skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Carmack, it seems, was comfortable with not being paid back.

That's not how I read the tweet, at all.

> It was a learning experience for me, calibrating some general people behavior. I don’t think anyone intended to not pay me back, but things often just don’t work out the way you plan
Watching the Bayhem piece by Every Frame A Painting gave a ton of great context for Michael Bay’s work. Super interesting, ten minutes long, worth a watch. That channel is full of grade A content.
What's absolutely infuriating about this is that Brian Krebs has sounded the alarm about Experian's horrible security for a very long time, and Experian has done jack shit about their problems.

This company needs to be shut down. It's incapable of safeguarding PII in a reasonable way.
No flesh involved mon ami. That's the selling point!
Ugh. "Identity Theft" is a term invented by the finance industry to victim-blame when their weak authentication mechanisms are compromised. We should instead talk about "Banks being defrauded by criminals due to lax procedures".
Only 1:1 locking is of any interest here. All these exoplanets are certainly so locked. Whether life can arise on such a planet is of course unknown, and will remain so until we find any, but it seems unlikely to me.
I have a $20 “camp stove” and cheap butane cylinders that are in aerosol cans.

If things get real bad, the Wood stick camp stove that’s just folding metal plates.

Propane burners are just an annoying in between, but our outages are rarely long.
All examples seem to be about single stairs vs pair of stairs.
Not really, they are saying that the requirement for a second egress in multi-apartment buildings (which is not only a second fire door, it is also a second stair, etc.) makes too costly/complex mid size buildings.

The first image on this page exemplifies the issue:

https://secondegress.ca/A-Wicked-Problem

https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9b6f13e0414b47f094ad...
> DOS/V

Anyone else remember DOS/V Magazine? :)

I recall that one the zip compression utilities could run on both PC-98 and on IBM compatibles.
I am not sure that's the "intent" but it sure is a suspiciously advantageous (for them) side effect.

Like how I gave up using protonmail because my emails kept getting classified as spam by anyone using gmail or gmail-backed organizational email.
> "oh, that's the same guy who called us a bunch of morons last year"

Wait, did some folks in the Go community write that EFAIL site that was referenced as a reason to drop OpenPGP? If so, that changes the context of the post a bit, but I didn't see anything indicating that was the case in the linked thread.
seL4 has a different "issue": The actual OS is missing… ;-)

seL4 is just the core of a micro kernel. The hard part would be to build an OS around that.
To put it into a url, you'll still need to serialize to text, even if the underlying data is binary.
> It only takes 80ma across your heart to stop it. Mains voltage, in both the US and the rest of the world, can easily develop that kind of current, especially if there is moisture involved. And yet plenty of folks have accidental contact without lasting effects.

I think that’s because most accidental contact doesn’t produce much current across your heart. Touching the two wires of mains electricity with one hand? Not a good idea, but unlikely to kill you. Touching one with your left and one with your right hand? Way more risky. Grabbing one with your left and one with your right hand? Even more risky.

And of course, modern circuitry often has circuit breakers that in many cases rapidly stop the current from flowing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Residual-current_device#Purpos...:

“To reduce the risk of electrocution, RCDs should operate within 25–40 milliseconds with any leakage currents[clarification needed] (through a person) of greater than 30 mA, before electric shock can drive the heart into ventricular fibrillation, the most common cause of death through electric shock. By contrast, conventional circuit breakers or fuses only break the circuit when the total current is excessive (which may be thousands of times the leakage current an RCD responds to). A small leakage current, such as through a person, can be a very serious fault, but would probably not increase the total current enough for a fuse or overload circuit breaker to isolate the circuit, and not fast enough to save a life.”
you’d be surprised, better just to give them the money and if they pay you back it’s just a bonus
I have no horses in this race, but a good language for a CLI is a language that generates small binaries that use little memory and start up very fast.

I can think of three languages that I would use based on that: Go, Rust and if I was feeling adventurous or wanted to be able to execute scripts, Common Lisp (it's surprisingly fast, in the same league as Rust, for small programs).

Does Elixir compare positively to those in these categories?

EDIT: some people on this thread say it takes 200ms just to start an Elixir program. That's three times slower than Java, which is generally not considered a good language for CLIs.
I don't see why normal query parameters (using ? symbol) would be better than putting the key/value pairs after a # symbol.

They both achieve the purposes of allowing custom URLs that bring the user to a specific state of the app.
Just to let you know, it should be "scene" in this case.
It's the view of someone who has lost over $10k to "I'll pay it back!!!" people - they haven't payed back in 10 years now.

And they left behind truckloads of trash.

How much have you lost to those?

I would speculate once you get to a sum this significant your perspective would change ;)
Actually 65W allows for fully passive cooling solutions. See e.g. https://streacom.com/products/fc8-fanless-mini-itx-case/
Or 75mm bananas.
hCaptcha would be an upgrade from Google's data farming.
Smells bad.

Had a similar experience buying an "eco-friendly" crib mattress. "Made with soy", green seal of approval from some eco non-profit. Dig a little deeper, turns out to be made of (flammable, off-gassing, non-biodegradable) polyurethane foam--soybean oil was just the feedstock. Checked out the eco non-profit's website... Turns out everyone on the board is a chemical industry lobbyist.

This natural gas story has the same structure. Fund a non-profit to cherry-pick papers into a new metastudy, bribe a few politicians or an agency head to put the force of law behind it, and as soon as the ball starts rolling, place a few bets, profit.
"The Idle Parent" by Tom Hodgkinson.
Lately I've seen captchas that ask me to identify things in images that are clearly generated with AI. Like frogs without backs.

I think at this point it is clear we are not training image recognition so much as providing them with free scoring for their image generation algorithms.
Thank you! I was searching for this myself but hadn't stumbled across it.
How the Paycheck Protection Program went from good intentions to a free-for-all
I can't comment on the Greek (at least, not right now), but Paul over and over talks about a body in this. It's a different body, but it's still a body. That's a huge focus of the discussion.

If Jesus "just" ascended into the heavens (as a spirit), Paul's discussion makes no sense. Paul clearly thought that Jesus had a body after the resurrection, no matter what Greek word for resurrection he was using.
Solar-powered system converts plastic and greenhouse gases into sustainable fuel
I realize in the real world most modules are probably hosted by large providers that can absorb the bandwidth, like Github, but it seems incredibly discourteous to not prioritize the hammering of small providers, especially two years on when the response is still "maybe later this year".

I think Drew is right in that he shouldn't take a personalized Sourcehut-only exception because this doesn't address the core issue for any new small providers that pop up.

Between this and the response in the original thread that said, "For boring technical reasons, it would be a fair bit of extra work for us to read robots.txt," it gives the impression that the Go team doesn't care. Sometimes what we _need_ to do to be good netizens is a fair bit of boring technical work but it's essential.
Because large companies are willing to pay people market salaries to work on this stuff, and then give it away? Isn't that what we want, a model where free software development is properly compensated?
"you simply change the last part of the URL from “/acr/oow/” to “/acr/report,” and the site would display the consumer’s full credit report."

Unreal.
Depends on the use case. If one is trying to broadly sequence a genome or exome, all of that is correct.

For something like a liquid biopsy test that's looking for circulating tumor DNA, a given mutation may only exist in 0.5% of the reads that cover a particular locus. Then you have to deduplicate to tell which are PCR duplicates of the same original strand, and which have different progenitor fragments. Low-coverage long reads are bad for this.
In React you normally create local ephemeral state like this:

const [myState, setMyState] = useState(null);

I've created at least 3 libraries that follow that same pattern, but instead of ephemeral the state is saved somewhere:

// ?firstname=
const [firstName, setFirstName] = useQuery('firstname');

// localStorage
const [name, setName] = useStorage('name');

// global state (that can be connected to other places)
const [user, setUser] = useStore('user');
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typosquatting

I knew a guy who worked for a typosquatting firm. They owned many 1000s of domains and made millions of dollars in ads. At least thats what he told me. I wonder if anyone has more intel on this type of "business".
Not when creating tar files.
A colleague has been tasked with writing a remote image viewer. It’s slower than before (running on the same machine) “because it’s client-server”.

Naturally, the 16 Megapixel images are sent as an array of json floats…
A platform where we can exchange all the promote for OpenAI
Supposedly the operator of sourcehut has been banned from posting to the Go issue tracker: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/44577#issuecomment-11378...

So, obviously he's supposed to know the even more obscure and annoying method of opting out.
Fascinating! Do you have any evidence for this?
Thanks for the pointer!

My reasoning was that it would be rude to link to myself, to a comment that showed up at this time just on the same screen as this one.

But I guess you're right. A link would not hurt, but make it more easy to discover the mentioned content.
A quick point about the "tree stuff" and Norvig&Russell:

While it does cover minimax trees, alphabeta etc, it only really provides a very brief overview. The book is more of an overview of the AI/ML fields as a whole. Game playing AI is dense with various game-specific heuristics that the book scarcely mentions.

Not sure about books, but the best resource I've found on at least chess AI is chessprogramming.org, then just ingesting the papers from the field.
I guess that really depends. Paying back $7,000 without interest would still be a $300 monthly payment for 2 years.
Alan Kay too I think! "Play it grand"
One thing I'd add is the ability to tag certain data or certain loglines as containing personal information so that they can be scrubbed before transmitting or storing the logs. You don't want things like credit card numbers, government id numbers, home addresses, and so on sitting out there in your logs, available to any developer reading a bug report (or available to everyone, when your company has a data breach). You'd log these things during development, skipping the scrubbing step, while the prod logs get scrubbed.
Imagine Hacker News existed when Netscape Navigator was released. (Maybe it was a Usenet discussion board or something.) Suddenly everyone would be talking about the World Wide Web.

At the moment, ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion look like the same order of magnitude of advance.
Best Buy will limit rewards points to credit card holders only starting Feb 14
> In practice, that line is even more compressible, but it complicates things.

It depends: for some platforms (ex: NextSeq) the quality score in binned and highly compressible, but for others (ex: Nanopore) it's much higher entropy than the sequence.
And why isn't this a priority? These folks are offering a service that benefits the Go ecosystem.

It smells like Go is on its way out.
Yeah, like opening up BT in the Stadia controllers.
I dont think its accurate to equate floating trash and something dissolved in solution. Their behavior is likely to be very different.
Hi Russ! Thank you for sharing. I am pleased to hear that there is finally some progress towards a solution for this problem. If you or someone working on the issue can reach out via email (sir@cmpwn.com), I would be happy to discuss the issue further. What you described seems like an incomplete solution, and I would like to discuss some additional details with your team, but it is a good start. I'm also happy to postpone or cancel the planned ban on the Go proxy if there's active motion towards a fix from Google's end. I am, however, a bit uneasy that you mentioned that it's only prioritized for "this year" -- another year of enduring a DoS from Google does not sound great.

I cannot file an issue; as the article explains I was banned from the Go community without explanation or recourse; and the workaround is not satisfying for reasons I outlined in other HN comments and on GitHub. However, I would appreciate receiving a follow-up via email from someone knowledgeable on the matter, and so long as there is an open line of communication I can be much more patient. These things are easily solved when they're treated with mutual respect and collaboration between engineering teams, which has not been my experience so far. That said, I am looking forward to finally putting this issue behind us.
"calibrating some general people behavior"

What a wonderful construct.

Same thing happened to me. It was a good calibration.
Wow, had no idea they were so involved with domestic politics. Where did you read that?
Revealed: NHS trusts tell patients they can go private and jump hospital queues
I do often use a VPN, but not this time, I'm just connecting from MIT's network.

As Dang says it sounds like it's just a short term attack mitigation, glad to hear it's not intended as a permanent feature.
Oh...of course, my bad.
relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/505/
My favorite example of this is flems: https://flems.io/
I've met more than one person that has admitted that they did not know anything about flat/log and just thought that's what the footage was supposed to look like. Not the sharpest tacks in the box, but not all "artists" are technically savvy. They had no idea about color correction because that was primarily the realm of film production. Up to that point, video cameras always came shot as full range. There was a big learning curve for non-techy shooters.
Turning off only the usages label through the prompt made it worse. After that, there initially was an empty line for each label when opening a file, which then collapsed. It was like watching a code reformat each time I opened a file. The only way to avoid this was to switch off code vision entirely and I will keep them switched off.
Sorry, that link is

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00128...
52 Things I Learned in 2022
Ex-Twitter VP Mike Davidson Joins Microsoft
The new Japanese nuclear reactor is apparently a rather big deal. If it is what it says on the tin we should all be building them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uTZWaJU6ho
https://wehatecaptchas.com/
I just got a terrible idea: combine this with another project, that built Tetris in Conway's Game of Life. That would enable executing an arbitrary program in Tetris, simulated in Game of Life.

https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/11880/build-a-w...
> Firstly, $40 is not a lot of money. Hardly a "big con".

I offered my seat on the subway to a young woman about my age who looked very tired. She didn't say anything, or even look in my direction: she just seemed like she was having a difficult time. She said "yes, thank you" and I got up.

When I got up, the dude I was standing next to whispered in my ear "can't believe you let yourself get conned out of your seat like that."

Some people just don't want others to be helped I guess.
BAM/CRAM reads are often mapped against a genome, but they needn't be. It's not uncommon in industry to convert FASTQ to unmapped BAM in order to only have a single file format, improve compression, etc.
[–]BlakeClass ... 8 years ago

> you might consider picking another G7 or otherwise mainstream country other than the U.S. according to where you want to live if the United States dissolves into anarchy or Britney Spears is elected to the United States Senate.

Things can (and did) get much worse with our national politics than Britney being elected to the Senate.

> You know you will be getting $638,400 per year unless the capital building is burning

Or even IF the capital building is burning.
It was for the recipient. And the recipient is the one who'll be feeling the pinch (stress, anger, etc) of paying it back.

$7,000 / 24 = $300 (roughly an extra car payment)
This is an argument for maintaining a local cache of necessary build dependencies, not to rely on a third party.
This problem isn't really specific to Google. If some hobby project was DoSing sites it would get banned. "We don't have the resources to not DoS" is not a valid excuse. The Go team needs to scope their ambitions properly; if they can't make their proxy work safely they should not have bothered to develop it.
I had not thought of that use case but that does make sense.
The entire conflict is created by the environmental NGOs though.

Many countries & people fund those NGOs, either thinking they are helping the environment, or they have ulterior motives (promoting their investments).

The NGOs are tricking people, they want to reduce nuclear to further solar/wind because they have investments in it.

Russia is playing into the NGOs because they have the same end goal, wanting to reduce nuclear, but for their nat. gas. investments.
That's a great example of something that would require them mixing in novel tasks, rather than recycle the stale traffic light detection puzzles. Because let's be honest, detecting traffic lights is not anywhere closest to the hard part about self-driving cars. Knowing how well you can do it tells you nothing about how well you can solve the actual difficult things.

What would a task that uses humans to solve that problem actually look like? I'm guessing it would need to be short videos, not images. And look for things with some ambiguity. "Select any videos where a pedestrian looks like they intend to cross the street".
Not quite what your are asking: but you could probably easily build a slide-rule, once you bootstrap the basic tools needed.
It's been a while since I looked, but I think the claim here is that the evacuation of elderly and infirm people from the parts of the exclusion area that were otherwise not seriously affected by the tsunami resulted in a large loss of disability-adjusted life years.
Yes, two bits (assuming you only need to encode those four bases; unfortunately, biological reality requires FASTQ to encode other nucleotide values). There's even a format from UCSC called "2bit" (https://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/help/twoBit.html)
Agree with your second paragraph, but for some books, I've gotten too used to being able to look up words/topics directly from the ebook. I find myself annoyed I can't long press a word with a physical book.

I then end up grabbing my phone and looking up the word/topic, and then it's back to the electronic device that I was trying to get away from with the paper book.
Yes!
Adding to what you said, Wendy Carlos has an interesting writeup on her MIDI "Wurlitzer": https://www.wendycarlos.com/wurlynew/, and the "Historical Roots" section mentions the use in silent movies.
FOSS funding is a major problem. "Get a job at Facebook and make products for them" isn't a great solution to the FOSS funding problem.
i'm not saying i have no idea what you're talking about. i'm well versed. just trying to add to the conversation that HDR feel can be achieved without having to acquire as HDR when shooting RAW and exposing for effect.
Does this extend into the used market?

I buy a widget without software, install a closed source option that is available for the widget, and later want to sell it. Do I have to remove the software?
Something I like about ebooks though is the ability to change font size and other things. My eye sight is not that great even with glasses so I've found the ability to change font size to my liking and comfort indispensable.

When I read an ebook, I still feel a marked difference (overall much more relaxing and better) than reading a web page.
I've never had success with brewing a concentrate using an Aeropress really. I prefer using a different method like a larger french press for multiple cups.
I started my first business when I was 25 back in the 1990s.

It had successes but in the end it went under after about 4 or 5 years operation.

I had to borrow from several friends to avoid being bankrupted.

Maybe around $80,000, which was alot of money at the time. The friends universally said "mate I don't care if you never pay it pack, you just sort out what you need to with it."

Paying the money back became my only life mission. Everything I did was focused on paying that money back.

It took me more than 5 years and I paid every cent back with 10% interest on top.

I operate on the principle that no-one should ever be worse off for backing me. I want people to see me as a person of integrity. Looking after the interests of others who have backed you should be your primary driver.

I can talk about it easily now as it's 25 years down the track, but the whole experience at the time was traumatic.
> Change sucks, especially when it's forced upon you.

Change doesn't suck; it's change for the worse that sucks. Saying "I have sympathy for you, change sucks" is not only patronizing, but also a way to dismiss the whole argument out of hand by implying that the people who complain are being irrational.
I have some internal conflict about zstd. On the one hand, it's truly become the superior general purpose compression codec, and I hate to look a gift horse in the mouth there. Using it for everything from data-at-rest compression on filesystems and zswap to channel compression with rsync, it truly works wonders. And yet, I can't really deny how absolutely at odds I am with the business model and actions of the company that has sponsored its development. Personally, I've resolved that we should extract as much good from things I perceive as evil. I've stopped using Facebook platforms myself, so I'm doing as much as I can to reduce the amount of money I generate for the platform as I can. That's about the most "voting with my dollars" I can do. However, because zstd has been such a net good, I will continue to use it in projects going forward for compression needs.
Obviously Disney has more staff they they want. Some things are logical team activities but some things are not. He’s unfamiliar with, say, it people and going by diktat. He can end up hiring new ones.
More often than not in my experience feature creep originates from marketing/sales. It's their job to sell more units, if that doesn't happen they get a bad review.

Frankly, "Make product X do more stuff" is a legitimate way for them to accomplish their goals. But I tend to think if your primary market is sufficiently large, it's better to go deep on solving a specific problem better than anyone else. That said it sure seems like a lot (most?) of the biggest successes in software, from Windows and Office to WeChat, bundle in everything but the kitchen sink.