skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish it would save as bmp only, that png feature makes it orders of magnitudes less horrific than the orignal paint.

And I think it should only save to localStorage, so that saving a few images would fill up all the space like I quickly did on my few GBs hardrive.
Could monitors be malicious and exploit vulnerabilities in computers by sending corrupted data over the DDC bus?

The crazy thing is that computers send +5V over the DDC bus to the monitor so that they are able to read data even if the monitor is powered off and not connected to the mains! So, simply connecting something to the computer's display port could be enough.
> I've never encountered use for those keys that are really useful.

There are some very common operations across apps (Linux/Windows) that I use all the time and can be stabbed without thinking:

F2 - rename

F5 - refresh

F11 - fullscreen

If you are programmer then it's kind of essential during debugging:

F5 - run / continue

F9 - insert breakpoint

F10 - step over

F11 - step in

Not having physical keys for navigating would be a nightmare.
Wow thanks for the pulsar AD.
Personally, i feel this writing is incredibly biased.
And the proposed architecture seems like something from the dark ages.
I guess I don't understand how a video of Nasser is supposed to convince me Bulgarian ethnic and religious minorities are any less Bulgarian than they are.
Websites may already be blocked in France upon order from the Government, based on anti-terror laws.

Basically, the Ministry of the Interior decides and orders all Internet access providers to block a site. Courts are not involved on the premise that this must sometimes be carried out as quickly as possible, though there is a right to contest a decision a posteriori.
It does not look like C++ ranges should be shipping
That's exactly what i'm doing. I understand chilling effects. I don't see how reading public Twitter feeds cause them in a way we should be worried about.
Maybe they're still sour that minitel[0] never took off outside of France.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minitel
What's a 'proper' anticheat? Do you mean one of the kernel-level rootkit ones? No thanks. Thankfully there is more backlash recently against client-side anticheat, which is a fundamentally flawed idea anyway, eg https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2020-05-21-doom-eternal-r...
Incumbent format momentum, for a large part. Nothing else has offered enough benefit for lossful image compression for the mass market to make the effort to switch.

Also, some of the alternative formats have licensing or patent issues that would effectively block wide adoption.
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I wonder if this just doesn't work on Safari at all; I'm on macOS and I can't seem to get it to do anything either.
If the statute of limitations for conversion has expired, you will no longer be able to recover either the chattel or its value from the converter. The analogy to adverse possession or easement by prescription in real property should be fairly obvious.
Which in this case, it is; the owner sounds particularly upset, but as he tells it the fence was put up shortly before he bought the property. He has sat there for decades without ever having measured it up. Adverse possession takes a long time to come good. All advice about the purchase of property is always to get it surveyed.
LibreOffice: The Next Five Years
I did it. In fact, for a lot of people who got an higher education the main question for after graduation is not what will you do but where will you go (where being implicitly abroad). This is of course not because of porn sites, but the general negative and insecure (economically, etc.) climate. The ship is sinking and people are asking for more of the things that precisely made it this way. This is painful to see.
Back in the late 80s when I was spending days hacking on USSR-made clones of Apple II in my school, lots of components (floppy drives and diskettes, monitors) was made in Bulgaria. I wonder what happened to then most technologically advanced country of Eastern Block?
They tried it in Russia with Telegram. All they did is teach the entire country how to use VPNs.
Member since 2012 (ah wut, I still have the activation email!), after migrating (easily) from a dying Delicious. Thank you so much for running this! As far as actually useful web services go (and holy crap is this useful!) it's by far the most stable I've ever used, and it never got bogged down in useless crap like 99% of other web services which constantly need to pivot while looking for a way to actually make money.

It's been a frickin' journey. ~2004, started using Delicious. ~2005, built my own search site because Delicious couldn't handle searching through a few thousand bookmarks with a few thousand tags! 2006, contacted by a researcher looking into tag clouds because mine had more unique tags than bookmarks. 2012, migrated to Pinboard for a fixed lifetime fee. Best money I ever spent! Today, heard about the bookmark archive functionality and signed up immediately.
I recommend also watching “Beltracchi: The Art of Forgery” documentary about Wolfgang Beltracchi, the infamous art forger. He tricked the international art world for almost 40 years, made millions selling forgeries, and went to prison for it. He even created paintings by famous artists that didn’t exist and convinced historians that they were newly discovered paintings. Fascinating stuff.
I know GHC can become slower with more cores so be carefull.
When I negotiate consultant work that I don't want to do that much, I tell my hourly rate and estimate. That usually scares people off.

When I think the job would be fun/interesting/challenging(intherightway) I tell "I will do this, it will cost you $LARGE_SUM, and in the odd case I can't fix the problem, you pay nothing."
Companies are usually very happy with this arrangement, as they can quickly consider whether having their problem fixed is worth $LARGE_SUM, especially since the not-fixed scenario means no risk for them.
My hourly income from those tasks is sometimes very small, sometimes very very large, and on average, I earn more pr. hour than I could ever charge on a $/h deal.
I believe that compassionate educational material - which would allow for diverse pedagogical 'ladders' or 'on-ramps' for people on different skill levels - on the core systemic issues/challenges we are currently facing, is a much better strategy than flimsy and inaccurate analogies.

I think there is a common false belief that only technical people can understand some concepts. I believe it’s more the case that as a society we often don’t have good pedagogical tools available to us in the public domain to help people become the critical thinkers our democratic society needs them to be.

I say this with the hope for a shift towards social production/Commons-based peer production, and a re-imagining of the (currently) rentier and extractive business models on digital assets, which make no sense anymore in a digital society where information is light.

Design global, make local.

Favorite authors on this: Aaron Swartz('s manifesto), Kevin Carson and Yochai Benkler.
I don't know but I think this is no coincidence. Youtube has been part of Google long enough that I presume they have integrated them.
Very important context below.

This policy was implemented poorly, and it was ended suddenly, without calling attention to the harms caused, and while giving extra column inches for why Google felt it was necessary to outsource security tasks to staff which was apparently not appropriately trained to handle security responsibilities[1]. A person’s body and their skin tone has nothing to do with their hypothetical threat level, regardless of the context.

> Pichai said Google had been researching changes to its campus security policy over the past year, but the protests likely prompted faster action. The company had been increasing workplace security since April 2018, when three employees were shot at the Silicon Valley headquarters of its YouTube video unit.

> The insistence on checking employee IDs was meant to discourage “tailgaters” -- people who followed others into Google buildings without swiping badges to enter. But in practice, Black and Latinx employees were stopped and told “Let me see your badge,” even after they proved they had the right to enter the office by swiping in, one of the people said.

[1] https://www.blog.google/inside-google/company-announcements/...
Pinboard is ok, but recently I found myself to either just webclip the article into evernote, or make a note about it in Roam Research. Somehow just having tagged links doesn't work for me anymore.
I guess the just have to make to many modifications to run 8.0 on Windows. Maybe the JIT does nor work properly/easily on windows?

Nevertheless nowadays there is WSL and Docker so you don‘t really need a windows native executable.
> protesting is a constitutionally protected activity

As someone who don't live in the US but which country has a bunch of laws protecting protesting under specific conditions, I wonder a bit about that statement.

Looking around for an answer, while the US governments may not deny a person's constitutional right to peacefully protest, they may regulate the time, place, and manner in which the protest is conducted. They can also deny permits as long as they have a compelling, objective reason to do so.

So its a mixed bag when it comes to the US courts, and the question that seems to have most significance is what is or isn't an compelling objective reason. In order to sue the court you would need to both demonstrate the infringement of the right, and that the government does not have objective reasons (such as keeping order). I suspect the result of such court case would not be obvious, but rather uncertain with a lot of variation based the judges in question.
This is a red herring. Consuming energy doesn't produce CO2, generating the energy does. The answer to "how much CO2 is produced by the energy required to <do action>" is always "as much as your power generation method".

Crush the rocks using solar power, and it's zero.
Nothing particularly.

Though there are other lossful encoding schemes developed since that either produce better results with the same data size or comparable results with better compression (or both). But the improvements have not been large enough to make the industry as a whole consider making the effort to support these other formats (and in some cases there would be licensing/patent issues making support legally/financially onerous on top of the coding/testing required).
You don't need 'certain' premium flights to make an airframe programme commercially viable though, you need 100+ which airlines are sufficiently confident of to make downpayments on aircraft, and it's not like such routes haven't been unsuccessfully experimented with before.
Check out Unraveling the JPEG from Omar Shehata on Parametric Press[1] for an interactive essay on the JPEG format.

Very cool to be able to manipulate the bytes directly and seeing how it affects the image.

[1] https://parametric.press/issue-01/unraveling-the-jpeg/
I don’t understand why they released a VR game. Seriously limiting their market. I’m not going to spend hundreds and hundreds just to play one game.
By the way, you can decode JPEG with less artifacts using these projects:

https://github.com/ilyakurdyukov/jpeg-quantsmooth (good for most mid-quality and high-quality images)

https://github.com/victorvde/jpeg2png (use for very low-quality images, slower)

jpeg-quantsmooth gives a sharper output (use "-q6" option).

jpeg2png output is a little blurry, but it does a better job of unblocking very low-quality images.
So...Half-Life 3 confirmed?
The biggest thing that’s stopping me is that I can’t decide if I want to buy one that’s in pristine condition (and never want to use it for fear of damaging it) or one that’s beat up and has tons of imperfections (and feel bad about spending so much money on something that looks like it fell out of the back of a van).

I’ll likely eventually find one cheap at a flea market or estate sale. That, or end up buying a slim modern Pelican case for the same purpose.
That's an assumption that needs to be verified. Sure, over a generation it's quite unlikely that evolution made for better mouse users.

But we don't need to go that far. I mean, when you were testing during the development of the Mac, it was what, 1983? The mouse was a new thing, CUA didn't exist yet, I doubt that many vim and emacs users were part of the target group.

I doubt that speed changes if you test the same demographic as back then, although it's harder to find people as unaccustomed to mice.

In addition, has there ever been a test that includes mouse chords as used in Acme/Oberon?
Maybe those giraffe bones and penguin skulls were cursed. Or maybe she was using them for a spell, to curse other people? The world will never know: it's all under NDA now.

https://www.blazersedge.com/2013/11/13/5100832/blazers-owner...
Does producing concrete use fossil fuels? Not for energy, but in the actual chemical process, like plastic does.
I really like the architecture of Pulsar, it is very elegant with clear separation of duties between components.

That said, we have used Kafka for so long, and it works well enough at our scale that we have no reason to even test Pulsar. Kafka also has much more integrations with other tools due to its popularity.
> repairing your own car was a very valuable skill because they broke all the time. Now, they still break, but it's so rare and so complicated that it's not worth developing that skillset for most.

Not just that, but often skills aren't even enough, you need special tools to do the job. Those don't transfer well between the models and there's electronics in every freaking thing, you can't repair those, the cost's are climbing for each part.
In an article on Cholera or more it's solution in London building sewers the author reposted a letter to the news paper that castigated the upper classes. The gist of it was 'You say we don't mind living in filth and stink. Assuredly we do not like it at all'
If and when the United States Treasury stops honoring bonds that it sells, then you'll have bigger problems than whether or not you get social security income.
I mean, before the internet kids were generally not allowed to buy porn, and yet I remember we managed to get VHS, games, magazines, and even erotic comics as minors.
Thanks for this very insightful comment. I'm sure that wasn't obvious to many. It certainly wasn't to me.
Top Gamer Ninja Deletes TikTok over Privacy Concerns
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Yeah, because the second time everything will work as intended? Whatever you measure there are always going to be some loopholes causing unintended behaviour. Why would imposing those consequences on the current police system not give your desired outcome?
Spoiled kid always was always a thing.

Electronic communications & transactions enable theses mechanics to happen faster & without schedule constraints if left unchecked. Same as for bullying by the way.

As far as social interaction goes we live in uncharted territory. Does it necessarily mean that it's bad? On the other side of the spectrum this enable YouthForClimate, BLM, and things yet to come...

It's really hard to analyze thing as they happen, this is not new either ;)

PS: Also not spoiling you kid seems like a good old advice still standing!
Oh so using sex to implement fear and uncertainty and despair ( FUD ) among the populace? Think of the children! By the way, here’s a firewall to block whatever websites we don’t like. Oh and you’re being monitored 24/7 now. But not now. In like, five years.
Reservations aren't property of the tribe or nation, they are areas of federal jurisdiction under a Constitutional reserved power within which the tribe and federal government has certain jurisdictional rights concerning members of the tribe, and where the state is excluded from certain jurisdictional rights it would otherwise have over territory within the state.
I'm still mad about Campo Santo. I couldn't give two shits about Alyx or Half-Life or any other of Valve's games. But they had to consume one of the most promising story-focused indie studios and relegate them to making games I just have zero interest in, and don't have anything really interesting to say or let you experience about the human condition. Firewatch felt like a real story about real people. Alyx et al are just completely different genres. Now we're never going to get another Campo Santo game and it's a significant loss for gaming culture.
You mean Pravetz or actual Apple replicas made to confuse buyers?
Non-Euclidian 3D Game Engine
Mostly reporting what I’m seeing with our workload. Is it possible OpenJDK/Hotspot has more ARM coverage than Graal?
We tend to forget the damage that porn causes to young minds.

If this law fails to educate on pornography, at least it'll educate youngsters on DNS. I'm ok with both scenarios.
In most countries pornography is restricted to people over 18 by law.

This was not too difficult to enforce when access was mostly in person, but it has become difficult now that access is mostly online.

If society agrees that young people below a certain age should not have access to pornography then it is reasonable, even necessary, to try to implement ways to enforce that restriction online.
"We don't have a formal proof for this, and only have empirical evidence, measured on a large number of test instances. More on this in the paper. The learned algorithm is not entirely opaque. I'd argue it is easier to understand its behavior than that of a neural net."
https://mobile.twitter.com/liyuajia/status/12815201991083089...

agreed, this is kind of backwards research
Is there actually evidence of most whale money being from minors? To me that sounds kind of unlikely.
Nazis were indeed rehired to senior positions, but sensitive parts of the civil service were purged of Stasi operatives, although this did take a long time, especially in Saxony. There has been some resentment of the fact that this often meant that the civil service in Eastern states is dominated by 'Wessies'.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/3j90ua/what_...
I couldn't find much information, but in this case, doesn't the government directly have access to the sites you used this feature on?
Designing a Real-Time ETA Prediction System Using Kafka, DynamoDB and Rockset
Volume control is the killer feature for me.
Application of law is mostly derived from first principles. So you start with two things that are believed by most legal experts:

- Sentencing to life without parole is considered inhumane
- Criminal sentences should be proportional to the crime
- Sentences are supermodular

Let's say there is a minimum sentence of two months for some insignificant crimes, start increasing the length for more serious ones. Most serious crimes usually involve several different crimes that are committed while committing the "main" component of the crime. So it starts adding up, and it starts adding up fast due to the supermodularity.

So even though the end result is seemingly absurd, trying to make it non-absurd would violate some of the most agreed-upon principles and here we are.
Testing at StorageOS
The United States is the basic flaw in this scheme. Multiple laws (The CDA and COPA) requiring age verification for porn were enjoined by the courts many years ago and it’s not going to be easy to reinstate something similar any time soon.

So kiddies, you can always set your exit node to be in the US and wank with us!
Yes, immigrants are part of that "entity of the United States". The reparations are owed by that entity for not complying with a legally binding treaty.

The rule of law means that the entity states that it will comply with everything that is legally binding. As such it is responsible for paying those reparations. The way that entity raises funds is by taxation or borrowing, using itself as the collateral for the debt.
And at the same time you'd give your NSFW internet usage patterns to your credit card company. I image they'd love it, even more information to sell about you!
Like with certain drugs, I think it's perfectly possible to acknowledge the potential issues with excessive porn consumption (or with certain kinds of porn) while still thinking that it's not uniformly bad if consumed in moderation.
HEIF isn't supported by any browsers.

BPG isn't supported by any browsers.

WEBP isn't supported by IE11 or Safari.
The system is the people. It only exists because people say they can't be bothered. It's easier to convince yourself it won't work because the the alternative is trying, and that takes effort. But that indifference permits the system to continue, from the bottom up, allows it to grow cancerous and metastasize.

The world you allow to happen us the world you get. The blame falls on you this time. You get what you deserve if you let it.
That’s what it means for a legislature to be sovereign — you kind of need the ability for future people to reverse past decisions to have a functioning democracy
Good summary. Reminds me that I am very thankful to $deity that I am not an U.S. citizen.
I would add that the "reference implementation" of jpeg encoding and decoding is very easy to compile and to use, reasonably efficient, and completely free software. There has never been a corresponding jpeg2000 implementation, for example, leading to the fast demise of the arguably superior format.
And as comparison, the 12-core is $500 and the 16-core is $750, both currently available for 10-15% off.
Sure, but I don't see a startup called Boom changing the political landscape around sonic boom concerns, particularly not in an era where there's also a lot of environmental lobbying.
Could you share a few spoiler-free thoughts about HL:A as a dedicated series fan?

I'm in the same boat. Loved HL1, then HL2 even more, it's one of the very rare games I regard as perfect. Then both Episode 1 and Episode 2 surpassed my expectations, and I was very disappointed with Valve's refusal to say anything at all for years. The HL:A announcement took me by surprise, as I had given up on more HL.

Do you find HL:A to be a good Half-Life game first and foremost? Do you feel it has the top-notch environmental storytelling and attention to detail that the series is known for? Does it make good use of VR's potential?

I'm considering upgrading my PC this year, largely for HL:A and Cyberpunk 2077. The last time I tried VR was with the Oculus Rift in 2016, and it felt underwhelming to me. Very cool for an evening, but then the novelty wore off and the actual gaming felt less satisfying than traditional non-VR.
It makes me wonder. Is there enough research and sufficient good data to make evidence-based software engineering? It's not something that comes up much and whenever I do see research, it usually feels disconnected from realities in software development. That said, I'm going to read this and see if there's anything valuable to learn.
Because Pulsar and Kafka both use Zookeeper, the operational complexity will largely be the same. The best thing you can do to lower op complexity is using managed Kafka by Confluent or AWS (something similar probably exists for pulsar).
The article features a misleading infographic starting at ~3M
which makes me question its credibility or whether it was written with some agenda in mind. According to my experience Western reporting on Eastern affairs tends to do that.
1. Yes you miss the yearly discount. 1000 units = 12000 units per year = 7295/year

2. 10M/month with yearly commitment = $46895/year
100M/month with yearly commitment = $165895/year
Probably because they don't need the money and felt the game would be better as a VR game.
I got the bookmark sync one time purchase account years ago and used it for a couple of years but these days I just use Firefox sync and it solves most of what I cared about.
Could you share the script? I think lots of people would find it very useful!
That's the best method I've seen so far. Kinda like Google Search setting with "no", "moderate", or "strict" filter.