skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an interesting article and it aligns with my personal interest in the revival of the small, formal community to address some the voids that exist at the national level here in the US.

My grandparents (and my parents) belonged to an ethnic mutual aid society with roughly 1000 members. Such societies were very common in the US among immigrants.

In mutual aid societies, the support available to members included loans, insurance, donations, social networking for employment and dating, a “clubhouse” for gathering, etc.

Churches provided another form of support group. Factory workers in my home town enjoyed memberships in company sports leagues of all sorts. And of course neighborhoods were another stable source of support, especially for the care of children. Neighbors met in the evenings with each other and knew who the children were.

When there is a common experience, location, religion, ethnicity, interest or history, it seems that there is a built-in trust among members that makes mutual aid support possible.

Mutual aid societies and other private community organizations are entirely consistent with capitalism and a ripe concept for reintroduction into our society.

It is much easier to manage a group of 1000 members for social well-being than it is to expect a federal or state government to provide unique social benefits.

Perhaps states and the federal government could provide low-cost loans or re-insurance to mutual aid societies?

Here is a link to read more about mutual aid societies:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/03/americans-...

And the book “Bowling Alone” by Putnam is another great resource.

For software developers, it would seem that there is an opportunity to provide platforms for mutual aid societies that would be far more productive than the mass-social-media platforms currently tearing away at the fabric of society.
Please give me a button in the top-bar of every window that will disable all keyboard and mouse input to that window.

Another request (which I know is more difficult to implement) is to have a button in the top-bar that mutes the audio of that window.
If they had a black Legolas in LotR and Hobbit, sure, why not. Since they didn't, well, having a black Legolas just destroys continuity. But who am I complaining about missing continuity, after all we have the latest Dr. Strange with the sole purpose of including the Fantastic 4 and X Men into the MCU without invalidating the entirety of the MCU so far.
> Asking a question following a public talk, a colleague conspicuously used the word “Latinx” even though the speaker had described both herself and her research subjects as “Latinas”

As a minority, this is the part of the “woke” university system that I find most appalling. When universities run by overwhelmingly white faculties get involved in areas like cultural studies, they end up projecting white liberal values onto minority groups.

Who is more likely to get hired at UCLA? A person of Hispanic background who is identifies as “Latinx” and writes about the importance of abortion for first generation immigrants, or someone who like 65% of first generation Hispanic immigrants, opposes abortion for reasons that are deeply intertwined with their culture?

Or to use another example, they have almost uniformly adopted the consideration of race in admissions and hiring decisions, even though the majority of every minority group opposes that practice: https://www.insidehighered.com/admissions/article/2022/05/02... https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2019/05/08/america...

These are people who talk about “white supremacy” constantly, but don’t realize that they themselves are exercising white supremacy by taking such strong positions on race and culture issues. They engaged in Microsoft-style “embrace and extinguish” co-opting if minority culture and political movements.
We could definitely do better, but could something in orbit truly be considered "highest in the world"? I'd probably not credit a website as highest in the world unless it were actually on the world, say, on a mountain, or maybe arguably inside the atmosphere.
The "chosen one" archetype in a nutshell. Luke Skywalker learns he's part of a royal bloodline, a child of prophecy and a super-powerful space wizard. One of the (few) things I respect the sequel trilogy for was trying to deconstruct this, showing how disillusioned Luke then became with his legendary in-universe celebrity status.
Lol, the "diversity thing" is the star of the show here as evidenced by both the media they (creators) have put out (images, etc) + by their own admission.
>Are they really going to save 400 m$

I'm sure they'll save many millions.

Earlier this year I left FedEx after 15 1/2 years of service. Every single day I used an IBM AS/400 terminal to interact with several systems to do my job, the bulk of my job was done via that terminal. Yeah, that's how old most of FedEx's tech is. A few months before I left they had just migrated one of our in-house systems over to Oracle likely as part of this. That said, the mission-critical system was having almost daily errors/downtime once migrated to Oracle soooo...

I imagine some of this is the simple fact that they need to replace these severely aging, no longer supported, IBM AS/400 servers throughout the company. They lost hardware support around 2020 and, if I'm not mistaken, haven't been made since like 2008 or something. That alone is going to save a pretty penny in new hardware and energy costs as well as free up physical space at often already crowded areas.

It'll also save time-lost costs. Any time power would go out at our building, the servers would usually be done for tens of minutes even with the generator kicking on. We'd lose a couple of hours a year usually to the servers that were in our building coming back online. A couple of hours, times 100~ employees at one site, equals a LOT of backlog being created which ripples through the company. While that few thousand dollars they're paying employees during that downtime isn't much, it would cascade and disrupt the freight handling. If a single package didn't clear customs in time, then it might end up as an overage and have to go to a bonded cage, that's now 2 extra movements added, that's freight planning for possibly multiple trucks that will be part of the delivery once the package landed in the United States, you might see a thousand or more shipments (that may or may not be single package shipments) now needing to be handled extra at a half dozen ports, even more sort facilities, and even more local facilities. That's just from 1 office losing power for say a half hour.

Moving those servers to a cloud provider should provide a much better uptime which should translate to a notable savings in the above situations.
May I point you to the DynamoDB docs? Costs scale along the dimensions of storage and activity. A 1 entry table is essentially free if you use on-demand RCU/WCU provisioning.
> given that every LOTR fan is going to want to watch this series even if it sucks, I wouldn't be surprised is Amazon ends up getting far more than ~0.2M new Prime subscribers because of it.

You're assuming they actually subscribe to watch it. Amazon Prime already has enough subs that it should be pretty easy for most die-hard LOTR fans without a Prime account to just watch it on a friend or family member's account. Or they could just pirate it.
Huh. I bought a cheap usb Zigbee device and it found all my hue lights and zigbee sensors no problem.
> even if the feedback is anonymous.

There is usually good reason for an employee to believe that anonymous feedback is not truly anonymous. Assuming it actually is anonymous would be all downside and no upside for the employee.
Kubernetes main contribution to tech is “let’s do it all using kubernetes” as a meme for wasted time.

It references the effort and money wasted by people that wanted to build cloud providers despite not being in the business of being a cloud provider.
And underpaid.
and now your face is linked to your ip in a db somewhere
Well... Sean Astin was Rudy.
Google is also pushing NNAPI for compute in their typical fashion :)

https://developer.android.com/ndk/guides/neuralnetworks
How about a WM-equivalent of tmux, where you can put graphical windows into a detached state, and open them on a different computer?
"Who would buy this?"

Foreign intelligence agencies for classic espionage. If you want to do blackmailing in china, such a DB would be a good start.

Otherwise, data brokers. Advertisement, financial credibility, trustworthines of buisness partners etc.
Nice to hear. I'm the creator of Kitspace.org and I've spent a lot of time making the 1-click ordering work. It's an open source platform by the way: https://github.com/kitspace

I'm far from an expert on this subject and am not sure if it fits the definition of "scintillation", but here's another particle detector that uses photodiodes:

- electron-detector: https://kitspace.org/boards/github.com/ozel/diy_particle_det...

- alpha-spectrometer: https://kitspace.org/boards/github.com/ozel/diy_particle_det...
e/OS has this for GPS. Albeit globally and not per app.
A website can collect millions of faces in a few hours. A CCTV camera can only collect data from a single area.

It's more akin to those spying doorbells from Amazon and friends, which I personally would try to avoid when I can.

The concentration of data and the lack of necessity of your face being recorded in the first place change the decision making process significantly.
Aha I have to look more into this, thanks. I can't currently use Wayland on most of my systems (it's broken for KDE on FreeBSD which I use the most) so I haven't really spent much time really looking into it. But this sounds interesting, I'm glad this usecase is finally being considered.

'shared memory buffers' sounds like an exploit waiting to happen though. Of course X11 is no better in this regard, an X-Client running on a remote X-Server has complete access to the remote display(s). But this is something that is unfortunately a design flaw from more naive times. And if there had been an X11R7 and onwards it would no doubt have addressed it.

I think part of the problem here is that the same people promoting Wayland have also taken X11 on board to 'maintain' so they have all the incentive to let it die. I'd have preferred to see an organisation that was ready to take it into the future.
I think it's quite obvious we're working hard to build an ego-centered, self-destructive society. While I wholeheartedly agree with the idea of realising it, and trying not to endorse it, I wonder if it wouldn't be healthier, more effective and fulfilling to look for ways to make one's thoughts, ideas, questions, epiphanies, ramblings somehow public, so that one could eventually connect with like-minded, develop deeper thoughts, relationships, actions, towards gathering some meaning in life.
You're probably not a professional slacker
The metaverse existed long before Facebook's interest in (pretending like they invented) it, and it'll likely be around long after Facebook fails at it.
Thank you, I'll give this a try!
> Whereas the dune books are nothing but 'tell'.

I still feel like the books could be "shown" quite effectively. For example, think of the first scene in the book: a child sees his mother bring in a mysterious old woman, who then puts the child through a brutal test. In the book, the psychology of that situation is sold through lots of dialogue and internal monologue, but on screen you can make it come across with barely any words at all, by acting and cinematography and music and so on. Similar for other scenes in the book, it has so much cool imagery.
Exactly. His gripe about anti-Zionist political activity undermines the point of his message. He complains about some faculty who was been hounded by student's associations, but the hounding of Abdulhadi goes unmentioned because she is an "antisemite". Are you "woke" for pointing out that while universities are now severing ties with Russian universities, the Israeli ties are still going strong?

Noam Chomsky and other academics a few years ago published a declaration denouncing threats against academic freedom. Unlike this guy, they didn't make it into a "woke-left" vs "woke-right" issue and thus got signatories from "both" (all) sides.
Yes! Honestly that’s a much better description of the feeling than my own!
The animations on the blog itself are incredible. Would love to read something in the future about how you guys put this together (i.e. what frameworks, components, tooling is used to generate these blogs).
Onebeat
Onebeat created an AI-driven retail technology that uses short-term predictions to translate customer behavior into real-time day-to-day actions that maximize sell-through and overall sales.
Maybe, but I’m skeptical. The TV/Streaming space seems flush with cash and several high budget series have flopped or otherwise significantly underperformed without an industry wide reflection or reaction.

I suspect it is because these streaming service owners are desperate to build big content libraries rather than produce high quality shows.
Yes? Editing a file is different from creating a new file with some code copied from somewhere else, obviously. They may reach the same end state, but that doesn't make them the same operation.

It also happens that one is much, much more common in software development than the other, so it's a much better mental model of what SEs do.
The exact same thing can be said about the IBM mainframes they are replacing. Which is a much older business model.
> As the magazine Keyframe pointed out a few years ago, the influence of anime predates the current moment. It touched Steven Universe, How to Train Your Dragon and Teen Titans — but predated them, too.

I guess that this is written for a young audience. Getting close to 50 and having grown with Mazinger Z the examples seem childishly recent. If you look back before I was born you will also find the West being inspired by Japan and the other way around.

> "The Great Wave is one of the most reproduced and instantly recognizable artworks in the world. It has influenced several notable artists and musicians, including Vincent Van Gogh, Claude Debussy, Claude Monet, Hiroshige and more." The Great Wave off Kanagawa. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
> This database contains many TB of data and information on Billions of Chinese citizens

how many billions?
This guy codes! No seriously, this is great feedback for the devs.
I believe Home Assistant is seriously held back by the name association with Google Assistant although it really does it differently without the reliance and surveillance of the cloud.

Sadly smart home devices often do lack support. I think this is partially responsible why this automation is accepted very reluctantly.
Interesting piece of history. Thanks for sharing that.

As for "selling music" - I believe that the very concept of it is archaic, akin to "selling software". Music can be copied like software, and every attempt to treat it like physical goods is doomed to fail. In order for musicians to take back control, a movement akin to Free Software is necessary.

Radiohead was successful with BandCamp "pay what you want" approach. Perhaps if there was a P2P music sharing platform with microtransaction support (ala GNU Taler) where people could post their music and collect money directly from their listeners, then music could become somewhat profitable for the musicians again.

Of course, they won't get huge money, but maybe the very idea of a "rockstar" is obsolete, and based on corporations selling the same kind of music to the whole world. Bones (the rapper) has been releasing his music for free for the last decade or so, and earns enough money through tours to have a big house with a pool and not to have to work.
-- Spoilers below --

There were a lot of things I disliked. The first thing was the marriage of Barney and Robin, which was built up over the last one to two seasons and then undone within 15 minutes (and without good reason!). Overall, the Barney plot of going from married to divorced back to successful playboy to failing playboy to suddenly caring father was really bad (also, he failed as a playboy, but he also had a 30 day perfect streak?). The next bad thing was the dissolution of the friend group. Of course, life happens, but seeing them just not having time anymore was sad and it makes the build-up of the friendship in the older seasons just seem pointless.

The worst thing, however, was bringing the mother in and then killing her off with basically no screen time. I mean, the whole series was about meeting her! The earlier seasons spend so much time just teasing points where they randomly met or saw each other! And then we get a scene meeting her and one of her dying and she's gone. And what really killed the series for me were the last 15 minutes. I was pretty sad seeing everything that was built up over 9 seasons killed within not even two episodes and then it ends with "just kidding, the whole point of this story was just to date Robin after all". Knowing this just ruins the whole point, especially since the last few seasons do their best to clearly exclude Robin as dating option, even going as far as to have her marry Barney.

-- End of spoilers --

I know they did it this way because the ending was pre-filmed around season 2 and I actually agree with some fans on that this ending is, when read as a summary, not that bad. It's just that they build up so much in these seasons and especially went in a completely different direction in the last one, just to make a 180 degree turn and end the series with a bad joke. That's what completely ruined it for me.
Many organizations use “real” publicly routable addresses on their hosts for IPv4 (rare) and IPv6 (common), without NAT devices. Stateful firewalls don’t require the use of NAT.
What We Love About America
"Colorblind" is an arbitrary goalpost made to satisfy an imprecisely defined term of one blog post.

The original color article is soo annoying, because it presents two things as one: a JS-specific limitation, and author's arbitrary opinion on how async syntax should (not) look like.
Since then even languages that don't have JS's limitation still keep chasing the other point, because otherwise they're shamed for having "color".
One reason we moved off it was because it was a bandwidth hog! I believe they had two clients to try and help with this, a thin and think client. Even with the thin one, with the CC servers hosted in the states and some developers located in Europe, it would take a half hour for the client to refresh and pull down the latest changes.
rclone is pretty trivial to setup as well. I use it for backing up to my Google drive.
Discovers? Or invents? I've only studied particle physics at undergrad level but strikes me that these tetraquarks and pentaquarks could be combinations never created by any [other] natural process.
China’s Zero-Covid: What Should the West Do?
Thousands of birds dying from lethal strain of avian flu in UK [video]
They didn't really cut it, they renamed it. AP classes, independent study, and dedicated schools for high-performing students, rather than just individual classes in the main schools.

https://vansd.org/highly-capable-services/
I'm not aware of any predictive power the standard model has over nuclear physics and atomic physics directly. In principle, yes the standard model should be able to predict things at those energy scales, in practice no one has a clue how.

To use a more relatable analogy, it's a bit like using quantum mechanics to build a skyscraper. In principle it should be possible, it practice it is incalculable. Newtonian physics does the job fine in that scenario.
Lol “saving $400m” really equates to “moving onto AWS or Azure and paying hundreds of millions to them”
Welcome to the Subcritical Society (2020)
The other term of art is “dynamic secrets.”

https://www.vaultproject.io/use-cases/dynamic-secrets
So what's the concern here ? I'm sure I have plenty of photos of me online tagged by other people.
> Unfortunately, one side wants to destroy our democracy while the other is completely feeble and inept at even pushing back against them

you know whats interesting (and im not an advocate of this view point at all but) thats exactly what i hear from people who watch fox/tucker/daily wire/oan all day...

i hear alot of things like: we are being oppressed, they (leftists) control all the media, the dems took our election (democracy) away,big-tech are communists that want to destroy america...

they are very motivated because of those points...
It's not a religious thing: in Denmark, the church is the arm of the state tasked with civil registration. Until 1991 it was the same in Sweden.
Mobile Apps Scraping Tools
Does anyone have had any experience with Mobile App Data scraping at a scale?
Could you recommend me some verified and useful tools for that?
Why should you read “Staff Engineer: leadership beyond the management track”?
Qt is fantastic, I've used it with Python using the semi-commercial PyQT and open source PySide which are largely mutually compatible. The example projects that come with it are a great way to get started and the documentation is world class. I found it much easier to work with than the native Windows options 10 years ago, but haven't really looked at anything from MS since.
> Having to constantly explain basic things gets tiring very quickly.

That's because they are a non-technical manager who doesn't trust you.

I think there are two archetypes that work on the technical vs non-technical dimension:

Good: Technical, but has actually done the work (or does it currently) and is able to. In software that means they can program, set stuff up, debug things. Will be more experienced and coach, or smoothly bridges the gap between social and technical challenges.

Bad: Technical, but only "high level" and can't do the nitty gritty work but will make bad technical decisions that pushes you into a corner. Will demand concrete technical solutions instead of stating goals.

Good: Non technical, but hands off and actually trusts experts. Knows people well and how to handle tricky situations. Keeps the BS away. Approaches projects with a calm, organized fashion. Tries to take good opportunities and doesn't cling to bad decisions.

Bad: Non technical, but will constantly demand explanations, 'sell' deadlines and deliverables before consulting workers. Demands specific solutions instead of stating problems clearly. Thinks primarily about cost and efficiency instead of value and growth.
This is what grabbed me to kee pop reading his story
Oh, and if you don’t take my word for it how about Richard Feynman (who very scientifically refused to believe while giving his account.)

I cite Feynman’s book: Surely you're joking mr. feynman

Firstly when he describes his experiences with sensory deprivation chambers (which is a whole cult culture dedicated to exploration through mind entanglement.)

Anecdotally, his discussion with his voices at night while drifting to sleep.

And that funny conversation he had when trying to join the army to go off to war (controls played a funny game with him, they didn’t want him charging off to war.)

It is easy to refuse to believe signs of an uncomfortable truth yet these conversations throughout history do add up.

We are not alone in our own minds, and there exists a quantum consciousness technology within us incomprehensible by ordinary modern minds.

They are playing games with us, these disembodied men with capacities easily confused with those of God or devils, take your pick.
It doesn't specify, so I can only assume both and which it compares to depends on how ugly the user is.
Did study prescribe portion sizes or did you choose how much to eat on each diet yourself?
> Considering there's not a single relevant main stream actor, director or writer on the team. I don't understand where they're spending the money on.

Honestly, I'd rather money spent on props, effects, etc. than brand-name actors. Look at Stranger Things; virtually no one famous in it.