skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
if I've gathered anything from looking at a few shops of skilled people online it's that their shops are very particular, set up in just that way, with the inventory organized in just a different way, and with machines in a particular format or order for just that reason.

It's very personal to each person.
With 2/3 of my kids, I'm the one who's out first. The kids get excited and I end up having to go to 500.
Then you also don't understand politics. Politicians are very constrained by what their populace wants or they're voted out.
It would be refreshing to see this level of scrutiny applied to bad news.
I thought that this is what PICO-8 cartridge files (.p8.png) did; but it turns out that those use steganography within the image pixmap itself, rather than taking advantage of ancillary PNG chunks. Kind of a strange choice, honestly.

On a separate note, a fun fact: PNG uses what is basically a de-facto v3 of the https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interchange_File_Format . PNGs can be parsed and generated with generic IFF tools. (Which can also be used to operate on AIFF, TIFF, and—perhaps surprisingly—Erlang .beam files.)

IFF is, IMHO, an incredibly underutilized “metaformat” for how simple it is to work with, how observable/inspectable the results are (for a binary file format), and yet how efficient it is (compared to text-based formats.)

PNG’s (backward-compatible) extensions over IFF are all pretty great ideas as well — e.g. using chunk name capitalization as metadata to mark chunks as optional (plus a few other things); linking chunks with checksums to indicate when derived chunks need to be recalculated; etc. If these extensions were promoted to features of the metaformat itself, that’d make probably the best document-oriented container metaformat around, beating e.g. “a zip file with a META-INF dir inside” by a wide margin. Sadly, AFAIK, nobody has tried to write a formal IFFv3 RFC to formalize these extensions. (Maybe something I’ll do one day myself.)
The World Hum map and database
> I think everyone will agree this is worse than most DRM solutions

You think wrong. A social credit score system is odious for real life, because the only way not to play is to die. On the other hand if you ruin your gaming reputation as a cheater and nobody wants to play with you, well that's on you. Playing CoD or whatever isn't a human right.

It's also ethically acceptable because it would be purely opt-in. Cheaters and others who don't want to provide proof of identity are welcome to play with other players who don't care about cheating.

Rooting my computer is a far greater violation of my autonomy than asking me to prove who I am.
True, but everyone's going to get exposed to Omicron anyway, unless something more even transmissible takes it's place. So, why not skip straight to Omicron and maybe have better health outcomes by eliminating Delta?
Relatedly, check out GNU Poke: http://www.jemarch.net/poke
Hey Steve!

Io is a beautiful language that I got interested in about the time I was learning Ruby (2004 perhaps).

Also, for a few years, your pages were the top sources of information on Objective C!

Thanks for all the work!
A landing pad for something like the Lilium would get a lot less NIMBY attention than a helicopter pad though, which is often a major factor in decision-making.
> it seems like proper counter-intelligence to track all diplomats pretty closely because at least some of them are going to be intelligence operatives.

Curious, do you happen to know what such spies do?

I'm wondering if it's just a reporting the news, talking to people and collecting information that can be legally obtained.
The opposite, if you think about it for a minute…
(Traditionally)
Don’t see the issue. I naturally pronounce this “eff-queue”. You’ve really got to work hard to make it vulgar.
Researchers Develop Cheaper and Faster Way to Manufacture Lenses
Source is my depression, sense of powerlessness about the future, and listening to too much Bernie talking about what the 1% is going to do to the 99%.

Logically, I know this can’t be worse than the K-T boundary, where a whole continent of forests simultaneously caught fire, and a hypercane formed over the Yucatán. On the first day. But it sure feels that bad. We live in a world people flip out because one wolf was reintroduced to a broken ecosystem yet no one gives a shit about the million people a year who die from fossil fuel air pollution. That one’s real: https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/12/fossil-fuel-combusti...
Omicron will become the dominate strain worldwide without anything so insane as that
My own personal health is such that I wouldn't have to be so conservative if I were thinking only of myself. But Covid isn't just symptomatic, it's also contagious, as in, I can pass it to others who may not be able to handle it as well as I can, including those that aren't merely antivax. So the idea is more that if Covid is doubling at some rate, I limit my social activity so as not to contribute to the spread.
unlimited you meant right?
1. Wrong. There are cases where reproducible builds are valuable. There are other times when you don’t care. This allows you to choose for what fits your situation.

2. Okay, what about projects that don’t fit your criteria? This is useful and requested.

You seem to have a different philosophy than other people but seem to be unable to consider those other philosophies. It’s your way or the highway.

Not everyone wants an exciting language. Some people want a stable and useful language. Go is intentionally not exciting. They add features based on user feedback and real world use, at a slow and careful pace.

Also consider you might get downvotes not because it’s about go, but because you’re kinda rude. You just spouted negativity with no explanation and called tons of people Sons of Bitches. Could be that?
No it was not just that.

Zoom put a backdoor (like, a full web server) in their Mac version and didn't even remove it when outed until Apple pushed an update that killed it for them. Which was a big unprecedented step.

Mistakes happen. Total lack of action when it happens shows at the very least a total disinterest. They definitely did lack a focus on security and privacy at that time.

I agree Microsoft is pretty aggressive and teams is a pig of an app in my opinion (slow and bloated) but zoom really dug their own grave too IMO.

For what it's worth I find Jitsi delightful and super performant. I use teams a lot with work and Jitsi with our makerspace and it's just so much better at the video conferencing role.
> Student loans (which are much lower interest rate and nothing like these loans) can’t be discharged in bankruptcy but even those are open to modification or discharge in the event of hardship.

This is a common misconception. Student loans are commonly discharged in bankruptcy. Enough people believe this that they don’t even try. The only additional rule for student loans is “undue hardship” which is not difficult to prove or argue for in bankruptcy.

https://www.npr.org/2020/01/22/797330613/myth-busted-turns-o...
Regression, Fire, and Dangerous Things (1/3)
Because if you allow bankruptcy to discharge them that would make the interest rate 3-4x what it is today and people couldn’t afford it.
I also learned the hard with PUBG that you need to use a separate steam account for these types of multiplayer games.

They refuse to share with you why you got ban or reverse it and they keep the money. I got my refund through Paypal and the warning Steam support gave me hinted that I'd lose my account if I did that a second time.

regarding your edit, IMO they shouldn't be allowed to permaban your account for a bad driver without first warning you that you need to update it. Even if they use a fake reason for it, turning off windows update shouldn't be a bannable offense.
Every time “we must stop x because of small group y” comes up I wonder if there is some other ulterior motive.

Why would we punish the masses for the poor behaviour of a small subset. Figure out ways to punish the subset and let everyone else be.
I don't think that Lillium uses variable pitch blades. Also, using multiple fans will lower the chance of catastrophic failure due to loss of one or more fans. For example, A system with only four fans would mean loss of a single would be truly catastrophic.

If Lillium uses multiple battery packs and redundant wiring and controls, they could achieve excellent redundancy; to a level much lower than many competing in this space.
Even if that material was pre-prepared, there's vanishingly few (probably zero) organizations for whom 30 seconds of one IT admin's time, acting alone, would be spent on this.

"Oh shit, we need to have at least a phone call with counsel on this before we reply at all!"
This is also true in Greece - it originates from either Balkan or Orthodox culture I figure.
And I will write a fuzzer for bbq called omgwtf.
See this video from about 1999 - Arithmetic, Population and Energy by Dr Albert Bartlett, about this timestamp[1] for one example. It's mostly about oil, but he cites the work of M Hubbert which was from ~1956 and predicting peak oil production in the USA around 1980 and running out maybe in 2100. Not the "running out soon" that you claim. He also suggests the drops in production which delay the Hubbert peak correspond to OPEC oil price rises. Then see his updated talk from 2011 link[2] which includes "what we're taking out each year is something like three times what we're discovering each year".

Wikipedia critiques the Hubbert curve[4] saying "new extraction methods began reversing this trend beginning in the mid-2000s decade, with production reaching 10.07 million b/d in November 2017 – the highest monthly level of crude oil production in U.S. history". The US Energy Information Authority (EIA) explains[3] "much of the increase in 2009 was associated with deepwater developments in the Federal Gulf of Mexico" and "Operators drilling at the Bakken and other shale formations are combining horizontal wells and hydraulic fracturing".

That is, turning to resources which are harder and more expensive to extract, resources which return fewer barrels of usble oil per barrel of oil of energy put in to extract them than easier to access resources.

In the first talk he says "We have very good ways now of estimating how much oil remains undiscovered. Now every so often someone reminds me that a hundred years ago someone did a calculation and predicted that we'd be out of oil in twenty five years. We obviously are not, the calculation must have been wrong therefore, of course, all calculations are wrong. [...] we're not asking today how long will the discovered oil last, we're talking about all the oil".

Pumping faster from a limited resource will deplete it sooner. Even if there is twice as much undiscovered oil as geologists estimate, the time remaining won't double as long as production increases, population increases, demand increases. The biggest oil field finds in decades each add only a few months of US usage to the known reserves.

> "I've been listening to this exact line of garbage for over 30 years"

And in that time, you've likely lived through peak oil production. In his 1999 video Dr Bartlett estimates 75% of total US oil reserves used, 25% remaining. In his 2011 video he updates with new production figures showing closer to 85% used and 15% remaining (including estimates of future discoveries of extractable oil).

[1] https://youtu.be/sI1C9DyIi_8?t=2529

[2] https://youtu.be/o0ghHia-M54?t=2420

[3] https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=1130

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubbert_curve#Critique
Has one use-case been creating "ebooks" (including visible covers), but not ebook per se?
It’s a cute answer, but the difference is that there is more credible evidence that Santa Claus doesn’t exist than that he does.
I know its only 12$ but I hope this guy aggressively tries to get it back. The only way we get support departments is if these fuckups become expensive.
It's one code path for publishing events. Devs don't know about both.

Overall we don't have much code since our websocket server is just nginx.
I agree with your punchline, but all the hypothetical before it is strictly unrelated to capitalism. As if peons in the European middle ages living under non-capitalism, Cambodia, Venezuela, or various theocracies have this remarkable social mobility. This type of analysis is inferior to pointing to correlates with moon cycles or fluorinated water; it directly ignores history.
> Which the OP later clarified by saying an interface can be both nil and not nil at the same time.

I don't think I made any such clarification...
Myself... I'm actually going to go up-vote you, just so people can for sure absolutely see your bitter ad-hominem attack.

You clearly don't know what "left-wing" means if you think that a bunch of upper middle class highly compensated engineers are that... Actual "left-wing" comments on HN are generally downvoted quite intensely.

EDIT: I just want to add how ... odd... it is to slap a "left wing" accusation about YC-backed companies as we sit here on a thread talking about a YC-backed company that was basically a loan-shark pay-day lender. WTF? That's left-wing? Ok then.
Would depend on the US government of the day. Hacking Team and Finfisher weren't US based, they attracted lots of shit from their governments and the EU where they were based. The reaction so far doesn't seem to be negative just because they are Israeli.
Who it came from is irrelevant
Pretty much, they also can only get a refund via Apple customer support (unless Tinder would be willing to ACH them)
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/storekit/original_...
As if zero-content posting of the Onion links wasn't bad enough, we're going to start posting links to two-bit blogs that rip these places off now too?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dream_Songs?wprov=sfti1

The Dream Songs are a collection of poems with characters, etc. Henry bears somewhat of resemblance to Berryman.
Yup. When I spent time in Asia you think people take up hobbies like metal working, auto repair, etc when it’s a family of 5 in a 2 bedroom apartment?

It’s absolutely luxurious being able to afford 500 to 1,000 sq ft per person with your own yard. Having to drive everywhere is a fine trade off for many.
China Telecom vows to defy FCC order and continue US operations
Is this something you have any firsthand experience with?
7 years is not a long time to live without credit that that a person is shown to be unable to handle.

Being bankrupt is great if you are poor.
> Weirdly, I think your second bit (solving from first principles) is much closer to the truth of how human brains work than "copy-paste?" Which harmonizes quite well with my first point?

I suppose we just disagree about this. My own experiences indicate that mostly I ape other humans rather than “figure” things out.

> As great as computers are, I think a big problem is how they've created this tendency for bad analogies when it comes to the details. Not really different from how Frankenstein came about from people watching the advent of mechanical stuff like gears and pistons and such, and then made the LEAP to "HUMAN LIKE MONSTER."

But isn’t that happening in the real world? Machines intended to present as human are becoming more human-like overtime.

> I'm not saying it will never ever happen -- but I'm still comfortable saying, even today, computers are NOTHING AT ALL LIKE human brains.

I don’t think computers need to work like brains in order to do most of or all of the things that humans do. As you pointed out a car doesn’t need to work like a human’s locomotive system to do like human locomotion.
Literally every time I type in ``` I get different behavior, depending on what mood it’s in. And some days it stops getting updates, especially if you’ve got the mobile version running too. Step out for a moment and someone asks you a question? Well good luck getting it to show up in a device with a real keyboard.
I still can't believe there's been no response to the nickname colour proposal. This has been sitting in the queue for 2!!!! years now.
It's ridiculous.
For something that is supposed to be an analog of jq, there is a notable omission from the list of formats: ASN.1.
It's more like a middle name, in the sense that it is used in official documents to distinguish people who have the same first and last name.

Other countries have similar mechanisms, I remember when I was living in Brazil I had to provide nome da mãe (name of the mother) and nome do pai (name of the father) to get some documents done.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3D8TEJtQRhw
Is there a (web) app that you wish existed?
Why not start building it?
You can learn as you go.
Break down the requirements and implement them piece by piece. Leverage libraries and frameworks to save time.
You dont have a clue do you! Have you thought your prejudices are being played here, the hatred of Jews goes back centuries its engrained in cultures around the world. NSO were too bloody clever for their own good because they never thought about how their hack-as-a-service could be _spun_ against them.

Have you not thought how US companies like MS, Apple, Google do stuff for the US govt, just like when it comes to financial sanctions on Russians, its the US asking the UK to do it. Look at the Ukraine and the NordStream2 pipeline between Germany and Russia, US leaned on the EU to make things difficult for Russia.

Look at the criticisms of China's HueWei spying using 5G networks, the fact HueWei hold more global 5G patents seems to be irrelevant to the US except its not because its a classic case of leap frogging in technology whilst older tech patents are milked.

Its what you would expect from the leading nation on this planet ie the US to engage in behaviour wise but all this US repression makes those countries double down and come back with something better.

NSO is just the latest fallout, but its nuanced and not everyone picks this up when reading the global news.

The US is end of empires time, its just natural just like Afghanistan is the only country on the planet to have never have been colonised by an outside force, namely Russia empire, British empire and US empire and how many people knew that?
> Look up usury folks

For anyone actually interested in "looking up usury", I highly recommend: A History of Central Banking and the Enslavement of Mankind

Note: you can't buy it on Amazon. Surprise surprise.

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-history-of-central-bankin...
> The Bible does mention that it's been written under divine inspiration at God's request. By the hand of men, but motivated and helped by holy spirit, as the scriptures say.

I appreciate the effort, but none of your citations are examples of "clear and explicit claims about the author," but instead are either existential claims or explanations of the unnamed authors' inspiration. What were looking for is something of the form "I, Sparticus, wrote this..." or some such.

> If interested, have a look at

Here is some quid pro quo, granted it is only a wikipedia article, but it brings together the work in summary of a vast number of biblical scholars in an easy to read table form and is quite refreshing for it's stark honesty and well-supported veracity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authorship_of_the_Bible
Yes I totally understand your point of view. I spent almost a decade paying off a six figure debt for my CS degree. The funniest part? I learned almost nothing about web development in school. No marketable skills that would have really helped me when I first started my actual job! How can I argue this is a good thing?

Well, the best analogy I can think of is a black belt in karate. It takes 10 years or whatever to get that. It has no marketable purpose. Why do it? The answer is more than "to get a job". It's about Discipline. Focus. Intense research into fundamentals. Stretching your limit if what you can learn in a weekend. Writing half a page of assembly code on a piece of paper. Debugging a C program. Red black trees. These have no purpose, but when reflecting on these experiences, I would not trade them for a second for "Intro to Javascript and HTML".
You are translating "legal threat" into "asking for data". And your 'learning' comment makes me think this is a cause for you. That's fine, and I even applaud what I take to be the motivation behind it.

But,

- That does not make one in to the other. Misinterpretation or no, the researcher (who was being deceptive, remember) is responsible for how the message was written. I don't know about you, but I don't usually end my polite requests with references to counterparty legal responsibility. When someone starts trying to sound law-talky, it is in no way paranoid or unreasonable to become concerned about what they might be up to.

The problem here is not that USians enjoy suing each other, or that people and businesses underutilize data protection laws. The problem is that an academic study was performed in a way that caused panic in this, our imperfect world (and object of study).

- I also find the idea that an academic study should (also? or primarily?) be an instrument of "cultural learning" deeply troublesome. I'd hope that IRBs would smack that sort of thing down.
For me codecademy broke down stuff into easy steps but went into depth eventually. What I started to dislike about codecademy is that they are eventually dumbing down their lessons. There used to be comprehensive Javascript course, which they retired. That course went into details about prototype, inheritance chain and other things like that. Instead they released a course that doesn't even acknowledges that part of JS, just shows to make a class with ES6+.
Hey all, super late but OP here... When I posted this, it got two points, (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29637167) -- thought HN wasn't so interested in ZFS/Postgres.

Want to note that there is excellent advice in the related reddit threads, in order of the experimentation I was doing:

- https://www.reddit.com/r/zfs/comments/rjavyc/everything_ive_...

- https://www.reddit.com/r/zfs/comments/rlfhxb/why_not_txg_tim...

- https://www.reddit.com/r/PostgreSQL/comments/rlrvt1/what_hap...

In the post I only begin to scratch the surface of tuning (both ZFS and Postgres are very deep) but glad people liked it.

As a shameless plug, one of the reasons I've been doing so much research and trying to figure out where the state of the art has landed is because I'm planning to launch a cloud provider next year, it's called Nimbus Web Services[0] -- if you run on Hetzner, OVH or LeaseWeb, please check it out.

[0]: https://nimbusws.com
Anything musical will stick — I can attest to that! I don’t recall how we taught our oldest to count but for the other seven the older siblings have been eager to help teach the younger ones what they know (both the good and the bad).
Lovely.

How long until gov't covid passport apps leak
> The data provided included their ID number, name, father’s name, surname, date of birth, voting center, place of birth, residence code, list number, phone number, birthplace, employer, and whether they are likely to vote for the Socialist Party.

all of that should be public and not be used for "secret" questions