skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A subtext here might be to try sleep restriction when you have a period of funemployment or PTO and can deal with the consequences of being sleep-deprived and/or can distract yourself from nodding off e.g. by going for a walk, and while you don't need to operate machinery, e.g. a car.
Studies have shown that reality conforms to my prejudices.
> errors.Is() is expensive. If you use it, check the error is non-nil first to avoid a pretty big performance penalty on the happy path.

Am I missing something, or could this be partially mitigated by adding a check for `err == nil && target != nil` and vice versa, rather than `err == target`?

https://github.com/golang/go/blob/9b43bfbc51c469ec13fca24960...
You can sort their list by reading ease: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks?page=21&per-page=48&sort=r...

A lot of John Stuart Mill and John Dewey
People in modernity have a habit of dismissing what people in the past said as a "heuristic that almost always works."

But it doesn't always work, and there's some pretty glaring holes in modern perspectives as a result of its overuse.
I'm mostly degoogled myself, and disable/firewall every Google app on my device. Pretty hard to switch away from GMail as it's essentially everywhere for me, and YouTube doesn't have a viable replacement. I use 3rd party apps for both though, as well as the store. Re the store, I endured doing manual updates weekly for several years. Then recently when I upgraded my device I discovered Shizuku (allows elevated access without rooting), which connects nicely with Aurora Store and handles the installs. It's like a huge breath of fresh air.
If anyone is wondering another discussion was completely deleted from that repo earlier: https://archive.ph/cBcTD
If Amazon sends you counterfeit goods, do you at least report it with the police and demand your money back? That's the only way to stop them.

It's baffling that such a large, well established and legitimate company as Amazon can apparently get away with selling counterfeit goods.
The crossed polar images here were a bit disappointing, so I wound up going to https://www.leica-microsystems.com/science-lab/galleries/pol... for my XP fix.
The person carrying such an expensive suit probably had a very specific role on the battlefield. Which is a source of endless speculation. Presumably they had to be protected to perform a task while exposed to arrows or spears.
This is the description of one of Hudson Rock's main products, "Bayonet".

"Imagine getting access to a lead-generation platform featuring hundreds of thousands of compromised companies around the world with active vulnerabilities that you can convert into customers."

I've seen and dealt with a couple of these types of companies. It's a pretty sleazy tactic, and it's low skill/effort from a technical point of view as well.
If money is no object for most non-specialized tools the best brand is unequivocally Festool
Yes, it seems most products that gain a reputation for reliability end up taking on a "masculine persona", of sorts. Which I guess stands to reason as in popular culture reliability is what defines the "manly man".
Oh but there are some hilarious and obvious problems with Protobuf that are a sure tell of the author being a first-timer.

For example, messages inside messages and messages in other "packages" can, accidentally be named the same, and then the author of such a definition will be spending a lot of efforts debugging such code because, without telling anyone, Protobuf parser (the one written by Google, other implementations behave differently) will prefer the one inside another message to the one inside another package.

To make this more obvious, suppose Protobuf had "package" separator, let it be ":". Then, you could define messages a.b:c and a:b.c. Then, there's no ambiguity. However, since there's none, and physically, the message a.b:c lives in b.pb file and a:b.c lives in a.pb file...

Another hilarious aspect is that fields inside messages are allowed to repeat (in the wire format). And the last one wins! So, using this easy foot-gun, Protobuf made streaming impossible.

Another tell is that Protobuf didn't have a formal grammar until much, much later. And once it was written, it was never tested on the real parser. I submitted a handful of tickets against that grammar because it was ridiculously bad. Simple and very common stuff like strings, that requires a little bit of sophistication (because of quotes and escape characters) was broken in the way indicative of someone doing it for the first time (and not even trying to test). The kind of screwups I saw my classmates do in our automata theory class.

It's wild and weird how such a poorly conceived "invention" gets enormous amount of attention and use (probably because of the company behind it).
https://archive.ph/czrqx
I do that for myself because it drives me crazy when I get held up from what I'm doing by not having what I need, cables, adapters, etc.

I have also been quite generous with friends, trying to teach them the way. However, I've found that I'm just enabling bad habits in careless people, and before you know it I've run out of anything popular. So now, I still flood my zone, in secret, and let others fend for themselves.
LLMs achieve adult human performance on higher-order theory of mind tasks
> I don't get why parts of the Linux community are so resistant to embrace AppImages and provide first class integration for them. Decent desktop integration isn't that hard.

> As a user I want to download the thing and run it. AppImages provide that.

Because Linux userspace libraries aren't designed to handle long term binary compatibility. There is no guarantee that a simple package upgrade or a simple distro version upgrade will not break things.

There is no guarantee that an Appimage will continue working 3 months later. If it relies on web communication, there is no guarantee that the application will stay secure since you have to bundle core system libraries like OpenSSL with your application (unlike Windows and MacOS).

I will even go and say especially GNU stuff is made specifically to make reasonable (imo at least 5 years) binary only i.e. closed-source software friendly distribution hard.

It is the culture adopted by all middle layer libraries and desktop environments too. The only supported form is source and every piece of software in Linux world assumes it is built as a part of an entire distro.

That's why Snap and Flatpak actually install a common standardized base distro on top of your distro or why Docker in its current form exists (basically packaging and running entire distro filesystems).

Only way to get around it is basically recreating and reengineering the entire Linux userspace as we know it. Nobody wants to do that.

Creating long term stable APIs that allow tweaking is very difficult, requires lots of experience in designing complex software. Even then you fail here and there and forced to support multiple legacy APIs. Nobody will do that unless they are both very intelligent and paid well (at the same level as an Apple, Microsoft or Android engineers). It is not fun and rewarding most of the time.
Depends on the PE tbh. We recently got acquired (after being split from our previous owner) and if anything we now have much better leadership, and they seem to focus on R&D more than anything else. It does help that they have clearly stated that they aim for making the corporation public in 5-7 years, which makes it less likely that they'd engage in bleeding the current assets dry for short term gains.

It might be different for startups though for sure, in our case we were spun off from a very old corporation :)
For a short time (maybe 6 months or so) the state department was testing out fully digital passport renewal. I was able to slip in and it was great, digital phone photo, fill in some forms and I had a new passport in the mail after a couple of weeks (I didn't pay for rush processing).

It was taken down after the pilot for them to adjust and fix the process but there are improvements in the works.

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports/have-pa...
And now think what a shithole Russia must be that Ukraine prefers all that to the loving embrace of mother Russia.
Would Apple run OpenAI models themselves, or would OpenAPI just give them an API (in which case Microsoft will run the models on Azure for Apple)?
VPS is dandy when the application is fresh. Once it starts getting long in the tooth and the VPS OS needs to be updated… nightmare fuel.
Try using the RATH analyser from github
I like it! Reminds me of "The hacker's diet" [1] [2]. Hence, it could be even better to use a running average to keep the feedback cycle even tighter [1].

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1: https://hackersdiet.org/hackdiet/e4/signalnoise.html#Fa78

2: https://trendweight.com/
I have an audiobook read by an Irish narrator and while that's objectively great, the voice acting is top notch... a moderate to heavy Irish accent was rather extra unhelpful in the realm of any of it making sense for more than two minutes at a time.
An error in this type of thinking is that it assumes that the observer isn’t also made of light.

In our physical reality all scientific instruments are made of matter, the behaviour of which is almost entirely determined by electromagnetic interactions.

Any effect that changes the light clock somehow also changes co-moving observers identically!

It’s like asking an a 2D character drawn on a rubber sheet if they think that the things they see on the rubber sheet are changing as that sheet is uniformly stretched.

Relativity was formulated in a time before we were even sure that atoms exist.
if true, long overdue
Turn almost any bike into an e-bike with the Clip
Google to honor new privacy laws and user opt-outs
The Canon Cat – remembering the computer that tried to banish mice
thank you for sharing! i'm having trouble finding it but the explanation i gave i believe was one given by the IRS commissioner in some hearing which i took at face value, but this seems like a much more thorough analysis
A word of caution on melatonin supplementation:
https://ai.hubermanlab.com/s/NKoA_QuI
Im dont reading LLM papers.

Based on what we know of the MS deal (they can have all of open AI's work till AGI is achieved). And with the departure of any one who thought safety was a need something became very clear to me.

They thought that they were going to hit some magic threshold of data where it would snap over to some sort of sentience, or sapience or AGI magic or...

LLM's have a hallucination problem. Till it's addressed they are gonna be buggy. This is great for a video game but not so great for anything important.
Plant 'milks' are just going through a lot of effort to take generally decent foodstuff (oats, nuts, etc.) and watering them down, massively reducing the nutritional density and content. The macro and micro content of things like oat milk, cashew milk, and so on are next to water because that's basically what they are.

People don't reach for plant milk (or butter) for the nutritive content; but rather for the texture and taste, which make other foods (smoothies, porridge), not to mention coffee / tea (for some), more palatable -- or in the case of baked goods (or pudding, ice cream, etc) they essentially are the texture of these foods. Thus expanding their range of what they can eat (and enjoy).

And to do so in a way not involving animal milk.
you're exaggerating the defintion of unselfish. It's unselfish of me to share my lunch with you when you've forgotten yours, even though I still eat my half of my whole for the selfish reason that I don't want to faint from hunger. A good reputation stands as encouragement to other to also be unselfish, so it's not selfish of me to wish to be recognized as recognition comes for free.

altruistic does not mean hair-shirted
USA it's huge and sparse, but Spain it's the same, it's like USA.rar. Crowded coasts, lots of mountains with a rough interior almost as empty as Lapland modulo Madrid.
So, yes, you can have the issues on phone signal issues.
Added a feedback button for each tool page
> Anyone thinking those are transitional investments that will be written off in the next 20 years is deluding themselves.

I absolutely do not. Whether it’s nuclear or gas, transitional plants will either need to be subsidized or guaranteed by governments. As batteries come online, gas and nuclear will be dead.

> It’s not something being produced anywhere close to utility scale to be topical over the next 20 years.

I’m not sure that’s true, even for LFP. But flow batteries, pumped hydro, sodium ion are already there in terms of scale and economics, and don’t remove from storage where volumetric/gravimetric density matters, as with mobility.

Multitudes of other solutions like hydrogen production and more experimental energy storage are being actively researched, and I’d wager we’ll see more technologies in the mix in the next 1-2 decades that makes the nuclear discussion moot
You might consider making a tool for wireless internet service providers and mapping Crown Castle / other roof antenna space services. This would be really helpful in determining uplink reach (just may need some parameters on roof-top blocking structures)
I think another big part of deciding to use DRY is the complexity of what you're repeating. Copying and pasting lots of business rules means having to make complex edits whenever that logic needs to change. Having simple rules and a small amount of surface area for data reduces the initial need to have DRY code, and it's easier to take the initial risk of using duplicate code.

At least in my experience, it's easier to start with duplicates of simple logic/data, and use DRY for more complex logic/data. The difficult areas are still those where the logic and/or data fall between simple and complex, or are expected to change often, but unknown whether they will change together or diverge quickly.
Am I missing something or is this as big of a disaster as I think? This is terrible news right?
The solution is simple - put the relevant law in the prompt. The larger context size of Claude lets you shove in half-a-dozen cases, your petition, and a few other docs.

When you do that, the quality is more than passable, and instantaneous.
God damn it, I just installed the previous version in a VM as my first experiment.
Updated "License" to "Cost"
When people realize how insufferable the internet is without an Adblocker they’ll have no choice but switch to Firefox.
Good question!

Just about every phone (smart or feature) is running some flavor of Unix (iOS/BSD for Apple, Android/Linux for most other smartphones, and KaiOS/Linux for feature phones).

The 1998 style Nokia brick is functionally non-existent as there is no financially viable demand for a product like that anymore.

The markets that are feature phone driven (much of Africa, poorer regions of South and Southeast Asia) are also heavily WhatsApp dependent, so the mobile OS needs to be lightweight but also support modern app functionality - which lends itself to the embedded Linux use case.

Also, no matter how much you modify and QA code, inevitably some bug will arise, and will be open to exploitation.
> Mistake = malware?

The mistake was a business decision. Redirecting users to their affiliate links was on purpose.

> Are they really that desparate for the small affiliate commission?

Yes. That's exactly what they did. The CEO mentioned himself that they were looking for revenue streams. What's your stake in this?
You vegan?
I can see how you'd feel that way. This was a time when I was very experimental in my approach to my PC. I would put up with a lot of inconvenience for new or interesting ideas I suppose. I ran Gentoo about the same time and remember several times I wanted to watch a movie I had to instead wait several hours to recompile the entire video player.

Later on I became a fair bit more partial to reliable tool choices in order to actually get work done.
Agreed. It's not just a placebo effect, it really is slower. People often don't notice this because they use relatively high-end machines. If you're skeptical, try running it on a low-end laptop or a Raspberry Pi. The difference is like night and day.
Google's algorithm exposed via leak to GitHub [video]
True, but we’re talking household income which includes partner income. Eg $140k + $60k or $120k + $80k. Your main point is still fair, though.
I did a similar thing at a startup where I was working as a consultant. We would constantly run out of coffee cups so I started smuggling in more cups each day, some 50 in total. Luckily they were using cheap IKEA mugs so the total cost was roughly 100 €.

The problem could have been solved in many ways but it was a nice hobby for me. I ended up switching to work there as an employee and have been for ten years. I still use the mugs so it worked out OK.
The Best Way to Use FFmpeg
They're thieves, hiding behind walls of small print.

We booked one in France through Avis. Rocked up and they wanted either a €2000 refundable deposit or a €350 non-refundable waiver. We were deep into a home renovation, couldn't afford the refundable option if we also wanted food on holiday, had to take the hit.

That's over the top of a €950 10 day rental for a 3 year old Seat, its gearbox nearing the end of its short cruel life.

And we were treated like this because we'd used a reseller. The person before us didn't have our experience and the guy there was happy enough to explain how they hide details like this from comparison websites and everyone assumes they'll get the standard rental agreement. Loads of people get stung on the waiver.
> You’re having a very, very basic failure of logic

Good sign you’re missing something.

> anyone who works on Monday by definition of a one day work week does not work on Tuesday, Wednesday, etc.

Why are they coming in so much? Everyone comes in on Monday, does some work, tasks the machines and then fucks off.

> most likely is that my communication is one-shot through a computer system

You’ve never heard of a West/East team handing off that never meet? It used to be quite common in trading.

Hell, I’d venture Tarsnap could run today with less than a day of work on Colin’s part each week.
Wilderness Front
Related threads:

"Giving Windows total recall of everything a user does is a privacy minefield", 41 comments,
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40470806

"AI PCs are the final nail in the coffin of open computing", 60 comments, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40436975

"How the new Microsoft Recall feature fundamentally undermines Windows security", 50 comments, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40433884

"Windows Recall sounds like a privacy nightmare", 298 comments, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40443682
But your firm can guarantee it won’t be hacked? Or broken into. Or social engineered. Or…
I can (anecdotally) back that up. Coffee has no perceivable effect on me; I drink several cups a day (because I enjoy the taste, and the ritual) but often go without and don’t notice any difference whatsoever.

However, I’ve had trouble falling asleep for as long as I can remember.
This is something you have to specifically enable right? Right?!

I’m sick of brain dead execs and product managers. What world do these people live in?
I wish, market is too dangerous right now though. I was out of work for significantly longer than I should have been because my one dealbreaker for the longest time was remote.

Current job started out 3/2
hybrid but full RTO is being mandated by the end of the month. Not looking forward to it.
my biggest point being that Linux package managers carry out of date packages. Unless you want to use arch linux or similar.
It’s breaking my brain
Thanks, appreciate the reply. I believe this should have been fixed by https://github.com/delta-incubator/delta-kernel-rs/pull/210.

I'm guessing you were reading from a table with a checkpoint :)

DuckDB unfortunately hasn't pulled in the latest changes just yet, but as soon as they update to include that fix, I expect your queries will work.

If the table is public, I'd be happy to check that kernel now supports reading it.
> And, not only is it from Meta, but it's the AI they've put in charge of support.

Does it say that in the article or somewhere else? I didn’t see that in the article.
Those techniques almost certainly took considerably more than a decade to develop originally, and it's not like the battle-ready bronze armour business has been booming for the last couple of millennia, so there's been a bit of a brain drain in that sector.
Don't worry, Google is working on that.

The demise of email forwarding is getting closer

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40045069
Obviously YMMV, but I've found having an exhausted body works wonders for falling to sleep. So, don't just exercise, do something physically tough that drains you. If you have to do that in the form of running/jogging/biking, fine. But you can also tend a garden. Clean the house. Organize something. Lots of things that are physically demanding.

I'm also skeptical of the advice to not nap. I'd go so far as to say that if you are avoiding naps, you are effectively teaching your body to avoid sleep. Don't do that. Try to move napping, sure, but don't be shocked if eliminating it has bad effects.
If you want gold-plated, there's Hilti, but you're paying a lot extra for a marginal increase in reliability. Milwaukee, Bosch, Makita, and DeWalt are all in the same range, ie contractor/prosumer (and all mostly are manufactured in China). Ryobi is slightly lower but generally fine, ie consumer / price sensitive. Below that is Harbor Freight / no-name electric drill you'd find in am Amazon Basics "essential tools" kit.
> feature phone Nokia by HMD

Sure, but it runs Android Go (embedded Android) or KaiOS (embedded Linux) out of the box.

Any vulnerabilities that arises in Linux can also be weaponized on those OSes as well depending on when the OS image was deployed and whether or not the OEM supports upgrades and patches (generally they don't)
It really takes effort to scrub oneself of big-tech. I don’t know how non-HN-types are supposed to do it.

My weak point has been Apple Photos. It “just works” for me and I really appreciate that it does all processing for faces, cats, etc. locally and in a native app. Every other option I find either doesn’t do syncing, offers an Electron app, or forces viewing through a browser.

Does anyone know of a solution that fits the bill? I will happily self-host.
Why does an entry point to Ella need assistance from Louis Armstrong? His vocal instrument was unique, peculiar and spectacular. While they could certainly play off each other, his attempts at vocally harmonizing _with_ Ella are mostly cringeworthy musically. Rather than recordings where she had to adjust to his limitations (like letting him choose the key), why not instead listen to any of her highly-acclaimed "songbook" recordings?
Well, now you can upgrade it and see how that works :-)
Big Tech vs. the State
Lomonosov's Philosophy (1968) [pdf]
They are in the business of uniquely identifying me and organizing vast real-time bidding wars for every moment of my attention. The winners of the bidding war are the ones whose ads I (would) see (if I didn't block this garbage aggressively).

It's also been well studied how so-called anonymized datasets can be de-anonymized in various ways and then all the historical data is de-anonymized.

What you once thought was benign and not noteworthy can easily be used against you as the times and attitudes of a society change. Many examples can be seen both in modern day "cancellations" as well as in the historical record like Nazis using census data to find people with undesirable characteristics and murdering them (with IBM's help).

This is not far fetched conspiracy theory paranoia bate. It is factual events from reality.

If a company has a contract with an entity who pays them money for their services, it is literally in their interest to do it.