skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> administration has gone fully into gaslight mode

What exactly does this mean, everything I'm seeing is very positive. I can look at my stock portfolio, my W2, and read the unemployment reports to understand we're basically at full employment. We haven't had this long of a period of sub-4% unemployment in 50 years. We're producing more oil and gas domestically than any time in American history, and the prime age labor force participation rate is as high as it was during the dot-com peak.

If anything I'm feeling gaslit by the people constantly parroting economic doom because Cheerios cost $5 instead of $3. Please, gain some perspective.

> > Whatever numbers the government is publishing do not reflect the experiences of the citizens.

Yes, they do. How do you think they collect this data? What kind of alternate reality are you living in?

I'm seeing more air travel this month than in the history of aviation. This isn't something that happens in a bad economy.
Turkey is in NATO.
it's this or Sam Altman and Elon Musk super-robots hack your brain
We are witnessing rail road tycoon, but for the solar system. The foundations set in the next 50-100 years will be the foundation of the human solar empire. Spacex has no competition for the foreseeable future. And anyone who uses them as a service provider will be quickly subsumed if they’re successful, as the present article indicates.
Harvard Should Say Less. Maybe All Schools Should
But to an experienced programmer making a fraction of that a year at Google, it's not that much.
We sell aspiration, not products.
Yes. But, having the freedom to watch something and decide for yourself is a different question. 16 is two years short of military age, and old enough to pay taxes on your income.
The customer would also be elated if they paid you nothing and they were your only customer.
Louisiana law will criminalize approaching police under certain circumstances
If it is not controlled by the immune system, it causes general neurological disorder, potentially severe (Parkinson-like, dementia, brain damage), and can start to invade other organs. This is uncommon except in people with serious immune dysfunction.

When an infection is latent, it's normally described as asymptomatic. But there is some reason to think, it might subtly affect humans neurologically in a similar way to how it seems to affect other mammals, like the wolves in this article. But this is controversial.
I would love my package manager to support a simple fetch helper protocol to plug-in distributed caches from torrents (with webseeds), to mDNS, heck just a Redis service tracking which systems should have which packages cached per site, to something not much more complex than an old fashioned HTTP caching proxy.
I asked this some time ago on their Discord in relation to AWS lambda and the Python client and the answer was that you need to handle caching on your own but it is easy to do with fsspec. I haven’t tried it yet though.
The olfactory problem with waymos is that if someone gets in one dirty or foul smelling there isn't a driver to kick them out. Waymos are starting to get more ridership and some of those people are going to be absolute pigs. I gave feedback to Waymo about a recent ride where the entire car smelled like a fat, unwashed ass and the best case scenario there is that they took the car out of rotation immediately, the rider right before me left it that way and that the rider will be identified after several instances of those reports. The reality is probably that the car picked up several riders after me until one reported a problem mid-ride.
> What is the path to victory

Hopefully there isn't one. We need a Pepsi here, not an Amazon.
I don’t understand why people would care about kids that are not obviously lost walking somewhere alone?
It might be more appropriate to link to the original blog post: http://smoogespace.blogspot.com/2024/05/where-did-5-million-...
My kids main demand is the following features, and this watch doesn't deliver on any of them:

1. Whitelist contacts for calling and text call - installing an app is a pain for older ppl / friends.

2. Music: Why not Google? This already has headphone support and the Pixel watch hardware which support musics.

3. Maps: in case they need to go A to B. WearOS has google maps, so this should be an easy add. School bus is on google maps for e.g, so being able to check time to leave would be great.

4. Battery: 16hrs at launch is not going to age well...

Overall, despite being in the market for this, would not buy.

Features kids didn't ask for and I don't want:

Gaming: There is a market for gamification, but it seems to me the product team went overboard and spent way too much time here at the cost of making a better kids watch. I have no doubt it can and will make some kids more active, but...
TBIs are real, and a TBI from a chunk that size going 60-100 mph can be lethal if not disabling.

Lubbock, in this one instance, has maybe ~700 unhoused individuals. It would be worse in cities like Austin where there are ~7000 unhoused individuals. (Note that most unhoused population censuses wildly undercount.)

Unhoused people have wildly varying afflictions or sometimes none at all of substances, mental health, motivation, encouragement, engagement, socialization problems, legal barriers, and lack of resources. There are a slim few sane, healthy, nonsmoker, nondrinkers, not completely destitute, but maybe elderly who through choice or life circumstances lack housing. And, there is a mental health crisis in America where people experiencing psychosis are especially vulnerable when they lack ID and cannot fill out MedicAid or Medicare SSDI forms.
Exactly what I came to say. I need something for my daughter to connect with and/or track her while playing with her friends outside. It is difficult to always be on her lookout, and any other watch tracks them more. I need control to see who they are talking to, chatting with, what apps they use, and controlling screen time. Few kids in her class are already on IG/Tiktok courtesy their elder siblings and I do not want my daughter to be exposed to such crap.

Edit: also to inform her in case I am running late to pick her up from school due to traffic or otherwise.
Some systems have short and chaotic lives, and other systems grow and mature for a long time. What matters is not how long a system lived, but how well it served its purpose.

Memento mori, the inevitable entropy, constant decay, and disintegration. But also, vive ut vivas, live that you may live - there is an opposite force, often called negative entropy or "negentropy", but I prefer to think of as creativity. It's what organizes things, flowers, designs, buildings, systems.
Prepare your child for the path, not the path for your child.
>How many grains of sand makes a heap

A minimum of four, usually much more though.

(yes that is a tetrahedron joke)
I hope this question doesn't offend, but have you taught your son what to do when he gets lost? Explicitly teaching and practicing strategies like this can help a lot. I was always taught to 1) stay where you are, not try to walk around and 2) approach someone who works at the store and tell them you're lost, your name, and your parents name. I also memorized my address and home phone number. Obviously that doesn't work in every situation but I think it gave me more confidence that I could handle things as a kid.
It's not been published, by the way.
Unless you can break the SHA1 hashes for the torrent chunks and the global hash torrents also authenticate the content. If you have a valid "info" dictionary at least.
> gathering the data wrong more than it indicates mass public hysteria.

Simpler explanation - people derive their model of the world from the news, and the news is slanted heavily towards economic negativity. For roughly a year in 2023 exceptionally strong unemployment reports were reported as "bad" because they caused the markets to decline because investors want lower rates. People see layoffs in the news, despite the fact that big tech has a fraction of total employment even in the information sector.
> I'd been thinking about was how to allow users to purchase recurring subscriptions to their TinyPilot Pro software licenses rather than having to remember to re-purchase every year.

I actually hate the 'flip' side of this. Over the last few years I've lost track of the number of services/providers who think it is just fine to renew annual subscriptions (in some cases $400+) with zero warning of upcoming renewal. It's not the amount of the service that bugs me, but the fact that that isn't a small chunk of change, and even a "Heads up, we'll be billing your card in a week for your annual subscription" email seems too much to ask for, to some.
What’s nice about a smart watch is that it’s basically a dumb phone that’s hard to lose. Great for kids.
Networking with fellow developers in your city
When you bring this up people call it "gaslighting" because positive news can't be real. It's honestly bizarre.
Anybody remember Exo Squad and the genetically engineered NeoSapiens with two thumbs per hand?
There must be something you can do about that lady other than sticking a watch on your child. Something about harassment surely.
Someone could offer to pay for their college and retirement and I would still never do it.

If you opt your kid into surveillance capitalism, you are the worst type of scum.

Remember it was once legal and common to buy children tobacco products.
I envision a bunch of those car carousels with charging plugs!

https://www.siemens.com/global/en/company/stories/research-t...

https://www.parkmatic.com/automated/carousel/
Amazing! Congrats on launching. Company motto: "dumb enough to actually have attempted this already".
TBI = "total brain injury" iirc from my insurance industry days.
Sudoku is such an apt metaphor, thank you!

If I can extend it a bit: sometimes when you start a new job, the board state you inherit is actually subtly invalid (i.e. it will lead to an unsolvable solution), and you have to figure out the smallest number of numbers to "erase" to end up with a valid board state.

You get to realistically use the eraser maybe once per year, because nobody likes erasers. So you just compensate for it with lots of notes!
Fits well with the focus on investors over users I suppose.
Pressure Grows on U.S. to Allow Attacks on Russian Territory
And we are talking even more basic than most people on HN can imagine.

Such as:

"Is your device turned on?"

"Are you logged into the site and not just searching google for the thing your want our application to do?"

"Have you actually purchased our product and not a competitor's you just think is similar?"
So? Obesity is a way worse toll on the human body than a scarred face, but we don't issue fines for people who enter McD's

Other people have their own bodies and they do not belong to you
Tesla Model S and Model X each weigh more than most Ford F-150 configurations, the largest V8 models excepted, but not by much.
Garmin Bounce[0] for kids, which is the watch which directly competes with this, has a 12-24hr battery life on LTE, although Garmin claims 2day battery.

[0]: https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2023/01/garmin-bounce-activity-t...
"Land" doesn't mean just the stuff you can hold in your hand. It literally has several pages dedicated to it in the OED. The big one. "Ground" too.

It so happens that the word for "dirt" in many languages acquire meaning that transcends mere silica and humus, as our Japanese friend pointed out.

And why would this surprise anyone? "Terroir" is using the word for "ground", "land" as a poetic metaphor for everything needed to make a peasant happy (as opposed to content).
> and again labor for this thanks to automation is likely less than $500.

What "automation" innovations have lowered the cost of unbolting a heavy transmission out the back of an engine and attaching a new one??

As best I can tell, the process has been unchanged in a workshop for nigh on 40 to 50 years at this point - it's humans with wrenches and a car lift. I want to see this shop that will swap me a trans for under 500 bucks too...
See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40508705
I've gotten jobs through LinkedIn but I've found recruiters will still cold message you via email or phone if they can find it. I also don't post anything. I just try to keep the profile updated and treat it like a living resume. I was job hunting in April and got a job outside of LinkedIn but I had initially talked to the recruiter on LinkedIn a few months ago so I count it as an assist.

One thing to note, I never updated my profile to have that "open to work" banner. My other coworkers who were laid off at the same time still seem to be job hunting.
> This just seems like a weird aspect of this issue to highlight

It's FUD from a thinktank that specializes in freaking out over corporate legislation under the guise of "personal liberty". Still seem weird?

Seems right on point to me.
This makes perfect sense and is a Good and Right thing to do. It properly devalues stolen goods while allowing a third party repair shop industry to exist that purchases "for parts" broken devices from some users and more cheaply repairs others' using said parts.

The main thing potentially missing is there has to be a way that the shop can verify the given device's parts are not marked stolen prior to purchasing it "for parts"...
"This constant tracking of kids is unnecessary and dangerous"

What are the dangers?
Not really the data, because real wages are higher today than they were under Trump. It's mostly media-driven (and partially TikTok driven) hysteria. Can't wait for that app to be banned.
Gosh. They berated them? How terrible! Next you'll tell me they did something dastardly like scowling at them.
I guess you have to feel safe in your own neighborhood to not feel like you need to do this.

Can totally see how that doesn’t work very well in the US.
I agree I want go get another 12 out if my 2012 Toyota. Probably the carbon saving from building a new car outweighs using fossil fuels a bit longer.
Pennsylvania's Fracking Wastewater Contains a 'Shocking' Amount of Lithium
> Why, then, we barely see any non-transformer production-ready LLM these days?

Because having a 5% better non-transformer model doesn't help you if as a result you can't use the 10% improvements people publish that only apply to transformers. Very quickly you'll be 5% worse than those who stuck with transformers, and have wasted a ton of time and money.
Dr. Steven Lasee, who participated in research on PFAS in pesticides as an EPA research fellow, provided pesticide samples to the EPA, which he had spiked with PFAS for testing purposes.

The EPA failed to detect PFAS in these samples in two rounds of testing and issued a memo and press release discrediting Lasee’s findings.

The EPA's memo and press release contained misleading information and omitted critical data, including results that showed the presence of PFAS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
JetPens has a video and article for the care of fountain pens.
At laypeople level, or even at the level of "anyone who isn't making an in-house tool/business out of LLMs", the only "broad archetypes" that matter is "GPT-4" and "not GPT-4". You don't need to break down the latter, unless you absolutely can't use the former.
Dat is some dark magic
Ferrocene notably doesn't support any safety critical CPUs in its current qualification, and those that are experimental only support bare metal. It's exciting, but not at quite the same level of maturity yet.
I’ve always found the term ‘immunocompromised’ to be somewhat vague.

I use immunosuppressive medication to manage a chronic condition, so I assume my immune function is worse than someone not using such, but better than e.g. someone undergoing chemotherapy.

Does this make me immunocompromised or not? Or, where does it place me on the scale? What precautions should I take?
Singleton Factory, good one, haha. It was worth fending off the downvotes to reach that punchline.

EDIT: I just searched this term and it actually exists. Sometimes I despair of my chosen profession.
How do you know "it's just a mistake"?
You seem to misunderstand the role of LUTs in color grading. LUTs (Look-Up Tables — a simple multi-dimensional array data structure) describe how one color is transformed into another, and they are used for efficient color transformations. In Resolve, the tools you described help build a LUT in memory, which is then applied to each pixel in each frame, often using SIMD instructions for efficiency. This avoids the need to procedurally apply each setting to each pixel individually, which is way slow.

Drawing windows, mattes, tracking, and other masking tools determine where and how the LUT is applied within the rendering pipeline.

> Source? That's a very gross oversimplification of what a color session is like. LUTs don't do tracking. LUTs don't do keys. LUTs don't do mattes.

I work in AAA games and have written code for tonemapping and color grading. We often use a gbuffer (graphics buffer that could be seen as a 2D screen-shaped image that is never shown) to mask different objects in the scene and apply different LUTs accordingly. So, it is not only LUTs that are applied in a similar screen-space way, but also masking is similar.

> There's so much more going into color grading than "apply LUT here". Just look at the control surfaces for Resolve and the number of knobs/buttons/rollers. Would something that just applied LUTs need all of that?

On a low level, it essentially is about applying LUTs. How you create these LUTs and how you mask their application are crucial aspects of the process. But ultimately, a LUT is applied to pixels. You are talking about the artistry techniques involved in making a LUT and masking where it is applied, which is not debated.

LUTs are not just files you can import and export to grade the whole image or frame. They are a fundamental compact data structure that makes SIMD operations easy, which is why they are used in grading. If you set up a color grading pipeline with nodes in Resolve, it is very likely compiled into one or more LUTs, which are then applied to the frames.
I loved your Running in Production podcast. Any chance of a return in the future?
The US is the second largest by units sold (30M vs 15M) and the largest by value. The average selling price of a new vehicle in China is about $20K vs. US $50K.
That is current generation (very early) tech. The hypothetical model the bill is worried about is significantly more advanced.
I think it's more the failure to start driving soon enough and fast enough. People wait and wait and then go and then go slowly, instead of moving as soon as possible and faster. That adds up over the course of many cars.

I see it every time I get to the area of slowdown (like one lane into two lanes). People just go slooooooow there.
I could see it turning into a failed Microsoft acquisition.

They were first out of the gate, and set the bar high with a live model everyone could talk to.

What happens if chatgpt is good enough to get everyone excited about AI, but not good enough to be a viable call center rep down the line?

OpenAI would be screwed maintaining a huge product, with huge sunk training costs, and another company with less baggage could swoop in.
OP here, happy to answer any questions about Brisk or the process of giving away all of our code :)
Hail can kill people, but homeless people are almost always within reach of cover. In the types of conditions that hail develops, they are usually not standing out in the open. Almost nobody stands in the rain, much less hailstorms.
Something that's interesting here is that brain organoids have been known to exhibit spontaneous synchronous firing pattern generation, which may just be a thing that happens when you collect neurons in large enough numbers. There's two questions here - one, the more prosaic, is technical: how does a bioprocessor handle that kind of spontaneous behavior? The second is more philosophical, which is that we don't actually have a good theory for what consciousness is or at what size or level of complexity it emerges. We know the more we look, the more we find what looks like self-aware behavior in animals and the more we find evidence of social behaviors and what looks an awful lot like "inner life." One can argue whether or not a computer can ever be truly conscious, but a ball of neurons, well, we know the answer to that one.
And yet, they kept SHART. Love it. https://skyvector.com/?ll=40.49952904132459,-98.213836672882...
Where I live a bad year costs $2000 in maintenance costs and usually it is less. Investing the cost of a new car in SPY would give the same amount every year, compounding and virtually tax free*

* You control when you sell and pay tax, sell in small amounts when not working to minimize tax, compounding gains are not taxed until sale, death allows tax free passing to children.

I wont even get into salary sacrifice!
Exactly... Homeless people are smart enough to take cover, but animals don't necessarily know. Even if they do, they can find themselves far from any cover.
My findings are the same - having spoken to a founder working in robotics, with a successful product and a sizable customer base, he has spent a very long time looking for funding.
I have a local MITM Squid proxy on my home network to try and alleviate this problem, but it's why the prevalence of TLS with no protocol design for how we do proxying has gotten pretty annoying.

I did try doing something fun with network-interface scripts and avahi to make this more dynamic - the idea was my desktop and laptop both ran squid proxies, and then dynamically set peer proxies if they detected each other on the network. It didn't work great given the overhead.

It really feels like there should be a better way to do this in general, and without having to break TLS directly for things which are not really "secret".
That’s roughly a 100k vehicle.
"The obstacle is that until now, off-the-shelf vector databases could not index a dataset larger than memory, because both the full-resolution vectors and the index (edge list) needed to be kept in memory during index construction. Larger datasets could be split into segments, but this means that at query time they need to search each segment separately, then combine the results, turning an O(log N) search per segment into O(N) overall."

How is a log N search over S segments O(N)?
We are talking about 16,000 residential town in Arizona, with no heavy industry, I doubt they would need full capacity for 12hrs straight at night. But in any case, it seems appropriate to compare to the cost and maintenance of 98MWh gas peaker.
I read an interesting article by someone that set up "daylight" lighting in their home by essentially tiling their entire ceiling in high-efficiency LED panels. He offset the electricity costs using solar power and batteries.

The gist of it was that it very markedly improved the mood and general wellbeing of his entire family, and visitors would often comment about how "nice" his house was without being able to explain precisely why they felt that way.

Conversely, imaging living and working in a dark cave.
it won't be aggregated though will it

it'll be used against them, personally
I was about 3 years ahead of my peers in spatial reasoning and behind them socially. When I was a kid leaving me alone meant I was likely to wander long distances end up in a pool and drown.

If anything I see this as enabling parents to keep their kids on a longer leash so to speak.
China, South Korea, and Japan really don't have the best diplomatic/trade relationship.

South Korea has in particular suffered a great deal undr China's economic coercion since THAAD in 2017 -- their global giants like Samsung, Hyundai lost over 90% of their sales in China and they have likewise removed much of their manufacturing footprint in China. Not all too sure they want to jeopadize otherwise collaborative relationship with friendly ally, the US, for a hostile trading bully next door, China.
https://archive.is/5AC9o