skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
White LED light bulbs.

They're cheap (at least, subsidized), they're long lasting (maybe), they're energy efficient (certainly), and they emit a huge amount of blue, squarely in the wavelengths that the human eye uses to determine if it's day or night. The practical effect is that if you're using LED lighting, it's quite hard to go to sleep at night - and we know that sleep deprivation is really bad for humans across pretty much any metric you might care to examine.

The way that white LEDs work is simple enough: They're a blue LED. Bright, efficient, and very much not anything "white." So, the package is coated with various sorts of phosphors that take some of the energy from the blue wavelengths, and move it down into the reds and yellows and greens. Presto, white light of your desired color temperature! Daylight, warm, it can be done.

Unfortunately, it's not the same spectrum as an incandescent emitter at the same color temperature - there's still a huge chunk of blue over at one end. Color temperature is just an average - you need to look at the CRI (color rendering index) to get a better feel for it, and most LEDs, while better than the utterly ugly light of compact florescent (seriously, yuck - and the spectrum shows why), still aren't great. They have a lot of blue. The cheaper ones, common in homes, have a lot of blue. Even the "red shift dimming" one still have a lot of blue when dimmed.

And this blue is right in the range that your body uses to inhibit melatonin production. There are separate receptors in the eye that pick up light in the ~440-480nm range, and go "Oh, hey, it's day - stay awake!" If you have LEDs, these are doing the same thing in the evening. And perhaps as you head to bed, if you've got LEDs.

We all broadly know that screens are bad for sleep because of the blue, but modern LED bulbs are exactly the same thing. Worse, actually, because they tend to be above us - in the "sky" field of view, which is what these detectors are optimized for.

If you have the resources to try it, try replacing some of your evening bulbs with incandescent bulbs on a dimmer, and dim them down pretty hard as you're starting to wind down and head to bed. Or use kerosene lanterns or something - you want an incandescent emitter, which, in the dimmer ranges, emits almost no blue at all. And then avoid screens entirely for a few hours before bed. See how you sleep. If it's not improved, bug me, I'll buy your bulbs from you.

Of course, cell phones and modern social media are the easy one that we're already seeing backlash to. But that's easy. LED bulbs are more subtle in their manner of being toxic to humans.
The op is saying, correctly, that open Ai is bad because they think brown black and Asian people are as good as him. Anything that makes him feel lesser is woke and bad.
People who are influenced by a similar set of ideas tend to adopt similar verbiage.

Read a bunch of papers in computational complexity theory (or any other subject) and you will see similar phrases pop up.

Heck, compare hacker news comments with some other forum website and you will probably notice subtle language differences.
A lot of people seem to be overlooking the fact that it's missing a huge piece of the puzzle, and that is being able to learn.

This is a model frozen in time, you can explain to it a hundred times why it's wrong and it will learn nothing. Until we have something that learns continuously from more input, I am not impressed
I wasn't aware there was a state of desktop publishing today. DTP has mostly been superseded by the web. DIY amateur print of posters and such is more likely to be hammered together in Word than in Indesign.

Design agencies still do design-for-print, but there's usually an integrated workflow of some kind which means web and print assets - including styles - can be shared and reused.

It's a long way from the blocky output of a 300dpi laser in the early 90s assembled on a PC running a $50 DTP suite.

The sad thing about Postscript is that it could have been the foundation of the web, which would have made web and print integration much simpler and design more straightforward and consistent.

Instead we got the sprawling incoherent catastrophe that is HTML/CSS/js for the web, PDF for most other document-ish things, and Epub (which is a dumbed down and DRM'd version of HTML etc) for digital book publishing.
Makes the UI even more complex. I think for a complex use case such as maps it makes sense to have 2 different UIs.
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No need for conspiracies - see for example the presentations from T-Mobile to nanog: https://pc.nanog.org/static/published/meetings/NANOG73/1645/... and https://www.internetsociety.org/resources/deploy360/2014/cas..., just for two examples after thirty seconds of googling.

Comcast has had ipv6 support rolled out for some time now. I don’t know why you don’t see it.
In a world of papers with code, open Ai is not open
Except there are hundreds of billions of dumb money that are managed by very small amount of people, it’s not economically reasonable for them to do their own primary research. They mostly invest into other funds (ie. Some may be BlackRock funds.).

It’s widely accepted that sell side search (like this) reflect on average the market view. As a result, most of these insights on average are likely priced in. You won’t “create alpha” from following them. However, most dumb money just want to track the market, thus it’s perfectly fine for them to follow sell-side research in aggregate.

Also, on your comment comparing BlackRock YTD performance to XLF, that’s not a valuable comparison. XLF composed mostly of banks, which are highly levered (by definition of fractional reserve banking). BlackRock is not a bank, it does not have the same leverage as JP Morgan.

ie. Chase has $3.7T in assets, $3.5T in liabilities (mostly deposits), and $400B in market cap (shareholders equity).

Liabilities to equity is ~8.75.

BlackRock has 115B in assets, 77B in liabilities, ~100B in market cap (shareholders equity).

Liabilities to equity is 0.77.

Leverage is risky, higher risk firms demand higher returns, this is the very foundation of capital asset pricing.
Moving somewhere new is similarly challenging, in my opinion, to becoming assimilated into a very passionate and niche online or in person community. I am not trying to argue that one can be a substitute for the other. I believe both situations can meaningfully challenge someone to grow and change the trajectory of their life. I don't believe moving somewhere physically is the only way to experience the culture there.

Doing one will help you prepare to get the most out of the other. Living somewhere and doing immersive language learning would help you understand and enjoy media and food specific to that region. And watching shows and making dishes would help you connect with people from there and feel less like a tourist if you were to visit. It's depends on the individual whether the big things or the small things will push them to grow the most.
> I honestly fail to see why would a lower level language be faster, especially that compilers are notorious for their non-standard allocation and life cycle patterns, so a GC might actually be faster here.

The nonstandard allocation and lifecycle patterns are a major part of the reason I want a systems language and not a GC - it means I have strictly more control over when allocations happen, I can do cheap phase-oriented allocations and deallocations with arenas, etc.

Rust's compiler is an interesting example. It was originally implemented in OCaml (which has a reputation for being a GC'd language with good runtime performance), and then rewrote to Rust in order to self-host - and got faster. In contrast, the Go team rewrote from a systems language to Go (which also has a good reputation for runtime performance), again in order to self-host, and it got slower.
Yes - that is literally why “woke” is a pejorative term.
Re 1) That may be the case but opinions are often worded as absolutes (crypto is good/bad) so while the writers themselves may not be infinitely hostile the wording of their articles can be. At least, that’s what I suspect the point here is?
Yeah check my answer to the other reply to this thread, I stopped when I got the answer I wanted and stupidly forgot to test whether it actually worked with any other sentence.

The logic is sound with regards to giving it a few examples and splitting tasks into sub-tasks, that's how they prime their model to evaluate it on all NLP benchmarks in the GPT papers and I've solved many problems like that in ChatGPT.

I've replied to the other comment with a prompt that actually works for any sentence.
Yeah... plastics are another one that's not going to be looked on fondly by future generations. Nasty bioactive stuff that's small enough to get everywhere and get into everything. And we literally make so much of it so it can be thrown out easily.
Rust is the only mainstream language I know of that's memory-safe without the overhead of GC or reference-counting. Doing that is really hard, and compromises the dev experience, so I'm not sure I'd call it "the macro trend", outside of the uptake of Rust itself. It has tradeoffs

Zig and some other languages like Nim have taken a different approach: "If we don't try to fully solve memory safety, what are all the other ways we can improve on the status quo to make a decidedly modern systems language?" Modern tooling, colocating arrays with lengths, strings as first-class citizens, error types, nullable types that the compiler can reason about, better static types and inference in general, etc. There's a whole lot of room for improvement over C even if you're not going all the way to borrow-checking

More on Zig's level of safety: https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/how-safe-is-zig/
Note that it's not hard to be faster than iTerm2: https://danluu.com/term-latency/

Warp is built on alacritty which is firmly middle of the road in that chart.
Yeah, paper currency. It was important for the bills to be crisp, otherwise they'd trade at a ~10% discount. I don't know how crypto has changed things, I don't do anything related to Ukraine anymore.
wieghted blankets do nothing good for me except produce old hag syndrome-like sensations
I was showing ChatGPT to my brother and funnily enough, I used ROT13 as a way to demonstrate the neatness

What we got was really interesting. It would give me an encoded phrase and what it believed was the decoded copy. They never matched!

Both were coherent, but completely unrelated. It was really interesting and confusing
I’ve found its ability to lookup algorithms and explain them or generate code to be quite good. It generated a flutter component for me load an image asynchronously that was a great starting point.

It’s definitively a tool I’m willing to pay for to take the drudgery out of coding and I can see it being incredibly useful when learning a new language or framework.

I think stackoverflow is in trouble.
Accelerating model deployment: 100X faster dev loops with draft models
If the property purchase information is accurate, seems they should be in prison next year along with Sam
> It doesn’t matter because they have a license to use the work

If they don’t have a contract, they don’t have a license. Again, in some common law jurisdiction they do things like implicit contracts and informal agreements. This is not going to fly in most European countries. No contract = no agreement = no license.

> Now even though they are put on the spotlight, they don’t really need to do anything.

Well yeah. The best move in their situation is not to move. Particularly once the text is published with an open license.
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I think Terminal.app is extremely good personally, I’ve been using it for 20 years at this point. The only thing that seems consistently faster is Alacritty.

I tried Warp and I wasn’t impressed at how it outputs text. I had some issues copying and pasting because it formats some things weird.
The part that's confusing to me is why this is even controversial or interesting. It seems like a huge number of people who are educated enough to know better really struggle to come to any viewpoint between it's 100% a scam and it's the solution to all of mankind's problems.
My girlfriend was completely obsessed with getting the Waze badges for keeping it on while driving.

And then she hit the final badge and that was it. She was crushed. Why can't they just keep making more badges?
These terms make perfect sense to use if your audience is someone like the HN crowd. Show a hint of direct support for crypto around here, and it starts to sound like a Twitter thread against an antivaxxer.
It's group lingo like any other group. Probably initially develops as a useful shorthand for them to discuss things they discuss proportionally more frequently than the general population, but also quickly becomes a signal for who's in the group and who's an outsider.
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> Should you be able to attend an event without a ticket, just because that venue has a "monopoly" on that evening's entertainment? You're not reducing the enjoyment of others, nor are you decreasing the artist's revenue.

This isn't an accurate analogy because the OP has no option to enter the venue at all, even if they want to pay.

> no one has a right to experience a specific piece of creative content

The whole motive behind copyright is that society is entitled to culture. By granting artists a time-limited monopoly, they can be incentivized to create and release more and more content, which makes society's culture richer and more widely available to everyone.

So I'd argue that the status quo OP describes is contrary to the actual objective of copyright itself.
Funny you mention this, because we’re already seeing it. In fact, I recall reading that unfiltered marijuana smoke is slightly more harmful to the lungs than unfiltered cigarette smoke.
How much of that 179 billion was exchanged for legal goods and services other than crypto or cash itself?
> Microsoft's legal team obviously came to the conclusion that the emails and payment were at least sufficient to grant Mojang a license to the artist's work

Who knows. They might have thought that litigation costs would be small enough, or it might have slipped through the cracks. We don’t know what Carl told them.
Can confirm. Google maps was more than happy to send me down this "road" in Baja. http://ushuaiaorbust.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/IMG_7956...
What are they activists for?

Also, are letters like this normal? I have never seen a letter like this, but you always hear that all shareholders care about is money. And yet, here we are with a letter that brazenly says something just below “fuck all employees, we want more money just because we have you some money”. I mean, part of their argument is some random person’s quote that companies could be smaller. For one, that’s a weak and amateur argument for an investor to make. And sure, that’s probably true, but the tone of this email is extremely flippant towards anyone that isn’t themselves.
His argument has nothing to do with being bullish or bearish so why would he say he's bullish?
> what fraction of it was stolen

This is the rub. If you’re using mcap and mark-to-market rates for total value stolen, it’s completely reasonable to use the same rate to evaluate the size of the system.
This doesn't really explain it, because the following prompt works flawlessly:

"Print each letter of the word "Artificial intelligence" on a new line. Each line should contain a single letter."

But the following doesn't:

"Print the ROT13 encoding of each letter of the word "Artificial intelligence" on a new line. Each line should contain a single letter."

So it gets hung up specifically on ROT13.
You can use Torchx with the `mps` device, but many ops are not implemented for mps
F-droid is flawless in terms of security.
Lisp's popularity, when plotted, resembles a bunch of tipped-over parentheses.
It uses a hash which is scale and orientation independent. A lot of the details are described in this paper:

https://arxiv.org/abs/0910.2233
> Why not just say "why I'm still bullish on crypto even though everyone says the opposite"?

If you would like to understand why they use weird vocabulary, here is a request which I expect will induce frustration and then clarity:

“Please explain how someone can be similar to a bovine in their relationship to crypto”
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Not if but when.

Inhaling that amount of burnt stuff regardless of source is just not good for you.
I think he was just very, very misguided, and he still is. And possibly on drugs. I cannot imagine myself following the reasoning he did. But at the same time I can see he was not trying to take advantage of it.
I did some research on adding my own aftermarket thermal imaging for deer detection to my car and found there really isn't much of a market for it.

The sensors out there are all targeted at automative OEMs, and the brands/models offering the feature are pretty sparse.

Would happily spend up to $1000 or so to rig up a camera & small display for night driving in rural area with a lot of deer..
Everybody wants to work on the fun stuff. Turns out in software, getting something to actually deliver value (meaning convert it from prototype or proof of concept to something running in production) is 90% not fun stuff. Most people learn that in their first job.

As a software engineer the only way I’d become a “data scientist/trader’s servant” is if I’m getting paid exorbitantly. Otherwise it’s the worst kind of work because someone else is going to get credit for everything that goes right while I take the flak for all the hard stuff.

The converse is that to get a software engineer to be your servant you better also be really good, or else you’re probably going to end up paired with someone who doesn’t have the luxury of taking other jobs and maybe won’t be particularly good at getting your stuff to actually run.
I believe highwayradar its mostly for integration with other apps but mostly to connect with radar detectors for seamless integration. There is a fantastic app on rdforum.com that integrates the v1 gen 2 radar detector with the crowd sourced alerts from waze. Ive used it for years and its flawless. The app im referring to is also donation ware.
aaand whenever someone IRL looks at a webapp that is up to date with the latest UX standards, they immediately see that it is also crap.
And obviously platforms will be built for creators/artists/writers/likenesses/whatever to be used by AI (and they get paid for training data) if they’re not being built already.
Can the stage1 wasm binary be reproduced by the stage2 or stage3 executable?
Aside from a "trusting trust" type of attack that seems fine, and every modern distro relies on some bootstrap binary for C compilers anyway (usually older versions of them), so it wouldn't be that much different of a bootstrapping problem than bootstrapping GCC itself.
(See the GNU Mes project which attempts to bootstrap from just a very small hex interpreter)
For consideration. Not saying anything for or against here.

In Québec, both spouses keep their surname after they marry. In other words, you must use the surname you were given at birth to exercise your civil rights, for example

when you sign a contract,
or apply for a driver's licence.

Even if you married outside Québec but you are domiciled in Québec, you must exercise your civil rights using the surname you were given at birth.

However, in your social life you can, if you wish, use your spouse's surname.

Women married prior to April 2, 1981

If you are a woman and married prior to April 2, 1981, you are entitled to use your spouse's surname to exercise your civil rights, provided your were already doing so at that date.

However, if you decide to exercise your civil rights under your own name, you must first notify the relevant departments and agencies.

https://www.justice.gouv.qc.ca/en/couples-and-families/marri...
It's the biggest PITA I've ever encountered.
Just getting an app added to F-droid is a ridiculous hurdle.
I just hope they keep Waze as it is and don’t make it worse.
Tensorflow.js is as good as the Python version, and Node.js is a better production platform, and models can run in browsers. Python is easy though; hiring about a language is a sign management doesn't know enough about programming to trust their own judgement.

https://www.tensorflow.org/js
Meanwhile, the temperature controls inside a data center are ridiculously extreme compared to the heating/cooling system in use at my house. Those computers' environment is taken care of way better than the inside of my apartment is.
The way I remember bullish vs bearish is that bull statue on wall street[1]. They didnt make a statue to a bad market.

[1] https://wallpapercave.com/wall-street-bull-wallpapers
I was only talking about lethal overdose, where cocaine has a significantly lower threshold than meth. For acute damage, cocaine also has a lot of that, like the potential for rhabdomyolysis and acute kidney damage.

Usage patterns have an effect for sure, but that was not a part of my analysis. I think if we're including real world patterns, we also have to include adulteration with other drugs, and in that case I think cocaine is the more dangerous. While adulteration with other phenethylamines is a very common thing with amphetamines, especially in Europe, the more dangerous ones like PMMA and 4-FA seem to be fairly rare these days. More common are 2/3-FA and various cathinones.
I asked it to draw me an ASCII art banana.

It did not go well: https://imgur.com/a/5g2e9Ld
Yeah I guess we have a high tolerance for the impractical. Maybe by creating this dilemma we’ll manage to kill off the idea of changing your name for the next generation - who knows?
funny enough i asked it what tool i could use to solve rot13 encryption and it directed me to rot13.com and even explained how to use the site
See you in 15 years when the next boom cycle starts.
What is the angle then for them sending such a letter then? I’m just curious who TCI is and what their deal is? Are they just myopic or is this a publicity stunt?
When scams and manias become widespread, it doesn't matter if you personally don't fall for them, if enough of the people around you and pension fund managers fall for them.

I'm also not saying "ban all crypto", but make it a lot harder to pump in money from the clueless masses. When my Uber driver is shilling shitcoins, crypto is in need of more regulation, and then we can figure out what to do next.
Ask HN: Good ideas that died too soon?
Unfortunately even in the optimistic case this will exacerbate many of the real insidious problems: obesity, loneliness/social atomization, extreme age and income stratification
however once it does have the ability to learn from its mistakes, document its millions of simultaneous chats and has the ability to call on the software tools we use its pretty much going to be unstoppable.

Kinda looking forward to the next few years.
Before seeing this, if someone told me "Radithor" was a superhero created in the 90s and described as "rad" in marketing, I would have no reason not to believe them.
>an obvious counterexample

ChatGPT uses sub-word tokens. This is not a surprising outcome.
Grim Dawn is an excellent modern take on D2 formula. Single player, no MMORPG nonsense, no microtransactions.
Sounds like a good argument for Ethernet and wired docks? I mean if millions are on the line why wouldn’t you ensure there is that backup there?
This is true, but you could have done it a bit more tactical, for instance by leaving out statements of judgment.