skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They didn’t take high resolution photos everywhere back then. In the early satellites it used physical film they recovered. And later digital storage and bandwidth was expensive and they dumped any data they didn’t need.
4000x cost saving would bring operation costs for compute down close to zero, meaning marginal costs for data centers would go down as well, meaning data centers would buy a shit ton of these chips. Think the valuation of Nvidia x 1000
I still think the technical challange is too big, but it's high reward for early investors.
> but if you look through the help section on discourse, the questions are not about the language

Mostly because people don't know how to ask questions about the language. That was my experience.

Over the past decade I've made a few forays into Nix and NixOS (I still need to revert one of my servers back to Debian from NixOS). Inevitably I find the language obtuse, and the help online is always in the form of code fragments whose purpose kinda sorta looks alright maybe, but doesn't ever seem to fit into the setup I've built. So then I'm faced with completely rearranging the structure to match the helpful code, or try to massage the helpful code into my structure (which may or may not be a monstrosity, nor could I explain what every one of the magical incantations are for). Rinse and repeat with the next problem.

So it becomes essentially impossible to ask questions about it because I don't actually know where one thing ends and another begins.

After awhile, I start asking myself "Why was this a worthwhile venture again?"

I've heard good things about guix though. Might give that a try next. I'm done with Nix - burned one time too many.
Not wrong, but it’s interesting that Apple gets so much flak for this when Google and Microsoft don’t even try. If anything they try to invade privacy as much as possible.

Of course maybe that question has its own answer. Apple markets itself as the last personal computing company where you are the customer not the product so they are held to a higher standard.

What they should do
Is do the processing locally while the phone is plugged in, and just tell people they need a better phone for that feature if it’s too slow. Or do it on their Mac if they own one while that is plugged in.
>The Jargon File also mentions that German hackers had in turn developed their own versions of the blinkenlights poster, in broken English:[1]

ATTENTION
This room is fullfilled mit special electronische equippment.
Fingergrabbing and pressing the cnoeppkes from the computers is allowed for die experts only!
So all the "lefthanders" stay away and do not disturben the brainstorming von here working intelligencies.
Otherwise you will be out thrown and kicked anderswhere!
Also: please keep still and only watchen astaunished the blinkenlights.
The context is "what to do with the $200000 we just found", not investigating crimes in general.
UTF-8 ACP might fix these exploits but it doesn't fix the root issue that your application encoding can't represent the whole internal system encoding (WTF-16, NOT UTF-16 despite what it claims).
This. I think, well curated web directories (by humans and machines) deserve a comeback.
Both countries are officially named China, so only one can be right.
Sigh. Why can't you write three sentences without resorting to insults? Usually people behave like that when they know they are wrong.
I wonder how many recordings he did. I hope that more people come out of the woodwork and share the recordings they bought from him, like in this case, especially if there are some slightly silly ones (like "Use the source, Luke!").

Aside: I was so worried it was going to be an AI voice generator based on his voice. I sadly think it's inevitable but I can hope he didn't make enough recordings to be able to reliably synthesize his voice.
Thanks for pointing that out! Right now, this is just a newsletter to validate the idea and see if there’s demand for such a tool. If you like the concept, subscribing would really help me understand if this is something people want. I’d truly appreciate your support!
Most wikis are not very user friendly (UI, not about the rules and moderation), most people have used Word / Google Docs before so it's much more natural.
https://github.com/DrewThomasson/ebook2audiobook
Was the title The Origins of Racism? You are manufacturing an issue.
Because Samsung and Intel would probably close the gap by the time the war is done. They are just 2-4 years behind with the gaps already closing in.
"Name the various types of servants in a household and what they do"

This is incredible...
I'm sure those software writers will be happy to refund your purchase. It's not their fault that Microsofts standard C implementation is faulty.
The author isn't inventing anything. He's just dumbing it down in an extreme way so that non-physicists could have the faintest hope of understanding it. Wich seems odd, because if you actually want to understand any of this you should prepare to spend two or three years in university level math classes first. The truth is that in reality all this is actually a lot more complex. In the Higgs field (or any simple scalar field for that matter) for example, there is a free parameter that we could immediately identify as "mass" in the way described in the article. But weirdly enough, this is not the mass of the Higgs boson (because of some complicated shenanigans). Even more counterintuitive, fermionic (aka matter) fields and massive bosonic fields (i.e. the W and Z bosons mentioned in the article) in the Standard Model don't have any mass term by themselves at all. They only get something that looks (and behaves) like a mass term from their coupling to the Higgs field. So it's the "stiffness" of the Higgs field (highly oversimplified) that gives rise to the "stiffness" of the other fields through complex interactions governed by symmetries. And to put it to the extreme, the physical mass you can measaure in a laboratory is something that depends on the energy scale at which you perform your experiments. So even if you did years of math and took an intro to QFT class and finally think you begin to understand all this, Renormalization Group Theory comes in kicks you back down. If you go really deep, you'll run into issues like Landau Poles and Quantum Triviality and the very nature of what perturbation theory can tell us about reality after all. In the end you will be two thirds through grad school by the time you can comfortably discuss any of this. The origin of mass is a really convoluted construct and these low-level discussions of it will always paint a tainted picture. If you want the truth, you can only trust the math.
By that time, AI will beat the toppest of the top enders. Remember the time Deep Blue barely beat Kasparov? Now no human, or group of humans can beat a chess engine, even one that runs on an iPhone.
Do you have a source for that? I don't think the printing press was the cause of religious wars any more than bullets were the cause of WWII
like pip but written in rust
A Backstage plugin framework to shorten time to plugin
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Apparently the more of it there is, the more they eat. It's called "an implication", or "logical consequence".
IIRC, this isn't happening because Europe doesn't have a large enough industry to purchase chips at the scale required to have such a huge investment.

This one in USA is for political reasons and likely will be feasible only if US manages to preserve the global political order.

Maybe Europe could have had force having a latest node FAB by banning exports of EUV machines and have factories built in Europe through flying Taiwanese engineers to build and operate it and call it huge success like USA is doing now.

I don't know if its worth the cost though. Sure it is good to have it bu in USA's case they even haven't built the industry around it, they will produce the chips in USA, call it "Made in America", collect the political points and ship the chips to the other side of the planet for further processing.

Is it really that big of a deal to have European machines being operated by the Taiwanese in the USA to print chips that need a visit to China to become useful? If the global world order collapses, will the 330M Americans be able to sustain the FAB? If it doesn't collapse, will that be still a good investment considering that Taiwanese have the good stuff for themselves and integrated into the full chain without flying parts across the world?
https://archive.is/sZjc8
The sensors they have now aren't even as good as a human. The cameras have nowhere near the dynamic range of the average human eyeball, which isn't even particularly spectacular as far as eyes go.
When the experts say that algebra should not be taught in 8th grade, and the experts say that guessing at words instead of sounding them out is a better way to learn to read, and the experts say that calc can be replaced with 'data science' which is actually just data literacy, and so on and so forth, I'm not really interested in how the precise definition of 'experts' actually refers to something about 'growing our collective knowledge'. I'm more interested in staying away from all that. It's a fun gotcha to say things like 'well evidence either is or isn't', but it doesn't change the material reality of who's doing what and what they're likely to be doing in the near future. Public schooling is fucked, the group of people saying 'listen to the experts' is the group of people making it worse, a lot of it is explicitly political, and your best options for guaranteeing that you avoid it are homeschooling or parochial school, regardless of what words and rhetoric can be said about it.
Zarr-Python 3 is here
Free YouTube Transcript Extractor
Does anyone here know more about the unreliability of Google's sub claim? I am using it, and have never had issues with it, but this post seems to just dismiss it without more details.

When does Google change the subject of a token for a given user account?
As a layman on this topic, I understand that research does not need to work towards a predefined goal.

But for the sake of my understanding and edification, I would have loved to see some mention in the Abstract explaining the usefulness of the article. Is it "merely" a mental experiment to confirm that we know how to apply our equations in a synthetic environment? Do the conclusions influence or open venues for verifiable (experimental) research?
You’re missing the parent’s point. It’s large in absolute terms but not as a percentage of GDP (3.5%). And for countries spending less, once again the point is that they’d rather spend less and lean on the US when things really hit the fan (see: European countries not chipping in the requisite 2% of GDP for NATO funding; roughly half of that “OMG so massive” US military spending goes towards NATO).

Edit: yes my bad, I was meaning this comment for another poster in the thread.
In other words: don't hate the player hate game, but the point still stands.
So, Is Someone Getting Fired, Or?
Some of those samples sound like they are emoting in Korean while speaking English.
o1 is such a joke, worse than 4o in some ways like multiturn,

The months old sonnet feels a generation ahead of any OAI product I've used, I'll believe the hype on o3 when I see it, remember the sora and voice roll out?
Some kind of community notes consensus system could make sense here to find common ground. When a diverse set of people agree that a site should belong to the list, only then it is added.
IHP: Type-safe web framework in Haskell and Nix
Chenlun phishing kits behind surge in SMS attacks spoofing local toll companies
I guess the expensive energy in Germany, lots of red tape and nimbyism, and not enough state subsidies which is what these companies were hoping for when they were fishing for places to open fabs.
Build and Share Shaders with the World
I think this is a better approach than React. I've only look at it but I can see with a uniflow pattern for state keeping it might be the most scaleable solution for an interactive FE. Whether the wider industry would agree is a different story.
1 - Get an amplifier that has a "Night Mode" function. It has been a basic function on most AV-receivers in the past decade+, assuming you don't buy the most pedestrian model. It compresses the dynamic range of the sound, to avoid the loud parts waking up the neighbors while you can also hear the conversations. Of course here you are looking for an investment of between $350 and $inf. Buying secondhand can save big bucks.

2 - Use a PC for your video needs. Most video players support the same function (VLC, GOM player, Kodi... look for "dynamic range compression" and similar options). A 10 years old mid-tier machine will play everything including UHD, so this solution is fairly cheap. If you get a cheap IR-USB remote, you won't even have to mess with keyboard and mouse.
This post is truly inspiring! Your journey with the Zettelkasten method, Obsidian, and Foam has given me new insights into personal knowledge management. I appreciate you sharing your experience and the practical tips. Upvoted with enthusiasm!
I suspect a lot depends on the age and motor development level that people here are not talking about, and that there should a certain age where a kid has not developed the muscles as much as to bike fast enough to pedal comfortably and fast enough to be able to balance, and an age after where, once one has figured how to pedal comfortably, balancing would not be that hard. I would assume that it would be harder to balance in the first place if you have to struggle putting force to pedal, which also probably means you cannot develop a sufficient speed either.
> it's theoretically fastest to do `and d1,d0` e.g. in a loop

That's true, although I'd add that ASR/AND are destructive while BTST would be nondestructive, but we're pretty far down a chain of hypotheticals at this point (why would someone even need to test evenness in a loop, when they could unroll the loop to doing 2/4/6/8 items at a time with even/odd behaviour baked in)

> I thought BLTPRI enabled meant the blitter takes every even DMA cycle it needs, and when disabled it gives the CPU 1 in every 4 even DMA cycles

Yes, that is true: https://amigadev.elowar.com/read/ADCD_2.1/Hardware_Manual_gu... "If given the chance, the blitter would steal every available Chip memory cycle [...] If DMAF_BLITHOG is a 1, the blitter will keep the bus for every available Chip memory cycle [...] If DMAF_BLITHOG is a 0, the DMA manager will monitor the 68000 cycle requests. If the 68000 is unsatisfied for three consecutive memory cycles, the blitter will release the bus for one cycle."

> one of those cases is very likely to be true

It blew my mind when I realised this is probably why Workbench is 4 colours by default. If it were 8, an unexpanded Amiga would seem a lot slower to application/productivity users.
Not sure inspiring is the word I would hve picked :D

Overall it sounds a tad better than the US, but far from perfect.

Especially not accounting for different developmental speed of kids annoys me, although from what I heard it'd a bit better these days than in the 90s - e.g. even if they sent you to the Realschule instead of Gymnasium and at age 15 you decided you wanted to go to university they wouldn't make your life extra hard.
Passkeys: They're not perfect but they're getting better
The Shuffler Is Broken: Finding the Best Method for Shuffling Cubes
Great question! Sheeting works like PDF.co but for spreadsheets. It turns Google Sheets and Excel into an API so you can automate tasks like running formulas, extracting data, and syncing sheets programmatically—no manual effort needed.

Instead of opening files, you can use them directly in your apps or workflows via API or integrations with tools like Zapier and Bubble. It's all about automation and simplifying complex spreadsheet tasks.

Hope that helps clarify things!
>"Any attempt by law enforcement to carry out civil asset forfeiture in any way is a felony."

Civil asset forfeiture means a lot more than what you think it does.

Do you remember a story a couple of years ago about a couple who foreclosed on a local Bank of America branch after Bank of America wrongfully started foreclosure proceedings on their home? That's civil asset forfeiture.

The sheriff's deputies who went with them to enforce the foreclosure are not criminals.

If you are a freelancer and your client doesn't pay you and you get a court order to collect what you are owed: civil asset forfeiture.

A clerk filing the paperwork to get you your money is not a criminal.

Even the ACLU is fighting civil asset forfeiture ABUSE because as actual lawyers they understand what it means.

https://www.aclu.org/news/by-issue/asset-forfeiture-abuse
Show HN: Move Frequently – Stay active with a 1-min exercise every 45 minutes
My buddy Miguel and I really like taking care of our health. So we eat healthy, we lift weights and all of that. However, last week we learned no matter how much you exercise, sitting for long periods of time is a risk factor for early death. And we also love building products, so we do spend a loooot of time in front of a computer.

At first, we just wanted to build a tool for ourselves that reminded us to do a couple of exercises to break our sedentary work habits. But then we thought it would be much more fun if more people could join us and we could all take a break together to do a mobility/strength exercise every now and then.

So we launched https://movefrequently.com/ : a world-wide initiative to perform a 1-minute mobility and strength exercise every 45 minutes. The tool has a universal timer so that everyone in the world using it will be presented with a simple exercise they can do in front of their computers.

We hacked this on Friday, but plan to give it some love and add features if people like it. Check it out and let us know what you think.

Source code can be found on https://github.com/MoveFrequently/movefrequently

BTW, love Show HN!
It's not that bad really - you just convert at the win32 API call boundary.

Also, it's not UCS-2. Also not UTF-16. Windows uses WTF-16 internally and if you want 100% compatibility that's what you need to target.
You can find an attempt here: https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb/blob/main/smallweb.tx...
We just are not on your level of genius to understand these things.

So obviously completely full of shit.
Your website is amazing, great job
> most people would

You are missing the point, "most" is not all, I don't think most people/families are like this at all, we don't do this for most people. I think you would be surprised about the number of low-income children in the US who will never see a classroom if we abandoned compulsory education. It is also an effective measure to increase equality and class mobility.

14 million children in the US are food insecure. 43 million people live in poverty, 12.9% [1]

You know how many people in the US are illiterate? 21% [2]

Do you think that number will increase or decrease if we got rid of compulsory education?

[1] https://www.nokidhungry.org/who-we-are/hunger-facts
[2] https://www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/post/literacy-s...
Nix works extremely well _with_ Docker! That's what makes it so interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uixRE8xlbY
Interesting. I wonder if that made any difference here. My older Honda has the radar, but also the phantom braking.
Agreed that it is naive to assume that static types will keep some kind of consistency on the bytes that come in on the wire, but it misses the point.

With static types, you do one transformation from bytes to a proper data type at the boundary.

The static type information propogates bidirectionally deep into the guts of the system.

If you're 10 layers in, and want to invoke getUserId() on an object, you just add it to your type. Now your endpoint can return 400s without you needing to add extra nil-checks somewhere (or multiple places) from layers 1 to 10 (which realistically will turn into 500s).
And that is usually based on what the driver said (often as an excuse for some other form of negligence), rather than being a provable cause.
Cool! I appreciate that you made it openly available without signup!

If I understand correctly, it first generates a bitmap using a text-2-image model and then converts that to svg? It might be cool to see the image alongside the svg and then be able to adjust some settings such as the number of colors to include and so on.

Did you do any training/fine-tuning yourself? Are you looking to do so at some point?
Using Google Forms for Waitlists and Launches
My parents were both grammar school kids with working class parents, who didn't get any special prep for the 11+ beyond what their state primary school gave them. Both were the first people in their families to go to university and both managed to get into Oxford (where they met!). There was definitely a sweet point period when the system did what it intended in that sense, but there was obviously the drawback that if you ended up in the comprehensive system, you were stuck there and you had a situation where children got labelled at a young age.

Obviously some areas still have grammar schools and the impression I get from people living in those areas is that to stand a fighting chance with the 11+, you need out of school tuition or for your parents to be educated enough and have time to tutor you yourself. House prices are also obviously high in grammar school areas too! I've seen recent 11+ papers and having bright children at state schools around that age who are at the top of their year academically, I think they would struggle with them without any preparation or tuition.
Sounds more like an upside TBH.
Very interesting. So I can walk safetly in the street with a million dollar necklace, but not with $1000 in cash?
Yep, it takes me about a month to get the new year in my head apparently, I did the quick math based on 2024.

Anyone expecting nuclear retaliation for the strikes that have been made inside Russian territory has no grasp on what it really means for a country to use a nuke, or has no confidence in a nuclear power understanding the basic game theory of what would come next. Russia would never use a nuke when a small number of missiles or drones made it past their air defence and cause minor damage on Russian soil.
Just about everyone ships radar, not only for collision avoidance but adaptive cruise control.
Thanks. My comment may have been overly cynical, and things are not so black and white yet, but extrapolating the trend from the last couple years is depressing.
From what I have read, AI does not ”think”.

So it cannot think in Chinese

AI is a computer program that is fed information from humans to carry out automations and other computerised tasks.

As a human being I have actually thought about this question and applied my very poor understanding of the subject.

To be human is to err. Not once did I accidentally think in Chinese

No one knows why?????
I want to be able to seemlessly read on my ebook reader and then put in my headphones and go for a walk with the dog and resume on audio where I left off. then when I come back, my ereader is at the right place where the audio finished and I can resume reading
There are so many opportunities for google to improve their services.

For example, I found myself asking Claude about places to see in a city I’m visiting while switching back and forth to gmaps. This would have been a much better experience integrated directly with gmaps knowledge graph