skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
no, because that 20+khz noise would be lost in any 44khz signal processing. you would have to guarantee the audio player is capable of higher bitrates
Defining "good enough" is something that rarely seems to happen.
That's what open source is. I have the application and I have the source code.
> I'd like dying to be as easy as flicking a switch.

It is. Just flick the blade open on a switchblade and stab into your temple. You don't need a fricking second or third party to help you with this.

Some of us atheists view life as more precious than many religious people do because this is it.
Twenty five year marriage here. Her mental health issues started a few years in and were manageable. She did short term institutionalization later on. The end times were lots of hunkering down. She eventually left (but I still helped where I could).

Me not ending the marriage sooner - this was reasonably questioned. Some of that was me being a guy.
Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite sucks upto 3x more than Intel's Arc Graphics
I still use HXD for most cases, but whenever I need to work with encoded text, I use a fork of MadEdit instead. MadEdit has no problem with multibyte characters, whether it's UTF-8, UTF-16, or Shift-JIS.
Yes, the one with runes.
The super effectiveness of Pokémon embeddings using only raw JSON and images
China's Internet-of-Everything Gambit and Battle for Lidar
Alcohol is riskier than we previously knew. But what does that mean for you?
It is based on various attribution factors. But since it is typically easier to point at the currently hated scapegoat and be done with it, the quality of these attribution factors leaves much to be desired.

E.g. https://blog.sekoia.io/noname05716-ddosia-project-2024-updat...

"The decision not to mandate VPN usage in Russia, especially given their statement “it is extremely unlikely that there will be any problems”, suggests a possible collaboration between the NoName057(16) group and the Russian state."

I imagine you've also heard of attributions like "Cyrillic layout" (used all over eurasia) or "IP pool associated with a Russian AS" (as if VPS renting isn't a thing or commodity routers in Russia aren't hackable and can't be forced into a botnet)
What it does is replace your problem with problems for a bunch of other people.
https://claims.mtgox.com/faq
Is it impractical to employ firecracker vm like separation to isolate untrusted code, severely reducing the impact of any bugs?

Browsers split their various components across multiple processes to provide isolation. VMs would provide even more isolation.
And if the product is aimed at prousers/communities who extend the functionality themselves with their own commands, scripts and plugins.
Determinism for any given input isn't an interesting metric though. Inputs are always different, or else you could just replace it with a lookup function. What's important is reliability of the output given a distribution of inputs, and that's where LLMs are unreliable. Temperature sampling can be a technique to improve reliability particularly when things get into repetitve loops - though usually it's to increase creativity.
Sorry, but thats just a perfect example why 'security through obscurity' is wrong. I have zero idea about security risks, but if fix does not mentioned anywhere, then for people that use previous version there no rush to upgrade.
They do, they keyboard's source is available from their gitlab and you're allowed to copy, modify, and redistribute it, as long as you don't remove the section in the app that lets people pay them and don't sell your derivative works. Sort of a CC-BY-SA-NC deal. Seems fair enough to me — not ideally FOSS, but something I can live with. There are few things I use anymore that aren't totally FOSS but I do compromise sometimes if all of quality, ease of use, security, and privacy gain and the loss in perfect freedom is small enough.
This 100%. It's especially noticeable in the world of game development, where you see games that are ridiculously buggy and poorly made (on a coding basis) selling millions of copies and changing the industry. The original generation 1 Pokemon games are probably some of the best examples of this, though I'm pretty sure anyone who's reversed engineered any game from the Atari era onwards has probably been left wondering "what the hell were they thinking?"

But it doesn't matter. They were designed well, they were fun to play, and millions of people enjoyed them.
The trick is to star fully open source until you get popular then pull a licence change, aka Elastic/Redis/HashiCorp model
The author neglects some points like the extremely slow 1541 floppy drive and the very rudimentary BASIC implementation of the C64, though… this created its very own large aftermarket for floppy speeders, BASIC extensions and much more, whereas there was also a large market for Apple II extension cards (and clones of the whole machine).

I grew up with Apple II europlusses at school and a C64 at home - original Apple machines were quite expensive in Germany and we were not aware of the Apple clones. Both machines were - and still are - fun to hack in their very special way and I’m still using the 6502 as an example architecture in some of my courses. Good times, no matter if the 6502 was in an Apple or Commodore (or Atari).
It's been a while since I read these, but I believe it's because h is below alpha. They're exploiting the "sliding equality" referenced at the bottom of page 7.
Viral $488,000 SF home has a buyer – and the deal exposes a dramatic backstory
Thank you so so so much for posting this! I had no idea it existed, and I am so happy that it does.

I also discovered that my home state has ZERO listed green burial sites, which is shocking to me because... I live in VT. I would have guessed it would be the leader in green burial, it is right up our wheelhouse!
> Results: https://imgur.com/a/GJLqYft

Corporate accounts payable, Nina speaking. Just a moooment. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4s5yHUpumkY
I hope "noble sacrifice" becomes a viable end-of-life option one day. Specifically, one-way tickets to Mars, which will be invaluable for doing human-led research and construction, paving the way for future colonists, but without the expense and burden of a return journey.

There must be some ultra-high-risk test pilot jobs available for 75 year olds with inoperable diseases. Go out with a bang!
> It gets extraordinarily difficult to add new muscle as you enter your mid-30s

Only because it requires you to create a major new habit after 30 years on earth of not doing it, not because it's difficult physically. If you are putting in the time and especially the effort, it should be easy.

That said, the common mistake in the gym is when people just kinda do reps at some easy weight and then stop short with a bunch more reps left in reserve. Never really pushing themself. I guarantee that describes anyone finding it extraordinary difficult to build muscle.
I suggest you the following exercise to see it with your own eyes: enter a Telegram channel on a top 100 cryptocurrency, say that you are trying to recover your wallet and...

Suddenly a lot of scammer will contact you in less than 5' with techniques that you cannot imagine are real. For example, telegram handles with the same name as the channel admin but using unicode characters to make tou think it is the same account.
The same few years have seen the developer bug tool closed down in favor of the mostly abandoned “community forums” no one uses.

We had big multi-year bugs in “assigned” state before its closure, too.
Things that I have experienced in the past, that as a whole impacted my developer experience. This is especially important when you join an established project and there isn't really room for improvements and only room for cranking out new features:

* No local dev, push to AWS and test
* Local dev only with console.log / println! / cout / ...
* No ability to attach a debugger
* No PDB / map files in production
* No automated smoke testing
* Always sprinting with deploys every 2 weeks
* No linter / formatter / ... enforced on PRs
* A history of PRs where the only comment is 'LGTM'
* Security rules set up company wide without taking into account Developer Experience (e.g. Local Admin on Windows)
I've always admired Nuxt because it's always been the one to introduce amazing features that Next has always copied but I never gave it a try.

Maybe it's time.
The website was inaccessible for me then I remember I’ve blocked xyz domains in my AdGuard
Python toolkit for quantitative finance
Nope.

It restricts modifications one can do, and how to distribute it.

There is quite a stark difference between source available, and open source.
> "Their job" is to shut up and drive the bus, according to the routes selected by the duly elected government.

Ye… You have never seen an incompetent manager that will draw a route of a bus through a brick wall, and yell over the phone ‘why haven’t you driven through it?’

More broadly, do you hate the idea of employees having opinions and their own initiative? Is your boss tells you to set the company building on fire, will you do it? If you are told to drive over a child, will you do it?

I feel like you are being an ideologue and you like how things work in your head, without realising that if everyone did exactly what their boss tells them, society would collapse within a week
That's the 1994 version, not 2024:

https://www.fao.org/publications/home/fao-flagship-publicati...
I don‘t disagree.
Great project! I too have an open source link shortener that supports password protected websites: https://maglit.me
'Happiness machines': Meet the team behind SF's photo booth resurgence
Liquid modernity - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_modernity#Characteristics
It's more like, you should be very skeptical of any shocking results that you find reported on widely in social media and the press.

Errors will always happen; they are more likely to result in shocking, surprising results; and the press actively publicizes those results over others. The original paper got widespread press coverage, and its retraction got... Much less. You end up much dumber if you outsource your thinking to the Washington Post or Facebook.
What are private and open source keyboards on Android?

I use [OpenBoard](https://f-droid.org/fr/packages/org.dslul.openboard.inputmet...), but there is no update since 2022 (it works well though).
I don‘t apply to jobs anymore, I only work with recruiters and recruitment agencies that do all the nasty leg work for me, leading to employers pretty much applying to me. For example, in my country, we often have to write motivational letters when directly applying somewhere, ridiculous. Another bonus: Companies wouldn‘t waste money on those agencies for fake jobs.
It's possible to make it so you enable it on a per mod basis, like app permissions
The main concern I see with "technologic" wombs is who is then responsible for the upbringing and care of the fetus until it because viable to live on its own? If someone gives up a fetus but is still force to be financially responsible for it, more harmful and destructive forms abortion will be, by necessity, be used.
You're missing "and I can use the source".

Without that freedom, you really don't have the benefits of open source. This is commonly referred to as "source available".
> Concerning parts:

> > You may use [...] the software only for non-commercial purposes

> > You may distribute the software or provide it to others only if you do so free of charge

> > you may not remove or obscure any functionality in the software related to payment to the Licensor

This definitely isn't ideal (I'm a big GPL fan) but honestly, as long as it still allows copying, modification, and redistribution for non-commercial purposes (which it does) this doesn't concern me that much. I'm not too worried about the potential prospects of other businesses that might want to base their work off of this business's work as long as the community would still be able to create forks and derivative versions. It certainly isn't the ideal of free software that I prefer everything to adhere to, but it's acceptable to me at least. It's sort of as I say elsewhere, a CC-BY-SA-NC type deal.
Early in my career, I worked on a team of 6 in a small division (acquired startup). We really cared about DevEx and built a set of tooling that allowed us to build and ship insanely fast (while still maintaining a solid CI and PM approval process for every feature). We astonished the rest of the Megacorp that was enmired in Byzantine process-what took them weeks took us hours. Sure, we shipped a bug from time to time—it was trivial to rollback, fix, and push. For them, shipping a bug was disastrous—it took so long to roll out fixes and rolling back was impossible. So naturally, the answer is “more verification.” They start chasing after the impossible dream of “0 bugs shipped.” In this case, a bad DevEx begets worse DevEx, and a software lifecycle that is trapped in a tar pit.
Looks like it makes heavy use of the original binary.

https://github.com/OpenLoco/OpenLoco/blob/master/src/Interop...
Nope, that's 'source available'. Open source usually means a non-restrictive license, ala https://opensource.org/osd.
Nothing specific I've read that helped us with this, our goal was finding the easiest path to entry to get the tooling we desire in our platform.

I've debated writing it up and posting it somewhere, maybe I should. There's so many ways of doing things now that it's quite overwhelming sometimes.
The Z80, however, was a strange thing for me even though I had the Zaks books on assembly programming for 6502 and Z80.

We continued to hack on the 68000 - the Atari ST series was very popular in Germany (the Amiga and Mac were much more expensive) - and some Motorola 6809 projects instead.

I learned to love the Z80 last year when I built some ZX81 and Spectrum clones with my students. And now the Z80 is sadly discontinued while you can still buy new 6502s…
We are seriously lucky such capable people are on the good side.
As usual, the answer to a question in the headline can safely be assumed to be “no”.
From my perspective, it’s been a mixed bag.

On the one hand, sesame is clearly listed on major brands so we can buy bread with more confidence. Before, there was always some hesitation when shopping with unknown brands. Even known brands can change formulations, which could make shopping feel very uncomfortable.

On the other hand, some brands have started intentionally adding sesame. That sucks. But it may also indicate that a real cross contamination risk has always existed.

It’s important to note that not all brands add sesame, and that not all store brands add sesame. So it hasn’t meaningfully reduced our choices. And I do hope that brands intentionally adding sesame will reconsider at some point.
Make your own Arc browser at home
I think this is pure copium. It’s use it or lose it - if you ‘won’t’ and chose not to build nuclear reactors for 40 years, then wake up one day and decide to do it, you will find that you can’t.

Experience engineers will have retired or found other jobs. Knowledge is gone. The books have been lost, etc. If you haven’t been to the moon for 40 years, then you can’t any more. That’s two generations of people.

Ability is not like a statue that you keep in a museum. Even a car will not start after sitting the garage for 10 years. Organisations and people fall apart even faster.
I mean, you’re right that I don’t know the details. But the money is there. Consumers want to pay AMD for cheaper cards. AMD wants that AI money. I think they’ll start chipping away at Nvidia’s lead.

Again, I’m no expert on CPUs but I think you could have argued something similar about AMD vs Intel 12 years ago. Now it’s clear AMD’s tech is superior.
> At this point it's safe to assume that any social science research that ends up viral on social media is fake.

Do you mean that the original study was fake or the second study that found the discrepancy is fake? Is the retraction fake?
The only reason I'm unhappy with gboard are the constant updates. And as I'm typing now I see that the predicted words are often wrong compared to gboard and occasionally i get 1s lag. It's borderline unusable, not because of the lag but because of the inferior predictions.
> biases these models have

Have larger diffusion models gotten to synthetic training dogfooding yet?

The irony is that once we get there, we can address biases in historical data. I.e. having a training set that matches reality vs images that were captured and available ~2020.
What we learned from IT expert at Post Office inquiry
Could a Self-Sustaining Starship Carry Humanity to Distant Worlds?
I believe the logic was this: with horses, they would have had the upper hand in warfare against the Neolithic farmers and hunter-gatherers that they encountered. It's not the speed of transport per se.
I dunno, I think it's worth five bucks. We get too wrapped around the axle on licenses. I can do whatever I want with the source except rip off FUTO which sounds fine by me.

What are y'all planning to do with the source that the license prevents you from doing?
Yeah, best to keep a separate computer for gaming for this reason. Definitely don’t put important documents or work stuff on it. It would be ideal to isolate it in a VM, but setting up a gaming VM can be a massive pain in the ass and exclude you from some games that use anticheat.
PS. Also interesting: JEPA.-
No they are calling the Prime Minister a "fucking p*ki" because they see all British equally.

Clearly you can't be reasoned with on this and just made your own angle obvious.
When I was in middle school (~40 years ago) I had a shop teacher who had us do a hands on project- assemble a nightlight using electric plug pins, a resistor, an indicator bulb, all encapsulated in resin shaped in an ice cube tray (sorry, I can't find anything online showing it at the moment). The teacher had us do most of the work (soldering) although he handled the resin. He showed us that by using the right value of resistor, the bulb could still make a usably bright light while costing only about $0.10 in electricity a year.

Years later, when the shop teacher passed away, it was announced on facebook and many people showed up in the comments to say they still had their nightlights, and that they still worked 40 years later. I had lost mine years before but somebody sent me a photo and I was able to deduce the components and build a new one. The longevity is due to the simplicity and reliability of the components as well as the toughness of resin.

Think about that- 40 years later, a bunch of kids who didn't have any deep investment in electronics or shop still had items they had built decades before, that still worked. It gave us a sense of satisfaction and a confidence in our abilities.

Many of the most successful folks in the early telecom and scientific instrumentation industry got deep experience doing hand-building of vacuum tubes (typically working at Westinghouse/AT&T in NYC, which was the center of development for that technology, see "The Idea Factory). For example, the inventor of the modern pH meter was a scientist named Beckman who realized he could use the tubes as amplifiers for the tiny signal generated by the hydrogen electrode of the meter, he learned his craft building vacuum tubes by hand.

Although I went into computational research and rarely used my hands (except to assemble PCs), in the past few years I've gotten deeply into "making"- including hand workworking (a chisel and a plane are remarkably effective) and gained a lot of enjoyment from the tactile process of building. I often run my hands over wood using my senses to identify high and low points and tiny scratches (the human hand can detect differences as low as 1 micron) and then correct those through scraping and sanding/grinding. In many ways it can be more satisfying as writing a nice code.
The timer is too shrill for me. Nice choice of music though, I got some work done!

If anyone is interested, the music uses Youtube. Here are the video-ids:

```
jazz: "fx67Lg5oSgM",
classical: "Hlp6aawXVoY",
lofi: "jfKfPfyJRdk",
nature: "eKFTSSKCzWA",
```
The article was published in 2015 and redacted in the same year. So for context, peer review limited the damage. However the article did enter the clickbait media.
> The price has been relatively stable in the last ~4 years

Your linked source shows the price in the last 4 years going from

cell: $128->$107

Pack: $55->$32

Real: $183->$139

So the price has dropped 25% in the last 4 years. That is NOT relatively stable by any definition.
the author is talking about how things got perhaps overcorrected, not that something shouldn't be done about problems you're talking about.
> It doesn't harass you for money, what? The option to pay just lives in a section tucked away in the settings page,

Are you sure? https://gitlab.futo.org/alex/latinime/-/blob/9f70a84dc85830d... seems to indicate otherwise.

> and the "yes I've already paid" button works on the honor system anyway.

Then what's the license key for that you get when you pay?
Why would I do that unless I have a strong reason to use it rather than just move on with my day? A link is posted on HN for some cool software, it is already annoying to install it due to Microsoft complaining about it, then when I first run it, it opens up a tiny window an is asking if it can upload information. I don't expect to spend time figuring out its issues. I can't be the only one using a 4K display on Windows.
Donald Knuth's Mathematical Writing had a lecture from Jeffrey Ullman, On Getting Rich.

https://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/reviewing-papers/knuth_mathematic...

Things haven't changed much. The absolute numbers are similar and discounting for inflation, worse.
On that note, looks like the license use to be Apache 2. From commit 5b85311a in the repo (which is forked from another project):

>commit 5b85311ab09ed4d8d3dacb235de77f7de8253b1b

> Author: Yohei Yukawa <yukawa@google.com>

> Date: Mon Nov 19 12:11:31 2018 -0800

> Move MODULE_LICENSE_APACHE2 to the project top dir

> In general files in LatinIME project should be Apache 2 license (unless some exceptional note is there). This is not limited to Java source files.

At first glance, this looks like someone took a FOSS project and illegally changed its license. Am I reading that wrong?
This scam is successful because it is predicated on the same appeal that ventures like lotteries, sweepstakes, slot machines, or giveaways have (albeit accentuated with a seemingly guaranteed win, that these other ventures don't have): the belief that you can just luck into a giant treasure chest of money by expanding minimal effort.

Broadly, this is a modern version of what's known as an advance-fee fraud, which has been around for hundreds of years - paying a small amount upfront (hence the 'advance fee') under pretense of receiving a much larger amount later.
If the LLM says how to cultivate smallpox then its either hallucinated an answer or the answer is readily available on the internet.
rDNA ITS based identification of Eukaryotes and their communication via DOIs
I took the liberty of looking up your books from your Hacker News profile. Perhaps they are not all listed there, but the most recent one you listed I think is on a much more niche topic ("Enterprise Android" as opposed to say your prior title "Programming Android") than the prior ones. Even if it's a better book, that won't outweigh that there's just a much smaller audience.

Personally, I think my first book, 10 years ago, was my best book but it sold much worse than my later books because the topic was too niche.

Also, there are many, many more programmers now than there were before. Maybe they don't read books as much as their predecessors did, but to say Stack Overflow and open source platforms killed technical book publishing is highly inaccurate. I honestly think you're projecting a "you" situation to talk about the whole market. Please don't take that as an attack, but just as an additional perspective.