skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've posted this elsewhere in this thread, but I'm making a webapp focused on just sight reading: https://www.babeloop.com

It works well on mobile so you can take it wherever. I made it for my kids who were struggling a little with non-treble clefs, and they passed their exams this June!

Interested in any feedback.
I said logging because that's what I usually do with this information, but if your goal is track then you can do it with the same information. Fingerprinting can happen actively (with JS) or passively (without JS). The former is obviously more precise, the latter isn't bad at all. In passive fingerprinting you can combine the IP, which is a connection IP - nothing to do with HTTP, and the User-Agent header. You are now tracked.
> These people are criminals and belong in prison, hopefully for life.

Why such a strong punishment?

I can see wanting to punish them harshly enough that they'll never do it again, and maybe to dissuade others as well. But lifetime imprisonment seems to go well beyond that.
Plants grown in healthy soil that does not require short term synthetic inputs are more resistant to pests. The organic fertilizers and composts that build up suitable topsoil are literally the "pesticides that with well with the environment" that you are looking for.

No one is expecting bumper crops without any nutrient inputs. Synthetic fertilizers are not the only possible nutrient inputs.
Finally :) My coworker back in 2017 implemented the WebAssembly backend for the Go compiler[0], and noted at the time that WASM doesn't have any equivalent to setjmp/longjmp. As a result, Go's WebAssembly implementation actually emulates a register machine on top of the WASM stack machine. Quoting him (some parts omitted):

> For example its architecture is a stack machine instead of a register machine. This means that it isn't immediately suitable as simply yet another target at the last stage of the Go compiler next to x86 and friends.

> There might be an alternative: Emulate what we need. We may use the stack machine to emulate a register machine and hopefully do so in a reasonably performant way.

> WebAssembly has linear memory with load and store instructions, which is good. We would not use WebAssembly's call instruction at all and instead roll our own stack management and call mechanism. Stacks would live on that linear memory and be managed by the Go runtime. The stackpointer would be a global variable. All code would live in a single WebAssembly function. The toplevel would be a giant switch statement (or WebAssembly's br_table based equivalent) with one branch for each function. Each function would have another switch statement with one branch per SSA basic block.

> There are some details that I'm omitting here, but in the big picture this looks like a decent register machine to me. Of course the performance of this heavily depends on how well WebAssembly can transform these constructs into actual machine code.

[0] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/18892#issuecomment-30931...
No, but I dont have that many to begin with: Prime, HBOMax and Fastmail.

I sometimes think about canceling Prime since i dont use the streaming service, but due to some recurring purchases I end up saving money.
Have you seen the AWS go sdk? It basically builds linked lists (no locality) of everything and marshals to and from json over and over like it's free. I mean there's no thought whatsoever to making efficient use of memory, getting locality for improved performance, etc.

And if you think about it, most things using the aws sdk are network i/o bound anyway, which is probably why they burn ram and generate garbage like it's free.

So immutable data structures (especially persistent ones) aren't a problem at all in many domains.
Not entirely a real suggestion, but if you want really ultra-fun & easy, patchbay is the most awesome, simplest, easiest-to-use & most versatile/multi-purpose http service for relaying things around/queuing that I know.

Atm it's all in-memory, afaik. There are go & node.js implementations, which I hope some-day we add persistence to.

I'm still working on k8s Persistent Volumes, but in terms of bigger/better software, I hope soon-ish to have a Pulsar Operator[2] going. Kafka is very very exacting & specific, inflexible, but Pulsar's architecture seems much more general & flexible, capable of things like great geo-distribution by virtue of it's underlying Bookkeeper storage layer. It'd be my production go-to for any pubsub details.

[1] https://github.com/patchbay-pub https://patchbay.pub/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21639066 (362 points, 3 years ago, 79 comments)

[2] https://docs.streamnative.io/operators/pulsar-operator/pulsa...
I think Japan is well aware it couldn't feed the whole island chain even if it absolutely needed to, but it also has a robust domestic manufacturing and high tech industrial exporting sector which continually acquires funds for foreign currency and food. Totally unlike Sri Lanka.

To put it crudely Japan doesn't need to grow all its own food because people send it money for Toyotas and Mitsubishi cargo trucks and such, and it uses that to buy whatever food it wants.
Cars taking over public streets happened because drivers just started killing so many people. It had nothing to do with people choosing cars over walking rather than living over being run over.
Even if you didn't watch repeats, it's like watching repeats
I worry about egg stains on sweatshirts too. Some folks join us with age. Others live life right up to the brim, good for em I say. The world needs all kinds.

Reminds me of Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling and Wake. It's this race in Gloucester, England. It's been going on since the early 1800s. Folks run down a 45 degree hill for 200 yards to catch a 10 pound rolling cheese wheel. It's as dangerous as it sounds, but fun to watch [1]. Medical staff is onsite and ready for the inevitable hospital visits that follow. They swapped out the cheese for foam a decade back for safety reasons, which makes me chuckle for some reason.

If anything the SF hill bomb tradition should get adopted by the city. Give it a date and time, close down the street, get medical staff and police on site, get some minimal safety measures in place, and give residents some notice. Then is there anything to be upset about?

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEh3wz-92i4
You're reinforcing his point. Major news media acts as if they can't report on Hunter Biden because there's only room for one story in the news cycle: Jan 6th.
Yes but please don’t wreck innocent peoples property and life with your dreams. Be a human!
Can you imagine the lawsuits trying to get people committed?
Depending on the size of the bomb, and your distance you might actually be fine. If you survive the initial blast, shower, change clothes, and leave the area quickly you may not have any noteworthy issues at all. Or you could see the blast, and get cooked at a cellular level and die horribly a few days later.

They were right that dirt and concrete do wonders to stop gamma rays.
I don't think churn is particularly high as a percentage of total workers. The company really is growing that fast. There have been over ten-thousand positions open via careers.google.com in the last several months (although I expect that to shrink in the coming days). And 10K isn't that unusual of a quarterly number.

No inside info here, just noting that that kind of hiring is par for the course.
I haven't used LFS before but it seems to buffer incompletely downloaded files in .git/lfs/incomplete and a copy of "objects" in .git/lfs/objects (I am one of those people who absolutely no interest in how git's DB works, nor how its blob DB works).
I read the headline and was ready to hand over cash, because I've been running out of my own shits to give lately.
Skate or Die!
For 2, JWST uses reaction wheels to manage it's orientation. These are just heavy wheels it spins faster or slower to change it's own angular momentum.

https://jwst-docs.stsci.edu/jwst-observatory-hardware/jwst-m...
I can attest. I'd never have imagined writing and getting my tiny projects out there could bring so much prospect and joy. I think writing (think: marketing) has a huge role to play here.
They need fuel because they need boats that go far. They need to go far because the supply of fish has decreased.

Fishing is not a modern activity. Rafts existed long before people rode horses.
No doubt, but when looking back at post 1982 art during that decade, do you see a huge influence by Tron? We didn’t really see it until the 2000s. There were a few underground artists experimenting with the Tron aesthetic up until that time, but they were mostly unheard of. I remember there was at least one around 1994 or so in SF.
I don’t want to deal with this crap. Nobody stopping anyone from skating and living dangerously. But breaking other peoples property is not the right thing. Live and let live.
First movie to use textured polygons instead of just colored!

Another fun movie. I believe the movie didn’t do great with test audiences, but they loved the bits with the alien(?) pretending to be the main character in his place and significantly expanded that part of the movie, which worked out great.
Chaining is one way of making function composition more ergonomic, but there are others. Functional languages tend to have an operator (e.g. |> in Elixir. Think x |> f() |> g() |> h() |> i(), etc.) that gives the same benefits of chaining, but the functions don't have to be methods providing greater flexibility.
There's a premium that can be exacted from switching to organic agriculture that isn't be discussed in this article. Sri Lanka has a limited land mass available for food production and they mostly export commodities to other countries. We're talking ~25,000 sq-mi. For context, the US state of Kansas is ~82,000 sq-mi. If you cannot physically expand the footprint of agriculture in Sri Lanka to boost revenues, the thinking in government was probably to try to switch to organic to fetch a higher price for exports. The mistake is that you can't just flip a switch and transition to organic production. That kind of change requires a generational change in farmers to pull off, and you will still fetch far lower yields in the interim.
Yes that is true. Untrusted code in general computing environments is basically inevitable.
Raspbian, or raspberry pi os? The latter is much closer to debian AFAIK, there is a 64-bit version/etc.

But if your using it for server tasks, your probably better off actually running Debian. Although if your looking for something that is closer to a rolling release, you could just pick one of the distro's that have a release policy that strikes your fancy WRT how they roll out new packages/etc. Most distro's have rpi specific images, or you just install their generic arm64 images on top of something like the PFTF firmware.

Put another way, raspberry pi os, has a fairly dated kernel/etc but works well with all the hardware on the machine for desktop purposes. If your using it as a server, its not a good choice because they frequently don't have useful things turned on (various filesystems, networking options, RAID levels, etc). The core storage/networking/cpu/etc type of things have been working quite well in mainline/etc for a couple years now, so that has trickled down into all these distros.
This is a common feature of dictatorships: a boneheaded decision from a central government wreaks havoc on the people in the field that would know better.

It reminds me of Mao ordering all sparrows be killed because they eat agriculture seeds.

This of course caused a much bigger crisis with insects destroying crops - because everyone knows sparrows also eat lots of insects.
I'm probably answering too late to not get lost at this point in the sea of people answering regarding products not being ruined, but as far as actual company culture, E Systems survived quite well and intact after being acquired by Raytheon in the late 90s. One of my earlier jobs in Richardson, TX was at a facility that originally belonged to E Systems and I worked on one of the longstanding programs they'd had for decades. It very much stood out as being nothing at all like the rest of Raytheon. They had exemptions for nearly every corporate policy. People on any other program got moved around at will to meet the needs of the larger company, but anybody who had been with E Systems stayed exactly where they wanted to be doing what they wanted to do, even decades after the acquisition. They kept all of their original scheduling policies, continued using the same project management methods and tech stack without having to give in to corporate flavor of the month "Agile DevOps transformation" stuff that everyone else had to do.

It's honestly probably still the best job in software I've ever had, and the actual system I worked on is still the most impressive I've been a part of, the exception to the rule of government shit projects, heavily classified but absolutely miles ahead of the closest commercial analog. If the pay wasn't so low, I'd gladly still be there. It's a dream job in every way except compensation.
I had a Chinese professor named “Da Ren”, but because his name was transliterated as “Daren”, he would just go as Daren for nonchinese, due to the collision.
It’s great to see that proving code correct is starting to make inroads into commercial software development. Perhaps the term “Software Engineer” should be reserved for software developers who have the training/skills to formally prove software correct? The same way that Engineers in other industries have the formal training/skills needed to use mathematical models to build/construct correctly?
And in some very poor locations people do fish by sail and rowing, but even in some of the lowest income countries on earth, using small petrol engines is increasingly common (source: buying local seafood in Sierra Leone some years back).
With the Internet, I'd argue that it isn't _that_ hard to find the right people to tell to.
This is apparently A Whole Thing http://tennesseevintagebaseball.com/f-a-q/
It’s more than just the CGI, it’s also the ideas of the movie.

You’re right it’s not great on it’s own. You have to be the kind of person who would be interested in what it’s trying to do.
I highly recommend his book. A great enlightening read.
I think you’ve got this a bit twisted, particularly with the notion of for-profit organizations taking with no compensation. Speaking strictly in short fiction, frankly, the vast majority of magazines lose money. Of the magazines that don’t lose money, the vast majority of those don’t make enough to earn the producer/editor(s)/first readers/etc. anything resembling minimum wage. The exceptions are a mere handful: the big 3, Tor, Uncanny Magazine, Clarkesworld, maybe Nature’s Futures section.
Every single large company is expecting a long economic winter.

I'm just stating this in case people fool themselves in any way at the moment. Things are bleak and those who aren't lay people have pessimistic outlooks.
>You point is moot in this case. Staten Island is in New York State, which is an at-will employment state. Employers in such states don't need a reason to fire anyone.

I've never read what at-will is and I've never missed it either!
I’m stoked by the Solar Dial face on my iWatch.

Shows time of nautical and civil dawn and dusk, sun rise and set, length of day, and time before and after those various events.
the dim back room of the local video store with the curtain over it is what kept some of our local ones in business as long as they did. yes, that porn selection was quite profitable.
Factor in only unarmed shootings and it’s tiny. The rest are mostly armed and dangerous people actively involved in violence. That it a shocking high number of suicide by cop.

You can watch a thousand videos if you care to and it’s eye opening. I made it a habit of watching the body cam footage of shootings in the news and it’s almost always clearly justified, though I do understand that there is a minority viewpoint that doesn’t consider any deadly shooting justified, even if it’s of an armed individual engaged in a crime.
> using small petrol engines is increasingly common (source: buying local seafood

Right, because the locals have changed from fishing for themselves to fishing for others. This is market economy dynamics of engaging in activity that produces the most money.
When you say non-Western, you really do mean non-White, correct? I feel as if there's a racial bush being beaten around here that one may as well go and point out.

The point I think you're trying to make is that different rules apply for cultural appropriation for white people than they do for people of color. Would you agree?
So are we in agreement that there doesnt exist a _working_ javascript demo/exploit for any of the Spectre attacks?
"Hey, stranger! Here's my card. Plug it into your computer's USB slot."

Cool project, but as a business card, making someone think they're about to install Stuxnet might not be the best first impression. Heh.
Yep exactly. If you truly want to understand low level then the only right answers are C or Assembly language.
It’s like you’ve never heard of Tokyo drift
Lol thanks! I strive to bring more nerd-value than real-value :P
At least where I was buying fish it was all for domestic consumption in the Freetown metro area. Very little or none of it was being caught to be frozen or canned.
Yeah, but at a $20m budget that’s not a ton. Isn’t something like 2x considered minimum-success in Hollywood?

Between that and the poor reviews it’s clear it’s not what they wanted.
Probably this. Rabbit is super easy to set up. Super lightweight. You can give it a try in half an hour.
That's an interesting approach and I think it makes sense. Do you use any special tool for that?
It is probably rare but, but if you spend most of your time on the command line it is sort of like tripping over nothing -- sticks in your memory. Particularly if it happens around other people.
I came here to say something similar: Do the rules of religion prohibit molding any religion to serve any purpose? What rules? Your religion can be anything you want it to be. Moreover, nobody can interpret the doctrines or traditions of your religion for you, unless they actually believe in precisely the same religion.
Does x86 have a JTAG like / hardware debugger?
> When you said "ontological" I was reminded of a phrase I often encountered in leftist circles, the assertion some people are "ontologically evil".

If that's the first thing you think of when you see the word "ontological," I suggest you read some more philosophy before pondering moral axioms.
That's very anglocentric.

Isn't that the whole point?
This is very helpful. I'm using Delaunay triangulation on a project (implemented by a 3rd party library) and this really helps understand the natural data structure to use when doing manipulations. Much better than my own naive attempt, which ran into the exact mess that the author described.
> With the cost of borrowing going up, the executive and congress are going to start feeling pressure to cut spending or dramatically raise taxes.

Hmm, not sure that's the case given recent headlines in Politico.
How 'Hey Siri' works with multiple device
If you're worried about extra instructions, the DEC PDP-8 has half as many as the 6502.
Yeah that's certainly another solution. I haven't played around much with the captive portal capabilities of my networking gear but maybe I should
It looks like the car got tagged but is otherwise unscathed. It was just delayed for a moment and received a minor custom paint job. Hardly broken property.
Peru President’s sister-in-law investigated for alleged corruption
I think if you look at what is happening in the USA today, you will see some parallels. Our president appears to have created a national policy designed to shift us to "green energy" even though we aren't ready. This policy has not been openly declared (unless you count statements made during his campaign), or publicly reviewed for consequences (such as those we are seeing now). Encouraging a "transition" (his word) is fine, but forcing it is causing great damage to western economies.
I had that growing up and loved it, it was a big upgrade over my discman, but for me the iPod 5th generation is the best personal music device ever created. I recently bought one (my original got stolen a decade ago) and upgraded it to use a 512gb SD card.

It's still the king. Got a pair of planar headphones and I'm hearing things in Beatles songs I've listened to ten thousand times that I've never heard before. When I use it in the car, I don't have to take my eyes off the road to change the track, the subtle audio feedback let's you use the menu without looking at it. It fits well in the hand, I wouldn't want it any smaller or lighter (it's a little too light due to my SD card mod).

No touchscreen, no internet connection and it holds my entire collection and then some.

I don't even like Apple laptops or phones, but that thing is a work of art.

Edit: The best part is I can service it. You could buy almost an entire iPod worth of replacement parts on eBay.
When I was in high school, the local teens would gather every Friday night on a certain commercial street downtown, and would drag race from light to light. Of course it was illegal, but the cops had a quiet understanding that as long as it was just that section of road, they wouldn't interfere.

It was great fun. Not only were kids drag racing their cars, a lot more were showing off their cars, hanging out at the drive in joints lining the strip, etc. I remember one older boy had my fantasy Mustang, very heavily modified. My Dodge is an ode to that start to my devotion to muscle cars :-)

Unfortunately, some parents eventually complained and the cops were forced to shut it down. All part of the general removal of fun from our society.
Does it actually save the Byzantine generals problem though?

How do you prove that only the attacker doesn't also have access to a private key?
Many are not required, but do it anyway of course.

Either because they're shitting their pants (irrationally believing that these people are both willing to commit, and capable of committing great acts of sabotage on their way out). Or they rationally understand that their internal security measures are a total shitshow (and so the potential for sabotage is real), or that some of these people are rigthfully disgruntled (hence, the motive for sabotage is real).

Or (as I suspect) because it helps them emotionally distance themselves from the people whose lives will be (at the very least) dinged by being on the receiving end of these events. "Why did we let you find out about the layoff by having your account locked? Because we knew you were unstable and vindictive, and basically a walking liability to the company all along."
This is very insightful well-balanced commentary, and counterpoint to simpler explanations like Rajapaksa's corruption, China's influence, or organic farming, as the primary cause.
Uhh, this thread started with somebody giving their work away to Tor.
Democracy/democratization isn't just about open access, open tools. A republic can leave much in the hands of it's representatives, but there still has to be some underlying conversancy that's possible.

Reading it back in the day, After the Internet: Alien Intelligence (James Martin, 2000) was an interesting book about expert systems that increasingly because unintelligible, became alien to humanity as a whole & it's specific makers. I increasingly feel like we know less & less about these models, what they are, what they do. We can experiment & open access, but the project of democratization involves bestowing real agency on people, on deciding where to go, and I don't feel like there's a coherent causality we can play with & learn about & explore & understand here. Democracy has to be about more than pulling levers & seeing what pre-baked associations the machine spits out.