skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
crypto was not co-opted. FAANGies just got stuck on a WebPKI side quest.

leading research in the field is being done by blockchain companies. you don't have to believe me, try reading ePrint. cryptocurrency people lead the research in zk proof systems and more. the idea that the crypto space doesn't use cryptography is absolutely laughable
Subjectively it feels like highway speeds have been going up steadily over the last 10 years. Maybe not. But I don't like that "cruising" speed on US interstates is 70-75. Seems dangerous and wasteful, just to save a few minutes travel time. But then again people also drive on the highways with huge empty pickup trucks all the time, so they probably just don't care about waste.
These predictions are like puzzle pieces that don't fit together.

If 50% of the population are COVID invalids, who's going to be doing the (building) work for a new economic boom? You can't seriously say "I'm going to make predictions - but let's just ignore the most important health event for over a century."

So - mRNA vaccinations. If you can vaccinate against AIDS, flu, cancer (being investigated...), and the rest, you get a bimodal population where a fair proportion of those born before Vaccination Day are cripples, and potentially everyone born after is super-immune to many killer diseases.

The important word being "potentially."

Political implications? Just a bit.

If there's a permanent Moon base - so what? Does anything really change? How? (What - in practical and economic terms, as opposed to symbolically - did the ISS change?) Can you even have a self-sustaining Moon base without relying on Earth. (Hint: not for a long time.)

Cars: I really don't think many people are going to be thinking about cars in 2030-2040. Cars are useless if your roads/buildings are flooded/burning.

Robots? Possibly. (See also: economic boom. Kind of)

But behind this the real issues are psychological. The planet without toxic media and mad billionaires is a much nicer place than the planet with them. Many of the biggest trad-media offenders will be dead by 2030. Will they be replaced? Will there be a Metaverse Abstinence movement? Can one be engineered?

I'd like to believe we can beat the raccoons yet.
linux build: Lex needs to be run on Solaris machine. awk.lx.c is built on solaris, then modified by hand to remove the static initialization of yyin and yyout.

That kind of situation is a fun throwback.
True. It's also the type of restrictions that were in place. I think the most egregious was LA closing hiking trails. I get if you need restrictions in the densely populated portions, but closing hiking trails? It seems like whoever made the rules was more concerned with exerting control rather than public health.
Can't the server still pretend to be connecting to one of the specified hops? For example if -h 'allowed.com' is specified then in /etc/hosts/ wouldn't an entry to 127.0.0.1 allowed.com allow the local server to receive the key?
Spchcat: Speech recognition tool to convert audio to text transcripts
It is interesting to see how different gym cultures across the world are.

Here people will usually pre-pay a certain # of entries or a certain time period, often with cash, and no one asks for any details except name. Hard-to-cancel recurring membership isn't a thing.

We do not have many gym chains, though.
Can you share which country you liked the best? I'm an expat living in Germany and I would characterize the people and culture here as the opposite of 'warm'. It's really taken its toll on my psyche in the last years...
The instructions for compiling TeX from scratch are a little daunting, and sometimes unclear (e.g., having to define printer settings). Here are my Linux instructions for those who want to get core TeX up and running:

https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/576314/2148

Although TeX has many years of development effort behind it, the core functionality of converting macros to math glyphs is reasonably straightforward and can be accomplished in a few months---especially given that high-quality math fonts are freely available. Here's a Java-based TeX implementation that provides the ability to format simple TeX equations:

https://github.com/DaveJarvis/JMathTeX

The code supports neither vectors/matrices nor bracket sizing (PR welcome!):

https://github.com/DaveJarvis/JMathTeX/issues
It got politicized.
> If you want to get more spatial resolution you will need a (much) larger mirror

Or multiple mirrors spatially separated. Or a single mirror/camera at different positions at different times. Since JWST's orbit around L2 is fairly large, is that going to be used? You mentioned that stability of the platform would be a limit. How well is the position of the JWST known at any given time (I suppose it can be calibrated by viewing well known sources)?
Japanese Hanko Stamp: Guide to Japan’s Personal Seals
Good point, and in those contexts the model seems to more or less line up with what I personally observe.
>not exactly a totally new and unimaginable proposal

that's not exactly contradictory with "conspiracy theory from the other side".
Seamlessly going from a chat about a problem, to a video meeting, to screen sharing, to sharing files, and then continuing the conversation on mobile, to scheduling a teams meeting later in the week to follow up and fully integrated into outlook is what I’m talking about.
To each their own. I want to question though, whether those simpler tools are truly simpler. Lets say you want to use notebooks instead of org mode. You will need to have the following set up, before you can start:

- python3 (OK, mostly a given, though not on Windows)

- pip and depending on your requirements you might need Poetry or Pipenv or whatever else

- Jupyter ecosystem (JupyterLab, Jupyter/notebook server and all their dependencies)

- some extensions for JupyterLab. Those could be frontend and backend. If frontend, then you will also need to have NodeJS on your machine, to have NPM, to have tsc to be able to build JupyterLab with the extension installed.

Quite a few parts there as well.
Want to be a criminal in America? Stealing billions the best bet to go scot-free
And most antivirus software is useless for most malware on the internet.
On another note https://generateworlds.com/ doesn't support HTTPS. If you need help getting a TLS certificate in place I'd be happy to help.
> Will check for canary traps tomorrow as I‘m suspecting they‘re just scraping us or our competitors.

I bite: Aren't you also just scraping others?
Late on the followup here, but yeah. What I observed at the time is that Hackers had a decidedly bimodal reception. There were folks who thought it was the most k-rad depiction of real leet hackers ever to hit the screen, and there were folks who rolled their eyes and wondered if the filmmakers even realized it was a parody of itself.

And the two groups barely realized each other existed.

I've gone back and watched Hackers recently (actually there was a 25th anniversary retrospective with some of the original actors on Twitch, kind of fun) and I still can't watch the whole thing, it's just uncomfortably bad. Has a few golden lines -- "it's in that place where I put that thing that time" remains a favorite -- but overall it's just one Sandra Bullock away from being the worst tech film ever.
And perhaps more importantly, there isn’t miles of red tape and NIMBYism to overcome to be able to roll out EVs.

I’m strongly in favor of nationwide electric rail, but I also know that accomplishing that will be nearly impossible short of the federal government steamrolling it through, which itself is unlikely due to oil and auto lobbying.

So I see it as a sort of, “take what you can get” situation.
If the workplace has chargers then a large number of cars can also be charged in the 9-5 time span when there is usually plenty of sun. Cars are idle most of the time, so we just have to make sure that they are plugged into the grid whenever they are not being driven, and then have intelligent charging systems that use EVs as sinks when there is a surplus.
A fully elastic, auto-scaling load balancer in ~50 lines of go
Full insurance in European Union often has explicit exception for Albania if you bring your car from there.
What virtue are they "signalling?" Do you know what the Dutch East India Company was or that it resulted in several colonies?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Former_settlements_an...

It appears in the subheading because it's relevant to the article

> Knowing more about these timbers helps us understand the Dutch success in world trade
My go-to font is heroicons[0], but this looks really nice. The entire set does have a consistency that is often missing in free offerings.

[0] https://heroicons.com/
Same here. The best time to debug code is before writing it.
At the same time, the post clearly states that the investigation is over. Nobody is rushing Upwork here, they’ve already finished.
One of the posters wondered why disruptive billions aren't being made by new printer companies.

Well not that long ago look what happened with disruptive scooter and ebike rental.

Those things piled up faster than landfills could handle it.

With printers billions were already made in the 20th century.

There are so many thousands of tonnes of surplus printers at any one time, a huge percentage of which have not yet been landfilled, that all I use are rescued printers and I'm in a business where the only deliverable product is paperwork.

Even though I am the pioneer of the paperless approach.

Anyway, recently things like the discontinued Brother HL-2270 series are more common as discards but have plenty of life left in the hardware.

When I got one complete with a couple new toner refills, it was a good time to add it to one of my paperless subnets. Printing which had been non-essential could then become discretionary and the actual cost per page would start at zero and stay that way for the remainder of the toner it had plus the two new cartridges. Well actually only zero compared to other printers considering the cost of the paper is the same.

I like this printer better than the equivalent HP's and Lexmark I have kept running in those offices still largely doing full paperwork output for each job.

When Windows 11 was released the Brother website posted a message having a positive outlook for compatible drivers to become available for download within a few weeks.

That did come true and it turned out better than anticipated since it was still just the same drivers that had been validated for Windows 10.

That's the kind of engineering I like.

Now they have a detailed list of all their printers supported for Windows 11 with a highly respectable array of discontinued models going back many years.

With the printer connected to a regular Windows network, wireless or not, you can fire up a Linux workstation and the printer is easily detected, although you may need to select something like USA Letter Size paper if the default is European A4.

Once again I don't recommend actually purchasing a printer when there are so many homeless needing adoption.
True Crime Fans Are Obsessed with This Forensic Psychology YouTube Channel
Is it taboo to even mention facts of history in such neutral terms? Is that not what the ships were used for? And if that's virtue signalling, then what precisely do you intend to signal here?
JWST is making observations in orange to mid-infrared wavelengths. The sun, earth, and moon are all quite hot and emit a lot of light in that range of wavelengths. Near L2, JWST can use one sunshield to block out light from all three bodies, with less impact on what portion of the sky it can observe
This is true for things like motor mounts and pipe flanges, but not for things like optical surfaces and lathe ways. Even in cases where it is true, if you didn't make the duplicate alongside the original, you have to do the setup again to make a duplicate.
> this is false.

Not exactly, but we're arguing semantics. Nothing I said contradicts what you wrote.

Still, Federal Law supercedes State Law, and no State Constitution can contradict the US Constitution.

Your Federalist idea was probably more true before the Civil War, but these days not so much. No, in practice, States are administrative regions, not sovereign powers. Whenever governors or state legislatures start behaving as if they are, they get slapped down by the Feds. qv the Rhode Island governor trying to prevent New Yorkers from entering; California legalizing Marijuana; Arkansas cops raiding Indian reservations selling cigarettes.

I mean, unless you want to define "administrative region" as "able to be dissolved by Presidential fiat" then, sure. Ok. Otherwise it's a distinction without a difference.
Oh ok, I misunderstood that. Thanks.
There is also a blog post[0] which has been posted a couple of times (no comments or traction) and video [1] which shows real time voice-to-text in action on a Raspberry Pi(!)

[0]: https://petewarden.com/2022/01/06/launching-spchcat-an-open-...
[1]: https://www.youtube.com/embed/Z2m8Xg4Ifnk
I always thought those guys in the movie (Flight of the Phoenix?) should have made a car, not another plane, out of their crashed plane. Even a fan-car would have been better. Just drive to an oasis and mission complete.
The ticket that quote came from is pretty old and turned out to be a non-issue. I've addressed that in another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29865759

If you're trying to prove a point, you could at least mention something that actually caused a real problem instead of taking this one out of context. I have no idea why anyone would keep mentioning this quote or find it memorable, it seems completely insignificant to me. You also seem to be ignoring all the positive interactions this engineer (or any other Red Hat engineer) might have had. I can personally name a lot of instances where Red Hat engineers have fixed upstream bugs that were affecting me. And just to make it clear I'm not saying this to single them out for praise, a lot of other companies fix upstream bugs too. That's how open source is supposed to work.

And you actually could go and search around on old mailing lists to find similarly questionable 11-year-old quotes from Qt developers if you really were interested in digging up more old drama. These things happen everywhere that people go because people don't agree on everything. I suspect you also think that's ultimately futile though, so why keep flogging this particular dead horse? This is still way, way outside the scope of discussion for systemd anyway.
Consider this: https://puri.sm/products/librem-14. Not plastic. It's 1080p, but for 14" it should be fine for most people. Supports two external 4k screen AFAIK.
All roads point to Robin in this case. Gather the demands from Upwork and present them with a letter and a bill to Robin. If Robin does not pay then its time to lawyer up.
Meta-comment: I recently got into RSS so I’m pretty biased but I love the format and it seems like there’s a bit of a RSS renaissance going on with a bunch of recent articles promoting it and people sharing their experiences etc. Is that just wishful thinking on my part?
Maybe the fact that you're looking for pithy dismissals instead of seeking to learn something from the conversation suggests that conversing with you is not worthwhile.

Whether 1/2 gives you 0 or 0.5 is not an issue of the implementation; it's an issue of the language semantics.

Software is applied mathematics. It doesn't break down or wear out like an old car. There's nothing wrong with using Windows 2.1 if you like it, but it wasn't very good in the first place, and there are legal problems with copyright law that prevent you from fixing its problems and making it run well on modern hardware.
Explain why it's heavier? Because electric vehicles carry all the chemistry, while gasoline powered vehicles only carry carbon and hydrogen and take oxygen from the air.

Or explain why the difference in weight is negligible? But it's not, electric vehicles are noticeably heavier, and vehicle weight is the primary driver of tire wear and road wear.
These numbers seem absurd. Am I missing something?
That seems like a bit of a shaky ground to stand on for GH.

If someone publishes code for themselves, and at no time asks anyone to take it as a dependency, then at a later date they change that code in a way that breaks other people's use of it, do GH then take over the account?
So this is interesting: I'm an EE, so I look at stuff like this all the time. I have a surprisingly decent chance of being able to identify random ICs I've never before (from major Western manufacturers) by pattern alone.

These almost all look deeply wrong or counterfeit to me, which is kind of unnerving to look at! I think it's mostly the fonts. There's not a lot of Arial or Bitstream Vera Sans (& descendants) on IC packages.
Ketamine (as its S-isomer) is approved by the FDA for treatment-resistant depression.

Note that while the evidence for Ketamine's antidepressant effect is actually strong, that does not mean you should get into the habit of snorting a gram of special K a day.

Ketamine abuse is known to cause serious, practical damage to the GI tract, the urinary system, the liver, and the brain.
Smaller series-built plants will solve the long lead time problem. Once installed these are to be run at max capacity all the time, providing the base load - actually running a nuclear power plant is cheap compared to all other energy sources, the costs are mostly made in the beginning - planning and construction - and end - dismantlement and conservation - of the plant. Those costs - both head and tail - will go down radically with series-built plants. Once a reliable and cheap nuclear or hydro base load is in place the rest can be filled in with a mixture of renewables with storage (which is not available for now except for regions with a large established hydro-power infrastructure), renewables with fossil-based backup or more nuclear capacity. Renewables can not be used on their own as long as the storage problem is not solved, insisting that they can will and does lead to extreme price hikes and brown/blackouts.

I'd be wary of using Wikipedia as a source on this politically contentious issue since it has a known and fairly extreme slant to the "left" on most of these issues, in part due to the Wikipedia "reliable/perennial sources" policy [1] which promotes the use of left-biased sources while demoting centre- or right-biased sources.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Per...
Modified Helix (ortholinear split)

Original https://github.com/MakotoKurauchi/helix

Modified version https://github.com/geoah/lesser-helix
I agree to a point. The government could never actually restrict the actions or movements or individual citizens, all they could do is make strong suggestions because anything more would be a minefield of constitutional rights violations.

But while the government can't order you to stay home, they can order a business to close. And by that metric we were under a lockdown because going about your life like before was impossible. Can't go to the gym, can't go out to eat, can't go hiking or to the beach if you live in LA. It wasn't a lockdown on individuals so much as it was a lockdown on just about everything else.
Wordle itself stems from a really great two-player pen and paper game called Bulls and Cows that I used to play decades ago. Google it for the rules.
An amount of light will be reflected by the walls. So it will get to most shadowed places too. Of course, a much larger exposure time will be needed to be effective there.

You can easily check that there is no true pitch black shadow open place in a room, this is the whole idea behind "global illumination rendering".
Yep. Sounds like a common-enough pattern then. (I wasn't joking in my post).
Your comment didn’t challenge anything about my approval of Thiel. In fact, your comment didn’t add anything substantive whatsoever apart from a tone of disapproval - hence my question about starting flame wars.

Usefully, your comment has demonstrated the exact phenomenon I was referring to.
Sometimes you need a webview, like for an OAuth authentication flow, which is critical to lots of apps.
The proof of work is done on the user end, there are no miners.
Bob Dylan as well: http://artcelebs.com/bob-dylan/

Seem to be a few run by the same company/gallery: http://artcelebs.com/art/
Before arguing for or against this statement, perhaps we should precise what kind of research papers we're talking about. We're on HN, so I know most comments of this thread are dealing with scientific research papers; I'm a student in humanities myself, so I've never taken the time to analyze such papers and I am thus unable to defend or counter OP's claim on this particular question. However, their comment applies quite well to humanities. Except if you're totally unfamiliar with the subject, reading or understanding a humanitarian paper whether it be about linguistics, literature, history or whatnot should not take a week. Most papers are 20-page long and one day is far enough to analyze them. Some may take a bit longer, let's say a few days, if you want to catch and extract their very substance, but never much more than that. Counterexamples are welcomed.
Largest floating office building in the world opens in Rotterdam
Psl – PHP Standard Library
I think it is relevant. If you work for crypto scammers, problems are more likely. If you work for normal clients, via upwork or some other way, problems are less likely.
Master's degrees cost about $30k per year for a couple years. Not available to the average person I'd say. And even so, judging by the proliferation of MS programs at unranked schools without research programs, many of which overwhelmingly serve international students, I'd rank the visa as the most important part of the price, followed by the credential, and lastly the education itself (given that cheating is so rampant).
It tells the agent to confirm each use of a key using ssh-askpass. The same can be achieved with the -c option for ssh-add.

If the confirmation dialog really also showed a host name then yeah, this is not strictly the same. But it's pretty close.
Malicious NPM package update breaks 20k other packages
Even the best Flutter apps feel awful compared to a decent native iOS app. Which honestly sucks, because I much prefer writing Flutter apps to anything else.
If you find this interesting then you might also be interested in SnapRAID: https://www.snapraid.it/

> SnapRAID is a backup program for disk arrays. It stores parity information of your data and it recovers from up to six disk failures.

> SnapRAID is mainly targeted for a home media center, with a lot of big files that rarely change.

> If the failed disks are too many to allow a recovery, you lose the data only on the failed disks. All the data in the other disks is safe.

I'm not affiliated with any of the projects.
There are many wallets and ways to make a wallet, including open source. I just shared the easiest way, which happens to be open source: https://github.com/appditto/natrium_wallet_flutter
Thanks! I think I fixed it. Waiting on DNS.
Awwww, it's just the packaging. I was hoping for exploded circuits... maybe they could team up with Ken Shirriff?
I could have sworn I read something to this effect, that this is ill advised because waste treatment plants aren’t really equipped to handle animal parasites
Is there data somewhere on optimal mph for fuel savings for the average sedan or by each car? I'm assuming it's basically the slowest you can maintain a decent rpm in the highest gear, but curious where that falls for different models.