skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why not? They tell US car makers what their products should do. The same for fruit growers, clothes makers and thousands of other businesses selling into the common market. It's called regulation and it's a normal part of modern life.

We're a society of laws and they apply equally to everyone. If you don't like the laws either vote accordingly, talk to your representative, organise a political action, or leave for a more agreeable jurisdiction.

Also, the US fined Airbus $582 million in 2020.
Pedantic nitpick:

> Matt Glassman — a congressional scholar at Georgetown who has spent most of his adult life studying the Hill — wanted to know the answer to an obscure procedural question. “When was the last time a ruling of the chair was overturned on appeal in the House?” he asked on X, tagging an anonymous user named @ringwiss.

> Less than a minute later, the mysterious account responded with an answer — 1938 — and a decades-old edition of the Congressional Record to prove it.

No, a copy of the 1938 Congressional record does not prove that. The question was “When was the last time…?” I don’t doubt that he’s correct, and the error is on the part of the writer, but what he’s proven is that the answer can’t be earlier than 1938.

And yes, very much a pedantic nitpick in an otherwise interesting article.
>I mostly agree, which is why I question their strategy of even "competing" at all.

If it makes their camera "smarter", it's a win. If they can make Siri do something more than "start a timer", then it's a win. If they can have images translate text more accurately, it's a win. There's a lot of things that an on device AI could help users without having to do all of the power hungry creation of a model or the fine tuning. They can do that in the mothership, and just push models on their device.

Not everyone needs to do AI the way you are trying to do it
Trust me, this time is different.
The underlying queue is very similar. See this comment, which details how we're different from a library client: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39644327. We also have the concept of workflows, which last I checked doesn't exist in River.

I'm personally very excited about River and I think it fills an important gap in the Go ecosystem! Also now that sqlc w/ pgx seems to be getting more popular, it's very easy to integrate.
The experiment seems flawed because they might think the experimenter knows the right choice and tries to lead them to the wrong answer. If you're only interested in studying regret, I wouldn't let the experimenter know the right cup.
In re Meta Pixel Healthcare Litigation [pdf]
> This is probably a big reason why most programs use external storage solutions even if they’re less efficient - it centralizes maintenance of state onto a system that has well defined semantics and can handle repair transparently.

Indeed, now contrast with the article on HN discussing orthogonal persistence.
How hyperbaric oxygen therapy works
Ente Auth https://auth.ente.io/auth
Are you saying you’re a doctor? The comment didn’t direct that insult at doctors.
Any chance you could share more specifics about your solution?
Yes, it looks like the Homebrew script is pointing to a zip file that doesn't exist. The URL is wrong. Somebody's created a PR to fix it:

https://github.com/wkaisertexas/ScreenTimeLapse/pull/21
It's amazingly ironic that a charity focused on aligning AI couldn't even align its own CEO.
>Um, the fact that they did not know the rules of their own institution? If you don't find that appalling, I gotta ask, why not? These are the people who run Congress. It's their job to know these things.

I'd say that problem is that the rules are too obscure, unclear, complicated, and unsuited for the way they are used today.

It is appalling that we are at that stage, but assuming that the rules are simple, and the staffers are inept is unwarranted.

>Not at all. Just applying common sense to what people who run an institution ought to know as part of their jobs. See above.

Ah, same common sense that would require any lawyer to just know all the laws and precedent.

Similarly, every software engineer just knows the full spec of all programming languages, and in particular = C++, and would not ever need to resort to StackOverflow to look up or ask a question. It's just common sense!

Wait, no, it isn't, and your entire argument boils down to "it's just common sense that I'm right!".

For one, the US Congress is not a common institution, but even if it were, it's just common sense!" isn't even an argument.

>Um, actually, no, I have considerable experience in the construction industry.

The subject matter is congressional rules. You can talk about construction all day long, but your opinions on the subject matter are unqualified and based on zero experience (i.e. worthless).

Again, you aren't even trying to present any basis for why the work of that 20-year-old isn't deep and complex.

>It seems to me that if anyone here is making arguments based on unwarranted assumptions and zero actual information, it's you.

It seems incorrectly. I am basing my opinions on the information presented in the article, and on the qualified opinions of the professionals in the field who, having many years of experience, do think that person is a savant.

Also, a person quoted in the article commented in this very thread, saying essentially the same things as I said above [1].

So, I have a lot of basis for my assumptions, as well as actual information.

You're welcome to peruse it.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39648859
Many (30ish) years ago, I subscribed (or my parents did on my behalf, I was 9) to Model Railroader magazine. A significant portion of that hobby seemed to be focused on this sort of photography and the construction or use of these lenses.

I haven’t thought about it much since then (or much at the time, since I was a lot less interested in the detailed modeling and a lot more interested in the control systems and coming up with complex track layouts), but the pictures those guys took were always pretty cool.
Put simply: Housing restriction is largely at the municipal level, whereas immigration is at the federal level.

There are few if any common values or objectives that unite into coherent leadership across levels of government. Everyone for themselves, and the results are quite often ludicrous and to the severe negative for citizens.
Really have an axe to grind with this comment...
Let’s switch tracks for a second. Have you ever noticed how at a job, not having enough work produces a different (and usually worse) state of misery than having too much?

Join a non-profit and a lot of these problems go away :)
Isn't OBS an open-source screen recorder, plus a lot more? What's the distinguishing factor here? It'd be nice if that was the title instead.
This study seems severely flawed.
The Suicide PhD Candidate Huixiang Chen (2019)
It's good to remember that statistics is a garbage in, garbage out process. The data you have almost never measures exactly the right thing. Usually it's something related to what you want, and you have to be careful when drawing conclusions.

As it became obvious during the pandemic, death reporting is all about bureaucracy. Even in developed countries with the administration working more or less normally, it can take weeks or even months for deaths to register. Some deaths are reported multiple times, some are not at all (until someone notices something is wrong), and sometimes the reports from a certain source are not included in the total, often due to technical/communications issues. And the process is certainly not FIFO.

It could be that the reported numbers from Gaza are fake. Or it could be that the number of death reports the administration can process every day is relatively stable. When there are more deaths, there will be more lag in reporting. And when you see something weird in daily death reports (not daily deaths), it could reflect the internal structure of the administration.

Also, deaths are usually underreported in urban warfare, sometimes significantly so. For example, most estimates of civilian deaths in the Battle of Mosul are between 10k and 40k.
The current members are almost all from for-profit backgrounds, they are on Sams side here.
i think those tables could be a facinating product. All parties involved could purchase them for private and public use.

P.S.
I thought one was suppose to spend the HN points on mocking north-americans, shameless self-promotion, unpopular facts, general trolling and complaints about topics existing. I could go on but I haven't the points.
Poll: openAI dominating, relevant or depleted in 10 years?
Usually in a non-profit the board itself elects new members if necessary. It depends on the charter.
> 1: very broadly speaking, to me it could take rest of my life

Perhaps coincidentally the rule of thumb is that it takes about 100 developer-years to go from zero to a viable kernel.
What happened to the thing crypto is for: buying stuff with crypto? Cashing out to fiat means you still have to further invest that money to gain suitable assets which will generate passive income, also known as 'putting your money to work for you'. Unless you blow it all down the pub and squander it on luxury goods and don't invest it.
I would get something off the hardware compatibility list for Asteroid OS (Linux for smart watches).

https://asteroidos.org/
It looks like this software is actually for recording time lapses, specifically:

> Take color-accurate timelapses of your screens and cameras on MacOS

But speaking of OBS, I use it on my Mac (a Mac Studio with an M1 Ultra and 64gb memory) and it does not feel good. The interface feels slow and laggy, and after Sonoma introduced native noise canceling for all microphones, the audio recording of my mic sounds deeply pitch shifted and slowed to the point that I sound like a hostage taker making a phone call to the police in some old 80s movie. I can't find a way to fix that despite fiddling for hours.
A single MRI needs around 1000 liters, 1L is roughly 130g. For those who wonder prices vary between $15-35 per liter. Recent MRIs have recycling systems that reduce refill needs by 90% when they work properly.
Audio quality is excellent, voices are great. I'm curious, what AI service is used for text to speech generation?
> Her family moved to a rural area. It’s hard to get medical and emergency services there.

Angela Chao died on February 11, 2024, at the age of 50.

According to the Blanco County sheriff, she died after her Tesla went into a pond on her private ranch (named JWCB Ranch, or JW Ranch for short), which is located at 101 Schneider Lane in Johnson City, about 40 miles west of Austin.

She was under water for over an hour as rescuers tried to reach her and extricate her from the submerged car. Upon her removal from the car, EMS workers delivered "advanced life support" for 43 minutes, but were unable to revive her.

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

Assuming the address is correct:

https://www.landandfarm.com/property/893-acres-in-blanco-cou...

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/101-Schneider-Ln-Johnson-...
I think that's a mistaken way of viewing it. Apple's failure in the gaming space is entirely a matter of policy; you look over at the Steam Deck and Valve is running Microsoft IP without paying for their runtime. Some people really do get their cake and eat it too.

Any of the aforementioned libraries could make their camera smarter or improve Siri/OCR marginally. The fact that Apple wasted their time reinventing the wheel is what bothers me, they're making a mistake by assuming that their internal library will inherently appeal to developers and compete with the SOTA.

The reason why I criticize them is because I legitimately believe Apple is one of the few companies capable of shipping hardware that competes with Nvidia. Apple is their only competitor at TSMC, it's entirely a battle of engineering wits between the two of them right now. Apple is going nowhere fast with CoreML and Accelerate framework, but they could absolutely cut Nvidia off at the pass by investing in the unified infrastructure that Intel and AMD refuse to. It also wouldn't harm the customer experience, leverages third-party contributions to advance their progress, and frees up resources to work on more important things. Just sayin'.
https://archive.ph/J7r67
That's the one. I got them mixed up. Link for it is here: https://archive.org/details/MicroXP-0.82
For those wondering about the difference between this and OBS, it looks like this is actually for creating time lapses of the desktop and camera specifically:

> A open-source menu bar application for creating screen and camera timelapses without excessive file sizes.

It should probably be in the title.
Probably just have it attached to self, like self.context

But nbd IMHO
> truth was found and the record corrected. That's exactly the result we want.

I hope science can one day overcome people like you and actually address the systemic issues it is facing. Denial that there is anything really wrong, that ultimately everything works fine so nothing has to fundamentally change, is exactly the problem that causes those systemic failures we are seeing in science and academia all the time.

This is exactly why Nature can write about their own failure, because there are no expectations beyond "hoping" and trusting they change. But of course nothing will ever actually change.
Sadly this comparison is very misleading. Steam was a thing for a decade before the windows store and it has been basically the default. The more game stores that appeared over time the worse it has been for the gamers.
The problem isn't logging in. It's trying to figure out what account to share access to. For a pretty straightforward analogy, I have never had to figure out somebody's steam handle in order to reply to them on HN.

And when I'm replying to someone on HN, I never have to worry "do they have an HN account already?".
Initiated the "violence" by smashing machines that threatened their way of life. That doesn't really fit my definition of violence, sorry.
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Hey, maybe Apple should have thought of that and reduced their app store fee to 5% years ago then.

Nobody would be going after Apple if they had simply stopped their monopoly pricing scheme.

Its too late for that now. Now Apple is going to be forced, under threat of government action, to stop its anti-competitive actions.
Are there any hardware MP3 players that allow you to change the playback speed?
Who doesn’t use the function of changing the playback speed for boring lectures at the computer, but I want a small device for listening to podcasts with this ability.
I believe this was confirmed and they aim to switch by end of the month. Those interested in Unraid who prefer the old model may wish to pick up a perpetual license now.

https://unraid.net/blog/pricing-change

disclaimer - I'm not an Unraid user.
Why all the complex formulas?

This (for example) performs exponential smoothing:

new += (target - old) / 4;

That's it!

(The exponentially smoothed animation looks weird to me, in any case.)
only about 4$ of parts [cost] have been used to build a complete amplified audio game with 1 minute Audio storage and many sentences.

For truly low-cost MCUs with similar capabilities and applications, look at Generalplus/Sunplus ICs -- sub-$1 prices, bare die/COB, and widely used in commercial products. E.g. GPC22C170A has 256B of RAM and 512KB of ROM.

https://www.generalplus.com/1LVlangLN14SVprot_noSNproduct
That progress is inevitable? Idk, if progress was inevitable, why did organizers have to be executed to make progress happen?
Sigma-delta is not difficult.

Bresenham's algorithm (which was invented around 1960 to draw straight lines at arbitrary angles on pixellated displays) was groundbreaking because it didn't require any multiply or add operations.

Sigma-Delta is basically the same idea as Bresenham's algorithm in a different kind of space.
I think it's much worse for a grad student. It may have to do with the cultures of industry and the academe.

In industry, competitive hiring and job-hopping are considered to be normal. Confidentiality is assumed, for the most part. There are some stock, face-saving reasons why you're leaving your previous job, that don't open cans of worms. There are lists of questions that you don't ask. And It's not weird if you're changing jobs after a couple of years. Your seniority and promotion clocks don't typically get reset to zero.
I wish this was built in but understand the intentional abusive psychological exploit that it isn’t.
I don't see the problem here. Are you not able to discern different arguments/ideas and come to conclusions by yourself?
Their movement was very popular at the time, which is why it was a threat to the ruling class, which is why they executed the organizers with extreme prejudice.
I'm assuming specifically you mean Nex functions? Otherwise NATS gives you connectivity and a message queue - it doesn't (or didn't) have the concept of task executions or workflows.

With regards to Nex -- it isn't fully stable and only supports Javascript/Webassembly. It's also extremely new, so I'd be curious to see how things stabilize in the coming year.
> EPIC is forced to accept that Apple is complying with the DMA.

No they don't. They are absolutely still able to start a lawsuit, as is the EU.

We likely won't have to wait more than a couple weeks to see the lawsuits filed.
From my few hours of research on Xerox PARC, the laser printer did make a huge return (as you note, correctly); it's just "typical Xerox" that the engineers who invented LASER printing (i.e. using a laser to scan) also had to sit on their invention for years because the executive/sales teams didn't believe in an already-functional technology (the first decade of Xerox "non-ink printers" used visible light; the laser literally had to be forced into the Xerox equipment by R&D..!
While it is not a "hardware player" the "Voice Audiobook Player" on F-droid (for Android phones) does have an adjustable playback speed:

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.ph1b.audiobook/
Any chance to get more screenshots or a short video, explaining what cyclops actually does?
Not many. They're flavored water. Randos who lay down the tired bullshit Sodas all the same are morons who don't have a clue what they're talking about. The biggest negatives are likely the acidification due to the presence of carbonation interfering vitamin absorption and enamel erosion. A minor issue is the risks from potentially unsafe food colorings still found in many American beverages.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/does-carbonat...
That's... a really cool idea
> It's just someone hasn't taken the time to make this "thing" yet.

DietPi [1] has one massive (15KLoC) bash script [2] for system config.

[1] https://dietpi.com

[2] https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi/blob/master/dietpi/dietpi...
on one point they say they are returning faster than the predicted 5yrs, but they exist for five years .. so what's what?
Or that anyone actually pressed agree, let alone the owner. No simple computer action like that can actually be proven to have been done by any particular person, or any person at all vs say soda spill or a kid or a dog or a fall or I was changing the batteries in the other room not even looking at the screen etc etc.

There's no way this holds up to the slightest challenge, but they probably won't have to face any challenge because who's going to do it? The math doesn't work for anyone and the legal system doesn't provide any allowance for "it's just harmful to society as a whole to allow this behavior".
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Smashing machines that threaten a large group of people's way of life isn't violence that I care about. Why do you care about it? Do you put yourself more in the position of the machine-owner than the machine operator?

> Imagine if we were still weaving our clothes by hand because master weavers in the 1800s were scared of losing their jobs.

Seems like that might have been a win-win-win. We would have high quality clothing. Weavers would have a high quality of life. Fast fashion, and it's unquantifiably massive environmental impact, wouldn't exist. Where's the downside?
> If you want to do business with someone, you and them both agree to and abide by terms set forth. If you don't like the terms, you renegotiate and if that doesn't pan out you terminate the agreement according to terms therein or otherwise as amicably as possible and go on your way.

Well no. Instead of that, if the other party is required by law to do business with you, then you can use government force to make them do so.

And if Apple disagrees, then they are perfectly within their right to shutdown their EU operations and lose tens of billions of dollars I guess.

But the rest of us are perfectly willing to use democratically enacted laws, as they are intended.

> but Apple doesn't need Epic

They need the EU though. And if they don't comply with the law then they will be fined many billions of dollars, or be shut down entirely in the EU.
Even a conservative JPEG compression gets this image down to about 1.3MB.

But the way to go these days is WebP, which gets the image down to 319KB, with compression set to 55.
heres how I learn programming languages.

read a page, keep a notebook next to you and rewrite each paragraph in your own words. it forces you to engage more deeply with the material
Garbage LLM generated SEO spam.
Dunno if HN is the place to call for someone’s death. Besides, Bill isn’t the one making the decisions in the article so what does he have to do with it anyway? He started MS?
But how do women get out of the home and into the labor force?

Historically, it's made possible by economic and technological development making running a home no longer a full time job, so women are able to take jobs.

Countries that don't let women work in that stage are pretty rare (Saudi Arabia and a few others).
I think we're talking about different scales. At the small scale the military screws up all the time. At the big scale the military fields more bases, ship tonnage, airplanes, etc than any other organization in the world. It's exactly this ability to derive successful operation from unreliable parts that I'm pointing toward.
It's declarative, i.e. it needs to know what's in the list at IDE time. I can't explain more intelligently than that, though.
Industrialization hasn't exactly been a clear win. The environmental toll is still something we're grappling with, it created a type of poverty that hadn't existed before, and it drove at least two world-scale wars. In other words: don't threaten me with a good time.
Microsoft at least got licenses to a bunch of tech in return for their “donations”.
A 3Dconnexion SpaceMouse [0] to step up my FreeCAD UX [1].

[0] https://3dconnexion.com/us/product/spacemouse-wireless/
[1] https://wiki.freecad.org/3Dconnexion_input_devices
Also, orange juice, while not laden with HFCS, has even more calories than Coke. (Exception: Tropicana waters down their re-flavored, rehydrated, old, deoxygenated concentrate to the same sugar levels as soda.) Fruit juices are essentially sugar so many of them are also a hard pass.
The second experiment seems wrong.

> But now, if you switch and are correct, you win $6.

Everyone I know, would switch. It's a linear optimization.
Prediction: no study will be able to replicate these findings.
The most common, plain meanings of the phrase “rightfully so” do imply a basis in morality.

It’s fair to say that it can mean that the “rightness” is derived from other sources, but pretending that the primary meaning of the phrase doesn’t imply morality is just being intentionally obtuse.
Amanda is one the most talented researchers at Anthropic. Truly an honor to work with her.
> the recent (-1,0,1) encoding?

A side point, but this "recent" encoding goes back to a 2017 paper from the Allen Institute. These days a seven year old paper is ancient.

They went further and showed you could could get away with binary, you don't even need trinary!
Doe v. Google (tracking, collection, monetisation of private health data) [pdf]