skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a reference https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unreasonable_Effectiveness...

It's interesting that we can start with some stuff, get mathematical conclusions, and then the mathematical conclusions lead to results about Physics. That's crazy! Well, not really, but it's cool, right?

But it's mostly used as a humorous snowclone here. So yeah, it is what it is, and you must remain peeved. There is no relief.
As you point out, the cartel problem won’t be solved by any single isolated action, however big it is.

Legalizing drugs is the obvious first step, but yes, there’s thousands of other steps and a whole whack-a-mole game starting from there to weaken the bigger players.
I've battled the opposite in the form of clinical, anxiety-driven insomnia my whole life. I've found it utterly debilitating at times and have quite literally struggled since birth, long before electronics and LEDs were common.

I can confidently say you're so right about the number (and type) of variables. Sleep hygiene as we say in the biz is a very complex and personal issue.

I've tried everything under the sun from strict routine, screen avoidance, both abstinence from and ample sex, more reading, less reading, zero caffeine, limited caffeine, ALL THE CAFFEINE, changes to diet, fasting, supplements, and even medication.

There are usually relatively minor, short lived improvements but it's only a matter of time before I'm spending my nights once again staring at the ceiling, mind at full-tilt.

Whenever sleep comes up in conversation, and I mention my struggles, I feel like invariably I'm met with a response along the lines of "you _just_ have to...", and "have you ever tried ...?" followed by some arbitrary rule or herbal remedy.

Since about the the introduction of the first iPad, consensus seems to have formed the root of all sleep evil is screentime.

Sleep (for some) is an incredibly sensitive and personal struggle. Alarmist "mankind is doomed!" make it even harder to understand the greater picture.

It's closely related to diet. There's always some fad trending, and a number of people who find success in choosing a "better" diet almost always have a system they'll fervently claim is The Way.

The science is relatively clear on light though. I just appear to be some form of mutant.
ASCII-d – A minimal ASCII diagram editor
ASCII-d is an ASCII diagram editor I've been working on for some time now and recently reached a "usable" state, so I think it might be a good time to share about it.

Under the hood, it uses Druid as a UI library.

Here's a screenshot of what it does:

> https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/613943/220793686-a...

If you are familiar with Monodraw on macOS, so you know what this app does. I intend to build a minimal version of Monodraw and maybe support multiple platforms. It's not as feature complete as other ASCII drawing apps for now. But it's a start.

I hope you guys like it. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated!
I’m quite experienced with protobufs and they handle it well enough. Having no schema doesn’t address the root problem of API producers/consumers needing to manage schema changes together.
I agree about what you say, but it completely ignores the point you replied to.

You can't practically reverse into a spot when someone drives too closely behind you and prevents you from reversing, or when someone noses into that spot that you appear to have just driven past.
I don't understand the graph of Irradiance vs. Wavelength for an ebook vs. print book. It looks like the print book was read in the dark? Help.
Programming is a generalist thing though. Usually people go to com sci then eventually fall into an industry (finance, healthcare, manufacturing, etc). But now I see more Business, Art, etc majors getting into coding.

With AI and ChatGPT touching on everything like lawyers or even doctors, coding is become more commonplace for sure
Not in the way you’re thinking of. Growing, processing, and smuggling drugs on a thousand-mile route requires huge resources and sophisticated multi-decade operations that are openly visible to the government. Sneaking it over the border in San Diego in the trunk of a car does not. Distributing it inside the US also does not. Any idiot with a life expectancy of 5 minutes can complete those last two tasks while maintaining secrecy.
I agree. After reading the content that filled my screen, I have absolutely no idea what this product does or who it is for.
Perhaps Facebook should again require an email address at an approving college or university for sign up.

But what about supporting the NCMEC National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, without biometrics due to new laws?

Can you teach your daughters to be considerate of others on the internet?

They used to tell us not to put any personal information online as kids; no real names, etc.

Perhaps social media is a mirror from which we can determine parenting approach?

Are violent video games less bad than social media for which unhealthily-competitive strata?

"Please do not bully people on the internet because:"

"Please be considerate and helpful on the internet because:"
I think someone made an automated database of musical riffs of a certain length--all possible riffs. And put it on a hard drive.

AFAIK the opinion was that that doesn't count as copyrightable art.
Where do discoveries about quantum mechanics come from? My understanding is that we've had the laws written down pretty much in their entirety for a while now. Is it just people doing calculations that hadn't been done before? New experimental data that's upending the laws? Or are there a lot of parameters in the laws that still are not yet known?
You can also solder or plug in a remote battery pack. These older Williams boards put the battery pack at the top of the cabinet where it could leak all over. Later designs at least put it at the bottom where nothing important was below.

Another option is to replace the CMOS RAM with NVRAM.
Reminds me of the VR Experience Recording system that one of my friends was working on.

https://youtu.be/Tlo0tzbNIW8

Essentially, the encoded position of a VR headset is baked into the video stream, to be retrieved at playback to add positional/rotational contexts to the video.
I fully understand how we got here, but it is still frustrating. POSIX was not a gift from the gods, but a descriptive this-is-how-thing-are. There should not be any sacred cows, and there needs to be a way to eventually break backwards compatibility and remove the cruft.
I guess in some places it's all electric cars with "frunks", so it's no longer a worry. I was actually thinking of Texas, where big SUVs are the norm.
Ask HN: Scientifically Proven Meditation Audio
Looking for mp3s ) YouTube videos that are proven or research quality for meditation, mindfulness. Specifically for things like constantly checking the Phone :D
"Father" of the soviet rocket program - Sergey Korolev was also imprisoned in 1937 for false charges, put into labor camp, tortured, moved to a prison for scientist and engineers, and finally released in 1944. Charges were not dropped for him up until 1957 when Sputnik 1 was launched [1].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Korolev
I have been following OLED lights for a while and they seem to have fizzled out from a consumer perspective. Unfortunate as I would love to install them in my house.
> …and receive offers tailored to their interests…

The day my car starts showing me advertisements of any kind is the day I take a sledgehammer to its infotainment system. For a luxury car brand to even include this in their copy they send out is a bit worrying.
Wonder if the “80” is from maps, which is then overridden by buggy vision?
One thing I haven’t seen mentioned is all the supplementation with melatonin people are doing. Does ingested melatonin still have the same protective effects?
Right but they mentioned those were (young) adults vs young teens. So there is a good chance they already have a solidified friend group and don't have to play the game of constantly being on social media.
Your final conclusion surprised me. All of the software woes you describe sound like they come from insufficient foundational technology, so why not be pleased that they are now investing in those foundations?
If it’s $500 no lawyer is going to go to court for $250.

I doubt they have a $20,000 upwork balance.
They are launching, but right now Starlink is a monopoly.

There’s no other constellation in orbit that comes close in latency or bandwidth capabilities.

Hopefully the upcoming constellations are successful and there’s more competition in this space. It really is world-changing stuff.

OT, but it’s possible the current price hikes aren’t due to full cells, but ground stations at capacity. I’ve seen upgraded and additional ground stations referenced. They serve very large geographic areas compared to a single “cell.”
Gossip Glomers: A series of distributed systems challenges
Magnitude 6.8 Earthquake – 67 km W of Murghob, Tajikistan
Looks like you can skip the logger and get a cheap rtlsdr to log data wirelessly (using e.g. https://github.com/bemasher/rtldavis). A cheaper still route would be to grab the outdoor sensors for a weather station supported by rtl_433 (or receive signals from a neighbor!)

If you don't mind a DIY approach you can use ESPHome to quickly integrate some low cost sensor modules (e.g. BME280s).
I think this is most significantly a policy issue. Under the existing US law, minor human input could be enough to make AI copyrightable through the "modicum of creativity" argument. However, if this allows for massive amounts of content to be generated (semi-)automatically in much shorter amount of time and with much less effort than what was possible before, it seems strict and generous copyright protections granted to creators of such works by society through the current law are no longer really warranted. In the end, copyright exists to provide motivating reward for creative effort - if such reward is no longer really necessary to enable close-to-infinite creative image generation, the law really may need to be altered to prevent copyright trolls and other nastiness of that nature.
Sure, this has been possible all along, and I've been using plain old python and javascript to do it. The essence of hacking is in effect making things "malleable to the point that the data it holds can be re-shaped into something else".

That said, I don't have a problem with re-skinning it as something of a bold new frontier. Honestly, it might be useful to express that sentiment at somewhat frequently - maybe it inspires someone who hadn't had that thought before. The advent of LLMs also makes this type of hacking accessible to non-programmers.
Also, it’s a very dangerous game of whack—a-mole.

One previous strategy was to try and cut off the heads of the cartels, but it didn’t stop the drug smuggling, and increased violence due to the power vacuum. The cartels that would win out were often worse.
You aren’t addressing the point they are making. They aren’t arguing that socialized healthcare is worse than no socialized health care. They are saying that the societal burden of providing said health care is distributed across the population, and while it may be preferable to do so, it still means that something like excess sugar consumption has a negative effect on others.
Thanks for the reply! I don't want to be overly critical and I agree it's important. And yes trying to keep things briefer matters too and is something I often struggle with. I just don't think the tradeoffs were quite right. The alarmism approach has gotten overdone, because in terms of percentages there are lots of things we just live with that are "killing us" by the measures you use there. I deal a fair amount with things like network/computer security that have long been seen as low priority cost centers, and it's always challenging to be in a "proving a negative" or "black swan" sort of area where the default result is nothing happens. I've found in those contexts it's important to chart a middle course between complacency and exhaustion/defeatism. For a long time I was most worried about getting any attention at all, but I've found over the last few years that it's also easy for people to start to feel so overwhelmed that they just give up and yolo it so to speak. So an approach of "this is real, but we can make real progress and it doesn't have to be perfect and here's how" can be effective. Or even a "here's what to ask for/look for over the next few years".

One bit of luck in this specific case is that we do have some relatively decent, relatively easy numbers. "Demand to know CRI & R9, and look for ones that are 80-100 in both, the higher the better" is doable for non-experts and not that far off together I think.

>But as far as actionable measures... I did put those in there. Incandescents, on dimmers, in evening spaces.

I don't consider that actionable myself frankly. Can be an option for "those who are really worried right now" sure, but I don't think most people are ever going back to this, and indeed even finding incandescents at all is going to become harder and harder. How many people have dimmers installed at all in general? How many know how to? How many will go to the effort, vs changing a light bulb? The energy savings and other advantages of LED-based lighting (particularly smart lighting) are too strong. If you present this as one-or-the-other, I think the vast majority are just going to write this off as the same category as various chemical hazards that don't seem like there is much individuals can do conveniently and is stressful to think about and thus people choose not to think about it.
I'll admit, I'm entirely out of the loop when it comes to the technical aspects of how these large transformer models actually "work". Luckily, statements like "optical computers could have >8000x energy efficiency advantage" are well within my capacity to understand.

That said... Can anyone parse what's being done here? How/why is it more efficient? Is this essentially the Analog Computer of these giant transformer models?

Finally, how can I build one with fiber optic cable and leds?
Associated Map [1]

[1] - https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?extent=26.03704...
I often see this happen on HN where seemingly easy to verify claims made by parent and child comment directly contradict each other.
I think you misjudge the intentions of the US government.

do you really think this is about stopping drugs?

as far as I can tell what they really want is to sell guns (to cartels) and buy the best of the goods (good drugs for good parties?)
Great recommendation. I'll check it out.
I've benefited from cooperative userspace context switching with CPU bound workloads as well. Imaging simulating a vehicle's worth of embedded software, with several dozen tasks originally intended to run at 100Hz asynchronously across multiple different computers. Now, imagine running them faster than real time, deterministically. Now imagine doing several thousand of those simulations. The overhead of OS threads, context switching and synchronization starts to add up, and is 10-100x slower for that sort of workload.
I don't think many intentionally lose money on gas though. If they weren't covering the cost of the gas, they would raise the price, which seems like a rational thing to do for a popular game.
Does Upwork have a binding arbitration clause? I’d expect them to.

In which case, take them to arbitration! It’s pretty easy for you but costs them money.
I heard on a Joe Rogan Podcast with a CIA 'influencer' that the Federal Reserve is now laundering cartel money through Colorado's legal pot dispensaries
Comparison of sub-$20 LED Light Bulbs with low Kelvin, 90+ CRI and low flicker, https://gembared.com/blogs/musings/the-best-daytime-white-li...
That's a mind-opening Twitter thread, thanks for posting.

"Anytime anyone says to you “if that’s possible, why hasn’t it been done yet?”, remember that virtually everything about modern spacecraft was figured out by a Russian eccentric decades before anyone did anything with his publications."

I wonder if there are such eccentrics alive today, and how could we tell if we're looking at a sneak peek of the future to come? Is such situation even possible today? Or can we safely assume that today, if something seems possible but hasn't been done yet, then either the math behind it doesn't work out, or the economics of it don't.

On the question of who, I can think of three candidates: Eliezer Yudkowsky and the crowd around him on General AI, Eric Drexler on nanotech, and maaaaybe Stephen Wolfram on the computational nature of the universe. In all three cases, the works I read presented ideas and reasoning that added up - but I'm aware they're also widely criticized, and unfortunately, I lack deep enough knowledge to properly evaluate both the ideas and the arguments of the critics.

The above is on the "seems like the math of the thing adds up?". On the "it obviously does, but the economics might be tricky" side, there's tons of well-developed ideas for things to put in orbit and on other celestial bodies. No point in picking examples.
StopBullying.gov: https://www.stopbullying.gov/

"How to Make a Family Media Use Plan" (HealthyChildten.org (AAP)) https://www.healthychildren.org/English/family-life/Media/Pa...

Internet safety:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_safety
No, the premise of my comment is that faceless project-based assignments without applicant-specific feedback are a totally one-sided way of interviewing that completely caters to the company's values (e.g. scalability, leanness) and not the candidate's. Who spends 8h on an assignment, gets a generic "sorry", and does not wonder why? At least in a face-to-face interview I can at least go back in my memory and try to figure out what the cues were. There is none of that in a generic, fully automated screening process
This is how I take to learning new programming languages.

Project Euler. ( https://projecteuler.net/ )

Bite sized “specs” calling for an answer to be solved in your new language. Each getting harder and dealing with important concepts to grok and hurdles to overcome.
I think the reply JSON for Challenge #2 should say "msg_id", not "id"?
You must live in a civilized land.

What you describe is how things should work, but in practice it's not that way in many countries. I've driven in many countries, and what you describe has only been common (in my experience) in Netherlands. But even there, it doesn't always work.

Parallel street parking is very common. The car wanting to reverse into a parallel spot will pull past it, put on the hazard lights, and then back in. Usually cars behind, if they are not already following too closely (which does happen a lot), will stop short to give you space to back in. But even in NL, this is less common in a parking lot that is nearly full. People are circling, desperate for a place to park (since the nearest next alternative could be a long way away), and will absent-mindedly or intentionally swoop into a spot that you just passed by.
Mercedes has been disappointing me over and over again. Their car body designs are becoming difficult to look at, especially the electric range (the EQS is one ugly car). Their software is HORRENDOUSLY buggy. Their 2007 S-Class is a smoother ride than their 2022 model.

I love what Mercedes used to stand for, but right now they are pretty much selling cars on brand value, not because they're actually great cars.

The new S-class even feels like a step back from the previous model in terms of basic aesthetics. Plus, loaded up with cheap electronics, ready to break before your next service.
Oh, I'm certainly not suggesting just giving in to it. But in contrast to the person I replied to, I think we should take teens' perspectives on their social cliques seriously, because even though the cliques don't have importance in society, they have impacts on those within, and our understanding of how cliques operate is surprisingly under-appreciated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zachary's_karate_club

Now combine the natural fact of cliques and fissures in small groups with the amplification/reinforcement effects that social media provides, and you can see the potential for acceleration/intensification of social stresses during formative years - like Mean Girls but potentially spread across the entire internet, or at least similar cohorts.
This is the Socialist Republic of Vietnam state run news agency reporting on the annual Tet holiday internet "outage" caused by "cable failure" it has gotten better over the years. Instead of complete blackout they slow social down to a total crawl or dead, my guess is they do it to stop the ability for any kind of organized public uprising, protest or civil unrest.

It is normal in Vietnam to have nation wide internet blackouts leading up to some politically important moment, holidays or maneuver. The authorities always blame some upstream fault and there is silence from government on it (apart from injecting some press about undersea cable failure. One year they put an article about sharks developing a penchant for internet cables which is now the running joke), the expat forums in Vietnam have pretty frequent and humorous complaints about it.

My colleagues in Vietnam frequently get cut off for days and just laugh that the "shark ate cable again"

Vietnam cant be connected by only undersea cables, they have land borders with China, Laos and Cambodia, whilst *mostly third world countries their internet is doing just fine during these Vietnamese internet outages. Not far away is Singapore - an island, with an AWS, Azure and GCP regions and they do not have shark eating cable internet outages.

TLDR this article is total BS
Android Automotive is now the native OS for new Volvo and Polestar vehicles. A far better option than anything custom from the manufacturer.
I dont know of any good reason to have gratitude for a corporation for anything. Having gratitude of the workers and academics that made it happen on the other hand? Sure, that's fair. But gratitude for a corporation, especially one that is dystopian and anti-consumer in everything they do? No can do.
I can see it now, 2dollar monthly subscription to the glovebox compartment
A photo that tries to capture an existing painting as closely as possible is not copyrightable.

However, even minor changes (such as changing the tint of the photo) have been found to be enough for copyrightability.
he got lucky, but when they said, "We'll give you some stock in lieu of a big salary" he had to say Yes. How many chefs would do that?
Sugar is not that addictive. I’ve gone from eating lots of consistent sugar to eating meat and vegetables for weeks before. I was not balled crying from my withdrawals.
I was confused for far too long about what tensors are, because I got weird answers from authority figures and I guess it never clicked.

Lol. That was silly. In this regime, [x y z w] is an ordinary matrix, while [x y z is_feline_65] is a tensor. I get why it’s more than that, but come on… this is all matrix addition and multiplication. Even transformers and diffusion models.

So what is the difference between a filter kernel or soft brush in Photoshop, or an inference model matrix?

Easy. People don’t use photoshop with multilayer 80B parameter spraypaint brushes.

And justifiably have no idea what most of these words mean.
No benefit to replacing working Williams boards. The benefit is if you have a bad board and can't find replacements. The DumbAss boards are electronically identical to Williams boards so you can install them in any combination in a System 11 pin without any other modification. They're simply modern replacement parts.

The software is whatever you flash on to the ROM and could be modified on a Williams or DumbAss board equally.

Also what System 11 machines do you have? I have a High Speed (with Williams boards).