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Overlapping as an option would be nice, if I'm using cron to pull data to append to a database, and the append fails, I can normally retry. However, without overlap, I can't sit there doing retries since that will block future cron runs.

Timezones would be nice, "This helps avoid issues with time zones which observe daylight saving time." But it also causes issues with daylight saving time. I can't run something at 9 in the morning, I need to run it 1-2 hours before-hand, calculate the offset, and then queue a run 1-2 hours later. Or I can run 2 crons and have one or the other die early. Point being, all solutions become very hacky very fast.

It would be nice if an object was passed to the handler that had a targetDate for the ideal start time would be, so runs can be easily labeled and separated.

Yes I could round the Date.now() to the last minute, however, if Deploy ever goes over the minute boundary, that's all kaput.

In a similar vein: Systemd timers have some nice features, AccuracySec/RandomizedDelaySec/FixedRandomDelay, some options similar to that would be nice (of course, with minute resolution instead) (and of course, fixed delay can be pre-calculated, but it would be nice to just say 30m and have deno runtime manage that for me)

https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/syst...
> they were used as examples of countries that are successful despite being outside the EU

Completely ignoring the fact that both countries are 100% aligned with EU on basically all laws and regulations, have open borders with the EU etc. etc. etc.
Also have to keep in mind that just because your peers are intelligent, doesn't mean the management above is. They will probably reach out to the flatterer as a point of contact even if they aren't the best one at that specific task to be done.
A taxi driver in Vancouver had a 2004 Prius and drove it 1 million kilometres with only regular maintenance and no failures. Toyota bought it back from him and took it to Japan to study it.
The difference between screwing around and science is writing things down .... and publishing in a peer-reviewed journal.
What they are saying here is that Lidocaine, a topical anesthetic has shown the ability to kill cancer cells at the locations specified. Technically they activate self-death in the cells, but it's the same thing, in a practical sense.

Squamous cells: These are flat cells in the upper (outer) part of the epidermis, which are constantly shed as new ones form. When these cells grow out of control, they can develop into squamous cell skin cancer (also called squamous cell carcinoma).

Apoptosis - death of cells.

The current procedure is to simply cut away the cancerous cells. I know, I've had 2 removed. One was on my middle right finger and due to its location, I had to see a surgeon that specialized in hands. Hands are complex and since my career requires full movement (typing), it was important for me to maintain 100% motion, which I do.

When it can't be cut away, it's Chemo, which is almost as bad as the problem.

This would be a great thing if it proves out, reliably. Treating cancers in the nasal passages, for example, is very tough.

Note: I'm not a doctor, I just work with them, and personally experienced these types of cancers this twice in my life, albeit in more easily treatable locations.
Those are such beautiful glyphs.
You might like to hear that in the upcoming release we re-wrote the front-end of Files, that'll be snappier. Hope it'll work well for you!
That's clearer.
Can someone explain to me why this is even necessary? I have at the time of this comment, 32 node projects on my machine, all with their own node_modules, and I'm using less than 200GB (total, including everything else on my machine) of my total 1TB hard drive space...

Are people that concerned about the size of a directory on their machines?
might be interesting to slowly 'move' the sphere through infinite aperiodic tiled plane.
It's a sinking shit show.
That's not a good analogy. Trusting an LLM right now is more akin to trusting a compulsive liar. (Another approximation would be assuming historical fiction was true.)

Humans usually try not to lie, and there's a particular shape to the sorts of details they tend to forget / confuse. Compulsive liars often don't even notice themselves lying. That's closer to an LLM. I trust the output of an LLM about as much as stuff George Santos says.
That looks excellent, thank you!
Sure, when you're comparing them to German tanks, they look pretty normal weight. How about a Kia? The K5 is comparable to a model 3, if not as nice, and it maxes out at 3,534 lbs
I'm not sure if this is true, but JWZ, "the world's foremost expert on screen savers on Unix-like operating systems", says that "Wayland does not support screen savers: it does not have any provision that allows screen savers to even exist in any meaningful way. If you value screen savers, that's kind of a problem. " [0]

*caution*: links from HN to jwz's blog do, or did show an nsfw picture

[0] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2023/09/wayland-and-screen-savers/
I wonder how the brain would perceive a single cone excitation. Could this be achieved via chemicals?
HN is just a glorified subreddit run under a different domain name lol
I don't think it is that people like De Beauvoir do not believe that humans come with built-in behaviour but that they insist it is possible to change such behaviour to create a new human. This has lead and still leads to attempts to create the New Soviet man [1], De Beauvoir's liberated woman, Kendi's anti-racist babies and similarly Lysenkoist attempts at creating 'better' humans.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Soviet_man
Never let a mention of the hard problem of manipulating nonrigid objects go pass without mentioning how antiscience senator Tom Colburn openly mocked the idea of a robot that could fold laundry.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/oklahoma-sen-tom-coburn-repo...
It is true that a computer will take inputs and compute outputs, and that is all it ever can do. However, this statement does not quite end up explaining Space Invaders. There's a couple of steps in between that might have been glossed over slightly. [1]

A computer is entirely capable of generating novel (enough) output. Elsewhere I point to the trivial-seeming python function math.random(). Good luck predicting what that will do!

In reality, it turns out that math.random() and the theory behind PRNGs is not so trivial at all, and is actually quite interesting to dive in to. [2]

[1] This particular argument inspired by https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/jo... . It mentions using neuroscience to try to understand space invaders, which I think is funny. :-)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudorandom_number_generator , or eg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logistic_map being used as an early PRNG
Someone else above pointed out JJ which looks much easier to use.
The 2023 one in particular came right after /u/Spez started cracking mod heads, and was full of "fuck spez" right up until the end.
I can't wait for an AI/OS to simply ask it what I need to do.
Arguably moronic, if as appears he disclaimed responsibility for the failure, and even criticized the captain and crew of the Sides for failing to replicate it. At the time of the incident, it appears he had driven his ship into Iranian territorial water, in violation of international maritime law, on an invalid pretext in violation of a direct order from fleet.

At least he was "passed over for promotion to flag rank", and retired three years later, at age 53. One wonders how much responsibility he admitted in his book, "Storm Center: A Personal Account of Tragedy & Terrorism". His wife might not have been exposed to the pipe bomb somebody put in his minivan just a year after the incident, had he demonstrated any contrition at the time.
Converting between the electrical energy and the heat energy intrinsic to gas is the wrong way to do that calculation. You need to compare efficiency vs efficiency to get a proper price comparison, as the heat energy of gasoline is much higher than the actual energy used to move a vehicle. Most is wasted.

A decently efficient EV is about 250Wh/mi (it’s closer to 220, but 250 makes math easy), so 105 EU of power can travel approximately 4000mi.

By comparison a decently efficient ICE (in Europe) gets about 5L/100km, roughly. So, to travel 6430km (4k miles) you’d need about 320L of fuel. At 1.75EU/L that would cost 560 EU.

It’s a very substantial difference, assuming your pricing is correct on fuel and energy cost.
Why would we expect it to be significant? Apple is not the largest deployer of ARM chips, and they don't use ARM's CPU designs, only the ISA.

This is before we get to the whole "apple was a founding partner of ARM and has a magic license" (though at this point I have no idea what the actual ownership status is for this, I'm sure someone else on HN can say :D)
The Case for a New Social Platform (Slide Deck)
Great observation!

Right now we rely on the out-of-the-box Hello Robots controller [0] implementing position control. Since our policy only predicts a single position into the future at a time, the motion ends up being either jerky and fast, or smooth and slow. Improving on the controller is probably one of the highest ROI improvements we can make moving into the future.

[0] https://github.com/hello-robot/stretch_body
I noticed the same. Graphviz gives you some amount of control over the layout so it is probably possible to get it to render in a way more familiar to people that know the real map.
I totally get that vibe. I've rebuilt an old farmhouse on my own and it was one of the most exhausting things I've ever done. It got to the point that I could hardly look at it for fear of sinking down furhter so I made the smallest room (2x2 meters) into a refuge from the insanity and I made it picture perfect. So the rest of house was in various stages of demolition and reconstruction but that one room survived through all of it and it really helped me to stay sane. In the end it all worked out but that was an insane amount of work. The worst bit was that all of the floor joists had either given out or were so rotten that they had to be replaced so there was a point when you just had a empty space with the roof on top and some bracing to stop the walls from pushing out. It would have probably been better and faster to knock the whole thing over and start from scratch but I was dead set on keeping the outside without any visible modification other than a single tilt window added in one of the roof surfaces.

After that I've done two more major jobs on other houses but I'm at the end of my enthusiasm for this kind of work.
I want to build a "Google Maps that doesn't make you dumber."

For local navigation, first and foremost. The goal is to teach you how to navigate your locale, so you use it less and less. You still will want to ask it for traffic updates, but you talk to it like you would between locals who know all the roads.

As a model for how to do AI in a way that enhances your thinking rather than softens/replaces it.
> Jaques is the French spelling of Jack/Jaak/Jak/Jaq. They're all pronounced the same

They're not, though. The French pronunciation of 'j', as in the word Jaques is /ʒ/. In English, 'j' at the beginning of the word 'Jack' is pronounced /dʒ/. And 'Jaak' makes me think of Dutch, where that 'j' is pronounced as /j/.
Dishgen – AI Recipe Generator
> while only just a bit north, west, or south the snowfall might be much less.

I don't want to go west of Buffalo during a snowstorm.
KDE's 6th Megarelease – Beta 1
GraphScape: Modeling Similarity and Sequence Among Charts (2017)
Cilantro is literally soap. It's akin someone cooking up a nice bar of Dove and serving it to me.

I will accept no arguments otherwise.
In the AIO you have to explicitly choose to install them, in the bare metal setup they are not installed unless you choose so when you install for the first time. You're right that Nextcloud has gotten bigger, but Collabora is in no way a default part that you can't uninstall...
> However, even with the huge price mark-up in America, the Chinese cancer drugs will still be priced significantly less than similar drugs sold in the US.

So they're charging what the market can bear.
I mean, that is a valid solution. If you're a highly liberal person and you're in conservative central, you will be seen as the asshole. Or maybe it's something more tame like being a sports buff outside of work among a sea of techies who talk about nothing but programming. It's all relative.

Either way, the quote to me reflects a need to either change yourself or your environment.
Fairly early, Bell Labs executives decided to mandate that Bell Labs organizations developing software for the Bell System use Unix, which was from the research organization.

This led to many inventive rationales as to why a non-DEC computer and a non-Unix OS where really essential for specific applications. Resistance lasted for some time, but was eventually futile.
I think the best way to try this out is with LLaVA, the text+image model (like GPT-4 Vision). Here are steps to do that on macOS (which should work the same on other platforms too, I haven't tried that yet though):

1. Download the 4.26GB llamafile-server-0.1-llava-v1.5-7b-q4 file from https://huggingface.co/jartine/llava-v1.5-7B-GGUF/blob/main/...:

wget https://huggingface.co/jartine/llava-v1.5-7B-GGUF/resolve/main/llamafile-server-0.1-llava-v1.5-7b-q4

2. Make that binary executable, by running this in a terminal:

chmod 755 llamafile-server-0.1-llava-v1.5-7b-q4

3. Run your new executable, which will start a web server on port 8080:

./llamafile-server-0.1-llava-v1.5-7b-q4

4. Navigate to http://127.0.0.1:8080/ to upload an image and start chatting with the model about it in your browser.

Screenshot here: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Nov/29/llamafile/
A couple other observations on the experimental side:

They define success as being a sample with >50% of the target material. I guess that's success, but wow you can't test any actual properties (hardness, electrical conductivity, etc.) with samples like that.

As the reviewers noted, they're only making oxides (no alloys or intermetallics).
You wouldn't, but shadowroot is bad design for that. What's wrong with bootstrap or any other number of of existing frameworks? I don't want to include a button and have it stick out like a sore thumb because it ignores my page's styles. ::part() is a stupid hack to make up for a bad approach.

If you want to include something "as-is" (i.e. the demos you mention), use iframes. If you want to include a component like a button, use any of the existing frameworks that work just fine. Trying to build a button that pretends to be a browser-native component but actually isn't is a terrible idea.
That's not the limitation introduced in Llamafile. It's actually a feature of all gguf models. If not specified, GPU is not used at all. Optionally, you can offload some work to the GPU. This allows to run 7b models (zephyr, mistral, openhermes) on regular PCs, it just takes a bit more time to generate the response. What other API would you suggest?
Ha, I wish. Been working on this for weeks, it's even a little annoying oC kind'a pooped on the party by having that massive security hole...
Associated paper (and talk video): https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3025453.3025866

Associated code: https://github.com/uwdata/graphscape
> You get to make your own mistakes without entering a collectivist group that on average is bound to make more costly mistakes.

The costly mistakes of not being bound to your employer because of life insurance.

The costly mistake of not having to think about mass shootings in schools

The costly mistake of having acess to working public transport and generally great public infrastructure.

The costly mistakes of...

Source: I live in Sweden. I have friends in the US with high paying jobs who still have to spend a week on two on the phone with their insurer after an illness, and who can't get anywhere witout a car.
These are apparently only rumors and the article mentions they are coming from China and Japan. One of the other important locations regarding Apple’s modem development efforts is Munich, Germany.

There’s also been rumors recently that Apple plans to have their own modems in MacBooks by 2028. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38351048
To be fair, the web as a whole is like that these days, in that HTTP explicitly includes the user as part of the error handling (404, 500, 503). How many times have you hit "Reload" today?
Is Chick-fil-A the future of food?
Yes, that’s another thing. When Apple is recording RGBD in a cinematic format, it is tiny.
The font is almost 4 years old at this point.
Alternatives to Product Managers – Marty Cagan
Thanks - it's great to hear that. Acorn was an amazing place to work at that time - an absolute dream job for me straight out of college.
I detest the Subscription model so very much, that I hate it on behalf of my company. lol
That sounds about right and similar to what I experienced last time I was looking for backup offers. You won't convince an in-office team to take a new remote employee, but you can find partially-remote teams (sometimes even within the same company), only they will offer less money.

Also, my pay was automatically reduced 10% when I went remote, not because they expect less work from me but because the market rate is different now. Not bad actually.
Not the phrasing I used or would use but, of course.

If your goal is specifically to learn how to work with people you don't like then it makes sense to try work with them. If your goal is anything but that then you're better off avoiding that situation.
Device drivers aren't really relevant to servers and cloud instances which I had in mind where power savings and TCO rule.

But yes, for consumer electronics it's a whole other story.
I think there's a threshold below which this is just unnecessary infrastructure overhead, and I'd posit that most cron use cases fall below this threshold. If yours is above it, well and good.
They're wisely keeping quiet and waiting for the next world event or meme to capture the internet's attention.

All the people who were experts on Covid became experts on Ukraine, then on Israel/Palestine, then on OpenAI, and soon the next thing.
So this is where all the VC money in FinTech has gone to.
No. But I don't think there's any environment out there that is going to 100% guarantee that your cron succeeds. Even if it is reenqueued on failure, it could just keep hitting the same problem and crashlooping. You still need some kind of failure reporting, and a human to jump in to fix whatever went wrong.
> But in the modern world of the conformity and a learned helplessness it's a quiet reminder what you can't do better if nobody says you unpleasant things.

I fight a lot against learned helplessness, trying to get people to actually report bugs, to complain about papercuts they encounter in tools that I can change. But because people are used to having their complaints fall on deaf ears, they don't, so I seek them out in places like here and some time back, Twitter. But that also brings up a dredge of non-constructive unactionable complaints that end up doing nothing more than make me shake my head and close the tab. There are ways of complaining without being nasty to the people doing the work. Being a dick is not a personality type.
Nice. Do you have a secret sauce to get the price low or is it just a case of the usual overcharging by cloud providers?

Also read your twitter bio: I wont repeat here for privacy but would enjoy seeing stories about those things posted on HN
I'm not sure if it's quite accurate to say that the efficiency cores aren't fully utilized; it looks more like some of these apps are second guessing the OS and going out of their way to avoid using the efficiency cores (probably by only spawning one thread per P core, since macOS doesn't let apps directly control thread affinity).

Most of the time, that is probably the wrong approach for an app to take, but maybe DAWs have latency requirements that can't be met when E cores are in the mix. But that's something the DAW vendors should have to document and justify, because it's just as likely that they're making assumptions about E cores that don't hold up over time across the full range of chips.
Interesting that your first thought upon reading something like this is that it could have been faked, complete with reason. I think that says more about you than that it does about the person described in the story.
Yup that's right - reposts are fine after a year or so (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html), and it's good for newer cohorts of users to get access to the perennials:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
There isn't, too much money to be made by the guards in facilitating those transactions.
Note that we're not backed by a a venture capital firm that needs a 10X exit, we're self-funded and have been sustainably growing ~50%/year since we got started. We're over 100 people so paying for 2 developers on Roundcube (tripling the resources being put into Roundcube today) would be trivial for us.

We'll look what users want, what's best for the ecosystem etc, but we're not looking to kill it and if we ever would, it won't be for the money.
At the beginning and at the end, the author mentions deliverability to major providers such as Google as the core outcome, but in between they don't substantively touch upon it. It seems unlikely that the goal was accomplished in a durable and intentional way.
Advice: Co-Founder Disagreements and Equity Challenges in a High-Valued Startup
Hello Hacker News community,

I'm in a complex situation with my startup, which is currently valued in the high millions, and could use some advice. Over time, my initial substantial stake in the company has been significantly diluted. We've recently received crucial funding from our initial investors to sustain the business, but I'm increasingly at odds with my co-founder's decisions.

I'm contemplating exiting the company, yet I'm confronted with a major equity dilemma. Exercising my options, which represent a considerable sum, is financially out of reach for me at the moment, and the tax implications are daunting. This leaves me in a predicament: do I walk away from everything I've worked hard for, or do I stay in an environment where my vision no longer aligns with the company's direction?

Additionally, there are uncertainties regarding the future of the company, making this decision even more complex. Leaving means giving up my equity, but staying might involve ongoing disagreements and the potential for further devaluation of my shares.

I would greatly appreciate any insights or advice, particularly from those who have faced similar challenges. How would you handle this situation? Are there strategies or options I might be overlooking that could help me navigate this while protecting my interests and honoring my contributions to the company?

Thanks in advance for your guidance and perspectives
Stimulation but not recording.

“Recording deep neural activity via ultrasound can’t be done through the skull, but it can be done by removing a piece of skull and laying the device on the surface of the brain.”
I fear that with popularity HN will become the horrible place that reddit is today....
Thanks for your kind words (I am one of the authors)
For those interested, there is an expanded review/critique of datasets here [a]

There is also a video here [b]

[a] https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/cwduv5idkwx9ci328nfpy/Problem...

[b] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg1p3DouX8w&