skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah. We stopped giving the dirty dishes a quick rinse and scrub after watching that video and all that happened is the dishdrawer drain blocked and the kitchen flooded. (First time ever.)

We’re back to giving the dishes a quick rinse and scrub before they go in the dishwasher.
Fascinating, thanks a lot for these.

Scandit and Cognex have iOS apps, and Aspose has a web recognizer demo.

I tried all three with a 2D QR code (my vax card!) from which I truncated ~2-3 bit-"rows" from the bottom. None of the apps/site detected the code.

This is truly not a thorough test -- the 2D rows may be more information-dense than I think i.e. they are not recoverable using the built-in error correction (basically I'm removing too much information -- the equivalent of a long/deep scratch on a CD).

--

I'm just trying to get an intuitive sense of how much damage a QR code can sustain and ... I guess if there's such a thing as QR code forensics (there must be...??) for decoding partial codes versus not detecting "anything".

Thanks again for the links. Super interesting space
What constitutes "social media"? Is this social media? Is there a legal definition yet?
I don’t think you need to be in a team to get good mileage out of Actions.

For example. Some open source code I need to publish to package-indexes or marketplaces, and will have an action to do that whenever I publish a release, I’ve found it to be very useful and saves a lot of time.
Or you can get acquired for an insane valuation like Brian Acton did with WhatsApp! Post a tool on FlyerTalk for communicating with people, develop for 10 years and hire, like, 50 people, become billionaire!

It's almost as if there isn't a single path to achieving this sort of financial success that doesn't involve massive amounts of luck
My first thought was "which PE firm acquired Network Solutions and caused this?" So I looked it up and indeed its parent company is owned by Siris Capital Group which is in their own words: "a private equity firm that invests in mission-critical, mature tech & telecom businesses at strategic crossroads." translation: Buys struggling businesses that have locked in clients to squeeze every last penny of profits out of them.
>They're all doing crime.

No, not a point of agreement -- if the SEC is silently accepting a new exception to Howey based on market realities, then what Coinbase is doing isn't a crime. We don't know until they go on record saying what their opinion is. That happens all the time in regulation: they realize, long after the fact that something is technically violating the rules but just grandfather it in since it's become so ubiquitous and issue new clarification. But it helps to know what the case actually is!

That's the problem with stonewalling: You don't know what the other side actually objects to!

You seem to be in some kind of mentality where equality before the law doesn't matter, and if some people are persistently let of off the hook "that's just life, man". No ... that's not how rule of law or ex-3rd world regulation works. Haphazard enforcement isn't just a "fact of life", it actively disrupts the functioning of markets, and you don't look clever with the sage "it is what it is" attitude.

>Coinbase is being treated differently in some way, and that's bad. The first person charged for anything is obviously being treated differently, until the others are charged. That's not bad, that's bad luck.

Wait, really? You're saying that turning a blind eye to persistent violation is "just" "bad luck"?

Okay I just wish you had initially been clearer about your premise of rejecting equality under the law. Then again, that would have made your position more obviously wrong, and your arguments seem less clever, so I can see the tendency to avoid that!

It's probably similar to the reason why you make huge edits to your post long after the fact without noting them.
Predicting Your Area's Election Results Based on Cracker Barrel and Whole Foods
Analytical loads deal with very large datasets in the order of terabytes even after you compress them. These workloads dont change much so keeping them in the heap eventually results in long processing pauses because JVM tries to recover this memory.
However, in most cases, this data is not meant to be garbage collected. For transactions, once you have persisted the data, it should be garbage collected so the pattern works.
There are a lot of other aspects that I can probably think of but the above one is the most important in my mind.
> Thing is, Nomad isn't trying to go up against K8S.

Hard[0] disagree[1] on this[2]. Nomad is a direct competitor of Kubernetes.

[0] https://www.nomadproject.io/docs/nomad-vs-kubernetes

[1] https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/a-kubernetes-user-s-guide-to-...

[2] https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/nomad-kubernetes-a-pragmatic-...
You've never heard of class action lawsuits?
No, he immediately followed up with "... but I'm going to cut you a break on this one." And did. No ticket.

He told me as he left "We're not all bad."

It was surreal.
And this is why we need cryptocurrencies.
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It sounds outdated but that's because "modern ideas" have tried to replace them. The fact is, you will be more successful if you can manage to have a more traditional relationship and home life - 50 millennia of human history will always trump 50 years of post-modernist clap-trap ideas and ideologies. Biology is real and trumps politics. Just ask most women over 30-40 who aren't married or drugged into a happy coma!
Take the red pill.
In 2011, Network Solutions was acquired by Web.com, from Verisign. Things got much worse.
Coronavirus Policy: Few of Our Covid-19 Policies Make Any Sense
Ugh now I feel dirty...
Should you delete social media? That’s the wrong question.
The Epistemology of Software Quality
It looks more like the hiring process for McDonalds...

You probably didn't mean it like that but "attitude, open-mindedness and general ability to endure pain" is the qualities that I would want a slave to have. There is no experience, inventiveness, leadership, autonomy, knowledge, logical thinking, initiative, problem solving, etc... here, even though there are qualities that matter to engineers. There are only qualities that matter when it comes to executing orders. I doesn't mean that they are undesirable, it is important to have people who stay enthusiastic even when they don't do as they please, but it is not all there is to a skilled job.

You want someone who learns by example, and from a blank slate. Yep, that's how you get a good burger flipper. But for a developer to quickly learn by example in all but the most simple projects, he needs a solid background. A programmer who knows 10 programming languages will pick up the 11th in no time at all, literally. One who knows zero will need more than a few weeks of looking at you to code competently.

You seem to be in a rare situation where you need a low-skilled developer. Most projects require either high skills or no one at all (automation).

Note that many people think they don't need skilled developers, until they realize the mess people have done. It is a common problem with off-shoring to countries with low labor cost, like India. People think they are going to save a lot of money until they realize that it is cheap for a reason. You can get quality work done in India if you pay the price, but too many people go there to not pay the price.

As for "web-scale zealots", you probably mean people who are on top of "mount stupid" in the Dunning-Kruger curve. Yep, they are the worst and you'd rather have a "blank slate". But if you think about it, since we all have that bias to some extent, the fresh people you have are walking towards mount stupid and will become worse, if you hire them when they are overconfident, they are passing it and becoming better.
Confluence vulnerability, a tale of catching active exploitation in the wild
Oh man I always wanted to build some insane things with redstone, but never got around to diving in. I have a little 4-bit architecture I'm working on so one day I can implement it in Minecraft and/or Satisfactory.

I hope to see your creation sometime, that sounds awesome
I believe that the BBC can provide value for money and remain relevant if and only if there is an internal recognition that any competition they face as an organisation is against the best social value that a public broadcasting utility can provide. Any notion of commercial competition needs to be squashed.
Sadly true with modern family courts in divorce... that's why MGTOW exists and is radically growing.
> The biggest limitation I'm hitting with Github Actions right now is that there's no real support for queueing jobs up.

Maybe they need to reinvent JES and JCL. :)
Oh I'm going to give this a try in my homelab. I currently have Tanzu setup, but a storage failure blew it up.
In my case it is. I'm sure a lot of people do it because of the check mark.
I don’t have any Facebook social media accounts, and my Twitter gets auto deleted after 2 weeks. I have no other social media of any kind.

Neither my Reddit or HN accounts are related to accounts that can easily be tied to my other identities. I’m not saying they can’t, but my Reddit is used for read-only.

Given things these days, this seems reasonable.
This is really cool!

This + LocalStack = an almost complete mock of AWS on your laptop!
It's all relative I suppose, no? They were fairly clear on the scale right in the section you quoted, right at the top:

> With an estimated total length of half a meter, Titanokorys was a giant compared to most animals that lived in the seas at that time, most of which barely reached the size of a pinky finger.
This was the first thing that came to mind for me too. I don't need it to be exact, sure, but the scheduled jobs are more than an hour off more often than not. Sometimes several hours as you mentioned. Frequently they would also just not run at all!

It was so bad I ended up scheduling my cron jobs to run 4 - 5 hours early and just sit there idling until the actual execution time came around haha.

Ultimately not running at all started to be a real pain point, I gave up and paid $5 for a monthly box to sit there and run crond to save on the headache.
> He claimed that you are making the claim that someone can merely opt out of regulation by deciding that it does not apply to them.

You have located the strawman.
Something similar with APNG:

https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/adamation/image.png
1. My wife is currently seeing 25 year-olds in her pediatric ER because the adult side of the hospital is too full of unvaccinated adults.

2.Other study findings suggest that fully or partially vaccinated people who got COVID-19 might be less likely to spread the virus to others. For example, fully or partially vaccinated study participants had 40 percent less detectable virus in their nose (i.e., a lower viral load), and the virus was detected for six fewer days (i.e., viral shedding) compared to those who were unvaccinated when infected. In addition, people who were partially or fully vaccinated were 66 percent less likely to test positive for SARS-CoV-2 infection for more than one week compared to those who were unvaccinated. While these indicators are not a direct measure of a person’s ability to spread the virus, they have been correlated with reduced spread of other viruses, such as varicella and influenza.

https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2021/p0607-mrna-reduce-ri...

If I didn't think that the ensuing violence would kill more people than it would save, I would absolutely vote for some level of mandatory vaccination.
I didn't say it did? Remember, we're discussing why Cuba ended up so closely allied to the Soviet Union - not what started everything. If you really want to pull that thread the "Soviet involvement" in Cuba started after the revolution when the US rebuffed Castro's attempts to reach out and meet with Eisenhower. There were of course many contributing factors that caused Cuba and the USSR to end up so close, but I think it's safe to say the ongoing blockade set everything in stone and all but guaranteed it until the latter's collapse (barring a brief period where JFK appeared to favour rapproachement with Cuba before his assassination).
Awesome to see you drop in here! Great summary and related links.

For anyone interested in the Lightning Network in general, I'll mention one more great resource:

Builder's Guide to the LND Galaxy
https://docs.lightning.engineering/
Very interesting. They may be using a third-party service that pulls data in, thus they can say "we don't have that info." So the next step in your FOIA is to get records on how their systems work and contracts with third parties to provide data for driver records.
Sounds like something Tcl/Tk would be an appropriate tool for.
Ecowas suspends Guinea, demands return to constitution order
You can run GitHub actions locally but I forget the name of the tool.

You can also run actions on top of Jenkins. https://github.com/DontShaveTheYak/jenkins-std-lib
Tutanota is a fun case - they've already had their problem of de-anonymizing a user at the behest of their German government.
The Disney+ Application Development Kit (ADK)
The last time I read your account of this incident, you left this part out: "I was yelling at him quite a bit"

I can certainly sympathize with that reaction, most traffic stops are chickenshit and to be interrupted with that nonsense when in the middle of a medical emergency must be infuriating. But I think your FOIA requests looking for this file will never turn up anything, because the cop was almost certainly fucking with you. He figured you didn't like cops because you were yelling at him, not because of anything some computer file said.
Super-sized memory is trainable and long lasting (2017)
This will still be a very unpleasant time for you, with more consequences down the line (you might miss work, for example). And if the officer can convince the judge that they truly thought arresting you was reasonable, you won't get much in the way of compensation, either. Lastly, the fines don't get paid by the officer themself, so even if it is a full smack down, it won't hurt too much.
you left out the part of the quote that gives it context. "compared to most animals that lived in the seas at that time, most of which barely reached the size of a pinky finger."
Ask HN: I'm 24 y.o want to do an online BSc degree in Math. Does it make sense?
Hey, HN!

I'm 24 years old now and have been working as a developer for about 5 years. I've never finished my degree, and I always felt that I'm missing something in my career because of that.
I've decided to go and get a one from The Open University which contains Math, Stats, Algorithms, and some Data Science modules. I have always been interested in cryptography and NLP, and tried to learn something on my own, but never make it, because of the "hard math".
Also, trying to learn math on my own by MOOCS and books also didn't bring any results.

And now I'm wondering, is this commitment really worth it? It will take ~6 years and $25k to complete it. Can I benefit from it in the future, or it would be better to try approach self-study again?
> How can a cop request information in fashion that isn't forceful? The softest, most polite question is backed by the threat of both violence and arrest.

This is an American-centric attitude towards government and government representatives. The power the government holds over you and I is a monopoly on violence (defined broadly) that they license to specific representatives to enact their will in order to form some loosely held cohesion among chaotic ideas. More simply put, something has to stop us from taking something that is not ours out of perceived hierarchial need.

I'm a liberal man raised by classically conservative parents, the lessons I was taught as a young man were that the government by it's very nature always wants more power and to exercise that power over you. More simply put, if you give an inch the government will forcefully seize a mile. As a result I was taught that innocent men go to jail all the time for a litany of reasons, most of them bullshit to laypeople. This is the foundation of healthy distrust for government and government representatives. There are counter-balances we carry with us, as a yin and yang of sorts.

So, with that explained, how does one take a request for information as non-violent? You don't. You expect that the government is willing to enact it's monopoly on you and choose to seek the most amicable (for you; which is likely less violence) solution. You exercise your fifth amendment, you request representation, and if the representatives so desire it the best you can do is hope to represent your claims at trial. Democracy is fought in the court room, not with the enforcement representatives of government.
The problem with the watch something button is that its not truly doing what linear TV did. Linear TV was still programming. You settled on a channel that you knew was going to have decent enough stuff on at the time. You hit "watch something" on netflix and it might pull, best case, stuff from all over my watch history with no particular rhyme or reason, when really what I want is to throw on adult swim for an aqua teen hunger force marathon interspersed with similar content like that. The big advantage of some of these older networks was that I trusted their curation. If a station like MTV saw that Jackass was a popular show, they would give me a four hour Jackass marathon sometime this week and I'd probably have it on. I don't trust netflix's curation on the other hand. I'm honestly on the hunt for some live streams of 2000s era cable channels and watching that.
Sora like how not having a television was a crime in Max Headroom.
Please say more. How does a software engineer with a data engineering background and interest in astronomical phenomena learn about/start contributing to this area?
It’s not a « or » it’s a « and ».
We need to move toward 0 GHG emission as fast as possible, using the solutions you proposed among others. But even assuming the most optimistic transition plan, we are already too late, and too much GHG will already have been released to avoid significant negative impact. That is where carbon removal comes in. It can also help buy some limited amount of time for the transition.

I do not think any of the carbon removal startups that exist today are trying to scale to offset the entirety of our current annual footprint, they are building à complementary solution.
> Online dating has changed this and you now can find decent sized dating pools anywhere you go

This is a dubious claim, but I don't want to get into it, because I've debated this on HN ad nauseum.

> Or you can date where you are, and then move somewhere cheap together

What attractive, educated, socially-active woman in her 20s will want to move to the middle of nowhere once you get together or marry? I want to be around friends, family, alumni, and I'd wager so would she.
> We're talking wearing a mask and saving lives.

What if they don't want your input in their lives?
It's actually a great feature. It sorts out the edgelords very quickly, while taking 10 minutes to disable for any administrator with a modicum of technical prowess. If removing a regex string from the code is too much work for you, you shouldn't be trusted holding account credentials, email addresses, and private messages of an entire community in the first place.

While the core Lemmy team has been intransigent about this feature, it is pretty clear why they have taken the position they have. They understand something a lot of people here seem to miss. That creating an alternative to Reddit / Twitter / Facebook / etc. is much more a social project than it is a technological project. It doesn't matter how slick your software is. Hell, Reddit's user interface is still dogshit. So is Twitter's. People don't use these platforms for their technological aspects. They use them because of the community.

A former Reddit admin by the name of Deimos decided to create a Reddit alternative as well, named Tildes. The software itself is nothing special. Just another bare-bones link aggregator like Reddit or Hacker News. What made it unique was the "manifesto" and philosophy behind it, which basically boiled down to "place value on effort-posts instead of low-effort slop" and "If your website is full of assholes, you are an asshole."

The failure to recognize this is the reason why a lot of the early Reddit alternatives like Voat instantly turned to dogshit. They were born from a knee-jerk reaction to Reddit getting rid of communities like FatPeopleHate and C**Town, so the only people who migrated were people who were such enormous assholes that they couldn't even fit in on Reddit (a website which is already notoriously full of assholes).

Instead of actually trying to build and nurture a community, or even think of their goal in the terms of a social project, they just tried pushing the technology button. Don't even get me started on the folks who tried to fix Reddit's problems by doing Reddit but blockchain.
Then, hilariously:

Cop: how many sped in your cars on the way here?

Audience: a few hands go up

Defense Attorney: I JUST TOLD YOU NOT TO TALK TO COPS!
Ah, web.com. That explains it.
>You should be able to watch every episode of Doctor Who on demand since the original black & white pilot

I hate to break it to you, but not even the BBC has that.

Most of their early work was never archived, as the technology to actually do so either didn't exist (television predates magnetic video recording), was so expensive as to make full archival prohibitively expensive, or was explicitly prohibited by contractual arrangement. No, seriously, TV actors insisted that tapes were wiped and reused after a period of time so that reruns would not usurp the market for new productions. The same goes for a lot of other countries' early television. Just finding working copies of all of those Doctor Who episodes is an ongoing preservation project.

Things like not being able to pay for iPlayer outside of the license fee is a similar problem - politics dictating the market. The BBC's license-funded activities are specifically firewalled from the part of the business that sells commercial TV internationally. Even if that particular diktat didn't exist, the BBC would still be following the ordinary TV business practice of selling each show off on a per-country basis. Even the big streaming services do this with their own originals, many of which are not streaming-exclusive outside the US. The idea that you have a single "owner" that just does everything and sells the work globally is mostly unheard of outside of the videogame industry.
You joke but the permanent record is a real thing. My wife taught elementary school for many years, and at the end of the year she had to update all the permanent records and then pass them on to the next teacher. The records moved with you from school to school.

Some High Schools allow you to request your permanent record when you graduate, most just destroy them.

But yes, a government official can get a copy with a warrant just like any other record.
If I was asked by a cop during a traffic stop for my social media account I’d give them either a link to Rick Astley or goatse depending on my mood.
https://frinklang.org/frinkdata/units.txt is one of the things i find myself reading and using to complain about things. Frink is a conversion tool and calculator, like "how many grains of rice worth of calories is needed to boil 1 liter of water" and even more esoteric stuff. It also can correctly convert between most of the esoteric units (rods, hogsheads, furlongs).

Frink has phone apps, so you don't need a data connection as you would with wolfram alpha or google.
Google employee program claims that America is a “system of white supremacy”
You can run actions on your existing Jenkins infra https://github.com/DontShaveTheYak/jenkins-std-lib