skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I spent way too much time on a project similar to this years ago.

I figured a 8.5x11 sheet of paper reduced to 8x10.5.
With 1000dpi that is 84 megabits of data you can spit out. Way more if you use color. x5 if you just use the standard colors (white, black, cyan, yellow, magenta) 420 megabits. That comes out to about 52.5 megabytes.

Now realistically. You will probably have a pretty awful scanner (100-300dpi) you can get better but they cost more. Also your scanner has to be spot on the grid to get the full amount. Also your print heads need to be exactly calibrated. So that means some sort of slop in the grid. usually by lowering the DPI and by making the pixels bigger, some sort of alignment retical, plus some sort of data recovery (like in CDs). That wildly reduces the amount of actual data you can get in there. Oh and then fun things like using a jet ink printer and it ink bleed. I was lucky to get about 2-8 megabytes with my methods.

I stopped playing with it. The ink got too expensive for me to keep playing with it. A box of 10 reams of paper of 1000 sheets each put it in the 40-80GB per box range as you could use both sides of the paper. And wildly slow to get back out. But a fun experiment.
One fascinating thing about the E-Meter is that it has a seriously underdamped meter so when there is a change in your electrical resistance the auditor sees the needle rock back and forth for several seconds. So you are not seeing the dynamics of your electrical resistance as much as you are seeing the dynamics of the needle. (Turns out that these meters were made at a small factory near the airport in Manchester, NH that I road my bike past numerous times as kid and that I believe was owned by our mayor at the time)

A friend of mine from the Freezone loaned me an E-Meter and the books that go with it and what I found most notable was that the descriptions of the different kind of meter reads did not make a lot of sense. The E-Meter is based on this phenomenon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrodermal_activity

in which there really is an electrical response to emotions. You really can have experiences that convince you of the power of the machine but it is also unreliable, delayed for a few seconds and difficult to read. The needle might move because you relaxed your grip on the cans or for some entirely unknowable reason. Scientology has the doctrine, however, that the meter is infallable. So it is one more tool Scientology uses to confuse and deceive both the auditor and the "preclear": I hesitate to use the word "hypnosis" but it is an application of the power of suggestion that is all the more powerful because two people are sharing the delusion.
This is really great, I didn't know you could switch encoding schemes within the same QR code. There's a nifty visualization tool [0] that shows how this can reduce QR code sizes. It can determine the optimal segmentation strategy for any string and display a color-code version with statistics. Very nice!

0: https://www.nayuki.io/page/optimal-text-segmentation-for-qr-...
I once built MVPs as a service in 90 days.

Technical founders create the initial actual value by building any MVP. Ideas are worthless, execution is everything, more so with founders who have solved successfully in a particular area before.

It was striking how often a founder with an idea had not much more beyond that. It would scare me when the tech guy who has learned business may know more than the non-tech founder, simply from working with so many other founders with only an idea.

I would offer to build free, or a steep discount to retain 100% of the IP. The non-technical founder would earn back their stake by delivering on marketing, sales, and revenue.

It taught me that:

- tech people can learn business easier than the other way around, even though I strongly believe non-technical founders should learn the tooling enough like they might know enough about their cars.

- 90% of the MVP had nothing to do with solving a problem. Logins, billing, security.

- Most MVPs would waste their innovation points, too soon, by building entirely too much from scratch, leaving it inflexible to modify as you learn through the lean startup process. Simply avoiding this pitfall would allow enough iterations quickly to uncover the valuable problems.

- Boring and quickest techs for MVPs reign supreme because MVPs are supposed to be temporary and disposable, right? Just like a startup is supposed to be a temporary organization to find a repeatable and scalable business model

If a non-technical cofounder cannot market or sell (establish distribution), the greater loss occurs to the Technical founder.
This is great mission. Keep up the good work Hadrian!
I've explored the idea of using super cheap servos to build a robot arm/tentacle to pick cherry-tomatoes and it seems the only reason you'd want to use location encoders is in tasks that require high precision in an open-loop system (the robot is blind to its environment but has info about his own body). To me it seems you can get rid of this requirement if you allow the robot to sense its environment using cheap, 800x600 cameras with depth estimation ML algos and get away with the accumulated imprecision of sequential servos by coupling to each servo a high accuracy/small angle servo (just modify the servo's gear box). As for the gripper mechanism, you don't need fancy force sensors, just use a kirigami effector [1]. See also mobile-aloha [2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UerxNyu147g
[2] https://mobile-aloha.github.io/
They already do while putting up $0. Nothing really changes there. Also, maybe money should be refunded if maintainer does not accept in a reasonable time after funding goal is reached. Maintainer can always reject sooner. Maintainer has final word.
We’ve been building on top of each other’s work in the open-source software ecosystem and in science this entire time.

Also, there are licensing models that specifically allow derivative works.
Titan's Dunes May Be a Comet and Moon Graveyard from the Early Solar System
I thought YTMND was shutting down?

Also still my favorite:

https://dumbworf.ytmnd.com/
Or... Don't encode data in the URL at all. If your data isn't secret or per-user, have it go to https://yoursite.com/gh. If it is security sensitive, go to https://yoursite.com/Qhm4Qr55mS

2 alphanumerics (=4000 links) is plenty to encode a link to all the major pages of your website/service you may want to advertise. 10 alphanumerics (=10^18) is plenty that even if every person in the world had a QR code, nobody could guess one before hitting your rate limiter.

The user experience gained by fast reliable scanning is far greater than that enabled by slightly improved offline support (offline functionality requires that the user already has your app installed, and in that case, you could preload any codes that user had access to).
Somewhere out there is an AI that has been trained on the Wattpad, DLP and Fanfiction stories you hoped would be forever forgotten to the internet.
Any idea how much weight this could hold?

I’m wanting to manipulate a fan in my home gym with some eye tracking to get it to blow air on my face when I work out, but the fan is a few pounds.

Alternatively: any hardware motor suggestions for such a project?
yes, and a lot of it's open source.

The main issue IMHO is that git doesn't scale for a monorepo. A monorepo wants to spread a single virtual repo over a large number of devices, with no device having the entire repo. In contrast, git wants to do the opposite: it's built for a large number of devices to have the same copy of the entire repo.

But aside from tooling and needing a horizontally scalable VCS, there's also the cost and engineering resources required to keep the cluster running, available, and high performance.
I have bodyfat below 10%, and keto improves my mental health. I have zero hang-ups about weight.
I mandate WSL when working with windows developers, and GNU coreutils for mac developers so that I can assume some things about their dev environments. This solves that problem for shell scripts, there are still other ways where it's useful but a scripting environment is probably the biggest one.

The velocity of writing filesystem and file manipulation files in shell is many times greater than in javascript. Bun shell lets you leverage the power of shell for that stuff while being able to leverage your javascript code at the same time, with fairly minor downsides in exchange.
Which legal jurisdictions are you familiar with? Serbian? European? US?
The US government can pressure tech companies like Microsoft (owner of GitHub) to delete any repos with open source AI models. These companies would voluntarily comply as they'd be happy to be able to blame the government for the anti-competitive behavior they probably want to engage in anyway.
I think a problem is that there doesn't seem any way to automatically check this. If we assume that anything that is used during build time can be malicious then figuring out those dependencies is already hard enough. Mapping that to organizational stability is one step further.
The reason I'd always resisted Discord as much as possible is because it was obvious it had no viable business model. Between a commitment to no ads and having nothing reserved for a paid tier worth paying for it was obvious it would either need to be acquired (I still am shocked Amazon didn't buy it) or ignore it's commitment to users and start introducing ads.
I recommend finding people who worked at Apple while Steve Jobs was around. He was more involved than just barking I want "An iPod, a phone, an internet mobile communicator."
They aren't super public with their cost structure, though it appears to generally be a monthly cost for publishers. Most games remove Denuvu after about a year if it's going to get removed. Some of the bigger publishers may have better deals though as titles never remove it, even after multiple years and no new updates.
I read parents comment as a one off you might do when vetting the founder not something that they would be checking every day. If someone shows me they cold dm’ed 100 people once in a day I would have no reason to believe that they wouldn’t be capable of doing it again or that they would lie to me about it
Interestingly, the Mach-E is just about the only electric vehicle that the "Big 3" have largely done right. It's visually appealing, has loads of power, and is a bit more versatile than a regular Mustang.

I see a reasonable amount of them around my town.
You're right! I briefly searched the code but I missed seeing that since they don't use the term "segment".
Surely the manufacturing process for paper uses more carbon than was extracted from the atmosphere by the former tree? Or have I misunderstood the idea here/it's not regular paper?
Interesting one, also for storing records long term.

Paper isn't ideal but if it's stored properly and there's no fire / water damage, it'll last for a hundred years easily, after that I believe paper gets fragile etc. But I'm sure there's modern day manufacturing and storage processes that can make it longer lasting, like including plastics or something in the paper, cool environment, and draining oxygen from the environment or replacing air with nitrogen, which can be done passively (a box type storage unit, fill with nitrogen, no pressure needed as nitrogen is heavier than air I believe).

But anyway, that's a lot of effort for relatively data-loose (not-dense) information and a lot of ideas for an industry (physical archiving) that's been around for hundreds if not thousands of years already.
Structured Logging in Spring Boot
Absolutely agreed on all points. I like UUIDs. There is still a surprising number of data processing systems which don't have support for 128 bit integers. This makes me sad.
Relevant YC videos:

"Do Technical Founders Need Business Co-Founders?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43RhhwpiSk0&ab_channel=YComb...

"How To Build A Tech Startup With No Technical Skills"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpKu2wvquWg&ab_channel=YComb...
That's a pretty interesting list! A lot of interesting entries there, including a couple (e.g. Needlemakers) signed by Cromwell.

Given that it was issued by the privy counsel it is interesting that it has some notable omissions (though how comprehensive can the records be over such a long period, anyway?). I thought at first it might have been limited to charters in the current UK, but it does have the Massachusetts Company (1629), though not Virginia's charter (1606). Has the East and West India Companies, but not the College of William and Mary (1693) -- there are images of that one on the web, though not the signature.

My school was also in the Massachusetts colony, the somewhat pompous Roxbury Latin, 1643, charter 1645 (the unfortunate Charles I). It's been more than 40 years since I clapped eyes on its charter - astonishing they haven't put it online. My memory that it was 1640 was corrected by a bit of web searching.

Really these things are archaic silly relics, like monarchies themselves.
Google Podcasts was a pretty decent app, and this is pretty annoying. Switched to Pocket Casts on my phone. It's decent.
Back when I was a kid, I went through a pretty zealous rationalist phase - perhaps the result of having excellent professors for Philosophy 101 and 102, but not taking a decent Sociology class.

These days, I'm far more aware of the positive roles that invisible dragons play in human society. And far more suspicious of using "Rationalism" as a metric for people and beliefs in the real world.
I tried so hard to relieve my IBS problems by increasing dietary fiber. That's the standard advice for bloating and constipation, and I had it bad ... to the point of suicidal thoughts. As a long time vegetarian who lived on big salads it was no problem upping my fiber. It just didn't work. It made things worse. The only relief I could find was in fasting.

When I finally tried the low residue approach of carnivore it relieved my symptoms by the next morning. As a result I've become skeptical that either fiber or carbs are health foods for me. I'm also much more skeptical of the epistemic capacity of nutrition research.
Before BLM, OWS was hamstrung by the introduction of the Progressive Stack, ensuring that they could not effectively organize or even remain coherent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_stack
"Now, 86 years after Roosevelt’s report, the South has returned to historically high levels of economic inequality, lagging behind the rest of the US by every measurable standard. The plight of the South is a direct result of its long history of brutal labour exploitation and its elites’ refusal to invest in their communities. They have kept the South in dire poverty, stifled creativity and innovation, and have all but prevented workers from attaining any kind of real power."

This is quite the claim without any links to studies, etc.
The details I give are for marine radar, where off-shore wind-farms are a significant issue. But radar in general works on similar wavelengths, and a lot of clever processing can be done to "improve" the images you get back, especially when you have a lot of images that can be combined, rather than sweeping the radar around and only get 20 to 120 sweeps per minute.

There are trade-offs between how often you can ping versus how far you want to see versus how much energy you can send out versus how big the "lumps" are, etc. The sums/calculations are pretty simple, but not obvious until you've seen them, and then they are.

But if you want to see something at 32NM ~ 60km, you have to send out a lot of energy, so the "lumps" need to be pretty big, especially as the returns drop off as a fourth power with distance.
I liked the cryptocurrency wallet idea of writing down a set of 10 or so words on a piece of paper.

I mean that ultimately won't matter because cryptocurrencies are unusable when society collapses, but still.
I only use bun for tests/builds/storybook, but I haven't had it segfault at all. I suspect that you've got a dependency that is hitting an undocumented node API that isn't fully implemented. They talk about those in the blog post, they're a known thing.
This hybrid approach addresses a significant user pain point - the ease of routing specific traffic through VPN tunnels. However, while Wireproxy's utility in personal and small-scale deployments is evident, its scalability and security in larger, enterprise-level applications warrant further scrutiny. The reliance on user-space operation, though advantageous for certain aspects of performance and compatibility, introduces potential bottlenecks and security concerns
I'm thinking 95% of home automation which is full of obscure devices and half baked solutions which get patched up by enthusiasts and promptly forgotten about.

Controlling someone's lights is probably less important than Debian's build fleet but it's a scary proposition for the impacted individual who happens to use one of those long tail home assistant integrations or whatever.
4chan was founded about 5 months before Facebook and about 2 years before reddit. 2ch and Something Awful are quite a bit older, but it's debatable how much of the cultural DNA of each transferred over.
I'm also grandfathered in but apparently they recently introduced a new tier above plus members called "patron".

No idea why anyone would pay for this, but damn do I dislike all this subscription stuff.
As the article mentions, they need to include the data so that the app could work offline, at least to some degree.
Maybe the Brain is trying to compensate.... "Our IQ is steadily declining" - https://www.sciencenorway.no/health-intelligence-iq/our-iq-i...
To be equally pedantic, please note: “a apostrophe” is an incorrect usage of “a” as “a” is for use before a consonant, instead of a vowel, hence it should be “an”.
I don't understand what this uses for a storage backend. Object storage? DBMS? Custom? I see references to Clickhouse in the repo...
The Last of the Machine Bosses – Richard J. Daley
This technique can also be used to protect your copyright.

A Taiwanese YouTuber was annoyed because somebody always pirate his content to China mainland sites like bilibili. He complained to bilibili but no response.

So, he intentionally put a small Winnie-the-Pooh in the corner of the video, only on 1-2 frames. Then his contents got deleted immediately.
Even if the security outcome is the same, I would still count people being kind and helpful online instead of rude as an improvement.
I'm not that familiar with QR codes. Anyone know how base16/hexadecimal encoding with 0-9A-F fares in comparison? It seems like an obvious encoding to test, especially for simplicity of implementation compared to base64 and base10, and an odd one to miss for comparison?
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-training-data-synthetic-opena...
Isn't it spectacular that in the middle of a catastrophic climate emergency, capitalism still finds a way to put barriers in the way of deploying as much renewable technology as possible? Wow!

From the article:
'Speaking at a solar factory in Georgia on Wednesday, US Treasury secretary Janet Yellen pressed China to stop flooding the market with cheap green technology exports.'
> there is even a curator on Steam that marks games that use Denuvo, which is helpful for doing exactly that.

Could you let me know which curator it is? I'm also actively avoiding any game that uses Denuvo, so I'd certainly find such a curator useful.
As a user of something open source you are not thereby entitled to anything at all.

This pretty much sums it up. You get exactly what you pay for.

If you build Open Source into your product, you are fully responsible for the results.
This event should be a wake-up call to businesses everywhere: It's not just a small number of "core" FOSS projects that need their support (funding and assistance!). Before this event who was thinking about a compression library when considering the security of their FOSS dependencies?

The scope of "what FOSS needs to be supported and well-funded" just increased by an order of magnitude.
What are you using now instead of Jira that doesn't have the same/equivalent? That seems about as 'table stakes' as a title & description field to me, hardly unique to Jira.
I wouldn't bet much on KYM's provenance research. Memes spread so far so fast on the information superhighway, those that started on some Korean photography forum or Russian anime newsgroup, you'd never know if you weren't there ... or know where to look. KYM often cites 4chan because it's popular, in English, and well-archived (ironic indeed) and KYM editors will take the earliest hit from the third-party archives as provenience, when the archive itself might be younger than the meme.

You can find discrediting examples in the mid-2000s thread collection the internet archive recently released ("archive ten billion"): memes appear in the chanological record years before they anywhere Google knows of. But how can you know that's the real origin? Even "Know your memes" first appears in there as a /b/ catchphrase in April 2006, but you must notice that's also when the /b/ posts in the collection begin.

Edit, another example:

4chan is also known as a Mongolian basket-weaving forum, among other things: corruptions descended from the meme of referring to anime as "Chinese cartoons". An old 4chan saying, as KYM finds? No, it came from that Russian anime newsgroup, ru.anime.chainik, after its parody FAQ from 2002 was translated by users of an associated LiveJournal group and added to a since-deleted Uncyclopedia article.

Q: Что такое аниме?
A: Китайские порнографические мультфильмы.

The full FAQ is on the author's website, which is still online, shounen.ru/anime/tech/afaq.shtml But is it entirely original to that newsgroup? Some of those terms seem to have come from FIDO...
Ah. I thought this might be a discussion of “so, was this used?” The potential targets were many, but it almost seems like a supply-chain attack with more specific targets.

It’s quite possible it wasn’t meant to stick around longer than a specific operation/breach. For example, it doesn’t run on ARM. It was “always on.” The committer added binary files to the repo (this one… I get the social engineering here… but I can’t see allowing it like this, even for testing a compression lib).

Also, it’s an expensive exploit to deploy. You can’t use this vector anymore.

Now. If someone expected a universal backdoor that would last years, like for law enforcement or intelligence, those things probably wouldn’t work.

On the other hand, if you needed to open a specific attack surface temporarily, it’s pretty brilliant.

Counter-argument is that you’d have to sort of know your target’s upgrade cadence, that the target entry is on x86 (likely, I guess), and that you wouldn’t get caught probing the ssh auth until it works.
No. Jail even folks buying ten shares on robinhood.

Let’s make it not ok to invest in corporations committing crime.
Author doesn't mention Nix by name, so I wonder if they're aware of it. While it as a build system has more than its fair share of "dark corners", it does solve the reproducibility of all paths (including with a chroot, to get fixed-length paths), and has automagic debuginfod support via [1].

[1]: https://github.com/symphorien/nixseparatedebuginfod
You've misread my intention. I just think the downvotes are funny, and I know such edits attract more :P
Im arab myself, hence the username :)

What I find fascinating myself is that no on actually speaks MSA, modern standard arabic. It is mostly used for written text that is meant to last? We dont text in standard arabic at all. Its used in government forms/legal documents etc..

This makes it such a challenge to teach ppl arabic since many books use MSA which can often sound alien to native speakers.
What do you do about upstream projects that don't use Git ?
RAV4 Prime is on our list but we’d prefer all electric due to longer than 40mi commutes.