skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The pixel 4a is the last good phone that's small, rootable, with a headphone jack and good rom options.
> This tool is especially useful for journalists, researchers, and anyone interested in the factuality of information.

Sorry, I think an individual who is not only aware of reliable sources to verify information, and who is not familiar enough with LLMs to come up with appropriate prompts and judge output should be the last person presenting themselves as the judger of factual information.
It makes me happy I can wear analogue contact lenses so I can avoid wearing heavy hard objects around my face and nose 24/7, constantly dealing with smudges and spots on the glass, removing them to rub my eyes or itch around them, exercising, sweating, etc. Glasses are medieval torture devices set to slow burn.
I mean, you usually should not spin down your NAS drives. They add wear and also consume more energy that way.

We use plexamp with Android Auto, and with the usual car sound system 128 kbps opus is transparent. You can stream with the original flac quality of course, but I've found it to be way too much in our trips.

Streaming music with plexamp has never been an issue for us. It just works.
This is the last "ESR announced ..." project that I remember: https://gitlab.com/esr/upside

Didn't really go anywhere though. Which is unfortunate, as a good, OSS power supply design would be useful. :)
Commodore is one long history of management failures... As a big fan at the time, without insight into how dysfunctional it was, it was thoroughly depressing both to see from the outside, and then reading up on the internal chaos years later. It's a miracle they survived as long as they did, and at the same time there were so many fascinating lost opportunities.

ChuckMcM was at Sun at the time, and mentioned a while back he tried to get Sun to buy Commodore outright:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39585430
(his later replies in that sub-thread are also worth reading)
My headphones have a button which I mapped to seek backwards 10 seconds. Sometimes I still can't make something out (often because TTS is butchering the pronunciation) and have to read it visually. I read both fiction and nonfiction like this. Books, news and technical articles, etc. I turn it off when I run into things like tables of numbers since that just turns into a wall of noise for me.
first thing first: where is the 64bits risc-v multi-core prototype?

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> Yes I'm hesitant to it because. Im worried about developinand addiction to it.

Are you worried about getting addicted to Tylenol? If you broke your femur, would you avoid taking prescribed medication? If you're going to the dentist, do you eschew nitrous oxide and lidocaine?

I mean, yes, it's a concern - people do develop addictions - but with a proper doctor, and taking it as prescribed, the odds are pretty low.
If an IDE makes you more productive, you can spend the extra time optimizing your code to reduce CO2, so it depends.
Organoids reveal an overlooked protein's role in traumatic brain injury
How do you suggest to prevent badUSB attack with air-gapping?
So, I once had a contract at an ad agency, which was getting into the business of making software for food-related clients. Our first customer of this sort, was a chain of cupcake stores. Their CEO had just come in from a hamburger chain, and wanted to replace their (functional, bespoke) website and factory (i.e. kitchen) management software, with an outside off-the-shelf solution. We were to make the website and the glue logic to the outside product they had chosen.

The cupcake company's CTO took paternity leave shortly after the project began.

We asked about the back-office software, which interfaced with the kitchens, on a couple of occasions, and were told not to worry about it, the third party standard solution would handle that.

So, with a week to go, the cupcake CEO finally shows the product to his regional managers. They ask, "where's the part that tells us to put make this much of this kind of frosting, and when in the day to do it? and make this much of red velvet cake, starting three hours before it's needed?"

It turns out, the third party solution was for sandwich and burger places, where you would just make the food when it was ordered. For cupcakes, it needed to combine the needs of multiple different orders, take into account how many hours it would take to make each flavor of cake and frosting, and tell the kitchen staff what to do, and when. The cupcake CEO had only ever run a burger place, he had no idea about any of this, and didn't want anybody like the CTO telling him his idea wouldn't work.

So, he asked us if we could update our glue logic to also talk to the old software, so that it would continue to run the kitchens, while the new website took the orders. We said sure, here's how much it would cost.

Oh, he said, we wanted it as part of the previous quote.

The final meeting, wherein we explained that we had done what he had asked us to, was not attended by the cupcake CEO, he sent his new CTO (the old one had quit right after his paternity leave was up). Every permanent employee of my company slipped out, and I, the contractor, was left for the last part, to explain that no, we would not be building any software not in the original quote, for free.

The entire project went into the dump. The former CTO of the cupcake company, started work for the company that had made the original, bespoke software that was still running things.
> It's clearly not used by either its developers or the people who keep recommending it.

Or, you know, different people have different preferences and are perfectly satisfied with what the emulation does provide.
I’m not far behind with work ex since 2008. I still have my current job which pays well but I’m going to start looking around because I’m moving closer to nyc. Why’d you say the process is a shit show ? Asking to prepare that’s all.
The Koran also gets embryology wrong, after plagiarising Galen, so I'd take it with your GDA of salt.
Using stimulants prescribed for ADHD to have extra pep in your step is drug abuse - just sayin. You see this a lot with adults taking stimulants for ADHD.
LOL! I was asking Gemini Wix questions. The answers were wrong! When I pointed that out I got apologies and more code that didn't work. As with most newbies, I finally trial and error'ed my way out. I want to know how the "experts" have figured out how to use Wix. What is it that I should know but don't about learning Wix?
Wild salmon in general feels drier and tougher in texture when I cook at home. But I’m a self-admitted horrible cook so YMMV.

I had some amazing wild salmon at restaurants.
Why are you wasting the time of half the room talking about technical decisions they wouldn't understand
I don’t think the distinction between urgent and important is a modern one.

The overgrown lawn may seem urgent to mow but if that’s my only free time this week maybe I should hire someone to do it so I can see a financial planner to make sure I am gonna be good in X decades. Etc.
You are correct, on the command line you need it but pretty much every GUI tool and language binding auto-add it for you. It felt very nit-picky and not at all based in reality. I got all the joins/limits/order/where/etc correct, the semicolon doesn’t matter for what I felt the test should be actually testing on. Testing human’s ability to memorize or write perfect syntax when they will never do that unaided in reality is just silly.
In a way, the manned space program was a way to try to whitewash the technology that was actually coming from cold war military spending.
> If it was such money maker, surely there would be lot of competition offering zero fee bank accounts.

In Czechia banks literally are competing like that, offering free bank accounts, sometimes even with bonuses on top if you pass enough money through it. So it seems like your model of banks' financials does not work.
Isn't Windows 10 still supported?
I agree, if taken literally and to the extreme, fight yourself is bad advice on the long-term as it can lead to burnout and eventually giving up.

It resonates with me however, not so much as battling non-stop, but more so with controlling urges and making yourself voluntarily uncomfortable in an effort to improve.

For example, many people with ADHD have an extremely hard time being bored. This leads to a constant flow of attention to things like mobile devices, TVs, etc. This also tends to deplete dopamine, which further aggravates the ADHD. By making yourself bored, you can both preserve dopamine, but also work on retraining yourself on how to handle downtime. If you are also suffering from electronic addiction, then this helps break the cycle. Jonathan heights new book. The anxious generation is absolutely a must read for people with ADHD. He goes very deep into all of this in a way that is very accessible. There are things that are aggravating my condition that I never considered and have never heard before. I'm sure it is out there as he isn't doing groundbreaking research here, but his ability to organize, filter, and articulate is incredible. I also highly recommend it if you have children.
Absolutely, the danger of a false high is that you dose insulin to correct and end up pushing yourself into a dangerous hypoglycemic state. That's why acetaminophen interference is so important to deal with! And while it's true that running a bit high (250-350mg/dL) isn't an immediate risk, DKA is still a possibility once you breach the 300s, and that will land you in the hospital.
Honestly, I think the actor who played Will (him being Yun Tianming) was the closest to his book counterpart as a character. He was the best part of the show for me. For example, I'm sure Benedict Wong can play Da Shi because he's a very good actor, but in this show the character is utterly ruined. He's not the glue or the do-it-all no bullshit policeman that he's supposed to be. Yu Hewei (Da Shi from the Tencent show) was so good in that role that I honestly cannot compare him at all. It's night and day. Also the Netflix show suffers a lot for being only 8 episodes. I think being 12-13 would've worked much better and left a bit more for the plot to breathe, but nope. We gotta jump because we're in a hurry somehow.
Sierra Leone declares emergency over drug kush – made from human bones
Nice Read.

I still use RCS for my personal projects. I had moved to github, but M/S ended that experiment with their changes, so back to RCS and anon ftp on sdf. One thing I really like about RCS is it will update tags in source during checkin, easy to find the version of a binary. I would have stuck with git if git did that.

Anyway, I was working at a fortune 500 company (which I just left), the group I was in had no SC until I was hired. I forced them to use RCS, and once we got a server I had them move to CVS.

Then a couple of years ago, we moved to git after corporate got serious about SC (Source Code Control). They contracted with github soon after the Microsoft purchase, so I moved our CVS to github. FWIW, when I left, many people were still strongly resisting SC.

I know some source was lost, and I wonder if the attitudes have finally changed.
Back in '94 I was supporting a development team and one of my users came to me "I typed ci instead of vi. It asked me a question and I said yes and now my file is gone." I told her "Don't panic, I know exactly what happened and how to fix it."

edit: typo
Given that video is 7.5 hours start to finish, and Parker is moving at several hundred thousand mph relative to that vortex, is it on the order of the diameter of the sun?
You’ve already discovered that referrals are a great way to get work, with a side-benefit sometimes that the interviews matter less if not get used less, or if you’re lucky, not at all. If there any people from past jobs who like you and know your work, reach out to them and see if they are aware of any jobs who need someone with your skills.

Do spend a little time researching the company’s interview process. Some companies have live coding interviews and/or take-home coding and put more emphasis on those. I completely blew an interview once on databases, only to still get the offer because I aced the live coding. The live coding “interview” was me being left alone in a room for an hour to write a small text-based game after being handed the game rules.

Lots of people have different ADHD coping mechanisms and different things that help them and varied kinds of self-tricks and results. Could it help you during an interview if you thought about it as you testing them instead of them testing you? Maybe having a goal to collect information you want about the job and the people you’d work with could help with focus? Also remember that asking questions uses up interview time, can give you valuable information, and shows both curiosity and initiative. Be polite and conversational of course, but ask as many questions as you can! ;)
Ask HN: Does culture really eat strategy for breakfast?
Everybody says it's all about culture. And there are lots of great anecdotal evidence. But has anyone studied the subject of corporate cultures properly? What is a corporate culture? How do you define it? Measure it? How do corporate cultures live and die? How do they endure the people and how do people endure them?

Obviously this is very hard to study scientifically. But people must have tried.

Please recommend what to read and study to understand better. Thanks.
Personal responsibility. When I was younger I used to put the blame on many things on others or my upbringing.

Now I came to conclusion of extreme responsibility. Everything that happens or ever happened in my life was purely on me; whatever things may happen I and only I I'm solely responsible for that.

I also learned about my place in hierarchy. I know I don't really have anything to show in terms of IQ, so I'm doing my best not to harm others by wasting their time by staying as low profile as I may.
Well, India, obviously.

I've heard good things about south-east Asia, Thailand is pretty good supposedly, but I haven't been there.
I have always thought the attitude that a creator 'owes' a sequel to fans as extreme entitlement on the part of those fans.

So I think the analogy is good, but I disagree that the creator ever owes anything to ones benefitting from their initial work.
UK govt office admits ability to negotiate billions in cloud spending curbed
Powerful. Very powerful.

When we imprison someone, we imprison all of them, not just the part that committed the crime. I'm not saying it's wrong to imprison people, or even to execute them. But when we execute someone, we execute all of them, not just the part that was the murderer.

Does anyone know what the result was about the legal case that said that you couldn't evaluate the future threat of an 18- or 19-year-old because the prefrontal cortex wasn't fully developed yet?
Why did this modeling require a quantum computer? I wish the article had gone into that a bit more.
AI will reduce workforce, say 41% of surveyed executives
Do you have any articles etc. about how you have put together your processss and practices?

I'd love to learn more, and adopt them when I scale my own company.
Can you explain more what you mean? Interested in other ways to work locally with subdomains
If you haven’t checked out jj yet, you may like it!
Microsoft warns that China is using AI to stir the pot ahead of US election
I'm just disappointed that they associate with Discord at all, given that it is the antithesis of privacy and Freedom.
If someone hurts your feelings, libel and slander are neither "firing back" nor justified.
True, I was a bit extreme. Maybe I should say we’re not creating policies encouraging eating corn instead of chickens, when both are digestible by humans.
That rings a bell although fuzzily: as the new kid from school, I was pretty disconnected from the politics of the moment. I do seem to remember that the MineSet team departed en masse, but IIRC that departure roughly coincided with broader layoffs in the org.

(With apologies for reviving 90s IRIX/Solaris snark in my earlier post. :-)
> Title violates HN submission guidelines.

It's better to email hn@ycombinator.com when you see this, rather than just mention it in a comment.
Once again you demonstrate how little you know about this. You are just a troll who wants attention. I'm sorry I've given you even this much, but that's all you're getting. Go away.
The issue here is if you make more you're problem in a HCOL area.

An adult making 150k with a partner who makes a similar amount is not rich in a city like NYC. I broke down the math above, but in no universe does the typical upper middle class family have an extra 86k per year to spend on school
Home insurers are dropping customers based on aerial images
This clicked for me when someone explained that fault != responsibility.

It unlocked the whole thing. I could take responsibility for getting the life I wanted, but that did not mean the bad things that came my way were my fault. Bad shit always comes, not always as a result of my actions, but it's always my responsibility to change the situation.
> using your phone makes financial sense

We're talking about Apple devices here...
Groundwater Movement (Interactive)
This is the "bigger rat" defense. The rat, having been caught by the rat catcher, complains this isn't fair because there are other, larger rats. But it's still a rat.

A program that isn't worth doing remains not worth doing even if there are larger programs that also weren't worth doing.
I don't think there's much to expect from Honda, really.

Toyota has bz4x at least for pure EV. But Toyota's hybrids and PHEVs are the best on the market. The EV market has a lot more competition.

I really do think that PHEV is the right answer for the majority of Americans. Honda's got great Hybrids but no PHEVs right now in the American market (Honda Insight and Clarity were both cancelled).

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Studies like ACEEE's "Greener Cars" show that PHEVs and Hybrids (Ex: Prius Prime, Prius, Honda Accord Hybrids) are still top10 choices for environmentalists today however.

So no "need" to go EV if you're trying to be environmentally friendly. There's still a lot of work to make EVs better for the environment. Battery chemistry is a big deal and is uneven across EV manufacturers, some chemistries like NCA are dirtier than others.
Public restrooms in Czechia often can take cards now. I imagine it works similarly in Sweden.
There were previous projects doing it, as well
The laws of physics are explanations, created by us, to explain the behavior of physical things. The laws exist in physical matter, our brains.
No need to be harsh
I used SCCS for a short period before finding RCS. IIRC the commands were a bit different and the files SCCS managed were larger. I also think SCCS had something similar to $Id$, but forgot what it was. Of course I could be miss-remembering.

I also ran across SCCS for Linux somewhere, I forgot where I saw it. Maybe you can look for it and play with it.
This is the main difference between US justice and the rest of the western world. We are a society that is pathologically individualistic, believing in personal agency and responsibility above all else. So it's about punishing the individual, with protecting society being secondary to that. Rehabilitation can be tried for lesser crimes if it doesn't interfere with said punishment. But capital crimes are capital crimes and we do not believe in second chances for those.
> Anyone who needs to know more than the narrow middle of knowledge will seek it out.

This is what happens now, but do we know it will remain so? If AI is carelessly integrated into the teaching loop, I suppose it may narrow the knowledge even there. And then, how will people know there's more to be known?

And even outside formal teaching, how will regular people know there's more to be known beyond what AI tells them?

How will you even know you "need to know more"? Who will tell you?

Already we see a lot of what people "know" (about anything: biology, WW2, ancient history, politics, art) is mostly informed by Hollywood and internet-spread "pop knowledge" (directly or indirectly, as in watching a documentary or reading a newspaper article that were themselves informed by regurgitated "pop knowledge").

(In case anybody is wondering, I don't consider myself outside of this. I know I'm impacted!)

So this phenomenon isn't new... but will AI make it worse?
Thanks! I've been thinking about extending support for macOS next, and maybe possibly a mobile version.
Do you keep a factory image for your OnePlus 9 pro in case you want to restore it? If so, how do you go about doing that?

After OnePlus decided to stop publishing factory images, I decided to stop buying their phones. It's a real shame, because they really do make some great stuff and prices are quite reasonable generally speaking. I used to buy a new OnePlus phone nearly every year. The OnePlus 6 was one of my favorite phones of all time.
Fried mackerel patties can be pretty tasty. Lots of recipes on the web with different seasoning... find one that sounds good and give it a shot.

The worst is that you're out a can of mackerel (which is relatively cheap as seafood goes).
I’m an economist. This is an example of a volume discount. Prices often decrease per-unit when buying larger quantities. That happens whether it’s milk or the square-footage of an apartment. I’d expect larger files to be worth less per-byte. Photo and video files tend to be larger than text ones.
Merging is still wild to me.

I naively merged a Dolphin fine-tune of Mistral 7B base 0.2 with Mistral 7b Instruct 0.2 and got a model that gets higher benchmark results:

https://huggingface.co/ichigoberry/pandafish-2-7b-32k

Took a few minutes in colaboratory.
Relevant: `cool-retro-term` <https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term>
Bing ad posing as NordVPN aims to spread SecTopRAT malware
I have extensively tested Optuna and Weights and Biases (WandB) for hyperparameter tuning on multiple task-specific transformer models back in 2020.

Optuna lost out by a long mile back then in feature parity and dashboarding. Optuna did not have hyperband optimization which was and still is one of the best search algos for hyperopt. It looks like it is possible to implement hyperband yourself now, but in the loosely coupled architecture between Sampler and Pruner it's a bit baroque [1].

Anyway back then it was clear WandB was the far superior choice for features, ease of use, experiment tracking and dashboarding. We went with WandB for our lab.

Could be Optuna caught up, but WandB has seen significant development too. Looking at their dashboard docs, it looks meagre compared to what you can do with WandB.

1. https://tech.preferred.jp/en/blog/how-we-implement-hyperband...
Drilling oil no reason other than to give people jobs seems more virtuous than greedy

Are you under the impression that Exxon was formed and is run by a bunch of people thinking, "How can we employ lots and lots of people?" And not by people thinking, "How can we make money?"

no?

No.
I largely agree, except what the “bait” is.

Here’s where antirez said he chose BSD because he wanted to allow forks that change the license. [1]

Under BSD, forks that change the license and forks that don’t change the license are both okay, full stop. When antirez chose a BSD license, thinking he might do a proprietary fork later, it wasn’t “bait,” it’s how it works.

But when Redis, the company, said that Redis “has always been and will continue to be BSD licensed” [2], this was an implicit promise about what license the company would use for their own future improvements to Redis. In that sense, what they said is misleading, and maybe that’s bait.

So giving things away for free isn’t wrong, and making a proprietary fork isn’t wrong. It’s promising that you won’t do it and then doing it.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39863371
[2] https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/966631/6bf2063136effa1e/
My guess is this was small change for him and he enjoyed the adventure somehow.