skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Curious if this is universal or if other people who lucid dream do always know the details of their actual true reality -- their age, what city and home they live in, current job, etc.

I have lucid dreams somewhat frequently since I was maybe 8 or 9 after I started getting prescribed medication to help me sleep (initially it had been almost nightly, but it reduced over the years to the point where it happens maybe a couple times a month now a couple decades later), and generally I do remember the details of my life in lucid dream, but I sometimes have trouble determining whether they're details of my life in the past or the present. If in my dream I'm back at school, it's usually not the case that I don't remember graduating, getting a job, and moving; often times I have a vague sense that all of that had happened, but then some issue was discovered with my records that forced me have to go back and retake a class or two. (This obviously is pretty implausible, but dream logic isn't always airtight!)

> What I find interesting, however, is that if I have a dream I forgot to study for my test, or I'm naked at school because I left my clothes somewhere else, or the school play starts tonight and I haven't memorized a single line... the fact that I know I'm dreaming doesn't help at all.

Having real world knowledge doesn't always mitigate the "issue" in the dream though; in my lucid dreams, I don't have any control over what happens beyond my own actions, so a teacher expecting me to hand in some assignment won't generally accept "it's a dream so I don't have to" as an excuse. There is a way that knowing that I'm dreaming helps though; I can just choose to wake up! I'm not sure whether being able to forcibly wake up is typical or not for people dreaming lucidly, but I've never had much trouble doing it. Sometimes I'll end up back in the same scenario if I fall back asleep again after though, so it might end up being worth it to suffer through the imaginary misfortune to get the real world benefit of sufficient sleep.
That's true, but you can't install Proxmox on it... Typing this now on the last Intel mini, and it was very tricky to upgrade its RAM to 32GB (worse than almost any laptop I can remember). So I can see the appeal of a nice empty box I can swap components around in.
Chemically induced intermittent fasting.
What's wrong with the Fourier Transform is that everybody and her pet rabbit can give you a half-baked explanation of Nyquist, but nobody understands windowing at all.
This is an astute observation. I have myself seen this at many employers now.

It almost seems like execs and board members cannot think beyond the factory mindset. And layers and layers of management have no desire or incentive to pushback. Leading to the best engineers getting tired of the grind.

The either burnout, or withhold their best, or stop caring, or just do enough to keep the ship running - all of which "appears" as a drop in "velocity". This leads to PIPs and firings from clueless manager that is only looking at Jira points to inform themselves.

At some point, the entire organization moves away from the engineering and people mindset to the KPI-factory mindset with poor decisions everywhere due to self-interest - leading the organization to become a worse form of IBM.

It really is astonishing to me to see it play over and over. It is clear that the upper echelons of execs and board members and upper management don't care enough about the company to sustain a good culture.
> Or you might prefer a model that looks at the image only

These models are only looking at the images. They are inferring demographics.
Doesn't this involve extra costs from using the API?
I think it argues against the claim that it must have had a (real) healing effect for it to be passed along.

People are quick to call in the placebo effect, as a scientific sounding explanation, but is nobody reminded of faith healing? People get up out of wheel chairs, cast away their crutches and say they've been healed.
At this point GLTF seems pretty darn good and seems broadly usable. It embeds the mesh, textures, animations right in a single file. It can represent a single model or a scene. I also has a binary format.

3d need not be so complicated! We've kinda made it complicated but a simplification wave is likely coming.

The big unlock for 3d though will have to be some better compression technology. Games and 3d experiences are absolutely massive.
I’m not sure if giving up on PS exclusives is going to cause difficulties for Square Enix at all.

I mean, I used to have a PS Vita and I enjoyed Japanese games such as the Neptunia series and Akiba’s Trip 2 and Persona 4 Golden. Most games like that come out on Steam these days.

Back in the day porting was difficult but there is no major technical difference between the current XBOX and PS and a gaming PC. Even the Switch is not all that different except it is much lower spec and requires more optimization.

Making exclusives in 2024 is just a choice to go out of business.*
This is fascinating. I had a period where I was really trying to be able to lucid dream but never could. It’s interesting that this sounds so much like my normal dreams, but just adding that you do realize it’s a dream. I didn’t think it would be so similar.
Took me about 6 months to finish it. But it was such a fun read! I would put it in the leagues of Making of the Atomic Bomb and Emperors of Maladies.
Maybe try repeating the whole thread? I have no idea why I am being bombarded about all this language crap lmao. Keep yalls evangelism to urself.
What happens if you quit and you are still anxious and unemployed?

My advice is to keep the job but stop doing it well. Stop taking it seriously. Stop feeling like they are taking your humanity because you’re actually just taking money from them.
With the extra mental space and time this affords you, work on yourself. Join activities, see a therapist, spend time outside.

You won’t get fired for a long time, if ever. In 6 months or a year you might find that you can handle taking the job seriously again or you may be ready to find a better one.
Hello Justin,

I applied for a Data Engineer role at SmarterDx and got rejected prior getting any screening.

I was wondering if you could provide me any feedback on my resume and past experience, so that I can either update my resume or skillset.

Thank you
OMG at last!!!!
This is not an article this is barely news. This is the NIH inexplicably plugging Blue Zones LLC.

"Authors’ Note: To join the Blue Zones mission, contact . More information about the project can be obtained at https://communities.bluezonesproject.com/. The authors disclose the following conflicts of interest: Dan Buettner is the CEO of Blue Zones and Sam Skemp works at Blue Zones as Program Manager."
Everything you compared either has less processing power (rpi, lightbulb), worse thermals (laptop, tablet), dogshit reparability (Mac mini), or some combination of all three.

These things can go up to 64 GB of RAM and 12 TB of storage at probably half the price you'd pay for your soldered down / on-die Mac mini. And what happens when a drive fails, or a memory module fails? Throw out the whole 3k board and start over? Not to mention the pain of getting proxmox or something similar running smooth.
The parable of the parser
from https://www.vccs.edu/transfer-programs/

"Through system agreements, students who graduate from one of Virginia’s 23 community colleges with an associate degree and a minimum grade point average may obtain GUARANTEED admission to more than 30 of the commonwealth’s colleges and universities. Please see the list below for copies of the current agreements."
Much of the money that flows into OSS foundations goes to director salaries and unproductive projects.

Some developers get paid by companies, but they usually come late to the project when most fundamental work has been done already (this depends on the project, Linux for example might be an exception in that sponsorship has started comparatively early).

Most developers who have done fundamental work before the commercialization of OSS get nothing. The beneficiaries of the whole thing are developers who are now 25-30, work for FAANG and take over existing projects while not doing really much.

BTW, the real jerks are often wolves in sheep's clothing who do excessively well in the bureaucratic apparatus.
>but is nobody reminded of faith healing? People get up out of wheel chairs, cast away their crutches and say they've been healed.

That's just common fakery.
Show HN: Pipedream now has 2200+ API integrations
On the one hand I can agree with this—I would love them to focus on refining the current suite of Proton apps.

On the other hand, Google’s ability to monitor the contents of Google Docs and engage in censorship is extremely concerning and Proton seems well-placed to provide an alternative.
The old Sumerian joke?

I love reading the posited explanations for that joke in academia and when it’s posted randomly people usually have a stab at it too.
Almost every noncommunicable disease of adulthood becomes more common with age. (The diagnoses in this paper were things like "cardiomegaly" which are mostly just X-ray findings and, while they have ICD codes, are not a meaningful diagnosis that a practicing physician would care about.)
> yuan? not reliable.

Some say that the USD was "reliable" because it was the only used curency.
50 Years Later, Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn Remember the Birth of TCP/IP
I'm confused. What problem does this solve, exactly?
Yes, it's obviously a bit tounge-in-cheek (though if you add "attractive" it might not be). That said, I am not in school now, and it would probably be a bit impractical to go back for the dating scene for a few reasons.
Let's kill a couple myths here.

EVs and wind turbines aren't the main application of neodymium; industrial motors are. Even into 2050, the forecast is that wind and EV rare earth usage will be 25% of the market. A hybrid contains about 2lb of neodymium magnets.

They're not rare; the name doesn't refer to their scarcity. Neodymium is as common as copper, and it's very well distributed around the planet.

Materials used in batteries and magnets do not generate much additional mining because a number of them are left over from extraction of other ores like iron and aluminum.

These materials are highly recyclable. neodymium isn't recycled because it wasn't economically feasible due to the low cost of neodymium. As demand goes up (and the supply of old neodymium magnets goes up), recycling will become more economically attractive.

All this fuss about the mining impacts of materials for batteries and magnets is silly - it's just concern-trolling by the fossil-fuel industry. Nobody was talking about the impact of rare earth mining when 75%+ of it was going into industrial PM motors when there was a revolution in industrial motor design, moving away from

Please stop complaining about the "environmental damage of mining for them fancy rare-earth metals in yer prius", especially if you don't care about the environmental damage of putting 30 gallons of gas your truck every couple of days. Or the environmental damage of all the steel and aluminum ore that was mined for you to buy a new 5,000lb truck every few years.

If you drive a truck that takes 30 gallons of gas every few days - and you can't change that because you NEED the capability of that truck (as opposed to just dick compensating) - then you should be celebrating every time you see a friend, neighbor, coworker, etc buying a hybrid or EV. They're helping reduce emissions overall, offsetting some of your emissions - as well as helping drive R&D and economy of scale. They're helping you get closer to

The very least you can do is not mock them, install "coal rolling" mods, damage their cars, purposefully block or damage charging stations, write comments online about how stupid they are in comments trying to "GOTCHA!" people advocating for greater adoption, etc.
I made the transition a few years ago by going back to school for my MS. This allowed me to re-enter the internship pipeline
Hello Joe,

I applied for a Data Engineer role at Qventus and got rejected prior getting any screening.

I was wondering if you could provide me any feedback on my resume and past experience, so that I can either update my resume or skillset.

Thank you
Some do sink, on purpose https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submersible_bridge, and some are mis-designed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lacey_V._Murrow_Memorial_Bridg...
""Your message presents a poetic and allegorical narrative of the evolution of computing and technology, from the early days of command-line interfaces to the current era of AI and ubiquitous computing. It's an interesting perspective that touches on several key developments in the history of computing. Let me break down some of the main points:

1. The command-line era: You start by referencing the early days of computing when command-line interfaces were the norm.

2. The rise of personal computers: You mention various early personal computer models, highlighting the diversity of the early PC market.

3. The GUI revolution: You describe the shift towards graphical user interfaces, which made computers more accessible to the general public.

4. The advent of networking: You talk about how computers became interconnected, leading to the internet age.

5. Social media and privacy concerns: You touch on the rise of social media and the associated loss of privacy.

6. Cloud computing and subscription models: You allude to the shift towards cloud-based services and subscription models.

7. The age of targeted advertising: You mention how user data became valuable for advertising purposes.

8. The rise of AI: You describe the current era where AI is becoming increasingly prevalent and influential.

9. Loss of technical knowledge: You express concern about people losing touch with the underlying technology and becoming overly dependent on AI and automated systems.

10. The future of computing: You end with a vision of a future where traditional computers no longer exist, replaced by ubiquitous computing.

Your narrative style is reminiscent of biblical language, using phrases like "And it came to pass" and "For now AI is also come," which gives your text a sense of gravitas and historical sweep.

If you'd like to discuss any specific aspect of this technological evolution in more detail, or if you have any questions about the current state or future of computing and AI, I'd be happy to explore those topics with you.""
If it's brown, lay down. If it's black, fight back. If it's white, good night.
VLIW is pretty successful for loopy DSP and now AI/ML. However, Itanium was trying to work for general purpose code and then as you say, it constantly ran into weird edge cases. It seemed as if VLIW succumbed to the Peter Principle, it had risen to its level of incompetence. But as long as you use it appropriately, VLIW is a best practice and LLVM supports it.

BTW, CS252 at Berkeley and Onur Mutlu's ETH lectures give a conventionally disparaging view of VLIW without pointing out its successes.
We are witnessing the last dying breaths of the open internet. Cloudflare in the middle of all traffic, web assembly, etc.
Part of that was because of the video game industry crash of 1983. Companies would make all kinds of shitty games for the 8-bit consoles of that time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_crash_of_1983
RAND previously on HN: What is a think tank? (2022): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29829796
Only zuck was metaverse obsessed. Decentraland I've never heard of it, so it was not mainstream at all. NFTs were never mainstream. All of your examples are bad.

AI has buy in from the entire tech sector. Just like the cloud, mobile and internet did.
It's clear you don't know much about cycling. A pro team often consists of ~30 riders, and then 8~12 of them are selected for various races during the year. And similarly, that's the main team and they have development teams on the second level, junior teams, women teams etc

The season is longer than tour de france, that's just the most prestigious tour. There are other tours and other races. It's about 8 months long.

And I don't really think how long the season is has any relevance. You still train and need your apparatus whole year round.

The stadium stuff also doesn't really work in the favor of nfl. A pro team makes no money on tickets or concessions, and has to travel the world with their gear instead of a few states away.
Tapping on the controls is broken. Typed text in gear number field is erased immediately.

The app sounds fun. Excited to try it again later.
Show HN: Chat with your screen activity using Vercel/AI-chatbot, OSS and Rust
Internet Browsers Are Getting a Makeover for the Workplace
Microsoft has "physical shops" ? This is news to me.
An important observation is that it doesn't really matter what you start with, because you have two ways to "reduce" each Turing machine to one that can start with all zeroes:

- You can "flip" rules/initial tape values, trying to get a machine that can start with all 0s. This is not always possible. A trivial case where it is possible is a machine that wants to start with all 1s (just flip everything).

- You can insert more rules to set the tape up as needed. This makes it an BBn+x busy beaver candidate, but at least it's not your problem at BBn now.

The last way can get a bit complicated because you need to insert ad-hoc logic, since the tape is infinitely long. So it's not a just a case of inserting setup at the beginning of the program (because you can't setup an infinite tape in finite steps). Also to be fair this second point is a non-trivial assertion and requires proof that it is actually possible to do in every case. It is obviously possible to do for every machine that runs in finite steps though (since it can only consider a finite amount of tape).

Luckily actual computers have finite memory which is generally initialized with 0 anyways.
it implies an unlikely homogeneity of thought process. it only takes one person to think different and they would end up making bank.
Somewhat tangential, but the floppy disc icon has become the universal indicator for "save", and yet there's a whole generation of computer users who have never used them. I have to remind myself when designing GUIs that icons can be ambiguous.
It happens all the time. And then that encourages the weasels on the dev team (every team has some!) to game the system that way, overpointing the tasks they know they can take and kick out quickly to look like rockstars.

IMHO with Scrum it takes very few bad apples for the whole thing to fall down.
Based on the first half of your second paragraph, you might be happier working for someone with an interesting product who's willing and able to take on the doubt and fear. It might get you from here to "better" faster. Or at all.

I think starting your own thing will also make you forget you have a life. But are you honestly able to power through the doubts you raise, to a meaningful next state?

If you can afford it, you might do the two columns on a piece of paper exercise, quit the job that loses, then exhale a bit, think, and explore.
The Jiggle Is Up: Bosses Bust Workers Who Fake Computer Activity
[first paragraph]

It’s getting harder to outsmart the digital minders at work.

The rise of remote work and, in turn, employee-monitoring software sparked a boom in mouse and keyboard jigglers and other hacks to help staffers fake computer activity—often so they can step away to do laundry or a school pickup.

Now some companies are cracking down on the subterfuge, deploying tools that can better spot the phony busywork.

The latest salvo in this productivity-tracking arms race came in a recent regulatory filing from Wells Fargo. In the disclosure, first reported on by Bloomberg News, the bank said it had fired more than a dozen employees in its wealth and investment management unit for allegedly simulating keyboard activity to create the “impression of active work.” ...
Powerful Ariane 6 rocket poised to restore Europe's access to space
The 18th-century French media stoked a werewolf panic
It does happen in languages and libraries with a higher level of abstraction. MKL for example will do whatever it wants for accumulations (which practically means that it’ll take advantage of SIMD because that’s a big reason why people use the library) unless you specifically request otherwise via there “Conditional Numerical Reproducibility” flag.

I think that was the right way to do it. BLAS made the right decision by defining these things in terms of sums and dot products instead of step-by-step instructions.

It will always be possible to write programs that run differently on different hardware or with different optimization levels. If somebody is writing code for floating point computations and expects exact bit patterns—it is possible, of course, all the rounding behavior is clearly specified. But usually this is an error.
The prices were in the toilet previously because of oversupply. Manufacturers announced they were reducing production last year and the prices seemed to steadily climb in late 2023 until now. About one year ago was pretty darn close to the lowest point IIRC.
jshn.sh:
https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-developer/jshn src: https://git.openwrt.org/?p=project/libubox.git;a=blob;f=sh/j... :

> jshn (JSON SHell Notation), a small utility and shell library for parsing and generating JSON data
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What about lying about political opponents lying in politics? The people making these determinations ought to be subject to even harsher punishments when they lie.
-ffast-math can be read as -fwrong-math if the accuracy if the answers matters. For some applications accuracy might not matter much. But the differences you get by pretending that floating point math is associative can be enormous, and scientific and engineering code is often carefully designed to take the likely scale of values into account, and rearranging it is not a good idea.
This is their monorepo for their clients, including Proton Drive:

https://github.com/ProtonMail/WebClients
This is way too fun.
if you get licensed you may be able to obtain his old callsign as your own
I want to agree with this, but after reading the whole article, I have no idea what the skills of an AI Engineer are.

Why is that not the job of a software/product engineer?

> none of the highly effective AI Engineers I named above have done the equivalent work of the Andrew Ng Coursera courses, nor do they know PyTorch, nor do they know the difference between a Data Lake or Data Warehouse

they're explicitly not trained in ML/AI. any software engineer can write a good prompt, call an API, and deploy that on an http server.

why is that not just software/product engineering?
I have the same style of dream too. Except it's not scary just annoying. I dream my alarm went off, I got up, got ready and then boom, my alarm is backing going off, "oh that was just a dream", cycle repeats. This happens most of the night until I eventually wake up for real 2-3 minutes before my alarm actually goes off. This will also happen as I'm in some other dream. Like the first iteration, I'm dreaming something weird and the alarm wakes me up, but it's just a dream wake up. Annoying.
reminds me of this masterpiece: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKT-sKtR970
It should be possible to support this variant. (PRs welcome!)

I've opened an issue for tracking this:

https://code.rocket9labs.com/tslocum/bgammon/issues/21
Very true, though, those jobs also present significant occupational hazards, unlike software where the biggest threat you face is a sedentary lifestyle.
Is your research a trade secret?South Korean data-sharing case is a wake-up call