skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple put all their chips behind Retina/HiDPI displays. To that end, they've got really good HiDPI resolution scaling, they no longer sell displays incapable of Retina features (in laptops or stand-alone), and they have removed features that only serve to support sub-4k displays. To Apple, 4k is the minimum standard.

If you want a 2k monitor you can buy one and hook it up, but Apple isn't interested in making it look good. It's a not new decision, either. They stopped selling Macbooks without Retina displays in 2016. They haven't supported 2k scaling since the M1 Mac Mini over 5 years ago: https://www.macworld.com/article/549493/how-to-m1-mac-1440p-...

Apple is not a budget vendor. They're a premium vendor. That's not just what other people call them. It's what they themselves profess to be. That's why you can get an Apple Thunderbolt cable for $70. To Apple, if you buy a Mac Mini, yes they're expecting you to hook it up to a 4k monitor. They expect you to be getting a Mac Mini because you want a Mac, not because you can't afford a Macbook.
https://ui.modernbanc.com/modernbanc_demo
Vision LLMs are definitely an interesting application.

At Avy.ai we're running small (2B-7B, quantized) vision models as part of a Mac desktop application for understanding what someone is working on in the moment, to offer them related information and actions.

We found that the raw results in understanding the images with a light LORA fine tune are not substantially different -- but the ease of getting a small model to follow instructions in outputting structured data in response to the image and at the level of verbosity and detail we need is greatly enhanced with fine tuning. Without fine tuning the models on the smaller end of that scale would be much more difficult to use, not reliably producing output that matched what the consuming application expects
The U.S. is falling behind China in nuclear fusion, needed to power AI
This is the way, small bite-sized pieces of the elephant. Unfortunately it means you do need to understand programming concepts, composition and to a lesser degree, architecture. On the positive side - these are new tools, and we need to learn how to work with them. They do have the power to nX times the person who has a bit of knowledge and can also adapt to their ways.
Also the Chinese CAP1000 design is largely just an AP1000, and China plans to go from shovels down to operation in five years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lianjiang_Nuclear_Power_Plant
SWF is the Flash format. Not sure why they're targeting that, but there would be lots of flash out there to train on.
How is that related to the tradeoff calculation at hand?

Implementing VP9, enabling it, transcoding videos and testing it COST SWE hours, it didn't save them. It also cost resources.

In what way did you envision the VP9 issue being related to SWE/resource hour computations here?
Fundamental miscalculation in the design of Starship V2 and its engine section
It would be interesting to see what AS they're from. If they're US residential[1] (or governmental), it would be more interesting than if they're just US data center.

[1] it still could be a hijacked device from a botnet or else, yadayada, but still
Code generation or question answering. But ideally 70+B
Class names are considered case sensitive in HTML, and CSS selectors honor this except when in quirks mode. I suspect you're activating quirks mode when you mess with the doctype, causing the matching behavior to become case insensitive. This should be the same in Firefox as well, but I haven't tested it.
>He did make a point to clarify the delay was because they’d been stuck behind an off schedule German train.

That's hilarious.
Most of the problems with US unions can be traced back to anti-union legislation that used the promises of entrenching current unions as a carrot to get the laws passed to suppress new unions. New unions are much harder to create today, even more so if there is an existing union that covers similiar employees to your own.
And old established unions are hard to get rid of even if the majority of employees are unhappy with it and would rather it was either gone or replaced with a different union with different rules and leaders.
And an old entrenched bureaucratic political position is an easy target for corruption.
I don’t think AI cares where it’s power comes from…
Like ADHD?
For those curious: It's somewhat documented if you read between the lines that the "secret APIs" that everyone was afraid of were really things like string management and what-have-you in a shared library among many different Microsoft products.

Meanwhile, Apple has a habit of hiding functionality behind a lot of obscure API calls that aren't documented and require special entitlements to call.
Satshot Founder Lanny Faleide Takes Global Imagery to New Heights
or else pay another $15 (another manager's dream).
> There is a population of people today though who have internalized the threat of COVID as a core part of their identity

I imagine if you have a reason to be that scared of covid (e.g. immunocompromised or -adjacent) to propose that someone exclude a threat to their physical health from their identity seems like an impossible ask. The risk isn't imaginary, and it's notably higher than the pre-covid world. There is no going back.

Not sure why it's so hard to grasp that COVID allowed certain demographics to see how little society actually has regard for them.
A court will never make a statement favoring either side in a settlement. A settlement means the case never went to trial, and therefore, the sides never presented their cases in full to the court, so such a statement would be completely out of line.

In my brief experience with litigation the only role the court has in helping both sides achieve a settlement is forcing the litigants to go through endless and expensive procedure until they both realize it's not worth it. Before trial, the court does little to indicate to you that it even knows you exist.
Yeah this annoys me even though I'm a daily user of both fd and rg. What makes it more confusing is that many of the flags DO align - or partially align.

For example, I'm used to glob patterns but the glob flag (-g) works differently in fd and rg. I think that fd's -g flag does not use "full-path" globbing while rg's -g does (or the other way around). To get fd to use rg style globs, it also needs the -p flag, which rg also recognizes but it has a completely different meaning for rg and has nothing to do with how globbing/filename matching works.

I guess I'm used to the warts at this stage, like I had gotten used to the warts on find and grep all those years ago.

Difficult or impossible to fix these inconsistencies at this stage without breaking backward compatibility.
Admin considers giving up NATO command held exclusively by US since Eisenhower
My point was more that, at least in this case, it looks like a post was hidden without any moderator intervention.

If this is indeed what happened, it seems like a bad thing that it's even possible. Since many, perhaps most people probably don't have showdead enabled, it means that the 'flag' option is effectively a mega-downvote.
LLM/AI companies DDoS-ing Git forges from open-source communities
if you want to try fd, bat, numbat, hexyl and hyperfine, you can install them quickly and see screenshots of them below on Terminal Trove:

fd - https://terminaltrove.com/fd/

bat - https://terminaltrove.com/bat/

numbat - https://terminaltrove.com/numbat/

hyperfine - https://terminaltrove.com/hyperfine/

hexyl - https://terminaltrove.com/hexyl/

we make a real effort to ensure that you can install them with the ability to see the screenshots.
Nevermind designing _systems_ that account for this, even just debugging such errors is much harder than ones you create yourself:

https://www.bugsink.com/blog/copilot-induced-crash/
Technically a measure of power, work/time.
When we were in Hawaii I think the only reason we caught the sunset is because we were less than 400 yards from a beach. By the time you know the sun is going down you are about to be in the dark.

Movies about vampires in the Arctic Circle are fun but vampires at the equator would be more terrifying for the humans at dusk and for the vampires at dawn.
I should have been more careful with my phrasing. What I meant is I am much more aware of my own understanding, gaps and shortcomings and more actively involved in learning and processing information when I am reading. And I honestly cannot think of even consuming certain books with audio medium. As I commented elsewhere, "Gravity's rainbow" is one such book, in which for me, even a single page cannot be consumed using audio medium.
Did you check to see if Freetype supports platforms that don't have floating-point math, or where it's very slow? I agree that fixed-point math is unnecessary on modern hardware and architectures, but they may prioritize support for hardware you don't personally care about.

Sure, a compile-time option to use one or the other might sound reasonable, but then that's two different code paths that need to be maintained and tested. Are you willing to do that maintenance on an ongoing basis?

And can you be certain that switching to floating-point doesn't change the results of calculations in various ways that actually matter for rendering? Are you willing to put in the time to test that thoroughly?

Instead of engaging with the developer, you just ignored them and moved on. I certainly wouldn't want to merge a patch into one of my projects if it came from someone with your attitude.
I read it, and it sounded more like an excuse. Astronauts could have come down anytime but for this weird reason they decided to hang out up there in an unplanned 8 month trip.

> my comment is accurate

Not really. You mentioned Musk stranded them after Jan 20.

They came down less than 2 months after that date. That seems fast for a space trip. Faster than the other 6 months...
Thank you, it's really nice seeing cooler heads prevail on the question of "why didn't they build in my favourite thing X?"

In entirely unrelated news, I think Chrome should totally switch engines from V8 to a Rust built one, like hmm... our / my Nova JavaScript engine! j/k

Great stuff on the font front, thank you for the articles, Rust/C++ interop work, and keep it up!
Have anyone used those small models in any production environment?

If yes, what they are good and bad at?
So can I claim copyright for AI-generated art?
I'm not sure I'd do either for this trivial case, but it might make sense where the cleanup logic is more complex?

void* p1 = malloc(...);
void* p2 = malloc(...);
void* p3 = malloc(...);

if(p1 && p2 && p3)
return {p1, p2, p3};

free(p3);
free(p2);
free(p1);
return NULL;
It's not needed to power AI.
Show HN: Open-Source RAG with Sharepoint
When was our first Catholic president?
More access to key iPhone features coming to developers and device manufacturers
Pretty much all of the dozens (56!) of reactors France built in the 70s took 5-6 years between construction and operation. How much weight do you give those dozens of builds, vs a couple one-offs? Yes, the fact that we've waited 40 years to build another single reactor is part of the problem. But it gets faster if you don't do crazy one-off designs and you get some experience building more than, you know, one.
Do you have a problem with SMS spam? I can't remember the last time I got a spam SMS message, and I had my phone number on public on my personal website for a number of years.

Perhaps SMS spam is a US thing?
Oh it gets so much worse. Train is now parked up just outside Manchester with zero power. Another 10mins is worth £35 at this point
iOS is the gatekeeper. AirPlay is how iOS plays media wirelessly.

iMessage isn't a gatekeeper because it isn't popular enough in Europe. It comes with iOS, but most European iOS users don't use it for enough of their messaging for the regulators to give it that classification.
I like the restrain they have: "This points to the possibility that the survey may have been manipulated", yeah, 250k votes from 2 US IPs on a survey of a German-only equivalent to msn.com, may. :D

Translation:

According to a T-Online[1] survey, hardly any Germans still want to buy Teslas. But suddenly the number of participants exploded. T-Online stops the survey.

100k people took part in a non-representative t-online survey last week - within just a few days. The question was: "Would you still buy a Tesla car?" The result was clear on March 11th: around 94 % of participants said "Absolutely not". In contrast, only around 3 % of participants chose "Yes, no problem".

Just one week later, the result looks different - and the number of participants has exploded. 467k people had voted by Tuesday evening (as of March 18th, 17:00 o'clock). Suddenly, around 70 % of survey participants want to buy a Tesla - the proportion saying "no way" has fallen to 29 %.

It was initially unclear where these votes - and the sudden change in opinion - came from. At first glance, the number of article views in the past few days and the number of survey participants do not match. Initial in-house research now shows that 253k of the votes cast came from just 2 IP addresses in the USA. This points to the possibility that the survey may have been manipulated.

Furthermore, T-Online noticed that the link to the evaluation article and thus to the survey was shared thousands of times on Twitter and other social networks. On Tuesday evening, Tesla boss Musk himself shared the article with the new, more pleasing result for him.

Musk's post collected 2,8 million views on Twitter within the first two hours. Since then, the number of hits on the survey has increased noticeably once again. On Tuesday evening, there were several hundred per minute. T-Online has stopped the survey until further notice and removed it from the relevant articles.
Since you've mentioned that you never see the annoying strike force threads that others complain about, you're in one.
In some cases. Real estate is not something you can do hands off management of. Historic attempts to outsource have tended to fail because it is really easy for management companies to say something needs more work than it really does and drain all the profits. As such if you know a property in a different city is going to go up the smart things to do is buy it and leave it empty while paying taxes - this is cheaper than fixing the roof, risking bad tenants and all the other things that a long term investment requires. This really only works if you hold for only a couple years though, otherwise the taxes/interest will eat your profit.

Note that the above limitations also limit how much can be invested this way. Most property won't go up by enough to be worth the investment costs.
That's what I mean, I was converting US$20/hour to C$/year and assuming 2000 hours/year. None of these people were paid hourly.

I think a starting rate for devs in a software shop is probably closer to C$75k/yr = US$26/hr, at least in this market. Still lower than I expected, but not US$20.
When you want vendor lockin docker seems counter productive.
Has anyone made an awk replacement? I find awk get's really annoying and ugly really fast, as things become even mildly complicated.

I feel like awk could be so much better.
> they seem to be effective in achieving their goal of cratering Tesla sales.

I just don't think that ultimately wins elections, hearts, or minds.
I guess you have a lot of time to philosophize about the sun when you're knocking back your sixth cup of coffee for the day.
The author is the project editor for the ISO C standard.

(And I hardly think that analyzing speculating about the motivation for the author's chosen nickname is constructive.)
> I don't know where this delusional that dudes are just hanging brain around women is coming from. You're right, that doesn't happen. That's a conservative's wet dream. I'm sure you, and others, would be beyond ecstatic if transgender people were doing that. Maybe then, you'd have a smidge of justification for all this.

Me: "I want our society to allow businesses to prohibit people with penises from receiving certain services, for example a nude massage at a women-only spa."

You: "This is not happening, it's a conservative's wet dream, maybe if it were happening you'd have a smidge of justification for all this."

If it's not happening, why not allow businesses to prohibit it? Like, if no trans women want to hang out naked with natal women, is it a problem for Wi Spa or Olympus Spa or Archimedes Banya to say "as a nude facility that serves women, we are uncomfortable having phalluses on the premise"? Why are there protests and lawsuits and investigations when people implement these policies?

Do you personally think that those policies are objectionable? Do you think they should be illegal?
In my past career as a fertilizer company agronomist I worked with Lanny Faleide closely. I started doing infrared crop photography by renting a plane back in 1982. That didn't prove scalable and when Lanny started SatShots I saw it as a superior alternative.

Between my second and third startups Lanny actually tried to hire me. I was interested in the work but couldn't ultimately come to terms with working in North Dakota ;<). If it had been in Silicon Valley I'd probably have retired there. Fun fact we met to discuss the job on Sept 11, 2001. I think it took him four or five days to find a car to rent so that he could get back home.
One of my wife's distant relatives was killed by a domestic pig. Don't know if he was eaten.
Google Colab is quite easy to use and has the benefit of not making your local computer feel sluggish while you run the training. The linked Unsloth post provides a notebook that can be launched there and I've had pretty good luck adapting their other notebooks with different foundational models. As a sibling noted, if you're using LORA instead of a full fine-tune, you can create adapters for fairly large models with the VRAM available in Colab, especially the paid plans.

If you have a Mac, you can also do pretty well training LORA adapters using something like Llama-Factory, and allowing it to run overnight. It's slower than an NVIDIA GPU but the increased effective memory size (if you say have 128GB) can allow you more flexibility.
Canadian here. I recall in 1991 being woken by Swiss border guards in a train carriage full of Germans and Italians. After inspecting their passports they shined the light in my face. They saw my maple leaf on my bag and asked “Est-tu Canadian” bleary eyed I replied “oui” and they said,”it’s fine, we don’t need to see your passport”. Of course 9 years later I was thrown off a train to Czechoslovakia” because they changed the visa requirements at the last minute and my “Let’s Go” guidebook was out of date.

Oh being young, stupid and crossing boarders without a clue.
For lightweight calculations re-execute everything while typing cells https://github.com/idanpa/jupad
I think you can do that in an excel spreadsheet.
What do you guys think about the movie Insomnia with Al Pacino and Robin Williams?
> I think you just argued both sides. :D

Both sides of what? Whether the comparison is valid?

Saying "those shouldn't be directly compared but if you do it anyway it goes the wrong way" isn't arguing both sides. (And a few words to specify less confidence don't change that.)
> An avg price for a normal watch is $100-$200.

That depends on where you live (a $200 watch certainly wouldn't be considered "normal" where I live), but also: a normal watch has a lot more aesthetic value than this, even considering that this has good aesthetics for a smartwatch. It usually also has a significantly longer usable life, at least five times that of devices like this.

But I should have clarified in my original comment that the "primed by Apple watch pricing" was specifically referring to the people that seemed to think this was really cheap and that the price should be increased! I don't think the price here is unfair necessarily, but definitely disagree with the people who seem to think this is really underpriced.
That's like saying "there are no perfect spheres in the real world, ergo Newton's Laws are bunk."

I am not a simpleton. I am aware that perfectly elastic supply and demand curves pushing to static equilibrium is not how the world works in practice. But if economics as a study of resources and its markets is going to be a rigorous field, it has to start from some general principles and then explain how paradoxes are consistent in a general framework of limited resources and unlimited wants. Otherwise it's not a serious discipline, just ideologues playing with SPSS on data sources of quality we can only guess at.

If there building more houses does not lead to an easing of prices on houses, then we deserve an explanation and a rigorous confirmation, not speculation.
TIL fonts have more than just a collection of vectorized glyphs in them
> Not sure the details of Omaha, but where I live in Los Angeles, insane building codes make it incredibly difficult to profitably develop affordable housing. The very nice apartments I lived in when I lived in Tokyo would all have been illegal in Los Angeles.

That's not what affordable housing is. You probably didn't live in affordable housing in Tokyo (edit: of course I could be wrong, but it's not my first guess). Yes, your housing was affordable. But affordable housing in US cities is subsidized and price capped, with income restrictions.
Regulation makes this worse. Imagine if every gen-AI media was required to have some signature. The bad actors won't use this signature. Or worse, they will add the signature to real media to cast doubt. Or both at the same time.

Also, how much gen AI is enough to require a watermark? If I generativley fill the part of my photo that I blurred with my thumb, should the entire photo be watermarked? Just the part that I filled in? What if I use a gen AI tool, but only apply a transformation that does not require gen AI (like adding a label on an image)?

Cryptographic watermarks for Gen AI or for non-Gen AI media is dangerous from a security standpoint.
Start here.

ssh new@sdf.org

Have fun!
From my recollection of Hawking - it’s the energy of light that disturbs the particle being measured thus confounding the measurement

Presumably a gravity based detector would have similar issues as these particles are affected by gravity (as can be seen around black holes)
I actually agree with that completely. I just want it to be clear that this is a conscious business decision that apple is making and not the result of technical challenges. I think the distinction is important because I don’t love the tradeoffs apple chose to make, but I continue to buy an iPhone because at the end of the day my phone is mostly about being social and it’s a frustrating experience trying to communicate with friends and family who all have iPhones which make interoperability with other messaging ecosystems frustrating. If iPhone RCS support worked as well as native messaging I’d switch to an android in a heartbeat.
I'm working on AssetRoom, a free service to email you noise-free, easy to digest summaries of SEC filings from companies you're interested in.

https://www.assetroom.net/
If you have a desktop - maybe sell that and replace it with a laptop. Thinkpads continue to be absolutely workhorses and an older model should be relatively cheap these days. Best of luck.
Maybe there's an issue with the box getting stolen.
The suggested solution is look at motifs: windows that are highly similar when trivial matches due to window overlap are excluded. If you take this to its logical conclusion, you end up in the Matrix Profile rabbit hole. https://www.cs.ucr.edu/~eamonn/MatrixProfile.html
I mean honestly even most kings aren’t that oversensitive; you’re really just looking at Thailand. Even fucking Putin isn’t really _this_ thin-skinned. Closest parallel I can think of is maybe Kim Jong Un?
So 80% of journeys have a 50% refund?
I hope this means they're going to continue to invest in the GPU line. Competition is good.