skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It looks like you can remove the cell chip for certain toyotas at least (DCM). But I agree with you, I'd rather have a no-track-me camry than a porchse 911.

I wonder if part of the reason that there's such a resistance to chinese cars is because they wouldn't give free tracking data to the US government.
Designers for bars and clubs will take the clientele into account in subtle sensory ways. One once told me how he designed a club known to cater to those having trysts-- it had many isolated booths where the lighting prevented seeing into the booths from the main areas.
You’re digging your heels in by cosplaying proletariat. If someone wants a separate computer, they’ll get one. It’s not a matter of not being able to afford it. Maybe their work computer is better than the one they’d buy themselves. Or maybe “afford” in this case (as usual) means that they can’t justify the cost when they could spend the money on something else, and are happy trading the work-life balance.

But don’t pretend that this isn’t a consensual arrangement.
While the chaebols represent a huge part of the South Korean's GDP, they account for only a small part of the jobs in the country. Whether leaving them for another job is easy, that I don't know. Depending on the country's culture, leaving could also be very bad for future prospects.
The future is here.

If I recall, in Permutation City there's some part where somebody deals with spam with AI. The user tries to use a simulation to listen to potential spam to filter it, while the spam tries to figure out whether a real person is listening to it and only tries to spam when a real person is there.

Or something along those lines, it's been a long time since I read it.
May 2024 FreeBSD Developer Summit
These textbooks tend to be aimed at graduate students that have had the following classes:

- calculus 1-4

- diff equations

- linear algebra

- electrostatics/magnetism

- electronics (analog, digital, microwave)

- signal processing

When you see Maxwell's Equations as the first chapter, that indicates prerequisite knowledge in just that. The first chapter in this book is just a summary of the whole electromagnetism class, which is traditionally a pretty rigorous and difficult class.

At least that was the case when I took similar classes during grad school.

Either way, any class on antennas, radars, communication systems, etc. will be a pretty applied type of class, that is the sum of all the pre-req classes.
Google has failed to address malicious ads and continue serving inline with normal search results. Users are forced to protect themselves with ad blockers so they won’t be exposed to and possibly fooled by malicious ads.
Now they are punishing users who use ad blockers. Google, do a safety stand-down and suspend the campaign against ad blockers and suspend the practice of including paid ads inline with search results until you solve the fake ad problem. Yes, this will involve going slower and spending money on staff to review content.
> They just aren't equivalent.

Those lists are not equivalent, but this seems like a caricature of the issues men face, rather than an actual good-faith list. Unless it's not a Western perspective (given "chattel status"), in which case it would be good to know where your experience is based.
Looks cool, you could probably use xclip in the small Linux instruction caption to match clip and pbcopy.
The beauty of California is that there are no non competes, for anyone, ever.

It is a very pro employee policy, hence attractive to the best and brightest.
I agree with that. I wish worked harder in some of my studies in college or on some self-teaching. None of that has to do with me wasting my time going into an office.
See also perhaps:

> AES-GCM-SIV is a mode of operation for the Advanced Encryption Standard which provides similar performance to Galois/Counter Mode as well as misuse resistance in the event of the reuse of a cryptographic nonce. The construction is defined in RFC 8452.[1]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AES-GCM-SIV
Not sure how long the parent has rented for but there is definitely a point, especially if you have children, where you realize having your own home is really important so you can express yourself without fear of eviction.

I always wanted to build a home gym and have a workshop, I have these things now, I never could before, I'm happier now than I was before, it was something I really wanted to do with my life, rent doesn't allow you to do those things, most of the time anyway.
I've recently realised (at mid-age, of course) that a lot of my interests are in fact marathons, not sprints. This has actually abated a lot of anxiety around either spreading my attention too thin and feelings about not finishing anything.

To that end, I now feel that it's OK to de-prioritise some interests sometimes, or to just dip in for a short while. And in other interests I spend some time mentally planning and then going step by step and chipping away at progress.

Life is long, take your time.
PG described it as a good thing -- apparently that is now a question ("what have you hacked?) that they ask people who want to join Y Combinator.
A similar thing can be found in Napoli Sotterranea

https://www.napolisotterranea.org/il-percorso/il-percorso-or...
I believe,at least in IT, once you get to a certain age, promotions are really meaningless, especially in large companies. So I think if you are young and you want to be on management track, you probably should go in.
Hi Andrej,

Huge fan of all the work you do. Wanted to understand something fundamental and whom better to ask than you: Whats so special about the transformer architecture that its able to predict the next token so beautifully understanding all the intricate previous token relationships? I understand Attention but what so special about this architecture that no other architectures are able to "attend" appropriately to previous tokens? Being a CS guy, its really hard for me to fathom that we have not yet created another architecture which can perform similarly.
> Your right to not be attacked, robbed, or defrauded by others is inherent, not something conferred by religion or morality.

It most certainly isn't. Inherent from where or what? In nature, I have no right not to be attacked by a lion or a pack of wolves, so surely this right cannot exist outside society, and then how can it derive from something outside society? Without a God, man in nature has no rights, though you can follow Hobbes and assert some principles from an idea of universal morality. I'm not aware of any serious philosopher who pretends to be able to derive any right at all without religion or morality.
I wonder if there is a similar, more lightweight library that has cool effects that work with the minimum specs you've specified?
Its not risky if you understand it. If you don’t…then it is gambling
https://archive.is/OZd2r
Oh, you just pushed the assumption that that specific military exists in a strong democracy with institutions that are stronger than force into your reasoning. (I wonder if there exist any democracy that strong.)

Anyway, the OP was talking about the old communist dictatorships on the Easter Europe. The military forces on those were not composed of people that had it clear on their mind that they worked to protect the little people. Instead, those people were power itself. Creating a government-challenging forum with the people that personify power is a very strong step into eternalizing their tyranny.
Well, maybe. It's a factor that a twiddler can influence, but we don't know if that's done positively or negatively. It might also be more conditional, like for specific types of queries.

For example, a small, personal blog might be great for solving a specific technical problem ("my dishwasher of model XXX has YYY problem"), but might be terrible for something like giving public health advice.
Instead of fancy shmancy AI, could a pupil tracker on eyeglasses be used to estimate where a person wants to hear and use phasing to amplify the signal from there?

You have two microphones already, spaced about 30 cm apart...
A system of checks and balances overseen by several humans can have orders of magnitude lower error rates, though.
Don't know what I am doing wrong but except the first few times I really didn't get good results with Kagi.

It might be that I rely a lot on precise queries and doublequoted words and also cannot get myself to use the conversational style that at least Google seems to prefer now.
Belgium and The Netherlands have it too, though it's optional. Most mortgages have a 30 year runtime with a 10 year fixed rate. The longer your fixed rate, the higher the rate becomes.

For the Netherlands: While it differs per bank, legally you're allowed to pay up to 10% of your mortgage extra per year (some banks offer higher rates, I can do 20% for example) without extra costs. When the rate changes (due to going from fixed to variable, or variable with a large change in a year) you're allowed to pay back as much as you want, without extra costs.

If you want to pay back more/faster, the bank calculates a fee ("loss of income due to lost interest payments") that you have to pay, which is still cheaper than just doing your regular payments.

The above statement also applies if you want to refinance if, for example, your home went up in value. They can and will drop your rate but you have to pay a fine. That being said, in the past, when rate drops were really large, you could go to a different bank, have them take over your mortgage pay the fine for you just so they can get you to come to them (though I'm assuming they're no longer so keen on that).
It's just semantics... but I'll throw my hat into the ring nevertheless:

The "eavesdropping" attack happens when you capture unecrypted packets. From there, you could either try to hijack the session by inserting yourself into the local conversation (effectively launching a "MITM" attack) or completely independently of the local conversation attempt to impersonate the login session (effectively launching an "impersonation" attack).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lohner–Porsche

Lohner–Porsche is a term encompassing several electric vehicles designed by Ferdinand Porsche and manufactured at Lohner-Werke in the early 1900s. They include the first hybrid electric vehicle and the first commercial hub motor car. The hybrid "Mixed" or "Mixte" racecars are powered by a gasoline engine which drives four electric motors, one in each wheel hub. The battery-powered "Touring" or "Chaise" commercial cars utilize only two front-wheel hub motors.
You could do a lot of the lombok things as a runtime agent. I think @ToString, @EqualsAndHashCode, @Synchronized, @Getter(lazy=true), @UtilityClass, @Delegate, and @Cleanup could all be implemented in a runtime agent. Most of the rest could work as a runtime agent too as long as you were willing to type out the method signature (plus maybe a native keyword) for the things you actually want to link against at build time.

I think this would end up being way more difficult to use though and I think it would be perceived to have way more risk compared to lombok as it is now. What do you think?

Also is something wrong with paralleluniverse.co? The root domain seems to go to a gambling site?
tl;dr: Coalition governments.
> restaurant and public space designers have stopped thinking about sound. Most bars opened in the last 15 years have cement floors, very little sound insulation, and they’re based on the idea that you’re not having a good time unless your ears are ringing.

Recently listened to a really good podcast about this phenomenon https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gastropod/id918896288?... (or pick your favorite podcast app)

Couple takeaways I remember:

- "Silence is the new luxury" -- restaurants can have good sound design, but it doesn't come cheap. Upscale restaurants are starting to differentiate themselves with sound design

- The modern clean aesthetic (glass, concrete, stainless steel, minimalism) promotes loud, echo'ey spaces

- "You're not having a good time unless your ears are ringing" was an intentional design choice popularized by some restaurant guru in the 90's. Growing awareness of the problems is starting to create a backlash

- Loud restaurants are damaging for the waitstaff's health. You can work for hours in an environment so loud that OSHA would demand hearing protection.

- The luxury sound design studios can be so good at isolating ambient noise that they also sell an "anti-noise-cancelling" sound system that actually selectively re-amplifies crowd noise for when you do want to tune up some sense of busy-ness (with too much sound dampening in an unfilled room, it starts to feel too isolated... being "out and about" is some of the reason people go out dining)
(Largely, but almost certainly not completely) solving homelessness would also require solving a massive amount of mental health issues. But I still think that fits your argument (one I happen to agree with). If you want your country to be stronger and more productive it seems like basic common sense to (attempt to) solve hunger, education, health, etc. issues, so your citizenry is more prosperous and productive. I can't think of any way in which the 'rising tide lifts all ships' doesn't at least somewhat benefit most citizens of a country, including those already in power.

But of course that requires a significant level of investment, which is generally the limiting factor, as people who build fortunes are generally disinclined to part with any portion of them. Even for those so inclined, it is hard to get people to agree on what the 'greater good' really is, much more so these days when vast amounts of information is thrown at us often seemingly only in service of dividing us.
Considering how much of "science" has been used to devalue anyone non-western, the distinction is not odd, it's actually really important. Don't forget that anyone who does science has their own personal lens they use to look at results or steer future research areas or even blatantly skew outcomes of research.

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-85155-2_...
The old new thing[1]. It's a blog, but he did also publish a book[2] compilation of some choice blog posts. The book is from a few years ago, so some specifics might be outdated, but I think a real strength of the blog is how, despite being very targeted, focusing on specifics of one OS, it's also very general. I also just really like Raymond Chen's writing style.

1: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/

2: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/?p=28793
> So the disordered states have more "friction" i.e. from there it is harder to to safely move to an ordered state. But possible to step further into disorder and yet more friction.

It's not possible to safely move further into disorder. It's not even all that safe to stay without change.

I agree that there's more friction, though...
with pcs you had so little variation compared to smartphones. some 5 cpus. ram was dumb. disk had a very predictable api but was the worst. serial etc was just dumb pipes and interrupts. then there was some dozen video and network cards. those two took longer to get drivers.

with smartphones you have, i can't even ballpark a number... half chips are SoC in disguise which hardware changes every week then on top of that there's a custom firmware backed for each customer. multiply that for each little piece of the device.

there's a reason Android alternatives are stuck on last released kernel version: they just copy paste the binary drivers
Not to act like an arm-chair doctor but have you ever considered that you may be on the ASD spectrum?

That function of being able to mentally 'filter out' specific voices within a crowd is (semi?) common signal of autism. More accurately; I'm like that and I am autistic, I've read that it happens to a lot of others.
I am all for Kagi keeping that feature. If for nothing else then to rub it in the face of every googler who have argued that it was impossible.

And if you use it I am happy, that gives Kagi an incentive to keep it around.

I'm just saying that for me the results are so good out of the box that with a couple of exceptions I never had to block anything.
Renting homes and building and selling homes are two different business.

Higherand higher marginal property taxes for owners of non primary residences disincentivizes owning secondary residences, hence disincentivizes renting, hence decreasing supply of buyers wanting to buy homes.

There will still be first time buyers or people moving, so builders should still have incentivize to build homes, hence supply should not cease to come online just because there are fewer landlords.
That's not entirely true, if you're selectively lowering the volume of different frequencies it might solve the problem. The only problem with that is that earplugs tend to reduce high frequencies more than low frequencies, but background noise is mostly low frequencies. Earplugs might help you hear people in a machine shop with a lot of high frequency noises though.
In an optical (photonic) system, polarization is the phase of photon particles and it is expressed as an angular quantity in radians or degrees.

Angular quantities "wrap around" such that `divmod(angle_theta, 2*pi) == n_rotations, angular displacement from zero`; and IIRC all phase spaces must too?

Optical phase space:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_phase_space

If it is possible to estimate photonic phase given intensity, how much more useful is a phase sensor than the existing intensity sensors?

From "Bridging coherence optics and classical mechanics: A generic light polarization-entanglement complementary relation":

> A generic complementary identity relation is obtained for arbitrary light fields. More surprisingly, through the barycentric coordinate system, optical polarization, entanglement, and their identity relation are shown to be quantitatively associated with the mechanical concepts of center of mass and moment of inertia via the Huygens-Steiner theorem for rigid body rotation. The obtained result bridges coherence wave optics and classical mechanics through the two theories of Huygens.

There are various patterns of polarization, relative to a signal origin IIUC:

Polarization (waves) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polarization_(waves)

Types of polarization: Linear, Elliptical, and Circular; and also Radial and Azimuthal polarization

Radial polarization: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radial_polarization :

> Beams with radial and azimuthal polarization are included in the class of cylindrical vector beams. [7]

> A radially polarized beam can be used to produce a smaller focused spot than a more conventional linearly or circularly polarized beam, [8] and has uses in optical trapping. [9]

> It has been shown that a radially polarized beam can be used to increase the information capacity of free space optical communication via mode division multiplexing, [10] and radial polarization can "self-heal" when obstructed. [11]

Vector fields in cylindrical and spherical coordinates: Todo

Laser beam profiler: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_beam_profiler

Gaussian beam ... Quasioptics || Geometrical optics with rays and arcs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaussian_beam :

> Fundamentally, the Gaussian is a solution of the axial Helmholtz equation, the wave equation for an electromagnetic field. Although there exist other solutions, the Gaussian families of solutions are useful for problems involving compact beams.

Photonic integrated circuit:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photonic_integrated_circuit :

> A photonic integrated circuit (PIC) or integrated optical circuit is a microchip containing two or more photonic components that form a functioning circuit. This technology detects, generates, transports, and processes light. Photonic integrated circuits utilize photons (or particles of light) as opposed to electrons that are utilized by electronic integrated circuits.
> In an ideal world, the commute would _be_ a walk to the office.

Geometry would like to have a chat...

Most people are living in some form of long term marriage/family relationship, and the other person/people also has a job to get to. Even if we ignore zoning, force everyone into high density apartments, force offices into high rises, and so on: there is only so much space within walking distance and so a populated city will have a lot of people who cannot walk to the best job for them. There are a lot of compromises possible, and we are used to them (I live in the midwest which means I can't take a job in New York city)
Just for completeness:

> A major union representing tens of thousands of people at South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics said Wednesday that workers will go on strike for the first time ever, potentially threatening key global semiconductor supply chains.

If somehow a company becomes

1) so crucial to the global semiconductor supply chain that a blip in their system threatens the whole thing

2) so poorly managed that a one day strike of 20% of their employees threatens their whole operation

That’s just totally unsustainable and nuts. I think it must be an exaggeration on the part of the authors of the article.
> It feels like some dark era has ended, at least for a certain type of employees.

My friend was acually depressed by the fact that he had to work from home. At the first opportunity, he ran to the office.
I've done this too and it helps tremendously.
I was immediately thinking of ADOM and NetHack. Would have been so cool.
> Now, I can play with my kids until 9am and then start work. I finish at 5:30pm and get 2 hours with them before bed.

This right here. I'm actually nervous talking about this for fear of jinxing the situation.
https://chromewebstore.google.com/search/adflush

https://imgflip.com/i/8s3nur
Not just restaurants and bars. Artificial sounds is everywhere.

There was a musician (fairly accomplished in his field) who woke up one day and started hating all music because he realized you cannot escape it. He wrote a book about it but I forget his name.
DPF tank will need refilling anyway.
Ok, I'm about to go read the article yet, but this seems insightful to me. A badly designed system tends to stay badly designed, while a well designed one is free to mutate. And that's inherent.

Personally, I have never thought about that.
I'd be okay with a hybrid approach: lists for real-time blocking and machine learning for passive analysis to augment the lists over time.
A little more intuitively, 1 semitone is one "note", aka the interval between two successive notes on a piano (including white and black keys) such as C to C#, and to talk about intervals less than that, we use cents as 1/100 of a semitone.

Musically, two notes an octave apart vary by a factor of 2 (e.g. Middle A (A4) is 440Hz and the next A (A5) is 880Hz), and our ears hear frequencies logarithmically rather than linearly, so each of the 12 semitones in an octave is a factor of 2^(1/12) higher than the previous one (so that 12 of them in a row result in doubling the frequency), and therefore the 100 cents between each semitone are each (2^(1/12))^100 = 2^(1/1200) greater than the previous one.
besides apple you mean?

and what installing Firefox on ios have to do with someone's cloud?