skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except that even on an LCD the boundaries between individual pixels (RGB triplets) are imaginary. An RGB triplet forming an individual pixel is just a useful abstraction. But physically when looking at the screen an RGB triplet is not any special than a BRG triplet on the same display (ignoring the edges of the display and that some displays do have slightly larger gap between subpixels from different pixels).
Looks like his name is now mentioned one time on the Pixar About Us -> Our Story page.

https://www.pixar.com/our-story-pixar

But that mention only says

> The following year, [Ed Catmull] is joined by Alvy Ray Smith, who is hired as Director of Computer Graphics Research.

So it seems like it’s still not fully crediting Alvy Ray Smith in the manner that the letter asks for.
I'm 99% confident the post is intended to be sarcastically suggesting memory management is replaced with a garbage collector.
There are plenty of chanses to make generational whealth for the middle class in europe. Especially in the nordic countires.
This is an incredibly important project under the new reality that Russia can cause war and havoc at any time and in any state. If they can do it in a Europe that has basically been at peace for 70 years, and facing massive worldwide opposition and direct opposition from the United States in the form of aid, weapons, and people, then they can do it anywhere, even in the continental United States. No place is safe under such conditions. In Ukraine as a war crime, Russia targeted energy infrastructure including power plants, bringing energy grids offline.

This is something that could deprive people of basic communications and information access.

The mitigation of this seems difficult. Solar panels on the outside of houses can be destroyed by bombing easily, and gasoline powered generators on the inside are loud, expensive, and require ventilation for safety.

How can a people stay connected and continue to communicate under active Russian attacks on their energy grid?

With these thoughts in mind, when I saw this project I smiled, because it approaches the issue from an alternative angle. Who needs a loud and potentially noxious gasoline generator if it is possible to reduce the display draw to an amount that can be successfully powered from incident light?

Such a solution can solve pressing issues in our time and going forward. Quiet, compact, and mobile.

A good solution for the worst possible world.
Sadly, for programming, I've had to use Google quite a few times lately.

Their raise feature is nice, but always finding stack overflow (because I raised it) on top of ACTUAL documentation for a specific topic kinda ruins it.
You may want to look a bit deeper than pricing page. And no, it's not my company.

Not sure what "genuinely free" means.
A similar report from the DOJ on the LMPD (Louisville, KY) came out yesterday[0]. Maybe bringing these departments into the light will effect change.

[0] https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/08/politics/louisville-pattern-a...
Someone wrote:

> I would suggest doing what i did with ebay, find their head office address and send a signed for letter stating all the transactions that need paying and proof that funds were not received

That's what I'd do, because that's the SOP in France and probably all of Europe. A registered letter / "signed for" letter / lettre recommandée / whatever it's called in your jurisdiction has some legal weight whereby the procedural clock starts ticking once it's delivered. The receiving entity is pretty much obliged to respond in a timely matter and escalate internally, because otherwise if the matter eventually goes before a court, they will, among other things, not be able to argue ignorance or negligence on the part of the sender. You can also typically send an electronic certified letter whereby the post office prints and delivers the letter, thereby effectively acting as a notary since they have a copy of the content.
Direct air capture (DAC) and sequestration of CO2: Dramatic effect
Curious, does anyone remember how the book "Creativity, Inc"
(by Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace) represent the situation? Read it years ago but don't remember.
> $35 external webcam and a lamp or ring light

Fuck it, buy some cheapy LED panels (Lidl are doing roughly iPad-sized SAD lights for under 20 quid), some gel to tame the colour, and do yourself a proper three-point lighting setup.
I have the Nreal Air which has no batteries. I have fairly high correction and yet is't not heavy at all (I have prescription glasses for the Nreal). It is great tech and I easily work for hours on it. But the battery just drains too fast (it uses the phone battery). The weight is no issue at all so far.

Edit: Lenovo has them too I see. But because they need high processing for 'most' people, they don't have batteries and have cables. If you don't want to watch tv, play games etc, but just program Lisp and sync via BLE, I wonder if it's possible to make it very low consumption just on the glasses. I know that chipsets, including with BLE can be very low consumption. But I'm not sure if projecting the image at high enough res is possible on that low consumption, so that is my question if someone knows?

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/1/23332907/lenovo-glasses-t1...
Not only is the instruction set simple, but the clock-per-instruction cost is deterministic, so assembly code is ideal for real-time I/O. Just like GP, we found that we could often use a PRU in place of an FPGA and dramatically cut development cost (this was for very small production series).

One use case for C is communication with the CPU (remoteproc stuff). We commonly had one PRU handle CPU communication with trivial C code while another PRU on the same PRU subsystem was coded with assembly to handle real-time I/O.
I'm no expert, but what you're saying goes against everything I've ever heard, including from a driving instructor and senior engineer at Ford. The internet also seems to disagree with you.

https://www.eptyres.com/news/details/why-dry-steering-is-bad...

https://engineering.stackexchange.com/questions/16575/dry-st...
s/Dijour/du jour/
Solicitors in a civilised country are highly regulated and if they were to cease trading the local regulator will appoint a firm to handle their clients needs
Is anyone working on a tool to navigate the biomedical literature (NCBI, etc.) using ChatGPT?
Almost like messing with your own biochemistry caused a change in your biochemistry. I'm glad you moved away from it; nobody needs supplements if they don't have an underlying medical condition and eat normally, no matter what the supplement pushers try to tell you.

Also, you mention mushrooms, is that the magic kind? That'll mess with your brain chemistry for sure.
[2004]?
That is for sure suboptimal, but it is not necessarily representative of most Canadians’ experiences.
I did receive an e-mail.
Should mention the year (2004).

I knew Catmull as the co-author of the Catmull-Rom spline [1], didn't know he was a Pixar co-founder.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centripetal_Catmull%E2%80%93Ro...
Makes me think of Mondrian's paintings :-) Just add the colors :-)
Show HN: Can You Draw the Perfect Circle?
Hey everyone,

I saw a post couple of weeks ago here (https://neal.fun/perfect-circle/) and got inspired to implement ShapeN, a minimalist mobile game that challenges you to draw a perfect circle. I kind of spiced it up with some levels and a high score table to make it more engaging.

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/shapen/id1670577699
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.erenalgan....

Once you've downloaded the game, give it a try and see if you can draw the perfect circle and pass the levels. You can post your score in the comments and let me know how you did!

Feedback is welcome!

PS: No, I'm not the student in this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeoNYoL0ys0) but I invited them to take the challenge :P

Thanks for your time :)
If it "sounds made up" to you, then you won't mind if I come and stand behind you when you're trying to work and squeak a block of polystyrene up and down the window.
This entire conversation (not just picking on you!) is missing the point. Pixels are a context-sensitive abstraction that mean different things depending on what exactly you’re trying to accomplish. They can be point samples in a grid, they can be rectangular uniformly illuminated regions, they can be bytes in an array. We don’t need one single definition, which is good because there isn’t one.
This is pretty cool. If you like In Our Time, I would also suggest the BBC World Service equivalent, The Forum. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/p004kln9

It's also a shame the BBC delays the In Our Time podcast by a month unless you use their shite BBC Sounds app (which I think only exists to make the Spotify app look good in comparison).
Not really fair. I think one could argue that people don't really realise the extent and impact of surveillance capitalism.
I didn't know about the beagle, but have been wanting to get a Rpi. What exactly does it failed to live up to? Is the beagle better in general or just for specific use cases?
Now we might see this on Leetcode or Hackerrank interviews: "Write a software that takes a number n and outputs the number m, of all different modes a square can be divided into n similar rectangles."
Same thing with my business. The messed up part is if a new business owner is starting off and doing everything by the book, a chargeback early-on can get him banned from Stripe/PayPal.

Someone mentioned above that banks don’t give a damn because they’re insured. Maybe online businesses need fraud insurance too, especially with chargebacks on the rise.
I don't think you'd need to have the engine running for the throttle pot to send data.
You’re incorrect on both fronts

1. Some 2014 model S were retrofitted and subject to the recent recall. The news article simply said some model S were subject to a recent FSD recall. It did not say whether the one in the recent fatal accident was

2. Musk as recently as 2021 was bragging that “autopilot” specifically (not FSD) reduces crash rates by a “factor of 10”

This is completely 100% untrue

The stats Elon continues to tout currently about safety are a complete joke, and not normalized by road type, driver age, or condition

It’s like telling someone drug A given to cohort 1 had no side effects, while drug B given to cohort B caused tons of bad effects, and leaving out the fact that cohort A is 20 year old men and cohort B is 95 year old men

You’re not a victim. Please allow people to have normal discussions that are had about all cars.
>The only way to mitigate this is to use computer-readable proofs, which can be verified by algorithms to ensure correctness.

What if the algorithms have errors? What if a cosmic ray flips one bit of memory?
How do you see they give extra?

With the old pricing, it's unlimited searches for 10$ a month. With the new pricing, you're now limited to 1000 for this price.
Reminds me of a decade before:

“What I wanted to see is if you could give me a yes or no answer to the question ‘Does the N.S.A. collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans?’ ”

[. . .]

“Not wittingly,” Clapper replied. He started scratching his forehead and looked away from Wyden. “There are cases where they could inadvertently perhaps collect, but not wittingly.”

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/12/16/state-of-decep...
I should mentioned the coastal damage episode in a separate paragraph for clarity. The two herbicides are quite different, one kills woody weeds very effectively at minute amounts, the other is a residual grass type herbicide which can modify the action of other herbicides like paraquat. Sugar cane growing farmers in the region around my locale and to the south, including Mackay and Sarina, in the past frequently used the diuron herbicide mixed with paraquat when cane shoots had regrown a foot or higher after harvest or in plant cane to subdue and kill competitive grasses between the rows of sugar cane. Since most farmers are on a very tight budget it's applied generally in a manner that it stays on target, excess diuron that hits soil will bind with it ... however those using the dry formulation there was a significant risk, undissolved particles that might remained on dead plant material could have been flushed into streams by heavy storms (depending on landscape, more than 2 or 3 inches of rain in a moderately short period) and out to coastal areas. The decline in mangrove health, didn't make much sense to me where the river or outflow areas often didn't seem as affected as other areas ... illegal disposal seemed a better option ... but of course finding out a well funded group were using it to excess and the kicker was not over soil where excess might bind but in fact in a flowing river system, the real culprit seemed very obvious.

Metsulfuron Methyl is part of a family of herbicides that kill woody plants at just a level tablespoon per acre, so one can expect a spill to wreck havoc. I became quite fearful of its use approx end 90s or early 00s after hearing and then reading of an incident reported in South Australia where an accident during its cartage had resulted in spill of the herbicide and subsequent wide area that was damaged. I can not find a reference to that online at the moment.

What I found instead was a report of unintended off target damage, be that spray or other, no quick links specified how the herbicide found its way into the off target trees. [1]

Around 2015 or so I realised that in good weather - appropriate spraying conditions, Metsulfuron Methyl is not very mobile in the soil profile, after someone mistook a near full pound box (half kilo) of the dry formulation herbicide in dissolvable satchels, for a diuron alternative and used the entire box in a spray mix to apply a two foot band over 400 to 500 yards of fence line. I was only informed three or four months later and I immediately went for a sticky beak expecting to see dead trees all around - to my surprise even a couple of new weeds had grown up in the sprayed band, not many but a few ... I made a point of checking for a couple of years to see if any acive product was mobile in the soil and affecting the trees close by. I didn't note any.

[1] https://www.epa.nsw.gov.au/reporting-and-incidents/report-po...
Tech is depression and brain-breakdown inducing. Driving an Uber is tiring, boring and neck-breaking. But it's not going to make you mentally insane. Of course, this depends on the road conditions and the traffic of the city you are driving in.
Can Static Analysis Tools Find More Defects?
That's why cryptocurrency is attractive to some people.
Sadly, I feel the same way. With prices going up everywhere, I have to cut some subscriptions, and Kagi will be one with this change.
And you know this how? :)
What this article is glibly ignoring is that the number of Ukrainian deaths are far higher.

The US is fighting a proxy war with Russia to the last Ukrainian, in which everybody loses.
The language geeks would probably say that language would be Linear Haskell or similar.

Joining the productivity of automatic memory management, with the performance tooling that linear types can provide.

Hence why I follow with great interest such experiments.
That's a rhetorical question?

I recall that he was entitled to double digit millions compensation if he resigned (which makes no sense to me so maybe I'm remembering this wrong). I'm sure there is an article somewhere on the web with all of the details and whether he actually got any of it or not but I would assume that he did. If only to make it easier for Intel to find its next CEO.
Symbol Grounding Problem
I'm a huge fan of decentralisation, but I am 100% not going back to IRC. I want the modern features too. Matrix seems to cover this.
I was curious how much/if any unique index Kagi maintained because I also finally gave up on DDG as its repackaging of Bing became worse and worse to the point where there was no value add vs just going back to Google.

But now I’m even more hesitant on Kagi since I knew it used bing, whose results both direct and from ddg have been supremely disappointing, but it also pulls google which…I can just get direct from the horse’s mouth? So the value add seems to be whatever is in their small index. Hmm I just dunno.
Can't you login in a browser? Option two: move to the EU. The option to delete your account is required by law. And if that is not possible, try vpn? No idea if that works.
For the amount of money this costs you could subsidize plane tickets for Californians and it would cost less money AND emit less CO2. 100 Billion worth of CO2 is enormous (to a rough estimate monetary cost is proportional to emissions).
Your concerns are valid indeed, and on top of them one must also think about what's the alternative. Because if you leave service A you'll necessarily use service B - I assume nobody leaves Kagi to give up searching. So the choice is between a possible bad outcome (Kagi) versus a known bad outcome (Google).
I've seen some bio specific implementations but for the life of me I can't find it now, my browser history is swamped with this theme atm.
What Really Matters: Focusing on Top Tasks (2015)
Internet Computers – Not Boring
Chiming in to say I feel exactly this way too.
An extract of founding documents mentioned in the letter: https://web.archive.org/web/20050427012806/http://alvyray.co...
That's an incredibly useful tip. Recommend you post it as an article in its own right.
I just use adblock.
The bottleneck of UI is not the rendering. A measly 60 fps is plenty fast for UI that feels immediate. We had this in the 90's with software rendering, you don't need a GPU for that today.

What causes user interfaces to hick up is that it's too easy to do stuff in the main UI thread. First it doesn't matter but stuff does accumulate, and eventually the UI begins to freeze briefly for example, after you press a button. The user interface gets intermingled with the program logic, and the execution of the program will visibly relay its operations to the user.

It would be very much possible to keep the user interface running in a thread, dedicated to a single CPU on a priority task, updating at vsync rate as soon as there are dirty areas in the window, merely sending UI events to the processing thread, and doing absolutely nothing more. This is closer to how games work: the rendering thread does rendering and there are other, more slow-paced threads running physics, simulation, and game logic at a suitable pace. With games it's obvious because rendering is hard and it needs to be fast so anything else that might slow down rendering must be moved away but UIs shouldn't be any different. An instantly reacting UI feels natural to a human, one that takes its time to act will slow down the brain.

But you don't need a GPU for that.
> If they did then anti-aliasing wouldn't be a thing!

Anti-aliasing makes perfect sense, even if you assume that individual pixels are points.
Well it wasn't a very generous interpretation, was it? It's the kind of thing where you can research it for yourself. Why should I do your research for you? I could be talking about anything, but you wouldn't know right? But you should assume, a generous interpretation, that I could be talking about anything, right? All those things that you could recall yourself, included.

I wonder...Why are you anon on here, after so many years? Don't you feel it's kind of personally dishonest / lack of integrity to have opinions but not put your name to it?
He's a Labour peer in the House of Lords. They're not known as a group for rampant patriotism.

My criticism of him his how much he struggles with anything of a maths or scientific nature.
I think you just mistook the quote for the opinion. Parent wanted to express that "some people say that their words are 'controversial' and therefore OK when in truth their words qualify as hate speech". It is the trolls and so on who mislabel things, a practice the parent disapproves of, and rightly so.
The multiple posts a day, essentially all saying the same thing, seems to support this idea - he's waiting for one to take off I assume.
I doubt anyone gets fired or fined for making ToS that would never hold up in a court. The opposite seems true though: any legal department will write N things even if half of them aren't enforceable because it doesn't hurt (more than being ridiculed on HN, or by a court).

Not sure what would be the best way of getting rid of "legal fluff" though. I imagine it costs quite a lot to society to have to sift through pages of meaningless legal text in order to find important (actually valid) legal statements.
JsonParse: A Simple JSON parser in ANSI C
jsonParse is simple ,only 1600+ lines code
> Arc will be the only desktop I keep open. Instead, the apps I use most live inside of the browser.

Sounds like hell to me.
While we're making comparisons: the CHSR is supposed to be 520 miles with two tracks. It also has a lot of elevation changes; hills and mountains and valleys. This isn't to excuse the utter lack of progress made by California, but these factors Do make it a more difficult project compared to (what a cursory Google maps search shows is) New Mexico's flatter land.

Or another comparison, Florida's brightline currently connecting Miami to West Palm Beach, with plans to make it to Orlando. 70 miles + 170 to Orlando. 1.75 billion across incredibly flat land, expedited by utilizing existing tracks.

All that is to say, California's project as defined currently seems a lot more difficult in terms of terrain and scope. There are probably a lot of inefficiencies built in, as well as mismanagement. But it's not the most apt of comparisons, at least not to NM or FL.
at first I thought it was an alternative to kdevelop from gnome, kekw
While governments in Argentina and other countries might be poorly run and have unstable currencies, that doesn't mean that one should use an even worse system that loses people's savings together.

The fees on crypto is much higher and is slower than any of the solutions I mentioned when you account for exchange fees, volatility, transfer fees, buy/sell fees, etc.

Yes, my two examples exist but are not enough, but combined with other payments systems is used more than those using unsafe, unregulated, volatile crypto tokens that fits an extremely tiny and miniscule niche that only less than 2,000 people like yourself are unfortunately forced to use.

When Transfers 3.0 hits critical mass in Argentina and links up with Pix, UPI and other real time payment systems, there wouldn't be a need at all for crypto.
On Unsavoury Memeplexes
The image classification app[0] written by Chris (creator of Phoenix) is IMO nicer example of single file Elixir/Phoenix app. I had some inspirational moments. Yes, I know it was probably linked on HN before.

[0] https://github.com/chrismccord/single_file_phx_bumblebee_ml
Bitcoin miners don't use GPUs.
That's what I thought, too, but from the blog post it feels like AI searches will "cost" a variable amount of requests. So maybe the price increase is unrelated to AI, but they market AI because people apparently love that?

Not sure, and same as you: I don't want generative AI and I don't want to pay for it. I wish they made it clear that I won't have to.

Also I don't want to pay for their browser that I don't use. Really I'm interested in paying the true price for my searches (instead of being tracked for ads).
> Happy to hear the startup reward structure still makes sense in 2023.

At least for people who joined a successful one ten years ago.
> High bus factor

You mean "he might get hit by a bus"? Surely businesses die more easily than people. Isn't a "high bus factor" kind of a good thing in this situation?
I can't speak for GPU solutions, but I do have some experience of trying to make HTML 2d <canvas> elements as accessible as possible. You can get an overview of the issues/solutions (disclaimer: using my canvas library) here - https://scrawl-v8.rikweb.org.uk/learn/eleventh-lesson/