skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, indeed. If a larger data type is used to represent the information, it will most certainly take up more space.
How much did you end up paying?
That's just not true. My non-Roku TV has this as an option alongside dozens of others I can turn on and off.

I'm gonna need to see some data on that. The nearly universally description I hear from regular, non-techie people is "my TV started looking weird", especially when they're watching content they're familiar with. If a brand new movie or show looked like this and that's the only way I'd ever seen it, fine, so be it. I remember seeing "Raiders of the Lost Ark" in soap opera mode on our then-new TV and thinking "WTF is this and how do I turn it off?". That's not what Indiana Jones movies are supposed to look like.
root is not necessarily the owner of the system.
This is (well -- ad-libs) what I based the name of my fill-in-the-blank-with-llm ts library on https://github.com/gsuuon/ad-llama/
You are upsetting your beloved and somewhat thin-skinned uncle.
Every DePIN Has a Story
He is actually wrong, that isn't what the law says. The reason its illegal in this instance is because their transactions related to carrying on a crime (they used user donations to pay for maintaining the site). Per the indictment they are charged under Title 18, United States Code, Section 1956(a)(1)(A)(i) which states:

> (a)(1) Whoever, knowing that the property involved in a financial transaction represents the proceeds of some form of unlawful activity, conducts or attempts to conduct such a financial transaction which in fact involves the proceeds of specified unlawful activity—

> (A)(i) with the intent to promote the carrying on of specified unlawful activity;

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1956

You can read the entire code but it criminalizes 2 main categories of conduct. Knowingly using the proceeds of a crime to promote the carrying on of a crime. And knowingly using the proceeds of a crime in a transaction that attempts to conceal the source of the proceeds. So even if you assume all money is the proceeds of a crime this law would not apply to you as long as you don't use it to commit any crimes yourself and you don't attempt to hide where you got it.
The live remote camera setup seems like the bones of the only killer app idea I've ever had: a two-iPhone camera system for couples who want a stranger to take a picture of them while they're on holiday.

It would work like this:

- hand volunteer a phone and ask them to point it at you

- direct the shot by looking at the second phone ("no, stand further back, not our legs, don't point it directly at the sun")

- put the second phone in your pocket

- have the stranger take the photo you actually want, saving you rounds of back and forth when they say "Is this OK?"

Has anyone ever seen an app like this?
I think the real takeaway is that collaborating/bouncing ideas off other people is the most important part of research. Few people can work isolated on their own without idea exchange.
Maybe it is good for tracking the ball in sports? (Note: A hypothesis. I don't watch sports ...)
> As an author of books, I can tell you this just prevents me and other authors from creating new books.

I am not impressed by the quality of literature I get from people who are purely fiscally motivated.
Is High Quality Software Worth the Cost? (2019)
As mentioned somewhere in this thread, using a custom domain poses other risks, in some cases more significant. All your aliases will be forever tied to your identity (and potentially de-anonymized by a single leak).
I still don't understand why I would need Bitwarden if I use Firefox Relay, sorry.
This presumes that a very large fraction of Roku users asked for motion smoothing/soap opera effect. I would be surprised. (1) Most people I've pointed it out to say "I can't tell the difference". (2) None of those people had ever known that this method even existed--even a lot of people on this thread didn't know about it before today. (3) As for profitability, is there a single person in the world who would buy a Roku because it had motion smoothing?
I don't see any need for kernel patches, and the udev policy is just config rather than code as far as I can tell. Bringing kexec into this is certainly more complicated than not using kexec, but I wouldn't expect (and I do have some familiarity of working with kexec) this to be a lot of engineering work.
But human drivers don't need such restructuring. They can also handle impaired pedestrians, nonstandard and missing signs/lane markings. And if AGI will be "better than most humans at most things" no restructuring should be needed...
Here's a bonus:

Ever ran a command that left your terminal mangled after it finished? No output, weird chars, etc.

That's lack of proper tty hygiene on the offending command. Instead of killing your terminal, type:

stty sane

And you'll demangle it.
Stock switch OS plays games faster / loads faster?
Yes.

With Xpra you have a headless X session on the remote machine and you "detach" and "attach" to it from the client. So whatever X applications you leave running will be right where you left them.
Show HN: What Beats Rock – AI Rock Paper Scissors
Hi HN! We built a game for fun where you answer What Beats Rock? And you can type whatever you want. An LLM decides the outcome. Highscores reset every week.

One fun finding: We tried a lot of models and we found that Llama-3 is not as good at linking concepts to emojis as GPT-4o. Ultimately, 4o had the best reasoning skills that made this game possible.
> You're not demanding customization of your iPhone before purchasing it: worse, you're demanding it after your purchase, even though there's no unclarity as to how an iPhone works.

I'm not demanding they customize it, though. I'm just demanding they don't artificially block customization.

So, like a normal burger. You keep adding weird demands into your analogies, because the straightforward burger analogy is "burger where if I take it home I can customize it at my leisure, no technology applied to make that effectively impossible", and there's no way to twist that desire into sounding unreasonable. The thing I want from Apple is a thing that almost every company already does.
"I like eclipses and want them to stick around for a while longer."

"The Moon ...has been slowly drifting outward at the rate of about 1.5 inches (3.8 cm) per year. Once it makes it past 14,600 miles (23,500 km), it’ll appear too small from Earth to cover the Sun. But don’t panic if you haven’t seen an eclipse yet ― you’ve got another 600-million-plus years before that border is breached." [0]

Hard agree! I would hate for the unimaginable denizens of Pangaea Ultima, toiling through their 28 hour days [1] to miss out on totality for a mere 'ring of fire' eclipse.

[0]: https://science.nasa.gov/moon/eclipses/

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_of_Earth
That is why you connect it to a source which does not have direct internet access. Use an adversarial mindset when dealing with commercial services, they are out to get you after all.
Meta has something like half a million modern GPUs that they’ve purchased outright. They can afford to keep training models “forever”.

This is useful to eke out every last drop of quality per gigabyte of model file size. It also keeps the models up to date with current events.

Obviously this scaling becomes too inefficient at infinite scale not just because of training costs that’ll never be recouped but also increasing inference cost with larger models.

Some fundamentally new architectures will need to be developed to take much better advantage of increased computer power.

I suspect the major players are investing in hardware now in the hope that some revolutionary new algorithm is invented soon and they’ll be ready for it.

It’s… a bit of a gamble!
Coming from the world of audio software I've always wondered why it seemed like Adobe has such a stranglehold on visual work and nothing really catches up to photoshop or illustrator. In audio there are several big DAWs (digital audio workstations) that I would classify as popular and competent enough for serious work, each of which has artists or producers that have built successful careers around. Yes there are endless wars about what is better but more or less can do the same things and most experienced people say, choose one, learn it, decide what works for you. I feel like with photoshop it's always like "oh it's missing critical feature x, y, and z compared to photoshop so it's a dealbreaker". The closest analogy I could think of is pro-tools being a popular "de-facto" standard in many pro recording studios, but most hobbyists don't use pro-tools and agree that it's popular in pro studios mostly due to tradition.

I'm surprised there aren't at least a handful of adobe competitors that carved a niche and are significantly popular because they made some key workflows faster, more intuitive, or more powerful.

Maybe this difference is because of ubiquitous plugin formats like VST that translate across different DAWs?
I consider the wide-scale and fairly high-quality scientific education system to be the only genuine upside of Soviet communism. Admittedly, part of its success was the fact that it offered many people the only way to the middle or upper class (the Soviet Union was an extreme class society, with peasants forced to stay on their collective farms and non-Muscovites banned from settling in Moscow unless they took up professions that were currently desired by the system). Another caveat is that it was STEM-only, and excluded computer science (which the Soviet system was unconducive to for various reasons) until the 80s. The SU was particularly unwilling to teach anyone foreign languages, unless one chose (and was cleared) to work for intel.
Theoretically, couldn't it just write to a "boot this image next time" field (is the legacy MBR area available?) and trigger a reboot?
> Here is the official statistic for federal inmates

Federal inmates are a tiny minority of inmates in the United States, because the vast majority of crimes are prosecuted at the state level. There are about 147,000 convicted federal inmates compared to over a million held in state prisons and 103,000 convicts held in local jails.

> This methodology of counting current prison population is biased for more serious crimes with longer sentencing

This strikes me as an attempt to move the goalposts, given that we're several comments deep into a thread which started with the claim that "95% of US inmates are on plea deal".
They've had some sort of free trial period as long as I've followed them.
I know the workflow is quiet different but Rhino is popular, for example, with architecture crowd and their licenses are perpetual.
> “Would you rather be considered the best lover in the world and know privately that you’re the worst — or would you prefer to know privately that you’re the best lover in the world, but be considered the worst?”

Both of those options sound terrible. It's a curse either way. I'd rather be known as publicly as "better than average" and privately know that I'm doing pretty well/my best.

If forced to pick between the two though, being publicly known as 'the best lover in the world' would seem most likely to present more opportunities to improve my skill/confidence. It's still a lot of pressure nobody needs.
OTOH, it might be a net negative in latency if you're icache limited. Depends on the access pattern among other things, of course.
That's a pretty smart business move by T-Mobile, I didn't know mobile cell towers were a thing
Most people use a catch-all email with custom domains — and Bitwarden does have an option for that.
That is true. However, it also has a staggering amount of duplicate data. I have _heard_ that if you search for most any particular book, you often get a dozen results of varying sizes and quality. Even for the same filetype. It's a hard problem to solve, but if we had something that could somehow pick the "best" copy of a particular title, for every title in the library, Anna could likely drop the zero herself.
Welcome to federal prosecution!
Some research is funded through private donations to a specific school, or because the team shopped their project around to find private funding directly. This goes beyond public funding which grays up that public access to the research especially when compared to something like data produced by NASA
I think the command “reset” does something similar
That depends on how you authenticate. If you pass your SSH password on the command line then anyone on your machine doing a `ps` at the right time could see your password.

I find using a ssh-agent to load password protected SSH keys works best.
Copyright should probably grant some benefit to an author, but just the bare minimum necessary to incentivize people to actually submit their work and file for copyright (also, we should resume requiring that you actually file for copyright, as was the case before 1978). This probably means some period of exclusive monetization rights. Anyone should be able to search for and read any filed works for free from the moment they are filed, or possibly after this exclusive monopoly period.

Any additional benefits to copyright holders beyond what is needed to make sure we don't lose the works are essentially graft, no different in principle to the medieval church selling lucrative offices.

If these things are valuable only because of scarcity, then we are incentivizing scarcity by granting monopoly, so we should do as little of that as we can manage. If they are inherently valuable, they should be as widely disseminated as possible (a cost that government can easily afford given modern technology). If they are worthless, there is no harm in the government keeping a copy anyway.
Microsoft demands China staff use iPhones not Android phones
I was honestly expecting this to be an article about grayscale versus dithered black and white, where the answer to "do grayscale images take less space" could go either way. Instead, it's an article about grayscale versus sRGB.
This is being discussed more extensively in other comment threads but it sounds like maybe there's a way for it to just reboot but set a flag so the firmware boots into a different .efi next time (once).
To each their own, but IMHO it’s kind of sad that people make the trouble of going to another country and then end up dining at Taco Bell.
Arithmetic underflow is not a bad explanation.

How you interpret is that it's pop science misinterpretation. Temperature is necessarily defined for systems in equilibrium. Systems with "negative T" aren't in equilibrium hence T isn't strictly defined.

So, what do we mean by neg T? Solutions to Boltzmann's distribution for population inversion (more electrons, say, in an excited state than the ground state).

Usually, the hotter something is, the more excited states are occupied; but in equilibrium there are always more occupied ground states.

So "hotter than any positive T" refers to "negative T"s having more excited states than positive T
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Of the five links between this comment and the other, I can only access one of them. Interchange domain is blocked, khou is access denied, dallasnews is a paywall.

What I do hear about is this (possibly outdated, I'm increasingly noticing the references there are not kept up to date) claim on Wikipedia:

> On October 13, 2009, the Tres Amigas SuperStation was announced to connect the Eastern, Western and Texas Interconnections via eight 5 GW superconductor links, although the Texas Interconnection does not intend to connect for regulatory reasons. The Eastern Interconnection withdrew from the project in 2015, rendering the project moot. Construction was never started.
Integration. When signing up with a new web service, you can just pop open Bitwarden and will generate both a unique email alias and a unique password, prefill the sign up form, and save the details to the password manager.
Obstinant can just be a nay-sayer though? Someone who isn't even trying to solve the problem their way but someone getting in the way of problems being solved at all.

I have a lot of respect for people that are confident in something who are willing to actually go and do that something, even if they're wrong. Persistence in this context is persevering through being wrong and not giving up until you figure out a way to solve the problem.
The difference is that many forums or chat programs will automatically linkify valid hostnames/URLs.

Now "foo.zip" is a valid URL.

You could have a forum or chat program that you think is quite safe, since it doesn't allow file uploads, and doesn't allow arbitrary link text, and this would upend that.
> And obviously we as a society created this stark contrast between male and female. Look at animal kingdom

How so? Many species of animals show sexual dimorphism.
True, albeit the associated cost is firmly not in the “occasional use hobbyist” category.

E.g. my wife using youtube tutorials to teach herself digital drafting to plan our kitchen remodel (with actual dimensions).
I need a bootloader that automatically deletes Windows partitions upon detection.

And is also themed like XBill.
It just means that in a negative-temp system the number of states with a given energy gets smaller as energy goes up rather than, as for the vast majority of systems (which have positive temperature), getting larger. That means that energy will flow even more quickly to the positive-temp system from the negative-temp system than it would from any positive-temp system, because each unit of energy transfered enlarges the state space of both systems (rather than enlarging one and shrinking the other so as to simply produce a net increase in the number of states, as is the case for most spontaneous energy flows).
Uh, only if you want to use Wayland.
I use Designer almost daily and I’m stunned by how good it is. I have zero interest in ever going back to Illustrator. I’m sure there’s pro requirements that only Illustrator has but I’ve not encountered them. For the price it’s simply amazing.
If you want to create a micro nation, start with a big nation and mismanage it.
Dr Freud would be proud.
That might've happened here:

http://loginzlib2vrak5zzpcocc3ouizykn6k5qecgj2tzlnab5wcbqhem...
Which trouble? The image gets pulled once. Running it is pretty straightforward and fast enough. And not much work to clean up if you don’t use it. Beside that I don’t have to care about the right package manager.
But then I‘m also a person that prefers npx to global npm installs.
> All your aliases will be forever tied to your identity

A separate domain can be used if really needed. But even with using my own domain, I don’t see it as a problem. After all, emails are not anonymous, and a leak with an alias with a custom domain is still meaningless and doesn’t affect other services.
My bet would be that scientists write the most, not journalists.

You seem to have changed your position from journalists to "people whose day job is to write", which is good, as that includes scientists.
That could be great for a customer of mine. They have the documentation of their API on Postman and they want to translate it into other languages. Postman don't seem to have support for multiple languages so we would have to either manually manage multiple versions of the documentation (but managing the examples could be a nightmare) or export as JSON, identify and update the changes, import. This service could automate the middle part of that process.
Yup, you always have to measure.

Though my impression is that compilers tend to be fairly conservative about inlining so that don't risk the inlining being a pessimization.
> Warren Buffett proposed that the stock market should be open less frequently

This will result in another market where deals will be made and then finalized on that 'official' when it opens. It's like with employee stock. You can sell it before you can...
My wife's father was a gemologist and metalsmith. When we got married 42 years ago, he made both of our wedding rings -- lost wax casting, of course, since 3D printing wasn't a thing. Mine is a plain rose gold band, hers is antiqued gold leaves surround a diamond (he was an experienced gem faceter, but would not touch diamonds, which he'd rarely worked with, so ours came from a diamond dealer). He had me pour the gold for both rings. It's nice to have a story to go with them!
not really offline but someone who works in industry here once detailed out that each scanner has it's own copy of a SQLite database that is being updated as fast as possible based on inserts of other scanners since any downtime is a big deal at these venues

i.e., theoretically duplicate tickets would be identified but not instantly but still pretty quickly
>the Systemd transition or the Pipewire transition

Both of these were shit shows which only look good now to people who weren't around when they were happening.
Still kind of nice to have that link thrown out here for those with the means to support their work.
Which contains its own irony, as the trees providing the primary material the physical books are made from would probably have a thing or two to say about the notion of being stolen from.
most trading volume already happens at open or before close.
I just use Inkscape for tracing and then export to SVG. I can't use Inkscape for anything else but it does provide that function.
If you want to run remote applications in a browser, you could use:

https://github.com/Xpra-org/xpra-html5
> I need the flexibity to boot different OS kernels. AFAIK, UEFI offers no such flexibility.

Isn’t this how Apple’s Bootcamp works (at least on Intel based Macs)?
This is an excellent slideshow.

The slide on measuring by having a fake server replaying order data, a second server calculating runtimes, the server under test, and a hardware switch to let you measure packet times is so delightfully hardcore.

I don't have any interest in working in finance, but it must be fun working on something so performance critical that buying a rack of hardware just for benchmarking is economically feasible.
I have a shorthand: I respect people who are looking for the right answer, rather than trying to be right. Ignores intelligence etc.

A confident person who is trying to be right. Like kryptonite for your company.

I try to build up my confidence from experience and data. Always happy to change tack but the incoming input needs to be more credible than what I’ve gone through. Vs my (excellent) ex boss who was confident always, but if you wanted to convince him you needed to do it quietly out of earshot so no egos were harmed. I proposed and we agreed it was a good version of “strong opinions weakly held”, but I’d have appreciated a little more openness without all the dancing. And he was streets ahead of a feral exec who was seemingly confident, defensive and who would rather burn the building down than change his mind.
About 15 years ago, I knew an online store that was closed on Sundays.