skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Algorithms aren't patentable. What's patented here is a specific circuit that implements this algorithm in order to calculate the average in a single instruction cycle.
You realize the Chinese government makes this exact same argument about the recent Hong Kong riots, right?
Health sites let ads track visitors without telling them
> runtime for TypeScript written in Go

This makes it sound like the TypeScript runtime (interpreter or JIT) is written in Go, but the project uses the quickjs JavaScript runtime, which is written in C:

https://github.com/bellard/quickjs
Pix (Electronic Payment System)
They already do, just in another currency.

Can we please finally stop pretending these products are „free“?
I mean, at least in a community such as HN.
Task and Purpose wrote an entire article on it:

https://taskandpurpose.com/culture/army-fleece-jacket-unifor...
It can't fix its legacy design for backward compatibility reasons in browsers
Contractor, I've mainly been doing Ag-Tech for web apps. If by some weird coincidence someone is doing something in agricultural traceability I've done a lot of that.

Location: NZ but can make US hours work

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: US only

Technologies: The Browser (IndexedDB, Service Workers,
ECMAScript, CSS). Also your typical React/Node/.NET stuff.

Resume/CV: lewiscampbell.tech

Email: info@lewiscampbell.tech
If you have a smart phone it’s too late.
Oolimo is another visualizer / chord playground tool that I like.
https://www.oolimo.com/index.php
What are some concrete examples of these systems that are specifically "designed to get poor people to work?" At first, I thought you were confusing the relationship between a transit system's design and implementation with its budget, but it sounds like I'm wrong.
Wow. So glad for you! These rare disease stories with a positive ending give us all the hope. Best of luck!
That's not a fair comparison.

Lotteries and casinos are recognized as a form of entertainment - gambling - people may not behave rationally and they may end up ruining their lives, but there is a certain folk wisdom that gambling just loses money and you shouldn't do it (except for fun).

Investing has different norms and expectations. Few people think that financial analysis is "fun" in the same way that going to a casino or buying lottery tickets is fun - so the "entertainment" value isn't there in the same way. But many financially unqualified people will be bamboozled by con-artists who take advantage of the apparent "respectability" of investing.
Thanks so much for the explanation! TIL
Fascinating story of how the “fog of war” can obscure the facts,
whether intended or not. Capa presumably had Life magazine as
a client or employer, they sent him to get photos of the landing,
on a tight deadline. Capa went, got photos, came back with his
film, and some of the shots he got were delivered and printed, on deadline.

I see his actions and decisions as professional photo-journalism,
and see the entire fabulous confection of misinformation, decoration,
confusion, blame, and apparently outright lies as a classic coverup
of misinformation - once the fable is public, all involved either have
to go along, or to contradict it: “When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.”

Does Capa share blame? Of course. But so do a dozen or more others
who embellished, invented, and went along with the story. Should he have stayed on the beach, or with the command group and gotten more shots? Not if he
wanted to get the shots he went for published on deadline.
Well, Konqueror is still there. Dolphin just got so capable that people don't want to switch anymore, and it was left behind as a browser.
Something I'm observing are these eye-like structures popping up from about every AI generated image. I call it reverse AI pareidolia.
The point here is that jobs are elastic and can be automated or shuffled around, we just choose not to do so because we don't value the time of the worker enough. When you get a package delivered for $2 instead of $3 you're implicitly putting a lower value on the time of someone else.

We will always need someone to deliver packages. However, maybe we do not need someone to deliver a package of rice from Amazon for an unlivably low wage to a recipient who could have just gone to the supermarket.

The same thing applies to the agricultural industry, which abuses immigrant labourers doing backbreaking work for low pay to provide you cheaper luxury goods. Maybe if strawberries reflected a livable wage you'd choose to eat more easily harvestable crops, like apples.
In photography terminology a "stop" is a factor of 2 in brightness.

For example if you reduce your aperture to 1/2 the area that's reducing by 1 stop.

If you dial your ISO (sensitivity) down from 200 to 100 that's 1 stop.

If you reduce your shutter speed by a factor of 2 that's 1 stop.

If you make your flash twice as bright that's 1 stop.

They're called stops because these controls on a manual camera actually have click-stops. You turn the aperture 3 clicks in one direction and your shutter 3 clicks in the other direction and your image brightness stays the same. Or you turn your ISO 2 clicks in one direction and your flash 2 clicks in the other direction and your image brightness stays the same.

Nowadays most modern equipment has click stops at 1/2 stop or 1/3 stop increments depending on the brand.

25 stops of range means the ability to resolve a dynamic range of 1 : 2^25.

It's not really bits per se, because the error in measurement also grows with the value, i.e. it can likely resolve the difference between a value of 1 and 2 but it cannot resolve the difference between 2^24+1 and 2^24+2.
>as long as they’re given somewhere safe to live, aren’t too hungry, and you handle them with kindness and care.

What I wouldn't give so that the preconditions for human being sweet are this weak !
This technology has been developing very fast; pictures look a lot more realistic than they used to, and you can guide the process with real images along the way. (Zoetrope is a good notebook for this.)

The main issue is that it's hard to generate good looking faces without a specialized model (because we're so picky about humans), and the companies generating models like DALL-E don't want to teach them how to generate faces in case of bias.
The ice bucket challenge was a good example of a marketing action that collected money.
> Eg: Google Cloud console downloads like 20MB of resources.

That must be a fairly large application. Consider they are pushing it internally, I have no idea how optimized that is.

When you consider this is cached, that means you only have to do that once until an update. Similar to any other software.

Look at what Electron apps do in terms of constant updates. This is similar, but it's a web page.
I must be one of the very few "hackerish" minded people that does not really get the appeal of tiling window managers. Even in the early days of Linux I meticulously arranged my overlapping windows in my X11R5 window manager.

For example, there are some terminal windows or similar with running logs (or chats) at some of the edges, partially obscured by other windows who make better use of the space they cover. But those partially covered windows are still showing me what's currently going on at all times (i.e. the last few lines), and I can get their full content at a mouse click/keyboard shortcut press.

Then there are partially obscured browser windows. Again the most relevant part of their content remains visible (e.g. for blogs that's usually roughly their "left half", for documentation with a content bar on the left their "right half"), and scrolling them does not require giving them focus.

Then there are tiny windows like minimized views of media players that usually neatly fit into some of the open space resulting from my arrangement. And series of windows all similar to each other that are carefully arranged such that a single click reveals any of them, nearly obscuring the rest of the same series, but never hiding any of them completely.

It may look "unkempt" at a first glance, but is actually very deliberate. I feel like a tiling environment with its constantly changing layout would be actual chaos... and somehow generally a step backwards. There are some dedicated situations where I tile two windows next to each other, but that's just that: A dedicated situation, often happening on another space/desktop.
I still don't follow. A year seems like plenty of time to build a c compiler. Maybe it won't generate the best code, but no compiler did, back in the day.
Yeah, all of that makes sense. I don't at all disagree with the concept of military discipline.

But then we come to the question of why this one thing is different. Because that's how you're going to solve it right?

And the article just doesn't seem to expound on it. It's observed, and that's just it, there's paragraphs of waffle. There's not even like, an anonymous quote from the guy asking one of the other recruits/OC's/whatever (I'm slightly more au fait with UK military terms as you might be able to tell) why they're not doing it.

There's an implicit extrapolation that slippage on this particular point implies slippage across the board. But that isn't explored either - it's kind of just stated as if it's a physical consequence which doesn't seem clear at all to me.

As an absurd example - if you suddenly turned up, in theatre, with the soldiers' wives, and asked them to shoot them, I'd imagine a lot of them would refuse. But that wouldn't in any way imply that you now have some increased subordination risk in the future. It would imply that your order was absurd. Obviously, in this wholly artificial and constructed case, we know that because we've constructed it to be so, but you get my point.

In the article there appears to be zero thought given to the concept that if a huge group of people, people who, as you well describe, have been drilled and moulded into accepting almost any order without question, are refusing to do what you're asking them to do, that there might be some fundamental issue with what you're asking them to do.

I don't really know what the actual answer is, I mean obviously the act of putting a thing on your face is trivial when described in those terms, but something else is going on here.
Slightly related: Wikipedia doesn’t tell me why I need sparse bundles… nor does OP’s site?
Yeah, just like anyone who openly mentions they worked for Facebook should ever be trusted under any circumstances. And we all know what "cybersecurity" means after a stint with that company.

This is a dumb game to play. Absolute brain worms to think anyone against your ideas is a shill.
Oh, the military is definitely the wrong choice for me. Increasingly, it's the wrong choice for anyone.

Subordination is a means to an end, that is to say, a meaningful goal, not an end in of itself.

What is that goal and what do the masks do to achieve it?

Anyways, I must not be the only one noticing the inanity of our military leadership coming out of West Point:

"US military struggled to attract National Guard and reserve troops in 2021 fiscal year"
https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/14/politics/military-recruitment...
I don't understand why you'd want to deliberately diffuse the output of your screen? Like if you wanted it blurry you could have done that in software.
There's always going to be tradeoffs when you're dealing with online anonymity.

On the far anonymous end you've got 4Chan style anonymity, no permanent or any ID at all. Keeping track of individual people is nearly impossible. Conversations are chaotic and hard to follow. Pretty solid privacy.

I guess the next step up would be per conversation/thread/group whatever ID, you trade a small amount of privacy for improved conversation, privacy is still pretty good, a poor choice in username or username reuse could prove to be privacy risks.

I guess next up from that would be something like forum style usernames, like hn or reddit where it's persistent across the entire platform, but still doesn't have to be linked to anything permanent or 'real'. It increases the privacy risk again because now, your conversation history can be tracked across time. This does make it easier for more permanent connections to be made between users but does make it easier for sensitive details to be leaked depending on the user's behaviour.

Up from there you start getting into IDs that are linked to real world information about a user. This provides some pretty obvious privacy risks.

Ids linked to phone numbers are a strange case of trying to take an ephemeral ID that in todays world can change quite regularly and use it as a source of info for an ID based on real world information.
> Alternatively, if I have a username "not_godelski" then how do I get in contact with someone on HN while maintaining anonymity?

You can't, and I don't think that's a surprising outcome. If you have a non-anonymous identity on one platform, and link it to your anonymous identity on another, then that latter identity is no longer anonymous.

You just can't really mix your anonymous and non-anonymous worlds without de-anonymizing the latter. That's kinda a fundamental property of how anonymity works, isn't it?
White plastic tends to turn yellow from sunlight too.
XTDB
Honestly if anything, web frameworks are way ahead of the rest of the world

Made me chuckle. Web frameworks are thin-to-medium layers of dealing with bs that web graphics are by nature and design. Their entire purpose orbits around that. Runtimes that do not suffer from these birth traumas don’t even need all that complexity. E.g. with apple core ui libraries you can in hours design a new flex/grid/stack/align/etc geometry container (which takes decades in the web), can animate things, make them cheap-scrollable, sizeable, constrainable out of box. Do you really think that web reflows and size dispatch up and down a hierarchy is a complex issue which only a “top-notch” web tech can solve?

Of course web traditionally was more game-like and does not have any guidelines and presentation standards beyond “reset”, allowing to focus on design better than the rest of the world (and due to widespread nature monopolized by a single platform), but calling frameworks which basically deal with its own shortcomings and ancient issues ahead of the world is pretty misleading.

What exactly is ahead of the world in there? My bet is on reactivity, components, caching and lazy redraws, which “weren’t a thing” before web, because, you know, jquery and comctl32.dll were bad.

making a basic website nowadays on modern tools is very straightforward … and launch a live-server with a browser inspector to fine-tune the design

Ah yes, something we had at VB/Delphi 3 times but not quite as RAD. I mean, maybe launch a live server, drop a query and see live data in design-mode, or enumerate columns and make some of them editable out of box? Or fill a form with master-detail link? You can’t. Web praises primitive/workaround things which nobody even had a name for before, so trivial and obvious and default it was.
Find your hyper-growth startup
I miss the browser. I miss when we cared about KHTML passing the ACID2 tests.

I'm quite old now I guess :)
You don’t know in advance how many lives will be saved by research. You may not know what you are researching at first; diphenhydramine is a moderately effective sedative, but turned out to be a strong antihistamine.
It's not about your personal opinion, it's about the endless stream of opinion pieces from journalists, politicians, and military contractors saying that the US needs to "intervene" in country X. Nobody ever asks what the people in country X want, or looks into the history of how country X got to be the way it is, or acknowledges the fact that "intervention" is a euphemism for bombing. The USA is not a force for good in the world, it a world-historically vast military empire and it only cares about the people on the fringes if they have some resource that can be exploited.
If you subscribe to the pre-modern idea that there is a limited overall amount of wealth, right.

But if you fast forward to the modern age, you’ll find that almost all work creates new wealth.
Hear hear, nothing about Window's shutdown makes any sense. Other than "sleep" doing the exact opposite, I have a few more:

Sometimes an update is pending and the shutdown menu gives a choice "update and shutdown" or just "shutdown". So I pick "shutdown". It then updates anyway, including full restarts.

Sometimes there's no special options in the shutdown and upon shutting down, an update is forced. Even ones I did not postpone for too long.

Further, the "restart" option is really too close to "shutdown", especially on a very large screen. And there's no canceling once it starts.
Sounds like America doesn't protect free speech if it threatens powerful interests.
While all that you say is true, it's also true that superiors who insist on issuing orders that are counterproductive are reducing the mission effectiveness of their units. One of the most important jobs of commanders is to balance various risks in order to maximize mission effectiveness. Unfortunately, I do not get any sense from this article that that is being done; I only see a focus on one particular order without any discussion of how it fits into the big picture of overall mission effectiveness.
Well, yes, they do reportedly use several tools but from what I understand the flagging is done by members of the community... and certain number of flags "shadow-bans" your comment.

Silicon valley has certain political leanings which is reflected by the majority members here, as expected.
If you're serious about pursuing Google then investigate the grounds for claiming "Tortious Interference".
>"We're trying to bundle everything that's needed to host apps and websites at home."

This should be written somewhere on your website. A good simple use-case description like this cuts through some of the jargon to quickly explain what is is you're actually helping a user to do apart from describing features and technical ways you enable them to do actually do that thing.

edit: so this is on the site, but I had to scroll down further. I'd highly suggest moving the "What would you say you do here" at least to the top of the black box it is in, if not the top of the page.

It is much more informative, while the other paragraphs are more confusing to read first, I left the page without scrolling down further.
Do bitwise shifts instead of dividing by 2. (BRB going to the patent office.)
I love tools like these, and love writing code to help myself learn guitar as well.

I made an iOS app for memorizing notes. You play the note on your guitar and it recognizes if it’s correct. Helps build muscle memory instead of just memorization. https://fretpro.app if anyone wants to check it out :)
It’s hilarious you say this as React is arguably introducing the biggest paradigm shift since hooks (which was also a huge change) with Suspense.

It’s fine to say React is a decade old but the way we write apps with React has drastically changed multiple times with the only real constant being JSX.

And let me be a bit proactive, yes, I know react is backwards compatible for the most part, but similar to PHP, just because the syntax is still supported doesn’t mean that’s the recommended way to write apps today.

React arguably started the churn of JS fatigue we all complain about now.
I wouldn't expect that. A goal of allowing usernames will likely be to let people remain completely anonymous. Linking your Signal account to an email address doesn't work for that. Even if you create a throwaway email account somewhere, it'll often be traceable back to you somehow.
They will not because they just made that up.
The Politics Of Starship Troopers (2018) [video]
> I don't understand how you think those two actions could be theoretically separated.

Suppose Signal generates a one-click (or even temporary) link. I can share that link that'll connect. That can accomplish the same thing as a signal.me address. Onetime links are definitely a thing. I'm sure people that know more can share even more creative ways to accomplish this. Someone has to have some fancy ZKP method for initiating contact.

> Perhaps what you want is a single buffer account

I think I covered this in my "infinite accounts" above.

> [1]

Seems to be more easily solved by letting me specify a handle at the per-chat level.

> Nothing stops you from creating the username NYT_Whistleblower, but that won't be what the NYT advertises to potential whistleblowers.

Seems you're passing the buck. Making it a "not my problem" issue and I think this is a big enough problem that it would make platforms like NYT wary of using such a system.
I work at Amazon. Less than 2 yoe but is comp is solid, even compared to Goog and Meta, perhaps cause I'm currently top of band.

Wlb is amazing. Did 5-6 hour days on last team. Coworkers were chill. Now I work more (6-7 hour days) cause I'm on a systems team, but I get to learn a lot about how EC2 servers are run. My manager cares about my learning and I get basically an hour a week with the tech lead where I can ask them questions.

Have been able to meet a couple principal engineers and they've even reviewed some of my work.

I have nothing bad to shared about my experience so far.

Did I mention I don't have deadlines?
My cofounder and I are working on a synthetic biology startup concept targeting rare diseases. We're both genetic and microbiology generalists with a desire to dedicate ourselves to improving the human condition.

I find it serendipitous that we just had a two hour call today discussing our desire to work on creating a treatment for one or more rare diseases.

The one area we lack expertise in is the regulatory and commercialization pipeline. If someone reads this and is interested in speaking with us about how we can work on this (or other) rare disease and could offer the mentorship we need to ensure our work can actually reach the hands that need it, please email me: josh@everymanbio.com

We'd consider a non-profit model if it makes sense.
Go back two centuries… people said exactly the same about Impressionists. Then afterwards about Modernists. So on, and so forward.

Many artists went nowhere back then, others used their experiments to create masterpieces. It is always relative and it baffles me how some people only think about the masterpieces and big names, without looking the whole timeline.

Besides, generative and AI art are so damn cool :) It is something closer to us developers, but still far (not everyone knows how to implement it).
There's a difference between a task that seen to have a purpose and a task that really doesn't. You could have soldiers dig holes and refill them day after day, just to test their subordination, but the absurdity of the task would eventually wear on even the most ardent follower of authority. Humans are not machines.
The article is in error. It isn't patented.
Gen Z Kids Don't Understand How File Systems Work