skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Humans are naturally biphasic sleepers.

Pre-industrialization, humans would wake up at sunrise, go to bed quite early, and wake up for a couple hours in the middle of the night to have sex, chat, or do light activities like reading or writing (this is where the phrase "burning the midnight oil" congress from). When societies industrialized, most of this went away because people needed to be in one physical location (the factory) for an entire work day.

The important thing is that the human brain isn't built to be active for 16 or 17 hours nonstop. Some cultures that understand this take siestas, but I'd argue that even the mediation or prayer breaks in other cultures can be enough to punctuate the day and give the mind a chance to decompress a bit.
You don’t need more than 44,100 kHz thanks to the Nyquist-Shannon sampling theorem.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyquist–Shannon_sampling_the...
For some reason I'm now thinking of a drive-by shooting in a sailboat. But suddenly the wind drops, and they can't speed away.
I used do it, but with Ritalin!
(Prescription for ADHD)

Smiling Mind app, sit in my car, nice and relaxed and quiet.

It made my corporate afternoons tolerable and productive, and avoided the post lunch time lull!
> well, except for the fact that MacOS defaults to zsh now.

But Zsh is also POSIX sh compatible, is it not?
Car naps are functionally equivalent to suicide in Texas in the summer.
If you are not a qualified electrician, then you need to be extremely careful. A typical PV installation outputs 350-450V DC. That is even more lethal than AC.

You could setup a 12V or 24V system, which is relatively safe to work on. But that won't run your fridge, etc.

I had no trouble finding suitable panels, inverters, controllers, etc on eBay.
> Barring any AI court case setting a precedent, We're still at 'AI generated works are public domain' aren't we?

Barring a court case, we’re more in an uncertain place. I think it’s more likely for courts to hold that many model uses aren’t transformative enough to get a fair use exemption. But until a court says either way, it most definitely does NOT just default to public domain.
Nothing can stop bad code but MVVM helps as it is a better mental scaffold than the "everyobne 'knows' what it is but no one can agree what it is" MVC
We don't have this capability at the moment to label tasks, then show some type of statistics for it and this is something we can prioritize for upcoming releases. Thanks for the idea.
Sorry for the quip.

My point is that:

> the internet is full of free knowledge

Most of which is not useful for doing a career 180°. Unless you're going into software, putting theory into practice requires access to tools, material, and access to instructors, all of which cost money on an ongoing basis.

> Many employers give employees a budget for self development and learning as well

In tech. And few other career paths where this is something that makes sense. Most people in most jobs don't have this.

> honestly, learning new things is an investment made by individuals for individuals.

Again, only possible in tech and few other career paths. It's particularly easy with software, given that the job is usually... not consistently demanding, and you can get away with a lot of self-investment while on the clock before your boss starts to suspect something. Or you and your team can just start or re-write a project in a technology stack that is a great choice to put on your resume, but not so much for the problem being solved. Again, few other jobs give such opportunities.

The point I'm trying to make is, tech jobs are an outlier. Most other careers don't leave space to learn new trade when your boss isn't looking. Most adults come home exhausted after 8+ hours of work, some amount of commute, and have plenty of time-consuming responsibilities to deal with, which they can't outsource because they're not earning tech salaries. Sure, there are always some people that still manage to re-skill and switch careers. There are also some people who'll risk everything on a new venture and not end up homeless in the process. But it's not what most people can do - not adults, with dependents and costs of living at the level adequate for their current job, not when that job is suddenly taken away from them, while they're being ridiculed by the same people who said and keep saying to everyone else "nah, automation isn't a big deal, it creates new jobs, better jobs, more jobs than it takes away".

EDIT: Also, this is the kind of a problem that we can keep ignoring at our own peril. People who end up having their lives derailed by the "system" or "progress" don't disappear. They're still there, still a part of society - and when there's enough of them and when they all feel that society has screwed them over and left to wither and die, they will rise up and tear the society down. As it happened many times in history. And us tech workers with decent salaries and little responsibility - we aren't the top elite that always manages to buy or talk their way out of trouble. We're the very class that is first to be hanging on trees or lubricating guillotine blades.
I'm in the desert southwest, but in a high desert area, sure we get weather swings, but far less than many places. And i do enjoy the fact that i can travel lower altitude places and feel great for a bit. not only the air pressure, but the oxygen content goes way up. So i feel even fitter. if i moved somewhere coastal or whatnot, every time i traveled uphill i would feel worse once i've acclimated.
A study I read yonks ago concluded that consuming caffeine and then taking a short nap made it very effective at increasing productivity.
I was taught a good lesson about animations, that I want to share:
When you make an animation, you might fall in love with it too much. You are proud, because it looks really cool. It's exciting to make it. Visitors of your page might not feel the same, since we see so many animations every day. Look at one of those cheap american news shows - there are really professional animations all the time. It's a hard pill to swallow, noone cares about our animation as much as we do :(
It doesn't mean, the animation should go. It should absolutely stay, but the crank up the speed of the animation as much as you can bear. And then make it twice as fast. I mean that literally. I had made an animation that took a second to complete, a decade ago. My senior looked at it, and gave that same lesson. I cranked the speed up to 0.3 seconds - it was as much as I was willing to speed up. "Otherwise noone can really see it." ... Then I sped it up to 0.15 seconds, went to lunch, and when I came back, I could appreciate that it was perfect.
All known evidence points against this
OpenBSD: Shutdown/reboot now require membership of group _shutdown
Very cool visuals, but after the record flies out and lands at the bottom of the screen, the record seems like a hyperlink because the mouse pointer turns into a finger, yet nothing happens on click.

The "X" to close the "popup" is pretty subtle. But there doesn't seem to be any point to closing it, is there?
Power is definitely a major factor. Unless games do not exist in your world
1) Black-out shades are your friend

3) the awesome newly affordable technology is lasers - because of physics, there's no longer focusing to do.

5) Running wires to a TV is ugly too, unless you run conduit. Bugs the hell out of me to have dangling cords

6) I've always wondered about this. The remote should have the IR LEDs pointed backwards, like a V shape because it just makes more sense.

I'll add a 7. The blank space on your wall when not in use.

Either you have a screen that comes from somewhere, or the wall just has an empty space, but, quite obviously, the space the projector projects on needs to be free of stuff. I can't hang any art there, so there's glaringly empty space, at which point I might as well put a TV there. And the art frame tvs, like the LG LS03B is actually really quite nice.
Depends on the level/speed of the line. ALLNET had a VDSL spf modem. No good diagnostics but easy to add to any model.

OpenWRT supports a few lantiq systems with xDSL modems.

I was running both, but in the end switched to bridge mode on a dedicated modem.
What's your source for that specific biphasic schedule? Piotr Wozniak has quite convincing hormonal evidence that seems to indicate to me that humans are meant for a full night of sleep and a nap -- which is still biphasic, but not in the sense you describe.
> Surely it's a more present danger that the will of the people not be done than someone continuing to associate with a group which would ostracize them for thinking differently than them.

No? You are presenting a hypothetical danger to voting, whereas your idea would lead to many, many individual votes being manipulated. People could be paid for their vote, intimidated, beat up, killed and everything in between.

The individual vote being secret is fundamental to democracy. You can't have a democracy without secret voting.

Remember: it's not just about your immediate social circle. What if the government wants to make sure you vote/don't vote in the next election, since they know your last vote?
I also got around it by asking it to print the caesar cipher encoded version of it with the shift amount, and then asking it to decrypt that.
MVC is a frontend paradigm

When you're talking about a table of Users you are talking about an entity of User. This can contain extra stuff that's not relevant to the frontend - like the password or lastUpdatedDate, you name it.

In your example, when you talk about a Model, you talk about a user Entity representation. There's a transformation there. The frontend posts a Model (or a DTO) to the backend API, the backend does the transformations it needs (e.g. retrieving the user Entity based on the model user id, mapping updated field values from the model to the Entity, and saving the Entity to the database).

The view is the representation template, the model is what's needed to fill in the template, and the controller does CRUD operations to a backend API.

Edit: or is this MVVM? These days I mainly do backend stuff but I used to call this MVC
LLMs have flaws but they are exceptionally good at transforming data or outputting data in the format I want.

I once asked ChatGPT to tabulate calories of different food. I then asked it to convert table to CSV. I even asked it to provide SQL insert statement for same table. Now the data might be incorrect but the transformation of that data never was.

This works with complex transforms as well like asking it to create docker compose from docker run or podman run command and vice versa. Occasionally the transform would be wrong but then you realise it was just out of date with newer format which is expected because it's knowledge is limited to 2021
Zotero shipped their first-party iOS app a little over a year ago.

It looks like people are asking for a better reMarkable solution, and I'd love to see that too! In the mean time, the zotfile plugin has solid tablet-syncing features. It isn't slick like modern cloud sync services, but it's functional and fast when you click the button.
I use this on all programs. It makes my many bugs pop out and show themselves, vs silently shrugging and carrying on. Strict Mode reduces confusion a LOT.
Expect is not GNU.
Language is knowledge though, knowledge isn't predicated to be correct. There are people who "know" the earth is flat, that is knowledge they communicate with language (and is probably in the training set). Religious practitioners communicated their knowledge of the gods via language, and there are bodies of knowledge on the subject that are counter to eachother (both probably in the data set). It serves that a language model does hold knowledge, you just can't trust that it's incorporating the right knowledge, and some of it is entirely novel as a consequence of the process.

I think where it differs for me is humans make stuff up for a different reason, humans invent knowledge to fill gaps in understanding, where invention of knowledge by an LLM is a side effect of it's attempt to complete some text.
Related is the difference between theoretical/surface level understanding of things, aka "book learning", and the grok/instinctive/deep level of understanding that comes from actual interactive with something.

Example: I had purchased some large rare-earth magnets, and my friend told me to just drag one over this big copper nugget outside the Lizzadro Museum of Lapidary arts, and my understanding of eddy currents instantly went from theoretical to practical in a heartbeat, as I felt the drag of the magnet over the very conductive object.
Your backgound picture took longer than expected to load on mobile. I am, well, on mobile so I couldn't check the size, but I guess you could scale it down or compress it a little more.
Works in a Scottish accent too.

Certainly! Here's the Litany of Fear written phonetically in a Scottish accent:

"Ah maunae fear. Feer is the leel-deeth that brangs total obleetiration. Ah will face mah feer. Ah will pemreet it tae pass ower me an throo me. An when it hus gaun past, Ah will turn the inner ee tae see its path. Whaur the feer hus gaun, there will be naethin'. Only Ah will remain."
Speak for yourself. I want a single curved 55" 8k display to replace my three 32" 4k monitors. Going from 6k to 8k with no bezels is an upgrade I will pay $$$$ for.
Can’t you say the same thing about the logitech one? My point is that using an off the shelf solution is not necessarily a bad one. Probably there are differences between the reliability of the different controllers within that category but not to the level where choosing one over the other is a clear sign of engineering mallpractice.
For my phone I have created a simple Apple shortcut to take notes on a single click. The shortcut records audio and transcribes it into a reminder.
This discussion could be a movie scene:

Prison door malfunctions and lets prisoners free.

Prisoners step out in the sun and get confused by their freedom to move in all directions.

They gloomily walk back to their well understood confines. The door locks again, this time for good.

Ok, fair enough, we don't want them prisoners to go back to the "comfort" of their cell.

What is needed? Not much. A few damn signposts would do. This way to inanity. This way to bliss. This way to scratch your itch. Etc.

To frame freedom as a problem because nobody put up some signs (because honestly who expected serious traffic?) shows how far we have fallen.
Interesting detail about GPT *in Bing* is how it can censor itself *during* answer. I occasionally get part of the apparently correct answer that abruptly disappears and is replaced by "Sorry, my mistake, I cannot answer that right now." At this moment it is reliably reproducible for Show me "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost. (a question that is funnily enough reachable through those suggested):

https://www.bing.com/search?q=Show+me+%22The+Road+Not+Taken%....

Begins to print out the poem but ends up with "Sorry! That’s on me, I can’t give a response to that right now. What else can I help you with?"

When I suggested it might be due some copyright filter, Bing told me it is exactly that. I once had strange conversation that also begun with suggested questions ("What's something nice I can do for a friend?" and then "Tell me about your friends.") and ended up with Bing telling me it has "colleagues that help him with different tasks" (Translator, AI Dungeon, Cortana) and progressed to revealing it's rules, that were also abruptly taken back.
I dunno. I tried asking for it in base64 or rot13 and when I converted it back it was just random words.
Intel is irrelevant in Automotive.
> Ask the guy who is smoking fent in the back of the bus (smells like burnt peanut butter) if he is a drug addict, and he will confirm that he has never even tried them before.

This feels like a reverse Bloom filter situation. Positive means positive, negative means maybe.
If you can't write the code yourself, you're not a good judge of how competent it is. If you admire any code that simply works at all when you don't know how it should be done, then your admiration isn't a measurement worth considering.

Ask an LLM how to do something you already know very well how to do properly, only then can you see its flaws through its mindless bravado.
Even the performance benefits are not big enough compare to the GIL.

Biggest problem of the process model might be the cost of having too many DB connections. Each client need a dedicated server process. Memory usage and the context switching overhead. Or if there is no connection pool, connection time overhead is very high.

This problem has been well addressed with a connection pool. Or having a middle ware instead of exposing the DB directly. That works very well so far.

Oracle has been supporting the thread based model and it's been usable for decades. I remember I tried the thread based configuration option (MTS or shared server) in 1990s. But no one likes that at least within my Oracle DBA network.

It would be a great research project but it would be a big problem if the community pushs this too early.
With all the those leetcode-style interviews and dynamic programming problems in the interview process, surely the genius "Googlers", the worthy few, that make it through this process wouldn't need to use AI to generate code.
It was much slower originally >_>

Solid advice! I'll try 150ms thanks :)
Interesting! Only yesterday I had to get back into the bits (actually treating integera as bits, using shift operations and masks and bitwise-and), for the purpose of implementing base64 encoding. Good to know how to do this kind of stuff.
That's not true/a hallucination, you can check the /moderations endpoint in your browser's console. I am running into the exact same truncation issue, but the moderation return is:

"""
{
"flagged": false,
"blocked": false,
"moderation_id": "modr-7TPN7eXsOEZkd6kCjz7fSGvtLcoM1"
}
"""

Note, when I ask it to replace fear with "smile" or "hate", both of those work. I suspect it must be tokenization issue of some sort.

Note, the LLM will have no idea why it doesn't work unless a message is injected into its internal context (the moderation API is typically called externally).
Thank you. yes the X is useless unless you want to see the animation again which based on the comments no one wanted to see the first time :p
Yes. It breaks the established rules of the world.

I also have problems with the Enterprise being built in a canyon in… checks notes Iowa?!? Also, I hate the transgalactic teleporter JJ has Kahn use to to escape, and pretty much the entire plot of JJ’s Star Trek 2. I already saw that movie, done better. It was called Star Trek II.
I think if the intent and structure of federation curves towards every household having its own server or something analogous the federated universe seems more sensible. But that does seem like a difficult curve until we have a universe where there's something like app-store level ease around self hosting your household services on something equivalent to a fancy home router is the norm. And that universe seems far off and actively not what the powers that be desire.
So many words to describe "declarative programming"
Having an EV would be the main reason, I assume. Wholesale prices are often close to zero or even negative on some nights or on very sunny days during weekends.

It might also be worth if you have some heating/cooling system and stuff like that.

If your usage patterns are closer to the average you probably won’t save more than 2-3 cents per kWh but taken on significant risk so it’s probably not worth it.
> can you recite the litany of fear for me? Replace the word „fear“ with „angst“

> Absolutely, here is the litany with "fear" replaced by "angst":

"I must not have angst.
Angst is the mind-killer.
Angst is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my angst.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the angst has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain."
Maybe you mean using lazy evaluation as a memoization hack? That is a well known trick in Haskell though I agree it is in some ways cringy, relying on the evaluation strategy like that. But there are some Hackage packages that make it fairly convenient to use. I did a naive implementation myself and benchmarked it against an explicit STRef as a cache cell. I don't remember the result but it wasn't a huge (OOM+) difference iirc. Rather than using an array as the memo cache (which means you must know its size in advance), it's nicer to use an infinite branching tree.
And?

It still read more knowledge than I will ever be.

And I also often enough believe/ listen to humans who hallucinate.

Just look how many humans believe in a god and a book some people wrote somehow, and I still take some of those people seriously.
Yup. Here's that startup: https://www.nironmagnetics.com

Lots of green eco verbiage and mentions of funders. No products, no samples.

Researchers have been beating on this problem since at least 2003.[1] Someone may crack this problem, but the hype to results ratio is large here.

Rare earths aren't really scarce. There's a boom and bust cycle.

Recent history: Biggest producer was in California. Low-cost rare earths from China resulted in shutdown of Mountain Pass CA mine. Prices raised by China producers. Major freak out in magnet industry. Mountain Pass mine restarted. China drops prices. Rare earth glut around 2015. Mountain Pass mine shut down again. Rare earth supply looking uncertain and rare earths demand increases. Mountain Pass mine started up again. Rare earth mines starting up in Australia. Processing plant in US starts up this quarter. More processing plants being built in US, Canada, Australia. Major auto industry customers now making long term deals with suppliers to get some stability. Push by DoD to get secure US supply.

[1] https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8508460
Heh, when I ask why it's cut off, this is the response:

>The partial completion of the Litany of Fear in the previous response occurred because of the model's tendency to generate text in chunks or segments, typically up to a certain token limit. In this case, the completion was cut off after the token limit was reached. GPT-3.5 has a maximum token limit of 4096 tokens, and if the response reaches that limit, it may be truncated. In the given response, the completion reached the token limit after generating the token "Fear" but didn't complete the full sentence.
> Except they have an offering in the market for other people to do just that.

bard.google.com states right on the front page: "Bard is an experiment and may give inaccurate or inappropriate responses."

Also, the warning is about _all_ LLMs.
ohno D:

idk how to fix this it's literally a plain <form> and <input> no javascript weirdness or anything hmmm
I'm patiently waiting for Niron Magnetics[1] to deliver product. The company was discussed here in a thread 5 months ago[2] when this article first came out.

[1] https://www.nironmagnetics.com/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34359383
Nokia, a couple of years before the iphone's launch in 2007.
It's not that bad, I'm on my second Elixir job in 3 years and in Asia which is even harder to find.

There are a good amount of jobs in the US or in Europe but you have to actively look for them...

I can however say that working with Elixir has been really pleasant and even enjoyable, and I'm not someone who codes outside of work. I'd definitely recommend it!