
Helpful article. The headlines and editorial coverage of this made it look fantastic, except for any of the concrete information in the story I read, which made it look most likely completely worthless.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/sep/28/alzheimers-d...

> Success of experimental Alzheimer’s drug hailed as ‘historic moment’: Study shows cognition in early-stage patients on lecanemab declines by 27% less than those on placebo

Wow, something's happening!

> The cognition of Alzheimer’s patients given the drug, developed by Eisai and Biogen, declined by 27% less than those on a placebo treatment after 18 months. This is a modest change in clinical outcome but it is the first time any drug has been clearly shown to alter the disease’s trajectory.

We've gone from "historic" to "modest" in two paragraphs.

> On a 14-point scale used to assess Alzheimer’s progression, patients on the drug scored 0.45 higher than those on the placebo treatment, with an Alzheimer’s patient being expected to decline by about 1 point a year.

That is very modest. And it's a questionnaire, not memory testing?

> Howard said: “The accepted minimum worthwhile difference ranges from 0.5 to 1.0 points, [meaning] that there are going to be some very difficult conversations and decisions in the next weeks and months.”

So it's not even clinically significant? They have a metric that they decided to call the "accepted minimum worthwhile difference," and this is less than that. Doesn't that mean it's not worthwhile? I'm guessing based on the name.

Is this just the first of a series of press releases to start building up public sentiment that can be eventually used to avoid the controversy generated when the FDA approved the last Alzheimer's drug that definitely didn't work?
Almost anything in computer science can be explained with analogy of an extraordinarily literal-minded, unthinking automaton. See also https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LiteralGenie
Do you think a millennial boss missed the movie reference from Arthur and took the quote literally. He's just being flip and it cost him his job.
Yea I don't understand why this is so hidden. It also has a really bad UX - you need to go into different submenus and activate different permutations of toggles to get it working...
But it does kind of explain why an employer might pay them to offer candidates mock interviews -- it makes the not-mock more predictive.
Shouldn't there be a popup to subscribe to a newsletter before scrolling 10% of the content?
That's the thing: it does not. It literally, explicitly belongs to the USSR. Russia has been allowed to fill the seat by agreement. The article points out that that agreement could change, and gives an example where that has happened before.
Haha, why did I know this was going to be a Critical Drinker video.

For real though, I think the best CGI has always been when it's a light touch, providing only slight enhancements to an otherwise mostly-practical scene. And that's also when it's most invisible— so while superhero movies are obvious CGI-fests and can be clearly said to have been "ruined" by it, I think the most interesting modern CGI use is in lower-budget productions like TV shows, enabling the insertion of fantasy- or period-themed backdrops that would never be possible if you had to actually come up with all those props and extras in real life.

And I think to the extent that this is already happening, it's a lot harder to track because it's so much more subtle than the bombastic in-your-face effects of a Marvel movie showdown.

It would be interesting to see a revival of a show like Drive [0] as that was pretty ambitious and expensive for its time, but might be a lot more possible to do now.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive_(2007_TV_series)
Rails and Django are both AR, and are still probably the two most widely used backend frameworks, for better or for worse.

I don’t disagree with the overall point you’re making, I’m just pointing out that it’s very common
Great article and I mostly agree.

We launched our indoor air quality monitor AirGradient ONE at the beginning of this year. We measure PM, CO2, TVOCs, temperature and humidity. When we started the development we would have never thought that achieving an accurate temperature measurement was by far the most difficult thing.

It took us 8 hardware iterations to get it right! We experienced with different enclsoure shapes, orientations and PCBs (component placement).

Our experience is similar to the author of this article:

Your biggest enemy is internal heat produced by active components, mainly the MCU but also by other sensors like the PM sensor and CO2 (NDIR).

How we solved it:

1) Minimize heat from energy by using components that have low energy consumption and make extensive use of sleep functions of the MCU as well as sensor components (e.g. PM sensors can be put to sleep).

2) Make use of physics. Our monitor is wall mounted and uses the convection mechanism. So nearly all components that heat up like LEDs, MCU etc. are located at the very top inside the enclosure. Optimize the vents at the top and bottom of the enclosure and create an unobstructed air flow through the enclosure based on natural convection.

3) Plan for enough space. To get temperature right, you need a lot of air around the temperature sensor that is free from radiation from other heat sources. So we specifically designed the PCB to have the temperature sensor at a 'finger' at the bottom with a lot of space to other components and ensured there is a good air flow around.

If you are interested to see our design, have a look at our open-source, open-hardware DIY Pro monitor [1].

We integrated a lot of the things we learned designing the commercial monitor mentioned above into these build instructions [2] that allow you to build your own highly accurate monitor and then also be able to change the firmware and adjust to your needs. In fact, our kit contains exactly the same plastic injected enclosure we use for our commercial monitor (but you can also just 3D print the one from the build instructions and get the other parts by yourself).

[1] https://www.airgradient.com/open-airgradient/kits/
[2] https://www.airgradient.com/open-airgradient/instructions/di...
I'm definitely not a paid shill for this product (it's what a paid shill would say, isn't it?), but you'll be missing out if you don't try it. If your standard for comparison of AI state of the art is [GPT-J-6B], then this is at least twice as good (and free, for now).

[GPT-J-6B]: https://6b.eleuther.ai/
That was an interesting twist to the barn methaphor actually.
The first part is semantics, yes I understand that python is running one OS thread at a time with a GIL (for now). Just pretend I used the word "concurrent" instead of parallel in all the places necessary to remove the semantic disagreement.

Whether threads and joining vs async/await is clearer is a matter of taste and familiarity. I find async/await much more clear because that's what I am more used to. Others will disagree, that's fine. I suspect more people will prefer async/await as time goes on but that's my opinion.

> not worrying about marking functions as async or not is a great boon to development.

I don't really see why this is a big deal. You can change the function and callers can change their callsite. There are automated lint steps for this in python and javascript that I use all the time. It's not any different to me than adding an argument or changing a function name.
Been looking at getting a Yubikey but hadn't pulled the trigger. Today I was able to get 4 of them for $30 total.
How the Mises Caucus Took over the American Libertarian Party
They ghosted me, but it was in the initial call.
> recently we found that a major podcast network was autoplaying podcasts in order to juice their numbers

This is a tactic that some video game streamers use as well. One big example of this is the fextralife wiki site[0]. I get very frustrated when it is the top result from a web search or if it is the only place to get relevant information.

[0] - https://monsterhunterworld.wiki.fextralife.com/Monster+Hunte...
M1 Mac Mini. I beat the heck out of this thing.

SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02)
Critical Warning: 0x00
Temperature: 28 Celsius
Available Spare: 100%
Available Spare Threshold: 99%
Percentage Used: 5%
Data Units Read: 83,875,891 [42.9 TB]
Data Units Written: 70,257,403 [35.9 TB]
Host Read Commands: 881,926,045
Host Write Commands: 530,490,261
Controller Busy Time: 0
Power Cycles: 3,350
Power On Hours: 496
Unsafe Shutdowns: 13
Media and Data Integrity Errors: 0
Error Information Log Entries: 0

One thing that really stands out to me here is everyone else has a `Power Cycles` measurement in the hundreds... but mine is 3,350 which seems odd. Especially because this is not a laptop and it never goes to sleep. It has only been rebooted maybe 10 times since it was purchased about a year ago.
I'm not sure why I'm jumping in to defend interviews, but... this merely proves that interviews are not perfect at evaluating competency. Suppose that the result of a typical interview is X% determined by competency, and (100-X)% determined by other factors. It could be possible to provide a service that helps you quickly improve the "other factors". And yet if X is large enough, interviews might still be of some value for evaluating competency.
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Huh, I had an interview at Meta a few months back (which I backed out of) and the (very nice) interviewing prep instructions they provide very clearly stated you should be able to do leet code style questions, preferably two mediums, in an hour. Their interview process felt very organized and prepared overall, although I backed out before actually interviewing with folks.
It's quite handy. Among other features:

- You can configure alternative front-ends for other services, including YouTube, Instagram, and Reddit.

- It supports RSS. Feeds for accounts or queries. E.g., a search for "dredmorbius" (I occasionally get quoted or mentioned, mostly by bots): <https://nitter.kavin.rocks/search/rss?f=tweets&q=dredmorbius>

- Themes, including a dark mode if you prefer.
What he meant was "I had hoped _our_stock_price_ would have more clearly stabilized by now..."

They over-hired low[er] quality employees (by his own admission) when the stock exploded in 2020. Now they'll do anything to avoid official layoffs to save face.
Standard onboarding had him paired with our director of engineering for the full day, who was aware of the situation and handled the security aspects. AFAIK it ended up just being a case of recruiter fraud.
Really hope this makes it to Android. (probably need to wait for a decade or two though)
I bought a couple of expensive remote weather sensors because they were the only ones I could find that included sensing atmospheric pressure and wet bulb temperature along with the ordinary metrics like temperature and humidity. Though air quality and particulate count is not included, I have done without for two reasons, which is that I live in the country surrounded by water and forest and cleaner air than I have ever known, and in contrast, the small house is old, dusty, I can easily see the particulates floating in the air, and because I know it is bad, I just don't need to know any precise measurements. My only complaint concerning the devices, which seem to be rugged and accurate, though with an almost absurd accompanying price tag, is that the required app and its interface design is comically bad in every measure that could matter. If there are interested developers, please take a look at the product[1] and the software[2], and see if you're interested in developing and selling me and other customers, and perhaps even the manufacturer, an application that collects and displays data from this family of devices that doesn't completely and utterly suck.

[1] https://kestrelmeters.com/products/kestrel-fire-weather-drop

[2] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/kestrel-link/id1489485544
CollegeHumor, soon before it was forced to dismantle itself, did a sketch involving the CEO of Tumblr coming to realize just how much porn was really on the site. This article is an amazing sequel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtUuab1Aqg0
Not bad to be honest. If you replace that font with something like IBM Plex and fix those horrific buttons it's a cool template.
What major projects get shut down in the same week and what ads do you think they are selling?
Wouldn't it be more about the power simply is gone as in that portion of the grid is out? I don't think they run custom circuits just for cell towers as that would be quite expensive, 5G sucks a lot of power and I don't think the backup batteries can last for days on end of a severe power outage.
> What really blows me away is how close Google Cloud is becoming to something that Google would have to cancel because they can't get the profit margins to compare to ads.

I imagine GC is one of the big three cloud platforms (with AWS, Azure) so I am absolutely intrigued by your suggestion. How bad is it going, really? They've made a lot of investment in Firebase also. I could probably see them shake things up drastically, but shutting down sounds like suicide.
Does "female presenting nipples" === porn? It was a SCJ who said, "I'll know it (i.e., porn) when I see it". Also, it's a double-standard to say men can have free-will to present their bodies as they see fit but women can not.
I used tumblr as my personal blog in 2022. I have never used Tumblr before, but I felt like the platform was designed for me.

I can't put my ideas into a tweet without creating a thread and I despise threads. Twitter promotes a weird impulsive behavior to write everything without thinking.

On the other hand, I think blogging platforms like Medium has a "commitment to read feel". You know you see the header then you convince that is something you must read, that would be that "commitment read thing". The content is hidden so you have to micro-commit to click and wait for the page to load, based on a single sentence called title. Not my thing I guess. My personal blog is personal and thus is poorly written. So Tumblr has the perfect design as to me it feels like an uninterrupted twitter thread (twitter if you steal this idea, pay me).

Obviously, the better option is to create your own static blog site based on Github pages and Hugo. I am not sure where Tumblr could pivot, as people who could have used Tumblr to give it's second life now has their personal blogs and they post those blogs into other platforms. Blogging as a writing method has shifted to become platform agnostic.
Excellent point!. I agree typical critical thinking courses seems to be about logical/mathematical consistency. I find a follow the money approach works much better in real life situations.
The whole stack was great. Google engineers worked their asses off on it. Very smart people throughout. The management was awful though.

In the 10 years I was at Google I never really had to face a "crunch" situation but there I was right before Christmas working til midnight on the very tiny bit of Stadia I had somehow been dragged into despite telling my manager I didn't want to be anywhere near it because it was radioactive (My rule learned the hard way was always stay away from the "hot" project at a company like Google. It just becomes a feeding frenzy of empire building and egos, and steady incremental contribution will get you nowhere.)

I had it much better than most though. If I recall: The original app setup (integrated into the existing Home app) was tossed at the last minute. The entire out of box process for the controller redone in the process. In literally the last few weeks before ship date.

The controller folks I knew were heroes. It's sad to see their hard work thrown away.

There's no way Stadia in its entire existence made enough revenue to cover the sheer number of SWE-hours put into it, especially the spent SWE-hours caused by last minute product changes; which nobody further up ever had to pay a consequence for.
Musico: AI Generated Music
> How would I implement this logic in my own libraries?

There's no need to if your code is in Java. We had to change low-level I/O in the JDK because it drops down to native.

That's not to say every Java library is virtual-thread-friendly. For one, there's the issue of pinning (see the JEP) that might require small changes (right now the problem is most common in JDBC drivers, but they're already working on addressing it). The bigger issue, mostly in low-level frameworks, is implicit assumptions about a small number of shared threads, whereas virtual threads are plentiful and are never pooled, so they're never shared. An example of such an issue is in Netty, where they allocate very large native buffers and cache them in ThreadLocals, which assumes that the number of threads is low, and that they're reused by lots of tasks.
Who cares? If it works, use it.
The thing that is bizarre to me is that Google has absolute shitloads of money. 120B+ in the bank. Megabillions in profit each quarter. Like, they could buy Nintendo for less than half of their cash on hand.

I understand that the market demands infinite growth but internally it feels like horseshit to see the ridiculous numbers and also get told that basically nothing is high priority enough to get funded.
Deno looks good, but don't support musl, I'm not the target audience.
So, you mean they were answered like an IRL politician would answer them.
Can anyone find the old tweet by Stadia support, or some executive, saying Stadia will not be shut down? It was only a few months ago.
> namely the simultaneous invocation of multiple temporalities

Some authors really strives to use words of maximum length to portrait themselves as intellectual. That quoted sentence could not have simply said "evoked various time periods", as that would have been too comprehensible.

Or shoudl I say...

The extravaganza of the extremophilic concentrate of longtitude of specimen of the vocabulary transpose an egoistical tendency to externalize the profundity of desirability of irradiating one's intellectualism.
I must have missed when China has ever threatened global security. Western belligerence has driven nearly all modern international conflict.
In the limit 0*x tends to zero as x tends to infinity.
Nah, if you can stream Netflix in 1080p or better and have low latency then game streaming works fine. I know people who do it off LTE without issue even for non competitive games.
Who in their right mind would buy a Facebook phone, considering the neverending security issues, data leaks and total disregard for user privacy?
You are right. This code runs just fine on both of these online Lua websites.
local tab = {}
tab[938388893] = "hi"
tab[987383332] = "Hello"

for k,v in pairs(tab) do
print(k)
print (v)
end

https://www.lua.org/cgi-bin/demo
https://luajit.me/

But when I try it using the Sol library (embedded in C++) it eats all my memory.
Is it a Sol issue or a C Lua binding issue? Anybody know?
In my defense I was thinking of the GPUs and servers, not the client devices (does stadia have clients?). In that scenario, might HW be capex -- a durable good you buy and use for many years, and can sell if you no longer require it?
Listening to the distortion, it sounds like it could possibly be reduced/minimized by experimenting with pre-emphasis curves! I wonder if the existing community around this product's predecessor has worked on that...
So I wonder if unusual angles that normally do not get photographed will be distorted? For example, underneath a table looking up.
Matt is correct. Things have chanced, and not for the better. Having mega-international corporations dictate our morals, among other things, is not something that should be rationalized so easily. Is this something about being a self-proclaimed Libertarian I don't understand?
Yeah, I hate flashy websites. I rather go with boring than distracting.
Much Ado about Documentation Structure
WireCutter (since bought by the NY Times) literally has an article on this subject.

https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-home-air-qua...

I bought one of their prior recommendations, the "Kaiterra Laser Egg+ Chemical", and as far as I could tell it did the "TVOC-to-CO2" lookup table conversion mentioned in this article, and so it would give CO2 readings that were inconsistent with same-branded CO2 sensor ("Kaiterra Laser Egg+ CO2"). WireCutter seem to have since updated the recommendation to something with a different type of sensor.
I'm probably missing something, but it's incomprehensible/mind-boggling to me that a processor released in 1975 would be used in the Commodore 64 and similar computers in 1982 and even later. Imagine someone today releasing a computer with a 7-year old processor! Price trumps everything else, I guess?

And the 6502 was so primitive and unpleasant to use. I remember writing some 6502 assembly code back then. You have a total of 3 8-bit registers and no multiply instruction. And only 16-bit addressing because "64 K ought to be enough for anybody".

All this nostalgia about 1980s computers is completely lost on me, I'm glad those days are over.
Game Pass is horrible. It has to be the worst service I've ever used.
If real AI is ever a thing, how would you even align it? We can't even align humans unless you raise them a certain way.
Gives a new perspective on a classic verse:

"For he spoke, and it came to be;

he commanded, and it stood firm."

Psalm 33:9, NIV

:)