skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminds me of all the research/talk about the brains of London Taxi Drivers: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/the-bigge...

I imagine something similar has happened to many/most people. For me, I got rather obsessed with cycling ~5 years ago, and as time has passed on I've found that I can traverse entire 80 mile routes in my head with a lot of detail and accuracy. Further still, I listen to podcasts when I bike most of the time, and it's interesting to do a route twice and remember snippets of conversation from the podcast of the last time I road the route.

Brains are truly spectacular machines. Makes me wonder what cell phones / social media / all those free dopamine hits are doing to my brain and consciousness over all these years.
I'd probably start with a headless Raspberry Pi and one of their camera sensors. This one is nice: https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-high-quali...

The main challenge would be setting up a weatherproof enclosure.

It's unlikely that you will be able to beat the weatherproofing of a GoPro, but you would have less ability to customize the automation if you go that route.
> li:nth-child(2n+3)

I was not aware of this. I did

li:nth-child(3), li:nth-child(5), li:nth-child(7)

but was thoroughly unhappy about it. Thanks for showing the better solution.
Zoroastrianism isn't typically a conversion religion, nor is Yazidism, one of the indigenous religions of the Kurdish peoples.

I suspect this "Yasna association" and their placement of a Reuters article are both efforts by Kurdish nationalists to draw members to their cause. In this case, people who happen to have some negative feelings about Islam after the recent series of conflicts might find a fused religious-nationalist appeal more interesting than a nationalist appeal alone.

In any case it's hard to see why this is news -- or how it in any way relates to Zoroastrianism as it exists in Iran and India.
I'm with you. If I got basic income I would absolutely quit work and not go back. The burden is now on these researchers to find at least two people who would go to work only if basic income were instituted, to balance us out.
This passage from the synopsis made me stop and think:

> they were designed for “technically precocious boys”—idealized younger versions of the developers themselves

I was a technically precocious boy; I got my start on Apple II computers in the late 80s. I think it's common for nerds of my generation to look at newer computers, particularly mobile devices, and worry that they're robbing future generations of what we had in our childhood -- a computer that gave us an open, kind of hard-to-miss invitation to tinker, learn to program, and go as deep into the software stack as we wanted to go (it wasn't actually that deep on those old computers).

I'm tempted to think that I wasn't actually that special as a kid, and if newer computers were designed for technically precocious kids, there might be more such kids in future generations. But then, in my family with two brothers and a sister, I clearly was the only computer nerd. And I think it's likely that my siblings (and especially my mother, who was using a computer for real work) were happier with later computers than they were with our first Apple IIGS. So while I admit I was initially indignant at the quote above, I can see why it was actually pointing out a real problem.
In defense of flat earthers (2020)
Fortunately, Netflix is the only service exhibiting this issue. Blu-rays look great in 1080p and UHD. Other streaming services look good as well. I've also tried Netflix on multiple devices connected to the TV. In all cases, the Netflix HD stream is distractingly blocky during dark scenes.

My best guess is their choice of codec and compression settings predate OLED availability and they don't want to re-encode and just expect people to upgrade to their 4K plan. I've never had their 4K plan, so I can't say whether that truly addresses the problem.
This is really not a simple answer. Now you've just compounded the problem with N solutions, where N is the number of encoders in the wild in use by people who want to talk to your service.

And then you've basically got SOAP, which is one of those acronyms that manages to be none of its constituent words in practice.
It would be so exciting if they find life there
Mainline Squeak development hasn't generated that much incompatibility, might be easier to start there.
Yet there are about 4000 places in the CONUS where the tap water is even more bad than in Flint. Which just happened to have a known speaker, who produced a documentary about it. Thinking about it, the study didn't even account for the crap that fracking can do. So it should be even more.
> That said, JSON has corner cases too, similar to XML or worse.

Feel free to list some.
I agree, which is why I never found Frank Miller in any way appealing.
There are "reformist" Zoroaustrians who do accept conversion as valid, though you're correct that the more conservative and traditionalist branches do not. Moreover Zoroaustrians have always been around in Central Asia, even though the highest numbers for the religion are found in Persia and India.
I passed a class on linear algebra, and I think most of it made sense to me at the time. I can't remember anything of it now, except "Abelian" was a funny sounding word that was used a lot. I clicked around on this thing. I didn't find it illuminating at all.
I'm getting roughly 10^128 times the age of the universe at 1 trillion unique orderings checked per second. Still a chance though ;).
Distroless works well.
Still no shell, but comes with “what’s usually missing in scratch”.
Here's one more piece of advice earned in the field.

If you have a lot of users, and some have been affected differently than others, you may be tempted to send different messages to different sets of users, depending on who has been affected and how. You will not be trying to mislead them, but rather, will be trying to be as clear as possible in spelling out to them their specific, personal situation.

Beware!! People will post about your incident online, compare notes, and will be confused when their letters do not match!!

(This does not mean that you can't customize the response to the user, but you should be aware of this vector for confusion and must take strong steps to mitigate it.)
Chicago’s “Race-Neutral” Traffic Cameras Ticket Black and Latino Drivers Most
The Spartans were hardly what I'd call lovable, but it's a bit much to imagine that they were the first to have a racist state.
509 Bandwidth Limit Exceeded, archive here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20211221041947/https://morganya....
Of course, it's in Australia.
And if you can spare an extra ~150ms startup time:

https://blog.filippo.io/shrink-your-go-binaries-with-this-on...
For anyone interested in Ruby and Rust, check out Artichoke.

https://github.com/artichoke/artichoke

It’s ruby, implemented in rust. Early days, but very interesting.

(I have no affiliation or involvement with it, just a fan)
Not a pro but AFAIK the threshold for anyone saying "yup we found life" would be very high and probably that the instruments currently deployed on Mars wouldn't possibly suffice to convince someone at NASA to make that call. That is, because (every?) experiments out there can be explained by a multitude of phenomenons that could be non-life based.

I wouldn't be surprised if life turns out to be abundant over there and we've just been very hard-nosed on the evidence we'll accept.

At least that's my understanding, when looking at summaries like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwXSEP3_Rwk.
BTC value dropped against all fiat currencies after mining rigs shutting down in Kazakistan and a little bit after the Kosovo news, so yeah BTC value dropped.

In a longer span: BTC is down 33% against EUR in the last 3 months.

> 1 BTC is worth 1 BTC.

That’s tautological, so devoid of any information.
amazon.com claims to have it, although only as a paperback, not as the nicer collection of loose pages.
This is my favorite way to think about it as well. I think I learned it first in one of Steven Boyds astounding convex optimization lectures https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McLq1hEq3UY
The only Zoroastrian I know of was Freddy Mercury.
> greeks and romans seem to have been technologically capable of creating an industrial civilisation

This is highly speculative, and almost certainly false. The requisite developments in chemistry and metallurgy were nowhere close to realized during classical antiquity.

> quite some low wage work wouldn't actually cost 10x a single person's wage to automate

What about the rest of it?
We drop a statically compiled BusyBox binary on images like that as "sh". If we need more we can symlink to it in /tmp at debug time (or just call it directly). It strikes a good balance between slim and debuggable.
Tonga tsunami: Communications 'may be down for two weeks'
According to IEA, new offshore wind installations have a capacity factor of 40-50%. Not too shabby.

https://www.iea.org/reports/offshore-wind-outlook-2019
The thing I hate most about Amazon Prime is that I added shows to my watchlist that were free at the time, then when I went to watch them later, they cost. IMO, Amazon makes things free until they see if they're successful, then switch them to paid. This pissed me off so bad that I no longer spend any effort looking for shows to watch. If I don't find something in 10 minutes, I turn off the TV. Which is most of the time.

I split my Amazon Prime with my neighbor so she can get free shipping. She doesn't care about the TV part, and to me, it's not worth much either.
One interesting aspect of the OLPC project is what it didn't attempt to do: to apply the theory of its design to first world countries that also have broad public education problems (I'm thinking specifically of the U.S.) I chalk it up to the idea that the revolution in education that the constructionists of the 60s and 70s thought would happen simultaneously along with the adoption of computing never came to pass. I can't stress enough how this vision of computing was supposed to go hand in hand with a more general transformation of education, rather than computing being its cause. I'm not sure, then, how that fit at all with the idea of pushing the technology (and none of the social or pedagogical changes) onto the third world.
It’s fair enough to focus on one’s own home country—and I happen to think that the best the US can do is to set a good example in the hope that liberal democracy becomes more attractive to Chinese decision-makers.

But nonsense like this, if the report is accurate—

> Palihapitiya during the podcast also questioned whether the Chinese Communist Party could be considered a dictatorship, and said he wouldn't be an "armchair journalist" on the topic of the Uyghurs.

is really quite unhelpful. It’s one thing for Palihapitiya to not care or to say he doesn’t know much about the situation; it’s another to then question whether the CPC régime is really a dictatorship—especially given the second remark and the low priority he gives to China generally.
Or ad hominem attacks.
> a great app to control it all and integrate with other services.

It even has Alexa support that's as easy as checking a box! Love WLED and how easy it is to use even for a non-hardware guy like me.
> * They more often played video games than programmed them.*

That’s fine! If you don’t appreciate the use of computers, what exactly could you program for? Something esoteric and arbitrary? What good is that?
Literally moments before reading this I was debating about using tap water instead of running to the store for bottled water to take my pills in my hotel on the island that this article is about. I’m here on vacation. I drank the tap water with hesitation and was pleased to find that it didn’t taste weird at all. After probably about a liter of it I am feeling fine. I am available to do more experiments if anyone wants.
The article seems to suggest there are a few thousand Zoroastrians currently in the area:

According to Awat Taieb, co-founder of the Yasna association that since 2014 has promoted Zoroastrianism in Kurdistan and also representative of the faith at the Kurdistan government, about 15,000 people registered with the organisation so far.
I was going to say, this is about the least intuitive I've seen matrix multiplication. Not only is the flip confusing, but they fill more than one result cell simultaneously.

Slick animations, but it needs to be slower and simpler.
It teaches the wrong mental model for the HTML syntax. If you’re using the XML syntax, by all means use self-closing tags, but very few things do that, and almost all of them are over a decade old. (I set up gitweb last week, and it uses XML syntax HTML, and needs it because it nests links, which is invalid but works in XML syntax, and impossible in HTML syntax. It also does other wrong things like omitting the <tbody> in tables, which is inserted automatically in HTML syntax.)

What I observe is that it’s quite common for people to put in the trailing slash on void elements, but that it’s almost never (<1%) applied consistently (you’ll see some <link/> and some <link>) so that any XML syntax compatibility argument is void, and I’ve come across at least one person who thought it was necessary and at least one person who thought it closed tags (and thus could be applied to non-void elements) and was surprised that it didn’t.

XHTML is dead. XML syntax for HTML is on indefinite life support (with no prospect of being either revived or removed). HTML is not XML: the HTML and XML syntaxes are mutually incompatible (e.g. <noscript> isn’t possible in XML syntax, and <script>"&amp;"</script> produces a different result). Writing your HTML in more XMLy ways isn’t about higher standards, but about making it something that it’s not. It’s wrong to use XML processing infrastructure on HTML documents unless they’re marked as XML syntax, because even if it doesn’t fail, it may interpret things incorrectly.
Went in looking for the Jonathan Swift reference. Wasn't disappointed.
I miss having some sort of limits on what I can consume. There were only so many things on TV at a certain time. You had to pick from what was available from Blockbuster to rent. You probably only had one or two newspapers to skim through.
I dont think we would expect physical traces, but rather chemical traces.
I was peripherally involved with this project when it was new, and my biggest takeaways would be that:

The project placed excessive emphasis on nonessential high-effort software initiatives, like developing their own BIOS replacement, desktop interface, UI framework, and nonstandard file manager. Developing and supporting this software consumed a lot of time at the Foundation. Additionally, the project placed a lot of emphasis on unusual, experimental hardware features which they were unable to fully utilize, such as the infamous hand crank (never fully shipped), an unusual hybrid capacitive/resistive touchpad (resistive features were never used), the Pixel Qi display (monochrome mode was poorly utilized by software), mesh networking (software was never fully implemented), hardware buttons for software features that were never implemented (particularly "view source")... the end result was that a lot of time and effort went into designing/redesigning unique features which didn't provide a lot of value to end users.

However, the project placed very little emphasis on the development of boring-but-practical end-user software for the device, like educational games and tools, media viewing tools (like book readers and audio/movie players), or course management software. While they did thankfully ship an office productivity suite, it was literally just OpenOffice; it looked completely different from the rest of the OS, and was poorly integrated. The same was true of the web browser, which was a thin shell around Firefox. Given that these were probably the two most useful apps on the system, the system felt pretty disjointed overall.

Overall, my impression was of a project whose participants treated it as a vehicle for promoting their personal "pet" projects, rather than as a means to a specific educational/humanitarian goal. This severely compromised the effectiveness of the project.
I honestly don't see how their catalog is thriving. A lot of popular TV series and movies have moved to their own streaming services and I can only speak for myself, but I find the vast majority of Netflix Originals to be big budget, but at the same time low quality content. They produce some real gems, but I find that those are usually few and far between.

Combined with how frustrating their library is to explore, at least on desktop, I'm really having trouble justifying a Netflix subscription.

Endless horizontal scrolling which repeatedly presents the same movies/TV shows on sequential pages, extremely limited information before you click on a show and various other quirks in their UI add up to an extremely frustrating experience, to the point when I'm strongly considering going back to piracy.
The article talks about the number of possible page combinations as if it's a meaningful indicator of difficulty, but I don't think it really is unless you're actually trying to brute force the solution.

If you aren't just brute forcing it then the difficulty depends much more on the clues given to you in the book. (For a trivial example imagine if the pages were numbered - technically still roughly 10^157 possibilities, but it would be very easy to solve).
Instead of a container, just statically build the golang program with sqlite. Single binary deployment.
> The problem is a lot of the parts that tend to fail like a screen replacement or water damage to the main board cost as much in parts as the phone is worth.

The problem is a lot of the parts that tend to fail like a $part cost as much in parts as the $device is worth.

A general problem leading to too much stuff into garbage.

Anyone coming up with a beneficial solution to this general problem might just win themselves a Nobel Prize.
Xiaomi Gateway 3 for Home Assistant
Me too.. The old expose was way better. I also loved the virtual desktops in a grid.

When they moved them into a row and changed the way multi-screen worked it completely lost its usefulness for me. Before that I always used a 3x3 grid. It was one of the many ways macOS evolved against the grain for me.

Other major regressions: LaunchPad (cool for iPad users I guess but completely ridiculous on a 24" screen - Even Microsoft moved back from this). The incessant power saving tricks imposed that are all but impossible to switch off (I use mainly desktops so I care about performance, not battery). Notarisation, every app calling home to Apple every time it's run.. Wtf. Then there was Apple "Server" which became more of a joke with every release (the Leopard version was the last real one).

But really what it told me was that I hate an OS where every year some people sit around a table and decide what I should want changed, and offer no way to choose. In other words: I hate opinionated software.

I recently moved to KDE and wow, it's so amazing to have all the things I missed back. And also a more useful expose-style function again though the relative window sizing is unfortunately something it doesn't do.
The long, tedious Fitzgerald stuff I can deal with, but his later openness about his wacky political beliefs colors all the previous work for me; like, I can start to see what he was actually trying to say with some of it, and I can't unsee it or substitute my own perceptions from the first time I read it. It's pretty much ruined for me, except to thumb through Gerhard's backgrounds.
Here's some grist for the mill

Sept 21, 1987 — "Smalltalk-80 costs from $2,995 to 3,995 on Unix workstations and from $695 to $995 on the Macintosh."

https://books.google.com/books?id=ldk7z4Q-WWYC&pg=RA4-PA4&lp...
Revenue per employee, usually. (There are many measures of labor productivity, though.)

Really, you'd just want to tax corporations over a certain size that are both highly automated (i.e. high revenue per employee), and have lopsided compensation structures (which could be measured by CEO to median worker pay). If a company successfully automates a bunch of jobs, and then makes that money rain equally on all their remaining employees, I'd have no problem with it. I only think they should be taxed if they try to distribute those gains exclusively to the executives and shareholders.
Netty core is about as close to the metal as networking gets on the JVM.
It's abstractions are built over a zero-copy capable byte buffer, and there is generally a lot of care taken to avoid copying where possible.
I haven't used the websocket codec, but I'm sure the maintainers would welcome a patch that removes unnecessary copying.
I just took a look, and I really can't see any difference between the window shadows on my Mavericks machine and my Snow Leopard VM. The Mavericks shadows may be ever-so-slightly stronger.

You may be thinking of Yosemite, which definitely toned down the shadows a bit as part of flattening everything.
Yes, there's no first sale doctrine on digital downloads.
It’s useful for virologists and policy makers to understand the transmission rate of COVID and its accompanying variants since it’s a novel virus.

If unreported cases are 10-50x reported cases, then the hospitalization and death rates become minuscule. And then it means we might actually be closer to natural herd immunity.

Point taken about balancing this with a right to privacy though and I think that’s why no one is seriously pushing for reporting at that level and why it is optional to report your at home test results. The use case of contact tracing is long gone.

But, there are many valid, non-authoritarian reasons for wanting data as granular as possible with a new virus.
Just as well that it's paywalled.

Meanwhile, the Salt Lake Tribune ran an editorial (their own, meaning written or at least approved by the editors) calling on the governor to use the National Guard to imprison the unvaccinated in their homes.

Is everyone insane? What kind of people actually think that these are good ideas?

[Edit: khedoros1 seems to indicate that it was a riff on Swift's "A Modest Proposal". If so, that's fairly bold of a San Francisco paper to mock equity proposals in that way.

But the Salt Lake proposal wasn't a Swift reference. It's deeply concerning that grownups, in positions of responsibility, think that such a proposal is remotely legal, or remotely wise.]
If you have Java 11+ I presume you can't get any simpler than a standard library module:

https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/17/docs/api/jdk.https...
I actually almost haven't commented about the professor: I empathize with his frustration. I commented here not because of him, but because of the misrepresentation and misinterpretation of the Gospel.

I am a protestant. Despite that, I actually wanted to defend catholicism in the sentence you reference. Because many hollow critiques of christianity draw this caricature of gloom and hopelesness which is totally contrary to it, even to catholicism imho

I find it bizarre to focus on endless discussion of hygiene and misunderstood Biblical quotes which replace the actual focus on deep problems in the fallen human nature with filler. This happens all the time: the flesh is very happy to discuss every non-important detail leaping over the actual narrative and meaning.

The problem of humans is sin and separation from God: only Christ can fill the yearning for truth, meaning and actual love, not the emotional comfort zone filler that we often call love these days and only He can save us from being slaves to sin and our passions.
This is pretty common in New Zealand/Australia too. Although more so in the older generation I think.
Heh, sorry, but that is such a delightful typo in your comment: "Zoroaustrians". Austrian fans of Zoro, perhaps? :)
And what was the excuse for not including a solar panel on the back of the display to let the computer recharge in the sun?
No problem in computer science is really optimised, until you can solve it with matrix multiplication ;)