skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I resisted having a printer for many many many years (part because I didn't want to lose the space it'd take up, part because I don't want to deal with the toner cartels, and part just because I didn't think I needed one and it was fine to make a trip to FedEx Office when I did), but finally caved in a couple years ago. I'm surprised at how often I use it and find it useful, and how little a hassle it's turned out to be. (It is also a scanner, which I've found just as useful as the printing aspect.)

"Everyone should be paperless" -- either you live in a country with a unusually advanced, tech-minded government, or you're just completely out of touch with a normal person's needs in a place like the US.
If you think building a house and writing complex software are in any way similar, you simply do not work on complex software, nor manage teams in this sector.
Ask HN: Tool for iterating through a codebase in a tutorial-like manner?
Apologies (=please delete this) if this is inappropriate.

A few weeks ago a tool was featured here on HN.

In a web UI, multi-pane user interface, you could show documentation while at the same time iterating through specific parts of the code in another pane.

Does this sound familiar to anyone? I remember it having either `story`, `notebook` or `code` in its name, which makes it a pretty hard thing to search for. Thanks in advance!!!
> Ferns, wasps and slugs don’t like ocean voyages much, either. Coconuts are adapted to them

Are you suggesting that coconuts are migratory?
No, I'm talking about when a panning shot comes up, the video feels as if it's a slideshow due to how few frames there are with how much motion is occurring. Compare it to a video game where running at 120 FPS and moving the camera around looks much clearer than doing the same thing at 30 FPS or fewer. Note that I'm not even talking about input lag (aka the game feeling better at higher FPS), I'm talking only about how it visually looks on screen. I much prefer the higher FPS.
I’ve been following the project for a really long time. As an digital design engineer, I really envy you, you got such an interesting project at hand. Kudos for what you are doing!
In my city some of these buttons have no function other than blinking after you have pushed them. But it depends on the time. Early in the morning you have to push it, otherwise it will stay red forever.

So for me the sticker reads: "we are too incompetent at programming" :).

My other thought: "these don't look official, someone private has made them for a joke".
Password generator doesn't generate new password in the same session
Do you have any books that you would recommend on the subject? I'm all for people being informed but I have looked for information myself sporadically over the last 10 years and it's a very sparse landscape from my point of view.
I certainly agree that Lolita is the best work of Nabokov. For _Pale Fire_, it's a weird narrative, and I think for the first read, linearly going through the book, first the poem, and then just enjoying the story in the commentary is the easiest way to go. Think of it as a mad man trying to tell you a story, while referring to various far-fetching clues hidden inside a normal poem.

> The poetry felt like satire to me

The commentary is completely twisting the meaning of the poem, so there's a strong mismatch between what Shade wrote and whatever the hell Kinbote was thinking. If you try to understand the poem from the point of view of the story, it might seem that the poet was writing very weirdly about the story, when in fact, it was Kinbote who made up all the far-fetching links.

If you think of the poem as its own thing that is not related to the story told in the commentary, just simply a long poem, by Shade and about Shade, it will make much more sense.

Anyway, that's just my read. It's certainly a strange enough book that there are plenty of mixed ideas of how to read it.
I've used it for anime and other types of animation (such as CGI based media like the show Arcane), both worked fine in my view, couldn't tell how the performance was impacted.
What? Disney+ and Prime are much worse. You can't find a single show anywhere else. I would say AMC is one if the better in this regard considering both BB, MM, BCS and TWD can be watched on a plethora of other services.
The true score theory is trying to decompose an outcome into true ability and random error. My example was about the random error (which definitely applies to sports, I'm not sure why you think it doesn't). I never ruled out the skill/ability.

It's interesting that you are objecting to my argument by referring to the true score theory, which quite literally provides a caveat to attributing skills to the observed outcomes.

> you imply (incorrectly) that it does

Of course it does because sports outcome are random. Randomness is not the only factor, but it certainly is one.
I'd argue he doesn't care about ageing because he's 51.

What till he's 75 and see if he still holds that view.
So you're telling me you don't get offended at a phrase originating from an old story in a completely different context your friend told you that you didn't bother to fact check?
Awesome animated curved bottom bar for react-navigation
Thanks - the Grand Parti de Lyon was what I was finding when I was searching and it didn’t align with the idea of the Foires I was expecting to find.
https://soundcloud.com/toastednz/stablediffusiontoddedwards?...

40 sec clip of uk garage/todd edwards style track made with riffusion -> serato studio with todd beats added
Russia has its troops. But does it have the economy to supply them?
Most recent issue that tracks this is https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1551723
This is my first time hearing about this website. Surprising to see the founder is American but the top level domain for pinboard is Indian, any particular reason he chose .in ?
One obvious is trust. Secure Elements are validated against Common Criteras, often at very high level (6+). Yet, there have been problems. An example is bad RSA implementations.

Developing for SEs normally require signing boatloads of NDAs. This makes it hard do talk about weaknesses, things that simply could easily be improved (in support libraries for example).

By having open designs, open source more people can review and decide for themselves if they are ready to trust the SE. And hopefully more bugs can be found, issues can be fixed and things can be improved faster. This will benefit the users and the societies as a whole.
Ask HN: Preferred word to describe “Unnecessarily complainsome grumpy person”?
I started reading HN fairly recently, the posters here struck me as having a different distribution of recurring (non-technical) vocabulary that is quite different from other platforms.

I think that besides the obvious age distribution factor, the spectrum of social scenarios more frequently encountered by the HN demographic probably also contributes to certain common situations or stereotypes promoting/stimulating the use of more apt descriptions for them, whereas for those who less frequently encounter them there would be no occasion to dig out a dictionary word from memory to describe it.

For example, there seems to be a particular adjective that sees pretty frequent usage, used to label “cranky jaded programmer being unnecessarily complain-some or dismissive of new ideas”, which I only learned because of repeated occurrence on HN, but the actual word seems to escape me. I remember that it seems to be not too dictionary-obscure of a word, just that there seems to fewer occasions that calls for it in other online conversations.

What is the first word that comes to your mind when describing such a person?
Sex is not a spectrum, there's no ranges of intermediate sexes between female and male that produce some other types of gamete.
Can we please change the name "Stanford" to something else? It offends me. "Stan" looks like "Satan" and "ford" is an automobile brand which makes me think of combustion engines and global warming. I cannot stand it anymore...
>Inventing banking and then using the profits to fund the renaissance?

How about productizing electric cars and satellite internet to fund space exploration?
Pretty much everyone who is getting frozen want youth rather than prolonged old age, they think a cure for aging will eventually happen.

I'd certainly rather live 100 years with a 20 year old body than 200 years with a 90 year old one.
Just over 2 years.

At that point Windows 10 will be EOL, so Microsoft would have a legitimate excuse to give no subsequent fucks. Anyone who needs or cares about manufacturer support will downgrade at that point.

As for the never-downgrade diehards, well, they were never going to downgrade anyway (source: me, Windows 7 machine as daily driver for non-gaming tasks).
Buying guns requires a permit (and a background check and maybe a chat with the local police department) but to buy ammunition in Switzerland you don't need a permit. Just a clean background check that you can request online.
Exactly. There's also a difference between falling off a bike at 30km/h or at 15 km/h (a common bike speed for most people). And there's a difference between falling off a bike and falling down the stairs.

There are always risks, different ways to mitigate those risks, and trade-offs around those risks and mitigations.
In all fairness, Gates does fly around the world in his private jet, live in huge energy consuming mansions, all the while expecting us commoners to live an ascetic life. If these people where serious in instrumenting change, maybe they could start setting an example by the life they lead?
Linux already knows what firmware is and calls interfaces provided by firmware, so this isn't exactly a stretch for an OS model. The major issue is that all that firmware is proprietary and NDAs and patents block any OS or open source code from taking over the role of the proprietary firmware.
Exactly - this obsession with planets it toxic, you see it all the time. People just consider Earth as the only available finite resource and thus take some problems as unsolvable and a lot of suffering as normal and unavoidable.

All the while the are almost endless resources and options how to solve these issues waiting in the solar system!

Its like hauling old people to the mountains to die because your village can't support them. We got over that & we should should get over our current terrestrial problems as well by moving on and expanding out of our cradle.
> I believe we will be able to move towards a fully JIT'd language.

Unless they actually go ahead with the deferred evaluation of types (PEP 563), make all types strings at runtime and make it impossible to know which type they actually are. :)

But they will probably not: https://discuss.python.org/t/type-annotations-pep-649-and-pe...

But it could be a breaking change in the language. As it is, I can run this "a: str = 3" and it will work.
> hey were the sorts of scenes that internet-connected devices regularly capture and send back to the cloud

Most of the home devices like vacuum robots really have no valid reason to connect to any cloud let alone send any pictures there. Such a robot can run all the necessary code [ran in the cloud normally] on itself. If only the consumers would not be so naive to accept the cloud bullshit for a norm.
This is actually great advice. You previous employer won't give any explanation if someone asks, they'll confirm your dates of employment nothing more nothing less. Some recruiters might ask if you're eligible for re-hire as a proxy but most companies will refuse to answer.
That's incredibly cool! Really interesting concept.
Why would there necessarily be a point to death?
> There is no way to know what radiation dose they got. […] We don't know if any got radiation sickness

We cannot know an exact figure for that, but we know they cannot by any means get radiation sickness, because the radiation level that it would have need is many orders of magnitude higher than what can be found there.

You have no idea of how tall I am, but you can be 100% certain that I'm lying if I pretend I'm two thousand kilometers tall! (that's the order of magnitude we're talking about)

> The point of the story is that such a site remains a problem for millenia and people have to pay attention.

This sentence is still wrong. Cesium 137 half-life is around 30 years. In 300 years, the amount remaining would be 1000 times lower than it currently is. In 900 years, that's 1 billion lower, which means that almost every single atom will be gone.

> Another point is that the Russians put their artillery pieces near nuclear power plants. They discovered that the Ukrainians wouldn't shoot back when they fire from there. Funny that.

Obviously nobody wants to destroy a nuclear plant, and no-one said a nuclear plant accident wasn't bad, it's just far from the pop-culture depiction of it. It doesn't last for millennia and doesn't cause a mushroom cloud either.

Talking about artillery, you know what last for millennia, leaving empty exclusion zones no-one talks about? Contamination from artillery shells: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_Rouge

Given that both sides are using uranium-based APFSDS munitions, we'll more likely see more radiation-induced casualties from exposure to depleted uranium than from people digging in the red forest, or even maybe more than from the fallout of Chornobyl.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depleted_uranium#Iraqi_populat...
It's definitely not a slippery slope. Firstly it's a drop in the ocean for cloud providers. Secondly, there's some effort required in establishing whether it was a case of stolen credentials or not. Not everyone is going to put in that effort to lie. And finally, you're forgetting that most cloud users are enterprises and small business that have some moral compass and aren't going to lie to the cloud providers to their face.
I've lived a modern day life of comfort, opportunities and experiences unimaginable compared to even my grandparents (all deceased now). I've been to places and had opportunities to try things which they never did. Compared to my grandma who cooked during food rationing and had to save sugar rations to make a cake, who lived a frugal life of 'make do and mend', I have the spare money and first world surroundings to indulge any ordinary luxury[1] on a whim - meal at a restaurant, new clothes, ticket to a show, buy a household goods item or entertaining gadget, holiday abroad in a hotel on a couple of day's notice, all no problem. I've travelled more than she ever did, owned more things than she ever did, experienced many kinds of novelty and variety that she never did.

Is that enough? Can I go now? Isn't that enough? I still have possibly 3-4 decades of life left to average life expectancy, and for what - to grind through more experiences? Even though I've already had vastly more than most humans who ever lived? I have no great purpose to achieve, there's nothing I can do which millions of others can't do. The main reason to go on living is because dying would hurt others unnecessarily. Brute forcing through everything-there-is-to-experience is not an enticing vision for the future at all, it's a grind.

> "but if it wasn't for some limit forced upon me, if it was really my choice, then there's a lot more I'd like to do."

It seems common that people who become rich enough to do anything end up depressed doing nothing. Taking the forcing function out seems to make people miserable rather than happy. Even people who said beforehand that they had lots they'd like to do often seem to lose motivation to actually do any of it.

[1] there's a phrase.
I have used it on the last linux 5 kernel and it was working smoothly with an AMD GPU. I can't say much about nvidia. On arch you can install a custom kernel with the modules needed compiled and in known working state from the linux-zen package.
Strugatsky - Roadside picnic

A small sci-fi novel where a fantastic premise is explored. The most interesting part is the description of the role of the different characters in relation to the mystery (which is not explained in the book).
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadside_Picnic
These industries typically give so few shits when it comes to money that replacing a fleet of 100 2020 Mac Pros with 100 2022 Threadripper based machines is seen as a minor inconvenience at best. Apple provides good hardware at the moment ? Use Apple hardware. Apple can't let us plug in our Quadro cards on our VFX guys machines ? Buy a new workstation somewhere else, who cares ?
Hobby or not, it's just a shame that these sorts of setups, even the simple kinds that you describe, are too complicated to set up for most people. I wish it was more the norm that people could run things this way.
Those wonderful knights templar! Brave Christian crusaders! Warrior monks!

> Our financial system today has a lot in common with this model.

This bit might be true, but what was the real story?
I think as tech got more standardized, we're seeing industries move away from this (eg. new movies use AWS as a render-farm instead of just buying powerful desktops for the office).

Interestingly, there is historic reasons that apple has disproportionately been successful with creatives and its not the marketing of MacBooks to hapless poets. Some of it is just "photoshop was first available on a Mac so other software was first made for a Mac".

Early Macs were historically faster and more capable due to using POWER chips, which made them desirable for performance oriented work. It led to a story that Macs were export-banned like weapons due to performance (reality is more fuzzy here) [1]. Other unique advantages Macs supposedly have: the first color monitor (def better for creative work).

Additionally, apple (Steve Jobs?) cared about graphics and color more than competitors, so any creative would want to use a system that cared about what they cared about. Even today, apple advertises their very expensive "reference grade" monitors. I'm not a creative, so I don't know how truly the apple monitor fills that purpose. The aesthetic and big $5k monitor (which works best with a Mac) was claimed to replace a $30k small and ugly reference monitor, which would leave lots of budget to splurge on a Mac Pro.

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[1] https://www.techjunkie.com/apples-1999-power-mac-g4-really-c...
Dictator could pay more for it but would probably be to paranoid to actually do it until its proven technologically.
So my bet would be on the Noble Prize winner because of curiosity and good connections to the people working on the technology.

If the technology first emerges you could probably get it quite cheaply because its not proven yet. Afterwards there will be a scarity due to everyone wanting it which will drive prices up.
In the long run it becomes a free commodity due to being a net saving for governments.

But even if the rich and ruthless get it first, that doesnt matter much in the long run.
Medical improvements tend to get cheaper with time.
The incentives are there to provide it to everyone. And especially so in a democracy.
You had no 2FA enabled?
I'm sensing a need for a blockchain here.
It's not based on the whims of a company, it's usually based on what runs the software they need to run well, and what the operators like working with and how well it integrates with the rest of the production line.

The higher up in the food chain you get with production the less these machines are used as general purpose computing boxes and the more they just run one task (be it color grading, compositing, editing, sound editing & foley).

Yes, you can use Windows/Linux PCs, and they make more sense for a lot of 3D work and certain other tasks but at the end of the day Apple macOS and hardware just make sense and the cost is not a problem.
I agree that it is part of the creative process right now. But it is nothing but an artifact of it's time, where it would exorbitantly expensive to create 60 animation frames. Just like 30fps video and and black and white television and games back in the day.

60FPS animation as the default is superior to the choppyness we have nowadays. But the industry has to adjust their process, and upscale animation may never look right.
The old kindles do this. I have two kindles with earphone jacks, and they both do TTS without issue.
During the late PowerPC era (2000-2005), Apple was at risk of losing this industry entirely. Every new professional content creation application was being built primarily for the Windows NT platform which had already successfully killed off SGI workstations and their proprietary Unix software stack. Intel and AMD CPUs were consistently delivering both better performance and pricing, despite the brief glimmer of hope from IBM's PowerPC G5 CPU in 2003.

What kept Apple alive in this market was 1) Pro Tools, 2) their own suite of applications like Final Cut Pro and Logic, 3) the 2006 Mac Pro that finally delivered everything users had hoped for — latest Intel CPUs, Windows compatibility, enough fast PCI slots for everyone. It was really the best of both worlds and became the x86 media desktop to beat. (In typical Apple fashion, the 2013 Mac Pro swung too far the other way towards Apple-specific integration and was an abysmal flop with massive heat problems and non-upgradeable GPUs stuck in the past.)
But then you're relying on every single higher level package owner to pull in patches for all their dependencies and update their binaries in a timely fashion. That works for, say, Debian packages (my distro of choice), but as soon as you move outside of that circle it'll make it harder to guarantee quality.

In contrast, on (for example) Debian, I know that the Debian Security Team is looking after the libraries and that gives me a lot of peace of mind. Instead, I'd be wondering if every single third-party apt repository package owner is doing a professional job. At least if they're shipping binaries that are dynamically linked to Debian packages, I can have confidence that those library issues are being handled. (XML parser update, anybody?)
We should also ban the word logic which is insensitive to woke humanities student who are incapable of.
Bitcoin core protocol in 45 minutes (Node.js edition)
Can we make pedestrian paths using solar panels yet?
Lisp is composable. Everything is possible. Functional programming is one of many paradigms and many are common in it.

CLOS is an abstraction layer to enable OOP. It has long been a workhorse in industry. If a programmer wants something in lisp, he can make it.

The textbook sicp (not common lisp, but another dialect) involves building different interpreters to enable differing behavior. A lot of these are configurable or availible through libraries in common lisp. You have near infinite power with it! (Making a unique dsl for your specific problem case, e.g. with macros, is common with racket (my favorite lisp dialect.))

In the 80s and 90s when OOP was gestating and emerging, a lot of experiments and projects in thst direction were made in lisp (in production etc.) just as a lot of quantum computing research is done in lisp today. Indeed, in 1994 lisp became the first standardized OOP language. In the 60s, object modeling was first done - with lisp. The 70s already saw significant research in the area, before being used in industry in the 80s.

For functional only, you have to go to haskell.
I best add a nuclear capable military to the 2023 budget. I know we need to look after every penny, however, the increased reliability is surely worth it.
Troll level: god-like
>Inventing banking and then using the profits to fund the renaissance? Need people like that today.

When it comes to culture, do we still need funding? The internet offers connection and replication.

What is preventing the people with the right skills from coming together and creating the next level of civilization?