skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do believe there are forces looking to cause a worldwide famine, but this particular case is being presented to us as a red herring.
Intel bribe scandal was 20 years ago, and they still do it after tweaking (clients receive free hardware instead of straight $) to not be so blatantly illegal. "Cripple AMD" ICC/MKL was 13 years ago yet "Arc 380 drivers do not support ReBar on AMD's Ryzen CPUs, the functionality only works with this technology on Intel's own processors."
Did you read the full article?

>The government alleges that, after Maynard departed, the agents monitoring him went to check out his campsite and ran into a pillar of smoke. At least a half-acre of the forest floor was burning. Maynard’s car proceeded to a spot six minutes away, according to tracking data, where a second fire was discovered.

>In a government filing, several videos shot by Maynard are described in damning detail. One allegedly shows him threatening the home of a person who had erected a gate that prevented him from driving across private land. “I’ll just burn this to the ground,” he allegedly says. “That’s what you win. You win a wildfire right in your house.” Then the video allegedly captures the sound of Maynard rolling down a window and striking a match.

>A second video allegedly shows him chasing down a mother and three children he had seen at a gas station. “What’s wrong, kids? What’s wrong?” he whispers as he drives. “Maybe you should stop pissing people off and they won’t fucking follow you to their house.” When the frightened mother pulls into a police-station parking lot, Maynard allegedly screams, “I will kill your fucking family right in front of you, bitch.”

He claims, unconvincingly, that the videos were essentially just a prank. Between that, the fires, his phone's location data, and his long history of lying, mental illness and violence, I think there's enough solid evidence for Lady Justicia. The videos on his phone would never have been discovered without the arrest based on location data. So we return to the question of my original comment.
Interesting, I wonder how often Small-claims gets used for software. At the same time:

@d13 What if the house magically changed shape so the chair couldn't be used any more in that house? Suddenly one day you'll need to sit on the floor and eat, until you had gotten new chairs, for the new shape of the house

Who would you sue (the house or the chair company or no one?)

Or instead, when the house changes shape randomly and whenever, what about paying the chair company for upgrading your chairs to match the new shape of the house (and you'd never have to cook and eat on the floor)

(It makes little sense, I think, to compare software with chairs and houses. Unless the houses are magical as per above)
Speak for yourself, my passport says "Nationality: Non-US".
What are conditions and sentiments like on the street in Russia?
Conservatism has its benefits, but I didn't see the Amish get rich off the Dotcom boom either.
DOS/VS 5pack Release
Wow, essentially an extraordinarily large view camera built around a repurposed lens, then converted into a depth-of-field adapter[0] in lieu of a digital back.

There's actually a known technique for taking wide angle photographs with depth of field this shallow using only a typical long lens:[1] stitching together frames to build a wider field of view is all that's needed; long lenses all have shallow DoF by nature.[a] This interestingly can also be used to explain why the episcope lens has such shallow DoF: its focal length of 432 mm would make it a super telephoto lens, yet its large image circle means it has a wide-angle field of view. If it were replaced by a telephoto lens with the same focal length and aperture but a smaller image circle, and that lens were swung around in a spiral to 'paint' the same area as the episcope lens image circle, the two lenses would produce the same result, only the episcope lens can do it all at once instead of needing multiple exposures.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depth-of-field_adapter [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brenizer_Method

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[a] Annoyingly, I still don't know a satisfying explanation of why depth of field depends on subject/background distances, aperture, focal length, etc. The formulas exist, but every attempt at intuitive explanation I've seen has been incomplete or incorrect. Here's some videos to show those who say that longer lenses have shallower DoF solely because reframing by standing farther away from the subject causes the background and its blur to become relatively larger: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xHMOzZM2ts&t=38s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkTaMyatsTo&t=116s

(One's a $1000 Nikon bridge superzoom with a 4.3-539 mm (125x) f/2.8-8 and 1/2.3" sensor (5.6x = 24-3000 mm). The other's a $200000 Fuji box lens, 8.4-900 mm (107x) f/1.7-4.5, for 2/3" sensors (3.9x = 33-3540 mm). They fight crime!)

Huh, found a DoF simulator that seems physically accurate at least: https://dofsimulator.net/?x=FDgBkATiAAAAJU4kcF3TgAA

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Other cool unconventional imaging projects:

- forum thread for DIY DoF adapters going back to 2003 https://www.dvinfo.net/forum/alternative-imaging-methods/171...

- very similar project to this one, using a reflecting surface rather than a screen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZixDTrQdzo

- flatbed scanners as large-format camera backs, focusing on resolution instead of bokeh https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=649150

- telecentric/hypercentric lens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJ4yL6kaV1A, photolithography via microphotography by view camera https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAPt_DcWAvw
The thing is that this used to be better. Groningen (north of the Netherlands) used to connect to Germany. I think there are new plans to restart that. Lots of international night trains also were abolished a decade ago.

I wonder how much privatization has played a role in this.
Yes, and if at some point drugging the users became legal, then the market would adopt this as well if it lead to more profit.
Ask HN: Android work profile tips and tricks?
I'm trying to become productive with Android work profiles but keep stumbling over things like widgets accessing the private profile even though the work profile is active or the launcher not differentiating between profiles. What is your setup?
From the article:

"This research was funded, in part, by MIT, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and the U.S. Army Research Office through the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies at MIT."

I see quite a strong military presence among the funders, which could imply this research will progress really fast and turn soon into a real thing, but sadly it also could imply it won't be available to the public for some time.
Imagine you sell tractors.

Seeing someone buy all the farmland around you to not farm it, will kill your business. I can see why you wouldn't be happy.
I might find them educational? I found my masters degree in jpoetry pretty educational.

Have you heard of Maya Angelou? She's pretty important, maybe you might learn something if you check out her work.

I think it's short sighted to write off someone's work as being "prose with arbitrary line breaks" after what seems like only a cursory glance at their work. Their popularity and recognition by the governing bodies of British schools might suggest there's something you're missing. If you really think they're writing without any attention to the sound of their words then I don't know what I can say to you.

I don't know why we need to compare Ciaran Carson to Ed Sheeran either. Culture shouldn't be a competition for numbers.

Honestly the former's writing on the Troubles is phenomenal. I don't see what it matters what "class of people" read his work. As a working class person who grew up in a conflict zone myself nothing else has ever captured my lived experience like Belfast Confetti for example. It almost feels personally offensive to have you write that off as "unimportant."

Like I say, I don't want to get into this as it doesn't feel productive or like I could possibly say anything to encourage you to look at things differently.

Edit: By the way, you did say they were inimportant. You said there had been no important poet writing in English since Ginsberg. What class of people are reading Ginsberg anyway?
I might set about researching communes in the US.

There's some that are quite well run. I wish I could find the link now, there was one in Appalachia which was doing quite well some years back.

While it doesn't count as non-religious, the Hutterites are quite interesting, as they are from another branch of the Anabaptist faith. And growing too, at a time where the Amish don't seem to be!
People still have children and most countries do not need to be any more crowded than they are already. In fact many countries would benefit from having a lower population density.

Technology has already replaced most agricultural workers in most developed countries and I can't imagine anyone wanting to return to pre-industrial agriculture.
I am pretty sure that most of that $100M is people making ""content"" with catchy titles like "I spent $$$$$1,000,000 on Diablo Immortal"
Anti-burnout tip #1 :
If you don't know how to solve programming problem now, don't sweat, skip it for later.
If the locals succeed, I wonder what form it will take? For example, maybe a 'must farm' act, which requires landowners to pay a fine if they don't farm their land?
Enough food, clean water and knowledge of germ theory does most of the work there. New England has higher rates of natural increase for most of two centuries without benefit of modern medicine, as did Quebec.
How does this compare with the built-in netem in linux?
I don't know, I can imagine feeling the same way and I have free (at point of use) healthcare.

It's not emergent (I assume, since we're talking about it, it's unclear if it's as serious as a fracture or not, I assume not massively painful) so I'm going to have to go to a GP, and then unless they think definitely not wait for an x-ray appointment, during which time it's probably sorted itself out and we'll find out either it wasn't a fracture or or how well it healed.

Depending where it is there may be little they could do for you anyway; even less that you wouldn't be able to do for yourself if you knew. Perhaps GP commenter is trying to keep it straight/restrict movement, let it heal - but that's annoying, if they knew it wasn't, just sore or whatever, then they wouldn't bother.

My own 'at home' wish would be for testing for levels of anything that's dietary, could then use it to have a meal deliberately high in whatever the lowest was (assuming not all high!) for example.
This is easy to do on Linux if you want to have it system-wide, or for other protocols.

# tc qdisc add dev eth0 root netem delay 100000

gives you a 100ms delay. It can also be made non-system-wide by using network namespaces or creating additional network adapters.

Replace add with `del` to remove it.

See `man netem` for more. It also allows you to specify distribution, and simulate other network issues — packet loss, reordering, data corruption. For example:

# tc qdisc add dev eth0 root netem rate 1mbit
Budibase is another!

https://github.com/Budibase/budibase
I actually like hyperscript DX more than JSX/HTML. What I’ve found out though is that most “prettifiers” and formatters in editors (unlike vim) suck so much at hierarchical calls formatting.
I've never been so "in the zone" than while coding on small CPUs in assembly for fun. I write 6502 (on Oric Atmos, an 1983 computer) and LR35902 (the GameBoy CPU, basically a mix between a z80 and a 8080).

Those CPU are very simple, you have like a dozen instructions, 4 or 5 addressing modes, that's it. You can infer the cycles count from each instruction by the addressing mode, mostly.

The machines those CPU run are a bit more complex than just the CPU, but after some time you get to know them perfectly. You can think about an algorithm in your shower or on the way back from work, and code it like a robot, directly from your brain, you figured everything out to the last detail just in your head.

That's very, very rewarding. I've never got this kind of feeling while playing those coding games, like Zachtronics's, although I've enjoyed some of them. I played Factorio for hundred of hours, that's very pleasant, but the UI gets in the way and you know the problem already has been solved.

I very much encourage you to try assembly on 8bits computers, coding graphical effects and demomaking stuff and all. That is, if you don't have kids and all, that takes time :)
Care to share other similar quotes? I've been working on a passion project for a few months and I definitely have my downs in terms of motivation.
Goes to show that YC does not fund every great founder who applies.
Turning a Pair of Syringes into a Tiny Water Pump
Lua never got a Rails, but it got a Grim Fandango (the best "mainstream" video game that shipped it [1]). That game marked an inflection point in adoption of Lua as a scripting language for video games, and that expanded to other areas afterwards.

Perhaps it worth exploring what other niches like that would make sense for Clojure. For example: It seems to me that its lipsy nature would meld well with artificial reasoning and perhaps AI. Some sort of PyTorch competitor, perhaps? How is the Java ecosystem with regards to AI libraries?

[1] https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grim_Fandango
I really don't find not having JSX a big deal. If left to my own devices I won't even code preact/react with JSX so I can avoid a transpile.
Can you imagine time traveling from 1990 to 2020? Seeing every single person, even children, glued to a screen in their hand. It’d feel freaky and dystopian.
JS offers classes (or a similar construct pre-ES2015) and you can’t easily merge two objects (there’s the spread syntax, but that doesn’t bring along the prototype).

So you’re mostly rewarded by keeping object «types» seperate
Hey, what are you working on? :D
That was exactly my reaction! The latest visual studio still runs on Windows 2000, and I've yet to find anything that doesn't work on Windows 7.
The itsy bitsy spider crawled up the pneumatic pipe. Along came the scientist and ripped its insides out. Now the itsy bitsy spider is an actuated gripper. La dee dee da da listen to teacher or your corpse will be a puppet.
If this is the first time you've seen DX I've got two words for ya
Sustainability is not something optimized by natural selection either, all that matters to get a trait adopted by a population is that it provides a reproductive advantage to the individuals with the trait, which has frequently in the past resulted in ecological collapse. The most disastrous and classic example being the first organisms to emit oxygen which at the time was a deadly poison, is assumed to have killed a huge percentage of the species on earth, and could easily have resulted in a genuine full wipe.

We're smart enough that we should be able to avoid anything like that if we put in the work but don't glorify what's natural, we should be looking for our own solutions.
APAs and letterzines?
It also has an xor view through feature which was very useful to me in the past. I've experienced files that use it as a simple protection.
What's "auus"?

I think systems nowadays are larger and more integrated, more complex.

Deployments sometimes are simpler, whilst other things instead are harder. Software will always be pushing the limits.
One thing i never understood is how could teens and young people in general be impacted by expensiveness of healthcare or gig economy? They don't need any or much healthcare, it's boomers' problem (and boomers have a lot of money and this is why healthcare is expensive). Gig economy allows people without experience make money by just investing their time, and youngsters who still live with their parents don't need stability - so as mind-numbing as gig economy is, it's a benefit for them. It's maybe a problem for millennials who are unable to get out of it for something better in their 30s, but not for the young.
Does political lobbying have to be done by business, or do the efforts of religious groups to influence policy count as lobbying? If there is a Green lobby then it has more in common with the, I dunno, "Christian lobby" than lobbying from big business.
I believe I’ve read this was also due to Iberian gauge high speed rail technology not really being existent at the time Spain started building HSR in a hurry for Expo ‘92? in Sevilla, and they’ve continued using standard gauge for it (to the benefit of the link with France).

However the huge investment in HSR (longest network after China, but low utilization), has also come at the cost of the local and regional train network (which still use broad gauge, yes there are gauge changing trains, but the broad gauge network is languishing).
Would it be enough to treat him for paranoid psychosis? What should be done with such people?
You have learned nothing and your 60 year old future self will curse this day.
Many organisations need standards, they need formally defined things to point at and say 'make me one of those'. It doesn't always have to be the best, it doesn't always have to be the easiest, but without standards you have a moving target. You might say that a particular library is great and so we'll just specify that. But the problem there is you get into dependency hell and maintenance issues. When you can point to specifications that define behaviour and algorithms, rather than code, you reduce those issues.
Folk who've not had a good experience of standards tend not to appreciate the benefits they bring and yet so much in your life to this point has been defined by work done on standards. Proprietary standards and trends are what tends to lead towards closed ecosystems that don't benefit consumers.
And also the option whether to see them or not. Set your options for more or less social interaction.

Would it alter the zeitgeist subtly or dramatically? Most noticeable to the more social or less social people? Here in Konishi polis.
I'd say definitely: https://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/exploit_w32_jpg_vulnerabili...
What number of false positives would you accept from being scanned at every physical though? If you get 3 colonoscopies, some liver biopsies, and a few trachescopies, you might not like the unprompted full scans.

The fractured bone is a different case, because you have reason to suspect something. That makes a lot of sense. But general unprompted scanning is not necessarily a good idea.
> Also your “book” seems completely empty, better to not even link to it

What do you mean? https://book.rizin.re/ works just fine, checked specifically.
Thank you for your great explanation, it's super interesting. I read Raspbian has a patched openbox that has aliased rounded corners.

I believ it uses this patch https://github.com/dylanaraps/openbox-patched
Stockholm Bike Map: a webapp that enriches an official app
This is a neat tool, and while this is maybe a bit too local for hackernews, I can say that using the current ebike rental system in Stockholm is pretty problematic atm. Currently the perspective is like you go to find a bike in the official app, but there are none there in reality. Or it doesn't unlock or the battery is at like 3 percent (shown in the app when unlocked). The system is great however when it does work because ebikes are nice.

To be honest, with how open data is becoming I would bet we see more solutions from independent parties to solve problems with official solutions. Was an interesting case to see here. And ofc I am benefitting from it by being able to actually ride ebikes so that's nice. Some problems with the app I notice ofc (doesnt show your location well imo), but the official app is so horrible I overlook this.

Here was the original reddit thread posted on this where I saw it: https://www.reddit.com/r/stockholm/comments/wc6yot/stockholm...
In parser theory there is such a thing as an ambiguous grammar. Parser generators detect such a grammar and never produce an actual parser for it. So in a sense most parser that you actually use don't have ambiguous grammars by definition. That said, you could have a manually written parser that thinks it implements an "ambiguous grammar", but in reality chose an deterministic (even if possibly arbitrary l) resolution of the ambiguity.

It's still ok talk about the grammar as being ambiguous no matter what a purported implementation of such grammar is deterministic (because it ultimately does not implement the actual grammar)
surprised not to see fzf

also someone showed https://github.com/console-rs/indicatif/ recently (a tqdm like progress bar)
Cars are nothing like software, they clearly deteriorate with time to the point parts eventually need replacing. You could argue there's a better case for a subscription model for buying cars than for software.
Great write-up!

Something I'm not getting, perhaps I'm missing something terribly obvious:

> during a full GC, we should also accept l_markVersion that is off-by-one. In that case, we know the isMarked bit accurately reflects whether or not a cell is live, since that is the result of the last GC cycle.

Here's part of the related footnote:

> any number of eden GC cycles may have run between the last full GC cycle and the current full GC cycle, but eden GC does not bump mark version. So for any object born before the last GC cycle (no matter eden or full), the isMarked bit honestly reflects if it is live

Couldn't an object have become non-live since the last GC cycle (whether eden or full)?
Either this article is rhetorically clever or I'm reading too much into
the tactic.

It's an interesting simulation of enquiry theatrically performed for
the reader to address the disingenuous and rhetorical question "Why
are our children killing themselves ?", before admitting this is
basically common sense.

The amusing pivot, where it pretends to fail to notice it's answering
it's own question comes here:

> A lot of people believe we will, at some point, with enough data, be
able to answer this question definitively. We won’t. This leaves us
in a Rorschachian space.

That space, between academic posturing and the bleedin' obvious, is
illustrated by difference between medicalised psychiatry and
psychotherapy (which people often confuse).

The former measures the patients head, EEG, blood pressure, eye
movement, and heart rate. It does CAT scans, analyses blood, and
subjects the patient to a battery of tests. When "enough data" has
been collected, an authoritative pronouncement can be made.

The latter just asks the patient "What do you think is wrong?"

So I ask, where in all this "science" is the broad and sustained
longitudinal study in which we ask 300 million children "How do you
feel?" And who would have the courage to publish the results of
that?
That also have a detected url in their about link. I’m guessing there are way
more than 100 like that.
C/C++ language lawyering (which I did as a hobbyist a few years ago) reminds me a lot of SCOTUS and US constitution debates these days.
That is an interesting way to find more recent vehicles - find the ones who are "smart" but whose "supporting networks" have already died without rendering the vehicle non-functional. Thank you for the perspective.

Of course this does nothing on the security side - the fact that the vehicle is still somewhat accessible from the outside makes it less secure. But not having to worry about privacy at least is nice.