skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am so very sorry about the chiggers. I grew up with them in Florida and they were not a fun experience for me either.

I am though delighted to hear that my classic games were helpful in you understanding your own gifts! I appreciate you sharing that with me!
"Windows 10 it ships with Universal C Runtime", really? Is this a different thing than vc_redist?

Games still require vc_redist.x86.exe or vc_redist.x64.exe to be installed, even on Windows 10. Ancient games also require ancient versions of these to be installed.

I have always found it very strange that these wasnt just included in Windows.
> 99.9% people don't want to run their own SMTP server. It's an ultra-niche use case ISP don't care about.

It's not SMTP. It's StopForumSpam and CloudFlare that you need to worry about.
HMS Queen Elizabeth doesn't have a catapult.
Have you seen codecs? I've recently been exploring this space and there is not one corner of this universe that isn't a lurking Lovecraftian horror.

Un-compressed formats like BMP are sane I guess but most of those are wrapped in crufty, sparsely documented container formats. Ogg is decent but even it takes quite the deep dive to even begin wrangling it.
We're like one or two hardware generations away from having a VME backplane like environment where we'll be able to do some truly nifty and nasty things, at home and hobby levels.

The politics of getting a standard out that isn't owned by (and therefore twisted to favor) a couple of big companies is challenging, but it's happened before, right? (crickets)
They are essentially 3 graphs displayed together. It probably would have make sense to present them more separately.
So I really see the value of voice-activated stuff now that I have a baby. I have a few Ikea dimmable LEDs which work reasonably well aside from the 0.5s-5s delay to actuate them. I've even set up Homebridge to get non-Homekit baby devices (like the Hatch sound machine) voice activated via Siri.

But the phone home stuff is just insane to me. I bought an Insignia garage door opener trigger that works with Homekit natively without an app, figuring that would be the simplest possible setup (and cheaper than RF-based physical remotes). I Wiresharked the traffic it was sending out (in order to block it) and it phones home over a *Wireguard VPN tunnel*. I've seen some shady phone-home behaviour from cheap Chinese devices but never this.

So now it is totally blocked from accessing the internet and it does open the garage door, but I am told "there was an error communicating" every single time.

I will mention one device I absolutely love: CloudFree Smart Plug 2 for energy monitoring. As I mentioned on my Twitter※: [CloudFree Smart Plug 2] are the first IoT product I've ever used with zero friction whatsoever. First time usage, from unboxing to pulling power stats over HTTP API in under 3 minutes. No other products come close.

※ - just copy/pasted my Tweet, no need to hyperlink it
Digitizing the timer doesn’t improve the reliability of the electrical components though.
Hamilton teen embroiled in FBI probe, fingered in $46M cryptocurrency theft
Were any of the recently withdrawn-by-publisher Seuss books, like "And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street", widely removed from school libraries? Or is this a purely "Beloved" phenomenon?

The closest I could find about coverage on this was an article saying that some libraries reclassified the Seuss books as "reference" to prohibit checkouts because they were being stolen (e.g. https://oxfordobserver.org/5172/community/dr-seuss-enterpris...).
All indications point to it coming from a laboratory even if they cannot pinpoint the exact one or 100% prove it. Statistically it's likely it came from the WUHAN lab, you know in the town it started. The correlation is too high to be ignored.

The NIH has been caught funding gain of function there.

So, sure go ahead and dismiss it as conspiracy but at this point you're the one sounding more like a conspiracy theorist by denying the ever growing evidence.
Robots in Europe Vote for the Radical Right
Previously posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29314269 (paywalled article)
> but the error rate might be too high for it to scale much

That just means you need a redundant array of parrots operating in parallel, with a regulator to detect different answers to the same problem and retry.
Stop confusing K-12 public school libraries with public libraries. K-12 public school libraries always have a small selection of books. Vast majority of books are not in K-12 public school libraries. There is no parallel between select books for K-12 public school libraries and banning books from libraries.

If this is about you want to indoctrinate certain ideology into kids using the public school system, at least be honest about it. Stop pretending this is about banning books.

Stop using the K-12 public school libraries or the public school system as the battle ground for spreading radical political ideologies. Our public school system is already bad enough.
I mean as a swiss person, your biggest industry (watches) exists almost entirely out of "it looks cool". Rich Militaries buy the F-35 because it's a cool toy, in the same way a rich businessman buys a Patel Phillipe. Not because he needs to tell time, but because he wants to have something fun to play with and look at when he has free time.
How else would you reproduce images at exactly the right size? Without DPI, the format would be useless for many scientific purposes.

But I get your worries. As a compromise, DPI could be optional.
The Hebrew part (depending on what you consider cannon) was more likely composed/compiled over a few hundred years. Although the stories may be older, the spelling and other elements are from the Babylonian period.

The poems do retain the older Hebrew though.
I prefer to buy and use stuff with “open”-ish interfaces. This is usually more commercial, industrial, or high end, but I don’t need my request to turn on the light to go to some server in AWS.

I like these openish interfaces because when it breaks, I can fix it.
it was subcontracted to france and italy. i think they now do provide this service 24/7 due to minor backlash. however, the time a jet is in the air, the "enemy " is already in another country.
The best: an old CD player called Workbone on Slackware. It made great use of the number keys for pause/play/ff/rw/eject.

The worst: I used to work with an awful custom-built industrial computer.

You had to enter the 10-character alphanumeric codes of 98 rail cars into a command-line interface that didn't permit backspacing. One mistake. Car 97. Do it all again.
This is just unbelievably creepy, in any real world deployment context.
I think people underestimate the cascading effect that avoiding a seed / angel round can have on cap tables in later rounds. It allows the founders to retain control for much longer, which in my opinion is a critical factor for success of a rapid-growth product company. A founder has a clarity of vision that, when it aligns with the market, delivers outsized results and delights customers. You can avoid decision-making by committee for a lot longer, which gives you a much better shot at success.

Their companies are more successful as a result (when the vision aligns with the market — things can go to shit just as quickly if the vision is off). And we see this story of parental financial resources reflected in nearly every case. The fact that these were technically “loans” is largely an artifact of tax law.
depends on the compiler and language. golang seems to counter point your position quite handedly. having one of the fastest compile times and being highly concurrent.

if your application is so simple it doesn't use concurrency then 99% of the time you can completely remove the need for GC by preallocating slabs.
A relevant excerpt:

> We also discovered that these interest stereotypes were linked to worse outcomes for girls. The more that a typical girl in our study believed in these stereotypes favoring boys, the less motivated she was in computer science and engineering. This wasn’t the case for the typical boy. The more he believed in these stereotypes, the more motivated he was.

Three things stand out to me:

1) The article uses very pointed black/white language, even though it's describing something as mild as children's interest in hobbies... Girls not being into computers is only a "worse outcome" if a career in CompSci is your measurement of "good" in this world. Why is that the case? Article makes little mention of this.

2) The article is very clear that it's about the children's "belief", not any concrete measurements of their lives. A two-year opinion survey (as in here) is not nearly as convincing as its more expensive cousin, the longitudinal study. The only reasonable call to action for the reader is to change what their children "believe" and secretly hope the world becomes "better."

3) The article starts with "Stereotypes about what boys and girls supposedly like aren’t hard to find." Words like "supposedly" prime the reader into thinking childhood gender differences are arbitrary, which the rest of the article seems to assume. This is not clearly explained.

This article is very clearly slanted. It's a shame that such an interesting topic always gets this kind of lip service. If there were evidence that demonstrates women being genuinely happier/healthier/more fulfilled in STEM fields that would be cool to read.
Experienced full stack here. Neither are easier, but front-end is more annoying to me. It's the only part of the software that non-coders can understand - thus there are endless battles on certain designs and why they won't work, etc.

These days, a lot of front-end is also "back-end". If you are managing state client side in a SPA, you have a back-end - it's in the browser.

I'd be wary of anyone that can definitively tell you one is harder than the other. They don't know what they're talking about.
You might(?) be thinking of the SunRay stuff, which was certainly not X-windows based, though similar in concept/architecture. There was never a time when "everyone simply had a dumb graphical terminal".

(I never worked directly for Sun, though I did have a hell of a lot of dealings with both the Church and State sides of their business.)
The idea isn't to open dynamic libraries randomly but to open dynamic libraries you explicitly know they provide the newer than 3 years functionality you want.

It isn't some fantastic never-seen-before concept, it is how applications on Windows can use new APIs from Windows 11 while still running on Windows XP or how OpenGL programs can use APIs from OpenGL 4.6 while being able to run on drivers that only expose OpenGL 3.1.
The meta-lesson here is that if you plan to go into the business of providing service for an existing tech ecosystem, be prepared in your future for a fight like this.

Companies with small, insular lock-in arrangements don't cede territory willingly. Be it squeezing in on the dominant grocery in a small town, the used car dealers in a county, or the inkjet printer ink cartridge supply chain, find a damn good lawyer who's excited for a fight early in your company's life.
Even if you understand the Hebrew, much of the original meaning has been lost. I'd recommend Kugel 'How to read the Bible' for this.
I don't think this method fits camera raws particularly well. The real world is noisy, so it becomes very unlikely that you would ever hit the two most compressible methods of QOI, (1) pixel value repeat or (2) index into one of the previous 64 pixels. QOI works really well for 8-bit screenshots, with lots of pixel-values repetitions. No such luck in noisy 14-bit real-world images.

Also, this format was designed to be as simple as possible, and is byte-aligned, only handles 8-bit RGBA. You would need a different design for 12/14-bit RGB or RGBG (Bayer).
No, it increases the security and continuity of our civilization when China invades Taiwan.
"you'd better be paying me extra to cover my increased rent"

I have some sorry news for Americans thinking this way on this one: you just outsourced yourselves.

There are people 2x as smart and who will work 2x as hard for 1/2 the salary among remaining 7 Billion people on this planet and if the bank can hire them instead of you, eventually they will.

In some aspects, relationships do matter, so those have face-to-face types of interactions will be obviously harder to displace.

The US saw a giant outsourcing of manufacturing, and now that US Megacorps are globalized and not locally owned, they don't have any reason to care about local talent, the same will start to happen in services.

I do however think that communicating matters a lot, and people will just find themselves back at the office.

I don't think people realize how quickly this can happen.

Now that we can work 'remote' - everyone is thinking about all the projects they can do for x% the cost, they're looking to trim the budget, and there's a pile of solid applications from Canada, Taiwan, Poland, Brazil, Spain on their desks.
Who caused the chip crisis? China has its own explanation
Same, most of the tech people I know have no aversion to these things, plus Chrome, Facebook, stock Android or other Google products. It makes me sad that the people who should be pushing against the death of the free internet don't give a shit. At this point I've accepted that Firefox will be going away at some point in the not-so-distant future, but somebody will have to pry it from my cold dead hands.
Well then, again, would you want a flat-earther science manual in the school library?

Schools exercising discretion is not 1940s Germany book bans and the two are not comparable.
That only works to a point. If a community decided "math is stupid, our schools shouldn't be teaching it", they should quite rightly be overridden. Instead of treating it like a power grab, perhaps the process for determining curriculum should be more open and transparent?
For anyone else confused, it's 85 F-35s for $12B, not $85B

It's also worth noting that these other aircraft are widely criticized as being excessively expensive as well, mostly because of the exact same issues with the acquisition process. For example the CH-53K is supposed to cost half of that, but because only 9 are being purchased this year the fixed costs aren't as amortized as predicted. And that's really the crux of it: the F35 acquisition was always going to be an 11 figure program, but the leading digit could have been a 1 instead of a 4, the price tag is the right order of magnitude, but there were still hundreds of billions of dollars wasted due to mismanagement.
Nothing. But the alternative isn't great either.

Its more costly and vastly more negative from a PR perspective, for McDonalds to force franchisees to change ice cream machinery vendors.

Same thing for Taylor upgrading their own machines - with the added cost that they don't have any goodwill to start.

There's an added incentive here that McD wants the legal shield up at all times - they are incentivized to keep machine error rate very low, to the cost of $$ in sales lost.

Consumers greatly benefit from it - we get worse availability of ice cream when we walk in, and we are paying slightly more in menu prices, but the risk of getting poisoned from eating ice cream at McD ends up extremely low.
Catholic oblates use complex corporate structure to avoid paying settlements
It needs a new protocol:

ponzi://
To repeat: I've never been asked to provide anything of the sort to Gandi.
Are you implying that makes it better? Because I couldn't disagree more. It's one thing if someone just holds different political opinions, it's another to see problems in the world, acknowledge their cause, and fan the flames anyway. Things like posting that Republicans are likely to be hunted [1] if Biden wins are the sort of thing that led to a literal coup attempt.

[1] https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/127830983545328435...
Anyone know where there's data on challenges over time?

I could only find these two things:

https://www.ala.org/advocacy/sites/ala.org.advocacy/files/co...

https://bookriot.com/statistics-of-censorship/

I have a feeling something more comprehensive and precise is out there but I don't know where to look. The ALA has a "field report" but they charge for it and I'm not even sure if it would have the content I'm looking for.

Most of the data I can find is on the most frequently challenged books, and the reasons for doing so.
As a customer I can say Lutron engineers totally engaged with me over a home assistant bug and helped get it fixed.
Great question and I hope this gets answered.

Most industries in the US only care if a location has water capacity rather than sustainability issues.
Ah, thank you for the clarification and I agree! Another point is that 3rd party tools can easily deactivate profiles (we've seen enough posts on HN about being locked out of a Google account) which means users loose access to your system unless you have fallbacks in place.

It's also important to note that almost no 3rd party providers offer the ability to require 2FA as part of their flows. So if you need 2FA and similar, you'll end up with your own system again. And you'll probably use passwords, because proving that you own two things - eg email and device - is not a second factor. If someone steals your laptop (something you no longer own :D ) it's just one factor!
I don't disagree, but I think that the reason that this fits here is because the poorly engineered software is unnecessarily complex (not in the "someday we might need this" way, but in ways that I'm having a hard time articulating without giving away the product because I know my coworkers are on HN). In fact, it was the ridiculous complexity that drove me to discover the disparities between the original developer's mental-model and the working-model. It just so happens that I've worked on this sort of thing before (as have thousands of others) that I was pretty quickly able to understand where the original developer went wrong (trust me, I'm just an ordinary developer, not a 10x elite hacker or anything).
Try 'python3' or 'python2'.
Scanning your receipts: A way to keep your business alive
The reason it works on traditional flat panels is that there is a one to one correspondence between the image data and the panel layout. That is not the case with PenTile displays and there many different subpixel arrangements so it is not possible to predict what subpixels on the display will lit up for a given subpixel in the image data. For best results you also need fonts designed for subpixel rendering so even if subpixel rendering was practical on PenTile displays you would carefully need to tune the fonts for every possible PenTile subpixel arrangement.
The companies I've seen adjusting salaries are adjusting for "market rate" of salaries, not CoL. This can result in moving to an area with a higher cost of living and a lower salary.
The sticky issue of consent in street photography
Standards adoption shouldn't even be controversial, really. Fixing weights and measures has been government policy since time immemorial, as have street addresses, snail mail, and telephone. The idea that the internet should not involve the state is, honestly, pretty weird when you try comparing it to other stuff.
It's a must on my systems. After I once rebooted the wrong server accidentally, I now force myself to go through the pain of confirming the hostname of the machine.

Also, it's possible to circumvent it when you have scripts that need to reboot the machine without interaction by issuing `reboot </dev/null` in the script.
And thus we are completing a huge circle that starts with the world where computation is concentrated on a handful of large computers and users having only thin clients and we will end up more or less in the same state with PCs being nothing more than thin clients to run a think client layer like projector client, web browser, rdesktop, ssh, etc.

The final step will be take away users' ability to do anything on the machine other than just reach cloud premises of their employers and service providers. This most likely will happen in the name of increased security and convenience.
Hi!

I did the entire programming of obth of the TI cartrige games, the text adventure cartridge (read in the games from cassette) and the special made-for-TI graphical text adventure in a cartridge: Return to Pirates Island.

My game language interpreter was already separate from games written in my adventure language. So putting the interpreter on the cartridge was not very difficult. See one of the other threads on this AMA for more information about that!

I acutally have a TI/99 still today. It is the only classic machine I have. :)
Well, there's a huge benefit of COVID.

The related chip shortage finally woke up the US gov on supply chains.

My question is why did it take this long? I have been worried about this for nearly a decade.

My next question is how many mask factories have we built in the US since we realized that was important?
MAU pricing is terrible! love this idea.

Heads up, I don't quite get this from your pricing page at all right now.. It says "First 900 free" and "First 100 free" without any indication of what those numbers mean.
Which radical political ideologies?
How about Bezos then?
Typically art is not directed at unsuspecting bystanders and rarely breaks laws that carry potential prison sentences[0]. Even so, I would say that artist understand that they are fucking with people, but they believe that the value of their expression outweighs it. Weather I agree or not would be irrelevant, because they would either explain it as such (artists usually take credit for their work, unlike the Headroom prankster), or decide they were wrong and be embarrassed by it. The latter is offered as an explanation for why no one has come forward and I defend that possibility against naysayers who, for some reason, seem to believe there is no possibility of embarrassment.

[0] notable Banksy works come to mind as counter examples, and I would not not say that they were being a bit of an asshole. Sometimes you may need to be an asshole to make your point though.
As you mention they're not just offset differently, they're also at different resolutions. In theory you can achieve something similar by rendering at a higher resolution and downsampling with an appropriate filter, but then you're using a completely different algorithm that has nothing to do with the RGB "subpixel" cleartype rendering anymore.
That’s why you use COM or WinRT with strong contracts.
Taylor, TX is not in Eastern TX, and eastern TX courts’ patent trolling were neutered by Supreme Court in May 2017:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TC_Heartland_LLC_v._Kraft_Food...
Over-engineering can inhibit or delay your work (art work) from becoming a product, but it cannot kill your product alone.

In some cases over-engineering may even lead you to stumble upon interesting discoveries or to innovate.
I would be terrified to have a needy, unreliable network of "smart" smoke / fire detectors. How is that even remotely acceptable?
Specs are often over engineered. This is part of the problem. Too much effort in rowing the boat, not enough effort in figuring out the right direction to point it first.
The problem here is economic disparity. If people can't afford to send their children to the school of their choosing, then it's a signal wages are too low. This also applies to public schools, you can be the smartest kid in certain inner cities, and you're unlikely to do well compared to an average kid in a higher income area.

But even if we have unlimited funding for lower education, what's the purpose? The vast majority of society isn't fit for a traditional university education. And even if they are, the vast majority of university students go on to achieve what, exactly?

Sure, some kids might not be able to achieve their dreams, welcome to the club. Is the dream of a life being a scientist or some such any better than the dream of being a professional skier or race car driver? We're not robots, we're people. The obsession with academic excellence has to end.