skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Find yourself a half-silvered mirror, stick it in bright light, and put another mirror with some kind of diffuser behind it.

What happens is that the light in front of the mirror overwhelms the light coming from behind it. I think you'd pretty much have this problem with any kind of transmissive display, whether it's internally illuminated or relies on transmitted light. Unless you can also shade the front of the display, you'll see little.

Early box cameras, the type that had a drape over the eyepiece or viewplate for the photographer to compose the image, also had this problem.

All of these rely on obscuring some portion of the transmitted light to create a visible pattern. That's always going to be muted by ambient light from the front of the display. It's why we watch films in darkened cinemas but read books (reflective medium) in brightly-lit libraries (or at least with a strong reading lamp nearby). Note that with any LCD-based display, the polarising layer itself blocks ~50% of the transmitted light.

This is why high-ambient-light displays strongly favour reflective media. Ink on paper, paint on canvas, billboards. E-ink happens to be a rapidly-updatable version of this, though not quite as rapid as the electronicly-modulated pixels of an emissive display.

What would be a game-changer would be a material (or suite of materials) which change colour under some rapidly-switchable field (probably electric or magnetic), preferably either on the RBG or CMYK colour space, probably from a white baseline. A response in the 16--120Hz range would be sufficient for video. These would produce the effect of a printed or painted display that could present high-response video and which you'd illuminate from the front rather than back.

Though I think I'm already shuddering to consider the possible applications....
Actually it seems they are just trying to avoid being sued frivolously by a company that is making false claims about the trademark.
I purposefully left it out, but left just enough to google, because the trial itself is a political hotbed and has nothing to do with the technical/court discussion. This will degenerate off-topic quickly.
Pants 2.8: Golang support, Autoflake and Pyupgrade, Docker publishing, and more
Nothing stops an organisation having standards what is sufficiently tiny to use the process...

Eg.: "Touches comments and whitespace only". "Resulting compiled binary does not differ". "Variable and function renames are okay". etc.

Remember that with the original developer still able to review, they can always rollback a change they weren't happy with.
Let's talk if and when you want to build something. I make no promises that piet-gpu-hal is suitable for other workloads (right now I would say it barely meets the needs for piet-gpu), but on the other hand I am interested in the question of what it lacks and what it would take to run, eg, machine learning workloads on top of it.
To speed up those (like me) who had to look it up...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
"Broken" is always with respect to some function that we're expecting an object to perform. We expect a hammer to be able to drive nails into wood; if it can't do that, we say it's broken. A person has no intrinsic function, so we can't say that they're broken. It would be more accurate to say the system placing that expectation on them is broken, or at least in need of improvement.

The example of socialized healthcare is given elsewhere in this thread. The line of thinking is, well, some people are just too much of a burden on the healthcare system, so we (sadly) have to let them suffer or die in order to keep the system working for everyone else. But the broken object in this case is not the people, but the healthcare system itself. The system is too weak to care for everyone. Maybe it's not possible to build a system that's strong enough, but the blame should rest on the system (which actually has the potential to be fixed), not on the people (who should not need "fixing" in order to be cared for).
> The proper way to do it, would be to set up a non-profit organization where each funding/paying member gets voting rights (no crypto needed).

You just can’t make something like this happen in < 1 week using the “proper”/traditional methods.

Put differently: those “proper” tools have existed for decades. If they were as easy to use as you claim then why haven’t we seen them used to achieve something comparable to this project yet? (or have we?)
This DAO will be grinding the Constitution into a nootropic supplement for microdosing
> but a few changes to CSS is going to trash that automation right

hence why it's nice to have that extension to click through the UI rather than figure out how to parse things no?
There's plenty of products for digital evidence management, especially now that bodycams on police officers are so common. But it would seem that many courts have not caught up on this yet.
It's worth noting that online services for games built into Windows XP, ME, and 7 (Internet Checkers, etc.) also haven't been preserved [0]. While the games were rather simple IIRC, I'm surprised that there haven't been any server reimplementations for these games given that they were included in several versions of Windows.

[0]: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/farewe...
So it was that simple? The trademark of a non competing company in a different industry was not considered infringing by the courts?
> For example, ConstitutionDAO will be a non-profit, with a non-profit board etc.

Ok but you can just form a 501(c)(3) whenever you want right, which actually has some force of law over its activities.

> I presume they will put things up for vote using the DAO.

But... they don't have to.

It's all fun and games until there's a disagreement over what to do. The way in which a meaningful disagreement is resolved is what will prove the viability of this model. When everyone's aligned already, it doesn't really prove much.
I belive they have a legitmatly obtained decryption key. I don't know how they managed to license one, though, one would imagine the powers that be would hate it.
I have grown very close to a woman I met online. She is extremely intelligent, but I could tell she had issues. I did not know how severe until we finally met, at my insistence.

I knew she had depression and anxiety. ADHD. That she had trouble getting things done, trouble making decisions, overall trouble functioning but on top of this, she cannot take care of herself hygienically, has a severe problem with hoarding and basically spends much of her waking moments crying or feeling scared/panicked.

She also is clearly autistic though she insists she is not.

At the same time, she is extremely sweet and has a strong sense of justice. She is truly a good person, I have never met anyone so honest. It's sad that we cannot make space for people like this in our society. She asks for so little to survive.

I know I will take care of her for the rest of my life, but of course I know there are other people like her -- if she exists, there have to be others.

She cannot work. She can barely function to take care of herself, and in some ways she cannot even meet that standard. She also lives in another country, so what I can do is limited and sending money helps but it doesn't help enough.

I think she cannot be fixed but I would like to hope there is still a chance. She (and I) are relatively young, in our 30s.
I personally don't mind what his company is doing, but I just don't think his views represent the understandings of my field all that well.
Well, I kind of identify with the soto sect of Zen Buddhism, but I actually reject the standard interpretation of the four noble truths (the first if which, as you've said: life is suffering). Life isn't all suffering. Idealistic thinking of life is a kind of suffering, I suppose, but you're not suffering all the time. When you're eating an awesome meal, having some hot sex, seeing your code pass CI on the first attempt, yada -- this is not life is suffering. So I can't agree with the core buddhist noble truths..

If you're invested in another take on them, I would seek out Gudo Nishijimas dharma airs :}
There were many news articles stating this that were corrected for grossly exaggerating the situation. I would suggest going back and re-reading the source material to see if it has been updated or has disappeared.
The symbol rate vs bandwidth is hopefully changing; the ARRL is petitioning the FCC to make it a bandwidth limit instead. On many HF bands, there is limited bandwidth anyways, so the proposed 2.8kHz is a good balance without letting a single individual consume an entire band (i.e. 30m).

Spread spectrum usually requires significant bandwidth, and there just aren't amateur bands below 222MHz that are large enough for that to be truly useful. (The lower limit is 222MHz AFAIK, not 2.4GHz.) Even the 222MHz band is only 3MHz wide, and the largest below that is 4MHz. Spread spectrum starts to make more sense at higher frequencies with 50+MHz bandwidth. If you have examples of SS uses that could work well on the order of kHz instead of MHz, I'd be interested in learning more.

You can absolutely create a new digital mode protocol from scratch. You just need to make the protocol publicly available and let others know what you're doing. You could do a CW or SSB voice transmission before and after each transmission of your custom protocol, explaining where to go to find out more information. (And of course, station identification.) I'd recommend experimenting on some of the wider/shorter-range bands like 70cm first though, and QRP.

This also applies to encryption - if you make the decryption keys publicly available, and you make it clear how others can decrypt what you're transmitting, it is possible to experiment with radio encryption on amateur bands. That goes to the nature of amateur radio - learning and experimentation. But what you can't do is use it for private purposes - there are other bands for that (i.e. ISM). Most of the conversations around this are people frustrated that they can't browse HTTPS sites or have private communications on amateur channels. It would be nearly impossible to ensure people aren't hogging the amateur bands for inappropriate purposes if you can't decrypt/decode what is being transmitted. With such limited bandwidth available, especially on some HF bands as small as 50-100kHz, prohibiting encryption helps ensure equitable access for everyone. It's like complaining about not being able to drive a non-street-legal vehicle on highways. You can still take that vehicle to off-road tracks if you wish and have fun.

Power limits - I don't know what to say on this one, other than if you have a good case for exceeding them for a specific use, contact the ARRL or your regional radio organization. Drum up support in the community. If there's enough interest and justification, rules can change. But QRP is sometimes a fun challenge too.

As for fines, I have not heard of fines being issued as "gotchas" or for minor infractions. Do you have examples? Most of what I've seen are people causing blatant intentional interference or flagrantly violating the rules with inappropriate behavior, repeatedly after several warnings.
There is always an end for all of us where we can't be repaired. The harder questions come from those who are seemingly far from that end. All of those people are morally worth fixing, but they aren't going to fix themselves, and the resources needed to fix them are more often than not unavailable or unwilling (either by the provider or the person needed fixing).
Behind a paywall, cannot read
Cheers, I will think on this.
> The malicious explanation is that he intentionally downgraded the video quality with handbrake

The problem is that in the trial, the prosecution actually said "Our versions are much clearer". They also used algorithmic enhancements and blowups on the bad copy to show to the court.

Here's the link (https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1461034426717122572) but I remember watching this in the trial and people were commenting on it in realtime. The defense even mentioned they weren't given the copy.
Ask HN: Are hackerrank tests still a thing in interviews?
I haven't had an interview in 6 years , wondering what they look like currently. Thanks in advance.
Persuadables—non-aligned people without a strong position one way or another—are generally the largest subset of any group with an ideological element to it, and while the ideological component is severable from vegans individually, it is not severable from veganism as a movement.

This doesn’t mean they are secretly aligned, just that given the right circumstances, they could be persuaded to a more (again, more, not necessarily most!) radical position. Most people can, this isn’t limited to vegans nor does this apply strictly to veganism.

> It's just strange to me that you're talking about radicalizing while seemingly using radicalizing debating tactics yourself. I'm sorry if that comes off as disrespectful or rude but that's the crux of my issue with your comment.

Understandable. What it boils down to is I chose a tactic of advocating for a pretense while dropping all pretenses myself. Pretenses are inherently deceitful, but they can serve a good cause used appropriately, in this case maintaining basic social order. But by opening up my real thoughts underneath that pretense I was hoping to demonstrate why the pretense was in fact useful. Judging by the vote counter, I’ve seen it break even a few times today so that tells me it’s split down the middle how many people got that and how many people didn’t, so clearly I have room to improve too.
Particularly when talking about predictive processing in a neurological sense, you'll often see people blending prediction and feedback loops of any kind. It sounds sort of weird and pointless at first, but the point they're trying to make is that the same circuits could work to do both. So the brain moves the arm by "predicting" extremely hard that the arm will be in a different place, and waiting for the error to go away. From the top we know that it's really just a control system, but from any given neuron's perspective it could just as easily be a predictive one.
Or perhaps the most suicidal people are more likely to be committed? Causation seems very hard to show here.
In order to increase cost 3x, the component responsible for the cost increase (energy) should rise at least 3x - and more if there are other components in the cost. Do we have energy costs - like, gas prices - increase that much?.. What am I missing?
I suspect it’s easier knowing that they aren’t coming back than having to explain that you don’t know when they will come back and what mood they will be in when they do get back. This was my ex wife for several years until I kicked her ass on the street. I’ve got three kids and they’re doing fine now she’s gone but the emotional damage of uncertainty is possibly worse than absolutes.
> but often the account creation page and login page have different behavior

It's bad enough when that only applies to the length, but at least you could theoretically still log in once you knew what length it was truncated to. I've seen at least one banking site which had a narrower set of permitted symbols on the login page than the new account page. (Specifically, the login page didn't allow parentheses, but the new account page did.) Entering the correct password resulted in a form validation error, and of course if those symbols were removed then you still couldn't log in because it wasn't the right password.

Fortunately the login page's validation rules were all client-side, and thus easily bypassed via devtools with basic JS debugging techniques. Once logged in you could change your password to something the login page would accept without messing with the scripts.
Richard, would it be possible to merge the private mode and personal mode? Right now, it's tagged as incognito and it's not on by default, this should seriously be considered. This thread has seriously become toxic, You.com is just in the beginning stage. We can use DuckDuckGo-like model by not tracking users, but instead allow users to set their own country and give search results based on that. Because most normal people will automatically not switch to and use private mode by default and that simply makes you.com non-private. This is a concern almost everyone here and anyone who is serious about privacy would have. I hope to get answers from you soon in-regards to this. Again in-terms of the experience, you.com is unique, but it's potential shouldn't be limited by having privacy is an optional mode, this WILL push people away.

Thank you!
Spam impressions/clicks are real and it is why fast/accurate spam classification is one of core competency of ad networks. It is also the reason why advertisers are rapidly moving to more conversion driven goals rather than optimizing for clicks.
cal -y | sed -E '1,2d;s/(.{20}) /\1\n/g;' | python3 -c “import sys, calendar;[print(ln.strip()) for ln in sys.stdin.readlines() if ln.strip() in calendar.month_name]”

easier to do:

python3 -c “import calendar;[print(m) for m in calendar.month_name]”
Yes, that was it. I wasn't even remembering the name.

To my defence he never looks like he wanted to be in that movie.
It is faster to get to some things with the god mode panel. But not much faster now that there is the quasi-permanent "Type here to search" prompt beside the Windows menu button.
No fairy dust, but you do need to re-flash the firmware on your bluray drive to make it work. As far as I know bluray drive manufacturers (and there's a handful at most at this point) have tried to disable ripping.

MakeMKV has been around a long time, works well and it's not what I would call a "random" closed source tool.
We can talk instead about how the requirements to run slightly less simple near-hard real-time controllers are really heavy in terms of money, effort and .. weight. This tool may actually help to streamline the software part, potentially being a substitution in certain cases to i.e. Matlab Coder or similar tools.
As someone else already mentioned, the Fastmail interface makes this super easy. When you respond to an email it by default sends from the email that was addressed. And when you send emails you can enter anything in the from field for your own domains.

The only issue I have had is non-technical people getting confused when I have their business name in my email address.
Nintendo still reigns supreme on this front. Metroid Dread launched with 1.0.0 in the box, no day one patch, nothing to download. A few bug patches have come out to fix things the average gamer would never encounter.

Of course there's exceptions. Animal Crossing New Horizons dripped its content out over the course of 20 months. I'm not sure if recently minted copies come with updates on the cartridge.
yeah, well, forced color scheme pickers don't just write themselves, you know
>>A bit discouraging. I'm now remembering how frustrating was

I am picturing you over a mortar and pestle crushing the salt of your enemies whilst a single tear falls into the mix - and en-vigorating (filling with life) - the salt of your defeated enemies..
I'd argue that the main reason the brain predicts in the first place is how noisy our senses are. Your brain is doing everything in its power to tell you how the world actually is, but it isn't working with great equipment.
Good luck!
Is there a special price or discount for HN community?
I guess the one thing this article doesn’t answer is why the default hardware configuration is for the slower transfer rate? Is there some downside to this mod?
Wouldn't it be the sender's email client or server that does the compression? The defense was the recipient.
He may have had a forensics person load it on his machine and tell him to just use that app and click play. But your basic point is correct: clearly someone at least halfway knowledgeable worked on that file.
It’s mostly likely for spatial audio. RIP to anyone who bought a 2020 MacBook, as they don’t have gyro or accelerometer-no spatial audio
Hindsight. I couldn’t see it until the relationship was severed. I’m not stupid, but I tried to save it up until the final day while those around us were taking bets on when it would end.

19 years of life are… poof. I missed out on doing things I think I would have liked to because of “love”.

And I still care/worry for her.
The figures were not for suicide specifically but from their source for generating the cost of a statistical life.

I'm simply saying reducing mortality 0.001% doesn't equal 10 million dollars saved per 100,000 people as they somewhat implied. It's that society as a whole is perhaps willing to spend $10 million to reduce mortality 0.001%.
> For one thing, you'd get tired.

Suggesting that there's no way someone could have the mental stamina to read 30 papers, over the course of two years, is completely ridiculous, insulting, and invalidates your viewpoint, in my opinion.
Related question. If one hasn't been promoted from IC during their career, can one jump to first-level manager by changing jobs? I'd like to switch to management, but not at my current company (I'd like to switch to a much smaller company).
I can, but:

a) it's hard to get support on the device when you can't provide any of the configuration dumps they ask (from their software) :)

b) It is not even close to being comparable in price with NASes Jeff tests and shows on his videos and blogs. PiBox (currently on kickstarter) is $250 in a version that has a full solution, including case, pi, charger, LCD, OS, fan, board to connect regular 3.5" drives... It is the same form factor, it has better spec than cheapest qnap devices.
Smart data annotation for your computer vision projects: CVAT
I'm quite familiar with many Lisp dialects, including Emacs Lisp, Common Lisp, and Clojure, and I'm moderately familiar with Scheme too.

I'm not a stranger to other outside the mainstream languages like OCaml and Haskell.

However, every time I've tried Forth I've bounced off it hard. Has anyone here had a similar experience and managed to overcome it? I really want to learn Forth because I believe learning new paradigms makes me a better programmer and it's also fun. So how can I make learning Forth fun?

And on a tangent, it's nice to see posts from the original Wiki. I spent a lot of time on that site a couple decades ago.
A good old fashioned database queue usually does it for me. It's easy for the DBA to monitor, Ops to run reports on, not a new program, nor another service to pay for and doesn't add additional proprietary lock-in. Plus, devs already have it setup and running.
> I don't know enough of the profession to estimate how accurate that statement is but it has colored my view.

We see the medicine of 200 years ago as barbaric, and I can guarantee that people 200 years in the future will see today's medicine as barbaric. There is simply lots of room for improvement even if improvement has been made in the past, but why should that give us colored views of the whole field?
It seems like free software concepts are the only possible option here. Who is going to host the multiplayer servers? Who will distribute old patches? Who will remove their drm when their licensing agreements require it? Who will distribute the old drivers and the microcode blobs?

The users need source code access and the ability to modify those systems so they can do this themselves. They need the right to distribute it. Copyright protection needs to be shortened dramatically to make this possible. Imagine books with drm that nobody can open with updates that change the entire meaning that nobody will share, and no ability to reproduce the book if the papers start to fall apart. Books that nobody is able to read without connecting to some drm server, and where if you try to, you are committing a crime - it would be a loss on the scale of the famous ancient book burning events

Ie, we need to be allowed to own things in some sense again, not just license them under unintelligible and constantly changing and one sided, non negotiable terms