skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
She's a lady who asked that this image is taken out of circulation.
It feels as though you have some unresolved issues with this person. Perhaps this comments section isn’t the best place to grind axes?
Depends if you are the kind of libertarian who acknowledges that there are limits to what can be privately owned, or not.

If you recognize that the sea and the air are fundamentally socialized resources, then there is no Libertarian solution and such resources must either be regulated by a government or treated as a commons, with consequent tragedy.

If you’re the kind of “no limits” Libertarian who thinks you can privatize the sea…
That link doesn't work for me, asks for a subscription. Besides, the trend is what matters.
I haven't put any blame, just curious how a libertarian solve the issue as a thought experiment. Maybe there's an angle I haven't thought of.

The "make the waters private" doesn't solve the problem of making the waters private if you haven't made the waters private before you want to swim.

If you are going to purchase everything you need to live a life, this will quickly spiral into socialism with capitalist titles because you will need someone to manage all that so you can do stuff you actually care for. Someone will come up with a package that sorts things out for a subscription, you will just have your taxes called monthly subscription fees and the unelected officials will be called managers or CEO or something. Then they will reduce service quality since it would be very hard for you to simply switch to other providers if you are not happy(they will optimize for profit once the growth slows). Then the management will start selling access to you, for example if someone want to do taxi services to subscribers like you, they will have to pay a fee to the management.

Honestly, IMHO this is not even socialism but just communism with different accounting formula and labels.
> Mathematicians created nearly every major tool used by physics since the history of humanity

Calculus was created by a physicist who didn't even bother it since he just published the resulting physics, Fourier analysis was created by a physicist etc. Mathematicians first and foremost formalizes things after they were created, they don't create many useful tools to begin with. Very few fundamental tools were made first by mathematicians.

They often call physicists/polymaths mathematicians after it happened since they published a lot of math, but they did the physics/natural first at the time. The formalist mathematicians we see today weren't even a thing 150 years ago, the useful tools developed by formalist mathematicians is basically zero, the new useful tools physics used the past 100 years were done by themselves.

For example, generalized functions where done by physicists, mathematicians scoffed at it saying it is inconsistent as you said here, but then after over 100 years apparently it all worked out just and the physicists were right that you can work with functions that are defined by their properties when integrated instead of their values. The same will happen to QFT, it isn't wrong to work with infinities its just that mathematicians aren't good enough to figure out how to formalize such tools but such tools working with infinities works.

I have studied both theoretical physics and pure mathematics at a graduate level and published in both, I have a fair idea how the fields works. Rarely formalizing a tool can open up for more usages of it, but that is about it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distribution_(mathematics)
Not so different from the "main" branch story
This! Maybe just integer, but not floating point. That's a ridiculous way to do computation when you don't really need the precision.
the weirdest part is how most democratic countries fully accepted and embraced censorship again.

imagine if any other point in time an american or canadian or briton reading a paper with phrases like "The censor’s pen also deleted most of a section warning about"

crazy.
Before social media, before braggadocio in rap lyrics, there was Sinatra, "My Way" (1969)
Addictive substances will always be good business
> But is this appropiate here?

Yes, nothing points to the inventor of the format and maintainer for decades has done anything with the format to make it suspect. If so, the recent backdoor wouldn't be needed.

It's good to be skeptic, but don't drag people through the mud without anything to back it up.
Thanks for that post, I wish people stopped pushing ever so more complicated build systems, opaque, non-backward compatible between their own versions when a 2 pages Makefile would work just fine, and still work in 20 years time.
The entire article presses the social angle and buries the ask from Lena, in all fairness to ‘ecmascript
1. Collect source data
2. Run data analysis
3. Processed dataset is generated
4. Processed dataset is hashed
5. Hash is combined with the API wallet address and rehashed
6. That hash is stored on chain and with a transaction involving their token
7. Data from step 1 changes, repeat

It is getting more structured. I like that.

The way I read this:

- A company created a dataset and updates it from time to time.
- For each update, they put a hash of the dataset on a blockchain.

Ok. And what is the use case? What would be different if they did not publish the hashes on a blockchain?
> If the code is complex, there could be many more exploits hiding.

Then the code should not be complex. Low-level hacks and tricks (like pointer juggling) should be not allowed and simplicity and readability should be preferred.
But what if we figure out a way to make a particle generator that is entangled to another particle generator?

Then we could generate particles from each that can be potentially entangled to the original system as well. Can it work that way?

If we keep looking at one bit there's probably not much we can do. But when we start looking at entanglement of systems then maybe some we learn about some phenomenon that makes this possible.

Excuse my ignorance, I'm not even a physics major so I probably spewed meaninglessness but I'd love to learn more from replies!
I am talking about my makefiles. They don't automatically build dependencies that I have no control on.

Whereas building my crate can run code locally that no one has ever audited.
Found it in the readline manual

https://tiswww.cwru.edu/php/chet/readline/readline.html#inde...

insert-comment (M-#)
Without a numeric argument, the value of the comment-begin variable is inserted at the beginning of the current line.
My password is a single 'a'. Nobody will ever guess that one.
> I would not have risked my business (or budget) on Postgres 8, even with Slony-I.

This assumes you need replication, though. You can get pretty far without it, especially given how wide hardware you can get now.

> MySQL foot guns were mostly under control by 2010

Eh. :-) I think you would have to specify which footguns in particular.
You can simulate this on a GPU now. This is like running a CA on a GPU with slightly different rules.

I think you would also be delighted to know that many of the non-GPU ai accelerators are in a mesh topology.

Cerebras, Tenstorrent, Esperanto

https://www.esperanto.ai/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/HC2021.E...
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I guess not, since ext2 fs is going nowhere, still viable filesystem that is supported through ext4 driver.
Maybe something probabilistic?
Interesting form of confidence. I didn't write the comment you replied to, but I wrote the original comment.

The first fact I want to have written down is that there are bad math teachers. And sadly it is not uncommon for them to be bad, as I mentioned most of my collegues from other classes and schools had bad math teachers and some of them were people that liked math.

Now as an educator I am aware that students are quick to blame other people or the system for their own deficiencies, but I can tell you for a fact that our math teacher failed to explain us what an integral was actually for in an parsable way, even after multiple times of asking. She just knew how to do the formula stuff, she never used it herself on real applications. And when she did explain things, she always did it once, much too briefly in the beginning, so that by the point at which we started doing her always decidedly abstract examples nobody knew what the fuck this was for. As I said, our physics and mechanica teachers were better math teachers than her. As for the integral I had to go and look it up myself, the internet was still young and there weren't many grown ups who knew how to look such a thing up and when I saw the explainations I wondered why nobody ever told us..?

I understand btw. why it can be an advantage to understand math in purely abstract ways, but in her case she just didn't want to talk much and stick to the examples. And that is bad teaching. Ah and before we get into a discussion about specifics, like many on this site I grew up and live happily outside of the US, so educational plans etc. might differ.
Do not touch that computer. It is a biohazard
I don't agree with everything in this article, but it is even more tiresome reading some of the comments here.
Keep in mind that a lot of people are working really hard to get wayland to where it should be.

This is HN and it would be cool to show support to the technical improvements and the security benefits of the whole wayland stack. Its fine if it is "no worky" for you. The goal is get it to work for everyone and actual reports on what does not work is much more helpful than philosophical arguments about wayland that have been ongoing for years.

Also you are not being forced to use it. Stick with i3, its fine.

I think there are already quite a few user benefits that come with wayland and for me wayland and XWayland works very well for all applications I use with the exception of some java guis. (that is also being worked on)

All of that beeing said, developing protocols and implementing them on multiple sides is just a slow process and we are not 100% there yet.
Do you not think it is possible to be virtuous without "virtue signalling"? But then I suppose there would be nothing to get angry about.
The most common offenders are cars that had the angle of their beams set wrong by someone who didn't care, I think, based on observations walking next to them. It's too common for one to point high enough to hit my face, nowhere near the correct angle, like 1/10.

Of course, driving, the tall SUVs and trucks that half the time do have their brights on that insist on being behind you. But I think a lot is that the person that angled the SUV's headlights either didn't care, didn't know, or knew and was actively malicious.
So I just read the article - they were on RDS so Citus wasn't an option.

They also stated it was too risky to migrate data stores on the timeline they were working within

Those all seem like measured engineering decisions AFAICT
Justice aside:

Aren’t there more technical solutions to DSP/image processing reference images that enable readers to get a more accurate assessment of results in a shorter time span?

Or are humans naturally that hard-wired to commonplace imagery?

I know colour perception for instance is extremely biased based on the context around it, so a Monet is perceived radically differently than for instance, a Pantone Catalogue in isolation
Pinta is much less stable unfortunately. Paint .NET is just much, much more polished and pleasant to use
I couldn't get the context of this response - is this application you read unrelated to the featured article?

I just read the article and from what I can tell the Figma team made a somewhat reasonable sounding decision
> A "release" should allow to build the project without installing dependencies that are only there for compilation.

Like a compiler or some -devel packages?
Seems quite thorough and accurate. What LLM powers it?
I was quite fond of the built-in live wallpapers, but Google isn't creating any new ones. Do you know of any decent 3rd party ones?
I agree that Cloud Run greatly simplifies deployments.

Unfortunately, it only auto-scales based on requests and, eventually, CPU. We are in the process of moving our Temporal workers from Cloud Run to GKE Autopilot, which is ~30% cheaper given we can use arm64 Scale-Out nodes.
Not at all. If you had rejected the pretty much random processes in the primordial soup that eventually led to life (and then knowledge) from the start, then where would we be?

I think that it is almost impossible to determine randomness in an ongoing process.
Is this intended to be an anecdote about life in Oslo, or are you suggesting that you expect the world outside of Scandinavia will somehow become more like Scandinavia over time?
But then your tests and prod setup would differ.
This article is originally from 2016, not from 2022, as has also been pointed out when it was last posted circa 11 hours ago.

2024: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39868810

2022: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32210438

2019: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20103255

2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16884832

2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12768425

It is utterly unrelated to the ongoing issue (which I'm 100% sure is the reason this is on the front page for a second time within 12 hours right now).

The author is also the developer of lzip, while it does have some valid points, one should apply a necessary level of skepticism ("Competitors product is really bad and unfit", says vendor).
In other related bad Australian driving condition news .. road signs in the past decade or so have gotten waaaay too reflective.

Driving at night in the country is something myself and others have done for decades, it's a common complaint that "regular old non LED headlights" are now reflected back at cars at night so well that they ruin night vision for several seconds and blind the driver to any dangers (kangaroos, potholes, objects on road, etc) in the near distance past the reflecting sign.

I've not met anyone that had any complaint about the night time visibility of speed | direction | curve signs before main roads upped the mirror factor.

Today the balance seems wrong, the signs are unmissable at the cost of loss of night vision in the vicinity.
Being able to show friends your internal voice would be cool.
Incredible. It's like discovering your colleague for 2 years at the secret nuclear weapon facility is a spy for another country, covering his tracks until the very last minute. Feels like a Hollywood movie is coming up.

Should we start doing background checks on all committers to such critical IT infrastructure?
Yes...For running gcc you need to have gcc installed.

You don’t need gcc to run the software. It’s not burdening anyone that gcc was needed to build the software.

It’s very standard practice to have development dependencies. Why should autoconf be treated exceptionally?

If they fail despite being available it’s either a sign of using a fragile tool or a badly maintained project. Both can be fixed without shipping a half-pre-compiled-half-source repo.
I think the most appropriate response to this kerfuffle was when an all-female team of researchers published an image processing paper... using Fabio as a test image.
That’s not what happened; the actual story is very well known and so I won’t repeat it here but between the consent, and copyright issues it should have never been used in this way.

It’s been controversial vigorously years a symbolic of much wider problems; this is an overdue, but decent, decision.

Would mention a this comment from the actual Lena in a 2019 film about all this, “ "I retired from modeling a long time ago. It's time I retired from tech, too... Let's commit to losing me."”
Always choose this app but find myself using Irfan view for printing nearly every time as the Windows native print dialog which paint.net and other image apps use to be severely lacking.
My visit to his stuff in Bilbao was amazing.
That’s why Germany hasn’t introduced it after WW II.
Yeah for within a computer, maybe. But then we're still using inefficient standards like DDR for memory access. There's sooooo much more we can do for copper interconnects while more viable optical tech is being developed. Think about denser modulation PAM4 is already in, PAM8 and PAM16 are being looked at. 10Gbit Ethernet uses a symbol density of 128 over a 100m long channel. We have the digital horsepower for encoding/decoding the data on-chip. I also see people are implementing full-duplex channels. This will double the density. Again, Ethernet is doing this for 30 years already but no chip-to-chip standard like PCIe, DDR etc are doing these yet.

I'd think optical will replace back-plane side but not anything within a motherboard itself in the coming 10 years. Copper has a lot of juice left in it.
No. I mean that the link you shared is a opinion piece about the xz file format, and those opinions are fully unrelated to today's news and only serve to further discredit Lasse Collin who for all we know have been duped and tricked by a nation state, banned by github and is having a generally shitty time.

Why are you trying to discredit Lasse?
I feel like this is part of a larger trend. There's a similar story unfolding in Belgium, where flemish nationalists want to split the country, for many of the same alleged benefits as Brexit promised.

It seems like conservatives are very good at getting votes, because progressives seem to be incapable of uniting or campaigning.
The other comments here showing that the backdoor was a long-term effort now make me wonder just how long of an effort it was...
Meanwhile SQLite itself doesn't accept any patches for anything; if you show the author one he will at best rewrite it.
Thank you for reposting. I don't want to start bashing XZ, but I honestly wonder why it's been picked up so much despite the valid criticism.

As if the compression rate increase at medium levels were so significant over bzip2 or grip.
Orkut and Reader. Both from Google.
Orkut was just toy product for Google. But considering the fan base (especially from India) they got I was surprised they did not continue it. It was at the time overshadowed by Myspace and later Facebook.
Google reader was a nice RSS feeder. Many people was disappointed when Google declared that they were shutting it down.
For both these products, I guess main reason from Google was that they were concentrated on other things at the time. But most important I think these were not matching with there advertisement based Revenue model.
Too inflexible ideological. There are infinite things that most properly belong in a release file and not in the source, that can't be generated from that source by github actions, and seperately no one should be compelled to use github actions.
That's not a contradiction. Unions can and often do become just as dysfunctional as any other kind of government. People abuse their power and force out those that won't go along with it.
Gasoline and other oil-derived products are fantastic storage of energy. They're liquid, shockingly easily transportable for the amount of energy contained, etc.

For things like long-distance flights, jet fuel is way more fantastic energy storage than any kind of electrification can sustain. It may make sense to spend 2x that energy sucking CO2 out of the air. The issue isn't "total energy production" it's "storing energy in a small metal box and releasing it over 13 hours".

Of course, producing that jet fuel in a carbon-neutral way (e.g., from plant biomass) is probably a better solution than sucking the CO2 out of the air, but we'll need the latter anyway...
Not MFA but git commit signing. I don't get why such core low-level projects don't mandate it. MFA doesn0t help if a github access token is stolen and I bet most of use such a token for pushing from an IDE.

Even if an access token to github is stolen, the sudden lack of signed commit should raise red flags. github should allow projects to force commit signing (if not already possible).

Then the access token plus the singing key would need to be stolen.

But of course all that doesn't help in the here more likley scenario of a long con by a state-sponsored hacker or in case of duress (which in certain countries seems pretty likley to happen)
The way it sounds from reading the article is X11's design fundamentally is that bad for modern hardware, which is why almost all of the active graphics development is focused on reimplementing a designed-for-modern-hardware replacement. The claim from the article is that X11 is basically unsupported abandonware, and is calling for developers to please help with the rest of the work in finishing the migration of use-cases to Wayland in order to help the whole ecosystem be able to abandon the sinking ship and move to a more-modern better-maintained future.
Thanks for clarifying that.

However, what makes some concepts mundane and others profound? Is that up to an individual to decide, based on, for example, taste? Or is there some objective notion?
The biggest problems are bad immigration policies, housing crisis, bad job market.

It was a decent place 20 years ago. It has declined since significantly.
The video versions are on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pDE4VX_9Kk
Jet fuel is less than 25% of the cost of running an airline.

Flying will cost more, but not necessarily 2x more.

Plus that's only if we can't synthesize jet fuel from all that CO2 we're extracting from the air.
This week in KDE: looking forward towards Plasma 6.1
Matrix headlights that automatically notch out oncoming cars have existed for years - but are banned in the USA.
The bank I used in The Netherlands provides a MFA device as well. The device requires an ATM card as well to generate a random number.

This is the default for all their customers, wealthy or not.

https://www.abnamro.nl/en/commercialbanking/internetbanking/...
Then main branch story was utterly ludicrous. Imagine thinking that you were helping the world in any way by changing the name of a git branch
Yes, it sends an email containing your private key on installation.
You could probably build tagged template literal like:

a = e`${b} / ${c}`

Not ideal, but much better and without magic pre processors
I've been wanting to try http://hyprland.org/, but since plasma gets me far enough and provides a working taskbar (wifi, sound, bluetooth, mount, clipboard) and virtual desktops on which I end up opening just firefox and emacs I haven't really given it a chance.
Lol I bet I was downvoted by people who don't even live in NYC. Pretend that public transport is a utopia. Ignore the places it exists and has issues.
Not even background check but a foreground check would already help. Like literally, who dis? any identity at all?

Too often maintainers who have no time just blanket approve PRs and see if stuff breaks.