skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Doesn’t wayland force window managers to be integrated into some behemoth bloated monolith?

Well, the wayland protocols are very poorly documented compared to X. But most WM's have to support a bunch of obscure X extensions to get a reasonable featureset, that bring in much the same complexity as Wayland.
Dotcoms in the late nineties. Mortgage speculation in 2004-2008ish. QE started in 2009.

Blaming it all on QE seems a little disingenuous. There's been way too much money floating in the system for a long time now.
How do you pronounce Bevy? Long e like “Beevy” or short e like “Bevvy”? What’s the origin of the name?
Old BMWs are particularly easy and common for swaps since many of the parts across models and model years are interchangable. The swaps used to be mainly to newer BMW engines or to LS* engines, but there are a few people doing it with Tesla and Toyota parts now.

It's rather interesting from a hacker point of view -- these guys are analyzing the CAN bus signals and checking components with oscilloscopes, then building their own circuit boards to connect and manage the various batteries, inverters, and motors. Check out:

https://evbmw.com/

https://www.instagram.com/teslified_e30/

https://www.instagram.com/tesla_bimmer/

Disclaimer: I'm an E30 owner myself.
Ten years ago we defined this as a pre-mine scam, meaning run don’t just walk away.

It’s crazy how much as changed since 2012.
> What we get with LLVM is a large number of people tossing in the things that help the handful of workloads they are currently working on, with limited oversight regarding how that’s impacting compile-time for everyone else. So the compiler gets slower and slower, the compiled code doesn’t get much faster, and overall the compiler grows and grows in complexity.

Is that how you'd describe runtime "speedups in the 10-15% range in optimized builds" vs compile-time "2.2x slower in O2/O3"? Because as a compiler user it sounds totally worth it to me. A lot more CPU time goes into running my code than into compiling it. That's true both when I write large distributed systems software (which occupies many machines) and when I write small-scale software (that runs on less powerful machines than I use for development).

Sure, "15% slower in debug builds" kind of sucks, I might have hoped for more improvement over 10.5 years, maybe complexity did snowball (I'm not a LLVM developer so I wouldn't know), and maybe there were a bunch of changes that didn't carry their weight. I'd still take LLVM 11 over LLVM 2.7 overall.
Living in a hotel does qualify as homeless in my opinion. Same as trailer or anything that is not a fixed home. The definition of homeless doesn not equate to just to simply sleeping under the stars.
Ford vehicles also do this.
Two of my favorite bands have great and expansive websites. Because the bands are insanely prolific (Guided By Voices with their studio releases and Phish with their live recordings) I don't think I'll ever be able to visit every single page on either site.

https://GBVDb.com/

https://phish.net/

And for humor there's always the startup generator :)
http://tiffzhang.com/startup/
I would guess the Panasonic S1H or the BGH1 is cheapest. The Blackmagic cameras on the list aren’t that pricey either.
In a similar vein, but more interactive and with weather overlays: https://zoom.earth/
> the center channel is often just played out of both speakers

Well what other option do you have when there are only two speakers? Only play it out of one?
Right, but then what’s the selling point of a “decentralized internet” if like you said, most people have no incentive to have servers of their own. Decentralized internet is what is being sold in web3.
And we can excuse Debian for that, because it was an OS of choice for those who plan to run things for a decade or two. If Debian included modern web frameworks into the distro, most of them wouldn't make it into stable.
Not much separates high end still cameras from video cameras besides taxes and a bit of firmware (some other stuff too, but all minor issues).

The big reason all high end cameras aren’t video cameras are mostly taxes in some regions and lazy product differentiation.
Industry holds Arri color science above all others. Even when Red and others were shooting higher than 2k images, people preferred to shoot Arri for the color.

Arri was quite proud of their RAW format. I was told that on top of the price of the camera body, it was $20k to license the RAW format for the camera. Their RAW format was a sequence of frames that used the frame number derived from timecode appended to the filename. Had a strange situation with a client's Arri RAW footage. Typically, the camera's timecode is set to time of day. However, this particular day the camera op failed to do this. During one of the shots, the timecode rolled over "midnight" so the 23:59:59:23 timecode had a frame number of 2073599, but the very next frame 00:00:00:00 has a frame number of 0000000. Importing the footage broke this shot into 2 pieces. The last half of the shot showed up as the very first file in the imports, and the first half showed up as the last. RAW formats that are saved into a container format avoids this.

TR;DR camera peeps love Arri, post peeps have other opinions
With a very, very few exceptions, I think "people don't want to run their own servers and never will" is true. They don't want to run servers, but they will run a server if the only way to get what they want is to run a server.

There are always a few people who want to run a server and it's not just a means to an end. But they are so incredibly few they aren't worth taking into consideration.

Put another way: All else being equal, if you give someone a choice to run a server or not, they won't.
Right, I didn't realize the decoder is specified to be lenient in that way, so the confounded characters are actually equivalent in the encoding.
Love it, anything to unseat Atlassian tools is a win in my book. This looks and feels great too. Nice work!
That’s why I said “helped break that” rather than “single-handedly broke that”.
Thanks! I’ll play around with it.
> You can, of course, write test cases that check your entire database for unintended state changes, but I struggle to find that a reasonable amount of effort.

I think you're overthinking this. I'm not suggesting they should have looked for any unintentional state changes, we both agree that is overkill (until you start doing FP).

> Though for this specific bug, that scenario would've failed too, and might've triggered an extra look at the code.

Yes, exactly. For this specific bug even the simplest test would have failed, which would have caused someone to take a look at what was happening. You are correct that if the bug had been more complicated, such as causing both the proper user AND an additional random user to be charged, then it's unlikely a reasonable level of testing would have caught it.

> The adequate monitoring and quick response they did here is probably a very good trade-off.

We agree that there is a trade-off here, and if sacrificing some correctness is what it takes to win you a much higher velocity then they probably made the correct trade off; nobody died as a result of this bug.

But... surely you see there are some cheap steps they could have taken which would have caught this bug? Not all bugs, but this specific bug.

- Write integration tests for important behaviors, such as charging users!

- Make sure those integration tests run in an environment which closely simulates production.
when you're speaking to an in-group who is familiar with the sort of personalities and attitudes and culture you get the context and the quirks and everyone moves past it so yes it doesn't really matter, if you know the sotware/hacker culture, you take weird attitudes with humor by default because people have always been a little bit odd. When you communicate to an outside group it's a different thing however.

by the way the fact that this nuance of being able to speak differently in different social circles is increasingly lost and replaced with PR department speak everywhere is pretty bad.
Cybersyn, big data, variety engineering and governance
Aviastar T204 at Hangzhou, burst into fire during push back
Imagine you had a belief system you wanted to impose on the country, and you had persuaded the vast majority of the management of the Fortune 500 to fire anyone who disagreed with you.

Would you expect your powers to magically dissipate because some people were trying their best to ignore you?
http://www.endthefud.org
I don't even think you clicked the wrong thing. You can test the website multiple times with the same DOB. It gets it wrong!

My age went from 20->60 and a few results in between with the same DOB. There's something screwy with this site when it's under high load. I think i'm getting someone elses input.
It's orbiting L2, not at it. It will have basically constant sunshine, which is good - solar panels provide all its power. (no RTG)
>Even wider scope, a child who "qualified moved" within the last 36 months is considered migratory i.e. homeless.

This is what the definition of migratory child is.

(3) MIGRATORY CHILD.—The term ‘‘migratory child’’ means a child or youth who made a qualifying move in the preceding 36 months—
(A) as a migratory agricultural worker or a migratory fisher; or
(B) with, or to join, a parent or spouse who is a migratory agricultural worker or a migratory fisher.

It's not just that they moved (which is what I read from your comment) but they are a child who's parents are migratory workers and moved within 36 months.

>For example if you live in a trailer park, you are considered homeless.

This seems to check out. It's odd in the rest of the definition.

>(i) children and youths who are sharing the housing of other persons due to loss of housing, economic hardship, or a similar reason; are living in motels, hotels, trailer parks, or camping grounds due to the lack of alternative adequate accommodations; are living in emergency or transitional shelters; or are abandoned in hospitals;*
The New Hampshire legislature has a ‘liberty’ caucus composed of libertarians (but members of the Republican Party). This bill is sponsored by a very progress democrat and another member who’s a physician who recently switched parties (R->D) basically because of the libertarian’s opposition to Covid policies. So it will be interesting how the “freedom” fighters vote on this bill given their tension with the bill’s sponsors.
Speculation on cause being related to lithium ion batteries in the cargo.
My daughter and all her friends in middle school would have to disagree with you here.
Still, Bluray discs with the downmix metadata set correctly should still sound better in stereo than a streaming source that was downmixed without dynamic range and mix preference metadata.

The technology is old enough to be long out of patent either way.
Hate to tell you this, but this is not a good article on the subject. It was as performative as the mask wearing it complains about, and is oddly disconnected from reality considering how many deaths of people the author's age have happened in Michigan (Where he lives).

Sure the teens might be fine with Omicron (earlier variants had much higher chances of lasting health impact it appears), but not necessarily their parents or family back home.

Sure some fears and actions are overblown, but not to the degree being implied here.
The actual text of the bill seems very reasonable. Developing and using free and open source solutions can save taxpayer money when it reduces duplication of effort among governments. Software for the functions listed in 21-W:4 is also needed in other states, counties, and cities.

I hope the bill passes.
Huh, but you already need to stop in West Virginia to pick up your moonshine, so grab some pawpaws too while you’re there.
No vaccines protect against infection. Maybe you mean does it protect against asymptomatic infection? Or asymptomatic transmission? (I don't know how effective it is for either.)
> I also don’t see how signaling, in the UI, which messages are subject to different rules would be a anti-competitive

I think the anti-competitive part is refusing to make iMessage available anywhere other than on apple products, even though there are clearly users who would like to use it on other platforms
mad respect
> The stuff with the red N on the poster -- some of it is REALLY good

An overwhelming majority of it is total garbage. It's such a bad ratio that I treat the red N as a negative signal when I'm choosing something.
Do climate models predict extreme weather?
This is absolutely wrong.

Transmission is not a near zero marginal cost, and the cost to operate absolutely does depend on the design capacity, including the operating voltages and number of sources and taps.

Additionally, wider geographic distribution of power sources greatly increases the number of transmission lines and overall amount of right-of-way and materials needed per generated kwh.

And because you can't assume a usage of near 100% of transmission capacity due to intermittent solar and wind, having to over-build transmission capacity reduces overall efficiency even greater, meaning even higher transmission costs for equivalent grid capacity.
I’ve seen people try to make “uber for camera rental”, I’m not sure if any of them succeeded. Most photography specialized retailers rent equipment.

I think there’s a good mix between rent and own as there’s a lot of diversity in creators.
I think its an excellent idea, because some of their products are free so this is a way for them to get paid for their free products and the user doesn't have to have privacy intrusive profiled advertising thrust in their face when using a free product.

Crypto is also a hedge against local currencies as various country's, even the greatest nations can become unstable govt's very quickly.

Edit. It makes me wonder as the above has been downvoted, if this is why US cpu/gpu manufacturers are now disabling things that make mining crypto harder like Intel's AVX-512 and nVidia's changes to prevent GPU crypto mining, whilst using global warming as a straw puppet.
I think he means that MS would buy IBM and RedHat with it.

I doubt they will though. Like others have said MS buying Canonical would make a lot more sense. And there have already been a lot of overtures.
Where are you going to get a few million surrogates? A lot of solutions shared here fail to realize that the majority of US public school teachers are routinely spending their own money on basic classroom supplies.
I suspect any film that was good enough could bypass many, many of the guidelines they have for partners, including use of a camera that is not on that list.

The collection of documents seems to be guidelines and templates to begin from if seeking to partner with Netflix.

It doesn't seem like requirements for the film from being considered for inclusion in the catalogue, but at least offers a relative standard that can be deviated from as necessary.

For example, the general safety and guidelines document they provide for the US includes guidelines on weapons handling and stunts.[1] Having documents like this to start from might remove some of the administrative overhead to creating art in film.

To offer a comparison, YC has the SAFE investment template, an enterprise sales agreement template and recommendations for organization of startups. Using these might make a new company an easier fold into the portfolio but if the startup is successful enough, many things likely can be seen past.

Regarding iPhone specifically, the device has been able to record in 4k since the 6S and 6S Plus, which was one generation later than Tangerine which used the 5S. That said, I don't know the details of video capture to say if anything up through the 13 Pro compares with these other cameras.

[1] https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gs6n32bMC_2zLGp2jI4U3JA7k7q...
What I love about this project is that I had an active worry about its success, very few things in life inspire that kind of emotion. Well done to all involved, a true lifetime achievement. Can't wait for the images!
> who absolutely insists on using Android

I’m in an all iPhone household, but come on. It’s his phone. No need to get tetchy about it.
Yes.

Those adjustments, as well as unloading of the reaction wheels used to position JWST, and the fuel burns reqiured for them, are the principle determinants of the JWAT's lifespan, estimated at 10 years.

Nasa have lowballed such estimates for numerous missions in the past (Hubble and numerous Mars lander and rover missions come to mind), and it's possible JWST will exceed the planned lifetime, potentially by a wide margin. Initial indications are that the Ariane V insertion should have spared much potential fuel use in orbital corrections and insertion.

I expect the space geek set will have speculation, hopefully reasonably informed, on this in the not-too-distant future.
The Block – 2022 digital asset outlook [pdf]
Only entering the month+year isn't the issue. The website is near random. I entered my DOB perfectly and was suggested i was an age decades off (with corresponding % being that wrong). Clearing cookies, meticulously entering and checking DOB again and i get decades off the other side of my age.

The website is seriously malfunctioning. I guess it's just giving results of a different user.
Okay, here's Jeff Bezos literally saying that [1].

[1] https://edition.cnn.com/videos/business/2021/02/03/jeff-bezo...
Welcome to the software industry! Baptism by fire... Dont sweat it. Lots of jobs out there. Maintain a good portfolio of past work.
> You have 69.06606187% of life remaining

Nice.
Nope, American/Canadian manuals for VW cars tend to specify 16000 km or 10000 miles. I have experience with mk4 and mk5 VWs (diesel and gas) and they all had similar or the same oil change interval.
I host my own server. It’s fun! I get to play with different software configurations and sharpen my skills.

But I would never want to do it for business. Or for anything large scale. I also never want to be my own bank and hold my wealth in a crypto wallet. I have a better infosec knowledge background than 99.9+% of the general population, which is how I know with full certainty that I don’t want to store my wealth in a way that would be instantly destroyed if I lost the keys or they were compromised.
Chocosetup – A ninite.com alternative that uses Chocolatey
I don’t see how that’s fair.

If that’s insignificant, why invite them? If that’s significant, why not mention them?
As noted in another comment, that is legit program synthesis from a complete
specification in natural language. The workflow described in the paper and
abstracted in your comment can be very useful, as long as the user can have good
confidence in the correctness of the results (or the ability to eyball and
correct them as needed).

The problem is that this approach relies on a large language model trained on a
copy of the entire web (GPT-3, trained on Common Crawl plus network extras),
fine-tuned on github (Codex) and then fine-tuned again on the kinds of problems
that it is supposed to solve. That is an insane amount of resources to spend to
solve simple programming problems with known solutions that can be implemented
by hand at much lower cost and effort. In that sense it's a little bit
disappointing: so much data, so much compute, and all you can do is tell
computer how to code python?
Perhaps one day they could send a robot mechanic along with the mission, and then a camera could be of value.
> When school budgets are cut and underpaid teachers leave the industry "Oh, that's just the free hand of the market."

Are school budgets being cut? I keep hearing people saying they are, but the US Department of Education says the opposite [1]: that per-pupil spending (adjusted for inflation) has increased greatly over the past century or so, and its trajectory has almost always been upward. What's the deal?

(My best shot at a steelman is that either (a) the money has been disappearing down a mysterious rabbit hole and so teacher pay hasn't risen as much as the raw budget numbers would lead you to think, or that (b) teachers are underpaid relative to what they could get in other occupations that have seen more per-worker productivity growth, i.e. the Baumol effect.)

[1] https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d18/tables/dt18_236.55.a...
Dev is so easy theyre forcing sysadmins to do it these days too. See how silly that statement sounds?
Ok. this is from wsj.com "Omicron mortality is likely around 0.2%, roughly in line with seasonal flu."
https://www.wsj.com/articles/omicron-variant-may-end-up-savi...

Pretty close to my back of the napkin calculations.
My parents are from Michigan and I'm visiting them here. People get covid all over the place but people just don't care about it. That's really how it is here.
Giving their users a better experience when messaging their friends and family who are not using iPhones. As the WSJ article points out in Apple's monopolistic thinking, this is an anti-goal.
> It will depend if their training data is considered part of the source code.

It has to be, otherwise you could argue that javascript is data dynamically loaded by an open-source browser.
I haven’t tried bevy, so this question may sound naive. Does the new renderer support shadows for 2d rendered games? Something I’ve played around with in Godot and can look quite nice.

Also, I tried to search for the answer to this: is there any information on ways to make a game build with bevy moddable?
They're teenagers, probably acting dramatic and trying to be funny
Because we continue to gain a better understanding of how people mature. We now recognize that the period of adolescence is a long one, and that life outcomes are typically better when you do not push people directly into adult roles in society immediately after they reach puberty.
FOIA in full effect: https://www.spyculture.com/documents/
For me the best battle test was to set up a re-establishing vpn-pptp (or was it lptp?). The issue was that the daemon, name long forgotten, used a default route to establish a VPN connection, then rewrote it with an in-channel ip received at the handshake. But when it crashed or stalled, the default route didn't exist in the segment anymore and you had to re-dhcp it, somehow automagically detecting the situation.

Wonder if it solved it. If not, what's the fuss.
Not what I expected at all:

log (n.2) "record of observations, readings, etc.," 1842, sailor's shortening of log-book "daily record of a ship's speed, progress, etc." (1670s), from log (n.1). The book so called because a wooden float at the end of a line was cast out to measure a ship's speed. General sense by 1913.*

So it does have a relationship to the wooden log - it was originally a series of measurements from a floating bit of wood.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/log
1. Would you dismiss it as the "deep end of spurious, unchecked reasoning" if someone pointed out a likely connection between Trump's election fraud narratives and the events of January 6th, 2021?

False and inflammatory narratives have consequences. It's not hard to figure out the connection in these cases.

2. Who cares if HR wanted him not to speak up? Their request was illegitimate. This is just bootlicking.
Just on a practical level, you might as well just disable the option to convert, especially if you're going to swap it out anyway. Sometimes just flipping the switch on a task opens up a little cognitive space for the rest of your work. :)
> be able to observe anything in the sky, and get the most detailed pictures ever seen of them

That's just not true. JWST is primarily infrared, with some limited ability to observe in visible light (essentially half of the spectrum, no blue or green). It has no capability in ultraviolet, x-rays, gamma-rays, microwaves or radio.

You just can't build a single instrument to "observe anything".

JWST can't do what Hubble can for the most part, and Hubble can't do what JWST will do.

WMAP, Spektr (Russian), Chandra and many other missions all do different things and help us answer different questions with very little overlap.