skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I still subscribe to the newspaper(s). So I don't miss it, I'm actively currently enjoying it.

Browsing on the website just isn't the same as sitting at the table with paper that I can shuffle between.
MLK is revered today but the real King would make white people uncomfortable
Carry a printer such as a Canon Selphy (even the CP1300 can use a battery) and use a camera with WiFi.

Alternatively there are portable thermal printers with phone apps. Many will do 300dpi. But you are limited to black and white…though you’ll live.
I wouldn’t only because I’m not a “student” of Batman or Miller and honestly don’t know much about it.

No political axe to grind about Batman or Miller, it’s just not a character or style that I personally care for. My wife loves Tim Burton stuff, I do not. I love old school Star Trek, she would rather watch the weather channel lol.
A recurring theme is that they obtain secret credentials from a service which needs to verify credentials, and then turn around and use those to impersonate the entity providing those credentials. For example getting Jenkins to run some Groovy discovers credentials Jenkins uses to verify who is accessing it, and then you can just use those credentials yourself.

To fix this - almost anywhere - stop using shared secrets. Every time you visit a (HTTPS) web site, you are provided with the credentials to verify its identity. But, you don't gain the ability to impersonate the site because they're not secret credentials, they're public. You can and should use this in a few places in typical CI / CD type infrastructure today, and we should be encouraging other services to enable it too ASAP.

In a few places they mention MFA. Again, most MFA involves secrets, for example TOTP Relying Parties need to know what code you should be typing in, so, they need the seed from which to generate that code, and attackers can steal that seed. WebAuthn doesn't involve secrets, so, attackers who steal WebAuthn credentials don't achieve anything. Unfortunately chances are you enabled one or more vulnerable credential types "just in case"...
related : https://www.theregister.com/2001/04/12/missing_novell_server...
I would be careful about this argument. A couple well known examples are average cockpit sizes causing higher pilot mortality rates [1] and a whole book on how design of items for average sizes has hurt women in a variety of ways [2]

1 https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2016/01/16/when-us-air-...
2 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/feb/28/invisible-wome...

Using the data is good, if you truly understand the data.
In the other direction, Warren Ellis used the last volume of _StormWatch_ to show how evil the hither-to "morally grey" characters were, and fire up _The Authority_ to replace them: a super-team that wanted to actually make the world a better place.

(They tried and failed, but at least they tried.)

It's possible to tell superhero comics that don't fall into the traps, but I don't think it can be done directly in the medium of continuing comics: without a planned conclusion, it becomes self-negating or self-parodying.

A different critique is offered by Wildbow's _Worm_, a giant webnovel that tried to provide consistent reasons for all the superhero comic tropes: why do mass-murdering villains get to live? Why do they escape from custody so regularly? How do they store their money? What's most important, thinking or action? The novel is 1.7 million words long, and has generated about 250 million words of fanfic...
I think the most important advice in this article is "Be aware of your current mental state". This goes a long way with not just being productive but being aware of how to address any emotional state. The easiest way I've been able to do this is just to journal every-time I find myself going distracted.
It's really great that people who don't have tens of millions of dollars to burn can't access L2 market data. It does a lot to promote fair and efficient markets.
For a one-sentence policy proposal, that sounds almost perfect… but how do you quantify “efficiency gains from automation”?
How did we survive decades of phone books and directory assistance, when anyone could get an address and phone number for free?
Weirdly, I have watched the Goon Show. But only one episode - the last episode of the radio show was on tv too. (I grew up listening to my dad's tapes of the others)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Goon_Show_of_All

It is, of course, on youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XF745ywyvVY

FWIW, I hadn't heard of Brown Windsor Soup till I watched the recent adaptation of Around The World in 80 Days.
> plus they will automatically pin popular content to keep it available

This is false. Popular content is cached temporarily. Pinning persists the data until unpinned; the ipfs daemon does not automatically pin anything.
Tapes could easily get chewed up by the VHS player.
The n-cube is spiky. The n-sphere is kinda defined by its non-spikiness, because it is rotationally invariant.
If you get your GIS data into PostGis, then you should try QGis, to visualize it. It helped also fix some bug and find some unexpected stuff, for example - that in postgis (and gis databases in general?) the order of coordinates is different from what you expect from using a gps in everyday life.

Now.. which order was the correct one? I have forgotten after not doing gis stuff for some years now.
AU Border Seizes Phones
try to re-open/reload the folder?

Will tackle this issue, Thanks
The US just loves shooting itself in the foot.

It's an old, old dilemma for Managers: Do we 'buy built' which is cheaper and easier, and faster? Or do we bite the bullet and go the tougher, slower and more costly way and 'build our own'?

Most Managers prefer to 'buy built', but that puts them at the mercy of the manufacturers. They only go the 'build our own' way if forced to. But the beauty of 'build our own' is that those Managers not only get out from under those manufacturers, but they later get to become competition for those same manufacturers.

The Chinese were perfectly happy spending 300 billion bucks a year on American semiconductors. It also went to balance out the US trade deficit with China. The Trump Administration thought it was a smart move to embargo those semiconductors. But the only upshot was that the US manufacturers lost their biggest market, and forced the Chinese to 'build their own'. I give it five years max before the Chinese semiconductor industry lays waste to the American semiconductor industry, which will go the way of the American textiles, paper, automobiles, heavy machinery, tools and building industries to oblivion.

And it all could have been preventable with a little bit of thought.
And I'd still rather have Netflix than basic cable 30 years from now as well.
> As far as I understand it, NFTs usually represent the title for the copyright

You don't understand it. This is false. NFTs do not represent copyrights of any kind, either in theory or in common practice.
And YJIT already work as it is? What is not to like?

The YJIT and the CRuby are different part of the project. Just like TruffleRuby is written Ruby and based on Java GraalVM. They are basically writing a version 2 of YJIT in different language.
A different convention would make matrix-matrix multiplication no longer express composition of linear maps. So the geometric -- or deeper meaning -- would be lost.

The operation you're describing is nevertheless equal to A^T B. In other words, it can be expressed using a combination of matrix multiplication and matrix transpose. I don't see what it could be used for, though.
I had a look at this r/science and honestly can't fathom what that special sauce is supposed to be. A sizable portion of top level comments contain between 5 and 8 words with optional punctuation.

About 1/3rd of submissions and half of the comments appear to be more politically motivated than scientific and mostly US-centric. Just in the current top 10:

> Republican activists perceive Republican senators with very conservative voting records to be moderate if they do not support Donald Trump.

> Study: Emotionally manipulative political ads fail at swaying new voters, but excel at ensuring party loyalty.

> Conspiracy mentality (a willingness to endorse conspiracy theories) is more prevalent on the political right (a linear relation) and amongst both the left- and right-extremes (a curvilinear relation)

I wouldn't be surprised if most people posting there are from the US and from a certain fraction of the population at that. A rather small and uninteresting bubble compared to science as a whole.

Going back to your comment: Neither would I be surprised if r/science 50 years from now was run by a corporation RSCIENCE LTD, drip-feeding "curated" clickbait garbage in-between ads.
Perhaps let's just talk running a poker table. It's a platform where people can play a zero sum game against each other. To me, that's what cryptocurrency is. People want to play these games. That, to me, is real value.
Cash is used for more crime than crypto. London city pretty much is the epicenter of money laundering and financial crime.
I keep being impressed by this project. Has served me so well over the years, and the depth of the technologies is so exciting. Assembling ffmpeg command line arguments is a meditative exercise, with
almost arbitrarily deep research allowed.
Is there a meaning for that single character, in isolation?
When mathematicians think about matrix multiplication (and matrices in general), they don't really think about "rotating" matrices like in the animation above, but rather about operators and their composition. The matrix multiplication is what it is, because that's how function composition works.

Look: consider two functions, f(x, y) = (x + 2y, 3x + 4y), and g(x, y) = (-x + 3y, 4x - y). What's f(g(x, y))? Well, let's work it out, it's simple algebra:

f(g(x, y)) = f(-x+3y, 4x-y) = ((-x+3y)+2(4x-y), 3(-x+3y) + 4(4x-y)) = (-x + 3y + 8x - 2y, -3x + 9y + 16x - 4y) = (7x + y, 13x + 5y).

Whew, that was some hassle to keep track of everything. Now, here's what mathematicians typically do instead: they introduce matrices to make it much easier to keep track of the operations:

Let e_0 = (1, 0), and e_1 = (0, 1). Then f(e_0) = f(1, 0) = (1, 3) = e_0 + 3 e_1, and f(e_1) = f(0, 1) = (2, 4) = 2 e_0 + 4 e_1. Thus, mathematicians would write that f in basis e_0, e_1 is represented by the matrix

[1 2]
[3 4]

so that when you multiply it by the (coulmn) vector [x, y], you get

[x]
* [y]
[1 2][x + 2y]
[3 4][3x + 4y]

Similarly, g(e_0) = (-1, 4) = -e_0 + 4e_1, g(e_1) = (3, -1) = 3e_0 - e_1, so it's represented by the matrix:

[-1 3]
[ 4 -1]

Now, let's multiply matrix of f by matrix of g:

[-1 3]
* [ 4 -1]
[1 2][-1*1+2*4 3*1-1*2] = [7 1]
[3 4][-1*3+4*4 3*3-1*4] [13 5]

and when we multiply the resulting matrix by column vector [x, y]:

[x]
* [y]
[7 1][7x + y]
[13 5][13x + 5]

So, what did we get was in fact our original calculation of f(g(x, y)) = (7x + y, 13x + 5y).

The conclusion here is that matrix multiplication is what the function composition forces it to be.
I read the annotated chronicles, which obviously reveals more about the authors' backgrounds, but thought it was interesting to see how they'd straddle the line between writing things they believed and things they didn't.
Almost the entire populace will be more informed -- except for the Ponzi-"coin" proponents, because they're busy innoculating themselves against reason by... Well, being Ponzi-"coin" proponents; strengthening their own biases by debating in favour of these ludicrous schemes. Like, right here on this page.
If you're not stuck in a fight for survival, you have a lot more energy left over for other things, both less and more frivolous (like charity or games)
Show HN: My first SFF short story, any suggestions?
Ask HN: Set up a camera to record high quality images automatically
I want to setup a camera to record high quality images automatically, the images should captured at various times per day outside, sent somewhere for storage, and it should run for years with hopefully very little input from me. Outside in my situation is at my house, I live in Denmark so in the winter cold, lots of rain all periods of the year. I have some old digital cameras that I could theoretically use (high quality ones but about 13 years old), I also have some cheap gopro-like competitors.

Any advice on setting up such a system, projects you can direct me to for inspiration - guidance. I would like to not go over 1000 dollars but don't let the price guideline deter you from making the best suggestion.
We are our own ESP at work and I work on the email team. When we get a (few) FBL from you, we block you from receiving any of our email whatsoever. Forgot your password or want to contact support? Oh well, we won’t spam you again. There are unsubscribe links, use those unless it really is unsolicited spam.

What I find most interesting about email is how some people will mark email as spam literally months or years after we sent the original email. We send over a billion emails a month (not spam) and people’s behavior around email is fascinating.
If you want to understand physics, then you need to build physical models and demonstrations, or perform experiments. If you want to get correct answers and make predictions, or you want to build a virtual model, then you need to study math a lot.
> by linking with PowrProf.dll, and then calling this function from powersetting.h as follows

> This function is part of User32.lib, and is defined in winuser.h which is included in Windows.h.

This is one reason I think Windows is such a mess of an OS. (Look at the contents of C:\Windows and tell me it's not, if you can do so with a straight face!)

To make what ought to be a system call you have to load some DLL, sys, or lib file at a random (but fixed) path and call a function on it.

That combined with COM, and the registry, and I don't want to touch it with a ten-foot pole.
WLED: Open-Source, software only you can flash on various boards. Doesn't have the scripting/live-coding part that Pixelblaze has (i.e. you need to write your own effects in c++ and compile them in). Doesn't support 2D/3D mappings natively. Has a few more APIs.

Pixelblaze is really nice and in many ways the more advanced option, but for most things I go for a <$5 board with WLED or FastLED over $35 (+shipping +tax) for a PixelBlaze.
It’s better than the rest at the moment.

Let’s say you have small amount of data, 1Go than can easily fit in the memory of a laptop.

You try to load or do analysis of that with python. The only way to make it work is to use a library that is build in C. Forget doing for loop over that thing. So each library has to build a language of parameters to allow you to use the speed and memory efficiency of C. Effectively in ML python act as a config language for C.

So all the actual work has to happen in C, but all your experiment are in python. That create a barrier to innovation as you hit limit of performance on python and you have to switch language.

But yeah, all the library are in Python and most of the work is still done there so it’s very hard for people to move to something else because they would have to rebuild a huge part of the stack, there is a strong network effect here.

But the core language is still very bad for performance computing.
Looks like the original author uploaded the source recently:

https://github.com/iaddis/SNESticle
Moore himself said that he wrote Rorschach to be "a nutcase". :)
Definitely the Sansevero Chapel Museum, the National Archeological Museum, the San Carlo Opera House, Underground Naples and the Santa Chiara church/cloisters. The downtown subway stations have unique designs and art of all sorts, too. Or artifacts discovered during the digging, in one case later incorporated into the design of the station itself. Finally, you can easily spend half a day just trying out pastries.
"'PAIX, the 'Palo Alto Internet eXchange' was a neutral Internet exchange point."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAIX
Investors forcing the replacement of shareholder-unfriendly management. US companies tend to be better at returning cash to shareholders by buyback or dividend than many other locations (probably half the reason Asian shares are often cheap, they hold loads of useless money on the balance sheet)
I worked for a startup where the lead/founding engineer would always panic and think of excuses and sneaky things to try to slither away from responsibility whenever there was an incident. Not only responsibility to the customer, but responsibility to our team. This is when I knew that I needed to start looking for another job.
> there is no revenue for a digital currency.

These debates get rehashed ad nauseum, but of course the same could be said of the USD, GBP, etc.. Currencies are exchanged to meet debt, contract, or tax obligations denominated in a particular currency. Trade is the common mode by which a currency has to be exchanged. For instance, if an American company buys British goods denominated in GBP, it will either exchange USD for GBP to close the transaction or borrow GBP that it must similarly pay back in GBP. The net result in either case is that it buys GBP and sells USD. If the UK government levies a duty/tax on the transaction, that too generates a demand for GBP requiring an exchange.

Now it is of course somewhat unclear whether a significant economy exists in crypto that generates debts/taxes denominated in crypto that would create a steady/cyclical demand for crypto. It requires either that some productive center of the economy is demanding payment in crypto, or that governments are demanding tax payments in crypto, or both. If either is simply willing to accept multiple possible currencies, then demand flows through the most favorable path. Perhaps a modicum of anonymity is part of this calculus, but costs, difficulty, and risks also probably play a role.

My point is that the economic analysis of your claims is more complicated. Buying currency serves a classical finance purpose that is unrelated to your analysis of equities. I think the climate and regulatory consequences of crypto are very serious, but I generally agree with those who say the credit/payments industry is predominantly parasitic. But those who say that no mechanism should exist to control the money supply based on economic conditions are just charlatans and simpletons and should be ignored.
Looks good.

Is there a "Getting Started" guide or a list of examples anywhere? I'm on mobile so may have missed them. All I could see were links to the separate component docs.
>politicians don't allow the NIH to fund risky research

how about NIH funding those gain-of-function coronavirus experiments (which included human testing) in Wuhan? And when DARPA refused to fund as too risky the additional human targeting coronavirus genetic manipulations in Wuhan, it was NIAID (led by Dr. Fauci - the top politician in life sciences today) which funded it.
Who here cares enough to stop buying products made in China or comprised of parts made there? Or protests to demand those businesses move away from China?
I had the same 50 tabs open on Chrome for about a year. Just articles and videos that I was supposed to skim.

They were important enough that I couldn't close them without skimming. But for some reason, sitting at my home desk, I just couldn't skim them.

Then I started going through them while laying in bed trying to get to sleep. Cleaned them out in 3 nights.

Not sure if this is the same thing the author is talking about, but it's something.
> I think the quality of the average Apple TV+ show is quite a bit higher than the average Netflix show

Netflix has a ton of content so 'average' is going to differ based on your algorithm. But in the last year I can think of... The Crown, You, Cobra Kai, The Queen's Gambit, Bridgerton, Squid Games, Arcane all being massive successes. There are probably more I'm forgetting because they pump them out month after month.

> on par with most of HBO.

Maybe on par with HBO Max Originals...
Economic theory has run this world into the ground in just a single human lifetime. A system that maximizes consumption is insane.
I’d definitely disagree on that front. Though I do think there’s been a bit of a logarithmic curve, the difference in what was possible in 2000 vs 2022 is pretty huge. Like, listen to Animal Collective’s Merriweather Post Pavilion (2009) or any of James Blake, Jamie XX or Burial’s stuff from the past decade. Not all of that was impossible before 2000, but you’d have a hard time finding people making music with those timbres (outside maybe some really cutting edge IDM).

Oh and don’t forget auto-tune ;) Although there are a few examples of it being used for pitch correction before 2000 (+ that Cher song), it wasn’t until the 2000’s that it got ratcheted up to T-Pain levels.
As long as the general public contains a certain % of assholes, there will be someone who needs to deal with them and tired of their shit. Not necessarily an IT support person. Perhaps a nurse, a hotel receptionist, a security guard etc.

Maybe there is a financial limit of compensation after which dealing with them stops being a problem - I would certainly personally tolerate an onslaught of assholes for a million dollar salary, at least for a few years - but that limit of compensation may be unrealistic to reach.

I am not sure how an utopia where people stop being assholes to one another could be achieved.
so useful - thanks!
I don't really understand how Rust could be compared to C. Rust is perhaps more austere than C++, but that's like saying the neptune is smaller than jupiter. It's still a big language with a generous standard library. You almost never do everything yourself, by hand, which is the hallmark of the C experience. Just compare the list of methods rust has for a &str, compared to the fact C doesn't have a string type, to see the gulf of cultural difference.

Obviously, C and Rust are both low-level languages (in terms of control and overhead), but there are quite a few of those.
WLED has many really cool advanced features like support for segmentation of one led strip into multiple ones, Synchronization with other instances, Alexa/Google Home support, Phillips Hue Emulation, HTTP API, Controlable over DMX with E1.31 or ArtNet.

There exists even a sound reactive fork. Which analyzes(volume and FFT based) the audio directly on the ESP32.
Sweet! Very excited to do quality benchmarks with this: https://ffmpeg.org/#aac_encoder_stable
Mars rover detects carbon signature that may hint at past life source
quietly powering video literally everywhere. such an amazing project
a major application is markov chains
YAPE: yet another prores encoder
> You seem to be of the opinion that there is some sort of contradiction inherent in that, whereas the position of color-blindness actually has nothing to do with socialism.

Please point where I said that. I think you made that up out of whole cloth.

> Of course the rest of what he said were ideas, the point is that arguments/positions aren't bundled together arbitrarily simply because you would like them to be.

They’re bundled together because they’re all part of one man’s body of work. Specifically the body of work for a man whose holiday were commemorating today. So yes, everything he said and did is bundled together when we are discussing him, and if we cherry pick what he said and did when we’re discussing his work, then we’re not being honest to him and history. Literally my entire point is that his legacy and quotes are cherry picked in a suspicious way when we discuss him.

If we’re discussing color blindness in the abstract unrelated to MLK, then sure, you’d be right. But we aren’t, and it’s incredibly clear that my original point had everything to do with MLK specifically, not color blindness in the abstract.

> Agreeing that the sky appears blue doesn't mean you have to agree that there is a god.

Please point out where I said that you were obligated to agree with everything thing King said because you agree with him on one thing. I’ll wait.