skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Drone swarms are useless for blue water naval combat. Drones cheap enough to build in large numbers don't have sufficient range, speed, or sensors. But navies are actively developing large, expensive drones to supplement or replace manned tactical aircraft.
> Start that argument once we can model insect brains.

I'm not sure what level of modelling you'd accept, but we appear to be close:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32880371/

> Mouse brains aren't even on the horizon of what we can do.

I would say that they are "on the horizon", given that the mouse brain connectome has already been published:

https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/51/eabb7187
Messages per second, latency, footprint, name it. Particularly if it's gzip encoded. See https://youtu.be/1ZTRb-2DZGs?t=717 I'm working on giving redbean the fastest https serving too. Recently I've been helping to make the strongest elliptic curves go 3x faster.
Is this a non-GPU variant of shadertoy?
I feel you. My strategy of late has been to listen to a playlist of a genre I like but composed of artists I haven’t heard of on Spotify. I do this in the background while I am working. I heart the ones I like and add them to a special playlist and over time I’ve built up a few different playlists and expanded my inventory of tunes. Before being a programmer I was a studio musician and engineer and I swear I listen to more music now than ever.

Edit: incidentally, I totally agree with you about wishing there was a service that focused on mood/tempo more than anything. I’ve found that Spotify has been doing some of this type of aggregating and it’s not too bad. I’ve gotten a ton of good music from the Late Night Vibes playlist.
“Flipping” the History of Literary Studies
Maybe I am not searching for the right things, but there is a very strange lack of news about this.

There was some news about it a long time ago, but now that the time has come, I don't see many people talking about it.

I guess everyone's plan is to wait until there are a million more homeless people and riots on the streets again, and then start talking about it?
Ice is melting at a faster rate than I thought it would. We should have done something in the 2000s to switch from coal to solar or water turbines.
Previous aphantasia discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10148792 (75 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11554894 (204 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18799550 (100 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19618927 (424 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20267445 (73 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22800815 (103 comments)
If you haven't heard, you should also check out Mitch Murder's Businessfunk mixtapes.
Of course! Thanks
Thanks! Here are the ones I found that have comments, plus a few others:

Why printers add secret tracking dots (2020) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26526035 - March 2021 (3 comments)

DEDA – Tracking Dots Extraction, Decoding and Anonymisation Toolkit - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17392977 - June 2018 (7 comments)

Why printers add secret tracking dots - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14505444 - June 2017 (100 comments)

Printer Tracking Dots Back in the News - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14504833 - June 2017 (1 comment)

List of Printers Which Do or Do Not Display Tracking Dots - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14501894 - June 2017 (210 comments)

Secret Dots from Printer Outed NSA Leaker - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14494818 - June 2017 (211 comments)

Printer dots raise privacy concerns - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=245963 - July 2008 (13 comments)
Article is about personal productivity moreso than corporate, but I'm going off on the corporate tangent because I think the HN crowd can relate.

A personal failing of mine, that I'm working on improving, is progress tracking that's as close to understandable-at-a-glance to management as possible.

Historically I've always been focused on progress, moving on to the next thing, keep pressing forward, but this comes at the expense of management understanding when it comes to status updates and awareness around delays.

Progress reporting, from a purely technical viewpoint, is a bunch of bullshit that gets in the way of progress, but from a business viability, profitability, and general good-management, it's essential. I have to keep reminding myself of that.

How this relates to the article: project task time must be allocated to determining and documenting progress. The best way for this to take up a minimal amount of time is to have a methodology determined up front: give management an expectation of what they'll see, and the technical folks an understanding of where progress milestones are, so they'll know what markers are important to progress reporting. It's got to be collaboratively developed.

This, in itself, also takes time.

More directly related to the article, continually trying to find "the perfect to do app" is just a distraction. Any app is fine. If you're not getting to your tasks the problem is you and / or your expectations, not the app(s). Been there, still doing that...

Apt quote from article regarding personal expectations of productivity:
"Present self screws over future self".

I've stuck with tiddlywiki / noteself as my Swiss-army-knife note taking and organizational tool. I'm also messing with it for tracking project "threads".
That's the creative destruction of capitalism, eliminating net negative value enterprises.
What a loaded question. Humans can communicate such requests. The rest of the earth cannot. If a person asks, and is of sound mind, we should oblige.
Would be a useful hn feature to show this link by default next to the original.
Jaipur’s Last Stand
$100 million isn't worth of the best 32 years of your life. You never get it back. You only have one life and when you are dead, you are dead. The people who did this, and all who covered it up, if they are still alive, should go to prison themselves.

Just another example of how horribly broken our criminal justice system is, from the local level all the way up to the FBI. Unethical people doing unethical things, then ruining lives to cover their asses. No watchers, and if there are, they cover the corruption too. It doesn't seem anyone is doing anything about it, business as usual. In 32 years, your kids will be reading similar stories.
self-actualizing doean't pay bills.
Notabug what happens to a forum when the Admin vanishes
If Walmart makes 1 single cent of profit while having employees on food stamps, then that is the government sponsoring Walmart's profits by allowing it not to pay it's employees a living wage, and banking the difference as "profit".

They are literally taking your tax dollars to do this.

This is the simplest possible economic calculus: a business that doesn't pay full time employees a living wage is getting sponsored by your tax dollars for its profits.
The trolls take over. Notabug was supposed to be the freedom of speech system that Aaron Swartz wanted. But without moderators the trolls and Nazis soon take over.
We are no longer required to support line folding so redbean doesn't (see RFC7230 §3.2.4) Do you know what if anything needs it?
That raw PNG data doesn't make it into a canvas via the canvas 2D API is not a bug, as pointed out in the responses in the bug report. It's the way the 2D canvas API has always been.

WebGL on the other hand, has the option to tell the browser not to apply colorspace info or whatever other tweaks the browser would usually to do the data so if you want to read a PNG raw you can load it as a texture, attach it to a framebuffer, and call readPixels and get the raw data. You don't need to decode PNGs in JS although that's certainly a viable solution.
I mean, they're kinda in the similar style and I think the naming of vaporwave is intentionally borrowing from vaporware.

Vaporware is tech and products that had a beautiful idea that never came to fruitition and vaporware makes music out of tracks that used to belong but don't any longer. There's a similar feeling of abandonment and emphasis on feelings of being in the wrong place and the wrong time.
The same 13-year old was doing armed robbery and only by chance his victim did not die.
Saint Pepsi and Macross are generally classified as Future Funk artists rather than "pure" vaporwave in the vein of Macintosh Plus. For anyone who is interested in Future Funk (i.e. "cheery" vaporwave) a now-archived and inactive youtube channel by the name of Artzie Music [1] collected classics of the FF genre and is, for now, still available to peruse. The best ones in my opinion were uploaded between 2017 and 2018.

[1]https://youtube.com/c/ArtzieMusic/videos
I assume you're talking about WiFi setup? Ethernet to your switch or USB to a RPi should be a lot more reliable and works without an app. Then again, I haven't set up a printer in a decade.
Isn't it simply that there's a lot less revenue coming in to YouTube? Most users aren't paying any monthly subscription, and the global audience is probably much less valuable to advertisers (on average) than e.g. a US cable TV audience.
Linus Torvalds is evidence that a good PM/IT manager is worth a lot.

There aren't a lot of people that can make or lead a team to make world class products, but the number of marketing mangers who are exceptional enough to have significant impact on your company aren't that many either.
I think my friends can see pictures in their minds. Maybe the discrepancy is due to ambiguity about what is meant by "visualize". I can think... something is clearly happening, but it just doesn't seem to be happening via pictures. I often feel as if I get some information, and then just send an intention for a problem to be solved, and then later the answer comes back, but I'm not aware of the process by which the answer was found.
For some people it did, and for some people it didn't ?

Likely based on their past browsing experience ?
The money to Egypt was promised by Carter to create a peace deal between Israel and Egypt. Frankly, there are like 15 countries in the Middle East. If we could just pay all of them 3 billion a year to bring peace there I would vote for that in a second.
Life without parole, given to someone who is 13 beggars belief. How can someone believe that that is what is best for society?

We are basically different people every 5-10 years and at that age even every 2 or 3.

A 13 year old committing this kind of crime is more an indictment of the country/county/city failing that it is a reflection of the person. Should there be a punishment? Certainly. Should there be rehabilitation and education as well (more so even)? Yes.

Put aside the moral and ethical cost here, just the shear financial cost or this punishment is unbelievable. The judge mustn’t have viewed this boy as a person, the only way you can doll out these kinds of punishment is to see the person as some kind of animal. I dread to think how many other cases they issued similar horrendous sentences on.
Blizzard watermarks screenshots produced by World of Warcraft find and track users of emulated servers by embedding user account info and server IP all across the image.

https://www.ownedcore.com/forums/world-of-warcraft/world-of-...
Will CRISPR on humans usher in Homosapiens 2.0 in our lifetimes?
There's a similar restaurant for the homeless in Atlanta. I'm not sure they charge anything for the meals but it is a table service restaurant with menus and the other trappings of a typical casual dining service. The desire is to not just feed the homeless but also to give them some feeling of normalcy and dignity, even if just for one meal.

On Sundays the general public can eat at the restaurant. It's run by church youth groups on Sundays. Because most of them have limited to no restaurant experience, the service is a bit slow but tolerable. All of the proceeds from the Sunday meal service for the general public goes into keeping the restaurant running the other six days of the week.
Graeber clearly explained the process of how gold currency appeared in his book (I recommend you to reread Chapter 8: The Axial Age for this). It’s because states needed some convenient medium to provide resources for the military to continue its conquests, and that was precisely what the military was already pillaging from its conquered territory: luxury items made of gold. So the state had to find a way to enforce people to sell other important commodities (such as food and equipment) in exchange for gold, and that made the state to enforce gold coins as a currency in areas near conquests.

You’re right that the social/cultural value associated with those luxury gold collectibles is an important part of the story. But I don’t think you need any other weird evolutionary argument in addition to Graeber’s view to complete the full picture.
"Coding around it" means handling an additional error state, which can be in varying degrees of complexity depending on what the feature is doing for your app.
You're not freeing them up if you're never in one ?
I don’t know how it feels and hope I never have to feel the grief that a homicide of a loved one. I also don’t think that locking a 14 year old up for their entire natural life is appropriate either. My son is 13. He is not even close to being capable of understanding the long range consequences of his actions right now. I could see how letting him roam around the streets without adult supervision could put him in a very tough spot. IMO At this age kids need love and guidance and small doses of agency to allow them to make choices and learn how to navigate the world. I think that a lot of these kids that end up in this circumstance are likely from broken or otherwise dysfunctional homes. I’m not sure how to fix it, but life in prison doesn’t seem to be the right way.
U.S. Covid-19 eviction ban expires, leaving renters at risk
self-driving cars are available to consumers now. Search for FSD on youtube and see all the consumers using their self driving cars.

Or, watch the latest Veritasium

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjztvddhZmI
The vaccine will pre-memorize for antibodies. That’s only one component of a natural immune response, which is wide ranging and more robust.
The companies that produce 99% of what's distributed by Netflix are though.
Compare the size of the story to another medium with different constraints. A 13- or 26-episode TV series can usually make a decent adaptation of a novel. A movie always has to cut a lot of stuff out.
I guess we have the OP's article as something available in public media. The infographics are useful for giving a basic idea of how many media companies are under each corporate umbrella. There needs to be more of an understanding about why trusts and near monopolies like these are going to just get worse as they continue to merge to compete against each other's super Chimera. The fact that these companies own intellectual properties that the public wants to consume may make them more willing to turn a blind eye though. There would need to be an event that causes significant anger in the public to inspire outcry. Not just knowledge.
One of my thoughts is the hard return on efficiency isn't linear.

140 years ago generators were 60% efficient. 20 years later 96% efficient. That's big close to 40% better. 20 years after that 98% efficient. 4% better... Now maybe 99.5% so 1.5% better.

I feel like a lot of things they through computers at to improve productivity are kind already efficient. My mom's first washing machine washed clothes. Mine with a microcomputer also washes clothes. Parents first microwave had a power dial and a mechanical timer. You reheat food in it. Mine with a computer also reheats food.

There is no real fundamental change here.
I cannot help but think that the cruel punshment did indeed work. The guy apologised to the victim and it seems he is a new man now. If he was given a shorter sentence without solitary, he would probably make friends with other prisoners and continue shooting people after he got out od the prison.
Learning that you can use unions in C for grouping things into namespaces
yes ... it's super annoying. Zoom does not implement some features on the web and I'm ok with it. Their client works perfectly from the any web browser I use.

Right now I have a chromium install just for meetup (as it does not work well in any other browser ... )
I used docker + realize for the exact same task (go + gin) a year ago.

Wish I heard of air or skaffold. Didn’t find them when searching around this issue.
Used to have a neighbor who owned several Domino's Pizza locations. He said the cheese pizzas were a loss for him. Not only because the price is so low but also because cheese is one of the most expensive toppings. When you order other toppings, they can put a lot less cheese on the pizza but for the plain cheese pizza, they can't get away with skimping on the cheese.
I can't think of a single website that has prompted me to sign up for desktop notifications that I've ever wanted desktop notifications for.

My argument isn't really a "good guy" Apple argument but more of an observation of the current kidnapped state of the web RFC's.
It's much worse than you think.

In physics there is 1) we know this is definitely wrong but it's useful and 2) this is very right so far and it's probably going to be wrong. I'm only a little bit joking. Now, I am not a physicist but I have been in a physics rabbit hole for a few months now.

The absolute best most experimentally verified theories we have are: general relativity and quantum mechanics. These are the pinnacle of physics. And they are incompatible with each other. So we know for sure that one is wrong. Or both are wrong.

String theory might be the resolution of that, making strings the most fundamental thing. But we've been working on it for 50 years with basically nothing to show for it so far. And there may be more beyond strings, who knows.

Of course there are many things in physics we can say with great confidence. But in terms of fundamental understanding there is ONLY "we now think that".
The point is that GDP is unidimensional metric that fails to capture a lot of valuable info.
Im not sure when it started, but I do know back in the early 90's copiers and printers were already currency aware. The copier in my elementary school wouldn't copy a dollar bill at anything close to full size, had to be at least either 75%/125%
you got it right
Compared to Bitcoin the USD is an extremely stable store of value.
"max" seems like an odd choice. Wouldn't that start to fail at large numbers?

Edit: Nevermind, max is lexicographic, not based on string length. Brain fart.
They already have paid channel membership and member only videos.
Correction: those languages seem to have already "th" == "θ".
thanks for the info. Will also report this issue to the authorities.

I love keyboard driven browsers and had also some issues with nyxt and qutebrowser. I want to avoid installing chromium on my linux box and I just can't.

Recommending others also to report it.

If some googlers are reading this, please push the chrome team to be more interoperable. "Don't be evil!" :-)
What's the net social outcome of this? Would these people be spending money at the casino instead?
Yeah that idea worked out real well for Theranos.
You don't need to literally conspire (although there's plenty of evidence that that does happen [1][2]) for bias to occur and propaganda be made: [3].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JournoList

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Mockingbird

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_model
Do you have a source for that? You're saying a productivity increase that amounted to around 20% across the entire workforce is mostly attributable to advances in HFT and logistics in the retail industry?

Even if we ignore that both of those were probably only made possibly with computers, that seems astounding considering retail and finance makes up less than 20% of the economy by GDP.
IMO if it's buggy, you _are_ behind in features, because those features aren't really done yet -- they are buggy.
Those documents may probably have legal value, and could be legitimately handled by dozens or hundreds of people. And we are talking about millions of pages. That could only work with an intentional trap when you know someone leaks but not who.
This is key. Profits from Bitcoin or from Bitcoin's losses are not restricted to the Bitcoin ecosystem. In other words, the Bitcoin ecosystem is not closed. For example, Ethereum or Algorand or Avalanche may benefit if bitcoin loses its value, even if those communities may not participate in Bitcoin.
I used to work productive 8+ hours in my early twenties - driven by excitement.

Definitely closer to 4-5 now that I’m close to 30.
>One way we (somewhat) solve for your desire today is that we schedule out all the stuff but then make it fairly easy to decide what to do just-in-time without wrecking the whole schedule. It’s not perfect but it’s been working for some of us.

I just tried the service and my immediate reaction was similar to above. I can't just context switch on a whim. It feels super strange to have a list of similar priority things just given hard times in my calendar, even for things like exercise. I do want something much more just-in-time where I am constantly picking from a set of boxes, and urgent tasks and deadlines are managed.
Agree with that, but then. I have 3 kids and take care of laundry with a wife who wares jeans a maximum of one day in a row (yeah...), it probably takes me between 1 and 2 hours per week, most of it being the folding and sorting. If I were to wash clothes manually, even say, 4 times less, it would still be hugely more time consuming
Hence why this is an analogy...
Reminds me of ultra:

https://github.com/MarquisdeGeek/ultra
Or just replace it with a black cartridge.

Then the jury must select the "not guilty" verdict since "has_yellow_dots" evaluated to false.

-HN Legal Reasoning
Sure compared to those same scientists and engineers doing subsistence farming or something as an alternative. But compared to working elsewhere in society as scientists and engineers it's not so obvious what an alternative world would look like. There's always a hidden cost.
I really like Spirawave and other "low fi" synth/vapor wave remakes of old video game music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALgDxZZLDbA
I made a similar feature as a Tumblr post type during an internal hackathon -- shame that never got to see the light of day as a production feature. Processing post types, that allowed others to reblog and make revisions. Would've been painful to get it ready for a mobile release unfortunately.
I'm sorry, I don't see your connection. It was a snide aside by an economist (I believe a Nobel winning one), but it wasn't dumb.
what is the monospace font used for the code shown there?
30-40 min is illegal

https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/can-police-use-dogs-...

>an officer who doesn't have reasonable suspicion may not extend a traffic stop in order to conduct a dog sniff. The officer who pulls a driver over may not prolong the detention "beyond the time reasonably required to complete" the stop's "mission."

you could sue
When my last printer died I switched to the Ecotank series from Epson. It's a good printer and it has a better business model; you own the printer and you do not have to buy expensive ink from Epson as you already bought the printer (not like all the other printers out there)
Blue Origin is slow, but doesn't stand out when compared to Old Space. SLS, for instance, is also taking a very long time.

SpaceX is really, really fast.