skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have also long wondered about this Bertrand Russell paradox.
Google doesn't care if Safari and Firefox don't accept something. See https://webapicontroversy.com

They will release it and then will engage their network of developer advocates and business representatives to try and make developers pressure Apple and Mozilla.

Just some examples of one such rhetoric: https://twitter.com/slightlylate/status/1191027005342404608 and https://twitter.com/slightlylate/status/1369773901610250240 and don't forget, what's missing is your advocacy: https://twitter.com/slightlylate/status/1360364259088027655
Namecheap joined Handshake and has announced major support. Doesn’t look zombie at all.
I'm surprised there is a distinction between the two at this point. What we have are "user interfaces" and both are graphical, whether it's interacting with text or graphics.

I think the main issues of usability are paradigm-independent—how do you make the UX more discoverable for text interfaces? How do you make the GUI more powerful and accessible to scripts? GUI development was introduced to make computers more tactile, and feel more life-like and accessible; and it works.

The reason Text-UIs work better for automation is that programming languages these days are text-based. How might one shift to a more graphical-programming paradigm? Machine learning I think has a lot of potential in this area and I would love to see some new work in this space.
I don’t know that it is only scratching the surface - the book gets you into an interactive site that is styled with Bootstrap, uses a database, uses web APIs, pushes to Heroku so it’s HA and scalable, etc.

It’s pretty much all the major elements of web programming but using the more elegant ways of simplifying the experience.

I’m not denying the complexity just saying that there are still many (particularly in Python or in cloud PaaSes) who value streamlining the experience.
Is $.02/GB egress supposed to be astounding in a positive way? That's still highway robbery compared to what you get on DigitalOcean, OVH, Hetzner Cloud... literally any provider that's not AWS or GCP.

Maybe some folks have millions of VC money to blow, but I would never build a VoIP or gaming (= bandwidth intensive) app on this.
We probably also have many reasons to be positive about the future :-)
and do what with it? is there a central register of owner per vin? list of stolen vins?
As an Anglican priest, I can confidently say that our expectation and hope runs rather the opposite direction, given the—ahem—somewhat questionable mental faculties of many who’ve served as Supreme Governour of the Church of England since the Act of Supremacy, lol.
I haven't tried it, though if I recall they've greatly started de-emphasizing the coding aspect of it.

Even still, I don't believe I can export directly to anything supported nowadays, right? Does the HTML5 exporter work?
> It's beyond my comprehension why humans still keep these hereditary regimes, constitutional or absolutist, alive

7 of the Top 10 democracies are constitutional monarchies:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index#By_country

As a Canadian, I have no particular issue about getting rid of the monarchy, but anyone pushing for that will have to demonstrate that the new system will keep us in the Top 5 (or at least 10).
I don't think this makes sense. A model doesn't become the thing it models.
FIGMA NUTS
Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) Antenna
If you add something, you need to convince N people that it's acceptable. To remove something, you must convince N people not only that it is acceptable, but that it is preferable to removing any of the other options.

It may be easy to convince most people that a farm subsidy is doing more harm than good, but it's hard to convince the farmers that there aren't any other subsidies that could be cut instead.
Here's a quick zero shot text compression attempt with GPT3, compressing then decompressing some of my sentences picked from upthread. Looks pretty impressive imo.

Notes:
These results include every attempt I made and are not curated in any way, except for the "image formats" compression when I manually asked GPT3 for additional output because it stopped short.

To construct the same request, copy the appropriate prompt and append two more lines matching the prompt, such as `{prompt}\n\nLong: your input text\nShort:` then ask GPT3 for a completion.

--

Compression:

Prompt

Make text shorter or longer, using slang, chat speak, or just add or remove vowels and silent letters.

Long: This text is compressed.
Short: dis txt is shrt

Outputs (each prediction starts after Short:)

Long: I want this sentence, only shorter.

Short: I wnt dis sentnce, only shrr

Long: This ensured the decompressed output was all real words, but lowering the jpeg quality basically controlled the descent into synonyms and madness.

Short: dis enrvd th cmpd outut b all rl wrds, but lwg th jpg qulity basically cntrlwd th dscnt into synns and mds.

Long: I'm away from my computer for the next week or so but if you catch me after that I'm happy to post some of the results. Would be interesting to try with some other image formats as well.

Short: I'm awy frm my cmpu 4 da nex wk or so bt if u ctch me aftr dat I'm hppy 2 post sum of d rzltz. Wd b intrestng 2 try w/ sum odder imjd frms as wl.

--

Now I take the above outputs (without the inputs) and feed them back into GPT3 with a different prompt.

Decompression:

Prompt

Make text longer. Expand slang and chat speak, or just add vowels, silent letters, and punctuation.

Short: dis txt is shrt
Long: This text is compressed.

Short: I wnt dis sentnce, only shrr
Long: I want this sentence, only shorter.

Outputs (each prediction starts after Long:)

Short: dis enrvd th cmpd outut b all rl wrds, but lwg th jpg qulity basically cntrlwd th dscnt into synns and mds.

Long: This enhanced the compressed output by all real words, but long the JPEG quality basically controlled the descent into synonyms and made-up words.

Short: I'm awy frm my cmpu 4 da nex wk or so bt if u ctch me aftr dat I'm hppy 2 post sum of d rzltz. Wd b intrestng 2 try w/ sum odder imjd frms as wl.

Long: I'm away from my computer for the next week or so but if you catch me after that I'm happy to post some of the results. Would be interesting to try with some other image forms as well.
I tried it out when it was called Edge and found it really easy to make interactive stuff using it! Since I've never made anything using Flash I don't know and would be quite interested in what it's lacking in comparison.
In his defence, it isn't a case of the 'usual' HN appeal to authority fallacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hewitt
They are just figureheads these days. No role in politics aside from ceremonial.

They draw in crowds of tourists to the UK, and they aren’t that expensive to maintain.

Their £67m yearly grant[1] works out to about £1/year per person in the UK. That’s pretty cheap for a fantastic PR service. Yes there is probably added costs on top like police/security but overall/net they don’t feel like a massive burden on the finances. Maybe £5-10/pp in the UK? (Just me guessing!)

1. https://britishheritage.com/royals/royal-family-cost-british...
The downside of this approach bares talking about. If you compute the full desired state every few minutes it can be quite expensive depending on how/what/why you are doing it. And it can also be an O(n^2) problem that is fast enough to make it into production and slow enough down the line with more data to wreak havoc.

This was common when I was writing puppet. It was easy to have your entire puppet run take minutes - and want to run every few minutes - while consuming a LOT of cpu time including on a centralised server and not just the end host.

There are of course ways and strategies to this and not every situational falls afoul of it. But it is something you very much need to be aware of.

I otherwise whole heartedly endorse this.
The most sustainable thing to do is kill yourself.
For more info you can check on whattomine.com to see if any alts may be profitable to mine with GPUs.
If the line between oversight and overreach is so far tilted to one side that shenanigans like the story here pass legal muster, what's the difference?
> (googler here, but this is my opinion)

Sergei here, gtf back to work and stop posting company policy on social media!
See here
https://asahilinux.org/2021/03/progress-report-january-febru...

Mostly the section on IRQ.
> Because Prince Charles is heir to the throne (and has been portrayed more negatively in the news media than any other living person)

Unless your scope of attention is limited to the British Royal Family, I’m not sure how you come to approximately that conclusion. And even if it was, Prince Andrew easily beats him out.

And if we’re going by intensity of negative portrayal, and considering just the British media, the Duke and especially Duchess of Sussex is at least in close competition with him, too, and probabyl way ahead if we are just looking at current coverage.
At the start of the pandemic, the web client had gallery view.
That's a dangerous anti-science viewpoint. No, the problem is the exact opposite - we as a species are not scientifically advanced enough yet to satisfy our relentless hunger for energy with renewable resources.
$cat ~/bin/ffmpeg_grab_desktop.sh
#!/bin/bash

size=${1:-"1920x1080"}
offset=${2:-"0,0"}
name=${3:-"video"}

ffmpeg -video_size $size -framerate 25 -f x11grab -i :0.0+$offset -c:v libx264 -crf 0 -preset ultrafast "$name.mkv"
ffmpeg -i "$name.mkv" -movflags faststart -pix_fmt yuv420p "$name.mp4"
That's really cool! I think one of the things that will hold them back is that there are still a lot of issues on even knowing where to place the electrodes - but as those issues are solved this will have such amazing potential!
Before HTTP2 this was common
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Merlin Sheldrake has written an excellent book on this subject, 'Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures'.

https://www.amazon.com/Entangled-Life-Worlds-Change-Futures/...

Here he cooks and eats some Pleurotus that he grew using a copy of his book:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJfDaIVl-tE

Interesting guy, fascinating subject.
If you continue to directly benefit from the atrocities, then you should feel guilty.
I'm surprised those specific commands work at all on your machine, since they use the Nvidia-specific nvenc.
Epic cries monopoly as Apple details secret ‘Project Liberty’ effort
Maybe a cheap "data center". You could run servers for local businesses that want to have a website but don't need high reliability. The equiptment doesn't have to be the highest end stuff either for local companies with static sites.

You could set up a car charging station. Maybe one of the existing companies would want to put one in if they know they can get energy from you at a discounted rate (like paying you the market generation rate but not having to pay a transmission fee).
Streams of Cocoa
> Why not just treat them as an adult?

For some reason this made me chuckle. You indeed are a minor :D

The problem OP is facing is not that s/he is unable to treat the contributor as adult. Which probably s/he is. The problem is the law does not treat minors as adults. There are reasons for this. Minors are exploited in all sorts of ways. Infact, interns(even adult ones) are treated badly. Once I was working for a company(a world leader) in the UK. A new intern joined. Next day he goes around everyones desk in the team as starts asking if they would like tea or coffee! And everyone was telling them their preference. He came to me as asked this question. This was new to me. I asked him, is this his assigned task? Who assigned him this responsibility to bring tea/coffee to everyone at thier desk? He looked shocked and confused. I said to him that I would be happy he if rather come to me with a work related problem. He did not say a word and went to the company kitchen and bought everyone else their preferred drink! This is how interns are treated. Think what will happen to minors if there was no law.
Used to use sketch, moved to Invision and finally landed on figma - and heck I'm not even a UI/UX designer.

I love how I can put up nice designs relatively quickly without having to learn the dazzling array of menus and tools found in Adobe.
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Hey, thanks for taking the time. I appreciate the insights.

Carburetta is designed for developer productivity and hence "least surprise"; and so combines the classical distinction of scanner ("lex") and parser ("yacc") but fuses those capabilities together.

This simplifies development as the generated driver code can do more housekeeping and the code in Carburetta becomes more expressive. It is not the goal to improve on the algorithms / state of the art academics of parsers. Instead, it is the goal to improve productivity while using predictable and well known approaches / not reinventing the wheel, however noble that can be. Algorithms here are NFA -> DFA -> scantable for the scanner, and LALR for the parser; these are old, well established algorithms.

That said, have a look at xlalr.c if you'd like to go exotic and disambiguate grammars (multi symbol reductions determined at runtime), but a conscious choice was made to stick with straight LALR for least surprise. Ambiguous grammars, I find, become difficult to think about. xlalr.c is therefore not used for the main parser generation, but the classic lalr.c is favored. You should be able to understand everything that's going on using only base textbook materials (e.g. dragon book.) The xlalr.c algorithm will be phased out eventually, I believe it is currently only used internally (Carburetta, due to the bootstrap problem, is a bit of a chimera, and does not always use itself.)

That said, there is direct support for some of the ambiguities you speak of; e.g. for instance, the infamous "typedef name" ambiguity on identifiers in C can be implemented with <prefix>stack_accepts() and $chg_term(terminal). Have a look in the manual (HTML version is online) for those.

RawParser is cool, but seems to have different goals in mind.
I agree, though I think the same can be said for HyperCard. Extending it was complicated.
Are you talking about actual human trafficking? Do you have a link?
Adobe keep doing really, really stupid things.

The latest Photoshop update removed some of the tools from the toolbar. Some of the tools have been there for decades, and regular users have their locations in muscle memory.

When you're done wondering why you've lost your way in a product you've used since the 90s, you can get the tools back by by Googling and changing a magic setting in the prefs.

But it's hard to be too offensive about a company that can do something like that in the name of "development", while leaving many of Photoshop's more annoying warts unattended.
Thank.
Yes please do it, the Windows Admin Center has this, where any GUI thing you do you can click the PS button and see the powershell that is being run to execute the task. It’s helpful in a number of ways, I learn more ps, and I can build on their thing if they haven’t built out a way to do it yet through the GUI but posh supports it.
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Space is so cheap these days, it doesn't matter much unless you're on a really low budget. That said I still get a kick out of programming specialty cases with 8 and 16 bit micros. It's nice to have just about everything you need on a chip (a2d, d2a, CAN, I2C, SPI, timers, tons of general I/O). All you kids should do at least one project like that, you'd be surprised at how fun it can be to pick and choose exactly what the hardware is doing down to the clock cycle :)
Google "exit bag"

There is also Dignitas in Sweden

Sorry if this advice is inappropriate for HN dang, death with dignity is something very important to me.

Also, to the OP - I am sorry your life had to be this way. Life is completely unfair and has been quite cruel and cold for pretty much all of humanity. I only wish this was taught a bit more to those who never experience it.

Anyways, with some severe physical ailments myself, I may be down your path soon enough
https://www.slashgear.com/elon-musk-shares-starlink-expansio...

>"Comments:

schmoe • 5 months ago

Not explained in the article: The reason why the user terminal [Starlink Dish] is so expensive is because

that "dish" is actually an Active Electronically-Scanned Array (AESA) flat-panel antenna.

It has over 1,000 individual radio transmitter/receivers which work together as a phased-array.

It's a lot more complex than a traditional parabolic dish antenna with just 1 transmitter and 1 receiver for use with traditional geosynchronous communications satellites."

Related: Starlink (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink)

From Main Article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_electronically_scanned_...):

>"An active electronically scanned array (AESA) is a type of phased array antenna, which is a computer-controlled array antenna in which the beam of radio waves can be electronically steered to point in different directions without moving the antenna. In the AESA, each antenna element is connected to a small solid-state transmit/receive module (TRM) under the control of a computer, which performs the functions of a transmitter and/or receiver for the antenna. This contrasts with a passive electronically scanned array (PESA), in which all the antenna elements are connected to a single transmitter and/or receiver through phase shifters under the control of the computer. AESA's main use is in radar, and these are known as active phased array radar (APAR).

The AESA is a more advanced, sophisticated, second-generation of the original PESA phased array technology. PESAs can only emit a single beam of radio waves at a single frequency at a time. The PESA must utilize a Butler matrix (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butler_matrix) if multiple beams are required.

The AESA can radiate multiple beams of radio waves at multiple frequencies simultaneously."

[...]

>"The transmitter elements were typically klystron tubes or magnetrons, which are suitable for amplifying or generating a narrow range of frequencies to high power levels."

[...]

>"In 2007, tests by Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, and L-3 Communications enabled the AESA system of a Raptor to act like a WiFi access point,

able to transmit data at 548 megabits per second and receive at gigabit speed;

this is far faster than the Link 16 system used by US and allied aircraft, which transfers data at just over 1 Mbit/s.[12]"

PDS: And you thought your Starlink Dish -- was just a plain old satellite dish!
For means of transportation in general. Or to be even more general: value of an item + how much time it costs to replace it at say 100$/hour + potential missed work/opportunities/meetings at say 1000$/day.

Stealing a bike (or a scooter or other means of transportation) is just a very damaging crime.
I think police should be pro-active catching thieves (that if setting prop bikes to steal and catching the takers). Instilling some fear in the thieves' would be a huge progress.
I personnaly went from Ocaml to F# because it had much better tooling (IDE support) and a larger libraries ecosystem (access to all .Net libraries).
They can leave whenever they want.

Golden handcuffs are not actual handcuffs.
I came onto a team to support such an overengineered project. On the plus side it keeps me busy, and teaches me new skills. On the negative side my job is to keep the plates spinning on a rube goldberg machine.
I think you've about got it.

I don't think this was Apple's attempt to stifle the ability to code on your own computer. They shipped Project Builder on, what, day 1 of Mac OS X?

It's more likely that…

…this was not super popular, as what's the possible market for an app that builds applets that only work on Macs? Given Mac marketshare at the time, maybe not a lot of hobbyists who (a) wanted to make an app, but (b) didn't want to dive into building a full UIKit application.

…this thing was confusing to market. It's hard to give the 1-liner description of HyperCard.

…this got dropped because it was not part of the core focus of getting a next-generation operating system out the door.

…maybe they didn't actually know how to rewrite it for OS X? Like, did anyone know how the HyperTalk interpreter worked besides the guy who make it?
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In the words of the eminent philosopher Johnny Rotten, "'cause tourists are money"; there's nothing quite like a royal family to provide high-class galas and tabloid fodder.
WeWork: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47B Unicorn (2021)
This website is unusable on mobile
The 2017 event in Catalonia was a slow-motion, low-cost coup d’etat, dressed as a democratic movement, and an event the European Union already warned was illegal. The result is that second-tier Catalan politicians and activists are now in jail.
It's not just about the constitutional precedent - it's a strategy the monarchy follows for its own survival. Politics is by definition divisive; if the Queen publicly takes a side on the issues of the day she'll alienate half the country, which is a surefire way to hasten the demise of the monarchy. She's free to have her private political opinions, but it's very much against her interests to express them.
> Free products are generally supported by advertising. We are being told the W3C has “slapped down” googles attempts around FPS.

You were talking about "If users can’t access gmail / YouTube etc, they will be ignoring the w3c". Now it's suddenly "free sites" and "advertising".

And don't worry, advertising isn't going anywhere.

> I am making the point that if google comes up with a workaround to this “slap down” - users will follow

They will not come up with a "workaround", they will just implement it ignoring any objections.

However, that's not the point. What was it about users not being able to access youtube etc.?
You can create binaries for python using https://www.pyinstaller.org/. I've used it well for Linux and mac. Haven't used it for Windows.
The point is really just how pointless and esoteric it is, not to offer a better way of playing music. This isn't for casual readers, this is for nerds who do stuff that nobody else cares about, for the fun and challenge.
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If you can lose the last few seconds then yes that's fine. But for most applications I've been working on, we didn't have that flexibility (committed means durable).

I don't see any operational complexity with Litestream.io. I think that's an awesome tool. But it's not that different of managing PostgreSQL backups with something like WAL-E.

The complexity of managing your own database server only exists if you don't use a managed service. Then there is no server to maintain and they do all the things you mentioned for you.
I'm willing to bet there are a significant number of people who didn't vote for him who would be opposed to an individual getting banned for supporting him. This pushes the percentage of individuals who are opposed to this punishing/excluding over 50%. "The powerful" that you are referring to would also be a minority if your numbers are correct.
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Get laid as much as possible lol. Have fun.
> Arguably; the 2010's are the first decade I've maybe seen without a serious incident like this I can recall, what with Eminem (and a lot of other rappers) firmly occupying the 00's.

https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/1537602/super-bowl-h...

2004 - "Despite, or maybe because of, controversy generated by their halftime appearance, sales for three of Jackson's albums more than doubled in the week after the show, while Timberlake's Justified increased 160%."

( I am not saying this was not an accident, just that outrage likely contributed to sales )