skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe it's wishful thinking, but I think it will: NY's Democratic governors have historically received a "default" vote from the city's voters (especially when the governor themselves is from the city), and this will challenge that default.

Hochul also hasn't helped herself by spending a bunch of state money (i.e. city money, since the city contributes disproportionately to the state budget) on her own local, i.e. Buffalo, pork-barrel topics[1].

[1]: https://hellgatenyc.com/the-buffalo-bills-just-need-another-...
The Future Is Retro – The ModRetro Manifesto
I've got an example of this: Some Blackpink songs (cannot remember which ones, possibly Playing With Fire or DDU-DDU-DDU) were mastered and released on Spotify/iTunes [unsure if has been removed now] with a 18-19kHz carrier tone (iirc it was actually a number of tones) modulated. The signal was very loud. I first noticed this in a friend's car and assumed it was because the song was ripped from YouTube, but later realized that all of the versions have this.

The reason for this is because at concerts, you can buy a piece of merch called a lightstick. Essentially, it is a STM32 and a mems microphone that is demodulating the carrier signal, so it can flash in time with the music. The tone has to be <ultrasonic because it has to work with consumer speakers and the mic in the device.

I assume the theory goes that anyone who has been to enough concerts to have a lightstick is no longer capable of hearing the noise.
Were any axis leaders tried for war crimes related to bombing campaigns? Most of what I've heard of relates to smaller more specific warcrimes and ones related to genocide.

I'm sure there's more examples, but the only allied case I can think of was a soldier convicted for hiding in an ambulance and shooting from it.
"Most of the time" does not mean much. If you need to handle those cases then you need to handle them, regardless of how often they appear. It's not like we'd use a JSON parser that said "yeah, nobody nests 10 arrays, so lets not handle that edge case".

Data transfer formats are not the place to cut these corners so it really doesn't matter what is "most of the time" except perhaps for performance. For correctness relying on "most of the time" is a footgun, it is either always happening or never happening.
Hey, thanks for checking it out! I had the idea for a "zen" mode where you could play forever with no timer. Didn't think of adding lives though. Cool idea.

Would you want separate statistics for these "lives mode" games?
Maybe but when you see seemingly irrational behavior by "the underclass" it's always worth spending a little more time trying to understand what kinds of issues they may be facing that you're not intuitively aware of.

If you've been in the position where every dollar you make gets somehow taken from you without warning for years you'd act differently. Goes from things like avoiding banks due to various fees or garnishments, up to practices of wearing expensive jewelry because it's a fairly efficient way to carry value on your person, and because you often get to keep it even when you get arrested, unlike the cash in your pocket.
It’s been used for ads for years.
> But I'm a DM, not their therapist or their dad - I'm not obligated to hand-hold someone through a radical restructuring of their personality.

Therein lies the crux of the issue. Everyone agrees that this person needs help, but also agrees that they shouldn't feel obligated to provide it.

And so they continue on, blissfully unaware of the chafing they cause. Life goes on, and their contribution remains minimal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaFkXsdr0mk

(incidentally, this flow over the base of the dam is new, looks like since 2018 (it normally goes through culverts at the base) and the dam likely won't survive much longer, some of the supports have already broken loose and the water flow is eroding the concrete, probably quite rapidly given the age/neglect...)

https://www.mininggazette.com/news/features/2020/08/survivin...
But what if you like 'big pass'?

Looking at you sir mixalot:

https://youtu.be/wKfMZOR8eWI?t=31
This has kind of always been the case hasnt it? The governor of the state has special powers over NYC. At least they have stepped in and bullied the city before, usually because the city is broke or has some crisis it needs the state to sort out with a pile of money.

Personally, as a remote worker, it bugs me that she’s doing this to force people to go to work. So basically she wants the pollution and massive waste of resources if someone can sell a bunch of 15 dollar sandwiches and 10 dollar coffees at street level every day. In other words she wants to fleece employees either way.

I feel for the business paying rent based on foot traffic in cities, however they know that if the foot traffic goes away, they can get out of their leases, since at least in malls etc the price per sq foot is based on foot traffic.

But what I have zero interest in is this argument that I have to go to work so that I can be fleeced by businesses every time I walk down the street, so that they can stay in business. That is not my problem. Its pretty insulting given how much better for the environment and people’s personal lives it is to work remotely to treat us like a bunch of chickens going through a toll gate.

Progressive companies that know the future have already let their leases go and gone full remote. More will follow. There will be no back to office.
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Thanks for feedback! Same question for you as well: would you want separate statistics for this type of mode?
I didn't expect Swedes to be so contrarian for the sake of it. Surely nobody likes to put the whole car in the oncoming lane every time to check if you can even start overtaking...
Yeah, they are not easy. The style of all the elements, i am sure i've seen as tailwind modules.

But you're right, if you have users, it's not easy. I shouldn't have posted my comment. Sorry for being negative.
People like you have a lot of places to shine nowadays. Having a job/boss isn't the right way for many (much less a given).
I qualify as a weird nerd, and I'm definitely not autistic.

I don't like to call anybody autistic because it invites paternalism or even outright discrimination. I even object to using much milder labels such as "introvert."
I've run across a half doz or so tunnel services. HE peers closest to my ISP; I'm looking at them as a temporary stopgap.

With my own ASN, I have a shot at peering with my ISPs IX.
The only thing that will truly solve climate change is technological innovation. The best system ever invented for that is free market capitalism.

People on the left seem to think _all_ people on the right "don't believe in climate change". The truth is that many people don't believe the government can solve the problem...

Unless you can convince all of Africa and India to not want electricity, air conditioning, refrigeration, and roads, we better come up with a technological innovation in power generation or some other area that massively impacts the amount of emissions they will begin generating this century.
> you could walk out of a job on Friday and have multiple offers within a week. This was basically never the norm with most professional jobs that could take months of job-hunting with no guarantee of a higher salary or not needing to move.

This was never really the -norm- in tech either. Yes, a small number of very talented, very well-connected software engineers with well-known schools or companies on their resume, could probably leave a job one week and have multiple offers next week, but come on... This has never really been the experience of the vast majority of tech workers.

Sure, if you survey Stanford graduates, working in a hot domain, in top companies Silicon Valley, you're going to conclude that getting jobs has always been easy "in tech."
Were they talking there about the Marxwell's demon?

Anyway, CO2 capture, by itself, is not the whole solution, but it should be part of it. There is an unbalance between the energy that comes in and the one that goes out. so things heats up (among other negative consequences, like i.e. ocean acidification). You won't solve the whole problem without addressing that eventually, so some way of carbon capture, going through the use of energy or something else, should be in the map.

And the complementary part of that is stop adding new (or, in other way to see it, very old, but that was stored away) carbon to the system. Even with the very worrying signs of the global climate going haywire with the corresponding loses of lives and money we keep adding each year even more fossil carbon than the previous one, no matter how much token energy generation is announced to be done by other means.

It may be expensive, or require technologies that we don't have yet, or compromises on what to lose, or whatever, but it is a problem that if left by its own means will eventually make the planet unlivable for us in a way or another. And that will turn all the saved money into something meaningless.
Hey yeah so you need a full expression (at the least, a start number, operator, and end number) for it to be a valid highlight. Will try to make the instructions more clear for this
Job Safety in the AI Era [video]
Legally, that’s incorrect.

Corporations exist to do whatever purpose is spelled out in the articles of incorporation. That purpose can be eleemosynary or profit or whatever the founders want.
And for every group there is an anti-group, another set of people for whom the group-included feel justified in feeling resentful towards in some way.
> but then you'll be constantly tempted by better...

this is a likely outcome for any new hobby
I get what you are saying, but my point is that is not CSV or TSV. It's a homemade format with its own rules that just happens to be inspired by TSV or CSV.
That clip was part of a longer interview with Feynman and he did a lot of those. If he were that concerned about oversimplifying or getting into circular arguments (magnets, rubber bands, elasticity, back to electromagnetism) I think he would not have done them in the first place.

I am a great admirer of Feynman and overall appreciate what he has done to explain physics and the scientific approach to the public. In this case, I wonder why he agreed to the interview at all.

Robert Frost addressed some of this is "Education by Poetry." I don't pretend to grok all of his talk but he talks about how we use metaphor to explain and understand but that metaphor has its limitations [1].

"Another metaphor that has interested us in our time and has done all our thinking for us is the
metaphor of evolution. Never mind going into the Latin word. The metaphor is simply the metaphor of
the growing plant or of the growing thing. And somebody very brilliantly, quite a while ago, said that
the whole universe, the whole of everything, was like unto a growing thing. That is all. I know the
metaphor will break down at some point, but it has not failed everywhere."

[1] https://www.poetrysoup.com/poetry/resources/documents/educat...
I assumed that most of the normal consumer-level stuff is (perhaps very deliberately) insensitive to sounds that human ears are insensitive to? The common codecs, for sure, tend to have rather harsh cutoffs around 20kHz (the common sampling rates being 44 or 48kHz, and the Nyquist frequency half of that, 22-24kHz, so you have to start filtering well before?)

Plus, I'd rather not walk around with a laptop. But perhaps smartphone apps are capable of consuming the mic input unfiltered? (Never tried recording APIs for that purpose)
well you can hedge your bets, a form of insurance. people do this with stock too.
even a headphone plugged in wrong is a good enough sensor to start.

when it gets bad you start looking at designing your own ribbon elements and considering active pickups. when it gets worse you may find yourself deeply concerned about ADC and clock skew.
My theory is the pandemic exposed the bear minimum people will accept and society won’t collapse.

Companies learned the true baseline of what they can get away with and we’re in a new permanent reality of everything sucking right up to the exact line where it would collapse of it sucked more.
Creators: Go small. It's your edge
https://archive.is/VNa2Y
You can generate so many megabytes of random per second with a CSPRNG though. I really don't see the use case where you care about bias enough to use very careful range functions but don't want to bother with a better generator.
Still strictly better than the current situation.
Awesome, if he tries it out, let me know his thoughts! Hoping to make this fun for all ages.
For trains the door side is hardly ever standard, even if the train always uses a certain track out of 2 directional ones. Some stations have center platforms, others have side platforms. Maybe there is some network in the world with only one type, but in most cases they come in a mix.
I think this would have been more likely to be politically viable if the credit for entering via a tunnel or bridge was dramatically increased, after all a bridge or tunnel toll is already a form of congestion pricing. Double charging is just a money grab rather than a form of congestion pricing.

They should have also given a credit for exiting immediately and not staying in the city, i.e. transiting through the city. This would have made New Jersey considerably more likely to be in support.

Without both of those things New Jersey has it right: everyone would just travel through New Jersey to avoid that part of Manhattan when they're just trying to get through Manhattan.
Links for those (like me) who didn't recognize the acronyms:

CBOR - RFC 8949 Concise Binary Object Representation

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8949.html

CDDL - RFC 8610 Concise Data Definition Language (CDDL)

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8610
While I agree with the notion of the article, please stop calling gifted, driven, and non-conforming people "weird nerds."
Both terms have negative connotations.
That's exactly how it works so this is quite interesting...looking into it
How difficult, and how far away product market fit often is
> With, like, 80+% of inbound SMTP traffic coming from Google, Microsoft

Just do a challenge-response on incoming mail from new addresses on Gmail and Outlook. Send an auto-reply telling them they can get their mail through if they copy a code in the reply. That will kill most spams from those sources.
Recently, I've seen this bleed into our local housing rental market. They'll advertise some amount for the house, then will say the attached garage is extra per month, and moving most if not all utilities to tenant responsibility.
Hmm that is odd, shouldn't be possible. Just to be sure, you were playing with just addition operators right?
Ask HN: Is KDB a sane choice for a datalake in 2024?
Pardon the vague question, but KDB is very much institutional knowledge hidden from the outside world. People have built their livelihoods around it and use it as a hammer for all sorts of nails.

It's also extremely expensive and written in a language with origins so obtuse that it's progenitor APL needed a custom keyboard laden with mathematical symbols.

Within my firm, it's very hard to get an outside perspective, the KDB developers are true believers in KDB, but they they obviously don't want to be professionally replaced. So I'm asking the more forward leaning HN.

One nail in my job, is KDB as a data-lake and I'm being driven nuts by it. I write code in Rust that prices options. There's a lot of complex code involved in this, I use a mix of numeric simulations to calculate greeks and somewhat lengthy analytical formulas.

The data that I save to KDB is quite raw, I save the market data and derived volatility surfaces, which are themselves complex-ish models needing some carefully unit-tested code to convert in to implied vols.

Right now my desk has no proper tooling for backtesting that uses our own data. And I'm constantly being asked to do something about it, and I don't know what to do!

I'm 99% sure KDB is the wrong tool for the job, because of three things:

- It's not horizontally scalable. A divide and conquer algo on N<{small_number} cores is pointless.

- I'm scared to do queries that return a lot of data. It's non trivial to get a day's worth of data. The query will just often freeze, it doesn't even buffer. Even if I'm just trying to fetch what should be a logical partition, the wire format is really inefficient and uncompressed. I feel like I need to engineering work for trivial things.

- The main thing is that I need to do complex math to convert my raw data, order-books and vol-surfaces into useful data to backtest.

I have no idea how do do any of this in KDB. My firm is primarily a spot desk, and while I respect my colleagues, their answer is:

> Other firms are really invested in KDB and use KDB for this, just figure it out.

I'm going nuts because I'm under the assumption that these other firms are way larger and have teams of KDB-quants doing the actual research. While we have some quant traders who know a bit of KDB but they work in the spot side with far more simple math.

I keep on advocating for some Parquet style data-store with Spark/Dask/Arrow/Polars running on top of it that can be horizontally scaled and most importantly, with Polars, I can write my backtests in Rust and leverage the libraries I've already written.

I get shot down with "we use KDB here". I just don't know how I can deliver a maintainable solution to my traders with this current infrastructure. Bizarrely, and this is a financial firm, no one in a team of ~100 devs has ever touched Spark style tech other than me here.

What should I do? Are my concerns overblown? Am I misunderstanding the power of KDB?
> we better come up with a technological innovation in power generation

What if we can’t?
Fully agree. Both have the potential to solve whole groups of problems. Gene therapy especially should be species goal as something to get us to the next stage of evolution.
They kind of solve a different problem though - verifying that the email sender is really authorized for that domain.

Nothing prevents spammers from setting up their own domain with valid spf, dkim, dmarc.
Yeh doing something that’s not scalable is uniquely something you can offer
> Any system that is not explicitly pro-Weird Nerd will turn anti-Weird Nerd pretty quickly.

Wow. Sure as hell feels that way.

See, I actually feel like this is happening across the Internet, too, in a different way.

Firstly, I'd consider myself some sort of "Weird Nerd" but certainly not a genius or even especially intelligent; I would be willing to indulge in the idea that my contingent and I have some unusual qualities that, while not remarkable, are still somewhat unique and indeed basically a package deal with our "other" traits.

Secondly, while "weird nerds" are prominent on the Internet of today, they're definitely struggling to keep control over their own spaces. Anyone remember forums, and have routine thoughts about how different it is from social media? I think that forums were controlled by weird nerds, and social media is clearly not, it's controlled by people who play the political games better and more often. Weird nerds are forced to try to adhere to the rules of this system, they get increasingly tired of it, burn out and start behaving erratically. I think a lot of people are deeply in denial that this is happening, and some of them may have never even known a world where it wasn't happening, so they find other reasons why.

Being driven by truth and put off by bullshit is something that I think is very core to a lot of people who are currently struggling to find anywhere to fit in. No matter how much time passes, it will never feel "right". It feels like people can only ever be their true and honest selves in small quantities, in closed groups, being careful with who to trust.

Note that this person seems to be somewhat convinced that the Internet is the best place for weird nerds, but also note that the critique they are talking about happened on X, one of the largest and most influential social websites on the Internet. I think this should speak volumes to how much weird nerds are not in control of the "rules" and narratives of the Internet right now. I'm not sure what the authors thoughts are on this (and I'm sure it's detailed in other posts if I wanted to know) but I think this is a huge battleground. It's a bit hard to see it because it's obfuscated by the broader "culture war" of the Internet, which makes it appear as if the "fight" is between two hyper-partisan groups that have completely opposite views. I think that's neither the cause nor the reality of why the Internet is full of so much strife; I think those hyper-partisan spats formed around more interesting and nuanced conflicts and overshadowed them. I hope that some day there will be a moment of clarity where everything starts to make sense...
I'd the same problem and thinking a little bit, maybe a browser extension integrated with LLMs and services like betula?
My wife about 9 years ago was admitted to the hospital for a ruptured ectopic pregnancy. The baby would have been about two months along.

On the would-be due date, a box arrived via FedEx of Enfamil samples and a chirpy “welcome baby” message. Of course there was no baby.

It turns out that using prescription data, admission data and other information that is aggregated as part of subrogation and other processes, you can partially de-anonymize/rebuild / health record and make an inference. Enfamil told me what list they used and I bought it, it contained a bunch of information including my wife’s. I also know everyone in my zip code who had diabetes in 2015.

There’s even more intrusive stuff around opioid surveillance.
You conflate two things that are actually quite different. You don't need to be friends with the Weird Nerd, but you do absolutely have to respect their expertise in the subject matter, especially when it exceeds yours. It's in your employer's interest to do so. Not doing so means you're being less than professional and might secretly be jealous of this person for having attained a higher level of technical achievement than your own.
I used to have a smartphone and have basically gotten rid of it. I'll tell you the main difference between taking a train/bus/whatever with a phone vs a book:

The book ends.

You may be engrossed for a while, or a long while, or even a very long while, but eventually you get bored. You have to close it for a while and look around, or talk to someone, or just sit there.

A phone with internet is infinite. You get bored of (a) and then you can go to (b) then (c) then back to (a) for hours and hours and hours and hours on end.
It’ll depend a lot on how loony the alternative is; a Pataki or a Palladino?
isn't this essentially handing police powers to a duopoly
of USA commercial corporations?
It seems like with real cards, it would take too many coin flips to be practical?
The problem is not NYC though. I think if NYC was left to its own devises its government could be much more visionary.

The problem is that so much of the control of NYC lies with state-level Democrats who are structurally incentived to prioritize the suburbs over the city because the suburbs are more likely to vote Republican in various races. This is exactly what happened here. Hochul -- working with the federal House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries -- paused congestion pricing to make it easier to win House seats in the suburbs. If they lose support in the city they don't care because the city districts are so safe.