skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For comparison, Boox's EPD (display firmware) has a custom mode that enables very low-latency refresh of a small localized area. This is used exclusively to speed up stylus drawing.

The latency of pen/pencil sketches on Boox devices is near nonexistent, similar to or better than iPad latency but theirs is handled in the display controller hardware without traveling through the OS interrupt handler stack. It's really good. With their scratchy matte screen protector and a LAMY body around the wacom nib, it's really like writing on paper.

If DC can pull something like that off, I'll be really impressed!
The emergency library wasn't what publishers sued over. They used it perhaps as a rhetorical cover but what they were actually suing to prevent is IA offering digital versions of scanned hardcopy books.

With IA's loss, publishers get to control the way libraries lend digital media because you can't take a hardcopy and legally "scan" it into a digital copy, so the only way to get a digital copy for lending is as a DRMed product from a publisher that does things like, for instance, expire after a certain number of loans.

Publishers considered scanned digital copies controlled by libraries to be a threat to their monetization efforts surrounding digital lending and they would eventually have sued IA regardless of the emergency library.

Moreover, the DRMed digital lending schemes that the publishers are "offering" libraries are very expensive compared to what a hardcover copy of the same work would have been, and publishers are increasingly vacuuming up libraries' entire budgets with excessive digital lending fees.

It's been observed that libraries would be illegal if they didn't already exist, and I think we're starting to walk down the road where they are illegal in the digital world.
arxiv is pretty good for that
It's really good at causing pain
Can't agree.

Even as recent as about one decade ago, the best way to learn a programming language is often buying a book or checking out a book from the library, because that's the only high-quality source on the topic. Since then we have had people creating complete tutorials like the Rust book and distribute it on the Internet, for free.

In the US, some professors profit from selling textbooks that get updated every few years, forcing students around the around to pay hundreds of dollars to get the latest edition. (That's still the norm.) Yet we are seeing less of that in the computer science field, especially with books like Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces ( https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/ ) -- the professors are literally practicing communism and giving away the book for free.
Most film production already does close to what you describe, they convert to linear in order to do editing/rendering/grading/compositing, and then convert to the desired output color space. One place to start learning about film color handling is ACES: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Color_Encoding_System

Outside of stylistic choices, I think the only technical reasons to use fewer bits are space & bandwidth efficiency, meeting the requirements of a given output device or file format.

There are reasons to avoid doubles, just because they’re so big. 64 bits is unnecessary and wasteful for almost all color handling. Doubles are slow on most GPUs, where a lot of image processing has moved. 16 bits per channel is usually way more than enough for basic capture & display, especially if the output color range matches the input color range, i.e. little to no editing needed. (That ACES page says “Most ACES compliant image files are encoded in 16-bit half-floats, thus allowing ACES OpenEXR files to encode 30 stops of scene information.”) Even 32 bit floats is vast overkill for most things, but offers a much wider safety net in terms of using very small or very large ranges, and reduces the possibility of clipping error or visible degradation from quantization and rounding error when converting multiple times.

Note while a lot of cameras offer things like HDR outputs and high bit rate RAW, even the best photo cameras in the world are getting around 8 effective bits per channel signal-to-noise ratio. (I’m getting this from the SNR measurements on dxomark.com) 8 bits per channel also happens to be close to the limits of human perception, when handled carefully, i.e., not linear but a more perceptually uniform color space.
It's been nonstop lies from opponents, especially South Bay opponents of this technology with the tiniest kernel of truth that Cruise has not been very responsible. I still can't get over San Mateo County flatly lying about Waymo not talking to them (https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/-/media/cpuc-website/divisions/consu..., "in its protests, San Mateo stated...").
This is nonsense. Publishers had been building up to attack CDL for years, and your argument that "as you committed this illegal act, this other legal act is now a crime for everybody" makes absolutely zero sense.

The emergency library made them legally vulnerable over that act, this lawsuit is not about that act.
I imagine if it was like...

You vessenes have an account, you can buy DVDs that I store for you, and you can view these DVDs using my service.

Even then odds are I'd get sued for copyright infringement.
I dont understand all the details, but Veritasium and others on YouTube have videos on how the current/electron flow is also an illusion.

Since electricity and magnetism are really fields per Maxwell equations, the current flow and other electrical things that we attribute to the inside of the wire are really happening outside of the wires as electric fields.

They have a much better explanation than mine certainly...
This is the clearest reason yet to shut down tiktok; they fundamentally misunderstand the law and the point of the constitution. While I'm certain some administrations would love such a kill switch, any company that would implement one is inherently untrustworthy. The ability to oppose the government is perhaps the most foundational part of the American democracy.
Those were two different opinions about two different things, and the valid one was and still is valid. It is a simple fact of the world, directly observable everywhere at all times and so not actually an opinion at all.

I don't think you are in a great position from which to to remark about anyone else's twisting and preconceived notions and contradictions.
Did you ever hear of Zediva?

"Zediva thought it could circumvent the need to be licensed by literally renting customers a DVD and a DVD player, with your computer, tablet or Google TV as the remote control. Unlike the other streaming movie services, Zediva didn't turn a movie into a file on its servers that it can serve it to as many users as care to see it at once. Instead, Zediva’s servers had DVD drives and actual DVDs. So when you rented a movie, that disc goes out of circulation until you release it back to the company, just like in one of those increasingly rare real-world video stores."

https://www.wired.com/2011/08/zediva-shuts-down/

More: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warner_Bros._Entertainment_I....
Complaint: https://www.papermark.io/view/clu0wo6iw000611jg4c636v59
Supreme Court:U.S. Citizens Don't Have Right to Bring Noncitizen Spouses to U.S.
It wouldn’t surprise me if at some point in the future we realise mass shields us from a gravitational field that pushes everything in all directions at once as opposed to our current thinking that mass emits a field that pulls us towards it.

Eg. imagine the earth below you shielding you from a force that otherwise pushes all mass in all directions constantly. You’re now more shielded from the push in the direction of the earth so you feel pulled that way.

It’s the same thing. Just a sign change from a convention we had no real basis to believe one way or the other.
Do electrons actually flow when current moves? Apparently not
https://youtu.be/bHIhgxav9LY
Protecting Artists from Theft by AI
It’s been that way for several years.
<script> in SVGs is also not a concern nowadays if you use a CSP (even for user-uploaded content).
Should social media come with a health warning?
I am not 100% clear how this works...

If you query a Parquet file from your lake via DuckDB-in-browser, does DuckDB run in WASM on the web client and pull the compressed parquet to your browser where it is decompressed?
Or are you connecting some DuckDB on the web client to some DuckDB component on a server somewhere?

I presume yes to the first and no to the second but just checking I have my mental model correct.
This is what supports Docker's checkpoint create/restore.

And Docker is a very convenient way to do this, e.g. workaround the PID limitation.

(Though I really wish it got more attention https://github.com/docker/cli/issues/4245 )
Getting Started with Etcher.io
Let me be clear; there are 2 options:

1. Go where others have not gone, with a 50% risk of death.

2. Wait 5 days for temperatures to rise, and go where others have not gone, with a 0.5% risk of death.

Choosing 1 isn't "different views, that is all", it's pretty objectively the wrong choice. It's not dying for a cause, it's not brave, it's not idealistic. It's pointlessly suicidal. So yes, I'm saying if you think 1 is the right choice you should see a therapist.

Notably, NASA requires all astronauts to undergo psychological evaluation, even if they aren't claiming they'll take insane unnecessary risks. So it's not like I'm the only one who thinks talking to someone before you potentially kill yourself is a good idea.
Hey there,

Took me really long to understand what this is... let me see if I get it right:

* You scrape rubyweekly.com into Sqlite entries.

* You provide a simple search engine on top of that.

1) Less is more, you can simply state that on your page ("Search an index of scraped rubyweekly articles).

2) If I get it right you are doing regex match for keywords, but maybe you could rely on FTS5 since you are using Sqlite, you may be able to get better results faster, maybe with less code? ([1] random article I found about rails+FTS5).

Cheers!

--

1: https://mariochavez.io/desarrollo/2023/09/01/full-text-searc...
Very neat idea!
It would be amazing if browsers just implemented all the features that were already specified in SVG2. Currently it seems like any new spec work on features that would be amazing for the web (e.g. SVG connectors) has been completely paused because browsers haven't even implemented what has already been spec'ed over a decade ago.
Git has great tools. It sounds like you'd want to see everything associated with a merge commit. If what you're looking for is a certain way to view changes, git's built in tooling usually has you covered regardless of commit strategy.

So if you know a commit sha and you'd like to see all of the merged branch changes associated with that commit as a single patch, I cooked up a script that takes a commit sha and finds the merge commit and show all the changes in a consolidated patch.

#!/bin/sh

merge_commit=$(git log -n1 --merges --pretty=format:"%H" $(git rev-list --ancestry-path $1..HEAD --merges -n1))

git show -m -p --stat --format="" $merge_commit
A finite monetary supply for Bitcoin
Waymo has almost completely replaced Uber/Lyft for everybody I know in the Phoenix area and it’s been this way for several years.

It’s just absolutely normalized here to the point of barely being a novelty anymore. Waymos are absolutely everywhere.
I don't think you know what communism is.
That's your intuitive take on it, because it feels wasteful somehow, but it boils down to simple dollar terms. If for a few hundred dollars worth of compute you can make a box smaller, that might save the company hundreds of thousands of dollars over years.
> OpenLibrary's "emergency library" made IA legally vulnerable

According to the plaintiffs and the judge who agreed with them, controlled digital lending was always illegal and they always had grounds to sue. So it did not make them "legally vulnerable."

I could see it argued that it made them "rhetorically vulnerable" and that's why the publishers took this particular moment to sue, but your statement is in contradiction with the plaintiffs and judge.
JEP 402: Enhanced Primitive Boxing (Preview)
Yep, nothing fancy needed
> I’m saying we should legalize the giving away of all books, but must rearrange society to ensure authors and all people still have the support the previously got from the existing system.

There’s no way to implement this without taking away the freedoms of the author to choose how to distribute the fruits of his labor. Just because you think the world would be a better place if they all did that does not mean it’s an acceptable proposition.
> in Philadelphia/New York/LA/SF/Seattle/Portland public transit is pretty disgusting

In New York right now. Subway stations are dinghy. But the cars themselves are fine. Hop on the Metro-North or LIRR and they're on par with European cleanliness standards. (If not behavioural.)
There is Vulkan on Apple ARM hardware on Linux and I expect the same drivers could be adapted to work on macOS too.

https://rosenzweig.io/blog/vk13-on-the-m1-in-1-month.html
> nothing all to do with the percentage of inhabitants with a foreign background in Sweden

If correlation is enough, the rise in gun deaths aligns with gains made by right wing, populist Democrats over the same period.

ref: https://www.populismstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/E...

We could also recognize that simple correlation isn't an awesome decision-making tool, repent and do better.
Record-breaking robot capable of jumping 120 metres
For me, "senior" just counts the amount of time they've been doing something. If someone isn't very good at something after putting ten thousand hours into it, they just might work at microsoft.
I’m happy about the inclusion of Iterators in Go. Even if I don’t write Iterators, it makes reading code more challenging and it prepares me to read other languages with Iterators
Humans…SMH… :-)
One time I caught a barf with my hands from by sweet little baby dog. Saved a cleanup of the carpet but I would’ve preferred a bag. Just had to wash my hands afterwards.
I partly agree with you. Firstly, this is primarily a backtesting tool, allowing you to test under different latency setups. The example in the project demonstrates its use. Secondly, crypto exchanges is slow. Even though they provide low-latency APIs to higher-tiered traders, but I believe they are still slower compared to trad-fi. But, the market data is public, there might be differences in the data received by higher-tiered traders. These enable individuals to analyze the market and start projects like this.
> In SVG land, there is no way to orient around a multiline text box's corners, you can only align the baseline of the first line of text. In fact, there is no way to set a width on a box and have text wrap to the next line when it hits said width. Etc., etc.

You can use <foreignElement> and just include HTML text with all CSS text layout capabilities to achieve that. It won't work in Illustrator or Figma, but it's fine for the web. I honestly am somewhat okay with that, let HTML+CSS handle what it's already best at instead of duplicating functionality into SVG.

The z-index is somewhat annoying for accessibility though, because the DOM order also determines the accessibility tree order, so it's not always possible to reorder the DOM to re-arrange the z-order without breaking screen reader order.
As long as orders are processed in a FIFO fashion, then you can have HFT type strategies, regardless of whether it takes one microsecond or one year to process those orders.
Is it wrong that I really can’t stop thinking how awesome of a band name ‘equilibrium of death’ would be?
That's something else because it assumes a stable schedule, while I proposed dynamic options that can be activated once the charger is plugged in. Just let people optionally choose how far and how fast they want to charge this time. The default can be as "smart" as it already is.
“Everything in moderation, including moderation.” — Oscar Wilde

I try to live my life by this combined with “Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.” — William Cowper.
I didn't mean to say that evolution avoids local optima, but I wantend to say that it doesn't have to get "trapped", in the sense that it was able to produce such complex organisms as humans..
Not knowing about linear space means that people were using linear by default, right? That’s what I would assume. Early games and all the graphics I was exposed to up through college all used linear RGB, but just didn’t call it that, and of course RGB isn’t a real color space anyway. Most people didn’t know about gamma correction, and otherwise almost nobody converted into non-linear spaces or tried to differentiate RGB from something else. Color geeks at Pixar and Cornell and other places were working with non-linear colors, but I guess most people writing code to display pixels in the 70s & 80s weren’t thinking color spaces at all, they just plugged in some RGB values.
sorry about the off topic, but has anything come out of this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39142069
It's fascinating stuff and way out of the mainstream, and yet his influences (e.g. bodywork, breathwork) have gotten more mainstream at the same time. Kind of a paradox.
It's a misinterpretation of the work underpinning f.lux.

We went from "avoid blue light after sundown to help keep your natural circadian rhythm" to "blue light bad! Buy this product!"

Now we're too far down that path with customers specifically avoiding devices that give off blue light whether or not they understand why. Companies like that are just taking the safe bet by avoiding blue light
There is also TinyVG [1]. See the previous discussion on HN [2].

[1] https://tinyvg.tech/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35227635
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/30/how-gang-viole...
There's real problems applying assembly-line optimizations to things that are not assembly-lines. Those problems are mostly related to the need for turning the operation into a sort of assembly-line before the optimizations can be performed, regardless of how poorly that model fits the reality of the work.
Why is Chicken Soup for the Soul a multimillion dollar company instead of a line of books and why did it by Redbox?
Options wheel strategy implementation from the ‘Theta Gang’ on Reddit: https://github.com/brndnmtthws/thetagang?tab=readme-ov-file
It seems too easy to put a program manager up for not meeting goals. Projects are notorious for over budget, under deliver, and past deliver dates. Should be easy to prove in court.

I would put her up against her colleagues to see if she was probably singled out due to the organizing of the slack channel.

>spokesperson Rob Munoz said. “The truth is that Ms. Hayter was told that she was not meeting expectations many months before we updated our RTO guidance and the two issues are completely unrelated.”
(…)
In April, about two months after Amazon’s RTO announcement and the creation of the Slack channel, Hayter said she received a “below the bar” ranking on an annual review. That was the first time she had received a negative review after eight years at Amazon, Hayter said.

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon/ex-amazonian-cr...
No such system exists.

You only talked about removing money from an individual or from one activity without addressing the entire rest of the system that still decides everything with money.

Why would you propose a stupid scenario that the commenter never described?

They never said nor even implied communism either. If they had an idea what the details would be, and those details mapped to something we already have a word for, they'd has used it.
Ahhh we forgot about the music dark ages when piracy meant artists couldn't make a living from their art and music died completely
I’ve always wondered if there are any applications where it matters which way the electrons are going.

Anyone know?
Actually, the F-104 aerodynamics were quite well-suited to the low-level strike mission. Small, highly-loaded wings reduce the effects of low-level turbulence. A dedicated low-level strike airframe like the TSR-2 has similarly tiny wings.

What led to the high crash rate for some operators (other operators had much lower losses) was the jump in aircraft complexity and performance combined with an inherently challenging and dangerous low-level strike mission.
Many issues surrounding nuclear power are tied to regulatory hurdles and insufficient construction, resulting in numerous inefficiencies. Streamlining regulatory processes and encouraging investment is crucial for establishing a competitive, clean energy source. Complaining about these aspects without taking action only hinders decarbonization efforts. Research, development, and investment should be directed toward any technology, including experimental ones, that facilitates decarbonization. Inaction leads nowhere.

https://www.construction-physics.com/p/why-are-nuclear-power...

Regarding the staffing needs for operating a nuclear power plant, it requires a minimum of 0.7 people per MW for large-scale, multi-reactor facilities. While this is indeed more than solar, it is not a significant issue. For instance, France boasts some of the lowest electricity bills in Europe, and nuclear technology remains competitive today (no storage, more reliable, and competitive LCOE prices).

Moreover, Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) are being developed to significantly reduce staffing requirements, needing minimal to no maintenance.

https://www-pub.iaea.org/mtcd/publications/pdf/te_1193_prn.p...
The US was spoiled by the Gulf War, where airpower and control of situational awareness almost let the world's 2nd largest military walk over the 4th largest.

China will have some tricks the US has not seen yet, and the US may have some tricks China has not seen. A wonder-weapon may decide several engagements.

I think the US' best chance is to gain allies. If China takes Taiwan, S. Korea, Japan, the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Australia are next. China is attacking their traditional allies, including Vietnamese vessels. How bad do you have to be at diplomacy to force the US and Vietnam to consider common interests? Imagine a joint Australian-Japanese task force saving a Vietnamese fishing ship from Chinese Coast Guard, and working for days to save the badly damaged vessel and get it back to port.
Why is it a fundamental freedom of the author to restrict who gets the freedom to share their enjoyment of the author’s works with others?
Reading the comments, that's kinda what they did, though they had to learn that first and only now realize they only needed one.
Just to play devil's advocate - I'm surprised you (and many other people apparently) are unable to tell the operative difference between something like:

1. (real illustration vs digital illustration)

2. (composing on sheet music vs composing in a DAW)

and

3. illustration vs Stable Diffusion

4. composing vs generative music models such as Suno

What's different is the wide disparity between input and output. Generally, art has traditionally had a closer connection between the "creator" and the "creation". Generative models have married two conventionally highly disparate mediums together, e.g. text to image / text to audio.

If you have zero artistic ability, you'd have about as much success using Photoshop as you would with traditional pencil and paper.

Whereas any doofus can type in the description of something along with words like "3D", "trending on artstation", "hyper-realistic,", and "4K" and then proceed to generate thousands of images in automatic1111 which they can flood DeviantArt with in a single day.

The same applies to music composition whether you are laboriously notating with sheet music or dropping notes using a horizontal tracker in a DAW like Logic. If you're not a musician, the fanciest DAW in the world won't make you one.
Get in touch if anyone is interested in teaming up and going through this when it’s realized.

I can’t keep motivated by myself. A group would be really fun. We could discuss each video and keep a timeline.