skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something useful to know that wasn't mentioned: SSDs will corrupt data if sitting for extended periods without being powered on and thus should never be used for cold storage.

"There are considerations which should be made if you are planning on shutting down an SSD based system for an extended period. The JEDEC spec for Enterprise SSD drives requires that the drives retain data for a minimum of 3 months at 40C. This means that after 3 months of a system being powered off in an environment that is at 40C or less, there is a potential of data loss and/or drive failures. This power off time limitation is due to the physical characteristics of Flash SSD media's gradual loss of electrical charge over an extended power down period. There is a potential for data loss and/or flash cell characteristic shift, leading to drive failure."

* https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/potential-ssd-data-loss-af...
I've had that in academia, and in my current (medium-sized) company, where rules and processes aren't as stringent as I know they are in BigCorps. My partner works for a consultancy firm (where she, in part, arranges travel for various people), and they do that too. I guess I assumed that (very fair-seeming) practice is more widespread than it actually is. My condolences to all of you.

Edit: I just remembered a totally silly travel situation during my academic career. The school sent me to an academic conference in an interesting location, and I wanted to stay for an extra week to do some touristing. (It was during summer vacation, and golly do I miss those.)

No one had any problem with it, and they told me standard practice was for me to call the airline and pay the $250 (or whatever it was) change fee. No problem, until I noticed that tickets with the new return date would be something like $400 less than the original dates. No tickets had yet been purchased, so I suggested that they buy me those dates directly: everyone would win.

Except... "Sorry, we can't do that." Huh? "Travel must be +/- 2 days of the conference dates."

I presented the situation to my department chair, hoping for an intervention, but she sighed, and said that those people were impossible to deal with. "But, it's the end of the fiscal year, and I have some extra budget [somewhere], so submit a reimbursement form for the $250, and I'll sign it."

Silly, right?
Unraveling the Mysteries of Digital Audio Jitter: A Comprehensive Guide
Pretty much.

"Sitting Over" + "Incontinent" == "Shat On"
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Experienced seabass seeking freelance position. Open to partners for fishy business at tournaments. Very handsome and sure to impress any tournament judge. (Note: only accepting contracts on a 'paid relocation back to water' basis).
The "Turing13 Test".
The power transmission to the spoons remind me of the rod line powered jack pumps in early oil fields. You can still find 100 year old wells with that kind of power distribution but they are rare

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfTfmGIVl4c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-k_Ip8RgIA

https://www.petroleumhistory.org/OilHistory/pages/Central%20...
A hacker news comment isn't a research paper. I scrolled past it after starting because of the AI tells. Organic communication will be hard soon.
I could be wrong, but being able to remove the step of estimating the camera position would save a large amount of time. You’re still going to need to train on the images to create the splats
Too long on (a) - but there are workarounds that require creativity. See "FrankenSAM".

Also, interceptors! Ammunition is something that always runs out either quicker or much quicker or much much quicker than anticipated when shit hits the fan. Because of that I do think we should have a lot more NASAMS constructed, packed up in storage and waiting for the next crisis, as there it's hard to run out of the AMRAAM ammo.
Show HN: What's the closest software available to Pplx that's open-source?
I want to build a private search engine that works just like Pplx works. I wonder if there are open-source solutions for it or if I would need to build it from the ground up.
> I can assure you it absolutely was not.

The question, as posted, was a confusion about how Python 2 relative importing worked, which was indeed bad. I don't know what you think you are pointing out, you haven't said, and the question *is* about Python 2.

> Not really. There are plenty of systems that have to "support a vast range of things" that aren't this bad.
>
> In my opinion it's because the core Python devs didn't particularly care about the issue, never really tried to solve it, and as a result we have 10 incompatible half-baked third party solutions.

I agree that a lot of the solutions were created when there was not an understanding, or thought out design, on what would be a good packaging solution.

But these ill thought out solutions were exactly because of trying to support this wide range of situations, from working on weird OSes, to integrating with strange build systems.

However, what you seemed to have missed is there is now a first party standard on:

* How package installers (pip, poetry, PDM, etc.) should interact with package builders (setuptools, hatchling, etc.)

* How and where build configuration and project metadata should be stored (pyproject.toml)

Almost every popular Python package tool now supports these standards, meaning they all interact with each other pretty well.

Dropping all legacy configuration, and updating the standards to support edge cases is still a long road, but it is a road being travelled and things are getting better.
You’re comparing two extremes, and your last sentence just indicates that the modules don’t seem to be properly divided along stable abstraction boundaries.
Relevant to this, on Netflix: Life on our Planet. Highly recommended. Have watched it 3 times with my son now.
> get decent performance

The issue is that in Computer Science "real-time" doesn't just mean "pretty fast", it's a very specific definition of performance[0]. Doing "real-time" computing is generally considered hard even for problems that are themselves not too challenging, and involves potentially severe consequences for missing a computational deadline.

Which leads to both confusion and a bit of frustration when sub-fields of CS throw around the term as if it just means "we don't have to wait a long time for it to render" or "you can watch it happen".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_computing
I tried buttons on a 2 minute drive and it's instantly obvious it's better.
Western Digital Ships 24TB Red Pro Hard Drive for NASes
Where Does the iPad Fit In?
Are you waiting for news on your colon? Refresh. Jacob just left you a message a few minutes after you posted this comment.
Yeh it's a neat script but not really much more.
Fair. I guess then I'd ask why an editorial board is making policy recommendations :P
if you don't already have a strong network of people that you have worked with in person, then what choice is there? i have to start somewhere. whether i am a co-founder, first hire or just a lead dev doesn't really matter. even if i know them but have never actually worked with them then that's not enough to trust them. but i can manage the risk.
"Once you see the two small BTC deposits in your transactions, enter the amounts to verify your account: ______ ______"
Just to add on a bit more, there is a saying (more among fly fisherman), "the tug is the drug". Some people get a thrill knowing they are at the limit of their gear and find that heightened sense of excitement to be pleasurable, not knowing what is going to happen. I imagine it is like gamblers watching roulette.

This is also why some guys like to pike fish on ultralight gear.
Right, and no doubt there was pressure placed on this developer (likely in a lower-level position) without any sort of actual support or resources available.

Those at the bottom of the pyramid tend to be looked upon poorly for asking questions or seeking help. The expectation was that they should be able to figure this out on their own.

And now with this press, the developer will be highlighted in their management chain. They will get the opposite (negative) reaction, which will be, "why didn't you come to us in the first place."

It's a no win situation. While this was not likely the right approach (or at minimum, the right messaging), I sympathize with the developer who is just trying to get the job done and look competent in doing so.
I'll chime in with my personal experience: I spend about 50-60% of my time in GPT-4 just pasting code, prompting for what I want and then pasting it back into my code editor.

If this is my workflow most of the time, then surely this can be more streamlined. The way to streamline it would be:

1. Can I tell GPT-4 about my components (and always be up to date)

2. Can I ask GPT-4 to write to the file directly

3. If the output has an error, can I ask GPT to look at the compile time error and auto fix it?

The 3 things I mentioned above is something I do every single day. We're just looking to make it easier.
Nicely done! We were playing with this concept as well, in case it's useful to compare notes together: https://app.elodin.systems/sandbox/hn/three-body
Pre-caught fish that the fisher pretends to catch somehow (fish tethered to some underwater anchor, etc).

Article doesn't mention it, but seems like you could easily brute force it - if the prize money is big enough you simply have your friend scuba dive in the lake with a closed system and in possession of a huge pre-caught bass. Then you meet at a predetermined spot in the lake where your friend attaches the fish to your hook and you reel it in. Then you split the prize later. This would only work on big lakes though or there would be witnesses of a scuba diver exiting the lake at some point.
All 3 of the other commenters are replying without having done any actual thought or research. The paper repeatedly references MatrixCity and another commenter above found this https://city-super.github.io/matrixcity/ which also, I'd like to add, calls out that it's fully Synthetic. And, from what I understand, is extracted from Unreal Engine.
> Just unlock all in-game contents.

This assumes that the content is all client side and some of it is not server side. As is the case with many games.

> replace other players with offline bots.

That requires work to make the bots know how to play the game, something that even actively supported games suck at. Many bots are really bad with objective based gameplay. and testing. Which is a cost if they are shutting down the game.

If the game was built around the assumption that it will always have an internet connection, there may also need to be a lot of changes to the game itself to operate that way.
That's how prototype tech often work : not very well. But its a proof of concept. A general model is probably not terribly far off.
The Bradford pear is a cultivar of an imported species from Asia.

Nothing about this tree growing in North America is "nature taking its course".

Humans decided to cultivate it here, and we can choose to stop. Cycles of correction, sure, but attempting to fix problems due to introduced species seems like a worthwhile effort.
When I listen to speech synthesis systems from the 80s, like the one from Stephen Hawking, I feel they are easy to understand but "robotic", they sound all the same in a "robotic" sense.

LLMs seem to suffer from that as well. The length of the answers has lower variance than the length from humans. The number of paragraphs, the length of each paragraph, the structure of the paragraphs... All that is kind of predictable, so when I read a text that does not have that structure I usually don't think it's written by an LLM. However if the text has that structure then I can suspect it may come from an LLM. I believe in some months we will all be used to the LLM style and we will get much better to identify it... And then chatbots will probably be changed to sound less robotic...
as an Alpine contributor: while in this case it's true (sshd linking to libsystemd in Ubuntu is a result of a patch applied by Debian), `ldd` is not a good indicator for this. it does not say whether these dependencies are not there or get vendored and statically linked instead.

in other packages, we've sometimes specifically put work into making the ldd output longer, because a dependency not being statically compiled into the binaries means that we can effectively ship updates to it. as of now, running ldd on our binary of chromium returns 141 lines of output, or 157 for electron. when CVE-2023-4863 happened, we just quickly shipped a fix to libwebp, and that was the fix for our chromium and electron packages as well. a typical electron app you download (outside alpine repos) ships its own copy of electron with all these dependencies inside. ldd on that binary will output just 2 lines. it doesn't mean that it doesn't use all these dependencies, it means a much longer dependency chain in which your Electron chat app's developer might not realize they're vulnerable for 3 days until someone tells them, or "beta test" the update for half a month (both real examples from real chat apps)
Botswana is a landlocked country.
The talking Minesweeper smiley is really the icing on the cake, love it!
US side Sam's Club (same Sam Walton) has scan-as-you-shop.
Fixed, thanks! Embarrassing :).
You don't see any? It seems a common trope in threads like these "the world would be better with less people."
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Are you referring to the gaussian splat rasterizer?
Open source code is generally supplied as-is without any liability acceptance or warranty. If your business relies on it and it has bugs then that is the business's problem to deal with.
Never quite understood how to do subnetting in practice?
Years ago I was tasked with building our first cloud networks and no on-premises resources were available to help us design our cloud address space. I learned how to do subnetting using a the "davidc" tool you'll find online, which I absolutely love.

Now I help and coach customers designing networks and decided to re-make the tool with a more collaborative mindset. While it's not a learning tool, I think this will help people visually understand how it works in the real world. If you click around the join/split options you'll see what the numbers mean in practice and that should enhance any academic/binary understanding.

https://visualsubnetcalc.com/

Animated Demo - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ckabalan/visualsubnetcalc/...

There is no database or back-end; it's all in the browser and generates links/exports for users to share.
Co-founder of Dropbase here. We're a better fit for you given your comments about Django and being in the same repo.

We are an internal tools builder that works with your existing Python codebase, in the same repo as your core app. You can call/use your exiting Django models from Dropbase UI components, and build fullstack internal tools with just Python.
That doesn't sounds like a bug. It sounds more like a change that's not backward-compatible. Who forced Microsoft to switch versions?

I'm sure many of us have been on both sides of this situation. Sometimes you have to deal with breaking changes, and sometimes you want to make them to advance your product. I think it's fair enough to request an LTS contract if you want LTS.
Onitama for sure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onitama

It's played on a 5x5 board. You get two cards that tell you what moves you can make. Either card can be used with any of your pieces. Once you've used a card, it will end up in your opponent's hand a couple turns later.

Every time you play, it's a little bit different because the cards are different. In addition to the chess-like thinking, there's a lot of strategy in learning when to use particular cards. Some cards are really powerful, and it's worth keeping them in your hand until the right moment.

IME a single round of Onitama usually lasts 10-15 minutes. The shortest game I've played was probably about 6 minutes, and the longest was 30.

It's simple enough that you can just pull it out and play with anyone, even if they've never seen it before. Pretty much everything you need to know to play Onitama is printed on the cards sitting right in front of you. It's pretty easy to pick up.

It's also nice that you only have to clean up 10 pieces after a game instead of 32.
If they had a ready alternative market they could just do that instead of flipping out over Germany decided what can and can't be imported into their own country.
It can be run real time. Might be 640x480 or 20 fps, but many algorithms out there could never been run on an $10k graphics card or even a computing cluster in real time.
We do combine everything into a single file. To clarify, we use browser caching but we can't utilize any traditional CDN because if a customer embeds host.com/js as a JS file that path might be different for user A vs user B.
Whoever hired these people to infiltrate this project spent a shit ton of hours building it in such a way to avoid detection this long. Fortunately, it was so complicated that they couldn't account for all of the factors.

This is why open source will always outperform closed source in terms of security. Sure it pointed a massive flaw in the supply chain. Sure it highlights how under appreciated the foundational elements of FOSS, leaving maintainers subject to manipulation.

But the same attack within a private company? Shit, probably wouldn't even need advanced obfuscation. With a large enough PR and looming deadlines, could easily sneak something like this with a minimal amount of effort into production systems. By the time company even realizes what happens, you are already flying off to a non-extradition country and selling the exfiltrated data on Tor (or dark web).
Meh, IPv4 :(
I'm a bit confused about this. Is the chip already available for sale somewhere, or is this paper just presenting a concept for what a replacement for the 555 timer IC could be like? What advantages would this have over a generic MCU with a fast clock, such as an Atmel/Microchip ATtiny chip?
Unless it was something brand new, it was the Walleye species:

https://www.beaconjournal.com/story/news/2022/10/12/walleye-...

https://www.beaconjournal.com/story/news/crime/2023/05/11/la...
- can be used to subscribe to YouTube channels

The author could make the process of adding a YouTube RSS address easier. For
example, www.youtube.com could be added as a search option alongside itunes.apple.com and api.ffyd.de.

Add Podcast | Add Podcast by RSS address

https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCwWhs_6...

For me it's faster and more flexible to automate all RSS and download tasks on the commandline using custom utilities. Then upload the MP3 files to a folder on the phone so can listen offline using the app.

Add Podcast | Add local folder

If going to be online then just use direct URLs to MP3s. More flexible.
This is all technically true, but an IDE that cannot compile and run the code on the local device is missing something. The prohibition on JIT or otherwise compiling on device and running the result is a big blocker for a lot of true native dev experiences. I say this as someone who really mostly likes the App Store, but who would really like to be able to compile some code or run a VM with decent efficiency.
Any opinions on best material to be scanner later on flatbed?
Milestones on Our Journey to Standardize Experimentation at the New York Times
Amazon Fresh was definitely not the cheapest option. It was on par with Whole Foods for groceries, IME.

But that said, interesting point. Didn't know the cost of an RFID tag was that high -- after all, Uniqlo is putting them on some pretty cheap clothing items!
> CoL in Canada is easily 2-3x that of the US

I'd love to see the data on that
> If the game was built around the assumption that it will always have an internet connection, there may also need to be a lot of changes to the game itself to operate that way.

Then such games shouldn't be sold as goods like the the petition mentioned. They should be sold as services like WoW, so their customers know what to expect at the end of the service. Selling them as goods is worse than selling "lifetime" membership for an SaaS, then closing the SaaS after 3 years, because the customers may not know that the game would become unplayable in a few years when they purchased it.
> FCC will consider that jamming and treat it the same

So... they'll do nothing?
If using the Helm chart to install, does it also automatically monitor the cluster that oneuptime is installed on? Didn't see the Kubernetes integration docs
At the scale we operate at we would probably have billions, if not tens or hundreds of billions, of downloads before any feature status is changed. Typically our customers are not turning on and off features very frequently.
If the site blew up in popularity how would you plan to continue moderating the voicemails?
Read this article in your dev tools

Array.from(document.querySelectorAll('p')).map(e=>console.log(e.textContent))
> Even regular errors can be prosecuted.

Volunteer to work for free, with bonus legal liability, as a self-service cashier.

So convenient!
How did you run whisper.cpp? Can you share the command line? What machine did you use to run that benchmark figure?
Who do you think owned mass media before this?
If we can credit physicists like Albert Einstein for being the ones to discover fundamental facts about the universe that someone was going to discover sooner or later anyway, we can credit business founders for creating businesses a certain way that weren't necessarily ever going to be created that certain way. They're not the same thing in many ways, but I'd rather err on the side of giving more credit rather than less.
Absolutely. It's also a good work tool - in certain cases I prefer it to multiple monitors as I usually work. You get full focus in the environment as well.
Can convert Euler's method to a symplectic integrator utilizing v_{n+1} when computing x_{n+1}. That said although such integrators are widely used (usually of higher order than Euler's) in celestial mechanics, one is not restricted to them. For example Bulirsch-Stoer is also very used even if it isn't symplectic because remains accurate (energy error very low) even on long integrations.
Hey! The job postings say Eastern (UTC-5) to Central European (UTC+1) — Eastern is the American east coast. Most important thing is overlap from around 9am – 12pm Eastern, so open to other US timezones as well if someone can sustainably be available during those hours.

We have a pretty collaborative/sync culture here. Everyone on the team really enjoys pair programming together or working through designs live in Figma, and wouldn't want to build the team in a way where there are people who can never work together because of timezones.