skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is an 11 second video across a few weeks embedded. From the caption:

"This time-lapse video using data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope highlights the evolution of one light echo in the vicinity of the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A. A light echo is created when a star explodes or erupts, flashing light into surrounding clumps of interstellar dust and causing them to shine in an ever-expanding pattern."
If you're looking for an eink device, Avoid Boox devices. I bought an Air 3C and the display was borked 3 months after I bought it. Knowing that their displays are fragile, I never traveled with it. Only used it at home and left it on a shelf on top of a stack of books (no books on top of it). One day after charging it overnight I turned it on an found the display ruined - internally cracked, it would seem. When I wrote boox to inquire about warranty service they told me it was my fault and it was going to cost me $300+ to get it repaired (plus shipping each way).

Boox devices are very fragile and the blame the customer when the display breaks.
>It is indeed a failed design. What you describe is how FV2 in Apple devices work. You have a native always-on DEK (Data Encryption Key) in the SEP (Secure Enclave Processor)

That's what TPM 2.0 is supposed to do on PC and why Microsoft is demanding it for Windows 11 yet people don't seem to see the need for it for some reason, then whine about the security implementation.
Amusingly, my 1995 Saturn had a timing chain, and the chain skipped a tooth on its last day, at roughly 60k miles. Now, there wasn't necessarily anything wrong with the chain per se but it was the end of a sequence of failures involving the engine design.

On all of our other cars (Toyota), the belts needed to be serviced at X miles, but it was actually a cheap and quick procedure.
imo, values are the only thing that matters in the long run

But having more people be able to say "there are jobs I would not take, no matter how much they pay, because they do harm to the world" would make a substantial impact. This is the thing which can be done. Every day opting out of some deleterious but widely held social value. It is not easy.

Among the things people should generally reconsider as providing negative value to society...investment banking, consulting, private equity, corporate law, facebook, VC, most of google, many AI companies

shrug
>First, passwords are terrible sources of entropy

>generate a completely random encryption key (in a TPM) and encrypt it with the password.

I don’t see how this approach solves the problem. If the password has bad entropy then using it to encrypt anything seems wrong.
I wish GitHub desktop would include a quake-style console for quickly accessing git commands for the open repo as an escape hatch. Ctrl+backtick works fine for my use but it’s hidden, it would be more conducive for learning if it’s a tab or just an addressbar-esq inputbox.
One one hand true, on the other hand running all these huge corporations are not cheap. United has 440 000 employees. And who knows how many subcontractors, and so on.

The end-to-end cost society spends on paperpushing is easily hundreds of billions of dollars per year. (Including time lost while waiting on hold to call them, the actual literal work of dealing with these fucking printouts at each stakeholder, the extra effort placed on the paper industry, the postal service, and so on.)
I don't think so. If you print the HTML, it's often full of "&nbsp;", images and links unrelated to the actual content. It's hard to extract the meaningful part of that pile of stuff in a trustworthy way (and you wouldn't want to lose information).

Also many of those emails are autogenerated. So the template has to be done once, and that's it. And it should be trivial for whoever composes the HTML email to copy-paste the important part into a text-only version. Maybe it would actually help them think about what the important part actually is.
It is unfortunate but the future of truly patent unencumbered codec may be H.264. The high profile will be patents free soon.

We should be able to push H.264 AVC closer or even exceed HEVC by breaking compatibilities and limitations originally imposed due to resources requirement.
TikTok provides the "human" element that IG and YouTube do not.

On IG and YouTube the algos are shoving "creators" in my face, which is fine sometimes. But TikTok surfaces randos whose only followers are their own family members, and they happen to be talking about something unique or funny in one video out of dozens that got only 2 views.

On IG and YouTube, the algos give me brightly lit faces, brightly lit homes, professional editing. On TikTok, I get people speaking quietly from their bed, or their recliner in what is obviously a trailer, or in the passenger seat of their car at Safeway, double-chinned and sleepy-eyed, saying something hilarious or just talking about their day or maybe sharing something they just realized.

On IG and YT, I get a video of someone falling on their face plastered with poorly worded captions and one or more logos for some social media company. On TikTok, I see the original video of that person falling on their face from the original account, and if you go to their account it's obviously just a real person who made a funny video by accident one time.

All the things that IG and YT force on me certainly exist on TikTok too, and you can surround yourself with that content if you like. But if you don't want that kind of content, TikTok lets you choose.

IG and YT don't give you that choice.
related, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40973339
LLM Inference is still quite power-hungry, Video decoding with hardware acceleration is much more efficient.

But we can do some estimates, heck, we can even ask GPT for some numbers.

Say you want to do 30 minutes of video (h265) or 30 minutes of LLM inferencing on a generic consumer device, ignoring the source of the model or source of encoded video, you get about 4x difference:

Energy usage for 30 minutes of H.265 decoding: ~15–20 Wh.
Energy usage for 30 minutes of Llama3 inference: ~40–60 Wh.

This is optimised already, so a working hardware H.265 decoder is assumed, and for inferencing, something on the level of an RTX 3050, but can also be a TPU or NE.

While not the most scientific comparison, it's perhaps good to know that video decoding is practically always local, and for streaming services it will use whatever is available and might even switch codecs (i.e. AV1, H.265, H.264 depending on what is available, and what licenses are used). And if you have older hardware, some codecs won't even exist in hardware, to the point where you start doing software decoding (very inefficient).

AI inferencing is mostly remote (at least the heavy loads) in a datacenter because local availability of hardware is pretty hit and miss, models are pretty big and spinning one up every time you just wanted to ask something is not very user friendly. Because in a datacenter you tend to pay for amperage per rack, you spec your AI inferencing hardware to eat that power since you're not saving any money or hardware life when you don't use it. That means that efficiency is important (more use out of a rack) but scaling/idling isn't really that big of a deal (but it has slowly dawned on people that burning power 'because you can' is not really a great model). That AI inferencing in a datacenter is more power-hungry as a result, because they can, because it is faster, and that's what attracts users.

I would estimate that the local llama3 inferencing uses less power than when done in a datacenter, because there simply is less power available locally (try finding an end-user device that is used mass-market with enough power available, you won't; only small markets like gaming PCs and workstations will do).
Bus width they are talking about are multiples of 128. I think Apple m series chips are good examples. They go from 128 to 256 to 512 bits which just happens to be roughly about the megabytes per second bandwidth.
I find the grandparents hypothesis compelling at first glance but it sort of begs the question, why don't we live indefinitely in the first place? There are obvious answers, we make tradeoffs to improve performance early in life at the expense of long term function, but it doesn't seem like the reproductive benefits of caring for a grandchild that only shares a 1/4 of your DNA necessarily tips the scales of selection towards longevity. Especially when, in theory, men remain fertile their entire lives and thus there should have always been some selection for longer life spans. You would expect the reproductive benefits of a 70 year old caring for their own child might be at least comparable to 70 year old caring for a grandchild.
Can you put numbers to not very expensive? Looking at vw for their ev equivalents, for me personally, it qualifies as very expensive (without subsidies)
Yeah, because... most people don't care about these attacks?

Because, well, and bear with me here, if they did, they would have set a darn PIN?
A different team previously reanimated Cosell's Lisp ELIZA: https://sites.google.com/view/elizagen-org/eliza-clones
I just honestly don't agree with that at all. That's the easy bit, the bit I don't enjoy is organising backups and storage in general. But it's not 'hard'.
Oh, hello hacker news!

Also potentially interesting to this crowd are the underlying editor, which I split out from the online Dusa editor and called "sketchzone" (https://github.com/robsimmons/sketchzone). Some of my motivations and hopes for sketchzone are blogged here: https://typesafety.net/rob/blog/endless-sketchzone

Also, I more-or-less did Advent of Code 2024 in Dusa: journal entries and links to solutions are at https://typesafety.net/rob/blog/advent-of-dusa-2024
It is in the article "A honey bee dies when it stings you because its stinger is covered in barbs, causing its abdomen to get ripped out when it tries to fly away. And surviving with your guts spilling out everywhere is pretty bloody hard."

That's the baseline answer. It is a simple observation, and at this level of question you don't need to worry about evolution at all.
not only do I think that choice is a really important tool for writing pragmatic logic programs, this is a key piece to a really interesting goal - unifying logical and procedural programming (see verse)
From https://www.archives.gov/citizen-archivist/register-and-get-...:

> Citizen Archivists must register for a free user account in order to contribute to the National Archives Catalog. Begin the registration process by clicking on the Log in / Sign Up button found in the upper right hand corner of the Catalog.

Catalog: https://catalog.archives.gov/
Oops, you're right!

So legacy launch vehicles with the exception of Shuttle lift of leisurely.
When I go to their site I only see something about pre-ordering and putting down a $100 deposit. What's the price and will Libby (Library app) work on it?
I don't think you're wrong, but that's because there are no alternative technologies. The only alternative is leaving much more of the archive inaccessible for a much longer period, possibly forever.
Right, those are good points.

Still I can't help but to wonder whether those notifications are needed or not. Except for instant messaging, I generally don't want notifications. Like I don't need to be told that a new podcast is available, I'll see it next time I open the app.

I would like to at least have the choice to use RSS instead of having to go through a complicated federated system.
> Terrible in snow and ice

New Englander here. I've owned two Priuses (2004 and 2010) and both have been surprisingly able to handle winter weather quite well. Not as good as my Outback, but in light to medium conditions and driven by an experienced winter driver they performed admirably.

The older one made it through a major blizzard in rural road and interstate driving across 4 states, albeit at a reduced rate of speed (45 mph, which drove up the MPG to 52, a record for that car).

We still drive the 2010 model. I'm hoping that Subaru will get its act together on hybrid by the time we have to retire the Prius, but I would definitely get another Toyoya hybrid.
My question stands: if it’s that cheap to build, why wouldn’t a big tech company build it? Or a startup? Why does a government need to get involved?
A Mac with that memory will have closer to 500GB/s but your point still stands.

That said, if you just want to play around, having more memory will let you do more interesting things. I’d rather have that option over speed since I won’t be doing production inference serving on my laptop.
The problem is Brandolini's law - “it takes an order of magnitude more energy to refute bullshit than that needed to produce it”. So allowing widely disseminated bullshit effectively opens our society up to a denial-of-service attack.
Nobody has checked the back of my credit card for the presence of a signature in decades, let alone whether the signature matches. (I also haven't bothered to sign my credit card for this reason, but also because why would I want somebody to have my actual signature if my card is stolen?) These days my "signature" on a credit card purchase is usually a smiley face. Nobody has ever complained.
I haven't found any of the Prius I've owned to be terrible in snow and ice. They are front wheel drive and have traction control and it works fine.
yt-dlp says "Video unavailable. The uploader has not made this video available in your country".
Any way to circumvent this geo restriction without using a VPN?
I don't think this an unreasonable puzzle for a role that involves problem-solving or security.

You can read the code, figure out what primitives you have, translate the problem into something simple (I like card and board games), then map it back.

Problem: two processes each do this ten times:
- read the counter
- do any number of other things in other processes
- write back what you read, plus one.

Game: You have two piles of cards. Each card costs 1 move to play, but lets you discard any number of cards from other piles at the same time.

Solution: play one red card, discarding everything but one blue card. Play the single remaining blue card, discarding the leftover red cards.

Back: process 1 reads, process 2 runs 9 steps, process 1 writes, process 2 reads, process 1 finishes, process 2 writes.
And a fraction of the 5090 cores.
Are there any studies on these studies? There are so many of them--and they're issued multiple times of day on television "news"--that there has to be one.
AFAIU WFC is not a Markov chain. See here:

https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1fb9k44q

It splits an image to cells by using convolutions, derives a set of constraints of how cells can be combined and then generates combinations that satisfy the constraints. It's a form of machine learning based on combinatorial optimisation, really.

Far as I can tell it doesn't apply any Markov assumptions anywhere, but I might just not have noticed it so please prove me wrong on that one.
Run them all in parallel with a cloud function in less than a minute?
From working at a cloud, and speaking with capacity folks regularly when I was in certain roles, the supply chain strikes me as one of the biggest nightmares. Even at scale when vendors really, really want (or want to keep) your business.
At times it almost seems like someone sneezes somewhere and whoops, there goes your hardware delivery timelines.

The advantage at cloud scale is a lot of constant signal around capacity delivery, demand etc. so you can build mathematical models to best work out when to start placing orders, and for what.
> why don't we live indefinitely in the first place?

It doesn’t seem to be necessary for the survival of our genes.

> You would expect the reproductive benefits of a 70 year old caring for their own child might be at least comparable to 70 year old caring for a grandchild.

They’re competing with 20-30 year-olds with better physical fitness for a mate. This would be relevant for ~99% of human existence even if it’s not totally relevant today.
By default: @user.bsky.social

If you verify your domain: @yourdomain.tld
Probably Cloudflare's Workers analytics engine (basically serverless clickhouse)
Yes. Whether or not they are "people" is irrelevant. They have the same rights to free speech. You are nitpicking.
> Can you give examples

Here are comments from many leading journalists at the Washington Post, many of whom have left. For example recently:

Jennifer Rubin resigned: "The Washington Post's billionaire owner and enlisted management" "betrayed their audiences' loyalty and sabotaged journalism's sacred mission - defending, protecting and advancing democracy. ... They have undercut the values central to ... all journalism: integrity, courage, and independence. .... Jeff Bezos ... accommodate[s] and enable[s] the most acute threat to American democracy - Donald Trump ..." [1]

Ann Telnaes resigned [2]: She "tells NPR she always accepts editing but had never previously been told she couldn't address a specific topic ..." [3]

Management blocked Telnaes' cartoon criticizing Trump and billionaire media and tech execs bowing to Trump; an article, approved by editors, on Managing Editor Matea Gold leaving [4]; and more.

Bezos, owner of one of the country's most important media institutions, has openly supported Trump and donated to him, while blocking content critical of him.

That's all of the top of my head. We can always waste time by denying everything and bog down any discussion, but American democracy - that your ancestors bled and sacrificed to build - is burning and you are sitting in your chair playing with picayune arguments. You'd better act now.

[1] https://contrarian.substack.com/p/i-have-resigned-from-the-w...

[2] https://anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-quitting-the-washin...

[3] https://www.npr.org/2025/01/15/nx-s1-5258221/washington-post...

[4] https://www.npr.org/2024/12/09/nx-s1-5222807/washington-post...
Great take. Wave function collapse is like a Markov chain in terms of complexity. As we know there's plenty of opportunities to apply more sophisticated techniques. The downside of course is that more complex techniques often require orders of magnitude more data. while I believe there's technical room for growth, I'm not sure there's practical room for growth or at least it's harder to imagine outside of "cool tech demo".
>"Survival of the species" isn't a basis for selection. It will not lead to a gene becoming more prevalent in a population of interbreeding individuals.

Well, "species" is but a loosely defined set of genes.
Ask HN: Is anyone still deploying Oracle Forms or Apex for new applications?
Avoid Boox. Their displays are very fragile and have a reputation for cracking even if you're careful. That happened to my Air 3 C about 3 months after I bought it. I was very careful with it - never traveled with it, only used it at home. One day after charging it I turned it on and the screen was ruined. I contacted Boox about warranty repair and they said it was my fault and I would have to pay $300+ plus shipping both ways to get it fixed. They have a reputation for blaming the customer first. I'll never buy one of their products again.
I think this is a result of the Chatham House Rule, which is very much in vogue in the startup world these days.
The specific words were “china's population” which is different from any specific person.

Did the English strap down each individual and intravenously administer opium? Unlikely.

To the extent that a government reflects the general sense and purpose of a population (mandate of heaven, etc), did Queen Victoria and all her subjects force people in China to accept the presence and marketing of an addictive and risky substance? Absolutely.

Ironically, the people of Great Britain fought a war to sell opium right as there was a temperance movement within Victorian culture.

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