skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did an investigation into MP3 vs AAC. My tests were at 320kbps.

https://andrewrondeau.com/blog/archive/2016-07

Basically, MP3 is crap at 320kbps, and AAC is somewhat better.

The problem is that both formats roll off high frequencies. It's fine if you're listening in a car, through cheap speakers, on a noisy plane, aren't sensitive to higher frequencies, ect, ect. But, if you're in a quiet room with good speakers / headphones, and you have good ears, the high frequency roll off is noticeable.
A.I. model beats PNG and FLAC at compression
I forgive you
It's pretty expensive for the city to do that. Tons of signage needs to be removed and replaced with every expansion, and if you choose automated enforcement you need to install lots of new cameras and posts too.

Easier to start with one big zone over the whole city, and keep making the requirements stricter automatically. Eg. Take the cars age, add the current year, subtract the cars rated mpg, add 10 if it's a diesel. If the result is 2050 or more, there is a fine of $20/day if you drive it.
Show HN: Let's Get Creative – A collection of free online creativity tools
Improve Your Site Performance with PolyScale and Netlify
As someone who's kinda hovered around graphics land but never really stepped foot into it, it's pretty difficult to determine what Vulkan represents. Is it going to replace OpenGL? If I'm going to start learning graphics for the first time, would it still be useful to start with OpenGL or should I just dive into Vulkan?
It's funny, but I can't tell if it's making some larger point.
A suicide crisis among veterinarians
Adobe previews AI upscaling to make old, fuzzy videos and GIFs look fresh
sigmoid is logistic regression

ReLu is truncated regression

It's all just GLMs!
I go to a gym with instructor-led workouts (for 7 years now), but the biggest changed happened this year when I decided to get serious about nutrition. I thought I might be eating too much, but I was eating too little in general, being inconsistent and using my calories wastefully. I started tracking my calories and macronutrients religiously and started paying a small weekly fee to a trainer to check in with me for accountability, and I honestly eat more and better now than ever. I'm down 35 lbs since the end of January when I started, and I actually expect to keep it off this time, and I'm stronger than ever
Funny story, if you’re using TOTP (the time-varying code thing like in Google Authenticator), you can save a picture of the QR code and reuse it later and it will still work.
Interesting… the first time I’ve come across a useless acronym.
Why is what's "required" a consideration? Almost nothing in modern life is required. You don't need AC, heat, refrigeration, video games, movies etc. NONE of that is a requirement and it all contributes to climate change.

Part of living in a free society is that you get to have things that aren't required. IF I want to buy the biggest gas guzzling truck there is, I should have the right to do so since I'll be spending my $80k+ of money on it.
> TRW-17 transducer $12,900.00

I mean, if we could find something that knocks off a zero at least this might make an interesting project but at this price point, it's for die-hards only.
I think that the default backup behavior is useful: it fits the idea that the backup is more important than the new file, and it gives copy-on-write powers to hard links. If Emacs sees the file is version controlled it will not back it up by default, which also makes sense. The option to change defaults is there and may make sense for some users, like the author of this page. Having hard links to files that you edit and don’t version control and don’t want a copy on write behavior is potentially not a good idea, but if/when you need it, you hopefully thought through your editor quirks as well.
Was this an interview for a police dog position?
The ridiculousness of having to send formulaic, bullshit "thank you" emails after interviews.
I wasn't aware Bucharest is in Sweden, you learn something new every day!
This is a very good article.

The number 1 thing I have found missing in ALL productivity articles is the incessant focus on individual productivity, less focus on systemic productivity.

e.g. why obsess over "individual" commit counts when you could save over 90% of time just investing in a "systemically" better CI and by hiring engineers who maintain that CI system?
Well, Perl died because it's syntactically too sweet.
That's pretty cool for a bookmark freak like me :-)
> Qt

Unfortunately, it’s licensing is not suitable for everyone.
We can store an IP address with a mask (ban subnets instead of separate addresses). Also, IPv6 is so rarely used, that I would ban whole address space for the time of attack.

For example, if an attack is coming from a country you where you don't have many paying customers, but where there are many infected devices due to use of pirated outdated software, it is easier to ban the whole country than to figure out who is infected and who is not.
Dropbox was losing money every year of its existence until 2021.
I agree with some of them, but why is the font blurry? My poor eyes.

Replace show-trailing-whitespace with automatically-deleting-whitespace, though.

(defun x/delete-whitespace ()
(unless (or (string= major-mode 'diff-mode)
(string= major-mode 'hexl-mode))
(delete-trailing-whitespace)))

(add-hook 'before-save-hook 'x/delete-whitespace)
I'd love big reflective/tranflective display but I'd imagine because of rarity the prices would also be pretty high
With wrap around! -2147493649 is the same as 2147493646. This is true even if your array has more than 2^32 elements. Also, 2147493647 is reserved for special use!
If it’s actively exploited, more attention on it is good and not bad.

That’s what the language requires. I don’t really care what contracts you have with people, if your software has an actively exploited bug in it, people should know.
;; Highlight end of buffer
(setq-default indicate-empty-lines t)

is my most important one, when i open a file i need to know where it ends, vim has his by default i am not even sure if you can disable it in vim
> We can't say NN aren't doing something similar.

I agree, but my point was different. We can't say what it does theoretically, therefore we don't know how reliable it is (we don't understand the tradeoffs and failure modes). At least most humans have a way to assess their own reliability, and can see where their reasoning (or of their fellow humans) is inconsistent.
Harvesting timber from trees submerged by the creation of reservoirs is a viable business, I believe, on account of rising prices, particularly for high-quality lumber that is becoming scarce.
I don't think this deserves to be downvoted. Alas the "you'll own nothing and you'll like it" / "you'll go where we say according to our schedules and you'll like it" crowd is strong here.

You're right of course that not having a car self-evidently limits the things you can do (yes even in your country that has flawless transit that is free and goes "everywhere"), and is even worse if you have children. Want to go to the country to relax? You're limited to the places you can get by transit. Kid wants to do something that isn't near a transit stop? Too bad. Visiting relatives outside the city? Better hope you can get a ride from the nearest transit stop. The list goes on and on.

Being able to walk places is desirable, but it's best when you can walk/bike and drive a car if you need to.
> An attacker could easily "flush" all entries in this table by, for example, banning a TB of ipv6 addresses

We can set a limit of ban records per host to prevent it.
> you make it sound like EVs are more expensive than ICE cars. They surely are

Glad you both agree!
Like what? Genuinely interested
Nobody takes the car to somewhere in downtown Stockholm to save money. That's always one of the most expensive options.
>Sorry, which is the methods and which is the benefits? In your mind is "AI" a benefit?

I think you're demonstrating the issue by focusing on the name again: "AI" and "Machine Learning" are the same thing. Engineers care about the method, so ML is more appropriate; it describes what they are doing. Consumers care about outcomes, so "AI" is used because it's familiar.
It increases the cost of living in those areas, so what they are saying makes sense just because of that.
Is that a polite way of saying “made up”?
Links. Claims like that need to substantiated.
Not OP, but I have all mine stored on my plex server, and use Prologue to access them on iOS devices and like it a lot. https://apps.apple.com/app/id1459223267
Project Power: Beaming Distant Military Outposts with Laser Energy
I tried to build something much simpler than this.

For integration with cloud services you're going to run into OAuth, and guess what, that dance happens in a browser: get access to cloud drive -> get sent to provider login <<web>> page (or authorization page) -> get sent somewhere else.

I mean, you can build it without the browser, but a key and very early step involves a browser, you need it anyway. Might as well ship your own if you can do it.
Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks
Many of those "intergovernmental institutions" are funded by US and UK intelligence as the article goes into detail describing.
Playwright doesn't have a good component testing story yet though. It really needs to come out of beta into mainline.

At this point, its the only reason I use Cypress, as E2E testing via Playwright is a joy to write
It actually doesn't, it doesn't explain it at all.

Because camera data is already encoded logarithmically in common image and video formats.

The article didn't explain what its "log" is at all. Is it the same as gamma? The same as HDR? Something professional? Or something new?

If you don't know anything about photography, it seems like they're explaining something new. If you do know things about photography, you realize the article is full of buzzwords that aren't actually explaining anything at all.
To me, this looks like recipe for disaster navigating in darknets like Tor.
Nepalis 'deceived, cheated and exploited' at Amazon warehouses in Saudi Arabia
Yep, considering they have good public transport especially in center, this measure is logical. Imo they should ban any car except service/delivery/etc in center but I guess small steps are better than none
> this kind of information needs to be out there

Agreed; I think TFA is a useful article. Highly-tuned code is going to be hard to read (it used to be written in assembler, which is at least explicit).

I was simply commenting on the opacity of having two branches in the source that appear to do the same thing, and rely on something outside the code (or the language specification) to achieve the desired performance.
Stellantis, Samsung SDI to build $3.2B EV battery plant in Indiana
This is very typical.
If you know a lot of about anxiety, you'll have an anxiety bias and will try to explain everything as anxiety. Psychologists will also perceive LC to be psychological. Immunologists tend to think it is immune related, gastrologs think it is gut-related, etc.

Out of all these it's quite simple to dismiss the psychological explanations of LC. There are obvious physical changes found in various tissue and blood in LC patients. Changes that we can be reasonably certain aren't caused by mental issues.
> I think you're demonstrating the issue by focusing on the name again: "AI" and "Machine Learning" are the same thing. Engineers care about the method, so ML is more appropriate; it describes what they are doing. Consumers care about outcomes, so "AI" is used because it's familiar.

So how is "AI" an outcome benefitting me as customer?
Big Brother please tell exactly what I'm supposed to think. Is it a justified war of liberation and decolonization by the Palestinians or is it another senseless bout of terrorism against the peaceful state of Israel?
Can't speak to Sweden, but it is a shame what has happened with the PHEV category generally. I drive a Volt and it's a fantastic car in that it's really more like "electric car that also has a gas engine" vs the bulk of PHEVs on the market which are really "hybrid that can be plugged in to get a few miles of somewhat-gas free driving."

The latter seem to have been designed and sold mainly to skirt some regulations and take advantage of subsidies; along with a sometimes-hefty price increase.

We also own a Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV and while it's a fine SUV and family mover, it uses the ICE constantly, while I drive my Volt for months without ever using the combustion engine (to the point where it has to run a "maintenance cycle" to stop the gas from going bad).

Meanwhile the Volt was killed off by GM. It's a shame because I feel like consumers would have responded more positively to electrification if more cars like this had been rolled out and the engineering (and marketing and sales) had been taken more seriously on them.
>> solar panels don't like being hot

that's why in tropical countries people should aim for photothermical systems instead, collecting sun energy with parabolical mirrors heating up water, moving steam engine thus generating energy
> Of course we have it, both in national constitutions and in the EU's Charter.

not really. it's freedom of expression, but with major caveats:

(1) Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right shall include freedom to hold
opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public
authority and regardless of frontiers. This Article shall not prevent States from requiring
the licensing of broadcasting, television or cinema enterprises.

(2) The exercise of these freedoms, since it carries with it duties and responsibilities, may be
subject to such formalities, conditions, restrictions or penalties as are prescribed by law
and are necessary in a democratic society, in the interests of national security, territorial
integrity or public safety, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of
health or morals, for the protection of the reputation or rights of others, for preventing
the disclosure of information received in confidence, or for maintaining the authority and
impartiality of the judiciary.
Seeing the reality of evil in the world is not inciting violence.
But that's hard to get political traction for.
> Easier to start with one big zone over the whole city, and keep making the requirements stricter automatically.

Good luck getting your average person to not only understand this but being able to actually do the calculations. And it'll be impossible to enforce efficiently.
October Cybersecurity Awareness Month: How to empower smart security in your bu
Restricting publishing videos of world changing events, which make it clear what actually happened, is the opposite of free speech. Publishing videos of others commiting acts of violence is not inciting violence. Please read 1984 to help prevent changes in meanings of words.
I try to optimize for the reader of the code who didn't write it who has to maintain it, which often feels like myself a year after I crack back open the file. From that perspective, I don't love _1. Basically I don't want to have to dereference things when possible, I want a direct reference. My working memory is not large, etc.

I'm not sure I see the value of ".then"... the one-off variable names on the side make it easy for me to scan quickly and understand what is happening w/o having to procedurally view the right side of the assignment. If you want to ensure that these vars are truly one-off, wrap it in a block or method.

I don't think Ruby's syntax needs to evolve. I just wish the core team cared more about opening up the lang to the improvements which were being offered by e.g Chris Seaton (RIP) and his colleagues. I wish typing proposals were being hotly debated etc. I'm sad that after 20 years I don't really want to use Ruby or Rails going forward despite how incredible the ecosystem really is, mostly because the data science, typing, and FE integration story is weak now.
> Most kids know how to use the public transportation

Not kids from age 3-10, and from then on really just a simple one bus or tram route. There's no point pretending this isn't a big issue. You might say it's worth those people leaving the city to make it happen, but saying it's not life-changing for them is doing them a massive disservice.
> OK, that explains why I have so many problems with the Nautilus UI!

Eazel was 22 years ago, I highly doubt your problems with Nautilus have anything to do with them.
Or a Pi
Tough reminder to chose carefully for what projects/products you decide to pour your efforts into. If some VC backed company can pull the rug anytime, maybe reconsider.
"Choose your model
Requests for code generation are made via an HTTP request.

You can use the Hugging Face Inference API or your own HTTP endpoint, provided it adheres to the API specified here[1] or here[2]."

It's fairly easy to use your own model locally with the plugin. You can just use the one of the community developed inference servers, which are listed at the bottom of the page, but here's the links[3] to both[4].

[1]: https://huggingface.co/docs/api-inference/detailed_parameter...

[2]: https://huggingface.github.io/text-generation-inference/#/Te...

[3]: https://github.com/wangcx18/llm-vscode-inference-server

[4]: https://github.com/wangcx18/llm-vscode-inference-server
Not the parent, but yes, with my consumer hat on, ML is the method - how it learns is an implementation detail I shouldn't care about - while AI is the benefit - it applies something resembling intelligence to help address my needs.
You don't need a car in central stockholm. Poor people wouldn't even have a petrol car. Public transport is much cheaper and highly convenient.
I interpret it similar to the difference between calling yourself a software engineer and calling yourself a code monkey.
Water is quite affordable and so is solar. The efficiency of both solar and electrolysis will likely increase as more research is done.
Yep. A lot of engineers don't like the idea that most people aren't engineers, don't think like them, and don't appreciate things the way they do. You can't sell "machine learning solutions" unless your target audience is developers building ML systems.
Nvidia CUDA was first to market, easier to work with that OpenCL which was the only competition for the first decade then abandoned. Because of this then all the people serious about this are using Nvidia hardware therefore all the code is written for Nvidia hardware.

Only way I could see AMD making inroads if they were willing to provide power of the level Nvidia puts in a data center at consumer prices and relaxed licensing to justify retooling the entire ML chain to work on a different architecture.

Geohot has documented his troubles trying to go all in on AMD and he's back on Nvidia now I believe.
> that seems to be an almost exclusive US problem

On what basis?
I thoroughly enjoyed this and it made me laugh out loud stupidly at the coffee shop, thank you for sharing!
UB-breaking optimizations are already enabled at O1. I don't think -O3 is particularly noticeable for that: your first link shows code that breaks between O3 and no optimization at all.

O3 does more aggressive inlining and generally expensive optimizations and optimizations that are not necessarily profitable.
Llama Researcher
So, Stockholm is a modern vity, O hope we can agree on that. Also, Sweden, and thus Stockholm, is in the West, making Stockholm a modern, western city. And it seems people in Stockholm are not living in abysmal conditions. Meaning everyone living in Stockholm right now is living a "modern, western lifestyle", by definition. It is, of course, an urban one, but there are more ways than one living ypur life. And nobody is trying to take that away from you or anyone else.
Stockholm has great public transport?
The article indicates there will be some exceptions:

> While it is primarily intended to allow for only fully electric cars, bigger vans with plug-in hybrid engines will also be allowed, and exceptions will be made for ambulances and police cars, as well as cars in which the driver or passenger has a documented disability
SQL reserved words – An empirical list
I would start with WebGPU. Gives you hands-on cross platform knowledge and good foundations. Can't hurt to also look into WebGL, as that is more mature and deployed everywhere.
> A26

Do you mean A24?
Like so many distributions, Raspberry Pi OS seeks to use a lot of Debian's stuff while offering more and sheltering users from the less pleasant parts of the Debian user experience. It was not even close to being the first distro to take this approach.

(as someone else alluded to, Debian abandoned the specific ARM chip architecture the original Raspberry Pi used shortly before the board came out, since it was not popular enough to maintain. I have no idea whether they brought it back.)
Syntax really is so utterly trivial. In my personal project I went for C# instead of Scala. C#'s syntax is more familiar to most people, but the functional programming facilities (essentially copied from Scala) are absolutely bloody awful compared to Scala. Anything a little bit complicated – just forget it.

Edit: The point I didn't make very clearly above was at the syntax is actually pretty much the same, the semantics due to type differences and limitations really screw things up.
I don't think a dog would mention or be asked about their experience with Excel macros.
No need for everyone to understand. "Whats your registration number?" "The computer says you can drive that till 2026."

It can either be enforced at registration renewal (Put a star on the reg plate to indicate they're allowed in the city), or by ANPR cameras on the main roads in/out of the city.
Really cool. Glad to see someone is already working on this.
Nvidia's Plans – B100, "X100", H200, 224G SerDes, OCS, CPO, PCIe 7.0, HBM3E
Sure. Building a reproducible image of a Python app for another platform basically can’t be done without docker. With lots of devs using macOS and Linux servers, this is common scenario. Sadly, the dependency management tools are not built for this use case. Docker is the only cross compilation story in town.
Geopandas has had spatial indexing available for quite a long time...

https://geopandas.org/en/stable/docs/reference/sindex.html

I think that the challenge for most is that the PostGIS query planner does the indexing for you in most queries, while a naive all-pairs comparison in geopandas/shapely won't tell you to use the .sindex attribute instead.
Deta Space
I second all of those. I'm American as well, and they're all similarly gibberish to me.
However small it is, it seems far preferable to Berlin's approach of building a highway down the middle while simultaneously refusing to even consider the 2035 target.
"Misaligned" would be a better word than "obvious". It is well known and understood that a higher optimization level means more compilation time, potential speed gain and more subtle breakage in case of presence of UB, and being the maximum level, -O3 also implies potential binary size increase as well. In this understanding I believe `-funswitch-loops` is correctly placed on -O3. But ideally we want less compilation time, potential speed gain, less subtle breakage and insignificant binary size increase at once, and you can argue that all existing optimization levels are too far from that ideal.
I can find neither "mewling" nor "quim". Disappointed.
Heck, they could do it with FTP and call it a day!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
Goes well with the classic joke: "Machine Learning is usually written in Python, AI is written in Powerpoint".
I agree. Just as long as you know you can't directly open files from other filesystems in your regular apps, just because you see them in Spacedrive.