skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> meet and agree to set prices at a certain value

so the question becomes what it means to "meet and agree".

If these companies never communicated, and all came to the same conclusion of a price floor (that happens to all be the same), then how can it be price fixing?

To me, price fixing require that the parties agree (explicitly, or implicitly with punishment) to _not_ lower the price regardless of the lack of sales. It is not enough to have the same price (however that price comes about is irrelevant).
I went through a similar thing deepfaking my dead cat. It was nice to have a steady flow of desktop images generated by a cronjob of her doing cat things, as if she's still physically somewhere.

Also it made me feel like I was a deranged character in a Black Mirror episode, like Reed's wife in the article...
Absolute madness. Do you realize how much of humanity, and the biomes we rely on, are dependent on the Amazon? And even it were a good idea on balance we have no idea of the ripple effects and externalities. How about we just focus on stopping the changes we’re already causing and get to an equilibrium state with our planet first?
Have you tried looking at SABR?

If what you have is FX-like I wouldn't be able to help beyond that anyway, FX modelling is its own thing and I haven't done anything there since the obligatory uni courses(in equity space myself). AFAIK the general way to do things in rates/FX is SABR for vanilla and then PDE/MonteCarlo for exotics, but I was never on an FX desk so don't want to point you in the wrong direction.
I'm distorting the author by quoting his article?
This is blatant flouting of the law in confidence that the government will collude.
Elections have consequences.
On net I don’t think it makes a difference. When the energy is spent as electricity it basically releases heat in some form or other eventually
I know nets are cheap, but, why don't use cameras instead?
Ah. Not what I expected. And that's really why it ought to be
necessary to leave a comment in order to make a downvote.

I assumed someone was raising a technical objection to my claim that
acoustic location of transient sounds is "hard" - myself being the
"expert" having published on firearm signatures and machine listening.

But this is about the socio-politics in TFA. Okay.
A period correct Windows 7 era machine is something like a Core 2 Quad with 4-8 gigs of RAM, I'd hope that even the worst modern web abomination runs on that.
I am not finding the phrase price fixing anywhere in that book. Am I holding it wrong?
I'm relocating this year from Poland to Germany. I hope it'll be simple enough.

From what I heard, I need to rent apartment, do anmeldung, set up bank account, buy health insurance, pay monthly tv fee, register for taxes and file them every year. Then I hope to live without worries.
A proposed law, not a rule change. One introduced in response to a novel DNA analysis technique being rejected in a Frye challenge under existing law.
I guess the other way of looking at it is:

What is the value of subscribing to a pricing service where you have no idea how your competitors are using the numbers (over-, match-, under-price)?

Versus what is the value of same, if you know your competitors never under-price?

That value difference is the value of running a cartel.
Don't engage with those types of comments. Flag them and move on.
> When did you do the hiring?

It’s crazy to think Apple Lisa devs were hired without needing to solve several Leetcode problems.
parsing a number contains an (addition + multiplication) *(number of digits) for each row. if you do precalculated perfect hash then multiplication for each row can be avoided. ( you anyways need to read each byte)
This is imperfect and only covers the easiest aspect of the problem: leaking of consensual nudes, where the images are real but you didn’t want them to be public. There’s still a ton of damage possible by providing plausible images of things that were never real: middle school can be toxic and kids know how to pick the most damaging things, and the initial description and circulation will stick to some extent no matter what – spread photos of someone having sex with the least popular student and the victim has to prove a negative or wonder how much everyone around them is probably weighing the “maybe it’s real?” odds even if they’re saying they don’t believe it, and the other kid is going to live with knowing that someone thought they were the best way to degrade someone else. It probably won’t be hot porn star sex, either, but whatever they picked as the least flattering option - the kind of thing the target knows people will remember when they think about them.

Worse, some of the options force criminal investigations. If they fake a video with an adult, now that kid has to deal with the police investigating a very sensitive topic. If they pick a teacher or family member, etc. that also means those people might have their jobs jeopardized and it could be very hard to disprove if the fakes don’t have obvious errors.
https://archive.is/HN1Y3
Bad reading, rather say. The impatience is typically qualified as that of men (it is always men) with too much on their hands and not enough time, but eventually the impression becomes inescapable of the infant in a high chair mewling for the next spoonful of baby food.

Besides, it's a bit rich to complain of excess length after the author has handed you his entire thesis by the end of the second paragraph. If you keep going after that despite not caring for the style, you're either a glutton for punishment or not paying attention.
That’s what I’d expect to see if they’d just used an AI to generate the photo though.
Like software developers estimating how long a project will take, writers seem to forget how similar the future will be to today.

Terminator (1997), 2001, 2010, Blade Runner (2019), WWIII in Star Trek (2026) - OK that might be accurate.
Password-Protect Anything in the Browser
Apply password protection to anything with a dead-simple app that runs entirely client-side. Encryption is handled by RustCrypto and is executed in your browser as WASM.

How does it work? You enter a password, which Argon2 converts to a 256 bit key. That key is then used to encrypt and decrypt via AES256. As a bonus, all plaintext is compressed prior to encryption.

This app was purpose built to delight its creators. We love all feedback and contributions nonetheless!
Thanks. Yep it looks correct now. :)
so ChromeOS
I've had both Brother and Kyocera laser printers that were very reliable.

I'm got a Kyocera P2235dw right now. Slightly noisier, but otherwise works well.
The accounts data is saved in an encrypted file. Didn't implement any master password etc because I do not see a need. It's an OTP generator. A hacker would first need to know your main login and password and the have access to your computer in order to generate the OTP. Not different than someone having access to your mobile and accessing Google Authenticator. Even Google Authenticator doesn't have any primary password. It can be implemented easily though because the file is already being encrypted. All I need to do is ask the suer to provide the password instead of using a hardcoded key.
It's interesting how the reasons given to turn landscapes into hardscapes have changed over the years, and yet they rhyme. We used to justify building large dams to provide power, now we justify covering millions of acres.
Revealing OpenAI's plan to create AGI by 2027 [PDF]
MBA M1 is a fantastic Linux laptop.
The Achilles Trap: how the US fatally failed to read Saddam
There are other benefits like trade and cross-border business opportunities without unnecessary impediments.
Oh yes, I completely agree. These are also issues in both Oslo and Copenhagen.

But having rules like this removes some speculation.
> That kind of situation is already sickening, but the creation of fake nude images adds another layer of transgression.

Wouldn't it make it less of a problem? At some point people will just assume all of the photos are fake.
I think the use of AI to control women's appearance in either direction is the root of the problem.
That’s not symmetrical at all.
1. Computer Enhance by Casey Muratori (check out some of his YouTube videos if you want a preview)

2. Read the blog posts people wrote about the 1BR challenge where they tried to figure out the fastest way to process 1 billion rows of data

3. Brendan Gregg‘s blog

4. Google/YouTube how to profile code in your desired language
Isnt olive oil used as cooking oil. I think hardly anyone is using sunflower oil in southern europe.
Conservation of crime isn't a claim I made and it isn't relevant to my comment.

If ShotSpotter were successful, crime would move to a different area and/or go down. Arrests would be made, so it's impossible to assume crime rates wouldn't change in that scenario.

Neither happening in correlation with ShotSpotter installation, which is one way we know these tactics don't actually work.
If police show up to your family residence with guns drawn for a false positive, you might have a different perspective.
The vast majority of systems back then had Core 2 Duos, modern web apps (or overcomplicated sites) can easily choke those.
Of course there is communication.

https://abovethelaw.com/2024/01/latham-salary-2023/

What's missing is the pressure on other firms to match.
This is more like the leader raising pay and other firms chasing them.
> Are you suggesting that these people do not see doctors and self-diagnose?

Yes!
Over-regulation cost lives. See Canada, people dying because can't see doctors.
Most of prescription drugs are gatekeeper for no reason, they are not 'drugs' there is no reason for that.

Meanwhile typical Montreal health-care interaction:

1. Call your doctor - next appointment in 1-3-6 month

2. Wait till it get bad enough, go to emergency room.

3. Wait and cry there for 6-12 hours, get morphine, see a specialist, get a prescription, go home.

Since my conditions are chronical I should be able to get my meds easily, but nooooo, let's gatekeep everything and make people suffer and die.

See https://globalnews.ca/news/10148872/quebec-er-patients-death... for proofs.
The answer is obviously 2. However that does not make the quoted passage a lie.
I have machines like that and it runs OK if you have a SSD, and more than 8GB of ram definitely helps.
This will eventually destroy them
The year of the AGI (tm).

Right after the year of Linux on the Desktop and the year of functioning fully-autonomous cars. /s
"A functional sandbox for enhanced security"

Well, I think if you're running win 2003/XP and actually dare to go into the internet with the machine, you openly and proudly do not give a flying fuck about any security. The amount of open holes is insane, and some Chromium project that some dude ported is not going to save you.

Projects like this never made any sense to me.
Thinking of becoming a kardashev 1 civilisation, are we?
BYD pass Australian safety standards, so they probably pass EU and USA standards.

BYD are increasingly popular in AU :-/
Is there any scenario in which both the Sahara and the Amazon turn green simultaneously?
I don't know of any such job sites. I know recruiters exist who specialize in international placement, usually for senior executives, scientists, and academics. Unless you have rare and in-demand skills you will probably find software developers aren't that hard to find locally in most countries.

In general companies can only hire and get visas for people who have skills not available in the domestic talent pool. All kinds of exceptions and workarounds (and frauds) happen, but if you're looking for a foreign employer to jump through the hoops of relocation and obtaining a visa you will need to have some demonstrable abilities they can't hire a citizen for.

Another path is working for a company that has offices overseas. Depending on your CV that may be easy or hard. For software dev jobs you would need some advantage over local talent, who probably get paid less if you're from the USA.

Then there's freelancing. You can live wherever you want once you get some remote contracts. No relocation and no visa, that's your problem. If you need a visa, and what that involves, depends on your passport, where you go, how long you plan to stay there, and a bunch of other country-specific things.

As a US citizen I worked in the UK a long time ago, with a work visa, and that wasn't easy to get. I've freelanced remotely for over ten years now and learned to deal with visas and immigration bureaucracy. I only work for US-based companies -- they pay better and I don't have any language or cultural barriers.
Some people don't like modern UI design and continue to use windows 7 and before
This is probably a nice thing todo a decade after the person has died but I wonder what it will do to how a person grieves if available immediately after they die?

My view - it probably won't be helpful.
I roleplayed a scene from Interstellar with ChatGPT as TARS
Except from a discussion with ChatGPT GPT4 using the interactive voice mode feature, while I was waiting at the airport for a delayed flight. Yes, that means I was walking around a public place talking to an AI.
...
User
Maybe we can roleplay where you pretend to be TARS and you call me Coop?

ChatGPT
Absolutely, Coop. Ready to navigate through the stars or tackle any anomalies we encounter. What's our first mission?

User
We have to navigate out to the black hole, I guess, to check that first planet out, right?

ChatGPT
Roger that, Coop. Setting course for the black hole to approach the first planet. It's going to be a tricky maneuver, especially with the time dilation effect we need to consider. We'll need to be quick to minimize our time there and avoid losing too much time relative to Earth. Anything specific you want to prepare for before we make the jump?

User
Uh, what's your, uh, humor level set at?
...
More on reddit!
Don't worry, we'll cut down enough of the Amazon that it'll collapse, long, long before we green the Sahara enough to hurt the rainforest :)
Here's 2 more links. I didn't see already posted worth watching/reading. Should give a good intro. Within 3 hours combined (For CPU performance anyway).

A good talk, doesn't go deep and instead goes a bit wide.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RlloT_6WxA

This one explains the black magic the CPU makes have been doing. If you going to be optimizing code you should know your hardware.
https://www.lighterra.com/papers/modernmicroprocessors/

Aditional note: I've noticed C++ conventions have a habit of having performance related talks, YT is your friend.
Could you even have a persuasive simulated Lou Reed without his struggles with substance abuse being in there somewhere?

That might sound facetious, but I'm serious. It might not be explicitly stated, but IMO it'd have to be at least tacitly present.

If you took out the drug/alcohol abuse, the result would be a simulation of a different person, not Lou Reed as we know him (same with, say, Keith Richards, or any number of others one could name).
See also: a roughly equivalent project for legacy OS X (Lion and newer): https://github.com/blueboxd/chromium-legacy
For a specific introduction to database optimization, I can recommend Silvia Botros and Jeremy Tinley: "High Performance MySQL" -- https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/high-performance-mysql/...
> GDI font rendering, using #force-gdi in chrome://flags

I'm jealous. GDI with MacType was so much better than the default DirectWrite rendering.
Hydro on the north of Quebec (most of % electricity produced) is not that a fish-reach area at all. But yes, on some areas in the world that's a concern.
This could actually be done long before Photoshop came along. You would simply mix some paint on a palette to match the person's skin tone, and then paint over the person's clothes to "remove" them.
> why should they care about a dead and insecure os.

Developing for old technologies in general (especially hardware) can help make your code and project lighter in general.

(see: alternative frontends for YouTube and Twitter, YouTube circa. 2005-2011, even 2012-2016)
I went to Venice in 2017 with a list of "must-sees," one of which was the Fra Mauro original map. I had previously seen a replica, and it was breathtaking. (That thing is eight feet tall, or 2.4 meters, with gold lettering and all)

The map was housed in the Marciana Library in Venice. Unfortunately, nowhere on the internet did it mention that the map had been removed for restoration. This prevented me from seeing it in person, and perhaps I never will.

Naively, I thought that the library's website would inform visitors about such changes. However, the reality is that website updates often lag behind changes in exhibits. Lesson learned: I now call the places I want to visit to confirm their hours and current offerings.
Windows 7 is still stuck on Chrome 109

There are 3rd party patches to install 120+ but needs safety audit (and unfortunate name)

https://github.com/Blaukovitch/GOOGLE_CHROME_Windows_7_CRACK

Considering there are critical vulnerabilities in 109 you'd think Google might consider the non-evil thing to release an ESR
And ATL weather almost never causes flights to be disrupted.
For inkjet technology, it's the print head. Fundamentally, an inkjet printer works similar to a plotter, laser engraver, FDM 3D printer, or CNC router: There's a mechanism that accurately places the tool head at the desired X and Y position in order to do its business [0]. This part is a solved problem, there are many open-source reference designs to draw from.

For a printer, the devil is in the details though - quite literally: A printer needs to place tiny ink dots on the work piece in a fast, accurate, predictable, and repeatable manner. Placing just one single dot at a time would be prohibitively slow, so the print head needs an array of tiny nozzles in order to print multiple rows in one pass. The design also needs to ensure a consistent (and adjustable) dot size across all nozzles regardless of the ink level.

Designing and manufacturing such a print head is extremely complicated (if not impossible) for a hobbyist, and as of today there is no vendor-agnostic third-party design you can just buy off the shelf. The only forays into DIY printers are either rudimentary low-res single-nozzle designs [1], fully repurposing existing printer hardware [2], or reverse-engineering proprietary ink cartridges that come with a built-in print head [3].

[0] Technically, this is not entirely correct because a typical printer's Y axis is a rotating drum that transports the paper instead of a linear axis. Also, a printer's X axis is usually equipped with an encoder ribbon that allows for far more accurate positioning compared to the classic open-loop stepper motor systems used in many open-source designs.

[1] Example: https://hackaday.io/project/167446-diy-inkjet-printer

[2] Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VP8ORq2al8

[3] Example: https://ytec3d.com/hp45-inkjet-printhead/
Plumbers have done more to save lives and enable the luxuries we take for granted than most. I would be lucky if my work could compare to that.

I think we need software engineers coming from electrical engineering, mathematics, humanities, and all walks of life. If you’re not interested in compilers, maybe the comments for a link about compilers isn’t your place to be.
Brother laser printers come highly recommended, they're basic, last long, and get out of your way. It has a higher initial cost compared to inkjet printers, the long term benefits make it worth it.
Browse around the "about us" that many companies have on their website. Most included head shots. Generate and send some images. I doubt you will get much of a reaction.
AI Research in Feb 2024 – LoRA Successor, "Small" LLMs, Transparent LLM Research
I have created projects with overly complicated architectures. Take a look at my recent post on Implementing where I discuss the backend template I utilize for new projects and offer a detailed guide on creating a new API. I appreciate any feedback you may have!
None of this addresses my point. You can measure dead bodies. Whether or not those get counted in the murder rate depends on social factors — are police honestly investigating themselves? are there laws that exculpate killing humans? etc

Arizona has a bill in the works that would make it legal to kill people trespassing anywhere on one’s land, intended to allow farmers with large plots of land to shoot migrants. The bill will probably get vetoed, but in a world where it passes it’s very likely that the number of killings will increase but the number of murders will drop.

Dead bodies are objective. “Murder” is not.
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FreeOTP+ on android does have "android hello" integration. In other words, I can hook it up to my fingerprint, same like my bank apps. Always remember: security is like onion skin and works best in layers. The more layers we have - the better. That's because not everyone's use case is the same and not all hacking attempts are the same. Here's a simple example: if I'm using a portable browser that already has all of my passwords saved, and I'm using your app in portable mode, then, a hacker can have all of my keys just by getting my files, even from a backup. So, as always, striking a balance between convenience and security is a delicate matter, and every little bit of that onion skin matters. Thanks.
Is there any guide to develop such web based app?
In my area teachers are assigned somewhat randomly to schools. The goodness or badness of a school is 100% correlated with the kids, not the teachers. A single disruptive child can stop a class. When most of the class is disruptive, good luck teaching anything to anyone
What this article really predicated is GUI apps delivered via a web interface, which we definitely have in spades. Web components and tools like Electron have allowed "GUI" apps to become inseparable from web apps. Photoshop now runs in a browser, which would have been considered impossible at the time of the article and was, in fact, impossible until fairly recently.

The terminology didn't stick, but the idea certainly did. I think it's safe to say that more people run software delivered by a browser, over the web, than run desktop applications today. And even those who use desktop apps do a very significant portion of their work with browser-based apps.
It could be a worthwhile project to pursue, but these kind of ideas will draw fossil-fuel shills or fossil-fuel funded 'environmental' groups, with the common objections we hear: so much land is needed, some 'environmental' damage is happening, etc.

We should first focus on projects that use no land:
1. Vertical solar with farming
2. On lakes/reservoirs to prevent evaporation
3. There are lots of hydro dams, which have reservoirs, and hydro already has transmission lines
4. On roofs of buildings, commercial and residential
5. On sides of buildings (vertical solar)
6. Floating Solar in the ocean. Italy is building 540MW[1], why can't every country do 100 - 1000 of these?
7. Solar green houses
8. On highways, lands are owned by federal govt, can build both transmission and solar without any issues
9. On superfund sites
10. On parking lots
11. Cities could build wide side-walks for walk and bike with solar canopy. Every city owns 10 - 100 miles of walking trials.

This is by no means exhaustive, as we look around we'll find a lot more. My hope is that Solar advances fast and soon we can have solar fabric or have solar spray paints, then every surface can be converted to absorb energy.

[1] https://electrek.co/2024/03/01/italy-hybrid-floating-solar-f...