skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mathematical research (as far as I know) requires significant amounts of ‘time off’ just pondering and meditating on ideas as much as it requires time sitting at a desk concentrating on a paper or working through things on paper. A lot of people have said their best work was done whilst standing waiting for a bus, in the shower, walking in the woods …and so on.
I'm the author of the article and the intensity is referring to the level of the light source used in the study to generate the data. See the study explained here: https://medium.com/hipster-color-science/a-beginners-guide-t...

but you're right, the intensity needed of each R, G, and B light sources to produce the correct color is directly related to how our eyes perceive each of those sources, so yes you are correct
Stripe charges 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction. 30¢ every dollar is a lot.
People can give good insight about things despite even not creating these things, see e.g. physicists who study atoms
How important “big tech” though? Honestly ? It’s even an insidious sounding name.

Big tech has caused a lot of problems for society. Echo chambers on social media, monopolistic behaviour, teen depression and addiction.

We want the tech, without the grifting.
Fair point. Currently running KDE Neon though, which is Debian based so reinstall needed...
Ah, that's too bad, I thought it would.
The move-fast-and-break-things mentality of many tech companies has absolutely killed people.

https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Family/parents-kids-died-after-dr...

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/01/business/instagram-suicid...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/electric-scooter-electric-bike-...

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/family-sues-airbnb-19-m...

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/rohingya-seek-reparat...

https://www.thedrive.com/news/40234/no-one-was-driving-in-te...

"full-self-driving doesn't self drive", "wear a helmet on the bird scooter", and "safety is our first priority at facebook" is the 21st century version of "don't get roundup all over yourself"
A "microgrid," as you are describing, could be fantastic as long as businesses or individuals aren't unreasonably constrained by their microgrid's production capability (or misguided attempts to restrict capacity in the name of climate change / equity / misguided policy here). But in theory, if all power was locally sourced and physically separate, the resiliency would be incredible.
Compressed to 0: The Silent Strings of Proof of Personhood
We would NOT use 24 bit floats since that would make them less than ideal at matching the hypothetical (and almost certainly never reach) 24 bit resolution of integer DAC/ADC hardware.

The reason why 32 bit floats work great is that they can handle a 24 bit integer without any loss, and then if for some reason the values get kicked up above the maximum you can represent there, you get subtle noise rather than heavy distortion.
Eh yes and no. The fad of container homes was a quick flash in the pan as it turned out they were actually a terrible size to actually live in; not quite large enough to put furniture in and still have walking space.

Because factories for rooms are actually specialized for the actual room, it's not cheap once you consider the startup cost of a factory. All the components of a room are increasingly panelized and mass manufactured anyways, making building large portions of buildings similar to building out of Legos or IKEA flatpack, which is good enough for labor reduction.
The accidental Mont Blanc Tunnel fire (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mont_Blanc_Tunnel_fire?wprov=s...) puts it out of commission for three years, and that's a very important link between France and Italy...
This probably depends on the size of the area to be searched, and just how hot that region is. After all, if it's fairly small, there won't be any cache misses, and the data structure does use less memory than a typical hash table, which is itself an advantage.
> over 2 million paid rider-only trips completed

And how many of those trips were actually "rider only" and not "rider with remote assistance operator"?
Black Holes Can't Be Created by Light
The EU commission (made of elected statesmen from all over the EU) is free to propose as many laws as it wants, but these things never have broad appeal and do not pass parliament (the MEPs we directly elect).

Chat control keeps being proposed by the same Swedish politician, and she will continue to do so and she will continue to fail- because politicians in the EU are already aware its stupid.
The price looks reasonable to me after looking at the average revenue per user.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/234056/facebooks-average...
Unless you explicitly set your clock speed/voltage, it's overclocking, I can almost guarantee it. There has been extreme carelessness from MOBO manufacturers on top of Intel's problems.
Handling two different writes to memory is not really a concern - existing speculative/out of order processors already solve this issue by completing (perform architectural side effects) instructions in-order. So even if two writes are made, one in each branch, by the time the write is meant to be completed, the prior branch is resolved and we know which write is actually meant to be made and the bad one can be discarded.

Doubling the execution units also isn't strictly needed - you can use the existing out-of-order core to send two sets of instructions through the same functional units. There will be more contention for the resources, possibly causing stalls, but you don't need to fully double everything.

Things similar to this idea are already done in processors - simultaneous multithreading, early branch resolution, conditional instructions, are all ideas that have similar implementation difficulties. So the reason this specific idea is not done is more in line with your last two points rather than the first two.
Isn't the problem that older people lose their short-term memory rather than their long-term memory?
I think it's appropriate linking directly to Kriesel's blog¹ or his talk, as that's about the scanner creating fake data and not about rce. Though technically it too is not an OCR bug as there's no ocr in JBIG2.

¹: http://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802_xerox-workcentres_...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carly_Fiorina ?
The Sleeping Brain
Don't see a problem with one line functions per se, especially if the name of the function helps understanding the code
Intune has a button on every device to remotely rotate the key.
yes. Conflating Perdue Pharma/OxyContin with the larger opiate epidemic is a particularly egregious example.

Perdue engaged in criminal actions, but it did not cause the epidemic. It is just a small part of the story. Deceitful labeling and aggressive marketing of OxyContin in the 90's has zero bearing on people dying from fentanyl laced weed in 2024.

I think the biggest factor in all of this misinformation is a human desire to compress the complexity of life into simple soundbite narratives that make sense.

The more emotionally charged or pressing an issue is, the greater the human desire is to think/feel like they have it all figured out. Even if that means sacrificing truth.

Humans have a compulsion to categorize and explain everything they encounter. Failure to do so is cognitively painful so anything too difficult is simplified until it "makes sense".

In my opinion, this compulsion is at the heart of all human problems, but also all of our achievements.
Type 1 here. I also agree. With comment above. I have two thoughts that may be valuable for you.

1) You can do an extended pre-bolus before you eat. This gives you a chance the cancel the remaining insulin dose if you learn your meal will change for any reason n-minutes before or during your meal. Maybe the meal unexpectedly tastes bad, you can cancel the remaining insulin. Maybe the restaurant tells you they are out of the dish you order n-minutes ago. This is called different names in various insulin pumps; Extended bolus, temp basal, etc.

2) Pre-bolus and eat AFTER you see your blood glucose decrease for 3-4 readings. Pre-bolusing for static time like 15 minutes before eating does not work consistently because there are lots of variables at play before you eat that directly affect (a) insulin sensitivity and (b) blood glucose. (Environmental temperature, insulin temperature, injection site, adrenaline, stress, pain, previous meals, lipid levels, exercise, medications, illness, to name a few).

Eating after I see my BG decrease for at least three consecutive readings has helped me stay in range (70-140) for 95-100% of the time and maintain a healthy A1C (less than 5).

Cheers!
The energetic cost of allostasis and allostatic load
> This mostly threatens the parasite and pathogen species that are highly host-specific to critically endangered hosts

The idea of worrying about the extinction of a parasite that would inevitably go extinct coincident to a host species’ extinction is beyond absolutely irrelevant, in my opinion . It rather reads more like malicious trolling to me.
The Kids Online Safety Act and the Tyranny of Laziness
Ads can be targeted but not at individual.

If I am Tylor Swift fan I should get her merch advertising only when I am visiting swifties forum or group - but not when I am checking my fishing forum where I expect fishing gear ads. But nowadays I get adsg
Yeah, I get the impression that he just sells his image as some "guru" of software engineering, and that he doesn't actually deal with or write much real life code.
Apple paid enough money to TSMC to secure temporary exclusivity for their new nodes.
I’m honestly not sure I understand any better.

I also think we might accomplish more if people could find themselves to being more compromising. Not that we don’t benefit from having a bunch of distros, but perhaps there’s a bit too much segmentation.
"On November 12, 1999, a cryptic comment in the HTML appeared
Surely you must also predict the next branch to predict the one after. Otherwise you wouldn’t know which is the one after.

Given that, I still don’t understand how predicting the next two branches is different from predicting the next branch and then the next after that, i.e. two times the same thing.
It's not a certificate, it's a blue mark on a site that tell's you user is verified through payment. It should never be a symbol of trust, as twitter or anyone can't assess the trustworthiness of individuals :)
I'm fine with regulation to prevent monopolies / duopolies.

In practice, regulation almost never actually does that.

Every major industry is a monopoly or duopoly if you're even a bit generous with the term.

I'm just pointing out there is nothing unique here with tech or data.

And the politics are mostly theater that often makes things more monopolistic, not less.
I really enjoy and appreciate the tailscale service, but this article didn't click for me. I love an inspiring CEO rally speech as much as the next early adopter, and agree that there is a ridiculous amount of developer friction and complexity in computing, but tailscale still has its own friction and isn't on track to solve the big picture issues _at all_.

As a concrete example, a few weeks ago, I invited my dad to my tailnet with the intent of using remote desktop into his machine to help him fix something. He accepted the invite, and then I couldn't ping his machine despite it appearing in my TS domain web interface.

Now he hates tailscale, and I lost credibility because prior I told him how awesome it is. In his view, it wasted his time and doesn't "work right", and metadat is a fool.
Had to laugh at that
This week's key orders at the Farnborough airshow
Been using Linux since 2003, distro hopped like the best of them, and I’ve never heard of this distribution.
I can't see how the wages have anything to do with the points in the parent comment but you're never going to get US wages in Sweden as long as the unions are involved
I've been. They have a bunch of cool old electronics as well. It's a fun place to spend an hour or two.
We've been here before with other tech [before AI]. Programming is here to stay
Not a single 737 ordered by anyone.
Show HN: Aurora for Plex on Apple Vision Pro
I quit my job a few months ago to work on building apps for the Apple ecosystem and this is my first product.

Aurora is a Plex client for the Vision Pro which focuses on getting you straight to your content and integrating it with the rest of the system smoothly, without a bunch of extra bells and whistles.

Just login with your Plex account, pick something to watch and enjoy!
The rhashtable's bucket_table struct stores a random seed (the hash_rnd field) that is folded into the calculation of the hash. Without knowing what the seed is going to be, an attacker has no way to precompute keys with colliding hashes.
I hate when I buy an interesting math book and then it's like "oh wait, no solutions." And then I end up going on GitHub hoping for community-worked solutions.
He’s got a GitHub. This seems to be the most notable thing:
https://github.com/unclebob/fitnessedotorg
>Python's biggest weakness is the lack of a function that shows you how exactly a variable looks like.

Doesn't the repr() built-in function do what you want?

It can also be customized by defining the __repr__() method of a class, IIRC.

Commonly done.
Well said. We've offered for many years to our customers to pay by CC, bank transfer or Bitcoin. Exactly 0 people wanted to pay by Bitcoin, while the other two options are at about 50/50.
If the size of the data is small, a linear search through a contiguous array is going to be far faster than anything more complex.
The wording on the article is correct, despite being confusing. The CIE 1931 RGB primaries each stimulate multiple types of cone in human eyes, so the RGB Color Matching Functions (CMFs) don't represent individual cone stimulations.

However, the CMFs for LMS space[1] do directly represent individual cone stimulations over. Like the CIE RGB CMFs, the LMS CMFs can also be thought of as the required intensities of three primariy colors required to reproduce the color of a given spectrum. The reason these two definitions coorespond for LMS space is that each primary would stimulate only one type of cone. However, unlike CIE RGB, no colors of light which stimulate only one type of cone physically exist.

Finally, CIE RGB and LMS space are linear transformations of each other, so the CIE RGB CMFs are linear combinations of the LMS CMFs, so each CIE RGB CMF can be though of as representing a specific linear combination of cone stimulations (the combination excited by the primary color).

I often find it easiest to reason about these color spaces in terms of LMS space, since it's the most physically straightforward.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LMS_color_space
Heh, I correctly guessed the channel just by reading the title :)
That triggered my Watership Down childhood PTSD.
Pretty much these articles from FP are notorious for their poor journalism and just a mouthpiece for billionaires

In fact a huge chunk of American MSM is turning out to be unreliable and quick to deceive its readers who are still stuck in the "why would they lie to us".

Europe is doing a good job and as are more sovereign countries waking up to the techno-colonialism at play.

If Google or Facebook is in your country, they do not share your country's interest and instead pushing their own American ideologies.

More and more countries should reject American tech companies that seek to interfere and spread their fcked up ideologies in the host country.
Yeah, my goal at some point was to add animations and stuff, and then I'd do something like you're doing. But I moved onto other projects :)
For context, this is the Section 174 from the Trump Tax Cuts. Everyone expected it would be reversed before it went into effect, but the 118th congress has been largely unable to pass any legislation.

tl;dr - previously companies could choose 1 or 5 years to amortize, now no choice & clarification that most software development counts as capital improvements (like building a factory). Many smaller companies are getting surprise tax bills this year, many of us have been putting it off with standard tax deferments (6 months)

https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/section-174/ | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38870429 (blog post by same Twitter user, Gergely Orosz)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38642461 (older tweet from Gergely Orosz)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34627712 (largest Ask HN discussion)
I contract away time-slices of my human effort. I consider that I own that effort by right, and part of that ownership bundle is the right to destroy or exchange it. So it is consistent to both have a right and to trade parts of it away. It would be less of a right if I were prohibited from exchanging it for other priorities, like food.
Cantor's diagonilization is something I think one would learn in most CS curricula, at least I did.

Obviously Cantor was a genius, I would not expect most people, including myself, to come up with his argument themselves from scratch!
I don't think it's pedantry.

To what extent 4o is a new model or a refinement depends on:

a) technology

b) thresholds for what it means for a model to be "new"

Not naming.

We have no clue about what happens within the super-secretive ironically-named OpenAI. To me, it feels like a new model. To you, it feels like a refinement. Unless one of us has insider information, I'm not sure it's worth disputing. We have a difference of opinion, and likely, neither of us has anything to back it up.
Oops, yeah, my bad. I've been doing a deep dive into lean4 and ended up conflating the use of the term computability from that context. Sorry, for the confusion!
Again, historically it was warranted because Nvidia had their own strong opinions in their proprietary closed-source driver, and hardware acceleration in Wayland just straight up didn't work with said driver for many years because Nvidia was trying to push their own alternative [0], up until 2021 when they finally caved [1].

I agree that the naming of the command-line flag was childish, but I think it was reasonable to refuse to be strongarmed into doing unpaid work to support Nvidia's end-run around standards that all the other players in the space adopted.

[0] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Streams-vs-GBM-Toolkits

[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-495.44-Linux-Driver
Gov to pay ex-FBI agent $1.2M in settlement over release of anti-Trump texts
> I'm trying to keep this account relatively anonymous

I totally respect that—don't let me pressure you any further.

Yeah, sounds like you had the ideal work setup: cool problem requiring cool technical solutions with good management. That's wonderful!
I would argue there are some baseline ones to follow, mostly revolving around consent, property rights, and violence. Fortunately even other apes generally understand these instinctually at some level so it's baked in well enough it won't completely break down, with various asterisks attached.

If we all stopped paying taxes and started smoking weed we would probably manage somehow. On the other hand if everyone becomes an arsonist we'd have real problems.
I read that, but it doesn't really make sense in context.
6,000 was the guess of technology 200 years ago. They had their reasons. Today 14 billion is the technology of our time. We have our reasons. My point is that technological progression seems to support the idea that 14 billion will seem like a silly number 200 years from now, in a similar way.
https://docs.python.org/3/library/inspect.html
I think the aspirations of the agile manifesto are great, but basically everyone involved in it was an enterprise software methodology consultant. I forget who the exception was; someone will remind me.
> But in theory, if all power was locally sourced and physically separate, the resiliency would be incredible.

Thank you for phrasing my previous awkward statements so succinctly.

This should be a goal for natsec. As in, actual Defense Budget should be applied to this goal.

This is not theoretical, it is TRL 9. None of our soldiers die. We can actually do this starting today. It vastly improves our national security.

The only thing that prevents this is our fossil fuel economic inertia.
> What if what Europe does is a good idea for the people but just inconvenient for companies?

Thats exactly the issue. What's good for Europeans isn't so good for American corporations.

Already populist presidents in America have signaled they don't care about Europe so why should Europeans nurture and allow a hostile country continue to operate in their lands?

This type of outrage from American MSM is quite baffling. Whether their billionaires like it or not countries are going their own way and the biggest slap in the face is that those billionaires do not even live in America.
These folks are volunteers giving me stuff for free, so I’m not fit to say what they should be doing with their free time.
You would just start typing, and it would try and select each letter in turn, or show a little blip if you didn't have that character available
You are not reading the title correctly.

The law explicitly says that anyone who makes an interactive computer service display porn to a minor has broken a law (paragraph (d)). Your 'rebuttal' is based upon only reading (a). Yes, pornhub is not doing anything wrong under (a), but under (d) it clearly is. The owners and producers of pornhub are causing minors to be transmitted porn via an ICS.

Yes, ISPs are not liable because they're just carrying public traffic. But under section (d), even if a minor requests the porn, you cannot serve it to them. Please read it.
Zuckerberg is a famous person though, and famous people can't go to places which are sufficiently open to the public without causing major issues.

A random billionaire nobody knows might walk around the Colosseum undetected, but try doing that with a profile like Zuckerberg's.

Also, there is the personal security concern. If you are rich, you have a lot of ability to pay kidnappers of you and your family.

There is the story that shortly after Pichai became Google CEO, he walked around a conference and he barely got recognized, but if you stay in the limelight for long enough, people recognize you.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/mathonan/searching-for-...
something that makes metaphysical claims. Like the age of the universe, and a universal telos or lack thereof.
So my theory is that probability is an ill-defined, unfalsifiable concept. And yet, it _seems_ to model aspects of the world pretty well, empirically. However, might it be leading us astray?

Consider the statement p(X) = 0.5 (probability of event X is 0.5). What does this actually mean? It it a proposition? If so, is it falsifiable? And how?

If it is not a proposition, what does it actually mean? If someone with more knowledge can chime in here, I'd be grateful. I've got much more to say on this, but only after I hear from those with a rigorous grounding the theory.
For anyone interested in working on visual programming professionally, we use it for creation in Rec Room in a system I built called Circuits https://blog.recroom.com/posts/2021/5/03/the-circuits-handbo...

It has a real place among novice programmers. We even have some experts who use it as a fun alternative to writing text. I don't see visual systems as an effective way to replace everything us experts are doing but they've gotten a ton of mileage in the jr. and learning domain. Scratch (https://scratch.mit.edu/) being another obvious example.

See the email in my profile if you are interested in roles and I'll see if we can find something that fits.
> it’s being used to job screen applicants even though we have proven that AI models still suffer from thing like racial bias

I bet they also suffer from other biases that are harder to detect and maybe some biases we can't even imagine and thus control for.