skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This and more. The Sail version of TeX is mentioned, but everything else had a usable prototype, too: An early version of Metafont in Sail, an early version of Web (called Doc, though I don’t recall what the names of the Tangle and Weave equivalents were), and an early version of Computer Modern fonts in the early Metafont language.

Though fully documented and available via anonymous FTP on the Arpanet, all of these prototypes were experimental proofs-of-concept and were completely discarded, along with the languages they implemented, with the “real” versions rewritten from scratch by Knuth (each first by hand on legal pads, then typed in and debugged as a whole.)

And you missed one more obscure but instructive example: To get the camera-ready copy for ACP Vol 2, Knuth purchased an Alphatype CRS phototypesetter. And, unhappy with the manufacturer’s firmware, he rewrote the 8080 code that drives the thing. Eight simultaneous levels of interrupts coming from various subsystem: the horizontal and vertical step-motors that you had to accelerate just right, while keeping synchronized with four S100 boards that generated slices of each character in realtime from a proprietary outline format, to be flashed into the lens just as it was passing the right spot on the photo paper. (Four identical boards, since you had to fill the second while the first one did its processing; times two for two characters that might overlap due to kerning). Oh, and you had to handle memory management of the font character data since there wasn’t enough RAM for even one job’s worth (see our joint paper).

Fun times. I did the driver on the mainframe side, so got to be there for the intense debugging sessions that used only the CRS’s 4x4 hex keypad and 12-character dot-matrix display.

Thanks for the DVI shout-out, btw.
Programs like man on the moon make their contribution to mans knowledge through the engineering required to achieve the end, rather than in what they discover when they get there.

> Also, is this complementary in function (and mission) to the Hubble? It appears to me that the spectrum is split up between Hubble and James Webb.

Hubble's IR compliment was spitzer until it ran out of liquid helium. Webb is spitzer's replacement, with orders of magnitude more resolution.

Spitzer has qualified a lot of interesting mid IR targets to go look at in more detail.

In general non-vis space telescopes are more interesting than visible spectrum ones: Our vision only covers one octave so the odds that some random important physical process will best be observed in the visible spectrum isn't that great.

The visible spectrum is also the same spectrum that is well transmitted by the atmosphere so many vis observations can be conducted from earth with much larger and less costly instruments. Adaptive optics can mitigate atmospheric distortion at least somewhat, but there is no solution to non-transmission but space.

The atmospheric transmission has a two fold impact too: To study the atmosphere of extrasolar planets we need to study wavelengths that their atmospheres block. ... which, of course, are also wavelengths that our atmosphere blocks.
It is 2022. Feelings rule the Earth. You don’t win by being better. You win by crying more (in this case, to regulators).
Mmm, I get your point but with government orgs, I see it two ways:

1. Form online you fill out
2. They only accept hand-filled (e.g., with pen) documents

So I'm not really sure which forms you're thinking of; not doubting they exist, but there just doesn't seem to be a lot of crossover on forms that are required to be printed. The only thing I can really think of that is sensitive would be just identity documents, but I think a copy shop scanner caching the job is the _least_ of the worries (the offices/businesses that require such documents really do not have secure practices at all...)

I get what you're saying I just don't think the threat factor is that big compared to the rest of the chain of custody threats with private documents, regardless of where it's printed.
Ironically, that financial independence comes about from investing in companies that engage in this game.
I don't think giving up control is necessary to achieve security. Modern web browsers are pretty secure (even if web apps themselves aren't) and yet I can browse to whatever websites I want. There's a competitive marketplace of browsers to ensure that if one provider goes nuts I can switch to another.

There are lots of different angles through which to make progress here. I don't think we should be defeatist about it.
I’d argue that the mandatory vaccine crowd are exactly the same.
Edpecially when natural immunity is completely overlooked.

Also I beleive that everytime officcials and MSM and threads like these completely undermine and ignore the millions of people who are traumatized by the pretty rough vaccine side effects ( Moderna is no joke ). these people wonder what else os being hidden.

And the gap becomes wider and more fantatic.

There is no anti vaxx movement.

As so many people are being infected anyway, odd are they are not showing up for boosters once infected.

And sinve the vaccine cards expire in 9 months (EU), you are never getting the entire EU population to show up for yearly inoculation.

Especially those who got infected anyway and those who suffered pretty badly by the vaccines but are ruthelessly dismissed.

Anti vaxx movement is dead.
The vaccines are incredibly leaky, and cause pretty severe side effects especially in young men.
They do not allow society to resume normality even if 100% are vaccinated ( do the math, the effect wears off so fast that its impossible to keep 100% even if every single himan on the planet had access and diligently showed up ).

The anti vaxx sentiment is dead. It died with omicron.
In a year all but older people i the rich west and possibly health care workers will techincally be considered unvaccinated.

Also, masks still made no difference in the spread.
Not even a dent in Omicron.
Only countries with high natural immunity has had relatively lower omicron curves.

Try the antivaxxer/antimasker /smooth brain/trumpis propaganda all you want in the virtual world.
In the real one, parents want their children back to school.

Elderly want to enjoy the few uears they have left outside of covid prison.

Young people want to meet and fuck other young people.

And evrr single officcial MSM praised health expert has turned out to be not only wrong, but laid a platform for intruse sureveillance and degrading humans to nothing more than viral plague hosts that most be muffled, injected and locked up.

Tldr; antivaxxer as a basis for the hatred of common hunan desire to find someone to hate is dead. Vaccines and masks are nowhere near what was promised and omicron proved it
> But it has occurred. People were originally calling it "short term" but its clear that the 6-7% inflation seen at the tail end of 2021 was very real.

I'm not sure those are related. I bet that was just one of the unintended consequences of stimulus checks in the US economy.

Keep in mind that poverty in the US is increasing like wildfire. In 2019, about 69% of Americans reported having less than $1000 in a savings accounts.

https://www.yahoo.com/now/survey-69-americans-less-1-1719272...

That falls well within living paycheck-to-paycheck territory, if not even below. This means the vast majority of Americans cannot afford luxuries or even basic necessities. Things haven't got better for the average Joe since 2019, too.

Then all of a sudden the whole country received a comparatively huge check in the mail to freely spend however they feel like it.

Expectedly, this sudden increase in disposable income and purchasing power will reflect in a hike in demand for the things being tracked by inflation índices. Increases in consumer demand lead to higher consumer prices, and thus inflation indicators go up.
Google is pushing towards that, but for apps that already exist you can absolutely still upload stuff signed with your own keys.
> I find it kind of unbelievable that DPs would shoot 35mm just for an SD scan. That type of use case seems better suited for mini-DV or other contemporary video formats

Lots of shows were filmed on 35mm. For example, Star Trek: The Original Series and Star Trek: The Next Generation were filmed on 35mm, so in modern times they've been able to re-scan them and make HD Blu-ray releases. I believe shooting direct to video for anything higher budget than daytime soap operas didn't become commonplace until the mid-90's.
Many ISPs even have built-in support for DynDNS
Fail. Fail fail fail over and over keep failing because you like doing it. It's a compulsion. You need to make a game. A game is inside of you and you want to get it out!

If not, just don't. Work for someone else who has this drive.
Cyclorama
The tulip bubble is a myth. But the funny thing about bubbles is they have a blow off top then deflate.

Bitcoin has had 4 blow off tops and is at %200 of its last one.

Not fitting the pattern.
Since I have seen Discord mentioned multiple times in this thread I asked my high school aged daughter and she has no idea what Discord is. She has never heard one of her friends mention it. According to her the by far dominate communications platform for her friends and others at her school is Snapchat. I think the great mistake here is believing there is some consensus preferred platform among teens. The platform of choice likely differs greatly regionally and just among different friend groups.
I am 100% sure long term residents also pay health insurance. Are you an EU citizen?
Belief is comforting. Many prefer to focus on established findings and accepted facts as they emerge. We know that the vaccine does not prevent infection or transmission. Its advantage lies in its effect in reducing but not always preventing severe symptoms and death in vulnerable people. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-vaccine-....

Both believers and non-believers tend to be immune - to any findings that run counter to their belief systems. Instead of objectively weighing up pros and cons they get rather heated and adopt binary thinking along pro- and anti-vaccination lines with some indulging in the same trap themselves.
Well, a hash function cannot be one-to-one because of the pigeonhole principle.
> - Forcing all cartridges to have ink even to print in black and white

In some cases, forcing all cartridges to have ink even to scan documents, IIRC.
I would check the model. An MFC-L2750DW printed for me from Ubuntu without installing anything.
Easiest way to get any company interview call [Tested on few company]
For all the males who are not getting interview call. Simple way is to change the gender asked in portal to - female.
All I see in the survey is that people have largely overestimated the impact of the pandemic, how many people have been infected and how many have died. In other words, they overestimated the current progression of the pandemic at the scale of society. That doesn't indicate people misunderstand the risk of the disease at personal scale.
This is good question. Soil conditions are variable and I doubt it is sensing absolutely everything as suggested above. A better application for autonomous tractor I reckon is as optical sprayer that is linkage mounted. E.g WeedIt, Weedseeker or Deere's own solution. I think handling trees etc should not be a problem as one, these should already be mapped as part of paddock setup and two, 'seeing' unusual objects and just stopping and notifying for human intervention is pretty simple.
This "too many comments" argument comes up every time, and I say it's a straw man argument.

Apart from new programmers who put those comments in to remind themselves what each line does, I haven't seen "comment-noise" since... 2005 sounds right.

If it was common I'd be able to go on GitHub and have my searches spoiled by comments. But instead on GitHub it's the opposite, as it is in my working life: people have gone to a "we don't write comments" default position.

Getting a balance is necessary, but I'd rather we had programmers over-commenting than under-commenting, especially for open source projects where "read the code" is used to mean "we don't need documentation as our code's so great".

It also depends who is going to read the code. Other experienced programmers need different comments than when my code is going to be read by developers who are unfamiliar with the codebase and didn't expect to ever touch it.

I agree with what you say but I encourage people to add comments and then remove them later if not needed, rather than omit them entirely.
Biohacking: Temp minimum suggests your most productive time
The average wakes up time informs what’s called “temperature minimum” — the time in each 24-hour cycle when your body’s temperature is the lowest. The actual temp is not essential, but the time tends to be two hours before your typical wake-up time if you're consistent with sleep schedule.

The temperature minimum defines the trough of your temperature across the 24-hour cycle. And immediately after that, your temperature will start to rise.

You can be reasonably sure that your best work will be done anywhere from four to six hours after your temperature minimum. Nobody can say the exact time. You have to find it. It could be four, five or six hours after your minimum temperature and it varies from person to person.

If you’re someone who wakes up on average at 7:00 a.m., your minimum temperature is at 5:00 a.m. If you tend to wake up around 6:30 a.m., that means your temperature minimum is at 4:30 a.m. You can add five hours to that time which would mean that a 90-minute deep focus work session could fall at 9:30 a.m. and the timing would be pretty optimised. Or you could do it at 10:30 a.m. or 8:30 a.m. Somewhere in that time frame would be all right. Find the right timing for you.
> Building on the blockchain does not indemnify you from following the relevant laws.

You are right. The relevant laws apply to money service operators and blockchain software developers, in most cases, are not money service operators. Software developers, in most societies, cannot be deputized to enforce particular uses or non-uses of their software.

> have you ignored all the ways nefarious people will use your app to do things that are absolutely something that should be stopped?

I think freedom to transact is as valuable as freedom to access information (uncensored, using Tor) and freedom to communicate (securely, using E2E.) In fact, the latter two freedoms boil down to the former. If you disagree, you are correct to not like DeFi.

> And I don't feel compelled to enable that feeling you had in everyone else either.

I know you don't, but I wanted to share the first time using a blockchain tech was more pleasant than using its traditional counterpart for me. Trying to convince people that "blockchains are useful" is not very compelling either. It's not my job, but I can spend hours on it with no benefit to me.

> So folks who do not want to divulge their social contacts literally cannot participate?

You are right that Zoom verification is a low level of verification. On BrightID today, you can be verified by a friend without having to divulge the identity of yourself or your friend to any blockchain, any application, or any other person in your social network. Using zero-knowledge proofs, the entire anonymous network graph can be hidden as well.

In addition, the only apps they cannot use are those which require anti-Sybil guarantees. Is "has 3 friends who will vouch for you" too high of a bar compared to "qualifies for and has a credit card"? If it is, is it bad to have the former as an option for those who cannot reach the latter?

ETA: government/institutional ID verification is a valid BrightID graph node as well, for institutions/individuals/applications which choose to use it.
AI: Are we witnessing the dawn of post-theory science?
Well, I disagree. ##slackware, #slackbuilds and so on are still a good site to learn and share knowledge.

Discord and Slack are a disgrace.
Do crypto exchanges earn most of their revenue from promotion of trade or by manipulation of it?

We really don't know the answer because they are opaque black boxes operating without any oversight. Your example is one where they don't seem particularly concerned with promoting trade opportunities.

The biggest common fallacy in the crypto marketplace is the assumption that the "exchanges" operate as honest brokers and market makers just like their counterparts in regulated markets.
I had trouble getting it running. I installed it and checked the paths and the settings (I'm on macOS) but obviously I'm missing something since I couldn't get it to work. I also made sure I have the latest version of neovim. Right now I have vscodevim running (I had disabled it before trying this so there weren't any conflicts), but that's something different. But I'd like to be able to use a real instance of neovim as the backend instead.

So here's what I did: Installed vscode-neovim. Path to nvim was configured. Restarting vscode still isn't giving me neovim plugin functionality. Seeing nothing in the menus I might have to select to enable it.
I've often thought this. Lock-in is one thing, but really just better value for money. Mahindra maybe someone to watch?
Yak driven development (YDD).

If you want to make sure you're doing something sufficiently differentiated, find an area where you still need to shave a few yaks.
Do you know of any credible source for Amazon forking postgresql? I did some googling and can certainly find lots of people saying it, but nothing authoritative from Amazon themselves.
Even nearly computer illiterate people over 30 used IRC back in the day at internet cafes.
The article isn't just technically correct. Hashes and encryption are both parts of cryptographic systems, but their use cases are different. For example, implementing a password database as encrypt(salt, password) would be no good at all: the salt is also stored in the database, so an attacker who steals that database could easily recover everyone's plaintext passwords.

Password databases should use a specialized, intentionally slow hash function, with a salt and preferably also with a secret key. That is, they should use something like argon2(secret, salt, password) or HMAC(secret,argon2(salt,password)) -- the latter so that you can keep the HMAC secret on an HSM.

This is a common interview question for a reason. A candidate who thinks hashes and encryption are typically alternatives isn't ready to do secure system design.
To me as an org mode and org babel user, notebooks seem to be a very half-assed form or literate programming for the following reasons:

(1) No linking from on cell to another. A sequential execution is assumed or otherwise you need to manually run cells in different order. There might be extensions to help with that. It is not out of the box though.

(2) The documentation language is markdown This does not allow for great technical documents with arbitrary links to arbitrary other parts in the document or inside another notebook. ReStructuredText would have that using link sources and link sinks. org mode can also link to parts in other documents.

(3) I cannot include other notebooks to have it all exported as one whole document or notebook as I can in org mode. In org mode I can even specify at what level some heading should be imported.

(4) The editor in notebooks is not that great compared to any IDE or normal code editor or Emacs.

(5) In a typical JupyterLab environment there is only one programming language per notebook. I know there are other kinds JupyterLab environments, which allow for multiple langs inside the same notebook.

(6) The base format of notebooms is JSON instead of plain text like in org mode. This means diffs are harder to read and version control. Again you need extra tooling for dealing with it well (which does exist).

The literate programming stuff of notebooks has all long been there before notebooks came into existence. It is not like that was the advent of a new form of literate programming. In JupyterLab environments it would take lots of fumbling and tweaking to get something comparable to org + org babel.
The very popular Chinese state-owned Hikvision cameras are known to have backdoors:

https://ipvm.com/reports/hik-backdoor

It's puzzling why they are not yet banned in my country.
Only a few weeks ago, I had a total fuckup with HP. We have been using third party ink cartridges for two years without problems. Suddenly, the printer blocks, saying they have "no HP chip". So what happened? The printer (OfficeJet 7740) sits on the Wifi, since we need to access it from various computers. Apparently, it automatically updates its software (without consent, it goes without saying), and with the latest update they started blocking the ink that had always been working without problems.

I heard good things about Brother, and 2022 will be the year that we get a Brother laser printer. I refuse to buy one single more ink from HP.
So we already have to trust the Intel ME crap, and now the MS crap too.
How is this similar to the status quo? _At best_ it increases the number of actors you have to trust, specially if you are not using Windows.
Global spread of autoimmune disease blamed on western diet
...no? How would MS force me to install an AGESA update that supposedly restricts me in booting unsigned code? That's where the newly announced remote attestation comes in.

On the other hand, on PCs with Pluton chips they can change their minds any second.
> Most of the heat isn't coming out of the CPU itself, but the power supply & the graphics card(s).

Wow, the power supply wastes that much electricity on its own? That seems very inefficient...
It doesn't necessarily -- I just meant that if you have <(<(...) <(...)) type structures then adding a punctuation-jumble like command in the middle of each subsubshell is a good way to murder readability quickly. Sed, and to a lesser extent, awk, tend to be good examples of tools that (can) use a _lot_ of brackets and symbols...
Programming languages of crypto projects
My new company has nothing to do with cryptocurrency.
What does „actively online“ mean in a world where messages arrive as notifications on smartphones?
Correct. Just unix load (ie concurrent busy processes)
“It’s just that the yak happened to stand close.”

I’m still giggling at this one. Amazing write-up.
You want to control how people act and feel above all else.
Wouldn't training an ML model on a simulation be the epitome of bias?
Yes, as an operator currently you just sit in the seat and monitor in between scrolling on your phone. If fully setup, the tractor can steer itself, turn at the end of field and lift and adjust machine height. The operator is the important set of eyes making sure everything is operating as it should. Ploughing sort of suits automation as there are less things to go wrong than say planting or harvesting but as mentioned in another post, it would take a solid solution to deal with all soil conditions to make this flawless.