skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't have to create 160cm wide prints but I have scanned medium format frames on an Epson v600 flatbed and the results with the right software is more than serviceable. In fact, Nick Carver uses a v800 to scan fairly high quality images he creates big prints from. Although he does go to a drum scanner shop for the mammoth 6x17 prints but it simply goes to show that the return on value is very high on the right consumer grade scanner.
I could easily imagine some of those spammy, idiotic and successful youtubers going on and on about how this will enable AWS to much more efficently ship those ~100 gram Intel CPUs from where they are manufactured to where they will be used and thereby gain a decisive competitive advantage.
I asked ChatGPT to give my Python code to draw an analogue clock in ASCII art. Did not work as expected but the base was there.
I've read the project's description and still failed to understand what it does and what it is useful for.
The dullest non-announce ever:

https://twitter.com/ADSBex/status/1618306706861338625

Hasn't said anything in the forum or the site news section, and hasn't posted that tweet until after the official announce by Jetnet.

Looks like a case of "take the money and run". Doesn't smell good for the ads-b community.
Nikon made a massive medium-format scanner, too: The Super Coolscan 9000[0].

That's supported by VueScan[1].

[0] https://www.filmscanner.info/en/NikonSuperCoolscan9000ED.htm...

[1] https://www.hamrick.com/vuescan/nikon_coolscan_9000_ed.html#...
I think it's down to having a lot of feedback data due to being a service, SD has its aesthetics ratings, but I assume it pales in comparison.
Sadly walmart.com is the same kind of trash. I searched 1TB USB and the top non-sponsored result was this:

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Jonephe-USB-Flash-Drive-1TB-Metal...

Which has some obviously fake reviews along with probably a real comment stating:

"Only problem is the transfer speed sucks and it causes errors in half the files I transfer to it."

Truly emblematic of how these scam USB drives work. And its the top organic result on walmart.com!
What's the point of the “if err != nil” after the “else”?
> It may keep replacing the bottom tier workers, but that just frees people up to bring value higher up the value chain.

My concern is for people like my son who has autism. He has a job at the airport slinging bags into and out of planes. It is a job he enjoys because he likes transportation (trains, planes, etc.) Realistically, it is a job that is at the very top of the limit of his abilities. If an AI robot took over his bottom tier job, he would not be freed up to bring value higher up the value chain. He would probably become homeless if we were not around to support him.
> The TL;DR is even with 100k+ iterations of PBKDF2 an attacker can crack a password with 40 bits of entropy in about 71 days if they had access to 200 modern GPUs

...

> 50 bits of entropy changes things a bit. Now it takes 1 year instead of 71 days

I don't understand this. Going from 40 bits to 50 bits increases the size of the search space by a factor of 1024. Why does it only increase the search time by a factor of 5?
I think it’s useful to stop thinking about TOTPs as a multi-factor implementation, and think about it as a forced random password.

The biggest problem by far is that people still use the same password everywhere, and no amount of yelling at them for the past 20 years seems to be working, so the only solution is to declare passwords as mostly broken and force people to use TOTP. That’s effectively how most sites are using it anyway. Using this approach, you now have a probably weak password of a certain length, and then a guaranteed random password of 6 digits that expires every 30 seconds. The brute force window is essentially closed at that point.

This approach also reconciles the idea that a TOTP secret must be tied to a device, instead of a person. I’m pretty security conscious and can put up with a lot of shenanigans to be more secure, but the insistence of TOTP apps to not allow backup or transfer of secret keys is just too much for me. I can’t imagine any regular user putting up with that, and the result is the help desk has to deal with many requests to remove devices when someone gets a new phone.

With the threat model redefined to force the use of unique passwords, it makes it far more acceptable to store TOTP secrets in password managers.
It's the science magazine article illustration look.
A lot of people believes rewriting in a different language will solve most the bugs. In reality this never happens to me in real life, not even once, on the other hand people just repeat the old bugs in a different way and feel they are doing a good job fixing them.
I've closed $100k worth of consulting by opening with "My name is Zwayhowder and I've spent years making every cloud transformation mistake possible so you don't have to".

Mistakes can be golden.
To wit: One way you can find Amazon (or other) datacenters on Google maps is to look for the substation next door.
Not broken? La mano???

Seriously, I would be surprised if there is not a broken spoken language.

English is completely messed up. I don't know how anyone learns it.
This is not going to fit well with the groupthink of "ChatGPT and other AI is perfect and going to replace us all"
Ah, Apple.

Watch the classic Apple "Rip, Mix, Burn" commercial.[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBPp-h3uNs8
It is marked as the source by TFA. So why not directly link to the source.
There are also cultural differences, I would bet they have different mindsets of 'grievance' vs 'opportunity' towards the USA

It would also be hard to not be affected by selection effects, eg compare Obama's dad who came to America for an economics PhD at Harvard vs someone whose ancestors were enslaved for hundreds of years
Because then you can not write a big blog post to show what you are doing.
Mostly these machines are assembled from a combination of proprietary parts manufactured using regular machine tools by contract manufacturers, and from sub-units purchased from specialist suppliers.

For example: proprietary parts including optics, wafer chucks, process chambers, structural panels, etc are manufactured to spec by contractors. Pumps, valves, motion control boxes, wafer robots, loadports, servers, etc are all bought from suppliers.

There's not really any magic. The materials used for the parts are sometimes exotic (e.g. single crystal silicon, single crystal quartz, yttria coating, PEEK, sapphire, etc), but the contract manufacturers use the same old boring machine tools that everyone does.
Uncany – boilerplate for a modular FSM chatbot
The press release also says the MIL complex braniacs, sent 1000 tanks to Iraq to hunt down those WMDs.
Awaiting the first fired-for-using-ai employment case. Not sure how that would go.
I don't think I'm discounting that effort at all! To be honest, given that I mentioned both that they were exceptionally talented ("elite" and "hand-picked") and worked incredibly hard, I'm not sure where that interpretation came from. And retro game programming is a hobby of mine, I know all too well what it's like to write bare metal 68000 assembler and squeeze every last gasp of performance you can get out of an 8MHz CPU and handful of RAM.

A comparison I might make, then, is to video games then and now: despite extreme technical restrictions, in the 80s, a single person or at most a small team could make the equivalent of a AAA game in a matter of months in their basement. But precisely because those technical restrictions have now been lifted and so much more is now possible and expected, such a thing these days is absurd, and it instead takes teams of hundreds years of work and tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars to put together a modern AAA game. But observing that fact in no way discredits the talent, hard work, and ingenuity of those basement coders of bygone days; nor does it mean that I think game devs these days are orders of magnitude less competent, either.

My intention was never to say that what the Macintosh team did was easy; but it was possible (clearly) with the enormous effort they put in, and I don't think what HelloSystem is trying to do really is, especially not with the resources they have. After all, Apple can't even do it these days, and they have virtually all the resources in the world.
There’s endless ways for a LaTeX resume to look, obviously only the ones that look good signal those things.
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34503088
Those apps just haven't been updated to use the proper APIs.
Perhaps it's legal but it's not ethical for a founder to sell something that's provided by thousands of volunteers (I'm sure a lot of the code was as well as the data)
Zeiss makes parts of the ASML machines.
GP comment asks what machine make the ASML/Zeiss machines.

CNC machines I guess for everything besides the optics? Just a guess.
And measuring equipment.
I didn't understand a single word you said :D
Computers were slow so speed meant a lot more. We should have switched back to safe languages when we started networking.
It is?

In Firefox, type *, space and then search terms; this searches bookmarks.

Also, in the Bookmarks -> Manage Boomarks menu there is a search box, for those who despise convenience.
CamelCase vs. underscores revisited (2013)
Yes, correct. I didn't realize you were the main OP. I very much appreciate the upfront pricing and have almost never given a "call for pricing" company a second thought.
https://archive.is/kfvMK
> 40% is nothing to shake a stick at. If you entered the podcasting space (like Spotify did) and captured 40% of users, you’d have an amazing product.

Didn't Spotify spend hundreds of millions of dollars to get exclusive rights to podcasts (Joe Rogan comes to mind)? That isn't very innovative, and it actively reduces the choice and competition in the marketplace.

Good for Joe Rogan though (allegedly) getting $200+ million out of Spotify.
I don't like seeing Molly White and David Gerard in the same sentence. Molly White is a legit journalist with the mind of a scientist who cares about truth. David Gerard is a crank who will take any story and spin it to support his "crypto bad" narrative. They both like making fun of crypto, but that's about where the similarities end.
Ask HN: Expat software engineers in Japan, how are you making it happen?
There seems to be a lot of desire for software engineers to live and work in Japan, at least some fairly passionate minority of people. I also see people on HN pop up from time to time and describe the fact that they live and work in Japan; I suspect most are expats, tho I may be totally wrong here. :)

I'm wondering: How are you all pulling it off? Where are you working?

From what I've seen, salaries and working conditions at Japanese software firms seem generally on the weaker side.

Obvious options seem to be:

1. Work for Google Japan, or some other major Western company with a Japanese engineering presence
2. Work for a Japanese game company
3. Become an entrepreneur
4. Work at a Japanese company (Rakuten, etc)

What are most of you doing and do you have any advice here? I'm wondering how the crowd here distributes between these four options (or possibly others).

I'd love to return to Japan, and if possible I'd love to work outside of the Tokyo region (so, likely remote if necessary).

<Edit>

I can speak Japanese and would prefer a Japanese language working environment, but am flexible on that if need be.

Thanks!
We're talking about a scenario where AliExpress builds warehouses and logistics inside the US to better deliver chinese imports, in direct competition with Amazon.

I see an obvious gatekeeper.

As a game, can you find any example of a foreign company successfuly setting up infra in the US to chalenge an US behemoth ?
You're correct. Most people who do their own scans either use a macro lens or a telephoto with extension tubes to create a macro lens of sorts. Then you need a negative holder such as this one: https://www.negative.supply/shop-all/basic-film-carrier-35. You need a light table or LED hot light, and a way to hold the camera and you're in business.

Personally, I've been scanning my own 35mm negatives for the past few years with both a Full-frame DSLR and an APS-C Mirrorless camera, and get much much better results than I'd been getting via my local film processing lab and their scanning.

Scanning negatives with a modern digital camera still retains a lot of the filmic quality that we've come to expect via shooting film. Obviously you lose the "resolution" and ability to blow those images up once scanned, but you can 100% still see the grain, color reproduction, and analog anomalies that we're used to by shooting film.
This would be handy for apps that use Postgres features, that would; nonetheless work in WASM.
How old are you if you don't mind me asking?
I’ve played around with iSH on the iPhone and you can definitely run a server in the background, but there are some fairly major caveats. Background apps are severely throttled compared to the foreground app (so you can access your basic web server from Safari on the same iPhone, but it’s not very fast). You also need to give the background app location permissions so iOS keeps it running. If you jailbroke your iPhone then it would probably be much easier.
I always assumed the check digit was included as safeguard for barcode scanning.

Upon a quick reading of the Wikipedia article on EAN-13 it appears that there is some parity to determine the direction of the scan (i.e. upside-down or upright) but the numbers are encoded as-is without any further error correction contrary to e.g. QR codes.

Alas, for a definitive answer on the reasoning one might have to buy the relevant ISO standard, if it is even described there.

Given that human adults are said to be able to keep 5-9 items in working memory, I would think it prudent to include a check digit for the ISBN when one might be required to manually enter them into search masks, forms, etc. and if only hearing it (e.g. over the phone) might not benefit from the grouping they visually gain from the interspersed dashes.

On the topic of correctly copying (manually):

whenever I have to be certain to correctly transcribe a long important number or string I would at the end cover up both the source and the transcription, then reveal one character from the end, then the second to last on e.g. the source, verify that the last and the second to last on the transcription matches (in that order!), then uncover the next 2 on the transcription, verify against the source, continue with the source and so on.
This helps immensely to discover transposed digits (especially since my mother tongue is German where we swap the tens and ones while speaking (or thinking with the inner voice) a 2-digit number) and not glance over well known digit groups such as zip code or special dates, etc.
A few years ago, I met a Brazilian speaker who traveled the world speaking to software engineers. He had been around the world several times. He called himself a "brand ambassador" and an "evangelist". He speaks 5 languages and loves chess, photography and gifs. His talks were very entertaining with a very 'developer' style of humor. At his conferences he sold books on both professional topics and his hobbies. The companies paid him only for his travels, so most of the time he stayed in couchsurfing.

There are many jobs that are challenging and sound cool: Robotics, artificial intelligence engineer, blockchain, 3D printing, augmented reality, virtual reality, user experience, game developer, cybersecurity engineer.
I wet scan on a flatbed, though I will admit the process is tedious and holding a negative up to a lamp and taking a snapshot with my phone is 80% as good ;)
Anyone who uses the abominable table border design from HTML1 needs some special kind of punishment.
I'm telling you, they're going to have wet towel launchers to defeat these in the future. Or just hold up a poster board in front of you with a mailbox or trash can on it.
18k/Mo USD is huge everywhere, so yes correct. Even in America.
I have literally not seen a single person assert that ChatGPT is perfect. Where are you seeing that?

AI will probably, eventually replace most of the tasks we do. That does not mean it replaces us as people, except those who are defined by their tasks.
Training Stable Diffusion from Scratch Costs <$160k
Given his entire chain above your comment, it was a serious comment.
My guess is that worse first-page search results leads to more people clicking on the sponsored results, because at least they have some relevance to what they searched for.

However, I think the long-term result of this approach could be the loss of their seemingly insurmountable dominance of the search market.
I would have been both immensely impressed and immensely horrified if that were the case.
Wait, so... did Craftsman honor the replacement guarantee for the metallic blob?

I'm really hoping the answer is "yes".
The white admixture could allow you to do admixture studies. Ie examine the inherited white regions see how white polygenic educational attainment scores vs pigmentation scores affect outcomes

This is explicitly forbidden in terms of use of the best databases however

https://stuartritchie.substack.com/p/nih-genetics
It's not a direct link though. The owner of the airplane doesn't actually have to be in it. And very often it's a company anyway.

> You also can't set up a camera on the side of the road and store peoples registration plates and times when they drove past.

That's just because setting up cameras on public roads isn't allowed as you can capture people as well. Writing down license plates would be fine.
Has some elements of Maslow's pyramid of needs, perhaps interesting to see what others have looked into.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_need...
One way to avoid the problems of devices no longer supported by drivers is to use open source software and put pressure on vendors.

Linux was gaining ground on open source drivers this for a while, but then it seemed like we started to backslide.

Open source works best if more people treat it like a marriage commitment, not the occasional random holiday fling.
Another way of hinting "sampling bias" as I did.

> minority leadership becomes a scarce commodity

... one capable of attracting very good offers. An unsuccessful company is unlikely to be able to hire them.
> Walmart takes responsibility for the products they put in their store.

Amazon also did this for it's physical stores. Walmart does not do this for it's web presence - it has a third party marketplace you need to actively avoid.

I have both Prime and Walmart+ due to credit card benefits, and honestly don't see a huge difference in either experiences. Amazon is more spammy but faster shipping, Walmart less selection and slower but more reliable shipping. Walmart is more curated, but you still need to ignore the third party crap.
The "is-should" gap here is irrelevant. In our ideal worlds Apple "should" not hide the data and protect the audio files with DRM. Apple argues against this position with their business interest in mind.
someone shooting on a vintage hasselblad that still costs used near as much as many modern high tech cameras and printing 5'x2' finished pictures isn't interested in serviceable. serviceable isn't the result they're looking for.
Tesla made an annual profit of $12.6B in 2022
>Entrenched in-groups and institutions control access to the highest paid jobs. You need to become a part of those to be allowed to participate.

That's the same thing as being difficult to replace. You gain "access" by being perceived as difficult to replace. The more difficult you are to replace, the higher your access.
Why the CIA Failed to Assassinate Julian Assange
Exactly. I don't want to spend weeks interviewing people, my boss doesn't want to pay me to interview people, and my PM wants someone who can work on their tickets ASAP. It will be much easier for me if I can just hire you.

So "give me reasons to say yes" is great advice, along with "don't give me reasons to say no" (like lying or being an arrogant douchebag).

Use things like degrees as a green flag, rather than the absence of one being a red flag.
If it has to be online somewhere, then just make a link farm page. Go to that page and use text search to find a link, then click on it.

Browsers have bookmark searching; e.g. in Firefox use "* " (star space) before search terms to search bookmarks.
Oh come on… you just broke the myth I had on my mind for many years, that this company was some magical craftwork shop for mechanical parts.

Anyway, nice to get a bit more realistic view. Thanks!

Eager to hear more about the software, which I heard some crazy stuff about how it is engineered and tested.
Carefully ;) One option is to build your app to check for migrations on startup. I've run systems that'd do schema migrations on a per user basis for data stored in objects per user, and it worked just fine across a userbase of a couple of million accounts, on the basis that the only clients that connect directly also owns the schema, so nothing ever connects without immediately checking if a migration needs to run.

But consider that for setups like this the database might well be the customers own database, so their schema might not be something it's your job to touch at all.
Factorio, interestingly. Their dev blog talked about how it was typically constrained on memory bandwidth.
I came here to say the same! I was “shockingly close” to winning the lottery last week… …the guy who lives next door won.
Question:

Why are types -- used at all?

In Computer Programming or in Mathematics?

Surely types -- must have some purpose -- otherwise, WHY are they used at all?

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Large corporations don’t “beg” their employees to do anything. Unless “do as we say or you’re fired” is literally the new “beg”.

That, and not one of the quotes resembles anything close to begging. It’s kind of a hyperbolic article that seems to want to make something of a leaked email that doesn’t contain much to hang a story on. (Oh, wait a minute, it was Slack messages?! Yeah, skip this one and go on about your day.)
Another really key difference is that Walmart operates retail locations that compete with (more realistically, undercut) smaller local businesses and gut small town America. Let's not paint a rosier picture just because it happened a while ago.
The main advantage is the content addressable part. Existing overlay filesystems only handle the overlay aspect, and then tools like docker/containerd attempt to reuse layers efficiently, but it's not perfect. The same files from two different layers may have the same content, but it's still stored twice because the layers are the "unit" of storage roughly speaking. By making a single filesystem which handles both content addressability and the overlay aspect, you can avoid duplicating files that are the same, but in different layers.
"Ask HN: Why did HN get rid of the “web” button?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34468746
If you think “taking 1/3 of your price” is big, you might never sold anything to an end customer.

No these small business owners are way smarter than you on this, they won’t even consider Amazon if that’s not saving their cost.
Different audiences. A Changelog is read by the users of your software, the commit message by the developers. It's rare that a commit message is suitable for both.