skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I knew the dynamic range was large. I did not know about the sensitivity! That is quite impressive.

The magnitude of the dynamic range is even more impressive if converted to 'stops' from photography, yielding about 30 stops (1 stop halves the light). Whereas a really good camera will do about 15 stops.
Though I suppose that the camera gets 15 stops in a single 'scene'. Whilst the 30 stop figure for the human eye does not hold up if half your vision is taken up by daylight and the other half by a night sky. For a single 'scene' I think it becomes hard to define the dynamic range of a human eye though.
IIRC, this is basically a U.S-only phenomenon. In Europe and most other places of the world, there is the understanding that a grave will not last forever.

In most parts of Europe, the grave is actually "guaranteed" to still be yours for quite a short time (~40-50 years) before the lease is up. If you want to keep it, the family has to pay to keep it.
Yesterday there was a discussion[1] about it and someone suggested yandex.com. I'm using it since than and really love it. It's like going back to 2003 where everything was just plain and simple.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29393467
The design and marketing angle is fantastic: https://www.instagram.com/miss.excel/

Very clearly targeting young aspirational women.
Early 2000s google index ran in a garage. The current google index has dedicated power stations.

It's a bit like the car industry - you could run a startup from your garage in the early days but you need titanic amounts of capital to compete now thanks to vertical integration.

Major governments and billionaires can compete but everybody else is locked out of the market (most "startups" use bings index).
There's difficulty in translating these new concepts into examples using existing real-world concepts but as a broad generalisation: a DAO is a "company" that the shareholders govern and the DAO's code is the shareholder agreement which has zero implicit rights or behaviours.

The DAO itself could have code that enables something like, "the code for this DAO can be updated as if 50% of token holders vote yes" and then 50% of token holders could vote yes to a code change that appoints a CEO who has absolute authority or they could vote to change the code so that no vote could ever take place in future, and the code becomes "stuck" forever.

The code for a DAO lives and runs on the blockchain, so the integrity of the DAO is linked to the integrity of the network on which it runs: although there's no absolutes, in the case of a network like Ethereum, it is for all intents and purposes, secure, so deployment and execution is not a network-level attack vector.

Does that help?

The reason DAOs are considered _the future_ by some is the implicit assumption that perfect code is possible to produce. Many non-software engineers believe that _if we have the integrity of the network to guarantee the code cannot be changed without consent, then we can have absolute faith in the code_... but of course, as software engineers, we know code is very fallible, whether it's unintended side effects or malicious backdoors or just an honest misunderstanding of what the code is meant to do, there's millions of ways for code to go wrong long before we need to worry about code integrity.
There must be a joke somewhere here....
Any chance of getting the binaries? Perhaps it can be disassambled
A house making more money than a person working a day job.
It did offer user permission, it was an icon in my taskbar that prompted for it. I didn't go out of my way to do it though.
Location: New York, NY
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Javascript, Vue, Node, Python, Flask, HTML/CSS
Résumé/CV: https://www.drive.google.com/file/d/1KLR3YEXuFYm9l1IeyrhvpR3yDbGapJk9/view?usp=sharing
Email: arafaymbir@gmail.com
The SEC has already proven that they can't keep up with crypto. I don't think crypto will survive if it becomes regulated. While there is a lot of manipulation happening in crypto, there is a lot of organic grassroots efforts as well for people that value privacy and true decentralization. I can only imagine how quickly they'd work to destroy both of those things and target cryptocurrency that promotes those ideals. There is nothing stopping them from regulating exchanges as is.
Looks pretty, and good job. Due to my background I prefer to be confronted with a color coded wall of text and charts ordered by importance and designed like 2000s Japanese websites.
Even then, how could you trust that the physical isolation switch is enough?
In my country there are about 5% women in computer science. We had 5 women and 115 men in my bachelor degree, 1 and 15 in my master degree. Other European countries look quite similar. The 18% of the US is actually quite high in comparison, although that number is also declining. Not sure about the difference computer programmers and software developer, that is probably a topic of definitions of US labor statistics.

Women aren't discriminated against joining CS, they just decide themselves against it. The discrimination explanation does not hold up under scrutiny. But furthermore, it is quite easy to explain the OSS numbers on Github. It is pretty much exactly mirrors in the CS pipeline.

You are also a bad patron for those few women that are in OSS. Because the demanded formalities aren't meant to reduce discrimination, it is about big tech "embracing" OSS in my opinion. That is based on observations vastly nearer to reality than the discrimination story. So, wtf is wrong with the author?

And even IF numbers would be different between pipeline and OSS participation, it doesn't allow for the conclusion that were drawn. They are made up in my opinion.
You're merely documenting how current regulations are inefficient at catching current abuses. With proper regulations, these kind of abuses could be mostly prevented. With anti-regulation sentiment permeating government and politics right now, this becomes much, much more difficult. People will use the failure of antiquated regulations that need to be updated as justification for removing or kneecapping them, because "clearly they don't work anyway".

All systems trend towards chaos eventually. The answer is always more or better regulation. Sometimes better means more, sometimes better means "take these 50 regulations, get rid of them, and replace them with one simple one that gives you better outcomes". We don't want a rulebook so large no one could ever read all of it (we already have that). We don't want the complexity of the regulations to spiral out of control along with the system -- regulations need to be adapted over time to handle the current (and near future) complexity of the system. And we don't want no regulations -- then the system itself will spiral out of control.

The whole idea of legal precedents works against this too -- the logic is inverted --- instead of constantly coming up with new takes and new rules to govern old and current situations, we hark back to a decision someone made 50 years ago and we say "this is set in stone", when we should be constantly updating and modifying those precedents to better fit the current state of the system. Eventually new laws get passed, but the judicial system itself is largely a damper on progress in this regard, dragging us into the past and making changes that could take 5 years take 50 years. We see this reflected in our astounding incarceration rate, and a number of other areas.

The pace of technological and societal evolution has grown to be much faster than the pace at which we upgrade our regulations. We are speeding towards a brick wall.
I live in a warm/hot climate and they are very uncomfortable when it's 90F+ outside. Vaccines are available to everyone in the US, and I'm double vaxxed, everyone I know is double vaxxed, and I'm not afraid of getting COVID -- why should I wear one?

If people want to wear one for the rest of their lives (I doubt they will), have at it. If it is to avoid facial recognition, I guess I get that but have to understand that in that situation you are in a tiny minority of people willing to cover your face in defense of your digital privacy. (Look around you, 90% of the people are uploading themselves to TikToc without a care in the world)

At this point, the masking mandates in the US makes absolutely no sense either. If you fly on a plane, you are allowed to take your mask off to eat or drink but then have to put it back on when your not doing either, as if COVID disappears when you're eating. You can cross state boarders without being tested, etc.

We need to start learning how to live with COVID, because zero COVID is no longer an option. That ship has sailed.
I think some NLP is strictly beneficial for a search engine. You may think "grep for the web" sounds like a good idea, but let me tell you, having tried this, manually going through every permutation of plural forms of words and manually iterating the order of words to find a result is a chore and a half.

Like, instead of trying

PDP11 emulator
PDP-11 emulator
"PDP 11" emulator
PDP11 emulators
PDP-11 emulators
"PDP 11" emulators
PDP11 emulation
PDP-11 emulation
"PDP 11" emulation

Basic NLP can do that a lot faster without introducing a lot of problems.

I do think Google currently goes way overboard with the NLP. It often feels like the query parser is an adversary you need to outsmart to get to the good results, rather than something that's actually helpful. That's not a great vibe. However, I think the big problem isn't what they are doing, but how little control you have over the process.
Hair of the Dog
>If you think about it, humanity really is getting better and better over time.

That is such a vague statement it is essentially meaningless. Better how? How is it not better? What do you mean by humanity? How is your life better? How is it worse?
Such as Google's censoring of the never debunked lab leak theory? Oops. Or how about the now verified Hunter Biden laptop stories? Double oops.

It turns out the line between "politically inconvienent" and "misinformation" can be very fuzzy, even for high profile / important topics.

There is plenty of evidence if you look for it (and I am pretty sure I fall on the opposite side of the political divide from the commentor you are responding to.)

Edit: Google's biases don't just hurt the political right. Google's quick bar for the 2016 Democratic presidential primary was happy list Hillary with all her pledged votes in addition to those she'd actually won, in violation of journalistic standards and Google's previous practices.
Sure they will — they’ll think of us like we do people a few thousand years ago who burned libraries and butchered scholars to enforce orthodoxy from the new empire.

It’s surprisingly hard to destroy all traces, and that was before mass media.
They are too busy counting their money.
I'm curious, how did rust affect you so badly that you hate it so much? If it's just silly people suggesting it everywhere I think you have some personal issues you need to resolve, language choice isn't something to get emotional about.
What This Professor Wishes People Knew About the Real Causes of Low Back Pain
The joke is that the only reason crypto wouldn't "survive" if unregulated is because they (the feds) would un-regulate it out of existence.

...

This is kind of philosophically interesting in light of Giorgio Agamben's discussion of sovereignty and law, in which the prime act of the sovereign is to enact the "ban", i.e. deciding who or what is excluded from the law, which is itself still a status in relation to the law, specifically one of exclusion. So people who trade crypto can be unregulated in the sense of gray area, yet-undecided legality, or they can be "unregulated" in the sense of "explicitly excluded from the legal realm", banned (abandoned), removed from any sort of legal relationship with the state. The USA isn't China, where the idea of someone being "unpersoned" for trading crypto seems like an act that the state could choose to make, but that's the sort of thing I thought would make a good joke.
My personal theory is that they see Apple brazenly pushing anti-competitive features with their browser such as disallowing extensions on anything but Safari and they realize that they can't be called out themselves unless the corrupt courts are willing to call out their darling Apple as well.
Show HN: Cycle Labs – Testing software after it gets deployed to production
I dont run a YT channel, but "Restrictions: ad suitability," suggests that the video is still available (e.g., via URL), but Google is not recommending it because advertisers don't want to be associated with it because of the corpse in the thumbnail (term?).
She's a grifter and a well-documented fantasist...so, she should be back on the Joe Rogan show anytime soon.
Leaked Pfizer safety study.

https://www.scribd.com/document/543857539/CUMULATIVE-ANALYSI...
It's not that easy, they are optimized for many metrics..
You may not be looking at the same market. Some comparisons:

AWS $16,000M revenue Q3
Azure $9,000M est revenue Q3
GCP $4,500M revenue Q3
OVH $181M revenue Q3 (~46M "cloud")
Cloudflare $172M Q3
Hetzner $277M est revenue (2019 year)

A lot of customers find smaller providers very valuable. But the reason you see so many mentions of AWS/Azure/GCP is simply a reflection that yes, the bulk of hosted services in the world are based on those three. Yes the HN crowd might like the approach or thought of the smaller service providers, but they are much much smaller.
Weird, because you were just talking about society. Don't move those goalposts.
I just accept that 10 is buggy at this point and have no desire for an even buggier/jankier 11.

Current bugs:
- every MS app store app has the windows image preview program icon, despite following every guide I could find to fix this.

- sometimes WiFi just dies, and won't come back until I disable the card, full reboot, then enable it (Intel 6 chipset AFAIK, so not some noname brand)

- explorer randomly dies when switching virtual desktops and then comes back. I've had this one 3 machines now and I've no clue why.
I know, that's why I'm not asking him to do that. It's just instead of giving him money what he really needs is an opportunity to speak with professionals. The issue is a typical academic career path is usually the only way to speak to those people.
#1 is Nvidias play as well, no? More the hardware side rather than the data side of course.
Certain names and phrases have become people's MK-Ultra trigger words. If you want to know what the system is protecting itself against, just watch how people react when confronted with the blacklisted words.
Regarding the Gatekeeper companies like Cloudflare, it sounds like anti-competitive behavior that could potentially be targeted with anti-trust legislation, correct?
The video is available via direct link, as you have demonstrated, but it’s delisted: https://mobile.twitter.com/TKDSayan/status/14658291871267143...

The video is essentially hellbanned.

[edit] It’s listed now if I click back to Park’s account page. Glitch or anti-Streisand maneuver? Impossible to tell.
> 20 dB represents a change of a factor of 10 in amplitude (volts), while 40 dB is a factor of 100, 60 dB a factor of 1000, and so on.

I always thought it was 10dB, or one B that was a change of factor 10.
Have I missed something?
Generations near to us probably won't. Hopefully as the cycle of history repeats itself those further from us will see our folly for what it is.
You're not referencing any data at all, just handwaving at it. You're only comparing the raw infection rates without taking into account the amount of mitigating measures such as mask mandates, work-from-home orders, and closing of schools, restaurants and bars. Last year's numbers were all achieved with very stringent lockdowns and school closures; pretty much all those countries returned to classroom teaching in September of this year.

So no, you don't get to claim "hard data" on your opinion.
To me, the only hardline stance we can take against censorship is to keep (or return to) the internet decentralized as much as possible. Whenever Facebook or Amazon or Twitter or Youtube start censoring, somebody (who inevitably agrees with this specific instance of censorship) will insist "they're a private company, they can do whatever they want!" And this is absolutely, completely, totally correct and appropriate. What the rest of us have to do is to make sure that another private company can compete with them. The problem is, all of the ISPs that make up the internet backbone are also private companies that can do whatever they want. As soon as they agree to collude to stop routing traffic from, say Parler, the way AWS did when it threatened Twitter - as is their legal right as private organizations - the internet has effectively become a monopoly.

Fortunately, the internet protocols themselves are open, at least until Google takes full control of the internet and classifies the IETF publications.
I think you should double-check the harmonics that would get passed relative to a quarter-wave mesh.
Your comment is based on the same strategies as the headlines and the book talks about. Define "These people". Hasty Generalization. "These people" don't move in unison like a school of fish, and every good faith reader knows that. There's no inconsistency.
It's interesting how many people here rationalise the trash that Windows 11 is by thinking that Microsoft is purposefully trying things out for Windows 12 which will be much better again. As if Microsoft would actually produce trash on purpose and piss off lots of their remaining customers with some optimistic big picture in mind. Nah, the truth is they actually think it's a great OS which is really the scary thing in this entire thing. You'd think one day they'd manage to hire at least one good UX person from their competitors to clean up the trash Windows has been for years now but they keep thinking they can do it themselves with the same people who have already been doing the same trash for way too long.
As sibling comments are pointing out, yes, any non-1.0 gamma (i.e. intensity^gamma) is a non-linear transformation, but what I think you are trying to point out instead (and is weird/unique) is that sRGB has a "non-constant gamma". Or, said another way, the non-linear intensity transformation cannot be represented by a simple gamma value. The transformation is, in fact, piecewise, with a linear transformation in the region from 0 to [some low intensity] and a more traditional gamma-like curve from [some low intensity] to 1.0.

(In practice this curve is a pain, so many systems over the years have just settled to approximate it as a 2.2 gamma curve.)
I graduated college and started working at a local tractor manufacturer. In hindsight, this company had no idea how to make software.

For instance, they required that all "software engineers" were from an accredited engineering program--at the time, none of the universities in the area had an accredited software engineering program, so they would hire electrical engineering majors who had no desire to write software but were looking for a way to get their foot in the door. Most of the EE majors had a single semester of C and that was their entire software qualification; however, I double majored in EE and CS and my passion was software. That said, when I graduated I didn't understand any of this--I just figured there was this successful company and there was so much I didn't know about software, so I thought I would learn loads there--and I did learn loads, but it was mostly about what not to do.

One of my first projects was to take over an embedded C++/Qt project that had been bid out to some contractors in the Ukraine. The software was super buggy and the code was immensely convoluted. Test coverage was part of the contract, so it had tests, but even still, no one could change anything without breaking everything. It took me weeks of plotting the code paths to figure out that there were many paths through the code that were only exercised by tests--literally they were just trying to boost their code coverage metrics by adding code that was unreachable at production. I guess it didn't occur to me that professional software engineers would be so bad at writing code, and that a large and well-known software company would hire them.

Thankfully, after eventually gaining my entirely-nontechnical manager's trust, we were able to bring in a consultancy who helped me demonstrate that it would be no more than half the cost to rewrite the code rather than try to fix all of the existing bugs even if we never found other bugs or introduced a single bug of our own. We did the rewrite and it was successful, but I was beginning to realize that in some overly simplistic sense, I was the "smartest" one in the room as it pertained to software development anyway.

Ten years later, when I talk to my peers who stayed, many of them have been writing embedded C programs and various MatLab models and they still don't understand pointers or dynamic memory or git or anything outside of their very local niche. Which would be fine if they were happy, but now many want to move to another company but they lack the skills and confidence to get anything more than an entry level job at many other software companies--so much of their compensation is derived from their knowledge of their employer's business and processes rather than their technical acumen, so they would likely have to take a significant pay cut to move to another employer.

Anyway, this is already a very long post despite oversimplifying many things, but I hope this illustrates what it looks like to be the smartest person in the room and why it's not good.
That's very cool, he's basically test equipment royalty. But he's the son of one of the founders - Rhode & Schwarz was founded in the 1930's.
we all know what the %15 is for.

but note that if you do 3 comparisons, or 2 comparisons and an "extra" comparison, you've done the same number of comparisons, it's not really 'extra'

then go ahead and keep adding factors and see which results in more comparisons as we rack up the actually extra comparisons for various combinations of factors

btw and ftw, your modulo and string test example, more correct than the usual implementation, is among the most efficient:

http://www.zoharbabin.com/which-fizzbuzz-solution-is-the-mos...

// still not so serious...
It is difficult to get a crypto proponent to understand something, when their crypto wealth depends on them not understanding it.

EDIT: If you steal my gold or other metal store of value, I can pursue you in court and recover my loss (either the actual materials lost or fiat value). If you steal my single named security, I can pursue you in court and recover my loss (or the clearinghouse will reverse the transaction). Crypto cannot be both an investment accessible to everyone, governed by nation state regulators, and a wild west where you can lose everything at a drop of a hat due to an opsec slip and there is no recourse. That is incompatible with the law.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/19/over-10-billion-lost-to-defi... (Criminals have made off with over $10 billion in ‘DeFi’ scams and thefts this year) <-- This won't fly with the folks who write and enforce the law. Their job is to protect people (investors!) from the folks who believe those who owns the keys and crypto owns the property regardless of how it was obtained.
I think this is wrong, but once Tether implodes, it will erase a huge amount of value and the ecosystem will take years to recover.
They do[0] but nobody cares anymore. Google controls web distribution through Google Chrome. I think we are at the point of no return. There won't be any competition anytime soon no matter what US government does. Only innovation can displace Google.

[0] https://search.marginalia.nu/