skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You just have a very US centric view. Here's the situation in Latvia: Full, searchable (by government institutions) digital registry of citizens. Your income is being recorded for tax purposes. There's centralised data on what vehicles you own, and firearms are registered too. Medical data is also being centralised, to handle prescriptions digitally, and share test results between labs and doctors. Any criminal offences are centrally registered too. The information is there, and most likely being cross-referenced already.

What this would add is a more comprehensive log of where proof of identity has been used. In my case, the last non-digital, non-already-trackable request to display proof of identity was last summer, when I was trying to buy a case of beer with a mask, sunglasses and a hat completely obscuring my face. Guess the police will now know I visit grocery stores.

What's more, that's already been sort of centralised, with a single identity broker latvija.lv being run by the government, that then relies on other "blessed" identity sources such as banks or digital signature providers. The logs on who requested the identity verification and who got verified are surely there. If they cut the banks out of the loop, I see that as a net positive.

As for me, I'm not overly bothered by this. I trust the government to not wilfully abuse the data far, far more than I trust any for-profit entity.
Lol. I actually created it. Sorry for the undisclosed self-promotion.

I made this when I was 14. Yeah, camera stability was a major problem for me in pretty much all my videos, and this one is especially bad.

I'm trying to remember exactly what I did over half my lifetime ago... This was made with a point and shoot camera. I think the 2nd shot was indeed me holding the camera with my hand. I don't think there's any actual character movement there though, so that shot didn't involve me moving the characters. I had the actual Episode 3 up and was going through it frame by frame trying to replicate the scene with the same camera angles and possibly camera movement. I think simply setting the camera on the table wouldn't have given me the angles I wanted. There was no tripod short enough to get the camera as low to the table as necessary. I would need cutouts in the set's floor for the camera, requiring multiple sets or a set that can be broken into different pieces. That was too complicated for me and I'm not even sure if I had a tripod at that time.

For the 1st shot, it looks like the camera is sitting on top of something (maybe a book) because its elevation seems constant. Its angle though is quite erratic, so I think I was tilting it down with my hand because simply setting it flat on the book wasn't giving the necessary downward angle.

For the last shot, I think the camera was sitting level on the table. This shot is the most stable, but is still pretty shaky. The camera had a shutter button that required a fair amount of force to press. Every time I pressed it there was a large chance that it would move the camera. Also it was a crowded set. Sticking my hands in there to move the characters often resulted in me bumping the camera.

For the 3rd shot, possibly the camera was also sitting on something.

Another problem is I think the camera was on autofocus, auto exposure, and auto whitebalance. So between each picture these settings could change, which also contributed to inconsistencies between frames. I don't even think that camera had the option of manual focus.

As I got better at stop motion, I started using a Logitech QuickCam Pro 9000 USB webcam attached to my laptop. That allowed me to trigger a frame by pressing a key on my keyboard, which wouldn't shake the camera. I also then enabled manual focus, exposure, and whitebalance, and could use onion skinning. The camera also had hinges allowing the height and vertical angle to be adjusted easily. I focused more on keeping the camera steady, by building a LEGO cage around it, and trying to avoid bumping it while moving the characters.

I didn't have a cell phone at the time. I think I got my first phone a year and a half after this video. It was a feature phone and I think its picture quality was a lot worse than this point and shoot's quality or that of the QuickCam. I never thought about using it for stop motion; that would have been worse than this.
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Well even streaming. I watch a movie, then I claim it’s a bad movie and want my money back.
Have you tried Maxima as a symbolic equation solver?
Isn't this maintaining?
My main complaint with the Windows implementation is that it does not not play well with the lock-by-default policy of the NTFS filesystem. I deactivated the the filesystem watcher on Windows after the agent repeatedly locking files so that checkouts would fail.
I also got tired of this especially when I wasn't even looking at Slack but it was not hidden, so it kept animating gifs and emoji etc that I can't see. Hammerspoon let me just disable them whenever I was on battery power:

https://gist.github.com/philsnow/4086e07b28d8d3cd17f5bf81ff8...
Bit late to the party but I just wanted to put one top level comment saying: this is awesome! I'd never have thought that putting a Fortran codebase like this into WASM was so possible. And doing so in this way surfaces great, battle-tested information, that would be herculean to reimplement and test in another language. Really awesome stuff!
One major issue that stopped me from trying Crystal is that Windows support is being worked on since 2013 and is still WIP as of 2022 with major language features still not working...

https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/issues/5430
>I just needed an algebra scratchpad, and Symbolics was.. barren. and uninviting. I thought of reaching for Mathematica but resorted to pencil and paper, like a barbarian.

Have you tried Maxima? It seems more ergonomic.
On top of which I don't see books going the way of the dodo, ever.

Digital processes are not a 1:1 substitution for the physical world (a forum isn't a café, period), but industry-wise they let us enhance the latter. Tech isn't about selling just tech, it's about making all the things better and/or cheaper, faster, etc. It's an industrial step up, way beyond its inherent end-use. For instance, go to any hardware store, and compare offer and price with 20-30 years ago (inflation aside), then tell me our days aren't a child's dream by comparison (include 'features' such as precise cuts, delivery, and other services). Or in the world of audio/video (wherein DigitalAnalog conversion happens, and perfection isn't attainable, only "good enough"), the kind of sound experience you can get today for a few hundred bucks dances around multi-grand systems from the 1990's.

As I see it, years from now, you'll be able to buy books made in some fancy paper-like material for the equivalent of a few cents. Just like today IKEA manages to sell stuff for 10x less than 30-40 years ago.
No maintained cheat sheet here either. I do use `history | grep` quite a lot though.

One thing I try to do is to keep my keyboard shortcuts consistent between programs/systems. That way the chance of my instinct of pressing `<CTRL>+a` to move the cursor to the start of the line will be correct more often.

Another thing I try to do when a project has a set of complex commands that are needed, is to add them as a rule in its Makefile, that way they're available for my colleagues as well.
Unfortunately I don't think this will happen: The Wolfram Language has a _huge_ library of functions from various domains, which is where most of its strength comes from. If you had the time and money to reimplement all of them, you could just make a competing product with better API. I don't think there is enough commercial interest in running existing Wolfram Language code without Mathematica.
No. Static vs. dynamic is a concern regarding how HTML / CSS gets rendered by the backend. HTTPS certificates, embedding of 3rd party scripts, outdated HTML / JS / CSS,... are concerns that live entirely in the browser.

Whether you use a SSG or a CMS, you still need to do upkeep of all of those: make sure your certificates are up to date, make sure you have the latest embed script, make sure you keep your site isn't build on top of brittle API's and frontend frameworks, make sure your site keeps following changing SEO practices, etc.

On another note, if you use a CMS - e.g. WordPress - the availability of your site is directly tied to the operational availability of the CMS and the stack it depends on. So, that means upkeep and maintenance of the CMS become immediate concerns. If you use a SSG that only spits out HTML / CSS, that's far less of a concern: if your SSG breaks, the site doesn't break down.

Of course, YMMV in the age of hybrid solutions where a static layout and a popular JS framework is send to the client which fetches fragments via GraphQL API's from a backend, which implies a coupling between frontend and backend.
I'm not a fan of any archtectural radicalism, and tend to think that there are things best done in both hardware, kernel and libraries and applications :-)

That is not to say that the boundaries should be cast in stone, they should obviously be flexible enough that you do not need a complete multi-user management system in a single-service jail or container nor a full-blown journaled COW storage-manager on a small embedded system.

In other words: I am firmly for the "Software Tools" paradigm.
> without having to rely on G./A./F. So you can have a secure way to login to websites

Said perspective is insanity: for those websites relevant to an anagraphic identity it would be dramatically abnormal to use any supposed private company related account. It would be sheer absurdity to suppose a "need" for accounts with private entities to log on to nominal services.
This deserves it's own thread, but just read this piece after this thread thought it was worth chaining to this comment as relevant.

"China lured graduate jobseekers into digital espionage."

Sure all governments spy. But you can't discount the massive digital dragnet (targeting their entire own country and us as well) and huge mechanical turk of p2p spies they have built.

https://archive.ph/t2w0b
Totally democratic. Of course. Europeans love it.

From Berlin xHainers to Parissienne Bobos, from Munich Schwabing to Noord Amsterdam, there isn't a single citizen in the EU with discomfort of his vote becoming dilluted from a x-millionth to an x-hundredmillionth.

That's why Ursula von der Leyen is so popular.
So that means two things:

- 1 m³ of hot water is less water (in terms of mass) than 1 m³ of cold water

- 1 kg of hot water has a bigger surface area than 1 kg of cold water

I am still not convinced that this alone would explain such a phenomena. I'd rather believe there is some weird fluid dynamics and layering involved.
If you are breaking European law, you can't operate in Europe? What is so hard to understand about this? Amend your code to not send PII of Europeans outside Europe, or pussy out and give a "451 Unavailable For Legal Reasons".
I think that would be rather pointless. From using Mathematica/The Wolfram Language, the cool part was not the language design but the powerful functions. It’s not like wolfram language code is particularly widespread so better/open versions don’t necessarily need the same language. They need the powerful backend.
No, they lost the war because a bigger independent Europe would be difficult to exploit by the US and the Soviet Union so they were attacked with everything to prevent that... and that included a biological weapon i.e. typhus. The Germans did what they thought they should to contain the disease... and as the economy collapsed, the quarantine centers did not receive adequate supplies.
> I thought of reaching for Mathematica but resorted to pencil and paper, like a barbarian.

A very computer-science perspective with the obligatory dose of hubris.

Pencil and paper is continuing to serve a much older, much more consolidated discipline (mathematics) well for... ever since paper was invented.
The way the animations converge remind me of a paper on HN where researchers spawned curvy tubes inside a 3d rabbit. Another example was four spheres in each corner navigating a central space without colliding.

Still another example was self-arranging cylinders along a sphere, ordering into regular-like wind currents.

I cannot find it among upvoted submissions, but wondered if you had encountered a similar idea (or if anyone has that link).
> Eagle-eyed readers of datasheets will notice that CYW43439 supports both Bluetooth Classic and Bluetooth Low-Energy: we have not enabled Bluetooth on Pico W at launch, but may do so in the future.

Why wait?
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It makes a bit more sense once you realize the author's story begins around age 10/11. (Also not strictly a compiler, more an interpreter.) Clickbait headline for a fun nostalgic story of learning to program.
For training, more GPU RAM will allow you train with greater resolutions in less time and better performance.
Before feeding data to a model, it needs to be resized to a "network dimension" (YOLOv4 default is 416x416 px if I recall correctly). For training, it will group several samples and train with them at the same time, in "batches". For better generalization you want bigger batches (so more different images are feed at the same time).
With a 3060 (non-Ti) you'll have 12GB of GPU RAM, with that I think you can run the default settings (network size, batch size and subdivision of batches) for the YOLOv4 model. If you want to go to 512px, you might have to increase the subdivision (create more subbatches) or reduce the batch size.
If I recall correctly, you could find 3070 with less than 12GB of RAM, so in trying to purse faster training times (I'm not talking about inference, using the model to actually recognize something) you might not be able to train with a broader range of options that can improve your accuracy.
> I'm not saying there's implicit trust in governments in the EU, but from the discourse on the internet, it's clear to me that most (western) european citizens trust their government more than Americans, overall.

This is absolutely right. And they are fools to do so! The government can write legislation such as the police have the right to see your id, and everyone is meant to show it! This is nothing to do with right or wrong. It can be couched as 'protecting people' whilst being tyrannical.

At least in the US they have access to weaponry to give those government officials pause for thought of they attempt to implement tyranny. Europe is already defanged though - who could fight back, even if they wanted to?

The prospect is rigid stasis - governed by an unelected elite, who have the mechanism of fine grained control over every citizen. Its neo-feudalism via technocracy.
That sounds as if their share of the email replies causes more cost than the refund itself. Unless that's all AI replies now. In which case the solution is an AI that negotiates the refund.
I love it. Its simple, natural and intuitive.

It would be great if you offer the same workflow on GitLab. Its scheduled pipelines default to 10 minutes, but on premise installations allow it to be set to run every minute. [1]

[1]: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/pipelines/schedules.html
> But it's not something you wanted, right?

I am actually not sure if I wanted this. I think this is better than current (specifically comparing to Finnish) state, but still far from optimal (mainly based on privacy concerns).

> Is it possible that [..] is tracked?

Yes. But I have The Great Belief that EU is _still_ one of the Goods. That may or may not last.

Still, it is very easy to exaggregate this (slippery slope) and at the same time it is too easy to understate this. Probably we - as citizens - should raise loudly these concerns and if we are not heard - then roundly refuse.
From the paper:

> The defining tragedy of the operating systems community has been the definition of an operating system as software that both multiplexes and abstracts physical resources. The view that the OS should abstract the hardware is based on the assumption that it is possible bath to define abstractions that are appropriate for all areas and to implement them to perform efficiently in all situations. We believe that the fallacy of this quixotic goal is self-evident, and that the operating system problems of the last two decades (poor performance, poor reliability, poor adaptability, and inflexibility) can be traced back to it. The solution we propose is simple: complete elimination of operating system abstractions by lowering the operating system interface to the hardware level.

Basically, they say to let libraries do the abstraction.

The source code of your applications will still mostly look the same as before. It's just that the libraries will do more of the work, and the kernel will do less.
...open-source when?

There's basically zero widely used programming languages that are not open-source, get to grips with this ffs. Esp. since Wolfram strives to be somewhat-general-purpose in a way (it's not smth like eg. K who's niche anyway) and having an open-source version is crucial in this segment.

Hire some ppl (sales, mgmt, product etc.) who know how to make money from open-source (get some from RedHat, IBM etc.) and make this technology accessible to not have all this effort practically wasted, eg. I'd love to use Wolfram instead of Python, but non-opensource is just a no-go for any foundational technology (language, framework, server).
I think you should reach out to Jason Scott over at the Internet Archive. He's been involved with helping people get old stuff off of old media before and if he doesn't have the tech and know how, chances are high he knows who to ask.

He's very easy to reach on Twitter, @textfiles.
Although there's not much coverage, CloudFormation had prior art for a decade before this patent:

https://github.com/aws-cloudformation/cloudformation-coverag...

Can't find a blog detailing exactly when it launched, but here's a file from an AWS SDK in 2011 with it:

https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-java/blob/2b08c776c16fc1c8f58...
Its a hard role to do right and empathy is probably asking too much for how much support folks get paid. Now there are people who go above and beyond but that's on their own personal cost.

Every metric is tracked and its second worst role after Ops roles like warehousing.

Maybe yours is a smallish business who has never had these issues before, it always help to have a dedicated support to reach out to during serious outages.

Also you didnt mention which support plan your firm is on - https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/pricing/
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I know that I’m an edge case and that I’m losing half of the benefit of these modern stacks’ blurring the lines between client and server but I still wish I could use something like Next on the frontend but Rust/Go on the backend.
I wonder if browsers could design a heuristic to cache multiple items in one cache entry -- that is, instead of the website doing file concatenation, the browser dynamically decides to concatenate some resources in order to reduce the number of asks to the local cache. For example, the browser would know on the initial load which requests get made together (such as three js files or four images), so they could get batched into a single cache entry
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What if it wasn't blocking ALL sunlight, but just some of the heat-producing infrared portion?
> Yes. But I have The Great Belief that EU is _still_ one of the Goods. That may or may not last.

Still eh? What happens when that belief has waned? The infrastructure will still be there.
And as an average citizen, how does that change anything to me? Whether some government stooge or some corporate stooge tells me to go fuck myself, it makes not one bit of difference in the end. Both are far too powerful for me to fight and take on. Especially when government policy is mostly decided by corporate money these days anyways.
More interesting than you can imagine :-)

When you reverse engineer "normal" code, you know the CPU can handle integers of X, 2X, 4X bit widths, you know it wants things aligned this way or that way etc.

The R1000 is bit addressed, and integers can be any width from 1 to 64 bits, structures can be "variant" (See: Ada) so reverse engineering the storage layout is ... not an accomplished feat yet.

Since the primary task for the R1000 was Ada program development, and since there were a standardized semantic representation of Ada programs ("DIANA"), one of the fundamental hardware/microcode data-types is "DianaTree", which is, I think a pretty generic CS tree of some kind.

These "DianaTree" types seem to also have been used for other stuff, like directories in the object store etc.
It may however slow the general heating of the planet which has implications for the weather patterns that currently provide water to much of the world.
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A colleague of mine completed the first half of advent of code just using Scratch. She pushed it to it's absolute limits.
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I owned a 325xi e91 and didn't experience any turn signal problems, same for my current 420i F36. Lot of German cars (VW, Audi etc) have a two stage turn signal. A light bump will do 4 or so signals and automatically stops if you move the stalk all the way it wil stay there until you move it back.

to me the sound is loud enough to hear it but not so loud it is annoying
See also catastrophic cancellation, [0] although I'm unsure of the impact of using very large floating point types.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catastrophic_cancellation
> yet it remains unrivalled in control engineering

No, its usage is just declining slower in those areas because ppl don't want unnecessary change introducing unnecessary defects, esp since safety and reliability matters a lot for some equipments, and also engineers spend time on smth else than learning new languages and frameworks.

In 20 years Matlab will be as legacy as Fortran is now, still some left but mostly forgone.
I actually thought for a moment it might be intentional how much that header blocked the text, given the title of the post.
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Great news, I played with the Pi Pico a few months ago: the idea was to make certain 3D printing products I produce not just dumb miniatures, but "alive", doing something. The Pi Pico price point and capabilities were perfect, but the lack of wireless capabilities AND the fact there is no display with a sane price point, made the project economically impossible.
No company would ever admit to that! They just come up with excuses as to the reason why.
I see Nintendon't and Apple as very similar companies.
Deeply anti-consumer with a fanbase that will defend them regardless.
Some kind of stockholm affect.

Just look at the joycon debacle which they refused to acknowledge or honour, very much Apple way of it's your fault.

(not to say they don't make good products)
> It proposed to give every EU citizen a set of strong digital identity credentials that will be recognised anywhere in the zone. These credentials will be accessible from a digital wallets and available to anyone from their mobile device

Is this thing mandating a mobile device as a document?
Hat tip on the reference. I didn't consider the effect.

I found an article about it here: https://taxfoundation.org/standard-deduction-itemized-deduct...