skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd have one question: What's the charge number for this?

I'm willing to play the game and do what's necessary, that includes paperwork, filling out the correct acronyms my company expects in JIRA stories, bullshit compliance training and potentially writing marketing material. Assuming it doesn't become a primary focus of my job I'd just do it. If it becomes too much or interferes with my primary duties, I'd bring that up with management.

My program is in a funny position where we get corporate emails from the marketing department strongly suggesting we do things like wear company branded apparel and spam our social media profiles with corporate propaganda, only to get a followup from security saying "yeah that email? Don't do any of that stuff". Needless to say we listen to security.
"potentially" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.
It started out as a patchy version of NCSA HTTPD. That's the joke. A patchy webserver.

EDIT: I am aware that the name was retconned into a more "sophisticated" origin story, but the original project docs back me up. https://web.archive.org/web/19970415054031/http://www.apache...

> Why is it called Apache?

> The Apache group was formed around a number of people who provided patch files that had been written for NCSA httpd 1.3. The result after combining them was A PAtCHy server.
AppleScript was just like that.
Hi OP,

Mechanical engineer here with a background in R&D and patents.

I would be happy to talk to you. You can email me at hackernewscontact2 at gmail dot com. I didn't want to dox myself on here, but will be happy to share my LinkedIn/resume with you individually.
This sucks to see. I remember when it looked like Rackspace was going to be the primary competitor to AWS.
In general, "not having enough money" is a barrier towards life goals, whether that's from the taxman, rent, commuting costs, fuel, wage suppression, wage theft, or whatever.

> taxes are the difference between being able to save for retirement or not

In countries with state pensions, some of the taxes are saving for retirement.

There's a lot to be said for the idea of reducing the friction of income taxes and shifting instead to property or land value taxes, though. It's a lot harder to conceal a building or move it offshore.
You can patent data visualization ideas!? And those can be actually reinforced? You gotta be kidding me.

I thought there was a condition that for patent to be valid it must not be an idea that someone else can easily come up with.
> Coinbase is looking more and more as the lonely survivor positioned to dominate crypto trading in the West.

Because it feels like they're the only ones that stay legit while also seeming to take security quite seriously.

Everyone else is either a scammer or gets hacked, and I'm convinced at least half of the "hacks" are inside jobs.
> they're benefiting from a government

Are they? Is the government actually benefiting the people we are talking about, on net? I strongly suspect that the answer to that question is "no". And if that is the case, the people who aren't paying taxes could justly respond that the people who are paying taxes are enablers, keeping a government in existence that does not provide the benefits the taxes are supposed to be paying for.
Cornell is using the definition from MIT: https://livingwage.mit.edu/

MIT defines their definition here: https://livingwage.mit.edu/resources/Living-Wage-Users-Guide...

In summary, it's "likely minimum" rates of: food cost + childcare cost + insurance premiums + health care costs + housing cost + transportation cost + other necessities cost + civic engagement + broadband + taxes
A) Microsoft never went away. They did not stop being a monster monopoly or a top-level research and tools company.

B) Microsoft did not create GitHub or OpenAI.

C) Both Google and Microsoft have many significant research and development outcomes and acquisitions over the last five years.
>> I have no problem imagining a security camera application needing to monitor quite a few video channels.

As a joke I sometimes tell people the automatic flushing toilets in public bathrooms work by having a little camera monitored by someone in a 3rd world country who remotely flushes as needed, while monitoring a whole lot of video feeds. They usually don't buy it, but will often acknowledge that our world is uncomfortably close to having stuff like become reality.
Rather irrelevant to the question at hand imho.
>the F4 being retrofitted with a cannon in a centerline pod

The Air Force and Navy had different solutions to the early trouble with the performance of the F4. The Air Force attached a cannon in a centerline pod, the Navy did not, and invested in more training and the development of new tactics (notably the Top Gun program).

The Air Force's gun pod did improve kill ratios a little bit, but the Navy's training programs improved kill ratios by a lot, using the same fighters and the same missiles as before. The Air Force later copied the Navy's training programs. I'm sure improvements were made to the missiles over the course of the war as well.

So even at the time (in the earliest days of missile technology) it's not clear that BVR focus was the wrong decision, only that you can't expect pilots to automatically understand how to fight in a new paradigm. But today it's 50 years later, almost as big a gap as between Vietnam and the Wright brothers - BVR combat is very well understood and missile technology is vastly better.
That wasn't your point, nor was it the point I was rebutting.

I took no issue with the term "ivory tower" (of course all legislature does tend to come from them), but rather positing that what had emerged from that ivory tower "must be wrong if 60% of the people living in NY don't hit the standard. If the city was populated by 60% people who do not earn enough to live" - that's positing that people should be satisfied with subsisting, and anyone who says otherwise "must be wrong".
I think there's some rationality.

Let's say as a company you need money. Money comes from investors and/or customers. Customers or (especially) investors may want you to make "modern" software using "modern" technology. Developers (especially the young talented ones you can afford) are also attracted to modern tech for rational ($£€) reasons.

So you can ignore that, and miss out on money and talent and thus maybe success. Or you can take the easier route and do what everyone else is doing.
indeed. LSP are for high latency, high impact, careful changes.
multicursor edits (with sublime for me) are for those "replace all the str_something with string_something in the next 3 lines, quick"
I expected the example at the end to be kubernetes, but instead it's layoffs. I think the article works almost equally as well if you swap in k8s, blockchain, or a few other buzzy buzzwords, which is kind of a testament to the truthiness of the argument.
Assuming largish, multi-color matrixes, and/or chained ones, yes. A ~10Mhz+ pixel clock, double-buffering, or just the size of the pixel map would strain most of those. This sign is 32x128 pixels, with each pixel taking data for RGB (on/off), with the PWM rate controlling brightness for each of the three colors. Though there are examples of using something beefier/faster like an ESP32. There's also in this case, the assumed requirement of fetching train data and transforming text into pixels.

The panels themselves don't take data and hold it. You have to refresh the display constantly, typically on a 1/8 or 1/4 duty cycle.

You can drive smallish, single color matrix displays with a cheap MCU. Or there's also the approach of using addressable LEDs instead of these more "dumb" matrix modules, like arranging the smart strips into a matrix. Moves the refresh logic down into each LED.
I've heard of this being prevalent in NYC in particular. I remember reading a story, and it was corroborated by some folks I knew at the time, in particular about car repair shops and adjacent activities (like pick n pull style places, part resellers etc). The police, in large, know that a lot of these places use gray area sources for getting parts and sometimes labor, but they're not really itching to do much about it on that level, because it provides this type of employment across the board in the burroughs where its most prevalent.

I have no idea how true this is today, but in circa 2015 or so, seemed to very much be the norm.
Hi! I worked for a nonprofit poverty advocacy center in Chicago. This is totally wrong, but it's stated so confidently. Why do you say this? What's the source you got this opinion from? Do you even know?

This is an opportunity for you to learn more about yourself and grow! For some reason it helps your ego/reinforces your worldview to believe (and repeat!) that "most poor people are children under 18 or seniors" which is easily disprovable. So you should think about why you want to believe that, and what about your worldview would need to change if you accepted that that's not true (because it absolutely isn't!).
My ex worked on a study that involved testing people's short-term memory. She mentioned a clear and abrupt change around the age of 45, though that wasn't what they studied and of course was not included in the study results. This issue is highly politically charged.
Anyone who has lived in the (NYC metro) region can almost certainly provide you more anecdotes. Filtering by circumstances I can personally attest to in NYC proper:

- 3 situations where nannies were being paid entirely under the table (this one is less common now that everyone I know is over 26 and needs health insurance)

- a small (legitimate) business owner who regularly employs a handyman under the table

- restaurant staff who don't report cash tips (too common to count)

- Street vendors all over the place (including those who were openly selling cannabis prior to legalization)

- Tour guides working entirely for cash

- Lots of technically-illegal off-the-books living situations (a living wage goes a lot further when you're willing to live in a basement studio apartment with no windows).

- Small stores with a "regulars" discount that never hits the register
picking parts of a different culture that sound cool to you and use it for your own benefit, to give you some cultural cache. You still think the people who produced this culture are not on par with you. Whites don't think native americans are on par with them so using apache for name is cultural appropriation.

corollary, picking up something from white culture like wearing jeans isn't appropriation because whites have established themselves as top dog already.

Its pretty simple, really.
I learnt how to code at 40. Its not you getting old. Its just you burnt out.
I can go Manchester to London return tomorrow morning, 210 miles each way, change at Crewe, take about 3 hours each way, costs £36.30. £46.70 if I want to get there for 10am.

Petrol alone would cost about £65 in my car, parking another £20 at least, and it would be an hour slower each way.
I am sorry, but this is an absolutely insane take that will add a huge amount of work for people for no good reason whatsoever. It's the github master -> main debate all over again. I really hope we are past peak woke now and this won't fly. The amount of hours of work wasted for pointless renaming just has to be accounted somehow.
Oh, I completely forgot about copying and pasting multiple cursors. I'm a hardcore user of that as well.
Drug legalization is probably the best bet if preventing deaths is one of the priorities of "policy makers."

In my state, I can walk into an actual shop with actual employees who can sell me packaged marijuana and be reasonably confident that it isn't laced with some Chinese rat poison or Frankenstein chemical.
In terms of quality, I think BLOOMZ, or mT0, are the best open-source ones.

The non-finetuned BLOOM does not appear favorably (in English) compared to GLM or OPT, which both have published weights: https://crfm.stanford.edu/helm/v0.1.0/?group=mmlu and Flan-T5 is above OPT-IML: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2212.12017.pdf

> Is the future going to be controlled by big corporations who own the models themselves?

On this subject, there is an effort stemming from BigScience to build an open, distributed inference network, so that people that don’t have enough GPUs at home can contribute theirs and get text generation at one word per second: https://github.com/bigscience-workshop/petals#how-does-it-wo...
Hope this isn't going to lock GPT behind MS's product offerings.
I tried paper and log books for a long time (I've got half a filing cabinets worth), but no matter what system I used I couldn't always find what I wanted. (When did I last modify routine xyz, and why?).

Moving to flat ascii files meant it's searchable and has longevity as it doesn't need any specific tool or app. I can also carry the lot around with me - very useful on site.

Cheers.
I'll just leave this here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APACHE_II

APACHE ("Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II")
Analytic flattening of quadratic Bézier offsets
The article does a fine job doing that, wouldn't you agree?
Since I can't reply to your other comment:

> They need to understand their market, the company's strengths, make strategic decisions and create an inspiring culture.

I'd say that's largely orthogonal to studying business. You need to understand why customers buy from you and what kind of value you are offering. An MBA isn't going to help or hurt on that dimension.
As I get very close to 50, I actually feel smarter. Reasoning on hard things come easier. I can approach problems I found too hard in the past, sometimes even being embarrassed of my previous dumber self.

I'm in good health but I do have less energy, like a higher horsepower engine with a smaller tank. I don't have a problem with the tradeoff...
John Deere will let farmers repair their own equipment
The dyes used in writable CD's are fairly long lasting, as are the dyes used in writable Blu-Ray. There are some writable DVD's which use a media similar to Blu-Rays but they are unusual.

This book talks about the sordid story of fugitive color media:

http://www.wilhelm-research.com/book_toc.html

how wedding photographers got blindsided when, 20 years later, people discovered that Kodak prints and negatives of their special day were severely faded. Or how Hollywood woke up in 1980s and realized there was big money in old movies and went looking for a solution: early on there was the bad idea of splitting out the three colors into three separate wheels, but later people realized that color film lasts much longer if you keep it in the freezer.
The article does mention the government is involved in location tracking.

Under ATD, the federal government assigns “SMARTLink” devices to track the location of migrants after they are released from federal custody.

It may even be possible to request this data with a FOIA request.
There are LSP servers for YAML (and by extension JSON)
Now the question is, is it acceptable for people to be this sensitive?
Surveillance Footage of Tesla Crash on SF’s Bay Bridge
Do you think all drugs should be available to anybody without a doctor gating access? Surely there should be some regulation to accessing something like fentanyl or heroin, both of which will probably kill the user at some point.

Weed, on the other hand, kills fewer people than alcohol ever has. I think that's an argument in favor of regulating access to alcohol, not against regulating access to drugs in general, based on relative risk of harm.
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> Jesus Christ, you can see why policy makers tried to have a war on drugs. It may not have worked, but at least it was something.

I'm not a fan of how US drug policy shook down. Still I'd rather that than a free for all.
Belarus Legalizes Piracy of Movies, Music and Software
Honestly I just really like the ergonomics of CL. A lot of the features totally exist elsewhere, but weirdly you don't see things like implicit return or a total focus on expressions in dynamic languages too often. Also, I'm a weirdo that genuinely finds parentheses pretty. It's the language I use for all my personal projects because it's the language I enjoy using the most. I don't think I'd use it for work though- the benefits are pretty individual, and people in general seem to like C over CL.
Why does that feel hopeless to you?

Running one process per core has been working well for scaling huge websites for decades at this point.
Painful that they need to ask,in 2023.
And yet those 40% are living so maybe “living wage” doesn’t make any sense.
I pay my taxes, not because I want to but because the state has right to licit first use of force and can throw me in jail if I don't. I personally have too much to lose so I comply. There's nothing moral about paying taxes because there is no consent involved. I'm not paying for things I'm using. I'm having money taken from me with no guarantee that I get something in return comensurate with how much is being taken from me with the threat of violence.

That being said, I'm not going to take exception with the people who are economically at the bottom and whose lives would be far worse if they didn't do what they can to avoid having their pockets picked by government. I wish my pockets weren't being picked but if someone else is able to avoid that fate, good for them.

It's far more moral for these people to keep the fruits of their own labor to make ends meet than for them to steal from other productive citizens trying to make a living, which is what we'd be forcing them to do if there was no way for them to avoid having their pockets picked by the government.
> Seems like a good thing!

I think it is. However they're engaged in plenty of other sketchy and unethical practices, so let's maybe hold off on the ticker tape parade hailing our great Job Creator Bezos as a national hero and success story for laissez-faire "free" market economics.
I have a PhD in physical chemistry and I've managed very varied projects ranging from designing machines to industrializing their production to developping new laser-based processes. Now head of R&D for a startup, if you want a quick chat you can send me a PM.
Yes — but there’s a difference:

- in one case, Microsoft seizes control from the owner performing unwanted actions that make the machine not function

- in the other case, Microsoft didn’t do anything; people turned off a feature they can turn back on

There’s a difference there important to free society.
I honestly don’t understand how people stomach living in NYC. Income inequality basically fuels the operation of the city, especially post-COVId. Yeah you don’t need a car. Because some recent Bangladeshi immigrant will work for nothing delivering your food, driving you to a bar when it’s cold, etc.
American flag design continues to amaze with its ugliness.

I’ve read https://nava.org/good-flag-bad-flag and watched https://youtu.be/pnv5iKB2hl4 years ago, and would think that’s “flag design 101”, but it doesn’t look like few designers know that in the USA.
Prepend a paragraph with two spaces
I mean, it's turtles all the way down isn't it. I would just call that second hand irrationality. Why? Because investors chasing shiny new things because they are new is also irrational.
It is quite outrageous that despite the fact that nearly the entire tech world is built on FOSS, Open Source still doesn't get the recognition it deserves from governments.
Java and JavaScript are just a few technology names that can be perceived as cultural appropriation (Javanese culture from the island of Java, Indonesia)

Mazda is a car manufacturer, however, it also the name of a god.

Pick any technology name and it will have a double meaning in a language or region in the world.

Where do we stop?

It would be more meaningful if the Apache foundation included a link on the homepage explaining the origin of its name and an make an annual contribution to a relevant charity.
Maybe. Running inference at 10 fps is probably plenty. But that doesn't mean you only have to do 10 fps of H.264/H.265 decoding. I think the most common scenario is for the input video to be e.g. 30 fps with mostly P frames that each depend on the prior frame in a chain. In that case, you need to decode almost [1] 30 fps to get 10 fps of evenly spaced frames to process.

[1] You could skip the last P frame before an IDR frame, but that doesn't buy you much.
IMO that Raspberry Pi 3 was way overkill for the project even back then and must have massively inflated the BOM.

Nice article overall :)
Yeah I haven't found any project I've wanted to implement in CL. I usually end up using Python or Go at that level of abstraction. If I want lower-level, C or Rust. However, I interact with Lisp almost daily through Emacs. And I enjoy it quite a bit. Configuring my editor through Lisp is unusually satisfying, and feels sleek.
14,000 miles would be about 4,700kWh at typical EV 330Wh per mile, or 6p per kWh.

Where are you getting electricity for 6p per kWh? Most people in the country are paying 35p now. Are you charging at home with rooftop solar?
Unfortunately, it seems commenters like "lynx23" haven't yet reached the age of reading the entire comment chain before writing a comment. Maybe then they'd realize the Nazi example was actually brought up by the comment two posts above me and I was just rolling with it as that's the current example in the discussion.

I guess they still need a few years to get there.
More proof (if any were needed) that "Naming things" is one of the two* core computing problems.

* Alongside "Cache consistency" and "Off-by-one errors"
The problem with calling something a “war” is that it implies two things:

1) this is a struggle that can be won, permanently

2) this is a problem that can be solved with violence

Neither are true for drug abuse.
I'd pay per query if ChatGPT had a voice front end without censorship. However, I am not going to pay for a company to select what I am allowed to ask.
Even more fundamental, if you had multiple computers and needed to network them up, they required a name to be referenced by. Computers on the same network ended up with names from a common theme.
Renaming things is the classic example of wasted effort. The ROI is nil - both in a monetary sense, but also in a discovery and invention sense.

But in this case, there is a "return" - that is lack of confusion of all users between the apache software foundation and the Apache group of tribes.

Your stance on this issue will be determined by what you view as the bigger cost: The time taken by everyone who has to deal with a rename of all apache references, vs the loss of value caused by confusion between the group of tribes and the software foundation.
I don't feel middle class folks evading taxes to more or less survive is a comparable offense to the rich doing so just because they can
That is what I think but security people want both.
> This is erasing recently disgraced people from photos in order to misrepresent facts.

Hitler did do that, but it's not the most notable thing that he did.
There are lots of situations where filesystems are good databases. The problem is that relational databases are flexible in ways that filesystems are not, so when your requirements change, a relational database is likely to be able to support the change whereas the filesystem may not.

Excel spreadsheets are terrible as databases and are also terrible as a file format for sending database records.
Why do you need a 10 foot pole to admit they have a point?