skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
QR codes do support arbitrary binary data in 8 bit mode. Programs such as qrencode also allow the creation of 8 bit QR codes. It's almost always the QR decoder that's limited to text formats because they assume the data is text.

I submitted some patches to ZBar to improve this. See also my answer to this stack overflow question:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/60518608/512904

I don't understand what you mean by this:

> Although the QR format does have an encoding called “byte mode”, each byte in this mode represents an ISO 8859-1 character, not binary data.

I've read the standard but I didn't get the impression that the 8 bit encoding mode was assumed to be text. Can you cite the part that says this?
The effects are extremely small for variants that arose recently. If there is a new round of vaccines that work on current and future variants, it would make more sense to get vaccinated.
If we agree that a poorly designed experience will become obsolete over time, then how does this expenditure not increase Wiki’s chances of staying online?
The "Terms of Service" document on the website seems to be fairly boilerplate policy for a site that allows user-posted content and has an app; what are your specific policies related to parking?
To each their own, but I'll happily pay the $10 or so to reduce the likelihood of getting sick over the next few months. I hate being sick so much. I would be worth it even if it only prevented a mild case of sniffles.
In fact, its design choice is questionable even as a title font. Normally the text color will be chosen so that it has enough contrast compared to the background. With color fonts you can't always change the text color, but you can still change the background. Gilbert however contains all hues in a single glyph, so some part of each glyph is always going to be hard to distinguish from the background without much care.
How about using Neovim and writing scripts and configs in Fennel? https://fennel-lang.org/
I generally agree with you, except for the fact that it was more of an aerodynamic issue than a center of gravity issue: the large body of the engine produced lift at higher angles of attack, making the nose go up and worsening the problem. The fact the engine was more powerful also contributed to that problem: the higher thrust produced more upwards torque.

And I am not saying that the software bandaid and the goal of avoiding a new type certification is a bad thing. In fact, it is done all the time with no ill effect.

What I am saying is that they did it wrong, and that's the real problem. Your explanation on what they did wrong is, I think, entirely correct.

My hypothesis is that if they didn't care about keeping the same type rating, they probably could have skipped the bandaid and trained pilots to just keep out of that dangerous configuration, just like pilots are trained to recognize, avoid and recover from stalls. It didn't look like an unmanageable problem for pilots, more like something they needed to be aware of and train for.
It's very difficult to find good long term studies on the effects of education decisions. Very difficult.
Not a very convincing argument on any level. All you're telling us is that you don't want people living near you, OK, but we already knew that.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32743808
How many demonstrations were used ?

And was the feedback data used to train the model with reinforcement learning? Or did you request users to "correct" the action and get a supervised signal?
Is that more the case for particular categories of podcasts? Because I haven't noticed this myself. I mainly listen to stand-up comedian/general comedy podcasts and the usual advertising suspects are Raid Shadow Legends, NordVPN, etc. Other than recurring guests/hosts, the podcasts I watch seem mostly disjoint from one another.
China is impressive. USA not so much...
The question “does this have relevant applications?” Is still well formed and answerable. That’s all I’m asking! I find it odd that so many are taking offense.
Thanks for the correction; my knowledge is a bit out of date, Firefox at least (not sure about Safari) switched to W^X JIT a good while back: https://jandemooij.nl/blog/wx-jit-code-enabled-in-firefox/. That's cool.

W^X is more difficult to exploit for sure, but as other commenters point out, unfortunately still possible.
I didn’t say any such thing and I don’t see how that’s relevant as remittances from the US are generally in Dollars, not local currency.
It's very low for a daytime temperature. Maybe it makes sense with the gas crunch and energy prices in europe, but the specific thing that bothers me about it is hiding that number below the "advanced" checkbox. I don't think people who are used to paying for winter time heating set their thermostat to 68, so using that number to calculate how much a heat pump costs to run will artificially lower the cost of the heat pump in this calculator.
I've heard of that too, but in my case it's batch of Japanese distributors like e-onkyo [1] or Ototoy [2].

[1] https://www.e-onkyo.com/music/
[2] https://ototoy.jp/top/
> You're saying that as supply catches up to the soaring demand, profits will go up instead of down?

I don't think you're wrong on the larger point that landlords are more likely to be on the side of NIMBYism / NIMBYs are going to be land owners.

But, to an extent this is possible; the price would drop for the additional supply, but the total of (now_higher_supply * now_lower_price) can still be greater than (original_lower_supply * original_higher_price). Depends on how the market demand responds to the additional supply, and how much additional supply there is. (It can happen the other way, too, where the drop in price outweighs the new profit from the new supply, and total profit drops.)

… so it kinda requires an idea of how the additional supply would cause the price to change, beyond what I suspect most landlords have. And a foresight/long-termism that I also don't think exists. And if you're a small time landlord not planning on building additional properties, then your supply is always 1, and if the price does down, obviously then too the product does. And I think in SF, the additional supply that is needed, from a more moral standpoint of "people need to live, commuting is bad for the environment and people's health", is crap tons of additional housing. The price to rent could halve and still be too high.
Honestly, matrix.org is the best alternative.

Its basically the new chat standard.
From Informediq.com
Maybe. But a lot of companies open offices where their owners want to live, near related businesses, near relevant universities, and so on.

They may yet leave. But if so, what will SF have accomplished? Becoming Aspen on the bay?
As noted in my third para :~)

Additionally from the product page:

"Unprecedented fidelity and detail, 130 dB dynamic range"

I've just realized that the product page I linked is extremely unusual for stating a dynamic range value.

However this makes sense if you read the papers covering Neumann's dual ADC and pre design of which they were justifiably proud. System D was a mid nineties introduction.
Yep! Being the first mover doesn't seem to have helped Kodak much. They spent what must have been huge amounts on r&d - all to ultimately destroy their film cash cow, and be taken over by electronics firms.
I think a bit more information would be needed.

What language/frameworks are you using for your api?

Do you have any instrumentation on your servers to see what is causing the issues?

It could be as easy as a missing index or something different.

Let me know if you want to chat.
"Curious how we post to Twitter? The Free Software Foundation uses a custom script* to post to our GNU social, Mastodon, and Twitter accounts simultaneously. This means that you can find us on Twitter!"
For a significant time, the vaccine showed strong evidence of reducing hospitalization and fatality rates, esp for at risk populations. Did that change? I thought the main thing that changed was it stopped being effective at reducing transmission.
Still waiting for Apple to allow restricting network access (both cellular and WiFi) for specific apps on all devices, not just those sold in China: https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/312430/51806 .
> By having it on the windshield, even if I shifted my attention for 500ms every 10-15 mins, to see what a sound was, I wouldn’t lose my peripheral vision and the situational awareness.

This is a tremendous claim without evidence. I can’t believe that you think putting a screen with moving and unpredictable images in your sight line isn’t distracting.

You’re a dangerous driver even if you’ve convinced yourself otherwise.
> Unicode is required by modern standards such as XML, Java, C#, ECMAScript (JavaScript), LDAP, CORBA 3.0, WML, etc.,

TIL that CORBA is still around, and that someone considers it modern.
>The site is slow, the UI is god awful, and the spam is - as this tweet points - appalling.

I've probably used Twitter for 1 hour+ per day, every day, for years. I hardly even notice the spam. What am I doing wrong? Is it targeting specific niches? Clearly something is working.
...not getting as sick? We've had the annual flu vaccine around for decades and not a peep about "value propositions" because it was obvious. Same will go for COVID.
And that's with tons of precautions, whereas with the flu society doesn't take the kinds of mitigations we take with COVID.
Important Customer Update to Okta IP Access Policy
The css alternative to <table> was display:table which have existed for ages.
> 3. Under Security, tap Lockdown Mode and tap Turn On Lockdown Mode.

> 4. Tap Turn On Lockdown Mode.

Tap twice? ;)
https://reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/rsxeee/you_should_neve...
Hertz became an SI unit in 1960. It's odd to think it only gathered heavy adoption in the last 50 years.
"Arpeggi Labs, a new crypto startup focused on using blockchains to make music creation more collaborative, has scored $5.1 million in seed funding from Andreessen Horowitz’s crypto arm alongside a host of artists including names like Steve Aoki, 3LAU and Wyclef Jean.

The team’s goal is to tap the blockchain to build a music creation suite that bakes in an open source ethos, allowing producers to sample a wide variety of songs and sounds while the platform ensures that credit always flows back to original creators appropriately."
Cars have about 700hp of braking. Drop a 700hp motor in a car and have fun using the factory CV/half shafts.
>But we don't have border closing or "show your papers" or all the rest for influenza

Except for when we do shut things down.

It's far from without precedent for the government to mandate personal safety requirements, tho. Seatbelt laws for cars are near universal in the US and that's a much more only-effects-you decision compared to vaccination.
Is this really a feature people want? I can’t imagine any situation where I’d want to allow unsolicited FaceTime calls (99% of the time it’s some kind of spammer)
That's blatantly and obviously false, especially with the variant specific booster. Perhaps you think the risk of myocarditis is too great? You'd be wrong. https://newsroom.heart.org/news/myocarditis-risk-significant...
(White male, minority religion)

I read this just as "we were careful not to have our layoff unfairly impact minorities", not "we unfairly fired non-minorities".

Unfortunately, reading the comments here, it sounds like most people assumed the latter, which I found quite sad.
That reminds me of the saying, "We have the best politicians money can buy."
Look at the effects of flooding in Pakistan. Imagine what that does to civilisation. What happens if that becomes widespread?
> And humanity viewed *as a species* does not need saving because in the event of a major extinction, we are the most stubbornly adaptable species ever.

That remains to be tested.
Tax carbon and move on. These (inaccurate) calculations and the resulting guilt trips are the real waste of resources.
>> Incoming FaceTime calls are blocked

> Perfect, I don't use it, it is always some scammer.

You get spam/scam FaceTime calls? (Not attacking, just generally curious... I've never in my life ever gotten or know anybody who has been spammed via FaceTime).
Honestly I would rather just use Matrix.

What they need now is just better clients, element needs to improve.
And what do you imagine the effect of that "factor" would be?

Taking offense to unfair firing practices also doesn't mean one doesn't take offense to unfair hiring practices. But the topic at hand is layoff, not hiring.
Built by a product manager?! I didn't know they could make things!
I've found SF is nothing like what conservative pundits describe. I don't mean better or worse, just different. It doesn't fit the narratives of national politics.
Please be civil.

Just because you disagree with a position doesn't mean it is not science and that public servants are making choices for some nefarious reason.

COVID vaccines have unquestionably saved a lot of lives and will continue to do so in the future. The question is what their involvement will be in the future. A decision that will be made by the same people, with the same scientific rigour that it's always been.
Why not hire in Europe, or Asia? Almost all of them work remotely.
My greatly advanced age allows me to comment. I got my PhD in computer science in 1983, and spent some time in research, moving quickly to "industrial research", and so I was very aware of Xerox PARC and similar institutions.

- Xerox PARC was, of course, famous for cutting edge computer science research that could have, and often did impact the computing world, although sometimes years later, and never to the benefit of Xerox. I don't think this was by design, but it sure worked out that way.

- Bell Labs and its impact needs no introduction here. They are not known for impacting AT&Ts bottom line, although if it did, I would not be aware of it.

- IBM Labs did some great work, and probably had the most successful research to product pipeline. I'm thinking of PL/1 and DB/2 mainly, but I'm sure there are many other examples that I'm forgetting. APL might also be an example. I suspect that much of their mainframe OS work benefitted from this pipeline, but I can't comment since I had little exposure to mainframe OSes.

- Microsoft is a good example too. I think they have had some success feeding research into product. Or maybe it is more accurate to say that they had some success in hiring researchers to work on products. (I came very close to being one of those researchers, but decided to go into startups instead.)

- A far more obscure example: I worked at Computer Corporation of America in the 80s. At the time, they were one of the great database research labs, (e.g. Bernstein and Goodman on concurrency control), and I was lucky enough to work there for a while. CCAs main product was Model 204, an ancient, very fast, hierarchical database system that ran on mainframes, and was, I believe, coded in Assembler. CCA also had a consulting side, that did DARPA-funded research, and that's how they funded database research. Profiting just from that research did work, for a while. Then it stopped working, and a past-its-prime Xerox PARC purchased a past-its-prime CCA research group (if I'm remembering correctly). At that point, I left to join an object-oriented database startup (remember those?). And sure enough, some of the ideas I worked on at CCA (adding persistence to Ada) did show up in our product. So again, research to product, but not benefitting the company itself.

Now? I think that there is cutting-edge research at Google and Amazon, and both are excellent examples of fundamental research leading to immediately useful products.
Like the Omicron booster that has limited availability?
Fortunately, NIMBYism isn't holding things up in low earth orbit.
Covid has a total of 1 million kills in two years (In the US). Excessive deaths puts that even higher.
I always find it confusing what I can and can't do with the entire GPL family of licenses, specifically when something is considered a "derivative" work or not. The AGPL network provision makes this an even bigger issue. It also introduces a whole new layer of uncertainty.

I also have seen a trend over the years of companies who adopt AGPL not caring about the open source community around the code. This is not specific to the AGPL, and not every user of it does so, but I see it correlating more often.

Many companies refuse to use AGPL licensed code... some claim their lawyers are stupid and don't know what they are doing... but it can still prevent adoption of AGPL licensed products.
I'm one of the people building this. Hi HN, AMA :)
There is a guy on the other side of that transaction who would capture that surplus value.
So if I choose to hold my mother's funeral at a public cemetery owned and administered by a governmental body and our gathering is interrupted by an unruly mob of hooligans determined to disrupt proceedings as much as possible barring physical violence, you're saying I should have no right to request that the police escort them from the scene?
(We have "public nuisance" common law in Australia exactly to deal with that sort of scenario, which allows that "The action endangered the life, health, property, morale or comfort of the public". Surprisingly it can be treated as a criminal offense, though I'm not sure how often it really is).
The page isn't very clear on this, but it looks to me like these are the terms for the 4th booster program. So this does not necessarily say anything about initial vaccinations, but about who to boost this fall/winter.

In terms of mortality, the boosters have a significant effect for the elderly. For younger people without serious risk factors the immunity seems to keep longer and mortality is very low after only two or three vaccinations.
>Given that, reducing the severity of the illness is arguably counterproductive

Sounds like misanthropy to me.
As the variant distibution changed, nearly all benefits of vaccines disappeared.
These facts are slowly trickling into the larger public knowledge, but it's been well understood within the medical research community for a while now.
This paper (https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-57058-3_...) might help and is available on github (https://github.com/nimiq/qr-scanner).
I guess there are two scenarios:

1. The original prompt I gave it wasn't quite right, so I'd try a few different prompts with slightly different wording until I got something I was happy with. This happened with maybe 10% of the prompts I ran.

2. The prompt text was correct but it gave one or two bad images. In this case, I typically kept them rather than re-running them. I thought it would be a good showcase of its limitations. There's one particular type of image that I constantly (maybe 4 times) would get. It's so unique and I have no idea why it would generate that amongst other more "normal" images. You can see it here: https://generrated.com/prompts/extremeBokeh?prompt=extremeBo... — it's like a real estate listing. Quite strange.
Same here, took the new Moderna Ba.5 variant along with a flu shot 7 days ago. Zero side effects. Everyone should get this new booster.
Rail systems brace for shutdowns, Amtrak cancels routes as strike threat nears
Normal is probably the wrong word. It’s expected for smaller or less resourced orgs to have immature security and data/access governance programs. But a public company such as Twitter (who has to adhere to Sarbanes Oxley and other regulatory frameworks that drive access control and RBAC)? Not so much.
I don't see the connection between RMS and Bill Gates?

In any case, the backlash against RMS was due to his defense of Minsky, characterization of Epstein's crimes using extremely tone-deaf language (referring to his victims as "entirely willing" members of his "harem," e.g.), musings about the shaky ethical foundation of age of consent laws, etc.

Whether you believe the backlash deserved or not, RMS is on the record making controversial statements about Epstein. The only (currently-known) link between Gates and Epstein is that Gates took Epstein's meetings.
Having office capacity for more people than housing has capacity for is the problem.
It sounds like Danes over 50 can get a free vaccine, and those under are prohibited from getting one. Why can't we have a middle ground where young people can get a vaccine if they really want to (and e.g. pay for it themselves)? This mirrors the common thread in Covid policy where everything is either forbidden or compulsory.
I made a video overview of this tool if you want to see it in action. I also compared its philosophy to my tool TaskTXT (http://www.tasktxt.com).

Hmm video overview: https://youtu.be/mRbaXHlhwUI
They didn't make it available to children because (a) there were limited vaccines available and (b) research was focused on more vulnerable groups.

And yes the scientific position will evolve as new variants and herd immunity become common place.
There is a new round of vaccines that work on BA5, the dominant variant as of August in the US.
This idea that a single person creates Star Wars is one gap in understanding of a healthy system. A person does not exist in my or your present state or create anything but for the work of millions if not billions of other people.

The solution has been repeatedly demonstrated and isn’t complicated. The benefits should accrue to the system that creates them in a balanced way. Limits on the return of capital, implemented as either voluntary donation or taxes and progressive income taxes.

People scoff at taxes vs representation but right now, today, they can avoid those taxes by donating that money.
The narrative of anti-vaxxers has flip-flopped so often that it's pretty unclear what they think vaccines are actually doing.
Honestly, I think most companies just don't care. Besides, I would much rather they ensure their main website is efficient, rather than having a specific low-power mode which, let's face it, will probably only be used by a handful of people.

I would also note that browser vendors and hardware manufacturers (amongst others) also play a part in reducing the amount of energy required to use websites.
The QR code is on page 20;)

I have never heard of Paged Out. It looks neat. I hope they are still putting out issues.
> lightning isn't on the bitcoin chain until it gets synchronized.

That is literally the purpose of building second layers. We don't need to keep on-chain records of every microtransaction and coffee purchase in an immutable, ever-growing blockchain synchronized across thousands of nodes across the globe.

> If I give you a bitcoin address, you can't send anything to me with the lightning network.

Sure I can. It is called a submarine swap.
First off, thank you for finally getting me to read that, it’s been sitting around in my to-read list since forever (2017? but the version is 2.0 from 2010? a long time ago, anyway).

Second... OK, I got through the first part (the language description), and it basically confirms my earlier brief glances at various Algol 68 documents: it’s a fundamentally pretty nice and consistent language with some warts, some hilariously archaic points, and godawful one-of-a-kind terminology, and its age excuses basically all of those. (No surprise I liked it though, I like both Standard ML and METAFONT, and those are both transparently Algolish in different ways.) Not looking forward to the ALLCAPS operators, but then I wrote some all-caps Forth some time ago and it was okay.

Third, though—that description (unlike the report) doesn’t seem to be using W-grammars at all? It uses what is pretty pedestrian ABNF in funny notation. It’s very helpful in getting me to understand how Algol 68 works, but doesn’t really relate to my original question of how those two-level W-things work. Except by maybe reverse engineering them by comparing the report with the guide, but that sounds like a last-resort option.
Title seem inaccurate to me. Article says they won't be offering a booster to under 50s. Presumably under 50s who have not yet had the first two doses can still get it.