skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scanimate an analog video synth.

I had hoped that it was about a mechanical optical printer that could composite and project multiple film images.

The closest thing I can think of was a multihead, aerial-image optical printer built by Ub Iwerks for Disney.

If anyone has knowledge of such devices I love to hear it. Apparently it could composite text, animation and live images.

http://nzpetesmatteshot.blogspot.com/2015/10/optical-effects...
https://www.planetscale.com/blog/non-blocking-schema-changes

disclaimer: I work at PlanetScale
Fortunately there's a little extra capacity available by using Greek ligatures/numerals like "stigma". It's a ligature combining "sigma" and "tau", and is also used as a numeral representing the number 6.
What’s hard to believe? Downdetectors well known for being almost, but not quite, useless.

Probably reported Google as “down” because a whole bunch of people use the word “Google” when they mean “internet”.
Impressive.

I worked at a financial software firm written in python that used Excel behind the scenes to run calculations and modelling.
Apple, like most corporations, is happy to entertain passive consumers. After all, empowering people to learn new things about computers could lead to healthy competition, and that's definitely not something we want, or is it?!
Yep, I'd prefer that option, despite its wordiness. Obviously this depends a lot on individual preferences, and in this simple example it really doesn't make a lot of difference.

I imagine the compiler spits out pretty similar code either way. It's more just a recognition of my own limitations... I'm a lot less likely to screw up something up, the more explicitly it's written out.

When I was a younger man, I wouldn't have bothered.
Yes, and also I think also because it is possible for it to be a self-isolated system; you don’t need as much greater context of the world to make sense of its rules.
Jodorowsky's Dune Uncovered
While it is true that you can use `and` in C++11, that's a bit of an understatement: these keywords have in fact been present since the very first ISO C++ standard C++98!
Same here: Slack, GotoMeeting, Spotify .. I always use the web version. I don't need a music app sniffing around my computer...
no, they aren't all based off 4chan (mostly because 4chan booted them). And not all are alt-right anyway
The COVID-19 vaccines are all "leaky" in that they don't really prevent infection and transmission but simply attenuate and reduce the severity of symptoms. Therefore, Sars-Cov-2 will continue to evolve in both unvaccinated and vaccinated populations, but the vaccine will put evolutionary pressure on Sars-Cov-2 in the vaccinated population that will select for fitter variants (this has happened before in other "leaky" vaccines, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marek%27s_disease#Prevention and https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/jou...). I'd argue that fitter, more dangerous variants will probably evolve in the vaccinated population as opposed to the unvaccinated for this reason. Having said that, these new variants will mostly be a threat to the unvaccinated and, if so, I can see a future where we'll be vaccinating kids very early on to prevent serious disease.
In 1985, the US extradited John Demjanjuk to Israel for crimes he committed in Poland.
Throwaway. I'm going to get a few things off my chest.

People in this thread are the problem. You're talking about this or that piece of specific "mis-information" as the reason someone didn't get vaccinated. Wake up. You really think if only you could control the messaging better, then the monkeys would do as they're told. You're just another authoritarian elitist, like the rest. Oh masks don't work (except they do, we just couldn't tell you the truth). Oh you're racist it didn't leak from China (except it probably did, and they knew then). Oh these vaccines are safe (except 50K people have died from them).

You call us anti-vaxxers. No, we're against this vaccine, mostly. And yes, we get some of it wrong sometimes, but we've gotten a lot right too. What you've ignored, or called "misinformation". Everyone read the American Frontline Doctor's filing 3 days ago that spells out what we've been talking about for a long time. https://archive.org/details/15-main/page/n1/mode/2up

When is the CDC going to acknowledge Ivermectin? In a recent Dr. John Cambell video, who I mostly like even when I disagree, because he's honest, he said the real-politic of the situation means we can't expect our health authorities even mention it. Sorry, but that's not going to fly.

I consider myself still a patriot. But I've watched the government and media lie about WMD in Iraq, NSA spying, Trump nonstop, the peaceful riots, about the questionable election, about funding gain of function, and been called racist, sexist, and every other name by so-called leaders. I've watched the principles of our nation get thrown away. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1413165168956088321.html

So this is where I'm at. I won't live in your cities. I won't take your advice. I won't trust your reporting. I won't ever give up my arms. You, our institutions, leaders, and other so-called Americans, have soiled our great nation. And what comes next nobody knows, but there is no path back now, only forward.
I don't think you need to take it with a grain of salt; don't trust it at all. The CIA is untrustworthy on a fundamental level... there are decades of instances to pull from.
That does not justify an invasion of privacy, as a general rule. The state should not back off on individual rights because the church cares about something.

Furthermore, these exceptions to privacy are very rarely limited to use against the rich and powerful. Today we’re excusing Grindr violating the privacy of the priest, tomorrow we find out that this loophole has been expanded to the poor and powerless.

Rights have to be extended to those you find distasteful, otherwise they don’t exist at all.
I really like it. K8s seems to have won so I'm always worried Nomad will be shuttered but I'll use it as long as it's supported.
I also started studying Cocoa with Big Nerd Ranch’s book.

Unfortunately, I found that resources on Cocoa are very lacking, you have to search all day to get some trivial thing to do. The best resources you have would be WWDC videos and transcripts[0]. If the subject you’re looking for is older than a few years, the documentation archive[1] might have detailed, good documentation with concepts and sample code. Some more obscure features will require you search all day, find a few blog posts from ~10 years ago, and munge them enough to make something workable.

The best resource of all was the help of more experienced Cocoa devs – the AppKit Abusers Slack [2] was very helpful and pointed out problems when I had problems. Very grateful for them.

[0]: https://asciiwwdc.com

[1]: https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/navigation/

[2]: https://appkit-abusers.herokuapp.com
Specifically, it blocks going higher than the handle, so using either absolute paths or paths with a ".." component.

Not sure if anything changes for symlinks.
FND is very real and is as prevalent as MS [1]. Why are CIA operatives somehow different from the rest of the human race?

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6306282/
With all due respect, having also run auth DNS servers in the 90s, and seen the inside of Akamai’s CDN/DNS setup more recently, it isn’t remotely at the same level of scale or sophistication.
>Years after the online harassment campaign known as Gamergate targeted women in the video game world

Ironically, GamerGate started as an expose on how dishonest and corrupt video game journalism had become, though it all went downhill from there. And now journalists dishonestly hijack GG to push whichever agenda suits them, though at least this time the writer didn't act as if it was still relevant today.
Their later book Philosophy in the Flesh looks in detail at various philosophers and philosophical concepts and systems, analysing the conceptual metaphors in them, and showing e.g. how much whether an argument seems sensible depends on the metaphors it involves, e.g. the metaphor of knowing as seeing. I can't think of another book that shed nearly so much light on philosophy for me as this.
> A Google spokesperson reached out via email with the following statement saying that the bug has been fixed: "This morning, we made a code push that incorrectly flagged a small percentage of Google Docs as abusive, which caused those documents to be automatically blocked. A fix is in place and all users should have full access to their docs. Protecting users from viruses, malware, and other abusive content is central to user safety. We apologize for the disruption and will put processes in place to prevent this from happening again."

https://www.vice.com/en/article/zmz3yw/why-is-my-google-doc-...

https://mashable.com/article/google-docs-locking-people-out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBgug0Fuwxgf
If the app did what it already does, added in read/unread indications, and some of the features like RES I would be willing to pay for it.

The app is already great, but those few things would make it something I could see having a small subscription for, to help keep development going.
I don't understand why "public creativity" would be something you'd screen for in an engineering role.
I don't get the logic behind terming "China virus" as malicious use, while we call past viruses names such as "Middle East Respiratory Syndrome" and "Spanish flu" and "Japanese encephalitis". The only difference between one and the rest is that its host country it was named after raised a ruckus about it in a highly biased and obliging media under a belligerent president, while the other countries either did not care enough in the past or in the present.
Sortof. But the assholes do know a bit about science, and are taking an arguably conservative view on pharmacological interventions in the treatment of aging to prevent possible problems. For example this trial:
Targeting the Biology of Aging.
Ushering a New Era of Interventions.
The official web resource of the TAME Trial, managed by the American Federation for Aging Research.

they are not saying that taking metformin slows aging, merely that it delays development of chronic illnesses. What we should be asking is if metformin is actually slowing down the biological aging process. https://www.afar.org/tame-trial
Google Sheets is an unusable dumpster fire. I just tried to import a 3 million row CSV yesterday and it wasn't able to do it. INDEX/MATCH don't even work properly! Basically unusable unless you need it for scheduling parties or whatever people use Airtable for.
Even if you see someone who can instantly produce wonderful looking sketches, remember that they're not producing it on the spot... it took years.
To fair and accurate I cherry picked TWO studies

You didn't cite or include a link to even one. You just tossed a load of bullshit here and hoped it would stick.

By the way... one of those cherry picked links goes to Scientific American's website. Hard to do better than that even if you are picking cherries.
> I strongly doubt it was to solve a problem, just someone with a lot of clout had a pet project.

I don't know office politics there, sure. But Go most definitely solved problems by having a language optimized for fast(er) builds and generally being a language you can write code without thinking too hard about and getting good runtime performance out of.

Many languages start out as pet projects, but can often solve a real problem such that they see internal adoption. That adoption can grow for various reasons, and in some cases, end up creating a sociotechnical system where it's now a thing even though it never started out with the intention of being a thing. It's at this time that demand is a key driver behind adoption, new features, etc.

Do you still feel that Go "doesn't count" with respect to demand?

> second because it attempts to patch an existing trainwreck and isn't even a new language.

Firstly, JavaScript is hardly a trainwreck of a language, considering how successful it has been with respect to adoption and having such an incredible ecosystem for developers to work in. I worked on a typed functional programming language for 5 years, so be aware that my statement isn't one of ignorance of other languages.

But nonetheless, since this is really a philosophical question, what exactly makes up a new language to you?

In TypeScript, the type system is Turing Complete. It's a novel type system; there is no other language with the same set of features and semantics associated with it. I can write very functional and type-heavy TypeScript today and it's really not reminiscent of JavaScript aside from a few syntactical elements.

Do you still feel that it "doesn't count"?
Really? I have a blog (not very active) and two android apps (not popular). I do think the apps help, but I don't think that really makes me stand out. Most places value creativity second to output.
> One person's useless impulse buy is another person's useful tool. Context is everything.

Problem is that context varies even for the same person -- so the thing I thought would be a useful tool often turns out to have been a useless impulse buy.
“Genius” might describe it better. He wrote a ton of some of the original hashitools himself.
I agree with you 100% - the situation sucks and I hope that these congressional hearings related to Apple being uncompetitive result in them being forced to allow multiple app stores and especially allow you to use a... mobile computing device for.... mobile computing. But I'm not optimistic.

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Many live downwind of the smoke, though.
Does anyone else consider the effect of having a politically charged name used to describe this "phenomenon" as distracting from it's legitimacy?
You don't see the difference between pervasive and intractable?
Ask HN: I'm paying my users, how can I prevent fraud?
6 months ago I created a web app that pays users for the traffic they bring to the web app via a URL. Things have been running smooth and profitable. I had an attorney write up a solid ToS but I'm concerned that some users may find a way to fake their traffic. I have a basic visit_log that shows me HTTP logs with IP and time_spent on page. I know easy it is to send fake bot traffic. My biggest fear is waking up and seeing I have to pay a user 6 digits for fake traffic.
The article doesn't claim that we are worse off for the more adolescent, individualist culture. Just that it poses unique challenges, especially in its excesses and pathologies.

Moreover, it explicitly makes your point:

> The phrase ‘unintended consequences’ used at the beginning of this essay usually implies negative effects, but there are notable benefits as well. .... These youthful character traits have served to make us more accepting and generous in many respects. Rising tolerance towards marginalised groups can be partly attributed to this emergent youthful mindset

Evidence is indeed lacking in the article, but the author is clearly writing against a scholarly background that almost certainly provides mountains of evidence and analyses, quality notwithstanding. Complaining about evidence in a context like this is like one of my friends in high school who went through an obnoxiously cynical phase, exhorting "prove it" after even the most prosaic, non-substantive statements. (I think he had just begun dabbling with philosophy, including epistemology. Or maybe I had and was also obnoxiously regurgitating philosophical claims in other conversations.) This is not an academic paper. It's an essay summarizing some themes that the author and others are investigating--or at least analyzing. And while making some rather concrete claims[1], it abstains from specific, substantive judgments, conclusions, or prescriptions. Personally, it's only when I see the latter that I begin to scrutinize arguments more closely. Otherwise, I understand these essays as merely providing a window into discourse that hasn't yet gone mainstream, and I mostly look for rough coherency. Whether I agree with the claims, let alone the premises, is an entirely different matter. But these essays can help you anticipate socio-cultural memes and identify potential evidence, both confirming and disconfirming.

[1] Specifically, the linkage between high school socialization and culture. Which, IMO, is an interesting thesis I had not come across before; one that is much more concrete and falsifiable than typical Golden Age-themed lamentations; and one arguably in the vein of the Hajnal line hypothesis[2] in that it links particularized adolescent social patterns to broader social phenomena and evolution. By contrast, mere observations that modern culture is increasingly adolescent are hardly new. The TV show Seinfeld parodies and even satirizes it, albeit without ridicule or negative judgment. Compare It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, which uses similar satire, except the themes are less subtle and the writers and actors admit to substantively critiquing contemporary culture.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hajnal_line
Verizon’s Smart Display is real and it’s just as pointless as we suspected
Oh thank God I'm not the only one.
Ask HN: Why aren't images used as passwords?
We can all agree the state of password management on any platform isn't ideal, but some are better than others. Textual passwords are needed for some use cases obviously, but at large this isn't the case. With steganography or simple checksums alone I could easily see the possibilities that support the argument why images may be valid. Why would this not work in practice?
LOL! I am not your dog. :-)

The "reasoning" was that a hotelier business was fine to run in the middle of a community. I merely listed other example businesses as a lede.

You seem to think there are reasons for why one business might be ok but others aren't. Care to detail those reasons?

Or are you worried that those reasons also apply to AirBnB?
I can check from my armchair, thanks. You get lots of different opinions, it's just that the hive mind forms an opinion around whatever the current topic du jour is. This opinion changes day to day, it's not a place where people have political agendas that are exacerbated by like minds. It's just people in large groups.
I can't wait until they start using three greek letter acronyms and all the fraternities and sororities go up in arms.
Did you read the article? Despite the name of the syndrome, I see no-one directly pointing at Cuba for the ailment.
It’s not competing on being less predictable. It’s competing on performing a calculation better or more accurately via a program written for the quantum computer (as opposed to a specialized machine for that singular task). The quantum computer was able to do that.

The randomness is a total red herring and doesn’t contribute to the discussion as to whether a programmable computer performed a computation or not. It did, and it was verified as such.

Google’s experiment isn’t “the state of quantum computing”. It’s a single scientific experiment among thousands. The particular experiment was for demonstrating a then hitherto unconfirmed claim about whether a quantum computer can do a computer science problem more efficiently. The theory already said it was true, but the experiment wasn’t yet demonstrated.

It’s also an experiment lay people, and the HN tech crowd even, doesn’t care about. Because it’s deep and complicated science, not a sales pitch.
I should've read the comments first! I guess other people are now having the same thoughts on this.
Oh this is interesting, although I’m not sure how much our current audience would rather see push notifs or texts for the more long form content alerts we mainly have right now
There quite a lot out there, few getting much use though.

List here: https://www.telnetbbsguide.com/
Other interesting telnet servers include JPL:
telnet horizons.jpl.nasa.gov 6775
and telehack.com.

There's even a telnet WOPR emulator: https://github.com/abs0/wargames
That's sort of what I realized the first time I got into a power struggle, and learned all the ways people can try to frame you for things, slander you about things, and otherwise set you up.

Knowledge is power.

Knowledge asymmetry places you at a disadvantage, always.
Agreed. There are proxies which defeat detectors. If i were a fraudster i'd use those. So all you're doing is losing real customers.
Looking forward :) I just know getting things in core is difficult b/c understandably you wanna keep most things out in utils libs.

But if you wanna have launchable scripts/code-snippets then having to ask people to append -Sdeps blahblah complicates things a bit

btw, I had a question about dependencies resolution that's always been a bit mysterious for me

from: https://insideclojure.org/2018/05/04/add-lib/
"Additionally, this code is not just blindly adding dependencies you ask for but is actually considering them in the context of the dependencies already on your classpath. So if for example, you already had a version of org.clojure/data.priority-map above, it would do the dependency resolution in the context of that version and not resolve to or add a new version to the classpath."

If you have libraries A and B and they depends on library C. Say A has it tagged at version v1.234 and B has it tagged at v1.345. From the doc's glossary it sounds like it will just get the latest version and hope nothing breaks. https://clojure.org/reference/deps_and_cli#_glossary

I haven't had it happened, but I could imagine a scenario where you add library B and library A starts to misbehave. And if I understand correctly, there is no way to have multiple versions of a library in the path. Is that right?

I know in C++ world this is a big unspoken issue. Package managers usually just mash things with the latest version and hope it works, while some build systems (like Hunter) will modify symbols so you can link to two copies.
What crime would you charge?
Sure it was, when it was first discovered five years ago. Sure the initial reports suggested that, years ago when maybe it did strain relations.

It's 2021.
> There cannot be a campaign to sway public opinion for US intervention when there has been a policy in effect for the warming of relations for the last 7 years. It's a contradiction in policy.

That is simply not true. I don't know how you can see the current situation as "warming" just because a few select economic interests have access to the island now - the vast, vast majority of trade and economic activity is still blocked by the United States. I'll repeat again that pandemic aid of all things isn't even allowed in.

Also, it is absolutely the case that different areas of the U.S. government can have seemingly different attitudes and policies towards certain issues. The government is not a monolith, and the intelligence apparatus especially is almost completely unaccountable to any outside interests, including Congress and the judiciary. Your assumption that that "oh well Obama let cruise ships go there again, so the CIA must have completely given up their decades-long goal of overthrowing the Cuban government" is way off.

EDIT: and before you say something like "the CIA is beholden to the executive branch, so they must be in sync" I'll just repeat again that your view of the policy as "warming" is a big stretch. TL;DR: Obama's slight relaxation of the embargo doesn't mean that the intelligence services don't still want to destabilize the Cuban government and pursue U.S. intervention, and if that is the case, press releases to gin up anti-Cuban sentiment would be part of that playbook. Those are absolutely still compatible. I rest my case.