skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Path loss for 2.4 GHz at 600km is 155dB. BLE tx power is 10dBm, sensitivity is -103dBm. There is 155-113=42dB missing.

I guess they get 21dB from directional antenna, another 21dB from message coding (essentially repeating each bit 128 times to improve SNR)?
“instead of very horny”
-> There are four suggestions with “very”
Japanese is in the top tier of language difficulty according to official rankings. Don't despair because you are learning the most difficult language ever and you are not even Chinese or Korean to have familiarity with images vs alphabet.
Looking at the code, there is nothing malignant going on, it's simply a common CSS + SVG bug. Most people wouldn't know how to intentionally write this so that it breaks on one page, but works on the other. Occam's razor etc.
The limitation with flashcards is that you get the entire answer, not sure if there are flashcard apps with a hint function? I experimented with vocab training where you can peek the first two letters which helps jog the memory.
Yes. A small (but extremely popular and useful) domain specific language for describing arrays and objects and scalars.
Yesterday painted them as literal Gods, instead of just decent musicians at the right place at the right time.

To this day I go out of my way to ward people away from that terrible film.
Sure, but it's wrong that he was able to stop it.

We lost what could have been an interesting piece of art.

We should have more adaptations in the world not fewer.
Article is spot about its topic - tradeoffs. The professionalism is in picking the right corners to cut.

Steve's marketing was IMO a whole load of bollocks, like all other marketing. it gets attention now when Apple is a trillion $$$ company, and superficial minds wanting a simple answer attribute it to the most visible thing - Apple's marketing. no one bought Apple products for Apple's marketing or advertising. Its for the weirdos. Same theme as other Apple marketing e.g. the bicycle for the mind metaphor, the 1984 ad, etc.

This article is good and its not about the backs of cabinets.
Excited to see what Mojo will look like by the end of the year.
> Ecole is the first word I learned in French and to this day I forget is it's a grave or aigu.

What I've noticed with most French words is that initial-è seems to be phonotactically disfavored if not outright forbidden. A quick scan of my dictionary suggests the only word with initial-è is ès which is archaic. In general, I associate è with a sort of final position, using je préfère as the mnemonic (since it has both the accents in that conjugation).
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Mindfulness interventions for teens decrease mindfulness, study finds
if you want to get fancy and/or over engineered you would use systemd templated units to setup sshd@.service and a ListenAddress in the config listening on %i. Then you could bring up sshd@(expectedip).service for each expected IP

.. but that doesn't gain all that much tbh.if anything the only hesitation I'd have on listening to * and relying on firewall rules is if the service comes up before its configured. but exposing sshd isn't even that bad
I might have to make some of those straw rockets just for myself :)
… Yeah, I see how you could take that away from it. Thanks for explaining.

There are treatments for specific issues associated with autism (e.g. ADHD medication, noise-filtering headphones, AAC tools), but autism is a form of human polymorphism. Like allism and situs inversus, it's a developmental condition, so any research programmes with the capacity to "cure" autism are eugenics research programmes. That's a literal description, not a normative one.

Your desire to avoid suffering is independent of this fact. It's a very much understandable desire, and almost universal among humans. If you make the distinction clear, then well-meaning people won't attack you for expressing that desire. (This has nothing to do with eugenics.) Queer and autistic communities are usually quite big about the right to self-modify.

If you face exclusion or opposition even when it's clear you're talking about your desire to have something available for yourself, and not advocating for a particular approach to be taken (within the context of our sociopolitical environment), I would like to be made aware – ideally with details –, because that's the sort of thing I care about putting a stop to.

Fwiw, I am very, very sad that modern humans cannot be trusted with eugenics. I would like it if that option were available to you. You are not wrong for wanting it. But in the world we currently live in, it's not worth it.
Py-spy or Pystack to inspect the state to certain degree.

Or https://github.com/malor/cpython-lldb.

Or more here: https://github.com/albertz/pydbattach/
I completely agree with you, but on a side note, you can at least get descriptive text for most Microsoft-defined error codes using

https://www.microsoft.com/en-my/download/details.aspx?id=100...

which effectively looks up error codes in Windows SDK header files (which need not be installed)

~> err 0x80070091
# No results found for hex 0x80070091 / decimal -2147024751
# as an HRESULT: Severity: FAILURE (1), FACILITY_WIN32 (0x7), Code 0x91
# for hex 0x91 / decimal 145
ERROR_DIR_NOT_EMPTY winerror.h
# The directory is not empty.
# 1 matches found for "0x80070091"

~> err 91
# for decimal 91 / hex 0x5b
SET_ENV_VAR_FAILED bugcodes.h
NMERR_DISCARD_FRAME netmon.h
LDAP_CONNECT_ERROR winldap.h
# for hex 0x91 / decimal 145
WIN32K_INIT_OR_RIT_FAILURE bugcodes.h
ERROR_DIR_NOT_EMPTY winerror.h
# The directory is not empty.
# as an HRESULT: Severity: SUCCESS (0), FACILITY_NULL (0x0), Code 0x91
# for hex 0x91 / decimal 145
ERROR_DIR_NOT_EMPTY winerror.h
# The directory is not empty.
# 6 matches found for "91"

which is frequently better than nothing, grep, or Google, especially for small integer error codes (and, in the case of Google, for any HRESULT Windows Update or the Microsoft Store has ever returned).
I thought that movie was fun for what it was.
it's like this only because nobody except me seems to prefer Firefox
It is not about the backs of cabinets. It is about telling your customers how big of a deal the backs of cabinets really are.
Almost any released movie of any note, and a great many of no note are available for free.
Both your headline and OPs would not have met the first requirement for a headline, which is to draw the reader in so they have to read the article to get the whole picture.

Sadly, the article's headline does just that.
Reminds me of the Chinese room [1] argument: Does a computer really understand Chinese language if it can respond to Chinese inputs with Chinese outputs?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room
How I understand it, RTK comes into play you want to get very precise location on a moving vehicle. To make the location reading more precise you need to take it over some time. To average it while moving you need to know _how_ you're moving. Therefore the need for RTK.

The RTK position is then combined with the measured error (measured near that location), because GPS is precise but not accurate enough on it's own. Without correction a stationary point slowly drifts around a bit (accuracy: roughly 0.1-1 meters). The correction is called differential gps, and you can provide it yourself with a base station, or use a service that does just gives it to you (from their network of error measuring base stations), see NTRIP. The accuracy with correction can be greater than 0.01m
I've heard these theoretical ideas advanced also, perhaps in writings by Richard Dawkins but I'm not sure; iirc the idea is loosely related to the concept of quantum foam but I may be mistaken.

> Quantum foam or spacetime foam is a theoretical quantum fluctuation of spacetime on very small scales due to quantum mechanics. The theory predicts that at these small scales, particles of matter and antimatter are constantly created and destroyed. These subatomic objects are called virtual particles. The idea was devised by John Wheeler in 1955.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_foam

https://www.vice.com/en/article/j5yngp/the-universe-is-made-...
Yes, it was clarified in a Twitter thread [1].

As I understand the line of thought around modals there it is: If it has to be declaratively opened modal on each page visit, blocking other content, it should better be an extra page anyway. (The fact it is made possible imperatively with JS is considered "necessary evil" as I understand it.) The same presumably applies for popover; default-open popover could probably make sense in application that uses JS anyway, not a static document. (?)

Nuances of distinction between popover and non-modal dialog I have to explore.

[1] https://twitter.com/myfonj/status/1789238215771037836
Where do you get this idea that LLMs can be useful “to decode unknown languages” at all?
"Patient sick enough to need a kidney transplant, dies"
Great concert, with some of his old tracks.
The title I see right now is "connects to two satellites in orbit from Earth" (as opposed to "between each other" I guess).

"Hubble’s approach directly tackles these problems by enabling standard Bluetooth devices to connect to their satellite network without cellular reception simply with a software update" towards the middle of the article.
I like very though. It's very very veritably vivacious.

I can't stand people who care about this stuff. The purpose of language is communication. If you understood what was said, the language used did it's job. Those alternatives to very are valid and if your intent is precision then I can see why you would use them. But my counter argument is, "very" is understood by a wider audience and is less confusing.

The same reasoning applies in programming does it not? Is it not considered good coding practice to use syntax and features that are easily understood by junior devs? Shouldn't complex syntax and features be used sparingly where needed?

When is superb required over "very nice"?

The reality is that language does have rules and for good reason. But grammar nazis use their superior knowledge of those rules to gatekeep random things and use those rules to manipulate others to their advantage.

Using rarely used words in a langauge is just as bad as using jargon or rare dialects.

If a random 2.0 gpa highschool kid can understand you. Your vocabulary is perfect.
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I have witnessed first hand cannabis induced psychosis. It isn’t common (and was thankfully temporary) but it is certainly very real, and a major risk for those affected by it.
I’m sure this has no meaning given other similar changes taking place in China, and does not need to be viewed in a wider context of militarization, because it will have no impact on the unfolding of our collective futures.
Perhaps the entrepreneurial octopus interprets corporate recruitment channels as damage and routes around the problem...
Oh yeah I remember doing this with an old science teacher when I was about 14. Our school grounds were pretty big being in a small country town but we couldn’t fit Pluto in without shrinking the sun/planets crazy small.
It's not a geo restriction problem. It's a distribution rights problem. NRK doesn't own the right to distribute what they have worldwide, they bought limited local distribution rights. Why would local broadcasters buy the worldwide license ?

It's the producers of the tv shows which need to license their product to a worldwide broadcaster. NRK is only georestricting because the licenses forbids them from not doing it.

I talk about this very often because I'm learning a language. To me the easiest and best options is to watch series produced by the streaming platforms. They own their worldwide rights so they can let anyone anywhere watch any show in any language.

I'm talking about Prime and Netflix originals. But the absolute best streaming platform to learn a language is Disney+. Every content on Disney+ is available in all languages it was translated too, from anywhere. It absolutely changed my life.
Wouldn't their registered address be public information? I understand that corporations may use agents/lawyers for that kind of thing, with layers of shell companies, but in theory this kind of info is able to be discovered and deduced from tax records, incorporation documents, and for publicly traded companies, SEC filings, etc.

Cool story! I'm glad you got the job! Anything else about your sleuthing you'd care to add? I'm intrigued.
Didn’t Thunderf00t perform an experiment to prove that heavy water tastes sweet due to a quantum effect?
$36/case at Walmart w/ free shipping.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/3M-Performance-Plus-Duct-Tape-897...
I’m not a recruiter, but I am in “Big Tech”, and dealing with founders, or even just people who have only worked at startups, is frustrating. They tend to have underdeveloped skills in teamwork and listening to authority. Honestly, I just want likable people who will execute on my ideas (or the ideas I’m simply passing on from higher management), or with light discussion, even if the execution isn’t perfect. I feel like a lot of corporate work is like this.
How do you plan to monetize the app?

Subscription seems to me won't work well because the churn rate of such app will be quite high (folks will play few weeks and learn basic "quests").

Using data is very controversial as can be seen in comments - also not sure how to monetize it well.
Official order: https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-restores-net-neutrality-0

To go with the previous vote news from a few weeks ago:

FCC votes to restore net neutrality

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40159776
> In the ever-growing geo-restrictions world, this is no longer as easy as it was in the days of yore.

I totally agree with despising these restrictions, but isn't it likely that more total material is available worldwide than ever before?

My nephew was learning Norwegian for a while and we easily found Norwegian newspapers and magazines online to attempt to read together. It doesn't seem like finding such reading material would have been so quick and easy in the United States thirty or forty years ago.

Even for video, he readily found lots of material on YouTube that interested him, including lots of contemporary Norwegian music videos. That also would probably not have been straightforward to find a few decades ago!
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> In English, do you "need" to learn if a word takes "o" or "u"?

English semi-famously remains comprehensible if you replace every vowel with a schwa. So sure you'll have an extremely weird accent, but this is acceptable according to the OP's definition of "speaking a language" from the first paragraph of the article.
Solving recurrence relations has always felt just out of reach for me. But rewriting it in matrix form makes so much sense! Thanks!
If you're using foreign keys, that becomes quite tricky. Not impossible, but you're dealing with way more than a single record being moved and may need to duplicate some references between live and deleted data.
So there is a little quantum soul which is the consciousness of the brain. How does the soul get it's consciousness?

I think the best attitude is that a. We have no clue what causes consciousness and b. it's probably much more widespread that we previously assumed. We assume that other humans, cats and sufficiently advanced AI are conscious based on observing behaviors similar to our own. But why should self awareness be tied to specific behavior? Why not a star self aware of being a star, without having any of the same senses, drives and capabilities as a human? At best we can assume is that some other animals/things might be self aware of similar occurrences as we are.

As for quantum effects, if brain is able to leverage them in computation, that's an obvious evolutionary advantage. One obvious person of a brain is to simulate many possible potential actions and their real world outcomes. If it's able to use quantum states to model multiple scenarios simultaneously, that's quicker/more detailed modeling with less energy use.

But as far as quantum effects causing consciousness, how could we possibly tell and what useful insights have we gained by making this assumption?
Did we watch the same movie? It was more about their cultural impact than painting them as gods
It's not impossible. But rather much less likely. And even less likely to do by accident. Lisp by itself basically encourages programming deviating from standard practices. That the entire reason it's so powerful. It takes a real genius in addition to strong restraint to keep writing good code in that environment.
I think when it comes to large scale predictions of the future our imaginations are rather limited. We're just getting to a point where we think we should take an umbrella with us when we leave the house in the morning. And sometimes that's not even right.

The next step for us as a species is trying to survive on this planet in the long term. Not nearly a given.

Speculating on what far away, far more advanced civilizations might be up to is just for entertainment, nothing to take seriously.
Siebert [1] is great for this stuff (z-transform). The Fibonacci sequence appears in problem 7.2.

[1] Siebert, William McC.. Circuits, Signals, and Systems., McGraw-Hill, 1986.
Looks like GPT-4 is 3x slower on Azure compared to OpenAI?
I've had recruiters from mid-sized, but rapidly growing, tech companies tell me to my face that they don't accept "entrepreneurial" applicants. This meant anybody who has worked at smaller startups or done consulting, contracting, or freelancing.
The measures against climate change has been weak precisely because of alarmism.

If everything is going to shit anyways, why throw resources into a black hole fixing it today? Check how many headlines have been saying inevitable, point of no return, etc etc for several decades.

Another aspect of this is overfitting on metrics like CO2 emissions, that's how you get hot garbage like carbon offsets that allow the worst offenders to keep operating like they have always been.
their cheap compared to the cost of a civilian nuclear power plant. A whole aircraft carrier which has two reactors costs $4.5 billion of which about 1 billion goes to each reactor, a civilian nuclear power station cost on the other hand cost on the low end around 5.4 billion minimum. civilian reactors are cost over 5x as much.
Makes the advertising in computer games of the past seem quaint. Oldest I'm aware of, though not exactly the third party advertising proposed by EA, is 7Up's Spot[1]. Must go further back than that though.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spot%3A_The_Video_Game
The closing paragraphs of the article:

> The climate crisis is urgent. The world has neither the financial resources nor the luxury of time to expand nuclear power. As physicist and energy analyst Amory Lovins argued: “… to protect the climate, we must save the most carbon at the least cost and in the least time.”

> Expanding nuclear energy only makes the climate problem worse.

> The money invested in nuclear energy would save far more carbon dioxide if it were instead invested in renewables.

> And the reduction in emissions from investing in renewables would be far quicker.

These statements may wind up being correct, but they’re speculative, and they’re anti-nuclear.

To the point of the Wikipedia page, a couple selected publications - although in fairness I haven’t read the publications and am just judging from the titles:

> Nuclear power: Economic, safety, health, and environmental issues of near-term technologies, Annual Review of Environment and Resources 34, 2009, 127-152

> Beyond our imagination: Fukushima and the problem of assessing risk, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 2011, 19 April

> Nuclear Power in India: Failed Past, Dubious Future, 2007, Available at www. npec-web. org/Frameset. asp

Again, all of these could be entirely factual and well defended, but the author is clearly not a disinterested observer.

I’m more pro-nuclear than the author, and mostly I’m skeptical about good scalable solutions to the storage problem. I’d prefer renewables + storage to be the answer, but I think we made a mistake when we halted nuclear development and I don’t think we’re doing ourselves any favors by not pursuing the technology.
> You may find yourself having to learn to think in a new way literally.

I've said for a few years now my personality is slightly different when I speak English. I have a partner of several years that doesn't speak my language nor me hers and we communicate in English and even simple things like expressing affection feel different even after a decade.

At some point since I speak more English every day than my own language when I switched to "thinking in English" (not on purpose) I remember feeling very sad, having almost lost a part of me, and I spent some time trying to think what impact it was having on my own actions and behaviors.

Nothing major, but I am more assertive and outspoken in English than in my native language because things don't feel so "real" to say, so it's easier to not feel scared.

I feel very strange sharing this because when I tried I got strange looks but maybe someone recognizes themselves in this too.
My 1st computer (45 years ago) was the "Dream 6800" and it had a CHIP-8 interpreter in a 2 KB EPROM. It was DIY construction published in Electronics Australia in 1979 Link has lots info about the computer , including from original designer https://www.google.com/search?q=Michael+Bauer+Dream+6800
Lots of discussion here 3 months ago:

Gary Bowser and gaming's most infamous piracy case

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39214818
>So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don’t use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women - and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do.
I agree with everything in this article. However, software developers may be craftspeople, but an infinitessimally small fraction of them are treated like craftspeople by the businesses that employ them

The reason software engineers want to push decisions to their managers is that their managers believe in nonsense like slicing up tasks into their tiniest constituent parts and meticulously estimating how much time they will take. Practices like lean and scrum and kanban are managerial conventional wisdom about how to manage a factory, not craftsperson conventional wisdom about how to make good things efficiently

As long as the people running the show are going to hold their people responsible to fiddly metrics and demand to know every detail of decisions that affect how their software people are spending their time, they will act according to those incentives, avoid making decisions where possible, quibble about every little detail

Software should be a craft. Treating it that way produces better software. In order to foment a mindset of a craftsperson, you must treat them with the trust and respect that we give to craftspeople. Most modern humans don't even have a script for interacting with craftspeople these days, and business jocks drunk on rebranded Taylorism certainly don't apply one when managing people they view as a means to better valuation