skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At my first desktop support job, we used to back up users' laptops over the parallel port to a blank drive on another computer.

One time, I got the command line parameters wrong, and accidentally ran the copy in the opposite direction, overwriting a senior manager's disk drive with a blank disk image. It was the first "big mistake" of my IT career.
1) Stocks and real estate are a lot more inflation proof than wages. Their prices already handle inflation.

2) I still think there should be a discount for long-term investing, just that it is too much. They could lower the spread between long and short term investing with almost no consequence.
WasCm: Low Level Lisp for WebAssembly
I'd say no to keeping your job, and yes to a promotion only if it is accelerated.
To each his own, but if you aren't adding anything to distinguish, being able to execute npm packages sounds pretty exciting to me.
It's funny that you say nobody writes like that when this is a very very common thing that I encounter all over the internet. It's just throw away writing intended to occupy the page so that they have some reason for you to come view their ads.
I've been using GNU stow for a while, and I love how portable it is. NixOS might indeed be the answer, but it might be a while before that ecosystem is mature enough for my laptop, server, etc.
Probably.

Art has long been a refuge for people who have other problems in life. Tech keeps looking for ways to ensnare eyeballs to ads and wallets to subscriptions.

If you combine the following three things:

- the number of people seeking refuge is increasing due to whatever you want to call the current social factors,

- modern digital art tools enable people to create aesthetically pleasant but not necessarily original things nearly instantly,

- these tools are modern tech properties owned by profit-seeking firms needing ROI in the modern financial landscape,

then you get what we have now.

This may seem like a bad thing, but it encourages new tools and when they get in the hands of truly capable artists, it's worth it.

Original stuff is out there, you just have to look hard. But you always had to look really hard for the good original stuff. For example: look at comic books pre-Internet. Most of them were very similar.
No.

"Netflix / Disney etc seem to have copped onto one idea that works and just release the same tv show / movie over and over again with a slight tweak as it brings the money in without any worries."

This is the golden age of streaming. There's more diversity in show types on Netflix alone than across all platforms (movies, tv, direct to video) in the 90s. Paramount is almost entirely devoted to new Star Trek properties and HBO Max releases a new movie every month. If you aren't seeing innovation in story-telling its because you are a Philistine.

This question has real "kids today" energy.
Thank goodness Netflix has competition, some of the stuff they put out absolute lowest common denominator crap. It's a good thing they are still funding solid and ambitious films and shows, as are Apple TV. I fear however when the pressure is on increase revenues, cookie-cutter algorithm driven production will crowd out good TV/films, I don't think this is happening yet.

I disagree with electronic music though, loads of people listen to pop radio music or mainstream bigroom EDM (it all sounds the same but its been like that since the start) but you can still find great new music in almost any genre you want. It's not as if all the great producers are starting to sound the same.
>is individuality in art and media now seen as a negative

Perhaps by successful corporations in contexts where "doing what works" is the safer bet (like you said, Disney). But of course it's not seen that way by individuals.

Overall I think you're just perceiving popular culture, not artistic mediums in general. E.g. for your point about EDM, maybe you're thinking of the music you hear in clubs or web radio, but the blanket indictment of EDM you've put forward is not correct I think.
I can't agree. Just with Netflix, they have mountains of pretty original content. As soon as something does well, it does get endlessly copied, but that doesn't change that the initial innovation is still happening. Shows like Dark, Russian Doll, Arcane, immediately had copycats, but were pretty great and different and likely never would have been made if not for Netflix's "throw money at every artist in the world and throw crap against the wall to see what sticks" content strategy.

Disney is definitely more guilty of what you're saying because they have a massive back catalog and get by mostly by buying existing IP or rebooting their own.
Oh, I missed it. Thanks!
> Let the people keep the money, pay less taxes and pay the daycare centers from the government directly for each child.

But what would all the important middle men do for a living then? /s
Based on their username I would guess "being not-white in a country that is totally convinced it isn't racist but is actually seriously racist".

Also, it's not discussed much but the Netherlands has a very serious "old boy network" problem where white douchebags who didn't achieve much during their studies except boozing with other white douchebags keep failing upwards.

It's the reason why me and my mixed ethnicity background do not regret emigrating either, despite the superior bike infrastructure and hagelslag.
Yes put them in pairs, on mobile platforms about 4 inches apart, with microphones and a dead dulling substance in between and use radio communications and for high speed mobility special cars.....
Ever see Smokey the Bandit?

Humor aside, eyes that follow, etc might have a huge creepy factor...strikeback?
You'll love PHP 8.
The only reason it isn't an "algorithm" is because no one thought to use that language when it was created.

All "algorithm" means is "a process or set of rules to be followed in calculations"- computers don't need to be involved, nor does "AI".

The no-fly list is a process of looking up people in a list of names when calculating whether they can fly. That fits the definition as much as anything else the media calls an algorithm.
It’s used to be widely accepted that all light travelled through a luminiferous aether that encompasses the entire universe.

Then we learned about special relativity. Societies learn and adapt.
Differences in expectations around baked goods found its way into the episode of the 90's show, "The Tick" in "The Tick vs. Europe"

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0723382/

I've seen it as a throwaway gag in a few movies too - also usually with French speaking characters for some reason - observing how terrible baked goods (or sometimes bread specifically) are in the US.
There is a whole other potential article out there that could be written from the ex-wife's side - "My marriage died because I couldn't make this one simple sacrifice".

And I suspect both would just as incorrect, at least by omission. The glass thing is a useful article hook, but it's unlikely that it encompasses the sole reason their marriage fell apart. There is a deeper issue here, about neither side being willing to sacrifice for the other that likely really lies at fault.

I like the idea that a really good relationship is a 60/40 compromise, where both sides are struggling to be the 60. It sounds like both sides of this marriage were struggling to be the 40.
Stanford Solar Power at Nightime Busted
I think is something about perspectives, with a little help globalization, but, out there some artist are transforming the meaning of "art"
I believe every photo on iPhone 13 pro is enhanced.

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/have-iphon...

You're right though that this isn't a "perfect example of computational depth of field" as the background leaf looks far enough away where you could have achieved the effect optically on iPhone sensor with right aperature. That being said the blurring does look unnatural to me as it is not even across the background leaf despite similar distance from lens. It's not clear cut though.
Not in a relevant sense. When you see cloth, they don't look right or wrong based on whether you ran a detailed mental simulation, but based on how the patterns conform to the object. Plausibility is much more important than precision. There is not much reason to expect DALL-E 2 should not to be able to encode that same rule of thumb.
It's so weird to see so many people online going out of their way to explain why Hikaru won't do well. The eagerness to discredit him is just perplexing.

He's earned the recognition already, he's a former #2 in the world and one of only a handful of players to ever have an ELO over 2800. Just enjoy his resurgence and see where it takes him.
I believe in German (possibly also other languages) the thunderbolt ↯ is commonly used to mean "this is a contradiction" in a mathematical proof, equivalently to in English a kind of ⋕ rotated by 45° or the symbol ※.
The symbol ⟂ on the other hand means "false" and is used in particular in formal logic.
I can't find a good link for it at the moment. There are schools of thought that see the trend of "cookie-cutter creativity" as you say and point to a byproduct of digital capitalism as the cause:

The feedback loops in our system function in such a way that edge-case creativity, the fun and weird stuff that via an incubation period eventually evolve into Nirvana, the Dead, Films (not movies), Warhol, get digested and broadcast to the broader culture too quickly for the creativity to actually develop. We get a mediocre version of it as a result. Put another way, its hard for a counter-culture to develop because Tiktok, Insta, FB, Netflix production pipelines, etc.

The Society of the Spectacle is a dense but short book that covers parts of this feeling - "Debord traces the development of a modern society in which authentic social life has been replaced with its representation..." [0]

Also, Moxie Marlinspike talks about something similar with Signal in that by having end-to-end private chats, it allows that safe space but in a digital context for ideas to develop between trusted parties, which then leads into creativity (or I suppose extremism etc).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Society_of_the_Spectacle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_angle

> In Unicode, the symbol for a right angle is U+221F ∟ RIGHT ANGLE (HTML &#8735; · &angrt;). It should not be confused with the similarly shaped symbol U+231E ⌞ BOTTOM LEFT CORNER (HTML &#8990; · &dlcorn;, &llcorner;). Related symbols are U+22BE ⊾ RIGHT ANGLE WITH ARC (HTML &#8894; · &angrtvb;), U+299C ⦜ RIGHT ANGLE VARIANT WITH SQUARE (HTML &#10652; · &vangrt;), and U+299D ⦝ MEASURED RIGHT ANGLE WITH DOT (HTML &#10653; · &angrtvbd;).[5]

> In diagrams, the fact that an angle is a right angle is usually expressed by adding a small right angle that forms a square with the angle in the diagram, as seen in the diagram of a right triangle (in British English, a right-angled triangle) to the right. The symbol for a measured angle, an arc, with a dot, is used in some European countries, including German-speaking countries and Poland, as an alternative symbol for a right angle.[6]
Battery technology development is a huge field with a long record of failed promises (often related to issues like lifetime, flammability, manufacturing cost, etc.).

One interesting recent development is the replacement of the cobalt needed in lithium batteries with iron. Cobalt wars in Africa's Congo are a current issue:

https://nextmoneyng.com/2021/12/22/the-cobalt-war-the-sino-a...

Now it seems that cobalt can be replaced with iron with no efficieny/storage capacity losses:

https://crm.org/articles/a-clean-industry-revolution-the-lit...

Lithium itself doesn't really seem replaceable for where it's used, in applications that demand relatively high energy density and voltage.
Born and raised in EU South, I grew up looking up to Northern Europe with regards to their efficiency, values, etc.

This is news I'd expect to hear from a backwater country I'd never heard off. But I'm afraid it is just yet one data point of how wrong I was and how bad things have gone in the heart of EU and maybe the whole western world.
Pretty much every iron chemistry has failed to reach market. I reckon they're probably just blowing smoke.

I really want them to succeed for the sake of the planet, but it's another "revolutionary new battery just five years away" story.
If you ever want to go into business together with the family-sized freezer-toaster let me know.
$26-80k in coins doesn't seem like much?
Agadmator isn't a streamer.
OMG! I created a GUI tool for this: Simplest File Renamer (Win, Mac, Linux).

In my app, you can rename using your favorite code editor, so you have access to all your keyboard shortcuts.

https://github.com/whyboris/Simplest-File-Renamer - MIT open source
TV is dead. Young people aren't watching it. Big cinema is mostly dead.
Streaming and social media has made mass culture a thing of the past. You're going to have to pick a bubble like everyone else.
To be fair, something in everyone's style doesn't work against Magnus. Very few (if any) top players have a winning record vs him.
I have had all three possible experiences with food banks (used them, volunteered at them, employee of one) and I would be really surprised if that gets used, or benefits the food bank if it does.

Food banks have grocery store-like buying power and relationships with wholesalers and local producers, and in my experience nearly all of the food they distribute comes from those sources.

The can drives around the holidays are mostly just for awareness. At the ones I worked at checking, sorting and packing those was very costly in labor both paid and volunteered.

We always accepted direct food donations because americans are super fucking weird about donating money to the immiserated, but will also get very mad if you turn away their useless donations. Which is bad for PR, so against the goals of the org. We always accepted them but "how can we not" was a constant question.
People seem to always be impressed with close-up images of plants.
> Feel free to ask them of yourself...

I am curious to know your thoughts on them. But that's fine, if you choose to ask questions of others but refuse to answer any asked of you, so be it.

> ...if they help you arrive at a case more convincing than the one you are arguing against.

I will repost this for fun:

>> Can you clarify in some detail what position / point of contention you have in mind (just so we're on the same page)?

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> As judge of your two's dispute, my own inputs shouldn't be necessary for you to make your case convincingly. If it is, your case is bad.

I will repost this again, for fun:

>> Can you clarify in some detail what position / point of contention you have in mind (just so we're on the same page)?

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> The points of contention you have with the original post are for you to clarify in some detail. If you have no point of contention with their post, IE you agree with it, then I guess there's no disagreement.

I've complied many times - you are welcome to read my reply, and I welcome you to point out what I haven't answered if you think that is the case. Or, we can continue with this approach, up to you.

>>>>> Just take it from an outside observer, you could stand a little introspection to apply some of the solipsistic philosophical musings to yourself.

>>>> Perhaps you cannot (or will not) think in these terms without falling into a state of solipsism (or impotency due to indecision, another common complaint), but it's certainly not necessary. It is possible to address these ideas as they are, and take them seriously (as opposed to representing that they are silly, woo woo, bad faith, whatever). Perhaps it is not possible in the mainstream, in 2022, but it is possible.

>>> I think it is a bit primitive to make assumptions about what I can or cannot do.

>> "Perhaps" denotes a possibility - it does not required the formation of a belief.

> I don't recall arguing otherwise, so not sure what you're getting at here.

I am getting at the "broadly accepted (or not, as the case may be) meaning represented by particular words (and I guess: how different people interpret/use them, sometimes not caring whether they are doing so erroneously):

perhaps: used when one does not wish to be too definite or assertive in the expression of an opinion

assumption: a thing that is accepted as true or as certain to happen, without proof.

Note also: are you not guilty of the very same thing you accuse me of?: "Perhaps I address these ideas better than you can comprehend, and you just _PERCEIVE_ it to be biting satire that cuts any hypothetical similarly-structured dissembling to the bone"

I have to say, this is one of the more interesting and enjoyable threads I've encountered on HN.
Something that is trivial to one may be very large to another. There is a whole slew of reasons why but just because one partner deems something trivial the other may not agree. Some things may objectively be trivial but we are a complex species. The flip side of this argument is that if its so trivial for one, why don't they change the behavior for the other who deems it non trivial?
Guilty as charged: https://klibert.pl/statics/awesome-taglist-shown.png - see `make_wibox_conta[iner, obviously]`. It happens when you don't want, or can't, compute the needed column width before printing. It's just a lot less code to pick a number and leave the formatting for later.

The same problem bit me multiple times when pretty-printing nested data structures. There's often an arbitrary limit to the depth the printer recurse to and/or the number of elements that get displayed, with the rest hidden behind "..." or something similar. No matter what number you pick, sooner or later you're going to get a case where you miss a really interesting/important piece of information because it got hidden. And if you try to change the default, you're going to get a case where you miss important info because you couldn't be bothered to scroll that far up...

Anyway: you're right, this is bad, but also pretty common. Though in this particular case it's really bad, because most of the column width is taken by irrelevant data. Replacing `<function '` with λ would already help a lot.
It varies state-to-state. Texas allows "2-for-$2" and "1-for-$1.50" in the same store at the same time.
I knew something was missing. I tried Googling but couldn't remember the name. This was it! Ahhh, wow.
>Write sth. about programming and you shall be forgiven

Have you noticed how HN is dramatically less about tech lately?

What is it right now? Loaves of bread? Hikaru/Chess? Virtually every programming topic is some 'i produced a new programming language that nobody needs'

Tons of politics, but that is what is specifically hacker news right now. That we are in the center of a cyber world war that just went hot. What country doesnt have a cyber army? Which country hasn't suddenly invested big into cyber security and semiconductors?

In a draft blog I laid out the case for this cyber world war.

Incidentally my work blog currently being written(to be published in a month or 2 because of backlog) is about me analyzing the public/free threatfeeds in the same way. My discoveries are shocking. Talos' public threatfeed says world war.

I did all this in python :)
Im 99% sure the wife in this story used the glass as an excuse to get out.

If youre happy with the life youve built together and love your partner theres no way you leave it over something like this.

I dont buy the "it shows disrespect" argument.

Shes going to be with somebody else in a years time.

But when youre in a bad situation and the other person isn't giving you a good reason to leave sometimes you have to get creative.

Ive done it, and its been done to me.
Yeah based on the article I think the racism was a feature, not a bug.
Is it fire-and-forget (like Ansible) or desired-state (like Salt)?
+1.
I miss it dearly, but unfortunately couldn't make the various AWS log shapes work as nicely as the Java ones did.
I wrote a utility to copy small files from Linux -> DOS over a LapLink cable.

https://github.com/dmeybohm/ppcopy

I used it to fix a Windows 98 laptop that wasn't booting all the way to Windows. The would boot to a DOS prompt only, there was no CD-ROM driver, and I only had a Windows 98 install CD. So, there was no to re-install Windows to fix it.

So I wrote the assembly copier for the parallel port. I think it was about 200-500 bytes. Then I used dos DEBUG.EXE to write the hexadecimal code for the program into memory and then write the .COM program to disk. Surprisingly, I didn't make any mistakes (or any that mattered...) and it worked the first time. I had also done a checksum in the copy program in case I screwed it up. But it took about an hour to write the program into DOS debug.exe.
I think, when you are over 80, safety becomes much less important to yourself and much more important to others. Taking a risk as an 80 year old isn't a big deal because you are staring death in the face anyways. All of a sudden your priorities change.

However, when we see old folks, a lot of us rightfully want to protect them. I can't imagine how frustrating it would be to be treated like a Ming Vase when you just want to live life as much as possible in the few years left to you.
What about the BBC?
> If you search for lenses for "real" cameras with those apertures and focal lengths, you'll find 4 digit price tags for each one.

The aperture is relative to the diameter of the first lens element. So you can’t just compare these values directly.
It's both. I try to exert some good influence where I can, but in general I do worry a lot about that particular friend.
Linux support IP over the same cable, it's known as PLIP, parallel-port Internet. It was the only way to access the outside world on my Toshiba T1800 laptop. However it wasn't fast (23 kB/s IIRC) and it completely bogged down the host (no hardware acceleration there).

There were experimental work on "8-bit PLIP", but the hardware wasn't very standard and in my testing it wasn't actually faster in practice. There was also some kind of DMA standard for the parallel port, but I don't think anyone succeeded in exploiting it for PLIP.

The who PLIP experience gave me a new appreciation for IBM's hardware accelerated "channels" concept - something we never got with x86 given its origin.
Focusing for macro is definitely a painstaking process. That's why they invented equipment to help like focus rails[0]. At macro sizes, the focus ring on the lens is just not going to help get that final focus. Instead, the camera is physically moved closer/further from the subject to get final focus. With the super shallow depth of field, millimeters matter so these rails allow you to make very tiny adjustments.

[0]https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1532833-REG/dot_line_...
>I don't think Carlsen would actually give up the title to Nakamura without a match.

Oh ya I agree, I think such a competition would be amazing.
Japanese Sandwiches Are Beautiful to Look at and Even Better to Eat
I think us zealots have been clear on this from the start: centralized, custodial exchanges are not crypto. Please come down on them HARD.
we need to end the drug war and create more open borders between NAFTA signatories.
> The author opens with the example of finding the antiderivative of xn. When n ≠ -1 the antiderivative is another power function, but when n = -1 it’s a logarithm.

What a neat limit. Probably best to leave the powerfn/logfn() as a dumb symbolic symbol until the end (until after later parameter substitution)?
I wonder what your statement would be if a hacker compromised the hot wallet and drained all of the funds?