skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I couldn’t agree more. And once you have mastered or at least come to terms with the development environment, eventually you must learn how to deploy. That’s also a minefield.
I will check this out for my side project but FYI the site renders poorly on Firefox mobile.
Don't know why you got downvoted for this. My whole life I have been shaving my sleep time to try to cram more of what I want to do into my day. I used to wake up an extra couple of hours before school so I could squeeze in extra gaming time. On holiday I regularly sacrifice sleep to extreme levels to do more.

This isn't some kind of box ticking behaviour with its roots originating from toxic hustle culture, simply the adverse effects of sleep deprivation don't outweigh my enjoyment of things. And when my sleep debt finally catches up with me, I sleep my heart's delight.

From experience, I have friends who share in my world view and threshold for sacrificing sleep for pleasure and I have met people who think are mortified by this behaviour. My immediate family are all willing to sacrifice sleep on the drop of the hat notably - waking up at the crack of dawn to send/accompany someone to the airport is simply modus operandi. My wife is very keen to protect her sleep on the flipside and so when we travel together our decision frameworks need to accommodate both MOs

Ironically sometimes I'm most protective of my sleep during the weekly grind (and also training for fitness) because then my performance matters. If my only short term downside is discomfort from fatigue, I'll regularly trade that for more "uptime"
>Yeah the mingw method on windows is a ludicrous thing to even think about

Building most stuff on Windows is ludicrous, that's not something uncommon.
I've chosen MSYS there as it's the easiest and least paninful way of installing deps for Vulkan build.
Why? They're not streaming 4k video, it's either text protocol or efficient binary protocols.
Yes, that’s true for Safari, for example. But Firefox shows it as soon as you move your mouse.
Your analysis doesn't work. In your terms, the guy who crosses the city has paid more (by spending more time) for what he received, and so you still assess him as having valued the trip more than the one-stop guy.

> But if I need to be at work in 30 minutes I get huge value from taking the metro to the nearby station, even if it's only 2 stops away.

Not really; as you just noted, the subway is a very slow method of covering distance. If you're in a hurry, it's not going to beat the alternatives.
Kotlin's ex-lead posted a nice graph of prog languages, the axes being immutable encouraged vs not and 20th vs 21st century. Unfortunately paywalled but the cluster in lower right, immutable by default/21st century (swift, rust, scala, kotlin, f#), is a really nice group of languages.

Come to think of it, the 21st century/mutable by default is a nice group also: groovy, C#, golang, TS, Dart and Bright's D.

https://elizarov.medium.com/immutability-we-can-afford-10c0d...

blurred scan:
https://www.joyk.com/dig/detail/1595957460688776
> Modern cars [...] and smartphones are just spying devices at this point.

I take it that you need a car (which is true for many) and also need a computer (also true for many).

What precautions do you take in computing given that you use a computer that is connected to the Internet ?

The former (i.e. computer) has an unknowable supply chain with blobs of code that you don't vet yourself, and the latter (the Internet) has overtly become a surveillance system.
Hot take: I blame the culture of obsession with CS topics, leetcode, tail recursion, dependent types etc and not enough focus on solid engineering and domain knowledge in areas encountered by 90% of real life jobs.

Starts in the education and perpetrates via hiring, blogosphere and programmer celebrities.
> Fun fact, centralized crypto exchanges don't use crypto internally, it's simply too slow.

I know you're not arguing in their favor, just describing a reality, but the irony of that phrase is through the roof :-)))

Especially the "centralized crypto".
Temple: Church numerals using only C++ templates
I'm doing this, is relatively easy if you are used to docker, and one instance can be used to track multiple small sites.

My problem with self hosted Plausible is that the backup-restore of the clickhouse db isn't as easy. If my service blows, I currently have to start the stats from zero.
DataFusion Is Now the Fastest Single Node Engine for Querying Parquet Files
For any serious use of social media data, a forensic professional would not use their own identity.
Read the README of the model.
You'll probably find some benchmark metrics there that can tell you more-or-less how "good" the model is, but keep in mind that it's not that hard to artifically boost those scores, so don't reject every model that isn't at the top of the benchmark.

I've listed some good starting models at the end of the post.
Usually, most LLM models like Qwen or Llama are general-purpose, some are fine-tuned for specific stuff, like CodeQwen for programming.
Sometimes I wonder about an alternative history scenario where CPU ISA's would have chosen a SIMT style model instead of SIMD. "Just" have something like fork/join instructions to start/stop vector mode, otherwise use the standard scalar instructions in both scalar and vector mode. Would have avoided a lot of combinatorial explosion in instructions. (of course you'd have to do something for cross-lane operations, and later tensor instructions etc.)
Depends on how you define "persistent data structure". In most definitions that I've encountered, a new version is made after each update. This code makes a new version only when you explicitly request it with Fork(). This allows you to

- Use the data structure as a "standard" tree, sharing one instance across threads and use locking for thread-safety

- Use it as a fully-persistent structure by calling "Fork" before every modification

- Or anything in between

I needed the 3rd case: a cache manager gives out a forked view of the actual cache contents to its clients. Thus the cache is always in control of the "master" copy, and if a client modifies its own fork, the cache and other clients are not affected.
Almost all of the things I can think of that came from bell labs are things that helped their business. The only thing that I don't know how it helped their business was Hemo the Magnificent and similar films; but I'm sure those helped with PR.

Monopoly may have helped them pay for such r&d, but vertical integration is what made it possible for so much r&d to be relevant to the business.
A Gut Bacteria" is also a rather interesting approach to solving sleep problems.
Does anyone have experience related to this?

"The company ( FitBiomics ) has already commercialized two products. Their flagship offering, V•Nella, helps metabolize lactic acid and reduce fatigue, while Nella targets sleep health - a crucial market considering that 100 million Americans suffer from insomnia.
"Within 10 to 14 days of daily consumption, consumers feel the difference," Scheiman notes. "They have less daily fatigue interfering with their daily life, more energy, and some people are tracking cardiovascular benefits on their wearables. We hear really cool anecdotal feedback like, 'Hey, I no longer have to take a nap in the middle of the day, or I no longer need coffee in the middle of the day.'"

https://archive.md/XOmx5#selection-827.0-839.405
I don't work on the language, but I think building a compiler in Go (or C) is a pain in the ass compared to using a language that has discriminated union types, and based on the aesthetics of the language, the authors probably agree with me. The language is styled enough like Rust to make it seem like this is for "rust people" more than "Go people" anyways – I think if this was targeting Go people, it would use the native Go syntax for things like import (here replaced with "use") and adding methods, here replaced with "impl ..."
I use llama.cpp mostly for working with code that i can't share with any online provider. Simple NDA stuff. Some refactors are easier to do via LLM than manually. It's a decent debugging duck too.
As I mentioned in another comment:

"Scrapping" (scraping) copyrighted materials is not the wrong thing to do.

Making it proprietary is.

It is important to be clear about what is wrong, so you don't accidentally end up fighting for copyright expansion, or fighting against open models.
oh, hey, thanks!

i wonder what was there, i like spicy comments...
Why are you trying to solve a problem that does not exist ?
If you want to self host Plausible - or X, Y, or Z - you can and it’s free.

If you want to create an analytics product and learn by doing it and sell it, that’s fine. But don’t say you did this because the problem was paying for Plausible.
I’m trying to relaunch my indie app which did have success getting a lot of users. But I failed to properly monetise it and the support burden and stress on top of a full time job drove me to pull it from the store. I’m attempting to relaunch with a proper paid tier. I guess my point is don’t neglect the getting paid part too long or you can also burn yourself out.
How the Arpanet Protocols Worked (2021)
No, they refunded when a customer complained. Any customer that didn't notice or didn't complain didn't get what was rightfully theirs. That should be criminal, if it isn't.
https://next-faster.vercel.app/
So is RAII if you squint hard enough.
Am I wrong to think that "reasoning model" is a misleading marketing term?

Isn't it a LLM with an algo wrapper?
I imagine it was a good joke. At least I laughed.
I discovered Noam Chomsky last year. Read “How the world works”, “Understanding Power” and “Manufacturing Consent”.
Absolutely blown away.
If you don't have a proper argument, it's best not to distribute your comment at all.
You would think anti drone guns, nets, Eagles, or even a perimeter sweep would help...
The article isn't about how easy it is to own homes though; it is about whether the real price of homes is changing over time.

Article suggests it is, I'm suggesting that the CPI is an inappropriate index to use and I suspect the trend is - if anything - probably in the other direction. Relative to the money printing that has taken place, the real price of homes appears to have dropped a smidgen which is what we'd expect given technology improvements.

I do agree that houses are probably a lot less affordable. All that debt is expensive. But that has little to do with the real value of the house, it depends on how the financial system is architected.
You either know some radioactively hot slurs, or you've just not hung out there enough. Only the "i" is missing, and a week doesn't go by that someone doesn't post it with the 1 instead. Granted, I think that one's a repost (never bothered to try to check).
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The older generation of crypto investors benefiting from the 'Trump pump'
> Sure, but the article is talking about grep, not write() or libc implementations.

Yes, but you said

> In this case, the library that buffers in userspace should set appropriate timers when it first buffers the data

The library that buffers in userspace for grep and tcpdump is almost certainly libc.
I went to a state school in the 2010s - which menial job do you think I should be doing due to my obvious lack of “giftedness”?
NMI switch, for debugging?

After reading post: Oh. That makes me wonder how many second hand cars are driving around with similar features?
They also have Photomator which would fit completely in photos.
No apology necessary, I wrote that to get it into the minutes of this conning tower moment in history, not to pick on you personally. Quite the contrary, thank you for setting the table on a critical conversation.

It’s me that owes you an apology if I caused collateral damage to your stress quotient: I was taking a swing at OpenAI’s board because they’re well on their way to war criminals. Unlike them, I care when an innocent is in the blast radius and I’m very sorry that you were.
Unless your idea of "diverse world" is confined to (suburban) North America, the need to own a car is the exception, not the rule.
> Just going to quote the whole opener here - it's about the claim that the law enables cops to monitor you and shut down your car, which is clearly false.

That's just the straw man the article is using to claim that it isn't a kill switch. They want the claim to be false so they adopt a version of the claim with a flaw in order to knock it down.

The obvious problem being that the actual implementation is at least as bad. Now you have the law mandating that the car activate the kill switch by itself, with no human in the loop you can even try to reason with.

What happens when you're driving erratically because you're on some dangerous ice road and trigger a false positive that strands you in the wilderness? What happens when you're actually impaired and then turn around to discover a wildfire approaching your location, in which case "don't die in a fire" should override "don't drive impaired" and you should immediately evacuate, but your car won't let you?

It's an ill-conceived and dangerous law and its critics are in the right. The operator should always be able to override the computer.
In what way did they "release" this? I can't find it in hugging face or ollama, and they only seem to have a "try online" link in the article. "Self-sovereign intelligence", indeed.
Tod over at Tod's Workshop[1] on YouTube has done a number of interesting practical tests of various medieval weapons against armor.

They really show why the armor technology was driven in the direction it was, and how weapons and fighting evolved to compensate.

Also Matt over at Schola Gladiatoria[2] recently had some videos on his reproduction plate armor, including one on the gaps[3] in the armor.

At least in the context of Dune, as highlighted in the article, the armor designers probably should have looked more towards medieval armor technology.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/@tods_workshop/

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/@scholagladiatoria

[3]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51oN1Z0rzPM
IMHO, Libertarianism fails not by collapse but by success. Any movement in the direction brings economic and social freedom, but in turn creates soft times in which a society's pendulum shift back to larger government is inevitable.
I found the following transcript of the thought process to that question equally enlightening and funny:

Thought for 4 seconds

1 problem understanding

The task is to count the number of instances of the letter 'r' in the word 'strawerberry'. This requires identifying each occurrence of 'r' in the given word and keeping a count.

2 data gathering

The word to analyze is 'strawerberry'. I need to examine each character in this word.

3 hypothesis formation

Based on a quick glance, I hypothesize that there are 2 instances of 'r' in 'strawerberry'.

4 analysis

Let's break down the word into individual characters: s, t, r, a, w, e, r, b, e, r, r, y

5 calculation

Now, let's count the 'r's: 1) First 'r' at position 3, 2) Second 'r' at position 7, 3) Third 'r' at position 10. Total count: 3

6 verification

Double-checking the count: s(0), t(0), r(1), a(0), w(0), e(0), r(2), b(0), e(0), r(3), r(3), y(0). Confirmed: 3 instances of 'r'.

7 error checking

The initial hypothesis was incorrect. The actual count (3) differs from the initial guess (2). This highlights the importance of careful analysis rather than quick assumptions.

8 conclusion drawing

The letter 'r' appears 3 times in the word 'strawerberry'.

9 implementation

The final response should be the number 3, as this is the correct count of 'r' instances in 'strawerberry'.
I like sleep for several reasons, I like to cuddle with my spouse, I like a set amount of time where I don't have to think or worry about anything, and I love dreaming.

Of these, only dreaming strictly needs sleep, however, I think the healing that occurs in deep sleep should be added as a need.

And according to my smartwatch, I spend around 2 hours dreaming and 1 hour in deep sleep each night, although this varies quite a bit night to night. I don't think trying to reduce these is a good idea.

That means light sleep is the candidate for reduction. However, I have researched this before and the most consistent answer I get is that we don't really know what the 5 hours spent in light sleep is for. It seems unlikely that it's just for conserving energy, the body rarely does things for only one reason.

So my bet is that we might find a way to reduce light sleep by around 2 hours a night, which is what this article is suggesting. But it's unlikely that we'll go much further without causing problems. And even if someone does discover a way, there's no way I'd try it without at least a few decades of evidence that it doesn't cause Alzheimer's or some other old age disease.
While I agree to an extent, every company would theoretically want to “fix the environment” if it made commercial sense to do so.

Some environments just can’t be fixed. The employer’s needs and the employee’s have diverged (or potentially were never aligned to begin with).

As a manager, I think I see this most often when a relatively average performer reaches a particular stage in their career and feels like it’s time for them to “take the next step”, but there’s no room for them at the next echelon because the few spots there are going to better qualified or better performing employees.

These folks start to disengage, performance dips, focus is lost. You can’t nurture your way out of this situation. Most employees quit at this stage, but some stick around long enough to be a problem. Most of these people also have a view of themselves which reflects what they were able to achieve at their peak, and blame their current performance on being “demotivated”.

In my experience, very, very few PIPs are handed out to folks who are actually, currently working hard, and in those cases, it’s because that person was never a good fit and should not have been hired in the first place.

PIPs will almost always end in termination because good managers will have already tried a multitude of tactics to improve performance, and bad managers are unlikely to be able to provide the kind of feedback needed to be successful in a PIP if they were not able to before the PIP. In those situations where a good manager is successful with a PIP, there is likely still an issue, because it took threatening the employee’s job to get them to fix their performance, when presumably they did not respond to less formal methods.
I found two ideas / techniques helpful in this context:

1) Conventional comments (https://conventionalcomments.org/) as an (agreed-upon) language to be used in PR comments

2) Ship / Show / Ask (https://martinfowler.com/articles/ship-show-ask.html), where "Show" and "Ship" are non-blocking PRs (or even directly committing to trunk, if you use trunk-based development), since not every(!) PR needs reviewing and/or should block the PR creator
It's one thing for a technically focused forum like this to bar political debate altogether, and it's another for a public square like Twitter or Blue Sky to allow political discussion but bar an entire viewpoint from being expressed, through purity tests constructed by an ideological movement.
I'm not really convinced that removing the need for sleep would result in me being more productive primarily because I'm not an always-on computer.

The average day for me has huge differences in terms of my productivity at any given moment. I need downtime anyway, if I didn't sleep I believe that I'd end up vegging out in some way because I'm not doing 24 hours of flashcards.

The discussions on here also always seem to centre around a very stereotypical "I am a vat for my brain" way of thinking. Realistically whilst sleeping other things are going on, muscles are recovering, digestive processes are going on, other forms of growing, etc, it's not just the brain.

There are also things like circadian rhythm, sunshine, etc. I woke up early today and had a few hours of darkness, I can feel my mood and brainpower improving as the sun rises.

We are not bots, this stuff is analogue.
As a casual onlooker, reading blog posts here and there, it's evident the topic of Rusts' suitability for game development is a hot topic of discussion and research. Sometimes it feels there is a sort of existential dread coming with the thought that Rusts' design maybe simply makes it too much of a pain in the long run in attempt to force code to comply with it's required way of thinking.

Do you ever find yourself wondering if its the right path to commit to for future games?
The discrete topology[∅].

Not only is it mathematically perfect that every set is clopen, as a network topology it is perfect because connecting computers to one another has made many people very angry and has widely been regarded as a bad move.

[∅] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete_space

(Anyway doesn't the Evil Queen say "Magic mirror on the wall"?)
People always say "oh if you had this or that system we would be so much more innovative", but it's all wishy-washy unprovable statements pulled from 3rd hand sources. If you distill the problem down to it's essentials you are asking "how do I design (human in the loop) AGI", and until you can write a program for it, it will remain an artform, and the success or failure of art depends entirly on it's cultural context.

Rather than p(r)aying for the smartest people who have ever been born, design a corporation that can have the average high school dropout work in R&D and you will print money, innovation and goodwill.
Recently this came up on sleep deprivation :

"preemptive administration of low-dose aspirin during sleep restriction reduced pro-inflammatory responses. Specifically, aspirin reduced interleukin-6 expression and COX-1/COX-2 double positive cells in lipopolysaccharide-stimulated monocytes, as well as C-reactive protein serum levels."

"aspirin-induced reduction of inflammatory pathway activity in sleep-restricted participants was paralleled by decreased wake after sleep onset and increased sleep efficiency during recovery sleep"

But, bleeding and strokes :(

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-06-dose-aspirin-inflamma...
> One for you, one for the Chinese shit.

Can you give an example of tech devices that aren't manufactured in China?
Well, no, winning a lottery is one in a million. A successful startup - assuming you get funding - is more like one in ten (that's not exact but no more than an order of magnitude off.)
And youtube search is extraordinarily horrible. Unimaginably bad.
I get:

>Alright, I need to figure out how many 'r's are in the word 'strawerberry'. Let's look at it carefully. I'll write it down: s-t-r-a-w-e-r-b-e-r-r-y. Now, I'll go through each letter one by one.

>Starting from the beginning: s, t, r – that's one 'r'. Then a, w, e, r – that's the second 'r'. Next, b, e, r – that's the third 'r'. And finally, another r before the y, making it the fourth 'r'. So, I count four 'r's in total.

>The word "strawberry" contains four 'r's.
> The UCSF group hypothesizes that this elevated level of orexin expression partially explains reduced sleep

So, one possible line of investigation would be a table of mammals, their sleep cycles, their orexin levels, and the numbers of copies of orexin and it's regulators in their genomes. For example: compared to humans, elephants have a lower cancer risk. Turns out they have significantly more copies of p53, a tumor supressor gene (1).

Perhaps a similar, somewhat parallel construct exists: elephants sleep 3-4 hours a night. Maybe they have more orexin? Maybe they have different copy numbers or mutations of the relevant genes in the pathway?

(1) https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5061548/
If you are interested in discussing this topic, I've also made a Discord server.

https://discord.gg/TFE8FmjCdS

You might be the first person to join... but I've created it as a place to share my learnings and help others building things with MCP.