skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Does that not mean that his own defence was claiming he was nuts?

The plea agreement spells this out more carefully. The states public defender doubted his competency. The judge then ordered a report from a doctor and on that basis found he was not mentally competent. He was then ordered to be restored to competency and that order included that he take medication for his "condition."

This was also precisely at the beginning of 2020, so he had to endure all of this set against the madness of the beginning of the COVID pandemic. I'm sure the effort to "restore" his competency didn't suffer for it.

The court, I felt, knew exactly what it was doing, and after having enough of this "treatment" the victim pled "no contest," which magically restored his competency in the eyes of the court, and he was released with time served. The court charged him $400 for the completely unethical dispatch of injustice.

> I'd like to know why the court didn't jump straight to the DNA test.

His defender certainly should have made the same effort the hospitals investigator did. That's what invoked the reaction from me. He was indigent and the court just didn't want anything to do with him other than for him to just sort of "go away."

More importantly, there were enough other inconsistencies in this case that the court should have been inclined to act more carefully. I hope everyone involved has had a chance to think about their role in this and feel bad about it.
> Nearly 70% of the students were white.

I bluntly don't get this. About 75% of the US population is white [1], and Seattle are is not particularly thickly populated by Blacks (unlike Southeast), Native Americans (unlike the Great Lakes area), etc. In other words, the program managed to bring in more racially diverse students than one would expect from average numbers.

I also don't see any quotation saying that the particular racial makeup was the reason to alter the program. I suspect racial profiling in education might just be unlawful!

[1]: https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/POP010220
I want to know why these places don't simply dramatically drop the accuracy requirement.

Rather than giving itemized receipts, give just a total dollar value. Then just make sure that most customers are charged within 10% of the correct amount.

Only if the customer requests and itemized receipt, then go watch the video and generate them one. But after a while most customers won't request it, and that means you can just guess at a dollar amount and as long as you're close-ish (which should be easy based on weight and past purchase history), that's fine.
Yup, or things like sulphur thermal storage[1]. Also, hydrogen is pushed heavily by the fossil fuel industry, as it will provide another out for all their methane reserves (via steam reforming).

[1]https://www.solarpaces.org/why-solar-sulphur-cycle-ideal-sea...
> Nobody has any problem with Irish heritage groups, or Polish, or Italian

What about German or Austrian heritage groups?

> "White" isn't a coherent thing

But black, Asian or Latino are? They span whole continents, dozens of countries with radically different cultures.

"White" is synonym with "European heritage". It is just as simple and as complex as any of the other broad categories mentioned earlier. But while it is socially acceptable to create associations for the former, the latter are looked at with such suspicion that only the most radicalized are even willing to join. Similar story with heterosexuals and men.
> It's a 1000 bucks to restore 4 TB in 48 hours.

What? This tool is exceptionally out of date. Retrieval cost is $30/TB at the high end, and for glacier deep archive and a 48 hour window it only costs $2.50/TB. (Plus a few cents per thousand requests, so maybe don't use tiny objects.)

Glacier's percentage-rate-based retrieval pricing was only active from 2012-2016.

The bandwidth charge of $90/TB is still accurate. Though there are ways to reduce it.
>A note of caution: of course, it’s impossible to sum up a whole generation based on a mix of opinions from a few workplaces!

Ironic that this article feels I'm the one who needs warning
I was most interested in the offline aspect of it, which I wouldn't know where to even start with if I were to fork.

How do you parse and efficiently store large, unstructured information for arbitrary, unstructured queries?
I stand corrected: did the maths wrong. Centuries it is.
>but at that point you might as well use Malloc and Realloc.

IIRC, the first edition of the classic K&R C book, The C Programming Language, had an example of creating a memory allocator and using it.
I love suggesting the novel “A concise Chinese-English dictionary for Lovers” as it really shows how people from such different cultures such as the chinese perceive the western world (at least in the first few chapters) (and yes i know the book is about the UK and not the US)
It certainly sounds good on paper, but I feel like this has unintended consequences: Evidence captured with phone cameras is quite literally null and void. Invalid. Phones use a metric ton of AI enhancements to get anywhere near the quality of what dedicated cameras could do 15 years ago.

AI to enhance faces.

AI to denoise the insufferably noisy phone camera.

AI to align and stack multiple pictures to get better low light performance.

AI to replace the difficult to capture moon with moon pictures taken by good cameras in your area.

AI to align and stack multiple pictures to get better dynamic range.

AI to convert higher dynamic range into normal dynamic range.

AI to upscale digitally zoomed in pictures to get a consistent resolution.

AI to align and stack multiple pictures to get more resolution.

This is what your phone does on the fly. Everything your phone captures is AI-enhanced. A small sensor physically can't capture anywhere near the quality of dedicated cameras. So they use software to bridge the gap. Again, AI-enhanced, invalid evidence.
For a second I thought a new problem was found on which quantum computers actually outperform classical computers. (Unlike the last 'breakthrough', it turns out quantum computers are better at simulating quantum processes, who'd have thought).

But no. It may be a breakthrough but making it useful is something else.
It's not the social network's job to preserve image quality. That would be mixing up the concerns.
It has been fixed but a similar problem (with the same repro case) reappeared with a recent Windows update, only now when closing the popup.
It's a bit of sensationalist reporting.

Humans lose their way all the time! Not all of them, fortunately; local extreme perturbations usually relax after some time, and merge with the general more-or-less-sensible background. (Not always, sadly.)
The artwork comes across as Japanesque.
In the world of software, the closest equivalent to outsider art would probably be TempleOS:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TempleOS
Where is the ecosystem with jails?
Not talking about technical advantages.
I think it's a recruiters network and for others, it's 60% job search, 15% network, 15% social, and 10% learning
I remember when they were big. People signed anyone’s key, didn’t need to know them. Yes, sensible people thought this was an issue. Still happened.
Show HN: OS Image processing API running on edge functions using Rust and WASM
Image processing/transformations with built-in CDNs is one of the more common solutions you would find out there but can get pretty expensive and locked in over time.

Vercel is a good example that provides a built-in “next/image” solution for the NextJS framework that optimises images for better performance, while it does make it convenient, it can get pretty expensive over time and has limited functionality.

Alternatively, running your own service with one of the most common image processing libraries like SharpJS is great but can get pretty difficult to run in a serverless environment with CDNs and all the other bells and whistles alongside all your other code while the cold startup time of Sharp in a serverless environment can be pretty brutal.

With all the growth around rebuilding engines in Rust for performance gains, I thought there must be an image processing library written in Rust which could be compiled to WebAssembly (WASM) and run way faster. That’s when I discovered Photon https://github.com/silvia-odwyer/photon by Silvia, who has done amazing work with the library.

This eventually led me to discover https://github.com/fineshopdesign/cf-wasm/tree/main/packages... that has already transcribed the Photon package into a WASM binary for easy use in edge v8 environments like Cloudflare workers or NextJS Edge functions.

Using these packages I built an API layer on the NextJS framework allowing you to easily process local and remote images at blazing fast speeds with a bunch of helper functions making it similar to use as most paid Image processing APIs. If hosted on Vercel, you can make use of the built-in CDN cache for files less than 10 MB at no extra charge with Edge caching.

Some of the features:

- Blazing fast image processing
- Fully serverless, runs on Vercel Edge functions

- Resize, crop, compress, tint, rotate, format and more

- Global distribution with Edge functions

- Automated CDN cache with Edge functions

- Replacement for `next/image` processing on Vercel

- Local and remote image processing

Some problems:

- The Photon lib has last been updated in 2020

- There are still a few obvious bugs when using it for more advanced requirements like 8k image processing on edge function due to poor memory management in Rust

- No sexy features right now like AI image optimisation and selective background blurring

- If you are looking for an all-in-one solution with Image Storage + image processing/CDN, this is not it (something we will be releasing soon on JigsawStack.com)

I think the Photon library and the API have a lot more potential for growth and will be hoping for more contributions from the community as Rust gets more popular!
There should be no other art, arguably.

What is an "insider" in art? Someone who has a private telephone line to the god of true style?
>The best part about using nuclear for fuel generation

The main point of this operation is to utilize free surplus energy from solar and wind to store fuel for days where solar and wind can't produce enough. Free-as-in-beer surplus, since the energy would otherwise be wasted or sold at negative prices, like what we have been seeing lately in certain markets.

Nuclear can always produce electricity, so converting to fuel has no benefits it's just a loss compared to using the electricity directly. Also, nuclear electricity is never free but always very expensive because you need a large amount of very highly educated people and expensive infrastructure to deal with it.

>you can build a DAC fuel generator way out in the middle of nowhere.

If things go very badly with a nuclear reactor, there's no such thing as a "middle of nowhere" that's far enough away. The fallout from Chernobyl made certain foods as far away as the arctic circle unsuitable for human consumption.
I think this is a crazy reason to shut it down, but I'm curious about how the system works over there.

I'll describe the grammar school system here in Kent, which is adjacent to London. Over here they call the selective government schools "Grammar Schools". Grammar schools are free, and the top grammars send a comparable number of kids to Oxbridge as the top independent (aka Private for internaional readers, Public for British readers) schools. For reference the most expensive school in the area is also one of the most expensive schools in the country, at about £33K a year for day and £45K for boarding.

The year the kids turn 11, (year 6), they start the year with a test. It looks a lot like an IQ test, complete with silly questions like "what does this shape look like from this direction". There's also a bunch of standard stuff like arithmetic and vocabulary. It is a single sitting on a single day, so try not to be ill.

The thing is, and I didn't know this until after we got the results, almost every kid who gets in had a tutor for the test. My kid was getting fewer and fewer playdates after school in years 4 and 5, and I suspect this is why. Nobody admits to hiring a tutor for some reason, but everyone does it.

The kid then gets in anyway, and what do you find?

Most primary school kids were not privately educated, but most of his classmates came from private schools. He went to one, and this school has the highest representation in the new intake. I met the other parents, and it's just a selection of other private schools in the area. Maybe one or two from local state schools. I got my kid to ask, and sure enough everyone had a tutor.

In terms of ethnicity, it's pretty mixed. There's more Chinese/Asian kids there than I suspect there are in the local population. There's more Indian/Asian (Asian in the UK means India/Pakistan/Bangladesh/Sri Lanka) kids there than I see in everyday life. There's a few black kids as well, and a lot of mixed kids. The majority is white, as you'd expect.

So if you care about race, you'd probably say it's nicely mixed. If you care about social mobility, I think you might be disappointed.
Ok, go ahead and scrutinize those files without looking at the injection code that was never in the repo? Can you find anything malicious? Probably not - it looks like random garbage which is what it was claimed to be.
Anki!
Curious to know how you built this. Is it GPT-4 or a fine-tuned model. How much does it cost?
I don't fully understand your comment, are you implying that older generations were able to buy a house in their 20s because they were loyal to their companies?
Explanation here: https://github.com/helm/helm/issues/12681#issuecomment-19593...

Looks like it's a bug in Helm, but actually isn't Helm's fault, the issue was introduced by Fedora Linux.

(This issue is linked from the article, but it took me some time to find it.)
Does that mean Saffron is dangerous for pregnant women?
Thank you. I’ll give it a try
Also, in case of top tier of biological weapon, even a single strike - or a single accident - has potentially unlimited area of effect, up to and including the entire planet.

Remember COVID-19? Whether you believe in it being natural or a lab leak, it is a good model of how a handling mishap with a mediocre bioweapon would look like.
Ask HN: Why does VSCode fully drain MacBook Pro (M2) battery in 2hrs?
A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

Frost is incomparable.
On the other hand, would you expect Microsoft to continue to provide free security patches infinitely?

I think it's fair to stop patching for free.

And it adds incentive for the switch to Linux.
banks have all this info - its already published to 3rd parties via rewards schemes and tbh i wouldnt be surprised if the banks sell it as well. retailers resell it... none of this data is private. in effect i am publishing it already. but as you say, i would gladly have it all posted online for anybody to see if it meant financial transparency for all.

edit: perhaps i wouldnt like my bank balance published... that may make some individuals targets. in thinking about it perhaps i would prefer financial "transaction" transparency. then we would have to guard against huge cash transactions tho somehow. its clearly a difficult topic but its also the source of a lot of the worlds corruption and misery.
Prompt Engineering vs. Finetuning vs. RAG
According to 9to5mac [1], my 2023 16" MBP should have around 14 hours of "wireless web battery".

Today it lasted 2 hours flat. I had around 5 smallish files open in vscode and wasn't doing anything at all interesting or intensive (no docker, no automated testing, just writing code, and pretty slowly, frankly).

[1] https://9to5mac.com/2023/10/30/m3-macbook-pro-battery-life/
why would someone use Fedora in production, tho ?
No doubt excessive nesting is bizarre, although the end user might not notice (nested panels that fit in their parent are not visible). That's not a reason to have your entire OS break :-(
Opera now supports local LLMs
I kind of agree but I think that it could be an internal marketing thing, to create cohorts inside the USA to make it easier to sell every sort of stuff to them. Then it spilled internationally because of the cultural influence of the USA. I'd appreciate if anybody from the USA could tell me if my hypothesis is at least plausible.

According to Wikipedia [1] "The contemporary characterization of these cohorts used in media and advertising borrows, in part, from the Strauss–Howe generational theory" but the chart over there despite being captioned as "Timeline of generations in the Western world" seems to be very USA specific given the definitions in the text that follows it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation
Title ought to have been "Endless growth is a mind cancer".

When your profits aren't up 20% for the tenth year in a row, you cut costs somewhere, and it's always the workforce that suffers most, due to layoffs. Other things suffer too, like product quality (maybe using cheaper materials maybe built-in obsolescence).
He put this comment because he knows that FOSS enthusiasts and especially Debian always prefer source over binary. This is not only true for program code, but also includes docs, images etc.

The correct way to do that would be a source that generates a test file and then a script which reproducibly produces the desired corruption.
It is both, and also a way of acknowledging that GP's comment points out that the main/only ridiculous fantasy in GGP's comment is that IBM specifically is involved, and not the whole AI part.

I do regret making the joke now, though, given the wider context of the thread.
Seems like debt brakes are a bad idea.

>In January, the EU Commission estimated that it would exceed 140% of GDP this year and continue to rise in 2025. For comparison, in Germany the debt ratio is 66%, in France it is almost 100%.

According to german politicians Italy is doomed to fail because the debt ratio is above 60%.
There are different types. Real saffron is used sparingly and I doubt anyone is throwing a bunch of it in tea. My friends from Afghanistan would add a thread or two to their kahwah. Before they left they gifted me a massive bag of "saffron". I was a bit confused because it would be equivalent to a lifetime's worth based on how they used it. I think I concluded it might have been part of a different part of the plant or something, but it wasn't the "real" saffron they were using for sure.
It's far less complicated than you make it out to be. I'm on whichever side that doesn't deem it acceptable to deliberately kill kids by the thousand. Whatever else you type does not change that determination.
> Most hydrogen is grey hydrogen and a tiny amount of it is green hydrogen.

They specifically explain that they produce fossil-free natural gas, i.e. the hydrogen they use is not grey hydrogen.
In a way it’s kind of cool that the Chinese are powerful enough to be immune to the big oil lobbies from the US.
And "farts" in Spanish.
Keeping your data from Apple is harder than expected
>> The liberal thing to do would be to push for a meritocracy

Nothing of the sort would work

1. Pay teachers a living wage... Make it a 150k a year starting salary job. Make it competitive. Make it year round 8 hours a day full time.

2. Kids get NO home work. Half of HN cries that a 40 hour work week is too much... kids spend 30 hours a week in school and have more work at home. School is a job, you do your job at your job.

3. No more sports at school. Keep PE but no more football, baseball circle jerks.

4. More Shop, tech, Art and Music. You know gen z knows less about computing on the whole. It's not cell phones, they closed all the computer labs and stoped having those classes cause "digital natives". Bullshit. Also, no one knows how to weld, cut wood, fix a pipe, cook, balance a check register, budget (home economics)...
A $20k per year tea budget also seems incredibly high!
No way. Italy is so messy in so many ways that it is impossible to reverse the trend. Source: I have lived in Italy since birth
How? If they're selling a service, knowing who you're buying from isn't doxxing.
There's got to be a catch to all this. If there was no catch, this would be the hottest startup in the world by far.
Olive oil is so much cheaper in bulk. Do you have any tips for how to preserve it? Intuitively, I would assume that re-bottling a large volume into several small bottles (and then keeping the extras sealed and in the dark) would be better than using a larger bottle continuously. Does that hold up to your experience?
People signal with high prices as well, luxury clothing for example is not rare, or scare, or even all that good.

For some the excess spend is the signal, and there has been an aspect of cost signalling in organic grown goods for a long time. It takes time and money to eat only organic or vegan and so there has been a status signal there for ages.

That is where I see this fitting. "I have money so I don't need your barbarian meats"
Unless I misunderstand you, this would mean "leadership" translates to "my time is valued at $xyz per hour which I can get at companies A, B and C, but I love company D so much I will work for them for less than that". Or alternatively, "leadership" means "leaving money on the table because of a feeling of loyalty towards a corporation"?

Please correct me if I misunderstood you.
Show HN: A website for generating vertical/column style math questions
Hi all, I created a website for generating vertical/column style math questions to practice for my son . If you're looking for a similar service, feel free to use it. It can hide or show the answers and is suitable for printing.
I only looked at the linked article and the homepage so maybe diagrams and such look worse, but those pages look fabulous on phone to me. I wish more sites looked like this one.
Here is the author's latest update and the revelation of the mystery:

https://devnonsense.com/posts/asymmetric-routing-around-the-...
I appreciate in the copy here that you are not claiming plandex to be a super dev or some such nonsense.

I really dislike the hype marketing in some other solutions.
Things were going well for a long time. If you think "right now" is representative of future performance, what observations do you want to highlight?
I have heard good things about the Notion AI addon although I haven’t tried it myself.
750 is not that many commits if you follow a commit style where each independent change gets its own commit.
What I found with our customers is that Datadog is about 25% of an AWS bill. With all the addons, etc. I’m still unsure about how the pricing structure actually works since it seems to change from customer to customer. Seems dependent of who your sales person is.
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> "White" isn't a coherent thing

Agree completely. I think part of the problem is that "White" and "Black" are overloaded terms. If "White" is used to refer to an ethnicity, it carries the incoherence problems you mention(I would argue the term "Black" has these same problems).

I was trying to use the terms "White" and "Black" to refer to skin color only. I believe this is the usage that an organization like the Harvard BSA[0] is invoking on their website.

[0]: https://www.theharvardbsa.com/
Well it's like facebook pushing trump content and saying "well it's not us, it's the algorithm that decided". Same thing, I think it's to just put blame on something else, even if nobody sensible believes it.
How about "differently-weighted".