skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember reading in Why we Sleep[1] about devices that you could wear which would increase the intensity of deep sleep brain waves, thereby causing deeper sleep. Not sure how legit this is seen these days or how close such devices are to becoming available to regular consumers, but was interesting to read about.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_We_Sleep
What does a CTO do? That changes a lot from a big company to a startup. I came up with the PPAP framework which I hope helps explain it.

It also comes with an official song and dance to help you remember it.

Being a CTO is about these 4 key things. But the order of them typically changes depending on the size of the company.

People
Process
Architecture
Product

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What do you think of PPAP?
Rise ov EV is in fact death of independent workshops and service centers.
Encryption, components pairing everywhere..
Service costs for EV are crazy for even small problem anywhere close to battery or power circuits.
These are two main reasons I stay away from EV.

Buing is one thing. TCO after warranty is another one.
TL;DR:

> Garbage collection and related features are being removed from C++23. If you are surprised to learn that the C++ standard had support for GC, you are not alone. It was unimplemented, confusing and pretty useless hence it’s removed.
It doesn’t make you a worse one.
Okay, but there are claims like: "Dinosaurs existed over 100 million years ago, before humans existed" which are controversial enough that it's part of the "culture war". And teaching it (and carbon dating) counts as taking a side.

We aren't talking about fine points of evolution, we are talking about the earth being older than mankind at all.
I'm not really in the market to buy a car, but I was thinking the prius prime was a good compromise. Basically it's a plug in hybrid with a large enough battery for a lot of day to day city driving (44 miles), but hybrid after that. Seems fairly low risk in terms Toyota having pretty extensive experience with hybrids.

In terms of improving the environment it would seem like not driving/using public transportation trumps any ev or hybrid anyway.

https://www.toyota.com/priusprime/
It’s hard to get application performance monitoring (APM) tools using FOSS because of the complexity of writing libraries.

You could ideally work most things with FOSS. Use opentelemtry extensions to a time dries DB of your choice. Use elk or opensearch for logs, osquery for Linux, native cloud monitoring tools that come out of the box, etc.

Problem is it takes a lot of setup and maintenance. It can bite you back in the worst of times - when you’re trying to work an outage and find out alerting is dead because your fluentbit daemon is hung and no logs came through.
It’s not open-source, but Play.HT has a new “Turbo model” that can begin generating text-to-speech within 150ms. I’ve tried it out, and it’s pretty impressive in terms of both quality and speed. There’s an API, so perhaps that would be worth looking into!
First impression: Well, they certainly don’t care about "prefers-reduced-motion" and everything moves, sometimes in reaction, sometimes by itself.
Yes, it's not that clear to me either what test sets get a 10% error rate. Because in my use (native English dictation or native English podcast transcription) the small or medium original whisper models have what I'll call a "discrepancy" rate of say 1-2% which is mostly punctuation and "umms/errs" inclusion or not. The actual "error" rate is below 1% in my experience, and excluding surnames, brands and place names that I don't know how to spell either the remaining errors tend to be minor (missed plural etc.).

So I infer that these data sets are some deliberately difficult audio: call centre recordings with lots of background noise, phoneline quality audio etc. Maybe non-native speakers. If I only heard that sort of audio once I also might have an error rate of 10%.
Thanks for your example! I have been thinking about it.

Your observation is correct and the surface of the sphere is a metric. The ratio of radius to circumference is not constant with that metric though so I feel like something should disqualify it. But I am not sure how.

So I think your observation shows that we need a stronger constraint than just being a metric. Other commenters have hinted that you need a normed vector space but I am not sure if that's sufficient.
That's not a clean room implementation. A clean room would be having a description for the game of quidditch (game rules are not copyrightable just like specifications for software) and then writing a background story to explain it without ever having read a single word of Harry Potter. If that comes out anywhere similar to the Harry Potter books I'd be utterly amazed.
I've never owned a car but may have to purchase one in the next few years. EVs seem woefully unappealing. Their design aesthetic often feels overly futuristic in a way we will look back on with regret 20 years later. Technology is great, but I really don't want a screen the size of the steering wheel.

It also seems environmentally irresponsible to buy a new EV when there are plenty of perfectly good gasoline cars that have already been manufactured. If you are an infrequent driver, buying a used gasoline car will have the lowest carbon footprint.
Salting a standard cryptographic hash (like SHA2) doesn't do anything meaningful to slow a brute force attack. This problem is the reason we have password KDFs like scrypt.

(I don't care about this Bear analytics thing at all, and just clicked the comment thread to see if it was the Bear I thought it was; I do care about people's misconceptions about hashing.)
Tracking SQLite Database Changes in Git
> Also as an x86 based anything, the battery life is already going to be poor and the fan is going to make noise.

You can compare it to Apple laptops quite easily e.g.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/index.php?id=127065&specs[]=34...
They will live alongside. LLMs will become much cheaper to develop that it will not make sense to depend on the majors for everything.
FF and M1 here too. The game stops as soon as the ghost pops out in the /cramped_hallway.

Ninja edit: zooming in and out once gets the window to fill the screen. I can continue from there...
I'm not running a study, I'm making an anecdotal statement.

That said, my actual position is that inconveniencing every single person who posts an image on a microblogging service by forcing them to write a description of it on the off-chance that a tiny percentage of the population who are visually impaired will want to read it is a net evil. It will, in the short term, antagonize people who just want to post something quickly and get on with life, and in the long term drive lower engagement on the platform as it raises the amount of effort required. It's a waste of potentially a massive amount of tiny slices of a nonrenewable resource: human life time.

What should happen, instead, is that the tech wizards developing the microblogging software use computer vision and language models to provide on-demand transcription of any arbitrary image. If anyone should understand that, it's the audience here.
The primary benefit from mid-day naps is that they simply help you relax and get some rest. You don't want them to be long, just refreshing. This is well known in athletics where most major athletes take naps as a matter of recovery and to improve their sleep quality. Presumably, feeling relaxed and rested when you go to sleep helps you get some deeper sleep and improve sleep quality.
Psychedelic treatments are speeding towards approval: no one knows how they work
Show HN: I made a simple script to backup GitHub repos
I've made a simple python script to keep a local copy (mirror) of github repositories, on the first run it will clone repos and on subsequent runs fetch the latest updates.

This only backs up git repositories, it does nothing with other GitHub data like issues/wiki/projects/etc.
Only backing up the repo is good enough for my use case, at least for now. Hopefully this can be useful to someone else.

It uses the github cli tool to download your list of repos and store it locally to a json file, but you could manually write that file yourself and use the tool to sync repositories from anywhere.

I wanted to keep a backup of my repositories just in case, but I didn't really like the other tools I found out there, so I wrote a simple script to clone/fetch all my repos, and it grew a little bit from there.
Now I have a little more peace of mind having my repos backed up, and even though there's more github data that this doesn't back up I thought it was worth sharing.
My sedan has reflections from the dash on the windshield and it gets annoying in the sun. Can this paint help or will it turn into millions of lung impaling particles when the car is parked in the sun?
I doubt they like the transition. But Tesla showed that people will pay more up-front for a car that meets the qualifications you mentioned, so other automakers were forced to take the EV transition seriously if they wanted to stay afloat.

Regardless we shouldn't prop up old industries and jobs just because they predated newer, more efficient processes.
It happened to me too when I refreshed the tab and also a couple of times when I tried to open it in a new tab.
Just map the character set you want to the keyboard and start using it. It'll take some getting used to but if you're a touch typist it mostly comes natural. Living in Sweden, using a P50 with a UK layout which I switch between US-intl and Swedish layouts there isn't always that much relation between what's on the keys and what appears on the screen but by now I'm used to it. As a bonus it makes shoulder surfing passwords an exercise in futility...
this is 32GB soldered : LPDDR5x-6400, Dual-Channel, onboard
- "The GMG chief executive added that while this week’s AI safety summit was looking at long-term safety, Microsoft and other platforms needed to outline how they would prioritise trusted information, fair reward for licensing journalism and..."

"...it's just a historical accident that 'AI safety' is the name of the subfield of computer science that concerns itself with protecting the brands..." –E. Yudkowsky
A cynic would suggest that manufacturers have made the rest of the vehicle much more complex so they can make money recalibrating sensors after windshield replacements, replacing ventilated seat fans, fixing complex pop-out door handles, etc. EVs do exist without such farkle but seem few and far between in the US anyhow.
Personal anecdote, but I sleep with earplugs most of the nights as I have a very light sleep. I would wake from really small noises multiple times every night. In contrast, sleeping with earplugs feels like entering a dark and quiet chamber and then suddenly emerging after 7-8 hours of uninterrupted sleep. YMMV, but for me it's a godsend.
It's the standard browser on many distros so if we just count installations it's probably true.
I've had chronic insomnia my entire life, and when I do sleep, it is never deep sleep, to the point that I typically retain enough brain activity to lucid dream.

Dementia isn't an if for me, it's a when. I also think that they have the causation backwards.
Yeah that’s always a bit depressing, but most companies only really seem to get the consultants in so they can be told the thing they were going to do anyway.

I’ve seen good products and companies brought low by making the wrong bets and doing what was safe and sensible and cost reducing but not really thinking long term enough. They can stagger on for a long time still turning a reasonable profit until they suddenly don’t.
Unleashing the Power of Pre-Trained LLMs for Offline Reinforcement Learning
As a counterpoint, I've had a 12-gen Framework (i7, 32GB RAM) for almost a year and half now. I use Docker on a daily basis (using Windows and WSL2) and it works fine for my development workloads.

Like other Intel laptops I've had, the fans do come on occasionally but not very often. I do have some qualms about this laptop but I'm happy with it and the tradeoffs I chose.
The last AMD based Thinkpad T14 I got was horrible. It had great numbers on paper and benchmarks, but horrible performance in real usage. Switching between programs was very slow. Even switching between tabs in browser was slow. It tended to overheat which throttled down the cpu. It had really bad idle power management for background tasks. This had never happened before on any older T14’s with Intel cpu. I won’t get another laptop with AMD again.
>In pretty much all studies

Any citations? I believe you, but would want to look at the methodology. If they're opt-in studies, then obviously the ones neglecting their kids in homeschool aren't going to join a study where they are scrutinized.
Are you looking at the paintng or using a RGB monitor?
Far as I can tell it isn't possible to hook up the VSCode extension to the Phind model, only GPT-4. Do you know any different?
A bank runs serverless with PHP and AWS Lambda
We have benchmarks[0] for Willow Inference Server using Whisper + ctranslate2 + some of our own optimizations.

TLD a six year old ~$100 used GTX 1070 is roughly 5x faster than a Threadripper PRO 5955WX at a fraction of the cost and power.

[0] - https://heywillow.io/components/willow-inference-server/#ben...
I imagine this varies regionally (I'm in Eastern Canada), but we keep running into limited availability issues.

I'd consider myself in the early(ish) part of the mass-market adoption curve. I'm not an early adopter (I don't have an EV yet), but I'm interested and keeping an eye on them.

We're ready to purchase an EV, but I'm not ready to pay to get on a waiting list for a vehicle I can't see or test-drive.

Until I can go to a few dealerships and see/drive the low/mid-priced EV models, it's going to be difficult to make the decision to spend $40,000 to $60,000.
People are obsessed with this attack from the 1970s, but in practice password cracking rigs just brute force the hashes, and that has been the practice since my career started in the 1990s and people used `crack`, into the 2000s and `jtr`, and today with `hashcat` or whatever it is the cool kids use now. "Rainbow tables" don't matter. If you're discussing the expense of attacking your scheme with or without rainbow tables, you've already lost.
>Why? I can tell you why: because Apple hates display modeset flicker,

Thank god someone does. Hate how jank plugging monitors in just because some engineers thought “meh, good enough”.

Don’t think I should be seeing things flicker anywhere in my life with the computing power we have today and yet many consider visual nails on a chalkboard as acceptable.
I think the other key question is causality - do people who get less deep sleep develop these diseases, or do people who are developing these diseases get less deep sleep, or both?

I wonder if they could design an interventional study in which people who are predisposed to dementia are given more sleep or melatonin, and then demonstrate whether it protects against the disease.
> The VP of Eng at Kenna promised me that to my face

The real lesson to learn here is twofold:

- People recruiting / hiring are incentivized to say whatever is needed to close the deal. With the exception of a bold faced lie (I don't think this was that).

- People at the company being acquired are more often than not going to lose most of their power. Including the C-suite. No one is safe and as an employee/victim you won't know the actual arrangements of the deal until the dust settles.
> But the thing (n810) had WiMAX? I don’t think the problem was text/voice

At the time, WiMax was not available in 99% of the US, so that was a non-starter for most of us.
This is comment I was looking for. Any number of circumstances can lead to the same outcome, question is what does one do going forward?
> How is giving money to the "right" people supposed to do that?

According to various studies there is a limit to how much money per year changes your base happiness. The ones I have read say $80,000 but inflation probably makes that a dated number. Everybody meaningfully burning more than that is either a member of the upper class buying superyachts or stuck in a red queen race like a speculative real estate market or collectibles. The ones who make more than the happiness threshold who don't have some other sink for it (the majority) prudently lock it into index funds where it's made available to the people who didn't want to lose control in the first place. That is the "how".

> How is giving money to these people in particular different than giving money to, say, nurses?

Canonically, there are three competing types of people getting paid out with some overlap:

1. Small business professionals. The standard here is your family doctor or dentist. Restaraunt owners also qualify. These groups deal with fairly intense regulation / "insurance" policies to limit how successful they are.

2. High-end white collar workers. Prior to the tech bubble conscripting software engineers, the usual suspect was lawyers. Lawyers have a wide gulf in compensation between "Ivy League Grads at BigLaw" and everyone else. That trend mirrors the current trend of BigTech vs. everyone else as described in the "Crack Theory". Look up "bi-modal salary" for more details.

3. Strikers. The halls of power are more than willing to max out the happiness threshold of anyone from auto workers in the 50s to airline points in the 90s who can make a credible threat that the spice will not flow. Power is willing to do this because they have spare money to print and the ability to strip the compensation long term by shifting jobs around. Based on current events in NJ, you may or may not get to watch this pay out in real time with your nurses.
This isn’t a Cisco thing - it’s M&A in general. The sellers need to maintain the appearance of growth before the sale, and the buyers want to rationalise costs. Once they have the IP, or have successfully eliminated the competition through acquisition, those in the old company are really just numbers in an hr system.
There is newer one battle Royale and multiplayer I can't remember the name. It's on steam came out in the last couple of years.

GTA2 was a LAN party favourite.
TLDR (though do try to read the review: Notebookcheck is one of the most trustworthy and methodical tech review sites)

The main competitors here is the HP EliteBook 845 G10 and the MacBook Pro 14 M2 Pro.

- Design: classic ThinkPad look, a bit brutalist. Lighter than MacBook Pro 14 since it uses carbon fiber instead of metal.

- Networking, keyboard: great

- Display: 16:10 Full HD IPS, 400 nits with very good contrast ratio 1800:1, though the MacBook Pro and laptop with OLED screens will still have the edge here

- Performance: Ryzen 7 7840U is currently the flagship low-power laptop CPU from AMD. Comparable to the i7-1370P and the M2 Pro 12-core, especially in terms of multi-core and efficiency. It completely slaughters any U-variant from Intel. The iGPU Radeon 780M is currently the fastest iGPU in the x86 world, leading Intel's Iris Xe Graphics G7 by around 50% in most games and tests.

- Emission: fan noise and heat are no issue, around the same as MacBook Pro 14.

- Battery: same as MacBook Pro 14, i.e., really good.

In short, a true Windows alternative to the MacBook Pro. The main factor for this is the stellar Ryzen 7 7840U and its Radeon 780M. Ever since it appears in Windows handheld gaming consoles, it has shown to be a capable balance between performance and power consumption, asymptomatic to the M2 Pro. The only problem is AMD not making it available widely enough, with laptop options trickling down quite slowly compared to Intel. (There was rumor laptop makers have to restrict the use of the 7840U since its iGPU means a cut to their gaming segment.)

I used a ThinkPad X1 Carbon G9 before, and while it's great, the Intel CPU really handicapped it. Now I'm on a MacBook Air M1, but damn the Windows offerings are more and more attractive now (thanks to macOS ruining an otherwise good laptop).
Your children are your cake.
I think, I do understand both the perspectives (or at least believe so).
One, that after death, you lose your continued existence.
And the other, that, this non-existence isn't a loss, since you can't experience it anymore.

Inevitably, the distinction lies in the belief of, whether the world continues to exist once you die - because if it does, then your non-existence is still a loss for your peers and the rest of the world.

On other hand, your qualia (sense/experience) of the world is all you have - i.e. your sense of sound, sight, touch etc. So, at most, this sense of experience is what you can call your "world" - nothing more, nothing less. And once that ceases there is no "world" anymore.
This is cool! Reminds me of that old iOS game Hacker Run :)
I remember large celebrations of a first ever profit eked out by an internet company, namely Yahoo.
What's the formal difference between 'pointer safety' and 'pointer provenance' which is also a concern in recent C/C++ standardization work? Perhaps the former is getting removed because it turns out to be a less precise duplicate of the latter?
LoRA Fine-Tuning Efficiently Undoes Safety Training in Llama 2-Chat 70B
Message to Humans on Gene Editing
Money is the root of all evil.

Often, nobody would be doing the closed source stuff they're doing without the cold incentive of money, unlike free software which is inherently decoupled from a profit motive. Maybe there's an externality to pay in herding and keeping the cats committed to the profit motive.
> why compare Russian and Ukrainian government portals?

Because I lived in both countries and I have the first-hand knowledge of both services?

> i think it's just a web portal version of the Ukraine app you linked?

Some services were accessible only through the app back when I was using it. It also provides some nifty features like taking photos for documents.
> A few decades ago anyone with a billion dollars could start making cellphones

Did you mixed-up million and billion?

A billion dollar is a gigantic pill of money. This feel a bit like saying "anyone with a British crown on his head can reign over the UK".

Also, looking at Fairphone, they operate with a fairly reasonable budget: all revenue, including phone sells in 2022 are around $60M, and if we exclude production, ~$17M are needed to pay for product development, marketing, support and all other expenses for a year. At 2 years to create a phone, that's ~$30M.
ARM devices almost always need custom kernels. Even if you had device tree provided to you, there isn't a lot of confidence the kernel will be able to perfectly parse it nor have all the necessary drivers. This isn't an arm specific issue but rather an ecosystem issue as no one drives standardization.
Maximizing margins for the M3 Pro which makes up a large majority of MBP sales. The transistor count reduction adds up over thousands of 3nm wafers. They are probably getting twice as many M3 Pro chips per wafer over M2 Pro. Nudging power users to the M3 Max doesn't hurt either.

Personally, I don't mind trading 2 P-cores for 2 E-cores but the memory nerf annoys me, and I suspect the cache has been nerfed as well.
Impossible! Only America could have such a thing!
Yes, any acquisition is a signal to look for a new position. Your cheese has moved.
I am the author of this paper.

There was a post about a related lesswrong post before on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37871203
And for some reason we as employees continue to let companies abuse us, despite having the option to fight back.

I am so bitter and jaded when it comes to this entire system.
I had the same problems with Lenovo Intel chips. Constantly getting thermally throttled.

Switched to Dell and couldn't be happier.