skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Battery power on common battery phones (in a common battery phone there isn't actually a battery, the terms here are mostly historic) is required for a carbon transmitter to work and, for DTMF dialing, it's used by some DTMF keypads. But battery isn't actually that important to most modern phones, which use ADC/DAC instead of an analog audio setup. Modems are similar, they have their own audio electronics that rely on their external power source. That's a good practice in general because battery power on phone lines is pretty variable and not always very clean, so you don't want to run ICs off of it if you can avoid it. The current is also too limited to use it for much, even indicator lights will run into certification problems.

The issue with the USB modems might actually be a bit different... more frequent use of single-pair digital business telephone systems in the '90s lead to problems with people connecting them to conventional modems. Some of these digital systems used unusually high battery voltages (sort of a PoE-esque method of providing meaningful current to the desk phones for their lights and displays), and there was a concern that they could damage the ADC on modems. So a lot of newer modems actually check the voltage on the line before they connect the audio electronics to it, as a safety precaution. There's an AT response that indicates that the modem is unhappy with the line voltage and I tenuously remember that at least some modems have an AT command to defeat this protection and make them connect anyway. Digital Line Detect is what the feature is usually called, but you might more generally call it a line voltage check.
My M1 Max regularly pushes 1000+ tabs without breaking a sweat, I feel like this particular metric is no longer useful now that background tab memory is almost always unloaded by the browser.
Note that succinct data structures may not be faster than conventional structures if your dataset fits in memory http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~huanche1/slides/FST.pdf . Of course, for large datasets where storage access times dominate, succinct data structures win all around. In any case, succinct trees are works of art (If I recall https://arxiv.org/pdf/1805.11255 was a good exposition) (just look at how that RMQ works)!
ISDN had much, much better latency than even 56k modems. Modems were around 150ms minimum. ISDN was often in the sub 20 ms range. This made a big difference for chatty protocols like HTTP, telnet, etc.
> you need to find some support amongst your close ones, you definitely need not be alone going through this.

I am not allowed to get support. I don't know why but it's just not possible.
An M3 Ultra is two M3 Max chips connected via fabric, so physics.

Did not mean to shit on anyone's parade, but it's a trap for novices, with the caveat that you reportedly can't buy a GB10 until "May 2025" and the expectation that it will be severely supply constrained. For some (overfunded startups running on AI monkey code? Youtube Influencers?), that timing is an unacceptable risk, so I do expect these things to fly off the shelves and then hit eBay this Summer.
Way better detailed explanation: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/72580828/what-is-a-succi...
Unfortunately, in the USA, the regulations essentially just force manufacturers to put the engine into a huge body just so they fall under different (less-strict) emissions regulations. So banning small vehicles like this with okay gas-mileage (which I would consider "ok" to be in the 20's range), but we aren't improving the environment, since consumers are now just pushed to huge vehicles with gas mileage in the high teens.
That click stopping the sound makes me curious to see a plot of bytes per second sent and received. Is the modem resetting itself every time it clicks and introducing a small pause or data loss?

There is no data being sent or received yet when it makes this sound; as soon as it dials and starts handshaking it goes away. You can hear that here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-ChICic2TA

EDIT: actually that's only partially true -- in the video above it's still making the noise when the dialling is happening. It disappears as soon as it detects a carrier from the other modem. This is weird because the click really sounds like a relay and the function of the relay should be to hang up the connection. Obviously, hanging up while in the middle of dialling is not a good idea.
Is Birmingham accent bad mockery?
As long as you're stock or just doing some bolt ons and an E85/FF tune, the DCT is fine. If you're doing big power upgades, you will need to throw in a shep trans kit or something else, but you're gonna need forged con rods before that - you'll bend rods on a stock motor before you'll break the stock DCT.

It's also butter smooth compared to contemporary peer DCTs, like the getrag box that was thrown in the Ferrari 458 and AMG GT, though I personally prefer the feel of being kicked back into your seat at full throttle + highway speeds from the getrag box. It's fun, but not quite as punishing as a hard launch in a Model S Plaid, which feels more like the car is trying to relocate your kidneys to about 3 feet behind you.

The one exception to the smoothness of Nissan's DCT is slow right hand turns in 1st or 2nd. It seems to not want to upshift as quickly as you'd think it ought to in that situation more often than I would've preferred. But that's more of a minor QoL thing than a real problem, IMO.

A much bigger problem with the R35 is that if it ever gets towed without a flatbed (i.e. rear wheels on road), you grenade most of the drivetrain (including the DCT), and that's like $20k+ in parts before you even start counting labor.
News article or big oil ad?
That documentary was fantastic. Another good resource is this paper from 2016 on what all the equipment/computing systems on Voyager do and what the team had done to keep the mission going as of that point. https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~pbarfuss/VIMChallenges.pdf
The kicker? The e-mail address I give to the hotels doesn't get that spam. My other, personal, e-mail address gets them. A specific one.

And no, I don't get car insurance scam. I get generally faster ones, like "you have a package" types...

The rabbit hole is a bit deeper to summarize with a #8, Solingen made Occam's razor.
> Depending on which bubble you live in you get bombarded with information going your way.

ok but one of the bubbles lives in reality, and the information bombardment is of things that actually happen.

the other bubble is mostly just hateful delusion
Dupe of an hour previous post
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43282489
Yes, but now its in my pocket.
Citations are supposed to be able to be looked up, and 4chan threads are designed to disappear. This only still exists because someone realized it was important (or, more likely, amusing that someone succeeded) and saved it elsewhere.
I don't think any reasonable member of the Go community would claim that any aspect of the language and its standard library is perfect. The many open issues on https://github.com/golang/go attest to that.

One example, if I may: the errors.As function is far from ergonomic. It would have been much better if generics had come to the language before that function was added to the standard library. Modern alternatives exist: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/jub0bs/errutil
There’s been a post on the HN frontpage about “vibe coding” almost every day, so pretty sure many people are familiar with this term. But you have a point, will add this link to the post description.
> All paid for by the company they worked for.

One of my internships in college was at Sun Microsystems in the org that provided this connectivity to employees. My job was to automate pushing updates to connection software and modem firmware down to clients, but I ended up doing a lot of technical support as well.
Ah, that's another good use case. RIP to whatever company doesn't allow their workers to use the LLMs though
Merge here - don't need /fr url
tuna fish

Tune-a-fish

EDIT: looks like there’s a bit more to it https://unixhistory.livejournal.com/1808.html
I found more posters:
https://filmartgallery.com/collections/polish-movie-posters
There is a significant minority of conservative religious people in the US who see any kind of government-provided social-welfare benefit program as an unwelcome infringement on the proper domain of the church.
I'm in therapy. I'm on meds.

I'm "doing the work" but it takes fucking forever. How are you supposed to survive for the years it takes for society to begin to accept you? I don't have time I am getting older and less appealing every day. I am running out of time... or I have ALREADY run out of time and I am gripped in the terror of panic because it's too late and it's already lost / gone

You can't medicate your way out of a situation.

You can't take a pill that changes your job.

There is no way out.
I assume you are aware of the plot of the first Star Trek movie (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_The_Motion_Pictur...)? Picard was not involved however...
Atlassian is nothing if not consistently mediocre at integrating their purchased properties into each other.

And they still haven’t finished making deployments have feature parity with builds in Bamboo.

I made it partway through the interview process at a startup a couple weeks ago and realized I didn’t have a good answer if they asked my advice for what to use for project management, if not Atlassian. Which was fairly likely given the company maturity and the position. I’m still trying to find that answer.

Aside from GitHub I only have one other answer and it starts with, “this is going to sound crazy but hear me out.”
Wonder how it does with table data in pdfs / page-long tabular data?
Because the parties I support are not left wing or far-left wing. So it gets called Nazis and ignored even though it gets a lot of support, but because it doesn't align with the mainstream narrative of mass media and governments and challenges the existing status quo.
Yes, as I am the one who wrote that.
Every action had more friction and the ability to post images was game changing.
The level of DS's openness has been really useful to actually understand what LLM folks are working on day in day out
But what could I do to help people get better in the __act__ of spotting this or doing what you desribe themselves.

Idk for me it is subconcious, I just "feel" it or know that it is logically faulty.

Also the rephrasing doesnt always work imo, you could have a logic statement, that is totally valid in some context and not valid in others. And you also need to think about the validity of the premise and if it is legit to draw the conclusion in natural language.
I thought we stopped -ly company names ~8 years ago?
Stuff that allows it to form a solid block instead of powder. Stuff to time how long it takes to dissolve (how else can there be fast-acting and slow-acting versions?) Stuff to make the pills large enough to see with your eyes. A grain of sand is about 20 milligrams. Low-dose aspirin is 80 milligrams, but the pill is a much more convenient size than 4 grains of sand. (or 8 grains of sand, since sand is about twice as dense as pure ASA)
Athena IM-2 mission touches down but status is unclear
Interesting read. Great to see ppl actually delivering with these open-source releases that really are what openAI should have done…
A similar but different product that was discussed on HN is OlmOCR from AI2, which is open source:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43174298
24 [bit] * 192 [kHz] = 4.608 [Mbps]. Maybe not sensible to do so, but many people could have Discord calls in uncompressed "high-res" WAV. It's crazy that there aren't even 16bit/44.1k modes in most voice call apps.
I think you stated this a bit better than I did, and certainly more concisely. It's immensely frustrating and exhausting to have to constantly defend myself against accusations of not being attentive enough, not being responsive enough, not "looking like I work hard" enough.

If you want someone who looks and runs about like a good little office bee, then I'm (quite evidently) not your girl. That said if you want your jobs handled on-time, to spec and beyond, and with care and consideration for the end users, that's me.
agreed, quite ambitious to cover this entire week in one post
My comment was a joke connecting wiretapping (from the Investigatory Powers Act) with Apple's proprietary adapters. The parallel I was drawing: just as the UK suggests requiring licenses for encryption, Apple already charges $99/year to develop devices you own. A wire "tap" is an adapter (a tap) in the communication line. You can add one yourself at the end of the chain, but the UK also fights with Apple about their USB-C standardization, so it was also referencing the larger regulatory battle.

Clearly, you didn't understand enough to respond to the joke, and it's against HN guidelines to suggest I didn't read the article. However, this topic is derailed due to The Online Safety Act. As I said, the headline was well crafted.
We had that in Teamspeak/mumble/vent, but the chat functionality on those platforms were definitely an afterthought. Not a place you'd cultivate a community.
I quit drinking alcohol and i have some hobbies that involve either dragging heavy shit around or using my arms for exercise.

No amount of "focusing on myself" has stopped the spiral of my life falling apart. Every time I do something for self care purposes something else I forgot about blows up and fucks me over even harder. I cannot get ahead all I can do is exist and attempt to keep all the plates spinning while i keep dropping them.
That probably got flagged for reasons other than "negative sentiment around vibe coding".
I’d say making rude gestures at someone you historically didn’t like would suggest you remain hostile with that person. Whether you murdered someone else has no bearing on this.
This is pretty cool. I probably don't have much real use case for it because this is basically how I already do things when I use nfs or sshfs to bring the work to my local machine while keeping the files remote, but with more work involved.
I think it is quite the leap to equate stick vs dct to car vs motorcycle.
I'm definitely coming round on the idea of a heat pump. My house was built in 2002 and still has the original gas boiler that was installed from then. I'm hopeful that I have enough insulation, but I've been told I may have microbore piping which might need to be upgraded. Not done much more research on it than that.

Also apparently my gas boiler has an air brick that's too close to the output for the boiler on the outside of the house, so they'd have to install a bigger flue that goes halfway up the house.

From what I've heard the installation cost (even with £10k subsidy) will still be minimum £5k compared to a new gas boiler of £2.5-3k.

After everything that's happened with the gas prices in the past 3 years, I'm very eager to remove that dependency from my house. Now we just need to decouple the gas prices from the renewable energy prices so we can start to see those lower prices to the home. One can dream.
Most fixed-width fonts don't have glyphs for all of the Unicode code points, you see, so the terminal emulators use fallback fonts, and it's seems to almost impossible to learn what fonts exactly they use. I believe in my case those 1.5-width glyphs were taken from the DejaVu Sans font (the non-mono version) but it's hard to be certain. In any case, I was quite tilted that I had to go back to using 10♠, K♦ etc. instead of U+1F0AA and U+1F0CE in my TUI-based game.
> We know where gun violence comes from, and it's not dudes collecting vintage rifle prototypes from Yugoslavia.

I literally said "I'm not blaming gun hobbyists for violence." Thank you for starting off with a terribly bad faith reading of my comment.

> If you're a US citizen, gun control is an infringement on your civil rights

And this is what I mean by them being connected. Gun hobbyists in the US will argue for it based on their "rights", which just makes it harder to make any changes that might actually reduce gun violence.

> Even if you could round up all the guns, the ... violence will remain without some structural changes.

It's difficult for me to believe that if you remove one of the easiest ways to kill people, violence would just remain the same. Is there any evidence to support this theory? I've never seen any, but I have seen data suggesting that countries with stricter gun control laws tend to have less murders.

> gun control is an infringement on your civil rights

Because gun ownership is part of your constitution, you can easily make it seem as though those questioning it are attacking the very basis of your country. Seems like a systemic issue to me...

> the hopelessness ... will remain without some structural changes.

I don't disagree that hopelessness is the core issue here, but I think it's blatantly silly to think that if you give a hopeless population easy access to tools whose entire function is to kill, and tell them that owning that weapon (and using it when necessary...) is a fundamental part of their identity... that it won't result in more and more intense violence.

Like with many widespread societal issues, you can't just ignore the symptoms and try to cure the actual problem - and certainly nor can you do the opposite, as you say - you need to fix both.
Yeah, people never read channel topics so we're forced to use commands & embeds for common things
Please add the following to your site's css

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Sounds like a quick way to create a large AI bill while developing basic apps that are piles of unmaintainable spaghetti under the hood.
GitHub: An AI Hedge Fund Team
> If there were a magic weapon

Ah yes, paint the issue as only solvable by a "magic" item... Of course, trying to make the other side seem fundamentally silly is a primary tactic of the pro-gun crowd

> only be used to defend yourself, and not for offensive purposes, then sure!

Of course not, but the question is more the damage one can do when used for offensive purposes.

Anyway, here's your magic solutions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Less_lethal_weapon
Yup. I worked on the "Rapport" series of switches at Bell Canada. It was DS1 (Digital Signal 1) out one end and a rack full of Zyxel modems on the other side. The idea was RBOCs (Regional Bell Operating Companies) would put these in their CO (Central Office) and terminate 56k modem signals over the analog "last mile" loop to the customer premises and then do Frame Relay over the phone company's data lines to your ISP.

I know Southwest Bell bought a number of them and stuffed them in a closet north of downtown Dallas. During the install I remember having to explain what Ethernet was to their techs. They were EXCELLENT at phone standards, but had decided the data world was threatening and were determined to never learn anything about it.

I know that between around '93 and '97 if you dialed AOL from D/FW there was a good chance your call would be terminated somewhere within a mile or two of your house and the bits flowing between your Compaq Presario and AOL would be sent digitally from the local CO to AOL's data center in Sterling, VA.

This line of business was (of course) destroyed by consumer DSL and cable modems, but for about 5 years it was fairly popular with the phone companies. ISDN at the time was a bit pricey for most households and a modem is a one-off purchase. Most people I knew using things like AOL or CompuServe were using a hand-me-down 36k modem on a crappy 33MHz 486sx running DOS / Win3.1 / Win95 and were fairly cost-sensitive.
I had a heart bypass 29 years ago and my daily meds since then included a baby aspirin, but a year or so ago the occasional rectal bleeding got really bad. Stopped the aspirin and the bleeding went away.
Just spent my morning diving into succinct data structures after seeing this. The memory efficiency is incredible - especially the balanced parentheses tree representing a full node tree in just 2 bits per node! I've been working on a project parsing large (10GB+) XML files for scientific data analysis, and our current approach burns through RAM like crazy. Has anyone here successfully implemented these structures in production systems?

The wavelet matrix concept seems particularly promising for our text-heavy workloads. I'm curious if the constant-time operations actually hold up under real-world conditions or if there are hidden performance cliffs.

This feels like one of those CS concepts that should be more widely known but somehow got overlooked by mainstream programming. Kind of like how bloom filters were obscure until suddenly every system was using them.
compared to the broadcast era aren't there way more winners -- with a smaller pieces of the pie -- nowadays?

it's still a Pareto distribution, I'm sure, but mega-stardom kinda died and was replaced by all these mini-stars, as far as I can tell. I'm not sure it supports your hypothesis.
This is always how it works. Large fan bases are filled with extremely capable people with vastly different specialties so I have no doubt this 4chan user had a very strong math background and just couldn't resist solving it for real.
My depression comes from super severe learned helplessness. I have been extremely stupid with money and career choices and nowadays things got hard, I have several chronic health conditions and the difficulty got up not by 2x, more like 20x. I just can't muster the will to even do one job interview, financial reserves are dwindling fast and, you get the picture.

I have zero faith any therapist can help me. They'll likely start with "but it's for your own good!" and I'll just say "yeah yeah, like 200 other things I have been told and zero of them turned out to be true". That's how I imagine it.

I am not against paying professionals. Obviously. I just don't believe in therapy at all.

What would you do to start with, with a guy like me? (I am aware you are not a therapist yourself.)
Moonlanders was actually pretty cool on there.
I never thought driving a car is harder than editing a pdf.
> greed has been distracting too many from the damn point

I also suspect that another factor is ever increasing acceptance of the immutability of debt. When most people are stuck in debt they have to keep running in the treadmill.

Imagine if there was a non-blockable way for everyone to vote on a universal debt cancellation event - "Should we all just from now on ignore any debt incurred before today? ¤ yes, ¤ no".
The other issue with A/B is the imbued bias that comes from [TEAM] on [THING]

Meaning TEAM A has a want, and TEAM B has a want.. and its not about best feature its about "I told you so"

AB testing is great for sussing out use-flow-patterns, but oft may be used for ego (design team) testing...
> new even more tyrannical law that applies to each citizen which would impact all encrption software not just apple.

The current law does impact all encryption, not just Apple. It gives the government the right to force any provider to backdoor their encryption, and gags those providers in the process. There's nothing in the law that restricts it to Apple, or to cloud providers, or to large companies, or to it being blanket applied to all providers of encryption operating in the UK.

The only reason why we're talking about it with regards to Apple, is because Apple is the first confirmed case of a provider being instructed to backdoor their crypto, and we only know about it because the order leaked, and Apple coincidently took public action that unambiguously confirmed the leaked info.