skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 199ft in the US .. which insanely low to aircraft (not helicopters) not near an airfield.

Not to geophysical exploration pilots running gravity, radiometrics, magnetics, etc in modified crop dusters at 80m ground clearance and 70m/s.

199 ft ~= 60m which a survey line might bottom out at when draping over ridges, etc.

Literally millions and millions of line kilometres are flown at those specifications, entire countries (like Mali, Fiji, Australia, etc) have been covered at 200m line separation.

Insanely low for yourself is pretty much just another day in the cockpit in just another month long survey job for survey pilots.

Not to mention actual crop dusting and other STOL grunt work.
I was a pretty die-hard Red Hat / CentOS / Fedora guy for years. Then I bought a new laptop from System 76 that came preloaded with PopOS. I told myself I'd immediately reformat it and install Fedora or whatever. But then it came in and I was feeling lazy and wanted to get started using it, so I told myself "I'll stick with Pop for a few weeks or whatever, and then I'll switch."

That was like two years ago, maybe two and a half now, and I'm still running PopOS. I really have no complaints. It just works, and the repos have pretty much everything I've ever needed aside from really niche stuff that's never in distro repos.
So yes, there is that advantage to the strategy.

In the workplace though, sometimes people will not keep coming back to you for the result - but they will still remember that you did not deliver. Have to be careful about that one. Was it really "not needed", or were you chosen as the convenient reason why it did not happen?
Yes, and the supervisor also pays a fraction (often 50%+!) of any incoming grant money to “overhead” — to the institution, for lab space, staff, operations, etc.

Why some of this money is categorized as “tuition” and other money as “overhead” is at the root of the question I think.
Why would we need to kill them at all?
Back in the mid-1990s, I remember a news fluff piece about a woman who claimed to have epileptic seizures in response to hearing Mary Hart's voice (some newstainment journalist/anchor, maybe Entertainment Tonight?). Doctor supposedly confirmed it via experiment (though, now I wonder if the man should've kept his license, seems unsafe).

Earworms are probably the same. Specific either to unique brains, or to particular brain neuro-templates.
I don't understand the "leave the code with them" part
Pretty sure Sweden didn't ban mask, you could still use them.
24 engineers, 7 hours a day. Plus massages and free cafeteria food from a chef.
I had the same problem - really liked the way I used to do component composition in React, it was hard to go back.

Eventually found a way to do something similar using just the standard Go html/template.

I’ve written about the implementation here:

https://www.sheshbabu.com/posts/react-like-composition-using...
Or V0 is acceptable as well. 192 is crazy...
They nonironically deserve to be lumped in with Nazis.
I would be very intrigued to interact with a GPT-level model that had access to that much of my personal data, but I would never give that kind of data to a company that didn’t have some kind of legally-binding fiduciary-type privacy obligation to me…

Which we should probably be pushing for from these companies that have so much of our data.
I think it’s hard to tell with all of the variables involved. I tried to stay away from crowded indoor locations. I wore masks when they were required and wasn’t infected.
Yeah, it definitely is (especially since SIGIO is a thing :)). Even the Unix signals had more added to them over time (SIGWINCH and friends iirc came from the BSDs).

A lot of the mechanisms are very OS specific but I do think they're good comparisons to have with signals as well.
They were talking about something they did through Google Search, but it hasn't been just search for a long time. Pretty often it'll add a section on top of the search results that attempts to answer a question directly, using data pulled from sites, instead of linking to another site.

This feature has existed since long before LLMs, but it sounds like they may have mixed that into there too.
I’m an ophthalmologist. The answer is that junior partners are brought on at a below-market-rate salary with the promise of future equity (usually under false pretenses) in the practice and a super restrictive non-compete agreement. The senior partners then take their golden parachute and sell-out the field and the junior partners to the PE finance bros. One then has to choose between selling their house, uprooting their family and taking the financial risk that comes with starting a practice in a new location (due to the non-compete) or continuing to work for the PE firm as they devolve to more and more unethical business practices. Eventually your choices are either go into solo practice or work for PE
> you are probably going to lose more than you gain.

There isn’t any science to support that. Feel free to only drink hot coffee for 3 days and see if you die of dehydration… Maybe you even think it's 2 days since hot coffee is even worse for hydration than nothing, apparently...
I’m sure that the aggregate of cautious behavior by people who are willing to wear masks is responsible for at least some of the perceived effectiveness.

My wife and I also have worn masks a lot - but we also tend to avoid crowded indoor events almost entirely now, and use hand sanitizer whenever we leave a public place. We were also quick to get each of our vaccinations.
Is the telemetry really that big of a load? Having a persistent connection and sending data over it is pretty standard for games going back decades, even AOL instant messenger had this feature for typing.
Not only that, but Dupire’s local vol, stochastic vol (Heston in rates, or on the equity side models that combine local vol with a stoch vol component to calibrate to implied vols perfectly) and jump diffusion were basically in production 15 years ago.

Since the GFC it’s not about crazy new products (on derivatives desks), but it’s about getting discounting/funding rates precisely right (depending on counterparty, collateral and netting agreements, onshore/offshore, etc), and about compliance and reporting.
As far as the eye can see

An entoptic symphony

When I close my eyes I see the light
Sorry, should have been clearer. I was thinking in the context of every online discussion I’ve run across around “Rust vs. any other language,” where the diehard Rustaceans insist that we should just rewrite everything in Rust.

Totally agree with you: use the best tool for the job.
This is the grievance I have as a data scientist. It is one of the fields where things are technical, while meanwhile everyone thinks they could do the job and provide excessive input and exact direction.
Nicotine suppresses appetite as well and that has been used by humans for thousands of years.
While I agree we should have a greater focus and regulation this kind of “drugs are bad” moralism is a real pain in the ass. Obesity is a complex drug and we should have many different approaches to fight it effectively.
I’m guessing they’re referring to this: https://github.com/mmastrac/automedia
While the industry has changed substantially since the GFC, all foundational derivatives models were basically in place back then.
FWIW, "wallet address typo" should never be a thing.

There's a serious checksum in each of the BTC wallet formats that makes the chances of any random set of typos extremely unlikely to be valid.

A mis-pasted (but valid) wallet address could happen.

Not to minimize the myriad other ways to easily lose, or lose control of, cryptocurrency!
How dare you! Kindly show where I said that.

I DID NOT.

Always someone like you in every crowd. Brilliant.
It says it uses PMTiles right on the front page, right?
If you look at some of the negative Steam reviews, however, it seems like this game is either 1) too long (12-15 hours), 2) not fun, or 3) both.

In particular, multiple negative reviews mentioned that there are hundreds of meticulously crafted items on screen, but almost none of them are interactive.
I think the point was what kind of voice.
Most companies aren’t obsessed enough with shortens to try and hide poor results from analysis that will be exposed in 3 months anyway. There’s always ways around them - number of cars registered, number of delivery trucks visiting, time for delivery on website, how much overtime is being worked etc.
I had to get a medallion stamp to do an ACATS transfer from broker A to B. I chose to get it at bank C, where I had my checking account, which also happened to own broker D.

Of course, the medallions were handled by a sales guy (sorry, financial advisor) working for broker D who then spent an hour trying to convince me I should move my account to them instead. Eventually he finally gave in and sent off the paperwork.

It's annoying the hoops you have to go through to get control of your own money.
Once an Android app for the startup I was working on had a suspiciously large apk size. One of our engineers dug in and realized that our packaging script copied the .git directory in with the static files.

All it took to see the source was to cd into the unzipped apk directory and do a "git reset --hard ."
> I think China won't attack soon. It seems they play a long time game vs Taiwan, where they try to bring Taiwan, closer, weeken it's ties to its allies and slowly making Taiwan to become more dependent on China.

That might be a sensible strategy. But: sabre rattling now is exactly the wrong way to go about weakening Taiwan's ties with her allies.
Some of you may die, but that is a sacrifice I am willing to make
I think displacement maps are not that frequently used in game graphics these days. The typical thing is regular geometry with normal maps. However, triangle soup is very difficult to modify in any way. The cool thing about displacement maps is that they can downsampled trivially, so if you're doing runtime tesselation you can get smooth LOD scaling (at least down to your base mesh) which is nice. Less usefully, they can also be tiled, blended, interpolated, scrolled, animated, etc.

On the other hand, UE5's Nanite achieves the same LOD scaling but far better, without the limitation of not being able to scale down past the base mesh and with a built-in workaround for the issues GPUs have with small triangles. It's possible that people might use displacement maps in the authoring process, which can then be baked into static meshes for Nanite. Then it would just be a convenient-ish way for artists to author and distribute complex materials.
Abbot just pardoned an open white supremacist, who publicly expressed his desire to kill BLM protesters, before actually going out and doing it, so your shock at the questioning of how criminal justice is pursued in Texas seems a bit naive.
He wrote probably the most accurate SNES emulator ever and he spent tens of thousands of dollars on SNES carts to rip them and test against his emulator.

He later committed suicide I believe.
Can you implement this on an FPGA?
Gold response. Plex basically says "stick to an artist/album directory hierarchy and do composer somehow which doesn't conflict and Album-Artist sort tag reading is your friend but if you fuck it up I AM COMING AT YOU LIKE AN ANGRY GOOSE WITH A KNIFE" and so I dropped into line.

When I do smart search on original album issue year like "60s" I find I get hit by amazing truths about what was contemporaneous music.

"Switched on Bach" alongside "the Beatles" and "the song of the green berets" as well as Charles' Aznavour and Mingus, Terry Riley, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Keith Jarret, the Hollies, and Rogers & Hammertime (sorry -stein) It was a mixed up musical period. Thank God the fab four split up before the 70s.

Len Deighton's spy hero listens to Stockhausen and Miles.
A harmful attribute on its own can be advantageous when combined with others. Think of it as finding a new "local maxima" in the sum total of evolutionary traits. Being (probably randomly) near-blind may have led to being slow and careful, which was the temperament needed to survive climbing trees, which got them away from ground-based predators and found them a lot of leaves ground sloths couldn't reach.

Evolution is basically a random-walk algorithm to find combinations that work.
Ken is a solid dude. Always though he and John Carmack should form a brotherhood of sorts.
Setting up your first BoxLang Server
Why call it "best foreign language novels" if your idea of a foreign language cannot expand outside Europe and Russia. So, nobody wrote a novel that could make the cut for this person unless it was in Spanish, French, German, or Russian?
You are lucky, full moon tonight
In every public place I visited during the pandemic, the official rules stated you could leave your mask down if you were eating or drinking. This included two of the largest hospitals in Colorado. In bars and restaurants you only had to wear a mask if you were standing up, and at all other times you were allowed to eat, drink, laugh and talk unmasked. On airplanes everyone unmasked while eating meals.

If masking was truly primarily about stopping the spread of a highly contagious airborne virus, why were the rules designed and applied to allow people to spend so much time in confined spaces unmasked?
I learned this at MathCamp from Conway himself! The mnemonics he taught us for the “doomsdays” were:

> Even months aside from February, same date as the month, so 4/4, 6/6, 8/8, 10/10, 12/12.

> “Working 9 to 5 at 7-11”: 5/9, 7/11, 9/5, 11/7

> Jan–Mar are a bit arbitrary: Feb is the last day of the month (so 2/28 or 2/29), March is the 0th day (same), and Jan is 1/31 or 1/“32” depending on if it’s a leap year.
AI Meta is using your Instagram and Facebook photos to train its AI models
I manage my collection as physical CDs. My current format for files and folder is "{album artist} - {year} - {album}/[Disc {disc #}/]{track #} {title}.ext". I mostly listen as albums, not playlists. This gave me enough information to locate music both using the filesystem and a library manager. I do have extra tags (I'm using beets to manage the collection), but I don't really bother with them.

I don't bother with genre tags. And if my main collection grows enough to require them (currently ~500 albums), I think I will just be creating playlists.

As for album artist, every player I came across could support it (except Rhythmbox I think). I currently have Navidrome, MPD, and Doppler (Mac) pointed at the same collection. Swinsian (Mac) does support the grouping tag.
Starlink wasn't developed primarily for the military. Ukraine is literally using a commercial product. That commercial product has prevented electronic warfare better then anybody expect and better then all other competing products.

But its the CEO personal politics that is responsible for a nation states being able to sometimes block a consumer product after multiple years of warfare.
BoxLang is the second open-source CFML (ColdFusion) server which was just announced. Its by the ColdBox framework folks.

https://boxlang.io/why-boxlang

Here's the parent organizations site: https://www.coldbox.org/
I do something similar to OP but do the final transcoding to HE-AAC VBR 64kbps (ffmpeg params `-c:a aac_at -profile:a 4 -b:a 64k -aac_at_mode 2`). The tracks sound more than acceptable to me and this way I can easily store my entire collection (+80k tracks) into my iPhone. Modern codecs are wonderfully efficient.
Except much of these UNIX later development were done by their derivatives and are often available with certain degree of incompatibility among them (or not even at all)
I am NOT making moralist observation at all.

Not even close.

It's a fact. You do not need to be hooked on a drug for life to control weight. Argue against that, not some imaginary construct just to attack me.
I find this an interesting statistics, in 2023 there were 36.5k total people employed in the US coal industry. [1] It's simply just not a lot of people in the grand scheme. That speaks to how industrialized coal production is in the US - it doesn't take that many people to do mountain top removal and drive heavy machinery.

FWIW & for comparison, Circuit city at its peak employed 40k people, that's more people than the US Coal industry employs today [2]

[1] https://www.ibisworld.com/industry-statistics/employment/coa...

[2] https://medium.com/@ramireznatalie/the-collapse-of-circuit-c...
“the rise of leisure time”

I don’t think it’s actually leisure time. It’s a lot of non-productive required micro-tasks that like trying to find a place to live and scrolling an app for good prices on necessities, and mindlessly clicking for information about how to participate in the economy where job skills expire every few months. And watch children and exhaust yourself trying to figure out how to set them up for success and keep them out of trouble. And look for a partner, and do all the things required to compete with extreme selectivity, or extreme self-selectivity.

I’m not wired for all of that. I just want to work.
Then, this explains why. BTW, this is an expected Shell behavior, specified in the POSIX standard:

If a filename begins with a <period> ( '.' ), the <period> shall be explicitly
matched by using a <period> as the first character of the pattern or immediately
following a <slash> character. The leading <period> shall not be matched by:
* The <asterisk> or <question-mark> special characters

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V...

Interesting fact about the FreeBSD tar's origins:

GNU tar was included as the standard system tar in
FreeBSD beginning with FreeBSD 1.0.
This is a complete re-implementation based
on the libarchive(3) library. It was first released with
FreeBSD 5.4 in May, 2005.

https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=tar

My personal journey with FreeBSD began with version 5.3 (the first stable release on the 5th branch) in November 2004.
I was completely unaware of such a significant tar change, and apparently I didn't care at the time. However, the entire 5th branch has been so revolutionary compared to the 4th branch that this change is just a drop in the bucket ;)
Fond memories chatting to my non technical friends and spamming their inboxes using software that was doing god knows what to my PC.

For my location/social circle ICQ was the first piece of chat software outside of IRC that gained mainstream adoption.
Many people don't know just how unhealthy it really is. Many also don't know how to make or choose their own healthy food. It's mostly about habits. It's fine to eat a super-sized meal rarely if you were hungry enough and extremely active, but it's more of an exception.

If we extend this to alcohol, then we should ban all alcohol. Alcohol is generally fine in moderation or occasional use. But if we need to ban things because a minority of the population misuses it, then we will have an extremely long list (butter, sausage, steak, etc).
They commited suicide after decades of harrassment from KiwiFarms and the Retroarch devs.

They even attempted to change their internet alias multiple times to avoid their incessant stalking until settling to their final one (Near).
“There are hundreds of local municipalities and elected authorities.”

That’s the root of your problem. Too many governments, not enough attention available to keep them accountable.
The uncanny valley of generated software: utility is inversely proportional to distance from the correct answer, with a huge drop into the dangerously believable.
Yeah Protonmaps is awesome, I’ve been very happy with them. Dirt cheap and simple. After getting hit with a couple hundred dollars (yes, not much, but it was a side project) with Google Maps I went looking for alternatives and found protonmaps, I haven’t looked back.
It's sad to see how little discussion this gets in comparison to the original accusation and questionable investigations. Niemann doesn't do himself any favors by acting like a spoiled child, but the world of professional chess should take itself seriously enough to demand that cheating accusations be made -- and investigated -- in private, rather than as lurid media spectacles.
Fun fact about the Medallion Signature Guarantee: It's not a seal or embossment, like it often is for a notarization. Instead, it's a stamp (like what you see on [0]). It's a big stamp, but it's just a stamp.

That's OK, though, because the person making the stamp is keeping a lot of records, so they'll know what they stamped.

When I first got my Treasury Direct[1] account, I couldn't verify my identity using their online process, and so I had to mail in FS Form 5444[1]. My local credit union had "Medallion Service" as one of the reasons for booking an appointment (separate from "Notary"), and they were able to take care of it. As mentioned in the article, the person at the credit union asked me for a monetary value. As it was a new Treasury Direct account, I said "$10,000" (the maximum amount of Series I bonds you can get per calendar year).

And as implied in the article, my credit union had no problems issuing this, even though they were not involved in Treasury Direct in any way.

It's interesting, all the 'little' 'home-grown' ways of identity guarantee that pop up when needed.

[0]: https://www.bankofamerica.com/signature-services/medallion-s...

[1]: https://www.treasurydirect.gov/forms/acctauth.pdf
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> It was a mixed up musical period

eg: Pierre Henry - Psyché Rock (1967): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDmqyjiF_NA
What metadata do you mean? Like the regular ID3 tags? Most tools so a decent job finding those on online DBs. I use musicbrainz Picard personally.
We've merged it all into https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40233029. Thanks!
I use it exclusively as a progressive web app on Linux and it's not particularly slow, but it is buggy as all hell. Easily the worst rich text editing experience of any chat client I've ever used. Teams is without a doubt the worst piece of software I'm required to use on a daily basis
This looks very much like "Hello World" in C, taking advantage of the latest C# features in 2023.

If you admit that it looks like C(99), what's "C#" about it then? This can probably be done with just about every C-syntax-derived language, which is why I think the title is a bit clickbaity; I was expecting some sort of highly-stripped-down CLR.
I can personally choose to not give my money to a company I don't like. I can't choose to not pay for government projects I don't like, or that are corrupt, or that never end, etc.
I think they mean by open sourcing, they can take the code to a new startup without having IP legality issues.
Reminds me of when I wanted to close my Bank of America account: I didn't know that you needed to make an appointment for that. But indeed, it's my money, I had all the ID-verification paperwork needed, and I was stubborn enough to agree to wait for a clerk to become available.

For what it's worth, you may wish to consider a credit union, as it's less likely that a credit union would also own a brokerage.
Wow - this article says Apple "describ[ed] the nature of the bug to 9to5Mac"—in other words, they're copying another site's reporting—but they don't link to the other site's report. Even the median blogspam site at least links to the original.
I went on a few dates by randomly messaging people with girl-sounding names in the city I lived in. It took some work, but way less than getting to a night club. I'd always do that before visiting a new city... And sometimes had a date lined up by the time I arrived.