skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eniac in 1949(?) set a world record for computing digits of pi, something like 2000 digits in 70 hours. The previous record was a hand calculation of about 700 digits done by Shanks over a period of years in the 19th century. It turned out (per the Eniac and later calculations) that the hand calculation went wrong at around the 500th digit and I think was completely wrong after that.

I wonder if the code for that Eniac calculation is still around, and if the emulator can run it. That would be cool.

Added/update: per Wikipedia, in the late 1940's but before Eniac, some records (600 to 1100 digits) were set using electromechanical desk calculators. That was also when the error in Shanks' calculation was discovered.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_of_computation_of_%...
So basically webcodecs API is the best thing to happen in video processing, decoding and encoding are the most demanding parts of rendering, honestly there werent any good alternatives at all and If it wasnt for webcodecs api I wouldnt even bother trying to do it fully clientside, it would be slow and all, here is a bit about the alternatives: https://github.com/w3c/webcodecs/blob/main/explainer.md
none of those alternatvies were specifically just for decoding and encoding, usually you had to work around it and get average results at best which I really wasnt satisfied with. When it comes to ffmpeg vs webcodecs API, honestly ffmpeg is slow as decoder and encoder I really dont recommend using it when theres webcodecs api, obviously depends what you are trying to do, but my god I dont remember exacly how fast it was but ive got like 10 fps when decoding or something like that, you would be better off just playing the video and drawing it in real time
Elephants are lucky they take so long to reach maturity; there are working elephants but as far as I know they haven't been captive bred.

compare https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39771392
Don’t be so pompous. Many of us take privacy and opensource seriously.
Unless you have a class 2 ebike.
As states take on AI, tech's top lobbyist fights back
Yeah, that is literally doublethink passage. I get the appeal though. Real freedom is hard cause you can make mistakes. There is no guarantee of anything. Being dictated feels safe cause you never have to make your own choices. That's the appeal of things like fascism and why it's really filled with weak men, despite posturing strength. Weak men beg for their freedom to be taken away.
As some one who is let’s say “autism adjacent” it really bothers me when people discuss a cure or prevention. I mean I get it, but this is also who I am and I wouldn’t want to be someone else.
Scrolling the wheel up makes my view of a webpage go up.

Scrolling the wheel up makes the part of the wheel I'm touching go forward (toward my computer screen). It thus makes sense by analogy with my first sentence that scrolling up would make the view go forward. Zooming in is similar to making the view go forward.
These are a good example of how robots without haptic feedback are trivial.

Old tech that's only useful for entertainment (like movies) at a distance and still expensive.
Half of their games didn't amount to much more than child gambling. I guess the saving grace is that people weren't there very often. Still I'd be curious to know if there is any sort of research as to whether childhood gambling transfers to adulthood.
Hermeus Halcyon New York to London in 90 Minutes
I Replaced Homebrew with Devbox
That's absolutely not true. Diabetes for instance used to be extremely rare and limited to the elites.

And, for instance, ADHD probably isn't a disorder if you live a very simple life and do manual labor all day. No hyperactivity, no DMV appointments, and your life is decided for you. Remember, all the lines are drawn arbitrarily and something is labeled a disorder when it doesn't work with our (very strange) modern world.

Can't comment on autism though, and this is not directly about micro biome obviously.
The mules generally don’t know that they are moving this much money. I think the risk of them running off with the cash would be quite high.

I think the high number of suitcases is simply because it went well with two, and the organizers saw how many people actually bring a lot of suitcases, so they kept upping the number every time they made a successful move.
Awesome work! Could you tell us a little about how you went about building this? What resources would you recommend for learning to build something like this?
Huh, isn't logistics are the harder problem than production though?
Last I heard about this, the shell companies have 6 months after creation to declare the true beficial owners.

So it seems like the game continues, now in 6 month installments.
I think just being outside is a major health pro of electric bikes, even if you have one that doesn't require any pedaling.
but not having your success

A couple of ideas to consider:

Include a blurb in your submission like you did here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40234611

But maybe take the salesy-ness down a little and add a bit of technical or other interesting detail.

Think of a way to make it easier for HN readers to try - right now, there's no way to try the full thing without a credit card which is a massive barrier for most casual evaluators. Watermark but more of the full feature set could be an option, for example.
> There were 2 states that were allowed to continue being slave states after the civil war.

3, actually. DE, KY, and NJ.

> Kentucky didn't recognize the Emancipation Proclamation until sometime in the 1970s.

Kentucky was a Union state and not impacted by the Emancipation Proclamation; it was one of the three where slavery remained until the 13th Amendment.
"Vertical" cities are cheaper, healthier, and more sustainable to live in than spread-out suburbs.

What makes cities miserable is _cars_, which in most cities are driven primarily by people who don't live there -- since in well designed cities, the people who live there can complete many (though not necessarily all) trips on foot, bicycle, or by public transit.

In the spread out neighborhoods the article is envisioning, anything but personal car transport becomes impossible for essentially every trip. This is bad for your health, the "nature" the author is focused on, and your wallet.

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Cities don't need to be built hundreds of stories high; two or three story apartment buildings are enough. They don't need to be built with a lack of green and nature; tree lined avenues are pleasant and don't take up much space.
I'm hardly an expert on autism but I've fought ADHD for years, and good diet/lifestyle is essential.

Not sure how certain you are of your autism diagnosis, and I'm still not even sure where the line of demarcation is, but it may actually be ADHD. Worth considering.
Additional to this, there's also the industrialization making tools more affordable, the globalization questioning the hetero-/homogeneous structure of the "zeitgeist", and an exploration into the unlimited possibilities of what an artistic medium could be.

I would say it's even more fascinating that despite the richness in today's world that we can still find some common ground at all.
Wow!

> There is a catch (rather: a couple) of course: It runs extremely slowly and it needs a RAM Expansion Unit (REU), as there is no chance to fit it all into just 64KiB.

> It even emulates virtual memory with an MMU.

https://github.com/onnokort/semu-c64
"Environmentally friendly" is not a binary description.

Electric cars may be more environmentally friendly than petroleum cars, but less environmentally friendly than a bicycle or electric bus.

Calling for more mass transit, better support for cycling, and a de-emphasis on personal automobile transport is not anarchoprimitivism.
Maybe cash sniffing elephants. Elephants can count, or at least scale, obscured items by smell.
Obesity gender differences around the world
Why Do So Many Maple Syrup Bottles Have a Tiny Little Handle?
the parent has a citation, do you have one indicating that class 2 is different?

I ask because “common sense” would be invalidated by the parents submitted data already, so I don't think applying “common sense” is wise.
Why is that the autistic person's problem? I'm autistic, I broadly agree that eliminating autism is a negative for individuals and for society.

Maybe the difficulties are things we should address as a society, rather than seeking to eliminate a class of people.
Elodie – An EXIF-based photo assistant, organizer and workflow automation tool
I'm spending part of my Sunday consolidating and backing up all my media from old phones, SD cards, Google and iCloud photos (I want to get off these cloud services) and I came across this very helpful CLI tool that helps organize messy collections into folders based on EXIF data - thought I would share as I'm sure that a lot of you prefer to organize and manage your data yourselves as well :)
I'm seeing more class 2 bikes than class 1a in my neighbourhood, so we are both right.
Exclusion of either cause directions is impossible by definition. This is science not mathematics. But saying that the primary mechanism of mental disease lies outside the brain must not contradict decades of research and simple observation (eg a small brain damage leads to a profound behavioural image while cutting 5 meters of small intestine to none)
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
This is one of the main reasons that wealth taxes are bad policy. There are many assets that could have significant value, but the value is highly subjective. Since an accurate valuation is impossible and the range of plausible valuations is wide, it inherently becomes a system for arbitrage and distorts investment into whatever assets minimize the tax.

Overestimating the value of hard-to-price assets is massively destructive (people get rid of and make no attempt to acquire those assets because the tax exceeds their value; no more art), but setting their value to zero or otherwise underestimating their value does exactly as you're seeing.

Nearly all other taxes solve this by applying the tax when a transaction occurs and the current value is known in the form of the price being paid by the buyer to the seller.
"I hope the next generation of architects, and city planners will use horizontal scaling and will build beautiful, nature-oriented housing."

Suburbia!

This was said, much better, by Frank Lloyd Wright, in his materials about Broadacre City.
Ron Howard gave him a relevant cameo in Apollo 13 as the congressman who wants to cut unnecessary line items from the budget. O:-)
Putting a price on carbon gets rid of the need for all of these complicated analyses. Things that emit less carbon will be cheaper, and people will only buy things that emit more carbon to whatever extent it is worth it to them. And if you have set the price on carbon correctly, then that price includes all the externalities that they are creating by making that choice.
Pretty sure the person you are responding to is just being an asshole, inadvertently demonstrating your point that this isn't a safe place for autistic people.
Why the hell are people (or at least Murdoch?) spending all their energy on AI's factual capability?

Wouldn't it be much more useful to concentrate on AI's intelligence: its inference capability?
Very well made in terms of visualizing scale. Scroll not working on Firefox (Windows).
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Immersive Linear Algebra - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26294588 - Feb 2021 (3 comments)

Immersive Linear Algebra (2016) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19264048 - Feb 2019 (140 comments)

Immersive Linear Algebra – textbook with fully interactive figures (2015) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13904881 - March 2017 (74 comments)

Immersive Linear Algebra – A free interactive online book - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10183725 - Sept 2015 (78 comments)
"ADHD probably isn't a disorder if you live a very simple life and do manual labor all day"

Why?
Yes. And the latest iteration of JavaScript/canvas has had longevity, but it doesn’t have the robustness of a JPEG. What you describe would be interesting.
I think he's referring to a 'zero interest rate phenomenon,' a shorthand for an excess that happens when capital is cheap and complexity is rewarded and too easily funded. Supposedly, this leads engineers to choose overly complex solutions, hoping to be rewarded by getting large teams to manage, and gaining experience for their resume. This is in contrast to the scrappy, pragmatic, YAGNI architectural choices DHH regularly advocates. My own view is more pessimistic, that complex architectural choices are made even when the companies involved can't afford them.
I think they're pretty good at resisting that tendency, IMO. They're not pre-Musk Twitter or anything like that. Do you have examples?
Real fans remember when they were called Coronal Massachusetts Ejection
Roger Corman, Giant of Independent Filmmaking, Dies at 98
Manufacturing emissions are just nuts. There must be so many low hanging fruits in emissions reductions there -- there's just almost zero incentive to implement them.
Pedantry: don't christians differ in the emphasis various sects put on faith vs works?

(true, Dante isn't church-canonical, but he's certainly in the fanon, and no one in his first circle is burning)
But you would have to add that price world wide. And so far that's not possible.

Without having that tax worldwide you need a very complicated and impractical scheme of calculating CO2 from imports, and giving a tax credit on exports.
As I recall, Paul Krugman’s 2008 Nobel Prize lecture would be a good place to start to understand why, economically at least, cities are they way they are, have the size distribution they have, and so on. For a philosophical delve into how cities and other large scale products of society emerge, you could try DeLanda.
Majority f laptops today are equipped with 8 gigs of RAM. However, this isn't enough because most developers no longer write software based on the current hardware specs of the market as they used to. It's not that it's impossible, they just don't care about user's hardware and they focus on developing software with lot's of features.
> It brought me joy to help people figure out why their #ASR code wasn't working, or assist with a #CUDA bug.

I don't understand why they would want to remove their code instead of wanting it to live on and further help more people through AI. Just because OpenAI charges $20 a month? It takes a lot of electricity to produce results from AI. Just seems shortsighted on flimsy principle. If it were me I'd wait for the lawyers to sort out what SO and OpenAI are doing with CC-By-SA instead of making a big stand about it on the internet, but I can sort of get it I guess.

Edit: I called it flimsy principle because it's not clear that CC-By-SA prevents this until the court rules
Specifically, it's not mentioned on the video but it's likely they wanted to replace the screen because it's an expensive part that they can then "refurbish" into another device.
Re: genocide.

None of those criteria fit when talking about Palestinians in the West Bank (or Gaza before the war, but let's put that aside for now). The Palestinian population has increased in Israel, they are free to roam, reproduce, etc.

As I have said previously, one merely has to drive 15 minutes outside of Jerusalem to witness this. For anyone living in the Dead Sea area, as I did for over 3 years, it's _routine_ to see Palestinians existing just fine with none of the criteria for genocide at all. That's a fact, jack.

So.. what you're really saying is Israel is commiting "genocide" against Hamas. Wow. Alert the press. It's a war, initiated by Hamas and every terrorist attack they've been doing, not just Oct 7th. You're damn right Israel has a goal of wiping out every single one of those psychotic terrorists, and the world should be thanking us.

Instead, we're forced to try and distinguish Hamas from the civilians they use as human shields, and international anti-semetism that is hell-bent on getting the facts completely wrong. I am not saying the IDF is free of mistakes, but by and large it goes to extreme lengths to protect normal Palestinians.

What army on earth gives their enemy advance warning before attacking? The ratio of combatants to civilians is damn near miraculous in the current fighting conditions.

It's really impossible to mistake this for attempted genocide if you're honest.

Re: Molotov cocktail

Have you ever had one thrown at you personally? I have. It's no joke and it is absolutely 100% a lethal weapon. You can't attack a solider with a lethal weapon and not expect them to attack back. I don't care what the stats are, it should be expected every time.
TR: Bcomp – A Simple, Possible Algorithm of Lossless Compression
What the fuck? Of course developmental anomalies can start after birth. Yeah, many initially develop in the womb, but like, the time in the womb is a trivial percentage of a child's development.
> The main reason why I have opted for old bicycles is that they are much better than new bicycles.

Uh no. New bicycles weigh less, are more aerodynamic, have safer disc brakes, and can have electric assist. The parts are engineered with better tolerances and use more appropriate dimensions for bottom brackets and handlebars. They use materials that don't rust or fatigue, like carbon fiber and titanium. Disc brakes alone are such a game-changer for bad weather riding that it's not worth owning a bike without them unless it's a novelty or antique. E-bikes are a big deal for getting people to switch to bikes for everyday trips.

> The most detailed life cycle analysis sets the carbon footprint for an 18.4 kg aluminum bicycle at 200 kg CO2, including its spare parts, for a lifetime of 15,000 km.

200 kg CO2 is equivalent to burning about 23 gallons of gas, something like 500 miles (800 km) for a typical car. My bike commute is 60 miles per week, so in terms of carbon my bike pays for itself every two months.

> Disc brakes, which are now on almost every new bicycle, all have different axle designs, meaning that every vehicle now requires proprietary spare parts.

I don't know what they're talking about regarding axle designs. The brake standard is independent of the axle design. It's true that different brake manufacturers have incompatible parts, but the parts being proprietary doesn't have anything to do with sustainability. They still cost the same to manufacture, and the spare parts are used eventually so it doesn't even matter if everyone has to keep some extras around.

> The rise of proprietary parts makes it increasingly hard to keep a bike on the road through maintenance, reuse, and refurbishment. As the number of incompatible components grows, it becomes impossible for bike shops to have a complete stock of spare parts.

Again, I don't know what they're on about. Bike shops carry the common manufacturers like Shimano and SRAM. Aside from Covid supply-chain problems I've always been able to get parts for all my bikes online.

To the extent that individual choices are effective for reducing carbon emissions, switching from a car trip to a bike trip is way more effective than switching from a less-sustainable bike trip to a more-sustainable bike trip. Advocating for bikes that are attractive to regular people is going to be much more effective than scraping meager wins in bike manufacturing.
Professional assessors should know much more about the condition for which they are assessing and its signs than any one person who may or may not have the condition. A professional should also know the other conditions with similar symptoms.

I learned about ADHD for six months until I first consulted an expert about the possibility of my having it. He was able to recognise symptoms in me that I hadn't noticed.
Further to the same point, there's a cost of living crisis in the UK, so many people even above minimum wage are having to use food banks.

I can easily believe someone in such a position would jump (well, politely queue, they are British) at a chance for a "mere" few thousand.
For more of excellent writing read Derek Lowe's https://www.science.org/blogs/pipeline His "Things I Won't Work With" series is particularly entertaining whilst remaining firmly scientific.
Automatically Detecting Under-Trained Tokens in Large Language Models
Latest Google layoffs hit the Flutter and Python groups
Chinese scientists create 'water battery' that can hold more energy than lithium
Funny to see this here — as part of a project in my “writing for engineers” class my freshman year of college, I created this page!
Living in apartments is disrespectful to humanity? Yikes. Living on the street or in slums is disrespectful to humanity. Author has some messed up priorities.

What we should, of course, be aiming for is the Goldilocks zone of density. Not too tall, not too wide, but just right.

There are diminishing returns with very tall buildings, everything becomes harder and more expensive (lifts, piping water against gravity, etc). Very tall buildings also have negative effects on the surrounding area (stealing daylight, inducing strong wind). But sprawl has its own set of negatives.

It's not all that hard to aim for something in between, something that aims for maximizing the benefits while minimizing the downsides.

Sadly many apartment buildings (of any height) seem to be designed by stingy idiots. Oppressively low ceilings, paper thin walls, no thought given to soundproofing. There is certainly room for improvement...
> Can you explain this? How are they traded if they are restricted?

Board approvals, forwards, SPVs. Uber, Airbnb and Neuralink rarely formally recognised transfers, but the shares are liquid for anyone with more than $100k, more so $1mm.
As Elon Musk Abandons the $25K Tesla, This EV Costs Just $4,400
You don't need to reply twice to make your point.

> Would you have found out about those earlier sources without Wikipedia?

I'm not an expert in this domain. The author is.
You absolutely can self diagnose. Your self diagnosis is not as reliable, thorough, or trustworthy as a professional diagnosis.

Self diagnosis is often the first step towards a professional diagnosis.

You can choose to believe self diagnosis is low or zero value, but that's your own value judgement, which is separate from "can" and "cannot".
The atool script is just a wrapper around many compression tools. Try atool -x which creates the temp folder under final destination.

https://www.nongnu.org/atool/

Edit: just noticed it was mentioned in other reply, but as aunpack, a symlink to atool. I got used to the -x|-l|-a|... style and rarely remember the alternative names.
> Disc brakes alone are such a game-changer for bad weather riding that it's not worth owning a bike without them unless it's a novelty or antique.

This is true if you’re going fast or perhaps off-road but discs are overkill for basic utility cycling around town. In fact many Dutch bikes only have a coaster brake!
We tested dozens (maybe >100) of papers/ideas over the last years in vision and multimodal perception and this is one of the rare cases, where everything worked well! Neat idea and paper!

This model, for example, uses 4 register tokens, and combines them with Matryoshka-style losses for training, resulting in super-compact 64-dimensional embeddings, in case anyone is looking for CLIP alternatives: https://huggingface.co/unum-cloud/uform3-image-text-english-...
I have no problem with discussion about making some issues people face better with medication, although I think autistic people should be centered in those discussion.

However “prevention” talk is a whole separate issue and that one does give me eugenics vibes.