skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I believe they had intentions of selling this tech to other stores but it never really took off (maybe uniqulo is using it?)

They did, it's called "Just Walk Out" - https://www.justwalkout.com/ and https://aws.amazon.com/just-walk-out/ . I've seen it a bunch at airports, and occasional random city locations.
The Global "Club" That Helps Executives Escape Their Crimes (2016)
Better combat in vanilla is a reasonable ask. They're right, the combat isn't fun!
It really varies, out here a few dozen miles outside NYC, best I get is 2 day delivery. I used to have next day pickup a few years ago when Amazon had their own lockerbox nearby.

However, last time I ordered something to a relative in NYC, I was surprised to find that they even have same day delivery for many items.
They switched from GPL in 2016: https://dev.aseprite.org/2016/09/01/new-source-code-license/
I suspect the origin is Proverbs 16:27 - "Idle hands are the devil's workshop; idle lips are his mouthpiece."

I'm currently on a work sabbatical, and while it has been great, I reached a point when I had to start actively scheduling and doing things or I'd go a bit crazy. I think that having time to be bored is great, and really healthy for awhile. But having a core thing to return to, whatever that is, seems really critical.

I'm sure humanity could adapt, but would need time to adjust to the new reality.
And a cool thing about this is that the tags are reused, probably for as long as the book is available.
The title of this post is not great. There's a board game with the name Labyrinth (previously named The A-maze-ing Labyrinth), which this post is not about.
Okay, and what part of that means normal duties should not be paid on that specialty product?

Seriously people, we have computers now. Every SaaS in Europe needs to pay correct VAT on every subscription sold based on the customer origin, it is not at all unreasonable to have online sellers pay duties for products shipped to US.
I didn't read it in the article but this hinges on it being a discrete uniform distribution. Who knows what kind of shenanigans Google did to the identifiers.
During the layoffs, I've seen some commenters here express that any agreements were to the previous owners and since Musk is a new owner taking over the company, those previous agreements are no longer valid. This was with respect to severance packages. It'll be interesting to see what kind of reaction this gets this time around.
Fascinating that the review is basically "it's too good".
The paper says they made 1.8e10 attempts to produce 1e4 videos. TFA says they now have 2.5e4 videos, so they’ve made >4e10 attempts so far. No way in hell you can scrape YouTube like that without buying access to a big proxy IP pool (e.g. Luminati).
I'm inside the city of Chicago. Used to get ridiculous (like 1 hour) delivery on tons of stuff I ordered from Amazon. Now it's typically a week.
Something can be quite problematic but still cost more to cure than the harms incurred.

And if one believes that, e.g. self driving cars will do a lot to address it in the next decade, they especially might not want to incur the costs of the alternatives.
It's not just you. There's now a lot of data that provides evidence for the link between screen usage and lack of focus. It's why my wife and I are so extreme in not letting our kid see screens. Your parents probably unfortunately had you at a time when you would be Patient Zero and nobody could know what the effects would be. But now we know. :(
Couldn't see the parent to my comment earlier when I replied.

To be fair I've been traveling so it could easily be user error.
First, thanks for trying it and for the long feedback! I am aware it is rough, but wanted to put it out anyway.

>The latency is pretty high...
Yea, I agree. I intend to swap for a fine tuned Mixtral sometime in the future and hopefully get similar experience. I need to fix the typing indicator so that it stays while the audio generates.

> encountered some problems navigating...
Indeed, the pathfinding is very rudimentary. You raise a good point with a simpler map, I may just do that while I get a fix for the path finding. I don't know how I feel about walking over each other :)

> Overhearing other character's conversations is interesting, but a little hard to manage
Was it hard because of the short distance for eavesdropping? I originally wanted to make eavesdropping more explicit (have like an exclamation mark from characters that you are eavesdropping or something) but I cut that down from the todo list. I am aware of the overlapping conversations, I have in my todo to add a lag on the DB write to wait for the other message to "be read".

> I'll say my attempts to simply gaslighting
My cousin got his lawyer-speak gaslighting to work, so don't give up that strategy!

> It does seem like this is somewhat similar to a simple game of Werewolf
Definitely my primary inspiration.

> got a ton of voices and a bell all at once
Ugh, sorry about that. I knew that was an issue.

> Maybe corporate espionage. Maybe sabotage. I fear that it might be too fun to literally troll groups into dysfunction, while teaching dark skills...
Love the idea!

> Crisper controls would do a lot, even while the latency itself is currently unavoidable.
Thanks, I totally agree, will iron them out ASAP.
The original open API from the Facebook was open for the benefit of the good actors to use their data. You can disagree with how it's used, but u can't disagree with the intention.

With the CA scandal, now all the big companies would lock down their app data and sell ads strictly through their limited API only, so the ads buyer would have much less control before.

It's basically saying: u cant behave with the open data. Then we will do business only
Yeah. Ten years ago Google was fighting those strategies involving content farms and abusive SEO with things like the Panda update, etc. Now it seems they don't care anymore. Since low-quality SEO ranks over legitimate sites, it forces those sites to pay for advertisement. This is very sad.
Facebook will never ever make a popular physical device. It's simply not in their DNA.
To add onto your comment, I've also seen it used at quite a few stadiums.
You must not have any women in your life :) Every woman I know has been ordering tons of stuff from here for the last couple of years. Now I see many of them moving to Temu, and I would expect TikTok to overtake all of them within 12-24 months.
Japan's Past Perfect (2012)
I have a website, blog, a cdn, and a domain level email inbox running off AWS SES.

You email specific email addresses which get processed as web pages, blog posts, or attachments extracted to the cdn. All other emails sent to your domain sit inside the inbox. You can also send out emails from any address.

The blog and webpages are all SEO optimised so you can share the link on say Twitter and it will unfurl the link and read the meta tags.

You can also forward specific emails to a special address to be shared or bookmarked in your browser.

The entire thing runs off Lambdas, S3, Cognito, and AWS SES, nary a database. I use pug template files to format content extracted from emails.

To make this work, I had to do a deep dive into how Gmail’s email composer translates actions into HTML tags, then align the templates to these behaviours.

For a while, I had a handful of paying customers which paid my AWS bills. Right now, I’m down to one customer and the rest of my uses are for personal projects.

I learnt a lot in the process - from templating to SEO to S3 usage to Lambdas and got a very usable domain level email inbox and blog out of it. The CDN and static pages are a little less useful but building them too was quite fun.

Btw, highly recommend nodemailer as a module for email parsing.
This is a prima facie absurd view of buyouts; if this were actually how things worked it would be fiscally irresponsible to lend money to any corporation (because the ownership might change, absolving them of their debt), for example.

Or, succinctly: the owners of my bank made an agreement that I can withdraw my money at any time without fee. Should new owners suddenly be able to ignore that agreement? Impose fees? Perhaps even simply deny me the ability to withdraw money at all? I would hope the answer from any reasonable person would be a resounding "No."
Almost the same trajectory for me, except BASIC first then C and K&R on an Amiga. Also switched to PCs in 1994 and installed Linux.
Fascinating that our stories intersect so much. I later converted that Delphi code to ASP/VBScript because native Delphi code ran really slow on a new DEC Alpha AXP server because of emulation on the RISC architecture. ASP code was much faster despite being interpreted :) I found ASP way more practical too. Access was also my native next choice of database. Not very scalable, but day and night difference compared to a text file :)
I’m not sure what your point is? Your quote lists nine entities pledging $1B. Only $130M was collected, $15M surely being from Musk. So he contributed at least 11.5%, which is in line with nine entities contributing. How much money can be traced back to Altman or Brockman, who are also on that list?
I noticed e.g. Cyberduck do the same. It's open source software, you can download it on the website for free. But if you want to have it one click on the App store it's $24.
To piggyback onto this, a $250k limit affects most physicians. Hospitals will argue that a physician leaving a facility hurts the hospital because that physician will bring their patients with them. What they don't mention is that this is literally impossible for all shift work positions like emergency medicine, anesthesia, hospitalists, critical care, or radiology, among others. They don't choose their patients.

Anyway, medical noncompetes frequently target a certain number of mile radius around the hospital. In a tightly packed area like NYC, this basically locks the physician out of working for any other hospital during the non-compete period. Recently, the hospitals have become very aggressive at pushing their staff to work longer stretches of shifts with no breaks. Also, there's no overtime since they're considered exempt employees. They can get away with this because it's very difficult for their staff to leave without either moving or working locums out of the area until their non-compete times out. This doesn't work for many families if, for example, they have children or older parents to care for.

Much of the American healthcare system is now owned by private equity and they will fight tooth and nail to keep their non-competes. Healthcare workers are burning out and the non-competes eliminate much of their leverage to push for better working conditions. It's disgusting and needs to stop.
Do you know that for certain? I always suspected they would, so they could transcode to better formats in the future, but never found anything to confirm it.
Ok Mr. Expert, what relevant expertise do you have? And what kind of research have you done in the field?

Because surely you have some kind of knowledge to draw on other than a gut feeling if you are going to say professional researches working in the field are wrong, no?
Indeed. I think it's worth going a little deeper for those who perhaps aren't familiar with some of the underlying principles of the Web.

For starters, all the program does is receive requests (as text) over a TCP/IP connection. It replies over the same connection.

So writing a Web server in any language, on any OS is a trivial exercise. (Once you have the ability to read or write TCP/IP.

The program has to accept the input, calculate the output, and send the output.

If the input is just file names, then the program just reads the file and sends it. (Think static site).

The program may parse the file, and process it some more. It "interprets" code inside the file, executes it, and thus transforms the output. Think PHP.

In these cases a generic server fits the bill. Think Apache, IIS, nginx and so on.

The next level up are programs that are compiled. They generate the output on the fly, often with no, or little, disk interaction. This sort of program often uses a database, but might not. (An online Soduku game for example might do everything in memory.)

Again, any if the above can be built on any OS and written in any language with TCP support.
Maybe Google needs to implement an API where you can notify it when a page on your site has changed. That should cut down on redundant crawls a lot, eh?
<_all computers were servers_

All devices with CPUs can be servers. Your phone, your car...
> youtube is such a large and public platform that it borderline a public utility.

So has been the big banks, large corporations, land but they all feed off each other and the government. What we want as a community is usually quite different to what they decide to do.
TFA states "roughly 4 cents, give or take a penny"
An additional thought regarding Up-scaling: Until about 7 years ago, almost all digital VFX (including on True Lies and Titanic mentioned in the article: done by Digital Domain at the time) for film was still being rendered/delivered at 2K (other than occasional larger format things like IMax), so it's almost certain that in the 90s/2000s, while the plate footage on film might in theory have been very high resolution if scanned (if the film stock was good enough), the VFX delivered for it will have been only good enough for 2K resolution as that's what it was rendered/delivered at originally.

So anything "requiring" a 4K release would almost certainly have had to have been up-scaled, unless the studio managed to get the original VFX vendor to re-render/comp and deliver 4K footage which I've heard of happening in a few cases (Star Wars re-releases, some Pixar stuff), but other than that isn't generally done and the VFX can only be upscaled from the "original" delivery.
An aggressive stemmer might stem both "generic" and "general" to "gener".

Then if your query is "what documents contain 'generic'?", you look in the index for "gener" and then open each of those documents and check if it actually has "generic" using a stricter stemmer (that accepts generic{,s}, genericness{,es}, genericit{y,ies}, generically ... this is a bit of a bad example since they all have the prefix directly). The cost is acceptable as long as both words have about the same frequency so it doesn't affect the big O.

Of course if you have any decent kind of compute, you can hard-code exceptions before building the index (which does mean you have to rebuild the index if your exception list changes ... or at least, the part of the index for the specific part of the trie whose exception lists changed - you don't do a global lookup!) to do less work at query time. But regardless, you still have to do some of this at query time to handle nasty cases like lie/lay/laid (searching for "lie" should not return "laid" or vice versa, but "lay" should match both of the others) or do/does/doe (a more obviously unrelated example).
This doesn't work with groceries because the tags can't be read through liquids, right? Any solutions? It would be delightful to just push my cart through a scanner and then pay.
User profiles are actually stored like https://eksisozluk1999.com/biri/{{username}}. "/@{{username}}" also redirects to "/biri/{{username}}". You shouldn't need numbers at all. The numbers are only at the end of topic titles. They are title id's (sequential integers assigned when they're created) to disambiguate conflicting Latinized forms of Turkish words.
I had always assumed it was because the tags cost too much for low value items. And that it would be difficult to standardise with all the suppliers.
All of these other anecdotes are (understandably) sysadmin or developer-related, though I have a couple very stupid ones that are completely physical and mechanical.

My first residential plumbing fix was a simple unclogging of a shower drain, which was accomplished by putting a couple inches of water in the tub and blasting repeatedly into the drain with a pneumatic cannon. The splatters hit the ceiling, but it was thoroughly unclogged after a few repetitions.

The second major one, was the sewer line at mom's place, which ended up being very bad clog that nasty industrial drain cleaner would not even touch. I capped every drain and vent in the entire house, and dumped two 30 gallon compressor tanks of air into the two toilet hookups. There was great and concerning watery rumbling from all through the house, but after a 30 seconds or so, the clog was blown into the septic and has not given her a single problem since then.
Sounds like a headline from https://rense.com/
I'm sorry, incoherent was a little mean. I do find it very hard to follow though

I think the main problem is you are using terms wrong. When i was reading i was substituting correct meanings in, and then getting confused when nothing you said made sense. Some examples:

* using incorrect/misleading definitions of terms, e.g. consider the first sentence of section 2:

> The difference between “p” and “np” hinges on the difference between solving problems without
solutions, and checking if given solutions solve a problem

There is a certain sense this is true, but its very misleading because it doesn't mention time. The amount of time taken is very key here. If you don't account for that, there is no difference between np vs p.

As another example

> Therefore, it is almost surely possible to convert “np” problems into “p” problems: generate candidate solutions from the problem itself, then check them.

Suggests you don't know what NP means, since (speaking informally) one of the definitions of NP is the set of problems that could be solved that way in polynomial time if you had a computer that was good at guessing.

> The antithesis to “p != np” is “p equals np” which implies all “np” problems are exactly equally easy to solve as all “p” problems

This is just a straight up false statement. P=NP means that NP problems are no harder than the hardest problem in P. It doesn't mean exactly equal.

> We generate secret keys using problems we believe are easy to check, but hard to solve (“np”), because we support the thesis “p != np”

RSA is not known to be np-complete. P!=NP does not imply RSA is secure.

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Anyways, i think fundamentally you basically redefined np to be something that is equal to p, and used circular logic to prove that it was (e.g. you talk about generating a "category" of simple correct solutions to an NP problem, and just presume you can do that. Well obviously if you had a polynomial time algorithm to do that, P=NP because the entire question is whether it is possible to do such a thing)
The model that the user can interact with to rotate and pan on this website performed amazingly.
I ran into the Maker Nexus booth at Maker Faire two months ago. The person I spoke to claimed that they were the successor of TechShop. I don't know if that's true, and I haven't used them, but it's worth checking out: https://www.makernexus.org/aboutus
This is awesome. I've downloaded and added by todos to it. But then I remembered, how do I backup my notes and todos?

Can you add a feature to back up this to git?
Because the platform switched to it only last week, no other reason. It was on eksisozluk1923.com before that. The moment this new domain catches up on popularity, they would find an arbitrary reason to ban that too.
rsync. If you are looking for a long term solution: zfs on both sides with zfs send.
Check your website's HTTPS:

> The certificate for eev.ee expired on 22/12/2023.

As for PHP, and I can't read the TFA, it was a fantastic language, and still is. Look at what it enabled and continues to enable.
Because it's not about the film in this case. It's about the reality that was filmed. The AI upscaled interpolated version looks closer to reality.
Sure, I agree with you. I just wouldn't refer to that work as pure math. And let's be real, most people are not working on the theoretical side of ML. Realistically people are anti theory in the ML space and it's really weird to me because it's a self fulfilling prophecy and the complaints are "it's not very good because not a lot of community effort hasn't been put in so let's not waste our time"
Amazon Fresh grocery stores do something similar, but with the tech (cameras, maybe augmented by weight/pressure sensors?) in the shopping carts rather than covering the ceiling.
In 2012, Intel had a site called esaa-members.com. It was supposed to be some type of authorized hardware catalog, with recipes for building computers out of known-to-be compatible parts. Anyways, there was a daily import of the hardware data, which was kicked off by a small Ruby script that downloaded some CSV file over SFTP. It was tiny, and all it did was put the CSV in a folder, to be processed by another script down the line. Occasionally though, there would be a network error, and it wouldn't write the file. When this happened, the next script that looked for the file wouldn't find it, and would send out an email alert.

That's when I discovered that you could write a GOTO statement in Ruby! I made a very minor addition to the beginning and end of the script, a label at the top, and a goto at the bottom for if the CSV file didn't exist. I had added my email to the list of alerts, and after that GOTO was added, I never saw another alert.
Who said gold isn't a scam?
Sad really, but there is no safe recourse. Everything where money(or IRL valuables) changes hands will be infested by scam(mmer)s. Eventually, an arcane dystopian automated decision will be applied where basic joe smith trying to sell his couch due to hastily moving to new city for a job or grandma jenny trying to sell her goodwill sweaters will get banned as scam/suspicious activity, while jimmy will continue scamming people and articles like these will be written. This is the ultimate state of everything, because comprehensive scam detection solutions require money and people.
We used a JIT-less subset of Java 1.4 on that device. Hashing of word-length strings in the underlying optimized C code was extremely fast and CPU cache friendly (and came with the JVM). With the simple cache in place, indexing time was dominated by the libraries that extracted the text from the supported formats. So, in line with this Ask HN's topic, it was good enough. And less code to maintain. And easier for engineers after me to understand. A good tradeoff overall.

More technical details for the curious...

Earlier I had done a quick trie implementation for other purposes in that code, but abandoned it. The problem is that we had to index (and search) large amounts of content in many different languages, including Chinese and Japanese with full Unicode support. This means that there is such large potential fan-out / sparsity within the trie that you need faster lookups / denser storage at each node in the trie (a hash map or binary search or ...). In that situation, a trie can be much slower than a single hash map with short strings as keys. Especially in a JIT-less JVM (the same code had to run server-side, where native extensions weren't allowed). If we were only dealing with ASCII, then maybe. And there would also be more complexity to maintain for decades (you can still buy newer versions of the device today that are running the same indexing and search code).

All those languages were also the reason that normalization needed caching. In v1, we were English only. I hand rolled a "good enough" normalizer that was simple / fast enough to not need caching. In v2 we went international as described above. I wasn't capable of hand rolling anything beyond English. So we brought in Lucene's tokenizers/stemmers (including for English, which was much more accurate than mine). Many of the stemmers were written in Snowball and the resulting Java code was very slow on the device.
They aren’t electronic waste. They seem to contain just cardboard and a very slim strip of metal.

So I guess they are waste in the same way your used razor blade is waste.