skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a related experience with my Pixel 7 a few months ago. In this picture of a deer:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/qChwaw9C29WVdAmr6

If you zoom in, you'll note that .. everything at a detail level looks like an oil painting, especially the deer's face and the wall behind it. Very weird effect, and that's certainly not what the wall or deer actually look like. No filters applied.

Computational photography is really awesome and modestly worrisome.
Pasting a comment from yesterday. The linked video talks about how the double cylinder engine works and shows an up-close of the valves at around the 48 min mark.

If you enjoy videos, Proper People did a fantastic video about a 115 year old steam engine that still works that used to pump water for a city in Massachusetts.
Great watch full of info and some beautiful shots.
https://youtu.be/nBImv1mlcMg?si=XUyME3AmDB30sKaj
.Net has the same problem[0] 45% still "regularly use" .Net Framework because, like Java 8, .Net Core broke compatibility and even in spite of Microsoft's efforts to offer upgrade routes, it is still a hugely painful experience. Particularly for those stuck on libraries like Asp.Net.

Their current best solution is to put a modern version wrapper around .Net Framework and to map between them, but that isn't exactly ideal either (since you wind up with a giant mess).

[0] https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/devecosystem-2023/csharp/
From the announced US$39K to US$61K, plus two more years of delivery slip for the base model?

By the time it ships, Toyota should be shipping solid state batteries and Tesla's battery technology will be obsolete.
I think, in fairness, that it has been a difficult problem. Today, losing material is rather inexcusable, given the cheapness and ease of digital storage. But until recently, archiving programs was genuinely expensive and difficult.

It's from 1973. Was the final broadcast master on film, or U-Matic / Type C tape or similar? If it was tape, no one has a machine that can play U-Matic or Type C tapes anymore. Well, the BBC Archives probably do. But let's hope the archives had the money to transfer it to something in the 80s or 90s, back when the tape was hopefully still in good shape. (Edit: Type C was introduced in 1976! It would have had to have been quadruplex tape, if it was tape. There are only a handful of working quad players in the world.)

And video tape, well, it was very expensive. And you could reuse it. Most video tape from the 70s got the same treatment parchment did in medieval times. Sometimes erased and reused for scrap paper, even if it had originally been a work by Aristotle.

Generally material was done on film at that time. 1000 ft of 16 mm film -- enough for 1 half-hour episode -- cost about $500. Keep an archival copy of everything broadcast at the time, would literally have cost many millions of pounds a year just to make a copy of the film stock. And they would need to do that, as you can't really rely on standard film stock to be archiveable. It needs to be good stuff. A lot of film that is 50 years old today is now literally falling apart. So the archival department would have needed to be be constantly moving old, fragile film material to current media, just as with video tape. That is labour intensive, and accordingly expensive.
Ha, not in it. Just has to share the same airspace in the container.
It was tough to find (it's odd that Ford is so subtle about this) but it is listed here: https://www.ford.com/trucks/f150/f150-lightning/models/f150-... ("dual electric motors, one for each axle"). They were so busy 'materializing' their specs pages they forgot to mention this feature anywhere afaict - I had to search on their site to find the above page.
After the initial disturbance, the remaining planets would find a new equilibrium, which might be the current resonance situation.
How LED String Lights Work
> After Bending Spoons acquired Evernote in November 2022, the company laid off 129 people in February 2023. At that time, a spokesperson told TechCrunch that the notetaking app has “been unprofitable for years and the situation was unsustainable in the long term.”

"Hey, have you seen this Evernote company?"

"Yeah, they've been unprofitable for years and are unsustainable in the long term."

"So... buy?"
Artist here. I can hardly protect my work from ghouls as it is. If I want to work for a company as an illustrator, it's like pulling teeth to get my personal work separated from their IP. Many contracts I've seen were 'you get salary, we get everything you make'. Hell I've seen a contract try to claim my knowledge of niche animation tools was company property.
Back when humans still did work, the Music Genome Project had people listen to songs and try to break them down into little "genes" of metadata, everything from "vocal harmonies" to "minor chords" to "strong lyrical presence". It worked way better than the automated systems, IMO, and gave rise to Pandora: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_Genome_Project?wprov=sfl...

I wish other music apps could license their recommendation system. Still nothing seems to come close.
Women aren't obligated to do the work you describe. They often do but they don't need to do it.

The man needs to fill his gender role fully by raw obligation. It is not a choice. It's a biological requirement expressed by women in mating preferences. It's a strong preference and pretty much Universal behavior among women.

Men impose no such requirement on women. So what you will see is that whether women do what you say or not varies widely. I lived in a family where my mother didn't plan anything and she wasn't diligent about making sure everything was smooth. She was chill about everything. Didn't mean our family was dysfunctional. That's just her, and she could be this way because my dad didn't care. But if my dad wanted to become a house husband? The marriage is over if that choice is ever made.

Either way. The split should be made by proof of work. Not hypothetical anecdotes from either of us. Historical Income is the only raw evidence of it.

And I'd go further to say. If a woman doesn't demand equal responsibility then she doesn't deserve equal rights. That goes for men too. Unfortunately male dating preferences are rather lax, but that's another story about another problem.
I'm reminded of RealmDB, which I think Mongo bought at some point
Ozzy Osbourne is still alive, at 74. He was as much of an alcoholic as MacGowan ever was, if not worse (although I don't think Ozzy ever did heroin?)

Dick van Dyke is still around at 97(!) in spite of many years of chain-smoking and alcoholism (he stopped drinking in his late 40s, and smoking in his 70s). Look, I like Dick van Dyke and I wish him many more years, but he ought to have died decades ago.

Biology is funny business.
I don't doubt it. However my point is that the scene is so small that direct interactions with the community hardly moves the needle when it comes to the broader cultural perception.
Imagine such an image being used as evidence is a court case. E.g. showing someone pointing a gun at another person when that actually never happened.
yes, however both Trurl and Klapaucius were also robots. In the story it is machines creating machines to describe meaning. I think Lem really liked recursion.

(and i still don't understand how ChatGtp is able to respond to metaprompts like 'be brief', i mean if it is a model that is selecting the next most likely word, then it should not be able to control its own style of output.)
We aim to please
This post is more embarrassing for Duke University than for Basecamp.
Conda https://docs.conda.io/en/latest/ ??

I'm not sure, but I used it to download some Python packages. It's an alternative to pip, but I'm not sure about the details.
I see Monsieur prefers a bloodier revolution.
I discovered a bug like this with GIFs too. It turns out some gifs can be encoded such that it is animated and a single frame long.

Can’t remember the exact event name now, but the browser fires a play event when gifs loop.

This particular gif was issuing too many of these play events that made the app super slow and freeze since it was doing some work in those handlers.

We had a bunch of crash reports and bug reports. None of those showed the actual gifs our customers were using. When we asked for the actual gif, we immediately spotted the problem.
Handling is nice for freeway merges but it’s definitely not at high speed. Where I used to live in San Diego there were a couple of ramps where I’d see the SUV drivers wallowing around the curves, tires squealing, visibly struggling to stay in the lane, and it was just like “you do this every day, why?”
LLMs are known to be bad at counting. It would be interesting to see the answer to "List the planets in our solar system, starting with the closest to the sun, and proceeding to farther and farther ones."

Also, the knowledge can be kind of siloed. You often have to come at it in weird ways. Also, they are not fact-bases. They are next-token-predictors, with extra stuff on top. So if people on the internet often get the answer wrong, so will the model.
Weirdly the same thing has happened with smartphones. Every phone is a truck.
SF didn’t change the name of Haight Street either. People are pretty comfortable with homophones in general.
Sorry to hear that - hope you land on your feet.
DeepMind uses AI to discover 2.2M new materials
I am not sure if it’s possible to rise to the level of excellence in reasoning that you’ve established while laying out your thesis of “only uneducated laymen think that Kissinger was a war criminal”.

You have a fascinating point that you are very smart and the act of disagreeing with you on this categorically makes others very dumb.

I suppose you can claim a victory in that I decline to refute your idea that “an action can’t be a war crime if multiple people are involved, also knowing who Henry Kissinger is means you don’t know who anyone else is”, it is simply a thought too eloquent and genius to craft an equally compelling riposte.

Anyway, you’re welcome to directly address the primary sources I linked and make a bullet pointed list explaining why each part is proof that Henry Kissinger did not commit any war crimes.
This is Apple so we like to call it a reality-distortion effect.
Next time you get owned in any kind of argument, don't go for the "ESL" ad hominem, because when you're wrong, you look like a moron, and when you're right, you look like a jerk. It's just a losing play no matter what. This conversation is done.
Dobb·E is free (and open source) now :)
That’s very interesting. I see similar attitude in the C# JIT/Roslyn developers where they take this very seriously. Interesting are this is influenced by Anders, or just whole thing tick for a lot of compiler developers?
So this wasn't just rolling shutter?
That’s due to basic denoising, not anything more advanced. I have photos from my iPhone 6s circa 2016 that look similar when you zoom in.
So they single sourced a contract and investigated the whistleblower instead of the single sourcers? Or the companies offered single source deals? When single-sourcing is what’s actually illegal as it’s historically the result of bribes?

Seems a tad corrupt.
Zappa is a great example of deploying 20th century avant classical into compelling compositions that an audience can latch onto.

For me the best example is ‘The Bebop Tango’ from his Roxy and Elsewhere album. The core melodic theme is extremely atonal and angular, but his arrangement and his band lean into it with such conviction and panaché that it is just as compelling as any rock show.

He pokes fun at it too later on in the recording when he solicits members of the audience to get up on stage and do dance solos while George Duke directs them from his keyboard.

That album is the height of Zappa for me.
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-history-of-poor-peoples-ac...

Sacred classical music was accessible to poor people in big cities. Secular classical music was less accessible though.
> CGT > wealthy property owners

CGT doesn't really help fix the problem of property prices appreciating. I like immigration, but I still recognize that 30% immigrants has a huge impact on property prices.

If you want to fix the problem of wealthy landowners then you need to look at a better solution than CGT.

Labour actually brought in some good policies that helped reduce inequality. And some crappy ones too (I saw the effects of their lending policies on friends trying to buy their first home).

My problems with CGT are:

1: it definitely screws up incentives for anyone to make NZ more wealthy as a nation. I know this personally: even with tax rates as they are, I've got fuck-all incentive to invest (in a business or otherwise). CGT actually screws the pooch because I would have more incentive to play the property Ponzi scheme because CGT dis-incentivises me to invest in business risks.

2: why bother starting a successful business if you just get penalized after you win the game. I'm in this position: I'm an average guy that helped found a company that brought millions into NZ and it seems you don't want me to keep the small percentage that is my fair reward (for the years of work I put in and the risks I personally took).

3: CGT seems like tall-poppy-syndrome. If you want to target intergenerational wealth then target that.

I have no love for National.

CGT is definitely no panacea to the problems caused by inequality.

Too many NZers want us to join the other failed states in the world where we can all be equally fucked.

I really don't think CGT has anything to do with corruption.

If you want to argue for CGT - argue why we should tax the billionaire Peter Jackson and why it is fair. An extrodinary success that has mostly benefited NZ (economic and non-economic wins) - obvious consumer surplus - low externalities - tax supported but NZ got paid back - clear export and local gains. He was born into a typical NZ family. "His property portfolio in 2018 was estimated at NZ$150 million" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Jackson
Very cool. How does this differ from pyephem?
I have my own opinon about pineapple on Pizza, but I'm not so full of myself that I think anyone with the opposite opinion is "wrong".

They're opinions and preferences, not facts.
Hah! Are you my lost twin?

I have tried various approaches to search for something to Wax Tailor's "Que Sera" and have found only Barry Adamson's "Something Wicked This Way Comes" (you will recall from Lost Highway) and Venetian Snares' "Gloomy Sunday."

If you have more that are similar, let me know.
Are you sure? 20 seems pretty fair.

* https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/bymodel/2023_Ford_F150.shtml

* https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/bymodel/2023_Toyota_Tundra.s...

* https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/bymodel/2023_Ram_1500.shtml

* https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/bymodel/2023_GMC_Sierra.shtm...
How would you go about moving from Group 1 to Group 2? As a mostly technical person, I'm not allergic to the business side of things, but I kind of don't even know where to begin. I understand the product side of things reasonably well, but things like LLCs, accounting, finding lawyers, figuring out how to hire marketing people etc. are pretty opaque to me
This "just math" argument is so reductionist and unhelpful.
This effect likely resulted from aggressive noise filtering. You can probably reduce the amount of filtering in the settings.
NACS is just CCS charging over a differently-shaped plug.

Tesla charging is not NACS charging - older Tesla supercharger hardware generations will not support NACS.
It looks like it's treating the deer and wall as the same subject, averaging the texture, and applying it to both.
All I know is my newest Macbook (2+ years old) rarely cuts on the fans with all the browser tabs and programs running. My previous one sounded like a jet engine warming up.
This is the best one. Such a cool site.
‘Twas ever thus. A quip made about London Times global news coverage from the Empire days: “MAJOR EARTHQUAKE IN PERU: Not Many People Killed”.

It had required a whole newsstand of papers and magazines to get a proper perspective on global news in the modern era. Fortunately nowadays we can compile such a multifaceted perspective from various online news sites and news aggregators. Takes work…thus most folks like their news curated, leading to blind spots in coverage. There is no such thing as any channel/news site delivering The News, only Some News.
racism is an issue though, and there does need to be a focus on eliminating it. you are right that skin color should not matter, and for some of us it really doesn't. but for others it does. and we need to fix that. it's not enough to explain the problem away. active steps need to be taken to help everyone learn how to overcome it.
Same, and then a few minutes later I got a Slack message from SecOps, LOL. Don't try this on a computer with CrowdStrike software running on it! It gets flagged because to a naive heuristic, the binary is indistinguishable from a virus. It appears to do some kind of magic self-extraction to an executable file in a temporary directory, and then that executable file executes the original file. And the CrowdStrike endpoint security product intercepts the suspicious execve, kills the process, and alerts the security team...
I had an iPod back when iPods were slowly not becoming a thing anymore running Rockbox, which has a 4x5 Lights Out called FlipIt which I’d play between or during university lectures:

https://download.rockbox.org/daily/manual/rockbox-fiiom3k/ro...

With a bit of work I discovered that the 4x5 version could be solved mentally, although perhaps not in minimal moves, but definitely without pushing the same button twice. Here's how I thought through it:

Define R-propagation as the process of pressing in the 2nd column to turn off the lights in the 1st column, pressing in the 3rd column to turn off the lights in the 2nd column, and so on until the only lights on are in the 5th column. Then define L-propagation as the mirror image process. I was very surprised to find that for 4x5, R-prop followed by L-prop solves the Lights Out; L-prop of these two cases is (stopping before the last step otherwise it's boring),

. . . . o o . . . .
. . . . . --> . o . . .
. . . . . o o . . .
. . . . . . o . . .

. . . . . . o . . .
. . . . o --> . o . . .
. . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . o o . . .

This means that all you have to do to mentally solve 4x5 is to figure out, “if I did R-prop, what buttons would I end up pressing in the 5th column,” press those buttons first, and then L-prop will solve the rest.

Fun times!
interesting - thank you!
Ask HN: What Drives the Funding of Open Source Large Language Models?
I genuinely appreciate the gestures; however, I'm trying to grasp the economics behind the funding of Open Source Large Language Models. Is it purely altruistic, or is there a more complex rationale?"
Yes. Somgs-like-this-song is the thing I wanna find.
The company that licensed Pyrex in Japan still makes and sells the real deal as Iwaki
I'm a Sales Engineer at a SaaS company. Prior to that I did a bunch of roles, mostly focused on cloud infrastructure automation and Python development.

Personally, I have grown to really enjoy the role. You have a high degree of autonomy, the money is good, I get to travel quite a bit (I'm single, late 20s, so that suits my lifestyle), and I get to meet lots of really interesting people and customers and develop those relationships which can be a fun part of the job if you enjoy working with others. There's also no on-call and not much regular after hours work, but you do trade that for time spent travelling and with clients after hours you may or may not enjoy.

Downsides: I enjoy hands-on technical work, and I often find myself frustrated not being able to do that. The technical work you do get to do is usually nothing more than a marketing exercise. You rarely get to go deep on things, and that's simply because it's not an effective use of your time when you are focused on selling. Also, Sales organisations have been a massive culture shock for me coming from engineering. There's lots of internal politics, optics, and territorialism. I also found engineers are quite efficient at using their time, happy to work asynchronously, etc. Sales folks on the other hand tend to dislike that style, and will drag you into endless meetings, call you for the simplest questions and interrupt your flow, etc. You will learn to manage it, but it can be frustrating at first.

Also in terms of career growth, I think it's pretty limited. My plan is to spend a few years, learn how to do sales and improve my soft skills, and move on.
What a weird hit piece of an article. Setting up straw man after straw man, then knocking them down. Loeb never claimed what the materials are, at most he's theorized different possibilities that fit with the current data. But there are no quotes of him claiming what they are. The article also leaves out all information that conflicts with the author's viewpoints and the summary of most of the arguments is just "nobody can prove with 100% certainty X is true, so therefore X is false".
No, the difference is too large for it to be rolling shutter. (not sure if the rolling shutter is even vertical or horizontal). It seems like it takes a short video and stitches together the sections with the least motion blur in each frame.
How is this article on the FP, even after 9 hours?

While the topic itself is an interesting discussion (and possibly the main reason it’s being upvoted), the TLDR of this whole article is basically:

- There’s no great way to shop for avocados

- You can sort of tell how ripe one is by feeling the “give” around the stem (though not a guarantee it’s a “good” avocado)

- You can ripen avocados faster in a bag (though still not a guarantee they’ll be good)

- You can’t really store them for later, once cut open

- You can’t really prevent browning

In other words, according to this article, buying avocados is a crapshoot, and if you happen to get a good one, consume it immediately once you cut it.

There is probably better advice in the comments here, but the article itself isn’t very optimistic or helpful.
Given that the damage to roads is linked to miles, and then the square of the vehicle's weight, it'd not be difficult for a state to stop putting the road maintenance related taxes on gas itself, and instead just measure those two things. Odometer change, times the square of the weight. Suddenly the really large truck that carries a single person is far more expensive to run than a sedan.

Something kind of like this is already done with stickers for electric cars in many states: Doing that for every car is just extending the program. It won't happen though, because a lot of people would be angry to internalize the cost of their choices
I still have my original Turbo Pascal 7.0 floppy install disks from high school in the early/mid 90s. There was no Googling or ChatGPT'ing for help when you got stuck...I feel like it made me a better thinking programmer back then and that somehow I've lost something with all the answers only one query/chat away.
Purists will always hate the idea of computational photography, but I love how well my iPhone captures handheld nighttime, low-light, and motion images. I’ve captured some photos at night that I never would have thought possible from a physically small sensor due to the laws of physics.

Is it 100% pixel perfect to what was happening at the time? No, but I also don’t care.

I’ve used HDR exposure stacking in the past. I’ve used focus stacking in the past for shallow depth of field. I’ve even played with taking multiple photos of a crowded space and stitching them together to make an image of the space without any people or cars. None of them are pixel perfect representations of what I saw, but I don’t care. I was after an image that captured the subject and combining multiple exposures gets the job done.
Yes, so amazingly labor-intensive. Now I have found some programs which boast of a feeble seventy percent accuracy in identifying the key of a song (if you were going to use the Camelot System to build a mix).