skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did read the article because I was interested in the decline of raves. I unfortunately found an article on something different. I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt and assume they wanted to draw traffic that would be interested in the article, and thus the mixup was an accident due to not understanding the difference between a nightclub and a rave, though that does call into severe question their knowledge on nightclubs. Alternatively it is possible they knew full well they were trying to get people who were not interested in nightclubs to click on their link, in which case they succeeded. Either way, my point stands.
Nedergaard (lab head here and main findings of this effect since 2012) is going to win the Nobel for this line of research. When I got my Ph.D. 20 years ago in cognitive neuroscience we knew three main deficits to a lack of sleep but couldn’t connect them mechanistically:
1) loss of daily performance metrics
2) increased risks of mental health concerns
3) increased risks of cognitive declines

The glymphatic nervous system, like any great scientific theory, unites disparate findings under a common mechanism. Not getting enough sleep is akin to not running your dishwasher or washing machine long enough, the gunk accumulates.

And for all the parents out there, pediatric recommendation is 10-12 hours a night for kids 6-12 years old and 8-10 hours a night for kids 13-18 years old.
Here is a great review by Bailey and colleagues who discovered the risks of grapefruit in drug metabolism. It is from 2013. This is a GREAT example if genotype-by-drug interaction and why knowing your genotype can be extremely useful.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3589309/

>Our research group discovered the interaction between grapefruit and certain medications more than 20 years ago [1990s].1–3 Currently, more than 85 drugs, most of which are available in Canada, are known or predicted to interact with grapefruit. This interaction enhances systemic drug concentration through impaired drug metabolism.
Many of the drugs that interact with grapefruit are highly prescribed and are essential for the treatment of important or common medical conditions. Recently, however, a disturbing trend has been seen. Between 2008 and 2012, the number of medications with the potential to interact with grapefruit and cause serious adverse effects (i.e., torsade de pointes, rhabdomyolysis, myelotoxicity, respiratory depression, gastrointestinal bleeding, nephrotoxicity) has increased from 17 to 43, representing an average rate of increase exceeding 6 drugs per year. This increase is a result of the introduction of new chemical entities and formulations.
Your non-engineers shouldn't have to understand or use git. If they do there's an org or process problem.
"Nice work" was adapted for TV by the BBC in 1989 with Hayden Gwynne and Warren Clark beautifully cast in the leading roles.
And in such a positive light
Curated list of tutorials to build applications from scratch
I believe there is a bug with the T block, I think I managed to overlap some blocks
I'll be transiting China this summer so plan is to get a high end Roborock.
> My next article will be about CoreML on iOS, doing the same exact thing :)

Can't wait - thanks for writing it up!
Benchmark of tabpfn<2 compared to xgboost, lightgbm, and catboost: https://x.com/FrankRHutter/status/1583410845307977733 .. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33486914
wow, hacker news and all these people just "phoning it in"

We really need more folks to hack on their phones and set/spread a good example.

Otherwise "general computing" will be replaced by landlords.

The concept of a landlord may be traced back to the feudal system of manoralism (seignorialism), where a landed estate is owned by a Lord of the Manor...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landlord#History
Hardware Intrinsics in WebAssembly [pdf]
Does it work that way? Is a curse actually cast if it is a machine reading its text rather than a human?

Can machines curse?
Octomind is sick, web agents are such an interesting space; would love to talk to you more about challenges you might've faced in building it
That was Newsom
Yes. At CES just few days ago there was one announced that has a robot arm that tidies up for you.

Personally I kinda like being forced to tidy up (and I have 2 small children).
My dude it's not hubris. Git is pretty damn simple compared to many problems you will have to reason about as a software engineer. If you can't understand file versioning, branching and merging then you aren't going to be able to think effectively about much more complicated problems.
Yeah this is very common. You might see the headline "Scientists prove X causes Y", and when you click through all the pop-science journalism until you get to the paper, you'll find "We found a weak positive correlation between X and Y and it's surprising because the prior research found the opposite".
Using the LineageOS built-in backup tool : Seedvault and upload it to my nextcloud server. Didn't have to use it to restore yet so no real idea how good the restoration is. I also have automatic pictures/video upload to nextcloud and contact/agenda sync with DAVx5.
I don't have root on my android and I try to avoid using any FAANG's infrastructure. A few weeks ago I bricked my phone and lost a bunch of data because I only backed up my photos. More on that in a sec, but the big thing I learned is how much stuff on my phone I didn't miss once it was gone and how much I did miss.

App backup? who cares? This was a chance for me to see what's new on F-Droid and it's been great (lookin' at you keyboard.futo.org).

I back up my photos using termux, rsync, and rsync.net. This model seems pretty solid. I should extend it to app data, but I don't have an automated way to back up app data yet. It's just a thing I have to do when I think of it, which is a recipe for disaster.

I'm taking syncthing out of the picture. I was using it to share markdown, html and some graphics between devices and my phone, but I regularly end up diffing .conflict files. I hope to get better behavior from Nextcloud.

Still, I'm the same happy guy I was before December 30 so I think a few manual app data back-ups, back-ups for non-photo content to Nextcloud so I can share it between devices more easily, and the same old rsync stuff for photos should work great.
Clowns bring joy with their antics
Don't worry, you're still confused: nothing does :P
That’s an excellent counterpoint. I guess when viewed from that perspective then it’s a little less surprising that kings felt they could trick their gods.

Thanks for sharing :)
If your non-engineers have to deal with git you have an org or process problem. Git is pretty clear and easy to use to a competent software engineer. I'm tired of this meme that Git is hard. It doesn't get enough pushback.
This seems to be the reason for writing about the topic right now:

> So, yes, in June 2015, I slowed down the whole company [Facebook] by a second.

> Of course, here it is ten years later, and the guy in charge just sent it back fifty years [by ending fact checking?]. Way to upstage me, dude.
This is the 12th part of a series of posts introducing the Swift language to C++ developers:

https://www.douggregor.net/posts/

I wouldn't recommend starting from the 12th part, it probably makes sense to read the posts in order.
Anecdotally, I'd say AI assistants have probably improved my coding productivity by 30%

So maybe it's true at salesforce too?
This mayor seems really interested in advancing the interests of Africa, rather than where she actually has a job.

https://youtu.be/u8c_3YEosk4
Yeah Google's implementation here objectively sucks.

I should be able to toss my phone in a river, buy a new one and get it back exactly the way it is.

Syncthing handles the stuff which matters to me, but it can't get apps back exactly the way they were.
So the highest risk device on my RF network is my thermostat. But not only do I get alerts for out of range conditions, the beauty of the local attacker model is most types of attacks become silly: The thermostat has a predefined range of relatively normal temperatures, so the only way to really cause damage is turning it off.

You could bring a custom-programmed RF transceiver and plant it on my property for the job, or you could use a $5 wrench to shut off my natural gas and pull the power shutoff on my AC condenser.

I think the latter is infinitely more likely.
A quickstart eBook about Helm's essentials
The title and first 2/3s of the article are excessively hyperbolic and it detracts from the message. The title would be improved by adding "in favor of git switch/restore". The body would be improved by leading with the last 3 paragraphs, and tucking the rest under a "why not just use `git checkout`?" section.

I appreciated finding out about `switch` and `restore` as alternatives to `checkout`. But they are minor, incremental improvements. Framing it like `checkout` is the devil doesn't help, because it really isn't that bad, especially to people who consider git as a means to an end.
>Since many studies seem to show that getting a solid amount of sleep is good,

This one of the bigger myths around. There's not really scientific evidence that people sleep eight hours, or need that much[1]. It's one of those strange pop culture food pyramid like statements that just doesn't really have any evidence for it. It's much more likely that you simply need less sleep than that you have some circadian rhythm problem.

[1]https://www.penguin.co.uk/articles/2020/09/daniel-lieberman-...
I swapped out from being an Engineering major (consistently in the top 5 scoring Engineering students out of a first year intake of 300) to being a math major for similar reasons - Engineering has a lot of rote learning grind exams, not so much exploration of deep fundementals.

The Math dept has numerours courses loosely covering similar material, Math 100 - first year math for math nerds, Math 110 - first math for engineering students, Math 120 - math for business majors, etc.

Math for math majors ( the 100 stream ) had 20 students in all (IIRC) most of whom now hold academic positions, Math 110 had the 300 engineering students, other streams had cross over students from business, medicine, law, et al.

Future mathematicians (and theoritical physicists, etc) are indeed the smallest group the Math Dept. catered for.
Piezo transformers are dirt cheap.
From the discussion on the Conservancy XMPP room (bridged to IRC/Matrix), Sebastian specifically wanted to make changes to uClibc and compliance was also achieved for the libblkid, libexif, and libosip LGPL libraries on the device too. The GPL things on the device like the Linux kernel etc remain out of compliance unfortunately.
I agree those farms are somewhat better. I don’t know where you live but here in France they get the baby chickens from the exact same factories as the industrial farms. Breeding themself at scale would be such a pain that it’s not economically viable in any way. There might be exemptions thought.

Girl-chicken (excuse my English) require to produce male-chicken, which often get killed at birth because the meat chicken are not from the same breed. Also the egg-breed is such intense that they produce eggs in an insane frequency compared to a rustic breed, which result in them being exhaust way before their lifespan. It’s very similar to the cow breeds that produce 40l milk/day compared to the 6/7l for historical breeds.
Hi, this language looks very cool!

I am interested in the "No Hidden I/O" section. Can you store, say, the system value (?) to a list? Because I'm afraid this is not enough to properly track side-effects.

Unfortunately I think capabilities/an effect system is required for that (so that any point that actually uses a side effect, taints its whole call tree - the same way async/checked exceptions do, both of which are specific Effects.
Engineers aren't hot chicks that show up with sandwiches.
I'm kind of in the opposite camp. If Schanuel's conjecture is true, then e^iπ = 0 would be the only non-trivial relation between e, π, and i over the complex numbers. And the fact that we already found it seems unlikely.
Also see David Bessis:

https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematical-thinking-isnt-wh...
Won't be long until Jones is saying this tragedy is all CGI. Then Musk will give him a "100%" reply.
The language problem around agents is that most companies are describing them solely from a human/UX perspective.

'You ask it to do something, and it does it'

That makes it difficult to differentiate the more critical 'how' options in the execution process. From that perspective: deterministic integrations, LLM+tools, LAM, etc are more descriptive categories, each with their own capabilities, strengths, and weaknesses.

Or to put it a different way, if the term doesn't tell you what something is good and bad at, it's probably an underspecified term.
By signing into my Google account.
www.recurse.com
No, it is *much* stronger, a different architecture and scales to 10x the number of examples. It can also do regression now, and handle categorical features. Please, have a quick look at the abstract before making such claims.
Just yesterday I bought myself a set of pure copper tips off Amazon.

People say they don't last, but I have had an incredible amount of difficulty getting regular tips tinned and conducting heat efficiently.

No combination of tip tinner, flux or cleaner has ever fully resolved it for me.
rsync -a --delete --quiet '/run/user/1000/gvfs/mtp:host=SAMSUNG_SAMSUNG_Android_5210f7e3ea5e5417/Internal shared storage' /home/luqtas/Android; notify-send "android backed!"
Setting aside the question of who holds it, is it an inconsistent position? If a broadening of fair use is necessary for developing large language models, it's perfectly consistent to argue it should also extend to artists/archivists/derivative works in general, otherwise you're staking out the position that pirating one book is wrong but downloading Books3 is fine
This is Evil Genius level work. Congratulations!

Did you do the actual coding in Acrobat or is there a less painful way to write embedded JS in a PDF?
I haven't interviewed for a tech job in over 10 years but I've never had a leetcode interview. Never been asked about algorithms, or put on the spot to answer how many manhole covers are there in New York City.

I've been asked about my former projects, my roles, what I liked or didn't like about them, how do I approach a new project, what did I find most interesting, etc.

I gather there are a lot of fakers in the software dev world. So maybe that's why more places try to make you prove you can actually write code.

Reaching for a book to answer, makes sense to me. That's what you'd do on the job, and nobody would think less of you for it.
Cats and raccoons, at the very least, frequently kill just for fun. We chicken owners, for some mysterious reason, get very attached to those silly little dinosaurs and it is not unusual at all for a raccoon to come in and just bat the heads off the chickens without eating anything.
Not really on mobile. The margins are too large. Screenshot from mobile Chrome:
https://imgur.com/a/q4oa7aO
+1 for Syncthing, and self-hosting a few services like Bitwarden so the data is under my control.
> The truth is that the public does not understand the difference in the confidence levels of scientists for things like "anthropomorphic climate change" vs "drinking wine and eating chocolate is healthy for you."

The problem is that without science and stem foundations it is very hard for people to even understand what is and isn’t known.

My mum used to send me all kind of articles about chakras. “there are kids born now who have their sixth chakra open” and “this chakra is orange, and that chakra is indigo”. One day my mom, my then girlfriend, and me were chatting about what specialisation my girlfriend is thinking about pursuing at medical school. She told her that she is thinking about specialising in endocrinology. My mom become really angry and cided us for using such “big words” to “lord our education over her”. So to placate her we explained that it is a doctor who studies hormones, measures hormone levels and treats diseases of the hormone system. She got visibly surprised and the only things she asked “you can measure hormones?”

The conversation continued of course but that question, and the genuine surprise on her face remained with me. The thing is, she trully did not know that we can measure hormones. And if you don’t know that hormones are as real as the legs of the table, and chakras are as real as santa claus, then they both sound equally plausible theories about health. And when you race the stories against each other “i’m not feeling well because my heart chakra is blocked, and I need healing crystals and massages to get well again” vs “i’m not feeling well because my thyroid gland is not producing enough thyroxine, and i need to take suplements in a pill form” then the first one wins because it is simpler and neater sounding. But one is kinda bulshit and the other is a real thing. But you won’t know that unless you understand that we can measure hormones, and nobody even has any idea what it would mean to measure a chakra.
Can be faked but that takes effort and raises the stakes. Now you'd not just misrepresent, you'd also be forging stuff.

We could then also discuss whether the text was credible or had some signs of being forged. Data is always good to have even if it could be fake.
I’ve found Home Assistant and i’s add-ons systems a good way to self host without the fuss. If you need something that is not there you can create your own repo and it’s pretty easy to create your own add-on collection
If it wasn't an LLM that found the professor's mistake then the point I think you're trying to make is, well, missing the point: a human made a mistake, and humans found out and corrected it. The question is what happens when LLMs make mistakes. Will people still be careful enough to catch and correct them, as often as we find and correct the mistakes we make ourselves? Or will our ability to do so be overwhelmed by the extreme rate at which LLMs can generate text?
itneresting. I'm approaching music generation from another perspective:

https://github.com/chaosprint/RaveForce

RaveForce - An OpenAI Gym style toolkit for music generation experiments.
Yeah I saw it was a recent change in your GitHub and was happily running your examples.

To be honest I took about 2 minutes of playing around to get annoyed with the inaccuracies of the locally hosted model for that, so I get why you encourage the other approaches.
I hope to see this evolved into doom by the end of the year.
And it better not be just monochrome
It's common that corruption persists, because people prefer it that way. But that doesn't make it any less corrupt.
These would be more useful if assemblers had an icon showing which recipe is selected.
xdaforums abides! Be of good cheer.
How hard would it be to push this into 3 dimensions instead of 2? It made me think of a starting point for a model of the universe and galaxy interactions.
That reads like dark satire.
Diabolical - I love it. Impressed that the final score came up as an alert!
Disappointed with the TVs at CES 2025
The only thing on my phone that really ever needs to be backed up is my pictures, videos, and audio recordings. I use Owlfiles to automatically back all that up to my NAS via Tailscale for fast secure connectivity to my home network. Everything else is Nextcloud on the same system. All of that data gets backed up daily to Backblaze B2, and once per month I write everything to an LTO-6 tape that I swap out between 3 tapes: One in my bank deposit box, two in my firesafe.

Backblaze costs me about $100/year for the ~2TB of data I store there.

I got my LTO-6 drive for free from my employer after we upgraded to LTO-8.

I got a 20-pack of new LTO-6 tapes from eBay for $100, and have no idea what to do with the remaining 42.5TB of space. I guess after several years of rotating my existing tapes, I should start using new ones.
We can. Be the chance you wish to see in the world
good point.

few days ago I was thinking about restarting this project with Glicol

https://github.com/chaosprint/RaveForce

RaveForce - An OpenAI Gym style toolkit for music generation experiments.

Love suno but eventually I need midi or xml or some lossless samples to work with
For Chrome's PDF renderer, the runtime is V8, so we're literally one (hilarious) line of code away from this glorious future existing today:

https://pdfium.googlesource.com/pdfium/+/refs/heads/main/fpd...

> // Use interpreted JS only to avoid RWX pages in our address space. Also, --jitless implies --no-expose-wasm, which reduce exposure since no PDF should contain web assembly.

> return "--jitless";
The technical difference between agents then and agents now are the fuzzy parameter mapping capabilities of LLMs, if used.

Scaling agent capability requires agents that are able to auto-map various tools.

If every different tool is a new, custom integration, that must be written by a person, then we end up where we are today -- specialized agents where there exists enough demand and stability to write and maintain those integrations, but no general purpose agents.

Ultimately, parameter mapping in a sane, consistent, globally-applicable way is the key that unlocks an agentic future, or a failure that leads to its demise.
Your article cites 100 annual firefighter convictions for arson in North America. For your claim to be true, that means fewer than 200 arson convictions annually in all of Canada, US, and Mexico. It says firefighter arson is common, but does not appear to claim that they are the most common offender.

That seems really really low!
Cooking a stake, is a lot easier than making a curry is kind of where it gets tricky for me.

For now I make a chicken sandwich for lunch, take like 5-10 minutes, fills me up, what do I do as a vegetarian.

I love the idea of it, I just think that being a vegetarian can be a luxury and takes more time for some people, especially who have larger frames and appetites.
> The optimism of the 90s was definitely a thing in the west

The optimism is I think the key to what’s going on here. We had used to have a positive view of and vision for the future, and by now most of the things that we were optimistic about either didn’t happen, or have made things worse.
Completely rewriting it is against the rules, you should have reverted that or taken it to meta. They're supposed to post a new answer instead, if they think it deserved that much of a change.
It's very difficult to read right now in Firefox mobile. Screenshot here https://ibb.co/x5xsXpB
Perhaps a few more responses now from people who own their data?

There are still a scary few "I use adb" or "I copy the data over MTP"

Sadly, not everything on the phone is visible to those two. IIRC, [MS]MS logs aren't (I might be wrong here though) and if you use Google Authenticator, your OTPs aren't, which I learned the hard, hard way.

I need to root my phone.
DAYS=(some number);
cd /place-to-save-stuff ;
adb -e shell "cd /sdcard/; find . -mtime -${DAYS} | cpio -o" | cpio -idmuv # rooting phone not required
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Emrich
Huh. I use checkout multiple times a day every day. It's how I switch branches, including creating new branches. I guess I could use other commands, but why change what's working fine?
Idk why you say so. It doesn't take much searching to find receipts for people showing 3-4Gbps. But "realistic" is gonna be very hardware/firmware dependent, proximity to router, etc.

Examples

2 yrs ago hitting 3.9Gbps https://www.reddit.com/r/HomeNetworking/comments/13ipl7n/tp_...

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux4noobs/comments/1hal8bm/intel_...
"I have a BE200 in use on KDE neon. Kernel is compiled with the usual wifi7 modules. I hit 4Gbit/s on an MLO network."

https://www.reddit.com/r/telus/comments/1b3xrlf/wifi_7_speed...
"WiFi 7 can reach WiFi speeds up to 4 Gbps on my phone"