skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
there are things that bots, by virtue of being bots, cannot be - they cannot be of a particular religion, possess a gender, or have a particular race.
They can work for a specific company. They cannot have a personality, but they can exhibit personality traits.

Anything that a bot can do and possess I have no difficulty in its being labelled as doing and possessing those things.

Otherwise I do have problems, although theoretically a bot could exist as a piece of art and in that case we should forgive these lying claims to qualities they cannot possess by the current standards our society holds for artistic practice.
Great news. Now, I wish Fuji would make FP-100C packfilm again! I’ve always found it amazing that medium format cameras with Graflok 45 backs (like the Mamiya 67 series) could create polaroids. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1fl71ZLn0Q&t=468s
Costco peccorino works well.
Since you specifically mentioned "plenty of apps", I think you already understand that nowadays most of default Camera apps on smartphone create hyper-processed type of photos, and that's exactly what OP means. <1% of people will bother to install a separate app; so I think it's fair call photos from smartphones less authentic than the ones on film in this regard.
Forgive my ignorance, but how does a country with a strong military turn that into GDP? I don't understand how military > manufacturing in terms of GDP. In my mind, manufacturing > military, but my knowledge of economics isn't great.
This is an excellent plan.
> There are lots of free and friendly frontends to FFmpeg. My choice would be VLC from videolan.org.

I've seen this repeated a few times in this thread, yet nobody is naming anything. Can you name a free and friendly tool that allows cropping and trimming videos like OP's? And by friendly we agree that I just have to open the tool, drag my rectangle and click render.
Where's the proof that this is happening?

Lots of people run network traffic sniffers to see what apps are doing. Lots of people decompile apps. Lots of people at companies leak details of bad things they are doing.

Why has nobody been able to demonstrate this beyond anecdotes about talking about swimming pools and then getting adverts for swimming pool stuff?
How about adding salary information to the job posting? It seems to be required by New York state law [1].

[1] https://dol.ny.gov/pay-transparency-act-frequently-asked-que...
Thanks... I also have another lingering doubt about the ability of RAG to make sense of "history", i.e. how to make sure that a more recent document on a given topic has more "weight" than older documents on the same issue.

I try to explain this a bit better here: https://pa-mar.net/Study/AiKiDo/VirtualBudoPass.html
We know how aromatherapy, homeopathy and acupuncture works, it's called the placebo effect. Now maybe you meant to say: we don't know how the placebo effect works.
GDP includes government spending. If a country spends a lot of money on military, that reflects in GDP figures.
We really are getting to a crossover point for a lot of things. I'll keep and sometimes use my increasingly old standalone cameras for some purposes but I rarely take them on trips these days.

I was talking to a friend who is a very good photographer last fall who used to always have a camera on him and he says that, like myself, he only uses his cameras for specific purposes these days. Mostly his smartphone is fine.
the talking down to people thing is also closely related to the equity stuff too. oh you can't pass the <x> test? no problem we will just lower the standards or abolish the test. society doesn't function very well with this mindset as we've seen.
How were they doing this in 2017?
When did Black Mirror become a documentary instead of a work of fiction?
This is not meaningfully true in 2024
Show HN: Windows' ext4 filesystem accesibility by new Visual Studio 2022
https://github.com/abdulbadii/ext4fsd-by-newest-VS-IDE/tree/...

Windows' ext4 filesystem accesibility would now be obtained and developed right away by the newest Visual Studio, ie. VS 2022
No, CMOS image sensor Bayer RAWs are not accurate to what we actually see. Just a few of the many things that need to be addressed to get an even “normal” looking image:

1) They’re overly green because the greens of the RGGB color filter array are more sensitive to light than the other colors. This needs to be corrected with nontrivial auto-white-balance algorithms (not only the green bias needs to be fixed but other scene-dependent factors)

2) The Bayer pattern of the color filter array creates a checkerboard color pattern that needs to be fixed with debayering/demosaicing algorithms - again nontrivial if you don’t want to create artifacts or overblur with simplistic interpolation approaches, and there are even ML algorithms that do this now.

3) Bayer RAWs are linear in photon intensity which is not accurate to how our visual system compresses the high dynamic range. Therefore, various tone mapping algorithms are required to reproduce a natural-looking tone/intensity map of the scene.

4) Small sensors can’t collect enough light and this inhererently results in noisy raw images that need to be denoised. There are a lot of different denoising approaches (including modern that are basically all ML), but care needs to be taken as this is one of the places where it’s easy to generate an overly-processed image.

There are a lot more steps that happen in a typical image processing pipeline, while yes can be tuned in non-ideal ways to produce overly-processed-feeling images, but are at the end of the day necessary if you don’t want something that looks like these: https://images.app.goo.gl/neJCHk5QsVt68XpL7
Water is free, but you pay some company because they bottled it. While free, it would have cost most people a ton to go find a source and carry it back. These wrappers are a good thing.
Indeed, and they're well suited to northern climes. Here in the upper Midwest, they're one of the first things up in the spring, often poking up through the snow.
> Do You Believe in Life After Death?

No, only in Live After Death. /s
This seems wrong. My Caccio recipe begins with specifying the exact volume of water, derived from some experiments I performed when my son first asked me to make the dish. I also performed experiments to get the exact time the pasta should be boiled (it has to be removed to the skillet prior to being done so you either need a time machine or prior experience to know the time, which varies with altitude). Nowhere does this dish call for "yeah just fill the pot and throw in some salt". The salt also needs to be carefully controlled because the water ends up in the dish and the cheese is salty.
The easiest way would be running Postgres:

https://www.crunchydata.com/blog/postgres-full-text-search-a...

The problem is getting all the data. If you try to scrap another search engine it will punish you.

You could think on a distributed collaborative SE that scraps the web from the IP addresses of each device.
I'm still unsure why the BBC doesn't make it possible to pay for a "license" outside the UK. At least, it didn't back in 2012.
The term "cash crop" refers to a crop that is grown for sale rather than use. So NYT is using it correctly, but I agree they could have chosen a better term for the headline, since "cash crop" doesn't really help to explain the article.

Also, to be pedantic, 3.5kg was from one American farm, not "from American farms".
> unless you're being treated by a psychiatrist

Quite to the contrary, while there is plenty of evidence of specific types of therapy yielding actual results, there's often very little evidence of the methods commonly applied by psychiatrists (i.e. medication) to be actually beneficial.

In fact, some types of psychiatric drugs (with SSRIs probably being the worst offender) are actively harmful, while evidence of their presumed positive effects is vague and ambiguous at best.
> ten thousand acres

That's 40km² btw
It's hard to tell a priori what will be incriminating, especially once there is more than one person's email involved
I wonder how the internet would have turned out differently had an internet safety industry been developed for decades beforehand.
>This is the only major actuator that I couldn’t easily find a suitable modern automotive solution for. This is mainly because newer cars don’t have carburators anymore, but rather use direct injection and advanced engine control units.

Actually injection system is largely independent from throttle control. Required amount of fuel is calculated based on manifold air pressure sensor, so there were cars with fuel injection and cable operated throttle plate. I suppose the problem was with plumbing in modern throttle body as carburetor needs to be upstream of throttle plate.
The problem in China's case, is that there's a lot of evidence that China doesn't even care whether or not it's paid back. One, the loans were given often in dollars. Which China found itself with a surplus of the past few decades. With no convenient way of ridding themselves of those dollars without significant pain, Chinese strategists hit on the brilliant plan of "loans". Two, and more importantly, the loans were used to finance Chinese influenced infrastructure projects.

So for instance, most of the African loans financed things like ports, and roads, and bridges, and trains, etc. Well when you look at the map of the "where" and the "what", it's easy to see the "why". All these bridges, roads and trains lead to the ports. Sure, this allows African countries to move their resources, and sometimes even finished products manufactured in these nations, to ports for delivery to "international clients". (Read, "China"). But tell me this, will the Africans own the freighters? No. The Africans will move massive amounts of products and resources to their ports, likely in the EAC, then China will pick up all that bounty and move it to China.

Sounds a lot like "harvesting" doesn't it?

There's one case where the Chinese definitely don't care whether the loan is repaid or not. They only care that all the bridges, roads and trains financed by the loan go to the ports. In fact, I don't know if the Africans realize it, but they'll be paying the Chinese more than the value of the loan just by using the rail and roads. The entire infrastructure system they've built only facilitates one thing, moving resources and products to the ports.

Is it good for Africans? Absolutely. A much better deal than they used to get when the West and Russia used assassinations and proxy wars to ravage the place. But let's not pretend it's about helping Africa. It's, at root, about an extremely low risk method of helping China by "loaning" money to others.
It basically comes down to an old vs. new divide, that is subjectively split at some point in the past. Authentic referring to "the old way" or "the way it used to be done".

Used in this context, it's a word that has a fuzzy definition but enough common overlap between everyone's definition that it still works to convey an idea. Its more of a common parlance definition than a strict dictionary one.
You also can do this with basic natural and readily available ingredients:

1t-1T (teaspoon, Tablespoon) lemon/citrus juice and a literal two-finger tiny pinch of baking soda, without buying specialized chemical compound ingredients off of Amazon that may be lying about their contents.

Sodium citrate is already in citrus and the baking soda kills the acidity that may make the taste more harsh (another great trick is adding a pinch of baking soda to homemade tomato soup to kill the tomato acidity and blend it better with added milk/cream).

1T of white wine can do wonders for cheese sauce as well.
Fast-Font: A font that provides faster reading through fixed points in text
Getting a U.K. bank account without having a U.K. mailing address isn't the
easiest thing in the world to do. Maybe someone would be interested
in acquiring it from you.
It's been ages since I've used my FF Canon system which is a couple generations old at this point. At some point, I'll have to make a call on my APS-C mirrorless Fujifilm which I've left at home on a couple trips now where I would always have brought a standalone camera in the past. Unfortunately they haven't replaced the exact form factor I really like and the camera is getting pretty long in the tooth about now.
Intermittent fasting suppresses hair follicle regeneration
> If I wanted to play games I had to write them.

This reminds me of "in my childhood we could only ate car tires for breakfast, then walked 10km to school barefoot, chased by a bear" posts. You most definitely did not need to write your own DOS games, they were abundant.
They were already able to perceive polarized light [0], like many other arthropods, though AFAIK it's not clear what they normally use this perception for.

[0]https://www.researchgate.net/publication/317167346_Head_trac...
thanks, so are you!
Optimization happens elsewhere these days. Modern GPUs easily chug tons of triangles as long as they are not smaller than a single pixel. That's why stuff like Nanite is possible, where you auto-compute LOD geometry to roughly pixel-level polygon resolution and it will actually be faster than traditional LODs if you have tons of meshes in your view frustum. If you want to see some really fancy modern optimizations, look for example at how Guerilla implemented 3d volumetric clouds in Horizon. Using some clever tricks, they got the render cost down from 20ms to 2ms, thus making it possible to run on a base PS4.
I thing all the AI systems wouldn't have been possible without Google Search structuring all the random data on the internet, we would have not been able to reach this stage.

So, in theory if there is a better indexing engine it would potentially lead to much larger and improved set of problems, it's similar to CPU each component is related to some other component but there are always performance bottlenecks.
> I would personally like to eliminate allocations of resources that put me out of business

So would travel agents, real estate agents and car dealerships.

Just because a change in allocation of resources or production would end businesses / jobs doesn't necessarily make it a bad thing.

I'm not arguing whether this specific policy is good or bad, but mainly that the argument don't do it because "it would cost jobs somewhere" doesn't mean something is a bad policy. Just about every change in the economy costs jobs somewhere. The question is: Does it create more jobs (or higher standard of living) in other places to make up for it?
You can try the tool creatively named LosslessCut. It's more user friendly than both machete and avidemux but it doesn't support as many container formats (only mp4 and mkv I think).

https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut
What would it mean to "socialize" someplace where you can never be sure if you're talking to a person or not?
EMDR works as well.
Parent commenter helped implement async in JS, they know what they are talking about. JS has threads locked behind semantics. Web workers run on separate threads. I do a lot of heavy parallel processing that never blocks the UI with them all the time.
That's correct, but it's not that material. The US GDP is about $27 trillion, the military spending is about $1 trillion, or about 3% of the GDP.
Chinese Underwater Sea Glider Drone Caught by Fisherman in the Philippines
I don't want film back.

I can go to a sports game with a digital camera and come back with 700 images. It would cost hundreds of dollars to do that with film.

It used to be that wedding photographers had to use a medium format camera to shoot group pictures, now you can do it easily with a 35mm digital camera.

Last year I came back from a volleyball game completely defeated. Some of it was my lack of skill but some was a lack of light. Some other photogs recommended DxO software which does digital noise reduction. I can now shoot at ISO 10000 or more and have very little sign of noise.

I had fallen out of a photography for a bit last summer but then went out for a hike planning to get back into it. I realized when I was out there I'd put the wrong lens on. I had planned to use a really good Zeiss lens but instead I had the cheap lens that came with the camera that has the ugliest bokeh of any lens I've seen that isn't a trick lens. I figured with noise reduction I could stop the aperture as much as I could which I found turns "ugly" into "opinionated" and with some

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsharp_masking

to take back a little of the softness of the small aperture and color grading I developed what I call the "Monkey Run Style".

https://bsky.app/profile/up-8.bsky.social/post/3l6vvs62jlg2g

You could have taken pictures like that with film but would have needed a tripod.
Heat.net
Related:

Siri "unintentionally" recorded private convos; Apple agrees to pay $95M

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42578929
Clumping
The article mentions sanctions on Iranian exports, that might have played a role in higher prices.
Like the sibling commenter, I have never heard of an auto parts store charging for this. Walmart accepts it as well. Maybe it's just in the US that things are this way, and you're in another country?

I assume part of the reason they offer this service is to incentivize you to buy parts and oil from them, but I imagine there are also regulatory reasons.
but keep it below 4% to prevent it from getting too viscous.
This is particularly shocking if you were raised in a somewhat healthy family and then go out to the world oblivious of how ill-intended average people are (way more marked on big cities).

Many people actively work on making other people's lives miserable, everyday.

The solution to this, by the way, is not to become more sociopathic but just to be aware they exist and how they operate. The kind of schemes they put together are embarrassingly simple to understand and spot, but only once you know about them.

I always thought that coursework/lectures on this topic during high school would be extremely beneficial for the young and perhaps even quite fun to go through.
A co-worker once said: a good language specification should allow others to derive an independent implementation of the language.
SEO is a major cause of ruining web search, at least before self inflicted "AI" wounds. Shame on you.
There‘s a therapy form that can help you in that case as well: Behaviour therapy. But if you try to understand the root causes (in the present) of your problem(s), you need psychodynamic psychotherapy. Both will be helpful. Depending on your needs.
That's the price for Mr Zuckerberg's ownership structure. On the one hand, no one can dispute him. On the other hand, no one can dispute him.
Yeah, estimates do not seem to be favorable, but if you look at this correctly, I think I only have to handle 400 billion documents storage cache and indexing first scaling up to 250k queries per second is another problem.
To be fair there is very little centralized control of EU member states. But the US will not be happy regardless.
> How do I know that what I am thinking is actually being conveyed correctly via the gadget implanted in my brain to the external observers

Isn't possible to ask those external observers to repeat the message I sent to them?

If the message is correctly transmitted back to me, then I know it works.
Modern biology of extrachromosomal DNA: A decade-long voyage of discovery
Not the right one, but the one who actually practices it instead of giving vague mom/dad’s advices.

always

That should mean something. But I agree that people may omit important details about the structure of their therapy work, so it may not feel convincing. To make sense of what I mean by therapy, look at my recent comment history. It does not boil down to the “emotionally right” one. I’m quite different from and not really emotionally connected to mine, for example, although I respect his professional skills very much.
No offence, but this is nonsense.

The average person isn't at all worried about photo quality and is happy with their 3-4 year old phone.

At best, they're smiling and enduring your diatribes about camera quality and then going back to their iPhone Instagram snaps.
I'm not switching the definition of decent. I'm noting what the actual effect of Spotify's business model and operations are. If you find it decent a user, and are OK with the long term impact, go ahead and use it. People just need to be reminded from time to time that their individual choices (as "users") have ramifications beyond whether they get decent service.

Also, as a side note: HN is a generally US-centric (and more broadly anglophone) context. The word "decent" in english currently has some related but not trivial to distinguish meanings. There's a British english version (now spreading into American english, certainly among younger cohorts) which equates roughly to "quality". There's also a version that is more related to some sense of morality. A "decent person" isn't so much about what they will do, as what they won't. There's the version used in the question "Are you decent?", asked before entering a room. This is partly why I asked what the OP meant.
> What was the basis for making the discredited prediction given

That the change in regulation makes it possible when it was previous not possible. Your 2012 comparison doesn’t hold up.

IMO that’s the most sensible way to approach something like this, anything else is a value judgment on what you think someone is going to do based on very little. What is now possible that previously was not? That’s the core question. If no one is going to do it, why would they push to change the regulation?
After years of research, our mole discovered that "militia" members liked to dress in plus-sized camo and shoot legally-owned ARs on private property...
Might not be the answer you were looking for but hear me out: the biggest impact on my Kubernetes knowledge has been starting a homelab on Talos Linux.

I've used this as a sandbox/playspace/proving ground for Kubernetes concepts to satisfy my own curiosities. The benefit of this space is that you can make mistakes without affecting any real data, and you can blow away your entire config and start from scratch if you need to. I have already seen benefits to this hobby in my career.

My entrypoint was the Talos getting started guide: https://www.talos.dev/

And following the community at https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/
The answer to your question is "can AI be a doctor".
Note that the 'Jump Flood Algorithm' is O(N log N) where N is the number of pixels. There is a better O(N) algorithm which can be parallelized over the number of rows/columns of an image:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36809404

Unfortunately, it requires random access writes (compute shaders) if you want to run it on the GPU. But if CPU is fine, here are a few implementations:

JavaScript: https://parmanoir.com/distance/

C: https://github.com/983/df

C++: https://github.com/opencv/opencv/blob/4.x/modules/imgproc/sr...

Python: https://github.com/pymatting/pymatting/blob/afd2dec073cb08b8...
In the sense that you learned to reprogram your mind.
It's nothing new, the public - or at least the tech circles - have a good opinion on that person since at least the time of David DeWitt.
Yes, based on how web is design there will always be different subsections of the internet which I can scrape but all of the data starting from one site like Wikipedia would only allow me to scrape only one subsection of the internet mainly, truth and news coverage, if I wanted to tap into index of spam ads and untrusted blog posts from this dataset it would never yield correct or even nearly correct result.
I do live in another country and you started to make me doubt, so I checked.

So car shops generally won’t take you old oil where I live (although allegedly some do, which I somehow have never heard of), but it appears that most of the gas stations do.

So, my mistake, it appears it’s not so much a pain as I thought, I’ll look into this.
Didn't realize.

Perhaps one of those things that is good to re-post, and keep front and center, and keep discussing.