skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Previous solutions used classical music. One had to wonder if they attracted unemployed classical musicians.

LA is blasting classical music to deter homeless people from gathering at metro stations [0]

To chase away homeless people, 7-Eleven stores in L.A. use classical music [1]

More seriously, the case is made for "panopticon" universal surveillance.

> "People will change their behavior when they believe they're being monitored, and anything that gives them that feeling that they're being watched or that people are paying attention, that the police may be paying attention, it will get them to be a little bit more reflective about whatever their behavior is, and more likely than not, it will encourage them to stop," said Lt. Erika R. Aklufi with SMPD.

Forty years after "1984" the year, not the book [2]

[0] https://www.npr.org/2023/04/23/1171494452/la-is-blasting-cla...

[1] https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-09-06/homeless...

[2] https://archive.org/details/GeorgeOrwells1984/mode/1up
At least on the storage side, Apple's parts are neither more performant nor all that much more power-efficient than a standard, replaceable SSD.
Swarm robots: yeah, this is a really cool, but somewhat specialized for now use case. Would love to support it.

Message definitions: ros1msg does make this a little painful. Protobuf at least lets you have differing schema versions, and will do best effort to try and do forwards compatibility. The downside - this has bit me a few times in development where I've forgotten to restart a process - it will happily deserialize with the new fields being empty.
Rural Iowa here. I've seen them in populations as big as 30,000 (Mason City, Iowa for example)
What? Is this a joke? Have you actually worked with human office assistants? The whole point of human assistants is that you don't need to verify their work. You hire them with a good wage and you trust that they are working in good faith.

It's disorienting for me to hear that some people are so blinded by AI assistants that they no longer know how human assistants behave.
Cuda Apple license it from nVidia?
maybe a counter-example? Zoho doesn't have one product that does everything but does seem to have A product for everything. None of them are fantastic, but many are decent or good enough, and they are cheap. I've been pleasantly surprised with the experience, as I thought it would be similar to the GoDaddy or AWS perpetual dark-pattern upsell.
Ah thanks that link worked for me in Europe.
I do. Single files are handled with quotes around arguments just fine. For lists of files you need to use NUL as a separator. That's not really hard to do once you are aware of the problem but ergonomics could be better - which is something useful that POSIX could change.
I'll have to correct you here, while i am sure you can find (as i found) real parmigiano or in general good cheese in the states (by paying a lot of money for it) the law allows for additives to be added to it.
In europe this is illegal, you cannot have additives in parmigiano (solid or grated), and if found normally the product is retired from the market.

In general the FDA in the US is much more liberal in favour of the industry, sacrificing quality and this apply to several products.

(For example i found out that in the US the minimum amount of chocolate that has to be present in a chocolate product is like 10% and in europe is 25% (if i am not wrong) and the amount of max sugar is also different.

Said this, you can eat all the cellulose you feel like eating, but I think it's wrong to 1) charge for it as if it was parmigiano and 2) sell it as an italian product.

ps regarding your humidity comment

"Alaska is one of the most humid states! In fact, Alaska reports an average RH of 77%, with the next highest state, Florida, reporting a 74% average. Despite Florida being hot and balmy, Alaska has high humidity levels because of its milder, lower temperatures."

https://www.currentresults.com/Weather/Italy/humidity-annual...
The release cycle is the same every year, aside from occasional refresh omissions and delays. It would be weird if they actually did release the M4 Air tomorrow.
They can surely add another USB-C port, it would take the space of the current power socket so space wise it shouldn't be an issue either.
PNW here, I see a Rivian (or multiple) every time I go out -- only very rarely a Cybertruck.

Don't know which part of the country is buying the cybertrucks but I don't think it's here.

Rivian now has dedicated charging stations now out in wilderness-type places (i.e., at the entrance to national parks).
I've followed Apple all my life and never heard of HP iPods!
That’s useful. The TB3 external 10 gig interfaces I’ve been using for my Mac get crazy hot.
Is BRICS really a thing? As in the CI are local rivals the RC are undeclared local rivals and might rather sooner then later be at war. Authoritarians do not have real allies, just regime-phase temporary companions. Stalin-Hitler were allied once with the Ribbentrop packt. Was SRNG (SovjetRussiaNaziGermany) ever really a threat for the free world or more for each other?
>not many people are going to employ you to be writing about roman philosophy full time

Yeah sometimes the best content is from people who are in well paid careers that are just researching a topic to scratch their own itch and then sharing it. I like the History of English Language podcast, and the guy who does it is a lawyer or something in his real life.
> I know ancient iGPUs had that thing for setting the GPU memory size in the BIOS, but that's aaaaaancient and completely obsolete. If you still have that, just set it to the minimum value. The rest of memory will be unified.

I hadn’t used a PC in so long, I still thought that bios setting decided the division. TIL.

Lucky we have Asahi Lina to clarify the details.
I disagree that unified memory is a bad thing.

The usual reasoning that people give for it being bad is: you share memory bandwidth between CPU and GPU, and many things are starved for memory access.

Apple’s approach is to stack the memory dies on top of the processor dies and connect them with a stupid-wide bus so that everything has enough bandwidth.
It absolutely reads this way, and this person is in for a rude awakening. I thought all the Flutter team was laid off from Google anyways, effectively making this project dead in the water. Looks like there is a someone left over that can't let it go and just move on from the past.
I don't think you have disagreed with me. You have advocated that different tools/methods are useful for different problems and may have unique properties that make them interesting in specific contexts. I completely agree and I have not stated anything against it. My opinion, admittedly abstract and stated without proof, was simply that if you have two ways of showing something to be true, they must be logically equivalent (in some sense of the word) if you are willing to dig deep enough. This does not necessarily imply that certain abstractions are not useful on their own, merely that at a certain level, they should represent the same thing.

I fully understand that this is not a concrete argument and I have not stated my opinion with desirable rigor (but the author of the original article does provide a few examples in support). Maybe someone with a better grasp on abstract mathematical concept could convey my arguments better (if they think it's true).
> A detail I only mentally noted as an adult: the butchers in his books are always pigs themselves. A pig selling ham, sausages and, presumably, cuts of pork is a bit morbid (and also hilarious in a black humor sort of way), but it fits in with the world so much that I didn't even think twice about it as a kid. It just slid past me.

Also: every scarecrow has a crow sitting on it.
Show HN: Building a Podman Desktop Extension
> you lose much of the benefit to your fitness

If you're biking for the purpose of fitness then this is a downside, but if your goal is to see more and go further, then it's an acceptable tradeoff.

Similar to coding. If you're writing code because you enjoy writing code, it's less fun. If you're writing code to build stuff, AI will help you build faster
Video game libraries lose legal appeal to emulate physical games online
Even if they stick to just plates, they're still abused: https://www.kwch.com/2022/10/31/kechi-police-lieutenant-arre...

I can only imagine it getting worse the more data they can grab.
That take has been around since Facebook's real name policy as what seemed like a good idea at the time. It failed to make people behavior any better. Yet absolute idiots keep on thinking that if we just make the internet less free it will solve all of our problems and deliver us into a land of rainbows, unicorns, and gumdrops where it rains chocolate. For god's sake stop doing the work for a dystopia for free!
Raspberry Pi OS's yearslong switch from X Window to Wayland is now official
This time they put more effort into it: https://eventhorizontelescope.org/blog/response-independent-...

Some highlights:

* M24 erroneously claims that the EHTC methodology does not account for the point-spread-function (PSF) of the observation. In fact, the EHTC hybrid imaging approach explicitly corrects for the PSF through the CLEAN algorithm. Other algorithms implicitly incorporate PSF effects into the reconstruction algorithms. Furthermore, non-imaging (e.g., model fitting) methods confirm the ring-like structure is the most likely simple model that fits the data. Note that the EHTC methods recover non-ring structures in both synthetic data tests as well as real data that has the same PSF, for example when imaging the non-ring-like polarization of the black holes M87* and Sgr A* (10).

* M24 erroneously claims that the EHTC did not release uncalibrated raw data. In fact, all of 2017 EHTC raw and calibrated data have been publicly available since May 2022 (11).
> If every capable Flutter framework contributor in the world regularly contributed to Flutter, that ratio of 1:20,000 would drop to 1:1,000.

LOL. That's how to get any investor to stop taking you seriously. "The global market for x is $$$bn. If we can just get 5% then..."

How do they plan to get anywhere near 100% of potential developers working on it? Most of us here could work on any number of projects, but we don't.
I feel the same way. I have a really nice MBP and I cannot justify a dedicated desktop when a single thunderbolt cable to my laptop does the job just fine, but I do love the value and design. Maybe I'll pick one up for the kids.
How can you write data to DNA without changing the base sequence?
> Maybe the focus could be on solving calculus problems with the help of a symbolic algebra system instead?

Umm..

Like this -> https://www.mytutor.co.uk/answers/7336/A-Level/Further-Mathe...

Beyond the simple case shown in [1], by hand making sure the logical type/denomiator is consistent across an entire exercise/problem working beyond basics is extremely time consuming/difficult.

abstract case: Think y-combinator stuff and how quickly the information grows for one term to get rid of all free variables. aka simplified continuitiy/consistency of logic type use. is 1 imaginary, real, integer, vector, trig value, etc

[1] : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OIiLu5xn-E
Ah, by clicking on the Taiki logo to see what the ... parent company? ... builds, I now understand how this came about. And I'll be honest, as someone who hates all that tax paperwork gathering with all my heart, this launch may have gotten you a new customer for Taiki :-)

Also, just as a friendly suggestion, given what both(?) products seemingly do, this section could use some love other than "we use TLS": https://www.taiki.ai/faq#:~:text=How%20does%20Taiki%20handle... since TLS doesn't care about storing credentials in plain text in a DB, for example

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p.s. the GitHub organization in your .gitmodules is still pointing to Unofficial-APIs which I actually think you should have kept o/
No octree/quadtree. It's just a stacked grid of textures, halving resolution (or otherwise reducing) each level. Low resolution layers capture many rays (lowest resolution say 4096 rays) and longer distances at lower spatial resolution. High resolution layers capture fewer rays (lowest say 4 rays) for shorter distances at high spatial resolution. When you merge them all together, you get cheap, soft shadows and a globally illuminated scene. In the post I wrote, I calculated it's similar in cost to firing 16 rays using a classic path tracer. But in theory should look similar to 4096 rays (or whatever the highest cascade layer does) but softer shadows.

Depending on your approach the geometry of the scene is completely irrelevant. (Fixed step / DDA truly, JFA + DF has some dependence due to circle marching, but largely independent)
The Terminator at 40: How Arnold Schwarzenegger Became an Icon
The contract can be null and void but if you can still login, it’s not unauthorized access. The burden is on the company to pursue breach of contract. That’s my reading of the decision but again, IANAL.
Under that standard North Korea has free speech.
The Mysterious Origin of Halloween - Randall Carlson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucn175R8WgY
On Elon Musk's X, Republicans go viral as Democrats disappear
Well, to be fair, the spam blocking is working great, you just chose to turn it off. I saw a prior run a few days ago, where they kept changing tactics, and HN kept reacting and blocking - no idea if that was automatic or if dang was reacting to it, but either way it was a fun day of watching the battle go on.

But as to why HN is a target, you don't need a high percentage of hits to make it worth spamming. Scams are lucrative. If one in a million viewers actually follows the links and falls for the scam, that will more than cover costs of spamming links. So they will attack any site where it looks like there is any chance of getting through.
I would describe Shopify, even with it's huge ecosystem, as laser-focused in this area, when compared to Salesforce. Thinking of using SF for your enterprise ecommerce solution? Why not go with the agile, startup competition, SAP?
I'll gladly pay for a copy. Pretty much everything I write uses the Chicago style (I'm a historian), I just want something easily searchable and still usable without an internet connection.

I love buying physical books, and could get one of the 18th edition, but for reference material like this it's much quicker to search a digital copy, especially since I know all the basics of the style and it's the more obscure edge cases I'll need to find.
"Pricing migrations are like the worst version of data migration, and there’s money associated with it!"

felt this on a deep level as someone who's worked on billing. good read on how fly.io has been approaching it.
Being smart doesn't mean you value optimizing for economic advantage in life. If you can coast through a stress-free life and have fun with friends while still being decently successful, you might opt to do that rather than grind at a status competition. And that's just when being analytical about it; people may also make irrational decisions due to things like depression where they just stop caring altogether.

The choices aren't elite or no-name. There are large institutions called state schools where tons of normal people go. They're not very picky (the one I went to has an 86% acceptance rate and a student body in the 10s of thousands), and if you're shooting for middle or upper-middle class they're probably fine.

The median engineering graduate for example makes $100k[0], and almost tautologically did not go to an elite school. They can afford food, housing, and healthcare just fine.

[0] https://www.bls.gov/ooh/field-of-degree/engineering/engineer...
I have not noticed any tearing issues with X11 for a long time, with or without multiple monitors. Were you using X.Org graphics drivers or external vendor blobs?
EDIT: I just realized I said “Python” when I meant Lua. Big whoops!
Computing Urban Myths [video]
Yeah that was my take too considering most of his argument is "spin it out of NOAA" and consolidate. The whole thing seems like a standard MBA reorg plan.

Also I don't think his data supports his argument. He shows, for instance, that GFS and ECMWF track each other in his own quality metric, that modern GFS is basically the same quality as ECMWF was in 2012, and that they are slowly converging. This is hardly a "decline."

The reason why ECMWF and GFS track eachother is that they're using the same data! The dominant limit on how good weather prediction can be is the amount and quality of the initial state data. ECMWF is proof that GFS could improve still, but let's be real: it's very good and unlike ECMWF it is free.

That, I think, is the real problem this guy has. The Accuweather CEO (who is a Trump supporter) and a lot of the private meteorology industry want NOAA to get out of the business of weather forecasting so that they can charge people for lifesaving information.

They pump ECMWF mostly because it's not free. Even the data showing it is superior is often somewhat cherry picked. For instance, it missed Hurricane Milton for quite a while while GFS was predicting its development and ultimate path pretty accurately.
In the Talmud, Sanhedrin 37a says "Anyone who saves a life is as if he saved an entire world." and anyone who destroys a life is considered to have destroyed an entire world.

In this sense care does scale in long timelines. When pregnant women go hungry, predispositions towards obesity remain in the epigenome even after several generations[0]. As a trivial example, in Les Miserables, the criminal Valjean can only become a hero because he is forgiven completely and totally by one man. It may sound ridiculous but surely life is also ridiculous.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/31/science/dutch-famine-gene...
Phallic Narcissism, Walk-Ins Welcome, Golden State
The only valid reason for still having files stored in legacy ANSI encodings is that their only use is input to software that has not been maintained for ~30 years and cannot be updated. That's fine because they're just binary inputs in a closed ecosystem that no one touches.

But if they are supposed to be treated as text, then yes it's the text that's buggy - they should just be converted to UTF-8 once and have the originals thrown away.

UTF-16 is something that Microsoft has cursed us with by inserting it into specifications (like USB) so that we cannot get rid of it, even if it never made any sense what so ever. But those are in effect explicit protocols with a hard contract, very different from something where you would "assume an encoding".
Mac minis are going to be one of the smaller selling product lines, so it's probably easier to offset the carbon emissions with the carbon credits they buy.
I was responding to your statement that the story ended abruptly and pointlessly without a resolution. It doesn't.
Genuine thanks for the advice! For the “accountants’” course I might actually go for Juypter for data wrangling and visualization, now that you suggest it - there might be some interest from accountants in branching out there, and I get to teach about data structures and thinking about transformations and queries.
While I never read any of his books, I must have driven my parents mad with how much I watched The Busy World of Richard Scarry on VHS.
>> Apple is now in decline

>I've been saying this since the butterfly-keyboard fiasco.

It doesn't look like it: https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=aapl&ie...
Obituary for The Socratic Experience
The idea that sending weapons to Israel is some sort of economic or military advantage to the U.S. is sophistry. We could simply take those same weapons and add them to our own inventory and use them in ways that actually benefit the U.S.

The actual reason the U.S. sends weapons to Israel is two fold. One is as a carrot to continue the peace process. The permanent allocation to Israel started when Camp David I was signed. The second reason is that a lot of people that support Israel live in the U.S. and they vote. If Israel no longer desires peace, the first reason doesn't exist. The second reason still does which is why it continues, despite being against the interests of the U.S.

Yes, Netanyahu stopped the settlements in Gaza, but again, sophistry. While the settlements in Gaza were dismantled, the settlements in the West Bank were being expanded, as they continue to be. Netanyahu has always been about creating physical conditions that cause a two state solution to be politically impossible, regardless of changes in the Israeli government.

It very much is a "both sides" scenario. I'm not going to argue about exactly which side is more unreasonable, but ultimately so much water has gone under the bridge that I don't think a settlement is possible, and I'm not interested in paying taxes to supply weapons to fuel an unresolvable conflict. If Israel wants to turn Gaza into rubble, leave millions of people homeless, and year after year take more land in the West Bank, I suppose we can't practically stop this, but personally I don't want want any part of it.
Which usually stem from AI startups making wildly unrealistic promises; it's all a very unfun cat and mouse game.
Very nice but last update was 3y ago so not going to survive Apple's "break backward compatibility like it's 1999" approach.

A lot of these apps that come with fitness hardware are free these days (i.e., Wahoo bike computer, Garmin watch) so there's less of a need for something like this. But nevertheless kudos for making it FOSS.
$100 for the 10GbE upgrade doesn't seem unreasonable to me.

A PCIe 10GbE NIC using the same Aquantia chipset as existing Macs is $80-$90. https://www.amazon.com/ASUS-XG-C100C-Network-Adapter-Single/...

edit: in fact, compared to Apple's usual price gouging for extra RAM/SSD/etc it is downright reasonable.
Show HN: OpenBallot, Aggregated SF/California Voter Guides
A group of us (democracy-passionate friends) just launched OpenBallot, a platform of 40+ voter guides. The goal is to save you research time by showing you all the endorsements and explanations you care about in one place. You can use this to fill out your ballot, which is private by default. You can then share with friends or publish your views on our platform.

The site is our first prototype; if you're in SF, please try it and share your feedback! We're hoping to use this to eventually scale to all over the country.
I took from it that [the designers] are all mouth and no trousers – which is fairly common. But "the poor disabled people" seems patronising.
The memory bandwidth on Apple silicon is only sometimes comparable to, and in many cases worse than, that of a GPU. For example, an nVidia RTX 4060 Ti 16GB GPU (not a high-end card by any means) has memory bandwidth of 288GiB/sec, which is more than double that of the M4 CPU.

On the higher end, building a machine with 6 to 8 24GB GPUs such as RTX 3090s would be comparable in cost (as well as available memory) to a high-end Mac Studio, and would be at least an order of magnitude faster at inference. Yes, it's going to use an order of magnitude more power as well, but what you probably should care about here is W/token which is in the same ballpark.

Apple silicon is a reasonable solution for inference only if you need the most amount of memory possible, you don't care about absolute performance, and you're unwilling to deal with a multi-GPU setup.
Agreed, but what’s done is done. Many organizations were making weird calls at the chaos of the moment. It’s good to give a slap on the wrists and establish boundaries.

But at some point, there is such thing as forgiveness. And it’d be terrible if the Internet Archive would be shut down.

If this is to happen, I’m sure that anyone who used the Wayback Machine or watched Back To The Future :) would reserve very special place in their personal hell for Hatchette.

And it is easy to punish Hatchette Book Group. Just don’t keep their books. Return the books within 30, return them on Audible, or sell used for fifty cents on Amazon.