skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ooh that's really cool that they're using the laser speckle pattern. I like the fact they exploit the rolling shutter too. Something which https://people.csail.mit.edu/mrub/VisualMic/ also does.

There are devices which are called laser doppler vibrometers, which might also be able to do this by pointing at the strings/base of the guitar?

There do seem to be videos of laser doppler vibrometers being used with guitars on youtube, but I'm not sure if the soundtrack that goes along with them is just from a normal mic.

I had a little play with laser speckle patterns to detect keypresses, as they can help find very subtle changes to a surface -
https://www.anfractuosity.com/projects/fun-with-speckle-patt... (by 'diffing' the patterns)
If your lambda runs very infrequently, you'll see more cold starts which will take hundreds of ms, but warm starts are pretty easily in the single-digit milliseconds (at least for a Go lambda). If you're doing a bunch of compute or sync I/O in a loop then your functions will take longer.

But less frequent invocations are actually an even better case for Lambda versus a VPS because it suggests less wasted time (yeah, you have to pay for cold starts, but with a VPS you're paying for all of that time your service is up irrespective of whether or not it's being used).

> 100's of milliseconds minimum. When your serverless endpoint needs to integrate with other AWS services, the configuration can get complicated fast. VPC endpoints, IAM roles, security groups... it goes on and on.

This is all true for a VPS as well. Assuming you care about reliability, you need to run multiple instances of your VPS behind a load balancer which implies a fair bit of networking. Moreover, you need to manage the hosts themselves, so configuring log aggregation, metrics collection, process management, SSH, deployment, hardening, etc, etc, etc.

Further still, your compute will need to communicate with the comparable services as in your lambda hypothetical, so you still need to deal with IAM and some more networking stuff. Maybe you'd say "gotcha! I would just run my databases on my VPS instances!" which is cool, but now you need to configure monitoring, backups, replication, failover, and so on for your databases versus using DynamoDB (and I would bet a lambda/dynamodb workload than the same workload on a reliable VPS/whatever-database stack).

Of course, if you're running a hobby blog or something that doesn't need reliability of scalability, then a $5 VPS is probably fine (maybe even an S3 bucket behind a CloudFront distribution, which would likely be free).
I can second "Proofs from the Book", but would advise against it unless you're already comfortable with the basics of linear algebra and perhaps some analysis.

For a total beginner there is no better choice than Steward and Tall's "The Foundations of Mathematics", an incredibly readable guide which takes you from high-school calculus through a good portion of intro analysis and algebra. Reading this and doing the exercises was enough to get me through my first year of real math classes. There is no praise great enough for this book, and no sufficient recommendation I could give.

With that under your belt, if you'd like a "real textbook" I enjoyed Axler's "Linear Algebra Done Right". It has great exercises and should get you used to proofs done in the textbook style (though considering the high quality it may well not prepare you for the bleak world of lesser options).
Not remotely limited to porn - they are also arbiters on the range of allowed political thought:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/markdistefano/mastercard-activists-...

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/05/biggest-blacklist-a...
https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read/18319/chapter/3
"Since forever ago, I've wanted to try writing assembly, even if just to understand why the Rollercoaster Tycoon creator would write 99% of the game in it. To be fair, even after all of this, I still don't understand why they did that."

Hubris?
This MIT OCW takes a student from basically nothing to an almost compliant RV32i, complete with videos, worked examples and lecture notes.

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-004-computation-structures-spr...
You comment like a cow.
I'm not committing to that specific price change and donation reallocation, but I will raise prices in the future (if you subscribe now you'll be grandfathered in) and changing the donation allocation with Wikipedia.

The problem now is that fixed costs are barely covered. Once that hump is achieved I can start playing around with donation allocations more. It will take some time to get there as the cost structures aren't that well established yet.
Summary:

> Energy Dome’s novel approach to long-duration energy storage dispenses with batteries altogether. Instead, the company erects enclosures that resemble tennis bubbles and fills them with carbon dioxide gas. Excess electricity can be used to pressurize the gas into liquid form, storing energy; turning the liquid back into a gas releases that energy, turning a turbine and regenerating electricity.

> As detailed in Canary Media’s previous reporting, this approach has a few advantages relative to other long-duration storage attempts:

> It uses off-the-shelf equipment from mature industrial supply chains. That means Energy Dome doesn’t need to build its own factory, a capital-intensive step that other long-duration startups needed to do. It also means Energy Dome doesn’t need to spend years on laboratory science — it just needs to prove that the equipment all works together the way it’s supposed to.

> The dome is supposed to deliver round-trip efficiency of 75 percent, meaning 75 percent of the energy that goes into the process comes back out at the end. That’s less than typical battery efficiency but a lot better than many long-duration storage contenders.

> Carbon dioxide is easier to compress and store at ambient temperature and atmospheric pressure compared to other gaseous storage vehicles, like hydrogen or air.
If you want a text-based format, these exist.

https://text.npr.org
I don't think you are right. Can you list the names, addresses, and phone numbers of the judges in California that have guns? Because without this data, I'm curious how you are going to answer such a question.
I get the impression they are being deliberately obtuse, but that's not uncommon in this field (to be fair, so is schizophrenia/NPD).

This individual claims to be somehow involved in two high-profile national security incidents. It's not beyond plausibility that they are being exploited for information by companies who don't want to be seen associating with them. Snowden would receive the same treatment.
It's a rich mans solution to a problem. "Just move", is clearly something they are easily capable of doing, everyone else? not really. you throw 20 years on a mortgage and then the rug is pulled from under you as the state itself gets worse and worse. You could say the same about refugees, Country's gotten into a bad state? just move. Don't fight for anything, just hope that someone somewhere actually took a gander at the problem and arrived at a solution that is conducive to a prosperous society.
> foreseeing tomorrow

Or maybe, imagining tomorrow in your worst fears. There is an
important difference between prophecy, which may be right or wrong, but
is generally welcome, and defeatist doomsaying or catastrophising
("the war is lost") which is not.

It generally makes people dislike you because there is nothing of
value to take from one who says "there's no point even trying".

I once shared a lifeboat with someone who spoke this way. After only
10 minutes of hearing them say "we're never going to make it", the
others and I were very close to simply throwing him over the side. :)
75% is an awfully round number for efficiency!
A great learning resource for COBOL is the Open Mainframe Project's COBOL Programming Course. The content is self-paced with labs and the best part is you get to do the labs on a real Mainframe.

Check it out: https://github.com/openmainframeproject/cobol-programming-co...
Built bridges my whole life but you fuck ONE goat....
Yes. The market is not a good in itself. Nor is it a perfect system.
Assuming you're financially solvent and don't have dependents/kids who you directly are responsible for, just taking a break and doing something else for a change is underrated IMO. Although you might find yourself debating whether to leave engineering entirely.
> I've always felt that unless one has a tenuous relationship with their employer, longer tenures mean more job security.

Not really. It's sort of like a bell curve. If you have just recently joined you should be expected to be one of the first let out. The idea being that you aren't there long enough to be difficult to replace.

If you have been at a company for a long time, chances are that you have raised in ranks and received corresponding pay raises. Cutting off your position means a more sizable chunk of the budget can be freed (and replaced with less expensive individuals).

The ones in the middle are generally ok-ish. At least, the individual contributors. Middle managers tend to be replaced without a second thought. Senior leadership are more likely to survive, although sometimes they suddenly finding themselves 'pursuing other opportunities' or 'going into a sabbatical' or even 'spending more time with family'.

No-one is irreplaceable. If you are, unless you are in a handful of key positions, then the company has done something wrong.

Actual 'job security' comes from making key decision makers aware of your perceived value, so that they can remove your name from lists. Assuming that they aren't in those lists to begin with. Note that I say 'perceived value' not 'actual value'. You need to be viewed as important and more trouble to replace than it's worth, no matter how true that may be from a purely objective standpoint.
I think something that goes hand in hand with being a naive realist is believing in the accuracy of our own memory and in our conscious control of our own actions.

Most people believe their memory to be an accurate account of their experiences and also believe that they choose how they act and behave. Any serious introspection, however, quickly shows how foolish those two beliefs are.
Having a gun allows you to protect your life and property with force. Owning valuable property like guns can make you more of a target. It is ideal not to have the ownership of that property broadcasted. The vast majority of gun owners hope never to have to use their weapon except to put holes in paper from a distance.

The "gun show loophole" doesn't exist. It is still a crime for a prohibited person to possess a firearm no matter how they get it. In many states including California, it is illegal for a private sale to occur without a background check. Somehow, many prohibited persons still acquire them, and their info wasn't just leaked by the California AG.
It's not one user, but it's also reasonably valid: There are browsermakers who just try to make a good browser and don't talk about politics incessantly, and as far as I can tell somehow their products seem to improve a lot in ways Mozilla's just doesn't.

EDIT: As an example, Firefox is discontinuing search keyword sync via bookmarks. Vivaldi just implemented syncing search engines via their sync service, across both desktop and mobile.
I think this is a bit sensational. I'd have to hear the interview, but it sounds like a playful comment. I would think the real reason is because it fits the story and setting, not because some people will get angered.
Or do the transfer via a licensed dealer. Most gun shops will do this for a small fee.
Xanadu puts quantum advantage in the cloud
Subtrack the emissions and an IC engine has any number of advantages, from range and refuel time, to recycling potential. Steel is far far easier to recycle than any battery tech.
"the relationship between an individual and the government is fundamentally different than that of a business relationship"

yeah, to government you are a voter, but to Equifax and Facebook you are a product,

you have as much influence over them as a barrel of wheat has over the farmer.
Not all OSes’ resolver libraries use the network. Solaris/Illumos uses door IPC.
> I wasted so much time trying to get multiple sqlite queries running at the same time

You were trying to write at the same time right?
I'd rather look crazy and paranoid in that scenario than do nothing.
Which ones of my list had great opsec? I'm not denying what you said, it only takes one slip up, but in the cases I mentioned by name:

AlphaBay used their regular hotmail account to send password reset emails, and that email was tied to their LinkedIn.

Freedom Hosting was taken down because the operators used outdated FF with javascript enabled.

Silk Road's Ross Ulbricht posted his personal Gmail address, linking the identities.

All of these are profound opsec failures, not just an oopsie that led to getting caught by talented LEOs.
The exact same thing (auditors cheating on ethics exams) happened at KPMG a few years ago [1]. In KPMG's case, I recall that the ethics exams had been mandated by a regulator after ethics violations had been found at the firm.

The most concerning thing about this is that public auditing firms are supposed to be the entities keeping everyone else honest. The whole financial system is based on a chain of trust that starts and ends with auditors. If you can't trust the external auditors, then you can't fully trust anything. This is the world we live in.

[1] https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-kpmg-cheating-scandal-...
No, it's not:

https://chicago.suntimes.com/2022/4/15/23025545/atf-gun-deal...
This seems like an interesting optical solution to the "cocktail party problem", which can be solved using Independent Component Analysis [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_component_analysis
The content is also available in video format on IBM Learning platform. You get to do the labs through the video course as well and earn a badge. You can check that out here: https://learn.ibm.com/course/view.php?id=7552
> Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

If someone is driving faster than me, I usually respect them for having a greater risk tolerance of getting a speeding ticket.
One single site will always have the echo chamber problem. In order to better understand the complex issues facing our country I have attempted to find alternative viewpoints.

The key to obtaining value from any reporting organization is realizing there are many viewpoints and the one from which I see the world is incomplete at best. Thus why I am looking at the news and avoid echo chambers.

Some worth checking...

https://summit.news/
https://www.zerohedge.com/
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/
https://themostimportantnews.com/
https://jonathanturley.org/
https://brownstone.org/
https://winepressnews.com/what-is-the-winepress/
i was going to say dying in a cheese grater factory accident but your example sounds worse tbh
I wish they had data on the estimated cost to build and operate. Best i can guess is that $11M might get them 200Megawatt/hours -> $0.055 per watt hour which would be cheaper than any chemical battery based energy storage, albeit at the cost of reduced efficiency (75% vs 95% for lithium-ion). This is similar to pump storage, but less geographically dependent.
The ATF literally gives guns to criminals.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATF_gunwalking_scandal
> Is there a plan for what happens to vim when the maintainer gets hit by a bus?

Nothing public, at least, and that's OK.
They could add a ```mermaid-source tag.
The article was right and you are wrong.

To be clear, the AG wanted to make public the elements of permits that are public.

The AG made technical mistakes that led to private information being leaked.

That's why the site is now offline.
And who is going to audit the independent consultants?
> There really is no difference between theory and practice.

>But there is a big difference between theory and malpractice.

If there was only one theory and it had been verified absolutely, sure, but unfortunately that’s not the case. Not only are there many theories about many things, most of which are all mutually exclusive, but hardly any of them match with all the practical results anyway. That’s life.
> It's better to burn out than fade away.

Oh wow. As if the two were mutually exclusive.

You _will fade away_ if you burn out. You won't be able to do anything meaningful, by definition. And it can last for quite a while, sometimes enough to ruin one's career.
This is why ancaps exist, folks. I thought everything in this page was some lame prank, but now I fear the staff part might actually be true.
I tested and passed an intern whiteboarding for Google back in 2016.

The process involved a few automated algorithms questions, and then later, a whiteboard interview.

At the time, I was actively studying exams involving DS&A questions, so "find an algorithm that does X in O(Y) time" was a big chunk of what I was doing as a person.

If I wanted to pass now, I feel like I'd have to waste some time, say, remembering exactly how to implement a priority queue. That time could probably be better spent on learning other skills.
Good decision to focus on user perceived performance rather then "Google/SEO performance". Also returning user experience, and actual user experience (using the site app/as a user) is very important meanwhile most only measure first load performance.
Well, higher engagement metrics seems like a cynical way to say "more readable" especially given the parent comment's complaint.

You don't need commercial interests to think about UX. The early web looked the way it did mostly due to hobbyism and undeveloped UX standards that we take for granted today.
Mine is a lot cruder, lots of maker rail and bolts.. that looks much nicer (oooh, and cheaper too!)

They all take 1/8" shank bits, which are fairly standard.

I'm hoping that once I can see again, I can use mine to mill out the channels for the tongue and groove on the side of a slide ruler, and to mill out the divisions. A few jigs should make it fairly easy to do.
> This individual claims to be somehow involved in two high-profile national security incidents. It's not beyond plausibility...

Hacker news does attract some singular individuals from time to time, but I would suggest the more plausible scenario is that this person has untreated mental health issues.
> And you.. don't?

The problem in this situation is that YOU are the one acting as a gatekeeper as to who gets into the company.

The company should be the one setting the standards, and determine the best person for the job, and you should be able to work with whoever is best suited for the job, regardless of whether or not you like them.

This is where the unconscious bias comes from.
You've never seen DMV leaks?
https://www.autoinsurance.org/worst-states-for-dmv-dot-data-...

The government in most forms is my biggest fear for my personal data security
Well, a couple decades from now is still a couple decades away for one thing. For another, some things like long haul trucking or air travel may be harder to directly electrify.
Ron Gilbert himself developed [Thimbleweed Park](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thimbleweed_Park) a few years back, which was very much in the classic Monkey Island style.
Nassim Taleb’s Barbell Portfolio Investment Strategy
Related:

Attorney General Bonta Releases Name, DOB, and Address of CCW Holders - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31903486 - June 2022 (77 comments)
Pine64: June Update: Who likes RISC-V?
Just curious, why don't you like TSX? I find it much much better than HTML templates because you get actual IDE support with proper code completion and compile time type checking.
But if no one has an American accent, how will we know who the heroes are?
Good comment! I was hesitant to put a number. Thats why I chose "household". But its pretty close to the right figure (probably closer to the low to mid 40s).

No one knows how many guns there are in America (more than one per person though) and who owns them. We know its mostly men, with a significant, increasing, number of women. Minorities are also increasing their share of legal gun ownership.

About 20%-30% of the adult population owns a gun, but many women don't say they "own a gun" if their husbands own one - guns are, for many reasons, very much "personal" property. It's the husband's gun or the house's gun, not necessarily hers [1]. However, in my experience talking to other gun owners, the wives support or encourage their continued ownership. Hence "household" ownership estimated somewhere about a third to half.

(Its actually probably closer to the mid to low 40s, but varies regionally. Chicago has very little legal handgun ownership, Kennesaw GA has basically universal gun ownership.)

Furthermore a lot of Americans own a gun without considering themselves a "gun owner". The single shot .22lr they got for their 12th birthday. The Ruger 10/22 that was passed down. An emotional relic they cling to that is still very much a firearm. Then there is the "shy conservative" who will lie on a survey. This to say, there is a significant amount of people with guns who will answer "no" to a survey question about gun ownership.

I think the best way to gauge this, an to your point about gun control, is its electoral significance. Democrats aren't really affected at the pols for failing to deliver gun control, but Republicans are demolished if they waver a little bit (note every GOP senator who voted for bill is retiring or not up for election). I think this hints that gun ownership and tolerance is widespread among the GOP and independents.

[1] imagine 250 lb hubby has a double stacked 10mm and is married to a 90lb petite. The physics doesn't work.
Even myself, Id love for my wife to come to the range one day, but Ill have to rent her a smaller pistol - the 92 has a very large grip even for me.
> 1. Hosting - $30-$60/mo depending on traffic levels. The more subscribers, the more this will cost.

Does the cost of subscription pay for the hosting costs? It sounds like this is the only current hard cost, so hopefully it's growing slower than the associated subscription revenue!
I don't, sorry. It was already obscure in the late 80's / early 90's when I read about it. "Fringe"
I don't know the specifics of this idea, but there's actually some merit to the more general idea you are denouncing.

There are processes in which you can take some fuel, and add in some low-quality (i.e. low temperature) heat that would otherwise be wasted, and some CO2, and get more energy in the form of fuel out.

Some of these things actually look like they have potential if you can get the catalyst.
I really don't think it looks anything like the original game, either. Maybe one of the later sequels which, ironically, Ron Gilbert wasn't involved in.
Oh! Got it, thanks :)
You show add a screen shot showing this off

Right now, no idea what this is for
> "Stolen guns account for only about 10% to 15% of guns used in crimes,"

3.6 roentgen per hour? That's actually significant...
However will he recover!? The poor darling. Being talked at all day! Will the horrors ever end!
Phrack & hackthissite mostly
It is a tremendously valuable list to convicts and gangs who want to know where all the judges and correctional officers' families live.
Uh... but the CDC won't even acknowledge how many tests have been conducted.
https://twitter.com/CT_Bergstrom/status/1540743939275096069

Won't have high case counts if you don't have testing!
Yeah we really are acting like we haven't been watching this exact same movie for the last 2 years. Incredible.
In the days of alledged sentient AIs I have to say that a prequel to The Matrix could definetly be written around an AI-concocted social movement of "self-extractors" ;-)