skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The world was in a Cold War after the communists (Soviets) defeated the Nazis. America did the mass murder and suppression of people in my Indonesia example (Jakarta Method) to suppress communism in support of capitalism. There's been videos recently on Youtube going over US led coups. The amount to stop socialism is the vast majority. Coups don't include various massacres and suppression of communists either.

It kind of hurts to hear people still think this. My parents home country had coups taking out leftist socialist leaders and installing awful dictators. Capitalism is evil. Capitalists should have left socialists alone after World War 2.
I had no idea the U-2 was still flying.
I don't remember. But this was before the big changes in financial aid laws during the 1990s. I'm not sure whether I was personally eligible for loans. I have no recollection of that option ever being discussed. I do know that the financial aid application required information from my parents.
(Post author here, huh, it hit HN...)

This is not consistent with the studies I've read. It's a "total lumineous flux in the 460-490nm range" concern. The deep reds, up past 600nm, don't seem to have any impact on melatonin, nor do violets below ~420nm - though they can have other impacts on the retina and such.

Bright light will, all other things being equal, be worse than dim light, but "dim blue light" is still really bad for melatonin levels and sleep.

Some of the older studies did find an impact up in the greens, but they were for fairly short duration exposures - 30 minutes or so. The impact of the longer wavelengths, over a longer term, seems to be muted by [mechanisms somewhere in the system], leaving the blues with the most impact.

You're welcome to trust Huberman, but I'd encourage you to read the papers yourself (I've read dozens and simply picked the most relevant here). There's quite a bit of work on this matter from the past 20-30 years, and they all seem to conclude that "blues matter." Greens and above don't have nearly the same impact, and they don't have the longer term impact. I'll also suggest being careful about conclusions drawn purely from the absorption spectrum of the molecules involved, as the body doesn't seem to react directly to them, but to some skewed version. Unit tests are nice, but end to end tests cover all the details in the process.
Yeah, KV is GNN's vehicle for excessively controversial (i.e., what I might call "bad") takes.

I don't think he's wrong that the POSIX synchronous IO model isn't a great fit for modern hardware, though. He doesn't really go into it much but (Windows) NT's async-everything IOCP model really seems to be the winner, as far as generic abstractions that have stood the test of time.
I have a 13 year old who just got a phone. I do not think things are as hopeless as you seem to believe. My daughter mocks social media (including my own use of it) and, so far, wants no part of it. That is, I think, largely because her mother and I have been educating her since she could use a computer on how stupid and vapid social media is. As far as I know, none of her friends has any social media accounts either, I believe for similar reasons.
Candles also supposedly awful for PM 2.5
Did they award Copyright to Netflix's animation short "Dog and Boy"? I am curious to see how they treat the small proprietor vs the big corporation.

Info: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/02/netfl...
If you did the work and they withheld payment, that's damages. Lawyer up.
This is a very cool idea.

We are doing something similar except we are also predicting the nodes.

In the end, the winning combination will likely be doing both. There will be a predicted graph structure which serves as a high level guide to make sure the long text doesn't lose focus, but everything will still be written with full context using something like Compressive Transformers or Expire-Span.
>find "r9"
>no results
>find "cri"
>no results in post

:/. This is definitely an important and I think unappreciated issue right now, and I'm normally all for long form investigations too. But I don't think this piece structured it very well. It started losing me right at the beginning with what felt like an outdated description of technology applied too broadly, and then not actually bothering to cover the very real improvements changing things until the very end, and even then putting off concrete coverage of who deserves kudos until later. It goes

>They’re internally blue LEDs with a phosphor coating that shifts some of the energy from blue over to the rest of the spectrum - the reds, yellows, and greens.

>They look white to the eye, but they’re actually three separate peaks of light, and they don’t do a very good job rendering colors.

But this seems unnecessarily hand-wavey. We have actual specific measures for this in the form of CRI (color rendering index, 0-100 with natural outdoor light being 100) and R9 (a measure of strong red rendering, which most people tend to like, incandescents tend to be in the 90s). It's definitely true that lots of common cheap LED bulbs have poor CRI and R9, and even these aren't necessarily linked either. But it's also perfectly possible to get decent bulbs that do both ok or focus well on things like helping sleep. The plain old Ikea Tradfri E27 White (like $12) has a CRI of 90 and an R9 of 91. There is a specific sleep focused "bedtimebulb" that has a CRI all the way up at 95 and a respectable R9 in the mid-80s. The Ketra line of lighting gets specific about this as well. This isn't some impossible problem.

Which the article does kind of acknowledge, but only at the very end. If more people knew to look for and ask for these measures, then the market could better respond accordingly. It could be worked into various lighting standards as well for work and government. But "LED lights and screens are killing you" from the beginning doesn't strike me as a good approach.

Basically, the lede should have been the "future reviews" bit and the author should have waited on doing them first because otherwise it's just defeatist. Give people something that is actually actionable, not a "well you're screwed and that's that" because nobody is giving up their screens. Structure should be "these things matter and are in fact being done with more to come, but most don't know to look for these measures and they are far too hard to find, this is something that action should be taken on." Then get into the nitty gritty of why. The goal should be something people can take with them, like at a schoolboard meeting parents being able to ask about the CRI/R9 and general quality of their children's lighting.
This is just a personal anecdote - I got a brand new Mercedes in 2016, it was even fully made in Germany - and it was probably the worst assembled vehicle I have ever owned in my life(and I used to own a 1995 Fiat Cinquecento), the number of creaks and rattles coming from all places in that car was almost funny if it wasn't so upsetting. I've had several visits to the dealership just to fix rattling seats, upholstery, dashboard and sunroof. Drove very well and never had any mechanical or electrical problems, but the interior was horrendous.

Then in 2020 I swapped it for a brand new Volvo XC60(made in China!) and in the last 3 years this car has literally been completely trouble free. No rattles from anywhere, nothing. Extremely well put together, comfortable, drove it across Europe multiple times now and literally no issues with it whatsoever. Such a stark contrast to mercedes for me.
NYC, NJ, and Dallas haven't passed laws around it, so maybe it's not an issue there. Maybe, like I said, it's a particular issue in Seattle and not as much elsewhere
I think that's a big piece of it. I think another part of it is that even /if you/ do not use social media, it doesn't meant others won't post you (including pictures/video) on social media and talk about you. In the past, you might get gossip about who went to what event/party/group activity and who didn't, or what they did, but there wasn't a constant stream of photos and video of said acts and occurrences followed by difficult to impossible to monitor comments made semi-anonymously and possibly exposed without your consent to strangers and third-parties.

It's not just that it can be challenging to deal with your peer group being present in your life constantly, it's that you have little recourse or ways to escape without intentionally withdrawing from your social peer group, especially as a teenager where social media is so embedded in their very existence. As an adult, it's easier, we can be much more intentional about our relationships and lifestyle, but teenagers exist in a microcosm of the larger society, with all of the same problems but without the same recourses.
The thing is, as a user, I'm going to be very understanding if something that looks a lot like spam coming from an unrecognized address ends up in spam.
There are far too many Starlink satellites to destroy a meaningful number.
Not really anymore. Most cars don’t have a discrete radio head unit anymore. The radio is way too integrated with vehicle controls.
The comment I am responding to stated, "The article downplayed the seriousness of a tail strike."

I am saying that the article said things that sound severe, as a direct response to the claim that the article downplayed the seriousness.
Is there an agenda or bias here on the side of the USCO? Perhaps taking an extreme anti-ai position allows them to flesh out their exact position (with time and reflection) and ensures they don't have to 'strip' copyright later (only grant it), which presumably would be contentious if payouts have occurred?
Sure, there’s plenty of reasons to not have kids, I do get that. But “I’m happy with life but I think that everyone else’s is horrible misery” is an odd position to hold.
It's probably worth noting that the author is in his 50s and is fairly familiar with POSIX (he has been involved in the FreeBSD developer community for decades).
I'm in my 30s, but still remember being the only Senior in highschool without a cell phone. It made it really hard to meet up with people, go to parties... really do anything. Social media was really just starting though and was something people maybe spent 1/2 hour on at night. The iphone had just came out, so no Instagram and apps like Snapchat. I can't imagine going through that hellscape now.
Upwork is a terrible platform that I would recommend everyone to stay away from as far as possible.
Even if neovim never gathers critical mass, it must be considered a success purely for how much of a fire it has lit under vim development.
> The BIG DEAL is...the fact that the ML crowd think it's OK to take everything without even asking permission

Everything they take was freely given. Thrown into the void. Screamed into the wind. It's weird that people are perfectly fine if someone happens to read their words (at all) and fine if some of those who do read them manage to find something in them that is in any way helpful or useful, but the moment they think someone else might make money as a result of something gained from exposure to those same words it's somehow offensive and everyone starts demanding a cut of (usually non-existent) profit.

The "ML" crowd has just as much a right to read and learn from the words I enter on social media platforms as anyone else. I'm not charging any kind of fee for the words of debatable wisdom, fact checking, or shitposting I "contribute". I didn't ask permission before replying to your comment. Why should anyone feel like they should ask for permission from me to read it? What exactly is "taken" from me beyond the time I voluntarily spent participating in online discourse?
Define "poison." "Alter" yes, "kill with a foreign substance" not really.

Light and sound pollution are mostly city things.

Light pollution is mostly an issue for nearby optical observatories.
> it doesn’t explain why people have to delay children so long

it does; people want to wait until they're more financially secure/stable before having kids given the costs of raising children, and they are less likely to reach that stability until well into their 30s
Same. I was built for the graveyard shift in a day shift world.
(Post author)

Yes, there's an angle component that's a bit concerning as well. It seems that our eyes mostly respond to the blues "above the horizon" - which makes sense given how our world works. Blue on the ground isn't interesting, nor bright, and our bodies don't tend to waste energy building things where they're not useful.

It does imply that our overhead lighting (most homes have overhead lighting in some forms or another) is more concerning than we've broadly considered - screens in the line of sight are important if bright, but the overhead lighting is hitting more of the relevant cells.
Unless you do it by working through the Demystified series, of course!
I did something like this and ended up just substituting graduate classes for my math and physics requirements while taking regular undergraduate classes for everything else. I made a lot of great friends and was not the only undergrad in those graduate classes. I don't see it as a curse at all. I think the author will be fine if he stays motivated and finds the right peers and the right path.
With the highlight.io client, we use an opt-in strategy to be privacy-first (since network request bodies + headers are often sensitive). We're not capturing network requests/responses unless you enable it and allow deeply configuring what should be captured [0].

[0]: https://www.highlight.io/docs/getting-started/client-sdk/rep...
This is the Chinese approach and this is one of few things where I'm not creeped out by it. Enforced max screen time and content is forcefully educational, fun, age-appropriate.

Nobody likes this but the consequences of not taking action are huge.
I feel like if it can all turn bad just from one election to the next, then it was never really good. I wonder if Botswana and Rwanda are just as vulnerable as Ghana was.
You would love your brakes to depend on a USB or Bluetooth connection?
Mathematica, Stephen Wolfram (1989) [video]
There are also probably very personal and biological variables involved too that the post doesn't mention. I stare into monitors and phones all day long. Every light in the house is full-blown LED. I can't help but fall asleep at 20:00 in an led lit room watching led TVs, while my led phone drops onto the floor after I've fallen asleep. I've been in an extreme LED environment for over a decade and never have problems waking up at 6:30 and falling asleep in bed at 22:00. I totally agree with concern raised by the article, but I also think it lacks the whole picture of someone's lifestyle. People have struggled with sleep issues well before LEDs.
That's an important knock against processes that do both interviews and WSTs ("take homes"). We don't: we exclusively use WSTs. We calibrate the amount of time our WSTs should take against the amount of time a typical interview process takes. There's a lot of stuff we can't do --- like expansive programming tests, or, for that matter, sharing our answer rubrics --- that we wish we could, precisely because we're fitting the whole process into a tight time budget.

We don't time our WSTs; it adds cortisol to the process that defeats some of the purpose of simulating what actually working here is like. So, it is the case that people can end up blowing way past our expected time budget working on things. We're not going to stop people from doing that; it would be hard to do, and we're also excited to get candidates who teach themselves stuff as they go. We're up front about this.

From my vantage point, this process is strictly better than conventional interviews. It demands the same amount of time from candidates, but allows the candidates to pick where and when to spend that time.

There is a lot of understandable enmity built up against "take homes" because firms have added them to their existing interview loop, so they become just another hurdle candidates have to clear before running through the same interviews they always have.

With respect to feedback: at some point in our process, we do start giving feedback. It has not been my experience that it is as appreciated by candidates as people on message boards seem to think it is. We've gotten to the point where we try to do a decent job of explaining what the best submissions have in common, and leave it at that. This kind of feedback is more than I'd ever come to expect from conventional interviews, so I'm at peace with it.

Finally, at to again be candid: we got a huge flood of candidates for several roles, and while for the most part we kept up and gave timely responses to people who submitted challenge responses, there have definitely been ticket mishaps that caused people not to get responses --- in other words, we've ghosted people. I fucking hated getting ghosted when I was applying for jobs and am mortified by the fact that we did it too. What I can say there is: we've never done that deliberately, and when we've caught that happening, we've gotten detailed feedback out quickly. So if the premise of your comment is: "submitting a code challenge and then never hearing anything back at all, even so much as a pass/fail, is bullshit", then yes, I agree, it's total bullshit. Not OK at all.

(With respect to the coding challenges we're talking about today: the public ones aren't a part of our hiring process at all! They're just there for people who are interested in them. We do have a related challenge Kyle and Ben worked on, as a post-L3 leveler. It's not a small challenge. But: any candidate that gets that challenge already knows they're getting an offer from us, so we're comfortable making it ambitious).
to say google discontinued a project after a short period of time does not exactly speak to the level of difficulty or if that difficulty was even the reasoning for the discontinuing. someone at G could have just gotten bored or moved to a different department, or a new darling employee stole focus, or whatever other reasonings we've heard when G projects are shuttered.
Can you elaborate? What's the utility? And not to be pedantic, but what do you mean by sleep sufferers?
I was not suggesting an alternative. The comment I responded to started with, "The article downplayed the seriousness of a tail strike."

I was pointing out that the article described a course of action that, in fact, sounds serious to a layperson. It seems to me that "land and have a required inspection" is an indication of seriousness, not an indication of downplaying the severity.
You're dead wrong on Pixar being in #2. Cars is an absolute money printing machine.
>To truly be at peace. To feel like everything is just right. To be relieved of all insecurities in that one moment, and just take in something for all that is.

What if that's being alone modulo sexual satisfaction from porn or hookups? :sunglasses: :gigachad:
I have explored technical writing a little bit. There are actually a fair amount of people that have majored in the humanities or literature of some sort. They complain about how they have to write in a dry, passive voice. If some of them had their way, the documentation would read differently.

I don't think anyone in tech writing is trying to put out bad documentation. I've read many complaints about not being given access to the device or software, being left out of license provisioning, being kept out of the loop in sprint planning and other meetings, or being told late in the documentation stage that functionality has changed. If the writers don't have access to blueprints or can't access the software, documentation doesn't get pictures. Some of the devs and engineers respond poorly to requests for screen grabs or doing other administrative work for the tech writers.

I don't think there is a simple solution here. What are the incentives and how does tech writing help or harm. In some cases, helping a tech writer is time spent away from development. Or you can blame UX issues on poor documentation to blame the tech writers.
Yeah, io_uring is an interesting step in the right direction. There's also stuff like SPDK, which doesn't really satisfy the original submitter's desire for "less plumbing," but is certainly better at some workloads than traditional POSIX IO. And of course, Windows NT got this right (or at least, a lot closer to right) back in the 90s.
Well, being hard without any practical means of enforcing it leads to people not respecting the law. TBH I am not sure what to do here
Which one do you recommend? I just started on upwork a few days ago, haven't got anything - it's super competitive.
Ironically, very-low-Earth-orbit as used by Starlink (lifepan measured in single-digit years) means that collateral damage from a-sat weapons would likely be limited.

E.g., where Kessler Syndrome in even modestly-higher orbits would remain a problem for decades, at Starlink altitudes, most of the debris itself should de-orbit over a relatively short period of years.

That could actually increase likelihood of such attacks.
>and it's not effective at arguing in favor of conservation.

"If you don't kiss my ass I'll burn this planet to the ground"

And you wonder why some of us think that humans are on a self destructive path.
Looks like Summer of Code is still happening in 2023: https://opensource.googleblog.com/2023/02/mentor-organizatio...
Not every day of the week. And plans/things change all the time. Luckily we can message everyone in a group saying we'll be late/can't go/let's do this new activity instead. Everyone was doing everything on imessage. People don't call other's home phones anymore to make plans. Do you even own a landline?
That's why they call it "sleeping out under the stars."

You can see the structure of the Milky Way sometimes.

Even satellites and planes look like absurd neon signs out in the country.
Too expensive to manufacture for too little benefit compared to comparable flash. They couldn't sell it at a pricepoint that justified producing it.
Skodas are just previous gen Volkswagens btw
hahahha, maybe I should. Legit work is for dummies T_T
Thanks for the explanation (that the article writer clearly didn't know about)!
It's a right attitude, but you can't just start writing an arbitrary replacement and succeed. You have to understand real needs, prioritize things to make the scope realistic, and have some vision, beside technical chops. Then you have to battle-test it.

I suppose that a real force if change would gather around some real projects with specific needs, which eventually would produce a common, shareable "better alternative". Examples: io_uring, ZFS, containers, http/2, every successful programming language, etc.
Sometimes we should just accept that we don’t know why.
It's still LA, where driving is war between the insane, the jerk, and the insane jerk.

And earthquakes, forest fires, fresh water insecurity, neglect of the unhoused, and people who wouldn't get the South Park episode about the pretense of a personal brand.

(Don't forget absurd housing costs.)
Cargo jobs that exist for bureaucratic reasons, or because of industry inertia, will be disrupted.

That's the job of new inventions. Nothing to complain about, in my opinion.

Those however who think that radiologists (/lawyers/secretaries) will get automated away, don't really understand what a radiologist's job really is.

The boring bureaucratic part of a radiologist's job will get automated away, yes, but that's because automatable/auto-completeable tasks should get automated at some point.

Think of it as a healthy organism eating away the boring part of a dream job that you, as a kid, imagined doing when you'll grow up.
Statistically, I think it'll always be more kids doing this, regardless of day of the week or year of millennia.
> confidentially wrong, which we cover up with impressive technical jargon

I get the feeling this comment is self-referential/self-parodying.
Pots and traps tend not to get dragged. Nets do.

It's conceivable for a crabber / lobsterman to damage undersea cables. It's far more likely that it's a net fisher.