skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
... I have sent group SMS (MMS) with an iPhone.
Huh, so at 2:23 the speaker brings up Brainerd Minnesota. A town I am very familiar with, having visited family there many times growing up. Cute little town, big chunk of the economy is people coming up to go fishing.

He really cherry picked the least flattering angle on modern Front Street. Here's a better angle - https://goo.gl/maps/CBnqs6i9YLG1mSEG6

It's a very strange town to pick to make an argument about sprawl with - Brainard is a pretty densely packed small town as far as towns in Minnesota go.
The truth is Google could introduce an app today, and if it was good enough and outdid iMessage, and people would start switching over within a few years. They could make it part of Chrome to supercharge adoption but nope.

Google sounds like dudes who whine about cancellation.
Can't they ship a whatsup style client and then proxy it onto RCS or whatever they need to use on the backend?

The reality is a google is a total mess. We couldn't get their speakers to work with their calendars on paid accounts for the longest time (think 5+ years).
Exactly, this is a potential criminal offence in Serbia, and school rules don’t apply here.

It’s up to the court to decide what happened. I guess that Serbian courts can get the details about the results delivery. All it has to do is ask email providers to check logs, both on the sending and receiving side.

As always, it’s the one making accusation that needs to provide a proof.

On the other side, he can claim before Serbian court that all is five and the test was fake, but he can’t be processed about that in Serbia, since he neither faked nor used it there. And in Australia he can claim test is valid, and Australia would need to prove it’s fake if the want to cancel his visa. Which they cannot prove that easily, since Serbian authorities are not obliged to jump on immediately on the Australian request.

Yes, it would be a loophole and playing two legal systems, but that’s what companies do all the time when it comes to taxes.
I do love the Zachtronics games. But, to me, they're this new, weird, completely self-contained system to learn, where boring "responsibly engineered" solutions very quickly become infeasible (due to space, limited primitives, and the difficulty of organization). KOHCTPYKTOP is probably the strongest attempt to resemble a real system, but it essentially requires digital logic design knowledge from elsewhere (and if I knew more about chip design I'd probably find it just as unrealistic). The games tend to take themes from real engineering, but few actual mechanics besides testing and debugging (which the player has to get good at on their own). Which is fine, Zach makes excellent puzzle games.

These games also tend to have a very little pre-scripted narrative, which is why I also didn't mention Kerbal Space Program or sims generally. Opus Magnum and Exapunks have more, but it's still just a way of introducing self-contained puzzles, nearly completely disconnected from what the player does. Hack 'n' Slash isn't a great champion at this, either, but it's a little better integrated.

I bounced off Exapunks pretty early, haven't opened the second zine. I'll give it another try, your points about forking and IPC are interesting.
I earnestly cannot understand what a tiny minority of people trespassing could have done to destroy anything meaningful. Our country has survived much worse. Don't forget that same building was once burned down by a hostile invading force.
> I was really hoping for a defense of the Bradford pear.

The article explains clearly the advantages: Pest resistant, spectacular bloom and fall color and self-sterile so fruits weren't a problem and it was not invading until many decades later.

> they smell like sperm.

To be fair this is a problem shared with common pears and nobody complains. The cultured Pear tree smell like fish in bloom to me. The flowers are gorgeous. Photinia Red Robin has the same problem and is widely planted also.

Small inedible fruit is a feature, not a bug. If you put a common pear tree in a sidewalk and don't remove the 250g fruits, the people will start to slip in the mashed fruit and you will have a lot of broken hips. And pears attract wasps also.

In any case you can obtain the same effect with crabbaples and replace it by a tree that smells good, has a wider palette of colors and is less prone to split. They will drop a thousand of small fruits still and (unlike callery pear that is very plague resistant) they are prone to several diseases but not so prone to split in two if they are pruned correctly
This type of mentality is what lead to forever wars in the Middle East. How about we don't establish organizations that will likely be used to infringe on the rights of innocents?
Ask HN: Can Apple Fix the Web?
Apple did not allow Flash on their devices for a long time, and the only way this problem was solved was when Flash was no more.

The same thing happened with BlueTooth, when Apple decided not to allow file transfer over BT. Then they introduced their own AirDrop, which others copied (e.g., Nearby features on Android and Windows).

They also have made a ton of drastic design decisions that took the industry by surprise, but in the end, almost everybody followed suit and embraced those changes. For example, they dropped CD/DVD drives, 3.5mm headphone jack, many ports on MacBooks, etc.

Given such history, I think the only company that can fix the web is actually not Google, but Apple. Given the number of devices they sell and their grip on Safari, they can easily enforce certain protocols on how websites should be developed.

What do you think?
Yes, when I said "production database" I meant a database for a web application. My iPhone running SQLite doesn't relate to Web 3.0.
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Those must be rare like unicorns :)

I don't deal with academic theory and strange special cases - I deal with real, everyday world. You can basically argue out any position if you are clever enough but that doesn't prove anything except that you are clever.
recfiles [1] are a sort of poor man's plaintext database that you can edit with any text editor. I found manually entering the data mildly annoying and repetitive, but visidata [2] supports the format, so I've been meaning to learn to use that for easier data entry and for tabular visualization.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/manual/recutils.html#I...
[2] https://www.visidata.org/

Bonus: A nice concise intro that someone wrote last week: https://chrismanbrown.gitlab.io/28.html
That’s no moon. It’s a space station.
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How much money you make on direct sales may be secondary to its benefit in helping you for the rest of your career. Ask your partner this: if they are evaluating two equally good job candidates, and one has written a relevant book, which one would they choose to get the job?

I am self taught, and started in the 80s with no degree. But I was a widely published author, and that led me to jobs that eventually made me seven figures.

P.S. “Systems over programs“ would be a dynamite title
The conclusion I come to is that it is unsustainable to offer IM for free.

Perhaps some of the things like Slack that make money at the enterprise level can afford to keep free around and working well enough to function for longer.

One of the subtle problems with offering a traditional IM service is that there are some scaling aspects that are super-linear with the number of users. For instance, as the average number of users on your subscription list increases, more of them have status changes per unit time, and each of those status changes must also go out to more users on average. The scaling issues aren't necessarily a full O(n^2) but they're often larger than simply O(n log n). Even after a many-times-over drop in the price of computing power it's still pretty expensive to offer something like that for free.

If you look around, you can see how current solutions often work around that. For instance, Slack shards everyone simply by the nature of how it works, there isn't just a "Slack handle" that anyone can ping me at. We're not all in one big namespace. There's many fewer status updates it does, too, it's a lot more selective about what statuses you get.

Another solution is Matrix; with how cheap computing power is, if a few hundred people bring their own to the party it's no big deal anymore to run a server like that, and no one person necessarily has to bring the big bucks. But if one entity tried to run the whole network, they'd certainly notice the bill.
It’s not but there are algorithms that are less sensitive to lhr games
Github has established a scary new paradigm for open source developers on 1/09/2022. Now developers are obligated to not introduce breaking changes into their own programs, otherwise their accounts will be suspended.
The semantic web is not a technical problem, it's an incentive problem.

RSS can be considered a primitive separation of data and UI, yet was killed everywhere. When you hand over your data to the world, you lose all control of it. Monetization becomes impossible and you leave the door wide open for any competitor to destroy you.

That pretty much limits the idea to the "common goods" like Wikipedia and perhaps the academic world.

Even something silly as a semantic recipe for cooking is controversial. Somebody built a recipe scraping app and got a massive backlash from food bloggers. Their ad-infested 7000 word lectures intermixed with a recipe is their business model.

Unfortunately, we have very little common good data, that is free from personal or commercial interests. You can think of a million formats and databases but it won't take off without the right incentives.
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> I hate when businesses try to make money

who will think of the airline mega-corps and their insanely rich backers that capitalized such a locked-down already-for-profit industry in a country that supports near monopolies on infrastructural services?

they're the ones I worry about most.
I think the world is just getting obsessed about discrimination.

A company requiring you to be decent with your fellow coworkers is not discriminating against you.

On the long term, even if you are the most creative person at your company. If you don’t share your knowledge, get recent hires up to speed by sharing knowledge, you are less valuable.

I don’t think it would je necessary to specify it but, our jobs (be it developer, graphic designers, QA, etc) are already fairly individual and introverted job where asynchronous communication is pretty much the norm for the most part. It’s not like you have to spend 80% of your time talking and interacting.
That’d only partially solve it: we don’t want to waste renewable power which could be going to something of value.
TCP provides backpressure but depending on it to provide backpressure over the internet will greatly increase latency, in my experience.

In one application I was streaming jpeg frames over a websocket and by the time the server application experienced backpressure there were 10s of seconds of messages buffered between the server and client. So the message rate would eventually settle into a rate the connection could sustain but messages would take 10+ seconds to reach the client.
Main idea: we should be tasked with less volume of work.

And the author suggests that since less volume -> less stress -> higher efficacy, there won't actually be a drop in net productivity.

He's not necessarily wrong, however I can't help but think he's missing the meta we're all playing within: profit is the motive (not human flourishing).

It's profitable to drastically overwork people, such that you cull the bottom 10% and get fresh blood in the revolving door. While that costs money as opposed to retaining, it makes more to push the other 90%.

Several bosses have explicitly told me they intentionally set an unrealistically aggressive delivery date because of the phenomenon of people taking as much as time as they're given. So push hard, inevitably fall short, make some cuts at the very end, ship it, profit.

This is the behavioral model which has produced so many successful businesses. Imagine "slow productivity" in a startup? They'd fail. Now imagine no startups.
This just seems like willful ignorance and has very little to do with package managers. If you were interested in looking at the code, a quick google search or running `--help` would go pretty far.
And now you have people wanting the exact opposite (a de facto tyrant, in power because an election was overturned) trying to get their way.

More precisely: making a freely elected government more vulnerable to violence won't yield an improvement.
That's exactly what RCS is about - except it's the Telcos that went to wrest control back. No thanks.
No. Hard to do group threads. Not encrypted end to end (but WhatsApp is owned by FB so moot point).

Even iMessage seems very much like a 1-1 messaging system.
NVIDIA is finally opening up to Linux and working on better support in their proprietary drivers: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NVIDIA-4...
I agree that hue rotation makes for some weird gradients. Linear RGB is an acceptable color space for gradients, because gamma correction is accounted for. But performing a linear interpolation in sRGB or the like leads to a linear gradient which appears to ramp steeply from one color stop to the next. However, if you compare Linear RGB with CIELAB then you'll notice the same thing, the CIELAB gradients look smoother as linear movement through the color space more closely mirrors linear movement through our human perceptual system.
I pay for all my energy to be renewable. I don't see why my crypto mining needs to be banned.

In fact, estimates peg Bitcoin's use of renewable energy to be between 50-75%. This is a fact lost on HN, which hates crypto at all costs.
> It seems unlikely that King Edward III meant to ban games that involved walking on your hands, or perhaps brachiating.

But this argument assumes that the etymology of 'handball' must be the same as 'football'. Football could be called that because you play it on foot, and handball could simultaneously be called that because you use your hand to strike the ball. There's no contradiction there.
Now the question is: Does pleasurable equal good? I've heard that Heroin is really pleasurable while you are still high on it. ^_^

Also, my personal experience with Deezer was that their app is so horribly buggy that copying MP3s to an old player and physically connecting the cinch cable turned out to be much more reliable.
Big discussion 3 days ago about very similar conditions at another NYC high school: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29850499

This seems like essentially a duplicate of that previous discussion.
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any infrastructure dedicated to the mining of crypto is opportunity cost. Even if you use renewables, that energy could instead replace traditional energy sources which could be turned off.

This is an example of Jevon's paradox, namely that increases in efficiency or quality are offset by increases in demand. It's one of the reasons why we have globally barely made a dent when it comes to the increase of renewables as a total share of energy consumed despite the fact that the capacity has increased pretty much exponentially.

This is made even worse by the fact that green infrastructure itself necessarily often consumes non-green sources, in particular during construction.
Software has a better UI/UX. Software has matured and conformed to the market. The market is full of dumb people who care about UI/UX and nothing else.
You should release an app for Synology or at least Synology should hire you to improve 'Photos'

It works fine at facial recognition for photos but it doesn't even try with videos, any meta data would be useful for hundreds of hours of family videos.

A terabyte of audio and video is only as useful as the time and date we've organised for, and imagine actual usable face ,object recognition for both media types.

Would this work offline for lowend hardware? E.g. Synology 920+
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> I seriously doubt that the people directly wielding these weapons actually want to use them. A small information leak indicating potential escalation like this, while still hiding exact deployment orders, may actually be desirable.

I agree, but I would argue you could decouple notifying the world and notifying your force, but perhaps that would remove the teeth behind the message. And further, it could be entirely possible they've already decoupled and Skyking is just theatrics
This was also the case at this location. Alongside discipline around showing passes, scramble pads on doors and so on. It was even the case in the office building (we were nowhere near anything obviously dangerous). Super strong safety and security culture.
Looks like I bought it in June of 2018, and BTC was ~$6k, which was $7k down from its previous high in December of 2017. It would drop another $3k by January of 2019.

At least, that's what the first graph I found said.
Supposedly Signal received ~$600k in donations in 2018 while spending ~4M in infrastructure costs[0], so OP is suggestion they do regular revenue generation via in-app features and whatnot instead of cryptocurrency stuff.

0: https://www.businessofapps.com/data/signal-statistics/#:~:te...
Plenty of videos of people in the crowd caught saying that they were seeking the chamber and congressional members to stop the certification. Admitting you’re trying to stop the process is an act of resistance against the government.
That seems like a fragile command and control choice, couldn't Google just shut down the account that owns the gDoc?
If covid was 100 times worse then the flu for kids we would see 40,000 to 80,000 pediatric deaths for 2020. We see about 266 which is comparable for the 180-400 for the years I cited.

The new test knows the difference between flu and covid, which is why the CDC recalled the old and instituted a new that did better. However, you can’t go back in time and fix the old tests. Re-read the article to comprehend it better.

You are getting hung up in the artifact for 2020, where unlike previous years there were 1 pediatric death case categorized as flu instead of 180-400 like in the years I mentioned due to the old pcr covid test not knowing the difference. It’s not hard to do a Google search on this to see that your pediatric flu death data for 2020 is not representative when compared to a normal year.
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I find the reference to Jan 6th funny. It tells me this is political theater and not a real attempt to stop domestic terrorism at all.

And honestly, where's the domestic terrorism? The closest thing I can think of was the Vegas shooting, not known to be ideologically motivated. Before that it was the Boston marathon, which was foreign nationals, before that 9/11, which was foreign actors. And before that, Oklahoma city...

January 6th? Really? Let's get real for a second on this one, partisans on the left claim this was terrorism when it wasn't and partisans on the right claim BLM protests are terrorism when they aren't. These are all protests that got a little out of hand. Do we really want a task force to deal with rowdy protests and prosecute them the same as the Boston bomber? What kind of country do you want to live in?
This will be an interesting experiment to see what happens when these companies spurn the customers that created the conditions for this market to exist. I hope Apple or another company is smart enough to use this opportunity to scoop up disenfranchised customers and let AMD and NVIDEA waste more time serving the Ponzi industrial complex.
Do we live in an alternate reality where open state censorship of media and the Great Firewall are somehow not a thing in China any more?
Seems like a bit of a misnomer if the "passive" cooling had to be activated.
I randomly ran into an EAM in progress when scanning the frequencies with an RTL-SDR. Felt like Fox Mulder.
Apple stands between me and my carrier’s sms service, and then layers it’s own service on top of that. There is no API messaging app developers can use to do the same thing. It’s clearly monopolistic behavior to interlink your service with a basic infrastructure service. It doesn’t matter to me if a company achieves a monopoly - what matters to me is them seeking one in a way that harms users. Google is guilty of this, apple is guilty of this, hell - since there’s money to be made and no good enforcement of this - most large companies are guilty of this.
You are moving the goalposts. If Bitcoin miners pay for renewable energy, they are no longer harming the environment.

Who are you to dictate what someone does with energy they pay for? Just because you do not like what they do, doesn't mean you can ban it if it's not harming you.

There is no evidence that Bitcoin's usage of renewables is preventing others from paying for renewables too.
OK - I actually did this once already. My simple version. I just took a picture every minute in grayscale, then stacked them, then banded that by brightness, then laid that color on a shadowed picture so you could kind of see what was what.

Key improvements though would be some type of classification of sun vs not sun for a pixel (based on the entire stream of pixels for the day for that spot to make it easier) because dark stuff in the yard / walls etc messed up my approach. And banding the color (most gardening says things like needs 6 hours of sun a day) so you can clearly see outlines of areas by hours of sun.

Yes, a lot of people don't know how much sun a spot gets and don't want to sit out all day watching (front yard / back yard etc).
Covid loses 90% of ability to infect within minutes in air
Wouldn't all the miners(and every other carbon intensive industry) just move to a place without a carbon tax?
Is there something illegal about being far-right or being in a militia?

How about we just clamp down on anyone doing bad things (including day-care bomber McVeigh), rather than going after people for their political beliefs. You sound like you're advocating for domestic terrorism yourself if you want people with guns to go after those of your chosen political target merely exercising 1A and 2A rights.
Looks like ~60 (more in rural areas, less in cities) for 1080p low on that card... which isn't fantastic but better than I expected. The limiting factor in cities seems to be the VRAM as the 1060 6 GB version can bench about the same flying through New York City bumped up to medium and shows using nearly 5 GB of VRAM while doing it.
No. The whole Democrat vs Republican thing is itself a psyop to drive the country apart (divide and conquer). It's about normalization of single-party rule in general. The end goal being willful acceptance of global governance. The public face of that, typically, is someone who is a democrat but there are plenty of republicans (neocons) in on it, too.

This new unit is just a way to flush out the straggler dissidents who will get in the way.