skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The same way we like to talk about odd OSs, like Lisp Machines, Plan 9, Oberon, Smalltalk, I'd love to see one of these things used as a desktop CPU (since I never got to play with one of the desktoppable Xeon Phi's) just to see the weird and interesting OSs and applications that would emerge from it.

I know it must be horrendously difficult to program for general purpose use, but that's the point - figuring out what CAN be done and what an OS for it would look like.
I forgot to mention something else - the exact results of QC algorithms are read probabilistic from the instruments that read out the state of the machine. The confidence intervals for these results is important. I do not think that the results for every demonstration are read to 7 sigma... Be careful about this because if you are seeing a result of an exact algorithm that's read to 3 sigma then it's probably best to rate it as equivalent to a heuristic that gives a result within 0.01% 99.99% of the time (I am being generous). It's all in the small print in the annexes...
Deepfake YouTube Phishing Video?
In particular, a WiFi radio uses a comparatively large amount of power but in short bursts. Gigabit ethernet likewise.

https://www.computerweekly.com/blog/Networks-Generation/Powe...
Yes, Tor services are particularly easy to DoS and there's pretty much nothing the DoS recipient can do about it.
While there is an impact to the cost of operating data centers, it is different than the household one. Majority of the data centers, especially the bigger ones have a team responsible for securing the long-term energy prices via different agreements.
The 'giants' like Facebook/Google/Microsoft are purchasing power directly from the grid operators and also have their ways of securing/offsetting the price, see here for more info: https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/news-insights...
Observable [0] seems to be inspired by Jupyter. I haven't had a chance to use it though. It looks like some of its core features are open source [1]

[0] https://observablehq.com/

[1] https://github.com/observablehq
1.7B years ago Earth had a natural nuclear reactor
Will an EV-Filled World Pass the Sulfuric Acid Test?
Modalities of Web Site Builders
They don't need to be next to it, any iPhone nearby the tag will report on it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirTag
I'm not sure that Eraserhead has any overlap with Johnny Mnemonic in anything other than this mention of dreamy colours (military-bleak is how I'd describe Eraserheads palette).

I can't speak for the others in your list, but Eraserhead is an art experience that requires some... endurance of the horrific, depending on how much one invests themselves into what's going on on screen.
Stallman is right again…
There is a BOTW map app[1] from which the developper makes some money, I assume it to be illegal too but Nintendo has not taken it down. Maybe Nintendo allows that kind of side project to be made after all?

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.SoftwareNo...
This approximation seems to ignore other forms of dependencies outside of user-space applications. Build tools and operating systems are also dependencies, even if implicit. Even though I empathize with reducing dependencies as a reactionary movement in today's world of leftpad as a service, the optimal isn't 0, even if you have infinite time, simply because software doesn't live in isolation.
The scene where you witness the protagonist's conversion into a robot from his point of view could be straight out of Ghost in the Shell. Actually, I don't think GITS is nearly so cynical; Robocop is nearly as cyber but even more punk. OCP and the government turn him into a machine with a callous disregard for his rights and wellbeing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z8tQqZG8gI
For digital printing this standard is very important and handy especially at home/work.

1. Not really - if you go to professional digital printer they have other formats +, RA and SRA (A3+, RA3, SRA3) that are slightly bigger to accommodate for bleed.

2. It matters if you want to make saddle stitched binding yourself - you fold A3 and get A4 booklets.

3. If you make bigger runs of anything at professional (offset) printer the standard sizes don't matter that much because you print on big sheets (like B0) that get cut (often multiple different jobs on same sheets). So it's about waste (not printed space that gets trimmed). But the paper waste really matters only in very big runs 5k+. Whats more expensive are offset printer plates that need to be made.

So yes the magazines/books can be any size but the space on rest of the plate/paper will be filled as much as possible.
This was my feeling about all the VR systems as well. I haven't looked deeply into it, but when I was excited about getting my hands on some hardware and hacking away, it seemed like every device required going through some megacorp and their walled garden and no VR device is treated simply like a monitor on your face, which killed my interest in being a VR dev.
Didn’t realize Intuit owned Mailchimp. It one online tool whose UX I hate with a passion. Mint comes close.

What are some good alternatives to Mint for financial account aggregation?
Readme: A Story of Magic
MarkCodable: Swift Codable with human-friendly Markdown storage
If you take a clip and run it through a desaturation filter it will look aweful. To properly turn an image or a clip into black-and-white, it needs to be done by hand.

Now you have to do this manually for the whole movie. Every scene has to be done separately. But also, it has to be done in a way that is self consistent throughout the movie.
And the iPhone will share that information globally without asking for permission? I can see how that is a privacy concern.
> C and C++ also only had proprietary compilers, mostly.

I was thinking more in the 90s where GNU already had a freely available C compiler, but GNAT didn't get a free version until the late 90s, and even then it was built on a fork of gcc you had to download separately until like 2000. It was just a lot of work to get up and running, as opposed to the bundling of C/C++ compilers with Linux that was common, as you say. The initial C compatibility helped C++ a lot too.
The AirTags form part of Apple's "Find My" network.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Find_My

tl;dr Apple devices broadcast IDs and then other Apple devices phone home with those IDs and GPS locations so the owners can find their lost devices even if they don't have internet connectivity.
Sure, it could. Good luck building a decent forum on IPFS though.
"Fast UTF-8 validation" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24839113
I'd be interested to know if the users of the site would be brave and willing enough to pin Kiwi Farm's content to their attributable/personally owned devices...

Surely some of the appeal or enablers for the behaviour on there is that someone else is wearing the legal risk of storing it all
> Possibly some kind of laser beam thing that sweeps the ground in front of you might work?

That's what the TFL bikes in London do[0]:

"The Blaze Laserlight is fixed to the cycle frame and projects a green cycle-shaped image onto the ground around 6 metres ahead of the cycle."

[0] https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/cycling/santander-cycles/blaze-lase...
Yes, but the parent post specifically referred to Germany. And due to taxes, renewable subsidies in the range of 3 to 10ct/kWh (which every household pays (but not all industries)) and sky-high generation prices due to prematurely switching off cheaper power plants like nuclear and coal in favour of far more expensive gas (even back then), Germany has had far higher household electricity prices than most of Europe.
>there is not enough charging ports or parking spots for hundreds of millions of cars to recharge

Most people drive so little, they could recharge once a week. And I doubt they couldn't do it neither at home, nor the office, nor the supermarket, nor anywhere else.

Stores will do everything to have people charge at their parking. Remember when hotels made people pay for Wifi? I do.
And you're arguing against something I'm not saying, which is that people seem to have a harder problem moderating cigarette use, and that cigarettes are more obnoxious to other people.
Library of Database Schemas
Hi all,

I'm currently building a library of database schema that developers can use to design database schema faster. https://www.dbschemalibrary.com

I find myself spending days to design a database schema on every new project. The motivation behind this is that developers can use the library as reference or to copy paste from existing schemas. The hope is that those examples will lead to better design decisions in a shorter amount of time.

Would love to hear if this is something you'll find useful. Thanks!
I tried observable but
a) I'd like to have the source files in git for version control + CI/CD.
b) They use a special flavour of JS which I have no interest in learning.

The best solution I found was VSCode TS notebook https://github.com/DonJayamanne/typescript-notebook. However, ESM and notebook scoped package installations are not supported, along with some bugs.
Not sure if you're joking, or think that walking through an airport (for most people) will reveal how great or useless the security are at "ascertaining whether you're lying". Are we all meant to be testing a few lies each time we fly somewhere to judge that airport's security?
> Hosting providers MUST be forced to provide a platform for everyone and anyone against the will of the provider. It SHALL NOT matter how many people their customers brag about driving to suicide. Nor should the hosting provider take into consideration harassment campaigns orchestrated by users of their platforms.

-- Stallman, probably?

/endsarcasm
Free bananas in the kitchen!!!
They host (or shield) a bunch of high-profile piracy sites (the largest repacker for example) and hosted Parler after it was kicked from AWS. I've never heard of anyone being suspended by DG. Great achievement, that surely wasn't easy.
SHAP is a recent de-facto standard way to get feature importance out of any model, whether you care about how much each column in your dataset contributes to a given decision or say which pixels in an image mattered the most.

https://github.com/slundberg/shap
There's so many battery powered GPS trackers (with even longer battery life) and these don't have any "reporting" mechanism. I don't really understand the criticism against AirTags. Just because they are affordable, or because Apple drama brings many clicks?
For supermarket milk at least, I can only remember seeing both units for quite a while. I had a glance at the one in our fridge, and it says "2.272L 4 pints" on the label.
Cool animation, as almost always by CGP Grey. Reminds me of the book "Powers of Ten" by Philip and Phylis Morrison, published in 1982 ("Scientific American Books")
> Especially since a gas station half-way to safety can fill up hundreds of cars faster than a dozen EVs can charge.

Logistics. A petrol station can fill up any single isolated car or truck really fast, but when the local supply is gone, it can only be returned via a delivery truck (unless I'm very wrong and they have pipes direct to refineries?)

An electric charger can recharge one car battery much slower than a tank can be refilled, but the grid can be approximated as "not running out" over that kind of timescale.

I'm not sure which would be better for mass evacuations in practice, especially given traffic jams are where EVs excel.
Often the markets for renewables, especially wind, are set up like futures markets so the price the generator receives is less elastic. e.g. Contracts For Difference: https://www.emrsettlement.co.uk/about-emr/contracts-for-diff...

Normally this operates as a subsidy, but now it's returning money to the taxpayer: https://www.current-news.co.uk/news/cfd-costs-to-be-paid-bac...
Insults are the last refuge of those who have lost the argument. Sadly, I guess you just don't believe in the UN's declaration of human rights or the principles behind the US's declaration of independence.
iPhones (and by that I mean any iPhone, not just the owners) pick up the signal from the tag and send its location to cloud.

So basically iPhones are now pretty much the biggest surveillance network in the world, constantly reporting on location of tags (and other iPhones) to Apple servers.
The Lawnmower Man?

I was just the right age for that to be a mind-blowing movie. Have me a lot of enthusiasm for our technological future, which I primarily squandered on gaming...
Can you bring any concrete proof about what exactly the author has no clue about?

For example, regarding 3), can you tell us where those systems are being used?
Regarding 4), what laws do you specifically refer to?

Without that information it's just the author's word ("Google is evil") against yours ("Google is not evil").
Though your word is more aggressive, which doesn't really help your argument.
Polio Is Back in the US and UK. Here’s How That Happened
To take your racist model example: yes, having it in the open will help with that eventually. Although possibly not, because the problem isn't just in the model, it's in the training data, so unless that's also released you're limited in how much of a fix is possible after the fact.

In the meantime, a ton of people who just don't know or care about the issues will build products on top of this really cool thing which, because those problems haven't yet been fixed, harm people.
Not just that we'd have more cool projects like this because we wouldn't have lost the ones that have been taken down, but because we'd gain all the cool projects made by people who didn't or wont create something cool like this in the first place because they were afraid of the legal liability it opens them up to, or even because despite all the best intentions they can't navigate the system required.

See the "Copyright & distribution:" section from https://www.sitasingstheblues.com/faq.html for an example from an artist who almost wasn't able to make their work at all because of the problems. It was only extraordinary sacrifice that allowed that artist to bring her creative (and I think highly entertaining) work into the world, and that creator is convinced that a bar set that high leaves a lot of artists unable to clear the hurdle.
I never realized this, but I’m glad I learned why this is.

It’s the kind of thing that you always wonder about but never seriously investigate.

You could go a whole lifetime without knowing…
The international paper size standard is ISO 216. It is based on the German DIN 476 standard for paper sizes. This standard was designed by the German engineer and mathematician Walter Porstmann in 1922.

Cf https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Porstmann
Then there was the time the infamous phone phreak John "Cap'n Crunch" Draper got busted for forging BART Cards...

Steve Wozniak and his son also got mistakenly busted and thrown in a holding cell for 4 hours because he had a (real) BART card that didn't work, so he got pissed off and ended up paying for Draper's attorney fees, and Draper copped to a misdemeanor of altering MUNI tickets, and went on probation for a year, but did not lose his job at Autodesk.

https://techmonitor.ai/technology/just_tacky

>TECHNOLOGY. March 1, 1987. JUST TACKY! By CBR Staff Writer.

>Aw c’mon John, forging the electronic characteristics of BART tickets is just tacky! John Draper, who inter alia wrote the Easy Writer word processing package, has been caught with $2,500 of forged access tickets to the San Francisco Bay-Area Rapid Transit subway system, and fellah, BART, which has never fully recovered from the teething troubles in the early days when trains used to whistle through stations at 60mph with the doors wide open, can’t afford it; Draper’s real claim to fame is that he discovered in the 1960s that a toy whistle given away in packets of a glutinous and bilious-coloured sugared corn puff cereal called Cap’n Crunch was pitched just right to mimic the tones AT&T used to set up long-distance calls, so that packs of the sickly Cap’n sold out as kids rushed to claim the whistles that enabled them to call auntie in Montana or Mary in Maine; that was ingenious if wicked, but forging BART tickets – tacky, John, tacky.

https://www.digibarn.com/collections/audio/digibarn-radio/06...

>DigiBarn Radio: John Draper @ Autodesk (1985)

>Listen to John Draper talking about his Autodesk period, the BART card fiasco and more! (8MB MP3, recorded May 2006)

https://www.digibarn.com/collections/audio/digibarn-radio/06...

>John Draper at the Digibarn's Homebrew@30 event

>Thanks Tom Barbalet for recording this rare interview with John Draper (aka "Captain Crunch" or "Crunchman" these days) about his life at Autodesk, and the BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) cards fiasco. Also included here are other life and times of "Crunch".
"At least Russian cyber firms have more corporate ethics than @CloudflareHelp." :')

(https://twitter.com/GossiTheDog/status/1566729178807926785)
Knowing the history of Apple an open standard and given their success with their implementation of the ARM64 ISA, it is unfortunately highly probable that they will follow the proprietary route once again.

Indeed, they are already doing it, we're lucky they weren't in a dominant position when TCP/IP or HTML were invented.
There are pinning services, that do the pinning for a fee.
But Those can also be DDosed I suppose. Can have multiple pinners of course but, but I doubt that makes a difference in the longer term.
Wonder how long it will be before it’s back online or if the owner will throw in the towel.
The most destrutive form of fun i had - now repeated in multiple companies and organisations - was to simply place a Flummi (a small hard bouncy ball) in an populated space: It is guaranteed that you will relatively fast hear the typical "thud-thud-thud" of someone throwing it against a wall... the sound will get louder and will inevitable lead to a "thud... Thud... THUD... crash...".

My conclusion from this social experiment is:

1: Humans are unable to leave a ball lying around

2: Throwing a hard rubber ball in an enclosed space will lead to destruction

3: It is irrelevant how old, dignified or high up people are in the hierarchy of an organisation to withstand the in 1 mentioned effect.
All the examples seem to boil down to "manager wants thing he did to be useful". Sure, that might be the IKEA effect, but it seems more likely to me that they simply don't want to be perceived as having made a mistake.
I often pair it with Hackers.

Both awful and great in equal measure. Exemplary of what society at large are just incapable of understanding about the (not-quite-so) new electronic frontier.

The chain of commentary above just perfectly describes Hackers as well.
My favourite response from their so called "support" was to claim nothing was being blocked. They weren't going to let the full headers and error message from their outlook.com server convince them otherwise. Thankfully two days later it magically unblocked again. All the time enrolled in their "Smart Network Data Service" which did nothing. I probably just got an auto reply from the same bot Google uses to handle ban appeals.
Agreed. Cheap and nasty shared pavements for bikes and people in the UK are a nightmare.
An ill thought out product from Apple. Because their tagline should be "Our business is pretending to care."

Back to the story. By default iOS "Find My" tends to be on when setting up a new phone with an Apple id. If it is not on, or switched off, does the 'stalkee' still get that notification that they're being tracked?
Like I said, around 0 you're gonna get the worst performance, as outside temp goes down most models will see they COP actually increase (compared to ~0 C). Of course, delta-T is still important, so it helps hugely if you can have your water temp at 30 C (and still radiate effectively). It takes a carefully planned systems to reach that though (i.e. active ventilation on your radiators, or floor heating), so many will need to get water out at 40 C or even higher, which is going to bring you down from sCOP 4. At -20 COP is going to be 2-2.5. But, for many Europeans, that's not a frequent event. Even so, 200% efficiency is better than <100%.

I think many don't put much effort in the radiator side of things. E.g. here gas heating is usually ran at 60-70 degrees, while for that sCOP of 4+ it should be 30-35 C. Roughly, you're going to need a factor 4 more radiating surface. People don't always install that, and then run their heat pump at 50 C and get a COP of 2. Well, no shit :)

So, you gotta take a reasonable low point, understand how hot your circuit temp is going to be (the formula for radiators is pretty much the same over radiator brands from those I've used, floor heating idem), account for buffer losses (with floor heating, you can cut out your buffer and gain 0.5 COP just like that), and, if you have an outdoor temp of ~0 C for much of the year, look for a model that comes with a good defrosting strategy and keeps an acceptable efficiency around that temp. sCOP 4 is for the Netherlands, which has mild winters thanks to the Gulf Stream. However, family is in Poland, and there heat pumps are now also being installed everywhere (where below -20 C is expected for weeks each winter) and while you're right that this means an sCOP reduction, it can still be near 3 if you configure the rest of the loop right. And 250-300% efficiency is going to beat resistive heatings 100% or combustive methods each and every time.

2.5 kW sounds severely underdimensioned for a house at -20 C though. That would not cut it for my smallish house in NL, I've calculated ~5 kW at -15 C needed (and don't forget, make sure your radiators can emit this at the T_out!). Typically people would install a 7-10 kW unit for my sort of house.
Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice, to coin a phrase; which is why many laws have an “intentionally or recklessly” clause
Isn't the massive benefit of mocking that you can test scenarios that are really hard to test with real libraries? Taking the Stripe Server call as an example, if you use the real thing then getting it to return a specific error, or a making it fail in a deterministic way, or pretending Stripe has been hacked and is returning a GIF of an owl for every response, is pretty much impossible. If you use a mock that has the same API as the real thing then you get to control what's returned in all manner of different scenarios, which means you can test all those cases. Sure, Stripe might have a real bug, and that would impact your code, but at least you can know that your code will fail gracefully because you mocked that exact scenario.

Testing, and testing with mocks especially, is not about proving your code works when things are right. It's about proving your code fails properly when things are wrong. If you're not hunting down cases where things fail then you're not testing well enough.
> very hot - about 35.5C or so, when you cannot dissipate heat with sweating. 30C is just uncomfortable but totally fine.

That's not only subjective but also depends on humidity. 34º with high humidity can feel far hotter than 38º in dry weather.
Well, other than deregistering the onion address from dHT and quit :)

I'm glad their little "community" is being seen off into the void. Good riddance.