skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well there's also the issue of range, those 30% of particles might well have far less velocity. Which might be all that you need in a well ventilated area, or might be a meaningless difference in a busy room.

Frankly I don't know, and I don't mind admitting I don't know. What worries me greatly though is that at some point saying you didn't know was misconstrued as an attack on ideology.

I mean if I had to guess I'd go for something blocking 99% of the viruses at least 70% of the time over something blocking 70% of the particles at least 99% of the time. Of course it depends, but one of those works to some extent at least 70% of the time, while for the other it is unclear.

But really it depends. If we're talking about umbrellas those two scenarios result in you getting roughly equally wet, yet if we're talking about bullet proof shields I'd take my chances with the shield stopping most bullets at least some of the time over the one stopping only 2 out of 3 bullets.
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Software Architecture Diagrams with C4 Model
We've all experienced joining a complex project where deciphering the codebase feels like reading a whole novel. Engineers are code wizards, but even the best get lost in sprawling code. The challenge is that architecture diagrams (if they even exist) are often outdated relics from a bygone era.

This is why creating and maintaining clear diagrams should be effortless. Up-to-date visuals ensure everyone stays on the same page, eliminating confusion and wasted time.
It's open-source per the founders twitter: https://x.com/palmerluckey/status/1797669089324011548?s=46
They're in the 'Software & Data' section that's farther down the list, not the 'Product & Engineering' section near the top.
it seems plausible that they could be using power of 2 random choices to keep the counts even.
> That means we call it a hobby instance because it just doesn’t scale very well.

Well you guys almost certainly operate posthog in Kubernetes yourselves. You either use a cloud-provided database, or you use a Kubernetes operator to run it on top of someone's infrastructure. Clickhouse, Kafka, whatever. They all have operators. I don't know when you adopted Temporal. Whatever. I may not be 100% right, but this is true in general.

The hobby offering doesn't have to scale poorly. It could scale just as well as your core offering. I am not saying you should, you are entitled to monetize something. It also doesn't have to be hard to install. You could author a Posthog CRD instead of using Helm as a low budget CRD. Maybe you already have that. Maybe your CRD exists as rows in some database and not in Kubernetes's dataplane. The interesting part of all of this is that you had an intuition that Kubernetes obsoletes a lot of the value proposition of traditional SaaS. The problem is figuring out, well, what IS the value proposition? People will endure a lot of brain damage to save on recurring costs, it is totally rational.

Another POV is this shows the limitations of Y Combinator's offering. It's true that enterprise sales goes way faster when it's startup CEO to startup CEO. Until you guys are worth billions of dollars, and even then, it's not 100%, your counterpart at a Fortune 1000 might be some CTO, some managing director with no real decisionmaking power. But he asks his team to pay the contractors in Pakistan to take the brain damage of self hosting Posthog and reimplementing your premium features, all because he cannot get meaningful approval for unlimited, use-based pricing, and then if you acquiesce to fixed pricing, you leave so much money on the table, and you sign up to dedicate a whole engineer to their customization and problems. While Kubernetes isn't to blame for this, it did make the Pakistan BANTA possible, and probably brought down pricing by a lot, hurting everyone trying to make good software for money. Very, very tough situation.

Something I can't really figure out is why Posthog hasn't gotten on Bitnami's (VMWare's) radar. Piwik and Matomo are. Mirantis has a great Kubernetes distribution, maybe the most painless one for people who are willing to take brain damage, and they could wind up doing this too. As always OSS is a value for someone else's thing that that someone else didn't pay for.
Use context-free grammars instead of parser combinators and PEG
> And finally, we need more steps like the FTC’s recent move to ban all employee noncompetes (no carve outs, no limitations, no exceptions).

YOU need to be out there beating the drum for a major exception to this. With out laws to ban raiding (and we dont have those on the federal level) this is a bad policy. It means that google doesn't have to aquire-hire your team, they can just poach all of them wholesale.

> Second, we need to prioritize forceful remedies to foster competition

If history does show us something its that outside a pure monopoly (ATT) these business have a shelf life. Roll the clock back 60 years, US Steel had the same market share as apple. ATT was a thing (and as a monopoly got smacked). But no one talks about GE or IBM or RCA as major players in tech... and they were tech giants of their day.

I am all for restrictions on these sorts of enterprises. But the bigger major step we can take is taxing them appropriately, not letting them all get the pass they have. Shift the tax burden to the largest players and you make room at the bottom and solve a host of other issues.

As for the rest of these proposals, it sounds like a lot of bureaucracy. I feel like we need to revisit our history and re-read our Orwell desperately, were literally repeating the mistakes of the past.
Quadratic transformers outperform weaker forms of attention on recall tasks, but recurrent models are strictly more powerful than transformers (when they don't use chain of thought) at state tracking problems. Mamba 2 likely has the same limitations with state tracking as a full transformer due to being parallelizable: https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.08819 .
but what would we do with the Germans then? :)
Yea sorry, wrong word
Great way to explain it!

Loved this:

> As with many other optimization techniques, it’s a trade off between soundness and completeness
Sure. Masks help the wearer. But the main purpose is to stop sick people spreading. And it’s more effective at preventing spread than preventing contraction.
They are goldmine of enumerated attack surface. But it would likely require some kind of secondary exploit of the identified vulns. The API connections are generally scoped to read-only access of security settings. Though it wouldn't surprise me if there was some way to get lateral movement from the access these tools have to monitor an environment.
As someone who was a home brewer, the amount of fermentable sugar this woman must have consumed over the Days of fermentation to cause a BAC at that level at one point in time is astounding to the point where I’m suspicious she wasn’t drinking

I’m talking about the equivalent of consuming a pound of honey for multiple days straight, and more likely something like multiple pounds somehow turbo fermented to hit that alc%. If she didn’t have this medical problem, she would have had five others soon.

For those who don’t know, there is an upper limit of natural fermentation where if you try hard, maybe you hit 20% alc/vol. Four pints of it to hit those numbers at the low end (120 lb / 55 kg person)
> my key point there was simply to show that the magnetic field isn't really necessary - I wanted to show that it's all part of relativistic contractions made by the electric field.

This isn't quite right, there are field configurations where the magnetic field doesn't vanish in any reference frame. This is actually the typical case: consider, for instance, two point charges moving relative to one another.

The right takeaway from SR isn't that the magnetic field is fake and the electric field is real, it's that both magnetic and electric fields are frame-dependent and it's the electromagnetic field tensor that's the real physical object.
Crashes on Chrome on MacOS too. And this has WASM GC and Tailcall support.
I love to give more. That’s what life’s about. But it should be done freely and without expectation. What I’m talking about is taking - do this or I’ll be annoyed. It’s overt vs covert contracts. I ask you to do X because it would be helpful/make me happy. Versus I ask you to do X because it’s helpful and also I want to feel in control of you, and maybe you’ll be more willing to do Y later.

I don’t agree with the last comment, maybe I am a cynic.
The mental bias towards the Cartesian 2d map projections being what we're so familiar with is strong, and I too instinctively think of "a straight line" as being a straight line on a map. But if you think of the problem at a different scale — say you're standing 50 feet south of the north pole — I feel like you would consider the definition of "face east, then walk forward in a straight line" far less ambiguous.

I'd also point out that it's a puzzle, not a standardized test question. Wordplay, tricks and ambiguities are par for the course.
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gosh, thats a beautiful little story.
But you could easily detect frequency modulation of a 220Hz signal by a 0.5 Hz sin wave, which would have sidebands separated by 4 cents. This is conceptually similar to heterodyning. Wow in the source material ends up creating sidebands of the source material in a frequency range that is more amenable to signal analysis. Whether this works or not depends on how much wow an actually record player has. But a back-of-the-envelope calculation seems to suggest that very tiny amounts of wow should create detectable side-bands.

My suspicion is that OP assumed that the source material was accurately tuned to A=440, which is not a safe assumption, but is probably true for any source material that has a keyboard instrument which will almost always be tuned to A=440. Calculate the reference pitch for the source material, and you can tell how much the speed of the turntable is off. (And as others have pointed out, may be completely buggered by common mastering practices, and by Original Instrument recordings of classical music using pitch references other than A=440).

But it doesn't seem implausible that you could use analysis of wow in the source signal too.
For me it was McD's breakfast, which I always liked more than the rest of their menu anyway... When I can no longer get my usual for breakfast for under $10, it crossed that for me.
Most distros can't even recover from a shutdown while updating (windows handles it since Vista).
What's cosmic?
What makes you believe the military is immune to "bureaucracy-at-scale" problems? From my vantage point, it may have both large bureaucratic issues and massive churn. (And it's not immediately clear to me that the former isn't partially a result of the latter.)
The other obvious answer is that the Shire is distributist in its economy.
I'm very excited by all the attempts to replace Nix, but I don't think I'll be exploring this much deeper.

In my opinion the issue with Nix is that the data model is not crisply defined -- it's there, but hidden under a lot of goop that is the Nix language itself and the various assumptions and baggage that goes with it.

What I want is a primarily declarative syntax supporting a rich set of data structures, ideally a non-Turing set of primitives, with a much more intuitive way of gluing things together. So basically bash (or even sh) with a well-defined way of transmitting environment variables and setting up the environment.

The idea of importing a language that has broader support (typescript) as an alternative to the Nix language seems appealing at first, but typescript is such a high-dependency system that it's hard to get excited about it.
I 100% agree with you. This guy should be ashamed of himself and the risk of harm is tremendous. Gross!
I would strongly oppose any governmental attempt to ban poaching/cold-calling and would see it as a blatant power grab for owners against workers. If you want to retain your team, match the offer.
The amount of money Spotify makes should be close to zero
> Audi, Porsche, Mercedes, Renault, Kia, Hyundai all have 48V cars. Some of those are several years old.

Those all still have a 12V system as well.

> The Toyota bZ4X and Lexus RZ 450e are fully steer by wire

2025 models, not current models.
> So two, to, and too will each have their own yingzi..... We can simplify the task enormously with one more principle: syllables that rhyme can have yingzi that are variations on a theme.

They already are aren't they?
My editor has autocomplete as a general feature. I've never seen one that was aware of css variable names across files though.
I’ve used Rectangle (Pro) for years. Found it shortly after moving from Windows to Mac some 10 years ago. Occasionally I’ll be pairing with someone and they’ll be astounded by how quickly I can snap windows around with it.
It’s one of the first programs I install on any new Mac.
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Make a tiny language model and then use it for autocorrect & autocomplete. Current autocorrect & autocomplete on smartphones is so bad that it spawns countless jokes. This use case doesn't require a large language model able to write whole paragraphs -- it only needs a model that's just barely big enough to make contextually appropriate suggestions of one or a few words.
A Threadripper with 24-32 cores but only 2 channels of memory, that worked in the AM5 socket, would fill a nice hole in the AMD story. I don't know if AM5 has enough power pins to do the job, though. If you want more than 16 cores right now you have to spend $2k on the CPU and motherboard, triple what it costs to get a 16-core Ryzen.
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I’ve been a happy XFCE user for years, and although it uses GTK I’ve never run into whatever drama is going on here.
> everything from the hub caps to the bed but it does come with some practicality issues.

That's an understatement, especially considering that you used "hub caps" as an example of where they went all out... but those hub caps actually had huge practicality issues themselves and have now been replaced with a quite ugly alternative.
Did you buy your kids a big dumb phone?
> It is frankly challenging to reconcile 1st amendment protections and a CU repeal. I'm not sure what the solution is, [...]

Reconciliation: Companies aren't human entities.

Non-human entities aren't entitled to 1st amendment protections.

Campaign finance is equally simple: run your campaign on public funding. Give all candidates who meet a threshold equal amounts of money.

I have yet to hear a convincing argument about what benefit a democracy receives from campaigns having different amounts of funding. That feels like the tail wagging the dog (your supporters fund you, so you can spend that money to buy more supporters).
Supabase's AI assistant is a disappointment
If I wanted to use this in a corporate environment as a dev, I didn't see any links telling me pricing or who to contact. Is this user error on my part?
It's literally a quote from season 4 with VR replaced with AI.
I had to check that for myself, and wow, you weren't kidding.

2015 population of Canada south of Seattle (~47.6°N): ~22 million (https://imgur.com/a/azeTbwz)

2015 Canada population: ~35 million

Sources:

- NASA SEDAC Population Estimator (https://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/mapping/popest/gpw-v4/)

- Statistics Canada (https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/150929/dq150...)
> “It seems to me that language is some kind of enterprise of human beings that is not finished.”

I would include this all the way up to higher intelligence itself, language is but the force carrier for intelligence. We've been developing muscles and balance for hundreds of millions of years, but our intelligence that communicates in advanced language is pretty much brand new.
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Totally fair question! My reasons were:

1. To maximize Photon's battery life I tried to make the hardware do the absolute minimum to record imagery. To that end, Photon stores images on an unformatted SD card (ie one huge linear array of bytes) which is easy and fast to index into.

2. A 16-bit MSP430 handles writing the image data, and the MSP430's codespace is 99% exhausted without dealing with the complexities of a filesystem like FAT32, so adding support for a filesystem wouldn't currently fit. (This line of MSP430, MSP430FR2433, has a maximum of 16 KB of FRAM, but perhaps I could use a different line.)

3. Photon stores images as RAW image data that require post-processing to view the images. Since I wanted to provide a polished app to view the imagery anyway, I figured I'd just make it a requirement.

I'm not saying those are all particularly good reasons, but that was my reasoning anyhow.
Can you provide citations/links and references?

Though, I'm afraid this will be hard to quantify for you. You will also need to satisfy the burden of proof that those links/citations are prevalent ideas and constitute a representative sample of more than just a few individuals.

What's more though, such a representative sample only just informs us about the population of HN commentators. I don't think that is a particularly interesting sub-population, very little (if anything) can be extrapolated other than: "there were a lot of comments on HN stating Y." Doesn't really mean much for me - to be blunt, nobody really cares what random groups of HN commentators think. It doesn't represent very much.

On the other hand, perhaps we can look at actual studies that use statistical techniques to in fact make somewhat more interesting inferences, eg:

- https://absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2023/06/07/17-studies-plus-...
No, that's actually the point of faster chips: To make software development less challenging and cheaper.
This seems like a totally sensible solution. Just lock up phones in pouches that remain in students' possession.

>They clicked the magnetic lock at the top of their pouches shut, then placed them into their backpacks or held them up to show teachers. The pouches would stay with them, locked, until dismissal at 2:45 p.m.

>The school reminded parents that there is at least one landline phone in every classroom — and in many cases two. Teachers also still have their cellphones in case they need to call 911 (the pouches also are not “bank vaults,” Dolphin added, and can be cut open in an emergency).

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/05/01/school-cell...
But this is work that almost all [0] landlords could just pay people to do for them, making it easy again.

Out in the real world, the cost a landlord would pay a management company to deal with all of this is absolutely baked into the cost of rent charged to the consumer. A landlord may choose to do it themselves to pocket that margin as profit, but they need not.

The only job requirement for "landlord" is "own an asset."

[0] And yes, there are exceptions that prove the rule - e.g. people in declining areas with decreasing demand for housing who don't have enough margin, or people who dramatically underprice their rent for some reason
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> and usage of "Hapsburg" should have been corrected and obsoleted by now.

Seems like a classic confusion about the difference between is and ought.

You believe that it should be obsoleted, but it is not obsoleted. Even the link you provided has no mention of the term Hapsburg being obsoleted, so I still have to wonder what you meant by "look it up".
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Nope to me going straight east means keeping the north pole on your left while travelling on the same latitude. Answer is Canada.