skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I grew up in the Mid-South and when I was using the sky presets in Bryce, I thought: "man, these folks must have been on some good stuff when they came up with these." But after I moved to CA and started working at MetaCreations at their office on a bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean, I realized they were just recreating what they saw out the window!
>In the "classic" color spaces, the pixel values have a linear relationship

Almost all color spaces (e.g. srgb or in the video world bt.1886) use a non-linear transfer function? I believe the difference is that gamma and log are different types of nonlinearities, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37843965 and see https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Linear-response-dashed-v... for an image comparing the two with "linear"

What's confusing is that many people will justify gamma encoding with the claim that visual perception is "logarithmic". I think this is misleading, because the perceptual justification is actually a power-law (Steven's Power Law) as contrasted by the opposing view that perception is logartihmic (Webner-Fechner law, see https://www.appstate.edu/~steelekm/classes/psy3203/Psychophy...). In practice I believe the actual justification for it was that it happened to match the transfer function of CRTs, and these days it's mostly kept around for compatibility, and as an optimization to avoid wasting bits (whether or not it truly fits the human model of perception).

As mentioned by https://computergraphics.stackexchange.com/questions/10315/t..., the real reason why log encoding is nice is because each stop of light gets roughly the same amount of bits. (Log encoding probably also isn't too bad a fit in terms of perception. In an alternate world where we weren't burdened by CRT baggage it'd be a replacement for the now-standard 2.2-esque power gamma).

Also the only reason why log encoded video "looks flat" is because traditional video workflows are not ICC color managed. If you properly applied the inverse transfer function (as any color managed system would automatically do) to display it on an e.g. sRGB screen, the video would appear close to what it did in real-life.
> However, I am now learning that serum levels don’t often tell the whole truth.

> For example, many suffers of neurological disorders benefit greatly from using B1 even if their levels are not below “good” threshold. There is a physician who has done a lot of work on this. You can technically megadose b1 without any negative side effects.

Megadosing vitamins despite normal serum levels is a favorite of alternative medicine practitioners. The story has played out for nearly every vitamin you can name that doesn't have immediate toxicity upon overdose: Vitamin C, Vitamin D, various B vitamins, etc.

It's never a good sign when there's "a physician who has done a lot of work on this" is the primary source, the claim is that all of medical knowledge to this point has missed it, the range of conditions/symptoms covered is so broad that nearly anyone could be considered impacted, and they preemptively try to claim that blood tests can't diagnose it or must be ignored. It's textbook alternative medicine pseudoscience and it's playing out for every vitamin, mineral, and supplement out there.
You can't forecast the market, all you can do is present an "awesome AI" to suckers and take a slice of their profit with no exposure to their losses.
I'd guess that if you're cutting something with a chainsaw underwater, they expect you to be standing on the bottom of the body of water.

It doesn't sound like it's meant to be used in very deep water, since it's intended for cutting through wood:

> The Stanley line of underwater chain saws are designed for cutting all types of wood structures including bridge pilings, pier and dock timbers. All chain saw models include an interlocking safety trigger with hand guard and stainless steel spool and fasteners.

There's a photo of it being used, but it's very unclear what's happening: https://www.stanleyinfrastructure.com/sites/default/files/pr...
Does anyone notice a high pitch sound when they drive a tesla or other EV? I have noticed that and was wondering if that has contributed to my tinnitus. It could just be a confounding factor but was curious on the emf implications.
Or the brightest minds in AI genuinely think AGI is near…
Multi-modal prompt injection image attacks against GPT-4V
I have to say, this inspired me to track down an account of what transpired - and it is wild! [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Joseph_Smith]

Treason against Illinois? Polygamy? Declaring Martial Law? Being kicked out of Missouri after a war named after your religion? [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1838_Mormon_War]

All while running for President of the United States, and just before being lynched by an angry mob?

And with no convictions for those accused?

Truly an overachiever.

P.S. One of the best quotes I've ever seen - Missouri Gov. Boggs had an attempted assassination, and during the trial of the most likely suspect - Smith associate Porter Rockwell - Rockwell successfully defended himself with, among other things, (per wikipedia) his reputation as a deadly gunman and his statement that he "never shot at anybody, if I shoot they get shot!... He's still alive, ain't he?".

Amazing.
Hhmm I don't remember it being that slow, but then again, I didn't need much throughput for my use cases. Frankly, I'm surprised that Zerotier and Tailscale are that slow as well, so I'm not sure how trustworthy that article is.

I found this other benchmark[1] that places them much closer to native WG performance, with Netmaker still in the lead, and somehow faster than a direct connection. This is probably due more to Netmaker using the in-kernel WG, instead of the userspace implementation. I'm kind of curious to give it a try, TBH. :)

Hell, even OpenVPN is _much_ faster than that[2,3].

Also, yeah, tinc development has been slow for years now, but I didn't experience any issues with the prerelease versions. It's certainly behind the times now, but I also enjoyed how easy it was to configure and use.

[1]: https://techoverflow.net/2022/08/19/iperf-benchmark-of-zerot...

[2]: https://www.zerotier.com/blog/benchmarking-zerotier-vs-openv...

[3]: https://www.wireguard.com/performance/
I found OneDrive would crash a lot amd couldn’t deal with file names that weren’t valid windows file names.

The google drive for Mac crashes a lot, and no matter how I adjust the settings often refuses to download the full remote system unless I click on the cloud icon next to the file name. They really want you to use a web browser, which I don’t like to do (prefer native apps, thanks).

Dropbox seems to have gotten it right, it seems. I guess that’s why they’re still in business even though their business is built around a feature, not otherwise a product.
I think we underestimate just how much the hyper rich pay in taxes overall.
Future you will hate you for it, though.
Stop paying COBRA, unless you have paid significantly into your deductible. You can immediately get an ACA plan on termination for, comparatively, pennies.
I'd never considered the problem of "food bit accumulation" for visually impaired people, until reading this.

The first approach of limiting escape makes sense (e.g. vertical side, deep pans), as the problem turns a typical quick spot clean into a deep whole clean.
I guess Microsoft's Xbox Game Pass is the same thing then.
Around $4100!
https://www.amronintl.com/stanley-cs113no-hydraulic-underwat...

Amazing how capable tools can be, in industries that simply cannot get their work done without them and are willing to pay a healthy amount. Sometimes I wonder how good our dev tooling would be if we were willing to pay thousands a year, as opposed to the time-wasting bug-fest that is Xcode. Not singling out Apple, I’m sure all are comparably bad, it’s just what I happen to use :)
On a 100 hp economy car that's 10%
As conspiracy theories go "The Crack Epidemic" is at least ballpark - the details are hazy but there's something there.

The OIG (Office of Inspector General) report into "THE CIA-CONTRA-CRACK COCAINE CONTROVERSY" (December, 1997)

https://oig.justice.gov/sites/default/files/legacy/special/9...

didn't touch the bedrock involvement of the CIA-Contra support underpinning the magnitude increase and near literal flooding of cocaine powder into the USofA (because that connection had already been "extensively reviewed in previous inquiries by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's Subcommittee on Narcotics, Terrorism and International Operations; the State Department; the DEA; and the CIA.")

That, however, is enough on it's own to make the case that the CIA was (indirectly) responsible - had the volume not increased so substantially and had the price not dropped so dramatically there would never had been any driver to make a more addictive by product so readily available.

The rest of the OIG report is volumous but weak - there is no evidence because various targets "fell between the cracks", there was no task force because the agent who suggested one had a case of "her supervisors did not take her request seriously because she was a female agent." and not "because there was pressure to cover up".

These are not great reasons that the evidence is lacking because deeper investigations were not held, and they don't exclude unseen pressure to not look further.
It doesn’t matter. What matters is if you can prove things you care about true for code you care about.

And yes we can prove termination and zero bugs for a lot of practical useful code. Examples: seL4 is a proven correct micro kernel and CompCert is a proven correct C compiler.

The trick is to use programming languages that are total i.e. not general infinite tape turing machines.
2023 Solar Eclipse – Oct 14
This is false. AP classes are meant to be college-level classes. The goals of these classes is to earn scores that yield college credits. The tests exist to provide some form of standardization around understanding a student's performance against a standard in these classes. AP exams are not measured on a curve like an SAT (although even the SAT has massive score inflation. AP exams are measured against a standard for learning – and the standards are clearly not being met as clearly evidenced by the scores. Similarly grades are meant to be a measurement of learning against a standard. Yet, grades have increased and learning outcomes have not increased. This is a fact.
Getting an individual ACA plan is typically easier the less you make. You’ll typically be able to get a bronze plan for whatever you were paying for your share.
> He gave people money to quit at the end of employee orientation if they didn’t believe they would be a bad fit

It's sad that I wasn't 100% immediately sure this was a typo, but I'm pretty sure it is.
Ask HN: What should be MVP for "Lambda kind of server for simple AI automation"
They paved paradise and put in a parking lot.

WEC: Eye-opener. Lot of fun to order exotic stuff (tools, foods, materials, clothing) from. A few for-examples: it got me to cane a seat on a (once-expensive) thrift-shop store ... and try some east-coast kinnikinic ... order tea from Canada (Merchies, still there) ... and a lot of previously unseen books (including Lloyd Kahn's). The cool comments (and stories) around the page-edges were a plus too.
It is. Why do you think it’s not?
Oh yeah? I guess you never day traded..
Also https://theblindkitchen.com/product/auto-measure-spout/

I found it interesting to listen to the videos with my eyes closed, then rewatch them.
filling a slightly different niche, there's also yggdrasil, which can be used to create private overlay network taking advantage of public relay nodes.
I don't think there's any open source hardware, but you can use GrapheneOS on a Pixel and it works well.
Wow, I have to say it’s quite funny: https://web.archive.org/web/20120307132029/http://www.ninesy...

From the manual (https://web.archive.org/web/20080119120948/http://www.redhat...): “The ‘Redneck’ language entry represents a dialect of American English spoken by Red Hat Software's Donnie Barnes, and was used as a test case during the addition of internationalization support to the installation program. It is included solely for entertainment value (and to illustrate how difficult it is actually talking to Donnie).”
It depends. If you donate enough of your unrealized capital gains, you can cancel out all of your tax owing on what you do cashout and get your name behind whatever causes you want (as long as it counts as charity or politics).

At least that's how it can work out in Canada.
I have heard that the rotor head on a ch-53 weighs more than an entire huey(uh-1).

update: I was unable to find any evidence for the rotor head story, but while looking I found this page full of -53 trivia and I wanted to share it.

https://sikorskyarchives.com/home/sikorsky-product-history/h...
If anyone is going to get really upset and argue with someone to death over a hard technical issue in 1800s, they are likely of the same archetype who would do it in the 2023:

https://www.mikeleake.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/DpQ9YJl...
I don’t see how this is any different than any other internet connected device that companies are seemingly so eager to get into our possession to mine and monetize data that we produce by using them. The device i’m using to type this up included.

To me this seems more like just one piece of a more meta issue that is arguably turning in to a multi-headed monster for the average citizen to contend with going forward. I’ve also seen no evidence of effective, concrete, and widespread clarity, reform, or help coming from anywhere. I hope I’m horribly wrong.
I watched the YouTube presentation afterwards (linked elsewhere in this post), and it makes more sense what they’re trying to do.

The guise of the academic paper def throws things off and it’s poorly communicated in the paper what the model benefits are.

Posting a quick write up of the talk on youtube would’ve set the right amount of rigor and expectation. (Needs marketing help, lol)
You can beat pokemon just by pressing the a button repeatedly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZQtia9ZyyQ
Ubuntu Desktop 23.10: Mantic Minotaur deep dive
Show HN: Create task list using your voice
Using our app you can just speak you task list or recipe list Everlogue efficiently converts it to a list which you can share with your other apps

Website: everlogue.aicygnus.com Google Play Store Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aicygnus.e... Apple Store Link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/everlogue/id6452388483
They're just mad that USD no longer holds a monopoly on financing coups, rebellions, resistances, etc.
So I guess the op was right, why does the rest of the world use American standards, since we can't choose your president either

(I don't actually believe that we shouldn't use NIST standards, but my point is that's a pretty weak argument for non Americans. )
I saw a condo sell in Nashville next to a water treatment plant for $825,000. Median household income for the area is about $60k USD.

It was not large or fancy. Prices are still insane in cities with functioning job markets.
Pretty sure any translation would be a new copyright.
You're confusing art with pretty pictures. AI "art" is not art, they are just pictures.

It has no meaning, it has no context, it is not inspired by anything. Art has depth, art has emotion.

Theres no AI pieces that someone "loves", theres nothing beyond, oh this is a cool image, it just doesnt exist.
What happened to all the severance that Musk did not dole out?

On a related note, musk seems like an impossible guy to work for. He is super opinionated and does things on a whim over tweet, does not treat employees properly, over works them and there is proof that he doesn’t even give severance to fired employees. Why do people work for him, specifically Twitter? I can see he allure behind Tesla and spacex even though I heard similar stories from there
I've worked with quite a few people who absolutely can do quality work but who will intentionally avoid actually doing it. People who browse social media most of the day, get lost in their phone frequently, would rather wait 2 weeks to have a meeting to get unblocked when it could be resolved in a short email, etc.

I have literally had (TWO SEPARATE!) people tell me, thinking it was perfectly acceptable, that they often put extra lines in their code so they can go back and clean it up instantly with auto-format while pretending they did real work.

What would you call someone who defaults to this type of behavior if not lazy? Work shy?
Wow that really incentivises pro-wealthy-folks lobbying!
Until your mobile home park gets sold out from under you to build overpriced condos. This has been happening to many mobile home parks in the SF Bay Area.
>but thr fronts do 70% of the work

Yes, maybe that's why they only add motors to the back wheels (x2).
These machines exist! https://www.amazon.nl/-/en/Kenwood-CCL401WH-multifunctional-...
This points out the reason assignments are so important: standing. Ultimately the court looks at the “person” who is being “injured” and the way the US looks at things that’s the legal owner.

The FSF tried to say that everybody was injured when the GPL is violated (a position I consider morally true) but as the article points out it’s no longer the 1980s.

Note: I wrote the original blanket assignment (and executed it) and the first gnu library license (LGPL), though they have since involved. So my perspective is looking back at the 80s as well.
Robot woks!
Wax

Paraffin is 2.1 Kj/whatever

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/336006577_Comparing...
It's always an estimation of course. But if you are going to damage a bone sufficiently to leave a deep mark with a (probably sharpened rock) spear then it really helps to have a hard surface underneath to do so. It could have been standing and then pushed up against a wall but two hands thrusting it downward is safer bet.
Flag the entire site for enforcing a very short headline length limit, like it's 1978 and we're reading it on an 80 character teletype. Must be a LISP thing.
Tony was wealthy but had substantial mental health challenges. It is not entirely unexpected his estate would be in limbo or exposed to suboptimal tax treatment due to no estate planning.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25235490

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25326510

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25305202

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35682523
The donations to charitable foundations route is ripe with loopholes that make it attractive ... the charitable foundation can be one that yourself (and a few others who share a tax lawyer) control, an astonishing low proportion of "donated money" can actually flow to the claimed charitable end, and a remarkable percentage of that money can indirectly benefit the people who donate.
> Instead of subjecting his gross estate to the federal estate tax, Hsieh could have set up a trust in which he has no control over, transfer his assets into it, then have a trustee continue to carry out his goals

The real outrage is that this is legal.
Almost any stovetop heat setting will do the job, it's just a question of how long you want to wait. The post said to use medium heat and listen for the sizzle; the sizzle starts when the water is gone. Then the browning/Maillard begins.

For anyone making tacos at home: If you don't get to the point where you hear the sizzle, you're making tacos out of steamed meat, not browned meat. This is an easy fix that will seriously up your taco game (unless for some reason you like grey tacos).
“Moreover, incapacity is a near certainty for all people: there will be a period however brief, in which a person can no longer manage their own affairs, requiring help.”

I’d never thought of it this way, but it’s a thought provoking reality.
Why not ask Bernstein why he's participating in a program to generate one?
the estate tax? “why aren't we getting scammed equally” is a pitiful argument
Unsupported assertion - simplest explanation is that the guy's credentials just got hacked and someone else is using his account.
What's the premium for meal delivery services over home prep? 300%? How many people can afford to pay $20 for a meal they could make themselves for $5?
I got a used IBM Thinkpad 365XD w/ a broken screen and a DC-to-DC converter to run in my car back in '99. I loaded Slackware on it and set it up to mount the root filesystem readonly (so the unit could be hard powered-down whenever). I wrote a little Perl init script to mount the CD-ROM drive if a media was present and do rudimentary filesystem navigation.I used the Festival speech synthesis package reading filenames from the disk.

I burned my MP3s to discs in a format Artist / Album / Song so I could use my rudimentary speech UI to navigate up and down the directory hierarchy and play the selected item (be it a single MP3 file, or a directory, which would get played recursively).

I'd leave the unit open on the passenger seat and reach over to run the UI without looking at it. I can still remember how Festival's "accent" colored the reading of the names and titles.

I put the unit out to pasture when I got a flash-based player w/ reasonable capacity.
Actually this a good counterexample. Many attempts have been made to improve on bittorrent, but we are pretty much stuck with the old protocol, not to speak of really old shady clients users tend to find.
You would think with that amount of money you could get help.

Instead, he was taken advantage of by his hangers-on/ballwashers that were only after his money.
Yeah but what about the other 30%

You can't just start taking parts off of cars without understanding the impacts.

Also, ebrake, etc. These things are required by law.
It's fleshed out more in the link:

In 2009, Hsieh sold Zappos to Amazon for $1.2 billion. Amazon inherited Hsieh's policy but put its own spin on it — the company offered full-time Amazon fulfillment center workers up to $5,000 to leave, per CNBC.

The policy, dubbed Pay to Quit, is designed to weed out the employees who decide they aren't happy at the company, subsequently improving workforce morale and productivity and ensuring that those who are employed are committed to their work.
They have a failsafe via a pressure relief, 2 of them, so I wouldn’t worry too much.
Flag this comment for going against the "HN is the greatest" dogma
Wealth and ability to seek help are mutually exclusive. For sure, you have access. But you have to want it, even if some are desperate to help you and others are desperate to extract from you while you remain in poor health. Maybe someone could’ve advocated for a conservatorship, but we’ll never know why someone didn’t.

(have had friends and loved ones addicted to alcohol, cocaine, heroin, etc)
What's insane is that one person can personally own billions of times more of the resources than other people do.

In a better world, people would just laugh at anyone who tried to claim this (or, better yet, try to help them with their mental/social problem).
That's not a fix. People in houses will breed even more people and/or people will move in from afar--and then one generation later you're back to where you were before, only with more total population, less room for the earth, and more carbon emissions. What do you do then? Repeat the cycle, like an idiot? How do you think we got so many people in the first place? Do you fix traffic by building more highways?
From society comes one's wealth, and back into society it shall go.
For me it's more like being disappointed that there's no way to start the engine in my car with a hand crank, instead of using the key.
Computer scientists routinely prove theories with an infinite number of states. It is actually usually the easiest way to prove things because you don’t have to handle edge cases.

A typical theory says:

For all x:A, P x

In other words, given any x (from an infinite set A) P x is true. Where P is a proposition.

You typically prove it using straightforward induction/recursion.