skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there's a lot to be said for habits swaying it but I think "biological" night-owl-ism is definitely a thing.

I've always been a night owl. The most in-tune I've ever felt with my biological clock is when, one summer in college, I ended up going to bed at 5-6am and waking up around 3-4pm. I had friends on IRC who lived in new zealand who I ran a minecraft server with and did minecraft plugin coding with (enabled by the weird sleep cycle, not caused by it).

College and school etc always had me feeling exhausted. I maintain that I must have some innate mathematical ability because my 7:30 AM algebra 2 class in high school was performed exclusively by my subconscious as my brain got an extra hour of sleep regardless of what the external world was trying to impose upon it.

Anyway, blah blah night owl, then I had kids. Both the father and mother have a lot of hormonal changes (obviously the mother moreso but it's still nontrivial for the father) and all of a sudden I was able to wake up with the baby at 6:30am after 7 hours of shitty sleep with relatively no problem. Where was this in high school?? Well, the sleep part, not the baby part. But I digress.

Baby becomes toddler and start sleeping 10-12 hours at night, hormones recede, normalcy restores, and suddenly waking up to go to work at even 9am resumes being mild-to-moderately painful.

Have next baby. Cycle repeats.

Currently typing this having gotten up at 7 with baby #3 so this is top of mind.
Show HN: Xkbswitch.nvim – Smart automatic keyboard layout switching in 120 LOC
Our eyes are sensors! We collect data from them, if Mary doesn't know what Red looks like, hence she lacks this data. Hence, she doesn't know all the physical facts about the universe.

The initial point, of Mary, knowing all Physical facts hence doesn't seem to make sense, and therefore looks flawed!
A few years back, I committed myself to learning how to machine metal. Bought a mid-60's lathe and tore it down to the bits to clean and restore it.

Someone told me to buy How To Run a Lathe (https://idoc.pub/documents/how-to-run-a-lathepdf-x4e6k0o189n...) First print was in the early 1910's, and the intro described how the magic of a lathe is that a less-precise tool can be used to make a more precise tool...how you could start with a hand powered lathe between two trees and end up with a machine that could hold half-a-thousandth of an inch in a surprisingly small number of iterations.

Also, the Gingery series (https://kk.org/thetechnium/bootstrapping-t/) showed how you could bootstrap a machine shop with scrap aluminum and charcoal.

We've been smart apes for thousands of years.
I'd be happy for you to point me towards them, I don't believe they exist.

They do exist for Firefox.
It sounds like a classic free trial / try before you buy to me.
I overall agree with your point. There are many crimes the U.S. government has committed with impunity.
From the Copyright Alliance, a copyright notice isn't needed to retain full copyright protection, including on new works, since 1989:

https://copyrightalliance.org/education/copyright-law-explai...

"A copyright notice does not need to be affixed to a copyrighted work for the work to be protected under the law.

Prior to 1989 including a copyright notice on a copyrighted work was required under U.S. law, but that is no longer the case. Although copyright notice is no longer required, a copyright owner would be wise to include a copyright notice because it prevents an infringer from raising a defense of innocent infringement."

Furthermore, a copyright year may not be needed if a copyright notice with (c) mark is included.

So the copyright notice is primarily useful as a notice to others with regards to your work, but has no real use as a legal construct to establish ownership.
I don't know Wasabi well enough to comment, but GTR uses Azure because of its unique(?) ability to do cloud-initiated fetches, versus "download to my computer, upload to the S3 endpoint" that every other cloud storage API uses. All of the words you haven't read yet were about trickery to exfiltrate the signed Takeout URLs so that Azure's blob storage could fetch them (along with some Cloudflare Worker trickery to work around some kind of bugs in Azure)

So, I guess the TL;DR (heh, quite literally in this case) is that if Wasabi allows you to download something like an Ubuntu ISO to Wasabi storage by giving it the ISO URL from your phone, it'll likely work for you. Otherwise, you're back in the VPS setup TFA was seeking to avoid
> Do you really think that e.g. AWS and Cloudflare "constantly change their behaviour in the edge cases"?

I mean major Google APIs / SDKs do... And not just in edge cases. Not at all uncommon for a vendor to decide a service is unprofitable and kill it, or to decide to launch a new better version and deprecate the old one / demise in a couple of years. That isn't fun when you heavily depend on it.

When you look at the sheer number of services AWS offer, it feels its only a bad year or a major competitor gaining an advantage and undercutting them on price before there is a risk they consider trimming to a smaller core set of services. I'd bet the VPS offerings aren't what goes...

Or a standard comes out, they adopt that and deprecate the existing offering giving you 2 years to migrate. Having to re-work everything is a major cost to large firms and can kill a startup.
Does this send all the data to a third party? What if it contains personal information?
It’s same BS reasoning as Putin is using to justify all his other actions in last year.

Real reason is that Russia is continuing to do nuclear saber rattling, as that’s only real threat they have at this point. This war proved that Russia is no longer a global power, not even close.
yea all this is romanized as if the curse isn't a huge part of my life aswell. Like neet I know how to do all this stuff now time to watch everyone be able to complete and do it all as I just collect information and half finished projects
> I believe that if car crash deaths were reduced to 4,500/year in the U.S. with only self-driving cars on the road — a 90% drop from last year's actual 45,000 — an overwhelming majority of Americans would still reject self-driving cars because of the loss of agency involved.

And very rightly so. Someone who never drinks under influence and nearly always drives during the day (say to/from school) and is driving since 30 years has a probability so much lower to be involved in a deadly crash than a 18 years old on alcohol or drug driving on a Saturday night that it'd require much more than a 90% drop for that person to be safer by moving to a self-driving car if they were to only create 90% less accidents.

Here's something totally bonkers: in several statistics the car brand the less involved in car crashes (per miles or per 1000 cars of that brand or per anything you want) is...

Porsche.

You read that correctly. And it's not because Porsche repeatedly gets amazing short braking distances compared to other car brands: it's because young inexperienced people don't have the means to buy a Porsche (and Porsche are still pretty much regular cars, not crazy nervous stuff like Ferrari or Lamborghini).

If self-driving cars could be implicated in 90% less accident, the winning strategy would very likely be something like this: "put anyone under 25 years (and over a certain age too) in a self-driving car".

And maybe, maybe, once self-driving cars are implicated in 99% less accidents, experienced drivers never driving under influence would accept to move to self-driving cars.

There's absolutely no reason that those the less likely to have crashes should be moving to cars that are less likely to create crashes for those the most likely to be implicated in crashes.

"Moving everybody to self-driving cars" is the wrong way to think about the issue.

It's the segment at risks that should be moved to self-driving cars.

People just look at the total number of accidents and don't realize that "Porsche on the highway driven by an experienced drive bringing his kids back from school during daytime" is not anywhere near as likely as having a serious crash compared to "teenager on alcohol or drugs driving on a secondary road on a Friday night".

They're not even comparable. A rounding error.

Put it this way: it you were to get a 90% by moving everybody to self-driving car, you'd get an even bigger than 90% drop by moving only those in the segment at risks to self-driving cars.

And then, later on, once self-driving cars drive near perfection, you can move everybody to self-driving cars.

P.S: and to put things into perspective, we're talking about self-driving cars being fooled by stickers or bird poo on street signs. There's still some way to go.
I know, hence my use of the similar idea of "really existing Bhuddism" (a reference to "really existing socialism").
What's your solution for people who can't sleep on a hungry stomach?
Looks like ~$12k per unit. Not even half a year of our cloud spend. The economics around this are pretty hilarious to me now.

If we were to consolidate all of the processing power across our Azure/AWS VMs, we would not be at even 30% of what this part can handle. You could even throw in the IT stack of our entire parent org with room to spare.

The only reason we are still in the cloud is the deep compliance packages that our customers really enjoy. Even so, management is starting to consider alternatives.

I know a lot of us can't stand the idea, but the notion of putting the entire company on 1 socket is super compelling to me. On-prem turns into a dragon for me when I have to manage 10+ machines and related vendors. 2-3 machines and a handful of vendors is more manageable.

One thing is certain - The various cloud providers will take every ounce of AMD's performance innovation and make it feel like a negligible improvement to their end customers.
> I’ve stopped participating after I learned that copyright statements need only the year of the first publication and no lawyer that I asked contradicted.

This is true for a work that is published (or just created) and then doesn’t change after that, but there are multiple reasons why one might update the year on code:

If the code changes, it’s a new work and the new version’s term of copyright starts in the current year, not the year the file was created.

Even if the code doesn’t change, companies may still wish to try to extend their copyrights, claiming a new term every year, which pushes the expiration date out one more year every year. For code that doesn’t change, updating the year obviously might have no basis in law, but companies are free to interpret their copyright as applying to the entire repo rather than a single file, and companies aren’t necessarily being malicious with copyright terms, many clearly believe updating the year is a legal requirement, because it used to be.

Leaving the year out of the copyright notice might have the same effective goal, to make the term of copyright appear current at a glance, no matter when it is read.

Maybe this will all matter in the year 2173 when the first code copyrights start to expire. /s :P
Do you feel the same way about auto break technology?
The Wonder Years
A friend from high school traveled throughout the US, Asia, and Europe. He loves Albania and settled down there a few years ago.
> The only workable solution I found was integrating this in a value-add way, so that something in the service/experience/etc was better for the user/customer as a result of enabling telemetry, without the dark pattern of making things intentionally awful/worse without it.

This sounds like a great concept, but I'm struggling to come up with concrete examples - how did you approach it?
Passkeys for Infrastructure
Putin says Russia will suspend role in New START nuclear accord with U.S.
Well, my question here is, is there any use case of web3 that has a viable business model or is the whole industry a case of "The Emperor's New Clothes" fueled by the VCs looking to lure the excess of cash around?
Test a Linux kernel USB Device Controller driver with testusb
I support using AI in education because it will be in the work environment. It seems insane that anyone would want to teach students on slide rules and typewriters and then send them out to a world of computers and word processors.

And I have no idea where your “ableism” comment came from. Just trying to inject some culture war?
Less talent, more people thinking their contributions are worth mention.
Source for Fed stating they are setting fed funds rate higher than 5%?

5% and 0% are already world apart given the last two decades.
The Leap to Hydrogen-Powered Flight – IEEE Transmitter
It's the .git folder (objects) that is massive. 15GB. I think that's the biggest git repo I've ever seen on github. 39207 commits going back to 2012. It should give some interesting history and insight into how they manage their censor list.
Access fine-tuned GPT Models by Community members via API
Hi!

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Also, we are looking for model creators that are looking to share their fine-tuned GPT models with others as well as monetize their work. We think there is a market for high quality fine-tuned GPT models that users can easily access without doing all of the hard work fine-tuning themselves and that model creators can earn a reasonable amount or at least enough to offset their API calls to OpenAI. We are at the early stages and so we will personally be onboarding all model creators.

If your a model creator looking to reach out: hamsa@modeltune.co

If you have any questions I'd be happy to answer!
It also makes me wonder whether it’s unusual people who select themselves into such extreme activities, and not that meditation is dangerous.
You didn’t, but the study did talk about people skipping class, probably do to over sleeping.
I think it's partly bullshit. I would consider myself a night owl but: On one hand, if i never check myself, I will just stay up to the late hours of the night, which I often feel is attributed to how I grew up, and as such it's psychologically ingrained in me.

Otoh, I successfully followed an 11p-6a sleep schedule for months, but I'd never noticed any negative differences in my general day to day energy/etc levels compared to when I would go to bed late. (Maybe better mood bc being up before most ppl is a great feeling?) But really, the biggest difficulty I had with this regimen was to just go to bed on time, and I think this is more to do with habits rather than genetics. But only partly.
I'm afraid there is no quick solution. Your app will have to write to both temporarily and make the switch, no way around adding logic to it.

Even if a multi-DB polyglot proxy/gateway exists, you'd still have to specify the relations, constraints, etc... at which point you'd better do that in your app to avoid lock-in.

Google for "mongodb to postgres downtime". I've found a few detailed articles.
As someone noticed, you are trying to say something similar the private language argument of Wittgenstein.

But notice that this isn’t really private to a person.

How are we sure about external events like a ball falling down? Are they not processed by our minds and then expressed in language. A ball falling down is fairly standardized and accessible, but for other events there is a lot more background which is needed. But human experience and culture is filled with phenomena which require a much larger shared context - which is acquired after walking in a shared territory. Like long time explorers of the seas who can have a a conversation on far away lands.

Explaining many current physical concepts or how to interpret the experiments which are conducted at a non-superficial level requires years of training (leave alone research). Even someone who finishes high school algebra is at a rarefied stage compared to people thousands of years ago.

Getting a shared context in meditation related explorations might actually require much lesser time.

For similar reasons, negative stages itself have been meticulously documented in manuals like Visuddhimaga which are referenced in the books mentioned in the article.(fwiw, my 2 cents on the article - maybe instead of promoting intense concentration on sensory phenomena, love based practices like bhakti or metta might be a better popular practice).

A good counter argument is that in the physics example there are gradual stages in learning where at each stage you can test what you learn and match it with the world, not spend 15 years of education to get to QFT and then match with experience.

But that ladder is present even in the case of traditions which explore the mind.
Conservatives want to dismantle the public school system, not preserve and perpetuate it.
The situation has improved, actually - you'd still have to do custom scripting to check the output checksums AFAIK but ex. https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/reproducible.ht... tracks Debian's attempts to make it possible to reproduce packages perfectly. It's just that nixos made it pervasive and normal through the whole system.
“We changed it from touchscreen to dial operation, as we received customer feedback that it was difficult to operate intuitively. You had to look at the screen to change the heater seating, therefore, we changed it so one can operate it without looking, giving more confidence while driving.”

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/motor-shows-geneva-motor-...
And in contrast, here in Ontario in the late 1980s I worked in a computer store, and repeatly was told by parents that they got computers for their kids so they could print out homework because their handwritting was so hard to read.

A number of those parents claimed to me that their kids now got better marks because the teachers could now read the work with ease, whereas they often struggled to read the hand written stuff.

Note: Those same teachers still had problems reading the 8/9 pin printouts, but once the move to double striking/24 pin printers they had no problem. This suggests to me, that a lot of the teachers had eye-sight problems.
Honestly, following total civilization collapse, I think computers are going to be the least of our problems. Finding a power source for your computer, being able to find and use devices to work with it, etc. seem like wastes of time unless you can secure long term access to water, shelter and food. Nice to have something around I guess, but I don't see that computers would be terribly useful unless you manage some stability beforehand
From my experience the biggest source of depression was people around me. Especially those I felt obligated to, but they didn't seem obligated to me in return. Maybe looking here might help. Indeed, it is not uncommon to criticise the world as a substitute for those in our environment whom we cannot criticise.

Leaving those people was difficult but the depression lifted and I was free to focus on my own life, which has been getting better.

Also getting a good night's sleep is very helpful. There are certainly also intensifying factors in the modern western lifestyle.
> All in all, I think I'd recommend doing this. Even if the keys never change, it's pleasing to see the art show up in your terminal.

If someone uses "the keys never change" as an argument against this, I think they have completely missed the point. (Not saying OP has).
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Even the solipsistic must surely realise that there are simulacrum of external reality that can be dismissed as, say, 'it was just a shiver' rather than being a 'real' part of one's subjective experience.

Reflecting, I guess I'm questioning if the solipsist really believes all that which is put before their minds is really "experience", per se.

As sure as anything, Pyrrhonism is where it's at!
The Catholic tradition and Christian tradition in general are deeply informed by Stoicism, especially Stoic ethics. So coming from that kind of tradition, you might find that you're already aware of many of these things, even if you couldn't quite tell where they originally came from.
This seems like an odd question to ask, but in Oakland, CA, there are communities trying to do the exact opposite of this. Build CCTV systems to protect AGAINST gangs. I'm curious to know what hardware these guys used. Swords with two edges, you know.
Brilliant synthesis:

Globally humans have transitioned almost overnight from information/knowledge scarcity to information flood. Once we had plenty of time to forage information to construct narratives and share them and agree/disagree on them before the next influx. Now we are literally waterboarded with information that has no context, minimal sharing and no real conversation attached. We are left with whatever individual narrative our pattern matching can construct, and it's usually inadequate. Narrative is definitely a superpower of the group not the individual.

We may need to wait a generation until people who have grown up in this world and can filter feed on the information can create/disseminate narrative adapted to the new rate of information flow and yet somehow true to reality.
> You don't rely on the natural light for these photos

That's only because natural light isn't available. Modern diving lights use inaccurate color-rendering cool white LEDs heavy in the blue spectrum. To get the reds, a diver would actually need a second light source that has red LEDs. So much depends on the narrow color spectrum profile of these shitty LEDs. But incan light sources, no longer made and sold but for vintage collectables, burn tungsten, so the color spectrum is wide and very much like that of the sun, though warmer than the sun at noon, and they always produce a perfect color rendition. High CRI LEDs from Nichia and Cree are getting closer to natural light, with 93+ CRI and warmer color temperatures with pinker tints, but dive light manufacturers have not discovered these yet. So the best a diving photographer can do is to search for and find a bright halogen light source around 3200K. But instead, they shoot washed-out RAW digital images and use digital color post-processing resulting in something that can't ever be seen with human eyes in the real world because it doesn't exist. So, lies.
> Modern languages have for value in arr, arr.forEach or equivalent. Such code makes it easier for compiler writers to make this optimization.

Those features were modern 40 years ago, even Visual Basic (pre-.NET) already had them.
Because almost every complex system that includes facilities controlling its own complexities, has a tendency to increase the resources and structural complexity spent on that task.

If this is not actively kept in check, such a system can deteriorate over time, by a positive-feedback loop of newly created controlling facilities created to control the increasing amount of facilities.

This is not to say that managing roles are not required. Of course they are. Complex systems need control. But the proliferation of that control needs to be kept in check, otherwise, the mechanism that is initially helpful (creating structure to control complexity), will become a problem by creating additional complexity of its own.
Remember that Cory Doctorow article about "enshitiffication"?

IMDB is a great example of that phenomenon.
No, but it offers a lot of escape hatches to get closer to Java-level performance: transients, mutable fields with deftype, atoms, transducers to minimize intermediate sequences, type-hinting, Java interop, etc.

I've seen Clojure sped up to within 20% of Java's speed, at the cost of very un-Clojure-y code.
Obligatory https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4