skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sometimes fibre optic cables are used for reasons other than lots of bandwidth in architectures other than network A to network B.

Examples:

1. transferring data near/from/to high voltage lines, without risking short circuits that cause fire/death/damage (personal experience: getting info in/out of particle accelerators that hold mega volts of tension)

2. using fibre optic cables to measure vibration or deformations (using the fibre as sensor)

3. physical layer redudancy in case of failure

4. keeping safety critical systems physically seperate from other data transfers

There are probably more reasons that are possibly more on-topic. I'm definitely not a fiber applications expert.
No need to "hear." This is easily Googled.

Americans have the highest level of disposable income in the world, and it's not even close. Even Europe's mega-rich tax havens like Luxembourg have a lower disposable income than Americans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposable_household_and_per_c...

Yea I know the rebuttal--"but I also heard they all have $100,000 hospital bills every year!!" The disposable per capita income numbers already account for healthcare expenditures.
the article states this person is walking in commercial area. that is what is creating the liminal space. she’s not strolling through the woods. she’s basically just bothered that her neighborhood isn’t gentrified enough yet.
If that’s your defense in court, good luck.
> Plus people are not actually looking for identical room sizes.

Times are changing.

Gen Z will happily take it. What they're looking for is just any housing they can afford at all. If cheap effeciency can make a small detached bungalow with a real yard and a parking space affordable, they'll be happy to put up with minor taste quibbles like that. The alternative is roommate packed apartments, mom's basement, or homes far from any jobs to pay for the homes with.
Honkai Impact 3rd does have pay2win ladder. It's pretty hardcore too, even as a whale it can be quite rough to get to the top. There's a LOT of top tier whales in that game and you need some pixel perfect timings to utilize it at the top level.
Vscode has gotten pretty good for java
Yep, the article just seems to be talking about single tenancy vs multi tenancy. The VMs vs containers thing seems mostly orthogonal
Imagine a type of executable that could run on any Linux server. Would this "executable" be worth it?
> Do they have a way of hiding a transmitter?

Spread spectrum and/or frequency hopping.

> If they can't hide it, you can't, either.

The reason you can't hide it is because it's an FM modulated signal on an actual carrier frequency. It's designed to be received by cheap consumer radios in the clear.
A more practical example is that Facebook cannot promote its marketplace anymore. In Europe there are local alternatives for market places that get disadvantaged.

Spotify, an EU company, has to compete with Apple Music and YouTube Music. Both of which have their own mobile operating systems and markets.

Now we get a lot of backlash from these big tech firms as for years they have been integrating services into their walled gardens. Which now is hard to decouple from their platform.
> They've also been trying to extract as much personal info as possible for profit. Because regulators in the USA are hamstrung, they are used to being able to basically doing stuff that would be illegal if it were in physical stores/pre-existing industries.

Did you actually read the article? I don't know how you square this kobayashi maru situation, unless you think Meta is outright lying about it:

> Europe recently charged Meta with breaching EU regulations over its “pay or consent” plan. Meta’s business is built around personalized ads, which are worth far more than non-personalized ads. EU regulators required that Meta provide an option that did not involve tracking user data, so Meta created a paid model that would allow users to pay a fee for an ad-free service.
This was already a significant concession—personalized ads are so valuable that one analyst estimated paid users would bring in 60 percent less revenue. But EU regulators are now insisting this model also breaches the rules, saying that Meta fails to provide a less personalized but equivalent version of Meta’s social networks. They’re demanding that Meta provide free full services without personalized ads or a monthly fee for users. In a very real sense, the EU has ruled that Meta’s core business model is illegal. Non-personalized ads cannot economically sustain Meta’s services, but it’s the only solution EU regulators want to accept.

Also, what about the CUDA situation? I don't see how any consumer is harmed by this, which is quite different from a social media company doing its thing.
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JetBrains make IDEs for a host of languages: https://www.jetbrains.com/ides/

Their Java IDE is one of the few they release with a free community edition. There is a commercial version with additional features. I expect this is a result from arising where Eclipse and NetBeans open source IDEs existed.

I like GoLand and IntelliJ. Superior tools to others I have tried.
If the esteemed commenters of the FT are thinking similarly to this person, Russia.

It’s unfounded. Maybe not impossible, but it seems FAR more likely that it was eco-terrorism or another similar grievance. I haven’t heard one parsimonious theory for why Russia might do this.
Karl Schwarzschild found the first exact solutions to Einstein’s gravitational field equations (general theory of relativity) while serving in the trenches in WWI, firing artillery at the Russians.
I'm pretty sure pphysch is correct.

> Seriously, a simple google search or taking a minute to follow the first link in the article would have shown you that the patch set obviously came with a benchmark [1].

If you're referring to the table with headers "number xarray maple rhash rosebush", it's an estimate of memory usage, not a benchmark. And the author (Matthew Wilcox) says "I've assumed an average chain length of 10 for rhashtable in the above memory calculations", which folks questioned. So there's reason to doubt its correctness.

> It’s someone posting a patch to the kernel mailing list, not some random kid on GitHub, there is no point assuming they are an idiot to try to shine.

Let's just let the work speak rather than flagging the author as an idiot or genius...at present rosebush is unproven and based on questionable assumptions. That might change in future rounds.
Yeah these things are really piles of code and feature integration and can obscure the underlying logic somewhat.

1. Moon phase (or "age") is trivial to compute using modular arithmetic, given an absolute moment in time as an offset relative to a reference full moon time.

2. Converting datetime formats to a reference time can get complicated, particularly if you want to handle historical dates where calendar systems changed.

3. Converting phase into named bins is a pretty trivial lookup table to quantize the continuous phase value.

4. Converting phase into an approximate percent illumination is pretty trivial geometry, using a simplified model of the moon as a circle with an elliptical boundary for the shaded versus lit part.

5. Converting percent illumination into apparent brightness requires much more work to actually compute the positions of the sun, moon, and earthbound observer.

6. Finding moonrise and moonset times requires even more work to repeatedly find the positions and search for horizon crossings.

Edit: and computing practical brightness is even more complex as you need to fuse together the above with meteorological data to consider what light actually reaches the observer!
So like, Clean Code really does say you should write four line functions, and does not put caveats on that statement, Uncle Bob even gives a lengthy terrible-looking example of a class written with 4-line functions and holds it up as the ideal. His views as expressed in that book are extreme and uncompromising, the “everything in moderation, there are many ways to write clean code” stuff is a rhetorical act he does when people call him out. Then when they’re gone and he thinks he can get away with it he starts speaking in absolute statements again.

Like, this is a conversation Uncle Bob had with Casey Muratori on GitHub, I came away feeling like Uncle Bob is more interested in playing rhetorical judo than anything else: https://github.com/unclebob/cmuratori-discussion/blob/main/c...
I'd just say all advertising. It's effectively money time and effort we just light on fire.
This is silly. So a bunch of American companies are refusing to go along with EU regulations that cramp their own monopolistic style. That doesn’t mean they are killing the local tech market.
For future reference, this is how it currently looks:

https://ibb.co/TbmKZfw

And how it looked 24 hours ago:

https://ibb.co/LdvLtsL
Very perplexed about this too. The only reason I can come up with is to prevent people from copying the content?

But that doesn't make much sense either TBH. The page's content is not obfuscated, so this does nothing to stop a content scraper script. Plus, even a not particularly technical user can just turn on reading mode and get at the text anyways...
I wish there was more to the US tech industry than social networks and ads.
This sounds like a lot of pearl clutching from someone with zero experience in this space, but I'll still try and reply in good faith.

> How would you know? If your equipment was operating improperly or out of specification, how would anyone contact you to let you know?

The stations I broadcast on had websites and Facebook pages. Anyone was free to lodge a complaint, but no one ever did.

> This is a fantastic claim that should come with solid evidence. I know licensed HAM and other operators do practice and work to provide these services, but I've never seen them legitimately attributed to pirate stations anywhere.

It's a fair ask, but sorry I'm not going to dox myself to provide you with evidence. Either believe me, or don't.

That said I don’t think the claim is that “fantastic”. What’s hard to believe about people tuning into a hyper local station to get up to date information during an emergency? The fact some of those folks were volunteer fire fighters or search and rescue makes it too hard to swallow?

> It's complaints based. The FCC does not "scout around" looking for pirates. If you step on my signal, I will record it, and I will report it to the FCC. If your station has been found and is being shut down then your actions rose to this level of notice.

Again, we were operating on unused bands of frequency with low power transmitters. I promise you there was no one else's signal being "stepped on".

> I agree. The airwaves are _everyones_ resources though. It's those who abuse the system that create the waste.

If you consider a small, fun, independent, neighborhood radio station to be "abuse", then sure, we're the bad guys. I would counter argue that you shouldn't need to provide the FCC with tens of thousand of dollars to use resources that are going unused, and that no one is going to "miss" anyway. It's not like the spectrum is some finite thing that can never be recouped once used. If someone else started using that part of the spectrum at a commercial level, we can just turn our low powered gear off.
No one is forcing you to use these services. I care very much about my privacy and only use a handful of services that respect that privacy. Stop giving your money to companies you disagree with and stop forcing your morality on others. Because all that does is set the precedent for someone to force their morality on you even if you disagree with it. That's how we get anti gay, xenophobic, extremists forcing their moral views on others.

Let people decide what is right for them.
First, I'm afraid you are very confused about your own link.

My point was that the things I mentioned are sufficient on their own to qualify a movie for the Best Picture category.

Pick any TWO of these four:

- "Diverse" casting (aka roughly in line with US pop demographics and even then, STILL favoring white men) OR storyline centered on non-white OR non-male OR non-heterosexual theme

- "Diverse" leadership (Simply have two dept heads that aren't white, straight, male, AND fully-abled)

- Opportunities for training and advancement for people who are not white, straight, male AND fully-abled

- Studio has >1 senior executive OR consultant that has a significantly different background from the rich, white, straight, fully-abled men that ran Hollywood for the better part of a century. Just find two people!

Second, the word "elites" perfectly describes the people who run the system people are trying to change. Elites don't want to change anything. Why would they?
lol. You don’t think Meta would outright lie about this stuff? They have been for years and years. Why is this different?
You're right, the example I wrote was in Racket. I didn't know "everything is an expression" wouldn't work in CL.
> there’s probably lots of historical/legacy reasons for the way things are with hdr

That's pretty much it. If you use a HDR TV it will usually work like you describe. It would display the same white for a normal white PNG and an "even whiter" "HDR" PNG.

Apple's decision makes sense if you imagine SDR (so not-HDR) images as HDR images clipped to to some SDR range in the middle of the HDR range (leading to lots of over- and underexposure in the SDR image). If you then show them side-by-side of course the whitest white in the HDR range is whiter than the whitest white in the SDR image. Of course that's a crude simplification of how images work, but it makes for a great demo: HDR images really pop and look visually better. If you stretched everything to the same brightness range the HDR images wouldn't be nearly as impressive, just more detail and less color banding. The marketing people wouldn't like that
Can we reject all cookies? I only see the option to reject optional cookies
The most important thing when evaluating things you need to know is: context matters

Principles arent universal across technologies

Hell, principles arent even universal across software kind (e.g goto arent used in C# web dev, but std lib? yes)
Very strange. Have ypu seen https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41065900 ?
ELI5: Why Apple's silicon consumption is so much better than AMD and Intel?
What the title says. How is it possible that Apple's M1, M2, M3 are so much better at power consumption and so much cooler than AMD and intel?
the agriculture market relies heavily on goverment intervention to even exist.

The EU and its member states give out huge subsidies to keep food production local in the EU without being completely destroyed by cheaper crops from third world countries.

The US does the same, and it is for good reason, to actually make sure a steady food supply exists inside the country/union.
I fully agree, but this requires a certain level of experience to organize code in a way that makes it easy to navigate and modify. It's quite easy to end up with with "rube goldberg" code where you don't know what listeners are being triggered by what streams. Or to end up with a ton of edge cases where things aren't handled properly when issues occur.
I'd be surprised if they didn't have insurance that covered the sum of money in the machine
yeah exactly, this is a way to account for this dumb losses because even when it bombs it's still credible enough to have another dummy
USSR did not “kill millions of Slavs” in Eastern Europe. You’re severely confused. Hitler, however, did. Fully extrapolating this line of propaganda into the future, 30-40 years from now people will believe that an amateur Austrian painter wanted European unity, but bloody dictator Stalin unfortunately got in the way. And I think that’s exactly the narrative which will dominate in the future based on the current trends.
Oklab is even better.

https://bottosson.github.io/posts/oklab/
Show HN: Weave – A tool to track how your habits work together
In 2014, I read the most impactful advice on how to progress long-term goals: In the book Fat Loss Happens on Monday, Josh Hillis opened Chapter 6 with an anecdote about how he catapulted himself from a novice to a trainer who got results by convincing his clients to keep a food log.

After success with that, I ran with the idea of tracking small movements towards a large goal. It felt like carving something out with many small, precise cuts. I kept logs for EVERYTHING, and then when I reviewed them together, I could see how pursuing one goal affected the others.

I made Weave to make that comparison more powerful.

Weave is an event-based structured journal. It allows you to focus on different parts of your life and then makes it more straightforward to see how they fit together.

Weave compresses and packages your data every month so you can download and store it forever. You can play around with the demo here: https://www.idiotlamborghini.com/strategies/weave

Thank you for reading!
Just like any contract, every single possible circumstance cannot be enumerated and at some point a judgement call is required.
I'd think the inflation adjustment is regulation. but perhaps the law exists somewhere.
The efficacy of bureaucratic destruction is explicit in warfare guidance [0]. We pretend peacetime is different. It’s not.

So among non-EU-dwellers, let’s raise a glass to our fallen competitors and erstwhile comrades. Better than Nordstreaming them, or at least more subtle. Onward, toward a new vassal-state future!

edit: It appears that EU subjects are distraught, or the topic is too raw. Let me know!

[0] https://www.hsdl.org/c/abstract/?docid=750070
Is that right? I hadn't noticed. I'm guessing that the design was such that it looked like Stripe, even if it wasn't officially a part of it (yet).
Hmm, I'm a PC player, but for me it was mostly getting the animation timings down so I could consistently dodge.
He used his father's rifle purchased in 2013, so you can amend your statement to:

"A reminder that if you want to live in a country where it is normal to own an assault rifle..."
Dump the concrete! Put baby powder around the scene with bio hazard warnings!
Self hate? more like government hate.

Which in France is a reasonable survival strategy for its people judging by their history: a bunch of kings, 3 emperors, fairly corrupt governments with huge deficits etc.

I don't get why self-sabotage is likely in this case though: plenty of real external enemies, including one that recently "stole" France's African empire.
Interesting statement.
What is the nature of the superiority that you think you're seeing exactly?
Witnessing a Russian youth kicking a downed man in the head was quite revelatory: indeed no one from Côte d'Ivoire would be that much of a savage beast.
Counter example in coastal California (in basically the West Coast version of levitt Town),my tax and insurance assessment has my physical house only representing a third of the total value. So the lot is with double the structure.

But I'm guessing that is not a common situation across the country.
>In a very real sense, the EU has ruled that Meta’s core business model is illegal.

Is this actually bad?
At least half the times I've seen it someone "super apologetic" comes out and fixes the issue, so not sure how that tracks.
Do companies need onerous regulations that increase costs for consumers or do they need the incentive in form of not having their corporate charter cancelled and corporate officers banned from doing business as a threat to maintain a fair market?
Cup O' Go
Ok Scrooge McDuck
The same way you would know that flying a drone, today, without a license is illegal in the USA.

We are required, in our society, to keep ourselves informed. Ignorance is no excuse for breaking laws in the US.
I think it depends. In my experience, this tended to be more of a problem in places that had mixed systems, or allowed people to BYOD. Every place that was running windows exclusively tended to have a halfway reasonable AD setup and at least someone in IT who was intimately familiar with administrating a fleet of Windows machines.
how is europe's economy terrible? by what metric?
considering that the EU still has a very large part of the global economy, especially compared to its population and size.

Also, the tech industry is not the only part of the economy. large parts of the EU are absolutely massive in terms of industrial machinery and scientific companies.

People on HN always seem to forget that a lot of money can be made by making something very high end which solves a specific problem, no matter if it is sexy or not.
When it comes to commodity staple foods there's just no way that small farms can survive. It isn't realistic given advances in technology and economies of scale. This isn't a problem, it's just inevitable. Small farms that want to remain independent will have to switch from commodities to specialty foods that command higher profit margins.
Deep Learning Interviews (2021)
What plug-ins do you use?
+1 for “in all likelihood” but it should be stated that the book explains a third approach which doesn’t lean on either subjective or objective probability.
> HP has used its "Dynamic Security" firmware updates to "create a monopoly"

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/hp-sued-again-for-bl...
Wait, these are problems? Other than #4 they all sound like good things.
I've been wanting to read books like Algorithms for Optimization (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0262039427/) and Probabilistic Machine Learning (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0262046822/) but when I open them up I immediately think "wow I really need to refresh my calculus because I have no idea what's going on." It sounds like I should look into Math Academy for relearning old Calculus and learning some new stuff as well.
OT: Many moons ago, I had one of those cheap Belkin 3.5 mm –> FM car adapters (my car didn't have bluetooth in any form, this was like 2003, but it made it possible to use my iPod instead of the car's cassette player).

Anyway, frequency selection was a manual process, and while the best sound quality was found on frequencies where no radio stations transmitted, it was fully possible to dial in an already occupied frequency. Power output was low, but strong enough to overpower anything in a 10-15 m radius, forcing nearby cars in a traffic jam to listen to my music.
It is all extremely hacky.

Because HDR allows us to encode brightnesses that virtually no consumer displays can display.

And so deciding how to display those on any given display, on a given OS, in a given app, is making whatever "hacky" and totally non-standardized tradeoffs the display+OS+app decide to make. And they're all different.

It's a complete mess. I'm strongly of the opinion that HDR made a fundamental mistake in trying to design for "ideal" hardware that nobody has, and then leaving "degraded" operation to be implementation-specific.

It's a complete design failure that playing HDR content on different apps/devices results in output that is often too dark and often has a telltale green tint. It's ironic that in practice, something meant to enable higher brightness and greater color accuracy has resulted in darker images and color that varies from slightly wrong to totally wrong.
Purpose built furniture looks great regardless though. Although expensive
Thank you.

I have been trying to argue that the transition to EVs is a natsec issue for 10+ years. However, I am just some forum schmuck, and it has not been going well. Any help with moving this thinking up the chain would be greaty appreciated.

A possible analogy: The Internet was designed to be a multi-path, decentralized, and distributed communications system to withstand attack. That's what EVs are for transportation.
this dude is an annoying hot take artist
You're free to not be a user, but millions of other people want it.