skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who very much likes how 24fps looks, it’s still worth noting that 24 was only chosen to balance film usage with smoothness.

I’m willing to buy into the idea that lower framerates cause our brains to “fill in” details and thereby improve immersion by some impossible-to-measure metric, but let’s not pretend that’s why 24 was chosen. It was chosen because 30 or 48 or 60 would cost more to shoot.

Display tech is also a big factor. It took me a little while to adjust when I first got an OLED TV. The lower response times of LCD give it a sort of natural interpolation between frames, but OLEDs are fast as hell and you can absolutely see the difference.
I think you mispasted that first one.
I can see a future (maybe in another 5 years) where Windows has better driver support for some old GPUs than Linux does.
I don't get this "instantly jump ship logic". Finding the next big thing takes time, even for the best people. A bunch of other companies are laying off too right now, so that makes the search harder, not a great time to rage quit. One company may steal the benefits forever, another one may actually bring them back at some point. Rage quitting immediately after a 10% pay cut doesn't seem very logical, wouldn't you want to stick around for a bit to see if the company recovers (and the job market improves)? and only then move.
It's completely vacuous. A human brain isn't fully developed until 25; therefore you can do whatever you want to under 25s? No, that's obviously stupid.
It feels to me like you're redefining what a number is to be very different to what anyone with a maths background would say a number is. Essentially you're saying that neither e nor pi are numbers?
Yes and 5 years ago the most impressive thing “AI” could do is tell you if an object was a cat or a banana.
Now it can hold complex conversations and write computer code.

It’s never too early to start thinking of the implications of technology. It’s not inconceivable that in a few years every crooked small town cop will have access to tools straight out of science fiction- tools that started out as innocuous research.
Hmm. I confess I don't often go into my spam folder but was just going from what I recall of the back-and-forths on https://www.419eater.com/html/letters.htm
Does anyone have a comparison to other nations?
https://tomotcha.com/ — a Japanese tea subscription service. Although we had to suspend our activities for the better part of 2022, we've been able to resume in January 2023.

Logistic is brutal in what is starting to look like a post globalization world: shipping fees are through the roof, delays are long, regulation (especially in the EU) is ever more stringent. COVID-19 pretty much killed bemmu's Candy Japan (https://www.candyjapan.com), and EU regulation just killed Candysan (https://candysan.com): they threw in the towel one week ago.

And yet we keep going... gross margin is around $800~$1000 per month.
It probably wouldn’t have long and well thought out messages that makes HN what it is
The GM link is tenuous at best, and has never been proven.
Tools like FindBugs/SpotBugs and some IDEs have been generating such warnings for many years, this basically exists. What is difficult, however, is if a final method of the same class is called (which should be fine), but that final method in turn calls a non-final method (directly or indirectly). Or if the final method is in a superclass, whose implementation could later change (or could be made non-final). Or if you store a lambda reference to a non-final method in a field (there are valid use cases for that), then call a final method which directly or indirectly invokes that lambda. Unless you want to disallow any non-static method calls from constructors, the necessary language rules would be nontrivial.

Making it illegal is difficult, because there is a lot of code relying on this, and there are valid use cases for passing this to foreign code from the constructor, foreign code which might of course invoke anything on the instance.
Apple has acted like the grown ups in the room for the better part of 15 years. I also think Steve, for all his flaws, was pretty anti layoffs as you inevitably lose good people.
I released https://aipaintr.com based on the open source stable diffusion model. The webapp allows users to train custom dreambooth model and generate images using it.

Dreambooth is a powerful algorithm which can generate images of any concept you train it on. Users use it to generate images of person, e-commerce products, different artistic styles etc.

It has two main parts:
1. Webapp for individuals
2. API for other app developers https://app.aipaintr.com/api/v1/docs/

Its been 4 months since launch and it has gotten low 10s of thousand in revenue. Competition is fierce. Lot of apps launched in this domain.
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Unless you run your own instance of reddit how can you be sure that is what is used?
Only problem is it massively reduces perceived brightness—an area where OLED already lags behind LCD.
one example is that Passover (Pesach – פסח) may have included a ritual sacrifice in days before the modern format.
I swear I read the FAQ and the last question was "Are you real? Sometimes. I mean, yes.". I chuckled at that one and it was the end of the page!? Or ir wasn't? OP if you just added it please tell me :) (nah, just partly joking, I'm sincerely confused though)
Mathoverflow has some good discussion of Banach-Tarski [0]. The top-rated posts argue that

- The 'problem' with B-T may be related to our notion of "space" (i.e. point-set topology) rather than any issues with the axiom of choice

- Most practical uses of the axiom of choice could get by with the axiom of countable choice, under which B-T doesn't hold

- Mathematics need not directly model the 'real' world or match our physical intuition

[0] https://mathoverflow.net/questions/260057/axiom-of-choice-ba...
You think the existence tribal leaders, elders, priests and alpha males/females are "doctrine"? Because I'm pretty sure those are factual observations. Maybe you mean to argue they are not necessary or always present in humans or apes. Fine, present evidence this is so and the frequency of such exceptions.
Yes, inability to modify variables from the lambda is extremely frustrating and makes exactly zero sense as compiler can always convert variable to a wrapper object on the heap. I guess this is another improvement for the future. Too bad that Java's future is Lisp's infancy.
I think you're failing to consider the selection bias in those who have had the chance to ask the question of. By definition your clients are people who are able to hire lawyers. They aren't the target market for robot lawyers, not for a long time.
So, kinda like CUDA but works in browsers. Cool!
How is FAANG deciding on layoffs?
There have been huge layoffs at many huge tech companies, as of late.

How are they choosing the initial rounds of layoffs? Often, it's by email, and if you don't read every email, you wouldn't even know. You'd go to work, and your accounts would be disabled.

Any thoughts or knowledge on how this is going down?
Yeah! For demo and testing purposes. Feel free to play around/build toy apps with it. There is a small global rate limit for all unauthenticated users though so don't rely on it :)
Post did not, as the band claims, “steal” the name of the band. Ok go! is a simple, fairly generic expression.

At some point in most kids’ lives, they have played games of contest where someone would yell, Ok Go!” If anything, this expression resonates more with kid-focused products like cereal than with a band for non-children.

An agreement from both parties where the use of the name is fair for each seems reasonable, however. And in the case of a goliath vs a little band, the bigger should contribute more (all) to the legal costs as an offer of goodwill.
I did when I had a cheese grater Mac Pro because Xeon, otherwise no. Unless I'm mistaken, if your memory controller doesn't support error correction, it is pointless to buy ECC memory.
You’re a bit quick to jump to “I told you so”. Implied in the replies you received was “portability isn’t worth the cost, financial or otherwise”. From my experience of peoples use of Confluence, your suggestion would not be even close to a like-for-like alternative for the majority of cases.

As is always the case when trying to find viable alternatives for Atlassian products: this is harder than it seems.
I wish NumPy had it built in.
Well, can you ever really solve societal ills like this or just move the needle?

It’s not as if our war on drugs has solved the problem.
Finnish Parliament reminds copyright should not trump fundamental human rights
That’s a comparison with ODECC vs non ODECC memory chips not DDR5 vs DDR4.

ODECC was added because they wanted to be able to use DDR5 chips which would have had unacceptably large error rates without it. In other words that improvement is before the binning process, so they are selling chips with a vastly higher innate error rate to the point where the average DDR5 stick could actually be worse than the average DDR4 chip, it’s hard to say without large scale testing from multiple manufacturers.
>And you're ignoring relevant facts and replying with copypasta.

Which relevant facts and from where, exactly do you think I copy/pasted what I wrote?

>If you have an argument to make based on the facts, don't gesture at where the argument might be, just make it.

That's exactly what I did. You (essentially) asserted that the issues/backstory surrounding both sets of presidential records are exactly the same.

They are not. One person (well, a bunch of folks actually) blatantly lied about inappropriately having such documents and ignored subpoenas for such documents.

Another (again, a bunch of folks) immediately notified the relevant folks and returned them (National Archives) when such documents were discovered without being asked or issued subpoenas to do so.

While both situations are both disappointing and disturbing, they are very different scenarios.

You ignored that nuance. And that was my "argument" and is based in fact. What I want to know is why you ignored the nuance? Facts matter.

I'll add that all public officials (regardless of partisan affiliation) should be held to a higher standard than everyone else.

This (mostly) hasn't been done because those with a partisan agenda defend their own and only attack their perceived "adversaries." That's wrong, regardless of who does it.
More like, cruelty is easy and cost-effective.
Are we so certain it needs higher taxes? Have the trial schemes that have been run shown that?
Just to be clear, for any third party spectators, the surprise isn't that more work is required to get more digits .. the WTF moment for some is that no matter how large N is there's no need to do an increasing amount of work as N grows (there's no cost to "skipping to (not quite) the end").

It's another of those intuition challenging moments in math.
https://maggieappleton.com/ai-dark-forest

The open internet will be a dark forest, beautiful but mostly populated by metal-brains, meatb-brains will retreat to their human only spaces, local Facebook or Instagram where you know everyone in person or WhatsApp chat groups.
No batteries, anyway. So any generated power not pushed back to the grid is wasted.
Did the governments bother trying and evaluate the popular support for such idea? Or is yet another top-bottom thing like CBDC?

On a lighter note even if there is agreement the first problem will arise when deciding who gets on the bill, Pele or Maradona /s

Currencies are inherently a thing of countries , not sovra-national entities. The Euro has been a failure for everybody except Germany
The same reason people who don't work are generally expected to look for a job. This has been mentioned by others.

That's not to say that everyone has the same expectations.
I heard about this for the first time 7 years ago. An ex colleague couldn't enter the office - the badge simply didn't work anymore. Imagine how freaking embarrassing: you try to enter, nope. Then you ask a colleague to open for you and later you find out that, ... well....

Nowadays thanks to remote working it's less embarrassing: your account simply becomes "deactivated" on Slack while you're in the middle of a chat with someone.

We made a lot of progress over the years I have to admit...
Cool that the ads are at the end of the game. Do you get people to donate as well?

How did you start getting traffic to your game and how is it getting traffic nowadays? Apart from the South African app.
It's probably your theater then, many converted to digital instead of film.
Sure, but most spam will go the other way. When you're in a forum and you express an opinion that doesn't fit what the bot swarm is designed to police, they will gang up on you and argue against you from various angles, and you'll think your opinion is just super unpopular. If you are a famous person they'll do reputational attacks, after amassing karma points and followers across the swarm. Then they'll move on to combating the remaining human-powered outlets like nytimes.com, becoming the next Vox or Vice, but totally AI-powered. Their bots will spread their articles over the other ones. And finally, having driven humans underground in the dark forest of social media, they'll basically dominate the Internet.

The real sea change will come, though, when bot swarms control capital. For example, amassed for doing spam tasks. That capital can be deployed in a variety of ways, but the point is that corporations and networks will prefer bots because they generate more social capital, in coordinated ways, and also amass more financial capital than humans.

If you think this is far fetched, IT ALREADY HAPPENED on wall street and hedge funds. Bots have replaced people in trading and control the capital. Humans who trade among the bots get fleeced and don't even know it.
I didn't suggest that people are good at making that effort. They arent. But the irony is that it's precisely in that difficulty that the act of verification lies. The fact that it's so difficult that it's not at all an efficient method for discernment suggests that it's either done on purpose or Google's UI is just not good for that purpose, or both.
How is that absurd? There is approximately zero consumer demand for stuff like this. Remember when chip cards were deployed 10 years ago and everyone was annoyed at how chip readers forced them to have the card out longer? Or how Amazon often doesn't check CVV numbers because doing do would increase attrition?

Of course a few of the largest banks find it worthwhile to add a page to their website where you can generate virtual card numbers, but it's not a huge win for them by any means even when they're liable for stolen cards.
Well, they should not count on the founders "vision", as they tried to sell Google for $1 million, and after a little bargaining even went as low as $750,000...

https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/4/20994361/google-alphabet-...
It seems like these guys are late to the party. Companies like apollomapping.com and eos.com already have very similar offerings and companies like arlula.com have already negotiated 1 kilometer minimums with many of their suppliers already.

What is Skyfi doing different here?
So yes. I was right. everything I'm claiming is opposite of what the book proposes.

Perhaps I'll read it. I will say that what I'm "claiming" is what's claimed by academia. It's the status quo. If DoE doesn't agree then I don't think it's widely regarded as good by academia.
I acquired a side hustle in late 2022. It’s doing $1k/month. I’ve been enjoying it so far. Basic queues using http as input and http output.

https://zeplo.io
That's interesting, but the article does say there were also evidence in some areas of male leaders. I guess the question is how typical aboriginal social organization without leadership was of pre-historic humans and whether this still led to emergent leadership among denser populations, like what agriculture would end up supporting.
Other interesting facts on US population distribution/location:

> In the U.S., 127 million people live in coastal counties. That’s as much as the entire population of Japan. If they were their own nation, the coastal counties of the U.S. would rank third in the world in gross domestic product, beaten only by China and the U.S. as a whole. The outsize U.S. marine economy is fueled by tourism and recreation, offshore energy, shipbuilding, and aquaculture, to name just a few.

* https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/population.html

> Roughly two-thirds of the United States' population lives within the 100-mile zone—that is, within 100 miles of a U.S. land or coastal border. That's about 200 million people.

* https://www.aclu.org/other/constitution-100-mile-border-zone
I prefer that people get the joke (and to use languages where this isn’t a problem).
It's a bit depressing to realise that that first $500 MRR is both very hard to achieve (well done everyone showing and telling!) and not enough to quit the day job. (In the countries most of us here live in, and without having savings and deciding that with the push of working on it full time for a few months it can be a lot more, at least.)
Like, perhaps, Japanese people?
They don’t even learn, they confabulate. “Correct” responses are an accident, and there is no notion of (especially medical) correctness involved.
My understanding was that they published a pile of papers to establish the skeleton of the narrative before it made it into the book. David Wengrow's publication history has a number of papers which rhyme with things in the book, like this one: https://iris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/publication/1519520/1

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History also has a strong bias towards the status quo. If a new theory is proposed which explains the available evidence with equal ability, the pre-existing idea will typically remain the accepted version of the story. The net effect is that we're prone to get stuck with versions of history originally proposed by phrenologists and worse... When common sense fills in the blanks in the story, you might get stuck with some very bad version of common sense, completely alien to the historical people it's being applied to.

We really should approach history with a bit of the spirit of Rashomon. When we look at it with a too narrow lens, we wind up underestimating the breadth of what's possible.
This is the type of engine you might see on a truck or a van that a tradesperson might use. The truck pulling a trailer filled with landscaping equipment, the plumber van, or a package delivery van. It'll also probably find it's way into the camero, the escalade, and more consumer focused automobiles, but I imagine it's in more trucks than anything else.

I'm not sure what the EV story around these small-business focused vehicles are. Some professions, like commercial plumbers, would put a larger focus on cold weather performance than current EVs have. Some professions follow a pattern of going to a job site for an hour, and then go to the next one. They might be convinced if their total daily millage is within one charge or if they can charge at their job sites. Some uses of these vehicles are literally driving eight+ hours a day, and probably will be among the last to leave ICUs.
So is the crux of 'critical theory' to not make generalizations? How does critical theory propose to understand general patterns and trends? Ancient tribal societies were (almost?) always led by male warrior chiefs. Critical theory apparently says to focus on the rare exceptions, but won't that just give you an unrealistic view of history?

Inasmuch as critical theory actually causes us to not "assume 'that particular indoeuropean tomb is probably from a male warrior chief'" doesn't that do us a disservice? The tomb __probably__ did belong to a male warrior chief.
Ah yes, "Disneyland with the Death Penalty". I'm not sure you understand the dynamic that created Singapore, or appreciate the relatively authoritarian measures that ensure that it doesn't become a "filthy cit[y] with piss and feces everywhere, drugs openly being used in public homeless tent cities, and casual shoplifting not only tolerated but actually celebrated". I'd like to know which city you're referring to, I've slummed it in the worst of European cities and I haven't seen anything close to this. It sounds like the right-wing characterisation of San Francisco, though. So if it is SF, I'd like to ask you: what policies specifically Singapore institutes that San Francisco (or the place you're thinking of) don't?
I have tried switching to Linux in the past and it was not for me. As upsetting as Microsoft’s recent decisions have been, it is not enough to make me change operating systems.
Overconfidence and AI
> But those higher prices have to be sustained to keep those additional operations profitable.

That is not, in fact, the case. A higher price need persist only long enough to pay the capital cost of developing the resource. The millionth ton is routinely much cheaper to extract than the first ton.

And, of course, we don't need 50x lithium production in any case. That is your private fantasy. No, thank you, not buying.
Pretty similar to an older Nature paper, using smart speakers to monitor heart rate.

Wang, A., Nguyen, D., Sridhar, A.R. et al. Using smart speakers to contactlessly monitor heart rhythms. Commun Biol 4, 319 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-01824-9
I’ve been de-emphasizing [0] adversarial search results on Amazon for a while and the sheer volume is stunning once visualized. Just this increased awareness (and reflexive disgust) has led me to avoid it more.

[0]: User style .s-result-item:has(.s-sponsored-label-text) { opacity: 0.2; }
And layoffs are even more demoralizing. They’re like pay cuts but even more extreme. Companies always factor in voluntary attrition after layoffs.
That's true for Southeast Asia, which is a pretty big gaming market as well. They essentially skipped PC gaming and went straight to smartphones.

For the wealthier East Asian countries like China, Japan, and Korea this isn't the case. It's more of a cultural thing due to various factors including

- Smartphones and mobile games became popular long before they became popular in the US. People are used to paying money for mobile games. It was this way from the very start.

- The Gacha model was popular in Japan even before mobile games. That's where the word comes from. Korea had similar machines.

- People take public transportation much more than in the US, which leads itself to playing games on the go (mobile).

- At least in Japan (less so in China and even less so in Korea), people prefer non-competitive gaming. That's why competitive games like DoTA, LoL, Counter Strike, etc, were never popular in Japan. Even Diablo with PVP never was popular.
Revolutionary tech gets packaged in some user friendly form for non-experts. A smartphone is chock full of amazing tech but is reasonably user friendly to use, to the point that pretty much everyone has one. Crypto isn't really like that. The real stuff is deeply technical. The simplified stuff (eg, storing your coins at an exchange) loses the entire point of crypto.

It also solves problems people have. Crypto aims at a very narrow, very ideological set of problems that the vast majority of people doesn't really need solving. Its tradeoffs only make sense if those are real problems you have.

Eg, if you're a drug dealer the lack of customer service or law that can rescue you from your errors isn't a problem. The law is your enemy anyway, so you already made peace with that if somebody steals from you, going to the police isn't an option.

Having a normal person put all their life's savings into crypto on the other hand is an absolutely terrible idea. Anyone doing that is risking a single error or a single bug ruining their life with next to zero chance of recovery.
Interesting - going to have to read this more in depth.

I also note that I missed it when it went past the front page at the start of the month. For any others who also missed it - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34243709