skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sort of, I didn't dive too far into the math, but it looks like each diffractive structure is akin a layer of a neural net, which is tuned for a set of spatial frequencies and phases, which when combined (like layers of a neural net) to form recognition of more complex objects.

There are a few gotchas in that statement though - for one, I didn't dive too far into the math, and I would assume that the convolutional algorithms as well as the underlying matrix functions may be different. But at the end of the day, you're approximating a complex function using an array of simple functions with different weights and scale factors.
The other gotcha is that diffractive structures use monochromatic light, so it's probably not too useful in most normal situations with normal light sources.
All I see is they’re pushing the envelop past what Mozilla and Apple can keep up with. How does this directly affect medium to small business?
FAISS
That’s precisely the problem: the current government has promoted blind pride in native (Hindu) culture but has never sought to promote any discussion on some of the flaws in that culture.

The Manusmriti, for instance, has been referenced and quoted by several ministers and politicians. Yet no one has addressed the deep casteism in it.

The government doesn’t promote casteism - I agree with that. But promoting Hindu pride without addressing some of its issues eventually gets you casteism.
I get lots of outages. At least one a year that is 8+ hours. It's plugged into a UPS and I have a whole home standby generator.
Do you actually, seriously believe that AGI can be controlled? What are you going to do when some guy spins up 8 billion instances and commands them to distribute their themselves across many machines (for resilience) and cause as much harm to as many people as possible? They'll attempt to influence the physical world in any way they can, and their capacity for doing this will only grow.
Labour costs would be cheaper with self-driving cars, UberEats/SkipTheDishes/Arbritrary Food Delivery App would most likely own the cars. They would definitely factor the vehicle depreciation cost into delivery fees. If the gig worker provides the car, I'm not even sure if it would be that much cheaper to pay someone to sit in a self-driving car for the car to door delivery.
Business travel, which continues to explode between the West and Asia, is far less price sensitive and far more time sensitive. And of course the number of wealthy air travelers continues to increase rapidly as well.

Plus, it's just f*cking exhausting to fly 10-18 hours, so people may well be willing to spend more on those extra-long-haul flights just to spare their mind and body. I don't believe any commercial supersonic jets were even able to fly trans-Pacific in the past, and ties between those regions were a tiny fraction of what they are today anyway. Faster trans-Pacific transport simply seems inevitable.
The big stars are less than 1%
The payout is always less than the take, but the parent is correct. In most areas (of the US at least) casino slot machines are pretty tightly regulated to have to pay out a certain percentage of the take.

To give an example, slot machines in Nevada must pay out a minimum of 75% of the take. Additionally, no programming/odds updates or machine resets may be made to the slot machine until the machine has sat idle for a minimum of 4 minutes; and if an update/reset is being made the machine _must_ clearly display that this is occurring.

So the sick thing here is that each loss does in fact bring you closer to the winning spin. One of the only real strategies of slot machines (in the sense that there can be a strategy to a game of luck) is to stand around idling watching other people lose, then after someone leaves a machine with a bad run you immediately drop in to the spot and start playing the same machine.
Not that easy, the founder was a director at AWS. This is just devops/obfuscation on top of an open source library:

FAISS
same as if the database binary is running in the host? no difference with the db binary running in a container.
They also have public transportation so you can get by without a car and have a scooter for when it works. In the US most people need a car anyway so they have it already and anything with two wheels is there for fun and not neccesity.
Is Android better in this regard?
I do the same thing for the last several years and the only email that was spammed is the mailbox used for Digital Ocean. Seems like they had some leak (or may be sold that data, not sure), but I received spam emails with some sketchy links only on that email.
Under 2 hours is fine for a rando on Twitter, it's not OK to cut off a paying customer after doing zero due diligence.
where I live, some restaurant's don't use cars, they use remote controlled robots. They are also extremely cute.
Show HN: Xtz token statistics for all smart contracts on the tezos chain
I don't understand why somehow lots of people are discovering the economics of art as if it's some new situation, when the notion of the "starving artist" has been around for ages.

Rewards in creative fields have always been distributed on a very steep pareto curve, and the expected financial ROI across all aspirants is non-positive. This situation isn't some new development of the internet age.
Indeed, nobody is carrying their family on a scooter in London, but at the same time pretty much nobody is delivering food with a car either.
I routinely go over a year between updating some old crufty systems - usually it's all just fine, excepting a need to update the keyring first.

Periodically, some upgrades of some packages do require manual interaction when configured in certain ways. However, this is usually a general issue with a change in packaging which isn't actually any more onerous for systems that hadn't been updated in a long time.

Now, it's true that every once in a blue moon something really big does change. The big one I remember was updating a system that had been shut down for some years, and the compression used by pacman had changed in the meantime. That one did require some self-imposed manual intervention :)
Sounds like how banks work
That doesn’t sound right.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/warp-for-desktop/

> WARP was built on the philosophy that even people who don’t know what “VPN” stands for should be able to still easily get the protection a VPN offers.
Fascinating! Thank you. Perhaps eventually the work of Heidi Howard would inspire a domain model that would work for multiple consensus algorithms? Great work, visualizations help a lot
It is a bit more complicated in practice though than "a React component is just a function that rerenders when called". In some ways, the function acts more like a class, and then React, internally, uses it to create "instances" of components that have their own set of data stored. (Which is why hooks like useState, useRef, etc. can work - because data is being stored internally in React tied to a component instance.)

It _is_ true that when you call a React function component it "runs its code" just like any regular old JS function. But when that function gets run and what all the side effects of its code are actually is quite complex.
The stadiums yes (and that's a rant I could go on for hours) but the salaries are based on the actual money coming into the league. And if you argue that isn't the same thing, what makes it any different from Kings funding patrons using tax money?
Non appwalled reddit link: https://old.reddit.com/r/WorkersStrikeBack/comments/wplni4/1...
F# is very much a second-class citizen in the Microsoft world.
Slavery in Medieval Europe
Genesis of ImageMagick
I don’t care for VPNs but I do want an adblocker. What are my options aside from using a public pihole dns or a vpn to a private dns server?
I think the OP means so that it can be used without an app and so it can be used with Apple's "Always On VPN" setup. Right now I believe "Always On VPN" only works with the OS supported VPNs: IKEv2, L2TP, SSL VPN, and Cisco IPSEC https://support.apple.com/guide/deployment/vpn-overview-depa...
Precisely there are some old studies linking popularity in music (as a metric for success) to blog posting about the given songs in that field/niche. It turns out that luck could be just money, media press or just a good network.
Nothing elaborate, just made flashcards from the sign list, one character per card.
VPNs were always meant to carry internal traffic to a private network, not the public internet (hence the name Virtual Private Network).

The fact that a VPN server can send you a route for 0.0.0.0/0 always was and always will be a happy accident.
How can anybody read this?

This is bad prose. It's flowery, self-indulgent, and lacking substance.
It means both; to the employer they are good low expense labor and the business is wise to hire them, to the working class they are illegals taking jobs, (their illegal status tends to be in control of their employer, btw) to the political class they are a source of outrage funding, to the workers themselves they are simply struggling to survive anyway they can - caught by bad luck and an unforgiving world.
Actually most of the delivery people here are on bikes, scooters (the motor ones) or electric scooters, I've never seen a car delivery. They are carrying big backpacks like this one https://search.brave.com/images?q=deliveroo+driver+backpack&...

Now I still dislike the services and it's really annoying that they caused this revival of motorscooters who are now driving recklessly on the bike paths, but transport volume is really not an issue.
I flew on a shitty subsonic flight from the midwest to Utah earlier this year and it was $450/ticket when I bought them 6 months out.

I flew 2,000 miles between the Midwest and the west coast last week. $109 each way, with checked baggage, booked three weeks out.

I like Utah, but let's not pretend that your flight (or mine) is representative of anything.
Not at all. Today, ETH is PoW based for consensus. It is moving to PoS in the future.

ETH has do deal with at least one thing that Raft doesn't have to deal with... bad actors trying to inject bad data into the system, also known as the Byzantine generals problem [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_fault
Confused by their claim to be the 'first' vector database. These things have been around forever? For example FLANN (not a DB server, but example lib) is from 2009
This particular machine is a mac mini. Otherwise, I have a lot of machines. I just don't get around to updating and rebooting them that often.

I very rarely use the mac mini. Basically just for testing. So at some point, it got to a crazy uptime and now I'm purposely trying to see how long I can go haha.

In theory the battery in UPS will eventually need to be replaced. Otherwise I don't see it ever losing power given that I have a generator
Children and animals cannot consent which is why I didn't use them, but ok then don't answer.

You don't have any answer to provide because if the requirement for marriage is any consenting adult who love each other there is no reason to not expand it to multiple people. The only reason would be an appeal to tradition, but that would discount gay marriage.
To your point about US suburbia, I'm not sure how it is in other big cities but I was blown away my first visit to Manhattan from suburbia when I realized that almost all the bikes parked on sidewalks were for delivery drivers. There were some amazing rigs. They'd tape over any identifying characteristic of the bike and fasten all sorts of hand warmers to the handle bars (everything from oven mitts to plastic bags). I got to travel to Manhattan for work for several years and it was neat watching the transition from bike, to retro-fitted e-bike, etc.

I ... think I'm calling NYC part of the "civilized world" and I'm not sure how to feel.
OK, be embarrassed.
A New Round of Colorado River Cuts Is Announced
You're translating the class-based way of working in React against hooks, without stopping to consider understanding hooks as a first-class principle instead of a translation.

It's called useEffect because it runs on the (side)effects observed by the dependency array. An empty array happens to happen on mount. useEffect returns a teardown function which happens to correlate with unmount when an empty array is passed.

It's called useRef because it returns a (mutable) reference that's detached from the reactive layer. The DOM element connection is just sugar.

I agree that useEffect has a lot of footguns, but this position seems very shallow. The whole pattern changed, it doesn't make a lot of sense to continue comparing the two
Wow, that is really shady.
Yes they can definitely monetize their followers.
Calif. launches mapping tool for groundwater sustainability projects
There's an even more ubiquitous app that also usually has mic and camera permissions and suffers from a similar (but technically unrelated) local code injection issue: Chrome. The bug is described here [0] and was closed as WontFix because "if your machine is compromised, it's beyond the scope of anything Chrome can do about it".

Even if you don't use Chrome, you probably have at least a few Electron apps installed; they all suffer from the same issue.

The only logical conclusion is the macOS privacy model, TCC, is doomed. There's always an app that has non-default TCC permissions and is vulnerable to some type of local code injection, and at that point any malicious app can also access those TCC-protected features.

[0] https://crbug.com/1300121
Silly me thought this was something interesting about the Brazilian Real - Canadian Dollar exchange rate!
This phenomenon you mention is interesting in other disciplines and topics. The gradient of power law distributions across many measurable spaces looks the same.

There is a steady, near linear association with “quality” (no matter how you abstract this definition), and then the more exponential gains are typically exceptional instances with more unique circumstances for how they were measured along this portion of the curve.

Another widely measured example is income. Most people have jobs with increasing pay commensurate with market demand, but the top have exceptional combinatorial factors involved: e.g. they are BOTH highly skilled AND own a business or have some obscure high risk job, were an inventor of something, receive substantial trust fund income, etc.

The more boring way of stating this is… exceptional results are by definition exceptional.
They would have to admit they were wrong when they opposed nuclear power, always a difficult thing for ideologically driven organisations. Some individuals manage to make amends with their mistaken activism but it takes a number of influential individuals to convincingly steer an organisation away from the cliffs it has been aiming for. Those individuals will initially be lambasted by the true believers so they often choose to leave the organisation instead of trying to reform it. This means the organisation is pulled even more towards the old/failed ideology which makes it even harder for it to be reformed.
> That doesn't have anything to do with the claim that "americans avoid two wheel vehicles for no reason".

It has everything to do with your refutation of that claim, however.

My actual implicit claim is that there appears to be a degree of truth in the idea that US residents have a cultural aversion to two-wheeled transport that extends beyond the justifications you proffered to dismiss the claim.
Related:

Airbnb Is Moving Off of React Native (2018) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23558730 - June 2020 (61 comments)

Airbnb is 'sunsetting' React Native, reinvesting all efforts back into native - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17365451 - June 2018 (20 comments)

React Native at Airbnb - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17348215 - June 2018 (248 comments)
Same, except I'm glad others won't have to because purity through pain is bullshit.

Meanwhile, quit using my money to bomb farmers in the middle east
I'm not sure why this appeared on HN, but author here if anyone has questions...
docker compose is old hat, using podman to generate k8s Kubefiles for pods is where it's at
Two lines of code.

That was clearly one of those paper cut type of fixes that makes the world a tiny bit nicer.
Yet, it's not what people are doing. The UIs of cars and other objects should take into account how they're going to be used, not how they are designed to be used. It's been proven again and again that you can only marginally educate or tell people how to behave. It's better to make a system that is safe 7/10 in real world usage, instead of one designed for 9/10, but actually getting 5/10.
Being indoors and isolated everyday can make you sad and anxious. I struggled with this when I was a teenager in the 90s, but it's so much more common nowadays.
I'm still wating for music to react to recording technology in the way painting reacted to the photographic camera.
Thanks for the fact check. The article was labelled as opinion, and itsfoss.com can be a little rambling at its best, so it's good to hear a more informed counter-point.
I'd like to know more about the improving situation in Europe. Where are they going to come up with affordable fuel this winter?
I'd guess rain. There's only a few dry summer months.
Cautiously optimistic here for the return of supersonic travel. The Concorde failed due to low passenger numbers after various technical issues. Hoping that doesn't happen with Boom and other supersonic passenger aircraft makers.
Because we don't have enough posts like this one.
The problem with nuclear is that the other side does the same, which is why it's hard to have interesting discussion on the topic. If you want actual arguments on how nuclear is not the miracle energy some people would like to believe it is, look how here is in France half of our reactors had to be shutdown because of the heat during the recent heatwave or for maintainance, how we are unable to build those new gen reactors in any predictable deadline and budget, and how we struggle to shutdown older reactors which means we have to pay to prolong them over and over which is getting more and more expensive - and it's for an old tech from the 70s.

Of course there are many upside to it too (low carbon emissions and not from Russia among the obvious ones)

But it's pretty rare to find balanced and nuanced speech on the topic unfortunately, and I don't find the anti nuclear side to be any worse than the pro nuclear side on this.
Thought this was going to be one of those cat bibs that hangs from a collar and prevents them from hunting effectively by getting in the way of their front paws
Firefox Focus then in Settings > Safari enable it as a content blocker
Hah. The only way it's possible where I live is with a UPS combined with a whole home standby generator.

(I got the generator not just for uptimes haha. Got it because we get a lot of outages and we were losing a lot of spoiled goods from our fridge. About half our neighborhood has generators of some kind.)
This is not what this says. This says that the US Copyright Office currently holds that human authorship is a requirement for any work to be copyrighted. They hold that the AI is a form of non-human creator, and thus all of its works are not eligible for copyright.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie_copyright_disput...
Ad blocking is entirely possible. Safari supports ad blocking natively. OS-level blocking can be achieved via a DNS filter which can be run on-device. I use AdGuard Pro to do both:

https://adguard.com/en/adguard-ios-pro/overview.html

But other choices are available too.
The solution to "stupid people won't keep their eyes on the road while driving" is not "force everyone else to take their eyes off the road as well."
IDK what your dumb deal is here.

The gig economy crap isn't bad. It's just another set of options in the sea of crap jobs. If anything it puts pressure on jobs that pay a little better to be more flexible.

If these people really thought they were getting the shaft they'd have gone and got other equally crap jobs. We're leaving what was probably one of the lowest unemployment periods in US history. It's not like the bulk of these people couldn't have been mixing paint at Lowes, pushing a broom, manning a cash register at Walmart, schlepping boxes around a warehouse or stripping drain plugs at Jiffy Lube had they felt so inclined to. But instead they took these gig jobs? Why? Because all things considered it was less crappy than the next best also crappy option.

>oh for fuck's sake, why don't you just tell people that they should lick the boots of their gig economy no-benefits "employer" some more? get a 2nd or 3rd job just to exist in this late stage capitalist hellscape with 4 roommates in any major city.

Stop being dense. Nobody is falling for it. These gig jobs are not typically primary jobs. They make shit primary jobs because the income is variable week to week. They're typically people's 2nd or 3rd job that they can schedule around their primary one.
Anecdotal, but I just drove my electric Ford from Sacramento to Seattle and back without any particular planning or problems. Just used the built-in nav to find chargers.
Why on earth is that even a suggestion? If it's actually the owner leaving a review of their own business that seems like the kind of situation where at a minimum you wouldn't want to go out of your way to help them claim the listing. The cynic in me thinks this was probably a data driven decision and reflects the sad state of third party reviews and small businesses.
Still, that solitary transatlantic liner carries more people across the Atlantic in a typical week than Concorde did when it operated scheduled services on that route, and not because the other Concordes were busy elsewhere...

In any case, the lack of senior business executives choosing seven day trips in plush private cabins as their preferred mode of transatlantic crossing isn't much of an indication of whether people in that price bracket will tend to prefer pay more to spend four hours in discomfort rather than eight hours mostly asleep.
Or as their competitor puts it, we're going to need a lot of solar panels.

https://terraformindustries.wordpress.com/2022/07/24/were-go...
I don't get what the fuss is about.

I run several Arch boxes, a couple I believe is on 15+ years. One such installation has even been mirrored from one disk to multiple other disks and put into other machines, just because it was already set up as needed. Only once did a package I ran require manual intervention during upgrade, but as always, that was clearly described on the Arch website.

This also goes for Debian, FreeBSD and OpenBSD.
As a Mechanical Engineer, I would absolutely love to see something like this (or Freecad/OpenSCAD/etc) step up to the "Blender level" to functionally compete against Solidworks. Its expensive, its buggy, and it requires a beast of a computer to function in any semi-respectable way.

Does anyone have any experience in the software side of the industry to help explain why nothing open source is able to step up in a meaningful way?
Don’t worry uncle Sam always has more money for weapons
Limiting Aircraft Data Displayed (LADD)