skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I looked for a simple explanation of why dispersion matters, and this seems helpful:

https://www.targettamers.com/guides/apochromatic-lenses/

in the context of apochromatic lenses: those that are optimized for three different wavelengths of light, not just two, which an achromatic lens does.

In the old days, calculations were done by hand, not that this is a big deal, but the big deal is that some really outstanding lens designs were made this way. Computers make the optimization extremely fast these days, but the calculations rely on the properties of the elements, which also vary in cost, durability and so on. So the computer can’t optimize for a continuous range of refractive indices and dispersions, only discrete real-world ones that the glass makers list, and which are specified (or not) to the program by the designer.

Fluorine also has special properties as a coating.

https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/features/this-is-why-your...
> Imagine an alternative world [...]

This world could be disastrous.

Imagine your entire savings wiped out by a single incident. Though this already happens in the current world.

Also, that world would simply not work for low earners.
Trains are nowhere near as flexible. There simply aren't tracks going to and from every truck's origin and destination. It's not a replacement.

I don't think divided lanes are required either. The problems with self-driving trucking aren't about following the lane.
For larger shopping, I like to use the scanning gun.
I get that it's used to track me, but the fact is I get to track the price, pack items as I go and just pay on the way out.
I dont think the first part of this article is quite right.

1. I doubt many people would think of 9/11 as a "1 in 50 years" event if it didn't actually happen. If you had a year-by-country level dataset of every developed country post ww2, you'd have thousands of observations but none would have as many fatalies from terrorism as the US in 2001.

2. If a genuinely super rare event occurs (like one in thousands), its often more reasonable to think that theres been some fundamental shift in the world that you failed to recognize, rather than that you just got super lucky or unlucky to have lived through it.
I got this!

Roll them between your fingers. Twist them back and forth. It will burn a little yet will some time later naturally fall off. No need to pull or yank on them.

I've had a few in my life time yet have zero today.
I offer a reflection on your idea of a strange irony: This is a question of attention and money flow. Molly White claimed ownership of Molly's work and took on providing the infrastructure to self-host. This means that _Molly_ does not have to contribute directly to a network effect that amplifies voices Molly does not agree with.

In effect, Molly took the argument that voices that Molly does not agree with can always self-host to get their message out and embraced it. Molly's voice is now self-hosted. Molly, in effect, embraced full libre, rather than be silent and accept that Molly had to agree with whatever the hosting provider decides to do.

Myself, I'm really more interested in what happens next to Molly. I wish Molly all the best luck as Molly grows the endeavor.
Is MixCloud any good in this space? I think they were formed when private equity got involved with SoundCloud. I've heard that MixCloud pays some kind of royalties on tracks they identify in the mixtapes. I guess they don't do albums or individual songs like SoundCloud does.
When an app is first opened it needs to validate the digital signature with Apple.

So they do definitively know the volume of apps a developer has sold.

StoreKit API likely phones home as well: https://developer.apple.com/support/storekit-external-entitl...
It's a bit buried, but this (to me) is the most interesting sentence :

> Fluorite lenses are also unique in their extraordinary partial dispersion tendencies: the red to green wavelengths are dispersed with the same tendencies as glass, but the green to blue wavelengths are dispersed more than glass.

It has both low dispersion (less overall aberrations) and a unique shape to the dispersion curve (more control). Glasses typically all have similar dispersion curves. The weird shape of fluorite's dispersion curve gives your optimization function an extra lever to play with.
~3% plus costs of chargebacks, foreign exchange fees, time spent resolving disputes, customer service, etc.
In a recent case of someone living in TX learning that their fetus had trisomy 18, there was a whole legal case that had to be fought, and when Judge Gamble ruled that terminating the pregnancy could proceed in this case, TX AG Ken Paxton filed an emergency petition to ask the state supreme court to overturn the ruling, and that blocked Judge Gamble's ruling. Meantime, the woman's condition was deteriorating enough that she left the state to get her healthcare needs met.

So, what can we expect when TX is making it this perilous to provide basic healthcare for such a large percentage of its population? More of the same, I'd argue.

If you care about your sisters/daughters/spouses' access to healthcare, consider other states.
His name was already public. I'm not interested in hashing all this out again though. That's why I edited my comment. I would have deleted it but it was too late. I implore people to go read the original NY times article. It's a good critique of the SV hivemind and even discusses Sam Altman.

> I suspect he did not personally want to write this and was pressured into it as part of the Times’ retaliatory measures against me.

This line sets off so many of my BS detectors. The journalist wasn't pressured; there's no campaign against him there. His ego is getting in the way of his supposed rationalist thinking.
FYI: I had to turn off uBlock Origin to see the waitlist sign-up box, my guess is that's why teruakohatu didn't see it either.

Anyways, thanks for the project, it looks nice - I'll be happy to grab the decks when they're ready :)
Chapel was designed for the high performance computing community where programmers often want full control over mapping their computations to their hardware resources without needing to rely on techniques like virtualization or runtime load balancing, which can obscure key details. That said, higher-level abstractions can be (and have been) written in Chapel to insulate many computations from these system-level details, such as distributed arrays and iterators. Users of these higher-level features need not worry about the details of the underlying locales. We refer to this as Chapel's support for multiresolution programming.

That said, other communities may obviously prefer different approaches due to differing needs and constraints.
> Passing nothing is surprisingly difficult

From the title, I assumed that this article was going to be about either (a) permissive grading standards at university or (b) chronic constipation.
Yeah, if this were a company with more integrity I might suspect that the US gov forced their hand, but in this case I'm guessing that it was just greed.
Must be why his Comma.ai product is still relegated to hands-free lane keeping.
The company focuses on fast-charging stations
There is no problem with the compilers for RISC-V, what are you talking about?
Improve Public Comments Using Sentiment Analysis [video]
The ostensible application to prevent veterans from committing suicide indicates they could use it to do the opposite. Simply making an enemy very depressed will disable him by ensuring he loses will to fight or protest.
> While I often prefer self checkout for small purchases, the counter-shrink measures at make the entire experience worse -- locked up products, weird checkpoints after you finish purchasing, etc.

This would be legit terrible. My shopping trips are almost all groceries and the few locked-down things are behind the service counter or at the Rx. Pseudoephederine is only restricted item I buy.
When I started looking at RFID tech in 2004, the disposable tags cost maybe $.50-$1 but general consensus was the costs would follow a Moore’s law like trajectory, halving every 2-3 years until they were on even the cheapest items. And yet here we are 20 years later and I don’t see RFID checkout systems very often at all. Are the tags still really expensive? Or is it the extra cost of attaching them to packaging?
PDFs are just a part of the unstructured data landscape. What about other common “office” files?
Clearly since people will often turn down a higher paying job with worse health insurance than a lower paying job with better.

Workers look at the total compensation package, not just wages alone.
Coverage in hardware is different from coverage in software. Solid part of System Verilog deals with that plus part of UVM. Plus coverage from simulation and property checking (aka formal) can be used together.
I use Tesla FSD everyday. It is not a robotaxi yet, but it makes a big difference in day to day life. I can do most drives without disengagement. To be clear, it needs to get 100x better for robotaxi. But even with its beta flakiness, it is magical.
my point is that you cannot use salary as a wealth indicator especially in a cou try where real estate costs are crazy, unemployment rampant and cost of live climbing every week. and that 3k is def poor in term of wealth building prospects. the goal is to climb the ladder not bring everyone down. right now france like uk is failing its people due to low wage, ppp that is climbing down to developed economies
This is the right take. AI on the battlefield is a foregone conclusion, so it behooves us to understand and implement AI earlier, rather than later. That way we can do it in a measured and tested way; the alterative is realizing our lack of AI is causing us to lose a war and accelerating implementation of it as much as possible with less regard for safety.
If they want to integrate OpenAI stuff into more Microsoft products, they'll need to make it work with the organization that's probably their biggest customer (if we call the entire DoD one customer).
No. Corruption plagues us at every level and the world refuses to accept there are thoughts control governances playing us against one and other.

This madness is by design.
Key Takeaways:

- Use a custom prompt to rank (0-10) comments based on intent/subject matter.

- Filter out low ranking comments

- See only comments that are positive, constructive, thought-provoking, etc.

- Keep conversations on topic and filter out insults/off topic messages.

- Set defaults for your profile, or per post.

- Creators could set autoreplies powered by GPT based off of template statements.

- Pro: extend personal boundaries and filters into your comments section more effectively.

- Con: could increase echo chamber
Also Gadgetbridge on F-droid
Hi, author here.
I made a mistake in the article to be honest.
I don’t complain that I have to « understand hard things », but, I missed this in the article, that the complexity of the Vulkan is like 5x more than OpenGL for… 5% better performance?
Like Directx12, where most of the Directx11 games do not have any extra valuable performance compared to the complexity of moving to the newer version of the API.

I would love to learn a new low-level API for better performance, but I really don’t think the time I spent learning Vulkan to benefit of the same performance I could have using OpenGL worth it.

I will make an update to the article this week to make a clearer explanation, thank you for your comment.
I wouldn't mind these machine so much if they always accepted cash. The problem is that more often than not they don't.

When I was on vacation in London about 5 years ago when Visa had an outage: https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2018/jun/01/visa-outa...

I was trying to pick up some food at the only grocery market that was within walking distance of where I was staying. The grocery store only had self-checkout machines. As the checkout line piled up, the payment system failed to process my card. I gave it another try with another card, and after a long wait that one went through. By that time as I was looking around, I noticed that pretty much everyone else around me was stuck at the machines and weren't moving on. I assumed there was some sort of outage going on.

I guess I came within a few seconds of needing to scramble to try to find a way not to go hungry that night. I had plenty of cash on me, but that wouldn't have helped me complete the purchase because the machines simply didn't accept cash. There was no obvious way to get an employee's attention so I could give them my money. They were probably stuck with some of the other customers scratching their heads as to why the magic card charging system, which appeared to have been the only possible way to pay for food at that grocery store, wasn't working.
Exactly. Every American company should be proud to be a partner to the Pentagon. They don’t choose their missions but overall the world is a better place with American hegemony expressed through her military superiority. It would be a tragedy to lose hold of the world order because an arbitrary board disagrees with how congress uses them.
But regardless of where it is purchased the developer still needs to pay Apple 30%.

So Apple gets paid. The customer who has to pay more loses.

And the debate is whether Apple or the app developer gets the blame. I suspect the latter.
Nothing says "we're concerned about AI risk and harm to human life" quite like partnering with the military-industrial complex.

It's even better timing to do this while the Pentagon is providing material and intelligence support to a government whose decisonmakers' public statements are explicit admissions of intent to commit war crimes and also convey genocidal intent.

Glad we spent all that time talking about AGI and Roko's Basilisk, those should be top of mind always, never the current actions of the humans in charge at both OpenAI and the US government.
It feels boring because your life has no real problems. Either you could be glad about that, or give yourself some real challenges. When I felt that way in my early 30’s, I decided to break 3 hours in the marathon, which rejuvenated my lifestyle.
Waymo is only in cities with conditions basically perfect for self driving. Most of the world lives where weather occurs.
I'm sure about that. I forecast that there will be plenty of money spent to remove those hurdles and to defend them. Lawyers rejoice!
We’re almost at the point where we can just replace cashiers with Tesla Optimus paired with an LLM instead.

How wild would that be.
Often it seems to depend on the machine settings too. E.g. in the UK Morrisons and the Co-Op seem to use the same hardware in many branches, but the former is very reliable and most "unexpected item events" I see are user error, whereas the latter seem to have a good 30% chance of complaining about the weight of your item even when you've done everything right

The other big difference in smoothness of experience is having sufficient staff to come and deal with problems. Firstly, because user or machine error will always be non-negligible, but also because age challenges are quite common too. It's frustrating queueing and seeing a good 4 or 5 machines in a blocked state (and sometimes abandoned due to it) and there being no or insufficient staff around to unblock them
GPT4 Turbo is top of the class it does RAG very well, it is important to provide good context with help of Vector DB but if you cannot provide relevant document it cannot do much.
All the opensource models are super bad at this and mostly i want to blame the fine tuning to get to the leaderboard is affecting the quality
If you ever want to Britmaxx it's probably cheaper to book a flight and hit up Shimokitazawa. So much Burberry, Barbour, Barracuda, Mackintosh etc for stupidly low prices.
The CIA probably realizes it doesn't need to fund rebel groups [1] or use local journalists/clergy [2] to instigate a regime change these days - they can just flood a target country's social media with AI-generated propaganda.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Contra_affair

2. https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/hear...
Jargon naivete question: isn't "on the edge" normally implying on a server side with minimal routers hops to the client, not on client side?
Battle AI stuff is already developed in-house or by firms like Palantir.

OpenAI's products are more likely to be used on the billions of emails sent daily from people who aren't in full command of the English language or are too lazy to look at man pages. Aka regular LLM usage for normal people.
Interesting! Is there any public info on what content creators typically make when they put equal effort into both platforms? (I guess if Mr Beast goes to X, he'll make way less on X due to having to start from scratch on there - i.e. far fewer followers/subscribers).

I wonder if anyone has very recently started video content creation on both platforms (someone without an established reputation on either platform) and can share numbers.
I’ve been using outrun for a year now and it’s really great! Always nice to see a good product featured on HN
> You can't--legally--spend campaign donations on personal expenses. It's the difference between investing in someone's start-up (or more accurately, donating to their non-profit) and giving them money personally.

A personal election campaign is presumably something in your personal interest, and money is fungible.

> I'm not arguing it doesn't buy influence. It does, though not in the form popularly conceived. But it's not bribery. Cheapening bribery by conflating it with campaign finance, or worse, lobbying in general isn't intellectually honest.

On the contrary, giving in to the sophistry that says that this particular system of organised and regulated bribery is somehow not bribery is intellectual dishonesty. Yes there are some relevant differences between this and other forms of bribery, but the similarities are stronger.
American dream far from reality for most people
But it won't be cheaper elsewhere since developer still needs to pay the 30% commission.
I used this a while back to simulate a 16+ port MIDI thru device using PIO on a Raspberry Pico[1]. It worked surprisingly well with just a small amount of simulation slowdown. Theoretically it might be possible to replace a $200 Kenton Thru 25 (though only 23 max) for about $40 in hardware + whatever a case costs.

[1]: https://www.joshka.net/pio-for-midi-with-raspberry-pi-pico/
Did you try to ask it for instructions to you?
In fairness, both of those are also surprisingly difficult.
I would wager a whole lot of money that the CIA is very much on top of this one.
For the first decade or so that I used SoundCloud, music discovery was WORK - their recommendation engine wasn't great, and their search tools were limited, so you'd have to just kind of chase links through artists & commenters, and grind it out. Every couple weeks I would spend a few hours hunting for gems.

Eventually I switched most of my listening to Spotify, on the strength of their recommendation engine, even though my heart is with mixes on SoundCloud.

Then sometime about 5 years ago they fixed their recommendation engine, and it's really just a great experience. Their search tools are still limited, and they've "pigeonholed" my tastes a bit more than Spotify, but I'm still a big fan of the platform and paying subscriber.

If you love SoundCloud ... pay them! Let's keep this beautiful thing alive.

[UPDATE] - also I've had such great interactions with artists on SoundCloud, up-to-and-including some emails to get a local copy of favorite remixes after a track disappeared from SC. So much positivity.
ath3nd, I responded to a sibling post to this one, but it's largely the same as what I would say in response to this post. It sounds like I misinterpreted you and misunderstood your situation. I pattern matched to a situation I have seen where a person has very strident political or adjacent opinions not really because they care that much about changing public policy, but as a way of coping with a problem in their own life. Obviously, on an anonymous message board, I'm shooting in the dark trying to guess what someone's situation might be and whether my response is likely to be of any help. Sounds like it did not help you.
Do you have a link to the setup you used?
I recently googled "rubbish removal mysuburb" and found a pretty good looking website. Let's say it was myrubbishremoval.com/mysuburb. The page text repeatedly named the suburb.

It turns out they appear to have a folder for basically every suburb in the country, thousands of subdirectories yielding the same looking page with that suburb name inserted into the text, making them look local no matter where you are. I can similarly find this with many other industries.

This sort of thing twenty years ago was a huge no no. Google talked about detecting mostly duplicate text and would bury you for it. Like a very basic rule was that if two pages were mostly the same only one would really rank.

Nowadays the "lead funnel" is an entire industry on websites following this pattern, and it clearly works.
Show HN: I made a demo app for a passwordless authentication service I built
Waymo appears to be the real deal. Last night I saw one navigate a situation with a hesitant pedestrian better than most human drivers. And before people chime in with "ideal conditions," it was at night in the rain.

I never trusted the Cruise cars, they would drive like a teenager that was afraid of the road. But Waymo seems a step up even from the Uber drivers.
The website is not stored on the laptop - those are more like working files. The HTML files (the "pages" for the website) get edited (in this case Dreamweaver) and UPLOADED to the webhosting/web server via an FTP program (FileZilla for example). The domain name (in this case the .org) points to the web server where the web page files are stored.

To just keep everything as is you would need the following from the old website people:

* The FTP credentials to upload the files.
* The webhosting account login to renew the hosting fee (probably monthly or yearly).
* The domain name account login (can be the same as webhosting, but not always) to renew the domain name fee (usually yearly).

Dreamweaver is an out of date program used to edit the (HTML) web page files. It's known as a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editor where you update the web pages as they look (or an approxmiation of what they look like). You could connect to the website via FTP and download the files to any computer and then edit them with Dreamweaver or learn some basic HTML and edit the HTML files using any text editor (such as notepad).

Like many have said you may better off rebuilding the website in a modern WYSIWYG tool. The website is dated but very simple - copying and pasting the content into a software as a service website provider (WIX, SquareSpace, Weebly) which shouldn't take much time and they are easy to use (drag and drop, WYSIWYG). Then you can login to your domain name account and re-point the DNS to the new website and then cancel the old webhosting and not worry about it anymore.
ICE cars are superior in this scenario. You can jump start the battery and your car good to go unless your fuel tank also freeze up. EVs you can't do that. There are portable batteries to jump start ICE cars. I have not seen similar devices for EVs.
Xi Wants Strong Yuan in Push to Make China a 'Financial Power'
"Apple has also confirmed that it will charge a commission on purchases made through alternative payment platforms. This commission will be 12% for developers who are a member of the App Store Small Business Program and 27% for other apps."

https://9to5mac.com/2024/01/16/apple-revises-us-app-store-ru...
> Pixel camera was underwhelming

I got 8 hours left in the day and I'm allocating all of my "wat" to this comment right here.

I'm not sure which Pixel you tried, but the Pixel series is known for having probably the best camera.