skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> One time I recall seeing a group of school children, presumably on their way back home to the Isle of Wight after a day of school on the mainland

Depending on when this was, I might have been one of those kids. Back in… 1995?[0] My school in Havant sent us there for a week to some activity centre whose name I forget, where I was knocked unconscious by a trampoline.

[0] Such a nerd that I am, the week containing Wednesday 29 March 1995, which I remember because of which episode of TNG my dad recorded for me to watch later.
As an "in memoriam": is that similar in principles to things like PL/360 [1] ?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PL360
I was thinking recently that hovercrafts might come in handy to cross minefields in Ukraine, assuming that hovercrafts don't trigger detonation.

I'm sure there are plenty of reasons though (perhaps noise?) for why this would be a stupid idea.
Not as good as when running windows (when has there ever been a laptop with linux power management as good as windows?), but better out of the box experience than most laptops I’ve tried.
Japan Hoverbike Pioneer ALI Technologies Files for Bankruptcy
taildrop (https://tailscale.com/kb/1106/taildrop) is also nice to have if you already have a tailscale network set up for your devices. helps with the networking bit also.
Is this a work laptop at a large corporation? I’ve found things my company installs can bring any system to its knees. The M1 was the first time my fans didn’t kick on randomly due to some background process, which has been nice. Windows or macOS, they found ways to screw up both. I’m sure they’d do it to Linux too, if it was supported.
Uhh... That's terrible piece of docs. They don't even cancel stale fetches, just ignore the recieved responses. They don't debounce anything.

There are so many things about syncing data between the client and the server that this section of the docs should just say "Don't", use Apollo or Redux or whetever. React is UI library, for data you need data library or at least general state handling library. Quick and dirty will bite you tenfold.
The issue with the Huberman Lab is, like others mentioned below, his content gets digested and then repackaged by a lot of micro-influencers all ofer the place, with short summaries that present bits and pieces of his podcast as solutions to everything. I started listening to his episodes from the first one, and it crazy to see what he actually discusses and how he presents things and then see what the internet makes of it. My girlfriend told me some weeks ago about that "Doberman" guy that I listen to, from a reel she saw somewhere about how he takes cold showers in the morning, and it's funny because in his podcast he clearly said he doesn't like or do cold showers, and he only presented that as an option based on some studies. He seems very down to earth and never promises things or presents solutions, you can see his academic background, but what the internet has done with his podcast and remixing his content is insane.
> for configuring GitHub actions

You don't like having alternatives to GitHub?
We don't know how often ChatGPT is getting updated (internally), but I hightly doubt the answer would be daily.
1. Fullrange speakers are great, don't underestimate them! The ones I looked at need some help at the low end, but you get away with a much lower crossover frequency compared to a tweeter. Since they can have a relatively big diameter (compared to tweeters) they have a stronger "beam"/focus; annoying when moving or having multiple listeners (off-axis sound is horrible), but for solo listening the stage/imaging gains a lot from not being disturbed by those pesky reflections.

2. Don't add a crossover if you don't have to. They mess with the phase at the crossover point and are hard to get right anyway. Just do it all in a DSP and have an amp for each speaker. You can actually combine room correction (often via parametric equalizer) and the crossover itself into one big FIR, if your DSP is big enough. You can also play with crossover frequencies, slope, sacrificing headroom for a deeper frequency response etc. - in the analog domain, the costs for the passive components quickly add up. That's why MiniDSP + array of amps can have a huge impact.

3. While I'd go with MDF any day, most designs will sound terrible without padding (or too much!). For your 3D printed design I'd expect proper padding to be the lower hanging fruit.

Anecdata: My 4" full range speakers are fully active stereo speakers: 4" FR + 4" woofer per cabinet (based on "Double Four", but with a different FR), 4 amps and an ADAU145x DSP for crossover & room correction (Beocreate 4). They play down to IIRC 40Hz (-3dB, or was it 0dB?) with ultra precise voice/instrument locations. (Not all that glitters is gold: IIRC they're limited to 92 or 95dB and I still need to redo the DRC since we moved).

Edit: For prototyping, there is the free Windows "Equalizer APO" I used to output the four channels using the onboard sound card and fed them into an older 5.1 receiver (with 5 integrated amps) connected to the speakers. That way I could rapidly swap the FIR filters and compare them to insanely large filters. This is nice for experimenting, and with a decent sound card can eliminate the need for a DSP when used to build dedicated PC speakers.
> I'm actually more interested in getting a good sound image.

This is the goal. The best image I've ever heard was from a pair of Bang & Olufsen Beolab 5 [0], set up in their shop (due to their acoustic lens, I suspect).

I have a pair of JBL LSR305 (bought for 1% of the price of the B&O pair) [1]. They feature an "Image Control Wave Guide" inherited from a more expensive JBL line. The image can be stunning, but you have to sit in the right place.

[0] https://www.beoworld.org/prod_details.asp?pid=800

[1] https://jblpro.com/products/lsr305
The OS really has zero hesitation to swap to sometimes insane amounts and by the time you feel it in the UI responsiveness you might already be swapping 10-20GB.

8GB is just too little for the base model. From what I've seen the OS alone will use 20-50% of that, and if I do anything productive with a couple applications and browser tabs I'm soon at 100% memory usage. Which can cause lags or short freezes when switching between applications. But on 16GB it's a very different experience, it gives decent breathing room.

I think Apple really shot themselves in the foot with this, anyone using even half the CPU's potential is guaranteed to have significantly degraded performance and a worse experience.
Looking at the specs for the TI TMS9900, Zilog Z80, and the MOS 6502, the TI chip came in a 64-pin DIP and required +5V, -5V, and +12V power supply while the other two chips came in a 40 pin DIP package and only required a +5V power supply.

The 6502 was cheap (<$30), the Z80 was more expensive at introduction, but looking at price lists, dropped down close to the same price as the 6502 within a few years.

from https://www.cpushack.com/2015/02/05/ti-tms9900sbp9900-accide...:

" In 1978 a 9980 cost $30 while a TMS9900 cost $70."

Also, in the comments from the above link:

"Many years later, the processor architect for the TMS9995 (Karl Guttag) pointed out to me that whatever context switch benefits the WP offered were quickly outweighed by the required memory access cycles only a handful of instructions into an interrupt service routine. It was a false economy."
Sorry for the lack of replies to the comments. Yes, On Deck and it seems to be spending it each month (not yearly, my mistake). I was looking for a public info of their announcement but could not find it.
No, I don't understand your point because you said to stop loving your tools, which I don't agree with.
>In wal2 mode, the system uses two wal files instead of one. The files are named "<database>-wal" and "<database>-wal2",

Heh, I wonder how many people will delete the "wal" file thinking that, since they switched to wal2, the wal file must be a leftover.
It's 250 for Audi, BMW, Porsche, Mercedes-Benz and Volkswagen. It's a "voluntary self-restriction" because they feared regulations in the 90s.
The case of Jesse Gelsinger comes to mind.

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

The victim was a young kid which had 50+ years of life before him, and he was able to manage his condition fairly well prior to the experiment.

Add some shady details in the informed consent process, and the reaction of the public to his death was so overwhelmingly negative that gene therapy took a massive hit.
Yeah, Apple have been massively optimizing for heterogenous cores and having efficient power states when not doing any work.
1. I read the linked README and it did not answer these points.

2. Regardless, this sub thread isn’t about TFA.
I'm just speculating here, but in a normal database you would have different processes writing the wal files to the database or archives.

You don't have that with sqlite, so I don't see an obvious advantage for this, except if they now spawn a process or thread to do this concurrently.

Edit: so I read the doc (shame on me) and it has nothing to do with speed. Its purpose is to prevent a wal file from growing too large.
I remember when micropayments for sites or individual pages were deemed too expensive to implement due to the cost and complexity of splitting access into tiny pieces and tracking them. Yet here we are with sites sharing their users with hundreds of other companies.
Arm cooking up powerful Cortex-X CPU to beat iPhone performance
This is such a bizarre post. Tools are built to serve man. AI is just another tool. When mechanization replaced human labor there were no questions about prioritizing machines over people. This is no different. You have a distorted framing of the situation.
You might like https://htmx.org/extensions/path-deps/
How much value is there in using one of those removal services once off? Does one just get re added next day?
Agree, nesting files with

cat >Dockerfile <<'EOF'

and having a basic bash script seems way nicer than putting all the shell logic on the #! line.
it is down to their choice of animations. same way you can make your phone feel faster by disabling transition animations.

you must be one in a million to never see that error, however. many a times when people exit server, they server would show that message in chat.
Ask HN: Why am I suddenly unemployable?
Never used to have any trouble finding employment. But it seems as of recently my CV is toxic waste. If recruiters reach out, I give them a good time to call and never hear back. If I reach out to them, silence.

Did I do something recently with an unpopular technology? Did I piss off someone powerful? Did I get too old? Who knows!

Lots of coding experience; bosses have always been happy with my work. I've written stuff about programming online that has been well-received. Several personal projects under my belt, and plenty of OSS contributions too. Suddenly nobody wants to know.

Has anyone here been in a similar situation? Did you fix it? How?

CV in case some kind soul wants to take a look: https://foon.uk/robin-allen-cv.pdf
Is there a reason why between what I originally wrote and what you wrote here, you changed enough of the words that it no longer matches what I actually said?

> It's not about managing a library of any kind, it's about a tree of changes.

No, a Git repo is not "a tree of changes" (nor is Git a "hacky diffing tool").
1) they will sign you up via this or another dark pattern so that you will have to threaten legal action and otherwise waste time demanding they refund you – I imagine many people agree to receive their low quality food for some time instead of wasting the energy on arguing with them
2) the produce they sent us in Germany was lowest possible quality, soft potatoes, discounter stuff that might have been at the end of its shelf life, so even at 4€ per meal they are profiting for sure
We Just Shot Down Two of Russia's Best Command Planes
I wonder if it’s due to Linux? Are there other operating systems designed for efficiency? I look at what smartwatch makers are able to do with a tiny battery and think there has to be a way.
That’s what Global Privacy Control (GPC)[0] is trying to do. So far it’s been referenced in California, Colorado and Connecticut state privacy regulations as an "opt-out preference signal” or "user-enabled universal opt-out method”[1]. Sephora paid a $1.2-million settlement in 2022 for not respecting the signal[2].

[0] https://globalprivacycontrol.org/
[1] https://redcloveradvisors.com/2023/02/21/what-is-global-priv...
[2] https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bont...
S3 is a nice trick. More tricks:

1. Ask for discounts if you are a big AWS customer (e.g., spend $1mln+/year). At some point, they were huge for inter-AZ transfers.

2. Put things in one AZ. Running DB in "b" zone and your only server in "a" is even worse than just standardizing on one zone.

3. When using multiple AZ do load aware AZ balancing.
The slight difference here in some cases (few) a fever can go too far and if your body temperature goes too high you can suffer organ failure. Now whilst this isn't overly common for the average cold or flu this is where medication would be required.

For the average person and the average fever, people don't really need to take fever suppressants but they do often allow people to go back to work sooner.
Good example of "the best way to get a correct answer on the internet is to post a wrong one."
It depends on how good AI gets.

If we have slow takeoff, AI will be like any other automation. It will increase economic productivity. Capital owners will benefit the most, but everyone else will also benefit, because it's not zero-sum. People will lose their jobs but new jobs will be created and everyone will get richer.

If we get ASI, then that's a paradigm shift and all bets are off.
An alternative to sophisticated cloud cost minimization systems is…….. don’t use the cloud. Host it yourself. Or use Cloudflare which has 0 cents per gigabyte egress fees. Or just rent cloud servers from one of the many much cheaper VPS hosting services and don’t use all the expensive and complex cloud services all designed to lock you in and drain cash from your at 9 or 12 or 17 cents per gigabyte.

Seriously, if you’re at the point that you’re doing sophisticated analysis of cloud costs, consider dropping the cloud.
> While Thiel says he won’t fund candidates in the 2024 race, he’s previously supported a slew of successful Republican congressional campaigns. And after stints as Chief Financial Officer for Thiel’s now-defunct Clarium Capital Management and Chief of Staff at Thiel Capital, Michael Kratsios took White House and Defense Department positions in the Trump administration, giving Thiel closer proximity to power.

Is there literally any reason this is here besides “republicans bad”?
That's safe though, as the fuel tank also only lasts 12 minutes.
If you say so, de gustibus. You might be making life marginally easier for you, to the detriment of any tool (or person) that has to parse your output.
I used to listen to so many podcasts, and I would put up with the occasional ad read by the podcasters and baked into the audio

When dynamic ads became a thing in podcasts I was shocked. I thought something was wrong with my phone when I heard the first dynamic ad on Spotify. I actually questioned whether some adware had found its way onto my phone. For minutes I couldn’t figure out what was going on. That was also the day I disowned Spotify as it was a service I explicitly payed for to avoid ads.

These days the ads are everywhere and the baked in ones are longer and more frequent. I came to realise there’s fewer and fewer podcasts worth sitting through ads for. So at least in my anecdotal experience that’s why I don’t listen to podcasts as much anymore.
Now I can't help but wonder if there should be a `waln` mode where the WAL files would round robin instead of alternate between just two potentially allowing for much more intense write cadence.
The Metric Red Herring (2022)
> Other tasks required studying the input data

I also felt there were more problems than usual this year that could not easily be solved without looking at the input for special cases not alluded to in the problem descriptions. (As someone who has solved all 25 for the past 3 years).

An extreme example was this year's day 20 circuit-simulating problem, which was made far easier by having the given circuit split up into a few independent chunks that are only connected at the start + end. (I suspect it might be NP-complete without this feature)

It's a slightly different kind of problem solving to think "what makes this particular input easier than the general version of this problem", and one that I'd naively assume LLMs are less skilled at.
Processor design isn't black voodoo. Its all configuration, most of which is now designed with CAD, and targeting particular use cases.

Its kinda like the evolution of bitcoin mining-everyone was doing it with GPUs, AMDs were better because of some hardware optimization where they could hash something in less cycles, then people started making ASIC which are purpose built and the fastest possible way to run the necessary compute. There were no technical advancements here, just economic forces driving the design and manufacture of components that made making ASICs profitable.

Apple did the same thing except they designed the chip and the computer as one, and they succeeded because it allowed them to optimize stuff further, and you see this in results where they are the leader but not by much, and often behind systems that are overclocked in single core performance. Power consumption on macs, also varies greatly depending on what you are running, which is again a result of optimization for particular use cases.
The first post is "M1 is bad because no bfloat16". The second is "M2 is good because bfloat16". What am I missing here?
I couldn’t agree more. I’ve hooked up things to my DB with AI in an attempt to “talk” to it but the results have been lackluster. Sure it’s impressive when it does get things right but I found myself spending a bunch of time adding to the prompt to explain how the data is organized.

I’m not expecting any LLM to just understand it, heck another human would need the same rundown from me. Maybe it’s worth keeping this “documentation” up to date but my take away was that I couldn’t release access to the AI because it got things wrong too often and I could anticipate every question a user might ask. I didn’t want it to give out wrong answers (this DB is used for sales) since spitting out wrong numbers would be just as bad as my dashboards “lying”.

Demo DBs aren’t representative of shipping applications and so the demos using AI are able to have an extremely high success rate. My DB, with deprecated columns, possibly confusing (to other people) naming, etc had a much higher error rate.
I don't know if I am missing something obvious. What is the periodicity in these visualization methods? Like I am looking at the 2nd column: cartesian coordinates, line chart, area chart, scatterplot, spectogram. What periodic property is being repeated among them?
I’ve been on the cross channel hovercraft in bad weather. It was just as bumpy as being in a small speedboat in bad weather. But it was huge and insanely noisy and the experience seemed to last forever even though in all of that sensory overload I had no real concept of time.

If it had operated closer to Cuba the Americans would surely have used it as a form of torture.
I am looking at your CV and have some feedback:

- You missed your work goals objective paragraph! Why are you looking to a job? What is your interest? LinkedIn and Internet in general are full of examples. Why do I need to hire you beyond your specific skills? How are you as a human? as a team player? How do you contribute to organizations beyond your formal work?

- I will not separate between full time work and independent, OSS, volunter. I will follow the typical reverse chronological order for work in a single column.

- Put a summary of your skills somewhere (Python, C++) and learn and experiment with Rust if you want to increase your chances!

If you ask me I would pay a few hours of someone to help you with your CV. It could be an average recruiter that has the hiring filters always present on his/her head.
> You can do it, but since you're relying on others to build the pipeline, you're going to have to pay a lot more salary to the seniors than you would if you promoted them.

Not really, because people aren't loyal to companies, it's not the 1980s.

If Company A trains a junior to a senior and fails to pay senior rates, what stops that new senior moving to Company B?

Company A and Company B thus have to pay roughly the same, who did the Junior->Senior transition doesn't matter
But people need to “haul freight” all the time - shopping bags, kids, etc.
There is a chicken-and-egg problem here. VCs would presumably love defence contracts because government money is where it is at if you want to get wealthy without risking much.

However war is terrible for business. The reason governments handle defence is because capitalist free markets do not typically allocate much to weapons spending and would never attempt to fund a standing military like what the US government does. So I'd suggest that the root of the demand is coming from the political class and the VCs are responding to that.
Admittedly our experience is probably very different, I live in London where there's great public transport, so most people use that/ bicycles to get into their jobs. Despite that, I still own a car that I regularly use to get out of the city into areas that aren't remotely well served by public transport (think an airfield in the middle of nowhere). The infrastructure around renting a car is too much of a pain in the ass at the moment, and far too expensive. I think the inflection point is ~12 rentals or so per year to make it cheaper to own my crappy old car with insurance and maintenance.
Five richest men double their money as poorest get poorer
youtube can have price even 0.001$ still won't pay to them anything.

"no, we will not put any ads on youtube now that we (google) purchased it"
In Japan, electric Kei cars do quite well at half that weight, even in rural areas with heavy snow. For example, 2022-2023 car of the year: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Sakura
> The only issue is that s2idle drains the battery like crazy compared to S3.

Properly working s2idle should use as little power as S3, but it seems to be much more common with s2idle that some piece of hardware is left enabled while it should have been disabled to save power.
Computer-related folklore, horror stories, and annecdotes
A bit tangential, but a related fun story from many years ago during my time as a WoW GM.

There was a popular add-on (Titan Bar I think?) that had a bug in one of its versions where it would always call the API which showed the "write a ticket to a GM UI", if you tried to cancel it, then it would just pop up again, the only way to stop this dialog from being in the way (aside from uninstalling the problematic add-on) was to put something in the text box and press submit.

It was a very bad day or two for the GMs, many players didn't even know about GMs or that that you could submit tickets to them, and trying to explain to a customer that you're a customer service representative who's contacting them because they submitted a ticket likely due their one add-on was more often than not a tricky one.

Because it essentially destroyed the ability to perform reasonable customer service response times the developers put out a hotfix which also put that API call behind protection, making it impossible to be called except from Blizzard's own LUA code.