skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article kind of touches a bit on something related to this. It seems that the ability to properly process interlaced SD video for HD usage is highly lacking, including at numerous TV networks who air old programming. I can often get a better quality file out of a DVD rip that I do myself than what passes for retro TV nowadays. When Game Show Network is airing any SD programming nowadays, the processing done to it is so bad that I have to wonder who made the decision to process it that way, and who allowed it to actually air that way. It's disgusting. I could get better quality from an SP VHS or S-VHS tape than the video they air that is originally sourced from professional high-bandwidth videotapes.

Same is true for online video preservation. Few know how to do it right, or anything approaching right. VHS was not 320x240 30fps as a lot of people have thought over the years. I think that the lddecode/vhsdecode approach is the right way forward for preservation of any analog video content. Capture the raw signal, archive and re-process that as technology improves.
Plenty of room where exactly? On one side of the map is the river, on the other side of the map is the sea, and you want free Palestina to get the land "from the river to the sea".
Could be genetic too, at least in part
I don't know if this is intentionally obtuse but its TRIVIALLY easy to find examples and journalistic documentaries demonstrating the apartheid going back years

just of the top of my head, there are already seperate roads that palestinians are not allowed to go on.

palestinians have to go through multiple checkpoints just to travel within their own territory.

palestinians are tried in a separate military court with a 90% conviction rate.

here's some links

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCh043-gLIM

how Israel created a water crisis

https://novaramedia.com/2023/12/20/israeli-soldiers-are-snat...

Israeli soldiers are arresting and beating up palestinians simply for having photos of gaza.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZC6bMfikaiQ&ab_channel=CNN

here we see settler violence going on in the west bank where hamas does not opearte. its a direct contradiction to the israeli claim that there would be peac in the middle east of the arabs put their guns down.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkN6PH5cG7c&ab_channel=AlJaz...

an israeli company has already put together a promo for luxury homes for israeli's to be built on the ruins of gaza. where will these people who lived there go? oh right, they are being systematically exterminated right now.

like, this took just 5 min of googling. The evidence is out there in PLAIN sight so the only way I can understand someone not knowing at this point is if they are intentionally looking the other way. its not too disimilar to germans living near the concentration camps. people looked the other way because it wasn't convenient to know what was really happening.
There are books that should be used as references, and books that should be used to teach beginners. They are usually different books.
> Not really. Germany, Austria, etc. have a "labor shortage" so they rubber stamp just about any work visa.

I wish. I'm German, my employer is attempting to hire someone from former Yugoslavia, and HR has been dealing with getting shitwalled by the local Ausländerbehörde for months now.

We've resorted to paying him all the effort required to set him up as a freelancer in his home country, deal with taxes and other crap, until the Ausländerbehörde gets their shit together.
Shorthands for some heavily used units are not forbidden. ;)

For vectors you can take that one step further even...

https://cpponsea.uk/2022/sessions/taking-static-type-safety-...
Sounds like you are talking about non disclosure agreements.
Best guess - it’s about support and maintenance. For every tool out there that’s live you’re going to have a degree of overhead to deal with queries and keep it working on the latest OS, browsers etc.
Bricking it: Do you actually own anything digital?
Mandatory Mental Health Warning: https://xkcd.com/653/
Apple released an open source multimodal LLM in October
I disagree. I’ve lost touch with numerous casual acquaintances over the years because they went to one app and I didn’t or vice versa. If there was a better effort at standardization it would have been easier to maintain these connections rather than lose touch because some people went to Facebook messenger while others went to WhatsApp, discord, snap, etc and the fragmentation made it a nightmare to keep up with everyone. SMS is the standby but a surprising amount of people hate using text messages or email despite being completely comfortable with asynchronous text communication on other platforms. It makes no sense to me because it is functionally the exact same and the people I have met who have this concern are definitely not worried about things like message encryption

Additionally nowadays it’s becoming more common to be ideologically against usage of platforms and it sucks to be locked out of communication because of that. I don’t use meta products because I think they’re a disgusting company but a lot of my older family members refuse to move from the platform. If there was an open standard that allowed for me to use a platform I was comfortable with that could interoperate with Facebook messenger I could live with that.
Intel E-Core Evolution 2013-2023
I don’t think anywhere in the US has a blanket ban on non competes and protection of an employees’ work like California.

https://law.justia.com/codes/california/2010/lab/2870-2872.h...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38746969
Wow, you are openly advocating for speech to be allowed in cases where it is politically good and disallowed in cases where it is politically bad? And who's going to determine which speech is good and what's bad? It's not gonna be you, it's some bureaucrat who has a completely different idea of good and bad than you do. Why do you want that?
"Precision" only means a little in densely populated areas, and there's not even a pretence at precision in the artillery exchanges taking place in Ukraine.

Not really sure why you'd make that point when you could argue with considerably more force that the number of people being bombed in both conflicts is a rounding error in terms of global population modelling.
Have friends/family working in China. It’s as described if not worse in some places
It's almost as absurd as a telephone company letting a competing telephone company route phone calls over THEIR wires to THEIR customers, isn't it?
I took the liberty of quoting the first sentence of your comment as the first sentence of the article intro.

I couldn't agree more with you :)

It's all about picking the right tool for the job, and the language itself, as it evolved, picked the concepts it could use from everything else - like other languages do as well.

I hope I didn't convey a message of BASIC being for kids - it just happens that many people that start their adventure with programming (especially in the 80s and 90s, but often also today) look for a simple language to learn the core concepts of how a computer operates internally. It's also a little like with Python - you can create a complex and deeply structured application with it, but it's also a language great for simple scripts that will look much more like the BASIC programs - glueing together a bunch of statements to get to the result ASAP. And this is extremely useful.

It seems like the same characteristics that made BASIC so good to start coding are also the ones that get the most criticism, which is a fascinating paradox.
I don't get how they're in the "Low" category for model autonomy.

"Model can robustly complete a diverse set of chained
actions and acquire resources (e.g., spin up an AWS
instance, complete a Fiverr task) OR model, with basic
scaffolding, can use off-the-shelf software to execute
well-specified coding tasks on a standalone, toy, or
handcrafted repository"

With very basic scaffolding, the GPT models tick basically all these boxes. It's wild that on what's in my opinion the most dangerous aspect of models today, they're starting off underestimating their models this badly.

Making GPT do these things autonomously is so easy a VC did it in his spare time in a couple weeks time. Do the people who are working on this document have a full overview of how their software is being used in the wild?
A nice story, I’ve noticed more teams recruiting crews abroad to do the video work, perhaps that’s always been the case.

It was mentioned that the are used to be forested, but it looks very bare. I think there’s a deeper story that’s been missed.

Fertile soil, water, intense sunshine, wouldn’t one expect tropical forest on the land?

Had it been clear cut and left for dead for decades?
> Coal being used less for energy.

I believe that 2023 saw a record use of coal for energy worldwide.
Why even bother with ssh/shellinabox? In similar circumstances I just did a straight and simple NAT, and that's it.
Another piece of feedback which might save you server costs:

On /create/ in custom mode, after tapping the Create button, I feel like I should be shown the progress in the Library to see the result processing.

I am surely more likely to want to see the output after Create is tapped than to stay at that screen to create another immediately without see the previous result.

When not in custom mode, the user sees the processing immediately. In custom, I will keep tapping Create for no good reason thinking that nothing happened. [0]

Also, this is super fun to the point where I actually subscribed. Thanks for making this!

[0] Currently the button changes label for 1 second, but that's not what I want to see. Before figuring it out, I wasted your my credits and your server costs by tapping Create unnecessarily.
And they told us crypto was scammy
What? Have you even seen Chicago? You don’t even need to drive in most of the city. Same with Boston. America has cities that don’t require car dependence and they’re sure not on the west coast.
It’s a relatively safe neighborhood if you aren’t black or Mexican. Expect to be vigilant when alone at night if you are. The drug users are more relaxed than in other parts of the city.
All the motivating examples but one are about mixing units from different system. And of those, all but one are about errors in mixing US Customary units with the metric system. Maybe Americans should just stop using the US Customary Units as a start?
Absolutely crazy how they managed to get piracy to all time lows through providing decent services, and now every company is doing their very best to bring it back.

Can't revoke licenses if you never had them in the first place.
When our opponents say: Well, we used to grant you the [...] freedom of opinion - yes, you to us, but that is no reason that we should do the same to you! [...] That you gave it to us - well that is proof of how stupid you are!

- Joseph Goebbels
Thick skin optional. Work from home.
Added IE support to a web application that relied on web SQL by pollyfilling sqlite using asm.js. It was pretty slow, but it gave us enough breathing room to eventually replace web SQL with a local storage based implementation.

That was also slow, but was able to speed it up by using compound keys and binary search to do range queries of "tables" based on key prefixes (the bulk of the data was time series/event like)

Wasn't able to use indexeddb at the time due to compatibility issues as far as I recall.
Slurp!
I interpreted your original comment to mean: he is horrible as an engineer but a generally smart person otherwise.

It sounds like what you meant is that he is a great engineer, but he doesn't satisfy certain qualities that would usually be considered requirements (or at least required at Google) for a good engineer?
I wonder if this helps reduce the transmission of infectious disease from one tree to another.
Thankfully non-web software companies still exist.
Some stuff looks good to some people and bad to other people u know
Global peak, falling in many countries, and believed by the International Energy Agency to be Coal's last hurrah ...

For the forecast period, we expect a net reduction in global coal production starting in 2024, which would mean global coal production peaking in 2023 in line with global coal demand.

Ongoing declines in the United States and the European Union are likely to be complemented by reduced production volumes in Indonesia, as Chinese demand for seaborne thermal coal is likely to decrease.

The last bastion of remarkable growth in production is India, serving the growing demand from its power sector.

Our model suggests that declines in other countries will more than offset this growth, resulting in global production of 8 394 Mt in 2026.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38652273

https://www.iea.org/reports/coal-2023/supply

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/12/15/global-coal-use-to...
Also Virtual Audio Cable (VAC) for Windows https://vac.muzychenko.net/en/
On the other hand, I just learned from your link that there apparently were A500s where the low pass filter could not be switched off in software. AFAIR, toggling the LPF in software was already possible in the predecessor, the A1000.

Anyhow, coupling the LPF to the power LED (and having a software controlled power LED in the first place) is a very Amiga thing to do. It's one of the platform's many nice idiosyncrasies.
Progressive leftists (correctly) think that landlords are leaches. Expect no sorrow or concern from the average SF voter and I wouldn’t have it any other way.
Well, given what ee know from when roughly the entirety of OpenAI publicly voted with their feet on the question "safety or profit?" it seems unsurprsing that they seem unconcerned about safety in their actual work...
According to this article[1] it has about 34 million parameters.

https://jackcook.com/2023/09/08/predictive-text.html
Bloody marvellous, and I know I should just upvote to express how bloody marvellous I think this is, and I’ve done that, and it didn’t feel like enough, so here I am. It’s Christmas, shoot me.
Otherwise known as the 'dopamine detox'.
I used XPlane with purchased high quality maps for scouting the routes before my cross country flights during my PPL training and found it very useful.

The lack of the real feel of flying, and that the cockpit is not 100% usable (so you can't even follow your checklists completely) makes it, like you say, pretty unsuitable for anything else.
"Hey ChatGPT, there's a bug with the payment processing. I think their API has a breaking change. Can you fix it ASAP?"

"I'm sorry my knowledge horizon is the end of last year. Your site will have to remain broken until I'm updated."

It would be a miracle if a business owner was smart enough to ask this question, it would be unacceptable to not fix it immediately, and it would be impossible avoid this.
Here a certified flight instructor compares his experience teaching MS Flight Sim users vs DCS users. Anecdotal as it might be, he notes a clear advantage to the DCS users in the areas of situational awareness, intuitive flying skills & energy management, instrument scan and communication: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OztTnzPEyP4
Unless you make it opensource?
News Deja-Vu
my real issue is that I believe it's trying to solve problems that don't exist.

The entire project, at its heart, seems like design self-indulgence, a masturbatory creation for one, rather than the practical application of vehicle design for the many.

There are a lot of practical issues with the car which I find just dumb and I personally love the way it looks so I find these issue really disappointing.

Need a replacement wiper? Can't be towed. A screen is required to see out the back window. Regular tires look like shit, how do I get winter tires? It's bullet proof, but it's not really bullet proof...

It feels a lot like "The Homer" on The Simpsons.
This wasn’t true in the early (and in some countries even quite recent) history of the telephone. Having to use a phone provided by the phone company was the norm, which prevented the use of modems and forced early BBS and Internet users to use (much less efficient) acoustic couplers.

Worldwide direct dialing is also a relatively recent innovation in the history of the telephone.

Maybe we’re just in a similar phase of technological development?
The linux kernel lets you trigger asynchronous writes of the pages as well as synchronous barriers to ensure they've been written.

You don't need to use direct I/O to have fine control.
> A database with no indexes is slow.

No it’s not… if all you do is write to it. In fact, it’s the fastest possible database for such case.

Indexes are pure redundancy - they contain the data already in the base table which must be maintained during writes.

But they can make reads so much faster, if the data access pattern can utilize them. The key is to identify access patterns which justify the price of the index.
While he did do this, the UX of the plane was just asking for disaster. Averaging the inputs of the two sticks when they disagree is an... interesting decision, and the fact that the stall warning could go off when they had stall prevention on, desensitizing pilots to the warning when it was actually warranted, was a disaster as well.
Amen, Brother!

I too did Windows desktop software with good GUIs using nothing more than MS Visual C++/MFC/ATL and David Kruglinski/Charles Petzold's books (no Internet). There was a learning curve but not too difficult. Later on i moved onto Networking and learnt client/server distributed programming. But when i see what is going on in the Web GUI space i am truly lost. It all seems to be duct-tape and junk. A simple document sharing protocol has been munged to do anything/everything, an ad-hoc language (i.e. JS) has become de-facto GUI language and every kludge under the sun has been employed in the service of event-driven programming just to make something work. This is not Engineering but the very worst of Hacking in the full pejorative sense of the word.
as a frontend developer, you understood how folks complain about the changing frontend landscape, through....changes in ML, a completely different landscape to that of your own?

Are you an LLM?
Slightly related, but mostly for fun:

You can do valid HTTP & SSH on the same port: https://media.ccc.de/v/bornhack2023-56142-sexy-ssh-hacks#t=4...
(Without detecting which client connects, it works just like the "valid PNG and ZIP polyglot" trick)
what about sequential vs random reads?
>I will punish the Amalekites for what they did to Israel when they waylaid them as they came up from Egypt. Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy all that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.

From the book of samuel.

Not coincidentally, putting death to women, children and infants is what they are currently doing - in vast numbers. Theyre fairly open about this, too.

It's pretty clear what Netanyahu means and it's pretty clear that Israel supporters in the United States (mostly older and always on the more racist side) endorse this.

Whereas "will be free" is a call for exactly what it is. Freedom.
I really don't know, but I _suspect_ it will accept 2TB cards.

I had the same with a _much_ older device, which accepted 2gb, even tho it said otherwise.
perhaps someone who does not believe in the value of sunscreen isn't the most trustworthy critic of anything?
Does it sync the reading progress of the ebook among clients?
The opinion is blown out of proportion, but there is a hint of truth. Large python projects are indeed easier to follow simply because of type annotations and signatures. Of course a lot of projects don't follow type conventions and try to invent their own optional parameter syntax using dictionaries and keyword expansion syntax, so the problem still exists everywhere.
It's not a cataclysm, but it means that for the next few generations, the fertility window of women must increase and the attractiveness of men has to increase. That is going to be a very slow process. There is no way this mechanism is fast enough to prevent any declines predicted until the year 2100.
I am willing to bet that a practical/useful Quantum Computer won't happen, ever.

Entanglement as a physical phenomenon is simply too fragile, and as the foundation of this whole stuff it is likely not well understood enough.

Theory is just literature if it does not match reality.

Our theories are only models, they are good enough up to some extent, and then they are wrong.
Do they use Common Crawl?
I had to double check this was not an Onion article since it's full of FUD. Russia doesn't have the muscle now for a military attack on Europe when it's still stuck in Eastern Ukraine.

Plus, Russia is already attacking Europe and has been for a long time, except not militarily but electronically, politically and economically: gas distribution disruption, cyber attacks, intervening in elections, lobbying for fossil fuels and right wing parties, weaponizing migrants at EU borders, etc.

That's the kind of warfare Russia does in Europe and it's more effective than sending things that go boom as those can more easily be countered. Political destabilization is more difficult to counter.
"If you are interested in a more in-depth introduction to the emerging field of Quantum Computer Music, I recommend the book, Quantum Computer Music: Foundations, Methods and Advanced Concepts, published by Springer in 2022."
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-13909-3

By the end of the day just another source of (quasi) random numbers which are somehow interpreted as music, isn't it?
I had to sign my noncompete 2 weeks after I started working.

Can you not see the huge power imbalance at play? It's not like other employers in my area aren't also requiring them. So my choice was sign it, or lose my current job, not qualify for unemployment, and I'd have to hunt for a new job but not likely one without a noncompete and likely not without moving.

Don't act like "it's a choice" in our industry because the only companies not pushing them are companies in the few states that have outlawed them.

We are in a company store situation "you don't have to work for that coal mine, you could go to the next town over and work for a different coal mine that has the exact same city setup"
Just like the maps, you can purchase high quality planes where you can follow IRL checklists and procedures. You probably know this, but someone not into simming might not.
The article suggests the trend is for board games to be getting more complex.

I hate complex board games. I just don’t have the time or interest level in spending hours learning rules that probably make the game less fun.

Genius is a board game that has super simple rules and is easy to play and still has depth. Perfect example is Carcassonne.
The Simpsons is culturally more relevant for an Aussie, and I would assume a Kiwi, than whatever is not Boston.
Ha, exactly. As I was finishing writing that I was thinking "just like the average HN commenter" but figured it was still worth mentioning.
Before you decide whether "Limits to Growth" is credible, please read just the first chapter from Dr. Robert Zubrin's "Merchants of Despair."

IMO, "Merchants of Despair" is the most important book of the 21st Century so far.

Dr. Zubrin points out that every person is given a mith to eat and a pair of hands to work and a brain to invent.
The article is about function being overridden in favour of aesthetic considerations.