skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This news report [1] confirms there were two pilots at the time of the accident. Baltimore Port runs a dock pilot from the Key Bridge to the port itself, and after the Key Bridge, a harbor pilot who takes the ship (I believe the rule is any vessel > 100 tons, and all non-domestic ships of any tonnage must by Maryland state law be piloted in this manner) out to the mouth of the bay.

The after-accident report and insurer and re-insurer wranglings will be a fascinating read, I'm sure. It will be a miracle if the taxpayers escape unscathed for the rebuilding of the transit spanning the harbor, and it falls entirely upon the insurers and re-insurers.

As dramatic as this accident was though, and the many parallels I can draw from its lessons to software engineering, IT operations, cybersecurity and so on, I'm not as sanguine believing it will really drive home to organization leaderships the evergreen advice to pay down your tech debt, maintenance matters, organizational culture/esprit de corps counts, the operational teams are just as important as the engineering teams, etc.

[1] https://fox59.com/news/national-world/cargo-ship-hits-baltim...
> Serif can do quite well, but also in the burgeoning AI-assisted space, where Serif has zero ability to compete

I think you've hit the nail on the head. AI tools will become essential and if you haven't got the resources to compete in this area you're likely to fade into relative irrelevance.

And at a 20x multiple probably a steal for Canva too given what this deal will give them - even without raising prices / going to subscription model.
All it does is to take you to a website allowing you to enter payment credentials. If this website is not the website you think it is and is instead some fraudulent website made to impersonate a site you are familiar with, then a large portion of users will not question it.
This is a no brainer. Who the hell carries around coins and bills in small denominations for vending machines that will refuse bills that are too wrinkled or might be falling apart? A simple tap is so much more practical.

Not to mention the reduced risk of miscounting/counterfeit currency, or robbery.
The pervasive blocking of copyrighted content in screenshots and screen sharing sounds mildly dystopian. The article lists several examples where this actually hurts the Vision Pro (in terms of ability to share cool moments or being able to demo it), so I wonder why the feature made it in? Is it a move by Apple to make sure immersive videos don't get pirated and made available to Quest and Vive users, or is there external pressure from studios?
The pump'n'dump scheme is still not over.

There is still too much money to pull from fresh people.

It's probably still companies which stole money from early adopters and still reinvest.
I used to love trying to surreptitiously unplug my traveling companions’ headphones so I could blow into the end of the tube. Never once pulled it off.
`async: false` is the worst
Bank of Canada says the country faces a productivity 'emergency'
It's exactly like this.
Ask HN: Leads for digitizing large analog video collections? (NYC art/music)
I work for a NYC-based videographer who has a large analog video archive with great footage. I’m talking unseen music performances at CBGBs and Max’s Kansas City, and interviews with famous artists of the NYC art world (which was arguably at its heyday in the 1980s.) We’re looking for someone who can help us digitize this and it occurred to me that HN might have some great leads on this.

We have a collection of about 1,500 individual tapes that spans nearly every single analog video medium from reel to reel to mini dv. I’d approximate that we’ve only digitized maybe 5-10% on our own. We’ve been in contact with a few people who are interested, and even got pretty far into talks with the Getty museum, but that had to be put on hold for a bit. Please let me know if you know of anything. We are interested in retaining the rights, but any leads would be appreciated.
Anyone else is free to take it! You see that the repository is hosted under his own user. Anyone else can create an organization or host it under their own name.

Are we collectively having Subversion phantom pains or something? Just take it.
Passing Stars as Driver of Paleoclimate and the Solar System's Orbital Evolution
The formula on wiki has a distance squared term in the denominator tho?
Yes. Several companies have so an bad reputation that i would never work for them.
> No. They didn't want to provide specs in order to make FLOSS drivers possible at all. And they didn't provide good reasons for that. This is gate-keeping.

Do you have a source for this claim? Because the article above definitely doesn't say this. Not that I'd be surprised if it's true, mind you.

> "Various privacy reasons" is in fact the main point: You can't create a privacy-respecting device, owned by the user, with any of the available vendors.

That is orthogonal to whether you can make a device with a FOSS OS, or whether you can compete with Apple and/or Google. If you want to make a device that doesn't trust the software your hardware vendors provide, you are going to face hurdles. This is not an anti-competitive thing - Apple or Google would face the exact same hurdles. Further, going with a non-integrated chip is a massive complication (and a significant performance loss) that they inflict on themselves.
No system will get support for unicode by just the passing of time. Software needs to be upgraded/replaced for that to happen. Reluctant institutions will not just do that, and need external pressure.
I don't know what you're talking about. Autopilot did "automate some steering, braking, and acceleration functions" and was released in 2015.

This conversation is about a different feature called FSD, of which a tech demo video was shown in 2016. My car can currently do everything that was shown in that tech demo.
" ... had been trained on the rules, yet interpreted them compassionately according to sober interpretation of their intent, and didn't improve when warned ... "
You don't become the "act". You become ground down from the "act". What this comment said about being punished by peers and family for trying to educate myself and other people in this position trying to educate themselves, is correct. That happened to me.
HMRC will never launch a web app for this, as they don't want to be a custodian for company payroll data.
It's in Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story along with a whole lot of the rest of his work. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2236680/Llamasoft_The_Jef...
Infinite details to remark on, but,

NO NOTES.

This is the sort of the thing that I forward to people who are skeptical about the disruptive capacity AI has, to take long-standing seemingly intractable problems, and "solve" them.

Hats off. Truly inspiring in many senses!
So as far as the 'retro community', small museums, etc, running on original but old hardware, you're out of luck. You have to run a x64 VM now, or resort to piracy.
This is the force exhaustion to drive adoption approach.

If your family is starving do you look over at a plate of sandwiches and say "we better not eat those, it is just a temporary relief" or do you use the available resources to solve the problem.
The frequency domain is a misleading name. I assume you’re referring to STFT, or spectrogram, which is a series of windowed time segments transformed into the frequency domain.

But both you and OP are right in that waveform domain is usually called time domain.
Hard pass - many languages simply don't prioritize the experience of executing shell commands.
Translating (N64) Screen Effects to a Modern Rendering Pipeline
That example doesn't even need a script, it could literally be a single gradle task. Some things are lot easier to do in a platform independent way in Java (or Groovy) than in shell scripts. And unlike the latter, the former can be tested just like any other part of the code base.

It always bugged me that build scripts are hardly ever tested or engineered. They just grow into giant balls of mud.
Interesting how different people's minds are.

I find the exact opposite problem, I go with old faithful over new.

It's for this reason that when I put my clothes away I simply take the stack of clothes in my dresser out, put all the fresh stuff on the bottom, then put the clothes that were in the drawer stuff on top.

I always grab the top sweater, t-shirt socks etc and I don't think about it at all.
>ChatGPT has no understanding of the rules that it communicates so perfectly.

Right

>So you've essentially agreed with what I've said, except to say you don't agree, but that you prefer no explanation to the obvious one.

I never disagreed that 4 can't play chess. It's right in my first comment. I literally say LLMs can play chess and you just tested a model that couldn't.

>This entire discussion is about the distinguisher, so I wouldn't classify it as imaginary. You just keep repeating that it doesn't mean anything.

>But, I do agree that a model can be trained to a sufficient degree that its ability to demonstrate understanding is immaterial in effect from actual understanding.

You're still making the same mistake here.

If a scientist happens upon a piece of yellow metal and runs every gold test there is on the metal and it passes then that is gold. What you are doing here is essentially saying that it is "fake gold that is immaterial in effect from real gold". It's just kind of a meaningless statement.

The only thing any human does is "demonstrate understanding". I can't peek into your brain and say you understand. You can't prove to me right now that you "actually understand".If I think you understand it's because I say you demonstrated it. There is no "actual understanding" separate from demonstrating it.

>But, even ChatGPT will tell you that it doesn't "understand" in the traditional sense. That it essentially finds patterns, etc. So perhaps it will convince you where I could not. :)

Either GPT doesn't understand what it's saying and this holds no importance or it does. You have to pick one.

I could just as soon go to Claude to have this discussion and get different answers. Open AI obviously train it on how they want it to respond to this sort of questions.
> acknowledging that the gaps between structural supports on the bridge is approximately 30 meters

Measuring a satellite image in Google Maps [1] tells me the bridge's central span is more than 300 meters.

[1] https://maps.app.goo.gl/SzAzuzQRUwW7s2gN8
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=conventional+97+mortgage&ia...
more q&as from the author on twitter https://twitter.com/mov_axbx/status/1772548497566294345

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why the crt monitor?

> What I had handy with a VGA input

I am wondering how you went over the p2p problem with the 4090. I thought it was disabled

> They don’t have p2p enabled

Would using 3090 be more cost effective ?

> Depends how you measure. Throughput per $ is higher for 4090s than 3090s at retail pricing.

> Comparing scalper 4090 to used mining 3090 a different story but people have reported those 3090s going bad after a while

This is amazing! :D How much did it all cost? (Perhaps you could add prices to the bill of materials page?)

> I’ll have to total it all up, I’m a little more low key when it comes to that sort of thing so I was kind of avoiding showing that. But maybe I’ll throw it in the FAQ
Engineering managers should not exist
This also doesn't make sense for the copyright owner interests. Don't you want people to share screenshots of your movies and shows?
But in this case with slow speed, it's the massive (literally) amount of mass of the cargo ship that gives it an un-intuitively large amount of energy.
Aks HN: How do you excel in ambiguous environments?
The higher the pay, the more it is required from the engineer to "just figure out problems and their solutions".

For example: A StartUp is hiring the first 5 engineers. Some of the first ones come in, and see: "Oh, the structure of the code is not quite as good" or "we should really implement x instead of y here for these reasons."

What if you struggle in these environments and want to learn how to excel there? Is it just applying past experiences to a new situation, or can you learn to look for solutions?

TL;DR: How to find problems and solutions to them in the codebase (and product) without a vast prior experience in that specific environment or industry.
>> Bug fixes are tricky too. If they're semantically observable people probably depend on the current behaviour.

Hyrum's Law (https://www.hyrumslaw.com/) definitely does come into play, but bugs do need to be fixed. Good communication is essential so that library users can adapt. In extreme cases, jarring fixes can turn into new APIs.

>> Languages vary in how well they handle this. Python and C++ are the usual mistakes are forever example. Perhaps rust or c# have a better strategy.

Rust's Editions (https://doc.rust-lang.org/edition-guide/editions/) offer a nice way to gently break backward compatibility in order to keep everything progressing.
Here's a popular analysis from r/Churning exploring who pays for cc rewards. TL;DR: cash customers. https://old.reddit.com/r/churning/comments/5oucdq/the_econom...
cable stays are also generally more popular these days because of the differences in material. All other things being equal, concrete is generally a lot cheaper than a steel truss bridge these days
This article mentions the primary difficulty I have with the notion that AI can replace search engines.

People who think they can aren't using search engines as search engines. They're using search engines to find a specific answer to a specific question. That use case may very well be one that AI can do better.

However, that's not what a search engine is meant to do. A search engine is meant to find web sites that are related to the search term, and provide a list of them. It's an entirely different use case that constitutes most of what I want to do.
Electricity: Analysis and Forecast to 2026 [pdf]
I have a C++ project where the documentation is generated using a script that I wrote in C++. Woof. I didn't want to add a compile-time dependency on another programming language, but C++ is rough as a scripting language. If my script needs were any more complex, I'd be thinking hard about how bad a compile-time dependency on Python really is.
Trying to search for "ship deflectors" or whatever just brings up pages and pages of Star Wars shields and such in English.

I know they exist, and perhaps after this they'll exist a bit more.
I think it is a completely unreasonable argument to say I have to insert and support some kind of public API surface somewhere within any hardware product I want to make to satisfy your nebulous ideology. I think its okay if people make open or closed products and they should compete on the merits.
This reminded me of an old physics book I read where author claimed that Titanic also lost rudder control and yawed because of full reverse.
Yeah, what a weird spooky coincidence that someone like DeSantis would make a move that’s cut off kids’ means to countermand their parents’ information lockout.

Send them to a private school, or even better, homeschool, control what kind of people they make friends with, keep them busy with church and Sunday school and bible study, burn the books and defund the public libraries, control what music they listen to and what shows and films they watch and the games they play… and, of course, control their means of communication.

Heaven forbid your child ever be exposed to anything that might make them question the reality of this little garden of Eden you’ve imprisoned them in.
You identify too much with what you can do, and the need for your work. That is not the core of your being - your soul if you will. Your abilities can disappear at any moment and probably will as you get older.

Perhaps the purpose of this experience is for you to stop clinging to the false God of your usefulness and instead clearly see your true nature and your true relationship with God.
I don't know if I'm that smart, but I worked as hard as I could at my last tech job and still got laid off. Do own a house, but it was basically a gift from the parents - maybe you can buy your daughter one too?
So it is completely besides my point.
Gemini just summarized what I had discovered in the past on this topic, I had read somewhere that cash handling can add up to 17% in total fees but I believe it was an unbiased source.

Of course what is not accounted for is tax avoidance which cash can make easier for a merchant.
>post-concussion syndrome

Isn't that akin to "long covid"? No one mistakes post-concussion syndrome for a concussion, and no one mistakes long covid for an acute infection.

We do have a formal name for long covid: PASC (Post-Acute-Sequaelae of Covid)

It won't catch on a regular name because it's unpronounceable, but it there for the scientific literature and those who wish to speak formally.

I'm open to there being a better way, but ultimately you need something people can refer to, as it is a common phenomenon.
Yes, care must be taken to stabilize the algorithm. However, I do not believe it to be true that no digits of accuracy can be obtained. The algorithm falls back to the Cauchy (steepest-descent) point on the first iteration and this will give reduction. That said, I'm willing to solve this particular problem and see. Where's your code for the DFN battery model? The page here leads to a dead github link:

https://help.juliahub.com/batteries/stable/api/#JuliaSimBatt...
think of it as an NMU (non-maintainer upload)

https://wiki.debian.org/NonMaintainerUpload

also, names in a registry should be "leased" not forever eternal perpetual immutable assigned to some guy
I thought these were a nice idea when I had my MRI the other day, little did I know that I would barely be able to hear anything over the noise of the MRI machine. Ear plugs were better, kept out the noise of the MRI machine and let me drift into a trance.
While this is certainly possible to hack together using LADSPA [1] plugins it may be easiest to use something like e.g. Easy Effects [2], configure some sound profiles - 'music', 'voice', 'video', '...' - and configure some key combinations to load these on demand using easyeffects -l <preset>. As to how to bind these keys depends on your operating environment, this is how it could look in e.g. Xmonad (which is what I use):

newKeys conf@(XConfig {XMonad.modMask = modm}) = [
((modm .|. shiftMask, xK_m), spawn "easyeffects -l music"),
((modm .|. shiftMask, xK_v), spawn "easyeffects -l video")
]

In this (contrived) example you'd press SHIFT-L_ALT-m to enable the 'music' profile, SHIFT-L_ALT-v for the 'video' profile.

You can also make a script which cycles through available plugins and bind that to a key, showing which plugin is activated when the key is pressed. There are many ways which lead to this version of Rome, choose the one you like best.

If you're using Gnome there is an extension which does most of the work:

https://github.com/wwmm/easyeffects/wiki/Preset-Selector-GNO...

(quote) It basicly adds a button to your top panel. Then you can click on it to see your available presets and click one to activate it without opening EasyEffects window. It also adds keyboard shortcuts to cycle through available input and output presets. Those can be set from extensions preferences window. Default keybindings are Ctrl + Super + o for output and Ctrl + Super + i for input presets.

[1] http://www.ladspa.org/

[2] https://github.com/wwmm/easyeffects
Of course, but mostly in direction of less friction. You have $1m marketing budget. Do you spend it on content that people are naturally less or more prone to react positively to?
So there’s a contradiction in how “we” (who specifically do you mean?) talk about iq. And from that you conclude what? That iq is genetic?

That’s bad reasoning. It doesn’t say anything about what the truth is to observe that we’re mixed up about it. The truth is out there in the real world, not socially constructed.
Walmart and a few other retailers tried to launch a qr code based payment system to directly challenge ApplePay. It took off like a lead balloon. The ApplePay system was so much more elegant and convenient than having to open an app, scan a qr code, confirm payment. Most of the stores that originally rejected ApplePay in hopes of the Walmart backed system are now happily accepting ApplePay.
Vendoring a pinned dependency just looks like dependency theater. You can let it sit there as a pinned dependency and it will do just as much harm as if you vendor it.

I get the sense (only a sense because the author is a bit coy, but sibling comment by him seems to confirm) that this was more to appease these tools that look for “bad dependencies”.
One thing to remember is the PS5/Xbox get to play "on the big screen" which is much further from your eyeballs than the average computer monitor.

So it "looks better" just from that.
Agree with his assessment on passthrough. I think it's the #1 disappointment I've found with the Vision Pro. It's good, def better than other devices I've used but it's no where near as good as it has been described.

That being said, video experience, other graphics are a lot better than I expected.
Personally, I prefer crime (torrents).
"Global electricity demand from data centres could double towards 2026" - "...We estimate that data centres, cryptocurrencies, and artificial intelligence (AI)
consumed about 460 TWh of electricity worldwide in 2022, almost 2% of total
global electricity demand..."
They don't offer fraud protection, but still track and deal with fraud on their own network. They have to deal with international laws. They can and will decline transactions or cancel cards. They keep track of how merchants are being used.

A company I've worked for has the letters to prove it. You do not want to get a certified mail envelope from MasterCard (not a merchant or bank, MasterCard) containing a letter with a short deadline.

Needless to say, shit got fixed. Quickly.
Personally use a Pixel 7 and I really like it, previously used a Xiaomi which I also really liked.
I once did some Linux work for a company that ran everything on OpenVMS. The Operator gave me a tour of the systems, and their functionality. I was BLOWN AWAY. I have always considered it a interesting historical niche that I'd love to experience personally if I got the chance. I'm much more interested in running original hardware than emulation or virtual machines. I've had some eBay and Marketplace searches setup just in case a sale I can't pass up comes through. With this announcement I guess I'll never go down this path.
I feel like I am at odds with the scheduling one so much. If I time box all these little things, I get so distracted and I hate switching. I would rather go all in on something for a few days and ignore everything else, then circle back around and clean up the damage. I feel like this leverages the hyperfocus aspect of ADHD some might have.
I mean a lot of Europe has fairly low age limits for purchasing alcohol, and even lower for drinking it in private.

I believe 16-year olds can still buy wine and beer at the grocery stores in Denmark. I’ve heard it’s fairly common for 14-year olds to drink at home in the UK - though the 14-to-16 range may be delaying on average since ~2010.

I don’t believe many countries allow adults access to heroin. I believe prohibition does more harm here due to lack of quality control and testing but reasonable minds could disagree.

Age of first exposure is a fairly open question across the globe. Everyone is experimenting with whats best and whats tolerable.
Well, remember, any time you have cutoffs like that, you can introduce the kind of welfare traps and discontinuities that the article focuses on. But yes, Congress definitely wasn't even asking "wait, do we want the subsides for high NW, choose-your-income people?"