skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In order to do math in your head, you have to have certain basics memorized, and you combine these to come to a solution. It’s pretty common to learn the perfect squares up to 12 or so

1x1 = 1
2x2 = 4
3x3 = 9
4x4 = 16
5x5 = 25
6x6 = 36
7x7 = 49
8x8 = 64
9x9 = 81
10x10 = 100
11x11 = 121
12x12 = 144

If you have that readily accessible in your head, you can simply do a linear scan until you find which two numbers the square is between. In practice you will probably skip a few or just recognize it as being close after some practice, but that’s the general idea.

As an aside the perfect squares are just a portion of the single digit times table that you would want in your head to do multiplication or long division.
It should be noted tho that the easiness of "finding a way", and the difficulty of enforcing the law, varies widely between these.

For example - and I say this as someone pro-gun - gun control would likely be the easiest to enforce since it necessarily involves physical things, and not easily obtainable ones at that, at least if you want efficient guns. E.g. black powder is not hard to make, but good luck trying to make it work in anything semi-auto without constant jamming. Sure, there's an active "gun hacker" scene where people come up with designs that can be made at home with readily available tools etc, and it's great as a counterbalance to heavy-handed attempts to regulate... but there are no from-scratch designs that are even close to just about any semi-auto rifle on the market in terms of firepower or reliability (the non-from-scratch designs involve making the regulated parts of the firearm at home, and buying everything that can go over the counter; in US, the latter is everything except for one part).

OTOH if you ban encrypted messaging, how would you enforce that? It's hard to detect on the wire if the protocol is specifically designed to withstand such scrutiny, so you'd have to go after distribution of software. You could force Apple and Google to scrub their app stores, but then people can still install directly on everything other than iOS, and they'd just download it from foreign websites. So now you need some kind of a national firewall to detect and block that etc. It's not that any of that is impossible, but it's certainly much harder, and it would affect a lot more people overall, resulting in more pushback.
Here. They can redeem with the reserve assets instead of with dollars, and are not liable if the reserve assets decline in value due to illiquidity etc

They also refuse to disclose the nature of their reserves beyond unaudited attestations, and are known to have lied regarding their reserves multiple times before and admitted as such in a settlement.

> Tether reserves the right to redeem Tether Tokens by in-kind redemptions of securities and other assets held in the Reserves. Tether makes no representations or warranties about whether Tether Tokens that may be traded on the Site may be traded on the Site at any point in the future, if at all.

> 14.8. any delay in withdrawal or redemption, or loss of value of Tether Tokens or the Reserves backing such Tether Tokens resulting from failure or insolvency of any bank, depository, custodian, borrower, or payment processor holding or processing the assets backing Tether Tokens, or from the theft of such assets, or from freezes, seizures, or other legal process asserted by a Government; or

https://tether.to/en/legal/
Will you keep digging this hole if the same low-cost trolling of the US military recurs with a similarly disproportionately expensive response? How many times?
> So, the people are not at fault in these situations imo.

In 2022 elections year one of the largest parties in Sweden (Moderaterna) had "more cameras and surveillance on our streets" as one of their big campaign points, including campaign signs and bilboards. It came in second.

People are definitely at fault.
… what?
This is actually a quite correct hypothesis. Tether has an insane velocity (at least comparing to a Central Bank coin). Tether trade volume sits at $40 billion in the last 24 hours. There are only $68bn. This figure does not include futures, and P2P trades. Tether probably trades itself in a single day.

Most people exposure to Tether is temporary. The market cap is the tip of the iceberg. Since if you trade 68bn everyday, that's around $25Trillion per year. Purely insane.
How many trillions in national defense and the way they handle this problem is with a press release?

Yeah that doesn't smell in the slightest.

And how exactly do they know it's Chinese?

What if it was like WW2 and the balloons were carrying bombs? What's the national defense plan for that?

We definitely have high altitude drones.
> That's debatable, and being debated[0] regarding xp.apple.co

Not sure how is this related to Orion as it has no such traffic.

> there's no guarantee it will stay that way

If it doesn't stay that way then it is not zero-telemetry any more.
Yes, this high altitude balloon is above the clouds. I was answering what can be done with a balloon.
While this sounds pretty on-topic, it also sounds like a direct, barely processed quotation from a book on the subject. Very good retrieval, but may have to credit the quotation source. A similar effect has been demonstrated on Stable Diffusion recently.
Computers just made them a LOT easier to create.
interesting but it seems to just sound sonically similar songs.
Have you tried Gnoosic[0] yet? It's a more standard recommender system, I think. Some of the recommendations are really on point.

[0]: https://www.gnoosic.com/
The interrupt descriptor table in real mode on x86 is stored at the zero page. It is valid to dereference a pointer with value zero under DOS. Modern OS's explicitly avoid mapping at page zero in order to trap NULL pointer dereferences.
That does not mean you cannot access memory mapped at zero, just that the system might have mechanisms to catch errant programs. It is not the responsibility of the C compiler to make the distinction of whether or not accessing memory at zero is errant, but rather the architecture and the system which determine how to respond to a process that attempts to do so.
Great video. I don't understand why they're looking at transonic speeds and calling it a transonic demonstrator. Airlines travel slower these days to save fuel costs.

Edit: also, why does this have to be a full-sized demo? Can't a half-size demo do a sufficiently good job?
Data-driven insights.
I think OpenAI chose those preferences, that ChatGPT would simply write the same message for both if they hadn't.

I too don't mind the model reflecting the reality of opinion, even if that isn't politically correct, but I care about a company which cares enough to add potentially problematic warnings and maybe account blocks based on their views of what is politically correct. I worry about having an app or developer account blocked because of messages some user types in a support chat box. (OpenAI: "We will terminate API access for obviously harmful use-cases, such as ...")

I think they found the correct balance on their API pages where they simply warn that the model is culturally biased and not to rely on it for certain critical things. (OpenAI: "As we discuss in the GPT-3 paper and model card, our API models do exhibit biases that will be reflected in generated text.") Sadly, they then proceed to fall on their sword to apologize for this.
Foone is not the only one expressing this sentiment. Here's another recent example:

> Note: unfortunately, Hacker News found this post. I think I got them to go away. But if you're coming from there, please read about the parable of the Nazi bar and take a hard look at the company you keep, or just fuck off. Thanks.

-- https://cohost.org/arborelia/post/868933-how-to-destroy-a-ce...

Previous edit (private archive):

> oh shit it's hacker news / I've heard that people from the orange VC site are linking to this post! You are absolutely not welcome here. Cohost is not a place for you. Your site is full of sexism and racism that you can't report to the main moderator because he approves of it. / you are bad and you hang out with white supremacists. please leave.

HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34446704
Very cool! Writing emulators for simple CPUs is challenging enough because it's extremely easy to overlook a quirk or implement a flag calculation incorrectly that is used infrequently and have it silently lurking like a mine waiting for the rare piece of code to trip it. x86 is very complex. Instruction decoding alone looks like a nightmare. I guess the one saving grace here is that since most of us still run on x86, side-by-side validation is a lot easier.
You’re gonna have a real hard time finding someone to take the opposite side of that bet using fiat money in any size. Crypto insiders generally know Tether is a fraud and further haven’t got the fiat liquidity to make such a bet
I'm going to make a normative argument here, so please forgive me for preaching, but I think the problem is twofold.

On the one hand, you should lean in to the opportunity to teach more - it's a great chance to consolidate and find your own blind spots. You should schedule a large amount of fixed hours (say, 60% of your work day) to this if its a crucial part of your role.

On the other hand, the company is underserving your juniors by having only one senior to confer with 15 juniors. The ratio should be closer to 1:5 in my experience. This also means you can spend more time with an individual junior to discuss technical points more deeply.

In terms of what you can practically do? That's harder to say, but the other comments here seem helpful. My personal suggestion would be to consider employment elsewhere (while being cordial and pleasant with your existing company throughout and after the departure).
Even before the untar phase, couldn't there be a vulnerability in:

- your HTTPS stack
- gzip encoded HTTP
- your sha256 program
Here’s the overview of the rules, and you can in fact say shit on the air:

https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/obscene-indecent-and-pr...
Nope. The Fed does not print money for it's own personal/private use or to directly benefit it's members.

The Fed is incentived to profit from economic growth and increased financial activity --- which theorectically works to everyone's benefit. Individual Fed board members are restricted from personally investing in the financial markets to avoid the appearance of any conflict of interest.
https://www.lawinfo.com/resources/intellectual-property/a-gu...

I think there's a legal case to be made about a virtual unlicensed use of a celebrity depending on if it's satire or intends to take away their income without their permission. An example would be not paying Fred Astaire's estate for his likeness in virtual productions that recreate him.
Sorry, my apologies.
> My father died, & I was still in love

Niggling editorial point: if I'm going to blow away "and", then the preceding comma is going down with it. That's just how I roll.
It's an insanely profitable business. Tether made lots of mistakes but they got bailed by the high yield of the market. The business will collapse when that stops or maybe they got better after all these years?
A militia, by definition, cannot be professional soldiers. Americans owning guns is a well regulated militia.
If you want to use it for video, I'd wait until the ESP32-P4 releases.

You could do some rudimentary AI on the ESP32-S3, but you can't send video at a decent rate. The P4 will have H.264 encoding, MIPI connectors, and a 400mhz dual-core.

MJPEG isn't a great way to stream video, and the AI has to be super small to fit into SRAM. You could use flash over SPI, but that's not the greatest.

You can get some decent results, but not for anything I thought was interesting for actual use.
Anyone can do this with anything. Just how accurate your estimations are, well, remains to be seen
I’m happy to share, but I’m traveling and only have my phone. I’ll type it up when I get home this weekend.
1. The guy sexually propositioned a woman in an interview.

2. Seriously, do we need more? He's not stupid, he took the same management harassment training as everyone else in the company, he should have known better, he did know better, and he fessed up to it.

When you're a director, your reporting chain is not your personal Tinder. Please inform yourself on the subject of illegal sexual harassment in the United States, you'll save yourself and your reports and HR a lot of trouble.
I always wanted a modern Omega Boost
Note that this quarter spanned 14 weeks, while last year had 13. This was actually 7% or so worse than at first glance.
Pentagon: Chinese spy balloon spotted over Western US
I've stumbled upon a worse version. If you don't have a business account and send someone an invoice - PayPal reverts and refunds that invoice a month later. I was completely flabbergasted when I found out they do this - there's no upfront notice or alert. In my case, the buyer was kind enough to re-pay via a regular "request", but that won't be the case for everyone.
I received a similar version as well asking me to pay an invoice. I contacted PayPal and they confirmed it was a scam. This was several months ago.

People have been scamming companies for a long time with fake invoices, but this is the first time I’ve seen it done at the consumer level.
If you can get them... I've tried to get one for over a year. You're probably better off getting a Jetson Nano.
The online equivalent of telling random strangers "pay me!"

I'm surprised that it works at all.
> It increases Steam sales

I would need a citation on that. These folks already purchased a Mac, so they went in already knowing that they are never going to actually play games on it so it couldn't have been a priority.
Thanks dude. This is a good reminder that I need to talk to an accountant before I start messing around with tax-incurring stuff
Not being able to figure out a tip does annoy me a bit, because when you know how 10% works then you've got all you need, just halve it and add it back on and you've got your minimum 15%, or double it for 20%.

It's not like that requires practice. Maybe to do it quickly, but moving a decimal place over in your head or halving or doubling is about as easy as it gets.

I don't want to disparage people who aren't good at math (compared to many here I'm like a grade schooler) but how do you make it though school without knowing the basics of percentages?
Practical Python Artificial Intelligence Programming (eBook)
It is ov2640.
I hope I get to use SL again at future jobs. Great work.
It's one of the many articles covering it; Wikipedia has a few more:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_Liberties_Union...

But I think it's best to go directly to the source, which would be the 2018 ACLU memo that triggered the attention and judge for yourself:
https://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/20180621AC...

To be fair to ACLU, they did backtrack somewhat on all this. Speaking as a member who joined years before this became somehow contentious for the organization, I hope that it'll get back on track, but I'm pessimistic about it - I think the zeitgeist is too contrary, and historically, ACLU did waver at such times (e.g. on defending rights of communists in 1930-50s).
Why Every Boutique Grocer Looks the Same
Spec says OV2640
And the Tetons in western Wyoming / eastern Idaho.
I have run SSD benchmarks with and without it and it usually makes reading faster and writing slower.
Police are bad at their jobs, but we should not teach them to be better at their jobs?
"Everything is liberally biased"

Maybe that's just how humanity is, with were "liberal" is currently defined.
IIUC: Spotify seems to use something similar to collaborative filtering. People rate songs based on more than similarity, which is what this model seems to provide.
Design for Controlled-Climate Cycling Highway in Dubai
less than hair stylists
I guess my taste is outside the loop. Two songs off the top of my head I guess are not in it’s database:

Beautiful Strangers (Kevin Morby)
Elephant Woman (Blonde Redhead)
> Yeah but that show isn’t for kids.

Neither was Casino, the upthread film that “couldn’t be made now”. The question was a “popular film”, not a “kids film”.
It does surprisingly well on object detection for its value. The tested use cases so far are: animal detection, sophisticated version of a motion sensor, plant recognition, people counter. Most likely Edge Impulse can work even a bit better.
Moving to Qatar is a very common response to harassment and a failed lawsuit against local government for $15M
In addition to that, here's the section on consequences for prohibited use:

> Any use, whether actual or suspected, as described in this paragraph shall constitute a “Prohibited Use”. If Tether determines that you have engaged in any Prohibited Use, Tether may address such Prohibited Use through an appropriate sanction, in its sole and absolute discretion. Such sanction may include, but is not limited to, making a report to any Government, law enforcement, or other authorities, without providing any notice of you about any such report; confiscation of any Fiat, funds, property, proceeds, or Digital Tokens in any Digital Tokens Wallet that you have on the Site; and, suspending or terminating your access to any Services or Fiat, funds, property, or Digital Tokens from any Digital Tokens Address.

So they can confiscate all of your funds if you engage in prohibited use. What might that entail? In addition to the normal money laundering, committing crimes, etc, they count such dastardly things as:

> 8.8. use the Site or any Services to engage in conduct that is detrimental to Tether or to any other Site user or any other third party;

> 8.14. where you are subject to prohibitions or restrictions as set forth in paragraph 3 [Identifying yourself as being from the US], access the Site or use any Services utilizing any virtual private network, proxy service, or any other third party service, network, or product with the effect of disguising your IP address or location, or access the Site or use any Services using a Digital Tokens Address in or subject to the jurisdiction of any Prohibited Jurisdiction or Government or Government Official thereof; or,

> 8.15. violate, cause a violation of, or conspire or attempt to violate these Terms of Service or applicable Laws.

So if you break their TOS, lie about being from the US, or engage in conduct that's detrimental to Tether, they can just take all of your money and tokens per their TOS.
Feedback: "sounds like" for music is more than just rhythm and tone. The search results are all useless for me because two songs with similar sheet music often have wildly different lyrical styles and subjects.
When you read about all the things that could have gone wrong in first decades of the nuclear arms race but didn't, it really feels like there were multiple narrow escapes that could have escalated rapidly. The Titan missile silo story, for example - basically kids just past their teen years were responsible for maintaining those systems (the dropped wrench down the missile silo, oops...). See Eric Schlosser's history:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6452798-command-and-cont...

By the way, this caught my eye with respect to Jack Revelle's leukemia:

> "Jack earned the Bronze Star during the Vietnam War, where he was exposed to Agent Orange."

While Agent Orange's active agent was supposed to be a mixture of two herbicides, 2,4-D and 2,4,5-T, the manufacturer ran a sloppy synthesis which produced a lot of dioxin as a side product. The herbicide mix was effective, but dioxin has a lot of nasty side effects related to interference with various cellular processes, and promotion of cancers such as leukemia and myeloma appears to be an issue. (The US govt and Agent Orange manufacturers tried to block VA care for veterans exposed to Agent Orange by promoting bogus studies done with highly purified 2,4-D and 2,4,5-T showing no such effects). See for example:

(2009) Cancer incidence in the population exposed to dioxin after the "Seveso accident": twenty years of follow-up.

Exposure to ionizing radiation could of course also be involved, either via ingestion of small amounts of those radionuclide species that are incorporated into human tissues and bone (cesium-137, etc.) or by short-term exposure to high levels of gamma photons, neutron fluxes, positrons, alpha particles, etc.
No , cholrine radicals will also deplete ozone layer ,
Besides I don't think releasing highly reactive gases at any concentration into the atmosphere is a good idea, there can be other effects we haven't studied well enough.
Wait what? That doesn't sound right, maybe I'm missing something. Can you elaborate? I just sold something via invoice in December, and it wasn't reverted(yet)...
Entertainingly, mark Robert posted a video of him solving the precision guided missile problem, and realizing on talking to an expert in the field that that's what he'd been building
I will assume the curmudgeonly pose and offer that humanity will branch out and explore and...realize a deep lonliness when the quantum mechanical accidents that led to "life" on Earth are not quite duplicated anywhere else.

Sorry.
Thanks mate! We will send the update within a few weeks with the production plan or buy options.
The reason is always the same: if you are found to be using the circumventing tech., you'll likely be in breach of the law, which will give the goons a legitimate reason to come and harass you.

Not if almost everyone does it at once.
Aren't Ernie and Bert Sesame Street? IIRC, that's a different Muppet cohort (Big Bird, Grover, Oscar, etc.)
TikTok’s Transparency Theater
Play 2008 COD Modern Warfare, great online maps and play.
People are still running servers / mods.

Current games control severs, pre 2010 games gave users control.
Are ad buys based upon chat activity? I would assume more traditional metrics would be involved.
For the curious (I was), I believe this is the associated commit: https://github.com/Mesa3D/mesa/commit/f2e535e4fed5bdc13e11a4...
Nice! Are you profitable? Those A100s must not be cheap.

I also appreciate you having a free tier, so many other solutions don't.
They mention in the article that the balloon only provides a marginal increase in surveillance capability when compared to LEO satellites. Considering the US pioneered a lot of satellite surveillance technology I imagine they have built everything accordingly since the 1960s and there's not much the Chinese can see from space or a balloon or I'm guessing even from a low flying Cessna.
There is an undergrad elective course exactly like that for computing at Harvard. It was one of the CS91r's from a couple years ago.
Germany, India, Britain, Australia
I ended up using fractions in my head, which works pretty well as you essentially defer the division until the end. It’s a lot less state to carry in your head too.

Basically you compute

(n + g^2)/(2g)

33 + 36 = 69
2 * 6 = 12
69/12 = 5+ 9/12 = 5 + 3/4 = 5.75
Richard??? Is that you??!!
There is a quite a big chance we will be there!
My former professor told me about going to the NSA during the cuban missile crisis for his interview.

Apparently "a cuban candidate" became "a cuban spy" by the time he had sat down to wait by the door for his escort.
I am in the same boat as you.

There is also this to consider: limits of our own imagination/ comprehension.

If we are like microbes swimming inside a droplet of water, we won't be able to imagine/ comprehend / detect beings of the scale of say flies.

Our mental abilities may also be limited in similar ways. I think that puts a limit on what we can perceive / detect / understand.
You should have more empathy for people, and rather than diagnose someone expressing a negative opinion about this community with mental illness, assume you might lack the necessary context with which to interpret their frustration.

You can find some of that context in the pile of flagged comments at the bottom of this thread, or any thread where foone's content is posted.
Well she bombed federal buildings, that’s pretty clearly terrorism. They just don’t care because she’s on their side.