skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SDFs work great as the structure for circle marching which is one approach to accelerating global illumination to the point of making it real-time, with limitations. The same approach cab be extended to use radiance cascades making it even faster! Pretty fun.
I once worked for a company that sold industry cleaning supplies in the food processing vertical. The amount of industry knowledge that salespeople required to simply be able to offer one product over another was staggering. The best salespeople knew the industry, the end products, the supply chain, the internal processes, the potential improvements, and could present it in a way that was clear to operators, technical to supervisors, and commercially viable to decision makers.
Looks like all the sites like unreddit went away, sigh
Ask HN: Can we stop with the political posts?
As a reminder, most political posts are considered off-topic.
Is anyone able to scrape Bloomberg news? For years now they have no RSS and have made it very difficult to create one.
Huh? I thought that was canon. Was that actually just a head fiction?
Depends if the analog clock “ticks” on the minute or if it does a constant movement during the minute.
I can't give concrete advice, but I can give one example, when do I ignore people joining a conversation like this: when their contribution is only tangentially related, and kind of hijacks the original topic for no good reason.

E.g. I'm having a conversation with a hw engineer: (all imaginary below, but the main situation does happen every once in a while)

> Me: This USB hub you designed seems to work on my Dell Desktop, but not on my HP laptop. Can you take a look at it?
> HW Eng: Sure. But could it be a problem with the laptop? Maybe it's not my design's fault.
> Me: Come on, it's an off the shelf laptop. We can't write in the user manual that users shouldn't use HP laptops, haha.
> Hw Eng: Haha, okay, let me check it.
> Random guy: Haha, I just sent my Asus tablet for warranty repair, you shouldn't buy Asus.

I mean, what should one say to this, if anything? I don't know if this is your case also. It's just one situation when this can happen.
Some niche markets have alternatives - like Reverb for music gear - but other than that eBay still has the best selection, unfortunately.
There's a ton of theoretical work out there that is about building a foundation for future work. This is one of those works. But people tend to overlook the part where the work is just a piece, and many other things most first fall into place and over hype it. This is course isn't the fault of the authors.
What Shakespeare revealed about the chaotic Richard 3 reign that still resonates
it takes between 0 and 100 years for game tech to find its way into serious software. Doom seems a great platform to build the next generation of office software. Lets say the goal is to have employees continue to work in their free time for free, say till 1-2 am. Games accomplish this effortlessly. One more bug to fix to banish the ceo to The Dungeon of Noobs for 38 hours and two to win the employee of the month body armor.
Perhaps we could retitle the link, as it stands a bit click-baity.

Perhaps, average error of clocks is 30 seconds higher because minutes use .floor() nor .round()
> Labwc only understands wayland-protocols & wlr-protocols, and it cannot be controlled with dbus, sway/i3-IPC or other technology. The reason for this is that we believe that custom IPCs and protocols create a fragmentation that hinders general Wayland adoption.

One thing that really hinders adoption is incompatibility - and the biggest Wayland compositor being Gnome, the dbus protocol is the most popular. There is a bit of a wlroots ecosystem, but it’s only in third place behind Gnome and KDE.
Daily traffic at Union is 300k according to a quick google.

So the most annoyed 1% of Canadians go through there every day.

Not the world’s most rigorous basis for a sweeping statement about an entire culture.
It doesn't have to be large: My wristwatch does it.
His Google Tech Talk made me really appreciate his groups work, even though I have no need for time series analysis

https://youtu.be/vzPgHF7gcUQ?si=rKQvOjK_qjiSSvKE
This comment and the article they came from are a perfect snapshot of this moment. The fact that major players at each company have made public statements about the philosophical definition of what a photo is. I mean, of course they have. Of course. The times be wild.
From what I've read of it, the Citizens United case was decided correctly. If you believe that how you spend money should be exempted from the First Amendment then it should be revised with that specific carve-out, but its definition of free speech was kept extremely broad for a reason.
They haven't found anything yet.

That said, there's a much easier way to test this. Take two identical voice recognition smart devices (think Amazon Echos), register them each with a new never used Amazon account. Modify one of the devices to have a switch on its mic input which you leave off, and one which you leave on. See if the one with the mic on starts showing ads for things you've never searched for on that Amazon account. If the other one doesn't then there's your answer.

That sounds interesting enough that I might just give it a try.
Not the original version, because DosBox is simpler than CP/M, but here you go: [0]

[0] https://imgur.com/CZxblEd
> I am from the engineering side of things but this does not seem right about marketing...

I am from the marketing side of things and this seems exactly right about marketing.

But I'm not sure what makes you say this because you did not elaborate.
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> Americans have the right to hear

AKA: Americans have the right to hear deep pockets over regular citizens.

TikTok is at least a bit egalitarian.
Somehow I do not think that the Big Ben transitions the minute`s hand by using the floor function from Python.
did you just call me a black box? :/

not sure how i feel about being reduced down to that as a human being.
How can a subordinate entity be external?
Perhaps, to be more precise, "How should clocks without a second-hand round?"
The campaign against TikTok has been driven heavily by Meta/Facebook: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/03/30/faceboo... (or https://archive.is/fffia)

My guess is that Meta will capitalize on the ban and is in a good position to given their AI prowess and ubiquity on most people's devices.
I suppose that'll lose them the case with the public but have no impact on the outcome of the case proper.
> You actually probably don't want just 25% more, you probably want 30hz or 60hz or VRR support and you don't care about going from 92 to 118.

Then someone probably ought to tell the GPU review industry, because for the past 20+ years FPS on current popular games has been a key focus of their reporting :)

I count 462 mentions of fps in https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gpu-hierarchy,4388.html
Not really. A mechanical analog clock will typically have smooth motion, so 30 seconds into a minute, the minute hand will be halfway between two values.

Most quartz watches with analog displays work the same. I don't know about Big Ben, but it's possible the author is wrong about that example.
For way more info about military patches, challenge coins, and how to decode them, check out "From the Archives of Peter Merlin, Aviation Archaeologist" by Trevor Paglen.

He goes into detail about how patches with aliens indicate the project took place at Area 51, and that lightning bolts represent electronic warfare.

https://primaryinformation.org/product/from-the-archives-of-...
If they have a ban, they can force ISPs to block it. The app does nothing without server access.
This article is interesting, because we as a team are currently going through a strange phase, which is similar to KPIs and OKRs, but in a better way than previous companies did it.

Some internal discussions and skewed perceptions of our team are now causing our team are currently causing our team to make our work and our infrastructure more tractable and more quantifiable. For example, we've started to track time spent for internal customers and different topics team-internally and aggregate those on the team-level. Or we've started to generate information about resource consumption of different products.

And this has led to interesting results. At a workers level, our director and the board is very clear that they want to continue this data to be collected without interference or skew. If you work in an area, you track it in that area - don't try to protect anyone. Track time as you spend it. Track resources as spent.

On a leadership level, this has however resulted in a fairly interesting tone. Suddenly you have a CEO saying "Alright, so my very expensive team is spending that much time on this area you claim to be somewhat simple? Make that number go down significantly this year. Hire if and as necessary". Or "I dislike this amount of outages, but if you say we need better data there, make it so"

It's also a very much data driven management style. But you don't have magical bespoke numbers fall from the sky one day and you need to make sense of them and integrate them into your normal work. It is data about our work we collect along the way, and we're trying to change our tasks and our decision making to change our work to change the metrics into a better direction.
I’m ready for the rebuttal post: “different clocks have different approaches to conveying information about seconds within a minute” which uses the same photos as examples.
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Recently I posted on here my automata implementation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42401976

It seems like hackers liked it and I got some interesting comments, so I decided to finally convert it to something that can run in the browser.

After this I'm interested in higher dimensional automata, but I vaguely remember from reading Wolfram's book that adding more dimensions makes it harder to find interesting rules, although it is possible to scan generated results and measure the entropy to see if it looks interesting. But anyway does anyone have advice or pointers on 3D automata?
I wouldn't have issue if this were simply running the DMCA process. But the YouTube process goes well beyond that. DMCA also allows for the content creator to issue a counter-notice and, as I understand it, that starts a clock and the party filling the takedown has 14 days to file a suit or the original takedown is reversed.

Naturally, that's not the process YouTube follows including, again as I understand it, the assignment of revenues, etc. with only their internal dispute process mattering.
I think that the Olympics contrary to it's bullshit message of peace is in reality an arena where nation states compete against eachother.

So athletes are basically diplomats.
Scary how quickly Musk has adopted the fascist-slang, even reaching full blown "invasion as liberation" authoritarian/aggressor talk now.

The one good thing: Musk makes it so obvious how American capitalism has become a full blown oligarchy, that hopefully people realize by now that the culture-war is only a distraction and the actual one is a class war. Hoping we get 1789 France and not 1930s Europe.
In the US, this is not how things are done. Grades are literally everything within the education system. Learning how the system works and playing how your final grading is weighted including but not limited in regard to tests, assignments, and homework is a gigantic portion of how a student's aptitude is determined.

A lot of the system is based off of memorization and paperwork anyways. Something an AI can do all day, every day.
Nice to see, but this is a recurring motif specific to pinball and maybe other vintage tech, where a seasoned operator has years of experience that isn't written down. Memory fades, knowledge decays, even if you have an apprentice or someone from the next generation willing to buy your business, certainly some knowledge about some vintage of technology could be lost forever.
You can pull parts out of the pinball junkyard but there are some electronic components for the early solid state era that just aren't made anymore, the proprietor of Great Plains Electronics could find updated parts from Mouser, for example, that match or exceeded the original spec, but he has retired. It's a challenging environment to keep a business like that going.
No my digital clock doesn't show seconds. As for the london one, I was actually wondering about that! I know it depends, because some analog clocks work like digital one and snap to the next minute by discrete increments.
I don't think so, because the sweeping motion of minute hand is effectively continuous rather than discrete, so there's no truncation. At 4:53:30 the minute hand will be correctly in between 4:53 and 4:54, if one (like the author) cares about such precision.
Just invest in the market or you get your savings chewed up. I think it unlikely that the government, the Fed and huge corps are going to stop printing money because it has been working great (for them). Almost 100% of my money is in VOO and VOOG ETFs. Maybe 5% in cash, no real estate or other assets.
Anything bitcoin related is wild today. Big and free money make people lose their damn minds.
Poll is about an individual, not direction of the country.
The whole post feels like nonsense.
The human in the Chinese Room argument represents an AI. Eh, that kind of complicates the joke...
I think truncating down allows us to procrastinate a little more :)
This is beautiful! I see we even decided on the same "vectorization tensor" and notation, which makes Kathri-Rao, and all the other "matrix products" much more intuitive!
>National security has always beaten First Amendment (and many other rights.)

This is absolutely not the case, as evidenced by the fact we all have access to encryption, which the security establishment tried to ban in the '90s. The First Amendment is the reason why secure encryption isn't restricted to government and military usage only.
The wlroots extensions are one attempt at creating such a standard, being used by pretty much all compositors except for KDE and Gnome. The issue with that is of course that all wlroots compositors combined have a tiny market share compared to either.
https://halide.cam/ has Process Zero, which is about as close as you can get to straight off the sensor. Here's a photo I took with it: https://bsky.app/profile/xeiaso.net/post/3le3dd53zlk2c

Easily the best camera app I've ever purchased. It makes me not want to pull out my mirrorless camera as much to get decent photos.
The article is claiming that clocks that only show time truncated to a minute are off by an average of 30 seconds, which just isn't true in practice. When I say or hear 11:30, I assume it can be within 11:30:00 and 11:30:59. Humans rarely need accuracy to the second beyond this, so clocks intended to be used by humans truncate to the minute without causing problems. To say they are "late" is a real leap.

I mean, you can reduce this to absurdity too. A clock truncating to seconds is off by an average of 500 milliseconds! The problem is no one cares in day to day usage which is what human readable clocks are made for.
Text: https://archive.is/yw8Kh
Must have been small potatoes
So this is not about all clocks but more about all clocks that do not show seconds. In that case, sure.
It was valid then, and it’s valid now. The state has no business telling any human being, citizen or not, what they are allowed to read.
Is head count the right metric anymore? For all the talk of the LLM impact on programming, LLMs are even better at doing managerial tasks. The managers may no longer have heads.
YouTube's copyright system has little to do with DMCA. Music right holders managed forced YouTube to implement a copyright claim system that explicitly didn't involve DMCA takedown requests. As a result any protection that DMCA provides to recipients of takedown requests don't apply to YouTube copyright claims.

In effect, the YouTube copyright system is a purely "voluntary" system for taking down copyright content, that goes way beyond the DMCA. It's basically designed to ensure theres no possible repercussions for issuers of copyright claims, even claims clearly made in bad faith.
Unfortunately, I just went there, entered in my location, and got a '5 day forecast' starting on Sun (it's Mon, mid-day). And since the days don't have a date on them, I have no idea what I'm looking at.
I'm not aware of this insidious Chinese propaganda supposedly controlling the minds of the American masses... Tik Tok just seems to be memes and nonsense as far as I can tell.

I am aware that every other social media platform in the US is being weaponized by the same 'adversaries' as well as the American government and corporations. There's a much better argument for banning Twitter and Facebook than Tiktok on those grounds, yet people go to the mat to defend every troll, nazi and spook on those platforms because "free speech."
It's very useful when you're working on numerical software. Often, it's hard to figure out exactly what output your code should return (because if you knew the answer you wouldn't have to write the code), but you can easily list properties you expect.
That’s Portrait Mode. You only get that if you change from Photo mode to Portrait mode in the Camera app, or in later OSes by retroactively applying a Portrait effect in Edit mode. The addition of the latter feature also made it possible to retroactively remove the Portrait Mode effect from a photo, as long as you have the actual source asset and not a rendered JPEG/HEIC with the effect baked in.
FTA: All the above clocks have one thing in common: they don't show seconds

One of those clocks is Big Ben in London. http://www.bigben.freeservers.com/clocmech.html:

“Drive to the hands is by an oblique shaft which drives bevel gears positioned centrally on a gantry above the clock, with four shafts running out to each dial. Because there is no remontoire the hands on the dials advance by 2 seconds every two seconds, i.e. at every swing of the pendulum“

⇒ if you look close enough, you can read the time at intervals of two seconds.
It's not really about flooring or rounding, but whether one thinks of time indices as ranges or moments.

Days, as the author points out, are though of with "flooring", but more accurately it could be said that a date is thought of as a range between the times belonging to the date.

Minutes one can consider as ranges or time indices. There the error comes, in switching the interpretation of a start of a duration to an actual estimate of a point of time index.
I can imagine a 20 and a half year old in the US arguing this logic when fighting an underage drinking charge.
Right but the conversations started before then.
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I disagree with the premises outright. I have no intention of causing no harm to anyone. Just by living, we cause harm to others and other beings.

I am going to say things to other people and that is going to make them upset, that is ok. They are going to say things that make me upset, that is ok.

Someone is going to give me a cold, flu, etc. and that is ok. They didn't have to do it, they could have stayed inside for weeks until they were sure they were not sick, but who wants to live that way?

There is a level of harm in anything that that a living thing does.
yes this is indeed a huge problem. all these models are trained on massive amounts of stolen data and the creators aren't receiving any of the benefit. that seems a sheer disregard for private property rights, the one thing the govt should be in charge of.
Canada is definitely worse than it was ten years ago, but all of the major problems are provincial responsibilities: housing, health care, education, policing.

The largely conservative provinces have done a very good job of blaming Trudeau and immigration for problems that are entirely their own.
Then why did the recent move to ban it come just weeks after AIPAC publicly complained that footage of the Gaza genocide broadcast there was turning young people against Israel?
I own a decent number of machines that used to be used in businesses or schools before getting replaced and going on the second hand market (often ebay). This works because the hardware can be repurposed, and it significantly reduces ewaste by allowing a device to go through multiple owners. Will these devices be able to do that?
Let's be real here the value comes from someone winning a medal for their country. I don't think a single person in the Netherlands gives a shit about fencing or kayaking but if a Dutch boy/girl ends up on the podium it's broadcast live.
Is there a market to buy 2 dollar bills for less than two? You say they’re worth less so maybe it’s an arbitrage opportunity
I use a certain trick a lot when cooking, or timing anything with precision of a several minutes:

0) Suppose I am steaming vegetables for 8 minutes

1) I will check what time I started them (say 5:30)

2) I will forget the number of seconds that were on the clock when I started

3) I will pull the vegetables off at 5:38:30
Homework weights on grades is going to go down.

Parents income and zip codes impact educational attainment more than class rank outside of the oligarchy anyways.

Opportunity and social mobility is far more restricted in the US than most people realize.

This is in part why the college debt is problematic, valuing a piece of paper over the education itself is already a bubble that has popped.
Important to remember that the actual implementation falls to Apple and Google to remove the app from stores.

It will be interesting to see if they turn the USA into a country that starts censoring arbitrary websites at the ISP level. tiktok.com is a thing.
Pretty troubling!
I like to think of it as TRUNC
FWIW iTunes on Windows has finally been replaced by a true Apple Music app.
People are concerned with it hurting local businesses.

> they come from the business you're buying from. For local businesses

Which is not true.

And some of the reasons - like security and losing money - is tin foil hat territory.
I think a good part of this comes from how we often mention time: "It's half past two" is interpreted to mean: "it's at least half past two"

If we round seconds, why not microseconds/etc?

Ticking clocks let us know what time it is "at least" and uses the minutes :00 as the "barrier" Shifting that to :30 only causes more confusion IMO
i don't think the above comment is saying it has to be large, just that it's less obvious on a smaller clock
I can get behind this idea, however, this sentence is wrong:

"If clocks rounded to the nearest minute instead of truncating, the average error would be 0.”

The negative and the positive error don’t cancel each other out. They are both error. The absolute value needs to be used.
It's either this, or a post about the 2589th revolutionary AI service that will summarize your meetings and pimp your CV. Year 2024-5 is like that. Pick your poison.
They're only doing this because 3blue1brown named and shamed. Remember, kids, always name and shame malevolent actions.
can we start permanently banning companies that submit false-positive takedown requests?
3 strikes for them should result in not being able to submit any strikes anymore and all their content being removed

if the content creator can get their channel removed, same thing must apply to the opposite side as well
Plenty of nitpicking here, for me this piece was a fun and clever thought-ride.
Not only that, but the US subsidiary (TikTok, Inc) also has a 1A right to receive the feeds that power the app and relay them out to the rest of the country. The algorithmic choices of what content to show, to who, and when, are by themselves speech.

Because the government cannot ban the "receiving" part, it obviously also cannot ban the "relaying".

I don't know how the Court will rule, but if TikTok is poised to lose I'm very curious about how the Justices will deal with the conundrum I explained above.