skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm starting to dislike the phrase "the science"

I dislike it when it is used to describe something that is not science.

> I don't have kids, and don't really care when schools start

As a taxpayer, your money is being wasted trying to teach sleepy teenagers who are not the right physical state for learning. Given that these are future coworkers and the people that will be funding the government when you are retired, it might be wise to suggest maybe spend monty teaching teens when they are awake and physically ready to learn?
Development-Cycle in Cargo: 1.76
small external kb/mouse and then hdmi it to the TV? IDK, just a thought. I'm mostly content to just use the laptop as is though.
This implies that if you simply move time zones sufficiently then your natural cycle would match up with your work/life sleep schedule. Does that actually happen? If not, what other frame of reference is your natural cycle syncing up with?
This dissection is, on its own, full of inaccuracies.

It may be true that the book is based on some weak studies but anyone can cherry pick a few individual sentences out of their context and from that write an essay about how wrong someone is (essentially the first 4 points that don't relate to a data error are summed up this way).

In fact, even some of the studies that person is referencing don't agree with the theses presented.

As one real basic example: The author of that blog is disingenous when they take the sentence:

> the shorter your sleep, the shorter your life span

Out of context from the rest of the page:
https://archive.org/details/why-we-sleep/page/n9/mode/2up

Within context it's clear the author is speaking about specifically getting too little sleep as short sleep. In that context, shorter doesn't mean what is implied by the blog author's response (less in hours).
> Sure, sales of EVs keep going up — a record 300,000 cars sold in the US in the third quarter of 2023 were electric — but the pace of adoption has markedly slowed, and analysts have suggested the country is no longer on track to hit the government's sales targets.

The link they give to "no longer on track" is to a British site talking about British government targets, and nowhere does it suggest that they previously were on target but now aren't. That's almost an LLM hallucination level of bullshit.
Imagery of Dennis the Menace from the 50s and 60s getting taken to school by a truancy officer begs to differ.
I'm not asserting there is a link, I'm a step or two behind that, asserting that if we're going to consider any social change in the UK then it should be done in light of what is probably the biggest influence on living standards.

In the UK we see an economy with, y'know, substantial debt. A lot of their alleged assets at the national level are US treasuries which are unreliable stores of wealth [0]. Their ability to secure energy just cratered by ~25% from peak.

That is some pretty dire context. Then we have the elites - who are aware of these factors - pushing through extremely heavy surveillance laws. Now it might be that surveillance is cheap these days, but nevertheless the policy disaster that they've engineered needs to be considered as a factor. In their position I'd certainly be tempted by a rats on the sinking ship mentality and the lure of flirting with totalitarianism.

[0] With China apparently selling off their debt the UK is trending towards being the 2nd largest holder of US debt. Which is a bit risky given the US is likely to engage the printing presses in a big way.
It was a RAD platform though. From following your links:

> Low-code development platforms trace their roots back to fourth-generation programming language and the rapid application development tools of the 1990s and early 2000s.

> Delphi was originally developed by Borland as a rapid application development tool for Windows as the successor of Turbo Pascal.
thanks! i like lua a lot despite its flaws; that's what i wrote my own literate programming system in. lua's 'bytecode' is actually a wordcode (a compilation approach which i think wirth's euler paper was perhaps the first published example of) and quite similar in some ways to wirth's risc-1/2/3/4/5 hardware architecture family

i hope they do go to open access; these papers are too valuable to be lost to future acm management or bankruptcy
Indeed, however the experience with crashes and security exploits, has proven that scaling processes, or even distributing them across several machines, scales much better than threads.
> It seemed really strange to me that LK99 was tossed aside so quickly.

My understanding is that room-temperature superconductor claims come out on average every six months or so. So the impressive thing is that LK99 was tossed aside so quickly, but that it was treated as seriously as it was for as long as it was.
The hard part is that people have already tried really hard to make and measure a superconductor in the LK-99 system, and these researchers have once again gotten close, but not succeeded. There is some precedent for this: one of the highest-temperature superconductors is two-dimensional iron selenide supported on strontium titanate, which superconducts at 100 K, while the bulk iron selenide superconductivity is a measly 8 K at normal pressure (38 K under pressure). At this point, the most plausible way that superconductivity could be occurring in the LK-99 system is if it's in a metastable or nanostructured (possibly two-dimensional) phase that doesn't like to or can't exist as a uniform bulk material.
It hasn't won. Threads are alive and well and I rather expect async has probably already peaked and is back on track to be a niche that stays with us forever, but a niche nevertheless.

Your opinion vs. my opinion, obviously. But the user reports of the experience in Rust is hardly even close to unanimous praise and I still say it's a mistake to sit down with an empty Rust program and immediately reach for "async" without considering whether you actually need it. Even in the network world, juggling hundreds of thousands of simultaneous tasks is the exception rather than the rule.

Moreover, cooperative multitasking was given up at the OS level for good and sufficient reasons that I see no evidence that the current thrust in that direction has solved. As you scale up, the odds of something jamming your cooperative loop monotonically increase. At best we've increased the scaling factors, and even that just may be an effect of faster computers rather than better solutions.
There's a glaring issue with HTMX and I'm not sure how it can be resolved gracefully. Other related libraries solved this issue already (Turbo and Turbolinks). However, HTMX only returns HTML fragments and doesn't track head changes.

It's not easy to explain.. but imagine if a user loads your webpage. Then the web page loads your assets are loaded (JS, CSS, etc).

Then imagine a new deployment happens that introduces new styles and/or HTML for a given resource.

The page that is loaded in the user's browser does not have the new styles and doesn't know they were updated. If the user interacts with the resource the page styles will break.

This was fixed in Turbo and Turbolinks by introducing "data-turbo-track="true"" to a resource like a CSS sheet. When the server responds with a fresh page the head can be compared and a full reload can happen if the asset was updated.

In HTMX, the page is just broken.

edit:

Currently, you would have to manually hack around this... like long polling for the current app version or returning it in every XHR request and adding a middleware to HTMX to do the check and pop up a "your page is out of date..." message.
1. Yes, the only relevant point
2. is only an issue for people who don't actually own an EV. With Tesla's charging network (which is getting adopted by _nearly_ all EV manufacturers), _nearly_ everyone will have no range issue at all. The exception is rural America and pockets of poor coverage, but that is a minority.
I haven’t actually started coding yet with the ESP chip. In my case the aim is to pick up a preformatted image from an URL, avoiding all of the finicky formatting you describe. I like the idea of the screen controller as a single function machine just for display, with the backend being a simple GitHub repo connected to Cloud Run via CI/CD.
Seems a bit pretentious to blame unrequited love on some old religious ideology
> You can still hear their cell phone pings

This is valid. That said, if you're close enough to hear a cell phone ping, you've chosen proximity. You're close enough to hear a lot of other sounds. You retain the option to move away.

> "sorry I didn't have network" is no longer a convenient excuse when you are on these trips

To whom are you giving this excuse? Because if you were previously saying you were going somewhere without connectivity, you can still say you're going to reject connectivity.
I posted the short courses just as answer to how to address quality control. I'm not selling anything, and those courses are free anyway.
deeplearning.ai was cofounded by Andrew Ng, who is probably the most well known for his work on teaching machine learning through deeplearning.ai, Coursera, Stanford, etc. He has taught and influenced millions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Ng

In regards to "evaluation", I think these is what those short courses will cover:

Self-Evaluation with the LLM: The idea is to use the language model to generate an answer and then use the same or a different model to evaluate that answer. The evaluation could involve asking the model to rate the answer's accuracy, coherence, relevance, or any other desired metric. This self-evaluation process can be automated and scaled, although it's important to be aware of the limitations, as the model might inherit biases or blind spots from its training data.

LangChain for Structured Evaluation: LangChain can be used to structure this self-evaluation process. It can orchestrate the flow where the LLM first generates an answer and then follows a series of steps to evaluate it. This might include breaking down the evaluation into specific questions or tasks that the LLM must perform to assess its initial response.
> camp grounds and sites with rules forbidding things like projectors and speakers over a certain volume level

100% agree.
It still is, and got a new release last month.
then we should quit that too. Bye bye!
I'm surprised by stories like these that don't allow for the sale/ownership of sustainably farmed fish.
I've had TVs move room to room and face a different direction and need to be fixed with a degaussing coil. I'm told it's from the Earth's magnetic field. Could also be that they were next to other TVs (arcade machines in this case).
Not asking about old JavaScript vs new JavaScript. Asking about explicit event loop vs hidden event loop with fancy names like timeout, async, await...
Sounds like it's impossible to match everyone's circadian rhythm then, so what can we realistically do about it?
I guessed this was the Arowana before the page loaded. Always thought those were incredible fish, didn't know they were illegal in the US.

I've definitely seen a lot of them online in aquarist circles. One wonders if the US prohibition might be counterproductive given how much of the population is probably now in farms/aquariums.

I wonder why axolotls aren't illegal? From what I understand, they're even more critically endangered, existing only in one small lake outside Mexico City.
I have a similar-but-hacky command-line app that I put together to find just Rust positions:

https://github.com/hughdbrown/who-is-hiring

It's built to be pretty fast by not pulling data it does not need. Since it operates in multiple passes on stored data, it would be easy to modify/add a pass to get what you want. Feel free to use parts you like.

A couple of things I think would help:

- sorted attributes (too hard to go through a hundred computer technologies to find Rust)

- multiple geographic entries for the same name (multiple entries for Germany, USA, UK, Europe)

- ability to select a month

- if you are showing a static pull of the data, the ability to refresh some month would be helpful
I think the cynicism about the school system here is not warranted. You may face voter pressure in the 20s, but the school system does not exist to enable dual-income households. Putting aside that they weren't even common when public school first became mandatory, this article seems to be largely talking about high school. High schoolers do not need their parents to be home every minute they're also home, and if this were the case, schools would also not be able to let children leave until parents were home from work, which is not the case. I don't currently have any teenagers, but at least in the 90s when I was still in high school myself, it was not uncommon for kids to end the day and go home as early as 2 PM. California had and has no laws about miniumum babysitting age, but typically 12 was the recommendation I always heard, and where US states do have laws, the minimum age for a babysitter ranges from 6 to 14. There is no US state where you can't leave a high school age child home alone for an hour or two.

Whatever the actual reason for the schedule, it is not this, at least not as the only or original reason. There are plenty of other reasons. It may be difficult or dangerous to practice outdoor sports after school in some parts of the country if you end the day too late. There's some housekeeping that needs to be done by the school staff after the kids leave, whether that be literally cleaning the school or grading homework, and the staff probably doesn't want to be doing that super late into the evening. It's fairly sensible to intentionally be offset from office-induced rush hours, so the day may start earlier than a typical workday for that reason. Kids who work after school can more easily do so if they get off school before the typical start of a late work shift.

I'm not intending to personally endorse any of these as good enough reasons to continue the early day, and I will also gladly admit that I've been an early bird my entire life so the schedule worked out fine for me even as a child. For what it's worth, my elementary school actually had two different schedules for cohorts called "early birds" and "late birds." The early birds started the day at 7 AM and the late birds at 10 AM. This was in LA County in the mid 80s. I have no idea how widespread that ever was or why my middle school and high school didn't do the same thing.
Uncentralizable energy overproduction would help.
In the provided example it's probably narcissism.
> live in an apartment complex inside the city centre, parking outside of it won't help you

Of course it does. You use city transportation systems when in the centre. And you take an Uber or train to your parking lot when you need to drive a bunch.

> Should the poors not be allowed to go to work or the doctors office?

Versus not being able to afford housing?

That's the tradeoff. There is no free lunch. Increasing space dedicated to parking raises the cost of housing. It also reduces density, thereby reducing wealth and increasing transit times.
We're so lucky that Backblaze creates these reports and shares them openly. That's not normal for companies to do and it's valuable for us consumers to get these insights.

Actually I'm referring to their drive stats and not their storage pod stats like in this report.

Thank you Backblaze.
which languages? I've just restored an Amiga 500 with Workbench 2.1 and I'd love to honor his memory.
But realistically it doesn't mean that an average Porsche owner does nothing but speeding on Autobahns. Similarly lots of people in the US drive pickups but only a tiny portion of them actually use them the way they were meant to be used
Oberon (Native Oberon 2.3.7) [video]
It’s a friendly analogy so we like it. A bit like, “we’re l just LLMs”, maybe we’re similar in some ways of working but I’ve never seen an LLM display ambition.
Manager's and the Art and Science of Delegation
Same here! One of my very first apps for android 1.1 was a port of bochs =)
Because it'd be really nice to have a place with just application data to backup. no configs, no application state. Or alternatively it's nice to have a place to just factory reset all your app config, but keep all the data.
WeWork is great and would be far more economical than paying day-pass rates assuming (big assumption) you are okay with working in major metro areas only. For instance there is 1 location in Sacramento and nothing else in Norcal outside the immediate Bay Area. For me I kind of like cities, but I suspect the author of this piece would feel pretty hemmed in by that footprint since he seems to like to actually be in nature daily (which is cool!).

I haven't tried to do any coworking in smaller cities or towns, but I guess maybe there are indie coworking spaces in places like say, Santa Rosa or Auburn.

TBH if I was designing a nomad project for myself (and wanting a significant nature/non-urban aspect to it) I think i'd do a literal van and have a real desk and chair in it. 5G internet isn't the greatest but I think it'd be easy enough, armed with a van, to seek out places within the area I want to visit with a good enough signal to make it workable.

(Obviously add rooftop solar panels and a Jackery or whatever to satisfy power needs all day.)
> Because it would both enable and incentivize development patterns where people need cars less.

As for enabling, nothing stops developers from doing that now. As for incentivizing them, if they can make more money not meeting most people's needs then that's what they'll do. This is also why so many cities have a huge amount of luxury housing available, but a massive lack of affordable housing. What makes developers the most money isn't always what's best for a city.

> Dense mixed-use development puts more of the places people need to go in places that don't require cars to get to them. (It also mass transit to other places more viable.) Your focused on alternatives ti cars to get to a fixed set of locations, but a big point of dense mixed-use development is to provide alternative locations.

I agree with this, but none of these cities are creating mixed-use development or building out their mass transit systems to link them. They're getting rid of parking spaces without any of those things in place.

> The reason people need cars is that the places they need to be a far away because of development patterns; one of the key features of development patterns that causes this is...the space use created by parking requirements.

A reason people need cars is because things are far away. Another reason is that there are no other means to get anywhere else. As long as those things are true, people still need cars. As long as people still need cars, they need places to put them.

The space use created by parking requirements would be a nice problem to solve, but it can't (and shouldn't) be addressed until the requirement of owning cars has been dealt with. When people no longer require cars, we can reduce the amount of space we've set aside for housing them.
Most coworking spaces or serviced offices don’t have external monitors included, unfortunately. And of course, you’re then limited to cities and have to commute.

Airbnb but with a gaming room (or two?) and fast internet sounds ideal for my needs.
It’s a pity there isn’t a way for several buyers to pool their purchasing power.
If this performs, and it is a big if, it can make life a lot easier for people with stateful services. You just push the service back to the browers and you are done. It can be a lot cheaper and lot faster, and also reduce complexity of making a stateful service scalable and reliable.
Smol-macros, smol-hyper and smol-axum
Ha, nice to meet you.

I always say "if it's stupid and it works, it's not stupid". Your approach to get the dithering right sounds brilliant to me :D.

The current inky driver works great, and that fact that it's in Python is what made me develop the original FrameOS software in Python. However now that I rewrote it in Nim, the Python driver is a bit of a crutch. While I could use the C drivers for the Waveshare displays, I'm forced to install a python wrapper on the Pi as a workaround to get the Inky drivers working.

Do you have any idea if there are any C, or even Nim drivers available for the Inky Impression boards? The Python workaround works, but isn't really elegant. If not, I'm considering porting them myself at some point...

I'm also lurking on the Pimoroni discord, and was meaning to ask there about it as well.
I drop my two elementary school kids off before the 7:20 bell every morning. We're too close for school bus service, but I checked the schedule and the first stops begin before 6:45.
Police say AI generated article about local murder is 'made up'
My observation is most lifters can't assess RPE/RIR if they don't start with an intensity driven program that forces failure as part of progression. Much better to learn how the feeling of grinding early on with baby weights with low injury chance.
> The complexity comes from the number of steps and the number of parameters.

Yes, it seems like a transformer model simple enough for us to understand isn't able to do anything interesting, and a transformer complex enough to do something interesting is too complex for us to understand.

I would love to study something in the middle, a model that is both simple enough to understand and complex enough to do something interesting.
Here work shows of course that the simplistic Econ101 Trategy of the Commons is wrong. And that of course was known long before. Just as in any other field just reading 101 isn't sufficient. This is an old problem in economics and much has been written about.

What her work actually shows is that the determining factor isn't so much if something is private or government or something else but rather about various other factor, like communication, monitoring and enforcement.

> Problem is that privatisation (together with markets, cause the two always go hand in hand) introduces incentives to compete and to exploit

There are tons of resources under private management and private operates are very well capable of understanding that if they simply use up the resource they will hurt their future earnings potential.

In the old school case of common land being zoned off, those lands became private. Those private operators used that land far more efficiently and the result a massive increase in the British population. And guess what, 100s of years later and that land is very often still farmed to this day. They understand that the land has capacity that needs to be restored in various way.

Now one can make the argument if the privatization happened in a fair way. Meaning did all the people who had access to common land get an fair share. That however is a different question.

With farm land this works because based on Ostroms work its pretty easy to monitor, and enforce. Secretly going to another farmers land and planting or harvesting isn't all that viable. In case of fishery rights this get much more complex. Before the invention of barbed wire such simply mechanism didn't work for cattle for example and thus other mechanism were used. However once barbed wire was invented cattle farmers moved to full privatization. See 'The Not So Wild, Wild West: Property Rights on the Frontier' if you are interest in various stories like that.

We can take various other examples. Common forest could suffer tragedy of the commons. But private logging operations have long understood that they need to split up land to have forest at different stages so that they can continually harvest wood for a long time.

Privatization (as in splitting up the resources into various parts) can align the intensives correctly, the damage the resource takes impact your own utility and thus aligns intensives correctly.

So it totally correct to say that splitting up a resource and managing it independent is a potential solution. But I think Ostrom work indicates that we need to look deeper and beyond a one size fits all solution to resource management.