skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seeing that activity chart reminds me of TJ Holowaychuk (a.k.a., visionmedia). He was such a prolific and inspirational guy. I remember going through college over a decade ago and looking up to him. He accomplished so much, but still made it a point to enjoy hobbies outside of programming. Dude was a great role model.
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My oldest CD-Rs are from 1994 and they still read perfectly.

Factory pressed CDs should last longer than CD-Rs (I've read).
(2022)

Some more discussion then:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29886907
Markov chains aren't lookup tables... Markov chains is the description of a process where you generate the next step by looking at preceding steps, that can be a lookup table but it can also be more complex like modern LLMs.
https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2024/01/31/americans-so...
> All those Apple-specific icons with the different dimensions- really a pain for a casual web dev like me.

You'll be glad to know you it's not like that anymore; you just need one Apple-specific icon now [1]:

<link rel="icon" href="/favicon.ico" sizes="32x32">
<link rel="icon" href="/icon.svg" type="image/svg+xml">
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="/apple-touch-icon.png"><!-- 180×180 -->
<link rel="manifest" href="/manifest.webmanifest">

[1]: https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/how-to-favicon-in-2021-s...
This is effectively a Hobson's choice buried in the benignly malicious obfuscation of a EULA. "a. Complete this painful process to achieve a simple task; b. agree to what favors us and harms you; or c. don't use the service."

It's interesting that the opt-out instructions fail to explicitly mention a Hulu account, only a Disney+ or ESPN+ account.

Note that opting out of binding arbitration and the class-action waiver are two different choices that must be both stated explicitly.
As people get older polyphasic sleep often becomes their norm, they sleep when they are tired, and are awake when they are not, especially if they no longer have a job. If you have to interact with people (sign for packages for example) it can be a problem, but if you don't it seems about the same as normal sleep to me. Being forced to change sleep schedule constantly does cause health issues, but just doing what your body tells you seems to work out ok in my experience. Taking drugs to force sleep to a schedule seems like a worse option.

One drawback to it is that many sleep trackers don't handle it well. They'll treat a second sleep as a nap for example and then pester you that you're not getting enough sleep. The Galaxy G5 seems to capture all sleeps fairly well (but it loses pairing every few months and has to be reset from scratch), the Oura Ring sometimes catches 2nd or 3rd sleeps as naps and adds them to the total, the Xiaomi Mi7 Band often misses shorter sleeps or lists them as naps without adding them to the total. The Android app "Sleep as Android" is started and stopped manually so if you can remember to do that it works well.
Base sql dump is in database.pgsql, then they got patches on top of that in /migrations
Afaik only one developer deploys this code to the webserver and last time I tried it wasnt reproducible https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=1207261#p1207261 I suspect he is the only one who ever does build whole project, or maybe no one ever builds it from scratch. I think problem is in the database with codebase expecting never dump.

They claim to be looking for volunteers https://blog.theretroweb.com/2023/04/25/the-retro-web-is-loo... but I got no reply asking for help building.
I used one of these for years up until the recall. Ironically over that same time I have developed an odd cough. Actually just recently given a referral to a respitory specialist. Hopefully its just asthma or something.

What in the fuck is with my odds, why does this keep happening to me. It feels like the universe is literally trying to kill me.
Previous link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39218669
I seem to remember true crypt would allow you to make an encrypted container with AES, two fish and serpent. But it was all decrypted with a single password. So if you found that password you would have gotten through all three layers.
I suspect it could be pretty tough as it relies on very tight CPU timing. I'm sure it's doable though.
Not even the AGPL has such a requirement.
Sounds like we just need to wait to accumulate a bit more of them?
> There is absolutely nothing going on culturally.

Old man yells at cloud.
I'm not an academic, but I have worked with a lot of academics and I think most of them would have no concerns about accessing personal data on their work computer. I thought a university would be an example of a very 'friendly' employer.

An example university policy [1]

> 11.5 reasonable personal use of College IT resources is permitted provided such use does not disrupt the conduct of College business or other users. Recreational use of the Halls of Residence network is also permitted, subject to these conditions;

We have a similar policy where I work. I have a personal laptop, but I don't take it to work. I am signed in to my personal GMail account on my work computer, along with many other accounts — like this HN account. If work needed to look at an employee's computer, we'd have someone from IT + someone from HR overseeing the process, and wouldn't look at anything clearly private, e.g. a personal email account. Doing otherwise would be a breach of the GDPR.

[1] https://www.imperial.ac.uk/admin-services/ict/self-service/c...
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You can get a drive for the cost of a few Blu-rays. Works well for backups of said disks.
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thanks! I added a email address on my profile.

well there is a lot that goes into the field tbh, I have been studying multiple areas and tuning them for security related cases. So, by extension, I can see how experts would not like the term but that’s what I will have on my degree lol
> It's not. There's fundamental architectural differences that couldn't be bigger.

LLM architecture is a markov chain to the core. It isn't a lookup table like old markov chains but it is still a markov chain: next word prediction based on previous words.
the rest is what companies need and pay money for. vpn is door opener
Oh... what I mean is, one of the things that is interesting about the gap between the two sleeps is that your brain is awash with prolactin.

So some tasks you do in that period of time are done with a kind of lower level of objection, easier "starting", and in a contemplative start, and you're not actually tired.

Which is what also gives this "cleaning fairy" sense that nobody in particular did it.
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To add more to the confusion, twice in the text of TFA he refers to an ESP8622, which AFAIK isn’t a thing. The ESP8266 is fine in this application of course since he’s using a single GPIO pin.
Maybe, but the USA have more global reach than NK. Depending on how much those courts want to push their requests and where you live or travel to, you might even end up extradated to the USA.
The comments are mostly missing the point. The budget of harvard is almost 5 billion a year (this is a couple years old, I wouldn't be surprised if it was higher now) and it has a 50 billion dollar endowment with 25,266 undergraduate and graduate students. This is almost 200k/student/year in cost and 2 million/ student in endowment. If you compare to a school that also has a lot of fat but is still a top 100 university in the world that is subject to a different regulatory regime the University of Toronto, that has ~27k per student cost to run and roughly 27k per student in endowment. One can only conclude that Harvard is not a university at all, it's some weird new thing that is pretending to be a university for tax reasons and that tax protection should be annulled until the endowment is shrunk back down to something more reasonable like a year or less of operating expenses benchmarked against a real university like the University of Toronto.
He did not threaten to kill anyone anymore than anyone saying they hope Trump has a heart attack is threatening to kill him. He made a twitter post in poor taste and apologized.
If the usa does I don't understand why you expect we'd know about it. Also the us totally does and we do know about it - the nsa buys zero days - it's not exactly a secret lol
> I'd probably try to set up contact records for their caregivers and providers

Won't work. I have both elderly relatives and young children, and it's possible to get calls about them from just about anyone in their respective facilities. It's not possible to try to find and list the phone of everyone who ever watches over them. Including substitutes and temps and so on.
Current LLMs are stateless as far as we know, their state when computing a new token is only the preceding text tokens, they don't store any metadata or save state from the previous calculations.
This is a very approachable paper from 1990 on one way to do it with a C kernel bootstrapping to Common Lisp: https://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/kcl/paper... Kyoto Common Lisp (KCL) is the ancestor of today's Embeddable Common Lisp (ECL).

SICL is probably the best modern version of CL written in CL from a design standpoint, even if it's not taking over SBCL's role anytime soon: https://github.com/robert-strandh/SICL It uses some fancy bootstrapping to have the whole language available early, e.g. their definition of class 'symbol is:

(defclass symbol (t)
((%name :reader symbol-name)
(%package :reader symbol-package))
(:metaclass built-in-class))

vs SBCL:

(define-primitive-object
(symbol :lowtag other-pointer-lowtag
:widetag symbol-header-widetag
:alloc-trans %make-symbol
:type symbol)
...
(name :ref-trans symbol-name :init :arg)
(package :ref-trans symbol-package
:set-trans %set-symbol-package
:init :null)
...)

(That's from one of the papers from the 2019 European Lisp Symposium: https://www.european-lisp-symposium.org/2019/index.html Scroll down to the bottom for proceedings with all the papers in the pdf. Going through the ELS archives and checking out papers and their references can be useful for learning more about this stuff too.)
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The reporting in this leaves a lot of questions. I can understand pieces of foam, but that the machines were harming people by blowing _gas_? The air that we breathe is a mixture of gases. What other type of harmful gas could a CPAP machine blow?
Low-Power Wi-Fi Extends Signals Up to 3 Kilometers
One month sure, but if I watch it more than once or take more than a month to complete a while season the subscription adds up. Plus a lot more was available to rent on DVD, which makes more sense for something I only want to watch once rather than signing up for a subscription service and hoping I remember to cancel before it renews.

To be fair I bought (and buy) many of my DVDs at thrift stores and garage sales, so the media companies didn't see my money directly. But indirectly it did enable my neighbors to buy new DVDs to fill the space they cleaned from their sale.

Perhaps I am being irrational, but I'm getting increasingly frustrated with the fragmented and rent-seeking streaming landscape. Some other people's comments here suggest I'm not the only one with strong feelings about this.
Is there any widespread equivalent of mashing # (to punt to human assistance) for IVR?
Any idea why there aren't? Not even to a small degree? To me, it looks like fairly straight-forward rewriting. Perhaps it's hard to tell how much is useful?

> deep program transformation

It doesn't have to be deep, does it? You can't transform the entire program, so there's an arbitrary cut-off anyway.
If the organization has public repositories, and the ex-employee has issues/PRs in those repositories, then I think they will continue to get notifications about followups to those issues.

Involvement with private repositories is removed as soon as the organization removes the employee, or the employee removes themselves.

I think the horror stories could only happen if the individual's account has been used for generating many API keys or similar, but there are other reasons not to rely on that sort of thing.
Is there already a word for this fetish of putting your fate in the hands of big companies not shutting you down from their APIs?
Similar story here, same equipment. 41 now, got it a few months ago. Life changing. I've done alright for myself business wise but I wonder what I could've accomplished had I went to the doctor earlier. I thought multiple naps a day, falling asleep on the desk were normal.
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Lately not so much though

(read as: after NotPetya in 2014, which changed the scales of infrastructure targets forever)
Gotcha, fair enough.
CRT on your eye balls, ouch.
That said, they look small and light. So maybe CRT is the way to go!
> The 1,200-person company pays the cost of a flip phone for employees who give up their smartphone, and 80 people have acted on the offer.

Hm, so about 7 percent. Not terrible, but not exactly something to write home about. I feel like there are definitely times that I'd like to be in dumbphone mode, and times where I'd want to be able to use Uber, use Find My to locate a family member, or use Maps to navigate. I contemplate getting a cellular-enabled Apple Watch so that I could add friction to some of the time-wastey stuff I do on my phone, while still being able to do the basics. I probably wouldn't actually get a flip phone though, since that would require a separate SIM and would be kind of a pain to manage.
To be clear from reading some of the other comments, I don't work at GitHub anymore so while I may have partially caused the issues I'm complaining about, I don't have the ability to fix them anymore.

Also, while most GUIs and editors have blame capability (as does GitHub actually), most of them don't ignore whitespace changes (-w), code movement or renames (the -C options) so they're often of limited use.

Finally, I _would_ like people to write good commit messages, I just would like to see a tool that actually uses that work in a way that helps document your code in an easy and valuable way, and the Git/Hub tooling makes that process at best "tedious" as someone in the thread says.

I am working on a new Git client called GitButler[1] and would like to address this at some point down the line, so maybe it ends up being me who helps fix this after all :)

1: https://gitbutler.com
The drifting of code from comments is a problem I would love to see solved.

I've seen tools that can compare the git commit dates of code with nearby comments and that's a good start. However, there are potential problems with that, such as code and the comments that discuss the code not being near each other; or the code being updated and there being no need to update the comment

I think literal programming might help here, but that's an entirely different topic really.

Looking for more advanced tools that that and I suppose we're into the world of AI - asking the tool to understand both the code and the comment and to compare the underlying meaning.

Code review is an option but outside of an organisation that's difficult to do and besides, I think the problem would be best solved by something that is repeatable and part of the build process. And I'd love to be able to have a git commit hook that can say, "hold on! you've updated code but there's a comment that now looks old". That's the dream.
Initially posted a similar post on Indie Hackers. Parallely, just getting to know anyone from here. :D
I keep coming back to something Judge Posner got completely wrong. He thinks wealth people don't commit crimes because they value their reputation. Middle class don't because they value their money. And poor don't because they don't want to go to jail.

Which is backwards. Poor people's reputation is the most valuable thing they have.
Now I have to look into these as well for my library. Thanks for the heads up. :)

By the way, for the Python folks with a Pi around, this one is also an interesting read to dive into what it means to write a compiler

"Writing Interpreters and Compilers for the Raspberry Pi Using Python"

https://www.amazon.com/Writing-Interpreters-Compilers-Raspbe...
As an example, think about how some alien visitors might try to piece together how we live day-to-day by watching TV shows and movies and reading whatever books they manage to dig up. The only way they'll even know we have bathrooms and take a crap there is if they find books or other archives detailing toilet diagrams, bathroom design, etc. If they just watch movies and TV, they'll think we somehow never have to expel waste, even though we obviously eat a lot as proven by how much screen time eating gets.
If it became popular it would remove many bad apples from the Olympic pool.
Or it would just add a new level of obvious doping while the hidden doping methods would keep evolving, maybe even faster due to the public branch
The only way these things get stopped is by having C-level go to jail.
Fun fact: even the Big Bang was first proposed by a physicist who was also a Catholic priest!
Let’s ask some of the people who made a fortune out of doing it. Entrepreneurial, maybe?
Not only are we locked into a particular library, but that library is constantly changing based on somebody else's whims. It feels like every time I start watching something it gets pulled off the next month.
Missiles are expensive compared to tiny, cheap satellites.

Laser beams are also the replacement for ASAT.
That role isn't in my dept, but I believe the location isn't fixed. Quickly checking Greenhouse, I think it's this one https://boards.greenhouse.io/grafanalabs/jobs/5052765004 but feel free to apply from the EU as the Hiring Manager will see it.

You should know that we try to hire evenly around the world and across timezones such that it balances on-call and allows us to create on-call schedules that align to people's daylight hours. It's not my team, so I don't know precisely their balance right now, and it may be that they do seek someone in the Americas time zones.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dhtheriault_my-hot-take-googl...
Applied last month, but based on the fact noone saw my little demo I submitted, was likely auto-rejected.

If you want to talk the email is in my profile.
This is about phones
That does nothing for all the "sponsor segments" embedded in the videos.
We haven't made machines that replace animals. A submarine can't do quick precision movement to pick up tiny objects like a fish, a plane can't do quick precision movement to fly through a forest and land gracefully on a branch like a bird.

The current machine intelligence is still clumsy like that, it can solve some problems but it is still far from the real thing.
Yeah, that crazy heart attack gene ya'know.
Mal - while nice - has very little to do with common lisp.
It does make it less likely they’ll have blood on their hands. Some would consider that better.
Yeah, no. Everyone who knew of this needs to be hold personally accountable and serve jail time. And not just some low fall guy, but the managers, higher-ups who could've known of the report.

In cases like this, the fines for the company need to also be so incredibly high that it cannot survive.
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That's my partial, not exhaustive, list of the kinds of things that have turned up in past skeptical examinations of researcher claims.

Many times, of course, researchers are supported in their claims by skeptical examination.

It's of interest that you personally chose a limited reading of "skeptical examination", whether that's due to limited experience or an innate tendancy to only imagine the best behaviour in people I wouldn't speculate.
Especially since there's that one other person -- Piotr Wozniak -- who shares the idea of two sleeps but argues they are completely different to the Ekrich characterisation. Wozniak thinks the second sleep is the mid-day nap. That resonates much more with my needs.
You sound like you don't have any friends and that's sad.
Not everyone is greedy and profiteering
It may turn out to still be "too soon" if Meta doesn't up their game.
In what universe is 1 less than 0? I haven't paid one red cent for uBlock Origin.
They'll find you with a WiFi scan. Not with ELINT aircraft
Also the money saved from not serving cached goes into the $1-$10m retention bonuses paid to Brain and Deepmind software engineers https://www.theinformation.com/articles/googles-defense-agai...
the spike protein itself causes heart issues, present in both covid and the vaccines.
Thanks ! I thought it was a typo, your comment definitively deserves more upvotes.
That's what engineering is about: creating value efficiently without causing inadvertent damage. When I have to risk lives in order to create value, I simply choose not to. Instead, I just create value without risking lives. Engineering. Quality. Cost/Benefit. Benefit/Risk. Not just slapping together metal and plastic while wearing an iron ring. None of these titles granted by men. Just physics, electricity, and my mind.

It is precisely because I am less likely to kill people that I am a better engineer. Picking your battles is part of fighting.
Interesting. What I was most curious about are the backups of the database. Couldn't find any mention of it.
Eh, I dunno, seems everyone who crosses the CIA develops bad habits.
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Australia wins access to Meta, Microsoft US data to fight crime
Do you really want to wait 2 days for a "boil water" notice to make its way through the mail?
> open power abuse by those new allies

I would argue that the capitol raid fanatics are anarchists as well, under the cover of being republican voters. They don't mind the open power abuse by the Kremlin as well.

The core issue I have with the power play on the internet is that it leads to isolationist behaviors on both sides, which in return stalls democratic approaches to finding a compromise in between both opinions.
This seems like a really neat thing - need to remember the old specs, wanna see if there are any drivers!

Edit: Oh man, didn't remember how colorful old motherboards looked like... Ah, nostalgia