skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They had 8 AWS tasks running 5 instances each with code written in TypeScript and Python, with frameworks like next.js, with $40 revenue and only a few weeks dev time?

What the actual fuck hahahaha

This is made worse when they edit saying the reason the codes crap is because of time constraints, but spent their time refactoring across languages and spinning up a distributed system FOR NO REASON. That is self imposed harm juggling features and ridiculous technical complexity. What were they thinking.

Edit: a YC summer ‘23 company who’s product is still behind a waitlist summer ‘24, presumably because of a rewrite to Rust
Certainly. I'm an anthropologist by training, where extensive fieldwork is the gold standard. Second to this comes a great deal of methodological nerd stuff (IE how to make sure you get good data from all that fieldwork). 'Theory' is mostly subsumed into this, and essentially comes in the form of securing the epistemic quality of the method.

I'm passingly familiar with sociology, area studies, cultural studies and linguistics - all of which seem to me, like they also value real world observations in their respective areas much more highly than it sounds like psych does.

From your description of these questionaires, it sounds like a methodology issue to me. If your baseline is a questionaire, then the questions you would think to ask are going to be informed by your preconceived notions of the issue, and you're forcing the raw data out there to conform to these formats you've set for it. If your chosen method for collecting the data is already distorting the field, then you're injecting a major risk of just confirming your own bias.

I appreciate that psych is trying to get at a different type of knowledge, but from where I'm at this sounds like an "if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail" type of problem. I'm very much not trained to do statistical analysis though, which I believe is part of the toolkit for psych phds - so maybe it actually is the best tool for what they're trying to do.
> For that hour, the little Pitcairn Islands in the South Pacific are the only British territory in the Sun.

> The Pitcairn Islands have a population of a few dozen people, the descendants of the mutineers from the HMS Bounty.

Ah that seems so beautiful...

> The islands became notorious in 2004 when a third of the adult male population, including the mayor, were convicted of child sexual abuse

Oh

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2008/01/pitcairn200801

>The criminal charges stemmed from a longtime island practice of “breaking in” girls as young as 10.

> Colleen McCullough, the Australian author of The Thorn Birds and wife of a well-known Pitcairn descendant, harshly criticized the British for prosecuting what even the Foreign Office grudgingly conceded was a “cultural trait.” She said, “It’s Polynesian to break your girls in at 12.”

....oh.

Well. OK. That was NOT in Moana.
On all OS's? That seems like a nice optimization, but I doubt it is true everywhere. There's always someone who never optimizes anything.
[0] had a Luger with him at all times, according to a darker retrospective from 2019

Any theories where Julia is named after Jura? What would that make of Kilbride?

[0]https://www.sundaypost.com/fp/1984-author-george-orwell-fear...
What do you mean by crazy overpriced? Quality webcams usually cost around 300, which might look expensive to an uninformed - but it's a fair price for the product you get. The lens they're using is just more expensive which you can easily see if you look at the resulting video

I.e.

* Opal C1 (as good as it gets wrt picture quality, no 360) ( https://opalcamera.com/opal-c1 )

* Insta360 ( https://www.insta360.com/product/insta360-link ). Pretty sure this products "AI" marketing predates the current AI craze. They were using regular vision detection from what I recall (which has been a thing long before LLMs). And all the other features work very well too (noise cancelling microphone, gesture control etc).
Show HN: MediaRecorder supported format in major browsers
A couple of devs in my company got burned by expecting audio/mp3 to work with MediaRecorder in all browsers. So I wrote a GitHub Actions process to test out a couple of formats in major browsers.

Its kinda odd how only Safari supported MP4 formats, while the others don't.
Honestly. Arch is my favorite distro. I've been using arch for years even before it went mainstream.
How? Profits are not always proportionally related to the number of employees. On-boarding more bodies results in bigger payrolls but not guarantees of more profits.
As a German citizen, the amount of times I heard from the "Piratenpartei" can be counted on one hand.
In the early 2000s that party suffered immensely from being hijacked by Neo Nazis, losing a lot of support from voters.
Since the Nazis went off and joined the AFD, the Pirate Party is more or less silent.

The worst part was when they hardly commented on Edward Snowden and the NSA leaks!
> We did a study of prolonged stay on ISS - lower bone density, muscle loss, problems with eyes

Indeed, but the ISS is also zero gee.

> its not a leap of faith to think there will be issues in 3.7

I'm not suggesting it requires a leap of faith, merely that it is currently untested. Until we try, either hypothesis is plausible.
Always wondered why nuclear plants are not built in uninhabitated regions to mitigate risk
Fragile Agile development model is a symptom, not a source, of project failure
If I configure yaml or json files with a markov chain am I a idiot?
What if I use chat gpt?
WolfHSM – HSM library that uses wolfCrypt as it's fallback crypto
I think the dogs can hear our induction stove with ultrasonic whine, but somehow my cat will sleep blissfully in a room with a VGA CRT whining from 30-80 kHz (perhaps quieter than the stove), and used to sit in front of a CRT TV whining at 15.7 kHz so loudly I couldn't stand it without headphones.
The issue with the ambiguity of usage plague lots of OSS projects. Guides/Tutorials will always help drive usage much more, just look at the usage of GPT-3 vs ChatGPT (which is GPT-3.5 with WebUI slapped on top of it).
I mentioned the silk road for that reason. Nothing I said meant to imply direct trade with rome from Bali. I am sorry if I gave that impression. Coinage travels far when it's weight is tied to its value, or scarcity imparts extra value. If Balinese elites put roman coins in tombs, I would doubt its because they had low value to them.
I'm not aware of anyone having a solution for "batteries" at the required scale. We'd need several TWh of storage, there could be a month without wind.

The only reason nuclear scales so slowly is because of the bureaucracy.
More generally, stop copying the smallest-common-denominator DX/UX of <famous mass market product> when designing for other markets.

I recently overheard a very smart user struggle to find how to mute a group in Teams.

And while I get it that the context menu is probably less "cluttered" if one doesn't include "mute", and I get that there might be confusion if someone mutes a channel without being aware, I still want modern UX to stop and think.

When decluttering means you end up having to search the internet for a recipe as to what place to click to find which flydropping menu, was it worth it?

Or when your userbase consist of people who go out of their way to avoid Chrome, maybe stop and think if copying Chrome at every step is a good idea?

Same goes for a certain distro that at some point thought that their users was just people who couldn't afford Macs and threw out an IMO rather well functioning Gnome 2 setup for a what I consider a clone of the desktop of Mac OS X that had almost all of the problems from Mac OS X but unlike couldn't run Mac OS X software.
Decent window management out of the box? Better customizability? Less weird edge case paper cuts (e.g, adjusting HDMI audio, MST, external monitor support)?
The problem here is using overengeniered libraries, not using c#
Freenet solved most of that except slow access. And everyone hated it, supposedly because it's in Java.

Now it's rebranded, flashy sites and whatnot, trying to do everything and noone knows anymore the exact use case.
you mean, something like a new FOSS project called "OpenEye"? :-)
>rewritten into a new tech stack is a multi-million dollar, multi-year project

(In normal companies i.e. non tech but especially finance) I have seen many promising careers destroyed by these, your corporate life is about the same as a bomb diffuser in a war zone.

12 months and $10mil to roll out the entire system will become $100mil and 4 years to roll out half the system with hacky interconnects to the legacy systems and eventually everyone from IT to compliance will have the finger in the pie taking a cut.
Indian Elections: Can EVM(Electronic Voting Machines)Be Hacked/Tampered?
India recently concluded its general elections. However, some opposition parties in southern states, who suffered significant losses, are alleging tampering, hacking, and even replacement of "lost EVMs" (Electronic Voting Machines). Is this possible? EVMs are generally not connected to WiFi or Bluetooth, but are there other ways the system could be manipulated as claimed by the losing parties? what do you think?
> what attention does she deserve?

All attention that was given, I guess. Its not like she is making anyone do anything. People who like it talk about it. That's all
Especially when we think about the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, which is currently occupied by Russia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaporizhzhia_Nuclear_Power_Pla...
Whatever method they choose, you can just diff a couple of PDFs to figure out what they did, and then write some code to detect and revert or mask that.
This is important because an unmanned project could redirect asteroids to repeatably hit a chosen canyon on Mars. This increases the neighborhood metal value and begins the 50 km shaft you’d need to achieve survivable pressure underground.
Well done and thank you to everyone putting out Perl releases and working on this still great language. Way back in the 90's I had the misfortune to use C to process large amounts of textual information (addresses), cleaning it up before shovelling into a database. I wish I had had the good fortune to have found Perl back then.
In my country the pirate party demolished itself when it spread into other political fields. A lot of idpol imported from the US took over net policy issues, freedoms and rights were completely secondary.

The whole understanding about digital freedoms and rights changed. It was like they changed their values over night and appealed towards completely different issues. Some even demanded more surveillance because "hate speech" was all the rage in this changed party. This new outlook was not only not attractive, it suddenly became quite repulsive.

While a party like the pirate party probably has difficulties to consolidate opinions in other fields than net policy, it wouldn't have been impossible. But it was done with a strange fervor around sometimes completely arbitrary and artificial issues not related to net policies.
> Diet is extremely underrated

According to your comment, it is also extremely overrated.

Diet is very complex, and the behaviours associated with it are very complex as well. It is very hard to tell causality from correlation in this context. If someone’s temporary mental problems are clearing up, there may be more room to improve eating habits, and if someone is riding a negative spiral, there might be just a little comfort in eating junk food.

Of course we should study the relation between food and mental health more, but I sincerely doubt that reducing sugar intake will cure depression.
Europe has an energy crisis and modern nuclear power could have solved it, if we hadn't stopped researching it because of a bunch of fools.
All 577 members of parliament are kicked and we will have to elect new regional representative (~equivalent to US congressman) on the 30th of June / 7 of July. They were initially elected one month after presidential election in 2022.

Under the line the president is asking something like: "Are you sure you want my politics to be far right?". If French people still elect a majority of far right congressman he will have (nothing mandatory) to build a government with far right minister.

Note: this is a pretty unusual move.
Unfortunately these hacks last forever and can cause other problems. My web browser extension had to add a hack to work around WebKit's YouTube hack: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=245612
> 2 generations ago you were lucky to make it out of a major war... the ones we have had since have been mild and voluntary.

That's only true if you're talking specifically about US-involved wars, from the US side of things. For a lot of people, the Iraq War (for instance) was neither mild nor voluntary.
Proudly licensed from Red Star OS ;)
Another "beginning of the end" moment might be the Ugandan Asians incident of 1972: the Empire had "free movement" of subjects, but only so long as very few of them used it to come to Britain.
Even if most work is web based anyway, windows and linux laptops are quite similar in price, and there's always some usefull windows app, and people know how to use and maintain windows.

So why would a small business buy linux?
Doesn't seem to.

david@desktop:~/test$ ls -hl
total 8.9M
-rw-r--r--. 1 david david 2.2M Jun 10 06:02 chromium.pdf
-rw-r--r--. 1 david david 4.4M Jun 10 06:02 firefox.pdf
-rw-r--r--. 1 david david 2.3M Jun 10 06:01 input.pdf
david@desktop:~/test$
> 1. Download the PDF from Elsevier.

2. Convert pages to PNG images

3. Merge them into a new PDF

4. Run them through OCR
I'm sorry, I don't really know how to respond to that question. How? You don't prioritize maximizing profits over your workers' livelihoods.
1. Download PDF from publisher.

2. Open it in your PDF viewer.

3. Press print.

4. Physically print the document.

5. Re-scan the printed PDF pages.

6. Compile them into a PDF document (convert, pdfunite).

7. Compress the PDFs (ghostscript).
I checked their EP members' activity briefly prior to election, and that seemed to match their program and my expectations. Good.

But locally, it's indistinguishable from the outside from any other right wing party, anymore. I've lost trust in their transparency spiel/program, too. Their foreign minister is insufferable, and the rest are pretty much invisible. No idea why they wanted this ministry. It's the most visible ministry they have, but irrelevant to pirate program of transparency/anti-corruption. Foreign policy is set by the government as a whole anyway. Probably a ministry where they can have the least effect.

And execution by the ministry seems to be according to true old school piracy, rather than modern political one - proudly aligning with extreme anti-human rights fringe depending on context - while proclaiming care for human rights, and equal and just treatment of issues.
Nothing strange, I have a small script to cleanup pdfs in general (reducing their size as well), essentially

pdftops -paper A4 -expand -level3 file.pdf

ps2pdf14 -dEmbedAllFonts=true \
-dUseFlateCompression=true \
-dOptimize=true \
-dProcessColorModel=/DeviceRGB \
-r72 \
-dDownsampleGrayImages=true \
-dGrayImageResolution=150 \
-dAutoFilterGrayImages=false \
-dGrayImageDownsampleType=/Bicubic \
-dDownsampleMonoImages=true \
-dMonoImageResolution=150 \
-dMonoImageDownsampleType=/Subsample \
-dDownsampleColorImages=true \
-dColorImageResolution=150 \
-dAutoFilterColorImages=false \
-dColorImageDownsampleType=/Bicubic \
-dPDFSETTINGS=/ebook \
-dNOSAFER \
-dALLOWPSTRANSPARENCY \
-dShowAnnots=false \
file.pdf file.pdf

that's is. After if needed we can add extra metadata. It's not specially designed to remove certain kind of tracking but simple and useful enough in most cases.
Original title:

> The Mythical Non-Roboticist: Wouldn't it be great if everyone could do robotics?

Not sure why it's been changed here.
Apparently it's a workaround until https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=275223 is understood and fixed.

Seems more reasonable than how it looked at first.
Coming from the DICOM world, for me it's always Service-Object Pair
Yes, that's PTFE aka Teflon.
I remember some documentary where they discussed the victory march at the end of WWII. They called it "The last march of The Empire".

Indian, Canadian, etc etc troops marching in step. Within a decade so many gone.

But I agree I think, that the 50s seem too soon.

Still, that last march is an important symbol.
Regarding versioning — it sounds like 80% of your issues exist because of the lack of a project environment.

Have you ever checked out `renv`? It should work quite well with Bioconductor.

(Dumping data into binaries is… unfortunate, but this sounds more like a training issue than anything else.)
Colleen McCullough is less an expert on Polynesian culture and more an enabler of a randy British mutineer fork

Although archaeologists believe that Polynesians were living on Pitcairn as late as the 15th century, the islands were uninhabited when they were re-discovered by Europeans.

In 1790, nine of the mutineers from the British merchant ship HMS Bounty, along with the native Tahitian men and women who were with them (six men, 11 women, and a baby girl), settled on Pitcairn Island and set fire to the Bounty.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitcairn_Islands

All in all it was a bit of a Ripping Yarns style Boy's Own Adventure with indentured sex workers.
They usually don't start inhabited, but then the people building and working at it want to live closer, which pulls in the support roles of stores, which bring more people, etc etc etc.

If you build somthing in the middle of nowhere, and employ people there, the somthing will create a local population.
On Firefox if you print you can choose "safe to pdf" then it has a different checksum (compared to the downloaded one), if you say "print using the system dialog" then "print to file" the checksum is again different (compared to the other two).

Linux with Firefox 126
Wow, thanks for sharing.

I want one of those :-)
See also this older LEGO orrery produced by the University of California as an educational project for NASA Kepler mission:

https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/table-top_tr...
https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/table-top_tr...

Also: http://mrob.com/pub/lego/orrery.html
OT but what's up with the spam comments? What's the purpose?
Religion is a payday loan against reality. As someone that grew up in a religious household, I am certain that no matter how well-intentioned people are, someone is going to have to foot the bill.
^ This, exactly. In France, digital rights isn't at the forefront of people's worries either (environment, inflation and buying power, societal questions, security, etc). That being said, at least in France, they also stand for a more direct form of democracy, and they seem to apply internally what they preach, which if true would be a unique feature.

Then again, I don't know for sure if this is really the way they operate or not. I was never part of this party, because although they know being called "pirate" party is a turnoff for voters, they don't seem able to take the logical step of changing it. They seem nice enough, with some interesting proposals, but what working adult has time for participating in self-defeating orgs?
If you Google a few words you'll find the original source and context.

Viruses don't replicate without host cells, there's no "nano factory" involved, and ... do tell me how to implement an accurate timekeeping mechanism inside a virus.

Just to clarify: Do you have deep expertise in biotech?
Well, the same custom is present in Spanish beaches, but this is actually a double-edged sword. Once a woman starts showing their breasts she will continue to do so until her death. Some things you'll see in Spain cannot be unseen.
> As for point b), I can imagine this might not be true, as long as it really was the case that no-one was informed. Hard to plan and orchestrate bad things without information!

Sorry, yes. My assumption was that the bad guys will still stay informed, just like the bad guys don't put down their guns because I would prefer us all to be pacifists.
We need to create a tool to allow the sharing and unlocking of humanity’s knowledge
I doubt it dg is a completist .
He would welcome any corrections so please list those you think he has missed.
5. Absolutely destroy any tagging / accessibility the PDF may have had as a result.

Please, for the love of God, don't do this unless you absolutely, positively know you have to.
None of the advantages you list require belief in the supernatural, or the absolute truth of some sacred thousand-year old text. It's only due to deep cultural conditioning that people assume religion is necessary for community, a sense of purpose or resilience. However, the world is filled with religious people who lack these qualities and non-religious people who possess them.

The absolute last thing we need for mental health care is a paradigm that considers demon possession or the wrath of an angry God to be legitimate concerns.
And my point is the the question suggests a worldview so incorrect that the question is meaningless.

If you seek understanding, you must decide upon a specific better question of your choice; if you leave it up to us to devise the question, we can do that, but it's overwhelming unlikely that our free choice will connect with whatever it is that led you to ask the question in the first place.

For example, I could ask you to consider a model of a fish where each bone length is controlled by some gene, and then evolution converting fins to legs is some function of the magnitude of reproduction selection pressure on those changes over multiple individuals and generations… and nothing at all to do with one individual's brain.

Or were you thinking of a specific fish species which develops legs when it reaches adulthood?
Can't live long.. because the voting system is specifically designed to keep it that way.

We don't have to have voting systems like this though. For example, I would be a fool to vote for my preferred party if there's a 50-50 chance of it not going over the threshold for counting. If you do that you basically throw away your vote, and that's stupid. There is an easy fix though: if your party doesn't get in, you should be able to just write your backup choice on the ballot. Then I can vote for my niche party and still be comfortable that my vote will go somewhere useful when they don't get in.
Interestingly there seems to be a few quirks for twitter.com, but none for x.com. I assume that'll lead to some regressions?
>> but I sincerely doubt that reducing sugar intake will cure depression

And yet you can find people whose depression went away after going low carb, search twitter and youtube.
It's not actually hard, but I agree with the point. BTW, they also charge authors ridiculous amount of money for additional services, e.g. printing colored images.

In a far (and optimistic) future such companies will be studied as examples of social parasites in schools and universities.
Data Compression Explained (2011)
AI is coming for our creative side, too
You haven't heard about Sci-Hub?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub

I suppose it'd be nice if they automatically removed such fingerprints
I recognize the feeling somewhat. First time I experienced it was when considering traveling out in the solar system, but perpendicular to the ecliptic. I liken it to thalassophobia or some deep fear of being completely isolated.
And yet France continues to exist...
How many smart people run marathons, do all night drink binging sessions, travel to exotic cities and other such follies?

My belief is that a project like this (and probably the marathon and travel too!) make you smarter. You need to do something that ain’t work sometimes!
Isn’t the moon dust sharp too? Barbed like?
Open society's?
Apple made the rules for their convenience and benefit. They aren’t breaking them. They are adjusting them to once again be in line with their convenience and benefit.