skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would suggest you do a test by scanning a few of the newer prints and some of the older prints on any available scanner. See how much dust is on the existing pictures.

When looking at a print physically, a little dust is not distracting. That may change when you digitize it. So you might want to test what condition they are in by testing some of the older and some of the newer ones - maybe some in transparent plastic sleeves, some scattered about and more dusty.

Don't have much advice on what to do if they are dusty, just aware even a little dust can look off-place depending on what is desired.
My company operates in a highly international business area. The whole industry is moving towards using crypto for B2B payments. Every provider and partner offers payment by crypto - because international bank payments are slow, expensive and complicated (gets stuck, countries blocked, unclear KYC etc, opaque AML blockers etc).
Thanks. I thought it was more deeply related, but I was wrong.
No, is not really meaningless. Basically, you assume from the server that each relevant object is owned and accessible by 1 client only. If 2 clients want to "own" the same object, they have to coordinate between themselves using an entirely different protocol so that only one client owns the object from the PoV of the compositor (you also can't do it through Wayland since it lacks generic IPC support, which X11 has even if poor). See https://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2021-December/20...

If you want to make a separate window manager, it is likely that the result is going to be incompatible with most existing clients. But this seems par for the course for almost every Wayland extension so far (see Gnome...).
femto.js does all that in 0.9kb gzipped. https://github.com/vladocar/femtoJS
The author mentions that <script type="module"> enforces CORS restrictions which would break with their current server settings and CDN, otherwise I think they agree with you.
Self hosted Nextcloud
The only problem is that—ironically for a thread about the problems of DRM—this forces stores to implement some type of DRM scheme. GOG can't reasonably offer as generous a refund policy as Steam, because once you've downloaded a game, there's no way to give it back.
I want a slider I can change in realtime to hear the sound change.
If you're just getting into Synthesizers, do yourself a favour and install Syntorial!

It blows my mind how only after a few sessions you'll be able to reverse engineer patches by ear.

Syntorial is the #1 resource to learn how synthesis works.
Spring is certainly a divisive topic, and I think it's hard for people on different sides to fully understand each other's experiences.

I have used Spring for years. Yes, there are some things I don't like about it, for instances Spring Boots overeager auto configuration, but it provides an unparalleled level of flexibility and productivity. I have never encountered a behavior in Spring that I have not been able to read the source and figure out what's going on and then change the behavior to be what I want. Spring is absurdly flexible and you only need to use the parts that you want.

A few years ago, I decided to try an alternative and wrote an app in Vert.x with no Spring. It worked fine, but it was a hell of a lot more work than leveraging the Spring ecosystem. I later rewrote it using Boot, and it works better, is easier to understand, and uses less code.

Have you seen Spring Data JDBC? It's such a good idea that saves so much boilerplate and I'm not aware of anything else like it. It threads the needle between rolling your own SQL and descending into the hell of a full on ORM.

Anyway, the closets I can come to understanding why people hate Spring so much is to consider my own opinion of Rails. I don't like Ruby and I don't like Rails. I hate all of the magic and I don't want to learn it. But, I'm sure, like Spring, it's enormously productive if you do understand what it's doing and how to use it.
Syncthing to sync from my phone to my nas. And then a nightly crone to back it up with Borg to borgbase.com
Is this "consulting" or "contracting"?

In my mind, "consulting" is knowledge work. Your role is to lend knowledge and expertise, help with strategy, architecture, tool/platform selection, etc.

"Contracting" is high-skill grunt work. Your role is to code your fingers off, deliver-deliver-deliver, typically according to someone else's (possibly ill-conceived) plan.

Have these things truly become synonymous?
The thought of not having anything significant to remember a week by, and then thinking about how finite those are seems to depress me more than inspire.
This Grand Theft Pluto: New Horizons Gets a Boost From Jupiter Flyby [1]

"For New Horizons to speed up, of course, Jupiter must slow down. "That's conservation of energy," he says. But no one will notice. The change in Jupiter's orbit around the Sun due to the flyby is fantastically small. New Horizons will absorb about 1/1025 of Jupiter's orbital energy. That's like "taking a single drop out of the ocean," says Farquhar. "

[1] https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/newhorizons/news/jupiter_...
It really depends on how you define piracy. With movies and music it doesn't work at all because they don't evolve and change over time. Once that 4K BluRay content hits The Pirate Bay it's game over. But, with games, it's a very different story. Many games have intricate design with their servers that make ripping them apart and creating standalone pirated copies extremely difficult. Even some single player games, while pirated, don't get as much adoption from the pirate community because of the ongoing patch support they receive that is usually lacking in the pirated versions.
I just found this in the PAP Wikipedia article [1]:

> In most variants (Yugoslav models being the most notable
> exception), the barrel is chrome-lined

That reinforces my comment about the Yugoslav manufacturing industry!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SKS
>Buying drugs, money laundering, rampant speculation, rug pulls, fraud, high fees, inefficiency, horrible UX, irreversible SFYL, and destroying the climate.

Every one of these charges happens every day and in some of them to a much greater scale in fiat, especially climate destruction due to inflationary monetary policy, which encourages consumption and waste and punishes thrift and savings.
So the big one is that earnings from art up to 50k are tax exempt, and that's very easy to get, of course.
Wayve raises $200M Series B for its AI for autonomous delivery vehicles
> Twitter is a fucking horrible format for a complex analysis of special relativity.

Keep in mind that regular people can and have simply replied to the theoretical physicist who posted it and received replies helping them understand better. In this sense it’s a fantastic medium. The same magic that keeps reliably producing spectacular “ah, actually I have a phd in the thing you’re arguing with me about” moments is at play here lowering the barrier to talk to really smart people.
Thank you. I really thought Nietzsche had taken the real Zoroaster as basis, but you're right (as well as the other sibling commentator), it seems to be just the name.
Insurance stuff definitely processes lots of data, and has been around for a lot longer than twenty years.

Additionally, psychometric tests such as the GRE and SAT have been around for a long time and process lots and lots of data (especially relative to when they were first scaled out).
> For instance, you can't use Venmo if you're under 18 (sorry, kids). And several Venmo users told BuzzFeed News that the company suspended their accounts and held their funds after they wrote silly captions to friends or tried to sell something to a friend — like a used computer. [0]

Lots more examples in the article.

Also they regularly kick off sex workers [1]

[0] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/leticiamiranda/people-a...

[1] https://www.aclu.org/news/lgbtq-rights/paypal-and-venmo-are-...
That's great to hear. From their website[0] it seems they have a very similar policy to Steam, except their playtime criteria is a bit more vague. But still good to see.

Sony on the other hand void any refund once you _begin downloading the game_[1], which is ridiculous.

[0] https://support.xbox.com/en-GB/help/subscriptions-billing/bu...

[1] https://www.playstation.com/en-ie/support/store/ps-store-ref...
This. On top of it all the evidence needed to charge you for years to come is conveniently left on the immutable blockchain.

These are just bullshit libertarian feel good narratives that are as realistic as people declaring themselves sovereign citizens
How is legally preventing people from owning dollars different from banning Bitcoin (or gold)? Isn't the latter one of the main risks to Bitcoin?
I simply burn the photos in 100GB M-disc blurays. Then I bury them next to a tree in a zip lock bag.
I have a similar setup, and have set up my backup infrastructure configuration as a git project, mirrored on both GitHub & Gitlab.

I can thus checkout the project on a new machine and just initiate it (giving it the right api keys etc) without issue.
Sounds terrible:

> The Secretary will also meet with the employees and families of the U.S. Embassy (in Kyiv[0]) to communicate the Department’s efforts to plan for contingencies, should Russia choose to escalate further.

[0] https://twitter.com/USEmbassyKyiv
9. In many countries job is viewed as a tax dodge and people become hostile if you tell them you work as a consultant. Often this messaging is sponsored by big corporations providing consulting services - they hate independent consultants and spend a lot on lobbying to make it as difficult and costly as possible to work as independent.
> Is this "consulting" or "contracting"?

The former is an activity and the latter is a business relationship, so they're orthogonal. Many consultants are contractors but not all are. Many contractors sell consultancy but not all do.
Which reminds me of the scene several years ago. They gather us in a big room, thanking us for our great contribution, everyone is getting fired.

I can't remember what I said, but something really funny and my friends consultants can't hold the laugh in.

Our Indian colleagues are screwed because their visas depended on them being employed.

We just went to another client, great company, our rates got bumped up.

Really sad situation.

On the other hand, sometimes when they want to save money, they would fire me, usually because I am most expensive of all. But then again, more often then this, they would keep me last, because I can do most work.
I find it odd that Native Americans didn't make cheese.
> Would Banksy count as an artist from the beginning or just when he already sold stuff for millions?

Selling stuff for millions makes you businessman not an artist. He was recognized as an artist before that. But I guess that just confirms your point about occupation.
> Meanwhile 1.7 billion people around the world do not have a bank account

...therefore we need bitcoin? Is this the new spin? People don't see it's a tech that was invented without a use case?

Many people don't have electricity too, what are you talking about?
What does it mean to "miss out on crypto"? It's supposed to be a currency right? One hasn't "missed out on dollar" because they weren't alive in the 50's.

This is one of the problems crypto has to solve before becoming mainstream. It should be possible to "get in" at any moment, without being insulted at all times that you only fail to benefit from it because you were too late.
Hmm, I think they should fix the CDN? I think if they just refer their script e.g. from https://www.jsdelivr.com/ it should just work? I have used bunch of modules from CDN.
I also recommend FlareRPG [0] to try out. It has way more pleasant navigation than Diablos, reminds me a bit of the Divine Divinity [1], which is also awesome single-player game.

[0]: https://flarerpg.org/

[1]: https://www.gog.com/game/divine_divinity
Synthesizing audio, and by extention entire songs with code is really hard, try it some time. Sonic-PI seems like a good lib for it but its still really difficult - lots of threading needed to make layers of different "instruments"

https://sonic-pi.net/
IMO exempting from tax is qualitatively different from just giving an artist money to live off of, which is what surprised me in those French/Swiss programs.

One must either already be successful and business-savvy enough to earn money from one’s art or have a job/a sponsor, which defeats the point to some degree.

I’m aware governments offer grants where they sponsor art, but from what I know the requirements and amounts of paperwork make it not really interesting to someone without established fame or connections.
Do this actual person really exist? They were looking for a way to hold some dollars they had lying around, did some research, found blockchain and have now put the dollars into USDT or whatever?
I don't have the numbers of course, but with the right design of the refund process, which Steam does have, I don't think enough people abuse the system to warrant that.
Thats why I (uhm my kids) really enjoy the Creator 3 in 1 sets. All shiny and new but still the build it up, tear it down and build it up again mindset. Showcasing 3 sometimes very different models.
Seconding this - the push was amazing for me without a big music background, as chord exploration became shape based, instead of needing piano knowledge.
Ironically GOG has an even more generous refund policy.

>You may request a refund for a product up to 30 days after purchase, even if it was downloaded, launched, and played.
Social security systems in European countries tend to be based around people earning a regular salary losing their jobs, rather than consultants having occasional dry spells between projects. This is a problem with the gig economy in general - our social security nets aren't very well designed for it (perhaps an argument in favour of UBI, or at least some different thinking into how social security should work for the growing precariat).
It's much harder to do ransomware payments with non-crypto.
But what if before that s3 or Amazon dies?
As a long-term user of Synology NAS, I already have one central solution to store all photos and videos, a Diskstation 918+ with 10TB storage. The NAS has a "photos" folder, all important family members have accounts and can store all photos in that folder. It's organized by year and one folder for each event.

When I first set up that photo solution I feared that no one would like to use it, but everyone liked the idea to have one central storage for all photos where everyone can also see and download the photos of others.

To make sure this is not the only place where everything is stored, I have another, older NAS sitting at my mom's house that is used as a remote backup solution. If ever comes the situation that both my and my mom's NAS are destroyed, photos probably don't matter anymore, so that's totally fine for me.

Of course, two NAS with much storage is quite expensive, but I guess it's cheaper in the long term, than paying for a multi-TB cloud storage every year.

TLDR: two NAS at different locations, one has a shared folder where all family photos are stored, one is backup only.
Which industry do you work in?
I want to also to highlight the importance of the building airtightness (Air Changes per Hour) on the energy consumption needed for heating.

I saw an example at some point in one of PassivHaus presentation and it was like this:

0.3 ACH -> 1.74 kWh/m2year (for a 100 sqm house means, 174 kwh per year for heating)

0.6 ACH -> 3.49 kWh/m2year (PassivHaus limit)

1.0 ACH -> 5.81 kWh/m2year

1.5 ACH -> 8.72 kWh/m2year (Low energy house limit)

4.5 ACH -> 26.5 kWh/m2*year (typical house)

This is for the same house with the same insulation. Of course you cannot achieve this kind of airtightness without careful planning and using a lot of self-adhesive tape (SIGA, ROTHOBLASS and other manufactures that can guarantee its effectiveness up to 50 years)
Beijing Olympics app vulnerable to data breaches, analysts warn
Ableton's online tutorial is also wonderful! https://learningsynths.ableton.com/
I might add two amendments here:

The first is that "time and materials" is infinitely preferable to "fixed scope." In the former case, both client and consultant have an incentive to set priorities and make difficult, pragmatic choices. In the latter case, the potential for inadvertently over-promising is ever-present. Then comes either "fail and take the blame" or work through sunrise to deliver.

The second is that over-communication with the client throughout the engagement is often the difference between joyous interactions and the various horror stories that become commonplace.

Consulting can be spectacular IF the contracts are time and materials AND consultants over-communicate with clients.
If you're going to use terms like Memento Mori, please at least spell them correctly and consistently.
People probably could make good sounding music from code, but it's harder. When you're making a new patch on your synth, you don't want to think about complicated matters like code-as-text, you want to be able to turn a knob and hear a difference, with each change getting closer and closer to the wanted sound. Having to write even one line of code instead of sliding a slider up/down would instantly put me out of the flow when I'm creating new patches, no doubt. Changing values to some specific value instead of kind-of-here-sounds-good-to-me would slow down the entire flow as well. Switching between computer keyboard and my synth keyboard just to make a small change would do the same.

All in all, if you know exactly what you want you could probably do it in code, but part of the fun in creating a patch, and what helps with creativity, is experimentation, and I feel like that would easily get lost when coding with strict values and other "computer" syntax that fiddling with a real synth just flows together with the rest of the music making process.

There is no comparison really between the UX of sitting with a computer keyboard in front of a screen, writing/editing syntax to hear changes and hearing real-time sounds coming from something like Novation Summit together with a good pair of headphones, with zero screens involved.
Common for the era. I still remember the ad looking for C and assembly programmers at the end of the credit roll on the original Wing Commander (1990).
Yes, China is well known for their sophisticated healthcare. A country whose smog regularly makes it hard to see buildings just across the street is somehow becoming the most advanced country in the world at preventing covid transmission even though they ironically don't even share any data to confirm any of these speculations in either direction.
How about, the fact you can even argue that free will exists is a demonstration of it.
With a caveat for hard forks and attacks using large amounts of mining power.
We definitely need the arts, political science I'm not so sure about
Erlang, the Hidden Gem: Solving Problems at Scale for 30 Years [video]
Sadly not everyone has been as lucky as you. When the pandemic hit the flexible workforce and outsourced activities were the first things to go in a lot of industries, as businesses naturally looked to their own survival and the protection of their permanent staff. The first few months of COVID were brutal for a lot of smaller businesses whose revenue comes from offering services to larger clients.
I think the only reason I still use docker for everything is for automatic restarts without worrying about another tool for whatever language/framework I'm working with
> if you're fine with a burglar having the images and you cannot be ransomed with them (e.g. due to nudes), just write what is on the harddrive clearly and you're fine.

For the most part, just using an unusual filesystem e.g. ZFS will foil the vast, vast majority of attempts to read the data from a drive stolen from a home burglary (e.g. where the data was not the target).
That’s a great reference. A number of mainland countries were only able to catch up to Britain in industrialisation by suspending patent law for a while. Looking back I think it’s obvious that the result of this was hugely positive.

This also makes me somewhat sympathetic towards the lack of ip protections in China and other developing economies. Too often the patent system is used to kick away the ladder once one party has gained an advantage.
generally numpy closes the gap to within 2x as long as all your operations are easily vectorizable, and none of your arrays have a size less than 100 or so. for small arrays, numpy is around 1000x slower than Julia because every operation has a large overhead (somewhere in the range of 10 us)
Surely there must be problem with HN then, I can't think of any alternatives.
All the value of cc depends on hype, so I can see why majority of a community hating it being a problem!
> My company operates in a highly international business area.

Is it drug trafficking?
Yes, but reportedly if you do this more than a few times they'll get upset with you.
Disclaimer: I’m interested in relativity and have been reading about it lately but I’m no authority.

> We all move through time at one second per second, don’t we?

You need to define “move through time”. The only way to measure time is with a clock, and the clock’s motion relative to you affects the measurement.

If you let everyone define “time” as the thing measured by the watch on their wrist, then everyone moves through time at one second per second, but since people are in motion relative to each other and therefore have different frames of reference, their clocks will measure different times.

Since no frame of reference is privileged, there is no “absolute time”. Of course you could pick one and measure every event against that one, but that would be an arbitrary choice.

This is my understanding. If I’m wrong, I’d be happy to be corrected.
>Venmo is a free service to transfer dollars, and bitcoin transfers are not free

Then use a cryptocurrency that has 0 (or very tiny) transaction fees?

>in case this e-book author has hidden a recursion bug in their version to drain your ethereum wallet of all your life savings

An ethereum smart contract can't take ethereum from anyone. It can only take what you've sent it. Also I'm not sure why the author didn't add in that you still have to trust the author to serve you the ebook. The smart contract would only give you an NFT that the site would check.

>yet is your Afghan villager going to download the blockchain from a broadcast node and decrypt the Merkle root from his Linux command line to independently verify that his vote has been counted? Or will he rely on the mobile app of a trusted third party — like the nonprofit or open-source consortium administering the election or providing the software?

What's the problem of making it convenient?