skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Technically very impressive, and meets a real need. My office is still running telecom hardware from a decade ago, all the wireless mics have dead batteries, and is reluctant to replace since so many meetings are completely virtual, so why have custom in office hardware.

This essentially replaces that expensive proprietary hardware with a matrix of laptops, and essentially every user gets a mic.

But it only works on laptops right, not phones?
I find it amusing that you think this disproves my point in any way.
Massive unemployment would be substantially worse. Yes there are significant issues with today's economy, but sentiment seems to think it's comparable to depressions in the past. It's not even close.
So Long, ICQ
My ereader is an Android tablet under the hood. I don't know of any apps that can do this on Android, but I can go hunting!
Uncut version: https://www.dreamsongs.com/Files/HOPL2-Uncut.pdf

A Pattern of Language Evolution, Gabriel/Steele 2008, https://www.dreamsongs.com/Files/PatternOfLanguageEvolution....
> lack of jobs/opportunity for young people.

> there's a societal trend to not hire people over the age of 30-35 in China

Did you mean "under" or is it more complicated than "young people"?
Obligatory: The set of investors is huge, some are bound to get lucky.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Swan:_The_Impact_of_...

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

And, the more money you have, the easier it is to get more; the curve is exponential.

Piketty, T. (2014). Capital in the twenty-first century. Harvard University Press.
You're conflating 'having a home' with home ownership, even though the GP talks about the hassles of dealing with landlords and therefore clearly includes renting.

Rent used to be a lot cheaper in the US. I'm not sure about the 1980s, but in the 1980s I had a spacious room in a nice San Francisco neighborhood for $300/month.
I want a simpler feature:

Auto-detect people not using headphones, and prevent them from speaking. Until they put some one.

Ideally showing them some customisable scolding message.

So far, any feedback / echo cancellation I've encountered just makes everybody's life miserable. Degradation to non-duplex voice (because all except the loudest speaker are attenuated down), "seaside noise" effect", etc.

This is the reason why a phone call over GSM or landline still often "feels" better than any HD video call with people on screens: Low-latency duplex audio.

Most* of this goes away if you just wear headphones.

Maybe this can be fixed by making the algorithm way more complicated, as the announced feature does. But I'd be surprised.

[*]: "Most":
2 people with headphones sitting near each other still cause echoes for each other and other participants. Fixing that is truly novel, and needed even for headphone users.
The casino in question is Gamdom btw
pdf2ps a.pdf
vim a.ps # take a look at it, maybe you see how the font is called
cat a.ps | sed 's/Comic Sans/Times/g' > b.ps # may be slightly more complex
ps2pdf b.ps
Does anyone write a new kernel driver without using reference code for the Linux kernel subsystem? The code is less interesting than the human commentary. Imagine future AI-simulated "coding commentary".
To add to this, height advantage is enormous in combat. Arguably even more so then than today. A mob trying to storm up a narrow staircase under fire.. there is a strong force multiplier effect.
What is with this article? Was it written by AI? It starts out talking about satellite imaging showing the plane in the jungle and then has randomly interspersed paragraphs talking about barnacle shells and ocean searches.
(I am one of the authors)
Thanks for your question. Yes, similar to what you describe but not quite. The prime use case is to apply DiscoGrad together with a gradient descent optimizer to optimization problems. For a C++ program to be regarded as such, you have to define what the "inputs" are and the program has to return some numerical value (loss) that is to be maximized/minimized. The tool then delivers a "direction" (smoothed gradient), which gradient descent can use to adjust the inputs toward a local optimum.

So if you can express your test cases in a numerical way and make the placeholders for the "magic numbers" visible to the tool by regarding them as "inputs" (which should generally be possible), this may be a possible use-case. Hope this clarifies it.
Will this work on Google Workspace Business Starter plans?
It's progressive. 1 user flagging it doesn't mark it [flagged] but probably contributes to the ranking
> if practice interviews become a thing

They've always been a thing; at least in SV.
It makes sense for companies to have 1-10% of resources allocated for that. At Google scale that is thousands of people.
Just ran it with Chrome and everything appears to work so it must be something with Safari. I am running an older version of Safari because Apple stopped supplying updates to my older Macbook. I have been encountering other sites that reject Safari because they declare it too old. Must be that.
How about between Florida and New York? Or cities in red states vs their state government? It’s not zero anymore, especially when politicians challenging federal authority (eg Texas with border control) in obviously illegal ways.

We have numerous examples - Jan 6th, the Bundy standoffs, Oklahoma City, the Black Wall Street bombings - the risk isn’t zero.
A bit off topic. But lately i see in my social cocaine feeds a lot of ai generated content with a few days ago exactly this example with an image of zillion towers. Obviously AI generated. But the point is. I dont even know anymore what is real or not. Is this site real or also a fake AI story?
Yes, should be the same as the equation before.
Like this:

xts = alpha_bar[t].sqrt() * x0s + (1.-alpha_bar[t]).sqrt() * eps

Additionally, the code isn't consistent.
In the sampling code a time embedding is used, while in training it isn't.
And then there's another nag prompt if bluetooth headphones/mic are detected. The latency on those things can get horrendous, up to like 300 ms.
As much as I love this kind of video, a deep dive tutorial, "from scratch" is kind of a misnomer. "From 10 years of experience doing exactly this" doesn't have the same ring
This is the feeling I get from reading those AI responses also.

It looks like it's quoting Reddit comments as facts when probably 80% of comments on a Reddit thread will be jokes and the factual answer will be halfway down the thread.
This sounds truly dreadful.
kde is built on Qt and Qt has an Undo command stack
Show HN: g203-rs, a lib and CLI for controlling the Logitech G203 LS mouse
> What does Spinrite actually do that is materially different than ddrescue?

Pretty sure Spinrite repairs/recovers, as you imply in your very next sentence (which I agree with, it's not a good idea to play with the filesystem of a failing disk.) I've never used it, though, so I may be wrong.

The real question for me is why would somebody pay for it over using ddrescue to get an image, and TestDisk/PhotoRec to do the filesystem recovery (on the image)? They're free and very good.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TestDisk
Looked into this category specifically and Light Phone 2 is actually an e-ink touch phone with Android as its underlying OS. I may reconsider my choice later on, but for now these solutions will do.
I was expecting this to be yet another LLM application, a la Copilot. Do the authors consider this, like now 6 years later?
Try reddit instead for the puns!

(My apologies for the snark)
Braid and Statebus, https://stateb.us/what

> Every piece of state has a state:// URL. You can re-use another site's state as easily as linking to a page with today's web. Websites can build on top of one another, and collaboratively outcompete today's centralized monopolies.

If multiple businessses are cooperating to process state owned by multiple websites, how does Statebus envision the encapsulation of state for {user, device, app, feature, business}? Could some state be opaque/encrypted?

What's the best place to learn more about the use cases below, https://stateb.us/why

Built-in offline mode
Collaborative editing by default
Website internal state is opened
Make a new user interface
Implement a blockchain on top of the web
Enables better Email protocol: decentralized, simpler, realtime, spam-free, encrypted
Improves source control:
Source code becomes state—replaces git with the web protocol itself
Any user can edit source for any website, and have their own version
Editable, brancheable, forkable inline
Using LLMs to Build a Code Generation Dataset
> considering grinding leetcode

Even with a strong referral a lot of places won't let you skip 100% of the coding interviews. It might just fast track you past the technical phone screen.
Nice idea, but for generating that magnetic field you propose to use ... electric current? ;)
I feel like it's a misnomer to say that 100 different people can see the hologram at the same time. What's really going on is that the lenticular lens shows somewhere between 45 and 100 different views based on the content.

The real limit on the number of people is just how many people you can cram around the display within its field of view.
> Was always wrong and still is wrong.

I don’t understand this comment. The police sometimes have to arrest people based on descriptions and other fallible data points. It’s unfortunate when the wrong person is arrested (and false arrests should obviously be minimized), but it’s not reasonable to expect police to get this right absolutely 100% of the time. If someone is a fugitive then they are very unlikely to reveal any information that identifies them with certainty.

Also, police in the US use the same technology: https://www.nyc.gov/assets/nypd/downloads/pdf/public_informa...
Thanks for sharing this and uploading it to the Archive! Something to consider is creating an item for each artifact you're uploading, and then asking Patron Services (info@ email address) to create a collection for you.
"Some" means half of the nation. Just look up the wealth distribution charts on FRED: half of the nation's wealth belongs to 1%, and half of the nation owns just 1% of the wealth. What's worse is that the top 1% aren't the ones who have built the nation, but those who've inherited the wealth. Of course the wealth of the top 1% accumulates when the tax system takes 50% of the income of the common folk and only 20% of "long term capital gains" of the rich (unless they borrow and pay a tax deductive interest on the loan). The bottom 50% stand no chance. But yeah, SP500 is doing great.

Edit. When there's a 100 workers looking for jobs, the gov can limit the work week to 3 days and the work day to 6 hours, and call it full time employment. The rich, who want to exploit these workers, will have to bend and hire all the 100 to do the amount of work they need. Alternatively, the gov can step aside and let the rich hire just 50 workers, work them to the bone and keep the rest 50 unemployed, desperate for any work on any terms.
Building our (remote, distributed) engineering culture
The 2 about the cockroach and Mario Kart sound like answers taken from a Reddit thread.

No company should be using reddit comments to train their AI and this is why.
Should Companies Be Owned by Their Employees?
cool. seems like we're at a stage of the curve in which waiting a few years means a major price reduction plus improvement of features
They were being polite because you were flat out wrong: a walk through a shopping centre gives you absolutely zero information about whether prices chosen have been tested or were picked by throwing darts at a calculator. It just tells you what prices those shops have chosen to sell things for, nothing at all about the reasoning behind those prices.
That's fair. Everyone comes to these sorts of positions with a stack of values[1]. How that stack is ordered often determines one's choices.

One of the interesting things for me from a technological perspective is whether or not we're converging on what the ideal set of features for a "video phone" would be. If there was a broad enough consensus on the core feature set I would hope an 'appliance' version would be available which would eliminate needing to use a general purpose processor (and all the risks that entails) for this sort of meeting.

[1] From your response I infer that you value "no native code" and "sandboxed javascript" highly which guides you to the choice to use Meet, vs someone who might stack "User Experience" more highly than those two and end up at a different choice.
Thank you for your insights, again very cool project!
I don’t think people are comparing it to depressions in the past considering most young adults weren’t even born back then. People are just noticing the disparity in wealth, especially with social media making it much more easy to flaunt and see people flaunting their wealth.

Before actually taking a look on Instagram, I didn’t even know it was possible to live the lavish lifestyles on there. Even more surprisingly, it was of people I knew in real life; vacationing on yachts and all across different luxurious parts of Europe while being students of the same University. A forbidden thought: “what do their parents do? If only I could live like that” but I just forget about it and resume boiling plain rice and lettuce with no sauce.
Mapping the Regulatory Landscape for New Technologies
I have turned my work iphone into a dumb phone. It has got only apps that cannot be removed, plus the apps that are provisioned through mdm. No icloud, nothing beyond what is needed for communication with my colleagues. Location services off, bluetootg is always off, wifi only connects to cirporate network.

My personal phone is less so dumb but I follow the YAGNI principle there as well.
Parent stated that some variations drop the 'whole different computing system' part of Lisp; which makes them Lisp-syntax languages rather than actual Lisps. I believe he means things like modifying a class and updating all existing instances without having to restart the application, the continuation/restart system, and so on.

As an aside, please remember the guidelines: 'Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.'
There isn’t any national ID in the UK either.
Alas there are two schools -- those that consider Lisp to be a language with its cradle defined by JMC's "Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and Their Computation by Machine" and descendants thereof (Lisp1.5, MACLISP, Lisp Machine Lisp, Common Lisp, Emacs Lisp, ...). Sort of like with C, where Objective-C is clearly a "C", similar with C++.

Then there is another school which considers the meta programability, REPL, syntax, ... the more philosophical notion of Lisp (Scheme, Clojure, Racket, Arc, ...). Some have no similarity with Lisp 1.5 descendants, and only share a superficial similarity.

Lisp seems to be the only language where people really want to argue that they are a Lisp, nobody tries to argue that Javascript, Java, PHP etc are "a C" (similar syntax? semantics?). Does it even matter what is "a Lisp"?

The barrier for Lisp (be it one school or the other) is about as high as Python, you type the name of the implementation and do stuff. CL specifically doesn't say anything interesting about the REPL (e.g., SBCL doesn't even allow by default to navigate forms on the command line), so to say that it is "powerful" is very misleading. Similar about the requirement of Emacs, you can use anything you like.
Mostly for recreational programming. And then for exploring what the languages with minimal infrastructure could look like.
>Practices like this stick around because of the desire to be seen making proactive recommendations with putative benefit

One manifestation of this phenomenon in it's extreme form is cancer diagnosis and treatments. Barring a few exceptions, most cancer treatments are useless.
You can visualize an algorithm?? Makes no sense to me. To me, when thinking about an algorithm, it's more navigating the data flow. Following connections between concepts. No words nor visuals.
This is about the Langlands program, not geometric Langlands
The chief reason is decentralization.

Journalists who are updating these channels have their own sources in the Ukrainian air defense network as well as OSINTers who, for example, monitor Russian radio traffic using SDR, or even sometimes have people on the ground observing the take-off of planes in Russia and Belarus (horrifically dangerous, but there are ways to send this information somewhat safely; planes tend to be loud). If one of the journalists goes down for any reason, there will be other people writing updates. Each oblast also has their own channels where they announce attacks, some of them owned by the local administration, some by the emergency services. The air defenders themselves are a bit too busy to monitor and write this stuff; often, the best they can do is to write some short messages into a group chat or a Telegram bot before things go down, and even then, all parties involved have to balance providing an appropriate warning window with not letting the timing of this information to reveal the capabilities and locations of different kinds of Ukrainian observation stations. And this whole system has to be simple, since not every trained air defender is tech-savvy in general. Many don't know what an API even is. Many Ukrainians, too, wouldn't understand how to work with an API, but they can read the warnings in Telegram.

Also don't forget that the journalists who curate monitoring channels often also accept reports about the flight paths of missiles and drones from the general public, and while there are a couple of apps for that as well that send data from the phone's GPS and compass while the user is pointing the phone at the object, again, it's a matter of having several information channels that non-technical people can easily use. Even just writing to one of them that you just heard a cruise missile fly by, specifying your rough location, can be helpful, since radar coverage is not 100%. These messages then get relayed back to the people in the Ukrainian AA who are trying to intercept these things in real time.

Then there are the obvious security concerns, personal communications and group chat access can be vetted and it's hard to break the anonymity of Telegram channels from the outside to even be able to target the authors' devices with cyberattacks. While an API must be open to the world, and thus it immediately becomes a target.

It's a messy system but it works.

Kropyva is not available to the general public and it's very far from the capabilities of similar NATO systems, its strength lies in the fact that it's an Android app that can be used on cheap tablets, so it doesn't rely on the military-industrial complex provided hardware, which is safer and more robust, but far more expensive.
That depends on what your use case is, but because we're considering MT we can assume there's nothing remotely related to cryptography so there are plenty of options.

In practice people seem to have adopted the various xorshift style generators - certainly IIRC from back when I worked on JSC (and so also paid attention to other JS engines) we all adopted xorshift128+ for all unsafe RNGs (Math.random, but also internal entropy used in mitigations and similar), though the general family is "xorshift"[1]. There are a few others, and for me this was a decade+ ago so maybe there have been improvements since - xorshift does fail some of the diehard tests but so few as to be acceptable for the overwhelming majority of cases.

There days I believe that the PCG RNG[2] family might be a better choice? They claim to be both faster and statistically better, but I'm guessing not by enough for JS engines to care (RNG performance was a 10-20 years ago as the increasing perf of the rest of the engines meant the cost of Math.random() in benchmarks started being a problem lol - JSC at the time used two calls to the system arc4random(), which required call overhead and the system implementation required locking, but it was cryptographically secure! at least on Mac+iOS where it is not actually RC4).

Very very big NB: If you're wanting random numbers to feed into _any_ part of _anything_ cryptographic (keys, nonces, padding, ...) use the OS provided secure RNG, do not try and do it yourself - not just because of "it's real easy to get it wrong", but because the system APIs automatically leverage hardware RNGs automatically when possible (the semi-mythical "true random").

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xorshift
[2] https://www.pcg-random.org/index.html
£8 offsets the warming effect of 1 ton of CO2 for 1 year.

They say the average American is responsible for emitting 16 tons of CO2 per year. I'm not American, but let's run with that. (They're giving me the prices in my country's currency, they could at least tell me the average emissions of my fellow citizens as well.)

If I want to offset all my CO2 emissions going forwards, that's

- £128 in the first year (to offset 16 tons)

- £256 in the second year (to offset 32 tons)

- £384 in the third year (to offset 48 tons)

- £512 in the fourth year (to offset 64 tons)

because the CO2 isn't removed, just offset, and only offset for one year.

And remember they're only offsetting the warming effect, not doing anything about ocean acidification.

OK, but they have a subscription service that costs £23.90 per month to offset 30 tons for a year per month… if I understand that correctly that's £286.80 per year to offset 360 tons, which is 22½ years of my emissions. OK, if I sign up now then that's me done until 2046 and then I can up my payment but hopefully I'll be emitting less by then.

£286.80 per year is less than a fifth of my council tax.

Also it's still going to be hanging around in the air after I die, so let's hope someone's paying for CO2 to be removed from the atmosphere by then.

I don't have the spoons to compare it to the cost of not emitting CO2 in the first place, or of removing CO2 from the air or sea and reliably sequestrating it, anyone want to carry on with the maths?
You are right in that the use-cases are very similar to regular autodiff, with the added benefit that the returned gradient also accounts for the effects of taking alternative branches.

Just to clarify: we do a kind of source-to-source transformation by transparently injecting some API-calls in the right places (e.g., before branching-statements) before compilation. However, the compiled program then returns the program output alongside the gradient.

For the continuous parts, the AD library that comes with DiscoGrad uses operator overloading.
How is an underquote more customer friendly?

It seems to me that it would cause buyers to choose a worse vehicle with lower range that didn't use an artificially low range number.

It's like advertising a car as having poor gas mileage when it doesn't. Makes zero sense.
llama-fs: A self-organizing file system with llama 3
Milk watcher
H.R.8315 – Enforce Act
They can capture tge communication but there is no math that can be used to decrypt it. The only way is bruteforcing it.
for the rsa diffie hellman you need a few kilobyte for the keys and communication, but its easy to implement.
Since this launch was unmanned how were various events triggered?
I guess the question is: what are the differences with HN ?
Dove into the "covered model" definitions in SB 1047 (SEC. 3f2)