skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if it would be possible to use the same module or moving and interface with with the lidar/camera of the iphone 12. The project could be even cheeper and probably the accuracy increase.
I installed Manjaro Linux as my primary OS (Windows on a secondary M.2) on the gaming PC I built earlier this year. I found the compatibility excellent, especially for the grand strategy titles I tend play (Paradox, Total War, etc.). The only thing that pushed me to change boot order back to windows is the abysmal tab-out performance Linux experiences for full screen applications. Even playing Valheim, a relatively light game for a 3080, the system UI would glitch, move very slowly, and freeze frequently whilst tabbed out. If I understand correctly from my research, it's caused by the OS UI not being bundled into the kernel like it is in Windows.

Which is a shame. KDE's Plasma is an absolute shoe-in for me coming from Windows daily-driver place. I can't imagine any distribution being able to inject its UI into the kernel downstream from Linus. It sounds stupid to be so turned off for such a simple reason but I often would tab out of games to jump to Discord, Spotify, or Terminal and it would be easily 10+ seconds of waiting for things to render.

Does anybody know what the future looks like for this problem? Will there be some reimagining of desktop rendering in the near future on Linux? Or maybe I misunderstand the problem?
I wish they would call it something like QR45 then, not Base45.
Very interesting. I enjoy both astronomy and history, do you know any books/materials you would recommend to someone who is just an enthusiast? Also, would you share the title of your podcast?
You're right. But of course by the time of the dramatic events, it will be too late to do anything.

Humanity will die off and thats good - looking at the world we built, we deserve it.

I fell thankful for being here to witness final moments of mankind. Its goong to be a fun ride.
That is not at best, probably this is at worst. But thanks for the info.
> Maybe a compatibility issue?

From the introduction:

> Even in Byte mode a typical QR-code reader tries to interpret a byte sequence as an UTF-8 or ISO/IEC 8859-1 encoded text. Thus QR-codes cannot be used to encode arbitrary binary data directly.

Back to your comment:

> Base45 is actually not that bad as it seems (3.1% overhead)

That’s very close to my logarithm calculations from edflsafoiewq’s 40-L figures (the log₂₅₆ 45⁴²⁹⁶ bit of my comment, just added). Would you mind explaining to me what I did wrong with my 45³ ÷ 256² calculation that said 39%?
This is one of the best comments I read online :)
Was it this?

https://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_D9DC82D997454711A71B586...
I was about to post a question about sale prices as a multiple of revenue.

Someone bought it with 2.7 years break even ? Assuming close to zero ongoing cost + labour. That’s surprisingly high
I expected a .5-1.5 for micro sized revenue
The USA. HIPAA states that willful or malicious disclosures of identifiable health information with intent to sell for personal gain have penalties of up to 10 years in prison [0].

But of course that's not what TFA was about.

[0] https://inspiredelearning.com/blog/hipaa-101-guide-violation...
It was >0.1% of users and 20% of automated bug reports. There isn't any data on how many Linux users report bugs.
Seems they use Envoy as the API Gateway https://eng.snap.com/monolith-to-multicloud-microservices-sn...
Present-day Google Maps was initially funded by the CIA through one of their (I suppose many) investment vehicles. I’m on mobile and I’m too lazy to search for links but that information is easily searchable.
Yet Another Snazzy Rust CLI
I'm sure many here on HN did this long ago, but for me: Learning how to get by in a large org for the first time.

1 month ago I was responsible for the entire IT function of an SMB. I was the guy who knew everything required to get stuff done, and I reported directly to the CEO. A lot of processes were not formalised because the overheads of doing so weren't worth it.

New job, now working for the government in a skyscraper full of colleagues. I know virtually nothing, there is no onboarding to speak of, and I am second from the bottom in a huge hierarchy strangled by red tape. Every day I find out that there is another whole team dedicated to doing something I thought I was going to have to work out myself - which has pros and cons. I haven't even seen an org chart yet, but I've just been told "those teams over there are getting outsourced next month". So I think I know why there is no up-to-date org chart...

It's different. But it's a pay rise, and I'm not bored anymore. The level of coordination required to get anything done here is a learning exercise in itself. After my first week I was worried I wasn't cut out for this sort of thing, but after a couple more weeks I'm finding it... fun? Still weird though.
Google’s security changes will break old Drive and YouTube links
Moreover, I think WD defense here will be that while you could, you did not have to plug your WD device to internet, in order for it to serve its purpose. They will try to argue that the majority of their offer is hard discs, and if your drive has extra ability to connect to internet, that's extra feature.
When taking in third party dependencies you take over responsibility.

If I build a machine and the third-party screws I use break my customers come to me.

If I use bad quality npm modules as dependencies it's my bad.

If I use an embedded system with flaws it's my issue.
I believe that was an iOS bug, I remember hearing about that in a few instances where the built-in calendar client was connected to Office 365. In all cases it was solved by updating iOS to some bug-fixing point release.
Not entirely sure I got the point of this paper/library. Is it simply that it improves accuracy, or is the user supposed to be able to (after training) leverage the RW components of the model, say, in a later forward/backward induction?
Thank You for your claim explanation without any rage.

>If they can bundle the cost of their Maps effort with iPhone.....

And just want to add. Apple currently put around ~$3B / year for all of their OS, iCloud, Siri and Map development which are already included in the Net Margin calculation.
Not many indexes out there: https://searchenginemap.com

Ecosia = Bing = DDG = Qwant
It's a lot closer to convertible preferred stock, except the date would reset on sale.
The problem gets solved by

sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com "D404 0146 BE39 7250 9FD5 7FC7 1F30 45A5 DF75 87C3"

Whether that's a secure thing to do, I don't know...
Qrcode already has a binary mode. The problem is that qrcode software treats qrcode data as text and fucks up. You’re not going to get every software out there fixed.

This does not extent qrcode at all, instead it defines a binary-to-text encoding designed to fit in qrcode’s existing alphanumeric mode, exactly like base32, base64 or base85 (or base36, base62, binhex, quopri) but fitting the specific constraints of the qrcode medium.
Most premature baby ever celebrates first birthday
Becaus sometimes you need your solution to be used be the public, voluntarily. If they have to install an extra app to read your "looks-like-QR-code-but-not-quite" thing, then you have at least an increased risk of not getting the adoption you want to get.

This is not a realistic choice for many projects.
Thanks for your comment.

> DNS providers are not going to let you store e.g. every item of your inventory in separate TXT records

There are some industry-standard limits in Cloud DNS (10k zones per customer, 10k resource records [e.g. TXT] per zone). These limits would make it difficult to store a large inventory in DNS.

NUM could be used for inventory but as you say, an API would be more effective. NUM is designed for standardised use cases like contact data, where all companies store their data in the same way – making it easy for developers to consume.

We're trying to standardise this in DNS, instead of an API, for two reasons:

1. Any domain registrant can adopt it, relatively simply (although some providers have atrocious TXT record management) – they can delegate their NUM zone to us for easy management.

2. By using DNS, we can pre-populate huge amounts of this data (we do this from num.net) which makes the protocol useful from launch and helps overcome the chicken-and-egg problem. DNS caching helps us answer these queries, we can answer a billion DNS queries for $200 using standard Cloud DNS pricing. Once caching is factored in it's incredibly efficient.

It's possible DNS resolvers might refuse to cache (or even answer) NUM queries but we hope that doesn't happen.

> I'm not trying to shoot this down so much as figure out what I'm missing here.

I appreciate that, hopefully my answers above have helped
Just because the truth is known, doesn't mean that it is accessible to the average person, or even undiluted enough to be recognized for what it is.

Plenty of folks probably have not come to terms with this being the truth even if they have tidbits of knowledge pointing to it's existence.

Like that pastor who urged people to look at the positives which came from colonization.
As far as I know, X has many issues with things like multiple monitors, full-screen programs, low-latency input etc. Not sure if Pulseaudio similarly has issues with things like surround-sound systems that a game uses more in-depth.
Well, at least you assume that everyone has the same problems you do with Linux. If that was the case, I don't think it would be very popular. Linux runs games better than windows for many of us. Try PopOS, it may work better for you, but otherwise it's just your computer that runs poorly on Linux.
Oops, I've completely missed the last paragraph and thought that you were giving a wildly larger figure with a wrong assumption. Your actual assumption for optimally-efficient base-45 is correct and close enough to the actual QR code spec.
>those not written in Java or compiled to run natively on Intel-based devices - to run on those devices

I think they mean non-x86 binaries e.g. ARM, Would still be interesting to see how the translation happens it's not like MS/Intel has silicon level advantage like Rosetta/M1 but for translating other way around.

>I was expecting a full VM / emulator, but this doesn't sound like that.

Even Google did not consider VM/emulator, The went for Android Runtime for Chrome (ARC) and then after learning that it doesn't support all features they switched to containers.
6. Microservices. It's not unusual to have several Microservices consume a common entity, like say, User. If every microservice has to authorize each request doing a db lookup, it doesn't scale either.

He does bring fair points that it's important to understand before using JWT. If your use case includes immediate logout, or to avoid stale data, then it might better to not use JWT.
Let me guess: Everyone should live in a city and houses should be owned by gigantic holding companies. You are getting predictable.

I wrote this comment before reading the article because there are indeed articles that aren't worth reading and you know the content.

I think in this case, it is good to not read the article for once. The headline supplies enough information to extrapolate the data.
SF idea:

Someone asked AI to generate code for

def terminate_humankind():
"""Terminate the humankind"""

And it created Skynet.
parchive and md5deep

http://md5deep.sourceforge.net/
> If you are in a toss-up between the Air vs Pro consider that the Pro has two USB-C ports and that makes a huge difference.

But my M1 Air also has two USB-C ports? I keep checking they're there now to make sure I've not gone mad.
Isn't it amazing how all solutions to all these problems require an intellectual elite preaching to people about how to live their lives.
>We must prioritize development in the kinds of neighborhoods that permanently reduce total driving and consume less energy. Such human-centered neighborhoods have the added benefit of helping us adapt to climate impacts, improve public health, and promote access to activities. Encouraging their development should be a central part of any national climate resilience strategy.

I wonder if a moratorium could be issued to freeze all land zoning changes beyond the border of all cities, stop cities from growing outwards. This would force growth to turn inwards, and improve neighborhood density.
But doesn't this just seem like kind of a bad content farm?
The US Debt and How It Got So Big
Tbf, NIST has a much bigger reputation, and the aes competition was a much larger affair attracting a large swath of experts.
The extreme politicisation of this issue has caused this kind of thinking, which is simply not true.

Even the IPCC, the biggest authority on climate change says that temperatures might increase 2C in the next 50 years, reducing the GROWTH in GDP in the world by 6% (NOT actual GDP). This might have some bad consequences, but it's a far cry from the doomsday scenario of humanity dying within 12 years that people like AOC have talked about.

(btw, global temperatures rose about 2C in the last 50 years. We survived. In fact humanity is doing fairly well on most metrics)
"Due to even more GDPR requests, the DNS records no longer be provided at all"
It’s a B2T encoding, not a qrcode mode (the mode is 2).
You could try Ctrl+Alt+F* to get another session/terminal. Or if you use Steam, use the Steam overlay browser.

Could also try another Window and/or display manager.

At home I have set up multi seat, meaning multiple graphics (GFX)/sound cards, separate screen keyboard and mouse, connected to the same PC. The only problem is that one of the GFX cards goes to sleep when inactive for a few hours, so I have to restart the display manager to wake it up, but the performance is excellent, we play games simultaneously, watch Youtube or what not - without any performance issues, on a several years old PC.
I work for a large company, I have a desktop machine, I fail to see how the company would have access to it (assuming they aren’t using any zero day exploits etc to attack it). They don’t have my private ssh key so can’t ssh in, it sits on my desk at home so they have no physical access. It came straight from the factory and I installed vanilla Ubuntu on it.
True. This is what should be written in bold when you are buying any IoT device specifically those consumer grade lamps from small firms.

It's fun to control around from our phones but after 2 years it won't be much fun someone else controlling around
I’ve been adding bits to my comment as I went. It wasn’t there when you wrote your comment. I’m stopping now and going to go eat, confused about the 39% and 3% and what’s going on. I haven’t worked with QR codes enough!
I think many American cities are in a sort of local optima with regard to cars. Any change that makes walking more viable will reduce the utility of everyone using cars. Converting the freeway right-of-way to rail would take a long time and make lots of people mad in the meantime.

A car can get you places, yes. But it also requires money to purchase, maintain, insure, and fuel. Many people are not great at driving them, killing people in the process. People get fat because they never have to walk anywhere. There is a cost for this convenience.

> Zoning is a choice by a community to preserve the lifestyle and neighborhood character they have built, and there's nothing wrong with that.

Sure, in isolation it makes sense. But then almost every city says the same thing. Then sprawl is the only choice for new people. And the “neighbor character” you have preserved is “only rich people are allowed to move in here”.
This is quite exceptional. Seems like the last event as severe as this in Europe was in 1997 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_tornadoes_and...
Good point. We just rely on privacy and security of Notion as we do with Google Drive. Its a concern for sure, but we decided to consider Notion reliable
> Isn't higher RPM better

WD Red is marketed for NAS/storage, where it's not uncommon to have 4/8/12/16 drives in the same chassis where noise/heat becomes a very different problem. It turns out that the drives generated the same heat and consumed the same power as 7200RPM drives, while the data sheets were outright lies and BS. WD decided on double down on the BS for several months, and only recently released new SKUs where the specs matched the marketing.
I mean those some of those "risky" pictures are on even on Wikipedia. Also from my understanding he followed a common Victorian era belief that was prevalent at the time and wasn't necessarily a pedophile.

Quoting wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Carroll):

> Several other writers and scholars have challenged the evidential basis for Cohen's and others' views about Dodgson's sexual interests. Hugues Lebailly has endeavoured to set Dodgson's child photography within the "Victorian Child Cult", which perceived child nudity as essentially an expression of innocence.[88] Lebailly claims that studies of child nudes were mainstream and fashionable in Dodgson's time and that most photographers made them as a matter of course, including Oscar Gustave Rejlander and Julia Margaret Cameron. Lebailly continues that child nudes even appeared on Victorian Christmas cards, implying a very different social and aesthetic assessment of such material. Lebailly concludes that it has been an error of Dodgson's biographers to view his child-photography with 20th- or 21st-century eyes, and to have presented it as some form of personal idiosyncrasy, when it was a response to a prevalent aesthetic and philosophical movement of the time.

And the following paragraph is also interesting.
> I suspect there will be litigation, but I am not a lawyer. I will be interested to see it though, what is the responsibility for using things post end-of-life?

Any situation where "you are on your own" should include the dropping of protections preventing you from actually fixing the device. If the manufacturer refuses to produce updates, that should NOT mean there is no way to update the software on the device.
European Parliament green lights climate ‘law of laws’
This comes down to the fact that learning design, UI, and UX is far harder than learning to code. And that nobody who uses a tool cares how good or bad the code is if it works okay.

Whenever I have looked into learning the design side, I've found it far more difficult to find a good set of resources to go by.

I probably didn't look hard enough
The most popular solution, a carbon tax, requires nobody to preach to anybody.
I used the company laptop as a personal laptop for far too long as well until this year. Even when I considered leaving my job, I thought to myself "well crap, then I need to buy a new laptop first", so my ability to find a new job was tied to my current employer (imagine being fired and have to hand over my only laptop).

Separating work and personal machines also improved my WFH experience. When I shut down my work laptop, I put it in the drawer and the work day is done. Whatever happens, I will have to deal with it the next morning. And to avoid that, no deployments at about 1h before I leave so I don't get dragged into hot-fixes. If it's an urgent fix and it's end of day, I just stay a little longer, at least I have more control that way and no phone calls interrupting my evening.
Mind sharing resources you’re using to learn? Also do you have background in music theory or is this from scratch?
I think the face ones are weird tbh and feel forced to be like Facebook, which also feels weird when I think about it.
I look forward to watching anti-natalists and nihilists remove themselves from the gene pool. We don’t need your death cult bullshit.
I've found a couple of books that have been very good:

A History of Astronomy by A. Pannekoek has a reasonably detailed and readable history of ancient astronomy, though as I've been diving into it I've found that parts are a little dated. But it's really good to get a high level overview of what the main problems early astronomers were trying to solve and how they were trying to solve them.

Episodes in the Early History of Astronomy by Aaboe is really good, too, though it's more from the perspective of a modern astronomer trying to put the ancient methods into modern mathematical notation. It's very valuable if you're not intimidated by equations.

Exploring Ancient Skies by Kelly et al. is by far the most detailed and contains the most up-to-date scholarship on ancient astronomy, but it's pretty hard to read casually. In some parts it's kind of like a review article that's just a bunch of pointers to other references.

My podcast is Song of Urania and you can find it here: https://songofurania.com/

The full moon was today, so naturally I'm procrastinating here on HN rather than editing my latest episode. :)
Good luck with that. Keep a sharp eye on the door and have a 'plan-B' in case you need it.
Advice I got in Amsterdam:

Buy a bike worth less than the lock.
The right way to measure the area ratio is using entropy. An optimal encoding would save at most 3% area over Base45:

Base64 in binary: log₂ 64 / 8 = 75.000% efficient

Base45 in alphanumeric: 4 log₂ 256 / 33 = 96.970% efficient

Optimal numeric: 3 log₂ 10 / 10 = 99.657% efficient

Optimal alphanumeric: 2 log₂ 45 / 11 = 99.851% efficient

Optimal binary (ISO 8859-1): log₂ 191 / 8 = 94.718% efficient

Optimal binary (UTF-8, single-byte subset): log₂ 128 / 8 = 87.500% efficient

Optimal binary (UTF-8, full): 1 = 128 / 2^(8α) + 1920 / 2^(16α) + 63488 / 2^(24α) + 1048576 / 2^(32α) ⇒ α = 89.706% efficient

Optimal kanji (JIS X 0208): log₂ 6879 / 13 = 98.061% efficient

The mistake in your 39% calculation is that you forgot to take logarithms before calculating the ratio.
I'm still sad that runnaroo went away as it felt like searching google felt like 10 years ago.

https://www.runnaroo.com/
It's not better for the internet as a whole. Host your own data behind a CDN and S3.

There are also lots of free services (github pages netlify) which allow you to store static content.

Use these over a DNS server to store your data.
I'm not sure what you're implying, care to elaborate? Generally I think of logic is a precursor to programming, and understanding the history of logic in the context of philosophy should not be controversial, in my opinion.

Further, I'm not the first to explore this connection, here is a thread I read recently on how study of philosophy can contribute to being a successful programmer:

https://cofounderslab.com/discuss/how-do-you-think-programmi...
I use them mostly for calling to phones abroad. I can do that either from my computer or from my cell phone. Maybe they are not the cheapest on the market, but compared to what it would cost to dial directly on the cell phone they are pretty cheap.

> Now there are better alternatives.

For my use case?
Sure! Some links here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22480444
As a former PHP developer primarily, shortsightedness, lol.

Still pretty good lang for web, though.
It's always the same old thing.
But the fundamental problem will never vanish: computers are complex, and no matter how hard you try with neat packaging and software, this complexity cannot be hidden. Sooner or later the illusion bursts at its seams and the user discovers another failure mode that they weren't even aware of.

WD really messed up there - but they and others will mess up again, so if the user's goal is not losing any data they'll still need to do more than buy the next shiny thing and click "accept" on the EULA. Because in the end pushing around the blame won't get you the files back.
Ask HN: Any suggestions for web based GUI static site generator?
I searched on the net and found Publii gui site generator. However, it is not web based.
I wished I didn't know who he was ...
There are some links in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22480444
SwiftUI, Kubernetes, Terraform and Elasticsearch. And from non-tech stuff, I finally got around to study acoustics and relearning the math behind it.