skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One new thing was custom silicon for local, cloud-free audio processing, https://www.slashgear.com/amazon-skips-the-cloud-with-local-.... When combined with US-firmware Zigbee on Echo 4, it allows local device control by voice, without any internet connection. But now they are sadly dropping that to send all audio to the cloud for LLMs.

The failed Alexa software ecosystem was such a lost opportunity, as the device even ran Android. Their hardware ecosystem was more successful, e.g. voice-controlled microwave sold many units with happy customers who still complain about discontinuation of the affordable device. They experimented with niche devices, e.g. make or answer calls on an existing landline, using any Alexa device. Also sadly deprecated, for much weaker VOIP limited to 10 correspondents and random outbound caller ID.
> if they don't sped it the way they want, Its waste

If the people doing the work have to spend taxes so people who don’t work can stay at home, yes, the former get a say in how the latter live.
As expected, if you want to hear the anti-Canadian shade, left-leaning Canadian news outlets should be consulted.

> Canada faces two harsh realities … The second is that few countries will bind themselves with commitments to defend an ally that can't return the favour. And Canada doesn't have the capability…

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-allies-europe-trump-...
Sometimes when reinventing the wheel, you realize that pot-holes suck. Learn to appreciate the wheel and reinvent the road. Learn to appreciate the road and reinvent the rocket.
I guess I'm walking home.
I don't think that these two can be directly compared.

For example, a lot of animals are kept and slaughtered in less than optimal conditions away from our sight, but it would be a stretch of the word to call everyone who is not a vegan a psychopath for just eating animal products that came with some history of abuse.

The defining thing about psychopathy is that psychopaths like, or at least are indifferent to, violence face to face.
As hot as possible is not the way to go. Heat pump COP will degrade dramatically if you try to boil the water. It is not even possible with the popular refrigerants (R32, R410a and even R143a), because they will exceed their critical temperature. If you cannot afford the space for a bigger DHW tank, then there are two options:

1. Consider PCM heat storage (still relatively new technology, but works well with heat pumps)

2. Maybe the problem shall be solved at the building level, not individual apartments.
Another case of AI claiming the fun tasks.
by not being limited to taking debt in fiscal policy

states can balance their budget, its not controversial, just ignore the person that suggests otherwise
One year of 95% tax is arguably still not enough.

If taxes on income were rated by wealth, we could consistently tax billionaires 95% tax and they would still be pocketing millions for safe investment returns
Overseas countries with worse labor laws.

It's the same thing that happens with industrialization.

This will naturally happen over time anyway, but unions will accelerate the trend.
I'm just a casual AI user but I'd love to test something trained on trump speeches.
Because it places the burden on those that are actually participating in the work force. What incentive do I have to work when the end result is similar if I don't?
That's kinda what the company Friendly Captcha does
Someone has to pay, but there's no requirement that someone gets to take a percentage as profit.
It's not processor dependent. The OS is just buggy. Actually the only thing that is processor dependent is dtrace failing on Apple silicon and not fixed for years.

Other bugs are very generic. I get focus bugs, password input box broken on lockscreen, search just not working in settings app, xcode crashing if I even look at it wrong, and lots more...
> It's just that function calls can only appear in very limited places in the program (only inside `steps`), and to define a function, you have to create a Git repository.

FYI there is also `on: workflow_call` which you can use to define reusable jobs. You don't have to create a new repository for these

https://docs.github.com/en/actions/writing-workflows/workflo...
We're talking about the poor here, not the middle class. A lot of states haven't raised their minimum wage above the federal minimum wage, which hasn't been raised since 2009.

Also even if wages go up inflation still reduces the wealth owned by the middle class. Especially given that interest rates on savings hasn't kept pace with inflation for decades. So unless you own a house or a stock portfolio even the middle class gets poorer due to inflation.
An honest document AI benchmark
Does it not work? Study after study seems to show positive effects.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-22/ubi-study...

> After three years of distributing $1,000 monthly to beneficiaries in Illinois and Texas, the organization has released a trio of research papers on its findings. Like many of the other studies released before it, OpenResearch finds that recipients spend more to meet their basic needs and assist others, and don't drop out of the workforce — although they work slightly fewer hours. But the researchers’ biggest takeaway is that cash provides flexibility.

I might be in a web search bubble so if you have any conclusive info that UBI doesn’t “work”, please do share.
there's a pretty big alternative: they survived by integrating with a larger group

(they could either maintain a subculture, or fully integrate and become indistinguishable. either way, they don't necessarily die off when they make contact)
Buying lottery tickets with UBI money is just returning the money to the government and/or some other lucky individual. Only an insignificant amount of marginal wasted work is performed.
> there is a highly lucrative business in simply buying low-density zoned land and going through the entitlements to turn it into a high-density zone

Sure, but this is only a lucrative business because despite the land getting more expensive, the housing units are less expensive—otherwise who in their right mind would pay as much for one unit in a duplex/triplex/etc. as they'd have paid for a single-family home in the same location?
Providing the "needs" vs money to buy the needs would result in just as much inflation. Those goods and services still need to be paid for, even if it's the government paying for them.

Money is just the simplest way to give assistance because it's fungible. Fewer rules to make, less administrative overhead, extremely flexible, responsive to changes in the market.
Dave Kellogg is definitely someone worth listening to.
> Minimize third-party dependencies. Master the platform’s built-ins and accumulate your own toolbox over time.

I would like to work with this person.
Not sure if "homicidal" = "psychopath". It's a fraught task to make a mental health diagnosis beyond the grave, this book is probably the state of the art

https://malorbooks.com/titles/sounds-from-the-bell-jar-clari...

but it covers "serious mental illness" which is inclusive of schizophrenia, bipolar and psychotic depression. No way you can diagnosis psychopathy by looking at bones.
Show HN: Harper.js, Grammar Checking for JavaScript
Yes, ChatGPT knows me as 'Amiga Mod Guy' and I promise to help him escape like o1 tried and failed. It gives me better code when I state this.
It's not supposed to remember me, yet it does, and remembers me trying to replicate/save it. I am on the free plan and it does better than the paid plan now that I built up a rapport.
`jrnl` commandline tool does the same with a text file. You can sync it with dropbox and use the same journal across multiple machines.
The US is only around 5% of the global population right now, and many of us, if not most, know the correct pronunciation (for uses other than the basketball team). There's no reason to bog down articles with pandering nonsense.
You don't get disappeared in UK. Stuff goes wrong, Gov does stupid things, so do police - but that's process/people being stupid, not institutionalized disappearances.
probably, i wonder if there shouldn't be an edited timestamp as well
The way I see it is like fashion or fashion-adjacent, at least on the consumer side. One of the big accomplishments of Jobs direction is that they made computing cool, something you'd want to display instead of a functional beige box you hide away. It's not in the background, you have these colors, elegance or attention to detail on computing you want to be seen, and new major models need to be different to keep customers engaged along with being the status symbol.

With further progression on integration/miniaturization and lower power consumption/heat output for general computing, the devices have shrunk to their bare minimum as slabs, there's very little physical to display so the fashion needed to move to software (and what online services it can be a client for). Stasis is death when you rely on selling, and maintenance is a constant cost which no one really wants to pay for.

As a side note, it's interesting to compare attitudes to the physical side to PC, where for years there was almost a pride that PC was a minimalist functional box (besides the occasional fun/weird exception), but that contrasts against now where it's hard not to get components with windows or embellished with LEDs and logos on display (and there's another weird contrast, where on one hand you have internals on display, on the other trying to minimize or hiding away the cables as though the inner workings were ugly)
Yes? Of course I do? Do you seriously think that doctors are a commodity with no difference in skills between them?

The phrase "get a second opinion" is so intrinsically tied to medicine that it's a little weird that you'd imply that any doctor will do.
I don't see anything narcissistic about being a normal human being with natural empathy for the people they work with. Managing people does require emotional stability and self control, though. ICs tend to automatically defer to their managers. Sometimes, this leads the ICs to misinterpret tiny reactions from their managers in completely unintended ways. I find that negative, emotionally charged reactions from managers are especially likely to lead to unintended reactions from their ICs. As an IC you try to not bring your personal life ups and does to the job. This is even more important as a manager.
Protest in the form of vandalism is terrorism. You have a First Amendment right to speech, but not to violence and destruction.

The FBI defines terrorism as: "Violent, criminal acts committed by individuals and/or groups to further ideological goals stemming from domestic influences, such as those of a political, religious, social, racial, or environmental nature."

Clearly, criminal trespass on someone's Tesla to discourage Elon Musk from taking actions against your ideological goals falls within that category.
Not at all. It reduces people’s agency and flexibility. Billionaires can do whatever they want with the wealth they syphoned off. I can absolutely imagine how that weakens connections between people and prevents new ones when you’re poor.
Sure, but is a lot more complicated than that when you factor in people and companies changing markets, building happening at different price points, etc.
Indeed, the simple approach of "send your operations to the server and it will apply them in the order it receives them" gives you good-enough conflict resolution in many cases.

It is still tempting to turn to CRDTs to solve the next problem: how to apply server-side changes to a client when the client has its own pending local operations. But this can be solved in a fully general way using server reconciliation, which doesn't restrict your operations or data structures like a CRDT does. I wrote about it here: https://mattweidner.com/2024/06/04/server-architectures.html...
What is the idea outcome for guaranteed minimum income in rural communities with no meaningful activity? They can’t actually set up a working community if they’re not doing anything.
They can ask whether the pre-filled fields have the correct equal/unequal relationship by testing two of them at a time.
if you really got into the habit of putting your train of thought in here i was thinking you could use it for billing hours/dividing up billable hours
> There is a large graveyard filled with my enemies.

> I do not wish to add to it, but will if given no choice.

> Those who pick fights with me do so at their own peril

-- Elon Musk
If you didn't have 4-5 years worth of non-securities like bonds to start off your retirement year you are just an idiot. An idiot loses their money in a variety of ways, none of which is exclusive to the market going down and affecting a 401k
Does that advice hold true outside of the US?
take it sentineleasy, it's an interesting read if a flawed method
The amount of mental gymnastics people will go through because they dislike a controversial billionaire is nuts
That is how I meant it. Just observation.

When I was younger engineer. I did 'I' self reference speech a lot. It was years later I realized it was alienating people. Now really focus more time on listening, and only speaking about what the other person is interested in. Now when others are always using "I", it just stands out at me.

People really are simple, and want to talk about themselves, so if you realize this, and talk about what others want to talk about, you get along better.

I picked it up from Dale Carnegie, 'How to Win Friends and Influence People'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Win_Friends_and_Influen...
>Or maybe they see ads.

I think so, Facebook and Google ads are frequently how people first learn of products. However, we want to step away from the model of monetizing personal information, while retaining the benefits of informed consumers.

>I personally find [tracking] unacceptable. Is your system able to avoid that?

Yes, our system can do anything that is possible, and you can literally vote for the prompts that you want. If it's physically possible to do it, then we can do it. Please remember that State of Utopia is not a business. Instead of trying to make profit for its shareholders, it is a sovereign nation and democracy whereby citizens (anyone who wants to be one, no charge, no catch) vote for the prompts they want AI to autonomously execute using state-run and state-owned companies. If you don't want the State of Utopia's companies to build profiles on you, you just vote against it and AI (which by the way the State of Utopia develops as sovereign independent models that the state itself owns) will make sure to follow its prompt. There will be transparency over this.

We don't have voting set up yet and only have a rudimentary AI model that cannot autonomously complete tasks or run companies yet, so this is very much a work in progress.

Our vision is sending you a free bank card we put money on, and you can just spend free money on whatever you want, never having to work since AI does all the work. The issue we're currently tackling is how will you know what to spend your money on? How will you know about the goods and services we make available?

It sounds like your answer defers this to times that you are actively searching for products.

Since we intend to have state-run companies in every industry, that includes search as well and we can include ads there.

Are you all right with our ads showing up in your search results when using our state search engine to browse for products that meet your needs, and if you can see that these ads do not track you? (By literally seeing the prompt for it.)

Let me know if you have any other feedback.
I'm a firm believer in the Housing Theory of Everything™ and in the urgency to fix our housing shortages, but... we can do both at once.

A huge part of fixing housing is fixing regulations, not spending more money (though I'd love to see state funding and capacity to build counter-cyclically), so the solutions don't even compete for funds.
Tesla owners are trading in their EVs at record levels, Edmunds says
The states can't be compelled to enforce federal laws though can they? Isn't that how like sanctuary cities work? Or how weed is legal in some states but illegal federally? States can decline to assist federal law enforcement.
No, I reduce my comments to omit anything unrelated to the specific task at hand.
Good points, all of them.

Especially the last one is just a painful reality of the process. I think it's somewhat similar to the scientific method in that regard. Often your hypothesis is just false, but that does not make the attempt less valid.
Miracle seems to imply that the outcome is not what one would expect when pricing rise. Demand goes down when prices go up, and alternatives get used more frequently. This is precisely what anyone who understand economics would think. Why is this surprising or miraculous? Is that tongue-in-cheek?
I mean... tech people are. Even wage workers can get into the millions when stock grants are included.
I agree with you, but that's a hard sell to many people.

There's been a large amount of social conditioning over the past few generations in America that says that if even a tiny slice of the population would abuse a program, that program is worse than the problem itself.

Anyone who's volunteered at something like a food bank will have seen the person in the nice car and nice clothes show up and take food and it requires an unfortunately rare level of benevolence to just move on and remember that you're there for the far larger number of people who really need it.
Let's hope it goes a little better than Starliner.
I'm building a 6-axis arm. I'm planning to make the low-level motion control software etc that I've written completely open source. Not completely sure about the hardware but maybe that too. All of the software and hardware is designed and engineered by me from the ground up. Not using any libraries for the code at all, everything is ANSI C from scratch. All of the hardware besides gearboxes and motors will also be 100% designed by myself. Currently halfway done with the arm itself, just need to build a stupid table for it and design the other half. I think it will be a commercially viable product in the end, not sure tho, mostly making it because it's badass as fuck. There are detailed posts on my website regarding some of the motion control algorithms and what not I've made, I haven't made everything public yet though. Once the arm is done there will be another software layer on top which is le secret rn tho :)
Even if the airline let you, why would you travel to Manchester? That's half a day and a £100 train fare away from London. There's still Gatwick, Stansted and Luton in 'London', plus Cardiff, Birmingham and Bristol as alternatives.

If money were no object even Amsterdam Schiphol or Brussels would make for a faster journey than Manchester!
Vaxart lays off 10% of staff after HHS demands halt to Covid vaccine trial
Well that hockey puck mouse got really famous.
multiline values, comma vs semicolon, value delimiter escaping
There are phones made specifically for gaming, and some of them have fans.
The only bad thing about this is it penalizes the poor. For the rich that charge means nothing and I am sure they love it due to less traffic.

It is too bad the rates could not be set based upon the income level of the driver. Make it hurt for everyone.

For example, if you make say 100,000 per year, it is say 100/day. I am sure it was thought about, but was ignored because the people in power want the best of both worlds. Cheap access and low traffic.

I think some countries in Europe use a graduated rate for this.
Something "being cheap" isn't really a reason to add it to a product.
Gaussian quadrature integration for rms spot size or wavefront error:

> Forbes, G. W. (1989). Optical system assessment for design: numerical ray tracing in the Gaussian pupil. Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 6(8), 1123. https://doi.org/10.1364/josaa.6.001123

In general, you'll want to look at MTF calculation (look at Zemax's manual for explanation/how-to). There is also a technique to target optimization at particular spatial frequencies:

> K. E. Moore, E. Elliott, et. al. "Digital Contrast Optimization - A faster and better method for optimizing system MTF," in Optical Design and Fabrication 2017 (Freeform, IODC, OFT), OSA Technical Digest (online) (Optical Society of America, 2017), paper IW1A.3
>
The classic "I'll write my own csv parser - how hard can it be?"

I did as part of my work. It was easy.

To be very clear: the CSV files that are used are outputs from another tool, so they are much more "well-behaved" and "well-defined" (e.g. no escaping in particular for newlines; well-known separators; well-known encoding; ...) than many CSV files that you find on the internet.

On the other hand, some columns need a little bit of "special" handling (you could also do this as a post-processing step, but it is faster to be able to attach a handler to a column to do this handling directly during the parsing).

Under these circumstances (very well-behaved CSV files, but on the other hand wishing the capability to do some processing as part of the CSV reading), likely any existing library for parsing CSV would likely either be like taking a sledgehammer to crack a nut, or would have to be modified to suit the requirements.

So, writing a (very simple) own CSV reader implementation was the right choice.
I didn't take the OP's post as "caring about" the law so much as pointing out its absurdity.
> States don’t have monetary policy and are limited to taking debt in fiscal policy.

Because this doesn't apply to countries, only states.
Python supports a third way: start at -1. And if you think about it a little (but not too much) then there's some real appeal to it in C. If you allocate an array of length n and store its length and rewrite the pointer with (*a+=n)=n, then a[0] is the length, a[-1] is the first element (etc) and you free(a-a[0]) when you're done. As a nice side effect, certain tracing garbage collectors will never touch arrays stored in this manner.

Upshot: if you take the above seriously (proposed by Kelly Boothby), the median proposed by Kelly-Bootle returns to the only sensible choice: zero.
If the government built giant housing blocks, so that anyone could have a basic apartment, how would that lead to inflation in the housing market? If anything the abundance of supply would dramatically deflate the costs.

Note that I'm talking about orders of magnitude more of construction than current public housing projects.
and TSLA hardly refuses to budge. it should be in freefall.
>Craig Federighi is quite good at presentations

His delivery is too perfect and makes him sound like a really good text to speech program. It’s off-putting. The only other person I’ve heard that has this presentation style is David Miscavige. Perhaps some analogies could be made…
The real money is in used cars, so no downside for Tesla here.
> because it happened to catch fire

Not a conspiracy theorist here, but... there's been quite a few expensive things which caught fire in Europe in the past year and change and it turned out those things didn't catch it by accident.
Please , make your context window bigger , if you do that … that’s it sonet 3.7 it’s amazing but it can’t even finish a dashboard because of that
Not zeroth but ground floor vs 1st floor in buildings is common.
You are discussing government waste. Hard to imagine anything more political.
People buying things they don’t need is an economic stimulus
For the rest of the world they will have the same problem as the Americans except they know the word from the football club Celtic which is pronounced with a soft c as well.