skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> People who obscure their license plates should have their cars impounded and licenses revoked

People pay tax on the fuel, pay tax on the car, pay tax on the parts and servicing, yet you want the state to be able to identify the vehicles?

How many deaths and injuries do the vehicles cause in comparison to other deaths and injuries? Take the NRA and shooter deaths and injuries, or even knife crime, those people dont have to walk around with identification tattoos, and anyone can get a uniform to impersonate people of authority.

The state employees, namely the Police give you all the privacy you can afford, you wont find this online, but I've been reliably told, that the 13/14yr old son of this bloke [1], took one of the family limousines and crashed it in Kent, UK.
When the Police attending the RTA realised who he was, the UK Police gave him an hour or two to clear up the mess or face being arrested. Naturally someone this rich can pull strings, so the mess was cleared up and now nothing exists online.

I dont think most people realise how life is crime free for the rich who donate to charitable causes and employ large numbers of people!

So why do we need our privacy stolen especially considering mobile phones can triangulate and locate people under the guise of cell tower traffic management and most cars now have trackers built into them to remote shut them down called telematics, also used to monitor the driving of the insured and car manufacturers[2] are proposing vehicles that can even reposses themselves.

You can learn alot from this [3] if Hollywood isnt trolling the poor whilst virtual signalling for profits!

Now watch how quickly this discussion gets pushed down onto subsequent pages of HN to protect the Rich! Position 11 @ 10:38 UTC 20230228.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Maktoum#Controversy
[2] https://www.thedrive.com/news/future-fords-could-repossess-t...

[3] https://youtu.be/wXf_eaQcSdM?t=51
> If they could produce sound analysis they'd beating the market with it, not posting it online to sell ads.

This isn't correct - you can produce very sound analysis of past events, but to make money trading you need predictive power into future (as well as a lot of other things).
On 6502 some of the undefined opcodes (usually named KIL) put the chip into an state where it no longer executes any instructions and doesn't respond to interrupts either. And such state isn't reachable via documented instructions. Maybe that kind of 'state' was meant?
I understand what you mean.

But I also understand my sister doesn't need to know how her phone does any of what it does to play candy crush or read her emails.

Just like she doesn't need to know how a microwave works to reheat her meal.

If you want to know how things are done, of course get yourself involved in the details, but for most things in life you just want to use it without bothering with the details, so you can focus of the parts that are of interests to you.

(I know some people like to know the details of everything, and maybe you are one of them, and that's great, but the vast majority of people do not)
I’d argue most are ignorant of it, or don’t understand, or are simply too busy with other things to care about knowing details of their apps.
A surprising number of mp4 files are missing the ctts atom that contains pts since it’s sort-of optional outside the Apple stack (like ffmpeg generated such files from raw h264, which is probably the actual motivation for finally fixing this.) This should allow you to not generate or fix such files.

It’s sort-of optional for most playback stacks because they leave frame reordering to individual decoders as a codec-specific implementation detail, but Apple’s stack actually cares about frame-accurate random access so it relies on the codec-independent container timestamps.

The inaccurate seeking you get without container pts is okay for playback but it falls apart with editing or stuff like av1an.
Anglish seems just to be literally translated German, and still uses borrowed words (book, for example).

It sounds almost like the handbook from Severance or something quasi-fanatical, fictional religious texts or such.
Abbott the luddite, gave us copper internet and spent 400% more than promised to hobble the national broadband network purely for Murdoch's profits and favours.

Abbott stopped the nationwide FttP rollout (that had just begun after years of preparing) at about 5% so his political opposition predecessors got no credit for a nation building project (and Murdoch profited maximally and his media loves Abbott and the Liberals ever since)
Undesirable work culture, or mentally unstable? Both?
Does anyone know what the name of the algorithm would be for unfolding arbitrary polyhedra? I've wanted to implement this for my own library ( https://github.com/IxxyXR/polyhydra-core ) and I could never find the right thing to search for.

I'm assuming it reduces to a problem in graph traversal with some additional spatial constraints but I wanted to find some references before I tried to do my own dumb brute force solution.
Man I was looking for something like this but Mac only means I have no realistic* way to run it, is it finally time for a "Wine but for Mac apps"?

* at least afaik my hardware is not hackintosh compatible
I guess an animal that poops out coffee is strangely fitting for this project.
Considering the author's occupation (author of acerbic, often self-deprecating liquor-related books), location (Philadelphia), and the article's recipes (which include the Bijou, a Last Word contemporary that's also an equal-parts gin and Chartreuse cocktail garnished with a cherry), I suspect that passage is at least a little tongue-in-cheek.

Also considering that this is a subscription newsletter, I suspect his audience also suspects that, and this audience doesn't.

Anyway, Wilson's 2009 thoughts on the Last Word:[1]

> Over the years, I've championed Chartreuse in drinks such as the Bijou (equal parts Chartreuse, gin and sweet vermouth with a dash of orange bitters) and the Scofflaw (Chartreuse, rye whiskey, dry vermouth and lemon juice), and maraschino in drinks such as the Aviation (maraschino, gin, lemon juice and a dash of creme de violette) and a frothy alternative to the margarita called a Prado (in which maraschino replaces Cointreau).

> But perhaps the finest use of both liqueurs is together in the Last Word. This is a Prohibition-era cocktail invented at the Detroit Athletic Club and resurrected a few years back by Murray Stenson at Seattle's classic-cocktail haven, the Zig Zag Cafe. Its fame has spread as far and wide as the classic-cocktail movement itself, spawning numerous variations.

> With the huge, bold flavors of Chartreuse and maraschino mixed with gin and lime, the Last Word is definitely not a poolside drink, and definitely not for the appletini crowd. It's a thinking person's drink. A drink with a swagger.

1: https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/0...
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Most employees don't give a fuck anyway or are only at the counter when there is a customer so too busy to check.
I was wondering if there was a local version or similar liqueur still being produced there?
FFmpeg is so helpful tool for editing video, I almost always use it in my projects.
Ask HN: Making Information Meaningful Again?
I am constantly reading articles and books to deepen my knowledge about design and UX (I am a UX designer). I already try not to hoard books, articles and bookmarks for "later use", I want to be more results oriented in the way I consume information instead of just reading "just in case" or because of FOMO.

For instance, I want to become better at apply the things I read. But because of the sheer volume of the information, turning information into something actionable is challenging in itself.

How do you consume, transform and apply information for your personal life and career?

Do you have a system to make sure you actually apply the stuff you read about?

How do you collect and manage articles, books, browser bookmarks, notes - do you even bother anymore when you can google or ChatGPT anything?
Actually, an AI assisted magic merge conflict fixer would be neat. (Compared to coworker just overwrote all conflicts with their own changes.)
People are likely to use weak passwords with Plex, just like they do with Netflix, so that they can easily share the details with other users and input it easily from memory on things like TVs and tablets.

I think generally people consider it low risk, because "who cares if someone can see what I was watching", but if you can get RCE on a computer running Plex Media Server just by logging in to the Plex account, then of course that's a huge security surface and your Plex login should be a secure randomly generated password and have 2FA enabled.

Of course, this can be avoided by paying for the premium Plex subscription which allows you to create accounts for other 'non-admin' users, but for people trying to avoid spending money (a large number of the Plex user base probably), then anyone with the login can change settings/administer the server.
> The interesting part is why are they all in sync, and fairly similar in size.

So many potential reasons, including:

- "If we're to do it, let's do it now, while we're still in the wake of Twitter and other big companies, and thus shielded from bad press".

- Some company's management was considering a layoff for quite a while, but worried it might be too damaging or too difficult. Seeing other similar companies doing their own layoffs without much effort or negative impact would relieve the management's fears, and lead them to staging their own layoff. Now imagine there were a lot of companies that independently overhired, then started thinking about "cutting the fat", and all got - again, independently - blocked by the same set of worries. This threshold is a sync point. Everyone may arrive at it on their own, but they cross it simultaneously.
> he since-deleted Instagram post showing the boarding pass and baggage receipt. The caption reads “coming back home from japan looking forward to seeing everyone! climate change isn’t real ok byeee”

literally fake news article. what a world we are living in. The original instagram text is even visible. Author should be ashamed of himself
They can also introduce you to interesting news articles around the time of the next election too.

This will probably be the most likely use of AI. And where the money will go.

You'll no longer need an army of cheap labours in the third world to manipulate the online commons. Just a couple to get around capchas.
Managers incentives are not automatically aligned with "the companies" incentives (for a simplified version where "the company" wants only profit).

Company being just a big bag of people - at different levels, there are all sorts of different incentives going on.
This is an art project. The point has never been to defeat any security system or facility.
I never said it is the same as open furnace. I just said that there is a distinct lack of health considerations around this idea. And your commend really underlines my statement. I mean, IR is not visible and if I can't see it, it can't hurt me, right? :-D

But seriously: She has 22 IR LEDs. Let's say 50mW each and you have over 1W of illumination in there. If you wore it while outside/at work, it could easily add up to 10 hours a day, 6 days a week. That's really not "nothing", even though the immediate intensity is not comparable to furnace, the overall dosage very well might be...
Technically, it was the neutron reflecting sphere was was held apart by a screwdriver.
I’ve worked on e-commerce recs. Typically you would represent each product with a vector. Then finding similar products becomes a nearest-neighbour search over these vectors. Depending on your use-case it’s feasible now to do this search in the db using pgvector, or using something like solr/elastic which both support vector search in recent releases. You could also use something like faiss or one of the many nearest-neighbour libraries or dedicated vector search engines. (Since you are working with Elixir, you might find ExFaiss interesting [1][2][3]).

But I would say that for recommendations, searching the vectors is the easy part. The main work in getting good recommendations is generating a good set of product vectors in the first place. The quality of the recommendations is directly related how you generate the vectors. You could use one of the many open-source language models to generate vectors, but typically that approach isn’t very good for product recommendations. It will just give you items that are textually similar, and this usually doesn’t give good product recommendations.

To get good product recommendations you’d probably want to build a custom embedding that captures some notion of product similarity during training using some signals you get from user behaviour. E.g. things like products clicked in the same session, or added to cart at the same time, gives a signal on product similarity that you can use to train a product embedding for recommendations.

This is a bit more involved, but the main work is in generating the training data. Once you have that you can use open source tools such as fasttext [4] to learn the embedding and output the product vectors. (Or if you want to void training your own embedding, I’d guess that there are services that will take your interaction data and generate product vectors from them, but I’m not familiar with any).

[1] https://github.com/elixir-nx/ex_faiss

[2] https://dockyard.com/blog/2023/01/04/search-and-clustering-w...

[3] https://dockyard.com/blog/2023/01/11/semantic-search-with-ph...

[4] https://fasttext.cc/docs/en/unsupervised-tutorial.html
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Unfortunately, not available yet in AWS, Azure or GCP where most PostgreSQL installs are happening due to integrated monitoring and one-click replication, backup/restore, scaling, etc.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/PostgreSQLRelea...

https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/postgres/extensions#postgr...

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/postgresql/single-se...

Let alone AWS Aurora, AWS RedShift, Snowflake, etc
I was hoping the article would simply be "don't". The last company offsite I attended got half of the workforce testing positive for COVID within two weeks of it, and most of the other half food-poisoned.
A bit of consistency is good, I find, but not actually in actual words.

The real consistency you should aim for is pronunciation. Especially for loanwords. Yes, the first time you encounter "CD" spelled out in your native language, it's jarring, but over time the benefits of this add up.

Both English and French fail miserably at pronunciation consistency. See this for English: https://ncf.idallen.com/english.html

If you aim to make your language as phonetic as possible, suddenly acquiring the language is much easier. Still very hard, but a degree of difficulty easier.
+1 my thoughts exactly. It would be so nice if Firefox allowed tridactyl full keyboard control. With qutebrowser, having a proper control mode and an insert mode that work everywhere makes it so much easier to navigate.
Why and how I use Org Mode for my writing and more
Previous discussion from a few hours ago (50 comments) -

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34966572

I assume this is a link to the working video since the link was broken in that submission.
I think it could be ok to have a link every once in a while that doesn't talk about rust.
You could have just done a simple HTTP login.

I usually leave the authentication to the end, just before first deployment. it's a bit of a distraction.
> Like talking to a wall.

I too welcome end of this debate, thank you for participating :)

If I may, try to back up your claims with sources next time. Maybe you'll have trouble finding any, but don't give up.

> Make your choices, suffer the consequences.

I'm trying to be the only one who suffers consequences of my choices. Choices of carnists make the world worse for everyone.

And my consequences after many years living a strict version of that "diet"? Never been healthier, thank you for asking ;)

TLDR: You're wrong and you know it. All carnists do. Deep down. I was one, I know.
At CodeSandbox we use Firecracker to run our VMs (more info here: https://codesandbox.io/blog/how-we-clone-a-running-vm-in-2-s...).

To answer the questions:

> what version of the kernel do you use (the github page says 5.10 but isn't that quite old?)

Right, they have tested with 5.10, but it also works with higher kernel versions. Our host currently runs 5.19 and we're planning to upgrade to 6.1 soon. The guest runs 5.15.63, we use a config very similar to the recommended config by FC team (it's in the FC repo). It's important to mention that we had to disable async pagefaulting (a KVM feature) with more modern kernel versions, as VMs could get stuck waiting for an PF resolve.

> What do you use to build the 'micro' images

We created a CLI that creates a rootfs from a Docker image. It pulls the image, creates a container and then extracts the fs from it to an ext4 disk. For the init, we forked the open sourced init from the Fly team (https://github.com/superfly/init-snapshot) and changed/added some functionality.

> How do you keep timesync of you're not using a timesync daemon?

IIRC we expose the time as a PTP device (handled by kvm) and run phc2sys to sync the time in an interval. Firecracker has some documentation on this, where it recommends chrony. It can also be done with vsock, but it would be more manual.

> Handle kernel and app logs without adding an log daemon, and same through vsocks, etc?

The init forwards stdout/stderr of the command it runs to its own stdout, which Firecracker then logs out by itself. A supervisor reads these and writes the logs to files.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_Spann

Ryan Spann's Aikijitsu jab on Dominik Reyes demonstrates the principle in free flowing fight at UFC 285
Awesome. It'd be pretty cool to generate maps with a certain style from descriptions of areas/towns/etc like this. A big problem would be the lack of consistency in the internal model though, which is a really persistent problem with chatGPT/others like it.
It should be completely fine to use `using namespace std` inside a function body right ?
If lastpass was well designed, the company would store no private user data.

Ie. they would be a 'dumb' storage system for the customers encrypted data. The data would be encrypted by the customer before upload. And then decrypted again by the customer after download.

Users would be identified by a unique random ID, and users would auth by signing a challenge with a secret key known only to the customer.

That way, even if a bad guy worked for lastpass and had full admin access to all servers, they couldn't steal anything.

And, in fact, if this system was properly designed, it could all run with opensource server code, and the datastore fully open for anyone to inspect, to prove that the security is down to cryptography rather than trusted yet fallible humans.
The reality is that they despised him throughout, it's just that they realised that they had to hitch their wagon to the Trump train, or risk losing their office due to his rabid followers opposing them during the next election.

Trump keeps the GOP in line through fear. Either the entire party follows his tune, or next election he splits it in half and they get slaughtered by the Democrats, or even possibly some independents. That would be the end of the GOP.

Disclaimer: this is the opinion of a foreigner who just takes a casual interest in American politics, because when the US sneezes, we catch a cold.
ehhh....

You have genes. Certain genes are well adapted to certain environments, for example hi/low melanin to protect from UV radiation. In environments where people don't move a lot, such as the Earth 5000 years ago, genes will tend to cluster together, and if you have someone's genetic makeup you can make informed guesses about their phenotype.

The problem, imo with 'races' is that the modern world has created too many hybrids to be able to accurately guess much information about someone's genetic makeup from their phenotype.

Blue eyes for example, which maybe 5000 years ago were only found in one small corner of the globe, are common in many different places, and associated with many other types of genes. You can no longer reliably predict that someone with blue eyes will have blonde hair for example. Or that they won't also have say sickle cell anemia when in the past those two traits were probably never found in the same person.

Like for example when in the US someone marks their race as "Black" in some census form, that tells you almost nothing besides maybe that they likely have elevated levels of skin pigmentation.

You have some genetic clusters, such as those found in the Kenyan Rift Valley, where they have good genes for long distance running, and others, such as those found in Jamacia and West Africa, better suited for explosive sprinting. Both of which tend to be associated with high levels of skin pigmentation.

Operating at the level of 'races', which, from what I can tell, basically means 'skin color', completely misses this sort of detail, and is, in my opinion, a mental model that is so crude, and so lacking in granularity as to be basically worthless.

Genes exist. Races... if you're using that term to mean "certain groupings of genes which are often found together, usually in groups of people that have spent a long time living together in the same environment", then yes, they exist, but then you have many people that you'd not be able to fit into a 'race' - basically every stereotypical American who is "one eighth Irish, one eighth Italian, one eighth Swedish, one eighth Chinese...." is going to have a set of genes that is not associated with any "race".
You can think of most managers as being actors. Their main job is to project the correct image in order to legitimate their role and fend off internal competition. Is becomes more true the higher you go in the hierarchy.
It’s all about the markets, if company A hires a lot and the market thinks it’s a sign of growth it rewards it with demand for its shares, then company B looks at A and sees a hiring wave as the only material event that could have triggered A’s shares outperforming its own and decides… fuck it let’s signal to the market that we do are growing.

Then the market psychology changes and some CEO is the first to think that maybe this time the market would reward the opposite action, aka a layoff. It works… so the next one over goes and the rest of the dominos fall in the name of competing for institutional dollars within a zero-ish sum game
There is the commercial Pepakura Designer[1] for Windows since the 90's (I think). The mother/father of all desktop papercraft unfolding apps.

Then there is a new free one, Papercraft[2], written in Rust, that will probably build on all major paltforms. Do not confuse with the STL-based papercraft (lower case p) someone else mentioned[3].

[1] https://tamasoft.co.jp/pepakura-en/

[2] https://github.com/rodrigorc/papercraft

[3] https://github.com/osresearch/papercraft
You are making things up. Such a company probably exists somewhere, but I yet need to hear someone telling me a big-name tech company is doing this.
Wouldn't extensive comments alleviate this? Older appliances used to come with schematics and manuals so you could fix them.
Black+Blum design high-quality reusable products for food and drink on the go.