skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got an invite for Bluesky from a kind person on HN, but as someone who didn’t use Twitter, I didn’t have a sense of whom to follow. I discovered some nice artists and comics. Any suggestions on people who post nice stuff or comics or fun stuff would be welcome (I really don’t want to deal with political discussions or arguments that are meant to trigger outrage on a regular basis).

Meanwhile, here are some invite codes (I’ll update this list if they’re used within HN’s edit window):

bsky-social-xueut-35ahm

bsky-social-25tsd-crmqc

~~~bsky-social-xxxxx-xxxxx~~~ (used)

~~~bsky-social-xxxxx-xxxxx~~~ (used)

Edit: This is my first time handing out invites. I don’t like how the invite system shows me which account on Bluesky was created using my invite code. I’d rather this be hidden from the person sending the invite or at least provide an option to the person signing up if they want their account to be disclosed to the person who invited them. In real life there are usually personal or professional connections with such events, but online these could be (and are) totally random strangers.
That storage number is highly likely to be off by an order of magnitude.

400KB/s, or 3.2Mbps as we would commonly use in video encoding, is quite low for original quality upload in FHD or commonly known as 1080p.
The 4K video number is just about right for average original upload.

You then have to take into account YouTube at least compress those into 2 video codec, H.264 and VP9. Each codec to have all the resolution from 320P to 1080P or higher depending on the original upload quality. With many popular additional and 4K video also encoded in AV1 as well. Some even comes in HEVC for 360 surround video. Yes you read that right. H.265 HEVC on YouTube.

And all of that doesn't even include replication or redundancy.

I would not be surprised if the total easily exceed 100EB. Which is 100 (2020 ) Dropbox in size.
interesting... I wonder how one... traffics... in stolen artwork like this.

:D
No, that's saying exactly what I am. It's increasing the potency of the drug. The DEA report says the same, although it also mentions xylazine is cheaper than the market price of fent: https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/2022-12/The%20Growin...
This isn’t a debate, this is me getting you to reveal how little weight you have behind what you believe.

This is useful because if anyone else reads this, they will get a pretty standard idea of how people who think like you can’t really justify their beliefs when challenged.

I do appreciate it, but I doubt you do. Easier to dismiss me and ignore any dissent, than it is to consider that you might actually be the bad guy here.

I told you this approach weakens your advocacy. Too bad you can’t listen.
Using Apple’s translate function I was able to read many of the posts - very interesting to see the differences between American and Turkish social media.

There were many posts about cats and their livelihoods and protection. Love that
> No? Decreased search quality will reduce the number of searches people are doing which redcues the amount of ads Google can show.

I’m willing to bet that >90% of Google Search users aren’t even aware that alternatives exist.

They are not suddenly going to stop using Google Search. There might even be a significant short-term increase in usage, for example, if they really need to go to page 5 to find the first relevant result.
How to Install Gitea on FreeBSD Using AppJail Director
Hi derf_!

Those are some very interesting comments!

I'd be interested (and this is purely "academic" curiousity) IF there was:

Something mathematical -- which would underly all image compression algorithms; that is, if all image compression algorithms could be shown ("proven" I guess -- I am not a professional Mathematician, only armchair, so bear with me!) to belong to a specific class of generalized compression algorithms or (ideally!) a single "parent" (for lack of a better word) image compression algorithm -- that would give rise to all other image compression algorithms, no matter how diverse or not mathematically related they would all seem...

The use of Matrices (which model systems of linear equations, which in turn, enumerate/list/make clear/table -- relationships between factors in those equations) -- would seems to be a good starting point for this Mathematical inquiry, should it be made...

Maybe I should phrase this a little bit better...

Maybe it's something like (as a future goal for the Mathematicians of the world), "for every image compression algorithm X, show/prove that X is related to <parent Mathematical principle involving matrices>"...

Or something like that...

Sort of like a grand unifying theory of image compression...

Anyway, your comments are highly interesting.

It seems like you might be part of the way there for something like a rigorously mathematically unified (and proven!) future understanding of image compression!
as does OSMAnd
At my last job, I built a tool to produce standard documents from our green-screen system that held the client data.

The users of the green-screen system would tell it to print a document by picking which template to use from a menu. The system would generate an XML file in a directory that was shared out via Samba. A VB6 program watched that directory for these XML files to appear, when one appeared it would figure out what the relevant template was, use COM automation to tell MS Word to load the template, fill in the template fields, save it to that client's folder on the file server, then print (on the user's selected printer in the green-screen system) two copies (one for the paper file, one to mail) and an envelope.

There were a bunch of weird word processing practices that made it slightly worse than it already sounds. Each letter that was sent out was actually made of a letterhead (one for each location we operated) and a body with the standard text for various letters we sent. The body would sometimes contain links to other documents (e.g., forms we were requesting someone to fill out), the program would follow these links and print those documents too, but only one copy as we didn't need a bunch of blank forms on the paper file.

There was also an Access database used by this VB6 program to maintain various bits of configuration data - mappings of document codes to filenames, mappings of green-screen printer names to Windows printer names, etc. Access gets a bad rap, but it made maintaining that configuration data a breeze.

It was horrific, but it saved everyone an incredible amount of time.
Ask HN: Is YouTube a Public Utility?
Being a part of the internet but under private jurisdiction, at first glance YouTube does not seem like a public utility...

But can it be considered one?
Define "easily"? Non-tech-savvy users will never even touch an install USB or know what regedit is. They'll just see the dialog saying "your computer doesn't support Windows 11", chuck it in the bin, and buy a new one.
at some point each one of us made an account because of a thread
About 40k years ago we start to see people's toes scrunched up from wearing moccasins.
To play devil's advocate, had OP not wanted to go home so badly Parkinson's Law would've kicked in and OP may have tried to do things the "right way" which may have taken much longer.
It’s not about paying more, it’s about paying the same. The local brand can not avoid the duties on products less than $X, just like you are charged sales tax at the supermarket on a $5 purchase.

Thankfully computers exist now so it is really not onerous at all to charge the correct duties and massive fees if you want to make the customs people do work (this is basically now the EU approach, and AliExpress had no problem adjusting).
When a video game (Persona 5 Royal edition) came out, I purchased a brand new copy (this is important) from Amazon. I received the case of Persona 5 Royal Edition, but with the normal Person 5 game (for people unfamiliar, the royal edition was sort of greatest hits re-release a couple years after the initial release). So something was wrong that I receive a game not in the shrink rap and with the wrong game. This really soured me on Amazon.
I was an early user of Verilog at MMI/AMD in 1985-88 and attended the first Verilog user group. The article only mentions TEGAS once, but it was a widely used incumbent and the gate-level descriptions in Verilog matched the TEGAS syntax.
See for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HDL_simulators

The decision by Synopsys to base their synthesis input on Verilog created an early tipping point to their joint advantage.
I feel like it’s been in decline ever since the introduction of Hummingbird
I dont think you are accurately describing his views about his political statement.

“Actions have consequences, and that’s ok” - Paul tweeted this a few hours ago.
Almost everyone predicts falling costs, but you take numbers from a supply shock situation and extrapolate them.
Too big.

Last night they issued a notification to my phone requiring me to update the YouTube app.

The problem - it is the last version that runs on my phone.

At least web still works, for now.
Thanks for sharing my work!
If you have a PS5, Ghost of Tsushima is a better “Assassin’s Creed” than Ubisoft will ever make.
Arguably you could use GemStone/S like that, though it's probably not the kind of capabilities you want.
Good question! We couldn’t SSH in, which is too bad this would all be trivial. We had no direct access to the boxes, they were often behind firewalls. In fact that was the suggested placement for security reasons. They weren’t full servers, just little embedded things.

We had a little HTTP API that it was always talking to. It would call the API to send data back to us or just check in regularly, and we would return to it a little bit of status stuff like the current time to keep clocks in sync, and a list of which “commands” they need to run.

Mostly the commands were things like “your calibration data is out of data, pull an update“ or “a firmware update is available“.

But one of them let us run arbitrary shell commands. The system was very limited. I wasn’t a developer directly on the project but I think it was just our custom software plus busy box and a handful of other things our normal shell scripts used. I assume it had been added after some previous incident.

I believe the basic idea was that during troubleshooting you could tell a box to return the output of “cat /etc/resolv.conf” or something else that we hadn’t preplanned for without having to send someone into the field. But since it was only for small things like that it couldn’t return a full file.

Luckily one of the commands was either curl or wget. So we could send down “curl -whatever /log/path https://pastebin/upload” or whatever it was. I don’t remember if we signed up for a pastebin account so we knew where it would show up or if we had it return URL to us in the output of the curl command.

This suggestion was literally a joke. We were all beating our heads against the wall trying to help and someone just said “why don’t we just stick it on pastebin“ out of frustration, and the developer on the project realized we had what we needed to do that and it would work.
Unrolled loops can also often hurt for the same reason on big server chips. It's not always clearly good to unroll your loops.
I do the exact same thing. It's very handy that I don't have to save anything. I even use it for putting together longer prompts for ChatGPT.
Correct, but they also aren't including self driving miles where there is a safety driver in the driving seat, so it's fair.
I'm very glad to hear that it's readable using a translator!

In fact, the community dynamics resemble Reddit a lot despite having significant differences in layout and format. Irony, sarcasm, harsh criticism are common yet tolerance of differing viewpoints is relatively high compared to other platforms where people just flock to their own bubble or just block everyone else who they don't agree with.

It's fun too, has a rich history spanning a quarter century, and has been quite influential.
Because bass is low frequencies I imagine.
Dr. Incel
No, and it shouldn’t be treated as one. Nobody needs YouTube, and the only videos on YouTube that can’t be replaced with blogs are music videos and cat videos.
Nah - easy to give them a ticket, and they'll be severely punished by one (insurance).

However, most ticket issuing in London is by automated cameras, and Taxi drivers know where all the cameras are.
Oh cool, maybe I'll go harvest some and save them for later
How Search Engines Boost Misinformation
To pose an alternative scenario:

> A novice sysadmin granting someone's request to [be able to run some tool/software that says it needs this, but is in fact secretly malicious]

or perhaps more common

> A novice sysadmin granting someone's request to [be able to run some legitimate tool or software, then later a virus in the container taking advantage and breaking out]

for a real world example, the Nvidia Nsight docs specifically direct you to add SYS_ADMIN; do you think your everyday ML engineer would know that doing so poses a security risk if they're doing this on Docker?
... how does doing a full string dict lookup take less time than just checking a few trailing characters in a trie? For indexing it's okay to be aggressive since you can check again for the actual matches.
Walk me through the flow of money there.
The term "hardware description language" still gives me nightmares 5 years after my only experience working with them. Was working on my master's in an interdisciplinary CS/MIS/CompEng program for Cybersecurity and needed an elective. "Fundamentals of Computer Architecture" sounded kinda cool.

I walk in on the first day not realizing that while I had done my undergrad in MIS (fun fact: this is a business degree), literally every person in the course was either on the last semester of their undergrad in CompEng or were grad students that already had a BS in CompEng (this school combined some undergrad/grad lectures).

Suddenly i hear the teacher say like "grad students will also need to use an HDL and design a processor compatible with the basic MIPS instruction set."
I started at "what's HDL mean?" Teacher responds "If that's a real question then it means: Hurry and Drop this Lecture." Day 1 and I already have the wrong questions for the wrong reasons.

That was a really bad 3.5 months... But it's also proof that if you hate literally everything hard enough, then it is absolutely possible to pull a 100 day "zero to MIPS HDL prototyping" speedrun.
I'm not familiar with Tetris specifically, but for a score display it was rather common to store each individual digit as a tile ID, which helped to speed up drawing that score into the nametable. I wouldn't be surprised if the algorithm that handles score addition was a simple loop that doesn't check the bounds of the highest digit; this would cause it to eventually corrupt adjacent memory in RAM.

Edit: the article covers much of this! Based on the 3 byte display I'm guessing it is indeed BCD as others have noted, with slower software routines to get around the 2A03's lack of a decimal arithmetic mode. The slower operation may be part of why the crash is possible, but the mechanism is simple unguarded lag: NTSC isn't going to wait around forever and the program wasn't prepared for this.
> your business is never going to be more valuable than the amount of money your customers give you minus operating costs.

Unless you managed to sell WhatsApp to Facebook for $16B
only if you're within a 100 mile radius of me the ultimate dumb fish
They generally don't actually use it or have a use for it though, that's part of the problem. And I don't think buying replacement tires for an MRAP is a lot of subscription revenue.
But these caps aren't extraordinary — in particular I find often that using profilers and the like often requires them. E.g. the manual for Nvidia Nsight specifically tells you to add SYS_ADMIN, which as we see here breaks the seal. Ergo we can _either_ be able to run those tools, _or_ have a safe containerized workflow: that dichotomy alone is useful enough to justify this article IMO
Lots of entry points, but the best way is to just start a project that’s simple and learn as you go. Electronics have gotten pretty accessible with arduinos, rpi, circuitpython boards etc. machining does take shop time to learn. Friends, maker spaces, school shops, all are options but that’s hard. Sometimes you don’t need much to get going.
> There were many posts about cats and their livelihoods and protection. Love that

Turks have a wonderful relationship with cats, especially in Istanbul: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feral_cats_in_Istanbul

There is a nationwide no-catch and no-kill policy for feral cats.
You may have missed the first for the trees. This article is about figuring out 3.8 B views of misinformation videos out of how many total views.

The question being pondered is that if the ratio is 0.5%, is disinformation really a problem?
Also the affordable care act isn’t part of the constitution so it is possible those provisions could be removed.
Tyranny cloaks itself in morality. Nothing new. I hope most people know we don’t need that kind of advocacy.
I think it’s also about keeping the wealth/supporting the relevant skills in your own community. Saving a dollar here and there helps an individual a little but the community gets damaged in the long run. And the individual suffers in the long run too.
it's a very reasonable thing to do if you need performance.
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In my experience profilers often need SYS_ADMIN or other capabilities. This is true even outside of a container. If I'm forced to work inside a container without the ability to add that cap, performance optimization work becomes very difficult.
I think the OP (hat off!) needed a way to transfer data to the front-end of another application. Since there's no back end involved, the only available channel is the request URL
Microbiome diversity protects against pathogens by nutrient blocking
It's not just you: Christmas lights look different now, give you headaches
I have bought a paper book and scanned it instead of buying an ebook because of DRM.
Very interesting. Can you give a sense of the speed up factor?
there's a disassembly here, it looks like: https://github.com/CelestialAmber/TetrisNESDisasm
I had a router that would need to be restarted every once in a while, so I just plugged it into a Christmas light timer to go off for 15 minutes early every morning. Worked well until we left that apartment.
It would have to be extremely stressful, knowing that in some short number of years (since it normally shows up in late teens/early 20s I think) your mind would start to constantly lie to you and you may lose the ability to discern reality from hallucinations.
Amazon does need the competition though
These days you can ask chatGPT to Google it for you ;-).
Unified memory doesn't stop you from implementing PCI, Apple did it on the Mac Pro.
CONCLUSION
"Conclusion: Our results support the idea that more-diverse microbiomes can provide health benefits, specifically that they can improve protection against pathogen colonization. We also find that colonization resistance is a collective property of microbiome communities; in other words, a single strain is protective only when in combination with others. Crucially, although increased microbiome diversity increases the probability of protection against pathogens, the overlap in nutrient-utilization profiles between the community and the pathogen is key. Our work suggests a route to optimize the composition of microbiomes for protection against pathogens."

Related article: https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/we-know-healthy-gut-fig...
Hypothetically, yes. But Mercedes’ tech only works on certain roads, which may not have stop lights or stop signs.
My dad got me a Amstrad system here in the US when I was a teenager. It was sold as a word processer system with a high resolution green monitor and a nice printer. But it was not of use for anything else due to the nonstandard floppy form factor. And any games I could get would have to come form the UK so very expensive and hard to get. It did have CP/M, BASIC and Logo so I also learned about that.

The biggest use out of that system was once I typed up an Eliza chatbot BASIC program from a library book. Its quite simplistic but turned out very entertaining to young children like our close neighbors young kids and much later my young nephew/niece. They would always ask for the "Green monitor" anytime they visited and spend hours on it. Much later when we meet up they still recall that "Green monitor" they had fond memories of.
This is how we exported designs at Canva. It works!
Sales commission sheets that are just text files. Started doing it in 2007 in VBA when it was not a horrible solution. Between mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures of that sales org, I have rebuilt that system so many times. Today, a full serverless solution, but the output is still 90% the same and could be from the 80’s.
Grandma phone number: 314-364-xxxx how I remember a number I haven't dialed in 20+ years.
It's still very unnerving for people to be that into a children's TV show even if there's no sexual aspect to it.
Back when I was a junior engineer I made a small system for dealing with industrial printers that took either direct printer language commands or pdfs and exported the printer driver output to a file via the Redmon printer driver output file exporter and then ftped it to the printer over the network. This avoided manual driver installation of hundreds of printers and may still be sold in a new project. It's hacky af but still works and beats alternatives.
Same here. Between this and the numerous price hikes I cancelled Prime this past year having been a subscriber for over a decade. The only reason I paid for Prime was the shipping speed and Amazon consistently failed to deliver on that so why keep paying $150/yr for it? It was $50 when I first signed up and felt like it had only gotten worse over the years despite tripling in price. I don't miss it at all.

I now try to buy direct or from mom & pop stores whenever possible and I find that the shipping speeds with UPS and USPS are more consistent and regularly faster than Amazon to boot. For the odd item that I need to buy from Amazon and need it quickly it's much cheaper to pay for one-off fast shipping instead of the yearly Prime fee.
I think it would be largely good to know, since being predisposed to schizophrenia doesn't necessarily mean you end up losing your sanity. Schizophrenia is largely genetic and physical markers of schizophrenia (e.g. abnormal thalamus shape) appear in the non-schizophrenic siblings of people suffering from schizophrenia... And if you're predisposed to schizophrenia, there are certain things you should avoid like cannabis consumption that can trigger schizophrenia in people who have the predisposition (and once schizophrenia is triggered, it isn't curable; only manageable with lifelong medication).

If a blood test could tell you that you have the equivalent of a deathly peanut allergy, but to weed (and instead of dying you get a permanent mental health issue that requires medication for the rest of your life), I think it would be better to know that than to not. Even if it's unfortunate and scary to know.
Laptops make great home servers. I have a Thinkpad (broken display) with i7 8th gen, 16gig ram running quite a few workloads for me 24/7. Due to exorbitan cloud costs, I use it as a sort of staging area for apps from my side projects. Tunnel it to a $4 digital ocean vps and voila you have a serious cloud instance at a fraction of the cost.
Looks like it might be doing the bcd by hand. See, e.g., L93C7 (and following code) in the disassembly here: https://github.com/CelestialAmber/TetrisNESDisasm