skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, I have a legitimate question about this sort of thing:

My grandparents are getting older, and historically their health hasn't been the greatest.

I get to visit them maybe once or twice a year. I might see them less than 10 times again in my lifetime.

Given current technology, is it not feasible for me to digitally preserve their personality and experiences somehow?

My thought was that I could:

- Use an iPhone camera to take 3D scan of their bodies in a T-Pose with LIDAR

- Record several hours of them talking to me

- Ask them to give me copies of any sort of written correspondence or journals they have ever written, as well as maybe start keeping a daily diary (either written or vocal)

Theoretically with this data, wouldn't I be able to generate a 3D, VR version of them that is sort of somewhat similar?

If not, what else do I need/should I do to improve accuracy?

Thanks HN.
What's the battery life like on linux?
Nice that the sustained performance is much better than with the Intel model.

The i7-1355U version takes pretty big hit, starting from 1500 units going quickly down to 1000. Probably due to thermal throttling.
The HN width for a top-level (or fairly close) comment is far, far too wide for good readability. (The font is also way too small; I have to read at 133% or higher.)

Folks on HN know how to deal with this; Gov.uk users largely don't.
Frustrating that the laptop has 8 GB of RAM soldered, it means that no matter how much RAM you put in it, you'll only get 16 GB in dual channel.
>> I wish to point out that those who fly private airplanes (including those using leaded avgas) are the most likely to demand I stop driving my 23 year old pickup.

> Citation needed. Did you actually experience this, or is this a hypothetical?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/08/20...

https://www.investors.com/politics/commentary/global-warming...

https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/climate-change...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2021/09/26/sick-do-as...

> All that said, can we, collectively, stop antagonizing people that live a different lifestyle than we do, for no reason?

That's up to those who fly and demand I stop driving.
"For You" is not for me
> Complaining that Firefox provides development tools when all major browsers also ship with those it's simply absurd.

No it is not, and here is why.

1. How many developers work on Firefox? Chrome & Chrome or Webkit-based browsers are already some 95% of the market.

Citation:
https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share

It is borderline irresponsible to work on Firefox now. Test on it, yes. Develop on it, no.

2. There is already a developer edition:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/developer/

I am just arguing that more functionality needs to be moved to that from the ordinary mass-market edition.

> So is complaining about lack of an integrated adblock when Firefox was the one who created that feature and allowed any third party to roll their own.

No it isn't. It's a feature of competing products. I am arguing Firefox should be the power users' tool. So replicate the key functions the competition have.

> Whining about vague complains about profile handling

Dude, if you don't understand it that doesn't mean it's vague.

When the Mozilla suite was developed, the main Windows OS was Windows 95, which did not come with a browser. IE was not only an add-on it was a paid-for extra.

Now the OS provides profiles and functional separation. Lean on it, make the default edition as small and as fast as possible. Less is more.

> And the peak of absurdity is complaining that Firefox is customizable

Again, ISTM you don't understand me. I am saying it's still more customisable than Chrome and they should lean in to this. Don't make it necessary to frig `about:config` and add a config file to move a freakin' toolbar. This is not a hard point.

> and allows you to do stuff no one in the world cares about.

So you don't know how to customise your browser. I do. I care. I did my research.

E.g. citing the Classic Addons Archive:

«
19,450 Firefox add-ons created by 14,274 developers
»

https://github.com/JustOff/ca-archive

A lot of people care a lot. 15,000 developers falsifies your ludicrous "no one in the world cares about.

Like many others, you are mixing up "I don't care" with "nobody cares", and you are wrong.
Yeah, the readme just says “ASR”. Apparently that means automatic speech recognition.

I guess it could be worse. In the future our ai overlords will just talk in embeddings (not even abbreviations), and we will have no clue what they are talking to each other about.
They published an announcement on Stream, right next to the buy button, where it shares the current issues. People are free to make their own choices. This is made up drama by people making ignorant knee-jerk reactions.
>You're on! Okay, I will need

>- the make and model number of this unit, and whatever documentation is available describing the glitch: what to look for under what conditions; steps to reproduce and such;

With just that and the allegation of a particular glitch harming a person, you can report it to the manufacturer and they're legally compelled to treat it as Serious Business (I don't think that's actually the FDA's term for it), though that doesn't strictly speaking guarantee a timely fix.
What is the rate of occurrence of trans women raping women in prison? What is the rate of occurrence of men raping trans women in prison?

I'd argue that we need to actually look at the rate of occurrences for these things and not look at a NY Post article about a single occurrence and our own internal biases and intuition around "biological strength".
That's a good list (though I personally find it impossible to nap during the day). I'd add one thing: reduce stress.
Managing people is easy if you are personable and have the ability to adapt to culture and the people that comprise it. (managing 5 people is different than managing 20 people, which is different than managing 20 people in a different target industry)

Being a good manager also means shielding groups from other groups and making yourself the filter so you aren't wasting productive peoples times in endless meetings that are generally for other groups to show they are working to the wider company. You also have to provide a non-technical analysis of the internal state of the product/teams/tech to people outside your team. Those are the two hard things, everything else should be figuring out how you can make your team operate at it's highest levels without burning people out and hating their job.
C++23: Removing garbage collection support
"Obvious" old geezer answer: Antibiotics, when I had a bad case of bacterial pneumonia.
Scrollbars that disappear when I want them, or are too thin to easily get hold of.
> In December 2016, Kapoor obtained the pigment and posted an image on Instagram of his extended middle finger which had been dipped in Semple's pink.

Excellent phrasing.
Typical post deal RIF, but bigger question - what do people think of the "observability" space from here? My sneaking suspicion is that outside vertical integrations like this.. they are going to see some revenue issues in this downturn.

Outside of huge FAANG infra, paid observability seems like a "nice to have" rather than a "must have".. the type of thing you cut before you cut engineering staff, and extend your runway.

You can cobble together something worse with FOSS.. And biggest question is - who cares about p99 latencies anyway when your 2 year runway has shrunk to 6 months, ZIRP is over and you are doubtful of your next funding round.

I can't imagine another whale like Coinbase writing a $65M/year check to a Datadog at this point... "Things you only see at the top"
"the achievement test scores of this group of home school students are exceptionally high--the median scores were typically in the 70th to 80th percentile; 25% of home school students are enrolled one or more grades above their age-level public and private school peers;"[1]

But it's psychological outcomes and averages, so I'd take any study with a grain of salt. It does match my experience having home-schooled friends growing up, it's just so much more efficient to be learning at one's own pace than that of the slowest kid out of 30.

[1]https://epaa.asu.edu/index.php/epaa/article/view/543
Yeah, I sleep way better if I go to bed totally sober. Generally caffeine seems to be ok if I stop after 3pm or so.
Is there a legend for the shading? I wasn't quite sure what shades of color meant what amounts of light pollution.
Well with me, it's probably 11.

Joking aside, I love to read websites with keybaords, esp. if I'm reading blogs. So, it's possible that sometimes my pointer is out there somewhere to prevent distraction.
You think 99% of the public can afford a Tesla?

But yeah, the problem for me has always been no ability to charge at home or at work.
Maybe! I hope so! I've had only a little experience with EVs when driving other peoples' cars, but it just felt like a boring ol' automatic. I enjoy technical execution stuff like rev matching and heel-toe downshifting. Acceleration isn't really what I'm after.
Labelled exceptions for smoother error handling
I agree and I feel like your response is a surprisingly realistic one for an EV driver. So many EV folks see that it works well for them and extrapolate that it should work for everybody.
I don't want a yearly fee for a new version, I want to use the same version that I paid for.

Especially when you're developing software for safety applications, it becomes important to maintain/archive the same tools/compilers/libraries so that rebuilding old code in a few years still produces the exact same binary.

So at that point it's not as important to have the newest and shiniest tools, but more important to pay for a tool once and know that it works reliably.
to be honest, as nice as that is, i'd rather see a full remake than just a re-editing.
Company gets acquired. Company lays off employee. Typical.
Unlikely. ACPI is made by Wintel vendors, so Windows will get support for the fancy new things and Linux will lag behind until the new thing is documented or reverse engineered.
I've used ardour in the past and enjoyed it but I initially chose reaper because I'm more familiar with it. I've been fighting some routing issues in reaper, I'll give ardour a try this week and see how it fits. Appreciate the work you do!
Large corporate conglomerates are essentially how power is shared and delegated in any modern oligarchic society with large economic footprint. Details around public sector role vs market structure and function vary, but overall its the same story: A bunch of ruthless actors, with various degrees of starting point privilege, climb the greasy poles, typically in colluding cohorts of 'old boy networks'. Revolving doors between private and public roles are the norm.

In this organizational design producing anything of value is a secondary concern and incidental to the job description. Control and maintenance of power structure is the prime objective. Large firms are lawyer and lobbyist undertakings with a tiny production engine attached.

Rather gloomy but not really new.

There is nevertheless something very intriguing about the tech industry. It may be at the forefront of disrupting this rather wasteful house of political cards.

This very discussion on HN is point in case. Go and check Linkedin to see what corporate vacuity typically sound like :-)

The success of the open source movement with its incredible efficiency and leverage is another interesting hint that something interesting is brewing.

Why would tech be any different? Well its not "tech", its information tech. And power structures require and are shaped by the control of information. So for as long as tech is not completely locked down the next phase of human political-economic organization is in-principle up for grabs.
> the M3 Pro system on a chip (SoC) features 150GB/s memory bandwidth, compared to 200GB/s on the earlier M1 Pro and M2 Pro. As for the M3 Max, Apple says it is capable of "up to 400GB/s."

Yeah, that's a downgrade.
Anna's Archive got them all and then some.
I don't think that is obvious. If your use case demands lowest latency at any cost, you might run batch size 1. I believe replit's new code model (announced about a month ago) runs at batch 1 in prod, for example, because code completions have to feel really fast to be useful.

With TensorRT-LLM + in-flight batching you can oversubscribe that one batch slot, by beginning to process request N+1 while finishing request N, which can help a lot at scale.
Is it better to say "I don't remember that confession" or "I confessed" under oath?
The M1 integrates an Apple designed[17] eight-core (seven in some base models) graphics processing unit (GPU). Each GPU core is split into 16 Execution Units, which each contain eight Arithmetic Logic Units (ALUs). In total, the M1 GPU contains up to 128 Execution units or 1024 ALUs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_M1#:~:text=The%20M1%20in....

I'm guessing when you see NVidia/AMD "cores"/"shaders", they're counting ALUs, whereas an Apple GPU "core" is just a "block of GPU" that can be copy/pasted more times to increase performance. I think NVidia has "shader modules"/SMs which are blocks of X number of "cores"/ALUs. I'm being very imprecise but I think that's what's going on.
Scanned the whole thread to find this and if I hadn't, I'd have posted it myself. Hard agree.

We use them at every one of our business locations - even the ones where they don't own their own infrastructure. There, they re-sell AT&T's ADSL (which, um, is terrible, but sometimes all we can get), and whatever premium they charge is worth it 100x because they are an interface layer between us and AT&T's monumentally awful customer service.

They are beyond fantastic.
I fight until and past exhaustion for a high quality and normalized schema. A lot of devs I work with don’t seem to like it but I still believe it’s worth it
Presuming economical access to space is going to scale up a lot in a few years, and taking the many billions of dollars, years of building, and human obstacles to building on the ground -- if it were me with the billions, I'd be thinking about creating a workshop in orbit and then building genuinely big scopes up there, where you're so much less constrained by "the whole thing's gotta fit in a booster, survive not just Earth gravity and weather but a rocket launch, and then deploy and totally work up where nobody can fix it."
>As an anecdote I have close family member that teaches younger elementary school grades. They have told me about signs of possible abuse they've seen but no available recourse.

It's natural to want to stay out of things, especially if one doesn't know the procedure and worries about messing up a family's lives. But it's better for the people in charge of investigating cops abuse to decide the appropriate course.

As for how reporting happens, it depends on the state. In mine (Pennsylvania), all school employees are made well aware they're considered "Mandated Reporters." They are legally required to report any suspicions of child abuse, either through the state's website, phone line, local police, or the county agency responsible for child abuse cases. The suspected abuse victim doesn't need to say they're being abused or anything at all, the reporter doesn't even have to guess who the abuser is. If the reporter thinks there may have been abuse because they saw or learned about physical (e.g. bruises) or behavioral (e.g. afraid to go home) signs, they have to report it. Not reporting can led to misdemeanor or felony charges for the Mandated Reporter. Somebody who reported their suspicion is immune from civil or criminal liability, and protected from retaliation from the institution they work at, for the report (unless it can be shown they're using reports maliciously). They're also tested as confidential informants in any investigation.

The law also encourages "Permissive Reporters" to report suspected child abuse, but without threatening charges for not reporting. These reporters can do so anonymously.

All this info comes from my wife, who was a daycare teacher, and DuckDuckGo-ing "Pennsylvania mandated reporters."
Did you seriously just copy half the description field of a Youtube video and post it to Hacker News?

Original discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37921584
First plasma fired up at JT-60SA tokamak
I use an MBA M2 15in 24GB as my main and I agree.

I really enjoy the wedge shape of the original MBA that was maintained until the 2020 MBA M1, they feel better to my wrists than the 13 in MBA M2.

The 15in MBA M2 however feels to me like a 2012 15in MBP (I had one of those as well). Except for the relative lack of ports which didn’t bother me too much so far.
> But with entrenched companies now dominating tech, nobody will be the next microsoft.

Idk, wasn't this the sentiment 30-40 years ago towards IBM?
You can, but there's not many tools that you can use to just throw everything at the code like with desktop software.
Even then it's often very dependant on the MCU and compilers you're using
Tesla should’ve focused all efforts on a cheaper, mass market Model 2, instead of the Cybertruck, if they wanted to continue seeing growth.

The Cybertruck is only an NA vehicle, and while admittedly it’s the biggest market, a Model 2 would’ve had a way bigger impact globally.
How come? Most video being 16:9 means you useball of the screen you have, 16:10 adds bars on one side doesn't it?
I could've done without the useless Samsung button that doesn't do anything but whine for a Samsung account before you can change the behavior of the button. So I used adb to disable the button entirely, to prevent the whiny Samsung page from accidentally being pressed on the button raised off the left side of the s10e.
I do think that "There is a higher cognitive load than just driving around in an ICE and pulling into any of the 15 nearby gas station "within range" for 5 minutes when your gas light goes on." is more about familiarity than anything else. People who drive regularly have routines built around fueling: I know how often I need gas and tend to get it at one of two places. There's an inconvenience and attention factor there, but we're so used to that it doesn't feel like a burden. On the other hand refueling on road trips is very natural in an ICE car. You need to stop and get out for a minute anyway, and there's stations everywhere, so you just decide when to stop and get gas while you're at it.

EVs flip that. The day to day cognitive load for "refueling" is basically nothing once you're setup. Just plug it in at night like everything else in our lives today (obviously this assumes that you have a place to plug in, I'm not sure how/why one would live with an EV without that). Road trips are tricker since the stops are longer than you might otherwise want and the options are fewer. Some of that will be solved with time but I think it will always be the case that day to day is easier with an EV but road trips require a bit more planning
That's gonna depend on the distro and kernel, as different ones have different drivers, different power saving things, different apps. In general all modern distros should have decent support for power saving out of the box, but things like wifi cards typically have crap/buggy drivers when it comes to power saving (but again it depends on the hardware and driver)

That said, the spec sheet MobileMark benchmark says battery life is as good as 14.3 hrs in max battery setting on WUXGA Low Power (non-touch), Win 11, 52.5Wh battery, versus a performance mode getting 5.0 hrs on 2.8K OLED (non-touch), Win 11, 39.3 Wh battery. With 'local video playback' lasting longer. So I guess it's very hardware and use-case specific. (https://psref.lenovo.com/syspool/Sys/PDF/ThinkPad/ThinkPad_T...)
I read all the winners of this century, so you don't have to
Two of mine:

1. In Chrome's bookmark manager, if you delete a bookmark it notifies you in a popup in the lower left corner of the screen... covering some of my bookmark folders, so if I want to move a bookmark into one of those folders, I have to first wait for the popup to disappear.

2. In Spotify's Windows app, the scrubbing bar is on the bottom center of the window. So when I have the window maximized, it's at the bottom of my monitor. When you change the volume in Win11, it notifies you in a popup in the same place, blocking the scrubbing bar until it disappears.
> Aggregate functions can now include an ORDER BY clause after their last parameter.

Hopefully that means we'll soon get support for `DISTINCT` in `GROUP_CONCAT`.

Atm you can do `group_concat(x, '|')` and `group_concat(distinct x)`, but you can't do `group_concat(distinct x, '|')`.
That position is called mercantilist. "Exports good, imports bad" in short. IMO it's damned stupid except in the rare cases where you have the influence to make that happen. For example when you have an empire or some colonies and can decree that they should increase their imports from you.

More commonly you have the ability to reduce imports and sometimes to subsidise exports, but once your trading partners have had their say, the mercantilist policy does not reach its goal.
No, a 4.5K display doesn’t fit more than the 5K display on the 27” iMac. The performance boost is nice but the display is still better.

It looks like the market shifts mean they’re assuming people who want bigger displays will buy a separate 5-8K display and connect it to a Mac Mini, which is probably correct. That used to cost more when the third-party market was so limited but that’s improved considerably.
Because the UK has the choice to keep good EU laws and dump the ones they don't want.

GDPR and cookies are good for the user. they give the user the choice to tell google etc to go away
HN has been infested with old accounts that have been taken over by spam bots for a while now, IMHO.
Why I Hate MS
SEC sues SolarWinds and CISO, says they ignored flaws that led to major hack
Bidirectional Escape Testing
I think there might be more than ten [1] blind folks using computers out there, most of them not using pointing devices at all or not in a way that would produce "hover".

[1] was it base ten, right?
Ah okay. I didn't see any language where they gave an indication that it was possible to spend more and get a better result.
The Other Side of Money: Stories We Tell about Wealth, Poverty and Inequality
Not 99% by any means but Teslas are beating the average car cost in the US by a decent margin.

https://jalopnik.com/tesla-model-3-and-model-y-cost-less-tha....
Definitely not close enough for a programmer who uses symbols and touch typing.

For starters the return key are different widths, which is a deal breaker if you’re a touchtyper used to wider return keys.

Programming also uses tilde and other symbols that are different between the two.

Overall they’re similar for typing alphabets, but symbols and enter key are different.
They are pretty cheap now just that all cars have become more expensive. Also almost everyone is switching to the new charging standard
... them and everybody else these days. I'd feel a little better about filling out those surveys if they gave some evidence they were really listening.
Unveiling Ragna: An Open Source RAG-Based AI Orchestration Framework
My colleagues at Quansight released Ragna. It's pretty cool!

In the blogpost, there's a demo: you upload a pdf, ask ML model a question, it answers and shows which pages it looked at in the document. If you don't trust the output, you can double-check the doc since you have the page numbers.

Ragna currently ships with pre-built extensions for OpenAI, MosaicML, Anthropic, and local LLMs as well as the Chroma and LanceDB vector databases. And it's open source, too!
Haha yeah - colleagues did a double take today
I'm using reaper for the mixing / routing portion, along with EQ and FX, though I'm going to take a look at using ardour this week instead. I imagine you could use pipewire by itself to achieve this, but if you're looking at more complicated routing and mixing, a DAW would be helpful.