skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
None of the homeless people in my town seem to be from here. They don't speak with the local accent; they speak with the generic London "druggie" accent. (The local accent is quite easy to recognize)

This is a nicer town than London, generally; at least, it is in the centre, where the homeless people concentrate. The police seem very tolerant of homeless tent-dwellers. There was a small encampment around the corner from where I live, camped directly outside the courthouse and opposite the police station (!), for about two months. I found them rather intimidating - they were very shouty.
Do you have any point of substance to make here? What do you mean by it sucked, and how does that relate to publishing driver specs?
Chindōgu: The Japanese Art of Unuseless Inventions
"50 years at same company" is the surprising part of this headline, not "without a college degree"; the latter is quite common.
If you read the following sentence you'll see the author is referencing fax machines and floppy disks.
I'm guessing since you're saying is you didn't run it as a legit business. You do know you probably owe capital gains tax if you've made money on your investments?

Having a business is a legal way to reduce your tax bill.
Most of the study around dark matter is in the context of galaxies because that's where the gravity/light mismatch occurs. The rotation of galaxies (as influenced by the gravity of the matter in them) indicates there's more matter than what we can see via the light they emit.

That mismatch when observing galaxies is the whole reason we think dark matter is a thing.
Marketing is anything that's for promoting sales, while advertising is running ads. Advertising is a subset of marketing. Word of mouth marketing (eg. refer a friend and you both get $5 off) is marketing, but not advertising.
No, he was an Ahmedi in Kapurthala whose ancestors were sweetsellers from Bareilly. He went to New York, then Detroit and then Pittsburgh.
My introduction to the web was, I'd say, about a year earlier - and I don't miss it at all.

Sure, it was nascent and full of promise. But that's mostly what it was - promise. Yes, there were all these offbeat websites you could find in the Yahoo directory, but that was not much different to aimlessly scrolling (or, fine, clicking on HN stories).

When I was studying CS one didn't have a hope in hell of building anything of substance independently, because Every.Single.Little.Thing had to be built from scratch - in C or C++ at best. And you'd better have enjoyed those late nights at the lab, it's not like you had anywhere to turn to at 1am when your code is buggy...

The ability to just build is, I feel, far more democratized today - and there's still a long way to go. So to me, the web is still very new, and still full of promise.

The Internet was also incredibly elitist back then. In 1998 only 17% of people in the developed world had access to it. Globally, that number was 3%...You could meet anyone in the world! So long as they were rich.
Today these corresponding numbers are 90% and 63% - I think it's better that way. Certainly, that has been the promise, hasn't it?

And walled gardens? AOL wanted to own the Internet point blank...
I think if anything, our generation was dumb the way all people are dumb in the face of something new. I think our kids would look back at the time we wasted on FB and Twitter and think - "You morons. You spent hours scrolling reading random people's posts? Were you THAT bored?"

Besides, we ARE, right now, part of something very new and incredibly big. Anyone can play with transformer models, with about the same relative ease and
accessibility as you could with the Internet 25 years ago. (Which is to say - as a user, easy enough. As a builder, requiring a healthy dose of determination.)

I think of technology as, like, a tidal force, that just sweeps everyone. It does good and bad. It creates and destroys. Pining for any moment in time is like pinpointing a moment in a stochastic process...it was only ever just a moment in flux.
although zero knowledge proofs can compress the "proof of gradient" so it takes much less time to verify than recompute, it take orders of more work to generate the proof, moreover can we merge multiple "improvements"? if not then upon the selection of the "winner" all those are lost?
Talk to children respectfully.
I would seriously challenge your "equivalent sophistication" statement. The human resources management of Russia's army is below WW2 Soviet's abysmal standard. The russian population is starting to notice.
I’m not exactly a fan of CanCon laws but I’m shocked it took this long to extend to web-delivered media.
Recent and related:

Percy Ludgate - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37533487 - Sept 2023 (17 comments)
I haven't seen an even remotely popular decision come from the CRTC in decades. I think maybe the last thing they did that anyone actually thought was worth while was unbundling cable packages... well into the decline of cable television.

Everything else, makes them obvious enemies of basically all Canadians. Selling out to massive telecoms and setting up meaningless laws to make content production and distribution harder in Canada.

I can honestly say I have no respect for anyone working under the purview of the CRTC.
Of course they could. Will they? Probably not. Should they? Maybe. Do I want them to? Hell yeah. Let's light this firecracker.
The un-cited Cochrane review in question does not say that.

From Cochrane.org:

Statement on 'Physical interventions to interrupt or reduce ... - Cochrane

Mar 10, 2023

Many commentators have claimed that a recently-updated Cochrane Review shows that 'masks don't work', which is an inaccurate and misleading interpretation. It would be accurate to say that the review examined whether interventions to promote mask wearing help to slow the spread of respiratory viruses, and that the results were inconclusive.

Repeating the important part:

the review examined whether interventions to promote mask wearing help to slow the spread of respiratory viruses

Conversely, here’s a good study that shows that consistent use of FFP3 respirator masks drastically reduced transmission among workers on a hospital ward: https://elifesciences.org/articles/71131

Note that the study only had the workers wearing FFP3 masks on shifts, and community transmission was high at the time. Therefore the study “leaked” and good masks work better than the numbers in the study might seem to indicate. Face-fitting masks do work, and very well. Of course they do. It’s all very clear if you dig into the aerosol physics.
its shocking that so many online job apps ask you for your race, gender, sexuality (?!?) and health/disability status. and with a straight face ALSO say they Promise-Pinky-Swear to not use the answers to discriminate against you

uh huh

1. you cant know whether they will or not. you're pointing a gun at your head, pulling a trigger and hoping a bullet doesnt come out

2. even if they dont, you've just shared that data with strangers. and data lives forever and can leak out to anywhere else, replicating endlessly. ultimately ending up in Enemy Hands (defined here as folks who dont mean you well & plan to act on it), and thus, used to hurt you

3. if you give a false answer on a job app they can later cite it as cause for firing you. ie. it givea the biz HR/legal dept yet another gun they can point at your head, financially and legally

its a de facto Scam right out in the open. relying on enough people to fall for it, and believe their Spin. nobody should play along with it

ps. and yes I know its "required" by "law" in some cases. it doesnt change the point and the tangible impacts of it. it doesnt make it NOT creepy, dangerous and immoral. evil is evil
"The human eyes can only do 24 fps" and "if I can't do thing, then no one can" all over again.
To my knowledge the only browser testing site for ECH - https://defo.ie/ech-check.php
Why just teens?
thanks for replies and support. What I am gathering is that there are no potential repercussion for the company or my ex-manager (VP) given the labor laws in CA (which have their own advantages & disadvantages), so my only option is to tolerate the emotional pain and move on...
I have an abx website as a side project.

Feel free to make one or take an existing one like https://abx.funkybits.fr/test/the-eagles-hell-freezes-over-h...
I won’t claim to know the details of this specific case but removing a leader from power and imprisoning them isn’t unique to liberal democracies. I wouldn’t say that specific event is proof of a functioning liberal democracy without a lot of qualifiers on the circumstances and methods.
What country? I've never experienced this in any European country I've been to.

Edit: no, once. The McDonald's in the Netherlands on the A16 highway, right after the Belgian border has paid toilets, even for customers. It's a disgrace.
I can't quite tell if you need a job :) if yes, quant trading is certainly an option. If you want to do something else for any reason, I can't see how this will be very different. A SE job interview will revolve around technical questions. Startups will probably focus more on skills and less on past job titles.

And if you don't need one... sounds like you first have to figure out what you want to do :)

Good luck!
This is a naive and incorrect view of economics. Tire manufacturers employ synthetic rubber because that's what consumers want (probably because it's cheaper even when accounting for the lower longevity?). They do not just get to dictate which products enter the market.

Which makes me highly doubt your claim that natural rubber tires are both superior AND cheaper. If you are right about that, I'm sure there are VCs who would be more than happy to fund you...
Project Management Software Can't Save You
I find it difficult to believe that this is effect the American voters want. Frankly, I struggle to understand why they expect it as a a side effect of something they want, but as the desired effect of their vote? Very difficult to believe.
The surgeon is wearing it because of an old, old misinterpretation of reality.

This article is factually accurate: https://www.wired.com/story/the-teeny-tiny-scientific-screwu...
"The sleeping item will be available at electronics retailers and other stores from Oct. 15."

Keep an eye out - I wonder if Amazon.jp will have them. If so, Amazon Japan often DOES allow you to ship direct to the US and you can just sign into AMZNJP with your .com credential and it'll let you get set up to order from that side.

Otherwise, if you see it somewhere like Bic Camera or otherwise, there's services like Buyee and Zenmarket that can help coordinate getting it into the US. I've used Zenmarket before to buy a Makita cordless microwave from Bildy so I know it works, and I'm way too much of a frequent flyer at Buyee with my Yahoo Auctions habit...
It's convenience and nothing else that's all these tools have going for them. It's just to catch lazy bastards out who based their whole workflow on it. It's the scummiest way to do business and everyone associated with it gets on my private "Don't do business with"-list.
You'd have to define "hardware" in a rather interesting way for that to have any hope of working.

Consider any sort of user-facing device (say, an electronic toy, or a music performance device, or for that matter, even a phone). These are all aggregates of hardware made by other companies. Yet they are also hardware. Being unable to develop such devices along with the firmware that runs them would make it more or less impossible to develop them at all. So where does "hardware" stop and "device" start?
Great question, I have no idea. I wish the nationwide 55mph speed limit were reinstated, if only to reduce oil consumption. Added bonus that it might actually encourage more public transit and walkable cities. Nobody will take this idea seriously, the US is far too addicted to cars and lacks the density.
This is a strong a warning as any for people not to get too hang up on greenhouse gas emissions as the holy grail of sustainability. It creates the wrong mindset.

What we have drifted into is a tech supported civilization that is covering the planet from corner to corner with myriad of footprints (emissions, particulate and chemical pollution of all types, habitat alteration or destruction etc).

The story of ozon layer depletion was an early warning. Greenhouses another dimension. Microplastics and nitrates another etc etc, with no end in sight.

Imagine homo sapiens communities spread around in the billions and a steady stream of polluting stuff emanating from them, not temporarily but continuously and forever.

This is the challenge we are facing and its monumental. How to take that out-of-control, scant regard for externalities tech enabled economic "growth" mindset and turn it around.

Bold ideas are welcome. Burrying heads in the sand not an option.
On what evidence do you base your thoughts on ?
This is why society is screwed.

All these people don't understand the dangers of socialism. History is bound to repeat itself.

The cost of the EU forcing everyone to adopt a standard is that next time a new manufacturer need to enter the market, it will have to cater to the need of the 1% (of which I am part, I'd love to have drivers for linux for everything).

Who is going to benefit from this regulation? The existing players who can afford to support linux: it will be peanuts for them and it will make or break a new broke manufacturer.
Well, when they become/are the major player (close to monopoly) and then can ratchet up some enterprise crap, then do the 10% per year squeeze - well, that's what VCs believe in (and buy). A 10x multiple means they "only" need $500M TTM to justify to the next mark. And, these big valuation help with the IPO, loads of folk love to buy hyped up IPO.
It's weird because I got here from a link on lemmy.
Typo: ♣ uses T_1(a) twice, one should be T_1(b)
Weren't logarithms originally developed by Napier and his successors specifically for the purpose of making multiplication easier? Ludgate's algorithm as written here looks a lot like that.
> The only way this works in a disintegrated ecosystem is if game devs become pros at creating driver bug workarounds.

They already are, they have to because that is the reality on mobile games. IIRC the devs of Real Racing (or another Android car race game) made a blog post on that.
The rule is either "on the balance of probabilities" or "beyond a reasonable doubt". Neither of which was well-applied in the Horizon cases. "Mathematically proven" is almost always the wrong standard for legal cases, as it doesn't speak to the quality of the proof.

The relevant standard ought to have been "beyond a reasonable doubt", but obviously even those who did know better managed to convince the court that doubting the computer was unreasonable. Apparently without manually checking the output against reality, even when the defendent brought their own numbers?

I strongly suspect that the racial discrimination that's being revealed by the press played its part in that -- no need to worry about the computer, or even about reality, if one's mind is set anyway.
Financial sector and banks are doing well world wide.
Thank you for saving me the time on this. I was about to echo the same.
Vaccination is using deactivated viruses. My question is can we get the same effect from exposure to small doses of live viruses.

The articles says exposure to tiny amount can "boost" immunity, which I assume means an immunity acquired earlier from a full blown infection (or vaccination).
Sure! Thanks for the hint. I did it 100% transparent to the tax authoreties.
Yeah, wonderful. Check this out:

On one hand they require distribution services to register, read Apple or Spotify. On another they require them "to make content available in a way that is not tied to a specific mobile or Internet service." Would be nice to know what they were smoking, because that's how you kill all podcast distribution in Canada.

And all it took to produce this piece of legislation were mere 4 months of "public consultations".
Yes, it’s a dumb idealistic idea that never worked in practice. Geeks spent forever trying to get crappy drivers working IRQ conflicts fixed, etc.

It wasn’t until Windows 95 and WinHec and “Plug and Play” that x86 based PCs became usable for the mass market
I get phone prompts of random work stuff 24/7. At least the stuff I got as a teenager was meaningful.
Mozilla has occasionally seemed to have inconsistent values/behavior, for a long time, which has made me nervous. But some of their stuff is still the best starting point for some public interest technology goals. So I keep working with it, and promoting it (though not as strongly as I have in the past).

I've suspected that their mix of people includes (but not limited to):

* many very capable true-believers in their ostensible mission, like we'd expect of Mozilla (though they can't all have perfect morale right now);

* some people who've gone through, or are going through, a rough time, and are trying to use Mozilla to solve problems that they see elsewhere in the world (even if off-mission, but other people are sympathetic and want to help, so it's complicated);

* maybe some true-believers who have to make hard compromises to keep Mozilla alive, somewhat quietly (and maybe it's hard to know which compromises to make, and to not lose the way at some point); and

* people who'd actually much rather have their counterpart roles at a FAANG or other prestitious tech company (and so aren't true-believers in the mission, and will tend to think and act with their true thinking, with impact to vision and decisions, and to leadership of the true-believers).

Maybe some key people span multiple categories.

This isn't a satisfying grand unified theory of all of Mozilla's behavior, and I'm sure there's insiders with better insights.
> PCM is also a lossy compression due to the quantization step, albeit its effect is much less pronounced for so many reasons that no one even thinks it as a "compression" method.

20 * log10(1.0 / 2**16) == -96db

Much like sampling rate, it produces a range that's most likely outside of the ability for any human to appreciably detect. It's also a constant effect, whereas codecs actually analyze the audio to determine which components of the frequency spectrum it can eliminate.

I don't think it's reasonable to compare PCM and lossy codecs this way.
Depends greatly on where you live.

Furthermore, a lot of the same forces that are trying to get rid of end to end encryption are explicitly trying to take their parts of society back to that.
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I run my phone on DND all day, everyday and block notifications from almost all apps. The amount of garbage we have vying for our attention on an hourly basis is overwhelming sometimes.

The worst is the apps where you do want notifications on, like your food delivery apps so you know when your food is at the door, but those companies take that as an invite to send you daily marketing notifications and it all feels like a breach of trust.
F-secure lab 20 years ago
Everybody is. I'm strongly of the opinion that all this 'needy tech' is a net negative and I try hard to keep it out of my life. But some of it, mostly associated with my kids schooling, is very hard to avoid. 10 emails per week about some school portal with 'an important message' (which you need to separately logged into, of course the message is so important that it can't be entrusted to mere email, even though the account recovery does use that same email) that ends up being nonsense but you're not able to block it because one day an actually important message might show up.

Tech should serve us, but meanwhile instead of having terminals to the internet we are now the terminals to the internet. Push notifications and all manner of intrusive interaction have become the norm, not the exception that they should be.
Related:

FlashAttention-2, 2x faster than FlashAttention - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36761988 - July 2023 (18 comments)

FlashAttention: Fast and Memory-Efficient Exact Attention with IO-Awareness - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31568090 - May 2022 (3 comments)
> Did people end up eating potassium permanganate? I think that would be pretty toxic.

It is definitely toxic and dangerous. Yet, we used a very light solution of it (I'm thinking <0.1%, a very light shade of purple) to cause vomit reflex.
This is real hardware lock in action.
I appreciate there's a new tool in the block, but I still don't understand why none put JMeter as a competitor in this list.

I was using Postman myself and I got really upset about their change and forced limitations, on the other hand I understand their needs to charge people for monetisation.

The most upsetting thing about Postman was the impossibility to use multiple client certificates for TLS authentication, but only one for domain.

Although JMeter isn't as pleasant as the other tools are, speaking of UI, it is capable of supporting multiple protocols and there are no limitations in using TLS certificates or checks.
Yes. Try reading the article?
> Isn’t this a textbook case for Airbnb (or something akin to it)? Residents live year round, except during the festival, when they rent out their homes?

I lived above an AirBnB until the actual landlord shut that shit down. AirBnB is a fucking pest even without Oktoberfest, but during it it's even worse. NO ONE wants hordes of drunkards stomping through the stairwell at 03:00 in the morning. There's a reason accomodation providers are a regulated business.

> Put another way, would the hotels be open to long-term leases which black out the festival?

Who can afford that? Even at 50€ a night it's 1500€ a month with barely more than a bed and a shower.
I'd rather trust solid hearing biology/physics plus all the other failed tests

> the effective dynamic range of 16 bit audio reaches 120dB in practice [13], more than fifteen times deeper than the 96dB claim.

> 120dB is greater than the difference between a deserted 'soundproof' room and a sound loud enough to cause hearing damage in seconds.

> 16 bits is enough to store all we can hear, and will be enough forever.

https://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html#toc_1...
I get you in principle, but the company should still be allowed to sell hardware with some default software installed, because if I had to search for someone on the internet that wrote software for my specific smart TV, washing machine or whatever this becomes much more painful.

I would rather see a 'right to repair' extended to software bundled. Any device or software that can connect to a network or can be interfaced with in any way is prone to security (or any other) bugs, which the customer should have the right to fix themselves, because they bought it, and in order to do so, the company needs to hand out the source code and documentation for all their devices.

Also about vendor writing Linux drivers, you probably don't want them too, there are already vendor board support packages (BSP) out there that enabled their hardware on Linux, but those are overwhelmingly abysmal in quality.

What you rather want is for vendors to upstream their driver into the kernel, so that it is properly integrated, doesn't break the hardware of others and has a high quality, but that process is not something you can regulate and force.
I think it's a figure of speech meaning that it's just not widely known.
I find dictation slower than typing. the number of mistakes it makes means I essentially have to delete half of the message and retype it manually. which takes longer than typing in the first place