skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But isn't MJPEG a decent protocol for streaming to browsers? The browser handles MJPEG streams as the URL. It also handles the URL for a stream from Motion as the SRC element of an IMG element.

MPEGTS would be great for things I have wanted to do in the past, and all you probably have to do is hack the video element so it can handle that.

I think the thing about MJPEG and webcams is that it's relatively easy to make MJPEG from a webcam. MPEGTS would require more code I think?
Not clear is why it took so long for charges? Crash in Dec 29, 2019, charges in October 2021, almost two years...is this Tesla holding up data?
Hi HN,

I'm pumped to launch payitfwd.dev - an easy way for github project maintainers to redirect would-be donors to downstream dependencies.

I built payitfwd over the weekend after reading the n-th post on HN about maintainer burnout (specifically about adhole).

At the moment, I'm a full-time open-source maintainer and thankfully don't fully rely on donations. Despite that I tried to come up with novel ways to incentivise donations until I realised donations aren't meant to be transactional and thought "Ok, if they're not going to donate to me, they should at least donate to the many dependencies the project uses and therefore they rely on." and payitfwd.dev was born.

payitfwd uses GH's graphql API to query a project's dependency graph for dependency funding links. It then simply redirects the browser to a random dependency's funding link.

Whether you're a big tech co with a spare spot on your SDK repo or a maintainer that wants to give visibility to the people that make your own project possible - as long as you have a GH dependency graph, payitfwd.dev will work for you.

How does it work?

If you want to create a payitfwd link for your project, simply replace "github.com" with "payitfwd.dev" on your repo url. Just a heads up, it takes a while the first time.

e.g: https://payitfwd.dev/open-wa/wa-automate-nodejs

Who is this for?

If you have a spare spot in your projects' list of funding links and you/your org don't already need all possible donations yourself then this is for you.

Do I have to replace all my funding links with payitfwd?

No you absolutely do not have to do that. You don't have to use it at all.

Why would I forward donators to someone else if I already have a hard time getting donators myself?

I see this in the same light as a secret santa, or paying for the car behind you in a drive through. payitfwd.dev v allows people to exercise their unique blend of altruism in an indirect and discrete manner.
I have tons of 2.5" HDDs from laptops, is there a way to make them work in some decentish RAID1 setup? I looked around and Synology has a dedicated box but... it has 6 bays and way out of my budget
I've never been particularly impressed, though I enjoy a lot of other art.
From a purely business standpoint, the UI really is all that matters. Users don't choose firefox over Chrome just because FF has CSS cascade layers[0] (for example), they choose it because they think the sync/PW manager is better for them, or they might like the look of it more compared to alternatives.

0: https://caniuse.com/css-cascade-layers
Indeed the Steam Deck is very exciting because what we've seen is that the mobile space is where Linux has been able to defeat Microsoft in end user adoption.

As some other folks have pointed out, the existence of WINE and other compat layers is actually hindering gaming on Linux, by disincentivizing game devs to make games directly for linux. A huge hit with the Steam Deck could actually start bringing more games directly to Linux.
Google doesn't need to bother with intentionally adding complexity. That's happening by itself just fine.

They just need to not aggressively fight complexity.

And calling TLS a inefficiency that is profitable for existing power structures.

Or implying that Mozillas user unfriendlyness is a lucky coincidence.

Sounds quite a lot like conspiracy theories to be honest.

I mean I wouldn't even call most of the recent moves Mozilla did user unfriendly. Depending on the user they target they weren't. They just made the mistake to forget that many of their "simple" users are there due to their "tech enthusiast" users... A mistake easy to do is you mainly look at statistics.
Yes, the power savings and heat reduction are significant to a large enough degree that one has to wonder why Chrome and Firefox are so much worse in that way.
Not arbitrary changes, but nearly so - if you add new columns (and your existing queries name the columns they use explicitly), then nothing changes as far as the client is concerned. If you remove or rename one, only those clients who refer to it need to change, and then only if you don’t do a interposing view/schema/etc.

The server is supposed to take the logical intent specified by the queries and do the work to mapping that into concrete retrievals in a stable and performant way, so a query explicitly telling the server to do something in a specific way breaks the model. The more specific, the more broken.

DDL changes for instance ideally would not have to tell the server how to structure things on disk. The server should know how to do it efficiently.

That said, real life intrudes and sometimes (but not usually) it’s important to do this for stability or performance reasons. The more magic involved, the more unpredictable a system can be, and the closer a system runs to redline, the more chaos/downtime that can cause.
Not to mention euro rack isn't particularly wife friendly and doesn't have patch recall!

Maybe get something semi modular to start with, like a Behringer Neutron
> random piece of tech

IDK. GPS is probably one of the most prevalent technologies used today besides the Internet itself.
As ASML CEO once said "Dont ask me about how well our EUV TwinScan is working, ask TSMC, they know more about our machine than we do."
I just want to point out this is a false assumption.

> So in that first 380 million, 1 out of 3 is already good for omicron.

The text says those 3 companies have been contracted for a combined 380 million tests. It doesn't say equally, or list a number for them. You could have a worst case scenario (I'm being overly dramatic here) of 1 test from Roche, and 379,999,999 combined tests from Abbott and iHealth.
I run across this editor from time to time, but I'm in my 50's, and I'm pretty sure emacs will continue to be good enough for me through retirement, and I just don't feel like learning a new one. I even know enough vi(m) to get around; surely I won't need more than BOTH of those in the next 10-15 years.

IDE's, sure, but for editing... nah. Most of the IDEs even have passable emacs keybindings, or the ability for me to make one (or use a FOSS one that someone quicker than I am has already done).
That would cover farms selling to local buyers (restaurants, super markets and direct to consumer), but that's a tiny part of the market. Most are going to wholesale distributors & production on this level would need more of an explanation than that. New Jersey is nicknamed the garden state for a reason. Despite it's population density, it's got a ton of farm land and grows a lot of food for the NA east coast & beyond. I'd guess that they found a niche where eggplants grow well in NJ soil/climates and probably catch more at market than other alternative crops.
In a protection racket, you're paying for protection from the protectors, no third party involved.

In this case they're a middle man between the abusers and the abused, so I think it's more like prostitution.
I doubt the CCP has less leverage. Tencent owns a chunk of a lot of gaming companies (not just Epic, but they've been aggressive at buying a percentage of a lot of midsized companies.) Heck, selling a chunk of your gaming company to a Chinese company as a condition to get access to the Chinese market has been a standard practice. For larger companies, gaming is a division of a much larger company that still has business son China or relies on partners who do.

I'd like to imagine their influence will wane, but China has been excellent at getting long term influence with a lot of dollars and euros.
Did Honda Fix the Clocks
I posted about my homebrew solution for photos/documents/scan archiving with a local NAS + encrypted offsite backup on a VPS last week at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29863822#29888273 . My use case is 300-400GB of photos which is affordable on a 4TB VPS.

In short, I have an old desktop-turned-NAS with ZFS that will tolerate 2 physical drive failures and access my photos over a network share. It runs a weekly cron script to copy an iterative, encrypted borg backup of the photos offsite over sshfs to my VPS. I can mount specific date's snapshots over sshfs back to the nas/another machine if I ever need to recover anything without having to enter the password on the VPS.

It's a good question on what would happen if I died. Thanks for getting me to consider this. My spouse wouldn't have a clue with the VPS or how to fix the NAS but could pay someone to easily copy the data off. I should leave a note taped inside the case. For now I'll plug an external ntfs drive into the NAS and if needed she could plug that into any other device.
Using the DevOps second way to improve the product development process
It definitely should be legal, especially as the user would still have to get the original book to use it.
Clarification: The below applies only to Zoroastrians in the Indian sub-continent.

It's a combination of conservatism and patriarchy at the religious leadership level. Originally, the rules were clear for either gender: If a Zoroastrian married outside the faith, their child was not Zoroastrian anymore. However, certain influential families were able to gain acceptance for children where the father was Zoroastrian and the mother was not. The priests, however, refused to accept the converse, even though most children learn to practice their faith from their mothers.

This issue has bifurcated the community between the conservatives who agree with the priests, and liberals who support Zoroastrians marrying outside the community. Zoroastrians are largely Westernized, ergo women are educated, have careers and choose their own spouses, and women have long since complained that this system is unfair to them. Some priests, particularly in North America, UK and Australia, are espousing the liberal philosophy and will conduct the initiation ceremony for any child as long as one spouse is Zoroastrian.

In addition, there are also those who feel the situation is dire enough such that conversions should be allowed again.
Lenovo actually used to ship adware/malware that actually broke TLS in order to inject ads onto webpages.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfish#Lenovo_security_inci...
Load testing at scale and lessons learned
> If 60% of voters are in favor of legalizing marijuana, then legalizing marijuana is the will of the voters, period.

How do you know this? I'm sure polls have been conducted, but without stakes, and understanding of the consequences, of the downsides, of the costs, there's no way a random voter would be capable of executing a policy decision as complex as legalizing a drug.

That's why they elect representatives, and at a national level the people have not chosen to elect representatives who have made this an important enough priority to create and pass legislation making this view into law. At a state level, some voters have chosen to prioritize this, by picking representatives who value this view over other views, and prioritize passing legislation. The system worked, for those people.

The point here is that if your favorite poll were accurate, and did indeed reflect the will of the people, they'd prioritize it highly enough to vote accordingly. However, it isn't important enough to supercede other issues, so it remains not the will of the people.

It's a lot more complex, figuring out what people want, than just asking them.
Can Israelis take the matter to court?
This feels a little like Amazon Prime in that the cost of the total bundled deal is technically good, except that I don’t really want everything in the bundle, and would rather receive much less value for only somewhat less money. It probably works for a lot of customers, but I really avoid as many subscription services as I can.
This seems the most imformative comment in this discussion.

So if there is competition and Deere is really the best, I don't see the issue. The right incentives are there to make farming better.
this guy is a legend: https://ciechanow.ski/archives/

(pretty sure each post has had its own HN submission)

also see 3Blue1Brown: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYO_jab_esuFRV4b17AJtAw
> Is it subsidizing whatever work had to go into validating that the OS works as expected on that model?

I think you nailed it. Free as in freedom, not free beer.
> The people I really feel sorry for are the good people of Newton, Iowa, who now have to transform their town from a "company town" into something else if they're to survive economically

My wife is from Newton. It’s a strange place since Maytag left. It was clearly a pretty nice place to live 20 years ago, but now there are a lot of foreclosed homes and a pretty visible meth problem. Still, they are working hard to rebuild their local economy. Prior to the pandemic, I thought that Des Moines might grow enough that Newton might be a desirable exurb, but with more people working from home, who knows what will happen.
It exists. It's called AWS IQ. [1] There is a slack channel for those that have registered, AWS customers post jobs they need help with.

[1]: https://iq.aws.amazon.com/
What are the methods of securing the geometry/textures used by Three.js?
It is possible that it is strategic, to discourage customers from purchasing a Linux laptop. This could be for various reasons, such as:

1) Their production pipeline is optimized for windows, so Linux is a deviation requiring some manual intervention that costs extra.

2) Deals with Microsoft, wherein MS incentivizes them Dell based on some criteria, including but not limited to units sold. This is similar to car dealerships with quotas.

3) As others have noted, 3rd Party crapware deals for putting preinstalled crapware on Windows laptops. Fewer such opportunities exist for Linux laptops
Call of duty makes most of its income through sales. So, the revenue seems a lot higher than it actually is. Relatively speaking COD sales have stagnated for a decade [1] while the gaming industry has exploded. In terms of revenue, Fortnite and PUBG eclipse COD's annual revenue [2], while having lower development costs.

COD is admittedly not a has been, but it is like a top athlete in the twilight of their career. Still performing at the top, but no more #1 and the trends aren't looking great.

[1] https://vgsales.fandom.com/wiki/Call_of_Duty

[2] https://vgsales.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_vid...
> What exactly is keeping developers from making a fully featured ... web browser ... ?

I think the biggest issue is the complexity and scope of work. If you want a web browser, I can make you one over the weekend, it just will only work with a tiny subset of pages. To fully handle every website is so hard even Mozilla gave up on their rewrite of their engine, Servo. If it was easy, they probably would have finished.

If you are suggesting, "Why don't we all pay a bunch of progammers to make the world's best browser that is everything I want?", you can try, but everyone has different ideals about what a browser should be.
I think ADHD and it's subtypes is probably a description of something like 8 different actual neurological causes, which all show up as 'ADHD'. I think one day we will figure out what they are and diagnose them separately, much like how many different viruses all give us cough symptoms and fevers. Wouldn't be surprised if other spectrum disorders show up similarly.
will be fascinating to follow this one and see how responsibility for the death is apportioned.

I can see the argument for indicting the driver. He could be seen as negligent for choosing to unleash this car, known to be buggy, on a public street, leading to two deaths. His counterargument is obvious too, that the manufacturer assured him of its safety, and its therefore the manufacturer's fault.

Which then begs the question - if it is Tesla's fault, does that mean manslaughter charges will be brought against a corporation? What would that even mean?
The idea is to have visually appealing images. If there was API for the 3D renderer, there would option to use it in Pinion. However, there is still no API.
If you made $599 in 2021 via Venmo, you still owed taxes. The only difference now is that Venmo sends you a 1099k. The lack of that document didn't free you from the tax obligation on income, it just made it easier to avoid paying the tax.

Edit: after reading your other comment downthread I see you may have initially thought it was the small business doing the reporting, rather than the payment platform. Leaving comment for the benefit for others, since there seems to be a misconception that this creates a new tax obligation.
> there is essentially no demand

And? You remove the 'Z' key from the keyboard because it is the least used letter?

> we have access to the internet almost no matter where we are, or can easily get it

No, not everywhere - secondarily. Primarily, some people keep some devices airgapped, and only specialized ones online.

> Why should we care if a game needs to check in periodically?

Because it is absurd - the worst sin.
You must be wrong, or literally every used textbook with notes in the margins is infringing on copyright. Although you could be correct, it’s just literally unenforceable.
Nonsense. Just uses bit flags. :)
For example, Premera had a banner on the homepage sending you here: https://www.premera.com/documents/058636.pdf

It's a reimbursement system, and obviously only applies to people with insurance; so it has its downsides. I filed a claim and it was easier than expected.

This fairly large caveat is worth noting:

> To be eligible for reimbursement, the following must apply...The tests are being used when a person has COVID symptoms or has had direct exposure, and not for school, work, travel, or attending events

This went into effect on January 15, so only applies to tests purchased then or later.
My entirely uninformed guess is that life on Earth is probably fairly representative of how life forms on any similar planet. Throughout evolution there are endless ways life could have formed, and we're the product of whatever method worked best against billions or trillions or more possibilities. I wouldn't be surprised to find plants and animals on other planets that are not dissimilar to ones on Earth, especially considering the sheer number of types of animals and plants and how much they vary in structure and appearance.
I think so. You ask a server for something and it bundles that thing with other bits crafted to make you do something other than what you originally contacted the server for.

It might exploit a buffer overflow or it might exploit a distractable human, but it's malware just the same.
In a house with 5 people it's a pretty safe bet that if one person has it, you all have it.
How many of these video games companies are independent?

Most have been, and are being, snapped up by other companies. Microsoft's XBox division may not be allowed to sell games in China, but Microsoft Corp is still making money there.

And then what about the truly independent games that do tell anti-CCP stories. What if the CCP demands that Microsoft and Sony not allow those games on their platform globally if they want to remain in China. Suddenly even independence is no protection. The CCP has taken down Github because of it hosting a single repo the CCP did not like, so this is hardly a stretch of the imagination for an industry that is run on walled gardens.
> You backpaddled.

No, I didn't.

> So you still want democracy?

Actual democracy, yes.

> What you actually want is to organise a coup. A shadow government that one day replaces the official one. You want a coup.

coup: a sudden, violent, and illegal seizure of power from a government.

Technically, you are dealing with your imagination of what I want - I do not desire this, and no such claim exists in the text that I wrote.

> In your initial comment you complained about democracy itself therefore signaling you would prefer a totalitarian regime. Wanting a coup and a totalitarian regimes goes hand in hand.

Consider carefully this word: "signalling". What does it mean in this context, precisely?

>> Teaching epistemology and logic to the masses would yield massive benefits across the board imho.

> Very well, do it!

How am I doing so far?

> Maybe then you will realise this last comment is word salad.

This sounds like a fun epistemological exercise: do you have the ability to articulate why that comment "is" "word salad"? Do you mean this in a comprehensive sense...it "is" "word salad" to all observers, or do you actually only know that it appears that way (as opposed to "is") to yourself?
It's interesting that in the British navy, "Able" seaman was not about disability as we would think about it at all (even though they would, like, climb up ropes or whatever sailors do). It seems much closer to how we'd think of junior engineer/engineer/senior engineer in terms of increasing experience.
...provided their employees were still being paid.
In the 2016 presidential election, Hillary Clinton received far more campaign contributions than her opponents but she still lost. Campaign contributions aren't sufficient to overcome negative voter sentiment.

https://www.opensecrets.org/pres16

US states are free to impose universal background checks on firearm purchases, and several have. It doesn't need to be done at the federal level.
I agree with many of your points, however...

> - Apple is moving to ARM, PC laptops to follow soon.

> - AMD is eating intel lunch in the high performance x86

That first one really needs... a source? It's a guess, but far from a certainty!

The second one is partially true? AMD has greatly increased their market share and is much more competitive with Intel than they were 5 years earlier. They are not beating Intel in market share, but they are gaining on them. They recently had leads in performance, but it's not a one-sided race.
Orange crop is set to be the smallest since WWII, sending OJ prices surging
Even better, use GPT-3 to generate grammatically correct text which steganographically encodes an encrypted message.
Self-reply: The more I think about it, the more ridiculous it is. Call of Duty, Minecraft, Warcraft, Doom and TES are under one roof where they were under five (or non-existent) 15 years ago.

Whether or not it's legal, it should not be celebrated.
> Throwing money at Ninja is really an example of poor execution.

Really agree with this. They should have been trying to pull as many streamers on the verge of success on twitch as they could (newly qualifying partners mostly) rather than trying to get already established talent to come over for big money.

I do think they also tried this, I knew of some mid-tier streamers who moved over as well, but they probably could have done more. Ninja was clearly a last ditch effort to save the platform rather than a calculated plan.