skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep, that's the place. When you go there, two things to look for - one is the ring of speakers around 10ft up on the walls, and the other is the forest of small capsule-shaped microphones hanging from the ceiling. It's a really impressive system, although AIUI it's ludicrously expensive - it's there for marketing, Comal did not pay full price for the system.
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On the cheap, Earasers. They're small enough that they're almost invisible, and they're designed to attenuate roughly evenly across the audible spectrum. That makes them great for concerts, but other folks here claim that the top-heavy attentuation profile of non-music specific earplugs is actually better for speech.
It’s not strapped to their wrist so it’s easier to lose for starters.
> For better or for worse the ship has definitely sailed on the laissez-faire "be home before sunset" parenting of past generations

Not true at all. Depending on where you live it is very much alive and well.
Do you know what an 'assault' rifle is? I only heard that term used by people who want them banned, who usually think this means automatic weapons, like the other commonly misused term machine gun.

The correct term that 'assault' has become an umbrella for is semi-automatic. That means 1 bullet shot for every 1 time the trigger is pulled. There are technically other guns, like pump-action, that require literal pumping of bullets into the chamber between each shot, or even powder guns which are extremely dangerous due to their inaccuracy and jamming (read jamming as: higher probability to explode during use)

'Assault' is used to try to demonify 'bad' guns but really at that point you might as well ban all guns, because the few remaining are useless.

Just be anti-gun instead of anti 'assault' rifle so you aren't pretending to support 'good' guns
> Amazon Cloud Traffic Is Suffocating Fedora's Mirrors

An astounding milestone for the English language.

Imagine what this sentence possibly could have meant in 1990.
Agreed. It's at the point where I suspect having no guardrails would be better than the current situation. e.g. MS Paint AI latency driven by phoning home to ensure the rendered image is PG enough. And of course, the latency is not even a fixed cost, because it's "judgement" of non-offensive is suspect.
To my understanding, it does not cache (but I haven't reviewed the code). "Expensive" here really just means expensive in time. If you're running DuckDB on an EC2 instance to query S3 on the same account, it's practically free of any other cost. I wouldn't bother doing it outside AWS unless it's a one-time thing.

Running a simple analytics query on ~4B rows across 6.6K parquet files in S3 on an m6a.xl takes around 7 minutes. And you can "index" these queries somewhat by adding dimensions in the path (s3://my-data/category=transactions/month=2024-05/rows1.parquet) which DuckDB will happily query on. So yeah, fairly expensive in time (but cheap for storage!). If you're just firehosing data into S3 and can add somewhat descriptive dimensions to your paths, you can optimize it a bit.
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Wouldn't this be a COPA violation?
Yeah I was saying that above. If you watch the cars after the breaking, they take too long to start going and they don't go fast enough.
Honestly, I think it's even more insidious: They're betting on the applicant following the company thinking it'll increase the applicant's odds of being "noticed."
That's interesting. I wonder if there is a frequency dependent attenuation present in the volume control on the old ones.
Is the check plug really even necessary for a trans fluid swap a lot of the time?

I just drain mines and refill to specified amount, I've never once cared for a check plug and just change it every ~50k miles on most of my cars, regardless of color. It's usually not an expensive fluid.
Biden Administration Announces New Steps to Bolster Domestic Nuclear Industry
This is a complete waste of taxpayer dollars. If I'm reading correctly the Florida waypoints referenced were renamed because a busybody NY Times reporter complained?
OpenAI could of course send all your chat history to a DB and then use that on a future training round. Some of it is free RLHF data that needs a bit of cleaning up. Because the user side of the conversation has clues about whether the answer was correct.

Also are we that far from fine tuning in real time? Maybe next year?

I think while the current model might be what he says the model in 2025 could be vastly different.
You are absolutely right. I'm certainly not pro-Garmin here. Just anti-12 hour battery life for kids watches. It's just not compatible with the way young kids work.
This is far from record-sized hail, even for Texas. The article even says so. The headline is hype.
Ask HN: Best file watcher for Node.js/Bun
I liked the idea of Facebook's watchman. Cross-platform and it would only add a watcher on each dir once, regardless of how many apps needed watcher functionality.

But it's currently uninstallable for weeks on macOS without some pain (https://github.com/facebook/watchman/issues/1199).

There is `rs-notify` and `watchexec` that builds on that but seems a bit unstable.

It's 2024, and we still don't have a good way to reliably watch a large number of files :(

The bit rot is pretty crazy. Watchman's decline was a bit shocking.
They're being ripped down and replaced by coffee shops with plugs and wifi
Design For Obsolescence isn't often the goal ... just a side benefit. Not that it doesn't happen.

The goal is usually something like: ensure we meet durability requirements X, while minimizing costs.

Now in practice that might very much amount to the same practical impact, such as the product will break after the designed lifetime, but maybe not if it happens to be cheaper to use a simpler, cheaper component that actually is more durable. But probably there is some component that is the weak link that only meets the minimum design specs. And this yet one more reason why Repair is important, because many of the components are perfectly fine!
Reply to the texts with "dick pics"...but of horse or cow penis. Chances are pretty good he will block you or just stop soon after the first.
For email...auto reply with links to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goatse.cx
or go for the the rabbit hole and toss out a random OnlyFans /Ashley Madison / Grinder page.
Should've guessed! I'd really love to find more places with similar systems & investments in acoustics. It makes such a huge difference in the experience.
The value and battery life aren’t there are the biggest issues. Not kidding when I say I think the device needs to double that runtime minimum.
FWIW, no issues on first run on my iPhone 13 Pro Max :-)

Could be related to the 13 mini cameras specifically.
Home Insurance Is Clobbering Consumers. Yet It's Barely Counted in Inflation
It's always seemed ridiculous to me that `apt` by default isn't just implemented as a global hash lookup. Once I have my package indexes and signatures, where a package comes from really doesn't matter - I should be able to fire a request into the ether and get routed to whoever has it, not depend on one specific mirror not breaking mid-update.
I saw that on tiktok myself. But apparently only the experts at tree planting make good money and it takes a few seasons to get good.
They're expensive if you're buying them new. But they quickly depreciated in value and back when they still sold their ICE models here it was easy to buy a 2-3yo one for around $12k.
When it’s all in memory you get to amortize the cost of the initial load. Or just pay it when it’s not part of the hot path. When it’s segmented, you’re doing that because memory is full and you need to read in all the segments you don’t have. That’ll completely overwhelm the log n of the search you still get
That's what I was wondering. I got lost at a basketball game when I was 5. Went up to an officer and told them my parents were lost. Sure it was scary, but it wasn't some scarring incident...
Disassembling Dalvik
The extra weight is a huuuuge factor.

Electrified trucks and freight will likely never be much cost effective given how tires will be constantly worn out.
> I need control to see who they are talking to, chatting with, what apps they use, and controlling screen time.

Sure it's not my right to tell you how to parent. However I ask have you not sat down with your daughter and explained her the dangers and consequences?

Restrictions are what you want. Restrict her from downloading apps, ask her to show you her messages. Limit her screen time when she's done her chores.

Don't hide and sneak controlling her habits in the back scenes because if you loose her trust you won't get it back.

Unless by controlling you do mean restricting which changes the tone completely.
Since we’re just talking past each other: who is Ralph baric and why did his research get banned at chapel hill?
It's a cable going between entire countries that got cut. Anything inside the country should still be full speed.

There is no link that could be used in preference. Any repo that the factory stations could access would be unusable by Singapore AWS. And any repo that Singapore AWS could access would be unusable by the factory stations. But the two ends of the link don't have to use the same repo.
Not understanding might not be far from the fact, but it is probably just posturing. I doubt most of the Tubers understand it themselves which is the real reason they can't share. They saw it on some other YT video, and then made it like it was their own idea.

I've tried to explain how to use waveforms/vectorscopes and why they are important. Those things are rarely used any more, and people just don't realize how much more difficult they make it on themselves by not using them. Just because you can push that knob to an 11 doesn't mean you should. Pushing that knob while looking at the scopes will tell you when to stop. This was life or death when making content for broadcast.

Also, I've seen all sorts of weird things that blindly applying a LUT wouldn't solve. There was a specific Red camera in town that had a very strange issue where the green color channel was not recording correctly. One shoot we had footage on was of an ice cream type place that had lots of whipped cream on the desserts. However, as you pushed the levels up, the green lagged behind so as the red and blue channels were maxing out the color on the screen went magenta. Applying a LUT would have looked terrible, but the colorist was able to go in to adjust the levels of the green channel separately so that the cream went back to white. It saved the shoot because a camera was not working properly.

There's also interesting tricks to do like when shooting through windows of a high rise will give a green tint to things. So lowering just the green channel will bring things back which could be a specific LUT, but the thing with LUTs is they tend to get used for the wrong reasons. Shooting underwater without a filter can also be dialed back, but it's specific to camera/depth type of situations.

Another common ask was to "open up the eyes". Well lit faces are notoriously hard as the sunken eye sockets just naturally shadow. So you add a window to the eyes and push the exposure up to achieve the effect that no LUT will ever achieve. If the camera moves for a tracking shot, the windows can track along with it. No LUT will ever accomplish that either. The eye is naturally attracted to the brightest area of the screen, so there's ways of grading something so that it suddenly receives some attention that a LUT would not get there, again using windows. Some of the internationalization of releases have small forensic tells in them to indicate which locale it might have been leaked from. One specific example was a stack of towels in the background of various colors. Through color correction, they changed the colors of the towels to be different for each region.

So so so many things that well graded footage can have done to it that "you wouldn't understand" but would never come close to achieving with a LUT. Wouldn't understand is very harsh though, and is a total cop out from someone that sounds very pompous. I would say "wouldn't consider" as something that could be done let alone needed to be done.
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I thought it was a Banana Splits theme tune reference.
Insect Frass Becomes Food for Protein-Rich Microalgae
It is true that neither 1 nor 2 have been successfully demonstrated, but there is quite a double standard here: you claim that idealism has the answers to questions about the mind, but you have not shown it explaining anything. Deducing the reality of idealism from the absence of answers to 1 or 2 is exactly like saying, in 1950, that as biology has not identified the biochemical correlates of cell reproduction, life must be fundamental (I know some people hold this view today, but it is at best a niche view that generates little controversy in either philosophy or science.)
I've been using a Chrome extension with anti-myopic blur based on this principle:

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/refractify-myopic-d...
On the linked page they mention that manual WB is on the roadmap.
Yeah, someone else said it's not enabled for everyone.

It might just be settings? Do you have "Always use secure connections" turned on? I don't remember if that was a manual toggle or not.

However it's triggered, I hope they make the UI better before they deploy it more widely.

And I'll quote the exact text for you:

[warning triangle]

The connection to 192.168.0.40 is not secure

You are seeing this warning because this site does not support HTTPS. Learn more

[Continue to site] [Go back]

Then when I click continue, the only sign it's doing anything is that the reload arrow becomes a stop X. After 20 seconds it moves on to "This site can't be reached".
I think they were lamenting the fact that the classes did not appreciate at the same rate, and that the more desirable homes appreciated faster. Didn’t claim not to understand it either.
This model is more restricted than Mistral and Mixtral - this is a new development from them.
> The colonists rebelled against the UK because the UK was freeing slaves

The Declaration of Independence predates legal abolition in England by 30+ years.

Influential US founders knew from the beginning that slavery was a moral blight and worked to permanently undermine it. 20 years after the revolution, congress outlawed the importation of slaves -- an act that was forecast by the constitution itself and which also predated English abolition legislation.
The only thing worse for a cafe than to be full of people who aren't in a hurry to leave, is to be empty. During slow business hours, the venue will happily cut customers some slack, because as long as they're seen at tables, they're doing free marketing for the place. See: social proof.
Doesn't doubling N double S?
Yes. These aren't new concepts that sprung up after Black Mirror.

If I'm being dismissive it's because these things can be dismissed as revolutionary.
Chilling effects, for example. Children know they are under permanent surveillance, and will act accordingly - like not doing something in anticipation of admonition.

The parents on the other hand have an always-available magic mirror to show them what their children are doing. Depending on your desire for control, this may very easily lead to checking in ever-shorter time intervals.
https://www.etymotic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/erl-0108...

Here's a publication featuring ear protection products for musicians that attempts to do this. It's not perfect but it's pretty good (I own a set of custom earmolds with the Etymotic filters).
Using Blackwell doesn't make the model better or that much faster vs cost.
Any $$ hardware I give my kid will need device tracking, because they will likely misplace it more than once. And once you have device tracking… you have tracking.

And the other poster is right, wrist format is best for kids.
Looking for a specific action in a video? This AI-based method can help you
Arm says its next-gen mobile GPU will be its most 'performant and efficient'
Precisely, this is such a basic violation of GPL it’s mind boggling they went for it.
The Elusive Byzantine Empire (2019)
It’s a Volkswagen under the hood. Besides some “performance” components most are going to be exactly the same as a Volkswagen.
How did the Apple Watch keep the annoying lady away from your kid?
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> My guess is they will retain "parts pairing" from a technical perspective, but frame it as an anti theft measure, and focus on preventing use of stolen device parts.

Isn't that just what they already do? Apple has consistently framed the parts pairing as being about theft deterrence. I don't believe them for a second (and nor should anyone), but that is certainly what they claim.
Can't read the article, but I'm assuming this is talking about land-based AA.

Soviet doctrine was that the Soviet Airforce couldn't go 3 rounds with the combined European/American airforces, so the Soviets invested a lot more in ground-based AA systems, having multiple overlapping systems for short/medium/long range. The purpose was to be able to advance their army under the cover of AA and deny NATO air superiority even though they themselves wouldn't have it.

Whereas, NATO doctrine was to just have air superiority and have aircraft shoot down aircraft & bomb ground-based AA with missiles and whatnot.

So yeah, NATO doesn't have much ground launched AA, but to project air defences they'd have their combined air forces, which is a ridiculous amount of firepower compared to everyone else. The USA has the first, second, third and I think fifth largest air forces, and the UK & France are up there in the rankings, then there's Germany, Italy, now Sweden.....
Karen Schwartz, a stringer for the New York Times, asked if we are considering renaming three air traffic fixes near Palm Beach International Airport because of Donald Trump’s recent “racist statements about Mexicans.

Asked != complained.
Why do you feel like you “need” this, though? I think that’s exactly what GP is saying – not disagreeing that it might have utility, but that there is a cost associated as well. The world is just statistically not that scary, and it’s good to let our kids make mistakes and get lost and find their way and face adversity and survive.

Me and my wife differ in our perspectives on this. She is more of a “safety at any cost”, whereas I am more of a “free range kids”. I know the world has changed since I was a teenager, but our parents never knew where we were, who we were chatting with on the internet, and we turned out great.
Well yeah I didn't expect it to be worse.
Something that makes sure I don't waste my time with social media and garbage content.

It's really hard.
AI products like ChatGPT much hyped but not much used, study says
This has largely become my wife and is attitude.

We generally get about 8 years out of a car before we start running into larger repairs. This tends to become the point we decide to trade it in for something new.
The market largely self-regulates this. If you want systems with replaceable components built to high quality standards, they exist, but there are costs. They might costs more, not be cutting edge, not have the nice integrated form factors. But plenty of third-party-reviewers, brand reputation from customers, and fierce competition reigns in much of the worst practices of industry. But things move fast enough that it requires either relying on a reputation for quality or detailed review to get what you want. And the mainstream buyers don't care about soldered components (at point of purchase). They might care about resale value, but really doesn't hinder the current market too much, given how fast things deprecate relative to repairability. All of this is basically self-regulated by a highly competitive global market.
Sure but it's combined noise on top of existing sound waves that gets me. They don't cancel out midair, they cancel out in your brain right?

And yeah, I also don't trust all these radio waves we have going everywhere and wonder if big events with hundreds of thousands of phones are doing at least some damage.

Things seem unlikely til we realise. Like plague spreading through bad smells. We were close but dismissive.

Anyway I hope I'm not right, but it still plays in my mind.
I'd like to know how they think they'll prove I didn't write whatever code I generate. Unless it is a direct copy of something else available to the investigator, good luck.
Fine let me take my phone to the official store, do some authentication and let them give that configuration of components the stamp of approval. That way they know that I am aware of all the parts that comprise my phone and want them to work. If some component turns out to originate from a phone that was reported stolen then fine, it's not part of their remit to act on that and not my problem either, assuming I bought it fair and square. (Assuming common law or similar, ymmv)
$5/kg, 10-50 kg per vehicle. Not an obstacle.

https://cen.acs.org/materials/inorganic-chemistry/Can-seawat...
But only a few years of work for author.
How do you guys manage new versions?

Updates have always been a PITA on iOS. There’s no way to charge for them.
""It was a boneheaded move," says David Herlihy, a copyright lawyer and music industry professor at Northeastern University. "A miscalculation."

Other lawyers see OpenAI's behavior as so manifestly goofy they suspect the whole scandal might be a deliberate stunt..."

It seems the people promoting "artificial intelligence" are not themselves intelligent. Funny coincidence.
Gives me great joy to see my hometown, the City of Joy (Kolkata) making it to the frontpage of HN. :`)
There are a couple companies already doing this for some years.
https://soymomo.us/
Even has its own chatgpt for kids, Spotify and videocalls.

Fitbit is late and device is expensive for basic features.
laws don't tend to get reversed very often, while unintended consequences are compounding
This would be a good idea if we didn't already know Google's real agenda here.
I remember the 80s when Saturday morning cartoons were a long series of toy commercials interspersed with shorter toy commercials. I got to be the target demographic. It was the best!
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The main reason (what we’re now calling) AI (specifically, LLMs) is so popular here is that they happen to be a somewhat useful tool for programmers. Other than that, they’re not really that great. Unless you want slop: be it writing, art, music, or whatever. Use it for inspiration — nothing else. And certainly don’t trust it.
It's all of the above. Every single realistic scenario you can imagine is likely happening simultaneously.
I wonder if anyone has made a set of earplugs that specifically target attenuation so that primary speech frequencies are less affected. I know foamies roll off HF aggressively (looks like 2k is the knee point[1])

My issue with foam earplugs is that they're too good at attenuating. I end up wearing them partially inserted, which is ok as long as you're staying still. If you are at a concert, or you're eating, or you have long hair, you'll disturb them.

[1]: https://www.offshorenorge.no/globalassets/dokumenter/drift/s...