skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who wants 3:2 content for distribution? No streaming platform wants 3:2, and they all want the footage delivered as progressive scan. Some will say things like "native frame rate", but I find that a bit misleading. There are plenty of television shows shot on film at 24fps, telecined to 30000/1001 with 2:3 introduced, then place graphic content rendered at 30p. The term "do least harm" gets used so that taking this content to 24000/1001 so the majority of the content (that shot on film is clean) while leaving graphics potentially jumpy (unless proper frame conversion with an o-flow type of conversion that nobody really wants to pay for).

Edit: also, any editor worth their salt will take the telecined content back to progressive for editing. if they then need to deliver like it's 2005 to an interlaced format, they would export the final edit to 30000/1001 with a continuous 2:3 cadence. only editors unfamiliar with proper techniques would edit the way you suggest.
https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/openat2.2.html RESOLVE_BENEATH

(FreeBSD has this in ordinary openat(2) as O_RESOLVE_BENEATH.)
Is it a thousand cuts? Seems more akin to how Caesar died at this point.
> I don't see any sign Meta understands what made Twitter great

What made Twitter great?
True but the algorithm seems to be getting better at being filtered out entirely from my views on Twitter.
I needed a custom, search app for something I didn't want to spend a ton of time on. I tried Google's since it's righteous to use their data the way they prefer. It was very complicated, seemed to be setup right, and still failed for unknown reasons. Bing's docs sounded similarly complicated talking Active Directory and stuff. I found SerpApi whose usage fit in one article which I think had example code. After signing up, it took one night to mostly be finished with the app. I was using it the next morning.

Just wanted to tell your team thank you for doing a great job on making search programmable and super easy. I appreciate it. Might make it open source soon to give something back by letting people try your stuff more easily. For now, may the Lord Jesus bless you all (or meet Him yourself at GetHisWord.com).
One reason I haven't started Mastodon is that I don't want my experience to be ruled by self-righteous egotistical reddit mods. It's better for users when the admins are professional and checked out.
Would I get mad if someone read my blog, learned things, and then wrote their own blog using some of these ideas? No.
If you have the means, I recommend placing her into memory care. I did that for my father and I have no regrets about the experience.

In terms of day-to-day interactions, the best pieces of advice I received was to:

* redirect the conversation rather than argue or correct them.

* always flash a look like you just recognized them and are happy to see them before approaching.

* don't ask them if they remember something. They don't and will just rationalize a scenario in which you are antagonizing them.
* don't watch action/war movies with them around.

* don't inform or remind them of their condition. It just makes them sad for a bit and they'll forget anyway.

* ask them about distant childhood memories and play them their favorite music.

I hate to end on this, but this isn't a condition that gets better. There were good days and bad days and they eventually all became bad days. Spend time with your loved one and try to get as many of those good times as you can now.
I fear that they make you sign-in in order to view content. This wouldn't make it better than Twitter, as it is now.
If you don't know about it, then https://misskey.io/ is an extremely good Twitter alternative that is almost exclusively used by Japanese people. A lot of Japanese artists and others are eager to make the switch from Twitter too.

Also, Twitter isn't the best place to confirm if there is an earthquake anymore, since the website is completely private if you don't have an account. I use https://unnerv.jp/about/more instead now, since it's on Mastodon and can interop with misskey and other fediverse software easily.
I would imagine its far more important for them to point out to shareholders that this has a “green impact” to raise their ESG score, rather than trying to make it a well-known problem.
Lol, I built this exact thing as a 120% project at Twitter in 2011.

It was called “Flocks”. It even had transient/temporal flocks based on geo check-in and sound-fingerprint flocks for movies, tv shows, and events. We implemented the Shazam audio signature algo from a research paper we found.

The thesis was: it’s more natural for people to have conversations when there’s a shared context.

It became a widely known project within the company back then, but ultimately, like most things at Twitter, never shipped.
You're talking in very vague terms here, what does """interesting""" mean?

Let me give you some numbers. Factorising RSA is order 10^6 logical qubits (and I'm being charitable here), simulating FoMoCo is around 10^7. The state of the art error correction is around (again, charitably) 10^3 physical qubits per logical qubit at the moment, that gives us 10^9-10^10 qubits necessary for the simplest quantum application. We're at order 100 right now.

Peter Shot thinks that error correction can go down to 100 physical-per-logical, that's an order of magnitude shaved off there, but the algorithm itself is pretty basic, i don't see it getting any better there. Simulation algorithms have much better odds in seeing improvements as I think the gates used there are rather non-standard and have avenues for better gate compilation techniques.
Caring for a dementia patient properly is all consuming for the caretakers. You don’t want to do this to your family. Getting help from a robot would be a win win for all.
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Just stepped down from a CTO role at a small indie games studio, looking for interesting and fun problems to solve! Contract/part-time preferred, full-time considered for extra cool roles or good culture fit.
Well sure, but to be fair they let a lot of "influencers" on some sort of working platform and it got a lot of hype, but since then... You don't hear much anymore. I was just wondering what was going on, they've been working on it for a while now.
Love is a burden no way around it. Some burdens are worth carrying however.
Recruiting students that have a high likelihood of below average academic performance and then requiring them to payback costs if they can't pass "MIT AP exams" is a recipe for failure. Ironically these families would have less wealth than before because now they're in debt for what could have been free public education.
You really believe that's how it works? that russians can just choose not to be involved. Like the east Ukrainians can just choose to be autonomous?
You can bet it will be as bad or worse
Why would it be bad that all risky initiatives start small instead of eg accidentally ruining the whole healthcare, education or policing system with a single decision?
My "For You" page is filled with my own Tweets. Why would I ever want to see my own Tweets?
Same here. I don't care about any of those things.

All I want is a large monitor (currently 43" + 27"), so I can get my work done, then turn off the monitors and collect my paycheck.
Same for me. I created the account and got banned a few hours later.
On Instagram your social graph is already about following people you don't know.

On Facebook your experience is mainly your grandmother trying to write messages to you by typing them into any random thread or text box she sees.
Senile people are going to love the AIs of 10 years from now, I guarantee you. Once it has perfect audio control and responses, it's going to be like the perfect friend for an old person.
Yes and that might actually be a better outcome. Keep the narrow lines of shared concentration spheres bumping state of the art who did what releases on Twitter and have the more social social media noise join on Insta where thats already happening. Not even sure I would notice a change if that was the way it played out.
The multi-agent framework MetaGPT has been officially open-sourced: https://github.com/geekan/MetaGPT

- Enter a sentence requirement, and it can run a software company, outputting PRD/design documents/tasks/code REPO

- It can design a recommendation system similar to the TouTiao app, and it can also design a large model training framework.
But that’s spending money. Easier if users give it away for free without a second’s thought
Seriously. My grandpa had dementia for 10 years. Pretty much everyone in my family doesn't want to inflict that on anyone else.
> I hope the rumors that this is based on ActivityPub are true.

Like how GTalk use XMPP, the port 5222 opens, but with tons of customizations and extensions that 3rd-party program can only use the basics?
And let's not forget, you cannot post content from the web version, unless you resize the window to make it small enough.

Sometimes I wonder if they make their products absolute shit on purpose, for a social experiment or something
I hope you're not the people constantly trying to sell me Viagra for millennials on Instagram.
Yeah but these are the most basic of basic problems in QC and people would be discarding approaches that didn’t have potential solutions to this issue. In superconducting QCs, neighboring qubits are not necessarily even resonant, and are in their own little metal boxes. With neutral atoms, you have extremely long lived internal states that barely couple to the environment, and the atoms are macroscopic distances from each other.
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Just stepped down from a CTO role at a small indie games studio. Available for consulting, part-time contracting, short-term full-time contracting, greenfield projects, anything web or AI.

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I'm not a quantum computing researcher but I have friends who work on it. The way they've described this to me (answering a question around "how does one know what quantum stuff is bs") was that it's largely a set of known "hard" questions where we've empirically found hard for classical computing but we maybe could solve with quantum. In a way it's been described as similar to crypto primitives or P?=NP problems where we don't know for certain why it's harder one way vs the other but it seems to be the case based on our current knowledge. It could possibly (but unlikely) be the case that we eventually find classical solutions that are just as fast.

They don't seem worried about this though, since at least research-wise just working with quantum as a new tool to solve problems itself is intellectually interesting (and the "solves classically challenging problems" is a good way to frame the work's potential impact to general audiences). Also, there's other supposed uses of quantum beyond just computing, like for communication etc.
ePub Reader Made with Electron.js
threads.com must have 100xed in value the past hour.
We are remote (fixed).
Woosh. Also Henrik is Danish, he can claim that English isn't his first language
My dad got an iPhone despite us being an Android family because word on the street was that they're easy to use.

For the life of him he can't he can't look at a text message while in a phone call and then get back to the call menu.

He unknowingly mutes notifications for contacts and has no chance of figuring out how to unmute them.

He accidentally calls his contacts all the time.
Hacking the Commodore-128 to capture almost real time video
Facebook buys Instagram then make a Facebook knockoff by Instagram
or it might just recover a lost submarine from a major superpower
The privacy listing is once again atrocious and a deal breaker for me. Health data? Browsing history? Financial Info? Purchases? Location? Sensitive info? Hell no!!!
Most general purpose computing is based on algorithms that are essentially O(n).

What that means is that they are a constant times the cost of simply reading the input. Often, the computation is actually cheaper.

Quantum computing might make some computations have a smaller theoretical constant, but it is almost certain that the practical constant ($/bit of input) will be much, much worse due to scale.

Right now, only very specialized computations look like they will ever have any speedup. And even that is only maybe, in practice.
> A big part of twitter is the web client

Depends on which user base they’re focusing. For people who treat tweeting as work, that’s probably not the case.
any chance this datastructure could be split off into a separate crate? or perhaps your modification ported back to roaring?
Why not 1440p with integer 2x scaling?
I agree, and don't think I have much else to contribute, but I think that I want to make my small opinion known:

Using everything as training data is entirely reasonable. Search engines are basically built on this. Regurgitation in very digested, very opinionated, direct citation form is totally reasonable.

Regurgitation as a "new" asset is worth discussing, heavily. I lived through the days of OC Donut Steel in the history of the web. This feels a lot like that. And that's okay! You don't need original thought to create something personally useful. Sargnarg the hargeharg is valuable to the person who came up with them. What's not okay is the delusion that it's a meaningful contribution.

AI generated blades of grass, rock textures, tree bark - this will all allow for detailed, precise, realistic worlds. The authors of the original stock, the people who collected the dataset, deserve compensation. Under whatever license they used. A CC license allows you to use these assets for your own benefit. If a game ships with a set of CC licensed grass textures, a proprietary deterministic algorithm to remix them, and runs on every consumers machine to generate a set of new unique textures, I think that's clearly within license. If it ships with those textures pregenerated, that's clearly a derivative work. If it ships with the midpoint, the mixture of all of those textures, incredibly lossily? That's worth litigation, and lawmaking.
To be fair to Pai, he was Chair of the FCC not the FTC. He didn't have much say in FTC rule enforcement.
Just like Google+
I don't think it's a passing fad, but the legitimate and lasting use cases are lost among the hype and bullshit.

There WILL be job losses but it's not going to be the kind of people who hang out on HN. I can't think of any reason why you wouldn't have an AI taking orders at the drive through, handling customer service calls / tech support, etc. Any job that consists mostly of having the same simple, repetitive conversations is going to eventually be cheaper to have a computer do.
I'd be surprised if 99.9% of the targeted userbase of this app cares about this. I don't.
> I need comprehensible input

The safer bet. Children and adult cognitive loads are assigned different in Maslow's hierarchy of needs.
Thanks.
TIL.
Updated my comment.
For the most part, modern movies have just been dreadful. Previous great screenwriters like Shane Black would make action significant (with people actually reacting in fear to guns), make comedy light and airy but non-constant etc. (he has some nice lists of advice and processes he would use going through scripts) but then these weird light Marvel movies started coming out, amounting to little more than Abbott and Costello vs. the Wolfman or whatever. And somehow that took over all of Hollywood, so Shane Black goes and directs an Iron Man...

Thankfully old movies exist, so I've started digging further and further back, really enjoying the quality writing and acting in things like 1942's To be or not to be or 1932's Grand Hotel. The 80s are also a great treasure trove - recently I saw Shane Black's Last Action Hero, which is way before its time. Or Mystery Men - satirizing these same superhero movies before they became ever present.
Thanks for your input. Can we all take a moment to recognize what a rare and special corner of the internet HackerNews is? Here we have an article on a highly advanced topic and lo and behold a researcher in the field shows up to add clarity. In a mess of advertising and misinformation that makes up the modern internet, it’s really an island of knowledge and experience that I hope we all truly appreciate.
So set your monitor to 119.88 instead of 120.

Theres a reason why monitors give you both x/1000 and x/1001 framerates.
If you display those frames on a 60Hz screen, it's an awful effect. If the screen natively supports variable frame times, there's a lot more upside and a lot less downside.
Yeah. It's probably mostly just geoguesser/not-geoguesser :)

Unfortunately, that sucks even more from a UX design perspective, since it means even if you absolutely nail the instructions you need to know all of the surrounding context and find a way to address it.
FWIW, I feel like that's the next step: there is a natural mapping from Twitter's data model to reddit's and Meta already has experience handing over the moderation keys to sub-communities from Groups on Facebook; that will also make the existence of this separate app really become powerful.
Would love an invite, thank you!

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The only "extreme left" account I followed on Twitter (Chad Loder) was personally banned by Elon because his #1 priority post-Grimes breakup has been trying to become a made man so the internet fascists will let him into their gang.

There are certainly tankies on there, which is a kind of person that claims to be left but is actually a reactionary.
I got very lucky. My first guess was only off by 5.5 miles. If I knew the exact location ahead of time I probably couldn't have gotten that close if I tried, considering the zoom level of the map when I guessed it. That got me close enough to get right on for the second guess.
The rate of pay available to the most possible people is minimum wage. Its covers 100% of (legal) jobs. So, are you saying your expenses are 4x minimum wage?
I've noticed a trend towards needless bijections in management vocabulary. Like, there will be some common names "foo" and "bar" for things, but then management will start to call them "red" and "blue" -- because that's what Important Guy said at the meeting. And anyone who has to ask what "red" and "blue" mean reveals themselves to be more-distant from Important Person. This little game propagates through the organization, resulting in various forms of confusion and misunderstanding as it goes.

Put another way -- without thinking about it, people's instinct to imitate superiors creates a collection of simple substitution ciphers. And these ciphers continually mutate, as those powerful people emit more randomness.

It's a lot like "Hail Vectron" from That Mitchell and Webb Look, except it has the structure of a bijection mapping meaningful words to arbitrary ones.

For another example, see how Davos people talk about "Blue Hydrogen", and other hues of the colorless gas.

I am sure you can think of examples from your own workplace.

Anyway, this "Theory X" and "Theory Y" stuff clearly appeals to the same impulse. What are "X" and "Y"? If you don't know, it's your turn to be shamed! Join the mystery cult!

I'm being a little too cynical. The other reason these empty signifiers pop up is that good names are hard to coin. Words carry connotations that you may not want. It's sometimes easier to start with an abstract symbol and populate it with meaning over the course of an entire paragraph.

But that's never the best thing. You do that only because you couldn't come up with a better name.

Some decent words here would be "extrinsic"(=X) and "intrinsic"(=Y), with both adjectives implicitly modifying the noun "reward" or "motivation".
The terms "realistic" and "cost effective" in the field of quantum mechanics do not have scalar definitions. The meaning changes depending on the problem you are working on and the deadline for funding opportunities.
There’s a big graveyard of products/companies that have tried to kill Larry over the years.

Meta has been trying since 2009. Back then, a former, well-known Facebook employee once told me not to join Twitter (thankfully, I didn’t listen). He said they, “have a wall at the office with a list of all the things Twitter does well. Every week someone checks another item off. We’re going to kill Twitter.”

This moment is probably Meta’s best chance. I’d say, if it doesn’t happen this try, it probably never will.
Mycorrhizal mycelium as a global carbon pool [pdf]
Apologies for any uncertainty regarding CPU and RAM factors. Initially, my thought was to decouple the cost model from conventional hardware factors from a user's view. However, from the service provider's viewpoint, I have to encompass aspects like CPU consumption, IO usage, and RAM utilization while crafting this cost model to bring mutual benefit.

Utilizing AWS as a foundational reference is indeed a worthwhile approach, something I'll delve into by examining pertinent services.

Thank you yet again for your insightful feedback!
There’s an app called Synergy that lets you seamlessly move mouse and keyboard input between devices, if you ever feel the need to run the Mac and the Windows machines side by side rather than using a KVM switch.
Happens alot on hacker news actual
It looks like they finished fixing it last week and it looks like it was only a high. When I first ran into it in audit reports python said it wasn't a defect in python, just how it was used, but they would change it in 3.11.4 but no official backports. The bugzilla issue for 7 and 8 said they couldn't fix it without breaking things, so they wouldn't. It seems they found a way. https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2023-24329
Title:
"How to Learn Better in the Digital Age" (2020)
Yes, learning requires effort. Does it need to be _effortful_?

After a bookish childhood, I spent years as an adult trying to "learn more." Mnenomic tricks, Anki, active note-taking, exercises, trying a different book if the first one doesn't stick. It didn't work very well and I probably wasted a lot of time. Two things became clear: 1) I was focusing on the process as a way to procrastinate on the real effort involved, 2) I was compensating for a lack of real curiosity about the subject matter. Yes, learning is hard work, but does it need to _feel hard_? When I've felt truly engrossed in something, I don't need to remind myself to exert effort, and I'm not really thinking about whatever X% of learning gain I can get from doing it better.

Deep down, I think like seeing myself as the kind of person who is "really into learning" -- math, theology, classics of literature, CS, art history, whatever. Keeping up the identity I developed as a nerdy kid. Of course, it's important to be gritty about learning because... why? Hustle culture?

Now, I'm trying the opposite approach: enjoy as much entertainment as I want, avoid exerting any effort or discipline in learning, and stop immediately if I'm not feeling it. Part of this is not beating myself up when I naturally lose interest in something (95% of things). Yes, it's easy to get distracted by low-effort scrolling and such. Ultimately, though, avoiding exertion makes it easier to focus on those rare things that truly spark wonder.