skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To determine whether you're a slow or fast caffeine metabolizer..

Wait for a sale at Nebula.org. Get your whole genome sequenced. ~$200. Having your whole genome sequenced could have added benefits down the road.

Download the .BAM file. It will be several gigabytes.

Use WSG Extract to generate the 23andMe raw data files.

https://www.geneticlifehacks.com/convert-whole-genome-file/

Connect that data file to Genetic Life Hacks. Take a look at the article on CYP1A2. This will show you whether you're a slow metabolizer or not.

https://www.geneticlifehacks.com/liver-detox-genes-cyp1a2/

The linked data file at GLF never uploads to the server. All analysis is local, client side.
This was news to me. Yeah now their title says "Exposing The Flaw In Our Phone System".

+1 for explaination above.
Everyone is different, but if you aren't already, and have the time for it, try incorporating more physical exercise into your day. That helped me deal with restlessness at night
Lucky you! LOL. Hope it doesnt come with the nasty comedown :P
> .. End of July when X automatically enabled the training of its Grok AI on all its users – European accounts included. Just a few days after the launch, consumer organizations filed a formal privacy complaint with the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC)[...]. The Irish Court has now dropped the privacy case against X as the platform agreed to permanently halt the collection of EU users' personal data [...].

Why drop the case? A large amount of data was still collected, was it not? I'm sure X is happy to agree to not collecting data in the future, seeing as how they've already collected, what, 18 years of data already?
I have to agree with you. It took me until I'd got quite far through their comment to realise they were talking negatively about WFH and not being in-office.
> and in contributions to open source software

It seems like you took the marketing on the tin for open-source seriously. Have you had "the pleasure" of maintaining an open-source project?

Contributions are rare. They are almost always self-interested. "Giving back" isn't a factor as you often are helping the rare contributor by main-lining their code so they don't have to maintain a fork.

> As I see it, if your startup's business model relies on your core code being proprietary, you don't have a business model.

Reality begs to differ. Google, Meta, Instagram, Uber, Microsoft... seem to have business models.
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Be interesting to see how this stacks up to the dominant protocol in supercomputers/ai clusters : Infiniband.
https://genai-handbook.github.io/

https://www.latent.space/podcast

https://x.com/karpathy/status/1567233122252750848
It's explained in section 1.2.

My interpretation is; Oxide already chose to use Clickhouse as their DB for metrics in it's rack. You can't just slap PromQL on Clickhouse because DSL's like PromQL reflect some of the inner workings of for example Prometheus. Hence they needed a DSL which was somewhat opinionated towards Clickhouse in order to make it work.
I can’t tell which way the mocking/satire goes in your comment.

Are you bragging that it did work for nearly 99% of your trip, and therefore the haters are out of sorts?

Or

Are you saying it worked great until it didn’t, and your car ended in some sort of wreck?
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> Is the employment market actually giving you that?

Yes, because the employment market is not a free market. You can find (virtually) any employees your heart desires, because workers are highly motivated to not die. In addition, they have no bargaining power, meaning they take what they can get. They don't have visibility either - hiring is a perfect black box to them.

The scales are not only not balanced, they're almost completely tipped. This is why companies can pay below market and still get a constant supply of (shitty) employees. If you simply lower your standards, you can get infinite employees. They could hire children if they wanted, and it would be easy. They could pay 50 cents an hour if they wanted. Luckily, the laws prevent this - but it's most certainly NOT an issue of demand. There's a high demand among children to work and there's a high demand among laborers to work for poverty wages.
Duh. Products are not about making life better. They are about stimulating basal instincts for information and novelty. If a company can do that with a horrible user experience, they will. Although I personally have never used substances or drugs, I think it must be similar to drug addiction. Provide just enough of new technology as fast as possible to keep the users high and addicted.
Simple, really. It's not actually helping people to code better:

https://greaterdanorequalto.com/ai-code-generation-as-an-age...
> 1) What is the point of posting this website on HN? I love vinyl, and have a collection with plenty of rarities in it (one out of five, one out of ten, test pressings, promo pressings, signed sleeves, etc.), but I am not sure if a discussion on HN about a vinyl marketplace is apropos. I am not trying to be contrarian; I am asking out of curiosity.

Why not? Per https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity" is on topic, I think this qualifies.
Here is a port without the visualizer:

https://twitter.com/srush_nlp/status/1719376959572980094

Here is an amazing in-browser implementation in WebGPU

https://www.answer.ai/posts/2024-09-12-gpupuzzles.html
Why even advertise with "beer" when the link just takes you to a page saying there will be no beer?
Because people want features.

Semi-playing devil's advocate since my ideal car is a very simple one. But I can see why the majority of people want various gizmos and doodads in their cars, whether it be a Spotify app or FSD.
This is a really important point. The architecture and the bus ram is connected to is also very different on on a discrete card than it is in a cpu. Each compute unit needs dedicated bus width connected to dedicated memory. So for most GPUs you can double the ram, but you couldn’t just add the equivalent of a stick of ddr5 because it wouldn’t match the dedicated bus
This. And give your drop-in a prefix like 00-*.conf.

Fwiw I don't think SSH adds the include line upstream. Most distros add it now.
It's more Kodi-like (no client-server) necessary.

The only "AI" in it is that you can run a ChatGPT session which creates a filter (e.g. "give me the top 10 oscar winning movies of the 90s"). It's a nice feature but not the heart of Media Hoarder. -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pi2vfPpOEGQ
I'm all for paying for things instead of paying for things instead of ads, but someone enlighten me, is youtube not profitable these days as is, even premium isn't paying for itself? Moreover, even paying for youtube premium, you cannot avoid all ads (for example, sponsored segments).
It's what happens when you are a monopoly, you can keep jacking up the prices whenever you feel like it if you have no competition.
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>> Functionally this is the equivalent of an apartment manager or condo manager being ordered to go into someone's house, search specifically for contraband and then remove that contraband

If it could be achieved at scale with no resources, a judge might have tried it; the intersection of enforceability, law, and scalability is foreboding.
It's probably because the use of "shekel" is slang in the US, and it carries a connotation of "very low amount of currency."

It's idiomatic rather than a dog whistle in this use. I think you could argue that it's an appropriation and its modern/continued use is divisive.

By what means would the word be recognizable to a broad audience in cultures that do not use the currency (it's not widely used)? "Only anti-Semites will recognize it in such cultures" seems extremely unlikely. In order to be hidden (a dog whistle), it also needs to be more broadly understood as innocuous.
Legally, Apple must not provide its own services with an advantage over the competition. I think the background sync restrictions are a DMA violation legally speaking.

Give the EU some time, I'm sure there'll be a lawsuit about iOS doing this stuff some day.
Take off those rose-tinted cloud spectacles and put them in the nearest trash can @michaelt !

> You'll want a test environment

You need that in the cloud too...

> You'll want a process to make sure every production change can be reversed

You need that in the cloud too...

> You'll want a process to make sure configuration changes

You need that in the cloud too....

> you'll want a gradual process.

You need that in the cloud too...

> You'll want to monitor

You need to do that in the cloud too....

> user growth / surge in demand

The problem with the cloud is everyone thinks they need to design for Google-scale from day zero.

Sure the cloud providers don't mind, more money for them ...

> there's a chance of a partial failover.

Could, and does, happen in the cloud too....
But do you think a citizen who doesn't care about throwing their bottles across the road, will care to vote for a recycling initiative? Education has to start somewhere.
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Kudos on realizing this after only 8 months. The blog post is spot on. The snarky tweet about chad b2b dev is basically true, except it doesn't have to be B2B. B2C works, too. Just stay clear of the mother of all grifts: telling others how to make money online.
Right, wait until a family member of yours gets addicted to another drug they popularize and then you can act like a smug internet person.
Reminder: too much coffee will give you diarrhea.
Ever wonder how crooks get the credentials to unlock stolen phones?
> A few days later, I woke up with a high fever. I had listened to my schedule rather than my body, and for that, I paid the ultimate price

The author's using it as an example of how building habits can cause harm, but can't you use the exact same anecdote to say "bodyweight exercises cause harm"?

> The more I’ve thought about it, the more I realized that habits are nothing but death deniers, faint quests for immortalization. Ultimately, life is daily, and how we spend our days is how we spend our lives.

Also sounds like a great rationalization for not brushing your teeth.
A toy can only make you happy ... for a while.
Because the quality / goodness of a product has little to do with the underlying code. Second, is it actually helping people code better? That's a claim that needs some paperwork to back it up, and first off all with a definition of "good".
Thank you for this, I've wanted to do genetic testing for years but don't want it to be stored on anyone's server. Can you explain how it's not stored on any server? Like, you're downloading the .BAM file from Nebula; doesn't that mean they hold onto the data?
I wonder if this will increase creators payout with 30-50%.
Why would the interests of those companies be aligned with those of their landlords in the first place?
I think it is helping them generate the same code faster, rather than generate code with different functionality.
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> YouTube already hiked its subscription prices in India by 15-20% in late August.

This is incorrect. There was a 58% hike, at least for the Family plan.
Just to complicate matters, there are other parts of the world where Indirect = Rude.
That's what engineering is though: losing things you care less about in exchange for gaining things you care more about.

Your point about being able to reach the Internet probably isn't as important of a design goal as some latency ceiling within their cluster.
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Connected to an unsecured WIFi network last week from my MacBook. When I restarted I couldn’t login and had to go through safe/recovery mode and use reset password utility from the terminal to get back in (thankfully I could log in to my Apple ID.

Now I’m not able to login to my Firebase console even from another laptop.

What’s going on here?
Assuming the compression is lossless. As it is you have to go looking for places on the web that will even host a bit-for-bit copy of an image you've uploaded. Though I suppose there will always be options.

But if they become too much of a hassle they'll become the domain of people who have something to hide, which would be a significant downgrade.

I myself have nothing to hide, but I want to provide cover in case you do.
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The real question is why would they?
I am waiting for the day they finally kill family plan sharing. I have my family (three accounts) but share an account with one of my friends.

Only a matter of time, even though its already pricey.
> Can we just be happy that Apple is slowly changing, and stop constantly moving on to the next thing to complain about?

No?

Why should we stop comparing Apple to its main competitors because they took a minor step in the right direction but still miss the mark by a wide margin? It's only fair to keep them on the hook for things where they do worse.

I don't want Apple to progress. Apple is not a kid to coddle. It's the most profitable company in the world. Being best in class in repearability is the bare minimum we should expect for them, not something we should hope for.

> The electrically released metal covered battery is going to be a huge thing for self repair.

They could just stop gluing battery entirely. It's not like it's an impossible engineering challenge. It's soon to be mandatory in the EU anyway.
> Your house isn't going to have any meaningful reliability for either the network or power.

Not really a serious argument, but maybe worth looking at this these days. Mostly because I think as engineers we all have the desire to hit 100% uptime and reliability when in a lot of cases "close enough" might be a lot further than you think.

On the power end, a lot of people are getting to some form of local generation and storage (e.g., solar + batteries). Small backup generators aren't entirely unheard of. And on the network end, I'm probably not the only person that went to multiple connections when my ability to earn income became tied to my ability to be online from home.

As it sits right now, my power's not the most reliable in the world but because of that I already have a fair sized generator and a lot of fuel stored on-site (~5 days of gasoline, ~10 days of propane). I'm directly off of a fairly regionally important power line, so I'm usually fairly high up on the priority list during any major outage. (I mean, not "hospital" but if my power's out so are tens of thousands of others generally.) My grid power's rarely out for that long, and my local power even less since I have the generator. If I finally got around to adding some solar and storage to bridge between grid going down and the generator firing up I'd be able to pretty comfortable ignore power outages for over a week before I started needing to worry about making trips out to dump fuel in the generator or calling for some propane.

As far as connectivity, I've got three connections across two providers. All my traffic hits a real data center first so I can bond the connections (because residential) then flows to and from my house. One of the providers is wireless so the only single point of failure for cut lines is a few feet in front of my router.

I'm well aware this gets nowhere close to the reliability of a data center. I wouldn't run anything safety or life critical this way. I wouldn't run anything making a substantial amount of money this way. But there's a lot of stuff that fits in below "successful SaaS" and "life critical" that I think could tolerate an hour of downtime here or there that would get along just fine like this. And even if you think "well, you're clearly an insane person no one else is going to do that" I think there's still lots yet that could tolerate a day or two of downtime every year or two just fine. There are a lot of smaller services out there that businesses rely on that are hosted in AWS but aren't much more reliable than if they were running in someone's basement and they survive just fine.
ships like a machine yes

his products being genai wrappers, some are partly yes.

in his interview with lex fridman he explains how he built his recent photo ai one, yes most of it is wrapper on some ai service, but his team goes the extra mile of training models on their own so it looks more photorealistic than the generally available ones

he built products before ai like nomadlist and remoteok.

his hit and miss rates are as real as it gets

https://x.com/levelsio/status/1457315274466594817
> YouTube's latest price increase comes as it explores new ways to push ads to regular users

I feel like advertisements are one of those things that need more than just the free market to decide their limits. And that's because the ways of psychological manipulation are just too vast to be countered by rational human judgement.
Fortunately yt-dlp and all of it's fancy front ends are still free. I enjoy YouTube commercial-free.
would not say learning resources but the esp-idf-hal repo has a bunch of good examples on how to do specific things, it was pretty easy for me to use, although i had some prior rust knowledge
https://github.com/esp-rs/esp-idf-hal/tree/master/examples
Given that it's a thin wrapper around GL and friends, could one have an alternate implementation of these calls and do most of the dev work natively on the desktop? And not muck around with devices or emulators except for some final / edge case testing?

I just remember working with Libgdx back in the days. A game framework made for Android. It however was cleverly designed in that you could just run it on desktop by changing which implementations were used for drawing/sounds/assets. Very nice to work with, could just recompile the app in seconds and test, even hot swap, compared to the other way of building an apk, installing, launching etc which took minutes per iteration.
Well, you can start with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium-ion_battery#Safety

How big an "event" occurs when a battery is damaged to the point of self-immolation is correlated with its level of charge. A fully-depleted battery won't do much if damaged. A fully charged battery will vary from "it gets really hot" to "boom," depending on how it is constructed. Thus, if you have a LiIon battery that you want to dispose of, it's always better to safely discharge it as low as it will go before storing or transporting it.

Lithium-polymer ("pouch") cells are cheap to make and are incredibly energy-dense compared cylindrical cells (such as the classic 18650), but are far more likely to go kaboom. Unfortunately, they make up the majority of our Lithium-powered gadgets.

LiFePo4 cells are MUCH more stable than either traditional lithium style, handle over-charging better, and survive far more charge/discharge cycles. The tradeoffs are that they are a bit more expensive and are slightly less energy-dense. I have also never seen them in "pouch" form, so I don't know if they can ever replace lithium-polymer for cell phones/tablets. But they are pretty popular now in power tools and car/bike batteries.
*Nobody is above-average in everything*.

You can be above-average in your favourite programming language, but suck at the system or library that will be required in your next project.

AI will help you get up to speed.
How is user privacy handled?
This sounds like you're focused more on punishment than on outcomes. If the outcome is the same in or out of office (that is, hours of unproductive time a day), then it seems to me you're upset that people are able to enjoy that time.

Requiring and taking time for purposes other than creating value for the company is nothing more than punishment. I understand being angry that you're sitting in the office twiddling thumbs while others are at home cooking. The solution here is not to punish those people for your own, and everyone's, in-office woes. The solution is to demand better for yourself.

I work in an office 5 days a week. I'll say right now - close to half of my time is wasted. However, I am still here in the office. Yes that absolutely sucks to know I could work 20 hours a week and achieve the same outcome. However, I am not "better" because I have enjoyed the punishment of spending that time. I am not more loyal nor more proficient. I am not less lazy. Pain IS NOT gain - that's a lie told by people with the intention of manipulating you to argue in favor of your own exploitation.
I'm saying it as if the cryptocurrency industry has a deservedly poor security and privacy reputation that I don't want anywhere near my browser.
YouTube is profitable, but Google isn't content with profitable. They want profit maximization, which is a bad thing. I feel like the world would be a better place if we had something like eBay but for companies: just like the seller gets the SECOND highest price bid, companies should also be content with the second highest level of profit maximization, defined in terms of percentile...
Because coding assistants depend on the baselined code they are trained on for their suggestions?

I don't believe they offer creative solutions, just a faster way to refer. So it's still the responsibility of developers bring their creativity to the process.
The AI coding tools I see today help to make coders somewhat more efficient. That isn't something that's very visible in the software landscape as a whole.
Yeah right. It will be used to fatten the bank accounts of high-level Google employees.
I'm pretty interested in how companies are exploring how to properly monetize or compensate for scraped content to help keep a strong ecosystem of quality content. Id love to see more efforts like this.
Have you confirmed you are locked out of Firebase? Performed a password reset?

If you get to login, check your compute resources since most of these bots just deploy tons of compute and use them for DDOS. This can be in the hundreds of dollars per hour figure.

It is possible to have your session hijacked when using any wifi really, its a lot harder on secured wifi though.

I only tether to my phone now in public, and never use unsecured wifi for anything.
They won't, but they should... Because, creators are ... What make YouTube.
Just to add to what others have said, the last time I rooted an Android phone (Pixel 6), I had to run:

fastboot flashing unlock_critical

So it seems that at least in some contexts, "unlock" can refer to the bootloader (sense 2 above).

Also I wasn't as clear as I intended to be with sense 3 above - it might also mean temporarily screen-unlocked, as in "can you please unlock your phone so I can enter my number?".
At worst it's a partial fraud though.
Why is this article written as if YouTube Premium was a music service? It even calls Spotify and Apple Music competitors. YT Prem for me is about removing ads from the videos I'm watching and from the interface. I don't know how it relates to Spotify or Apple Music or how they're comparable.