skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fun tangential fact. HP was then one of the main manufacturers of microprocessors. At the time (early 1980s) they had either in prototyping or manufacture at least three distinct lines of microprocessors; none of which they offered to the public, only for sale as part of a product.

The Nanoprocessor, [1] [2] which was a very fast and simple 8-bit microcontroller used in a variety of test equipment. The HP Focus, [3] a full 32-bit processor design used in their HP 9000 series. And the Capricorn, [4] a small BCD-oriented processor used in their calculators. By the mid-80s the first PA-RISC designs and HP Saturn would be out, too. Those were also only used inside HP devices, never sold directly for other users.

[1] https://www.righto.com/2020/09/inside-hp-nanoprocessor-high-...

[2] https://www.cpushack.com/2020/08/09/the-forgotten-ones-hp-na...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_FOCUS

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capricorn_(microprocessor)
That license doesn't say anything about patents. This one does: https://gitlab.com/wg1/jpeg-xl/-/blob/main/PATENTS and only says that patents owned by Google are covered. So it may be that other companies patent the technology. The information in the repository is not enough to decide whether JPEG XL is safe to use.
One could read that as having an implicit ellipsis, ie. "HHHHHHHHH..." After all, you would and should say HHHHHHHHH on the way to saying HHHHHHHHHH.
"Deno is primarily being pushed by developers who cut their teeth in React-based code camps who are looking for (understandably) a wave to ride into "full stack" software development"

That sounded a bit like the "imigrants stealing our jobs" argument.

"Deno removes idiosyncrasies of server-side JavaScript, but that's when viewed from a front-end-first perspective"

Not just the frontend perspective, but also the ECMAScript perspective, in which even Node.js creators participate.
Gotcha, thanks for clarifying!
Like bsedlm, I'm not sure that I understand this. But:

People keep trying to make types in mathematics be the same thing as types in programming. I think that's wrong. It seems to me that types in mathematics (at least Russell types, and maybe all types) are different from types in programming. They are somewhat connected, but they are different.

A type in programming is a set of values, plus a set of valid operations on those values. This is a semantic thing (or at least can be), not merely a syntax thing.

Types in math may be interesting, but programmers aren't really writing math papers. They're trying to write programs that work. Programmers therefore care about types as used in programming, not types as used in math.
I swear, the guy must be a genius.
The quality control and contamination problems are different, yes.

That doesn't mean you can tell which one is better without extensive testing.

Being made from dirt in a random field is not great for purity.
I don't think that's true. While I do agree that it's a significant aspect now, Apple has almost always been controversial, at least among nerds. People were arguing about Apple products before their huge resurgence.
Father (unvacced) died of Omicron in January. Self (2 Pfizer + 1 AstraZeneca), haven't had it yet.

https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explor... claims there's currently > 1200 deaths per day from COVID in the USA. That's 450k a year at the present rate. If you want to compare, Influenza is around 50k a year. Cancer is 600k.

Seems wrong to me to be opening up with numbers still that high and likely to go higher as people start spreading it more.
Yeah, similar experience here. Never done it on a corporate, internet-wide scale ala Flickr.

I'm honestly confused - what's twofaced about Flickr's approach?

I just sort of assume any host of user-created content will have some restrictions, so it doesn't feel to me like they are "talking out of both sides" of their mouth when they announce/implement such restrictions.

I may be completely missing what you're reacting to, though, apologies if I'm being dense.
Thank you for assuming my reading level. If you must know, I greatly enjoy (and have extensively read) people like Rushdie, Marquez, Kawabata, Hesse, Wolf and many others who indeed have a very specific and masterful writing style.

I do agree that Martin doesn't have a way with words the way the greatest writers do - his writing is quite flat in terms of style. I disagree (tentatively) that ASOIAF is mere pulp - I think it makes some interesting social commentary, particularly on the effects of war and how it leaves everyone, winner or loser, worse off than they were (in his personal life, he was a conscientious objector and is a lifetime pacifist, so I do believe that these themes are likely to be intentional). He also seems to be making a point about how political concerns rightly or wrongly stop the world from acting against ever more clear and imminent threats, with the Long Night probably being an allegory for Global Warming.

But, the jury is still out until he actually finishes his work. It may turn out that I'm reading entirely too much into this, and that the ending will be similar to the show, where righteous war wins the day (as long as you don't commit atrocities) and the long night is not a crucial problem to be fixed, but a mere zombie distraction from the important political topics of the day. If we ever got an ending like this (I do not believe we will ever get an ending of any kind), I would then agree with you that this is a work of pulp fantasy with little literary merit.

But if the ending makes good on these themes, it may turn out to be a true masterpiece, even if the writing style is quite flat. There are, after all, writers like Balzac, who is still taught and studied and read, even if his writing style (at least in the translations I've read) is just as flat.
> Download "acceleration" is snake oil and all "acceleration" does is consume unnecessary resources on both ends.

If there are any network bottlenecks, including at the host, that are enough to stop you saturating your own last-mile link with a single stream, that is simply not true. Or if the sending end sets per-stream limits. Downloading multiple streams from the same source can significantly speed up the process. Maybe it often doesn't, but that doesn't make it snake-oil.

> memory bandwidth over a decade ago was around 3GB/sec

Memory bandwidth is practically irrelevant if the main bottleneck is the remote network or something between you and it.
The original symbol represented a menu that pops up from the bottom of the screen, as they worked in the early Android versions: https://www.cnet.com/a/img/resize/06c3657d29dbfaf9cc921d2690...

The three-lines version was an evolution of that, just chopping off the sides to go extra minimal, and happened very quickly.

And nowadays we have an even more minimal one, shortening the three lines to three dots.
Pork belly dish is highly popular in Asian cuisine, that are imo way more delicious than bacon.
Two questions for the compression gurus here.

Suppose you have a bunch of raw video. You take extracts of it and put them together to make a movie, M1. You make an H.264 encoded copy of that. Let's call it C1.

You then make a new cut of your movie, M2, which is mostly the same footage as M1 except that you've shortened a few scenes and lengthened others. You make an H.264 encoded copy of that. Call this C1.

When making C1 and C2 your H.264 encoders have to decide which frames to turn into I-frames and which to turn into P-frames.

If they just do something simple like make every Nth frame an I-frame then after the first different between M1 and M2 it is unlikely that C1 and C2 will have many I-frames in common, and therefore also not have many P-frames in common.

If they look for scene changes and make new I-frames on scene changes, then we might expect that at least for the scenes that start identically in M1 and M2 they will get identical I-frames and P-frames up to their first edit if any.

Scenes that are edited in the front would still end up encoded totally different in C1 and C2.

Question: are there any encoders that when encoding M2 to produce C2 can be given M1 and C1 as references using them to adjust I-frame spacing so as make as many C2 I-frames as possible match C1 I-frames?

That would allow C2 to be stored efficiently as a binary diff from C1. This could be handy if C1 and C2 needed to be checked into a version control system, or you needed to distribute C2 over a low bandwidth or expensive link to someone who already had C1.

The second question concerns recompressing after decompression. I actually thought of this question in terms of audio so will ask in those terms, but I guess it applies to video too.

Suppose someone has an uncompressed source S. They compress it with a lossy compressor producing C and distribute C to you. You decompress C producing S'.

You then compress S' with a lossy compressor (the same type that the original producer used--e.g.., if C is an MP3 you use an MP3 compressor) producing C'. I don't know about video, but for audio (at least back in days when MP3 was starting to get big) C' would be lower quality than C.

Are there any compressors that can figure out that they are dealing with something that already has undergone the "throw out imperceptible parts to make it more compressible" step done and just skip to the next stage, so they produce a C' that is a lossless representation of S'?
Indeed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29399776
Why do you care? Nearly every comment you've left here in this post has negative language. You claim to have been an iOS developer for ten years - where's your podcast? Where are your apps on the app store that you're posting publicly about? Why aren't we talking about Grustaf in this post?
Find empathy. Find humility. Find more in life than being a negative person on the internet.
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It isn’t, but (minus industrial contamination, pesticides, etc) it’s also something humans have dealt with for millennia.
Could it lead to a new storage method? Helium lasts for microseconds, perhaps other atoms can store it indefinitely. Could that enable bulk antimatter storage?

E.g. 1 mol of mercury that contains 1 mole of anti-protons and doesn't annihilate unless subjected to some extreme condition.
I recommend people who get boosters to insist on them aspirating the needle. The doses are intramuscular. If you get it injected into the bloodstream you are more likely to have significant side effects.
> all of the code that I've written over the past 15 years. The last I worked on it, I had zero bugs related to UB.

Whether you had "bugs related to UB" isn't what we were discussing though. The question was merely syntax that generates undefined behaviour, which of course C++ is so riddled with that its committee has (no joke) a sub-working group whose task is just to try to enumerate all the Undefined Behaviour in their language so that they can try to answer the question "Which behaviours are undefined?" without saying "Read the entire standards document and let us know if you figure out the answer".

> The people who paid me own the code.

And so I guess that's why you didn't provide any link to it. Alas, as with UFO sightings, visions of Jesus and the like - while you may be firmly convinced for everybody else it's not evidence at all.

> In any case, its completely bizarre that I'm asking someone to backup their claim [...]

This is very much a "What did the Romans ever do for us?" problem. You've had several takers and you've simply insisted that they don't count. Why should anybody offer more examples which you will likewise dismiss? There's a problem with C++, you've decided to ignore it, but Software Engineering is ultimately a practical discipline, your 15 years of C++ code (if we could see it) would demonstrate that.
If you're running 10+ docker containers like my company does, running all of them inside a single VM will use significantly less memory than spinning up multiple VMs like Docker Desktop does.
It could be an ANGLE change responsible. I know Apple's been working on the Metal rendering backend. Maybe something in that is breaking for you.

I'm not sure if the video represents what's going on perfectly, but it appears like maybe it's reading old data from an improperly cleared framebuffer or something?
I knew that from long long ago adventures in mouseless Windows-using, for focusing it, but not for causing it to appear if there isn't one. Thanks.
So is alcohol, salted fish, and potatoes, and so are a bunch of toxic chemicals that aren't an expected component of foods that we nevertheless ingest in trace amounts; the dose makes the poison.
I first did rebase, and after a while I realized I was not getting much of it since I mostly wanted to merge everything down to a single commit.
Just got an startup idea from hell. Why nobody does CAPTCHAs that are based on ads?
I'm getting downvoted, so I wanted to give a couple examples of very very good and novel writing to prove that Martin is a hack, in regards to his technical skill at writing.

> All that most maddens and torments; all that stirs up the lees of things; all truth with malice in it; all that cracks the sinews and cakes the brain; all the subtle demonisms of life and thought; all evil, to crazy Ahab, were visibly personified, and made practically assailable in Moby Dick. He piled upon the whale’s white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart’s shell upon it.

Is it unfair to compare Martin to Melville? Yes. They're quite in different worlds of ability.

> The earth seemed unearthly. We are accustomed to look upon the shackled form of a conquered monster, but there—there you could look at a thing monstrous and free. It was unearthly, and the men were—No, they were not inhuman. Well, you know, that was the worst of it—this suspicion of their not being inhuman. It would come slowly to one. They howled and leaped, and spun, and made horrid faces; but what thrilled you was just the thought of their humanity—like yours—the thought of your remote kinship with this wild and passionate uproar. Ugly. Yes, it was ugly enough; but if you were man enough you would admit to yourself that there was in you just the faintest trace of a response to the terrible frankness of that noise, a dim suspicion of there being a meaning in it which you—you so remote from the night of first ages—could comprehend.

Martin can not even begin to approach Conrad. There is such notable depth here, as well as the discernible craft of a master of words, and you will find these in nearly every phrase within Heart of Darkness, and in none of, say, A Song of Fire and Ice.

I'm going to double down. Martin is not a good writer, period. There is no quotation anyone is able to pull from his library and say, "wow, that is an excellent piece of writing." It can't be done, but I'd like to see someone try.
I’m curious if words do better if you test people who don’t know the language.
> A piece of software is a platform - but using this platform (granted to the author by the participation of a community) to further a different, unrelated ideology could be considered abuse of power.

I disagree, I think using any platform you have to spread a message that is important to you is a GREAT use of said platform.

Anyone who thinks using your platform regardless of the context is bad are people who feel inconvenienced, threatened or annoyed by said message in which case, congratulations you successfully achieved your goal.

If Colin Kaepernick didn't use his platform as an NFL player and instead did something else like I don't know, stood outside his political offices holding a sign, would have had dramatically less impact and probably wouldn't have gone anywhere, but he used his platform and now look, we're still talking about it, black lives mattering, and all the messages he was intending to send what 4 years later?
> Conclusions are that the vaccines do not help against infection (which was known already)

Is this known? That would be zero percent efficacy, wouldn't it?
I don’t know how to explain your feeling of existing in a non-physical way. I feel that way because I’m the only one who exists and you’re all philosophical zombies…
I've ahead of the game, I jumped directly to FETLAs.
> I'll take celery over salt peter any day.

Ignoring that you linked the wrong chemical, that's not the decision you're making at all. You're taking salt peter either way.
I said "widely understood", which is true irrespective of whether a court has ruled on it. There's a huge ecosystem which is underpinned by the OSD.

There are also a handful of orgs (most prominently a few VC-funded companies) who want to freeload on the goodwill of "Open Source" to market their proprietary software. And there are some Free Software advocates who dislike the very term "Open Source". (Not that "Free Software" has court-endorsed clarity either.)
> one of the web services used to contact us securely was hosted on servers located inside Belarus

Ok, so you have a secure web service...

> during one of their tasks, package containing node-ipc module was updated on a production server, which resulted in executing your code and wiping over 30,000 messages and files

But you push code directly to "production" of this "secure web service," without manually approving dependency updates? No build, no test, no check GitHub for angry comments about the update?

That said, the GitHub issue is making quite an extraordinary claim given the number of coincidences required for it to be true. It sounds like exactly the kind of edgy troll post someone morally offended by the situation might take the time to write.
Both the Cochrane Review and the NIH Treatment Guidelines on COVID-19 found that there is insufficient evidence to recommend ivermectin. (Well, that there is insufficient evidence for _or_ against.)
I have hundreds or maybe even thousands of apps on my phone but don’t scroll through them. I always use search or Siri to open them
Nothing wrong with it, but at first I thought BPG starts with Bellard
There are also uncured turkey hotdogs.
Where do they fit in this puzzle?
Saltpeter is potassium nitrate. Bacon is cured with sodium nitrate. Nitrates occur naturally in plenty of vegetables, as the article points out.
Thank you.

If I have time I plan to read at least one of his books. I've been wasting alot of time on YouTube, and frankly here. Books remove that option, you need to focus on them
Not sure if this is a horror story but it's an interesting recent dilemma. I started as a contractor for a startup about 8 years ago and was awarded some Non Qualified stock options that vested but were not exercised. I never came on board as an employee, but did do contract work from time to time. After a couple of years, I moved on to better opportunities, but the contract was never really terminated. The startup in question recently merged with a larger company and during due diligence my options were discovered.

So.. they let me know I have these options if I wish to exercise them in the next 90 days. It looks like I'll have a taxable event just by exercising them as they are NQ. Not sure if it is really worth the risk as I still haven't been able to get a fair market value of the shares from them and I don't see the opportunity for them going public or being acquired any time soon.
ST:D was unwatchable from Season 1, Episode 2. It has almost nothing in common with the ST ethos except that it's set in space and some of the alien species and locales have the same names

I also think Picard was overly emotional right from the beginning.

These bastards just want to gut our favourite childhood TV memories
I use O365 on MacOS for my job and I prefers to use O365 on Windows than macOS. macOS version does not have a full feature parity as Windows. There are features that are vital in Excel that are missing in macOS version, like PowerQuery, PowerBI, etc. Also, it is missing few basic features that are not presented in macOS version.

like stuaxo commented, the shortcuts are not the same in macOS.

And I noticed that macOS version tends to be delayed UI response. If I click to apply the color fill, it takes Excel about 5 seconds to process my input and apply the color fill in the cell whereas in Windows is instant. I noticed the same UI behavior in Word as well. They just seemingly take time to take my input and apply it. I believe it is largely due to x86 code, O365 current stable version only have x86 which it relies on Rosetta2 to do the work. They have ARM version in the work, I think it is in beta stage.
Just got a drone air 2s and it recorded in h.265. I tried to play it on 2013 MacBook retina and it plays a frame every minute or so. I can play 4k h.264 no problem. Am I missing something why its not playing
This is the ideal workflow for me since I think merge commits clutter up the log, but it falls apart if people aren't consistent in following it.

*glances and $corp git repo and sees 'updates' 'fix' 'updates'. Sigh.
That is a possible explanation. Somehow this information was transferred to me and struck the exact right nerve.
I don't know how and the strong emotions can alter perception after the fact.

For me it was absolutely paranormal and still is.
It would be better for you to serve .webp and .avif (or optionally .heif for apple devices) inside a <picture> tag with .jpg or .png as fallback, as these formats are designed for static images, but are based on I-frame compressors for vp9, av1 and hevc respectively.
Sounds like a fake story. What idiots would only store their war crime evidence database inside the aggressor state and not keep backups of it abroad?

If true, this arrangement was pretty much doomed to fail anyway. node-ipc did a good thing by notifying them of their folly before the Belarus KGB or Russian FSB did.
So instead of offering to help the town, the state comptroller is reaching out directly to the property owners and trying to convince them that the elected officials are going to do more damage than the previous decade of administration, who stole from the coffers?
If there's no license, then all rights are implicitly reserved by whoever owns the copyright, probably the author, unless it was explicitly placed in the public domain.

"distributed unlicensed software (not in the public domain) is fully copyright protected, and therefore legally unusable... Examples of this are unauthorized software leaks or software projects which are placed on public software repositories like GitHub without a specified license" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_license#Software_lice...
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> If when you find out you missed it you start to defend why it's fine to not include it (not to admit you should, but maybe you don't have time/it isn't worth the cost), that's the point it's bigoted.
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> It's the difference between making a mistake, and getting defensive that it wasn't a mistake.

I think that definition is pretty good, but it also reveals something about the popular usage of the term "bigot".

IIUC, an underlying assumption in the parent comment is a person is at fault for not accommodating the offended party's preferred taxonomy / categories / terminology. That a person is a "bigot" if they see their system's current taxonomy as better or more appropriate.

Merriam-Webster's definition is somewhat different [0]: "a person who is obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices".

Note that with MW's definition, either or both persons in that "you missed it" conversation could be labelled a bigot, depending on how obstinately they held onto their views.

[0] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bigot
The OP is the one self-hosting mail servers, not the one relying on a free mail server.