skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm happy to pay an extra $3/yr for this project.

Yes, I think many of us would be happy to. But the reality is that NASA has to fight a pretty ferocious budget battle every year, and often (not always) delay and increase in JWST cost has meant postponing or cancelling other missions.

For example the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, which was deemed the top priority by the decadal survey in 2010 almost got canceled in 2018/2020 because of JWST overruns.

This Nature article is a good read: "The telescope that ate astronomy" [1] (and at the time of the article, JWST cost was "only" at 5B$).

I am very excited about what we will observe with the JWST, but shelling yet a few other billion of dollars out of NASA's tight astronomy budget to get an identical copy, mean we are yet again cancelling or postponing other exciting missions that could help us answer very important questions.

[1]: https://www.nature.com/articles/4671028a
Omicron surge pushes U.S. Covid hospitalizations toward record high
No, it is actually incorrect, all numbers are incorrect by one year it seems. Gentoo switched in 2007, and Ubuntu and Fedora used Upstart since 2006.

And why wouldn't you compare it with the systems it actually competes against and replaces rather than against something that was barely used any more before systemd even stated development? The comparison with sysvinit, suggesting that those that do not use systemd advocate sysvinit instead, is simply a flagrant straw-man designed to make systemd look good.
In 1922, a 14-year-old in the US could expect to live maybe another 40 years; in 2022, that number is likely to be at least 70. As a fraction of life expectancy, adolescence is actually relatively short right now.
An array of char arrays. But with the missing comma, it does something similar to what Python does in the linked article. Instead of ("uno", "dos", "tres"), you get ("uno", "dostres").
web3 isn't supposed to fix it.

people running their own servers would/might have given rise to a more decentralized system in which the putative problems web3 is claimed to fix would not have arisen.
That's a literally terrifying thought, yet most likely exactly how it'll play out in the end… :(
Footnote: Remember that Passiflora must be eaten full ripe.
I don’t think the thing you just made up because it made you sound cynical is a real problem.
I would also like to see what a modern take on a dot matrix printer could be like.

They are still being made, but not cheap.
We can't exactly ask teachers to get covid can we?
Since there we're questions of what this list is for, this list doesn't determine with which cameras a TV show or film has to be shot with to be included in Netflix. Its rather one of several technical specifications (there are others for post-prod flow for example) for production companies who produce the so-called Netflix Originals for Netflix.
> total garbage

Which historically correlates with commercial success.

It's why Netflix is more than happy to green-light awful shows such as Emily in Paris.
This opinion makes sense if we're fine casting Thomson Reuters as merely the flip side of Fox News, rather than an organization that aspires to a higher integrity culture.
>> Common sense works everywhere regardless of culture

How does common sense work in a culture of alternative facts/alternative truth?
This is just saying "do not run untrusted code" with extra steps. If you don't trust the source the code came from you should not executed any line.
His earlier lectures are excellent, good luck
You'd be amazed at the number of people involved in creating content that know nothing about the technical aspect of content creation. In most situations, they hire people to do things for them, and they will typically as for what kind of specs they are looking to deliver.

Any company that produces something will have similar type of "specs".
That might be too low of a resolution for RGB, I have a feeling that few cars would share the same spectral signature in the commonly measured bands. A lot of papers have been written on vehicle identification using SAR - so that would probably be the way to go.
How would you go about trying to buy such a business?
Came to say exactly this, the designer of this web doesn't know a thing about web design.
Also, video is not actually bandlimited so the supposedly perfect filter isn’t actually perfect; you can do a better nonlinear one.
You times how many millions of other users?
I am talking about the consequence of fractional reserve banking. Specifically that money is made by banks to some amount. Also I think saying "we don't have fractional reserve banking" is needlessly splitting hairs. The requirements are just more complicated than "hold onto X% of deposits".
Black mirror was originally a channel 4 production (uk).
It moved to Netflix on the 3rd season, so I wouldn't quite call it a Netflix original.
Thanks again, and thanks for all your hard work on the moderation!
I don't think that's the case. From what I've read, the goal of this web3/crypto stuff is to bring decentralization to the masses. If only a subset of "nerds" want to run servers, that still doesn't cut it.
Technology won't solve the fundamental problem that people are generally more engaged and focused when they're physically proximal.
I guess the alternative is basing you choices only marginally on "novel expert" advice moderated by the apparent urgency.
Downscaling or blurring - these are the same thing if you pretend it’s bandlimited. Which it isn’t of course.
Too bad their streaming video platform uses low bitrates.

So disgusting seeing big square macroblocks, esp.on dark scenes.

Cancelled it months ago.
The argument could be made that private ML training datasets with public consequences are a fundamental problem.
> It's the same as hating Google for slurping all our data and flooding the net with ads, while still appreciating it's great search functionality, fast free video hosting and best-in-class navigation offering.

What makes it even worse is that one of the things that makes Google's navigation offering best-in-class is precisely that they've been slurping all our (motion) data.
There’s no question that Apple has not extended iMessage support to Android because it’s in their business interest. However, it is a bit rich for Hiroshi Lockheimer, who is obviously massively biased, to claim the Apple could “just adopt RCS” as a replacement for iMessage (and also for the author to let that comment stand without challenging it at all).

It has taken _years_ to get carriers on board with RCS (and RCS requires their involvement) and it doesn’t support all of iMessage’s features (e.g. only supports end-to-end encryption in one-to-one chats, and that after a near Herculean effort from Google). Moreover, the fact that it’s an open standard means that it will likely take quite some time for the protocol to support new features that OS vendors like Apple might like to add, and that that process will be fraught with compromises. It seems completely reasonable to me for Apple to not want to tie themselves to the whims of carriers (who, let’s recall, were charging _absurd_ amounts for text messages before proprietary systems forced their hand) or Google (look at what’s happened to web standards under their stewardship) when it comes to managing their messaging service.

That said, as an iPhone user, I _would_ love to see RCS support _alongside_ iMessage to improve the experience of communicating with Android users, and that actually might happen someday.
What criminal charge, exactly? As long as it's in the fine print, hard to see how it's criminal. Shitty, possibly (hopefully) civilly actionable, but criminal seems like a stretch, at least in the US. Not that I don't think that people who think this sort of thing is an acceptable business practice shouldn't be frogmarched out back and strung up in the nearest tree...
Way more people will get omicron than the flu.
Yes, there is a clear quality difference between the stuff they acquire/license (some of which is quite good) and the utter dreck they produce themselves.
What I meant is that MS could buy Red Hat from. IBM. Failing that, buy IBM.
Sorry, the “you” in the article isn’t referring to what an individual rust programmer could do, but what the rust language designers could do.
I've noticed that in Southeast Asia, inkjets (often with a CIS) are far more popular than lasers, and heard it being attributed to the fact that in tropical climates, toner clumps easily but ink stays moist; and in a lot of other regions in the world, ink dries too quickly and clogs printheads, while toner stays dry and usable.
I just made an account to respond to this. Shipping scripts is racy and error-prone. It's the wrong approach and is not how any actively developed desktop wants to do things. They want an API they can use from a service, that's what logind provides and that's why it's been adopted. You can also run acpid alongside logind if that's what you prefer, but it will be racy unless you also use logind's inhibitor API.
Definitely not unique to video.

People are happy to take a Leica camera and then apply the same Kodak Portra colour filter that every influencer seems to use.
But why? Unless you are targeting Linux users or devs in general, nobody will obfuscate like this. And to decode this you (your bot) need to run untrusted code. The upside has to justify the work securing your bot.
Not the parent you're replying to, but I disagree with the assertion in your summary. I don't think the "enough people" here actually is enough. We're talking about a small fraction of a percent of all internet users. I don't see how that could be enough give the non-server-runners the touted privacy, security, censorship-resistance, and data-ownership benefits of decentralization.
> There is one silver lining here : spam being priced out (while hopefully still staying cheap enough for everyone to use).

This may be true but so may be the opposite. We are already spammed with ads everywhere and someone pays for them.
The situation is that such hackers and tweakers rarely use systemd, for these reasons.

They are simply annoyed by A) it being pushed on them; B) people often acting that they are irrational for not liking it while it does not what they expect and need; and C) discussions with Freedesktop developers that, frankness be, reveal they live inside of a very strange bubble and have no idea of the use cases outside of it.

This is software brought to you by the minds who brought you. “I have no idea what XFCE is or does, sorry.” or that libinput did not need a way to disable mouse acceleration because everyone wants mouse acceleration.
I didn't know there was so readily a list of places I'd never want to work. Gonna bookmark this site to make sure I never do business with any of them. The most depressing part is how young they all are; which is of course, because they're easier to manipulate lacking real world experience.
Science seems to be pointed hard towards 25 being the age of majority rather than 18. We are unlikely to see the age move in our lifetimes due to the military needing its recruits but it probably should. Do you really think the average 14-15 year old should be considered in the same maturity bracket as the average 35 or 45 year old? I was incapable of making good decisions at that age. The things I thought were cool, the way I thought things worked, the rational for the actions I took, all of it was cringe inducing now as an adult when I think back on it. When I think back on my 30's, I wish I had more information but overall see no fault in the way that I made my decisions.
> I can: Modular code using modules, instead of shoe-horning everything into classes

It's your lucky day then, as this is how CLOS programs are written. Methods are associated with generic functions, which are in turn associated with packages.

See "CLOS: integrating object-oriented and functional programming" <https://dreamsongs.com/Files/clos-cacm.pdf> for an overview of how this style pans out in practise.
Maybe there could be an auto search with a warning when posting a link? Saying "hey this has already been posted" and a summary of those rules.

But you have probably thought of this already and didn't do it for a good reason.

In this case I hadn't seen it before so it was news to me.
Depending on which features you need, Gitlab can be a lightweight replacement.

It has good Kanban boards, but does not have custom fields, so everything is done with tags. Also lacks reporting.

In places where I work, the switch to Gitlab was intentional to keep things simple. JIRA had become a monster.
You are not
I have a black and white Samsung laser (SCX-3200) that just went and went. It's in the garage. USB only, generic PS and PCL emulation, $5 refill kit available where the only gotcha was you need a chip that always reads full.

I was really disappointed when HP took their printers over.

We replaced it with a color laser (Canon MF632Cdw) because my wife wanted to print sewing patterns, and I'm not near as impressed with it. No real problems, though, other than the mess that seems to be UFR II on Linux.
CTRL+F "climate" - Phrase not found. This is saddening. But hey, at least blockchain is present!
Something I am wondering about the L2 orbit ... per NASA:

> Webb's orbit [~ around L2] ... is actually similar in size to the Moon's orbit around the Earth! This orbit (which takes Webb about 6 months to complete once) keeps the telescope out of the shadows of both the Earth and Moon. Unlike Hubble, which goes in and out of Earth shadow every 90 minutes, Webb will have an unimpeded view that will allow science operations 24/7.

https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/about/orbit.html

Wouldn't remaining in Earth's shadow result in less interference, with Earth providing an extra sunshield? And "an unimpeded view" of what? I can't believe those cold, sensitive optics, with that carefully engineered sunshield, will point anywhere but away from the Sun.
Probably, at the very least they're confirmed to be aware of the network effects of the ecosystem (imessage is also specifically called out) https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/1463558823109660677
Ah, that's a good point ! While getting a static IP prefix subnet should be the default for regular connections, and the situation for that should only get better with time, AFAIK cellular Internet is still kind of an unsolved problem... since moving to another cell means getting another prefix !

But then isn't this the kind of issues that can also be handled by decentralization via replication of data across the Internet ? (Would probably still be prohibitive for data that is both obscure and heavy...)
Makes sense to me. Consider that at 91-92 years you will have exceeded the expected number of years for your cohort.
They are using OpenAI Davinci-Codex, comparable to GPT3-175B, without any further fine-tuning as far as I can tell. Over-fitting, in the traditional sense, specifically to these questions is very unlikely.

What is problematic is at the bottom of page 6:

> Prompts that result in correct solutions, whether from original or modified prompts, are used for evaluation metrics.

In other words, they reject all results without correct solutions and claim perfect accuracy...

And as you noticed even their evaluation is really not good enough to establish perfect accuracy.
Unvaccinated assholes will still take up hospital beds and prevent your mother who has cancer from getting surgery.
I use Google Voice with my iPhone. My cousin has an Android. The rest of the family is on iPhones. My family all have my GV #, but not my iPhone phone #. My iCloud address is my email address.

I think almost everyone is on Verizon.

Group Chat works great in Messages for me until someone adds my cousin, who being on Android, obviously doesn't have Messages installed. At that point all the iPhones (or the Apple Messages backend?) switch to MMS. Then the fun starts for me.

For every message sent to the group chat, I get an email (to my iCloud email address) from phone#@vzwpix.com. The to list is all the phone #'s in the group @vzwpix.com, oh except one person who is on AT&T goes to phone#@icmms1.sun5.lightsurf.net. The email has no subject, and the body of the message is a single text attachment.

I don't really understand why Messages Group Chat has to be all or nothing Apple Messages or MMS. I also don't really understand what this weird email thing is or where it happens. But it's annoying as heck.

I've offered to buy my cousin an iPhone, but she's just really attached to Android. (Normally, I chat with her via WhatsApp, but I also can't convince my entire family to switch to WhatsApp just so we can have a common communication protocol.)
"mark twain" means 12 ft. Samuel Clemens adopted it as a pen name.

https://www.mvd.usace.army.mil/Portals/52/docs/regional_floo...
On Android you can send images as files in Whatsapp and most other messengers. Does Apple not allow such access to your own photo files?
When the desire to make content is greater than your budget, you find a way. I know, I've been there. Graduating to using "real" gear is like a spotlight from heaven beaming down on you with a choral of angels singing as you suddenly realize how much nicer it is using "real" gear. In the mean time, you make do with what you got. The great thing about these newer gear is that it doesn't look like as obvious as lower gear. Fake it till you make it
Yeah I read the same comment you did, but if you're taking a signal with 6 channels, and only have two channels out, you don't really have any option but send the middle channel to both outputs, else it'll sound far too intense in a single ear.
I have no idea why that’s not being automatically done when the mixdown occurs in the player.
People using non Systemd distros, like Gentoo, Guix and other, are missing anything important?
I care that it makes it super easy and free to send an image as opposed to MMS and the confusing technology that exists there.
I (early 20's) have had people complain about the green bubbles from my messages, but now 95% of my communication is over Signal so it's a non-issue.
The switching costs are different, though.

You can switch between airlines without having to convince everyone else on your flight to do the same. Also, buying two flights on two different airlines to fly to two separate destinations on two separate days makes much more sense than buying two phones to talk to two different people.
The problem is -- referring to Moxie's article here -- that some of the supposedly-decentralized things are already depending on or are fronted by specific centralized services, so even if you do decide to run your own server, it doesn't matter, because those centralized services have become de-facto gatekeepers to the decentralization in the background, and it's difficult (and sometimes impossible) for the average user to replace those.

It was very interesting to me to learn that if OpenSea de-lists your NFT, then it effectively ceases to exist. Sure, it's still on the blockchain, but any app that uses OpenSea's platform to list or operate on NFTs (which, turns out, is a lot of them right now) won't see it.

This might be fixable, but it's a big red flag to me that these problems already exist, with no proposed solutions.
I was wrong! I failed FizzBuzz!

The English 'and' doesn't have the same precedence as in software - it actually goes in the opposite direction. What it does in English is this:

Find the smallest prime number that (
(is divisible by 7) and (is divisible by 13)
)

The point I was trying to make was is: the English meaning of this sentence is unambiguous. And it's obvious the algorithm here in no way understands this meaning. It's just dissecting parse trees, and hitting the shuffle button.
All Oxalis are edible and tasty in small amounts. Eat too much and you will experience Oxalic acid poisoning burning your gut from inside
I hike down by hocking hills a decent amount and never saw one but I’ll be on the lookout now!
Very nice idea! Would you sell the new developments off the plan to investors? You could offer a done for you package there, for example building guaranteed, guaranteed rent etc.
Babylonian Programming: Turning Live-Coded Examples into General Source Code
Colors.js: Adds new American flag module
An editor isn't the one who picks the direction of the color grading. A--wait for it--director is.

The idea that an editor is "lazy" for doing what they're told to do by the director and DP is pretty offensive.
> you had issues focus, did music help?

ADHD is not an issue focusing.

I don't have a problem focusing per se [1]. The disorder's name is misleading [2].

In fact, I often have an excess of focus: focusing on something to the detriment of everything else [3].

Like, coding (or making music) till 5AM, forgetting to eat and sleep.

The problem I have is directing where the focus goes.

Let me make a camera analogy:

* Most people don't have laser-sharp focus, but it's good enough for what needs to get done, and they can switch it quickly and at will, like a manual focus on a camera;

* My focus is laser sharp... but it's automatic, and with a janky chip. So it takes time to engage, and often picks out the wrong subject.

Whatever it focuses on looks great, but if there's a squirrel in the frame, the focus always goes there, and it never focuses on some things just because.

Anything shiny and fine-textured (jewelry, fine art) will come out excellently, in super fine detail.

Anything that's bland and the same throughout (like plain cloth) doesn't have enough edges for the autofocus to catch on.

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Does music help? Well, it's one thing I can focus on. That's how I failed gym: I couldn't leave the music lab on time to make it to the next class... Every time. Breaking hyperfocus is painful.

Music isn't an ADHD cure, but what it is, is a place for many ADHD people to find themselves, and feel comfortable at. It ticks all the boxes: creative, important, necessary, and urgent — if you are performing. It's the shiny thing my autofocus chip can lock onto.

It gets the dopamine flowing, and when you get enough, you suddenly get the action points to do other things.

It's also a way to meet and connect with people. I made many friends through music — unsurprisingly, quite a few of them have ADHD.

So it helps, but not in a way you might think.

And classical piano music instruction is outright harmful IMO. I'm mostly self-taught/playing by ear; the skills I needed to play live weren't taught in school. People who spent years playing classical pieces somehow were never taught basic musicianship: playing by ear, improvising, arranging, basics of composing, etc; not to mention zero knowledge about music tech (of which we have more than a century now).

That said, I have taken several semesters worth of music production classes — and barely scratched the surface of what there is to learn.

On that note, I can highly recommend Huang's class on Monthly if you can truly dedicate time and effort needed for it, which is much more than the minimum required to just get through it. It's super condensed and hands-on.

Let me know if you want more info about music and resources.

[1] https://romankogan.net/adhd/#Focusing

[2] https://romankogan.net/adhd/#Awfully%20Described%20Human%20D...

[3] https://romankogan.net/adhd/#Hyperfocus
As others have noted, no.

Ground-based observations of the JWST are possible. They're rather more in the style of Seurat than Hirothropologie, and rather minimalist-pointilist at that.

https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-video-image...
Thought the same. The launch and everything went down so perfectly I bet it gets more than 10 years.
Yeah I also wouldn't like to be pressured into buying a >1000$ phone when a 200$ one works just as well... Unless some people insist on using weird, non-crossplatform messengers.