skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One, this article is not about banning crypto ransom. Two, if you wanted to do that, you’d criminalise it with the threat of sanctions. At that point your K&R retiree and anyone who signed off on paying them would be fugitives in almost anywhere in the world.
Why not? Emulation is a beautiful thing. It makes one realize that CPU instructions are just another form of abstraction. Providing the old APIs/ecosystem is usually harder than just emulating the binary.

And running old software on modern hardware often uses only a fraction of the power the old hardware used to need.
If one cares about power consumption, modern software has become so much worse.
> Japan still makes good sushi. Supermarket sushi has not destroyed japanese sushi culture

Japan and other Asian countries expressly push their food and culture as a component of political and economic diplomacy. Like, literally, that's a stated goal. Anime, the Hilux, and sushi have done more to ensure good will to Japan than any lame goodwill gesture.
Maxing out their 401k? Who does that? Quick Google says 15% of Americans max out their 401k.
Trurl v0.9
Newer / weird gTLDs are not as problematic as ccTLDs in unstable jurisdictions, by any means.

If they really are gTLDs, I wouldn't worry.
They are based on nighttime satellite photos. The downside of that is its only based on the light that gets through the atmosphere. So a dusty/humid place will have a lot more light pollution than the map shows because the dust blocks the light from the satellite, and reflects some of that light towards an observer on the ground.
1. and 2. are likely implementable without needing a consent.
A program exactly like this was printed in one of the Commodore 64 magazines in the late 1980s; I used it to great effect on my family members.
Please add me as well. Email is in the bio
To be sporting, I left a little bug resulting from my weird compulsion to golf snippets like this.
You can either have a fully dedicated core for codecs, or you can just put certain codec related operations (like DCT-related SIMD) in your main cores. Cryptographic acceleration tends to use the latter approach.
At that point it’s basically another benefit so I don’t think that’s super terrible for employers
Google has tools to restrict usage of your API key to certain HTTP referrers and apps.

https://cloud.google.com/docs/authentication/api-keys?hl=en&...

It's not perfect; there are ways to subvert it. But it makes it trickier for somebody to make much of a profit off it, reducing interest in stealing the key.
> Prefacing each freeway number with "The"

SoCal had the first freeways, and they weren't numbered back then. They were named after the areas they traversed, such as "The Arroyo Seco Parkway" or "The San Diego freeway" and so on. When freeways started to get built nationwide the naming convention was changed to a numbering system, and California adopted it to go alongside the existing names (we still have the freeway names on most of our signs).

So in reality, California adding "The" to the front was always correct, every other state is just doing it wrong :)
I love AV1 for compressing my movies to 720p. I also convert any audio to Opus. I get to archive a ton of content on peanuts. The videos look great on my PC monitor or my phone and they come in at around 452MB (1hr 24m video).

Here's my script if you're interested in trying it out on your content.

param (
[Parameter(Mandatory=$true)]
[string]$sourceDir,

[string]$destDir = $sourceDir
)

$ffmpegPath = 'C:\Users\sergi\Downloads\ffmpeg.exe'

Write-Output "Starting conversion..."

Get-ChildItem $sourceDir -Include *.mp4,*.avi,*.mov,*.wmv,*.flv,*.webm,*.mkv -Recurse | ForEach-Object {

$newFileName = $_.BaseName + '-av1-720p' + $_.Extension
$destPath = Join-Path $_.Directory.FullName $newFileName

Write-Output "Converting $($_.FullName) to 720p AV1..."

& $ffmpegPath -i $_.FullName -vf scale=1280:720 -c:v libsvtav1 -crf 30 -preset 7 -c:a libopus -b:a 96k -ac 2 $destPath

}

Write-Output "Conversion complete."

And I just invoke it against a folder to recursively convert stuff.

.\av1-convert.ps1 -sourceDir 'D:\Movies to convert\'

As soon as there's something that can decode AV1 that's like an nvidia shield I will replace both of my shields. So far nothing like that exists to my knowledge. Even Roku 4k Pro's say "AV1" support in their spec but they still trigger transcoding on plex when doing a playback.
Logistics tend to be improvable with more inteligence though, no?

There is precedence for superhuman inteligence if you look at the best historical polymaths, and that's just what one can do with 20 W of energy. We're probably nowhere close to the universal inteligence cap in terms of physical limitations, if there even is such a thing.
“Too much engineering effort to maintain”
Does the person just say "I have type 2 diabetes"?
It's a small expense for employers, and can be a real difference in costs for the employee. I don't think you're correct. If I spend 100% more on heating everyday because I work from home so need to heat 24/7, that's nothing to an employer (100-200$/m) but could be a significant deduction from a family's budget.

Meanwhile the employer would have otherwise heated up an office space and paid all bills there.

I've been remote for a decade now and it always struck me as odd, but I didn't care enough to push for it. But as the remote concept is being used by many employers to cut on office expenses, employees with no alternative should be compensated for the extra expense they incur. It's just common sense, like paying for your mileage when you drive for business.
An added bonus of a dark sky is that with a good pair of eyes (and more democratically, with a set of binoculars) you can see all sort of clusters, nebulae, Jupiter's moons and e.g., Andromeda.

While not as breathtaking as the panoramic view of a truly dark sky, experiencing this "micro-structure" is also a mind-expanding experience: The sky is no longer a set of random point sources. Its an organic "thing" enclosing other "things".
And how much does a business save by having to buy/rent, insure, secure, power, internet, water, clean, and climate control a large building for all of it's employees vs reimbursing them for working from home?
> My DNA isn't some terrible secret I have to hide in the dark.

Like your faith before 1930s Germany ?

What will you do when they pump your health insurance rate 300% because you have a "bad" DNA ?
At a small company, I found a bug in the sales system that was giving away $10k per month by miscalculating customer's tax. CEO of the company essentially pretended that he couldn't hear anything when he was told.
> if you want one.

I think it's not a matter of want, given the kinds of situations I laid out. In my situation, I have ADHD and I'm autistic. If you want me to work I need to be alone to work. It's not a want or a desire. I cannot work in a room full of people and noises, so putting me in one is just the same as expecting me to code without a keyboard.

My employer gives me a computer, why is it such a stretch that they also give me a room? They want the work done at the highest quality, don't they? It's making them a lot of money, isn't it? So what's the problem?
> That's the point: objectively, there is absolutely no concrete reason that justifies replacing a MacBook bought in the past 3 or 4 years with the M3 ones. None at all.

Again, what you mean to say is that _you_ cannot think of a reason that would make _you_ upgrade from a 4 year old MacBook to a new M3 one.

> objectively

Do you understand that what you say is literally, definitionally, subjective? It's one thing to make primitive and clumsy generalisations, but quite another to be confusing subjectivity and objectivity.

> it boggles the mind

Starting to believe there isn't a lot of mind to boggle here…

> how anyone could justify replacing any MacBook pro with a M3 one by claiming "pros don't use shitty tools"

I haven't noticed anyone making this argument, but I know many people who upgrade their tools -- whether computers or otherwise -- to the latest and greatest whenever they can, because working faster and more efficiently is a concrete benefit, and it really would take an inestimable moron to, say, argue that late Intel-era MacBooks can do the same things that M-series MacBooks can.
I think most historians agree that the Sea People invasions was a result of the migration crisis from Europe into the area. Whether the initial cause for this migration crisis was a volcano or some other disaster is kind of irrelevant to our discussion. What matter is something changed, causing people to need to migrate, causing wars and destruction, and an eventual collapse.

The climate crisis isn’t just the sea-level rise, I think civilization would survive Florida and Bangladesh going under (but it will suck). But our climate crisis is this sea-level rise at the same time as a bunch of wild fires, more powerful hurricanes, crop failures, droughts, ocean acidification, etc. All of this in tangent will result in mass migration, just like the Sea Peoples, just in the opposite direction. And unless our governments change their border policies (unlikely) there will be wars and destruction in our remaining cities.
They do have a '23 Gaza war mention in their Israel Palestine conflict article, although it's not calling that incident out for a specific historical significance ... It's still playing out I don't know that we know what it's going to mean for the future.

They instead blend that in with the rest of the discussion of the Israel Palestine conflict.
Sure, I don't think anyone denies that there are some home schooling horror stories. But it really doesn't seem like most public schools do a great job either, so the question is if this broken system damages more people than one dominated by home schooling.
Maybe because you were already in New Mexico which has some pretty good dark areas? I'm up in Santa Fe, I don't need to drive long to get fairly dark.
Also LLMs have kind of made this prank moot, lol
Title is a complete editorialization of a 7 year old blog post.
Sample size one, but I actually found that the iOS ecosystem works surprisingly well for having a finished app. I have one, created over six years ago with almost no updates over the past years. I intentionally built it in a way that does not require any kind of maintenance: It works offline, i.e., does not require a backend; it's a one-time payment through the App Store (no subscription -> no expectation of continuous updates); the free and paid versions only differ in how many items you can put in the database, i.e., everyone can try the full feature set before buying -> reduces complaints / refunds; etc.

While these are deliberate design decisions, a nice benefit of the iOS ecosystem is that the app has kept working on every new iOS version without me updating anything in the code. Things like installation flow, payment processing, etc. are definitely components that would fall apart a lot sooner when not offered by the platform itself.

Sure, platform lock-in and all that stuff, but so far the app just keeps generating happy users every month (and some pocket money).
Would this be a good library to build a json with comments formatter for my VSCode settings.json? I want something that sorts the JSON keys AND also moves any associated comments.

I'd also love to hear of any existing tooling that does this
I use an Elecom Relacon, a trackball in the form factor that you grip like half of a gamepad, or maybe a Wiimote, but it's Bluetooth with no gyro. LMB and RMB are the shoulder bumper buttons, scroll wheel is near the ball flanked by forward/backward buttons. Typically about $50 on Amazon, runs on two AAA batteries.
I would guess even lower than those estimates. Companies only pay a fraction of the gas mileage used on a car for work purposes: I expect they wouldn’t be on the hook for even the full percentage of electricity and data for work devices used from home. This could be a nice offset but I would be surprised if companies start picking up the tab for a full 8 hours of electricity for a home, let alone 8 hours of usage of a single computer. Additionally if it requires tracking and reimbursement the way miles do it will be a burden not all employees will bear.
No lyin'. I have an iPad Pro 12.9", 5th generation. I download content on Netflix, Prime, and to VLC prior to flights. During flights I have the iPad in airplane mode and use my AirPod Pros for audio. On my flights from California to Texas, ~3 hrs, I use somewhere between 5-8% battery life. Brightness is probably on the low side because the cabin is dim.

Airplane mode (turning off most of the wireless) seems to be a big factor as well.

I'm just as astonished as the next guy!
> Considering we leave our DNA basically everywhere we spend more than a few moments, it seems like a rather impossible task to keep it secret anyway.

This is the "encryption should be illegal because I have nothing to hide" level of argumentation.
Are there any CPU+GPU pipelines that improve the speed without decreasing quality to the level of current GPU-only algorithms?

Seems strange that we have so much compute power in GPU, but no algorithms to use it well for encodes
No, I am just looking at the numbers. Typically, businesses with a lot of power have high profit margins (who wouldn’t want to earn more money?).
How does it magically run away? What’s the process, we all talk about it “running away” leaving us “behind”, the exact practical process of that happening has not been laid out other than people hand wavingly copying apocalyptic movie scripts.

Most ai experts just say it could end us, but suspiciously never gives a detailed plausible process and people suspicious just say oh yeah, it could, and there is a bubble over their head thinking about Terminator or Hal9000 something something
>They are also adept at navigating adult conversation and social situations much sooner.

And they are often worse at navigating interactions with children who are not homeschooled (at least I was). Specificity is king.
Original title too long to fit in the allocated space, most probably.
If you are using your own equipment and resources, how are you an employee and not a contractor? Businesses should compensate because the agreement is the business uses their capital and your labor to make money. But if they also use your capital in addition to your labor, then the employee needs ownership of the business because they are devoting their capital to the business.
That kid who works what hours exactly?
Possibly, I don't use it myself, strictly LaTeX ...
Yup. As someone who has WFH for ~10 years now, it's imo essential. Covid obviously didn't affect my working habits much given i was already WFH, but i knew some who were forced home. They lived in tiny apartments and did that.. kitchen table, couch, etc. It was very rough for them, though they had multiple people in the apartment.

My wife and i both WFH, with dedicated offices. I can't imagine not having them, and we've discussed this being a required feature of future home purchases.

It's privileged for sure, as it increases home size which is an astronomical expensive these days. But not having to buy a home in close proximity to SF or Seattle makes this much more approachable. [good] Internet is the most difficult thing as you go rural, in our experience. However in WA for example some counties/towns have objectives to lay fiber, which is amazing to live more affordably with remote work.
Needs labels for the light pollution scale, it's not immediately obvious.

A grayscale mode would be even better (thought less pretty at first sight).
My best experience of this was at Mt. Everest base-camp (Tibet side) at 5,364 metres (17,598 ft)

Not just no light pollution, but much less atmosphere too! It looked like those long exposure images of the Milky Way. There aren't words available to describe how incredible it was. I’ll just state that it was one of the highlights of my life!
ah yes, thanks for that.

Yeah I've been looking into the cobra effect in the current youtube adblocking thingy... It certainly got me to use primarily adnausium which fixes the problem since ads are served, just... you know... maliciously clicked on.
> Who takes deduction doesn’t matter as far as the IRS is concerned

Strictly speaking, if we're talking federal taxes, then post TCJA the IRS does care who takes the deduction. W-2 employees can't deduct expenses like that anymore. Not that big a deal for Internet costs, but it hits some professions pretty hard (e.g. professional musicians where the instrument is quite expensive relative to their income).
Tax Deductions, and Tax Credits are very different things and should not be conflated as you have here
Show HN: MicroTCP, a minimal TCP/IP stack
This is stupid as someone who would work remote for a pay cut. I will pay for the electricity, laptop, etc. myself.

I’d much rather have them pay hourly workers for commute time and reimburse in-office workers for gas/bus/subway costs.
I’m all for workers protection but by this logic possible workers should get their commute costs covered by additional pay and at some point maybe the negotiated salary should be the default pay.
Hi, happen to have some reference for this?
I assume they used "free will" in the title because the student who did the best in the original test, when asked how they did it, said they just used their free will. I assume nobody involved—either the author of the linked page, or Scott Aaronson—believe that this simple game disproves free will by itself (whatever they believe about it in general).
Or the software “shifting” added to cars with a CVT. Typically, they would increase reliability since the engine rpms would fluctuate less, and the transmission would move fairly slowly making minor adjustments. But, since you the acceleration is too smooth and doesn’t have the jerks of typical automatic transmissions, people reportedly didn’t like it so a simulated shifting was added at the expense of efficiency and reliability.
What gets really fun is when you have a magician who's good enough that which trick you're going to see depends on your choice. It's a free choice, but each option is a force.
NGOs urge EU Commission to include porn websites in the 'systemic risk' club
“Always do F, so they’ll never expect D of you”

I think this is a sound strategy for “getting away with it” in society.
Blaming Namecheap for this is like blaming a car manufacturer for a terrorist driving into people
Is SS in the constitution? Show me where social security payments are an American right guaranteed by the federal government.
Free will is not an event in time and space. It's like examining a program and saying there can't be a programmer because everything the program does is predetermined. Yes, but the predetermining is itself determined at another level.
> or store the data out-of-line [...] which requires up to 2x writes

and because writes to separate sectors aren't atomic, you probably want to add journaling or some kind of CoW for crash safety, and oh look now you're actually just writing a filesystem and it's not simpler anymore.
Yes but they didn't feel slow. The One does and so do it's iterations. They all run slow, download slow, and just feel sluggish to use. Even the Switch which is INCREDIBLY limited on the hardware front feels snappy and responsive.

Every console has always had worse hardware compared to a PC, that's a given, but almost all of them don't feel that way because the developers know the platform and can squeeze every last cycle out of the hardware. The One has NEVER felt nice to use. Ever.
Experiential Black Holes
Naïve per-student-spending calculations can misleading. Some students cost a lot more than others. My state spends hundreds of thousands per student in some cases—but that's schools in juvenile detention facilities. Nonetheless, that goes in the stats. Kids in self-contained classrooms ("special ed" kids who can't function in the normal classroom) can be several times as expensive to educate as the median kid. Kids in ordinary classrooms who get a dedicated assistant, they've got all the usual spending plus the fully-loaded cost of the assistant, so that's easily over $50k total. Kid in a gifted program? Add low-five figures to the cost. Fancy selective-admission public schools, which some states have? Typically higher spending per student than other schools, which drags up the average.

They also have bussing costs, which (e.g.) private schools don't, which further complicates comparisons. That's not a small amount of money.
Netflix (and Youtube? I forget) will push an AV1 stream if you have the support. This was even mentioned in Apple's show yesterday. So the egg is already there and the chicken is slowly coming, thankfully.
3D Neural Net in Blender
I forgot I meant to post this here a while ago... I trained a neural net and linked the parameters to 3D objects inside blender. The colours and light emission are determined by the activation function value (ReLU).
> I intended to give it to anyone 23andme would provide it to

Your health insurance company for example ?
> We are blocked at reading theirs

Maybe in Eurostan, but not in America.
Nextdoor is the absolute worst about this. Selecting unsubscribe only lets you unsubscribe from the "type" of email they're sending you. After unsubscribing 7 or 8 times I just reported the whole domain as spam and blocked it.
like everything you said could apply to nvidia gpus as well
Microsoft is still on the wrong path - they should stop developing the windows kernel and that boring WSL nonsense. Just use the linux kernel and build a nice desktop environment for it, they can call it Windows 2.

Once that is done, you no longer has such "native support for RAR, 7-Zip, Tar and other archive formats" problem to start with.
Yeah to give some context the average cost that employers pay for health insurance in the USA is $1,251 per month. For the big tech companies it's often higher due to better coverage/location.

So this is nothing. Employers will not flinch at this.
Examples of why French is hard:

https://youglish.com/pronounce/tous/french?

https://youglish.com/pronounce/dix/french?

Still very nice tool!
That was Hume's position, but we're still arguing even after he set out his definitions. :-)
You need a special contractor, and structural insulated panels for walls/floors.
That said, the total man-hours of labor are probably less, and according to timber-framing contractors I've spoken with over the past three years, the price gap is now less than 10% more than traditional stick-built.
A company is probably not going to give you a private office either. (Maybe they would for ADA reasons? Don't know IANAL.)
> That’s actually why I’ve been installing 7-zip

You had to before, right? Otherwise you’d simply not be able to decompress RAR, 7z, etc.
Remote people are/will get paid less than on-site people on average, with this in mind I don't think these (relatively small) additional costs will have a significant effect.

The only issue I see is with the extra paperwork this will bring.

Having said that, I still think this is a wrong measure which creates bad incentives (not trying to save money on the costs since they're partially covered by employer). This should just be a part of the compensation. Alternatively, a fixed rate for all remote workers (which would also solve the bureaucracy).
Ruminating on this today - I think it runs even deeper than what I've said, even for "soft" authority. We're all familiar with the archetype of the person who had overbearing parents giving them strong direction, and then has a harder time in the real world without this direction. That's a case where over-reliance on deferring to authority ends up destroying independent executive function.

It's also a little weird to me to assert a dichotomy between "executive control" and "want to", when the two seem quite tied. Sure, we all use the rhetorical device of saying we have to do something that we "don't want to", but fundamentally we generally do actually want to do those things, but based on larger non-immediate concerns as opposed to immediate enjoyment.