skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep the Apple USB-C to 3.5mm dongle is insanely good. Apart from looking like a ridiculous flimsy thing compared to chunky desktop amp/dac setups, it obviates a good chunk of the mid-fi market for a fraction of the price

Poorly matched output impedance is one place where headphone amps do have a place. For example when plugging headphones into a speaker amp / AV receiver, where the headphone jack connects to the amp with a resistor in series, the end result can be anywhere from a significant bass boost to just plain bad
Not that Wozniak.
Tit for tat works in BitTorrent since I already know what each chunk looks like (verifying it is just hashing it and comparing against the index in my .torrent file), bandwidth is interchangeable with bandwidth, and the local view of bandwidth accounting is all that matters to me. How you behave with other peers matters little when I know how you're behaving with me.

But as a consensus mechanism that doesn't work since we do have a global state we need to negotiate. Proof of work isn't about establishing trust, it's just about constraining the rate at which blocks can be added to the chain and for reconciling forks. The cost to verify the transactions in a block is minimal. Hashcash works because to solve an instance of it, m, a you have to find some n where H(m,n)<(1/difficulty), which takes a lot of time to try different values of n for a candidate payload m, but to verify it you just have to give me m and n and I only have to check the hash once. And the difficulty value is a dynamically adjusting parameter that keeps the network running at a consistent rate, indirectly being a spam prevention. It's not a mechanism to establish trust in (the blocks of) particular nodes.

NN inference doesn't work that way. To check that you ran an inference properly I have to do the inference myself too. (Ignoring advanced techniques that are more application-specific.). If we wanted to use it to establish trust, then a new peer that joins the network would have to redo all of the work that every peer they interact with has ever done, to determine the level of trust in it. Or if you wanted to build a consensus protocol with that trust primitive then you'd have to redo all the work everyone that's ever proposed a block has done. And that still doesn't do anything about ensuring the inference that these block producers are doing is actually useful to somebody.

Fwiw, I'm not trying to defend PoW here. I'm just trying to articulate why it's proved very difficult to find an alternative to hashcash that has the same set of properties it does, despite 10+ years of effort.
After using CHATgpt i want a phone whose interface is built around using CHATgpt. It can still have icons like an iPhone, but it's UI and focus is using Chat GPT (tho i use the PI app a bit more) to accomplish 50 to 70 percent of the things we already do on a phone via a text field or a voice assistant. It's responses would be via voice, text and graphical resprentations of the data and or task you requested.

I've been using it while driving and it's light years ahead of Siri & Google search result.. like drivng to get food I ask how much cholesterol in XYZ's chicken nuggets. It then proceeds to have a conversation with me about my health.

Maybe Microsoft is making such a phone now. I'd be the first to buy it.
Benchmarking 20 programming languages on N-queens and matrix multiplication
Also here's a fun little story I cooked up with AI: https://nsfwgod.com/history?historyID=b1089628-f2d5-4298-bbe...
If that's the definition of decentralized than isn't things like the fediverse and mastodon centralized?

Few entities partnering together centralizing their services....

I don't think it fits.
My question is always how much are the real effective costs monthly/annually? The numbers always seem wild and are frequently quoted in thousands annually, so when you read things like:
> “The amount of profit that they might be giving up [by capping costs] is relatively limited,”...

I am honest, I don't know what to believe, and I don't directly know anyone who uses insulin to even have any anecdota.

Tangent and I don't know how productive it is to discuss, does this have anything with the GLP-1s (Ozempic/Mounjaro et al.)?

The pressure is coming from legislation, and while there is no doubt lobbying going on, am I wrong that it doesn't feel like the same relentless pushback from the triumvirate? Is it just that there is critical mass to drive change, or is the bitter fight not worth it when they have potential weight management products applicable to a much wider audience?
The Freedom to Choose Medicine Is a Civil Right
For my use case, yes BLE is a hard requirement.

Their example of hijacking a BLE keyboard to get passwords seems a bit farcical. I would love to see a PoC of that attack. The API has been available in Chrome for quite a while. I don't think it has been a large attack vector.
https://iterm2.com/documentation-escape-codes.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26011198

Also, search Hacker News for the links above.
Shout out to Benatars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Never_to_Have_Been

Its always easy to feel bad about kids who need to grow up in todays world. I would recommend considering this before you misplace your birth control. People already do it with species appropriate living conditions for pets.

Edit: Pls dont take this as encouragement for suicide. Read the book, you already have sunken cost, you might as well stick around and enjoy it. Doesnt make procreating any less egoistic though.
People on food diets quit the unhealthy foods in a “cold turkey” way.

Many of us have no issue eating the occasional nacho or chocolate cake or drinking a coke here and there. Other people do have issues controlling their intake of these junk foods. I meant that people quit the junk food “cold turkey.”

So the digital analogue is quitting the “junk apps” in a cold turkey kind of way….
The mode that games don't make anymore because they want you to pay double, the split screen.
> Please, reach out to your congressperson and urge them to force the IRS to provide more clarity and guidance on this issue.

Good luck with that, considering that the vagueness and uncertainty is almost surely the purpose of such measures, rather than an unintended consequence.

Today's regulatory landscape operates not by prohibiting things (which would be open to legal and social challenges), but by making compliance prohibitively expensive, or outright impossible.
From the article it seems it's from self-imposed price caps.
I wonder how long they will be able to keep this up or if they will use this as a moral capital to spike the price (non pun intended) of other medications.

It seems to me the main problem in the US healthcare is not the question if it's public or not but its large insane costs. The fact that other countries produce the same drugs for a small fraction of the price, sometimes pennies, is very telling of how rotten and inefficient the whole system is.

Imagine the price of milk slowly increasing to $100 per gallon over decades, due to greed, regulations, price cartels and speculation, and nobody noticing to ask why. People would probably being to ration milk only for those who need it the most like mothers who can't breastfeed their babies and there would be political pressure to create public milk banks and milk insurance and other public mechanisms. But all of that political energy would not solve the root causes of the problem.
Settled law on HN. See:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Yeah! What about Ireland, are they not Anglospheric too?
Ironically enough here is a direct counter to that example(Uranus jokes in Astronomy) that I remembered reading here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38700841
There is more than one way to do it. If that workflow works for you, fine.

> I still struggle to see the value in rebasing. Maybe because I haven't used it extensively. Superficially, to me at least, it does the same as a "git push -f".

Rebasing is completely different from pushing. Rebasing changes your history. You can do whatever you want with your history: rebasing, creating personal branches and moving them around, etc... and no one will know. Only your pushes matter to the rest of the world, or alternatively when others pull from your repository. "git push -f" means you don't want to play along with whatever is in the repository you are pushing into, it is usually bad as it may desynchronize it from everyone else's fork. You absolutely don't need to do a "git push -f" with rebase, in fact you really shouldn't.

And none of your rules prevent rebasing. The commit/push often rule make the need for rebasing less likely, but if a dev did a rebase, no one will notice, it didn't leave his own machine. He mostly did that to make the commit he pushed less awkward.
Sigh.. you had one job. Just sit and watch.

This demands a double facepalm.

I can imagine modern audiences don't find theatre performances captivating. To be honest, neither do I (especially shakespeare without a modern twist to it). But just don't go if you can't be bothered watching... I wouldn't disrespect the audience or the other performers this way.
Loopholes exploit ambiguity or complexity in rules in ways that betray the authors’ intent. Following this definition, there’s no need to conclude that “100% of all income belongs to the government”.
And govt funding is probably a major chunk of the income as well (if it can be considered income and not just part of budget)
This is the timeline we're on. Ousting Eich directly led to our current Mozilla situation. He's not the only who could've ran it successfully. But we are where we are because people wanted him ousted and instead were ok with Mitchell Baker types. From a realist perspective that cares about actual outcomes, we are in the worse timeline with an incompetent Mozilla vs. whatever small negative affects Eich would affect in the grand scheme of Prop 8 related issues.
Elon Musk is not understood
You might want to read the summary for policy makers

https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/syr/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6...

Start with A: Observed Warming and its Causes and move onto b: B. Future Climate Change, Risks, and Long-Term Responses

C02 increases directly increase trapped solar heating.

There are other gases and other factors.

Re: GP comment

* Is Dutton making the claim that emissions are the cause now?

The journalist writing the Science article alludes to the fact that now (present time) Antartic sheet loss is being driven by warming oceans caused by greenhouse gas increases. With no quote marks it's unclear what Dutton had to say on this.

* I'll accept all of Dutton's claims, except that one; there is no basis for that claim.

It's not apparent that is a claim that Dutton made.

* Lower the chance of another collapse? By how much?

See IPCC reports.

* Would that have actually helped 100,000 years ago?

No. Actions taken today would not alter past history.

It's also not the case that ice sheet collapse 100K years ago was related to human or animal gas emissions, unlike today.

* I make the claim that Dutton is suffering from hubris.

You're free to do that. It's not a convincing claim.
How many people are going to bust out another camera to take a picture vs. hitting two buttons to take a screenshot?

There's a difference in scale.
'Free' for one application roadblock. Any additional blocks will cost you. Maybe that's a bigger deterrent than a few seconds?
Also the cornerstone of every strategy game that appeals to me.
Outright social media ban for under-18s. Or barring that, under-13s, and find a way to minimize harms for 13-18 year olds.
I’m shy about the deck because I love my switch and the deck looks so big and heavy. How do you find the comfort and ergonomics?
Thanks for your reply! I must admit that my comment was very much a cheeky one and in no way harboured any real criticism. In a world where literally every aspect of our being and behaviour is being exploited for some corporations financial gain (social media, life insurance, hft), a health app trying to take advantage of New Year’s resolutions does not at all deserve any judgement. In fact it’s almost refreshing. It’s cool to hear about those advancements in the US health system too, and it’s nice to see that you’re genuinely behind the product. I hope this post helped you guys out :)
For real. It's like if outlets were writing stories praising generous employers for paying the minimum wage permitted by law.

This 100% happened because of the Biden Administration got the Inflation Reduction Act passed, which has resulted in a cap on the price of insulin for Medicare beneficiaries by allowing the government to negotiate the price of certain drugs.
I worked in biophysics with molecules and I don't think we considered even our most carefully run experiments as demonstrating causation. Even in physics nearly everything is presented as a probabilistic claim.
https://app.codecrafters.io/catalog
not exactly a course but worth doing it
It basically destroyed me. I spent most of 2023 unemployed after being laid off in late 2022. I was working for a small SaaS company that went from ~100 to ~200 in the past couple years and than subsequently dumped the recently hired ~100 a year later.

Part of my problem was I really wanted to avoid moving and stay remote. That turned out to be impossible. I ended up taking a job and moving to place I don’t care for so far. I’m pretty sure I only got it because of a referral because I was less qualified for it than many of the roles I was getting rejected for.

My career was rotting anyway. I’m not going to waste time typing out an essay, but I’m pretty sure I’ve hit my peak pretty early and there’s not much left for me to do (or that I care to do). I still had some ounce of ambition prior to the layoff, but that’s gone now. I just feel defeated. I was actually planning to leave the industry prior to the layoff, but that won’t happen now.
What's that supposed to mean? Playing the game for a few minutes is fun, then writing a bot gives you another bout of fun.
Platformer announces it's leaving Substack
deep reinforcement learning guy here. Youre looking at coding up double dqn, and probably training it for about 5 to 30 minutes. Very likely it would not outperform a simple near perfect algorithm, and would fail in some weird ways that would annoy you a few tens of thousands of times. Youd have issues like it refusing to go left, ever, after dying. So youd need to know about epsilon then epsilon decay etc.

Coding that from nothing (and understanding it) could take days. Weeks to months if you dont know ml stuff.

In this particular case I think basic Q Tabular Learning could play optimally, no neural net required.

I could be wrong though, throw a full conv at it without temporal difference and see what happens! (probably a kinda okayish score)
> suicide attempts seem as valid a proxy as suicides.

In a sense they're inversely correlated, since if at first you succeed, you'll never attempt again.

Unless you're specifically controlling for that by not counting subsequent attempts by the same person.
> 3. ... people don't give a shit about male suicide rates; the general response is "they deserve it,"

Yes, for decades this attitude has been caricatured by the fake-but-entirely-too-plausible news headline "Male suicide rate increasing; women most affected". Something I would expect to see in the Guardian if not elsewhere.
I'm saying that the implied conclusions you read from just the headline, is not what the majority of people in this thread (including me) read. I sincerely doubt there's a hidden agenda here. Male suicides are not less important, and not ignored in neither the article nor headline.

Perhaps you're looking for some agenda, and perhaps that does exist in other places on the internet (apparently you read things you don't approve on on mastodon?). Whatever conclusions you drew from that, this article and title just doesn't seem like a good example of that and probably the wrong thing to get upset about.

In my opinion it's a good article and the title is both accurate and highlights the most significant conclusion.
Are you saying that attempting suicide, potentially multiple times, is not a sign of genuine despair? What would you consider a “genuine” enough sign of despair?

You start by saying that men have a harder time getting sympathy, and then minimize the same issue for women by implying that women who attempt suicide aren’t “trying” as hard and they don’t feel ‘actual’ distress but rather they are being manipulative.

There are a lot of ways to get attention, which is a totally normal thing for humans to want, and if someone is that desperate for it I think it’s safer to go ahead and assume it’s because they are actually unhappy and it’s worth addressing rather than calling them a liar?
Too many technical people talk without being capable of generating revenue.

Instead of developing that finance capability lets cry about how others are supposed to raise funds and hand it to us. Its pure nonsense.

Tech folk who get into details of raising cash are the only ones who have impact. The rest are useless loudmouths.
It isn’t the same drug as 100 years ago. The 100 year old insulin is long off patent and cheap.
Yeah fuck people and their work and aspirations, we could make money instead /s
What do you think about ARC browser?
I believe they have different panels with different methodologies, but this is how it was for me in the mid 2010s.
Flashpoint Archive
> I'm hearing lots of stories of companies laying people off and then there are new openings very similar to the position that was let go

I haven’t seen much of this, but I’m constantly getting notifications about jobs I was reject for months ago being reposted. I’m not sure if it’s resume fishing or if company’s have delusional standards. And I’m not talking about too their tech companies either.
Compare https://www.ruf.rice.edu/~kemmer/Words/parsing.html

Parsing has been used to describe the human activity of puzzling out meaning from a string of symbols for longer than electronic computers have been around.
You are speaking about different objectives. Quite apart from the basic "(how) does it work logically" which published formulas address, simplicity can be an objective in itself.

For example, Germany has one of the most complex income tax codes in the world, with an average compliance burden of 136 hours[1]. That's a hit to national competitiveness and GDP, and worth addressing in its own right.

[1] https://taxfoundation.org/blog/germany-tax-g7/
If you were asking in good faith, you wouldn't have said "Slowlaris".
>If prices come down, and if it can be deployed widely enough

Drilling deep holes is expensive, prices are unlikely to come down much. Steam generators are expensive too.
Increasingly engrossing but alienating forms of digital interconnection: first the internet in general, then facebook, then instagram, now tiktok.
“Sanofi is joining the nation’s two other major insulin manufacturers in offering either price caps or savings programs that lower the cost of the drugs to $35 for many patients”

Amazing how they manage to not mention that was forced by the Biden administration.
Does the widespread cooling of the planets interior have any possible consequences?
I am not convinced one very detailed spec describing such details you mention even exists. I guess if vim, emacs, and less work correctly you are close to done. Screen and tmux are others coming to mind.

All of them are open source, why don't you check how they end up emitting escape sequences? My guess would be through abstraction via something like terminfo/termcap. Ncurses might be another place to look at.

Don't forget about dynamic resizing from day one. That won't be mentioned in old documents from the VT100 times. Don't remember which VT was the first one that could be switch to 132(?) characters a line.
I would like to point out that you can only attempt once if you "succeed". Attempts recount the same individuals suffering.
"Gender suicide gap narrows"
> But over the years they’ve spent money on an email client basically no one uses, trying to make a social network, trying to make a phone operating system, and who knows what else. Just huge amounts of money going to what often looks like a complete fools errand. I understand Thunderbird but a phone OS?

Keep in mind that both Firefox and Thunderbird started life as an evolution of the original “Mozilla Suite” which itself was an evolution of Netscape Communicator, which included a browser and an email client. So originally both were part of the core mission of Mozilla.

Thunderbird failed to gain much traction though and it was later spun off — it is now developed by a separate company (a Mozilla subsidiary).

> but a phone OS?

Yes, this does not make much sense to me either.
> The pressure is coming from legislation, and while there is no doubt lobbying going on, am I wrong that it doesn't feel like the same relentless pushback from the triumvirate?

part of it is because medicare has to cap it because of biden. the other part is that california said "screw it we'll manufacture it and sell it at that price" so they didn't want to lose all money from the 6th largest economy in the world with the highest population in the us states.

> Is it just that there is critical mass to drive change

kinda if you count california
Or, better, make them function as is the norm for every other game.
Am I reading the new users graph correctly ?
Hackernews got 64K new users in 2023?

What is the DAU/MAU If anyone knows
Having just fought a vendor for months to cancel a service - how do others not realize that long term the apple approach that builds trust will actually pay off?

We had three people working to get cancellation done. Customer service / billing / tickets / emails and more. It was ridiculous. The only person who could cancel was a salesperson we’d never worked with who would NOT respond to calls and emails. And we pay this vendor 75,000+!

Every time windows pro jams “search suggestions” and other crap in via notifications and elsewhere I just roll my eyes
I don't think I'm the intended audience for this. I don't particularly want to build the foundations of tomorrow. I want to enjoy a comfortable life with my family. If I get to write some fun software along the way then that's cool too, but certainly a distant second place.
> From the article it seems it's from self-imposed price caps.

It does. Except it happened because the Biden administration forced them with threats. This was not done out of any kind of kindness.
SEEKING WORK | Remote | US Citizen

Looking for computer vision work, specifically multi-view stereo projects: camera calibration, SfM, scene reconstruction, 3D object triangulation, 3D multi-object tracking. 2D problems, video processing. I mostly work in Python and C++, but the stack is not super important to me.
I have 13 years of experience as a software engineer, several doing computer vision. Self-directed, I do not require a lot of management. I go the extra mile producing technical notes, reports, visualizations, etc. to help communicate my results. References available upon request.

RECENT PROJECTS

Video auto-cropping

- Prioritize between competing subjects in video

- Create smooth panning crop-out region for each subject

- Naturally transition focus between different subjects
Real-time soccer markerless motion capture

- Camera calibration (20+ cameras)

- Calibration refinement and camera drift maintenance

- 3D object triangulation from multi-view 2D object detection

- 3D human pose reconstruction from 2D pose estimations

- 3D multi-object tracking

- Real-time pipeline (60 Hz)

CONTACT

email work at zacstewart dot com

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I’m also at WACV this week if anyone wants to connect in person.