skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ... it concluded that shifting users away from white noise programming could net the company an additional $38 million in profit

I don't think that's how ... well, _anything_ works. It's like saying "If got rid of the actual program on our TV channel and filled the whole spot with adverts, we could make three times as much money from adverts".

They're not there to buy your product, they're there because there's a free thing they want. When that free thing goes away, so do they.
There are a few white noise generator apps actually and I love them. https://asoftmurmur.com/
I guess their issue might be that if people listen to white noise 8 hours while asleep every night and Spotify distributes their monthly fee weighted by time listened, then a lot of their fee will go to the white noise for sleep and thus the total fee distributed to their daytime music would be unexpectedly significantly reduced.

The easy fix would be to cap track time weight, although that is susceptible to an attack of splitting the white noise in many parts and publishing a playlist.

I guess a possibility could be to somehow compute "song variety" (i.e. entropy in a model where the decoder can generate noise/randomness) and weight by that, but not sure if the available lossy codecs are good enough to do that.
I disagree, unstructured text is itself fuzzy.

CSV, line delimited, is that unstructured?

Further if you wanted to go with JSON or something you can, there's nothing preventing it. Pipes are based on unstructured text so you have that flexibility. If you want to add JSON ls and filter that through JSON sed to JSON less you can.

Finally 'the Unix way' is a cultural thing. It isn't set in stone. It can, and probably has evolved. So while you could argue that it meant that to some people at some time, that doesn't make it true today or in the future. The down side is that we have these disagreements over what 'the Unix way' is. But any philosophy that's been around for 40 years, in tech no less, has to be flexible, that's why it's stay relevant.
Good point.

What I would like to see is a board made for larger 100/120hz TVs. They often get no love from gamers due to the lag/processing of 240p content so they get junked. It would be a good solution to the lack of multimode CRTs. They are so rare/expensive.
https://sleepwit.com/the-benefits-of-a-good-nights-sleep/

Sleep Wit article about the benefits of a good nights sleep.
>> You have no idea what my nutritional needs are

You are a human being. We all know what your nutritional needs are. Since you are posting here, we now also know your preferences. But they don’t require spending 1000s of acres of agricultural land and carbon emissions to satisfy.

The real solution here is of course a carbon tax to capture the externalities of soy- and corn-based ranching. A “Pig”-ouvian tax, if you will. Alas sentiments like yours are why we can’t solve problems in an efficient way.
Fungible! You say that best researchers are fungible - why would that be true?
Been listening to playlists of brown noise on Spotify lately while working, when I get tired of listening to actual music but still want some background noise. More indistinct and less distracting than other ambient sounds.

The primary benefit to me of using Spotify for this is that I'm already set up to control music on my sound system from my phone.
> lines of text each consisting of space-separated fields

I wish! Back in the day, tools like iostat and vmstat printed tabular data using fixed width fields with no spaces between. This worked fine until the computers got bigger and faster, then the larger numbers filled the fields so they ran together making the output unreadable. A surprising number of vendors had this problem.
If that happens it's an organizational problem (lack of mentoring, code reviews, access control), not an architectural problem...
These days it's actually pretty easy with CSS flexbox or grid.
Totally missed the point. Even with Code reviews, Unit/Integration Testing, Automated CI/CD and more can a person broke the prod.

One intern was told to deploy the app and I guess he made a mistake and updated k8 configs which deleted all the pods. Tell me how code reviews are supposed to catch it.

If you think "why not restrict config actions" etc, it's because the dev can go there and tweak those actions too. And each step added means less velocity of development. It's a game of cat and mouse. With isolation, you can limit the blast radius and loss of revenue.
I hadn't considered it like that, but that was pretty much how I experienced MUDding. I got into it and wanted to level up, do quests, and explore. Before hitting level 20 (out of 100, basically barely out of newbie status), I stopped caring about progress - but spent even more time there.

I tried going back once, but without spending time to build connections with other players, it wasn't fun. Didn't quite realise that till I read your comment though.
Oddly enough, there already are free and paid products that do exactly this- you can even add birds, insect noise and ambient sounds. Choose light rain, heavy rain, anything else in between. You can even choose the surface the rain is hitting- concrete, tin roof, etc.
Relevant blog post by an actual complexity theorist: https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2018/10/if-pnp-then....

>The following does not quite show it can't happen but it does give one pause: an old result of Levin's shows that there is a program you could write NOW such that if P=NP then this program decides SAT except for a finite number of formulas (all of which are NOT in SAT) and can be proven to work in poly time (I will later give three pointers to proofs). The finite number of formulas is why the people above may still be right. But only a finite number- seems like a weak kind of nonconstructive.

So, based on this post, it is actually not known that P=NP implies existence of polynomial time algorithm for deciding SAT. The universal search idea only yields a polynomial time algorithm that decides SAT for all but a finite number of formulas.
Stable Diffusion in C/C++
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Well, the examples given don't, generally speaking. For stuff like compiling you can do things like have the permission apply to an entire folder, though.
Extenders works very badly, as they use 1/2 of bandwidth for themselves and need to be placed twice as often as APs. I have no problem to wire normal APs to switch, as I have several RJ45 sockets in each corner of each room :-)

Now I have one AP per room already, but can not implement seamless transition - when phone/laptop switches to other AP it requests DHCP again and drops all connections. It is very inconvenient.

I know "Buy Cisco's APs for $700/piece and controller for several thousand $$$", I wander why there is no open-source solution (hostapd & Ko), which "secret source" these enterprise solutions include, is it private technology or some open industrial standards, like 802.11[some obscure letter]?

Many expensive APs are built with Linux and hostpad inside, and still doesn't support this feature.
Neat. I wrote my own set of SQLite-based scripts for this and one of the things I'd miss using Part-DB is the ability to import BOMs to 1) see if I have all the parts (maybe they support this but I didn't see it in the docs) and 2) use a BOM and a barcode scanner to source a bunch of parts with audible feedback about if a part I just scanned is indeed something I need, and to tell me (audibly) when I've scanned every part I need.
>I'm not sure we have any clear sense of what, in out hyper-efficient industrial food economy does this. Come to think of it, we don't even know it's the food -- could be something else environmental.

Food or environmental, but in a larger sense, it's likely to be some additives, is my uneducated gut-feel (pun unintended) guess. Here by additives, I don't mean only ones in food, but also fertilizers, pesticides, other synthetic chemicals, and agricultural and industrial effluents.
Can i SSR a WASM module ?
It probably is tracked but you don't care unless you are using company provided accounts/infra to do personal stuff and then that's your actual problem
I think software should always be written with a known half-life. Code I write for some one-off script is incredibly different than code I write when I expect the code to outlive me (eg in an opensource library that people depend on).

Scrappy prototype code is written with developer velocity as the most important property. I’ll throw everything in one file. Stick to tools I know well. Copy from other projects. Use crap variable names and generally make a bit of a mess. Something made fast can be remade fast if it’s wrong.

Code you expect to last a long time should have tests, CI and documentation. If I’m serious, I’ll often rewrite the code several times before deciding on a final design.

A good engineer should be able to switch between styles based on the needs of the project. And a good company will make those needs explicit to the engineering team and they’ll be transparent and trustworthy when expectations change. (Eg if a prototype is going to stay in production long term, they need to tell the engineering team).

It’s fine for businesses to pivot. And it’s fine for engineers to make quick prototypes to test a business idea. But everyone needs to be on the same page the whole way along.
> sure x spent 100m on postgrad study of his niche interest, but if the treasury had got it instead it could have spent it on teaching everyone's kids to read and write.

You and I both know that all that money would have gone to defense contactors and hospital administrators if the government had taxed it.

On average, nonprofits provide substantially more public good per dollar than the government does.
You can express most of this using the existing capabilities in linux, the issue is that the interfaces you use to do stuff need to change in order to actually make it usable (as opposed to just instantly disabled as soon as it becomes a problem, like apparmor).
I wish you could disable Shorts! Most stupid thing ever.
> Also, as an aside, it’s amazing to me the lengths to which people will go simply to avoid changing their habits.

I couldn’t agree more on this point.

I lost ~110 lbs in a year, exciting obesity by eating only meat and dairy with vigorous exercise.

I’ve been able to maintain the weight loss for 2 years, even after entering carbs back into my diet. I gained back 10-15 lbs depending on the week but I’m still at a healthy weight.

It was easy. No side effects. It was cheap — I largely stopped eating out. I feel way better overall everyday.
Missed one: miniature microphones.

Knowles Electronics is a firm that has had decades of work in designing and manufacturing tiny microphones, mostly for government agencies they will
not talk about.

That microscopic surface-mount unit in your smartphone was the result of all that development.
> How can scientists deny something so obviously obvious

Doctors not so long ago operated on newborns without anesthesia for the same reason.
I miss the sound of popping a floppy disk in the drive.
> You fill in either a W-8 BEN (as an individual) or a W-8BEN-E (as a company)

thank you for this info. Ive heard something similar with relation to dividend payments from US, which in the end might complicate things, but its a good indication of what needs to be done.
It's not that bad really. I got scanned and they don't take any ID and you can call yourself what you want. They just basically give you a crypto wallet with some worldcoins in. It's linked to a hash of your iris scan to stop you repeating that multiple time. It's less intrusive than normal financial services and no hit to my freedom as I have no need to use the thing - it's just another option.
Applying Occam's Razor I think the main contributor for most people is probably American portion sizes. The average American eats around 3,600 calories per day, more than any other country, and way more than they need (2000-2500 unless you're regularly doing strenuous physical activity). Anecdotally a meal in America is just way bigger than in most other countries I've visited or lived in. Once you get accustomed to the larger portion size it's hard to dial it back down.

We don't need a complicated explanation, the simple factual explanation for Americans being the fattest people in the world is, they eat more calories than anyone else.
I think this is an oversimplification. Having something that does one thing and does it well works for simple things that can be composed. Sometimes this is not the case, as the composition would be too cumbersome or too slow.

The example of Obsidian (in my eyes) confirms this. Markdown is a very simple and elegant way to produce simple documentation, but as soon as one needs more it just crumbles.

I agree that the big tools (Word, excel, photoshop, etc) are bloated. These applications have crossed the bridge into 'they do everything about X' long time ago and they work well in their very wide problem space. Just taking excel (or Calc) as an example, I cannot see how using simpler tools I could create pivot tables and aggregate values across multiple sheets.
Your link makes no claim about a “high likelihood.” In fact, it more or less says the opposite:

> Liraglutide and semaglutide medicines are widely used, with an exposure of over 20 million patient-years to date. It is not yet clear whether the reported cases are linked to the medicines themselves or to the patients’ underlying conditions or other factors.

(This is besides the fact that all medicine is iatrogenic in nature: medicine is prescribed not because it’s perfect, but because the side effects it produces are considered preferable against the symptoms it treats.)
I like that strategy but what’s stopping them from saying they get your car or something really outrageous?
Credentials don't matter in the real world. The question is who does the job. And we have plenty of evidence that Musk does that job, weather you like it or not.

> His main talent is extracting subsidies from the US government.

That's just flat out inaccurate nonsense.
My experience with AWS China (2019)
> It might've affected me negatively when I was younger or a teen

Isn't this the point, though? Considering how online gaming is generally focused more on younger demographics, being harsh on hateful speech is likely to improve the experience of those who are vulnerable to it.

Detecting hate speech is much easier compared to intentional feeding or throwing.
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And plenty of studies do take all such low hanging arguments into account, and still demonstrate net positive returns on college.

And even without those studies, when employers want to quickly screen out your lazy (low conscientiousness..) people, what do you think they can filter on most easily?

Bingo. And we're back to the expected value of college opening doors and provide better income is net positive.

I'm always surprised how many people try to object to simply digging into the data and evidence and work put into finding the value of higher education, as if their bias or anger or beliefs make a bit of difference to the facts.
Yes apologies, I misremembered. Mesa is definitely a decendant of Pascal though, more like Modula-2. Very ahead of its time.
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Without Fannie Mae and Freddie Max interest rates on 30 year mortgages would be higher or everyone would have to use an ARM. On most mortgages the bank just follows these government associated agencies’ underwriting rules and immediately sells the mortgages to them.
> The review was triggered by the Icelandic medicines agency following reports of suicidal thoughts and self-injury in people using liraglutide and semaglutide medicines. So far authorities have retrieved and are analysing about 150 reports of possible cases of self-injury and suicidal thoughts.

> Liraglutide and semaglutide medicines are widely used, with an exposure of over 20 million patient-years to date. It is not yet clear whether the reported cases are linked to the medicines themselves or to the patients’ underlying conditions or other factors.

I think 150 case reports (3 reports from Iceland) across 20 million patient-years, with no evidence of a causality, seems to be very far from a "high likelihood" at the moment.
Interested to know if this works in MS teams?

I should give in and just buy a MS presenter+, but paying that much for a stupid mute button irks me.
That wasn’t a value judgement on my part; I don’t think it’s fun. Only that “for the lulz” has been a common justification for some attackers in the past.
Is there some underlying rule/"law" of fabricated products shrinking in scale requiring increasing energy density/control for their manufacture (more reactive chemistries) presumably to counter a general backdrop of entropy / entropy-density?
Ah I see, so titles and functions probably changed by then. Gonna have to wait for that blogpost!
> One of those transformation detects that we are reading uninitialized memory and acts accordingly.

This might be pedantic but variables do not have to correspond to memory locations. The compiler could decide to keep the variable in a register or the compiler might realize that the variable never changes and apply constant folding eliminating it entirely. Assuming that variables correspond to memory locations (or really any assumptions about how code is translated into assembly) is a part of the "portable assembler"-understanding of C that simply doesn't apply to (optimizing) C compilers.

> Given that most of the case where we do it is by mistake, I think that doing anything other than raising an error (or at least a big warning) is not a very reasonable thing to do.

I agree that the compiler should warn if it can prove that a programs behavior is undefined unconditionally. I don't think it's as easy as you make it out to be, but I encourage you to check out the source code of clang and fix this issue if that's possible. That said, in practice undefined behavior is often encountered conditionally (e.g. the behavior of this function is undefined if and only if the first argument is non-null and the second argument is null). Optimizing such programs is trivial (simply assume that undefined behavior cannot happen and optimize accordingly), detecting that the program actually calls that function with invalid parameters on the other hand is _literally_ impossible and even a best-effort approach would be computationally expensive and miss a lot of cases.
This isn't going to be read by anyone but just for reference, as a young Muslim I was always told to treat your seven closest neighbors as you would your first neighbor.
Why federate it? With RSS it can be individually hosted and owned, adding a federation layer would actually make it more centralized.
Given that driverless cars are slim minority on our roads, if they exist at all, failure modes actually do matter a lot. Human drivwr failure modes are what everybody is used to, and trained by everyday life to cope with. The radom, unpredictable stuff driverless cars do is in itsrlf dangerous from that perspective.
> high likelihood of suicidal thoughts and self harm coming from the use of said medicine

correlation != causation
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Because this is not a non-starter as suggested. I leave services because of their terms... I have rebuilt services because of their terms... You start what need to.
The problem is that most of people don't work in a giant ass company and so don't have the same problems you've had have, and thus they can achieve the same easier, faster and cheaper with monoliths - but they don't because of the hype.
Why not?

We have this notion that currency is managed in a super-political way. However, there is everything political with currencies and currency management. It is literally the difference on depression and labor shortage.

For me, it is weird that this responsibility is deferred from political processes and the democracy.

If a sovereign country wants to own its own politics, it also need to own its own currency.
> it’s amazing to me the lengths to which people will go simply to avoid changing their habits.

You think people are just choosing to not change habits?

Do you also dislike people taking PrEP [0] because they could just change their habits?

If anything this drug has shown is that habits and biology are so intertwined.

“Following dietary advice” is very hard, as evidenced by the 2/3 of the US who are obese or overweight (and the 50% of Western Europe).

It’s also hard to follow economic advice, as evidenced by not everyone making $250k/year.

Similarly, if there was a new drug that cost $10k/year that made people make 30% more annual income, people would definitely take that instead of just studying harder or whatever advice they could follow to increase income.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/risk/prep/index.html
> or to install LaunchAgents and whatnot without having to document that anywhere

Yes! All OSs have this problem (I think that's what you meant later too?). There are two ways to solve this:

a) Put applications in their own containers (I believe that's what Android and iOS do?), and have them have to ask permission when wanting to access files outside

b) Have something like lsof attach itself to every application process (_like_ lsof, not actually lsof, because although you could get it to work, the costs would make it impractical)

Unfortunately, I think we're heading towards option (a).
But why though? .env (the library) has never made sense to me. There should be a singular binary called dotenv that then takes a command+args as arguments that then runs that command with the .env file's values in the environment. Why do runtimes need first-class support for this?
One is a biological being that we share ancestry with (however far), and the other is a probability machine that tries its best to guess the next token based on literature and online chat that it was trained with.

We are very, very far from asking the same questions as Deckard, and sharing his doubts.
> It clearly states: it targets web assembly. So, this should answer your question I think

Not sure what you're implying.

Here's an example of doing graphics using Rust and WASM - http://cliffle.com/blog/bare-metal-wasm/#making-some-pixels

And another: https://blog.logrocket.com/implement-webassembly-webgl-viewe...

Given that MoonBit is developing their own IDE and it is hosted on the web, I would think one could provide an elegant pipeline to do graphics programming, no?

If this were open source, I would contribute in this realm becase I'm a graphics and UI person and also enjoy working with new programming languages.
Agreed, I have a few, a couple 8 strings with 2" fan are my sweet spot, tho I've never tried the Charlie Hunter designs w/wider fans (from Novax, Traugott, hybrid-guitars.com). Ideally i would get another custom with wider string spacing for 3 bass strings tuned in 4ths, but that's probably a pipe dream.

This tapping instrument seems very nice but certainly not bizarre, if you want bizarre, look under a d10 pedal steel. If i were to buy a tapping guitar, I would also look at Markus Reuters, touchguitars.com.
I was thinking the exclusive version of Amazon was going to be like Amazon but where you don't need to worry about being sent something counterfeit or wade through a ton of crap! James Edition is much less interesting.
Better cognition? Maybe. As long as planners contain a single if statement in C++, totally.

But sensors? These cars scan the environment with dozens of sensors, much better than what a human can do.

Better perception? Yes, although the perception models have come a long way but they are still quite primitive compared to what a human can do.
Yes, with a passport you can

... Probably not what you were trying to ask. I thought the deadline passed for using real ID for TSA but I haven't looked for that info in years