skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In terms of audio, you only have to emulate what can actually be heard. Ears don't hear phase effects that require megahertz resolution.

(Ears hear only binaural phase effects. If the phase doesn't change when you turn your head, it is not relevant.)
A bunch of this is driven by power efficiency requirements, creating a flickering low quality mess. Like no-flicker LED lights usually have a worse power factor.
Your comment is mostly on point, but the download speeds are way off. By the time Flash was really getting big, everyone was on 56k, (rarely) ISDN, or ~1mbps broadband of one type or another. But even with 56k, you're getting 5kBps. So a 45-100kB download was 20sec at most, and 500kB was about 2 minutes.

That said vector graphics and extreme sound compression was just how shit got done. In those days gaming and entertainment online was all about CD deployment, extreme delta patching, low bit rate audio (Teamspeak et al) and vector graphics when possible.

I miss those days. On top of it not yet being spoiled by billion dollar businesses, the extreme constraints meant that creative minds could excel far above and beyond corporate types. And that's why the internet had the reputation it did. The ones who were making waves were individuals and small development houses that were founder-driven. It's nothing like today.
> But he found that the speed with which students completed the quiz was a reliable predictor of their final course grade. Rote memorization of basic concepts does have some value in reducing the mental load and making it easier to focus on more complex concepts.

Maybe. Or maybe it's useless but skill at it is a good measure of how conscientious those students were in high school (e.g. the extent to which they bothered to do their homework). Or any number of other possible explanations.
"...lobbyists representing tax preparers who fear that the agency’s growing power will cripple their businesses and infringe upon taxpayer privacy."

Taxpayer privacy? Ridiculous complaint coming from them.

It will be a win for Americans if the tax prep industry is relegated to voluntary-use only. Even better: let the IRS prepare your taxes for you. Accept their filing or file your own (optional) return.
Looks awesome, great work Sikan and team!
I never memorized anything in math. After working enough problem sets, you just know it. Frankly, rote memorization of math is a worthless endeavor.
It was divisive, but I wouldn't say "not well received". The "Flash deserves death" camp was very large and very, very happy that someone with power was finally calling them out on their horrific security record.

Losing the high-quality authoring environment, without anyone producing something competitive, was a pretty big blow. But for the rest, I'm quite glad to see invasive browser plugins disappear.
This keeps coming up, but it keeps seeming hogwash & backwards.

There are dozens & dozens of really really good html/svg animation products that give Flash like capabilities. But there's vastly less interest in this stuff today. Fun/simple/quirky Flash-like stuff isn't nearly as unique or novel, now that we have much more upscale products & experiences. It was a magical time & Flash helped, but we've changed & these rose-colored glasses views on Flash never point out all the myriad of ways it was awful, choppy, poorly integrated, quirky to work with, & otherwise difficult.

If you want higher there are hundreds of web-dev targeting game dev systems which can be put to use. Many of these actually do have popularity. In spite of their being good Flash-ish animation toolkits, it doesn't feel like there's a ton of demand or clear winners. It's hard to imagine what we'd want it for today.
> They discovered a way to increase performance while simultaneously reducing the required parameter counts and/or hardware.

In that case, why would they be so severely limiting access? If GPT4 was cheaper to run and better, surely they would have immediately transitioned away from 3.5?
Well, I’m not going to apologize for my belief that the rule of law should be based on the facts, the evidence, and the law and not politics.

Your appeal to the authorities of political figures falls on deaf ears for me. I do not give a single flying shit about the political calculus. That’s what makes it a banana republic decision. Nothing about the decision to charge or not charge should be based on politics. So, fuck the Democrats, fuck the Republicans, and fuck Politico. I don’t give a shit about any of their opinions.

Frankly, the appeal to people who know more “about politics” on this topic is anathema to me.

Show me the charges, show me the evidence, and show me the law. Everything else is for the birds.
> It's absolutely mind-boggling that the administrators try to establish "equity" by pushing all students down, instead of them up.

It's the best way to ensure equal outcomes. Perhaps equal outcomes is just a nasty goal.
"problem processing payment for this item." is a fraudulent misrepresentation because the seller already had my money.

It's also a problem of never owning software, only a "cloud license" with DRM and an ability to reach-in and delete what you paid for.
Given the story we're discussing here, evidently it (or at the very least some equally screwed-up mentality) does?
This sort of waste is a feature not a bug. More problems, more money.

I'm just finishing reading a book [0] about the horrible waste and the cushy relationships built into giant weapon systems in the US Air Force in the 60s-70s, especially the C5-A Galaxy, and this sounds familiar. I've also been following Project on Government Oversight[1] when they look at the has been keeping track of the F-35 mess(among others).

Contracts are written so that when the contractor can't live up the contract for how a thing should perform, the taxpayer picks up the tab to fix it, or the contract is re-written so that however the thing - missile/plane/widget performs is the new baseline. The threat of actually enforcing a contract is rarely attempted, because there is no motivation to do so.

For the F-35 (as with the C-141, C5-A, B1-B, F22, .) production is being done concurrently with testing. There have been almost 900 F-35s built, and a decision for 'full rate production' hasn't been made, and likely won't be until 2024[2], So all the planes produced before the problems found during testing have to refitted.

[0] "The High Priests of Waste" by A. Ernest Fitzgerald, one of Nixon's Enemies, for telling the truth to congress.

From the book TL;DR:
Refusing to look at what it should cost to build a part, terribly inefficient, mismanaged factories (lots of idle machines/personnel), terrible management/cost administration vs. what a normal commercial industry company would do. Covering up/glossing over major technical and financial overruns by Air-force, Defence Department Civilians and 'defence' contractors, all sort of in concert.

[1] pogo.org
[2] https://www.defensenews.com/air/2023/01/24/dod-delays-key-f-...
For a long time, schools have been trying to eliminate testing. The reason is simple - with no tests, how can anyone argue that the schools aren't doing a great job teaching?
I like the GOP plan to end the income tax and defund the IRS and replace it all with a consumption tax
Most certainly.
Based on some superficial research yesterday, Weaviate looks like an easier option for messing around locally, but Milvus looks better for a production use case.
Not billions, but enough.

Politicians are bought cheaply. What a great return on your lobbying investment!

BTW--Someone pointed out that the 'bribery' also takes the form of "If you don't support our effort we'll fund your opponent's campaign and he/she will play ball!"
Meh, he's an ex-president. Of course indicting him is political. Not indicting him would be also political. It's not like there's a "non-political" Oracle that will tell us the most impartial course of action.
Doesn't this suggest the opposite? You only have 9,10,11,12 grades to learn algebra instead of 6-12?

The earlier you start the slower you can go, starting in grade 5-6 is spaced out.
Can you give me an example from your recent memory?

I've been coding since the 90s, ASP, PHP, JS, C, Perl, I transitioned from Perl to Python back in 2012-2013. Dabbled in Go when it first came out because I was a Plan9 fanatic and recognized some of the source files, but never went further than tutorials.

Honestly I find very little wrong with the Python ecosystem, except the general insecurity of using package managers. But that applies to most package management, it's a social/infosec issue that Fedora has mitigated fairly well, if you want role models.

The languages that I found most annoying, as a user and developer, were C, Javascript, Typescript and Ruby.
I was such a mathcel growing up I took high school algebra in sixth grade. So I have every right to be assmad about things like this. And past me maybe would have been.

But I'm not, and the reasons why are complex.

First of all, algebra is hard. And not every kid can learn it in the eighth grade. Furthermore, not every teacher qualified to teach eighth grade stuff is qualified to teach algebra. What the studies have shown is that teaching algebra to everyone in grade 8 leads to worse math outcomes.

And if you agree to teach some of the kids algebra in eighth grade, you're back in the sticky wicket of tracking and "gifted kids". Show me a gifted classroom and I'll show you a classroom full of mainly rich whites and Asians -- who are depriving the poorer and more socially disadvantaged students of valuable resources.

The whole point of public education is democratic access -- to all -- of sufficient educational resources and service for basic functioning as an adult citizen, NOT educating every child to the maximum of their potential. It's kind of like how capitalism is really good if and only if you want to get as rich as possible and have the means to do so, and under social democracy you will be less rich, but the tradeoff is there are far fewer economic losers. In light of this, leaving algebra until ninth grade was the best choice for the San Francisco school system for equitable availability of education to all, given the resources and framework they have to work with.
I forgot about https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant. It's a DB not a library so again may not be an exact answer for what you're looking for
As someone that helped a little bit in bringing Flash to WebOS, it was a battery stuck because there was no HW acceleration. Additionally, the software was very very bad. Used a crapton of memory, was really slow, and horribly insecure. Adobe was caught really off guard by mobile and never prioritized flash. If little else, the modern web is infinitely more secure than the flash player and Adobe would never have prioritized it. We also have ~3 major open source browser engines that independently implement the web compared with one closed source vendor. So structurally things are also infinitely healthier. That the web is a cesspool in turns of content is an orthogonal problem that would have always been the case (but also a flash laden website are up way more RAM and CPU than the equivalent html)
Have you tried corn LED bulbs?

Those satisfy my need for super-bright light.

But, I can only find them online.
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The company (Mythic AI) in the article was featured on a Veritasium video[1] about analog computing.

The interesting part for analog is obviously going to be wear and repeatability, because the digital layer auto-corrects the errors until it becomes damaged and unusable clearly, while analog will slide off somewhat gracefully but you need a way to detect it happening multiple layers later.

AI is somewhat tolerant of errors since, the cumulative error across a lot of biases can approach zero if the errors are random.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVsUOuSjvcg#t=15m44s
What if tax dollars followed the student? Where all students get the same amount regardless of zip code and they can choose any school.
Anyone with an efficiency study?

Even if I find users directly replacing computer parts interesting, I wonder if the trade off is worthwhile.

Design is more bulky and parts sturdier to sustain less refined procedures and kits. Tooling is used far less frequently than it could be. This isn’t different than for electric drills we all have at home. Notorious for being used once or twice only. Great business for retailers though.

Conversely I have never been hindered by the need to visit a repair shop, or the vendor, to fix my laptop or smartphone. Design is sleeker with professional servicing needs. My home is not cluttered by unused bits. More expensive overall but extended useful life and improved design more than compensate.

Repair is a must. Not always by users.
The only place where left advocates and the tax prep industry see eye to eye is that there should be incomes taxes
I'm not sure the data matches that line of reasoning. Looking at number of immigrants per capita for various countries, the US is beat out by some of the countries you wouldn't expect from your conclusion. Notably Australia, Switzerland, New Zealand, Canada, Sweden, Austria, Iceland, Germany, Ireland, Belgium, and Norway all have more immigration per capita than the states it seems. https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/immigrati...
So if you add audio output to it so I can talk to my computer like in Star Trek, I'll venmo you $100. Then, I want to have a command line module so I can ask it to write files to the local disk and run them, so I can deploy code it's just written to AWS, that's worth at least another $100.
Incorrect assesment. That's what people said about Wikipedia when I was in elementary school. The internet and Wikipedia are amazing. ChatGPT is amazing if you use it properly - if you prompt in ways that exercise understanding of the math itself, it boosts knowledge of math. I filled in gaps in my comp sci math fundamentals lazily over a weekend just in case. It's an amazing tool for learning measurable skills and improving in measurable skills, but admittedly only in limited workflows still. I love ChatGPT so far for my workflow.

It's amazing for learning. ChatGPT is information learning superpowers. Give me more power please. More power please.
Link to use model?
One thing to note is that in the US education system they name classes/courses with the names of fields in mathematics. This is quite confusing and annoying. So "Algebra" actually means "The course we called Algebra 1" (there's an Algebra 2 that comes later, also not really about Algebra). The course called Algebra 1 is basically the material the education system has decided to teach at 9th grade.
That material comprises various topics, only some of which are Algebraic.

Students are typically (at least in my experience) exposed to "Algebra" (symbols, equations) much earlier. Memory is fading but for my kids something like 5th grade. I still have some of their scrawled equations on a white board in my office from back in those days...

Edit: they continue this confusion (at least consistently confusing) by calling the 10th grade class "Geometry" even though it's only somewhat about Geometry, and students will have met triangles and obtuse angles and whatnot years earlier. And so on through to "Pre-Calculus" which...you can guess is not much about Calculus, but the stuff they think should be taught before teaching Calculus (very scary).
Has anybody seen Steve Wozniak's nixie tube wristwatch?

https://www.timesticking.com/steve-wozniaks-nixie-watch/

(Googling it, I discovered Nixie tube watches are "a thing" and you can buy them)
The problem is that people draw the related/unrelated line very differently. The site mandate is intellectual curiosity, not political battle—but that still leaves quite a few stories with political overlap. If you look at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html you'll see the phrase "interesting new phenomenon". The current story surely qualifies as that.

I've posted various explanations about this over the years - a bunch are at https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so.... Some good threads to start with might be https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21607844 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22902490. Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014869, which shows how far back political discussion goes on HN, as well as the argument about politics on HN.

If anyone reads those past explanations and has a question about this that I haven't answered there, I'd be happy to take a crack at it.
Which, to be fair, is not far off from what a campaign manager is looking for.
Most flickering mess is caused by throwing away half of the sine wave due to cheaping out on components and has nothing to do with efficiency.
I know a bunch of teenage kids who buy vinyl. They get them for the atheistics and as a objet d'art, and tend to listen to the music more via spotify than using the vinyl.
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Maybe these aren’t super advanced tips, but they’ve worked for me:

- eating certain foods, particularly blueberries. There is a lot of research on their effects. I don’t know if it holds up, but anecdotally I do feel a bit “mentally clearer” after having blueberries daily for about six months.

- Use a spaced repetition system like Anki. Memory is intimately linked to intelligence and there is no better way to improve one’s memory than SRS.
Oh, there definitely is. Pay the teachers bonuses based on how many of their students achieve at grade level.

I propose this often, and it inspires massive pushback every time.

Just give the teachers a $1,000 bonus for every such kid. Give the teachers a free hand in how to go about it. It'll be the cheapest and most effective boost to education you've ever seen.
In before they claim they're doing it to protect the children.
Maybe https://github.com/hora-search/hora but I've never used it
All these companies selling CRUD wrappers around ChatGPT + an embeddings database seem like awfully cynical cash grabs to me. Would love to see YC sponsor some companies trying something more novel on the LLM side.
Having no previous knowledge about this situation in SF, I found this article from last year was an interesting read: https://fordhaminstitute.org/national/commentary/san-francis...

"With both gaps, SFUSD evidenced greater inequities than state averages in 2015, and that relative underperformance worsened by 2019. The district’s anti-tracking public relations campaign, by focusing on metrics such as grades and course enrollments, diverts attention from the harsh reality that SFUSD is headed in the wrong direction on equity."
Don't ask it the circumference of a 37" tire...does okay till the final calculation but then completely fails.
Some documents you may find interesting and relevant

https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1124962.pdf

https://equitablemath.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11...

https://www.nctm.org/uploadedFiles/Conferences_and_Professio...
Ask HN: What Browser Instead of Firefox?
I've been using Firefox since nearly 30 years, currently on Android and Windows.

For me it is a pain to use now. On Windows it force-updated and I've lost all plugins and the session with more than 50 tabs. On Android it crashes Android once a week and opens tabs with Urls as empty Windows regularily, sometimes after clicking on other tabs the tab is loaded, sometime I have to copy the URL and open another tab for the URL to load.

I'm on the breaking point and want something else. I'm waiting for Ladybird but it's not yet available and I don't want to use Chrome b/c Google.

Any suggestions?
About 20 years ago, my public middle school tried to teach this new-fangled thing called “connected math“ that was conceptual and without notation or symbols, so I didn’t start learning real algebra until 9th grade when I went to private school. I was a year or more behind the rest of my peers (and in fact, my school had to open up a special section for me and one other person (!) to teach us algebra) and I constantly felt embarrassed. In college I went on to do well at linear alg and learned enough to hand wave my way through abstract alg so I ended up enjoying myself, but I’ve always felt resentful about being so far behind my peers and feeling like I needed to work harder than them. To this day I feel like I’m still playing catch up.

Hearing about kids being set back in math makes me very personally angry because I always felt that my college CS studies would have been so much easier had I been equipped with the proper math fundamentals. This shit takes a long time to train and you really can do powerful things with it.
Yeah, people who say the rote stuff isn't part of math don't get it, or they have a simplistic view of math that isn't as bad as the ones who don't know of the proofy side of math and think it is only rote and bland calculation. It's all of it and you need the rote stuff to build intuition too in addition to the things like visual "proofs" and graphs.

You do not build intuition about things without having some amount of those things in your head which is memorization.
Oh, that application sounds familiar.

A mention for those who helped a bit on the application as a token of appreciation would had been nice...
Agreed,
Hey i just saw your profile looks like you worked at Bridge water associates.

What was it like it work at a pretty prestigious hedge fund
The big reason for this iirc from various meetings was a number of maps systems that wanted to be able to say they were purely standards based, so they needed to be able do everything from within purely SVG. Recall that at the time XHR was just part of the general html spec - so there was no separate networking API that could be used _directly_ from svg.

At this time of history SVG also was running on a belief that the correct solution to differing performance constraints was to have profiles. The high and low power profiles were not compatible such that you could easily end up in a position where you had content that could not display correctly in both at the same time.
Pretty intellectually dishonest to ignore the massive amount of “undocumented” immigration happening in the US. Nobody absorbs more immigrants. Full stop.
As a lawyer with 13 years experience in my previous life, I can tell you that you can't trust a paralegal either. What it does do is give you the "first pass" - if I could automate the first pass over 100,000 pages and the AI highlights say 100 examples of the content I am looking for, of which say 10 are good quality examples of what I am looking for, then we are off to a very good start.
Considering words are mostly tokenized I'm not really surprised that questions about spelling don't work so well.
I'm using both. Ubuntu and Windows 10 in the company, Fedora and Debian at home. Debian and esp. Ubuntu are a joke compared to Fedora.

Ubuntu constantly crashes when listening streams on vlc, Docker vs podman, snap. Skype nor teams video works. The only good thing on Ubuntu are the glibc headers for embedded work. The rest is only marginally better than Windows.
Besides animation and games, Flash was also used for streaming video and video conferencing.

iPhone customers were so desirable that, over time, the video streaming sites had to support Apple's video streaming format. They would have also supported Apple's video conferencing app, but I think Apple was unable to open-source the protocols for the video conferencing format, due to patent issues.
sincos is better. Two for one deal. :)
Some people out there do both. As a physicist, I mainly use applications of what's been proven.
What isn't kosher about it?

Trump is being indicted by a grand jury, not the DA. Half the people in his orbit have done time in prison for committing crimes that just happened to benefit him.

Many top Democrats are fuming?

Name them.
Downside is, it's Ubuntu.

It could be anything else, but it had to be Ubuntu.