skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How on earth am I arguing in bad faith?

You just admitted that you support legalizing slavery! Okay, fair enough, you're not encouraging people to become slaves. And it would involve voluntary sale of oneself into slavery. But I was fairly close to the mark.

Also, questions have to be asked: if a man is poor, is he really voluntarily selling himself into slavery?

> Let me ask again: are you sure you're not being blinded by your biases?

Perhaps it is "bias" that is keeping me from supporting the legalization of slavery. Or perhaps it's something else. I'm going with something else.
We DID NOT hire a human to do our hero video narration.
I wish there was something available in open source that has similar functions i.e sensible amalgamation of pictures based on some text.
200k is really not a lot of money. Nearly half if it taxed and when you factor things like housing costs and living expenses, it's not that much..
Engineers need to stop short selling themselves, you never see Lawyers going around and saying "they are making too much money".. My friend is an attorney and he charges 1,000$ just to write a single letter.

SWE is a high paying profession and rightly so because companies get to make millions off our backs.
The criticism seems to be very anti-telemetry, or completely rejecting the idea of the smart/collaboration features.

I think the issues are more nuanced than that.
I have always wanted this also. Connect to AWS and export the entire configuration details to terraform, or to another open format.
I'd think it is something like a ratio of bitrate to entropy. How quickly is information being processed relative to how quickly it is being lost?
Here is an enjoyable classic work connecting cryptography to complexity theory, in the abstract: https://stuff.mit.edu/afs/sipb/project/reading-group/past-re...
Hashing would be generally be fine.

AES would still be totally okay.
I wrote the outline of what became an RFP for a university on site tech training program. Someone else won. At the time, we were about the only people doing this. Certainly the outline referenced things that we'd developed training material for, and we were early in this market. However another company 'won' because they were local, and didn't have to factor in travel costs (we had flights and multiple hotel rooms for a week factored in). The university was 'bound' to go with the lower bid, because they were claiming the 'same' material (which... they couldn't have at the time). Internal trainees reached out later and said it was pretty bad, to the point where they were telling the instructor how to do stuff during the class. But... they got the 'lowest' bid...
More trees mean better health outcomes, according to new research (2019)
The relationship between people who build companies and work in those companies can be mutually beneficial with investors.
Multiple versions of MKL dlls exist in the install directory of Solidworks 2021. Indeed, the dlls supporting FloXpress and simulation seem to be the updated MKL version that no longer support the flag. However, the main executable only seems to call sldmkl_parts.dll. It appears to be MKL version 2018.1.156 that does support the flag
I mean... if you're doing some video editing at work using remote storage on a 10G NIC or have an external SSD plugged in, you're easily going to find yourself in a contention scenario that would just be solved by using Thunderbolt.

A modern SSD will easily pump out 5GB/s reads/writes (40Gbps).
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Yes, you have to set some custom filters/rules.

see: https://github.com/easylist/easylist/wiki/Youtube-Issues
Economics. You can understand things about the world that didn't make sense previously.
AMD still has horrible software, compare cuda to whatever crap AMD thinks you should use. Truth is its even hard to say what their alternative is, not to mention how horribly poorly they support what is, or at least should be their second if not most important/lucrative target.
It would depend on the version of MKL. If Solidworks has (just for example) statically linked to or bundled in an old version of MKL, then it should work there, still.
>1080p30 is only 0.5Gbps

You sure about that? It should be 1920 * 1080 * 3 subpixels * 8 bits * 30 fps = just under 1.5Gbps

I assume they use chroma subsampling to make it work
Only a lawyer could tell you and they would need to know more about the details to properly advise you. They might have no legal claim but if they were to sue you and you did not respond then you could get royally screwed.

I would start by simply asking them if they believe there is a legal agreement between the three of you and why. If they believe there is, and that it binds you to provide software then what are their legal obligations to you.

In the event they respond, I imagine your actual lawyer (who you will engage) will want to know this anyways.
Same here. I was pretty upset when the Borders in my city closed; a few years later, the closest B&N to me also shut down. 100% agree with the article writer that bookstores provide a sense of identity. I wonder if we're in the middle of a shift in how the culture chooses to do relationships - maybe the pandemic showed people that, on its own, the internet just isn't able to provide the social framework that people want? I don't know. It's probably too early to tell if all this stuff is a passing fancy, or the beginnings of a new mode of relating.
The philosophy of the prospect. Why they buy from you (2017)
Oh yes, grub is a pain; no argument there. I didn't even like grub 1 and in grub 2 it got several orders of magnitude worse.

I did almost use systemd-boot a few weeks ago though; I moved my SSD to a different laptop and that somehow accidentally booted some remanent of the Windows boot manager, which automatically and helpfully hijacked the lot and now it didn't boot in either the new or old laptop. I ended up using Grub as my distro doesn't provide systemd-boot at all (let alone update hooks), and aside from the hiccup a few weeks ago I haven't had to look at it in over a decade; so for all its ugliness it does "just work" for me, and I figured looking at alternatives would be a bit of a waste of time.

I miss the times where I used FreeBSD and the MBR bootloader they had (have?) just automatically detected things and it would always work without any keffufing about. Just dd these 512K to the start of your disk and presto!
I'm hoping this will meet expectations for a home security camera. Too bad none of their sample photos have a face in it.
> We did not A/B test anything.

> We did not waste money.

I would argue that you did waste (potential) money by not optimizing your marketing funnels. Regardless, this list was a great reminder that the core of what we should focus on is putting your product in front of customers and making it better, not micro-optimizing.
So blacklist intel compiler in favor or GCC and CLANG, seems entirely reasonable!
Lithuania has Independence, not Latvia. Kremlin troll factory was screaming about money waste for years. Today it looks like a smart investment without a doubt.
This isn't much of a refutation of the point.

Moreover, some specific individuals have been murdered for speaking about Putin. Anna Politkovskaja and Aleksandr Litvinenko were both murdered for questioning the official narratives on Chechnya.
It isn’t much better near as I can tell for most scenarios, but you’re welcome to provide some links to analysis if you’d like. I’ve posted a number of them in other threads.

A key attribute of those analysis is the interest rates for financing, which used to be near zero - and likely will not be for quite awhile, but good luck predicting that.
This is a very lazy comment. I'm sure it makes you feel smart, but it drags down the entire conversation, and doesn't add anything of value. You seem very capable and accomplished, so I'm confused why you would spend any of your time to simply shit-post on someone who is trying to build something of use to many people.
> we would need about 24 days worth of storage

Couldn't you just burn fossil fuels for those 24 days, and then do atmospheric carbon capture for the other 341?

Even if pulling the carbon out of the air takes 10 times as much energy as was released during those 24 days, that could still be achieved over the course of the year, with a reasonable amount of over provisioning.
Do you have a customer?
Think Roman numerals.

1M is thousand
1MM is million

https://gettingpeopleright.com/resources/what-does-m-and-mm-...
Agreed but the same can be said for the steel industry, which has had zero media coverage and alone accounts for 7% of a very big number, or more dramatically 350% of the emissions associated with freight and passenger air transport combined.

My point is that there is a lot of low hanging fruit corporate emitters that should be curbed before targeting consumers.
Worth noting that Intel has dropped their "old" compiler and the newer "Intel" compilers are LLVM based. IMHO they will likely be pulling similar anti-AMD tricks with it and they are keeping their paid version closed source - which is allowed by LLVMs license.

RMS was right that compilers should be GPL licensed to prevent exactly this kind of thing (and worse things which are haven't happened yet).

On another compiler related note, I find it insane that GCC had not turned on vectorization at optimization -O2 for the x68-64 targets. The baseline for that arch has SSE2, so vectorization has always made sense there. The upcoming GCC 12 will have it enabled at -O2. I'd bet the Intel compiler always did vectorization at -O2 for their 64bit builds.
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Hierarchical data structures are bad for CPU caches, see, for example, references in [1] how various data-oriented programming techniques try to avoid them.

From that point of view Fortran may be even more relevant for high-performance computing now than even 10 years ago.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data-oriented_design
It's 2022 and I can't visualize my music like my friend did in 1997.
Show HN: Squads – Social Trading for Web3
hey hey! I'm the co-founder of squads -- a product that makes it easy to see what your friends and top investors are doing in web3.

This product was developed out my own frustration trying to get more involved in web3. One of the greatest challenges in the crypto space is figuring out where to start. For some of us, we're lucky to have a friend who can serve as a guide, and we wanted to build a product that would make introducing your friends to crypto a more inviting experience.

There is so much alpha and information living on Twitter + Discord, but the problem is finding the signal from the noise. With Squads, you don't have to sift through all of the noise -- you can see what the best players in the space are doing the moment they do it.

In fact, we have pre-seeded the product with a squad of a16z investors, BAYC holders, and a group of well known twitter profiles so you can get a taste of what the squad structure is like.

With this product, you don't have to sit in hundreds of discords and become inundated with notifications. Instead, you can follow who you think is interesting, and see a feed of their activity all in one place.

Some quick product highlights:
- Social layer for web3 -- create a squad and share the invite link with your friends or anyone else. We took inspiration from discord for the invitation flow, try it out!

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- Profile Page: Showcase all of your digital assets, and your performance, all in one place

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- Search: Search for any wallet address or ens domain

- Returns: See how profitable an individual is in flipping tokens or NFTs
Thank you. Being unfamiliar with Deno, I was trying to figure out what was loading the libraries when there was only one request/response over the wire. I of course was making the assumption that the single JS file was being run in the browser, not on the server.
Tinfoil Hat Linux
When I was working at the gear shop, they had some DOS based code that they couldn't update, but gave numbers critical to setting up the gear generators. I put it all in VirtualBox, rerouted the printer to a file in the VM, and they were able to print the number they needed.

If you have a system in production, making any changes risks the viability of the enterprise. The general public doesn't really understand the nature of these risks, and tends to blow them off.
Not to mention the exorbitant monopolistic fees they can get away with because regulation keeps competitors out of the US, compared to the extremely low fees associated with trading stocks.
> Turning your Raspberry Pi into a DSLR-like camera.

This is stretching the truth. From the sample images the low image quality is what I expected from a cheap tiny sensor and lens. Zooming in just gives you noise instead of detail. It's like the cheap "4k" IP CCTV cameras I have at home that aren't much sharper looking than HD 1920x1080 cameras I had.

Though perhaps hacks like sensor cooling to reduce noise and replacing the cheap optics with quality could improve quality.
> Palantir is not in the business of collecting data

From all we know about Palantir collecting and visualizing data is the whole reason for their existence.

Thus I think that a critical view of this post is warranted.

Regardless if this specific data would be of interest.

e: clarification
Attackers Spoof WhatsApp Voice-Message Alerts to Steal Info
Legends! I love to see your content, every times. Congrats.
Externalizing your costs to the public a 3M speciality.
Something similar happened around the fall of the Soviet Union.

Yelstin gave every Russian citizen a certificate worth 10,000 rubbles to buy shares in state owned enterprises that were being privatized.

Those with ready cash bought the certificates from those without, and this led to the current oligopoly.
Not quite, it looks like this:

- Provide an existing image

- Provide a text prompt ("flamingo")

- Select from X variations the new image that looks best to you

- It does the equivalent of a google image search on your "flamingo" prompt
- It picks the most blend-able ones as a basis to a new synthetic flamingo
- It superimposes the result on your image

Very cool don't get me wrong. Now I want to tweak this new floating flamingo I picked further, or have that Corgi in the museum maybe sink into the little couch a bit as it has weight in the real world.

Can't. You'd have to start over with the prompt or use this as the new base image maybe.

The example with furniture placement in an empty room is also very interesting. You could describe the kind of couch you want and where you want it and it will throw you decent options.

But say I want the purple one in the middle of the room that it gave me as an option, but rotated a little bit. It would generate a completely new purple couch. Maybe it will even look pretty similar but not exactly the same.

See what I mean?
Public RFPs are at least something you can sue over if your competitor gets too brazen benefits. More transparency into them for the general public would be nice, FOIA (or equivalent) requests help a bitbut then often come to late to intervene, just can bring it to light afterwards.

> As a citizen, I would like to see a “fair” bidding process where the “best” supplier wins.

Defining what is "best" is of course the biggest challenge. In many jurisdictions, it can deviate from "cheapest wins", but then needs pre-defined criteria for evaluation, and any judgement factor of course can go both ways - it can be used to protect from a costly mistake and to give a benefit to a inferior proposal. But such criteria can at least be used to push it out from cheapest-wins, and make it easier to attack the decision to attempt to compensate for bias.

A big problem IMHO are follow-up RFPs where the initial one didn't ensure their viability. E.g. once a company has won "implement system X", all RFPs that require "integrate with system X" or "maintain system X" are on one hand formally ok because doing so is actually needed, but unfair because if system X is sufficiently proprietary, the first company obviously has a massive advantage.
You can completely decline coverage on Turo for a car. They give you a big fat warning to be careful as your insurance may not cover a Turo car (which is true for some providers), and you're SOL if something happens.

Depending on the price of the car, they may take a 2k deposit for an accident, but that's pretty normal. It's returned to you once the car is returned.
It is vulnerable to chosen cipher text attacks.

Give me a one time pad cipher text c of length n and a decryption oracle Dec(). Then the key k = Dec(0^n) and I can easily tell you that the message is c xor k.
Even without politics it would have slowed in the last 2 years due to shortages.
> Be careful with thinking that deep work, expanding your mind, culture, emotional and spiritual literacy, philosophical, psychological and political understanding will make you better.

After watching my friends go to Peru to trip balls with shamans (or just go to Burning Man yearly) and "expand their mind" -- but not really change their lives in any meaningful way -- I'm highly skeptical of the "deep understanding" school.
Just a heads up, you are not getting the full library from San Francisco public library. There are multiple levels of subscriptions offered to libraries. SFPL gets about most of the books, while san mateo has a better subscription and get's more. I have never seen any state library offer the full Oreilly library, but some colleges and the military libraries offer full access. SFPL is missing many of the newer books that have been released.
>> but I doubt this is intentional.

And I doubt that these quoted prices have any relation to the actual bill that they will eventually send.
My observation is that both occur and the balance tends to vary by company. I've been in the room when technology N+1 was selected because there weren't many developers for technology N, but I've also seen developers working cool and trendy things into projects that don't strictly need it (where there is a sliding Overton Window around what is "cool" or "trendy").
Your reply made my day. I have two grown children and now an adopted 4 yr old girl. I realize as I get older (52) what a precious gift they are and make time to experience the world through their eyes (esp the 4 yr old who is a hoot). It's hard cause typically when you have kids in your 20/30s you are building a career and everything is a challenge with lots of stress. So as one old guy to younger parents I'd say
1. Don't beat yourself up, life is hard.
2. Go play with your kids and be a kid again.
It’s mostly a problem of pixel size. The smaller the pixels the less light the pixels get. That means really terrible low light performance. And no software can’t magically make that as good as a pixel 4x the size.

The only advantage here is it allows you to get away with more crime like cropping and digital zoom in brighter lights. That may be an advantage depending on the application.

I’d rather have a 12MP sensor twice that size with some glass in front though for most applications. Far more useful.
Teaching optics through conspiracy theories
It exists on BSDs as well. (No idea who did it first.)
> How on earth am I arguing in bad faith?

Well:

> You just admitted that you support legalizing slavery

I have also admitted that I support abortion, assisted suicide, sex work and probably some other unsavory things that you can think of. I'm not sure why when I say "full autonomy over their bodies" you fixated on just the one.
Ask HN: Do you know of any good educational computer games for 4 year olds?
I'd like to help my daughter learn some reading/math/science concepts while also getting used to the keyboard/mouse. I found "Little Mouse's Encyclopedia" via the educational category on Steam, and she's been enjoying exploring, but she doesn't read well enough to use the encyclopedia entries. That's about the level she's at.

Any ideas would be appreciated!
I can totally relate on your journey, I had a similar one. Congrats on your work!
> We did not apply for the government salary subsidies.

This one is stupid. The startup R&D tax credit is essentially free money that you are giving up for no reason. Your accountant is probably being negligent for not automatically getting it for you.
With government contracting, your competitor didn't just write the RFP, they wrote the budget line item that congress approved. You needed to be there 4 years ago when appropriation started.
Yeah. User reporting has a very obvious and very strong survivorship bias. Plus the people who take the time to send in a report are a rather small niche, so you have pretty strong bias even if you exclude people who leave.

Always-on metrics are massively higher quality data. They don't collect the same kind of data in many cases, but they can reveal a lot of things that never get reported. They also don't suffer from the well-established pattern of people not accurately reporting their own behavior when asked / polled (stronger when asking about future behavior, but it applies in all cases).
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> Or when they decided to shut off nuclear and replace it with renewables and instead built out coal and gas.

The nuclear phase out was signed and ratified in 2002, since then nuclear has mostly replaced with solar
and wind [0], while the share of electricity from coal has has actually gone slightly down.

Germany's 40%+ renewables are an testament to Germany pioneering the sector [1], one that too often gets belittled with straight up misinformation.

[0] https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/germanys-energy-c...

[1] https://www.trade.gov/energy-resource-guide-germany-renewabl...
Yeah, I'm pretty sure.

The sensor will have a Bayer pattern [1] and the data will go across the bus in Bayer format. The processor will then perform debayering. So no need to multiply by 3 channels per pixel :)

While many image sensors will perform debayering for you if you want, doing so means you need 3x the bandwidth for not much benefit, so very few people do it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayer_filter