skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you have references for the “intimidated and threatened” bit? Is there a claim it went beyond a peaceful protest?
Limiting depth of field is a very useful way to emphasize specific elements of a photograph and for that reason it's almost always used for portraits.

It also compensates for portrait photos being best taken from a distance using a telephoto lens. The reason those are best is because it captures the face people remember instead of the face they actually see. The reason compensation is needed is because the same lens configuration will get a much smaller depth-of-field up close but a much higher one at a distance.
Hopefully google is turning a new leaf, getting trigger happy with purging all the zealots. They desperately need to get back to focusing on tech, not twitterverse social issues.
It's an exercise in recreating how an Objective-C app works in C from first-principles. For example, the creation of the AppDelegate (see CreateAppDelegate() in AppDelegate.c) is interesting because it shows how to create a class from NSObject and attach the applicationDidFinishLaunching: method along with it's implementation in C. I've used objc_msgSend() before from C (to access the pasteboard from a CLI app), but never implemented any ObjC classes using C!

It's similar how you might attempt to build a C++ class from only C components by creating a vtable.
Masking/distancing doesn't have to be workplace mandated to be a good idea. Especially indoors.

At this point, it's personal choice to protect yourself against Covid (and the flu, colds, et.al.).
No conflating, ethics are subjective, laws are not. (Or at least, close to not.) One can't build a system on non-codified ethics because they change so much and vary from place to place.

Our own legal system has plenty of ethical issues. We lock up almost 5x as many people per capita as China. Should they not do business with us?

If corporations stopped doing business with any country someone on HN found to be doing something unethical, we'd all go back to the economic stone age.

There's no real argument here, your sentiments are just "big company bad, China bad" with more words.
The fact that these entitled employees felt it was appropriate to bring their personal politics to the workplace shows how bad Google’s culture really is, and why there is bias in every product they make - not just the obvious ones like Gemini but also older things like Search. On most of these activist issues, the other side doesn’t have the same safety to speak up. This firing is a positive move but Google has a long ways to go still.

As an aside, the person interviewed here is a 23 year old that is barely out of college. Statements like these show how naive workplace activists often are:

> Because before then, we were Google employees with active badges who had every right to be in that workplace. It took them until putting us on administrative leave that they could actually get the cops to come in.

> It was a complete overreaction on Google's part to not only fire everyone who was and wasn't involved, but then also threaten everyone else in the company who would dare think to stand up against this. And people are taking notice that it feels like a very fascist environment.

And yet it’s voices like these that feel most comfortable to push their personal politics on others in the workplace.
The love of money is the root of all evil
The whole point of the article is to make it _fast_: can you share how fast it is to spin up your database with TestContainers?
Meaning addressing the social aspect that makes such discussions so bad and problematic.
Sugar is listed as an ingredient at least in India
Pretty disappointed to see this topic get flagged.
One thing that halo and some other games do is let you thumb through the last matchs stats while the next map loads. Valve games just throw you a map loading screen you’ve seen a thousand times.
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek appears to have 43.2 million "items", of which apparently 17.3 million are books. If we assume ~60,000 tokens for an average book, which seems very conservative given average word length in German and a novel typically being considered anything above ~40k words), that's another trillion just for their books, so I'm guessing the total German language content available in major libraries will be many times that.

E.g. the Norwegian National Library has somewhere between 3x and 10x as many tokens in Norwegian newspapers as in books (at one point I think GPT3 breakdown of training data by language surfaced, and the Norwegian data was a tiny fraction of what was available in the national library, even before trying to estimate online/digital content).

While I'm sure there's overlap [1] between the languages, a lot of it will help translation, and I think even for smaller languages the ratio of local content seems to dwarf translations. E.g. the "bestsellers" from English, French, and German all get translated to Norwegian, but most of the "long tail" content is local.

[1] I was tickled to a find one of my uncles represented in Deutsche Nationalbibliothek; he was a professor in statistics, so it was a translation of some of his research
Stateful Migrations Using Mutations
[dupe]

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40067575
Apple Pulls Meta's WhatsApp, Threads from China App Store
People specifically use DDG for the sense of privacy they have established, and that works be shattered by a buyout. People who use DDG are savvy enough to change their default search engine, and therefore would not have trouble doing it again.
The article doesn't seem to be going that way

After a year of using an office, they still can't detect one guy but still detect the previous owner just fine

If you can only detect somebody after multiple months (up to multiple years for bad shedders) of residency, I'd imagine they would leave way easier clues than DNA in an AC unit
Cool and i am strongly verify the problem that you write. I am getting this situation more than one while my startup life.
I think we're getting ahead of ourselves as an industry if we think the ability to generate a convincing B- history essay from a prompt presages the enslavement of the human race
Still a weird title. There seem to be words missing too.
I don't know where you're getting that recommendation but it's at least partly misinformation.

“Cholesterol is not considered a nutrient of concern for overconsumption.”

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/panel-suggests-stop-warn...
Purpose of flagging it to not have a discussion about this as it sheds a light about what is happening.
I tend to agree about science communication, but on the other hand, I've also seen how frustrating it can be to constantly have to correct the same fallacious arguments over and over again because people misinterpret the ideas and have a bad case of Dunning-Kruger.

So presenting things as is doesn't really work because people still have only partial information relative to those who work in the field. Thus being the same in effect as misrepresentation.

I think I was too harsh in saying that it should be presented as absolute fact, ideally I'd rather the average person be much better educated in their understanding of the scientific process, such that they'd have enough humility to recognize that watching a documentary does not give them all the facts. But that doesn't seem realistic, so it's a difficult issue.
Clang still has some alternative calling conventions via __attribute__((X)) for individual functions with a bunch of options[0], though none just extend the set of arguments passed via GPRs (closest seems to be preserve_none with 12 arguments passed by register, but it also unconditionally gets rid of all callee-saved registers; preserve_most is nice for rarely-taken paths, though until clang-17 it was broken on functions which returned things).

[0]: https://clang.llvm.org/docs/AttributeReference.html#calling-...
lithobraking is an entirely valid engineering term, and does require some land.
Interesting, I did not think of that.
How did save Your career
I always wondered why did google involved with this project. It's a small amount of money and risky considering backlash, it is supposedly public use related. Why not leave it to usual guys who would jot question shady deals? What compelled Google when it came to state of Israel?
> on a good display

This is a thing in the last 5-10 years, but was absolutely not a concern to the majority of display manufacturers before gamers complained. 100ms is significant in twitch games where network latencies are 20ms or lower.
Yes, let's blur the screenshot first and then use a hidpi display to unblur it /s
If you're likely to be looking for a job in the near future it's probably a good idea not to have your image easily searchable?
Shallow depth of field is used in photography (and movies, sometimes) for exactly the purpose of focusing viewer attention on a specific element or elements.

EDIT: But now that I've looked at the demo...I am not sure what I would want this for.
[dupe]

Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40083409
Show HN: Listen to articles as dialogues, storytelling, daily recaps (AI)
Any idea why this is flagged?
I would caution this. Not because it's a bad idea, but because I've experienced juniors reading framework often ended up creating over-engineered codes that lean heavily into meta style programming. Their code become overly-complex due to massive amount of abstractions they put in. I like the old saying, "cook the recipe exactly as it is three times before you can add your own spin to it".
The best bit is that both is true, as Tesla / SpaceX aren’t the same thing as Elon.
> there are a few code formatters for Haskell, but nobody really uses them

I haven't run a survey, but I get the impression that code formatters are widely used in the Haskell world, especially Ormolu and Fourmolu.
They completely botched the spelling of the astronomer's last name, it is Konstantin Batygin, not Konstantin Bogytin.
It's really hard to read this as anything but that Netflix is expecting subscriber numbers to drop a lot in the coming years.
[dupe]

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40078380
Hard to take this person seriously as they equate corporate leadership with fascism

Hey folks, every job you will get will be run by an owner that does things their way. If you are outspoken in disagreement they have every right to replace you with an employee that is ok with how they do business

This person’s explicit goal was to make a disturbance and get arrested. I can’t think of a single workplace that wouldn’t let you go if that’s what you decided to do instead of your job duties
Books Bound in Human Skin: An Ethical Quandary at the Library
I once accidentally did an `rm -rf ~/` on a machine without backups and it removed everything alphabetically up until `~/Coding` (everything else being unimportant). So I fixed that by setting up backups and renaming it `~/Zoding` lol. Haven't been foolish enough to make that same mistake again, though.
They're indeed not diffusion models, though they are trained on animation data as well as specifically designed for it (the raster papers at least.) I'm very hopeful wrt diffusion, though I'm looking at it and it's far from straightforward.

One problem with diffusion and video is that diffusion training is data hungry and video data is big. A lot of approaches you see have some way to tackle this at their core.

But also, AI today is like 80s PCs in some sense: both clearly the way of the future and clumsy/goofy, especially when juxtaposed with the triumphalism you tend to hear all around
The timing is very convenient. My pop culture read is that they had a surprise hit in Shogun, and if you’re going to pull the trigger on this approach it’s hard to say when the next opportunity to do so without it reflecting better on you than it otherwise possibly could to investors will be.

That being said, I hope for their sake this is the official line to nosey investors to provide cover for focus on actual metrics alongside user engagement time (seems likely) because user engagement time alone is a terrible, gameable metric for platform improvement and we all know it.

My last thought is I’m not terribly bearish on Netflix. Better than Paramount+ or the leftover shell of HBO MAX after that terrible platform merger. Apple TV+ is mixed too. All they have to do is not be Disney and hit the occasional home run because their competition is terrible.
Fun fact: McDonalds cooks don’t even flip burgers. The process involves a grill press which cooks both sides at once. It’s less work in half the time!

Almost all cooking steps in a McDonalds kitchen involves a timer and some form of automation. The humans run the overall process and final assembly, but automation - microwaves, warming ovens, toaster belts, auto-rise fry baskets, grill timers - runs all the repetitive and standardized cooking sub-processes.
It’s just a Bing wrapper with Bing ads. What is there to sell?
From what I have observed,.it is folks who fabricate risks that are labeled as nut jobs, not those who talk plainly about the actual risks.
Games like tf2 make parsing community servers pretty easy. You can do things like set ping cut offs, only look for nonempty and not full servers, look for certain numbers of people playing, certain maps or gametypes, and include or exclude keywords like certain modded gametypes.
http://archive.today/m9HlI
Yeah, exhibits like this are basically the old adage of “people won’t remember what you told them, but they will rememember how what you told them made them feel”, but with the expectation that you will indeed focus on the latter.

Not doing so would render most of this type of art in general feeling flat.
> The fact that these entitled employees felt it was appropriate to bring their personal politics to the workplace...

I dunno. I expect the first shot was fired with the Google+ Real Names policy, and the "interesting" exemptions made to it for particular individuals (Vivek "Vic" Gundotra, included). It's kinda been downhill from there.
Dang! I didn't know that either. Kinda subtle. Blink and you'll miss it.
That seems pretty surprising to me. The lower level/physics books I've seen introduce the dot product with both a geometric and algebraic definition, and show they're equivalent in 2-3 dimensions. The "how" is the algebraic definition and the "why" is the geometric definition.

It's not really that it measures similarity. Physics isn't interested in that. It's that it tells you lengths and angles, which you need in all sorts of calculations. In more advanced settings, a dot product is generally taken as the definition of lengths and angles in more abstract spaces (e.g. the angle between two functions).

In machine learning applications, you want a definition of similarity, and one that you could use is that the angle between them is small, so that's where that notion comes in. A more traditional measure of similarity would be the length of the difference (i.e. the distance), which is also calculated using a dot product.
Tesla recalls all 3,878 Cybertrucks over faulty accelerator pedal cover
TSMC to charge premium for making chips outside of Taiwan, including its US fabs
I tried chatgpt:

> Let's break down the events step by step:
>
> Starting Apples: 10 apples
> Find 3 Gold Coins:
> +3 gold coins
> Total apples: 10
> ...

I keep thinking about how to reliably make it come up with code to do the job correctly.

edit: oh I think chatgpt did it. https://chat.openai.com/share/f1742187-ab06-46c7-abaf-9a7981...
> But can’t you be healthy at any weight?

No. For an extreme case, it’s impossible to be healthy at 1,000 pounds. You will have diabetes. You will have wrecked joints. You will have dire circulatory issues. Those things are absolutely guaranteed. Your body can’t support being that size, or processing the amount of food required to become that size.

You can be pretty healthy at the low end of the obese range. I could stand to lose a bit of weight, but also hit the gym and run frequently. My labs are just fine. You cannot be healthy at the extreme sizes. Everyone’s body would cross the line somewhere in the middle.
Difference being, the face is the content, the background is noise. Here, the screenshot is the content. Ex. The only physical feature of my face i like is my eyes. Yet, it'd be weird if I depth of field'd everything but my eyes.

I'm sure this has uses but it's hard to argue it does from fundamentals of photography
The point is a good one though. We can't expect companies to be ethical or moral or good in our current system because our current system values profits for shareholders/"owners" and high executive salaries above all else.

That doesn't mean we need to just accept it and let them do whatever they want though.

What it means is we need to change the system so that companies aren't putting profits first and instead require them to prioritize product quality, employee well being, and environmental sustainability.

Profit should be a distant fourth if it's allowed at all. Frankly the idea that some amount of value is just sucked out of companies by parasites who don't contribute to the company at all is just not right.
At least you can steer the car with unintentional acceleration, unlike with wheels falling off.
A friend of mine stepped in once and was prosecuted for injuring one of the attackers. Took 4 month of uncertainty before he ended up with a medal and an apology but he was this close to ending in prison for it instead.
I agree about the harm that caused by that movement, but as much as Reagan was part of it, I have a hard time attributing the whole movement to him.

FWIW, as much as a president has a soapbox to advocate from, budget and tax policy are set by congress.
Very good point – the "landline generation's" ears have aged considerably since the 90s.

On top of that, I think many remember "landline quality" in terms of a relative comparison with potato-quality early mobile phone codecs, analog mobile phones, heavily compressed discounted long-distance calling circuits etc. of the time.

Yes, landlines were better than any of that, but it doesn't mean that they were actually good by today's standards.
There's this odd idea in the discourse that protest is supposed to be convenient to everyone, particularly the decision makers that the protest is meant to influence.

You see this in the "free speech zones" and other nonsense.

But it's also just simply obvious and freely admitted. They were protesting inside Google buildings, which gives lee-way for their arrest and firing.

Both sides are calculating that arrest and firing helps their cause.
> [Software decoders] are literally more than halving devices' battery life

...To think that the whole ordeal about AV1 in the first place is about "intellectual property" is mind boggling.

Yes, sure there are technical merits to favour AV1 over h264, but this is mainly about evading license costs covering h265 (hevc) or other patent portfolio.

Ps. Netflix seems to be en route to do the same. They recently broke playout form their Samsung SmartHub app on my 10 year old TV.
Nope, I don't even see what the excitement is for.

We seem to be in denial of the scaling problems we face in that we can't even beat out the 1 year model.

I subscribed and unsubscribed to Claude 3 in about an hour. It is just not better than chatGPT4.

It is incredible to me that with all the motivation and resources of Meta, the best they can do is to produce a language model that isn't worth the time to even bother trying if a chatGPT4 subscriber.
im surprised heirs no 14b or 16b
Solomon Islands tribes sell carbon credits, not their trees
We plan to add more models over time.
Easy derivatives are indeed easy - easier than that site makes them seem!

We can approximate the slope (derivative) of any function y = f(x), at (x,y) as the slope of a straight line from (x,y) to another nearby point (x',y') where y' = f(x').

The slope of this line is (y'-y)/(x'-x).

Since we need x' close to x to make this accurate, we use x' = x + dx where dx is small, and we can also represent y' as y' = y + dy.

So, then our slope is (y'-y)/(x'-x) = dy/dx = (f(x+dx)-f(x))/dx

And that's all there is to it.

e.g.

For f(x) = x^2

dy/dx = ((x+dx)^2-x^2)/dx = 2x + dx

We get the true value of the slope at (x,y) in the limit of dx -> 0, giving us the derivative of f(x) = x^2 as f'(x) = 2x.
AI Surpasses Harvard Docs on Clinical Reasoning Test
Its real use is the few hours of fun I had making it, this is really a toy
Nobody reads content, are we really that degenerate in 2024? Or just think a little dammit (this is pre-made artificial product and not just 100% extract from some mother's breasts, so variations to content and quality are to be expected). I know this is about south hemisphere but those folks aren't magically mentally disabled, they can read and grok same stuff we up here do.

I mean yes, these food corporations are evil in same ways pharma is evil in maximizing extracted money from their customers. Every single business is doing this in some way, the limit is normally law and law so far allows this. We all know law is imperfect, catches up slowly, can be corrupted.

This means, and always meant, that parents should actually be effin' parents and go that extra mile and check what they are putting in kids mouths. 'We have no time' excuse I call BS, just manage your phone/TV/gaming addiction and learn a bit instead, there lies a problem. Critical thinking. Expecting world will magically take care of you and solve your concerns/problems.

In many parts of western Europe, food is not just a necessity and afterthought, but one of main focuses in one's life. Preparing it is often ritual that puts together family, a lot of attention is put into its quality, and not quantity. Self-cooked meals are on average much healthier than pre-done.

Boycotting some evil company X will just move you to company Y, and if you look these corporations own most of the market [1], rather educate people around you, be an example and push those few political buttons that are there.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=nestle+company+graph
It would be cool to DNA test some of these book bindings, match them against a genetic database, and invite living descendants to a party!
Not GP but this thread is great. I was among the first in my city school to get a cell phone and text in ~2001, and then the last to get an iPhone in ~2015, and then stop carrying it most of the time in ~2016/in airplane mode and then cease to have a cell phone at all in ~2022. Texting kinda ceased after 2013 when I moved states temporarily and went thru some stuff, never resumed.

I'm notoriously unreachable, perhaps even offensively unreachable, and I'm starting to look for time and money savings to justify getting a new one/repairing the SE if possible. Eg. I'd save $10+/mo in Starbucks refills if I had that app, enough of those cases to cover the bill.

My next phone will be like parent poster's. I had iOS setup with no notifications except Venmo and a priority email alias. Currently I'm using an Unbuntu laptop where I can get to Google Voice that was activated with a Mint Mobile trial on Starbucks wifi. Am homeless, actually been able to secure and hold a couple labor/hospitality jobs like this.
IMHO because of lot of HN supports social justice and protesting, and they are supportive of employees taking action against any company that is doing something that goes against their principles.