skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s suuuuper interesting, right?

I tried tossing “tnf-alpha inhibitor insomnia” into Google Scholar. Scanning the results I didn’t feel a “signal” in the papers that TNF-alpha inhibitors cause insomnia—which I wouldn’t expect either due to TNF inhibitor antibody size, right? But! There are tons of very interesting papers in the results behind those keywords. With multiple perspectives. Fruitful combo of keywords, you know?

Google Scholar is unusually non-deterministic in what it returns for a given search. You probably won’t see the same papers as I did but it’s an interesting search: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=tnf%2Dalpha%20inhibitor...

This paper stood out a bit:

Inhibition of tumor necrosis factor improves sleep continuity in patients with treatment resistant depression and high inflammation (2015)

Authors, full list as I have it in the buffer: Jeremy F. Weinberger, Charles L. Raison, David B. Rye, Amy R. Montague, Bobbi J. Woolwine,
Jennifer C. Felger, Ebrahim Haroon, Andrew H. Miller — Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Department of Neurology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S088915911...

First thoughts: TNF—alpha signaling becomes unfocused? TNF-alpha release outside the CNS affects receptor sensitivity or other downstream mechanisms that do straddle the blood-brain barrier?
https://archive.md/jKJjz

I'm not sure it's much of a different take. She was arrested for reckless behaviour for not reporting the son missing within 1h when she knew he ran away on his own. (Georgia has no minimum time for missing person reports, she claims she didn't know about that process)
The ATProto FAQ describes the problems of AP they aim to make better

1. Account portability

2. Data distribution on the network (Mastodon is known for DDOS'n small servers when a post goes viral)

3. Global search

https://atproto.com/guides/faq
No, actually much fewer tokens. 256 tokens cover all bytes. See the ByT5 paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.13626
>It's a huge motivator actually to write a piece of code with the reward being the ability to send it to the LLM to create some tests and then seeing a nice stream of green checkmarks.

Yeah that’s not TDD.
The Magic Mouse refresh was done way after Jobs death.
The Cube had a very annoying design for ports indeed, but at least it was very easy to open/repair, with a handle specifically for it.
But for sure it was a case of looks trumping everything, including practicality, unsurprisingly it didn't sell very well.
Elon Musk Has a New Project to Run: Trump's Government
> we accept it as a fair trade.

For it to be a fair trade, you must fairly ask permission for my personal data! That is the very essence of the GDPR!
This resistance people have to learn from both history and short-term events (on a historical scale) is impressive.

It has the same soundbites, and the narrative same structure, and the gullible still takes it.

Now the true question: are they gullible people, or just people pretending to be gullible to push an agenda?
Yes, that's how you can really tell if the model is doing real thinking and not recombinating things. If it can correctly play a novel game, then it's doing more than that.
AI travel influencers are here. Human travelers hate it
> It can’t do that “protecting your privacy” thing

Besides 'it's Meta' ; what is it doing with my privacy? I mean actually proven things, not 'probably it is'.

(I am not saying it isn't, but I haven't heard anything in this regard, so it would be interesting to know)
This is reckless conduct and harassment on part of cops. I would sue them for damages, since they literally cannot prove danger and made the kid fear for their life.

Enjoy cops being lawyered. And your $10k+ settlement.

"According to the deputies" without a camera on? Tsk tsk.
Hey! I'm working on an MVP with the more features and I hope to have it available sometime soon. The MVP will feature a GPU cache that integrates with customers' existing AWS S3 storage through S3 compatible APIs. It will be designed to consistently exceed at least S3’s standard storage tier in both latency and throughput for data read and write operations to enable fast access to your data. Additionally, the MVP will include a user-friendly web console for managing and monitoring storage, and an integrated payment system to support easy adoption and usability.

In the meantime, please fill out my waitlist and I would love to learn more about your use cases for high performance object storage.
For modern x86, the go-to resource is often Agner Fog's optimisation manuals: https://www.agner.org/optimize/
Yes. Walkers Crisps are the worst. But even the EU Excess Packaging Directive did not help that. And now we have lost that - upon Brexit.
I don't know what's your experience with outsourcing. But people outsource full projects not the writing of a couple of methods. With LLMs still unable to fully understand relatively simple stuff, you can't expect them to deliver a project whose specification (like most software projects) contains ambiguities that only an experienced dev can detect and ask deep questions about the intention and purpose of the project. LLMs are nowhere near that. To be able to handle external uncertainty and turn it into certainty, to explain why technical decisions were made, to understand the purpose of a project and how it matches the project. To handle the overall uncertainties of writing code with other's people's code. All this is stuff outsourced teams do well. But LLMs won't be anywhere near good for at least a decade. I am calling it
Railway is truly remarkable. I wish it was cheaper though, because currently, given the 10-10000x price difference in comparison to hetzner+coolify, using it in production is not justifiable for me. I am curious if you are planning on reducing prices once fully switched to railway metal?
Recovering from Frozen Images in Squeak
I taught it by standing (kneeling) behind, so my left was my son’s left. Didn’t occur it could be done the other way.

However my wife, who’s 3 weeks younger than me, ties her shoes in a completely different way to me, which I believe is a “bunny ears” method.

Give the large variety of ways to tie shoes, there’s no way you could infer anything other than the way they are doing it now.
The sort of pushbikes for littler kids lets them learn balance and steering before also having to learn how to pedal and brake.

So half the learning happens on those pushbikes before they move to real bikes.
Link to the paper in Optica, "Shadow of a laser beam"

https://opg.optica.org/optica/fulltext.cfm?uri=optica-11-11-...
>What do you mean? ... The law already allows it, it just doesn't mandate it.

That's exactly what I meant by:

>All they have to do is add a line to the law enforcing companies to respect the DNT or GPC header.
In the 70's my elementary school was 2 miles away, and every day all the kids walked, rain, snow, whatever. Lines of kids from 1st grade through 6th. The bus was reserved for the kids out of town on farms. Back then, most of the school year was walking in the dark during the morning.
No, everyone does not understand that and companies were not transparent with what they do with the data, what data they collected and who they shared it with. Not to mention, if you consider it a payment-like transaction, surely you'll want to give consent instead of blindly trusting random websites? These are some of the problems GDPR solves.
More tokens to a sequence, though. And since it is learning sequences...
Hmm I live in a large Asian city. 11 year olds ride buses and do shopping errands by themselves. A mile a bit of a stretch though unless it is a school trip.
Also I am planning to do additional performance experiments to cover a broader range of use cases and challenging workloads.
Unfortunately the chcolate bar quantity increased to cover the shrink ;)
In the 1990s, I walked alone to to school starting at age 5. School was 0.8 miles from my home.
Wait until I tell you about the KESB in Switzerland and their crazy solutions to family crisis (real or imaginary).
They could have pivoted to small military VTOLs, lots of MAV companies did, i.e.quantum-systems.

Rushing specialist and replacement parts to large scale equipment in use, would reduce the burden of relocating this equipment.

The fact that they did not try, might be a hint on how well it worked.
1977 I typed my first program into an ASR33 (connected by serial to a PDP-11/10):

10 PRINT "HELLO"

20 END

RUN

I was hooked.
The cochlear implant question
The headline is a bit sensationalized: the article focuses exclusively on small SaaS exits, which are usually done by selling assets, NOT the whole company. In Germany, these sales are treated like any other business income.

If you're aiming for a normal exit - where you actually sell the company - things are much more favorable.

You need to set up a holding company, which is usually a UG. This is easy and cheap: there is a simplified process for it ("Musterprotokoll"), and it requires no upfront capital like a GmbH. As of recently, it can be done online without having to visit a notary in person. The overhead is negligible.

Once the holding sells its subsidiary ("share deal"), in most cases, the effective tax rate at the holding level is only ~5% due to § 8b KStG. This is not bad at all, since you'll want to reinvest most of the money anyways.

There are gotchas in every jurisdiction, and you need to get professional advice by a local accountant. Germany is a fine place to run a business. If you already live here and don't want to move your family for tax reasons, you don't have to.
They are obviously relatively low stakes, otherwise I'd be super worried.
The GoFundMe campaign to support the mother in resisting this ridiculous over-reach is around 80% funded.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-parentsusas-fight-for-bri...
This, code is written by humans for humans. LLMs cannot compete no matter how much data you throw at them. A world in which software is written by AI will likely won't be code that will be readable by humans. And that is dangerous for anything where people's health, privacy, finances or security is involved
I just use markdown. Headline 1 for the week, project gets a headline 2, and within that there’s a ton of nested lists and code blocks.

It’s always open in my editor, so it’s quick for notes of copy paste from the terminal
I always feel there are big contradictions in America. Imagine if something like this became an issue outside of the U.S., except, perhaps, if there are Morlocks [1].

Here’s a personal anecdote: I was at Miami Art Basel [0] with my family. We decided to spend a day or two at the beach. It was relatively empty, with just two noticeable groups: one couple practically having semi-clothed sex near us, and another group of two people who, by my standards, seemed anorexic.

While playing with my daughters in the sand, not hitting or kicking, just playful throws and holds where I was mostly the one falling. Those same “anorexic” individuals approached my wife to ask if our play was too rough.

Later that evening, I was searching for my mobile phone, which had been stolen. Since there was a “hard” party happening at our hotel, and I was with my daughters, security stopped me from crossing one of the exits, saying minors shouldn’t see the dancing. I replied, “I understand the rules here, but in my country, this is nothing.” For context, pogo dancing [2] is familiar to my daughters.

[0] https://www.artbasel.com/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morlock

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogo_(dance)
Here in germany 6-7 year olds go to school alone in the morning around 6:30 when it's still dark outside. They either walk or take the bus/train, it's working perfectly fine.
If you asked me to write tests with such a vague definition I’d also have issues writing them though. It’ll work a lot better if you tell it what you want it to validate I think.
When I was that age I learned to get seriously lost in a vast suburb, and then figure it out and get oriented. Usually on my stingray bike. I pedelled around most of Orange County, CA. It was such a joy. I still love to go get lost and wander around a foreign place. I'm sorry for kids that have to cower in sight of home. Living in a smaller world makes them smaller.
The thing with H1Bs is you can be against them whether you’re bothered about immigration or not.

Pity it wasn’t on the ballot.
I thought it was the mice that were the super intelligent extraterrestrials?
> You didn't quite mention you intended this in conjunction with a GmbH, so it sounded like 'quick and easy offshore' which I was responding to.

I quoted the part of the article that was describing a dual company structure.
genius move by Mark, this could make them the google of LLMs
OP should not be downvoted for asking genuine questions and concerns.

This type of downvoting on HN is getting silly and needs to stop.

(And a thanks to those who did respond to OP with the advice he is not in GDPR violation. Frankly, a worrying number of HN readers are clueless about legislation that directly affects them, whether they like it or not.)
Yikes, that was an unfortunate auto-correct and too late to edit. "LLM losers" was meant to be "LLM users".
How do we get a black bar for this?
> software is an example of crystallised work.

Yes, but if the software was written by salaried employees then this work has already been taxed.

Say if you buy stocks, then sell them at higher price, one could argue that it's someone's work that made them cost more.
Something this doesn't answer:

Can I make my package green without having to compromise my integrity by utilising proprietary git hosting?
The same stopmotion animation studio that did the film Anomalisa did this episode!
> Unconstrained, C++ becomes legacy quite quickly (relative to simpler languages)

I wholeheartedly agree with this.

However, in my experience (30+ years now) adding those constraints is not really a big deal. Some can be automated; good CI, stuff like clang-tidy and warnings as errors etc, and some are policy; code reviews catching hard to understand code, good tests, always allowing time to update dependencies and compiler versions.

With those constraints I've found that the crappyness of c++ is never a big deal. If you don't have them... welp... best of luck to you :)
I'll never (again) willingly work for or with someone who doesn't.
We use this question in technical interviews (we hire compiler developers for whom this sort of esoteric knowledge is daily bread).

It illustrates one of the incompatibilities between the C programming language and the C++ programming language. In C, the result of the comma operator is always an rvalue so it's not a valid assignment. In C++, it's an rvalue reference , which can be effectively thought of as an lvalue (without going through the convoluted value category reasoning specified by the standard which will leave anyone stymied), so it's a valid assignment.

The problems come when people think "C++ is just a superset of C" and don't know what they're talking about.
I think their point is that having complex interactions between simple things doesn't necessarily result in any great emergent behavior. You can't just throw gloopy masses of cells into a bucket, shake it about, and get a cat.
Yeah, it really seems like the author doesn't really understand the technology. Which is fine for an average user, but you'd expect better from a professional tech reviewer.

First, the power thing. He brings 240W charging as a "benefit of TB5". It isn't, it's a basic USB PD thing. Any USB-C device could use it - and of course it's only going to work if all the components actually support 240W charging. What does he mean that he "later discovered" his laptop was charging from one port, and at 87W, did he not read the specifications or the manual beforehand? It was never going to support more than 100W (the laptop's limit, dock can do 140W), so considering the laptop's own power brick delivers 330W it is guaranteed to be running in some power-saving mode.

The display issue could just as well be caused by the GPU only supporting DisplayPort 1.4, so the link to the GPU-USB4 controller is limited to an effective data rate of 26Gbps. A single uncompressed 4K 144Hz stream takes 31.35Gbps, even with a 3x DSC compression ratio that's not going to work! This is a well-known limitation of the RTX 4000 series, and people have been complaining about a lack of DP 2.0 for years. The part about a cable being "rated for 1440p165, not 4K" is nonsense: the only thing that matters is bandwidth, 4k60 requires 12.54Gbps, 1440p165 requires 16.30Gbps, and both match what you'd expect from a cable designed for DisplayPort 1.2's HBR2 (17.28Gbps).

Same story with the SSD performance. Giving a benchmark result is useless without actually explaining what you are benchmarking, and "folder copy time" is entirely meaningless. He gives a number of 252.3 MB/s for the benchmark - but the SSD is capable of 6000MB/s! Sure, the SSD's spec is for best-case sequential access, but if you want to test TB5 that's what you should be going for. 252.3 MB/s sounds more like random read/write, which is far less relevant here. And the stuff about "streaming a video via the internet": how about you tell us whether you were outputting video via the dock in either case? You know, the part which actually matters?

"Windows 11 reports the controller as USB4 v2": yes, because that's what it is. TB4 and TB5 are nothing more than USB4 with some optional parts made mandatory.

Look, I completely agree that the USB / Thunderbolt ecosystem has gotten quite complicated for the average user and has developed way too many gotcha's. But if you're a tech journalist you're supposed to know this! Don't tell us that your monitors mysteriously didn't work, do some basic research and tell us that they don't work because Nvidia screwed up. Don't tell us that it mysteriously didn't charge at maximum speed, tell us that it doesn't do so because the laptop manufacturer screwed up, and you got a dock which couldn't supply more than 140W anyways. Why bother writing an article if you're not going to provide any more value than some random Reddit rant?
They encounter a lot of suffering and some of them encounter deaths. Disconnecting themselves from the patients is one way of staying sane.
Starting at age 12 I took the Chicago El home from school most days. I got dropped off in the morning as it was on my dad’s route to work.

Around where I live now in the suburbs of another state I see kids walking to the local elementary school that look to be between 8-10. Most walk with their parents and some younger kids with older siblings/friends/neighbors. The main road is busy and people speed but there is a police officer at the main crossing on school mornings directing traffic.
Missing at any given moment. There's eventual consistency. But sometimes connectivity isn't 100%
Ye it is terrible.

To make your nightmares worse, what if the sheriff asks your 3yo 'Have your dad raped you?'. Like, the chance of a yes is probably about 50% and higher if the sheriff asks in a way where 'yes' is obviously the answer he wants.

With low enough crime rate the police becomes a greater threat then the ones they are supposed to protect you from.
> It doesn't matter that you can cryptographically verify that a package came from a given commit if that commit has accidentally-vulnerable code, or someone just gets phished.

If that commit has accidentally-vulnerable code, or someone just gets phished and attacker added some malicious code to the repository with his creds, it is visible.

However, if the supply chain was secretly compromised and the VCS repo was always clean, only the release contains malware, then good luck finding it out.

We've all witnessed this earlier this year, in the xz accident, while the (encrypted) malicious code was presented in the source code repo as part of test data, the code to load and decrypt it only ever existed in release tarballs.
Human DNA is just 750 and only a fraction of it is something that may be called "brain pre-training".
This short tutorial will guide you through the process of adding a top notch scanner into your React Native app by using our Docutain Document Scanner SDK.
The MCL kernel was written in C.
Migrating to sqlc and pgx for better performance
Six inane arguments about EVs and how to handle them at the dinner table
Can we just throw the weirdo who asked the kid creepy questions then called the cops to harass a child in jail instead? Then the cops in after her?
The Quest to Build a Star on Earth
Getting a new job - changing priorities, difficult market, losing motivation to keep searching.

Did well on health goals though.
Right; it's not unreasonable to want to quickly transfer away from it, but it's still a rather short deprecation cycle compared to everything else I've had to touch never being deprecated; it's not an "example", it's a real thing that actually affects my usage of Matrix (due to being now unable to post images inline in a message (granted, including fixed-URL links wasn't the prettiest thing, but it did work), and having to fully download videos before viewing them from my client that doesn't include video playback, whereas before I could immediately open it in a browser and view it while it's streamed in). Granted, then again, it's the only such occurrence, and probably there's nothing else that could match it in the future.

However many years ago I started work on my matrix client I was rather surprised it ever allowed direct links to media in the first place, but then again Discord had done the same mistake. But at least Discord's solution is more sensible, providing temporary links.
Pulling Containers Faster with EStargz
Seed banks are mostly self-refreshing. Seed viability decline during storage is measured and modelled for. A sample of seeds is taken out of storage and grown to breed a new batch of seeds after an amount of time based on the rate of decline of that sample.

So a batch that loses 20% viability every 5 years will be regrown to seed after a shorter amount of time than one that loses 2% viability every 5 years.

Source: was a seed germination and dormancy researcher at the Millennium Seed Bank
Well it has no controllers nor any controller tracking hardware, so you won't be playing much VRChat with it...
If I order from my local pizza restaurant for collection it ends up being about 50% of the cost of any food delivery app. I quite enjoy the walk too.
Sandia to Push Both HPC and AI with Cerebras "Kingfisher" Cluster
The main reasonable criticism would be that it obscures the things you missed from naive audits while still being accessible by an attacker. So you hide the issue from the "good guys" while not baring much entry by the "bad guys". I have seen this pattern emerge many times, because what is obscure to you may not be obscure to someone else. So it /causes/ you to miss things.
The most annoying part is that there is actually a perfectly fine standard for labeling USB-C cables.[0] If a cable can transfer 80Gbps of data and 240W of power, it's supposed to simply have "80Gbps / 240W" written right on the connector. Some rare cables actually do this[1], but the vast majority of manufacturers just can't be bothered with it.

[0]: https://www.usb.org/sites/default/files/usb_type-c_cable_log...

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Anker-Supports-Display-Transfer-Charg...
Trains in Berlin's public transport go up to 90km/h and don't wait at traffic lights. I bet there's plenty cities with faster public transport, but probably few that can provide near perfect last-mile coverage in the entire metro area. If you want to go fast especially during rush hour, that's an option.
As a non linux expert I always wonder where to put crap - most places seem not fit for purpose.