skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure that would be possible. These are both just ways of problem-solving the gradient of diffusion of random bit noise once it's blown up to a larger size. The Simplex method appears a lot more prone to volatility. The peaks and valleys are more extreme given the same parameters. Crushing the peaks and valleys would lead to compression artifacts or else lengthening the frequency to stretch out the band. Maybe I'm wrong, but fundamentally the fastest way would be to reproduce the underlying noise and then re-render it in the other method.
Working with IP cameras for a decade now, I've not encountered one that exposes access to control the IR filter short of embedded non-IP cameras aimed at robotics.
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>There is no - I repeat no wonderful fairy tale to tell about the years from 97-99.

I graduated college in 95. IMO, 97-99 was about people trying to get rich off of bullshit. The really fairy tale years were the pre-Netscape Navigator (late 94) era when Usenet and IRC ruled the roost.
This is what PWAs are kind of for.
Of Airtel licence renewal claim and NCC disclaimer
You may also like this story where a young girl figured out a way to trick everyone into thinking Zoom was broken so she didn't have to attend online lessons: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/eight-year-old-girl...
There is no life when money is tight. It's just constant struggle for survival. There is no time or energy for engaging in any 'non-essential' behavior.

I had a lot more humor a decade ago but nowadays I have no surplus energy to make any jokes and I can barely laugh at anything aside from dark humor.

I only think about two things these days:

1. Securing a decent income (through honest means).

2. Reset of the corrupt economy.

I see the two as intertwined. Everything I think about and do is about these two things. #1 is not possible for me (and many people) without #2.

It's sad that a lot of people are starting to fall in the same category and it's affecting their interactions with family members in such a profoundly negative way.
Apple juice is about 100% sugar which is why you'll see it in so many "100% juice" products.
The mafia is violent and illegal. Bitcoin in itself is neither.
The spec for PDF 1.7 is here: https://www.adobe.com/content/dam/acom/en/devnet/pdf/pdfs/PD...

JavaScript is allowed, but not in PDF/A, which is what I use.

The PDF 2.0 spec is damnably not public.
Isn't this what IPFS is for?
Here's an example of someone (who ought to have known better) ending up near-death with kidney failure after a misidentification.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/nov/13/filmadaptation...
> Note that PDFs can contain JS too.

Wait, why?!? When does it render? Who's supposed to have a js engine to do that? What version? How does it load dependencies? Is HTML and DOM carried along with it? So many questions.
Oh wow, that seems to be really dark, bordering on blackmail.

And to be very honest, if they were to take down the repo, I would be very surprised if it does have an effect on the immigration status of the author.

This whole saga leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I'd be very careful in dealing with this company in the future, and might even consider dropping my subscription to them (or their parent company).
The only real solution to this would seem to be some sort of standardisation about how captive portals should work, but the providers of these services don't seem like the sort who would jump on to that sort of thing quickly.
The author addresses this pretty well. Because you can embed whatever you want, static site generators aren't really static. In particular, Jekyll blogs and what not still pretty commonly include comment sections.

Of course, pdfs aren't necessarily static, either, but that is why Lab6 is choosing to use pdf/a, an actually static format intended specifically for long-term archiving of immutable files. This way you can sign the file and guarantee it stays the same forever and everyone's copy is identical.

I'm kind of surprised at the response to this. The author seems well aware of how terrible pdf is as a format and this isn't some treatise of why we should want to use it. It's an unfortunate compromise that, given the requirements they're aiming to meet, of generating a file that supports rich formatting and hyperlink embedding, but which can guarantee immutability and long-term archiving directly in the spec, pdf/a is all there is, so in spite of being a terrible format with a lot of shortcomings, it's what they're using.
It's not uncomfortable at all from where I'm sitting, I had thought we settled this with Ellsburg and the pentagon papers.

Assange had no clearance and took no oaths regarding this information. Converting "working with a source" into "conspiracy to access an information system" because the files were on a computer instead of in a drawer should fail the smell test.
The key question is: and?

Both parties do this. Pointing it out isn't whataboutism. Pointing it out is showing that Assange is the one who made political moves. He targeted specific politicians to leak negative information at opportune times. He didn't do this out of a sense of bringing the truth to light, he did this to further a political agenda. Where are his leaks on the republican party?
It probably went a bit longer than that. When I switched jobs in 2000, there were almost certainly some dark clouds on the horizon but there was still a lot of hiring going on in at least some quarters. 9/11 is the obvious end point (which is when I was laid off--and fortunately slid into another position that did go through hard times but was mostly good), although things were clearly on a big downward slide before that.
Here in the UK a lot of stores no longer sell caffeinated drinks to under 16s (it's not a law, but it's a common practice) so Red Bull et al. are out. I guess such a thing could be extended to sugary soda in general eventually. It's annoying, though, because if I want to buy one, I have to be "challenge 25" checked, but I guess it reduces my consumption as well!
Possibly carcinogenic, but that's a big possibly, compared to the blatantly obvious harm caused by high-fructose corn syrup.
He likely did try to help access the data. It's not uncomfortable at all to admit that.

The idea that this is espionage (what he is being charged with) is ludicrous.

This is an uncomfortable topic for his detractors.

Even more uncomfortable given that Obama worried it was unconstitutional and criminalized journalism.

If this happened to a Russian citizen in Russia finding evidence of Russian war crimes not one of his detractors would argue that he was guilty.
Decentralized and censorship resistant name routing service?
https://ens.domains/

That's a killer app imo.
Microsoft exFAT patents expired in 2019, I think. It's included in the Linux kernel since 5.7 or some version around then. Android devices support exFAT depending on which Linux kernel version they have.
How do you judge if something is an "exciting development" if you "don't have the resources to vet anything"? Wouldn't making such a judgement imply that you thought it could be useful? Or is "usefulness" not required for such crypto "exciting developments"? I think that may be the point the GP is making...
Am I the only one who finds the map difficult to read? The place-names and borders are almost invisible.

Also, pet peeve of mine with most maps-- when I zoom in so that I can see place names, the font gets smaller.
> Unless I'm missing something, this is a minor story ... in order to strengthen an already robust case, not the slam dunk people are making it out to be.

I don't think this was a robust case at all. A couple of things to note here:

1. The witness from Iceland whose testimony against Assange has now revealed to have been lies wasn't part of the original case the US put forward. They added him much later into the proceedings. So if this was a "robust case" as you put it, why would they decide to add new accusations?

2. You might say, well, they didn't need to include him and shouldn't have. But you have the judge (Baraitser) citing these new accusations when siding with the US, as Stundin reported: "Baraitser sided with the arguments of the American legal team, including citing the specific samples from Iceland which are now seriously called into question." So clearly they were significant enough for the judge.

3. Craig Murray has written about why he thinks the witness was included late into the proceedings:

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2021/06/fbi-fabricat...

> The hearings on the Assange extradition in January 2020 did not seem to be going well for the US government. The arguments that political extradition is specifically banned by the UK/US extradition treaty, and that the publisher was not responsible for Chelsea Manning's whistleblowing on war crimes, appeared to be strong. The US Justice Department had decided that it therefore needed a new tack and to discover some "crimes" by Assange that seemed less noble than the Manning revelations.

> To achieve this, the FBI turned to an informant in Iceland, Sigi Thordarson, who was willing to testify that Assange had been involved with him in, inter alia, hacking private banking information and tracking Icelandic police vehicles. This was of course much easier to portray as crime, as opposed to journalism, so the second superseding indictment was produced based on Thordarson's story, which was elaborated with Thordarson by an FBI team.

> The difficulty was that Thordarson was hardly a reliable witness. He had already been convicted in Iceland for stealing approximately $50,000 from Wikileaks and with impersonating Julian Assange online, not to mention the inconvenient fact he is a registered sex offender for online activities with under-age boys. The FBI team was in fact expelled from Iceland by the Icelandic government, who viewed what the FBI was doing with Thordarson as wholly illegitimate.

> [...] While Baraitser's eventual decision barred extradition on the grounds of Assange's health and US inhumane prison conditions, the second superseding indictment and Thordarson's accusations were accepted as a valid basis for extradition.

Given all that, I think it's fair to describe him as a key witness.
>Seriously, such a well funded, high profile project like Linux should be more receptive to key QoL improvements and drivers.

I guess politics gets in the way?
Relevant Jared Dillion (former goldman sachs I think, now a newsletter guy) tweet from yesterday:

> This may seem hard to believe, but there is more money to be made being long fraud rather than short fraud in the stock market.

https://twitter.com/dailydirtnap/status/1416796595132243969
As part of improving my health, I came off of drinking sugary sodas a few years back and went sugar free. My dentist remained unimpressed saying that the sugar is only a small part of the story and really it's the acid in soda that will cause me problems. I now drink a lot more water around any soda consumption to mitigate it slightly, but I gotta have some bad habits..
> you don't know if they read it, how much time they spend on it, etc.

This is an excellent feature, for the user.
Nice!

Only a small feature request: When you click the button to get another set of random images or another cluster in the knn, the page waits until the new image is loaded to update it, so it "does nothing" for half a second. I'd like that it instantly shows a spinning thing or other signal to show that it's waiting for info and will be updated soon.
> Following Microsoft’s original disclosure in early March 2021, the United States Government also identified other vulnerabilities in the Exchange Server software.

> Rather than withholding them, the United States Government recognized that these vulnerabilities could pose systemic risk and the National Security Agency notified Microsoft to ensure patches were developed and released to the private sector.

Finally they seem to be starting to take the defence of citizens and private industry seriously - in a far more public forum. Instead of just hearing the odd story of this happening through back channels.

From the linked press release:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases...
I was just looking at the most recent v26 patchset from June yesterday and it was really depressing. Paragon has been plugging away at it for close to a year (2020-08) and there has been seemingly no interest in this at all. As a regular desktop user who spent years dealing with the very inefficient FUSE ntfs-3g implementation the disconnect seems very real.
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What do you think about narcotics, should they be legal or not?

One thing I noticed is that people who are for banning soda or alcohol are surprisingly for legalization of soft and hard drugs.
The list of use cases would be better served, and in most of those cases is already well served, by a single database.

Trusted interpersonal relationships are a feature, not a bug.
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You are welcome to ignore half of the definitions you posted and focus on the one that suits you best. I lean towards the second one you supplied, being "Important, salient"
We can disagree on semantics, but my original point stands: the wording of the headline was changed. As another poster has asked, why would you choose to change a shorter, more common word for a longer, less common one if they mean exactly the same?
The parent said "de facto filesystem for portable data storage", NAS for Windows is a very specific use case. For data portability, compatibility and wide adoption matters, and that is undoubtedly where FAT and it's variants rule.
Well... He would know. He's from activist land, and probably still has a lot of friends from the punk rock scene, became a serious environmental lobbyist and from there to being a centrist MP. I'm sure he had an interesting journey. Smart guy. I actually met him several times. Seems kind of like an alien in person. I didn't know about his Nuclear Disarmament Party.

>> Or was it essentially a militant communist faction

Best guess, it was mostly young radicals from University of Melbourne. But... I don't think this falls into the "other people using it for their own purposes" bucket either. Wikileaks & Assange are from this (specific) resistance clique themselves. It was their neighborhood. Both the organisation and the man have always represented themselves as hard left activists. Still do. This was back in the Bush-Howard days, or just after.

As with Garret's Nuclear Disarmament Party (I assume) there's a dynamic between progressive and radical thought that often leaves them in no man's land... or radical land.

Like I said, being politically weird doesn't mean you lose rights or can't be a journalist. So, I'm justifying anything. I'm noting that journalists and journalistic organisations, especially those reporting on war, should not blur lines between press and "not press" themselves. Press freedom is premised on you being press. Make that unchallengeable, and obvious at first sight.

Contrast this with Snowden, who knows what he is, what categories he falls into. As such, he always expected to face trial or exile. He wants to return and face trial, just with open proceedings. His was an act of civil disobedience. Meanwhile, not protected like the journalists he leaked to. They never blurred the lines between them.
This is an extraordinarily poor comment to see voted so high in the thread on HN.

The original author does not seem to have a "midlife crisis". They seem to have a spot of nostalgia for their first two or three years of real career after college.

They also do not seem to be over-glorifying that period. Suggesting that human nature was more noble than it is today, technology or business more pure, etc. They're simply noting that it was "a fun and wild time", and that some interesting stories are worth preserving since the time period is no longer native for the majority of the industry.

I'm not sure if you're projecting something yourself here, or if you're simply having a bad day.
The EU does not accuse the Chinese government of being behind the attacks.

This is the EU press statement:

https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2021...

China: Declaration by the High Representative on behalf of the European Union urging Chinese authorities to take action against malicious cyber activities undertaken from its territory
Online/digital is forever if, and only if, it is disadvantageous to you for that particular thing to be forever.
Not all amanita are dangerous.
That's news to me. Wikipedia also notes that Aspartame which is the sweetener used in most diet soda, has not been found to be carcinogenic with a bunch of citations.

Or are you talking about other ingredients?
The only thing legal for kids to eat should be spinach and brocolli.

Parents should be jailed if they fed them cakes.
I think sugar is 100% sugar, hence "apple juice" can't be "100% sugar" since it has to have some water in it
I spend significantly more time dealing with messes of Docker containers that were thrown together ad-hoc with a slew of bad practices than I ever did having to hunt down and resolve dependencies.

Docker really makes it easy to create messes by bad or less experienced developers yet ultimately have something functional, for awhile. Setting up environments used to act as a filter to clear out these sort of messy systems. If you put together a system of distributed services, you were probably competent enough to make something that wasn't horrible and considered maintainability. Now, with a few days Googling, anyone can spin up a distributed system of services with every bad practice known to man as to how those services are initialized, modified (yes, I rarely see stateless containers), and interconnected.

With a sizable team of developers that aren't under time pressures incentivized to build tech debt and pass it along, Docker (or rather container systems, not necessarily Docker) have a lot of useful purposes. I rarely see it used this way in the wild, I instead see it as a way to build tech debt. I'll take the need to resolve a couple dependencies over that any-day of the week.
Postmodern (https://quickref.common-lisp.net/postmodern.htm), a library to interface with Postresql will use the keyword `:null` to represent null, and T and nil to represent boolean true and false.
The difference between someone making a sensible set of counter-arguments with valid points versus someone who is actually shilling is easily lost on some people.
> only to find that Assange was unhappy with how slowly this was going and he released them all himself, with basic redactions.

That is NOT what happened.

The misernable excuse for a journalist Luke Harding, who works for The Guardian, was given (in confidence) the password to an encrypted online dump of an unredacted version Assange's documents. He then published a book, in which he included this password. Harding was therefore blowing the identities of many vulnerable informants - not Assange.

Assange first tried to engage with the State Department to mitigate the damage that The Guardian's employee had caused. He then published the unredacted documents in full, so that those people that were identified could see that they had been exposed, and take suitable remdial action.

Harding is close to the UK security services.
That’s a reasonable point but remote conferencing subscriptions are at an all-time high, so it wouldn’t surprise me to see some churn in this area, even if everything you said is correct. Schools, teams that return fully to the office, etc will probably let their subscriptions lapse, which would lead to a fear among investors that the business was in trouble. It’s a smart play to introduce a new revenue stream (via M&A) to counteract that narrative.
It might be an interesting study but I'd have to wonder what kind of bias one could have against non-standard English usage unless one was an English teacher.

Or conversing with an American, the spelling might tip me over the edge! ;-)
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Kinf of. But it's not really Consistent in the CAP sense, as it only provides snapshot isolation, not linearizability, plus the A in CAP is kind of useless. (CAP is an amazing theoretical milestone nonetheless, just too narrow for real life situations. Basically it's a simple no-go theorem.)

In practice even this ToyDB is likely able to serve requests in a degraded state (probably as long as the Raft leader's timer does not expire, and if there's a quorum of nodes they can reelect a leader). And it seems that if a node falls out of sync it will automatically rejoin and try to replay the logs. (As long as they are available of course.)

https://github.com/erikgrinaker/toydb/blob/master/docs/archi...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUd_9FENShA

https://blog.acolyer.org/2014/11/07/highly-available-transac...
This appears to be an update to a story that was discussed here on HN over 2 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19726528

Now, as then, facial recognition is being used as clickbait, when all that really happened is that this guy stole an ID, got caught shoplifting in an Apple Store with that ID, and thus had the information on the ID incorrectly associated with his face—either in a facial recognition database, or simply by the photo being used with this stolen ID.

My understanding from the previous story was that it was not Apple that took the information from the ID, but rather the police, who gave that information to Apple. It looks from this story like there's also a third party involved, SIS, the security contractor, which, of course, further muddies the waters.
I guess it depends what you mean by fairy tale years. In the grand scheme of things, "no one" even had access to the Internet pre-Web.
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I found the comment interesting.

I disagree that it is just Americans. In real terms language evolves on its own and people tend to imitate the pieces they find useful for one reason or another. I remember living in the old country as the Iron Curtain fell. All of a sudden, adding English words into just about any conversation was a thing to do. Some of it was, because word equivalents were not quite ready yet; some of it was fashion.

I think cop porn is just another language phase in US.
JS has false, null, and undefined... and NaN and 0... and nobody is ever confused.
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This is exactly the 'null' bug, and the problem that's solved with a strongly-typed language and an `Optional<T>` or `Maybe T`.

Then you are forced to deal with the fact that you might not have a value, right away.
I think we should only be allowed a slurpie issued by the government that contains everything we need... no other food or drinks, except water.
I am currently able to read and write. I never installed anything and I'm using Manjaro.