skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Computing power doesn't matter at all. It's the expectation of running arbitrary software.

My smartwatch has a CPU that is far less powerful than my WiFi access point. But I absolutely expect to be able to install third-party apps on my smartwatch. And I can't care less about making my WiFi AP drive an external monitory displaying spreadsheets.

FWIW, gaming consoles are not used as general-purpose devices. PS3 was probably the only console that attempted that, and it was utilized by less than 2% of users.

For me, a great criterion for "general purpose" computers is this: "Do people use the device to work with spreadsheets?" Mobile phones certainly qualify.
How this compares to Boox is probably the main question, followed by somebody who compares to the TCL NXTpaper, which is not eInk but has a better reflective light model and so can compare, if not being in the same technology space.

Boox has been on my "maybe" list for 2-3 years. Android and so capable of e.g. handling all my current Kindle life, albiet in the Android kindle app not the kindle paperwhite GUI (oh, what a terrible GUI that is, but tightly bound to Amazon and I now have a significant investment, calibre aside)
Oh yes. They take a cut. Ever wonder how people get caught with 50k in cash in their cars. The banks turn them in.
The theft of a Churchill portrait
It's never coming back. People back in the day used to spend hours at music stores. Now music stores don't even exist. They couldn't spend that kind of time anymore, even if they tried. YouTube, Instagram and TikTok aren't set up for the promotion of musical appreciation but those are the tools we have today, for better or worse.

Humanity prospered through tens of thousands of years without any music at all. So we'll be fine. It's a different world but it isn't the end of it.
The lookup table here would be indexed by a fixed number of lookahead bits, so it for example would duplicate shorter codes and put longer codes into side tables. So a tree structure, either represented as an array or a pointer-chasing structure would be much simpler.
The economic incentives that drive what gets published/surfaced.
> It's a good step to make console games choose between f2p or premium, but I don't think this (in its current iteration) will clamp down much on the mobile market.

The fact that Roblox and Clash of Clans are cited as examples suggests this will absolutely impact Apple, if there is validity to the claims, because they are and have been the biggest beneficiary of such tactics for more than a decade.

A decade ago they were forced to create parental controls after it was found kids were spending money like crazy in games designed to let kids spend unlimited amounts of money, and today 10x more is spent in those kids games...
Yes, the size is 99% 2 models weights required to run inference offline, there no way around it.
Why are we fixated on the name? "A Rose, by any other name, would Smell as Sweet" and all that.

What i am looking for in this submission is insights/opinions from people working in this domain on the topics presented in the book. For example, the book talks about "Concept/Data Drift"; so what is it exactly, how does a ML engineer encounter it in his data and how does he deal with it over time?
It's interesting to note how an animation was developed in the course of this investigation. I know the Chemical Safety Board does similar animations for industrial accidents. [1]

[1] https://www.csb.gov/videos/
> Where I work, RTO is partially Finance driven, bean counters just don't like seeing seats they paid for go empty

Same here. Leaders up the chain get a "use it or leave it" mail for office space and suddenly everyone is asked to keep those seats warm by coming in x days a week.
Query params are also extremely commonly logged all over the place and so putting sensitive information in them is almost always a bad idea.
They’re a right wing organization, so just bear in mind they are most concerned about property rights and the right to participate in the free market without burdensome regulation.

Why is this downvoted and flagged? I didn’t say they are extreme right, but they clearly support conservative causes, including school vouchers. Am I wrong?

They oppose government licensing. They stand up for the little guy against the government, but not against big corporations.

I’m just saying, be aware what their agenda is before you sign on.

And yes, in this case I absolutely agree with them. But, I wouldn’t support a lot of what they do.
Ask HN: Prescription Scanner & Medication Tracker App
I'm working on a concept for an app that could streamline and simplify how people manage their medications. The idea is simple: users can scan handwritten doctor prescriptions, and the app will automatically identify the medicines, show their use cases, side effects, and dosage instructions. Additionally, users can add medications to a tracker that reminds them about doses and helps monitor their treatment progress.

Key Features:

Prescription Scanning: Uses OCR technology to scan paper prescriptions and convert them into digital text.
Medicine Identification: Automatically provides information about the prescribed medicines, including use cases and potential side effects.
Interaction Warnings: Alerts users of any potential drug interactions with existing medications.
Dosage Tracking: Users can set up reminders and track their medication intake over time.
Health Insights: Monitor treatment effectiveness through reports and analytics based on user input.
Problem Solved: Many people struggle with reading handwritten prescriptions and keeping track of medications, which can lead to errors in dosage or drug interactions. This app ensures users stay informed about their prescriptions and medication routines, minimizing confusion and risk.
There's no historical thought there. "everyone likes what was popular when they were 18" is a tired, mindless old canard.

Look at some Top 100 song lists from 50 or so years ago. Here are a couple:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Year-End_Hot_100_sin...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Year-End_Hot_100_sin...
FYI something is wrong with your client side routing. From the blog post, clicking on your logo, the URL updates to the homepage but the content doesn't change til I do a full page reload.
Just reading the description, I guessed it would be a fountain code. And, indeed, it’s a very very thin wrapper around RaptorQ. So it gets data through a link that drops each packet, independently, with moderate probability, at approximately the maximum rate in the sense of number of packets transmitted divided by total message size.

What it does _not_ do is anything resembling intelligent determination of appropriate bandwidth, let alone real congestion control. And it does not obviously handle the part that fountain codes don’t give for free: a way to stream out data that the sender wasn’t aware of from the very beginning.
They should've used crypto
Notably, many of them are similar formats that you'd find in regular TV, except the MrBeast version puts 10 minutes of content into a 12 minute video, while the TV show would put 5 minutes of content into a 45 minute episode.
Nothing to see here folks, this definitely is not just another violent gang stealing from the populace with zero repercussions.

It's a state sanctioned violent gang that also happens to be completely immune from any sort of responsibility.

Totally different things.
It is indeed. I know there are not as many who lived through the great depression now, but really cannot blame those who don't trust the banks. Also feel like we get taxed way more than we should be with many things getting taxed multiple times... Going to stop before going full rant. Innocent until proven guilty, not the other way around...
I don't know what radio station you listen to, but I haven't heard Yummy, Yummy is god knows how long.

On the other hand, Hotel California and Go Your Own Way both refuse to die.
I read it as the privilege of being able to choose a lower paying job (that lets you sleep better at night, be more fulfilled, etc)
Distributed systems is the answer. Data isn’t in one sql database.
The Robber Barons of Beijing: Can China Survive Its Gilded Age? (2021)
Publication is a one-way information flow. We've basically sold out on an interactive 2-way flow for Disney and like, because what we want (as consumers) turns out to be passive entertainment more than active 2-way flow.

That plus ads, and the attempts to monetize. Nobody seriously wants to go back to the public broadcast model but nobody also seriously doubts we were in some ways better served than we are by 10+ monthly rental models, and IPR lockups in packages. Which all start ad-free and then quietly introduce the ads, unavoidably (unlike 30 sec skip days with a decent VHS or the PVR followons) because money.
There was a similar question in 2021 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28949947
That idea that only deep tech opportunities are left is false and IMO completely undermines the OP.

Our batch (W19) has produced several great software companies that are growing incredibly fast, you just haven't heard of them ... yet!
If you think about it, humans necessarily use abstractions, from the edge detectors in retina to concepts like democracy. But do we really understand? All abstractions leak, and nobody knows the whole stack. For all the poorly grasped abstractions we are using, we are also just parroting. How many times are we doing things because "that is how they are done" never wondering why?

Take ML itself, people are saying it's little more than alchemy (stir the pile). Are we just parroting approaches that have worked in practice without real understanding? Is it possible to have centralized understanding, even in principle, or is all understanding distributed among us? My conclusion is that we have a patchwork of partial understanding, stitched together functionally by abstractions. When I go to the doctor, I don't study medicine first, I trust the doctor. Trust takes the place of genuine understanding.

So humans, like AI, use distributed and functional understanding, we don't have genuine understanding as meant by philosophers like Searle in the Chinese Room. No single neuron in the brain understands anything, but together they do. Similarly, no single human understands genuinely, but society together manages to function. There is no homunculus, no centralized understander anywhere. We humans are also stochastic parrots of abstractions we don't really grok to the full extent.
My take is that this (and similar effects in other media) is the consequence of the rise of targeted advertising. Prior to the advent of surveillance capitalism, there was a vested interest in the development and refining of subcultures.

Someone in the media would identify a new nascent subculture, invest in catering to it, and in the process create a new demographic that advertisers could pump money into to address a specific audience. Ugly and capitalist, sure, but on the flip side, if you were a member of one of those subcultures, there'd be a steady flow of investment into the community you considered yourself a member of. If you listened to the Grateful Dead, someone would be there to sell you peace signs and tie-dye shirts. If you listened to emo punk, well, Hot Topic. The money the advertisers paid would go back into the magazines, critics, studios, etc. that would then further promote, develop, and refine the subculture--a virtuous cycle of sorts.

Google et al. negate the need for any of this. If you want to sell tie-dye shirts, you buy a slot on the "tie-die shirts" keyword. It's (arguably) more efficient for the advertiser, but, it eliminates the economic incentives for subcultures to exist. So they don't. Everyone is their own one-person-addressable subculture, which is essentially identical to one sprawling morass of culture.

What little money remains flowing into the media system chases the spontaneous flash-in-the-pan meme hits that broadly appeal, because that's all that's left.
This is absurd. There is just as much AI low hanging fruit today as there was mobile low hanging fruit 10 years ago as there was web 10 years before that.
iOS 18 is a smart upgrade, even without the AI
Blaming JavaScript for the state of the web is like blaming money for greed. JavaScript is only the medium, and the driving force behind it would have created a different language if needed. This take seems too narrow.
If you missed this detail, they've also designed a replacement LCD which adds a few carefully-chosen segments and symbols. The end result still looks very similar to a stock watch, but is much more flexible: https://www.crowdsupply.com/oddly-specific-objects/sensor-wa...
I'm surprised they didn't learn the same lesson from the P4/NetBurst vs. Pentium M/Banias fiasco: the smaller but scalable architecture somehow always wins – first in power/perf, and then more generally.

(Actually, I need to check the timing of whether the "oh shit" moment for NetBurst happened before or after the development of the iPhone...)
> "the best" video you can make is probably porn that's softcore enough to not trip the monetization or age restriction gates

Since Mr Beast has some of the highest repeatable viewerships on YouTube I think there's some evidence that is wrong.
They look like they are an artifact of the Yugoslavian war. I’m sure there well get a fresh batch from the Ukrainian war when that wraps up.
> Getting to Turing completeness can require polynomial CoT tokens, wrt the input problem size.

So, as stated, this is impossible since it violates the Time Hierarchy Theorem.

The actual result of the paper is that any poly-time computable function can be computed with poly-many tokens. Which is... not a particularly impressive bound? Any non-trivial fixed neural network can, for instance, compute the NAND of two inputs. And any polynomial computable function can be computed with a polynomial number of NAND gates.
Asking this as an open ended (if leading) question: I assume enough people are doing it otherwise PS5 Pro makes no sense... Right?

They (AMD/Sony) shoehorned the RDNA 3/3.5 GPU architecture onto an older Zen 2 core, with a different process node, because... they felt like making a frankenAPU? Especially since the APUs are usually monolithic (vs chiplet) in design and share a memory controller. Surely it would have been easier/cheaper to put in 8 zen 4c/5c cores and call it a day.

I'm pretty sure I'm just missing something obvious...
Sort of like quantum superposition state? So here is an idea, using quantum to produce all possible inferences and use some not yet invented algorithms to collapse to the final result
I dunno. You can find lots of low tech live music on youtube. Look up Billy Strings live for one random example. The U2 tiny desk concert for another.
BTS is a bad example. K-Pop (and also J-Pop) are about as painfully mainstream as you can get (in those respective countries). However, Anglosphere countries rarely import their music, so it loops back into being non-mainstream anyway.

That nitpick aside, while Rick Beato's extremely Boomer, he's vaguely grasping at actual problems. My take on it is that streaming platforms are built to do what the labels want them to do - sell music as a commodity. In the terrestrial radio era, labels would pay radio stations to put specific songs they wanted to push in heavy rotation. This is called payola[0]. It's illegal, but everyone did it anyway.

[0] The term was coined in an era where anything to do with music ended in "ola". Victrola was a brand of record player, Motorola was a brand of car radio, etc.
> COVID lockdown was a doddle, I had been working at home full time for almost 30 years by then

The worst part of this RTO phase is those who were previously(pre covid) afforded permanent WFH or x days WFH at the time of hiring are also forced to go to office without exceptions.
I'm not sure, the Jaguar CPUs in them were pretty underpowered at the time too, they were tablet/netbook level. I think they were in some ways a bit of a downgrade in CPU performance compared to the Cell in the PS3.

Biggest issue at the time would have been an ARM CPU with a decent GPU if they wanted a SoC instead of having them separate dies
> This is just a vanity exercise.

Lol graviton has been in production with fantastic margins for like 7 years. Me thinks maybe you don't know as much as you think you do.
House is easy to generate on a computer. It's a beat, and some tones with effects or samples.
Not sure which trains you're taking but any I've been on during peak times are standing room crush, no space for laptops or working
Civil forfeiture also applies to crypto.
I'm wondering if the Indiana police train their drug dogs with the scent of cash as well.
I took that to mean the tool was IO-bound, so it wasn't using much CPU to start. So if there was even that tiny sliver of slack CPU (and that's almost definitely the case on a desktop or other dev machine), then saving that tiny bit of CPU actually saved no money, since it was already riding on the spare capacity of other investments. That just leaves the cost in engineer-hours to rewrite the program.
While not a shell built-in, the 'sc' command provides a terminal spreadsheet:

sc: the Venerable Spreadsheet Calculator

https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/10699
Don't sell a service, build a service and sell it unlimited times
I would recommend speaking to an ADA attorney with regards to civil action, as well as potentially filing an ADA complaint with the federal government.

https://www.ada.gov/file-a-complaint/
> an SQL injection vulnerability

I simply do not understand why the SQL API even allows injection vulnerability. Adam Ruppe and Steven Schweighoffer have done excellent work in writing a shell API over it (in D) that makes such injections far more difficult to inadvertently write.

On airplanes, when a bad user interface leads to an accident, the user interface gets fixed. There's no reason to put up with this in programming languages, either.
They've done the same with Node projects.

https://www.group-ib.com/blog/apt-lazarus-python-scripts/
> “the overreliance on similar tools” brings about “a lack of diversity”

> making any sound theoretically possible at virtually no cost

> “music is not as valued by young people. There is no sweat equity put into obtaining it, having it be part of your collection, having it be a part of your identity, of who you are.”

> The ease of creation has caused “an oversaturation of music, making it harder to find really exceptional things.”

> Music, in short, has become both too easy to produce and too easy to consume.

So breaking it down:

- everything sounds the same because it's all made with the same technology

- the technology that everyone is dependent on is capable of producing anything you can imagine

- nobody works hard enough to make music

- there's too much music

- finding good music is too hard

- nobody works hard enough to find good music

> It would be easy for anyone ... to dismiss Beato’s argument as that of a middle-aged man reflexively insisting that things were better in his day, when we knew the value of an album.
Simple reason for bad 10 years - pg stepped away from day to day 2014
There is no shortage of cases to fight. What this issue really needs is some big cases to go all the way to the Supreme Court and then to have the right precedent set. It boggles the mind how this has not happened yet, probably because the agencies involved would rather settle than go to the top and have their racket destroyed.
Oh I believe you, was more commenting on the uncertainty of all of it.
Could you clarify…? I’m not seeing anything jump out to me, but it’s very possibly I’m missing something basic comparing it to, say, 2023: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Year-End_Hot_100_s...

My only real takeaway is “more women and people of color”, and “more genre diversity”. Seems like an ok thing?

The points I got from the article were, roughly, “music was rarer so we liked it more” and “music was harder to make so only good artists survived”, neither of which I find very convincing. I suppose I could watch the video, but clickbait titles are a pretty hard negative signal, lol
Speaking of Jaron Lanier: I actually saw him at BayCHI around 2000 or so, and someone asked him if Swing would ever come back.

He said, no, Swing was alive and things that are alive, die.

If you consider an artform like an ecosystem: there are epochs when many long-lasting species evolve and flourish, and others that are pretty barren. There's no reason to think that the general health of the ecosystem is always the same.
Impressive work

Here the YouTube links for the music videos mentioned

Kylie Minogue - Come Into My World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63vqob-MljQ

Pet Shop Boys - Opportunities (Version 2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyeWRd7ZEBs
How do we know there would be a selection for younger people? Someone with a family is perhaps less inclined to change jobs. Someone older is more likely to have health issues or a dependent with health issues, which is an even stronger disincentive to change jobs. It is still not a great job market AFAIK, quitting at the moment is not going to guarantee a new job is available.

Perhaps something of a corollary of the saying, don't attribute to malice what can be attributed to incompetence. The Amazon senior folks making these decisions almost certainly have reasons. If people quit, maybe they just don't care who it is. I really wonder if they AB tested RTO. Given it is Amazon, I would put a small wager they have.

Further, the impact between middle managers and individual contributors is uneven in remote work. The article mentioned there was a desire to reduce management. Remote work was an interesting experiment IMO to show the (lack of) effectiveness of middle management. Perhaps the impact to ICs is negative, but the middle management can be more effective. Arguably that would give greater "focus" on the specific KPIs desired by the VP level. Again, would be super fascinating to know the data used by Amazon here, of if this is a rare decision truly made by fiat alone.

Others have mentioned Amazon's real estate holdings. I kinda think that is likely. Amazon made huge investments to stop leasing offices and to build and own their own offices. If nobody is there, the surrounding neighborhood is devalued, in turn devaluing the offices further. It would be s considerable loss on paper. ICs perhaps are about as effective in office under a whip compared to remote, and if some quit - then maybe all the better to reduce head count.
To this day, I maintain that the hardest job I've ever had was being a carhop at Sonic. All the soul-crushing foodservice insanity, and oh, you're on roller skates too.

The hours I worked and the shit I saw in that job do not compare to any other foodservice job I ever had, let alone other jobs. The tips (which you only got if you weren't on shake duty) were the only part that made it worthwhile, which meant putting on a happy-go-lucky face even if it was covered in grease, shake crap, blood sweat and tears.
Yeah, the macs were all I had, so there was no other option. I'm waiting for my new PCs to arrive and once they get here, I'm going to wipe the Asahi installation and revert to stock macOS (I will still need them as work computers and for XCode)

And I genuinely don't use Bluetooth. Everything is wired, although I use WiFi on the MBA. Neither do I like to use the laptop microphone (noisy environment, so I use a headset or the usb microphone). The only thing I care in a laptop is WiFi, a good enough keyboard, a good enough screen, low temperature and noise, and a battery that last at least 4 hours. My default workstation is the desktop.

But yeah, I do agree with you that it's better to go with PC if you're planning to stick with Linux long term.
I found a families, great grandfather’s memoirs while doing their estate. I realized with the family all gone and there were few in his class with the education to speak of early American life so I published it and illustrated the e-book. https://books2read.com/A-young-Mans-Adventures-In-19th-Centu...