skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is well established that much “near work” during childhood (and even adults) contributes to myopia. Some populations are particularly vulnerable. Myopia also has a reasonable strong genetic component in humans and mice.

Classic example of gene-by-environmental interaction.

Here is a recent reference and meta-analysis:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9820324/
A philanthropic patent troll? Intriguing.
So tl;dr the actual practical impact is just that you see more relevant ads when you’re visiting websites.
yes, it will improve, but not for your benefit

same as all of Microsoft's releases post Windows 7
But you don't need line of sight for the whole squad of operators if you can put up a repeater that the operator's signals can go through.

The FCC killed the hobby and in the process, made us fight with one hand behind our backs. Still, the future of autonomous drones means maybe we won't have human operators for the swarm so maybe it's moot.
I’ve personally experienced something like this as I use a 43 inch Roku TV as a display. I initially connected it to the wifi to see the features available, but factory reset it after I got a popup type image displayed when it was plugged in as a monitor for my PC.
Thanks I’m just a dumb kid.
>I can touch microprocessors,

No you can't, you're just touching the box they come in.

You can touch copper cables and wires, vacuum tubes, resistors, capacitors, breadboards, and (large!) printed circuit boards among other "basic" electronic components. You can't touch microprocessors, it's even stated on the tin they are microscopic in scale; you can't touch that in any meaningful way.
There's no need for retreat. Chrome DevTools have "simulate slow connection" button.
The happy path is still just nil comparison though:

if err == nil || target == nil {
return err == target
}

So the overhead is the function call and 2 comparisons. I wonder if the `isComparable := reflectlite.TypeOf(target).Comparable()` line was moved into a separate function if the compiler would inline Is() reducing the perf impact.

Possibly related: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/61502

Looks like they're working on improving the inliner.
Sorry, that was poorly worded. I have been using Firefox happily ever since.
If you’re using Aurora and not RDS you’re probably outside of the zone where rolling your own Postgres is easy.
Well we used to use "sketchy" looking mockups so that users would understand that this wasn't a finished, working interface. I guess that's out the window now.
I mean the tree structure, the crowd-sourced moderation (flagging and downvotes), and promoting/hiding content based on votes.

When the topic isn't controversial, that all tends to promote the best comments.

But when the topic is controversial, it simply makes one point of view dominant. (The "hivemind" as redditors say.)
Dual boot Linux and windows isn't a big deal to me. Doing it for 10 years. Only boot into windows for some games.
Don't forget the internet archive.
The problem of course is that you will never do this repeatedly. You will add a trusted key permanently after verifying it somehow, so getting familiar with the appearance of a key's mnemonic stuff is a waste of time. If you have the key's mnemonic to look at, you probably have the actual text too and can just copy it.
Middle Finger themed air vents:

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/glove-thy-neighbor/
Did they control for the fact that people who spend more time e.g. reading likely also spend more time indoors?
Things are not so cut and dry. For instance, did you know that a diet which includes fermented dairy populates the gut biome with bacteria that will break it down for you[1][2]? And that the placebo effect plays a role in symptoms of lactose intolerance[3]? The idea that milk wasn't drunk in East Asia in antiquity is a misconception as well. It was artificially dropped in Ancient China while assimilating pastoral societies as part of a larger scale dietary reform[4].

Additionally, cow milk represents a single dairy product amongst a plethora of ones. Everything from Horse milk to Goat's milk is consumed globally, and much dairy is consumed as further processed food like fermented milk, yogurt, cheeses, etc. which generally aren't considered by Americans when talking about dairy, for whatever reason, even when supposedly attempting to "unplug" from the dairy industry's propaganda.

[1] - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4066025/

[2] - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15277142/

[3] - https://gut.bmj.com/content/41/5/632

[4] - https://www.asianstudies.org/publications/eaa/archives/china...
I think most major problems in the world are both overdetermined and multicausal. If we spend our time trying to isolate “the” culprit before taking action, we’ll solve roughly zero important problems.
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP10(2023)18...
I'm just here to remind everyone of the helium shortage.
As a startup boy we are happily chewing through hundreds of thousands in GPU credits across all major cloud platforms + lambda labs.

And once those credits run out we are planning to expand our owned training hardware. Currently we just have 3x L40S but would expand to 32x L40S. I’m excited to now be a sys admin in addition to a full stack web dev.
Not to mention the voyager missions.. still zooming out into interstellar space..
> If an app is so hard to distribute in any other way, that to me is a red flag that the app is not up to my quality standards or otherwise violates my sensibilities in some way.

I have run across the periodic application that violates both my quality standards and sensibilities, yet I find indispensable. An example here is the e-reader software KOReader. It makes zero sense as a desktop application since it is designed to run on dedicated tablets hardware with e-ink screens. It is not packaged by many distributions, likely because few people would be interested in maintaining such a package.

So why would I want to use it on a desktop? Because the breadth and depth of features are unmatched. In my case, I am willing to put up with a quirky black and white touch based interface[1] in order to have access to those features on my laptop. So I use the AppImage.

While I dislike the mentioned distribution formats for the reasons you mentioned, some software is so wonderful[2] that it's warts should be ignored.

[1] It does have keyboard controls. In verifying a couple of details for this post, I also discovered that it can be controlled from a gamepad. Connecting my laptop to a television and sitting back to read a book with only a gamepad in hand is something that I am going to have to try one day.

[2] And sometimes that wonderfulness extends beyond features. The lua based portions of KOReader are sufficiently clear that I was able to create a profile for an e-reader (tablet) that is so new to the market that it isn't yet supported in the release version (the e-reader is only about a month old, while release versions of the software come out every four to eight weeks).
You can. They're called chromebooks.
Discord is meant for gamers playing games. Who tf cares what happened 2 years ago in that context.

Here's the key: if I use something for free, I don't expect anything from it.
Oh, I was referring to calculating colors used on a website. To give you an example, we've stumbled upon pages where there's a product on the page that contained the color red, and nowhere else on the page was anything red. Our naive approach to finding avg colors was to simply take a screenshot of the page and process that image. Unfortunately, this method produces inaccurate results like red being part of the average colors when the design system has no red. I was curious if you managed to work around this issue. Happy to chat more if you're interested, you can reach me at murat[at]rapidpages.io
For me, Firefox and without iCloud Private Relay engaged, Maxmind is within about 2km and doesn't get the city correct (but we're right on a border), and IPinfo is about 15km as the crow flies (and gets the city entirely wrong).
I find the deliberate choice of a left-handed font for this example intriguing.
The "emergent phenomenon" is the purpose of a system.

This emergence is the product (function) of a system which is greater than the sum of parts.

This emergent phenomenon is a new potential derived from a system which does not exist otherwise.
I like it when you create bug reports. However submitting a bug report to an open source project is not issuing a work order. If you have any urgency to your bug then you should pay to have it fixed.

However this article is not about open source devs being treated as free labor. This article is all about how to file a good bug report. Having a bug report being politely submitted with all the correct details and in the appropriate channel is a skill many users are lacking. We should really be promoting this sort of document.
I don't think errors should have to follow semver. Please, break my match on non-major version bumps, if I didn't explicitly add a catch-all case.
Young people choosing not to matriculate because universities are too expensive, too ideological, too useless… will do more to fix the universities than an infinite stream of think pieces, congressional appropriations or rubber stamping by the boards of trustees.
One might think that the wheel is periodically reinvented until one realizes that you are the wheel.

Could be worse, could be a lo-code platform.
I built this firm a decade ago. https://www.cogent.co.jp/en/

Works with English and Japanese.
Sadly I'm no longer with the team there but the work is solid. Try it out.
Interesting concept, but a point on the design: it's quite unclear whether the "reasoning" part is supposed to be "why you did it", "why you do/don't regret it", or both.
so the article ignores the fact that most of the gen Z college kids theyre ostensibly referencing got a front-row seat to watch their parents struggle with undischargeable student loan debt that likely still haunts them into their retirement.

watching your parents toil in debtors prison is a great way to wind up rethinking your options for the future.

edit: this authors entire substack is mostly posts railing against DEI liberalism and flogging the culture war in general. low effort article.
ChatGPT generates some complete dogshit in terms of Nix configs.

Rather than waste time and valuable electricity and water on LLM prompts with poor results, just read the docs and learn. It'll be faster—I promise.
That would have absolutely been myself, wardriving at 16 (back in the early aughts). Sending nonsensical print jobs and then setting everyone’s clocks to 4:20.
Specifically Mozilla Corporation paid Mozilla Foundation in 2022 under $20 million from over $585 million in revenue.

The relationship between Mozilla Foundation and Mozilla Corporation can make some details confusing. But most people who claim what they did never looked at Mozilla finances in my experience.
And yet the rhetoric is not about the usage of dairy in its role as a garnish, it's about presenting plant milks as a genuine dietary alternative to mammalian milk. I don't find that it's the people who buy plant milk for their coffee to be the same people implying that milk's popularity was invented out of thin air by mad doctors of the post-renaissance.
I love these clocks! I've had a few in every house I've lived in, from all along the West Coast and Midwest.
I wish I could find a kinder way to put this but... Don't you think that sounds like something an Ayn Rand villain would do?

Having not read Ulysses, nor having ever moved in the kind of circles where many if any acquaintances had, I can't really vouch for whether it has any specific literary value. Not am I really that interested in finding out for myself, from what I do know of it. But the idea that there's some grand cultural conspiracy behind it sounds just a little bit paranoid.

I don't mean to attack you personally, I don't know you and if I had more time I'd write a more sensitive post. I just wanted to make the Rand connection because I see little mention of her villains when she's brought up, and your post reminded me of them so strongly!
Pull requests welcome?
Meta ai is so bad. What did they really do with all those h100’s ?
> The world is a lot less naive then it used to be

I have a slightly different perspective on this - I think people have become more naive than they used to be.

"Speculating on future value" in the ways you've described - either investing money in collectibles or investing time in writing fresh libraries, investing time and money in attempting to become an influencer, etc - is basically gambling.

Your odds of success are either extremely low, competition is high, or investment takes a long time to bear fruit with high risk (collectibles becoming worthless, new programming languages dying, social media following never taking off, etc).

Spending 5 years chasing trends or buying up collectibles - basically trying to get lucky - looks "less naive" when it works, but it's basically survivorship bias (or first-mover and other strategic advantages, etc). If you fail, you've sunk a large amount of money and/or time in your life into a bunch of "worthless" pursuits.

(And to counter the "but it's not worthless if you learn something" argument, that's true, but it's not the point being made here. And using that as post-fact justification for losing all your time/money is a self-sustaining problem if you don't consciously evaluate your opportunity cost in advance.)
We could argue about that, but let me rephrase then:

What technology that you can neither touch, nor that buzzes in airwaves, could they have used to solve this problem back then?
They are to protect order. So you, as a victim of a crime, are only a concern to them to the degree you make your harm public enough to disrupt order. Then they might attempt to solve a crime or make an impression they are doing something to prevent similar ones, but dissuading you from complaining too publicly about it (both by taking your report and showing it was useless) works just as well.
That doesn’t help with the nightmare scenario of Google’s systems deciding I’m a threat because I never post YouTube comments or something, and shutting off the account. That’s the thing I’m worried about.
I don’t think anybody at that time could have built a laser emitter, even. Not sure why you would want to, to solve that problem, even today.

I feel like the point of my question was lost.
Here’s the issue: humans do the same thing: the brain builds up a model of the world but the model is not the world. It is a virtual approximation or interpretation based on training data: passed experiences, perceptions, etc.

A human can tell you the sky is blue based on its model. So can any LLM. The sky is blue. So the output from both models is truthy.
FWIW using * or ! in shadow to indicate lockout was a common thing; it's even mentioned in the man page for shadow.

There's a special meaning to x in the crypt field for passwd, too.

See pwconv.
Spring Forth, My Creation
Setting aside the internal connector, most Mac laptops (and all modern Macs) have a Target Mode[1] that exposes the internal hard drive externally as a SCSI, FireWire, Thunderbolt, or USB device you can mount on another computer.

In this case, it's a PowerBook Duo with a SCSI disk, so you'd need a Duo Dock or similar[2], a HDI-30-to-something-a-little-more-standard adapter [3], and whatever combination of cables, converters, and controllers are required to connect a parallel SCSI device into a more modern system.

For example, if you have a machine with a PCI Express slot (or Thunderbolt PCI Express enclosure), I'd recommend any of the LSI Logic Ultra320 adapters available on eBay for < $50, as drivers are readily available for macOS (AppleLSIFusionMPT.kext, included in all Mac OS versions worth mentioning, up to and including Sonoma, Intel and Apple Silicon), Linux (in-kernel mptspi driver), and Windows (the Windows Server 2008 driver[4] should work on current Windows versions).

Assuming all these things are in order, connect the Macs with a SCSI cable, hold down T while booting the PowerBook to enter target disk mode, and answer no to any prompts your OS may display offering to format the unreadable disk you just attached!

As for accessing the HFS filesystem, assuming macOS, my preferred method would be:

1. Create a raw disk image:

$ hdiutil create -tgtimagekey diskimage-class=CRawDiskImage -srcdevice disk<Number> <Name>.img

(use the "diskutil list" command to find <Number>)

2. Shut down the PowerBook.

3. Make a backup copy of the image in case something goes wrong.

4. Install Mac OS 9 in qemu[5] and attach the image.

5. Use Alsoft PlusMaker[6] in Mac OS 9 to do an in-place conversion of the filesystem on the image from HFS to HFS+ (download the first file, use StuffIt[7] to extract the file and Toast[8] to mount the image, and run PlusMaker directly from the image to avoid being prompted for a serial number).

6. Shut down Mac OS 9 ("Shut Down" is in the Mac OS 9 Finder's "Special" menu).

7. Mount the resulting HFS+ image in (current) macOS (double-click in Finder, "hdiutil attach <Name>.img" from a command prompt, etc.).

Other options exist, but this is the easiest full-fidelity one that comes to mind.

As a bonus, you'll now have an emulated Mac OS 9 system that should run most of the applications from the original PowerBook's hard drive on your modern Mac.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/technotes/tn/tn1...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerBook_Duo#Docking_stations

[3] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0081SAIS2/

[4] https://www.broadcom.com/support/download-search?pg=Legacy+P...

[5] https://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/GuestOperatingSystems/Ma...

[6] https://www.macintoshrepository.org/19-plusoptimizer-plusmak...

[7] https://www.macintoshrepository.org/809-stuffit-deluxe-1-5-x...

[8] https://www.macintoshrepository.org/1724-toast-5-titanium
Eh, seems kinda linkbaity.

I'm not convinced there's a crisis, perhaps lowered college enrollment is a good thing for everyone. If a student doesn't enjoy it they don't have to go, and if students don't feel welcome in theory the free market will essentially correct without random internet people needing to fret.

I think the obvious thing to do, if one presumes college education is universally good, would be to simply ask the kids who don't like college why they don't like it.
> copy-paste

When I was talking about switching to wayland with a colleague, who was already moved over at the time, he tried to convince me that having no copy paste is better for security.

And I, using a password manager that generates unspeakably complex passwords everywhere, was kinda stunned by that blindsightedness.

If you don't want copy and paste, use Qubes OS. That's the philosophy matching the rest of the architecture of the OS.

But as long as you have a binary named "[" on your system, don't try to convince people that you are doing it in the name of security. There is much more rotten fish to throw away before that.

The only thing that recently convinced me to give wayland another go is hyprland. Seeing all kinds of nice WM concepts being implemented in it, maybe hyprland is "the interoperability specification" we needed all along.
Yes, this is the main factor. Luminance and spectrum however are reasonable secondary factors and highlighted in the reference above.
The filters are too low for my needs.
Was it deliberate?
You can have a declarative env with imperative dotfiles with NixOS—no problem.
I haven’t used any but I’ve been intrigued lately to try them. I agree that performance impact could be a major concern. It’s the main reason I haven’t tried yet.Especially using and processing video instead of screenshots. I have a desktop and a laptop - it’d be nice if it was possible to offload processing from the laptop to a remote host. Maybe even just use public APIs for those willing to take the privacy risk. Rewind and commercial offerings wouldn’t be so bad if you knew the only dependency was an inference API instead of remote databases and storage.
The article’s cited examples of errors, such as not understanding that a precedent has been overruled or inventing a provision of the bankruptcy code, gives a fascinating insight into how LLMs work and their limitations.
Feeding frenzy. Who actually wants this? I want to use LLMs as anonymously as possible. Honestly, I find no use for them at all other than helping me plan travel itineraries.
Yep, I hear ya and mostly agree, that’s why I made the point about ambien. Not trying to sound like a Nancy Reagan or anything. I was just trying to caution against self-medication, because it’s not uncommon for people to not realize that there are other factors affecting their sleep health. It might be the case that MJ actually also ends up being a good treatment for those things as well, which is awesome, but it also can go the other way, and it becomes a mask/crutch etc. Just advocating for people to investigate the causes of their insomnia and think critically about whether or not a psychoactive solution is appropriate for them, possibly in conjunction with a doctor or therapist and if not then at least with some form of accountability if necessary, like a friend etc.

MJ works for a lot of people and is, generally speaking, perfectly safe. For some people it’s not appropriate, and I think that’s at least worth highlighting.
Then $70/hour is only $134k/year, still a far cry from $200k. $200k for 48 full weeks of work works out to around $105/hour.
Yeah, I got a job as a dev at one of the UK's high street fashion retailers during the pandemic. Got a load of praise from directors n everyone else for implementing a proper development workflow within the department, as a junior.

After the pandemic we all got an RTO mandate and I found a new, fully remote, job within a month.

The director of the department I was in at the original employer told me she would not be ‘grassing’ on me for not going to the office but it didn’t sit right with me so I left.

After all that I made sure that my current contract has an addendum clearly stating I can:

1. Be fully remote

2. Work my hours whenever I want as long as my core responsibilities are met

3. Work from anywhere in the world.

I’ll be honest, it is great I have that not but it does make finding a new job a bit harder as I am not willing to sacrifice the freedom I’ve earned here.
Doesn't make it false. Reality doesn't change just because you are sad about it.
Well, the hype didn't match reality. Cynical take: it was always about frightening workers into not demanding pay rises.
Huberman takes jumps of logic that no respectable scientist should. Matt Walker has had a paper retracked, and his book on sleep is controversial to say the least:

https://guzey.com/books/why-we-sleep/

In this case, Huberman's neglects to address the fact that melatonin production is reduced as we age, not just in those with pineal gland calcification. He provides no sources for the argument that commercial preparations are inconsistent, and (IIRC) fails to even approach or suggest a solution to the much more problematic fact that even the lowest available dosages are an order of magnitude more than is appropriate. If he thinks it has merit for jet-lag and calcified pineal gland, at least he could instruct people how to take it appropriately.

I used to respect him, avidly listen to every show until I noticed how almost reactantly uninformed he appears to keep himself of anything he's already passed judgement on, as well as the dearth criticality with which treats the sometimes questionable guests on his show.

Also the Athletic Greens thing: someone who's pupporting to be purveying knowledge for the goodness of mankind should not be peddling snake oil, whether he likes the flavour or not.