skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Atari 2600 is an example of a system where games didn't have headers and a checksum/database or other heuristic has to be used to account for the occasional hardware extension.

Z26 implements a heuristic to determine PAL or NTSC mode, which is done by monitoring how long the software takes to begin outputting lines (PAL's vblank is longer than NTSC's).

But this article makes me think of the problem of determining the boundary between emulation and simulation. The reason why the original Atari Pong of 1972 is not in MAME is because Pong doesn't have a CPU, it's all implemented as discrete hardware (and has no ROM). But you can't play any games on any emulator if some hardware isn't simulated, like the video.

There is some project that will take a description of the Pong schematic and render a playable game, but it's very slow. I can't recall the name of it. I also find it interesting that the NES's video chip has been reverse engineered to the point of accounting for every change in waveform it outputs to composite video--even the bad ones; meaning the flickerly color fringes and unsmooth vertical lines of real NES video are now documented and implementible by anyone who cares.
Inspired by Harry Potter, 150 Colleges Now Have Quidditch Teams
Thank you for sharing your thoughts!

* There definitely should be more variety in terms of camera paths. Our framework either supports fully automatic results (as shown) or ones with a manual camera path. For an automatically generated slideshow, one should probably add more variety.

* There is some great work in this area, commonly focusing on portrait images. But yes, once the scene geometry has been estimated sufficiently well, one can definitely add some nice out-of-focus effects.

* That would be an interesting research direction. I am not an expert in relighting, but I can imagine that this requires a lot of work to make sure that the scene composition looks believable.
The message should be, whether intended or not, for Martha to send this comic to her boss and begin scheduling brainstorming meetings. With the vast plethora of introductory resources for ML today, there's no good excuse for both supervisors and engineers to understand what tools it might provide.

The phrase "we need to add AI to everything" should be met with as much consternation as "we need to promote synergy". Precision is important. It's the difference between spending 6 months developing an deploying trained neural nets and 60 minutes for linear regression.
My argument was that we should separate the distribution aspects of the tax system from the revenue-generating aspects.

> I want to distribute discouragement, i.e. everybody to be equally discouraged from taking a flight regardless of their income level.

You could say the same thing about any other tax, such as tobacco tax. Why do we not levy the tobacco tax in proportion to income?

> But for social justice, it's better to make it more painful for every person to fly, regardless of their income level. A rich person should have an equally large penalty, and what's equal is not the same nominal amount, but the same ratio.

In relation to income levels, almost everything is cheaper when you are rich, and the way we deal with it is to redistribute income to level the playing field for everything, not just flights.
> This is obviously a fluff piece that tries to promote the resilience and motivation of the aging population, yet just highlights how bad things are since people have to work til they die.

It's "learn to code" but in a less aggressive way.
China is MITM
HP printers try to send data back to HP about your devices and what you print
-On track to be insolvent by 2034

-Costs already exceed income for trust funds

-Costs will exceed income by 2020 for the entire program

-The OASDI tax rate has been increased 20+ times since Social Security's inception in order to keep the program viable.

Add an inability to even recognize mismanagement.
Potentially- I think I added in property taxes (about 1-2k/year in the uk) and healthcare (free on the nhs or if you’re earning 150k you’re likely getting heavily subsidised private care from your employer).
It is as far away from a x86 server than a s/390 was from an AS/400. It was a unique architecture that came from, IIRC, the System/38. Also, its native encoding is EBCDIC. It shares a couple concepts and names, such as LPARs.
> Today Varnish is used by all sorts, from FaceBook, Wikia and SlashDot to obscure sites you have surely never heard about, many of which serve mostly pink bits, lots of pink bits.

Adult content.
Why eat the bait instead of the catch? Surely on a ship full of literal tons of fish, the cost of feeding the crew some of it is completely negligible?
It might be just storage as it was brought up as an example of how subsystems of mainframes are essentially their own world and a single disk or distributed volumes over a long distance are presented the same to the rest of the system. In the Linux world DRBD does something similar (just much simpler). The point, however, is that the software knows nothing about this being distributed.
There's an excellent documentary about him, "Don't Blink."

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4779036/
Random rules or enforcement or punishment or whatever sounds very stressful. I had such a situation growing up pre-internet. It’s not really a rule then, it’s the whim of the authority figure.
No, of course not.

That's the thing about local maxima - when you're in one, it isn't obvious.

Instead, the burden is on others to notice and speak up.

You may not like the Nazi comparison, but it's apt...

Especially with the things Trump says and does as president, there's a real danger that staying quiet about "daily life type interpersonal stuff" could have disastrous consequences a few years down the line.

After all, just like with the Nazis, you'll never be put in a position where you're asked to ignore much more than you already ignore.
Hah! I remember my father had split the TV cable and could only enable it with a connector. He'd done it to make sure our (the kids) TV time was limited to after he got home from work. I learned that I could get a signal if I fashioned a connector out of tin foil. Not a great one but good enough to get a snowy analogue signal.

It was actually fun and felt like an achievement.
That looks like a pretty good option. The downside is the price and it looks at least twice the size and weigh of thr SanDisk players.
shut up and take my money.
Hyperbole is also unhelpful. Kids need boundaries.
> "How do you stop people obtaining it and using it through their buddies on the internet" - quite simply, by telling them they'd go to jail, or get a hefty fine, for doing that.

That method does not work very well for e.g. weed.
If it's a mobile app, it doesn't matter nearly as much. Otherwise, try and get the .com.
In theory, no. But for any decent performance, you need a big CUDA capable GPU, as far as I know.

But you can try it on a CPU of course. (Maybe with some modifications; see this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20977776 ; also if someone can get it working in Google Colab you get a GPU capable instance for free.)
Firecracker actually forked the technology pinning Crostini.
More or less. Estimating the depth from a single image is highly challenging and far from solved. We thus had to made sure that the depth estimate is suitable for synthesizing new views. And we are not explicitly modelling layers, we actually model the scene geometry as a point cloud. But you definitely got the gist of it. By the way, one advantage when estimating the scene geometry in a video is that it is possible to employ structure from motion.
A highly recommended BBC/natGeo film about the tomb of the first emperor of China, who built a complex 200 times bigger than Egypt's valley of the kings. Supposedly took over 700,000 men. The tomb itself has never been excavated. And probably won't in our lifetime.

https://wwjw.businesswire.com/news/home/20161011006769/en/Ma...
I use keepassXC on desktop, and Kypass on iOS. They both support OTP, but in different formats, which messes up my syncing of the database via Nextcloud, so I use Authy on iOS.
I'm totally biased here, but I feel like the newsletter option in the chart should be higher. I mean, how much visibility will you get from a low-follower Twitter account or a small blog?

I run Web Tools Weekly (https://webtoolsweekly.com/ - ~11,500 subs) and Tech Productivity (https://techproductivity.co/ - new, ~1000 subs) and I can tell you that any good open source project that fits will get great click through rates.

I also recommend any of the newsletters by Cooper Press, which have way more subscribers than mine do (https://cooperpress.com/publications/ - see the top comment in this thread, by the founder of Cooper Press).
The effect itself is actually not too uncommon. It is just very tedious and time-consuming to do manually since it requires segmenting the elements in the scene, arranging them in a 3D space, filling in any holes and specifying a virtual camera trajectory.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20977332

> The last time he did shutdown the Mainframe was 15 years ago

And that was a controlled shutdown, not uncontrolled.

If more than fifteen years is your time horizon to validate the zero downtime claim, that's cool. By that point, though, the system will have proven its worth.

Right; unreliable supporting infrastructure is the inherent trickiness with saying the mainframe has zero downtime. The manufacturer isn't being deceptive, though, if, given reliable supporting infrastructure, the system will stay online for as long as is stated. It's just not their problem.

Can't imagine a company would blame a manufacturer for downtime in the event of a flood/earthquake to protect the equipment. If a piece of equipment starts on fire, that's another story, but I suppose a zero-downtime system makes assumptions that it won't start on fire.
One example - Medicare is insanely expensive. IIRC the US government spends more on healthcare than Canada (adjusted for population etc) due to the huge costs of the most expensive clients (old people) getting "free" gold-plated private healthcare.
I'm not entirely sure what your point is here. Yes, some parents did that. Did it wreck their kids lives? Or did those kids go over to a friends house and listen to it anyway?
Me too. I just want a hackable smartwatch. I want to customize it so that when I press one of its hardware buttons, it'll start recording a memo, and later syncs it to my laptop when in the same network.

I need the recording to start in sub-second time, so there is no barrier to start, which makes my use-case unsuitable for Android-level "hackable."
I recently saw a Dutchman explaining that they don't wear helmets because they don't cross paths with cars. Bike lanes are designed to keep cars and bicycles apart. From the article it seems that cars always give precedence to bicycles.
I agree with Nico its got a lot to like, it is very approachable and doesn't imply access to a lot of hard to get/use equipment. So good stuff.

Now you need sub-sorters :-) I always kept my technic stuff sorted by various parts (large gears, medium gears, small gears, motors, axles, wheels, etc)

Another interesting project would be a 'pick a part' machine that used an arm and image recognition to select parts from bins and assemble a 'kit' (all the parts needed to make a particular thing)
I wholeheartedly agree with you and believe that depth perception is a key aspect that is is missing in the status quo of viewing still images!
That's not a problem at all! In the fortune 500 there are plenty of companies with "problems" that used to be solved with boring things like "averages" and "business logic", but now you can replace those things with LSTMs and Deep NLP models and get half the performance with several orders of magnitude more complexity! The best part is the people building these systems have none of that annoying "engineering background" baggage that will mean they don't worry about stupid stuff like support and maintenance, or even basic debugging: if the model breaks you just build a brand new one!
Racial stereotyping aside, genetic and anthropological studies show no connection between the mainline populations of Japan and China. They derive from different migrations into asia.
100% disagree. HN and reddit have been invaluable for getting feedback on our open source work, and a quick back of the envelope search of my emails has found in the hundreds of off-thread conversations over the years spawned by these posts. Even if sometimes the threads in themselves sometimes don't produce "meaningful feedback", they often lead to a new connection or two that can produce years worth of highly helpful assistance.
It is quite popular chinese TL866II, you can search for it anywhere, it just got mine for $37 from aliexpress
Well, the expert who wrote that text does not seem to be aware that after Oracle shenanigans OpenOffice(.org!) was forked and replaced by LibreOffice almost a decade ago
Ahh! I thought it looked and read like Scott McCloud[1]. He's got some great books on comic theory that I highly recommend.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_McCloud
Thanks for the recommendation. This is excellent summary of what is possible for people not already familiar.
I like how it has an audio option, much easier to consume that way
Yeah seriously it sounds like you gave your kids anxiety. Congrats
One useful way of thinking of COBOL is as a DSL targeted at business operations.

Once you do that, it becomes clear Java is not exactly a competitor.
>The cost is very high - when I looked, 1 million per year is the baby version with only 1 CPU enabled and no license to run the cryptographic accelerator and limits on software, etc.

At one point, IBM was selling base-level mainframes for $75,000 (see https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/07/ibm-u...)

It is true though that a 'realistic' configuration is likely to cost north of $1 million, and that none of these numbers include the price of the software.
I haven't seen that many (elderly) people in The Netherlands on e-bikes that used a helmet this year. The only people that wear helmets are the ones that have a speed padelec/mountainbiker or racing bikes.
works fine now, thanks
Great job! Love this.
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I was thinking about what I should post and decided to make this little teaser since it demonstrates the gist of our work within a few seconds. I understand that the typically Hacker News audience may find the paper more worthwhile though.
I know nothing about this. But it seems obvious that, whatever we call your work, Ken Burns' use of panning and zooming is a subset of it.
While that is true, it's also important to recognize that sometimes it's easy to hand-wave when discussing algorithm, in a way that's impossible when you write actual code.

I have noticed this a lot of time when interviewing SWE roles (a request to commenters: let's spare ourselves the usual centithread complaining about whiteboard interviewing)—a lot of people can vaguely talk about the algo but not able to write code for it.
It depends, what you define as database. is it only the SORs (Statement of Records) or everything from Cache, KV store to RDBMS? Let's just say everything, I believe it would be in range of 300-500 trillion queries every day.
Is "frugal" easy to say? Or "bugle", "centrifugal", "MacDougall"? They all end the same for me (NZ).
Inversions in US Presidential Elections: 1836-2016
What’s the alternative? Choose between two corrupt parties?
A Harvard Professor Doubles Down: If You Take Epstein’s Money, Do It in Secret
Number of shares is useful in several ways, especially for new employees looking to compare the value of a promotion / offer versus what the company is paying somebody 2-3 years their senior. You can backtrack and ask “what did the company think its stock was worth two years ago?” If a company drops the number of shares much faster than the stock appreciates, then that can signal they over-value their stock. Both Facebook and Uber saw large declines in the stock price during the 1-2 years surrounding their IPO.

Facebook was going for $40-45 during the months before their IPO (at $38), and 6 months later they fell to $20. Microsoft today might have a similar boom and bust. In these sorts of cases there will be lots of employees compensated unfairly one way or another.

When total comp offers are all similar, a major differentiator can be how much hubris a company shows valuing their own stock.
Doesn't matter. Here, on HN, you'll soon get in your face that study about how incident reports go up when it's made mandatory by law to wear a helmet when riding a bike.
It really depends on the situation and the signs.
Fyi, shipping to Russia:

- 1 kg = 30,03€

- 5 kg = 42€

- 30 kg ( max ) = 77,76€
I think NY Times had a similar story about fishing fleets in Thailand and Indonesia... basically modern slavery. Seized passports. Multi-year contracts. Brutal work hours, abuse, and horrendous living conditions.

Sounds like NZ acted aggressively in trying to do the right thing here, which is terrific to hear.
Isn't this just a version of a cache oblivious algorithm, using van emde boas ordering to make maximal usage of bytes per pull into the cache? Or is there more to it that I'm not seeing?

Good link to a similar discussion: An Introduction to Cache-Oblivious Data Structures - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16317613
Thanks for clarifying this. My roommate used to do this in after effects 10 years ago, so I couldn't understand what the demo video was attempting to showcase.
Thanks! Added hats :D
Seeing Audio just like a data
> Now you need sub-sorters

The main limitations is to be able to sort into only 12 bins in one pass. If you want more detail or more groups then you need more passes. Ideally it would sort into a few hundred bins at once but I have not been able to come up with a geometry that works well. The most radical idea would be a tower of 2 meters high or so with bins spaced around it like flower petals, the air jet would have to be timed super precisely to aim the part into the right bin, especially near the bottom where the velocity would be quite high.

Pick a part is easier, the software is trivial but the hardware is anything but, an 'automated warehouse' for Lego parts would be a pretty tricky thing from a mechanical point of view.

And once you're on that train of thought, the obvious end-game is a machine that re-assembles the sets, then we can declare Lego a 'solved problem'.
Just looking at your link the price of those is astoundingly high. It seems like they've taken a modest tool and sought to turn it into some sort of Veblen-good by replacing plastic cases and mechanical buttons with high res touchscreens and aluminum cases.

The rockbox-compatible sansas (and earlier cowons) were:
1. cheap (circa 30 bucks)
2. very small (I just measured my Clip Zip as: 5cm x 3cm x 1cm )
3. very light
4. has an SD slot (I don't know its max supported size but 32GB works fine for my audiobooks)
5. is easily flashable with rockbox
Which article was it?
> what does mainframe add other than complexity?

Compared to what? A cluster of x86 computers where all the security, cryptography, observability, reliability, availability has to be written by the owner on top of something like Kubernetes? And that can achieve the kind of throughput a mainframe has?

I'd say a mainframe is much simpler than that. It's already done. All you need to do is to sign the check and read the (hundreds of) manuals.
The Ontario government lost $42M selling cannabis in the last year
I hate to be one of those "I been complaining about this all along", but I have since my early college years in 2000!

I didn't have quite the sophistication in the arguments today, though they were essentially the same (1/20 is arbitrary, effect size is very important but ignored, false positives bound to happen, need to consider how rare the event is, etc).

I also lamented something that I feel is the core of the problem to begin with, people treated p-value = science and science = p-value. Once you do that, its easy to put blind faith into a single study that can have huge negative impacts on our freedoms and way of life. statistical significance is a tool that can be used in science, but saying that at the time produced huge defensiveness, especially from statisticians. I am glad this has finally begun to change
Apparently cycling in a fully upright position makes a big difference in how much sweat you produce. Also not wearing a helmet means you get to make better use of one of your major heat sinks.
I doubt training a scaled up transformer on 10TB of text will lead to significant improvements (btw, 10TB is about the size of all books in English in the Library of Congress). Image classifiers don't get a lot better when trained on a lot more data than ImageNet. 140GB is probably enough to train a general model, which could be finetuned on extra data for specific tasks.

Text generators need a world model and situational awareness, something like a map and a GPS signal. So we are probably two major breakthroughs away from a machine that actually understands something (or at least which seems to understand something, if you're philosophically opposed to the idea that a machine can understand something).
Judging by your name you are in NL? If so come on over one of these days and I'll be happy to give you some.
Have you ever posted the code? I would totally try implementing this, as the hardware work is something I can do, but my programming skills are rusty enough that I don't think I can write the code. I'd love to see other people try to build and improve on it.
This year I fell off my bike twice.

One time my wheels skidded while trying to get on a sidewalk and I would have hit my head if I didn't wear a helmet.

Another time a girl jumped in front of me on the bike lane and I must've had 30 km/h. I pressed the breaks hard and unfortunately the breaks on my front wheel were stronger than those in the back, and my bike overturned with me falling violently on the ground.
My left arm still hurts after one month and I had pain in my spleen area that kept me up at night. It's a good thing I also wear protective gloves as a fall like this can really injure your hands.

I'm not a Dutchman and I'd love to live in a bike friendly city like Amsterdam. But protective gear can really save you from serious injury even with no cars around.
Like anything, it takes practice, and there is a lot of unpredictability involved. The distribution of votes is power law. Here is my submission history over the past 12 years or so:

https://github.com/breck7/hn/blob/master/visualization%20(1)...

The good thing is often even posts that get just 1 or 2 upvotes or 1 or 2 comments, sometimes lead to the most meaningful offline impact.
It is HUUUUGGGEEE :)
> Just to clarify for others - its not that all iOS devices will report the location of all other devices, but rather "lost" devices will emit a (BLE?) signal, which nearby Apple devices will report its location back to Apple.

How would a lost device know it was lost? The Wired piece on this suggests that all devices are always broadcasting their location:

https://www.wired.com/story/apple-find-my-cryptography-bluet...
I'm sure you have, and there's no doubt in my mind he deserves the backlash he's getting.

Did you disagree with the point I made in some way, or was this just the most convenient outlet for some keyboard banging?