skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you take many photos from slightly different locations, you can combine them into a virtual focal plane with interesting results.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/---mike---/albums/721577185851...

There used to be far, far more, but I ragequit after a bad UX experience that cost me years of accumulated links from other users on the site. I'm slowly putting things back.
Have you tried? In that case, what happend?
One issue I have seen in distributed systems is where a library is on another customer/teams hosts and brings them down due to a bug in the library. The other customer/team has no way to fix the bug and is dependent on getting the attention of the company/team who vended the lib in the first place. One I remember is where a library had a bug which created 0 byte files and exhausted the inodes causing an outage.

Cloud systems have become cheap enough and flexible enough that protecting your customers by not putting your bugs on their hosts is not as big as a lift as it used to be when you had buy bare metal servers or explicit VMs.
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Can I ask. How is this different from loom? https://www.loom.com/
This is their minimal example to compile a single C file:

1 module Main(main) where

2 import Development.Shake

3 import System.FilePath

4

5 main :: IO ()

6 main = shake shakeOptions $ do

7 want ["foo.o"]

8

9 "∗.o" %> \out → do

10 let src = out -<.> "c"

11 need [src]

12 cmd "gcc -c" src "-o" out

Maybe there is a need for super sophisticated graph handling, but for most use cases the way more complicated syntax of Shake is not a worthy tradeof.
Maybe I fail to see the point of even bothering to estimate something that is so unimportant it can be (or even appears likely to be?) down-prio'd in favour of more important things so quickly.

Could you explain in what stage to switch between things so quickly few things are ever finished, and why it makes sense to estimate those things at all, in that context?
Matemáticas, el lenguaje de todas las cosas
A Simple Serverless Collaborative Filter with AWS Lambda and Surprise
Malicious apps on Google Play dropped banking Trojans on user devices
I think the person you're replying to was just memeing on the Richard Stallman essay that has the line, "What you call Linux should really be called GNU/Linux"
You're right. The fact that people can make outsize rewards from subscription services are the reason that even small single use tools are now 'services'.

I have a piece of software that removes the background from my video feed. It's a subscription, and it regularly phones home.

I have a piece of software that lets me visually combine, rotate and reorder pdfs. It's a subscription.

Even the simplest things, like a 'torch' are ad-supported on android these days.

It's miserable fighting off a million people who want to help me for 'less than the daily price of your coffee'.

And that's ignoring the fact that so many of these subscriptions are really quite expensive - they adopt the standard cloud pricing of 9.99 per month, even when the service they're offering is not much difference than what a $5 piece of shareware would have provided in the distant past.
I just got NemID as a foreigner -- it took me about 4 months of circular references (x is closed because of covid, get it from y; y is shut because of covid -- try x) and a rooting trick on my phone to get the app to work. I am sure that it is nice for the government and the banks having a unified point of sale, but it _really_ took a lot of work to get sorted. I think I prefer the decentralised, less secure, presumably easier to defraud method…
Thank you for your effort, great article to read.
Oh Sibelius is hot hot hell.
To this day I detest sites that require javascript, inject tens or hundreds of MB into cache, and make ridiculous demands of rendering.
Having written a Rust wc implementation a few years ago (https://github.com/Freaky/cw), I had a look at theirs.

It's pretty naive - a simple linewise read_until loop, a conditional to avoid word splitting and such if it's not needed, and for some reason it collects results into an array and prints when it's done rather than printing as it goes.

It doesn't support --files0-from like GNU wc, so isn't a drop-in replacement from that perspective. It also has the sadly common Rust trope of only supporting filenames that are valid UTF-8.

It doesn't seem overly slow considering its simplicity - usually trading blows with GNU and BSD wc. Perhaps the most glaring omission is the lack of a fast path for -c, which should reduce to a stat() call. Also unfortunate not to use the excellent bytecount crate to provide a very fast -l/m path.

The read_until loop also makes its memory use unpredictable compared with other wc's. If you run it on /dev/zero it will try to eat your computer.
Here are two great books on the topic:
- xerox dealer of lightning, about PARC: https://archive.org/details/dealersoflightni00hilt
- fire in the valley, about the development of personal computers : https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1427580.Fire_in_the_Vall...

My personal favorite is The soul of a new machine, an account of a team trying to create a new computer : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soul_of_a_New_Machine
Old growth woods like these are obviously unbelievably unique (and expensive).

But even if you can't find or afford anything like that, if you are ever remodeling, it's worth reusing weathered but intact lumber from your house when possible.

I pulled and reused about 50 ft of existing redwood 2x6 off my house recently as part of a remodel, refinished it with shou sugi ban (Japanese wood burning technique) and built a new gate structure with it, and it turned out beautiful.
On my physical keyboard also. As with all azerty keyboards from the last 20 years.

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Corporate Tax Haven Index – 2021
They are both randomized.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Vegas_algorithm#Relation_t...
The USSR experienced all sorts of issues like this, where the central management would first over supply something, then react by massively undersupplying it, then overreact in the other direction. It also experienced a total collapse. It makes no sense to point to it as a model of stability.

(Also, as you read my message here, recall my claim isn't that communisms has cycles and capitalism doesn't, but everything does because there is no way to build an economic system that doesn't have -d^2/dt^2 terms showing up somewhere in it.)
Ableton lets you import .mid files which can be easily created from western notation using MuseScore. I use Ableton as my DAW and if I want to write something in staff notation I just write it in MuseScore (because it's got a good interface for it anyway) and export it as a midi file which I import into Ableton. For the kind of music that I make, though, there's rarely a need to write anything down. I know the parts in my head, I hit record, I start playing.
It’s a balancing act. If you try to force it, it becomes un-fun. Don’t let STEM become the thing that your children dread because it was always pushed upon them.

Figure out what children enjoy and provide opportunities around that. Things like LEGO are a good introduction, if they’re into LEGO. Programming-style games are fun, if they’re into games.

Doing things with your child can make them interesting (up until the age where you become uncool, of course).
Obviously?

The company was bankrupt.

People who bought HRTZ after bankruptcy had to have known it was a game of financial musical chairs, much like GME, TSLA or BTC.
As of 2019, oil, gas and coal were still king. They provided 84% of the world's energy needs.
There were some exceptions:
France: used nuclear for 38% of its needs;
Canada: hydro for 24%; and
Denmark: wind for 18%.

See graphs from

https://bourne2learn.com/math/energy/consumption-totals.php

https://bourne2learn.com/math/energy/consumption-fuels.php

using data from

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/energy-consumption-by-sou...
And Forrest Mims' Engineers' Notebooks and Mini-Notebooks.

https://hackaday.com/2017/01/18/forrest-mims-radio-shack-and...

http://www.zpag.net/Electroniques/Kit/The%20Forrest%20Mims%2...

The handwritten part starts on page 5 (page 14 of the PDF).
I guess I'm asking what "about right" means. Does it mean you finish faster than that number 50 % of the time? 90 % of the time? No statistics necessary, just your gut feel.
In general I agree with you.

However:

> For instance, Aerospace & Defense companies that have a strong "Aftermarket" presence (which really means maintenance, spares, repairs, etc.) generally command higher valuations.

Not sure whether that's a good example, because that might just be exploiting some weirdness in how government projects get funding approval, and might not be relevant to the wider (and software) world?
Have a conversation with them about something, "wanna know something cool about rocks/insects/stars/the ocean/numbers/... ?" -- share things that you found exciting and interesting with them. :) From there you can do research projects together, watch documentaries, buy them equipment to allow them to engage their interests (microscopes and telescopes come to mind).
Appreciated!

(And, nicer site, easier domain name, to boot :)
With TSLA and AMD, people at least had a thesis. One may argue those were wild equity stories, but at least they existed.

Hertz is a dying company in a dying industry and while I admit I don't follow it closely, I have not seen anyone come up with a defensible story for why one should own that stock.
Those at least had a growth story.

HRTZ and GME are pure plays on the other hand.
Magic numbers are a horrible pattern (and I don't mean elf/obj IDs).

*ANY* time you use a non-obvious constant (like start of a loop that isn't 0), good practice to comment immediately at the source, or pull it into a well-named variable/macro.

Don't agree? Spend 35 years programming and you'll see this pop up again and again and again and again... SO much time wasted figuring out magic #s.
How could someone write in the abstract of a supposedly scientific paper, “This destroys RSA cryptosystem“?

Weird!
Huh? I ran Windows on my M1 MBA quite easily: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windowsins...

It was under Parallels but I’m sure over time someone will figure out how to direct boot into it if that’s really important.

Performance of the M1 running Windows and games either in Crossover (commercial WINE implementation - well worth the $40 for ease of use/installation) or the Windows 10 beta actually turned out to be a bad thing. I subscribe to way too many assets in Cities:Skylines to use 16GB of RAM - I need at least 32GB so with great difficulty I returned the 16GB MBA and am eagerly awaiting the next round of AS Macs, hoping there will be at least one laptop that can take at lease 32GB of RAM. If so I will probably never update my Windows gaming machine again. Not that I could if I wanted to right now with the insane GPU shortages - but that’s another topic :p
However, if your user agrees to be limited (because it prevents them from making mistakes), we have fairly reliable methods.

But yes, they require the user of your library to cooperate.
Russia turns away from NASA, says it will work with China on a Moon base
> it's easier to get the training data you need for such a system if you're not using LIDAR.

“Less data is better for self-driving cars” is not the take I expected to hear from the Tesla mob today.
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> if neanderthals... were the ones with those mutations.

There's a fun trilogy from Robert J. Sawyer about that :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Neanderthal_Parallax
Eh, the top complaint I have heard from people who are union members is that they take money for very little.
>IMHO, the problem has more to do with the entitlement around driving. People don't view it as a privilege.

Large parts of the US have little to no public transit, and can only be accessed via car. You can't say driving isn't an entitlement and then arrange your infrastructure in such a way as to require driving.
Intel joins DARPA in search of encryption 'holy grail'
There's a wonderful old school informative video about asbestos on YT about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxfZSEboVM4

It's hard not to yell, "No! Don't touch it!". Though, it's easy to see why it was flocked to. The handling is pretty simple for the fire proofing benefits... minus the cancer part.
A&D encompasses Commercial aerospace like OEMs and their suppliers which are unrelated to Defense spending.

Another example are Automotive companies like heavy-duty vehicle parts manufacturers, which also benefit from higher Aftermarket exposure
Because it's the future and HBR (or some such "authority") told them so.
Newspapers need to cater to people who don't bother read the article?
TinyBuild Launches IPO on the London Stock Exchange
Good catch. -1 point to me for not staring hard enough at the x axis also.
CDC Study on Mask Mandate Effectiveness [pdf]
It's a great time to be a roboticist.
> you'd have to abandon compatibility with a great deal of scripts.

Having tried to reproducibly package various software, the C layer (and especially the coreutils layer) are the absolute worst, and I wouldn't shed a tear if we started afresh with something more holistically designed.
I think context is really important here. Multiple comments in this thread jump to the concern that it is much harder to monetize a library -- but in an era where many developers are enthusiastic about service oriented architecture, it's also worth considering the decision between services and libraries for functionality which will only be exposed inside of an organization.

One other dimension not discussed in the article is how the scale of use varies over time. A service operator needs to ensure the service scales to support its use. But some use cases are extremely spiky (e.g. when something is invoked by a batch job processing many TB of data among many workers). Even if the service is able to dynamically scale based on load, that's not frictionless or without cost to the team operating the service, and can cause a degradation of service provided to other users. By contrast, if one provides a library, any given use case can be responsible for providing the capacity to support themselves.

A last dimension of libraries vs services within an organization is attributing value and cost. This is a double-edged sword. When providing a service, the team that operates the service may have some clear costs to continue to run it. Just providing the service can make you look like a cost center. If you do the extra work to make sure use cases are distinguished and trackable (e.g. use cases have separate credentials used in calling the service), then perhaps these costs (and "value" in the form of request volume) can be tied to callers. When providing a library, the team that provides it both doesn't appear as a cost center, but also it may not have a straight forward way of knowing how intensively their library is being used and therefore how much value it has provided to the org.
> I got sick, I lost 8 more kg (16lb) in weight in 5 days: when I got out of hospital I over-ate sugar and carbs for two weeks and got fitter, faster than anyone would believe.

If you lost that much so fast it's because before being sick you were very high in glycogen muscular reserves, which binds on water big time. Surely you didn't eat during your sickness, leading to glycogen depletion, leading to shredding all that water and weight.

You surely were then very miserable, because losing so much water during 5 days means having virtually no more minerals, magnesium and potassium being key components for cellular activity.

And then you binged on carbs, building your glycogen reserves back to normal, bringing minerals back in your system, and assuredly you felt better.

But you also piked your insulin level by eating a lot of carbs, and you are now a step closer to insulin resistance.

> Sugar is good for you

If you eat sugar often enough to induce insulin resistance, then, no, it's not. Otherwise, yes, go enjoy your annual 100gr of candies, it won't hurt, it may even go one rep further on that squat max.
For example, I'm disclosing my schedule: when I'm likely to be in a given neighborhood, at a certain store, or simply not at home. I'm disclosing my habits: do I buy alcohol frequently? Do I buy certain magazines?

None of it is critical information, but I'm not only handing it out, I'm wrapping it up into a neat, searchable bundle for bulk analysis. And more importantly, there will soon be no easy way to opt out; anyone who truly does have something to hide will be obvious by the lengths they must go to in doing so. This is one more step in a dangerous, inhuman direction.
Mantis shrimp inspires new breed of light sensors
Google’s Privacy Sandbox–We’re All FLoCed
GME is not bankrupt yet (it is indeed overpriced and comparable to HRTZ), but TSLA and BTC? They don't belong to the same categories. TSLA and BTC will see a lot of gains to come. Eventually without a definite date what goes up comes down but it'd be silly to not take a piece of the pie yourself and keep your savings in cash...
AMD isn't a meme stock - I knew it was going to be a safe bet when it was at 5, but didn't have money to do anything with it.

It is guaranteed to exist, as it is the only x86 competitor to Intel, and IIRC their x86 license is non-transferable.

It is nvidia's only main competitor.

It does its job pretty well.

Is it a blue chip in terms of stability? Clearly it is a bit more volatile. But it isn't dying anytime soon.
Same here.
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One should use RFC 3339 dates which have a formal grammar and and open standard.
The blog stopped updating in 2013. (I'm happy it still exists though.)

Man, I love that "Age of DIY" that "Modern Mechanix" and other publications of that era reflected.

I remember when I was a boy discovering volumes of the book "The Boy Mechanic" (yeah, that title: they were published around 1900 though) on the bookshelf of a friend's home. I was captivated.

I think the articles had just enough diagrams, photos, description to give you a nudge in the right direction without overwhelming you with exact part-lists, dimensional plans, etc. That vagueness might have even left the door open for experimentation (accidental or intentional) so that you arrive at your own design...

At some point the "Popular Mechanics" became almost a front for some entrepreneur selling plans on ... converting a VW to an airplane in your garage, but that was okay too.

Later I discovered the two volumes of "The Way Things Work" (not DIY at all, but in a similar spirit, I suppose).

I love those old publications, miss the spirit of those days.
Completely agree. On a more fundamental level, it just annoys me that I should even know who they are. I'm not sure who decides what the story of the day is, but it feels like once there's a consensus, the entire legacy media competes to give the most over-the-top coverage. It's all utterly unfit for purpose.
There are indeed only so many good designers.

There are exactly zero good product/project managers out there. There are some really nice and good and capable and kind and talented people who have this label attached to them. There are some good product/project clerks. There are some good product/project directors. There are some good product/project evangelists. But no good product/project manager. The term is a pariah on the well being of teams and productivity and delivering the right product to the right people. Many peers have been placed in this position over the years, in every case, they've become less likable people because of it and we're no longer a net positive collaboration. In every case, they themselves were less happy and felt less about themselves over time.

Maybe some of you have experienced a good product/project manager (who wasn't really just masquerading as some other responsibility), but I stand by my assertion. My sampling of this "position" remains at zero good ones.
It was done that way on purpose to cause hundreds of people a year to freak out and discuss it ad nauseum. But really a social experiment designed to show everyone is all talk and no follow through... That being that no one actually tried to change open source but just talk about it.
Call it a framework..
In their defense: They used to be pretty good, before international money laundering became a giant thing. After recent regulations there are very few reasons for why they would want to accept foreign customers. Just too much risk.

I agree that something needs to be done.

They have been innovative in the past:

1996/1997: Mass adoption of two-factor hardware devices providing secure authentication for online banking.

2003: Leveraging the two-factor hardware devices to create BankID.
> After fall there is a TON of furniture. I have no idea why: do people buy more furniture in the fall in preparation for holidays

Students moving into new places/moving out and going home.
isn't that all of them?
Factoid addendum: there was also IE for HP-UX
BTC is not a stock so I really don't follow why people keep treating it like it has some underlying value
Distribution (the internet) and open source disrupted that business out of existence.

I think we need something like that for the cloud. Pay an interchangeable cloud provider a monthly pittance, and they host your choice of services as turnkey solutions. No more centralization of data, and no more paying $5/mo for a service wrapper around some FOSS CLI tool.
China Targets AI, Chips Among Seven Battlefronts in Tech Race with U.S.
Interesting. Sounds like even more opportunities for speculative instruction exploits.
Given that 73.6% of American adults are overweight or obese[1], that doesn't sound all that surprising.

It sounds like extra pounds probably makes COVID worse, though it's possible that both come from the same underlying health issues. Either way, it's way less than the death sentence that the article implies.

In general it's probably a bad idea to be obese, by their definition, and it would be worth it to find a healthier diet and exercise regime. It's not at all clear to me that merely being overweight, by their definition, is all that bad. Probably not great, but the definition of "overweight" includes a lot of people who are very healthy.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/obesity-overweight.htm
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The South Sea Company was the original meme stock.
The digital sensorium: “interface design is organ design”
I have no idea why: do people buy more furniture in the fall in preparation for holidays?

Veteran's Day furniture sales :)
What do you think they are basing that on? Maybe they should talk to their union.

There are bad unions out there, but I don't think they're a majority.
Except HN <3
Actually, one time payment of $50 for a lifetime access. Still high for their salaries though, it'd be something like $2,000 in US.
Services allow you to interop with all languages, they let you avoid worrying about threading models of the program your operating within, and they don't have access to all of they sandbox the code being run allowing you to avoid worrying about the code doing something nefarious with access it gets from running inside your process. On top of this, people just seem to be fat more okay with not having source access to a service than they do using proprietary libraries (which from a security perspective makes sense to me).

If there was a standard threading model, language agnostic interop with clear evolutionary properties (perhaps a channel based one), and a generic mechanism for sandboxing libraries folks could use then maybe they would consider providing libraries more. Some sort of hybrid between COM, wasm, and optimized in process grpc is more or less what I'm trying to describe. This doesn't exist, however, and moving your library out of process solves this issue neatly so it's not a surprise that's what's happening.