skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Trump ordered to pay New York Times, three reporters nearly $400k in legal costs
No one's provided evidence for the "destroyed hospital" that jcranmer claimed a "coterie of journalists" were invited to.
Thanks for this. I've got a dx9 I paid very little for and the lack of velocity sensitivity has always annoyed me about it. I shall give the firmware a go!
> how are you able to speak?

How are you able to walk? You don’t think about every muscle contraction.

Speaking, writing, drawing and walking are all about the same to me.

(I also have no inner voice and aphantasia)
I got slightly irritated by the "Good afternoon!" message earlier today. Especially because I had already used Alexa a few times before it did that.
Ah, entirely fair point! :) Sorry about that.
I am unfamiliar with low-level workings like this, so forgive me if I'm talking out of my ass, but received wisdom from places like KVR Audio suggests that on modern machines, fixed point decimal math tends to be slower than just using floats because the integer registers are already clogged with routine operations like incrementing loops, etc. But some claim that anything that needs a phase accumulator as a wavetable index, like FM, still benefits from being kept as integers due to the expense of converting a floating point accumulator to an int address. FM doesn't have much arithmetic relative to its reads.

I wonder how true this still is. I've been having fun simply assuming it is, and these teardown articles and the other HN discussions around them have been very helpful.
I wouldn't really base my safety on a simple shallow metric like amount of time passing.
I think this is more of an organisational thing, as well as likely your team within the organisation
This thread is simply interesting and fun
Another really easy non technical mitigation is to simply region lock China! Fun fact: if you just lock away China away from literally everyone else, your main game will lose most of the cheaters just like that.
Useless Use of cat Award (2000)
Tachiyomi[0] is a FOSS comic reader app for Android which has support for extensions to source comics from different sites which are unrelated to Tachiyomi

Tachiyomi already removed their extension list which contained both unofficial and official sources for comics[1]

[0] https://github.com/tachiyomiorg/tachiyomi

[1] https://tachiyomi.org/news/2024-01-09-extensions-removal
Yep. I'm convinced that anyone complaining about this has never used the feature. Context on how this misinformation started on the Facebook pages of police departments: https://www.macrumors.com/2023/11/27/ios-17-namedrop-misinfo...

Some day I'd like to use an LLM to read every user's comments on websites like this and automatically tag the users that fell for similar fake stories. That way I can avoid wasting time researching their claims
Why does the title omit the program beng studied. It easily fits within the 70 character limit.

Correct title is:

CLI User Experience Case Study: Topiary
There's a zip file here with the Casio SK-1 ROM: https://dbwbp.com/index.php/9-misc/37-synth-eprom-dumps

Maybe this could help. Is there some mask ROM on the CPU that isn't included here?
The fiction writer Brian Aldiss was quoted as saying “Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.”

We are Neolithic animals with miraculous technology and far too little time to evolve at the same pace.

Homo homini lupus.
LAN games I used to play in had a cinderblock security system, in which if a player was cheating, someone would get up, lift, and throw a cinderblock at them or their PC.
Yeah, but it's not necessarily just an on/off thing, but that Windows and Mac have different curves, so if you're transitioning, it can be a very jarring experience.

Depending on the game, too, some will use your OS inputs (with your acceleration settings) while others will try to read the raw mouse input and try to impose their own acceleration curves.

Anyway, it's not the end of the world, just one more thing to deal with when trying to play PC games on a Mac.
Many people use vpn openly in china for business and gaming. Its sort of allowed. Source : my Chinese mates
Except this reason was most likely a fabrication due to the fact that they never communicated performance issues in the past.

Cloudflare lied. It’s plain and simple.
I can't quite tell in what sense you mean this- whataboutist? defeatist? something else?

Anyway, we should all be part of the solution, and also work on convincing the worst polluters to join us. In fact, doing the former would help with accomplishing the latter.
Yes, because companies need labor. They aren't going to willingly crash their growth if the economy is booming and other industries are growing, because that will destroy themselves. It is insanely better to shed labor when the economy is poor than when the economy is great.

When you shed labor during poor economic conditions, it is not collusion, even if they, hypothetically, "colluded" to do it.

When a bunch of people see that a stock is crashing and decide to pull out together, it is not stock manipulation. It is a rational decision. (And don't nitpick the analogy on things like "buy low sell high", you probably understand the point I'm making.)
Like our PhD project for example, we're doing machine learning on special forces selection in the Netherlands (for details, see [1]). The aim is basically just to reduce costs for the military and disappointment for the recruits. Furthermore, we hope to learn more about how very capable individuals can be detected early. This is a topic that is useful for many more situations than just the military.

[1]: https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/s6j3r
I've been using (and paying!) https://simpl.fyi/ for a few years now and it makes up for missing inbox for me. It was founded by the design lead for Inbox. Highly recommend if you use a Chromium-based browser.
Ask HN: How can achieve this with JavaScript?
at the top of the page of this website https://refrakt.app/about, when moving the cursor the images will follow with little translation how can i achieve this with javascript please
Wrecksite – The Largest Online Database of Shipwrecks
Computers are nice. The issue lies with the kind of software that are being developed. I have a Kobo device that I put koreader on and it's miles better than the default one because it's actually let you read books how you want to read them. Most of the apps I have focus on being the tools for the use cases I have them for (which is why they are still installed) instead on trying to get in my way every now and then. I love nice visuals and other UX niceties, but I like usefulness more than anything. Some days, I'm really close getting back to my Arch installation. I'd prefer the glitches and do patches instead of suffering another enshitification.
Seems one of the former senior executives of Fujitsu now runs a gov't agency that handles contracts to digital services vendors like...Fujitsu.

Not sure how the legal authorities work in the UK but people have to be held accountable, regardless of political party. One would think the government's legal authorities have to act on behalf of the citizens not just in holding persons criminally responsible but also compensating victims.

https://democracyforsale.substack.com/p/tory-donor-fujitsu-p...
Seconded.

Especially since you're a veteran, look at government (and in particular DoD) contractors. The pace is slower and as an SME you could contribute in many areas.
I can't tell the last 3 companies I worked for apart. It seems like a large percentage of companies today operate the same way. "Agile with 2 week sprints" never ending death march.
Also dogs aren't great for bird populations. Especially here in NZ where we have some flightless birds. I would even argue that dogs are a bigger issue here. At least around where I live, a large majority of people own at least 1 dog and often go walking with them in native reserves, often ignoring on-lead or no dog rules.
I edited my post to say "more like" a DX7. Unfortunately velocity sensitivity can't be added because the physical keyboard doesn't support it. The firmware does add velocity sensitivity to incoming MIDI data though!
I’ve had some success scaling a quick and dirty engine (that powers findsight.ai) to tens of millions of vectors, details in the talk here: https://youtu.be/elNrRU12xRc?t=1556

That’s maybe 1kLOC so I didn’t need an external one after all.
You need 60% in the senate to get anything passed. There have been many cases where one party controlled all three but couldnt accomplish much due to the filibuster. Famously Obama's first couple years.
According to Singular's website, the biz "develops and licenses hardware and software technologies for high-performance energy-efficient computing, both large scale and embedded."

Sounds like a patent troll.
>The Ouroborous-3 uses high-density polyethylene plastic tubing as its autophagic fuel source, burning it alongside the rocket’s mix of gaseous oxygen and liquid propane.

Bonus points for naming.
Having admins is the best way of ensuring a good experience. Play on servers with the same people coming back so there is a community. Play on servers where there are admins. If your game doesn’t allow communities to form for multiplayer games then vote with your wallet. “Casual” gaming where anyone jumps into a game with 63 unknown randos is never going to be pleasant as it will need to rely on automatic measures and reports only.
yeah it's down and I get a 500 error
I brought up Pigafetta's account to point out that even five centuries ago, people were capable of making fascinating discoveries and simply stating the objective truth about what they found. Nowadays, the announcement of a discovery is usually paired with hyperbolic statements (e.g. "this changes everything we know about X") and veiled social commentary (e.g. "there is a widely-held Eurocentric view of civilization").

Had the sentence read more like "some academics have a Eurocentric view of civilization", I would probably take that argument at its face. But nowadays, with improvements in education and the vast quantity of good information available to anyone on the Internet, telling your readers that "we are Eurocentric in our view of culture and civilization" is tantamount to calling them ignorant.
Only DD knows, but I guess even if he dislikes HN, he still might not wish for them to be blackholed.
> I interpret that to mean someone purchasing a home today must have roughly twice the resources to purchase the same home as someone in the past

Case-Shiller is not adjusted for inflation. In addition, it does not take into account interest rates. Until recently, mortgage rates were extremely low. It takes less resources to pay the mortgage on a $1,000,000 house at 3% interest than it does to pay the mortgage on a $250,000 home at 19% interest (which is where interest rates topped out at in the 1980's).
I’m no fan of either firm but the hyperbole is unwarranted. The substance here is plainly a normalisation of contract language to focus on the activity rather than the actor.
Licensing is an issue for me. I don't want to pay to use name 'Bluetooth'. That being said who would buy an "IEEE 802.15.1 compliant" or "IEEE 802.15.1 enabled" device? No real way about getting clever about it like calling it "cyan enamel"
We are going to get flooded with this stuff. Most of it will be mediocre and the majority won’t care.
Enterprise support pays pretty well, is pretty stable, and requires less deep thought type of stuff; if you can transition to supporting something that's expensive (finance, payroll, ATS, CRM stuff) you can probably just close tickets and talk to folks.
Show HN: I'll build unstyled projects to focus on functionality
IMHO, publishing code for CS papers ought to be made a strict prerequisite for getting a paper in a journal.

As in: you don’t get your name published unless you include a public Git repo URL and a docker container that can run your code.

Otherwise, what’s to stop someone literally photoshopping some made up algorithm presented as vaguely believable pseudocode?

“I have an invisible dragon in my garage, but I can’t open the door right now to show you. Just believe me.”
Ah sweet, I have been wanting to do pretty much the same thing, have found one or two bits of prior art but nothing that has caught on. Very interested.
De-duping products across made-up brands is the most sorely needed feature in the era of no effort drop shipping. This should be supremely feasible with the latest generation of ai image recognition/labeling capabilities. More many product categories this would decimate the number of options that need to be considered.
While I don't think it's the best shopping experience on the web, I've also never understood those who have claimed it's awful in recent years. I'd be interested in what it is specifically that you don't like? And what changes you would like them to make to make it better?

I think part of the problem they've been having is that because they're an "everything store" they don't have a clear target audience so disappoint everyone. There are online stores I love out there, but they tend to be opinionated about the type of products they stock and how they do things, so although I have less of a selection it's more likely to be stuff I want. But that opinionated nature means a lot of people just won't shop with them because it's not what they want.

A lot of the issues I seem to hear here stem from relatively high end consumers seeing cheap products on Amazon and not liking that it's difficult to find the quality. But similarly elsewhere I read accounts from people looking for cheap products and saying that there are cheaper places to shop these days. Sometimes I wonder if Amazon was just a little more opinionated about what they stock whether that would help a bit. It would at least reduce disappointment. Although I suppose that goes against their whole ethos of having everything.
Why are we blaiming Apple that an easy file transfer service that most users use casually to transfer files doesn’t meet the needs of anonymity for dissidents when being tracked by a major world superpower government.

It’s not sure why we’re treating this like it’s the Tor browser. It’s a way to quickly share the photos you’ve taken among friends.

It’s not some conspiracy. Apple just didn’t design the product for what they’re using it for.
> Consider the idea that some people feel that they benefit internally from having the experience of becoming less wrong than they were at some earlier time.

And helping others become less wrong by sharing one's perspective that was shaped by experience and accumulated knowledge.
Hey simon04, I wanted to let you know that many many years ago the work of you maintainers made all the difference in my career and later my life.

Being able to read docs offline while commuting for some software I was pressed to work ended up being very important.

I just really wish you to know that albeit you may have not made a single $ by helping devdocs you are helping real human beings.
I’d especially recommend the VA: they’re both generally inclined to hire veterans and specifically against writing people off, and they have a ton of modernization projects which will improve matters for millions of people.
You're missing the point. The lockdown made him realize that he was taking the importance of entertainment for granted.
Wait are you only angry at the AGPL? Or what are you calling attachments to the GPL?

LGPL is a relaxation of the GPL, by the way.
Do people still worry about “pixel perfection”? It made sense in the era of low resolution displays, but with everything super high PPI these days, it seems like it typically doesn’t matter.
Escape from Zurg: An Exercise in Logic Programming [pdf]
I don't believe costs will decrease because they never have in my lifetime, and I don't think I can be called a young adult any more. I'd be happy if they did though.
These are interesting claims and points, perhaps, but remain disconnected from the original material. In particular:

> They can incubate them elsewhere. Which, indeed, they do, as I have said.

This needs an immense amount of development to maybe qualify as both connected-enough to this topic to belong in Scott's piece, and a strong enough claim to be worth either explaining and refuting, or adopting and defending. You're claiming that things like declining to prosecute a war against the USSR after WWII is an example of an action that acted as an outlet for what would otherwise have become domestic US leftist political violence in the US. There are, like, several things about that, and your other examples, that need to be filled in before it might be clear that makes any sense at all, plus some kind of pattern of this kind of thing increasing over time needs to be established that can't easily be explained by other, more-straightforward factors. Notably an awful lot of these examples are failures to act—what's that about? How's that an outlet for a kind of "energy" that would otherwise push the US closer to a reign of terror? Why should we think that sort of thing can act as such an outlet? What's the connection between those things? I see none whatsoever—it is not obvious this should be entertained as a relevant and strong line of inquiry.

> Also, democracies can grow more leftist over time (which, I would argue, they have) without becoming internally unstable, as long as a majority of voters continue to vote for policies that move further and further left.

Maybe! But it doesn't appear to make them ever-more violent in the specific way in question. The real events and trends we have before us really don't appear to fit—not to fail to fit your claims, but by the claims made by the folks Scott wrote the piece to address. (This isn't me arguing against you—I follow that you do get that what you're aiming at is Scott's alternative model, not that you're arguing in support of the Reactionaries)

You have proposed some reasons different from Scott's that this may be the case, and fault him for not addressing your proposed reasons, but it remains unclear to me that there's a strong line of argument there, specifically as it relates to the topic at hand. It's not clear to me that he should have brought it up, or that it makes his argument weaker that he did not, let alone that it's part of some set of "schoolboy mistakes" to have not done so.

What I don't find any of this back-and-forth convincing about, is that this piece of Scott's is in error for failing to address this stuff. I definitely am not convinced that failing to entertain (or even mention) some kind of, "the 'temperature' of US leftist domestic political violence has, perhaps, remained cool only because we did stuff like not do much to help Chiang Kai-shek" explanation, constitutes an elementary error.
> government that depends on human virtuousness will fail.

that was the crucial difference between communism and capitalism. Communism used virtuousness only, when capitalism used virtuousness and greed. Communism failed.
The things people experimented with 15 years ago are mostly settled now. Maybe you'd like a research engineer job in a lab or startup?
Protecting Against CitrixBleed with HAProxy
It's not exactly what you want, but "C-x ESC ESC" will bring up the last run command in lisp form and let you edit it before running it again. That's how I used to repeat M-% replacements before they added the nice history to it.
> I may have single-handedly kept eBay.com in the black between 2005-2016

Naw, that's one of eBay's strong points. Lots of ex-US business from int'l people willing to sell to others internationally. Or just breaking tariffs/barriers/price discrimination/parallel imports.

I just never understood most American seller's resistance to selling internationally, but worked out in my favour as a seller. I just charged a bit more than cost for shipping and it made up for any losses + inventory moved faster.
like this? https://www.tinker.af.mil/Units/Oklahoma-City-Air-Logistics-...
The main difference I've experienced is how people take themselves so seriously. The incessant hustle culture is so laughable, especially when you're working on a dumb app.

The tech itself is also an issue as you said. 15 years ago I was writing code, or at a minimum reading code to make it work. Now it's all these off the shelf AWS/GCP things that sort of work but you spend days to glue them together. You keep relearning the same thing because they all use slightly different versions of the same scripting language just because.
Or maybe they did and she didn't tell in the TikToks?

Don't believe everything you see on the internet. Be smarter than that, form opinions based on as many facts as possible, not only partial, biased, information.
Anecdotally, I live in the Atlanta metro and Prime usually means 2-3 days. No issues with counterfeits or busted packages. All in all a positive experience 100% of the time.

We probably order 2-10 items per week and never return anything. I bet we're the perfect customer.

We also do Target pickups once every two weeks for bulky items.
How about the mortgage, the mouths to feed and other financial obligations? Or are you suggesting volunteering in addition to keeping the tech job?
You don't use vector databases independently, you need to input the embedding from a ML model.

For your use-case, it should be pretty simple. You could use a CNN and train it, or use YOLO, Deepface, or other face detection algos, then within the face, find the hair and find the skin.

From there you can use a vector database to get the colors that resemble other inputs, or you can use a simple CNN to classify the hair and skin to the closest label.
As in most places the earth is rotating fully once every 24 hours the sun isn't stationary in the sky. Consequently the depicted shadow - if it is bothersome at all, is so only a few minutes per day. Mind that, only on a clear day, clouds would prevent taht too.
I'm guessing you're a fair bit older than me, but from my experience when someone unexpected calls/messages it's almost always a scammer or spammer.

Of course, these people probably only make up <1% of phone users but >99% of unsolicited calls.

I wish we had some better system of just kicking them off of our networks altogether (permabans tied to real name?), so we could get value out of random interactions like the Maasai do.
> To say that the US and UK have gone three hundred years with "only the tiniest traces of state-sponsored violence" shows a level of historical ignorance that is just staggering

Scott is not ignorant, therefore it seems more plausible that you should reconsider whether Scott is making the point that you think he's making.
Physicians who oversaw diagnostic manual's revision had pharma funding
Just look at the patents that are being claimed.
https://patents.google.com/patent/US9218156B2/en
https://patents.google.com/patent/US8407273B2/en

This is embarrassing. It's just patenting the idea that you would have low precision hardware for math operations and then extend the results back out so the program doesn't know.

A patent troll at its worst. I've never heard of this guy (and I'm an ML researcher) but the idea that you would give up a bit of precision for performance during training (and particularly during inference!) has been around forever.

The amount of prior art for this idea is.. obscene. The patent examiners did not do their jobs at all.
that's a nice quaint small town logic. we are talking about millions of lives across many industries.

government is the family no matter how you personally emotionally identify it.
nice work HN, flag anything that is merely adjacent to skepticism of global warming.
You gotta just ignore annoying tweets Yes, people on the internet are irritating