skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've even seen more and more vending machines that are cash-free, only credit card transactions.
In retrospect, it makes a lot of sense. Genesis was huge in NA/Europe, but it was considered somewhat of a failure in Japan.

Sega has always floundered with its home consoles — they released 3 competitors to the NES after all. Genesis ended up being more of a one-trick pony than any indication of longterm success.
It's always been a foolish position, to consider that one a short term bet.
Yes, my argument was not that the Surface was competitive in pricing. There are much more reasonable options in the Windows world.
I know a few people living in the east who earns 1/5th of what I do and they're happy in their small garden growing tomatoes and potatoes, who am I to judge them and their poverty mindset.

Getting in line for the rat race most likely won't make you feel less of a rat.

Find your own pace, don't listen to random internet users about what poverty mentality is, or that taking risk is always good, or that being a wantrepreneur is the be all end all of life
An obsolete or worn-out bridge is likely to be replaced by another, and in such cases, a risk analysis which potentially comes to different conclusions depending on how often such a replacement occurs is missing the point.
Binary array set
From working on controls on ships. Measuring the current using a CT (current transformer) or Rogowski coil to measure the current is a fairly standard way to monitor if something actually turned on when you told it to. A coil is a fairly robust device (no moving parts) so fairly reliable although sometime the connections become loose or the small wires susceptible to vibrations and breaking depending on the application. If you choose to use a CT make sure to never have a live conductor in it without it being connected to a rated measurement device reading. Since it’s a transformer, as current goes to zero, voltage goes to infinity which is generally a large value before it gets to be exciting.
There are also devices called wire break detectors that are wired in series (I think they’re a type of galvanic isolator) that can be used to monitor if there’s a break in the wire but some of the cheaper ones are not as robust and have had them fail.
Physical movement there are a lot of limit switches. Rotary encoders and rheostats are another way to monitor rotation of an object. I’ve even seen a rheostat used as a switch in a safety critical system before when they didn’t want to risk an open circuit, so just measuring resistance above or below a certain threshold was on or off.
Smart camera systems with computer vision are becoming more main stream.
Industrial sensors are often 4..20mA. Below 4 mA you might have a break or noise. If your reading is above 20mA you might have a short or noise. Slightly above or below might be a calibration issue.

Your acceptable rate and mode of failure will dictate what kind and how many layers of monitoring you need.

Depending on your use case you might be able to set up a camera and computer running openCV to watch the led and see if it comes on.
EXACTLY!! If it happens often, and they just restart because it's no big deal in the ocean, we wouldn't hear about it.

Of course, it seems that a high(er) frequency of failures should be taken into account for zones where it is critical, such as in port. I just saw a few days ago that a ship docking took out a couple of cargo cranes (sadly, badly injuring a crane operator); didn't seem like a power outage, more of a misjudged steering.
You were a inexperienced beginner finding and exploiting tens of bugs over a 10-15 week course. In between other courses and learning you only had hours to maybe a few days per bug. On Zerodium [1], a generic Linux LPE pays 50 K$. At normal experienced exploit developer costs that buys you ~200 person-hours. That is professionals spending 10-100x as much time as you spent.

Just think of the gap between the first time in the woodworking shop and a carpenter, first time pottery versus a master, a new painter and a professional artist. Think of how many things the master can do that it is literally impossible for the new person to do. Then add another 10-100x as much time on that. That is the gap.

[1] https://zerodium.com/program.html
Social media certainly doesn't help, but once again, the powers that be find everything to blame except for themselves for creating the conditions of misery necessary for "infinite" growth
Seems pretty low to me. How many is too many?
I had one of these. From the pictures, I cans see it was was the 200-in-one.

I built things from the book, and tinkered, but didn't really learn anything from that.

I got into it properly circa 2012. I probably learned more in one week than I ever did from tinkering with that. Electronics requires proper study. For any circuit of moderate complexity, your intuition for what is happening will be poor without the background. The hands-on experience and familiarity that brings about is great, and it was a lot of fun, I always had this lingering dissatisfaction that I don't know what's going on.

I had a computer in parallel with this, and that soaked up my tech-oriented attention.

One problem I remember is that the coil-spring connection method in the kit had reliability issues. The contact produced by a wire clipped into a tiny spring isn't always very good, and if you have a few dozen of them which all have to be good for the circuit to work, the odds work against you. Today I understand why; most likely the layers of oxidation on the wire and coil are the culprit. When you clip the stripped wire end into the coil, there isn't a sliding motion there, or not always, that will break through the oxidation. I suspect the springs are just ordinary spring steel springs, not coated with anything for promoting good contact, like nickel.

If I had one of these kits today, I would give it some TLC to make it more reliable.
This is not even wrong.

From avant-garde and experimental to soundtracks and commercial electronica, artistis in all kind of genres have used methods, libraries and tools for direct generation of waveforms, whether other processing will happen to them aftewards (manipulations, effects, and so) or they're the final result (there's also a big "generative music" scene as well, both academic and artistic). And that's for decades now. Of course recently hany have also started using AI's to produce generative music - with the API spitting out a final "waveform".

>Even karaoke machines use a signal pipeline to blend the singer's voice with the backing track. Generating finished waveforms is only good for elevator music.

Perhaps you have the kind of music played at the Grand Ole Orpy or something in mind.

Here are some trivial ways to use generated finished waveforms, sticking with the AI case alone:

- take the AI final result, sample it, and use it as you would loops from records or something like Splice.

- train the AI yourself, set parameters, tweek it, and the result is generative music you've produced (a genre that exists since the 60s at least, and is quite the opposite og "elevator music")

- use the generated music as a soundtrack for your film or video or video game
Two artificial intelligences talk to each other
The best redeeming feature of Affinity apps was that they weren't a bloodsucking subscription like Adobe. Hopefully they have a plan for the apps that keeps them the best anti-Adobe option.
Harbor pilots are licensed by the state (Maryland) require a degree from one of the maritime colleges, deck license, …, are represented by a pilots union (Association of Maryland Pilots) but are employed independently.
That seems challenging to do with a writing/note taking app like this. First, what would the pricing tiers be based on? Word count? That would just be another way of saying token. Number of documents created? That puts you at risk of long unprofitable documents. Google Sheets doesn’t really have this problem because the incremental cost of storage is relatively cheap. Tokens on the other hand are not cheap.

How do you price based on value without a corollary to tokens? If you charged $40 for this service then maybe you don’t provide enough value for the casual user who does the occasional school report. On the other hand you may be unprofitable for the doctor that decides to dictate all of her interactions every day or the author who dictates an entire book.
Recovery is well underway, but I don't have an ETA yet. Some regions like Ohio are recovering faster than others.
tldr it's a pneumatic tube like a stethoscope. these used to be used within aircraft as well for inflight entertainment.
> The act happened on a computer system with-in US jurisdiction.

So let's say I google some information about Koran and find a website with Koran, analysis etc. Turns out it's hosted in Saudi Arabia, and the act of me, an atheist, reading Koran is blasphemy, punishable with death.

So should I be extradited to Saudi Arabia, given that the act happened on a computer system with-in Saudi Arabia?
Related:

Neorg – Life Organization Tool Written in Lua for Neovim - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29330805 - Nov 2021 (5 comments)

Neorg: Neovim 0.5’s answer to modern life organization - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27802153 - July 2021 (72 comments)
Which is not what anyone is calling for.
> For example, writing scripts on JVM languages would require additional effort to build a toolchain that compiles and runs files on the fly, with a short start time.

That hasn't been true since at least Java 11. You can execute any .java file using `java foo.java`. No compilation required. You can reference dependencies using the usual classpath options etc.

Startup time is minimal.

Been using such scripts in exactly the way the author suggests for years. Much more pleasant than messing around with maven or gradle plugins.
Panama Canal pilots.
I'll admit I'm not reading the article, but this is a hard no for C development. Yeah, it can be done not so terribly, but just use a normal scripting language.

In C#, I could see doing this.
https://RTCode.io - web playground

https://new.rt.ht - code templates

https://RTEdge.net - edge network
FLI $665M crypto fund roiling the AI safety fight
https://archive.is/yCEGg
Purchased credits expire after only 6 months so they hope you will forget about your purchase. It's a similar business model with gift cards.
I said "of course" because it's very common for businesses to not accept cash when it's inconvenient to. Airplanes are just one example I gave.

The federal reserve addresses state/local laws:

>Private businesses are free to develop their own policies on whether to accept cash unless there is a state law that says otherwise.

These laws are new and only exist in a few locales.
Virtually every tech company has already been sued under Children's Online Privacy Protection Act.

What makes you think the state law would get struct down in federal court?
> simply saying "Linux" isn't accurate either because it's in part a vuln exposed by a specific kconfig, which differs by distro

True; if the Debian family is unusual in having that config then fair enough, but it sounds like the author just didn't look at others.

> Also with other distros like Fedora and Arch, the kernel versions change frequently including new big versions (like 6.4 to 6.5, what in semver would be called "minor" but isn't super accurate for the linux kernel) so that list would be outdated very quickly if not immediately

Debian/Ubuntu still roll patch releases regularly, so that seems irrelevant; it'll be out of date in short order regardless.
Have you tried openai whisper? Last time I compared it was quite a bit better than all the other options.
Plenty of "idiots" outside the age range of 18-25, should we restrict them as well? How would we determine who is qualified to vote? Any other rights provided by the constitution you'd like to alter while we're at it? What other responsibilities available 18-25 year olds would you like to restrict? The draft, driving a vehicle, taking out loans, ...? Perhaps they shouldn't be allowed to choose their own clothing, what food they eat, ...
"Publication" is the process of writing up works and distributing them to other researchers. Having fast and efficient channels for publishing our results is essential to the progress of science.

I strongly object to any proposal that would interrupt this essential process. If you (somehow) prevented me from distributing my preliminary results to other scientists, or from reading their preliminary results, then I would actively work around your proposal. Not because I hate you, but because science fundamentally requires access to these new ideas. Moreover, any researchers who waited for replication would fall behind and get scooped by the better-connected Ted-talk giving folks, who would obviously keep exchanging results.

However, it's obvious that when you say publication you don't mean it in the literal sense of communicating scientific results. Instead what you're trying to reform is academic credit. We all know that scientists [and the bureaucrats who fund them] love to find ways to measure research productivity, and they've chosen to use publications (in specific venues) as a proxy for that contribution.

And, following Goodhart's law, any measure that becomes a target ceases to be a good measure.

So the purpose of your proposal really has nothing to do with scientific publication for its first-order effects (i.e., distributing results to colleagues) but rather, you just want to reform the way that credit is allocated to scientists for purposes of funding, promotion, and general adulation (that's a joke.)

My suggestion is: if you want to reform the way credit is allocated, why not focus explicitly on that goal? There's no need to put in place complicated new systems that will make it harder for anyone to publish (and that real scientists will instantly work around.) Instead, just go to the NSF and NEH and various university administrations and convince them to stop hiring/funding/firing researchers using the metrics they currently use?

I think overall you'll find that this is still a tough sell, and a massive uphill battle. But it has the advantages of (1) addressing the actual problem you're concerned with, (2) not preventing researchers from doing their job, (3) has fewer overall points of failure, and (4) isn't subject to being worked around by funders/administrators who simply adopt new measures after you "reform" the publication system (e.g., switching to citation counts for arXiv works, or surveying other researchers for their opinion.)
If you work in hardware and are interested in solving this lemme say this

There are billions of dollars waiting for the first person to get this right. The only reason I haven’t jumped on this myself is a lack of familiarity with drivers.
Thanks for your feedback. We're currently in the process of adjusting our dataset and model to address issues with chords and rhythm. We're looking forward to providing you with a better experience in the future.
At this scale even 10% is a big drop, down by 1/3 is IMO down way down.

That chart gives 31% in 49 years 63,836 in 2022 vs 92,635 in 1973, but the numbers are dropping faster each year.
Are you saying medieval Germany was richer than present-day Germany or USA? That's of course not true.
And it's also not clear why you call it a survivorship bias - these villages were probably above-the-median in their days, but it's not some singular building like Pyramids that is not representative of overall building of that era/territory. It was just how the houses were built there and then.
If you scroll past all the interstitial garbage, there is one final paragraph of the article:

> It isn't clear how North Korea got hold of the TV show but the country has a history of illegally pirating neutral content like football matches and other TV shows.
How is the thread only an hour old but comments 9?
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/25/congress-approved-3...
there’s no effective defense for a bridge that needs support in more than 30 or so feet of water

You put in sheet piling 50 meters upstream, and you fill the box with rocks. That's state of the art practice, nowadays, but that bridge was 50 years old.
Great question. One thing to remember is that the value of a piece of software that’s heading towards being un-maintained is much lower than one that has a clear maintenance path. One should be wary of single-maintainer projects. That said, the number of maintainers and the amount of code per maintainer would seem to be the important variables. In this case the code has moved from a repo with one (albeit absent) maintainer to another with one maintainer. Let’s call that neutral. However our new maintainer now has much more code to maintain so the risk has measurably gone up. It might be worth also taking into account how much code in total someone is responsible for across the cargo ecosystem.
> I don't know what I was expecting, the bridge just looked extremely fragile, makes me wonder what other bridges are at risk of an event like this.

The bridge style in question

> Conversely, continuous truss bridges rely on rigid truss connections throughout the structure for stability. Severing a continuous truss mid-span endangers the structure. However, continuous truss bridges do not experience the tipping forces that a cantilever bridge must resist because the main span of a continuous truss bridge is supported at both ends.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_truss_bridge

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Scott_Key_Bridge_(Balt...

So taking out one end basically takes out the whole thing.

I would not be surprised that when they build the replacement, it will be a design where the individual components are more self-resilient, like:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable-stayed_bridge

The engineering best practices, budgets, and needs may have been different fifty years ago. Cargo ships were also a lot smaller fifty years ago.
Width and Height in CSS (2023)
Yeah I'm not trying to say it was all peachy or wax poetic about the Soviet Union. It was clearly a deeply flawed country with myriad economic issues. I'm just saying that even if some of the housing was shit, everyone was housed which is commendable.

In the United States, housing is by far the biggest expense for most people, there's a severe shortage of housing, and there's a homelessness problem in most cities. Solving that problem might require a more radical departure from the market based solutions we've been relying on up to this point (and I acknowledge local zoning makes the market less than perfect). Working on the supply side with publicly built housing is something I'd like to see, but the hazard, as you point out, is that it ends up being poorly maintained, overly crowded, and bad.

The failure case in the United States, eg dying of exposure is worse than the failure case was in the Soviet Union, eg being stuck in a really shitty apartment. Another issue is there were probably way more people in that failure case in Russia than there were in the United States. All I'm saying is there's a balance to strike here and public building shouldn't be a tool we ignore.
Probably the Germans and the Russians working together, I would say. Makes the most sense, after all, what losing the billions they invested together in building it would hurt everyone else the most, right?
Friendly FYI - not sure if this is a skill issue on my part or something that's not possible yet, but I couldn't figure out how to change the audio input. I think when it asked for microphone access (chrome latest, Mac) that it chose the Macbook microphone which won't work as it's docked.
I was wondering where this sort of "business logic" might come from. :)
SPOILERS

trisolarians never considered co-existing with humans.

Only when sword holder was established they changed their mind, and the moment swordholder changes they reversed cooperation stance.

I love to see how netflix will handle it, the books are quite misogynistic.

In the books Liu Ji (logic) is contrasted with emotional and unreasonable women.
No I mean take that loan. And then just default on it.
Clojure -> Babashka, better than regular bash
> It's somewhat counterintuitive how much energy can be in something moving so slowly.

Reminder: Kinetic Energy = ½mv^2

Squaring numbers can make them big in a hurry.
I am working on https://hellotrader.io - a service that allows traders to define their trading strategies without coding and run instant backtest between changes to give them feedback on their potential profitability. Once the strategies are defined, the service scans the market in real time on their watchlist and alerts the users if the conditions required for their strategies are present.
Uncovering the Seams in Mainframes
I'm not a kernel developer so take with a grain of salt; what I've heard suggested is that it's not fundamentally bad and if we'd had it from day one it would be fine, but a lot of kernel interfaces were designed with the idea that only root could use them so they didn't worry about certain security matters as much. And maybe that was never ideal but it could even be reasonable; if only root can trigger a bug that gives you root access... it's not good because it could be used to work around other restrictions, but one can imagine that it wouldn't exactly be a priority. But then what actually happened is that very late in the game we got this new feature that allows any old user to access these less-protected interfaces, and that's resulted in a certain amount of... catching up.
Ecological countermeasures to prevent pathogen spillover and subsequent pandemic
Pseudo Velocity and the Stress-Velocity Relationship
huh, TIL... that's almost worth an HN submission of its own

if anyone else is wondering like I was, this was a fun read: https://superuser.com/questions/1205451/how-can-i-display-th...
You're not alone, and you have some good awareness.

If you're currently facing real resource threats, I guess your wiring might make it very difficult to develop more luxurious ambitions or passions. (Where someone else might actually retreat into denial, and cling to distractions from survival.)

But if you currently have resources and not under imminent existential threat, two naive suggestions:

* Consider finding a counselor (expensive), or doing lots of (frugal) Web searching about the topic, to try to figure out how to un-condition yourself from fixating on mere survival.

* For growing new ambitions and passions, have you tried experimenting, trying different things to see whether you'd like them, once you spend a significant chunk of time on them?

Also, FWIW, 10 years from now, you'll probably realize that you had more agency and options now than you currently think you do. Consider that bit of info from your future self.
It seems the excellent windy.com has wind and current data from the incident still available. Looks like current was <0.2 kts and wind was 6 kts south-east. So both should be completely negligible.
An electric razor and a flask to put the whiskey in.

Preload a few TB worth of books on it.
> when the Bakers ran Dragon Systems

For those who don't know what happened next, and why Dragon seem to stagnant so much in the aughts, the story about how Goldman Sachs helped them sell to essentially Belgian Enron, months before they collapsed, was quite illuminating to me, and sad.

https://archive.ph/Zck6i