skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've always wondered how you manage this (2) tech-wise.

Here are my contradictory hypotheses:
- I don't expect to find the code for such features in the open-source repo
- I guess you dogfood your own product and therefore host exactly what you publish in your open-source repo

How do you "plug" these closed-source features to the product? I've always been curious of this as I strongly believe in this way of doing business for a SaaS.

PS: amazing company ~you've built~ you're building, GG ;)
Reading the title my first thought was "wow! they are still using this Pentium II CPUs". Then I learned what PII is...
Japan swelters in worst heatwave since 1875
92M US workers now have the opportunity to work remotely: survey
I built a small SaaS over the weekend
Alternative: unregulated curency like we used to have before the last few decades. Like cryptocurrencies.
Uncyclopedia and SCP come to mind.
tunnel all the Tor traffic out through a VPN? I feel like there's probably a bunch of servers operating like that for legit reasons. they'd probably assume you're just seeding torrents or something.

you can do the same trick to connect to it from home - VPN use is common. you'd want a burner laptop, of course, and some physical box preventing the laptop from hitting anything other than the VPN.

I've thought about setting this kind of thing up for fun. you could get really fancy - talking to some hopbox through Tor where you script up actions to take asynchronously, to defeat timing attacks.
The other answers miss the point.

A flip flop can be calibrated to the difference potentials of thr input. You have zero and one as a result, no processing required. Single bit, single voltage. Simple.

Think about what it means to map a single voltage input to multiple bits. What device would do it? A complex ADC? Think of the overhead that would introduce.
The Assassins' Creed video game franchise weaves real history to it's fictional story line. Playing the game or watching the game movies on YouTube can yield interesting Wikipedia rabbit holes.
I've heard of neovim, tried it out when it first came around, and decided that trying to cobble together a new set of plugins and adapt my configs ain't worth it.

Vim works fine and is consistently being updated with all sorts of features stemming from Neovim's development. I think it's great to have competition but I won't bother unless Vim ceases development, something I don't think will happen anytime soon yet.
How many installations SQLite has is not that relevant in a discussion of
SQLite vs full RDMS.

By your example, a bank should use SQLite because it is deployed widely.

You have to look where they are deployed and the use cases.
They also come with dramatically different tooling which make sa huge difference. More tooling does not mean that a full RDMS is a better choice:

It is just about what you need, what use case you need to cover and
what industry you are in.
I'd guess that many of those irc users connect through a matrix service these days
Have you tried libvips? I've found it much more pleasant to use than ImageMagick. And the maintainer has insanely short response time
There is no "the law", laws are local things. If a teen uploads their sex tape that may be legal where they are.
Switzerland has direct democracy as an escape hatch.
I disagree:

Postgres and SQLite are very different in several aspects, e.g.

- types and enforcing type safety

- handling concurrency and transactions (available isolation levels)

- functions / procedures

- array support

Postgres can be much more valuable than just using it for "relational data storage". Its features can be a good reason for choosing it from the beginning.
I like to use tabs too and think modern editors offer enough to not make different tab stop sizes a real problem.

I wonder what the opinion of python programmers is on this though.
alright, experienced Turk here. I have been living abroad almost 8 years already... Ask me anything...
I was replying to your statement, not OP's

> If you work as a software developer, as an employee, for a company, then your employer will provide everything: computer, infrastructure, software you need.

This blanket statement is not accurate
Every year I visit various ww1 battle sites in northern France and Italy. We walk through endless farm lands to find information about certain events.
We often stumble upon ammunition and steel scrap. The land is literally filled with shells, bullets, scrapnel everywhere. Some are still live and just brought to the top of the soil by farm tractor machinery.
The amount of shells fired at the battle of as Verdun is so extremely high that you find layers of shells everywhere. For months millions of shells were fired in a 20 square km area. It will take hundreds of years to clean them up. 900 years in some places.
A few years ago I found in the middle of farmland a lot of unexploded bullets still in their clips. After searching a bit more we found also various fragments of helmets and bajonets, leather belts and more. It turned out to be a French defense unit, completely destroyed and burried under layers of mud only to be discovered 100 years later.
Yea, very high quality, and focused on the most important big picture issues.
Did You Miss My Comment or What? Understand Toxicity in Open Source Discussion
Imagine a traveler from an alternate universe getting fed up by editors constantly rolling back their edit of A to E in Berenstein, and just documenting everything they remember from their prior life.
> prevent sex trafficking on their site.

How exactly does an electronic video platform stop the forced movement of physical people?
I agree with you. However "seems self-defeating to me" I think is kind of the point of his essay: instead of letting your deficiencies defeat you, accept them then throw yourself at improving yourself with that acceptance behind you.
Do you have any references to these oddities? Always fun to think about things like this, but can't find much about it.
The trend is in the opposite direction.

About two decades back, I knew a B-list Hollywood director who wanted that. He'd found out that Reboot, the first all CG cartoon show, took a staff of about 30 people to produce an episode each week. . He wanted to be able to make a movie with about $10 million and maybe 50 people. Because then he could direct. Making a $100 million movie with a thousand people on staff is project management. He was spending far more time in meetings than on-set.

That didn't happen, though. Productivity did not go up for Hollywood. Movies became all big scenes, all the time. Production costs went through the roof. TV shows had to upgrade to production values previously seen only in film. Movies are now made twice, once as "pre-visualization" to get approval to spend the money for the full version. Look at the end credits scroll by on a effects movie. There's no longer a cast of thousands, there's a staff of thousands. Since nobody can afford a failure, everything is a predictable sequel.
IANAL, nor 2A case law buff...but given the Troubles of 7 February 1991 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downing_Street_mortar_attack ) - and much other mischief that they'd be "just the thing" for - I suspect that U.S. law enforcement could be very interested in private owners of mortars.
Improving stability in two-dimensional transistors by Fermi-level tuning
Do they have support?

I thought they just had guys that bought you coffee and the odd cake until you had handed over the cash, and then you never see or hear from them again.
So how much endorphins are released by intense exercise, and how much are introduced by opioid abuse?
According to https://www.linode.com/pricing/ a shared instance with 2GB of RAM and 1CPU is $10/month. I don't know how much a principal engineer at twilio makes but I'm pretty sure this wasn't a cost effective optimization...
It's also a bit weird not to talk about indexing? Are sqlite and Postgresql similar enough that the same indexing strategy should be used?
Always been the main problem with concentrated solar.
It's "Watership Down".
Keyword: 贴游 or 文游

Scenario simulations based on eu4, hoi4 battles (possibly with mods), both teams would setoff by a historical event, also external events would affect the progress.

It's a somewhat popular online sport & sub-culture in China. People go to extremes for historical "accuracy" or just for the sake of it. Tons of memes are generated without people noticing.

In this example, Zhemao can claim something like "I should have extra 2000 silver starting at my castle because check out this wikipedia article". She surely have played many games in her favor.

Her apology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:%E6%8A%98%E6%AF%9B
When were you a child? In the late eightees, I happily played with Lego that had grey swords for knights in grey castles, and pirate themed stuff with brown guns, and cannons that were grey and brown. Lots of green base plates, too.
> Personally the war I fight now, the one I imaging to be "winnable
enough" is about personal data

So you're a fighter. {{brotherly hugs}}

Your comment yesterday was bugging me. Today I feel happier. Yes,
things are bleak with rising technofascism, but I sincerely think it
thrives on ignorance, apathy and defeatism. And those are beatable
demons.

> That's a thing I advertise to anyone: do your best to have local
tools and data.

Telling other people, helping educate and inform, spreading
possibilities, these are really important things.

> There is not only a single war, but many.

All great victories are about insignificant people doing their bit.
Don't worry about the grand strategy, it's too big to see. Rest in the
knowledge that somewhere else another hacker is doing their bit, and
all these little wars together add up to something positive for
humanity.

respects
> eventually even pictures and videos will become increasingly indistinguishable from that produced by real humans operating in the real world.

I was just thinking the other day that Rick and Morty's interdimensional cable could become a real thing. Not through having infinite dimensions, but because it's not that far fetched now to think "A hard hitting cop show in a universe where man evolved from corn" could be a prompt you give to AIlexa or NetflAIx and it'll just spit out a whole show for you.

I'm not envisaging this as a utopia of good screenwriting...
So, I have looked around and refreshed what I've read, and what I've saw. Let me try to summarize.

In short, the controller you are referring to as defines what you can send to the screen and what not, in other words, it gives you a capability ceiling, but the capability is not inside the controller. In your words, it defines the capability maximum for "waveform table processing".

On the other hand, the controllers you have are sitting ducks without these waveforms (which my mind conventionally renamed them to wave functions, well because they're waves, and they're defined as functions, and my brain is all hazy because everything I read, sorry about that).

These waveforms allows us to reach from a state to a state, generally in page scope, so you generally refresh the page completely. I understand that partial refreshes are also possible, but I don't know how they're implemented, exactly. My Kobo does it rather elegantly, but it might be pushing whole-screen updates too. Anyways.

[0] contains a PDF file which details how to process a waveform table, probably sold as a part of a screen by Waveshare. It details how to interpret the file, and how to make use of the data in the flash file, and drive the screen in most efficient/correct manner. It details gray levels, some special functions for maximizing blackness, etc.

[1] contains the article which brought me to the entrance of the rabbit hole. They give the basic details how they're software defined and controller can use many available waveforms, and you need to license them separately from the controller itself.

[2] is a product page for an eInk display, and it briefly mentions that the image quality you can get it both dependent on the controller and the waveform file you gonna get.

At the end of the day, yes you gonna need a panel controller to talk to your display properly, but what you can do and can't do with it is codified inside the waveform file you get with your device, and it's decoupled from the controller itself.

I guess it's possible that the controller you have can be too primitive to interpret or execute the waveform you have at hand, but vice versa is possible. i.e. your waveform is more primitive than the controller's capability ceiling, and despite having the best controller, you can't get most of the both your controller and your screen.

As a last note, [3] contains a reverse engineering effort and project for these waveforms, which I was not aware of before.

[0]: https://www.waveshare.net/w/upload/c/c4/E-paper-mode-declara...

[1]: https://goodereader.com/blog/e-paper/e-ink-waveforms-are-a-c...

[2]: https://www.eink.com/product.html?type=productdetail&id=1

[3]: https://hackaday.io/project/21168-fpga-eink-controller/log/5...
Thanks! If you have feedback or questions once you tried it out, reach out any times :)
>>Appparently the story is that USA can't lay roads

Also high speed rail lines.
Even if I had merely one e-mail account, I would make the switch, because Thunderbird is simply no BS and 10 times faster to work with, once you know what you are doing.
I'm not opposed to giving parents the tools to shelter their children from whatever they consider inappropriate content, I'm just saying I don't think forcing age verification via credit cards is the way to go.
'Russian Salad' on the menu at NATO summit cafe in Madrid raises eyebrows
Ublock Origin

Can't imagine surfing web without it!

Skimfeed

Amazing news aggregator

Slack

Best for teams communication
> Although, I guess the current SCOTUS isn't above ignoring precedent that is popular with the people.

I assume you are referring to roe v wade, which is a case of where the precedent was wrong ín the first place (Abortion was pretty much banned everywhere in common law, so there was no precedent of it being an unenumerated right, for example) and was kept as a precedent because it was a precedent (ignoring the lack of underlying constitutionality)
Are they now redirecting (from scp-wiki.net and scpwiki.com) to the Wikidot URL for SEO?
Product Chart: A new way to discover products
> I’m pretty sure PCIe isn’t 5V. Probably more like 1.8V, so already starting with a much smaller range.

I'm fairly sure the most modern PCIe standards are all the way down to 1.2V. Prior to 1.2V it was 1.5V, 1.8V, 2.5V, and back in the days of the original spec it was 3.3V. I can't remember exactly what versions speced what voltages.
Trying to use Thunderbird in the corporate world was frustrating - but just for two reasons:

1) Accepted recurring calendar events that started in the past would pop up reminders that could not be dismissed (they would just pop up again immediately).

2) Thunderbird had problems embedding meeting links in the calendar event (especially, if the meeting was rescheduled), so you'd have to go find the original meeting invite email.

For those two reasons, I ended up installing Outlook to handle corporate stuff while TB took care of everything else.

I see from the release notes that these two issues have been worked on so I'll have to see what happens when I re-add my corporate account again; it will be great if the calendar is fixed.
Hopefully this is just bits/bytes confusion, and you're seeing 100 megabyte/second downloads and all is well? Or are you looking to do better than gigE?

It's pretty unusual to actually have cat5 and not cat5e or at least cable marked as cat5 but substantially exceeding the specs.

Only the most recent 'multigig 2.5/5g/10g' ethernet devices actually do anything approaching measuring the quality of your lines. Standards compliant 1g and 10g equipment will be happy to negotiate to the highest shared standard over a 2-pair cable through the 1mbps link pulse data and then be unable to communicate ethernet frames if pairs are missing or the wiring isn't sufficient quality for the encoding. Although some drivers compensate and reduce the advertised capabilities when there is no data exchanged after negotiation completes.

It usually takes active steps to negotiate down to 100M with gigE equipment.

All that said, 100M/100M is still a pretty solid experience if that's what you can get.

As for getting people on board, you'd need to get an idea of the cost, and then probably propose it to the HOA board and/or at a meeting. Expect most people not to really care though. 100M gets you 5x solid video streams (netflix and/or video conferencing), and in a dense condo building, wifi speeds are going to be less than that due to spectrum congestion anyway.
Ask HN: Possible to generate AI photorealistic avatars with webcam facetracking?
I had never heard of ToonApp until recently and it's pretty phenomenal. The AI that it's using to generate cartoons is so artistic and detailed. All of the vtuber and face filter software (snap cam, animaze) I see around looks like pretty basic face tracking without any AI and not very photo realistic. Are there any technical reasons why someone couldn't build vtuber software but with ToonApp level of photorealistic AI? Seems like that would be insane!!?? Why can't AI just generate something near the level of CodeMiko?
Well, you obviously haven't faced the problem I am trying to solve here. So there's not point in convincing you.

Still, for other potential wanderers into the graveyard of Show HN, I have to dispute that the tool is no improvement over using a text editor. I have, of course, tried that, and even spreadsheets. And it did not work at all for the task at hand.

1. When using a text editor (or a spreadsheet even), you need to keep moving the cursor to add a score. With a text editor, you even have to add some separation character after it, like a tab, if you want to be able to use the result as a TSV. And then, you need to backtrack, and move to the next line. One mistake and you end up with a score like 33, or your score lands on the wrong line, which you then have to fix. This all takes up cognitive load and distracts you from the scoring task. No biggie perhaps when you're scoring your 7 item shopping list. But when you're scoring 200 Hacker News comments by, say, dismissiveness, it gets frustrating really fast.

2. With a text editor (or a spreadsheet even), you visual field is filled with lots of items at the same time. You have to make a mental effort to focus on the one item you are labeling right now. Again, cognitive load.

3. A "line" of text can run quite long. In a text editor, you have the choice of long lines being cut off or wrapped. If they are cut off, it's hard to score them. And if they are wrapped, it's quite difficult to tell where one "line" ends and the next one starts. So you can't even use any fixed rhythm for moving the cursor after typing in your score ("left left down"). Because, if the current "line" is short, you need to move "down" just once to get to the next item. But if the current "line" got wrapped, you may need to move "down" twice, or many times, to get the the next item.

All of that being said:

The site has been hit by quite some traffic from this post. Still, I did not receive any form of feedback. So it appears that the itch it's scratching is only my own.
Yes, flatpak exists, and its a better system than all the other desktop OSs.
Stopping alcohol and stimulant use almost entirely. The way I see it, psychoactive substances induce different modalities of thinking. The fewer modalities we have, the better preserved are our memories.

Unfortunately, I am an obligate coffee drinker. I find that need it to keep pace with work, so I am not running optimally under my own framework, but it's a locally bound sacrifice I make. To try to keep "modalities" stable, I just drink much less and only at a specific hour in the morning, and with food to slightly decrease uptake. It's a work in progress, but it has helped tremendously, specifically with memory.
Decrapify cookie consent dialogs with the Consent-O-Matic
Not to mention gray spaceships galore.
It would not really count as native speakers, because Talmud scholars didn't learn the language from birth, and would only use it for certain purposes rather than general communication. It's similar to Latin in the Middle Ages: Every European scholar could speak Latin, and in a medieval university you might be speaking Latin constantly, but the language was dead as no-one used it from birth or spoke to their families in Latin. Similarly, Hebrew was considered dead until it was revived and spoken by babies as their first language - even though people had a working knowledge of Hebrew for the entire period it was no longer spoken.
Anyone know how to download the Nature "Sharedit" pdfs?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillermo_del_Toro

Remember Hellboy having insecurities?
Russian salad contains french beans. Or does freedom salad contain freedom beans? Raised eyebrows are serious business of course.
> Who is this strawman entity who "wants Linux to be mainstream" ?

The ones doing desktop environments, UIs, package managers, etc. They thrive for mass adoption.

Developers that want their applications cross-compatible and painless for the users.

People that cannot (or are not willing to) pay for a Windows license.

The ones waiting for the "year of Linux Desktop".

> a Linux distro that was exactly as polished and easy-to-use for non-technical people as macOS or Windows

While I truly appreciate the efforts, the problem is that the above is the intention, but it's kind-of half baked right now.

For example, having to search online, open a console and editing files for simple stuff like regulating the speed of the mouse wheel.
And there's no innovation without that ability to push boundaries,
feel on the edge, and occasionally screw things up. Who dares,
wins. All pioneers are 'imposters', out of time and place, or alone
behind enemy lines, until they look back one day and see others
following and realise they're a leader.
The more code is used, the more bugs are found. So new code is expected to contain more unknown bugs than old, well-used code. But this is a function of usage, not of time itself.
Probably not something I'd use, but it sounds cool and I'm curious. Do you happen to have screenshots or something?

> I had written a lunch-planner as a joke to mock how much time we were losing by discussing what to eat at the office

I don't know which is the more German thing — wondering about wasting time, or writing a lunch planner to take care of it :)
I don't see any danger or any difference between the situation now and the situation in a world with eloquently writing AIs.

There are millions of shouted out opinions. Twitter ist build for that. This is not interesting at all. I can look for opinions I agree with to get a kick from the feeling of confirmation. To get that kick it is not important how the opinion snippet was produced.

On the other hand there are interesting stories with thoughts new to me. I am thankful to read something like that. When some day AI will be able to enrich the intellectual world with fresh ideas, why should I be afraid? I'll be excited.

But also in this case the same is true: why should it matter to me who wrote the thought-provoking essay?
Will it be like: ...oh, that's an interesting idea... But no, an AI wrote this, OMG, it's tainted and worthless!
I don't think so.