skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Video steganography might be a better approach and would be less likely to trigger account banning or claims of abuse by the hosters. The issue of avoiding data loss due to lossy compression algorithms seems to be an active area of research:

https://jis-eurasipjournals.springeropen.com/articles/10.118...

> "Moreover, most video-sharing channels transmit the steganographic video in a lossy way to reduce transmission bandwidth or storage space, such as YouTube and Twitter. . . Robust video steganography aims to send secret messages to the receiver through lossy channels without arousing any suspicions from the observer. Thus, the robustness against lossy channels, the security against steganalysis, and the embedding capacity are equally important."

I suppose in this project, the blocks of pixels are large enough to avoid data loss due to compression?
Thanks between clojure sbcl racket and scheme which is the fastest language of am lisps?
As a single counter experience, I have repeatedly witnessed established immigrants exploit new immigrants from the same cultural backgrounds. Yes, some people get lucky and find meaningfully help, but others don’t.
> AMD really dropped the ball on GPGPU focus, neither for Blender nor any ML framework.....

They certainly did, and what a tragic strategic mistake that was.

AMG GPU's are only good for gaming and nothing else (bad for 3D modeling, bad for GPGPU, bad for studio type work, etc...)

From a pure marketing standpoint, this makes them look like cheap plastic toys, whereas NVidia GPU can not only do gaming superbly, they can also do GPGPU which brings the whole of scientific computing and ML into play and gives them a sheen of seriousness and solidity that AMD simply can't match.

Perception may not be everything, but it certainly is a huge part of everything.
Thanks for the link. That article is a bit one-sided and from a questionable news source, so I looked for a bit more nuance and found some here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/11/13/kansas-city...

At least it's not motor oil. They seemed to have a kinda-sorta-plausible excuse for the bleach, but it sounds like they've made an internal decision that it was an overreaction and they stopped doing it.

But I kinda see their point, too -- random people making food and handing it out sounds noble, but it probably should have some oversight too. Arguably that would have been the better response from the health department. I don't think the charity in this case did a particularly good job themselves of handling the situation. Hopefully everyone learned something and five years later it's no longer a problem.
I love the idea of doing independent technical due diligence work after enjoying doing software auditing and investigations in my current job. Looking at Gitlab's processes it seems like company structure, finances and legal checks make up a lot of the investigation. The software/infra/tech side seems quite short (Gitlab suggest their early technical diligence should be turned around in 2-3 days).

Do you think there's enough demand out there to have a company that does just technical (e.g. software quality, security) due diligence?
A little humility goes a long way for correcting biases
Amazon Corporate Workers Face Pay Reduction After Shares Slip
Did we ever get an official explanation of what "10% for the Big Guy" was referring to? I know it's been confirmed as authentic, but I haven't seen the official explanation for what was meant by it. I'm not interested in what Republicans say about it, but I would like to hear from the Biden admin about that specifically.

If he was gaining financially from any of these deals in Ukraine or China, that would cause an enormous conflict of interest in what is turning out to be a growing war with no end in sight.
“Emit” usually means as radiation. The photons that take every path are not on-shell.

When your refrigerator is open the light you see contains an amplitude of the photon going around Uranus.
Mastodon for Dummies: Cheat Sheet
Dreamcast indie developer here. Be sure to check out the 32MB RAM mod. We fully support it in KallistIOS,and it will probably substantially improve the experience you have with running Linux and doing this kind of stuff with it.
Twistronic Yarns Harvest Energy from Movement
The B-29 was the first mass-produced pressurized aircraft. Boeing 307 was an earlier passenger airliner, but only 10 were built.

Lockheed Constellation was the first mass produced pressurized airliner.
Sounds like this is exactly what is happening to the OP.
Within the tech sector, project management refers to the set of competencies and tasks around coordinating projects - a lot of stuff around task tracking, reporting progress, unblocking problems that come up, and so on. Product management refers to a set of competencies and tasks for making sure you're building the right thing to solve the right problem. Tasks like conducting market research, user research, and crunching product metrics/analytics generally fall more on the "product" side than "project" side.

The actual boundaries tend to be a bit fuzzy because a lot "product management" comes down to doing whatever the team needs in order to make sure a good product is delivered, and by necessity product managers often do a substantial amount of project managing.

Typically you'll see people conflating "program management" and "product management" in tech. You don't usually see "project management" in that mix since that tends to refer to a more industry agnostic discipline.
Probably they'll find a way to burn it that stays within regulations. It's not impossible, just more expensive than sending it to the shipping industry.

The other scenario is interesting too btw: given that demand for combustion cars will be going down dramatically over the coming decades as countries regulate against them, the demand for petrol and diesel will also fall. Eventually, some refineries will shut down as there is no longer sufficient demand. That will also reduce the availability of these byproducts of refining and might eventually force shipping onto cleaner fuels as a side effect.
What about haskell and erlang how does lisp compare to these heavy weights?
Being convincing does not equal rational. There are many logical fallacies that are convincing on the surface but don't stand up to rational scrutiny.
I just said goodbye to CSS. Long live tailwindcss. I'm done fiddling with the assembly language of markup styling. My revulsion to new UI stuff only prolonged the pain.
When Will Arctic Sea Ice Disappear? Projections of Area, Extent, Thickness
If this thing works as advertised, it's going to wreck people's gut flora, right? Do we have adequate options for restoring them?
this is why licensing matters!

Yes. And it's also why any resource you use more than once should be submitted to archive.org — just in case!

https://web.archive.org/web/20230000000000*/https://css-tric...
Calling it an "imaginary hack" is frustrating to me. Imaginary numbers are called that for derogatory reasons already, leaning in on that bias is ridiculous in the modern world.
It's not a predictive solution. It could very well be revealed to be true by some god type creature, but it defies the fundamentals of conducting the scientific method.
> In a lot of places if you can pay market rates landlords couldn’t care less about your language

How will you sign a contract you can't read ? Outside of tech hubs you can't even find a job in western Europe (not even speaking about the rest of the world) if you don't speak the language, without a job you won't find a place to rent

> Also by on a budget I mean a budget that’ll get me a very decent place even in for example Germany.

Compared to which city ?

https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?cou...

https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?cou...

https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?cou...
For Sodium Batteries maybe yes, but we already have so much of sodium chloride that we just sprinkle it on roads in winter.
It sure freaking does. I just upgraded our toolchains on KallistiOS to use the absolute latest GCC12.2.0 with latest Newlib and Binutils and brought C++20 to the damn thing! I'm using freaking C++ concepts and constraints with meta templates and Objective-C++ craziness on a DC.

https://github.com/KallistiOS/KallistiOS/commit/99c716c8915f...
> Most “infrastructure” spending these days is on maintenance of roads, true enough. Not sure if they are in favor of that or against it. Do they want more bridges or repaired bridges?

The Strong Towns movement believes [1], for many decades American towns have been building suburban homes with 75ft of road in front of them, but only making enough tax revenue from the homes to maintain 50ft of road.

Such developments seem like a good deal for the city in the short term, because the tax revenue starts coming in immediately, while the maintenance costs won't come due for 10+ years as the road starts showing its age.

But beyond the short term, it's unsustainable and leaves towns teetering on the edge of bankruptcy because they've got more infrastructure than they can afford to maintain.

So Strong Towns argues for denser communities; but they do so from a fiscally conservative republican standpoint, rather than using left-wing arguments about community, environmental friendliness and public transit.

[1] https://www.minnpost.com/politics-policy/2015/12/why-conserv...
Related, if you're interested in learning more about cargo ships:

"Ninety Percent of Everything" by Rose George

Exceptional, in-depth, dive on cargo shipping, and a bit about how insanely bad they are for the environment.
Ask HN: Where does Apple TestFlight store downloaded apps?
It's interesting you can type the app name in spotlight and it just starts. In Launchpad the apps are in a testflight folder. Using `locate` CLI gives erroneous results. I can't seem to find them in Library/Containers or Library/Application Support. Just curious where this data would be stored.
Plus of course a few takes on all metal monoplanes with multiple engines and multiple rows of passenger seats in the 1920s, if those are the criteria for modernity...

Think there's a decent case for the Vickers Viscount in the early 1950s too, as the first airliner with a modern turboprop engine type, with speed and range and passenger experience (big pressurised cabin) comparable to small airliners still being built, unlike the 247 or DC-3.
Even with the WAF disabled (at least as much as I can disable it without the Enterprise plan, i.e. "Essentially Off"), I've found it will still block legitimate requests. Tainted CGNAT or dynamic IPs are my guess.

The WAF doesn't really matter for my use case as the route is handled by a CF worker, in fact I'd prefer it doesn't get in the way.
Well let's test it out. How many genders are there (Wikipedia lists over 50), and what defines what constitutes a gender? I'm especially interested in the ones that aren't man or woman - how are they defined?
I could be wrong, but I always saw Nvidia's pitch about ray-tracing to be a publisher-targeted message. "You can fire all your lighting artists with RTX."
Humans have often gotten personhood wrong. In the USA, corporations enjoy human rights and as we’ve seen since 2008, are not allowed to die.

I think there’s a legal possibility that a corporation running semi-automously will be able to persuade a judge that it has as much a right to existence and livelihood as, say, the human victims of a chemical spill. Especially if the AI participated in legal theory and especially if the judge is a political appointee picking up some dog whistles.

Shutting down such a system at that point must at least involve law enforcement.
I don't necessarily disagree with your sentiment but I think at this point it is good to take a step back and consider the magnitude of the statement you just made.

Consider the extent of human societies that have existed, what it is that we know of them and through what lens we know of them. What do we mean by the words "significantly worse"? Where does this idea of "worse" stem from? And let's not forget the average person. How do we measure what's good for this average person?

Sorry for the random remarks your comment caught my eye for some reason. The point here isn't for some bogus relativism but merely to state the obvious, that the human condition can be far more complicated than we give it credit.
Maybe I would have been better avoiding the "F word" and just calling it very illiberal? :shrugs:
Ask HN: Where are laid off employees gathering?
I'm in SF. Besides the linkedin posts... is there a forum, discussion etc? I feel like I saw a thing/form launched on HN. Also - might be time for an old fashioned meet up!
Your comment gave me an interesting way to think about biases: Bayesian statistics. It is no wonder we see people end up at vastly different conclusions when their starting point (bias) is so different. Coupled with this, bias is probably correlated with experiences to some extent, leading two different individuals to entirely different conclusions.

This is a good argument for devolution, IMO. Today’s politics is too large-scale and winner-take-all to accurately represent all its constituents. For instance, a topic like immigration in the US has no solution that will appease everyone, because there are so many different viewpoints that conflict with each other. We should let smaller populations with a higher level of concurrence govern themselves accordingly.
So can we continue training RoBERTa to get it to, say, GPT3 Ada level
https://danschnau.com is my home-grown asp.net cms and i'm proud of it
While it might not be fully-ready for games yet, you can see from the Blender GPU rendering benchmarks (https://www.phoronix.com/review/blender-33-nvidia-amd) that compare nvidia CUDA (no ray tracing hardware acceleration support, just done in software) vs OptiX the advantage hardware raytracing provides, and how AMD are at least one generation behind performance-wise.
that's correct, there may be a lot of millionaires in terms of total wealth but very few can walk into a Porsche dealership and write a check for two 911 turbos.
He's also not using the 32MB double RAM mod we now support. My buddy built NetBSD with it the other day.
Its not that simple.

Some rates of resistance are dropping.
Dark energy from supermassive black holes? Physicists spar over radical idea
I used to be a big fan of giant ASCII art in log files, and I still like to include a big banner on server startup, but most of the cloud logging solutions like Splunk and the ELK stack don’t really handle big ASCII pictures in the middle of the log.

I was working at a big bank about ten years ago where we had a half-assed poorly implemented compute grid — some customization of a terrible IBM product. For viewing logs across all machines we had a home grown web app which would allow you to navigate through them. I realized the app didn’t sanitize the log output for display, and I started to include animated gifs and memes into my error messages. My boss told me to cut it out, I said, no, someone should fix the log viewer. It took me about an hour to fuzz inputs on our customer facing application that would generate a server error log which could execute arbitrary JavaScript on our machines. The log viewer got fixed.
I’d assume we’re arguing about general principles, not about specific jobs, it seems like navel gazing if we’re truly having a discussion strictly about “who is more valuable a garbage man or a McKinsey consultant”.

It’s merely an illustrative example to stoke the broader question of “are people who are more highly paid actually more useful to society?”
Is it something that you are buying for more than the cost of materials, hanging on the wall, and expecting it to be able to be sold in 10 years for at least the same price that you bought it?

Is it something that the artist would have a gallery showing for?

Those are the criteria for "is it a status good?" There is certainly digital art that falls in that category, and some of it may even be AI assisted. However, the "run DALL-E and get some images to drop into the top of a blog post" will not be a status good.
Most universities in the UK are mediocre. Significantly worse than universities in Germany, France, Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden. France and Germany are very good for engineering in particular.
> a huge surplus of nonsense in the theory

It gets even worse if one starts thinking about the flashlight's filament or semiconductor, the wall, stratified Jupiter with its optical depth, the flashlight-wielder's visual system, and everything in between all being (sets of) quantum objects.

Maybe the thing to do in this example is to assume correspondence and think classically, and insist on using a fewer-quantum-number example if one wants to think quantumly. However I tend to admire detailed wrestling with everything-is-quantum in an example like this. Maybe start by remembering that the spot-on-wall-to-retina is relevant, not just the flashlight-to-wall.
> Edit: I’m wrong in the present case! Author has some cool projects on GitHub under themetaschemer.

Maybe I am missing something but I visited their GitHub but could not find any cool projects. Clearly there are better examples of people who write Lisp seriously instead of evangelizing it. You have given some good examples of them yourself.
If you want a hobby you can check node-red you can run it via a terminal emulator or as a standalone app.
I'm running a dashboard which gets data around web and show on other local computers or on the phone screen.

https://nodered.org/docs/getting-started/android

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.okhiroyuki...

not afiliated any of them I'm a happy user
Michael McCallister, one of the authors of the «Mastodon For Dummies» book[0] yesterday published:

> BTW, we are still looking for reviewers to read and comment on the book. DM me with your mailing address if you're interested.[1]

[0] https://www.dummies.com/book/technology/social-media/general...

[1] https://fosstodon.org/@workingwriter/109892695779252397
In what ways was Obama "quick to cash in," and how does doing so (assuming the options he took are legal) impact an assessment of his kindness and character?
A lot of expected pessimistic HN comments that seem to miss the point here. I think SSG's are pretty damn good, I use Astro. People seem to think that SSG's forces you to use markdown or something, they don't. It's literally a mechanism where content from somewhere is turned into static pages. You can even use Wordpress and it's API as the source of the content for a SSG.

In my case I use MDX, which is Markdown that allows components (eg React) to be embedded. This is great for interactive content, articles with charts, visualisations, etc.
> Personally, I would think that some people are destined to be happy, just as some are destined to be a "genius".

I think the submitted article tried to make clear that just being a gifted child isn't sufficient to become a "genius", and favorable circumstances play a big role in turning giftedness into exceptional accomplishment.

Thus, wouldn't the same apply to happiness? Even if there were natural predilections toward happiness, circumstances can play a big role too in bringing the predilections to fruition.

Perhaps one needs to be "tutored" about how to become happy.
In the startups I've worked at, where they start hiring in product people, the point in time that normally happens it that critical t0 point. Basically, where the innovation will have to slow down, because you need to stop thinking about just coding the solution but start on the build pipelines, tests, infra, support, analytics, feedback loops... And yes, you can think of these things on day one, but it is that point, t0, where you need to actually have those things defined (even if it's simply a wikipage that has"No" written on it). And that is the point of bringing in a PM.

The worst PMs I've worked for aren't the ones who stifle innovation. The worst are the ones who encourage it to increase the feature factory appearance to make their own CVs look good. The best ones gather and present the data to inform the decision that the team has to make.

But in terms of power, yes there needs to be an emphasis on them being facilitators of the conversation and not the decision-makers. As Devs (QA, DevOps, SRE etc) we need to make sure that it isn't a one sided decision and learn to argue without undermining or name-calling.
AMA Question - Does a process like this help you make better acquisitions, or is there still an art in picking the right startup at the right time for a business?
I can take a stab at that. :)

If we take the caveman argument at face value, the moment humanity started farming, we diverged for what we were evolved for.

In that time, the labor required for survival declined and more people had time to focus on more than mere survival. This was the start of societies and a class of people who ruled farmers.

Looking at it this way, knowledge work has existed in one form or another for millennia. Anyone who wrote books would qualify. Many of these people worked in organizations far more powerful that the laboring classes.

The Industrial Revolution accelerated this and today, we’re looking at ultimate result of that development.

For myself, I’m happy to participate in society’s benefits. I find knowledge work satisfying.

Besides, in a hunter/gatherer society, I’d have been a shaman, the original knowledge worker. ;)
No plans for ballooning around Venus in the upper atmosphere? That's disappointing. Also, exploration of Jupiter's moons should be on the agenda.
I was curious about why there was a solenoid in the keyboard since the only mechanical part should be the actual key switches. Apparently the purpose of it was to have an audible cue for when a key press was accepted. No solenoid click means your key presses aren't going through either because the machine is busy or some other issue. It's a neat skeuomorphic feature since everyone using this keyboard at the time it came out would have been familiar with electric typewriters and the sound they make. Since electric typewriters have the same ability to block key presses when it's not ready for input (like during a carriage return), there would have been the same recognition that the terminal wasn't ready.

I can't imagine trying to hear my own thoughts in an office filled with these things clacking away like it's a 1940s typing pool. I'm not familiar enough with IBM terminals to know but I'm sure it didn't take long for them to switch over to a much quieter operation as businesses began to purchase more of these. There's a reason why we have moved from loud keyboards to nearly silent ones other than just cost.
Official response from Pi Foundation is they don't think it's worth the additional BOM cost.
> Maybe to send fuel in orbit along several weeks or months instead of with one giant rocket. Less efficient but easier.

Unless you're getting fuel from the moon, the sensible way to do that is to do your refueling in LEO. Otherwise your tankers of fuel are going to need to refuel in LEO to even get to the lunar gateway in the first place.

That's in fact Starship's architecture:

It's going to launch on a SuperHeavy booster, and then refuel in Low Earth Orbit, utilising tanker-variants of Starship.
There’s also the option to ask someone with skills and expertise to set something up for you.

It's an option, but it's a bad option. Setting up and running a blog is not a one off process. For things like Wordpress there are literally security patches. For most other platforms there are updates. Wordpress has auto-update but it can be flaky, especially if the site owner tinkers with things.

If you get someone else to set something up for you it'll either rot, or you'll be pestering them to update it for you.

If you don't have the technical ability to run something just pay for a service instead.
Does anyone know of a good library for easily making static webpages that look like old BBS ANSI graphics?

I'm fed up with the modern web and seek reduced fidelity in order to focus on content.