skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I live in a fairly poor area and people seem very willing to throw litter out of their cars, blast bass so loud it shakes my house, do drugs in public view, or commit flagrant traffic/parking violations (no value judgments here, just being objective) compared to other places I've lived.

I used to live in wealthy frathouse neighborhoods and they do the same shit there too. They just have the money to hire cleaners after they trash houses, or collectively buy summer vacation trips to other countries to do it.
One detail I don’t really understand is the low-variance normal component of the target mixture. Would be curious to see from the weights how often that was used
> If a package is deemed important enough for the larger community,

It may be done at package level at best but not at registry level. Since we are talking community it is not a customer/vendor relationship, most packages are just important enough to be available for free. It may also be at some humiliating amount like "here is 10 dollar/month now maintain 100K packages for us.
Clearly you've never worked with the intellectually challenged. These are people who want to live normal lives, and like most normal people find earning an honest wage and providing for themselves very rewarding.

And to describe manual labor as "abuse" is, frankly, disgusting.
There goes the last lingering thread of my non-Linux OS use.
The issue here has absolutely nothing to do with how it affects kids, it has to do with how it affects adults. Again: "States are basically requiring identification to speak or criticize government in the town square."

The fact that the legislation is intended to affect kids is irrelevant if the only legally permitted way to comply damages the individual liberties of adults.
Fast real-time arbitrary waveform generation using graphic processing units
Abstract:

Real-time Arbitrary Waveform Generation (AWG) is essential in various engineering and research applications, and often requires complex bespoke hardware and software. This paper introduces an AWG framework using an NVIDIA Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) and a commercially available high-speed Digital-to-Analog Converter (DAC) card, both running on a desktop personal computer (PC). The GPU accelerates the "embarrassingly" data parallel additive waveform synthesis framework for AWG, and the DAC reconstructs the generated waveform in the analog domain at high speed. The AWG framework is programmed using the developer-friendly Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA) runtime application programming interface from NVIDIA and is readily customizable, and scalable with additional parallel hardware. We present and characterize two different pathways for computing modulated radio-frequency (rf) waveforms: one pathway offers high-complexity simultaneous chirping of 1000 individual Nyquist-limited single-frequency tones for 35 ms at a sampling rate of 560 MB/s, and the other pathway allows simultaneous continuous chirping of 194 individual Nyquist-limited single-frequency tones at 100 MB/s, or 20 individual tones at 560 MB/s. This AWG framework is designed for fast on-the-fly rearrangement of a large stochastically-loaded optical tweezer array of single atoms or molecules into a defect-free array needed for quantum simulation and quantum computation applications.
LM75 thermometer: connection to ESP12.OLED_V1 in ESPHome
Have seen this firsthand in (literal) field demos. Radios don't work. Field equipment is noisy, sound and electromagnetically. Just things. The "cloud" isn't effectively down the street. The nearest fiber is over a mile away. And so on.

The current brick wall to bang heads against is putting all of that under "connectivity" and working on that, and trying to sell solutions which are not as reliable as they should be; instead of doing compute more locally, or applying traditional system analysis to figure out what really needs to be realtime, and what "realtime" really means.

Would love to get a job in the field working on the compute / local telemetry solution somewhere in the Pacific Northwest USA. Definitionally I suppose that means somewhere you have to drive because there are no commercial flights; there's a quite lot of space like that, surprising / not surprising depends on your bias I suppose.
Unfortunately the finance analogy is sufficiently outside my wheelhouse as to be indecipherable to me. (Analogies are helpful to add intuition but they shouldn’t replace the description of the actual thing).

Maybe this description is wrong but I can’t tell.
> which has multiple virus scanners reporting the image as being malicious

2 random scanners, only one of which reports it as malicious. It's flagging the domain because it's a file sharing site.

Take 2 seconds and scan the actual file before accusing people of spreading malware.

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/b2353556793cab2e417fd6ed...
How is this totally rational and well contextualized response being downvoted for showing how absurd GP's claim is?
We just disagree on morality and the subjectivity of truth and human opinion (see Søren Kierkegaard's philosophy writings for more on this), that's all, no gymnastics required.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_S%C3%B8ren_Kierk... ("Wikipedia: Philosophy of Søren Kierkegaard: Subjectivity")
A degree is the traditional way. Good luck.
> He will not be tried as a journalist. The US govt will not recognise his status as a journalist

It's not something that the US govt gets to decide. They can argue it in court, but this sort of finding of fact is a matter for the jury, not for the prosecutor or even the judge to decide. Unless he opts for a bench trial, in which case the judge gets to decide, but that is at his option -- nobody can force him to forgo a jury.

Ellsberg did not receive automatic protections as a journalist either, despite the fact that he was by any definition a journalist (and certainly by your criteria) -- he was charged and tried under the Espionage Act, and only the specific circumstances involved resulted in the case's dismissal.

The government will not put all its eggs in the "he's not a journalist" basket either; they'll offer an array of charges so even if the jury finds that he is a journalist, he will not be completely shielded. Nonetheless I think the odds are in his favor; the government will in the end almost certainly have to show evidence of tangible (not just reputational) harm, and that will open the door to "compelling public interest" arguments based on the particular information brought to light.
> who's paying for the flights?

It’s appealing to blame everyone but the consumer.

You, the person wielding the credit card, are paying for the flight.

You swipe your card, and when you paid money for something, seemingly, you also get a little bit of a flight with it.

This is kind of like going to a restaurant and swiping your card and enjoying the ketchup. You paid for the ketchup. In few restaurants can you go and eat the ketchup without buying something else. But they still sold you the ketchup.

Why does this have to be a big conspiracy?

It is definitely interesting that it’s this or that merchant bank swipe fee airline spin around turnaround thing. On the other hand who cares.

It is all obscuring the fact that you are buying the flights.

If the flights didn’t exist, 3% merchant fees would still be atrocious!

It doesn’t fucking matter to me if people spend money to buy flights, whether by buying them directly through airlines or via some brain dead savings scheme. You and I will never benefit from high swipe fees. You and I will never be billionaires. Absolutely nothing in the world would be lost or become less meaningful if CC providers charged less for swiping in the US, like they do in the rest of the world.
"No one is going to make much money being really good at radio, any more than they will be really good at machining steel,"

How do you know? For instance, I'd suggest that not every method of modulation has been invented or even yet implemented. Also, we've hardly begun to design and implement meta materials into antennae and RF filters—the field's still wide open for innovation and invention.

And new methods of 'machining' steel have recently been invented and are just coming into use (if I owned the patents I'd be sitting pretty for life).
Totally, depends on what's cheaper though as that's what farmers will choose, no matter what stage of the climate crisis we're in.
Shell MasterCard Rewards upped their APR to 34%, (,it doesn't matter because I too pay in full), but yikes!!
>a Mass Casualty Incident has been Declared with over a Dozen Cars and many Individuals said to be in the Water.

This is literally like out of a nightmare I sometimes have, falling off of a bridge in my car into the water...
Fixed kernel was released to Debian stable well over a month ago (my logs have it installed on 2/12). So unless you ignore kernel security updates you should already be covered.
It‘s quite the rabbit hole, I can assure you.
This is a bit of a feel-good misnomer as well -- as now several of the richest men on the planet are known, active internet trolls.
Malaysian retailer and supplier charged for selling 'Allah' socks
In that case most of Congress should recuse themselves from voting on abortion bills considering they've been shooting blanks and having hot flashes since the 90s.

That you were not fully informed when you voted at 18 is not a reason to restrict the rights of others who are. Or aren't. Who's to say a 25yo is somehow any better prepared to vote? It's not like they were asked to pass a civics test first.
Also, I’m not sure if people are aware of the number of radio systems that enable their smartphones.

NFC (eg. Apple Pay) is a radio, range a few cm. Bluetooth is a radio, a few meters. WiFi is several radio systems, range tens of meters. Cell phone is several radio systems, range up to kilometers. GPS (and rival systems) range up to thousands of kilometers.
Could javac do the analysis and record it in the bytecode for HotSpot to optimize? Or is this kind of hybrid teamwork not done?
I do. I don't think the government should be requiring Windows; nor do I think they should be outputting any Excel or Word files at all. All ODF files or PDFs. We shouldn't be paying money for HMRC to use it to pay Microsoft for tools that encourage us all to buy more Microsoft products. That sort of thing seems much more basic than "should Apple be allowed to decide what store is on their phones?"
I guess it's a bit like if Linux Kernel suddenly needed to pass ISO 27001 certification.
'The Apps Are Not What They Seem'
This could be generalized to any `string` field in any network packet.
Money is fungible. Your physical dollar bill can be collected and deposited and make it possible for _another_ dollar to do something else.
I started using Neorg for my personal notes, but I found it really difficult to adapt to the markup language.

It's silly I know, but I vastly prefer writing in markdown and it's relatives than in Neorg (or org mode for that matter).

It was also weird that they chose to be incompatible with org mode, ditching all tooling around it in the process.
Looks a lot like a Linux distribution, for example, Fedora, which has the same policy to reduce maintenance burden.
We have a content quality problem, not a content quantity problem
I was doing AI implementations for a company in Oil and Refined products. And I can tell you that AI can massively improve the processes and and streamline their operations. In fact, it can easily transform any data entry to structure data without the needless sw development of API integrations and gateways.

My first point as a contribution is, traders are lazy and operators are control freaks. In a way traders only care about doing deals so any trade entry in a system us prone to errors and misalignment, such as the ETRM system's reference data. And Operators are control freaks in a way that if they find our that your AI missed a single entry they will mistrust it forever. They rather spend more time copy pasting that to trust your AI. But any automation is welcome they still want to have control (which some in contrast will argue that that control is a nuisance and a waste of time).

Oh well, though customers is what they are.

I am really happy to know that there are others trying to solve the same problems in a world of ineffectiveness.
off topic:

is the background music inspired by "We are the robots"?
Hacking the genome of fungi for smart foods of the future
Cloudflare's not down for me on my non-Render hosted site.

My Render-hosted site is down, but Render's outage seemed to start an hour after Cloudflare's outage.
They don't. If that's worth $8/month to you, enjoy Godspeed instead :)
The Association of Maryland (boat) Pilots literally has a header image of a harbor pilot tug escorting a cargo ship to the Key Bridge...

https://www.mdpilots.com/

Wonder where they were.
Seems a perfect fit for a web based version

I loved The Sentinel when it came out but part of that love was the awe at seeing solid 3d on my 8bit C64 in an era when most 3d was wire frame like Elite, Sublogic Flight Simulator, Gunship, etc...

While the game was a great idea I feel like half the enjoyment was seeing these 3d vistas in an age when they were rare.
This is really great. I was hoping someone would build this: https://bprp.xyz/__site/Looking+for+Collaborators/Better+Loc...

I would really happily pay $10 / month for this, but what I really want is either:
- A Raycast plugin or Desktop app that lets this interact with any editable text area in my environment
- An API that I can pass existing text / context + audio stream to and get back a heartbeat of full document updates. Then, the community can build Obsidian/VSCode/browser plugins for the huge surface area of text entry

Going to give you $10 later this afternoon regardless, and congrats!
The demo seemed to struggle a bit with my accent (Scottish), getting quite a few words wrong - for example, every time I said "test" it would write "taste". Is this something you can improve going forward?
patching now!! good catch.
No, Cloudflare is not down for me.
if it works for LXC containers shouldn't it also work for unprivileged (but non VM) docker containers?
Boeing Demands Virgin Galactic Destroy All Data from Space Tourism Partnership
That merchant fee gets split between the network (e.g. Visa) and the bank, so they net much less than you may think off that. They make far more on interest charged.

That's why some high end cards charge a yearly fee. Its to recoup some of the rewards & perks costs in aggregate.
Congrats on the launch!

I absolutely love the idea, as a fellow neurodivergent who works much better over voice than text. My only feedback is... I'd love to run this with more control. I already run LLMs locally (LM Studio), and I can run something like whisper too. I understand that open-sourcing (or even making the source code available) might go against any commercialization attempt. However, there are some options (Red Hat-esque) where it may be possible to charge for business use and allow local running for free for personal use.

On one hand you've got a solid first-mover advantage in a field where lots can benefit and use this, however if someone can bork together several layers of LLM output they might be able to offer competition (and such projects are often opensource, albeit sometimes less "polished".) If you offer a good deal you might have a good chance of major success. Best of luck!
Ask HN: What non-AI products are you working on?
I see so many AI product launches. Is there anyone who is working on non-AI products?

If so what are you working on?
I'm responding to the comment talking directly about how painless cash is :)
I have family members who are intellectually challenged and my work is manual labour. There could be many therapeutic applications provided by the government where they could still live 'normal' lives (this is obviously wrong because they do need different conditions, if you really want to benefit them they will have different requirements). Normal lives do not mean doing work that is tiresome.

Perhaps in a different world manual labour could be something good, but i dont think its honest of you to say that you think people who do manual labour are not being abused.
How to calculate the conversion factor CPM to uSv/h for J305 tube Geiger counter
<insert meme here where it's just one fader like their older mice with one button>
Human brains are getting larger: That may be good news for dementia risk
Facebook lobbied against ATT because it was a massive pain in the ass. Plus, they might not have known if the ML based targeting worked out. At this point, they've spent the capital to work around it, and it's a new moat. I doubt they'd want it to be reverted.
At least in small craft, bow thrusters are usually electric, with local batteries charged from the main engine room. I don't know what large craft are like, but it doesn't seem unreasonable that a bow thruster may remain operable even if the main engine fails. Clearly that's not required or they would've had it and used it, but it could be required if the regulations didn't suck.

Furthermore, steering could absolutely have an electric backup for the hydraulic pumps that power the main steering gear. As long as there's some forward speed through the water, the rudder should work. But again, backups clearly aren't required or they would've worked here.

Steer-by-wire cars are required to have all sorts of redundancy so they're almost as safe as steering-shaft cars in case of an engine failure. This is a 9,900TEU ship with a 41480 kw powerplant. That a ship with so much more destructive potential is allowed to operate without the same level of redundancy as a $90k Audi, is unconscionable.
> gives merchants the ability to impose surcharges on customers who have Mastercard or Visa cards.

I fully support merchants being able to charge more for card or give a discount for cash. The fact they haven't been able to for 3+ decades is one of the reasons cash has died and everyone effectively has an extra 1% credit card tax on everything they buy.

That 1% tax has probably been a pretty massive drag on GDP. Imagine how many new schools we could have had instead.
> who would loan bitcoin?

There is currently $1.91B worth of wrapped bitcoin (~27k) loaned out on AAVE [0].

So the answer to your question is... a lot of people.

[0] https://app.aave.com/reserve-overview/?underlyingAsset=0x226...
Credit cards enable you to buy more products and services earlier, which is good for financial institutions that have investments in the businesses that provide you those products and services. Money that just sits there does nothing for anyone, but money does good things when it keeps moving. Even if they don't make anything off you, you're moving money around so the businesses they have partial ownership of can be seen as valuable and have reason to grow. They can't just give money to these businesses instead of you because then there'd be little guarantee that they'd provide enough value to be worthwhile. By giving you a credit card, you're telling the financial institution behind the credit card what businesses are valuable to you and what they should be invested in.

This isn't to say that they don't still consider you a low value user, since you're not providing them with much in terms of direct revenue. Yes, finance companies love it when you hand money directly to them and won't mind if you forget to make a payment after 20 years and and up paying interest.
Back up and running :)
You made your choice when you jizzed in her bits. Don't want a child? Don't jizz in the lady. Want a child but the lady doesn't? You gotta find a different lady to jizz in.

Sometimes, if you trust a lady enough, you two will decide on a strategy on how you can jizz in her bits and still not have a kid. However, none of those methods are perfect and you are explicitly taking a chance.

The risk you take when you jizz inside a lady that doesn't want an abortion is that you have a child. If a lady does not want an abortion and you don't want a kid, don't jizz inside her. You don't have to be a participatory father, but you will be expected to financially support whoever ends up raising the kid, unless you both choose to give up the child for adoption.

Like, fuck guys, it's not this difficult. I'm an idiot and I've figured it out.
I remember people at first buying playstation since they could buy cheap pirated games with the swap trick and all
>my Bitwarden itself uses YubiKey as 2FA.

I want to do the same but haven't switch yet.

- Is the YubiKey USB-C? Is the connector type an issue when plugging it into various computers?

- Where do you keep your YubiKey (plugged into your laptop, on a keychain, somewhere else).

- How do you open your vault on mobile?

- Do you have a backup YubiKey somewhere in case you lost the main one?
Man, I thought that would fall under usury laws or summat.

But I do seem to have some vague recollection that some state like South Dakota knows not of this "usury" you speak of, and therefore the credit card company has a business address there.
The fact that the markup language isn't even remotely similar to Markdown is a non-starter for me.
> our IT security team must approve all third-party packages before we can use them

Do they also review the original tooling? Why would one single out third-party packages?
> Realy?

No, not really. My point is, in modern compilers SSE and AVX intrinsics are usually pretty good, and assembly is not needed anymore even for very performance-sensitive use cases like video codecs or numerical HPC algorithms.

I think in the modern world it’s sufficient for developers to be able to read assembly, to understand what compilers are doing to their codes. However, writing assembly is not the best idea anymore.

Assembly is unreliable due to OS-specific shenanigans, result in bugs like that one: https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40185629

Assembly complicates builds because inline assembly is not available in all compilers, and for non-inline assembly every project uses a different version: YASM, NASM, MASM, etc.
What's the point of buying it from fragment (which is basically Telegram's way of using their scam currency) and spend at least €50 when you can just buy one for a few cents on websites such as smspva?
I think, in my case, the last thing I want to do when I'm angry is read a book. If I'm angry I feel like going to the shop and buying a bottle of Japanese single malt and dive deep into the zen of getting pissed.
I can't recommend this entire series enough, Hunkin's work is a masterpiece.
Python using TK, Cool.
Their status page (https://status.render.com/) says:

Update - Many services recovered automatically, engineering is continuing to identify still affected services and mitigate issues as necessary.

Mar 26, 2024 - 16:28 UTC

Update - We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.

Mar 26, 2024 - 16:20 UTC

Identified - We are encountering a broad range of outages across the Render Platform affecting connections and services. Engineering is working on mitigating the cause of these issues and narrowing down any non-affected components.

Mar 26, 2024 - 16:19 UTC
The Øresund Bridge as well (opened in 2000).
It's not as exciting as it sounds. He wanted to play around with learning Paxos, which is a big state machine, and he used yacc to do it. I shared an office with him for a couple years in the early days of Go, and he was working on it while I was working on other things. I helped him track down at least one bug in the Go port of yacc that way. I think the grammar he was writing was completely regular, but yacc is nicer to use than lex.

Ken discussed yacc briefly in Coders at Work, which I quoted at https://research.swtch.com/yyerror:

Seibel: And are there development tools that just make you happy to program?

Thompson: I love yacc. I just love yacc. It just does exactly what you want done. Its complement, lex, is horrible. It does nothing you want done.

Seibel: Do you use it anyway or do you write your lexers by hand?

Thompson: I write my lexers by hand. Much easier.