skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> PNG is “lossless” meaning, you can save (nearly) all of the original data.

I was under the impression that no data was lost in PNG. Anyone know why the author added that (nearly) in there? Does it maybe have to do with bit depth? Are there cameras shooting in more than 16 bit depth?
You're being uncharitable. I read it as a way for a person to prove they took the video, not as a database of person<->signing key. In other words, the government would only be able to see that video 123 was signed by signature 456. It would be up to the poster to prove they own the camera that produced signature 456.
Some localities, especially with HOAs, forbid what you are doing.
And in 1812 the UK was the US's biggest trading partner. And that created major tensions in the US, with New England almost threatening secession over it. But the war still happened.
I'm guessing it's from Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics.
I'm sorry, but I'd missed where sto_hristo made the case that there is a "one-size-fits-all solution".

Could you point that out to me?

Thanks.
You mean zig, right? Zig is allocator-agnostic. It's hard (but not impossible) to implement type-specific allocators in Rust, and if you want the same type to take context-dependent allocator types, or context-dependent allocator instances, it's much , much harder, if I'm not mistaken. And the default way of programming Rust doesn't really tolerate allocation failures (which you might run up against with fixed memory slabs)
The funny thing is that when this was first proposed by the EU, the connector they proposed was the USB-Mini connector. Imagine if that had been successful.
> That being said, do we want to think of corporations as being a special part of our lives? It's our responsibility to provide meaning for ourselves. It's a company's responsibility to deliver maximum value to their shareholders. To tell stories that extract the most money from your pocket in merchandising and other revenue sources. Why romanticize it?

At this point you aren't just attacking Disney adults. You're attacking fandom in general. I don't have a problem with that, but some people who value fandom as participants or exploiters might.

Then again, I kinda grew up on Final Fantasy; I just don't make a big deal about in public or make the mistake of thinking Square-Enix gives a damn about me.
The main value in releasing tools like this is to demonstrate weakness in our current security controls. A key weakness of biometrics is that there is no secret data. Open source tooling like this help people understand that.
>I think it does, or can. Because I think it opens the field for more exploration.

I somewhat disagree. I think the best solution is for payers (single or not) to set prices based on quality adjusted life years (QALY). This is done in some single payer markets and makes a lot of sense as it couples incentives with impact.

While cooperate Pharma pays most of R&D costs, Fundamental (extremely early) research is usually still publicly funded through academia. This is where the possible solutions to Z come from.

The "problem" is that R&D spend can have more impact (lives saved) on mainstream diseases than rare diseases. Public-funding/ownership doesn't solve this fundamental issue. You can direct funding to rare diseases by decree, but you are still saving fewer lives than you would otherwise.
Eutectic System
But the built in camera is already decent though?
> sort of thing I’d expect from a programmer!

Well, this is still called Hacker News. Am I in the wrong place?

Anyway... you've created many strawmen here, where should I start?

> you decide to leave? Then what?

My "hiring" for it would imply defining a proper budget for it and a set of conditions negotiated a priori. It's not really "I will just do the job myself", I'm talking about "ok, you are willing to pay $80k/month to have this solved. Here are the 5 other different plans and solutions that we can implement and that will cost less than that, which one gets the go-ahead from upper management?"

> make a mistake that takes 24 hours to fix: that’s thousands of people unable to work

It's still coming out ahead of Github that took 11 days to solve?

Also, what is that joke about HackerNews overloading with traffic whenever there is a github outage? Or that one of how half of the internet GDP being tied to AWS?

Seriously though, the answer would be "you don't migrate everyone at once". You'd start with these migrations on a project-by-project basis, starting with the less critical projects on the new system and slowly weaning off on your dependency of the big vendor.

Bonus: by migrating your systems you will have some kind of redundancy. If GH goes down, the teams could use the opportunity to move to the new system. It it works, the teams gain confidence and can accelerate the migration. It it doesn't, it becomes an opportunity to learn something out of a sunk cost.

> If I had 10k people, and I could pay $50k to offload ownership of some critical infrastructure to a third party

Paying $50k is not giving you any guarantee that your business is robust. You are just paying for CYA.
>but I get the feeling it could've happened with any muscle-memoried password.

I can confirm this. Many years ago I had to type for the first time a password on a classmate's iPhone (smartphones were just beginning to become common). The problem was that I didn't really know that password: what I remembered was a shape I was "drawing" onto the keyboard, which involved the numeric keypad... You see were this is going. That event was the one that led me to finally properly memorize that password.
Good.

Reminds me of the Bill Burr bit about Steve Jobs: «New phone can't fit the old charger. This is your hero?»

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3s-qZsjK8I
The problem is it still requires mental load to switch in and out of that conversation.

You also create inequality on the team since threads rewards the fastest to reply. This is a lot easier to manage on a Zoom call.
> if it fits, it works

No, that was already not the case with USB 3 devices not working when plugged in a USB 1 slot.
Not made easy when some computer or hub have both USB 3 and USB 1 port on the same machine and you must remember the color code.

I recall that one time when I tried to configure the bios of a computer and the keyboard wouldn't work in the bios because it was connected to the "wrong" usb port that was not powered in that stage of the boot
Wasn't USB-C power delivery spec 600pages long on release?

And now with the addition of the 48volt high power charging mode it is even longer with more requirements.
It came because it was somewhere inspired. WWW was the initial spark. And it could have only come in some big time, blue sky lab.
Why Windows? Why not ReactOS?
One Startup's Struggle to Survive Silicon Valley's Gold Rush
Everyone's working on emotional expressiveness right now. Many researches published left & right!
We need more color codes and symbols maybe?
I'll bet they are interacting with hnews through some sort of 3rd party client, and meant to reply to some other thread and something got borked
Pretty much all the tools I use on a daily basis have arm64 builds now, so I haven't used Rosetta since the early days of having my M1.

The biggest gap I have as a developer is Docker support. I have some projects that produce x86 builds using a Docker container, for example. Docker uses qemu for its emulation layer, and unfortunately it's pretty unstable. I frequently get qemu core dumps, and when it does work it's slow. To get around this, I shell into a Linux box to do this type of stuff.
And SEA-ME-WE-5 too apparently.

I had a Wiocc outage on London-Kenya last night, didn't think much about it, maybe they rerouted from break last night, and that's why I had such big problems today

If they both went together than that feels like an anchor, if one went last night and another today that's a nasty coincidence. I'm not sure which is worse.
What!!! The average American's views absolutely have a huge impact on foreign policy... Why would you assume it's different in China?
It may not be fully compliant to the spec but it does always charge in my experience. It will charge eventually from most any usb-c charger, including Apple's. But, a docked switch requires 15V and not all chargers will provide it, or maybe they just don't provide it to the off-spec switch. Similar story with the HDMI output of the dock. It took a bit of research to buy a charger and HDMI adapter that work with both my switch and macbook, but it was possible and it's nice for travel.
Well it’s a liquid. My understanding of fuel cells is they need an ionic exchange membrane that the hydrogen nuclei pass through while the electrons do some work in a circuit to the other side. At the very least this gives us an idea of how being better able to search quantum interactions/“scenes” just might make a lot of technological impossible s suddenly possible.
This isn’t the same thing at all.
From the FAQ:

>> Why?

> I would like to be able to use Clojure libraries from Common Lisp.
Maybe biometric login isn’t a bad idea, since you’ll have your fingerprint
How I use Backdoor Adjustment to measure effects when AB test is impossible
My company's retention policy deletes emails after 6 months, as well as Teams chat logs. So unless we create docs in Sharepoint (who has time to add another layer of documentation?), everything becomes ephemeral at some point. Like tears in rain...
>> Does this apply to nuclear weapons? To biological weapons?

That may not be a fair comparison. Nuclear weapons are difficult to make, and using them will not go undetected - the damage would be enormous. Deep fakes are a real threat today, and anyone willing to pay for the expertise (which isn't that hard to find) can have them made. By putting this out there, deepfakes are now something almost anyone can make which means the threat is imminent and needs to be addressed. I understand the argument, but still not sure about it. Just wanted to say it's different than nuclear weapons.
Not to be confused with Joy, the stack-oriented programming language:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy_(programming_language)
There might be some methods that could be considered using AI to figure our how the model works, like distillation or I think I've heard of simultaneously training feature maps along with a classifier.

Those don't get around the fact that placing constraints on how the model can make its decision (by requiring that they have human interpretable explanations) limits the kinds of model that are available, and can limit performance. So the rule is more a slightly more advanced analogy of telling people they need to make a rubric with a list of factors, and then a weighing for each, and use that to make credit decisions.
Oh, we need to show a better photo of this but there is a point on the note where the claimer needs to physically cut the note which trips a tamper sensor in the chip.
The $100K+ forgery scandal that’s roiling PC game collecting
The primary purpose of the SEC is to enforce the law against market manipulation.

Their job is to regulate not allocate. They aren't here to pick winners or losers they only control who is allowed and not allowed to take money and from whom.

SEC protects investors cause investors from its perspective need protecting. It is like a father looking out for his kids. Some of us don't think we are kids that need protecting.
Nice software. Pity the hosting is so slow (I remember 2400 baud, and it's not that slow, but in the modern world it's slow); wonder if the author accepts donations to make it faster.

That said, the SystemRescue download from sourceforge was slower.. ended up finding a torrent and checking the SHA.
I don't have the impression that they're doing anything specifically to make it hard. But right now users would have to pirate Windows in order to run it on Apple Silicon hardware, so it's hard to argue for an official solution. And they're not currently publishing specs in the open that would really speed it along.

But the Asahi Linux developers say Apple is helping in some measure[1], so it doesn't seem likely that they're hostile to running Windows on these devices.

[1](https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1471799568807636994)
I usually try to buy devices with detachable IEC 60320[1] mains cable. So when I move to a different country I only need to change the cables and not the devices.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEC_60320
The limitation may be on the windows side due to their exclusivity agreements with qualcomm.
Flip the ship around and thrust
> 1000g (ml)

Water has a density of 1 g/mL, most other fluids we ingest are close, but gallium weighs 5g per milliliter and platinum over 20 g/ml.

In purely mechanical considerations, 1000 ml of platinum would weigh 21.4 kg or almost 50 lbs. I'm not a doctor, but I imagine the stomach is not able to hold that much weight!
Conservatism in 2022 is about the "right" to be indifferent to those outside your immediate social circle. Nothing facilitates this more than the car and car-dependent suburbia.
I think the biggest cause is actually high rates of child mortality. Humans have more children when there is a higher chance those children might not survive.
> That's a strawman

The fallacy is to say that we can't have legalized polyamory because it's negative for the children, while we allow sistemic issues to have a much greater negative effect on said children.

> and nobody is abolishing your civil rights

Hello Texas? What are we even talking about?

> Civil rights don't mean you can do whatever you want.

I never said this, but if you needed to remind yourself of it go ahead.
Amazon has officially rescinded their 2-day Prime delivery offer. If you look into Prime delivery page, there is no longer mention of 2-day. There is Amazon day (once a week) instead.

Depending on where you are and what you are ordering, they can bring it faster, but for most orders 5-7 days is the new norm.
Embryos are without a question human. So is my little toe. The question is whether they are persons.

The importance of the topic doesn't make it impossible to be polemic. I can talk about a very serious topic and be polemic and I can also talk about a trivial matter and not be polemic. The question of polemic is decided by contentious rhetoric.

Equating embryos with children and abortion with murder is polemic.
We don't have pricing ready just yet -- think something in the range of an Opendime.
They're not making it hard but they are definitely not wanting to expose any details of their implementation of aarch64 to any would-be ARM hardware competitors.

They have about a 3 year lead as I see it on performance/watt.
I think it would actually be better if climate related patents had an ultra short lifetime. In an ideal world all these innovations would be copyleft style. But short patent life might bring the best of both worlds.
Have you tried using an Apple USB-C cable? They're much higher quality than the random cables you get off Amazon.
That’s not wrong so much as it is misguided. If revenue is 1 and cogs is 1 then you don’t actually have any money to spare.

The metric is not useful to the point you’re making.
It was fun while it lasted. Being too lazy to try their offering, Insomnia provided a quick interface.

Didn't take them long to wise up to the game as this message is now being returned:
"error": "Your API call looks good. Now make sure to make it using a DigitalOcean Function :)"
I'm ok if my life doesn't get disrupted every 2 years with a new type of incompatible connection between my devices.

Maybe we could put all that innovation and consumer inconvenience into resolving climate change.
for fuel cells not really, for the electrolysis part (ie generation of hydrogen) it could be interesting
> I think in many ways, the continued evolution of technology will turn back the clock on progress in other areas of our lives.

I don't disagree that it can have that effect.

Just to note: this use of "turn back the clock" is quite distinct from "turn back the clock on technology".

> Assuming this is solved not by banning the tech but by making progress elsewhere, some pretty worrisome implications come with that.

My point was not that we can make progress elsewhere to solve resulting problems (we can) but that we can also not use the technology in the "inevitable" bad way. It happens!

> One antidote to deepfakes would be even more progress on identity verification and tracking the source of digital media for purposes of authentication / validity.

One other antidote (of many I'm sure) would be to do less identity verification in the first place.
The quote was real!

"He is a great master, ran the usual critical line, but he cannot restrain his overweening imagination, his chilly intellectualism, his too many notes."

I cannot recommend Swafford's biographies on Mozart, Brahms and Beethoven highly enough.

https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/jan-swafford/moza...

https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/jan-swafford/beet...

https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/jan-swafford/joha...
> Damn straight I do, holy shit. Safari is a staunch, immovable obstruction.

Of course, it isn't

> And it being fixed & forced upon people is vulgar decrepit shit. And people are gaga for this prison they are trapped in.

Ah yes. The more emotional outrage you poor into your rants, the more people will agree with you. Not.

Here's a counterfactual point to your rants: https://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2021/08/breaking_th...
Biden using Defense Production Act to make more solar panels
ASML also makes their high end lithography machines (the ones that cost $100M+ a pop) in Connecticut, USA: https://www.asml.com/en/company/about-asml/locations/wilton-...
In my days we would have said, not all images are vector based - some are raster based.
Interconnected yes, centralized somewhere out of your control? preferably no.

In this case, you don't want to be dependent on one geopolitically unstable island. If there is a war, it won't be the EU's decision to start/stop it. You'd want China to be dependent on EU and vice versa, to make it costly to start a war. But if China has nothing to loose by attacking Taiwan and the West would loose all advanced electronics... This is not going to bring any kind of stability. You might only be forced to buy those chips from China, giving the potential aggressor even more leverage (and money)
Well, what you are saying doesn't add up because no one is really asking for 1-2 years of parental leave.
I find the Emacs source code pretty nicely structured and easy to understand (the good commenting helps), especially for something so old.
>> I can’t see a way this technology could be used defensively. Wide access just leads to more abuse. There’s no principle by which it serves some sort of justice to make some crime more accessible.

Should that argument be made to the original research? I don't think it applies to one but not the other.
Can't microsoft work on this instead?

I don't get it.
blast as in criticize I assume

When I entered the workplace in 2003 I was lucky to get a peg for my coat, had to hot-desk during the day - there were 6 people on shift but only 4 computers. You'd go out to fix a printer or something and when you came back to base someone's taken your place

The Dilbert world of the time had cubicles, it was glorious. 3 years later the IT crowd had an entire room with just 2 people in, with their own phones, computers, desks etc.

Now of course I'm in a far more senior position and no longer deal with printers (literally have a high-viz saying "We don't do printers"). If I went into the office I'd still have to hot desk, although only on a per-day basis.
> Pure math for its own purpose is for a select few.

There is a vast swath of research effort directed to modern geometrical foundations of physics that look pretty much like pure math.
Trying this on my own lexer, increasing the channel buffer size from 10 (which is what it is now) to 512 almost doubles the runtime speed(!) I tried some other values, and it seems that about 5 to 15 is the "optimal size".

The input file the author uses is about 1M in size, and most of my inputs are much smaller (which is realistic for my use case); my feeling is that it's due to this, but I didn't verify; I'll have to check later and maybe set a more dynamic size based on the size of the input.

The lesson here is what we should (hopefully!) all know already: benchmark these changes because what works brilliant in situation A may be detrimental in situation B.
Common pitfalls for Covid-19 detection using deep learning on medical images
> but it has no direct means of manipulating Bitcoin.

Imagine I am the director of Tether.

I print $1 billion in Tether out of thin air.

I then buy bitcoin with it on a UST/BTC exchange.

Bitcoin price goes up.
I'm a bit shocked that it would even be possible for a third party to implement such a thing without rebuilding Windows itself. Is it a matter of implementing "device drivers"?
40°C in that regard is room temperature
Tangentially related, since I had the (mis)fortune of having to write production code in 20+ languages over the years - not necessarily deep but not one-line-change-hackjob surface level either, more of the kind that requires to get to grips with fundamentals of the language at good enough level for code to be known reliable - I contemplated writing a series of articles about what made a given language feel like what it is at its core, how some syntax features, first-class items, data structures or object model, hierarchy design, conspire to make Ruby Rubyesque, Python pythonic, LISP lispy... reaching not to style, not to function, but to essence.

The end goal was not just theoretical but pragmatic, as giving in to the language and adapting my thought process seemed in my experience to increase productivity, reliability, and maintainability by several orders of magnitude, in connection with non-programming languages and linguistic relativity.
Exactly. It's not unusual to end up with more toil on the automation than you had in the manual process.
Apple has stated that they won't stand in the way of Microsoft porting Windows to M1 Macs[0], and indeed M-series Macs have the bits needed to boot alternative operating systems that M-series iDevices lack. Currently Microsoft only licenses Windows for ARM to device makers (and potentially has an exclusivity agreement with Qualcomm[1]) and has stated that they don't support Windows on M-series. The ball in is Microsoft's court on this one.

[0]: https://9to5mac.com/2020/11/20/windows-can-run-natively-m1-m...
[1]: https://www.xda-developers.com/qualcomm-exclusivity-deal-mic...
A lot of what people complain about in white-collar offices have been problems people've complained about effectively since such offices started to become common (the 1950s). Including how little actual work is required for most companies to function, and how much of "working" is just presenteeism.

And actually, some things have gotten worse. I think requirements for natural light used to be much stricter in older buildings (that's where you get all those u-shaped ones) so you were more likely to be near a window, for instance.
A decade of basically zero interest rates. Can't they borrow the money?
I think that maybe the previous poster was trying to say that recent versions of Krita are more stable, i.e. they crash less often. This has been my experience. Should you try Krita again, I recommend installing a recent release (5+), even if it's not yet available through Ubuntu's official packages yet. Hopefully you'll have a more pleasant experience!
If you like ad absurdum arguments: if you connect the countries together so much, they eventually decide to become one country and the chance of war goes down, not up (excluding civil war)