skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is what is happening with plastic from the Recycle bins right now in most of the places. We are all paying for the segregation and separate transport, and it all ends up in the same hole in the ground at the landfill.
Its very unfortunate. One of our vendors has spent a hell of an effort making spatial analysis tools work via OpenCL instead of being just processor bound, and its made those industry standard libraries 1-2 orders of magnitude faster. That is something the spatial industry desperately needs in order to improve iteratively.

With the state of OpenCL it's frustrating. So much to be had, but so little improvement and support.
It was a big moment for me too when I realized that the real world has infinitely many interesting things to do and explore. The real world is incredibly detailed.
Diversity = freedom
buttery smooth scrolling + windows 98 = perfection
Implementating ten hours between our shifts will cause our shifts to be worse overall, introducing more controller fatigue.

Large/busy facilities are 24/7, to accomplish staffing and give everyone regular schedules, we use what's called a "rattler": the controller starts their work week off with a late shift and ends their week with an early shift or midshift. Either we go opposite of that which gives us ZERO weekends, or we have weeks of straight days followed by weeks of straight mids which totally destroys our life outside of work.

The only way the ten hour down time could be reasonably implemented is if they make our shifts 6 hours instead of 8, and we work 30-hour weeks, but then the FAA would use that to say we shouldn't get a raise because we're working less.

The only reasonable way to fight fatigue is to increase the pay which will help staffing (attract tallent that does not washout of training, and keeps people from quitting or retiring early).
Why Cats Knock Stuff Over (2023)
Sadly it was made illegal in our area and our neighbour actually reported us. One day they were actively bringing in bus loads of foreign tourists to feed the birds, the next they're knocking on our doors telling us to stop or get a fine.

(Melbourne, Australia)
Whether they want to sell or not is moot. As far as I’m concerned we should offer the following options to any business with ties to the CCP:

Divest completely, sell it to a US based company, or exit the company from US markets.

They are not our ally.
The other important difference between Apple then and Meta now is that Apple wasn't in a position that subjected it to possible (government) regulation. Meta has to try to play nice. Perhaps few vendors bite? But when the regulation noise increases - and it will - Meta can say it tried.
The Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect in the Spiderweb protocluster
Krazam is definitely the highlight of my YouTube subscriptions. Its specificity makes it even funnier.
I am pretty sure that they can be trained to pick up trash and alert if someone falls. It can be a low tech alarm.
Pretty soon you’ll have to flip your Tesla over to charge it
I was curious about how people with seizure disorders safely click links not knowing what lies ahead. Investigating the current best practices for building for epileptics, using this great resource (1) as my starting point.

This took me down a rabbit hole on current methods to detect seizure onset... I came across a very interesting journal article on applying ML in an implantable that can detect seizures within 3 seconds, which spurred my current research on less invasive detection methods. Like any good rabbit hole, I've strayed from the original mission.

Seizures seem scary and I don't want to give them to people, but the causes of their onset seem to be too nuanced and patient-specific to build with any guarantees. The best I can do is avoid the obvious and hope the cutting edge detection and mitigation research bears fruit.

1. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility/S...
You can live a life of leisure, as envisioned say 100 years ago right now* if you want.

Of course you'd need to be ok with 1920's level of housing (tiny farm house, no sewer or running water), education (stop at 8th grade) and healthcare (no effective antibiotics or cancer drugs).

You could replicate that sort of life today with a plot of cheap land ($3,000 per acre) and $5,000 per year (save $100,000 USD).
To me the problem with high speed is primarily safety for pedestrians and other bikes. Given also that the state has just given the city the green light to reduce the speed limit on most streets to 20MPH, the delivery guys will stand out even further.

If you run out of juice, you just get another bike (and attach whatever you use to carry the deliveries). Battery safety and longevity should be better when charging and monitoring across an entire fleet, using e.g. slower speeds as you mention. This, of course, would require getting more stations and bikes into the network, which would be a win also for regular users in outer areas who are sorely underserved right now.
What happens with the recycle bin
I definitely lucked out on my dad being in touch with the technology at the time. I was ready to get a TurboGrafx 16 just for Bonk's Adventure, and I definitely would have missed out over that purchase. The SNES was so popular, that I had many friends that were willing to trade games with me, so we were able to experience new games without the stiff price of having to purchase everything played. One of the things gaming companies made sure to kill off as things turned to fully digital.

I still want to play all of the Splatter House titles, though. I didn't find out about those until I was older, but I've watched plenty of walkthroughs of the various iterations, and it looks like the perfect amount of strategy, gore, and need for proper timing to master.
Sewage Sludge Plasma Gasification: Characterization and Experimental Rig Design
Notwithstanding what I understand about the publishing industry, I'm talking about the marginal cost of distributing a .mobi or whatever versus manufacturing a printed book, not the entire cost of publishing an eBook.
While physical "progress bar" is much easier to remeber than digital one (on the side of the screen for pdfs), because you actually interact with it the whole time, i don't find (ha) finding a particular passage hard without it.
I personally usually can remeber a phrase or just a word and search for them in a PDF to find the needed passage.
Looks cool, although when I run it the simulation always seems to halt after a couple dozen steps.
Ex-Amazon exec claims she was asked to ignore copyright law in race to AI
Could Krazam be behind the HN spam today?
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[1] https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/frequently-asked-questions/

Also:

Even if science data won't likely be collected after 2025, engineering data could continue to be returned for several more years. The two Voyager spacecraft could remain in the range of the Deep Space Network through about 2036, depending on how much power the spacecraft still have to transmit a signal back to Earth.

That FAQ covers a lot of interesting ground (though it talks about 2020 in the future tense).

After Voyager 1 took its last image (the "Solar System Family Portrait" in 1990), the cameras were turned off to save power and memory ...

I didn't realize that was the last image.

... it is very dark where the Voyagers are now. While you could still see some brighter stars and some of the planets with the cameras, you can actually see these stars and planets better with amateur telescopes on Earth.
There is a Meta earnings call in 2 days, and the annual shareholder meeting at the end of may.

The details here seem a little thin. Partner agreements to produce something rather than a concrete thing.

Hopefully we will see prototypes, but right now the skeptic in me sees this as a trial balloon for investors more than anything.
I've been looking at that particular rabbit hole since a professor of mine mentioned it in 2003 or something. Once or twice a year, I'll read about some theorem or something and think it can be applied to Collatz somehow and dive back in.

I've actually proved it several times...except for the insignificant detail that I glossed over that didn't seem important but tanks the proof.

Someday I'll have to publish my "book of lemmas that don't prove the collatz conjecture."
> It adds up quick. Do you want to pay for the work getting done or pay a Java memory tax?

for some corp "$1.53/hr" is very small expenses, and it is easier to make things done in more feature rich ecosystem.

Also, diffs in memory footprint is closer to 2 times based on various benchmarks: https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
> A radio signal takes about 22.5 hours to reach Voyager 1

> Launched over 46 years ago
It seems like if you created a new operating system to solve these problems and it gained some traction, you'd fracture the landscape even more.

Unless your operating system happened to be superior to all the existing solutions in all aspects with no tradeoffs.

Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/927/
How much do we need to pay this guy to quit software and just make jokes?

This guy is an icon.
Discussion:[0] (19 points, 11 hours ago, 24 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40114105
Group theory.

Something is incredibly beautiful to me about classifying the kinds of symmetry things can have.

I’m trying to understand where the sporadic simple groups come from. Starting with the Matthieu groups. So far it seems to be due to some anomaly in Pascal’s triangle, but I’m still trying to put it together. “Another Roof” on YouTube has a good video about this.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40117599
On top of this, most emulators allow you to run the game at faster speeds than the original. I haven't encountered a game yet where I wanted to do this, but the fact that it's available just shows how far emulation has come (and the wizardry that is involved in emulating an entire computer system).
I want no remote hacker to do this kind of hack on my devices.
I had sudden flashbacks to Electric Sheep while reading this, and wow, it's been 25 years.
Everything. Everything I look at or touch I soon realise it’s way bigger and deeper than I thought. You could choose nearly any topic and turn the study of it into a phd if you really want.
Understanding and avoiding visually ambiguous characters in IDs
San Francisco sees sharp loss in sales-tax revenue
FYI, my original iPad is still working fine.
> Github stars for this project could also perhaps be artificially inflated?

Maybe, but I don't think so. The number of people engaging with the project is what I would expect from the number of stars received.

https://devboard.gitsense.com/langgenius?r=langgenius%2Fdify...

I've seen projects with 5,000+ stars in a month and only have 20-30 people interacting with the project.

Full disclosure: This is my tool
Maybe VRMs (although I've never seen VRMs that look like that).
After the post the last week about the DIY GPS receiver, I decided to get out my RTL-SDR and set it up. Took a couple of days of fiddling around with it, but now I've got SDRtrucking setup. Spent one morning listening to the public safety radio traffic. That was a wild ride on it's own with all sorts of things going on in this metropolitan area.
> But its local law essentially banned people from sleeping with a blanket or pillow on any public land, at any time.

Speaking from north in Washington, there are similar controversies here too. For example, the nearby city of Burien (adjacent to Seattle [0]) banned overnight camping on certain public lands plus within 500 feet of libraries, schools, daycare-centers, etc. [1]

[0] https://www.arcgis.com/apps/mapviewer/index.html?layers=bb7c...

[1] https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/homeless/a-seattle...
Hello, thank you for feedback. Mind sharing what device are you using? That will definitely help me I'd be happy to fix it.

Right now, I'm cheating a little and it only supports tablet (landscape) and up. Below that will just hide everything and show a static PNG.
RoboPLC: A framework for PLCs and real-time micro-services in Rust
> three different planes were given permission to cross the same runway

Four planes. As someone else said: if it was too foggy for the pilot to see the traffic, it would have been an unfathomable disaster. Although I wonder if the momentum would have dissipated by the time it got to the fourth plane.
And when the politics of greed and the science of truth come to odds?

Therein lies the rub.
> Which requires splitting things across multiple chips and some kind of 3D mesh of really high bandwidth connections.

Agreed. In the novel, it's a neuromorphing perception lattice, to suggest a 3D mesh. If you'd like to have a read, I'd be grateful for your feedback.
It's gonna be a live service OS, like Windows, with subscriptions, fees, and developer restrictions.

What VR needs is a VR OpenBSD.
But why are you pushing errors to production? You know you're allowed to fix the LLM's code output, right?

If a robot could paint your house, but made three small errors, would you refuse to use it? Or would you just fix the three small errors by painting over them?

There's some kind of John Henry complex going on in this AI discussion.
How does it compare with MagickML?

https://github.com/Oneirocom/Magick
Firefox on desktop Linux 2k monitor with 22px font size.
Similar sentiment as to when Google looked at the Homepod, or when Amazon looked at the Apple TV, probably.

I get people privileging successful stories, but there's about as much meh products or failures as well, at least arguments shouldn't be about past unrelated products.

What makes you bullish that Apple will be better than Meta or Valve in this specific field for this specific product ?
There aren’t many software engineering comedy channels but Krazam is hilarious no matter what scale you’re rating on
I've been following the actions and discussions of these activists in NixOS community since November last year.

Note that you can't discuss this open letter -- or any issues of that nature -- openly in the official places (NixOS Discourse & Matrix), because there is a risk of getting tarred as "fascist" or "concern-troll" before getting banned. Someone named Ailunarenth respectfully engaged in such a discussion only to get banned:

https://twitter.com/sridca/status/1782200842571198962

If you post in Discourse, it is likely to get "unlisted" (meaning censored from Google and other search pages) by the mods. A case in point: you can't reach this post without a direct link (the open letter alludes to Jon Ringer being one of these 'fascists'):

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/objection-to-minority-represen...

I myself got banned for a picture of a steak and a link on my website, back in November last year:

https://srid.ca/nixos-mod

But none of this is surprising because "ejecting fascists" (where 'fascist' means "someone whose opinion I don't like") has been the theme of these activists since 2021. See the downvotes in this sensible comment: https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/98#issuecomment-902913333
Yep. Google has TPUs, and AMD/Nvidia/Intel/Apple/Qualcomm all have tensor coprocessors now. From a CPU or GPU to an FPGA, the cost/benefit is huge. With every device having tensor cores, not so much. ASIP and ASICs are likely the way to go, at least for common operations like matrix multiplication.
It matters to some degree. If it's just a simple technique you can file away and repeat as muscle memory, well that means your code is that much better.

From a user perspective it could be the difference between software that's pleasant to use and software that's annoying to use. From a philosophical perspective it's the difference between software that functions vs software that works well.

Of course it depends on your context as to whether this is valued, but I wouldn't dismiss it. Once person's micro-optimization is another person's polish.
> One bit that doesn't make sense to me is how caves or rock overhangings don't provide protection.

There is a hiking in my home state that takes about 2 days to complete. Along the way, there is a huge rock that fits that description; it sits in the middle of an open area. We are taught to never seek shelter under it when there is lightning. When asking why, we’re told that that rock is informally called “The Microwave”, because, well, exactly what the article says.

This has been common knowledge in the area for a very long time already (not sure if specific to that rock or for any cave or overhanging rock in general like the article says).
This is really interesting! Wondering if there’s any good reading/books about it you’d recommend?
Sweet. I spent a few years cultivating mushrooms and found the hobby to be very rewarding. One can grow (legal) medicinal and gourmet mushrooms on a small scale with very little money. I recommend people interested give it a go because it's fun and offers a lot to learn. :)
My only qualm with ESP32 is the toolchain doesn't really work with openbsd - probably not with any Unix that isn't Linux. Other than that, it's a pleasure to work with them.
Thanks, I'll give that a look.
Cool!

I know you guys work with OrcID too right?

We work with CrossRef to get data but if a DOI is missing, then things get harder to find in CrossRef in our experience.
I believe that most of the time patients are enrolled in these trials, they've already exhausted all other options. It isn't quite "life-or-death" but rather "death-or-death-or-maybe-another-chance-at-life"
You're an industry plant.
slum lords, as in government housing like NYCHA?
Unless I have the ability to inspect source code of "Meta Horizon OS". No way in hell am I touching anything from this company.

I wonder what types of telemetry garbage is embedded into the OS.
>There’s no overstepping from Australia.

So anything Australia doesn't want on the internet cannot be shared anywhere in the world? Australian law is now world law for the internet.

BTW I'm Australian.
Personally I feel like a ban like this is anti free speech. Even if it is run by as foreign institution. I think it is fine for the government or companies to ban it for their employees. Otherwise it is just wrong.
Using Your Vector Database as a JSON (Or Relational) Datastore
The big challenge when it comes to using FPGAs for deep learning is pretty simple: all of that reprogrammability comes at a performance cost. If you're doing something highly specific that conventional GPUs are bad at, like genomics research [1] or high-frequency trading [2], the performance tradeoff is worth it. But for deep learning, GPUs and AI ASICs are highly optimized for most of these computations, and an FPGA won't offer huge performance increases.

The main advantage FPGAs offer is being able to take advantage of new model optimizations much earlier than ASIC implementations could. Those proposed ternary LLMs could potentially run much faster on FPGAs, because the hardware could be optimized for exclusively ternary ops. [3]

Not to toot my own horn, but I wrote up a blog post recently about building practical FPGA acceleration and which applications are best suited for it: https://www.zach.be/p/how-to-build-a-commercial-open-source

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/munich-leukemi...

[2] https://careers.imc.com/us/en/blogarticle/how-are-fpgas-used...

[3] https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17764
The magnetometers and charged particle detectors are still operating. So they are measuring the galactic magnetic field, and cosmic rays and the gas in interstellar space. The results are more or less what was predicted, though the exact boundary of the sun's influence was only discovered when Voyager 1 and 2 crossed over it in 2012 and 2018 respectively. Beyond that, yes, they're basically assuring us the sun is still there and that space is very empty. I don't think anyone expects the interstellar gas to vary in density on the timeframe that the Voyagers will be able to observe it but, I guess we'll find out!

Edit: I spoke way too soon. It varies, as discovered with Voyager measurements recently: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/as-nasas-voyager-1-surveys-int...
I'd probably just look for the numbered IP addresses with these 10 digits that serve up NS or SOA records, and go from there.
Figure skating. It should be illegal to have so much fun. The feeling of gliding out there on the ice with nearly zero friction is amazing. It's a great community too. Not cheap, but a lot cheaper than many hobbies. Less than $1k will get you a nice pair of skates, plenty of group lessons, and access to the rink for a few months. It's fun for the family or single adults. There are always tons of people just starting. Private lessons can get expensive, but for the average interested adult, you can probably do a single private lesson like once a month and then work on what you learned at the rink.
Plant-Based Meat Boomed. Here Comes the Bust
My 'tagged' CyberDildonics language didn't take off. Maybe I should have made it self-aware.
It's actually two guys as far as I can tell, but yes, they are definitely awesome.
sumatrapdf seems better than most at reading them?
Right? I couldn't believe the OP article didn't mention it.
Protein made from a microorganism that can be cultivated with CO2
Dinner is with the family.

For lunch, if I'm not busy, I read my RSS feeds or catch up on my YouTube subscriptions. I can't read a book over lunch because if it starts to get good I'm frustrated when I have to stop to go back to work.

Most days I have a working lunch where I scarf down food between meetings while desperately trying to catch up on email.
When I look at the photo, I see many old people.

When I think about the photo, I see many old people who have given their professional lives to this project.

I am both envious of them, and grateful to them.
Used tensorflow since its creation until changed companies one year ago where I only use torch lightning. I'm fixing lighting to make it have some of the nicities that tenorflow has. Also finally fixing the graph engine in tensorflow so the abstraction actually works and doesn't have sharp edges around things like models of models.... aka graphs or graphs.
Technical specifications rarely have to do with whether or not a console succeeds, as long as they don't affect MSRP too much. Price and game library are typically the most important aspects. Or ease of piracy in some territories.
> Quest has 6+ million monthly active users. Steam 2-3 million.

There is no way that those numbers are right.

EDIT: Yeah, Steam has 120 million active users per month. And the 6+ million users for Quest is from 2022, during the pandemic and metaverse bubble. Would be curious to know the trends for 2023 and 2024 thought.
Consider that Intel, Nvidia, AMD, Qualcomm, and Micron, all manufacturers of semiconductors, outsource their semiconductor manufacturing.

Consider that most game development studios outsource most development on a per-project basis.

Consider that most car manufacturers outsource most of their parts manufacturing to other manufacturers.

Basically: It's more unusual for a business to not be outsourcing their line of business.
Your understanding's right: PDF's that are text + fonts are easy and fast. I'm concerned about the other kind, that's scanned pages. Any sheet music from Petrucci / imslp.org for one example. That kind is a sequence of raster images, stored in compressed-image formats which most people aren't familiar with, because they're specialized to bi-level (1-bit, black and white) images. A separate class from photo-type images. The big two seem to be JBIG2 [0], and CCITT Group 4 [1], which was standardized for fax machines in the 1980's (and still works well!)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JBIG2

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fax#Modified_Modified_READ

(You can examine this stuff with pdfimages(1)—or just rg -a for strings like /JBIG2Decode or /CCITTFaxDecode and poke around).
I would be interested in discussing your project further, for use on my e-bike.
Krazam really captures the feeling of working for a mid-sized startup in SF perfectly. The pedantry, the braggadocio, and most of all the absurdity and the alienation one feels working on this stuff.