skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The EU regulation is here: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/headlines/society/202...

It is also very open ended, but the US text reads like some compliance will start immediately, like sharing the results of safety tests with the government directly.
Official specs only state 4Kp60 HEVC decoder

So no encoders and no h.264 decoder.
Yes, I agree to some extent with the restricted claim, which only (slowly) started to break down in the 17th century in the west.

A lot of Indian mathematics was rather abstract going back to Vedic times, but since they didn't develop the concept of proof, it sadly had little impact on other mathematics practice (except as inspiration to Persian and Arab scholars) other than the the famous cases of zero and positional notation. The mathematical documents I've seen from that practice have been in the form of essays.

I know little of Chinese or Mesoamerican mathematics and wonder where they were on this axis. It seems pretty likely that maths started in support of astronomy/planting predictions in the cultures I know of so likely also for East Asia and the Americas, but whither thence did it go?
NOT in the red
My Pi4 has it.
This is a hopeless fight.

You cannot mod a real-life machine gun to shoot 10x as fast by changing the trigger; the whole design would resist the attempt. You cannot make a real-life human body make a 180° turn in 10 ms and then stand still; the laws of mechanics won't allow that.

If you want a guaranteed balanced game, the game code should observe these limitations, no matter what controller is used. What is possible in the game world should not depend on that.

As long as games allow for inputs that give an unfair advantage, people will find ways to use that unfair advantage. They will take apart a certified controller, connect the buttons to devices that produce fast repetition, connect the thumb joysticks to devices that allow faster movement, etc. There is no way to plug this hole, like the analog hole in sound recording. The only way is a correct model.
Diversity solves none of these and artificial diversity just creates divided teams.
The problem with this is that serious questions require difficult work, while what the mass audience fundamentally want is a verbal version of professional wrestling. With all the keyfabe and face/heel narratives.
Also my question.

Maybe it’s because it focuses on semantic HTML?
20 years ago we were coming out of the .com bubble so all the excitement had been pounded out of tech for a short while

I agree the financialisation of everything really sours tech though.
Tiny, Beautiful Wasps Eat the Hearts Out of Cockroaches
How do you reliably modify length-prefixed strings? Terminated strings? Delimited strings? Partial strings? Checksummed strings?
If you're interested in L-systems you may also enjoy reading about Shape Grammars. Sort of an evolutionary dead-end in terms of system design, but intriguing. As far as I can tell they were basically superceded by other types of programmatic or parametric design systems. Some references:

- http://web.mit.edu/~haldane/www/icerays/

- https://vincentmai.com/Shape-Grammar

- https://wiki.ece.cmu.edu/ddl/index.php/Shape_grammar

- "Shape: Talking About Seeing And Doing" by George Stiny

- https://www.slideshare.net/schase56/dcc-2010-grammars-worksh...

- https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/ai-edam/article/abs/...
Maybe. It is however much more restrictive for what kind of software you can get a patent
Community made open source roadmaps
Feel free to leave suggestions and requests for changes
Who is to say that the rate of progress wouldn't have been doubled if the constraints of excessive intellectual property laws (a key component of the neoliberal outsourcing program) had been drastically limited? Indeed any analysis of the Chinese technological boom will conclude that their more laissez-faire attitude towards IP played a large role in that outcome.

A similar argument is that the open-source movement has become the main driver of software innovation (Linux in the server space etc.) and that without it we'd still be back in the early 2000s tech-wise.
War is physical violence. Hacking should be considered as part of the evolution of the Cold War, its a clandestine activity.
I was not offering Commandments, just advice.
Thanks for commenting. I assume that emulating on a video frame basis is so ingrained in MAME that it's hard to drop?
That’s somewhat understandable, but still a bit disappointing. Not all playback devices support HEVC, and additionally HEVC will likely remain patent-encumbered much longer than e.g. H.264.

I really wish there was at least one other and open hardware-accelerated format. It’s probably a bit too early for AV1, but VP9 would work with modern iOS and Android devices, for example.

I also wonder how much licensing costs were a concern here, although past RPis had software-unlockable codecs for that exact reason.
I still have my 1980s/90s Casios which work well and they’re not hard to find on the market. My newish HP35 is great for newer stuff. I have considered buying a new Casio but this postmodern capitalist strategy to make everything an OpEx utility is really making me thankful that most people aren’t allowed to own guns.
> I did, and they subsequently got banned from every social network, and even their website isn't linkable from Facebook or X or YouTube.

Those constitute "fallen".
You can also look up common cnames or historical DNS records which would always point back to the vendor. For instance, do they use sendgrid, look for a bounce. record that points to sendgrid's servers. Do they use Facebook, well if they have a Facebook page that is verified yes. I would assume that Docusign and Attlasian also list Stripe as one of their customers on their website as well. Public TXT records are not that big of a deal.
> As far as backing up photos, most of you have too many photos. To make your life easier before downloading all these photos go through them with the critical eye, and ask yourself if people would be interested in seeing this photo 50 years from now.

Johnny Harris has a good video about this: https://youtu.be/GLy4VKeYxD4

Basically it's just going through your old photos every now and then and deleting everything you deem not worthy ("doesn't spark joy").

The one innovation is that your definition of "worthy" will change as time progresses, some photo might be essential to you now, but in a few years you'll go "meh" and delete it.
Fun fact: if you have gstreamer installed, you can use a pipeline like aasink to output any video as ascii-art. For example:

gst-launch-1.0 videotestsrc ! videoconvert ! aasink
ChatGPT to the rescue:

Illich's main argument revolved around the idea that individuals are inherently social creatures, connected to the natural world, their communities, and, in his view as a religious person, to God's grace. He believed that Western modernity disrupted this holistic interconnectedness of life.
It all boils down to values. This author seems to value sincerity, truth, democracy and fair play, among other such things. It doesn't seem like other values are considered, values that other people might have. Like the value of earning massive amounts of money so you or your descendants don't have to work another day until end of time. Or the value that some people place in being coaxed from one inferior product to the next by ads that you just can't seem to escape. What about the interests of those people? Just askin'.
Excellent article, both informative and accessible, and the interactive visualizations are lovely.
China. I have a few cash in my wallet but haven't spent any for years.

Everything is now done through digital payments either Wechat Pay or Alipay, and all shops in the country accept them.
https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?p=2138929#p2138...

"JPEG and H264 encode and decode is now in software"
I initially posted that the title did not match the content. The title is true but here’s another link to read:

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/introducing-raspberry-pi-5/...
Show HN: Cheap Flights finder bot with Python
Cheap flights finder
New antibody could target breast cancers
I find it so sad that 84% of the remaining African savannah elephants live in protected areas and yet their population is declining 8% per year, showing that our conversation efforts are not enough and less effective every year.

This is the most massive and iconic land animal on Earth with plenty of public support and funding, this should be one of the easiest ones to keep track of and protect.

What does this say about our ability to prevent mass extinction of other species?
If you like animated ASCII art then I'm sure you'll like this:

https://www.gifcii.fun
Isn’t the HP35 around for about €50?

EDIT: OMFG no and look at the prices
mypy and ruff are complementary, and as far as I know have no overlap. Strongly recommend using both.
The GRE has been on computer terminals since forever (at least it was when I took it in 2012). Lots of standardized testing is.

If you don't include WiFi hardware, and don't plug in an Ethernet cable, cheating would be extremely difficult to say the least.

What sort of "defeat" are you taking about?
There are (at least) two different things we're calling "linear algebra here", roughly speaking one is building the tools and one is using the tools.

The mathematicians need to understand the basics of of mathematical proofs to learn how to prove new interesting (and sometimes useful) stuff in linear algebra. You have to do the math stuff in order to come up with some new matrix decomposition or whatever.

The engineers/data scientists/whatever people just need to understand how to use them.

You don't need to know how to build a car to drive one. The mathematicians are building the cars, you're using them.
> "Actually only 4kp60 H265 (HEVC) decode is available

> But it only uses 50% of the processors to do 1080p60 on YouTube"

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/introducing-raspberry-pi-5/...
I wonder when were anti tank mines introduced? They have always been effective at immobilizing tanks which is one way to stop them
I usually keep my phones for about 4 years

The devices start glitching and/or won't run newer apps as well as they should long before the battery goes on them
I think with ISPs there's an obvious upfront material cost for building infrastructure. In that sense I'm very much the consumer. Obviously, there's substantial infra cost too with social media platforms like YouTube. However, the consumer-producer dichotomy isn't as clear with social media platforms since the user base is the product. That is, the value of a social media platform comes first from the masses of people using it and second the design, the infrastructure, etc. This is why I think reciprocity (in the psychological sense) is so important for social media companies because the product can just walk out the door.

My understanding is that content creators see very little or next to none of the ad revenue. The content creators are the reason people are using YouTube. So I prefer to support them through Patreon. Second, I've heard that the vast, vast majority of content creators make next to nothing through YouTube -- these content creators are paying the opportunity cost to "make it big" or simply enjoy making content or using YouTube as a promotional vehicle for other services. I'm not trying to define a moral equivalence of why it's right to directly support content creators but not YouTube (Google is making enough money off me so that I have a clear conscience), but for the price of their ad free service I'd like to see a more equitable distribution.
Yes the play area has an interactive renderer and an editor, with lots of fun builtins that one can modify in real time. Very cool stuff!

https://play.ertdfgcvb.xyz/#/src/sdf/balls
You forgot: The endless cynicism that sucks all the fun out of tech compared to the early 2000s

Alright, fine, I agree tech has been taken over by investment banking personalities. I have no clue where all the nerds who programmed for fun went, but I miss that short-lived era when hackathons were actually something people got excited about.
> An estimated 4.5 percent of U.S. households (approximately 5.9 million) were “unbanked” in 2021, meaning that no one in the household had a checking or savings account at a bank or credit union.

https://www.fdic.gov/analysis/household-survey/index.html
Yep their iOS cross app sharing is a privacy nightmare. Not to mention just plain annoying.

The google meet app seems to include an entire gmail client for no reason and seems to show it rather than go back to your calendar / mail.

Mail loads a web view, rather than the app (say slack) or even safari. Which means half in email links go nowhere, because I’m not logged in / able to access the destination via the web view.

And they always want to continue linking my personal and business account within the same app, and then messing up which one should be trying to access. No matter how many times I remove my personal, it always reappears. Often via a “authorise access” pop up while logging in via a different device. Surely it’s a security issue to run 2FA via a device that has actively logged out and removed the account from it.

I’m looking forward to them being broken up. It’s becomes too hostile.
A beam reach isn't necessarily the fastest point of sail. It depends on the boat, the efficiency (lift/drag ratio) of the sail, and the efficiency of the centreboard/keel (again, lift/drag ratio), but a reach of some kind is likely to be the fastest - it just won't be exactly perpendicular to the true wind direction. It'll also vary with the wind speed, wave height, weight distribution, etc.
True that the free availability of tools broadens the field, but you can’t solve inequality by that alone. “Time” is still a necessary ingredient in that success recipe and if you’re working two jobs just to keep a family afloat due to generational poverty you’re not also going to be starting Microsoft in your garage.
The gap between Military and Civilian tech is shrinking. It used to be a safe assumption that "the military is always 30 years ahead". But with consumer grade hardware becoming cheaper and cheaper, it's raising a pretty obvious risk to military operators.

- Off the shelf Drones are dirt cheap. Plus you could build much more capable drones from consumer parts. See some of the long range drone people on youtube.

- Communication. It used to be a billion dollar operation to put up a satellite. now closer to $20-30k.
They say elsewhere that the quality and usability of them did not meet what they considered reasonable for the mm^2 of die space required.
I just realized terrorism is about to level up to a terrifying degree of anonymity. Frag grenade (maybe homemade) dropped into a crowd. How do you trace that back when these have a range of many miles
A mini blog from as a response when someone asked on twitter what to choose between Riverpod and BLoC.
Keep a log of every record added and why it was added. When making any DNS changes review the log as well.
They're useful but I think the war in Gaza has shown that conventional air superiority remains extremely valuable.
Facebook Release Engineering with Chuck Rossi (2019) [audio]
As I understand in WWI mechanical failure was the king of stopping tanks, which then allowed a lot of other options for the enemy to deal with the crew.
An Extremely Detailed Map of New York City Neighborhoods
Where is the blog post about this?
Thanks for posting this. I was wondering why my garage door stopped working with Home Assistant. Infuriating!
Not that I am aware of. If there is one I’d try it out.

I usually just make the types by hand on TS client.

Maybe gpt :p
Genuinely I think a lot of these people would be better off if they got into k-pop or something rather than geopolitics.
So you claim that a group of pro-diversity ("left wing") leaders would do less to prevent harmful exclusion, than a group that is mixed on the issue? Am I reading this right?
>How do you even know about the other person's history?

I mean, it's kind of natural that you learn it as you get to know them. I don't ask 'what's your tally of sexual partners' out of any context on a first date. But someone describes their life and you pick up on it one way or another and then it comes up in conversation naturally. You can sometimes tell in the bedroom when exciting new things for you are old hat and boring to her. Sometimes they get dodgy about discussing it. And why? Are they ashamed? Or is it because they suspect I would prefer a partner who is more like me and they feel the need to conceal their decisions?

>Could be one, could be one hundred, I don't care.

Good for you! I wish I had such a lack of feeling on the subject, it would certainly make dating easier.

>find it both weird and concerning if my current partner wanted to know.

Why? This statement seems quite a bit like you're passing a harsh judgement on people like me for preferring partners with a similar amount of sexual experience. I see a similar sentiment on the internet all the time, that we're weird and concerning for anything less than unquestioningly embracing partners who may have had sex with 100 people.
The comparison with SELinux is a bit off, because SELinux is very different from RSBAC and other ACL-type mechanisms for limiting the attack surface of software. SELinux is much more complex because it takes policy decisions like "this software is a Word Processor, it is not allowed to open files of the type Sensitive Document".

That is very useful for those with that particular need, for others it is unnecessarily complex. A more common use case for regular users would rather be "run word processor without network access". That's where simpler systems shine. There used to be many access control mechanisms for Linux but they seemed to struggle to retain mindshare and remain a bit obscure.

I would guess that's because so much is achieved by the old way of running software under their own uid and a chroot, so anything else already is a special case.
I think it's better to say that π is the same number everywhere 3.14... , but in other universe you don't use π in the formula of the length of a circle.

* Manhattan (L_1): C = 8 R

...

* Euclidean (L_2): C = 2π R

...

* Maximal Distance (L_infinity): C = 8 R
Interesting. Thankfully, LibreElec think the Raspberry Pi 5 is strictly better, despite shifting to software decoding:

> BCM2712 supports HEVC 4K60 hardware decoding. It no longer supports H264 in hardware. This might sound odd but it removes the RPi4’s 1080p restriction on H264 decoding and the 4K H264 test media we have has played. The big increase in performance from the Quad-Core A76 chip means RPi5 can software decode AV1, H264, VC1, VP9, and more at 1080p with ease

https://libreelec.tv/2023/09/28/rpi5-support/
One (but certainly not the only) reason is that Apple rarely discounts their products and even if they do it’s not by that much.

It’s not that hard to find a high-end/$2000+ PC laptop for 40% or so off 1-2 years after its release, not so much a macbook. Apple is still selling refurbished M1 airs for $849.00 from 2020 ($999 was the price on introduction)
What about software encode, is it real time?
The UK is not powerless to act - they just don't want to act because they don't want to jeopardize potential future business with this company and/or similar companies. The "powerlessness" is just for show since it's more likely to be accepted by the populace than the true reason.

Especially since Brexit, the UK is a bit lost when it comes to international trade and is betting on becoming even more of a corporatocracy than it already is as a strategy to try and reinvigorate their declining economy and effectively create a US equivalent when it comes to consumer/privacy rights (but with none of the actually good parts of the US like high wages).
This is such an important topic. Especially since most people stop listening/reading the moment they think they know what you want.
If you are the asker, ask good well. If your are the askee, put a little bit of effort into trying to understand what the ask really is.
> Lots of graph nodes

Neurons are not connected by a simple graph, there are plenty of neurons which affect all the neurons physically close to them. There are also many components in the body which demonstrably affect brain activity but are not neurons (hormone glands being among the most obvious).

> with weighted connections

Probably, though we don't fully understand how synapses work

> performing distributed computation (mainly hierarchical pattern matching)

This is a description of purpose, not form, so it's irrelevant.

> learning from data by gradually updating weights

We have exactly 0 idea how biological neural nets learn at the moment. What we do know for sure is that a single neuron when alone can adjust its behavior based on previous inputs, so the only thing that is really clear is that individual neurons learn as well, it's not just the synapses with their weights which modifies behavior. Even more, non-neuron cells also learn, as is obvious from the complex behaviors of many single-cell organisms, but also some non-neuron cells in multicellular organisms. So potentially, learning in a human is not completely limited to the brain's neural net, but it could include certain other parts of the body (again, glands come to mind).

> using selective attention (and/or recurrence, and/or convolutional filters).

This is completely unknown.

So no, overall, there is almost no similarity between (artificial) neural nets and brains, at least none profound enough that they wouldn't share with a GPU.
Biden Targets Artificial Intelligence in Broad Regulation Order
> Diversity solves none of these

Why not? And what would?

> artificial diversity just creates divided teams.

Why do you consider diversity to be "artificial"? It's actually lack of diversity that's artificial.

Forget about gender and ethnicity for a second; what about the lack of age diversity in tech, and the rampant age discrimination? Oh, but it's a "meritocracy", and younger people are just "better", right? (See "Using terribly thin fonts with low contrast colors leading to unreadable websites." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38068697)
Are simple esolangs like BF also L-systems?
> With typical usage, it should hopefully be out many more years than the laptop gets security updates.

Well, that's a good question, isn't it? Especially when you're selling memory-limited hardware and shoving the swap in your SSD

(And using it past the availability of security updates should be the user's prerogative, not Apple - you can run Linux on the ARM laptops)
There’s that, but I meant just turning electrical energy into photons. Diode lasers are pretty decent at 50ish percent efficient. Everything else is way, way worse.
The Ti-84 Plus CE also has Python.
Um, it was the most successful console that generation.
Very nice project, after looking into the project, it looks like compute and datalayer are separated, making it possible to scale both parts independently.
It's really not a long post, if you wanted to read it.
Im not sure why this was voted down. If you disagree feel free to change my mind on the issue