skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
School prices in the West have made no sense in decades. If I can learn equally well in the East and have access to the same job prospects (and that's the question), why not sign up for their programs?
This whole thread is horrible and puts HN in a totally different light for me

Google blogs how they try to make it easier for people remove revenge porn (and other bad stuff like doxxing) about themselves from search and help kids not randomly see porn online

Yet here we have techbros complain about omg those bad trackers

I hate google's evil tech stance, especially after they gave themselves permission to scrape the entire web to train their AI (and btw HN is totally silent about it) but revenge porn and doxxing are serious life-altering traumatizing things and happen to people who often have no recourse to deal with it

The nice explanation is zero people bothered to click and read, the less nice explanation is that techbro crowd probably has not as many victims of it than perpetrators, statistically
Thanks for the thoughtful response. I think maybe my objection to MY curriculum was being handed a lot of mathematical tools which I didn't need, and so it was impossible for me to "slot them in" to my toolbox. Most named solutions to differential equations were just like...why? (e.g. Bessel functions, or Green's function or...). I think it's a failure of pedagogy - I personally think you should give students the problem before giving them the solution. But the physics curriculum seems to want to give you solutions first and then tell you how you can use them. My brain doesn't work that way; tools fulfill a need. It would be like teaching a carpenter all the ins and outs of every tool in the shop, without ever building anything. How is the student supposed to organize that knowledge? Alphabetically?

I suspect that, just like how algorithms rarely pop up in software practice, so too do these kinds of tools pop up in physics practice, and when they do you probably get that same happy jolt of "Hey I finally get to apply this knowledge!" And that happens about once every 2 years.
Ask HN: Will ScienceTech pay ever exceed Tech? Can externalities be priced in?
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> runs at speeds you would not be able to achieve with just JavaScript

Is that true? Last I heard wasm was significantly slower than vanilla JavaScript in synthetic benchmarks.

Has that changed recently?
Will this only exist as a managed service (SaaS) or will there be an open source (or open core) version?
An update about SED from Jeff’s family
Nope. As I understand it, Amazon doesn’t actually own data centers; similar to how they don’t own warehouses.

My understanding later on in my career shift to computer engineering was that Amazon is renting out the whole colo, and just owns their equipment.

Amazon isn’t maintaining the datacenter infrastructure such as cooling and power, but instead it’s covered in their bill.
As soon as the money becomes conditional, it's not UBI. If you have to irrevokably sign up to an organ donor list, it's not UBI. UBI is inherently redistributive. Which I happen to think is immoral.
That's such a frog-cooking-in-the-kettle thing to say, I'm actually impressed that your companion didn't get to the conclusion it entails!?
This device is not available for immediate purchase.

They say that currently they have only made samples, they have not mass produced it.

This is a crowdfunding campaign that wants you to give them money up front.

It is common for crowdfunding campaigns for a device to never deliver, or take a year longer than they promised to deliver, or send you a piece of junk without a chance of a refund or ask for a delivery fee a year after you paid.

If you want a small external SSD you can just buy one from a retailer and have the usual consumer protection if it does not arrive or you want to return it for whatever reason.
But that is silly? If I have to audit the code for my system running, I would have to audit the code for each of the "servers" as well? If not, why not?

To that end, how different is it, actually? And what are the other tradeoffs?
Check this out: https://atlas.scoutflo.com/product/OpenVidu
https://nuclear.gepower.com/service-and-optimize/solutions/a...

They still have the link apparently. The system used traditional manual scanning system with a VGA capture card on the back. I synced that with an off the shelf IR capture system and was able to record the ultrasonic scan into a video file using opencv. I would also record a USB cam at the same time as a sanity check. I could generate point clouds of data by reading the video file and the synced position data to project where the ultrasound was going and the linear response of the scanner. Was a ton of fun to develop and it was nice that I pretty much only had myself to blame when things went wrong. I also had to write the procedure for operation in case someone else had to use it.
Happy Phind customer here (pro or whatever it’s called haha), but unable to use the VS code features due to not using VS Code.

Have you considered a LSP .. does the LS Protocol even support some functionality that you deliver?

In general I’ve been pretty happy with Phind. I hop back and forth between it and ChatGPT. Currently canceled my ChatGPT subscription in favor of Phind. Looking forward to future developments or perhaps generic implementations of the editor plugin for use in my own editors (Helix, if you’re curious).

Thanks!
Does it solve unseen math? I can consistently get it to trip over even simple math
reading https://blog.zoom.us/zooms-term-service-ai/

> “To reiterate: we do not use audio, video, or chat content for training our models without customer consent.”

Section 10.1 and 10.4 need to be read carefully, as this is a complicated topic.

> In Section 10.1 (coupled with 10.6), our intention was to make clear that customers create and own their own video, audio, and chat content. We have permission to use this customer content to provide value-added services based on this content, but our customers continue to own and control their content. For example, a customer may have a webinar that they ask us to livestream on YouTube. Even if we use the customer video and audio content to livestream, they own the underlying content.
So, they have the right to re-transmit and create value added services. The example they give is harmless but is it the spirit of their rights?

> In Section 10.4, our intention was to make sure that if we provided value-added services (such as a meeting recording), we would have the ability to do so without questions of usage rights. The meeting recording is still owned by the customer, and we have a license to that content in order to deliver the service of recording. An example of a machine learning service for which we need license and usage rights is our automated scanning of webinar invites / reminders to make sure that we aren’t unwittingly being used to spam or defraud participants. The customer owns the underlying webinar invite, and we are licensed to provide the service on top of that content. For AI, we do not use audio, video, or chat content for training our models without customer consent.

They are claiming that it is with consent and show on the dash where the opt-in is. It’s like OpenAI.
(WarpStream CTO here) This is a bit subtle I will admit, but we view the Kafka protocol as a successor here because it will outlive Kafka the implementation.
> The pasta can be whole wheat or made with chickpeas

I don’t know about you, but I’ve heard nothing about complaints about Banza up to and including bugs in the packaging.
He's overanalyzing. I think it's best to choose one randomly, even with a coin toss and learn enough about it. Then later he'll know better what to choose next.
I'm not trying to put down anyone. I'm trying to challenge the person to actually do something instead of doing analysis-paralysis.
mozilla didn't remove their jxl support? It's behind a feature flag, like it always has been, but that doesn't mean they will get rid of it or never unflag it.
On the flipside digital maps can progressively show layers on user demand. You can pull up the OSM map with all the street names. If you've got a bit of patience to learn tools like QGIS (or ArcGIS) you have more power than ever to build personal maps that work best for how you personally navigate spaces beyond the lowest-common denominator that used to be print maps.

It's maybe a bit of a shame that the raw tools (like OSM, QGIS, ArcGIS, even what is left of Google Earth) aren't easy to learn and equally accessible to everyone and the incentives of the big maps (Google Maps, Apple Maps, etc) is its own drive to a different lowest common denominator, but digital maps have such tools in the first place. (It was far more expensive to get custom printed maps. AAA triptychs are interesting thing to compare here.)
Would add "encouraging public policy around walkable communities" to your already top notch list. chef kiss
I used to idle in the hurd irc channel and there was definitely someone working on smp support, but it was just one person's pet project apparently. They seemed to have things working in an experimental setting, but I don't think anything landed upstream.

It was clear there's a severe lack of manpower on the project. I think it'd have to be rewritten in rust or something hip to get new blood today.
For obscure people, especially anonymous randos, there are practically no consequences. When I hear people complain about "repercussions" from online speech, they usually just mean criticism. And that's all the article author seems to mean too. "I realize this section makes me sound like a Perfectly Logical Person who does not get upset by negative public criticism, I promise this is not at all the case and I have 100000 feelings about everything that happens on the internet and get upset all the time."

Of course famous people can get into some trouble for what they said in the past, but they usually bounce back and then find a new crowd of followers with a different ideological cast than their previous crowd of followers.
The difference is this way, the price per working chip doesn't change as they improve the process.
Already offered by PNaCL, and CrossBridge, in 2010, in what concerns C and C++.

https://adobe-flash.github.io/crossbridge/

Still waiting for those wonderful WebAssembly + WebGL games that can match Infinity Blade for iOS from 2010, the game Apple used to show off iOS GL ES 3.0 capabilities.

Or something better that citadel demo, beyond the asm.js port done by Mozzilla .
In at least some Mazda models, you can replace the firmware in the entertainment system to eliminate that message. I’ve done it.
I'm actually working on something similar, but it's a SAAS rather than a library, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37037555 - The benefit is that you don't need hosting or maintenance.
"...for Ruby, Elixir & Node.js"
That is a pretty good read to optimize temperature for your home, however I find controlling humidity more troublesome during winter months. I live in Sweden and even with a humidifier rated for my apartment size doesn't make much of a dent against dryness.
3AC co-founder rejects jurisdiction of bankruptcy court
Military was doing it in Iraq back in 09 with planes
https://www.eglin.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/392767...

No machine learning, but same concept. There was a constantly orbiting plane with super high-res cameras on the bottom, taking pictures of entire cities, roughly 1 picture per second. When an IED went off they could zoom in and "rewind the clock" and watch where the explosion occurred, watch the person burying the IED, how they arrived, and where they came from up to the city limits. Was apparently an invaluable tool. You'd need tunnels to defeat it.

That was almost 15 years ago. I'd be shocked if a satellite version for even larger regions wasn't in the works.
The people downvoting this don't understand security. Do not believe whatever you read on HN just because it's upvoted. Listen to real security professionals.
Yeah, but in this case thare are a billion variables that are not controlled at all. One could easily spin this paper as super pro or anti vaccine.
I must emphasize that there are no “neutral” color negative films. There are just films optimized for different use cases.

Once you dive into the sensitometry of how color films work, it becomes apparent that everything is a tradeoff. You have three light-sensitive layers, and you get to control their contrast curves, and you control their spectral response with sensitizing dyes. The physics and chemistry of light-sensitive materials imposes some constraints on the spectral responses of the different layers (which, if you think about it, explains why the different layers are always stacked in the same order, across different types of film).

Some films are advertised as “natural colors”, like Kodak 160NC, but if you dive into it, you realize that there is no such thing as “natural colors”, there is just a certain look you get with a certain film in certain conditions.

It’s not like it’s impossible for wedding photographers to shoot dark-skinned subjects at a wedding, the point is:

1. There are some difficulties inherent to the problem,

2. Your equipment (film or digital) is not configured out of the box to take good pictures of dark-skinned people.

A lot of work was put into films and digital cameras to make light-skinned people look good. It’s something people care about, and various companies invested money and made it happen. It will also take work to make pictures of dark-skinned people as easy, and there are still a lot of equipment and photographers out there who are bad at it.
I'm not an expert, but no-chin and that reinforced eyebrow area looks like the definition of a Neanderthal. A word that is strangely avoided several times, and does not appear in any part of the link.

Why is this so different as to claim a third entirely new type of humans? We know that both species hybridized, so maybe a sapiens x neanderthal?
you forgot the part about the shiny metal orb.

it really changes the flavor of it from cambridge analytica to dr evil.
Are there any frameworks/platforms for this?
That sounds really fascinating, could you post the patent no. or a link to more information? I bought a cheap NDT ultrasonic 'scope' to play with recently, to see if I can potentially measure specific gravity via it.
Exactly, it's not enabled either and there's no plans to. Neither for Edge.
::cough:: https://www.epi.org/blog/iowa-governor-signs-one-of-the-most...
For real though, if you are reading this, are a YIMBY, and are a person of means, why not try to generate a test case for this? Have someone set up a tent encampment on their own private lot and force the case. How can it possibly be legal to set up a tent in a public right of way, and not on your own property?
> In our experience, Kafka is one of the most polarizing technologies in the data space. Some people hate it, some people swear by it, but almost every technology company uses it.

(emphasis added)

Surely that's false?

Or, I mean, neither of us are providing any evidence here... For my part, 0 of the last 6 companies I've worked for used it. The company before that did (I drove its adoption), but we later abandoned it.

Linkedin built Kafka for massive-scale problems that 99% of us don't have. Though technologists have a well-earned reputation for using tech they don't need, my perception is that most of us are succeeding in avoiding the use of Kafka.
Please do, I understand VSCode is a huge market but I'm too in love with my vim and my jetbrains stuff...
AV1 is licensed royalty-free with an alliance of all big tech behind it. AVIF has been shipped by Apple and Google.

There's always going to be FUD around software patents, because the system is broken, but AVIF is as good as possible in the pathological system.
Sorry it says “please sign in to view plans”. Because of this, I cannot become a customer as that is extremely annoying UI
We all love to hate other generations
In which case it makes even less sense for someone to complain about reducing Javascript bloat just because a web font that a developer doesn't control and doesn't have any input over exists.

I am sympathetic that worrying about 30kb is overkill for a lot of apps. But if you are in a position where you're really optimizing for speed to the point where even megabytes matter, then those 30kb are not cached and they block page logic from executing until they're downloaded. And that remains true even if there's another performance change that would be higher impact that you're not allowed to make.

If anything, being not allowed to reduce asset size for your website would make efficient JS bundling matter more, since it's one of the few resource bundles you'd be allowed to do something about and it would be pulling double-duty to try and slightly cover for the inefficient fetches that you can't change.
Sure I was just thinking for most people. I just got a ZMK keyboard and I'm I've been practicing Coleman and qwerty. After less than an hour on Coleman, I was struggling on qwerty and had to wait for qwerty to switch back on my brain. Are you able to switch to qwerty with out issues if you need to?
KYC is a thing and apparently crypto exchanges can implement it when asked nicely.

But I think grand parent poster is right on the money, it’s a attempts to take governments roles.

After all nation states are not that old of a concept. Basically Napoleonic wars.
Some type of distopian corporate nationality might come to fruition to replace them.
As a kid in high school I built an FM transmitter including etching the PCB at home and everything. Even thought it was not super high-powered (you're not supposed to build a high-power FM transmitter, especially back then when radio was not digital) it was super fun to be able to speak to this little thing I built and hear it come out from the radio.

As an adult, I built a clone of a Fender Champ guitar amp, completely handwired with an eyelet board like they did back in the day. It sounds amazing for such a simple circuit and is actually an object I enjoy using as opposed to a toy like the FM transmitter was.
1. In city I believe that bicycle might be safer mainly due to agility at lower speed (might be wrong here never used a VM) and the ability to just leave the bike; but I expect this disappear quickly as the speed increase.

2. I know but still too big ^^

4. I think width play an important part too, on motorcycle I had cars merge on me as if I was not there multiple times :(; easier to disappear in the blindspot.

(Funny anecdote, I would have expected the reverse with people ignoring VM because they underestimate the speed :).
I'm running Proxmox (Debain underneath really) which has a meltdown-spectre checker package available, I followed a debian guide I believe for implementing the microcode and the results are mostly in the green now.

I haven't looked into it but as far as I know I don't think I need to worry about this for the VMs but I could be wrong.
I used to be deep into the mechanical keyboards rabbit hole.

On of the nicest switches out there are worn in with time, so I created a machine that wore them in by pressing them multiple times. Never got to finish it but used it quite a bit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctWl4Hy6DAc
Thats a huge PITA on newer cars. On both, mine (Skoda) and my wife's (Nissan) I have to accept their data protection policy every time I start the car. The dialogue usually pops up a few seconds after I start driving.
During Covid I bought a sewing machine and taught myself to sew - then I made my daughter's matching dresses (and a ton of other stuff including toys, bags, etc!) I definitely became a bit obsessed for a while...
it is implemented, it's just not released. if there's no plans, why did they add the feature flag to begin with?
Just for show. I like some white LEDs in the case, and so I have some acrylic artwork mounted on the PCI bracket under the GPU and lighted RAM.
> For example, a modern CPU encoding/decoding a video stream would use way less power thanks to its newer video decoder/encoder hardware IP blocks than a very old CPU going on full blast to SW decode/encode the video stream. The differences can be staggering.

Is that the case for Teams / Zoom & friends, which are what I'd expect to be the most common video decode/encode uses? I'm expecting my 11th gen i7 laptop to become airborne any day now, with the kind of noise it makes on Teams calls.

Anecdotally, my personal zen3u laptop does seem to unload video decoding to the GPU when watching movies, but it still gets fairly warm.

> If you don't care about energy efficiency or it's dirt cheap where you live then that's fine, but FWIW a modern 12th gen Intel Alder-Lake N100 NUC clone with quad E-cores[1] will smoke that

On what do you base this? I've never tried the N100 NUC, but some i5 12th gen with 2 P cores and I forget how many E-cores in a laptop. Compiling Rust, it was comparable to my older gen laptop with the 11th gen i7. Now this is an "U" part in an ultra book, but it's barely faster than a 2013 MBP with an i7, which, if I'm not mistaken, is a 3rd gen core "H" part.
Thoughts on the Apple Vision Pro, spacial computing and new layers of reality
Just some things I've been thinking about for a long time that finally catalyzed after the Vision Pro announcement.
Its our own measure to incorporate PR size, technical complexity, repo complexity and a few other factors

Essentially it allows us to give standardise pricing for similar PRs regardless of time spent on them.

Would it be more useful if we launch a calculator where you can input those variables and get back a credit estimate?
Yes, at full load a 12th gen NUC will be more efficient. But if you're just using the old system as a home server, most the time the CPU is idling and not consuming much more power than a new NUC.

Also an old system is likely in a case that accepts multiple drives. That NUC is not going to have space for my 3.5" storage drives. Yes I could invest in NVME SSD's, but the point of this is low cost and using parts I already have.

I have 10+ old 3.5" HDD's laying around, if one dies I can easily swap it out at zero cost to me and keep my home server going.
you forgot the shitcoinery - there is a token, with a premine, unfairly distributed. the VCs that invested (SBF, a16z,etc) will benefit disproportionately.

it’s a scam.
For me it might be a system that's a hybrid of lighting and low-resolution video. It's installed in a food hall that turns into a night club after hours, so by day it looks like large glass and steel pendant lights, with circadian-scheduled blackbody colors (varying white temperature that follows the sunlight temp and goes deep orange-red in the evening), but after cocktail hour it kicks over into a dynamic, audio-responsive, stochastic, durational video/lighting sculpture that has lots of hidden behavior and a 'rich inner life', as I like to say.
https://hardwork.party/rosetta-hall-2019/

It was a huge labor of love and took a lot of faith from the owners of the space - faith I feel was rewarded, because it's been running for almost 3 years now and it still gets a cheer from the crowd when it kicks over into party mode.
Reminds me of the "Werther Effect," a phenomenon where the publicity of suicides leads to a spike in suicide rates, particularly when reported in a sensationalist manner. - If the same principle applies to traffic crashes, then it's vital that to consider how and if this needs to be presented to the driver.

Edit: Changed the last paragraph to apply it to traffic.
Or you could ask the AI for a script to convert it (whose resultant JSON would be free of hallucinations) and ask the AI to run the code, even, since I believe ChatGPT now has that ability, because I've definitely noticed that ChatGPT will sometimes mess up the data when converting from one format to another.