skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm, not here: clicked it away once and it never appeared again (110;0 on Win10 btw)
Slides and video of presentation are at https://www.hoover.org/events/policy-seminar-casey-mulligan-... , and discussed by John Cochrane at https://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2023/02/mulligan-and-dema....
I don't get your scenario but I have to say I never had any issue with using multiple Google accounts on the same browser. I used to have 5+ accounts logged in at once (personal + work + school) and it always worked flawlessly, switching between accounts was always a breeze using the drop down menu on the top right, and not just for Gmail but any Google apps. Microsoft on the other hand gave me endless issues when trying to use just 1 personal account and 1 work account on the same browser.
I have 2 daughters at a public US university.
There is tons of pedestrian traffic, and plenty of busses. Some students have cars, but parking is very limited. My daughters walk everywhere, or get a bus. Some kids use bikes or scooters.
Difficult? You control what you shove down your neck, no?
This paper criticizes renormalization as illegitimate but completely fails to mention the interpretation of renormalization that was given by Wilson and others (see "renormalization group" for details).
Edit and continue supported?
No, it's really not. I'm living in Nashville right now and it is exceptionally bad compared to many areas I've been.

It's a tourist town in a red state. Their priorities and funding do not align with making a pleasant built environment for residents.
> Infection control systems were activated

No one said otherwise. You're leaping to the conclusion that these "control systems" caused the viruses to go away.

> SARS and MERS did not spread widely, either.

SARS: 8096 known cases across 29 different countries. [1]

MERS: 2603 known cases across 27 different countries. We're still seeing cases, btw. [2]

I guess we have different definitions of "spread widely". (Also "contained", in the case of MERS.) As I said, the viruses petered out after rapidly spreading around the world. We still don't understand why, but it's arrogance to conclude that it was something humans did that "contained" them (particularly when at least one of them wasn't stopped).

> Contact tracing is standard even for outbreaks of diseases as common as measles.

...and it doesn't work well for respiratory viruses, as we just learned from watching the world try to do it for years, only to fail completely.

Of all the debunked interventions we witnessed over the last 3 years, "contact tracing respiratory illnesses" is uniquely amongst the most costly and damaging blunders in human history. Yes, "public health" may engage in this kind of pseudo-scientific, bureaucratic theater, but it certainly doesn't mean that it's effective.

Bringing this to the current day, the bird flu is now endemic amongst wild birds (and possibly other animals) around the planet -- that is how it is getting into chicken farms despite all of our current efforts. The horse (or the chicken, in this case) is literally out of the barn. If bird-to-human or human-to-human transmission were common, we'd know it by now. Moreover, if that were true, there's literally zero chance that we could somehow "contain" a virus endemic in the animal population. It's going to do what it's going to do.

[1] https://www.who.int/publications/m/item/summary-of-probable-...

[2] https://www.emro.who.int/health-topics/mers-cov/mers-outbrea...
Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder letter 2022 [pdf]
There was no transaction. It looked like the money had never been there.
Cybersecurity incident response plan [pdf]
From the spooks POV thats not a problem, that's a solution!

(Assuming Signal isnt compromised, then its a wash)
And slow. Don't forget slow!
Little do people know that these are being pulled from a fully functioning raman spectrometer that operates with a blue fiber pigtailed laser.

I believe these are coming from some medical equipment for detecting carotenoids in the skin.
Same experience for me! Never worked as a barista but it was actually a super fun and educational journey to learn all things espresso and coffee.

I bought a Mignon Zero grinder and a Delonghi Dedica with a non-presurrised portafilter for about $500 for both. Both are beginners friendly and for home use. I've learned all about dialling an espresso, the amount of coffee to put it, the duration of the extraction, the amount of coffee to get out and what role the cut of the coffee plays.

I've calculated that the investment will pay back it-self in a few months, ~5-6.
> I agree you should know how to use a debugger, however will also note that some companies mandate use of a specific IDE (or heavily encourage).

The debuggers in most popular IDEs (IntelliJ IDEA/any JetBrains IDE, Visual Studio, VSCode, Eclipse) work the same way. You set breakpoints (typically by clicking somewhere around the line number), step into and out of functions, and look at the memory state. If you learned how debugging works in IDE X, you can easily switch to IDE Y without having to learn much.
It will be interesting to see if AI will be accepted to provide the more "theological" services of high priced consultants and advisers.
I'm concerned with how much debt they have and if they don't pay it back. Deno seems safer.
My Friend, Stalin’s Daughter (2014)
Clean Out Your Services' Rain Gutters
I’m not sure what people expect from anything associated with Microsoft. After literally many decades now of horrible Microsoft products and services that never ever reach the threshold (excel possibly being the lone exception), why would anyone expect anything other than abysmal things from Microsoft. It’s what happens when you let a robber Baron type corporation seize monopolistic control and there is effectively not real pressure to compete and get their things in order because there is a cultural assumption based on corruption/lobbying and the monopolistic lock-in will resolve any slight challenges.

I don’t mean to solely focus on Microsoft, but they are the dominant example in their domain and the biggest example in tech.

As a society it should have never been allowed to even be possible that things like the government, including public schools, become so captured by Microsoft’s disastrous ecosystem. People give Apple some justified flak for lock-in issues, but at least there it feels more like Apple trying to keep the horrors of especially Microsoft and Google at bay … formal dress required for entry.
Even though a lot of incoming students would have had PCs by that time, they'd mostly have been running Windows. As you suggest, as I understand it MIT really focused on Project Athena clusters for engineering work and people used PCs more for word processing, etc.
I don't see anything wrong with trying to talk women into not aborting. If anything it should be encouraged.
Tech companies really should be required to submit their mass sociology experiments to an IRB.
I wish this article made sense, as Tyler Cowan irritates me.
Using Edge (Microsoft flavored Chrome) and the account personas will let you keep these M365/O365/Live identities separate, in the same way Chrome does a first class job of keeping Google Accounts separate.

Arguably, if you're one of the 85% of SMBs in O365/M365 instead of Google Workspaces, or if your "Login with..." personal account is Microsoft instead of Google or Apple, you should be using Edge.
The Furniture Hustlers of Silicon Valley
Any plan to support LSP to work with more programming languages? Or is the plan to focus on C++ only?
https://archive.is/StViZ
I had a guitar tutor once and I asked him if I honestly had a chance to get into the Royal College of Music. He said absolutely, no problem, as long as you practice for at least two hours per day. Every day. For the next ten years... High-level CS is the same and I don't see any reason why it should be different. There is just no, or very little, time to teach introductory programming classes at most universities.
Experiences with an Outsourced Dev Shop
SvelteKit is way better IMO
> But we can at least observe that if they're able to hack that quantity of crypto there is some kind of tech operation going on there, however small it might be. So they're not entirely shut off and they're able to penetrate at least a bunch of western crypto-startups.

I once read a blog post or something from someone who claimed to have gone to North Korea to teach Computer Science or something. This article sounds like it covers similar ground: https://www.vice.com/en/article/z4m8qx/how-to-teach-computer....

Also, North Korea also has an elite. IIRC, a significant chunk of North Korean imports are luxury goods and modern consumer products to keep this elite happy.
Or make it flexible:

> libxo - A Library for Generating Text, XML, JSON, and HTML Output

* https://github.com/Juniper/libxo/

* https://wiki.freebsd.org/LibXo

Want structure? Ask for JSON or XML and parse. Otherwise it's the regular text output.
You can be more “democratic” about some things and less “democratic” about others.
Hopefully that's what happened, then perhaps there's a small chance I can find out what did happen and maybe even see that money again. But it was more than 10 years ago, I think.
are you talking about hardware or software DSP?

You could do it either way. Hardware solution like a MiniDSP, although it appears they have unfortunately discontinued their more affordable products. Or a software solution like EqualizerAPO (Windows) or SoundSource (Mac).

If I had a pair of decent speakers and a microphone hooked up to my PC

Quick summary.

1. You need a calibrated microphone like the uMik from MiniDSP or one from Dayton Audio. That's about $100, though, so that sort of kills the value equation in a lot of situations.[1]

2. You then measure the speaker's output with something such as a free tool called Room EQ Wizard: https://www.roomeqwizard.com/

3. REQ can then output the necessary DSP configuration files, that can be then be used by a MiniDSP, EqualizerAPO, etc. Or it can just tell you the necessary corrections that can then be manually typed into anything that supports parametric EQ settings.

Here's a video fully demonstrating all of that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1aYsjPc2m4&t=2s

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[1] There are community efforts to take these kinds of measurements and open source them so everybody can benefit. The largest I'm aware of is these open-sourced headphone measurements (which require a different sort of measurement rig) and corrections: https://github.com/jaakkopasanen/AutoEq/tree/master/results/...

For speakers, there are the measurements and EQ corrections published by places like AudioScienceReview.com and NoAudiophile.com

If you do software EQ and use other peoples' measurements you can do this for $0, without the grunt work of measurements.
That's a good idea. Let's me report it
What? how can you change anything with the pin?

Mine forces me to enter my password if I touch anything under iCloud.

The pin can be used to disable ”Find My” though.
https://archive.vn/n8UUO
Yes, it made a racket! There is a description of the Harvard Mark I crashing in Beyer's "Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age":

> Hopper, Campbell, and Bloch invested substantial energy in developing practices and procedures for debugging. Like physicians, they identified symptoms, made diagnoses, and prescribed treatments. Sometimes symptoms were obvious, as when Mark I would come to a crashing halt: “The crash of that thing sounded as if a plane had run into the building,” Hopper recalled. ”You never heard such a crash in your life.”
Yet people keep building more suburban sprawl with no public transit or bike connections around town. It is all isolated and divided by huge stroads. Local celebrities even call the bike lanes that do exist here a communist conspiracy.

I live in Nashville right now too and it's just a mystery to me why people want to live in a place built this way. I guess Nashville residents simply do not share my values, and they want to drive their big cars on big roads. The idea of their kids walking to school must be completely alien.
We're talking about laptop speakers here, where power consumption is important.
I've talked to a scientist couple who lived that !

Basically : women were obviously too dumb to do calculus (/s), they had to do discreet math. Then, the wife managed to pin down the characters the lab had to look for (it was statistics applied to biology/agriculture, before ADN was discovered). In the papers, only the couple family name appeared, no mention of 'madam', and it was declared once.

Fast forward two children later, she wants to come back to do science. Couldn't go back to the lab, refused to hire her. They both moved to another university who accept her to punch cards. She's a trained mathematician BTW. I think we're around 1965 or a bit later.

She basically take over the department. Every code has to go through her. The improvement in computation power make that if you want to make realists data models, it's way faster to use computers now. Even the husband has to go through his wife, before semi-joining the department (basically still a biologist specialized in population/genetics, but now he works with a lot of computers). A late child happens (71, my godfather), but this time the husband managed to keep her place. Then a bit later mainframes appears in the university , uni administration gains power over labs and departments, she is basically demoted to an advisory position (and the husband promoted to thesis master), and decide that she does not have to work for ungrateful bastard and just left before the transition to new computer is done, basically making all dependent departments loose multiple years.
Use mIRC
And everyone seems to carry that one
Fantastic initiative. Higher education and research is a perfect area to experiment with new forms of online interaction platforms as it combines digital natives on the one hand and genuine content generators on the other. From the fediverse to the fediversity so to speak.

Hopefully the experiment will flurish and you will find many imitators around the world.

NB: Something I am sure you are aware that the fediverse is not just mastodon and it would be great to see more types of services interoperate
From Ugly to Beautiful
A story about various options for migrating a personal blog from a self-hosted Wordpress instance to a static site using Jekyll
Spotify’s AI DJ Has No Soul
Discussion on weird subreddit about paper with author:

https://old.reddit.com/r/BrilliantLightPower/comments/ffnnxw...

Hydrinos took me down another rabbit hole.
I remember using Outlook on iOS a few years ago. I had an Outlook account that has a secondary address is a Gmail which i can log in with. Now if I log into that account, I cannot use Gmail with that outlook. This is how messy accounts are handled by Microsoft and it’s why i’m not so surprised by the article.
That's a huge number of people who can't access secure messaging anymore. Journalists can't run such services, and as soon as somebody does it for them they're a service provider who falls under the regulations.
No thanks, I'll stick to my Kindle
> I'm not sure I would hear the difference to my 3.5" studio monitors in a blind test (assuming you volume match them).

I promise I could tell the difference if you are feeding the same signal into both and it features anything < 100hz.

The MBP speakers are nearly impossibly good, but they are not and never will be a match for dedicated studio monitors, pro audio, home theater, or even DIY contraptions. There are fundamental physical limits to how far this suspension of disbelief can be taken. We are pretty much at the limits of this trickery right now.
I don't see why these are mutually exclusive. The point is that those new "engineers" will not necessarily be the same people. Those "good" engineers will enjoy improved productivity and will be more sought after, while those "not so good" engineers will be replaced by AI. As always, any innovation just seems to increase inequality.
I 100% agree.

I've seen this happen to many managers at FAANG. You're promised 10 people for a project next year, you get 4. So you cut, manage, optimize, engineer, and hustle to get something done and working. Management above you sees this as relative success, and validates that they were right not to give you more people. Disillusionment sets in, the team quits or transfers, you get bad reviews.

The next year, you're fired or transferred, and the new guy comes in, he gets 10 people, saves the day and gets high praise. He gets good reviews and maybe a promotion. You look back with resentment. The problem wouldn't have been there if they had given you the resources you said you need. If you had 10 people, you also could have saved the day.

This is the sickness of large organizations and non-technical management. I have rarely seen organizations not run by owners spend the $1 on prevention today, they almost always elect for the $10 for a fix later.

If you need 10 people to do a job, and you get 4, the job should fail. Your systems should be going down. Don't sabotage, but upper management needs to see, not hear about, failure. Update deliverable timelines form 6 months to 18 months or just cancel new projects all together, change your SLA's from 99.9% to 90%. Change your ticket response times from 30 minutes to 12 hours or best effort business hours.

You'll either get the resources, get attention for reprioritization, or learn that your job isn't a real priority.
And they have slower chips and smaller screens than deaktops, and lack ergonomics keyboards. Useless products.
I don't usually use breakpoints in part because I use neovim and in part because... I seldom truly need them. Who are these people and what are these problems where stepping through method calls etc is actually necessary? I find it hard to believe. I've been successfully programming and problem solving this way for over 15 years.
Do you honestly expect economists to do a better job?
What strikes me the most about ChatGPT is how convincing it is at justifying patent nonsense. For example, I've noticed it has some strange obsession with sunscreen. Even for absurd questions such as "Should I wear sunscreen on the North Pole in December?" it still makes up a plausible list of reasons in favour of wearing sunscreen.
I don't imagine Signal is much concerned with complying with Iranian law. If you don't employ Iranians in Iran or operate infrastructure there, why would you care?
Not that I'm aware of.

It would be classed the same as pepper spray in the UK (a "noxious chemical").

The skunk lock and similar products that use a malodorous chemical are illegal in the UK for this reason.

There are "self defense sprays" sold in the UK and some other countries that just contain a dye, no irritant or malodorous substance, but even those are legally questionable at best - just there's been no case law yet that I'm aware of.
I guess he woke up because this quickly dropped to the fifth page!
I mean, I went from 11 weeks of PTO to 8 and I still have trouble adjusting 3 years later, I can't imagine having only 2.
Probably yeah. Unless they wish to block entire IP ranges from their servers.

I wonder if this will finally make third-party app stores mainstream. On the other hand, signal isn't on F-droid either as it was moxie's pet peeve. But now that he's gone perhaps they'll reconsider in light of this.
Low 50 if we go by the video.

He might obviously be in the 80+ range irl.
I just can't bring myself to muster up a whole lot of sympathy here.

You're using Reddit to self-promote your app. Even in subs where doing this doesn't get you banned, lots of readers will downvote this behavior anyway.

On top of that, it appears the app offers pretty trivial functionally of dubious utility, so maybe it's not some conspiracy against you, maybe people just don't find it very interesting.

Finally, I'm struggling to imagine what posting your complaint on HN could accomplish...
No I'm saying anything broadcast over such an easily intercepted medium is almost certainly not useful. (Either encrypted or information that is not secretive.)

If it really was a signal intelligence balloon, I don't see what it could possibly learn.
"They aren't banning cryptography. They're just banning cryptography for regular people."

FTFY ;-)
Scott Locklin recently (last week) wrote an effortpost about this: https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2023/02/19/anomalies-in-t...
> You're not making any point, you're just trying to shut down any criticisms of North Korea as not being "nuanced enough".

He is making a point: it's foolish to assume North Korea is just a bunch of starving people with no heat, living in dilapidated Soviet-style buildings.

They've built nukes. They're pretty successful at hacking. It has capabilities the defy the stereotype.
Pre-rendering static websites with wget
Our existing technology is - but there could be whole kinds of technology that we dont know about that could work there.
Punishment as part of a secret investigation, that you're not notified of or have a chance to defend yourself against in court, sounds rather undemocratic*.

*This word is sadly misused to mean "any unjust system of government". E.g. it is perfectly possible to have a constitutional monarchy, the antithesis of democracy, that respects the right to a fair trial and to face your accuser. Conversely, things people vote for are routinely dismissed as "undemocratic" - in that case, it gets called "populism". As far as I can tell, the words, as (ab)used, have nothing to do with the method of government, and everything to do with the outcome.
Thanks a lot, will look into EqualizerAPO.

> You need a calibrated microphone

Ah, of course, it's a chicken and egg problem... :)

edit: typos
Aren't they different use cases for the most part?

Qt is good for cross platform desktop software, but very clunky for mobile.

Flutter is good for cross platform mobile software, but very clunky for desktop.
Why Are Job Interviews Suddenly So Terrible?
"ChatGPT will change everything!"

Everything?!

This kind of hyperbole is rampant in writing on these technologies and seeing it should instantly clue you into the fact that the rest of the writing is not objective. And sure enough, such is the case here.
The Best Mac Gaming Experience Is a PC Sitting in a Dallas Data Center
Wladimir Klitschko Drives a Leopard Tank
There’s also earlier strict mathematical study of renormalisation procedure by Bogolubov and Parasyuk. QFT Green functions are distributions and their product is ill-defined, thus their naive use results in apparent infinities.
Exactly - massive amount of compute required to reproduce the training process, and that’s why almost no one is going to try training this model from scratch. Most people will use this model as is, and a small number of people will finetune it on their own data - those people most likely already have their own training scripts, because finetuning is much easier than training from scratch and requires different hyper parameters.

I don’t know why they haven’t released the training code - I agree it would be nice if they did - but the important thing here is they created something valuable, open sourced it, and even provided model weights - for free. Let’s appreciate it.

Even if they did publish their training code - that’s not enough to train the model. You also need their dataset. Would you still claim “the model is not open source” because the dataset is not available?

Bottom line: the model has been open sourced. The training code hasn’t - and isn’t needed by most users of this model.
Power engineers have been doing this for decades (a century?); estimating the temperature of a transformer or motor from a simple ODE to see if the relays need to trip. The parameters are derived from the electrical parameters of the transformer.

Aside from applying it to speakers, whats novel?
Major refactoring of a platform is almost never the right answer, wholesale replacing battle tested code with theoretically better code satisfies only engineering teams and kills businesses.
For which we are all heavily armed.