skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
About 4 to 5 feet, and I will turn my head 0 degrees. "Head turning" isn't a thing with large/multiple monitors. It's a manufactured problem by people who think multiple monitors are somehow bad or evil or just have never used them.

I have a comfortable chair with a headrest, my head sits against the headrest and my eyeballs do all of the moving, my neck doesn't need to move a millimeter to view the entire area of the screen(s).

Neck strain is simply not a thing with multiple monitors unless you have so many monitors that some sit behind you - but that is not what we are talking about. We're talking about 2 or 3 screens or an ultrawide or a large 55" or 65" curved screen sitting in front of you on a desk. None of these scenarios requires turning your neck at all, unless your eyeballs are permanently fixed dead ahead and you cannot move your eyeballs at all due to some serious neurological problem, and then you should go see a doctor.
I'm not an expert like you would find here on HN, I am only really a tinkerer and learner, amateur at best, but I think Intel's compute is very promising on Alchemist. The A770 beats out the 4060ti 16gb in video rendering via Davinci Resolve and Adobe; has AV1 support in free Davinci Resolve while Lovelace only has AV1 support in studio. Then for AI, the A770 has had a good showing in stable diffsion against Nvidia's midrange Lovelace since the summer: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/stable-diffusion-for-intel...

The big issue for Intel is pretty similar to that of AMD; everything is made for CUDA, and Intel has to either build their own solutions or convince people to build support for Intel. While I'm working on learning AI and plan to use an Nvidia card, its pretty the progress Intel has made in the last couple of years since introducing their first GPU to market has been pretty wild, and I think it really give AMD pause.
Those pictures remind me of the TV show on cartoon network toonami ReBoot.

Talk about a blast from the past.
The equations don’t just congeal out of the air, no matter how many people are thinking about the problems. They are indeed the results of some smart people figuring things out.
It's not a trick question because it's very clear what the key thing to think about it, the mirrored writing. A trick question would be something that's trying to divert your attention elsewhere with a red herring.
> However, that case did not narrow the definition of the phrase “waters of the United States” at all. No, it merely prevented the EPA from widening it over time.

SpaceX had requested a wetland reclamation permit from USACE for expansion of their launch site in Texas; in 2022 (a year before SCOTUS decided this case) they withdrew the application [0], exactly why is unclear, but it seems they concluded that bureaucratic process was unlikely to produce the result they wanted. Possibly, under this decision, the wetland (tidal flats actually) they wanted to reclaim is no longer “waters of the United States”, in which case they might be able to go ahead without the permit. If that’s the case, then in practice the definition really has been narrowed

[0] https://www.tpr.org/environment/2022-04-07/army-corps-of-eng...
Salaried used to mean you were paid a certain amount for working there and there was no accounting for time, vacation, or sick. It was the pinnacle of professional work, included two hour three martini lunches daily, and the ability to harass the hourly pool in various ways.

Overtime and various other hourly worker protections led to more and more work being classified as salaried, and with it, a removal of the “perks” for most salaried people.

Generally the primary perk that still follows salaried work though is the concept of vacation, sick time, and benefits albeit rationed and beancounted now.
SSH is the most fantastic piece of black magic. So many incredible things are easy and secure.

Port forwarding

Reverse port forwarding

Rsync

So much more. And it's free. What a privilege to be alive today - I remember when all this was just a dream.
There's obviously inefficiency in the system - a big cost every time a decision involves lawyers and even more if there are juries.

So we should understand that we don't have a way to be perfect and think about where to balance the trade-offs.

We want to give people a chance to make money before they are wiped out by those that copy them but I don't think we have an interest in someone "cornering the market" indefinitely.

We could reduce their lifetime - that would cut a lot of decisions.

We could limit the amount of money a patent is allowed to return based on an estimate of what it cost to create plus a reasonable profit rather like a kickstarter campaign.

We could cancel software patents altogether.
Open Source Pricing Guide
>I think it only ended up costing me $7/week in wages - but if I stole $7 out of the till each week for a year in a half I'd be charged with a felony.

These are not comparable as working an extra 15 minutes is a consensual tranaction where getting $7 stolen from the business was an unconsensual transaction. A better comparison would be along for a $7 per week raise.
It would be really hard to start a fire with an Arduino with 5V USB power. You might fry some components, but even then, they usually just stop working (with a little magic smoke if you're lucky, but typically not) and you lose a dollar or two. Don't let a genuine fear of safety issues stop you from tinkering with low-voltage hobby electronics. Stay away from 120/240VAC mains power of course, but an Arduino and the 5VDC from a USB charger is a pretty forgiving environment.
36 years here. 5 kids. Both of us chaste prior and monogamous after marriage.
Aside from it being supremely strange, it's just stupid enough that you risk overthinking each image to the point of answering it inaccurately. The person who approved these images has no business assessing personality types if they cannot understand the multiple ambiguous ways that many of these images can be interpreted. You have to try to infer what they probably meant by the image, and discard other valid interpretations.

The tragedy is that the test giver's job is communication and handing complex and subtle interactions, and they're already failing at it.
Yeah, so if you are familiar with human history and the exponential curve of increasing human wellbeing that we're riding and you still feel strongly that the future will be worse, then the conclusion should be that you're probably in an irrationally negative emotional headspace for some reason, not that you're right!

(I say that without judgement, having been in that exact headspace myself not too long ago.)
> why anyone would engage in business with a state if the latter were permitted to do whatever it wanted

High risk, high reward.

Also the state isn't permitted to do whatever it wants if it wishes to remain a part of the global financial system.
This is the risk of using a third world ccTLD in your cute domain.
Transmetta was Intels boogey-man in the 90s.
Your assessment of open source OCR performance is the same as mine - it still sucks. Even proprietary large models like Google Gemini suck at it.

If it helps at all, someone manually did it https://www.starwarz.com/starkiller/the-empire-strikes-back-...
Slack is similarly confusing. I've really never seen a conferencing app that does this well.
> If you invent something, there's a work product. There is documentation, notes, blueprints, CAD files, software, etc. You can sell this and license it however you want.

These would only be protected by copyright. So if you invent something but do not have the resources to create the implementation yourself (and therefore cannot patent the invention under the scheme proposed by GGP), but you licence the work products (documentation, software) to one or more companies who can then implement it, a larger, well-resourced competitor can just reimplement it without paying you as long as they did not need to use any of your documentation or software. So that reduces the value of your work products.

But if the converse happened, e.g., your customer reimplements something invented by the large competitor, they can get sued, because the large company, being able to implement their invention, can therefore file a patent. So it amplifies the effect of having more resources.

It would be fairer to treat the large company the same way, and only let them copyright the work products rather than patent the invention, putting them on the same level as a smaller inventor.
> Also, as someone who also lives in a tourist town, it is much better to herd them all together. Ironically, they end up having more fun because the locals are there to interact with each other, and the tourists are much more likely to inter-mingle.

Reminds me of Temple Bar in Dublin. Anyone from Dublin will always advise you to avoid the place as it is full of overpriced tourist traps, but tourists consistently go there and any I've spoken to always report having a great time. Leave them to it I guess!
The video says the gyros would continue spinning for 30 minutes (inertia) in the event of power failure. Enough time to get the kickstand down I guess.
Patents are vital to bringing things to market. It lessens the risk associated with investors getting returns, which allows funding for development.

I get that people don't like patents because they sometimes get abused, but on the whole I think we wouldn't have a lot of the things we take for granted if they didn't exist.
What If Tesla Can't Leave?
Pedestrian fatality rates are at a 40-year high.
https://www.npr.org/2023/06/26/1184034017/us-pedestrian-deat...
You're right about the dumb design decision. There's no good technical reason that it's so massive compared to the single tiny webcam. The only way it would have made any sense was if it also contained the FaceID array of cameras too. This was just Apple going all-in on the notch that was part of the "iconic" iPhone design. Now that the iPhone notch is on the way out, I expect they'll introduce the dynamic island to the MBP in a future update.
Not if you waited until marriage.
UpWork

But caveat emptor. The reason people have technical co-founders isn't because they hate having equity in their soon-to-be-unicorn startup; it's because if you're not technical to know exactly what to ask for, how to evaluate it and what is rational in terms of hours/rate, you stand a good chance of losing a lot of money and getting very, very little in return.
Yes, of course! And it's reasonable to think that living in both modest precarity and isolation is worse than living in somewhat more severe precarity; "affordable" places to live are inferior goods!

The problem, fundamentally, is that we, collectively and as a country, need to create more good places, rather than to exile people to the bad but affordable ones. We need a concerted effort to have strong towns and to put cars at the edge and not the center of those towns in order to have a healthy community future, and just sneering that you can buy a house in the hinterlands is both non-responsive and cruel to boot.
My wallet is about 25mm thick. If a folding phone is going to reduce its width/length, I think I'd want the folded thickness to be around the same as my wallet so I can stack them in my pocket without one slipping past the other.

This is how I used to carry my flip-phones, which were around that thickness which closed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayleigh–Jeans_law
"we will sell weapons as long as you promise not to use it"
I don't think AI is going to replace this job anytime soon.
Artist Holding Valuable Art Hostage to Protect Julian Assange
Ask HN: Interface Relationship Diagram?
What tool do you go to, to map out interfaces and their relationships. For example, we have a public API contract that is powered by our database and an external API source like Stripe's subscription object. I'd like to map out how these interfaces are linked.

In the past, I've utilized ERD tools but found them to be clunky and expect that your designing a database. Maybe I just have used the right one but please share if you have a go to tool!
> Chinese imperial rule lasted much longer, maybe 1,500 years?

This is true only if you consider many dynastic orders with significant periods of instability in between to constitute a single uninterrupted period "Imperial China". No single dynastic order lasted more than 500 years, arguably none more than 300.
https://archive.is/MBJZm
graeber/wengrow would disagree
Pineapple Express is still used and California was just hit by one. It’s a specific atmospheric river that extends from Northeast of Hawai’i to the Pacific Coast and sometimes further inland as far as Colorado. Not all atmospheric rivers are a Pineapple Express though.
No thread on Kalman Filters is complete without a link to this excellent learning resource, a book written as a set of Jupyter notebooks:

https://github.com/rlabbe/Kalman-and-Bayesian-Filters-in-Pyt...

That book mentions alpha-beta filters as sort of a younger sibling to full-blown Kalman filters. I recently had need of something like this at work, and started doing a bunch of reading. Eventually I realized that alpha-beta filters (and the whole Kalman family) is very focused on predicting the near future, whereas what I really needed was just a way to smooth historical data.

So I started reading in that direction, came across "double exponential smoothing" which seemed perfect for my use-case, and as I went into it I realized... it's just the alpha-beta filter again, but now with different names for all the variables :(

I can't help feeling like this entire neighborhood of math rests on a few common fundamental theories, but because different disciplines arrived at the same systems via different approaches, they end up sounding a little different and the commonality is obscured. Something about power series, Euler's number, gradient descent, filters, feedback systems, general system theory... it feels to me like there's a relatively small kernel of intuitive understanding at the heart of all that stuff, which could end up making glorious sense of a lot of mathematics if I could only grasp it.

Somebody help me out, here!
Yup. Used to work as an SRE, we were on-call 24/7 for PagerDuty (which, thankfully, wasn't horrific, but...). The company was "ramping up" for three shifts/follow-the-sun/whatever.

Over a year later, they were still "ramping up". Not a single interview had taken place, to the best of my knowledge.
> These were precisely the arguments for 'x86 will entrench Intel for all time', and we've seen AMD succeed at that game just fine.

... after a couple decades of legal proceedings and a looming FTC monopoly case convinced Intel to throw in the towel, cross-license, and compete more fairly with AMD.

https://jolt.law.harvard.edu/digest/intel-and-amd-settlement

AMD didn't just magically do it on its own.
Does it present a navigation hazard?
It's not really consent if you are being coerced by your employer.
Been loving your posts Chris! The suggestion here sounds awesome. I'd love a little more in depth example of what might go across the wire- the one example was probably more than enough for many but I was still curious technically what these query plans structurally looked like.

Kind of interesting in light of the previous submission, which I truly loved, on the diassbly of the data stack. Great post, and about decentralization of the technology. Yet this post is about a shared tie that could/should help bind, as so many different things are happening. https://materializedview.io/p/databases-are-falling-apart
I would love to be able to have a native stable diffusion experience, my rx 580 takes 30s to generate a single image. But it does work after following https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/wiki...

I got this up and running on my windows machine in short order and I don't even know what stable diffusion is.

But again, it would be nice to have first class support to locally participate in the fun.
yeah, these old mechanical control devices seem like a real life 'steam punk'.
If you you think that some cloth and resin patch is a good and safe repair for a bike frame, you can easily apply that technique to aluminum and steel too.
Sounds like it belongs to the locals. Let's not spoil it online...
Our Tenured Civ
TASP was renamed TASS a couple years ago, and it now offers only two seminars: Critical Black Studies and Anti-Oppressive Studies. The program has been taken over by woke radicals both on its board and in the administration, which is led by Amina Omari, someone with near-zero experience in education prior to her appointment. I receive desperate emails from them asking for volunteers and financial support, which suggest that they have lost some of their base due to their political choices.

Deep Springs is on a different track, but not a totally dissimilar one. That is, the school has been attempting to feminize for decades, a process that culminated in its conversion to co-education in 2018 after a long legal battle. I get the school's newsletters and see occasional land acknowledgements penned by privileged people of color, which tracks with a known trend in US liberal arts colleges.

But the real shift at DS, triggered by co-education, seems to be that it's less hard-core. One person called it "Benningtonization". The boys and girls all hive off into pairs, and the communal life of mind and labor and governance shrinks as it cedes ground to America's default version of life together, the romantic couple.

But the school has gone through many phases. This is no doubt a temporary one.
The math is not designed to intimidate but rather approach the "how to build sequence model" in a principled way from state space models, which draws from an arguably longer literature than neural networks.

Some of concepts are better explained here than anywhere else, and make it straightforward to make sense of Mamba, which is increasingly popular.
"Well, I went to school with [interviewer, one of], and damn can you believe the amount of paste he ate? And he loved eating and flinging boogers. And there was this time when he got..... lice!"

Just start making shit up cause there's no fucking way you're going to be there.
The average household income in East Palestine is $40k. Hard to take a comment like this seriously when that’s the case.

Given the reality of the situation, they likely wouldn’t see a dime back. Something tells me they can’t afford that kind of loss.
Hi Chris!

I also felt like the essay suffered a lot from generalization -- Harrison happened to talk to these three people, and extrapolated way too much from that.
Yeah, I meant that to be the implication of the sentence, at some point folks take their ball and go home, and we have to see weeks of trending hashtags about the injustice done to Europe
2024 could be the pivotal year for Cold War 2 (paywall)
The other big need is for a straightforward library for dynamic allocation/sharing of GPUs. Bitfusion was a huge pain in the ass, but at least it was something. Now it’s been discontinued, the last version doesn’t support any recent versions of PyTorch, and there’s only two(?) possible replacements in varying levels of readiness (Juice and RunAI). We’re experimenting now with replacing our Bitfusion installs with a combination of Jupyter Enterprise Gateway and either MIGed GPUs or finding a way to get JEG to talk to a RunAI installation to allow quick allocation and deallocation of portions of GPUs for our researchers.
This is great context. Unfortunately I don't think the test taker had the neglect here. The instructions for this test do not mention the captions, and they clearly don't fit on the screen and are hidden by default on their phone!

To me the neglect here is on the developers of the test for only half supporting mobile, and on FedEx for using such terribly designed test.

This is setting aside whether or not someone thinks personality tests are good or valid tests in the first place.
Aren't there 11 parentheses in both of your code snippets? I must be missing something, sorry could you possibly explain where the missing parenthesis should be?
NVIDIA is about ecosystem plays, they have no interest in sabotage or anti competition plays. Leave that to apple and google and their dumb app stores and mobile OSs.
FOSDEM was my first conference, and I'm glad I attended. I wish I had talked with more people and better planned my day, but there's always next year!
There are various problems with 'what incredible software has this produced?'.

Various incredible software which has been produced date back from before the Lisp machine went the way of the dodo. An example of this would be Genera.

Other incredible software has a very specific type of draw which doesn't work for everyone. Examples would be Guix and Emacs.

And yet other software is very niche, leading to it being barely discoverable. As Lisp isn't a hot programming language (like Rust is), these projects don't usually get 'this thing was programmed in Lisp' coverage. Things like NASA's SPIKE, for example (cfr. <https://allegrograph.com/press_room/franzs-allegro-cl-used-f...>).
The racing frames here don't break as a rule as OP suggests, if one does there was a manufacturing flaw or a crash/impact of some kind.

A few grams of weight does not have enough impact TT bike performance enough to make it worth shaving 100 grams if it risks reliability.
Yes, the eastern segment, there is also a western discontiguous segment of CA 168.

There is of course an interesting history about this road: https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/fseprd499744....
Has anything else notable been done with Arc?

Rather than "Lisp gives you superpowers", maybe the story is actually "there were some very effective developers who happened to use Lisp to build their stuff".
40% decline in permanent residents becoming Canadian citizens since 2001
Ask HN: Challenges with RAG
RAG seems to be the winning methodology for building Chat-with-your-data applications.

HakcerNews: what do you find to be the most challenging issue when migrating RAG applications from simple prototypes to enterprise scale?
In Oklahoma, OUHSC is using NeuralRad
Do they have supercharger network there? If not then KIA EV6 and Hyundai Ioniq are better than model 3 and Y and I'd imagine there are some sort of domestic incentives involved
The tucked aero position is only allowed in time trials since it's unsafe when riding in a pack, so UCI compliant time trials bikes look pretty similar to triathlon bikes, just with the traditional double diamond frame design.
I don't think i'd use the word selfish, but I do think it's interesting that many people who aren't wanting kids don't do it for the reasons I'd assume.

If you would have told me people choose not to have kids because they already feel they are contributing to bettering the world through some other mission, it would make sense. If you're a doctor or scientist or even a nurse or something where you feel your career is a calling, I can understand feeling stretched thin enough to not want to have kids.

But that's not what many of my anti-kid friends say. They basically say it would interfere with their netlfix watching, video game playing, luxury travel lifestyle.

It's not that kids would take away from other meaningful ways of connecting to humanity, its' that they'd get in the way of their consumption.
If it wasn't a resource problem, giving birth in a US hospital would not cost $30k in shockingly common cases.

I don't want to have kids because I lived through the "just suffer through poverty" experience and it's a great way to raise kids that have to support the psychiatry industry the rest of their lives. Poverty literally breaks a kid's brain, and you CANNOT hide money problems from your children.

That life is one "hey we didn't do good this quarter so you're being let go" away from happening for most of us. So yeah, a lot of us don't want kids.
Beautiful. And so ambitious, when you realize there is even one to teach assembly language to kids.

They were also translated in French and quite popular.