skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked on YouTube transcoding about 12 years ago. First, the scale is mostly reused - what’s doing transcoding now is doing a different compute job later. Transcoding was also done for most videos only on idle compute. Second, Google had 300k+ caches around the world, in many surprising places (buses, cruise ships) as well as many thousands of other larger but not full data center locations; get the content as close as possible to the user. (I imagine now all transcoding from the mezzanine format is done in real time on an edge GPU for all but the most popular platforms and content). Tl;dr: build out a huge amount of infrastructure to serve ads very quickly and you can piggyback video serving on that at little marginal cost.
at what point does something like this garner class-action attention? most of the money ends up going to the lawyers, though…
Problems with the Bond Market
The Steam releases of original Myst and Riven are the ScummVM ports, which work great on modern hardware. You'll find it as "Myst: Masterpiece Edition". Masterpiece Edition is effectively the same as the original release, but with better color fidelity on the visuals. I think the one downside of Masterpiece Edition is that some of the audio tracks were cut short to fit on the CD. Still, I'd say the Steam release is definitely the most hassle-free way of playing the game today.
Compression garments effective for recovery from exercise-induced muscle damage?
Wow, that is highway robbery. It takes months to accrue $90 of EZ pass charges for most driving situations.
I would argue that ffmpeg has the hardest to understand interface in the video editing space (unless you can find a command someone else came up with that does exactly what you want)
If it did turn out that Apple was actually able to do what they claim they can't, how would you explain the source that you linked to?
I'm guessing this overkill is aimed at upcoming on device AI? It's the only play that really makes sense in that form factor
> someone manually calculated the size of each hard-coded layer

I wonder shouldn't AI be the best tool to optimize itself?
> SCSI (isn't that what SATA basically is anyway?),

Nope, there is a lot of differences (Wiki would help on the details), most notably is what SATA was designed to be cheap from the start, including the controller complexity; while SCSI demands a quite intelligent controller, which costs more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SATA#Comparison_to_other_inter...
> [surprise bills]… often stem from patients unwittingly receiving care from out-of-network providers…

If you do not have the agency to select an in-network provider (because you are mortally wounded / incapacitated / etc.), then the out-of-network provider should be legally transmuted into an in-network one. The insurer should be compelled to pay, and the provider compelled to accept it.
It's Time to Believe the AI Hype
Every single time I rent a car in Vegas. No matter what company, I get dinged for gas. Keep all my receipts and make a video showing the gauge while dropping off the car.

It's just an admin hassle each time.
I just recently upgraded my 6 year old iPad Pro to the new M4 version. I use this as my 3rd device, mostly reading and browsing before bed, but also for some other things less regularly.

I agree its complete overkill, but I like it because of that, its is completely instant in everything it does, reading books, browsing etc. A noticeable improvement over the older one even though the older was completely usable.

its also lighter and thinner and the screen is amazing, and the battery is also completely overkill for my use case, I can leave it for days and I have already set it to 80% charge cap to extend its life.

I like overkill in this case, its makes it a transparent device that completely gets out of the way.
There's something about a transformer being at its core based on a differentiable hash table data structure that makes them special.

I think it's dominance is not going to substantially change any time soon. Dont you know, the solution to all leetcode interviews is a hash table?
> I can't help but feel that describes our relationship with animals we consider pets, albeit less so the individuality and autonomy part.

Many pets have a lot of individuality and autonomy. Cats and dogs have their own individual personalities and likes/dislikes, and they have their own desires which sometimes contradict those of their human owners (e.g. your dog's desire to chew your brand new expensive shoes, versus your desire for them not to be chewed)

> On the other hand, if our pets ended up with human-level intelligence tomorrow, I am doubtful most humans would be rushing to confer full rights upon them.

I disagree. I think for most people who reject strong versions of animal rights ("animals have fundamentally the same rights as humans do"), it is their lack of human-level intelligence which they use to justify to themselves that rejection. If an animal demonstrated genuine human-level intelligence, such that it was obvious to all and no one could deny it, I think the clear majority of people would be willing to extend human-level rights to that animal.
I was there as well, and Youtube was wildly profitable.

See how easy it is to make random statements on the internet.
Mathematica: A World of Numbers and Beyond
I wonder if there is an easy way to use the unsold cars' batteries to store energy until they are finally sold
While I generally agree with your premise, the problem is that when companies realize they can make more money through "old big company incompetence", at best it means they have no incentive to improve, and at worst in means they can maliciously overcharge and then just blame it on "incompetence".

I really think government needs to enact laws that make companies compensate people for their time when they have to deal with bureaucratic nightmares like this. Right now companies just get to externalize the costs of their fucks ups onto everyone else.
"Marriage takes place on Tuesday" --> Nausea

And given how my wife cooks, there'll be plenty of nausea on Wednesday too!

straightens tie with clenched teeth, eyes darting around for audience approval
Or the classic Haynes manuals https://haynes.com/
There's a good number of googlers that understand the system is a game. They always vote that they want more even if they believe they are being paid more than most.
what if ai is the next great master
It is expensive, and YouTube also makes a lot of money via ads, subscriptions, partnerships. Whether it is ultimately profitable or not is anyone's guess, since they don't report the numbers publicly.
It may be different at this scale, but in my experience fast-ish redundant file storage has always been extremely expensive even at lower storage sizes, while getting a 100 Gbps line is relatively cheap.
Reminds me of the time I made the mistake of booking a Hertz rental through Expedia. My rental started on a daylight savings time changeover.

_Hertz_ messed up the rental dates on their end of the transaction (by multiple days, even) and would not allow me to modify or cancel the rental. I ended up disputing the charge with Expedia via an AmEx chargeback and lost.

AmEx owns 10% of Expedia.
I was learning Modula-3 on my own back in the late 1990s and it was great. Sadly, the CS professors were caught in a Lisp vs C war at the time.
> Debates about NPR’s alleged lefty tendencies

https://www.instagram.com/ryanlongcomedy/reel/C6Rc9uduZg8/
I'd be very interested in exploring this idea! Do you know of any board games that it could work for? This also just gave me an idea to justify my board game budget to my wife as a R&D business expense so thank you ;)
It's not like this overkill is a new phenomenon, the contrast between how powerful iPads are and how few applications they actually have for all that power has been there since they started putting M-series chips in them three years ago.
I second the Bible as the most radical.
Yes this is a problem and a great idea thanks! Adding to my TODO list :)
It seems like that would be a likely common behavior for the FTL, but other options are possible (e.g., reading the old blocks) and it wasn't guaranteed by the spec, which is why they added this NVMe flag (so-called "DZAT") so that you can actually rely on it.
Good question. How does one simply find the bounding quad of rotated perspective text? Will that handle perspective distortion?

I guess the author partly answers your question early on with discussion of the Merino-Gracia paper, which fits a quad to individual lines of text, and a comment about how that relies on first being able to detect lines of text.

Matt also doesn’t claim this method is better. He says “I’m sure its neither as accurate or as useful as the Merino-Gracia approach.“ I assume the example text “Needlessly Complex” is a bit of self-deprecating humor, acknowledging he may not be taking the easiest path there is. But the method here seems interesting and useful to me for its approach; it doesn’t have to identify word or page boundaries, or lines of text, as a prerequisite. The assumptions are simple and the optimization is simple, it’s a nice study in different ways to think about the problem.
It can get extremely expensive before anything is done. And in fact the high price of it can keep it going, when it’s benefitting those with lobbying power

Just take a look at wage theft and federal police theft stats compared with all other forms of robbery in the US - it’s out of control but the only thing that seems to get actioned on is the small shoplifting issue, not the vastly worse forms of theft (per dollar value)
Labor times are for new cars at flat rate dealerships, a lot of them are not realistic. Dealers make a pile of money off brake jobs, shocks, and other "gravy" repairs where it takes less time than the book says. They also lose time on the hard stuff that nobody in the place does on a routine basis like wire harness repairs. The timing also expects the mechanic to have the right tools all at hand, the right parts all ready to go, and the car is expected to be new, clean, and rust free. Your mileage may vary.
>Most use micro instructions.

That's a characteristic of the microarchitecture.

It has nothing to do with RISC or CISC.
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> or at least that all such effects are shallow enough that they can be perfectly faked

Physicalism implies that things we wouldn't intuitively think of as conscious can perfectly mimic all such effects.

Imagine there's a person, John, and you take a precise scan of every neuron of his brain (or every particle if you prefer). You also record all the sensory input signals from his neurons to his brain. You write all this information down in a giant stack of papers. Then you go about simulating the brain with pencil and paper, computing its thoughts and actions (in this thought experiment people have deciphered exactly how neurons work). Maybe it takes you a trillion years to simulate one day of John's life, but you diligently do it.

Physicalism tells us that you can simulate John perfectly this way. You could perfectly predict every word is said, and every muscle he moved. You could feed the motor neuron outputs of your simulation into a robot replica of John, and it would act indistinguishably from the original John.

Is this pencil and paper simulation of John a p-zombie?

We either have to accept that this pencil and paper simulation of John is conscious, or that it's a p-zombie.
Yeah there’s different ways you could slice it. I was including the whole system, since if the GPU’s cooling system breaks, it won’t be useful for long.
What Is Generative Art? (2022)
Ooh fair enough. I'll add an option to disable that, thanks!
I believe that's the way it works. And then you have to transfer to in network provider as soon as humanly possible (perhaps not as humanely possible...)
This is implementation of the inference part and not the training part, right? I’d love to see the training part open sourced and annotated like this.
I just bought this, and downsized to the 11" screen. It's ridiculously light and small, small enough I don't mind putting the keyboard on it.

I haven't pulled any LLMs onto it, and got the 8gb RAM version, so it's not going to be a great local inference device, but it is ultra, ultra fast and smooth for games, notes, reading, browsing, video - overkill, really. I really like it, enough that I might leave the remarkable 2 out of my bag for the next trip.
that's cool, I wish I had writing good enough to want my own font :)

< 14.5, but if I switch this to a default size of 200, the point could be defined as 145, removing one character (the decimal place).

I see a function called "adjust". I don't know font specs, but what if this were serialized differently? 0,{x:12.2,y:13.2} -> 0,[12.2,13.2]
and transformed in the "adjust" function?
I use a Raspberry Pi Zero with a Pi Camera and ffmpeg to make timelapses of plants growing from seedlings each season when we plant tomatoes/potatoes/etc. It's a great way to show the kids how different plants grow from seed, and such a cheap/easy project.

Bash script running on a cron job every hour with:

DATE=$(date +"%Y%m%d%H%M")
raspistill -o /home/pi/timelapse/$DATE.jpg -awb off -awbg 1.8,1.6

Then another bash script running once a week:

DATE=$(date +"%Y%m%d%H%M")
ffmpeg -framerate 12 -pattern_type glob -i '*.jpg' -c:v libx264 -pix_fmt yuv420p -vf 'scale=1920:-2,crop=1920:1080:0:(in_h-1000)' 'timelapse-$DATE.mp4'
scp timelapse-$DATE.mp4 username@my.server:/home/user/

(Edited/simplified, I do a few other things in the scripts like compile the timelapse with pre-made timelapses and share via nginx on the Pi itself)
From the end of the story:

"Metro-North Railroad and NJ Transit use a single pane of polycarbonate glazing almost a half inch thick, according to the Federal Railroad Administration.

"NJ Transit isn’t alone in this problem.

"“The south side of the (Long Island Rail Road) M-7 fleet of 830 cars is also opaque,” Versaggi said."

LIRR trains run predominately east-west routes, and (I assume from this comment) apparently do not turn round at the termini.

It does not quite say that the affected LIRR trains also use polycarbonate windows, but it seems likely that they do, and that the cause of the opacity is sunlight damage to polycarbonate, or some plasticizer or other minor component of the windows. It is well-known that polycarbonates absorbs UV, and that energy has to go somewhere...
All of these interesting space phenomena on film in the past 10 years and the most recent video of “alien activity” I saw came out in like 2005. I don’t think they’re here.
My personal experience with the iPad Air + keyboard is the same plus it weights more or similar than the MacBooc Air! The keyboard is really bulky. When I travel I use the device as a second monitor though...
The windows are not glass, they are 1/2" polycarbonate, per the article, which is easily scratched and susceptible to UV damage. That is the problem. They could likely be polished but then they need to retest the windows for safety compliance.
I am really confused about the point of joining letters not matching up. The whole point of cursive to me is that you do not take your pen off the paper, so the way to join letters is built in. Author seems to have had issues because she’s not actually writing that way?

That said, I really enjoy the whole rest of this writeup for just being the simplest possible way you can go about drawing a bunch of letters on screen without messing with fonts :)
Like, during the Texas IcePocalypse? If we didn’t have a gas stove and a gas fireplace, my wife and I would have died. There’s no way out of this neighborhood if the roads are all frozen, because we live on one of the steepest hills in Austin.

Sure, freezing doesn’t happen all that often, but we’ve had two big freezes in the past twenty or so years that we’ve lived here, and ERCOT has had multiple long power outages in that time.

So, don’t just worry about freezes. You also have to worry about your power supply/distribution company being made up of incompetent fools who are just out to line their own pockets and those of the other billionaires in the state.
Sure, but the scatter plot and histogram in TFA suggest that there’s not a lot of languages written by young adults. The average can of course be misleading but it really isn’t in this case.
What is your favorite operator?
The suggestions I see are almost always based on the same kind of “seeing” as astrology.
Aren't you assuming that the healthcare system operates for the good of the patients? From my point of view, that doesn't seem to be the case in the U.S.
>it has features like indirect addressing and variable-length instruction sizes

There's nothing inherently non-RISC there.

Indirect addressing was evaluated for RISC-V, and found to not be worth the required added complexity and encoding space.

Whereas RISC-V actually adopted variable-length instruction size, because it was found to be highly beneficial to code density, and doable in a manner that does not add too much decode complexity, in neither small nor large micro-architectures.
Where come Dylan and NewtonScript into play?
Is the rule of threes now fulfilled, or is there still more to come? I’m personally hoping for a daylight-visible supernova before the end of 2024.

I’ll mention that the population in my region appears to have stayed primed to watch astronomical phenomena since the eclipse. The beach I usually go to for viewing was busier the night of the auroras than some beach days in the summer.
AI is not going to change the fact that you cannot run VSCode natively on an iPad.
Ha! Never considered that. Thanks. I will investigate.
That fits in to what I have seen happen in some cases with “organic “ certification. It’s a pay to play racket, with minimal effective oversight. I have a small coffee plantation that I operate organically. If I pay 10000 usd I can say I’m certified organic, as long as I sign the paperwork and pass any initial testing and inspection. After seeing what passes for “organic” i decided that from my perspective it’s essentially meaningless from a food safety perspective, though it does convey intent and ethos in some cases.
So what is this proposed Rutgers solution? That seems like the key point of HN interest!
Why is it not theft?
I've also heard people tell similarly bizarre stories (e.g., a non-smoker getting billed a smoking cleaning fee) about Hertz. Given their well publicized financial troubles, I kinda assume they're doing this systematically? I wonder what it would take for some AGs to get involved and send people to jail.
This is a huge feature of CCs that most people don't recognize. You're paying an extra ~3% to credit card companies in exchange for the ability to dispute a charge. If a merchant (in this case Hertz) accepted cash, you would get an invoice in your hand that you could dispute on the spot and just simply not pay. The reverse would be true for Hertz who could try to sue you for not complying.
I wish Nvidia would work nicely with Sway. I fully understand the Sway developers' dislike of Nvidia considering how hostile Nvidia was for many years. I suppose nowadays Sway should work with Nvidia but you still have to use the `--unsupported-gpu` option and enable kernel modesetting.
If you don’t need the pi software ecosystem the orange pi 5 plus competitor comes in 32gb
Sadly I think most car rental companies are filled with fine print hell.

The one that has bitten me a few times is the minimum miles fee. Rent a car at the airport because it’s cheaper than an Uber. Drive to a friends house and the vehicle never is used until return. Since it is bellow some threshold, 30 miles or so, you get charged a $15-25 fee unless you had shown a receipt for gas.
> If it did turn out that Apple was actually able to do what they claim they can't…

My friend, I'm afraid I have no idea what you mean. What do you believe Apple claims they can't do that conflicts with this? (If your answer is "end-to-end encryption", Apple has supported this for at least a decade.)
>the RISCiest of the CISCs and the CISCiest of the RISCs. A happy medium.

Until RISC-V enters the conversation.
I think it's more just the best chip they had and they want to use it.

Many iPads have been "overkill" as far as the amount of power available in theory compared to utilizing it. That's nothing new.
Show HN: ffmpeg-english "capture from /dev/video0 every 1 second to jpg files"
Youtube owns a huge CDN to deliver video quickly.
Let's hope it's the only fragment. Interstellar objects come fast, unexpected, and out of NASA current tracking...
This complaint is as old as the iPad itself.

> Apple iPad Pro review 2018: the fastest iPad is still an iPad

> And the one thing Apple didn’t really change on the iPad Pro is iOS 12, which has all of the same capabilities and limitations iPad users have come to expect. Apple wants you to think that the iPad Pro is the future of computing, but if you’ve already used iOS 12 on an iPad Pro, you know exactly how you feel about that idea.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/5/18062612/apple-ipad-pro-r...

It’s even there in this 2013 review of the first iPad Air - fast hardware held back by the software https://www.theverge.com/2013/11/4/5062826/apple-ipad-air-re...
All this power and you still can't run a terminal app in the background. iPad is a powerful computer crippled by a phone OS that doesn't let you do what most computers were capable of doing even 30 years ago.
Overview of Approximate Nearest Neighbor (ANN) Algorithms for Developers
If it's to dispute small charges, the company doesn't need to show up and just accept the loss.
Yes. This is why I find Hanlon's Razor annoying (" Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity"), as it doesn't consider the higher order effect of what happens when the malicious are aware of the adage and willing to pretend to be incompetent.

One obvious example: OneTrust cookie banners. They're nearly all misconfigured to have the "Reject Cookies" button greyed out or missing (or a link to a little minigame) and the "Accept Cookies" button prominent. Are all companies simply so incompetent? Is OneTrust (easy; no, it's correct on their own website). Or are they deliberately and maliciously breaking the law and when challenged will just do the wide-eyed "oh gosh, I'm such a silly-billy clutz with these things tee-hee"
Does anyone know an iPad app that lets you draw animations like this?

I tried the online editor [1] and it says “this editor requires a screen width of 1200px if more”.

If I check my browser size [2] it says 2360x1426. Bummer.

[1] https://floor796.com/editor/l0

[2] https://howbigismybrowser.com/
This is some hateful stuff, even for HN.
Okay, fraudulent billing then.
For most players streaming are not profitable. Youtube is likely profitable, but since Google doesn’t report separate income, we don’t know how much.

Netflix is.

Disney, peacock, Paramount, Max , etc are not profitable with the hope they can capture future monopoly standing.

Prime Video is likely also not profitable or break even given their studio investments (e.g. MGM, first party content).
A lot longer than that!

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

Could also count elephant paintings and such.
About suspicious things lately, I remember that it regenerated my FileVault (disk encryption) password after the past two updates. It happened to more people out there.
I love my (older) iPad Pro (it's my second Pro, fifth iPad). I liked the second Pencil, and this new one looks great.

I also think iPadOS is now somewhat unjustifiably hamstrung and in some very arbitrary directions.
With a bit of work, Apple could make iPad OS a much better system for tablets. I don't like newer iterations of GNOME, but it is a really decent user experience on a Surface Go.

Given that an iPad Pro is a much better piece of hardware and linux-surface is made by some enthusiasts, there is no excuse for this.

iPads are great, some apps are great, but the overall experience is simply not there. It is way too constraining.