skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the feedback! Yea our devices are insanely capable and pretty much an extension of us now. The goal is to make this screen time productive and healthy.

Do you remember which specific page or element looked like it had a bit too much padding and wasn't fitting correctly on your phone? That would be super helpful.

If anything else comes to mind, please don't hesitate to reach out. Always happy to hear from users and improve the experience any way I can.
To what extent is this success based on improvements in processing/strategy versus mechanical optimizations? And to what extent is the timing based on starting position? Seems like Guinness would want to use an average over maybe 20 randomized starting positions, to avoid the possibility that one robot's success is based on a very easy starting position.
There's a mind-blowing moment when you realize that pretty much everything about modern life has been made in the last 100-150 years. Medicine stopped being voodoo and became reliably useful in that time. All scientific fields graduated from goofing around to serious discovery machines in that time. Meanwhile, half the items you see and use for fun and work and chores, exist because of petrochemical industry that developed in the past century. At least in the western world, the last 100-150 years have been a step change in human experience, so when someone questions if this time it's different, my answer is: yes, this time is really different.

I never thought about it in terms of being past the singularity event horizon, but the more I ponder on what you wrote, the more I feel you may be right: we're already experiencing what technological singularity feels from inside. We're riding the exponents already, but are still early enough that we don't notice.

(Or at least didn't notice. I thought progress of technology got boring in the past decade or two, but last couple years made me feel things are changing again, and faster than I can keep track of.)
I don't take Microsoft devices seriously, esp. PCs, except the Xbox they never last or gain widespread adoption..
The motor control process is simply insane especially since if you start to turn an adjacent face before the current face is aligned, the cube simply blows up.

Tuning that sucker must have taken so much time in going for the absolute fastest speed.

The guy's face of accomplishment tells me pressing GO is nerve wracking and that risk of it exploding is non-zero.
Indeed, I guess you can say I hate wealth.

Wel, but at least in PoW you burn actual money (and in the end, actual resource) proportioned to your profit to keep the network running. In PoS you burn nothing.
Not sure that regulatory capture explains the poor quality of digital
goods and how people value them. I think it's that cargo cults (what
we have) are antithetical to true technological societies (which is
what we say we want)

A fault I see in Bruce Schneier's article, and the general hypothesis
of "frame/baseline shifting" - it's not that people have been
conditioned or forgotten the value of privacy, but that we're looking
at the world through ever smaller lenses. The story in the article is
that science is guilty of that too. The decline has been around
education and perspective in general, not just attitudes to a small
issue like "privacy". We thought the internet would widen our
scope. It narrowed it.

In the UK we have a great travel and culture show by Romesh
Ranganathan. (I highly recommend it, so get on your VPN to watch BBC
or find it on the torrents). It will cheer you up [0]. He's a funny
guy. But also the cultural vista is breath-taking. Looking at life in
central Africa it's great to be reminded of the diversity of
humankind. Watch for the little things - like a whole bus queue of
people, none of whom are on mobile phones.

What the Internet promised - the great "conversation of mankind" -
never emerged. Instead we got cat memes and social control media that
forced people into ever smaller parochial silos. HN is no different.
Here it's cool to have a bleak outlook on humanity and technology.
"Oh it's too late... we're doomed... oh woe is me!" C'mon
hackers... what happened to the joy of shaping the world? :)

Bruce Schneier appeals to a macro systems theory metaphor, and
mentions Daniel Pauly [1]. But he neglects some of the more profound
lessons that Forrester, Meadows and actually Norbert Weiner gave us
about feedback and the empty dream of cybernetic governance. Nothing
as big as humanity will fit in bottle that small unless you're willing
to destroy it in the process. And what you're destroying is the very
innovative base that gave you the technology in the first place. This
is why they should teach history, geography and other cultures in
schools.

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

[1] https://oceans.ubc.ca/2023/05/19/daniel-pauly/
> Many of those questions were thesis/publication-worthy decades ago when first solved

The hare and tortoise (cycle detection via Floyd's) is a legendary impossible interview question. It wasn't solved until the 1960s with a PhD thesis. It is a hard problem to face in an interview. I had seen it twice in my career. I failed the first time. The second time I had the answer memorised, then put on my very best Morgan Freeman stage acting to pretend I was discovering the answer during the interview. What a joke. I was laughing to myself as I was "stumbling" towards the answer while the interviewer was providing minor hints.
The smart bulb doesn't have an internet connection so yes, absolutely.
I know what you mean, but... Not safe for work - because it's their job?
Maybe government won't be overthrown, but you can easily loose the election.

European cities are dense, and there is limit to their growth, as they are often surrounded by tight circles of villages. Sure, you can build a few buildings there, but those villages are often fighting against high buildings, and residents often fight against urbanisation of the area. So you can't build suburbs like in USA and this makes the already problematic situation (high prices, big funds buying whole apartment complexes to rent them, many people buying apartments as assets and being afraid of renting due to protections towards tenants) even worse. So every building is worth it's weight in gold. And whole abandoned buying is going to be a daily reminder for many people that cannot afford to buy 1 room apartment about how unfair current situation is.

I don't want to argue about what to do with situation, just adding a perspective.
I don't know about older hardware because I started in the early '90s, but the VGA didn't have scanlines the way game consoles played on TVs had. The VGA had a built-in line doubler, and the minimum horizontal scan rate was 31 kHz. In fact, very few computer monitors at that time supported 15 kHz.
model available, not open source.
+1 for Photopea! Excellent drop-in replacement for Photoshop and Gimp is always there to help for HDR things that Photopea can't handle.
>not the obvious path to success.

It is if success is defined as deliberate failure.

Personally, a lot of US government actions of the past few decades in hindsight do not look like they had the interests of America or Americans in mind.
Take a look at HL15 from 45Drives. Many will rush to tell you it’s expensive for homelabers. Sure, but not that much. The retail price of the motherboard is 800 USD, CPU, PSU, NVME RAM around 400-500. That leaves you with the case which is 800 USD. This is a premium case, but probably 200 USD more than I would like it to be.

You will get a motherboard up to 1TB of ECC RAM, 10G networking, space for 15 HDDs, IPMI, a 4U case that will last forever, space for GPU, and a lot of expansion and upgradability possibilities via PCIe.

Dell, HP, supermicro, … all sell entry level servers.
Unfortunately in Python, integers have no fixed maximum size and can grow indefinitely, so your algorithm would need to be long enough to cover all the numbers that can conceivably fit in a computer's memory. I guess there's still a finite size there, but I'm not sure how the memory usage scales with digit length, so I don't know what the largest number would be.
Ah. I thought you meant that YouTube URLs was the problem. Your comment was pretty vague since both GitHub and YouTube are apps in the browser
To add to your comment:

> For a fact, more people in the UK get visits from the police over social media posts than they do in Russia.

Any sources for this 'fact'?
This article contains the actual alleged doctored images:

https://www.science.org/content/article/potential-fabricatio...
"less code that ran faster" seems fairly clear-cut to me. Why would he lie about that?
Durability of Polymers in the Space Environment [pdf]
Interesting note is that the clever solution fails pretty early: 999999999999999 (15 nines) outputs 16.

I hope the author warned the students about floating point imprecision :P
I believe mathematically you’re only 20 moves from solving in any sufficiently scrambled position .

Don’t know if they’re controlling for that or not but I suppose if that would matter depends on how far ahead of the previous record this is

Looking at the article it looks like it’s .08 seconds ahead, which taken as a % of total time strikes me as substantial enough as to not much matter. I’m counting 16 moves in the slower video (which was not the WR) but I’m also barely aware of this stuff so I could be wrong.
You had to know this was going to get a lot of downvotes.

However, I have a real question as a follow-up: Have you been able to profit from this skill? If true, you should be able to crush any "whiteboard" programming interview. If I had it, I would move every 2-4 years and get large pay rises. You should definitely be able to pass FAANG interviews with that skill.
It depends the time or place you are comparing (e.g., seventeenth century Britain was a more unequal place than modern day Britain).

And in the Middle Ages, even if you just look at Western Europe, wealth distribution could be extremely variable between places and times. A peasant in eighth century Lombardy would have been subjected to totally different customs and laws than one in twelfth century Brittany, same with other segments of society. There was nothing like a universal "feudal law" anywhere. Even the concept of the "church" being a single monolithic thing that received X% of wealth makes no sense (e.g., bishops could simultaneously be lay lords with vast holdings, a monastery could be rich or poor, etc.).
>The number of games that run on Metal by comparison (natively) is orders of magnitude higher.

You mean iOS games?
Thanks, is BTT capable enough to also track changes and show icons temporarily if an app's icon becomes active?
A systematic study of birds would find that many do indeed starve to death.
Don't forget that for the foreseeable future, until other plans are made, there is a hard mission count limit for starliner, which is the number of remaining atlas V cores. The engines are Russian made and subject to sanction, so nasa could just refuse to recertify starliner on a new platform, so sad, so sorry, and have starliner just disappeae into tte night while saving face fir boeing.
Airthings has some good hardware and I like the e-ink display but it has terrible terms of use that severely restrict your ownership rights.

Here are some excerpts from Airthings T&Cs [1] that I find very problematic:

In 15.4. of Airthings T&C it writes: “We own and shall retain ownership of all rights to all data and information collected via the Services provided to you…”

Furthermore, in 15.2 Airthings claims all rights for modifications that you might carry out on the Airthings monitor: “You hereby assign to Airthings all right, title, and interest (including Intellectual Property Rights) that you may have in any custom developments, modifications, or derivative works of the Services and Products created or developed by or for you, including but not limited to design, artwork, technology, software, data, functionality, and documentation.”

I wrote about it in a review with our monitor [2].

[1] https://www.airthings.com/en/legal/terms-of-use

[2] https://www.airgradient.com/blog/airgradient-vs-airthings/

(Edited and included Airthings T&C)
For some reason I'm completely unable to find its license through Google (I swear I used to be able to find this sort of stuff with search engines...); but I remember it being extremely prohibitive, to the point where even using it for personal use to play Windows games is illegal. It's only for use by game developers as a tool to help them on the road to port their games to macOS.
I've been doing it all my life. I've literally never paid for a software license, I don't know any better. In general, I usually download from reputable sources. Haven't had any problems so far.
It’s easier than you think to get 1g of gravity in space.
In germany, if you see such a abandoned property, you cannot even ask the authority who owns it, if you have the plans to buy it (you would have to rely on local people knowing and telling you).

There are quite some neglected properties around here and the owners are away, do not care anymore and the authorities do not care as long as the low property taxes are paid. There was a case close by, where a buisness wanted to get rid of the old rotting building next to them, but could not. It went on for years. Only after the building burned down (no idea if someone helped with that), the space could be finally cleared.

So yeah, exproptiation should only ever be the last resort, but in some cases it really makes sense.
> Copyright owners also hoped that this would make player vendors obedient to them far beyond what the law actually mandated.

> This is pure catnip to gaslighting control freak companies like Apple.

But this is exactly why it needs to be repealed. Its stated purpose is a farce and its true purpose is an injustice.

> The Grokster case would partially overturn this, so you can get contributory liability for advertising infringing use cases of your software (aka "inducement"), independent of DMCA 1201.

Which seems some combination of useless and unreasonable. Okay, so now Bram Cohen is diligent to never advertise BitTorrent for infringement, and then doesn't get sued because it has substantial non-infringing uses. But Grokster had non-infringing uses too, and many people still use BitTorrent for copyright infringement, so it seems like all the decision does is bring about censorship.

For example, what happens if an employee of a tech company wants to come out as a proponent of the Pirate Party, advocate abolishing copyright and describe how advantageous the company's products could be to people without it? Isn't that just core political censorship, since it could get their company sued? Meanwhile the same tool is legal as long as they don't do that, so the only difference is the expression of political speech.

> Problem is, I struggle to see a legal way to sell the tools necessary to decrypt such works.

The other problem is, what does that even mean?

Suppose I put a copyrighted work in a box and screw it shut. Is a screw driver now a circumvention device? It has uses beyond copyright infringement, but as soon as anybody uses CSS on a DVD of a public domain film, so does DeCSS.
Having tried to implement a multiplayer rich text, we settled on last-edit win to simplify the structure.

OT/CRDT is really hard to implement.
>it isn't surprising that hardware companies like Intel and AMD fall at software

A lot of what keeps Intel relevant is their prowess in both hardware and software, bringing properly refined products to market when it matters. Intel's failure against Nvidia had far more to do with their business strategy of CPU First missing the broadside of a barn; it's like bringing a knife to a gunfight, of course you're going to get your ass wrecked.

AMD fucking sucks at software though, no disagreement there.
This is very concerning, reminds me of Amazon Sidewalk.

All I can think of is "Smart TVs" and the care you need to take to keep them from going online to exfiltrate your data. They won't ever need your Wifi credentials if they can just piggy back on this.
over left shoulder handcam can show head orientation. not sure it's a good idea to require that, or crop it out. head orientation is definitely a part of inputs.

maybe popularize baseball hat with sheet of paper taped on the side? elite gamer apparel. privacy is the meta, after all.

then just include full radar as a part of the game! stealth is overrated in pvp.
I think that's where the "Nvidia money" comes into play. I live in a VHCOL area and according to redfin/Zillow data, almost every house recently sold near me were paid for with between 40-60% down payment. If that's the case, mortgage starts to become manageable if you rent the property out.

Edit: for context, it is the orange county area where average home price is $1.4m afaik.
The State of Google Zanzibar in 2024
Huge oligopolistic algorithms tend to homogenize consumer behavior, so I think it's not wrong to support local and small artists. Additionally, giants can even influence the algorithms to favor their new hits [0]. I am also not sure how much tax avoidance is happening in Canada.

[0]: https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/2/21545958/spotify-artist-t...
If only we had a space industry that could put things into orbit... ;)
It doesn't. They're able to; they just choose not to because of an irrational fear/hatred of the license.
Nice read. Can see that it’s easy to take for granted that this would be a bit challenging for a real beginner to programming or syntax.

Though powers of 10 is a boundary condition so would be one of the first things I test against
Honestly I don't get how the current situation could develop.

Video games have used compute shaders forever, and those work just fine on other cards.

I remember doing some quite involved stuff for my thesis using OpenCL a decade ago, and it worked just fine. Nowadays OpenCL is dead for some reason...

I just don't get what is there in CUDA that makes it so special. As far as I remember, a GPGPU API consists of a shader language, a way to copy stuff to and from the GPU, a way of scheduling and synchronizing work, atomics, groupshared variables, and some interop stuff.

Is the vendor lock-in due to CUDA libs? In that case, the problem is not CUDA, but the libraries themselves. Not sure about today, but performance-portability basically didn't exist back then. You needed to do specialize your code for the GPU arch at hand. It didn't even exist between different generations of cards by the same vendor.
Even if you could run CUDA code on AMD, it would be slow, so you need to do a rewrite anyways.
How much energy did it suck?
They won't be able to make as powerful of an app as illustrated by plenty of other advanced customization apps touching on almost every "core" OS features that they've already built in

So instead they should make it easier to achieve this icon management without too invasive permissions
Microsoft seems to have found themselves with more than they bargained for when they decided to go all in on AI. OTOH, Microsoft is quite familiar with antitrust inquiries, because they've been there before https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....
Looking at their post history they seem a little paranoid. Apparently Reddit bans their accounts as soon as they make them, too.
Nice. Link to the video on YouTube for those interested: https://youtu.be/aXLra-31Jh0?si=WQ0X1pCVLezQh4PF

I'm curious about the choices of Alacritty over Wezterm and Zellij over tmux though. Especially if going with zellij then why not use wezterm as well? Anyone know?
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40580549
"Visibly pushdown automata" are just a rediscovery of input-driven pushdown automata. It's sad that the authors of the VPL papers never acknowledged this AFAIK, even while writing more papers on the same topic.
>The Apple Metal platform surely is customized to the needs of Apple, its devices and its users ultimate needs, in a way Vulkan will never be.

Maybe Metal is customized to Apple's needs but how is it customized to Apple user's needs? One thing is for sure, had Apple been using Vulkan, the porting process to macOS would have been much easier.
It would have been fair if the author would have mentioned that Microsoft is very open about this. I went to a Microsoft training, where the instructor also made clear that the service is being monitored. Suspicious messages get flagged and are reviewed under a 4-eyes principle. [1]

At least in the EU (I'm told) they are required by law keep logs to ensure that their AI services are not being used to do bad.

I'm glad that their system worked.

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/legal/cognitive-services/o...
And then you wake up on the moon in a lava tube too early with a partly failing system and hope that everything else still somewhat works? With current technology level I definitely would rather bet on humans.
It's about using their status today and how, not where they were yesterday.
Agreed, 1/3 rule definitely does not work in VHCOL areas. I pay 28% in rent, that cuts down the commute and allows us to live at a stone's throw from good schools, grocery stores and small airports.
Playing devil's advocate: perhaps the authors strongly believed in the method but have failed to produce strong enough evidence. Then the goal was to renew financing in hopes of getting somewhere with the research, not to just get citations.

This of course is pure speculation
I mean she wrote the compiler didn't she? At least the register allocator part

"It's never a compiler bug" doesn't really apply when it's your own work-in-progress compiler you're testing...
Yeah it is a cheap mobile usb interface. Beauty is not the name of the game there — which is why I used it to argue against balanced being a feature of expensive equipment.

Balanced outputs have nothing to do with the aesthetics of the object. And I choose option 4 — build it yourself — then it can be done cheap and look however decent, massive, invisible, ridiculous or whatever the aesthetical ven diagram between your second half and you looks like. And it can have balanced I/O if needed ; )
Nice insight. Similarly, dynamic programming solutions that "build up" from the bottom can often be clearer than those "go down" recursively from the top, even though they're equivalent.
It's very strange to me that the teacher would push the students from the correct solution using a loop, towards an incorrect solution using a logarithm. A logarithm could work in a language like C where ints can't get too large, but Python has arbitrary precision integers so any solution using floating point numbers is doomed. For example, the code given in the post returns 16 instead of 15 for 999_999_999_999_999.
Ask HN: Using AI to repair spinal cord injury
This is a tech forum, not a medical one, but I'll ask anyway.

In the future, robots will obviously be doing surgery. Is it feasible to think that a robot with sufficient number of limbs and microscopes could actually repair a spinal cord injury, instead of doing something like neuralink to fix it?
I'm curious, what does that quote really mean? I can attempt to draw a few conclusions, but I'm not quite sure of either and they can also almost be the opposite of each other.
> Housing prices are still set by supply and demand

The "market" is not real and hasn't been in years, and tech has 100% helped destroy it.

Cartelization used to be difficult because it was tough getting all market participants on the supply side on the same page. Tech makes it way easier.

Before things like RealPage and social media, if you wanted to collude with 100 other landlords in the area, you'd have to somehow set up meetings with all of them.

Now that's just a small slack group. Or software like RealPage