skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Based on this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4FUZcF_IC4 video LeapRader seems to use similar technology in the sense that they both are based on grid of points with offsets. Although at least by eye the timing/anchor dots don't seem to match the exact scheme described in TipToi reverse engineering repo. Also didn't see any obvious Sonix chips in LeapReader, at least in the teardown pictures I saw.

Looking at the Sonix website (the company providing camera+decoder chip solution used by TipToi) https://www.sonix.com.tw/category-en-956 they seem to have at least 6 generations of the code with varying amount of encoded bits.

Some of the related patents
https://patents.google.com/patent/US6548768B1/en (Anoto ~1999/2003)
https://patents.google.com/patent/US8061611B2/en (Canon ~2006/2011)
https://patents.google.com/patent/US20070246547A1/en (Sonix ~2006/2009)
https://patents.google.com/patent/US10614333B2/en (Sonix ~2015/2016)

they seem to describe slightly different variations of data encoding. Searching for Anoto (company that made one of the first patents) leads to a bunch more products using this technology.
List of 400+ patents https://patents.google.com/patent/US6548768B1/en#citedBy citing the Anoto 1999/2003 patent also gives a list of companies working on related products or technology. There are even some from LeapFrog but those seem to mostly cover practical application and UI aspects of a product using the optical position/code detection system.

Overall feels like Anoto is focusing more on a system which decodes the points into X/Y coordinates and covers whole page with contiguous pattern, but Sonix more on having codes which give specific ID although they also one version which gives XY position similar to Anoto. That might be partially a workaround to make the encoding schemes different enough not to infringe each others patents.

That doesn't really give a good answer to your question, but If I had to guess Leapfrog is probably buying their technology somewhere else possibly from Anoto.

There is also one similar product using Grolier name, which seems to use tech from Sonix just like TipToi so potentially compatible, at least the codes not necessarily the book format.
Cracking the recipe for perfect plant-based eggs
"Zoom with your feet" is usually related to cropping (and enlarging/zooming) in post.

Say you have a 50mm prime and want a photo of a car that's parked down the street.

Do you... A) take the shot from where you are and crop/zoom in post OR B) walk a block and get the shot composed correctly from the start?
I was surprised yesterday to discover that this awful "United Healthcare" company which everyone apparently loves to hate was in fact my own health-insurance provider for the last year. I had not noticed, because my employer routinely switches insurance plans, for reasons which presumably make sense somewhere far above my pay grade. (They switched us all to Regence last week. Is that bad? Is that good? I have no idea, and it doesn't matter, because there's nothing I can do about it anyway.)
He didn't just eat some fruit, he ate ONLY fruit and JUICED it. He MEGADOSED on fruit.
Or in researching nutrition
It isn't wonderful though, it's mediocre :)

They should err on the side of keeping the APIs small. Maybe it would be better if Web Components weren't a thing. I thought ARIA was handling dialogs well when it comes to accessibility. I like the idea of splitting JavaScript into JSSugar and JS0. (It will be nice if in the Deno lawsuit that the USPTO clarifies that Oracle owns the term JavaScript and JS is a free-for-all.)
Well, if you follow legal cases as I do, you know that isn't true! We are surveilled just as much as everyone else, save for maybe the UK, but we're even getting pretty close to that!
For sure! I've always felt like a bit of a loner in that the assumption in most of these platforms is that your build starts with either something barebones (just apt) or maybe your platform only (python3:latest).

However, I've typically dealt with builds that have a very heavy dependency load (10-20GB) where it isn't desirable to install everything every time— I'd rather have an intermediate "deps" container that the build can start from. But I don't want to have to manually lifecycle that container; if I have a manifest of what's in my apt repo vs the current container, it should just know automatically when a container rebuild is required.
I agree with this as the main factor (over cost) for the falling birth rate. The opportunity cost of having children has never been higher: you give up leisure, hobbies, rest, social life, and income. Whether or not children is worth this cost is a personal thing, but it seems kinda obvious that as the cost increases, fewer will pay it.
You might want to compare by operation.
The parents I've seen seem to spend every waking second doting on their children for at least a decade, which seems strange to me. This hovering "what can I do to satisfy your desires" literally just constantly (I've also seen people doing this with their dogs). Maybe I'm missing something or my sample size is skewed.

The people I've seen doing this are also just exhausted, as they've said directly.

It comes down to... the rent is too damn high.

Young people without children willing to spend 1/3 to 1/2 of their total income servicing mortgages or rent drives the cost of living to ridiculous levels. People can't afford child care either by having family live close to high earners to help, or to hire child care. So it's unaffordable. There's nowhere to live for families in high density places (apartment buildings optimize for the highest rent tennants, 1,2 BR single people)

Lots of people want children but can't engineer a life for themselves to have them without moving somewhere really far out and boring or being in the top 5% of earners, or living in squalor despite high incomes.
The 32B parameter model size seems like the sweet spot right now, imho. It's large enough to be very useful (Qwen 2.5 32B and the Coder variant our outstanding models), and they run on consumer hardware much more easily than the 70B models.

I hope Llama 4 reintroduces that mid sized model size.
Yeah, loanwords are different words than the original word.

The correct plural of "baby" in German is "babys".
Number #553752677 will surprise you!
> You forgot the Irak war and Afghanistan and the fake WMDs

Stop lumping Iraq and Afghanistan together. I see this everywhere and it's tiresome. It's either outright lying or people who weren't old enough to make memories when these things happened.

Afghanistan harbored Osama. They refused to give him up. NATO invaded the country to get him. It was justifed.

The fake WMDs were in Iraq (or not, since they were fake). Only the US, UK, Australia, and Poland invaded Iraq. Literally all the other "Western" countries were very strongly opposed and refused to participate. It was an unjust war.
> their denial of insurance is also aggressive, inappropriate and disrespectful

It's not. Objectively, people get sick and die and there's often not anything that can be done about it. Throwing money at treatments that will not help does nothing but raise costs for everyone.

Individuals (understandably) get very emotional when grandma can't get the $100,000 therapy that might prolong her life for a few months because the big bad insurance company denied it, and it makes a great story to promote on social media. Do insurers sometime err in their denials? Probably. But so do public health plans, and there is no health care system in any country that does not draw the line at some point and say "no, we are not going to pay for that."
DoD work was always part of the foundry plan.
Can you call it an upside if it has ~no chance of working?
Correct. Sucrose (table sugar) is exactly 50% fructose, 50% glucose. The most common blend of HFCS is 55% fructose, 45% glucose - which is barely different. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-fructose_corn_syrup
Fruit has changed dramatically over the last Century. I imagine there was a time when it was much smaller, less sweet, and only available seasonally. In this new world, we have 24/7/365 access to as much and whatever we want.

There are Cherries along with every type of fruit you could want at Costco today and it's December.
I doubt modern fruit, optimized for sweetness, has a very favorable vitamin-mineral/fructose ratio.
Specially for you:

>> But until Monday they had refrained from striking the electrical system.

>> "The fact that lights went out across 70 percent of the country shows that NATO has its finger on the light switch now," said NATO spokesman Jamie Shea. "We can turn the power off whenever we need to and whenever we want to."

>> "We realize the inconvenience that may be caused to the Yugoslav people, but it up to Milosevic to decide how he wants to use his remaining energy resources: on his tanks or on his people," Shea said. While NATO sought to downplay the effect of the strikes on civilians, the raids remain politically sensitive.
Ok but like if this true and operative, why aren't they mobilizing their algorithmic control right at this moment when it seems like they would need it the most?

Just seems like pretty incomplete control if they can still let themselves get to this point.
I prefer larger quantization and longer response times, but only have so much memory and am only willing to wait so long. I can work with 2 toks/s and this kind of accuracy for these kinds of queries. I expect you'll need to play around with it to find out if it would be helpful in your case. Here's what I'm getting asking 'who are you?'

System Prompt: You are an advanced super intelligence, capable of everything from software development to dream interpretation.

>> Who are you?

I am an artificial intelligence designed to simulate human-like conversation and answer questions to the best of my knowledge. I'm a large language model, which means I've been trained on a massive dataset of text from various sources, including books, articles, research papers, and websites.

My capabilities are diverse and extensive. I can:

1. **Answer questions**: I can process natural language queries and provide relevant answers, covering a wide range of topics from science and history to entertainment and culture.
2. **Generate text**: I can create text based on a prompt or topic, including articles, stories, emails, and even entire books.
3. **Translate languages**: I can translate text from one language to another, including popular languages such as Spanish, French, German, Chinese, and many more.
4. **Summarize content**: I can summarize long pieces of text into concise, easily digestible versions, highlighting key points and main ideas.
5. **Offer suggestions**: I can provide suggestions for topics such as gift ideas, travel destinations, books to read, and more.
6. **Engage in conversation**: I can have a natural-sounding conversation with you, using context and understanding to respond to your questions and statements.
7. **Dream interpretation**: As you mentioned, I can even help interpret dreams, providing insights into the symbolism, themes, and emotions that may be present in your subconscious mind.
8. **Software development**: I can assist with software development tasks, such as writing code, debugging, and optimizing algorithms.

My knowledge is constantly evolving, and I'm always learning from the interactions I have with users like you. So, feel free to ask me anything – I'll do my best to help!
Maybe they are interested in the topic.
> There's lots of speculation out there that the shooter was motivated by some failure at United. If so, UHC's PR people are probably in for some long hours during the trial when their dirty laundry gets aired.

I kinda doubt a judge would let the murder trial turn into a trial of UHC's policies.
Probably pretty decent chances, especially the more it's pushed. Remember, Ellison is a lawnmower[1]. Ellison is a pretty competitive guy who wants to win at any cost.

But then, the name of JavaScript gets changed and we move on.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15886728
Intel won't go down, US lawmakers are determined to prevent that from happening. Any government rescue will however cause Intel shareholders to lose their money. Which is presumably why investors aren't too happy about the current situation.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/intel-might-be-to...
I would guess mostly because they own one, realistically. Why else would it be?

There are probably times when 90% of my last 200 comments are about Go or NixOS.
I would wager that, in general, supporting the notion that several different entities are all the authority over a piece of data simultaneously and without live coordination is not solvable. This is a learned lesson for distributed systems, and is readily apparent in the article when considering distributed editing of documents. Same goes for dual input in flight cabins, parenting, and probably any other disparate example one can think of.
Open borders means open to illegal immigration.

No one is arguing that immigration isn't good.

You can have taco trucks with legal immigration.
Nope. This issue was being bandied about prior to the war in Gaza.
I literally don't understand what point you're trying to make - even if Russia only accidentally hit a children's hospital.......they are still the ones firing the missiles. They are still killing children. They are still kidnapping and moving them to Russia. They are still killing their parents in a war that they started. The "legality" of their strikes on civilian infrastructure is an idiotic thing to discuss when they shouldn't be doing any strikes in the first place.
It’s so easy to fix with competent leadership. Kind of sad to see the state of American “leaders”
The company website is almost a parody of the stereotype of serious German-ness. It is not a toy, no it is a serious learning material, so you can buy a 10000 Euro set to understand how an integrated factory is working:

https://www.fischertechnik.de/de-de/produkte/industrie-und-h...

There is a „toy“ section for children, but it is to learn about electricity or renewable energy, and I think the real customer of the page are not the depicted children, but the papa with an engineering degree.
Second item: housing needs to be a bad investment. Both for individuals and corporate.
I think it's pretty well established that UHC denies care that people actually need. It's not just long-shot end-of-life stuff.

e.g. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/05/nyregion/delay-deny-defen...:

> The Stat investigation noted specific instances that troubled United employees, like when an older woman who had a stroke was only covered for half the nursing days typically required for recovery....

> A 2023 story from ProPublica dived deep into the experience of one United patient, a college student who racked up $2 million in medical claims a year to treat a severe case of ulcerative colitis. The story showed United disregarding an internal report finding the expensive treatment to be necessary. The patient eventually sued United and received an undisclosed amount in a settlement.

> Insurance denials are rarely appealed, with some studies finding appeal rates of roughly 1 percent.
Yeah, but it's still a distraction from the real issue.
The point is that in the future, TikTok / Google / whatever will have to be more careful with political ads, because they can be bad for business.

Whatever your opinion on the candidates is, it's a fact that many people didn't consider the election results legitimate. In a situation like that, it's impossible to make them legitimate by any administrative action. Courts can make the results legal, but legitimacy is something people decide on their own. If legitimacy is considered important, the only way to regain it is to run new elections. It may take a long time and many attempts, and it may not work at all. But you can't have legitimate elections if the losers don't accept that the elections were fair and they lost.
It seems to skip a lot for substring search. For example if you search for 'aaaa' there's maybe 100 jumps to get to the bottom. So i'd assume that it's just a uniform random over the entire range to some limit, then filter idx > cur. But I feel like you could constrain the search more. The 'close next' should have exactly the same characters at the front. Like in your example '4AAB-' you would search valid position 14 first.

edit: actually this doesn't work because having the same start does not mean they are close together.
> Honestly, I never understood arguments like this. What next?

> 1. Why should only the US govt tax Americans, we should also let CCP tax Americans.

Well. Much to the frustration of authoritarians everywhere, we have the first amendment to the US Constitution. We also have a lot of precedent saying that Constitutional protections don't only extend to US citizens.

Tiktok, Ltd is a company operating in the US, with a solid, real US presence. Either the conduct of the company violates local, state, or federal law and the company should be prosecuted accordingly, or it doesn't and they should be left alone.

The actual argument being made is not "We should let the CCP police Americans." but rather "Multinational companies with a real US presence have the same free speech protections as any strictly-domestic US-based company. Why is TikTok, Ltd being treated differently?".
Not sure why you are being downvoted, this is a good point to bring up.
I enjoyed the DINK life for some time but eventually we decided to start a family and my only regret in life is we didn't start it sooner and have more kids. In the end all the fancy restaurants, nights out, fancy vacations with first class airfare, etc were nice in some ways but pretty vapid and unimportant when looking back. I won't value those years very much compared to the years with children in the house. The energy kids bring into a home and the meaningfulness of their existence is just incomparable in my experience.

But I get it, and the idea of kids was scary at one time, but it turns out they're pretty easy all things considered. Lots of talk of "sacrifice" between friends back then but as it turns out you're trading something of little value for something of immense value. But to each their own!
The Quest for a Distributed POSIX-Compatible Filesystem
And yet:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16172215/

I mean... in terms of our scientific understanding at this point, sporadic pancreatic cancer just comes from nowhere. We don't know why. In the case of the parent I lost to it, it could have been triggered by a response to inflammation from previous surgery. It seems plausible. But nobody knows.

I just think people snarking or factoiding about Steve Jobs' panicked response to an awful disease comes across as projection of other judgements more than anything else. He was a complicated, self-reliant person who made a bad decision when he was scared. And it probably (but by no means certainly) cost him a few years of health. And now he is gone. And it's still sad for the people who lost him and for the wider world.
> > Welcome to the results of having closed the state hospitals.
>
> Those deprived people of freedom

Are you actually arguing that closing most mental health facilities was the only way to fight for individual freedom?
Donald Knuth wrote 4 textbooks in assembly language with advice about why decrement then jump saves 1 assembly instruction per loop iteration.

The fact that everyone uses his premature optimization is the root of evil remark is hilarious to me. The level of optimization in Knuths writing makes it evident that upfront efficiency effort is worthwhile. Just don't overdo it.

But don't trust me on that quote. Just open book 3 (chapter 5 and 6, sorting and searching) and go read the tape drive simulations of merge sort yourself. You can't miss the printouts, they're huge.
You mean Harris +3 in Iowa.

But yes, I agree that a 17-point miss by "the gold standard of Iowa polling" is almost inexplicable unless it was done as a last-minute act to persuade marginal voters to vote for Harris. (Selzer herself says that she thinks the poll's result motivated Trump voters, the preposterousness of which is all the more indication that she intentionally skewed the result.)
Yup. ~5% more fructose than table sugar in its most common formulations, actually lower content than table sugar in some formulations (e.g. HFCS-42). The 'high fructose' moniker is derived from a reference to 'pure' corn syrup which is nearly 100% glucose, not a reference to table sugar as commonly assumed.
Pancreatic cancer killed him, you absolute nitwit.
What if what if? Reality is that OW was huge success that you rarely see.
So you are subject to a looser standard of ethics and morality since you didn't go into healthcare, but you are entitled to demand that the people who did go into healthcare practice a higher standard of ethics than you would hold yourself to?

In that case, I don't care about your opinion very much.
Oh no please, I don’t want to have my linux username in Cyrillic. Thanks but no, thanks!

I know enough linux to see 10 ways in which it will make things worse at some point.
Only 2 messages?

Better discussion here https://lobste.rs/s/mgneu0/fedora_moves_towards_forgejo
> it's a fact that many people didn't consider the election results legitimate

it's a fact that more people considered it legitimate, otherwise the candidate in question wouldn't have won the election.

let me ask you this about your "fact" how "many people" didn't consider it legitimate? should be easy to answer since it's a fact.
Anyone who's worked for a big enough company knows that isn't true.
Not all battles in Culture books are like that. Hydrogen Sonata has close range equiv-tech fights on a planetary surface, for example. Still AIs running the show while the (armored) human hopes they survive, of course.
> Russias invasion of Ukraine on the other hand, does not have an October 7th

Zelensky massed the largest land army in Europe excluding Russia, and then in March 2021 officially declared imminent war on Russia. Only then did Russia start heavily militarizing its border and a year later, after many failed attempts at diplomacy, formally invaded.

Gaza can't even do many of the these things because they don't have statehood, much less a real army.

It is offensively disingenuous to argue that Israel's genocide and illegal occupation is justified by Oct 7, but Russian military operations can never be justified even by an official and credible declaration of war by military-peer Ukraine.
> mainly high fructose corn syrup

It should be pointed out that contrary to what many people assume, "high-fructose" does mean that it has more fructose than sugar. Sugar is 50% fructose, and many widely used HFCS formulations contain less fructose than sugar (e.g. the 42% fructose formulation used in most processed food). Even the formulation used in soft drinks is only 55% fructose, marginally more than sugar.

If you replace HFCS with sugar in your diet it is basically a no-op in terms of being healthy and in many cases will increase your fructose intake.
Cats have been getting more popular than dogs over recent decades, have they not?

But dogs are considerably easier to train than cats.

I don’t think there is anything in your thesis.
Who is "we" though? The same people that gets their money from people like Fauci?

AIDS is a syndrome, what a sufferer dies from is specific diseases they become vulnerable to. Go back to the 90s and you can find doctors claiming they were pressured not to report suspected cases of AIDS in people who were HIV- but rather to report them as individual unrelated cases of the specific diseases they contracted, or as ICL and so on. The people who aggregate the data decide who dies of what.
This is useful, I set up RSS on my website yesterday.

Turns out the feed finder couldn't find the feeds even though I've linked to them using clickable RSS icons.

I didn't know about the autodiscovery feature so I'll add that now.