skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, exactly my thoughts - and they seem to use lower spec hardware leading to a perceivable delay between scanning -> putting on to weighing station -> able to scan next product.

Unless this is as designed too, for whatever reason, but this is what stops me from using them as I get frustrated.

The other thing that stops me from using them specifically in Lidl is that you cannot put a hazelnut croissant and an almond croissant in the same paper bag unless you take one out before you put it to weigh.
The Mystery of the Super Strong 'Creepy' Weed
while i know you didn't say this was using an sdf, i want to point out that it doesn't seem to be using an sdf, just in case anyone is wondering; it seems to be a conventional whitted-style raytracer that computes sphere–ray intersections in closed form by solving the quadratic
Anyone have a screenshot of what the new warning looks like? The comments on the article didn't help.
AI will be an addition to this list.
How much to swim in the banana pit?
these comments were extremely helpful, thank you
In Waitrose (UK), they often don't have any scales, and as a result, there can just be one staff member watching over 20+ machines.

By comparison, the other day I was at Tesco and they had introduced these new large self-checkouts for trolleys (aka carts in US), but about halfway through my trolley, I started getting an error for every item I scanned. Turns out, the max weight for the scale was 20kg.
According to Wikipedia

> A computer is a machine that can be programmed to carry out sequences of arithmetic or logical operations automatically.

I don't think his encrypted Qemu image on a usb stick can do any of that...
That’s the Spirit!
A genocide that was accidentally extra effective because you happened to be resistant to a different set of diseases to the other people is still a genocide. They the same playbook as the founding fathers did.
That 30% doesn't fund the schools or the roads, it's just a fee. Completely different.
Actually think Theads made the same mistake, you signed up and your followers were not carried over.

If I was at IG I’d have made the number carry over even if the users were not there yet, seemed catastrophic to sign up day one and see like 10 followers when you have thousands on IG
> Why do you not trust Ventoy?

> Ventoy is a great tool from what I’ve seen online and the use case it fills does save time and resources. However, I have some reservations about it. If I had to compromise a bunch of critical systems over a long time period, then publishing a great tool and having it tamper with your OS installation media silently would be a really good pick. At this time, I don’t trust the developers of the tool enough and I don’t have the time or skills to perform repeated audits of the software every time they release a new version.

...from the addendum to https://ounapuu.ee/posts/2023/02/15/shrinkflation/ (which was itself discussed previously [0]) - I don't have strong opinions of my own but reading this review was enough to put me off installing Ventoy the other day.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34800830
Congrats! that's incredible man
> The scheduler performance has nothing to do with the used language.

This is correct, but I don't think the article is trying to make any claim about the language being relevant for performance.

What I believe the author is showcasing is two things:

- sched_ext allows to write schedulers that outperform a default general-purpose scheduler on certain workloads (performance)

- Since a sched_ext scheduler is a userland process, it can be implemented in any language. The author likes Rust and they used Rust (ergonomics)

The headline compresses both things in one sentence, and this can create some confusion about what they intend to convey.
Suppose when you live in Iceland or other similar latitudes, and the sun starts to appear on the horizon, the preferred seating is the sun side to see hours long sunrise / sunset
I literally quoted someone from WG14.

HN really needs the ability to block trolls.
The waste is externalised. Supermarkets regularly renege on their agreements with farmers, leaving millions of tonnes of produce to rot.

Check out getfairaboutfarming.com
Creating strong sales agreements is essential to increasing the number of leads you convert. These are some practical methods for improving compliance, increasing income, and handling sales contracts with ease. Today, make improvements to your sales procedure!
The main problem with the way they do the check is that it isn't going to catch any theft. They make you unpack your bag and they start asking for items to scan. They literally let you choose which ones they scan. And they want to scan like 10 items lately so it really makes you unpack the whole thing which is annoying. But never have I had them actually trying to find an item in my bag that is not something I declared. They seem pretty focused on finding things I did scan and confirming them. Mostly because it's done by a teenager who just wants to get the scan done and move on.
> scan the same product multiple times if you were buying multiple copies of it

My local Walmart allows this. Not sure what the impact on their 'shrink' is, but they must've decided it was worth it to keep lines moving. It's a very busy store.
Then maybe I missed the point of your thing. What's the value you're providing exactly if I still need to run my interviews? This would not be saving me any time or money.
Because those are platform dependent, you can't run an ARM image on X64 for example.
Apple is very much a subscriber to the Darth Vader School of Business: "I'm altering the deal; pray that I don't alter it any further."
Cynics would say that C++ (and in some sense) C took almost 50 years to catch up with Pascal.
"becoming known for" is a stretch...
In the advertisement industry this is called attribution. I'm not an expert at it, but I know there are several attribution models and most involve adding some tracking cookies
look at Google for reference on this matter
Show HN: A browser extension to instantly switch engines and customize workflow
I enjoy collecting various search engines, but some of them lack support for GET/POST searches and switching between different search engines can be a hassle. So, I developed this browser extension that enables automated searching on websites that don't support GET/POST through simulated input and clicks. It also offers one-click switching between search engines. Additionally, it highlights the searched keywords on the search results page. Lastly, it allows cross-domain data fetching and displays the information in a pop-up layer within the current page.

GitHub: https://github.com/hoothin/SearchJumper

Give it a try. Love to hear your thoughts!

Thanks!
maybe there is a "size" as in how much storage he/she has. Or maybe bandwidth issues. I do not own a large NAS nor i have fast internet for uploads and stuff, so 3,6G is a god sent.
Resend Audience – manage subscribers and unsubscribers in an intuitive way
I remember a friend in middle school telling me his big discovery: "the way to a girl's heart is making her laugh". While some good taste and subtlety are important here, it's not far from truth!
You could also make ethanol from air and water with electricity. Electricity could come from solar panels.

Don't need the plants phase necessarily. Plants are not very efficient converters of solar energy to chemical energy.

I am not a chemist though.
Business Insider is up to some shenanigans. The page kept auto-refreshing and crashing for me.

https://archive.is/tNoS7
In ML the problem is passing 0D scalar tensor as 1D 1-element tensor.
This seems to be an ad for a proprietary time series data format named HFiles that is locked behind a "contact us".

Thanks but I will stay with Parquet for now.
And a public endpoint is any Internet facing endpoint including the ones where the user needs to be logged in. People seems to forget that.
On Compositional Window Management
Hence my quotes around the "no". I of course speak a dialect, but since it's similar to what the majority speak, it's almost never labeled as such.
Do you know if that’s how C++ lambda functions work?

auto sum = [=](int x) { return s + x; }
There has been attempts at doing torrent-based package distribution, see the notes of debian testing it here: https://wiki.debian.org/DebTorrent. There are basically 2 problems:

Packages are a lot of small files, and not everyone is interested in them all. Torrents are good for large content that everyone wants. The two are in opposition and there needs to be a balance: do you need to make One Unique Torrent with everything, but then peers have to individually ask each and every other peer if they have the content they're looking for, making it unscalable ? Or do you make one torrent per package, meaning peers have to track thousands of torrents ? (That's the direction IPFS took, which is why it's extremely inefficient and resource-heavy). DebTorrent has made the choice to go in the middle.

The real problem, to me, is that content-addressed content is the anti-privacy protocol: since you ask everyone "do you have this content", you're basically telling everyone what you want. In the case of installing packages, this means telling everyone what the version of your packages is, and is potentially a security issue.

But the real "problem" is that it fails at being much more better than the existing solution. Bandwidth is cheap, storage is cheap, so hosting everything on a few independent but centralized servers is good enough.
World Pizza Day – enjoy your slice of pizza, today
I assume that's why it is also called "Oberon" ;-)

But this fact doesn't make Go more similar to Oberon.
Earth system impacts of the European arrival in the Americas after 1492 (2019)
> In theory, a system that let you scan products the same way checkout staff do without any weight checks or bagging area rules or other interruptions would be incredibly efficient.

I think coop/365discount has that. You scan the items with a mobile phone app while taking them of the shelf. You just show the digital receipt to the cashier while jumping the queue.
If this message finds the author, or the people knowledgeable in the subject matter, I am very much interested in the implementation details.

How do you encrypt the flash drive? Do you run QEMU in the host OS or are there more optimal ways of "booting" it? How do you run QEMU to take benefit of all available resources on the "console" computer (the one running the image)? What's with the performance, and is the performance the reason for not running GUI? (But also - yay tmux!) How do you backup? (Do you just `dd` it? I don't put too much trust in the reliability of the flash drives...). What flash drive do you use? What are the pitfalls and limitations? I think I have more questions, but I will stop here, you see where I am going.

This is a really nice and simple idea and I will definitely try it too. I appreciate a lot if you can share your experience.
Why don't schools teach debugging, or, more fundamentally, fundamentals?
You can write Cantonese, although most Cantonese speakers' "formal" written language is more closely related to spoken Mandarin (Modern Standard Chinese) than to the way they normally speak.

I recommend "Cantonese as Written Language: The Growth of a Written Chinese Vernacular" by Don Snow.
Absolutely, these sort of things which have varied but somewhat straightforward solutions will excel.

I'm going to give it a go for recipes, because as you say, blog spam is a nightmare. My wife has a lot of cookery books which she likes for her style of cooking, but I'm a little more "ad-hoc".
> In UK law, it is presumed that computers systems work perfectly, and it is up to the "other side" to prove they didn't.

This is kind of true, but there's a bit of nuance -- presumptions can be rebutted by the other side adducing evidence to the contrary. The evidence does not have to be strong enough to "prove" anything, it's generally sufficient that it suggests the presumption might be invalid. So in colloquial terms you don't have to prove the computer system was flawed, just a real possibility.

That said, the article you linked to does go on to explain why even this scheme didn't work out in the post office cases.
Yeah, I too found the praise for Wirthian ideals funny in the context of Scala. But on the other hand I believe Scala 3 did clean up lot of things, so maybe there is still something there?
> That seems really hard to achieve in immediate mode libraries without effectively recreating retained mode functionality yourself.

The purpose of an IMGUI is to handle whatever data retention will simplify user's life. If you want to extend the IMGUI in some case it's perfectly adequate to do some that work yourself. Ideally the IMGUI infrastructure would make it as painless as possible.
> In theory, a system that let you scan products the same way checkout staff do without any weight checks or bagging area rules or other interruptions would be incredibly efficient

How would it be more efficient than a traditional checkout? There's no way the average person can match the speed of a cashier who does that every day, and at least the supermarkets I've visited don't have enough self checkout machines to balance that out.

Maybe it's just me but I genuinely don't get the point of self checkout. Are some shops so slow at reacting to long queues that it makes self checkout actually faster?
At the machines I've used in the US the way they deal with this is having you move your items off the scale into a bagging area (which is actually also a scale internally, though not one that needs to be officially calibrated).
I remember having just left a scala event I was running in a cab, and seeing Martin on a london bridge with a gaggle of guys following him. I wasnt aware he was the student of Nikalus Wirth -- but it makes a lot of sense.

It's a shame though, that Wirth's philosophy was, imv, ditched from 90s-00s (where we get: python, js, ruby, ...scala).

It seems now language design is rediscovering Wirth and his techniques (see, eg., google's carbon which iirc, seeks to be ast-free single-pass).
Better URL: https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/paul-graham/
> In a statement shared with Business Insider, a Google spokesperson said, "As we've said, we're responsibly investing in our company's biggest priorities and the significant opportunities ahead.

I half expected the next paragraph to read “when attempting to follow up, we were informed that spokesperson had been laid off”.
Since reality is not deterministic that possibility simply does not exist.
> But the Fuchsia team wanted to build a complete operating system from scratch, including a whole new GUI, a whole new developer SDK, and more.

Why???

CADT ?

It is, since 20 years, a trend in SW development: Delete and start over.
For sure, given Google being who they are, Bard is quite good at things like Kubernetes, Golang, things you'd expect a search engine to have indexed, etc.

I haven't used ChatGPT extensively so I can't make a comparison, but with the right questions, I've been able to get great answers to technical things I can't be bothered to look up by hand.
Ok, that is really cool. I worry though that this is too tied into the whole peergos architecture? Can you give some pointers on what would I need to do to have a node with the extended protocol and nothing else?
is it bad that i use rfc 1918 addresses on cloudflare dns
Interoperating with Java was a requirement. That immediately takes simplicity off the table if the goal is to bring FP to the JVM.
Stroop Effect
I've accidentally failed to scan an item in the UK before which was caught during a random check. They just said "don't worry, it happens sometimes" and took me to pay for the item.

I do wonder how differently it would go down if I was a young black man.
Melinda should be able to choose to have a business relationship with Meta. The Meta store, aka a trivial hosting/payment service, would be part of that Meta offering. She should not however only be allowed to have an Apple(Meta) relationship where Apple gets to tax and restrict Meta for it's own commercial benefit.

An "App Store", when it is not used as a rent-seeking choke-point, is a nothing-burger, it's a simple website to buy and download an app, yet you are trying to claim some great horror if this website was run by Meta not Apple. Please. It's nonsensical.
As I wrote in another comment[0]: Foreign parents, and most kids spoke like Oslo among other kids, and their dialect only with adults. So pretty plain Norwegian. Most people would however guess I'm from Østfold, due to a thick "L" I've no idea where I picked up high here in the mountains.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39026276
Yes but ironically if you intentionally triggered the bug you'll definitely be found guilty of fraud.

I don't think the "I was just trying to show how ridiculous the bug was" defense will go too well in court.
Could you recommend a book that makes math fun for kids? Like 8-10 years old.
>Stable Diffusion was novel at the time, but now their models consistently seem to be somewhat second rate compared to other things out there. For example Midjourney now seems to have far surpassed them in the image generation front.

This isn’t entirely true, after the fumble that was SD2 they shipped SDXL and SDXL Turbo that are both excellent. And in real world results Midjourney doesn’t just straight out perform them it’s a lot more complex and ultimately SDXL is the more powerful tool.

Definitely found the LLMs underwhelming and Stable Audios launch was poor but don’t think Midjourney has outright surpassed them on image gen.
I rarely edit videos, so my needs are very basic.

I tested a few such as openshot, flowblade, ... about 10 months ago.

flowblade has the best UI IMHO (more streamlined), but it was annoyingly restrictive for quick edits such as opening a clip, apply just a trim and maybe add 1 filter (usually crop).

It also wasn't very stable.

I ended up with shotcut for most of my needs. It's very flexible and has a good balance in ui/features: intuitive enough that I had to spend zero time learning it, yet has more than what I will ever need. Although it's not as smooth performance-wise as flowblade. It never crashed on me yet.

I didn't like the UI of openshot, but this is a subjective thing. Felt space-wasting and oversimplified, which might be a plus to some. It also did crash a lot for me.

I use avidemux a lot for cuts. It's the fastest editor for this by FAR. UI is minimal. I would say underrated, although it's a pretty well-known tool, just in a different class (not a NLE).

I was a big fan of "cinelerra" some years ago. It's blazingly fast, but very restrictive in the formats it accepts, which is why I stopped using it. I mostly cut random videos coming from random cameras/phones/etc, so I value free-form over standardized workflows.

Don't forget Blender. For some more complex stuff, I successfully used blender's NLE to track/mask clips. Worked perfectly, absolutely stable even for complex videos, although it needed slight more RTFM than the other options and noticeably heaver in terms of system requirements.
It makes the power available 24/7, regardless of night and season. It also enables dispatch of the power to regions with higher demand, in ways that would be difficult with terrestrial transmission lines (for example, between northern and southern hemispheres.)

The downside is cost and scale. Launching enough mass to power the world would also approach pollution limits for injection of water into the stratosphere and mesosphere.

I have imagined it might be useable at small scale in specialized applications first, if the power is beamed by laser. This requires improvement in laser efficiency and cost, but it could be very nice to power long distance aircraft (at altitude above clouds) this way. The challenges are considerable, of course.

Large scale use of power in space would not need transmission of that power, so could be an easier step. Latency insensitive servers there? The heat needs to be dissipated.
I wish I could access old Google again, where the results made sense and searching wasn’t infiltrated with AI.
China's Growth Slows to Three-Decade Low Excluding Pandemic
I had lived a few blocks from that for at least a decade by the time I learned that it was Hitler's apartment. That was… weird. I'd passed by that corner every few days and suddenly it was the den of evil.

It's completely nondescript, unless you wonder why there's a police station in an ordinary residential building. (It's because the authorities wanted to prevent any neonazi gatherings, and the police needed a new station nearby anyway.)
World doesn't consist of historians and animals, you know. Most people are not historians and (unfortunately) get their "historical" "education" from popular culture.

Hence, articles like this matter.
https://archive.is/NQ0bn
That's a big assumption that the sun can even be seen lol it's always cloudy here in SE Canada it seems. It's nearly 8am the sun supposedly is up but the clouds are so thick it may as well be 5am.
Looks great!
Do you care to elaborate more on the tech behind the graph editor itself? Feels very smooth
China's population falls for a 2nd straight year as births drop
Add and query semi-structured data in your dokuwiki
That sounds more like the Brits have been socialized into letting the toffs get away with stealing. After all, that's just the way it's always been.
this is awesome.. thanks for the link
sharlin has explained how the sphere coordinates are computed; the checkerboard plane is implemented by converting downward-pointing vectors (where the y-component v is negative) into upward-pointing vectors toward a point in the sky with the right color

IF V < 0 then P = (Y + 2)/V : V = -V*((INT(X - U*P) + INT(Z - W*P) AND 1)/2 + .3) + .2

then the (palette index of?) the color of the sky is computed from the square root of the y-coordinate of the direction vector as

GCOL 0, 3 - (48*SQR V) DIV 16

plus a fixed dithering table
> But as soon as it stops being just hacky debuggers and people try to write proper tools in it, it becomes much more of a pain - people try to (poorly) emulate a retained mode in it, hold state, cache - and it becomes unreadable mess.

Effectively people are hasty and don't spend the time to try doing things nicely, in particular because the first steps and debug use allow you to do quick things.

But I don't think it's a fundamental property of IMGUI or Dear ImGui that "proper tools" become particularly more of a pain. Of course it is more work to make a proper tools than hasty-debug-tools, and I can easily see how underengineering can back-fire (over-engineering it likewise).
"Successes and lessons". I'm going to use that.
I learned programming mostly with Wirth's Pascal quite a few years ago.
Now I am employed in a company whose primary language for backend is Odersky's Scala.

I have fond memories of the former and greatly enjoy the latter.

It's only now that I learn Odersky was Wirth's student. It clicks.
> We should start protecting their rights in law today.

Yes, and those laws will be very useful as soon as any actual artificial intelligence will crop up. Blindly applying them to DALL-E or ChatGPT because they are marketed as AI would be... short-sighted.
If we used that and the land for cattle feed, maybe we could power space with our microwave transmitters.
You can download the root zone:
https://www.internic.net/domain/root.zone
This reminded me of the fabulously British song from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BzjPukTLoY
Come to South Africa where the government is unable to provide reliable electricity to the country. Almost all new developments come with rooftop solar, and quite a few large parking lots in my hometown got covered with solar arrays for shade.
Coronavirus can cause 100% mortality in hACE2 mice, risks spill over into humans
You need to validate your inputs and return 4xx
Solving the Dining Philosophers Problem with Systemd