skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since you work at Desmos: is there any way to have animated variables start/stop based on the value of some other variable? Or functions that graph different formulas based on a conditional? Etc.

For example, variable X is continuously cycling between -10 and +10, but only when variable D is > 1. At my son's school, there is a kind of interactive demoscene going on using Desmos (the kids believe that the school cannot block Desmos from the Chromebooks, therefore they will always have it available).
No. But it's definitely much closer to what's described in the article than binary blob drivers.

Complaining that a company only makes available the source to everything you'll ever want to run in your computer, but not the tools certify it for avionics (SQLite), or to scale it horizontally to 100s of nodes (Fermyon Spin), is not the same as not giving you the source to display drivers.
I've noticed that people who don't walk or bike usually don't have frame of reference of what cars are capable of, and usually don't understand all of the simultaneous requirements that must be fulfilled by pedestrians and cyclists.

So you get drivers who don't understand that they need to look both ways even on a one way street, because someone might be using the sidewalk, drivers that don't pay attention to walk signals at intersections, drivers that speed down low traffic streets, or drivers who don't recognize dangerous situations that they create.

I own a car, but I bike and walk a lot. The person driving the mutli-ton machine should carry the responsibility of operating it safely. It is a big responsibility, but it is their responsibility to not hurt or threaten others.
I'm an introvert, but have always been "that guy" willing to go onsite (pre-covid) and/or get on calls with clients. My first job out of grad school was a data scientist at the peak of the hype in 2012. More time on calls and less time coding over a year or two. That turned into a post-sales implementation engineer role where I was basically professional services. At my current company they cancelled the post sales program and rolled us all into sales engineering.

I like the tech and meeting different people / use cases. I don't like the AEs and the vomit of acronyms and jargon that comes with the sales side of the house, although I guess you could say Salesforce is no worse than Jira/wikis that developers are familiar with.

Overall I enjoy it; I was a mediocre software engineer and the competition for SWE roles is damn tough. There are fewer tech folks who are ok with being on client calls for most of the day so it's a good niche. That said I do feel like my skills have atrophied a bit and there's not a clear path for growth. I'd love if someone who has been doing this for 20+ years could chime in :)
Correct. People that think Disney cares about social justice also believe the stripper likes them.
To battle moldy barracks, Fort Stewart soldiers built their own mold detectors
Many things have vanished without a trace from the internet, but it is essentially impossible to ever be sure that nobody has backed up a bit of data.
$1.5B for a screen recorder with customers
I think you're agreeing with me
The HQ has a C-mount so you can put any C-mount lens on it. And there are plenty of options in that space.

In my case, I simply can't stand the raspberry pi's camera connector so I buy my own "industrial machine vision" cameras with C-mount. In my case I found the Mindvision line to be the best, I connect with either USB3 or GigE (both of which are much nicer cables than the Pi camera connector) and use the Mindvision SDK (it's not a uvc device, instead you write some python that interacts with the camera, giving you deep level of control).
No, Ukraine did not lose half of its population, neither officially nor unofficially.

Ukraine didn't lose even a quarter of the population including all that left.

It lost ~3 times fewer soldiers than russia.

But considering your other pro-russian comments, it is obvious you are russian.

So probably not the most reliable source of info.

Good job spreading russian propaganda though.
My issue, as a pedestrian, is that more and more drivers are driving with complete disregard for their environment. I've had to jump or run out of the way on several occasions when I had "right of way" (crosswalks or stop signs, for example) and drivers accelerate right through with their face buried in their phone.

This problem also exists when cycling on shared bike gutters where oblivious drivers veer out of their lane into the bike lane, roll through stop signs, or are just generally unaware that they're sharing the road with people not surrounded by 1 ton of steel.

A pedestrian stepping into the street isn't going to kill other people with their negligence - the burden of caution should not be placed onto them.
Simplifying compliance is definitely appealing to me. Just some feedback - I appreciate that you have a video on your website, but without audio or captions, it's hard to follow what's going on.
Revisited mass of the Milky Way is much smaller than expectations from cosmology
It happens. E.g.:

> In a way I would have loved to ship with that hack in there, but once we found the cause of the error message I couldn't in good conscience leave the hack in there. Besides which hand editing it added time to completing the build, which was inefficient.

Source: https://www.wcnews.com/news/2023/09/18/mythbusters-wing-comm...

The link is about investigating the origin of the “thank you for playing wing commander” error message, which seems fitting too.
My dad, Joseph J. Daly, was a civilian employee of the Coast Guard at the statioin near Wildwood Crest, N.J.

Dad built, tested, and deployed a lot of the Loran transmitters. He delivered one to Iwo Jima during the second flag raising.

Dad also took a trip in a van with Loran equipment. The van drove up the Garden State Parkway so they could measure the accuracy.

He and I talked a lot about high-Q notch filters, used to handle local stray electromagnetic problems. We also talked a lot about temperature control for clock stability.

Many years later I happened to meet the Coast Guard guy whose job it was to shut down Loran.
It would be more dangerous for the cyclist.
They said it "sent data" back to Japan, that was the issue, the basically got caught stealing us gov data, and this was 20 years ago. So I have no idea.
Why Loom though? There are alternatives like Awesome Screenshot that don't have a garbage Chrome-only dev/support target.
Ask HN: What did you hear about the drought on Amazon Rainforest?
Hamas could put their hands up and walk out too.
I wired together all the cables behind the switches in my home and covered them with smart switches
That’s exactly what I thought too, lol.
I'd say the most common rule across Europe would be "you can cross anywhere as long as you're not within X meters of a crosswalk". As in if there is one within your line of sight, it's there for a reason and you should use it. If there isn't one, cross away.
I haven't found any decent MIPI cameras. Instead, I buy machine vision cameras from Mindvision. USB3 or GigE connectors.
RISC-V Wants All Your Cores
I'm on a grandfathered ATT plan. I'll bet you ATT is going to try this soon if TMo gets away with it.

Does anyone use the prepaid plans from Mint or Visible, etc? What are the downsides?
No I see it on my account. https://i.imgur.com/wWzlMfP.jpg
> Edit: I installed via the play store, I see many folks have installed it via fdroid but I'm not sure why.

Because https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19429193 (KDE Connect removed from Google Play store for violating new policy on SMS).
Not nothing, just a fat haircut of ~40%, right?
My first thought upon seeing this: https://shouldiuseacarousel.com/
The page you link to does not contain a justification for the rule.
Right

But the Highway Code says drivers MUST stop if the pedestrian is /on/ the crossing:

> you MUST give way when a pedestrian has moved onto a crossing

This should be sufficient to make drivers understand that you give way to pedestrians at zebra crossings
I'll be sure to post to HN :)
I don't know if it's correct on body fat. I don't care if the body fat reading is correct, or even very close. I just care that it goes up or down. I don't know if my weight is correct either.

If I'm getting stronger and the body fat readings are consistently going down that's what I care about.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37856974.
I'm somewhat ignorant on this matter, but I was under the impression that in some jurisdictions (e.g. UK) scraping as a whole sale concept is pretty grey area at best not just on PII & IP
Not to mention speed limits. Around here almost all traffic exceeds the speed limit, yet plenty of drivers still complain about pedestrians not adhering to the rules.
Important to note that unless your Nginx instance has a special (read: very high) keepalive limit configured, Nginx has a fairly reasonable defense against HTTP/2 rapid reset attack by default, as the article says. Still, interesting to see the response to these attacks.
At least during WW3 it would be over in seconds for me. I'd just go out and sit on the porch and wait for the show.
Definitely this. Also even if you can say bench press 160lbs you should be doing several warm up sets starting from an unweighted bar. Just throwing on 160lbs cold and going for it is madness.
Google 'Best Take' uses AI to edit photos and fix smiles
The conference where this was made official was quite a beautiful, upbeat demonstration of people from around the world coming together to agree upon a change:

https://www.youtube.com/live/qA67T7FPBME?t=498
Every light switch runs an LLM which is able to submit JSON payloads of the format { "on": true } to an internal HTTP server controlling the switch. The LLM is connected to a microphone and is prompted with a unique name. You can use it just by yelling "turn on the lights!", or if you only want to turn on one of the lights "Gary, turn on!"
A Quick Solution to the Two Envelope Problem
>There will be an exact point at which a certain molecule has interacted with another molecule marking the exact point of perfect sleep.

I have some terrible news for you about statistical mechanics.
Not OP but an IAM role with scoped access to secrets. Better again, using secretsFrom in the task definition which injects the secret as an environment variable for you.
New Gaia release reveals rare lenses, cluster cores and unforeseen science
tentatively called “Claude-Next” — that is 10 times more capable than today’s most powerful AI, according to a 2023 investor deck TechCrunch obtained earlier this year.

this is the thing that scare me.

when do these models stop getting smarter? or at least slow down?
Exactly, thank you for phrasing it much better than I did!
Aren't the contracts now technically month-for-month, with the "contract" being the device payment agreement?

As they themselves weasel out of it: they're not "raising prices", they're "moving you to a newer plan with more benefits at a different cost".
they like the power, but not the responsibilities. If it were so easy, germany wouldn't put 90+ year old people before an judge because of the mass murder of the nazis. After WW2 nobody was with the nazis, even people a few kilometer away "didn't know about the attrocities" they commited in the concentration camps.
https://archive.ph/MqLz0
Too bad google has disabled "insecure apps" meaning I have a couple of ffmpeg patches sitting around because I haven't yet migrated it to my own domain. I thinking of sending from "FuckYouGoogle".
The parent listed Vietnam. The USA lost Vietnam even more soundly than Afghanistan, including almost 50k killed, and 300k wounded. Pol Pot murdered 40% of Cambodia. Saudi almost collapsed with the Grand Mosque. Nothing today comes close to those strains.
Mint users will be deprioritized if the network is congested, hasn’t been a problem for me but in some areas or during large events it could be
> A codebase is any single repo (in a centralized revision control system like Subversion), or any set of repos who share a root commit (in a decentralized revision control system like Git).

They do mean that a repo = a codebase. A remark about "set of repos" is just a technicality of distributed VCSs, meaning that each copy cloned from a single source (or from other copies) is a single repo.
Micro-AGI-JS Artificial General Intelligence for JavaScript
An AI agent powered by OpenAI, designed to process and respond to messages using the OpenAI API and integrate tools as functions. This agent is built to be flexible, efficient, and easy to integrate into various applications.
Can someone here explain how this works?

I'm not sure how reliable it is, but here's[1] an old Reddit comment describing the method that Desmos (2D) uses. That method works in 3D, so maybe Desmos 3D uses it, too.

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/desmos/comments/qlhmbc
Fun, there was a program for the Amiga called "Doug's Math Aquarium" which I found to be pretty neat, it has a lot of that feel. Don't know how to get it to insert i (aka sqrt(-1)) but that can be worked around. Another fun thing would be color gradient for magnitude. Definitely fun times and super quick.
I can't wait to play Super Mario in this when someone inevitably makes a 3D rendering engine in it.
how do you effectively shame people into doing the right thing here, as opposed to just letting them do the wrong thing at an alarming scale?
https://github.com/onlurking/awesome-infosec
Rootless Podman uses slirp4netns by default. The default will soon change to pasta. Pasta has better performance than slirp4netns. For best performance if your container supports it, use systemd socket activation because the traffic over the activated socket will have native network performance.
"Another one that baffles me is seeing people ride E-bikes and scooters on streets with cars or worse, walk ways and trails where other motor vehicles are not allowed."

Wait, where is the place e-bikes should be in your opinion, then?

At least where I live, the laws are quite clear which type of vehicles are allowed where. The laws here generally allow a pedal-assisted ebike to ride whereever a non-electric bicycle may ride. The pedal-assist is important.

So yeah, you probably can't ride your motorbike down a pedestrian path ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Israel could stop bombing civilians too.
Enlisted military families with 2 dependents usually qualify for public assistance programs. It's less of a problem stateside, because jobs open to military spouses are fairly easy to find. Families stationed overseas often don't have this option, though.
One game, by one man, on six platforms: The good, the bad and the ugly
Perhaps in 2023, but in 2011, we were still at the edge of when people would deploy by moving folders and individual files via FTP, hard-coding credentials, and dropping in extracted zip files as a method of dependency management.

Of course even then added layers were often considered "burden", but in general, we need some degree of order lest we create an unmanageable mess of index.old.3 and files edited directly on production.
Why are they underwater? The "value" of their options would have been the preferred share - common share price. So it would have been a fat haircut but likely still netted them some number > common share price, no?
On mobile, I just see release notes.

What is this?
This is absolutely true, but it is far more common for someone to accidentally leave open a display of env vars than a display of files.

I've got this problem to debug in prod, I know, I'll embed the env vars in the source code of the error page. No big deal and it might help me debug that! For a dev used to not using secrets in env vars (for example, when testing locally), this is an easy mistake. He may even use a third party library that embeds features like this without knowing it! Even things like the jmx console can be risky, since access to that may not relate 1:1 with access to secrets.

I've never seen anyone make a similar mistake and accidentally embed all_my_passwords.ini in their output.

I must admit that some of what I've said above has become outdated, since it is now a much more common practice to embed passwords in env vars than it used to be.
> The USA lost Vietnam

"We did not lose! It was a tie!"
Was happy with Ting mobile for years, spending about $30/month total for 2 lines. Had to leave Ting as they don't support eSIMs and recently moved to Consumer Cellular, which I'm quite happy with - about 4GB of data for 2 phones for $35/month total.
It is the issue under discussion. The justification for prohibiting the material is that its production requires child abuse. But copying doesn't require additional production. It may have even gone down if dissemination of existing images competes with new production, or wider dissemination makes it easier for law enforcement to obtain the images and use them to track down the producers. Whether or not the amount of abuse increased is then quite relevant.
Just heard Steve today from Builder.io who did an impressive launch of Figma -> code powered by AI.

They trained a custom model for this. Better accuracy, sure, but I was a little surprised to watch how much faster it is than GPT4.

Based on their testing, they’ve become believers in domain specific smaller models, especially for performance.
Some SSDs understand partition tables and file systems to trim/discard their flash "automagically", so it would be possible for firmware to manipulate e.g. OS components stored on the disk to introduce a backdoor. The hard drive has plenty of storage space for that.
A fantastic lesson on why to keep it simple, stupid!
> BasedAnon

> goyim

4chan /pol/ wants their neonazi talking points back.
Show HN: Akarsu – New Generation Profiler Based on PEP669
PM quality varies a lot and is hard to judge when interviewing for most IC roles. (As in, you often don't get to talk to those folks directly. You can ask probing questions of other folks, but feedback is a bit of a crapshoot.)

If you have management that you like working with, and the work is pretty good, yes, that in and of itself is a pretty good reason to stay for a while.
Yeah, all the tech leaders freaking out about low birth rates (especially among the highly skilled) are supporting an economy that is structurally hostile to family formation among those people.
Agree with your perspective on the fluidity of the technology industry. Technology, in many ways, has become the backbone of numerous industries, making it a versatile and ever-evolving field. However this opportunity would only be strengthened from self-discovery and introspection.
This is my favorite online graphing calculator. It's been around for a while. It got me through pre-calculus.
I know. But not everyone uses the default configuration.
I use it for (some) quant finance work. It's not a toy, shockingly versatile.
“What’s the harm?” is just turning the question around because the original question — “what’s the benefit?” — doesn’t have a satisfying answer.

If you want to reduce it down to “LFLs make people with extra books feel good” then, great, it’s obviously a resounding success, as evidenced by all the articles of people who built them beaming.
Maximum Likelihood corresponds to Bayesian statistics with MAP estimation, which is not the typical way to use the posterior.
Google has root on your Android phone, they can technically do anything they want. The only practical thing stopping them is their own scruples, for whatever that may be worth, or bad press.

Same is true for Apple.

(With one marrow exclusion for those who installed a "de-googled" Android variant and run no Google services.)
Thank you. That’s a really interesting point.
> That narrow seam will likely become caked in the dried residue of a hundred previous drinks

On the other hand, without gravity there is convection, which means those corners probably don't dry out as quickly. If I'm right about that then rinsing left-over residue out with plain water is easier if you don't wait too long.
To each his own. At least for American football, there are so many advertisements and so much dead time between plays, I will typically record a game and then start watching it about 90 minutes after the start. That usually works out so that I finish the game just as I catch up the real time in the recording.
Thank you!

I'd be flattered for sure. I think there's a lot of uncaptured value in AI to API requests, in general. Imagine an app that schedules "Flight at LAX at 2pm", but also offering to order the Uber to the Airport in time to get there 2 hours before departure. Sounds pretty cool to me and until OpenAI's GPT Plugins have broader support, I'll build that :)
Thank you to whomever thought about gimbal lock when designing the rotate controls.
No it isn't, the dialog is strawmaning and claims that Bentham would have to abandon utilitarianism.

I'm claiming that the initial scenario where Bentham caves is reasonable, but in practice will never occur. A utilitarian could reasonably believe Bentham's response was correct (I mean, seriously, would you look at someone and refuse to spend $10 to save their finger? You'd be a monster. As the article points out, we're talking literally 1 person). There is no theoretical problem in that scenario. Bentham has maximised utility based on the scenario presented. It was a scenario designed where the clear-cut utility maximisation choice was to sacrifice $10.

The issue is this scenario is an insane hypothetical that cannot occur in practice. There are no deontologists that strict and there are no choices that binary. So we can conclude in alternate universes that we do not inhabit utilitarianism would not work because these muggers would end up with all the money. Alright. Case closed. Not a practical problem. The first act plays out then the article should end with the conclusion concludes "if that could happen then utilitarianism would have a problem. But it can't so oh well. Turns out utilitarianism is a philosophy that works out really equitably in this universe!"
> I'm not sure where you're from, but I have seen very few of these.

Well I’m not sure where you’re from but I have seen tons of these pedestrian bridges :) wouldn’t it be better to inconvenience the car by building an overpass? The car has an engine and doesn’t get tired.

On beg buttons: I did not invent the terminology. Look it up.
Are you voting out the bad and ineffective actors in your local school system?
Did you read the article at all? If we take the article's word at face value, Microsoft was absolutely a victim of bullshit patent trolling to the tune of $240 million. Perhaps there's some schadenfreude in seeing Microsoft finally being the victim of the corrupt IP system that they themselves have so often taken advantage of, but the garbage being inflicted in on the world in this case is entirely from i4i and the awful, corrupt, bullshit patent system.
This argument has always felt to me like saying “google has no moat in search, they just happen to currently have the best page rank. Nothing is stopping yahoo from creating a better one”
That’s not how option pricing works. This is a private company, and it was raising money using preferred shares. The employee shares underlying the options would have been common stock.

At least once a year the company would be required to do a 409a valuation to set the FMV for those underlying common shares and thus the strike price for any options in the next year or less. The 409a valuation for common shares is pretty much always going to be significantly discounted vs preferred for a variety of reasons like lack of liquidation preference, lack of liquidity, etc. These discounts are often 50% plus, but the shares likely have a 1:1 economic value to other share classes in a sale, except the most recent preferred that get to use their preference.

Anyways the reality is going to be determined by each company’s details, but option strike prices at private companies are generally much lower than the current going price for preferred due to the discounts provided by the 409a valuation.
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