skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perplexity.ai:

Me: "Explain 'Gaussian Envelope'"

Perplexity: "A Gaussian envelope is a mathematical function used to modulate another function, often a wave or signal, by applying a Gaussian-shaped curve. This modulation results in a smooth, bell-shaped curve that outlines the extremes of the modulated signal...

[...]

Application: In signal processing, a Gaussian envelope is often used to shape or control the amplitude of oscillating signals or wave packets...

[...]

Wave Packets: In physics, particularly in quantum mechanics and optics, Gaussian envelopes are used to form wave packets. A wave packet can be described as a plane wave modulated by a Gaussian envelope, which helps localize the wave in space and time...

[...]

Signal Processing: Gaussian envelopes are used in generating pulses with specific characteristics... [...] For instance, a sinusoidal pulse can be modulated with a Gaussian envelope to control its amplitude over time.

Fourier Transform: The Fourier transform of a Gaussian function is also a Gaussian, which makes it particularly useful in frequency domain analysis. This property allows for efficient analysis and manipulation of signals with Gaussian envelopes.

Related:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Envelope_(waves)

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

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

Paper: "A Fourier Approach to Mixture Learning"

(It has Gaussian stuff, it has Fourier stuff, what's not to love? :-) <g>):

https://openreview.net/pdf?id=thirVlDJ2IL

Star Trek IV: (Computer to Mr. Spock): "Adjust the sine wave of this magnetic envelope so that anti-neutrons can pass through it, but anti-gravitons can not..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2ooUXjNPS8&t=51s

:-)
> A near miss is often about reaction times and strength.

Funny, I thought it was about safety procedures and culture. Leaving accident avoidance up to reflexes is an incredibly poor way to build anything safely right?
You elected a rapist. This is just a factual statement. You can introspect on that as you want.
Where do you see that?

(not that MSNBC is a monolith, but) This article claims exactly the opposite: https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-steal-elec...

> Trump didn’t need to file frivolous lawsuits before federal courts. The Supreme Court wasn’t given a chance to throw the election his way in a redux of 2000’s Bush v. Gore. The false bomb threats to polling places that have been ascribed to Russian actors don’t appear to have had any measurable effect. There’s been no reporting that indicates that the promised hordes of MAGA-trained poll watchers blocked any Democratic voters from casting their ballots.

> He just won.
This feels close enough to my experience that I believe you actually do speak genuinely with these people.

I think a huge part of it is also that they feel seen by someone, finally. Trump did a great job of making these people feel like the spotlight was finally on them, and honestly it’s true.
I don't agree with all your points, but I very much respect that you criticize Trump's policies. That is so much more reasonable and productive than using hoaxes after hoaxes like the media and Harris' campaign team did.

Speaking of abortion rights, I believe few people will even talk about it in the next election cycle, as it has become a state issue. I also find it interesting that many pro-lifers hate Trump for overturning Roe vs Wade because they won't get millions and millions of dollars every year for the sake of fighting abortion rights.
You can view all of Washington's weed revenue
https://502data.com/
$2,600,919,507 seems like a lil bit of money in tax revenue

sadly it looks like most of the current data went behind a pay wall
Ah, Algeria! Well, I'm Greek but I never miss a chance to try my French on :)
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I did. You didn’t read the internet last night.

No new knowledge was gained here. This was all well known and ignored in 2016. We are back to where we were before. Enemies to be feared.
I think they were talking about the literal assassinations
To note that UNIX was also only open due that AT&T wasn't allowed to profit from their research at the time.
> but earlier school classes now often have a majority of kids that don't speak German, holding the whole class back

Nope, that's not the problem. My wife is a teacher. Schools where teachers don't go on the toilet because it's so fucked up. That's the problem. But we need to reduce money there, because we need more tax breaks.
I teach AED use and both my curriculum and trainer AEDs have one pad on the right chest and one on the left side. Is this the “two on the chest” method? If so, why have organizations not updated their curriculum and tooling?

Should I assume that irrespective of this finding, pads should be placed where the AED indicates so that rhythm detection works correctly?
Magentic-One: A Generalist Multi-Agent System for Solving Complex Tasks
Some teen dancing on a streaming service is very different from a venue charging admission and beverages for a couple hundred people spending an evening out.
What disrespect has he shown, ever, for the Supreme Court? And if the norms mean giving all of our tax dollars to NATO for nothing in return, why wouldn't you destroy those norms? After all, I voted for him on that basis.
societally. what amounts to attractiveness can vary a lot more than you think throughout cultures and times.

But yes, people have always been in competition biologically to flaunt success and pick the best mating partner. You can do that through putting others down or otherwise controlling a mate. And the dimorphic needs between sexes only intensifies this. I'm no sociologist but I wouldn't be surprised if this is a universal experience.
They know that nobody standing in front of a customs officer that is looking at their photo will actually be smiling. So having it neutral or even scowling as your experience will be much more likely to match. /s
The foundations of Wolfram Language (Mathematica) are about transformations on symbolic expressions, at least conceptually.
I strongly feel Harris lost because she did not connect with white voting women in the swing states. The exit poll numbers show this. She had about the same percentage voting women as Biden, but lost votes with white men. So to make up for that gap, it had to be white women. She did great with non-white overall.

I think it's easy to say "Harri needed more votes" but to go about this strategically, there needs to be on-target messaging.
This is true, and it's probably because he now operates in an altered context — the narrative of persecution, especially by those perceived to be 'elite'. Without that, all Americans would see through his nonsense just as the inhabitants of democracies elsewhere do.

His opponents have done a very bad job of not making it look like everyone's simply biased and out to get him, and he's capitalised on that.
You're just being dramatic for the purpose of argumentation.

Trump has never said he wants you gone. It's simply not true.
Oh and last point - Dang is one person, not an army of people. The Trump thread is very very busy, so I presume he is busy. It's unreasonable to expect real-time or even "quick" addressing of every issue you perceive.
I did a couple of years at the NASSCO shipyard in San Diego as a welder after the first .com crash.

The (literal) toxic work environment is why I left welding, even though I genuinely enjoyed the work. But I was already starting to see real changes in my health, even though I was super careful about respirator use, etc. What really sealed the deal was learning that my shift lead, who I thought was a good decade older than me, was actually a few years younger, but had just been welding longer, with the body damage to show for it.
The article describes why this isn't the problem. You might enjoy reading it.

The basic point is that WebSockets requires that data move across channels that are too general and cause multiple unaligned memory copies. The CPU cost to do the copies was what cost the megabuck, not network transfer costs.
The one reliable source I’m not going to dispute with, frankly. Best of luck this time around!
> when sanctions at 10 don't work it can't turn the dial to 11

Yea it can. It did that to Iraq.
They failed on the policy too. Good policy makes for good messaging.
Most right winners are listening to podcasts at this point, I don't think Joe Rogan's incentives are as equally bad when comparing to an industry that manufactured the opium epidemic or ones that constantly lie
Correct. Though AAC (when produced with a proper encoder) surpasses all other lossy formats with the exception of Opus.
US Bond Yields Surge as Trump Win Stokes Inflation Expectations
The KDE folks did some impressive work back then. That the world basically runs on derivatives is quite the achievement.

But you can't say anymore that Konqueror is an alternative to big tech.

I wish we still had a live khtml developed by KDE today but we don't.

We don't have any non big tech alternative today. Firefox is funded by Google.

There's hope with servo and ladybug.

Netsurf seemed like a very nice codebase but somehow it seems to remain small and too limited for most uses.
Ask HN: Hosting on Digital Ocean, any advice for monitoring and deployments?
I'm moving over from Lambda to Digital Ocean since I found it much easier to test locally and iterate. Unfortunately, I'm not too savvy with setting up monitoring so I can see how often failures are happening and how to smoothly deploy changes on DO. I currently have a setup where I pull each individual change into my instance and re-run docker-compose build etc. Would love to learn more about what tools have helped you for logging/monitoring/deployments
I would most certainly categorize what is commonly known as the "upper middle class" as wealthy. Upper-middle usually has a sizable wealth, mainly in real estate, equities, etc.
So it is not only the rich and ultra-rich (but of course them benefit from this the most if they don't do anything too stupid).
Of course all of these terms and definitions are quite fuzzy so the whole argument hinges on some implicit agreement as to the specifics.
Isnt the point of "sin taxes" to offset externalities? If the externalities decrease then so should the tax. If governments are looking for a steady source of income then "sin taxing" seems like the wrong approach.
No. That isn't what they said.

Read the article.
Pretty safe bet those in prison will be pardoned, and I wouldn't be shocked if the dead traitor got a posthumous medal.
Yes. CPU costs due to multiple memcpy operations.
Why would a consumer care about what node something is on? You should only care about a set of processors that is available in the market at the same time. The M4 is available now and Zen 6 is not. Once zen 6 is here we probably have an M5.
But but but - I have resting happy face!
As an Oregonian, I wish I could see the benefits of it locally. We have at least a half dozen weed shops in my town, vastly outnumbering any other category of business, and yet my kids literally couldn't go to school one day last week because the district "doesn't have enough money to staff the buildings."

I know it's a bit of an unfair complaint, but these are the things I start wondering about when we can't even keep our schools open. Where is the money going?
Yeah, I've been threatened and doxxed on this forum... no action. So brave. Stunning.
There do exist physician assistants but they are terrible. Never met a good one.

The lack of agency is what's primary here. You are never guaranteed to have the best care all of the time - even if you have the money.
It's necessary because the Starship upper stage is so heavy. With a non reusable upper stage Starship's capacity would be enormous.
I wish the US democracy had this feature. We have to just suffer through it for 4 years.
If the version numbers of all services built from the PR are identical, you at least have a pretty clear trail to figuring out WTF happened.

Even with a few services, we saw some pretty crunchy issues with people not understanding that service A had version 1.3.1234 of a module and Service B had version 1.3.1245 and that was enough skew to cause problems.

Distinct repos tend to have distinct builds, and sooner or later one of the ten you're building will glitch out and have to be run twice, or the trigger will fail and it won't build at all until the subsequent merge, and having numbers that are close results in a false sense of confidence.
Honestly of very little significance to the typical individual. It isn't going to pay my bills or provide for my kids. It does nothing for people suffering war and genocide. Nothing for poverty, access to health care and education. Nothing for the biggest threats facing our civilization.

It is still a remarkable technical achievement and I think the people who have designed and built these systems deserve some celebration for their accomplishments. It has the potential to lower costs and increase the capacity for greater commercialization, militarization and exploration of space.

I think the extent you see that as something positive is subject to your faith in humanity. I tend to think technologies connection to social progress is a three steps forward, two steps back sort of thing. We have certainly made gains in my lifetime but we could have gone a lot further.
I'm not the parent poster, but in my case I very rarely use it because it's not in the Neovim UI; it opens in a browser.

I've also had some issues where it doesn't seem to work reliably, but that could be related to my setup.
Still incredibly isolated with the thin veil of being interactive because you get likes or whatever.

We've traded social connection for micro-dopamine hits.

And I don't think I'm being an old man shouting at clouds. I think it's genuinely worse.
> not all systems have strong memory ordering

Atomics require you to explicitly specify a memory ordering for every operation, so the system's memory ordering doesn't really matter. It's still possible to get it wrong, but a lot easier than in (traditional) C.
> I really hope Donald Trump understands the need for radical change of the US government (on the order of firing 80% of the people), and also understands that he can’t do it without Elon’s help. So that’s obstacle one, does Elon get free range to operate?

I work for the government. Sure, state government, but still… I take this seriously. You're gonna find out that quality of services falls apart if and when this happens.

This doesn't belong on HN.
Yeah, I've been really disappointed with Digital Ocean so far. Not just from a pricing perspective but from a customer service perspective.

Anyone using CDK should switch to Pulumi though.
The border bill was done only after three years of doing nothing against massively increasing crossings.
> Also full disk encryption is opt-in for macOS. But the answer isn't that Apple wants you to be insecure, they just probably want to make it easier for their users to recover data if they forget a login password or backup password they set years ago.

"If you have a Mac with Apple silicon or an Apple T2 Security Chip, your data is encrypted automatically."

The non-removable storage is I believe encrypted using a key specific to the Secure Enclave which cleared on factory reset. APFS does allow for other levels of protection though (such as protecting a significant portion of the system with a key derived from initial password/passcode, which is only enabled while the screen is unlocked).
can also be a linear algorithm that does N+1 queries. ORMs can be very good at hiding this implementation detail
Trump's a clown. Trump's a liar.

Here's the thing. He sells. Always.

He does that if he doesn't know about the issue. He does that if he doesn't care about the issue.

Harris couldn't sell. Watch her talk about abortion. On some level that's one of the few things she manages to convey a sense of genuineness about. For everything else it's like she's saying "What do you want me to be for? I'm for that" it's fine if you're thinking that but when people figure out that's who you are it's more toxic then them thinking you're a liar or a clown.
Sysadmin shock as Windows Server 2025 installs itself after labeling error
It's probably best not to trust _any_ podcast until you do a bit of investigation. That way you won't run into the "learning not to trust" problem and you can write a "why I trust the X podcast" article.

That said - this was a great breakdown - thanks to the author!
OTOH there are some with a great desire to procreate even though it might mean (temporary) hardship or doesn't fit with their socioeconomic status. I know several of those.

The ones who shall inherit the earth.
The issue is that you can't "enforce" loose coupling. The causality is reversed here.

Your software artifacts will have loose coupling if you divided them well enough on their creation. As soon as they are created, you can't do anything else to change it, except for joining or splitting them.
I think it would. Idaho proposed an amendment to its constitution this election which proposed to replace closed primaries with an open primary with ranked choice voting (top 4 move onto general elections).

Sadly, it's looking like the republicans campaign to shoot it down succeeded because it would have threatened their grip on the state by allowing democrats and independents to temper their candidates to more moderate picks
As a European, I don't get this. You frame it as a choice between two people: a badass vs a bumbling idiot. Why should it be about the personalities of the candidates and not be a choice between the kind of policies that are being proposed and the ability to reason about them?

While I concede that subjectively, Trump can come across as badass and Harris might have been "phony" at times, when it comes to the policies both sides are defending during debates and even the way they express themselves verbally during debates, Harris comes across to me as someone who has better ideas and can explain them far better.

I think that the difference between politics in Europe vs the US is that the latter is based much more on cult of personality. And sadly that mode of operation is becoming more common here in Europe as well.

I personally don't care for the personal attacks and mud slinging. Let's bring back intelligent debates.
That is super interesting, thank you so much!
Bathos: The Art of Sinking
Panasonic Connect Certifies Toughbook Devices on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Yup. Passed by Mars in Oct 2020 which is definitely outside low earth orbit.
National elections are essentially yes/no referenda because all the issues average out in aggregate. Issues make for months of tv though.
His supporters realize he is a blowhard and adjust accordingly. Shut down a TV network? Lock her up? It's BS. I don't like it much, but for him it's a rhetorical device.

By contrast when Biden calls me garbage, I'm pretty sure he means it.
I was thinking of putting a Reverse Osmosis filter in my Kitchen. Would RO water just leach this chemical out then from plastic containers? Since the RO water is pretty pure.
All the RO units I've seen are made of plastic.

My dilemma is that a massive car battery plant is being built right next to a local creek. The city water intake is down river. They obviously placed the plant next to a creek for a reason. The creek already smells like sewage because they have a water treatment plant on it. My nose tells me not to trust the quality of their "treating of water", since the creek smells like sewage and has algae blooms.

So was thinking of getting a kitchen RO unit. Currently use a Britta filter.
> How is this situation any different?

CocaCola corporation kindly asked you to put only CocaCola corporation products in a fridge produced and owned by CocaCola corporation.

They didn't ask you to stop selling competitor products, let them know when you buy competitor products and certainly didn't ask for the receipts and told you them they will try to price-match them, and only allow you to buy competitor products if and only if they can't price match, which effectively limits what you can buy and sell.

On top of that what CocaCola corporation did has no place in law terminology, but what Corning allegedly did has a place [0].

[0]: https://www.ipglossary.com/glossary/english-clause/
What the average voter hears: we take credit for all positive things and everything negative was out of our control.
Economic indicators are manufactured by government agencies to support the narrative the current administration wants to spin. Meanwhile, people living in the real world observe some actual state of economy, based on things such as "how hard it was to find a new job".
Trudeau government bans TikTok from operating in Canada
I do improvisational comedy, which is a form of theater. it's a niche thing where I will see basically the same faces around town, and that's in a major metropolitan area.
> Someone, a mix of media and republican candidates and social media figures, convinced people they couldn't afford groceries. They didn't arrive at that conclusion organically.

This is a wild take that sounds it's coming from an affluent tech worker. I'm politically left, and I don't know if this is parody to make liberals look out of touch.

Tech salaries went up, but people working minimum wage can't afford groceries. Federal minimum wage was increased to $7.25/hour in 2009, 15 years ago.

Medians don't tell the full story, because of the K-shaped recovery graph. The upper half gained wealth but the lower half lost wealth.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/04/the-covid-recovery-still-has...
It's difficult because we actually ditched a lot of the c++ code with this change and rewrote it in golang. Specifically server.cpp has been excised (which was deprecated by llama.cpp anyway), and the image processing routines are all written in go as well. We also bypassed clip.cpp and wrote our own routines for the image encoder/cross attention (using GGML).

The hope is to be able to get more multimodal models out soon. I'd like to see if we can get Pixtral and Qwen2.5-vl in relatively soon.
Not just billionaires so much as multi-billion-dollar corporations that are too big not to be stronger than (indebted) government and control politicians.

It's been a while but lots of the real gems (precious metals too) have already been sold for a profit so there's not as much upside as there was traditionally.

Without hard-asset inflation, the dollar could turn out to be one of their least-performing assets, and you know they can't have that.
What countries aren't using tariffs? Biden used tariffs. Biden kept Trump tariffs. I paid a tariff for my BMW. Germany was probably pretty happy about that. I liked their product enough, so I was happy, too.

Go read some Peter Navarro. He explains desperately how important it is to be protectionist (to a limited extent) with certain industries. Especially if they link to security and health of the nation. You do not want a hostile nation to make all of your pharmaceuticals. You do not want them to hold you hostage over your lack and their surplus of steel. This is basic, basic stuff.

And the whole point is that other countries are not engaging in fair trade practices. If they aren't engaging in fair trade, then they can't engage in this fabled myth of "free trade". This is literally the Trump trade doctrine. He has spelled it out and acted on it. If the CCP hadn't manipulated the price of steel to wipe out American steel producers, they wouldn't be subject to extreme tariffs. Simple, simple stuff.
Yeah, asylum isn’t great. But Fascism is serious stuff. I recommend reading the stories of the great scientists who left the third reich as it was ramping up—who faced discrimination, loneliness, poverty, and severe career setbacks-and comparing them to stories of the scientists who stayed… I know which side I’d rather be on.

Regardless, I don’t think “coming back to the US to visit family” is on our radar. That’s what makes this election heartbreaking. Asylum or no, moving overseas is effectively abandoning your extended/older family forever, unless you’re rich and/or a climate change denier.