skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> watching sports has become so incredibly difficult using legal means as to be virtually impossible.

> subscribe for €50/month to a nonsense cable package

I mean, these two sentences directly contradict each other.
Hello Chris,
I wanted to say that I found your comment extremely good especially this

> I'm actually fairly good at what I do, but If I mention that, it comes across as "arrogant," despite the enormous ocean of hubris that pretty much defines today's tech scene.
This is an update in the war started by: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26514624

"The owner of the first poisonous token noticed their victim was the latest predator on the block and they dropped a cryptographically signed note of respect in the Flashbots discord":

From: https://etherscan.io/verifySig/2503 :
Congratulations 0x2, looks like I was sloppy and left some money on the ground.
You have my respect, not a lot of people react like you did.
> as an engineer

Nope.

He's a McKinsey drone through and through.

Never wrote a line of code @ Google.

Calling him an engineer is an insult to engineers.
A lot of people are now building huge container based SaaS software in their $Day_job, so in their free-time they use those technologies because they are more familiar, or they want the practice.

I ran K3s for a few weeks on ODroid hosts at home to get more k8s experience.
NASA Delays Ingenuity Helicopter's First Flight Due to Watchdog Timer
In addition to monitoring your own network, you might want to monitor your ISP's and share the results for research - a software RIPE Atlas probe is a great method for that: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/alun_davies/ripe-atlas-softwar...
Why is hardware setup in the cloud hard?
Publishing a Progressive Web App on the PlayStore – What Works and What Doesn’t
It's a great way to learn without breaking things for a few hundred thousand users.
I was more thinking of something along the lines of "if there are more than one blockchains, pick the one shared by my trusted nodes"
Hey folks, created this project to track my Football/running activity.

No real football games to track yet because of the pandemic but I did track some running/kicking the ball sessions.

Here is how they look like
- https://mylifefootball.com/activity/46
- https://mylifefootball.com/activity/4

Very very early days and it is something ready only for power users. Login with strava is required and the "social" aspects of this might even violate their API terms (so, If I pursue this further, I need to create my own apps collecting data)

How does this look like? Anyone else besides me interested in something like this.
I saw this earlier: https://twitter.com/ProfHughLewis/status/1380647894705930242...
That's exactly what's happening. There are loads of projects going on right now decapping old chips and reverse engineering them. From old CPUs like the 6502 to the Amiga Alice chip. It's just a matter of time before most of the retro systems are fully reverse engineered and documented.
“If we stop, we’ll overheat. We must go faster”.
No, Gradle's documentation is really terrible. There is just no easy path to learn it - you will with time and pain learn a bit of the interface, but deep down it remains mostly unfanthonable, unnecessarily complex and filled with strange quirks. Bruce Eckel had pretty much the same experience as myself: https://www.bruceeckel.com/2021/01/02/the-problem-with-gradl...

Everone "learns" Gradle by copy-pasting snippets from the Internet and then having to fix them when they break. And what little I have learned of Gradle over the years was certainly not thanks to their documentation, but other people explaining the concepts in blog posts and tutorials. The Gradle documentation always assumes that you will want to learn the whole build system from ground up. There is no simple documentation for people who see Gradle just as a tool secondary to their actual product that is just built with it.

It is in many ways similar to git. You can't really learn git unless you learn it from the ground up. But git is actually really simple when compared to Gradle, and most people do learn git eventually through using it. But I am yet to encounter a developer who actually learned Gradle inside out just from using it and reading the documentation.

Oh, and at least git's interface and structure has remained mostly static ever since the original concept by Linus in 2005. Same can not be said of Gradle - I feel like the developer interface is like a sand castle that is washed away every second release, and I assume the internals keep shifting as well. What a nightmare to work with.
Think First, Build Second
Filed under, "information that would have been useful a week ago." :-D
There's a factor of 8 because there are 8 variant cases. This is meaningless.
> I figure in a year or two it will let normal folks happily run their lives ios/android-free.

I hate to be "that guy" - and it seems like I always have to be "that guy" - but this will never allow "normal" folks to happily run their lives iOS / Android free.

The reason is because the collection, categorization, and collation of data on smartphone users is what drives the whole thing forward. It's the gas. The petrol. The solar power. The wind turbines. Without apps collecting and using data about their users, everything ends up having to be monetized differently and people have already shown that's not going to happen. You can't even get people to pay a few dollars a month for the single most important "app" on the Internet - email.

Sorry, but Librem 5 will never be more than a fun developer's toy. Most people are honestly pretty lazy and the sad simple fact is that they do not want to be challenged at all ever. They want to show up somewhere... bang on their keyboard like a monkey, or swing their hammer like a chimp, or smack their buttons like a macaque, and go home eight hours later, and then in 7-14 days, collect their bananas and eat them while watching Ow! My Balls!, or a slightly more advanced version of it like, American Ninja Warrior.

While the rest of nature is in a desperate bid for survival-at-all-costs that is consistently wiping out the slowest and the dumbest, through our struggle, we've managed to regress... we allow the dumbest and the least fit to survive. I know a bunch of wannabe evolutionary biologists here are going to throw around ideas they don't really understand, like, "Fitness doesn't mean being the smartest or the strongest, just the organism most able to reproduce!" No, that's just one single strategy, and not even always an optimal one.

This isn't an argument for killing off the dumb and weak, of course. I'm merely pointing out that most people have zero desire to be truly challenged, on anything, ever. That's exactly why they want their Samsung walled Android experience and their Apple walled iOS experience.

I wish we lived in a world where everyone spent a few dozen to a few hundred hours learning hard stuff to thereby make their lives permanently easier, but we don't. Most would rather spend a few hours doing relatively monotonous stuff over and over than actually learn something new.

OR

Maybe I'm just being an old curmudgeon. I guess we'll see.
Grade is a shiny beacon exemplifying the mindset of the entire Java ecosystem.
Israeli Cyberattack on Iran's Natanz Facility Caused Blackout: Reports
Yes, what you observe them doing is not all that impressive, but that is all that is needed to attack these systems. There is no need to send a cruise missile when a light shove is enough.

Essentially every deployed system is so littered with security defects in every facet of both design and implementation that successful attacks against them can be developed and deployed at a cost of just a few tens of thousands to maybe a million dollars for a really good attack at the high end. Any reasonably-sized state actor can deploy literally thousands of times that many resources against their adversaries without even blinking and we know that the NSA and CIA were independently running hacking programs capable of attacking essentially every publicly deployed system in the world. Offense is so easy and defense is so bad it is ridiculous.
If you say "meme" to an average person on the street they're going to be picturing a goofy gif, not the work of Dawkins and Blackmore. That's my point.
> End your session the moment you feel nauseous.

Yeah, did that, with prejudice.

Tore off the headset and not planning on trying again. I did have a lingering disappointment to not be able to see the museum content that others could see, though.

VR is not important to me, not planning on building a tolerance for it.
No. No because of Betteridge's Law of Headlines, and no because my brain is not completely dead.

The more interesting thing to me is The Atlantic implying that Marxism is bad. That surprises me a bit.
The root word of "honor" is not honor killings, just to be clear.
The rough history is that NFS originally only supported UDP, likely for resource reasons (tcp buffers, for example, are expensive when you have < 64Mb of RAM) and because it was mostly used on local LANS.
On FPGAs (depending on the hardware mapping), you get the benefit of lower latency. I consider this to be timing accuracy.

Say you have two implementations of an LED controlled by a switch: one which uses an FPGA and one which uses a microcontroller. The uC implementation must continuously poll peripherals connected to its GPIO pins at a set frequency; it must check the state of the switch, and then change the state of the LED. The FPGA, on the other hand, physically wires the switch to the LED; there is no lag when the state of the switch changes.

The FPGA implementation can be scaled to connect however many additional lights and switches you want (limited by the size of the fabric), with zero overhead lag. This is the parallelization benefit of FPGAs that you may hear about. For the uC implementation, you must add additional switches and lights to the polling loop, which brings down performance in linear time, O(n). This is the drawback of sequential processing.
The 2021 net interprets political heterodoxy as noise and filters it out.
The outrage comes from government and other health officials making claims early on that masks were not as effective, and that maintaining social distance and isolation was better (which I agree). But this was merely used as distraction to allow healthcare facilities to snatch up the existing supplies of high quality n95 masks before the public could (see toilet paper apocalypse 2020).

Then the government changed their statements and said that masks were effective, and everyone should use them. It's the switching and lying to the public that leads to a lack of trustworthiness. You can argue that they didn't know the efficacy of mask usage, but that isn't the point here. It's that they lied to the American public for an ulterior motive, which is wrong.
This is actually a really great video that explains the AGC. The AGC was apparently pretty odd, a mix of realtime system, and virtual machine interpreter, along with an odd human interface.
> Aboriginals had no writing system so there would be no keyboards.

The Maya and Aztec had writing in the form of hieroglypics. The Inca had persistent communication via Quipu's rope knots.

(I learned this from _Guns, Germs, and Steel_ which is a phenomenal book. I haven't done other research, though, so maybe the book isn't a good source.)
It's conservative only if you think of this ongoing extreme financialization of everything as progress.
Sales tax is not a tax on revenue, its a tax on purchases (paid by the purchaser). Perhaps you are saying business taxes should be non-existent, but in most places they do exist.

Also, dont confuse revenue and profit. While some locales do have a gross receipts tax, taxing profits is much more common. This, in theory, incentivizes companies to pay out their revenues in the form of wages, R&D, building things, etc.
thanks for the post, it inspired this naive code:

class BloomFilter:
def __init__(self, size):
self.f = [0] * size

def contains(self, s):
h1, h2, h3 = self.hashes(s)
if self.f[h1] * self.f[h2] * self.f[h3] == 1:
return 'Value might be in the set.'
else:
return 'Value is definitely not in the set.'

def hashes(self, s):
h1 = hash(s) % len(self.f)
h2 = hash(s + 'salt') % len(self.f)
h3 = hash(s + 'more salt') % len(self.f)
return h1, h2, h3

def insert(self, s):
h1, h2, h3 = self.hashes(s)
self.f[h1] = self.f[h2] = self.f[h3] = 1

bf = BloomFilter(64)
bf.insert('bill')

print(f"{bf.contains('bill') = }")
print(f"{bf.contains('bob') = }")

Out:
bf.contains('bill') = 'Value might be in the set.'
bf.contains('bob') = 'Value is definitely not in the set.'
Which averages out to 7.5. So the average should have been in that range with outliners at 6 and 9
Taxes and government are mandatory profit sharing, these agreements are voluntary. Whether that is good or bad is up for debate.
Otherland
Macro photo sharpening with Topaz Sharpen AI 3.0
If I want one specific thing and it is only available with 100s of shit I will never use, is it really available?
I think big differentiator is that it is easier to get predictable latencies with FPGA where you control almost everything, compared to general-purpose PC which is not really that well optimized for hard real-time operation. So I believe "race the beam" style things are more easily accomplished with FPGAs, and also having tight audio-video sync. Although the PC emulation scene has been also doing some fairly incredible things too.
> If one percent are “long haulers” there should be 10-20 million of them. Where are they? What there is indisputable evidence of is a dramatic increase in drug overdoses, suicides, stroke and heart attack deaths at home (which are callously and cravenly classified as excess mortality due to Covid).

I would love for you to be right. Sadly, if you actually try to look up the incidence of long covid (or post covid syndrome, etc), you will find estimates ranging from 5-25% incidence. Optimistically divide by five (I’m giving you the benefit of the doubt here) if you want to estimate the incidence among total infections instead of symptomatic infections. Divide by 10 if you think that 90% of patients will recover fully and quickly enough that you should discount them. You’re left with 0.1% to 0.5%. You appear to be a couple of orders of magnitude off in your calculation.
Bob isn't careless. Bob is trying to offer a service free of charge, and Daryl is paying for metadata. So Bob makes a deal in order to provide the service. Daryl's offer is open to anybody, so even if Alice doesn't trust Bob, everybody from Edith through Zach is also selling metadata to Daryl too.
39% of audits are people who claimed EITC...which only applies to low and moderate-low income workers.
> Tesla was called a meme stock

Being called a meme stock doesn't mean being a meme stock and popular figures influencing stocks is nothing new. Tesla was never really a thing on WSB and it being overly shorted never really was a motivation to invest in it to "screw over the edge funds".

> How exactly are you arriving at your conclusion with any reason or logic behind it?

I explained my logic. Now that using social media to find and use over shorted stocks to make money has made its way to mainstream culture, fund managers will take this into account.
Use it for the later stages in a many stage interstellar rocket. First stages are chemical, then NERVA style contained nuclear rockets, then open cycle nuclear when you are already well past solar system escape velocity.

I’m thinking of something like an interstellar flyby probe for the Centauri system. It wouldn’t be able to stop or do much course correction but you could send basically an autonomous space telescope that transmitted back observations. It would be able to see planets in the system much better than we can from here.
Show HN: Inlets-operator (0.12.1) adds support for Hetzner
Dude, calm down. I can hear your anger through your text.

Look, I am sorry. However, I am not going to argue with someone who is clearly upset.

EDIT: BTW, I cannot reply to your lower post. I did consult the HN guidelines and I know for a fact that I did not break any rules.
This is funny, because I have the complete opposite experience. Yes, it took me an afternoon to find my way around Gradle. But ever since I really appreciate their documentation. It is to the point, well written, contains code samples (which I believe are unit-tested, so they the code samples are always up-to-date), contains examples in both Groovy & Kotlin, and I could keep going on. A good entry point, for example, is Build Script Basics (https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/tutorial_using_tas...).

> But I am yet to encounter a developer who actually learned Gradle inside out just from using it and reading the documentation.

You just met him! ;)
i feel like this is bound to eventually converge on tufte.css

https://edwardtufte.github.io/tufte-css/
DSL is what is wrong with Gradle.
A mix of journalistic, nature, and sentimental photographs - sometimes with my phone, but mostly with DSLR cameras. I don't spent time tagging or cataloguing, I just put things in folders by date, and sometimes copy them into a second folder by subject if they're particularly important to me. I have a very memory for images and context so it's not much effort for me to go back and look things up, though I am excited by the possibilities of AI image tagging.
to sell yourself at scale you need to appeal to the lowest common denominator, like politicians must. i don’t think this is right or wrong- idealized value = how much you help someone * how many people you help. (idealized)
https://github.com/SuperQ/smokeping_prober

This project is quite good for a smokeping-a-like for prometheus.
Cloudary Story
How can you use a smartphone mini screen with tmux? Is it usable?
That's true, but I think it's also true that you could trim a bit more lag if you do it well.
I believe the reason is typically because they want to make the design of chargers cheaper and the circuitry inside simpler and ergo cheaper as well. What you want has a slightly higher unit cost and in 99.99% of cases doesn't impact the users usage.

Laptops are designed to run off battery or power because this is how many people typically use laptops. They plug them in places where they use them for long periods of time whereas phones are virtually always charged for a short period of time often overnight and then carried around and used unplugged virtually all of the time.

I have found the best solution to be to acquire hardware with more than sufficient battery power so as to only worry about charging it every 2-3 days when I'm sleeping. Phones exist with up to 5AH of battery power.
Impressive, if scary, tech, though part of me wonders why games don't just ban people spreading hate speech instead of rigging a complex AI to detect hate speech.
It’s possible - though maybe a stretch? - that the “ku” is supposed to allude to “-kun”, a Japanese suffix kind of akin to “Jr.” in English. Which would make this whole thing a pretty intricate and impressive multilingual pun.
Being "passionate about the business" is overmuch, but for the employer, it's important that candidate respects the business, in the sense that the candidate believes that what the business is doing matters (quality product that will make the world better, boss recognizes good work and rewards it, customers deserve to be fleeced, or what ever gets you out of bed), so that you want to accomplish progress at work and not just do the minimum for the paycheck.
“Affordability Crisis” Migrated from High-Income Rental Markets Like SF to Lower
I fully admit to taking offense with people like you who drop illogical zero-value comments into discussions with the intent of causing arguments. That is why I dont use Twitter. Please read the HN guidelines before making your next comment.
The word was used in a sense. You hijacked the thread with an antonymnic homophone. Seeing this a lot recently.
On the other hand, sometimes your Google search can help a doctor in their analysis. An informed patient will get better treatment than an uninformed one; you must be your own healthcare advocate. And for anything nontrivial, this is why second opinions are a must. It would also be interesting if we lived in a world where case complexity and outcomes for doctors and various diagnoses/operations were published as well, so we can see how everyone really holds up competitively.
Interesting project would be to dig out some old cassettes from, let's say, commodore 64. Try to load them into a present day computer by patching wires/cables? - and see if they run in this system.
I remember writing for example:
a mining program, to calculate, overburden, volume and tonnage, at different slopes, different rock types, etc.
The science behind the calculations is still valid, but we could likely increase load times, and calculating times.
It's easy to predict things correctly when you control what your son will use, e.g., 'my son won't use a landline', well yes, you cancelled your home landline before your son was born. The original prediction was that most people and most businesses would stop using landlines but he concedes his son might still use a landline in an office some day and yet still considers the original prediction to be correct. The same is true for phone numbers, dedicated cameras, mechanical harddrives, arguably prime time tv but I can't really blame him here. Theatres are considered TBD but it took a pandemic that also shut near everything else down for much of the world, many businesses are in for a rough shake up.

The crazier predictions are ones that didn't come to fruition line no more floating window managers or mice and people no longer building desktop pcs, or ones the author still thinks are going to happen like no more wired internet connections.
The emergency treatment depends on the extent and location of damage. For damage lying high enough, tracheostomy is an option. If the extent of damage is small enough one might get through with (very risky) emergency intubation and later tracheal repair. In case of critical damage to the lower airways, you usually don't have to think because patients are dead by the time they reach an airway expert.
Probably the marketing copy for Super NT and similar products... harder to get people to part with hundreds of dollars if your pitch is "lower power draw and reduced input delay"
It really would be nice if we could get some legally-recognized standards for data schemas and interfaces so projects like this wouldn't be so necessary. But I have absolutely no idea if there's any precedent for that or how we'd get there.
A Simple, Probably-Not-Exp-Time Disjoint Set in Coq
It's interesting, I remember when many online game servers advertised themselves as "Christian servers", with effective enforcement of varying levels of rules. (Some allowed some trolling, most didn't want profanities, others just warned that kids played there)

It seems as if the curation of a place is less in the hands of the community these days generally, there's less freedom on the whole and more centralisation.
http://kenbakkit.com/manuals.html

Seems pretty well documented. Considering the simplicity of the computer, feels like it would be relatively easy project to get to MiST
Yes, for these companies it’s almost always about squeezing more value out of the code monkeys. (It also produces better results but let’s be real no MBA is thinking about that.) They haven’t adapted to understanding how much leverage and value this gives those monkeys though, which is part of the reason they can’t hire or keep any of them.