skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's outside my house, so assume very high quality Wifi - ability to connect electricity if needed.

I want things to be 100% sure so never lose a picture. So I would think if I were designing it, I would send picture to local computers if available in area. I have 3 computers that would probably be running at the times that pictures should be taken, but not guaranteed that they are running, and there is one stationary I could probably setup to be always running as long as house has power.

I want things to need minimal input from me. So if wifi goes down should still work, if house electricity goes out should still work.

1000 USD is for setup.

I can visit it periodically but as I am somewhat limited in my free time I want to not have to do it that often.

watch specific event - sunrise sunset, but actually it would also be useful to catch an image at moonrise.

>Are any of your old "digital cameras" dSLRs capable of running Magic Lantern?

I believe so.

The 1000 dollars is not a hard guideline, it's not a target either (obviously I would love a solution that said 300 dollars), but it isn't that I would decide to cancel the project if it turned out the price for something that was going to give me a high degree of surety never missing images and low maintainability was actually going to cost 2000 - although 2000 is pretty much the upper limit I would be willing to pay to setup.
Just like C memory debuggers for the last 30 years, so what is the benefit?
I would recommend the book "Peak Mind" for those looking to get into meditation to improve their mental awareness and tame the monkey mind. It goes over some of the science and research behind how attention works (in simple terms) and outlines a clear meditation regime you can implement (just 12 minutes a day, 5 days a week).
There seems to be a tension between “all ideas come from PIs who direct slaves to do experiments” and “students and postdocs came up with their ideas and did everything, PI just paid salaries and equipment”.

My experience is that all labs fall somewhere between these two extremes, and within labs people are spread along this axis.

I felt a contradiction where the author states all ideas and execution comes from lab members, while quoting Boyden on the early days of expansion microscopy.
That, or the person found leverage.
110 baud preceded 300 baud, then 1200 baud.

Here is a list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modem#Evolution_of_dial-up_spe...
Well, there's a whole thread here talking about what the point of the piece is.

Miller is frequently mentioned in the same breath as Alan Moore as an author famous for bringing sophisticated, adult-oriented storytelling to comics and thus broadening the genre.

But a retrospective look at his work shows that much of what was read at the time as an ironic deconstruction of comic book tropes (the same sort of thing Watchmen is rightly praised for) is probably non-ironic; it's just straight-faced pulp id. That's nothing new to comics; he just happens to have done it stylishly enough to attract fresh attention.

So: if Miller's work speaks mostly to young white males, then it's failed to accomplish the artistic goal he's credited for. If it's really meant for adults, that's even worse: then what you have here is something akin to Heinlein and "Starship Troopers" (perhaps substituting jingoism for fascism).

That's the critique in a nutshell. If you don't care about the artistic merit of Miller's writing, then the piece is definitely not written for you.

It has more or less nothing to do with privilege analysis.
In a Markov chain, the matrix (or matrices) are similar to the matrix representation of a graph (without brackets):

a b c d
a 1 0 1 0
b 1 1 0 0
c 0 0 1 1
d 1 0 0 1

Written another way, the above graph has these directed edges:

a -> a, a -> c
b -> a, b -> b
c -> c, c -> d
d -> a, d -> d

In a Markov chain, the possible state transitions (graph edges) are represented in the same way, but instead of a 1 or 0 (connects or doesn't connect) a probability is assigned to each possible transition.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Examples_of_Markov_chains - Several examples with a mix of prose, graphical presentation, and the matrix representation.
Ah, but was it an Aibo robot dog?
Perhaps I phrased that poorly. It's not Satoshi's wealth that matters, but rather the source of his income—he became rich from his invention. I believe that should open him up to scrutiny, for the same reason that publishing investment advice should open you up to more scrutiny than publishing sports trivia.

(I don't want to imply that Satoshi did anything untoward, because I don't think he did. However, it's a valid thing to want to investigate.)
True; I referenced Sabbath since it is most heard of rest day.

What I am suggesting is that the need to be "bored" has historical background. What the author discovered appears to have been discovered and confirmed centuries ago.
Promising and innovative tool indeed. I wonder why the big PG users and players are not investing in this (potentially) game changer tool. (AWS, zalando, gitlab, yugabyte, edb to name a few). Great work!!
Well another major turn-off would be: a "primary skills" section that mentions 30 different random applications / protocols that one might have been incidentally exposed to for a week or 2 at some job ... 15 years ago. No one can be expert-level in all of these things. Just tell us the top 3-6 that really matter and which define you.

Or even if it's just 1 or 2. It's infinitely better to hire someone who is in fact really solid at what they say they know, than someone who tries to spam you with every random keyword they've been exposed to in the hope that you won't drill down and ask them any hard questions about most of them.

That, and skill listings that don't pass the "apples and orange" test. For example:

Programming languages: Java, Perl, PHP, XML, HTML, CSS, Bootstrap

The former 3 are full-scale programming languages, but the ones that come after obviously are not.
We all decide that a planned economy is the only way to move forward? If market forces have any influence and companies are actually going out of business due to poor customer service than someone should switch strategies to actually offer non-terrible customer service.
I guess by high quality I mean just the quality you would expect from an iPhone, digital camera, as opposed to the quality you would expect from a security camera.
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Hard to find good sources but Kuwait had a median household income of $40k. Meanwhile, almost 1 million workers make less than $300 a month, so Kuwait citizen families likely make a lot more than $40k.

https://gulfnews.com/world/gulf/kuwait/almost-1m-foreigners-...

The purpose of money is a medium of exchange for goods and services. Giving money for the sake of nothing defeats the entire purpose of money, because you're giving everyone money without creating new good and services. Note that this is different from conditional payments like food stamps or pensions, which serve the purpose of insurance. This is also different from welfare, which is targeted towards certain people in hopes of improving their well-being.
Wait, was it common for 1U servers to have optical drives back in the day?
Agreed. Stuff like this feels like magic for magic’s sake, and as someone who has had to operate services that use these DI frameworks, they are a big pain.
Right, but the people who will suffer first and most from an industry dying out, or costs increasing, would be the poorest people.
a few months I was very interested in trading and found that one of the best places to learn was with books.

Regarding to books tho, maybe look for books that have been around for a while, instead of a get-rich-quickly random ebook online.

My focus was technical trading, which at the end is learning how to read the sentiment of the market (tons of people selling out and the price plummeting, or tons of people buying and the price increasing).

There's also fundamental trading, which has to do with learning about the company and if it's currently (under/over)valued and trading accordingly.

Whatever you do, spend time learning the language, learning to use stock screeners, understanding why price change, market makers, etc...

there's a lot of specific vocabulary and investiopedia is your friend in that regard.

A book that I particularly liked was "The Art and Science of Technical Analysis" by Adam Grimes

There was another that I can't remember the name right now, but it was mostly about the psychology of the market, i.e. there are tons of people looking at the same graph that you are looking, and they all are trying to predict the future in order to make money... so, mob mentality in a graph!

As with everything, be careful, don't invest anything you can't afford to lose and I'm not a financial advisor and all the disclaimers...

Good luck with this!
> just do their own Ruby implementation instead

"just"...

Several other Ruby JIT projects (Rubinius, JRuby, TruffleRuby, etc) have poured tons of resources, and while they perform very well, the adoption is still very low because keeping up with the main implementation takes tons of effort.

On the other hand YJIT managed to speedup real world codebases with pretty much 100% compatibility in under a year of development by a fairly small team.

Shopify already invest quite a lot in TruffleRuby, that's the new implementation moonshot you call for, YJIT is the more grounded, shorter term hedge.
Is there such a thing as a standard PC (actually, laptop) platform? Some manufacturers are better than others at repairability, but between two different laptop models, even from the same manufacturer, the only things likely to be interchangeable are the RAM and the storage. The OLPC had repairability designed into it, but on the assumption that there'd be a large enough deployment of them in any given area, and you'd scavenge broken ones for parts.

I honestly don't think that it would have been much different in this respect had the OLPC been a single model of a consumer-grade laptop - parts would have been scavenged from broken ones. Except perhaps that consumer-grade laptops weren't designed for the conditions the OLPC was designed for, so would probably have failed more often.
Any more recommendations?
That's mostly to do with the direction of the light from the flash and how bright it.

For example if you can make use of a bounce flash you can get a lovely soft fill light.

Light coming from very close to the axis of the lens as the dominant light source is going to make your scene look very flat.

It works well for a day light fill a few stops down but generally looks a bit crap as the only light.
Consider normal distribution. n-dimensional vectors with independent N(0,1) with expectation 0.

When n increases the mass of the probabilities are around a sphere of radius n^0.5, nowhere near the origin.
I guess by high quality I mean just the quality you would expect from an iPhone, digital camera, as opposed to the quality you would expect from a security camera.

times to take pictures - sunrise, sunset, moonrise - so this would imply predetermined times but dependent on seasonal differences.
I prefer the idea of giving new Macs and PCs to kids in the third world. Computers and the internet are supposed to be a Great Equalizer, but that notion cannot come to fruition if the access tool provided to poor people is nowhere near as able as the access tool available to rich people. Moreover, we technologists understand the sense of identity taken up by a child who has access to devices that excite the mind and capture the imagination.

For me, it was a Commodore 64.

Sometimes, people in the first world take satisfaction in the act of helping, but forget that the impact of the help is the main object of importance. If someone were to give your kid an OLPC, you might say "it's better than nothing," but you might feel deep down that "they keep the good stuff for their own kids but they come to our country's kids with the dregs."
nvm - this doesnt look like it cares about distance from center points at all (what I cared about) and instead care's whether the surface area spills from the contained square 4a square at any dimension, opps.
Sounds like its gotta be fake, but no, its got some truth there, take a look.
100! page ordering combinations is roughly 10^157 possibilities.
I will hang my clothes out and toss them in the dryer for 5 - 10 minutes at the end if still a bit damp. Best of both worlds.
Take out the rich non-natives and federal employees/contractors and Hawaii is a poor state. The per capita income does not account for the very high cost of living there.

Tourist dollars tend towards maintaining that industry and the state just doesn’t have the funds to support large infrastructure projects without heavy federal funding (water, power, ports, roads, airports, IT backbone). Many of islands run on shoestring budgets.
Then your assumption that Omicron just had to be made in a lab makes sense, considering you don't believe in evolution in the first place.
https://www.traficom.fi/en/services/vehicle-data-and-tax-pay...
If you’re DPI aware you should never size your elements by physical pixels, but many game UI elements like a HUD or very simple menus scale better using “percentage of screen dimension” or similar heuristics. Like using fixed device independent pixel sizes this system won’t cause the elements to look tiny on a HiDPI display, and it will generally do a better job on large screens that are usually far away from the user (e.g. TVs).
The Erlang VM is plenty fast for starting stuff up that is long running, but I wouldn't use if for things that you need to launch 100's of times per second. But that's also not how it is intended to be used. As for the other kind of fast: number crunching performance is not what Erlang is for. It's for long running complex applications with a lot of moving parts, redundancy and extreme reliability.
I think your comment about the Sabbath is a good one and took it further. I suppose I'm wondering if boredom is the key component or not. At least one tradition, the Jewish one, would appear to say "not".
That's exactly what the author did here.
This is exactly what market makers do. During violent moves prices vary wildly between exchanges and market makers become takers. They instantly buy and sell the same amounts on different exchanges without risk, then re-balance their accounts.
Not OP, but MLK was a pretty radical antiwar socialist who spoke of riots as "the language of the unheard," and stated that most Americans are unconscious racists.

The final bit of his "I Have a Dream," speech is all most people know of his words today, but before he was assassinated, he was attempting to call people to much greater action.
I'm saying OLPC folks were action takers. They sought to do an ambitious project to bring computing to the developing world, close the digital divide, bring up a new class of digital natives into an economy they'd otherwise be left out of, enable a suite of educational materials that otherwise wouldn't be available, tackle problems of electricity and internet access in these contexts, and find generous donors & governments to help fund it all.

Without economies of scale that eventually came from cell phones, this was a pretty amazing and ambitious project!
The small US town I live in has many Finns and Norwegians who arrived here in the mid/late 1800's to work in the logging industry.

When I got here 30 years ago it was my first experience "interacting" with Finns and I always thought it was a problem with me (3rd gen Californian).

Thankfully, a long time local Norwegian friend told me a joke that cleared it all up.

Q: "How can you tell when a Finn is an extrovert?"

A: "They stare at your shoes instead of their own."

I asked my 3rd gen Finnish acquaintances about that, and they heartily agreed.
You can't model matrix multiplication as a convolution, but you can model convolution as matrix multiplication (with a toeplitz matrix) which is why the discrete fourier transform can be modeled as a matrix multiplication.
> Fastest known matrix multiplication algorithm...

...for general matrices. Fourier transforms do indeed diagonalize circulant matrices[1], making their multiplications O(2 n log n + n) -> O(n log n).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circulant_matrix
My point is, regardless of who does what when it comes to color management Wayland simply cannot be agnostic about it.

At least since it wants to touch pixel data. Alternatively they could have given up on that and never introduced wl_buffer, leaving all the buffer management and drawing up to the client.

edit: At least HDR has finally made Wayland devs wake up and smell the coffee. A good write-up here[1], with ongoing talk in the merge request[2].

Lots of good work going on there, but should be part of core and not an extension. Maybe it's time for Wayland2 soon?

[1]: https://ppaalanen.blogspot.com/2020/11/developing-wayland-co...

[2]: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/m...
This thing didn't really make any sense to me at the time.

Did they have customer validation that clearly showed that OLPC was solving real problems in educating children in developing nations? In hindsight it seemed that there were people on the ground that were questioning this already.

Did they have customer validation that clearly showed that their solution was usable by their customers?

Did they measure outcomes from shipped OLPCs and adjust the product based on that feedback? They shipped additional versions of the hardware, but was the hardware actually the solution that was needed? Did they know?
2020 hasn't ended yet.
Your mileage may vary, I have an anecdote to tell.

About a decade ago, I went to North Wales for vacation and obtained a 70's Soviet camera in pristine condition (Zorki-4K) at a car boot sale, along with the original case and strap.

A couple days later, it came to my attention there was a carnival nearby. And, frankly, I'm not sure if "carnival" is what it's called, but they had a Ferris wheel, merry-go-round, stuffy prizes, that kind of thing.

All I had with me was my Zorki and a couple rolls of b&w 35mm film. By the time I got there, it was dark, I had to push the exposure quite a bit, and I was so focused in trying to understand the gear I had, a couple of local policemen came to me and start asking why I was taking pictures.

Even after hearing my thick accent, seeing my vintage camera, examining my Russian passport, they weren't satisfied and wasted almost half an hour of my time checking some sex offender database for my name.

I didn't even bother to process the roll, none of those pictures had enough light.
Yet that did not deter us from creating trillions of dollars and giving them to financial institutes.

What if we printed the same amount and gave it directly to people? the $6T/year could yield ~$40K to each of the ~150M working-age Americans.

The biggest impact is to give employees more power in the negotiation with employers: currently, employees are far more pressed to find work than the employer needs to fill in a position (if the employee fails to pay rent, they are evicted; if an employer fails to meet a deadline, nothing happens immediately), and have the inherent disadvantage of having orders of magnitude more employees than employers.

UBI will help the public by reducing the pressure on employees to find job, thus improving the negotiation power and conditions for all other employees. Even the slight help during COVID created the best conditions for working people in decades. Seems to be worth the inflation IMO.
> IIRC there were no moving parts (fan? don’t recall), which was another huge plus.

Didn't it come with a hand-crank for powering the laptop? Surely that should count as a moving part.
Of course, white people can never disagree with or be opposed to something. Gone soft from their lives of comfort and luxury, the strongest stance they can muster is being "uncomfortable".

> Although, in death, he became one of the most revered figures in US history, for the entirety of the 39 years that King lived and breathed, there wasn’t a single day when the majority of white Americans approved of him. In 1966, Gallup measured his approval rating at 32% positive and 63% negative.

These are also largely the same people that fought in WWII, so take any overly idealistic modern day claims of what it is they fought for with a large grain of salt.
It's pretty quick on startup in my experience.
Unfortunately “Night science” is the only one I know where to the hosts are themselves established PIs.

I imagine running a lab already takes 120% of ones time. I have no idea how Itai and Martin managed to do a podcast in addition.
The romance fiction genre has about as many sales as the entire comic book industry.

Perhaps publishers are misallocating the pie.
Huh, I was sure the universe had heard me say I really didn't want to go the 2 (yes 2, not 1, not 0) meat raffles with my hated relatives the weekend everything got shutdown. What the hell is a meat raffle anyway?
If you’re on Kotlin, consider http4k

It can use netty, undertow, and others under the hood
The amount of inline assembly in this code is wild.
Thanks!

It's already open sourced on Github [0] (there is a link on bottom right of the page).
Note that the page is simply a wrapper of Graph::Easy [1], so nothing technically interesting to see in the repo - it just passes the HTML input to a command-line tool and prints the result.

You can either use Graph::Easy directly on the command-line or you can use python to make an HTTP request to my page (example is shown in the README of [0]).

[0] https://github.com/ggerganov/dot-to-ascii

[1] https://metacpan.org/pod/Graph::Easy
I attempted to get Sugar running on a computer lab I was teaching in at the time, and it was a fantastic idea, but had enough bugs for it to be effectively unusable.

> would prepare 3rd world kids for exactly no other computer

The point wasn't to teach them how to use computers, otherwise they would have just shipped a Windows device. The point was to make an educational tool; even using it as an ebook reader is a big thing in places where there are no textbooks.
It's like they are trying to destroy their tourism industry:

Warren advised people flying into Australia not to have anything on their device that they don’t want authorities accessing, and to ensure their device is encrypted with a strong passcode.

“Once they take your device out of your sight, you should assume it’s completely compromised and they have a copy of everything that was on it, and act accordingly,” he said.

James said the incident made him rethink what he would do next time he travels out of Australia.

“I think what I’ll just do next time is as we fly into Sydney, I’ll just press the factory reset button on the phone and when they pull me up again, I’ll be handing them a fresh clean factory reset.”
United Kingdom Declares Octopuses, Squids Are Sentient Beings
> one can leap to any interpretation he wants.

That is the very point of dogma beeing incoherent. Any interpretation can be derived. Therefore you need a profitable hierarchical beurocracy to tell the people the right interpretation. Every cult new and old has worked the same way.
Is Japanese democracy more functional than its Western counterpart?
You should probably be building a web app
How many votes does it take to appoint a notary?

If one or a few, I can set up a corrupt notary (or several) to notarize my fake deal with you.

If many, I can't get rid of the corrupt notary (or notaries) you have set up to notarize your fake deal with me.

Is either of these particularly great?