skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not a musician, but it's kinda cool that they grew from

https://thumbs.static-thomann.de/thumb/thumb1000x/pics/image...

to

https://thumbs.static-thomann.de/thumb/thumb1000x/pics/image...

I know exactly what you mean with "old school customer service". I really hope these niched retailers stray strong against Amazon.
This is something I was thinking about just reading this headline.

In a hypotetical future, it is possible assisted suicide rates will be down just before elections and up after elections because a group of people have already decided on the suicide, and are delaying the procedure to be able to vote.
Same here. This still scares me today https://youtu.be/5iZMD_eCpEo
Oh thanks! Makes more sense than what I thought at first!
My parents, who have decidedly not been in prison for the last 30 years, can barely fill out most digital forms (especially ones on the Web) on their own. They both have professional degrees and have used computers since the 1980s.

Assuming that someone who has likely never touched a computer before can operate at or above that level seems like a fast track towards ensuring that they remain marginalized and even further isolated from social services. That, in turn, has long term expenses that, I'd expect, dwarf the costs of a few hardcopies and a data-entry clerk.
> There's no reason to believe qualia arise in a given discrete computation.

There's no reason to believe that they don't either.

> It's completely self-evident we experience qualia.

Not to me. Prove it.
Taking Stock of Sequoia Capital’s Standout Year with Roelof Botha
Sure, I get your point, but this description stands in opposite to previous statement that “tour content lives inside the code as comments”.

It seems to me that CodeTour is very close to Knuth’s idea.
Quality links there. Thanks!
> Mob rule != democracy.

Actually that's precisely what it means: "demos" = mob + "kratos" = rule; hence "demokratia" = the rule of the mob.

Funny, huh?
Really?!?!
Biggest issue I'm dealing with is their integrated iframe app view and trying to persist a session since cross-site cookies are being blocked more and more. For instance Safari now blocks them by default and Chrome announced they are doing the same. That means when the user logs in via the frame, you can't set a cookie or add a jwt to the localstorage. All blocked and there are no workarounds. Awesome.
"the dealbreaker for me was dropping 32 bit support"

Funny. I decided to drop Ubuntu Linux because they dropped support for 32 bit CPUs. I switched to FreeBSD.
> If the OP wants a compiler and toolchain that only changes every six months, that's already available. He can stick with the same compiler for six months or even longer with 0 downsides.

Sure, but there's also things like how long will the current version be supported if there are security issues, or similar. People also want a version that will be supported with bug/security fixes for 6 or 12 months vs "Oh it's broken? Upgrade to head."
I've been in Massachusetts for a while, which is a small American state. And guess what? 20 years ago there used to be many more local supermarket chains, that over time were increasingly absorbed or destroyed by massive national chains. I feel like this same story plays out all over the world, except that when you have countries like in Europe it feels like a more personal type of event e.g. "those foreign superchains are out to get our local wholesome stuff." But in reality maybe it's mostly just business.
I'm just here for the two stroke that we never got in the states. :(
Our product automates pdf forms in a specific area (HR).

From experience, the presence of form fields in the PDF will tell you that it is a form, but the converse is not always true.

Plenty of people flatten their pdfs to remove the form fields, or maybe they were never there in the first place.

I believe it's sometimes driven by misguided attempts to stop people from "hacking" (aka automating) them.

Or pure incompetence.

Some other things I would have like to see in the article would be some details of how they handled signatures. We do electronic signatures but it is certainly an area where accessibility comes into play.
I think you are confusing trackers with the more general capabilities that appeared in PC sound cards of the 90s.

Although there were sound cards that supported connecting external MIDI instruments, and there were sound cards that implemented the so-called General MIDI set of instrument sounds on the card itself, tracker software did not use any of this functionality. Trackers loaded samples into memory and mixed the audio in software. This is how Scream Tracker (for example) could output directly to the PC speaker and did not require any particular sound card.

Because everything was mixed in software, the complexity of a composition was limited by the CPU and memory of the computer itself. It didn't matter what sound card you had. On under-powered PCs, loading very large samples or going above 4 or 8 channels of polyphony was not a viable option. This meant that tracker musicians operated under similar restrictions to the chip musicians of the 8-bit era. In fact, quite a few tracker musicians got their start in the 8-bit era, which is why a lot of demoscene music sounds similar to it.

(Edit to add: in case it's not clear, later trackers did use hardware mixing and effects if they were available, but I'm trying to explain more about the culture of the scene and how it influenced the type of music that came out of it.)
The story of this century, "cut off useless middlemen", Europe has a lot of comfortable useless middlemen left over from the colonization period.
Trust your gut, it absolutely is.
I remember System Shock. Definitely had no way to play it on my 386, but I remember going to my friend's house who had a 486 that it played somewhat decent on. The world of "true" 3D games before Voodoo 3dfx cards were released... Wing Commander Games, Ultima Underworld (1 and 2). Games that you could look up and down and not have the world skew like crazy. Fun times.
Anybody remembers Phrozen Crew and this "DaVinci" ASCII/ANSI art? It was just amazing

https://geekdrop.com/content/phrozen-crew-member-logos-by-da...
Right, but the goal and promise is to get C perf in Rust _without_ the unsafe blocks. Rust may or may not make good on that goal but the idea is why people are interested.
Yeah https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-53432776

I'm a brit and had to google. Apparently they may move temporarily while refurbing the usual location.
it's tempting to think that, but no, in the simple non-mutating case, the exponent is fixed. the growth rate is exponential but the exponent does not grow with spread. they say the exponent ranges from 2-5 for covid, and drops with mitigation methods. that seems to clearly put it in n^2 to me.

that said, the mitigations do cause the exponent to fluctuate... and in countries where people are willing to cooperate it has dropped below 1 and the epidemic has been mitigated.

it is possible that this is actually a case calling where asymptotic analysis is inappropriate and in fact you have to resort to the raw data and measurement.

now that i think of it though, if you allow for mutations that are more infectious, then the exponent is not fixed and increases with spread... yikes.
The Python Package Cache
With Drovio, you’re not limited to what’s on your IDE nor to terminals and shared servers. You can share docs, stack overflow posts, tools, any other apps, debug stuffs together... You all see the same thing and you’re all in control, with voice chat and video conferencing support.
As far as I know, Nature explicitly allow open access... if you pay extra for it.

They call it "open access" if I remember correctly and it's a couple of times more expensive than it already is.

Universities pay a lot of money to publish in these journals.
Jacob Lawrence, the Migration
Yes - for my doctorate, I wrote several papers, and as a condition of my (public & private) funding they had to be made available publicly.

What I found was that the actual _content_ is served by the university - free for all etc, but any typsetting, editing and formatting became the publisher's property. Yeah sounds daft, but, well, you can get all my papers either directly from the university (via a centralised UK catalogue that Google has managed to link quite nicely) or pay £20+ a shot to Elsevier for the same thing. (Maybe it's different? Looks better? A nicer font? I honestly don't know, but I'm pretty sure the results and stuff are identical, would be quite funny if they weren't)
I think you read that wrong...or maybe I did...

It's awkward, but I think the Author's intent given the slant of the article was to bring into relief the fact that what was generally recognized as an uncontroversial, reasonable moderate standpoint/statement of fact, and well accepted exercise of fundamental civil rights (perogative of the service member as a citizen unrelated to the job), has somehow become a radical novelty worthy of being stomped out because it contradicts or registers as something anti-thetical to some hypothetical zeitgeist in power. The controversy isn't that "Biblical law is the right one and we'll shoot you if you don't believe it", it's that something completely tangental to the mission of national defense has through bureaucracy seems to be undermining the very concept of "You do you" in a very stark and alarming way. It's supposed to invoke feelings of fear and disunity, that the "hun" are running the show now... Or something. I really wish people would rein in these types of hysterics. Both the author in writing style, and any officials using positions of authority to promote personal political ambitions. The job description is actually fairly constrained, and I'd really prefer our servicemembers weren't forced to second guess command's motives. Heck, I'd prefer to not do so. Then again, if something nefarious was going down, I'd likely not know til someone official looking knocked on the door.

It's a really awkward read. Not gonna lie.
That is a fun take on "projection." :-) I expect to see a lot more of this with the wide availability of GAN driven image networks that can change faces/voices etc. Its like autotune for looks. Given how he was found I expect a software update that removes an person image in a mirror making them effectively vampires :-).

For the youngsters in the crowd, we used to have these phone numbers you could call where you could be connected with a "sexy woman who would talk to you and fantasize with you." Guess what, the only requirement for the job was "sexy voice" not actually being all that sexy. Poor chaps paying $1/minute to have phone sex with 45 - 50 year old women who not only have sexy voices but know a thing or two about sex.

"Influencers" are, as a money making entity, in the same genus as phone sex, product salespeople, and actors. They are there to create an attractive illusion that increases sales/market activity around an attached product.
English may not be your first language? I think you have perhaps unintentionally said something extremely offensive.

Trans women are women. Trans women were born men, but they are not pretending.
DOJ Indicts Till Kottmann (Deletescape) for Operating Git.rip
Shakespeare grave effigy believed to be definitive likeness
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I believe it's a derivative of PostScript (mostly as subset), and as far as I know, it's not Turing complete.
You'll have better conversations of you engage with the argument rather than misrepresent it.
A) Almost certainly not. No doubt phished/otherwise involuntarily obtained credentials end up in their database, and people that voluntarily contribute their credentials when pressured will lie about their contribution to the authorities. But there's no evidence that sci-hub itself is behind any attacks.

B) Yes, but only due to the potential sensitive nature of the credentials unrelated to the downloading of papers.
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Maybe this
Maybe that

This type of argument is toxic. Adds little to the conversation. If you can back any of these maybes that would be great...
We can't solely print money instead of tax because it is the tax itself that gives the money value to print in the first place. The greater the tax, the more can be printed, the lower the tax, the less can be printed.

This is not because taxation removes money from the system (reducing supply and increasing value) - it is because the intial seed of value that allows fiat curerncies to exist in the first place is the demand generated from the force-enforced requirement to pay tax in that currency. Everything else is layers above. Without the tax, the system would have nothing to stand on.
Yes sorry, most of their rust team would have been more accurate.
Huh, that's strange. Maybe it has something to do with the OS? I'm on 10.15.
I love the idea, but there may be privacy implications. It reminded me of learning about cameras that can accidentally see through clothes that manufacturer had to to recall to remove.
you can also add .DS_Store to the global gitignore, fwiw
U.S. Air Force Drone Washes Up on Boynton Beach
Pricing page: https://hoppy.network/pricing/

$8 for 1tb 100/100mbs connection
$16 for 2tb 500/500mbs connection

Though, in theory you could do the same with a standard vps from digital ocean or the like... and you'd have upstream compute too... and it might be a little cheaper...
>Today, Twitter is just as important of a conduit as newspapers or the evening news.

Twitter is a terrible medium for discourse. You wouldn't suggest that world leaders communicate via TikTok, simply because it's popular.
Showed this to my wife. Her reply? "makes sense. Women do the inverse if they want to be taken seriously in business".

I remember reading an article in the French press, about two women founders that mailed the off-site dev team under the moniker of Mike and Bob.

They were fed up with being second guessed on business decisions and had found out that 'Bob' was getting less pushback than 'Marissa'.
The BUILD trio (DN3D, Blood and SW) are all excellent games. I recommend anyone who has tried to at least try out Blood (IMO the best of the trio).

Other than that, if you are a FPS fan but haven't touched the 90s scene, please give yourself a favor by purchasing DOOM 1/DOOM 2/BUILD trio/QUAKE 1/QUAKE 2/UNREAL GOLD and more importantly download modern engine improvements, play the games and even more important, find communities and download the top quality mods/mappacks and play all of them.

Seriously I think it will take one years to go through the whole process, even limited to top quality mods/mappacks.
> I'm sure it's purely coincidence she is locked from her twitter account on the same day that congress will be voting on a resolution on whether or not to expel her.

Surely you could see that correlation as a pattern of questionable behavior finally biting her and not some conspiracy between the liberal elite and Twitter.
You already can (if you are willing to be a clinical trial guinea pig). There are nanoparticle eye drops that enables that.
Correct, but if you make one call to a deprecated api, your app will be unlisted immediately
How It happened: Transcript of the US-China opening remarks in Alaska [SD]
> See how TSMC (Taiwan) and Samsung are free to buy ASMLs EUV machines, while China is blocked. Part of that is due to their rampant IP theft. Why sell machines to China if they're just going to copy them?

You seem a bit misinformed. ASML CEO has repeatedly showed extreme desire to sell in china (it already comprises the fastest growing DUV market)[1]. It's the american pressure, indirectly or directly exerted which is causing issues. If it were upto ASML SMIC would already be establishing it's EUV fabs.

[1] https://www.caixinglobal.com/2020-10-16/dutch-tech-giant-asm...
I recommend reading up on cweb and its history. The tangling and weaving metadata and prose lives in the code with special fenced blocks. Noweb is a modern version of it: https://github.com/nrnrnr/noweb (but it's not really used or maintained much anymore)
This is configurable almost everywhere it is encountered, and there's a reason for that!

It's the same dilemma as panning a first-person-perspective camera up and down. Some people think that down should move the perspective, some people think that down should move the camera: so pushing the joystick down should move the viewing window up. These physical intuitions are durable and hard to change.

I grimly endured the difference between a trackpad and a phone until OS X (as it was then known) switched to the "correct" default, but I'm one of those people who expects a camera to work like the control stick of a plane: pulling towards me, or down, should elevate the perspective. I purchased a gimbal recently, and was having a terrible time controlling it until I realized that the default (pushing the joystick up points the camera up) could be overridden.

I don't think there's anything "sensible" in a general way about anyone's custom configuration script, frankly, and I suspect the person who made this wasn't actually trying to promote it for public consumption, and just meant "script to make my computer do what I consider sensible".
I can't believe these questionnaires have become so pervasive that it's spawning an industry. I hate these things. They are such a burden on the small, niche software vendor.
So David Mitchell was not a bad choice.

Very funny show about Shakespeare:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upstart_Crow

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Mitchell_(comedian)
Generally the reason an attacker would do those things is because their hijacks will last much longer due to lack of an abuse department and victims having to contact upstreams.

Shorter ASPath, planning which Tier 1/2 is the best to hijack from, and lack of LOA requirement or RPKI.

If an attacker wants to do this - they don't want to "just" cause damage. This is a limited opportunity. They want to do it right, and that takes planning.

I do agree that your idea is possible, but I don't think it captures the full severity of the issue.
At this point it feels like the best option is to shut twitter down completely. What good comes solely from twitter?
I actually designed and built a (modern?) game like this!
If you have an iPhone you can check it out. It's sort of "Portal meets Doom" https://blog.sb1.io/gateescape/

I used some screenspace shaders for the controls and color blending, but the engine itself is an oldschool raycaster. Building it posed a lot of interesting problems like how to recessively render sprites through portals and things like that.

I also open sourced an early prototype of the engine: https://github.com/gh123man/Portal-Raycaster
I understand that. I just assumed if it was BigOil behind the scenes that wells/refineries must be involved which are visible. What kinds of shenanigans are going on? I'm totally not up to speed on what is occurring there.
> Instead, this should be done department-by-department, app-by-app. Design the process from the bottom up.

It is a technical way. "Do not mind people, just make tech to work". This way have its benefits, like it tends to make result to have better design, but what about people? They work and they think that their work is important and valued. But "hey, some engineer came and started to make it his way without any reverences to us". It is humiliating, and such engineer could face a resistance.

The author made a genius' move which I might expect from a psychologist or any other social oriented person, not from tech-savvy engineer: he started to make life of a people better. He asked their opinion on how they think it would be made better. He showed respect. He showed people that he sees them as people, not as gears in a clockwork mechanism. They reacted as people generally tend to react to this: they welcomed him. Probably it helped that it was government bureaucracy which likely treat people as gears in a clockwork, so his way of treating people contrasted nicely to the way they used to.
I've often been paranoid that Scihub papers might contain zero day PDF vulnerabilities.
Eh, more like subtext for things people aren't necessarily consciously aware of.
Buyvm offers that for a VM: https://buyvm.net/anycast-vps/.

And fly.io offers that but it's not a classic VM with SSH but a service similar to heroku: https://fly.io/

I'm affiliated with neither of these.
I was curious what it's name is, but apparently it's still unnamed. Maybe they should just call it "New Administrative Capital" forever!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Administrative_Capital
Taxes don't fund 100% of the government. That doesn't mean that taxes can fund 0% of the government and everything will still work.
I can't see the full data, but as I assume they didn't just blatantly make that up men also likely receive more deals. In normal business terms, women would get 31% less per hour and also x fewer hours.
As long as you remain open to change your mind, you’re doing better than almost anybody online. Keep assuming as you please.
We use a forked and heavily modified Saleor at Brava (https://www.brava.com). Our version is over two years old. It brings with it all of the headaches of running your own eCommerce. At the time we chose it because of our requirements. If you want to geek out and implement lots of custom eCommerce stuff then go for it. It's a pretty good platform, but it's custom eCommerce, and eCommerce is complicated. If I just wanted to sell things I'd personally use Shopify or Webflow or such.
Can anyone link to a recent paper discussing the benefits or advantages of freely wired networks vs. prescribed networks?
Ask HN: How can I improve my engineering book notes website?
In December I started posting my book notes online at https://www.briansnotes.io/

I know a lot of engineers on HN enjoy reading, so I wanted to ask - how can I make my website more useful to you?
This was more of a Friday post

but of course, the cicadas and Brood X have been talked about on here

Here's some previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25832980
Spectral Bloom Filters for Client-Side Search
DitherPaint: 1-Bit Sketching in the Browser
Maybe this will help: https://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html Then you can e.g. use the name of the TeX command for the symbol to Google its meaning (Stackexchanges are often full of questions looking for the TeX command for a symbol, so you could use these to infer in the other direction)
I think something like this might be a more reasonable approach than forgiving student loan debt completely. There is little risk to banks servicing federally backed student loans, so interest rates should reflect that. There is a cost to servicing the loan, and banks should be compensated for that, but I don't think student loans should be a large government backed profit center for banks.
https://rage4.com/

If I'm reading that right... they do that... I think.
I’m surprised it’s even permitted to have files on the local drive and not stored on the network drive, especially for a fixed PC.
Word of warning: hidutil keeps the caps lock delay, so you’ll miss short presses. This drove me mad until I figured it out but by then Karabiner had thankfully been updated for the new OS.
What I miss the most about warez is the music. I've ran some keygens for like hours just to hear those chiptunes.
This is one of those great ideas that seems obvious in retrospect. I hope it pans out. I was wondering how this stimulated the optic nerve, but it seems like it doesn't do so directly, but rather it interacts with the existing retina?
How do you know the HTTP response was 503? (sorry for the silly questions, I'm not a software engineer)
That's not the sense that I was using, and I don't think it's a relevant point either. What's important IMO is that the platform and the data are not controlled by elected officials.