skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The depth information that can be obtained from differences in angular position/size of objects within cameras' FOV. There's a reason a photo taken with a 28mm doesn't look the same as with a 50 a few steps back.
Improve Your Cooking with Cooking Words [video]
Having enough trouble with the shallow state already. Can we upgrade that first?
So if you have a mass-produced product and you want some variable features available for customers’ different preferences and price points, you ought to have different manufacturing processes even if you can actually create that variation in software? That seems very wasteful IMO.
Dude this is really cool. Do you have a repo or other site where you talk about this?
A deep dive into Elite on the NES
Drugs did not cause rents in Seattle to triple over the last 15 years
The tech community does not have a culture where you can be openly critical about other people's social skills. If you go like "You shouldn't do that", its seen as an attack against their greatness instead of an invitation for self-reflection.
Really, the only memory unsafe languages still in use are C and C++.

If it weren't for the behemoth of legacy code we'd really have this problem more-or-less licked. Unfortunately, that behemoth is still rampaging across the landscape.

"Rewrite it in Rust" gets a bit of pushback, perhaps even justified, but at this point in time I'll take anything that just reduces that behemoth in size. The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, an elephant is eaten one bite at a time, etc. Rust is just one of the easier and more effective options for a legacy codebase, with the unusual advantage of being able to slip in incrementally. Almost every other language requires a true rewrite.
There's an important difference between an opaque "trust us" recommendation where it's broadly impossible to verify the claim (e.g., Dual_EC_DRBG), and one such as this which is fairly anodyne and merely intended to put more weight behind getting people to move forward in their choice of implementation languages.

The NSA's split offensive/defensive responsibility is bad but that doesn't affect recommendations such as this.
This specifies owner-occupied.
Snow tires are something you drive around with every day, in the winter months, to improve traction, whereas snow chains are something you put on when there is a layer of compacted snow & ice on the road. You definitely don't drive with snow chains when the road is clear or has a scattered icy patches; that would wreck the road. Also, you can't drive very fast with snow chains on, maybe 50 km/h max.
Yeah instead of paying this guy, people should instead rely on the charity of big corporations like microsoft. Github pages are free and surely will remain that way forever without any strings attached!
Who would you want these recommendations to come from?

There's nothing wrong with a recommendation to use open, auditable tools. Be skeptical, but also I would expect this message to come from them.
One can explain the phenomenon and understand the history yet it's not wrong to say governments (or any other large org really) rarely give up power and only ever do so under coercion.
If you are talking about low energy days, my trick is to write documentation and unit tests. They don't require a lot mental focus, failure has limited impact. This is a trick I've taught to other juniors over the years.
what do we do about javascript?
you must have visited the same school as i did.
maybe the prof also said: there is no science in informatics, only in RDMS you can prove something. pulls out ms access

https://bbsw-koblenz.de/
HEY! They earned that!

Now shut up and pay back your $130k worth of predatory and usurious student loans, freeloader.
What “child tracking” device on iOS lets you intercept phone calls, text messages and remotely monitor in real time what someone is doing on their phone?
Yeah, I've wondered a bit if the Spectre class of vulnerabilities was discovered a couple decades sooner if it would have changed the course of history there.
That's ok, I'm with you -- it's more of a joke with friends that developed after I started making tutorials. I primarily use a normal face expressions, and they said I should use one with open mouth -- so I did for funsies, and been doing it a few times over the months although I feel it's a bit cringe.
Thanks to hckrnews.com site for such times. You can at least read the top articles directly.
As it turns out there is a whole category in YouTubes ad system for Get-Rich-Quick schemes, as detailed out in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkhGJUTW3ag&t=1031s (timestamped at the relevant time).

Just today I saw my elderly father click on a YouTube ad link for a crypto scam copying Swedish televisions web layout he was reading it and I saw it at the corner of my eye. He has adblock installed, he disabled it because of the terms of service popup by YouTube. What is he supposed to do, create a google account and get premium instead? How about having safe ads so he doesn't have to figure out YouTube premium?
In Switzerland, the public post company provides a service[0] which scans your incoming letters (i.e. their content, not just the envelope) and makes it available via the web and an app. I started using this service last December and am very happy. Kinda looks like I am forcing digitalisation upon organisations who don't want to make progress on it :D

It costs 9.99 CHF per month, hence within the limit of the post, and very much worth it.

[0] https://www.epost.ch
On alternate days we discuss the fact that REITs buy homes for cash.
looks like Youtube doesnt comply with some of its duties in the EU
https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/priorities-...
This ain't that kind of movie.
I like the distinction. Yesterday was a mix of days 1 & 2. Agree with all suggestions (I have a quiet desk with notifications turned off usually, so I guess that wasn't the problem).

I'll implement the just focus on one part of one project thing though, sounds like a smart strategy.

Thanks for sharing your wisdom
In the US, it's generally only possession (not use) that's a crime. The main exception is while operating a vehicle, which is just about the only time the police will do blood testing. Hospitals will do a tox screen if they're taken in for some medical reason, but it becomes exactly that: a medical issue, not a legal one.
No, but they will probably start pooping at their house.
There is a B2B subscription as well, it rate limits the site during business hours.
Maybe raising it is "up to you", but it's up to you within the context of an existing economy, not a vacuum. "Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already..."
> Sadly books accessible in the US / English language is slowly becoming synonymous with general availability, through no fault of the US/UK or other English speaking countries. A huge amount of books are simply never translated to language with smaller markets.

Depends on the market I guess. I've checked the availability of the top 10 books of 2023 on Shepherd (https://shepherd.com/bboy/2023) in Hungary, which is a tiny market of ~10 million people. 50% of the books are available in in translated version, which I think is not terrible.
Judging from HN, just use HTML instead.
Hurd any day now, right?

I do wonder what this landscape could have looked like if all of the effort had gone behind a Mach-based microkernel. I read all of the back and forth between Tanenbaum and Torvalds. At the time, I was just so excited to see "free and open" winning.

I should specify that the XNU Kernel from Darwin/OSX took a lot of my attention when it first premiered.
It’s not fast and always up. It’s down more than all other websites in my top 10.
Easier to decompile.
Ya I didn't test that at the time (more book meta data), that I will look at. I also might be pulling the wrong ONIX data and need to up my license and take on the full HUGE database of books rather than the API I am using.
State of Identity Podcast Episode on CIAM
Is the value according to the survey participant?
All corporations are motivated by profit. What matters is if the way the corporation chases profits happens to align with my interests. It does for Epic in the cases I mentioned. For Google, it aligns maybe 20% of the time. For Apple, basically never.
Not true at all. This isn't Game of Thrones.
Respect is for humans. If you rot your brain until you begin to revert to primal instincts the state is under no obligation to accommodate you.
As I understand it, automakers have decided EV's are luxury vehicles with high price tags and high margins. Minivans are markedly none of those things. The article mentions that GM axed their minivan because it would be too popular. We don't have EV minivans for the same reason. They would instantly become the top selling EV and would ruin all other EV sales.
Maybe you're just the wrong reader, or reading at the wrong time? I've noticed books get a lot worse or better depending on the age I read them, the conditions I'm in.

That said, I read (and liked) Flaubert in translation, so maybe it's worse in French.
> They have a ton of high-intent purchasing signal for reputable products, and instead they are showing me ads for trash.

This shouldn't be surprising. Ad placement is based on who pays to be placed in front of certain audiences. It doesn't matter if you're really into hi-fi amplifiers if no hi-fi company placed ads for that audience segment or if the hi-fi companies were outspent by boner pill salesmen.

Google is not optimizing for relevance but for revenue.
This is related on where you stand regarding to hatespeech.

IE in germany, it is forbidden to praise the holocaust or deny that it even happened (ironically there are national museums where the cruelties happened, including real footage, which all kids visit as part of their school curriculum). This is in place to keep the historical learnings alive what the fascists did when given enough power so we do not repeat this mistake too easily.

Now in the US I think like 20% of the highschoolers think that the whole story is a hoax or is exaggerated. The world is increasingly turning rightwing again. This is the exact time when we should leverage everything we have to remind the public what can happen when fascists come to power again - and have something to oppose the populists with.

A _lot_ of people are suspect to manipulation from all sides, so society needs a bit of help to protect citizens from evil players manipulating them. The real truth of propaganda (or outright lies) is that it works, sooner or later.

This stuff is explicitly defined in law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volksverhetzung) and while indeed it restricts absolute freedom of speech a bit, the reason why this exists should be clear. This gives society a handle on manipulative people when they become too radical. Everyone can _criticise_ stuff of course, publicly, but calling for violence is a hard showstopper.
My second language (after BASIC) was UCSD Pascal on a small PDP-11 my dad built from a kit; I was 14 or 15, and I loved it. Then came Apple Pascal (a UCSD variant); and then I got a CP/M-80 machine, a Kaypro-4, and discovered the first version of Turbo Pascal. Compilers were expensive in those days, hundreds of dollars; Turbo Pascal 1.0 was $50. I ordered a copy just a few minutes after I learned that it existed.

Pascal was a great language; but it lacked a standard way to define separate modules and reusable libraries. (UCSD Pascal had a way to define them; all Turbo Pascal had for the first several versions was a way to include other source files into the module being compiled.)

And then Unix happened. Every Unix system had a C compiler; and C ate Pascal's lunch. C was the cross-platform language of its day, more so than any other language that was available. And, from my point of view at the time, that's what killed Pascal.
I can make assumptions based upon your statements they are surprisingly narrow especially as they espouse to be from a cultured european.
But how are we going to trade stocks in nano seconds without C++?!
How are snow chains a recurring cost? You buy them once and wrap them around your tires when you need them.
https://archive.ph/SSfeJ
"Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me. "
> UX/UI is terrible and not user friendly

The Hacker News UX/UI is one of the best among the websites I regularly visit!
If you don't make a distinction between watching the moon landing and following political tweets you can't say anything meaningful about "news" consumption.
Yes. Exactly same way that trying to transplant ideas like agile or microservices or testing driven development fails so miserably most of the time.

It is not that the ideas are wrong.

It is that they are not the correct moves for a team that is not ready for them.

I know it sounds like a silly parallel. But changing societies is hard, long, unique and not well understood process. It makes sense to try to learn from examples where it is much easier to gather some information.

When I come to meet a team that has trouble (I work as an advisor and help teams that have trouble), I am not coming with a library of good solutions BECAUSE IT IS FUCKING NOT WORKING. Time and time again, I am repairing after previous people who did just that -- they came with a solution thinking they know it all because it worked somewhere. More often than not they have observed something working, they learned elements they could easily understand and they tried to transplant and failed miserably.

So whether you are trying to fix a team or fix a homelessness problem, you have to come with an empty mind and willingness to relentlessly problem solve. And look at those other successful examples as examples to learn from but not necessarily duplicate.
> it's not wrong to say governments (or any other large org really) rarely give up power

It’s incredibly wrong to say this. More modern states fail due to gridlock and fragility than violent coercion.

Individual actors rarely give up power without coercion. That doesn’t mean the system as a whole doesn’t ebb and flow as interests diverge and align.
Really frustrating as folks can advertise that crap but, regulated cannabis is blocked. Heck, we can't even mention our product/protocols on these $BigCo sites or they'll kick us off forever! Trying to publish in the AppStore along side all that scam-ware -- nope, sorry can't have that deadly cannabis around here.
Thanks!

Everyone loves books for different reasons, it is something I am hoping to start peeling apart in future years. I find that Midnight Library is enough traditional sci-fi so it pulls a different type of reader. So you get a lot of non-sci-fi readers who love it. I hope it is a gateway drug :)

Try the sections on space opera, cyberpunk, and hard sci fi... they are usually going to be more hardcore.
Not a compiler expert, nor chip designer, but...

From everything I've seen, the x86 and x86-64 instruction sets are loaded with "it seemed like a good idea at the time", "if you couldn't count on FPU / MMX / SSE instructions being available...", and similar waste-of-silicon instructions.

Plus, there's a feedback loop: Compilers writers restrict themselves to subset S of the full instruction set for cost-benefit reasons <==> CPU designers devote minimal time / effort / silicon to improving the performance of non-S instructions.
We have different rules for drinking in public and public intoxication. I think this person is talking about public intoxication.
I advise training programmers instead of throwing them in front of a screen without any training. Companies these days provides no training at all. When I was hired over 40 years ago, I spent plenty of time being trained for my first 3 months.

Now, nothing, and you if you want to train a new person, you do it on your own time.
ITT: lots of people who seriously believe (or pretend they believe) that you can fix a deep and complex social problem as drug use, in 3 years, with a couple of laws.

The war on drugs is three-generations old; it will take at least a generation after abandoning it to see good results. Of course there will be mistakes on the way (and allowing brazen drug use in public spaces is probably one of those - a lot of stuff that is absolutely fine to do in private is not allowed on the streets). That doesn't mean you throw away the baby with the bathwater.
Awesome! Hey Ben, ya this is where I first launched in April 2021 :)
Interesting, given all of the articles about increasing consumer debt. I'd guess that a lot more people are motivated to do this, with mortgage rates fluctuating upward so quickly over the last couple of years.
Every passing day I lean closer to the position that advertisement contracts should not be enforceable.
Why do we care so much about this kind of stuff? 1984 is a great book- has a great message/warning about how dangerous a world without privacy and unchecked institutional power can be. Read the book, tune out the noise.
This will mesh well with Hyundai's exclusive "metal shavings in your engine" technology
Well, fortunately this was obviously a good idea already, and we don't really need to wonder much about their intent.
Meh, Brainfuck is clearly inadequate as the base for a modern computer.

Concurrent Brainfuck, now, that's where it's at. Forget "GPUs" and their measly "thousands" of compute units... can you imagine how many Brainfuck cores we can fit on to a system with a 5nm process? Millions, probably.

If there is any system that deserves to be tagged inconceivable performance, it would be such a system.
So far 61 files [0], vs 52k for C, so about 0.1%.

[0]: https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Atorvalds%2Flinux++languag...
> Doing drugs isn’t a crime, but all bad behavior associated with it is.

Exactly. I can't imagine somebody on weed would bother people that much.

But if you steal from people, leave your unclean syringes lying around, etc. you're a hazard to society and need to be dealt with. So we need to enable law enforcement to deal with that properly.

If you're drunk and belligerent, which happens a lot, you shouldn't be able to do that legally either.

So as long as you're not a menace to society, I don't see why you shouldn't have that freedom. But as soon as your freedom causes issues for others, it needs to be dealt with.

Maybe allowing meth, fentanyl, heroin and such is the problem. I would bet almost all the big problems are due to the users of these.
You don’t have a right to theft. Let’s go back to punishing crime.
This is only true economically in arenas like taxes and government programs. Socially what country are you thinking of that is to the left of the American left?
You’re not. C++ isn’t going anywhere in certain industries.
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> This isn’t illegal. Equivalent to a “No outside food and drink” sign or not letting randos sell things in your own storefront

In that case, someone else owns the storefront. I own my phone, not Apple.

If Apple would like to claim that I merely lease my phone, they need to update all their marketing so it isn't misleading. They should also be on the hook for repairs (without AppleCare), and all the other responsibilities that typically accompany a leased product.
what are some recent examples of governments giving up power?
Next thing they'll be giving requirements for people building bridges, houses, and gas and electricity fittings.

Seriously, I think the time has long since passed software needs regulating. It's a major part of modern society, and as far as I'm aware, most people aren't opposed to building standards in principle.
Catalyzing Change: Desktop Publishing and the Seybold Seminars
> make a home in an area that is intended for public use, and render it unusable and unsafe for others

A tent in a park, unless in the middle of a trail, doesn't inherently or necessarily make it less usable or less safe.
In 2023 I would expect at least a Brainfuck FPGA. Wouldn't be that hard to do. I bed somebody did that.
As other commenters have said, you can do it a bit at a time, converting non-core kernel code to Rust at the edges. Another route to memory (and other) safety would be the C -> WASM -> C route that effectively rewrites/transpiles code to operate within its own sandbox, which also has the advantage that it could at some later date support modules written in languages other than C.
You can shoot yourself in the foot as well. Memory safety isn't just about malicious thirdparty code.
I always felt like I heard this was the opposite. That the drug addicts were the minority population, but the majority of the news stories. I feel like we both would benefit from statistics that prove either way. My feelings are generated from anecdotes I've heard over the years, and I would love to be proved wrong and change my mind. Do you know? I feel like so much of this discussion is fueled by strong feelings without data.
It's funny you used the single-instruction block move as an example. The successor to the 6502, the 65C816, does have a single-instruction block move. Actually it has two, one for when you want to move from the top down, and another when you wnat to move from the bottom up (in the case where regions overlap).

https://snes.nesdev.org/wiki/MVN_and_MVP_block_copy
e-e-e-electron... for this..
They are census questions, which the census responder fills out:

https://www.census.gov/acs/www/about/why-we-ask-each-questio....

(There's a blue-green box midway down the page that you can expand to see the actual questions.)
For a second I thought this might be a decent use of memory metal, somehow using its flexibility and durability[0] to engineer a better snow chain. Disappointing.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pn-6bGORy0U
I don't understand the point you're trying to make. You're the person who wrote it would be mandated, and now you're admitting it's a ridiculous position to take.

If you have some point to make please do so earnestly. Layering in levels of irony makes any point you're trying to make difficult to understand or follow, even if labelled with /s.

This is going off-topic, but there is a style of internet arguing that I have come to seriously dislike. It is one where instead of someone making a point, they make the point they wish to detract and simply flag that they are being ironic. In doing so they don't actually advance the point they're trying to make, they assume that the audience already understands and is sympathetic to that point, so they simply put up a target to scoff at.

I'm not sure if that's what you're doing here, or if you're just struggling to make a point about worrying about government intrusion into private business.
Remaining cordial; George Orwell was a posh boy who sold out every single one of his comrades to save his own reputation including gay and other marginalised people. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orwell%27s_list

Perhaps more interestingly, the list was probably comissioned by Robert Conquest who went on to author multiple books that have become cannon for anticommunists despite being thoroughly debunked. Interesting how these posh boys always end up doing this, I wonder what their vested interests are.
That’s clever wording but I think it isn’t right? I thought American Exceptionalism was the belief that the US is an exception to the rules.

Actually, the idea that being an exception to the rules and having the ability to make an exception to the rules are the same, or one implies the other, is pretty interesting and might be worth elaborating on.