skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This sounds impressive, but this bit stood out to me:

> This process works by sending a tiny bit of the optical signal to a photodiode that measures how much optical power is there.

It seems that the benefit of the approach in general is to keep compute in optics, because crossing the optical to electrical boundary takes too long. But then in the middle of their described process is a boundary transition.

How is this so different to the CMOS/CCD boundary? Is a photodiode that much quicker to activate that it doesn't matter?
Geeks, MOPS, and sociopaths in subculture evolution
Uh, probably the man page for the CLI and the official documentation at https://www.ffmpeg.org/documentation.html
Like they used to say in Art school during critiques "go big! I'd like to see what this looks like bigger"
I've used Debian for 3 years and all the problems I had with it and that are now solved with NixOS and replaced with a complete new set of problems I could only dream in my wettest dreams on Debian. Only going back over woodwork to Debian.
I've been waiting for someone to do this...
As you'd find if you drove a motorcycle fast enough in the rain, a motorcycle with
a fairing and windshield will sweep the rain (or dust) over and past you and you only get wet when you stop at a light. Perhaps that's the case here as well.
I don’t doubt there’s waste. I doubt the insurers are heavily motivated to control it. ProPublica has done extensive reporting to the contrary. https://www.propublica.org/article/why-your-health-insurer-d...

My wife worked as a nurse, my Dad’s a doc, and I pay about $50k/year between premiums (which went from $3k to $3.6k this month), copays, and uncovered stuff like compounded meds for the family. I am intimately familiar with the system.

Some of the denials we’ve received have only been survivable via family assistance, both in fighting them and paying when those battles are lost.
> As an example i once lost a mark on a math test because when rounding to the nearest whole number, i put 3.0 as the answer. Wrong. 3 is a whole number, 3.0 is not i was told, and threatened with suspension on protest. That kind of thing sticks with you.

I got threatened with suspension on protest once. It was about the meaning of a word, but still.

Luckily, I'm a university brat, so I just waited a couple days until my dad was keeping me at his office, then I wandered down the hall, and I asked some professors for a detailed and referenced way to push back. I brought candy and tums, because that's what professors want from children who can't bring beer.

About a week later, I went in with a 30 page computer printed essay. As a nine year old. It had six phone numbers in the back, four to PhDs, which could be called for further detail if needed. It was addressed to both the teacher and the principal.

An opening note was "please look into how Marilyn vos Savant was treated when she explained the Monty Hall problem, when considering whether teachers are permitted to threaten students for disagreeing politely. Are you really so afraid of being incorrect?," written by an internationally renowned mathematician.

I was carrying an etymological breakdown that to this day I can barely read, stretching all the way back to the hypothetical proto-indo-european roots.

Professors don't like kids being threatened.

I did not hear about that teacher doing that again while I was in that school.
The problem is that it's literally subjectively the best speed limit, at least from the standpoint of that young man outside of Billings.
Is adtech the new pejorative for Facebook & co?
Lol that was the hard part getting used to...thanks for suggestions I will try with uBlockOrigin.
The cost and timeline to evaluate quality is completely different; I can get multiple opinions for my possessions, and utilities are fairly objective to evaluate (and the cost to do so is small relative to the scale of the operation).

Schools are limited for choice, expert evaluation is limited, outcomes are potentially unclear... That's before you get into issues with the politics of a teacher or problem students.
It's often what the 0.9% is that makes the difference between grades, other than purity.

Generally and as an illustration, a chemical may have a 99% "reagent" grade that includes industrial solvents or some other chemicals that are toxic to ingest. So its equivalent "food" grade may have the same 99% purity but the other 1% is something that isn't poisonous.
This is somehow better than exploring ways to improve your existing employees' performance?
Hi assumption.
We also don't know to what extent mom might have helped with these letters to dad.
How long though? I learned the hard way too. It’s worked for lots of people the hard way. But I think there’s lots of evidence now that balance bikes are faster to learn on average. Taking the pedals off is what removes the fear. Steering just happens naturally. Lots of adults who know how to ride bikes don’t even know or believe they’re steering differently than a car, I’ve even had debates with some of them.

I have two kids, taught one with pedals and one without. The pedal-less was immediate in a single day, and the training-wheels pedal bike kid struggled for days until we took the pedals off. Pretty sure my training wheels experience took multiple days, though I can’t remember it clearly.
Yeah and you can do this with very young children. My child just turned 2 and has very good balance on the bike when he goes downhill. He still has not enough strength to pedal though.

My older kid started a little later (like 3) but after going pedal less for a year or so, adding the pedal was totally natural. He just took the bike and went off.
Air travel has really only become commonplace fairly recently. Decade over decade growth has pushed the domain of the wealthiest, then well off, down to just about anyone.

> space travel quick and mundane

Space travel was rare and extremely expensive until very recently when we’ve made huge strides. And this isn’t just a singular SpaceX thing the from ion engines to basics like solar panels things have been steadily improving.

IMO the Apollo program was less impressive than many recent missions like DART. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Asteroid_Redirection_Te...

You want to push new boundaries? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parker_Solar_Probe

As to culture and militarily some of this depends on how western you view Russia.

But, the US was cautious of China all the way back in the Korean War well before Vietnam when we did the same.

> Turn of the 21st century onwards has been a slow but steady and undeniable decline.

Again we’re better off economically, militarily, and technologically in 2025 than 2000, 1980, 1960 let alone any point before then. The diseases of the rich have become commonplace and we view that as a failure rather than the underlying progress that it is.
The headline and article language are from an Onion article - ‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens - from 10 years ago that regularly gets re-posted[0] and even has its own Wikipedia page[1]

I get the sentiment - C is memory-unsafe - but I'm also thinking "you're free to re-write rsync in rust". I wonder if somebody has already done that.

[0] https://theonion.com/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-nation...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27No_Way_to_Prevent_This,%27_...
> I gave it my notes and pasted output.

Yeah, don't do that, please.

If you think it's something people will find useful, you can share the prompt.

If the prompt isn't anything special, then you probably shouldn't bother.
Most businesses struggle to stay afloat without adding racial discrimination.

I suspect almost all such businesses would die quickly.

So yes, there would be such public disgust and stigma that even those patrons who valued such a business would hopefully hesitate to expose their bigotry.
You should figure out what went wrong for the other commenter and fix your tool.
> The Event Horizon theory explains everything that the Big Bang theory cannot explain and contradicts NONE of the evidence.

Can you point me to any papers about this? Preferably peer-reviewed.
Or even:

def is_even(n):
return str(n)[-1] in "02468"
Is there a format you'd like to see this in. Keep in mind the original link in this thread was not formatted properly. Ensure you use this:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TPeJzW5pa-BiJZjuEa1y...
Hate to be that guy, but which model works without fail for any task that ffmpeg can do?
@croes I was thinking the same thing (knowing no german, but having a hunch).

And the CCC project was a whole building.

For his example, I was expecting a whole cage with some tricked out lights, maybe some smoke effects (I can see new colo signs being updated "no cardboard,no smoke machines allowed"), a sub-woofer playing some chiptunes, etc.
I think you forgot the /s (sarcasm) in your post!
To me IIHS has done more harm then good. They continue to up their ratings bar to to help keep insurance outlays low (better crash protection), but at the expense of heavier and more expense cars, and there really has not been a decrease in passenger deaths per mile (2023 rate per mile is equal to 2018).
> The gas itself is under $100 per liter depending on purity.

At what temperature and pressure?
We are no longer in Scripps Ranch - my parents sold their land and moved to Solana Beach. :D I'm up in the SF Bay Area myself.
Yeah, obviously this is literally what something like Jekyll or Hugo does. It's just (at least to me) a simpler version of that where you can fully see what's happening. Also I didn't want all the theme-ing overhead that comes with those - just something I could inject into my existing site.
dang edited it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42706248
Transformer-squared: Self-adaptive LLMs
My mind kept reading the sign as "Mountain Top", which would have likely caused me to pull over for a looksee.

I'd be the guy that reads, "This place is not a place of honor..." and think, good enough place to dig an outhouse as any then.
This is an interesting idea! Honestly I didn't even know Github had a per-user readme until you mentioned it
What was the youngest age you taught with this style?
Hearing 'blinkenlights' reminds me of the still very much up 'towel.blinkenlights.nl' telnet server which plays an ASCII art rendition of Star Wars if you dial into it.

There's a joke if you have IPV6 connectivity where if you use IPV4 it says it has full colour support but if you do... well, it doesn't!
What happens when your service provider that owns your domain collapses?
> I'm no language expert, but I genuinely don't understand why it wouldn't have been better to build some equivalent DSL in Haskell to do this given the similar lazy nature of the language.

My impression is that you can't really build nix as a DSL in haskell, because the core insight of nix is to introduce the "derivation" function into a pure programming language, whose behaviour is pure (the output is determined by only the inputs), but whose implementation is very much not (it builds packages from a specification).

There may well be a work-around for that (it's been a while since i haskelled), but it's likely to end up with a result that's less clean than it would ideally be.

Personally I find the nix language to be a pretty good match for the tasks it is used for (though some basic static typing would be nice).

From the outside, i can see why it looks odd, but from the inside, there's not much of a desire to switch to something better, because the language isn't the thing that gives people trouble after the initial learning period (which would exist with any host language).
ffmpeg API is somewhat clunky but it works fine. I dread working with gstreamer, sea of leaky abstractions, inexplicable workarounds and mysterious bugs.
I guess a tree farm (if the trees are used for construction and not burning) would be significantly net negative for atmospheric carbon, especially if the operation was entirely powered by solar and electric?
www.ihatemalort.com
Buy a shirt and let the world know the pain!!
Isn't using React with a static site generator framework basically the same thing but better?
While true I still find it strange that git still doesn't address this which hg has always used to say why it is better. There is something to it that git fans who have never had good brancing don't know what they are missing.
When I have it do a search I have to tell it to just get all the info it can in the search but wait for the next request. The I explicitly tell it we’re done searching and to treat the next prompt as a new request but using the new info it found.

That’s the only way I get it to have a halfway decent brain after a web search. Something about that mode makes it more like a PR drone version of whatever I asked it to search, repeating things verbatim even when I ask for more specifics in follow-up.
Show HN: Python-Lotion – A Lightweight Wrapper for Notion API (Beta)
Hi HN,

I’ve started building Python-Lotion, a lightweight Python wrapper for the Notion API.

This project is currently in beta and still a work in progress. The main idea is to provide a simpler and more streamlined way to interact with the Notion API, building on top of the popular notion-client library.
• GitHub: https://github.com/koboriakira/python-lotion
• Why I built this: I wanted a cleaner, more intuitive interface for my own projects, and thought it might help others too.
• What’s next:
• Enhancing the documentation to make it more comprehensive and user-friendly.
• Expanding functionality for managing blocks within pages, such as creating, updating, and organizing them more effectively.
• Feedback: As this is still under development, I’d love to hear your thoughts, suggestions, or use cases that could guide future improvements!

Thanks for checking it out.
What do we do when the primary mode of monetary transaction is not strictly mediated by government (in contrast to the historical use of government-issued hard currency)?
We used Sonos at a place I used to work, and it was easily one of the worst tech experiences I've ever had. Constant issues. We had a 10-step troubleshooting guide that had to be referenced daily (until everyone had memorized the steps out of repetition), with a bonus (half-)joke step that was "dash it to the ground". Even during the infrequent and intermittent working periods, it was nothing special.

I've always been amazed at how different my experience apparently was to everyone else's, because I only ever see glowing praise (before the apparently disastrous new app rollout, which still sounds like a better experience than I had). I can only assume there were significant updates and improvements in the time since, because the company wouldn't have lasted a month if our experience was typical.
Thanks for the post...did not know about this.

Just went through the website and read through some documents. It is quite easy to read and understand.

One part I couldn't follow was security - other than items listed (file system, HTTPS, IP based filter), is it correct to say that if you know & have access to the URL API endpoints, any query can be run directly off the db with curl or such tools? How is this aspect managed in production? Sorry if this question is inappropriate or too dumb.
The sad answer is... probably none of them. Runtime optimization has always been one of those things that sends most programmers running away screaming, and those who make languages never seem to come from the ranks of those who understand the clear utility of it.
Facts say otherwise[1] - so much so that, sometimes, they even get a slight slap on the wrist:

[1]https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/spain-fines-bookingco...
I assume they'd just ban the entire AWS IP block. And similarly for other cloud providers.
Looks pretty cool. How do you distinguish Simplex from Skyvern or UI.Vision?
SEC sues Elon Musk, alleging failure to properly disclose Twitter ownership
These are best understood as scheduled tasks for the AI instead of tasks for the user.
I would've ended up a lot more "fine" if my parents hadn't given up on parental controls almost immediately after I learned to circumvent them. Some of the things they'd have had to tell me would've been embarrassing for all parties involved, but I genuinely believe it would have improved my socialization and overall happiness during critical parts of my development, with ramifications continuing to this day. Instead, they took the opposite approach and praised me as "good with computers" when they failed to impart either voluntary discipline or mandatory access controls on my computer usage.

I do appreciate your overarching message, but I also agree with others that there is a ton to worry about, and I think it can be a disservice to assume things will work out "fine" when they could potentially work out better if parents make different choices. Things "working out fine" is more how to get to sleep at the end of the day when not everything has gone to plan, as opposed to the first line of defense.
I feel like the world order established after WWII is falling apart not because of tyrants like Putin (as he’s always been this way) but because we started to normalize talking about taking over other countries, dropping “refugees” by mafia and terrorist orgs at our borders, and on top of that we truly treat each other like shit - no amount of PhDs and FAANG exp will make you safe against CFOs Excel sheets…

We really had a good run but something needs to give at last. I hate how polarized we all are, and I just want to love you all.

(I’m not American, the big split happens everywhere globally and I believe it’s even worse in my country even tho we border with Russia and should be unified like never before)
Interesting and rather obvious with just a little thought. Wish I knew ages ago.
South Korea's impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol arrested, local media reports
>If anyone starts spamming my feed: instant unfollow.

How is that a feature? It would be entirely unnecessary with a feed mixer.
Why do you think that? That seems like a pretty extreme viewpoint to me.

Stability is a great thing for busy professionals that want stuff to just work.

How many apps have you upgraded that have crashed and burned from the update? Me, a lot. both commercial and OSS. With OSS at least you get all the pieces so you can figure out how to put it back together again. With Commercial, you rollback, file a bug report and hope someone somewhere in the company will be incentivized enough to fix it for you.
Gemini 2.0 is not bad in quality, and great in terms of speed.
Oh I'm very much a dabbler, before I consider hypoxic training there is so much room for athletic optimization in my life. Including focusing on a few activities instead of rowing, skiing, biking, occasional bouldering, etc. I was listening out of curiosity, not for my own use.

I'm back at sea level, but when I was living between sea level and the mountains I could feel the lag in my runs when I switched and gained elevation.
Whenever I have to wake for something that I absolutely can’t miss, I set 2-3 extra reminders 5 minutes apart precisely because of this “silent alarm” bug. It’s only happened to me a couple of times but twice was enough to completely destroy my trust in the alarm. The first time I thought I just did something in my sleep to cause it, but the UI shows it as if the alarm worked. I’m lucky to have the privilege that if I oversleep an hour or so it’s no big deal, otherwise ye olde tabletop alarm clock would be back.
I'm sure you'll get a better answer eventually but yes photodiodes are widely available that have sub-nanosecond response time, and the output could potentially be used in its raw analog form do whatever modulation they are describing.

Edit: Turbo encabulator description from the paper linked at the bottom:

>To realize a programmable coherent optical activation function, we developed a resonant electro-optical nonlinearity (Fig. 1(iii)). This device directs a fraction of the incident optical power ∣b∣2 into a photodiode by programming the phase shift θ in an MZI. The photodiode is electrically connected to a p–n-doped resonant microring modulator, and the resultant photocurrent (or photovoltage) detunes the resonance by either injecting (or deplet-ing) carriers from the waveguide.

... and a couple of notes on the observed latency later in the paper

>We experimentally characterized the computational latency of the NOFU in this mode, finding that the response time for carrier injection was shorter than 100 ps and that 75 μA of photocurrent was sufficient to detune the resonator by a linewidth, corresponding to a static power dissipation of 60 μW.

>As our architecture computes entirely in the optical domain and is integrated onto a single photonic circuit, inference latency is limited only by the optical time of flight through the chip
I think I’m finally sold on actually attempting to add some LLM to my toolbelt.

As a helper and not a replacement, this sounds grand. Like the most epic autocomplete. Because I hate how much time I waste trying to figure out the command line incantation when I already know precisely what I want to do. It’s the weakest part of the command line experience.
Of course you can always make things so entirely vague as to be completely meaningless while still asserting that you are constantly improving by adopting a slogan like "raising the bar."
> Truman fired MacArthur for disobeying his order to stay on the Korean side of the Yalu.

Crazy to think that we might have had a world with a unified democratic Korea and no North Korea had this not happened.

MacArthur was too cocky.
Thanks for that— I though I was going crazy (well still could be I guess) or had some strange habit or gesture I didn’t realize was silencing the alarm somehow.
As someone with this condition, I think it may be helpful to note that while your comment may not be intended to be disparaging, it can be interpreted in such a way. A lot of neurodivergent folks or people experiencing mental health issues are commonly told their problems are imaginary, or aren’t a big deal. [0] It’s a pretty big sore spot.

It’s also debatable how over diagnosed ADHD is. The diagnosis criteria has certainly changed, but current literature estimates about 6% adults are believed to some degree of ADHD [1]—though many are high functioning and find ways to cope with varying degrees of success and difficulty.

0. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjourn...

1. https://chadd.org/about-adhd/general-prevalence-adults/
Average people aim to provide a good a start for their kids as possible; average aims to avoid public school if possible. You now only have a set of people defined by behaviour or ability too poor for private, parents who don't care, or ones with no options...

Basically it's opting out of being around the dregs
I think it's more likely people think their companies are /mostly evil/ and intend to improve them in some fashion.
> It took me hours of Googling and trying out different options to come up with this awful piece of code that worked to load the contents of a file and give them to my page [CODE]

Do I have Stockholm syndrome or is the code here completely fine?
It's like the author has never heard of balance bikes, but they're very common, and have been for over a decade. FWIW, I taught my kid to ride when he was 3 by putting him at the top of a wheelchair ramp and letting him go. Took him 5 seconds, and he was riding around the park by himself by the second attempt. He'd never been on a bike before.
> Are you really arguing schools getting taxpayer money to teach kids humans walked with dinosaurs and all modern biology is a lie a good educational outcome?

I'll say yes. Most people I've seen who have gone through that type of schooling are good members of society. They work jobs, they pay taxes, they have friends, they often go on to higher education, they raise families, and they may be happier than the average person. The outcome is perfectly fine.
You raid two cities and there’s nothing left.
It’s mind boggling.
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42705369