skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really am jealous of students today that have access to supplemental study material like this. Learning from an instructors scribblings on a chalkboard or a single image in a textbook is nothing compared to these types of videos.

There was a series on PBS (late 80s/early 90s. If I had to guess, it was a WGBH production) on physics that really helped my understanding of topics that might have been a little fuzzy from classroom lectures and textbook readings. However, even as well as that series was produced, it moved around a lot and was only so many episodes.

Today, there's not just one person, but multiple people making videos like this with so many more videos covering so much more ground. You get the advantage of hearing the same thing from different voices that might say it in just the right way that makes it click for you.
> When a person takes a course twice without ever managing to turn in homework, the situation of the student is not completely to blame, since the student didn't take the time to do something - the work, withdrawing in time, discussing options with the professor, something.

And yet, any number of other words might legitimately describe the student's behavior - hesitant, confused, indifferent, passive, distracted etc. etc.

So, is "lazy" the correct term to use? And if so, why? All that we know about this particular student is that they took a class twice without turning in any assignments! Perhaps they simply enjoyed how the professor lectured and weren't actually interested in getting a degree - though I'll grant that that's a less likely possibility, given the context of the discussion.
Shop at ease help disabled US navy veterans
I think you’re assuming the FBI made a good faith attempt here, when it’s more likely they cherry picked the facts that helped their arguments, ignoring those that didn’t
The divers can not inflate it further once submerged, yet have put their mouths on the container.

Even as a "re-breathing" container, having that reserve of air volume would allow for extended lingering time below the surface, as it would take much longer for the CO2 saturation to become a problem than just a lung full of air.

Thus, this likely served two purposes. 1) buoyancy to counter the weight of armor, and 2) additional time underwater by rebreathing (more) stale air than one can hold in their lungs.

Think about it, what would you do?
> even porting from python 2.x->3.x takes a lot of effort...

> ...and perl? Just works!

Agreed! And, if anything, you might be understating it. We went through a Python 2 -> 3 migration recently and it required a massive effort across the entire company; ultimately, we decided to shelve it and port most of our code to Go; this effort has been ongoing to this day.

This choice to not offer backwards compatibility left a very, very bad taste in our mouths, and we'll probably never go back to Python. It's astonishing that the PSF just decided that probably trillions of lines of working, production-quality code at companies around the world would need to be re-written. Perhaps it's "their" code, so it's their prerogative, but Go's backwards-compatibility pledge was a huge factor in our decision to move toward it.

For those of us on the team who are old enough (honestly) to know Perl (as much as anyone can?), well, there are still some very large companies that have massive Perl codebases and they seem to be happy with them.
SSH works.
It’s a good form of secondary support for authentication, and is a reasonable foothold to start expanding circles of trust (I.e. second hand trust.. or “trust what my trusted source trusts”).
Yes, but trust is delegated to hardware only instead of hardware and software.
Wow, how did he do that!?

Oh, it's an article from 2017.
Why? That grinds my gears. If the company believes in the values and benefits of longer parental leave (and I'm sure they say they do), why not enforce above the minimum in every country they operate in?
40 BMI isn't healthy even if it is all muscle. People that big tend to die early.
We are talking both in-person enterprise, remote working, and even hobbies. Lots of music production hardware won't work in Linux as there aren't the drivers.
Ask HN: How does this dimmer app works in Windows 10?
Windows makes my laptop screen too bright despite being at 0 in the brightness settings.

So to solve this problem I found this app called Dimmer which is able to go below the 0 : https://www.nelsonpires.com/software/dimmer

I'm curious to know if this app is replaceable with a terminal command and if so what is that command?
Frankly, I can't think of any way to proxy or decrypt it that would result in the packets still being destined for the same Microsoft IP, but with port 80 instead of 443.

The only explanation I could think of was that it falls back to HTTP if HTTPS is unavailable and they blocked port 443, which not only would be bat**** insane, but I tested and that does not occur.
You can reduce the number of parts you have to trust.
On-device neural speech synthesis
Recent advances in text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis, such as Tacotron and WaveRNN, have made it possible to construct a fully neural network based TTS system, by coupling the two components together. Such a system is conceptually simple as it only takes grapheme or phoneme input, uses Mel-spectrogram as an intermediate feature, and directly generates speech samples. The system achieves quality equal or close to natural speech. However, the high computational cost of the system and issues with robustness have limited their usage in real-world speech synthesis applications and products. In this paper, we present key modeling improvements and optimization strategies that enable deploying these models, not only on GPU servers, but also on mobile devices. The proposed system can generate high-quality 24 kHz speech at 5x faster than real time on server and 3x faster than real time on mobile devices.
At least it is not mocked like Cardano.
glad you got the 65scribe video!

I'm emailing someone who did support for the ANS stuff so I'll follow up with something there, although I don't have the machine/software.. not that I'd have the space for such a monster!

I'll have to order those books... it'd be a surprising twist that Jobs was dragged into NeXT? maybe some personal obligation?
Aaron Jones (a cop) literally gave an introduction to his local Linux Usergroup to Freenet explaining what it is and how much he loves it. You can find that on the Freenet Project's website.

You're only going to have a few encrypted chunks of a given file in your datastore, you don't know what the file chunks are when put together or the key used to decrypt it. Information is neutral on Freenet. You would NOT get in trouble just for running a Freenet node in any sane/ free country in the world. If you go out of your way to use Freenet for something illegal, that's another matter entirely.

If you're paranoid, just use a VPN or install it to a VPS and SSH into it.
> I don’t think that works because the N-1 dimension is contained in the N dimension.

I'm not sure that's right. Each dimension is linearly independent [0] from the others, which means e.g. you can't add up a bunch of width and get height, or add up a bunch of length and get width. So in an important sense, they're not contained within each other.

You might be thinking of how a 2D plane contains the first dimension within it, but that's not the 2nd dimension... that's two-dimensional (a combination of two dimensions).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_independence
I liked it as a gimmick, i made it scroll assembly code in green text over a "hacker" background. Lasted for a few days only since it was stealing all the CPU time, but it was neat during that time :-P.
Wait, what? No. Just no.

To confirm efficacy they gave the vaccine to half of a population likely to develop the disease naturally. Then they compared how many people for sick in each group. That's why testing took a year instead of 2 months, they have to wait for enrollees to get sick naturally.

If we ignore ethics, I guess we could get more nuanced efficacy information out of a small sacrificial population. But that is just not done. Not even during a pandemic.
> I saw this too, has it been reported?

I believe it was fixed a while ago, but I had pull to refresh disabled as a workaround at the time (when they finally made it configurable).

The pull-to-refresh implementation is a prime example of a buggy feature that was pushed out too early and only underwent sufficent testing only after it reached users. Some of the issues stemming from it still weren't fixed even a year afterwards, and they appeared in places as critical as Google's search results page.

https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/9766

> What's the issue URL? I want to read the history and maybe complain too.

It's the GitHub link in my previous comment.
It has 'drag multiple' functionality -- you have to start dragging one icon and quickly tap on several others to grab them also. Personally I don't have the finger dexterity (or maybe understanding how this actually is supposed to work) to reliably perform the gesture, so I resort to dragging one at a time :(
BSD 4.3 still used the Portable C Compiler. By 4.4 Berkeley was starting to use GCC, but that wasn't available in time to incorporate into A/UX. Plus, IIRC the GNU project was actively boycotting Apple at the time, and so Apple was probably adverse to incorporating any GNU software.
I was disappointed that the author never mentioned ownership. A lot of the problems discussed there are caused by not owning your own content. It's still super easy to register a domain and roll your own content using Ghost, Hugo, or 11ty.
To this day I boggle at how Kandel managed to translate much of The Cyberiad.

Most anyone would have just broke down and changed jobs.
> If I move out, and I rent out my home, it covers monthly payments approximately exactly.

That's not actually sustainable. You have repairs you're going to need to do, sometimes unexpectedly large ones. You have tenants that move out, and then marketing expenses and/or vacancies. If you're unlucky you have bad tenants that do damage or don't pay or need to be evicted after not paying.

It can work temporarily (unless you are unlucky), waiting for a better time to sell. But most people who need to move don't really want to be in the landlord business, and it is a business with financial risk and headaches.
You are so eloquent in explaining this!
Milwaukee is mentioned in the A/UX 0.7 build, so I was wondering if it was more 'BigMac' or something else entirely.

It's a shame more of this is buried in legend.
They added it in 3.0.0. The headers go through perl now as well as the assembler.
They exist in abundance on IRC.
> Ones which existed only in XP

When did I say that? Finding a bug in Win10 which has existed since XP is just as dangerous as finding a bug only in XP, given that the patch Microsoft releases for Win10 will not be released for XP.

> ...then where does it come from?

Vulnerabilities in locally installed software? Supply-chain attacks, drive-by attacks, clickjacking attacks? Or, you know, users installing it? Believe it or not, users frequently install malware; otherwise, there wouldn't be such a proliferation of fake "driver" sites on the internet. I'm not sure how you reached the conclusion that facts are an authoritarian excuse to take away freedom, particularly since I have never and would never advocate for disallowing people to install whatever software they like.
I wasn’t trying to define God.

Maybe it’s strings down there, or subatomic gnomes (and then we’d have to probe further to discover what makes them tick). Maybe we’ll never be able to know because knowing reality would require knowing all of reality (a la complexity theory).

All I was saying was that it seems to me like the mystics I’ve encountered aren’t super attached to what they hope the outcome is. They’re interested in it, deeply curious about it, in awe of it, but not attached to it.

There’s a far greater emphasis in mysticism on seeing the world as it truly is (and being able to accept it, regardless of how amazing or fucked up it may be) as opposed to how we want it to be.
Damn, I would assume houses must be much cheaper in Australia than in the US? Or only the very very rich can afford to buy their own home? (Or is it amortized over more than 5 years, you just have a balloon you need to refinance?)

In the US, where 30-year mortgages are standard, the LARGE majority of homeowners would not be able to afford payments on their home amortized over only 5 years.
Author here - thanks for the feedback everybody! Agree that the weighted version and the skeleton version would be cool to talk about. Perhaps in future :)
Don't know if I agree about the goto thing, but there are actually a number of options now for delivering varying degrees of self-contained Python executable.

When I evaluated the landscape a few years ago, I settled on PEX [1] as the solution that happened to fit my use-case the best— it uses a system-provided Python + stdlib, but otherwise brings everything (including compiled modules) with it in a self-extracting executable. Other popular options include pyinstaller and cx_freeze, which have different tradeoffs as far as size, speed, convenience, etc.

[1]: https://github.com/pantsbuild/pex
According to some other blogs posted here (links are are elsewhere in this thread) the entire point of Gemini is that it's useless and annoying to use, so useless and annoying that it drives out any advertisers or businesses that would be potentially interested to use it.

I understand the designer's reasons to dislike online advertising but the train of logic here seems to be "internet businesses like to make things that are convenient, so let's make something which is intentionally not convenient at all" which in my opinion is a really convoluted and nonsensical way to reach the intended goal. This one is a swing and a miss for me. I hope the designer keeps trying and comes up with something that is actually useful eventually.
For me, the most important thing that college did is force me to study a bunch of stuff that I did not want to study. I never would have learned about philosophy or linguistics or advanced math were it not for university.

In many cases I learned helpful things and gained an appreciation for subjects and people outside of my bubble.
The issue is likely something like this:

a) Oracle buys TimescaleDB

b) Oracle sues any of 1000+ SaaS apps that have decent revenue and they can identify

c) The other 900 suddenly have massive due diligence issues even if not sued
> From the blog post the article cites, those options are: Microsoft Authenticator app, Windows Hello, a security key, or a verification code sent to your phone or email.

Mmm, yup that all sounds terrible. I agree with GP, I like the ability to decide how to manage logging in.

Passwords are a "least worst" kind of system.
I don't think you can generalize from that specific scenario to your broad claim.

It is not necessary to usurp famous city landmarks to offer affordable housing. Berlin is large and underdeveloped.
Let's say that Apple does allow other browsers on the iOS platform, how does that help developers when users continue to use Safari?
> The intermediate certs would’ve had Expirations before this month

No. Nobody does that. Why would you do that?

I think you're most likely getting muddled because, in common with many people, you've been thinking about the Web PKI as a graph in which certificates are nodes.

It isn't. It's a graph in which the nodes are key pairs, and the certificates are labelled, directional edges.

You're suggesting that the labels on any one edge ought to be constrained based on all other labels on edges leading toward the node it's from, and that makes no sense, unsurprisingly we don't do that.

> They would’ve stopped signing Intermediate certs for this a few years ago.

Again, nobody does this.

> So what’s the actual risk here? Are there certs out there that have this Cert as a root, with expirations past the lifetime of this root cert? How would that have even been allowed?

Imagine somebody loudly insisting that negative integers don't exist. That they can't exit, they just don't make any sense, obviously there can't be a "minus six" what would that even mean? Frustrating right. That's what this is like.
Might we call laziness the quality of not being willing to work without external motivation? E.g. if you're running, you slow down, your coach yells at you, and you speed up again, vs if you sprain your ankle and are unable to continue no matter how much pressure is applied.

In your case, it has a different meaning than Godlessness from the point of view of a boss, since a lazy person is one who'll only complete a task if you motivate them extrinsically.

I think it's unnecessarily insulting, though being an insult might be part of the motivational power.
You know public housing is a thing right? You don't need to rent from the private market, that's just how it is right now
On Facebook, you don't need to use a private group for privacy. You set up a different audience group that isn't public and change the audience to one that is non-public.
Yep.

I wouldn't care if the did what perl did... create Perl6, which is technically perl, but otherwise a totally new language, and keep supporting perl 5, but they decided to drop python 2 support totally. Combine that with distro maintainers seeing that, and "overnight" removing all the python2 software available (some even without suitable replacements) and totally removing python2 support, makes it a pain in the ass to develop anything and then fearing what will python 4 bring, and when will that happen.

And as I said... perl code, just works.
> People, or businesses, that you know in real life could exchange certificate hashes in person.

This happens about as often as using PGP email. Approximately never.
Oh sorry, said Prometheus above, meant TimeScale is impressive!

Understood. If you see the other thread regarding the "such as" language, there is a serious edit that you can batch-up and repair to reflect your intentions with this one.

The "such as" language, retains your right to sue anyone for license violations if their API allows any customer action that causes structure changes indirectly, via the DDL, even under the hood (materialized views, too, presumably). That's way way more use cases than just repackaging TSDB as a service. That's a landmine, which when people compare and choose databases, they'd just assume avoid, even if otherwise comfortable with a cloud-protective license. Making this clearer and less onerous probably will probably pay for itself with a wider top-of-funnel for the product with more people more confident in the license.

The "We Clarified It In a Thread on Hacker News Public License" is probably not as ideal as updating the places that need clarification. :-P
Google even lets you enroll more than one key, in case you lose your primary! AWS doesn't, but at least they accept Yubikey's budget U2F keys. Can't recall if MSFT does yet.
Mark Rober and the manipulation of children for profit
It is not nonsense to reason about how the Bible could be true. If God is a computer or God is a programmer both of those scenarios would work and result in the story in the Bible. Instead I'd argue that it is nonsense to say that God isn't a programmer or a computer without coming up with a reasonable alternative. It is also fine to just leave that part out, but in that case I'd say that my religion describing god as a computer has more explanatory power than your religion which just says god existed and used magic to create the universe, it is a very reasonable and sound extension to the origin story in the bible. Ultimately that magic is equivalent to programming the universe, we don't know what kind of hardware he used to run the universe no matter how you view it you can say he programmed it. What else would you call "writing the laws of the universe" than programming?
There are a ton of options in Python but none are satisfying compared to eg Golang.
The Libby app has also made some great usability improvements lately for people who have multiple library cards. If you live in an area with multiple library systems (like city and county), it's totally worth signing up for both.
There is no government effort to MitM SSH. And if there was, it would immediately crumble because not a single person manually verifies their ssh connection.
> native polish speaker.

Ah, the man I want. Tell me, is "Ijon Tichy" a joke on "tachyon", or something else?

(noticed that years ago, been wondering it could not possibly be accidental, not Lem ...)
This is the exact response that I tried to cover with the rest of my comment.
I thought most lenders stopped allowing that after the last housing bubble. Are they doing it again? Hmm.
I think useless and annoying are the wrong words here. It’s elegant in that efforts to extend it beyond its purpose are self defeating. It’s a Chinese finger trap for those who would attempt to embrace and extend for adtech and corp subversion.

I love it.
Sounds like an IFF fallacy— sure, HN hates some thing that turn out to be successful, but lots of things HN hates really are terrible (or turn out to be successful for unrelated reasons, like the team was great and they managed to pivot away from the terrible idea).
> In Windows 98 SE, there was a button next to “minimise” that would give every widget a tooltip explaining what it did and how to use it;

Technically this is still there, it is just that almost no applications use it. However one of the very few things Qt with its Qt Designer (which otherwise is a horrific application) does right is being able to set up context help (as they are called) tips very easily and on the spot (the original method in Win9x was way too cumbersome, though 90% of that was WinHelp itself being too cumbersome). I remember doing that for some tools in a gamedev job a few years ago and the ability to have instant description for any element on the tool dialogs was something the designers liked.
Just put them in markdown and have compatible clients inline render an image and non compatible clients get a link.
The post from last week is presumably about https://open-meteo.com ¹, for others(like me) who want to check that one out too.

Colour me genuinely shocked that this much weather data is available to the public, fantastic project!

¹ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28499910
It's probably a fair assumption, though! McGill has around 10% from the US and another 17% of admissions based on high school attended [1]. I have met Americans at other Canadian universities that have dual citizenship, so would be considered Canadians for tuition, but would be considered American from the high school.

[1] https://www.mcgill.ca/es/admissions-profile
Interesting. This has missed my comments despite picking up some comments replying to me?