skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> about the pains of untangling wired headphones

First world problems. Also they still can work, so in a pinch you can just insert them tangled.

> all my headphones failed due to a "contact" issue the jack developed

If all your headphones are susceptible for this then it looks like the problem is not in the headphones.

> Or the number of times my headphones got yanked because I was walking with them on and the cables got entangled in something.

Yep, they are wired.

> one needs to remove to be able to step away from the computer

Yes, they are wired. Are you annoyed what you need to stand up to step away from computer?

Wired headphones has some disadvantages compared to wireless ones, but the problem lies again in what Apple said 'fuck you consumers you will eat it and ask for more', consumers ate it and asked for more and idiots followed the suit, too.

You know, BT (if we are talking only about phones) headphones are an old thing, 20 years if we count only BT EDR. All^W Most of those years anyone could choose the tech they like more. But now Apple fanbois and you tell me what I need to ditch my wire headphones, because wireless are working better for you. No, it doesn't work better for me. More so, I tried it multiple times and I can surely tell what it's not not just as an opinion, but backed by my actual experience.

And I love what I can forget my headphones for a month and they would still work even if I forgot to charge them the last time I used them, lol.

NB: the last year I smashed my phone up to the broken screen, first time in my life (Ericsson A1018 doesn't count, it was only a battery cover clip). I smashed it not because it was laying on the table while I stepped away with my headphones already inserted both in the phone and my ears, but because I was quite drunk (or more like drunk AF) and didn't noticed that. Is this a table problem or my phone problem (hey, only 1+ meter high!) or it's my problem? While it wouldn't happen with a wireless ones, the common sense says it's not the headphones' fault.
This can happen in languages that use dynamic constructs that can't be optimized out. For example, there was a PHP-to-native compiler (HipHop/HPHPc) that lost to faster interpreters and JIT.

Apple's Rosetta 2 translates x86-64 to aarch64 that runs surprisingly fast, despite being mostly a straightforward translation of instructions, rather than something clever like a recompiling optimizing JIT.

And the plain old C is relatively fast without optimizations, because it doesn't rely on abstraction layers being optimized out.
The problem is 'simple' can mean a few things:

- simple to predict / understand what it would do: Easily explained with pictures and hardly no math

- simple to understand at a higher level / see why it works: Not easily explained without math and fraught with bayesian vs optimization vs EE-type approaches

- simple to understand well enough to use: Not easily done without other relevant math that is not covered in KF explanation, e.g., controls, matrix analysis, Jacobians, etc

- simple to understand why the equations are named what they are, and why they work: Not easily explained without math and historical context that takes a page or so to explain.

> it's not a filter as in stream processing

As you say "filter" means 'remove noise', but it also means 'process in order of arrival', so it's similar to your def of filter.

So, we really need 4 guides.
Knowing someone close to influencer marketing- even some are paid civilians...
You are entirely correct. However, it's also important to imagine the future we DON'T want to create, and then do our best to prevent it. Otherwise books like 1984, Fahrenheit 451, and Dr. Strangelove wouldn't be such beloved classics.
All statistics have absolutely correct data and fundamentally sound designs, right? That's literally the entire argument going on in this conversation you've hopped on. How these statistics are being misconstrued or not.

I moved into programming from bartending after dropping out of school. I am absolutely not ignorant to the lifestyles of all of my friends who aren't engineers.

In fact it's the polar opposite. I am vastly aware of how ignorant my engineer friends are to real people. Like all of my $300k+ friends who have massive houses and 4 kids and 2 suburbans and wonder why a huge portion of their friends, like me, aren't giving them playdates or "cousins" to their kids so they have to go find dad-friends at the kids soccer games who their only real commonality is .. kids.
Some UI designers do not understand design, e.g., affordances.
> Without competition, decisions are all made by a select elite (and not the market).

I'm not disputing that this is true, but in this context the statement is a little weird. The article mentions multiple times that Boing or Airbus misjudged where the market - their airline customers - would go, and took huge losses because of it.

If it was up to a select elite, today, the A380 would allow for massively increased passenger numbers flying out of the big hub airports. Instead, the plane is dead, and Airbus begrudgingly builds what the market wants instead.
This was a great write-up and getting a win like that in West Texas is no mean feat. Thanks for fighting for it Cloudflare.
Is there any syllabus/list of topics covered without having to register for it?
Flash isn't even available anymore. It was discontinued in Dec 2020.
I couldn’t imagine bringing a child into this messed up world. I really feel we are at the beginning of a mass extinction and future generations, no matter how rich and well off physically, will be destined to a life of suffering.
Something that gives me confidence here is that in macOS Sonoma Apple have gone all-in on sharing screen content on a webcam feed. I feel this will motivate Zoom and Teams to take this into account when compressing video.
But don't forget, if high fidelity is super important, you can always switch to a normal screen share. I just find that a lot of the time, this isn't the case, and it hurts the communication overall.
But yeah, I do encourage nice big, short, bold bullets in an attempt to minimise this risk.
those microbrews cost more than $12 now mon ami
A solar eclipse from the surface of Mars
What about a job interview between marketing folks?
How long until I can get a highly accurate OCR of this PDF with open source tools?

Everyone seems to point me at tesseract, but it does things like turn:

CHAPTER III

into something like :

CHAPTER 1|l

Granted with sans-serif fonts, the characters themselves are ambiguous, but I have no idea how the language model lets that through.
Hey, the Mojo parser author here. the test folder is just for the unit tests. All the benchmarking code is located in the /benchmark folder.
It would be great if you can give it another go on your machine.
https://github.com/MoSafi2/MojoFastTrim/tree/restructed/benc...
Oh look, it's the Dacia Sandero!
Intel is trying, but all of their efforts thus far have been pretty sad and abortive. I don't think anybody is taking them seriously at this point.
Closure of Windows 10 upgrade path still catching users by surprise
Windows before NT was crap, so users had an incentive to upgrade. If there had existed a Windows 7 alternative that was near fully compatible and FOSS, I would wager Microsoft would have lost to it with Windows 8 and even 10. The only reason to update for most people was Microsoft dropping support.

For CUDA, it is not just AMD who would need to catch up. Developers also are not necessarily going to target the latest feature set immediately, especially if it only benefits (or requires) new hardware.

I accept the final statement, but that also means AMD for compute is gonna be dead like OS/2. Their stack just will not reach critical mass.
Ah, Hello Mr Crab Bucket. Instead of wanting the world to be a better place for everyone, you instead want it to lower to your level of suck.
Drowning in code: The ever-growing problem of ever-growing codebases
Based on the defect rate coming out of that Tesla Gigafactory, we humans still have some runway. But it’s merely a matter of time.

Improved precision, driven by AI, is likely to squeeze even more costs out of overbuilt consumer products. The phenomenon of an appliance that dies 3 months after the warranty expires will become more and more common.
What's your bargaining position when you lose a patent that might be useful for only a few companies if you don't issue a license?
If I'm understanding what you're saying correctly, then I'm not sure where you got that idea.

Patent holders are not required to license their patents last time I checked. You are simply required to acquire a license prior to using patented technology.

If they don't want to license it, you're SOL.

(edit: if you were speculating on what should be, and not what is, then my bad... :)
Yes. This is how I do all my educational content and there is a Record feature for just this purpose. I prefer to record another take than to spend hours editing!
So what you do is you have a system where employees can claim unpaid wages from a government agency who pays them and then goes after the company that didn’t pay to recover the money.
I don’t know, look at how Knuth is still at work on TAOCP. Sure not everyone is Knuth (I am definitely not at least).

Having a life long goal require a conjunction of passion for a topic that requires that much attention span and relevant available resources to explore it. I dare to say that having enough resources at hand including not being interrupted too often with other hassles and hazards from life is the biggest source of scarcity.
Based on the text of the IP clause of the US Constitution I have wondered whether selling or licensing of IP (or even assigning it to a corporation) is technically allowable.

https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/article-1/section-8...

: To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;

"Exclusive Right" means exclusive right. And I don't think the definition has changed much since the US Constitution was written.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/exclusive

I think it must at least be licensable, or authors couldn't sell copies of their works. But whether the IP rights can be sold is another question.
Absolutely. It is not just that the number of cousins available has dropped drastically with more and more people choosing not have kids or have very few kids, the connections between the cousins is also much less strong in my family than it has ever been because the families now live so far away from each other in a different part of the world that the chances of face-to-face meetups is now reduced to perhaps once every couple of years or so and even then for very short periods of time.

I do feel very strongly that my kids are not going to have much of a relationship with their cousins - if at all.
To be fair, it also works the other way --

If you withhold $20 from a bill payment, the worst that happens is collections. The company has to go through an extremely onerous and convoluted process that very likely won't go anywhere.

If, in response, a company employee decides to settle the bill themselves by visiting your home and stealing $20 from your wallet, that's criminal theft. They will be arrested by the police, sent to jail, and charged in the criminal justice system.

In the end, the imbalance isn't fundamentally one between employers and employees -- it's the fact that stealing is a very different situation than not paying money owed.

Of course it does benefit employers in the end, since they get to receive work now and pay later. Which makes you wonder why it's never become a thing for workers to receive their daily/weekly/biweekly wages or salary at the start of the period? In which case any wage theft would come from quitting the job before the end of the period.
> I really feel we are at the beginning of a mass extinction

Yes, because of you. Go have kids. Ethiopians continued to have children during a decade-long famine and their population still increased. Stop making excuses for your own selfishness.
Neural networks are reportedly helping criminals create cheap virtual fake IDs
Title should have 2002 in it.
Forgive me, I'm thoroughly confused by that dichotomy. How are they different? Approaching from bayes rule or a "maximum likelihood" approach produces the same results.

The problems of the filter are present in both.
Which is just rich, as Analogue takes advantage of preorders to limit hardware on a per-order basis, meaning they are always out of stock. Don't have this issue with the MiSTer.
EDIT: this was largely just to strengthen one of your points.

Every single time something becomes big, the hardcore early fans of that thing will complain about the change.

This used to happen with bands. Early die hard fans enjoyed having their own tribe or clique built around the band, and then when the band became too successful they'd say that the band "sold out" and that the newfound fans aren't really fans and so on.

This happened with Linux where many people say Linux isn't fun anymore, or they lament that everything changed. I was an early Linux user, but I find that Linux is better than ever and I'm thankful I don't need to configure X anymore.

People of the early internet were in their own little clique, and then the entire world jumped in and they lost "their place." They will always lament this change, and they will always say it used to be better.

Humans are tribal and they forms tribes around anything and everything. Anytime their tribe is displaced they will become resentful even if that displacement makes the thing their tribe formed around better in every possible way. For me, I never had a solid sense of "tribal belonging" and therefore never really cared about these things, but I do understand the impulse as I get very vivid and strong experiences of it at sporting events, concerts, and so on. I suppose the strongest sense of tribalism I feel consistently is that of being a contrarian by impulse, and I feel some kind of kindred spirit with other contrarians... so maybe take everything I've said here with a grain or pound of salt.
You’re making some very bold predictions. It makes me uncomfortable to see such specific claims, backed up with no data, so soon after the bubble with crypto. You’re either a prophet or overconfident.
The parent system will accept pretty much anything if your lawyers ask them enough times. I've seen algorithms from the 80s patented today, with no real changes. The patent examiners have no idea what's novel or common sense, and just accept everything.
not really the same in that Apple was absolutely required to do this in order for people to transition smoothly and it wasn't competing against another company / platform, it just needed apps from its previous platform to work while people recompile apps for the current one which they will
If AI is replacing your junior developers, you’re missing the point.

Junior developers are an investment that will grow into senior developers.
I have a YouTube video from a couple of years ago where I show how to do this sort of thing in OBS. So yeah, it's possible!
> Alternatively, perhaps what you're observing is simply the graphical representation of the underlying mathematical precedence rules.

This is nonsense. There are no underlying mathematical precedence rules. You're seeing precedence being represented visually, but there is no mathematical difference between 5 3 ADD 2 MUL and 5 3 2 MUL ADD.

MUL and ADD are just binary operators, or if you prefer, functions from U × U to U for some set U.

Your statement is particularly nonsensical as applied to the example you're supposedly responding to. Given some expressions:

5 + 3 5 5
------- ; --- + 3 ; -------
2 2 2 + 3

How do you even form the argument that the difference in interpretation is "simply the graphical interpretation of the underlying precedence rules"? The precedence rules here are obvious, because they don't exist:

- Division occurs between the upper operand and the lower operand

- Addition occurs between the left operand and the right operand

It's impossible for these to conflict, so there is no such concept as precedence.

(Precedence also doesn't exist between addition and addition because addition is associative. It is necessary between division and division, and the system is straightforward: lower precedence is indicated by longer lines. Tell me about the underlying mathematical precedence rule that determines that.)
Design Systems AI Building Assistant
In my opinion, the perfect application for AI. Trains on component usage so engineers can build product really fast. Better or worse than GitHub copilot or CodeWhisperer? I have thoughts...
The concept you're looking for is called Emissivity, and it describes how effectively an object can radiate (or absorb!) at a certain wavelength.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emissivity

> Real objects never behave as full-ideal black bodies, and instead the emitted radiation at a given frequency is a fraction of what the ideal emission would be. The emissivity of a material specifies how well a real body radiates energy as compared with a black body. This emissivity depends on factors such as temperature, emission angle, and wavelength. However, it is typical in engineering to assume that a surface's spectral emissivity and absorptivity do not depend on wavelength so that the emissivity is a constant. This is known as the gray body assumption.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-body_radiation

In a previous life I worked for a lab designing a passive radiator that was reflective to visible light but absorptive/emissive in the atmospheric window (where the atmosphere is completely transparent). This material had the fun effect of absorbing energy via conduction/convection and then sending it out into space, maintaining a temperature slightly below ambient.
I have one place like this. There is no connection from the switch to the lightbulb. If the network is down, no lights.

I have some TP-link press-switches (so no on-off, just press to invert state), and they work amazing.

They work when the network is down. And you can read the state. Even if you turn off the network, flip the state, and turn it back on, it works correctly.
wifi sensing is also interesting, wonder what would come out of all of them together
What if it played the Minecraft sunrise theme at sunrise so you could be reminded of your shame after an all-night coding session
Just about 2 million people in the metro area. Not the biggest, but not 100k.

Since I can't reply to your later comment yet, I might just do it here. I live in the city proper. It's Columbus OH just to make it easier for you. I'm sure you'll find a way to reason that's not a major city but it is (multiple Fortune 500 companies HQ'd, major league sport team etc). I live ~10 minutes from downtown and the house was 290k.
Tell that to their boss. You don't think cops get in trouble at work for ignoring important calls?
I believe the re-pair process is a side effect of how security was implemented. I also heard it was technically possible to migrate without pairing, but i think right now it's between hubs from the same manufacturer. It's been years since i checked.
40 Years On, 'Brave New Waves' Still Echos Through Canadian Underground Music
It might be funny, but in Mexico it's done differently.

There are Whatsapp groups of HRs working in a particular group (tech, construction, etc.) where they communicate. Obviously they don't discuss the names openly but they do ask if someone is willing to give feedback on a candidate that worked at XY.
I don't know how you make the jump from human exploitation to "there's too much interventions".

Libertarians and ultra capitalists see the building on fire and complain that we have too many firefighters. Let this building auto-regulate! To some degree it's probably the same mechanisms of self-deception that conspiracy theorists use to make themselves feel good and superior for having seen the light.

There is no magic effect of the capitalism system. It eats workers and shits billionaires. It won't self correct. And arguably yes, all the regulations are just patches to the system, but short of a revolution and changing the system itself, that's the best there is for now.
The most recent "card" is their MI300 line.

It's annoying as hell to you and me that they are not catering to the market of people who want to run stuff on their gaming cards.

But it's not clear it's bad strategy to focus on executing in the high-end first. They have been very successful landing MI300s in the HPC space...

Edit: I just looked it up: 25% of the GPU Compute in the current Top500 Supercomputers is AMD

https://www.top500.org/statistics/list/

Even though the list has plenty of V100 and A100s which came out (much) earlier. Don't have the data at hand, but I wouldn't be surprised if AMD got more of the Top500 new installations than nVidia in the last two years.
For people who haven't started their smart home project, my advice is to focus on Thread and Matter. Regardless of growing pains, Thread and Matter work today, have momentum, and are clearly the future.

(Note: The negative article the author linked to under "Matter and Thread are a big mess" to support his position was written by the same person.)

Z-Wave was a pre-IP proprietary standard that was forced towards standardization (Z-Wave Alliance remains a gatekeeper), but its future is unclear at best. Thread and Matter are the spiritual descendants of Zigbee, all of which are based on IEEE 802.15.4.

Also, I've seen posts praising the old protocols because they allow local control, but those concerns are unrelated. Alexa supports Thread and Matter but does not support local control, while HA and HomeKit support Thread and Matter and do support local control.
I never liked how addictive short form content like TikTok/Shorts/Reels are, the way they hijack your attention into an endless stream of information (a lot of time useless, but of course you can cater to your tastes) that you just stare at and swipe-swipe-swipe feels dystopian to say the least.

I personally did an experiment on myself after I had issues watching long lectures being addicted to Youtube shorts, went on a complete detox; uninstalled Instagram, only used NewPipe and my attention span skyrocketed within 2-3 weeks.

I cannot recommend enough for people to take a break from short form content like this.
> Most of brazil have a hot climate, so, nightly usage of air-conditioning is high.

Yeah. My air conditioners are running pretty much 24/7.

> You don't even need to wait for winter to use those credits.

Depends on how much energy you generate. Solar power can easily generate the amount of energy consumed by air conditioning. Just gotta make sure peak summer output generates enough surplus to cover the needs of the other seasons. My solar system generates between 400-1100 kWh/month. It's always been enough and if my needs change I can always expand capacity.

> And if you have money to do so, buying an electric car can be also a good usage of those credits.

Absolutely. That's my next goal. I don't want to pay for gasoline anymore. I think it's still a bit too early for that, electric cars need to get cheaper for it to be truly worth it.
A danish labor union is currently suing for this. They have already settles on ~25.000 USD being paid out to one worker who was paid for 37 hours a week but according to his clocking in and out of the building area had worked up to 60 hours per week.

This is exactly one of the key responsibilities for labour unions to manage this interest on behalf of their members.