skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He’s an extremely wealthy divorcé in his mid 60s. She’s a 33 year old model… which is well past the top end of that career, with two children, who is now the VP of Adams’ WhenHub. I think it’s clear everyone in that relationship knows what they are doing. Doesn’t make it any less the fact that he’s old enough to be her father.
DeepMind Explore How AlphaZero Learns Chess Knowledge
I can't recommend it for desktop use, but it is possible to use it as such.

IMHO it really shines on dedicated, small VMs or for headless SBC use cases.

There's only 5 daemons running after the installation (provider in brackets, the installer asks which one for ssh and ntp):
- init (OpenRC)
- ssh (dropbear or OpenSSH)
- ntp (chrony or busybox)
- crond (busybox)
- syslog (busybox)

The diskless mode it offers is ideal for SBC's or other use cases with SD-cards or such.

So it's niche seems to be with very lightweight or hardened servers.
I believe (from quick code inspection) that the symmetry in encode/decode performance for QOI is because it has to generate the hash-table on decode too.

Normal fast encoders use some kind of hash table or search to find matches, but encode the offset of the match in the source rather than in the table. QOI is encoding the offset into the table, which gives much shorter offsets but means the decoder has to maintain the table too.

(The slow PPM compressors etc do maintain the same table in both encoder and decoder, and have symmetrical encode/decode performance too. See http://www.mattmahoney.net/dc/text.html)

Its not really in the spirit of of QOI to add the complexity, but I'd imagine allowing the encoder to specify how big the hash table was would be only a small tweak, and encoding literal blocks instead of pixel-by-pixel will improve handling input that QOI can't compress better.

I would be curious to know if planar helps or hinders. Perhaps even see what QOI makes of YUV etc. And I want to see 'heat maps' of encoded images, showing how cheap and expensive parts of them are, and which block type gets used. Yeah, going a bit beyond the spirit of QOI :D

And from looking at the code I'm a bit confused how 3-channel is handled for literals because the alpha still looks like it gets encoded. Would have to walk through the code to understand that a bit better. Is it going to deref off the end of the source RGB image? Etc.

(People interested in compression may be interested in the go-to forum for talking about it https://encode.su/threads/3753-QOI-(Quite-OK-Image-format)-l...)
I would question whether you're really at the growth fundraising stage if you can't concisely summarize the offering and problem it solves.

How are you going to get customers / revenue if nobody can understand what you are doing without a long explanation?

Maybe you should look for research funding if it's more of an academic problem. Or if you really believe it's time to grow a company, find someone better at targetting messaging to VCs.

I can sympathize, I'm actually in the process of something similar, and was told recently that basically any explanation that appeals to me (as an engineer) is going to be off-putting to the folks I'm pitching to.
Sorry. It’s Multics. I blame either coffee not having kicked in or the auto “correct” of the phone.
We shouldn't stop there.

America needs to make steel again. Plastics. Chemicals.

We need to make electronics, fertilizers, tools.

Everything we need should be onshored. Especially if we expect a cold war with our biggest producer.
This particular source is extremely low quality and is motivated by the author's undisclosed competing product. I would like to see higher quality sources on the front page of hacker news one day.
They already are, and it is legally required that they do so, as are libraries.

https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/childrens-internet-prot...
So when I point out that there are other use cases beyond "replicating an existing financial instrument while trying to avoid the eyes of the state", instead of walking back your claim that no other use cases exist, you simply move the goalposts and attack these use cases in other ways.

They're all perfectly legitimate complaints. But the fact that you have to resort to them, rather than defending your original claim, shows how weak that claim was.
Simple example of how to make a SPA using only Django and HTMX
Yes aircraft carriers always have video cameras running during flight operations. However cameras mounted on the islands might not have a clear view of some sort of cover left on an aircraft.
That's no different to requiring an arcane incantation of shell scripts that call maven, git, curl, docker, , etc. The advantage of having it built into IDEs or CI servers (and by built in I mean TeamCity/Jenkins providing it, not a self inflicted third party plugin) is that you can build around these steps. Imagine if all CI servers supported merge previews or mergebots - that workflow gets unlocked for everyone!
“You cannot be rigid and agile at the same time”
MS are not the best at dogfooding. I think they even once released VS as WPF to prove it can be used in a real app.

Anyway, my experience with VC++ and the packages is that you get better control when shipping the dependencies separately. You can resolve the dependencies during installation but it is just more complex.
> Simple ecosystems and simple software usually have the same thing in common: they are either young, or they've recently survived an extinction-level-event. Older systems with many dynamic constraints breed complex webs.

At the risk of digression, I wish some of the "small government" crowd would realize this.
Thanks for the details. But I'm not quite following this bit: "The whole process of buying stablecoins USDC or Tether to it being sold to ARS and actually landing on my local bank account takes about 5 min maybe"

This sounds like you are going from pesos to pesos in 5 minutes, but I assume that isn't the case. What are you buying the stablecoins with?

Also, if I understand the use case directly, there's nothing here that requires a blockchain at all. The same thing could happen with dollars and another centralized company like Binance, yes? It seems like the novel technical part is the person-to-person transactions used to hide that it's a centralized company. Did I get tha right?
I'm actually not sure this is true. I lived in the US 2014-early 2021 and don't think I used cash after about 2017; I've lived in Europe since and just got touched cash for the first time today because my Christmas tree delivery guy doesn't take Revolut. A few months ago I had lunch at a restaurant whose terminal went down and I asked what they wanted me to do and they said "sure, don't worry about it, come back later today and pay, or whenever you can" (so I did, obviously.)

No doubt there are people for whom cash has valuable properties, but I'm just saying I don't think I'm one of them and my use case seems pretty normal as far as people go.
Protectionism makes everyone worse off.
Maybe it won't cause WWIII
> There is immediate and obvious utility in being able to send value instantly with no fees, with no dependence on a centralized authority.

There is, the problem is you are not sending value, you are sending the modern equivalent of Charles Ponzi's postal reply coupons.
‘Impossible':TSMC founder Morris Chang on US dreams for onshoring chip supply chain

https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4327937

Morris Chang spent 25 years (1958–1983) at Texas Instruments.He knows US very well.
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Article refers this to as fore-edge painting but fore-edge painting refers to art shown only when the edges are fanned so the art may surprise the one opening the book. Surprisingly, as it's considered an endangered craft[0], I found a TikToker doing that: https://www.tiktok.com/@brimariepaints.

[0]: https://heritagecrafts.org.uk/fore-edge-painting/
Streamlit Examples That Motivates Data Scientists to Create Web Apps
Typically over-engineered software looks something like the following.

1) The product is horizontally scalable to 3 orders of magnitude more traffic than the product will ever receive.

2) Bespoke assembler/hand crafted memory management/other do not touch code to shave 5ms off a 5 ms call on an API that isn't latency sensitive.

3) Ability to handle N customer tenants while only handling 1 customer 3 years later.

4) multi-region redundant deployment for 1 customer strictly based out of the US with no availability requirements.

5) 100% coverage for integration tests, unit tests, CI/CD, for a single tenant blog that is never updated and no one reads.

6) Custom internal framework with micro-service splits to support team of 100 engineers working on app when there are 2.

7) Automated continuously trained ML ranking model which performs .001% better than sorting by popularity or other trivial heuristic on a social media app with 10 users.

The common theme in many of these cases is that these are pretty good ideas if you have unlimited people, but have fairly low impact. In some cases these may be counter-productive to successful delivery at the company/product level. A piece of software built wrongly due to poor understanding of the product domain is often considered under-engineering.
I suspect under-producting has killed far more products than over-engineering. The ratio of decision making power to decision making abilities is way out of balance for most Product Managers. Even at the big tech companies I feel most PMs are unimaginative MBA types that can optimize but not innovate and have no grasp of the concept of opportunity cost.

In terms of power structures, Product Managers decisions largely go unchecked in a lot of places. Engineering decisions face significantly more scrutiny, especially in places that work in short sprint cycles.
The graph comparing different banks exposures to China is hilarious.

>NOTE: Goldman Sachs figure refers to ``cross currency outstandings'' as of Dec 2020. Exposure for the rest of the banks as of Sept. 30, third quarter Morgan Stanley's figure represents total net exposure to China, Bank of America's figure is net country exposure, JPMorgan and Citi's figures are total exposure to China.
How to Stop DDoS Attacks
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>That post has since been taken down, but many comments included criticism for leaving such a large amount of Bitcoin accessible on a phone.

Not to victim blame, but it really is odd to me that someone would leave any amount of BTC on their phone, let alone millions of dollars worth.

>The Hamilton teen faces charges of theft over $5,000 and possession of property or proceeds of property obtained by crime

I've always wondered why the line is drawn at $5,000. It's mildly interesting that stealing $46M and stealing $5,000 result in equivalent charges.
Show HN: Effective Pandas – Book on writing maintainable Pandas code
Google Assistant never does that, thankfully.

(...yet?)
The U.S. supply chains would be completely wrecked. We're probably close to a point where in the event of a global war with China, we wouldn't be able to mobilize industry in the same way we did during WW2 simply because the industrial output fo yesteryear no longer exists in the U.S.
That carrier lacks a catapult.
I remember it. It felt more like a way to mark a checkbox for government contracts that required POSIX compliance than a real, usable tool.

I have no doubt some people abused it into being a useful tool. IIRC, it came about at the same time the 370s got vector processing that made them better suited for scientific applications.
That was a fun read, you should write this up in a blog post :)
Man that just kept getting better and better.
> - Do you support SAML 2.0 clients?

There be dragons.

(Disclosure: I work for FusionAuth.)

Funny story. We had a client doing a SAML integration using HTTP-redirect bindings. It worked when you turned off request signature verification (which is fine for testing, but is like using alg="none" for JWTs, a non-starter in production), but failed when that was turned on. We dug in with the client and another vendor, set up some test servers, and identified the bug[0]. Turns out that you can't canonicalize the signature's URL encoded form, because both uppercase and lowercase hex values are allowed, by the SAML spec.

Our open source SAML library[1] has been around for years and used by many clients in FusionAuth and our other projects. It'd never run into this particular edge case. It is a wild west out there in SAML land and it takes years to build a bulletproof implementation. Ory folks, if you can leverage an existing implementation rather than rolling your own, I'd highly advise that approach.

That is also to say nothing of the incoming privacy/cookie limitation changes that are coming in the next few years. This will unfortunately probably negatively affect SAML, which is not a specification that has evolved much. If this is of interest to you, I'd recommend the Federated Identity W3C community group[2].

That said, FusionAuth supports SAML in many forms[3]. SAML support varies across vendors and implementations, but other providers like Keycloak and IdentityServer do so as well.

0: https://github.com/FusionAuth/fusionauth-issues/issues/1496

1: https://github.com/FusionAuth/fusionauth-samlv2

2: https://www.w3.org/community/fed-id/

3: https://fusionauth.io/docs/v1/tech/core-concepts/integration...
"Any application that could be done on a blockchain could be better done on a centralized database. Except crime."

So you're saying there IS a use case :)
The G Equation – “We have cracked the secret of gravity.”
It wouldn't be so bad if "bad ideas fail[ing] hard" didn't have the potential to quite literally ruin the lives of the youths who come up in these environments.
Software like VS code is in direct conflict with the way alpine does things. Alpine on the desktop is certainly not for everyone, but for some use cases it works great.
Does it? Early covid we didn't even have enough PPE. Countries that produced PPE had it.
Watching these American businesspeople grovel to China from the comfort of their democracy makes me wince.

Capitalists are cucked for china, but they pay the GOP to tell you they are anti-china. Meanwhile, every business in China enslaves their people and demands government tribute and ownership of everything.

Fuck China. Fuck Xi. Free Hong Kong.
That's how law works.
So it looks like the algorithm diffs neighbouring pixels, assume that the difference is likely to be small, and encodes the difference in 1, 2, 3 or 4 bytes. It does this without complex things like huffman trees and therefore got a major improvement in performance while approaching the compression ratio of zlib. That's interesting.
> the author's undisclosed competing product

Which is: http://adjoint.io

"Adjoint digitises cash and settlement processes for multinational corporates."
Hollowing out the industrial base leaves us even worse off.
The odds are overwhelming that you do not and will never work on the kind of problems where such a minute advantage (if it even exists, which I doubt) makes any kind of difference to the bottom line. Most business related coding is at the end of the day exceedingly trivial. Requiring any sort of on-site time is a thought that belongs in the past.
The legal situation is similar in Germany, but I wouldn't do street photography here, either.

The article discusses morality and ethics versus personal preference, but that's just high-brow talk.

The point is that today, once someone photographs you, you cannot possibly know where he will post or publish your photo. And yes, that's creepy.

Decades ago photographers maybe showed your picture at a gallery or exhibition. Today everything goes to Instagram, and someone will probably ridicule me for some small thing (a stain on my shirt?), and maybe thousands will pile on, and maybe everyone in my social circle will see it? Embarrassing.
Ctrl+D is great, but will still run a command if it's been typed out so I always Ctrl+C and then Ctrl+D.
I know nothing about the manufacturing cost nor the lifespan of these materials, but I'm curious if it would be viable to have infrastructure for periodically replacing and recycling the panels. I.e., have regional facilities for receiving old panels, re-smelting the lead and other materials, and perhaps locally manufacture the replacements.
I work in games, and my applications require beefy hardware to compile (but much less to run). Using projector would let me use my own hardware locally (e.g. my Macbook) and remotely ruin the 32 core, 128GB ram behemoth to compile the damn app. _this_ would let me work on train rides!
> while your competitor says I can live anywhere and remote in

I think most companies still consider your location when determining your pay. Facebook does for instance, even going as far as tracking your IP to make sure you're being honest. If you choose to move to a lower cost city, they'll adjust your wage. Not sure about the other way around.

That'll probably eventually change, but it could be a useful indicator. The median employee that chooses to live in X may be more productive that the median employee that chooses to live in Y. But that's yet to be seen
Since 2020.x it's definitely slower. The addition of jetbrains space doesn't seem to help either and removing the plugin itself makes the whole ide unstable
I will never understand why computer geeks buy IoT crap and then complain about it. It's like buying rotten food and complaining about it. What's the point?

I know so many computer knowledgeable folks and a fair number of them have 'smart' crap in their homes. These are the same people who then tell me that the IoT is garbage and a security risk and all that. No one forced them to buy that Alexa. Why do these people buy this garbage and then just complain about it?

Why does this author of this article own any of this garbage? Just throw it all away.
Sounds like there are multiple employees. Does the product generate the revenue for their paychecks? If so, it's working correctly.
Websites are not books though and cannot be treated the same way. I see a library more like a giant encyclopedia of knowledge, you should be free to access it if you need to, without books being banned for political reasons or otherwise.

Now, I do support having a kind of a "restricted section" where you can access a book normally out of sight. Say a copy of Kamasutra - it's not on a shelf, but if you need it for a project and got a permission from a teacher - go ahead.
> My question is why did it take this long?

In general, I'd say we've been able to deal with issues by outbidding other countries and exerting international political influence.

> My next question is how many mask factories have we built in the US since we realized that was important?

We're so bad at building.

I'd add to your question with: how custom-built do factories need to be to be efficient?

I expect chip fab is very tailored, but can a t-shirt factory quickly pivot to surgical masks? How about N-95? Can a vacuum cleaner factory start building ventilators? How about HEPA filters? mRNA vaccines?

What are critical things we may need to ramp up rapidly, not just for pandemics, but for the next disaster, and can they be done without building dedicated factories just for those items?

Humans are fabulously general-purpose, so I'd imagine that the more automated the process, the more expensive it is to switch. This would put high-wage countries like the US at a disadvantage with regard to flexible domestic manufacturing. But I've no expertise in this area at all.

These are questions and guesses, not questions and answers. :-)
We're not the censor, you're the censor.
This book banning thing is the new manufacturing of an old moral panic.
I feel like everyone knows why the line is drawn at such a value. So people like us can't afford to commit crimes, but the rich can.
Yeah, this is what I don't understand from the naysayers. Anyone who says blockchain-driven assets don't have intrinsic value seems to ignore the value of trust - the ability to trust that the ledger is accurate seems extremely valuable.

The author of the article skips over the question entirely, maybe he's addressed it elsewhere, but if the crypto skeptics continue to ignore one of its primary value propositions, I have to assume either ignorance or bad faith.
I came across that a few years ago. I'm not sure why I didn't use it. I suspect it's because I wasn't sure if it'd work with the hub, or if it was pico-only.

At least as far as controlling the outlet for holiday lighting: It is a 15-amp circuit, and I could easily anticipate plugging in a power-hungry tool at some time.
Some LZ variants such as LZ77 and LZW are O(n), but LZH, for example, is O(n*logn) because of Huffman encoding. I agree that O(n) is not revolutionary, but the simplicity of this algorithm makes it faster to execute.
The context you trimmed off your quoted line completely changes the meaning of what you quoted.

It was “Simply put: if you want me to be in the city from 9-6 every day, while your competitor says I can live anywhere and remote in,”

Companies requiring employees to be in the city 9-6 aren’t off-shoring and probably aren’t out-sourcing that work.
If we are going to speculate, then the question is, why couldn't AI do it? What kind of fundamental limitation would it hit? Data? But we could get a ton of data from already existing software[^1]. It is slow, but I have the feeling it wouldn't require as much computing as GPT-3, and it would perhaps be enough to train more efficient neural networks that can do the actual search.

Because how important is for human life, a compiler industry that finds ways to translate complicated simulations to AI algorithms could be the next big thing.

[^1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_quantum_chemistry_and_...
I haven't used it as a desktop, but as a minimal VM for bastion SSH servers.
> "If animals weren't factory farmed they'd just be wild" is a dirty lie that you said yourself and I never did.

... yet earlier...

> Because without farming they'd live in the wild

Seems pretty cut and dry.
Exactly. And this "IC" thing is a good example of something they call a negative externality. Negative externality in this sense is when you have to pay/are affected by something you don't want like polluted air.

The original author saved maybe couple of seconds to write "Individual Contributor" on the first occasion of the phrase, but made many people here spent many seconds trying to figure out (probably by searching the internet) on what that acronym means.

This is especially pronounced in some companies where the acronyms might be understandable just to a few members of some team, and when when this is communicated to the wider company, it can cause even a greater confusion (as you cannot search for it online) and waste of time for such a small "irrelevant" thing.

So in other words, it can be compressed a bit in: "why should I waste a little bit of my time, when I can waste everyone else's time". Or simply: it is disrespecting your audience.

The original article beside that is quite interesting though.
I have two use cases for this specific switch that I haven't acted on yet:

* schedule my non-smart EVSE to charge our car when power is cheaper at night

* monitor (but not control) the energy usage of our electric hot water heater. It's the second biggest electricity user in the house but I have to infer how much power it's using based on the other separately metered components.

Cost is the thing holding me back. Will it have positive ROI in a reasonable time for our PHEV minivan that only has a 30KWh battery? Seems somewhat unlikely. Would monitoring the power usage of the hot water heater have positive ROI ever? Also seems unlikely.
How?

It's not protectionism. It's anti-fragility. It's having strong domestic capabilities to meet our every need and not suffer when the world is uncertain.

It's having jobs and prospects for our future generations. The hope Millennials and Gen Z have is dim, and I can point my finger at a huge contributing cause.