skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maintaining backwards compatibility with FCP makes sense, but the hubris of the iTMS team was also quite funny to me as well. They could have handled this on their end knowing that the Apple ecosystem was fractured regarding QT. They could have built Transporter to be much more tolerant of files created by FCP/Compressor to not be rejected because of these differences in Atoms within the container. Instead, many 3rd party apps had to be built/used by people instead of just handling it internally.

I also relate back to their air of superiority from another situation I had with them. Their original specs called for video content originating on film to use IVTC to return the frame rate back to original progressive frames for the obvious reasons. However, they clearly were not familiar with TV/Episodic content that was originally shot on film, but edited at 29.97 with broken cadences, use of 30p graphics, and other content that was true 29.97i. There was a specific F/X series that 2 different providers had their files rejected from the show because of faulty IVTC processing. My company got involved, but iTMS said to send them the unprocessed 29.97 content because they "knew" how to handle it. They didn't, and then it landed in my lap. I processed the files and submitted them where they were approved. There was a request from iTMS to find out how they were made. Very smuggly and with a righteous smile on my face, I got to quote an answer they had provided me previously back to them, "this is a proprietary process developed by our in-house engineers." We got a lot of work because of that.

It was examples like this that make me roll my eyes when FAANG types are held in such high regard. They're just humans trying to figure stuff out with people available to them. They might not actually know everything just as us mere mortals, but some of us have unique experiences that allows us to tell the emperor he's not wearing any clothes when the FAANG types issue decrees from up on high that are clearly just not right.
DeepMind's stuff has all been impressive.
I think it’s funny because I have gotten into red-cyan anaglyph stereograms both for screen and print and found that the more “advanced” hardware and techniques I use the worse results I get.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaglyph_3D

I have a high color gamut Dell monitor and what it does it takes (0, 255, 0) in sRGB space and turn it into something like (16, 186, 15) because the primaries are a little more saturated than the sRGB primaries. You wouldn’t want sRGB pure green turned into “hit by a green laser pointer green” would you?

The trouble is red got mixed in with my green so now there is a “ghost” image in the wrong eye.

If I view an image in a tk canvas on Windows, tk does no color correction so I don’t see the ghosts, but if I use a modern application like Photoshop or a web browser it does color correction and I do see them. I know I could get better results if I made an image in a high color gamut space but haven’t yet operationalized this because I’m more interested in print than screen at the moment. I was thinking pretty seriously of making a WebGL viewer that does the anaglyph processing in the browser but that’s a non-starter if I can only output in the sRGB color space.

As for print I have the same problems, I know I get worse results if I load a color profile for the specific paper I use and have Photoshop manage colors than if I set the printer to use ICM color calibration. I’m in the middle right now of setting up some controlled experiments that let me measure the ghosting caused by color “correction” which is not a “correction” at all for stereograms.
Adding interactivity to react-circle-of-fifths
Morning all, this is a new post in my series covering the development of an SVG Circle of Fifths component for React. That component has just recently reached the point where I feel comfortable telling people to try it out and is MIT licensed - if you think you could use a nice looking Circle of Fifths in some musical application you're working on, check it out.

More than happy to accept feedback, PRs or issues on the repo, I've got a lot more stuff planned but the basic usability is there, I think!

https://github.com/epiccoleman/react-circle-of-fifths
And we still get into millions of accidents every year…
.. which owns 80% of the market. Maybe iOS users spend more on hardware & apps but everyone spends money online shopping
Windows is already crapped up with flashy ads; it's a pretty damn low bar.
If anything Frito-Lay, and anyone still working there have absolutely no incentive to do anything except go along with Montañez's story. It's fantastic PR.

The only person in this story who have any incentive to lie are the sales guy, and the MBA who are claiming that they pushed for and invented hot cheetos.

But their story is backed up by documented evidence that the product existed years before Montañez claims that he invented it, and Frito-Lay confirms their story.

What sounds better--"Janitor rises to Executive by inventing flaming hot cheetos", or "MBA creates new brand by copying existing competitors"? When the vast majority of the evidence supports the 2nd version, despite it being a less compelling story, I think it's pretty safe to go with that one.
It’s both, children can’t report workplace issues because they don’t know what they’re looking for, and nobody would believe them anyways.
> One simple reason to post: For every potential competitor reading about your project, there are thousands of potential customers.

If you’re happy with your existing cash flow this point seems less relevant; the better choice would then be to protect your competitive advantage and stay hidden, right?
Similarly: I cannot convince Swiftkey to stop correcting "whole" into "whore". L and R are next to each other on the Dvorak layout, so I get it, but it does not matter how many times I tell it to never correct to whore, it for some reason always prefers that over whole...
Ah, that would explain, thank you. No way they would have been able to make that change on hotels.
Ah yes, another animal we manage to torture. Will we try to fix it now we know? Guess not.
For big corporates, it is still 100% Microsoft Office and 0% Google Workspace. Email is still 100% Microsoft Outlook/Exchange. That said, for small to medium, Google must be eating into MSFT, but I don't have any visibility.
and the biopic just premiered at SXSW. amazing.

https://www.chron.com/food/article/flamin-hot-movie-17843954...
Last I checked you can just use a user agent switcher plugin to say you're using bing FYI.
> Linkoln, no pun intended

This seems disingenuous - clearly a pun is intended
I guess the question is whether GPT is supposed to be an emulation of personhood or simply a software tool. Ex. I don’t think we’d want a software tool that lies, steals or cheats despite the fact that people do this
>google

>making any product that lasts

that's a tough chance for OS.

it wouldn't hit growth targets after n-th year and would be remotely disabled by google worldwide.
A modified BLIP2 that works with diffusion models rather than vision transformers would be pretty cool. Using Vicuna-13B or another large language model as the language model of Stable Diffusion, instead of the text encoder of CLIP, would be a game changer, it would completely change how you prompt Stable Diffusion from something kinda like a tag list to it being able to follow instructions in English instead.
I don't think most of these kids are saving all their money. They are working because their parents can't pay the bills so they need to work.
I'm going to guess you grew up in a city?

I wouldn't have a problem with a kid of mine "working in fields", provided the hours are reasonable. Picking strawberries, outside, with friends their same age, a few hours at a time, would be great for them. I would go as far to say that its fun.

I would prefer that over them having to interact with a bunch of asshole strangers, alone, trapped inside all day.
My recollection is that at least two other people came up with the idea of evolution around the same time. Charles Darwin got credit for it for whatever reason, but it seems likely the world was at a point where the pieces were there and just needed to be put together and several people did put it together but only one got credit for it.
https://archive.is/XeNke
Poe's law.

If it's not a troll post, I hope the founder gets a solid dose of reality. I mean, if he doesn't take comments like yours to heart and reflects on the absurdity of his worldview, then the narcissism runs deep in that one.
That was not promised from Falcon. The upper stage is not reusable and is 20% of the hardware cost, so at best Falcon could reduce costs by a factor of five. Plus it runs a dirtier fuel so it needs more refurbishment. What they did expect from Falcon is to be significantly cheaper than any other major launch provider, and they achieved that, but there's only so far you can go when you're building a whole new upper stage for every launch.

Orbit is hard but the actual fuel cost is not all that high. If you have a rocket that's cheap to build, and you can amortize that cost over a large number of launches, you're mostly just paying fuel and ground services.
There are a few specialty LED lightbulbs made with (old-fashioned) yellow glass that offer a warm (yellowish depending on the room) and comfortable light.
That's one of many ways to check one's answer. The whole point is to be able to intuit a rough sketch of what the graph should be, not to use software tools to build a pixel-perfect render of the plot.
As someone that works at an IT company, not a software company, Almost every customer that started with google is switching to o365. Nearly 99% of our clients are on o365 or are switching from on-prem exchange to o365. I can see maybe the bubble of silicon valley might be more oriented toward google, but the vast majority of businesses continue to migrate to o365.
Any lithium battery claiming to be rated for operation down to -20 C is likely lying.

Not necessarily lying but rather there are heating pads that use some of the energy to bring the battery up to safe operating temperature based on BMS readings. There are some LiFePo4 battery breakdowns on Will's YouTube channel that show the various heating pads used by each vendor. [1] So probably better to say they leave out some details that will affect capacity at lower temperatures. He has a HN account so maybe he will also comment.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/c/WillProwse/videos
You haven't been in a business environment then. Almost all of the users whine about having to use Google's Web Apps and prefer the desktop version of 365. Microsoft absolutely dominates in the enterprise environment. We have both, just because department will not use the Google Apps. They'll accept Gmail but that's it.
Are you sure you can't be more specific? Wasn't MIRI studying the math of alignment precisely because one should be more specific about alignment? In your view, were they successful or misguided or what?
Twitter's Hateful Bots: Search Results for “As an AI Language Model”
This shouldn't matter much with H2. "Long fat pipe" is a well-known issue with a bunch of solutions.
I was quoting the staff at the hospital and took their word as granted. It also says so on the box of our Hipp formula powder box (the one meant for 0-6 month old kids).

I am also a bit pragmatic and think that it’s most likely not dangerous. But I liken it to using a seat belt. You don’t need it until you crash.

If I was unlucky and my kid got really sick because I was lazy with water handling I would feel bad.
That is not the same Omar Qazi.

The Omar Qazi who runs @WholeMarsBlog is not a convicted felon, but he has been arrested twice.

https://www.plainsite.org/profiles/qazi-omar/
> Who is claiming this?

I was replying to the grandparent comment that was claiming exactly this.

> panda Twitter account you linked to looks to be straight propaganda

It's a map of US and China's bases. It's publicly known information, I just wanted to pick a pretty infographic. Does it matter if I get the weather in Moscow from Putin, if it is trivially verifiable ?
>Google Office for Desktop. Wait for an opportunity to emerge and then pounce.

Microsoft Office has a lot of network effect surrounding it. Organizations use MS Office because the people who pay them (e.g., government or large corporations) use MS Office. I've tried switching away to LibreOffice or Google Docs/Sheets/Slides, and those are very likely to mangle layout and formatting when saving to DOCX/XLSX/PPTX. Not worth the hassle trying to troubleshoot why my government program managers aren't seeing what I'm seeing on the document I sent them.
A lot of the hard to invade stuff comes from having a bunch of guns and the world's strongest military. When it was inhabited by Native Americans the Brits, French etc. managed to invade ok.
I do as well.

Everyone in the US it seems to like bigger numbers. Just look at the argument some people use to why some people prefer Fahrenheit over Celsius.

... is what I would say, but Tesla seems to be the only one using the sensible Wh/m or Wh/km. All the German ones use the nonsensical kWh/h per 100km.
When I try that search string on DuckDuckGo, I see what looks to be pretty decent results, FWIW.
Sure, its not great that they weren't taught the science behind it, but on one episode they quoted a teacher who was taught the new way, and she rejected it because 'she didn't like it'

From the transcript:

"She didn’t come away with an understanding of how children learn to read. She didn’t really learn about the science of reading. Other teachers told me they did. They say the training they got during Reading First opened their eyes. Changed their lives even. Some of them still use the materials they were given. But for Christine Cronin and many other teachers, Reading First represented a change they didn’t like. They were told to follow a curriculum. With structured lessons like the one you heard when Bush visited the second-grade classroom in Florida. To Christine Cronin, it felt traditional and old-fashioned."

And from a later episode:

"Like Christine Cronin. She’s the teacher in Boston who tried to get on board with Bush’s Reading First program, but said the curriculum she was given felt old-fashioned. She remembers looking at the pictures in books by Fountas and Pinnell and Lucy Calkins and thinking – that’s what I want my classroom to be like.

Christine Cronin: They framed a picture of reading instruction that seemed beautiful. Like, softly lit rooms. Kids were gonna have cozy nooks where they were curling up with a good book. It got your heart, along with your mind."

This teacher wasn't worried about the science, she was sold on the 'look and feel'.
The Black Hole Objection to Longtermism and Consequentialism
Which is kind of depressing. I get public schools have budgetary needs and I suppose Chromebooks are perfectly appropriate for Elementary and (maybe) Middle Schoolers (my kid has one, he's in 2nd grade and its fine) but they should really consider supplying real laptops to the High Schoolers so they learn on hardware and software used in the real world.
Wikipedia:

> Although primarily referring to the summer of 1988 it lasted into the summer of 1989, when electronic dance music and the prevalence of the drug MDMA fuelled an explosion in youth culture culminating in mass free parties and the era of the rave.

I was at clubs in London (both as a punter and as DJ) in 1980-83, and ecstasy, if a thing at all, was not widely available or used. Its use ballooned later than that.

And it was 1994 before the UK government attempted to ban raves by banning a certain kind of music. I left the UK in 1989, and felt very disconnected from the rave scene that was happening at that time, but it is definitely my impression that it did not blow up into a truly massive scale till after 1990, though it was certainly alive and well at the end of the 80s.
For a business environment, Google Office is terrible compared to MS Office.

The features and functionally of Google office are very limited, especially when you compare Sheets to Excel
> Every free college country sends less of their people through college than the US.

That used to be true.
OP literally said:

> The issue is when this starts being less of a learning experience and more of an actual full time job. Sending 12 year olds out to earn a living clearly isn’t right.

You are straw manning. Nobody here wants kids working full time.
I wrote this 5 years ago, but it's still relevant:

The Falcon 9 is $62 million, or $2,719 per kg to LEO. The Falcon Heavy is $2,351 per kg when expendable or $1,411 when reused.

The BFR is supposed to have 2.5x the payload for 8% of the cost: $46 per kilogram. Even fully expendable it's $2,233 per kg. That's INSANE. It's space elevator money:

> [For a space elevator, the cost varies according to the design. Bradley C. Edwards received funding from NIAC from 2001 to 2003 to write a paper,[8] describing a space elevator design. In it he stated that: "The first space elevator would reduce lift costs immediately to $100 per pound" ($220/kg).](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_elevator_economics)

If the BFR actually becomes reality it turns a journey to orbit into an airplane ride. A $10,000 airplane ride that will shake your fillings loose, but make no mistake: that completely changes everything about space. It makes putting satellites in orbit around Jupiter as hard as visiting the north pole. Fucking TV hosts will be able to go for a quick jaunt around the moon.

If the BFR happens, we'll have a mars base just because it would be so cheap it's a no-brainer. Building a new ISS would be about as hard as building a new Sealab.
> it suggests phonics is only effective for a subgroup of pupils

If that subgroup is 90+%, is it worth throwing the baby out with the bathwater? (I don't know the % here, I'm making one up as a thought experiment.)
Was about to post the same thing. Windows is infuriating for me not because I dislike ads per se, but it triggers all sorts of ADD behavior in my brain -- try to open an application, and "ohh, what's Tom Cruise up to today?!".
I was a teen in the early 00s, so just prior to mobile internet really taking off. Driving was a huge motivator for us to work (rural). I suspect your right about the generational gap. Perspective also seems to differ between urban/rural.

I'd get it if there were some great alternative that teens were missing out on because they worked, but from my experience there was plenty of time to work, go to school, and still smoke weed everyday. Granted I didn't do 10-hour days 5-6 days a week all summer like the guy in the article, but normal 40-50hr/week full-time summer jobs was nothing.
It wouldn’t look too dissimilar to a standard sinusoid, just shifted upwards a bit. In the range [-1, 1], e^x is reasonably similar to 1 + x.
Reminds me of this Brian Regan bit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBJ6yptGqm4
They're both to blame. Apple single handily changed the phone landscape to throw away type phones that you can't repair by yourself easily.
Sorry for delay in replying. Two main causes in my experience:

1. as a deliberate effect, either on its own or as part of a reverb; similarly, some synth sounds have this 'built in'

2. as a consequence of multi-microphone recording, where two microphones are used on the same source but are positioned such that the channels end up significantly out of phase

The trouble is that inter-channel phase is one way in which stereo 'works' so it's all a bit of a compromise... this is why there are various tried and trusted spaced stereo microphone techniques that give a sense of spaciousness without introducing too much out of phase content (e.g. ORTF) and often these give a more pleasing result that the coincident-pair (XY) techniques that minimise phase differences. Often in situations where there's lots of sources being recorded at once you can end up with problems. The usual rule of thumb is to ensure that if two microphones are picking up a single source, the more distant one is at least three times the distance of the closer one to the source. A quick way to check this stuff with headphones when positioning microphones is to sum them to mono, reverse the polarity of one of the mics and move them around to minimise the bass cancellation.
With the aim of making premium margins from hw/sw products better than Apple without Microsoft, the partnership of Google, Mercedes-Benz, Sony could go far with top cover and Nintendo's superpower patience and as a key point of difference promise to re-supply parts without short fast fashion half lives. I fail to understand how Microsoft gets away with huge market monopoly without correction from parliamentarians confining them to one third or two of industry dominance.
But how many parsecs does it take to do a Kessel run?
We are talking about Mastodon's DAU which that is still a mystery. Twitter's DAU is already known to be over in the hundreds of millions approximately.

The whole point is:

>> Even if we don't, we can only imply that the DAU is ultimately far less than 100,000 users a day, posting at least once on the platform.

Either way, it is safe to assume and with the data from Fedlist and matching it with the instances of 'active users' it is still less than 1% of the DAUs on Twitter, hence why Mastodon fans (like yourself) cannot claim and proudly show that there are 'millions of users' using it daily.

Furthermore, debunking the so-called 'Twitter migration' that wasn't.
Huh, wonder what happened in January. It returned almost to pre-Musk growth rates for a month, then resumed extremely rapid growth.

Also somewhat surprised there wasn't more of a spike in April 2022; IIRC that's when Musk made his offer and it's certainly when I started un-mothballing my old mastodon account.
There's a plugin for both chrome and firefox that allow chat to work within.

They both work for me at least on MacOS and Windows; haven't tried any linux distos yet, but worth a look.
I think there's a YC company doing this too, with the idea of using the carbonate for concrete.

https://www.heimdalccu.com/

Though their press page still has lorem ipsum on it so they may not be active.
Microsoft Windows survived thanks to Apple on proprietary OS front by not licencing OS separately and Google on open source OS front by not pursuing desktop ChromeOS
Poorly worded, I suspect. I think the comparison is how modern Germany treats the nazi part of their past to how modern Russia treats the Soviet part of their past.
Do you prefer it, or is it simply a cost saving measure? GSuite is substandard even compared to Open Office.

The only benefit, and it may be a big one, is real time collaboration and document sharing.
However, 30 seconds and 30 minutes are at far ends of a spectrum with a sweet spot in between. Of course there is a market for 30 minutes of content and not everything should be optimised to fit as much content in every second of video. But I definitely do not get entertained by hollow filler and senseless suspense building. Even Mythbusters did this with constant flash forwards/backwards and recaps (which especially stood out to me because TV commercials where I'm from are about once per hour and not every 5 minutes), but back then it was the only format we got.