skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I saw a few of these posts and dug up my 5MP Sony digicam from ~2006. The LCD had a few artifacts, but it still worked. Unfortunately, the memory card was in bad shape, and it took a really long time to boot, making it useless as a "point-and-shoot". Without the card, it had enough onboard storage for 15-20 pics.

Took a few pics, couldn't see myself using it regularly with the terrible quality and the horrible sync story, so it was a pretty short experiment.
The real problem is solar power by its nature is not reliable and only produces rated OP for a few hours a day. There also needs to be storage so this solar power can be used when it is needed. Unfortueately this storage is expensive.
> because there's nothing the kids can be doing that won't wait for that.

I feel you don't have young kids then. Jumping on you, bleeding, having a nightmare, making possibly-chocking-sounds, running away with your pills, vomiting on the floor, etc. will definitely take priority over whatever you thought you were going to do after waking up. And that doesn't even touch on people with executive functions issues. Or the 1-2yo period where the time you officially wake up may be often a very fuzzy concept. (You mean the 5am wake-up, the 5.45 one, or the getting up after not falling asleep)
For post graduate degrees where communication is a large portion of the coursework?

Is it also bad that a masters program might expect knowledge of the subject?
Additionally the banks do not want to use negative credit rates ever, or any effectively close to zero.

Therefore if prices for building the houses are too high, they cannot bring them down. What they can only do is repossess, and that cannot bring the price down by much either.

The situation is further complicated for the costs incurred for the maintenance of the buildings and general land tax - but that should theoretically push developers to make condos. But even those are getting too expensive.
only one?
"Americans dominate space" is the most American sentence I've read in a while. Imagine that, a few humans from a little corner of the universe dominating space!
Did Broadcom think the VMware moat was a lot deeper than it is? Or do they think losing small or medium customers is worth it to get 10x more revenue from its largest customers?
The issue here is if your English skills aren’t strong enough to follow university level teaching.

Some UK masters courses are only 12 months, so they're intensively taught. By the time you've learned English by immersion, you've already fallen behind.

That means either you spend a lot of money and fail; or you cheat; or the university drops their standards a lot.

And none of them are an outcome we’re happy with.
It is very inhospitable to biological humans.

There is a decent chance that our present biological basis is not congruent with the future of humanity. Mind-extension into synthetic cognitive structures is not as far fetched as it seems- we already extend our consciousness using machines, albeit with a very poor interface.

It is foreseeable that we will come to understand the nature of sentience - after all, many simpler organisms exhibit sentience- and beyond that it seems to be a scaling problem, which are inherently tractable.

If we can improve the interface between biological computation and synthetic computation, it will likely become possible to extend sentience across that divide, barring some kind of spiritual phenomenon or “magic “.

If we don’t shoot ourselves in the foot too badly, it is foreseeable that we may make very substantial progress in this direction over the next century. Establishing a toehold on mars during that century will be a huge strategic advantage.

The problem with “people these days” is that almost no one thinks a multi decade project is worth doing. If everyone waits for the future to “arrive “, the future you end up with is just driven by quarterlies.

The most important accomplishments will be remembered for centuries. If you aren’t working on one in some capacity, what are you even doing with your life?
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The repo contains a script that fingerprints a browser and sends the results to a server. What does that have to do with the death of NCSI?
> Yasmin - not her real name - came from Iran to study for a master’s degree at a new university in the UK, but she was "shocked" to find many of her fellow students had limited English, and only one or two were British.

> "How is it possible to continue this coursework without understanding a British accent or English properly?" she tells BBC File on 4.

> Most students paid other people to do their coursework, she explains, and some would pay people to register their attendance at lectures for them.

Because they aren't taking English courses, these are Masters.

At least read the article, it's in the first paragraph.
The subtext is that the students don't return home, and some of these universities are just a way for people to get a Visa to live in the UK.

International students also get on courses with lower grades than UK students.
How are you supposed to learn a course taught in English if you don't speak English at a reasonable level?
Its a complex problem cause -

1. Info is exploding while the time you have available per day to consume info is finite. This time can be divided between Info that has short term value, long term value, no value (ie entertainment).

2. Since info is exploding, a gap grows every day between supply and demand. If you run an automated process every day it can easily overwhelm, what your actual need in the 3 categories cuz it will easily generate more content than you have time.

3. Complicating everything further is People's Needs constantly change with time. In all 3 categories.
By just studying, and consuming media in that language? You certainly don't need to enrol in some masters course in UK for that.
But some of them don't want even that. They want the prestige of a title, while staying in a group of peers from their country, there are whole little "italys" in universities. It sounds strange, as in why do you want to study, if you dont want your mind blown and your ideas challenged? The answer: status, expectations, get a high entry point into a career in a totalitarian system.
Weapons and tools is what the three-age system was defined by.
A few decades ago we did as you suggest. We automated TTRPGs and called them CRPGs, and ARPGs, and MMORPGs. And yet - TTRPGs are as popular as ever, despite apparently being subordinate.
On the other hand it helps preserve history so I'm not sure I care the intentions are not pure. I know I got on this bandwagon with a simple analog camera over ten years ago and now I'm drowning in 1800s and 1900s electrical engineering books and newspapers.
It is critique not advice.
The early stuff (Larabee, KNL, KNC etc.) was hamstrung by x86. Wrong architecture for the types of things GPUs are good at. Their igpus have generally been good but that's not competing in the compute segment. Then they acquired a few startups (Nervana, Habana) that didn't really work out either. And now they finally have a discrete GPU lineup that is making slow progress. We'll see.
Ask HN: How to Organize a Hackathon?
I'm organizing a Hackathon for a part of my company next week and would love some advice.

We are about 20 people with a mix of mostly engineers, but also designers and product managers. It's going to be for 4 days, Monday to Thursday.

The main purpose is to foster team spirit and allow people to work on something that we believe will make our users happy. And it is not driven from top leadership, commercial interests or investors.

I'm thinking starting Monday with ideation: First brainstorming, pitching ideas and then voting. Lastly we try to organize ourselves into groups that are able to take on ~4 ideas. We end on Thursday with presenting what we built.

Does anyone have experience with organizing something similar and can give general advice on dos and donts or similar? I understand this could have been planned a lot earlier etc but it is what it is.
Death/Black Metal. It’s like a turbocharger for your brain.
Happening in Australia for more than a decade

Postgraduate degrees in particular are rife with cheating, collusion, and „students” mainly in pursuit of a visa than an education.
Even with printers, you can connect via usb if we're talking Klipper..
You have to understand that roundabouts are very common in most of the UK, to the point that general people are very used not only to the roundabouts actual rules but also the nuanced etiquette of understanding what other people are trying to do when they enter a roundabout.

Most importantly I think the secret ingredient is that compared to other countries people in the UK yield a lot while driving, and I really mean a lot, so negotiating your way into a roundabout even when you're in the wrong most of the time only cost you a stern look.
ha, I guess you are right

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-fulfilling_prophecy
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That's inaccurate. The vast majority of all cases are in men. For instance in America only 22% of HIV+ people are women. Our World In Data has a map that shows this visually:

https://ourworldindata.org/hiv-aids

The only place this isn't true is sub-Saharan Africa. As there's no biological explanation for that discrepancy it's been hypothesized that it's because in Africa a lot of reported HIV cases are fraudulent, due to the large amount of AIDS/women specific foreign aid money and weak auditing standards.
> This could also describe a mediocre student reading a mediocre physics textbook.

I think you're being too generous. It's more like a mediocre student listening to someone's take on a mediocre physics textbook and believing now that he knows how the world works.

The difference between the consumption of propaganda and non-propaganda, is related to the perception of everyday events and the consequences of it.

In your mediocre student example, his unacknowledged poor understanding of physics won't have much consequences, he can try to lecture people, and he can go about the world and unless he tries to defy laws of physics there won't be much to it - like a "flat earth believer" can have a boat ride and not fall off the earth.

Propaganda, on the other hand, changes your perception of reality and the way you interact with society and institutions. Suddenly, a normal election process is rigged because your side lost, or the normal vaccination process is now harmful to you and your peers.
Playstation at 30: the console that made video games cool
You consider email to be without intermediary while social media is with one? Both have some sort of intermediary usually, but in the case of Mastodon (or ActivityPub in general) it at least uses a protocol, just like email.
> Which banks have it implemented?

In Germany all banks here (https://www.kontofinder.de/ratgeber/tan-verfahren-ueberblick...) that are listed as supporting chipTAN [1], plus probably most of those that are listed as supporting photoTAN [2] allow using a hardware photoTAN generator instead of an app, too (though sadly some banks like Ing-Diba require their own proprietary photoTAN generator instead of a standard photoTAN-device as supported by some other banks).

[1] That one is using your debit card as a smartcard for the shared secret.

[2] That one requires the shared secret to be transmitted to you in some form (probably a QR-code or something similar in a letter) and set up in the photoTAN generator app/hardware device on first use.
Would you want to work with someone who you couldn’t communicate with?

This is not a matter of prejudice but basic competence.
Hahah! That has happened with me too. I used to work on car infotainment systems in India's biggest automobile company. After the NDA cooled off, I added the work I did on my portfolio to apply for future roles. The thing we made was amazing (for that time 2015) as it allowed people with low-end infotainments with mono color displays to have navigation support using mobile.

People saw it on my blog and sent me service queries.
This is a back door channel to illegal immigration, nothing more.

The students never turn up to courses and go to live with relatives in cities miles away.

The bloated UK university sector (your experience of a UK university, if you have it, is not typical of the vast shadow educational establishment which rakes in billions per year and delivers almost nothing in return) obviously has no interest in stopping this.

This has been spoken about for years now among people who work or have worked in these third-rate unis. As immigration filters up the political agenda I expect we'll start to see a mass decimation of these pseudo-educational establishments.
I built something like this but for the web: https://www.sqltab.com/demo
Actually the money doesn’t have to come from anywhere, that’s my point. If we cut all state funding - I’m sure artists would continue making art, as they did for millenia. We encourage art with state funding because we consider it beneficial to the society[1].

The “keep the money flowing” approach distracts from making art and leads to making art that sells well. Do we really want that to dominate galleries/museums?

[1]: “American taxpayers concur, with 55% supporting increasing federal investment in the arts, 57% supporting state government funding for the arts and 58% supporting local government funding for the arts” https://www.delawareartsalliance.org/government-funding-arts...
Andreessen is “borderline insane” now?
This is an armed resistance group, not an academic clique, and the violence was a reaction to attacks (e.g. beatings, assassination attempt).

It's also not an example of oppression, even though it is violent.
I've been familiar with the Sperry logo for about 50 years, but only because dad had bought a New Holland combine in late 1969 that sported the Sperry New Holland logo. It wasn't until more recent times that I learned the company was a conglomerate engaged in diversification but primarily known for large computers.

New Holland went through a few iterations until being purchased by the Fiat group. It is a part of CNH with its sister company of Case IH.
We (Red Hat) are doing great business moving customers off VMware. 20,000 VMs is not an unusual amount for our larger customers. I did a 5 min lightning talk in summer about this: https://pretalx.com/devconf-cz-2024/talk/SN93LG/
It focus on nostalgia and repairing of old things (because they don't make them anymore, so you have to), rather than buying the latest Apple shit, so there is a distinction from modern disposable consumption patterns.
>Instead of scaling horizontally (adding more machines) as your application grows, you’ll want to be scaling vertically (using a bigger machine). With modern computers, you will be able to scale your machine pretty far.

There's not just vertical scaling vs horizontal-with-replication. There's also horizontal-with-sharding, where each additional machine remains (more) independent.
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I'm curious why anyone still uses the product. They had a clear advantage 20 years ago but that was 20 years ago. I really don't understand what distinguishing thing they offer these days.
Old stuff feels better because people are familiar with it. People grew up with them and if anything their expectations are set by those very things.
My experience in American universities was that native English speakers in the U.S. don't actually speak English well enough to follow high-level technical discussions of just about any topic. It was depressing.

In graduate school--where everybody already had at least an undergraduate degree--one of my professors finally got so frustrated she paused the course for three weeks to teach the class how to write a 5-paragraph essay, with introduction, three points, and a conclusion. Many students were surprised that this also helped them understand the structure of articles they were reading.

I have distinct and clear memories of the day in 5th grade when the middle school language arts teacher came to our class and spent an afternoon teaching this topic. She said we would never make it through middle school without it. We were 10 years old. It took hours, not weeks.

I don't doubt the problem is even worse among people who have not grown up with the language, but I've met plenty of people who were very technically proficient in their field and had a lot to contribute, though they needed translators, and way too many people who had nothing to contribute who had spoken English from early childhood.
Bill Gates calls India 'a laboratory to try things'
Michael Mann achieved remarkable results on Collateral and Miami Vice with the Sony CineAlta HDW-F900.
If you're not answering the argument, that's fine. But let's acknowledge that you did not answer the argument and are now just spouting the rhetoric of the far-right movement I'm describing.
Yes, the amount of operations per second is too small for directly serving files like for hosting. (We didn't have this issue since we proxy/cache all files via dedicated hardware)

Though, it's still too small if a HEAD request counts as an operation, since we need to check if files updated or not.
I did something similar to this: https://github.com/memodb-io/drive-flow.

It supports tasks, dynamic routes and parallel execution in pure Python build-ins(zero deps). But just a side project so no persistent stuff and just a easy tool.
The problems are bigger than that. The trials don't attempt to show impact on AIDS itself. Biomarker studies like this have a long history of going wrong due to statistical or theory related problems.
What I learned covering computer science in 2024
No, unfortunately. It was terrible by comparison.

There's no wonder GitHub drew people in. It's interface and ease of building a community around a repo made of so much more accessible than anything else around at the time.
The issue with nearly all Raspberry Pi clones is documentation. Boards tend to be undocumented, sparsely documented, or documented with errors. It makes for a frustrating experience when you run into problems, especially when those problems are with bog-standard Raspbian (or whatever). Raspberry Pi hardware has occasional quirks (eg, don’t try to hotplug USB on a Raspberry Pi Zero), but quirks are the norm for other SBCs (anything from Pine64 is an exercise in frustration). So the modest upcharge for a Raspberry Pi is usually worth it.
I haven't seen the show but the "rich enough that their boat purchases are limited by channel depth and not money" level of rich people are mostly just normal people, the entire spectrum of good and bad is represented. There's less petty drama and Karen behavior because they can pay those problems away.

Source: former employment had me dealing with them, mostly subsequent generations, not the actual people who struck it rich personally.

Edit: They've all had bajillion dollar educations so on some level they're not stupid which means they can be reasoned with but the catch is that they can reason back at you.
Evolving my ergonomic setup (or, my laptop with extra steps) – nicole web
TLDR:

How Do We Fix the Rulebook? My first answer is: I don't know!
I was really looking forward to the single-player/PvE content. The gamers in my household are all fairly low skill (myself included), and one of our favorite original Overwatch events was Junkenstein's Revenge-- more of that kind of thing was huge on our anticipation list.

When they not only killed the original Overwatch but also suddenly decided to abandon the PvE component, it was a double whammy which resulted in us instantly abandoning what had been a regular staple of our gaming time. We moved on to other things such as Deep Rock Galactic and haven't looked back.
How long will it take for people to see that they were victims of deep government censorship and that X has opened the door to the truth? Blue sky is full of censorship. Hackernews too?
Vietnamese tycoon must raise $9B or face death penalty
I think about this Brain Eno quote often. It’s always surprising when old worse formats resurface, yet it happens everytime.

> Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided.
The Bad UI World Cup
Hi HN,

UI is easily overlooked and way too often bad. There's no doubt that we need better accessibility on the web, but first let's have some fun with Bad UIs that will make even the most patient soul rage-quit.

There are prizes for the best worst entries and the worst takes home $3,700 in the Bad UI World Cup.
Thanks to Starlink, something like 70% of the 7500 satellites orbit Earth are American. Or course by mass, nature still wins by a landslide, but as always, it's all in how in count things.
> Unlocking the mechanisms behind fungal bioluminescence could provide an electricity free light-source for the future with a low energy requirement. A battery-free or plug-free sustainable light source based on bioluminescent fungi would be beneficial for the environment and help us meet net zero targets in line with the IPCC synthesis report.[55] Utilizing bioluminescence to illuminate our homes and communities would result in energy savings and a reduction in CO2 emissions. The alternative light source would also reduce nighttime light pollution, a global concern in large cities. For example, bioluminescent wood was used to illuminate the compass and depth gauge of the first submarine, the Turtle, at Benjamin Franklin's suggestion.[56]

Ctrl-F "efficien" => no search hits for efficient or efficiency. Is there any indication to believe these deeply multistep chemical processes to be more energetically efficient than modern electronics & LED's operated at similar radiant powers?

Or is the idea that this can absorb clean wood waste streams? If so all these proposals will need a benefficiency coefficient: i.e. how much LCO energy saved by not simply letting wood rot, such that many competing ideas of what to do with "clean wood waste streams" can be compared; already lots of organic waste streams not digestible by humans or livestock are being intentionally digested by microbial organisms to extract useful protein suitable for livestock...
>[I]f you're a teacher and you have a student named David Mayer and you want help sorting a class list, ChatGPT would refuse the task.

Maybe use the right tool for the job? Just kidding, of course LLMsort will soon be in standard libraries.
So Broadcom is basically just milking VMware until it completely dies? I guess you should always consider the risk of a company buying a product you use and then doing this
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Also read this recent opinion piece from a major Australian newspaper.

https://www.smh.com.au/national/cheating-is-now-so-rampant-t...

https://archive.is/OvEa5
Ambient, quiet soundtracks from half-life, subnautica, Deus ex, etc.