skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looking Glass' new lineup includes a $300 phone-sized holographic display
not very familiar with US legal system but can't Google's case be used as precedent for Apple?
Stop putting AI in pins and necklaces. Put it in printers
The kitchen computer section, further down in that page, is great

> To round out the domestic marketing, the pedestal model's writing surface was rebranded as a built-in cutting board…
> why shouldn't the market of labor punish an employer for undesirable properties as an employer?

It does. Good employees leave bad companies (and bad bosses) all the time.
Presumably alleged injured parties won't be able to sue an AI system...
YouTube was acquired by Google within two years of it launching. It's life as an independent operation was just too short to get into that sort of trouble.
> Can China be held to granting them a fair trial with a reasonable punishment

Hmm, excellent question. And for context, America is going to give Kim Dotcom a functional life sentence in what Americans like to call "pound-you-in-the-ass prison". For sharing files. He'll be given more years than harsher than most murderers.
At least at the moment, the jobs we're talking about (e.g. drive-through order-taker) aren't meaningful entry into a career path — they're jobs people take before they have a career path, or on a largely short-term basis. There are exceptions, but there are still going to be plenty of restaurant jobs for a while. We're still in a shortage of labor on that end of the job market.

But also, the number of remaining roles isn't fixed. Jobs exist (at least in the private sector) because they create more value than they cost to fill, and we're always finding new and expanded ways for people to create more value. Saving resources through automation just means we can redirect that value creation somewhere else.

Ultimately this is how economies grow and the world becomes wealthier over time; we increase the value of people's time because there's so much competition for it, to the point where we can then more cheaply automate some or part of the job. If the supply of labor gets too large for the uses we can find for it, prices for labor fall, and the relative cost of automation is increased.
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Play store also tries to, very annoyingly, update apps that weren't installed from play store
Do you know if there is a programmatic way to convert multi character to multi character without intermediate glyphs? E.G. snake -> snāk
No, not just that - but also that: the slope can be slippery, irregardless of its misuse in some arguments.

The pivots here are «intellectual curiosity» and «a good... comment teaches us something». Of course some of us believe also those mandates should be taken with flexibility and common sense - but one should not forget them and the more general spirit behind them when posting. A rubberband should bind to them - if it's not there, there's probably a misunderstanding of the opportunity given.
Places that have cobol are the same places that have a bunch or laws being your list of requirement and nobody stopped writing laws in those 20 years. Those are also the places where risk is supposed to be in a different department.
I don't mean this offensively, but if this is beyond your reading level and you went to college, your college did not do a good job. The vocabulary and structure is nothing out of the ordinary for college level reading.

That said, like some college level reading, it definitely meanders a bit, is a little self-important and feels padded with unnecessary filler, and is just only somewhat but ultimately not deeply interesting unless you are already pretty interested in how tales of the devil featured in medieval Europe. It's ok. I didn't finish it. If you misspoke and meant you didn't feel like reading it, but certainly could have comprehended it, then never mind I guess

But again, this isn't personal-- but if you are a successful educated software engineer who genuinely finds this beyond your reading level, your reading level is low for your station in life. It will limit your rise. Take it as an insult if you like though I don't mean it that way or else a wake up call.

The reason I dare stick my fingers into this fire and possibly offend you is, there is a trend of "educated" people who know science but completely skipped humanities, and thus have huge blind spots. My real audience for this comment is other people who will be encouraged to value the ability to read obtuse things and write clearly, to understand history and literature. And if you are picking a college for your kids, check out the readings for some classes. If they are not expected to easily be able to read something at this level, then it's a waste of money unless it's very cheap.
I go through phases of feeling like I've mastered photography and other phases where I have a lot to learn.

Last summer I took a lot of flower pictures and posted them to Mastodon because people liked them. I thought it was easy to do but a little boring. I found though that other people were making photos where all the parts of the flower were "tack sharp" but even when I was around f/7.0 or so I found the depth of field was small enough that the disc and ray flowers of a composite usually weren't both as sharp as the CCD could show.

I found other the other guys were using this technique

https://digital-photography-school.com/a-beginners-guide-to-...

I got the equipment to do it but never really got started because the project that took over for me was this: I made a picture of a field of flowers that a friend wanted to print on fabric and make a dress out of, that got me thinking "gee, what if I never had any problems with repeats and seams?" and figured it would be possible to photograph 50 or so flowers, cut them out, and then have the computer put them together to fill whatever space I want. So now I am setting up a studio to do this and will be improving my software that emulates Disney's multiplane camera for this project.

I got into sports photography last year and also had times when I came back from a game defeated, particularly when it was volleyball or basketball or something played in doors. In those cases I would go to dpreview and ask my photog friends for help and usually get good advice.

One area where I feel like I'm on my own is in mastering stereo photography which I do with this little guy

https://us.kandaovr.com/products/qoocam-ego

and the problem has so many dimensions from "how do I undo the pincushion distortion?" to "what kind of scene has colors that will do well with a red-cyan anaglyph on paper?", "what makes a good stereo composition?", "how could I sell group stereograms taken against a striking backdrop?" etc.
When the going gets tough the tough get going.
I'm the same way, and I don't have any data on this, but it's possible that we're in the minority. This probably isn't the case, but hopefully anyone implementing such a system has thought through whether it will actually provide any value.

For example, if you had an existing IVR system and you tracked menu options and found that a significant portion of calls were able to be answered by non-smart pre-recorded messages, upgrading to an AI voice agent could be a reasonable improvement.
Educational Games on the Nobel Prize Website
You can believe that the two should be held to different account while still critiquing a specific attempt at doing so.
So tech lets one person do the work of many, what is your endgame here as more and more people become “deadweight”? I don’t totally disagree with you but if our stance towards workers is “figure out how to create value or get left behind” we are in for an ugly future.
Using sift on a 100GB txt file still takes multiple minutes. I haven't tried ag, but grep is supposedly slower.
Yeah and as much as I may not be a big Adobe fan, they legit hold the rights to plenty of "clean" IP-compliant training material (OPs comment re generative text not withstanding)
Side note: If anyone liked The Princess Bride or actress Robin Wright, she was in a little-known 2013 movie about Hollywood starlets selling their likeness rights for replication. It was kinda before its time (few years too early, I guess) and gets pretty trippy in the second half, but was a very interesting watch.

It was called "The Congress": https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1821641/
Journalism... I suppose that's a tall ask these days.

Journalists that see their role as being political activists are really just propagandists with a paycheck.
... can't wait until I get mine.
Sure but the legal system is only one branch of government. Many of the rights we enjoy today were earned by what the legal system would classify as criminals.
this looks so clutch! curious if this was purpose built for the finance industry?
Yes, Kyber (ML-KEM) ciphertexts can be compressed somewhat when you are sending the same message to multiple recipients. See https://csrc.nist.gov/csrc/media/Events/2024/fifth-pqc-stand... for details:

> "Asymptotically, the size of an mKyber multi-recipient ciphertext is 16 times smaller than the sum of the sizes of N Kyber ciphertexts.”

There’s a whole zoo of useful variants on the “KEM” idea, but sadly NIST decided to standardise the least flexible variant. See my blog from a few years ago for some background on the literature: https://neilmadden.blog/2021/02/16/when-a-kem-is-not-enough/
Not all stipulations sellers place on items are legal. For example, I cannot sell you a scooter with the stipulation that if I need a kidney, you'll have to donate one to me.

Furthermore, what is and isn't legal is a product of the legislature and the judiciary. Let's not forget that people write laws and interpret laws. They aren't some function of the cosmic order, though it's convenient to posture them as if they were.

When someone "has the right," it's because a group of people gave it to them, and anything that can be given, can be taken away. The fact that we forget this reality is a massive collective hallucination. Once you know how the hallucination works, it's hard to buy into it ever again.

TLDR; The arrow of implication doesn't go from reality -> laws. It goes from laws -> reality.
I've heard my voice in recordings, it's not beautiful. Our voice sounds way better inside our heads because of bone conduction. If these replica voices sound as good in a speaker as the one in my head, I'd suspect they've been beautified, and if so, I'd choose an actually beautiful voice instead.

Wonder if William Shatner would allow me the personal use of his voice.
Well, personal responsibility is one of the dumbest things you can cite to a global problem.

Even dumber is annoying and inconveniencing random bystanders that have literally no way to influence the problem, like these protesters are doing to the travelers here.
Nonetheless, there is no way to avert the coming climate catastrophy without forcing almost everyone to change their behavior.

Wherever that has any chance of happening is a different story altogether.
No, Reticulum does not require a blockchain. My understanding is that Reticulum solves this by allowing network redundancy.
I'll give it a go, per your recommendation.
I think the full article available via archive link here:

https://mattlevine.co/work
This is really strange. I'd rather not name names in case I'm wrong, but some of the comments in this thread that link to "things they made" on Lamucal are by very fishy accounts. Account was made a few months ago, only has four comments on seemingly random articles, the comments are either extremely brief or seemingly ChatGPT-generated, then after months of inactivity they pop up in this thread. Not usually one to complain about this but with your comment showing all the other times this has popped up it's way too strange.
This happens every time an article from the new yorker is posted. Now we will mostly talk about this, about the merits or pointlessness of literary nonfiction and literature in general. Maybe recommend each other some brandon sanderson or malcolm gladwell and all have a great time.
Didn't the Enron dataset that's now part of the Pile become public during discovery too? Some great image datasets might drop.
This is going to save me a lot of time for when I actually have time to play music. Much better than whipping out Audacity and its chord estimation, manually grabbing a video etc.
What did you expect, the only thing missing are "EXTREME far right" (as opposed to far right, and right, because EXTREME).

Also conspicuously missing from this one is a taking a problem that everyone experiences (inflation, healthcare, unable to afford a house) and then making sure to state that while it's a problem for everyone, it's especially bad for maarginalized communities, people of color, women, etc. That one is more of a Washington Post speciality though.
Reading this I had the odd thought that if US treasury bonds were non-fungible (eg that had serial numbers) you could somehow issue NFTs for them and use that to back a stable coin. People could redeem the coin for the bonds, and also directly see that there were enough of them. You would still need a custodian for the bonds, but that would be less risk.
If you want to make a proper analogy, it would be more like living in NZ and owning a store in the US that receives DVDs and blindly mails out burnt copies as requested.

But we don't need to wonder what the US would do in such a scenario, since we already know. What's being discussed is not that the Internet being in the way somehow changes things, but that countries shouldn't be able to override jurisdictions like this. If other countries had balls, the most the US could do is ask for a person to be tried in the country they were in when the event in question happened, under that country's laws. What, the US now has jurisdiction over every living person? Anyone can be accused and tried in the US despite never having set foot there?
Developing media literacy is an important skill!

One way to approach this work is to understand the genre of the work you are reading! We can determine genre in a few ways, but in this case, we see that the publication is the New Yorker, which tells us to expect magazine-style writing, specifically longer form feature pieces.

Another important clue is that this is published in the New Yorker's "Books" section, suggesting that this is a book review. And, if you know much about the New Yorker's book reviews, they often include things such as history of the field the book addresses, compares the book to other related books, and what the book's thesis might imply about our world today.

This longer form book review can introduce important context and enrich your understanding of the world! I encourage you to keep an open mind and continue to read pieces that are outside of your usual genre.
I love deals with the Devil. What's your favorite Deal with the Devil tale? Tell me one off the beaten path.

My favorite is the Brazillian "Grande Sertão: Veredas"
Likely because of the other markets they operate in.

Apple isn’t both the world largest search engine and one of the largest digital markets.
Its making a longwinded comparison between eulas and faustian bargains, trading short term gains for long term suffering.
I'm a Top Rated/Pro-verified ghostwriter on Fiverr. It's been my full-time job since 2015. Went from mid-six figures in 2022 to scraping by today.
Friendly reminder that if you contributed code but signed a contribution agreement (which assigns copyright on the code contribution to cockroachlabs) you’ve got nothing to complain about.

Never sign contributions agreement: it will be used against you when the license inevitably get changed.
Aren't those completely different? As rwl4 pointed out, your only submission was also about this product, so probably you're trying to promote it, but shouldn't you at least pick a case where it works well?
Cornering the market, or a sufficiently large portion of it, doesn't necessarily drive prices higher. Demand plus cheap credit (and Wall Street shenanigans) are at least as much to blame.
"Plausible deniability" was the key phrase in my original comment. A one off person abusing the system (before the Google purchase) or Google executives recognizing that "[Youtube] is completely sustained by pirated content." is not the same thing as having corporate policies designed to encourage piracy like Megaupload did.
Sorry, bit behind, but in the meantime (before I get back from Rao): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergeant_Reckless
Page forces a login without any explanation of what it is. No thankyou.
Well, because it’s about anti-competitive actions.

Again, it’s not about simply having a monopoly position.

Epic couldn’t prove that Apple had taken anti competitive measures. Google on the other hand had it in writing that they did. It was a slam dunk case from the get go
Have there been serious attempts at describing how a Georgist land tax would appraise the value of the land?
The mistake made by Georgism is to assume that rent extraction is a bug. It's not. The economy is literally owned by rich people -- that's what capitalism is -- so rich peoples' opinion is the one that counts, and rich people want to get paid for being rich. Rent extraction is a feature not a bug. Georgism will never see political success due to this misunderstanding of political economy.
Bolna looks awesome! We've considered going open-source, but we're not sure how to effectively manage a community.

I'll reach out async!
Adobe also trained on output of midjourney

https://www.cdpinstitute.org/news/adobe-firefly-partly-train....
ELI5 what Galois theory is?
Galois Theory by Ian Stewart is an excellent book indeed! I've got a hard copy lying at home that I am currently reading slowly page by page. I am planning to host book club meetups with this book later this year, perhaps during the winter if I am able to make good progress with this book.

In the meantime, if there is someone here who is interested in reading this type of books together and share updates with each other, I'd like to invite you to the IRC and Matrix channel named #bitwise [1][2] (the IRC and Matrix channels are bridged together, so you could join either one of them). The channel consists of some HN users as well as some users from other channels like ##math, ##physics, #cs, etc. It serves as an online space to share updates about mathematics and computation books you are reading and discuss their content.

[1] https://web.libera.chat/#bitwise

[2] https://app.element.io/#/room/#bitwise:matrix.org
In a past life, I really enjoyed amateur photography and had a small but nice set of lenses to go with a DSLR. Having high manual control (that only a few phones have) combined with much bigger sensors and specialty lenses (ultrawide, super fast, etc.) gave me a lot of creative options. These days a lot of that can be faked in software or AI, but the results aren't quite perfect.

For me, learning photography at a local community college was a lot of fun, not just in acquiring technical skills but also learning from seasoned professionals on topics like subject matter, time of day, lighting, focus, composition, color, etc.

You can probably get a lot of that through videos today, but it's better when someone experienced can review your actual work and offer real time feedback.
What I mean is that, if they made some software non-free alongside some free ones (to make money to finance the free ones, for example), that still seems valid as to the current certificate of incorporation.

Their FAQ says "all software free no exception" and this document says something weaker.
Those all sound like complaints the government could take up with Apple, not Google.
In the private sector, OKRs and KPIs are used to track performance and provide metrics on whether a company is meeting its goals. Boards review these metrics and decide on additional investments based on thorough cost/benefit analyses.

I imagine it's similar in the public sector, where funding is determined by the needs of the public, political considerations, long-term planning, and so on.
This is a trust point, though: assigning copyright to the free software foundation allows code to be relicensed under new versions of the gpl.
Yes, if your friends and family are too lazy or unwilling to take 30 seconds to install a very widely used app for you, you are getting a valuable signal from them on where you rank in their social graph.
I have 2 concerns when looking at say a BMW X5 eDrive50 (or whatever name it has).

1) The fuel tank is 3.7 gallons smaller than their gasoline counterparts. Since these plugin-hybrids charge slowly, you're still suffering from having a hybrid while doing these long road-trips.

2) I often wonder how these engines are protected against wear when the engine is cold, but the battery runs out and they need to rev up from dead-cold.
No shortage of land in the US, but everyone wants to live in the same few places (for good reason), and those places have a lot of restrictions on what can be built where.

It's satisfying to blame a big bad "them" for this, but the problem is "us". We all want our properties to increase in value so we collectively conspire to suppress supply that would make our properties less valuable.
> Demand plus cheap credit (and Wall Street shenanigans)

This is unfalsifiable voodoo. It can be used to describe practically any economic phenomenon.
Is there any approach other than extensively documenting both the intent and inner workings of the system and then doing ground up rewrite?
In my defense I'll say that with that "also" in my mind I was thinking on the previous phrase, so I was referring to a "Markdown-esque syntax for message formatting"...

Nevertheless, good catch
Will be excited to see the typescript bindings once out. We may be able to use this to handle some of our workloads at Embra.

Will reach out! Congrats on the ship.
Btw, the life of Galois is quite interesting: he died very young, and was a quite clever mathematician…
It's useful to compare that the average new car purchased today in the U.S. is something like $50k.
> One of the ex-CEOs of Medtronic use to sit with the engineers during lunch to understand what was really going on in the company as he found his underlings continually hid problems from him. I wish more CEOs understood the wisdom of that but they’re too busy playing as feudal lords.

The vast majority of C-Suite and upper management DOES NOT CARE about employees, customers, engineering, impact of cruel org policies or long term issues from short term decisions.

They are there to exploit the lives of people working under them in the org chart forced upon people.

This is why I always tell engineers to not give two fucks beyond 9-5 or fixing structural issues. The C-Suite getting paid millions doesn't care. Why should you?
So, is the color of your bank's logo blue, green, red or orange?
In a sane world, the very fact that Apple doesn't even allow alternative app stores should be in and of itself anticompetitive.