skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My Ford Edge has almost all the important controls accessible only through the touchscreen. If I'm in reverse for example I lose all ability to adjust the temperature, fan, or seat temperature. Its terrible. Adjusting the seat warmers requires moving an onscreen slider which is weirdly overly sensitive and yet at the same time laggy. Adjusting it while driving is almost impossible without looking at the screen which is unsafe and absolutely unnecessary.
Depends on the value of the entertainment they provide
My life has genuinely improved when we signed up all kids in a school which starts not earlier than 8:30. Where I live, all public schools start at 7:45, which is just way too early for me.
Are there any reliable modern vehicles with a UI more like a decade or two ago? (eg. physical knobs and a dash that doesn't blind you)
It's not the only article they published this month though. They had to do hours of research, writing, editing, etc for the article, their labor is worth money. Whether you think it is, or whether you want this particular content, is a separate matter though.
Well danger if done wrong is a good selling point. it suggests that the method must be powerful. I'm sure some gurus exploit this (manipulative technique) to be perceived as more serious or experienced. The problem is now, speaking about the (real or not) dangers of meditation could also induce some kind of nocebo effect in practitioners. And since most people open for this stuff will be more on the irrational spectrum of humanity ... the danger of meditation may be a self-fulfilling prophecy.

We speak about mindfulness here but there is the same discussion and warnings about kundalini for example.

Obviously focusing (or not) on something and sitting for a long time will alter you state of consciousness to some degree like a trance. But are there real and objective dangers besides the rewiring of your brain?
If you’re worried about backblaze failing you, grab some local storage and do some manual physical offline backups you can take offsite.

Even monthlies have a value in the worst case scenario.
The Superusers Behind IMDB
It’s not that your audio is being amplified, it’s that the VAD classifier is poorly tuned. The noise should never even reach the recognition stage. Whisper’s hallucinations are pretty severe, but are improved by adding VAD to its pipeline.
Those hideous bastards who can't get up at 5am, like I do.

Because waking up at 5am is HARD, and thus honourable.

The study literally says "on average the highly trained students of this important university perform badly if they're asked to wake up too early".

This might suggest that not-having-classes-at-8 might improve their performance, given that for some reason, on average, they can't get up at 5am.

We could investigate their lifestyle, it is because of their excessive screentime? Is it because of video-games?

Or, maybe, we could just not-have-classes-at-8, and we could just stop pretending that waking up early is good and everyone should absolutely do it, in spite of how hard it is.
Hyperinsulinemia is reversible. You reverse insulin resistance by stopping the constant, excessive stimulation of insulin. That's the disease, that's what does the most damage over the longest period of time years and years before an a1c exceeds the thresholds on a test. Once people restore their sensitivity to insulin and they change their diet, eating habits, they don't have type 2 diabetes. They have normal a1c, they have normal Kraft tests. They don't need medical intervention. They don't need drugs anymore. They will have normal a1c and healthy glucose metabolism proved by advanced lipid panels. We've known since the Kraft tests in the 1970s that type 2 diabetes can be predicted atleast 5-10 years before an elevated a1c would allow a doctor to diagnose a patient as type 2 diabetes. Insulin resistance is accurately measurable for decades now. Type 2 diabetes is curable.
Nope, it's not a technical reason. Zoning laws typically prevent you from building structures near the edge of your lot in the suburbs. They also mandate excessive amounts of space to store automobiles, and absurd setbacks from the street.
It’s not just cars. I think the touchscreen/iOS control set has some hard to use features.

For example, the slider wheel to specify a date or time is not very easy to use. I use Runkeeper to track exercises. If I have a 45 minute workout, I have to scroll through 0-44 to get to 45. This takes a few swipes and is more effort than tapping “4” and “5.”

I feel like the interface is superficially tested but not for routine functions where someone would like to speed up their interaction.

I think this inherits from the select drop-down html control where on the desktop everything is 1-2 clicks to select the drop down and then the value. But on a touchscreen it’s swiping.

This Carrie’s through to all these vehicle interfaces. I hope they get better. The S class interface in this article looks terrible. And that’s for a very nice car that other manufacturers are emulating.
Yes, it’s an obvious typo.
There may be a kernel of truth to this, but–as a lifelong nightowl who got in the habit of going for morning runs several years ago–I‘ve never been able to wake up as easily as I can stay up.

I love the feeling of running early in the morning as the city wakes up around me. I get a lot of the same enjoyment as when I stay up late at night, but I still haven’t been able to maintain a habit of truly early runs.

These days I sleep roughly midnight to 8am, and could very easily stay up til 4am if I were to want to, but shifting the other direction and waking up at 5 or 6am to run is super difficult. I can do it for a few days but have never made it stick. Running at 8 or 9am is still nice but not quite the same.
Here is another one to add to the list by Niki Proshin who managed to get out of Russia. [1]

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGB-l0An4zs
In practice, it would be very difficult to prove. It's IARC group 2B; possibly carcinogenic in humans, but insufficient evidence to say definitely. And it would be very difficult, probably impossible, to do an ethical trial. You can't say to people "Take this stuff; it's vaguely useful to bakers. Let us know if it gives you cancer; it did in lab animals!"

Also, no-one much except possibly the FDA has much incentive to spend money on research here. The EU regulator is presumably happy to leave it banned, the companies who use it in the US probably don't want to open Pandora's box, and it's not like they're unable to bake bread in the EU due to the lack of it.
Great domain name
And our evidence that software has more sexism than other fields is...? People tend to simply point to the lower than average female representation, but I don't find that convincing. 80/20 gender split is actually about average. Furthermore, studies measuring callbacks and recruiter interest show preference for women: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3672484
I think Volvo promised to get rid of touchscreens in their cars
It would be cool to research those ideal times. It is obvious that if one sticks to the hard coded ideal rest/wake times one is much more energetic, productive and more focused but I'm curious how big the difference is. Around 11 am I can wake up and cycle 200 km or run a marathon starting immediately. If you ask me kindly to run 100 meters around 6 am your life is probably in danger.
I learned this while working on NancyFX. Haven’t updated any in years since learning.
What version control systems are there for non-code? I never looked into it, I can imagine there's a whole world out there for things like written articles, books, but also video game assets like artwork, sprites, 3D models, textures, animations, etc.

edit: Looks like e.g. the Unreal engine has support for Perforce and SVN (https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.0/en-US/collaboration-and-ve...), where they make use of locking a file when editing it to avoid merge issues with binary files. I can imagine that frequently goes wrong.
How are they unprecedented?

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/fedfunds

The latter half of the 90s was >5%.
What are the benefits of Vertico over Helm or Ivy?
>The author says he lives in Europe, taking the laptop out fir repairs can easily take an entire afternoon of travel that could be spent more productively elsewhere.

I'm not sure if you understand how urbanised Europe is.
> I suppose if I had a 7 digit budget I could get a better deal.

We got our "deal" when buying just a single server and have since bought many more with the same provider. We didn't spend 7 figures all at once, we did it piece-meal over time. There is nothing stopping you from getting much better prices.

> I'm actually surprised you have 100% inference utilization - customer load typically scales dynamically, so with on-prem servers you would need to over-provision.

It is pretty easy to achieve 100% inference utilization if you can find inference work that does not need to be done on-demand. We have a priority queue and the lower priority work gets done during periods with lower demand.

> CEOs don't usually order hardware, they have IT people for that, with input from people like me (ML engineers) who could estimate the workloads, future needs, and specific hw requirements (e.g. GPU memory).

Judging by this conversation it seems like "people like you" may not be the best people to answer this question since the best hardware quote you could get was at a >100% markup! At a startup that specializes in ML research and work the CEO is going to be intimately familiar with ML workloads, needs, and hardware requirements.

> And when your people come to you asking for budget, while you're trying to raise the next round, you're more likely to approve the 'no high upfront cost' option, right?

If the break even point is 6-7 months and our runway is longer than 6-7 months why would this matter?
My impression is that almost everything that's made with touchscreen is a worse of an interface. I think the're four big reasons:

1) the notion of design has been subtly replaced with style;

Sleek wins over functional. For instance, scroll bars on desktop UIs were thrown away, because they were too fat for phones, and phone UI now sets the trend. So nobody among designers cared that the scrollbar you see with peripheral vision does help you orient in apps.

2) styles are in perpetual rat race, you must be trendy and throw away anything that's drawn to 5-year-old fashion;

3) constant feature creep; Social network VK offered music playing, but over the last 5-6 years the number of taps it takes to start playing grew from 3 to 6 or 8 if you need a particular playlist. It's just awful and irritating.

Consider public transit apps. In my city, you must do 15-20 taps to see the routes you need. I struggle to do this while walking. And I have a good vision -- imagine how tough it is for an old man. But a public sector manager, who drives a new sleek Mercedes and never took a bus/trolleybus last 20 years, tells you this is the future.

4) imprecision of touchscreens and curvature of a thumb. Feature creep requires to stick more and more items in the screen, and on a phone, you must be able to hit 1*1 mm area with a rather flat surface of your thumb.

I've only driven Renault Logan derivatives that have no touchscreen, and kinda scared of the perspective to have to deal with touchscreen while driving.
I always thought about writing this insightful blog about whay Ayn Rand would think of surveillance capitalism. She's a very strong proponent of the right to privacy, but at the same time she is a proponent of an unregulated market, that market produced surveillance capitalism. Or did it? Maybe it was produced by companies manipulating the rules behind the scenes, Ayn would hate that! Perhaps she would feel the need to take matters into her own hands: self-host all the things! I bet she'd have her own server, even though it runs that socialist, shared OS called Linux ;) ...

So I ask ChatGPT what would Ayn think? And it writes a very nice, balanced text. Exactly in line with my thoughts, just written more concisely and in much better English. I really enjoyed that conversation with ChatGPT. I did loose the interest to write the assay. Or perhaps I can copy paste it to my blog... Makes me feel like a CheatGPT though.
The "do you own research" line is often abused to dismiss experts or send you on a wild goose chase.
I see why you linked that one file. I am cloning the repo. It's 25% done and currently at 4.5GB. Thankyou for linking just that file.
And our evidence for this discrimination is, what exactly? As I pointed out in the other reply, the evidence shows that tech companies are if anything discriminating in favor of women. If we measure by job satisfaction, computer science and engineering are among the lowest disparity: https://www.economist.com/christmas-specials/2017/12/19/wome...
Which one do you mean? They can both keep time, with various caveats.
If everything that was nonsense never happened the world would be a nice place. Just because you want it to be doesn’t make it so.
Intelligence will go the same way bodyweight did when we stopped needing to use our bodies. Some people exercise and eat properly still, but most doesn't.
The Human Development Index of US vs. Europe
It sounds like he tortured himself then got PTSD from it.

Most things are fine when done in moderation, most things are bad when taken to the extremes.

"13 days to go" suggest this was some crazy regimen, if you would do that to prisoners I bet it's actually considered torture.

If I read about his past, it sounds to me like he might have some underlying mental health problems that would be good to address. Not by guru's, retreats, or pseudoscience, but psychologists and other professionals.

I think he does come to the right conclusion that the extremes can be very harmful. They are not that far from cults, always some guru or leader, then many people blindly following their weird practices based on absolutely nothing but pseudo science and believe, with a tendency to get more extreme (and more expensive!) the deeper you get into them.

Meditation is fine if done in moderation and as long as you don't expect it to solve all your problems. It can help with certain things, it also won't solve serious mental problems.

Working through mental health problems is no fun and a lot of work with many ups and downs, there is no easy solution, there are no shortcuts. Get professional help, get therapy, get medication if needed, be kind to yourself, and just keep working at it one step at a time.
I don't think the Greeks of Socrates/Plato/Aristotle's time were atheists, though they had some decently mechanistic views of astronomy, IIRC. Not totally sure your example holds up.
> In fact, in Britton’s study, 60% of the participants reporting distressing experiences were meditation teachers, rebutting Davidson’s argument that experienced meditators don’t end up in difficult territory.

Meditation teacher !== experienced meditator. Author seems to have been hanging out in a McMindfulness milieu, with lots of people who are "professional" practitioners, and in an environment where lots of people treat meditation as something divorced from the Buddhist religion.

I was annoyed when my teacher insisted that Buddhism was not a "science of mind", or some body of secular practices; it was intrisically religious. I tried for a decade to live with that, but eventually I gave it all up.
I think people taking shots at VC are misperceiving what all parties bring to the table.

VC provides capital and connections.

Young founders provide ideas and work.

VC can't / doesn't want to have ideas or do the work, but young founders can't access capital and connections.

To speak to up thread, most people who have been working in industry for 20+ years limit their aspirations to what they believe is possible, which is far shy of what's actually possible. Thus, it takes a young/dumb/crazy enough founder to even take the shot.

Furthermore, by scaling and making multiple bets, VC packages risk into more palatable ranges for investors.

We can point at and decry excesses and metastisized business models on both VC and founder sides (e.g. SoftBank Vision Fund and Theranos), but the underlying bargain is fair and effective.
Giving the ultimate control for what gets accepted and rejected
Minor correction - it's just chaos. There's absolutely no need to qualify it with the illusion of structure :)
All of the real meditation traditions around the world - including the ones inside of Christianity - spend decades training highly skilled teachers to help people

1) avoid problems like this, and

2) clean up problems like this when they do happen.

And even so those traditions never, ever (in my experience) describe themselves as anything other than perilous. "The way is long and narrow." "Like a snake entering a bamboo tube." And so on.

I put together a system for solo practitioners working with absolutely minimal oversight in 2015. People doing it since then, I talk to them roughly once (on average) to check they're doing it right, then don't hear back from them for years until they're getting into the weird "foothills of enlightenment" end stage stuff -- if they make it that far. Most don't, they plateaux. Which is fine, that's a good, safe place to be.

Instructions here. There's a bunch of other stuff in that same directory structure. It's fine.

http://files.howtolivewiki.com/.meditation_2015/transcripts/...
I asked around and there is another option. Something called "Incremental Computations". Here is a Clojure library. I think the examples kinda demo how it works

https://github.com/hoplon/javelin

It's sort of a version of option 3
Mazda and Honda both have said they will avoid touch screen for climate.

They both use the three knob system (fan strength, temp, zones) and there is no possible improvement as far as I am concerned.
This article doesn't go into any detail about the proposed law, but it goes to great lengths to demonstrate a caste discrimination issue in America. It's not clear how this law would apply to other cultures, ones that don't have a caste system, but one in which could be created for a legal argument.

Making it harder to discriminate against someone based on their skin, color or culture is a good thing, but caste seems too intangible. This law could open a very nasty can of worms.
> Maybe it's just better for you in short bursts, not long marathons.

Actual marathons aren't great for your body either, especially if it's not something you've diligently trained for properly, so that makes sense.
> but it doesn't hurt to do

Except it does. It requires an engineer to maintain the dates, and the company to audit that the dates are correct. It directly interferes with source control ("updated copyright" was the bane of my existence when trying to git-bisect a few years ago).
You can take that approach, but if your argument is that workers can expect to be financially compensated just as well in a cooperative structure as outside one then you may experience some difficulties. The person I was interacting with had made precisely this argument.
Good to learn a bit of history about TCP.

It always felt weird developing RPC layers on top of TCP cause requests and responses end up tied to the underlying socket -- which doesn't need to be the case ever.
At large timescales, the migrations most likely occurred in a way that followed Fick's diffusion patterns [1]. Some human groups inevitably even migrated backwards into Russia at times. And the partial pressure of humans in the Americas probably slowed further diffusion of humans into that area to a small degree as unfamiliar tribes collided together and repelled each other, either back to where they came or into a retreat further into unknown territory for respite.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fick%27s_laws_of_diffusion
Was going to say the same thing, the marketing website doesn't convey enough about the product.

Congrats on launching though. Step 1 complete.
Thank you for your reply. In most ways I agree, in all ways actually. But my point is that the term "real" doesn't mean strictly material. The picture I'm painting is to bring away "reality" from strictly material and external. I do this to argue with the point above your original reply, saying that the scientific method is incompatible with these things. We're in philosophical territory and I won't pretend to be an expert but I think we will have plenty of tools to bring the scientific method even to our most personal experiences.
> CYA measure

Apparently CYA stands for: "cover your ass".
In a hypothetical scenario where there is a group of people that need to come up with ideas then I think having ChatGPT in the mix would mean that group could be smaller but remain as productive as a larger group. It's certainly been able to fill the position of a sounding board or knowledgeable collaborator when I've used it.
In response to "How would you do it otherwise?", like I said, it kind of seems like the language is just what it has to be in order to be workable. In other words, it seems like it designed itself to some extent. And you're right, CSS has practicality. But with almost any pre-built solution, those selectors would look something like `button.cta.xl-2-large:not(:is(.container > .button))`. At that level of complexity, which is not uncommon, you're better off just coming up with a unique ID for every situation and styling things by ID rather than trying to make them "semantic" with the selectors. That's the other problem is the mixture of selectors trying to be both semantic but also their increased expressivity changing the specificity. So if you change a selector, you might need to reorder your CSS or change a bunch of other selectors to match, which becomes untenable the more CSS you have.
I hate bright LEDs. Even some car backlights are blinding, Audi is one of the worst offenders of this.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4jM0PBww4c

2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7F0WA17IpLM
Thanks! It took a while to come up with this name
I think we hugged it.
Without paywall (at least has reset the 'complimentary article' count for me) https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wired.com%2Fstory%...
Do Russian citizens have access to the truth?

Based on several different Russian youtubers I've watched the gist I get is that the older generations only watch television and read newspapers. Local social media is also state censored. They mostly believe what they are told. The zoomers either have VPN's or have friends that have VPN's and they get a bigger picture but are still afraid and reasonably so to talk about it in public.
Is this comment an attempt to virtue signal? You realize that 99% of people don't view work in this way right? The standard view is "do as little as possible to avoid getting fired"
I see two ways. Either let the students write school essays only in school while being supervised, or explicitly allow the use of ChatGPT and make them reflect the use of ChatGPT. Either way, this requires more effort by the teacher. I am sure that most schools will fail. Writing essays will seem quaint, annoying and superfluous. We as a society will need to find new ways to train.
I look at the screen, make a mental list (sometimes on paper) of the things to do, get away from the screen and go over the items in my head. It's not supper productive but it does contribute to the process without screen time.
There is a difference in abstraction between hooking API Gateway to a Lambda function, and writing and deploying an API on a Linux VM.

One is closer to the metal, so to speak, and provides a better basis for understanding how these cloud services (Lambda, etc) actually work behind the scenes. In this case, understanding the underlying technologies is not a myth.
Thanks for your kind words. Turns out building so much easier than launching
You make a very important point!

But I interpreted the comment you answered to as saying that doing your own research is time consuming/costly. And requiring people to "do their own research" is often infeasible.