skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've used this a lot actually and appreciate it exists but I have a lot of issues. First of all is how much it's used for memeing and coming up with funny sounding names for certain colors. There are also many professional color palette names. Some, like CSS named colors, are very well-represented. Others like Wikipedia's list of named colors[0] draw from various sources. Then there's others that might be historically important[1] but little known otherwise. But basically anything outside of CSS named colors, Crayola, and Pantone is completely ignored. There have been many instances where I've seen major color-naming bodies (e.g. ISCC or the Federal Standard 595C) all agree that some color name is mapped to a certain color but the users of colornames.org have just completely ignored it and come up with a new color for it. How do we name new colors without ignoring names that have already been assigned?

My second major issue is how deeply susceptible it is to cultural biases. Wikipedia handles the issue of constantly changing knowledge/culture by stating that its mission is to capture knowledge "as it currently" exists.

I'd like to see a version of the colornames scores where votes are weighed by recency. Older votes can still count, but in order to capture constantly changing/adapting culture and emerging consensuses we can maybe weigh more recent votes more heavily

Another thing I'd love to see is to just have accounts answer the question: "Which language have you spoken the most of in the past (7) years of your life?" I think this one simple data point can solve a LOOOT of the issues and captures both culture and heritage without having to differentiate between place of birth, changing life circumstances and upbringings, etc. This would also mean that people who speak Tagalog don't have to see their well-agreed-upon name for a color being overwritten by the norms of demographic majority of the userbase which skews English-speakers

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Clearly I have a lot of thoughts haha. I still love that color-names exists. One thing I'd like to build out some day is something to aggregate all the different color naming schemes out there and have colornames.org simply be a source amongst many others. Similar projects already exist[2] but none that are explicit about being attempt to aggregate sources and not BE the ultimate word on what color is named what

.. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_colors

.. [1] https://github.com/davo/Color-Standards-and-Color-Nomenclatu...

.. [2] https://github.com/meodai/color-names
I suggest IINA.
> There's probably a non-trivial amount of folks that equate a UUID with "unguessable" given their appearance.

That's near enough to true for anyone not operating at "web scale".

FAANG/BAT engineers need to care. My systems with 10s or 100s of thousands of users (or, you know, a few thousand users tops) are without doubt going to be re-written (probably several times) well before I have to worry about having so many UUIDs in the wild that this becomes a reasonable thing to worry about.

For me, at the scale of systems I run (or will conceivably run in the medium term future), I think the simplicity/understandability of code that uses native language UUID functions is "the right thing". Whoever does the next big rewrite to support a few million MAU will be thankful they don't have to work out WTF I was thinking when I decided to roll my own random access tokens.
We didn’t use BSP trees for Crash 1-3; instead we pre-rendered frames of the game on our SGI workstations and recovered the sort order from the (software) Z buffer. Then we stored the sorted list of polygons, using differential compression between key frames to reduce the space required. It was a total brute force hack.

What I think you’re seeing in Warped is what we did with Crash 1 and 2 as well: I had to sort the foreground object polygons into the pre-sorted background polygons. That was modified bucket sorting, but there were manually tuned adjustments to make it work and stable between frames.
When my employer no longer compensates me with the precise minimum they believe they can get away with, I'll stop working the precise minimum I believe I can get away with.
I initially read that as MontyPython.
Agreed, for many it is an experience - or, as you so rightly said "rituals". It's more than just merely consuming media. It's listening to the warmth of the sound, and yes even the crackles and pops of some tracks. And likely a feeling of nostalgia for some. I bet that's one reason for vinyl's resurgence.
I genuinely don’t recall ever handling a Blu-ray disc.
Image Background Removal (100% FOSS)
Maybe showing people that you are essentially building a spy agency in order to sell them knick knacks slightly more effectively wasn't the brightest long term business plan?
> if you wanted to prevent rape you'd do better to ban politicians and priests

We already had banned all male politicians and priests from female spaces simply by virtue of their being male. You're weakening that protection by letting them claim to be female to avoid being removed.

https://fairplayforwomen.com/prison-review/

> Not all trans people are trans-women

And yet trans women (and males by any other ID) are the risk.

> Repackaged homophobic rehtoric

Wow, no. What's homophobic is you trying to use homosexuality to defend men in women's spaces. This is why the LGB Alliance is fighting for homosexual and sex-based rights and separation from the trans-queer movement.
> typically, you "subject" subjects, hence the word.

That seems like an appeal to linguistic authority.

I have a hard time imagining building a hierarchy without an attraction phase. There are many real world examples: Jim Jones, Uber, the French Revolution, etc.
Happy to help.

If you want an advisor of some sort who is a career product leader, does sales now, has an insane schedule, and is also a father of a young kid so has a crazy personal life, I’m your guy. My Twitter handle is in my profile here.
Yeah, since they're trying to guess a random UUID from all issued UUIDs, they would have to make a request for each generated UUID. Even if you assume that ISPs would allow that kind of bandwidth, the entire internet would grind to a half before the attack even began. Also, the 2 * 46 figure used to represent the number of UUIDs is way too large. With proper access control of resources, we only really need to worry about active session IDs and in a world with 8 billion people, there's no way that there would be 2 * 46 active session IDs.

If you assume that every person on earth was hooked to your service 24/7 and ignore the significant bandwidth limitation, it would still take more than 6 months for the entire Bitcoin network to hijack 1 random user's session. But it doesn't make sense to ignore bandwidth limitation anyway since it's the bottleneck. The Bitcoin network computes all these hashes in parallel and there is no way that anything close to this degree of parallelization can be achieved at the network layer.
Yeah, I jumped in when they first did subs back in 2015 (IIRC). Nowadays, the charge seems pretty trivial for what you get, though I think they may have just raised it on me a little to closer to $175.

I also jumped into a personal O'Reilly Safari subscription way back when the price wasn't as high as it is now, and I've kept that grandfathered subscription up as well.

I think between the two, it ends up being a bit less than $500 a year. That's not very much at all against a tech salary, and the O'Reilly sub actually has been quietly useful for work projects now and again too.

My basic take is 1) A builder should have their own set of tools whether they hew wood or numbers (and not everything fits neatly into Visual Studio Code, though I probably use that as much or more than Jetbrains); and 2) if I ever do manage to squeeze out a profitable side project in CA, I want my argument that I'm not using my employer's resources in any way shape or form to be very very solid.

In CA, who owns the resources is the difference in who owns that product. For the same reason, I always buy my own cell phone and pay my own cell phone plan, even if a corporate phone is otherwise forced on me, and always own my own laptop as well for any personal development that comes up.

It's a touch on the paranoid side, I guess, but I just feel better knowing I can be as independent as I want to be with my tech stack. With my own tech library to lean on, a nearly universal set of build tools licensed specifically to me, and my own devices for communication and development, I feel very comfortable that there's no implied shared resource argument that can be made.
Heck, even much of the press in the US is confused about it. It is quite common for cert. denied to be reported as the Court affirming the lower court's decision that is being appealed.

All cert. denied means is that the Court decided not to hear the case. That may be because they agree with the lower court, but that is just one reason they might decide not to hear the case.

Another reason they might decide cert. is that although they think the case raises issues that they need to deal with, the particular circumstances of this particular case don't present the issue as clearly as they would like. They want to wait until a better case comes along with the issue.

Sometimes they want to wait until appeals courts in different regions have considered the issue and explored different approaches to it so more of the possible arguments on both sides have been hashed out.
Terms which were coined in Norman feudalism will need some stretching to adapt to different cultures and political systems. The judges in the Book of Judges aren't anything like a judge in our sense, for example.
Contracts aren't for when things go right, they're for when things go wrong.

It's just as true to say contacts aren't "necessary" 99% of the time, because people follow through on the agreement.
Thanks very much for turning this up.
I implemented it myself. Was a little bit tricky, but not rocket science.
www.aaronsw.com but as one large, unsorted Markdown file
I would love to hear more from you. This take doesn't gel with anything I know, but it seems as though you and I have at least similar takes on how flawed a concept capitalism is - what I'm curious about is what you believe the connection between liberalism and capitalism is, and whether you also believe that conservatism is the antidote.

I'll pregame such a conversation by saying that I'm disillusioned with both sides of the political spectra. I could most generically be described as a flavor of socialist, but that doesn't really capture what I believe effectively. I wish we had a direct democracy, and I'm off the opinion that unchecked capital markets have effectively coopted our political process.
Jupiter’s grand tack left us with an asteroid belt right in the middle of the solar system. All our civilizational wealth derives from matter and energy, both of which we find in our cosmic backyard. Billionaire space tourism is a blip on the path to space industry.
He's rough but effective. Other CEO's would have taken months or even years to layoff staff to reorient the company's workforce towards a new goal. They would have waited until the new year after the holidays. Musk does a big chunk or most of it in less than a month. Ouch!

Low level staff have the opportunity of a lifetime to move up now that everything is up for grabs. I hope they take advantage of the situation if the decided to stay.

I bet other CEO's are watching and we'll see them use similar methods in the future.
Really cool. Have previously used proxies/tcpdump to debug a bunch of traffic. This is going to be a useful tool in the toolkit for Kubernetes operators.
That video isn't even about H1B. It's crazy how little techies know about the legal immigration system, the tech forums are always in mass confusion over it.
I'm pretty into wine, not in the industry though. But I've tried a lot of stuff (from garbo wines, to stuff like Rayas, Haut Brion, Romanee Conti, etc... some pretty heavy hitters), and I agree that money is not the driving factor. The economics are huge, like sometimes some small producer will just explode and their production is little... but the demand might be high and suddenly you're looking at a 10 euro bottle of wine, going for 120 euros. Lot's of times it's because they actually make something pretty remarkable, but sometimes not.

Having said that, I've seen some incredible stuff. There was a tasting were a friend brought a bottle with him, it was a blind tasting and everyone was supposed to write down what their bottles were. So my friend presented his bottle concealed in aluminum paper as we used to do, and he wrote down the bottle + vintage.

At the end of the night, notes were exchanged, and there was a very very strong taster in the group. It was burgundy night, and he nailed 4/5 wines (6 in total, but the one you brought didn't count), producer, wine, and vintage. My friend told him "you didn't guess the vintage of the one I brought", I don't remember but I think my friend thought that it was a 2008 and this guy said like 2009. When they revealed the bottles, the bottle was indeed a 2009 from the same producer. My friend had taken a different bottle from his cellar and he didn't realize :^). Some folks know what they're drinking very well indeed (5/5
That's definitely not true. I occasionally buy 5-6 random 8-20e wine bottles from the local supermarket and they typically vary massively. Even when I order my favourites trying others listed as similar all taste very different to me.

Maybe 50 years ago you couldn't get a cheap good wine without doing it one of five ways but modern logistics allow winemakers to make good wine cheaply with a wide variety of different products and twists.
I was about to mention that! Later than the time period OP mentioned, but a fascinating story about 80s-era cybersecurity.
> At 720x480 resolution (rectangular pixels!)

IMO this is a cool thing because it handles both 4:3 and 16:9 equally well!
This genuinely sounds like satire to me. You don’t know the politics of the person you’re replying to, to say the least.

Additionally, even if I agree on your assertion of “your right to existing openly”, it doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t exercise that right wherever you can get away with it and fuck the haters.
It's propaganda to correctly point out that ISIS, Farakhan and numerous child predators had accounts for years? It's a fact. So how is that propaganda?
You have to sort by date: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
My guess would be readability. Easier to "parse" by humans then just a long string of numbers and letters without "interpunction".
I’m not the parent but for me:

1. Sort by ID if you want to see things by insert order and are using serial/autoincrement for the PK.

2. Writing (or reading, or talking about) SQL queries in which the IDs are present.

I solved the first problem by using ULID at one point but in future I’d probably not use a UUID until I had a specific need for it. And as others have mentioned, if that need is about the outside world I’d probably go with an extra column.
For anyone interested in this in general, googling "history of Bell Labs" has a number of fascinating pages to read.

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

https://www.wired.com/2014/09/coupland-bell-labs/

I was following the re-use of this building into modern smaller office spaces shortly before covid19 hit the commercial real estate market. I hope they're doing OK.

Spaces were getting leased and companies were moving in and then a vast number of things shifted to remote work/full work-from home, and I'm not sure to what extent they've really recovered.

I have a theory that the original placement of Bell Labs, back in the day, was chosen by the higher ranking executives to be conveniently close to their large homes in some leafy suburbs out in that particular part of NJ. It's not really what you could call a hotbed of tech innovation and local commute-distance talent pool nowadays, compared to locating a company in some retrofitted space in NYC.
I still have a Net Yaroze sitting in a box in my garage, including all the manuals and CodeWarrior that probably won't work on anything anymore. I'd love to donate to someone who would use it, but it literally has a lifetime non-transferrable license :(
By the way, if somebody is interested in this line of thinking, please check the work of Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò about the élite capture: https://www.thenation.com/article/world/qa-olufemi-taiwo-eli... ("When Did the Ruling Class Get Woke?") or https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/olufemi-o-taiwo-identi... ("Identity Politics and Elite Capture")

"Like so many other things, identity politics is deployed by elites in the service of their own interests, rather than in the service of the vulnerable people they often claim to represent."
I can not count the number of code review comments about missing periods at the end of comment lines on one hand. If you include comparably worthless comments, I can use the binary system and will still run out of hand...
I think they're including what they would charge someone else for compute and traffic, if someone else ran Alexa.
To pay my taxes with the IRS I had to verify my identity with id.me with scanned images of several documents both sides even if blank and had to do a video chat with someone, holding up each document while they recorded the video of me showing documents. I did have to sit in a queue for a long time but they eventually verified me.

If Twitter did this would people even bother? I do not see another way to actually verify someone short of meeting them in person and scanning their state ID. Maybe Twitter needs to partner with drug stores that have a drive-through? Only half kidding
Sure, but some things don't require a malicious software update.
The point about the vast majority of Alexa interactions being trivial and repeated things that aren't monetizable rings true with me.

When I've used one it's been for exactly two useful things: timers while cooking and weather, and one frivilous thing: jokes. It's valuable enough for those things to be honest, given the purchase price, but yeah there is no feasible way to make ongoing revenue from them.

I just can't think of anything else I want to use one for, if I could I probably would have.
Note that this building is also known as the HQ for Lumon in the show Severence:

https://www.fastcompany.com/90762774/jessica-lee-gagne-sever...
The Panasonic plasma has state of the art upscaling silicon for it’s time, especially since plasma became prevalent when 480p sources were still common.

Your MacBook probably doesn’t attempt any sophisticated upscaling.
I rather like how stripe uses prefixes for all of their object IDs returned from the API.

A charge looks like: ch_3M0k8bFSpHML0ApB0Pd8Zxmq
Can whoever flagged OP explain why? This looks pretty newsworthy to me. Apple's tweets really do appear to be gone.
pdp-11, so close. Large room filled with programmers. At the far end is a glassed enclosure with a pdp-11. To keep it cool and clean. Think a very large window. All the terminals are connected and sharing the pdp-11. People work diligently, but then wait for compiles and look bored. Suddenly all the programmers see something is wrong. They lost their work and the computer has been reset. Great consternation and trying to sort out what is wrong. Terminal start coming back and finally someone looks in the room. A person is standing next to the pdp-11 talking on the phone (yes one of those phones with a cord, this was long ago). Leaning against the pdp-11. Leaning against the reset button on the pdp-11. Oblivious to what is going on in the outer room, the person leans a little more and Pop. All the terminals lose the connection again. Mayhem. Chagrin. Panic. Someone runs to the door. And if you really want to, you can put an Apple Lisa in the room with the PDP-11 although no one would know what it is.
Wideboard: Render millions of lines of text at 60 FPS using WebGL (2013)
Hi, this is an old proof-of-concept project of mine that I've been meaning to post for ages. I haven't touched the repo in years, but it contains shaders and Javascript support code that allow for Google Maps-style browsing of enormous volumes of text (on the scale of an entire Linux kernel codebase) even on relatively low-end machines - Chromebooks with integrated GPUs should work just fine.
If you're interested in GPU-accelerated text rendering for web-based IDEs, this codebase might contain some interesting ideas. Feel free to swipe whatever code you like and build something interesting with it.

-Austin
Same. I switched directly from DVDs to streaming.
On the other hand you won’t get wrong result if you wrote wrong table name. Was hit once. Deleted row from the wrong table.
Oh, that is perfect timing. After finally starting to use Mastodon and the Fediverse a lot more in the past couple of weeks, I had an idea recently for a browser extension I'd like to take a stab at writing (if it doesn't already exist, to be honest I haven't gone looking yet). Still, even if it does already exist, I might write my own anyway just to finally get around to learning more about how to write browser extensions.
Ah. For some reason my head was locked in binary, and even then I was forgetting to convert Kbit->KiB. My only excuse is a bad night's sleep…
Interestingly, it looks like gists render a maximum of 15K lines. The full file is about 15K more
What's the objective of running these loss making businesses? If it's to funnel users to Amazon's e-commerce store, that doesn't seem like a great decision since the e-commerce store doesn't make money either. And I can't see enterprise cloud decisions being swayed much by Amazon's consumer business.

Spending money on a loss making product so that you can funnel people to another loss making business seems...counterintuitive?
Yeah, I definitely leaned in.

I have not tried Home Assistant, no, but I'm keeping an eye on what happens with Matter. If I were able to consolidate the interaction to a neutral third party that could control the other stuff I already have, I'd love to do that.
I always wonder about these "North Korean" hackers given that I've heard the average North Korean citizen's access to computers (and the outside internet) is extremely limited. Where are they getting these world class hackers from if this is the case?

It must be a group of outside parties who use North Korea as a mask and/or employer, right?
I guess his 2nd try a bat:

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-10-scientific-response-s...