skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I literally just have VoIP routed DECT handsets all over my house like it is 1999 and it works great every time.

Cell phones have become jacks of all trades and in the process have become difficult to use as phones.
Either way, the claim that "vaccines do nothing to protect genuinely high-risk people" is a clear lie. It's sad to see misinformation thrive here.
Bank of England ends one of the most remarkable economic exercises in history
How to derive solutions like solution 2 is what category theory helps me with.

It sounds glaringly obvious in the cases where the abstraction is well understood Mapping on lists, on trees, on Maybe, on Result are all well known at this point, because most APIs offer it. Less obvious is the fact that this applies to say, a serial interface, sensor readings, futures.

If you can then express the concept of a functor in the programming language itself, you can start writing code that only relies on the fact that something is a functor. And then pass it a list, a serial interface, futures, futures of serial interfaces, etc…

For example, you could potentially find use in expressing your above code as:

out = makeMapped(out, [f1, f2])

Now I can just pile 18 more functions defined in a config file without having to write it out.

out = makeMapped(out, configFile.createFunctions())

I’m not saying you need category theory for this, the same way you don’t need algebra every time you add two numbers, but it makes it easier to see these patterns.

I have trouble finding good “practical” examples, because you can use either functors, that every experienced programmer already knows intuitively so well that the concept is ingrained. If you bring up monads, people often react viscerally.

In practice, I often just take the time to write out monads without even mentioning the word or concept, and refactor code so that it leverages that underlying structure, and that usually makes things become apparent. Monads are a really good structure to cut down on absurd complexity for anything dealing with state and concurrency, and turn it into an elegant problem.sequence(step1, step2, step3, step4) formulation.
I mean, I have all my pcs encrypted with veracrypt and don’t have any issue with storing my emails in plain text on my disk.
The reason why people elect these facts as true is not because of the disinformation. So your approach must be wrong if you propose to remove it.
Mostly stopped reading most news - this describes where I am now.

Some techcrunch titles still catch my eye and I read through as they are relevant for my work (digital marketing & tech entrepreneur). It is not hard not to read the news, it is hard to avoid being bombarded by bombastic news titles all the time but after a while of practice, an initial reaction (haha, WOT?!, OMG) is all they get out of me.
The things two prisoners whisper through the gates...
> I wonder if that might give them an advantage when it comes to stacking and averaging images to reduce noise.

That's another good question and (as ever) the devil is in the engineering detail. I work with noise professionally (well, with signal in a low SNR environment, where the SNR per acquisition of interest is definitely << 1...) and those sorts of questions are good to ask but depend a lot on the exact noise stats: your approach requires that the average value of the noise is the same in both cases (read-out N times, digitally average; vs read-out once vs "analogue" averaging). In practice, because the distributions differ of different noise sources and images are positive semi-definite, I doubt this is true. The advantage of stacking is that helps with motion (a lot) and also helps with a finite dynamic range instrument (i.e. you don't blow it and can do gain compression).

> Are smaller sensors also faster to read, given the lower capacitance?

This Stanford paper with a model of a CMOS sensor [1] is rather old but quite a good explanation of where the readout time comes from; the capacitance across the active area is C_{pd} but the minimum read-out time is dominated by the capacitance of the readout bias, C_T, across the ADC line. As a result it scales by transistor feature size (fig 5) independent of the sensor area. Of course, as 'moar megapixelz' came along, this got higher and other designs were explored to mitigate it – a paper from Rochester [2] states that removing it buggers up the noise statistics unless you do "clever things" (which they describe in detail).

> That is a good point that I hadn't considered, thanks.

I should procrastinate more productively, but thank you!

[1] https://isl.stanford.edu/~abbas/group/papers_and_pub/tcas1.p...
[2] https://sci-hub.se/10.1109/ISCAS.2008.4541803
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not to disagree, but maps are always behind reality
On a sidenote, how does Rocky compare to CentOS (apart from still existing) and Debian, Ubuntu?
As someone that uses RHEL coz of some of our customers need it, I can get their point.

RHEL might be open source but it is structured (obviously) to sell the support license. You can't "just" install DRBD like on every other distro, you need to get the storage whatever the fuck pack, or get the packages from EPEL. In Debian DRBD module just comes with kernel, need to install it on RHEL etc.

It's annoying to manage even as paid customer and wholly worse experience than just installing Debian.
Already done in Europe.

Digital Markets Act will start going into enforcement next year.
So in the end you agree that there shouldn't be any as well?
Apple Maps has the feature you just described, and their maps either are TomTom or are better than TomTom.
Tell HN: YouTube has apparently removed the option to sort by “oldest first”
Apparently, this "feature" has been around at least on some channels since April, but a new UI overhaul now seem to have removed the ability to sort by "oldest first" completely from youtube channels. Of course, you still manually scroll through all uploaded videos until you get to the very first one but this will be very tedious for big channels, to say the least.
A bit of context would be useful here, I have no idea what you're talking about
How about product life? CentOS used to be supported for ten years, just like RHEL. Each stream version only lasts five.
> Bringing the deaths of the sickest Americans forward by about a year

Or a decade or more: https://abcnews.go.com/Health/people-coronavirus-dying-10-ye...
RHEL did just fine before IBM bought it, and most of the shittiness started after the buyout.
You're making my point though. The fact that Google is successful, in part, is because of the fact that you can't copy their trade secrets and methods; which is one reason no solid competitor has come up to challenge Google.

(There are infrastructure challenges as well, but this thread is about intellectual property.)
Ransomware – “Do not negotiate with terrorists”
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The problem is two different meanings of "lead"; one simply means "being in front", like in a race; another means, "Guiding and directing coordination of a large group of people". The first is completely individual; the second is collaborative.

"Leading the world in science and technology" means "having more advanced science and technology than the rest of the world"; and even "providing a model" means, "letting people copy it if they feel like it". That's all completely about China.

When people talking about the US leading the world, it's more about guidance and influence over coordinated action; NATO, climate change, IMF, WHO, etc. That's something China as a country has never been particularly interested in.

Imagine, for instance, China trying to arrange sanctions in response to something. They're not even close to having that kind of influence, and they're not particularly trying.
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I'm excusing no violence, and whichever side you think is 'my party' you are incorrect, I am not either an American Republican or Democrat.
Anyone has experience with hey.com?
Thanks, I won't.
Never felt comfortable with being tracked everywhere I go. Of course, that means that I shouldn't buy a new car either.
Proper open source uses whatever licence the author wants.
They quoted me $350 Australian/year for yearly map updates last year. I was hoping they would've humbled a bit in 10 years.
I can also confirm that their sales org is very disappointing. The technical side is excellent.
It reminds me of the ViziCities work that was done 7/8 years ago by a guy called Rob Hawkes - https://twitter.com/robhawkes

That to me was groundbreaking.

https://github.com/UDST/vizicities
If it's not mandatory, then what's the point? You can already send text messages if the message is important. And since it's optional, both spammers and your lazy family will leave it blank making it useless to filter out spam.
https://www.quora.com/Is-Winnie-the-Pooh-really-banned-in-Ch...

Now find me the exact Chinese legal doc that bans Winnie the Pooh.
Most rendering pipelines, as they involve discrete operations. For example in mesh rendering, the step of polygon rasterization is typically non-differentiable, because every pixel is either inside some polygon or isn't.
JMAP is a replacement for IMAP. Unlike IMAP it has immutable IDs[0] but not much support[1].

[0] https://jmap.io/#faq

[1] https://jmap.io/software.html
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one country that doesn't gets mentioned is Pakistan, it has a population of 200m+ with heavily dense cities, there were no lockdowns, people prayed in congregations in Mosques 5 times a day with no social distancing and no masks.
Humans cannot learn and spit out arts or animations at the same scale, so there is no problem.

Your first question is based on a technicality (human can learn too, should we then …?), but the idea of right is not based on physical properties or similarities, but on realistic desired outcomes of its application. (Of course we see flaws of laws all the time, but that is tangential.)

company trains a model and then bins the training data. How would you verify any artists work was in there?

Like any shady company it will drag a set of risks with it forever. It may fly under the radar for some time, but will be snitched on after few internal disagreements. This well-known dynamic disincentivizes big companies from choosing going this route, and small companies are not a big deal.
I may be mistaken, but I think all those features, plus traffic data, are built in both Google and Apple Maps as well.

Also, phones generally have larger and brighter screens, and more accurate GPS. I don’t see the advantage of TomTom here.
Is there something similar studied for cannabis?
Simple meaning: I'm not tied to anyone specifically (personal domain name) and I own my data. They are also on someone else iron, but also on mine and I use them locally. Composing a new mail is just hitting a key on my keyboard, searching my messages like GMail is another key for search&narrow results a modifier+the same key for notmuch-emacs UI. All mails can be linked on all my org-mode/org-roam managed docs equally.

It's FAR simpler and FAR more powerful than any modern crapware UI, BUT is hard to setup due to the little development compared to the mainstream UI.
The site looks like elaborate scam to get your phone number lmao
That'll immediately remove a lot of useful contributors, including journalists in developing countries, people working on interesting things in niche areas, and so many others.

Every network analysis of Twitter shows that the majority of people are not all engaging just with the blue checks or the most popular accounts. There's a huge long tail that keeps most users on the platform.
Like how do you think people tow vehicles in Europe where they don’t sell anything as large as these super-duty pickups?
Go and calculate how much time would it take to hash every 9-11 digit number...
ooooh, I see. I was imagining some kind of complex clicky mechanism - of course that's not necessary here, the touchpad has one built-in, I didn't realize. Thanks for the clarification.
Elon Musk fired top execs ‘for cause’ to avoid paying $122M golden parachutes
You realize everyone who has a Google account on their phone (90+% IMO) have already shared this and a lot more with GOOG, right ?
All those points are separate from the OSS claim (or OSS "purity test").

Is Debian-Testing any less "true Open Source" than Debian-Stable?
Very dreamlike to me, like how a dream makes sense to you usually, but if you focus at your face or hand or clock, it becomes odd and distorted.
I did not say it is "correct" to shoot up a pizza parlor. I am saying that scenario of "people knowingly lie, other people are misled, other people cause violence" is an even worse situation for society than "people know the truth, people cause violence". The second one is already horrible, the first one is especially horrible.

I can empathize with the people who are deceived. The person who attacked Pelosi has now had his life ruined by lies; the lies induced him to commit violence against an innocent person. That's a thing that is sad on top of Mr. Pelosi who was almost murdered thanks to the lies. It is a pretty sad situation that people lying without consequences resulted in that outcome for both of them.

If he knew the truth and committed the crime then either 1) it was justified vigilantism or 2) it was a wrong action that he did of his own volition. Either way is is less bad than an wrong action that he was tricked into.
You will have all your email, postal addresses, other PII and (formerly physical) identification documents in a wallet app. Government websites AND private websites will be able to request data from that wallet for login and registration purposes. You will need to approve all requests to your wallet, in the majority of cases by using biometrics (e.g. faceId or non-apple alternatives of it).

This has the potential to eradicate several major avenues of fraud. The more of this is offered (for free) by governments the more it could majorly disrupt (=destroy) the industry around the topic.

Worldwide it seems there is a new, proprietary wallet each month, which naturally totally ruins this idea of having one wallet, but I see what is currently going on as a "storming phase" or almost "norming phase" already, that will eventually reach the "performing phase", with one or two wallets being the survivors. A big stumbling block here is that everyone involved wants a piece of the cake.

The European Union is actively (but slowly) working on this, e.g. with eIDAS. With eIDAS, you create a digital identity in your home country. If that home country DI offering supports eIDAS, you can use it to login to any other government AND private service implementing any DI offering that supports eIDAS.

> whether identity providers / VC providers are going to be 5 big firms

The big firms will provide the ecosystem (e.g. Microsoft Entra, mastercard-id-for-rp, ...), the real identity verification will happen through offerings like Onfido, Jumio and the 1000 other offerings in the space.
I don't see how this is leeching. They did pay for the work to get the distribution ready for their needs (unless they didn't, in which case Greg Kurter must be a saint), that work ended up back upstream.

Is your argument solely that Rocky Linux didn't extract the maximum amount of money they could from their client, or is there something else I'm missing here?
What do you mean? Ubuntu is hugely popular (i recall some cloud provider saying it's the most popular distro they host), and so is SUSE in certain parts of the world (like Germany).

I don't recall having problems with Dell server-related packages on Debian, even if their own crapware (OpenManage Essentials and then Enterprise, legitimately one of the worst pieces of software I've ever had the displeasure of using) for managing iDRACs and firmware came as a CentOS-based appliance.
Anything from this century?
I don't think copyrighting things is fine.
Happy user of Migadu here, mostly because they let you bring as many domain names as you want and just charge usage.
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Elon Musk needs to make Twitter better
Comparing artists that could make record sales earlier to all current streaming artists is comparing apples to oranges.

I agree that Spotify's revenue split is not perfect (it is in fact worse than what you described), but it is still much more fair than record sales. I consider having tape/CD record sold in physical shops (i.e. not during concerts) would be a success on its own in the 90s.

Now every artist can publish their work on Spotify and start to earn money, possibly getting noticed through it. It is much feasible to not be a part of record label now.
But you don't need client side JavaScript for that.

In fact, it makes the experience generally worse.
I had to move off tutanota when I discovered they don't offer offline access to email.

Protonmail claims to support offline access, but in every rare occasion I needed it, it wasnt working for me.
> Remember the Hong Kong protests?

Perhaps the authority was concerned the unproductive unrest would go down like Libya, Syria, Egypt, Ukraine without and endstate better than how things were before the young and impressionable took to the street.
> "rides are continuing to operate for those trapped inside The
Happiest Place on Earth"

Jinping isn't pulling the strings. Mouse Tse-Tung is behind this.
There are efforts to build a secure enterprise browser

Check out Talon
The guy should have tried to use his tool on Disney.
A meta-comment: The entire tone of this press release is so weird, e.g.:

"There’s also significant talk about how the company will use OSM data. It’s clear TomTom is treading cautiously and respectfully here.".

That's something you might expect to read in an article written by an independent journalist, not a corporate press release written by in-house staff.
IIRC there were such plans for Space Statio Alpha, ISS or even the European space station plans - it just never got funded in the end.
I contribute to OSM, especially when I travel in less populated areas. A reliable map of petrol stations is invaluable in remote areas.

People are sometimes curious about it, and comparing it to Wikipedia is the best way to explain the importance of it.

Good maps are incredibly important. Separating that from financial incentives is necessary.
Cripes. We need a rule that if you're creating a new project, and the search results for whatever you want to name it have more then $NUMBER of results, you don't use that name.

Dealing with niche topics/tools that have the same name as a not-niche tool (particularly when they share a general domain) is a horrid pain in the ass.
> He seems to be pissed off that Red Hat discontinued the free CentOS distribution.

Just to clarify, CentOS is not discontinued. Basically all that is discontinued is CentOS "point" releases. There is CentOS stream 9, it gets updates, there will be CentOS stream 10, it will get updates, there will be overlap between CentOS stream 9 and 10 being supported. Sure the CentOS stream won't be exactly equivalent to RHEL point releases, CentOS stream 9 won't be RHEL 9.1 - but RHEL 9.1 will be cut from CentOS stream 9 AFAIU.
No. It feels ecosystem is so close but not quite there. All good cross platform apps focus on desktop experience making touch apps 2nd class and pretty annoying to use.
The ISS collaborators have banned Chinese astronauts. The system is a dictatorship, Xi Jinping has a bigger personality course than Mao. The real estate industry is a mess, mostly because of corruption. "Tofu" projects are rampant. The High Speed rail is too expensive and has the same "Tofu" construction problem (=corruption).

Corruption is still a major problem and there is no signs it has gotten better. African Swine Flu as an example can't be contained because that would need unbribeable enforcement. No-Covid only works (in the enforcement sense) because of draconian penalties. Cronyism is an epidemic disease in itself, you can't advance in China, no matter your qualifications, if you aren't highly connected, and most aren't.

Yes, I'm speaking in broad terms. But I did predict a glass ceiling years ago, because the lack of openness means terrible risk management and sophisticated risk management is crucial for sustained exponential. It has finally happened, growth in China shrank after Covid and the recovery is worse than in the rest of the world.

If you need a reason not to trust China look at what happened to Hong Kong with all the promises made by CCP leadership. Look at the CCP attempts to shape policy, including in western universities. Look at the genocide against the Uyghurs. Look at the issue of organ harvesting, which is partly propaganda and partly the CCP itself hinders any attempts to actually disprove the allegations with their lack of transparency. I am forced to consider the CCP as evil-doers in the same order of magnitude as Nazi Germany. And that is before they try and retake Taiwan, which will be an unbelievably bloody business.
Raku is also, unfortunately, the slowest language I've ever used especially, paradoxically, for regex and string handling given its Perl lineage.
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I seem to recall that a map refresh would be similarly priced to just buying a new one. The device was probably sold as a loss leader. Back then the devices were super nice, I recall thinking, but the business model doesn’t make any sense now, to me. They did have products specific for huge trucks, such as route planning, maybe it makes sense for those use cases still?
Shouldn't they delete your posts and likes too?
In what way does CentOS not exist anymore?
It's not asking people to lie, it's because they can kick people out for lying, but they can't kick people out for having used drugs.
You'll live in the park forever. Forcefully made to ride the rides everyday to keep up the Disney spirit and getting the same Mickey shaped burger each day as the mascots slowly spiral into demented depression.
I think with endless escapism being a reality, people will get bored and focus on the real world again.
no thanks, I'll always pick free and ad-supported
Currently? Protection against impersonation is the key benefit for most who have it.

By most accounts the additional tools they provide in terms of filtering aren't that valuable.

In Musk's proposal basically a slightly better Twitter Blue.
As odious as that technology is, as far as I know China is a major supplier of surveillance technology to the world's authoritarian governments.

Belt and Road is an international infrastructure investment (and direct construction) project, not sure how its related to technology. It's also no different from all other nations' international aid programs, in that it both helps the receiving nation and makes them indebted to the originator.
Raku is slower.
Can hashes not collide? Would that not cause problems?
Clearly not. I see the claim on every post that mentions ProtonMail. As far as I am concerned, ProtonMail is quite simply snakeoil at this stage.
This has actually happened - pro road cyclist Matej Mohorič won Milan-San Remo in 2022 with a dropper post [1]. Apparently it was a standard round post, though.

[1] https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-gear/bikes-and-biking/...