skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use it every day on my TVs.
Except it doesn't do anything.
> You can't represent 1/50 exactly in binary

You can though? You represent the encoder state in fractions of 50. In practice, it means the encoder state will not use all possible binary strings. But you don't need to trade-off in approximation size.

I am not 100% certain, but pretty convinced you can work with much smaller encoder states of only a few bytes, achieving the same compression performance of chunk approximations requiring kilobytes in size of memory.
>The European Commission is on a power trip.

Never waste a good crisis. It's been well documented that crisis events are the best opportunities of governments to expressly push out anti-democratic and anti-citizen laws that lead to erosion of freedom and wealth transfers from poor to rich, as those types of events provide the perfect excuse to bypass the usual and very long and through democratic processes where everyone takes their sweet time to dissect, analyze and debate them. And we recently had plenty of crisis: Covid, inflation, waves of refugees, war in Ukraine, war in Israel.

"Don't think about it too much you poor taxpayer, you don't understand this issue anyway, it's too complex for you and plus, you're too busy being distracted and worrying about this virus/rampant inflation/CoL/war to have time to think about such petty issues like your privacy, so just sit back, relax, worry about paying your rent, and let us worry about protecting your online privacy, m'kay?"
Really good example. I try to do this regularly around me. Take stock of the small things. It's almost meditative, although not quite. More just a intentional consciousness of and concentration on the world around me.

There's a strange song I heard that talks about noticing things like that and just considering them. It's called My Dog's Eyes by Zammuto. There's a line towards the end that says, "These were children who hadn't yet lost their sense of wonder.", and to me, that beautifully encapsulates what I want to do: Maintain that child-like sense of wonder for everything in the world for as long as I can!
Yes, but technically - houses deprecate 1/27th of their value according to the tax code.

So, although no one expects house prices to go down - there is an implicit understanding that the actual house depreciates - even if inflation is offsetting that and the land underneath it is pumping the total value up.

Lets imagine the cost to build a house goes up 3% per year - if your house deprecates 3.7% per year - it would only go down .7% in nominal terms (3.7% in real terms).

If the value of the land is 50% of the "home" value, and that appreciates by 6% - then your "home value" goes up in nominal terms & real terms - but not as much as it would have if the house didn't need maintenance (depreciation).
I'd really like to see AV1 hardware accelerated encoding and decoding built into the M3 and see Apple standardize on it finally. The schism caused by H264 and H265 is just so annoyingly inconvenient.
I'd say that if a company doesn't want to invest time in interviewing a candidate in person and instead use automated tests, then the candidate has every right to respond in the same manner by using AI to beat those automated tests.
Recent and related:

First word discovered in unopened Herculaneum scroll by CS student - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37857417 - Oct 2023 (207 comments)
> I wish I wasn't tied to Gmail because it means I can't really use any other clients if I want instant notifications.

what? it's supported IMAP IDLE for longer than some of the posters in HN have been alive.

> I'd kinda hope regulators would step in on something like that for a case like Gmail where they're practically the default email provider for most people.

... you chose to use some random company's domain for your email address, that's been an obvious problem for thirty years now.

there's jillions of things to criticise google about, this is absolutely not one of them.
Do microplastics accumulate in blood, and does donating blood reduce this amount?
I've written code for some reconciliation systems and it's nice to have confirmation they are indeed hard nuts to crack. The language matching isn't really the hard part IMO. What's tricky is that you're often matching batches "up to N", and the matching is not always just on a equal values or dates. For example, 300 credit card swipes at point of sale might match 3 deposits in the bank account a few days later with a 3% fee deducted. They never clear on the _same_ day, but need to match nearest day first. To brute-force, you need test all batches of up to 300 point of sale transactions and all batches of up to 3 deposits.
Just like every CPU benchmark. You just do certain tests and only reveal the ones where your chip is faster, and you put caveats on everything. This is how every new chip has been since the dawn of time. No single chip is faster at everything than it's competition...

That's why you have to look at extensive, detailed benchmarks and see which ones are closest to your workload and pick what's right for you.
Necessary rebuttal: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2013/12/high-speed-trains-...
Is it the back side that you appreciate in this design?

I guess it’s all subjective, but I feel like it’s a missed opportunity to have more highly detailed “engraving” style art.

Based on absolutely no artistic expertise, I really like the framing of the front and back of the 50:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_fifty-dollar_b...

EDIT: It seems there’s an alternate backing to the Salmon P Chase 10,000:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve_Note#/media/...
What a way to shoot a great product in the foot.

How does a "mandate" like that work? What if someone uses a different PMIC? Or, what if they include one "mandated" PMIC for boot, then offload to a sane one a few hundred ms later?
This underscores the problem with GPT-4 currently. It apparently can't do what any legitimate programmer can do: look at code and simulate operations in their head. Of course programs need to be run on actual hardware with real program support to find bugs, but they have to first be written and confirmed correct as well as possible, mentally. As it stands now they're doing some kind of fuzzy pattern matching that's kinda-sorta plausible and often completely wrong on inspection. And amusingly (?) if you ask it to try again, it'll come up quite different and also completely wrong code.

To be really good at programming these systems need the equivalent of the "understanding" a human programmer has, not just some abstract fuzzy pattern matching.
even the Oracle of Omaha himself regrets not investing . he should have bought Google instead of IBM. oh well, everyone makes mistakes, even the GOAT
This is hilarious. I happen to be preparing for a test centered around the OSI model and I don’t get why it’s set this way. Every few paragraphs the text says something like “remember that nowadays things a bit fuzzier and don’t fit within one layer” well then why are we even using this model?
Gruber: https://daringfireball.net/2023/10/apple_scary_fast_event

> It would sort of feel awkward to start launching $1,300 M3-based iMacs (or $1,000 iPad Pros) months ahead of the $3,500 Vision Pro, which will have the M2. It feels natural to me that M3-based Macs and iPads will only launch after the Vision Pro, so that when the Vision Pro is announced, the M2 is still the “current” Apple silicon generation.
Yeah. I have three lawyers amongst very good friends and family. They are all up for general discussion about law or a bit of basic research. I don't think any would go as far as writing a letter on my behalf.
You can't realiably poll from a mobile phone. Your app may not be allowed to execute any code, let alone make a network request for hours, or maybe forever.
Full circle twice: there was a Microsoft Mail well before Microsoft Outlook https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Mail
In fairness to the workplaces that I've been in, documentation for a software stack, or even the product, from 18 months ago may as well be in Swahili for as much good as it would do any new member to the team

Just like the comparison to code quality I often see is any such NASA thread: it's a whole different ballgame when one is sending a spacecraft out, or carrying lives to space, than "I tried to send a Slack message and it did a sowweee,oopsiez"
Sure, it’s just more evidence that these automated systems improve overall safety vs. an unassisted driver. (Although I worry a bit about automation-induced inattention negating these benefits)
I will follow up with you by email regarding this incident within the next day or so.
Symbolics/Noftsker is often attributed as the reason for the Lisp "split" and turning Lisp machines proprietary (and needlessly expensive).

The arrival of microcomputers, and horrors like Microsoft, were of course a major reason too.

https://www.gnu.org/gnu/road-to-gnu.en.html#betrayed

https://www.gnu.org/gnu/road-to-gnu.en.html#betrayed
I'm not sure how much the Linux situation has improved really. I used to use Linux in the early 2000s when I was a student and had time to burn. Quickly switched back to Windows/Mac when I got a job and needed stuff to "just work".

However recently I started working for a company that provides Linux laptops. I was curious how much things had improved in 20 years. My conclusion is: not much.

Here are some of the issues I've had:

* Linux memory management is still really bad. On OOM it kills a completely random process and 90% of the time for me that means it hard-reboots my laptop. Maybe this is partly because they didn't set it up with any swap for some reason, but I'm unsure that would help (in 2003 it didn't; the system would just grind to an unresponsive halt... but we didn't have SSDs then).

* If you set a WiFi network to automatically connect to a VPN, then delete that VPN, it means the WiFi connection will always just instantly fail with no error message. Even dmesg didn't help. You can imagine how fun that was to figure out.

* For some reason half of the network settings are not in the network settings. They're in some third party app you have to run from the console. It isn't even linked via an "advanced" button in the gnome settings.

* Gnome's desktop notifications are hilariously subtle. We're talking dark grey window that disappears if you touch it with the mouse and there's no notification history. I ended up fixing the colour to make it red by hacking some CSS. It was a simple 27 step process. Couldn't fix the other issues though.

* Somewhat hilariously if you click a truncated link in a notification, the URL it takes you to will also be truncated!

* Screen capture doesn't work in Wayland. Not that I regularly need to share my screen with coworkers or anything... Fortunately switching to X was easy and doesn't seem to have any downsides at all.

* I haven't done this but multiple coworkers have accidentally uninstalled Gnome while trying to upgrade Python. HN mentality will be to blame them but that is the unthinking response.

* It takes ages to wake up. I sometimes have to absolutely mash escape for about 10 seconds.

* Battery life is of course hilarious.

Never had issues like this with Mac or Windows (though I haven't used Windows laptops really).
> This post is just a rant. NestJS doesn't work for you? Don't f*** use it, no reason to hate.

No reason to swear either.

The article has an emotional title. The title explicitly says that it's a rant. It's literally about the author's emotion towards NestJS.

I don't get the point of your comment. You don't like the article? Don't read it!
I'm laughing because I know that intersection well from taking my kids to basketball practice. I might have had the opposite reaction to you had my car not gone when it could. Also, you have greater visibility as a driver in the front than a passenger in the back, so it's likely that an experienced SF driver might have also done the same thing (speaking as someone who's driven in the city for over 20 years)
> Talk to your local politicians about fixing service so that is an option.

Did you just tell me to go fuck myself?

I'll take the bus when the bus route is convenient, which is usually, and I'll take Uber/Cruise/Lyft when I'm in a hurry and it's not. I prefer public transportation but I'm more practical about it. Which includes electric scooters (Spin/Lime), or vespa scooters (Revel).
Mimolette?
What about TeamViewer.
I know little of money. What drives it? I would assume that an accurate model would be beneficial for everyone? Or, is it that there are accurate models, but they're used by private institutions? Who pushes/uses these mainstream models?
They'd be dodgier - a lot more potential victims.
None of that has anything to do with the accounting change that they made.
interesting, i got a few of the trickier ones a littler off...

I was 95% accurate!
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But it did continue driving. It tried to pull over and ended up dragging the poor woman for 20 ft before stopping on her leg and pinning her.
Which is? :)
Sad thing is, Apple used to make keyboards that were even easier to replace than Thinkpad ones:

https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/PowerBook+G3+Pismo+Keyboard+Rep...
But they don't have the same area. The donut seems to be at least 1.5x larger than the cup (check out the screenshots posted by latexr in another comment. The area covered by the donut is half that of the cup but it's clearly less than half that of the donut, it looks more like a third or even a quarter of the donut)
Sounds like a phishing expedition-

Worth calling them out,

I'm ethically and contractually bound not to disclose specific details around this work.

At a high-level I'm doing A)B) & C.

I imagine you expect the same standard from your team members.

Then turn the questions on them-

Relative to this role, help me understand what you're trying to accomplish.

What are you priority needs/wants?
What does success look like?

As for your Job Search -

Don't focus on companies and openings.

Instead, look for the guy you can best serve.

There's a Senior Manager/Executive out there who needs your help.

On this, Linkedin Profiles are actually a useful tool.
> but this differs drastically from a normal driver who'd get out and look round the vehicle before moving it anywhere

That is an optimistic view of the likely behavior of your hypothetical driver. Hit and runs are commonplace. Dragging struck pedestrians around isn't all that uncommon either. Panicked motorists frequently make very bad decisions.
Assuming that self-driving cars increase the total miles driven, then we would need to pro-rate the human baseline to account for the excess deaths caused by more miles driven.
…what are the downsides then?
Huh, I was using that rate in my head too. The yen was hovering around 9/10 of a cent from 2017 until the beginning of 2022. I only noticed the drop recently.
ppl been saying this for the past decade. There is nothing even close on the horizon to replace Google ads or search. Even if Chat GPT gains some traction for search, which is unlikely, it's not a threat at all to Google's mobile ads dominance. Despite endless promotion for the past 12 years, hardly anyone uses Duck Duck Go.
To be clear and dispel your misconception:

These cars estimate rather than ‘know’.
good dip buying opportunity imho
The first color E-Ink monitor looks wild – but we have questions
Self driving reduces to AGI
Biden Administration Moves to Ban Solvent Trichloroethylene, Linked to Cancer
For Amazon, it was actually about vastly expanded inventory. It was often hard to find books if you didn't live near a large retail book chain. I remember having trouble in high school finding some english class books driving around the suburbs.
You can see some profiles when not logged in, at random, but it’ll often show you posts from years ago. Whether this is a deliberate silly decision or a bug is somewhat unclear, like many things about Twitter today.
Factcheck: Misleading myths about electric vehicles
https://archive.ph/9Ybk1
The current ride pricing feels about 10-20% less than an Uber in SF - but I haven't really checked properly. So don't expect the rideshare product (Waymo One) to be a super cheap option.
This is an attempt to solve the right problem (CSA)

I fail to see how it does that. The abuse happens during the production of the material, not during the spread of it (yes, I know, spreading it is adding insult to injury -- I'm not defending any of it). And there doesn't even need to be "material" involved (recording is optional), yet I see no mention of tackling that problem.
They were head over heels about it.

Seriously though, if you don’t have your helmet adjusted about as far forward as it can comfortably go, there are a number of angles at which you can take a header where part of your face touches the ground. If you’re lucky nothing hits but helmet. Less lucky, a bit of road rash. Less lucky still, maybe some loose teeth.

The higher speed collisions I heard about mostly involved back injuries, which is less fun than artificial teeth. Younger people try to face plant.
SF today is as close to Blade Runner that we'll ever get. Every billboard is for some AI company, you ride in a driverless cab across a literal mile of homeless people drugged out of their minds, screaming and pooping on the sidewalk. SF today is so aggressively dystopian that it's sort of hard not to enjoy the experience.
China officially expels Li Shangfu as defense minister
I feel like we've moved on from the 1M figure. 3M seems to be the new target, at least that's what I hear the most.
Okta hack wipes out more than $2B in market cap
They also somehow, cough, forgot, cough, to include this part in the video they've shown to reporters and the DMV.
We've banned this account for repeatedly breaking the site guidelines and ignoring our request to stop. You can't post like this no matter how wrong someone else is or you feel they are.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Yes, but the Cruise dragged her for 20 ft first before stopping and pinning her. So it didn’t even remain in place initially, just after dragging her for 20 ft.
Yes. The dude made 3 mistakes: packing a gun, volunteering incriminating information in a totalitarian country, and embarrassing the state of Washington. WA voters deserve better representation by someone who isn't so reckless.
> Your example is describing an externality, a cost imposed on a unwilling third party. Facebook is a platform that individuals can choose to avoid or restrict their children from using if they deem it harmful. These situations are not comparable.

Yeah just like alcohol and drugs, you can easily restrict your children from using them so companies should be free to sell to whomever. Good parents ensure their children aren’t doing this.
Imagine if car repairs worked the same. Oh you damaged the front bumper on the curb?
Sorry we're gonna have to do a full engine replacement as the chassis might have flexed and cracked the engine block despite it running perfectly fine.

It's frankly ridiculous what people consider acceptable behavior from apple.
Absolutely. Glad California DMV is taking the more level headed approach here and evaluating them case by case based on merit.
Yeah San Francisco has some of the best traffic lights in the Bay Area when it comes to predictive signaling and synchronization
I frequent the OCAU forum here in Australia.

Moderating the News board became too arduous and carried potential legal liability.

So they turned the board off.

It’s really not that hard.

And anyway, just because you can’t fix everything, doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try and fix something.

All or nothing thinking leads to inaction.
Book Review: Going Infinite
We actually do restrict children from driving cars. It’s pretty common in most countries
Thunderbird is alright but I think it's in need of what Firefox was to Mozilla Suite – a lean and mean cross platform IMAP client with a nice UI, and that's it. I don't want an Outlook-style client that's full of things that aren't email (calendar etc).
> How does a "mandate" like that work?

A couple of different levels of mandate come to mind, some of which may overlap:

1. Qualcomm won't sell you the SoC without the appropriate number of their PMICs to support it.

2. Qualcomm's reference designs only include their PMICs, and the datasheets don't tell you what electrical requirements those parts are satisfying.

3. The reference firmware from Qualcomm expects those PMICs to be present, and will panic if they aren't.

4. Same as #3, except it's in the boot ROM.

5. Part of the power supply is internal to the SoC, and the matching Qualcomm PMIC is required to complete it.

The SemiAccurate article suggests that #1 and #2 are definitely the case, and #3-5 may be true as well.
I mean, they probably used to have a public fax number, too. Things change.
> a lot of former programmers find themselves doing agricultural work in the fields

Boom, productivity.
>This is an attempt to solve the right problem (CSA)

Is it though? Does punishing people for possessing CSAM actually have any effect on the rate of CSA?

I'm not saying criminalizing CSAM isn't the right choice, but is there any data at all to suggest that punishing the kinds of people that would be caught if we scanned their cloud storage for CSAM actually have a real effect on the number of children harmed?

Because if it doesn't, than it stands that the only thing this would accomplish is the feel-good act of putting pedophiles behind bars, but I'm not really worried about pedophiles, I am worried about child rapists and child pornographers that actually commit crimes against children.

I don't see how going after end-users is going to do anything at all about the supply chain. But I see a million ways that being allowed to go after end-users would give the state lots of power to search people for just about any crime they decided was important enough to warrant this kind of invasion of privacy. If they are allowed to do this, there is a 100% chance they'll expand beyond CSAM within a few years.
> most AVs explicitly disengage when they encounter situations beyond their understanding

What do you mean by disengage? Cruise’s AVs don’t have a driver to take over.
I mean, you can stream netflix in rural Cambodia and not worry about data limits so I'm not so sure. Of course someone will be able to name somewhere this is a concern, but then you should be running browser extensions to manage media loading.
I Needed Revenge – Four Years in a Japanese Prison Camp [video]
13 Other Explanations for  Adolescent Mental Health Crisis. None Them Work
notices, even legit ones, get ignored when against powerful parties that could change the law. So (ab)use won't work to change the law.
They'll just make the screens' polarization angle the same as your glasses'.
Dead people don't suffer from a bad reputation, but bad people should, dead or alive. Don't want a bad reputation? Don't be a bad person. It's that simple. What you did will be there forever, think before acting.
This is a genuine question not trying to take it politically. But if you have 1% malicious/bot activity from all your website traffic. Does this qualify to describe that you are under attack in the era of bots and web scrapers?

And actually I think this is very small to have statistical significance. I wonder what is the error bars on these calculations from cloudflare. I might be wrong but I would be more interested into going into details on how this analysis is conducted and this would be more interesting than this marketing focus article that cloudflare is abusing the world events to use it as marketing tool.
That is how the lights in SF work. Presumably the Cruise car was traveling in a place where that was not set up, broken, or perhaps just slightly slower than the normal rate so it would always miss the lights.