skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess it depends on the purpose. As a query rewrite, these cover much more of the physical scene, but lack accuracy and specificity.

A couple of issues. First, the model completely botches the "Trike" brotherhood to "Tike", which also drops the meaning of the symbol. It's a tricycle. The seat isn't a sidecar, it's behind the driver's. Some of the numbers for the racecars also seem to be hallucinated.

It also doesn't seem accurate to describe the rewritten captions as having a "richer" vocabulary as the authors do. It's certainly more verbose and captures a lot of details about the setting, but lacks information density for the subject of the photo. You can't make up for low specificity with more high-probability words. Sometimes you need a long-tail word.

For example, the Western Kingbird caption. It's not just a grey and yellow bird. If the model doesn't know what a Western Kingbird is, you're not going to be able to draw a Western Kingbird no matter how verbose your description is.
I'm determined to never buy a new car again. My 2016 Honda Civic will be the last car I ever drive, if I can help it. I own it, no car payment, its reliable, it works, it's not electric, efficient, no self driving features, no phone home, no Elon Musk, just an unsexy regular car and I couldn't be happier. Pure bliss.
If you don't put energy and infrastructure first, nothing else will follow. This raises an immediate issue: Western economies are still largely fossil-fuel-reliant and there is no way Africa can start burning fossil fuels at the rate the USA does. Ignoring the pollution and climate aspects, there simply isn't enough fossil fuel production for that scenario.

This means step one - securing the energy needed to support infrastructure and industrialization - must involve a renewable-centric approach, and given that Africa is centered around the equator, that means mainly solar (plus some wind and of course storage). The only country with the capacity to provide solar PV at scale is China, as they've mastered monocrystalline silicon PV production. This is already happening (June 2023):

https://www.pv-tech.org/china-offers-66gw-of-solar-infrastru...

Once the energy infrastucture is in place, everything else follows from that. Water can then be pumped long distances or from aquifers to combat intermittent drought conditions; railroads can be built to move goods long distances efficiently, and factories for conversion of raw materials to manufactured goods for export, aka moving up the value chain, can be built. Similarly, malaria was defeated in the USA because of infrastructure, not by genetically engineered mosquitos or similar schemes - malaria is a solved problem.

This article doesn't even mention the energy issue, it just trots out some revamped version of what, cheap labor in economic zones controlled by foreign investors? And we don't need to educate that labor for the simple tasks they will be given? Listen to this:

> "The belief that increasing educational provision is the key to unlocking prosperity in Africa is therefore incorrect. African economies instead need market opportunities to make use of their abundant human capital..."

I think that used to be called the African slave trade... so what's the author saying, instead of exporting slaves to the West they can just move the sweatshop factories to Africa, now that China is off the table for the neoliberal outsourcing program?
You forget that it was normal before. PS2 had many separate chips you need to program and balance throughout and latencies to make the most of hardware. PS2 was able to achieve 60 fps in many impressive games. Console hardware was very specific, the original Xbox being just an Intel PC was an exception.
Abstract Reasoning Corpus Prize 2024
This is designed to encourage you to login
You definitely don't need the in-memory terminal emulator to handle resizes or allow attaching with multiple local terminal emulators, since dtach does both and does not have an in-memory terminal emulator.

> I'm actually confused about why they'd go to the effort of implementing a VT100 emulator, write the code to redraw the screen from it

Well, we kinda cheated here. shpool_vt100 is just the already existing vt100 crate with a single critical bug fixed, so it actually wasn't much work :). Turns out having a nice package manager for a systems language comes with some benefits.

I'm actually open to adding a feature to allow multiple simultaneous connections to a single session. I never really had a usecase for it personally so I haven't prioritized it, but it is something that similar tools support and people keep bringing up. Since this isn't the first time I've heard people talking about it, I just made https://github.com/shell-pool/shpool/issues/40 to track work adding the ability to attach multiple clients to the same session.

> This feels like it sits in a weird place between simple, crude tools like dtach, and tools like tmux; shpool has done most of the work to implement tmux-style behavior, and then decides to cut weird corners.

I'm not aware of any tool that does internal rendering and subsetting handling scrollback and copy-paste in a way that I personally find usable, so these decisions were very much intentional.

I think tmux is a great tool for a lot of people, and I tried to get into it for years, but I could just never get over the weird scrollback and copy-paste issues or the fact that it meant that I couldn't use my normal `i3`/`sway` bindings to switch between terminals inside a tmux session. If tmux works for someone, I think that's great and they should keep using it. shpool is meant for people like me who aren't very good with computers :).
Well that ended up being a hour long rat hole. So many awesome pictures.
No, Switzerland does not have a capital de jure.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland#cite_note-fedcit...
Well, here are the facts (I was an insider at the time, and this is my testimony).

Searches were anonymized and sent through Canonical servers to provide extended search result sets. This was configurable and could be disabled. Canonical of course had your IP address so they could reply, just like any and every HTTP server does. Your search query was not stored anywhere or aggregated, and it was not associated back to the originating IP address except to reply. Your privacy was respected and protected at all times.

The Amazon search did appear as a plugin in an early prelease. It was never shipped in a released Ubuntu.

The goal was to make things as easy as possible, even for the technically averse (who were still commonplace a decade ago), while still respecting and protecting your privacy.

Of course, no matter what you do, someone is going to scream for everyone to come witness the oppression inherent in the system. We did it anyway with the expectation of baseless knee-jerk outcry and we were not disappointed.
> a large mammal lifespan of 70 years is sufficient to generate as many good random mutations as needed to grow a new leg

thankfully, nobody is claiming that happens. i can explain more, but there's the issue of my fees. £200,000 seems reasonable, given how dumb you are.
If nothing else, investment diversification.

Z-Library was significantly attacked recently. There was a huge takedown in 2022, and I'm finding reports as of March 2024 as well:

2024: "FBI Carries Out Fresh Round of Z-Library Domain Name Seizures" <https://torrentfreak.com/fbi-carries-out-fresh-round-of-z-li...>

2022: "Z-Library operators arrested, charged with criminal copyright infringement" <https://www.theregister.com/2022/11/18/zlibrary_operators_ar...>

The Z-Library arrests were of Russian nationals, but were arrested in Argentina.

The first Torrentfreak article mentions two other actions in Spring and November 2023.

Sci-Hub has played cat-and-mouse with domains for years, and AFAIU has still withheld posting new scientific articles given pending litigation/prosecution in India.

Another Torrentfreak article from Nov 2023 gives an update on numerous issues with text liberation sites, including Anna's Archive, Sci-Hub, and Z-Library. At the time, the Anna's Archive twitter account had been "wiped out", so much for that platform's "free speech" stance.

<https://torrentfreak.com/copyright-piracy-news-brief-1-extra...>
this codec is for RTC comms - it supports 20ms frame rate. They did mention it's launched in their calling products:

"We have already fully launched MLow to all Instagram and Messenger calls and are actively rolling it out on WhatsApp—and we’ve already seen incredible improvement in user engagement driven by better audio quality."
There was a time when supercomputers had no GPUs. Nowadays the top list is all GPu accelerators.
Regarding your first point, how about reserving a small percentage of the bandwidth for a model that improves incrementally?
I am not following. The page says it was investigated but not done.
The .se domain was seized in Jan 2023:

<https://torrentfreak.com/domain-registry-takes-sci-hubs-se-d...>
I would say it was safer back then. The thing is the governments weren't hostile. And bandits didn't have guns.

Crossing southern Iran we actually came across bandits. There was a chain of people across the road, including some that did not appear to be adults yet. The instructions from the authorities: treat it as a deadly force situation. Do not stop to render aid if someone is hit. The driver stepped on the gas, the line broke at the last instant, I think we passed a couple of feet from one of them.

How would that play out now??
Rory Stewart, a well known British politician turned pundit, often talks compellingly about how giving money directly to women is the way to lift countries out of poverty.

The charity he is involved in:
https://www.givedirectly.org/team/rory-stewart/
True, I should have been more precise; I was talking about the southwest. The PNW is a wonderland.
All the replies so far are making me envious of when my weekends were my own (or just me and my girlfriend, now wife). Weekends now revolve around the sports and activities of our children. It's a choice we make and there are a lot of positive aspects, but that doesn't mean I don't miss being able to prioritize myself a bit more :)
The kids aren't buying cable any more and most of the stations are owned by the government.
La Niña likely by late summer
Just in case: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36542487
If they don't want the negatives, it boggles the mind why they're shooting analog in the first place. Maybe just trying to get rid of some of that pesky excess money.

The whole reason I shoot film is for the physical artifact. Otherwise, it's expensive and inconvenient for no reason.
I’ve never understood people who enjoy the Diablo end-game but I love playing the games through for the story, vibe, and lore. The voice acting definitely contributes. The voice of Deckard Cain is instantly recognizable to me.
May I suggest trying your hand on LFS on a ARM dev board and report how the experience goes?

There's a reason all other kenels have adopted a stable driver API and ABI.
Breaking free from the news
Probably true, which is another knock against the article's professionalism.

But even if the capture negligible, the negative-sign is still interesting - it's teased in the headline! And when a headline teases something, it owes us an explanation of where the carbon goes, a key part of the story to anyone with a middle-school-level understanding of 'carbon'.

Barring nuclear reactions or alchemical magic, it's impossible that "its only byproduct is water". The carbon has to collect somewhere.

Science journalism like this makes its readers dumber.
And because OS allows a video chat app to access wallet's private key.
Also GA lol
YouTube server-side ad injection FAQ
I don't want to upset or scare you, but if you've ever been in a picture that someone else has posted online to any social platform, your face has already been tagged, recognized, and a very thick file exists about you and everything you do, like, know, associate, etc.
Never has a joke been so prophetic
This is both a good and bad idea.

It is good because it will help most people and work for them.

It's bad because sometimes it will make people think they've found what they were looking for when what they had doesn't exist at all - but it gave them something that sounds similar.

I would at least have a "redirected from" banner at the top of the page when it triggers.
There are multiple startups in this space and Movie Pass threatened this “feature” a couple years ago.

So while a great joke account, the reality may not be far off.
Probably referring to:

https://phys.org/news/2010-12-air-playstation-3s-supercomput...

>>About the 33rd largest supercomputer in the world right now is the US Air Force Research Laboratory's (AFRL) newest system, which has a core made of 1,760 Sony PlayStation 3 (PS3) consoles. In addition to its large capacity, the so-called "Condor Cluster" is capable of performing 500 trillion floating point operations per second (TFLOPS), making it the fastest interactive computer in the entire US Defense Department.

>>It will be used by Air Force centers across the country for tasks such as radar enhancement, pattern recognition, satellite imagery processing, and artificial intelligence research.
Agreed that's the likely explanation. My objection is that the article elides this, and is false on its facial claim that "its only byproduct is water".
Ask HN: What is a good web/SaaS alternative to Adobe lightroom?
Is there one that stores all photos on cloud and let you edit in browser. May be with 20% of most used functionalities of lightroom?
As mentioned in the video: “The PlayStation WipEout games are irreplaceable and unrepeatable and I think that’s what makes them so special. You just kind of had to be there.”

I was fortunate enough to be studying in the UK at the time it was released, and I couldn’t agree more with the previous statement :-)
Looks nice. One feature I'd like is a read-only mode. Sometimes I want to execute a long running process and be able to just watch it run without risking that I hit Ctrl C by accident. I was surprised to find that Screen doesn't support this, I guess probably tmux does. tail is fine but I don't always want to record a huge log file.
Tyson Foods heir suspended as CFO after second alcohol-related arrest
Thousands of small rocks fall from space every year, have done so for a very long time. Human deaths are almost unheard of.
Not OP, but we had PS3s at school as well. Early units ran linux. It was sandboxed to a degree in order to prevent it from being used for software piracy. OP's project was cool, ours was basically implementing PCA on one.

I got the impression that Sony encouraged this use of the console early on. They were probably aiming to establish themselves in the scientific computing niche. We also had nvidia-sponsored labs where they taught CUDA (or at least tried to - it was pretty difficult to do without support and most people took the class for access to computer labs equipped with amazing gaming machines). We all know nvidia won that war.
Maybe Wii was ArtX but wasn't the 360 using a mainstreamish Radeon GPU?
> Implementation-wise this withdrawal can involve, updating two accounts

Can't wait to read the incident report when one of the consumers successfully receives and reads the message but the other doesn't.
That's just you buying one narrative and thinking the other is a lie. Maybe both are a lie, maybe both are true but maybe you're right
The "falsely" in this headline is very weird. The Russian government has accused Gershkovitch of espionage.

Therefore, as an adjectival phrase, "falsely" is editorializing.

I know what WSJ is after, conveying that doctrinally, their reporter Evan Gershkovitch did not commit espionage. But this headline really seems like a confusing place to push that.
Does the code for this exist somewhere?
To geoengineer or not to geoengineer, that is the question. Can we build models that six nines assure us of a small stable improvement that stays near linear behavior, or asymptotic better yet?
"mostly profit someone else who did nothing but write you a check"

There is quite a bit of work involved in reaching the point where you write a check for a Series A round. Also, the better VCs spend significant time with their portfolio companies.
> I'm sure I've probably seen grass lawns in Southern AZ that weren't turf

FYI, "turf" doesn't mean fake grass.
Google datacenters in Nevada to go full steam ahead with geothermal energy
Umami: Website analytics built for speed and efficiency
Some retailers are probably not far off.
Hearing ability deteriorates with age.
Gordie Howe International Bridge
Yeah makes sense. A fractional distillation column is super heavy, up to a million pounds or more.
How worrying is the rapid rise of Chinese science?
You can measure is from outside the system itself if you know the original signal. Of course its possible to measure the noise externally if you know what was transmitted.
I sincerely hope you are never involved in any aerospace projects.
Xbox canceled development on their emulator though.
If you download a torrent, your client will offer to upload pieces for other clients to download.
Meta says it won't support suit against major child safety law
Really neat site. Would love to see the pages for each machine type link to a curated list of modern implementations, especially plans to make such a device yourself.
The fastest caching Python library written in Rust
https://archive.ph/I0888
https://archive.ph/XZeLP
Doesn't that only work if you first ensure that they will be able to use it before it is stolen from them?
There are a few reasons for that. The primary being that sharing a physical book do not count as copying, but sharing a digital book does.

The second reason is that libraries tend to operate under government control, and governments has done things to enable libraries and work around copyright law. An old one that my country (used to?) have was to require publishers to send copies to the national library. In return, national authors got a symbolic sum (very tiny) each time a copy was taken out. Being forced to send a copy to the government isn't technically against copyright law, since no unlawful copying is being made, but the result has a very similar feeling as unlawful copying.
Once again an SV investor congratulates themselves on figuring out something that any teenager could've told you
It was the next day brothers, and I truly had done my best morning and afternoon to play it their way and sit like a horrorshow cooperative malchick in the chair of torture while they flashed nasty bits of ultraviolence on the screen.
There's plenty of measures e.g. buildings close together so they can shade passages and funnel wind, literally look at middle eastern cities and you'll see it.
Too late. Prior art already exists. Top of my head would be Black Mirror.
See also "influencer cabals" that specifically manipulate social media platforms, usually organized in group chats on the same platform.
It's definitely not a complete alternative, but a surprising number of tmux users are only in it for the session persistence. We did a little internal (criminally underpowered and confounded) survey of some tmux users at google and found that half of them were only really using it for session persistence. I was really surprised by this and thought more people would be using all the slick tiling features that tmux has.
Most of the US Southwest is naturally desert. There are only a few kinds of trees- such as the native palm that can live in these harsh conditions, and they naturally would only occur in arroyos or places where water accumulates and wind speeds are lower during storms. The soil is also just sand, and cannot support a large tree. The Los Angeles area is filled with non-native trees that are planted in sand and watered at great expense, but they fall and destroy houses and cars everytime it gets windy.
"if your OS level window management is crap (macos...)"

-- in which case Divvy is a great solution. YMMV, but IME, Divvy and iTerm2 cover 98% of the things I'd want to do.
These guys have been waiting for their god a long time, finally they see the eclipse and believe it is the end of times
1. Financial Inclusion:
Many Africans lack access to traditional banking services. Bitcoin provides an alternative financial system that is accessible to anyone with a smartphone, enabling people to participate in the global economy without needing a bank account.

2. Remittances:
Bitcoin facilitates cheaper and faster international remittances. Traditional remittance services often charge high fees and take several days to process. Bitcoin transactions are generally quicker and can be less expensive, helping migrants send money back home more efficiently.

3. Inflation Hedge:
In countries with high inflation rates and unstable currencies, Bitcoin can serve as a store of value. People can convert their local currency to Bitcoin to protect their savings from devaluation.

4. Reverse Income Inequality:
Income inequality is often tied with inflation. A hard asset like Bitcoin would help to distribute some wealth.

For all of these reasons, many Africans are already investing in Bitcoin. Bitcoin as a capital asset will help fund infrastructure/education etc
Not an expert on laws/jurisdictions; but data is collected, stored forever, and in some places is (legally) on sale. And laws get changed quickly based on lobbying.
It was done - ACS-1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Advanced_Computer_Systems_...
A while back they were privately demoing ChromeOS alongside android on phones to enable a better desktop experience. They're also enabling display port on the new Pixel. My guess is they are making ChromeOS more like Android to make that process easier.
> It's bad because sometimes it will make people think they've found what they were looking for when what they had doesn't exist at all - but it gave them something that sounds similar.

That would be true if all visitors would understand 404 pages exists, and they expect one for this website. I bet most people wouldn't know what to answer to the question "What you should see if there is no page for this supplement?"

It is true that there coul dbe some sort of message making the redirect explicit.
> Would have to keep my desktop running 24/7 too?

You could build a seed box out of a old ARM board running the Transmission daemon and a USB key mounted read only to avoid wear; power draw would be just a few watts and total cost could be less than 50 bucks. The desktop would be needed only when adding torrents or changing configuration from its web interface, although Transmission also has remote control apps running on phones and tablets. If the router permits it, QoS rules can be set up on the router so that the seed box can use all bandwidth, although at lower priority than other machines on the LAN, so that it will never clog the network, which comes handy for example with online gaming.

https://transmissionbt.com/
I would love to know if this is possible. Would make ship times 10x faster.
If you don't trust the manufacturer, then it doesn't matter whether you turn Face ID off, those sensors are still pointing at your face. Do you physically keep the face ID sensors covered by tape or something? And how do you avoid other people's phones/cameras seeing you?
There's an interesting book called The Race for a New Game Machine: Creating the Chips Inside the XBox 360 and the Playstation 3 by David Shippy and Mickie Phipps on the development of the Cell processor.

I can't recall if if had all the details regarding adding a GPU to the PS3, but I remember it had stories about the awkwardness of having the IBM Cell team also working on Microsoft's Xenon CPU for the 360, which IIRC used modified Cell PPE cores.