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No, simply because it's better to hold it than to spend it. It's an asset the way gold is an asset. Also, there's a price to pay to use it and it's high. Bitcoin is not flexible enough.
> if they don't keep up with PWA support, they risk getting left behind by application developers.

Application developers will not go anywhere, for many reasons:

- iOS is where the money's at

- PWAs are not "apps". They are web apps with all the limitations it implies. You want complex functionality, rich controls, fluid animations and a billion other things? You go for native apps.
It's great, and it works great.

But who the hell gave the final OK on this product?

They have this tablet mounted at the top of the contraption, but unfortunately this tablet is fixed at a certain angle, an angle which MAY be right for people over 2 meters in height but not for the vast majority of their customers.

It stood out immediately the first moment I set my eyes on this thing.

https://i.redd.it/1ipkqq4fzzg71.jpg -- it's literally pointing to the sky.

Maybe they made it better by now but was mind boggling nonetheless.
Many many years ago I worked for a University that had a huge stock of old 386 and 486 pizza box style PC’s and we were implementing Citrix Metaframe on Windows 2000. It was decided to repurpose the older PC’s as thin client boxes, but in initial tests the users hated seeing the older Windows 3.11 OS booting up. We were in a hurry to get rolled out so I ended up making a small GUI on VB6 with two buttons - Load Thin client system and shut down. This replaced the Windows shell and loaded almost immediately. Took me something like 10 minutes to make.

Years later I went back (like 10 years later?) and they showed me a sleek new tiny thin client box, and when it loaded there was my VB6 screen with the familiar two buttons. Apparently the users loved it and so they had ported it across to the newer devices ever since.
I'm already paying through the nose for foriegn stuff. I don't want even more fees to be tacked on.
I was doing some proxy soak testing for a company once where we had to run the tests from the server room but there was no non-proxy connectivity from that room to where we were monitoring the tests. Simple solution: output the progress to Dropbox, watch the same file upstairs. Bit of delay, sure, but better than having no idea how things are going until the 30-60min test is done (and no, we weren't allowed to sit in the server room watching it.)
Especially if employer is involved.
The federal speed limit is a law passed by Congress. We're talking about executive action here, and the President is specifically forbidden by law to impound funds without Congressional authorization.
Warn if (Windows ISO) media will no longer be bootable after Q1 2024 (Rufus)
Anybody can say anything in parliamentary testimony and enjoy the protection of parliamentary freedom of speech.

https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/house-of-lor...

Actions outside of parliamentary testimony are not protected .. but these have to be seperately observed | evidenced as the testimony cannot be used to convict.
The data probably wouldn't look so clean if it were skewed. If Google were doing something interesting it probably wouldn't be skewed only by a little bit.
the cheat was using a botnet of 32k devices, lol
Parachutes for Small Airplanes Do Save Lives (2018)
Yoy may want to check out Sean Carroll's book "The Biggest Ideas in the Universe" vol. 1. He explains a bit of calculus, how to read and understand equations etc. Basically, this book contains a crash course in physics-related math smeared out across a few chapters. Perfect for noobs like us.
Whines and drones (whines of lower frequency) are what I hate if they're present all the time or most of the time. It's not discordantness that bugs me.
I suppose the idea is that the "pardoned" prisoners would sue their states demanding release. If the Supreme Court bothered granting cert it would be to write the shortest, nastiest 9-0 "absolutely not" opinion ever.
I guess you're getting downvoted because this is basically video spam, but it's still clever!
jQuery 4.0.0 is finished, pending official release
A long time ago I was building a data entry system is Visual Basic for forms that, once entered, need to both store the input in a database and print out the form. There were hundreds and hundreds of different forms.

So, instead of making an interface for data entry and then a system to print the forms, the data entry UI for each form looked exactly the same as the forms themselves. Scrolling was needed because at the time there were only low resolution CRT screens.

However, for printing, I would draw the filled out form at a very high resolution in video memory "off screen" and print that.

So, the work to create one form resulted in supporting both data entry and printing.

It turned out that since the people doing the data entry also knew the forms really well, they were able to enter the data 2.5 times faster than initial estimates.
Filmolino SlideScanner
Well it's fine to have that as an individual opinion about your experience, and we all have had experiences of great products horribly transformed through bullshit 'innovation', but surely there's room for improvement on twitter as a whole. The place is kinda a mess and the medium is responsible for part of that.
It's what's going on in the car market that keeps me away from any recent model cars. All the electronics that are standard or required, I drove a friends car and while driving the entertainment unit had a big popup asking me if I'd like to connect to Bluetooth the whole time. If I click yes it tells me to pull over before connecting to Bluetooth. Every time you do it it asks you if I want to sync my contacts. That's just one of the small things.

I don't want to be vendor locked in by my car. I just want four wheels and a stereo. EVs are newer and therefore have all that extra shit in them. I'd get one if they were a battery and 4 electric motors with a cab on top, but they're not, I'd get a newer normal car too but it's just too much. These people need to rethink whatever the fuck it is that's going on in their heads because all these products, not just cars, are becoming user hostile and they can only count on the "you'll take it and like it because you have no alternative" business model for so long before sales start to decline. I won't buy anything made after 2012 and I'm not the only one. If it's needlessly tedious it doesn't better my life at all, therefore you don't get my money. I'm not here on this earth for the purpose of accumulating more shit I have to spend my time fussing about with. I'd rather sputter down the road on a 2 stroke engine than click another confirmation dialog, if you want me to live more sustainably quit making me want to rip my fucking hair out.
I just took a 24v AC wall wart power supply and shoved it in the same terminals as the hot and neutral control on the smart thermostat. The A in AC makes this arrangement work just fine to allow the battery of the thermostat to charge without zapping anything.
Not going to meetings and not coordinating with colleagues are two different things.
Thanks, I need to correct my earlier guess: I believe this demo is running on 9 GroqRacks (576 chips) and I think we may also have an 8 rack version in progress. I can't remember off the top of my head whether this deployment has pipelining of inferences or whether that's work in progress. We've tried a variety of different configurations to improve performance (both latency and throughput), which is possible because of the high level of flexibility and configurability of our architecture and compiler toolchain.

You're right that it is important to compare cost per token also, not just raw speed. Unfortunately I don't have those figures to hand but I think our customer offerings are price competitive with OpenAI's offerings. The biggest takeaway though is that we just don't believe GPU architectures can ever scale to the performance that we can get, at any cost.
I'm a big Tetris fan. Some of my favorite articles are:

- Finesse, https://harddrop.com/wiki/Movement_Finesse

- Perfect clear(s opener), https://harddrop.com/wiki/Perfect_clear

- 180 spins, https://harddrop.com/wiki/Rotate#180_rotations

Check out King of Stackers, NullpoMino, and Cultris, too!
With the need for active cooling, I am no longer convinced Rpi is that great anymore. I loved mine 3b+ but at this point a cheap x86 sff provides much more utility at similar cost and power levels.

The Ryzen 7840 stuff is great but even a 5800 would be fantastic. They have been getting quite cheap lately.
Back in the early days of Linux (~1993) or so, I was trying to convince my workgroup in grad. school that Linux was a nice alternative for running our numerical simulations (in C). But I knew I had to get the graphics working, since no one wanted to use a text-only interface. It was a Dell PC using some graphics card; the word 'tulip' is in the fog of my memory. The graphics driver was not loading, giving some error about a reference not being found in the .o file. I didn't know what to do, so I loaded up the .o file in vi, searched for the offending reference, edited it out and saved the .o file. From then on the graphics works great!
If verified this sounds fantastic for police use. The police could spray it first thing in every encounter, reducing the aggression of both the male police and the other nearby males. I wonder if it has any effect on women. Maybe it should become mandatory in the air in bars. Perhaps it could be an additive to steroids.
Sucks that they felt that they have to point to a pseudo-failer than the incredible fact that one company had 92 launches in one year.

Who has ever done more? And it's only increasing. Pretty cool...
This is cool. I was recently thinking about how to scan in a lot of family slides from the 60s, 70s, and 80s and now I think I want to build one of these to streamline the capture process...

My previous plan was to just set up a projector in a dark room and photograph off the big screen manually with my DSLR (I thought this might also work for 8mm film reels as well).
Exploring the Future of Web Forms with GenAI: What Are Your Thoughts?
Hello, HackerNews community!

I've been thinking about how artificial intelligence, particularly GenAI, could revolutionize the way we design and build online forms. Forms are a fundamental component of the web, used for everything from user registration to data collection. The user experience with forms can make or break a website or application.

With GenAI's capabilities in mind, I'd love to hear your thoughts on the following questions:

How do you envision AI, like GenAI, transforming the design and development of online forms?

What features or aspects of form building do you think AI can improve the most?

What challenges or concerns do you foresee when integrating AI into the form-building process?

Are there any AI-powered form-building tools or projects that you find particularly interesting or promising?

What do you think the ideal form-building experience will look like in the near future, given advancements in AI?

Feel free to share your thoughts, opinions, or any AI-related projects you've come across that are pushing the boundaries of form design. I'm excited to hear your insights and engage in a discussion about the potential of AI in this domain.

Looking forward to your responses and a stimulating conversation!
The use of "eigen" here seems to have stretched too far beyond its original meaning in mathematics, and in German more generally. In German, "eigen" means "own" like "my own idea." In mathematics, "eigenvalue" is a certain numeric value associated to a matrix or linear operator, which is independent of various representations of that matrix or operator. In that sense, the number is the operator's "own" value, in the sense of it being an invariant and characteristic property of the underlying concept, rather than arising from how it's viewed in a particular frame.

The author borrows the prefix from the "eigenquestions" article linked therein, where that author defines it as

> "Eigenquestion" is a made-up-word that borrows from the linear algebra concept of eigenvectors (mathematically: represents the "most discriminating vector in a multidimensional space"). ... For a simplistic definition, the eigenquestion is the question where, if answered, it likely answers the subsequent questions as well. Great framing starts by searching for the most discriminating question of a set — the eigenquestion.

But the "most discriminating vector" idea is not really what an eigenvector is. It can be roughly thought of as that in some senses, like principal component analysis or SVD, where the term has been used to refer to a particular vector space basis formed of eigenvectors (e.g., "eigenfaces"). But in this context they authors are simplifying this to just "the most important question." The use of the fancy math jargon doesn't seem to add anything beyond this. It feels like a kind of faux intellectualism that I have learned to dislike (despite having a math PhD myself!) after hearing too many tech bro types abuse math terms beyond recognition.
In the early days of Google Chrome, I was tasked with making it work with Windows screen readers. Now, accessibility APIs on Windows were documented, but web browsers used a bunch of additional APIs that were poorly documented. Chrome's design was radically different than Firefox's and IE's, so it was a challenge to implement the APIs correctly. At first I was just trying to get it to work with completely static web pages.

Screen readers were reading form controls, but no matter what I did they weren't activating any of their web-specific features in Chrome. I spent weeks carefully comparing every single API between Firefox and Chrome, making the tiniest changes until they produced identical results - but still no luck.

Finally, out of ideas, I thought to build Chrome but rename the executable to firefox.exe before running it. Surely, I thought, they hadn't hard-coded the executable names of browsers.

But of course they had. Suddenly all of these features started working.

Now that I knew what to ask for, I reached out and made contact with the screen reader vendor and asked them to treat Chrome as a web browser. I learned another important lesson, that I probably shouldn't have waited so long to reach out and ask for help. It ended up being a long journey to make Chrome work well with screen readers, but I'm happy with the end result.
I agree.

Proving that using cheats and auto complete does not break sample independence and keeps sampling as random as possible would be needed here for stats beginners such as me!

Drunk dialing but having a human operator that each time tries to help you connect with someone, even if you mistyped the number... Doesn't look random to me.

However I did not read the 85 pages paper... Maybe it's addressed there.
Assuming this is a parody account, I love the concept
You have exactly the same choice on Threads.
I just sense we're never going to reach an agreement here.

My opinion, in short, is that people exist who simply thrive on chaos and drama. If you've met a person like that or have one of them as a member of your family, you understand. You understand that the power to destroy and create drama gives them a thrill that literally nothing else will ever come close to. You can't treat it, it's very hard to redirect (literally the _exact same activities_ will bore them if the outcome is positive rather than negative) and you can't reliably use them as part of a 'red team' because the first thing they'll destroy is the team cohesion.

If you have any teachers in your family ask them 'do you think that some kids are just born wrong' and they'll tell you all about it. They've seen it.
Surprised there isn't some more complex argument they could make if they are high paid lawyers....
The problem with that idea is that most brands don’t want to be on Amazon. It’s bad for their margins and their brand equity. They rather push their own ecom sites.

Amazon has a hard time getting brands on the platform. Amazon has a problem with cheap unbranded stuff. What’s left in the future?
Increasingly same day delivery in London.
a) This seems like a stronger argument for hiring multiple people with diverse experiences rather than favoring individual hires with lots of short gigs.

b) This seems like a problem you can screen for during the interview process rather than engaging in resume discrimination.
Quantum Computing's Hard, Cold Reality Check
SVD is also the back bone for DMRG in the study of quantum groundstates
So basically there's a 'consultant' layer.
Threads will support ActivityPub.

So this isn't the same situation again.
live and learn. It was the re-split when they saved the new products through my brilliant parser that royally fucked it all up. Genius that I was, I used "|" to separate attributes, but I also definitely used a double asterisk to mean something else. Nothing teaches you not to get clever better than screaming customers and abject failure. And having to find/replace a thousand asterisks to figure out which ones were making the file unreadable. Falling on my face made me the careful coder I am today.
I have written above a more complete explanation.

Hamilton did not discover any "action". Like everybody since Maupertuis, a century earlier, Hamilton used "action" with the meaning "accumulated living force".

"Living force" is English for the Latin "vis viva", which is the old name of kinetic energy (the term "kinetic energy" was introduced only later, in 1854, by William Thomson, who in 1892 became Lord Kelvin; for a short time before 1854 "actual energy" was used instead of "kinetic energy" and opposed to "potential energy", as defined by Rankine in 1853). So "action", in the sense introduced by Maupertuis and used by everybody until the 20th century, meant integral of the kinetic energy (actually the living force was mv^2, so the double of the kinetic energy).

Hamilton has introduced a new physical quantity, never used by anyone before him, which he named just "function S". Unlike the principle of the minimum action, which is false except for certain restricted cases, Hamilton's variational principle about the "function S" is always true, including in relativistic mechanics and quantum mechanics.

Nowadays Hamilton's "function S" is usually called "Hamilton's action", because it has the same measurement unit like the traditional action, even if it is a different physical quantity. "Hamilton's" is frequently dropped, which does not cause much ambiguity, because now the traditional "action" is seldom mentioned.

Nevertheless, whenever history is discussed, a very clear distinction between "action" and Hamilton's "function S" must be maintained, otherwise it is impossible to understand the evolution of physics.

Hamilton has discovered his function S by starting from the system of equations of Lagrange and finding a way to deduce them from a simpler principle.

It is a little weird that even if Lagrange had discovered when young, together with Euler, the Euler-Lagrange equations for variational problems, many years later, when he has written his works about mechanics, he has never attempted to use any variational techniques in the formulation of his equations of dynamics (and he dismissed the principle of the minimum action as seldom applicable), so this relationship has been discovered only later, by Hamilton. While Lagrange has been the first who has used correct definitions for the kinetic energy and the potential energy, he has named them just "fonction T" and "fonction V", similarly to Hamilton's use of just "function S".
Pasted your comment in ChatGPT Plus, it did a search and found the link

https://www.remote.org/frederik/projects/railserver/history....

I think it got relatively lucky with the query, since tried a few variations, you.com and Perplexity and they all failed to find it.
Years back, there was a CDROM drive I really needed to work at the moment, but it was jammed shut. I could hear it trying to open, and failing.

I reasoned that the motor holding it shut had mostly failed in some way, but could still exert some force. So I popped the cover off the drive, took out the magnet that holds it shut, cooked it on a gas stove for a few seconds, and put it back in.

Th Curie temperature for a neodymium magnet is a few hundred of degrees, but practically speaking, they will lose a lot of magnetism even at lower temperatures. Popped it back in and the drive worked for another year or so.
Got my first computer with a modem in my bedroom when I was 14 in 1997. Meaning, I explored the emerging internet unsupervised. Of course, I watched a lot of porn.

I'm 40 now and still occasionally watch porn. Maybe once a month. So definitely not addicted. Also, I didn't even develop any kinks.
Gosh this story makes me lament the state of our field.

If the current gen of devs were to build this, it would all be done "on the cloud" where they can just throw compute at the problem, and as long as the cost was less than 5$ per month they wouldn't care. That's the problem of the product managers, marketing execs and VCs.
Just a packet of preservatives with some pork flavoring. Truly sad.
I was ready to move. You need an invite? I don't have an invite. Really? Yes. Here's my middle finger. Twitter/X for life!!
I'm in London, and next day delivery is the norm, with same day delivery increasingly common. Two day delivery is in the "why am I even bothering with Amazon" territory.

Our Amazon delivery people regularly drop off 4-5 orders with neighbours before they get back in their car...
I know in France this system have been used by Decathlon (which is a really appreciated chain store of sports equipment) for multiple years.

I’m not sure if they developed it themselves (I know they do have some tech team but I don’t know if they have the capacity to develop hardware) or if it’s an off the shelf solution. It’s also possible that the needed hardware parts were already available and that they developed the software and the chassis.

And yes this tech is like magic, you just throw all your stuff in the bin and boom, you pay.

I also suspect that it only works for baskets that are not too dense (so clothes and sport equipment are ok) because otherwise we would have this in every grocery store since the gain in time is tremendous even compared to self-scan cashiers. It’s basically longer to scan your loyalty card and to contactless pay than to scan your 25 articles.

Or maybe it’s just the cost of RFID tags that prevents this to happen because at the end of the day, queues at cashier are rarely a money bottleneck.
No, they said some.
That is a good story :) It makes me wonder what future Wayland protocol may enable clients/apps to advertise themselves as screen-reader capable.
Sometimes I think these „remastered“ releases are primarily done to tamper with copyright expiry.
It's not fixed and our chip wasn't designed with LLMs in mind. It's a general purpose, low latency, high throughput compute fabric. Our compiler toolchain is also general purpose and can compile arbitrary high performance numerical programs without the need for handwritten kernels. Because of the current importance of ML/AI we're focusing on PyTorch and ONNX models as input, but it really could be anything.

We can also deploy speech models like Whisper, for example, or image generation models. I don't know if we have any MOE architectures, but we'll be implementing Mixtral soon for sure!
Billionaires Need to Stop Trying to Make Science Fiction They Grew Up on Real
May have been updated since you read it but it does mention Cole Wehrle twice, albeit perhaps in less detail than you'd want?

> the success of An Infamous Traffic, a game by Cole Wehrle about the opium trade in China, allowed them both to go full time

> Escobedo, in turn, had learned about the company only because it had previously published a title by a big-time designer named Cole Wehrle
I’ve used this several times and every time it accidentally scanned items from the person next to me so it didn’t really impress me as much.