skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, that's not good enough, for reasons outlined elsewhere. Now please take this crap of HN and go join your buddies in the conspiracy zone. It is highly disturbing that you would push this junk here while claiming all sorts of protection should be awarded due to your personal beliefs clashing with accepted scientific viewpoints.

And your appeals to authority have been noted and rejected, that is not how science works, trialsitenews is only showing one side of the story: 'vaccines bad' and does not shy away from pushing ridiculous narratives in order to achieve whatever nefarious goals it has. Stop spreading disinformation.
Kind of lame that it doesn’t even mention Steve Yegge or his blog, which is almost certainly the source.
To expand on this - the practical difference is "can be executed hundreds of times over in a timespan imperceptible to humans" and "will not terminate in a trillion times the age of the universe."
For those interested in some of the technical details on the malware see: baesystemsai.com/2016/04/two-bytes-to-951m.html
I don't want to come off rude but i don't see anything "promising" or novel about this.
You should look into Ethereum 2.0. And probably buy some.
It's true that JPEG will hang around purely because a lot of software and hardware supports it and they can't all be easily updated. But existing JPEG images can be losslessly (and reversibly) transcoded to JPEG XL and you still get reduced file sizes:

https://cloudinary.com/blog/legacy_and_transition_creating_a...

JPEG XL will be successful for this reason alone.
I really really want to move away from Google Maps but I just can't due to the reviews... The few other apps that can substitute the reviews are always focused on one specific thing(mostly restaurants). Is there any app that uses OSM data with reviews?
Bresenham and Efficient Pulse-Width Modulation
This is great!

Is there any place where it is possible to read more about this painting techniques for code?
On the web you want to use WebP nowadays so I would not be so sure.
I remember asking myself exactly the same question some time ago. There is third party support for PostgreSQL [1] and MongoDB [2] which allows (in theory) for collaboration as the database may be hosted anywhere. However, I haven't tested this and it's far from trivial to be set up securely for most people I guess. Also, I don't know if you can configure some sort of permission management in such a setup which is a must if you don't trust your collaborators.

[1] https://gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php/PostgreSQL
[2] https://gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php/MongoDB
Click the little 'C' icon in the bottom right and it will start automatically scrolling at the speed of light (which, spoiler alert, turns out to be pretty slow)
Show HN: To learn Music Theory, I built a Chord Detector App
Figured out that Chord detection is not that simple as Tone detection, because one Chord are multiple tones.

So decided to learn more about Music Theorie and how such a task can be reached.

Created a Flashcard similar App to learn Chords.

Just select the chords you want to learn, the app starts listening and random choose other chords.

Any feedback is welcome
Comforter and Graphic T-Shirt View this design on and86 products
A ctrl-f on the article did not find compression. Can you explain how zero knowledge proofs are going to help compression?
Wouldn't the vastness of space soothe someone who is claustrophic?
So you keep "claiming", but where is this documented?
Good point! I meant agoraphobic. She hates being in a wide-open field, for example.
The standard osm app is already offline, although the ux could be improved
I agree in general with the view that React community is taking this whole reinventing the wheel every X months too far.

To me it seems like most of the new updates to React are not there to solve a problem most apps in the wild have, but rather to solve some very specific Facebook-related issue which 99.9% of us will actually never even encounter on our web apps because they will never be Facebook scale.
If you like information about minerals, you might find my visualisation of world production of different minerals also interesting:

https://ninhursag.herokuapp.com/

The green line shows world production form year 1900 to about 2020, depending on data availability. Yellowish green line shows available reserves – that is ‘easily’ available or economically feasible resources.

Most of USGS data series 140 minerals are included, and you can try to fit various Scipy distribution functions with the data to see some estimates.

PS. It’s on a free tier so it takes a few seconds to boot, if no one have visited recently.
Never miss a chance to peddle your coin
What I find fascinating is why government should have such an authority to be able to mandate this.
Same horse with Greek intruders removed: https://vscodium.com/#why
> Alternatively, the benefit can be on a decreasing curve / phased out to prevent these cliff situations?

That’s not an alternative to UBI, that’s what UBI (in a system which has income taxes) is. The marginal income tax rate provides the phased reduction in effective benefits.
"Have you heard the good news about our lord and saviour 'never leaving the house'"?

See, this is exactly what I mean.
What is a digital cinema movie package?
> Second and last, if HN readers aren't smart enough to make up their own minds, then this place is fucked, so we might as well make a Pascal's wager.

That's not how this works. If you allow enough bullshit through the filter that's another example of the 'broken windows' theory: it will accelerate evaporative cooling, leading to more bullshit being posted and ending up on the homepage and so on. As moderator you are one of the very few people that can stop that spiral from getting out of control and the balance is quite precarious.
what's so elite about them?

>In January 2015, an innocuous-looking email had been sent to several Bangladesh Bank employees. It came from a job seeker calling himself Rasel Ahlam. His polite enquiry included an invitation to download his CV and cover letter from a website. In reality, Rasel did not exist - he was simply a cover name being used by the Lazarus Group, according to FBI investigators. At least one person inside the bank fell for the trick, downloaded the documents, and got infected with the viruses hidden inside.

>Once inside the bank's systems, Lazarus Group began stealthily hopping from computer to computer, working their way towards the digital vaults and the billions of dollars they contained.

I'd say when you want elite level hackers, then try those: https://ctftime.org/ like

More Smoked Leet Chicken, Dragon Sector or Plaid Parliament of Pwning
Seeing HN used to promote garbage is going to cause good people to leave, and that in turn is going to accelerate the degree to which garbage will end up on the homepage and so on. This is a downward spiral.
I would guess they are even Zero Knowledge Proofs of Knowledge. With the witness being the actual password.

On second thought, whilst that might be colloquially true. It might not meet the actual definition. An extractor might be hard to build.
It's kind of relevant, but it's probably relevant to half the posts on HN. By this point, it's kind of a cliche to bring it up.
Its also heavily used in the medical imaging field for radiographs etc
JPEG XL is allegedly better than WebP, so once browsers get support, seems like it would be the future.
Well, you do bootstrap your sourdough bread when using sourdough starter from previous batches...
I wish this comment was the top comment.

Not to be too critical, but this blog post is a (in my opinion, poor) rehash of Steve Yegge's infamous Google+ post which he accidentally posted online. It's entertaining and one of the most influential memos I've read in the last twenty years.

His followup memo was great as well.
Norse mythology has that beat by over 600 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yggdrasil_(disambiguation)
what you are looking for exists and it is called smart contracts on a blockchain. You can forever get royalties from good code deployed.
Thanks for that, on top of the intall methods they mention, it seems to be available on snap too.
No, the readme says "shamelessly taken from godeb".
I am developing a big data collection and visualization platform called QuantaleCore that powers https://quantale.io

The platform allows users to code and launch a container which gets data into the DB and from there everything else is abstracted. There is a generic API that can be used to request that data from DB without writing any code and then on frontend I am developing a library that helps me hook these generic endpoints to different visualizations that I want just like kibana or grafana.

So QuantaleCore is like an end to end replacement for Elasticsearch + Logstash + Kibana

My email is on my profile. Email me if you would like to discuss it more. I would be happy to give you a demo.
> Isn’t a cliff simply a ramp with infinite slope? I would suspect the problem is that if we can’t tune something as simple as a step function correctly (which is just an x intercept), it seems even less likely we would be able to tune a ramp (more variables - x intercept and a slope, and that’s assuming it should even be linear instead of e.g. quadratic).

One of the challenges of tuning means-tested welfare phase-outs is that means-tested welfare consists of dozens of different programs, most of which have additional qualifications besides the means test, governed by different levels of government, often with different definitions of what income counts against the phaseout.

UBI makes that simpler by consolidation.
> But the experiments that have been done support it.

They really, really don't. All the experiments on a small scale show is the trivial conclusion that if you give people some central government funds for a year or two, they tend to be slightly less poor at the end. None of them come remotely close to suggesting that people are so much more productive that they can cover the costs of UBI to people already out of the labour force by choice, never mind those that may choose to exit it in future.
And a lot of retired people do not work. Can society sustain a big portion of people of any age leaving the job market? Who will put together funds to pay UBI?
Thanks for sharing this. I would imagine it is getting popular now due to a sudden increase in the number of people needing to do digital lessons.

FWIW, I had never seen your video nor heard of a lightboard prior to this HN post, so I would say viral is pretty on point.
We're prepping for a major new release too — information here: https://yggdrasil-network.github.io/2021/06/19/preparing-for...
Wow, it's even more comprehensive than the Dwarf Fortress wiki. https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Stone
Trying to enact policy via the second order effects of the tax code is a terrible idea.

If companies should meet a minimum standard of security practices and policies, then this should be legislated. Same as fire codes and OH&S standards.

If companies should have ransomware insurance, then mandate that companies should have ransomware insurance. Same as how certain organisations require public liability insurance.
The data format used to send movies to cinemas.
I know full well how Science is supposed to work, but in the real world it's not always like that, unless you're naive. I'd provide examples, but I'm not interested in engaging with a fucking idiot who uses nothing more than ad-hominem attacks and immediately asks for censorship. How illiberal.
Check out this page in the Prisma docs:

https://www.prisma.io/docs/concepts/overview/should-you-use-...

Hasura is great if you want to get a CRUD GraphQL API. Prisma on the other hand in an ORM that you import into your application code giving you more flexibility into the potential use-cases for it.
Why would you judge a person based purely on what other people say about them, and not on your own interactions with them?
How to make the ports available in internet ?
>Will never happen: a soon as it starts rolling to a significant number of people, the minimal rent set by landlords will be the amount of UBI.

https://old.reddit.com/r/VanDwellers

There are plenty of country towns that are rapidly emptying due to lack of jobs, and literally offer to sell you a house for $1 if you commit to living in it (and maintaining it) for a year. An awful lot of small towns are desperate for new residents.

There's no actual housing shortage. There's a shortage of housing near the jobs.

But even if that's not the case, riddle me this: how much does rural land cost? An average of ~$3000/acre in the USA (an acre is 4046sqm). Source: https://www.landsoar.com/acre-of-land-cost/

If landlords increase the cost of rent, people will just build cheap houses in cheap areas.
The only missing part is support in all browsers and operating systems.
Ah you don't need office. They should switch to using latex! Would produce nicer documents.

And data frames to replace Excel, they'll all be better off for it.
Maps.me, from which this is derived, uses third-party data (e.g. booking.com, etc), to integrate both booking and reviews into the map. I ultimately went away because maps.me is a real sinkhole of personal data, but experience is otherwise pretty good (and the tiles look better than osmand for sure).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Cinema_Package
It remains to be seen what will actually work in the long run.

It’s been a very good demonstration of confirmation bias. I’ve seen very few posts that say I love working at home but it just doesn’t work as well and I can’t see it lasting or vice versa. Preferences and predictions seem to like up almost perfectly.
Rent gouging only works if people are limited in where they rent. If you don't need a job, then you don't need to live near your job and can instead live wherever the rent is cheapest.

Which is usually a small shrinking country town where people are leaving because there are no jobs.
also for aerial photography images.
Cinemas don't use consumer grave video compression like h265, instead each frame is a jpeg 2000 image. It's heavy.
Does it make sense from an economics standpoint? Perhaps not. But there are benefits to society as a whole. Quite often the people doing those sorts of jobs are getting on in life, if having that job means the person can stay active that could represent a few additional years where they won't be a burden on the health system.
Inherited medical conditions is another potential interest - although accuracy of diagnoses do degrade the further back you go.
Do you think cryptographic hash functions are a means to compression?

Zkps are just hashes that can hash the execution of code rather than hashing static data ("dynamic hashes"?)
Exactly, removing some private cars from the roads and private car infrastructure (car parks, parking bays, over-engineered roads) means more bandwidth for public transport which those with mobility scooters, prams, etc, can use.
To simplify its a tar with jpeg2000s as an image stream, plus audio and some metadata.

Its then (usually, but it is optional) encrypted to make sure that its hard to copy. The keys are sent directly to each projector to allow time limited, and or other limited use.

The reason why its used is because it optimized for quality, rather than size. It also allows custom colour spaces and other tweaks to maintain/enforce colour correctness/image quality.
> 1 pixel → ·‭ = 3474.8 km ← The diameter of the moon

This seems wrong to me. Would not using area instead of diameter (squaring the circle, as it were) yield a more correct-looking result? As in, the area of one pixel should equal the apparent two-dimensional area of the moon.
> "The problem with #Crypto, as in most things, is the leverage," he tweeted. "If you don't know how much leverage is in crypto, you don't know anything about crypto."

I will put my hand up, happy to admit I don't know anything.

Can someone explain why crypto in particular has a lot of leverage? As far as I understood most people were just buying the underlyings directly and holding on.
Yeah, she's the one who came under fire years ago for getting implants because she thought she would make more money with a larger chest.
Yeah, I agree with you, this feature always does the same thing in everything (every video conferencing app uses it to show you yourself). The reason is that you're used to seeing yourself in the mirror, and your image would look weird to you if it weren't mirrored.

It would also look weird to everyone else if it were, so they see your normal image.
If it's sufficient to store a proof that you own a large dataset instead of the dataset itself, that obviously takes less space
Do you think the existence of these amateurs will help improve the current state in academia, or will it have the opposite effect?
Also termux is the best software you can have for android
There are effective treatments available now, it is not clear that well-treated infections would lead to more deaths than vaccinations.
90+experts share their email subject line writing formula
Ask HN: Senior engineers, advice for 1 year, 5 year and 10 years of experience
What advice do you have for people with the aforementioned years of experience.
Can be about programming, engineering in general, life, whatever you want
I don't feel it's a euphemism. It's essentially what they are. They are creating content meaningful to people, just any of the groups you mention.
That seems like just one extra steps in your technology, but not a hermetic bootstrapping.

How do you get your first batch started?
Must be you rely on the fact that

> Flour naturally contains a variety of yeasts and bacteria

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sourdough#Starter

So you either take your starter from somebody else or you fall back to a lower-level prerequisite of dormant living organisms present in your flour, and you hope they are alive and good for your end product.

It's not that hard to imagine that these bacteria are killed by irradiation, or are "compromised by perfectly placed state-level adversary".
Comment from Facebook Infra [1],

>Erik Andre from the Images Infra team at Facebook here. I'd like to share a bit of our view on JPEG XL in the context of new image formats (e.g AVIF, JPEG XL, WEBP2, ...) and how browser adoption will let us move forward with our plans to test and hopefully roll out JPEG XL.

>After spending the last 5 months investigating and evaluating JPEG XL from both a performance and quality point of view, it's our opinion that JPEG XL has the most potential of the new generation of image formats that are trying to succeed JPEG.

>This opinion is based on the following findings:

>JPEG XL encoding at speed/effort 6 is as fast as JPEG encoding (using MozJpeg with Trellis encoding enabled). This means that it's practical to encode JPEG XL images on the fly and serve to client. This can be compared with the encoding speed of AVIF which necessitates offline encoding which offers much less flexibility when it comes to delivering dynamically sized and compressed content.
Depending on the settings used, JPEG XL can also be very fast to decode. Our mobile benchmarks show that we can reach parity with JPEG when using multiple threads to decode. This matches and in many cases surpasses the decoding performance of other new image formats.
The JPEG XL image format supports progressive decoding, offering similar gains in perceived image load performance we are already benefitting from with JPEG. This is a feature lacking in the other new image formats which are all derived from Video codecs where such features makes little sense to support.

>Having browser support from all the major browsers is going to make our lives a lot easier in upcoming WWW experiments and ensure that we can deliver a consistent experience across platforms and browsers.

Blink Tracking Bug [2] currently behind a flag ,Firefox on both [1] and [3], currently in about:preferences#experimental on Firefox Nightly. If I remember correctly it is supported on Edge behind a parameter as well. I thought it was all very quiet after the standard was published, turns out both Chrome and Firefox intent to support it.

AFAIK, neither Webkit nor Safari has any plan or intention to support JPEGXL. I think ( someone correct me if I am wrong ) Safari uses macOS image decoding library. So supporting JPEGXL may come from an OS update and not browser?

Finally, an open standard, Royalty Free, open-source reference implementation, and it is nearly better than all other alternative. As an image format on the web it is quite possibly close to perfect [4]. It is exciting and I hope JPEG XL will succeed.

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1539075

[2] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=117805...

[3] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1707590

[4] I remember the conversion from a little more than 6 months ago current encoder is not optimised for image quality below bpp 1.0, those are going to be the focus once all the initial reference encoder and decoder standards and issues are done. So in case anyone wondering it doesn't look as good as other competitors ( but still a lot better than JPEG ), those improvements are coming later.
India(NASSCOM) criticizes Bank of America prediction of three million job losses
It is quite incredible how many ways the Bresenham algorithm keeps popping up. Line drawing, control systems, three dimensional rendering, robotics etc. To the point that I have re-implemented it now in just about any language I've worked in. What a little gem that is.
Put a piece of Plexiglas between you and the camera, put a LED strip on the edges of the Plexiglas, and mirror the outgoing video stream so writing looks the right way (unfortunately your face won't), done!
OWL for data model and RDF for data would work well for it, though I don't know if that is what they use.

Compare for example:

- Atelestite on mindat: https://www.mindat.org/min-407.html

- atelestite on WikiData (RDF based): https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3627885
It occurs to me now that the key word here may be “unpowered”. As in, if you unplug an SSD and leave it on the shelf, it may lose (some) data in as little as three months. There might not be many people who do that, and those who do might not notice the occasional corruption.
If I must use VSCode, I use this this. But from what I understand, some of the best extensions are not allwed to run on non-MS versions like this. Particularly the remote editing version other comment mentions.
Your bread analogy is really unfortunate because in the case of sourdough you can ( and I did) literally bootstrap the yeast out of thin air.
the main reason I used Slackware was because I didn't know how to pronounce Yggdrasil (I still don't).
Already in Chrome, Firefox, Edge: https://www.ghacks.net/2021/05/11/find-out-if-your-browser-s...
I'd add any system with an uptime of more than one month is a decent server. Android has nothing to shy of
Thanks! Naive question but could one not just stick the Nosql db on a dropbox and access it with family (trusted collaborators) from there?
It reminds me of this quote from Feynman [0]:

"The next question was — what makes planets go around the sun? At the time of Kepler some people answered this problem by saying that there were angels behind them beating their wings and pushing the planets around an orbit. As you will see, the answer is not very far from the truth. The only difference is that the angels sit in a different direction and their wings push inward."

It's easy to take a lot of things for granted, but it's amazing that gravity pulls from such a phenomenal distance.

[0] https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman
Success makes you a target.
Finally someone came up with he idea of detecting chords. Well done.
for some reason I thought norse mythology was older than this !
It's examples of how WHO is unreliable on multiple fronts.

Regarding ivermectin, this is documented here.
https://ivmmeta.com/#who