skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I too need to do percentiles. One option is loop through the grids but bin/histogram it. You'll get a really good 99% from a 1 Kelvin bin width.

Also, I've found the diurnal profile from ERA5 analysis can be abysmal in some locations. ERA5-Land is much better, high resolution, though only available over... er... land.

To your point about not relying on cloud. Noted in the Google option [1] link above:

> Update Frequency: The ERA5 dataset is currently not refreshed in the Google Cloud Public Dataset Program. The program provides ERA5 data spanning from 1940 to May 2023.

Another alternative, Amazon [2], also deprecated:

> The provider of this dataset will no longer maintain this dataset. We are open to talking with anyone else who might be willing to provide this dataset to the community.

[2] https://registry.opendata.aws/ecmwf-era5/
It's pretty funny that the main failure mode I run into is unconsciously typing the translated version of a word rather than the foreign-language version my eyes are looking at (at least with all the similar-looking cognates). Cool idea!
Even minorities sometimes want to hear about something other than being a minority.
> Police do not protect the victim of murder

But if they could, they most certainly should. Preventing murder is good, just as preventing a bad childhood is good.

> Your view appears to say "society" (the police?)

The police are (or should be) an extension of society. They are a part of the government, which in a democracy means the represent the will of the people, and hence they are society manifest. There are other manifestations of society that can help these children (schools, social services, etc). I am obviously not suggesting that the police become child catchers and round up all children of poor people.

> If the fault is with the parents then isn't it just as likely with the grandparents? or great grandparents? and so on down the line?

From my perspective, there is no "fault". Blaming people for things is unproductive. There are bad things which might happen, and things we might do to prevent them from happening. If we can sever this great chain of injustice of which you speak, where poverty and suffering are transmitted from parent to child like a disease; aught we not take that action? It is even in our best interest to do so, as those children who live better lives will go on to contribute more in taxes and more towards the betterment of society.
Are University Budget Cuts Becoming a Threat to Mathematics?
What do you think it means that "people should be allowed to express themselves"?
> According to the latest regulations, we can only operate in this way. We need to strictly abide by the necessary process.

The thread references regulations put in place by Microsoft about LLMs.
Yes, race is a topic that is almost never discussed in 21st century USA.
Not if you save transit time that can be more quickly made up in processing time.
I think the book might have been Rolf Persson's [0]

[0] - https://sv.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolf_Persson_(k%C3%A4rnfysik...
Oh but they can’t do that. It’d give too much information to the bad guys! (We’re the bad guys)
"There is no war between Russia and Ukraine" is not a "competing hypothesis", it's unmitigated bullshit. Alternative facts. A complete lie. Whatever you want to call it.
I am giving this a shot.

I have been hacking together the initial prototype. I am going to start by just aggregating the data and at first distributing it as Google Sheets document. I figured, this will be good enough experiment to understand whether people even want this as a service.
How would you interpret the results then?
That there's a correlation between lying in the survey and doing worse in life?
that one is good, but I detest keyboards with their own magic little dongle since it's a damn fine thing to misplace. Its tiny, tiny function keys didn't endear me, either

I'm surprised OP didn't enjoy https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/d/surface-ergonomic-keyboard... which is currently listed as out of stock but I dunno if that means "permanently" or what, but they seem to be available via 3rd party channels

Its "klacking" aside, pour one out for https://duckduckgo.com/?q=microsoft+natural+elite+keyboard&t... which I loved, although I'll be straight that I love the Surface Ergonomic better because I think its keytravel is much, much nicer and no weirdo + shaped cursor keys, the inverted T like $diety intended
NPR does not say Fresh Air is "not an NPR show". They say it is produced by a member station. You are then superimposing your own personal definition of "NPR show", which Terry Gross for example does not share, onto that statement.

Fresh Air's X handle is @nprfreshair, and you want to tell me it's not an NPR show?

More importantly: how is any of this possibly relevant to the original conversation?
And this https://imgur.com/2gF1cfl is how all those <spans> look in Reader mode.
Do those charts actually show a shift in content, or is it merely a shift in terminology?
Sweden does have indigenous aircraft and submarines.
I think missiles are easier than those.
Sure it is, it's the first thing to be said just after the title and widgets

> This article is about aliasing in signal processing, including computer graphics.

In computer graphics, the relevant aliasing is spatial aliasing, in fact mentioned in the article: the signal is the fundamental shape (such as a font glyph or a triangle mesh or whatever), and the samples are the pixels.

In the specific application of a waveform, a typical "CD quality" audio file has 44.1 thousand samples per second, and say, 16 bits per sample. If we want to display the waveform of one second of audio horizontally on an entire standard low-density full HD computer screen, we have 1920 samples to fit our 1 second of audio data, and 1080 samples of amplitude with which to paint the amplitude.

Putting it into signal processing terms, The signal frequency here is 44.1Khz, and the sampling frequency is 1.92Khz. Do you see how aliasing applies now? We want to represent f_Signal / f_Sample = 22.96875 samples of audio with 1 sample.

In practice you get an even worse ratio, because we usually want more than 1 second of waveform to be visible on a region that isn't the entire screen.
Arbitrary Deadlines (2011)
Just use TypeScript when possible.
There are static type checkers, though: https://github.com/google/pytype

So you can specify interfaces (protocols) and check them in your installation process.
Here is a research paper I recently wrote about a fair and scalable multicast in the cloud: https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.09527

I would love some feedback!
This is exactly the advice I give my customers - treat the llm as an untrusted entity. Implement authentication and authorization at the data access and api layer and ensure there is a secure side channel to communicate identity information to backend resources.
OK, fine. What are you objecting to? The Democratic party part, or the government-backing part?
I've got a couple thousand music files on my SD card. Never ran into any issues, though come to think of it, unlike on my phone I'm not sure there's a clear "browse by artist/album/metadata" capability on the PC version of VLC. I don't run into that issue since I use my phone as the source of truth for my music collection for the most part, and just use VLC on the PC as a way to receive the stream from my phone.
Overview of Slam (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping)
Everything you're describing is our current reality already. The only difference I'm noticing is that Platinum Pricing doesn't exist.

In that case, that is a better future for consumers, because right now, Platinum Pricing is where we really get screwed.
Have you ever voted conservative?
Do you have friends that vote conservative?

Do you have collegues that vote conservative.

Is it possible you are in the bubble?

Just here in HN is progressive to ultra progressive. Any mention of the other side is a sure way to get downvoted to oblivion.
It's odd to use the word "voice" to describe a conversational text model.
Self-dyeing vegan leather made by genetically engineered bacteria
Thats not what a second world country is. Second world was used to describe Soviet Communist block countries as opposed to Western Industrialized Capitalist Democracies. Third World was everyone else, what we would now refer to as the global south (because apparently economist much like Eurovision organizers are a bit fuzzy on geography and seem to believe Australia and New Zealand to be somewhere in the atlantic)
The Internet is not Detroit, but like Detroit it expanded very very fast and was very very innovative and open. Then it consolidated, which is ongoing. Things settled… for a while. The early days of Detroit saw hundreds of little innovative experimental companies that over time became the big three. The rest is history. Detroit is the victim of its own invention.

Luckily my analogy isn’t a very good one, the Internet is nothing like Detroit. It is, however, interesting how quickly wild things can be tamed, and that may beckon a cautionary lesson.
This intuitively makes a lot of sense and helps explain the more baffling aspects of the case. I'd be happy to call Occam's Razor on this (albeit based on a very cursory reading).
You have an idiosyncratic definition for what the phrase means. Or maybe I do.

When the source about the Biden's bribes in Ukraine turned out to be a Russian asset, it was widely reported, including the NYT. Fox and other right news sources glossed past it. To me, that is burying the story, even though it was widely reported in other outlets.
The person in the story might has well have been me

- I repeated 7th grade

- Was suspended Multiple times

- Lived in 11 different houses

- Lived with a teacher for two months

- Good friend murdered

- Mom of good friend murdered by their Father

- Gnarly parents divorce with police etc regularly

I joined the AF because I read a book about John Boyd and figured I could pursue technology that I saw in the movies so I got out

What could the govt have done? The question is incoherent.

Are they going to make my toxic narcissistic parents stop being that way?

No, I needed a family and community to take care of me. So unless you believe government = collective community then there’s nothing the govt can do but stop letting businessmen and conservatives keep standing on our necks
I used for cost comparison a pre-formed hamburger patty from Safeway. If it takes you more than 10 minutes to pull this from fridge, heat a pan and fry, something is wrong. You put it on a bun and put things on it and you eat it. There is no prep area to clean. Wash a pan and your plate. This isn't even a scaling issue, this is negligible time and cleanup for anywhere 1 to 4 people. This is a real side by side comparison as a McD's quarter lb also has nothing on it requiring prep.

I understand what you are trying to say about "fully loaded cost". It's also wrong. The fully loaded cost is still much lower for home vs fast. Unless you insist that you really desire specifically something like deep fried french fries, a specific cooking method that is extremely scalable and well suited to restaurant production and very inconvenient at home. But it is emphatically not true that a meal of similar ingredients/macro nutrition (burger and potato) is in general ever cheaper in fast food form.

If you want to promote the myth that fast food is cheaper, you should cite any other source than that you vaguely remember there being articles 10-15 years ago.
> Do they analyse the prices actually paid by the average attendee, which includes prices paid to scalpers?

Unclear--the source describes the price variable as the "weighted average of seats normally available to the public" [1]. (It's also from 1992.)

> if scalpers don't cause attenders to pay more overall, then why do they exist?

Same reason underwriters do: they reduce risk for the seller and increase convenience for the buyer. You can absolutely have a situation where a minority of buyers pay more, thereby allowing the remaining 90% to pay less.

[1] https://sci-hub.ru/https://www.jstor.org/stable/2487999
Maybe worth mentioning rust and performance more prominently as the motivations.

Is Nix eating the world? We have seen lots of unbelievable projects using it on HN recently. It feels like anyone serious about complex systems and building software are embracing it.

I use it extensively also via nixpkgs, though somehow I have yet to make the leap to full NixOS.

One consideration for anyone who hasn’t jumped in, is that I have nixpkgs on Linux, MacOS, and Win11 hosts. I’ve found that incredibly useful.
I was just chatting with ChatGPT about unlimited context length, and even if you theoretically could archive to have a personal assistant this way, one which would know all your chat history, an unlimited context length doesn't seem efficient enough.

It would make more sense to create a new context every day and integrate it into the model at night. Or a every day a new context of the aggregated last several days. Giving it time to sleep on it every day and it being capable to use it the next day without it needing to get passed in the context again.
I don't live in the EU but I _really_ hope this makes it to the US iPhones. I just want to be able to download and play GBA games on my iPhone.
So it brokered a protection deal in exchange for nuclear weapons and then... reneged on its promise?
Ok, so the government smashes LiveNation to bits. There's still going to be some contractor that gets paid to handle the ticketing and promoting and dealing with venues and what not. Its not like Taylor Swift alone is the one printing out the tickets, scanning them, managing the online marketplace for resales/transfers of digital tickets, dealing with venue contracts, managing concessions agreements, etc.

Maybe TM/LN are an abusive monopoly in their current position. Maybe they're too integrated in the whole market. Sure sounds like it. But even then Swift isn't getting the full $300 of the ticket cost while the hundreds of other people involved in getting the show together get $0.00.
>Sorry; I just don't follow. Google isn't "protecting" me from F-droid

Yes, they give you a warning to scare off normal users and you have to enable installing from 3rd party sources. My point isn't that they're "protecting" you at all, my point is it's security theater.

>Nor is Google (AFAIK; if there's evidence to the contrary I'd be interested to see it) providing cellphone data to nations that are targeting them for death

Various subsystems on android are controlled by Google and they enable Google to collect and consolidate all of the telemetry/usage data etc (effectively google is root on your phone).

Google is also part of PRISM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM#Media_disclosure_of_PRIS...

This information is used to select targets and kill people:

"Since 2002, and routinely since 2009, the U.S. government has carried out deliberate and premeditated killings of suspected terrorists overseas. In some cases, including that of Anwar Al-Aulaqi, the targets were placed on “kill lists” maintained by the CIA and the Pentagon. According to news accounts, the targeted killing program has expanded to include “signature strikes” in which the government does not know the identity of individuals, but targets them based on “patterns” of behavior that have never been made public. The New York Times has reported that the government counts all military-age males in a strike zone as combatants unless there is explicit intelligence posthumously proving them innocent."

https://www.aclu.org/cases/al-aulaqi-v-panetta-constitutiona...

I'm upset that google is basically just the data collection arm of giant murder machine and it's being automated.
WAMU had layoffs recently.
Can you show me your math that says we need 12-20g for an ejector seat on a consumer flying car?
In other words, new tech products fail usually because the cost/benefit ratio for the potential customers is unfavorable.

From what I've observed, this is almost always because what the people who made the product value[1] is not at all what potential customers value. The product either doesn't meet a need the customers actually have, or it comes with a downside that is far more important to customers than it was to the developers.

[1] What the developers of such products usually value is "shiny new tech" and usually comes in the form of "we figured out how to do this cool thing and are trying to come up with some sort of product that makes use of it". The products resulting from this line of thinking are usually more a tech demo than something that brings real value to real people.
Come on now. Can you point to one single case of something close to this scenario having happened in real life to a small self-hosted WordPress blog? Or even a big one? Governments are not that stupid, they are not that malicious and they do not have infinite resources to pursue such frivolous and nonsensical activities. This reads like some weird sort of paranoid legal fanfic.
You are correct, the ticket prices will be agreed between the promoter/venue (LN) and artist/manager via the booking agents.

The venue, often LN, will charge a base rate then everything else goes on top.

There are several other factors at play that lead to higher ticket prices which often comes down to the artist and its tour production being very expensive rather than pure greed

More often than not the deals are worked out on a 70/30 or 80/20 in favour of the artist and split after breaking even on most mutually agreed costs (ads etc), or a bigger artist flat fee which is risky for them.
Why not? They check hand bags anyway. Even if you don't check everybody it is a huge deterrent to scalpers if the buyer can not be sure that they will be allowed in. Imagine paying for expensive tickets, travelling a long distance, paying for a hotel room etc. And then you're not getting in to see the show.
It's gotten famous enough that people have started optimizing for it?
> I think it's about as close as we can get to inferring directionality.

No, we can try interventions (e.g. do a big and expensive anti-violence/CCTV/policing campaign in a neighborhood) and record the result.

I do think the grandparent has a point and a lot of these could have a common cause. e.g. a violent environment and poor educational attainment could both be caused by poverty or genes for impulse control or a subculture with a higher acceptance these things.
The main reason I've been using this is to make my tabs look like tabs again, and not floating buttons.
Well, one of the other three nations in on the deal reneged so hard they invaded (twice, or once with a delayed extension of the invasion depending on perspective). The US has supplied materiel and training, but not personnel (in the combatant sense, at least). And if the House would pass a funding bill for it, more would be supplied.
It seems like the post-quantum algorithm that Signal selected [0] involves lattices [1] somehow:

> Kyber is an IND-CCA2-secure key encapsulation mechanism (KEM), whose security is based on the hardness of solving the learning-with-errors (LWE) problem over module lattices.

Curious to see if Chen's work will eventually lead to Signal selecting a different algorithm.

[0]: https://signal.org/blog/pqxdh/

[1]: https://pq-crystals.org/kyber/
I didn't mean human to update your dependencies but rather a security decision, whether auotnated or human, approves that dependabot recommends.
move as much money onto their books and increase ticket prices and margins

If we assume their actions don't reduce the supply of shows+seats, the impact might fall only on artists and venues. i.e. it's possible that prices paid by fans would be same with or without these schemes.
>‘In terms of carbon use, by far the worst material used in the fashion industry, is leather – the amount of land use and CO2 and methane emissions associated with farming cows and then producing leather is crazy.’

One thing we need to think about when it comes to sustainability is use and lifetime of use. Leather has an extremely long lifetime. A well made leather item can last longer than a human life and can be passed on. They've even found still-workable leather in ancient egyptian tombs. I think "vegan" (plastic) leather is a massively bigger problem. (I realize in this article they are discussing a non-plastic material.)
It's very cool that you went and found that possibility. The poem mentions R3 which is the Ågesta reactor. The poem was also written by someone named Rolf. The Rolf in the wikipedia you linked worked on both R3 (Ågesta) and R1 at KTH (where he was educated. This could be reasonable. Accepting that lastname changes are common throughout life, what made you deduce it was this Rolf?
What do you mean?

In the adult world, you'd just call the police.

In the child world, sometimes you tell the adults, but they don't do anything, and the abuse continues. That's at least my experience with bullying in primary school. "Conflict resolution" and such virtue-signalling buzzwords don't work against violent bullies.
No.

The American right wanted to score political points on Biden and refused to pass a very popular funding bill.

The consequence has been one of the most pointless, damaging failures of American policy in a very long time.

It's one of the most shameful things I've ever seen.
This is interesting:

https://hono.dev/concepts/routers

I was just thinking about implementing a trie based router for fun in a different language, I would have never guessed that this big RegEx method is the winner in terms of performance here.
So I should... punish the artists I like as a protest against a monopoly they are not responsible for?
Clearly we didn't think this through back then.

It should have been obvious to us that it is easier to create noise than it is to create signal.

The idyllic dream of a free internet with long tails would be replaced with a steadily worsening signal to noise ratio.

We cheered on when Google supplanted Yahoo! because the computers were better at curating than humans.

Man, we clearly sucked at choosing the right path. Dreams of utopia always hit hard when they fall.
> College isn't just a place that teaches you how to do a job

Sorry, what? This statement feels like the exception, not the norm for most people who have attended college.
Aviation Radiation GPT – Ask me anything on radiation exposure during air travel
Regarding your point (1):

How many developers/PMs/etc. are working on Office software at Microsoft? With 20 you might be several orders of magnitude off. Why would a government project be leaner?

What is more, at least where I live there is not even a salary structure allowing to pay developers those figures, while managers several levels above them would earn less. Hierarchy is everything in government organizations.
I used the McDonald's app, creating an order for drive-through pickup (they don't seem to put prices on their website that I could find). So, I believe that should be their regular menu prices. I didn't look at 3rd party websites or apps because of the extra expense.
One useful webpage this project provides is this godbolt for nix:

https://bolt.tvix.dev/

really useful.
> Is it the job of responsible news media to report on hypotheses, as opposed to things able to be substantiated with facts?

> do nothing President trying to deflect blame onto anyone else rather than accepting the responsibility of leadership

This is some very interesting high-level spin you have going on here.
> The problem begins when children start to believe everything is their own fault.

My experience is it's the opposite and you need to overcome learned helplessness and understand that you can change your life.

Are there any good studies that could tell us which of us is correct?
NPR programming has been non-partisan left-of-center with a bias towards humanity over raw factual presentation for as long as I can remember. It's essentially the NPR "house-style".