skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s open loop in that the measurement of it being in focus is reliant on the subject matter, and a different measurement.

I’m not making this up, camera manufacturers have told me to my face that focus is open loop, period. They can’t guarantee repeatable focus.

Notably the measurement isn’t of the state of the motor/gearing. Furthermore, being “in focus” means the subject matter’s out of focus blur is below some threshold; there is a range of focus states that qualifies — but those seemingly small differences can affect camera calibration, with >pixel-level differences in effective focal lengths.

It’s open loop.
And? We were talking about other businesses that should be split up in addition to Google. It would be weird if the only answers were Google-owned ventures...
But is there any reason to think it would have happened this fast (or at all) if not for his behavior/persona?

Isn’t the new model Y out? Shouldn’t that boost things? Sales are reportedly tanking all over the globe.

This isn’t a market correction where the price adjusts despite reasonable fundamentals. Something has gone seriously wrong and is seriously effecting things.

And we all know who that something is.
The owner of Chrome could go to the manufactures of any non Apple phone and tablet and ask them royalties to ship Chrome with their phones. Maintenance releases included. Per unit royalty, flat, whatever they agree upon. The alternative would be Firefox or any other browser, which would have an incentive to follow suit. Or build their own browser. Samsung has one. They might leave the desktop browser free or as Microsoft for money. After all they would be developing the engine used by Edge. Again the alternative would be resuming the development of their own engine, starting with forking Blink.

The owner of Android could do the same. There is a long history of OS licensed to phone manufacturers. The incentive for manufacturers to keep using a common OS is probably much bigger than keep installing Chrome: nobody wants to sell phones without apps and nobody wants to pay developers to develop four or five versions of the same app. Think about home banking or games. Web apps might be enough and I very welcome that, but they are not enough for everything especially on low specs devices.
Their bitter sarcasm won't stop programs like this for alcoholics from finding degrees of success https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ylsw5e8d5g
Canada imposed targeted tarrifs on certain Chinese products, increasing their cost for Candadian consumers to level the playing field. China didn't pay Canada a dime.

The United States on the other hand is planning a blanket tariff with certain carveouts, and the current administration seems to believe it will be foreign countries paying the United States as a result. When in reality, it will be American consumers and business owners paying 100% of the tariff costs. That is incompetence.
> and don't try to destroy competition in other markets, like Walmart is a supermarket chain

Have a look at the list of services offered: https://www.walmart.com/services

They're not all over the place, but definitely expanding to what's interesting to them.
They've shut down redundant data centers, fired countless engineers. They've slimmed down into a more efficient, cheaper service that can't handle curve balls, but at least the website is overrun with neo-fascist morons.
As a web developer who really wants to see the web keep evolving so I can build better things: that would definitely harm things.

Chrome is keeping the pressure on Apple to actually invest in the web. Without Chrome, the web withers and Apple reenforces their walled app garden.
Math –> GPU: My Transition from Academic Math to GPU Programming
I switched from electric to gas in my last move. Gas is faster and according to the article, cheaper. This is one of those areas where it might be possible to save energy, but I prefer to live in a world where I can choose to spend energy in this way. Line-drying the few clothes that can't go in the dryer indoors often seems to end with them smelling mildewy.

I think a huge factor not touched on in the article is how an investment in faster spin cycles (or switching from top-load to side-load high-speed spin) could dramatically lower drying times and save energy as well.
Sounds like a win for humanity to me.

Writing software was always that, automating yours or (more likely) someone else's job away.
How long do you reckon before firefox/mozilla follow suit? Weeks? Months? Years? A year is my guess.
At this point, there probably is not any price for at least the next 4 years. Angering Musk like that would risk retaliation against both Tesla, and any other company that the people who organized such a firing happens to own.
I want to make it super clear (although the site takes pains to not): this comic wasn’t written/illustrated by McCloud. It was created by the person with the “Leah” handle.
Which was hosted by the Centre for Computing History!
The quiet part which none of us are saying out loud (bec. we love UBO) is that it's insane to allow extensions to have that much power.

uBlock Origin is obv a great great extension and I'm considering switching to FF just for that one extension, but consider what some newfangled AI extension developed by a random dude can do to the webpage you're viewing - anything UBO can do! So I think they have a decent case but I wish there was a carveout for UBO
Yup… but it’s not necessarily in the same state if you do it twice. It’s close, but not identical. Even if the image metadata claims the focus point is identical, the lens in all likelihood is not in the same state and will have some deviation in its intrinsics.
> He's opposed to […] government lockdowns during COVID

> That is exactly who you want running your browser and search company

Yes. “Does the CEO have strong opinions on public health? Are those opinions based more on public health fundamentals or is it vibes?” is the first line of inquiry I pursue when I am looking to download a program on the computer
Elon Musk's X hit by waves of outages, what he claims is 'a cyberattack'
Yup. They should've stuck to that stuff and not published Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby records along with the pile of priceless rarities that exist nowhere else.

They were politely asked three times to remove certain material and refused.

This is not the way an archive should act.
Whataboutism is so lazy.
Like what ? Can i grow a fell and sell it ? /s
It's up 500%+ from 5 years ago
The best lectures on Reinforcement Learning and related topics are by Dimitris Bertsekas: https://web.mit.edu/dimitrib/www/home.html
FWIW, you can build a fully functional desktop for ~$400 with integrated graphics (that can play most modern games on lower settings), or maybe $600 with a discreet GPU. Less if you go with used parts.
>Not only does YouTube either get through or cause weird issues, YouTube now blocks you until you completely disable the extension

Works fine on my machine. You might need to update your filter lists or try another content blocker app.

>Content blockers often block cookie banners too which can often result in broken functionality - a nightmare when you’re trying to buy tickets to something and have to “reload without blockers” for the website to work.

So don't enable the filter lists that try to block cookie banners?
Meanwhile scam cookie stuffing extensions like Honey are 'featured'
> kinda like running Windos applications in Wine

Sometimes works better than on the original Windows? I assume that's not what you meant though :-)
Well I never argued for or against a single market, the commentator said it was rational and sensible. That's a way too simple clarification, there are many conflicting interests in the EU for it just to be sensible.
Counterpoint: I was bullied, have two kids and want more.

I was fed a diet of "just ignore them and they'll go away" (ha), the school promising to do something about it but never more than a slap on the wrist for the bullies, "violence never solves anything", I learned to stay within view of the teachers at recess.

As I got older, I realized the issue was the authority figures in my life never allowed or taught me how to fight, physically or otherwise. The practical solutions to the problem made them so uncomfortable that they avoided even discussing them. So they just let me suffer for years knowing that eventually I'd graduate and the problem would "go away".

Let's just say that my kids won't have that same upbringing, and any bully who tries what I experienced will be in for a shock.
I don't think there's a good discussion to be had about this article. The referenced paper is based on two data sources. One is a longitudinal study (great!) of "hundreds" of children in one region (not bad!) and only checks parenthood at the rather young age of 23-24 (uhhh). The other study is based on Mechanical Turk questions. In both the article and the fullest version of the paper I can find online [1], no further details are provided -- not the size of the effects, not the statistical power, nothing.

[1] https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Febs0000374
Single-fiber computer could one day track your health
No, this is all your assumption lol. Sales are "tanking" due to the model Y rollout, which was best selling car in the world last 2 years at roughly double the cost of the 2nd best selling car.
I couldn't help but notice that the authors were credited "In random order" and am now wondering a) Why not alphabetical? and b) Did they just shuffle the order once or was it "Random until we found an order that happened to match some other criteria we had in mind"
Divide and conquer; we're supposed to hate each other and trust the state/elite/technology, at least that's the plan.

The real criminals, the people we should keep an eye on, are the plan's designers and implementers.
Washers and dryers already do a lot of harm to clothes. My guess would be faster spin cycles do more harm than slower.
Human programmers have continuous assistance on every keystroke - autocomplete, syntax highlighting, and ultimately, also the compilation/build step itself.

For an LLM-equivalent experience, go open notepad.exe and make substantial changes there, and then rebuild - and let the compiler tell you what's your base rate of hallucinating function names and such.
If you see two distinct circles with little overlapping, your binoculars are not properly adjusted for your eye separation. You should see two mostly overlapping circles.
There has never been a problem with having a monopoly because your product is so good that everyone wants it. There's also no problem with natural monopolies, for example there's no sense in having a competitive market for utilities.
>Alright? Split iOS off from Apple, then split Apple Music off too?

Windows is split off from Lenovo/Dell. How's that working out for the Windows OS, or the Edge browser?
Obsessing over loneliness is a key factor in the development of depression
We should run our economy in the way that has the best long term outcome, which is likely with plenty of competition rather than monopolies.

If other countries are doing something to advantage themselves relative to that, there’s tariffs or other ways to relevel the playing field.
2023 was Tesla's peak, since than it is going down. Toyota grows year by year.
No mention of heat pump air dryers? They save considerable amounts of energy. Probably not enough to make up for the increased costs, though -- AFAICT most people install them because they don't require a vent outdoors.
> It's so incredibly inefficient to have individually owned cars just rotting away on the side of the road and in car parks waiting for their owner.

I'm not seeing a ton of inefficiency in me buying a bottom-of-the-line car and driving it until it's no longer driveable?
People say similar things about Google Search, and a few times I've tried not use Google Search but every time I've tried it's become clear that the reason I use Google Search isn't just habit, but that it's the best search engine for most queries I perform.

I've had a very different experience with browsers though... I switch browsers pretty often and with ease. I genuinely can't get my head around why someone would continue to use Google Chrome if they're unhappy with how they're treating their users. The UI between browsers is 99% identical. The most annoying thing about switching browser is just having to spend 10 minutes setting things up, but that isn't going to exceed the annoyance of having to see ads constantly for months or years.

There's really no good reason not to switch browsers. Your habits are not going to change between browsers. Unless you're a Chrome power user and using some very niche features in Chrome there is very, very little difference between Firefox and Chrome for the vast majority of tasks.
Use Brave, it’s been many years and people have few complaints.
uBlock Origin does a bit more than applying community maintained filter lists though. I regularly use its capability to add custom filters for instance. Is that also possible in Brave?
I've always thought is should be Azure, Office and XBox, and each should get their own copy of Windows that they could focus on different things while still being largely compatible. Don't know if XBox could survive on it's own.
Purely monetary speaking, that doesn't seem like a lot. Let's say 10 years lifetime, $210 per year, $18/month so that I don't have to spend a ton of time hanging up laundry the bdey? Totally worth it (inviting the CO2 factor, though our heat pump dryer is very very efficient).
RTL-SDR is an inexpensive way to get started, only a receiver though. Transmitters are more complicated (legally) since a lot of spectrum is off limits without a license in most jurisdictions. They have a kit with a couple basic antennas to get you started.

https://www.rtl-sdr.com/buy-rtl-sdr-dvb-t-dongles/
Yep. MAGA is a hate movement.
Can you install your own personal extensions without getting permission from Mozilla yet? Or are they still banning that? Because that change drove me away from Firefox.
Is the AI coming at a prohibitive cost? I'm not sure I understand what is going to come of those bets, and I'm not a fan of AI everything so I hope it's only used in measured ways that are beneficial, but I certainly would rather them continue innovating.

I don't think they did a whole lot with blockchain beyond some very preliminary dabbling in decentralized web stuff which if it could have gained traction I absolutely would have supported but it certainly doesn't seem like it was a significant drag on developer resources or finances so far as I could tell.

And wouldn't that have to be the argument for any of this to matter?
Indeed. For most projects, you want to start with a framework but that applies to almost all of the languages.
America's Fluoride Rebellion
As the adage goes, time in market beats timing the market.
Musk on the X outage:

>There was (still is) a massive cyberattack against X.

>We get attacked every day, but this was done with a lot of resources. Either a large, coordinated group and/or a country is involved.

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1899149509407473825
Yes. There is zero territorial threat to Canada.
>Apple is totally an advertising company. Have you missed the part about [...]

Have you missed the part of my comment of my comment where I specifically mentioned "web advertising presence"? That's relevant, because ublock would only work on web ads. It can't block ads in the app store, or any other app (eg. spotify).
Since December the S&P 500 is down... 4.10%. It's a small loss, but I don't know if people who cashed out in December are really that much happier.

Especially since for the last 12 months the S&P 500 is still up nearly 10%.
Tesla is still "worth" more than all other auto makers combined. This is on robotaxi vaporware. There's still a long way to fall. It's going to be glorious!
They should be. Their position as the leader of the free world gave them enormous soft power. If every American multinational loses a significant portion of their overseas business it's going to be a significant hit to the US economy.

Edit: Check out the markets today...
Most movies are still released on DVD/Bluray. See https://www.blu-ray.com
He inherited billions and still manages to go bankrupt 6 times.

The Apprentice was the OG reality distortion field and it's crazy people have trouble seeing through it all.
Can you point to a single thing that China did to help Russia at its own expense?

Certainly not resource deals, where China sets cut throat prices.

Talk is cheap and China holds historical grudges, like those lost territories, forever. Having strong dominance over the northern pacific areas would also be far more stable and lucrative than any geopolitical advantages that might be very fleeting.

As for Europe and the US, time will tell. The US is going to pay a high price for the lost credibility. Would you really make yourself dependent by buying US weapons and leave yourself open to such thuggish blackmail tactics we have seen the last weeks? Also the US is a consumer based society that tries to change to a more balanced system. Absolutely understandable but very hard and risky.

We are moving to a multipolar world order and its going to be a time of blood and iron. Russia was just the one making the first move and with the US no longer interested in a rule based world order the mice are coming out to play. I sincerely hope I am wrong.

I don't think that anyone can seriously predict how things will fall out.
I am not so sure if that is the light version. In my (outdated) Ungoogled Chromium which still has classic uBlock, YouTube videos also have delays or do stop playing completely after a few seconds. So I have switched to the FreeTube software to watch YouTube videos. I can recommend that.
So, we must be grateful for exclusion.

Sounds like Revictimization !!!
OP didn’t claim to have done anything.
Security Audit of Hickory DNS
Let me break out my violin for the trillion dollar transnational corporation.
for ~3 decades IT could pretend it didn't need unions because wages and opportunities were good. now the pendulum is swinging back -- maybe they do need those kinds of protections.

and professional orgs are more than just union-ish cartels, they exist to ensure standards, and enforce responsibility on their members. you do shitty unethical stuff as a lawyer and you get disbarred; doctors lose medical licenses, etc.
>I won't even wear contact lenses, I long ago fully committed to glasses. That type of procedure doesn't fit my risk tolerance.

I feel similarly, but as the thickness of my glasses increases as I age, I'm starting to consider Lasik or similar. If I already had cataracts, implanted lenses as part of the cataract removal would be a non-brainer.
For now. We’ll see how long it takes for them to integrate their Brave Bucks for either enabling the blocker or whitelisting ads.
and how does your worldview work in practice? a protected and empowered US/Western conglomerate is more motivated innovate and outcompete mega corps of Russia/China/latest-boogieman and destroys them because of this? or is the point to just say: well Russia/China have their own mediocre protected conglomerates lets have ours too?
The VPN service is probably the most sensible thing they could lean into. It's basically all margin and it works nicely with the privacy messaging.
>There is a premium on mental health and market volatility.

I find that, as soon as I pick up the crystal ball and try to play the prediction game, my mental health suffers greatly. What helps my stress levels the most is to have a portfolio that is well diversified (e.g. a risk parity style portfolio) and stay the course because the portfolio has elements that go up when equities go down.

At the end of the day, the markets can be blatantly irrational (see TSLA) for wildly variable time spans - this means that market timing is inherently gambling. Gambling with your retirement portfolio is incredibly stressful.
Why do people use yt-dlp? Is it to skip ads or watch offline? YouTube premium also lets you watch offline and skip ads but for a price. So surely it's no surprise that Google don't want you to have it for free. I think YouTube premium is too expensive given Google pay so little for the content but I don't think it would be sustainable if everyone got it for free.
I don’t feel the claim that the protest was nonviolent is accurate. I also feel that vandalism and property destruction is something an average person would assume would be punishable and have consequences. The NYPD entering Hamilton Hall was widely broadcast on television and to say that’s the type of protest that wouldn’t warrant consequences is insane. It goes beyond simply exercising the right to free speech.
You know, right now, I sort of want to be an investor just so I could get on the investor/analyst call and have Elon Musk answer one question for investors: "Name 5 things you did in the past week for Tesla." Partially, just to throw his stupid stunts back at him, and partially out of the honest question of what exactly he is doing as CEO, given he's also CEO of like 5 other companies and shadow CEO of Twitter and DOGE and apparently spending all of his time on social media.
> I migrated off Chrome as soon as this BS story about improving privacy

What are you using instead?
> so she spends less time outdoors

Instead of just wearing shades? That's silly.
Monopolists gonna use every anti-competitive tactic in the book to protect their racket.
Some SQL Tricks of an Application DBA (2020)
If you took profits in December you would have watched the market continue to climb and it’s entirely possible instead of tanking right now it could have kept going and you’d just be watching it everyday go up and up.

Don’t time the market unless you know something others don’t. Just don’t.
You would be wrong. The difference between a code camper (3-6 months) vs a bachelor's in compsci is the difference between a paramedic and a doctor. If all you need is a CRUD dev who can make use of a JS framework and a CSS library then it might be sufficient, but the rigorous fundamentals underpinning a compsci degree (discrete maths, data structures, algorithms, etc.) makes for a far more knowledgable and solid engineer.
Repeat the lie often enough and loud enough, it becomes accepted as truth. A billboard is pretty loud in this context.
Largest OS share in the market? Seems to be working out pretty good?

Edge is a perfectly good browser now? Probably should be its own company too if we are splitting Chrome off from Google.

I will tell you that we should split these companies into 100 parts if thats what you are asking.

Imagine if Apple licensed its chips out in competition with Qualcomm...
In general I would expect a mixture of two things: since this is an open source project, it should be building those things from source (even if that source isn't in this specific repo), and/or [related to that one] if it has dependencies upon pre-built binaries then put those in the build script so a reasonable person could audit both what's in that .dll and where it came from. In this specific case it seems like it came from some rando spam site without any idea what is actually in the .dll

This situation seems to be on brand for a repo that has a file named malware.c but I am addressing the general case that you asked
That aviation without GPS isn’t as safe as aviation with it.
I think there should be legal consequences for people who did violent egregious things. I don’t think they should be overcharged. I think everyone should face legal consequences on either sides protests at an appropriate level.