skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Consider looking at https://www.dehancer.com . Dehancer and Capture One offer pretty much photorealistic grain. Dehancer is the better of the two in my opinion, but Capture One works very well for black and white photos.
Assemble and disassemble? While that will of course lose your labels etc. :-D
Not OP, but from experience, entrepreneurship can get lonely and it's nice to be in a cohort.

I've been in several with different startups and the low quality cohorts can be quite demotivating. There are several groups by self-made entrepreneurs and a good bunch of them are sociopaths.

I'd say YC is nice because they genuinely care about making a positive impact on the world.
>Their year-over-year market share is declining sharply, however.

By what measure? I would love to buy some electric car that competes with teslas on range/performance but can only find vaporware or far behind competitors.
> Advanced, industrial, technological societies should be able to guarantee comfort and stability for all people regardless of work.

Modern societies are not yet at the stage of infinite resources. A change of mindset to this direction is very much part of "Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times" cycle.

It's very, very clear that we are at the tail end of good times, and this reversal will hurt a lot of people who assumed that work is not necessary.
> property taxes should not be based on the "full cash value" of a property but instead be based on the rental value.

Look at how rents are calculated - over a long period they usually are somewhere near costs, of which the largest costs by far is the mortgage, which depends on the mortgage rate. Property owners are often speculating on the capital gain. Commercial property is different again.

You also need to consider what behaviour that would incentivise.

Finally, the property value in some markets is entirely dependent on rents (especially commercial) so you are not necessarily gaining anything.
SudoBIOS – a completely transparent 32 bit protected mode BIOS extender
Sam Bankman-Fried’s Alameda used FTX customer funds without raising alarm bells
IMO this is what "source in the preferred form for making modifications" is all about. GNU themselves give the example that C source generated from a perl script isn't good enough - if the way you change the program yourself is by changing the perl script, then you need to release that perl script.

I don't think it's reasonable to expect an open-source maintainer to create a better development experience for you than the one they use themselves. If you're not up to editing Whitney-style code in a text editor, you should get good.

But conversely, just publishing a "source code dump", when you yourself work in a much richer development environment, is not good enough. If there's a "how to set up your dev environment" wiki page that you point other developers to, that should be part of your open-source release. IDE project definitions, project structure guides - whatever you use for making modifications to the project is what you need to publish. And if as a maintainer you don't make those steps documented and reproducible, well, that's ok, but in the long run you're only hurting yourself.

In particular, e.g. RedHat's policy of publishing only the "final" source code for their patched kernels, and not the git repo with history (which is what they use when developing it internally) is a straight-up GPL violation as far as I'm concerned.
I see a lot of broken TVs on the curb, and haven't been thinking about reusable SBCs in them. I might have to start.

(I used to carry a pair of screwdrivers when curb-shopping, mainly for parting-out tower PCs that aren't worth carrying the whole thing back, but I got out of that hobby.)
Have to agree. I feel like there’s more to be written about pseudo-scams like Edward Jones.
I love VLC. I've got the follow alias to shuffle what's in my music directory from the command line, very convenient:

alias music='find /home/me/music > /tmp/tunes.m3u; vlc -I rc -Z --no-auto-preparse /tmp/tunes.m3u'
> So is any scaled up process unethical

If it abuses someone - yes.
> ITAR limits all kinds of things mostly arbitrarily.

Yep and it’s incredibly broad. I used to work in one of those shooting ranges in Vegas where tourists go to shoot machine guns. We were told that anything more than “barrel pointed this way, this is the trigger” with a foreign national (which were a LOT of customers) could be construed as “training” and thus a potential ITAR violation.
Yeah because that’s what I was saying, lol. I’m not a democrat.
The definition of free will is not a concrete thing. Part of the discussion is debating how to define it.

I say this because one view is in line with what you've described.
A possibility would be to put the H2 into a different storage medium like ammonia or methanol, rather than storing it as gaseous hydrogen.
There are plenty of small companies without their own IT staff, for whom the low onboarding friction of SaaS is very attractive. Other startups use them because they too are small companies, not because they are startups.
This is a common story for people with ADHD. If caffeine can be treated as a medication and you are mindful of timing and doses, I don't see why it shouldn't be an option.
Right. They seem to think that the aggregate of women could be made happier even while the aggregate of men are made miserable.
What an amazing project.

Looks like there's a clean up day scheduled for Sunday 27 November, if anyone's free?

https://riverrodingtrust.org.uk/2022/11/09/aldersbrook-clean...
HACKING.md
>want to kill off CCS and force all carmakers to use their ports as a means of avoiding having to change their own supercahrgers, otherwise, no thanks, I own a new car with the NA CCS charger and it was a significant investment. I'd prefer my car not be "killed off".

Get a grip. They are killing off attaching that stupid charger to all of the infrastructure being built out by both Tesla and everyone else. It’s a laudable goal.

You’ll always be able to carry around an adapter to that sewer pipe sized connector you put in your car for its entire lifetime. It’s not going away and you’ll always be able to charge. Just because you invested in a poor UX we don’t need to saddle the next 50 years of electric cars with trash.

Of course a CCS adapter would be available. It’s money on the table for both chargers and vendors.
It would be nice and I'll fully support it. But I think those outside founders would benefit more than Germany would benefit from them. For those who actually want to create roots in the country, create jobs, generate taxable income - well, for those the incorporation will be a very small roadblock. Tiny compared to everything else.
Doing business since 10 years and never used a fax machine to communicate with the government. Email worked fine. Maybe depends on which state.
Is this the same reason some people prefer phonographs to digital recordings?
TBF, if a foreign entrepreneur doesn't have any mean to overcome the language barrier (either learn the language, have a dedicated translator or hire a lawyer), how successful will they be with understanding their bank account contract, properly filing their tax, passing contracts with local entities etc. Any single paper that will have an official value will be in german as well.

It loks to me like a decent filter for companies that won't make it very far anyway.
Wow, is your bias showing. "Against the wishes of everyone"? How about the wishes of those who wanted an x86 assembler before Intel got around to releasing theirs? And who wanted to be able to not have to switch their brains into a backward syntax when working on an x86?
Ironically BAAS is sold for security reasons too. As in isolation. You'd do very sensitive stuff with the remote browser, or vice versa, for isolation from other activity.
No, that's not what I'm saying. But the article criticizes general issues of _any_ software project. Where the critique doesn't make sense is trying to say these issues are specific to F/LOSS, and for that reason "source code is not enough".

F/LOSS projects have plenty to criticize, like any other project. The major difference is that they provide more freedoms, where these issues can be fixed by external contributors. Saying that's "not enough" is very entitled, and missing the point.
It doesn’t matter if I independently invent nuclear weapons, I’m still not currently allowed to open source them for other people, possibly in other countries, to use.

It's funny you mentioned nuclear weapons. Nuclear design information is purportedly "born secret" in the United States (that is, purportedly restricted based on what it is, not where it came from).

However, the one time that this looked like going to trial, when a magazine called The Progressive intended to publish Howard Morland's article describing the operation of thermonuclear weapons in the 1970s and the DoE tried to stop them (United States v. Progressive, Inc.), the Government ended up backing down before a final resolution of the case. The article was published, but whether or not this prior restraint is legal is still undecided.

It is also worth noting that the argument for suppression leaned on the severe consequences up to thermonuclear war, something which the argument for suppressing passive radar technology is going to have a harder time with.
My company is in the process of buying out a German group.

To do that, we needed to set up a new holding company which would own the target group's shares.

Without exception, ALL our advisors/lawyers (both in Germany and out) recommended that we just pay the services of an "offshore provider" to buy an existing shell company with an already established and registered proxy director, instead of going through the creation process of a GmbH. "It's the most complicated process in the EU, and a PITA for all individuals involved.", they said.

We followed their advice.
> The Temporal Nature of problems (e.g., how quickly is this lion coming at me before he eats me) is essential for a true AGI to understand.

I agree that figuring out that A happens before B seems important. But I don't see why an AGI would have to operate on the same timescale as we do (well, assuming they wouldn't have to worry about being eaten by lions or interacting with humans).

> In the limit, could an AGI exist with only 20 WPM Morse Code I/O? Or 10 CPS of a Model 33 TTY ? I dunno...

My guess would be that yes, it could exist in that scenario, but the AGI would only start to operate at a significant intelligence level once enough useful data had been gathered and processed, which is probably a huge amount (so it would take a huge amount of time).

But if the AGI had already been trained with huge amounts of data, then operating in a limited environment perhaps would be no problem at all (although the limited interface might greatly limit its rate of further development).
I'm seeing this as well. I sometimes ask, if a NDA is part of the interview, if there will be useful feedback, sometimes there is sometimes there isn't. There will always be people that have difficulties with getting feedback but I imagine saying its a liability is an easy copout for a company that doesn't want to tell you that giving feedback doesn't benefit them so they don't want/see the need to do it.

One interesting thing that happened to me was I kept at the interviews and found a few that flowed more like the conversations I would prefer to have at an interview. This helped with dissipating the self-doubt as I was constantly re-iterating on the positions I was applying to, the companies, job description wording, etc. and seriously questioned "Is this the state if hiring?"

I'm in the cybersecurity realm coming from a sysadmin, networking, background with a recent masters. Companies want people with years of experience as if most businesses outside aerospace and the government in the last 10 years made security a high priority. My observation is that insurance companies realized the risk related to policy payouts and "now" security is a requirement of future riders/contracts.
That's only if you're generating noise based on pixel coordinates. It's possible to generate digital noise of all different sizes and shapes.
Is there a release for MacOS?
During covid WFH, my partner and I moved to Berlin for three months to study German. We stayed on the seventh floor of a nice apartment building, where the elevator broke on the second day of our stay. The owner of the apartment offered us some money as compensation, but kindly informed us that repairing the elevator would require a vote by all the people who own the building together and might take a few months to organize. (By the time we left three months later, it still hadn't been repaired.)

One day I was in the same classroom with someone who later tested positive for covid19, and the school told us to go home and check with the health authorities about self-isolating. They started us off with a website and a covid hotline phone number, and off we all went. None of the students had the German covid app, because Robert Koch Institute (German CDC) hadn't made it available outside of the German App Store because of invented reasons that no other country in Europe apparently had.

I spent the rest of that afternoon trying to find out how long to isolate. The information wasn't available on any website, and the COVID hotline was disconnected, Finally, after finding a phone number at the city health office that was connected to someone who wasn't on vacation (which, at any moment, is about 50% of German government employees), I learned that the rules differed per Borough of Berlin. I had to isolate for 48 hours. My classmate, three blocks down the road, for a week.

The same classmate later told me that she had moved to Berlin to work at a German company, but still hadn't finished setting up her residency paperwork. The latest step at that time was receiving a letter from some German department, which she had to put in another envelope and send back, in order to receive another letter inviting her to set up an appointment to come and be interviewed.

A friend of mine visited Berlin while I was there - he was looking for a job and had an interview with a German company, who ended up having to hire engineers in the Netherlands, because the German government had banned the sale of some VR headsets in the country, which were needed for the job.

Our way back out of the country was through Prague by train. The train was several hours late, but a Deutsche Bahn employee told us we should feel lucky: the day before, there was no train.

Now, I've dealt with US government bureaucracy, I've dealt with Czech and Swiss bureaucracy, and my partner has had to deal with residency permits in the UK. None of these experiences compare. (Except, maybe, getting a Czech construction permit.) German bureaucracy is so, so much worse than people think. The Germans mostly have nothing to compare it to, and think it's normal: it is not. And it's costing the country real opportunities: companies that don't get started, people who don't end up moving there, repairs that don't get done because it's hard to organize some stupid paperwork. And it doesn't have to be this way.
Ask HN: What are your healthy habits?
What are your healthy habits?
It's really interesting to me that we have all this technology to reproduce errors in previous iterations of other technology. Here we are, adding grain to images that don't have it, because the error reminds us of our better days.
I just paste my signature into the PDF and send it like that.

Occasionally I'll get someone complaining about some vague thing they can't quite articulate (something about it not being a "real signature" or not having been "really filled out"), but when I just insist that "yes that's my real signature" and "what I sent you is the filled form" they always end up accepting it.

Usually it's just some clerk or administrator and they have no basis for refusing the document. I just tell them to pass it along and process it, they always end up doing so, and I never have any issues.
Recent discussion: How I would start my next startup in Germany without a GmbH (2020) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31601638

The entire process is a disgrace
I always enjoyed reading about w00w00 in the net space, in the sense that it's fun to read about the PayPal mafia in the financial sense.
Roadmap as Code (RaC)
Generate graphical roadmap diagram using python code!
> Say the first thing that comes to mind when you think “Coca Cola.” Say it out loud, don’t edit.

Sometimes war?

Either I'm a very cynical person or a bigger Rammstein fan than I thought.
The ability to reset your iCloud password with a keycode is a security flaw
I just wanted to share this in the hopes that someone at Apple sees this and to make others aware of the scam.

A friend of mine over the weekend mistakenly tried to help someone and they saw him enter his passcode.

The thieves took his phone and then shortly after his iCloud password was reset, making it impossible to access the phone or disable the phone via find my phone.

The perps then had access to all his accounts, started making fraudulent charges and likely accessing his data.

This was a huge privacy breach for him and apple is unable to do anything other than reset the iCloud password, which takes 24 hours. I am unsure if this will rectify the issue.

My friend made a mistake but nonetheless this could've been prevented by a simple security question or 2 factor authorization from another device.

I've included a number of other occurrences of this happening below.

I call on anyone who works at Apple to raise this issue up the chain of command.

And also to reaffirm the advice to never give your phone to a stranger, which I unfortunately had not given to this friend.

People who have had this issue:

https://www.reddit.com/r/applehelp/comments/t7hbxm/iphone_stolen_and_icloud_password_and_backup/

https://www.reddit.com/r/ios/comments/womh4g/iphone_stolen_icloud_password_and_trusted_phone/

https://www.reddit.com/r/ios/comments/ob19kv/iphone_stolen_apple_id_hacked_and_password/

https://www.reddit.com/r/applehelp/comments/wquqr8/my_iphone_was_stolen_and_it_seems_my_icloud/

https://www.reddit.com/r/ios/comments/pp0dua/iphone_stolen_thieves_changed_my_apple_id/

https://www.reddit.com/r/applehelp/comments/wrjif9/iphone_stolen_with_passcode_and_apple_id_password/
See also this blog post from 2016 by Backblaze about the SMART stats they use to predict hard drive failure: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/what-smart-stats-indicate-har...

Relevant because too many different metrics can be hard to make sense of and derive value from. Backblaze have a lot of hard drives. Like a lot a lot. https://www.backblaze.com/blog/how-backblaze-buys-hard-drive... (2019)
I typically fast 16 hours a day.
Not defending the draconian process or the pain the author went through - but wildly different scenario. Building anything on agricultural land should face scrutiny.
Disagree. There are surprisingly few actual conservatives in the American ruling class, which is why the Democratic Party is statistically the party of the rich. I think your definition of “conservative” is something closer to “person I don’t like.”

For the record, I don’t support American liberals or conservatives, who both waste too much time avoiding confrontation with the root problem: capitalism.
I think it's just as you say, lifestyle. I don't know many younger couples who haven't rather easily been able to have a baby.

I know huge amount of people, even in their 30s, 40s and 50s talking about kids. Would have to be the first time in history I'd imagine?
What's an interesting consequence of microservice architecture is the effect on release management - it's always necessary to fully [user] test every deployable => so let's reduce what's being deployed.

Microservices make post-release bugfixing a breeze.
Like crypto, the Kardashians are interesting and important because hundreds of millions of other people care about them and believe falsehoods about them.

Lewis often writes about such topics -- things that are popularly misunderstood, swindlers, etc.

I think your dislike of crypto will make the end result more interesting to you, because Lewis is good at bridging that gap for people.
I Prefer Textfiles
Probably an artifact of the original use of the assembler being to process compiler output, and causing variable names to appear.

One of the x86 assemblers I remember trying out in the late 80s had a slight variant of Intel syntax in that everything that wasn't a reserved word/mnemonic was automatically assumed to be a label.
Authors can't survive on hopes and dreams. Things like this are in the zeitgeist whether we agree or endorse it or not, and it'll probably sell. It's an author you like, so why not turn a few pages in the book store and see if you might broaden your horizons if anything just to enjoy more of an author you support?
The majority of cost comes from associated procedures and admin/staff costs (not including that of physicians and nurses).
Yes, obviously I meant Fortune Global 500. The point stands.
That's just a convention. The way we would order the sentence in English is also just a convention.

You know what the logical convention to use would have been? The order that every assembler on the planet already used.
The level of irony here is so epic, it should be taught in schools.
Which e-ink tablet are you using?
Me too.

I have found printing to PDF from Safari instead of Chrome yields better results when I have gone through the same process. It probably depends on the source material though.

If I remember correctly, the text was split into separate objects by Chrome to reproduce kerning offsets.
So you're saying we should kill most people the day they become pensioners? Because at that point the vast majority have negative economic value ...
This has been posted 5 times in the last couple of days.
Wow, this article is a mess. Yes, registering a UG or GmbH is more complicated than Ltd (I’ve done all three) but the process can be basically narrowed down to:

1. Notary.
2. Bank account.
3. Steuerberater takes over from here. Why does he even do Elster himself if he uses a Steuerberater?

4. No. You absolutely do not need an UG as a founder to start a GmbH. You can start a GmbH as a legal person. You do the UG intermediary stunt just for the case if you (the UG) sell the GmbH shares to avoid paying income taxes on that sale. Because every company in Germany is basically a separate legal entity (it’s equal to a person) with its own tax number and everything.

My UG took days to be registered, GmbH took 5 months due to international founders.

If he doesn’t know what a notary is, well, here’s a good British source he could find using Google: https://www.thenotariessociety.org.uk/pages/what-is-a-notary. Notaries absolutely exist in the UK and I used them myself in London.

Regarding the language. The only thing you’re going to hear as a response to that entitlement: “this is Germany, we do this the German way”. I’m not German, just fyi… you know, when I arrived in the UK in 2006, I didn’t expect that everyone will explain to me things in Polish. I actually had to learn the language.
There are roughly 40 million kgs of accessible, usable fissile material (U235 and Pu239) on Earth.

Each kg produces 30-80TJ with maybe another 20 if you spend even more money to scavenge the last little bit via reprocessing. Newer reactors hold about 6 years of fuel and cycle some of it every couple of years.

World energy consumption is approximately 550EJ.

How are you proposing to fuel your reactors more than once?