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Time-restricted eating may raise cardiovascular death risk in the long term
> I have also been in places where vast majority think the issue points at one team. They are silent on comms despite being present. Then miraculously the issue is gone. The response to the question of what changed? "Nothing."

I’m currently in a multi-day troubleshooting issue where some key SSO component isn’t functioning correctly. This component is operated by an offshore outfit we can call Total Computing Screwups, and the entire troubleshooting process is a whole bunch of incredibly expensive folks sitting on a mostly silent call, hitting refresh on login sessions that will suddenly and miraculously work, obviously without any changes being made.

Every single person in the call, except for the outsourced operator, is an expert in the field, and none are allowed to see the logs or configuration of the malfunctioning system. (Which isn’t officially malfunctioning, because they refuse to acknowledge there is actually a failure, which means the issue cannot be escalated)

It is one of the dumbest destructions of capital I have been forced to take part in, and it is all in the name of “cheaper”. It is so stupidly frustrating.
Find peace of heart and mind in any circumstance
I'd much prefer Google cancel capriciously with solid TOS backing to it than without, but I'll complain about their double standards about what they choose to censor... Not regardless, but without a doubt, because Google will choose to selectively enforce this rule.
> It's like you've never played an early access game

It's like you've never thought about why we in the game industry release early access games. Getting critical feedback from people invested enough to buy into a beta test is the whole point. Even if we don't agree with any given critique, knowing that a non-zero number of players hate some mechanic, thinks something is unbalanced, or encounter irritating usability problems is invaluable for guding both creative and a technical strategies.
A treat for you: https://youtu.be/CTV-wwszGw8?t=289 :)
Ask HN: Tips for Waking Up from a Nap
Hey Hackernews,
I try taking naps for 90mins; 30min naps do not work for me (I can't fall asleep). But whenever I nap for 90mins, I snooze repeatedly until I stop and go back to sleep. Does anyone have any apps or techniques or anything that would help me wake up ;-;

For context, I've tried some apps that make you solve puzzles / maths problems but when I'm tired I just restart my phone and the alarm stops (because they're not particularly well made).
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> strong guarantees on the output (i.e. 100% reliable, without requiring any retries).

Has anyone seen a good JSON library that can handle slightly broken JSON? e.g. trailing commas, unescaped newlines, etc.? I have not found a good one.
Is it possible to have unmanaged code in Java at all… or you mean linking libs and exposing them through Java API in the lang?
Indeed.

Although, it wouldn’t be abnormal for a security team to have free time, and dedicate it to researching an emerging technology whether it directly contributes to the business goals or not. Of course I’m not talking about a security team that is reading log files from their SIEM while sitting in a SOC.
This sounds like mistaking five minutes of googling as research. Sorry, for being so snarky. Please look around you and talk to your new customers as other posters already suggested. And talk to the management. Which perceived problems lead to the creation of the position for someone responsible for developer experience?
Well, you can cross the universe in any amount of time. The human lifetime isn't special in that regard. A photon crosses the universe in zero time, and anything with non-zero mass can get arbitrarily close to zero time.
> You share both the processed version and the original, as proof that there's no misleading alteration

so you cannot share the original if you intend to black out something from the original that you don't want revealed (e.g., a face or name or something).

The way you specced out how a signed jpeg works means the raw data _must_ remain visible. There's gonna be unintended consequences from such a system.

And it aint even that trustworthy - the signing key could potentially be stolen or coerced out, and fakes made. It's not a rock-solid proof - my benchmark for proof needs to be on par with blockchains'.
Truck safty system incorrectly fines people due to daylight savings
The safe-t-cam system calculates average speed between key points by recording trucks licence plates as they go past. However the system made use of the local time (rather then some sort of epoc time) in its time calculations so gave results showing trucks taking 3 hours to travel a distance that it would normally take 4 hours to go.
Have you watched the presentation? I expect you'll see details there. Also, there are details at the American Heart Association article (another HN post).

Presentations of preliminary research is standard.

> It's about as far from the scientific method as you can get.

It's hard to grasp how that is true. I think more outrage and exaggeration are not helpful to anyone at this point in history.
Yeah that’s an issue for some users. But the vast majority of packages are available on apt as well, so you don’t have to use it for packages where this is critical.
Surely these are occurring very frequently as there are trillions of stars out there. I imagine that space is so vast that the vastness makes these events difficult to observe. Am I wrong with this thought?
Almost like Adam Ant joined The Cannibals?
I'm not that abreast of all the developments in the AI space.

What specific class of AI startups do you have in mind here? AI-aaS startups who provide the "infra"?
> The more interesting and troubling point is your use of "synthetic you" to make the real you sound better!

Why?
Won't do anything to most consumer facing AI, the UI & convenience is already a major selling point. A bigger threat is that the feature the business is built around makes it into mainline software... there is no demand for (paid) background removal anymore as every iPhone can do it nowadays.

Generally if whatever AI product you have can easily just be a feature in whatever application businesses already use, then you are running a business on borrowed time.
Summarized Nvidia CEO – Jensen Huang's 2hours GTC Speech with Time Stamp
Summarized Nvidia CEO - Jensen Huang's 2hours GTC speech with Time Stamp

https://gosummarize.com/youtube/@nvidia/gtc-march-2024-keyno...

hope it's helpful! :)
Easy and low cost model training on HF "DGX cloud"
Probably not. They’ll understand it was the best we could do at the time, just like we understand that about our ancestors.
Denmark to build one of the most powerful AI supercomputers
Note that putting a “we use cookies” banner on your website will not absolve you from GDPR fines anyway. You still need to adher to the law about informend consent, storing safely etc.

If you are worried about GDPR, by far the safest is to just not collect personal information.
The whole premise of the law is wrong at a fundamental level.

For cookies to function, browser (acting on behalf of the user) and website have to cooperate.

First, the website sends a snippet of data to the browser, the browser then stores that data, and sends it back to the server on subsequent requests.

If the user doesn't want the cookies to function, all he has to do is tell his browser to stop sending the cookies back. The website has no way to forcefully store the cookies on the users computer and then snatch them back from their hard drive. The browser, and ultimately, the user, is the one that decides to store and send the cookies back.

But legally, website owners are held accountable for the inability of users to stop themselves from sending the cookies back. It doesn't make sense.

If the rest of the Internet worked this way, you would need to call Google on the phone and tell them that you consent to them sending you HTML before being able to load google.com on your browser.
TIL about Firefox reader mode! Thank you! Option + Command + R on MacOS, will commit that to memory and use that from now on!
Templates to me means distributing them in a usable fashion, and all templates should be able to be used via invoking some binary and providing inputs/flags.

I am wondering why nobody talks about using version control tools for templates. Git lacks the ability to replace variables and handle flags, but it allows to rebase a small micro service on top of the latest version of the template.
I read about this around and tbh I respect it a lot. Somehow Jensen has managed to scale the company and still keep it focused on the product with high eng practices.
Wouldn't you just be able to taste the difference, and then not drink it?
Reflect upon what you most enjoyed doing between the ages of about 4 and 8. Ask your folks what they observed about your interests. Schooling and peer pressure tends to blot out our natural inclinations. In the long-term aligning your career direction with your interests, aptitudes and talents is more satisfying.

Choosing a career on the basis of earning potential is the road to burn-out and mid-life crises.
>> cloud is not meaningfully leveraged

>I would very much warn about this. "Leveraging" cloud is a massive double-edged sword.

Absolutely, the "cloud" is a tool like many others. Don't use them if you don't have a need or even better a goal in mind.
As a Swiss: that's nonsense. How are you supposed to hunt, or go to the range, without ammunition?

See article 16a of our weapons regulation: If you buy it legally, you are allowed to own it.
If they don't have to be human, probably 10-15.
> Does anyone know what their "business reason" for doing research like this is? (not that a business reason should be needed, but like I said, I'm a bit surprised to see it here)

I think it's basically basic research [0]. In first order reasoning, github, as a product doesn't really need android security experts. But employing them has some potential long-term benefits.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_research
Because it is a different type of engineering. If you manage software development like you manage hardware development your software is going to be bad. That has always been AMD's problem and it is not likely to get fixed.
Can someone familiar with this area of academic research break down the trends he’s alluding to?
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> Making it possible for them to write more will result in more software, rather than fewer developers.

Goddamnit, software developers are already writing more software than we need. I wish they'd stop. Or redirect all that energy to new problems to solve. Instead we're seeing cloud-deployed microservice architecture CRUD apps that do what systems built for mainframes with kilobytes of RAM do, only worse. We're in a glut of bad software, do you think that AI accelerating production of more of the same will make things better?
If one is not willing to get up, they can just sleep through the alarm, stash the phone (or other alarm device) somewhere, or turn it off (not restart); I doubt software can help much with those. I think the most efficient strategy is to decide that it is important to get up, and preferably to sleep enough in general. Well, maybe you can have software removing important files if it is not turned off, while not having a backup -- that would be an additional motivation, but that is rather extreme.
> Who owns the songs I generate using Suno?

> If you are a paying subscriber to Suno, then you own the songs you generate while subscribed to Pro or Premier.

So, as soon as I stop subscribing, I no longer “own” the songs? What if they go under? That’s nonsense.

EDIT: I was wrong, that isn’t how it works
I block that at the DNS level via pihole. Nothing on my network sees that stuff.
Which is fine until you have third party dependencies.
Antisemitic harassment of Jewish students leads to federal complaint
Maybe the next step would be that websites should adhere to the "Do not track" browser option, and not show the popup when people have that option on. I think that would make a lot of people very happy. The businesses that thrive on data collection not of course, but who cares about them really? People might say they pay our salaries, but if they don't thrive, other businesses will thrive, and they will pay our salaries. I rather have businesses thrive in a ethical way and have them pay our salaries. So I can only see good coming out from this.
Disposable dev environments with Daytona demo
I've been doing a lot of indie work with structured generation and llama.cpp, you can get extremely fast responses with caching and deterministic token skipping.

When generating json, calling the llm when you already know that after

{ "brand": "Toyota"

Comes

, "year":

Is a massive waste. If the data itself is constrained too you can skip most of that too! You'll go down from needing 20 calls to the llm to just three for a simple piece of data like

{ "brand": "Toyota", "year": 1995 }

If they combine these techniques with a model that's specifically trained for structured output, along with a novel inference-time pruning technique that they were talking about in the post I can definitely see them getting these kinds of inference speeds.

I'm experimenting with a self hosted api that is fast enough to not even need a gpu for single user use cases (because the latency is good, but not batching). Once I'm done with the finishing touches I'll rent a GPU server for actual hosting.
Hey, if it doesn’t work out they can always return back to what they are, a consumer first company but now with world class hardware/software.

AI graphics service that renders games in the cloud (photorealistic), concluding its epic journey of being an amazing graphics card company.

Kinda cool when you think about it.
So there's effectively a blanket exception for the organisations you really don't want to be doing this, ie. Police, the institution itself and government? (incidentally, government is your health insurance company in most of Europe)

I keep coming to the same problem with these regulations. I am much less afraid of Amazon/Google/... figuring out something about me and using it to sell me stuff than I am afraid of the police doing the same, and arresting me or otherwise having a huge negative impact on my life. Knowing the police, they'll probably not even do AI monitoring correctly, and of course, won't be responsible for the damage they cause.

Frankly, that Amazon and Google figure out stuff I might want to buy might actually be a positive. Maybe. Sometimes. If they become better at weeding out scams, that is.
Keep them as long as is reasonable, then delete them.
Half the reason why they move back up to 8/16 bit is that current hardware doesn't properly support 4 bit floats, and you get better performance from the conversion. I think once this hardware hits, most of the computation will shift to native 4 bit just for efficency's sake.

...assuming the recent 1.58b paper doesn't render the entire float quantization approach obsolete by then.
> The way you specced out how a signed jpeg works means the raw data _must_ remain visible. There's gonna be unintended consequences from such a system.

You can obviously extend this if you want to add bells and whistles like cropping or whatever. Like signing every NxN sub-block separately, or more fancy stuff if you really care. It should be obvious I'm not going to design in every feature you could possibly dream of in an HN comment...

And regardless, like I said: this whole thing is intended to be opportunistic. You use it when you can. When you can't, well, you explain why, or you don't. Ultimately it's always up to the beholder to decide whether to believe you, with or without proof.

> And it aint even that trustworthy - the signing key could potentially be stolen or coerced out, and fakes made.

I already addressed this: once you determine a particular camera model's signature ain't trustworthy, you publish it for the rest of the world to know.

> It's not a rock-solid proof - my benchmark for proof needs to be on par with blockchains'.

It's rock-solid enough for enough people. I can't guarantee I'll personally satisfy you, but you're going to be sorely disappointed when you realize what benchmarks courts currently use for assessing evidence tampering...
"I'm never sure what -ffast-math does exactly."

Me too when I am away from C for a while.
The topic has been on HN [3]

* Enable the use of SIMD instructions

* alter the behavior regarding NaN (you can't even check for NaN afterwards with isnan(f))

* alter the associativity of expression a+(b+c) might become (a+b)+c which seems inconspicuous at first, but there are exceptions (as example see [1] under -fassociative-math)

* change subnormals to zero (even if your program isn't compiled with this option, but a library you link to your program).

A nice overview from which I summarize is in [1] which contains a link to [2] with this nice text:

"If a sufficiently advanced compiler is indistinguishable from an adversary, then giving the compiler access to -ffast-math is gifting that enemy nukes. That doesn’t mean you can’t use it! You just have to test enough to gain confidence that no bombs go off with your compiler on your system"

[1] https://simonbyrne.github.io/notes/fastmath/

[2] https://discourse.julialang.org/t/when-if-a-b-x-1-a-b-divide...

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29201473 (107)
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Why don’t you just change your browser’s default font size?
Not everyone is born with common sense. I sure wasn't. I'll find some way to do something that will leave the people with common sense scratching their heads, saying "but why wouldn't you just...".
I think he’s talking about string theory.
> Using LLMs, however, I can "write" hundreds of low quality papers (that look okay-ish on the surface) in the time it takes me to write a single high quality paper.

I've been thinking lately that one could probably leverage the same technology to evaluate the quality of research, possibly as a post-hoc verification.

> I also don't think that researchers publishing high quality papers will benefit that much from LLMs.

Oh, but they do! If not for anything, LaTeX formatting is tedious.

> Papers should ideally not contain any padding. If a section in your paper is so devoid of actual information that an LLM can write it, you should probably remove it altogether.

It is mostly correct, except for perhaps the abstract and some parts that provide structure for the paper (Outline, maybe Conclusion, ...). However, you can always seed an LLM with the bits of information you want explained and use the result as a basis for improvement. It can seed writing: there is no obligation to copy-paste and leave it as is.
People are not looking for preserverance, they are looking for consumption. Today most of the "content" is created for consumption rather than as creative and artistic endavours. This is why there are recipies for content making like Netflix recipie despite they have some creative movies and series here and there most of their movies and shows follows a strict recipie.
It doesn't imply a full 25x reduction in power consumption though, that might "only" go down by 10x.
My parents house (in the EU) was covered in plates of asbestos. As far as I know it only is dangerous when you install / remove it as these plates break and release chemicals to the air. I’m no expert though.
> Tell them to ask you follow up questions and they will.

That's rather missing the point. If your question makes no sense it will not ask a followup, it will spit out garbage. This is pretty bad. If you are competent enough to ask it to ask for followup then you are probably already competent enough to either not need the tool, or competent enough to ask a good question.
It's not as if Google doesn't use the same kind of intelligence, but there's a certain amount of class that they used to use. Google as of late is a order of magnitude worse.
Firefox Focus seems to block them all, I just use that as a content blocker in Safari and am rarely bothered by ads.

I really am not opposed to sites using ads to monetise and resisted ad blocking for many years, but advertisers took it way too far with both the number and intrusiveness of ads so I ended up relenting and installing an ad blocker.
These doors are what we call a 'luxury problem': just more trouble because the premium door type was chosen. The single pane type door I know [0] are perhaps uglier, but they will last decades and do not need maintenance. They use normal springs.

[0] https://www.novoferm.nl/producten/garagedeuren/kanteldeuren/
A consensus between different but reliable sources of data to avoid bias: pubmed (scientific publications), nih (gov.), HN (qualitative), etc.
Read and make your own judgement: does the evidence corroborate or contradict?

ex: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34387593
Ok, we'll change to that from https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-see-exploding-star-no... above. Thanks!
Convenient for making samples? Sure, I guess. So are drum machines. I'll bet SD would be great at making images for collages to, but it kind of defeats the purpose, no? Good samples are almost always good because they're amazing but weird little bits of quirk or real musical genius that can say something completely different about music in a different context. The process of finding and choosing samples is exploratory, and the sophistication you get from listening to all of that great music is a big part of it. Commanding some machine to just make them for you and tweaking them to get them just so yields all the inconvenience of sampling with the lack of substance you'd get from a drum machine. While people making amazing art using drum machines, it's because they're making art around them, not because any specific thing the drum machine did.
I honestly just liked running around aimlessly and play with my friends the entire day at that age.
I'm a .NET developer, and honestly, this is the worst part of being one; we get good third party tools, we get promises from Microsoft about them being all about open source, and Microsoft constantly move in and obliterate all the competition; there are countless examples out there. A few years ago we had a great amount of choice around DI containers for example - they filled an obvious gap Microsoft had given no solution at all for within their framework despite its many years of existence. Then one day they come along with a DI container that is far inferior to the existing offerings, but it's the default on a new project... the whole community immediately stays with this default option despite the obvious inferiority. Today I never find any modern .NET apps using anything other than this default, and I still think it's inferior to what we had.

Microsoft have always adhered to 'Embrace. Extend. Extinguish', and it is alive and kicking today in every area of open source they touch, be it this, GitHub, Windows Subsystem on Linux... they have no real interest in open source, except to crush it as best they can.
I have a big gripe with rust and other modern languages like zig, and it’s difficult to reconcile it.

The gripe is that after using them for a while, anything else like java, python, c++ or C is underwhelming, boring and tedious, an exercise in how long you can uphold standards until you fall back to language defaults.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39747906.
This page doesn’t specify _any_ font size. It relies on your browser to choose an appropriate size instead. If the text is too small for you to read, then your browser settings for default font size are wrong.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39747921.
> It's the web.

For most people it's Google's web. You can't see anything Chrome is doing if Google doesn't want you to see it.
I thought this was about DDOS and spam protection. If you want to move the goalposts, state that explicitly.