skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Maybe it helps, maybe it doesn't, but I like being high and at this point I am addicted for sure anyway.

I smoked occasionally since my 20's and by occasionally i mean 3-4 times a year if even. then around 35 I started smoking on my own and it went from a puff or two at 9pm to help sleep to 3-4 j's a day. Like you I cant tell if it does anything any more. Likely I'm just giving myself lung cancer. And I too enjoy being intoxicated. my family is full of addiction so it figures.

Bottom line is YMMV and be careful with self medicating.
> this is a lot more expensive solution

That implies there already is a solution. What is the existing solution?
This was brilliant, I had a chuckle.
Python also puts what should be methods as global functions, e.g. len, filter, reduce.
Major Chinese city locks down to control Covid outbreak
While I love the premise, it should do a better job of keeping track of active and secure instances of the different services. I've had a lot of trouble with broken redirects.
Would you suggest any resources to learn the way you point out (more efficient use of hardware)? Books, courses, a roadmap, topics I should learn...
I'm skeptical that this can work in a way that is fundamentally different than games without NFTs today.
I’ve mainly seen friends use it as something to do while you’re waiting for the vehicle to charge. Does seem weird it wouldn’t be disabled for drivers though.
I didn't see the fun in many subjects either, and got appropriately poor grades that reflected my level of knowledge or skill.

For PE we had normatives we were supposed to meet -- so many pullups, etc (based on old soviet army normatives I think :)), and if you don't you got corresponding grade.

I would make sense to break PE course into two -- one about theory and one about skill and have two separate grades for them.
Choosing an ego-maniacal wannabe-improv-comedian to run the company wasn't a great idea either.
I think the sophisticated reader (NYTs being the 'paper of record' and all), should be able to be exposed to commonly held opinions of their political enemies, even if the rhetoric or 'factual basis' they might hold in disrepute.

The fact is the NYT can't even put the words of a sitting US Senator on their pages, with no implicit _agreement_ of its factual value, and instead decapitates their own for it, shows crippling ideological constraint.
>Should we be telling all the sex workers and adult entertainers that we should be better at "building trust"

Given that the reason there was controversy around OnlyFans was because of scandals about child sex trafficking, I'd say yes. The rest of society should be able to trust that OnlyFans is not providing a platform for trafficking children; crypto payments do nothing to solve that problem, they may even make it worse. They're really good at increasing fees for middlemen though, and it's very frustrating to hear them pitched as a solution to something when the original problem seems to so often get lost in translation.
> your on-device title does not reflect your app’s functionality.

So you cannot just give it any name, it has to reflect the app's functionality? That is weird. I have a project that is named X, but from that alone you cannot tell what it does exactly. It is impossible to give it a name that would do that.
i m gonna defend twitter as it s the only place where i find original thinkers and ideas. And yeah i hate the loss of RSS
Whys it matter? Its solid, exists everywhere and works and contributors dont have to learn $buildsystem of the month
Cosmic Triangles Open a Window to the Origin of Time (2019)
Esports High School Opening in Japan Next Spring
PageRank was a massive improvement over every other option at the time. It was also, in the long run, a terrible idea that has a few VERY wrong assumptions built into it. (As does web search in general.)

Larry ended up making PageRank because the number of sites that linked to a site was the best measure when all links were created by humans and the Web wasn't commercialized. It was an automation/algorithm for the measure most link lists/curators used at the time to determine precedence order and importance, but for one thing, that measure only works when the sites themselves are vetted first (you wouldn't get a link on 'Best Science Links on the WWW' unless the author of the site liked your site and was convinced it wasn't full of crap).

More broadly, as someone who agrees with OldTimeCoffee but thinks it wasn't purposeful, I'd say that search and web crawlers won an early war I'm not sure they should have won. We can't turn back the clock, but I do wonder what it would have looked like if Google were founded 17 years after the Web started and not 7.
I find it interesting that QOI avoids any kind of Huffman style coding.

Huffman encoding lets you store frequently used values in fewer bits than rarely occurring values, but the cost of a naïve implementation is a branch on every encoded bit. You can mitigate this by making a state machine keyed by "accumulated prefix bits" and as many bits as you want to process in a whack, these tables will blow out your L1 data cache and trash a lot of your L2 cache as well.¹

The "opcode" strategy in QOI is going to give you branches, but they appear nearly perfectly predictable for common image types², so that helps. It has a table of recent colors, but that is only of a few cache lines.

In all, it seems a better fit for the deep pipelines and wildly varying access speeds across cache and memory layers which we find today.

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¹ I don't think it ever made it into a paper, but in the mid-80s, when the best our Vax ethernet adapters could do was ~3Mbps I was getting about 10Mbps of decompressed 12 bit monochrome imagery out of a ~1.3MIP computer using this technique.

² I also wouldn't be surprised if this statement is false. It just seems that for continuous tone images one of RGBA, DIFF, or LUMA is going to win for any given region of a scan line.
I don't know of anyone doing 1:1 ROS tutoring, but here are some other links that might help:

- The Construct (ROS training courses): https://www.theconstructsim.com/

- ROS Discourse (forums): https://discourse.ros.org/

- Foxglove Community Slack (plenty of folks willing to answer questions): https://foxglove.dev/slack
I don’t know if it’s intentional, but your comment comes off very hostile.

Recently we has a violent power outage where I work due to the tornados in the midwest. A few of our facilities have industrial hardware with batteries that will last for 72 hours and after that point it’s a world of unknowns what will happen. The batteries died after a lot of effort to try and restore power, but everything came up just fine.

However, a random Cisco switch elsewhere in the building had at least one power supply fail.

This was in one facility where most of these have been running for 4+ years straight (12 years for the system with a 72 hour battery.)

I find it hard to imagine that in the scale of even one AZ that it wouldn’t be possible that at least one system has this happen.
Are you me? I've been keeping a txt file for the last 12 years too.

Synced in Dropbox, only available on my laptops (on purpose), only ever opened with Sublime Text, and using my own syntax highlighting, keywords and autocompletions. A new block of text for every day. Nothing is ever deleted. Consistent writing style, lots of checkboxes, and an onthology of tags to categorise everything.

File size at time of writing: 3.5 MB.
I agree that advice that "isn’t practical" is bad advice, as the article states.

I do NOT agree that advice that "isn’t insightful" or "is obvious" is bad advice.

The author complains that "Work hard" is bad advice, and I don't agree. Some people I meet are not willing to work hard. You may think it's obvious, but that doesn't mean it really is obvious. Even if it's obvious, people often need reminding of obvious things, because "obvious" things are easy to forget.

Vince Lombardi was famous at starting training from the beginning. He would start his training courses by telling highly-trained athletes, “this is a football.” https://jamesclear.com/vince-lombardi-fundamentals
Excellent athletes continually train and excercise the fundamentals, because they are fundamental. "Obvious" things do require reminders. They require reminders because they're boring, & we often want to shift to the novel thing instead of focusing on the important thing.

Even worse, if it's novel, then it's often wrong. Sometimes the new can be really helpful - but seeking novelty for its own sake misses the point. You want good advice, not novel advice, and the two are not the same thing.
Israel Considers 4th Vaccine Dose, but Some Experts Say It's Premature
My wife once called it "affinity porn," in that a lot of demand is the feeling of proximity to something great gives you some kind of essence of that greatness, like it will rub off in some way. Why do people like getting signatures of sports figures (ignoring second order financial motives to serve to the those with genuine interest)? Or to shake the hand of a political or religious leader? So much of the advice literature seems like it falls into that category, especially those that are memoirs in advice-book form.
> For example, it wouldn't be hard for an artist to publish a video saying "Hey folks, this is my public key, and these are the NFTs for these pieces of art"

So then how do we know that artist actually created that art? For all we know, that artist took someone else's work and was just the first to mint NFTs for it on that particular chain. Maybe the legitimate artist minted NFTs on a different chain later so nobody will ever believe they created it because of the timestamp.

As I understand it, this sort of 'theft' is happening all the time right now.
Astalavista was the darker Altavisa alternative..
When I want to set a timer I have to walk over to the device and unmute it because I refuse to leave it unmuted at this point. It is partially due to the fact that I have Sonos speakers with alexa built in and it just wasn't well done. Leaving it unmuted leads to it constantly activating from normal conversations.

After being prompted by one of these 'new features' when I physically turned it on and spoke to it only to set a timer is a really big turn off for me. No I do not want your advertisements while I am trying to manage the stove and oven. You've made the ONE feature that I actually use more inconvenient than just doing it manually.

The real reason I only use it for timers though is because it has been completely useless for anything else.
Asking it questions never yields anything useful even when it is able to actually understand what I've said correctly.
Their macOS download link is broken. Oh well.
> You do not have to use FB/Meta.

Unfortunately there is a so-called "network effect", which prevents quitting for many users.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29666048

TLDR if electronics are near-death, a power cycle is likely to kick it over the edge.
"We are developing a web-based tool that combines a detailed animated molecular working model of different stages of the coronavirus life cycle with mechanisms for the research community to annotate and discuss aspects of the model. Users will be able to step through the animated life cycle model and annotate specific molecular elements, both in space and time. The annotations from the research community, which will be visible publicly, will serve to show shifts in our understanding of the viral life cycle due to emerging research, as well as help to develop updated visualizations -- including competing hypotheses -- that can be shared back with the research community. Ultimately, this project will result in a visualization of consensus model(s) of the coronavirus life cycle which can inform research communities as well as the public on our current understanding of the molecular mechanisms of SARS-CoV-2 viral infection."

Edit: Additional info here https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02039-y
You assume that these ticket companies are providing no value for the fees they charge. Which I think isn’t a safe thing to assume. Everything you have listed here would be much much easier in a database.

Any kind of argument here would have to start with an explanation of why it wouldn’t be possible or practical to just start a new ticket company that does this all for free/very cheap.
"None of this comes from the donations of the members of the Church."

So it comes from returns on assets the church bought with past donations?

Seems like a distinction without a difference.
I just now bought her book. That’s my reading for the next week. In her interviews she comes off as a thoughtful person. I’m generally surprised by the strong resistance to the lab leak theory in the American media.
Not sure where you’re getting that statement from. The most important shift taking place right now is the massive increase in both capital velocity (speed at which it’s moving around) and capital diversity (whose money is being used) within crypto/web3 markets. Capitalist societies use capital — money — to accomplish things, so I’m not sure what someone who says “where we’re going we don’t need their money” is talking about...
Purchase details leaked to PayPal (Short Paper) [pdf]
maybe it can be worded nicer, but this attitude seems myopic. Business people need to do business. Accounting does not operate on the swe/self declared tech artisan mindset of taking offense to any questions regarding timelines.

just give them the information they want. If they don't like the truth, that is a different issue. They are asking you, because you have more intimate knowledge of the situation.
This is why I use the Brave browser. I don’t trust Microsoft or Google.
This seems like a good place to drop a cool tip I learned recently. You can cure a weed overdose (the whitey) quickly with black pepper. Sniff it for instant relief, or swallow some whole corns. You can pop a few peppercorns pre-emptively too before you indulge. No more paranoia or anxiety.
Mastodon itself can't actually remove servers, any more than they can remove someone else's website, because servers are hosted by other people on others' computers. Mastodon can lock those servers out of their directories, or out of the main federation-network, though.
There is a much much larger pile of garbage that was called dumb and just died off because it was.
That’s weird - I had to go off weed during a highly stressful period of my life. It temporarily made me forget about how stressful things were but then it all came crashing back after it wore off. I didn’t have time to process the stress sober.

I’ve heard it’s very useful for extremely traumatic or temporarily stressful incidents but I found the opposite for chronic stress.
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Administration Rejected October Proposal of “Free Rapid Tests for the Holidays”
Probably just the fact they can build completely "in house" with no dependencies. A lot like the appeal of static binaries (with plentiful drawbacks ofc)
All professional audio production software these days internally works with 32/64 bit floats. That's the native format, because it allows you to go above 0 dBFS (maximum level), as long as you go back below it at the end of the chain.
From TFA: "up to 10 seconds warning"

Probably a usable amount of time I guess - I expect it probably takes 2 or 3 seconds to fully comprehend, then that leaves 5 seconds or so to take cover.

From someone living in UK where earthquakes are rare and tiny, what sort of cover can you take in less than 10 seconds? Go jump in a steel bath tub or something? Stand in a doorway? (Is that a thing? Does it depend on wood Vs brick Vs concrete?)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_privacy might help
The comment you replied to seems like a direct reply to the article to me, which starts with the first quote below and goes on to quote the politician saying the second one ....

> If you're tired of censorship, cancel culture, and the erosion of civil liberties subscribe to Reclaim The Net.

> this is a glaring example of censorship and overreach by tech giant companies who control so much of the online space.”
hm well i m not sure if web1 or web2 needed that much money to take off ...
In previous postmortems[0] they've mentioned their UPSes. They definitely have them. They don't seem to write a lot of postmortems, though. I'm not sure whether we should expect one for this event.

[0] https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/technology/pes/
A couple of friends of mine are building Firstparty - https://firstpartyhq.com - the idea is to serve the analytics code/cookie from your own domain (hence, first party). I've been using them for some of my websites and mobile apps. The reporting is nascent at the moment, but it is being built at a fast pace.
There are laws that do impose obligations on some privately owned systems regarding speech they must or must not carry. Being "privately owned" is not an exception to these laws in the US, let alone other jurisdictions.

Regardless, rightful censorship is still accurately described as such.

And, this doesn't seem to be a story about censorship, IMO, because it was clearly accidental. It's a story about bad ML.
This might be old lore, but I remember many years ago that someone told me that when a spinning disk has been up to temperature for a long time there's a bit of lubricant that is vaporized and evenly distributed everywhere (like the halides in your halogen headlamps). But when it stops spinning that stuff cools down and gets sticky and ends up sticking the heads to the disk so that it can't get going anymore.

Don't know the truth to that, but it seemed like a reasonable explanation at the time.
WavPack seems a bit too slow already. 3x slower decode compared to FLAC in this test https://stsaz.github.io/fmedia/audio-formats/
Open a text file. Enter text. Save with a proper name. Done.

No need for connectivity or any additional complexity
> This affected a single az in a single region. If it caused you downtime or a partial outage, it means you are not fully resilient to single az failures.

This is not true. Amazon is not being upfront about what happened here. It was simply not a single AZ failure. Our us-east-1 ELB load balancers were hosed and were unable to direct traffic to other AZs - they simply stopped working an were dropping traffic. We tried creating load balancers in different AZs and that didn't work either.

How can you be resilient to single AZ failures if load balancers stop working region wide during a single AZ outage?
I like the sound of "Don't minimize that HTML". It'd be nice if the HTML of webpages was more transparent.

> Well, you don't save much because your web pages should be gzipped before being sent over the network, so preemptively shrinking your content probably doesn't do much to save bandwidth if anything at all.

Does anybody have empirical evidence on how much minify + gzip saves over just gzip?
Both agencies have a long history of illegal domestic surveillance.

The NSA's warrantless surveillance program (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_warrantless_surveillance_(...) and the CIA's Operation CHAOS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_CHAOS) are two examples of this behavior.
What makes you think annoyingnoob didn't read the article? The MP in the article, Mark Strahl, is quoted referring to this as "a glaring example of censorship", and annoyingnoob appears to be saying that "censorship" is not the right framework in which to criticize Facebook's actions.
Movie vs. Reality: The Real Story of the Von Trapp Family
I was running selfhosted fathom for several years. A few months ago, I decided I wanted to just defer that maintenance to a SaaS. I felt that fathom was just so expensive for any small use case… I couldn’t justify the cost. Ended up switching to a paid version of Plausible and I couldn’t be happier.
This is awesome! Makes for a nice little holiday project!
Oh wow, the first screenshot of the last link ( https://www.os2museum.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/dos-... ) transported me all the way to third grade...
Policy Letting Patent Cases Land in Waco Gets Judiciary Look
"Usually just a small embedded application in an RTOS, without much security at all."

In security, that's probably a strength, not a weakness, if done right. There are less lines of code that might contain vulnerabilities. There is no random side service, JS library or OS vulnerability to attack, there might be nothing to listen for incoming connections, etc.
Yes, people have not heard of it before and are just used to WhatsApp. The few that were at least aware of the issues with WhatsApp were proposing Telegram and/or Signal, depending mostly on if they had one or the other already installed.

I know that the onboarding process from the Element client still is quite painful, and I didn't want to play tech support for a group of 30+ German parents and teachers.

> What made them willing to create a WhatsApp account.

The easiest authentication/onboarding process ever. That was the 19 billion dollar problem they cracked.
Somehow I don’t expect him to reply
That happens to me after 10m in a hot bath.
Show HN: Causelink Root Cause Analysis
I've only had to stop the terminal if I'm updating cygwin.dll, not if I'm just installing more packages
When power is paid by somebody else and you benefit the hash power, regardless of how low it is in one unit, once you have million of unit you can create your own bitcoin pool and strike gold. I bet mining is way more profitable than DDoS.
The kicker that amazes me is that when artists register their incredulity and their offense about this (and OpenSea seems to tacitly be A-OK with the whole practice), the randos pile into their mentions asking why they won't work with the people misappropriating their work in this way.

Can't imagine why not. Can't at all. Nope.
I too wanted to preserve privacy and avoid a cookie banner for my blog. I ended up rolling a privacy preserving proxy via Cloudflare workers that forwards `pageview` events to Google Analytics. It's a single HTML tag to drop in and preserves the navigation and user flow reports on the GA side.

See https://github.com/rraval/zeroindexed/tree/master/packages/t...

The blog explains expanded motivation: https://zeroindexed.com/privacy
https://www.computercoins.website/
This is very similar to the concept of "certificate transparency logs" for x509s
My number is owned by me. I have signed it and everything. If someone agrees to buy it from me I will use the same public key to sign the transfer. Would you like to buy it? It's a UUID, so it is guaranteed to be unique.
I'm sure any addicted person would perform very poorly when undergoing 30 days of withdrawal. I know when I withdraw from caffeine, the next few days are hopelessly unproductive.
Yeah, but this narrative is just as wrong and tired as the 'censorship' one. Companies are not obligated to carry your speech on their platforms, but we can and should be able to have a conversation about whether or not their methods of moderation are sound / reasonable.
I wonder if the Americans "war on X"-phrase washed out the word "war". Is it still as powerful as it should be?
> “We got some reports from folks that they got up to 10 seconds’ warning before they felt shaking. That’s pretty darn good,” said Robert de Groot, a ShakeAlert coordinator with the USGS.

Fun fact: that's three times longer than it takes to safely trip a nuclear reactor: "A reactor trip causes all the control rods to insert into the reactor core, and shut down the plant in a very short time (about three seconds)." https://public-blog.nrc-gateway.gov/2012/12/28/what-is-a-rea...

I mention this because this quake's epicenter is pretty close to the Humboldt Bay NGS, and there's always a lot of uninformed hand-wringing about atomic energy near fault lines (even though this particular station has been offline since 1988) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humboldt_Bay_Nuclear_Power_Pla...
It clearly is censorship, it just happens to be legal censorship.
yeah , defederation. it would be better to have a protocol that doesnt allow that.