skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If there's any program you'd like to see the source to, it's NESticle. I get it that we live in an era now where you can't even trust Norton AV with spare cycles, but in it's heyday we're talking about an emulator for running (I don't think it's a stretch to say) mostly pirated binaries. Which also happened to have dripping bloody menus and a severed hand for a cursor. It didn't exactly look harmless! Would have been nice to see under the hood.
Maybe it should come with a sticker "No user servicable parts inside". If you don't know what you're doing, don't take the cover off and start poking with metal objects. /s

There's no better way to learn than to face something you don't know. 99/100 things you don't know or can't figure out, someone on the internet as been there done that. Come across enough of these things, and you start to think like ffmpeg!
Or they just cease to be done, and the business that rely on their labour shutter, reducing access to the goods/services that the produced. If we were to increase the minimum wage 10x, what do you think would change about the economy? Do you think goods that are heavily labour-reliant would still cost what they do today? Any change like this will have an impact, it's just a matter of degree.
A similar reason to using the Game Boy Camera today.
It's no more ill defined than volume itself (and less so since it doesn't need an arbitrary scale).
> suggesting Bayesian methods could tell us whether there is life on Mars.

What I suggest is that Bayesian methods provide a framework to reason about the plausability of some statement about the world in a systematic way (unlike Frequentist methods, whatever the limitations in Bayesian methods).

> Sometimes you really need to gather more information and/or develop an analytic model.

Bayesian methods are definitely not a way to escape the need for an analytic model (including all the prior knowledge) and data gathering. What they provide is a mechanism to integrate the data using the model and calculate the impact of incremental information on our knowledge / uncertainty.

I’m not saying that it’s easy to have a good model and useful data for complex questions. But with Frequentist methods in addition to the model and the data you’d be missing the mechanism to use them in a meaningful way.

I wonder why do you say that Bayesians try to avoid randomized controlled trials for new drugs, by the way. Bayesian methods are increasingly used in randomized clinical trials.
Love it. Totally ace.
> And yes, I’ve gone into the settings to turn that feature off, and it doesn’t entirely work. It does reduce the auto-play somewhat, but not entirely.

Not sure what you mean by not entirely? I've got both 'autoplay next episode' and 'autoplay previews' turned off and don't think I see it anywhere anymore, which dramatically improved the experience.
A California City Is Overrun by Crows. Could a Laser Be the Answer?
It’s about perceived possibilities and decision making really.

Will someone be able or willing to make decisions which can result in x percent of a larger company, or will they require a larger percent of a company - and hamstring it, or stop it from growing.
https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-does-julia-have-around...
Past related posts:

Beastly Clues: T. S. Eliot, Torquemada, and the Modernist Crossword - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29911071 - Jan 2022 (3 comments)

Literary puzzle solved for just third time in almost 100 years - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/nov/10/literary-puzzl... (via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25045947 - Nov 2020, but no comments there)

Edit: maybe we'll switch to that latter article from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cain%27s_Jawbone. Wikipedia pages are fine when the topic is unpredictable (like this one!) and there isn't a good third-party article available (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...).
DnD does not make you social outcast and hadn't for years already. It is just not know or popular.
Because a tiny sensor could only do so much due to those pesky laws of physics, the latest trend in mobile camera tech is so-called "computational photography", where they use a shitload of algorithms and AI to enhance your pictures. And I think they do segment them somewhat to apply these "enhancements" selectively?

Anyway, no idea about iOS, but many Android phones are capable of capturing raw pictures that you could then process however you wish in Lightroom or whatever else you prefer.
I'm not an economist, but I do listen to a bunch of them. My understanding is that printing money doesn't necessarily create inflation, and the real story is far more complicated than that. That it also depends on things like: the overall economy, how that money is being spent, demand pull, cost push, public fear of inflation (which causes ->), how much money is circulating vs how much is being pooled (investments/into banks/under the mattress), and more.

ometimes first order approximations (or "basic principles") lead you in the wrong direction. My understanding is that economics is full of pitfalls like this.
Fun bit of trivia.. Ruby only (officially) dropped Atari ST support in 2016: https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/c5eb24349a4535948514fe765c... .. I've never heard of anyone actually using Ruby on an Atari ST though(!)
Just an "incremental" update where they added touch screen apps (from the iPhone and iPad) to the desktop and laptop experience. Oh, they also changed the system tray to mimic the touch functionality of iPads 1:1 as well, despite being a (far more precise) mouse pointer controlled system. Incremental they say. I was way off base and taking crazy pills when I saw any relationship between these design elements and touch interfaces.
If the ceilings are white and not too high, aim the flash to bounce off of the ceiling; that looks way better.
I thought the same. The typography, colors, layout, and restraint are gorgeous.
I think it's not just that you need somebody really gullible - it's that you need somebody both gullible, and dead-set on not feeling like they've been fooled. Extremely gullible, desperate, mentally ill people are more likely to stick, even when they get hints or straight assessments that it's a scam.

At least, that was the impression I got from an old lady who lived near me, who managed to shout down a stream of people telling her that her 'secret agent boyfriend from plymouth' she was sending all her money to wasn't real.

I think there's a bit of a parallel to cults like scientology - the more incrementally ridiculous you make the story, the higher the feeling of shame is when you have to own up to being fooled, making some people go in deeper rather than back out.
As a child of aid workers (hippie parents) I lived as a kid and teen in southern Africa. I was critical of the OLPC project mainly because it was a closed eco system, but told to shut up.

Poor communities are used to repairing everything that can be repaired and it seemed to me, that giving access to standard pc platforms would be a much better starting point.
It is interesting the discussion of Rust and Zig, which is the opposite spectrum of programming. It make sense if Ruby Cores are interested to develop / move to a new Ruby VM towards Rust. Not surprising considering Love2Code ( along with many other Ruby VM dev ) have complained over the years for CRuby's complexity. The Ruby Spec is a fairly recent thing done mostly by JRuby and TruffleRuby folks ( Correct me if am wrong ). If not, Zig on the other hand just works a lot better with old C code. One could argue Rust is Progressive and Zig is conservative.

Unfortunately it is still way too early for Zig.

I also wonder what is happening to TruffleRuby inside Shopify. And where is TenderJIT :)
Oooh that's so nice! Thanks!
I was trying to select stuff using span[data-item*="foobar"]
Or something of the sort...but it wasn't working, so I just ended up writing a is() selector ^^
You can refactor it to net 0. Take n tax brackets. For each tax bracket estimate how much x% income is raised by UBI, then raise the taxes in that bracket to that same x%.

In the $0 income bracket this would be tax_rate:=100% , in the >$100K bracket it might be tax_rate:=1%.

So now your UBI is paid for but it's not doing anything useful.

However, you can now tune your tax brackets "as per usual" to get a more desirable outcome; lowering taxes in the lowest bracket and raising them in the highest.

The new ability you get is that while previously your progressive tax brackets only allowed you to control the upper limit of the income band , you now also have the ability to control the lower limit of the income band.
Meanwhile, every time I use an external library (including pandas) I still think numpy does everything you need, and does it well, and people just haven't bothered to learn it properly and keep reinventing the wheel.

(no disrespect to to the package in the article or OP who I know is active in this thread. just a general motif that I keep coming across in python).
Basically anything? When was the last time something like email happened? And it wasn't a giant tech company that created that either.

Maybe something like Webrtc?
> In any decently regulated activity, executives would risk jail for that.

In the US, executives never go to jail. They negotiate "settlements" where the company doesn't even have to admit wrongdoing and the companies are fined slightly more than they made from the wrong doing.

I would love to to see the executives face jail time, both neither major party political party has any interest in changing things.
I just want this environmental disaster to end.

If they'd just outlaw proof-of-work cryptocurrencies, I'd shut up and you can continue gambling your proof-of-stake digital chuck-e-cheese tokens to your heart's content.

But you're wasting more power than Argentina to do it. So yes, I hate this garbage and want it to fail.
In related news, I've also been following this PR to add Rust support to Ruby for gem native extensions: https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/pull/5175

It seems to have hit a minor speedbump dealing with support for Windows.
But not everyone has the same amount of savings, or the same cost of rent, so there's a trickle as each individual runs out. And didn't unemployment bonuses only end 4 months ago?
This sort of point would be much stronger if it was not too apparent you don't know what is in romance books nor surrounding culture nor types of conflicts going on in there.
I’ve turned off both, and it has improved things, but I still find cases where it decides to fucking auto play anyway. Really fucking annoying, when I’ve supposedly turned off all the goddamn autopsy shit.
Are you a programmer.

€1100 is not a lot of money.

But now I'm thinking that's a possible retirement destination
I haven’t read this new book. But I was at the Media Lab when all of this was going on (without directly working on it). Reading the reviews of this book, all I can say is if “scholars” ran this world, nothing would be done. Inaction is far easier than action, and no one has all the answers before big leaps are taken (and this was an insanely ambitious project). I also say that as a fan of some of the reviewers.

No doubt mistakes were made, and likely some where called out back then (including critiques I did hear at the time). But it’s also a very different world in 2022, where things like cell phones and Facebook have taken over the planet… I hope the book contextualizes this.
> I wonder if getting life goals done could be as simple as carving out large blocks of time where you aren't allowed to work on them. I don't mean filling the time with something else like work or other obligations. But literal you-time, with a rule that you can't exert yourself in any way or you'll risk relapsing into nonprogress. This is more like transmuting one form of attentive energy (negative) into another (positive) by dwelling on the opposite thing than you're used to.

So, like the day of rest, like Sabbath?
Added to roadmap, thanks!
> You guys have way too much free time.

I guess that's his response to the liberation project :)
I like broken systems. Especially those that still manage to generate money. We all want to see clean code, written by sane people. But the reality is that it is rare. And when you meet clean code, there is a rigorous process that makes it nearly impossible to add new code/features.

I worked at such place that boasted security on the outside. From within, it was spit and duct tape. I couldn't believe it was a fortune 10. After couple of weeks working on one of the smaller projects, I created a new branch and called it rewrite.

When I had free time, I would rewrite the entire project from scratch. I really hated all the in line mysql connections in side_bar_bottom_new_v2.php. It took me a month to realize that I couldn't rewrite an application that was built over the course of 10 years, in my spare time. Only when I embraced it and took the time to understand how it was built, was I able to turn it into a secure app (messy, but still secure).

Now when I meet dysfunctional systems, I don't get mad. I challenge myself to figuring out what the heck it is doing.
It's not clear to me what you mean by "high quality". Do you just mean capturing images at the highest resolution the camera supports or do you have some other criterion for quality ? Also are the images to be taken at random times, at some specific predetermined times, or when something interesting happens to capture ?

As I currently understand the question I would say that the solution mostly depends on what interfaces the cameras provide for remote operation, so without more information on the specific cameras you want to use your question isn't really answerable.
Computers were expensive and not universally interconnected.
I feel like I know Ffmpeg better than most, and I still only know between 5-10% of all it has to offer.

It’s amazing that they manage to keep adding features.
A bit more detail would really help here– do you have wifi in the target area? Electricity? GSM service? [I know that the sim cards are horribly difficult to buy in Denmark cheaply – they are tied to CPR numbers I think beyond 30 days]

Are any of your old "digital cameras" dSLRs capable of running Magic Lantern? Is the 1000 USD (≈6500 DKK?) budget for the duration of the project, or just the set-up? Will you be able to visit it periodically once running? Are you trying to do a timelapse photo, CCV, or watch some specific event?
Europe’s First Quantum Computer with More Than 5k Qubits Launched at Jülich
yes, and.. "Apple started killing off APIs (including Carbon)"

there was some transition time when Apple published Carbon interfaces to Mac OS 9 devs (like me), stating that they were "transitional". Quite skeptical, I used them to rebuild some tools and apps in CodeWarrior. Within a short time, more updates had less Carbon, and the news came out that Codewarrior was locked out of OSX -- no deal. It was obvious that the Mac OS 9 interfaces were for chumps, and who wants to be a chump. It was true, and things changed.
Ah, you're right. I'd saved it to read later, should have kept my mouth shut until I did.
https://github.com/iaddis/SNESticle
A much better starting point would be to make laptops able to be as easily repaired as a normal PC.
A Swift Kick Sends a Black Hole Careening
I think the "biology gonna biology" is often a bit overplayed. A friend of mine was a high level manager at a certain petrochem's biotech arm and they ran into a bottleneck that was erratic. My friend kept saying "hey guys it's probably this" but they refused to listen to her and they went on a year long saga to search for the problem, including a full DOE (design of experiments) analysis. It turned out she was right. And thn the petrochemical company lost a major lawsuit about an accident they had caused and so they didn't need a green washing campaign anymore, and the department was shuttered.
This is a marketing price, if you buy in bulk it costs $15.
The pop physics around relativity is particularly bad so I am happy that helped!

Relativity does not have to be super mathy, special relativity is kind of just a postulation that maybe there's a different sort of Doppler shift in the world. In the normal Doppler shift, clocks moving towards you appear to tick fast and clocks moving away from you appear to tick slow. Relativity adds a universal effect where if you accelerate towards a clock, it will also appear to tick faster, in proportion to both your acceleration and its coordinate along that acceleration line. So it's just an anomalous Doppler shift, to first order. (And all higher-order behavior can be derived from that.)

So like in the twin paradox, it is resolved because one of the twins accelerates towards the other twin, and when that acceleration is happening the other twin gets much much older very quickly because they are far away and the twin is accelerating towards them.

Furthermore this makes it much easier to understand some aspects of general relativity quite quickly. For example you get gravitational time dilation without much effort, once you postulate that the state of nature is freefall and we are actually accelerating against that, in a constant acceleration g upwards, which is why things in the natural state of freefall appear to accelerate downwards with acceleration g, you immediately predict that relativity will tell you that you see clocks in the upper atmosphere tick faster than they do down here. Furthermore you predict that if you could see through the Earth, at some surface below you you would hypothetically see clocks stand still, leading into a quick intuition for black holes.
It’s called Florida - no one wears masks anywhere there. Death rates are middle of the pack.
NESticle, as I recall, had plain blue menus (but it did have the severed hand cursor).

It was Genecyst that had the bloody menus.

Back in the day, we didn't really worry about software like this being malicious just because of the author's gruesome sense of humor. It was all part of the fun. Back in the 90s, people were edgy like that. It's not like today where you're suspected of cryptofascism for not properly reciting the right nostrums. If it were malicious, someone would've found out, word would have spread around the scene, and the author would be branded the worst of lamers. People had reputations to uphold and good will to farm out of the community, even when running quasi-legal programs to play pirated ROMs.
It's interesting to think about OLPC as a precursor to many of the hype-driven internet phenomena that promise utopian gains. It's easy to see similarities in blockchain-mania, the evangelism machines around certain technologies and programming languages, etc...
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29939789
> Seems like those people will have to continually pay for tokens that will be worthless as the network keeps forking as other non coerced reporters do not.

What if it's a majority that is coerced (or bribed, frightened, etc) into lying? Then it's the truth that will be left behind as "reality" forks in favour of the usurper, isn't it?
What's the add-on?

So when you press the widget it runs yt-dlp on your phone, or is it sending a command to a remote PC?
In case of SectorLisp, that's good ol' BIOS I/O for interacting with the keyboard and screen. Having any other interface would require implementing it first - remember that SectorLisp is meant to run on bare hardware.
Ok, so this peaked my interest, so I did some googling. If this soup were to be genuine, references to it should exist.

In the 1968 'Report on soups' by the British Ministry of Agriculture (https://archive.org/embed/op1268165-1001), there is a reference on page 19 to this exact soup (called 'Windsor soup', 'Brown soup' or 'Eton soup'). It even lists the a basic list of ingredients. So this means this soup indeed exists.

Now some further digging. Are there old references to either 'Windsor soup', 'Brown soup' or 'Eton soup' in non-fictional media?

The 1892 'The encyclopædia of practical cookery' does not list this soup, although it is quite sparse on soups.

The 1844 'A New System of Domestic Cookery' list a large amount of soups, none even vaguely hinting at the same name.

However, the 1906 'High-class cookery recipes' (https://archive.org/embed/b21528597) lists a 'Windsor soup' which should have a 'brown colour' as the basis. I think that should qualify as a 'brown roux' basis which at the very least lends some credence to a brown 'Windsor Soup' although I cannot verify the color myself.

Anyway, that's the result of about 15 minutes of googling. At the very least, it makes me a bit sceptical of the article.
I'd like to see some data to support that claim. Fed data shows the opposite--the employment ratio is down 1.5% from its 2020 peak. That's at least a million people who've stopped working.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/EMRATIO
>I learned the former was not true

It is true, but it applies to the library (libav...). As someone who has tried to use it I can confirm that it is possible to use correctly without a lot of work and access to weirdly encoded files to test your code. They do not make it easy to write correct come.
Is such a clean separation possible? I’ve seen some crazy things…
Fascinating. I'm watching this realizing people may be discarding batteries which could replace those used in the aging, cheap mp3 player that I take on hikes. I will be looking around a bit more, thank you. :D
Yeah, I think a more workable "interface" to the complexities of FFmpeg would be some sort of terminal "shell" application that allows the user to easily tab-complete their command and visually separate out the command's various parts (i.e., input opts and output opts on separate parts of screen; each track in the container tabbed out and line-returned from the last track; etc.)

Also some users may benefit from a program that can identify what the particulars are about the input file(s) to help them make better commands. Or even ask them first what kind of result they want and work backwards from there. If the user knows they want multiple PNGs and then the input file is an MPEG-4 container with an x265 video bytestream, it's pretty clear what the user may want to do. But unless you're quite initiated, today's FFmpeg still really makes the average user work for it.
Can you elaborate a bit? Would the cameras connected to power? USB? WIFI?

If they were connected to power and USB you could have a computer inside the house that tells the camera to take a picture at a certain time and then copies that picture to some online storage. My guess is that there are timelapse apps that can do that already.

As for the outdoors part there are lots of weatherproof enclosures available.
It sounds to me that you did not read the article you are commenting on.
when I saw he goes for the kill because... obviously he goes for the kill because he is insane but in story logic he must go for the kill because otherwise how does he remain alive, the argument for his behavior underlying the story is that his insanity allows him to deploy greater forces against his antagonists in both the police and criminal milieu than they can individually muster because he is not restrained by any impulse or constrained by any rational sense of self-preservation (his ability to keep cool in the prison as he defeats his enemies is again a symptom of his insanity, because he does not worry about his own death he is able to cooly ensure his own survival in situations where another person's fear would render them less effective. Another common feature of the insanity as superpower trope.)
At least in what concerns AIX, IBM has migrated their compilers on top of LLVM, so some support is there.

No idea about HP-UX, it is impossible to find anything now, apparently HPE has buried almost everything about it. Completely unrelated to how good it used to be about 20 years ago.
The swiss army knife of audio/video. I love ffmpeg