skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ha, the CIA again rewriting history.

Hires satellite imaging was already available in the 90ies. The military-type Hubble satellites were already up, and only had problems with bad weather. Hubble was the forth of its type, but the first pointing outwards, not to the earth.

Enemy of the State pictured existing surveillaince technology, and didn't inspire new one. They can read car license plates with their Hubbles.

https://www.nytimes.com/1999/04/27/science/private-spy-in-sp...
At first glance the data sheets look very thorough:

https://datasheets.raspberrypi.org/pico/pico_datasheet.pdf
https://datasheets.raspberrypi.org/rp2040/rp2040_datasheet.p...
KindleDrip – From Your Kindle’s Email Address to Using Your Credit Card
Machine Learning Predicts Covid-19 Outcomes
"Machine Learning Predicts COVID-19 Outcomes" https://www.contagionlive.com/view/machine-learning-predicts-covid-19-outcomes
Merkel Search Trees are like B-Trees, as described in https://hal.inria.fr/hal-02303490/document, since internal nodes can store values.

Whereas Noms Prolly-Trees are like B+Trees, since all values are stored in the leaves.

Merkel Search Trees use the prefix of the hash of inserted keyvalues (number of leading zeros) to determine which layer will contain that keyvalue. This provides a deterministic tree structure for any given set of keyvalues, when you arrange them by key order.

Noms Prolly-Trees use a rolling hash across the sequence of keyvalues to determine split points, similarly when the number of leading zeros exceeds a threshold. Then those leaves are assigned as children to keyvalues on the next highest layer, which is again split in the same way, until a single root node is left.
> ... steam engine burial ground

That was an interesting rabbit hole - it would appear to be Woodham brothers [1].

"297 withdrawn British Railways steam locomotives were sent, of which 213 were rescued." One notable rescue being the Hogwarts Express [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodham_Brothers

[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-45303331
In my case, with Android apps in store, some unobtrusive ads worked. User continues enjoy the apps and i can maintain the server without pay my own money.

I think also this is an evaluation based also on what is your product and what is your target. Lot of business work is around this topic
WCAG 3 Introduction
I believe they meant increases bandwidth utilization.

MSTs primary usecase today is multiple displays, by "daisy-chaining" through built-in MST bridges, dual DP dongles or docks.

Support for hacky displays is less interesting, and hopefully not relevant today.
You are technically correct, but in the common speech "tangerine" is the same as "mandarin" in Spanish (they are not distinguised beyond scientific terms) and every time I've tried to say "mandarin" in English I've been corrected to "do you mean tangerine?" so in practical terms that is the translation for me.
the application knows the tasks better than the OS?
Parsing ASN.1: A Troublesome Problem?
I disable automatic updates for all extensions, as well as personally reviewing the source of every extension before installation.

The review doesn't take much time. What I look for:

1. The manifest for what network endpoints the extension is allowed to call.
2. Any URL in the code that is external to the extension.
3. Any remote network function (fetch/XHR/links) and traceback to the call sites.
4. Whether there is any obfuscated code or not.

If anything found in those spots seems fishy / unclear, I don't install the extension.

Takes a few minutes, but catches most of the threat vectors. Skimming the code also gives me a sense of what sort of developer is behind the extension. Some code clearly shows a developer cares about privacy and / or security, which unconsciously adds karma for that dev in my book.

Like others above, I don't use many extensions, but those I use I have to trust.
There are a couple of FIFO "mailboxes" and spinlock registers between the two cores - I imagine they expect most of the synchronization to happen via that. It is a bit weird of a configuration though - is this the first dual core M0+? Does it count as SMP?
Receiving unemployment implies having employment. The poorest among us don't have steady jobs.
Show HN: Instil – 'Udemy' for Live Classes
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if a cow changes some state, you'd call that a moo-table variable
The GNU Humour [0] collection may be of interest. Also Dylan Beattie has done some great songs on YouTube [1] (I especially like 'Bug in the JavaScript' and 'You Give REST a Bad Name')

Here's a couple I remember from somewhere:

SEO expert walks into a bar...

...tavern, pub, taproom, alcohol, beer, wine, vodka...

Also, tangentially related:

A farmer wants to section off part of his field with a fixed length of fence. He is unsure what the best strategy is so he unwisely calls the local university, who send an engineer, a physicist and a mathematician.

The engineer makes a circle with the fence, declaring it to have the greatest area for any given perimeter length.

The physicist makes a straight line as far as the eye can see in either direction, and says that, to all intents and purposes, it goes all the way around the world and he has fenced in half the world.

The mathematician fences off a tiny one metre area around himself, and says "I declare myself to be on the outside".

[0] https://www.gnu.org/fun/humor.en.html

[1] https://www.youtube.com/user/dylanhat
> Actually, the major driver of pushback against these diagnoses in foster care in my experience is former foster children

I don't get it, you accuse me of conspiracy and then claim this is all because of a conspiracy by the children, the victims. And victims is the correct word because VERY few foster children had any hand in or possibility to influence their placement at all, and the vast majority, as the paper says too, are "marginal", meaning their placement was the choice of the social services investigator. I'm sure it's nevertheless all their fault and they deserve it, and the social workers who are totally financially dependent on robbing them of their home just don't have .

Besides, those are children have experienced firsthand the consequences of social workers' help, and really didn't want that help, don't want it now, and will never want it.

Who would know better than they do? Nobody would.

> let's jump to a conspiracy theory about bad social workers instead

You have met some social workers, right? Bad is the standard there. Even outright malevolence is not rare. Hidden agendas and lies are the norm in youth protection social workers, because if they told the truth to children, it'd be comical: "do you want my help? We can take everything from you, friends, parents, school, ... everything, declare you sick with 20 diagnoses and if we start now we can have you in prison before you're 20. Yes almost all foster children become criminals. So do you want our help?". Children will be running in tears to abusers begging them to take them back ...

The system for helping children is a bad joke.
The two hardest things in computer science are:

0. Naming things.

1. Cache invalidation.

2. Off-by-one errors.

(just found some attribution to: Leon Bambrick)
It’s not just that. The distribution models also discriminates against small bands. If the four bands I’ve listened to in December received 70% of my Spotify subscription payment, this would be much less of a problem.
More odd finds:

4th century Roman coins found in a Japanese castle: https://theconversation.com/how-did-4th-century-roman-coins-...

African coins found in Australia(!): https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/history-cultu...
Well, he can't complaint
That's a good question and I've seen it partially answered on their Telegram group: Maiar offers the option to back up your private key to an off-chain location (eg. Google Drive), so if you do choose to back it up it can be used to regain control of the wallet.

However, the app is still in beta, with GA date on 31st Jan via both Google & Apple stores, so I don't know precisely if its linked to the IMEI or if it fingerprints the phone in other ways to allow recovery of said wallet & prevent SIM takeover attacks.

Looking fwd to the official docs/FAQ addressing this topic as well, which I expect the team will publish along with the app release soon...
The solution was nearly always to create golden packages which could be summarised.

XMPP v1 server could be just XMPP itself.

A v2 client/server includes packages for OMEMO, Websocket, Resumeable connections

A v3 client/server has packages for whatever else becomes the de jour.

The idea that you can just mix and match without ever standardising on a set of capabilities was a large part of what killed XMPP and was entirely solvable.
Maybe a bug in a joke, perhaps the coordinates need fixing.
> What the article calls quietism has to do with inner non-resistance. That doesn't imply outer non-resistance. The two are probably orthogonal.

it sounds similar to Taoism's "be like water", the orthogonality is also in the concept of ying/yang it seems https://www.einzelganger.co/be-like-water/
If you put and ad on Youtube and want a million people to watch it, you probably have to pay ... $1000? $10,000? $100,000? I dunno. But I know you will not receive money for it.

The question is: Is a song a product or an advertisement?

I tend to think it is an advertisement. Every young musician dreams of becoming a star. Not so much to pay their bills but for the fame.

I think the free market prices things right. You cannot demand people to pay for watching your advertisements.

Nonetheless, I wish artists would put their output on their own websites. This centralization in giant silos where people consume music mindlessly and get showered with additional ads devalues their art even further.
yeah, i'm sure a bunch of highly paid software engineers swooping in to deprived communities and inflating property prices would go down well with the locals...
Documentation and software support often seems to be Raspberry's major advantage. While more niche but powerful hardware existed for a long time in between generations of the Pi the lack of software support/community around it left it buggy and inconsistent. In this case time will tell if it continues to hold true.
"They want a fixed price estimate" qualifies as a joke?
How do they land? Or are they disposable aircrafts? Also the whole point of a submarine is to stay stealth until it is required. Which means the pilots would get very little flight time / training.
Or whether the tale is optimised
This is true, but a tiny proportion of people buy merchandise compared to music. You will always find the t-shirt stand easily accessible at a gig for the artist despite the thousands of people at a venue, so believing that t-shirt sales will someone keep the artists profitable is likely wrong.
Alexa as the Future Mobile OS
Do you think future mobile OS will only be a "space" in the cloud to store your data and run/stream your apps from and you would have different i/o-devices like headphones with a voice assistant, small screens (whats now the phone) and smart speakers?
Nope, talking about post BB conditions.
"I would tell you a joke about UDP, but you probably wouldn't get it."
I think you are probably right but the article you linked to doesn't demonstrate that.
>> Finally, my best friend is my wife

It’s often suggested by old timers to marry your best friend.
I can’t see my way to blaming government for this. Either these operations were indicated but unlikely to happen otherwise (the government program was effective) or not medically-indicated (at which point private clinics are torturing poor people for profit which is abhorrent on so many levels).
FreeBSD that didn't have a trillion-dollar company behind it never got such a treatment. They _might_ get it now.
I know all of that, but it does not square up with real life.

Go to your favorite computer store. Randomly pick 5 laptops, regardless of the price. So no cherry picking.

Use these laptops with Windows installed on them, for a reasonably long period, for example 1 month, as your daily driver. Perform varied tasks on them, such as printing, connecting to external displays, to projectors, other peripherals, playing modern 3D games on them, etc.

Then do the same with Linux.

I'm willing to bet $100 that on average Windows will run better on them, have a longer lasting battery life, better network connectivity, etc.

And if you're trying to tell me that on average Linux runs better than MacOS on Apple laptops and desktops, then this discussion is not worth continuing, we both probably have better things to do with our time.
I hear this argument a lot, but never from musicians. I think it might be a factoid that music listeners spread around because it makes us feel better about what seems like an irreversible movement in the industry (which benefits us, since we get to pay less money for music).

But in the end, if we want to incentivize artists to focus on making good music (as opposed to merch) we should probably be paying them for the music. That’s not to say we can will the current streaming trend out of existence (we can’t), but we shouldn’t necessarily let ourselves feel good about where this is going.
How does encryption work across the bridges? Is this written down anywhere? Signal, Telegram's Secret Chat, etc.
Most people "are not good" because our political system is centered around making money, not on mastering an art form. Many societies did this in the past, but as it's "no longer economically viable," no one cares today. Today, in order to master an art form and actually make something worthwhile, you have to be entirely self-motivated.

> Many open source developers are happy working on their hobby for "free"

Really not a good comparison. Open source developers tend to have no issues finding paid work, often because they worked for free on open source. The same scenario doesn't exist for artists.
A lot of scholarly publishers today, even very respected names, no longer provide typesetting and expect authors to do all the work and provide a camera-ready PDF. The whole scene of publishing genre fiction directly on Amazon also eschews quality typesetting and often even basic editing and proofreading.

Just saying. There are a lot of jobs today that the market apparently no longer wants to pay for, even in the book world.
It's pretty clear to me that China intends for it to be, and look like, an escalation, even if ambiguously so.

They're posturing on the new admin, knowing that the Whitehouse really doesn't want to escalate. A China flex without a comparable US (escalated) response would be huge for China's superpower aspirations right now.

If it backfires, then China can fall back to the position that they intended it to be reciprocal in order to save face.
I think the problem isn't being able to resell games. It's the fact that it became "industrialized" reselling. Gamestop grew so big, and incentivized used sales so much (so much that on release day, unopened new copies of the game were opened by employees to sell as used for $5 less), that the sheer volume caught every game publisher off-guard.

Used games stores have been a thing much before it became a problem (I remember selling games at EB Games). But because of Gamestop's growth and their aggressive pursuit of making sure their customers only dabble in the used games section, it became a serious issue.

The 7-9 resales by Gamestop might not translate to 7-9x extra sales, but I would bet it is at least 2x. I know a lot of people that stopped buying their games new, but wouldn't buy them used unless they were from Gamestop (so basically no grey market, e.g. ebay or craigslist), because it was more convenient. In some cities, Gamestop had some many stores, that they had to compete between themselves.
That's what makes it funny!
Was musclepedia taken?

Love the site. Thanks for making it :)
Root beer should be a float regardless, in case beer isn't a perfect square.
I am italian, and I wouldn't worry too much.

It is true that the artist is very famous and has even done some tech-related work in the past (I think he designed boxes for GPUs or modems, I forgot), but it's not like you risk being confused.
> Many societies did this in the past, but as it's "no longer economically viable," no one cares today.

Can you name a few?
Should help to avoid bitbanging when implementing protocols like the 1-wire[1] protocol, or say generating IO pulse sequences for interfacing with non-standard ICs, like this linear CCD sensor[2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1-Wire

[2]: https://toshiba.semicon-storage.com/ap-en/semiconductor/prod... (page 7 in datasheet)
Where is it? I didn't get it.
So this will sound like bitter, burnt-out comment and honestly been there, did that... and now I'm bitter again due to recent events at my recent workplace, but again this is just a pattern I have recognized along the 25 years I've spent working on banking software and later after the burn-out with a large telco.

So the programming joke:

The managers, especilally mid-level, and project owners.
They were to be VTOLs, so very carefully.
i can imagine this can work well for different way how to contact tech support. are people using it for that use case?
Love this one. I've heard a variant where the programmer suggests pushing it back up the mountain to reproduce it.
Given videos are usually 10mins and music 3.5 mins, and youtube adverts are both more frequent and more targeted, that might even explain the last factor of 10.
My guess is that hammered coins allow for more detail and are harder to forge, even if the resulting coins aren't perfectly round.

From this[1] it looks like early coins were also cast in the West before changing to hammering.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mint_(facility)
I forget where this one came from.

How did the programmer die in the shower?

'Lather, rinse, repeat'
Virtually every civilization pre-Industrial Revolution?
On a related note, there's also work on an FBP implementation in Elixir: https://github.com/pcmarks/ElixirFBP
"With two fast cores and and a large amount of on-chip RAM, RP2040 is a great platform for machine learning applications."

I'm not so sure, 264KB of RAM is not great for machine learning.
Wasalaam ukhti, from the other side of the fence. I'm in Israel, and would love to learn more, and see how I can help from here. It could be one of our small steps that helps move the needle on peace!

I'd like to introduce you to some friends in North America who will be very interested. Please check out my profile for an e-mail, and let's talk.

Shukraan habibti!
> What colour was this called before 'orange'?

I think they would have said yellow, gold, saffron, or red.
I had the exact same association :-)
He (Benn Jordan) recently posted a very interesting YouTube video where he discusses how streaming is working out for him and other artists like him now.

"Should we hate Spotify?":

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MXudOLStaXA
Lua is nice for small pieces of code, but the lack of compile time / static typing, is horrible.

It's super fast and fund, but I find it even worse than js.
i love those animations. where did you get them from?
Your post seems to blame the streaming companies rather than the record companies.

1 million streams in Spotify generally nets you c£2,740 - so in Gary Newman's case the issue is presumably the record label taking a huge £2,703 cut.

Independent artists can sign up directly with Spotify and get paid per stream, and Spotify's payment model is pretty transparent (they take a 30% cut of subscriptions and share the rest by time listened).
This also applies to pagination based on offset/limit
> Depending on the language the ampersand could mean by copy or by reference

Yikes. Which languages use ampersand to signal passing by value? That's a massive footgun if I'm ever cargo-culting my way through writing some code in one of those languages for the first time.
What's a Microsoft Product that doesn't suck?

Their vacuum cleaner!
To me "ginger" is a more reddish colour than orange.
I can give you some pointers, as a relatively young lisp developer (came to it ±3 years ago): at the time, unappealing official website (now fixed); only books to learn, few online code-first resources, so was harder to learn than necessary (greatly improved); only Emacs & Vim first-class support (now we have very good Atom and VSCode plugins, and more (Jupyter kernel,…)); hard to find libraries (only Cliki existed, it's now better, and there are plenty of libraries); Quicklisp seemed limited from the outside (although it's great) (we now have Ultralisp and the CLPM package manager, along with Qlot (directory-local installations), utilities like Roswell etc); hard to know if the language was being used at all (we now have lisp-lang.org showing success stories, awesome-lisp-companies shows more examples); hard to get into web development / no major framework (the Cookbook helps and there are many choices, although still no world-class framework. But I use a Lisp backend, classical Django-like templates and it's enough to build real-world, work-related stuff); no good GUI options (there was Qt4 without much examples, and Ltk. We now have IUP bindings, some more, and a Qt5 is coming soon©);…

Others know better the limitations of Lisp systems of the 80s or 90s. The compilers also improved (SBCL; there is CLASP in development to interface with C++ code, and more)

TLDR; it's catching up :D
RPA and AI: The Major Differences
Not necessarily – well, it does work :D and at least it mostly speaks XHCI – but it does require non-standard code for reset and initialization.
I don't quite get the punchline. I understand how if you integrate in the wrong direction you get a negative area, but is there a double meaning here?
The modern business maxim "don't leave money on the table" leads to local maxima, the locus being your own self in the short term. If the clinics self-regulate, don't artificially inflate the number of procedures needed and ostracize clinics who do, then everyone wins in the long run. The alternative is, everyone attempts to maximize gain and the government has to eventually step in with more draconian regulations that hurt everyone. Rational, local altruism can be a path to global self-interest.
Going by the same wikipedia article, there is a strong suggestion that the coins were fiat, not particularly valued for their materials:

> Minting and copper extraction were centrally controlled, and private casting was punishable by death. For the first time we find regulations giving the prescribed coinage alloy: 83% copper, 15% lead, and 2% tin. Previously the percentages used seem to have been on an ad hoc basis. Actual analyses show rather less copper than this.

> By 660, deterioration of the coinage due to forgery had become a problem.

(Why is this evidence that the value of the coins didn't come from their material? Because in that case, there would be no reason to control their production, nor would "forgery" really be an applicable concept.)

This should tend to keep down coin clipping, since you end up clipping off small shavings of a metal that isn't worth much in the first place. Why bother?
I think you can still do that.
I always heard this with a lawyer at the end.
Self-confidence, as a programmer, is when starting a new project, storing the transaction ID in an int64 rather than an int32.
FYI McAfee Web Gateway is flagging it as a parked domain, a lot of corporate users won't be able to access it.
I guess Python is definitely the new BASIC.
The point isn't that the clinics are not morally culpable, but only that they are a natural response to government incentives over which the government has exclusive control.
There's also a James Franco mini series based on the book, which is alright albeit a bit slow moving.
I think you would need to explain why you think pre-industrial civilization preferred "mastering the art" to "making money".

Painters sold their paintings or did commissions, musicians sold their compositions or wrote them on demand, glassblowers and blacksmiths worked to sell their ware.