skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The police contain and detect these folks with traffic control devices. Most red light cameras, for example, roll and retain a month or more of data.

LPRs are all over as well, but of course in NYC, cops officers and friends avoiding tolls and tickets have normalized running cars without license plates.
Since we are just sharing how we feel, anecdotally, my observation with my teen and her friends is that TikTok makes people think they are informed while actually misinforming them.

This is very much not limited to social and political issues but can be about physical matters like home repairs, how cars work / how to fix them, etc.
I have a 2013 Samsung Ativ Book 6, the younger brother of your machine! The display broke twice, the keyboard is 85% unresponsive, HDD got replaced with SSD, and jampacked a larger (Ativ Book 8) battery inside.

Physical issues aside, it runs Windows 11 passably for a backup PC -- Not bad!
https://www.tweaktown.com/news/94325/elon-musk-reveals-space...
Mythbusters will always be his magnum opus. I actually see it often as something that he might even want to move on, but his audience will not let him.
...Viscosity?

Ferrodust can visualize all of those fancy field lines, but man this is still amazing
What's the fastest way to jump this ladder. Swe at Google, cross train yourself on LLM in 20% time and at home, internal transfer, then get competing offers?
Since October, Israel has launched at least 7,400 into Gaza.

Between June 1944 and March 1945 the Germans hurled 10,500 V-1s at Great Britain. Most of the missiles never reached their targets.

I couldn't easily find the # of rockets from the allies, though I'd guess it's a much smaller number, since they were delayed compared to Germany.

I couldn't find an easy # for the Ukrainian and Russian war.

So unless this latest disaster in Gaza ends soon, I'm betting they will handily beat the V-1 rockets.

Note: I'm not trying to side either way in this comment between any of the countries involved, All of the conflicts are a mess and I'm definitely not qualified to have an informed opinion.
I think you're right; we just aren't there yet.

My point was that these performance increases aren't simply going into the void, they're being transformed into productivity increases.
Weird coincidence that it’s the exact same amount that Research In Motion paid to poach top engineers from Google / Microsoft back in the 2000’s to help grow their Blackberry network capacity (assuming the Blackberry movie is accurate)
Getting too close is dangerous, but they won't let you get close enough to be in danger; the safety perimeter on these things is set quite conservatively. Exploding on the launch pad is very expected and planned for.
If you never meet them and they do not know who you are, it would seem that they are effectively strangers. I’ve long accepted that this is just something I perceive differently than others. What bothers me is the idea that it’s just some thoughtless, selfish; never-want-to-growup affectation that those who do not wish to have children posses; some of us have thought through things quite thoroughly, and perhaps have reasons you do not seem to have considered.

I will also say that if you are concerned about future people, I would endeavor to take on climate change in any way I could if I were you. That sure isn’t looking too good either. It actually makes me quite glad I never wanted children due to all the above stuff; it’s another conversation I’m glad I’ll never have to have. Frankly I’m continually stunned that more parents aren’t outraged over what we’re doing to the world. I’m sure they have more near-term worries (as I said they’ve got to pay exorbitant college bills and all that), but the consequences sure look like they’re already starting to bite.
You could use the BLE AoA extension as well to derive an angle: https://www.bluetooth.com/blog/new-aoa-aod-bluetooth-capabil...
"Contemporary western values" is not a statement that means everyone in the west has the same values, nor it is an endorsement. It is referring to the generally predominant mainstream consensus.
> use ffmpeg

Well there's your problem. Such a powerful tool, but that CLI is something else.
I don't really understand how this could stop shovelware. Shovelware devs have the bandwidth to get something tested on 20 devices. This would only stop one man passion projects.

I wonder if its just a way to sell a cloud build and testing service.
> Edit: Home prices don't rise] where buyers don't compete.

I answered this too already: inventory indeed is not high enough to satisfy all investors.
NASA+: NASA's new streaming service
Also possibly comm for combining two lists (one for criteria (a), another for criteria (b), then intersect them with comm).
I got off this rollercoaster by using Linux. My 10 year old Thinkpad works just fine today, and probably will for another 10 years.

Linux isn't for everyone, of course. But avoiding this charade is a nice bonus.
True content can also be propaganda for instance via the glorification of a particular lifestyle and its second order effects (implicitly elevated social capital).
If you're going to write things that touch crypto, make sure you test your stuff with inputs and outputs from other (known good) implementations. A lot of times the std lib provides primitives that give you plenty of rope to hang yourself with.
I wish this applied to existing apps I have to use at work which seem to be upgraded without any testing. Such gems as get an Android version upgrade and can't reinstall app; lose all location information on the app that provides maps of work to do; alerts stop working when graphics on the app are "improved". Sigh.
But not all crummy behavior, right? Things like ad-infested basic apps might be discouraged even with the $99. I am talking about apps like tip calculators, daily quote apps, and very basic games like slots that have no chance of being monetized well beyond ads.
Exactly. I live in cow country and now in the urban core of a metro area. Society is structured around the suburbs.
I would implore anyone to not listen to a thing Elon says. The man lies as easily as he breathes, and always manages to portray himself as some kind of maligned victim.
still now someone would reverse engineer it and make it open source then
PDF warning: https://dlc.dlib.indiana.edu/dlc/bitstream/handle/10535/3113...

The commons were well managed by local people and enclosure was a land grab by the rich.
> it’s borderline treason and should be prosecuted that way.

Have words lost all meaning? This is the most absurd thing I've read all day.

(And I promise I'm not even remotely defending the absurd situations you're referring to.)
Hang in there man. Do you feel any better with your latest treatments?
There is a lot of office work that could be automated as chat gpt etc get better more and more efficiency experts will crop up selling efficiency ie less workers/cost/salary to do the same jobs.
You posted 4 incidents over 6 months in a city of 8 million.
I remember hearing about this exact tech being used by the Americans to surveil Iraqis and trace suicide bombings (typically with a loitering blimp), described in breathless dystopian tones. I'm not sure why I'm surprised it's used by civilian agencies to watch American citizens. It's a kind of death of privacy in which you're constantly being watched and you can be watched even backwards through time.
The polynomial Freiman-Ruzsa conjecture has been solved
From https://x.com/GilKalai/status/1724057865206309266
$266T in Climate Spending Is a No-Brainer
Does chatgpt know the reservoir sampling method?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reservoir_sampling
I dont even know 20 people who would install something for me.
It’s true though. If anyone with a high school education can be a successful “programmer”, most programming jobs will be filled by the cheapest labor.

Why would any company pay more than they need to to keep their company functioning?
Good example. Image stacking too.
They have the tech to block 99% of those easily. The last 1% who can get around the block will have a nice source of revenue.
Because “platform monopoly” is a made-up term with no legal import.
I find it hard to believe it’s the case for an average researcher, we know their pay package for most L6 engineers is a bit under 1m. But maybe a “fellow” or distinguished engineer?
This looks really cool, but it would be nice if there was a clear "how to run" section in the README. I saw the dockerfile and docker-compose and tried to give it a shot - immediately fails. Digging deeper it seems like running on a mac isn't supported at all. And the instructions assume a great deal of familiarity with gradle.. useful for java devs who want to contribute, maybe, but I have no idea how to build this to even test it out as a REST user.

Some clear guidance on how (and on what) to get it running would be useful!
Show HN: AI Stock News That Don't Suck
I was super annoy that all stock news site are filled with distracting Ads and interrupting paywalls.

My JP Morgan analyst friend told me that JP spend millions internally to train an AI on news to help their traders filter noise.

With the new LLM, we decided to make it better. Research also shows using AI analyze news at scale can outperform the market.

Our AI will gather, summarize, and extract news insights for a particular stock. We are testing with a few trading firms in beta and the results were pretty good already.

If you are interested, please comment "interested" I will give you free access if you provide some feedback. Thanks!
A highly realistic deepfake video impersonating Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse has surfaced, aimed at deceiving XRP investors.
The video features a voice that accurately mimics Garlinghouse and promotes a fake “community support initiative” promising to double XRP deposits over 1,000.
This marks an alarming development in scam tactics, with scammers using deepfake technology to deceive victims.
A highly realistic deepfake video impersonating Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse has recently emerged, attempting to deceive XRP investors into participating in a fake giveaway scam.
Not naming sources is one thing, but which news stories from The Information were false? IMO they have an amazing track record, to the point where half the tech news you read is some journalist's distorted summary of something they read in The Information. There's a reason they can charge $400 per year and people pay.
Most of these people presumably have PhDs from top tier universities. So... don't think you'd be able to jump aboard this train without going back to school for a bit.
The battery will die and need replacing. But otherwise a good choice!
I agree with most points in the article except for the database part.

> Since this is not a distributed systems problem and the data fits in memory, why introduce the additional complexity and dependencies of a database for something that you can solve with 20 lines of simple code?

Because this is a question about getting the right data, and SQL Databases are...extremely good for filtering, sorting and grouping... data. Besides, every page visit from every client is a unique observation, and the principle of...tidy data suggests that every observation use a database row.

Why solve this with 20 lines of code, when you can solve it in a 4 line SQL query?
So when can I load these into my TV and turn my 65” UHD TV into a 25” Curtis Mathis console (mini-bar optional) from 1978?

Seriously, my wife is into Mid-Century Modern - a wood console CRT emulator would be awesome. I may need to set up a machine to connect to the TV. But I’d like to watch streamed shows on it.
I feel articles like this paint a false picture. That just jumping jobs and 'negotiating', i.e. 'ask for more money' is the step ladder to a high salary. This might work when the market is hot and demand is high. But the 2023 current market does not seem to be this... And as a hiring, a CV that shows consistent 2 year jumps would give me pause.
I guess the point is that there are different levels of coders. For coders who can't write code that print a hundred random lines from a dictionary file, GPT-4 is already a significant threat.

On the other hand, even if you can write it, does it mean you should write it? How much time does it cost you to write it? How much money your company is paying you in that amount of time? Is it more economical for GPT-4 to do it?

So I was curious and decided to ask the mistral-7b-instruct, and it gave me the following,

> Here is an example of a Python script that reads a dictionary file and prints 100 random lines:

```python
import random

with open('dictionary.txt', 'r') as f:
lines = f.readlines()

random_lines = random.sample(lines, 100)

for line in random_lines:
print(line.strip())
```

> This script uses the `random` module to select a random subset of the lines in the file. The `open` function is used to open the file and read its contents into a list of strings, which are then passed to the `random.sample` function to select 100 random lines. Finally, the selected lines are printed using a for loop and the `strip` method to remove any leading or trailing whitespace.

> Note that this script assumes that the dictionary file is located in the same directory as the script and is named "dictionary.txt". You may need to modify the script to specify the correct path and filename for your dictionary file.
Agreed, wage theft is definitely rampant, but with this it seems like you can very trivially report this to the state and get free money? You've got the hours and pay documents in writing, showing that to the state should get an immediate response. Or does the state labor department just not care?
It sounds like your initial impression was an overestimate and your current impression is a correction back down from that. You could say that it's "fundamentally flawed" coming from a very high initial expectation, but you could just as easily say "this is an amazing tool" coming from the point of view that it's "worthless" as many people seem to think
This isn't a complex problem - this is something you do with built-in standard libraries in pretty much any programming language. Like I would expect anyone who claims to know even basic file I/O in their given language to be able to produce a mostly working version of this in less than 30 minutes.
We have made huge progress in a relatively short amount of time. Cancer has been difficult to cure for three reasons:

- Cancerous cells are very similar to non-cancerous cells, and hard to target without harming the rest of the body

- If one treatment is unsuccessful, cancer can adapt by mutating to bypass your attempt.

- Cancer isn't a single disease. It is thousands of diseases with a similar outcome: uncontrolled growth with invasion. You really have to understand the entire signaling pathway and the various tumor suppressor genes / oncogenes in order to understand all the many ways cell replication can go wrong.

Even within a single classification (say, breast cancer) you have HER2+ breast cancer (which has an overdensity of RTK leading to growth factor independence), estrogen receptor+ breast cancer, and others, all of which require a different treatment approach, and the cancer can adapt by mutating further down the growth factor signaling pathway if you attack it in one place.
I got a bit confused there thinking SMB is the abbreviation for Samba.

Samba is an implementation of SMB. SMB actually stands for Server Message Block.

I’ve somehow always called SMB “Samba” incorrectly
I have practically never seen a prd that did not have some ambiguity. I realised spotting ambiguity and asking questions is an essential and invaluable skill that needs to be selected for.

One of my teams was very surprised that I rejected a prd for being too vague and put my foot down that it will not be picked up until specific questions are answered. They were, I would not say meek, but resigned to the inevitability of product managers pushing poorly thought PRDs and not having any say in the matter.

I took my time training them to say no and spot ambiguities, and I like to think they have all become better developers and product managers for it. I always pick questions that have more than one obviously correct interpretation to see if the candidate notices it.

The idea that you trust your interviewer to provide a directly actionable question is strange. I would expect that in campus hirings, and for entry level fresh grads, but not to anyone with even a year of experience. At senior levels, it becomes more and more important to spot ambiguities and clarify them before they result in misunderstandings, wasted efforts, and worse. I trust a good interviewer to have a question that can provide them useful data points on candidates experience, skill, thought process and attitude.

Whether spotting ambiguities in the question has any correlation with future performance is harder to answer, but methodical people with attention to detail are preferrable to the alternative.

If the candidate comes from an environment where questions are penalised, they would be a bad fit for a team that values and expects questioning. It is somewhat unfair, but either way, the interviewers are selecting for their preferred qualities.
No. The falcon 9 succeeded on it's first launch. It has only* failed once, on its nineteenth flight.

* It did suffer engine failures on flights 4, 83, and 108, but compensated flawlessly with the other 8 as designed. They also blew one up on the test stand (which would have been flight 29). Additionally the satellite on flight 47 was supposedly lost due to an issue with the payload adapter (not built by SpaceX), but pretty much all information about the launch is classified.
We know exactly what the hard cutoff is for CPUs. This feature is what the official CPU list is based on. (with the exception of 7th gen intel systems added due to the surface linup)

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

Soft support is actually just Secure Boot and TPM1.2, so you could probably install from ISO, the installer will not warn you about any issues. I have tried this on 6th gen i7 laptops without an issue. Technically you are just blocked from recieving an update to 10, but not from running or using 11. You can even get 11 working on systems without a TPM, but that is more tricky.

I would say OS support is still better overall on the windows side, you can get a still supported OS, on 15 year old systems (win10). And on the EOL date it will be about equivalent. We will see what the future holds for 12.
The problem with pedantry over the actual crypto algorithms is that it almost never covers serious flaws in protecting the key material. This list only dedicates a few sentences that recommend clearing the memory used for keys/secrets, but noting GC languages provide no guarantees.

For something like modern .NET, worrying about algos is bad advice. Use the library standard Data Protection APIs (in ASP.NET, but available for console apps also) which handle things like protecting/clearing key material in memory, key rotation, deriving context-specific sub keys from master keys, and even storing secrets in a manner that makes them far less likely to end up dumped to logs or floating around in memory. The algos (AES, HMACSHA2, PBKDF2) aren't the new hotness, but that tradeoff doesn't practically matter for normal attacks. Far more important is the simple API surface of Encrypt, Decrypt, and Protect/Verify password with all footguns removed. Persistence of keys is also abstracted and can be a simple as a file protected with a cert up to using a HSM with a change to one line of code.
Well, you're holding it in a log file. Either the data is important enough we'd like to keep it, so we should put it in a database or elasticsearch, or the data isn't important enough, and I'd like to get further clarity on what you're trying to achieve.

... I'm guessing I didn't get the job.
There was a game called Scribblenauts that my kids loved years before any of the recent ML/AI hype and it was able to turn very rough scribbles into an amazing number of different objects. No idea how they did it, but even I was impressed - the kids thaught it was magic.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/218680/Scribblenauts_Unli...
Nobody was in danger of getting hit by shrapnel.
If you want to get really spicy, you can use two antennas and an SDR to compute angle of arrival using nothing but a BLE advertisement's data . This is different from BLE AoA as it doesn't require a cooperative transmitter.
100% agreed. It's sad that we demonize the symptom of people being constantly burnt out which is the constant need to turn brain off and not the thing burning people out which is our work culture.

It's one of the things I never feel right about complaining about because literally every other aspect of being a "knowledge worker" is great but having to use brain all day means at night I'm physically energized but mentally exhausted which sucks for actually doing anything.
I can’t even bear to look at a low DPI screen for more than a few minutes. Anything under 150dpi just looks so awful to me at this point. Basically ruins all older laptops from my perspective.
A eulogy for programming as reinventing the wheel over and over again, possibly. But programming as a creative endeavour, no chance.
I didn't say "false", I said rumors which are not possible to verify.
Flame trenches had nothing to do with risk to bystanders. The keep out area is designed for a full fuel explosion right on the pad.
Why word it like that? The concern appears to have been that the launch would be detrimental to the seals and they wanted a study to quantify the impact. Companies that ignore or are hostile to understanding there externalities are terrible and should face regulation. It sounds like a half-assed test was carried out.
It's not just some arbitrary rule, though. It's a principle that's widely understood to apply in all sorts of situations.
The French name is pronounced something like `eeday-fix', so even though the dog doesn't look Gaulish, he sounds Gaulish.

Another of my faves in English Asterix is a Goth; all their names end in -ic. This one is named Electric. In a fit of enthusiasm about being a war leader, he says. `I shall be a general, General Electric!'
All true. I guess I am looking for a first approximation, so that one can have a starting point from which one can fine-tune. The problem is to somewhat mimic what an expert might do given the requirements, to say, for example, "We'll have 5 48-core boxes, three of which will have Kafka, two will have the database, the in-memory grid will be spread over all 5 etc, and here are the relevant config files". Maybe it spits out ansible code.

Thanks for engaging.
They do Sonoma on 9 year old laptops? On the Apple site, they are saying only 2018+ laptops get the latest version.
if you don't know the algorithm you could easily get it subtly wrong

but the only method involved here is string.strip(), so i don't think this is an example of the problem you describe

import random
n = 100
ws = [line.strip() for line in open('/usr/share/dict/words')]
for i in range(n):
j = random.randrange(i, len(ws))
ws[i], ws[j] = ws[j], ws[i]
print(ws[i])

(did i fuck that up)

and yeah probably calling random.sample would be better. and usually import random is better than writing your own rng. but not always
I think a key difference between Windows and MacOS is that Microsoft has (historically at least) not stopped you from installing newer versions of Windows on older hardware, provided it's fast enough to run it.

Trying to run newer versions of MacOS on 10 year old Apple hardware is next to impossible.

Windows 11 has a requirement for TPM 2.0, which older hardware doesn't have. I believe that requirement check is relatively easy to patch out and install anyway.