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Show HN: A Python-based educational DSP playground
A Python-based educational playground for creating, exploring, and visualizing digital signal processing (DSP) algorithms using NumPy, Matplotlib and Jupyter Notebook.
Aryabhāta, an exceptional Indian mathematician born in 476 CE, left a lasting mark on mathematics and astronomy. At the age of 23, in 499 CE, he calculated pi to be approximately 3.1416 and suggested its irrational nature, relying on insights from Vedic traditions. He’s also widely recognized for introducing zero as a numeral and developing various mathematical and astronomical concepts. That said, the value of pi had been explored even earlier by another Indian mathematician, Baudhayana, around the 6th century BCE. Baudhayana not only worked out pi but also laid out what we now call the Pythagorean Theorem, long before it reached European scholars.
I’m pretty sure you can prompt inject the prompt injection / racism check.

https://github.com/BenLirio/word-battle-server/commit/316140...
I'm convinced that the people who hate systemd are a small minority. They also happen to be fairly vocal, which I think makes them seem outsized.
That refers to the mother and the daughter
What’s the problem? They produce really good research, funded by their ad business. Transformers, Waymo, this robot stuff.

Sure, there’s almost nothing for you to buy from them right now from these efforts, except to the extent that it contributes behind the scenes to their ad business. That might be a problem for them, but not for the rest of us that benefit from the publications, software and services.
Sorry, not yet, but this is the direction ArkFlow is working hard. Rust's own potential will also guide ArkFlow in this direction.
It feels like these developers no longer even care about how blatant the sockpuppeting is. Potentially because AI can't tell anyway.
We're definitely on a similar wavelength. I actually own a couple Japanese abaci and know the basics. Top performers feel near magical: double-fisters[0] and blazingly fast mental arithmetic [1].

[0]:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EK6uIjjkrGE

[1]:https://youtu.be/-kjUCtqSWlw?feature=shared&t=451
Almost everyone wants to claim to be modern c and not modern C++ because everyone shit on C++

If anyone is the modern c++ its D. They have template metaprogramming while rust has generics and macros.

Rust doesn't have constructors or classes or overloading. I believe its type system is based on Hindley–Milner like ML or Haskell and traits are similar to Haskell type classes. Enums are like tagged Union/sum types in functional programming and rust uses Error/Option types like them. I believe rust macros were inspired by Scheme. And finally a lot of what makes it unique was inspired by Cyclone (an obscure excitemenal language that tried to be a safer C) and other obscure research languages.

I guess rust has RAII that's one major similar to c++. An there's probably some similarities in low level memory access abstraction patterns.

But I'd describe rust as more of an imperative non GC offshoot of MLs then a modern c++ evolution.
No, what's toxic is building an environment like 99% of companies where juniors are told that everybody is the same and there's no point doing anything other than copy pasting whatever dogshit the "senior" next to them is typing into VSCode.
> This moves the cost of LLM errors from the customer to the company offering the service.

So does that mean AI companies are going to have insurance/litigators like doctors and models will be heavily lawyered to add more extensive guardrails. I'm assuming this means not just OpenAI but any service that uses LLM APIs or open models?

For ex: If a finance business pays to use an AI bot that automates interacting with desktop UIs and that bot accidentally deletes an important column in an Excel spreadsheet, then the AI company is liable?
I like systemd's timers when they're appropriate, but I really think the author's use case here is better suited to cron. The "issues" he listed for cron aren't very good either.

> If you want to execute pre/post commands you have to do it inside the script itself

So?

> There are no built-in logs

Every cron implementation I can remember using logs each run to syslog and emails me the output of the run by default

> There is no built-in status monitoring

I can't think of any built-in status monitoring that systemd has for timers that's materially different from cron's logging/emailing

> If the system is down when the cron needs to run, the cron will be missed

Some cron implementations support this and some don't. Most modern ones that I'm aware of do.

Much more significantly, the amount of setup involved in a systemd timer is way higher than putting a line in a crontab, especially for the author's case of just running a backup script.

Cron only involves running `crontab -e` and adding the line "@daily /path/to/script.sh" (which also handles the author's issue of cron "skipping" runs if the system was powered off, assuming the cron implementation uses something modern like anacron)

Systemd involves writing a 7 line timer unit file, an additional 5 line service file, running a daemon-reload, then enabling the timer. It turns what's usually a 10 second mindless task into a much more involved procedure. That can be worth it if there are material benefits from it, but I'm not really seeing them here.
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Funfact: The reason Hollywood is in California is because Edison’s camera patents didn’t apply there. Altman might actually have a good point – if your competition doesn’t care about your laws, you’re in trouble.

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/51722/thomas-edison-drov...
You don't have to wait until expiry. Transfers generally add 1 year of service (for most TLDs), so unless you're already at the limit, you can transfer everything now.
I don’t see any animations on Safari. Also, I’d much prefer a variable-width font, monospace prose is hard to read. While I can use Reader Mode, that removes the text coloring, and would likely also hide the visuals (if they were visible in the first place).
that's a bad analogy because a single football player cannot ever deliver a match entirely on his own. A single developer can absolutely deliver a full product on his own, it's not inherently a team sport whatsoever. You could make this claim about many things, "blacksmithing is a team sport!" Nonsense.
Most people find the traditional explanation for copyright, "everything emerges from the commons and eventually returns to the commons, so artists and creators should be entitled to ownership of intellectual property for a limited amount of time." The problem becomes when "limited" is stretched from 5 years from moment of publishing, say, to an artist's life + 150 years. Most people find the former reasonable and the latter ridiculous.
Even without the continuation piece, it has always puzzled me why the test frameworks that I've used (mostly pytest and catch) don't explicitly model dependencies between layers. Especially in a system where layers have been carefully levelized. Assuming for the sake of example that there are no mocks involved, if subsystem B depends on subsystem A (say A is some global utility classes), then I would want all of A's unit tests to pass before running any of subsystem B's tests. Not sure why this is absent, or perhaps I'm using the wrong test systems.
And what is the argument on making that knowledge accessible via LLMs vs directly? Why was it not accessible before?
To be fair, it could be a matter of national security if AGI does ever happen. You'd very much want your country to be the first.
I think the company calculates how much you’re using vs. what you’re paying for your subscription—it seems that’s one way to handle excessive querying, but it’s a lazy way to do it.
Quebec City too.
I offer two services to my clients, consulting/expertise and firefighting. The former pays for food, gas and grass; the the latter pays for everything else including skiing in the Alps and sunbathing in Cancun.

The purpose of business is not to sell but to create a customer...
I've been using Proton for a long time and Porkbun for a year.

I am not sure what I can get from that. Do I have to cancel my proton to move everything to the PB plan? Can I link my accounts?

I guess I am bookmarking this post to remind me to look at this when I have time...
Oops, I accidentally deployed a half baked change to randomly swap users prompts while trying to filter out input for racism: https://github.com/BenLirio/word-battle-server/commit/316140...

Fixed now (I think): https://github.com/BenLirio/word-battle-server/commit/b87279...
All I could find was this reddit post - https://www.reddit.com/r/PorkBun/comments/1jash9f/porkbun_ha...
Edit for clarification, Porkbun loads fine for me, saw nothing abnormal there.
Interesting! Any errors you can report? Should work in safari but maybe you have something custom going on, or an older version?
“Biden's 'Woke Green Agenda' on chopping block as EPA announces 'most consequential day of deregulation'”

Yeah that’s a specimen.
Where do they have to pay that?

Where have they paid for each artwork from DeviantArt, paheal, etc that they trained Stable Diffusion on?

Where have they paid for each independent blog post that they trained ChatGPT on?

Yes, they've made a few deals with specific companies that host a large amount of content. That's a far cry from paying a fair price for each copyrighted work they ingest. Nearly everything on the Internet is copyrighted, because of the way modern copyright works, and they have paid for nearly none of it.
This is cool and after learning of this I'm tempted to convert my crons. I currently use systemd for running a redis queue and it's worked great for years.
> So, you reach for class warfare? Sheesh. It is anyone's fault that they are born into an upper middle class family? Are people from lower economic circumstances somehow superior, as you imply?

To be fair, I don't see any value judgements in the post you're replying to. He doesn't say if it's a good or bad thing, it's just a thing. But what I think this means is that field became more popular, entry filters became more competitive, and families with less resources to invest in their offspring became filtered out.

There's nothing good or bad about it.
This is the motivation I need to finally switch off NameSilo too
Great point. I'm actually writing and putting things up in a blog. ETA end of april. If you are ok for rough notes happy to share high level notes over email (no I'm not planning on selling anything and frankly I didnt find any value in the paid platforms which were just doing an upsell).

For a very big tldr, Raghu Ramakrishnans Database book and designing data intensive applications by klepman were was amazing but they need a bit of time investment.

Raghus book especially on indexes was very useful. Not so much to understand how databases but specifically how indexes work and taking a quantitative approach to know which index works for what kind of use case. So in the Uber interview as I was rambling about key value stores and caches the interviewer decided to put me out of my misery with "enough of all that, what would the first failing request's latency be". that got me thinking about how to reason about slos and latencies in a design. And then seeing which index types gave what kind of perf characteristics and so on.
Haven’t heard of any controversial political leanings in Proton Mail.

Only controversy I remember was this incident where PM was compelled by govt to release IP address of one of its users — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40280689
Conversely, would you suggest that if an AI driver has a programming error and kills 20 people, that the person who reserved the car should be required to enter into a “User Agreement” that makes them take responsibility?
Without spoilers...what a disappointing article. This feels like it should have been a long read, and yet, the article ends just as it started, with no explanation, investigation, or conclusion.
What is the essence of this partnership? I never heard about porkbun, but I see it's a domain registrar, so I suppose the point is that now they offer a custom domain for your proton email... but it was always possible to attach a custom domain to proton email (if you pay for it, naturally). So, in what sense they are partnering? Like, it's now cheaper to do with porkbun + proton than porkbun + anything else, or proton + anything else? Basically, is it just some sort of meaningless marketing announcement, or is there more substance?
>Given the controversy surrounding Proton's potential political leanings

???
Explain?

>It makes me seriously question where Porkbun stands.

It's a cross selling partnership. Porkbun is referring its customers to use proton for mail hosting instead of fastmail or whatever. I'm not sure how that implies alignment of politics.
DOGE's AI App Replacing Federal Workers Proves 'About as Good as an Intern'
No, the exact opposite. This says that if the AI that a bank is paying for locks your bank account in error because your name sounds <ethnicity with a lot of locked bank accounts>, it's the banks problem to fix, not yours to just live with (entirely. You still likely have a problem).
It’s this same purpose built argument again. That’s not the point of these. The point is to be able to go and do anything a human can, something the entire world has been built around.
I think one thing that is very different about software engineering is that it's the only form of engineering I'm aware of where a very substantial fraction of the people employed to do it lack basic fundamentals like "being able to do it". Most software engineers can't write a program without google. They can't remember basic facts about the language they use every day. They don't have a sense of what makes sense and what is weird. They can't debug problems they run into without help.

I know whenever someone says anything negative like this people come out of the woodwork to say the opposite, and that's fine, but I can't name a single competent programmer who doesn't say things like this in private, and I know a lot of them.

Test it for yourself. The next time you need one of the mediocre people on your team to do something pay attention to how they do it. I will bet you it's something like this: Get the ticket. Spend a day or two trying anything they can think of, googling, pasting stuff into chatgpt, etc. Then they start messaging people. They tend to try to not always ask the same helper because it would get too annoying, so they rotate around the team asking for help. The helper starts by offering suggestions, but the mediocre dev can't get those suggestions working or apply them correctly. Pretty soon the helper just types a bunch of code into the chat window so they can go back to what they are trying to do. The m dev takes this code, and pastes it into their branch. It's not quite right though, it needs a little tweaking to work but they can't figure out what to do, so they message the next helper. (And sometimes it's hilarious what it is, a lot of times it's a typo and when you run the code it says exactly what line it's on, but they don't know how to run code besides pressing the button in their editor that someone else set up for them) To helper 2 it seems like they are making good progress, they are just stuck on some small thing. Happens to everyone. They tell them exactly what's wrong. And voila, this is how about 30% of the people you work with write code. People don't catch on because when you are helper #2 you assume they wrote that perfectly competent code.
File sorting normally isn’t determined by the date format used. You’re probably thinking of other contexts.
^edition.
I've read Tau Manifesto [0], and I am now convinced that 3.14... is not the best circle constant, "turn" (tau, τ) with value 6.28... would be a much better choice.

How many radians in full circle? 1 tau (turn). What about 1/3 circle (120 degree)? 1/3 tau. What about euler's constant? e^i*tau=1, or in other words rotate vector by 1 turn and end up at start position.

So beautiful. So unreachable - pi has so much legacy, there is zero chance of changing it.

[0] https://tauday.com/tau-manifesto
What could possibly go wrong giving the same government that is currently deleting information from websites including references to the “Enola Gay” control over models?
Out of 10 richest people of the world, 8 have background in software engineering. Musk, Zuck, Bezos, Ellison, Gates, Page, Brin, Ballmer. Only Buffet and Arnault are exceptions.
I had to look it up,

the “controversy” is that the CEO of Proton used his official proton twitter account to be excited about the US government appointment of someone that is likely to pursue antitrust sanctions against Big Tech. Fast Forward to now, this is true against Microsoft. He was also amused at Big Tech CEOs kissing up to Trump due to this specific threat of their monopolistic nature.

The CEO removed their posts and the company reaffirmed that was not in line with the neutral stance.

Vicariously invested people act like anyone that finds something beneficial in this administration is supposed to be ostracized.

And that even if the CEO had posted this on a personal account, “accountability” is needed and should affect everything he is a part of and benefits from, in order to cause financial pain, I think forever? I’m not sure what people want or expect, it doesn't feel fleshed out
I pair crons with healthchecks.io
One might even go so far as to say they're a vocal minority.
in fact you should not wait till expiration. Some registries refuse transfers if the domain is too close to expiration.
It’s not a stretch to imagine that a scenario where you’re willing to run SQLite locally is also one where it’s acceptable to run Postgres locally. You’ve presumably already got the sharding problem solved, so why not? It’s less esoteric of an architecture than multiwriter SQLite.
It's a long form, unclassified advertisement for a book mentioned at the end. Decently written if a little too reliant on cliffhangers.
It seems really weird that Congress isn’t making a law about this. Instead, we’re asking courts to contort old laws to apply to something which is pretty different from the things they were originally intended for. Or just asking the executive to make law by diktat. Maybe letting the wealthiest and most powerful people in the world will work out. Maybe not.

This issue is too complicated for Congress to handle? Too bad. Offloading it to the president or a judge doesn’t solve that problem.

The world is becoming more and more complicated and we need smart people who can figure out how things work, not a retirement community.
Still not convinced how a model training on data, is not the same as a human looking at that data and then using it indirectly as it’s now a part of his knowledge base
"[N]ational security" and "child safety" both work quite well on both parties in reality; that's why they're so popular.
Word battle. not sentence battle or prompt battle.
https://archive.ph/HlVYh
That’s a limitation you’ll hit pretty quickly unless you’ve specifically planned your architecture to be mostly read-only SQLite or one SQLite per session.
My mind is blown
I too discovered that the forklift was in fact very easy as an adult. That was a shocker.
The whole system is infuriating. Even when you assume a free market is what you want, it's pretty clear that this is far away from a free market. Unless you view non-competitive monopolies as free market.

I don't understand why vertical integration is not made illegal. An insurer should not own a PBM or providers. They all should have an adverse relationship so they put cost pressure on each other.

Also, providers should charge the same prices for the same procedures no matter who pays. Ideally everybody should be mandated to follow Medicare prices. If these prices are too low to survive, then there should be a discussion about adjusting the prices.

The whole system is basically a huge bureaucracy that wastes a lot of money but some of the waste is enough profit for a lot of people to fight tooth and nail to keep the status quo.
Entire financial exchanges are not running single threaded writes to their persistent data store. If they are, and you have a link, I’d love to be proven wrong.
People have been recommending porkbun here hard, but I tried them based on that and the site crashed (503!) when I had symbols in my password!

This wouldn't surprise me, given their engineering abilities, and I'd be terrified to leave anything critical in their hands.
I just realized the example might have had a typo like you said. It is an interesting typo since it reminded me of a similarly absurd expression in English. When the expression is used in English, the entire point is to be nonsensical such that the only resolution is that someone moved/stole something.

As I am still learning, I have been trying to be open minded about possibilities. That helps when encountering things like 風邪です and 空気がおいしい. The former as you know literally means wind, but also can mean having a cold (and it would be very socially awkward if someone’s name was 風邪). The latter literally calls the air tasty, but means the air is fresh. The downside of being open minded is that someone can tell me something wrong and I will try to interpret it under the assumption that it is correct.
That's closer to an argument for nationalizing the company than it is for shielding them from regulation.
If it's a "self driving car" that the person "owns" - Yes.
If it's a "Taxi service" that the person is using - No.

If it's a car they own, they (should) have the ability to override the AI system and avoid the accident (ignoring nuances) - therefore owning responsibility.

If it's a Taxi they would be in a position where they can't interfere with the operation of the system - therefore the taxi company owns the responsibility.

Rightly or wrongly, this model of intervention capability is what that I'd use to answer these types of questions.
I freaked out in uhh 1996 I guess, thinking American imperialism was on some horrific terrible imperialist down spiral, being the worst baddies the world could imagine.

That didn't happen. America First is much much much much worse. The total cooption of the system & denigration of the legislative into passive useless yes men has been far worse, far more ghastly than the imperialism I feared.
The OSRF people went to Intrinsic, not Google proper.
Sesame CSM-1B: Open-Source Conversational Speech Model
We can let them dominate us but feel smug and morally superior in the process.
Un-f*cking-believable...

The current administration is shameless in their attempt to silence dissent, stifle institutions likely to criticize them, and grab power.

We're no longer on the slippery slope...We're tumbling down the mountain...

Also see: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/nyregion/columbia-univers...
This was recently an episode topic on the podcast 99% Invisible. It brought up a lot of interesting questions for me mostly about the systemic differences between public and private operations and pros&cons on both. Plainly shown TVA has been abysmal after it was forced to operate as a profit motivated institution. Though it was still federally owned it received nearly total immunity from the mishaps it caused through sovereign immunity laws. What is the check on disasters like this happening again? Will more regulation prevent it? The EPA's regulations incentivized it to further endanger workers during the cleanup. It needs to either be fully privately owned (still regulated) or fully federally owned and funded.

- https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/613-valley-so-low/
It seems that it just allows easy addition of proton email to your domains, at a slightly better rate.

Looks just like an advertisement to me, I'd downvote it if I could.
It would be cool if someone made a crontab interface to systemd timers. Use crontab syntax but generate systemd boilerplate with sane defaults.
Interesting scroll behavior. Very hard to scroll slowly but ok when scrolling at a moderate speed.