skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are lots of firmware/software hacks to defeat these kinds of things: https://www.pelock.com/services/reverse-engineering/how-to-o...

There may be a mild deterrence to casual users, but if the photons are reaching a human’s eyes, there are ways to capture them.
> it strikes me as unconscionable for a private individual to have to get permission from the state to survive.

It would be nice to be free of the state. But how do we deal with the Tragedy of the Commons? How do we make hidden externalities visible & accurately priced?

It seems like the population is too high in most places to be able to tolerate people doing their own thing, with their own property. Not sustainable unfortunately.

At this point, "private ownership" is fading away. Eventually, maybe a hundred of years from now, we'll all be leasing our land from the government, and perhaps even leasing our privileges.
> This part is the most interesting to me. Alarm systems I understand, though this looks like security by obscurity,

My phone contains information or can access information that would harm me much more than someone robbing my home (while I am away). And if someone breaks into my home while I am there, the alarm system is not going to get the cops there quickly enough anyway.

So I do not see why an alarm system would be considered as something that needs an exception for security reasons, but a phone is not.
If they are very good examples then less is more https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.11206
There's one thing I didn't see mentioned: have your significant other remind you of some chores you promised to do.

Sounds like a boomer joke, but there's an explanation why this works: our hunter-gatherer brains aren't equipped to deal with tasks without a clear survival-related reward, so they produce a feeling of tiredness/sleepiness instead to prevent us from wasting energy.

I've been using this for years now. You need new types of tasks on a regular basis though, because the effect wears off with usage.

One additional thing I can think of is cold, fresh air - or simply more oxygen per unit volume of air.
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Why is it unacceptable? How does it impact your life?
> when people declare, without evidence

The evidence for this, albeit empirical, is the history of AI development itself.

AI doesn't show continuous development over a long period of time. It always developed in steps. A new architecture or method is discovered and able to solve some previously hard or unsolveable problems.

Then this solution slowly develops in capability, mostly based on better and cheaper hardware, while it's quality plateaus.

It may be that LLMs will not follow that pattern. I don't think so, for reasons outlined above. But until it can be shown that they don't, that this really is the long-sought-after AI architecture that just gets better and better over time, I don't think that a healthy dose of pessimism is unwarranted based on history.
Meta, but I love the simplistic design of the landing page. That textured background is so much less brutal than a solid colour. I thought about using a background like that in my terminal (to give it a very subtle paper like quality) but was surprised to find nothing online about other people doing the same (I had hoped for screenshots and texture packs).
Have you ever sold a car? Have you ever told buyer about provenance of every single part replaced?
Well, i know you wouldn't want to mix plastic with anything
hotter than room temp, but diffusion with cold drinks is minimal
for hard plastics like Polypropylene that most ballpoint pen barrels consist of.
Polypropylene (PP)
https://www.acplasticsinc.com/informationcenter/r/fda-approv...

Polypropylene is most often used for single-serve containers like yogurt cups, but also shows up in reusable containers that can store leftovers. On top of being one of the FDA approved food contact materials, it's microwave safe and nonvolatile, meaning it will not react with any type of food you store in it, whether it's acidic, basic or liquid.
TFA goes straight to the point while the articles you linked are either paywalled or contain no images at all.
Reminds of the satellite footage of a site in Iraq/Afghanistan before a drone attack.
Scanning through the comments, I was really surprised not to see the one thing that was ultimately the cure for bad sleep for me (in addition to the basics of "caffeine hygiene" and getting some exercise):

1) Get up at the same time every day. 2) don't nap

That's it.

I believe I originally read about it here: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/sep/14/finally-a-cure-..., and implemented shortly after, so has been working for me for about 5 years.
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> It exists to make it easier for a corporation to make money.

I'm not convinced. I would like to see numbers, but I suppose Amazon isn't too eager to share those.

I wager it was a neat, but expensive gimmick to build. And as with so many gimmicks, the ROI did not pan out.

BTW. The the discussion reminds me of a recent Verge article Where’s the director’s commentary on streaming? https://www.theverge.com/23709897/directors-commentary-strea...
Maybe wrap it in five sheets of paper and wrap that in plastic. It should hold enough for the trip home and should help limit the amount of chemicals moving into the actual food. At home, you can move the food into glass containers for storage.
Javascript has different runtime properties where it counts. You can't subclass numbers or inspect the stack in JS, which you can do in Python. These (bad, IMO) design decisions make Python harder to optimize than JS.
> and the effect of nicotine

I would be surprised if nicotine alone had such deleterious effects. After all, nicotine has been used in energy drinks in Japan for years and viewed as innocuous as caffeine.
Nice list. I second having better sleep with white/brown noise. Be careful with in ears though. Don't wanna catch an infection. Also rolling over one ear piece may wake you up again, sabotaging the sleep.

I may add, as it's not mentioned in the article: co2. My 55m^2 flat barely stays below critical co2 levels without ventilation for a 7 hour sleep. So keeping all doors open is crucial and/or a window slightly open on the other side of the apartment. Closing the bedroom door - which I sometimes did when as I wasn't aware of this yet - was a recipe for a headaches and bad recovery.

For waking up, having natural light or other sources of light turn on before the actual alarm clock rings is nice to feel better in the morning.
Curiously, you have to already have water
Know any good papers on this?
Keep in mind that everyone is different, and there may come a point where you have to accept things as "good enough", but from my time seeing a sleep specialist, these are the best ways to improve your sleep quality:

1. Get up at the same time every day. Try not to push it more than an hour later on the weekends, or two hours on vacation.

2. The old adage about getting 8 hours of sleep isn't right. Many people don't actually need that much.

3. Don't go to bed until you're falling asleep (do your nighttime routine of brushing your teeth and such before this).

4. If you can't fall asleep after 15 minutes, get out of bed and do something until you feel like you're ready to fall asleep.

5. Your bed is for sleeping (and maybe sex). Nothing else.

6. Your room should be as dark as possible.

Regarding #2, a compressed sleep schedule may help you. That is, if you're going to get up at 6am every day, try to aim for an 11pm bedtime. If you still have trouble, try 11:30, and then midnight. In some cases, it's necessary to go for extreme sleep compression - as little as 4 hours a night, but this is usually done as an in-patient program, and generally shows results within a couple of weeks.

Caffeine, alcohol, and sugar can have a major effect on people, although everyone processes these at different rates. Cutting back or stopping consumption earlier in the day can make a big difference.

Consistency is key, and if you're doing a lot of traveling, it's going to be much harder.
I wouldn't say compile time doesn't matter, just that it's highly non-linear. The breaking points are:

- You can restart the program as you're typing it. I've been looking at Elixir lately, and if I find a bug I can fix it and immediately look at a page that's got my change.

- You can compile it and it will be done before you async to something else, so you aren't waiting long. Typically you also have a good idea as to whether it will compile.

- You hit compile, and you know you have to find something else to do. Sometimes it will break when you're doing this other thing and the time lost is even greater. I think this used to be normal in the punch-card era.
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It does feel magic indeed.

Nice write up, thanks for sharing it. Would you know of any introduction to back-propagation written in a similar fashion?
Yes, this is my go-to in times where I've had trouble sleeping. It's rare, as I lift weights and don't drink coffee after noon, which gets me good sleep consistently, but if needed a few hits will knock me down for sure.

I think the author's real problem is the constant change of environment, bed, etc. I've had the same thing happen to me when I've done that. The weather also plays a major role.
What about disabling wifi and phone completely + using grounding mat? Anyone tried?
Hmm, is there at this point even possibility to have a safe drink? The containers are one thing, but what about the whole chain how coffee is made and water is sourced? What container is it brewed in, what about various steps in processing the beans? Growing the beans?

And same goes for everything.
> That's why we stopped using it.

Except we didn't; wine and spirits come almost exclusively in glass bottles, beer is frequently in glass (although cans are also used), almost every store will have some sodas and bottled water in glass, most people at home and restaurants use glasses made from, well, glass, etc.
When searching, I find everyone referencing the two-sleep information - much based on Roger Ekirch.

https://www.sciencealert.com/humans-used-to-sleep-in-two-shi...
https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/dont-worry-if-you-ca...

However, I did find this article from The Atlantic: https://archive.is/MYcgm#selection-1033.0-1049.105

>But humans have never had a universal method of slumber. A 2015 study of hunter-gatherer societies in Tanzania, Namibia, and Bolivia found that most foragers enjoyed one long sleep. Two years later, another study found that a rural society in Madagascar practiced segmented sleep. Two years after that, a study found that the indigenous residents of Tanna, in the South Pacific, largely had one uninterrupted sleep.
Glass is awesome. It's reusable many times over and recyclable after that. We used to have systems to allow that reuse (bottle return) before somehow we ended up throwing away a plastic bottle (recycled at best) every time we buy a pint of milk.

And contrary to sibling comment, glass containers don't leach heavy metals (or anything else) into food.
> But the general idea with PoW is that you have some hash-like function H()

No; that's a particular PoW algorithm called Hashcash [1]. There are other, asymmetric ones, where PoW verification is different from a solution attempt, including the Equi-X PoW that ToR is implementing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashcash
They didn't have frequency converters / fast high power transistors back then.
With AC, AFAIU, it's easier to change voltages with primitive equipment.
But then you have to have the frequency the same everywhere.
AC has the great advantage of being well supported. However, scratchpad calculations can't prove that.
re: 12V automotive LV systems: it’s a little more nuanced than that. teslas cybertruck will be running a 48V LV system[1] and while relays fuses efuses and DCDC converters across the LV system have to be rated for higher voltages - you gain efficiency back with I^2R losses across the entire harness, and can drop your required wire gauge since the necessary current carrying capacity is reduced by 4.

So it’s a nuanced trade off, and if the industry shifts (which tesla is banking on since they’re the ‘leader’) then economies of scale can be reached with higher voltage fuses switches relays etc.

[1] - https://auto.hindustantimes.com/auto/electric-vehicles/tesla...
> Nowadays, that "paper" seems to be able to withstand whatever you throw at it.

I'd say it's silicone impregnated paper like parchment paper or probably is parchment paper which is paper coated with silicone.
If plastic is worse than paper, and a paper cup has a plastic lining, where the total mass of plastic in the paper cup is less than a wholly plastic cup, this still seems a win.

There seems a risk that articles like this that equate plastic to plastic-coated-paper will lead to people treating them as equal, so they may as well use the more convenient one, which seems at odds with the nominal agenda of trashing the environment less.
I don't use drugs. But my understanding is that plastic bottles aren't exactly uncommon even for spirits. And then with wines you get the boxed stuff. A carboard box, with plastic/foil bag inside.
Too much Tao, not enough Go. Code samples!
War is peace, freedom is slavery, and ignorance is strength
In addition to what you mention:

- If you have sleep apnea that might explain why you wake up in the middle of the night, and there are treatments you could try.

- Wearing ear plugs (the ones that look like a screw) has helped me a lot, but I have to cut them to be able to sleep with them, since they do protrude from the ear and are uncomfortable.

- There's a simple trick to fall sleep again in the middle of the night:
Set a specific time in the morning to write down the thoughts that worried you the most, with possible solutions.
When you wake up in the night, think that you will attend your thoughts only the morning at the time you have specified, with some time you will see how you can fall sleep easier.
(This is part of the solutions to attend the rumination thoughts)

- I highly recommend you watching this podcast with Matthew Walker, which is one of the most important scientist in this matter:
https://youtu.be/gbQFSMayJxk

- As I have suffered insomnia for 20 years, but have improved a lot in the latest years, this thread is based in my own research: https://twitter.com/JuanPabloSarmi/status/168856844920991744...
> If I do want to do concurrent work there is the usual async/await mechanisms, implemented in the Task module. Not as weird as in JS. They just return a Task reference which is a helpful abstraction on top of the Process ID or PID. Then you can await on it to get a result or await on multiple to get multiple results. There is also a wicked function called Task.async_stream which will take an enumerable (list, map, stream or similar) and run a Task for each entry as a lazy stream. By default it has a concurrency matching the number of available cores (just like the schedulers). This is essentially a fancy shortcut for using all your machine has to offer in the service of getting the work done for tasks that are embarrassingly concurrent. It is very fun to use when bodging together scripts that you want to go fast.

Hmm, am I reading about Elixir or C#... ;-)

Yes, there are other major differences but this entire paragraph can be taken verbatim for C#.
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I worked at Samsung’s fab in Austin for a few years, mid-2010s.

Each section of tools (photo, etch, cleans, etc.) had somewhere between 20-80 technicians spread between four shifts. Mine, cleans, was I think the largest - we had about 20 techs per shift. Process, at the other end, had about 5 per shift. Each section also had N engineers, although most of them worked normal day shift hours.

The fab was fully automated, in that someone would punch in an order, and many days or weeks later, wafers came out the other end. However, the machines to do all of this are incredibly touchy, prone to losing calibration, parts breaking, etc. They also require a ton of maintenance.

The level of knowledge and skill to be an entry level tech is within reach for anyone who’s mechanically minded - we hired people whose only previous experience was auto mechanic. To progress to the Senior or Master tech level, though, you needed an intimate knowledge of multiple tools, to the point of having made improvements to them beyond what the manufacturer provided.

I think the total number of techs in the fab was somewhere around a thousand, but I could be way off. I worked nights, so it was hard to get a sense of other shifts.
also: Huberman says get light in your eyes in the morning and evening. This anchors your circadian rhythm.

And if you take melatonin you only need 300 micro grams. Life extension brand sells these.
Or you've said too little?
Seems likely that dev work moves towards this sort of thing - boilerplate being AI managed.

It'll be hell to debug an ever shifting codebase though
> if there's war, but yet the war happened anyway.

That doesen't mean that 10 additional wars wouldn't have happened otherwise. It's a bit like saying that safety standards don't matter because people still die in car crashes.

Of course, you're right in a way. For the system to work you have to assume that states are governed by rational actors and that their citizens prefer having access to iPhones and other foreign goods (and not destroying their economy in general) over "fighting nazis/homosexuals/{insert idiotic thing}"...

Russia's current account surplus finally became negative in the last few months so if that continues and their currency continues crashing, hopefully living standards for ordinary Russians will start decreasing at a faster pace and maybe they'll start thinking about regime change.

Then again 2x more deaths during a single years than throughout the entire 10 year long war in Afghanistan didn't bother them to much so who knows...
Chuck Norris vs Communism is an excellent doco about that era
https://youtu.be/znp1dNaPp3k?si=g3Ykl6n0LslXcdcy
Glass is amazing. You haven't tasted a beverage until you had it in a glass cup or bottle.
Thanks, will check it out.

Just yesterday, someone was complaining about having gone a hike and his watch registering 10k distance, while the watches of the two others registered 6k. Was wondering how common a problem that was before I came across this article.
The MIT/Brown Vannevar Bush Symposium 1995
The MIT/Brown Vannevar Bush Symposium was hosted at MIT on October 12-13, 1995, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Vannevar Bush's seminal article "As We May Think," published in the Atlantic Monthly, July 1945.
Yes, I also agree that we should use inline styles for everything. The problem with CSS is the C. I don't want to come up with class names or put styles in a separate file or even a separate section in the same file (Vue). I want to look at the tag and immediately see how it's styled. No hidden or indirect styling whatsoever.
> Coffee leads to dehydration. Drink several liters of water during the day and some people may be able to continue with morning coffee consumption.

This is a myth. Coffee has water in it. Just drink enough water from all sources.
So now we are using eastern philosophical concepts to guide us in our programming?
Then how come it's used so much in cookware?
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The interesting point about this work is that this compiler is already close to its asymptotic speed. It unlikely will get much faster in the future.
Factorio: Space Age
This is true only for old or expensive crystal glasses.

Most common soda-lime glass has negligible amounts of undesirable impurities, while borosilicate glass, like I use for my food and drinks, is even more pure and it contains almost nothing besides oxides of silicon, boron, sodium and aluminum, and it is inert in contact with food.
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right, but it cuts off in 2021.
My grandma (who’s a 96yo healthy and strong individual) still uses pottery for almost all daily drinks/foods and was advising me to do so, guess that’s the secret.
This is why I support Apple's "serialization" of parts. I think the right to repair bills should prevent Apple from nerfing functionality if a new part is swapped in, but it's great being able to go to the settings screen and see the details of each repair.

Currently, I think it will only tell you if Apple did the repair or not, but it would be great to have a list of all parts that have been replaced, if the part is genuine, and if the part was swapped in by Apple and/or an authorized repair centre.

I want full disclosure of whats happened to a phone when buying used, but I don't want Apple to be able to make parts not work. If I want to buy a franken-phone full of knock off or mix and match parts I should be able to, but I should be able to clearly see that in the settings screens.
Yes i also prefer that. Thanks for clarifying.
They are not bad at all. Most of them are extremely well done.

They demand your attention, are easy to read and interpret, and are interesting expressions of artistic individuality.

I would strongly prefer those to the movie posters we have in our country in this day and age. But of course, that would be much too expensive and there is not even audience to appreciate that type of marketing.
I don’t understand why they wouldn’t just use the original posters. These are still in English so it’s not a translation thing. Are there licensing issues of the US artwork?
The only thing I can find on this: https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/news/toxic-substances-found-in-th...

In short, only the enamelled decorations may contain heavy metals, which leech in the environment after use. This is a serious problem, but not with glass as such.
Yeah as I get older my sleep cycle has naturally shorten. I wake up early most of the time, but come the weekend and that might be 2 or 3 hours later. Your body knows what you need, no need to force more bed time if you're getting proper rest.
Of course there are some niche JDKs around that do not use OpenJDK... Hell, I've written a subset of the JDK from scratch just for fun.

I am not moving goal posts, I am just saying that a JVM specializing on embedded devices is not a JDK most people would use, only a small number of niche applications... so you haven't shown anything other than there are alternative JDKs available for niche applications, which I agree with! But I was saying that all JDKs people working on most applications rely on are based on OpenJDK. If you want to include a niche JDK for embedded devices, fine, but that's not what I or most people would care about, I would think.

It would be more pleasant to discuss with you if you expressed yourself a bit more like an adult (even if you're still a teenager which I am guessing is the case), by the way...
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> This is what happens when the Wozniak's of the World don't have a Steve to guide them. They do what they want without a clear vision to practicality.

If their goal includes "practicality", then sure, maybe this indicates that they need a guiding hand.

But, as far as I can tell with all these types of projects, the goal isn't practicality, so you cannot tell whether or not they need a guiding hand.

As far as I can tell, these projects all appear to have made progress towards their goal.

In summary, what you think their goal is, is not what their goal is.