skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some of these things overlap into reducing fuel costs, which is the thing airlines spend the most on, aside from employee salaries.
If tiny chemicals can do that to you, because you ingested them, what about all of the other things you ingest, including sound, which cause chemicals in your brain to make reactions?
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thats the plan isn't it? We all give up our suv's, big houses, gas stoves, meat and travel so that the elites that preach to us from their 500' yachts and private jets as they travel the world collecting global warming awards?
We basically make doppler radars - here frequency-shift is proportional to the speed of the object. Most other radars (pulse-radars) uses the bandwidth of a pulse to gain range resolution (the wider the bandwidth the better the res).

Here's a few (very old) plots of how our radars see the world through a spectrogram: https://weibelradars.com/space/space-industry/

What would be cool, would be a browser-based way to do soft analysis of these plots.
Ask HN: Solopreneur Ideas for DevOps Engineer?
I have knowledge on kubernetes, prometheus, terraform, AWS, CI/CD. The basic infrastructure stack and I want to build a soloprenuer product, but i cannot seem to come up with one

For people in this field, what are some products that you would like to see?
I have these weird "future stories" I like to play in my head. One is where we end up in a situation that mystically some global policy comes into place that gives each human a limit to fly 5,000 miles every year, and then a market for flight miles emerges. People sign into a website and trade their miles for their local currency, flight miles eventually become a pseudo currency. It's super weird, but I think about it often.
I reckon they'll just go stuffing multiple souls into each baby.

Has anyone tried counting the number of souls per body?
There was an interesting offshoot from this idea.

The depicted fax technology is analogue. It works really well on a quiet wire line, but even cross-country landline amplification in the USA in the 1920s or 1930s was pushing the limits of noise and distortion. You can always scan more slowly, of course. But you can also quantize. Digital signals are wonderfully robust. Heck, you can send an unamplified binary telegraph signal under an ocean.

One could imagine the photograph having a grid superimposed over it. And one could measure the intensity of light for each spot on the grid. Record those intensity values as numbers, perhaps automatically, to paper tape. Send that list over a telegraphic wire at high speed. Use the same size grid over a photographic plate. Read the tape, perhaps automatically, and expose the plate to light in proportion to the value of each recorded number.

Yes, it was actually done. The technique was invented in the 1920s, originally to send photographs over transatlantic telegraph cables before radio could reliably bridge the ocean. Sending a photograph of people leaving on a ship in London for New York, days before they arrived, meant a lot of money for newspapers. Definitely a market for it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartlane_cable_picture_transmi...

Can't find it freely online but some more info about the system is available: "Digital pictures 50 years ago", Proceedings of the IEEE ( Volume: 60, Issue: 7, July 1972) https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1450705
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Proper codec driver would be heavily abstracted though. I2C hidden behind regmap. Regmap mostly hidden behind ALSA kcontrol API. A lot of codec drivers consist mostly of tables of mappings between abstract controls and register locations/values. Not very exciting stuff. Finding an acquirable SoC that doesn't have DAI driver implemented may also be a challenge.

But why not I guess. :)

Camera sensor drivers are a bit less abstracted and many sensors don't have upstream drivers. But there's also a lack of quality documentation for HW in this area, oftentimes... v4l2 API is a bit more approachable than alsa PCM API, IMO. And on advanced SoCs you can pass around video buffers bewteen various v4l2 mem2mem devices to transform/process the data in HW. Drivers for HW acceleration of image or video data processing are seldom exercised in all their features, so there are many bugs there waiting to be squashed, and features to be implemented. It's a deep rabbit hole.
It's already up over 25% in the last year anyway. Not sure why we're worring about long term. Anyone try booking a trip to Europe from US lately?
So Utah wins. I think the goal of these laws is to decrease porn usage primarily with any child safety benefit as secondary.
I don't disagree that the concrete hellholes brutalism became associated with are brutal in that sense, but if you want to see a version of brutalism this doesn't apply to see London's Barbican Estate. It was built on brutalist and modernist lines but was an aspirational development for "middle and upper middle class professionals" [1] and remains highly sought after to this day.

Only seeing it from the outside I dismissed it for many years, but once I went in I realised both how huge it is and how it shows the ideas of brutalist and modernist architecture do exist independently of the depressing concrete boxes that have often been built in their name.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbican_Estate
The global total of emissions is made up of a lot of things that are not particularly huge on their own. It all adds up, and everything needs to be tackled.
> ... Nazism and related ideologies ...

Prior to the Nazi's the ideology was called something else.

Eugenics. Manifest Destiny. White Australia Policy. etc.

German extremists bundled these together under their heinous flag and used it against their 'enemy', the Jewish people living in Europe at the time - but you are right that the eugenics and white supremacy movements came from, principally, American sources, and have been the motivation and justification for countless similar atrocities ever since the fall of the Nazis.

The key thing is that the brand changed, but the effect remains the same: degradation and deterioration, if not outright extermination, of cultures deemed inferior to white, western ideals.

We continue this outrageous ideology in the form of the "War on Terror", which is just Nazi ideology, rebranded for the pallets of a gullible, decadent, over-fed American public ... who would tear down the walls of the White House if it were to ever outright parade the swastika, but who are nevertheless patriotically inclined, as good robots are, to get behind whatever threat their mighty fighting men have determined is the Next Big Bad Guy™ ...
FTA:
"it is likely that some of this cost will be picked up by travelers in the form of much more expensive airfares."

Maybe, but it's disingenuous to make that comment without also noting who will pay for the cost of negative externalities arising from _not_ making these changes (spoiler: it's all of us, but disproportionately it's the people who can't afford to fly who will pay the most)
Just trying to eat and live healthy is far more an issue than what was cited above.
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We could just use money, of course.
Then it will cause a crisis described in Nights' Dawn[1] trilogy by Peter Hamilton.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/series/43318-night-s-dawn
>Only US-based operations will go to the trouble of blocking Utah.

Apparently not, as Pornhub is Canadian.
I rented a 5-10 million dollar home in Silicon Valley (an Airbnb). And as I imagined, the shower was a torrent. It wasn't conserving any water like my home in the Bay Area was regulated to do.
Wait - you got scammed on the antique keyboard -- the original switches are that valuable? That's bonkers.
In the EU private jets are exempt from the new fuel duty as long as they make less than 243 flights every 4 months:

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PETI-CM-731622...

They don't even try to hide the hypocrisy. They're unelected and steal our money with ever-increasing taxes which they exempt themselves from.
> However, anyone who has done respectable doses of psychedelics probably agrees with me that there’s a bit more to dreams, NDE and afterlife than “random” neurological firings.

Maybe anyone except of me. I am really comfortable when hallucinations are called as hallucinations despite of does they have any esoteric sense or not. All esoteric understanding of hallucination are really better to keep distance from science before some study will give a ground to consider more.

You must distinguish known things from unknown things unless you are comfortable to be a not wise person.
In other news, VPN subscription sales explode in Utah!

easy sales opportunity
I guess I'm out of the loop. What's prompt injection?
News workers will pretty soon learn that while they’ve been threatening everyone else with replacement by ai they will be the very first to be replaced.

Grab a camera, keep your ears open, prompt gpt with the details of what you’ve witnessed and write an article.
That's probably fine. Perhaps the point is to make it more clear to lawmakers that you can't build a Great Salt Lake Firewall.
No, I was referring to mainframes.

Back in the day, they cost a fortune to set up and replacing them is a high risk - low value for many CEO's.

In Québec, the SAAQ (provincial DIV) decided to get rid of the mainframe by replacing it with SAP and with the amount of data they had, the migration took them a month of downtime.

Then they completely mismanaged the startup of the new system and a lot of people complained.
The CEO was fired.
https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/head-of-saaq-loses-his-job-eric-...

I'm sure that Windows Server will gradually be replaced by containerized app running in some cloud but windows desktop will take a long time to be replaced, especially because of office.
The "banana equivalent dose" is an error that refuses to die. Based on tables that estimate the effect of various radioactive isotopes acting for 50 years, people ignoring physiology decided that the average K40 in a banana will produce 0.078 microsievert of damage (rounded to 0.1 because it's close enough for jazz and comics).

The reality is that, due to homoeostasis, the excess potassium you ingest is eliminated the next time you piss, so there's no accumulation inside the organism. Those 50 years become something like 12 hours and the radiation exposure is more in the ballpark of 0.00000213 microsievert.

But that value is now too small to use it in science fanboyism, isn't it?

https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2015-05/documents/52... - page 156. That's where these people took the effective dose equivalent for K^40 from, but those values are for 50 years of exposure.

"For radioisotopes of elements that are under tight homeostatic control by the human body, the inhalation or ingestion risk coefficients given in this document may not be appropriate for application to some exposure scenarios. For example, the ingestion risk coefficient for ^(40)K would not be appropriate for application to ingestion of ^(40)K in conjunction with an elevated intake of natural potassium. This is because the biokinetic model for potassium used in this document represents the relatively slow removal of potassium (biological half-time of 30 d) that is estimated to occur for typical intakes of potassium, whereas an elevated intake of potassium would result in excretion of a nearly equal mass of natural potassium, and hence of ^(40)K, over a short period." - ["Federal Guidance Report No. 13: Cancer Risk Coefficients for Environmental Exposure to Radionuclides"](https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2015-05/documents/40...) - page 16

So, if you accept that the duration of exposure from eating a banana is 12 hours instead of 50 years, a dental x-ray is the equivalent of eating 2,347,417 bananas.
Why is it a "straw man"? Doctors and McDonald's workers are paid differently in a market economy because the supply of McDonald's workers is far greater than the supply of doctors. If you don't agree that income should be determined by the market, why should doctors make more?
Like Bill Gates saying he's part of the solution - https://finance.yahoo.com/news/im-part-solution-bill-gates-1...

"Billionaire philanthropist" - the definition of an oxymoron.
MLCopilot is a new way of using machine learning models to solve challenging tasks, automating the process of selecting parameters and architectures.
Well when you put it that way, it kinda sounds like you're describing a ponzi scheme.

What happens when this infinite growth starts to run up against finite planetary boundaries?
Even before e911 was implemented on all the phones I could ping phones and give the FBI the approximate location and direction based on cell site handoffs. I had to use RF engineering maps that were overlaid on street maps but it worked. This was in 1997 on a GSM network.
You're kidding, right? From the Wikipedia article:

>there is no scientifically admissible evidence supporting any of the alleged instances of xenoglossy

Followed by four separate research citations.

You're peddling obvious pseudoscience quackery.
I continue to be frustrated that politicians and lawmakers are more focused on culture war stuff than they are focused on updating sensible laws to the modern technologies of the time. I hear more about random ousting of people and whatever said something stupid on social media than I do about serious pushes to protect vulnerable populations online…
Near-death brain activity and any confirmation of near-death experience does not necessarily imply an afterlife.
Windows HIP SDK support. Some day native windows support ROCm...
I find this too. With GPT there is no such thing as a stupid question. That is really liberating! You can really double check the simplest and most basic of your assumptions with no fear of judgement. And as mentioned in other comments, the assurance of receiving a good faith answer is not to be underestimated.
Sounds do have a strong effect on people's emotions, but they don't tend to affect the way in which you think (maybe emotionally) in the same way that psychedelics can do.
> And while it could be rightly said I've made things unnecessarily hard for myself approaching life like this, I feel it has been beneficial, and enriching, to force myself to really ask, what is this person saying here?

I personally don’t believe there’s mutual exclusivity here.

I spent the first half of my life just absorbing. I’ve spent the 2nd half of my life so far undoing the patterns of thought that can result from staying inside one’s head instead of engaging with people.

In my experience, asking the person saying something what they mean is far more effective than asking myself what they mean.

When I ask them, I can form real empathy.

When I only ask myself, I just waste significant energy on all of the ways I imagine I could or should be empathetic.

> In particular, I wouldn't want GPT to lead to a general lessening of empathy.

While I have a lot of concerns about LLMs and the future of literacy, propagation if misinformation, etc, I don’t think ChatGPT is any more risk to empathy than 100 other aspects of modern life.

Facebook, Twitter and Reddit seem far more responsible for the erosion of empathy, and it’s unclear how LLMs would inherently lead to a “general lessening”. I think that ship sailed a decade ago.
There are many state laws that contradict a federal law. But they have to actually be challenged by a federal court in order to be nullified. States can make up all the hair-brained laws they want but if they never get sued by the feds then nobody cares.

For instance, all the states legalizing marijuana right now in defiance of federal law.
These are just my annoyances. I love to cook - so the electric range issue really bothers me. I feel like many of the people who wish to impose these devices eat pizza pockets
We’re in a period of karmic-inflation, where any given soul will get you about 1/5th what it’d get you in the good old days.

Nowadays you’d be lucky to die into a fish or bird - most of us are destined bugs, or industrial farm animals.
Am I reading this right? Only a 22% fare increase? For completely decarbonizing air travel? That's less than the price variance of just flying at a different time.
Because the headline says "climate change" and everyone loves to sling around pseudo factual percentages.
Ask HN: What are some successful, but unconventional monetization strategies?
Nowadays there seems to be a whole catalog of ways to monetize. From in-app purchases to one off micropayments, what are some of the most creative and successful ways you’ve seen businesses monetize?

Mostly curious about consumer facing products, but also open to hearing about any interesting b2b sales strategies.
Perhaps we should remove taxes on cigarettes while we're at it? Think of the working people!

If the tax is set appropriately and covers _all_ the negative externalities then we shouldn't even mind if billionaires fly since the entire costs of doing so (including environmental damage) are covered by the ticket.

I'm all for a post-scarcity classless utopia but this "but first the revolution" thinking isn't going to stop my kids from dying in a food riot or getting poached in a heat wave.
> Just hallucinations, nothing more. [..] “random” neurological firings.

With 'just' and 'random' you are in a similar way derogatory to the 'religion of science' in favor of mysticism. If in a healthy and awake state it is our brains that model the full brunt of reality we perceive (an assumption, may be 'mysticism' involved here), then these hallucinations may be just as real seeming to a person, though not based on usual sensory input. Maybe based on past experience, memories. Maybe unconsciously collected until 're-lived' in the hallucination.
dang could you modify the title to include "2050"? The title feels a bit clickbait right now, like the price increase is imminent.
I don't agree there's more to it than random firings, but only in the sense they aren't quite random at all. For the rest I do still think there's nothing more to it than that. The biochemistry behind psychedelics is fairly well-researched and can be explained, so while there is a random component to it just like there are variations in, say, how people perceive color, I do still belive that's really all there is to it, just hallucinations (both sensory and mentally). No matter how in touch one might feel with whatever mystic stuff out there, no matter how profound it might feel, I've yet to see any evidence whatsoever of that somehow proving there effectively is something out there. Doesn't matter those feelings are very real, but it's just.. feelings.
What puzzles me is why by and large these models rely on text as input and output. A reliable voice input ai could convert queries to text internally and send them over to gpt, the convert the output. Optionally we can have tie it into system commands.

Like siri or alexa, but actually useful.
I am not sure what you mean, but sensory inputs can obviously affect you. Hearing a bear roar right behind you will probably change you state of mind pretty quickly.
Incorrect. You still just don't like it, and will not accept that it is an accurate statement about your comment. You are not entitled to have others entertain your bad narratives.
You can't branch at compile time. Well, you can, but that's less useful than branching at runtime. If you branch at compile time, then you need to produce binaries that have a minimum supported ISA extension. But if you branch at runtime, then you can produce maximally portable binaries that only use ISA extensions when they're available.
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If we are only our histories then I'm not sure what is the point of attempting to change. Surely we are not our histories.
Those HR folks used to sit idle the whole day and act as if they were the most important people in the company with a shit loads of work writing 3 emails a day and sorting through 10 job applications
Is this a question? If yes, what is the field of possible answers?
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