skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can do this it's always /feeds. I suppose if someone really wanted to change that, they probably could. I used to use the hosted bersion, and it was /feeds there too. Although I have to point out that unless you have access to the instance, you probably won't be able to get to that page without signing in anyway. Unless someone decided to make the entire thing public, for some reason. You can do this with tweets even, you just have to have the URL of the tweet.
For a while, I embraced entering extra randomness in my life. Actually it has nothing to do with the programming methods described in the article but goes along the same category of reasoning.

I ended up subscribing to a bunch of random calls on https://dialup.com/ and had some pretty amazing conversations.
Lootfeed Debt - Play videogames and Pay off debt faster
No, your phone isn’t listening to your conversations. Seriously
Helion is changing that story to fusion power always being three years away.
Is it really a conspiracy theory to suggest that Microsoft is spying on you in Edge? Or that Apple puts profits before security? I'm not really seeing the nutjob factor here, but maybe that's because I'm already intimated with the field...
Standardized Boot on ARM
No, of course it's not my sole argument. I have more than two dozens well researched books full with arguments for and mostly against this bunk science which is underpinning "climate change" and the CO2 lie.

I just don't have the time to argue with internet people over such things, there are enough scientists out there disproving the silly notion CO2 or humans are is to blame for "climate change", a term that has been used since their "global warming" phrase has become a burden. All of their predictions were wrong over the last 100 years and their fear mongering is completely based on falsified data and corporate science.

You don't need any "secret documents" to prove that there is an agenda behind it all, since they are publicly available and pretty easy to access from their sites and all of their wonderful front companies. Just start reading the UN's Agenda 2030 document.

If you actually looked into history then you'll see that much of what has happened from WW1 onwards was an effort by wealthy people, dynasties in finance etc., to build a world of their liking, which gives them top down control via a lot of fronts.

Check out who owns the world economy.
It's BlackRock and Vanguard, the latter owning the former.
Then there are a lot of foundations and NGO/NPOs which have their function of control and wealth funnelling as well, connecting finance, business, politics and the media.

The "climate change" bullshit is for natural resource and social control. The carbon credits are nothing more than a new financial product and their green governance guidelines are for leverage.
Nothing about it is about saving the earth or the environment.

This is provable and not "just a feeling".
I'm not the GP. There's a slightly cheaper "borg backup" plan at rsync.net.

[1]: https://www.rsync.net/products/borg.html
Use pypely for readable and testable data transformation
pypely is a python package that encourages you to write data transformation code in a functional manner. It does not optimize code performance, nor will it necessarily make you write less code. BUT: It encourages a readable and testable coding paradigm that simplifies collaboration and maintenance of data transforming / processing tasks.
Intel launches RealSense ID facial recognition tech that uses stereo camera
Ask HN: What media and data formats are the most reverse engineerable?
Mostly curious from an anthropological perspective, I was wondering what physical media and data formats would be understandable 1,000 years in the future without any specs.
People focus way too much on the orchestration aspect of Kubernetes when the real draw for larger, more mature organizations is that it provides a good API for doing pretty much anything infrastructure or operations related. You can take the API primitives and build whatever abstractions you want on top of them to match up with how your org deploys and operates software. Once you get into stuff like Open Application Model and start marrying it to operators that can deploy AWS resources and whatever GitOps tool you want to use, you end up with a really nice, consistent interface for developers that removes your infrastructure folks as a bottleneck in the "Hi I want to deploy this new thing everywhere" process.
Dude, its not the 50s, most of the world is under replacement rate of reproduction. The problem now is largely the opposite, shortage of young minds to invent carbon free energy grids and young hands to build them. You can cut human population by half and still have a problem of excessive carbon emissions or transition to carbon free economy and have net zero per capita emission.

Also I don't want humanity to be almost completely wiped out.
>U.S. military may be about the only military force that is both capable of committing these mistakes/war crimes and investigating them

I'd prefer if they just not did them in the first place. I consider the alleged transparency simply to be a more subtle form of propaganda. It simply exists to give more credibility to warfare. It's in a sense how everything around American society is structured. When you make everyone belief they can be a millionaire they're not going rebel although they won't, when you get people to voluntarily fight they'll do it eagerly, etc

Also as a psychological mechanism it is a kind of reverse version of what Adorno called secondary antisemitism. Which is the kind of antisemitism where someone will use the crimes committed against the Jews against them. (for example "I hate them, they've ruined the idea of German nationalism!"). Arguing to take American war-crimes as an opportunity to appreciate American virtue in dealing with them is to relegate the victim to an object, and to basically declare the American moral character the most important thing in the world, which is very bizarre.
https://archive.md/gNyhH
East Germany had a pretty good wall too.
I backup to another Synology station in somewhat secure location in my house, most important files are regularly burned into Blu-ray disks.

You can use https://c2.synology.com/en-us or any alternative.
> Nothing stresses me out more than talking to other people

I'm in the same boat. That, and also the bright artificial lights in our huge open space. There's almost no natural light in the whole building which I find extremely disturbing. Luckily we can work from home almost full time now. Hope we won't go back to normal.
both are fantastic. i started on borg, and moved part of my shit to restic so i use both. borg ui is a bit better, but you can normalize that away with a bunch of scripts.
And a more recent airstrike…

https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/17/politics/kabul-drone-strike-u...
I personally gave up on an old Lightroom version that was pre-CS cloud, and could see more professional people clinging to specific version of apps for whatever reason (private plugins, specific Apple scripts, standardized manual procedures etc.).

There must also be enterprise software that still weren’t recompiled or the vendor went under or threw the towel.

Those are a minority, but sadly we see that on every breaking change.
I meant image assets, yes. If you want to dig into vector data, then no, there's no support for that.
Best of luck!

Have you looked / interacted with Pepper and Nao robots? In my experience, Aldebaran Robotics tried hard to go down the "lifelike robot" route, and the issues they encountered are real and hard problems.

A big problem with body control was lack of touch / impact feedback. Do you have plans to integrate sensors on the robot's 'skin'?

Modern ML based perception is expensive (audio, visual, NLP, etc). Modern ML-based full-body planning even more so. Do you intend to go down a hand-crafted route for walking, gestures, grasping, or do you intend to do it all with ML?
That's a political impossibility. Besides - whom to reprioritize? Pick the sickest person, the latest arrival, or what?

There was a case not too long ago in Alabama where a person suffered a heart attack and died because in three dozen hospitals no intensive care bed could be found, so the concern isn't even theoretical.
There may be a steep privacy cost if you park here
The productive write the most about productivity, it turns out.

I'll say that for me, I hopped across note and productivity apps until I switched to emacs/org-mode. It has not made me wildly more productive, but it has (or can have) any feature other programs offer, so there is no productivity FOMO when I learn about new programs.
I must read too many negative articles… this stands out as a feel-good, “real” win-win. The science & cost-benefit is clearly understood even for the non-technical and the implementation seems straightforward, at least at first glance. Would love to see solar farms wildly adopted
Does a lower frame rate actually mean more blur? The frame rate gives an upper bound for exposure time but not a lower bound.
Creating and deploying Cloud Functions using Dart
See also:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_driver%27s_license
Yes it's significant, that's why I don't like vendor lock-in. It's very simple to use VMs on various cloud providers but as soon as you use their more integrated products, it can be a disaster.
The typical big-casino rake isn't that large. From memory (it has been 2 years since I've physically been in a poker room), the typical rake at a full 9-player table at the Encore (Everett, MA, USA) worked out to ~$12-15/hour per person.

For a professional dealer, good chips, and a continuous flow of players, that seems like a pretty fair price to pay.
GUIs were rejected by the vast majority from the start (which for argument let's say was 1984 for the Mac). The Mac barely cracked 9% market share through the 80s and mid-90s, shrinking to 5%. PC's and DOS dominated alongside the Commodore 64, whose 3rd party GUI (GEOS) was used by a fraction of users. The command line cult was legion.

GUIs started to catch on in 1992 with Windows 3.1, and only became ubiquitous when Windows 95 came out. At which point the Mac plummeted to 2% market share, before the iMac started to turn it around in 1998-1999.

The backlash to Steve's announcement of "web apps only" was largely from game developers and early adoption tinkerers. Native mobile was rejected by a majority of developers (who still complain even though we're down to 2 platforms) as an abomination that eschews the open standards of the web and required 3-5x the work to support Android, iOS, Windows Mobile , Nokia Symiban, Blackberry, etc.

Most "native" apps were thin wrappers around HTML5 sites until around 2012-2014. Instagram is arguably what changed this, and why Facebook bought them for $1b in 2012. Users liked the features and responsiveness of native apps. Shortly after, Facebook shipped their native mobile app (written by a 3rd party contractor that knew native mobile - it was an HTML5 wrapper prior to this).

Dozens of essays have been published on HN over the past decade lamenting the death of the Web, PCs, hobbyist PC tinkering, and all that is good, because of the terrible trend driven by native mobile.

So, yes, GUIs and native mobile were exciting from a certain point of view, but they've also had huge (and ultimately ineffective) backlashes that slowed things down a bit.

Saying "nobody cares about VR" feels to me exactly like this. Those that see how important AR/VR will become feel like those that saw the potential of GUIs or native mobile early. Those only seem obvious in retrospect.

In both cases the new UX environment took 5-10 years to catch on. We're now arguably in year 5 of VR/AR (if you assume 2016 era devices were the first viable mass market ones, which also coincides with the release of Pokemon Go as the first mass market AR experience) which is easily as big a shift as it was from keyboard to mouse.
Maybe the better analogy is your friend who somehow has to make everything about how either capitalism or communism is behind everything wrong about the world. It doesn't really matter if they're right or wrong, as some point you just want to talk about how much you like the new episode of Succession or whatever and not have them link everything back into their pet universal theory of the world.

It's often better and more effective to have an article about one single novel thing than to bang a drum about how every single thing in the world is just the same pattern again and again.
Yes exactly, completely agree with you. I am seeing this does not matter. It is not why a casino makes money.
Thanks! Glad to hear it worked well. I really need to add pinch to zoom to improve the experience on all touchscreen devices.
You're right on two accounts:
- Google gets paid no matter who pays, so they don't care
- Tinder still gets the revenue (and at better margins bc they're not actually have to pay for that user anymore - Apple is paying)

And even your last point is not wrong: at some point Apple may stop doing this. But that could be year's away, and in the meantime, they're throwing their big stack around to make it too costly for developers - who Apple supposedly partners with - to build businesses that are less dependent on Apple’s whims. Plus, Apple uses the fact that most subscribers to app store products subscribe on the app store itself to bolster their case with regulators that no reform is needed bc consumers are overwhelmingly happy to use Apple’s IAP systems. But if Apple is putting it's finger on the scales in order to actively drive users away from web subscriptions, then they heavily misleading these regulators about the true “choices” consumers are making.
Yeah, these “free speech at all costs!!” folks really don’t think that individuals and private organizations should have the right to curate what appears on the platforms they own and pay for. Their version of “free speech” necessarily requires taking away others’ rights to property, which seems kind of odd because that same crowd is often going on about ~liberty~.

Every time I see people shaking their fists and yelling “MODS!!!!” at the sky it gives me a laugh because that person almost certainly has never actually tried to provide an open forum or image hosting service. They’re usually actually fully averse to the idea of doing so, hence why nobody has offered to host my collection of tentacle porn for free and in perpetuity.

It’s not an issue of what these people believe is morally right like is often claimed, it’s an issue of how they feel entitled to be treated as an individual regardless of how that impacts the freedom of others. There’s no ideological consistency of “freedom”, just a tantrum about not getting enough free services.
"nothing will fundamentally change"

-- the person currently in charge of the DOJ, when running for office, speaking to donors.
Current solar panels are almost 20% efficient. Even in the most outrageous sci-fi scenario, they could only hope to be 5x more efficient than they are currently, and in any case would require significant land use. Compared to nuclear or geothermal, the ceiling is so much lower.

And then we get all the vaporware viral ops like solar freaking roadways and those water bottles that magically refill from the air with a tiny solar panel, ignoring the laws of thermodynamics but making hella kickstarter bux
I'm not sure if this is universally true or not, but the algorithms courses at the universities I'm familiar with require a course in discrete math as a prerequisite.

You can find Discrete and Combinatorial Mathematics (an Applied Introduction), 5th Edition, Ralph P. Grimaldi online and an answer key can be found online as well. (This book covers two discrete math courses. Chapters 1-5, 7, 8, 12 is a first course in discrete math. I'm not sure what chapters the second course covers, but that requires linear algebra as a prerequisite.)

It's not perfect, but it's a start. I think you need to be familiar with some high school algebra, exponents, and logarithms. You can find some review information in the appendix. If you have troubles with recalling that information, then you can try Khan academy. (It really is an if you don't use it, you lose it situation with much of math.)

You're probably aware of this already, but most people don't read the book and come away with the knowledge required to solve the problems. You'll need to work through the examples in the chapter, be able to recall the definitions and theorems, and then work the exercises at the back of the book.

I think the discussion of proof methods is pretty poor in the book. You can find many intro to proof method type supplemental notes online to help fill in the details.

There really is so much information out there that you can pretty much always find an alternative explanation or viewpoint for undergrad level material. Many profs will post their own lecture notes, homework, and solutions. There are some math forums that have explanations. So find a book you're reasonably comfortable with and supplement it with extra material.
I realized a while back that a hidden factor behind the rise of the "you are the product" model could be inequality. There may not be enough purchasing power remaining in the middle class to sustain honest straightforward business models, causing businesses that mostly market to the middle class to look elsewhere.

In particular they are looking at ways to get more money from corporations, wealthy individuals, and governments, all of whom are totally flush with cash. Thus we have surveillance capitalism, which is about marketing the customer as the product to the people who actually have money.

I realized this as my own income has increased a bit in the last decade, and I'm finding myself perfectly willing to look up-market for products that among other things have stronger security and privacy guarantees. In many cases this means buying "business grade" networking gear, flat panel monitors as TVs, DIY home security surveillance (Blue Iris + business grade cams), etc., and all those things cost a lot more up front. Then I realized I was buying privacy, and that privacy is now a privilege for the upper middle class and above.

The solution to surveillance capitalism may be recapitalization of the middle class more than any techno-fix or even specific regulation of surveillance practices. The latter I think will fail for the same reason that much of the GDPR is empty: the legislators do not understand the tech well enough, and there's too much surface area anyway and thus too many ways to work around the law.
How long until people realize that any authority saying “justified” is not using a definition found in any dictionary.

The term used by any American imbued with the option of extrajudicial killings is only to - at best - match your pre-existing agreement with the action or your likelihood of agreeing with authority. “Justified”, for these people, does not mean “other actions were evaluated in a hierarchy and we were in a circumstance that this greater level of force was necessary” such as how a civilian is evaluated, it means “this choice was in a catalog of equally weighted choices, any of the choices including inaction would be justified”. I don’t view this as good enough, as it makes investigations and courts a waste of time and energy, when the only resolution can be to say “and now I present as evidence: the catalogue of choices that happens to list the choice taken” acquitting all.
Removal of CO2 at such grand scale and speed will probably affect ecosystems drastically and cause violent disasters
Metaballs, marching squares and marching cubes – how computers draw weird shapes
Why do we believe we killed Bin Laden even? Given the track record of the military, it was probably some goat farmers in Pakistan—-which is why no one saw the body and it was unceremoniously dumped in the ocean.
Postgres update that led to 70% failure on a critical national service
Cascade of doom: JIT, and how a Postgres update led to 70% failure on a critical national service
Trailer Docket – Your Company Operations. Unified. Dispatch Trucking Software
The ISO is downloaded from WinWorld, which is a website dedicated to archiving old software, it's certainly community maintained but at least gets some scrutiny. I also searched the checksum and it matches with other sources, but as there is no longer an official Microsoft source you can never be entirely sure.

I've done my best to confirm the legitimacy but if anyone has an original CD it would be awesome if they could confirm it.
>We don't have product making companies anymore,

The problem with this sentiment is it's always presented as some new found discovery, and not as an inherent outcome of a capitalist economy. It was in 1973, 48 years ago now, that Ford did the infamous calculation on not to recall the Ford Pinto because the cost of recall was less than their calculated law suit risk - a move that would have killed their customers; and then further still Milton Friedman defended this decision.

We haven't had "product making companies" as the norm for at least 50 years now. What era are you talking about?
> Connecting Mini FireWire to a modern MacBook with only USB-C ports takes a few adapters to achieve:

> Thunderbolt 3 -> Thunderbolt 2

> Thunderbolt 2 -> FireWire 800

> FireWire 800 -> FireWire 400

> FireWire 400 -> Mini FireWire

Ummm... Lol yeah I suppose you could do that.

I just used my old 2010 MBP which has a firewire port :)

But indeed older Macs are pretty ideal for this as FireWire is an integrated part of the ecosystem.

What was actually quite difficult is obtaining old versions of iMovie and QuickTime. I still had the old OS images, but Apple makes it impossible to get old versions from the app store. If you look for iMovie it just shows the latest version which is no longer supported for my old macOS (the latest my MBP could run) so it's a dead end.

Eventually I found a link on Apple's site with a ZIP file of the iMovie files, and I needed to do something else to actually make it work (extracting and moving to /Applications wasn't enough). I don't remember exactly. It was a bit of a PITA but in the end I got it.
It's been a year since I touched an AWS lambda, but I'd bet money that cold starts are still an issue. There is a common hack that half works: have your function run every minute (you can use eventbridge rules for this); in the function handler, the first thing you should evaluate is whether or not it's a warming event or not, and exit 0 if it is. Your results may vary (mine did lol)
Google looks at your user agent and doesn't redirect to https if it's an old browser.
Love your work and the setup!

However in this context, I wanted to ask, why not use tools like https://hypothes.is/ for annotation, notetaking on websites? Ideally it is a disconnection of HN notes and Kindle book highlights, but I've derived a lot of value from the Hypothesis tool (it's self-hostable as well!).
Why do you need a blockchain with all the environmental waste (CO2 from electricity generation as well as heaps and heaps of eventually discarded mining equipment) for the purpose of maintaining who is the owner of the copyright for a piece of work?

That's what the US has the Copyright Office for ffs!
Yeah, that is their "main" channel, same group of people. The "Crew" one started as like a behind-the-scenes I believe.
Workday started what they called "Thank You Fridays". One Friday off, every two weeks. Some teams would take them all at once, while others would split so that the function wasn't left uncovered.

Not sure if it's still happening.
My current company has a cluster on Amazon, one on Azure, and used to have one on a local hosting company. So it's very important to not be stuck too much with one cloud providers locks.

We also chose our current cloud providers because the alternatives were worse.
> in 4 years I have read maybe 20 articles out of 7000

So true. Eventually you'll give up, given enough evidence that it's useless.

I mean, 20/7000 is like 0.28% and optimizing for a fraction of a percent is what I define as "overkill"